Let me live [Quick Transmigration]

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Finally unloading the burden that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time, Qi Zhengyun vented his emotions happily, and finally calmed down gradually, returning to normal from the almost crazy state before.He led Lu You around the forest for a few times, stopping several times to identify the direction and confirm the road. Lu You could feel that he seemed to have doubts about something, but he was unable to communicate in more detail due to the obstacles in understanding.

After more than half an hour, artificial road traces finally appeared in front of them, and it seemed that they were very close to the mountain village.However, Qi Zhengyun stopped here and stopped moving forward. He put Lu You down, and then beat the ground with several tentacles in turn, looking a little irritable.

Lu You knew that Qi Zhengyun must have found some abnormal signs, but it was still raining at night in the mountains, and the surroundings were so dark that there was no light at all. He looked around in a daze for a while, and the only thing he could tell was that the rain was getting heavier: In the few short minutes after they stopped, the light rain that had been going on before quickly turned into a torrential rain, and a large amount of rain poured down from the sky like crazy, and the sound of rain echoing between the sky and the earth seemed to be continuous like some kind of monster roar.

Lu You has seen disastrous summer rainstorms before. At this moment, the raindrops fell from the gap between Qi Zhengyun's tentacles that shielded him from the rain, and fell on his body, which was icy cold to the bones, but it made him feel particularly gloomy and uncomfortable - the same thing as the black gushing out of his mouth. Water wells are very similar.From the time when the blood splashed on his body made him unable to move, Lu You realized that the so-called "sacrifice" was not just a superstitious activity with a reassuring effect. Later, he received information and saw the black water gushing from the well with his own eyes. It directly proves that ghosts and gods... no, for the time being, they are just ghosts.

At this moment, the torrential rain that seems to wash away the trees and wash away the soil on the mountain is the anger of the "well" that has been deprived of sacrifices?

Qi Zhengyun began to dig the ground with his tentacles, and found a lot of rocks and roots of plants.But he probably didn't find what he was looking for. After a while, he threw away the pile of garbage, and turned to pull Lu You away from the road—with very light force, indicating that he was only asking for permission.Lu You still didn't understand what Qi Zhengyun had noticed, but it was easy to understand the meaning of his actions at the moment: there must be some kind of danger in the mountain village, and he was not sure that he could easily deal with it.

However, Lu You is on a mission, even if he knows the danger exists, he can't avoid it, so he can only be more vigilant.He stretched out his hand to hold Qi Zhengyun's tentacles on his side. Qi Zhengyun understood immediately, and instead of trying to persuade him, he grabbed Lu You again and started to move quickly towards the village.The rest of the journey was much shorter than before, and arrived at the end in a few minutes. Qi Zhengyun bypassed all the places with lights and human voices, without being noticed by any villagers, and sneaked into an unoccupied room with Lu You. house.

The door closed behind him, and the noisy wind and rain that filled his ears suddenly fell silent.Lu You was drenched all over, trembling and sneezing non-stop, afraid of attracting people so he didn't dare to make too much noise, holding back very hard.The rain was too heavy, and the door of the house was full of mud. He was put down by Qi Zhengyun with his bare feet. He wanted to walk to the dry ground farther from the door, but he bumped into the table before taking two steps. He could only hear things on the table collide for a while. The noise made him stop on the spot in fright, not daring to move anymore.

Qi Zhengyun tossed and turned in the dark for a while, and after a while, a small flickering fire light came on instead of the light Lu You expected, dimly illuminating the outlines of the surrounding things.

Lu You recognized the surrounding scene...

It wasn't the target or the girl's residence, but the place he had seen in the data transmission where the villagers prayed for the rainstorm to stop-the one on the edge of the village that has been repaired several times but still looks dilapidated. temple.The temple is not too big, and the interior furnishings are empty and poorly furnished. A bare clay statue of a god is placed on a low table, and a few futons for kneeling are scattered on the ground.What Lu You bumped into just now was the tribute table, and the tribute was just hard candies and fruits in poor packaging, plus a few bottles of industrial coloring drinks that were not painted in the right way, and the fruits were even shriveled and a little moldy.

He looked at the ground, altar and futon by the dim light of the fire, and compared with the corresponding documents, he found nothing worth mentioning; because the scene of the villagers kneeling in the documents was viewed from the front, and the appearance of the god statue was not there. Appeared in the screen, Lu You looked at the crude platform, and was disappointed immediately: it was the kind of low-quality clay doll with no characteristics.The shape is simple, and the gaudy paint layer on the surface has peeled off in pieces, but it gives people a shabby feeling. Even if it is illuminated by the flame of a red candle from below, it doesn't look weird or scary at all.

Because the villagers took the girl to the well after offering sacrifices to the gods, Lu You thought there was something special about this temple. The way he entered here... Lu You suddenly lost expectations of this "god", thinking that only the open space is responsible for the "appearance", and the rituals performed here are purely psychological.

Lu You sneezed again, sniffing his nose, his attention was temporarily diverted from looking for clues to the mission, and he realized that he had to take care of himself.He took off the remains of his clothes, wrung out the rainwater soaked in the cloth, and barely wiped away the water.Qi Zhengyun rummaged around in the temple, only to find a dusty, worn-out blanket. In the end, he went out again and stole a set of clean clothes from a nearby resident's house. It was a little wet, and he didn't rinse after drying off the rain, which made his body sticky and itchy. In this case, Lu You couldn't be more picky.

He dragged a pair of plastic slippers that were too big and walked to the altar. Seeing that Qi Zhengyun didn't show any intention of stopping, he carefully picked up the lit candlestick.After getting closer and looking at the crude statue, Lu You found a detail that he hadn't noticed before: the hands of the statue were placed in front of him, palms overlapped, and there was something between the slightly curled fingers on top, which was cherished. its held in hands pose.That thing seemed to be put up separately later, and the material is also different from the clay statue, with a smooth and round jade-like texture.

Lu You approached the candle flame, and saw a vividly carved and lifelike small fish between the fingers of the statue.The material is only worthless jade, but the carving is simple and full of artistic conception.The body of the fish is covered with blue scales, and the eyes are white. It looks like it is swimming in the water, but it rests quietly in the painted palm of the statue.

As soon as he saw the fish, Lu You thought of the side of the road where he was doused in blood, the strange fish-shaped stone sculpture with its stomach cut open, and the white fish eyes that seemed to follow his gaze... That uncomfortable feeling reappeared at this moment, and Lu You didn't know if it was his own illusion.He turned his head and glanced at Qi Zhengyun, seeing Qi Zhengyun quietly staying behind him, he seemed to have gained some confidence in his heart, and was no longer afraid of the vaguely terrifying atmosphere around him.

There seemed to be some pattern painted on the wall beside the statue, and the candle light was not far away. Lu You walked around the altar, wanting to get closer to see it clearly.The light and shadow shifted with his footsteps, and the eyes of the jade fish in the palm of the idol seemed to move accordingly, as if slowly following Lu You's footsteps and moving sideways... A shadow fell in front of it, directly blocking all light.The monster that made the inner space of the temple extremely cramped moved its tentacles at some point, and quietly came to the front of the altar.

Qi Zhengyun looked down at the little fish condescendingly, the fish's eyes did not move, and the divine light in it seemed to dim as the shadow fell.Lu You was unaware of this silent confrontation—or unilateral suppression. He was carefully distinguishing the contents of the paintings on the wall.There are several paintings lined up. The painters probably don’t have much artistic talent. The lines are crooked like children’s graffiti, forming simple patterns; the walls are also covered with wet marks from soaking water, swelling and peeling off, and large mold spots. Destroyed the screen to make it harder to read.

The first thing Lu You saw was still a fish-shaped pattern, just two arcs intersecting and dots for eyes, which is simple and easy to recognize.He watched for a long time, and managed to sort out the content of these kindergarten comic strips: fish fell from the sky along with the rain; the scorching sun withered the crops in the field; Basin, but Lu You thinks this probably refers to the wellhead?

The next painting is of heavy rain and swollen rivers.After that was the last one: someone was kneeling on the ground, about to be swallowed by the rolled up waves; several others stood by the mouth of the circular well, with their hands raised high, with exaggerated smiles on their faces.

On the round face of the stick figure, the arc that represents the smile is drawn very wildly, with both ends sticking out the cheeks.This style of graffiti appeared on the wall of a dilapidated temple, which is really inconsistent and weird.The lines all showed a dark red that was close to black after oxidation, it might be paint... Lu You cautiously reached out and touched it: it was indeed just paint, not some more terrifying paint he guessed.But when he touched it with his fingertips, a large piece of wall ash that had been soaked in rainwater fell loose, revealing the inner structure of the wall.

At first glance, they are just ordinary bricks and stones, glued together with cement. The quality of the bricks is average. After years of disrepair, some corners have been broken into a texture like bean dregs.There was something in the cement of the wall that reflected light slightly in the fire, showing a translucent color. Lu You's first reaction was nails. Enduring the numbness of his scalp, he looked carefully for a while, and found that those seemed to be... Fish scales?

The light blue fish scales, as big as the scales at the base of Qi Zhengyun's tentacles, were neatly arranged in rows and stacked between two layers of bricks to form a wall.Lu You tried to lift off several other wall plasters that were about to peel off, and found that the scales were not found on every layer, but concentrated at a height slightly below his shoulders, on the first found layer, and on the upper and lower layers. In the cracks between the bricks on each floor, the scales formed three continuous lines, stretching towards both sides of the wall.Lu You intuitively felt that these three lines penetrated the four walls and surrounded the entire temple... If there is a gap, it is at the entrance of the temple.

Lu You turned back and walked towards the door. Qi Zhengyun, who was looking at something at the altar just now, followed this time.The temple door was made of wood, and it had been damaged by moths and water. Lu You checked the walls on both sides of the door frame and the gap between the wooden slats of the door to confirm his guess.There was still loud wind and rain outside the door, Lu You wanted to open the door to see the front, but was stopped by Qi Zhengyun before opening the door.

Qi Zhengyun dragged Lu You a little away from the door, and pointed his tentacles to the gap at the bottom of the door.Lu You illuminated with a candle, staring blankly at the ground flooded with mud and water, Qi Zhengyun pointed again, and then he realized what was abnormal: the line under the door crack was pitch black, and the edges were very neat.

However, the candle's firelight was reflected on the water surface, and it should have shined outside along the gap in the door...

It was as if something was stuck tightly outside the crack of the door, blocking the light.For some reason, Lu You not only thought of the black water, but also thought of the face that was squeezed tightly against the glass so that it became flat, and suddenly felt a chill.He didn't dare to observe carefully what was stuffed in the gap, after all, Qi Zhengyun didn't look nervous, and it seemed that he didn't need to study the countermeasures at all—it was great.

Qi Zhengyun's tentacles straightened out, pointing out the door, and then circled them with two tentacles, making a circle as a sign.Seeing that Lu You didn't quite understand what he meant, he simply dipped some mud and drew on the drier ground a little further away: a circle, a small house, and a line in the middle... Then he slowly raised and lowered the two tentacles Reach for the door, making a "forward" gesture.Lu You understood a bit: Does this mean that the direction of the temple gate is facing the direction of the open space where the well is located?

Lu You has a mediocre sense of direction and cannot recall the way up and down the mountain to make a judgment by himself, but he has a natural intuition: maybe not only the temple gate, the well, but also the fish-shaped stone sculpture by the side of the way up the mountain should be here. line.

The black water in the well, the jade carvings in the hands of the gods, and the scales built into the walls all made Lu You feel "restricted", as if he was afraid of something.Is it that fish?Looking at the content of those paintings, could it be that people suppressed the fish that caused heavy rain in the well, and at the same time offered sacrifices to it at regular intervals, so as to stop the continuous rain that would destroy the harvest?

But if it is explained in this way, the second picture of the scorching sun scorching the earth seems abrupt.Lu You saw only floods but no droughts in the data. Before the rainstorm, the crops planted in the village were growing smoothly.

Lu You pondered for a while, and adjusted his thinking slightly: Because of the drought, the villagers trapped the fish that can bring rain...

As a result, he found that after adding this premise, the feeling of the whole story suddenly changed: from numb people who chose to sacrifice their compatriots to eliminate disasters, to people who died for their own interests, messed up things and continued to go all the way to the dark the wicked.From the data, the attitudes of the people in this village towards the target and the girl, although no evidence has been found at this moment, Lu You's heart has already faintly leaned towards the latter.

But... What happened to the last failed sacrifice?

While in the clearing, Lu You heard the girl's scream coming from the well.She was supposed to be swallowed by the black water, but instead she became the master who could command the black water, and used this power to retaliate.But this kind of sacrifice has been going on for several generations, and there has never been a mistake before. If it is said that the girl's will is extraordinarily firm and defeated the fish against the guest, Lu You thinks it should not be so simple—in the memory of the target, The girl was weak and crying, because of the fish-shaped birthmark on her face that was "sacrifice scheduled" and the "sin" of her parents' death shortly after birth, she was able to stumble and stumble under the protection of him who was disabled and also bullied. Grow that big.

Before the girl was sacrificed to the black water, the expressionless face and the anger gushing out of her eyes were probably the most unyielding expression he had ever seen on her?

Thinking of this, Lu You always felt as if he had missed something.Qi Zhengyun poked him a few times, as if he wanted to say something, Lu You pressed down his tentacle that had just stirred the mud and then rubbed against him, signaling Qi Zhengyun to be quiet and not to disturb his thoughts.He sorted out the entire thinking process just now several times, recalled the materials carefully, and finally found something very wrong: what is the perspective of the projected object?

There is no problem with the perspective of those childhood memories before the rainstorm, but it is not right after that.When people bowed to the statue, he was in front of the crowd; when the girl was standing by the well, he was also facing her, and there was nothing between them except the well—according to Lu You’s previous personal experience, he In this way, you have to stand in front of the man in red presiding over the ceremony.

——After the rainstorm, the data screen changed to the No.1 perspective, and the figure of the projected object disappeared from the screen.

Lu You felt a creepy feeling.He touched his arm subconsciously. Because of the rain, the skin on his arm was still cold.When he was suspicious, Qi Zhengyun became impatient waiting beside him, stretched out his tentacles again, grabbed him and picked him up.Lu You was lifted up into the air and fell for a while, almost biting his own tongue, and the slippers shook off again, falling off his feet and falling into the muddy water.

Qi Zhengyun didn't seem to be going to let him down anymore, so he simply ignored the shoes, held Lu You on the tentacles like a human holding ice cream, and "swimmed" towards the statue.Lu You suddenly realized that the sound of the rain outside seemed to be much quieter, but there were more noisy noises that could not be described for a while... Qi Zhengyun walked around to the side of the statue where Lu You was looking at the painting just now, and suddenly moved a few tentacles inserted into the ground.

Lu You heard the sound of wood cracking, and the ground below was not all soil.As Qi Zhengyun dug up the large pieces of earth, rocks and wooden fragments, a dark hollow was revealed on the ground. This is a space hidden under the temple. It may have been a cellar before, but it has almost been filled with rainwater now.Lu You only glanced at the water below the cave entrance, and an extremely uncomfortable feeling of suffocation suddenly clenched his lungs.