Sick beauty loses horse in thriller game

The figure that suddenly appeared was Jiang Lai.

As early as the moment she used the Fire Phoenix Feather Fan, she had predicted that an explosion might occur, so she had already made preparations in advance. Not only did she put on the Black Tortoise Armor and use the Golden Crow Shield, she also used two defensive cards and two teleportation cards.

When the explosion occurred in the theater, she felt extremely fortunate.

Fortunately, she had asked seven young ladies to settle all the villagers five or six hundred meters away from the stage in advance.

Even if there was an explosion in the theater, it would not pose any threat to the villagers.

Jiang Lai teleported back to Jixiang and the seven young ladies.

After looking at the images and videos recorded on the screen, she roughly understood what was going on.

The man named Mu Jun is Xin'er's father, and most likely the owner of this treasure house.

Because his daughter suffered from a serious illness, he had to actively run around in dangerous places to collect various materials for his daughter's treatment.

The man was exhausted by his daughter's illness.

His journey to collect materials often put him in danger, and he was often injured.

This was also the fundamental reason why he was seriously injured and died.

Jiang Lai speculated that the person who killed Xin'er, the one whose face did not appear in the video footage recorded on the screen and only showed a gloved hand, should be Xuan Ji.

This is the person the man entrusted his beloved daughter Xin'er to when he was dying, and is also the quest target that players need to find in the Treasure Mansion.

The reason why Xuan Ji killed Xin'er was probably because she felt that Xin'er, who was suffering from a serious illness, was the culprit behind Mu Jun's death.

Her feelings for Mu Jun made her lose control of her mentality, and in her anger, she couldn't control herself and killed Xin'er.

And the piece of curtain that was originally a curtain must have had problems for a long time.

Because long before Xin'er's death, that piece of curtain had recorded every detail of the life of Xin'er and Mu Jun, father and daughter, especially some important scenes.

During Xin'er's death, the curtain, stained with her blood, acquired some kind of spirituality by chance, causing it to become a special kind of monster-like existence.

After Xin'er's death, the curtain somehow found its way to a nearby small village and began to take action.

It first controlled a dozen shadow puppets, and then used those shadow puppets to control several ape demons, making them transform into human forms and perform shadow puppet shows for the villagers in the surrounding villages.

Of course, performing shadow puppetry is just a means.

Its real purpose is to collect the souls of those villagers.

As for the curtain that has become a spirit, why it does this and what unknown secrets are hidden in it, these are things that Jiang Lai is currently unable to infer based on the clues known at hand.

After coming to so many conclusions through his own analysis and reasoning, Jiang Lai sighed lightly.

If she has deduced so many things, but still does not complete the task just issued by the system, then she can only consume merit points and conduct another deduction.

Fortunately, after she came to this conclusion, the system prompted her that she had completed this round of puzzle-solving trials.

At this time, the fire in the theater had been completely extinguished.

Jiang Lai walked forward to check and found that everything in the entire system had been reduced to ashes, except for the old curtain that had become a spirit and was burned into a small piece of charred unidentified object.

Jiang Lai felt that the shape of the unidentified object... looked a bit like a key.

She put on plastic gloves and cleaned all the black ash off the object, and sure enough, she got a red key.

After she got the red key, the villagers she had rescued before came forward and invited her to visit them in the village.

"Girl, ah, no, no, lady, thank you for showing up in time and saving us. Please come with us to the village and try the special tea cakes in our village." An elderly man said.

"Yes, yes. If it weren't for this girl, we would have all been possessed by that monster and turned into zombies." A woman carrying a basket hurriedly said, "Girl, please come with us back to the village and sit down!"

There was also an old scholar who looked like a scholar next to him.

The old scholar was still holding his frightened grandson in his hands.

"Miss, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness. Please follow us back to the village. Oh, by the way, there is a famous memorial archway in our village, which has a history of several hundred years. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, there will be people from other places who come to our village to see the memorial archway. It would be nice if you could follow us back to see the memorial archway."

After hearing these words, Jiang Lai couldn't help but have some thoughts.

She has now obtained the red key and is looking for the door to leave.

Maybe if we follow these villagers back to the village, we will find some clues about the door.

So she happily agreed and followed the villagers into the village, chatting with them and asking about the history of the village to see if she could find any clues related to the Treasure House, Mu Jun, or Xuan Ji.

Unfortunately, these villagers had never heard of Mu Jun and Xin Er, let alone the Rare Curiosity Mansion.

However, they told Jiang Lai a lot of things about their village.

The name of their village is Zhangcao Village, and most of the people in the village have the surname Zhang or Cao.

Zhangcao Village has a total of 47 households and less than 200 villagers.

About 200 years ago, there was a top scholar named Cao in the village. His wife, Zhang, had worked hard for many years to support her parents-in-law and take care of their children. She was a well-known virtuous wife and mother in the surrounding area.

After Cao Zhuangyuan passed the imperial examination and became a high-ranking official, he requested an imperial decree for his mother and wife, and the emperor personally issued an order to build a chastity arch in Zhangcao Village to commemorate Zhang and commend her virtuous character.

"Your Excellency must stay in our village for a few more days this time." The old scholar in the village said:

"I heard that there is a war going on outside, and it is very chaotic. Our Zhangcao Village is located deep in the mountains, and transportation is not convenient. We can avoid the disaster of war at this moment. Although our village is not as prosperous as the outside world, it is safer. You may as well stay in the village for a few more days, and you can avoid the disaster of war for a while."