"Well, of course I know about this!" As Su Lin responded, he secretly wondered. No wonder Cheng Jinghui needs to get married every year. Is it because he was not assimilated by the lizard monster, so he thought of a way to suppress the assimilation?
But, can this method really work, or is the current Cheng Jinghui still the original Cheng Jinghui?
He quietly focused the original power of "Doctor Xunmu" into his eyes. Under his vision, Cheng Jinghui's entire body was emitting a dark light, and his vitality was extremely strong, which was very different from the previous condition of the toothless old man.
Sure enough there is a problem! He quietly connected with the sea of consciousness and gathered the power of white flames and thunderwood in his palm. Once any trouble is discovered, he will attack quickly, but he still said calmly:
"Hui'er, my father has taken all the hardships you have endured in recent years into my heart, but there is no way to kidnap a woman like this. Moreover, this matter has already spread to the capital. If I hadn't used some means to suppress it, Do you think you can really enjoy yourself so freely in this small town?"
When Cheng Jinghui heard Su Lin's words and saw that he didn't suspect him, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but his face still pretended to be angry: "Dad, do you think I kidnapped women just for my own enjoyment?"
As he spoke, he suddenly tore open his chest and exposed his arms in front of Su Lin. The dry black skin that resembled tree bark spread from his arms to his chest, and then extended straight from his chest to his neck, and even Even Cheng Jinghui's cheeks were covered with dense black lines.
"Every midnight, I am tortured to death by these inexplicable bark-like things. Don't I want to live like a normal person? Don't I want to live in the sun like everyone else?
Why, why did I pick up that thing, and said that I should either put that ring on the bride and kill the bride, or put it on myself... If I hadn't been trying to protect those brides, how could I have ended up in this situation! "
He roared at the top of his lungs, but in Su Lin's opinion, maybe he just didn't pay attention to the instructions on the iron ring when he picked it up. Otherwise, given the huge size of Cheng's house, he could just marry a maid to set her up. Just get on the hoop.
Su Lin never believed that Cheng Jinghui, who was now full of gloomy temperament, would then be a person full of kindness.
He paced in the main hall and looked out the window again, with a regretful but embarrassed look on his face: "Hui'er, I've suffered a lot for you these years."
Su Lin deliberately patted the other party's shoulder to show comfort, but when he saw the other party's vigilant eyes, he lowered his raised hand and just said: "Take me to see the bride. Do you want to know his family?" Take care of it and don’t cause any more trouble.”
Seeing that the tone of Cheng Yaojin played by Su Lin was a little looser, Cheng Jinghui also said with relief: "Dad, don't worry, I have taken care of these things a long time ago and will never cause you any trouble. Besides, after tonight After that, maybe you won’t need to go to such trouble in the future.”
Cheng Jinghui just said briefly. As for why there was no need to go to such trouble in the future, Su Lin wanted to know, but the other party had no intention of communicating in depth.
When Su Lin asked again, Cheng Jinghui's eyes suddenly became wary.
In order to avoid exposing his flaws, he had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart and follow Cheng Jinghui towards the bride's room.
According to local customs, the father-in-law must not see the bride the night before the wedding, but for some unknown reason, Cheng Jinghui agreed to his request in a daze.
Maybe in his opinion, he just wanted to see what the bride looked like. Maybe after seeing her, he felt even more pity for her and just wanted to be more considerate.
And if it is not shown to Su Lin, if there is any conflict again, it will be even more detrimental to his subsequent devouring plan.
But from Su Lin's point of view, it seemed that Cheng Jinghui didn't know much about human customs. He just deceived him and he agreed without thinking.
So, the two of them walked through several corridors in succession, and under the leadership of several maids, passed through the lotus pond in the mansion, and then appeared in front of a deep and lonely room covered with wedding silk.
He looked around, waved his hand to dismiss the maids beside him, and then said to Su Lin:
"Dad, this is the room of the second daughter of the Wang family. It's a coincidence that the eldest daughter who sells cakes was also married in this room.
"And what's even more coincidental is that the birth dates of these two daughters are actually the same as the yin moon and yin time. If it hadn't been swallowed...if the eldest daughter hadn't told me, I wouldn't know what happened now."
Cheng Jinghui suddenly realized that he would miss the mark if he spoke too much. The words he was about to say stopped at his lips and stopped uttering.
"Okay, this is indeed your chance. Since you married her daughter, you must make arrangements for the old man in her family."
Su Lin felt sad. The fate of both sisters was so miserable. He didn't know if he had the ability to change it.
"Don't worry, you've said it twice tonight, I will take care of that old man." An evil smile flashed across Cheng Jinghui's lips.
"Really? As people get older, they become more confused. Even their compassion becomes more abundant. After all, they are no longer the same people they were when they were young."
Su Lin also said that he had a flaw, and hurriedly smoothed things over, and then said: "Let's go, Hui'er, come with me to meet the bride."
"Okay, dad, please go ahead." For some reason, Su Lin's mental power allowed him to notice that the other party seemed to be retreating intentionally, and he took a defensive posture.
"Could there be any accidents in the house?" After seeing Cheng Jinghui's appearance, he also released his mental power in advance to prepare for any danger that might arise at any time.
He originally intended to let Cheng Jinghui go first, because today was her wedding after all, and even as his father, it seemed unreasonable both emotionally and rationally to enter his room directly without the groom's guidance.
But after being frozen for a long time, with no intention of moving, Su Lin opened the door and walked in.
When he entered the door, he vaguely felt a slight resistance at the door frame, but when he pushed forward hard, he pushed in easily.
After he entered, Su Lin saw Cheng Jinghui's steps following suit, but after waiting for a moment, there was no sign of anyone else entering. Instead, the door that Su Lin had originally pushed open suddenly closed.
After realizing that something was wrong, Su Lin immediately returned to the door and tried to push it out, but the resistance that had appeared vaguely before appeared again, and was dozens of times stronger than before. This force backfired and hit him hard. Bounced his body out.
As he landed on the ground, he vaguely heard Cheng Jinghui's voice: "Dad, for some reasons I can't accompany you in. You can just play in there for a while, and I will let you out after a while. "
"Cheng Jinghui, you are so presumptuous, how dare you play tricks on me." Su Lin shouted out the window several times, but the other party did not respond.
Could it be that some previous step aroused his suspicion, so he was imprisoned here?
Su Lin thought about it carefully, but found that apart from saying a few more words to Old Man Wang, there seemed to be no other gaffes.
And from beginning to end, Cheng Jinghui seemed to be in awe of him and saw no signs of anything wrong.
Did he just say that he was going to be let out after midnight? Could it be that he was taking advantage of this time to devour Old Man Wang's second daughter?
While Su Lin was thinking, he looked at the nearby doors and windows, and pushed them out hard, but there was no sign that they could be pushed open.
After about fifty breaths, he gave up the idea of escaping through the doors and windows, and instead looked at other furnishings in the house. Maybe there were hidden compartments or secret rooms in the house that he could use to escape.
After lifting the covering curtain, the first thing that comes into view is a dressing mirror covered by water vapor. There are wooden combs, shoes, hairpins, a corset strap and a pink handkerchief quietly placed in front of the mirror. on the table.
Su Lin walked slowly to the table, picked up the white chest strap and wiped it slightly against the hazy mirror. Suddenly, a woman's figure slowly appeared on the hazy mirror.
He was startled, and when he quickly turned his head to look back, there was no one behind him, and a cold feeling came straight from his back.
Immediately after he wiped the mirror, the thin water vapor slowly condensed on it. Su Lin lightly scratched it with his finger a few times, and the red figure appeared again.
He looked around with his mental power and found no signs of life other than himself in the surrounding rooms.
"How could this happen? Are you trapped in a separate space? Or is there someone hiding in here?"
Su Lin thought there were two explanations for the scene he just saw in the mirror. One was that the instructor let him know the bride's current situation through the mirror.
The other is that the bride is hiding in the mirror or hiding somewhere in the room, but he cannot find it due to the rules of the game.
He touched the collar in his cuffs, and couldn't help but recall the words that came to mind when he first touched the collar or iron ring:
[Congratulations to the player for finding the bride-to-be’s collar. At this moment, the bride has lost her collar and is being locked in a secret room by the owner of the Cheng Mansion. She is anxiously waiting for the lost collar...]
When entering this world for the first time, the tasks issued by the instructor were:
[Please find the necklace worn by the bride within two days and roll it for a week. 】
When he first entered the town, the bride appeared in the town and passed by him, but at that time he had no iron ring and could not complete the task.
At this moment, Su Lin found the iron ring and successfully entered the Cheng Mansion. He was trapped in a house and the bride was missing. With the iron ring but without the bride, he still could not complete the task.
Previously, when I touched the iron ring, it indicated that the bride was being locked in a secret room. Could it be understood that the instructor or Cheng Jinghui had hidden the bride?
But the possibility of the latter hiding the bride does not seem very likely. According to Su Lin's analysis, it is more likely that he, like himself, would not discover the bride's hiding place before getting married.
Cheng Jinghui had mentioned the time of midnight to himself many times before, and even Iron Huan and Toothless Old Man had also mentioned this time. Presumably, they must have been restricted by some kind of rules before this.
The next day will be after midnight, which is why it is said that he will be given two days to pass the level, but in fact it is only one day.
But this restriction creates conditions for him to break through the barrier and discover the traces of the bride before midnight. Once the real midnight arrives, it means that his breakthrough is over.
"We must find the person in the mirror as soon as possible." He looked at the sky outside the window. There was still more than an hour before midnight.
