Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 020 Calculation
The dark passage was very short, and Zhang Fengyu walked out in just a few steps. However, as soon as he came out, the extremely dazzling sunlight from the outside world pierced his eyes fiercely. Zhang Fengyu quickly closed his eyes, covering his eyes and not daring to open them immediately. After a few seconds of relaxation, Zhang Fengyu slowly opened his eyes and saw the scene in front of him clearly.
This is indeed a square, and the area is relatively large. Zhang Fengyu found that the square is divided into four parts. He is currently in the northern corner of the square, and the other three are in the eastern, western, and southern corners. In the center of the square, there are exactly one hundred women in red robes standing in a neat row.
However, due to the angle, he could only see the backs of these women in red. As for their true appearance, Zhang Fengyu still didn't know. However, just because he couldn't see it didn't mean that others couldn't see it. But it had to be said that being able to see the appearance of these women was undoubtedly a very painful thing.
Because every woman had a hideous and extremely ugly appearance, some had green eyes and a pale face, or a face full of countless cracks... Every woman was so horrifying, and their grinning faces made the air around them freeze a little.
Now, just as the hint said, the woman in the village really showed herself as a ghost, and because of the previous hint and the various unknown customs in the village. It was precisely because of these factors that the few people who were afraid of accidentally violating the customs of the village did not dare to show any disgust or fear. After all, their faces did not change, and the people in the village could see it clearly.
It can be said that the situation that everyone is facing now is more torturous than death!
Although Zhang Fengyu couldn't see these ferocious-looking women for the time being due to the angle, it didn't mean that he wasn't afraid. He was just a rookie who had just passed the novice mission, so he was naturally not as brave as the others. The prompts also clearly emphasized that the real ghost was hiding among the women in the village. The ghost was right in front of them and was threatening their lives at all times, but they had to contact it if they wanted to survive.
Zhang Fengyu thought back to the horror movies he had watched, and compared them with the situation he was facing now, they were nothing. This was a terrifying horror!
Chen Ping's calm expression was also forced. After he quickly scanned the women, he immediately lowered his head. The situation was now very clear. The original mission was to separate them. This was not difficult to see from the four doors and the four different positions they were currently in.
They were standing on a raised boulder, and each person's stone platform had a path connecting to the center of the square. In other words, if the four wanted to gather together, they had to pass through the center of the square, which was where the hundred women with ghost-like appearances were.
It can be foreseen that this arrangement of the mission undoubtedly cut off the possibility of the four of them wanting to get together, because the identity assigned to them by the mission was blind daters. If they suddenly ran to the side of those women, it would undoubtedly be annoying from a normal perspective. Moreover, in the customs of the village, who knows if there is such a custom that you cannot approach women waiting for blind dates without permission. It can be said that the various unknown customs in the village made them very cautious.
This custom is like a hidden rule that cannot be violated, otherwise the mission will be wiped out!
Although the mission cut off their contact, it did not have much impact on Chen Ping. After all, he had always relied on his own analytical ability and never relied on others. However, it was not that he had absolute confidence in his ability, but that he simply did not trust anyone, or in other words, he had not yet met a person he could trust.
Zhang Fengyu and the other two also noticed the arrangement of the mission to stop the exchange of intelligence. However, except for Zhang Feng, Zhang Fengyu and Wang Lin did not react much. However, Zhang Feng's face turned very bad, and his heart was in his throat. After all, Zhang Feng had almost no analytical mind. Stopping the exchange of intelligence was the same as sentencing him to death in Zhang Feng's eyes!
Zhang Feng swallowed hard, not daring to look at the hundreds of women in front of him. In his heart, he kept encouraging himself: "Since Wang Lin and Chen Ping can't be relied on, I will rely on myself this time! I want to tell them that I, Zhang Feng, can complete the task on my own!"
After encouraging himself, Zhang Feng found that he was not as uneasy as before. After gradually calming down, Zhang Feng was also very puzzled by the hundred women. He couldn't guess why they stood there motionless and didn't say a word to them.
"Isn't the marriage ceremony a blind date?"
Zhang Feng moved his stiff face, forced a smile and glanced at the hundred women, then immediately turned his head to the side. However, during this process, Zhang Feng suddenly discovered that there were 25 round tables neatly placed on the left side of his body!
Looking closely, he saw a large bowl on each round table. With the reflection of the sunlight, he could clearly see the floating surface of the bowl. Obviously, there was some kind of liquid in those bowls!
"Round table? Bowls with liquid in them?"
Zhang Fengyu was filled with doubts. At the same time, Zhang Fengyu, Wang Lin, and Chen Ping also discovered these items one after another. I don't know what happened to everyone else. Zhang Fengyu had already noticed the neatly arranged round tables when he first came in. But before that, he focused his attention on the hundred women, so he didn't pay attention to it. But facing the current dead silence, he had to consider the meaning of these items.
At this time, 10 minutes had passed since they entered the square. According to the prompts, the marriage ceremony should have begun long ago. However, the hundred women in the center of the square were like puppets. They just stood there quietly without any communication with each other!
Zhang Fengyu frowned deeply and turned to look at the others. He found that Wang Lin and the others were also observing the two items placed beside them like him.
"Is this round table supposed to be a bar?"
Zhang Fengyu came to one of the round tables nearby, and hesitantly put his nose a little closer to the big bowl on the table. However, he could not smell any strange smell in the air. This time, Zhang Fengyu put his nose almost to the bowl and sniffed hard, but the result was the same as before.
The liquid in the bowl was colorless and tasteless, and he didn't dare to taste it. This made Zhang Fengyu feel a little bit stuck. Now the marriage ceremony could be said to be at a standstill. In his opinion, the reason for this result was that they did not follow the customs of the village, so that the marriage ceremony was at a standstill. If the customs of the village were partly followed and partly prohibited, then perhaps the liquid on the round table was the key to following the customs of the village. After all, there were only these two things around them.
"Is it the custom in the village that we should drink all the liquid in the bowl? But what if the bowl contains poison?"
Wang Lin was also very hesitant now. After repeated thinking, he finally figured out what the "village customs" mentioned in the supplementary hint were. To put it bluntly, it was a series of hidden tasks. If one of the links was not completed, the whole situation would stagnate until the hidden task was found and completed.
"Does it mean drinking all the liquid in these bowls?"
Wang Lin also had such a guess, but his concerns were the same as Zhang Fengyu's. He was afraid that this was a trap in the mission and he would die of poison if he drank it!
Chen Ping had no intention of trying it himself. He turned his gaze to the other three people, wanting to wait for them to try it first. However, there were no fools among the crowd, and no one was willing to be a guinea pig for others. Chen Ping was watching, and Zhang Fengyu, Wang Lin, and even Zhang Feng were also watching.
Everyone looked at each other, no one wanted to lead the charge, and the situation was about to get stagnant, but Chen Ping suddenly came up with a plan. He turned his gaze towards Zhang Feng, and then his gaze met Zhang Feng's in the air.
After the two looked at each other for a while, Chen Ping suddenly nodded at Zhang Feng. Then Chen Ping turned around, picked up the big bowl on the round table with his back to Zhang Feng, then quickly raised his head, put the bowl in his hand back on the table, and picked up the second one... until Chen Ping had taken all the bowls on the round table.
Because Chen Ping had his back to Zhang Feng, Zhang Feng could only see Chen Ping holding the bowl and looking up, but he didn't know whether Chen Ping really drank it. However, Wang Lin and Zhang Fengyu, who were standing on both sides, saw it clearly. Chen Ping was just pretending and didn't drink a single sip at all! No matter what tricks Chen Ping had, it was easy to tell that he was obviously trying to trick Zhang Feng.
Zhang Fengyu was full of contempt for Chen Ping's actions, and secretly reminded himself that he must be more careful about Chen Ping in the future, because Chen Ping is definitely not a kind-hearted person!
Wang Lin clenched his fists tightly. With his temper, he would definitely remind Zhang Feng. However, if he shouted loudly, it would violate a certain custom in the village, so he could only watch Zhang Feng being fooled!
Just as the two had thought, Zhang Feng saw that Chen Ping did not feel any discomfort after drinking the 25 bowls of liquid. Zhang Feng, who was very impatient, did not even look at Wang Lin and Zhang Fengyu, and hurriedly picked up a large bowl on the table and drank it in big gulps.
Seeing that Zhang Feng was really fooled, Chen Ping's mouth curled up slightly, and he did not hide the mockery on his face. In his heart, Zhang Feng was even more stupid than a pig! It would be a waste to not use such a person! Wang Lin and Zhang Fengyu saw the expression on Chen Ping's face clearly. It was hard to imagine that a person would reach such a point. However, Chen Ping did not care about the contemptuous eyes of the two.
In Chen Ping's eyes, Wang Lin and Zhang Fengyu were both very hypocritical people. He had obviously helped them find a candidate for the experiment, but these two people were obviously very happy with it, but they turned around and blamed him. It was like taking your things but scolding you, reading your things for nothing but scolding you for writing garbage. In Chen Ping's eyes, such people were the most disgusting. Moreover, in this curse, one should only consider one's own safety, and everything else was worthless shit!
Although Chen Ping thought so, whether Wang Lin and Zhang Fengyu thought so too, only they themselves knew.
The eyes of the three people fell on Zhang Feng at this moment. Zhang Feng swallowed the liquid in his mouth fiercely, and then he felt a spicy taste on the tip of his tongue, and then the spicy taste spread all over his body in an instant. Zhang Feng didn't care too much. Since Chen Ping was fine after drinking it, he would be fine too. Thinking this way, Zhang Feng swallowed the remaining half bowl of liquid in one breath. After that, Zhang Feng felt that his vision suddenly became blurred, and his brain was shaking for a while, and everything in front of him was spinning non-stop.
Zhang Fengyu staggered forward a few steps, then his eyes went dark and he fell heavily to the ground, unconscious.
