Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 038 The Truth
The darkness gradually swept over everything, but Wang Lin still stood in the yard motionlessly. At that moment, Wang Lin seemed to feel something, and he suddenly opened his eyes.
“Bang!”
Only Wang Lin knew what he felt at that moment. His body exploded like a firecracker. Countless pieces of flesh and bones turned into powder in the high temperature of the explosion. That was the end of Wang Lin's life.
His regret eventually turned into regret, and his unwillingness could only end up like his body, disappearing in the world with a loud bang.
No one could have expected Wang Lin's death, and no one knows about it now. The most unexpected person was Zhang Fengyu, who thought he would die on that day, but he didn't die. He didn't feel lucky, because he didn't know if he could still survive like today when the last day of the second month came.
The last day of this mission execution period.
Women’s Village, West Village.
Zhang Feng hugged Xiaolan and lay comfortably on the bed. This was the last hour of the mission. He didn't know whether Xiaolan in his arms was a human or a ghost, but he didn't care. After all, he, Zhang Feng, was married, and he had been a groom for a month.
"What's the joy of living? What's the fear of death? Although I, Zhang Feng, cannot catch up with others in everything, I am very open-minded about everything. In the past, with Wang Lin and the others, naturally if they can survive, I can survive too. But this time I have to rely on myself. No matter how hard I try to think of a solution or how hard I try to analyze, I can't find it. I still know my own weight. This choice can be said to be the most suitable for me!"
Zhang Feng glanced at Xiaolan who was lying comfortably in his arms. If he had any wish now, it would be to see what Xiaolan really looked like, or to see if there were any similarities between Xiaolan and Yun Yun, but he knew that his idea was a bit naive.
During this month, the vegetables he had planted had grown, and he and Xiaolan had been eating them. He transformed himself from a farmer into a chef, cooking all the dishes he knew for Xiaolan. Listening to Xiaolan's praise after eating, he thought that might be happiness, but how long could he enjoy this happiness?
While Zhang Feng was deep in thought, Xiaolan in his arms said to him: "Zhang Feng, let's have some fun, shall we?"
Zhang Feng couldn't help but ask: "What are you playing?"
"ah--!"
Zhang Feng suddenly felt pain in his legs. He saw that Xiaolan had two sharp knives in her hands at some point. The two knives pierced into Zhang Feng's legs and into the wooden bed.
At this moment, Zhang Feng's eyes were completely filled with fear. Xiaolan's identity was now clear. Facing this horrifying scene, Zhang Feng's previous carefreeness instantly disappeared. He now had only one thought, which was to escape. He didn't want to die. He regretted it now. He regretted why he made a hasty decision. But Zhang Feng's struggle was in vain. No matter how he struggled, he couldn't leave the wooden bed because his legs were firmly fixed to the bed by the knife .
Xiaolan looked at Zhang Feng, who was terrified and trying to struggle to escape, and suddenly revealed a cruel grin: "Want to escape? Then dear, let me help you!"
Xiaolan then cut off Zhang Feng's legs, then his hands, and then...
Zhang Feng heard his miserable screams, and witnessed his body gradually turning into pulp...
Looking at the pool of flesh on the wooden bed, Xiaolan stuck out his tongue. His appearance changed rapidly and in a blink of an eye he turned into Xiaoling's appearance.
In fact, the twenty-five women selected by Zhang Feng are all humans. His luck can be said to be extremely incredible. However, how could the mission be completed successfully simply by relying on good luck? This is obviously impossible.
This mission is just as Wang Lin and Chen Ping said when analyzing the prompts before. This wanted mission is a comprehensive type, so there is no such thing as being able to be successfully completed simply by relying on luck. Everyone thought so at the beginning, but the mission set a trap afterwards.
The tasks started out very normal. For example, in the first round, although the selection of the matchmaker was based on luck, there was also a way to select the matchmaker based on analysis. But the task was interrupted by a supplementary task in the supplementary prompt. This task was naturally a special custom in the village, which was to randomly select 25 women for the second round of marriage test.
Because of the random selection, the four people subconsciously regarded the subsequent tasks as a simple luck choice. If they were lucky, they would be selected as humans and could easily complete the task; if they were unlucky, they would be selected as ghosts and would naturally have to wait for death; if they were lucky enough, they would be selected as both humans and ghosts, and they could make their own choices through their own analysis.
But this idea of the crowd was wrong, because even if the 25 women selected were all human, the mission would not allow the executor to complete the mission smoothly, and one careless move would lead to falling into the trap and being doomed. On the contrary, even if the 25 women selected were all ghosts, it was not a hopeless situation, and there were still ways to complete the mission.
No matter which of the above situations the executors choose, they will not be able to complete the task safely, because the task will take advantage of their character weaknesses to confuse and mislead them.
Just like Zhang Feng, the mission knew Zhang Feng's character, and the ghost incarnated as Xiaoling and roughly understood Zhang Feng's intentions after contacting Zhang Feng, so the ghost killed the real Xiaolan, and then deliberately let other women distance themselves from Zhang Feng, thus taking advantage of Zhang Feng's character disadvantages. In a fit of anger, he no longer hesitated and directly chose Xiaolan, who had always gotten along well with him, and thus fell into the trap.
In this mission, the ghost has the ability to transform. It can kill the women in the village and transform into the victim to confuse the executor. But there is only one ghost that can do this, and it cannot kill the person chosen by the executor to replace him after the executor has made a choice. Therefore, the mission has also made a balance for this point, so this replacement can only be used on one executor.
Zhang Fengyu and Wang Lin chose ghosts, so there was no need to replace them. Therefore, the ghosts would only choose one between Chen Ping and Zhang Feng. However, Chen Ping's brain was too sharp, so the ghosts chose Zhang Feng.
Women’s village, East Village.
Chen Ping sat on a chair and looked at Li Mei who was sleeping beside him. This mission would be over in a while. He was not too worried about whether he could complete this mission. The reason was that the ghost who turned into Wang Lin had confused him before. This was easy for Chen Ping to analyze. If he chose only ghosts, then no trap would be useful to him. If some of the people he chose also had ghosts, then it would be difficult to distinguish their identities, so the mission would not deliberately increase the difficulty. Thinking of this, Chen Ping had the answer. The reason why the ghost confused him was because the twenty-five people he chose were all human beings. There was only this one possibility.
"After thinking about it for so many days, I still haven't figured out how to complete this mission if all the chosen ones are ghosts. This is a comprehensive mission and it should be impossible to complete it by luck. This can be proved by the appearance of the fake Wang Lin!"
Chen Ping shook his head and stood up from the chair. After taking a sip of the hot tea on the table, he suddenly disappeared. He completed this wanted mission!
Women’s Village, North Village.
"Feng Yu, we are leaving the village tomorrow. Have you decided where we are going to live in the future?" Xiaoling hugged Zhang Feng Yu's arm and snuggled in his arms. From her voice, one can tell that Xiaoling is very happy now.
"Let's go see your parents first, and then we'll decide where to live."
Zhang Fengyu was in no mood to think about such things now. It was only five minutes before midnight and he was ready to die. He still believed that choosing Xiaoling was against the rules, but he had been very confused over the past month. He had clearly married Xiaoling, which was a violation of the rules, but he didn't know why he didn't die.
This matter troubled him for a whole month, and he still had no clue. In the end, like Zhang Feng, he gave up all thoughts and devoted himself to enjoying his last moments with Xiaoling.
"Xiaoling, will you remember me forever?"
"Of course, we will never be separated!"
"How can you believe that you won't forget me even if I die?"
"That won't happen, never, just like my sister..."
"Is your sister also from this village? Have I ever seen her?"
Zhang Fengyu had heard Xiaoling mention her sister more than once, but he had never seen Xiaoling have a particularly good relationship with any woman.
Hearing Zhang Fengyu's question, Xiaoling shook her head and said, "My sister died because my brother-in-law had an accident, so my sister also committed suicide for love. After that, my sister couldn't find her brother-in-law, so she lived with me every day."
As Zhang Fengyu listened, his eyes suddenly turned into horror, as he saw a second Xiaoling struggling to crawl out from Xiaoling's body. This Xiaoling was naturally one of the evil spirits who killed Zhang Feng and confused everyone. She was not Xiaoling's sister at all. Everything was just to fulfill this mission. Poor Xiaoling was still unaware of it.
When the ghost appeared, she pointed her sharp claws at Xiaoling.
“Get out of here!!!”
Zhang Fengyu completely forgot his fear at this moment. When the sharp claws attacked Xiaoling, he hit the ghost's body hard. Although he passed through nothingness, Xiaoling was pushed aside by him.
It is one minute until midnight.
Zhang Fengyu didn't know what was going on, but he would never allow Xiaoling to die because Xiaoling was his wife. Even if all this was fake, he would not allow it.
He struggled to stand up from the ground, picked up the unconscious Xiaoling from the ground without any hesitation, and rushed out in a hurry.
At the same time, the ghost also chased after him at a very fast speed. Zhang Fengyu held Xiaoling and kept running forward. He knew that the ghost was behind him. Maybe...
Before Zhang Fengyu could think further, the ghost had already caught up with him. Zhang Fengyu only felt a gust of cold wind blowing from his back. Zhang Fengyu instinctively tilted his body to the right, and suddenly one of his arms and his shoulder bone flew out.
"ah--!"
Zhang Fengyu suddenly let out a painful roar, and blood kept gushing out from his wounds. After suffering this severe blow, Zhang Fengyu felt dazed for a moment.
Xiaoling in his arms also naturally fell to the ground. Zhang Fengyu bit his tongue fiercely. Under the stimulation of this severe pain, Zhang Fengyu instantly regained his clarity. He bent down and picked up Xiaoling with one hand, but at this time he suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground again.
Zhang Fengyu's legs were chopped off!
"ah--!"
Zhang Fengyu howled once again, and threw Xiaoling out with his only remaining arm. He had already decided in his heart that the ghost was targeting him, and that his mission had failed. But he was wrong. The ghost's target was Xiaoling, but stopping Xiaoling would cost him a price, and that price was most likely death.
Zhang Fengyu has actually completed the task this time, even though the twenty-five people he chose were all ghosts, and even though he violated the specific customs of the women's village and married Xiaoling, he still completed the task, because breaking the rules was exactly the way for someone like him to complete the task when all the people he chose were ghosts.
There are several specific customs in Women's Village. During the execution of this mission, the executor must abide by the specific customs here. If he objects or abstains, the executor will be deemed to have failed in this mission.
Zhang Fengyu had pondered over this supplementary tip countless times, and so had Chen Ping, Wang Lin, and even Zhang Feng. However, none of them noticed the confusing word "oppose" in the tip. It was opposition, not violation. Opposition was only a verbal expression, while violation was in action.
This mission is actually very simple to complete. If all the choices are ghosts, then you just need to leave your area and go to other people's areas to marry a woman who is not a ghost. This is how Zhang Fengyu and Xiaoling got married.
As for the fact that ghosts can transform, as long as the four of them exchange information together, they will know that there will be ghosts deliberately confusing them during the mission. As long as they pay a little attention, they can successfully complete the mission. However, no one noticed the ambiguity of the "opposition".
As for the method of distinguishing ghosts, hints were given during the execution of the task. Chen Ping used the rules, Zhang Fengyu discovered the sweating problem, and the shadow. Because these women generally did not leave their rooms, and the rooms were very dark, and they did not pay attention to it, no one noticed it, and when it was time to turn on the lights at night, they had already left.
The reason why Zhang Fengyu didn't notice that Xu Ying had no shadow that time was because the shadows were very short and difficult to see at noon, and Zhang Fengyu was concentrating on the women's necks so he didn't notice it.
Zhang Fengyu's body fell heavily to the ground. All he could do now was wait for death. His arms were chopped off, his legs were chopped off, and now only a part of his body was left, still gasping for life.
Zhang Fengyu glanced at Xiaoling and closed his eyes: "Everything is over..."
Just when Zhang Fengyu was completely desperate, suddenly a piece of pitch-black advertising paper slowly floated behind Zhang Fengyu, and then a giant dark green claw suddenly shot out, dragging the ghost that wanted to chop off Zhang Fengyu's head into the advertising paper, and then the advertising paper disappeared again.
