1TWITF[C Chapter 31

Chapter 31

He Lou stared in shock at the scene before him.

In front of him, Zhao Chuan’s steps suddenly stopped, his entire person as if frozen by a pause button. Then, he opened his mouth wide in pain, his face flushed red, wisps of heat rising from his body. He was extremely hot, and beads of sweat poured out, soaking his clothes.

He looked as if he were being roasted over a fire.

No, that’s not right…

He Lou remembered what he had said. At that time, the village chief had asked what kind of death they desired.

Zhao Chuan had said…

It matched perfectly!

Besides the fear in his heart, He Lou couldn’t help but feel angry. Lu Yanli had lied!

Was he deliberately deceiving him again, or was he also unsure?

But this path to survival was what he had requested Lu Yanli to say. He had also been told at the time that it wasn’t certain. He himself had believed Lu Yanli’s speculation, so it wasn’t reasonable to blame the other party.

And now… he had personally sent himself to his doom.

Behind him, countless pale paper figures floated closer and closer!

He dodged into the station, trying to find another way out.

At this time, Lu Yanli and An Xingyu were on their way to gather materials.

An Xingyu held a bundle of thin bamboo sticks, and Lu Yanli held folded paper and human skin. Even while walking, his hands were busy.

Hearing this, An Xingyu’s face showed contemplation. He thought for a while but still didn’t have any good ideas.

“We can only see if the village chief can communicate now. Maybe I can exchange it by agreeing to a ghost marriage.”

Although the village chief knew they were outsiders, he didn’t know that they only needed to stay for a month. Perhaps they could exploit this information gap.

If not, then they’d better choose a location on the edge of the village so they could leave at any time.

After passing through the dense forest without incident, they ran down the path, and the two finally saw a house.

A house meant there were lanterns!

An Xingyu ran over quickly and searched the house. With his thorough search, he finally found three more intact lanterns.

But this was far from enough. They had to save two people, and the paper and human skin they had on hand were only enough for one person.

Lu Yanli sat in the house, but he didn’t have the anxious look he had before. He sat quietly for a while, counted the paper figures floating in the sky, and then started working.

Simple strokes, but somewhat similar to Zhao Chuan.

But unexpectedly, the paper figure shook, and soon, as if scalded by boiling water, it trembled and withered, its whole body emitting heat.

“It’s useless, Zhao Chuan is dead.” Lu Yanli sighed.

An Xingyu frowned: “I found the materials, it should be enough. Is it convenient to make He Lou’s now?”

He vaguely sensed that Lu Yanli and He Lou might have some origin, otherwise, on the day the village chief held a wedding banquet for his son, He Lou wouldn’t have stared at him and asked him.

However, now it seemed that the relationship between the two was not good, otherwise, from any point of view, Lu Yanli should have chosen He Lou first.

An Xingyu was speechless.

His life had been saved by the other party, and he indeed had no obligation to save He Lou. Therefore, he had no choice but to sit down opposite Lu Yanli and seriously began to do handicraft.

The paper figure made by Lu Yanli was very rough. He simply disassembled the two lantern bases and connected them together. The bottom was also removed, covered with white paper, and a face was drawn. An Xingyu recalled his steps and quickly completed the frame.

But this last step of drawing… He looked at Lu Yanli for help: “Can I ask you to draw it?”

Given that An Xingyu had secrets he needed to explore, Lu Yanli closed his eyes, took the brush, and began to draw on the white paper.

“It’s useless, he’s dead.”

“What? How could it be?”

An Xingyu followed and looked out the window.

“No…no…”

An Xingyu snatched the pen and dotted it on the paper figure’s eyes.

The dark eyes rolled, and before he had time to be happy, he heard a slight tearing sound from the paper figure’s abdomen.

In the next instant, the paper broke open, and bright red blood gushed out, quickly soaking the entire table.

Lu Yanli sighed on his face, but smiled happily in his heart.

An Xingyu felt a little melancholy, but didn’t suspect anything. He had tried his best.

Now, they were the only two living people in the entire village. It was hard to say how long the two paper figures could last. If the village chief revised the rules again, they would be in danger again.

Neither of them admitted it, and immediately turned around and ran away.

“Where do you think we should go now?”

The village had returned to the way it was when they first arrived. Villagers could be seen everywhere along the road. An Xingyu asked as he ran.

“Go to the station and be ready to leave at any time.”

Because of the villager’s shouting just now, many people followed and walked towards the villager’s house. Lu Yanli didn’t look back: “We’ll lead the village chief and them over there.”

As long as they let the village chief admit that they had lived in the village for more than a month, they would succeed.

Hearing this, He Lou in the crowd was also anxious. As outsiders, they needed to follow the rules in order to be accepted by the villagers. Now that someone had violated the rules, it would undoubtedly cause the entire village to reject them.

He Lou hurriedly defended: “No, it must have nothing to do with them.”

Zhao Chuan, Liu Xia and others also defended them.

“How about we find them and ask them in person?”

“That’s right, where did they go?”

“I saw them running away.”

…

Before long, many villagers gathered behind the two fleeing people, led by… He Lou.

Faster! Faster!

They passed many houses along the way, and residents from those houses also came out, trying to stop them. However, the two didn’t care about anything and continued to run forward, shaking off the people.

It was also thanks to them that they didn’t have a marriage contract, otherwise, this behavior would inevitably be considered as fleeing from marriage.

“Stop!”

“Stop! Don’t run!”

No matter how the villagers shouted behind them, they didn’t turn back, but kept rushing forward.

Faster!

The outline of the station was already in sight. Railroad tracks appeared. They continued to run forward along the tracks.

The village chief hadn’t spoken yet, he hadn’t appeared yet.

Where would he be?

Neither of them spoke, only kept trying to calm their breathing.

As soon as they heard that they had violated the rules, the faces of the others instantly turned pale, the corners of their mouths were raised high, but their eyes were cold and malicious.

“You broke the rules…”

Again and again, the villagers gradually surrounded the two of them, but no one went behind them, as if there was some uncrossable forbidden area behind them.

Where’s the village chief?

Where did the village chief go?

“Where’s the village chief? The village chief didn’t say we broke the rules, so why are you saying that?” An Xingyu’s chest was still heaving. The long run just now had been too exhausting. He gritted his teeth and said loudly.

Now, he could only gamble.

Now that they had returned to normal, it meant they could communicate.

Hearing this sentence, the villagers seemed to have been pressed the pause button, the expressions on their pale faces all stopped, remaining on a distorted and terrifying expression.

After a long while, an old man walked out of the crowd. The wrinkles on his face were like thousands of ravines, and a pair of sharp eyes that ordinary old people would never have were hidden in the wrinkles.

It was the village chief.

“Village chief, we have lived in the village for three years and know the village rules very well. We didn’t steal anything.” An Xingyu said tentatively, his heart almost jumping out of his throat, but he still maintained his composure.

Calm down.

Just let it admit it.

It won’t know…

A long, long time passed, so long that An Xingyu felt that he was almost fixed in place like the other villagers. Only then did he finally see the village chief slowly nodding.

“You have lived for three years, you should know…”

Hearing this sentence, An Xingyu was simply overjoyed. How could he care about anything else? He grabbed Lu Yanli and turned around and jumped out of the boundary line of Red River Village!

In the next moment, his vision blurred, and everything went black.

The mission… was completed.

Everyone was dead, only he survived.

I don’t know what will happen to that person named Lu Yanli, I hope he’s okay.

These were An Xingyu’s thoughts before he passed out.

The moment Lu Yanli stepped out of the boundary line, the whole world shattered before his eyes.

When he looked back again, where were the village and the station?

He was standing on a hillside. Looking down, he saw a large area of solitary graves standing at the foot of the mountain, densely packed and terrifying. Two lanterns hung in front of each grave, swaying gently with the cold mountain wind.

It is said that the road to the Yellow Springs is long and dark. Without a lamp, lonely ghosts will not be able to find the way to reincarnation.

The mountain wind was extremely cold, and the sound of a suona faintly sounded.

Lu Yanli took out a white envelope from his pocket, sprinkled it from a high altitude, and then he left this place.

An Xingyu nodded: “I know.”

An Xingyu’s mother looked at her son’s indifferent face and couldn’t help feeling sad.

If… if that thing hadn’t happened, Xiaoyu wouldn’t be like this now, he used to be so lively and cheerful.

The news was on TV.

“XX TV station reporter reports to you that a major murder case occurred at XX station, with as many as twelve deaths…”

The mother glanced at the TV and took a breath of cold air: “It’s terrible, Xiaoyu, don’t you usually pass by that station often? Take a detour in the future and don’t go there.”

An Xingyu continued to nod.

After dinner, he returned to his room, locked the door, and then turned on the computer and logged into a mysterious website that few people knew about.

The total number of registrations was also increasing.

A trace of worry flashed in An Xingyu’s eyes. He posted a post, writing out the process of this task in detail, but for some reason, when he wrote it, he intentionally or unintentionally omitted the existence of Lu Yanli.

Again… only one person survived the mission again, it was too terrible.

An Xingyu pursed his lips and continued typing, saying that [High-rise Building Tilting] also died in this mission.

Ignoring the large number of replies below, he clicked on another forum.

It was exactly the same as the tattoo on An Xingyu’s leg that was revealed after being exposed to water.

A color of piety appeared on An Xingyu’s face. He operated on the forum for a while, found the “Confessional”, and then, he faced the virtual confessional, closed his eyes, made a strange gesture with his hands, and prayed with his eyes closed.

Lu Yanli took the car back to his residence.

No, there was no mistake.

Exactly the same…

He raised his head and looked out the window. The always indifferent eyes could not hide the excited look.

Hopefully this isn’t a coincidence.

He had been disappointed too many times.