Chapter 12: Yin Fate (VI)
Song Yanchi turned his head and saw that Qiao Yuan, who was originally standing, had sat down on a chair beside him at some point. Her legs seemed to be too weak to walk and her body was trembling slightly like an autumn leaf in the wind. The teardrop mole on the lower right corner looked like a tear about to fall, making her look even more fragile.
Song Yanchi:?
What happened?
As soon as Qiao Yuan's voice came out, Zhou Lian and others' eyes instantly fell on her, and most of them looked stunned.
Even Zhou Lian, who was always good at controlling his expressions, showed surprise on his face.
After all, he had more or less heard some noise coming from the next door last night, and knew that a ghost had come to visit. According to his idea , Song Yanchi had a certain chance of surviving, but according to his personality, he would not care about Su Yan and Qiao Yuan, so the two novices were almost certain to die.
Thinking of Qiao Yuan's face, Zhou Lian felt a rare surge of pity.
However, beauty is the most useless thing in the dungeon, after all, most people are busy with their own affairs. He had already given Qiao Yuan a chance to live one more night, but he did not cherish it.
Because he only heard Su Yan's cry, he had already determined that Qiao Yuan died before Su Yan.
But who is standing in front of him now? !
The others were more or less trying to hide their surprise, but Lan Lan spoke directly and expressed everyone's thoughts: "Qiao Yuan?!"
"You're not dead?!"
It was her boyfriend who quickly pulled her back and looked at Qiao Yuan with a simple smile: "She has no bad intentions, she just cares about you."
However, Lanlan's words had intentionally or unintentionally revealed that they already knew that Qiao Yuan and the others had encountered a ghost.
Qiao Yuan didn't expect that besides herself, there were another group of people who were worried about her life and death. The feeling of being missed made her heart burn, and her words were also warm: "I didn't expect you to care about me so much. In fact, I have always been thinking about you."
"If I die, I will definitely come back to find you..."
The temperature is minus degrees Celsius.
If someone else said such words, they would definitely think that the other person was being sarcastic, but such cold words came from Qiao Yuan's mouth. There was a touching look on her face, and her eyes were red, not sure whether it was because of fear or team spirit.
Everyone: “…”
No, you really miss it.
Even after he died, he still missed them.
Lan Lan frowned, thinking Qiao Yuan was stupid, and his words were so uncomfortable. She wanted to say something, but Qiao Yuan didn't give her a chance to speak: "So you heard the noise last night, too?"
Lan Lan choked and subconsciously looked at Zhou Lian: "I..."
Zhou Lian's expression revealed guilt and annoyance. He said that they all fell asleep last night. There must be some special restrictions in the copy, which caused him to hear noises in the house near daytime. Then he asked Qiao Yuan what happened last night.
Qiao Yuan was understanding and said that it was all due to the dungeon restrictions, not Zhou Lian, and then he explained the whole story.
But she never mentioned anything about keeping vigil and dealing with ghosts. She only said that the ghosts would automatically disappear at dawn.
Seeing Qiao Yuan's face suddenly turn pale when he mentioned ghosts, he finally overcame his fear under the urging of Shamatte and Zhou Lian's encouragement, and bravely told what happened last night. Zhou Lian and others would never guess that Qiao Yuan was hiding something.
Su Yan was still immersed in the huge contrast between Qiao Yuan and Zhou Lian. When she reacted, she realized that what the other party said was somewhat different from the facts. But seeing that Song Yanchi didn't say anything, she also chose to keep silent.
When Lan Lan heard that the three of them had encountered the ghost of the middle-aged man who had died before, she shuddered: "Can a dead player come back?"
Because of what Qiao Yuan said before, everyone's eyes fell on her again. Especially Lan Lan, who had previously thought that a burden like Qiao Yuan could be avoided from dragging them down if she died early, but now she actually wanted to shake Qiao Yuan's shoulders and tell him not to die in this dungeon even if he died.
Zhou Lian's face flashed with an unnatural look for a moment, and then he said, "It seems that you were chosen by chance."
Finally, he added in a thankful tone: "Fortunately, none of you are in danger of life. For Su Yan's leg injury, ask the village chief if there is a village doctor who can treat it."
Although Su Yan didn't have much social experience, she could sense some subtlety in Lan Lan's words. Because of what happened last night, Qiao Yuan was more reliable than Zhou Lian in her heart. She saw Qiao Yuan nod out of the corner of her eye, and then she nodded immediately.
Zhou Lian set his sights on Song Yanchi again.
He had already deeply felt from various news and yesterday's contact that Song Yanchi was a troublemaker, and he did not trust him.
Sure enough, Song Yanchi frowned, as if he was lost in thought.
He had already prepared to deal with Song Yanchi's questioning, but until the few people realized that it was getting late and prepared to get up to find the village chief, Song Yanchi did not say a word. Instead, he still looked like he was thinking hard.
Zhou Lian:?
Do you need to think for that long?
Although he was puzzled by Song Yanchi's abnormal behavior, it was more important to talk to the village chief about the mission now, so Zhou Lian could only put Song Yanchi's abnormality aside for the time being. Little did he know that Song Yanchi's mind was full of Qiao Yuan's affairs at this time.
Because of Lanlan's words, Song Yanchi finally learned Qiao Yuan's full name.
Qiao Yuan was thinking about what Zhou Lian said.
She also wanted to know why the ghost chose their room.
Is it really as Zhou Lian said, that they are simply unlucky?
After walking out of the room, Qiao Yuan heard Su Yan calling his name from behind and subconsciously turned his head to look.
This look made her discover an abnormality.
All three cabins had a small threshold, but only theirs had a missing corner. Because the missing corner was in the corner, it would be impossible to find it if you didn't compare them and it was during the day when there was plenty of light.
But Qiao Yuan remembered that the threshold should have been in good condition before she chose the house. After all, when she was choosing the house, she observed the conditions of the two rooms. If there was a problem with the threshold, she would not have failed to notice it.
When she heard Su Yan's puzzled voice, Qiao Yuan realized that she had been standing there for a while because she was too absorbed in her thoughts, and had distanced herself from the main group.
Because the threshold issue was just his own idea and Qiao Yuan didn't want anyone else to know about it, so he didn't tell anyone.
Before the main group noticed that they were lagging behind, Qiao Yuan pulled Su Yan and caught up.
After meeting up with Brother Chen, they went to the front yard to find the village chief and treated Su Yan's leg injury.
Apparently, the NPCs didn't feel the arrival of the evil spirits last night. Brother Chen asked a few questions when he saw Su Yan's leg injury, but Zhou Lian evaded the question by saying that she just fell accidentally and that she just needed to see a doctor. Then he sighed, "It's quiet and sleepy in the village at night, unlike the house I bought in the city, which is next to the road and there are always garbage trucks passing by at night. If I hadn't thought that this commission was actually a ghost marriage..."
When talking about ghost marriage, Brother Chen's voice stopped abruptly, and he let out a long sigh, his expression almost the same as that of this useless guy.
Qiao Yuan also sighed in his heart.
Although there are no cars, there are ghosts.
After a few words, they had already reached the door of the village chief's room.
The curtains were still drawn on the window of the village chief's room, so Chen decided to knock on the door first because he didn't know if he was awake or not. But he didn't expect that the door would be opened from the inside as soon as he approached, and then the figure of the village chief appeared in front of him.
Qiao Yuan, who was standing in the front, couldn't see the layout of the room clearly. The village chief had quickly closed the door, indicating that his wife was still sleeping and they just had to discuss in a low voice in the yard.
Su Yan first mentioned her leg injury, but there was no village doctor in the village, so her leg injury could only heal on its own. Fortunately, although it was still very painful, it did not affect her basic walking, so she could still endure it for a while.
The village chief took the initiative to bring up the wedding.
This made everyone feel refreshed and realize that their mission had arrived.
According to the village chief, his son and daughter-in-law were childhood sweethearts, but an accident suddenly prevented them from being together. Therefore, the village chief decided to complete the wedding before burying them.
His daughter-in-law's parents had both passed away long ago, so all of this had to be taken care of by him and his wife.
"They always said they wanted to hold a Chinese wedding before they died." The village chief said as he looked at Brother Chen: "I heard from Li Yan that you have a lot of experience in holding Chinese weddings. I hope this wedding can be like a normal one..."
"After the wedding, I will ask Li Yan to give you another sum of money."
Seeing Brother Chen's expression change from half-dead to full of energy, Qiao Yuan didn't know when he could regain this simple and pure happiness.
Brother Chen, who has rich experience in wedding planning, quickly designed a basic wedding process.
Even Zhou Lian couldn't get a word in this time, after all, none of them had ever been married. Even if they had attended a wedding, many people around them had Western-style weddings, and they hadn't studied every process of the wedding carefully. If they rashly joined the discussion, they might end up making things worse. They could only stand aside and listen to Brother Chen explaining the wedding process to the village chief.
From the way the village chief nodded repeatedly, it can be seen that he was very satisfied.
But soon an important matter hit everyone.
The village chief had asked someone to look at auspicious dates for the wedding, one was at midnight three days later, and the other was at midnight five days later.
Twelve o'clock midnight.
It was a time when it was obvious that there would be problems.
However, the village chief was equally firm on this matter. Even when someone brought up the issue of the guests, he only said that the villagers who acted as guests could understand it.
After finding that they could not persuade the village chief to change the time, they finally chose three days later.
After all, Qiao Yuan and her friends encountered a ghost on the first night, and every night thereafter would probably be even more dangerous, so it would be better for them to complete the mission early and leave.
The wedding venue was in another place, and time was tight and the task was heavy, so Brother Chen decided to take everyone to decorate the venue under the leadership of the village chief.
Qiao Yuan found an opportunity to ask Brother Chen about the threshold.
From the conversation between Brother Chen and the village chief just now, she heard that Brother Chen often held Chinese-style weddings and needed to know auspicious days. He did have some knowledge of Zhouyi fortune-telling and folk taboos.
The method of shortening the distance that he had learned from Zhou Lian came in handy very quickly. Brother Chen was so flattered by Qiao Yuan that he quickly said in a show-off manner, "Of course I know the taboos of the threshold."
"I heard that in ancient times, people wanted to prevent ghosts from entering the house, or for ghosts in the house to come out of the house. Once the threshold was destroyed, ghosts could naturally come in and out freely..."
Qiao Yuan's guess was confirmed.
The reason why the middle-aged male ghost chose their room was indeed related to the destroyed threshold.
They were designed.
Now that I think about it, after they chose the room, they started to eat. Three people left in the middle of the meal, namely Lanlan, Zhou Lian and Adao.
Lanlan was away for a short time, so she can be ruled out as a suspicion.
The person who destroyed the threshold was between Zhou Lian and A Dao.
As expected, she was careless, which gave others an opportunity to take advantage of her.
