Survival game: my plug-ins can stack up

Zhou Dafu subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he met Zhao Xun's eyes, he suddenly felt that his shoulder wound hurt even more.

He chose to tell the truth: "That...that is a rule passed down from our ancestors in our village. There is a water tank at the door and it is filled with water every day. If the tank is smashed, there will be disaster."

"What trouble?" Zhao Xun asked.

"This...I don't know about this," Zhou Dafu quickly looked at his father for help, "I only know that the rules are like this, and no one has ever dared to violate it."

For the safety of his son, Grandpa Zhou immediately spoke: "These rules are handed down from our ancestors. No one has ever violated them. We really don't know what the consequences of violating them will be!"

Zhao Xun looked directly into Grandpa Zhou's eyes and activated hypnosis: "Really?"

After Grandpa Zhou was stunned for a brief second, he changed his words: "No, this is a habit that was only developed more than 20 years ago. It is not a rule handed down from our ancestors."

The expressions of Zhou Dafu and Zhou Dagui changed simultaneously.

They looked at Grandpa Zhou Zhou. Although they didn't speak, their eyes conveyed one meaning - why did Dad tell the truth?

Although they were confused, they did not dare to stop him, for fear that one of their actions would make Zhao Xun unhappy and they would be stabbed again.

After all, Zhao Xun really took action.

Zhao Xun was not angry because of the three people's previous concealment. He then asked: "What happened more than 20 years ago that made you develop such a habit?"

Grandpa Zhou seemed to be caught in some kind of memory. He was silent for several seconds before slowly speaking: "One day more than twenty years ago, the young women in the village suddenly fled en masse."

After hearing this, Zhou Dafu and Zhou Dagui looked unhappy.

They are all in their thirties now. Twenty years ago, they were already about ten years old, so they naturally have an impression of what happened at that time.

When I heard Grandpa Zhou mention that incident, I couldn't help but recall the disaster at that time.

Even if they have grown up, even if more than twenty years have passed, when they look back, they can still feel the fear at that time.

At this moment, they were all silent.

Grandpa Zhou continued: "Before they escaped, they set a fire and wanted to burn everyone in the village. There was a wedding in the village that day, and many people gathered in a house to drink. They were too drunk to react, and most of them were burned. died."

He sighed deeply: "After that, every household developed the habit of preparing a full tank of water at the door of their house every day, just in case a similar disaster happens again."

"All those young women ran away?" Zhao Xun asked.

"Of course not." Grandpa Zhou sneered, with a hint of hatred in his tone, "In a small mountain village like ours, there are no acquaintances to lead the way. Only if they can run out will there be ghosts!"

"Were all captured?" Zhao Xun asked again.

"Yes, everyone who is still alive has been captured!" Grandpa Zhou said in a tone of voice that was full of anger. "These stinky women thought they could run out, but when they ran to the mountains, at least half of them were killed by wild beasts. have eaten."

Zhou Dafu and Zhou Dagui both glanced at Zhao Xun's expression subconsciously.

Although in their minds, Zhao Xun should be from the same village as them and should share the same hatred and hatred with them on this matter, but after what they had just experienced, they were always worried that Grandpa Zhou's words would arouse Zhao Xun's disgust and anger. .

Zhao Xun did not have any emotional fluctuations, but continued to ask: "Are these young women bought from your village?"

"Yes." Grandpa Zhou nodded.

"How many women were captured? Are there any alive?" Zhao Xun asked again.

"They are all dead." Grandpa Zhou sneered, "Only four were captured. Everyone in the village hated them, and they were all tortured to death. The longest one only lived ten years."

As if he still felt angry after thinking about it, he cursed several times: "We spent money to buy them, but they were restless and dared to run away! They even set fire to the village! Of course they won't get anything good to eat!"

Zhao Xun automatically ignored Grandpa Zhou's complaints and fell into deep thought.

Judging from this story, the main function of the water tank is to extinguish the fire in case of fire.

He has [water power], so he doesn't have a water tank at the door and doesn't have to worry about fire.

In this whole story, the only supernatural events that can be related to are the villagers who were burned to death and the four women who were captured and tortured to death.

But no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with him smashing the water tank.

unless……

"Did my house suffer any damage during the fire?" Zhao Xun asked Grandpa Zhou, "Did someone die in this house?"

"No." Grandpa Zhou shook his head, "The houses that were burned were all abandoned ones deep in the village."

"Then those four women you captured died in my house?" Zhao Xun asked again.

Grandpa Zhou tried his best to recall: "There seems to be one."

At the end, he explained: "This house was abandoned a long time ago, and no one lived in it before I came here. It is also close to other occupied houses, making it easy to come and go, so when we are alone, we often choose this kind of house." room."

Zhao Xun nodded clearly.

He basically knew what the consequences of triggering the second rule would be.

So he pointed at Zhou Dafu and Zhou Dagui and changed the subject: "Did they also buy their wives?"

"Dafu's wife was bought, and Dagui's wife was exchanged from the next village." Grandpa Zhou explained.

"Change?" Zhao Xun raised his eyebrows slightly.

"The village next door is also very poor." Grandpa Zhou paused before continuing, "Our custom here is that when two families happen to have daughters from outside, they can exchange them with each other if they cannot afford a daughter-in-law from outside."

"So, you originally had a daughter in your family, but in order to help Zhou Dagui get a wife, you exchanged daughters with a family in the next village who also had a daughter?" Zhao Xun concluded.

"Yes, that's it." Grandpa Zhou nodded repeatedly.

Zhou Dagui looked a little embarrassed: "Dad, why do you keep saying everything to others?"

It was something they were accustomed to, but for some reason, they always felt a little awkward when facing Zhao Xun.

He subconsciously felt that he shouldn't say it.

Zhao Xun had seen similar tangled expressions on Zhou Dagui's face several times, and he could probably guess what Zhou Dagui was struggling with.

After thinking for a while, he asked: "In your impression, am I from the same village?"

When Zhou Dagui and Zhou Dafu were still hesitating about how to answer, Grandpa Zhou, who was still in a hypnotic state, had already spoken: "You moved here half a year ago. Although you are a foreigner with a different surname, you have lived here for such a long time, and the people in the village don't reject you very much. is you."

Zhao Xun nodded.

No wonder that when that little brat came to trouble him before, he said something like that. It sounded like he had lived here for a long time, and the other party knew very well that he was poor and lonely.

But looking at the attitude of these villagers towards him, there is obvious xenophobic behavior.

He asked about the village. Although the three people answered, they seemed to think that there were some things he should have known.

It turns out that his setting is that of a foreigner who has lived in the village for half a year.

That makes sense.

Zhao Xun turned to look at Zhou Dafu: "Your wife was bought from outside. Is she locked at home now, or can she come and go freely?"

"It's not locked." Zhou Dafu touched his thick neck and said without embarrassment, "But I basically let her do work at home and don't let her go out casually."

"I have something to do with her, please ask her to come over." Before Zhou Dafu could speak, Zhao Xun initiated hypnosis on Zhou Dafu.

Zhou Dafu's house is right next door, so it's very convenient to come and go.

It is more convenient to have a ready-made target delivered to his door than to search for suitable candidates everywhere.

Zhou Dafu opened his mouth and closed it again, and nodded honestly: "Then I'll go now."

He ran home in a hurry, not caring about the injury on his shoulder.

Zhou Dagui was stunned.

He felt that his father and brother were a little out of their minds, but he had no idea what was going on.

No one could explain it to him, so he could only remain silent.

But Zhao Xun did not let Zhou Dagui go because of Zhou Dagui's silence.

He said to Zhou Dagui: "Call your wife too."

Hypnosis was also used.

So Zhou Dagui also trotted to call his wife.

Zhao Xun looked at Grandpa Zhou again and asked, "Did anything unusual happen in this house before I moved in?"

Grandpa Zhou's eyes flashed, as if he had thought of something.

"Whenever there is no moon at night, there will always be some crying sounds in this house." He lowered his voice and said to Zhao Xun, "But some brave people came over to look and saw nothing. So we all suspected It was the sound caused by the wind after the house was damaged."

Zhao Xun said "hmm" and changed the subject: "Do the madmen you mentioned before usually operate deep in the village?"

From the information he had learned from the three Zhou family members, he was currently more interested in this lunatic.

If an NPC with a special identity has no use at all in the game, it would be really bad fun.

He had to inquire about these noteworthy characters. Maybe there was someone among them who was related to the hidden mission.

"Yes, he is the only one living in those abandoned houses." Grandpa Zhou showed a look of disgust, "A bastard who killed his own father with his own hands, and he is lucky to still let him live!"

"Why did he kill his father?" Zhao Xun asked.

"There is no reason for a madman to kill someone. It's because he is insane!" Grandpa Zhou said matter-of-factly.

Zhao Xun is still hypnotizing Grandpa Zhou, so Grandpa Zhou’s answer will not be adulterated.

It seems that Grandpa Zhou really doesn't know the reason why the madman killed him.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Xun asked again: "Did the madman's mother also buy it?"

"Yes." Grandpa Zhou nodded.

"Were you on the escape list more than 20 years ago?" Zhao Xun asked next.

The only three middle-aged men in the village, they should be about the same age.

That madman should be about the same age as Zhou Dafu and Zhou Dagui. They were both about ten years old at the time.

The madman's mother wouldn't have been too old back then, so she might have been one of the escapees.

"Yes." Grandpa Zhou nodded again, and without waiting for Zhao Xun to ask, he took the initiative and said, "But she died outside and was not captured."

"How are you sure she is dead and not escaped?" Zhao Xun questioned.

"Her man recognized her clothes. They were all torn to pieces by wild beasts. There were pools of blood on the ground. It's impossible for her to be alive!" Grandpa Zhou made a wiping motion on his neck. "She will definitely die." It’s very clear.”

As soon as Grandpa Zhou finished speaking, Zhou Dafu, who lived nearby, had already dragged his wife over.

She was a woman with a haggard face, her face seemed to be sallow due to long-term malnutrition and hard work, and her whole body was extremely thin, as if she would fall down if the wind blew.

Years of torture and hard work have given her an air of old-fashionedness, and it is impossible to imagine that she was originally a girl from the city.

Her eyes were full of exhaustion and numbness. When Zhou Dafu pulled her over, she just stumbled along, like a puppet on strings.

"I brought the person." Zhou Dafu showed a flattering smile to Zhao Xun.

"I want to talk to her alone. You should go home first." Zhao Xun waved to Zhou Dafu.

While speaking, he took a special look at Zhou Dafu.

Zhou Dafu's frowned brows suddenly relaxed, and the doubts and wariness in his heart disappeared.

"Okay, then I'll go back and wait," he said to Zhao Xun with a smile, "after you finish talking to my wife, let her come back."

After saying that, he left.

Zhao Xun looked at Grandpa Zhou again: "Same for you."

Grandpa Zhou then left behind Zhou Dafu.

The woman looked at this scene with a hint of astonishment in her eyes.

This is the first time since she appeared that she has a more vivid expression.

"What's your name?" Zhao Xun asked the woman.

He did not use hypnosis on women.

"Talk to women alone" is related to Article 9 of the village rules. He is not sure whether the answers obtained after hypnosis are considered invalid.

Is there an invisible rule that requires a woman to take the initiative to tell secrets before she breaks the rules?

He had to break all the rules and survive until the third day before he could clear the game, so he couldn't get stuck on this one.

The woman came back to her senses. She looked at Zhao Xun and muttered, "Zhang Qin."

It seemed that years of "training" had made her accustomed to showing obedience to everyone in the village.

She did not reject or guard against Zhao Xun's inquiry, and answered very cooperatively.

"You were trafficked." Zhao Xun's words were not a question, but a statement.

Zhang Qin's expression stiffened for a moment, but she still nodded silently.

This matter is not a secret in the village. Whether she admits it or not, everyone knows the truth.

"Then do you have anything to say to me?" Zhao Xun suddenly asked.

Zhang Qin looked at Zhao Xun blankly, not realizing what Zhao Xun meant for a while.

"I'm a foreigner," Zhao Xun said, "You don't have anyone from Zhoujia Village watching over you now. With such a good opportunity, don't you have anything to say to me?"