The man saw Kou Dong in front of the door, his expression suddenly changed, and he reached out to close the door.

In just this second, Kou Dong pinned one leg into the door and forced a crack in the door. The man tried several times but couldn't close the door, so he just dropped the door and walked into the house.

Kou Dong grabbed his arm, "What are you running for?"

The man didn't look back at him, but said in a cold voice, "Go away. We won't talk to outsiders."

Hearing this statement, Kou Dong smiled instead.

"Isn't it?"

He used more strength in his hands to prevent the man from breaking free.

"Still dare not?"

"..."

Qin Tong was silent for a while, and finally turned his head. His face was fair and his appearance was gentle, but now it seems that he is just an ordinary man, completely different from the evil face with blue face and fangs when he took off his mask at that time. He stared at Kou Dong, his eyes as if wishing to tear him apart.

"What do you want to ask?"

Kou Dong said, "Everything you know."

A child ran out of the room, grabbed the door and called out "Dad", looked at Kou Dongshi, and shrank back timidly, whispering, "It's Zhu Bajie..."

It's about Kou Dong's Nuo noodles.

When the man saw the child, his expression changed immediately, and he drove him into the house.

"Go back and play," he urged the boy, "don't interrupt when your lord is talking."

The child wanted to watch Zhu Bajie for a while, and stared at Kou Dong reluctantly. The man took a few shots on his back before it worked, and he coaxed the child back.

He turned his head back and found that Kou Dong was staring at the child's back.

"He is too?"

Qin Tong understood what he was asking, and smiled bitterly, "Yes."

His voice was very soft.

"His mother fed him.—he didn't know, he always thought that was a dream."

Kou Dong's throat suddenly felt nauseated.

Seemingly innocent children, in fact, have eaten the same kind of flesh and blood - this fact really does not make people feel good.

"Where to start?" Qin Tong whispered, "Come on, let's go over there, he won't hear him..."

His pupils were deep, and he sighed softly.

"It's time to dig up this sin."

He did not know when the first god appeared.

But from the memory of Qin Tong's birth, there was already such a god, with kind eyes and good eyes, surrounded by auspicious clouds, sitting alone on the throne of the temple. The child who just came into the world must be held in front of the gods and beg for his blessing. The gods stroked their hands over the children's foreheads and spread the grace of God to all living beings.

Under his blessing, Shanhai Village has always been prosperous for hundreds of years. The incense in the temple has never been cut off. Every year, the people will hold a grand Nuo opera.

Qin Tong often went to see such Nuo operas as a child.

At that time, there were people under the Nuo surface. People laughed, danced, and sang loudly around this year's harvest.

They often go to the gods to pray. Those who are sick pray for a speedy recovery, those who are newly married pray for an early birth of a precious child, those who have elders in the family pray for peace, and those who have young children grow up smoothly—even those who are heartless and ruthless will pray to the gods. .

God answered their request and gave them the good fortune they had expected. Day after day, year after year, his incense grew stronger. The villagers cast new statues for him, and they worship them more and more diligently.

"Until that year," Qin Tong said in a low voice, his eyes fell a little in the air, as if recalling, "That year...without warning, he gave us a dream."

In the dream, the ground shakes, the villages and towns fall, and the people live in poverty.

From top to bottom in Shanhai Village, there is not a single living hole.

After waking up from the dream, the villagers knew that this was a reminder from God, so they dared not sleep again. In the third watch, everyone ran out of the house and gathered together in the only open space near the village.

"is that true?"

"Who knows, but you can't go back—"

The sky was dark, and someone else had the idea of ​​going back. The crops they planted, the money they saved at home, the cattle, sheep and pigs they raised... are still there.

The village chief stopped the person and said, "Listen to the gods."

He is old, speaks justly, and has great authority in the village. The person who wanted to go back stuck his neck and was unconvinced, but he didn't dare to argue with him. Just as he was thinking of running back secretly, he heard a child exclaiming, "Look—"

The omens in the dream came true. The land on which they depended for survival opened its mouth and devoured houses and livestock wantonly. The sky was shaking, and the villagers could not even stand firm, and their ears were full of the rumbling sound of the collapsed house.

Thanks to the god's reminder, the people of Shanhai Village survived.

They stayed in the open space for a day, and when they returned, they were all crying and grabbing the ground.

The house is gone, the livestock is gone, the valuables are gone.

Fortunately, people are still there, which is enough to make people happy.

Someone suggested to visit the temple. The old village chief led the crowd there, but he saw that in this desolation, only the temple was tall and majestic, standing still. Among them, the statues are still dignified, holding flowers in one hand, and have not been damaged at all.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief.

But since then, they have had other ideas.

- In such a disaster, God does not need to take refuge, and is still safe and sound.

Why do they have to hide in Tibet and abandon their family and business?

If only they could live forever as gods too.

If only they could live forever...

At first, it was only one person who thought so.

Later, more and more people had the same idea. They have prayed to God a lot, they want health, love, children, wealth...

They now live and work in peace and contentment, marry and have children on this land, and have nothing else to ask for.

-Then why can't they pray to the gods for eternal life?

They also want to be as powerful as God.

Hearing this, Ye Yanzhi let out a merciless sneer. Qin Tong also smiled wryly, shook his head, and murmured, "...thinking about it now, it was crazy back then."

The scene of the fall aroused the desire to survive in the hearts of the people, and they even abandoned their reason and madly prayed to God to grant them eternal life.

Of course God cannot give. In fact, he himself is not immortal.

But the angry people did not listen to his explanation. They've asked God for so many years, and they've never heard a rejection—and they can't accept this rejection now.

In the excitement of the crowd, the people overthrew the statues and wiped out their beliefs. The fear of death was completely vented on the statue, they punched and kicked, and when they recovered, the statue had been chopped to pieces.

At that time, the villagers thought that all they needed to do was cast the statue and then everything would be fine.

After all, they are only resentful for a while, and they still need God to bless one party's safety.

"But no." Qin Tong said, "He won't come back... No matter how many god statues we cast, how we knelt and begged him, he never came back."

"Without the blessing of the gods, Shanhai Village soon began to go downhill. There used to be so many people in the village, and then there were more than 100 left."

"Afterwards," Qin Tong's voice suddenly tightened, "he - appeared."

Kou Dong knew that this he was talking about the evil god who is now enshrined in the temple.

"He said that he has a way to help us live forever." Qin Tong's teeth chattered, biting creaky, struggling to spit out every word from his mouth, "We believe it."

After the original God disappeared, the people understood what it really meant. They have nowhere to go to pray, and no one to bless them with safety. Without good fortune, every household is suffering from bad luck, the land is barren, and the grain harvest is not as good as one year.

Shanhai Village desperately needs a new god.

"We helped him beat the statue," Qin Tong shivered even more, as if remembering the scene at the time, "On the day the statue was cast, he, he—"

He bit his tongue suddenly, and finally spit out the sentence with difficulty, "He killed the whole village."

The new god slaughtered the village.

Kou Dong already knows all about the plot behind it. The so-called immortality method of the new gods is to die and then live.

The villager who became a ghost had to enter his game, and the ghost who successfully ate people in the game could become a villager again. After reincarnating as villagers, they were indeed unable to live or die. On this point, the Heretic God did not deceive them.

"What is immortality!" Qin Tong buried his face in his hands suddenly, shaking from head to toe, "what immortality is... I remember it clearly, I remember how I eat people... I dreamed It was he who came to find me."

"My child, how old is he? When he came out of that game, he said that he was afraid for a whole year... He will never grow up. He also ate people, how will he live after that? What am I going to do? Talk to him?"

"...can't live anymore."

"That way, it's better to die."

But they can't even die, they are living here day by day, and they don't even know what they can be called.

Kou Dong was silent for a while, then asked, "So, you won't talk to foreigners?"

"Yes." Qin Tong rubbed his face vigorously in pain, "It's also because the gods don't allow us to talk to them."

Among those Nuo faces, don't know which one is the blood relatives of the people in this village.

Now those blood relatives are all ghosts with green faces and fangs. Innocent strangers must be eaten here in order to get back to them.

This is both absurd and cruel. Qin Tong still thinks it is a nightmare when he thinks about it.

It seems that when they wake up, they can still see the god sitting on the top of the temple, holding flowers and chuckling.

He dropped his head completely.

Kou Dong thought about it and asked him a question.

"Apart from the temple, does anyone in your village light sandalwood?"

Qin Tong shook his head and said in a low voice, "That's for his use. - We are all afraid of him."

Naturally, no one will use sandalwood at home.

Kou Dong's expression seemed to be thoughtful. After a few minutes, he said, "I'll ask you one last question."

Qin Tong smiled bitterly, "You already know it."

He also has nothing to say.

"Not these," Kou Dong said, "did any of you meet the new god when the old god was still around?"

This question made Ye Yanzhi put down his arms and stared at Qin Tong's eyes.

Qin Tong was a little taken aback. He slowly searched his memories, hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his head.

"Do not."

he answered.

"We—never met."

After leaving Qin Tong's house, Kou Dong was out of his mind for a while.

"This is actually good news," Ye Yanzhi said.

Indeed, now that they knew where the ghosts came from, it was not difficult for them to guess how many ghosts were in the team. You only need to check the population of the village, and then match the number on the lamp. Those who haven't turned into villagers are naturally the ghosts in this game.

Kou Dong: "Yes. But I always feel that I can't just leave like this."

Ye Yanzhi said, "Don't go?"

He raised his arms again, looking like the boss was not happy, and said coldly: "Is it possible to save them? They are asking for it."

He didn't have the slightest liking for these villagers, and after learning about the past, he became more disgusted, "No conscience."

Kou Dong hesitated a bit, and after a few minutes he answered, "Yes. But God is also at fault."

The scene he saw in the temple suddenly reappeared in front of him. All worship, all believers.

Ye Yanzhi seemed to get angry right away.

"What's wrong with him?—he's not wrong at all!"

Kou Dong stopped talking, just held him in his hands and looked at him with a smile. The villain gradually became uncomfortable with his eyes. The young man's eyes seemed to penetrate the Nuo surface, and he almost melted.

He said in a stern voice, "What are you doing?"

"My cub will comfort Dad," Kou Dong said with relief, "I'm so touched."

Ye Yanzhi: "..."

Sorry not to ask this.

"It's alright," Kou Dong stroked his head, "I won't be sad. Didn't the cub say it, that's a plot that was automatically created by the game, not what I actually experienced."

Ye Yanzhi didn't speak for a while, and after a while he said in a muffled voice, "That won't work either."

Whether it's virtual or real, letting Kou Dong go through such a period makes him extremely unhappy. He didn't want to care about these so-called villagers at all, and wished that the other party would be trapped in this **** forever.

Kou Dong taught him: "Cub, don't be too extreme. Don't you think your mentality is a bit like an NPC now?"

Ye Yanzhi knew that what he said was unintentional, but he couldn't help but tense his nerves and asked, "How about it?"

Kou Dong suddenly held him up and gave him a big kiss. The villain is too young at the moment, he kissed his entire face, Ye Yanzhi was stunned after the kiss, and he didn't know where to put his hands.

"It's cute if it looks like it," Kou's father said lovingly, but he couldn't help being proud, "Hey, my son loves me..."

Ye Yanzhi rarely did not respond to the name of his son, and was still immersed in the sudden kiss, his legs softened, and he was directly dizzy and dizzy, sitting in Kou Dong's palm.

Although across the Nuo face, it was more like a hard mask that slapped his face, but, but——

He put his hand on his lips, his heart beating like a mad rabbit.

Rounding up, it's a kiss!

The villain in Ye Yanzhi's heart began to run wildly.

Kou Dong was completely unaware of his excessively intense psychological activities, only when he was a cub, he didn't stand firm for a while, and he had no idea that his legs were weak because he was overexcited. He held the villain and touched Ye Yanzhi's cheek, "Be careful, don't fall."

Ye Yanzhi's fingers were still pressed against his lips, and his eyes were full of tenderness. If he looks like an adult at the moment, he will almost turn into a youth.

Kou Dong watched his action and suddenly said, "You are my milk tea."

Ye Yanzhi, who was immersed in the kiss, raised his head blankly: "???"

He doesn't understand this stalk very well, who has never been entertained.

Kou Dong: "In this way, I can hold you in the palm of my hand."

After he finished speaking, he laughed staggeringly and patted the villain's head again, "So, if you connect it, you can go around the earth...hahahahaha!"

The pink bubble was suddenly hit by a shattered villain: "..."

He lowered his head expressionlessly, thinking that he was an idiot just now.

Obviously, Kou Dong didn't need these kindnesses.

——When dealing with young people, direct action is the easiest and most effective way.

Until he cried and called daddy...

He gradually began to imagine.

After Kou Dong finished laughing, he brought the topic back with difficulty, "To be honest, God is not particularly innocent. He always agrees to their requests, and he has spoiled them."

This is like a bear child who has made a huge mistake. Of course the child is at fault, but is the parent right?

There are also.

Kou Dong knew that he was not the god in the game. In fact, this god may not have had a specific image before. It was after he entered that the game automatically replaced the important plot NPC with his face, in order to make the NPC's favorability level more reasonable. , and more acceptable to the rules.

But Xu was because he saw that scene with his own eyes in the temple, and he felt the same way.

He has to do something.

He picked up the mud again from the corner. The villain frowned and asked him, "What are you doing? I don't want it."

Mature men don't need clay figurines.

Kou Dong said, "It's not for you."

He rounded the mud ball in his hand, and after pinching it, tied it to a rope. The rope was wrapped around a slender and long wooden stick, and he was stunned to make a fishing rod.

The living clay figurines are the bait.

Ye Yanzhi didn't understand anymore. What is this for?

"Don't see it yet?"

Kou Dong said seriously, and lifted the fishing rod, "—I'm going to go fishing for children."

"..."

It's not what he said, but the attitude of youth is really like child abduction...

Kou Dong began to wander from house to house.

Hearing the movement of a child inside, he threw the bait over the wall and slowly dragged it towards the door. The children in the village usually have few toys and no strangers. The same scene day after day, year after year, has long been boring.

Besides, they are not human now, and their parents don't take it seriously. After a while, a child really took the bait and opened the door a crack to probe their brains.

As soon as the door opened, Uncle Wei stood in front of the door and waved at them.

"Come on," he said softly, "Come on, my brother will take you out to play..."

Ye Yanzhi: "..."

more like.

He wants to call the police.

The child hesitated for a few minutes, looked at the clay figurine in Kou Dong's hand, and then looked at Kou Dong. Today, the Nuo Noodles that Kou Dong wears is Zhu Bajie, this image is known to all the children in the village; plus the favorability buff, it is impossible to like him or not.

So he hesitated again and again, but he actually took a step forward and asked in a low voice, "Are you taking me out?"

Kou Dong took his hand and said, "Yes, my brother will take you to play hide-and-seek."

Everyone loves hide and seek. The child was a little excited when he heard it.

Kou Dong suddenly released his hand, looking a little discouraged. The child hurriedly tightened his hand, raised his face and asked him, "What's wrong?"

It's amazing, Ye Yanzhi thought, this NPC actually cares about traffickers.

Kou Dong didn't speak, just shook his head. The child asked again and again, and he said, "There are too few people."

This is quite reasonable. With so few people, how can you play hide-and-seek?

The child knows at one point, and hurriedly comforts him: "It's okay, I'll get you a few more!"

It is much easier for him to call a child than Kou Dong. After a while, a group of children surrounded Kou Dong, clamoring to play hide-and-seek.

Kou Dong saw that the time was almost up, so he took them to the corner, "You guys hide..."

The children looked at him eagerly.

"I'll catch you first," Kou Dong said, suddenly smiling slightly. "Later, there will be new partners participating in this game. Whichever child finds it first, I will reward him with this clay figurine."

His voice was meaningful.

"—Everyone, look for it carefully."

In the middle of the night, the street was silent. Only a blood-colored moon hangs high in the sky, and it is a hazy and strange light that spills from the top down.

After a few rounds of games, there was movement on the street corner. Kou Dong saw the two ghosts who were successfully identified tonight to enjoy the food. They were still wearing Nuo noodles and walked in one direction.

Although the Nuo surface has changed every morning, the room has not changed. In order to prevent players from guessing the identities of other players through their residence, the address of each Nuo surface cannot be seen by others.

Only the ghosts that hunt for food at night can walk on the right path.

Kou Dong was behind the wall, watching them walk towards a place in the darkness. He suddenly reached out and patted the child beside him, and said in a low voice, "Come on."

The child also stuck his head out, trying to see what it was.

They saw two Nuo faces.

"Are those two uncles?"

"Yes." Kou Dong whispered, "Now, they are hiding—"

"Come on, go find them."

The children who obeyed him happily rushed to the place. They are not Nuo noodles, and they are not controlled by this rule. They easily followed the ghost into the room.

Now that things have developed, Ye Yanzhi also understands what Kou Dong is going to do. He said, "The two of them should thank you."

Ghosts will never eat people in front of their own children. The two players who were supposed to disappear tonight saved their lives.

Kou Dong shook his head and whispered, "Just one."

Ye Yan was stunned, and then suddenly realized - of course, he could only save the next one.

The villagers who turned into ghosts would care about their children, but the fish spirits killed by the laughing monk would not care about them. He was a player who came in from the outside, and was killed by Xiao and Shan En in the game. How could he give up his revenge because an NPC broke in?

After thinking about this, he suddenly looked at Kou Dong again.

Kou Dong said that what he said to those children was them.

instead of him.

He pointed out two doors to the group of children. Behind one door is a ghost turned into a villager who will stop; behind the other door is a real bloody crime scene.

- Reminds children of the scene of those nightmares.

Seeing it with their own eyes, they will know that this is not a dream.

This is the truth.

Kou Dong tore apart the mask that the villagers had carefully maintained in front of the children.

There was a scream in the distance, followed by the screaming and crying of the children, which completely tore the tranquility.

Kou Dong leaned against the wall slightly, he stretched out his legs, and immediately covered Ye Yanzhi's ears with his palms.

"Dude, don't listen to—"

Under this moonlight, his profile was calm and almost cruel.

"—They always have to pay a price for this sin."

The author has something to say:

Ye Yanzhi: Kiss!Kissed!!!Ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!

——Although his heart is not moving, he is doing it, but in fact, his heart is trembling with excitement when he kisses.

Of course, crying and calling Dad still want it.

——

Let's look at the logic again:

The current identification: if the ghost identifies the person correctly, he can eat him in his house at night; if the identification is incorrect, he will be burned to death on the spot.

If people identify a ghost correctly, the ghost will be burned to death on the spot; if they identify incorrectly, they will be eaten by the ghost.

The person who identifies the person is correct, and the person who is identified will be eaten by the first ghost that comes in at night.

The rules are probably like this. Simply put, it is to identify the correct opponent to die, and to identify the incorrect person to die.

Two people were identified by ghosts that night, and both were identified correctly.So there will be ghosts coming to eat them at night.

Kou Dong rescued the innocent monk who was eaten by the laughing monk.