novelhk Chapter 86 Who is the Good Guy?
Chapter 86 Who is the Good Guy?
Yan Xun sat in the grass, watching his parents, who were standing around the pond, begin to wail and cry. They were probably genuinely heartbroken, but they should have known this would be the outcome when they brought Yan Xun back in the first place.
He sat there for a while, watching Sun Zhao squat down and examine the corpse closely.
It seems they want to determine whether Yan Xun is truly dead or if some kind of prop was used.
[Do you think Sun Zhao can find out?] the system asked.
“As long as he doesn’t go crazy and suddenly go to measure his height, no one will notice,” Yan Xun said.
He figured Sun Zhao probably wouldn't notice that Yan Xun had shortened his height by a few centimeters.
But soon, Yan Xun noticed that Sun Zhao began to look him up and down as he lay on the ground... He seemed a little unsure, and then gestured to indicate Yan Xun's height.
Yan Xun: "..."
Of course, even if Sun Zhao found out, he wouldn't say anything.
After gesturing, he expressed his condolences to Yan's parents.
The remaining players had varying feelings.
Meng Zhi and the others weren't that familiar with Yan Xun, but they could tell that the corpse wasn't a prop, so they couldn't help but guess that Yan Xun had really been killed by a plot device.
However, Meng Zhi and Ruan Yun were veteran players and even less familiar with Yan Xun, so they only sighed inwardly at the perilous nature of the dungeon.
Sun Yue couldn't take other people's deaths so lightly. She seemed shocked, feeling like she was the next player to die. In the end, Gu Jia, who was next to her, patted her shoulder a few times as a form of comfort.
Gu Jia knew that Yan Xun had taken the paper doll substitute, so there was no reason for him to die at this time.
Although the thing in front of him didn't look like a paper doll, Yan Xun had mentioned in his message yesterday that he had a way to deal with it, so Gu Jia guessed that the thing in front of him was most likely Yan Xun's solution.
For a time, the people gathered around the pond had different ideas.
The villagers also gathered around.
Compared to the previous few days when Wusheng Village was almost entirely populated by elderly people, there were now quite a few young faces in Wusheng Village, who seemed to have come specifically to participate in the temple fair.
Some of them didn't recognize the Yan couple, but seeing Yan Yu comforting them and hearing how Yan Yu addressed them, they realized that they were probably the distant relatives of Yan Yu's family that the villagers were talking about.
The older villagers also went over to comfort Yan's parents.
The younger ones stood aside and watched.
As the sun gradually rose, Yan Yu said, "Let's take Yan Xun back first."
As soon as he said this, the crowd dispersed, seemingly worried about being assigned the task.
Yan Yu glanced at them a few times, then casually pointed to one of them, "Go home and get some spare bed sheets."
After a while, the owner of Xiaoxiao Supermarket also came over. When he saw Yan Xun on the ground, he was also surprised. When he heard what Yan Yu said, he simply said, "I have some in my store."
"I'll get it."
The boss soon came over with new bed sheets.
The sheets and blankets were laid on the floor.
The next step, of course, was to carry Yan Xun's body upstairs.
Yan Yu didn't move. He knew that the person lying there wasn't Yan Xun at all, so he naturally didn't bother to do anything.
He glanced around, and everyone around him avoided his gaze. Yan's parents were crying so hard they had no strength left. In the end, Sun Zhao and Gu Jia stepped in, one grabbing his wrist and the other his ankle, and placed Yan Xun's body on the bed sheet.
"Let's leave it at the Yan family's place for now," Yan Yu said.
He lowered his head and said, "We'll deal with it after the ceremony."
……
Once they arrived at the Yan family's residence, the question of where to put the item became another problem.
In the end, it was Yan Yu who made the decision, and the room was placed in the room where Yan Xun had been staying.
“…I, I think we should call the police,” Sun Yue said.
—This is also a line from the movie.
Yan Yu glanced at her. "Indeed."
Sun Yue immediately took out her phone to make a call, but for some reason, she couldn't even dial an emergency number.
She said to the others somewhat anxiously, "Why don't we drive out and call the police?"
“The villagers told me that the roads out are blocked,” Yan Yu said. “We probably won’t be able to leave anytime soon.”
Sun Yue glanced at the others, "Then what do we do!"
"This matter is too suspicious..."
"He doesn't look like he drowned by accident at all."
"How could such a coincidence happen? He's only been missing for a few days..."
She didn't finish her sentence because her parents' crying grew louder.
Even though she knew these were all movie plots and that her words were all based on the movie script, Sun Yue still felt a little depressed.
Ruan Yun seemed to notice her unease, and it was time for her to speak up in the movie, "When will the road out of the village be repaired?"
"It might take a week," Yan Yu said.
He looked down at Yan Xun lying on the bed and said, "Everyone, let's leave here first."
Yan's parents were unwilling to leave, and Yan Yu let them be.
He had other things to attend to, so after offering them a few more words of comfort, he left the Yan family.
Once Yan Yu left, Sun Zhao and the others knew that their time in the dungeon was running out. Yan Xun's death was just the beginning; one after another, these players would start disappearing...
Until they were hung on wire and made into human skewers.
Gu Jia knew the whole plot and even had a paper doll as a substitute, so she wasn't in a hurry at all.
The remaining people were exchanging the information they had found.
Meng Zhi suddenly started talking about a dream he had, in which he was a pitiful working man.
"You were dreaming too?" Sun Yue asked.
Ruan Yun and Meng Zhi were teammates. They exchanged a glance, then looked at Gu Jia and Sun Zhao.
Only when the two of them nodded did they finally confirm one thing.
All the players living in Wusheng Village must have had a dream—although the details of each person's dream were different, they were generally similar.
Sometimes they work in an office, sometimes they are students in school, and sometimes it's a childhood memory.
Sun Zhao also shared some of the clues he found.
Gu Jia was absent-minded... He couldn't help but turn around and glance at Yan Xun's room behind him, wondering where the real Yan Xun was.
Sun Zhao noticed his gaze, and he also noticed that there was something strange about Yan Xun's corpse; the height didn't match.
"...That night, I went to the Cimu Hall alone."
Finally, after thinking it over, Sun Yue told him what she had seen in the Cimu Hall.
"You said you hid under the offering table and Yan Yu didn't see you?" Sun Zhao repeated her statement.
Sun Yue nodded.
Upon hearing this, Sun Zhao couldn't help but glance at Gu Jia again—
He remembered that day, before he and Gu Jia were almost discovered by Yan Yu, Gu Jia also chose to hide behind the golden statue of the benevolent mother.
Gu Jia possesses the entire script and knows the whole truth, could it be...?
Is the Compassionate Mother Goddess actually a good person in this instance?