Chapter 555

{Is this Zhangjia Village?}

Under the bright sunshine, Kaguya frowned and looked forward, saying in the mental link.

{It looks similar to what Ah Hai described, so this should be the place. Hmm, the style of painting is quite different}

Qianhua beside her nodded gently and also spoke in the mental link.

{... Zhangjia Village, this is what it looks like}

The third voice came from the temporary mental link established by the obsession. The player named Li Xiaoxiao said with a nostalgic tone at this time, and his voice was full of emotion.

As for the clone controlled by Goto Ichiri, it just stood there, wearing sunglasses and pointing one hand to the sky.

As for why the clones created by Ichiri always show various strange characteristics and perform like social terrorists anytime and anywhere, many players have secretly questioned it, including Gao Hai. Kaguya also secretly asked Gao Hai about this, and only then did she know that the clone created by the obsession object was essentially derived from the spiritual reflection of Yili, so it would reflect all kinds of thoughts deep in her heart, resulting in various extremely exaggerated performance art.

However, considering that other old players have more or less mental disorders, Yili's performance art is relatively good.

Therefore, Kaguya only took a closer look at the posing clone, and then turned her attention back to Li Xiaoxiao in front.

{You said you have a relationship with Zhangjia Village, but you don’t know what this place looks like? }

Kaguya stared at Li Xiaoxiao closely, with a trace of imperceptible scrutiny in her eyes.

Before, Li Xiaoxiao accepted various obsession objects and blessings for testing, and after confirming that there was no problem, he directly took Kaguya, Qianhua and the clone to this place.

Although after repeated verification, Kaguya had to admit that although this person had many suspicious aspects in his identity, at least he was indeed a teammate rather than an enemy. But considering that the other party was always unwilling to fully reveal his own suspicious aspects, she instinctively couldn't help but doubt the other party and observe the other party carefully.

{Yeah, even though I just heard your description, I still can't imagine that this place is like this. So it's like this... So it used to be like this before everything happened...}

Li Xiaoxiao was sighing.

But her sigh made Kaguya feel a strong sense of tearing and dislocation.

Because there was no sigh on the face of this player, the only thing she could read from his expression was confusion.

Full of ignorance and confusion, she couldn't understand where she was at all.

Such an expression and the sigh in her tone that was like revisiting an old place were too disconnected. Kaguya couldn't understand why the other party had such a strong sense of disobedience.

{I have never really been to this place, nor have I seen [Zhangjia Village] in this state. This experience is actually very fresh to me}

Without waiting for Kaguya to say anything else, Li Xiaoxiao, who had been hiding something before, spoke again this time.

{In fact, although I know very well that I, my family and [Zhangjia Village] are related, I knew nothing about it until I became a player and was truly able to trace this nightmare}

{Even the fact that I was able to successfully reach this place was achieved with the help of teleportation obsessions and your descriptions. Without your description of [Zhangjia Village], I could only take my chances and teleport randomly, and I might not find the right place even if I spent several years}

{So, I understand your doubts, Miss Shinomiya. My situation is indeed very suspicious in the eyes of players. But please believe that you and your companions have no hostility towards you and will not harm you. All I want to do is to settle the cause and effect on me and return what I owe to the Zhang family}

Li Xiaoxiao bowed her head and said sincerely.

Seeing her like this, Kaguya couldn't say anything more. She just expressed in the temporary mental link that she didn't doubt the other party, and then turned her sight to the village in front.

This place... is indeed similar to what Gao Hai described before.

Under the sun, in the seemingly leisurely mountain village, all the villagers could not be touched. Everyone was very comfortable and immersed in their own world, showing a relaxed and happy expression.

They were completely unaware of the approach of several players. They could not be really touched by the players, and any attempt to contact them would not produce any results. They were like phantoms from another world, residual images from outside the timeline, and were separated from the players in two different worlds.

This strange sense of interweaving made Kaguya feel that she was in a dream for a while.

Even in a trance, she felt that she would fall asleep and then merge into this beautiful dream that she would not wake up. However, because she had played several high-end games with Gao Hai, she was very alert to her mental changes, so Kaguya immediately noticed some of her subconscious reactions, and immediately broke free and returned to a fully awake state, without being affected by this vague power.

{Be careful, there may be some kind of power that pollutes the mind here, and you should always confirm your mental state when necessary}

While Kaguya reminded everyone, she felt a little strange in her heart. Why didn't Gao Hai specifically tell everyone about this problem when he came here before?

With Gao Hai's personality, it should be impossible for him to miss such a problem, right?

Wait, if the effect of this kind of thought erosion can be quickly detected and resisted by my mental strength, Gao Jun... couldn't he have not noticed the thought pollution phenomenon in this place at all, and didn't feel anything abnormal?

As soon as the doubts in her heart emerged, Kaguya found the answer herself.

Although she didn't like this answer.

Gao Jun is really... Although it is precisely because of his strong strength and tenacious will that he can lead us all the way to now, he deserves more people to believe and follow. But sometimes I still feel a little discouraged. Obviously, when he explored Shirakawa Apartment, he still had many shortcomings, but now he has become stronger and stronger, so strong that the gap with normal players is close to the cliff level.

Just like the current situation, Gao Jun was actually eroded by the spirit after arriving at the [Zhangjia Village] area. But he was so strong that he didn't notice the erosion at all. As a result, it was not until Kaguya came that he discovered this problem.

This is also normal. After all, with Gao Jun's iron will, what can really affect him? I'm afraid that no opponent can defeat his spirit?

(Gao Hai, who was worried about the blood flower appearing again on the side of Liujia Village, sneezed)

Sometimes, Kaguya must admit that she would worry and be afraid. She would think that if Gao Hai continued to become stronger, would one day be so strong that she could not chase, understand, or communicate with him.

Just like the difference between a giant and an ant, the gap was pulled to the point where both sides could not recognize each other at all. Although Zhenfei and Qianhua had advised her not to have such thoughts, after realizing Gao Hai's powerful strength again from the subtle details, Kaguya couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

Gao Jun, is he now a human being or a gradually growing god?

Forget it, no matter what, what should be done will not change because of this. I must do my part, whether for Gao Jun, Hayasaka, or myself. Staying behind and acting as a protected person is not the result I want.

{Let's go, I'll go ahead, be careful}

The player named Li Xiaoxiao has stepped forward and approached the village carefully.

Kaguya and Chika walked behind, both holding self-protection and offensive obsessions, ready to deal with attacks.

Although Gao Hai said that [Zhangjia Village] was relatively safe based on his previous exploration experience, there were no real strange things that could be touched. But as Kaguya thought secretly just now, that was Gao Hai's experience after all, and it might not be the same for others.

Soon, several people really stepped into the village.

In addition to the previous pollution power, Kaguya and Chika did not feel any other special power acting on them.

They were just talking silently, laughing silently, and doing various things silently and casually.

{It's just in front... It should be in front, I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be too far away}

In the temporary mental link, Li Xiaoxiao said while cautiously going deep into the village.

He didn't go all the way along the main road into the village, but changed direction several times in the middle, as if to confirm the situation around him.

Kaguya noticed that the confusion on her face was becoming more and more obvious, but her tone gradually took on a bit of surprise. The increasingly obvious split between the two made people very uneasy, but the judgment of the blessing could still determine that the other party had no malice and a completely human identity, so Kaguya was still following the other party.

So the few people turned around and gradually came to a place with fewer buildings and basically no human activities.

And it was here that Li Xiaoxiao seemed to rely on his memory to grab something in a pile of weeds and suddenly lifted it up. Then Kaguya saw the wooden board standing up between the rolling mud and the passage under the wooden board whose depth could not be seen.

{The next place to go should be here}

Li Xiaoxiao said lightly in the temporary mental link.

Qianhua, who had been watching silently, turned her head at this time and looked in the direction where the few people were walking. From a distance, she could still see some villagers coming and going. They seemed to stop for a short time and then turned their heads to look over.

Chapter 122 The promise in the blood and the shocking change at night

It seemed that something was triggered and changed with Li Xiaoxiao's actions.

Under the sun, there was no obvious sound around the few people who had walked to the sparsely populated area, and it seemed very quiet. If you look around, the villagers in the distance are still moving around on their own, continuing to repeat their lives that will never change again.

It is hard to tell what has changed.

The abnormality that can be detected at the beginning seems to be just an illusion and cannot be truly verified.

Qianhua is not sure whether her feeling at that moment is correct.

After all, she didn't have the strong perception of Gao Hai or Jian Zi, so even if the ghost story power in the copy fluctuated, she would only have some specious feelings at most, and could not get any information from it.

But she was not stupid, even if it was a specious feeling, it was enough for her to be alert. Even if there was no such specious feeling, she would be doubly alert at this time, after all, the Red Moon-level weirdo was not a joke. Qianhua would not think that the Red Moon-level weirdo was not a threat just because Gao Hai could beat it up now. She knew very well what the strength level of her people was now.

{Something happened, those villagers seemed to look over when Miss Li opened the wooden board! }

Qianhua quickly reminded in the two mental links and prepared for defense and transfer.

{Can they sense us? }

Kaguya immediately turned her head and looked around with dark red eyes. But in the sight, the villagers in the distance were still doing their own things. None of them turned around to look over or behaved abnormally. They looked no different from before.

Like Chika, Kaguya, whose perception was not good, could not find out the problem directly. However, she would not let down her guard just because she did not see any abnormal phenomenon. Instead, she immediately used the deep connection of the black watch to get the 20-sided golden dice from Gao Hai.

This obsession with a strong judgment function was basically not needed for the monsters now that Gao Hai's strength had increased. If it was a god, this dark night-level obsession was too forced to work. Therefore, it was more suitable for Kaguya Chika to switch to her side. After all, it was still very dangerous for them to deal with the red moon-level monsters with their strength.

Throw the dice and reach out to catch it.

Kaguya spread her palm and saw the number [13] displayed on the top of the dice.

Just now, she made a judgment in her heart that [the strange creatures in Zhangjia Village have triggered the rules and started to pay attention to them, the players]. The number displayed by this dice exceeded 10, but it was only slightly more. This proved that her judgment was inaccurate, but the general direction should be correct.

In other words, should the passage opened by Li Xiaoxiao have some special meaning for the area of ​​[Zhangjia Village]? In this case, maybe the villagers will attack after a while, even if they think there is no problem at the moment. Or more seriously, there may be a curse or cognitive blockage that is difficult to find signs or directly targets the thinking soul.

{Don't worry about those villagers, nothing will happen for the time being}

At this time, the calm voice of Li Xiaoxiao himself came out from the temporary mental link.

{Although I only have a vague sense of some things, there should not be too much problem at present. As long as I return what I should return, nothing will happen. These villagers, they... are in a very stable state, there will be no problem}

Saying this, Li Xiaoxiao jumped directly into the pit under the wooden board without looking back, and squatted inside.

Kaguya and Chika originally thought that it was some kind of tunnel, but when Li Xiaoxiao turned on the flashlight in the passage, they found that it was just a hole in the ground. The place was small and only enough for one or two people to squat in it, and there were obvious signs of landfill at the bottom of the pit.

Li Xiaoxiao stretched out her hands and slowly dug up the soil on the ground of the pit, as if she was looking for something inside.

She was very focused, so focused that she had completely ignored the two players standing on the ground, and just stared at the soil in front of her.

Since arriving at this place, the state of this player seemed to be getting weirder and weirder.

If it weren't for the repeated verification that she was fine before, Kaguya probably had begun to suspect that the other party might actually be an enemy lurking in.

{Be prepared to teleport back at any time. Even if she was verified to be trustworthy before, it doesn't mean that she will change in the future. After all, if she is really the descendant of the villagers in this copy, it is hard to say when she will be directly possessed by something. At that time, even if there is a threat, it is not a threat caused by her. Who can she go to for justice? }

Gao Hai's voice came from the mental link. Both Qianhua and Huiye would report the situation from time to time, so Gao Hai could basically know the movements of the team in real time and put forward his own opinions and ideas.

This person named Li Xiaoxiao is probably the descendant of the group of people who were released by the Li family and held the fake Guanyin statue.

Using the fake statue to bear the power of the curse will spread the malicious distortion to the outside world. Gao Hai is no longer interested in evaluating these anthropomorphic operations of the Li family. He just suspects that since this Li Xiaoxiao is a descendant of the Li family, it is possible that the Li family has done something to him, so that he has been passed down for many generations and has experienced hundreds of years. After becoming a player and coming into contact with extraordinary power, he will be guided back to this village.

If this is the case, Gao Hai can hardly help but suspect that this Li Xiaoxiao will suddenly become an enemy. After all, given the bad behavior of the Li family, it is normal to set some extremely dangerous curses on the descendants who left the village. If this group of things that have been completely distorted from the essence of their souls did not do this, Gao Hai would think it was impossible.

{Don’t try to fight. If you confirm that she has a problem, you must teleport away as soon as possible. Don’t think about solving the opponent on your own. It is very dangerous for a Red Moon-level player to lose control! When I was at Zaori Elementary School, I once suppressed an out-of-control Red Moon-level player. To be honest, it was very dangerous. If I was not careful, I would have to go back and start over, so you must not have such thoughts}

Because he was too worried that Kaguya Chika and the two would mess around, Gao Hai gave a few more reminders.

{We won’t do this, Ahai, don’t treat us like ignorant children. Even if Kaguya-san may be a little stupid occasionally, I can’t do this, okay}

Then Qianhua's somewhat dissatisfied reply came from the spiritual link.

{What? Why am I stupid? Fujiwara-san, what do you mean by this? }

Because this sentence was not a private link, Kaguya, who also heard the content, was very unhappy and directly protested.

Of course, after the fuss was over, the two girls stared at Li Xiaoxiao and the other at the surrounding movements, neither of them really relaxed. They know very well that they are in an extremely dangerous place and any negligence may lead to death.

{Found it...}

Within the temporary spiritual link, Li Xiaoxiao's sighing voice suddenly sounded.

She stood up and pulled something out of the soil.

The thing was stained with an inconspicuous smell of blood. Even though it had been buried in the soil for such a long time, it still had not completely dissipated and some traces remained.

Kaguya saw the black stone.

In Li Xiaoxiao's hand, she saw what seemed to be some kind of statue originally, but now it had become fragmented and incomplete, and she could only barely make out that the raw material was black stone.

Is this the statue Gao Jun mentioned?

Why is it in a broken state?

And how could this thing be dug up in Zhangjiacun? He is also a player who is suspected to have a blood connection with the copy of [Infant Cry Village]...

{After I became a player, I once triggered a curse attack in a Dark Night-level copy that could trace the bloodline and launch directly against the player's bloodline relatives. But all my family members died very early, so I didn’t care about this rule. I even thought that this rule could be used by me, so I actively violated the rule and tried to use it to explore the dungeon and look for clues.}

Li Xiaoxiao jumped up and landed on the ground, then spoke to the two of them in a calm tone.

{As a result, after suffering the curse, I found that my memory was disordered, and some pictures and sounds that did not belong to me and came from unknown sources began to invade my thinking. And even if I leave the copy and return to the real world, these things have no tendency to dissipate at all, and have even become stronger}

{It took me several months to figure out that the strange power directed at the bloodline actually only served as a primer. What really makes these things keep appearing is my own connection with some kind of strange story, something that can only be activated through bloodline memory and has not completely dissipated even if it has been passed down to my generation.}

{And that thing is it, the thing that would have been used to restrain me and enslave me to death. It wasn’t until I came into contact with this thing again that I was able to fully understand what all this was about}

Place the broken statue on the ground.

Li Xiaoxiao then began to tell what he knew.

Before actually coming into contact with the dungeon of [Yingtiao Village], Li Xiaoxiao was just a musician and knew that his ancestors were related to [Zhangjia Village]. He knew that his ancestors owed him a huge favor, and he promised One day I will go back and repay the favor.

This promise is now maintained by the power of kaidan, and it has changed from the initial verbal promise to the power of kaidan with some special effect. However, for ordinary people who have not been exposed to the [Sacrifice Game] and have not obtained extraordinary power, they cannot understand this connection and cannot remember this promise. Therefore, even if the people who left the village thrived and flourished, , the blood of its descendants will not be affected. It was not until the player Li Xiaoxiao accidentally activated this power that she began to be affected and wanted to return here.