Chapter 10: The Broken Mask
Yu Xing raised her eyes and glanced at the woman's expression.
The woman just smiled, unable to see any other emotions, he patted Xiao Xuechen, who was a little stiff, on the shoulder, and said to the woman: "We slept well last night, thank you for your concern." β
Xiao Xuechen reacted, revealing a smirk that could be called very skilled in Yu Xing's opinion, and answered: "Yes, I have a good physique and am not afraid of the cold. β
Then she pulled Yu Xing's plush sleeve: "Let's go out and see what happened!" β
"Okay." Putting down the bowl, Yu Xing nodded to the woman and walked out with Xiao Xuechen.
The woman stared at their backs, her smile waning until they went out the door, blocking their gaze, and she raised her hand to touch the scar on her eye.
The scar was palpable, and she walked slowly to the table, her uninjured eye looking down.
The two bowls of millet porridge on the table, one bowl was still full, and the other bowl drank more than half of it, and without anyone's touch, the glutinous white porridge gradually became red, gurgling, and began to bubble with blood.
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According to the reactions of the villagers outside, Yu Xing could easily discern the direction of the accident, and after Ju Lan left in front of their house, he should have run towards the entrance of the village.
On the way, I met Wei Fan, who was also walking towards the accident site, this middle-aged man in his thirties didn't seem to have slept well last night, with faint dark circles under his eyes, and he looked slightly tired.
Wei Fan said hello to the two, and Xiao Xuechen leaned over and asked in a low voice, "What about Xu Hong and Xu Yuan?" β
"The two of them stayed in the house to study Feng Shui, anyway, I don't understand what they said." Wei Fan responded, looked at Yu Xing a few steps away, and quietly asked Xiao Xuechen, "Were you okay last night, there were no accidents, right?" β
"It's a long story, but it's generally safe." Xiao Xuechen didn't plan to explain it to Wei Fan from the beginning now, it was too wasteful.
The tips of Yu Xing's ears moved, and he heard what the other party wanted him to listen to and what he didn't want him to hear.
With his eyes crooked and smiling, he saw a group of villagers gathered around him from a distance, and walked quickly past the two who were talking.
Through the thin wall of people, he saw a petite figure.
It's Ju Lan.
She fell to the ground with a pale face, her body was splattered with blood, and her body was scarred, many of which were deeply visible to the bone, and the flesh turned outward, looking extremely miserable.
Unexpectedly, the body was found early in the morning, and these people did nothing and let the body lie in place.
But...... What is that?
Next to the head of Ju Lan's corpse, there were several large fragments.
The pieces are white, and looking at the shape, they should be a mask.
Personality masks?
Yu Xing quietly observed the villagers, and found that they could not seem to see the broken mask next to the corpse.
Could it be that only the deducer can see this?
"The stranger is dead...... What to do? Throw it on the hill to feed the dogs? At this moment, I don't know who among the villagers said a word, and immediately ushered in many echoes.
"Of course you can't be buried!"
"Hey the dog, this little girl looks very cute, but she doesn't look good when she dies."
"Why did you just die......"
"......" Yu Xing put his hands in the pockets of his skinny jeans and glanced at the few people who spoke.
Those people felt a chill in their backs, instinctively shut up, and rubbed their arms in confusion.
"Village chief, which of us is going to throw the corpse?" After a while, a fairly young man looked at the village chief in the crowd and asked.
The village chief elongated his voice, as if he was considering: "This ......"
"I'm afraid this will not be as you wish." Seeing that these people were really discussing, as if the corpse was at their disposal, Yu Xing sneered, and the sharpness on his face flashed.
Before he came, he just wanted to see the reaction of the villagers, but now that he saw it, he had more guesses about this game in his heart.
In fact, last night was a dead end in the whole game, if he and Xiao Xuechen hadn't found the ancestral hall and didn't receive a hint, then, how many people would have gone out last night because of the coaxing threat of ghosts, or the help of their companions?
Without firm vigilance, I'm afraid the probability is not small.
The villagers seemed disappointed to see that only one person had died.
Yu Xing walked to Ju Lan's corpse and squatted down as if protecting: "No one is allowed to touch her." β
While no one was looking, he quickly touched the fragment of the mask, and suddenly, a deduction prompt floated through his mind.
[Information has been obtained "Personality Mask, Arashi, Weakness", and there are no detachable sacrifices]
After the prompt appeared, several fragments dissipated like smoke as if they had been weathered.
It turns out that the mask will appear after the death of the deducer, and it seems that he can inherit the sacrifice that the owner of the mask has set on the mask.
Yu Xing's conclusion flashed through his mind and raised his eyebrows.
The villagers all looked at him and were surprised: "Ah, when did you come, I didn't pay attention to it just now." β
"Young man," the village chief stood up when he saw that he and Xiao Xuechen were coming, "you have also seen the situation, what do you think we should do with your friend's body?" β
Yu Xing smiled, and secretly said in his heart: It is directly to dispose of the corpse, not to mention finding the murderer, it seems that in this village, there is no concept of crime at all, or in other words, there are no human rules here.
Wei Fan wanted to stand out, but Xiao Xuechen grabbed him and shook his head, as if he was saying something in his eyes.
Xiao Xuechen's eyes signaled: Don't disturb the big guy to do things.
Wei Fan's understanding of this: Let San step on the thunder, let's take a look first.
So he dismissed the idea of stepping forward and observed the situation without saying a word.
Yu Xing looked around, and there was some undoubted meaning in her polite tone: "She is a companion who came with us, so leave the corpse to us, and don't need too much attention from you." β
He didn't soften his heart in the face of Ju Lan's pleas last night, he didn't feel guilty, because it wasn't caused by him, and he shouldn't bear the consequences.
But the same deducer, even if he is half a companion, he can't let this group of people treat Ju Lan's corpse indiscriminately.
She looks so young, and being a deducer is really a blood mold.
Moreover, the deceased in the village will have a funeral after the first seven days, and the outsiders are dead, and they don't even deserve to be buried, what should I say...... It's really clear.
Hearing San's clear words, Xiao Xuechen smashed Wei Fan's arm with his fingers.
Fortunately, this time Wei Fan's understanding was not biased, and he walked up in a few steps.
"That's right, it's all together, let's bury her." Since Wei Fan was the only man present who seemed to be more powerful, he took the initiative to bend down and pick up this somewhat terrifying corpse, and took Ju Lan away from the group of villagers.
The villagers seemed to be a little restless, but the village chief waved his hand and suppressed them.
"Outlanders are not worthy of burial!" Someone whispered a word of resistance, and Yu Xing heard it before he stood up and walked far.
Hum...... His eyes sank, and disgust rolled in his heart.
It makes people feel bad when they hear this.
Since it makes him feel bad, then ...... Some things come at a price.
There was no retaliation for the time being, Yu Xing and Xiao Xuechen walked next to Wei Fan, walked through the village with him, and walked into the mountains and forests.
This is not the mountain where the ancestral hall is located, because he doesn't know if there are any taboos in this regard, so in order to prevent bad changes, he and Xiao Xuechen coincidentally guided Wei Fan to another place.
The plants near Guanjia Village are all dead, whether it is the low mountain in the east of the village or the mountains on several other sides, all of them are withered trees and barren grass, and there is always a lingering dead air.
Even if his physical strength was good, Wei Fan, who was walking the mountain road with the corpse, was tired enough.
"What about the Carlos, why haven't you seen him all this time?" After walking to a place far enough and hidden enough, Wei Fan, who didn't know that Carlos had disappeared last night, could finally put the body down, wiped the sweat on his head, looked at the blood stains on his clothes, and looked at Yu Xing with envy.
It's nice that neither of these good-looking ones does physical work!
"Carlos disappeared last night, and I didn't see him in the village just now, so I don't know where he went." Xiao Xuechen explained, taking one of the two shovels that Yu Xing had just passed by the village chief's house and quickly came out of it.
The digging of the pit was done by Yu Xing, Xiao Xuechen was useless to help on the side, and after a while, Yu Xing, who felt very tired, finally dug a pit that could be used.
Next is the burial.
The three of them were not afraid of the corpse, Wei Fan put the corpse into the pit and filled it with a shovel.
"Ju Lan, go all the way."
Yu Xing was not interested in talking to the corpse, and sat aside to rest.
βsanγβ Xiao Xuechen suddenly sat down next to him.
"What's the matter, young lady~"
"Ju Lan's mask information, have you received it?" She straightened her sleeves, her curly hair tucked back behind her head, leaving a few slightly curly strands on her temples, "I don't mean anything else, I'm just curious to ask, does she have any sacrifices that can save her life?" If anything, I won't be so powerless to resist......"
Aha~
Yu Xing moved her fingers: Little Royal Sister is not bad, she doesn't want to show doubts about the information that I took the mask, and she also wants to confirm whether I have received Ju Lan's sacrifice.
However, there is a lot of information revealed to him in these words, which at least proves that the mask left by the deducer after death is not a small probability event, but should be inevitable.
Otherwise, Xiao Xuechen would not have asked directly so naturally.
The corners of Yu Xing's mouth curled, and she was very satisfied with this little royal sister.
Capable, obedient, brainy, not dragging his feet, mastering the skills of speech, and doing things in a measured manner.
He loved it.
β¦β¦ There is the potential to develop into teammates.
"You guessed it, Ju Lan has no sacrifices." The thoughts that surged in Yu Xing's mind were only a matter of a moment, and he answered Xiao Xuechen's question seamlessly, and then thought about another thing.
Is it so hard to get sacrifices?
It's not the first time Ju Lan has participated in the investigator analogy deduction game, which means that the four main quests have been completed, and a few deductions may be carried out later.
There are so many deduction games, there is really no sacrifice, and Xiao Xuechen also showed that he was not surprised.
It just so happens that he hasn't contacted that person since he became a deducer, so let's ask that person about the absurd deduction game after the game is over......