[Avoid asking for directions in the middle of the night and avoid sleeping without a roof, which means not to leave the house and wander around in the middle of the night, and sleep in a house with a roof. This is also a local custom. During the Welcome Festival, there will sometimes be more private sacrificial activities at night, and it is really inconvenient for all guests to participate]

[Avoid Bai, that is, avoid Bai events. Lijiacun often holds Bai events during the Welcoming God Festival to send blessings from the mountain god to the deceased. This matter is solemn and solemn, and it is not convenient for outsiders to participate. Guests are also asked not to trespass without permission]

[Avoiding fog means that Xiaoheishan is very foggy. It is difficult to get out of the wilderness mountains and forests after the fog enters. The local villagers do not dare to wander in when they see the mountain fog. Guests, please do not try it]

[After talking about the seven avoidances, let’s talk about the seven welcomes. These seven welcomes are to welcome the rice, welcome the wine, welcome the living water, welcome the festival, welcome the opera, welcome the 囍 and welcome the mountain statue]

[This Qi Ying is different from Qi Ying. It is a good sign of wealth and wealth coming from heaven. When you encounter Qi Ying, you must go forward to welcome it and stick the joy to yourself. With happiness upon you, all guests will also welcome good luck on you. Whether you are promoted or wealthy, or have a happy family, there will naturally be no problems.】

[Welcoming rice and wine means that guests don’t need to be shy. Every villager in Lijia Village will provide accommodation and food for the guests. Therefore, we must welcome the rice from the host’s family, welcome the wine from the host’s home, and bring the host’s wine to the guests. Joy sticks to myself]

[Welcoming living water and festivals means letting your body be covered with flowing water. If you encounter a public celebration, you should join in. As everyone celebrates together, this can also bring a lot of joy to the guests]

[Ying Opera is the theater troupe invited by the Li family to welcome the family. Only in this month every year, the theater troupe will sing, so please don’t miss it]

[Yingying is a happy event. During the Yingshen Festival, many villagers will get married, start families, and get married. When guests encounter such a happy event, can they not be happy? 】

[Yingshan God Statue means worshiping the small Black Mountain God statue. During the Yingshen Festival, there will be many statues placed in various locations in the village. Dear guests, if you see them while walking on the road, it is best to stop and pay homage. When the mountain god sees that the guests are pious, he will definitely add happiness to the guests]

[Finally, let’s talk about the eight ignores, which means that the guests should ignore the crying, ignore the whistling, ignore the fish, ignore the grave, ignore the knock on the door at night, ignore the paper man, ignore the fox and ignore the watchman]

[Ignoring crying and screaming means that guests should not pay attention to the cries and shouts that are hard to find their source]

[Ignore the fish and ignore the grave. Guests should not look around when passing the water or the grave]

[Paper figurines are commonly used in Lijia Village’s midnight rituals and are not suitable for outsiders to touch, so guests do not need to pay attention to the knocking on the door or the paper figurines in the middle of the night]

[And ignoring the fox is to persuade the guests to believe in the fox fairy when they encounter it. It is an evil thing that the officials have destroyed long ago. If you meet someone who believes in this thing, you must not ignore the other party's way. 】

[There have never been bandits in this Lijia Village, and no one has ever needed to tell the time. Therefore, there has never been a watchman. If you encounter someone pretending to be a watchman traveling in the middle of the night, guests should not believe it. It may be a villager who is here. I’m teasing you]

[There are a lot of rules in this small village. I’m really sorry to make all the guests laugh. These seven avoidances, seven greetings, and eight ignores are actually just traditions passed down from the people of Lijia Village for thousands of years.]

[It can be said that the words of our ancestors are immutable. I hope you will be considerate. I also wish all our guests a happy and joyful Welcoming Festival in Lijia Village.]

[——Clan leader of the Li family, Li Ziyong]

After reading the notice of more than a thousand words, I found that the rules I could get at the beginning actually included 7+7+8, a total of 22 rules, which was 19 more than the 19 rules recorded in the first rule I got in the Red Nut Gray Cave. There are 3 more rules. Of course, compared to those formal rules listed one by one, the seven avoidances, seven greetings, and eight ignores summarized in this notice are relatively simpler, and it is even easier for a senior player like Gao Hai. Just write it down.

However, the information contained in it really makes people think more.

The Festival of Welcome...what is that?

Although Gao Hai did not do much pre-investigation this time, at most he only asked the [Red Society] for information, but on this God's Day, Gao Hai can be sure that the people from the [Red Society] have never been seen before. .

And according to the fat man Kenta Hayashibe, don’t the Li family, who believe in the Little Black Mountain God, and the Liu family, who believe in the Fox Empress, get along well in the same village? Why does the notice here look like the Liu family has been labeled a cult? And what the hell are officials? So during the process of forming this dungeon, did people from the government really come across the barren mountains and dense forests to manage this place?

There is also the third Zhang family, which seems to have not been mentioned at all. According to the investigation of the [Red Society], that family that is extremely unnatural and believes in three gods at the same time seems to have no trace at all. ah.

Although everything has just begun, it seems like a fixed plot unfolding once again, where the situation in the dungeon does not match the collected information. To be honest, Gao Hai feels quite uncomfortable.

{Senior, how is the situation below? }

Mianzi's voice sounded in Gao Hai's mind through spiritual links.

{I found a signboard, and I will tell you what was recorded on it now. You should go some distance further down from the mountain woodland. Don’t go too deep into it, and make sure we don’t be too far apart from each other. The authenticity of the rules above cannot be determined yet. Maybe something bad will happen if you stay on the mountain for a long time.}

Takahashi communicated quickly through the mental link to explain the situation.

{We are now about 500 meters behind you, senior. Well, no problems have been found so far. Except for the fact that there are too many mosquitoes here, everything else is fine for the time being. Shinomiya and Hayasaka have not detected any abnormalities for the time being, and I haven't seen any problems. By the way, Hayasaka wants to tell you that she thinks there may be problems with the ecosystem in this place. The density of animals here is too high, and it is no longer a level that a normal primeval forest can bear.}

While Takahashi was conveying the message, Miko was also explaining the intelligence she had investigated.

{Okay, we will stop here and wait for you to come over. You should be as careful as possible when you move. Although your current physical enhancement has exceeded the limit of humans, it will still be affected if you are bitten by a poisonous snake.}

After a little thought, Takahashi decided to wait for the reunion at the same place. At this time, Ichiri, who was on the side guarding the surrounding situation, suddenly turned his head and looked in a certain direction, and then Zhenfei and Qianhua also noticed something unusual.

There are footsteps approaching.

Everyone had never closed Asamoto Eriko's listening blessing from the beginning. At this time, Gao Hai was a little distracted while communicating through the mental link, but it was only a moment late that he heard the voice not far away. The footsteps that did not exist at the beginning suddenly sounded nearby.

When multiple listening blessings are activated at the same time, it is unlikely that the other party will hide their whereabouts to a certain distance before being discovered. Especially considering that the sudden footsteps did not have any intention of covering up, it is even more telling.

Is it going wrong so soon?

Gao Hai reminded the three people behind him again in the mental link, and then looked at the source of the footsteps vigilantly.

Hualala--

With a tremor in the bushes, a skinny figure emerged from it.

"Oh, the guests are here so early this year."

It was a middle-aged man with a skinny figure like a monkey, wearing a shabby shirt and pulling up his trouser legs, followed by a yellow-faced woman carrying a bamboo basket.

The two men came out from behind the bushes and kept smiling, showing their dark yellow teeth to Gao Hai and his group. They smiled happily, and their facial features were almost squeezed together.

"Come, come, guests, follow us, follow us to Lijia Village."

The man stretched out his hand, smiled and slowly waved, signaling Gao Hai and others to follow his footsteps.

"Today is the first day of the Welcoming God Festival, and it is the time to welcome the mountain god to the village. You came at the right time, you are lucky."

The woman also waved with the man, smiling seriously while waving.

Yes, a serious smile.

Gao Hai didn't know why he thought of such a description. He always felt that the smiles on the faces of the man and woman could only be described by the word [serious]. It was as if they had turned "smile" into a kind of behavioral code embedded in their own instincts, and tried hard to implement it, so that every smile became as serious as work.

This feeling is not good.

Especially, after confirming another thing, Gao Hai felt even worse.

He could feel the other person's heartbeat.

With the use of the hearing blessing, Gao Hai could really hear the heartbeat and breathing of the man and woman.

He could not feel any strange breath.

It was obvious that these two people were full of weirdness from the time they appeared to now, but no matter how Gao Hai sensed, he could not sense the breath that a weird thing should have.

It couldn't be wrong.

Although he didn't want to accept such an answer, it seemed that it was indeed the case.

These two people were human.

At this moment, the two people who appeared in front of Gao Hai and his party in the world of the high-difficulty Red Moon-level dungeon were completely human.

How could this be possible?

Gao Hai widened his eyes slightly.

Two living people without any weird breath appeared in a Red Moon-level dungeon, and they looked like they had lived here for a long time.

Obviously, there has never been any living aborigines found in any dungeon world so far. Even if all the players in the world were to check the dungeons one by one, there would not be even one such case.

And even referring to the previous investigation of the Red Society, the villagers in the village are not living people, but weird things.

What is wrong with this dungeon...

"Hey, four guests, why don't you leave? Are you afraid of us?"

Gao Hai did not take action for a while, so the two who had just taken two steps stopped, and then the yellow-faced woman laughed again and spoke to the few people in a joking tone.

"Don't worry, I, Li Eryang, have always been famous for my hospitality in the village. When you get to the village, just ask anyone. Our family's ability to entertain guests is definitely one of the best. Just follow us."

The man also laughed again, and this time he said his name, Li Eryang.

Zhen Fei and the others turned to look at Gao Hai. The girls did not take any action, obviously waiting to see what Gao Hai was going to do.

Hualala——

Another gust of wind blew, and the tall trees on both sides of the road and the low shrubs all swayed gently at this moment, as if one person after another was standing on the left and right, urging them to move.

"... Let's go."

Gao Hai said, while signaling his companions to slow down through the mental link to ensure that the team reunited first.

At the moment, the invitation of these two strange living people can be regarded as a kind of signal in Gao Hai's view, which is the sign of the official start of this copy and this game.

No matter what will happen next, the only thing to do now is to move forward.

Thinking in this way, Gao Hai took a slow step, and the girls followed him. The two people in front also turned around and walked forward slowly.

Crack——

Gao Hai felt that his foot kicked something.

He lowered his head and looked at the road paved with loess and gravel.

He saw a face under his feet, which was looking up and looking at him.

Chapter 3: Village affairs, villagers without abnormalities, and paper figures blocking the road

It was a paper figure buried underground, with only its head exposed.

It seemed that because of repeated softening by rain and hardening by wind, the head of the paper figure had become very hard, so that when Gao Hai stepped on it, he subconsciously felt that he had stepped on a stone.

The whole face of the paper figure had been completely fuzzy, and the white and yellow colors were blended together like an overturned dye bucket, and it was impossible to tell what it originally looked like. But even so, Gao Hai could still vaguely see the sunken marks at the position of the eyes and mouth.

Gao Hai had no way to judge how long this thing had been buried underground, but he was sure that it would not be a good sign if he stepped on it right away.

The rules on the notice mentioned [Eight Ignores], that is, as long as you ignore this paper figure, there will be no big problems. Tsk, the premise is that the rule sheet can really be fully trusted, but this kind of thing is probably unlikely.

"..."

Without showing any abnormality, Gao Hai raised his head and walked over the paper man buried in the ground.

Mahiro, who was standing by, looked slightly sideways, controlling the angle of her sight to avoid looking directly at the paper man, and only carefully judged whether Gao Hai had anything else happen after stepping over the paper man.

Goto Ichiri, who was following Gao Hai, carefully bypassed the paper man. She had originally planned to use the guitar to change Gao Hai's history of [stepping on the paper man], but Gao Hai made a gesture to Ichiri after Kita noticed this, indicating that she didn't need to do so. Therefore, she was just carefully observing to confirm whether there would be any abnormality on Gao Hai.

{The paper man didn't change much. It seemed that as long as she ignored it, it would be fine.}

Kita Ikuyo boldly observed the paper man with her own spiritual characteristics, and confirmed that it had not changed much after Gao Hai walked over, and told Gao Hai the news.

Gao Hai, who was a little relieved, said thank you through the mental link, and then looked at Qianhua next to him. The two of them approached Li Eryang and the old woman next to him.

An important reason for letting Qianhua walk in the front team is that she is the one with the highest social attribute points in Gao Hai's team. After encountering the dungeon invading the real world with Jianzi before, Gao Hai speculated that there might be things that can be communicated in this dungeon, so Qianhua, a social expert, has more room to play.

"Ahem, can you two introduce what specific activities are there in this festival? We are a little curious."

"That's right, a festival is celebrated for a month. This is the first time I have heard of such a festival. Can you tell us about this Lijia Village and the festival?"

Gao Hai and Qianhua spoke together and tried to talk to the two guides.

When Li Eryang and the old woman next to him heard this, they smiled seriously again and spoke very enthusiastically.

Just like two living, serious and hospitable villagers.

Although this sounds a bit strange, after all, these two people are indeed human in terms of aura, but the more Gao Hai communicates with them, the more he can strongly feel their characteristics as [humans], and feel the kind of flexible sensibility that strange creatures cannot have.

The man's name is Li Eryang, and the woman who looks at least ten years younger than him is his wife, Li Xiaoju.

According to them, the two have been in Lijia Village since they were born, and they are both in their forties or fifties.

The entire Lijia Village, regardless of gender, age or young, all have the surname Li, with a total of more than a thousand people. Everyone relies on the snow-water river flowing down from the Xiaohei Mountain to irrigate the rice fields, and from time to time send hunters into the mountains to capture animals, collect wild fruits and medicinal herbs, and live on the mountains from generation to generation.

The so-called Welcoming God Festival is to thank the Xiaohei Mountain God who gave Lijia Village this beautiful land of mountains and rivers. Therefore, His statue must be moved down from the mountain temple on the mountain and placed in the tribute hall of the Li family clan. Various celebrations must be held continuously, and it will be sent back after a whole month of excitement.

It was only then that Gao Hai realized that the so-called "Little Black Mountain" was actually a mountain with an altitude of more than 6,000 meters. There was so much frozen snow on the mountain that it never melted, forming two rivers and two lakes at the foot of the mountain.

Then, Li Eryang and Li Xiaoju talked about the history of Lijiacun. According to them, the earliest Lijia Village was to escape from exorbitant taxes and riots during the disaster years. In order to avoid a group of bandits, they had to go deep into the virgin forest. As a result, they accidentally found such a place, settled here and continued to develop.

Because it is far away from human habitation, Lijiacun has been cut off from the outside world and has become the so-called "Peach Blossom Spring". According to Li Eryang, the Xiaoheishan mountain god appeared in front of the Li family who fled the disaster, and showed them where to build houses and where to plant crops. He also gave the Li family several cattle for farming. Therefore, Lijia Village Talents need to be grateful from generation to generation, so they need to hold a festival to welcome the gods every year.

Lijia Village, located deep in the mountains, has been living like this for generations, without any contact with the outside world. However, according to Li Eryang, this village has not always been discovered by no one. It is said that several decades ago, or maybe more than a hundred years ago, an official came to this place with some soldiers to take up his post, but after a while they couldn't stay any longer, and finally they all ran away, resulting in the entire village After so many years, I have never seen an official official again.

The former official visited the mountains and rivers every day. Because he felt that the small village was not attractive, he built a pavilion at the foot of the mountain and took it upon himself to ask the villagers to move to the valley. Fortunately, he left before he stayed long. Otherwise, when heavy rains and mudslides flooded the village below the valley, many people might have died.

When he said this, Li Eryang showed an expression of indignation. Li Xiaoju also sighed and said that her great-grandparents suffered from this problem. They were called by the official to repair the pavilion and died early. She also said that her grandparents had been talking about this for a long time and did not let it go until they died. Don't do this.

"The name of the person I saw signed on the notice board was Li Ziyong. Is this person the current head of the Li family? He must be a very powerful person who can write so many words, right?"

After listening to the two people talking a lot, Gao Hai thought about it and tried to ask.

"Of course, without the clan leader, Lijia Village would not be what it is today. Hey, you outsiders don't know that the original mountain god showed his form in front of the ancestors of the clan leader. If we in Lijia Village want to talk to the mountain god, we have to It depends on the clan leader’s family. Every generation of the clan leader’s family has been worshiping the mountain god. He is the spokesperson of the mountain god in Lijia Village.”

Li Eryang said with his chest raised very proudly, and Li Xiaoju also smiled with black and yellow teeth.

"It sounds really amazing. Does the entire village here only have the surname Li? Does that mean that the only people who fled here were the Li family?"

Qianhua, who was following Gao Hai, praised carefully and continued to guide the topic with Gao Hai.

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