Chapter 331: Yinshan Village

After cleaning up the scene, Fang Dian called the police, then she borrowed Mu Sicheng's heavy-duty motorbike from Bai Liu, put Lu Yizhan, who was still unconscious, on the back of the bike, put on her helmet and waved her long legs as she rode back.

Du Sanying looked at Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan's injuries from afar and cautioned fearfully, "Well, why don't you ask Mr. Bai Liu to call you a taxi? Don't ride a motorbike, it's not safe ......"

Bai Liu glanced at the motorbike with little expression on his face and looked at Fang Dian: "Since when did you learn to ride a heavy motorbike?"

Fang Dian was turning around to put a helmet on Lu Yizhan, who had fallen on the back seat, when he looked up and laughed: "I've never learnt, but I often drive a Hello bike at work, so I guess that's about right!

Bai Liu refused blandly: "Not even close, you get down."

Du Sanying's face split open and he hissed inwardly - Mr. Bai Liu, why do you have the nerve to talk about other people!

Isn't that exactly the same as what you said before!

Fang Dian gave a regretful eep and stared at Bai Liu for a while to make sure he wouldn't let her ride before he got off and touched the bike: "If I hadn't been caught this time I wouldn't have had the chance to see this kind of racing scene in the movies... Heavy motorbikes are so cool to drive... ..."

Bai Liu said, "I'll lend you a ride sometime later."

Fang Dian's eyes lit up: "It's a deal!"

"I'll call a car to pick you and Lu Yizhan up later." Bai Liu said. Bai Liu said, "Send me a text message when you get back."

Fang Dian gave an OK gesture, and then helped Lu Yizhan to wait aside.

Bai Liu paused, "Aren't you going to ask why you were arrested? It has to do with me."

"I can see that, I'm not stupid." Fang Dian leaned back on the bike with her legs crossed and her head cocked in a grin, "But you don't seem to want to talk about it, so I didn't ask."

Bai Liu is quiet for a moment: "Right no ......"

Fang Dian raised his hand to interrupt Bai Liu: "Eh, eh, eh! That's not necessary!"

She smiled graciously as always: "As usual, you owe me a favour for having got me into trouble once.

Fang Dian smiled brightly, "Been busy with some team competition lately? Haven't seen you around."

Mu Sicheng and Tang Erda both blushed as they subconsciously glanced at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu's expression remained light: "How did you guess?"

Fang Dian rubbed his chin: "You usually do things for money, and when you're laid off and you're short of money, Mr. Lu wouldn't ask you to do anything illegal, and the fastest way to get money for a short period of time legally is usually through various athletic competitions, except for gambling."

"And-" Fang Dian nodded at the circle of people around Bai Liu, hugging her chest and laughing, "These are all fresh faces, I haven't seen them before, are they your race teammates? "

Bai Liu gave an umph.

Fang Dian was still smiling: "I think you're getting on well with them, so bring them over for dinner sometime."

Bai Liu, his eyes downcast for a long time, answered.

The taxi called for Fang Dian arrived soon afterwards, and Fang Dian waved goodbye to Bai Liu as she helped Lu Yizhan, who was not yet fully conscious, to get into the car and leave.

As soon as Fang Dian left, Mu Sicheng was the first to ask, "Is she a gamer?"

"No." Bai Liu looked at the distant back of the taxi.

Mu Sicheng wondered, "But did she just say that too accurately?"

Bai Liu withdrew his eyes, "She guessed."

Mu Sicheng couldn't believe it: "If it's not a player, she just met us once and her guess is so accurate?"

Bai Liu said after a moment of silence, "In high school, Lu Yizhan and I played all kinds of competitive, horror games with her, and we never beat her once in three years."

"So far, I haven't won a game at her hands."

Inside the taxi.

Fang Dian leaned against the car window, lazily snorted and kicked Lu Yizhan next to her: "Stop pretending, Bai Liu can't see anymore, open your eyes."

Lu Yizhan slowly opened his eyes and leaned back in his position in silence.

Fang Dian didn't look at him, his eyes falling longingly out of the window, "What a change Bai Liu, so withdrawn in high school, only able to play with me and you, now he has so many new friends to play games with too ......"

"I hope he has a good time."

Fang Dian laughed as she turned her head to rub Lu Yizhan's head vigorously and smiled brightly, "Of course, Mr. Lu, so are you."

"Y'all have fun!"

Lu Yizhan slowly opened her arms and wrapped them tightly around Fang Dian's waist, burying her face in them.

Fang Dian gently ruffled Lu Yizhan's hair and kissed the corner of his bruised forehead: "It's not worth it for either you or Bai Liu to be sad because of something that is supposed to make people happy, like a game."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and gave a muffled hmm.

The taxi makes its way down the remote and deserted thoroughfare towards the bustling city centre, with no one in sight in the empty practice area behind it.

In-game.

Bai Liu took Mu Sicheng and they logged into the game and first went to the Wandering Circus guild location to meet up and head straight to the lounge.

Muke, Liu Jiayi and Wang Shun were already waiting there.

"The results of the last race at the Fever Lamb are in." Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu and let out a breath, "They won, their betting pool has been expanded once again and your viewing pool has just been recalculated and it comes out at 9."

"Your match with the Raging Lambs takes place in viewing pool 9."

Bai Liu nodded, "Got it, go over there now."

Viewing pool 9.

Kong Xuyang sits grimly on the edge of his seat, next to a couple of bikers who are too scared to look up and have injuries on their bodies.

"You say that you failed in your sneak attack on Bai Liu?"

Kong Xuyang folded his hands on his knees and tried to look like a superior being, but the shame of his failure made his face contort and he questioned with a scowl.

"The best tactician in this game we've stolen from has succeeded, Bai Liu, a mere laid off employee who was fired from his company at the age of 24, a loser, you guys would actually lose to him in reality?!"

Kong Xuyang kicked a biker in the knee and bellowed angrily, "Punk, bunch of punk!"

"I brought you into the game, raised you to spend your time and wipe your asses with props when things go wrong, and this is how you repay me?!"

"And I told you to divide your forces, and none of you got it?!"

These speedsters stood on thin ice, not daring to breathe.

He looked over at Kong Xuyang and nodded in greeting, as if nothing had happened.

It's like all the tricks Kong Xuyang did before, Bai Liu didn't care and it didn't affect him in any way, what Kong Xuyang did was like a clown, not worth mentioning in front of Bai Liu.

This calmness of Bai Liu's was a source of great anger to Kong Xuyang.

Kong Xuyang got up violently, but in the end he controlled himself and sat down with a twisted face, his eyes staring gloomily at Bai Liu, then as if something had suddenly occurred to him, his face eased considerably and he gave a grim smile, saying with a muzzle: " Bai Liu, you can run past the first day of the month, but you can't run past the 15th. "

Bai Liu raises his eyebrows slightly.

The crowd in the viewing pool was growing and all eyes were on the large TV screen in the centre, which slowly lit up with a line that read

[System Alert: Single player tournament is about to begin.]

[System Alert: Wandering Circus Crew (Rose Hunter) vs. Frenzied Lamb Crew (Hairy Fish)]

As soon as the list came out, the audience erupted.

"What's going on? Not Kong Xuyang?"

"Hasn't he always been fixed in the singles position?"

"Who's this hairy fish? I've never seen it before?"

Wang Shun was also stunned: " Kong Xuyang has been fixated on the singles position in order to increase his exposure, and playing singles is the easiest position to be remembered by the audience and to become a star player."

"He actually gave such a spot to a reserve player, Mao Fish, who has never played before? Why not let a regular player play?"

Wang Shun frowned in disbelief: "What does Kong Xuyang want?"

"It's a sacrifice." Bai Liu watched the big screen with rapt attention, " Kong Xuyang should have known that I would put Captain Tang in the solo match, so he knew that he would most likely not win the solo match, even if he had the [Silence and Silence] skill to freeze the panel, Captain Tang is still very fit."

"That's true." Wang Shun mused, "Captain Tang could have beaten Kong Xuyang to the punch with his bare hands alone."

"He doesn't have anyone on his team who can beat Captain Tang, so the position is simply sacrificed to the sky with a reserve." Bai Liu's eyes glanced over Kong Xuyang's face, "It looks like he's going out of the double."

Wang Shun was stunned: "It's always been you and God Mu in our pairs."

Bai Liu hmmed lightly, "He should just want to take the initiative against me."

Wang Shun gave Bai Liu a worried look, " Bai Liu, Kong Xuyang's tactical style is brutal, he likes to freeze his opponents' panels and then slowly torture and tease them, are you okay with that?"

Bai Liu looks across at Kong Xuyang: "I've had a taste of it and I think it's average."

[System Alert: Wandering Circus player (Rose Hunter) wins single player match, kills match early, accumulates 2 points]

Tang Erda logged out and sat next to Bai Liu as a new line appeared on the big screen in the centre of the viewing pool and Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng stood up.

[System alert: The double race is about to begin.]

[System Alert: Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng of the Wandering Circus vs Kong Xuyang, Silent Lamb of the Frenzied Lamb]

A huge cheer erupted from the crowd as this was a double-header that brought together highly popular tacticians from both sides.

Before logging into the game, Kong Xuyang hypocritically came up to shake Bai Liu's hand and said with a smile on his face, "Bai Liu, do you know why my team is called [Frenzied Lamb]?"

Bai Liu smiles, shakes his hand and asks rhetorically, "Is there any allusion to this?"

Kong Xuyang couldn't suppress a grin: "Because the killer of our team is a lamb."

Bai Liu trailed off, "Is that [Fever Lamb]? I remember this player died sadly in the mid-season last year."

Kong Xuyang's face twisted for a moment before the smile returned, "No, it's the new [Lamb], [Silence of the Lambs]."

Bai Liu switches his eyes to the team members standing behind Kong Xuyang.

The man looked young, twenty-five or twenty-six, wearing a motorbike helmet, staring Bai Liu, with a bruised face, round eyes and face, hair growing luxuriantly at the temples all the way down to his ears, nose and lips protruding, cheekbones inward, like a lamb.

From the injuries and the motorbike helmet, it was clear that this man had taken part in the previous siege of Bai Liu, but for a moment Bai Liu couldn't remember exactly where this man had been.

Bai Liu's eyes moved down to see what the lamb-like member of the team was holding.

--A whitish red fabric bow hair rope.

This is Fang Dian's stuff.

Kong Xuyang smiled sorrowfully, "Is it obvious that you think this person has done something very wrong to you, but you can't remember who he is?"

"Because his skill is to make you forget who you are."

"Wait to be tormented by me, Bai Liu, and you will regret that you dared to take on me without thinking of yourself, but it is too late to say such to you now."

After Kong Xuyang said this, he smiled again, withdrew his hand and turned towards the log-in point.

Bai Liu looked at the Lamb team member who was following Kong Xuyang, withdrew his gaze and turned to lead Mu Sicheng also towards their login point.

[Silence] + [Silence of the Lambs]? ......

That does count like a killer.

[System Alert: Players Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng have logged into the game (Yinshan Village)]

Bai Liu opened his eyes.

In front of you is a desolate hillside shrub with dense trees and bamboo forests covering a dirt road, surrounded by country fields that have just been planted with rice, the green rice and the weeds swaying on the ridges so green that they are hard on the eyes.

There is a disused weir and a well swollen with green duckweed, and Bai Liu looks up and sees family after family nestled in the hills, smoke billowing out of their chimneys, the hills hidden, the rain drizzling down, and the peace and quiet of a paradise.

[System Alert: It's raining on the Ching Ming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls]

[Player Identity Profile: You are a landlord and rascal who is on your way back to your home village of Yinshan. You hadn't been back to your hometown for many years, but not long ago you were notified by a national archaeological team that your village had unearthed a century-old tomb of great mining value, which happens to be just below your home].

[The archaeological team wanted to mine the tomb under the house, they had to push the house in this village and needed the consent of the head of the household, but it so happened that the only few old people left in this village accidentally fell off the mountain and fell into the weir and drowned when they were hiking for ancestral worship three days ago].

[Among the old people who drowned happened to be your grandmother, whose other relatives were gone, so the ownership of the house logically fell to you, the grandson who hadn't returned to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors for decades].

[The purpose of your return to Yinshan Village this time is to pack up your things, observe the first seven days of your grandmother's life and take over the house, but privately, you also harbor some ulterior motives].

[The Village of Yinshan main quest activation: Live until the archaeological team comes to receive the ancient tomb].

[Yinshan Village Side Quest Activation: Discovering Your Purpose].

Bai Liu took a step forward and there was a strange, like a paper snapping sound under his feet and he looked down - it was a white, round, square-perforated piece of money for the afterlife.

Bai Liu paused as he turned his head to look back along this paper money.

From here, the paper money drifted all the way from the abandoned weir to Bai Liu's path home, the pieces of paper were faintly stepped into the mud, and if Bai Liu hadn't paid special attention, he wouldn't have noticed that the paper money had been soaked by the rain.

Bai Liu looks up at the deserted village swaying in the mountain rain and sees smoke billowing up from the homes.

"Aaaaahhhh-" a shivering male voice came from far behind Bai Liu.

When Bai Liu turned around, he saw Mu Sicheng running over to him in tears, like a ghost had set his butt on fire, and then grabbed Bai Liu's arm and didn't move.

"Bai, Bai Liu ......" Mu Sicheng's voice trembled as he broke down and screamed, "It's a Chinese horror book! I'm so fucking scared of Chinese horror!"

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows, "You're afraid of ghosts?"

"I'm not afraid of ghosts!" Mu Sicheng retorted sternly, "I'm afraid of Chinese horror copies, don't you think Chinese horror books are much scarier than those zombies, monsters?"

Bai Liu saw that Mu Sicheng was genuinely frightened, so he changed the subject: "Did you find anything?"

As soon as Mu Sicheng heard Bai Liu ask this, he swallowed nervously and stiffened, "...... Look back and see my footprints."

Mu Sicheng was wearing a pair of sneakers, and the footprints left on this freshly rained-on dirt road were so obvious that even the size and brand of the sole could be imprinted, and a trail of footprints clearly connected on the road from near the weir to the feet of Mu Sicheng.

Bai Liu looks at the footprints, "I see them."

Mu Sicheng closed his eyes and the hand holding Bai Liu's arm trembled slightly: "...... Look carefully."

Bai Liu looked a little closer this time, staring at the trail of shoe prints for a moment before noticing something was wrong.

Behind each of Mu Sicheng's shoe prints is a small, inverted triangular footprint, very light, as if something had held Mu Sicheng's shoulders and padded against his body, following him step by step.

And the size of the footprints is wrong, it's not the size of a human footprint at all, but rather like the footprints of a ...... paper man who was buried with him.

"I kept feeling like something was following me ......" Mu Sicheng took a deep breath, "then turned around to see a creepy smiling bridal paper face, then my footprints were off and there was an extra one. "

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze: "Did the life and spirit values drop?"

Mu Sicheng shakes his head.

"Then let's leave it alone for now." Bai Liu looked away from the village, "Let's go in first."

Mu Sicheng just took one look at the village before his face went white again, clutching Bai Liu in a death grip, slowly turning his head to look at Bai Liu: "...... wait."

"You read the player ID's, right?" Mu Sicheng pointed to the light smoke still rising sparsely in the village and his face darkened, "Yinshan Village is already a dead village, the last few elderly people alive were drowned three days ago, there would be no one to build a fire and cook in this village at all."

"What's with all the smoke?"

Bai Liu looked over and let out an oh, "I noticed that, but we'll have to go over there to find out who's cooking on the fire, won't we?"

"I guess it was made for the accompanying paper man who followed you."

"And you're fucking scaring me!" Mu Sicheng couldn't hold it together for a second and almost cried, "Are you really not scared at all?"

Bai Liu smiled, "It's okay."