Weirdness is coming: Chen Mu Nugui started with trillions of ghost coins

After sorting all this out in his mind, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, this strange mission introduced a new mode——

Identity switch!

The player is in human form during the day and turns into a rat at night.

And through the interference of "cognitive confusion", players are unable to realize that they have turned into a mouse.

Players can only figure out this bold idea step by step from clues and hints.

If you bypass this bend and look back, you will find that the hint is still very obvious -

The heavier door is a very strong hint, almost an explicit indication - provided that one breaks out of one's habitual thinking.

"Identity switching + cognitive confusion, quite interesting." Chen Mu stood on the mountainside, muttering to himself.

It seems that a lot of thought was put into designing the BOSS in this weird scene, and players are even prohibited from using props.

If he had the help of props, when Chen Mu lit the candle and found that the player disappeared and there was no strangeness around, he might have thought of it immediately.

However, the design of strange tasks is not arbitrary.

The weird BOSS restricts players from using props, so they must reduce the difficulty in other places so that the rule settings can be balanced and the weird scenes can be established.

This is also the core rule of the weird mission - there must be a way to survive!

Therefore, a strong reminder is left regarding the midnight door becoming heavier, in exchange for the increased difficulty caused by not being able to use props.

Chen Mu bent down and picked up the cat in the coffin.

It seems that this cat knows nothing. Can it be the boss of the weird scene?

Chen Mu scratched his head, the white cat yawned, and fell asleep lazily in Chen Mu's arms.

I have to say, the white cat's fur is very soft, and it feels very warm when you hold it in your hands, like holding a self-heating ball of fur.

Chen Mu held the cat and walked along the path back to the woodshed.

He planned to go see Old Man Ma again because there were still some details in his mind that he didn't understand.

Anyway, the strange mission has ended, and Chen Mu can move freely while waiting for the settlement.

The items in his ring can now be used, and his strength has been mostly restored, so he doesn't need to worry about anything anymore.

After walking for a while, Chen Mu returned to the woodshed yard.

The once bustling courtyard was now deserted, with traces of fire everywhere and looked somewhat dilapidated.

Old Man Ma has returned home. He sits in front of his house, staring blankly at everything in front of him.

When Chen Mu came back holding the white cat, a look of surprise and joy suddenly appeared in Old Man Ma's eyes.

"Young man, you are still alive." Old man Ma said with some joy.

Chen Mu smiled and nodded. He didn't think Old Man Ma was scary.

In fact, from Old Man Ma’s perspective, what he eats every night is not “people” at all, but mice caught by the white cat for him.

From this perspective, Old Man Ma can indeed be considered a good person.

During the famine, after the village chief who was responsible for hosting them died, Old Man Ma took the initiative to take in several people who came from other places, and even shared his limited food with them.

As for Old Man Ma himself, he relied on the mice caught by the white cat to fill his stomach in the middle of the night.

Although mice are meat, wild mice have many pathogenic bacteria. The mortality rate of eating mice is much higher than that of eating wild vegetables.

It seems that Old Man Ma really has nothing to say about Chen Mu and the others.

But Old Man Ma didn’t know that what he thought were “rats” were actually these players.

Old Man Ma was not surprised that one player disappeared every day. The reason was actually very simple.

Behind this lies the secret of Daohuaxiang Village.

Chen Mu could already guess everything, including the red veil and the death of the village chief. In fact, Chen Mu had already seen most of it.

Chen Mu held the white cat and sat next to Old Man Ma.

Old Man Ma looked at Chen Mu and sighed, "Young man, if you don't mind, you can stay here. I have some wild vegetables left here, and you can eat them if you save a little."

Chen Mu did not answer, but asked: "Uncle Ma, was your granddaughter...really arranged to have a ghost marriage?"

Chen Mu’s answer was a long silence.

After a long time, Old Man Ma sighed and said, "Young man, you are very smart. I didn't expect you to figure it out.

Have you ever experienced a famine?

In the fields, in the land, in the house, on the mountain...all edible things were eaten up.

There is nothing to eat. I am...hungry.

I could still bear it at the beginning, but later on... Young man, you have never experienced the feeling of being so hungry that you want to vomit.

When people are extremely hungry, their bodies will become fatter and fatter.

The fat on your body is not meat, but circles of water.

The whole person is starving to death.

That feeling is really irresistible."

Old Man Ma's tone was filled with despair and fear.

Anyone who has experienced a famine will have unforgettable memories of it.

As he spoke, two lines of tears flowed from the corners of Old Man Ma's eyes.

“A man can only be called a man when he is well fed.

When people are desperate and hungry, they can do anything.

During that time, the living people were starving to death, and ghost marriages became popular in our village.

A ghost marriage is to bury the dead children of two families together.

If someone's child died of starvation, the family members would see their own child and would not be able to kill him out of family affection. So they would go to other families in the village to see if anyone else had died of starvation.

If the two families like each other, they will ask the village chief to match them up.

The village chief presided over the two families, forming a pair of star-crossed lovers and arranging a ghost marriage.

After the ghost marriage was arranged, the two families buried their children in the cemetery on the back mountain.

At night, they would go to the neighboring children's graves and dig there.

You have to go early, as soon as it gets dark. If you go late, the coffin will be empty. There are so many eyes staring at the person who has just been buried."

When Old Man Ma said this, everything became very clear.

Chen Mu looked at the mountain in the distance and didn't speak for a long time.

The truth behind the so-called ghost marriage is even more terrifying than the real ghost marriage.

Especially what Old Man Ma said, "You have to go early, otherwise it will be empty." These few words made Chen Mu see the hellish appearance of the village.

This is what hell is all about.

Chen Mu didn't know what to say.

Old Man Ma continued, “In fact, sometimes, the person who is arranged for a ghost marriage does not have to be dead.

I don't know whether my little granddaughter was dead or not. My son and his family refused to show her to me and told me that she was dead.

I don’t know whether my granddaughter is dead or not, but I know very well whether the boy in that family is dead or not.

My sons and their friends all starved to death in the end, and I was the only one left in the family.

Seeing you guys reminds me of my granddaughter and that boy.

So when I heard you had no food, I said stay with me and I will help you get through this together."

PS: Happy New Year everyone!