Horror Game Escape Guide Chapter 28

Village in the Valley (10) Qi XiaoKui's Whereabouts

Noticing Xin Meng's suspicious gaze, Xiong JiaBao looked back at him, appearing angry and unease, he whispered to him, “Those bastards, I won't treat them nicely anymore! Treating friend is as warm as spring and with respect, but treating enemies should be ruthless as the autumn wind!”

Xin Meng's face was dark, what he wanted to say was forgotten due the interruption.

Dong Xiu ignored their noise and said indifferently. “Anyways, be careful! Don't let the villagers suspect us, or it will further increase our risks and unnecessary damage.”

They thought of the villagers looking at the corpses and their quiet attitude, even Xiong JiaBao who wanted to confront him was unable to say a word.

It's truth, they were in danger. After all, they appeared too close to the time when the villagers started to die. The villagers have the right to suspect them. The reason no one talked about it yet was not thought about. Maybe they didn't ask directly to them, but discussed behind their backs, so their nerves were tight and they couldn't relax at all.

The only one not affected is probably You Yi, who always stayed out of the matter, didn't participate in their discussions and expressed no opinion, just silently followed them, or more precisely, followed Xin Meng. If he's not speaking, he reduces his presence and even makes people forget he's there.

But once he made a move, no one dare go against. Like just now, he decided to change Xiong JiaBao and Xin Meng's position, and Xiong JiaBao immediately turned his head like a chicken pecking rice. He didn't say, but he also wanted to help Xin Meng carry his backpack, but then the bag was taken away by You Yi and Xiong JiaBao shrunk silently into a ball.

The group approached the villagers cautiously, but curiously, the villagers didn't seem to suspect them. Their attitude towards them was the same, but their expressions were confused and they seemed to be afraid of something, which also made them afraid. It seems that it had nothing to do with them.

“That's weird” Li Yougen wondered. “They don't really believe in ghosts, right?”

Xin Meng said, “I heard a villager say that an outsider had drowned in the reservoir before. I felt that the villagers were very indifferent to that, now that the villagers appeared dead in the reservoir and they started to believe in water ghosts, is it possible to have something to do with that?”

“So that person was killed by the villagers, now they became a ghost to avenge himself and the villagers are guilty and scared?” Xiong JiaBao made a wild guess.

Xin Meng thought of the villager's reactions. He couldn't say it was entirely impossible. He went to the village chief to inquire about it.

“You are asking about the person that drowned in the reservoir?” The village chief lit up a cigarette again. In the past two days he smoked enough for one entire year. “There's nothing to say, that person just appeared in the village. No one knew that person's name. When he found that person, they were struggling in the reservoir, we were too late to save them. They left without a word.”

“So the water ghost the villagers are referring to is them?” Xin Meng asked. “Was it a man or a woman?”

“A woman” The village chief spit out a ring of smoke, recalling, “The villagers were kind, buried her in the mountain and built a monument, so it shouldn't be… Why are you asking?”

No one knew what was going on. At least, in their current situation, it must had something to do with the reservoir and the drowned woman.

Xin Meng left and went to inquire others about it. The results were similar to the village chief. No one knew her name, only that she was young, with a normal face and with a really long hair. She had long hair and wore a dark blue dress…

Wait…

Xin Meng's eyes widened and he asked the person again, for them to describe in more detail.

“No… How can this be?!” Xin Meng turned and grabbed You Yi's hands. “Isn't she…!”

This description, how is it… So like Qi XiaoKui?

“It can't be, how can it be her?” Xin Meng was unable to believe it. The drowned person turned out to be Qi XiaoKui? Is Qi XiaoKui the one that turned into a ghost and demanded sacrifices? Qi XiaoKui killed the five kind villagers?

How can it be?!!

He thought Qi XiaoKui was just hidden and didn't want to see them, that she was alive and well, why… how could…

Xin Meng was so speechless by the sudden discovery and You Yi calmed him down, pointing at the key point, “Time's not right.”

Yes… Yes, the time isn't right!

Didn't that woman drown last year? They weren't inside the game last year. Although Qi XiaoKui died early in the last game, Xiong JiaBao came with them at the same time. It hasn't been two days. How can Qi XiaoKui enter early? Arrive a year before?

Xin Meng was relieved, but he still felt unease. He wanted to find Qi XiaoKui immediately and make sure he was just imagining it, but so many people had died in the village and the villagers were all scared. It isn't appropriate to make everyone look for Qi XiaoKui, and themselves wouldn't be able to find her in the vast mountains, unless she appeared by herself.

You Yi grabbed his arm and calmed him with his eyes. “Don't scare yourself. If you can't find Qi XiaoKui, go to the woman's grave first, determine her identity and you will know it's not her.”

Xin Meng calmed down, “Yes, first go to the grave.”

Because they were afraid of shocking the villagers, they didn't call Dong Xiu and the rest and searched for it alone. According to the information given by the village chief, they found it on the south side of the mountain. The was a humble tombstone made of stone, which wrote, “Unknown Woman's grave.”

Xin Meng “…”

Although the name in the tombstone is very awkward, it was what they were looking for.

The game must have wanted them to go to this place, because when they asked the village chief, he seemed to know their intents and directly told them the place, very detailed, so Xin Meng was 80% sure this was a key location.

It looked lonely and pitiful, Xin Meng looked around the grave and found nothing, but saw that You Yi actually took a folding shovel from his backpack and began to… dig the grave.

Xin Meng was stunned for a moment, but then also pulled a branch to help digging. The two dug for a while, the pit became larger and larger until if finally exposed the coffin inside.

“A stranger who they didn't know died, I didn't expect the villagers would do a burial and also prepare a coffin” Xin Meng sighed. “The people here are very kind.”

You Yi made no effort and shoved it hard, the coffin was completely exposed.

The coffin made by the villagers was not very delicate. It was made from pure wood and there's no painting outside. There were some occasional burrs on the corners and it was also covered in dirt.

Xin Meng felt there was something wrong with the coffin, but it couldn't be said what.

After observing if for a long time, he hesitated and said, “Isn't this coffin too small?”

The coffin of an ordinary person, even for a short woman, is about one meter and sixty five, but this one is definitely smaller and from visual speculation, it should be around a meter, which was like a children's coffin.

You Yi didn't speak and just went for the coffin, inserting the shovel inside the gap and prying its lid open. The lid slid open to the other side, smashing on the ground, dust flying around, and exposing the inside of the black hole.

Xin Meng took two steps closer and stretched his neck to look inside. However, seeing the white contents inside the coffin, Xin Meng gasped

The rotten corpse in his imagination didn't appear at all. Instead, there was a pile of scattered whit e bones. The two holes in the skull were facing Xin Meng, as if hiding something vicious inside, about to choose someone to bite. And it flew towards him!

Xin Meng's scalp tightened, his hear pounded and he took a step back. But when he looked again, it had disappeared.

Was he too nervous that he started to hallucinate?

Xin Meng started, “It really died long ago, the corpse became bones. ” But he still felt relieved.

It wasn't Qi XiaoKui, at least not this time.

Great.

But where is Qi XiaoKui?

To be honest, Xin Meng is very fond of the girl who had been gloomy since the start but saved his life at the end. Although he knows that for her, it was just a helpless act and not a kindness act, in this world, he can't help but enjoy the care of others. There are other people around that wouldn't even do that. They always feel that the world turns around themselves, like Dong Xiu and Li Yougen. No matter how much you help them, they won't even give you half of a thank you, but if you don't help, you will be cursed and blamed. Including Xiong JiaBao, in fact his essence is the same. Meanwhile, Qi XiaoKui is independent and strong and knows how to give back people's kindness. Isn't it admirable?

That why Xin Meng doesn't want Qi XiaoKui to have an accident.

Covering the coffin again, the two buried it back to the ground. Xin Meng straightened his back and sighed, “No clues were found.”

He thought You Yi wouldn't answer, so he didn't expect that soon he heard You Yi say “Some.”

Xin Meng froze and hurried to ask, “What is it?”

You Yi looked deeply at him and just when Xin Meng looked at him ruthlessly, he answered:

“Thinking to myself.”

Xin Meng “…You might as well keep quiet.”

Chapter end