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——It is estimated that it was not only the torrent of water brought by the heavy rain that destroyed the village that night.

Lu You saw the man in red standing in front of him when presiding over the sacrifice, it was the old man who dissuaded from beating the girl, but only for the integrity of the sacrifice, not for sympathy; his ghost body became flattened, like Zhang rubbed The paper that was flattened again seemed to be crushed and run over by something heavy when he died; he also saw the man who wanted to slap Xiaoqiu because of being bitten, his neck was broken and his head was tilted to one side, He shuffled because of a twisted leg.The boy who threw stones at Xiaoqiu was swollen like a swim bladder full of gas, staggering forward...

Compared with these ghosts, even the skull that frightened Lu You at first looked much cuter.Qi Zhengyun resolutely gave up the attack method of direct attack after one blow failed, and led Lu You to fight and retreat, retreat and dismantle, smash the walls and ground wherever he moved, and rolled up those cracks mixed with scales. Bricks were thrown towards the group of ghosts—the place where the ghost's body was hit was gasified. That scene reminded Lu You of the scene when soap bubbles full of smoke burst, and the smoke was pure black.

But even though they were riddled with holes, they were still pushing forward, with an inexplicable strong resentment, and stubbornly stretched out their hands to catch Lu You!

I didn't expect that after breaking away from the initial world of zombie destruction, I would still have the opportunity to experience the feeling of being hunted down like this.Ghosts are even worse than zombies, some drowned ghosts can actually float...!Lu You tightly clutched the cold and wet skull picked up from the water, and his teeth kept chattering, because this change happened after he guessed the real situation in the village. He suspected that the spiritual world probably applied to "Consciousness determines matter", which is the opposite rule of the real world, so I desperately tried to imply that those things have entities, and they must be able to be attacked...

I saw the ghosts flickering like a TV snowflake screen, and the body was transparent and solid for a while while moving, switching back and forth between solid and incorporeal because of his thoughts.But Qi Zhengyun had a quick reaction, and when he saw whoever had a body, he would slap his hand towards him, as if he was swinging a golf club, and his posture was quite handsome.

Qi Zhengyun dragged the group of ghosts around the temple wall for half a circle. Thanks to the joint efforts of the two, the number of ghosts was reduced by one-third, and the walls and floors became riddled with holes. While shaking, he wrapped Lu You with his tentacles, and at the same time shattered the statue with one blow, and the fragments of the statue passed through the wall and went outside.

The drizzle was dense and cold as needles, and the scaled tentacles were like fierce dragon tails, sweeping towards the wall heavily.The dilapidated temple collapsed with the roar, and the bricks and stones were buried downward, drowning most of the ghosts who had not had time to rush out of the gap.The billowing black smoke that dissipated from the ghosts emerged from the gaps between the bricks and tiles, rushing towards the sky against the rain, and the scene had a sense of sadness and grandeur.Qi Zhengyun's tentacles passed through a large number of overturned bricks and wood fragments, quickly caught one of the small things, and rolled it up to Lu You like the skull before.

Lu You stretched out his hand to touch it after he had completed his mental preparation. His hand was cold, but it was not something scary: it was just the little jade fish sculpture that was once held in the palm of the god statue.He saw the fish scales that had been sealed in the wall flying away, and finally freed, they turned into shimmering light and dissipated in the air. The direction of the well that the temple gate used to face.

Qi Zhengyun followed closely behind Guangliu: This is also the road that the sacrificial team has traveled.Lu You looked around: Are there any traces of villages around?Only the broken walls of the houses destroyed by the mudslides remained, half buried in the wet soil.At this time, Lu You finally understood why Qi Zhengyun didn't want to return to the village, and took him directly into the temple when he came back; except for the temple with fish scales sealed in the wall, everything else in the village was destroyed long ago, and only ghosts were left to build it. phantom.

Where Qi Zhengyun led him past, the soil layer rose up, and the pale arm of the dead body was stretched out from the bottom, standing upright on the muddy land poured by rain, like a small piece of pale young sprout of a new plant.They kept grasping in the air, trying in vain but still full of unwillingness to catch the escaped "sacrifice".But in an instant, the stream of light and the black monster following it left this sad land behind.

The rain that had just begun to decrease was getting heavier and heavier.When passing by the weird stone sculpture, Qi Zhengyun smashed it like a temple, and picked out a pair of slightly flattened spheres from the debris.Lu You has already guessed what these are, and has become numb, so he silently took them and hugged them carefully.There was a moist coolness on these things, which was different from rainwater, and it slightly stinged his skin.

When they reached the clearing, they saw that the clearing was flooded with black water gushing from the well, constantly rolling in waves.A small figure emerged from the water, Xiaoqiu's childish face was as pale as those ghosts, and she stared at the visitor expressionlessly.The shattered scale turned into a stream of light falling down, and the black water suddenly seemed to come alive, and quickly poured towards the submerged well head.

The last ray of black water disappeared at the mouth of the well, and the stream of light, like a tired bird returning to its nest, also fell into the mouth of the well, and disappeared in a flash.Lu You felt the jade carving and the ball in his hand tremble, and Qi Zhengyun led him into the well. The girl's ghost still didn't say a word, but drifted a little to the side, out of the way.

Lu You threw those two things into the well.The bones placed in the temple, the scales sealed in the wall, the eyes buried in the stone carving, the flesh and blood in the well... I don’t know how many years ago, the big fish brought life-saving rain to the drought people. In return, people divided Open its body, trap it on this land, and make it a god who accepts sacrifices and rains.Now the village has been destroyed, and the last temple was also destroyed by Qi Zhengyun just now.The parts of its body were finally able to come together again and become whole.

The space in the well seemed to open up infinitely.Lu You looked inside and saw a big fish glowing all over its body, flicking its tail in the depths of the well, turning lightly in a circle, then swimming towards the distance, gradually shrinking to invisible.It was the most elegant, beautiful, purest creature he had ever seen.

The rain finally started to stop gradually.He turned his head and looked at Xiaoqiu.Xiaoqiu no longer had the frenzied posture she had when she chased out of the well to take away the sacrifice. She just watched him silently for several minutes before, neither attacking nor speaking.They looked at each other for a while, then her eyes moved down and landed on the only remaining skull in Lu You's hand.Two lines of black tears trickled down from under her eyes.

After becoming a ghost, he finally possessed the strength to resist, but in his irrational rage, he not only destroyed the village, but also killed the only person he cared about...

Do you still want him to accompany you?Lu You wanted to ask her, but he couldn't understand what he said, and he didn't remember the way the target communicated with the girl.But Xiaoqiu raised her head and looked at him again, with the strange eyes of someone she didn't know. "You're not him..." she whispered.Because it's a soul-to-soul communication?Lu You was the only one who could hear this sentence very clearly.

The girl's figure flickered and disappeared by the well.I don't know how long it has been raining in reality and in the ghost's illusion, the last few drops of rain fell, and it stopped completely.In the barren land with no signs of life, silence spreads endlessly.

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Qi Zhengyun turned the open space upside down, dug up the well, and dug out some of Xiaoqiu's remaining bones.The long-ago victims had turned into white gravel, and had even been completely dissolved in the water.They found a place on the top of the mountain and buried Xiaoqiu's remains with the skull of the young man whose name he didn't even know in the end.They will no longer be separated, and with each other's company, they should be able to quell resentment and rest peacefully, right?

Lu You asked Qi Zhengyun not to follow, and walked a distance alone until he could contact the system.The first sound after the system was able to speak was a sigh. "It's been less than half a day since I've been offline, and you've already finished your tasks... No, it's Qi Zhengyun who has finished your tasks." It said sadly, "This makes me feel a little useless."

Isn't this an obvious fact?Lu You was not going to sympathize with or comfort this guy just because of his pitiful tone. "Hey, system, let me ask you a question." He frowned slightly and said, "Don't you think this task is too difficult?"

Although it was completed in one night, it is the most efficient world he has experienced so far, but, "The task objective is not clear, the order of the materials is messed up, and the world view is still like this..." Lu You's dissatisfaction was mainly due to In the future, there will be similar worries in the world, "If you want to escape from the sacrifice site, you have to go back to the village to fish for skulls, smash walls, smash stone carvings, dig ground and wells... and you have to fight ghosts! If Qi Zhengyun doesn't come, I will You can't pass such a difficult task even if you die hundreds of times by yourself?"

After hearing his accusation, the system actually yawned lazily. "Isn't Qi Zhengyun here?" It asked back.

The tone was very languid, as if it was full of "well, I know you are showing your affection" and there is no love in life.

Lu You showed an expression of disbelief to such a perfunctory response, but he opened his mouth, but he couldn't find anything to refute.He turned his head and looked at Qi Zhengyun in the distance. The black monster obediently waited in place and did not follow. At the moment, he was boringly tapping on the branches beside him.Lu You hesitated to speak several times, and wanted to argue with the system, but in the end he really couldn't think of anything to say, and only felt a sense of doubt about life.

It would of course be a lie to say that there was no smugness or sweetness in my heart.But... Hearing what the system said... Why is he so worried about the tasks he will go through in the future?

Lu You doesn't want to think about the gloomy future for the time being.He has to ask the system for more important things: "Are you sure this is the task?"

"What's wrong?" The system became strange instead, and asked curiously, "What else do you think is wrong?"

Lu You didn't speak for a while, and first recalled the chaotic night. "The sacrifice I experienced when I first came here...should be an illusion of ghosts, right? It's like the illusion of encountering wild ghosts in the mountains and forests, thinking that they enjoyed beautiful women and delicacies, but they were actually bone maggots." He slowly sorted it out. Thinking about it, she said, "Xiaoqiu wants her brother to accompany her, and the villagers want the rainstorm that killed them to stop..."

So after he cast it, he became the role of a sacrifice, and was escorted up the mountain by the villagers who were actually ghosts, to sacrifice to Xiaoqiu in the well.Xiaoqiu has nothing to say, those villagers are really hard to say: they don’t mention the revenge of Dayu’s kindness, and they have always acted disgustingly; Or sacrifice?

If you want it to rain, sacrifice, and if there is no god to sacrifice, create a god to sacrifice again; if you want the rain to stop, you still sacrifice, and the sacrifice is to be killed by them in the dead silence and become the victim of the ghost's revenge...

Lu You really didn't want to think too much about those weirdos, so he talked about the point he wasn't sure about. "Does this object... have anything to do with that big fish?" He said to himself, without any hope that the system would answer, "He can't understand human language, but he can feel the big fish's voice." Emotions, and memories; he went into the cellar and saw the bones, at that time there were sacrifices on the ground, and Xiao Qiu became the only victim who became a ghost and could use the power of a big fish to take revenge..."

After thinking about it, he felt that this should not be a mere coincidence.The system said "Ugh" to indicate that it was listening, but it didn't answer after that, but just asked him: "What do you think?"

"Eyes, scales, bones, flesh and blood..." Lu You counted these in a low voice, "If there is anything that is not trapped, it is the soul, right? But it took a long time to break free, and There is no way to leave the body too far away, so I can only be reborn in that small mountain village...and then I met Xiaoqiu."

The system didn't speak.Lu You continued: "But in this case... the big fish has just recovered and left. Burying Xiaoqiu and the bones of that human body together, is it still companionship?"

For this question, the system cunningly gave him another question. "The big fish has left, so where do you think Xiao Qiu's soul has gone?"

Xiaoqiu's soul...

Lu You looked up at the sky. After the rain stopped, the clouds dissipated quickly, and now stars have come out.The big fish swims away from the well, and Xiao Qiu disappears by the well. They passed the same road, are they reunited now?Beyond the boundary of life and death, I have gained unprecedented freedom, and with the other party by my side, I will never feel lonely again.together forever.

together forever?

Lu You smiled unconsciously. The unlimited word "forever" is too large and makes people feel empty.He used to always make wishes like this, but he was not confident in his heart that they could really come true.Now that I think about it, why not change it to something more realistic—for example, change the deadline from "forever" to "a few hundred worlds after that"?

He ignored the inexplicable sighing that the system next to his ear seemed to be stimulated by, and turned around to Qi Zhengyun, who was waiting for him, and returned the same way.The black monster no longer knocked on the branches, and was standing still with its tentacles, looking at him eagerly. Seeing that he finally finished talking with the portable light bulb in the system and walked back, he immediately raised his tentacles to emphasize his strength. presence.

How much emotion can be contained in a smile, Lu You, who cannot share vision with Qi Zhengyun and sees himself, will probably not notice it for a long time; he just feels that the stars are twinkling so gently at this moment, which makes him want to love him a little more.

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