Chapter 496 Lantern
"Okay, okay." Sui Feng's rough voice sounded: "By the way, aren't you tired?"
"Instead of being sad here, why not go back and have a good sleep? And what about this..."
Sui Feng lowered his head and smelled himself, revealing a disgusted expression: "I don't know if it's the stench of a corpse or something else, it's almost suffocating me."
Xiao Jin also lowered his head, and then his expression froze.
Even a grown man like Sui Feng couldn't stand it, let alone the two girls Wang Zixuan and Sui Ying. Besides, there are some men who are mysophobic and love cleanliness.
The exhausted players walked down the mountain quickly, not daring to delay for a moment.
When passing by the village entrance, the old woman who presided over the funeral yesterday was drying mushrooms.
She greeted everyone enthusiastically: "Young men, you get up so early! Breakfast is heating up on the stove!" The apron with blood stains in the folds fluttered in the wind, revealing the sewing needle pinned to her waist.
"Since you are all here, why don't you take the food back together?"
The players looked at each other.
"Okay, then I won't trouble you, mother-in-law." Wang Zixuan stepped forward and said with a smile.
The other players thought that since they had taken the items back themselves, they didn't know whether the NPC would eat them or not.
Just find a hidden place to dump it out later!
Several players stepped forward and followed Wang Zixuan to take the food away. After saying goodbye to the old woman, everyone walked towards the guesthouse.
Under the porch of the guesthouse, the village chief was replacing the gauze on the lanterns on the eaves.
After seeing everyone, he smiled with satisfaction: "Last night's funeral was a success, and Dalong's family was very satisfied."
He lifted the veil of the lantern. The candle inside was not burning, but the players who saw it still had a strange feeling.
The village chief glanced at the food in the hands of the players behind him and said with a smile: "After you finish eating, take a good rest. When you wake up in the afternoon, come to my house and I will teach you how to make lanterns."
"Paste lanterns?" some players wondered.
"What's the purpose of making lanterns?" Feng Hao asked directly.
"It is a guiding lamp used in divine sacrifices. Legend has it that only by holding the guiding lamp can the soul not be shaken apart by the divine breath."
"Is that so..." The players were skeptical.
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When Xiao Jin woke up leisurely, the sunlight outside the window was already slanting down, and the hour hand quietly pointed to one o'clock in the afternoon.
She stretched lazily, then found some food from the space.
After returning to the guesthouse, Xiao Jin took a shower and went to bed. At this moment, his stomach was empty and he was so hungry that he almost wanted to eat someone.
On the table, there is a bowl of fragrant spicy beef noodles, a few skewers of spicy and delicious Bobo chicken, a plate of golden and crispy Orleans grilled wings with tempting sweet and spicy taste, and the braised prawns are even more mouth-watering.
Xiao Jin ate his meal without any hesitation.
At this time, a prompt sound came from the system background. Xiao Jin opened the panel and the message sent by Sui Ying jumped into his eyes.
She told Xiao Jin that she and Sui Feng and others had already visited the village chief's home and asked her to go over as soon as she woke up.
Xiao Jin smiled slightly, then simply tidied his clothes and set off for the village chief's house.
About three minutes later, Xiao Jin arrived at the courtyard of the village chief's house.
However, the scene in front of him made Xiao Jin feel quite disgusted. At this moment, the village chief's house was even more gloomy than the mourning hall in the forest behind the mountain.
Three skinned animal carcasses hung at the foot of a persimmon tree, blood dripping into a pool around the tree's roots.
When Xiao Jin stepped over the threshold, she even felt cold fingers brushing the back of her neck. When she looked back, she could only see a dark shadow on the ground.
"Xiao Jin!" Sui Ying poked her head out of the room: "Come in quickly, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Sui Ying didn't lower her voice at all when she shouted.
Wang Zixuan had a look of astonishment on her face. Except for those who knew Xiao Jin, the other ordinary players all had expressions of seeing ghosts on their faces.
Who? Who are you talking about?
Facing the hot gazes of all sizes, Xiao Jin walked into the house without changing his expression.
The air was filled with the smell of rotten wood and mildew, and many players were sitting around a long table. Sitting opposite them was not only the village chief, but also the village chief's daughter-in-law - the woman who always covered the right side of her face with her hair.
At this moment, the woman was demonstrating how to bend thin bamboo into the frame of a lantern. Her movements were terrifyingly skillful, and the angles of her knuckles were not like those of a living person.
"Ahem~" The village chief next to him hunched over and said, "Making lanterns is not difficult. You can learn it after a little teaching."
His skinny fingers traced the items in the basket. "It's just that I don't have enough materials here. You need to find them yourself."
"But village chief, what are these materials and where should we find them?" Sui Ying asked with blinking eyes.
The village chief had a strange smile.
"It's simple. Dog bones, cow tendons, and... rabbit skin."
"What materials are you missing... ahem... we have them all in the village."
"Find it yourself?" Xiao Jin frowned. She stopped Sui Ying who was about to ask again: "Village chief, such a big village, can't you even gather the materials for a few lanterns?"
The old village chief's eyes suddenly turned to the wing room.
Following his line of sight, Xiao Jin saw a locked camphorwood box. Black and red liquid seeped out from the cracks in the box, forming the number "three" on the ground.
The village chief smiled but never said a word.
Seeing this, Xiao Jin didn't plan to ask any further questions.
After leaving the village chief's house, everyone gathered together.
"This condition is too vague. No... it's too simple." Feng Hao touched his chin.
Although these three things are a bit strange as materials for lanterns, whether it is a rabbit, a cow, or a dog, they are extremely easy to obtain in the village.
"Hey, hey, hey, how can it be easy?" Sui Ying didn't think so.
"You just say I want your dog and your ox, and you wonder if the NPC will kick you out."
"Then buy it! Then change it!"
Shao Siyuan shook his head: "It's not that simple."
"What do you think?" He looked up at Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin lowered his eyes, his mind full of thoughts, and after a moment he said something that shocked everyone.
"Are the animals the village chief is talking about really the ones we imagine?"
"This……"
Sui Feng: "Tsk~trouble."
"How about this," he said, "Let's split up and search first. Since the village chief has given us the task, there must be clues."
"It can only be the!"
After half an hour.
Xiao Jin and Shao Siyuan squatted outside the fence of Widow Li's house, looking at the woman tied with an iron chain in the yard with heavy faces.
At this moment, she was gnawing on her left hand. Blood dripped from the corners of her mouth onto her chest, soaking her coarse cloth shirt into dark red.
What was even more terrifying was her eyes - they had completely transformed into the vertical pupils of a dog, glowing a faint green light in the dim courtyard.