Master Swindler
Chapter 85:
The old woman came and went silently. Of course, it was also possible that their attention was too focused on the cat corpse and the dead baby, so they didn't notice anyone approaching.
In short, the sudden appearance of the opponent really surprised the other two players.
The old woman had a rickety figure, but she did not use a cane either. Lu Qingjia noticed the footprints behind her, but they were plain, strong, clear and clear.
So he smiled: "Grandma, what is going on?"
He pointed to the dead baby on the tree: "I've heard that cats die unlucky and cannot be buried. Why is this baby hanging here?"
The old woman seemed to be very new to the three of them. When Lu Qingjia asked her, she looked at the three of them greedily, and finally fell on Lu Qingjia.
He smiled: "I'm always a girl. It's a merit to appease the mountain god."
He said to the three people again: "But when you come back, you don't have to commit this evil."
Lu Qingjia laughed, glanced at the baby tied to the dead cat, and said: "But if I were a mountain god, I would not be happy if I offered me such a supply."
The old woman's face changed when she heard this: "Shut up, sins and sins. Children are ignorant and offend the mountain god, don't blame it."
The other party rubbed his hands around and worshiped, as if he was afraid of being affected by Lu Qingjia's madness just now.
Lu Qingjia was also a pervert. Not only did he not shut up when he saw this, he stepped up to the tree to untie the rope of the hanging cat and the dead baby.
"You, what are you doing?" The old woman hurriedly tried to stop, but was stopped by extreme players and unlimited players.
Lu Qingjia dug a hole in the ground in twos and threes and buried the cat and the dead baby hastily.
Said: "Grandma, listen to me, feudal superstition is bad, let alone scare or not scary, this breeds bacteria and the corpse poison that flows down, whoever hits here barefoot will have to rot."
The grandmother was very anxious: "You little bastards, your fathers and grandfathers are beasts who are greedy for life and fear of death, and being small is not a good thing."
"You quickly dig it out and hang it back, otherwise no one will be able to save you later, Mountain God—"
Lu Qingjia didn't wait for her to finish speaking, but said, "Mountain God?"
He said something and pointed in the direction of the village: "We came back just because we wanted to discuss something with it."
"I wonder if Grandma has time to lead the way?"
Speaking of this, the old woman's mood changed, as if the anxiety just no longer existed, she began to look at Lu Qingjia and the others with the rare, tribute-like eyes.
"Come on, come on, come on." While leading the way, he hummed a tune that looked strange in the setting sun.
From time to time, there is a phrase "come back, don't leave", which is not like singing a song, but like a lyrics sung at a funeral.
This village is not small, at least in Lu Qingjia's view, there are less than 200 households.
Every family’s houses are built more intensively. Although according to Father Lu, the village here has been completely isolated from the world in order to prevent similar incidents of young people fleeing back then.
Only a few who have a firm belief in the mountain god will be allowed to go out to study and then return to the village to become a teacher.
According to the imagination of the players, this place should be a poor and backward place that has remained in the last century.
But unexpectedly, the houses in the village are neat and solid, with uniform white walls and gray tiles, and cement roads that lead to every household, and they look good.
At this time the sun is about to set, and most of the people who go out to work are returning home with farm tools.
This village obviously sacrifices to the population every three years, but the villagers' faces are not depressed and decadent.
Most of the people passing by looked calm and relaxed, but when they saw Lu Qingjia and the three people who were obviously out of place, their expressions changed and they looked at them with eyes full of various emotions.
This look is very uncomfortable, especially when there are a large number of people and they look at the same time.
But fortunately, the three players are all experienced battles, this is not a concern.
Lu Qingjia even smiled at a few young girls who had come back.
The men in the village face the yellow soil with their backs to the sky, and the girls who are used to seeing these are rough, black and yellow. They suddenly see Lu Qingjia who does not seem to be a species.
White and clean, decent and elegant, and even more dazzling than the stars in the books they occasionally glance at.
He blushed immediately, lowered his head and dared not look at him, and his steps became hurried.
The old woman was very dissatisfied and gave a cold snort, but she didn't say anything.
But I don't know who quickly spread the news of their return. When the old woman led them to stop, a large number of villagers gathered around the three.
Many of them are still holding their rice bowls and chopsticks, obviously they are coming out to watch the excitement during dinner.
He didn't shy away from his sight, and even blatantly pointed at the three of Lu Qingjia.
The old woman knocked on the door, the solid wood door opened from the inside, and an old man with a pipe came out.
Without even having to confess to the old woman, he said to the three of Lu Qingjia: "Are you back? Come in first."
Lu Qingjia said: "You don't seem to be surprised that we will come."
The other party smiled: "What's so strange? You always want to come back."
After speaking, he even took a deep look at Lu Qingjia, and said with a twisted smile: "You can't do anything unless you come back."
These words aroused the vigilance of extreme players and infinite players. They took a look at Lu Qingjia, and they had some guesses about what the old man had only brought Lu Qingjia out to say.
This also explains why Lu Qingjia is the first to know the quest and difficulty style of the dungeon. It depends on the situation that the opponent has already experienced it first.
However, the two of them didn't know what Lu Qingjia had analyzed, that the curse was transferable, so for the time being, their sympathy for Lu Qingjia was greater than suspicion.
The old man glanced at the black cat in Lu Qingjia's arms and sneered unlucky, but he moved away and let the three of them in.
This is the ancestral hall in the village, the layout is fairly simple, ordinary two-entry courtyard.
But the old woman and other villagers did not follow in.
The old man led them into the worship room and pointed to the three futons on the floor: "Kneel."
The three of them ignored him, but began to look at the whole house.
Except for the ancestral tablets displayed in order, the top one is a stone covered with a red cloth.
Lu Qingjia pointed to the stone and said, "This is the mountain god?"
Seeing that the three of them were rude, the old man didn't even get angry, but said: "Yes and no."
He sighed and shook his head: "You young people who grew up outside have no proper rules and regulations."
After speaking, he looked at Lu Qingjia carefully, and asked, "How many do you have in your house?"
Lu Qingjia knew that he was asking someone of his generation, so he replied, "Two, and an older brother."
The old man smiled weirdly: "I said the baby looked familiar. It turned out that it was your brother who was here."
After finishing speaking, he shook his head: "It's a pity, it's a pity."
Perhaps it is because this world is the place where the old uncle was buried, so in this copy, Lu Qingjia has many details different from his usual style.
The other two players may not know each other, but Zhong Liyu has the most experience.
The most obvious is that he has become impatient with many things.
Hearing what the old man said, although he still had a smile on his face, Zhong Liyu could feel that Lu Qingjia's heart was sharp and aggressive at the moment.
If it hadn't been for his uncle, he would have pulled out a cannon and shattered the ancestral hall.
At this moment, he suppressed his emotions and asked, "Where is the place of worship? It shouldn't be here, right?"
"Haha, what's the hurry?" The old man said: "Stay a few more days, I will let you see."
When Lu Qingjia heard the words, he was really not in a hurry. After walking through the ancestral hall, he came out with the old man when he found that he had limited gain.
At this time, the villagers hadn't dispersed yet, but more people watched the excitement, and the children also pointed to the three of them.
Lu Qingjia asked the old man: "Where shall we live next?"
As soon as the words came out, one person walked out from the crowd, looking at his 40s or 50s, but the actual age should be younger.
He is considered a burly figure among the men in this village. He looked at the three of Lu Qingjia coldly and said, "Come with me."
Obviously, for those of them who came back from outside, there was a way to make arrangements.
The man took the three of them to an empty house near the back mountain. There were obviously no traces of residence here, but they were cleaned accidentally.
However, depending on the degree of damage to the walls and furniture, it should have been cleaned out in the past two days.
Obviously, it is expected that someone will come to clean it out, rather than taking care of it for a long time.
There are several rooms in the house, and each room has a bed, enough for the three of them.
The man pointed to the kitchen again: "I have rice, noodles and rapeseed. I have to eat and cook myself. If I have something to do, I will come out and say'Old West' at the door.
Really, communication basically depends on shouting.
After the man left, Lu Qingjia took out his mobile phone, and as expected, there was no signal.
However, he and Infinite players don't need to worry about this. Infinite City is mostly cross-age technology products.
There is a prop the size of a dust plug that plugs into a mobile phone and is a powerful signal receiver.
Not to mention the villages that are only tens of kilometers away from the outside, even signals thousands of miles away can be forcibly captured, and the barriers in the ordinary physical sense are not very useful.,
Unless locked in a room made of a specific metal and more than one meter thick.
Lu Qingjia threw a receiver to the extreme players, and the eyes of the two players at the moment when they saw Lu Qingjia became quite strange.
Quite frightening.
You should know that the props in other games are usually obtained by participating in the exchange student copy. Lu Qingjia can easily take it out now, which means that he has probably participated in the exchange student copy of the infinite game.
However, he is here again. It stands to reason that most players can only participate once, so the current situation is a bit sad.
However, compared to this possibility, the two are more willing to persuade themselves with the reason that each other knows the players who have participated in the Infinite dungeon and obtains items from the other.
But seeing him deliver the props without changing his face, this reason is not tenable.
When the two players looked tangled, Lu Qingjia took some food from the space.
At this time, he was too lazy to cook, and he was hungry after traveling for several hours in the car.
In order to cope with the lack of resources, with the amount of space Lu Qingjia has now, he was fully prepared early, and he had enough food to survive for a long time in places without food.
He took out a steaming box lunch and ate with the cat.
When the two players saw it, they also took out their food, but the extreme player's food is interesting.
Lu Qingjia glanced at the strange dishes in the other party's lunch box, purple tomatoes, red blueberries, blue apples, and colorful fish sashimi that looked evil.
The extreme player noticed the eyes of the two and smiled: "Humans have mutated, where can plants and animals be spared?"
"But these things you can't eat are very poisonous."
Lu Qingjia asked, "Are you a poisonous man?"
The other party nodded: "I became like this as soon as this copy came in. I am not used to it. Fortunately, it can be changed back to the original state. Otherwise, I don't have a whole body of poison to rely on, and I am really panicked."
The poisonous people are dangerous in the three major games. They are full of poison, and the breath they exhale is even poisonous. It is good in a wide space. If you stay with the poisonous people in a narrow and closed room, ordinary people He will be poisoned and die soon.
Therefore, Extreme Space has developed a kind of equipment for people with poisonous skins, which is as thin as a cicada's wings and can filter the toxicity emitted by their breathing and sweating.
Of course, this equipment can also be taken off instantly. After all, the Poison Skin Man has no disadvantages in the early stage, relying on this innate advantage.
During the meal, the three exchanged some information about their respective games, as well as their opinions on this copy.
After a while, they divided their rooms and went back to their rooms to rest.
Lu Qingjia lay on the bed in a daze looking at the mosquito net on his head. The black cat stepped on his chest and swept Lu Qingjia's neck with his tail.
He grabbed the tail and stroked his tail with one hand.
Lu Qingjia was unconscious, but this action made Zhong Liyu dreamy.
I only hate that I am not a person now.
If Lu Qingjia knew what this guy was thinking, he would have to squeeze his cat's tail and beat him against the wall.
Thinking about things in his heart, Lu Qingjia fell asleep in a daze.
In the middle of the night, he opened his eyes abruptly and realized what was wrong around him.
The black cat woke up a long time ago, but because of the initial agreement, he did not dare to give him reminders and help. He just stood by his pillow and looked at him anxiously.
After Lu Qingjia woke up, he was relieved.
Lu Qingjia realized something was wrong without even getting up.
The whole room is too cold.
The body feels tens of degrees below zero. It is summer. Lu Qingjia only wears a thin pajama when she sleeps. At this temperature, even the players are choking.
But soon he discovered why this was because the white mosquito nets around him did not know when it had been covered with a thick layer of ice.
And Lu Qingjia could feel that the ice was made with his abilities, and he was still running at full capacity.
In other words, the coldness that can be reached now is the limit of Lu Qingjia's frost ability.
He quickly wanted to remove the ability, but found that there was no response.
With a "click", the ice cube above shattered, and the thick ice lumps were about to fall down.
Lu Qingjia rolled to the side. Unexpectedly, the one just now was just a cover, and a few ice cones rushed towards him at a very fast speed from another direction.
It stands to reason that with the strength of Lu Qingjia's body, the ability to resist and the ability of abnormal recovery blessed by the blood of the gods, a few ice cones, when there is not enough acceleration power at such a short distance, there is no need to hide.
But Lu Qingjia intuitively couldn't resist.
So a big hole appeared under his body, any door was activated, and he leaked out of the bed with a cat, and appeared under the bed.
At the same time, the Holy Light ability was activated on his body. Although no one was in front of him to make this ability useful, it was also suitable to be used as a light bulb.
Then Lu Qingjia saw a weird charm under the bed.,
He tore the thing off, rolled out of the bed and out.
At this time, the ground was quickly covered with frost, and a large pool of silt appeared immediately under Lu Qingjia to prevent him from being frozen to the ground.
However, the dominance of frost quickly made the mud stiff and lose its flexibility.
This was even stronger than when he was manipulating himself. Although lacking a little flexibility, it was undoubtedly very tricky.
Lu Qingjia had to open any door again. This time someone else appeared in the yard and left the house, but Frost didn't chase it out again.
When the other two players heard the movement, they quickly came out of the room and asked Lu Qingjia: "What's wrong?"
Lu Qingjia raised his chin towards the room, and when the two looked over, they could feel a huge chill across the door.
"Isn't this a curse?"
Lu Qingjia said: "Of course, just relying on chain accidents, unless the loss is not counted, and the lives of outsiders are ignored, it is difficult to kill the player."
But it is impossible to ignore the loss of the NPC's life. In addition to being a game copy, it is also a living world. This is only a mid-level field, and it is a well-ordered, peaceful and stable world. The world consciousness will not allow certain rules. Disrupt the order.
The player's abilities are all odd and weird, not to mention anything else, just Lu Qingjia's defensive bubble, if it is just the kind of routine that Death comes, relying on physical attacks brought by accidents in reality, honestly can't hurt Lu Qingjia at all.
It's a big deal for him to put the defense bubbles on his body anytime and anywhere in the entire dungeon, so the game would not be as tricky as he thought.
The same is true for other players, no matter how there is always a way to protect themselves.
But better than the old uncle at the time, he even had the ability to control the time of items, which was not enough to keep him alive.
Of course, the main reason was mistrusting others, but it was clear that since this game allowed the fraudster who was still an exchange student to seek refuge, knowing that he could become an exchange student had already shown that he was very strong.
In this way, in addition to the casual accident, it is very obvious that there is a greater murderous intent.
It's just that Lu Qingjia didn't expect that it would be a rebellion against her own ability.
When the two players learned that the ability to riot belonged to Lu Qingjia himself, their scalp numb with shock.
If that is the case, this copy is really terrible.
It's hard to defend against. Imagine that when an accident comes, you subconsciously use your ability to resist, and at this time the ability fails and even attacks you in turn. If there is no more effective emergency plan and strong enough response ability, then the overturn is almost inevitable. thing.
Moreover, no one can say that the rebellion of ability is only aimed at one ability.
After a long time, the traces of frost subsided, and Lu Qingjia raised his hand and waved to the ground, and a piece of frost appeared.
He said: "I'm back."
This discovery didn't make them much happy. After all, it meant that other abilities might betray at any time without warning.
Lu Qingjia went back to sleep in the room, glanced at the charm torn from the bed, and put it away when he couldn't figure it out.
Early the next morning, he was awakened by roosters from all over the village.
After getting up and getting a simple breakfast, Lu Qingjia discussed the assignment with the two players and went out alone.
When he came to the river, several young girls were doing laundry together.
Seeing Lu Qingjia coming, I looked at him shyly, gathering together from time to time and muttering, making a pleasant laugh.
Someone who was bolder asked Lu Qingjia directly, "Are you elected back this year?"
Lu Qingjia did not expect that the caliber of the young people in this village was different from that of the elderly.
But it's not surprising. Looking at the villagers who watched the excitement before, adults who have passed a certain age are secretive, but teenagers and children are not malicious towards them, outsiders.
On the contrary, it is more curious and fresh.
So when the other party asked, Lu Qingjia nodded.
Then he smiled: "Speaking of which, I haven't been back since I was born. I knew I was coming this time. I was always a little worried because the villagers would not like me."
The courageous girl opened her head, and the others were not ashamed.
They came around and laughed: "Where, you look so handsome, you like it."
Then he asked him: "Do you still keep black cats? The adults said that black cats are unlucky, and whoever raises them can't die. Are you chosen by it?"
Lu Qingjia did not answer this question, but took out a box like a trick.
He smiled to a few girls and said, "My mother asked me to bring some things back, so it's polite, so I prepared something for you."
Open the box. Inside are some popular jewelry on the market, hairpin bracelets, combs, earrings and the like.
This was not something that Lu Qingjia took before leaving yesterday, but he bought it by returning to the city with any door.
Although the mountain villages are not poor, they are closed and conservative. Even if they occasionally go out to the town to go to the market, where can ordinary remote towns see such exquisitely crafted and unique sparkling objects?
Girls are so cute and can't look away when they see these little gifts.
A girl whispered: "The village is not allowed to take foreign things."
Lu Qingjia smiled, took a hairpin on her head and gestured: "You have more and beautiful hair, this one suits you well."
Then he said: "It's just some small things. If it is not convenient to wear for a while, it is not in vain to keep it for a look."
The courageous girl gritted her teeth and took out the small comb from the box: "I, I want this."
Once it started, the others followed suit.
Given the short staff and Lu Qingjia's good-looking and sweet mouth, how can a few girls who have never been out of the village stand up?
Lu Qingjia talked casually, and it was all gossip about what a few people should say or not.
Zhong Liyu nestled in Lu Qingjia's arms and felt very dissatisfied.
This is when he is still there. If he is not there, he might be able to tell how Lu Qingjia coaxed the woman.
So the black cat in his arms started to make trouble, but Lu Qingjia chatted with a few girls, and stroked the black cat's belly with one hand.
The rather provocative way is slowly touched down, which is completely different from the usual concept of petting a cat.
Zhong Liyu's entire cat stiffened, and he felt that hand rummaged in his cat's fur.
Then I found a small bulge, I circled it with my index finger, and even pushed it with my thumb.
Although Zhong Liyu is a cat now, his physical sense is no different from that of a human being.
Although the physiological structure of a cat is different from that of a human, there are many things that should be sensitive and irritating. After all, he is only deforming now, not all species have changed.
Being a vegetarian for several years, how can I withstand this kind of teasing.
Zhong Liyu's whole cat was stiff, and then he collapsed into water in Lu Qingjia's arms. As he ascended to the sky, he was already thinking about how to eat the cat when he went out.
He shouldn't be unfamiliar with his skills for so long, right?
No, Jiajia is so skilled, his experience is also engraved in his body memory.
Lu Qingjia glanced at the cat in his hand wishing to grow up, a little smile in his eyes.
The way this hand can be controlled is really cute.
Sexual harassment of cats does not hinder Lu Qingjia's routine, but unfortunately, the girls don't know much about it, and they have been processed.
But from the side, Lu Qingjia also extracted a lot of what he wanted to know.
But the words of one of the young girls suddenly changed Lu Qingjia's face.
The other party asked, "Do you have to worship in front of the mountain god this time when you come back?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Lu Qingjia looked calm at this time, unaware of the problem.
The girl said: "My father heard what the grandpa said last night that you are the brother of Brother Ji. Don't you know?"
"Brother Ji came back then and got married."
The smile on Lu Qingjia's face was gone for some unknown time. He asked, "Why? Did someone from the village come back to get married?"
The girl shook her head: "No, it's the man brought back by Brother Ji himself. He is a man? But what is his name? Why can't I remember it?"
Another girl said, "Brother Ji was scolded a lot at the time, but he still went to worship."
Lu Qingjia smiled again, and the girls didn't notice anything, but Zhong Liyu didn't dare to waver at this moment, and he shrank his neck as he was stabbed by Lu Qingjia's killing intent.
Lu Qingjia whispered: "So they are all married? Naturally, it shouldn't be too long to separate the heavens and humans forever."