Chapter 331: Yinshan Village

After simply cleaning up the scene, Fang Dian called the police, then she borrowed Mu Sicheng's heavy-duty motorcycle from Bai Liu, put the still-awake Lu Yizhan on the back of the bike, put on her helmet, and waved her hand and prepared to ride back.

Du Sanying looked at Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan's injuries from afar, and warned fearfully, "Well, why don't you ask Mr. Bai Liu to call you a cab? Don't ride a motorcycle, it's not safe ......".

Bai Liu scanned the motorcycle with little expression on his face and looked at Fang Dian: "When did you learn to ride a heavy motorcycle?"

Fang Dian was turning around to put a helmet on Lu Yizhan, who was in the back seat, and looked up and laughed, "I haven't learned it, but I usually drive a Hello Bike at work, so it should be about the same!"

Bai Liu blandly refused, "Not even close, you get down."

Next to Du Sanying, his face cracked open, and he hissed madly inwardly-- Mr. Bai Liu, why do you have the face to talk about others!

Isn't that exactly what you said before!

Fang Dian gave a regretful eep and stared at Bai Liu for a while, making sure that Bai Liu wouldn't let her ride it, then she got down with a heart full of pity, and touched the motorcycle after she got down: "If it wasn't for this time being caught I wouldn't have had the chance to see this kind of racing scene in a movie... the heavy motorcycle is so cool... ..."

Bai Liu said, "I'll lend you a ride later."

Dian Fang's eyes lit up, "It's a deal!"

"I'll call a car to pick you and Lu Yizhan up later." Bai Liu said, "Send me a text message when you get back."

Fang Dian gave an OK sign and then helped Lu Yizhan to wait.

Bai Liu paused, "Aren't you going to ask why you were arrested? It has something to do with me."

"I can tell, I'm not stupid." Fang Dian leaned back on her motorcycle with her legs crossed and a crooked grin, "But you didn't seem too eager to talk about it, so I didn't ask."

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, "Right not ......"

Fang Dian raised her hand and interrupted Bai Liu, "Eh eh eh! No need!"

She smiled as generous as ever: "Or the old rules, you got me into trouble once, you owe me a favor, this favor will use your back to borrow motorcycle to me to open up the offset, there is no need to apologize, between the two of us to count the debt on the line."

Dian Fang smiled brightly, "Have you been busy with any team competitions lately? Haven't seen you over all this time."

Mu Sicheng and Tang Er Ta's faces both changed, and they subconsciously glanced at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu's expression remained light: "How did you guess?"

Dian Fang stroked his chin, "You do things generally figure money, after the layoff and is exactly the lack of money, the old Lu will not let you go to do anything illegal, legal short-term to the fastest way to money in addition to gambling, generally is a variety of athletic competitions, right."

"And--" Fang Dian nodded at the circle of people around Bai Liu, hugging her chest and laughing, "These are all new faces, I haven't seen them before, are they your race teammates? I haven't seen them before, are they your teammates?"

Bai Liu hmmm.

Dian Fang was still smiling, "I feel like you're getting along with them just fine, so bring them along to the house for dinner sometime."

Bai Liu looked down at him for a long time and answered.

The cab that Fang Dian had called for arrived quickly, and Fang Dian, holding Lu Yizhan, who was not yet fully awake, waved goodbye to Bai Liu and got into the car and left.

As soon as Fang Dian left, Mu Sicheng was the first to ask, "Is she a gamer?"

"No." Bai Liu looked at the cab's distant back.

Mu Sicheng wondered, "But she just said it too accurately?"

Bai Liu withdrew his eyes, "She guessed."

Mu Sicheng couldn't believe it, "If it's not a player, she just met us once and guessed so accurately?"

Bai Liu said after a moment of silence, "In high school, Lu Yizhan and I played backgammon with her, all kinds of competitive, horror games, and we never beat her once in three years."

"Up to now, I haven't won a game at her hands."

Inside the cab.

Fang Dian leaned against the car window, lazily snorted, stretched out her foot and kicked Lu Yizhan next to her: "Okay, don't pretend, Bai Liu can't see anymore, open your eyes."

Lu Yizhan slowly opens his eyes and leans back in his position in silence.

Fang Dian didn't look at him, her eyes fell far away from the window, "What a big change Bai Liu, so withdrawn in high school, only able to play with me and you, and now there are so many new friends who can play games with him ......"

"I hope he has fun."

Fang Dian laughed as she turned her head over to rub Lu Yizhan's head vigorously and smiled brightly, "Of course, you too, Old Lu."

"Y'all have fun!"

Lu Yizhan slowly opened his hands and tightly encircled Fang Dian's waist, burying his face in it.

Fang Dian gently ruffled Lu Yizhan's hair and kissed the corner of his wounded forehead, "Whether it's you or Bai Liu, it wouldn't be worth it to be sad because of something like a game that's supposed to make people happy."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and let out a muffled hmmm.

The cab made its way down the remote and desolate thoroughfare toward the bustling city center, with no one in sight on the empty practice lot behind it.

In-Game.

Bai Liu took Mu Sicheng and they logged into the game, first going to the Wandering Circus Guild's location to meet up and heading straight to the lounge.

Mu Ke, Liu Jiayi and Wang Shun are already waiting there.

"The results of the last game of the Frenzied Lambs are in." Wang Shun looks over at Bai Liu and lets out a breath, "They won, their betting pool has been expanded once again, and just now your bounty pool was recalculated, and the calculation came back at number 9."

"Your match with the Frenzied Lambs takes place in Viewing Pool 9."

Bai Liu nods, "Got it, now go over there."

Viewing Pool #9.

Kong Xuyang sits grim-faced on the edge of his seat, next to a couple of bikers who don't dare to look up and have injuries on their bodies.

"You say you failed in your sneak attack on Bai Liu?"

Kong Xuyang folded his hands in his lap and tried to put on an air of superiority exerting authority, but the shame of his failure caused his face to contort in a scowl as he questioned:

"The best tactician in this game we've ever sneak attacked successfully, Bai Liu, a mere laid-off employee who was fired from his company at the age of 24, a LOSER, and you guys would actually lose to him in reality?!"

Kong Xuyang kicked a speedster in the knee and shouted angrily, "Wastes, a bunch of wastes!"

"I brought you guys into the game, raised you to spend your time, wiped your asses with props when things went wrong, and this is how you repay me?!"

"And I told you guys to split up, and not a single one of you got it?!"

These speedsters stood as if they were on thin ice, not daring to utter a breath.

Kong Xuyang couldn't keep his temper down and was about to kick again when Bai Liu brought his team over to take their seats, he looked at Kong Xuyang and nodded in greeting, calm as if nothing had happened.

It's like all the tricks Kong Xuyang did before, Bai Liu didn't care and it didn't affect him in any way, what Kong Xuyang did was like a clown, it's not worth mentioning in front of Bai Liu.

Bai Liu's calmness completely enraged Kong Xuyang.

Kong Xuyang got up violently, but in the end he managed to control himself and sat down with a twisted face, his eyes staring gloomily at Bai Liu, then as if he suddenly thought of something, his face eased up quite a bit, revealing a sinister smile, and said with a mouthful of words, "Bai Liu, you can outrun the first day of the year, but you can't outrun the fifteenth day of the year. "

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly.

The viewing pool was growing, and all eyes were on the large TV screen in the center, which slowly lit up and a line emerged from it:

[System alert: The single-player tournament is about to begin.]

[System Alert: Wandering Circus Player (Rose Hunter) vs. Fanatical Lamb Player (Hairy Fish)]

When this list came out, the audience erupted all over the place:

"What's going on? Not Kong Xuyang?"

"Hasn't he always been a fixture in the singles position?"

"Who is this hairy fish? I've never seen it before?"

Wang Shun was also stunned, "Kong Xuyang has been fixated on the solo position in order to increase his exposure, and playing solo is the easiest position to be remembered by the audience and the easiest to become a star player."

"He actually gave such a position to a reserve player, Hairy Fish, who has never played before? Why not let the regulars play?"

Wang Shun frowns in confusion, "What does Kong Xuyang want?"

"Sent out to sacrifice to heaven." Bai Liu eyed the big screen, "Kong Xuyang should be well aware that I'll be putting Captain Tang in a single player match, so he knows that he most likely won't be able to win in a single player match, even if he has the skill of [Silence and Silence] freezing the panels, Captain Tang's physical fitness is still very good."

"That's true." Wang Shun mused, "Captain Tang could have made Kong Xuyang give up the fight with his bare hands alone."

"He doesn't have anyone on his team that can beat Captain Tang, so this position is simply sacrificed with a reserve player." Bai Liu's afterglow swept over Kong Xuyang's face, "It looks like he's going to be out of the doubles match."

Wang Shun was stunned, "It's always been you and God Mu in our side's duos."

Bai Liu hmms faintly, "He should just want to take the initiative against me."

Wang Shun worriedly glanced at Bai Liu, "Bai Liu, Kong Xuyang's tactical style is very cruel, he likes to freeze his opponent's panels and then slowly torture and tease them, are you okay with that?"

Bai Liu looked at Kong Xuyang across the table, "I've had a taste, and I think it's average."

[System Alert: Wandering Circus Player (Rose Hunter) wins solo match, kills the match early, accumulates 2 points]

Tang Er hit the board and sat down next to Bai Liu as a new line appeared on the big screen in the center of the viewing pool, and Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng stood up.

[System alert: The two-player race is about to begin.]

[System Alert: Wandering Circus player Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng vs. Frenzied Lamb player Kong Xuyang, Silence of the Lambs]

A huge cheer erupted from the crowd, this was a duo match that brought together highly popular tacticians from both sides.

Before logging into the game, Kong Xuyang hypocritically walked up to shake Bai Liu's hand and said with a smile on his face, "Bai Liu, do you know why my team is called [Frenzied Lambs]?"

Bai Liu shook his hand with a smile and asked rhetorically, "Is there any allusion to this?"

Kong Xuyang suppressed a grin, "Because our team's killer is a lamb."

Bai Liu trailed off with an oh-so-long tone, "Is it [Frenzied Lamb]? I remember the player sadly died in last year's midseason."

Kong Xuyang's face contorted for a moment, then returned to a smile, "No, it's the brand new [Lamb], [Silence of the Lambs]."

Bai Liu converts his eyes to the team members standing behind Kong Xuyang.

The man didn't look very old, twenty-five or twenty-six, wearing a motorcycle helmet, staring at Bai Liu, with a bruised face, round eyes and face, sideburns with hair growing luxuriantly all the way down to just below the ears, nose and lips protruding outward, cheekbones inward, like a lamb.

Judging from the injuries and motorcycle helmet, this person obviously participated in the previous siege Bai Liu, but Bai Liu for a moment, surprisingly, could not recall where this person had actually appeared.

Bai Liu's eyes shifted down to see what the lamb-like player was holding in his hand.

--- A whitish red fabric bow hair tie.

This is Fang Dian's stuff.

Kong Xuyang smiled sorrowfully, "Is it that you clearly feel that this person has done something very excessive to you, but can't recall who he is?"

"Because his skill is to make you forget who you are."

"Wait to be tortured by me, Bai Liu, and you'll be sorry you dared to take on me unassumingly, but it's too late to talk to you like that now."

Kong Xuyang said, then smiled again and withdrew his hand, turning towards the login point.

Bai Liu looked at the Lamb crew member following Kong Xuyang, retracted his gaze, and turned to lead Mu Sicheng towards their log-in point as well.

[Silence of the Silence] + [Silence of the Lambs]? ......

That does count as something like a killer.

[System Alert: Players Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng logged into the game (Yinshan Village)]

Bai Liu opened his eyes.

In front of us is a desolate hillside shrub, dense trees and bamboo forests cover the dirt road, surrounded by countryside fields where rice has just been inserted, the green rice and the swaying weeds on the ridges are so green that they force the eyes to look at them.

There is an abandoned weir and a well full of green duckweed, Bai Liu tilted his head and saw one family after another nestled in the hills, smoke curling up from the chimneys, the green hills are hidden, the rain is slight, very much like a paradise of peace and quiet.

[System Alert: The rain is pouring down during the Ching Ming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls]

[Player Identity Profile: You are a gangster and are on your way back to your hometown, Yinshan Village. Originally, you hadn't been back to your hometown for many years, but not too long ago you were notified by a certain national archaeological team that a century-old tomb of unprecedented beauty had been dug out in your village, which was very valuable for mining and happened to be right below your home.]

[If the archaeological team wanted to mine the ancient tomb under the house, they would have to push the house in this village, and the consent of the head of the household was needed, but as it happened, the only ones left in this village, the only old men, fell off the mountain and drowned in the weir when they were hiking up the mountain to pay homage to their ancestors at Ching Ming, three days ago.]

[Among the old people who drowned happened to be your grandmother, and all your grandmother's other relatives were gone, so the ownership of the house fell logically to you, the grandson who had not returned to his hometown to honor his ancestors for decades.]

[Your explicit purpose of returning to Yinshan Village this time is to pack up your things, observe the seventh day of your grandmother's head, and receive the house, but privately, you are still harboring some ulterior motives.]

[The main quest of "Yinshan Village" is activated: live until the archaeological team comes to receive the ancient tomb.]

Activation of the "Yinshan Village" side quest: Explore the purpose of "you".]

Bai Liu took a step forward, and there was a strange, as if paper had snapped, sound at his feet, and he looked down-it was a white, round, square-holed piece of past-life money.

Bai Liu paused for a moment as he turned his head to look back along this paper money.

This paper money from here, all the way fluttering, from the abandoned weir, all the way spread to Bai Liu up the mountain home road, the paper is vaguely stepped into the mud, if it is not Bai Liu specially pay attention to a bit, did not find these have been soaked by the rain rotten soft paper money.

Bai Liu looks up at the deserted village swaying in the mountain rain and sees the smoke rising from the homes.

"Aaaaaaahhhh-" a thrashing male voice came from far behind Bai Liu.

Bai Liu turned around and saw Mu Sicheng running all the way over to him with tears as if his ass had been set on fire by a ghost, and then he grabbed Bai Liu's arm and didn't move, gasping for breath, his face all pale with fear.

"Bai, Bai Liu ......" Mu Sicheng's voice trembled as he broke down and screamed miserably, "This is actually a Chinese horror book! I'm fucking terrified of Chinese horror books!"

Bai Liu raises an eyebrow, "You're afraid of ghosts?"

"I'm not afraid of ghosts!" Mu Sicheng retorted colorfully, "I'm afraid of Chinese horror copies, don't you think Chinese horror copies are much scarier than those zombies, monsters?"

Bai Liu saw that Mu Sicheng was genuinely frightened, so he changed the subject, "Did you find anything?"

As soon as Mu Sicheng heard Bai Liu ask this, he swallowed nervously and stiffened, "...... You look back and see my footprints."

Mu Sicheng was wearing a pair of sneakers, and the footprints left on this freshly rained mud road were so obvious that even the size and brand of the soles of the feet could be imprinted, and a series of footprints were clearly connected on the road from the vicinity of the weir to Mu Sicheng's feet.

Bai Liu looks at the footprints, "See."

Mu Sicheng closed his eyes, and the hand holding Bai Liu's arm trembled slightly, "...... You look carefully."

Bai Liu looked a little closer this time, he stared at the string of shoe prints for a while, then realized something was wrong.

Behind each of Mu Sicheng's shoe prints was a small inverted triangular footprint, very light, as if something had held Mu Sicheng's shoulders and padded its feet against Mu Sicheng's body to follow him step by step.

And the size of the footprints is not right, this is not the size of human footprints at all, rather like the footprints of ...... buried paper people.

"I keep feeling like something is following me ...... " Mu Sicheng took a deep breath, "then turned around to see a weirdly smiling bridal paper human face, then my footprints were off, there was an extra one. "

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze, "Any drop in life and spirit values?"

Mu Sicheng shook his head.

"Then leave it for now." Bai Liu looks away from the village, "Let's go into the village first."

Mu Sicheng just glanced at the village, his face went white again, and he clutched Bai Liu in a death grip, slowly turning his head to look at Bai Liu : "...... Wait."

"You read the player identity introduction right?" Mu Sicheng pointed at the light smoke that was still rising sparsely in the village, his face darkened, "Yinshan Village is already a dead village, the last few elderly people who were alive were drowned three days ago, there will simply be no one who will build fires to cook in this village."

"What's with all the smoke?"

Bai Liu looks over and ohs, "I noticed that, but you have to go over there to find out who's making the fire and cooking, right?"

"I guess it's made to feed the paper man who followed you to your burial."

"You're still fucking scaring me!" Mu Sicheng couldn't hold it together for a moment and almost cried out, "Are you really not afraid at all?"

Bai Liu smiled, "It's okay."