Master Swindler

Lu Qingjia's parents have the same surname, so his uncle is actually also surnamed Lu.

As he grew older, the two uncles looked more like brothers rather than younger relatives, not just talking.

They are somewhat similar in appearance, with the same surname, and the age difference is not too large from the appearance. Since the beginning of junior high school, there have been many new guests of the farmhouse, which is wrong.

However, no one can correct this thing, so there are even many enthusiastic people who want to introduce their "brother" to the young people who have lost their parents.

Of course, it is not something that I want to introduce to my uncle in those few years. After all, the talent is good. Although low-key, it is obvious that the family has a lot of savings.

But Lu Qingjia knew from a certain period of time that his uncle's sexuality was similar to his own, so the people around him were very hot.

When he was aware of his sexuality during adolescence, his old uncle was also guided positively, allowing Lu Qingjia to accept it well, without any negative psychological impact on the things that were not allowed in the surrounding environment.

However, Lu Qingjia can also see his aesthetics and preferences from his words in the process of guiding him.

The old uncle's vision is not low, anyway, before he died, Lu Qingjia did not see that he had any signs of being tempted by anyone in reality.

When it was speculated based on various clues that the fraudster and the old uncle might have a past relationship, Lu Qingjia was actually unwilling to accept the result of this speculation in his heart.

Because once sitting down, it means the betrayal and pain that the old uncle experienced at that time. When a person dies miserably in the game, walking is more painful than he thought.

However, now he told him that his uncle had been married in the game.

Although it is possible that this ceremony was due to the situation of the dungeon or other purposes, but whenever there is a slight possibility, the old uncle really has a longing for the future and wants to start a family with another person for the first time.

As long as there is such a possibility, Lu Qingjia feels distressed and can hardly breathe.

Perhaps the look on his face was too serious, and the voices of the little girls who were chirping in a relaxed atmosphere became quieter.

Lu Qingjia immediately realized this and raised an unnatural smile: "What's going on? Can you tell me?"

The girl who brought up the topic said: "We are not very clear. We were still young that year, and it is the way we are these days. Brother Ji and a few people went back to the village together. There was someone who was closest to Brother Ji at that time. Even when they are just having a good time."

"Later, several other people died slowly, and in the end only Brother Ji and that person were left, and the two of them got married in the Shanshen Shrine."

"At that time, I knew that men and men could also marry?" The girl's expression was exaggerated, showing that the shock was great.

She continued: "But when Brother Ji said that he was going to have a happy event, although the adults in the village scolded them, they finally agreed. The village chief and grand uncle also helped set up the wine, and everyone in the village participated."

"Anyway, if you think it's okay, it must be correct."

This closed mountain village is also a girl in a dominant position. The values ​​are naturally to obey authority. No matter how unthinkable things are, as long as the adults and the elderly say they are right, they will not have doubts.

After speaking, the girl looked at Lu Qingjia worriedly: "But don't die, we all like you, you should go back to the city."

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Finally, my brother and they also left here and went back to the city?"

"Hehe, you are so funny, don't you know if your brother went back then?"

Listening to the girl's tone, he didn't even know if Lu Ji was dead.

Then the so-called old uncle at the time and they returned to the city, and they didn't know whether they saw it with their own eyes or was the result of a unified announcement by others.

Lu Qingjia must first determine where the old uncle died.

Anyway, his ashes were not buried in the cemetery run by Lu's father and Lu's mother. If he said that now, then the place of death is not simple.

In short, according to the current clues, the role of the old uncle did not die after returning to the city, allowing Lu father and Lu mother to collect the body smoothly.

It is not convenient to'die in' the village, otherwise the village is so big, even if it is dead, it would not be a big deal to condense the corpse of a young man of the same race and bury it in a hole.

Lu Qingjia asked some more questions. The girls didn't know the importance, but all they knew came out.

After a while, someone doing farm work passed by the river, saw a few people who didn't work around Lu Qingjia, he scolded twice, and then glared at Lu Qingjia. The girls rushed away and continued to wash their clothes.

Lu Qingjia said goodbye to several people and left the river.

It was already early in the morning. Those who had work were working in the fields, and those who had no work were mostly gathered on the dam at the door of a certain house to peel peanuts and grind their teeth.

Seeing Lu Qingjia, the voices of these people were obviously lowered, and the defense of adults is not as easy to break through as a few little girls.

However, Lu Qingjia didn't hold her face anymore. When he met people, he even greeted them with a smile, as if the targeting and estrangement in that atmosphere did not exist, which embarrassed others.

Lu Qingjia came to the Shanshen ancestral hall that he visited yesterday and knocked on the door, which was opened by the man.

Yesterday Lu Qingjia judged that his actual age should be younger than it appeared, but in fact it was the opposite. According to several girls, the other party was over 70 years old, and he was the person with the highest voice in the village except the village chief. one.

This is very unusual. It’s not that Lu Qingjia’s eyes can’t go wrong, but the other’s eyes, the spirit state of the whole person, and the strength and muscle distribution of the bones while walking, all show that this person’s body functions are in prime of life, just appearance. It's rough.

The man opened the door, and it was not surprising to see Lu Qingjia coming over. Given his age, if he has been responsible for guarding the ancestral hall, then he must have come into contact with a lot of players.

He nodded to Lu Qingjia: "What are you doing here?"

Lu Qingjia said: "I heard that my brother visited others here three years ago. Although my brother is no longer there, his parents and relatives still have no way of knowing this marriage. But now that I do, I also want to understand the time. Thing."

"Can you tell me this brother, let me put my grief?"

The man twitched his mouth, as if he had never seen such a fake young man who asked for clues after returning.

But he didn't even refuse Lu Qingjia's request. After letting him into the ancestral hall, he pointed to the layout inside and said, "It's the hall where you worship."

"All happy events in the village are handled here in the ancestral hall. One is to share the joy to the mountain god, and second, to ask the mountain god to bless everything goes well."

"Your brother and them, just like you are now, fled back in a hurry. Although your grandparents' generation of sins committed by your grandparents, the retribution is on your children, it is still embarrassing."

"It's useless to come back. It seems that many years ago, the mountain god likes to carry out a sacrifice to the year to kill the precepts from time to time, but I didn't expect it to be twice in a row this time—"

The man closed the conversation and continued his previous answer: "At that time, the other little babies were all dead, and only your brother and the other were left. They wanted to get married before they died, although it is unheard of for a man to marry a man. But when people are about to die, our elders can only satisfy our wishes."

"I'm afraid I haven't seen it before?" Lu Qingjia said suddenly.

The man didn't react at once: "What did you say?"

"It's not the first time I saw a man and a man, right?" Lu Qingjia repeated it again.

The look on the man's face became stiff visible to the naked eye at that moment, and a strange light burst out of his eyes, and he suddenly became full of aggressiveness from his easygoing before.

"What are you talking about?" The other party said solemnly.

Lu Qingjia smiled, and the sure tone just now changed, as if it were a young man's whim.

"No, I just feel that many homosexuals outside are compelling to death without being able to make their parents understand. The blind dates in the village are accepted quickly. It seems that the degree of conservativeness in a place should not be measured by whether it is closed or not."

"But the folks in the village, most of them are relatives who haven't made the five clothes. I feel sorry that the younger generation can't live long, and they have a sense of compassion. They are busy with arranging wines. The villagers abandon their premonitions and come to participate. Sure enough, blood is thicker than water~~"

Lu Qingjia's expression at the time was grateful and sincere, just like knowing that his brother's last wish was realized under the tolerance of the villagers. Anyone who saw it would be sighed and moved.

But the man listened to him, the tone of his speech, and those subtle ending transitions, but how he heard it was mocking.

The man didn't know how to react for a while, the attack was too fussy, and he endured and inexplicably frustrated, making his already black and yellow face even darker.

But Lu Qingjia no longer struggled with this topic, and asked, "Do you still have an impression of my uncle—sister-in-law?"

"It's a pity to say that they did such a big thing at the beginning, but then they disappeared. Neither of our family could see each other."

"If possible, even though it has no legal effect, we still want to meet each other as family members who love my brother together."

The man looked at Lu Qingjia with a strange expression: "Isn't he already gone? Didn't contact you?"

"No, who knows the reason, maybe I am afraid that I will live alone, so I am ashamed to face us? But he really thinks too much, how can we embarrass his partner in front of my brother in the sky?"

The man seemed to have found a flaw and asked Lu Qingjia: "The young people who can go back to the village are all relatives. The group that ran outside at the beginning is your generation. It shouldn't be out of five clothes yet."

"You have lived together since you were little, but you don't even know who it is?"

Lu Qingjia's eyes flashed, confirming that the man was deliberately avoiding answering this question, then the situation now is much more interesting.

It was obviously different from the girl in the village who remembered that incident and remembered so personally, the impression became blurred.

Lu Qingjia asked again: "By the way, after they got married, were they the village where they left together?"

The man nodded: "Even though the incidents back then made everyone angry, but in the end the child is innocent. Every time someone comes back, the village is never embarrassed."

"You saw this year, and expected someone to come back. The house was cleaned for you in advance."

"At that time, they knew they were hopeless, and they left together not long after they got married. After that, we still knew from the birth that they were gone."

Shengwa is the teacher in the village who teaches children to read. He has gone to college outside and returned to the village. One of the few people who can contact the outsiders.

Lu Qingjia wouldn't be too lazy to break through all the flaws.

He just smiled and asked, "Oh, is it? Why did the uncle be born? After all, my brother's ashes haven't been in the cemetery yet. I was young at the time, and thinking about my parents would be sad. So I don’t forget to collect my brother’s body as if he was buried in the village."

When the man was asked this, he didn't panic, instead he smiled: "You know, people selected by the mountain gods every year come back to light a lamp in the ancestral hall and see if the lamp goes out after 15 days. It represents life and death. Miles."

The man smiled weirdly: "Your brother's light is off, and there is no such thing in his family. We will know. Just don't know why your brother is missing, you haven't found the corpse now?"

"Poor boy, I don't know how many years I will be a lonely ghost."

When the man said this, he looked directly at Lu Qingjia and said, with some provocations on his eyebrows, apparently deliberately irritating him.

Lu Qingjia found something inconsistent between this person and the elderly. This is not the mentality that an elderly person can have, especially those who have guarded the ancestral hall for many years.

The other party didn't seem to want to let go of Lu Qingjia's frustration and anger, but he didn't do what he wanted.

Lu Qingjia showed a slightly weird smile. He said, "My brother, like me, doesn't care about where to live after death."

"If you can be accompanied by the culprit, that's fine."

Lu Qingjia took a deep look at the ancestral hall and the ugly and incomprehensible stone enshrined on it, and finally fell on the man.

His vision is too aggressive. Since this village has been invigorating for many years and the man is the person in charge, it is impossible not to have seen blood.

However, the look in Lu Qingjia's eyes made him almost take two steps backwards, abruptly holding back with will.

The man remembered that when he was young, he followed the adults to go to the market. At that time, wanted orders were posted everywhere in the town.

It is said that a murderer who committed more than a dozen homicides across provinces fled to the local area. At that time, the case shocked the country. The news was broadcast every day, and the whole town was panicked.

The child just glanced at the photos on the wanted warrant, and felt that the murderer looked terrifying, that kind of disregard for human life, and the power brought about by crime directly impacted the young man at the time through the unclear black and white photos. soul.

He had a nightmare when he came back that night.

But the look in Lu Qingjia's eyes just now once again made himself, who was no longer naive and cowardly, feel that terrible at the time.

Even if Lu Qingjia's appearance looks handsome and kind, it is far from being able to match the words of extreme evil, even if he believes in the mountain god and believes that it is omnipotent.

But still can't offset the impact.

The man's face was a little pale, but he saw Lu Qingjia suddenly approaching.

This shocked him, and even took a few steps back subconsciously.

Lu Qingjia smiled relaxedly: "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you?"

"Isn't it possible to light a lamp to confirm life and death? Where is it?"

The man seemed to have only remembered it at this time, and he was quite ashamed of his embarrassment just now.

The attitude towards Lu Qingjia was not good either. He only led him to a corner and took out three oil lamps from the cabinet inside.

Placed in front of him and said: "Here, you have to point it yourself."

Lu Qingjia said again: "My brother and their oil lamps, can you show me?"

The man did not refuse. Lu Qingjia received two oil lamps the size of copper wine glasses. The edges of the oil lamps were black, and there were obvious traces of used, but there was no dust, and they were well preserved.

Lu Qingjia glanced at his old uncle's lamp. He was unremarkable, only his name was on the bottom of the lamp.

He glanced at his own candlestick again, and raised his eyebrows at the man.

The man hurriedly said, "What I did for you all night last night was that I was worried that you people would not know where to build in the end."

Although the lettering under the oil lamp looks fresh, Lu Qingjia certainly didn't rush to work last night, but he didn't break it.

Instead, he picked up the oil lamp of the person who was visiting his uncle, and looked at the place where his name should be engraved.

Lu Qingzhou

Lu Qingjia suddenly raised his head, his gaze ran into his eyes unexpectedly by the man, and his mental power skills were activated: "His name is Lu Qingzhou?"

The man nodded: "Yes, aren't you relatives? Don't you know?"

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Look at you, I just ask one question, why are you saying so much?"

The man suffocated a breath and couldn't get up, so he said gruffly: "It's done, I'm still busy, you hurry up and turn on the light."

However, Lu Qingjia put his oil lamp on the table, and instead asked inexplicably, "I didn't say the main point, I just want to take a look."

"But the oil lamps of my brother and my sister-in-law are useless? Can you keep it for memorial?"

The man doesn't care about the abandoned oil lamp, but a face that has been tricked: "You don't order it? You don't order it and ask me what I am doing?"

"Don't be hard-hearted now. The mountain god punishes people. There are many tricks. When something really happens, there is no guarantee. What do you ask your parents to do? Look for you everywhere with a glimmer of hope? You are also cruel. "

Lu Qingjia smiled and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, I have left a suicide note. If you don't go home within half a month, you must be gone."

"Since the people are gone, I don't really care about what happened behind me to be honest. There is no difference between where I die. If it hinders people's eyes, someone will take it away. If it doesn't hinder people, then it's good to return to nature."

Said Lu Qingjia left directly, taking away the oil from the lamp before leaving.

The man was dumbfounded: "Hey, hey! What are you doing? Is this something you can take?"

"There is not much lighting in our house, what happened to me when I brought some lamp oil back?" Lu Qingjia looked at him with clear eyes: "Is there anything special about this lamp oil that can't be taken away?"

The man stopped talking and could only watch Lu Qingjia leave.

Lu Qingjia returned to the house arranged for them at noon, when the other two players also returned.

Each of them had a harvest in the morning, and the three of them were too lazy to get food, so they took out food from the space and exchanged their gains while eating.

The extreme player first said: "I said it was worshipping a mountain god, but I didn't feel any abnormality in the surrounding mountains, nor did it even change due to thousands of years of belief instillation."

"Generally, even if it starts with ignorance, since evil power has already been produced, things that are poured into faith will inevitably mutate, but there is nothing here."

Infinite player continued: "When we came yesterday, the dead baby hanging at the entrance of the village didn't die recently. It's almost half a year."

"But the corpse was preserved. It was only two days before the curse began."

"The news I exchanged for sugar from children, it is said that every time I have to hang a black cat and a baby girl at the entrance of the village."

"Specially want a baby girl?" Lu Qingjia confirmed.

"Yes, as long as a girl is a baby, a boy has never been." Infinite Player said: "With the spell on the bottom of the bed, I think this village will also contribute to the flames, but I tried it out. The village is indeed ordinary people."

"At least in terms of force, it is absolutely impossible to cause direct damage to players of our level, and there is no profession like a goddess in the village. Although they believe in mountain gods and still make living sacrifices in this era, they seem to have no home. How many other traces of superstition."

Unlimited players come from remote rural areas, knowing that this kind of place is more superstitious, in fact, it is not difficult to see the traces at home, not to mention some taboo display, enshrine objects, children’s safety charms or evil spirits accessories, all of these are not, at least superficial It seems not.

It really doesn't fit the style of an extremely superstitious village.

Lu Qingjia went on to talk about his findings. Apart from the old uncle’s marriage, the two players could hear from the villagers that Lu Qingjia’s'brother' also returned to the village last time, and he was only a certain person in the previous session. A player has entered that role only, and there is no doubt that Lu Qingjia and Lu Ji are relatives in reality.

Knowing that long before they came back, the village had prepared oil lamps with names, and the two players were more certain.

"They knew we would be back, and they had already determined who they were."

In addition to the players, they fled outside because of the curse, and found that there was only one wave of NPCs that could not break the curse, and they died at first.

Although some people in the village still maintain a certain amount of contact with the outside, how can they not even send back the genealogy of all the people outside?

What's more, many people outside have not contacted themselves.

Lu Qingjia said: "Or guess a little bolder. It's not that they have already determined who is cursed, but they can control the curse list of each session?"

When the two players heard it, they were taken aback for a while, and they were immediately happy.

If this is the case, does that mean that the curse list is controllable?If you try to cross out your name--

Lu Qingjia poured a basin of cold water, and he smiled and said, "Don't think about it, it's impossible. If it can be changed, then the difficulty of this game is not worthy of being an exchange student copy."

"The high probability is that once the curse starts, there is no room for change, but it is still very important to confirm this and even get a way to arrange the curse list."

As he spoke, Lu Qingjia's mobile phone rang several times, and it was a WeChat alert tone.

Several players above, estimated to have obtained relevant information outside. Although the action was a step slower, they decided to return to the village to find clues.

In the end, you have to focus on this place.

Lu Qingjia sent them the coordinates, and these people realized that he had already passed by, so they rushed on the road more and more eagerly.

Lu Qingjia was about to speak after sending out the coordinates. Suddenly a transparent bubble overflowed on his skin. The bubble grew bigger and bigger, even squeezing out the black cat on Lu Qingjia's leg and enclosing him in it.

The two players knew that the tricky part of this instance was the ability to riot.

He jumped up and asked, "What's wrong? Do you want to help?"

Lu Qingjia only felt that the air in the bubbles was thin, and as he breathed, the oxygen continued to be consumed, and eventually it would only become more and more uncomfortable.

He pointed to the bubble, and the two players reacted and attacked with their own abilities and props.

The result did not affect him. The two did not keep their hands when they saw it. They used the maximum output, and even attacked Lu Qingjia several times to ignore the safety of Lu Qingjia, but still did nothing.

This situation was within Lu Qingjia's expectations, but it also made him more pleased with Bubble's defense.

Air bubbles will not block the air, or even filter the air, but at this time it has completely become an airtight dead space.

Lu Qingjia started to turn red due to lack of oxygen, and his several aggressive abilities couldn't break the bubbles.

The black cat on the ground showed its paws and wanted to make a move. Lu Qingjia glared at it and had to withdraw its paws.

In the end, both players became anxious, but saw Lu Qingjia throw out a large puddle of silt to submerge himself, and his body sank into the silt space.

The two of them were relieved to see each other out of the bubble alone.

But what they didn't know was that at the moment when Lu Qingjia fell into the silt space and his toes touched the ground of the space before he could stand still, the hair swelled suddenly.

Most of them entangled his limbs and even index fingers, and the inside began to drill into his brain. Although the barrier of the god physique was strong, the sharpness and speed of the hair penetrated the scalp and skull and penetrated into the brain, causing him to die on the spot. Only a matter of seconds.

And Lu Qingjia had already restricted his mobility before stabilizing his figure. According to inertia, he would fall to the ground, unable to find the center of gravity for several seconds.

It was quiet outside. The two players breathed a sigh of relief when Lu Qingjia was out of danger, but no one spoke.

The bubble that almost smothered him shattered after Lu Qingjia disappeared, leaving a puddle of silt on the ground.

But the black cat on the ground popped out its paws and cut out three hideous traces from the bluestone ground.