Let me live [Quick Transmigration]

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There was a lot of noise in the ears, it was a lot of people shouting loudly together, accompanied by the sound of some kind of hollow and hoarse musical instrument.The delivery process has not been fully completed, the voices Lu You heard were all indistinct, and the vision was even more hazy, and there was a thin film between the five senses and the outside world, as if returning to the thick fog that refused to dissipate among.

A little panic rose in Lu You's heart, but then he realized that this layer of diaphragm was disappearing with the white light of the delivery channel.He just felt the slightest coolness on his skin, like drizzle falling on his body, his hands were behind his back, his wrists were bound by rough ropes... when he felt a heavy blow on the back of his legs, he was The man roughly pressed his shoulders and knelt down involuntarily.

The imagined pain did not come, and the mud soaked with rainwater was soft and played a good cushioning effect. What Lu You felt was only the shock when his knee fell to the ground.But the muddy water soaked through his pants very quickly, and the feeling of being muddy, cold and rotten was very bad. Lu You just woke up and was thrown into a new mission world. He hadn't recovered from the shock of finally clarifying the timeline and Qi Zhengyun's true identity. God, at this moment also had to restrain his thoughts and focus on his own current situation.

The sense of the outside world has regained its clarity. Lu You can smell the earthy smell from the mud on the ground, as well as the smell of grass and trees wet by rain; Press down on the ground.Lu You didn't receive the mission data transmitted this time, and obediently bent down under the unknown situation: thinking that if these people are just trying to suppress his resistance, then he will endure it and wait and see what happens; To be satisfied by pressing into the mud, even if the hope is slim, he will have to struggle desperately.

But the strange thing is that although the voices of those non-stop talking voices have become clear in the ears, Lu You can hear the syllables of each word clearly, but he can't understand the meaning of those words when they are connected together, as if The brain breaks sentences apart in the process of trying to understand them, then throws them together in a haphazard mess and quits.

He could only hear people shouting on the left and right, and the people behind were screaming at the top of their lungs. Only the front was still quiet—because there was no one in front, only the wind and rain.Lu You was forced to lower his head, and all he could see in his vision was the constantly fluctuating muddy water reflecting his own face. From this posture, he knew that what was waiting for him could not be a good thing.

What's wrong with his brain again... Is it the sequelae of this launch?

Lu You's memory is still a little confused. When he just woke up, he seemed to repeat the memory of the original world for more than 20 years. Now he feels that he has just woke up from a long sleep waiting for his soul to recover, and at the same time it seems that he is still experiencing In the last days, the burning pain of the first death experience and the conclusion of the elector's contract has not yet dissipated.But no matter which one it is, there is no system in it, so when a particularly clear and approaching voice came from his ears, Lu You was suddenly taken aback.

"Long time no see, dear host." The system said.It sighed, "I didn't expect you to be so dedicated, and you started to do tasks as soon as you recovered from your injury..."

Lu You's body trembled when he heard the system speak just now, and it seemed that the person holding him took it as a sign of struggle, and immediately increased his strength with his hands.Lu You stiffened his neck and didn't want his whole body to fall into the mud. The person behind him came up to his ear and yelled, the sound was deafening to his ears, but unfortunately he still couldn't understand a word.

So Lu You simply blocked the noise in his ears and focused on talking to the system in his mind.Although it had been a long time since we had seen each other, Lu You immediately regained the familiarity of the previous communication with the same lazy tone of the system. "Who are you saying is dedicated?" He replied angrily in his mind, "I just died... no, I just woke up... I was dropped before I realized it. Are you going to say that you didn't do it?" ghost?"

"How could it be my relationship?" The system didn't seem guilty at all, "Didn't you think of the 'next world' yourself?"

Lu You recalled it blankly for a while, and finally remembered which period of mental activity this keyword appeared in after waking up.But... He was clearly saying goodbye to Qi Zhengyun at that time, so how did he convey the meaning of "I'm going to work immediately"?After a moment of silence, Lu You silently swallowed the sentence "Who taught you to interpret so blindly" that was already on his lips--except for the God who is keen on watching theaters, who else?

Arguing with the system will only play dumb, and it is obviously impossible to cancel the mission and send him back.Faced with the daily troubles of Shenhe System, a pair of gangsters, Lu You has become so used to it that he can't get angry. "...All right, you're right." He frowned—it was also because the hand on his shoulder pinched him a bit—confirmed to the system, "Is the sequelae this time hearing damage?"

"Now that your soul is completely restored, how can you still have sequelae?" The system said, "The obstacle to understanding is the character setting of the target you put in this time."

"Character setting" is obviously a key piece of information, but Lu You didn't have time to pay attention to it at this time. His thoughts were all on the first half of the sentence: "The sequelae are caused by the soul...?" He was shocked, "You never said that before. Pass!"

The system said confidently: "If you take the initiative to say everything, what's the fun? And I'm not lying to you, it's true that there will be a rejection reaction every time you put it in, but the normal situation will only last for a few seconds—"

Before Lu You could respond, it said "this topic is over" in its tone, and began to urge Lu You to pay attention to the surroundings, "It's over, don't rush to talk about it like this." It's time to turn over the old score... You are in a bad situation now, don't you think of a way to get out first?"

——When he heard the long-lost system sound just now, Lu You still felt a little nostalgic; at this moment, he decided to combine this nostalgia with his gratitude to it for helping to resist the thunderstorm in the last world, as far as possible go.But before he had time to ask about the lack of mission data again, like confirming the system's reminder, Lu You noticed that the crowd who had been arguing around him before had suddenly quieted down.

It seems they finally came to a unified conclusion.Lu You felt the pressure of everyone's cold eyes on him, and he thought that this conclusion must be very unfriendly to the target he was playing at the moment.

With his head down, Lu You could only see the reflection on the water surface, which was very unclear due to the dim light and turbulent water surface.Out of the corner of his eye, he saw two blurry red patches approaching from both sides, like two people wearing bright red robes... Is the mission world this time ancient?

As soon as he thought about it, he heard the sound of the intermittent music suddenly raised, like a person screaming hoarsely while scratching his chest and bleeding.Even if he can't understand other people's language now, Lu You can still feel the piercing and sharp sound of the sound like scratching the eardrums without hindrance - the music pierces into the surrounding darkness like an order, and it has been scratching continuously since just now The wind and rain stopped suddenly at this moment.

The pressure on Lu You's shoulders was pressed hard and then withdrawn. Lu You, who had been fighting against it all the time, subconsciously straightened up.But the two men in red beside him also moved at the same time. With a "crash", about a whole basin of liquid fell from the sky and poured all over Lu You.

The texture of the liquid was different from that of rainwater, and it was sticky and very viscous when it flowed into the neck.A strong stench overwhelmed the earthy smell and rushed straight into the nostrils.There were also some bits and pieces mixed in the liquid, some fell on Lu You's body, and some fell into the muddy water together with the liquid, and a darker color suddenly blurred on the muddy water surface.Lu You instantly recognized it: this is blood...

A strong premonition arose in his heart, and it was verified in the next moment—he could still move slightly when he was held down, and the blood of that unknown creature was poured down, and when it touched his body, it was still slightly warm. But then it turned into a chill strangely, penetrating the skin and seeping into the bone crevices, and the body seemed to be frozen and unable to move.

The crowd at the back retreated in a hurry for fear of getting blood. The two men in red made high-pitched and weird voices, and began to circle around Lu You, throwing some small fragments and powder at him.This is far from Lu You's expected scene of apologizing or being beaten, it's more like...

...Some kind of superstitious activities such as exorcising ghosts and offering sacrifices?

The dance ceremony of the two men in red didn't take long, and it was over after five or six laps.The rope on Lu You's wrist tightened, and he barely stood up under the rough tug.The oppressive cold eased somewhat, but the crowd gathered again, and this time someone walked in front of him—including the two men in red.The blood that had been poured on his body just now dripped down the tips of his hair. Lu You's face was covered with rain and mud. He squinted his eyes, raised his head, and finally saw a little bit of the surrounding environment.

It seems to be in the mountains... but the scenery of this mountain is a bit shabby.The mountain road at the foot is a muddy and narrow dirt road, not even paved with stone slabs; the trees in the field of vision are not only sparse, but also short and small, as if they are all young trees that have not been planted for a long time.It was probably evening now, and there was still a glimmer of light in the rainy sky, dimly illuminating the figures of the people around.Lu You saw modern attire in short-sleeved shirts and jeans, and someone was holding a flashlight in his hand, but he didn't turn it on.

Previous speculation about the age was rejected.However, the clothes on the two men in red should indeed be quite old, the style and texture are very old, but I don't know what kind of dye they used, and they are as red as freshly solidified blood.Lu You didn't have much time to observe carefully. The rope tied around his wrist was pulled forward. Because his hands were behind his back, in order not to be pulled back and fall to the ground, Lu You had to take the initiative to follow the force. Walking forward, staggering and slipping on the slippery mountain road.The people around were shouting so loudly before, but now they were all silent as if they were dumb, walking beside him with their mouths tightly shut, their pale and tense faces like a group of ghosts.

There was a low and inconspicuous stone sculpture on the side of the road not far ahead, half submerged in the soil. When Lu You passed by, his eyes were attracted to it.The stone sculpture is abstract in shape, like a big fish whose stomach has been cut open and turned to the sides. The heavily worn surface is covered with moss, which is a bit weird-the position of the "fish eye" is white, and it seems to be He was staring at Lu You.

Ever since he was thrown into this world, everything he experienced in the short time was weird.Lu You was most afraid of this kind of psychological horror, and his whole body was terrified by those white fish eyes.However, he only stared at it for a few seconds before being dragged forward by the rope again.The system's voice sounded at this moment: "Starting to receive mission information..."

"Did you sleep with me?" Lu You couldn't help but said, "Why is there a delay?"

Rather than venting his dissatisfaction with the system, Lu You actually wanted to find a reason to speak up.There were a lot of people around, but they couldn't even hear the sound of breathing. Only the wind and rain that had blown up again since he stood up hit the road and the sparse trees on both sides. Terrible stuff.He wanted to have a casual chat with the system to relieve his inner tension, but the system was busy, and it would only reply to him every time as if it was an automatic reply, "accepting mission information". This kind of mechanical reply made him feel even more flustered. Lu You had no choice but to calm down.

The mountain road began to turn, and Lu You turned his head sideways, and through the gap between the crowd and the trees, he saw the place where he was kneeling and was splashed with blood.Only then did he realize that there were two tall poles erected on both sides of the road there, and the ropes wrapped around the poles suspended a torn bag-like thing in the middle of the road—he should have been pressed under that thing at that time , so that's the container of blood?

Lu You's rationality told him that it was probably a large water bladder, or a large plastic bag; but the thing was torn from the bottom, hanging in the air and fluttering in the wind, but it always made him feel that it was a piece of paper. The skin peeled off from the creature... He thought of the strangely shaped stone sculpture again, and finally shivered in the coolness soaked in blood all over his body.The rope began to tighten again, and Lu You walked forward involuntarily. After a while, the trees became dense, and he could no longer see the way he came.

The system kept making sounds, so it seemed that Qi Zhengyun was not nearby... Lu You couldn't keep his balance with his hands, and walked on the steeper and steeper mountain road, but couldn't help but lose his mind.He always wanted to think of the scene when Qi Zhengyun appeared in front of him "for the first time", just pretending to be a stranger like that, and those deliberate approaching actions that he didn't even notice at the time, and all kinds of things that he noticed but didn't care about. Abnormal; and then repeatedly reminded myself that Qi Zhengyun did this for him, and besides, now is not the time to care about these things...

I don't know when Qi Zhengyun will find him this time?His strength seems to be quite depleted, and he may need to rest for a while.If you want to search and cross the barrier immediately, it will be very difficult for him at the end of that world. Lu You would rather delay the reunion to the next, next world.Although he might really be spoiled by Qi Zhengyun—this should sound better than "being disabled"—thinking of the possibility of being alone during the mission, there is already a bitter feeling of emptiness in his heart.

When Lu You didn't pay attention, he stumbled on a stone half buried in the mud with his toe and almost fell.He didn't dare to be distracted anymore, so he had no choice but to concentrate on walking obediently, struggling to distinguish the road and climb up in the increasingly dimmer light.It was getting dark, and several people in the crowd turned on their flashlights to illuminate the mountain road. After that, I don't know how long it took, until Lu You was exhausted, his legs were weak and he couldn't walk, and finally there was an open space in front of him.

There is a stone tablet standing in the open space, and Lu You subconsciously thinks that it should be a tombstone; beside the stone tablet is a circle of stone fences, and Lu You is pulled by those people who have never said a word on the way. It turned out that it was a well.There was no cover on the wellhead, and he could see a little of the inside when he stood beside it, and it was so dark that he couldn't see the reflection that indicated the height of the water surface.He thought those people would make him kneel again, but they just spread out around the clearing, and even the ropes in their hands loosened.

They didn't seem to be worried about Lu You escaping at all - he really had nowhere to escape, surrounded by those people with no gaps, he had to go to heaven and earth if he wanted to escape.Lu You stood by the well in a daze, thinking that this should be a ceremony where human life was sacrificed to some ghost or god.Will he be thrown into the well later?

If the mission is to escape... Lu You looked around and then looked down into the well.He didn't try to escape on the road because he never found an opportunity to take advantage of it, but now he regrets that he didn't ignore it and try to escape when he climbed the mountain.He moved his footsteps, thinking about taking advantage of the last chance, he heard the voice of the system next to his ear saying: "The transmission of the mission data is complete, please prepare to receive the host—"

The system took a long time to collect the data, but only a few short clips were transmitted.Lu You seemed to just shake his head, and saw the hallucination passing in front of his eyes: the girl standing at the same position as him was standing by the well, only about ten years old, and was also drenched in blood; The fish-shaped birthmark almost covered her left cheek, making her immature face look very hideous. She stood expressionless, but her eyes radiated extreme hatred.

Another scene came in. Lu You saw the small mountain village where the girl and "he" lived. They were sitting side by side on the side of the road. The children in the village threw mud clods at them when they ran past; they squatted on the ground and wrote with branches together. laugh at each other.

Days of torrential rain flooded the farmland that was finally plowed to the point of harvest, and the elderly in the village gathered to discuss.They pray in a building that resembles an ancestral temple.They tied the girl up with ropes like animals, dragged her up a hill, and dropped her at the mouth of the well; they performed some ceremony, and black water gushed out of the well.When the tide receded, the girl by the well disappeared.

But after offering sacrifices, the rain still didn't stop...

Lu You felt a pair of cold little hands touch his cheeks, and a wet thing exuding a strong smell of water approached him from behind. "Come and stay with me..." The girl's childish voice became low, sounding eerily scary, "We are still the same as before..."

The ending sound fell, and the cold touch disappeared at the same time.

Data transmission ends here.

When Lu You came back to his senses, the people around the edge of the open space were doing the same actions as in the data, and the same ceremony had already begun.Now is the last possible time to escape, but Lu You has become uncertain: his target is the only boy who has a good relationship with the girl, but what the information conveys is the girl's wish.If it's just to be with her... Doesn't it mean that he doesn't need to do anything, and he can do it by jumping into the well later?

Not to mention whether the task could be so simple, and the target will get the opportunity to "modify the ending", which must be unwilling to the original ending.If things can be left to their own devices, what went wrong with the real experience of the target?Something went wrong with the ceremony, or did he escape his survival instinct and regret it after surviving?

More importantly... can he escape now?

Lu You stood on the spot tangled up, and talked to the system again, but the system fell silent.He imagined the possibility of a successful escape, and finally chose to continue to wait and see what happened because of the pitifully small number he concluded.Compared with the time spent climbing the mountain, the ceremony of summoning the black water in the well to devour the sacrifices can be described as simple and efficient, and it was completed within a few minutes.The man in red who presided over the ceremony raised his hands in a posture that looked a little ridiculous, and then his movements stopped, and everyone remained motionless, staring at the mouth of the well with bated breath and began to wait.

Lu You was the only one who couldn't get involved. For some reason, he couldn't get nervous. He boredly looked at the well in front of him in awe, waiting to see if the black water would rise.He looked at it for a while, and suddenly felt that this well looked quite similar to the one near his previous home.Once he had an association, his thoughts could no longer be contained, and he began to think about the summer vacation of the first year of high school, the island on vacation, the end of the world, and Qi Zhengyun...

When he came back after thinking about it, Lu You began to feel that something was wrong: Why is there still no movement?

The raised arms of the man in red began to tremble...

What Lu You saw in the data was not the complete ceremony process, because no one moved around or made a sound, he thought it might be normal to wait a little longer.You have to wait until the other side is free to pick up the phone. After all, it's a ghost that someone worships...God, it doesn't seem to be a problem if you don't want to be on call.Judging from the data, the girl was sacrificed not long ago. Maybe it was full and digesting?

Lu You suppressed his doubts and continued to wait.Although there was a flashlight and a fire was lit during the ceremony, the surrounding area was still very dark.That's why Lu You didn't notice that the seemingly calm crowd around him were actually looking at each other head-on, conveying the surprise and uncertainty in their hearts with their eyes; although the man in red barely maintained his posture, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and his expression gradually filled Doubt and fear.

Just when some people couldn't help but whisper to each other, there was finally some movement in the well.Immediately the atmosphere calmed down, everyone held their breath again, and couldn't help but be thankful in the tension: Fortunately, it was only a little late, and nothing went wrong after all... They watched eagerly at the mouth of the well, waiting for the black water to rise up and take away the sacrifices, so that life It was back to normal—only two people who would have been dispensable were missing.

Only Lu You stood closest to the well and could hear the sounds in the well most clearly.This time he couldn't help but wonder: This sound...why doesn't it sound like the sound of flooding?It's more like something with many legs is climbing up from the bottom of the well, and it's fighting with other things while climbing...

The goosebumps on Lu You's arms were about to pop out because of this imagination, and he wanted to back away unconsciously.The man in red glanced at the blood-stained "human sacrifice" by the well with a deadly gaze, and turned to stare more intently at the mouth of the well.Under the eyes of everyone, a black figure flashed past the top of the well, and then everyone heard an angry scream—a picture of a little girl being robbed of her beloved doll appeared in Lu You's mind.A guess suddenly appeared in his mind...

A surprised and suspicious expression appeared on the face of the man in red.He has never encountered a similar situation in the decades he has presided over the sacrifice.Thinking of the girl who became a sacrifice not long ago, and the scream that was distorted but still familiar.Just like Lu You, who had just been thrown into this world and was kneeling in the mud and covered in blood, a strong ominous premonition appeared in his heart. Pull it back and talk about it.

But he was one step too late after all: a few pitch-black scales with slightly reflective surfaces, and things that looked like octopus tentacles protruded from the mouth of the well, followed by the entire body of this strange monster; the size of the mouth of the well was obvious to its figure. It was more than one size smaller, but it resolutely gave up its posture in order to speed up, squeezed out of the mouth of the well in a posture that was indomitable at best, and crawling at worst, and quickly came to the ground.

When the crowd around the clearing could no longer keep still, screamed or fled because of instinctive fear, the sacrifice by the well who was about to retreat just now did the exact opposite: he did not hesitate He took a step forward and ran towards the hideous monster, almost tripping over the rope dragging behind him in a hurry.

The monster's tentacles rolled towards him in response, cut the rope like lightning, and wrapped him around and grabbed him.Black well water rushed out of the mouth of the well, and the girl's angry cries rose another octave.The waves surged towards the open space, like a tsunami, and the people who couldn't escape screamed and were sucked into the vortex, but that inexplicably popped up to occupy her altar, and used her passageway first. The monster already brought the sacrifice that was supposed to be dedicated to her, turned around and plunged into the depths of the forest, running away without a trace.