Chapter 235: The People Who Survive by Escaping the World
"Gross-"
Qiu Xuan subconsciously glanced to the side, Ran covered her mouth and turned pale, and when she saw her, she hurriedly glanced back, so she turned around and ran back to the village without saying hello to anyone.
She paused, and walked in the direction Ran had left.
"Where are you going?" Ethan waved his cane to avoid a puddle of flesh on the soles of his shoes, and a few strides also wanted to follow, and then Xiaolu's figure was firmly in front of him, and he raised his lips and said, "Can you not be like a fart, wouldn't it be good to give each other a little space to be alone?" β
Ethan looked at her suspiciously, "Her current situation is very dangerous, I'm afraid that something will happen to her alone." β
Xiaolu: "There is me." β
"You're just a personal steward of your life."
"So what?" Xiaolu glanced at him, folded her hands in front of her chest, "Do you think she trusts me or you more than you?" β
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Qiu Xuan followed behind Ran all the way, watching her rush straight through the blur of flesh and blood all over the ground. In the meantime, he bumped into a Lyme villager, who bowed in awe, but Ran simply nodded and continued to walk in the direction of the walled building.
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Seeing the girl in a wide witch robe leave, the villager turned his hand and stopped Qiu Xuan directly. It was a middle-aged woman dressed in sackcloth, and even now she was holding her belly up, she was protecting her bulging abdomen with one hand, while staring at Qiu Xuan with an unkind face and saying unpopular language from another world.
"I don't understand what you're saying."
Qiu Xuan lightly pushed her hand away, but the woman's strength was amazing, and she could easily hold it in place with just one hand. If she didn't use abilities and props, she really couldn't break free with her own strength alone.
The woman lifted a somewhat gloomy face and changed it into the national language.
"I won't let you continue to burn, if you don't do her good, I'll kill you."
Qiu Xuan paused, and then raised his eyes to look at her. "I didn't follow her, I just wanted to go back to my room."
"You were the one who peeped in the tree that day."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"You know it in your own heart!" The woman's face suddenly turned hideous, and she raised her relatively thick arm and grabbed at her door. Qiu Xuan's body shook to dodge this wave of attacks, and the Zimu knife was already half-unsheathed and crossed, looking at the other party's bulging belly, he paused and withdrew his hand.
"I'm not going to fight you." She took steps to avoid the opponent's attack range, but she still closed her eyes very contrivedly weakly and coughed lightly. "But if you insist on continuing, you won't necessarily be able to stop in time."
"I won't let you hurt Burn, you ......!"
"She's with me."
Suddenly, a female voice interrupted the woman's angry attack, and Ran, who had turned to leave before, walked back and pointed at Qiu Xuan and said to her. The woman was stunned for a moment, her gaze wandering between the two in disbelief, and she opened her mouth to obviously refute something, but finally swallowed it back.
She bent down again and bowed in the direction of Ran, not caring if such an action would cause a burden on her pregnant body. The language of Lyme Village was softly spoken, and his gaze briefly slid over Qiu Xuan's face for a second, and he hurriedly turned back as if he had been frightened as if he had been frightened several times before.
"Are you leaving?"
She said softly, Qiu Xuan raised her eyebrows and followed.
"Thank you." This time, Zheng Da followed Ran back to her room, Qiu Xuan found a place to sit down, and said so. Ran was stunned for a second, pursed his lower lip, and even the roots of his ears were slightly red.
Her eyes wandered away from the surroundings, but she refused to glance at Qiu Xuan, and then she could react, and whispered: "It's okay, you also saved me last night." β
"What are you talking about?" Qiu Xuan refused to admit it, "I was in my room last night, and you also know that I accidentally inhaled a poisonous miasma, so there are many things that I can't do so far." β
Ran didn't seem to understand the words of her words, and he rarely made up his mind to turn his head to look at her for a moment, and then hurriedly turned back. "No, I can feel it, you were the one who saved me last night."
Qiu Xuan: "Not really. β
Ran: "It's you." β
Qiu Xuan: "No. β
Ran: "It's you." β
"I said it wasn't!" Ran's eyes widened, Qiu Xuan snorted and lowered her words again. "I'm sorry, I just want to show that I really don't have enough energy, it really wasn't me last night, you may have admitted your mistake."
"By the way, actually, I came to you today to ask about one thingβif you are willing to say it." She soothed the frightened witch a few times, and briefly organized her words.
Last night's sneak attack was a little sudden, but it was actually a good thing for Qiu Xuan. Because at least until last night, the force that had been behind it made a move, so their situation was not completely passive to the extreme.
For the time being, it is possible to simply divide all interest forces into four groups. One group is the production team of "Live Game" and the high-level people behind it, one group is the mysterious Lime Village and its villagers, one group is the people who tried their best to get them to Lime Village to make trouble, and the remaining group is the twelve players who came to participate in the live broadcast.
It can be said that all the people and things that have been put on the surface so far have not escaped these four major divisions, and it is unreasonable to say that Ran is in the group that wants to make trouble, and last night's sneak attack was done by them.
The forces behind it tried their best to get Ran into the program team, and they also arranged all kinds of matters in Lyme Village in advance, and even did not hesitate to make great efforts to let them learn this kind of dialect, which should not be so simple to unload the mill and kill the donkey to cross the river and tear down the bridge.
So either last night's sneak attack was not done by the forces behind it, or Ran didn't belong to that camp.
Qiu Xuan's fingers folded into a tower, staring at the witch's face.
"Can you tell me what you have to do with Lime Village?"
Ran gave her a surprised look.
"First of all, I admit that when I didn't enter the village that day, I accidentally saw something about you and the villagers on the tree." Qiu Xuan no longer exerted too much psychological pressure on the other party, and turned her gaze back to stare at her fingers. "I just...... Somewhat curious. β
"It doesn't matter if you kill the original photographer, if you are tied up and go back to the village, if you can speak the language of Lime Village, if you are respected by the villagers...... Are you a villager from the village of Lyme? β
"Of course not!" Burning blurted out, which is definitely the first reaction to answer the words.
Qiu Xuan nodded, leaned back in the chair, and smiled. "I'm sure you have nothing to do with last night's sneak attacker, so can you tell me how you know how you know to speak the language of Lyme Village? Of course, it's just curious, and it's okay if you don't want to talk about it. β
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"Does she trust you or me more than me?"
Ethan's footsteps stopped completely, and a pair of blue eyes stared at Xiaolu who was stopping in front of him. "I wanted to say it before," the man exhaled. "What kind of artificial intelligence are you? Now the process has advanced to this extent, and it can be exactly the same as a real person. β
Xiaolu didn't care about the suspicion in his words at all, just raised her arms like this. "What's the matter with you, you just can't see me kissing Qiu Xuan, what's the matter, Lao Qin hasn't said anything yet."
"Old Qin...... What does it have to do with this? Ethan frowned, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the cameraman beside him, Qin Jiuyuan looked at him expressionlessly, and his expression was a little colder than before.
"Hey, I won't talk to you." Estimating that the time was almost up, Qiu Xuan should have already met Ran, Xiaolu seemed to pluck her ears impatiently. "I'll go back to recharge first, what's the matter, wait for Qiu Xuan to come back, and then I'll be done."
Relying on her identity as an "artificial human housekeeper", Xiaolu did not shy away from disappearing in front of everyone. On the other side, having almost finished understanding the whole source of the matter from Ran's words, Qiu Xuan touched the birdcage necklace wrapped around his wrist and nodded.
She looked at her eyes and lowered her head, as if she was completely caught in the burning of nostalgia for her past life, thought for a while, and said, "You should know that after this episode of the program is broadcast, the information of Lyme Village will be exposed from now on, so it is basically impossible to live in seclusion in the rainforest like before." β
ββ¦β¦ I know. β
"Actually, it's incredible that this village has survived to this day." After a long time, Ran lowered his head and said again. The girl in the wide, rough witch robe tightened her cuffs, her expression full of confusion.
"In fact, I ...... It's nothing, I just think it's their own business how they walk the road after that. Times have really changed. β
The world in which Ran once lived resembled the stage of development of a primitive agrarian society, and she was the witch of the strongest tribe in the area, in charge of rituals and the so-called ability to communicate with heaven and earth. Later, she was inadvertently chosen by a ruler to become a desperate executioner, thinking that it would be impossible to return to the original world in this life until death, but this time the world was presented in front of her in a different way.
Thousands of years later, in parallel time and space, after experiencing major catastrophes in human history, the tribesmen survived with their unique survival methods and vitality. They are constantly moving away from the so-called "modern civilization", constantly moving and changing their place of residence, and gradually developing their own way of survival.
In this way, they live in isolation from the world, and several transformative tribulations in human history have not completely exterminated these people who are far away from the world. Until this generation of Lyme villagers chose the depths of the hitherto unexplored rainforest as their last settlement, and if it weren't for the few workers who inadvertently broke into the village, people would not have known that there was once such a civilization that still breathed a piece of air with them.
The previous decision to kill the cameraman was made by the extreme villagers when Ran didn't have time to stop it. Later, in order to avoid trouble and suspicion, it was suggested that Ran could be pretended to be an intruder and tied into the village, and then Ran could appear as a sacrifice to the gods worshiped by their village.
Therefore, if what she said is true, then Ran actually has nothing to do with the other force behind it, everything is a coincidence.
Assuming she wasn't lying, of course.
Later, Qiu Xuan tentatively changed her angle and asked about why the location of the show was temporarily changed to Lime Village, but Ran's reaction all showed that she didn't know that the venue had been changed, that is, she didn't know that there was a force behind it.
With his own judgment in his heart, Qiu Xuan stood up with a long sigh of relief, ready to say goodbye to him temporarily.
"Oh yes, there's one more thing you'd like to ask you about?"
Single-mindedly regarded Qiu Xuan as the person who saved her last night, although she was not allowed to speak after being drunk, but I don't know if it was really just to repay virtue with virtue or some other reason, Ran almost had to answer her questions.
"If you ask, I will tell you what I know."
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"Tonight is the first round of popularity voting, and it will be closed until 12 p.m." Qiu Xuan and Ethan were at the dining table, and the blonde man propped his head and whispered to the side. I don't know if it's because Zerig's worm is too nauseous or what, only a few players are present at the long table of the meal provided by the program team in the afternoon.
Hearing this, Qiu Xuan raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Will you start eliminating it so soon?" β
"Yes, the contestant who voted last is eliminated, and then he will either choose to participate in another show, or he will have to wait until next year's popularity vote."
Qiu Xuan took off her chin against the table, not looking very interested. According to the past, she should not be at the bottom of the first round of voting, after all, the character design has also been sold, and the drama has been acted, so there should still be some people who will buy it.
"By the way, every year, there are 10 men and 10 women who are popular players, what if you don't make the selection?"
"It's been wasting all the time, and who knows what will happen if you stay in the same testing ground for too long? It's not a good thing anyway. Ethan shrugged his shoulders, and when he got free, he began to actively carry out his acting career again. Come, eat more, eat this to improve your immunity, and your illness will be cured soon. β
Qiu Xuan blinked, and suddenly made a sulking look, "When will I get better, who wants to be sick all the time like this!" β
"Don't worry, don't worry, if you take the medicine, it should be soon." Ethan hurriedly coaxed, "Generally, the side effects of inhaling the miasma will last for a month, but I fed you the medicine, so it will be fine in a week." β
In the corner where no one was seeing, the cold light in the depths of Qiu Xuan's eyes made Qiao Du, who was photographed through the camera, couldn't help but palpitate.
Then she turned her head and smiled, obediently eating everything Ethan had brought her.
- "By the way, how long do the side effects of miasma last?" β
"Well, ordinary people may have a high fever for a month, but an executioner like us is generally remarkable in three days."
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