bookrandom Chapter 68 I'm impressed by my brother
Chapter 68 I'm impressed by my brother
Perhaps because the confusion on Yan Xun's face was too obvious, Yan Yu explained again.
"You can leave first thing tomorrow morning."
"If he can't find you in one night, he'll go back."
Yan Yu then said to Yan Xun, "Don't be fooled by his anxious demeanor and believe him too easily."
Even at this moment, he didn't forget to speak ill of Sun Zhao, saying, "I think he's pretending to be looking for you; his real intention is to take advantage of the night to enter Cimu Hall."
"I admire you, brother," Yan Xun thought. "You really haven't forgotten your original intentions."
What deep-seated grudge do you have against the male lead of this movie?
However, he wouldn't argue with Yan Yu at this moment, and just nodded perfunctorily, "Okay, I know."
……
When Sun Zhao returned to the Yan family, he saw Yan's anxious parents, who kept muttering that Yan Xun was missing.
Seeing the players standing in the courtyard, Sun Zhao chimed in, "How could they have disappeared?"
“We saw Yan Xun at Cimu Hall earlier.”
"He and his cousin went for a stroll in the village."
Ruan Yun said that they all knew Yan Xun would disappear tonight, so when Yan Xun's parents started to worry about why he was missing, they only felt relieved that the plot had finally come to pass.
Sun Zhao also bought the script, and tonight he has a major scene where he goes to find Yan Xun.
He glanced at the two people, walked over and reassured them, saying that Yan Xun was definitely not lost in the village, maybe he was just playing around and came back a little late.
Then he said he would go look for it later.
It was already evening, and although Yan's parents said they were in a hurry, they showed no intention of leaving the Yan family's gate.
"Shall we go find Yan Xun together?" Sun Zhao tentatively suggested. "It would be faster if we split up."
Upon hearing this, Mother Yan suddenly trembled, "No."
"I don't think he got lost."
Yan Xun's father quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, the village is only so big. Maybe the child was playing somewhere and forgot to come back."
Everyone in the courtyard knew they were lying. The most modern place in the entire Wusheng Village was probably the Xiaoxiao Supermarket. How could a kid like Yan Xun, who came from a big city, play in this small village and forget to come back?
"Never mind, he'll be back tomorrow."
Father Yan shook his head, and then walked with Mother Yan toward their temporary room.
Once they left, only a few players remained in the Yan family courtyard.
Meng Zhi glanced at Sun Zhao and chuckled, "It's getting late, let's go and rest too."
They were just background figures in this scene, with the main camera focusing on Sun Zhao. He winked at Ruan Yun, and Ruan Yun quickly nodded.
Following the lines she had written in her script, Sun Yue said to Sun Zhao, "How about we go again tomorrow?"
"The villagers told us that it's best not to leave the house at night."
Sun Zhao shook his head, "The village isn't big, how could Yan Xun suddenly disappear..."
“I’ll go to Cimu Hall and ask Yan Yu. He was the last person to see Sun Zhao.”
That concludes this part of the story. Following the movie's sequence, the next scene is Sun Zhao heading to the Cimu Hall.
Knowing their scenes were finished, Meng Zhi and the others returned to their courtyard to rest. That evening, they planned to investigate Yan Yu's residence.
Yan Yu only needed to stay at Cimu Hall temporarily during the period before sacrificial rites and temple fairs.
He spent the rest of his time living in the Yan family's old house.
Knowing that the other party was at Cimu Hall tonight, they decided to go to Yan Yu's residence there to look for clues.
They called Sun Yue to come along, but Sun Yue turned to Gu Jia, who hadn't spoken until now, and asked, "Are you going?"
Gu Jia, who had been silent until now, shook her head upon hearing this, "I'm not going."
"Danger."
"Tsk." Meng Zhi clicked his tongue in displeasure. "I told you newcomers are troublesome?"
"You expect clues to come to you without you looking for them?"
"Or do you think you have the money to buy a script worth 20 points?"
He then asked Sun Yue, "Are you going or not?"
Sun Yue pondered for a moment and shook her head, "My protective aura allows me to stay in my room tonight."
When Ruan Yun heard Sun Yue mention protection, she immediately looked surprised. "You've formed a bond with those things?"
The so-called protection refers to those things that are beyond the player's comprehension.
They wander through various live streaming rooms, giving rewards to interesting streamers. If they encounter someone they like even more, they will sign a contract with that streamer and become their "protector." Players can borrow a portion of the abilities of these mysterious beings.
Of course, this doesn't come without a price.
When a streamer dies, their soul will be taken away by these protective amulets.
However, powerful beings would never look down on weak players. Many beings who wander around the live streams trying to persuade players to sign contracts are just ordinary wandering ghosts. Once players have experienced more dungeons, they can easily kill these wandering ghosts.
Sun Yue nodded.
Ruan Yun immediately shook her head, looking at her with some pity, "You've been deceived."
You'll regret this.
She naturally knew that Sun Yue had not joined any guild—this was the inconvenience of playing solo; some guild secrets could only be shared by guild members—for example, which mysterious entities could be contracted with, and which were scammers.
Who is your contractual partner?
"She wouldn't let me say it."
"It's probably just a wandering ghost," Ruan Yun thought.
Meng Zhi was getting impatient and urged Ruan Yun to take advantage of the fact that Yan's parents were in the room and Sun Zhao was not there to act quickly.
In the end, Ruan Yun only said one sentence to Sun Yue: "Be careful."
Then, he and Meng Zhi quietly headed towards Yan Yu's residence, which they had been investigating earlier that day.
Gu Jia yawned. "I'm going back to sleep."
Sun Yue glanced at Gu Jia, "Who are you?"
Gu Jia remained unchanged. "Of course I am me," he said, ignoring Sun Yue, and walked towards his room.
"Strange," Sun Yue muttered, watching Gu Jia's retreating figure. "But I feel like he's not Gu Jia at all."
As she was talking to herself, she heard a woman's laughter, and then a voice appeared in her head.
'If you want to confirm whether it's true or not, just kill him, right?'
……
Gu Jia, standing outside the Cimu Hall, was unaware that her paper doll was about to die.
He hid behind a tree, waiting for the right moment to go in.
Around 9 o'clock, he saw Sun Zhao walking down the path. He quickly hid behind a tree and listened as Sun Zhao knocked on the door of the Cimu Hall.
He half-hid himself, peeking out a little bit of his head, carefully observing the movements over there.
The two people weren't speaking loudly, but it was too quiet here, so Gu Jia could still hear them clearly.
He heard Sun Zhao ask where Yan Xun was, and Yan Yu only said that he had never seen him.
“They all say that after leaving Cimutang, the two of you will be together,” Sun Zhao said.
Yan Yu stood behind the half-open door. "After we parted ways at Xiaoxiao Supermarket, he went back to the Yan family home."
Sun Zhao then said he wanted to go in and take a look, but Yan Yu dismissed him with the excuse that it was inconvenient for outsiders to enter Cimu Hall at night.
Only after the door slammed shut did Sun Zhao take a few steps back.
He turned to look at the tree, then walked over and found Gu Jia behind it.
Seeing Gu Jia's startled reaction, Sun Zhao was a little puzzled as to why this person was so easily startled, but still asked:
"Yan Xun hasn't come out since he went in?"