Fatal Game Syndrome

When the few people arrived at the backyard, there was no one inside, and the oil refinery that was originally placed in the yard was gone.

Ling Jiushi walked through the clothes drying rack and came to the courtyard wall with ease. The door they used to exit last time was on the wall, but they were not so lucky. There was nothing here except bare ground, and the door had been moved somewhere else.

“Not here anymore!”

Ling Jiushi and his companions searched the courtyard but found nothing. It was obvious that the door was not in this courtyard, but the world outside was so big that finding a door would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Ask Yu Fu and find out where the previous bridesmaids returned from."

Ruan Lanzhu rested his chest against Ling Jiushi's shoulder. He felt sorry for her because she had been tired last night.

"Go ask Yu Fu where she lives."

Ruan Lanzhu motioned Cheng Qianli to go to the front yard to ask the housekeeper. There was something very strange about Yu Fu's house. In the huge yard, there were only the mother and son and the housekeeper. There was not a single servant. With such a large family business, they could afford servants.

"Oh!"

Cheng Qianli turned around and left obediently. Li Dongyuan followed him because he was afraid that something might happen to him. It was obvious that he was more adept at getting information.

"Yu Fu doesn't look easy to approach!"

Tan Zaozao kicked the pebbles at her feet worriedly, "What if she is in the same group as the black-robed man last night?"

"will not!"

Ling Jiushi affirmed, "The river god needs children for sacrifice, and her son Yu Caizhe is just the right age. She shouldn't go along with the black-robed man."

"uncertain!"

Ruan Lanzhu said, "If sacrificing us can save her son, Yu Fu will definitely be willing."

Ling Jiushi pondered for a moment, but still overturned Ruan Lanzhu's guess.

"Do you remember what Yu Fu told everyone yesterday?"

"She told us to sleep with the lights on at night, and someone was missing from the room where the lights were off last night. This means that keeping the lights on can save lives, so Yu Fu should not be in cahoots with them."

When the three of them walked out of the backyard, Li Dongyuan and the others also came back. "The housekeeper said that Yu Fushi and Yu Caizhe lived in the two rooms closest to the gate in the front yard. She should be teaching Yu Caizhe calligraphy at this time."

"Go and see!"

The other few guests did not leave after dinner. When Ruan Lanzhu and the others arrived at the front yard, they were talking about something.

"what happened?"

Li Dongyuan walked in carelessly and glanced at a few people.

"There was one person missing last night!"

A man came out and said, "There are six of us sleeping in two rooms. When we woke up this morning, there was one person missing in the room next to us."

"We thought he had gotten up early and gone out to look for clues, but we haven't seen him yet. However, when we got up in the morning, the door of the next room was open and the lights were off. I wonder if he was taken away."

The girl next to the man nodded repeatedly, with a look of fear on her face, "Yes, yes, yes! The NPC said last night that we couldn't turn off the lights. I wonder if he turned off the lights while we were sleeping."

"The NPC's request must be a taboo condition. If the lights go out, then it is not surprising that he is captured."

Ruan Lanzhu glanced at the girl who was staring at him pitifully. He knew she had bad intentions, so he should stay away from her!

Thinking of this, Ruan Lanzhu moved closer to his wife again, but the girl was speechless when she saw that he was unmoved and even acted very disgusted. It was like she was throwing her eyes at a blind man!

"Let's go!"

Ling Jiushi glanced at the girl inconspicuously, then took Ruan Lanzhu's hand and walked towards the front yard.

"Eh!"

Cheng Qianli took two steps to catch up with Ling Jiushi and said, "Brother Lingling, you said they all lived in the same room, why did only one person go out?"

“Maybe the river god here has a limit on how many people he can kill!”

As soon as Ling Jiushi finished speaking, Ruan Lanzhu continued, "Or maybe they want to raise them and kill them slowly. Fresh meat is always better than stale meat. If they kill them all at once, they won't be able to finish eating them all at once!"

Cheng Qianli stopped and stood there, staring in amazement at Ruan Lanzhu and Ling Jiushi walking away.

"Is this, is this true?"

Cheng Qianli grabbed Li Dongyuan who was passing by him and asked stutteringly.

"Of course!"

Li Dongyuan put his hands in his pockets and smiled, "You saw last night that the river god likes to eat people. Children have the tenderest meat, so children are sacrificed."

"The second is the flesh of young men and women, and finally the flesh of the elderly. So, among the five of us, you and Tan Zaozao have the most tender flesh!"

After saying that, Li Dongyuan walked away with a raised mouth. Tan Zaozao behind him rolled his eyes at the backs of the three people in front of him speechlessly, then patted Cheng Qianli on the shoulder and sighed, "Let's go!"

What they didn't expect was that what Li Dongyuan said casually turned out to be true. When they arrived at the wing room in the front yard, the door of Yu Caizhe's room was open. The desk inside the door was right at the door. The little Yu Caizhe was writing meticulously with his legs hanging.

Yu Fu was sitting under a tree outside the door, sewing a small robe in her hands.

"You are here!"

Yu Fu stopped what she was doing, looked up and greeted a few people, as if she had expected that they would come to see her.

"Thanks to you for helping me find my son, you see, he can see now, and he can learn everything I teach him right away!"

Yu Fu looked at her son in the room with a gentle smile on her face, "I don't ask him to be very capable, as long as he is healthy!"

"Most definitely!"

Ling Jiushi glanced at the child inside and said, "Actually, we came here because we want to ask you something."

"I know!"

Yu Fu also retracted her gaze and looked at the others, "You want to ask about the person who showed up at night, right?"

"That's right!" Ling Jiushi nodded. "Weren't those little pigs following you before? Why did they run to the man in black robe?"

"Different!"

Yu Fu put the small robe in her hand into the basket. "Before, I was followed by a child dressed as a pig, but those people were followed by real pigs!"

Really little pig!

Ling Jiushi was shocked. There really was a pig that could walk upright? And it could be someone's little follower?

"The man in black robe used to be a butcher in the town. Later he jumped into the river and became a servant of the river god. He appears every night during the days of offering sacrifices to the river god."

A butcher? No wonder he's wearing a pig mask and there are a few piglets following him!

"In fact, the children sacrificed in the town can't satisfy the appetite of the river god, but he can't eat all the children at once, so he comes out at night to find food for the river god!"

Yu Fu's eyes swept across the faces of several people one by one. "Apart from children, his favorite is the meat of teenagers and women, followed by young men. The meat he dislikes the most is the meat of the elderly, because it is dry and tastes bad."

When Cheng Qianli saw her gaze finally fixed on his face, the hair on his arms stood up. This was exactly what Li Dongyuan had just said.

“Why can’t the child eat it all at once?”

Cheng Qianli rubbed his arms. If the river god kept eating children, they would be safe!

"If you eat all the children, there won't be any children to grow up and give birth to more children, you idiot!"

Tan Zaozao slapped him, but this river god also understood sustainable development, he was quite smart!

"But the person they took away last night was a middle-aged man. As far as I know, there was also a young woman in that room. Why didn't he take away the one that suits the River God's taste the most?"

"Before this, the river god promised us that he would not eat people casually, but anyone who goes to bed and turns off the lights at night will be led away by the black-robed man."

"In order to avoid becoming food for the river god, every household adds aphrodisiac to the lamp oil, so that they can sleep soundly until dawn."

"As for the man who was led away last night, it was probably because he wasn't completely charmed. He just followed the call in a daze."

Ling Jiushi and Ruan Lanzhu exchanged glances. Those who were sleeping soundly or fully awake were safe, while those who were dazed were in danger and would follow when they heard the call.

"If everyone sleeps soundly, then the river god won't be able to eat enough, right?"

Li Dongyuan thought for a moment and asked, "He should have other ways, right?"

"Did you see the wind last night?"

Yu Fu asked, Ruan Lanzhu and Ling Jiushi nodded, Li Dongyuan and the other two shook their heads, but when they saw the room blown into a mess in the morning, they could guess how strong the wind was last night.

"Everyone is afraid of falling asleep and never waking up, so a small amount of ecstasy is added to the lamp oil. People will wake up about a quarter of an hour after the candle is extinguished. So after the wind blows out the candle, whoever hears the call and comes out will be unlucky!"

"Then how did he summon it?"

Ruan Lanzhu asked. The wind was very strong last night. He was not sure whether he did not hear any unusual sounds or whether it was not originally summoned by sound.

"insect!"

insect!!!

When Ruan Lanzhu heard this word, he felt itchy all over.

"The man in black robes holds a worm given to him by the river god. I don't know what it is called, but I know that the worm will crawl onto a person's body as instructed. Those bitten by it will follow the man in black robes' instructions and walk to the place of sacrifice and jump into the river."

Isn't this a poisonous insect?

Ling Jiushi was surprised. The last time he came in to worship the river god, it was fake. This time, the river god was real, and it was a river god who could control the poisonous insects!

"So before the sacrifice to the river god is completed, you better be careful and don't fall into the river god's mouth!"

Yu Fu picked up the small robe again and lowered her head.

"There's one more question!"

Ling Jiushi scratched his head in embarrassment. "Isn't the door we used to go out in the backyard? We just went to look for it, but it's no longer there. Do you know where the door was moved to?"

“I don’t know the exact location!”

Yu Fu glanced at him and said, "But I see that everyone who left was going to worship the river god. Maybe the door is there."

"Okay, thank you!"

Ling Jiushi pursed his lips and prepared to leave. Tan Zaozao, who was squatting on the ground, just got up and wanted to follow him, but when she saw Yu Fu doing needlework by herself, she couldn't help but say a few words.

"Sister, your house is so big, why don't you hire some servants? You don't have to do these things yourself!"

Tan Zaozao's unintentional words made the people who had turned around and taken two steps stop and turn back.

"I have servants, but you all live here with me. Every time you offer sacrifices to the river god, you come to my place to take people away. You weren't taken away, but a lot of my servants were taken away!"

Yu Fu rolled her eyes and said, "Now there is only one housekeeper left, and no one else dares to serve me."

Several people looked at each other and finally understood why there were only Yu Fu's mother and son and the housekeeper in such a big house. If this trend continued, these three people would probably be eaten by the river god.

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