52. Straight man Ding Ri (for the helmsman 'Lost Cube' plus more)
The oil drum was filled with water.
After Bai Ye hid inside, his body was soaked in water, and only his head was exposed.
There is a hole in the side of the oil drum through which you can look out.
Not long after he had finished hiding, the men with torches slowly walked over.
"What happened?"
The leader is a peasant-like man in a straw hat and a machete, and is the first to notice a mad woman with half of her body stuck in the window.
"Did an outsider do it?!"
"Are outsiders hiding in the village?!"
The villagers immediately became in an uproar, and several of them had already raised their farming tools in their hands, shouting that they would peel the skin and cramp the outsiders.
"Spread out, search thoroughly, and never let outsiders escape."
The farmer man gave the order, and the rest of the men immediately scattered with torches.
Among them, it was a coincidence that a patrolman walked straight towards Bai Ye.
‘…… What's next? Do you want to be tough with this guy? ’
The purpose of this patrol is to check the oil drums.
Although there are three oil drums around here, when they are so close, normal people will open them all without leaking them and take a look.
Bai Ye felt that it was a sure thing that he would be discovered.
He began to think urgently about how to deal with it.
"These villagers should have been upgraded by the system to 'combat ability', right?"
If it was just one-on-one, Bai Ye would not be difficult to kill the other party with the super state brought by his rapid heartbeat.
But now there was the farmer man standing not far away.
Moreover, unless Bai Ye could kill the other party with one blow, as long as the other party shouted, Bai Ye would have to face more than a dozen villagers.
What to do?
Cold!
Bai Ye had no choice, so he could only take one step at a time.
It's a big deal to rush out by speed when the time comes.
As the patrolling villager kept approaching, Bai Ye's body tensed, his nervousness rose, and his heartbeat began to accelerate.
Tom tom ...... Tom tom ......
The villager had come to the first oil drum on the left and opened the lid of the oil canister.
Bai Ye's heartbeat continued to rise.
The patrolling villagers did not catch anything, and began to open the second oil drum.
This feeling of passively waiting to be caught is really tormenting.
Bai Ye was already thinking about whether to come out of the bucket in advance, so as to catch the other party off guard.
The villager closed the lid of the second oil drum, and his hand was already reaching for the oil drum where Bai Ye was hiding......
But at this moment, a villager who had entered the house of the madwoman Ruth to search ran out of the house, as if holding a note in his hand.
"Old Hansen turned out to be a blasphemous, and he dared to slander Bishop Maurice on paper!"
The shout immediately attracted the attention of the nearby patrolling villagers, including the one who was about to open the oil drum.
Then, presumably believing that there was no one in the first two buckets, the third bucket would not need to be checked, let go of the hand that grasped the lid of the bucket, and leaned over to the shouting villager.
Call~
Is...... A false alarm.
- Your perfect concealment grants +50 Cautious Stance proficiency.
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Later, the villagers shouted that they would pull out the dead old Mossen and hang it on a wooden shelf at the entrance of the village to punish him for his blasphemy.
The farmer shouted at the other villagers' proposals.
"The outsider is still hiding in a corner of the village, and he must be found first!"
The villagers seemed to be a little afraid of the farmer man, so they hurriedly didn't dare to let go of one of them and continued to search.
It didn't take long for the farmer man to leave in one direction before Bai Ye got out of the oil drum.
By this time, the fog had dissipated a bit, and he used the DV camera's near and far zoom function to look around.
"There's really only one road in this village."
After entering the village, the player can only walk straight ahead, towards the innermost cliff of the village.
"I guess I have to go from the cliff wall to the church above."
The game system apparently gives the player a route that will be used to trigger the scenario story.
"Okay, let's go in the direction of the church."
Bai Ye replaced a battery for the DV machine, and began to use the shadows of the houses to carefully avoid the patrolling villagers holding torches, and slowly moved towards the direction of the cliff.
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It is said that when Ding Ri woke up from a coma, he found himself lying on a cart and being dragged away.
'What the hell? Not...... There was a car accident at the beginning, is this a plot killing? ’
When his gaze was focused, he finally saw the person pushing the cart clearly.
It was a tall, thin man with deep-set eyes and shriveled cheeks, looking a bit like the undead in those fantasy games.
From top to bottom, the man 'stared' at Ding Ri with a strange look, and a sadistic and morbid expression appeared on his face.
"Ah~ The bride is awake, the bride dedicated to Gruskin is awake, come and see this beauty......"
As the cart man muttered loudly, several villager-looking men on both sides of the cart also leaned their heads over with a sickly face, 'staring' Ding Ri up and down.
Their distorted faces flickered in the light of the torches, eerie.
"Hello?! You...... What do you want to do? The old paper is a straight man with a capital letter! ”
Ding Ri felt weak and wanted to jump off the cart, but found that his hands and feet were tied to the handrails of the cart with ropes, and he couldn't move.
"Let me go, let me go!"
"Shhhh Peaceful, quiet......"
A villager who followed the car tried to cover Ding Ri's mouth with his dirty, smelly hands.
Ding Ri swore to death, and directly opened his mouth and bit the other party's hand.
The villager's palm was bitten out of blood by Ding Ri, and he was immediately furious, and his face under the torch became even more distorted.
"Son of a bitch!"
He swung his fist and slammed it into the back of Ding Ri's head.
Ding Ri only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he fainted again.
……
When Ding Ri woke up for the second time, he found himself lying in a damp basement.
The ground was covered with wet thatch, and there were some filthy unknown objects scattered around, and an unknown black bug was boldly crawling onto Ding Ri's cheeks, and was tempting Ding Ri's mouth.
Phew......
Ding Ri jumped up from the ground in fright.
"Damn, what kind of place is this?!"
The strong psychological quality of the studio players made Ding Ri quickly calm down and began to look around.
This basement is in the shape of a long strip and has a small area, less than 10 square meters by eye.
Through a dim oil lamp on the wall, Ding Ri noticed that there was a wooden ladder in front of him to lead to it, but the trapdoor was closed.
He was not in a hurry to go up, and checked himself first.
"The DV machine is gone."
The main item that the system allotted was apparently confiscated by his captors.
But......
"Huh?! That's not ...... That walkie-talkie? ”
Ding Ri touched his trouser pocket and actually touched an unexpected joy.
"The gang didn't search me, did they?"
He turned on the walkie-talkie, and to his surprise, the walkie-talkie could receive a signal in this dilapidated and closed basement.
'White Night, that guy doesn't know what's going on?' ’
He tried to 'hey' twice into the walkie-talkie.
……