The fairies I flirted with in the game became real?!-Chapter 702: Lord of the Lunar Eclipse
Seeing his character level up, Li Muyang opened the character interface.
But he discovered that in the character interface, besides the health and mana bar increasing a bit, there were no other changes.
Meanwhile, the uncle weaving bamboo strips spoke.
"Jiu, where did you go last night?"
Uncle continued weaving the bamboo strips, seemingly indifferent, but his gaze was continuously stealing glances at Li Muyang.
In Li Muyang's view, a dialogue box popped up.
[Me? I didn't go anywhere last night.]
[Uncle, I miss my mother.]
…
Looking at this dialogue box, Li Muyang pondered for a moment and chose the second option.
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At this point, being stubborn was meaningless.
Being honest could actually advance the plot.
After Li Muyang spoke, the middle-aged man weaving the bamboo strips suddenly paused his hands.
A few seconds later, Uncle sighed and said, "…Your mother has left, and she isn't coming back. She would be very sad to see you like this."
"There are so many dangers outside the village, how could I explain to your parents if something happened to you?"
The middle-aged man was somewhat pained and sad.
Li Muyang looked at him but did not speak.
Mostly because the system did not provide a dialogue box, and Li Muyang did not know what to say.
However, his silence seemed to have had an effect.
After Li Muyang was silent for a long time, the middle-aged man suddenly spoke, saying, "…Well, since you are so insistent, I can't stop you."
"Tonight at the third watch, come find me; I have something to tell you."
As he spoke, the middle-aged man also finished weaving the bamboo basket.
After lifting the bamboo basket to inspect it several times and confirming there was no problem, he set the basket down and left.
Li Muyang stood alone in the yard enclosed by fences, watching Uncle leave, somewhat baffled.
…Is this the end?
Why can't something that could be said now wait until it's dark?
Glancing at the sky, it was only noon now, and far from dark.
Li Muyang entered the house; as an experienced gamer, this narrative lull was clearly meant for him to explore the map and rummage around.
Unfortunately, he couldn't enter other people's houses; although the game wasn't hardcore, entering other people's houses to open chests was not possible.
Li Muyang could only rummage through his own house.
The relatively sparse house was indeed bare, apart from a few patched-up old clothes, there was nothing else, and certainly no treasure chest for Li Muyang.
In the main house, there were two ancestral tablets which clearly read [Ancestral tablet of the deceased father, Jie Zili]and [Ancestral tablet of the deceased mother, Mrs. Lu].
It seemed these were the protagonist Jie Zijiu's parents' ancestral tablets.
"Very well, a classic protagonist's starting point."
Li Muyang stepped out of the house and strolled around the village.
He tried to trigger dialogue with other NPCs to explore plot information.
Unfortunately, after walking around the village, he did not trigger any useful dialogues.
The villagers were simple and friendly, and there were no special NPCs like ragged beggars or mysterious fortune tellers to trigger the plot.
After wandering through the entire village and having nothing to do, Li Muyang went to the outskirts of the village.
Outside the village, waves of rice swayed with the wind, and a refreshing breeze faced him.
Among the waves of rice, frogs croaked. Upon the rice ridges, grasshoppers leaped.
What a peaceful, idyllic rural scene.
Children ran past, laughing loudly while holding kites, their carefree laughter scattering under the sunlight, making it hard not to smile.
But the more harmonious and warm the village atmosphere, the more Li Muyang felt something was amiss.
"…This game is called 'Buddha's Heart Demon,' the opening CG was so scary, yet you create this paradise for me?"
According to common single-player game patterns, the next thing to happen would be for villains/devils to raid the village, destroying everything the protagonist cherishes, and then starting the revenge main storyline.
Li Muyang walked a round outside the village, going far into the mountain forest, yet he encountered no dangers.
Walking far, he saw it was getting late and the sun was setting in the west.
Li Muyang was just about to head back to see Uncle Ah.
However, as the sun set and the night enveloped the earth, the temperature in the air dropped rapidly.
The temperature, which was warm during the day, was now chilling to the bone.
Gusts of cold wind swept through the forest, and Li Muyang, hit by this cold breeze, couldn't help but shiver several times and began to rub his arms and run.
"The temperature drops so fast at night?"
If the daytime temperature was in the twenties, comfortable and warm.
Then the temperature at night had dropped to single digits.
The cold made Li Muyang's breath visible as white mist.
The plummeting temperature made Li Muyang start to run.
He feared that staying outside any longer would freeze him to death.
However, as Li Muyang's running footsteps spread in the forest, the originally quiet woods began echoing with hurried footsteps.
This place was not a valley, yet the footsteps grew more frequent and noisy.
The echoing footsteps sounded as if dozens of people were running through the forest with Li Muyang.
The chill in the air grew even sharper.
A cold shiver suddenly ran up Li Muyang's back, feeling as though something in the darkness was watching him.
"Could it be that something is out there..."
Li Muyang kept looking back, but the forest behind him was empty and stark, nothing was visible.
The moon in the night sky was clear, and its white light spread across the forest, allowing Li Muyang to faintly make out the path.
At a certain moment, Li Muyang suddenly stopped running.
As his footsteps halted, the echoing footsteps in the forest ceased abruptly too.
But Li Muyang heard clearly that these abrupt stops were slightly delayed compared to his own.
And if it were an echo, it wouldn't have stopped so quickly.
"...There's something in this forest."
Li Muyang realized with a chill in his heart that danger had arrived.
But he didn't rush to flee; instead, he stood coldly in place, looking around.
"Who's there? Come out!"
Since he could reload from a save, Li Muyang started courting death.
In a game with saves, death didn't matter; exploring the game's information was most important.
And after Li Muyang's cold shout, the dark forest unexpectedly returned an echo as if from a valley.
"Who's there?"
"Who's there?"
"Who's there?"
"Come out!"
"Come out!"
"Come out!"
The continuous echoes sounded over and over, becoming sharper, eerier, and inexplicably creepy by the end.
It was no longer Li Muyang's voice.
And at the last moment of the echo, a sinister, creepy laugh resounded through the forest.
The next second, a pale hand reached out from behind and grabbed Li Muyang's face.
That undistinguishable, creepy laugh rang in his ears.
"...Hehe... what nice fresh meat."
[You have died, game over]
"..."
A failure screen popped up in his view, and Li Muyang looked extremely unpleasant.
It wasn't the bizarre death that scared him, but at the moment of death, he saw the health bar above that monster's head.
[Blighted Lord]
This damn thing, one of the Evil Gods from the Ancient Resentment Well!
No wonder the game's CG design felt familiar, it was damn the Ancient Resentment Well!
This game's stage, is it the Ancient Resentment Well full of Evil Gods?!
