There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 640
Chapter 640: Chapter 554: Village Chief: No Big Deal!
Chapter 640: Chapter 554: Village Chief: No Big Deal!
When Xu Shuo and the village chief returned to Old Li’s courtyard, they found that the atmosphere between the two girls seemed to have become much more harmonious.
They were even laughing and talking beside the Abyss Darkness.
“Has that thing shown any movement?”
The village chief came over and asked.
The scholar looked toward the unidentifiable mass of flesh in the pit and shook her head, “There hasn’t been anything unusual…
But I always feel like, doesn’t the frequency with which this thing pulsates resemble a heartbeat?”
Although she was talking to Miss Wang, the scholar was still diligently guarding the pit.
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Moreover, she would occasionally glance at it, trying to strengthen her resistance, and in doing so, she suddenly realized that the lump of flesh gave her a strange sense of déjà vu.
The flowing black veins were like blood vessels, and so the occasional trembling of the flesh, wasn’t that just a heartbeat?
Hearing this, Xu Shuo walked over to the edge of the pit and looked down.
The thing in the pit was swarmed and entwined by a dense Dark Matter, allowing only a vague view of the bright red color of the flesh below.
This piece of flesh had been hacked at by his hoe, but there wasn’t the slightest damage, and the sticky, disgusting black substance had flowed back into the pit along the handle of the hoe after losing the target of Flesh and Blood.
Nobody had touched this hoe since.
The sharp blade still rested above the flesh, and the handle lay on the ground beside the sunken pit, tilted at an angle.
Xu Shuo reached out to grab the hoe on the ground.
But just as his fingers were about to touch the handle, the darkness in the pit rushed up along the hoe!
Xu Shuo quickly drew back his hand.
The darkness, which had climbed halfway, suddenly seemed to lose its target and slowly flowed back into the pit.
Xu Shuo thought for a moment and reached out again…
The darkness that had just retreated surged up again fiercely!
Xu Shuo quickly withdrew his hand once more.
And the darkness indifferently flowed back again.
Xu Shuo poked at the hoe handle with one finger.
Darkness: Swish—!
Xu Shuo pulled back his hand.
It flowed back.
Swish—!
It flowed back.
Swish—!
The three bystanders on the side: “…”
The scholar was somewhat bewildered yet astonished.
Because the speed at which the darkness struck was incredibly fast, otherwise it wouldn’t have contaminated the villager in an instant.
But now, even as she, an onlooker, had yet to react, this young man in front of her had already completed his evasion.
And he even seemed to enjoy teasing the Abyss…
No wonder he caught the eye of the bride!
The scholar was truly impressed from the bottom of her heart!
The village chief watched for a while, then the corner of his mouth twitched, “Stop playing around, what if it mutates?”
Xu Shuo somewhat reluctantly withdrew his hand.
“Got any ideas?” the village chief asked again.
“Within a range of one meter.
If you go beyond that distance, it might detect you, but it probably won’t trigger a reactive ability.
Furthermore, it requires a medium to make contact with Flesh and Blood,” Xu Shuo explained while he plucked a blade of grass from the ground to tease the hoe handle.
This time, the lump of flesh in the pit did not respond.
After pondering for a moment, the village chief said, “Without a medium, it seems to start functioning at a hovering distance of half a meter.”
This conjecture was based on the fact that after the villagers had dug up this thing, the village chief had attempted to touch it with his hand.
But when he got within half a meter of it while suspended in the air, he felt a sense of danger.
The scholar stood by, looking back and forth between them, then innocently spoke up, “So, what now?
What do we do with this heart?”
The village chief shook his head, “Solving this one is useless because the Osmanthus Trees in other places have also been contaminated, and we haven’t yet dug up the soil next to them to check, so we don’t know if there’s another one of these things under the other trees.”
As to why they hadn’t dug yet…
Because digging a hole might mean the death of another villager.
Wang Tiezhu was unwilling to dig, and the village chief didn’t want to do it himself either.
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But if they continued to send the Zhang Family’s servants to their deaths, the village chief felt he might be overthrown tonight.
Because, after he had spoken out against the crowd to protect Wang Tiezhu, after instructing a servant to go to the graveyard to collect the bodies from last night, after a servant from Old Li’s courtyard had died horribly, after he had forced Wang Tiezhu to chop down Osmanthus Trees from two other families…
The people of the Zhang Family had already started to lose faith in him.
The eyes of the surrounding villagers had begun to look wrong.
Now, with things still unsettled, losing the power of the Village Chief of Osmanthus Village at this time to face many with few would be disadvantageous to the progress of their actions.
After listening to this, the scholar woman was somewhat astonished, “Then you mean, could it be that…”
They are surrounded by enemies on all sides?!
How many osmanthus trees are there in Osmanthus Village?!
More than one hundred and eighty people!
Even if the households are divided in half, that still leaves eighty or ninety families, and if every family plants an osmanthus tree in their yard, and under each tree there is buried a lump of this stuff…
Then they are basically surrounded by the Abyss!
The scholar woman’s expression had already become one of horror!
Is this damn script really so terrifying?!
The Village Chief nodded heavily and continued, “But at least, for now, this thing does not show a tendency to attack on a large scale, and in two days’ time, it has only devoured one family.
Therefore, as long as we resolve the issues in the village in time…
we should be able to avoid it.”
The Village Chief’s pause in the middle of his speech meant that he wanted the players to hurry up and finish the game.
So they wouldn’t have to experience a beating from the Abyss.
After all, judging by the progress of the Abyss polluting the villagers, its spread really is slow, and more than a day and a half has passed since the half of July.
Based on the frequency of the bride’s torturing of the Wang Family, the story of Osmanthus Village must unfold within these three days.
Therefore, as long as they complete the task and end the script before tomorrow night, it would be fine!
Thinking about it this way, the problem isn’t really that significant!
Xu Shuo, who was next to him, fiddling with a piece of flesh with a grass stem, suddenly paused as he listened to their conversation.
He seemed to have forgotten something…
Oh, he remembered.
Xu Shuo opened the Player’s Handbook and looked at the personal information panel, at the title sparkling behind his player name – “Abyss Caretaker.”
To be honest, because he had gotten used to being chased by the Abyss, Xu Shuo had almost forgotten the power this title could bring in the script.
Now he just hoped…
That this group of players could indeed finish the script before the Abyss fully awakened and launched a major assault, as they speculated.
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In a village house at the foot of North Mountain.
While the players were discussing how to avoid a beating from the Abyss, this place had gathered quite a few villagers who were also discussing the events of the past two days.
Looking closely, in the house, aside from the People of the Li Family, there were quite a few People of the Zhang Family, and even members of the Wang Family.
Inside the house, a farmer dressed in short tunic, with dark skin and a gray square headband wrapped around his forehead, frowned deeply, his expression full of dissatisfaction and gloom.
He said in a low voice, “The Zhang Family Village Chief has really become more and more muddled over the years, favoring Tiezhu is one thing, but today, our Li Family’s stance was clear, yet he still refuses to let go.”
At that moment, a villager said with regret, “He even chopped down my family’s osmanthus tree.”
The farmer continued, “Times have changed; now that demoness has begun to target the People of the Li Family.
I think it won’t be long before the whole Osmanthus Village is destroyed by her!
She may even kill all of us!”
“But we also have no way to deal with her…” Someone muttered, their voice laden with fear and panic.
“Didn’t a scholar come to our village not long ago?”
“You mean that girl…”
“I don’t believe she isn’t related to the ZhÅ«s!” the farmer said viciously, “Capture her and threaten that demoness!
Make her leave our village!”
“Will that work?” the person next to him widened his eyes.
“Why not grab Wang Tiezhu too?” someone echoed the farmer’s words, offering a suggestion.
“After all, she’s been oppressing us for over sixty years; so many people in the village have died.
What else can we do now?
If that demoness refuses to comply, then in front of her, kill those two!”
The farmer’s expression turned manic, and he whispered fiercely, “Then, no one should spare anyone!
Let’s fight her to the death!”
As if infected by his emotions, the villagers nearby also became agitated, their repressed feelings causing veins to bulge on their foreheads as they clenched their fists and shouted with a touch of madness:
“Kill them!”
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In the yard.
The budding osmanthus tree swayed slightly under the gloomy sky, its branches and leaves adorned with milky colored clusters of flowers tinged with a thick streak of darkness.
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