Qiao Yuan thinks Zhou Lian is the most suspicious.
After all, when she was in the car, she found that the middle-aged man fell out of the car before his hand touched the door handle. Before that, Zhou Lian was also pushed against the car door by the man, but the other party was fine.
In addition, the system stated that it waited until the middle-aged man fell out of the car door before making a judgment. His refusal to participate in the game and Zhou Lian's familiarity with the rules made Qiao Yuan suspect that the other party was doing something behind his back.
Zhou Lian's subsequent intentional or unintentional misleading also made Qiao Yuan certain that he was not as united and friendly as he appeared to be.
But Adao is also very likely.
After all, although the two acted as if they were not familiar with each other, when choosing a room on the first day, Zhou Lian chose Adao first. Perhaps the two of them entered the dungeon as a team, and Adao might have done this at the instruction of Zhou Lian.
Although many thoughts had passed through his mind, when he saw Zhou Lian and A Dao, Qiao Yuan's expression did not reveal the slightest bit of abnormality.
At this time, several people, led by the village chief, had arrived at the place where the wedding was held in the village - the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall has a quadrangle structure, and its simple appearance reveals majesty.
Noticing that Zhou Lian and A Dao's eyes fell on the threshold of the ancestral hall intentionally or unintentionally, Qiao Yuan was certain that the two people were the ones who destroyed the threshold due to their sensitivity.
As soon as he entered the ancestral hall, Qiao Yuan felt a chill running down his spine. The further he went inside, the stronger the feeling became.
At first she thought it was her own illusion, but after noticing someone next to her rubbing his arms and muttering "It's so cold", she quickly realized that this was not the feeling of one person, and it certainly couldn't be an illusion.
The only person who was not affected was probably the village chief.
He walked in front and acted as a leader while explaining: "In the village, any villager who has a happy event will choose to hold a banquet in the ancestral hall, because this way they can receive the blessing of their ancestors."
Brother Chen was very supportive: "Great, great, great!"
There was nothing to see in the front yard. When Qiao Yuan stepped into the backyard, he noticed that the door of a room was closed and the curtains were drawn. However, judging from the overgrown weeds and moss growing on the walls, it didn't look like anyone lived there.
The village chief was overly persistent in some matters, but he was very kind in other matters. It was for this reason that Shamatte asked curiously, "Village chief, what is that house used for?"
The village chief also satisfied his curiosity: "That's where my son and daughter-in-law are temporarily placed. The door is closed and the curtain is drawn because we don't want the children in the village to accidentally break in and get scared."
Judging from Shamatte's expression, Qiao Yuan judged that asking this question was probably the thing he regretted most at the moment.
Shamatte said painfully: "Actually, I just celebrated my 18th birthday a few days ago..."
No one expected that the Shamatte who looked older than her was actually the youngest among them.
"Stop here..." Su Yan felt a little scared when she thought that there was only a door between her and the corpse.
With her boyfriend's reminder, Lanlan managed to hide the disgust on her face to avoid being seen by the village chief.
Although Zhou Lian, A Dao and Song Yanchi did not speak, they also had different expressions.
It was Brother Chen who ended the topic and asked the village chief where the decorations were.
Before he came, he heard from his client Li Yan that the village chief had already prepared the wedding supplies and they didn't need to bring anything else. The village chief also specifically reiterated this point just now.
But Brother Chen didn't expect that the village chief led them into the next room where the body was stored, which was filled with wedding supplies, red lanterns, and various other things.
Moreover, the two rooms are connected, separated by only a curtain, and the length of the curtain is only half.
When they walked into the room, they smelled a faint stench of rot, which came from behind the curtain.
At the same time, there was a chill that seemed to penetrate into the bone marrow, and the feeling of being stared at by a pair of resentful eyes.
"Why do I feel like someone is looking at me?" The Shamatte looked around, and one sentence helped Qiao Yuan find the organization.
Ah Dao raised his hand and pointed at the room. His voice was as rough and cold as if it had been rubbed by sandpaper: "It's in that room, right?"
Just now, the few people outside were unable to see the whole picture of the room. This time, through the curtain, Qiao Yuan and others were able to see the scene in the room.
There were two heavy coffins placed inside, but what attracted people's attention were the paper figures surrounding the coffins. A rough count estimated that there were more than a dozen of them, some were placed horizontally, and some were placed diagonally, but their movements were very uniform -
More than a dozen pairs of eyes were embedded in the pale face, staring at the direction of the door, as if looking at them. Coupled with the stiff smile outlined in red pen at the corner of the lips, it was indescribable weird.
These paper figures were so exquisitely crafted that they looked lifelike, giving the people the illusion that they were being stared at.
After just one glance at these paper figures, many people subconsciously looked away and understood why they felt they were being stared at before.
One white and the other red, the styles of the two rooms form a sharp contrast, as if you are in two different worlds.
The village chief said: "These are sacrificial items. They will be burned when the burial takes place."
"Stop looking, stop looking, let's get back to work." Brother Chen clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention back to himself. He felt very uncomfortable after just staying in this room for a while, so he just wanted to finish the task quickly and leave.
When the others heard what Brother Chen said, they stopped looking at the paper figures and started to take action.
Brother Chen quickly assigned tasks to everyone, and those who received the tasks also took action. However, when he turned around, he found that Qiao Yuan was still standing there, staring at the room intently: "Qiao Yuan?"
"Brother, stop shouting. She's probably scared to death." Lan Lan said, with undisguised sarcasm in her tone.
Although she was a little frightened by the paper man just now, she quickly reacted and did not keep staring at it like Qiao Yuan did.
Because of Lan Lan's previous argument during the room assignment, Brother Chen didn't have a good impression of Lan Lan: "I won't call her, you do her job."
Lanlan: “…”
She finally learned to shut up.
When facing Qiao Yuan, Brother Chen's attitude became much better. Qiao Yuan came back to his senses, still thinking about those paper figures.
It was strange, why did she feel that one of the paper figures looked a bit like the villager she met on the road just now.
After assigning the tasks, the village chief got up and left.
Everyone has different tasks and is busy in different corners.
According to Brother Chen, in order to catch up with the progress, they need to try to set up the scene today.
The task of Shamatte is to clean the front yard. Although it is a bit troublesome to clean because the yard is not small, he does not have to frequently enter the storage room to get things like others.
He was sweeping very hard when he suddenly heard Brother Chen calling his name in a room.
When he walked into the room, he found Adao, Brother Chen and Li Lei were also there.
Brother Chen pointed to a wedding sedan chair in the corner of the room. It turned out that he had just found this wedding sedan chair in this room.
It was probably placed in a separate room because it was too big. Judging from the scratches on the lifting rod and the dust on it, it had obviously not been used for a long time.
He was worried that the wedding sedan might have some problems due to long-term disuse, and they didn't know yet, so he wanted someone to try it first.
Of course Brother Chen couldn't do it himself, so he chose the four men who were closest to the room.
Brother Chen: "Otherwise, if something goes wrong on the wedding day, it will be too late."
After hearing what Brother Chen said, the four boys present had no intention of refusing.
After all, the mission requires a perfect wedding. If something goes wrong on the wedding day, it will be completely over.
The four men quickly took each side, lifted the wedding sedan, and walked out unsteadily, while Brother Chen followed beside them.
At this moment, Brother Chen spotted Su Yan limping out from the backyard and quickly called her over: "Su...Su Yan, right? Come here."
It turned out that Brother Chen wanted to find a woman to sit in it to test the weight-bearing capacity of the wedding sedan.
Su Yan looks like a person of average build and weight, and is the most suitable candidate in Brother Chen's opinion.
Su Yan's foot was originally injured, and now she had a chance to not have to walk for a while and to be lazy openly, so she quickly agreed and sat in the wedding sedan.
Brother Chen watched them leave and reminded them not to go too far , and to come back to continue working after walking around.
Qiao Yuan was assigned the task of posting the word "囍" on the windows and doors in the backyard.
For the convenience of arrangement, the door separating the front and back yards has been closed, and only the sounds coming from the front yard can be faintly heard.
Originally, Zhou Lian and A Dao were setting up things in the backyard with her. She wanted to take the opportunity to observe them, but they were quickly called away by Brother Chen.
Qiao Yuan's job was not hard, she just had to go back and forth to the room where the wedding supplies were placed. However, she was not afraid of the coffin parked next to her, so for Qiao Yuan, frequent entry was just a nuisance, so she would take more each time.
This time, as soon as he stepped into the room, Qiao Yuan found that Su Yan was also there.
She needed to hang lanterns, but she was missing one, so she had to search through a pile of bright red wedding supplies.
When she heard footsteps behind her, she immediately turned her head, and when she found out it was Qiao Yuan, she was obviously relieved: "It turned out to be Miss Qiao."
Qiao Yuan nodded as a greeting, and then began to search for her own things among the pile of wedding supplies.
After learning what Qiao Yuan was looking for, Su Yan pointed to the side of her and said, "I think I saw it here when I was searching just now. You can look for it here."
Qiao Yuan thanked her and then stood over as Su Yan instructed.
This position was close to the curtain, and Qiao Yuan subconsciously glanced in the direction of the curtain, and his expression suddenly became serious.
I saw that one of the coffin lids, which had been tightly fitted, suddenly tilted.
The coffin was opened.
After realizing there was someone around her, Su Yan felt much more relaxed and had time to think about Qiao Yuan.
She had been wondering since morning why Qiao Yuan was so bold at night but a completely different person during the day and ignored Lan Lan's provocations.
There were several times when Su Yan wanted to refute on behalf of Qiao Yuan, but Qiao Yuan would always wink at her and tell her not to interfere.
But for some reason, Su Yan subconsciously did not want to mention this matter in front of Zhou Lian, and she just couldn't wait for the opportunity to be alone with Qiao Yuan.
Now that she had finally waited, she didn't know how to ask.
Just as Su Yan was trying to organize her words, she suddenly noticed that Qiao Yuan stopped and was staring at a certain place. She couldn't help but look over there, and naturally saw the open coffin lid.
Su Yan subconsciously wanted to run away, and then she heard Qiao Yuan muttering to himself in confusion: "Where's the body?"
Wait, a dead body?
After hearing what Qiao Yuan said, Su Yan stopped and looked carefully, and found that the place where the coffin was exposed was indeed empty.
Qiao Yuan clasped his hands together, and suddenly spoke in a low, piously male voice: "My name is Zhou Lian, and I now live in the first house on the left side of the village chief's backyard. I want to enter your room now, and I hope you can understand. If you are not satisfied, you can come to me, Zhou Lian, or my brother Adao at night."
"I'm not a good person, so how can my brother be a good person?"
Su Yan: ???
The other party can actually fake his voice?
No, what on earth is Qiao Yuan talking about now? !
The panic was dispelled by Qiao Yuan's sudden words, and Qiao Yuan began to describe the appearance of the two people. Su Yan had no doubt that if he knew Zhou Lian and A Dao's ID numbers, Qiao Yuan would report them together.
The church and the temple listened to Joe's prayers for hundreds of more years of life, and the coffin listened to Joe's sincere curse.
If he had paper and pen, Qiao Yuan would have written a written version and burned it in the two coffins in front of him so that they would not look in the wrong place.
After praying again in his heart, Qiao Yuan lifted the curtain and walked in.
She did not touch the intact coffin, but went straight to the coffin with the lid half opened as soon as she entered.
Qiao Yuan bent down, with his upper body almost reaching into the coffin.
Just as she thought, the coffin was empty, but the foul smell inside indicated that a corpse had once been there.
The village chief had obviously already placed the body in the coffin, so there was no need to move it, so Qiao Yuan was more inclined to believe that the body was missing.
Of course, it is more likely that he ran away on his own.
And it was during the period between her last entry into the room and this time.
After all, every time he entered the room, Qiao Yuan would subconsciously take a look at the room where the bodies were placed. Everything was normal before this time.
Because she didn't check her phone, Qiao Yuan could only vaguely estimate that there was a gap of about twenty minutes. Only she, Su Yan, Song Yanchi, Zhou Lian and A Dao were busy in the backyard.
Song Yanchi had only been there once, and Su Yan didn't have the courage to do so.
Qiao Yuan: “…”
It's you two again.
But why did Zhou Lian and A Dao open the coffin?
She could feel that Zhou Lian was a cautious person by nature, and he would not do such a thing for no reason without any special reason.
Although Zhou Lian and A Dao are bad people, they are still a long way from being perverts who like to look at corpses for no reason.
This only means that Zhou Lian realized that there were some important clues in the coffin and it was worth the risk for both of them.
Thinking of this, Qiao Yuan pondered for a few seconds, and then silently repeated "My name is Zhou Lian" in his heart, then he raised his hand and tentatively touched the coffin.
Soon she felt something.
Qiao Yuan took it out and saw that it was a broken nail with blood on it.
Her brows were furrowed.
When Su Yan came to her senses, she found that Qiao Yuan, who had been standing next to the coffin, was gone.
Her pupils suddenly widened: "Where are the people, Miss Qiao?!"
The voice that answered her came from the coffin: "Please call me by my name, Zhou Lian."
"I'm here."
Su Yan is going crazy.
How can an empty coffin talk? !
She originally thought that after last night's training, she was no longer afraid of ghosts. Now she knew why her former high school teacher always said that she would not be able to answer questions in a different format.
Although they were all ghosts, she still felt scared when they appeared in different forms.
When she was about to collapse on the ground, Qiao Yuan poked his head out of the coffin and stretched out his hand to her: "Can you help me? It's not easy to get out of this coffin."
The coffin is easy to get into but difficult to get out of. Qiao Yuan thought again, after all, it was not designed to allow people to get out.
Looking at Su Yan's bloodless face, Qiao Yuan added: "I am a living person."
Although this self-affirmation was pale and powerless, Su Yan was already in a state of being frightened out of her wits. She moved like a puppet, walked into the room in a daze, and pulled Qiao Yuan out of the coffin.
Qiao Yuan took a look at the coffin, but ultimately did not put it back together. Instead, he took Su Yan out of the room.
Zhou Lian and A Dao were holding the sedan chair in front, while Shamatte and Li Lei were holding it from the back.
It was not known whether it was Shamatte's illusion, but he felt that the sedan chair he was carrying seemed to be getting heavier. Although he did not take off his clothes to check, Shamatte could feel that the pole had left marks on his shoulders.
Su Yan clearly looks like she is of normal weight, so why is she so heavy?
Or is it that the wedding sedan is inherently heavy, so you don’t feel anything when you lift it at first, but this feeling only becomes apparent after a long time?
Shamatte muttered in his heart, and glanced at Li Lei beside him. He found that the other party was also covered in sweat, and then he felt relieved.
It turned out that he wasn't the only one who was exhausted, and it had nothing to do with his strength.
Although he walked and stopped frequently, Shamatte still felt that his physical strength was being depleted quickly.
He estimated that they had walked almost all the way, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Zhou, we have walked enough, right? How about we carry it back?"
Hearing what Shamatte said, Li Lei also echoed it.
"Useless thing." Ah Dao's sinister voice sounded: "You can't do it after walking such a short distance."
The Shamatte was embarrassed by Adao's blunt words, and there was a girl in the sedan chair, "Listen to your own voice, isn't there any panting sound? Why are you pretending!"
Before the two of them started to quarrel, Zhou Lian's voice rang out: "Let's stop here."
"By the way, Miss Su, are you feeling stuffy in the sedan? Do you want to get out and walk around? I can help you get down."
He was good at talking. He clearly didn't want to carry Su Yan back, but he acted as if he was doing it for her good.
After hearing Zhou Lian's words, Shamatte realized that Su Yan had been very quiet since just now. However, the other party was not a talkative person, so this was a very normal thing.
A muffled groan came from behind the curtain of the wedding sedan, as if agreeing with Zhou Lian's words.
A white hand pulled up the curtain. Zhou Lian raised his arm and let the hand rest on his shoulder: "Be careful, there are steps."
With the help of Zhou Lian, Su Yan quickly walked down.
While the four men were sweating profusely, she, who was sitting on the curtain, felt refreshed. The Shamatte felt that Su Yan's skin seemed to be whiter than before.
Just as he was looking at Su Yan, Zhou Lian's voice rang out: "Miss Su looks very uncomfortable. Why don't you find someone to walk back with you to rest first, and then I will tell Brother Chen."
Su Yan was still quiet, as if letting him do whatever he wanted.
When he heard that there was someone who could walk with Su Yan back to rest, Shamatte realized that this was a good opportunity to slack off openly. Before he could fight for it, Zhou Lian had already called his name.
The surprise fell upon him, and Shamatte was obviously still a little stunned.
Zhou Lian had already pulled his arm back from Su Yan's hand and walked towards Shamatte. While pushing him towards Su Yan, he whispered in his ear, "You don't have a girlfriend yet, do you?"
"Take advantage of the opportunity, because there are many people who become lovers through nightmare games."
Unexpectedly, Zhou Lian was still considering his marriage. The killer was so excited that he was a little incoherent: "Brother, you are my real brother..."
"No need." Zhou Lian said modestly.
The Shamatte walked up to Su Yan happily. He originally wanted to pretend to care about how to carry the sedan back, but Zhou Lian told him that he would ask other villagers for help, so the Shamatte stopped asking.
Shamatte looked at Su Yan: "Then...then let's go?"
Because of excitement, his words were a little stuttering.
Su Yan nodded and said softly, "Okay."
Although the Shamatte has a flamboyant hairstyle, he is actually very introverted. He wanted Su Yan to put her arm around him like she did with Zhou Lian, but he couldn't say it out loud, so he could only walk forward while keeping a distance from Su Yan.
In order to accommodate Su Yan's foot injury, he deliberately slowed down his pace.
But even so, Zhou Lian and others were quickly left behind by them.
The Shamatte soon realized another important problem. He turned to look at Su Yan with a shy look on his face: "I, I have a bit of a directionally challenged mind. I can't remember the way to the village chief's house..."
It was clearly a great opportunity to show off, but he just missed it. I felt like slapping myself in the face.
"It's okay, I still remember it." Su Yan's voice sounded, soft and gentle, dispelling the tiredness that Shamatte had originally felt from carrying her.
So, so gentle.
The heart of the Shamatte has become as soft as a puddle of water.
Perhaps because he had been out in society for a long time, Shamatte liked people with high education. When he heard Su Yan's self-introduction, he found that she came from a well-known university that he had heard of, which made Shamatte admire her very much. In the past, Shamatte would feel that he was not worthy of the other person because of his inferiority complex, but now he was in the game.
Even stars like Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi, who he can't see on weekdays, are within his reach. Su Yan is not very timid, as long as he can perform well in front of the other party and show the responsibility of a man in the copy, the other party is likely to fall in love with him.
Thinking of this, Shamatte became more and more excited, and started chatting with Su Yan casually: "Knowing that you encountered a ghost, I am really worried.
"Don't get me wrong. I really didn't want to rush over to save you because I knew about it. It was when I first heard your cry for help that Brother Zhou said it might be a ghost in disguise. After all, in his previous copy, a ghost disguised himself as a companion and called for help to attract others to help..."
"Alas, this ghost is much more cunning than we thought, so we didn't go over at that time. When we heard the noise again during the day, Brother Zhou told us that you must have encountered something. I was almost the first one to rush out of the door after hearing that. Fortunately, you are okay."
"Does your leg still hurt? Do you want me to help you walk?"
Finally, finally he revealed his true purpose!
Although Shamatte pretended to be calm on the surface, his eyes that occasionally glanced towards Su Yan revealed his little thoughts.
He felt that the last time he was so nervous was when he cut a customer's hair for the first time.
Shamatte had already thought about how to save face if he was rejected by Su Yan, but he didn't expect that the other party had already extended her hand to him, obviously responding to his words.
He was stunned for a moment, then raised his arms in ecstasy.
But this time, Su Yan held his hand.
The Shamatte felt like he just wanted sesame seeds, but Su Yan gave him a watermelon.
Su Yan did this because she has a crush on her, right?
Now think about it, when Zhou Lian asked Su Yan to send her off, she could have refused if she didn't want to.
Does this mean that Su Yan has the same idea as him, or to be more blunt, has the same liking for him?
Su Yan's hands are so cold.
He had read an article that said girls with cold palms were angels in their previous lives and needed more love.
The Shamatte had already chosen a name for his and Su Yan's child in his mind, while looking around shyly.
However, he soon discovered that something was wrong with the road ahead.
Why is this road becoming more and more desolate?
Although he has never been in a relationship, the Shamatte also realized that it is not gentlemanly to question a girl at this time, and he could only swallow the doubts in his eyes with difficulty.
Maybe just a side road.
But soon he could no longer deceive himself, because Shamatte soon discovered that there were no houses on both sides.
Moreover, it was broad daylight originally, but now it is completely dark.
Shamatte coughed dryly, and finally asked tremblingly: "Did we take the wrong road? Or should we go back to where we came from?"
Su Yan didn't answer, as if she was sulking.
Shamatte couldn't help but wonder if he had asked the wrong question, but he really felt that everything in front of him was weird.
He didn't know if it was an illusion caused by nervousness, but he felt Su Yan's hands became sticky and something fell into his palms.
The Shamatte subconsciously pulled his hand back and found an extra nail on the palm of his hand, with flesh and blood still stuck on it.