Chapter 33

Combining what Mu Chen had analyzed for Lu Xiaoyao, where had the simple and honest villagers ever seen Lu Xiaoyao's pretentious and mysterious posture?

They were already trembling with fear from her intimidation, and the fear in their hearts was constantly magnified.

So, was their village really that terrifying?

As Lu Xiaoyao spoke, she guided them to talk about the unusual aspects of the village.

Once the seed of doubt is planted in a person's heart, everything they see is dangerous.

For example, the couple who lost their child disappeared for half a month before appearing in front of everyone again, as if they had completely emerged from the shadow of their grief and had become fanatical believers in the mountain god.

Or, Old Wang's family at the end of the village, after believing in the mountain god in their early years, suddenly one day the old man forbade his family from believing in the mountain god anymore, and then the old man died of cancer within two years. After many years, their family suddenly believed in the mountain god again, and they also earned a large sum of money with an unclear origin.

And then there was the story of someone who was seriously ill going up the mountain to worship the gods, and when they came down the mountain a few days later, their complexion was rosy and radiant, and they could eat a whole chicken at every meal, and so on...

With Lu Xiaoyao's deliberate guidance, as they said these things, not only did they become more and more afraid, but even Lu Xiaoyao herself shrank her head in fear.

The more she heard, the more bizarre it became.

The more she heard, the less human it sounded!

Lu Xiaoyao, not wanting to continue asking, wanted to retreat, but when she turned her head, she met Mu Chen's gaze, which she didn't want to understand but had to.

Lu Xiaoyao: Boss, QwQ, do we have to continue?

Mu Chen: Continue.

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So, Lu Xiaoyao could only bite the bullet and chat with them boldly.

After being tricked and intimidated by Lu Xiaoyao, the old couple dug out all the things in the village that seemed a little strange. Without exception, those people all loved to eat chicken.

Mu Chen watched one person lead the conversation while two people answered, and he used his eyes to signal Julian to silently record the content of the three people's conversation. After that, he didn't show anything else.

He seemed to be concentrating on the conversation the whole time, but he also seemed to be absent-minded the whole time.

Occasionally, Mu Chen looked up at the night outside the courtyard. Tonight seemed particularly long, and it was still pitch black outside.

Lu Xiaoyao kept talking until her mouth was dry before she got all the information out of the old couple's mouths. Xin Yue Village was not too big or too small, but recalling what the old couple had said, Lu Xiaoyao roughly estimated that there were two or three hundred people with problems.

Lu Xiaoyao remembered that there were also dozens of corpses whose heads she had smashed in the mountains, and for a moment, she wondered if the other party had exaggerated.

Or were there really that many?

"However, after listening to you, the two of us have some guesses about the identities of those things."

As soon as the two old people said this, even Mu Chen looked over, wanting to hear what they had to say.

"We've always had a legend here that some goblins that have become refined in the mountains want to come down the mountain to enjoy the prosperity of the human world. But they often don't have enough cultivation, and after they come down the mountain and become human, they often reveal their true selves in front of people. Therefore, they thought of a way."

"What way?"

"They pretend to be ghosts and trick mortals into giving them their skins to wear, so that they are not afraid of being discovered after they go down the mountain."

"Hiss—"

As soon as these words were said, Lu Xiaoyao first gasped, and then, thinking of the skinless corpses in the mountains, this might really be the case!

Impersonating gods to trick them into giving up their skins to replace them down the mountain, good heavens, these goblins!

"However, according to the older generation, these goblins are afraid of others saying that they are not human, because they are guilty. The more you say it, the more guilty they become, and in the end, they can't even wear their human skin."

This method of breaking the situation appeared so suddenly that Lu Xiaoyao stared at the old couple with astonishingly bright eyes!

These NPCs are too awesome, right?

Ming Mei smiled instantly through Lu Xiaoyao's perspective. This could be regarded as finding their weakness, otherwise Lu Xiaoyao and the others might still have a fierce battle later.

Just then, Ming Mei suddenly felt the fluctuations of the murals in front of her. She took two steps back, and sure enough, Wang Wenfei and the others rushed out of the murals at this moment.

The moment they saw Ming Mei, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief as if they had escaped death, and shouted, "Finally out!"

Mei Ruita laughed and grabbed Ming Mei's hand. Before Ming Mei could ask what she was doing, she heard her say, "Boxed lunch! I want a boxed lunch! I want lots of boxed lunches!"

After entering the world inside the mural, she realized how awesome that torch was. Now that her transaction countdown was gone, she wanted to buy a boxed lunch!

Ming Mei: "..."

She was startled, she thought she had been exposed!

[Pfft~]

Gui Gui, amused by Ming Mei's sudden guilty conscience, couldn't help but laugh.

Ming Mei ignored Gui Gui and agreed to Mei Ruita's request with a smile, directly selling two boxed lunches to the other party.

However, now that the plot had reached this point, Ming Mei felt that the boxed lunch that gained the villagers' favor was a bit useless, but she still didn't say it.

This time, the boxed lunch price was so high, and the commission was also high!

After taking the boxed lunch, Mei Ruita started gobbling it up crazily, and Wang Wenfei also noticed the mountain god statue in the main hall, which had cracked.

Not only that, but the hideous animal head and human body statue revealed after the mountain god statue left made her feel directly physiologically uncomfortable.

"How could this statue be like this?"

"I don't know, I just came over to take a look because I couldn't sleep at night, and then the statue cracked." Ming Mei still looked pure and innocent, and then looked at her, asking, "But how did you guys come out of the wall? Is it that outrageous?"

As she spoke, she reached out and touched the wall, scaring Mei Ruita so much that she almost choked on a mouthful of rice.

As a result, when Ming Mei touched it, it was just an ordinary wall.

Rock solid! And very rough!

"You saw it wrong, we didn't come out of the wall, we just came in from outside." Wang Wenfei said nonsense with a straight face.

But Ming Mei didn't cooperate and said, "But you guys just shouted 'Finally out', shouldn't it be 'Finally in' if you came from outside?"

Mei Ruita & Wang Wenfei: "..."

Seeing their appearance of being so scared that they couldn't even speak properly, Ming Mei smiled again, looked at the two of them looking tangled as if they were thinking "Oh no, I've been exposed, what should I say?", Ming Mei sighed and said, "By the way, when I got up earlier, I found that Lu Xiaoyao and the other three seemed to have gone down the mountain, do you want to go find them?"

Seeing that they seemed to have forgotten Lu Xiaoyao and the others after they came out, Ming Mei could only take the initiative to cue the process at this time.

Although Lu Xiaoyao and the others seemed to have figured out the general truth, some of it was just speculation. Even now, Lu Xiaoyao was still hesitating because she was still struggling with the number of strange people in the village not matching the number of skinless corpses she had beaten up in the mountains.

Without the evidence supplemented by Wang Wenfei and the others, even if they knew how to deal with those weasels later, it would be easy to be tricked.

Thinking like this, Ming Mei had no choice but to open her mouth and lead the two of them down the mountain as soon as possible.