Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

That’s right, the lit incense is white and red, and it burns quickly and turns a burnt black color.

But looking at the many incense sticks used for sacrifice in the incense burner in front of him, only his was a fluorescent green color.

The key is that this faint green light shows no sign of retreating.

It is not contaminated with any special chemical substances that are short-lived, but it always emits green light.

In the dark environment, it is like a special existence standing out from the crowd.

The witch stared at the incense and candles in Qin Shang's hand for a long time before she gritted her teeth and took a box of things from another NPC who looked like a servant.

Then he threw it into the medicine jar in his hand and picked up the stick again and started pounding it as if he was grinding something.

He spoke with great confidence.

"Girl, this is the apricot blossom cake you loved most when you were alive. I have asked someone to buy it for you. After you finish eating the apricot blossom cake, be good and go on your way. The people in the Lin family have been punished enough."

"Don't do things that hurt others anymore. Go on a good path and be reborn into a good family in your next life. Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor, and humans and ghosts have different paths. Don't ruin your good deeds again..."

After saying this, the witch shook the medicine jar in front of Qin Shang.

In fact, Qin Shang didn’t see the witch’s movements clearly, and then he felt that the color of the light in his hand returned to normal.

The fragrance, which originally emitted a faint fluorescent green color, suddenly turned into normal white.

Then, the smell of burning incense and candles wafted into Qin Shang's nose. He looked at the witch in doubt and wonder, not knowing what method the old woman used.

Qin Shang almost had a cardiac arrest when he saw the incense stick in his hand turn fluorescent green.

"Go ahead, insert the incense stick into the stove, then kneel down at the back. According to your seniority, you should be in the last seat in the second row, next to Shopkeeper Cui..."

The witch didn't pay much attention to Qin Shang. She gestured for him to lie down with everyone after burning incense. Qin Shang didn't dare to resist.

Who knows what kind of crisis is waiting for me in this single-player copy.

The system prompt says that the main plot is to let yourself survive for seventy-two hours, which means that something horrible or weird will definitely happen in the next seventy-two hours.

Maybe it has the ability to threaten your life.

Damn, I wish I were a level 2 trickster. If I had a magical skill like [Fake Death], it would be like being able to rewind infinitely.

There is much more control over this kind of dungeon exploration tasks.

After all, with [faking death], one would have enough confidence to try and make mistakes.

It's a pity that I'm only a level 1 trickster and don't have the magical skill of [Fake Death]...

The next moment, Qin Shang obediently walked towards the crowd kneeling in the sacrificial hall.

The last seat in the second row!

He muttered to himself.

In large families during the Republic of China era, seniority was particularly important. If one simply knelt down anywhere, one might overstep one's authority and offend an elder.

Perhaps, it will trigger unstable factors within the copy and cause a butterfly effect, bringing about hidden plots and crises.

Since I haven't figured out the whole thing yet, I'd better just wait and see what happens!

Qin Shang obediently walked to the last seat in the second row and knelt down silently.

Among the people in mourning clothes in the row next to him, no one took the initiative to talk to Qin Shang until Qin Shang knelt for a long time.

A bloated young man beside him poked the young man with his elbow.

"Brother, why did you come back just now..."

His face looked a little ugly, and when he turned his head, the light from the red lanterns hanging from the eaves shone on his face.

It made the already pale fat face look even more terrifying.

Qin Shang's Adam's apple rolled unconsciously, and he was not sure what his identity was in this copy.

I simply didn't dare to say anything nonsense.

This fat guy obviously knows me... or my current identity in the copy.

You know, under normal circumstances, ordinary NPCs in the game have no self-awareness.

Or perhaps their self-awareness exists to promote the copy game.

So after Qin Shang entered the copy, his appearance did not change.

However, the Shenlu server may have subconsciously made these NPCs accept Qin Shang's identity in the copy.

He could be the patriarch of the Lin family, a member of the Lin family's management, or an idle young master of the Lin family.

It doesn’t matter. For the Shenlu server, it is nothing more than modifying the source code of the NPC in the copy.

Of course, this is understood from the perspective of computer games.

As for supernatural phenomena like the Divine Road, it is naturally impossible to be so easy to understand, but the logic should be similar...

This is just like when you play a single-player game. No matter what your ID is, once you enter the dungeon, the NPCs in the dungeon will see you as someone they know.

"I was delayed by something out of town and missed the trip. I just came back today!"

Qin Shang remembered what the old woman who looked like a fortune teller had said just now, so he moved his lips and said something perfunctorily.

I don’t know why, but I always feel like there’s an invisible thick fog covering the facial features of these people.

For some reason, I felt that there was a gloomy air on their faces.

Everyone's condition looks a little strange.

It’s hard to describe this feeling.

It was as if each of them had been hungry for three days and three nights, and their energy and spirit were exhausted, like a person who was dying with one foot half in the coffin.

If Qin Shang had to find a word to describe the Lin family disciples in front of him, it would probably be similar to the other patients with advanced cancer who had undergone several rounds of chemotherapy and were diagnosed by doctors as being imminently dying and whom he met when he was hospitalized for brain cancer.

The feeling that life is about to end is particularly strong.

lifeless!

Yes, that's right, it's dead.

Hearing this, the fat man next to him laughed bitterly;

"A lot of things happened during your absence..."

Qin Shang remained expressionless, but his heart was slightly calm.

As expected, this man really knew his current identity in the copy.

And the two seem to have some friendship.

It seemed that he subjectively felt that the owner of Qin Shang's identity was not clear about what had happened to the Lin family.

Very good, it seems that this little fat guy has clues... This guy must be a key NPC.

"What happened?"

Qin Shang pursed his lips and asked in a low voice.

But just as the voice came out, the old woman in white robe standing in front of the portrait in the ancestral hall suddenly turned her head, stopped the movement of her hands, and then a cold glare fell on Qin Shang.

Even though the light was dim, Qin Shang could still clearly feel that the old woman was looking at him.

Qin Shang suddenly didn't dare to speak any more. His Adam's apple rolled unconsciously and he became silent.

"Shh, this is not the place to talk. Forget it, let's meet at our old place tonight and talk in detail..."

The fat man next to him lowered his head a few points again, and then whispered to Qin Shang.

Hearing this, Qin Shang smiled bitterly and nodded.

Because of the look from the old woman, Qin Shang didn't dare to ask any more questions.

This round, the background board of the copy gave too little information.

[The entire Lin family was wiped out. Some people said that Shen Xiuxiu came back for revenge.]

Does this mean that within three days, the entire Lin family will be slaughtered?

And the murderer is the singer named Shen Xiuxiu, right?

However, the spirit tablet placed in the center of the hall just now had her life story and name written on it, and this sacrificial activity was to commemorate Shen Xiuxiu.

Didn't she die?

Could it be that, like the 'Al' shadow in carriage No. 3 of the last round of [Death Train], it has transformed into a special form of life?

Qin Shang frowned, frantically analyzing the clues he had obtained so far in his mind.

Just now, when I was burning incense for the deceased beside the incense burner, I happened to see the name on the black and white portrait out of the corner of my eye.

Shen Xiuxiu.

The dead woman was Shen Xiuxiu.

Shen Xiuxiu came back for revenge, does that mean Shen Xiuxiu was killed by someone from the Lin family?

"Shen Xiuxiu should be the key character in this instance of [Lin's Residence No. 37]. The fact that I survived for hours means that today's worship by the entire clan will not have any effect."

"Shen Xiuxiu's revenge will not stop, and the final result seems to be that the entire Lin family will be slaughtered by Shen Xiuxiu in three days!"