1TWITF[C Chapter 70

Chapter 70

Lin Chu stood to the side, expressionless.

She didn’t want to watch, but it seemed some invisible force compelled her to lower her head, eyes wide, watching, bit by bit, as Awang finished eating that “fish.”

Lili smiled even more happily, her eyes crinkling: “There’s another one, hurry!”

Lin Chu gave a small “hm,” but at this point, nothing could be seen on her face, she even showed a small smile, her dimples shallow.

If you didn’t notice the slight redness around her eyes…

Lin Chu returned to the bridge with light steps, repeating the previous steps. At this moment, An Xingyu suddenly came to his senses and realized something.

“Alright, let’s go back.” Seeing Awang finish eating, Lili waved her hand, telling them to leave.

Lin Chu walked first, striding away. The others looked at each other, and immediately followed.

They hadn’t experienced many tasks and still retained a caring side of their humanity. Lin Xueyuan jogged a few steps to catch up, wanting to comfort her, but not knowing how to start. She tentatively reached out, her fingertips touching the other’s shoulder. Seeing that Lin Chu didn’t shake her off, she firmly put her arm around her.

She didn’t know what to say, only squeezing out two words: “My condolences.”

Lin Chu laughed, reaching up to remove her hood, turning her head to smile at her.

Lin Chu’s tone was light: “Cursed.”

In a short amount of time, her desire to investigate the secrets of the village had become even stronger, her desire to destroy the village’s guardian spirit even surpassing her initial desire for knowledge.

After Lin Xueyuan confirmed that the other party was mentally clear, she looked at her face and was still a little afraid. Yu Huan and Xie Ziqing were the same, looking once, rubbing their arms, and then Can’t bear it again.

How could her change be so similar to the villagers?

Since Lin Chu’s situation was due to a curse, were the villagers also…?

Lu Yanli handed her a mask: “Put it on, just say your face is injured.”

“Lu-ge, can you talk about what you saw in the forbidden area?” An Xingyu asked while washing potatoes, the sound of the flowing water drowning out his question.

Although he had also been there, he had only seen layers and layers of tombs overlapping and seemingly distributed on the hillside. An Xingyu intuitively felt that Lu Yanli understood much more than he did, so he added, “I can exchange it for other information.”

Lu Yanli casually asked, “Such as?”

“Such as the origin of the village’s guardian spirit,” An Xingyu said.

This piqued Lu Yanli’s interest: “Where did you find out about that?”

An Xingyu poked his head out to look around, whispering, “I saw a painting at the village chief’s house.”

When they were at the village chief’s house at noon, An Xingyu had specially asked Yu Huan and Xie Ziqing to distract the others, while he took advantage of going to the toilet to quietly sneak into other rooms of the village chief’s house.

The painting was hanging in the village chief’s room, depicting majestic mountains and waters and five gods riding the clouds.

Even though An Xingyu didn’t know anything about painting, he could tell that it didn’t quite match the rest of the room. He hadn’t paid attention to it at first, until later when he vaguely saw something wrong in the painting.

“I took a picture of it, you can take a look,” An Xingyu wiped his hands clean, handing the phone to the other, while taking over the cooking, making it look like the two of them were busy.

Lu Yanli returned the phone to him: “I know.”

The eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, thirteen days away from the ancestral sacrifice on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

After the group dinner, Lu Yanli moved out of Zhang Bo’s house. The six lived in adjacent houses, taking care of each other.

There were many empty houses in the village. For example, after Li Old Madam died, the villagers tidied up her belongings for her, burning her clothes and utensils, the last trace of her existence in the world disappearing in the wisps of white smoke.

Lin Chu lived near Li Old Madam’s house, able to hear the sighs of the old man from the next-door neighbor.

Lu Yanli didn’t know where Luo Ying was, presumably hiding in some corner of the village. His emphasis on Luo Ying was even higher. Being able to escape from Lili’s hands could only mean that the “god” was protecting her.

He was even more curious about the “god.”

Like the untraceable Luo Ying, Lili was also nowhere to be seen all day long. Lu Yanli often went out to observe the terrain and could encounter Awang, who seemed to have been sent by Lili to protect the village. At first, the villagers were afraid when they saw it, but later they could greet her freely.

But… the strange things in the village were still increasing. Whether the villagers were walking on the road, eating and drinking, or even just sleeping in bed, they were in danger of losing their lives. In the end, there were more and more funerals in the village. Walking along the road, it could be seen that the village was decorated with white everywhere, and it was difficult to say exactly how many people had died.

It was said that as the end of the year approached, the things locked up in the back mountain were coming out to cause trouble. But what exactly was locked up in the back mountain, the villagers were tight-lipped and unwilling to say. It wasn’t until now that Lin Xueyuan and the others noticed the villagers’ strangeness.

So many people had died, yet they only held funerals and then continued to live happily, not mentioning anything about moving.

After saying this, he seemed to have aged several times, muddy eyes embedded in muddy old eyes, full of sorrow.

Yu Huan, who still wanted to hear the other party explain: …

Of course he knew that the village chief was unwilling to move, but was that the answer he wanted? He wanted to know the reason!

Only then did Yu Huan shut up.

While most of the villagers went to offer condolences, Zhang Huixuan sat at home, waiting for Zhang Aunt to make lunch.

A red figure flew past the door quickly.

Zhang Huixuan instinctively felt that it was Lili returning. Seeing that the child didn’t even know to say hello to him when she came back, probably still thinking about “aunt,” he couldn’t help but feel a little blocked in his heart.

“Lili? Lili?” He sat for a while, the breath in his heart didn’t subside, so he simply stood up and walked towards the yard.

But he still didn’t see the little girl’s figure.

It took him a long time to squeeze out a few broken cries for help from his throat, but in the face of extreme fear, those cries for help couldn’t be pieced together into complete sentences.

In the pot, Zhang Aunt’s head, boiled until rotten, was still smiling at him. On the shelf next to it, where various seasonings and dried fruits were placed, hung a piece of human skin stained with blood, bright red, gently swaying with the breeze.

So, the red shadow he had just seen was this thing…

“No! Save…”

A long time passed again, a gust of wind blowing open the kitchen door, the wooden door gently shaking.

But inside was empty, nothing there.

Every year-end was a major catastrophe for the village, with evil spirits wreaking havoc and weirdness rampant. The task-takers finally understood this sentence.

And when they held the funeral at night, the villagers were very enthusiastic, and this contrast made her feel scared from the bottom of her heart.

Lin Chu didn’t have any special reaction when she heard Lili’s name, but Lin Xueyuan was very worried that she would do something extreme.

Without even thinking, they knew that he was going to find Lu Yanli. Lin Chu followed up, “I’ll go too.”

The two smartest wise men were planning to leave, so the others naturally didn’t want to stay. Nowhere was safe now, and the weirdness from the back mountain was simply indiscriminate random killing. They had to stay together at all times.

But to An Xingyu’s dismay, Lu Yanli wasn’t in the village, and he didn’t answer the phone either.

He… wouldn’t, right?

An Xingyu was still hoping to get Luo Ying’s clues through Lu Yanli, so he couldn’t help but get anxious. If something happened to Lu Yanli, how would he contact Luo Ying?

What he didn’t know was that Lu Yanli was with Luo Ying at this time.

They were holding a villager hostage, and had come to the village’s forbidden area.

The two had previously tested it, and if they acted alone, they would never find the road to the forbidden area, only get lost in the forest. Therefore, the two had no choice but to coerce a villager to come out.

She needed that double fish jade pendant.

Luo Ying had already found Li Old Madam’s grave. There were many funerals in the village these days, and several new graves had been added. She paused upon hearing the question.

Immediately after, Lu Yanli heard an extremely incredible thing. Even though he thought he had seen enough weirdness in this strange world, he had never heard of such a strange thing.

After that, something that made everyone feel strange happened.

He thought he had remembered it wrong, and put the same labels on the two jars, so he carefully studied the two jars of seeds, hoping to find the difference.

But… no matter what aspect he studied, the results of those two jars of seeds were exactly the same, as if they were originally the same jar of seeds.

This discovery shocked everyone in the research institute. They tried to find out why an extra jar of identical seeds had appeared, and after repeated experiments, they concluded: that double fish jade pendant seemed to have the function of copying.

They tried to feed the original white mouse normally, and not feed the other one, but after three days, both white mice were still alive. After that, they tried injecting the original white mouse with a toxic agent. After the white mouse died, the copied white mouse still existed, jumping and kicking.

But after about seven hours, the copied white mouse also died, and the cause of death was also an injected toxic agent.

Therefore, they guessed that the effect of the double fish jade pendant was not copying, but being able to bring something from another time and space into the same time and space.

This discovery was quite amazing, causing a great uproar in the scientific community.

White mice could be “copied,” so what about people?

A tomb chamber could be copied, who knew how wide its effect was?

After Luo Ying finished speaking, she couldn’t help but chuckle: “The ancestors of this group of villagers were a group of grave robbers. They robbed graves everywhere, and finally provoked the owner of this tomb, and had to guard his mausoleum for generations, otherwise every generation of them would not live past thirty. But they were really stupid and ridiculous, they didn’t even know what the real effect of the double fish jade pendant was, and only used it as an exorcism, even stuffing it into the mouth of a mutated corpse.”

If that corpse was really buried with the jade pendant in its mouth, maybe in another ten days and a half, the entire forbidden area would be cat-faced old ladies.

Lu Yanli only felt his throat was a little dry.

“You’re saying that the jade pendant can bring things from the future into the present?”

This effect… if it was placed on a person, wouldn’t it be resurrection?

The All-Knowing God, isn’t that what it does?

So, it needs the double fish jade pendant?

What relationship does the jade pendant have with it?

He was always good at pretending and acting, even though his heart was pounding so hard that it was about to burst out of his throat, his face was still indifferent. Luo Ying glanced at him, nodding: “Naturally, that’s why we need to take the jade pendant away.”

She sighed, “Such a magical treasure, of course, must be dedicated to our god.”

Lu Yanli didn’t refute, walking to her side to help. Soon, Li Old Madam’s tomb was dug almost open, revealing a coffin covered in mud.

“What should we do now?”

Luo Ying deliberately lured rats to induce Li Old Madam to revive. If they rashly took away the jade pendant, they were afraid it would be like last time.

There was also some fear in Luo Ying’s eyes. She bit her lip, but still said, “This time, we’ll do it faster. We’ll immediately cover the coffin, and then quickly bury it, nothing will happen.” She looked around and said, “Nothing will happen in this forbidden area.”

As she spoke, most of the soil above the coffin had been shoveled away, revealing a heavy background color.

Luo Ying held onto the top, and Lu Yanli continued to shovel soil, bit by bit, digging to the head.

The thick coffin was nailed tightly. Luo Ying began to move, using special tools to pry it open.

As the words fell, the last nail was also pulled out.

Luo Ying hesitated, but finally said, “Shall we push it open together?”

They stood in the grave pit, starting from the head, pushing it open bit by bit.

Just pushing it open a crack, an intense and rich stench poured out. The two were prepared, and simultaneously dodged. After that seemingly substantive poisonous gas dissipated, they continued to push it down little by little.

Just in case, they only pushed open a part, revealing Li Old Madam’s pointed mouth and fangs and a swollen Bruisedqing zhong mian kong – bruised face.

Buried for a few days, the corpse gradually rotted.

This time, without Luo Ying saying much, Lu Yanli consciously put on gloves, carefully reaching out and quickly taking out the jade pendant from the corpse’s mouth.

At the same time, Luo Ying pushed the coffin lid on!

This time, there was no major trouble, but soon, the two heard some movement from inside the coffin. Luo Ying immediately inserted the nails back one by one. She was unwilling to hand over the tools to Lu Yanli to let him do it, only desperately nailing them herself. Fortunately, the movement in the coffin wasn’t great, and soon the nails were basically nailed back to their original state.

When he heard the effect of the jade pendant, he had no intention of handing it over.

He painstakingly lifted the coffin from the tail, and the two slowly straightened it, and then immediately filled it with soil.

Throughout the process, the sound inside the coffin became weaker and weaker.

While burying the coffin, Lu Yanli was thinking about another thing.

Who is the owner of this mausoleum?

He asked this question, and Luo Ying shook her head: “This matter is not something that people of my level can know.”

She raised her head and looked towards the top of the hillside surrounded by circles of tombstones, her eyes still gentle and calm, without a trace of curiosity.

“Our task is to get the double fish jade pendant, as for exploring this mausoleum, others will come to do it.” This sentence was to adviselu Yanli not to think too much.

Lu Yanli nodded.

He just needed to goodguai guai – be obedient, be well-behaved, docile stay in the village as a target.

Lu Yanli didn’t mean to hand it over: “No need to rush, we can wait in the village until the ancestral sacrifice before going back.”

“You!”

Luo Ying vaguely realized that the other party seemed to know her intentions, gritting her teeth.

She didn’t expect that this usually cowardly and docile person would also disobey orders. According to her original plan, after taking away the jade pendant, she would immediately contact other believers waiting outside the village, and let Lu Yanli deal with Lili’s anger.

But, the jade pendant is in his hands now.