Trembling At A High Altitude

Chapter 764

"She's just a plot NPC, don't mind."

Li Teng picked up Nana and whispered a few words to Shen Mengying.

"She is a plot NPC? Then... what happened to the daughter?" Shen Mengying asked again.

"It's not mine, I just entered the plot." Li Teng told the truth.

"I believe you are a ghost." Shen Mengying turned her head away.

Now that you have entered the plot world, of course you must find a way to find the main plot tasks and successfully complete the plot.

After eating, Li Teng and his family left the yard and went to the village outside to explore around.

It is noon now, but because the sky is cloudy and there is no sun, it still feels a bit cold.

According to previous experience, mountain villages are different from cities. If it is a ghost movie, the ghosts will generally be stronger.

Because the yards of each household are relatively far apart, and there are no street lights in this remote mountain village, it feels particularly eerie at night.

If a ghost enters a house, no one else can hear it even if it calls for help.

Even if you hear it, you still have a certain amount of time to rush over.

Therefore, it is important to be familiar with the structure of the village and get to know the villagers in the same village.

Li Teng's closest neighbor's courtyard gate is about seventy to eighty meters away from Li Teng's courtyard gate.

Between the two families is a large vegetable field, where various vegetables are grown, and all kinds of vegetables grow fat and strong.

When Li Teng's family passed by the courtyard gate, a neighbor's family was sitting near the courtyard gate of their house, holding bowls, eating and chatting.

"Have you eaten?"

The family saw Li Teng and his family coming and greeted them.

"Yes, Aunt Liu, are you eating?" Zhang Mengdi also greeted them.

Probably because they are plot NPCs, Zhang Mengdi and these villagers obviously know each other.

"Sit down and let's chat together." The neighbor invited Li Teng and his family.

Zhang Mengdi looked at Li Teng, who nodded.

Just chat, let him take this opportunity to get familiar with the plot.

After chatting for a while, Li Teng didn't collect any useful information, but Shen Mengying felt much better.

Because...she discovered that the neighbor's man had three wives.

It seems that polygamy is a bad habit that this small mountain village has not yet changed?

Since this is the case in the village, she feels a lot more balanced.

"Why don't they talk?" The neighbor asked Zhang Mengdi about Li Teng and Shen Mengying.

"My husband and the others have just come back from outside and don't know much about the situation in the village." Zhang Mengdi explained a few words.

"What's the situation in the village now?" Li Teng took the opportunity to ask a few questions.

"You just came back from outside? It's normal to not understand the situation in the village, but there are a few things you must pay attention to..." Aunt Liu, the neighbor, started talking.

Li Teng said he was all ears.

"1. After dark, you must not leave your yard, let alone the village, otherwise you will see a very scary scene, which you definitely don't want to see. After you see it, you don't want to see it a second time.

"Two. If there are places in the village that are marked as restricted areas with red letters, you must not go there. Don't be curious. If you go in, you will either die or be injured.

"Third, we must respect the Taoist priests in the village. Without their protection, we would not be alive today.

"I can only think of this much for now. If I think of anything else, I will go find you and tell you." Aunt Liu stopped here.

Based on his previous experience in playing games, Li Teng knew that what this NPC said was almost some 'rules' in the plot, but it was hard to say. It might also be a trap and cover deliberately set by the director and screenwriter.

In the horror and suspense genre, the word suspense, to some unsophisticated directors and screenwriters, means making things mysterious.

Therefore, what the NPC says in this regard must be taken seriously, but it cannot be fully believed.

"What kind of scary things will you see outside the village after dark?" Shen Mengying asked Aunt Liu. It's very appetizing and scary. I definitely don't want to read it. I don't want to read it a second time...

"It's better not to know." Aunt Liu shook her head cryptically.

"Do you know?" Shen Mengying asked Zhang Mengdi beside her.

"I don't know." Zhang Mengdi also shook his head.

"Okay, I'll go and see it myself tonight." Shen Mengying couldn't ask, so she had no choice but to give up.

After leaving Aunt Liu's house, Li Teng and his family continued to wander around the village.

There is an ancestral hall in the center of the village. It has an ancient style and covers a large area. It looks very ancient.

However, the word "restricted area" is written in red letters on the door of the ancestral hall, and there are many yellow talisman papers posted on the surrounding walls. According to Aunt Liu, this kind of place is not allowed to enter.

There is a mountain behind the village. The mountain is steep and there is only one way up.

But the way up is also blocked, with the word 'restricted area' written in red, so obviously you can't go up.

A Taoist temple was built at the foot of the mountain, and some Taoist priests were walking around the temple.

According to Aunt Liu, these Taoist priests protect the villagers, and the villagers should show respect to them.

Li Teng didn't know whether these Taoist priests were charlatans. When he passed by these Taoist priests, they all seemed polite and not arrogant, which gave Li Teng a good impression.

On the other side of the foot of the mountain is a coal mine. Both sides of the entrance to the mine are piled with excavated coal. Some workers with black bodies and faces that look like Africans are processing the coal into briquettes.

On the left side of the village is an artificially built weir pond, and on the right side is a deep valley.

It is equivalent to a mountain village with mountains on one side, water on the other, and deep valleys on the other, with only the village entrance leading to the outside.

Outside is a long road that leads to the end of the field of view.

A deep ditch was also dug at the entrance of the village, connecting the weir and pond on the left side of the village. There was a stone bridge leading to the outside world.

It gives the impression that this mountain village seems to be deliberately guarding against something outside.

"Excuse me, is there anything scary that appears outside the village at night?" Shen Mengying saw a man who looked like a village cadre busy doing something at the entrance of the village, so she asked him.

"Yes." The man nodded.

"What is it?" Shen Mengying continued to ask.

"The less you know, the longer you live." The village cadre said this and walked away.

"What on earth is it? It's so mysterious." Shen Mengying's curiosity was completely aroused.

"They say it's better not to know, so we'd better not ask." Zhang Mengdi persuaded Shen Mengying.

"Of course this kind of thing needs to be clarified." Shen Mengying looked at Li Teng unconvinced, as if she wanted Li Teng to comment.

"Curiosity killed the cat. The less you know, the better." Li Teng agreed with Zhang Mengdi's statement.

Chapter 765

"I know you shouldn't be so curious in a movie like this, but when we do plot tasks, we have to understand the plot clearly, right?" Shen Mengying whispered something into Li Teng's ear.

"Let's come over here tonight and take a look ourselves." Li Teng thought for a while and answered Shen Mengying.

"Okay." Shen Mengying said nothing more.

There is also a village committee and other institutions in the village.

It's a big yard.

It is also a warehouse, where rice, noodles, and various daily necessities and utensils are piled.

These things are purchased by the village from outside.

Villagers cannot buy with money, but with work points.

Work points need to be earned by working hard in the village.

For example, helping Taoist priests clean Taoist temples, dig in coal mines, build roads in villages, plant trees, etc.

…

After walking around a lot, Li Teng almost figured out the structure of the mountain village.

In addition, I almost know that there are about 20 households, more than 100 people, and a dozen Taoist priests in the mountain village. Among these Taoist priests, only one Taoist priest is a foreigner, and the other Taoist priests are from that Taoist priest. Recruited from the village.

It is said that they can exorcise ghosts and even fight them.

Of course, Li Teng also asked Shen Mengying to ask other villagers about the haunting in the village, and the villagers' answers were similar to Aunt Liu's.

It is to tell them that they can move freely in the village at dawn, but after dark, if they do not hear the call of the Taoist priests outside, they must not leave their yard, let alone run out of the village.

There is no electricity or mobile phone signal in the village, and naturally there is no mobile phone or Internet.

There is no TV or anything, it is a very primitive mountain village.

At night, kerosene lamps are needed for lighting.

Back in his yard, Li Teng also took a look at his yard.

First, there is a brick house with three rooms. The middle room is called the main room. There are wooden chairs and coffee tables in the main room, and couplets and a large portrait of the Kitchen God are hung on the wall.

On both sides of the main room are two bedrooms.

The bedroom window is small and covered with window paper.

There is a double bed in each bedroom. It seems that there should be one for Zhang Mengdi and Nana, and one for Shen Mengying.

This time Li Teng was in trouble...

Why isn't there a room for him?

When night comes, where will he sleep?

If it didn't work, he laid the floor alone in the main room.

In fact, he has a better idea, that is, the double bed is actually very big and can sleep three people.

but……

Can't Nana sleep in a room alone? She is just over three years old.

Why is it that Nana is only three years old every time she enters the script world...

Let’s talk about sleeping when it gets dark.

Li Teng looked at other places in the yard.

There is a separate toilet connected to a septic tank in the vegetable patch below.

There is a chicken coop with a dozen egg-laying hens.

The kitchen is a separate kitchen, with a large earthen stove and a large pot, and coal is burned in it.

Next to the kitchen is a storage room where some rice, flour and the like are stored.

There is a cellar outside the storage room. The cellar is quite large and stores food such as radishes, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and Chinese cabbage.

Coupled with the vegetable fields outside, in this plot, there will definitely be no worries about eating and drinking.

The biggest terrorist threat should come from outside the village.

As for what the threat was, all the villagers encountered during the day kept it secret unless they went to the village entrance to check it in person after dark.

However, the villagers I met warned them to stay in their own yards and not go out after dark.

Li Teng estimated that after dark, something that could not be seen in the light might happen in the village, or something very scary might happen, so he warned them like this.

Curiosity killed the cat. In horror movies, this kind of plot usually has a supporting character who wants to die and refuses to listen to dissuasion. He insists on going out at night to check and then receive a box lunch.

The problem is... in this drama, except for Li Teng and Shen Mengying, there are no supporting characters who can be used as cannon fodder.

Therefore, if he wanted to check, Li Teng could only go and check.

It will definitely not work if you don't investigate clearly, otherwise you won't be able to find and complete the plot missions.

As the most common NPC in Li Teng's recent plot, Zhang Mengdi behaves like a standard NPC. She seems to have grown up in this village and is very adaptable to the life in the village.

When Li Teng ignored her, she played with Nana in the yard.

Shen Mengying looked worried. Li Teng knew very well that she was probably curious about what kind of horror would be outside the village at night.

"We probably have to live here for a while." Li Teng said to Shen Mengying after checking the yard.

"Well, maybe for a lifetime." Shen Mengying nodded.

In the last script world, she and Li Teng stayed there for the rest of their lives, and even gave birth to Dazhu and Xiaotu.

I don’t know how long it will be this time.

"So, I want to go out and earn some work points. Otherwise, the rice and noodles will only be enough for us to eat for about a week." Li Teng continued.

"I'll go with you." Shen Mengying proposed to Li Teng.

"I'm going to dig coal. It's the fastest way to earn work points, but it's dirty and tiring, so it's not suitable for you." Li Teng shook his head.

"I don't care, it's not like I haven't endured hardships with you." Shen Mengying insisted.

Now that Li Teng leaves, won't she have to stay alone with Zhang Mengdi and her daughter? Thinking about it makes me sad.

"Okay." Shen Mengying insisted, and Li Teng couldn't say anything more.

After greeting Zhang Mengdi and his daughter, Li Teng led Shen Mengying towards the coal mine.

The job of earning work points by digging coal is very simple. After Li Teng goes to the mine, he digs up the coal and piles it in the open space next to it. There will be workers who calculate the work points to calculate the work points for him.

After the calculation is completed, it will be taken to the village committee and statistics will be made by specialized personnel.

After agreeing, Li Teng entered the mine with the coal digging tools.

The tools are very primitive, only a coal hoe, a coal shovel, and a specially constructed cart.

After going down, Li Teng learned what was going on in the coal mine.

The coal mines here are underground, buried in the earth's crust under the mountains.

Coal is very solid in the earth's crust. It is not as soft as Li Teng imagined, but as hard as rock.

It cannot be dug out by manual labor alone.

According to the workers inside, Taoist priests buried explosives inside, blasted open the coal mine, and loosened the coal seams. All Li Teng needed to do was load the soft coal into a car and pull it to the ground. .

Shen Mengying was holding the cart beside her while Li Teng dug out the coal, loaded it into the cart, and then pushed it to the ground.

"Brother, what kind of terror will happen outside the village after dark?" Shen Mengying became familiar with the workers in the coal mine and couldn't help but ask this question again.

"Well...well...you'll know it when you see it." The worker sighed.

"Tell me! What kind of horror is it?"