Star Trace Gate

It was past two in the morning and it was still raining heavily in the Love Village, with a foggy sky and earth.

After Ren Ye and the other four sneaked back here, they did not see any players active in the village, only residual souls wandering around.

But if you think about it carefully, this is normal. Currently, the six companies are recruiting soldiers and the players have reached the stage of choosing their positions and camps. The Erotic Village has become less important to them.

In a dilapidated cowshed at the entrance of the village, Ren Ye looked at his three teammates and whispered, "Tomorrow morning, if we can't find someone who tells the truth, Tang Feng will resign. Do you understand what resignation means?"

"I understand. It's about to happen." Old Liu nodded.

"Yes, we really don't have much time." Ren Ye said seriously, "At dawn, the Lust Village will become deserted and dilapidated, and no clues can be found, so we only have these few hours to use. In order to ensure efficiency, we must go separately and help me verify one thing."

"What do you think we should do?" asked A Pu.

"You should all be familiar with the terrain of the Lust Village now, right?" Ren Ye frowned and asked, "Do you have a picture in your mind?"

Hearing this, the three of them nodded in unison.

"Okay, let's do this. We will use the ruins of the Shen Mansion as the center point and divide them into four areas: southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest." Ren Ye said very quickly, "My beloved concubine will go to the east area, Lao Liu will go to the south area, A Pu will go to the west area, and I will go to the north area. We will act according to the locations. There are two goals. First, whenever we see a residual soul, we will inquire in detail about the number of villagers in the Desire Village. By the way, ask if there is a villager register here, who keeps it, and who is responsible for it, and see if we can find it. Second, everyone must check the number of residual souls in detail, count them one by one, and don't miss any. Although this method is a bit stupid, it is the most effective. Moreover, the residual souls look different, so it should be easy to check. Search every corner carefully."

"Fuck, it's a bit of a workload to do a census here." Lao Liu had a headache: "This will take a long time."

"Every night, the Lust Village will return to its previous state. This mechanism is very important, but we completely ignored it before." Ren Ye replied without hesitation: "You can use the magic to speed up, but we have to do this, otherwise Tang Feng will really die."

"Okay!" A Pu nodded honestly.

"Wait." Xu Qingzhao blinked, then suddenly raised his hand and said, "I have a suggestion, but I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Hurry up and speak." Ren Ye looked like a leader.

"Time is very tight. If you search like this, you may miss something. For example, the remnant soul that was hiding in the dry well before is too hidden to be found by searching alone." Xu Qingzhao said softly, "But if we let these remnant souls gather on their own, it will be much more convenient."

"You are the Yin Emperor, you say let them gather, and they will gather." Ren also rolled his eyes.

After these words were spoken, the four of them fell silent at the same time.

Ren was stunned for a moment, then reacted instantly, slapping his thigh and saying, "I was really too anxious, I actually forgot... You are really a Yin Emperor."

"Heh." Xu Qingzhao smiled proudly: "You act like a wise man every day, but it turns out that there are things you can't think of."

"Yes, that's right, let's do it this way. This will be much more convenient and we can save a lot of time." Ren Ye said excitedly, "Quick, tell us how to do it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the roles were immediately reversed. Xu Qingzhao raised his chin and looked at his three teammates. They seemed to be drooling in his eyes.

"What you need to do most is to stop doing anything and go and watch the fun." Xu Qingzhao waved his hand and looked around and said, "Well, it's open now and not far from the center of the village. It's suitable for me to hold an altar to gather souls."

"boom!"

As soon as he finished speaking, huge star source fluctuations surged from Xu Qingzhao's delicate body.

She soared into the air, her eyes scanning the night sky, and with her slender thumb resting on her middle finger, she shot three coins consecutively toward the ground.

The copper coins fell to the ground, echoing from afar.

Xu Qingzhao was like a ghost, floating and wandering quickly at the entrance of the village. Based on the local terrain, he planted twelve command flags.

After everything was done, Xu Qingzhao came to the formation, clasped his hands together, and chanted: "The Emperor of Fengdu has appeared. All the ghosts in the village, listen to my call and quickly come to the Soul Gathering Altar to listen to my orders!"

"boom!"

As the spell was uttered, the sky and the earth changed color, the wind howled all around, and the fields were shaken.

In just a moment, Ren also saw dense groups of residual souls rushing towards this place.

"It's a relief, it's a relief. We don't need to conduct a household census anymore." Old Liu breathed a sigh of relief.

A Pu said in a deep voice: "The reason why I was tricked by you into joining the team all started with this soul gathering spell...!"

"Stop talking and check it out quickly!" Ren Ye yelled.

As soon as they finished speaking, the three of them flew to the tallest building at the entrance of the village and began to count the number of residual souls that had arrived.

What no one expected was that Xu Qingzhao could not only command these wronged souls to gather, but could even make them line up.

However, this also consumed a huge amount of her mental strength and star power. After all, she was asking for the spirit of the Emperor of Fengdu, which was a cause and effect that not ordinary people could bear, and it was not suitable for use in battle.

With Xu Qingzhao's Soul Gathering Altar, it is indeed much easier for everyone to check, but it is also a job with a huge workload.

It took a full hour and a half, and the inventory work was almost completed.

Ren Ye walked in the group of residual souls, and kept asking: "Does anyone know where the village list of the Desire Village is? If you can raise your hands, the Emperor of Fengdu will reward you handsomely."

He called out more than ten times in a row, but received no response.

Ren also thought secretly, and felt that his beloved concubine might have violated the rules of heaven again, so he secretly took action and cast a "silence spell" on all the remaining souls.

But this is normal. The Soul Gathering Altar does have some bugs. It can summon ghosts from an entire village, which is a bit too abnormal for information collection.

There is no other way. This Qingliangfu Park team...is always annoyed by the gatekeepers no matter which star gate they go to. They often find loopholes in the rules using various means and can only patch them up vigorously.

After repeated questioning failed, Ren continued to check: "1126...1147...1162...!"

Next to him, Lao Liu figured out Ren Ye's thoughts and turned to ask, "It's not right. It seems like one is missing."

"Yes, there is one." Ren Ye was silent for a while and shook his head.

"What do you mean?" asked Lao Liu.

Ren also looked at him: "Did you forget? There is another person who can't get out of the basement. That is a hard setting, and the Soul Gathering Altar is useless."

"Oh, yes, that makes sense." Old Liu nodded immediately: "In this case, there's no need to look for a booklet, right?"

"The booklet is no longer needed, but we still need to go to the basement." Ren also looked up at the sky: "There is only one last bit left."

"Let's go then!"

"go!"

"Disperse the formation!"

After the few people finished discussing, Xu Qingzhao raised his hand and recalled various small magic weapons, then disappeared at the entrance of the village with everyone.

The remaining souls were no longer controlled by the Soul Gathering Altar and dispersed.

Under the heavy rain, the remnant soul that climbed out of the dry well looked at the heavy rain falling like a beaded curtain and whispered, "It's raining so hard, the house must be leaking again? I'm alone at home and can't clean it up...!"

……

As dawn approached, everyone arrived at Old House No. 1.

Ren Ye looked at his three teammates and turned back to say, "Just wait here."

"Be careful and don't play too much." Old Liu didn't speak any human language at this time.

A Pu also kindly reminded: "The Yin-Yang Sword is also unique to Jing."

Xu Qingzhao just stood there quietly, with a proud look on his face and didn't say a word.

Ren Ye looked at the three idiots and was too lazy to reply. He just entered the password and headed straight into the basement.

"Hehe...are you back?"

"What a strong manly smell! Come on, come on, let's enjoy ourselves and spend this happy night...!"

The charming voice is full of seduction and flattery.

In the darkness, Yin Wan'er's ghost emerged, as thrilling as ever.

Ren Ye looked at her, and he went up to her and put his sword against her neck, saying coldly: "Put away your tricks, I have something to ask you."

When Yin Wan'er saw the sunset glow, she was so frightened that she took two steps back and stood trembling by the wall.

Ren Ye looked straight ahead and continued to talk to himself, "I have been reflecting on why the deduction of the first story failed. First of all, I got an important point wrong. Shen Jishi is not the source of the seven sins at all. Old Liu saw the important clue twenty years ago, which is called - Seven Sins in One Body."

Yin Wan'er looked at him like an idiot, thinking to herself, since you're here and you don't even want to play, what the hell are you talking about?

"What does it mean by seven sins in one body?" Ren Ye fell into a state of madness again: "This person has all the bad qualities of everyone. Pride, greed, lust, laziness, gluttony, rage, jealousy. Shen Yuan smokes opium because he is addicted to gluttony, he dares not argue with his father, he controls his own life because he is cowardly, and he is lazy because he wants to escape from reality. He loves Gao Mingyue because of lust, but because he is attached to wealth and greedy... he only dares to be angry with his mother, arrogant to Guo Ying, jealous of Xiao Ke... He has seven sins in one body, which is the original sin that really caused the bloody night twenty years ago."

When Yin Wan'er heard about Shen Yuan's son, it was as if she had triggered a key word. She kept shaking her head and said, "No, no, my son is very good. He is the most outstanding child in Qijia Town...!"

"That's just excellence in your eyes." Ren Ye looked at her and shook his head slowly: "In the story of the previous scene, I gave Tang Feng three keywords. 36-38 years old, male, very handsome. Based on this clue, he held a chef competition, but failed to successfully select Shen Yuan!"

"I kept thinking, why is this happening? What went wrong?"

“The story must be wrong!”

"But what's wrong with the information?" Ren Ye paused and said, "First of all, the gender is correct, and the age is correct, because everyone in the village knows Shen Yuan's approximate age, and it has been confirmed by many people. Then, as time goes by, the only thing that can change... is appearance. Just because he was handsome before doesn't mean he is handsome now!"

Yin Wan'er was stunned.

"I guess your son is disfigured. He must have experienced something, suddenly...!"

"what--!"

Yin Wan'er, who doted on her son, suddenly clenched her fists and let out a sharp roar after hearing the word "disfigured": "That old beast, that old thing, ruined my son, a whole pot of boiling water... How could he be so cruel!"