wound hadn’t healed yet, and the pouring rain quickly infected the bandages, causing fresh blood to seep through, soaking his pants and dripping onto the ground.
It must be very painful.
But now, Small Braid had long forgotten the pain. He held his weapon and gazed at Bai Lixin with complex emotions, a hint of killing intent deep in his eyes.
Perhaps because he was initially holding the umbrella, Small Braid hadn’t seen the newcomer’s face clearly.
Just as Small Braid raised the machete over his head, Bai Lixin slightly lifted the umbrella, revealing his face hidden beneath it.
The machete stopped abruptly.
Small Braid stood in the rain awkwardly, offering Bai Lixin a stiff smile. “Why are you here?”
Bai Lixin glanced at the machete in Small Braid’s hand as he answered, “I came out for a walk and just happened to hear a scream. I followed the sound.”
He glanced at the body inside the courtyard. “Is he dead?”
“Yes,” Small Braid relaxed slightly when he realized it was Bai Lixin. “I’ll take care of the body later tonight.”
His tone was casual, as if he were talking about burying a dog at night.
Bai Lixin asked, “Are you sure he’s dead? His wound seems to be in the abdomen. He might have just passed out from the pain but not necessarily dead.”
Small Braid looked at the body in the yard indifferently. “So what if he isn’t? He’s just an NPC in a copy. He’s not a real person. Are you going to play the righteous hero and defend an NPC, attacking a player like me? He’s not a good person either. When he came home at noon, Sister Song was a little late with lunch, and he scolded her. Later, Sister Song gave me some medicine, and he came in with a knife, saying we were a disgraceful couple and that he would kill Sister Song.”
“I couldn’t just stand there and watch Sister Song get killed, could I? If there were real laws in this world, then I acted in self-defense.”
Small Braid paused. “You should come inside. I’m afraid someone might pass by and notice something is wrong if we stay outside. I don’t want this situation to escalate.”
Entering the courtyard, the woman continued to look at Bai Lixin with a fragile yet vigilant gaze. Rain slid down her graceful body, accentuating her curves. She stood in the rain with her somewhat slender figure, her beautiful face now pale, evoking a sense of pity in any man who looked at her.
Bai Lixin crouched down and placed his hand on the man’s pulse. Although the pulse was very weak, he could still feel that the man was alive.
“He’s still alive,” Bai Lixin stood up and glanced at both of them.
When Bai Lixin finished speaking, a cold light suddenly flashed before him. The machete in Small Braid’s knife pierced through the man’s neck.
After the blade pierced through the front of the neck, it was swiftly withdrawn.
The woman was so frightened that she covered her mouth, preventing herself from screaming.
Small Braid pulled out the machete, and with a flick of his wrist, he rinsed the blood off the blade with the rain. Then, he looked at Bai Lixin indifferently and spoke in a calm tone, “Now he should be dead for sure.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
The woman covered her mouth, her voice trembling with despair as she spoke through her fingers, “What, what are you doing? He wasn’t dead. Why did you finish him off?”
Small Braid: “If I didn’t kill him, you would be the one dead when he wakes up. Since I’ve started, I might as well finish it. If something does happen, I’ll take responsibility. I killed him, and you have nothing to do with it.”
The woman’s frail body stood in the rain, her shoulders trembling, her body shivering.
Small Braid seemed unable to bear seeing her like this. “You should go inside. I’ll clean this up. You’re not feeling well, go change your clothes and don’t catch a cold.”
The woman glanced at Small Braid, then at Bai Lixin, and finally nodded silently before returning to the main house.
Once the woman was back inside the house, Small Braid turned to Bai Lixin. “You have two choices. First, pretend you didn’t see anything. After all, he’s just a scumbag NPC, and we players share common interests. Second, you can choose to report this to the village committee, have me temporarily accept the so-called punishment for this copy. Which one will you choose?”
Bai Lixin looked at the bleeding wound on Small Braid’s leg and remained silent for a few seconds before speaking, “I won’t report you. But we received some clues today, and I want to remind you that the women in this village are probably not simple.”
“Not simple? If they weren’t simple, would they be chased and attacked by men like this?” Small Braid glanced toward the house. “You’re right. We’ve been living together for so long, and I do have some feelings for Sister Song. But even if I like her, what’s wrong with that? We’re leaving in ten days, and I won’t stay for her. You can trust me; I know my limits, and I won’t put my life in danger.”
Seeing that Small Braid was determined to go his own way, Bai Lixin didn’t try to persuade him further. He just left with a parting phrase, “Take care of yourself.”
After Bai Lixin left, Small Braid dragged the man by the legs and pushed him forcefully into a makeshift thatch hut.
Then, he used a broom from the yard to sweep away all the blood on the ground. Thanks to the heavy rain, the bloodstains on the ground were quickly washed away.
When everything was done, Small Braid breathed a long sigh of relief.
He looked at the main house with worry, fearing that the woman might do something drastic. After some consideration, he came to the front of the main house.
The door wasn’t locked and opened with a gentle push.
But there was no one in front of him, so he assumed the woman must be in the inner room.
He stood in the main house and was about to call the woman’s name when he suddenly heard her scream.
Small Braid’s eyes sharpened, and he quickly limped over.
However, when he saw the situation inside the inner room, Small Braid suddenly froze.
In front of him, the woman lay naked on the ground, her entire body wet, with a wooden bathtub standing nearby.
The woman had delicate and fair skin like snow. The room was lit by a lamp, and under its illumination, she slowly sat up, her arms embracing her chest in confusion. She looked up at Small Braid with a mixture of surprise and shyness. “Little brother, I… I accidentally fell. Could you go outside? Sister will put on some clothes.”
Small Braid swallowed hard.
He slowly put away the machete in his hand and stared at the woman’s body in a daze. Under the woman’s astonished gaze, he walked into the room, closed the door behind him, and inexplicably carried the woman princess-style towards the bed…
Outside the window, thunder and rain mingled.
Inside the window, passion blazed like dry firewood.
Even the pouring rain couldn’t extinguish the enthusiasm of this lonely man and widow.
—————————————–
In the live broadcast room:
【This…are they’re going to sleep together?】
【Seriously, her husband’s body isn’t even cold yet, and these two are already getting intimate?】
【No matter how you look at it, it seems like this woman is seducing this Small Braid, right? How could Small Braid fall for it so easily?】
【If you want to conquer someone, you must first conquer their heart. Small Braid is just a normal guy. This beauty is sweet and gentle every day. Who can resist that?】
【So does this copy have no effect on straight women and gay men?】
【But what’s wrong with having a relationship? Even Bai Lixin is having fun with the big boss in this copy, right? When it’s time to leave, they’ll leave.】
【You’re right. Small Braid won’t stay for the woman, right?】
————————-
After leaving Small Braid’s place, Bai Lixin continued walking toward the blue iron house at the end of the farmland.
Except for the roads in the residential area, the rest of the roads in the village were dirt roads. People walking on them would leave muddy footprints.
Bai Lixin carefully walked along the path until he reached the front of the iron house, only to find that the door was not locked.
The main gate was slightly ajar. He glanced inside from the outside and saw that there was no one inside, so he pushed the door open and entered.
The iron house was quite large, but it housed only one type of creature—pigs. However, this pigsty was different from the traditional sense of a pigsty. In a traditional pigsty, many pigs are kept together. Here, the pigs seemed to have better treatment, with one pig per individual room.
Inside the house, there were about thirty pigs. During the day, he had noticed that there were about sixty to seventy men in the village, with two to three men per pig.
When one person got tired, another person took over, and the three of them took turns taking whipping these pigs. People could rest, but the pigs had no room to even breathe.
When Bai Lixin walked into the pigsty, some of the pigs were sleeping on the ground, while others were snuffling around their feed.
Initially, when Bai Lixin entered, the pigs didn’t react much. It was only when one pig seemed to notice him and glanced his way, that they started crying out with loud and mournful squeals. One after another, they lifted their heads, seemingly begging Bai Lixin for something.
Their cries were piercing, and they clung to the door frame, as if pleading with Bai Lixin for something.
Bai Lixin wasn’t omnipotent, and first of all, he couldn’t understand pig language.
【So here’s the question, what are they saying?】 Bai Lixin looked at these pure white pigs with a helpless expression and asked S419M.
S419M: 【Lord Host, I have a book called “Postpartum Care for Sows,” would you like to study it?】
Bai Lixin: 【That’s not necessary!】
Just when Bai Lixin was feeling a bit puzzled, a pig not far from him suddenly bent its front legs and knelt down, then kowtowed in an incredibly human like manner.
Approaching that pig, Bai Lixin saw the pig place its front hooves on the ground and painstakingly write a word on the ground: “Help.”
“Help?” Bai Lixin examined it carefully. “Help who? Help you?”
The pig seemed to understand human speech and immediately nodded vigorously and kowtowed a few more times.
Bai Lixin looked at the pig in front of him thoughtfully. “Were you human?”
The pig quickly raised its head and nodded vigorously, with tears oozing out of it’s small eyes.
S419M: 【Lord Host, these pigs are actually transformed people. Could it be that they were all players before? You guys ate pork before, could it have been them?!】
Bai Lixin: 【I didn’t eat any.】
S419M chuckled dryly, 【Yes, yes, you didn’t eat any. Do you want to save them?】
Bai Lixin: 【I don’t even know how to save them.】
Bai Lixin looked at the pig in front of him and asked, “How can I save you?”
The pig immediately pointed at the door frame and then at the big iron gate.
Bai Lixin said, “Open the iron gate and let you out?”
The pig cried out a couple of times, nodding vigorously.
“That’s too simple,” Bai Lixin said, taking a couple of cautious steps back. “Opening the fence and pushing the gate open, anyone can do that. But I know, the simpler the task, the greater the price that has to be paid. So, what’s the price for letting you all go? Is it that I’ll replace you and become one of the pigs in the pigsty?”
The pig that had been pleading with Bai Lixin all along suddenly stiffened, and its eyes started darting around.
Bai Lixin: “…”
———————————-
In the live broadcast room:
【Oh my, fortunately our God Xin reacted quickly. If it were me, let alone saving one, I would’ve released all the pigs in the room!】
【And then you’d become the fall guy.】
【These pigs don’t seem to be good characters. Isn’t this more like seeking a scapegoat than asking for help?】
【Fortunately, it’s God Xin who came. If it were someone else, it’d be terrifying to think about.】
【So among these pigs, do you think any succeeded in finding a scapegoat?】
【… So, how did the first pig end up here?】
【I think the mask of this village is so torn apart.】
【How is it torn apart?】
【Pigs that keep healing, only boys in the village, the men who look like they’re seriously ill, women suspected of seducing men – it feels like everyone’s a villain here.】
【Indeed. It’s precisely because of this that I’m more curious about what happened in this village and what’s really going on.】
【Hahaha, I’m curious too. I really want to see what kind of monsters and demons are in this village.】
———————————–
Bai Lixin wasn’t without sympathy, but he wouldn’t recklessly put himself in danger to save others until the danger was ruled out.
Probably because these pigs realized that Bai Lixin had seen through their thoughts, they stopped paying any attention to him and simply ate and drank as they pleased.
The pigs behaved quite haughtily, making it clear they wanted nothing to do with this human.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Strange.
When he walked out of the blue iron house, the rain had subsided significantly. The distant green mountains, after being washed by the rain, exuded a kind of lush beauty.
Walking onto the main road, he noticed a car parked at the village entrance, and then a person got out of it.
Bai Lixin squinted his eyes and saw that the person descending appeared to be a young man. He had a large bag on his back and held a handbag in his hand.
Rain was still falling from the sky, but the man only wore a duckbill cap and casually strolled through the fine rain.
As the man passed Bai Lixin, he glanced at him and warmly greeted, “Hello, you look unfamiliar. Are you a guest visiting this village?”
Bai Lixin scrutinized him.
The man was young, seemingly around twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His facial features under the duckbill cap were quite handsome, and he even revealed two tiger teeth when he smiled.
He seemed harmless.
Bai Lixin politely smiled at the man. “Hello, I’m here to help in this village. May I ask who you are?”
The young man replied, “I’m from this village. I didn’t have enough money to marry a wife two years ago, so I went to work outside for two years. Now that I’ve saved up enough money and reached the age to get married, my mother is getting older and needs someone to take care of her, so I’ve come back from the city.”
Bai Lixin adjusted his umbrella and said, “Oh, then let’s walk together. I was just on my way to the village.”
The young man pushed away his umbrella and pointed to his duckbill cap, saying, “No need, I have this. It seems the heavens are taking care of me today. I thought I’d be drenched while sitting in the car, but when we reached the village entrance, the rain had nearly stopped. By the way, what’s your name?”
“I’m Bai Lixin, and you?”
“Just call me Xiao Lin. My house is right up ahead, we’ll be there soon.”
As they walked, Xiao Lin looked around, “Life in this village is slow-paced. I went away for two years, but coming back, it feels exactly the same, no changes at all.”
After a while, Xiao Lin stopped at an alleyway entrance and said, “We’ve arrived at my house. Do you want to come in for a while? My mother doesn’t even know I’m back yet; she’ll be so surprised.”
Bai Lixin looked at the familiar alleyway entrance and asked, “Which house number is yours?”
Xiao Lin answered, “One, two, three… See that red door? It’s the third house.”
Bai Lixin thought for a moment and said, “I’ll come in with you, I have friends living in your house.”
Xiao Lin looked puzzled and asked, “Ah? You have people living in my house? Are they male or female?”
Bai Lixin replied, “Two girls.”
Xiao Lin sighed, “Oh, what should we do then? I had no idea. I wish I hadn’t come back now!”
As they spoke, they reached the house with the red door. Xiao Lin knocked heavily on the door and shouted, “Mom, it’s me, Shanzhi! I’m back, Mom.”
Shortly after Xiao Lin’s call, hurried footsteps came from inside, and the red door creaked open. An elderly woman looked at Xiao Lin with excitement and said, “Shanzhi, my good son, you’re back! Come in, come in quickly.”
Bai Lixin followed the two inside. At this moment, Sun Ning and Li Cancan heard the commotion and came out of the house. The three of them exchanged glances and then discreetly examined the young man who had just entered the courtyard.
Bai Lixin signaled to the two women, and they immediately understood. They went back into the house and closed the door. Sun Ning spoke first, “What’s going on?”
Bai Lixin proceeded to tell them everything he had seen this afternoon, including the incident where Small Braid killed the man, the pigs in the blue iron house, and the young man he had met at the village entrance.
wound hadn’t healed yet, and the pouring rain quickly infected the bandages, causing fresh blood to seep through, soaking his pants and dripping onto the ground.
It must be very painful.
But now, Small Braid had long forgotten the pain. He held his weapon and gazed at Bai Lixin with complex emotions, a hint of killing intent deep in his eyes.
Perhaps because he was initially holding the umbrella, Small Braid hadn’t seen the newcomer’s face clearly.
Just as Small Braid raised the machete over his head, Bai Lixin slightly lifted the umbrella, revealing his face hidden beneath it.
The machete stopped abruptly.
Small Braid stood in the rain awkwardly, offering Bai Lixin a stiff smile. “Why are you here?”
Bai Lixin glanced at the machete in Small Braid’s hand as he answered, “I came out for a walk and just happened to hear a scream. I followed the sound.”
He glanced at the body inside the courtyard. “Is he dead?”
“Yes,” Small Braid relaxed slightly when he realized it was Bai Lixin. “I’ll take care of the body later tonight.”
His tone was casual, as if he were talking about burying a dog at night.
Bai Lixin asked, “Are you sure he’s dead? His wound seems to be in the abdomen. He might have just passed out from the pain but not necessarily dead.”
Small Braid looked at the body in the yard indifferently. “So what if he isn’t? He’s just an NPC in a copy. He’s not a real person. Are you going to play the righteous hero and defend an NPC, attacking a player like me? He’s not a good person either. When he came home at noon, Sister Song was a little late with lunch, and he scolded her. Later, Sister Song gave me some medicine, and he came in with a knife, saying we were a disgraceful couple and that he would kill Sister Song.”
“I couldn’t just stand there and watch Sister Song get killed, could I? If there were real laws in this world, then I acted in self-defense.”
Small Braid paused. “You should come inside. I’m afraid someone might pass by and notice something is wrong if we stay outside. I don’t want this situation to escalate.”
Entering the courtyard, the woman continued to look at Bai Lixin with a fragile yet vigilant gaze. Rain slid down her graceful body, accentuating her curves. She stood in the rain with her somewhat slender figure, her beautiful face now pale, evoking a sense of pity in any man who looked at her.
Bai Lixin crouched down and placed his hand on the man’s pulse. Although the pulse was very weak, he could still feel that the man was alive.
“He’s still alive,” Bai Lixin stood up and glanced at both of them.
When Bai Lixin finished speaking, a cold light suddenly flashed before him. The machete in Small Braid’s knife pierced through the man’s neck.
After the blade pierced through the front of the neck, it was swiftly withdrawn.
The woman was so frightened that she covered her mouth, preventing herself from screaming.
Small Braid pulled out the machete, and with a flick of his wrist, he rinsed the blood off the blade with the rain. Then, he looked at Bai Lixin indifferently and spoke in a calm tone, “Now he should be dead for sure.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
The woman covered her mouth, her voice trembling with despair as she spoke through her fingers, “What, what are you doing? He wasn’t dead. Why did you finish him off?”
Small Braid: “If I didn’t kill him, you would be the one dead when he wakes up. Since I’ve started, I might as well finish it. If something does happen, I’ll take responsibility. I killed him, and you have nothing to do with it.”
The woman’s frail body stood in the rain, her shoulders trembling, her body shivering.
Small Braid seemed unable to bear seeing her like this. “You should go inside. I’ll clean this up. You’re not feeling well, go change your clothes and don’t catch a cold.”
The woman glanced at Small Braid, then at Bai Lixin, and finally nodded silently before returning to the main house.
Once the woman was back inside the house, Small Braid turned to Bai Lixin. “You have two choices. First, pretend you didn’t see anything. After all, he’s just a scumbag NPC, and we players share common interests. Second, you can choose to report this to the village committee, have me temporarily accept the so-called punishment for this copy. Which one will you choose?”
Bai Lixin looked at the bleeding wound on Small Braid’s leg and remained silent for a few seconds before speaking, “I won’t report you. But we received some clues today, and I want to remind you that the women in this village are probably not simple.”
“Not simple? If they weren’t simple, would they be chased and attacked by men like this?” Small Braid glanced toward the house. “You’re right. We’ve been living together for so long, and I do have some feelings for Sister Song. But even if I like her, what’s wrong with that? We’re leaving in ten days, and I won’t stay for her. You can trust me; I know my limits, and I won’t put my life in danger.”
Seeing that Small Braid was determined to go his own way, Bai Lixin didn’t try to persuade him further. He just left with a parting phrase, “Take care of yourself.”
After Bai Lixin left, Small Braid dragged the man by the legs and pushed him forcefully into a makeshift thatch hut.
Then, he used a broom from the yard to sweep away all the blood on the ground. Thanks to the heavy rain, the bloodstains on the ground were quickly washed away.
When everything was done, Small Braid breathed a long sigh of relief.
He looked at the main house with worry, fearing that the woman might do something drastic. After some consideration, he came to the front of the main house.
The door wasn’t locked and opened with a gentle push.
But there was no one in front of him, so he assumed the woman must be in the inner room.
He stood in the main house and was about to call the woman’s name when he suddenly heard her scream.
Small Braid’s eyes sharpened, and he quickly limped over.
However, when he saw the situation inside the inner room, Small Braid suddenly froze.
In front of him, the woman lay naked on the ground, her entire body wet, with a wooden bathtub standing nearby.
The woman had delicate and fair skin like snow. The room was lit by a lamp, and under its illumination, she slowly sat up, her arms embracing her chest in confusion. She looked up at Small Braid with a mixture of surprise and shyness. “Little brother, I… I accidentally fell. Could you go outside? Sister will put on some clothes.”
Small Braid swallowed hard.
He slowly put away the machete in his hand and stared at the woman’s body in a daze. Under the woman’s astonished gaze, he walked into the room, closed the door behind him, and inexplicably carried the woman princess-style towards the bed…
Outside the window, thunder and rain mingled.
Inside the window, passion blazed like dry firewood.
Even the pouring rain couldn’t extinguish the enthusiasm of this lonely man and widow.
—————————————–
In the live broadcast room:
【This…are they’re going to sleep together?】
【Seriously, her husband’s body isn’t even cold yet, and these two are already getting intimate?】
【No matter how you look at it, it seems like this woman is seducing this Small Braid, right? How could Small Braid fall for it so easily?】
【If you want to conquer someone, you must first conquer their heart. Small Braid is just a normal guy. This beauty is sweet and gentle every day. Who can resist that?】
【So does this copy have no effect on straight women and gay men?】
【But what’s wrong with having a relationship? Even Bai Lixin is having fun with the big boss in this copy, right? When it’s time to leave, they’ll leave.】
【You’re right. Small Braid won’t stay for the woman, right?】
————————-
After leaving Small Braid’s place, Bai Lixin continued walking toward the blue iron house at the end of the farmland.
Except for the roads in the residential area, the rest of the roads in the village were dirt roads. People walking on them would leave muddy footprints.
Bai Lixin carefully walked along the path until he reached the front of the iron house, only to find that the door was not locked.
The main gate was slightly ajar. He glanced inside from the outside and saw that there was no one inside, so he pushed the door open and entered.
The iron house was quite large, but it housed only one type of creature—pigs. However, this pigsty was different from the traditional sense of a pigsty. In a traditional pigsty, many pigs are kept together. Here, the pigs seemed to have better treatment, with one pig per individual room.
Inside the house, there were about thirty pigs. During the day, he had noticed that there were about sixty to seventy men in the village, with two to three men per pig.
When one person got tired, another person took over, and the three of them took turns taking whipping these pigs. People could rest, but the pigs had no room to even breathe.
When Bai Lixin walked into the pigsty, some of the pigs were sleeping on the ground, while others were snuffling around their feed.
Initially, when Bai Lixin entered, the pigs didn’t react much. It was only when one pig seemed to notice him and glanced his way, that they started crying out with loud and mournful squeals. One after another, they lifted their heads, seemingly begging Bai Lixin for something.
Their cries were piercing, and they clung to the door frame, as if pleading with Bai Lixin for something.
Bai Lixin wasn’t omnipotent, and first of all, he couldn’t understand pig language.
【So here’s the question, what are they saying?】 Bai Lixin looked at these pure white pigs with a helpless expression and asked S419M.
S419M: 【Lord Host, I have a book called “Postpartum Care for Sows,” would you like to study it?】
Bai Lixin: 【That’s not necessary!】
Just when Bai Lixin was feeling a bit puzzled, a pig not far from him suddenly bent its front legs and knelt down, then kowtowed in an incredibly human like manner.
Approaching that pig, Bai Lixin saw the pig place its front hooves on the ground and painstakingly write a word on the ground: “Help.”
“Help?” Bai Lixin examined it carefully. “Help who? Help you?”
The pig seemed to understand human speech and immediately nodded vigorously and kowtowed a few more times.
Bai Lixin looked at the pig in front of him thoughtfully. “Were you human?”
The pig quickly raised its head and nodded vigorously, with tears oozing out of it’s small eyes.
S419M: 【Lord Host, these pigs are actually transformed people. Could it be that they were all players before? You guys ate pork before, could it have been them?!】
Bai Lixin: 【I didn’t eat any.】
S419M chuckled dryly, 【Yes, yes, you didn’t eat any. Do you want to save them?】
Bai Lixin: 【I don’t even know how to save them.】
Bai Lixin looked at the pig in front of him and asked, “How can I save you?”
The pig immediately pointed at the door frame and then at the big iron gate.
Bai Lixin said, “Open the iron gate and let you out?”
The pig cried out a couple of times, nodding vigorously.
“That’s too simple,” Bai Lixin said, taking a couple of cautious steps back. “Opening the fence and pushing the gate open, anyone can do that. But I know, the simpler the task, the greater the price that has to be paid. So, what’s the price for letting you all go? Is it that I’ll replace you and become one of the pigs in the pigsty?”
The pig that had been pleading with Bai Lixin all along suddenly stiffened, and its eyes started darting around.
Bai Lixin: “…”
———————————-
In the live broadcast room:
【Oh my, fortunately our God Xin reacted quickly. If it were me, let alone saving one, I would’ve released all the pigs in the room!】
【And then you’d become the fall guy.】
【These pigs don’t seem to be good characters. Isn’t this more like seeking a scapegoat than asking for help?】
【Fortunately, it’s God Xin who came. If it were someone else, it’d be terrifying to think about.】
【So among these pigs, do you think any succeeded in finding a scapegoat?】
【… So, how did the first pig end up here?】
【I think the mask of this village is so torn apart.】
【How is it torn apart?】
【Pigs that keep healing, only boys in the village, the men who look like they’re seriously ill, women suspected of seducing men – it feels like everyone’s a villain here.】
【Indeed. It’s precisely because of this that I’m more curious about what happened in this village and what’s really going on.】
【Hahaha, I’m curious too. I really want to see what kind of monsters and demons are in this village.】
———————————–
Bai Lixin wasn’t without sympathy, but he wouldn’t recklessly put himself in danger to save others until the danger was ruled out.
Probably because these pigs realized that Bai Lixin had seen through their thoughts, they stopped paying any attention to him and simply ate and drank as they pleased.
The pigs behaved quite haughtily, making it clear they wanted nothing to do with this human.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Strange.
When he walked out of the blue iron house, the rain had subsided significantly. The distant green mountains, after being washed by the rain, exuded a kind of lush beauty.
Walking onto the main road, he noticed a car parked at the village entrance, and then a person got out of it.
Bai Lixin squinted his eyes and saw that the person descending appeared to be a young man. He had a large bag on his back and held a handbag in his hand.
Rain was still falling from the sky, but the man only wore a duckbill cap and casually strolled through the fine rain.
As the man passed Bai Lixin, he glanced at him and warmly greeted, “Hello, you look unfamiliar. Are you a guest visiting this village?”
Bai Lixin scrutinized him.
The man was young, seemingly around twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His facial features under the duckbill cap were quite handsome, and he even revealed two tiger teeth when he smiled.
He seemed harmless.
Bai Lixin politely smiled at the man. “Hello, I’m here to help in this village. May I ask who you are?”
The young man replied, “I’m from this village. I didn’t have enough money to marry a wife two years ago, so I went to work outside for two years. Now that I’ve saved up enough money and reached the age to get married, my mother is getting older and needs someone to take care of her, so I’ve come back from the city.”
Bai Lixin adjusted his umbrella and said, “Oh, then let’s walk together. I was just on my way to the village.”
The young man pushed away his umbrella and pointed to his duckbill cap, saying, “No need, I have this. It seems the heavens are taking care of me today. I thought I’d be drenched while sitting in the car, but when we reached the village entrance, the rain had nearly stopped. By the way, what’s your name?”
“I’m Bai Lixin, and you?”
“Just call me Xiao Lin. My house is right up ahead, we’ll be there soon.”
As they walked, Xiao Lin looked around, “Life in this village is slow-paced. I went away for two years, but coming back, it feels exactly the same, no changes at all.”
After a while, Xiao Lin stopped at an alleyway entrance and said, “We’ve arrived at my house. Do you want to come in for a while? My mother doesn’t even know I’m back yet; she’ll be so surprised.”
Bai Lixin looked at the familiar alleyway entrance and asked, “Which house number is yours?”
Xiao Lin answered, “One, two, three… See that red door? It’s the third house.”
Bai Lixin thought for a moment and said, “I’ll come in with you, I have friends living in your house.”
Xiao Lin looked puzzled and asked, “Ah? You have people living in my house? Are they male or female?”
Bai Lixin replied, “Two girls.”
Xiao Lin sighed, “Oh, what should we do then? I had no idea. I wish I hadn’t come back now!”
As they spoke, they reached the house with the red door. Xiao Lin knocked heavily on the door and shouted, “Mom, it’s me, Shanzhi! I’m back, Mom.”
Shortly after Xiao Lin’s call, hurried footsteps came from inside, and the red door creaked open. An elderly woman looked at Xiao Lin with excitement and said, “Shanzhi, my good son, you’re back! Come in, come in quickly.”
Bai Lixin followed the two inside. At this moment, Sun Ning and Li Cancan heard the commotion and came out of the house. The three of them exchanged glances and then discreetly examined the young man who had just entered the courtyard.
Bai Lixin signaled to the two women, and they immediately understood. They went back into the house and closed the door. Sun Ning spoke first, “What’s going on?”
Bai Lixin proceeded to tell them everything he had seen this afternoon, including the incident where Small Braid killed the man, the pigs in the blue iron house, and the young man he had met at the village entrance.
