Volume 2 Time Passes Chapter 123 The Last Game (3)
At more than 30 branches, the scene of each player's dice turning is divided into different areas, which are displayed in a corner of the ring light curtain, and the other players who did not participate in the competition also understand the progress of the participating team members through this light curtain.
After the dice slowly leveled off, Su Lin stopped in front of him with two points (1,4), and Su Lin remembered that the first level was supposed to be a childhood game, and he coincidentally avoided the previous repeat level.
He counted the remaining levels, and there were about 4 left, and 4 represented the game of hoop.
Su Lin's spiritual power swept the dice of several people on the opposite side, and found that Zhang Beibei's points were (5,3), Adri's points were (2,4), and Li Yanran's points seemed to be (4,2).
Su Lin didn't have time to pay attention to the dice of the other people who were further away, because as the dice rotated, the countdown to their entry had already been opened at the ring light curtain.
He leaped far beyond the distance of the three entrances, and with the help of the cushion of the iron rod, he successfully landed into the fourth entrance of the first branch, and the first point of the dice corresponds to the branch of the first number.
After entering it, Su Lin's spiritual power slowly opened, and he found that it seemed to have entered a world, the night that was originally in the circular clearing was as bright as day at the moment, and what appeared around him seemed to be a town full of people.
I just don't know if the speed of time in the tunnel is the same as that of the outside world, Su Lin thought about it, the sound of various vendors and pawns was endless, and the thick smell of fireworks made him feel as if he was in a metropolis with lights and wine in the real world.
At this moment, the corresponding scenes in the tunnel entrance of Su Lin and the other contestants were also displayed on the circular light curtain through the circular light curtain.
At the same time, a few red prompts slowly appeared on the light curtain representing Surin: "Please find the collar worn by the bride within two days and roll it for a week." ”
The moment Xue Dongluo and the others saw the light curtain prompt, the corresponding text was immediately entered into Su Lin's sea of knowledge.
"Bride, collar? The so-called hoop is to find the hoop first and then roll? And there is a two-day deadline, but where to find the bride, or every bride can. ”
The moment he got the hint, some similar questions also came to Surin's mind.
He thought as he walked, keeping an eye on the streets and alleys, and checking the women who came and went.
Not long after walking, there was a crisp sound of gongs and drums on the street in the distance. Su Lin looked closely, it was a big red sedan chair, and presumably sitting in the sedan chair was the bride herself who was prompted by the closed-loop world.
The sound of celebration passed by Su Lin's ears quickly, and after a burst of suona sound drifted away, he clearly saw the sedan chair turn the corner of the street and enter the Cheng Mansion.
Su Lin followed here, and since he was not a guest invited by the Cheng Mansion, he could not enter it.
I had to walk into a nearby teahouse to find out about the bride first.
Su Lin beckoned Xiao Er to order a pot of tea, and as soon as he sat down, the hustle and bustle of several men came from his ears, and his mental strength turned and he listened to the big events of the day in their mouths.
"Have you heard, the sick son of the Cheng family has married again, it's really unlucky, how many girls have been ruined." A man in a coarse cloth shirt with a look of disdain between his eyebrows.
"Be quiet, why are you yelling so loudly, this has to be listened to by the Cheng family, do you still want to live. The Cheng family has been a generational meritorious service of the Tang Ming Empire since the Southern Tang Dynasty was still a vassal state, and not long ago, the father of this sick seedling, that is, the current Cheng Yanjin seniors, led hundreds of thousands of male soldiers to fight against the barbarians on our desert border, which solved the opportunity for the death of my Tang Ming Empire.
"Now the momentum is flourishing, although Cheng Yanjin's seniors don't often come back to live in the court, but you criticize his son so much."
The person who spoke seemed to know a lot about the Cheng family's family affairs, Su Lin took a closer look at the person's dress, and it was similar to the clothes worn by the few people who opened the road in front of the sedan chair before, presumably sneaking out to meet a few friends while the Cheng family was doing a happy event.
There were about four people around the table, and the little servant, dressed in the best black servant's clothes, sat in the center of the position, surrounded by several people, looking very happy.
"Brother Park, what you taught me is that I was too dissolute just now." Although the look of disdain in the eyes of the man in the coarse cloth still remained, his voice did not feel quieter:
"Why does Cheng Jinghui, the youngest sick child of Cheng Yanjin, marry a bride every other year."
The two people next to the table also seemed to be interested, and they took the initiative to lean forward.
"It's a long story, you remember the legend of our town."
"Brother Park, you can't be talking about the legend of the river god's sacrifice."
Seeing that the little man in black nodded, the man continued to say in horror:
"A long time ago, it was said that our town was blessed by the gods, and often sacrificed fresh cattle and sheep to the river god to ensure that the town was in good weather every year, but then a female mage with an iron ring as a weapon came, she didn't believe in these so-called demons and evil gods, and actually wanted to go beyond the river god, so that the people no longer had to sacrifice the cattle and sheep that they were reluctant to eat to a non-existent evil spirit."
Weapon with an iron hoop? I don't know if it's the iron ring I'm looking for, when it comes to the ring, the first thing that comes to mind in Su Lin's mind is the mythical and legendary third prince Nezha, he prefers to use the King Kong ring to beat people, and then it seems that Taishang Laojun also used the iron ring when he beat Sun Wukong.
Su Lin knew that he was a little far away, afraid that he had missed important information, so he took a sip of the tea bowl, feeling the warmth between his lips, he continued to listen to the information around him, and did not mean to take the initiative to talk in the past.
"And then?" A stout man next to the narrator continued to ask.
Later, it is said that after the woman with the ring weapon entered the river, she fought with the river god at the bottom of the river for nearly three days and three nights, and finally found only the head of the female mage and the blood-stained magic weapon she carried with her by the river.
"And it was on that day that the town began to mysteriously disappear the woman who did not leave the pavilion, everyone said that it was the female mage who angered the river god, and the ordinary cattle and sheep were afraid that it would be difficult to satisfy the appetite of the river god, after tasting the blood of the female mage, I am afraid that only the blood of an innocent woman can calm the anger of the river god."
"But what does this have to do with the Cheng family?" The man in coarse cloth and tattered clothes originally came here from a foreign country, and in the gossip that you passed on to me in the town, he suddenly heard that Cheng Jinghui was so absurd and unscrupulous and felt extremely angry, and he didn't want to gossip and even led to a river god's past.
"It's a relationship, I can't say it, or Brother Park, let's talk about it." The man seemed to have thought of something terrible, and seemed to have a dry mouth, so he picked up the tea bowl in front of him and drank two bowls directly.
Everyone's eyes turned to the black-clothed guy again, only to see his right index finger tap on the table, his eyes made a memory look, and straightened his body again, and then said with a serious face:
"Didn't Xiao Yang just say that after the female mage was killed, only her head and the iron ring she used to be found by the river?"
Xiao Yang in the mouth of the black-clothed guy was naturally the man who drank two bowls of hot tea before.
"So what, isn't it related to the woman in the back sacrificing to the river god, why did you bring the Cheng family in again." The stout man asked.
But in Su Lin's mind, the magic weapon that has been polluted by the evil spirit of the river god may have the breath of the river god itself, and it may even be contaminated with some unknown dirty things, if someone picks it up......
The truth was as Su Lin expected, only to hear the black-clothed little guy continue: "It was Cheng Jinghui of the Cheng family who discovered the iron ring before, before he obtained the iron ring, the young master has always been in good health, and his appearance is also one of the best in the town.
But since he got the ring, not only have strange scales have grown on his body, but his face is covered with dense vertical lines, and he is not used to eating the food of the house, and he has become dislike the sun. In addition to his gloomy and strange temperament, his body has been constantly sick since then. ”
Speaking of this, the black-clothed little man's eyes involuntarily revealed a complicated look of pity and hope:
It was also from that time that the maids in the palace and some newborn children died one after another. Everyone said that Cheng Jinghui was cursed by the river god, and invited several mages to give him practices one after another, but to no avail.
"Until one time, the young master accidentally strayed into the mansion of a woman who was getting married, and suddenly became very animalistic, and after taking the woman back to the mansion, it seemed that his condition had been controlled to a certain extent.
In order to prevent the man from suing the official, the old master Cheng Biting Jin gave the man a large amount of gold and silver, which blocked his tongue. Since then, whenever the son of the Cheng family falls mad again in the summer, as long as he marries him again, it seems that the condition can be alleviated.
"It's also a very strange thing, since the Cheng family's son-in-law got married, the river god who originally had to be sacrificed four times a year in spring, summer, autumn and winter only needs to be sacrificed once a year, and the river god also openly said that my son-in-law is his spokesman on land, and the result is the same if he gives him the family or throws it directly into the river.
"But the difference is that since the woman was promised to the young master, there have been few young girls in the town who have disappeared strangely, and the originally sinister atmosphere has slowly become normal.
"Although the young master of our family has a strange patient who looks ugly, it is better than throwing his own daughter directly into the river, so after selecting the sacrificial girl every year, he will send it to our house on the scale of marriage, which is equivalent to marrying a daughter, and he can also climb with the famous Cheng Yanjin of the dynasty, why don't you do it."
"For example, the girl she is marrying now is the second daughter of the old man Wang who sold cooking cakes alone in the town, a few years ago, it seems that her eldest daughter also married into Chengfu, I can't remember it clearly.
"However, according to my experience in Chengfu over the years, few of these girls who have married have survived for a year for some reason."
After hearing the bride's address, Su Lin silently remembered it in his heart, he paid for the tea and walked out of the teahouse, the teahouse behind him was still full of people, but the sky in front of him suddenly gave birth to a haze.