Chapter 11 Many Thoughts

"So, the boss and his wife are also ghosts? Just more advanced than those we saw in the vegetable garden?"

What Mu Chen said early in the morning led everyone to fill in many details.

People who disappeared every rainy night;

This dilapidated hotel that didn't seem connected to anyone;

A wandering evil spirit near the hotel...

Soon, guided by Mu Chen's ambiguous words, the players had many thoughts.

"Well, a bustling hotel decades ago, which explains why the boss's shop has so many old things, and why they only provide candles instead of preparing diesel and portable generators when the power goes out. And why the kitchen is so retro, even without a refrigerator."

Originally planning to go directly to the vegetable garden to investigate, the players, after listening to Mu Chen's many "legends" early in the morning, decided to go upstairs to consolidate their thoughts.

Julian nodded, "Yes, if the couple aren't evil spirits, then it makes sense why they took us in."

"Think about it, suddenly one day a murderer appears near the hotel, specifically targeting lone travelers on rainy days. How much psychological trauma would that cause the hotel owner?"

After listening to him, Hu Yue also offered her own idea, "Maybe the hotel, including the boss, was slaughtered by that evil spirit decades ago.

"But maybe because of some reason, the evil spirit couldn't enter here. The ghost couple were afraid of the evil spirit outside and never dared to go out.

"But every year, tourists appear near the hotel for various reasons. They are afraid that these tourists will encounter misfortune, so they pretend to be alive and continue to run the shop, providing shelter for those lost and lonely travelers?"

...

[Well... I knew it. Miss Merchant was so nice before, how could she suddenly be a bad person this time?]

[Worthy of the CP I ship, they are all good people! Tears~~]

[So there's an evil spirit outside, this NPC is hiding too deep!]

[Think about the skills of that evil spirit last night. Our Miss Merchant doesn't look like such a fierce person. You guys are just guessing!]

[Wuwuwu, am I guilty for suspecting Miss Merchant was a bad person from the beginning? I was wrong! The dog planned it on purpose!]

[Yes, yes, the game planner is terrible. They wanted to guide the dirty water to Miss Merchant in the early stage. Did they really think we would be fooled with such obvious hints?!]

...

Ming Mei, who had just woken up, saw everyone's impression of her changing rapidly through Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast.

Ming Mei: ???

"Awake?"

Mu Chen came in from outside with a bowl of porridge in his hand and saw Ming Mei sitting on the bed, looking confused.

"Um... did something happen this morning?"

Ming Mei turned to look at Mu Chen, and then thought of the direction of the comments in the live broadcast room. Was this so different from her previous guess?

It shouldn't be... was she about to be exposed?

She had planned that once everyone discovered her true identity, she would scare them all away, so she could chase them openly and unscrupulously, but—

Ming Mei: ??

Was her acting so bad? Did they see that she wasn't a good person from the beginning?

Also, what evil spirit? What was that thing?

"Ah, I just told them a legend this morning."

Knowing that it was Mu Chen's meddling nature that caused it, Ming Mei still understood one thing after listening to what Mu Chen had told the players in the morning—

You, the villain, will always be the villain.

This was simply messing with the players' minds!

In the end, Mu Chen even said, "Seriously, I didn't lie. This legend has been circulating in the mountains for years. As a neutral NPC who is biased towards the players, I think my reminder was okay. I told them not to go out in thunderstorms, because they will be counter-killed if they do. What did I do wrong?"

"No..."

Ming Mei finished speaking, but she always felt that what Mu Chen said was not right!

"But like this, I've been whitewashed, as if I'm a good person~"

Ming Mei took the vegetable porridge from Mu Chen, tilted her head, and said with a bit of wicked taste, "If my identity is completely revealed at the last moment, they will not only cry, maybe our operation will be counted on the game company, and then the hot search about the game company not acting like humans will be popular again. My uncle will come to find fault with us again."

Mu Chen chuckled at this, but he didn't care at all, just looked at her and said, "I just hope you don't have any psychological burden."

Ming Mei paused slightly with the porridge in her hand, sighing incessantly in her heart.

[Gosh, is my acting really that bad? Where did Mu Chen see that I have a psychological burden?]

[Host, your emotional fluctuations in this game are very large. In the early stage, you were still resistant to the task, and then you became more and more excited. Do you know how obvious the light of a villain is in your eyes when you mention killing the players now? It's not hard to see.]

Ming Mei: "..."

Gui Gui's answer made Ming Mei look up at the person in front of her again. Mu Chen immediately stretched out a hand to cover her eyes.

She heard Mu Chen whisper in her ear, "This is just a game, don't have any psychological burden. And don't be afraid that your image in their minds will collapse or anything. I've done everything for you here, you just need to continue not to let them discover your true identity."

"But that's difficult, right?"

Ming Mei felt a little drumming in her heart.

She had to do the villain's task and hide the fact that she was the villain. It didn't seem very reliable. "Besides, there will always be clues in the game that will constantly point all the evidence to me, I..."

"There's no buts, you just need to kill them all before they react."

After speaking, Mu Chen released his hand covering Ming Mei's eyes, his dark and deep pupils met Ming Mei's eyes, and he said in a tone that seemed to encourage her, "Trust me, you can do it."

Ming Mei: "..."

Worthy of someone who has experience playing a villain boss.

Lu Xiaoyao and the others didn't know that the mysterious merchant who had gently revealed the news to them in the morning was actually instigating the villain boss to kill them. After eating their vegetable and tofu lunch boxes at noon, they planned to go to the vegetable garden.

When they went downstairs again, they saw that Ming Mei was already sitting at the front desk, reading by candlelight.

At this moment, the store was not very bright even during the day. Even if the door was opened, except for the splashing rain in front of the door, the thunder and lightning outside made the sky much darker.

"Ah? Are you going to the vegetable garden now?"

Ming Ming, who knew their plan through the live broadcast, was still pretending that she didn't know anything, looked worriedly outside, and said, "But the weather is so bad, why don't you wait a while, and go out when the rain is a little lighter?"

"Ah..."

Just as Lu Xiaoyao was about to reject Ming Mei, she looked at the "NPC" with a face similar to her friend's, and thought of the rumors they had heard in the morning, and their speculations, Lu Xiaoyao was already a little shaken.

She turned to look at Julian and the others. Julian also noticed the unusually heavy thunderstorm at noon and nodded in agreement, "Let's wait a while."

Saying that, the group turned around and went upstairs again. Ming Mei looked at their departing backs and lowered her head slightly. The gentleness on her face had disappeared completely.

Then she bent down and took out the raincoat and axe she had hidden under the counter early in the morning and left here...

When the rain really lessened after a while, Julian took Lu Xiaoyao and Hu Yue downstairs together.

As soon as they went downstairs, they found that Ming Mei was no longer in her original position. Instead, Mu Chen was there.

Seeing them come down, Mu Chen smiled and pointed to the umbrellas on the counter and said, "My wife just took a lunch break. Before her lunch break, she told me to take out these umbrellas, saying that you would need them to see the vegetable garden."

"Thank you~"

Leng Youyou stared at the big, flowery umbrellas and suddenly felt a pang of guilt in her heart.

Speaking of which, from last night to this morning, she had been suspecting that the couple in the shop were not good people.

As a result, it seemed that the game planner had just created an atmosphere in the early stage, rendering the original good people to not look like good people.

Now, it felt like they were really good people~