PNB Chapter 88: A Seemingly Reasonable Ending
Chapter 88: A Seemingly Reasonable Ending
An unexpected change occurred.
Ruan Yun, who was bound, suddenly broke free of the ropes—she was surprisingly strong and pushed the masked person off the platform in an instant.
The scene descended into chaos in an instant.
Ruan Yun quickly used her props to cut the ropes binding Sun Yue and the others, while Gu Jia grabbed the wire and restrained the surging villagers.
Yan Yu looked at them.
He gently raised his hand, and black smoke instantly rose from the jewelry he was wearing, followed by countless black wisps of smoke emerging from the villagers.
These black wisps were so real that they instantly bound Ruan Yun and the others.
“Begin,” Yan Yu said.
The masked men who had just been driven away stepped forward again and bound them tightly with wire.
Yan Xun watched all of this from below the stage.
It wasn't until the four people were hoisted up by wire that the golden statue of the Compassionate Mother Goddess, which was used for her processions through the village, was brought out.
Sun Zhao suddenly spoke up from the crowd—
"Haven't you realized that he's a false god?"
He stopped pretending, removed his mask, and pointed directly at Yan Yu, "He's a complete idiot!"
"The last members of the Yan family moved out of Wusheng Village 20 years ago! Where did Yan Yu come from!"
"He's nothing but a wandering ghost! He's usurped the incense offerings of the Goddess of Mercy and deceived you all!"
"If you don't believe me, the Mother Goddess is weeping right now!"
As Sun Zhao spoke, the villagers looked at the golden statue of the Compassionate Mother that was being carried out, as if they were puppets... They saw golden tears streaming down the eyes of the Compassionate Mother, as if what Sun Zhao said was true.
While Sun Zhao was speaking and the villagers were in a state of confusion, the four people on the stage used props to untie the wires binding them.
Then he jumped off the stage.
Yan Yu remained calm, glancing at the chaos around him. "These are just rumors spreading misinformation."
As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers began to take action.
Ruan Yun drew her broadsword, and Sun Yue and the others also took out their weapons... But when the weapons actually struck, they found that the villagers' bodies seemed to be made of paper.
It tears easily.
After being chopped, it instantly collapsed to the ground, turning into a pile of waste paper.
Yan Xun did not remove his mask. "Give me the axe!" he shouted at Sun Zhao and Gu Jia in the crowd.
An axe was thrown from the other side.
Yan Xun took it and slashed at the villagers around him.
These villagers' bodies really do look just like paper cutouts!
Yan Xun sighed inwardly. He looked up at Yan Yu standing on the high platform... At that moment, the other party also took off the mask with unreadable words written on his face. He stood there looking at Yan Xun.
“Come back,” he said.
Of course, Yan Xun couldn't possibly come back.
"Go to the cement house."
He said this to Sun Zhao, who had come to his side.
"He can't leave there."
"The car is in the Yan family's yard."
Sun Zhao nodded. He was about to ask Yan Xun what to do when Yan Xun pushed him.
"go!"
Yan Xun said.
"Once you leave, I can leave the instance."
Upon hearing this, Sun Zhao immediately realized that Yan Xun already knew the truth about the dungeon. He then casually killed a few more paper-mache villagers and led the four men towards the Yan family.
Gu Jia glanced at Yan Xun again, but in the end, she left with Sun Zhao.
……
After giving these instructions, Yan Xun ran back to the house he used to live in.
At this point, the sacrificial ceremony had completely fallen into chaos.
Yan Yu stood on the high platform, looking at the direction Yan Xun had run off in, and the location of the five people.
“Go after those five,” Yan Yu said.
Then he jumped off the platform and walked in the direction Yan Xun had run away.
……
"Holy crap! Selfishness? I didn't know you were so noble." The system kept muttering in Yan Xun's head.
I let you enter this instance so you could ride the coattails of a powerful player, but in the end you're the one taking care of them?!
"You don't know anything!" Yan Xun cursed as he ran. "I'm just here to enjoy the settlement rewards all to myself."
Yan Xun had just run to his temporary residence when he saw Xiaoxiao Supermarket owner standing at the door.
He was smoking a cigarette and holding a kitchen knife in his hand.
"You killed me once? You want to kill me again?" Yan Xun asked.
The boss looked at Yan Xun and said, "If you had just died obediently before, wouldn't it have been enough to kill him once and be done with it?"
Yan Xun didn't care and just grabbed the axe and got to work.
The boss sneered, thinking Yan Xun was incredibly naive... and the next second he turned into a blade of grass.
Yan Xun bent down and picked up the blade of grass.
But the blade of grass trembled wildly in Yan Xun's hand, as if he were the rebellious child.
Yan Xun stomped the grass on the ground, swung his axe, and cleaved the blade of grass in two.
"Bye-bye, Berkan."
He squatted down and fiddled with the weed that had been split in two and broken in half for a while.
“Actually, I was thinking before, why is it that, apart from you, all of us have the same birthday, March 1st?” Yan Xun turned around and glanced at Yan Yu, who had somehow appeared behind him.
"Why?" Yan Yu asked, unusually calm, as if everything was the same as usual.
He was still Yan Xun's so-called distant cousin, not some pseudo-god who suddenly appeared.
“I initially thought it might be necessary for the Wusheng Village ritual,” Yan Xun kicked aside the weeds and turned to Yan Yu, “After all, that’s how it’s portrayed in movies.”
"For some strange rituals, it is necessary to gather many people who were born on the same day, month, and year."
"But it shouldn't be such a coincidence."
“I have a connection with Wusheng Village. Sun Zhao entered Wusheng Village without knowing why, and those four college students got lost and entered.” Yan Xun said all this, but he was actually telling the main system.
He must reveal the truth he discovered in order to solve the mystery of Wusheng Village and successfully pass the level.
"We didn't arrange it, what a coincidence that we were both born on March 1st."
In his dream, Yan Xun saw the name on the employee badge, but half of the name was covered up, and only "Bai" was visible.
The movie rating and review page he bought showed the movie's main plot and three very important short reviews.
Putting aside the two plot twists mentioned later, Yan Xun felt the most important clue was the first one—
[User aaaa, rating 2 stars]
[Director...you...you need money, why don't you start a crowdfunding campaign? This is the first time I've been so angry in a movie theater that I almost laughed. Please, stop torturing everyone!]
“When I arrived in Wusheng Village, I had three different dreams.”
"One is my childhood self, where I saw the Cimu Hall, and the other part is my memories of being in the pigsty."
"One of them was me at work. I overheard my colleagues discussing Wusheng Village in the break room, and they talked about the mysterious beliefs of Wusheng Village."
"Someone asked me about Wusheng Village while I was in the hospital, and then asked if I was Sun Zhao."
It was only after having these three dreams that Yan Xun took out the screenshot of the movie rating page and studied it again.
[What does this mean?] The system didn't understand.
"The biggest reason why a horror movie becomes a bad movie is not that it is not exciting or scary, but that it is made up with a seemingly reasonable ending in order to justify the idea that there are no ghosts in the world."