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Chapter 31 Huangshan Village (Please continue reading)
"It's actually Huangshan Village..."

It's no exaggeration to say that Huangshan Village is the most terrifying location in the entire Mountain Village Corpse instance.

This is because it is the hometown of the vengeful ghost Chu Renmei, and also the place where she was murdered and her body dumped.

It makes sense. If the challenger appeared not at the center of the paranormal event, but in some other safe place, the difficulty of the dungeon would never be rated three stars.

For example, if you enter the world of Resident Evil and ask the challenger to live in China outside of Raccoon City for a day, that wouldn't be a challenge at all, but rather a reward—there would be no danger to their life, and they could escape the God Space and live a normal modern city life.

How can such a good thing happen?

After a very short period of adaptation, a short memory appeared in the minds of all five challengers, including Lu Ming.

Everyone present was a friend of the man with glasses, who had been invited to this village.

Seeking thrills, the group gathered around the table and started playing a psychic game.

It is said that if you drip your own blood into a basin of water, drink it in turn, and then ignite the corpse oil in the house, you can see real ghosts.

This short fragment of memory is the only information that challengers entering the instance can obtain.

Their existence was naturally accepted by the people in the instance, under the guidance of some force.

When the basin of water was handed from Annie to Chen Xin, Chen Xin did not hesitate. She put down the basin, which was stained red with blood, stood up, and said, "Sorry, I've been afraid of ghosts since I was a child, so I won't participate in the spirit communication game."

Biggie, who is Big B's girlfriend, joked with a smile: "Chen Xin, why are you suddenly quitting now? Gods and ghosts and all that, they may not exist. It's just a game, don't take it seriously."

Chen Xin didn't answer, but shook her head.

She wasn't stupid; she knew perfectly well that the blood and corpse oil were extremely malevolent, and drinking them would definitely cause problems.

These young people present were courting death, but she didn't want that.

It's not just Chen Xin.

Huang Mao, Wu Lei, Xia Lili, and Lu Ming all refused to drink the bloody water and chose to quit the game.

Putting aside whether the blood and corpse oil are truly sinister or not, no normal person would ever do something as abstract as drinking such a disgusting mixture of blood and fluids.

The people in the room didn't make things too difficult for those who didn't participate in the psychic games.

Even Xiaoming, one of these people, had no intention of participating in the psychic game.

Watching the four people drink the scarlet blood one after another, Chen Xin showed no emotional fluctuation.

Before coming to the Main God Space, she was a nine-to-five office worker who observed the backstabbing and intrigue in the workplace every day and had long understood a simple but profound truth.

No permanent friends, only permanent interests.

After arriving in the Main God Space and participating in several terrifying dungeons, Chen Xin became accustomed to the deaths and departures of those around her.

For these challengers, nothing is more important than living.

"As long as I don't drink bloody water or participate in spirit communication games, I'll be fine, right?"

Not only Chen Xin, but the other three challengers also had the same thought.

They looked outside. It was night, and there was only endless darkness outside. Occasionally, the chirping of insects could be heard from the ridges of the fields, reminding the people inside that this was a world still full of life.

pat!pat!
The sound of dripping water.

Lu Ming turned his gaze toward the source of the sound and found two water taps there.

One was a modern silver faucet, while the other was an old-fashioned brass faucet, a common sight in the village. The faucet wasn't tightened properly and was dripping water intermittently, as if it had just been used.

Lu Ming frowned.

He was the only one of the five challengers who knew the plot, so he naturally knew that the so-called three-star dungeon wouldn't be that simple.

Chen Xin and his team's guess was only half right.

The blood was indeed problematic, but it had nothing to do with the corpse oil in the psychic game or the blood with a strange aura that was dripped into the basin of water.

The real danger lies in the water source of Huangshan Village.

Because of the construction of a road, the abandoned graveyard next to Huangshan Village was leveled by a cart, and the long-buried body of Chu Renmei fell into the mountain spring. It soaked for a long time, and her resentment polluted the water source.

Therefore, those who drink from the spring water will fall into the illusion of Chu Renmei and die in despair.

According to the Mysterious Revival, this is a curse that guarantees certain death.

Although Lu Ming and the others did not participate in the spirit communication game or drink the basin of blood water, long before the dungeon started, after a long journey to Huangshan Village, the "hospitable" bespectacled man brought them clear and sweet mountain spring water.

In other words, at the start of the instance, all challengers are cursed with certain death by Chu Renmei.

The spirit communication game we just played was merely a smokescreen.

Challengers who participate in the dungeon normally will think they have escaped a disaster and are temporarily safe. Little do they know that this carelessness and lack of vigilance is the most dangerous time.

"The only way for these people to survive is to leave Huangshan Village as soon as possible, find the survivor of the massacre, Aunt Mei's most beloved little boy Aqiang, and find out relevant information... Of course, the child from back then has now become an old man."

"If they continue to do nothing as they are now, the result of this dungeon run will only be total annihilation."

Lu Ming shook his head secretly.

The total annihilation he mentioned certainly did not include himself.

As for why the method to avert the danger wasn't revealed to everyone...
According to the usual practice of the God's Space, revealing the plot in a dungeon will result in a deduction of points.

Moreover, even if no points are deducted, Lu Ming has no obligation to help other challengers.

I saved you once, but what about next time?
One day, these challengers will die unexpectedly in some horror movie scenario.

Only the truly strong survive.

Only true powerhouses could be used by Lu Ming.

Lu Ming doesn't mind taking on a few underlings in the Main God Space to work for him, but absolute loyalty and outstanding ability are both indispensable.

The former can be solved with blood-stained old newspapers, but as for the latter, it depends on these people's fate. Just as these challengers won't remind the four young people who are courting death in the house, Lu Ming won't make a move casually for the time being.

Lu Ming secretly clenched a hand that no one could see, watching everything happening in the room with an indifferent heart, like a bystander who had nothing to do with it.

In the dimly lit earthen house, several people were playing a spirit communication game around a table.

The smell of corpse oil spread throughout the room, foul and unpleasant, like hair oil scraped from a seborrheic scalp, rotting for a long time before being ignited.

The bespectacled man, who was the host, didn't seem to care. He continued playing the game while chatting with Lu Ming and the others.

Halfway through the game, the bespectacled man suddenly stood up and said, "You guys play first, I'm going to the bathroom."

(End of this chapter)