After they read the rules, the system voice sounded again.
"Clear mission: you can leave the dungeon after completing 70% of the role-playing within seven days."
The task is quite simple. You only need to play your role well. There is no need to explore the village and look for clues.
Jiang Yao was thoughtful.
Such a task is normal for a level 7 copy. She took the time to read the thriller game forum before, which contained information about role-playing copies.
When the difficulty level reaches level 30 or above, it becomes very difficult to play the dungeon, and players need to decipher the secrets to find a way out.
Jiang Yao analyzed: "Our identity is that woman's daughter. Based on our names, recruiting younger brothers, and their attitude towards me, they have a serious philosophy of favoring boys over girls."
Li Yu listened and recalled the way the woman looked at him, and couldn't help but shudder.
Her grandparents' generation valued boys over girls. Li Yu was an only child. She returned to her hometown with her parents and was never liked by her grandparents.
Grandma always said in front of her mother that it would be great if she had another son. My mother was very angry and rarely returned to her hometown again.
She hated the idea.
"No wonder we are so young and have to get up early in the morning to cook."
Jiang Yao glanced at the overworked and wrinkled back of his hands, and then looked at the clothes he was wearing. They were all patched and tattered. They could only cover the body, but could not protect against wind and cold.
In a family that favors boys over girls, the status of women is as humble as dust, especially in this extremely feudal countryside.
"Today will be very tiring, so be mentally prepared."
Li Yu, who didn't realize how tired she was, didn't understand the meaning of her words until she went to the river carrying a wooden basin that was heavier than herself.
She couldn't move it at all, so she could only buy power-increasing props in the mall and reluctantly moved it.
Compared to her, Jiang Yao was very relaxed.
Less than a kilometer away from Longnv Village, there is a smoke river. The embankment is built with bricks, layer by layer, crookedly. The river water is half of the stone steps. There are already three or four people squatting by the river washing clothes.
Compared with the numb expressions and empty eyes of the indigenous villagers in Longnu Village, the players are too different.
'Da da da'
Hearing the footsteps, the female players turned their heads and looked towards them.
Li Yu couldn't act, so he could only keep his head down.
Jiang Yao, on the contrary, plays his own identity with ease, and will be bullied, belittled, and suffer all kinds of hardships. The character of a twelve-year-old girl is quite good.
Her pupils were like a pool of stagnant water without any fluctuation, and she was squatting by the river washing clothes like a zombie.
A player approached Li Yu and whispered, "You are also a player, right?"
The tone was firm.
It was Li Yu's first time to wash clothes, but his body instinct was still there, so he washed slowly. The foam flowed out of the clothes and melted into the bottomless river water.
Hearing this, her body trembled, and she furtively glanced at Jiang Yao next to her from the corner of her eye.
The female player said: "Don't worry, I used the NPC sound barrier props, she can't hear her as an NPC."
Li Yu: "..." But, but she is not an NPC.
Sweat broke out on her forehead. Seeing that Jiang Yao remained silent, she could only answer bravely:
"I'm a player, is there something wrong?"
The female player's name is He Zhizhi. After exchanging names, she said.
"Don't be so nervous. My level is much higher than yours. I am a member of the Qinghe Guild. As long as you agree to join our guild, I will protect you and return to the real world safely."
All the major guilds are working hard to attract new people, and there is serious competition.
Li Yu moved slightly, farther away from her, and shook his head in refusal.
"don't want."
He Zhizhi's smile froze, obviously he didn't expect that she, a level 2 newcomer, would refuse his invitation.
She sneered and said no more.
Good words can't persuade a damn ghost.
At this time.
A scream rang out by the riverside.
"Ahhh!"
Everyone stopped and looked at each other.
One player stumbled back, looking at the river with horrified eyes, his throat seemed to be strangled, and he was unable to say a word.
"What's wrong?" He Zhizhi walked over and asked.
The player turned pale with fright and struggled to utter a word.
"ghost."
There is a ghost in the river.
After that, he waited for a long time before telling them what happened.
She was washing clothes just now when a hand suddenly stretched out from the river and grabbed her ankle tightly, almost dragging her to the bottom of the river. She had to use a prop to escape from the ghost's hand.
Several players' faces turned pale.
Everyone has experienced three or four dungeons, so they naturally believe in her words.
The fate of being dragged into the river is self-evident, but the clothes must be washed.
Except for Jiang Yao and Li Yu, other players did not dare to go near the river.
Li Yu was even more scared, but Jiang Yao didn't move, and neither did she.
"She violated the Smoke River Code."
Jiang Yao said.
Li Yu later recalled that when he arrived at the river, he saw a stone tablet standing next to it with the code written on it.
【Yanhe Code:
1. Dragon girls live in the Yanhe River. Please do not throw garbage into the river.
2. You can only wash clothes on the stone stairs.
3. Please do not go near the Yanhe River after dark.
4. Please do not stay alone in Yanhe.
5. Please do not swim or fish in the water!
6. Do not look at the Yanhe River for more than one minute. Remember, there is a dragon girl in the Yanhe River! 】
Li Yu suddenly realized.
The most important rules in the dungeon must be followed, otherwise death conditions will be triggered.
The player failed to comply and triggered the death condition.
Jiang Yao is very curious about the 'Dragon Girl'.
Fifty years ago, the village was still Yanhe Village. There was a flood. The Dragon Girl came and saved all the villagers from the disaster. The villagers believe in the dragon girl, but they prefer boys over girls.
The people who come to wash clothes at the river are all young girls, the oldest are twelve or thirteen years old and the youngest are six or seven years old.
The last sentence of Yanhe's code is also very strange, 'Do not look at Yanhe for more than one minute', 'Remember, there is a dragon girl in Yanhe'.
He looked both respectful and fearful.
Of course it wouldn't help the mission no matter how much she thought about it.
It's enough to play a good role. She doesn't need to know the secrets of this village.
"Hurry up and wash your hands, otherwise you will be beaten severely when you go back." Jiang Yao said.
Li Yu, who was still afraid of the ghost hands in the river, heard this and suddenly thought of their 'mother' waiting for them at home, and trembled with fear.
She didn't dare to stop anymore and started washing clothes faster.
In less than half an hour, they finished washing all the clothes for a family of five.
Just as he was about to leave, the player who was almost dragged into the river by ghost hands encountered an unexpected incident.
"Ah! Help, help!!"
The status and family she played was not much better than that of Jiang Yao and Li Yu. She got up one minute late in the morning and received a severe beating.
Seriously injured, she spent half of her savings to buy medicine at the mall, and was able to barely heal her injuries.
When washing clothes this time, she was afraid of ghost hands in the river, and even more afraid of her original 'parents'.
The strong desire to survive made her persist in washing a large tub of clothes.
When she was about to go back, she was attracted by a sound. When she reacted, the person had been dragged into the bottom of the river.
The cold river water was above her head. She finally surfaced and shouted for help, only to find that the water was getting hotter and hotter.
