Please Stop Pretending To Be a Cute Newcomer!

    Li Jiao has never seen other bases for cultivating pearl mussels, so she has no way of comparing them. Anyway, the small pond in front of her did not satisfy her idea of ​​pearl mussels at all.

    In her imagination, the place where the pearl mussels live should have clear water, and you can see the algae on the bottom of the water. The pearl mussels lie among the green water plants, open their shells to enjoy the sunshine, and the pearls sparkle in the sunshine.

    Her eyes gleamed at the large colorful pearls.

    In fact, the water in the pond is not only not clear, but shows a disgusting yellow-green color.

    There is a fishy smell of the water itself, and there is a rancid odor.

    The water surface of the pond is calm, the water is turbid, and there is no water grass at all, let alone pearl mussels.

    Li Jiao, who did not see the expected pearl mussels, immediately couldn't stand it and decided to stay away, but she didn't want her feet in high heels to slip, and her legs slipped down the **** into the water.

    Li Jiao screamed, "Ah! Brother Run!"

    Fortunately, her hand was holding Feng Tianrun all the time, and the water level of the pond was not too deep, and the water only submerged her thighs.

    Li Jiao grabbed her boyfriend even tighter and kept pushing on the pond shore with both feet, trying to climb up, making the water that was not clear enough to become turbid.

    "Don't be afraid, Jiaojiao, I'll pull you up immediately!" Feng Tianrun said nervously.

    "Woohoo, hurry up, the silt is slippery and sticky, so disgusting!" She closed her eyes and cried.

    Li Jiao herself is very thin, so Feng Tianrun could pull her up quickly, but I don't know if the other party kept moving or some other reason, Feng Tianrun tried several times without success.

     With sweat on his forehead, he turned to everyone for help.

    The players did not intend to turn a blind eye, and a male player who was closest immediately walked a few steps forward to help.

    Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi were at the end of the crowd. When they walked to the shore, they saw that someone had already helped them, so they stood aside to pay attention to Li Jiao's situation while observing the water.

    The only clue at present is the beauty beads that are somewhat related to the beauty bones. The beauty beads come from pearl mussels, so the artificial lake is the place they will definitely check.

    They were just a few steps late, and they never thought that Li Jiao would suddenly fall into the water.

    "Did you see how she fell into the water?" Shen Qingcheng asked, and after asking, he suddenly realized that he asked a silly question.

    In horror games, the probability of the accidental event of slipping into the water is minimized. There are only two possibilities. The nearest Feng Tianrun did it, and the invisible thing did it.

    Feng Tianrun doesn't look like it, the biggest possibility is the latter, but Lu Qi can't see the latter.

    He doubted whether he had entered the stage of falling in love, and recalled with a frown, "I didn't pay attention to see if there was anything under her feet at that time." And his yin and yang eyes were not opened.

    Lu Qi squeezed his palm and did not speak.

    "Yo, your foot hurt!"

    Aunt Huang's loud voice came, and the two looked up, only to find that Li Jiao had been pulled up with the help of Feng Tianrun and another male player. surrounded.

    The wet water gathered in a small pool on the ground, Li Jiao covered her nose in disgust, and was so fouled by her body that she wanted to go back to take a bath three times immediately.

    Hearing Aunt Huang's words, she looked down at her feet blankly.

    The player next to Feng Tianrun thanked her for helping her and asked worriedly, "Jiaojiao, where does it hurt?"

    In order to protect the sun, Li Jiao wore a pair of jeans today. At this time, the part below the knee was covered with a thick layer of mud, and it was impossible to see if she was injured.

    She moved her ankle, but there was no pain, so she endured crying and choked: "No pain, no sprain."

    "She said she wasn't injured," Aunt Huang shook her head, pointing at the ankle of her right foot, "Bleeding!"

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    "It's really hurt, you still want to hide it from me?"

    Li Jiao's tears flowed again, this time she was afraid, she grabbed her boyfriend's arm and cried and asked, "But why don't I feel any pain..."

    No one can explain this.

    Aunt Huang moved further away from the pond where the mussels were raised. She thought she was accidentally injured, so she patted her chest in fear. Fortunately, she was not the first to go there.

    Lu Qi observed it, the wound was small, and it was difficult to infer what caused it.

    Because Li Jiao fell into the water and was injured, Feng Tianrun accompanied her back to take a bath, change clothes and bandage the wound, and temporarily separated from everyone.

    Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi were still by the pond, Aunt Huang cautiously took two steps towards them, and she was familiar with Shen Meiren among the players.

    "Beautiful man, I have a guess," she said from a distance, "Could it be that the village killed someone and threw the corpse into the pond where the mussels were raised, and these pearl mussels ate the corpse? "

    She was thinking of the skeleton shelf last night.

    What's in the water? Of course pearl mussels.

    Those mussels eat human flesh, so the pearls they produce are so beautiful!

    The more Aunt Huang thought about it, the more she felt that her guess was reliable, especially Shen Meiren who agreed with her saying "it's possible".

    But one question is, how big is this mussel to be able to wrap a human foot in and bite?

    The water quality of the pond was too muddy, Shen Qingcheng found a dead branch and probed it into the water to stir, but he didn't feel anything except the silt that sank into the water when he poked it.

    A small boat was tied to the shore not far away, and after thinking for a moment, he gave up his plan to go to the center of the pond by boat.

    If the boat capsized by accident, he didn't want to go down and experience how stinky the water was.

    "The village has received pearls in previous years, you can ask them." Lu Qi said, standing behind him with his waist hooked.

    When he thought about it, he threw the stick. Just as he was about to leave with Lu Qi, there was a sudden touch on the skin of his ankle.

    Shen Qingcheng lifted his foot and stepped on it, opened his Yin-Yang eyes, and saw a slender pale hand quickly retract into the water.

    Other players looked at him, and he said truthfully: "Something wants to drag me into the water."

    It's a woman.

    He only told Lu Qi the last sentence, because other people wouldn't believe it because they didn't know he had yin and yang eyes.

    His words confirmed that the pond where mussels are raised in the village is strange, so several players were going to go to other places to find clues, but after listening, they decided to follow them to find the villagers first.

    The houses of the villagers were not far from here. The group followed the direction and saw a woman wearing a hood rubbing something under a tree outside their house.

    The woman sat on the low stool and rolled around in the stone mortar with her feet on the rollers, and the stone mortar made a crisp clicking sound.

    "Eldest sister," Shen Qingcheng stepped forward with a smile, "what are you grinding?"

    He probed into the stone mortar and saw a pile of white powder.

    The woman was stunned when she saw them, and then she thought of something, and suddenly realized, "You are the college students who are here to investigate?"

    With a simple smile on her face, she answered Shen Qingcheng's question, "This is pearl powder."

    Several players looked at each other and felt strange. The attitude of women was not like the matriarch said that outsiders were not welcome.

    Shen Qingcheng simply squatted down and talked to her, "What are you grinding pearl powder for?"

    "Hey, I heard that it is popular for little girls to use pearl powder on their faces now, and it is also pure natural and handmade. I don't have any spare time to grind some powder to supplement my family.

    The woman said that many people in their village do this. Every year, the merchants come to the village to collect pearls and pearl powder.

    And because the pearls in the village are famous, even the pearl powder can be sold at a higher price than other places.

    Lu Qi asked: "The buyer comes to the village to receive the goods? How many times a year? Are there many outsiders in the village?"

    "Don't mind, he just wants to investigate the sales of pearls in the village." Seeing the woman's suspicious expression, Shen Qingcheng explained.

    The woman dispelled her doubts, "The beauty beads in our village are always rushing for it. The buyers will come once when they collect pearls, and at other times, they will collect pearl powder. Not necessarily, two or three times when it’s less, and four or five times when it’s more, I can’t say for sure.”

    "It seems that the business in the village is indeed very good, and every family lives in small buildings," he boasted, "but I heard from the patriarch that only one pearl is selected as a beauty pearl every year?"

    The woman said it was true, but people outside called the beads produced in the village as beauty beads, and everyone got used to it after listening for a long time.

    Afterwards, Shen Qingcheng took a side view of the villagers' views on foreigners, but from the reaction of the women, we can see that everyone does not exclude foreigners.

    This is strange, the matriarch, who is the head of the village, told them that outsiders were not welcome in the village, but the villagers said no.

    In order to avoid a single case, everyone went to other places for a stroll. The villagers behaved normally, not overly enthusiastic, but by no means exclusive.

    What caused the matriarch and the villagers to treat outsiders differently?

    Who is telling the truth?

    I couldn't figure out what to do, I remembered the skeleton frame that appeared and disappeared last night, and finally Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi came to the door of another villager's house.

    The people here seem to have a tree in front of every house, and people work or enjoy the shade under the tree.

    A middle-aged man in his fifties was carving a comb out of a clam shell under a tree. After drawing the last pattern with a carving knife, he put down the carving knife and blew the ash on it.

    Shen Qingcheng stepped forward and asked, "Brother, do you know where the mountain is over there?"

    The man's face was normal, but his face changed when he saw the direction he was pointing, and persuaded: "No matter where you are, don't go."

    "Why?"

    Shen Qingcheng raised his head and exchanged glances with Lu Qi. It turned out that the villager who the matriarch said did not welcome outsiders was this lunatic.

    But why didn't the matriarch just say you can't get close to that mountain?

    "Then why does he hate foreigners?" He continued to ask, in a curious tone.

    "His dead mother was a foreigner. Back then, the village almost smashed a year's harvest in her hands. Why do you think he hates it?" The man laughed, picked up the sandpaper and began to give the mussels Shell comb sanding.

    Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi frowned after hearing this, this is unreasonable.