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Danger lurks everywhere.
In the dungeon, the only person you can trust is yourself.
Vo Tam's words made To Thanh Ngu soberly realize that ghosts are things without emotions, the only things that can bind them are contracts and rules.
Thanks to Vo Tam, the wooden box was not stolen again.
Just now, the groom kept probing Su Qing Yu, to see if she really was Li Na Na's "cousin" and if she still had childhood memories.
To Thanh Ngu received the protection of the title "cousin", making it easier for her to approach the ghosts with special identities and get clues from them than Tham Tu Nien in the Cong Duong village dungeon.
But through the reactions of Hoa Moc Can and groom Moc Duong, it can be guessed that if she doesn't play her role well, she will easily face the risk of death.
Status is a double-edged sword.
The groom lost an arm, but his expression did not change. His whole body became silent, and his face became even more dull.
The cut on his hand didn't bleed, he just sat further away from Vo Tam.
The groom spoke as if nothing had happened: "Na Na said you two haven't been in touch for a long time. She's one year older than Na Na and went to study abroad after high school. She called you this time for the wedding, but your old phone number was zero."
"I received your invitation."
The corner of the groom's mouth twisted up, his teeth like blades, his tongue licked his lips lightly, making an uneasy sound: "We couldn't contact you, didn't send you... cough cough cough... wedding invitation."
So who sent this invitation?!
Who called you to Cong Duong village?
The blood in To Thanh Ngu's body seemed to freeze.
At first, because the invitation was named Ly Na Na, of course To Thanh Ngu thought it was sent by her.
But from the rules, the rules on the invitation letter contradicted the rules that Li Na Na wrote behind her back in the theater.
Especially the part about red flowers.
The invitation states that red flowers symbolize rebirth and blessings.
Li Na Na wrote on her back not to trust the woman with the red flower.
Invitation rules, the first half of the Gongyang village rules and the second half have different stances.
To Thanh Ngu speculated that the invitation letter was most likely sent by Hoa Moc Can.
But Hua Mu Jin and Li Nana's positions are opposite!
After saying goodbye to the groom, To Thanh Ngu opened the wooden box outside.
Inside is the golden key.
No effort at all.
The golden key was shaped like a "Y", and Su Qingyu immediately thought of the fork in the mountain.
The black dog barked madly, fumbling with the keys.
To Thanh Ngu observed the key and asked Vo Tam: "That day at the opera, did the strange rule written on my back show any traces of contamination?"
Vo Tam shook his head.
Without a binding contract, To Thanh Ngu could not be sure what Vo Tam said was true.
So she took out two thousand hell coins and asked again: "Are you sure you are not contaminated?"
"You don't trust your boyfriend?"
Rarely seen Vo Tam not accept money.
His eyes were pitch black, without whites, staring at To Thanh Ngu.
As a girlfriend, it is fundamental to trust your boyfriend.
Vo Tam did not tell To Thanh Ngu his rules, but it could be basically inferred that his rules were based on the role of "boyfriend".
Thinking of this, To Thanh Ngu put the money away, put her arm around Vo Tam, and said gently: "Of course I believe you, after all you are my boyfriend."
Only then did Vo Tam look away, his voice cold and emotionless: "I am your boyfriend, I will not lie to you, unless you no longer trust me."
To Thanh Ngu's eyes moved slightly. She knew that as long as she did what a normal girlfriend would do, Vo Tam would be on her side.
Make no mistake.
Every step To Thanh Ngu took was stepping on the edge of a knife.
Life is only one, no mistakes allowed.
To Thanh Ngu found the fork he encountered when going up the mountain.
The turn did not disappear, as if it deliberately appeared before her.
The black dog squatted at the fork in the road, refusing to go any further.
It even started chewing on the leash.
Looks like something very ominous is on the other side of the fork.
At the intersection, To Thanh Ngu met Tham Tu Nien holding red flowers.
Tham Tu Nien saw To Thanh Ngu, holding flowers and walking towards her, his naturally affectionate eyes looked at her gently and affectionately.
"Thanh Ngu, I have something to tell you privately, please come here for a moment."
A normal girlfriend should trust, be close to, and care for her boyfriend.
And must remain loyal.
It must be said that Tham Tu Nien, the male lead in "The Horror of Christmas", is perfect in both appearance and body, meeting the public's handsome standards.
To Thanh Ngu immediately shook her head and kept her distance: "My boyfriend is here, just say it in front of everyone."
Vo Tam just stood silently beside watching everything.
Tham Tu Nien curled his lips, his voice slightly mocking: "Just a strange thing, don't forget that you and I are truly the same kind."
Same kind but not same side.
To Thanh Ngu looked at the bright red hibiscus in Tham Tu Nien's hand and immediately knew to take this flower from Hoa Moc Can.
The second half of the second rule follows the invitation.
[You can wear red flowers, red flowers symbolize blessings and rebirth.]
The twelfth rule of[Gongyang Village]:
[Don't trust the woman with the red flower, feed her bird to the yellow weasel, or she will lose her wings.]
Combining the previous reasoning, To Thanh Ngu was even more certain that she and Tham Tu Nien had different positions!
Ly Na Na wrote on her back: Blood is the strongest bond, you and I will meet again.
Compared to Hoa Moc Can, Ly Na Na has more goodwill towards To Thanh Ngu.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have directly given her the golden key.
Tham Tu Nien did not give up until he achieved his goal. He strode forward, the red hibiscus in his hand had no green leaves, giving off a dizzying fragrance.
He had sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. He winked at To Thanh Ngu and said in a low voice: "Let's go over there and talk. I have important matters to discuss regarding customs clearance."
While speaking, he stuffed the hibiscus into To Thanh Ngu's arms.
To Thanh Ngu immediately covered her nose, took three steps back, and waved her hands repeatedly: "I'm allergic to pollen, stay away from me."
Shen Si Nian's face darkened.
This woman is so wary of him!
But when Shen Si Nian came down the mountain and received an important clue from the opera troupe, he gently said: "Qing Yu, I know you are looking for the secret garden of your childhood."
And he knows the location of the secret garden.
Not long ago, when Tham Tu Nien went down the mountain to the opera troupe, he borrowed To Thanh Ngu's name to chat with Hoa Moc Can.
He told Hoa Moc Can that he and To Thanh Ngu met abroad, the two loved each other deeply, and had been together for many years.
Halfway through, due to a little misunderstanding, they had to break up.
He always wanted to save this relationship, but during his absence, Vo Tam was by To Thanh Ngu's side, taking good care of her, causing her to change her mind.
Building a lovelorn image, the story is cliche and sentimental but Hoa Moc Can likes this style.
Hoa Moc Can immediately nestled into his arms, saying that she planted a whole field of hibiscus flowers, flowers that could help him regain his love.
He risked contamination to pick hibiscus flowers.
In the greenhouse, flowers bloomed brilliantly, red, purple, white, yellow, pink, competing to show off their colors. There was even a flower with many colored petals clustered together like the product of an over-experimental experiment.
Strangely, these flowers have no green leaves.
Hibiscus flower scent will pollute humans.
Tham Tu Nien uses points from the system to exchange for anti-pollution "red drinks".
He chose pure red hibiscus flowers without any color mixture to make a bouquet.
Through chatting with Hua Mu Can, he also learned a secret: Su Qing Yu, Li Na Na and Hua Mu Can were childhood friends.
They created a secret garden, each buried the most precious thing from their childhood there, promising to dig it up ten years later.
The ten year deadline has long passed.
The three of them each went their separate ways, none of them keeping their promise from years ago.
Hua Mu Jin told Shen Si Nian that if he brought her the things from the secret garden, she would take him away from Gong Yang village.
Furthermore, Tham Tu Nien also knew how to find the secret garden from Hoa Moc Can.
In To Thanh Ngu's heart, he remembered the rules.
Article thirteen of the rules of[Gongyang Village].
[Find the golden key, the golden key can open the secret garden. The treasure map is rotting, find the treasure map to find the bride, must be quick, must be quick!]
This rule emphasizes being fast.
If Shen Si Nian really knew the location of the secret garden, then having him lead the way would really save a lot of time.
But To Thanh Ngu had a different understanding of the urging of this rule.
That is: Not only does she have to quickly find the secret garden before the treasure map rots, but she also has to find the map before Shen Si Nian.
Shen Si Nian's information most likely came from Hua Mu Jin.
The bouquet of red hibiscus he was holding was proof.
But Hua Mu Jin's stance is different from Li Nana's.
In the dungeon, the two people exist in an antagonistic position.
"I have shown enough sincerity. Rejecting me means you want to turn your back on me."
Shen Si Nian's voice was low, both threatening and ambiguous: "You should think carefully. After all, girls need to be protected. I don't want to target girls, especially a smart girl like you."
To Thanh Ngu looked embarrassed and said: "Of course we can go out there and talk privately, but I have a severe pollen allergy. If I smell too much, I will break out in hives all over my body. Can you throw away that bouquet of flowers?"
Tham Tu Nien spent a lot of effort to get this bouquet of flowers, of course it's not easy to throw away.
His purpose was to put flowers in To Thanh Ngu's hair.
"Why do you hate flowers so much? I don't believe in pollen allergies. Or is your rule…"
"Not."
To Thanh Ngu immediately denied: "You gave flowers to Vo Tam, I will go alone with you to talk."
She wasn't stupid enough to discuss the rules with Shen Si Nian.
"That's OK."
Tham Tu Nien decided to temporarily stabilize To Thanh Ngu, so that he could reduce her vigilance, making it convenient for him to trick her into wearing red flowers and a red wedding dress later.
Vo Tam's white bony hands held a bouquet of bright red hibiscus flowers, his fingers long and slender.
He bowed his head and sniffed lightly, seeming to really like the scent of the flowers.
Then he bowed his head and bit a flower.
Tham Tu Nien roared: "My flower!"
Shen Si Nian lost his temper a little, he gritted his teeth and glared at Su Qing Yu. His eyes that were originally filled with emotions were filled with anger: "Qing Yu, take care of your weird manager, he's destroying my stuff! I don't think you want to ruin our good cooperative relationship because of that stupid weirdo."
To Thanh Ngu did not know that Vo Tam was such a polygamous person.
He looks tall and thin but he has a surprisingly large appetite.
A few days ago, seeing him drag the villagers away, cut open their stomachs and eat them because those villagers were not important, To Thanh Ngu turned a blind eye.
But today he not only tore off the groom's arm but also ate the flowers.
Is it true that we eat too much meat? We need to eat some vegetables to supplement vitamins?
The bouquet of flowers appeared unusually, of course To Thanh Ngu was not stupid enough to snatch it straight from Vo Tam's hand.
Better lose it, one less threat.
So To Thanh Ngu slightly lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes like fan blades covering her eyes: "I'm sorry, my boyfriend saw you giving me flowers and got jealous. How much is this bouquet of flowers, I'll pay you the full price."
Still on!
Shen Si Nian's heart was filled with frustration.
The bouquet had several flowers destroyed, Shen Si Nian felt sorry for them.
But he quickly calmed down, crossed his arms in front of his chest, raised his eyebrows and looked at To Thanh Ngu, taking the opportunity: "A bouquet of flowers isn't cheap right now. Either you pay me 520 or… be my girlfriend for three days, I'll let it go."
"Really?"
Shen Si Nian's eyes flashed with light as he vowed, "A gentleman's word is worth four horses."
She acts, he acts.
To Thanh Ngu smiled brightly and looked at Tham Tu Nien confidently: "That confident?"
"You broke my stuff, aren't you going to pay for it?"
"What if I have no morals?"
"You are a girl, why…"
Tham Tu Nien frowned, shocked by To Thanh Ngu's shamelessness.
"Just kidding, don't be nervous, I choose option one."
To Thanh Ngu wants to buy a bunch of hibiscus flowers for Vo Tam to supplement vitamins.
Seeing Su Qingyu take out his wallet, Shen Si Nian immediately smiled smugly: "Wait, I said hell money. If you don't have hell money, then choose option two."
Su Qingyu had guessed that Shen Si Nian would use this trick. She smiled and took out six hundred hell coins: "No need for change, I bought your flowers."
The triumphant smile on Shen Si Nian's face froze: "Impossible, how do you have so much hell money?"
Everyone knows that earning money in the underworld is extremely difficult.
"Of course it is earned through hard work."
Tham Tu Nien certainly does not believe it.
"Can you take me to the secret garden now?"
Tham Tu Nien received the money from the underworld, his face gloomy: "As you wish."
He walked up to Vo Tam, picked a hibiscus flower, and said to To Thanh Ngu: "Keep it as a souvenir, is that okay?"
To Thanh Ngu shook his head.
The old black dog refused to go up the mountain, so To Thanh Ngu had to untie its leash.
"Go back to the inn at the foot of the mountain and wait for me."
The black dog seemed to understand what the man said, and it nodded.
This dog is indeed a sentient being.
According to Tham Tu Nien, following the trail up the mountain, there were many old phone booths on both sides of the road. They were the type that required a card to make calls, and were rarely used since cell phones became popular.
To Thanh Ngu looked down at the phone, far from the village, the phone had lost signal.
"Ding ding ding—"
The bell rang from the phone booth.
One ring, the whole row of bells along the street rang simultaneously.
The winding mountain road led up, lined with strange red telephone booths. The booths were new, as if they had just been painted.
Tham Tu Nien calmly walked into a room, opened the door, and picked up the phone one by one.
There was no sound on the other end.
He said to Su Qingyu: "You listen to the left phone, I'll listen to the right. If you hear the other end say 'Let's play hide and seek', you agree and say that we will go find her."
To Thanh Ngu frankly said: "I can't do it because I can't trust you."
Honesty is the killer.
Tham Tu Nien was speechless, he couldn't convince To Thanh Ngu because if the roles were reversed, he wouldn't believe the other party either.
All in all this action is too weird.
"Okay, let me."
Tham Tu Nien was almost helpless with the stubborn To Thanh Ngu.
The system in her head kept complaining about her.
Tham Tu Nien has a headache.
To Thanh Ngu in a hurry.
She was in a hurry, but not that much of a hurry.
Safety first, anyway.
On the fifth call, the other end of the line heard the "sizzling" sound of electricity and then the clear laughter of a little girl.
"Let's play hide and seek, come find me…"
"Okay."
Tham Tu Nien hung up.
The phone booths on both sides immediately became old, the red paint peeled off, the booths were covered in cobwebs, and countless white maggots crawled out of the receivers.
The sky was overcast.
Even though it was daytime, the road ahead was dark.
"Shen Si Nian, look at the ground."
To Thanh Ngu turned on the flashlight and pointed at the black hair on the ground.
"Follow the hair."
To Thanh Ngu nodded, the golden key in his pocket was burning hot.
Tham Tu Nien's stamina was better, his long legs took quick steps, running forward.
The hairs leading to a mound disappear.
Not far away there were several graves overgrown with weeds.
Behind each tombstone are dark figures standing.
They just stood there silently, without sound or movement.
To Thanh Ngu reminded: "There is something over there."
"Never mind, dig this mound first."
Su Qingyu and Shen Si Nian dug the mound together. Since they didn't have any tools, they had to dig by hand.
Her fingernails were covered in mud, and a few pieces of broken glass in the dirt scratched Su Qingyu's fingers.
It's just a small wound, she doesn't mind.
When they dug up the top layer of soil, suddenly countless snakes slithered out from inside and unexpectedly rushed to bite them.
Extremely fast, almost impossible to avoid.
"Grab seven inches of snake!"
When Shen Si Nian grabbed the snake that bit his hand, the wound turned purple-black: "This snake is poisonous!"
"How vicious."
To Thanh Ngu's hand was also bitten.
She immediately sucked out the blood and squeezed the blood vessels to prevent the poison from spreading quickly.
Burning wound.
Vo Tam strangled all the remaining snakes that approached her.
When the poisonous snakes dispersed, a large iron chest was revealed in the pit.
On the lid of the chest is engraved a picture of three little girls holding hands.
A little girl holding a flower in her left hand and a bird in her right hand.
A little girl holds a treasure map in her left hand and a golden key in her right hand.
The remaining girl stood in the middle, holding up a red wedding dress with both hands.
The chest is locked.
Tham Tu Nien sat down on the ground, leaning against a tree, using the hell money he had just taken from To Thanh Ngu to exchange for the antidote.
Because To Thanh Ngu treated the wound in time, the poison was not deep but half of his arm lost feeling.
"The snake that just bit us was a bamboo viper, extremely poisonous!"
Tham Tu Nien took the antidote, rested for a while, then stood up, holding the bouquet of flowers in front of To Thanh Ngu: "Are you feeling unwell? You rest here first."
He took the iron chest from the pit and used a rock to break the rusty lock.
A little bird flapped its wings and flew out of the chest.
Too sudden, can't hold on.
What remained at the bottom of the chest was the red wedding dress.
"Come out, my strange contract!"
Shen Si Nian summoned the demon. Behind him appeared his younger brother from the [Sweet Home] instance and a strange demon.
That monster is like this villager, the upper body is human, the lower half is goat hoof.
Two against one, Tham Tu Nien is confident.
Vo Tam blocked in front of To Thanh Ngu.
To Thanh Ngu calmly asked: "With such a large army, are you planning to kill me here?"
Shen Si Nian curled his lips complacently: "Don't say that, I am a good citizen who abides by the law. You were poisoned, there is absolutely no need to take action. I am just informing you that this chest belongs to me."
To Thanh Ngu looked angry, she tried to stand up but after trying twice she weakly sat down.
Summoning strange demons and not hiding his strength was Shen Si Nian's way of threatening Su Qing Yu, preventing her from using Wu Xin to steal the chest.
He decided to take this chest.
Su Qingyu sighed and said with dissatisfaction: "If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the poisonous snakes, you wouldn't have been my opponent! Forget it, you and I were originally competing fairly, now that you've won, the item belongs to you."
"You know that too."
Tham Tu Nien took the red wedding dress from the chest: "I'll ask you one last time, do you want to be my girlfriend? If you agree, I'll let you wear a red wedding dress and wear red flowers. Of course, I'll also take you out of this dungeon."
If it weren't for Vo Tam, Tham Tu Nien would definitely take advantage of To Thanh Ngu's weakness and force her to wear a red wedding dress.
But he was wary of Vo Tam, and did not want to waste hell money or pay with blood to use a strange contract, so he had to seduce To Thanh Ngu.
To Thanh Ngu flatly refused: "No."
Tham Tu Nien coldly laughed: "If you don't listen to advice, then you'll just wait here to die."
Anyway, he got what Hua Mu Can wanted and could leave the dungeon.
After saying that, Tham Tu Nien took his things and left.
As he left, the pain on Su Qingyu's face disappeared.
She stood up and dusted herself off.
Although the bamboo viper is poisonous, the amount of venom secreted each time it bites is small, the toxicity is weak, and it rarely causes death.
To Thanh Ngu promptly sucked out the poisonous blood, his actions were not restricted.
Just acting because the treasure map she needed wasn't in the chest.
Only after chasing Tham Tu Nien away did she continue searching.
Move the empty chest.
To Thanh Ngu continued digging.
Her hand touched something soft.
It was a badly rotting corpse, face down, its limbs rotted and covered with maggots and cockroaches crawling all over its body.
Only the skin on the back is still fresh.
It is covered with tattoos.
She found the treasure map.
Suppressing his disgust, To Thanh Ngu tore the piece of skin with the map tattoo from the corpse's back.
She found the lock that had just been broken by Tham Tu Nien.
She compared the golden key with the lock, they were completely mismatched.
Sure enough, To Thanh Ngu smiled slyly.
Article Fourteen of the Rules of[Gongyang Village].
[Find the golden key, the golden key can open the secret garden. The treasure map is rotting, find the treasure map to find the bride, must be quick, must be quick!]
The rule says the golden key can open the secret garden.
But Shen Si Nian told Su Qing Yu that the way to find the secret garden was to pick up the phone in the red phone booth and play hide and seek with an unknown monster.
The way he said it was no rule of thumb.
Unless there is such a thing in Shen Si Nian's hidden rules.
If not, if he believed it just because Hua Mu Can said it this way, then… the smile on Su Qing Yu's lips deepened.
So naive.
Ghostly words can be believed but not all can be believed.
In the dungeon, the only thing that is truly trustworthy is the untainted rule.
When entering the intersection, To Thanh Ngu felt the golden key in his pocket heating up.
Finding this place was not thanks to Tham Tu Nien's "hide and seek" game, but because To Thanh Ngu brought the golden key to open the secret garden.
After getting the treasure map, To Thanh Ngu checked the rotting corpse again.
In the wet mud, the once plump body was now an empty shell gnawed by maggots.
A disgusting stench spread, a mix of rotting flesh and the distinct smell of earth.
The body's skin had lost its color, revealing the muscles and bones in the process of decomposition, the white bones contrasting with the surrounding black soil.
The body's face was badly decomposed, and its appearance was unrecognizable.
But it can be guessed from the shape of the bones that it is the body of an adult male.
She took a piece of red paper from the corpse's stomach.
Is the A-level clearance rule.
At this point, all the clearance rules have been found.
Customs clearance rules obtained from Lee's mother.
[S-Rank: Find all missing brides and complete the wedding.]
Customs clearance rules just found in the corpse's stomach.
[Grade A: Wear a red wedding dress and act as the bride until the wedding ceremony ends.]
Customs clearance rules taken from the bottom of a bird cage backstage at a theater.
[Level B: Find the treasure map, on the map there is a path that only one person can pass through, follow the path marked on the map to leave the village.]
The customs clearance method was extracted by Hoang Tien Nhi.
[Level C: Convince the manager, join the troupe, complete the tour to leave Cong Duong village with the troupe.]
Vo Tam checked the customs clearance rules for To Thanh Ngu, confirming that they were not contaminated.
Put the torn pieces of paper together and you will get a complete A4 sized red paper.
To Thanh Ngu stared at the A-level clearance method, remembering the rules in his mind.
The first half of the fifteenth rule of[Gongyang Village].
[Only the bride can wear a red wedding dress, keep your childhood promise, you must be the first.]
This rule seems to imply that Su Qingyu should be the bride.
The first two ways of clearing customs, whether it's finding the missing bride or playing the bride, require completing the wedding.
The most meaningful gift for loved ones
The following two ways, one is to leave the village on foot with unknown risks, the other is clearly leading to another dungeon, not worth considering.
To Thanh Ngu looked at the treasure map. On the map there was a route and several red circles.
The route is the road leaving the village in the B-class clearance rule.
This road goes from the back mountain, through an unknown cave, to a place called Black Lake, there is a pier, it seems you can board a boat to leave.
The red circles mark several locations in the village.
The back of the map has a drawing of a clown's head.
This clown symbol has appeared many times since[Sao Mai High School].
To Thanh Ngu suspected that he was being given special attention.
The way to clear customs was clear, but To Thanh Ngu did not choose to leave the village along the route on the map.
She chose to find the locations circled in red on the map.
That place is most likely the bride's place.
Having gotten what she needed, To Thanh Ngu looked at the chest that once contained the red wedding dress.
The three little girls on the chest, the two on either side clearly correspond to Li Nana and Hua Mu Jin.
The girl in the middle holding a red wedding dress in her hand is probably the role To Thanh Ngu is playing.
"Vo Tam, take this empty chest down."
Vo Tam picked up the chest.
On the way back, it was drizzling.
Fog covers the mountains.
To Thanh Ngu saw a little girl in a dress standing on tiptoe making a phone call in a red phone booth.
The little girl moved with difficulty.
How can there be a little girl in the wilderness?
To Thanh Ngu looked away and quickly left.
"Play hide and seek with me!"
The little girl blocked the road, holding the broken receiver in her hand, tilting her head: "You haven't found me yet… you can't just leave…"
Because of the thick fog, the girl's face could not be seen clearly.
At first, To Thanh Ngu did not pay attention to that little girl, but when she found that she could not leave the secret garden, her expression became serious.
Looks like we can't go without finding the girl.
To Thanh Ngu had to choose to go back.
It's late.
To Thanh Ngu tightly held the hot golden key and thought to herself: Ly Na Na, if you want my help, you must first help me leave here.
I wonder if To Thanh Ngu's prayer worked.
Black hair appeared on the ground.
The intertwined hair extends into the distance.
Leads to the place full of tombstones just now.
Because there was a shadow behind the tombstone, To Thanh Ngu did not dare to come and look just now.
She looked at Vo Tam, pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Vo Tam, as my boyfriend, do you love me?"
Without the constraints of a contract, she had to confirm whether the character's influence was strong enough before daring to move forward.
Vo Tam replied without hesitation: "I love you."
There was not a trace of superfluous expression on his face.
This is just a character based answer.
To Thanh Ngu continued to ask: "So can you put me first in everything, even when you are in danger?"
"I will, because I am your boyfriend."
Only then did To Thanh Ngu feel reassured and walked towards those blurry figures with Vo Tam.
From a distance you can see the shadow of a person.
The figure disappeared as he approached.
Her hair led her to a grave.
Pull weeds from the tombstone, brush the dust from the grooves of the letters.
On it are engraved two words "Tieu Hong".
To Thanh Ngu calmly said: "Tieu Hong, I found you."
As soon as she finished speaking, a girl's giggle echoed throughout the hills.
"Ha ha ha, you win. This time it's my turn to be the ghost and chase you."
After saying that, a creepy countdown sound echoed throughout the mountains and forests.
"100, 99, 98..."
In 100 seconds, To Thanh Ngu must escape from this place!
Su Qingyu's black hair fluttered in the wind, her movements as quick as an arrow leaving a bow.
Feet lightly touched the ground, barely stopping, suddenly jumped up.
Only by running fast enough can you surpass the speed of death.
The ringing from the red telephone booths on both sides of the road was shrill and sharp.
No matter how far I ran, the countdown was still clear in my ears.
"…3, 2, 1. I'm coming… cough cough cough…"
A cold wind blew from behind.
To Thanh Ngu did not look back.
The footsteps do not stop.
She glanced at Vo Tam who was running past her. It seemed like he was running at this speed with no effort.
"Your chance to show off has come."
To Thanh Ngu signaled Vo Tam to block behind.
Vo Tam plays the role of a very responsible "boyfriend".
"Of course, my dear girlfriend."
Leaving behind a sentence, Vo Tam stopped, dust and smoke flying. He stood in the middle of the road, drawing his black sword.
In the fog, he was like a demon demanding life.
To Thanh Ngu ran out, because the fog was getting thicker and thicker, she could barely see her fingers, making her run slower and slower.
At this moment, the sound of dogs barking came from the end of the mist.
The pursuit behind seemed to stop but Vo Tam could not keep up.
To Thanh Ngu listened carefully, determining the direction of the dog barking.
Then she ran towards it.
Finally out of the mist.
Turn back, the turn has disappeared.
The old black dog sat on the ground, wagging its tail at To Thanh Ngu.
To Thanh Ngu patted its head: "You still haven't left."
The black dog happily circled her three times, its tail wagging like a fan.
"Thank you just now."
To Thanh Ngu thought he should reward this black dog with some big bones.
"Woof woof!"
This dog understands human language.
Now there was still some time before dark, To Thanh Ngu stood at the intersection waiting for Vo Tam to return.
Vo Tam stepped out of the fog, his black sword covered in thick blood, the yin energy on his body was heavier, the corner of his mouth still had some blood and flesh that had not been wiped off.
He smelled of blood as strong as cloves.
To Thanh Ngu immediately took on the role of "girlfriend", praising his bravery and expressing gratitude for being saved.
Because it was already dark, To Thanh Ngu and Vo Tam had to return to the house at the foot of the mountain and stay another night.
The young woman's complexion was very bad, blocking the door to prevent To Thanh Ngu from entering: "What do you think about the black dog matter?"
Before that, she gave To Thanh Ngu a day to consider.
Now the time has come.
The black dog pulled its head back and tail down, clearly not wanting to.
To Thanh Ngu also did not have the heart to force the black dog, she gently negotiated: "I can pay a higher price to stay."
The woman was determined and unyielding: "No, I just want your dog. As long as the female dog successfully gets pregnant, I guarantee I will return it."
The sun has set.
The sky has only a lonely moon, no stars.
"You said before that the lodging fee was one hundred hell coins per person. Now I'm willing to pay three times as much, as long as you let us continue to stay."
The woman glared: "It's not about money."
"Five times."
To Thanh Ngu calmly raised his hand.
"The black dog is very important to the village."
"Ten times."
To Thanh Ngu increased the price.
"…"
The woman was silent, she lowered her head and pulled Su Qingyu inside, covered her mouth with her hand, and whispered in her ear: "I agree, but the condition is that you cannot tell the other villagers. Just say that no matter what I ask, you still refuse to agree, and even say that my boyfriend threatened you, I had no choice but to let you in."
"Easy, easy."
To Thanh Ngu nodded continuously and then secretly stuffed two thousand hell coins.
The young woman could not hide the excitement in her eyes.
She wrinkled her nose, sniffed the hell money, and stuffed it into her pocket. Her expression immediately changed. She cried and cursed at Su Qingyu: "Huhuhu… You dare threaten me! If I don't let you in, you'll make me drink that disgusting green soup!"
The lights in the neighbor's house are all on.
Through the window can still see the shadow of a person.
"That's right, if you don't let me in, I'll force you to drink that disgusting green soup and stick this thing on your door."
To Thanh Ngu took out the golden talisman that Bach Hoa gave from his backpack.
The young woman glanced at the talisman, covered her mouth, and actually vomited.
She vomited a mass of white, viscous foam.
To Thanh Ngu quickly put the talisman away.
Several neighbors quickly turned off the lights.
To Thanh Ngu and Vo Tam were also allowed to stay at the young woman's house.
Overnight.
To Thanh Ngu followed the marked location on the treasure map and started searching.
In the woods, she dug up an arm.
Under the stage of the opera, she found the hand.
In the furnace of the communal dining room, she found two black lungs.
In the rented house on the first night, To Thanh Ngu found black hair stuck to the scalp in a jar of wine and under the bed, a body wrapped in plastic, limbs severed, organs removed.
…
Li Na Na was like a dandelion, her body was scattered throughout the village.
One hundred and seven pieces in total.
East and West are combined to create a perfect bride.
Looking at the mess of flesh and blood, To Thanh Ngu borrowed a needle and thread from Mrs. Truong in the village and sewed the bride back together.
To Thanh Ngu put her hands on her hips, a bit embarrassed: "It's already rotten like this, how can I wear a red wedding dress to complete the wedding?"
As a rule, S-class clearance requires the bride to complete the wedding ceremony.
Does To Thanh Ngu have to stand behind the bride and help her complete the wedding?
Incorrect.
She always felt something was missing.
There was a location on the treasure map at the Ly family's ancestral hall. When To Thanh Ngu arrived, she saw several villagers patrolling, not allowing outsiders to come near.
So she had to go back first.
The Ly family's ancestral temple has not been explored.
By searching other red circled locations, Su Qingyu seemed to have found "all" of Li Nana.
Looking at the bride's body, her limbs and head had been reattached, her internal organs had also recovered. The bride stared at the ceiling with her eyes wide open as if she was dead.
With Vo Tam here, sharing a room with a corpse isn't a big deal.
To show respect, To Thanh Ngu used the tribute card to take out a new bed and placed the bride's body on it.
That night, when going to bed, To Thanh Ngu placed a bowl of water at the bedside.
In the middle of the night she heard the familiar sound of dripping water.
"Drip, drip—"
Close your eyes and pretend to sleep.
The cold air seeped through the blanket, an icy finger brushed across To Thanh Ngu's wrist and slowly wrote a few words on her palm.
"One thing is missing."
❀❀❀
What else?
According to the map, Su Qingyu had run through one hundred and seven locations in the village in one day, almost breaking her leg, yet this damn thing still came to her bedside in the middle of the night, waking her up cold, writing that she was missing one thing!
There was a time to write four words "Still missing one thing".
Why don't you just be straightforward and say what's missing?
To Thanh Ngu was angry, she covered her head with the blanket and continued sleeping.
In the morning, the bride's fully sewn body was missing from the bed.
The body is gone!
To Thanh Ngu was startled and immediately searched the room.
Finally she found the bride in the chest Vo Tam brought back.
The bride's body was folded in an extremely distorted position, folded in half twice to save maximum space.
To Thanh Ngu checked the body and found no missing parts.
Because the bride kept staring at the ceiling, she tried closing her eyes but as soon as she closed them, they opened again.
Opening the door, the young woman stood right in front.
She said sternly, "Do not bring the body home."
The unexpected words made To Thanh Ngu take half a step back.
Yesterday when bringing the body back, To Thanh Ngu asked Vo Tam to distract the woman, she shouldn't have noticed.
Seeing Su Qingyu silent, the woman became more certain of her guess, seemingly holding back her anger: "No matter how much money you give, you can't take the body home."
"I know, I'll take it right away."
To Thanh Ngu immediately admitted his mistake and told Vo Tam to carry the chest and leave.
Seeing Su Qingyu leave, the young woman stomped her feet, chased after her, patted her shoulder, and whispered in her ear: "If you leave, I can help you raise a dog. Don't worry, I will definitely treat your dog well."
She patted her chest and promised, her attitude sincere.
To Thanh Ngu rolled her eyes and asked: "Why can't I keep a dog when I leave?"
The mysterious young woman said, "Because the dogs here only eat lamb raised on grass in the village. If you take the dog away, it will starve to death."
To Thanh Ngu replied: "I don't see any sheep in the village."
The young woman rubbed her head, a dreamy look appeared on her face as if she suddenly realized something, and she began to mumble: "There is no sheep but there is mutton… Strange, there is no sheep, where did the mutton come from…"
Her reaction was typical of being contaminated.
Dull face, memory loss, poor cognition.
The second half of the fourteenth rule of[Gongyang Village].
[You are different from the villagers, you are just a guest. Remember your way home.]
Suddenly, the dog barked at her twice. The woman seemed to wake up and clapped her hands: "I remember now, the meat was brought by the butcher!"
To Thanh Ngu asked: "So where did the butcher come from?"
"From… from the small path behind the mountain."
To Thanh Ngu immediately took out the treasure map and pointed to the path leading out: "You mean this path?"
"Correct!"
The young woman looked at To Thanh Ngu with a strange look: "Why do you have a map of the village?"
To Thanh Ngu quickly put away the map: "My friend gave it to me."
"Let me see that map again."
The woman reached out for the map.
She opened her eyes wide as if remembering something scary, her voice lowered: "Legend has it that after that wedding, no one saw the bride and groom again. But the people who went up to the mountain to attend the wedding all fell ill with strange diseases. I see on your map there are places circled in red. It seems that those are the places where the last villagers died of the disease."
To Thanh Ngu blocked her hand.
"I have to go out."
After saying that, she signaled to Vo Tam and quickly left.
To Thanh Ngu brought Ly Na Na's body to the Ly family mansion.
The Ly family mansion was empty, the gate was not closed. Mother Ly sat blankly at the door, comb in hand, muttering.
"Comb the tail once, husband and wife will be in harmony. Comb the tail twice, their wings will fly together. Comb the tail three times, forever united. Having a beginning and an end, great wealth and great honor."
To Thanh Ngu put down the chest, walked in front of mother Ly, and gently called: "Aunt Ly."
Mother Li raised her head, her eyes filled with passion. She held Su Qingyu's hand tightly, and asked expectantly, "You're back! You haven't come to see me these past few days! Now that you're back, have you found Na Na yet?"
To Thanh Ngu nodded then shook his head.
Mother Ly's face immediately darkened, as gloomy as the prelude to a storm: "What do you mean?"
Seeing how quickly Mother Ly changed, To Thanh Ngu suspected that if she said the wrong thing next, she might go crazy and tear him to pieces.
"I found Li Nana but it was not complete."
Having said that, To Thanh Ngu opened the chest.
Mother Ly ran to the chest and poked her head in.
Seeing Li Na Na's body, Li's mother did not show any sadness, but instead breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's good to be back, it's almost Thursday, we can hold the wedding again."
"Aunt Ly, what does my cousin lack?"
Mother Ly laughed coldly: "That thing is truly evil, the less the better."
The day after tomorrow is Thursday.
The wedding invitation reads: We respectfully invite you and your boyfriend to our wedding this Thursday, to witness the most important moment of our lives.
Just say what day, no specific date.
"Why Thursday?"
Mother Ly replied: "Of course it's a good day."
To Thanh Ngu opened her phone to check the calendar. She discovered that every Thursday this month, the imperial calendar said: "Avoid weddings, suitable for burials."
"I want to bring Na Na home."
Mother Ly grabbed Ly Na Na's armpit tightly, trying to drag the body into the back room of the Ly family mansion.
Her cheeks were red from overexertion, and sweat was pouring down her forehead.
Even though Mother Li tried her best, Li Na Na's body seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and she couldn't lift it.
So Mother Ly was not satisfied, she waved at To Thanh Ngu: "Hurry up and help me."
To Thanh Ngu stood still.
To Thanh Ngu also carried Ly Na Na's body.
Even though he had full organ and limb transplants.
But strangely, the body was not heavy at all, only equivalent to the weight of a child.
Mother Ly can not lift, so there are two possibilities.
Firstly, because To Thanh Ngu has not found the complete Ly Na Na, he cannot give her to Ly's mother.
Second, Li Na Na did not want to follow mother Li.
To Thanh Ngu tried to hug Ly Na Na's body, she found it very easy to do so.
So it is the second possibility.
She lowered her eyes and said: "I should still find enough and then come back."
Mother Li was stunned and quickly stopped her: "It's okay, it's okay, it's fine like this. After the wedding tomorrow, you can leave."
[S-Rank: Find all missing brides and complete the wedding.]
The customs clearance rule clearly states "search the whole thing", so not even a single nail is allowed.
To Thanh Ngu slightly curled her lips, she already knew what was missing.
The only thing missing is the child in Ly Na Na's belly.
And that child is most likely at the last red circled location—the Li family's ancestral home.
To Thanh Ngu hurriedly returned to the Ly family's ancestral hall.
On the way, she found all the villagers out of their houses.
They stood under the old locust tree in front of the door, turned their heads, and their eyes focused on To Thanh Ngu, watching her walk towards the ancestral hall.
Every villager smiled evilly, sending her off with their eyes.
The fourth and fourteenth rules of[Gongyang Village].
[The ancestral hall is a sacred place, and no one but villagers can enter it without permission.]
[Remember your name and original purpose, look clearly at the reflection in the water, confirm that it is your own face. Don't eat green food, don't eat dairy products, you are different from the villagers, you are just a guest. Remember the way home.]
To Thanh Ngu felt vaguely uneasy, she thought of the rules and opened the front camera of her phone.
The girl in the lens is a strange face!
To Thanh Ngu smiled at the girl in the lens and the girl also made a similar expression.
No wonder there are no mirrors in the village.
To Thanh Ngu found an unused well, carefully looked down, and saw that her reflection in the water was still her real face.
She touched her face, raised her head and asked: "Vo Tam, do you see any change in my face?"
Vo Tam shook her head: "You are still you."
Only then did To Thanh Ngu feel a little reassured.
According to the memories provided in the dungeon, she is Li Na Na's cousin and grew up with Li Na Na in the village since childhood.
Then she should also be considered a villager of Cong Duong.
But the first time she entered the ancestral temple, To Thanh Ngu entered as an "outsider" and even completed the worship ritual, which proved that she was an outsider, not a villager.
To Thanh Ngu seriously distinguished between his real memories and the memories imposed by the copy.
She is Su Qingyu, playing Li Na Na's cousin. No matter how similar she acts, she is still herself.
Must maintain awareness.
Outside the ancestral hall, villagers were patrolling.
A villager saw To Thanh Ngu and enthusiastically greeted her: "Are you Na Na's cousin?"
"Yes, I am To Thanh Ngu."
She emphasized her real name, not her identity in the copy.
The villagers looked gentle and simple: "Na Na mentioned you once, you two were very close when you were young."
Having no memories of her childhood, Su Qingyu nodded slightly, not saying much.
The villagers made way: "Are you here to worship?"
"I'm not going in for now."
The villagers' expressions changed, their smiles disappeared, their originally simple faces suddenly looked somewhat scary: "Why don't you come in? Are you not from this village? Or do you also want to leave? Want to leave the village?"
Also?
Why did he say "also"?
Faced with the villagers' sudden change of heart, Su Qingyu calmly blinked: "Uncle, you're thinking too much. Today is not the ancestor's death anniversary. Moreover, ancestor worship is usually done by boys. I'm a girl, is there any problem if I don't go to the ancestral temple?"
This village is very closed, conservative and has many bad customs.
Through the rules of eating and drinking, it can be seen that the status of men is higher than that of women.
Men must sit at the table to eat and raise their glasses to toast, women are not allowed to go up to the table.
Men can kneel and ask their ancestors for forgiveness, women must sacrifice.
So when Su Qingyu said that, the villagers nodded as if it was a matter of course: "No… no problem. It's just a pity that the Li family doesn't have a son."
After the villagers left, Su Qingyu summarized their patrol pattern.
Each patrol has a three minute interval.
She let the black dog smell Li Na Na's body and then patted its head, saying: "Remember this smell, help me take out the missing part."
The black dog nodded sagely.
Taking advantage of the break in patrol, it rushed into the street.
Vo Tam proactively suggested: "Can I come in and see?"
To Thanh Ngu tilted her head to look at him, brushed her long hair behind her ear, and said with a smile: "If you want to go, then go."
Vo Tam walked into the ancestral hall.
In this copy, Vo Tam himself proactively said he wanted to go together.
He came to find something.
To Thanh Ngu went to a place quite far from the ancestral temple. Vo Tam also had the status of an "outsider". When entering the ancestral temple, he had to light a red candle and kneel three times before the ancestral tablet.
Soon, from the road rose a towering fire.
The villagers shouted: "Fire!"
But no one brought a bucket of water to put out the fire.
All the villagers surrounded the ancestral temple, holding their heads and jumping around on the spot.
The black dog carried out a newborn baby as small as a hand, not yet fully formed but already a shriveled corpse.
To Thanh Ngu immediately left here.
She found a safe place with no one around, cut open Li Na Na's stomach, and placed the child inside.
As the baby was placed in her belly, Li Na Na's limp body began to move.
Every joint twisted like a dead man dancing madly.
To Thanh Ngu stepped back. Ly Na Na's body propped itself up, nearly two meters tall.
Due to rotting for too long.
"Boohoohoo…"
Behind To Thanh Ngu, there was the sound of crying and dripping water.
A cold hand from behind hugged To Thanh Ngu, black hair wrapped around her body.
Something pressed against her face, screaming miserably in her ear: "Cong Duong cannot be redeemed!"
Screaming.
To Thanh Ngu's eyes darkened and he fainted.
When she woke up, Ly Na Na had disappeared.
The black dog stood by her side, licking her palm.
Vo Tam also returned, he crossed his arms, a black sword hung at his waist, leaning against an old locust tree, his face expressionless.
"What just happened?"
To Thanh Ngu rubbed his aching temples.
Vo Tam replied: "I finished lighting the fire and turned around to see you lying here."
"What!"
To Thanh Ngu felt his head hurt even more: "Why did you light a fire out of the blue?"
Water is a sacred thing, but the villagers on the mountain are all strange. They don't use water to put out the fire, they can only surround the ancestral temple and worry in vain.
Vo Tam honestly said: "Find something."
Because there were so many things in the ancestral temple, Vo Tam thought it would be easier to find them by lighting a fire.
Anyway, what he's looking for isn't afraid of water or fire.
To Thanh Ngu was speechless.
At this moment the sound of gongs, drums and suona trumpets resounded from the village.
The music is "Hundred Birds Worship the Phoenix".
The guard of the ancestral hall stepped down from the mountain, his face was dark, his body still had burn marks, but the exaggerated smile on his face did not diminish.
"Married, married, the girl from the Ly family is getting married. I get to go to the party!"
To Thanh Ngu followed his uncle and asked: "Isn't the wedding going to be held on Thursday?"
His head turned at an impossible angle, he grinned: "Today is Thursday."
To Thanh Ngu quickly took out her phone to check the date and was shocked to find that she had slept for two days.
The wedding is today!
Find all the brides, complete the wedding to clear the dungeon.
Victory seemed within reach, but the bride's whisper in her ear did not fade away.
Right eyelid twitches repeatedly.
Why… can't Cong Duong be redeemed?
To Thanh Ngu asked Vo Tam: "I slept for two days?"
Vo Tam nodded.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"She didn't ask."
The conversation died on its own.
To Thanh Ngu followed his uncle to the Ly family mansion.
His face was pale, his limbs swollen, he kept a fake smile like a mask, walking forward.
On the way, To Thanh Ngu pretended to be innocent and curious, chatting with him: "Uncle, is there a girl named Tieu Hong in the village?"
"Tieu Hong is a naughty girl who likes to play hide and seek with others."
His head turned back, not looking down at the road but his steps did not slow down: "Have you seen him?"
His smile was twisted in a devilish way.
To Thanh Ngu realized that no matter how steep the mountain road was, he could still walk easily, which did not match his swollen body.
"Yes."
Little Red appeared in the secret garden of their childhood, there must be a reason.
"Tieu Hong is an orphan and likes to run around the village. He is very close to the groom and often brings his pet sheep to the groom's house to play."
Hearing about sheep, Su Qingyu felt extremely uneasy: "I heard that ten years ago, the groom's mother, the widow Song, was unfortunately hit and killed by a pickup truck while herding sheep. The widow Song's father was a high-ranking executive in the Sao Mai Group, very rich, but I don't understand why she was so infatuated with love, cut off ties with her parents, and married Mu Sanlang in the village."
"Moc Tam Lang also had a miserable life. He died of illness at a young age, leaving behind a widowed mother and orphaned son, living a miserable life. After her husband died, the widow Tong wanted to bring her son back to the city to live…"
Having said this, he stopped and did not continue.
To Thanh Ngu asked: "What happened next?"
The uncle removed the smile from his face, using his empty black eyes to stare at Su Qingyu: "Your boyfriend is not from the village, you are about to marry outside the village. This is a village secret, it can only be told to people in the village."
To Thanh Ngu took out one hundred hell coins: "Uncle, please have some tea."
"This child is really filial."
The smile returned to his face: "Only our Cong Duong village can teach a well-behaved and understanding child like you. Let me tell you more."
He received the money, his attitude softened a lot, he turned into a story-telling machine, talking endlessly about the village's affairs.
"Our village has many customs, for example, before the wedding, men and women must maintain their virginity. Or, when a woman marries into the village, she must bow to the ancestral temple and swear before her ancestors that she will never leave the village for the rest of her life, otherwise she will be punished. Speaking of the ancestral temple, two days ago, I don't know who dared to burn down the ancestral temple! If I catch him, I will chop him into minced meat!"
He was angry.
Vo Tam is calm.
Only To Thanh Ngu felt guilty and quickly changed the subject: "Does the village have any customs about sheep, uncle?"
"Sheep are the future of the village."
The woman at the village gate said dogs were the future of the village.
The man on the mountain top said that sheep were the future of the village.
The sun sets red as blood.
A bright red palanquin surrounded by a procession, walking on yellow ground.
Eight palanquin bearers dressed in uniform, their faces as white as paper, their cheeks painted with circular red powder, their steps mechanical and rhythmic.
Fireworks exploded, red fragments flew in the air.
The bride wore a bright red wedding dress, a red veil covering her face, revealing only her pale skin and blood-red lips.
Tham Tu Nien walked over and pulled To Thanh Ngu aside, seriously asking her: "Where have you been these past two days? I've been looking for you for a long time but couldn't find you. I thought you had…"
Out of politeness, Tham Tu Nien did not say the word "death" directly.
To Thanh Ngu still clearly remembers in the secret garden, Tham Tu Nien smugly snatched the red wedding dress and even said harsh words to her.
He showed so much concern for her today.
"What are you planning?"
Based on Shen Si Nian's previous performance, Su Qing Yu did not intend to give him a good look.
Tham Tu Nien touched his nose. He had the same characteristic as the female lead Lac Tu Huyen, which was knowing how to stretch and contract.
"The wedding is about to start, let's work together and restore our relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend as before."
To Thanh Ngu looked behind Tham Tu Nien.
Even though she was glaring and puffing her cheeks, Tham Tay Dong was still very adorable.
She smiled and asked: "Aren't you afraid your girlfriend will be angry when you say that?"
"To Thanh Ngu, be serious, I'm not joking."
Shen Si Nian still defended the system: "This is just a copy, the original copy arranged us as boyfriend and girlfriend. The bride has been found, and I also gave the red wedding dress to the bride. As long as we cooperate well, we will immediately clear the S-rank."
To Thanh Ngu slowly exposed his intentions: "What? Stealing the red wedding dress and giving it to Hoa Moc Can, but not getting the desired reward?"
Tham Tu Nien tightened his muscles, his hands clenched into fists, his trembling fingers stabbed into his palms leaving deep marks.
Thin lips pressed into a straight line, eyes cold as ice: "Are you deliberately coming to mock me?"
After getting the red wedding dress, Shen Si Nian immediately looked for Hua Mu Jin. Unexpectedly, Hua Mu Jin got angry with him, saying that it wasn't what she wanted.
Hua Mu Jin hated the red wedding dress, and even screamed at him. She used her hands to twist her head, turning the back of her neck to face him.
Tham Tu Nien will always remember, Hoa Moc Can slowly lifted the hair on the back of her neck, the back of her neck had a dry face.
She used that face to tell him, he should never dream of following the theater troupe away from here.
Back then, the three girls created a secret garden, burying the most precious thing of their childhood.
That thing wasn't a red wedding dress, but a chest with a pattern of three little girls holding hands.
The patterns on the chest were drawn by the girls themselves.
Symbol of the most precious childhood friendship.
Hua Mu Jin wanted the chest buried, not the red wedding dress in the chest.
To Thanh Ngu at most just smiled secretly in his heart, on the surface still appearing neither sad nor happy, polite and distant: "Don't think like that, at least you and I still have something in common as humans."
"Don't say noble words, just one sentence, do you want to join hands with me?"
To Thanh Ngu crossed his arms, his expression clearly showing refusal.
"Huh!"
Tham Tu Nien held Tham Tay Dong's hand and turned to go to the Ly family mansion to attend the wedding.
To Thanh Ngu looked at Vo Tam beside him: "Let's go too."
Vo Tam extended his bloody hand towards To Thanh Ngu.
"Doing what?"
To Thanh Ngu looked at his hand, not understanding.
Vo Tam pointed towards Tham Tu Nien who was leaving.
To Thanh Ngu looked at Tham Tu Nien and Tham Tay Dong holding hands, stunned, and asked: "You mean... you want to hold hands?"
Vo Tam nodded.
We are different from them, we are pure love."
After saying that, To Thanh Ngu turned around and left. Vo Tam stood there watching her back disappear, then looked at his empty hand, slowly lowered it, and followed.
The wedding scene was very bustling, almost all the people on the mountain top of Cong Duong village came.
Hoa Moc Can pinned a red hibiscus flower on Ly's mother's chest.
In the crowd, To Thanh Ngu also saw a woman wearing a red dress, blending in with the noise but full of loneliness.
This woman was the one who waved down the car when Su Qingyu and Shen Si Nian were on their way to Gongyang Village.
Why is she here?
Today, Ly's mother combed her hair neatly, put on makeup, and her bright red lips stood out.
Before the wedding ceremony began, guests had to give red envelopes to Ly's mother at the gate of the Ly family's mansion.
After receiving the lucky money, Ly's mother wrote down the guest's name and the amount in the book.
As Su Qingyu lined up, she glanced at the ledger and saw that the amount of money mainly ranged from two hundred to one thousand hell coins.
Tham Tu Nien spent one hundred and sixty-five hell coins.
Odd numbers.
It can be seen that he is really short of hell money.
So To Thanh Ngu followed the high standard and spent one thousand hell coins.
When she wrote it down, Mother Li exclaimed, "The relationship between you two cousins is indeed the best. With your blessing, Na Na will definitely be at ease."
The wedding took place at the Ly family's mansion. According to traditional customs, in addition to the son-in-law living with his wife's family, it is usually the groom's family that welcomes the bride to their home.
But this wedding is the opposite.
To Thanh Ngu saw the woman in the red dress holding a shiny fruit knife, her eyes staring at the flower palanquin with resentment.
The guest table was filled with green porridge and green drinks.
The first half of the sixth rule of [Gongyang Village]
[In the village, there is only a communal dining hall that provides edible food. Please dine with the villagers. The villagers here only like vegetarian food and do not like meat.]
This is the Ly family mansion, there is absolutely nothing edible.
To Thanh Ngu saw a woman wandering through the crowd with rice in her hand. She had a chopstick stuck vertically in her rice bowl, walking from table to table looking for food.
Unfortunately, she couldn't find it.
A little girl dressed in red appeared from nowhere and placed a bloody lump of meat in the woman's bowl.
Apparently, Tham Tu Nien also saw this strange scene.
He chose to ignore it and silently attended the entire wedding ceremony.
The red flower palanquin was parked in the yard, surrounded by countless villagers, craning their necks to see the bride's face clearly.
The groom carried the bride on his back, taller than himself. The drops of water from the bride's body fell to the ground, making other villagers not dare to come near.
"First bow to heaven and earth!"
The groom and bride, like puppets, knelt down respectfully, bowing to the statue of the god before the altar.
"Second bow to your father!"
The couple turned around, faced the new offerings and the tablet, and knelt down to bow again.
To Thanh Ngu was startled and felt a chill down her spine.
Mother Ly and the woman in red stood straight behind the memorial tablet, staring at the two people.
"Husband and wife bow!"
The officiant shouted: "Take her to the bridal chamber!"
The groom held the bride's hand and walked past To Thanh Ngu.
Suddenly, the bride grabbed her hand.
Each of her fingers was like a dry branch soaked in water, seemingly about to break off.
"Cousin, where is your wish?"
The bride's cold voice rang out from under the red veil.
Immediately, everyone stopped, the fake noisy atmosphere became silent. The cold gazes of the villagers turned towards To Thanh Ngu.
In her backpack were the prepared gold bars.
Now that the wedding is complete, the final step is to leave.
"I wish you..."
To Thanh Ngu was about to say a few words of congratulations, when a hot, red tear fell onto the back of her hand, contrasting sharply with her jade-white skin.
"I…"
To Thanh Ngu raised his head.
The bride cried.
To Thanh Ngu immediately realized, the bride did not want it!
The red veil obscured the bride's face, the red wedding dress concealed her sewn body, her slightly protruding belly, her joints distorted due to poor sewing techniques.
Everyone is waiting for To Thanh Ngu's wishes.
Hoa Moc Can stepped forward, holding the bright red hibiscus flowers, and brought them before the bride: "Na Na, happy wedding!"
Li Na Na received hibiscus flowers.
Uneventful.
To Thanh Ngu took out his phone. The original calendar said every Thursday of the month was "Good for burial, avoid weddings" but now that calendar had disappeared.
Hua Mu Can tilted her head and urged: "Hurry up and wish my cousin a happy wedding! My cousin… hehehe… is getting impatient waiting. It would be a sin to miss the auspicious time!"
The groom's face changed from happy at first to calm and then gradually became impatient.
"Everyone calm down, let me have a sip of water first, then speak slowly."
To Thanh Ngu took out two bottles of mineral water bought from outside from his backpack and then took out another bottle of blue drink.
The smile on Hua Mu Can's face grew deeper.
To Thanh Ngu dropped a drop of green drink into the mineral water bottle and shook it well.
The color is diluted, the mineral water becomes transparent blue.
Next, To Thanh Ngu took out a red drink bottle from his backpack.
All the villagers took a step back.
Hua Mu Can's smile fell.
To Thanh Ngu also dropped a drop of red drink into the new bottle of mineral water and shook it well.
"Honey, let me feed you some water later."
To Thanh Ngu gave the red drink bottle to Vo Tam.
Then, in front of everyone's eyes, she opened the bottle of mineral water containing clear blue liquid, tilted her head back and took a sip.
Tham Tu Nien frowned, thinking to himself that To Thanh Ngu must be crazy.
Anyone who has played a few dungeons knows these two drinks.
Green drinks are clearly for demons, if humans drink them they will further pollute.
He doesn't believe that To Thanh Ngu doesn't know!
Of course To Thanh Ngu knew, but this was her active choice.
At that time, Hoa Moc Can took out a bottle of dark green drink from backstage and said that if she didn't drink it, she wouldn't remember the past.
To Thanh Ngu always hesitated.
Until today, when about to clear customs, the bride held her hand, hot tears of blood fell on the back of her hand.
She knew she had to do it.
Article fifteen of the rules of[Gongyang Village].
[Only the bride can wear a red wedding dress, keep your childhood promise, you must be the first. Your wishes are extremely important to the bride.]
To Thanh Ngu needs to put herself in a state of mild pollution to remember her lost childhood memories.
As the green drink slid down her throat, everything before her eyes became distorted.
The bottle of mineral water in hand disappeared.
To Thanh Ngu saw herself holding a red wedding dress, two little girls surrounded her.
"Let's play bride! Cousin, you found it, you wear it first."
Everything before her eyes was strangely real. To Thanh Ngu looked at her hands, they were chubby hands, clearly not hers.
The two girls in front of her looked at her expectantly.
It is a miniature version of Hua Mu Can and Ly Na Na.
To Thanh Ngu pinched her arm, feeling pain but the pain was very light, as if through a layer of clothing.
She stuffed the red wedding dress into Hoa Moc Can's arms, pretending to be angry and turned away: "I don't want to wear this!"
Hoa Moc Can shouted, throwing the shirt away: "If you don't want it, then I don't want it either!"
Li Na Na squatted down and used a tree branch to poke the red wedding dress.
"This dress is so beautiful, will you be the bride?"
Before To Thanh Ngu could stop her, the red wedding dress appeared on Ly Na Na's body.
The scene before my eyes changed.
To Thanh Ngu saw that Ly Na Na had grown up, holding her stomach and kneeling in front of her.
Her face was pained, her beautiful eyes filled with tears.
"I can't lie to Mu Yang, I won't stay in the village. I already have someone I like… What should I do? I'm pregnant, this child can't be born in the village, it will be punished according to family law, I have to leave this place!"
Getting pregnant before marriage in such a conservative village, the gossip was enough to hurt her deeply.
Hua Mu Jin held a messenger pigeon: "There is no signal on the mountain, only at the village gate. Give me that person's phone number, my pigeon will fly to the village gate. The actress in the opera troupe is my friend, she will help us call when she sees the news. Don't panic, if that person is the child's father, he will take responsibility and come back to find you."
Li Na Na was like a life-saving straw, tightly hugging Hua Mu Jin's shirt, tears falling: "Mu Jin, Mu Yang was your childhood friend, you are the daughter-in-law chosen by Miss Song. Even though Miss Song died in a car accident, your marriage with the Mu family cannot be canceled."
Hoa Moc Can coldly pushed her hand away, his eyes indifferent: "I'm helping you find a way, don't drag me into it."
Li Na Na blurted out: "I gave you the opportunity to sing in the opera troupe, you said you wanted to learn, I gave it to you… I regret it! Give it back to me, can you give it back to me?"
These words angered Hua Mu Jin. She angrily pushed Li Nana away and pointed at her nose: "Don't talk nonsense! It was obvious that the actress saw my talent and let me join the troupe. Your cousin is good at studying and can study abroad. I sing well and can develop with the troupe outside. It's just that you don't listen and are already involved with a man outside before your marriage is even settled. You… you… if it weren't for our childhood friendship, I wouldn't even care about you!"
The cold wind howled in the valley, the wind blew the trees swaying, emitting a groaning sound that made people panic.
The clouds were thick, a bolt of lightning like a dragon snake hovered in the night sky, bringing a flash of light.
Fresh red blood flowed down from Ly Na Na's thigh.
The thunder rumbled like ten thousand galloping horses, echoing in the valley.
"It hurts… cousin… save me."
The rain poured down like tears from the sky, falling on Ly Na Na.
Hua Mu Can's face turned pale, he muttered: "It has nothing to do with me."
Then panic and run away.
To Thanh Ngu really wanted to stop it but she found she couldn't move.
No, we can't leave Ly Na Na alone here.
Su Qingyu resisted her body's instincts and the influence of the dungeon, resolutely reaching out towards Li Na Na.
"Go to the hospital!"
This action made her feel dizzy and her head was pounding.
Little Red led the sheep to stand not far from the rain.
The little girl saw everything and said innocently, "Sister, are you guys playing hide and seek here? Why is your stomach bleeding? Sister, I'll go call mom for you."
"Impossible…"
Ly Na Na weakly raised her hand to stop Tieu Hong.
To Thanh Ngu looked at Tieu Hong, feeling uneasy: "You go home first, I'm here."
"No, I know there is a phone booth on the road, I will call and inform the villagers so they can come help."
It was raining heavily, Tieu Hong led the sheep back to the village.
Children are innocent, not knowing the evil of people's hearts.
"No need! I said no need! Why don't you understand what I'm saying?!"
Ly Na Na struggled to stand up, looked at Tieu Hong fiercely and then rushed forward to strangle her neck.
Little Red opened her mouth wide like a fish out of water.
Li Na Na's fingers tightened like an eagle's claws, digging deep into Xiao Hong's slender neck.
Little Red was just strangled to death.
The sheep next to me bleated.
Hua Mu Can turned back, next to her was a huge butcher.
Seeing this scene, she complicatedly pointed something at the butcher.
Then the butcher stepped forward, grabbed Ly Na Na's hand, and pulled her into the abandoned house next door.
Before long, the butcher held a bloody mass of meat.
It was a male fetus almost formed.
Heavy rain washed away the blood.
Ly Na Na held onto the door frame, her face weak as she walked out.
Hua Mu Jin hugged Xiao Hong's body and said to Li Na Na: "I can only help you this far. From today on, we are no longer friends."
It turned out that the butcher often came to the village to deliver lamb meat, or to help mother sheep give birth. After causing trouble, Hoa Moc Can ran to find him, asking him to take out the dead fetus in Ly Na Na's belly.
Everything before my eyes is a mixture of real and virtual.
To Thanh Ngu saw the villagers coming, the butcher said the thing in his hand was a newborn goat.
But Little Red's sheep is a ram.
To Thanh Ngu heard the villagers say that a male sheep gave birth to a human fetus, which was definitely a bad omen, so the village killed sheep en masse.
The sheep's blood flowed like a river, down the mountain.
Hoa Moc Can left with the opera troupe.
Tieu Hong's mother went crazy and ran around the village saying that the baby was Ly Na Na's, that Ly Na Na killed Tieu Hong...
Li Na Na's lover came to the village and explained to Li's mother that he wanted to take Na Na away.
Ly's mother firmly disagreed, so that Moc Duong would not know the truth, she killed him, tricking her daughter into thinking that the man had left her.
Ly Na Na's heart was like ashes.
The slaughter of sheep brought disease to the village.
Villagers fell ill one by one and then regained consciousness one by one.
The villagers woke up like zombies, crawling on the ground eating grass.
As more and more villagers woke up, they broke into the Li family's ancestral hall, dragged out Li Na Na who was worshiping her ancestors, cut her into one hundred and seven pieces, and buried her everywhere.
The scapegoat returns for revenge!
Li Na Na's hatred was like a tree root that penetrated deep into the ground, taking root in this village.
She thought the village had harmed her.
All the villagers were accomplices.
It was they who set up rigid moral chains that made it impossible for her to live.
If she were in a tolerant city, she wouldn't have to face these things.
The ignorance, old-fashionedness and traditions of the village destroyed her happiness, everything.
But her hands were also covered in blood.
Finally, To Thanh Ngu understood the meaning of "Cong Duong cannot be redeemed".
In this village, the only innocent thing is the sheep.
At that time, the pregnant mother sheep was slaughtered by the villagers in front of the ram. The angry ram gored several villagers to death and was then beheaded by the villagers and buried near the ancestral temple.
The sheep were executed on wild charges, creating a source of pollution that covered the entire village.
Some villagers feared the sheep's revenge and moved away from the mountain top. Every house raised black sheepdogs to keep the sheep from coming near.
While dogs can keep sheep away, they cannot get pregnant.
When all the old dogs die, the sheep on the mountain will come down.
Cong Duong village could not be saved anymore.
To Thanh Ngu heard someone calling her name, then saw Ly Na Na and Hoa Moc Can standing in the fog, waving at her.
They called To Thanh Ngu to leave together.
Suddenly, a cold current like electricity passed through her body, pulling her out of the illusion.
Consciousness cleared like ice, emotions imposed by the dungeon were suppressed.
To Thanh Ngu opened her eyes and saw Vo Tam using his white bony hand to squeeze her chin and pour red drink down her throat.
Red drinks really do help curb pollution.
To Thanh Ngu covered her mouth, bent down and coughed violently: "Cough cough cough—"
She found her arms covered with bruises.
"Cough cough… my hand… cough cough… what happened?"
Vo Tam replied: "You squeeze it yourself."
As Su Qingyu drank diluted green drinks to relive her childhood memories, she kept squeezing herself to differentiate between reality and illusion.
After being contaminated, the pain decreased, she did not use gentle force, leading to severe bruising on her arm.
At this time, the bride wearing a red veil was still waiting for To Thanh Ngu's wishes.
To Thanh Ngu looked at the bride solemnly, his heart in turmoil.
The last sentence of the fifteenth rule of[Gongyang Village].
[Your wishes are extremely important to the bride.]
Can't wish Li Na Na a happy wedding, otherwise she will become an accomplice in binding Li Na Na's freedom like the villagers.
It was also impossible to wish Li Na Na freedom because Xiao Hong and her mother were at the scene, staring at everything.
She took out the gold bar she had prepared in advance and placed it in Li Na Na's hand. After hesitating for a moment, she smiled and said, "Na Na, blood is the deepest bond. We meet again here. I don't know what to say. I only wish that your wedding and this village will soon be destroyed."
Only with destruction can Li Na Na, the villagers, and all the dead be put to rest completely.
"As you wish."
Li Na Na tilted her head, the red scarf and head rolled off her neck.
Her body fell apart again.
"A—"
All the villagers groaned in pain.
They started to collide and trample each other.
To Thanh Ngu took advantage of the chaos to stuff Ly Na Na's broken body into a chest, then ran away from the Ly family mansion with Vo Tam.
Behind them were a group of deformed villagers chasing after them.
To Thanh Ngu did not look back, ran straight to the "secret garden", the villagers chasing him disappeared.
She found the man's rotting body, stuffed it in a chest, and buried it in the ground.
This rotten man is Li Na Na's lover outside of Gongyang village.
By doing so, the three of them will be together forever.
As soon as the burial was completed, Su Qingyu completed the SSS level hidden clearance method.
It was the red piece of paper that Ly Na Na left by the well.
[Bury me.]
A sheep head necklace appeared in To Thanh Ngu's palm.
This bracelet is a dungeon reward.
Then she returned to the car at the village gate, not seeing anyone on the way.
Looking through the rearview mirror, Cong Duong village was drowned in silence.
When I first arrived, some houses still had lights on, but now they are all off.
To Thanh Ngu turned the key, turned on the headlights, put the car in gear, stepped on the gas, and left Cong Duong village.
Tham Tu Nien was still in the village attending the wedding. He heard To Thanh Ngu say something to the bride and then suddenly disappeared.
System notification, To Thanh Ngu has cleared customs!
Tham Tu Nien was stunned, he looked at the villagers around, looked at the bride and groom preparing for the wedding night, not knowing what to do.
Of course, everything was no longer related to To Thanh Ngu.
To Thanh Ngu returned to the villa in Thien Phu Linh Thanh, eating hot pot and singing.
With the SSS level hidden clearance method, she completed the dungeon [Gongyang Village].
Not only did she receive the strange props and one hundred thousand underworld coins, but she also caused the dungeon [Red Apple Circus] to be delayed for a whole year.
To Thanh Ngu intended to rest well at home.
It was not until the eighth day after she returned from Gongyang Village that Trang Hieu Diep replied to the message.
She said she had just escaped from the [Subway Line Four] instance and met people who called themselves the "Red Shirt Organization".
This organization specializes in summarizing the methods of clearing copies and making them public for everyone.
Currently, not only Trang Hieu Diep, Bach Hoa and Lac Tu Huyen are also in the organization.
The Red Shirt Organization headquarters is located in Thien Phu Linh Thanh.
To Thanh Ngu at number 44 Tay street.
They live at 1 East Street.
To Thanh Ngu remembers in the novel "The Horror of Christmas" there are many human organizations, called Red Shirt, Blue Shirt, Black Shirt, strange names.
Some organizations specialize in eliminating sources of pollution.
Some specialize in saving people.
Some summary of customs clearance experience, teaching people how to be independent.
There are also cult organizations that propagate that pollution is an inevitable step in human evolution.
Because Trang Hieu Diep was there, To Thanh Ngu decided to pick her up.
Go to No. 1 Dong Thien Phu Linh Thanh Street.
To Thanh Ngu meets old acquaintances.
Trang Hieu Diep, like a little bird, jumped out of the room and hugged her, then excitedly said: "Thanh Ngu, how wonderful! I finally met you again! Hu hu hu, God knows how I lived without you!"
To Thanh Ngu smiled and gently stroked her head: "I miss you too. Seeing that you are okay, I am relieved."
"It was the melody of "Twinkle twinkle little star" you played on the subway that gave me the strength to clear the dungeon."
Trang Hieu Diep patted her chest, still scared: "So scary, I almost died in there."
Lac Tu Huyen leaned against the door frame, wearing a tight black leather jacket, sapphire earrings under her short hair sparkling.
She curled her lips: "I really can't stand you two, stop being cheesy, come in."
Step inside to a spacious, clean office.
The staff in red uniforms sat in their seats, busy with their work.
Bach Hoa was in the boss's office, chatting happily with him.
Seeing To Thanh Ngu approaching, Bach Hoa's eyes lit up and he immediately signaled to his boss.
The boss looked over, his surprise evident.
He held up five fingers.
What does this mean?
Bai Huo asked for fifty thousand to sell her?