It's time to become an evil god.

The little girl had a blank expression, drool at the corner of her mouth, and unfocused pupils. She was dressed in a pure white robe with wide sleeves, and her long hair was neatly tied in a knot and adorned with a jade hairpin.

The little girl holds a white mask in her right hand and gently rests it on her outstretched left hand.

He kept his head down and didn't say anything.

Bai Ge heard a low murmur of discussion behind him.

"Have you heard? We heard that Ding Junshan's family drew lots today to serve the White Snake, but they were killed by three outsiders who broke into the village. Now they have to use three people from other families as human sacrifices."

"Tsk tsk tsk, these guys are really unlucky. If this hadn't happened, the elder probably would have buried them alive on the spot."

"Keep your voices down! This is the White Snake Lady's festival. Are you trying to get yourselves killed?"

The chattering was silenced, and Bai Ge turned to look at Boss Li.

Mr. Li put on an innocent expression, shrugged, and said, "I can't predict the future, how would I know?"

Three dignified old men sat upright in grand chairs on the high platform, their eyes sweeping over the crowd with an air of authority. The old man with the cane who had been leaning on the cane stood up, slowly walked to the front, coughed softly, and called out, "The time has come, set off in the sedan chair."

The only sound in the deathly silence of the crowd was heavy breathing. Sixteen strong men emerged from the crowd and each carried a coffin and an altar.

The people around them unanimously took off the white masks they had clipped to their waists and put them on.

The surrounding scenery changed instantly after the mask was put on.

A person's neck stretched out continuously, and the snake face embedded in his face seemed to blend into his skin, turning into a strange white snake.

Some people put on the mask and sewed it into one piece, causing their bodies to swell up and become grotesque ghosts with distorted faces and horns on their heads.

Some people's bodies swelled up rapidly, like balloons, turning into big children with childlike faces and eerie smiles.

Some people even grow hair on their bodies, becoming the legendary mountain goblins.

Each member's body, like their mask, undergoes changes, sometimes becoming smaller, sometimes taller and more like a demon.

The scene before my eyes was as if the monsters recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas had appeared in the world.

"and many more."

Bai Ge took a deep breath, a terrifying thought forming in his mind: "Actually, the villagers in Genshin Impact aren't human?"

Faced with the villagers who looked like monsters, Boss Li finally lost his composure and asked in terror, "Professor Bai, what's going on? Why have all the villagers turned into monsters?"

"Tsk, haven't you ever read the web-based game 'Classic of Mountains and Seas'?"

Mr. Li shook his head, puzzled, and asked, "A web game based on the Classic of Mountains and Seas? What the hell is that?"

Bai Ge explained, "At the beginning, I encountered a Thunderstrike Kaibeast, which accidentally devoured a Blue-Eyes Elf Dragon, and unexpectedly awakened an Overpowered Bloodline, becoming the True Dragon Emperor - Dharma King Beast."

Mr. Li was completely dumbfounded, thinking he had misheard, and asked, "There's such a thing in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Li."

Bai Ge raised his head, a strange smile playing on his lips, and asked with a light laugh, "Then guess which page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas I should be on?"

Chapter 554 The Final Breakthrough

"What's on which page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

Mr. Li was puzzled. Bai Ge's expression was mysterious, as if he were hiding some secret. Mr. Li's bodyguard, Da Zhuang, seemed to be a worldly man. Looking at the circle of monsters in front of him, he said in a low voice, "Boss, if these guys were human, I could risk my life to protect you and help you escape. But judging from the current situation, we're in grave danger."

"Shut up."

Boss Li spent countless resources to finally devise a perfect plan to get rid of the Corpse Infant curse on his body, but he never expected that the entire village would be full of vengeful ghosts!

He lowered his voice, placing all his hopes on Bai Ge, and whispered, "Professor Bai, you're so knowledgeable, tell me what these guys are all about? Don't worry, I'll definitely give you a generous reward after we get out."

Bai Ge suddenly asked, "Have you ever heard of Devil Fruits?"

"The Devil Fruit of One Piece?"

Boss Li immediately picked up on Bai Ge's joke and said in a deep voice, "Could it be that they are all Devil Fruit users?"

"...I'm just saying that the current scene is more like the Marineford War."

Mr. Li asked anxiously, "The Marineford War? What happened in the end?"

"Anyway, a lot of people died in the end."

"……Grass."

"No, they are not monsters in the true sense, just a group of unlucky people suffering from curses."

A familiar voice rang out from the crowd. Bai Ge turned around and saw the two college students he had met during the day hiding quietly in the crowd. However, they were not wearing masks, and the surrounding villagers did not seem to have noticed them.

"A cursed unlucky guy? What does that mean?"

Bai Ge tried to extract information from the two, but Jiang Xian and Yu Lin did not try to hide anything and instead directly told him the secret about the Seventy-Two White Lady.

Legend has it that the Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses served the Mountain God in the mountains. The White Lady Goddess was a wild deity who suddenly appeared and cut off the head of the Mountain God who protected the mountain people and ensured good weather and harvests. She hung the head on a high cliff and forced the surrounding mountain people to worship the Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses.

Bai Ge raised a question, saying, "Don't the surrounding mountain people resist? And if I'm not mistaken, killing the officially appointed mountain god will bring disaster, won't it?"

"The Seventy-Two White Lady offered the surrounding mountain people an offer they couldn't refuse."

"Any mountain dweller who chooses to serve the Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses will live forever."

"Immortality?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Ge had already roughly guessed the ending.

"That's right, but it's not true immortality, otherwise these mountain people wouldn't have survived to this day. But not everyone has the opportunity to serve Lady White Snake. Only qualified people can serve as Lady White Snake's attendants, and every attendant must be a young girl. Boys can only be used as human sacrifices."

"The Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses also have a large following of believers, and their missionary influence has gradually expanded. Throughout history, armies have been dispatched to suppress and besiege their followers, but they would scatter at the first sign of trouble, hiding deep in the mountains until the armies withdrew or the dynasties declined, at which point they would reappear. However, with the passage of time, the number of followers has waned, and eventually only a small core group of believers has established the Yuanshen Village. But most people no longer know this history; they only know that an unknown sacrificial ceremony is held in the village every Ghost Festival, and that the villagers' bodies undergo strange changes."

"The three old men on the stage should be the last three followers of the Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses."

The background of the game mission is already familiar; the next step is to follow the sacrificial procession to the so-called Ding Family Ancestral Hall and solve the final mystery.

Bai Ge asked softly, "What exactly is the Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses?"

"We don't know."

The two answered in unison, "The only thing we know is that, according to the fragmentary records of the believers' religious texts, the Seventy-Two White Lady was a banished immortal who fell from the Milky Way."

"Starry Sky? Milky Way?"

A terrifying thought flashed through Bai Ge's mind. Looking at the monstrous villagers around him, he tried to calm the fear deep within him. His mind raced as he tried to piece together the clues.

The game first made us solve the resurgence of the Old God Nordens with our bare hands, and now it requires players to deal with a monster that seems to be an Outer God's avatar as ordinary people. It all looks like suicide.

wrong.

Bai Ge shook his head. Even the most unforgiving evolution game wouldn't offer a guaranteed death ending. If the evolution game wanted to kill a player, it had all sorts of ways to do so, and could even use its authority to directly strip them of their privileges.

Therefore, there must be some clue that has not yet been discovered.

Bai Ge's face grew increasingly pale. Boss Li, who was tied up to the side, asked curiously, "Professor Bai, what's wrong? Who were you muttering to just now?"

"What are you muttering to yourself?"

Bai Ge replied irritably, "Two college students who rode in the same car with us during the day."

"What? A college student riding in the same car as us?"

Mr. Li looked puzzled and asked tentatively, "Were there only three of us in that car during the day?"

"Ok?"

Bai Ge suddenly turned around, but the two people who had been hiding in the crowd had vanished without a trace. He turned to look at Boss Li beside him and said, "You're saying there were only the three of us during the day?"

"Yes."

Bai Ge quickly described the physical characteristics of the two people again.

Mr. Li said with certainty, "Where did these five people come from, Professor Bai? Don't scare me. I know better than anyone the lives I've taken. I don't know those two people you're describing at all."

Bai Ge's chaotic thoughts gradually cleared up. Once he figured out Jiang Xian and Yu Lin's identities, Bai Ge would be confident of passing the level.

A commotion arose from the crowd, mixed with a hoarse and eerie drumbeat.

The chorus members, dressed in straw raincoats and carrying pine torches, sang strange and incomprehensible ancient songs.

The sacrificial ceremony officially began.

At this moment, the villagers, who looked like terrifying ghosts from the underworld, came up and grabbed the three people without saying a word, stuffing them into the vermilion coffin and then closing the heavy coffin lid.

"No, I'm sure I still have clues about the leaks."

Bai Ge racked his brains for a solution, then suddenly remembered the third clue.

[Village Chief Ding's greed can be used as a starting point]

At first, Bai Ge naturally assumed that Village Chief Ding was the breakthrough point at the beginning of the mission, but the system did not explicitly indicate that he was not the breakthrough point for all the subsequent predicaments!

"I see. I didn't need to search around at all. As long as I seized on Village Chief Ding as a breakthrough, everything would fall apart on its own!"

"The system's suggested rules supersede the logic of the script task itself. No matter how absurd or unconventional your actions are, as long as they conform to the logic in the system's suggestions, you will succeed!"

With this in mind, Bai Ge devised a bold plan.

Chapter 555 So You're a Tank Driver

The coffin wasn't very soundproof, and the obscure and eerie singing seemed to come from afar. Bai Ge could even hear Boss Li's heavy breathing.

"Hey."

Bai Ge lowered his voice and whispered to Boss Li beside him, "Boss Li, I want to discuss something with you."

"what's up?"

Bai Ge said in a deep voice, "Boss Li should have a backup plan, right? Tell me about it."

"Alright then."

The voice on the other end of the phone sounded tired and helpless. Although he had been aware of the existence of ghosts and gods, he was still deeply shocked after seeing the villagers put on masks and turn into inhuman monsters. He sighed deeply, "Well, it's already like this, so it doesn't matter if I tell you. Actually, I've arranged a van full of people a few kilometers away from the original village. If anything happens, they will immediately take the villagers hostage and control the situation."

"But it seems to be of no use now, as knives and guns cannot do any damage to these monsters at all."

Boss Li seemed to have accepted his fate and given up the struggle, but Bai Ge suddenly spoke up, "What if I said I had another bold idea, that we don't need them to come and die? You just need to do this, then this, and finally this."

After hearing Bai Ge's outrageous plan, Boss Li stood there stunned. After a moment of thought, he asked in a low voice, "Professor Bai, you're not planning to scam me, are you?"

"If I wanted to trick you, I wouldn't be lying in a coffin right now. After you get to the Ding family's ancestral hall, do as I say. I'll send a whole cart of bread people to the village chief's house. At least then, even if you die, you'll at least have a whole body."