Sick beauty loses horse in thriller game

Chapter 581 Pingguling 40
Of course, they will not forget to check the progress of side quests.

When they found that the progress of side quest one had indeed reached 6/10, they finally felt relieved and took a rest.

The players took advantage of the time to catch up on two hours of sleep, gathered in Jiang Lai and Li Wei's room, and after having breakfast, went to the school in the village.

Although it did not rain this morning, the sky was still covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, which was so gloomy that the surroundings were dim and filled with a damp atmosphere, as if a violent storm might hit at any time.

Such an environment makes people feel depressed.

Jiang Lai followed Lu Zhou out of the courtyard gate, feeling vaguely uneasy.

She raised her head, glanced at the gloomy sky, suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and walked all the way to the village school with others.

Along the way, they didn't see any people, neither adults, nor monsters disguised as children, nor even the guardian cows raised by each household.

The whole village was silent, as if it was a corner forgotten by the world.

"Why is the village so quiet today..." Lu Zhou said.

Although he also noticed something was wrong, he was not afraid and was even in the mood to joke with others.

"Could it be that we killed so many people last night that we scared all the monsters in the village and made them dare not come out?"

They walked all the way to the village school, but were surprised to find that the school was empty!
None of Xingwang’s group of old monsters disguised as children were there!

Jiang Lai and his friends waited in the school for a quarter of an hour, but still no one showed up.

"Captain, what should we do now?" Lu Zhou asked.

Jiang Lai narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice: "As a qualified teacher, when students are absent from class, of course I have to visit their homes one by one and give them homework full of care, so that they can feel the warmth and beauty of this world."

"Let's go, starting from the family of the children closest to here...the monster's house, and look for them one by one to see what's going on with them." Jiang Lai said.

The house closest to the school is Niu Shoucai's.

This child, like Xingwang, is nine years old. He is usually taciturn and appears very low-key and inconspicuous among a group of children.

The reason why Jiang Lai and his friends chose to go to Niu Shoucai's house first was not only because their house was the closest to the school, but also because, in the early hours of the morning, the players did not take advantage of the dark moon and high wind to visit Niu Shoucai's house.

So their family's guardian ox and the half-human, half-bull monster sacrifice are still there, and the ox that guards wealth should also be fine.

The players are ready to go over and see if they can find any valuable clues.

When they arrived at Niu Shoucai's house, they knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. Jiang Lai even asked Jixiang and Miss Yan Yurong to sneak into Niu Shoucai's yard to check the situation, but they found that there was no one at home.

"Since there's no one here, why don't we take this opportunity to eliminate the half-man, half-bull monster sacrifice in Niu Shoucai's house first. That way, we don't have to run out again tonight and take advantage of the dark night..."

As Lu Zhou spoke, he pulled up his personal dashboard, but his tone of voice changed instantly due to his surprise. "Hey, my personal dashboard... my side quest 1... this... what's going on?!"

After hearing what Lu Zhou said, the others immediately became nervous and called up their own personal dashboards to check the situation.

Jiang Lai frowned and found that the data of the side mission 6 on his personal panel was still the same as yesterday, a normal 10/. However, the numerical part turned gray.

After asking the system, the players realized that this meant that the task was temporarily locked and needed to be activated before it could be completed.

"Why is our side quest one suddenly locked, and how do we activate it?" Zhen Zhen asked with a frown.

No one answered her question, and the system did not respond either.

"Let's go to other people's homes to see what's going on." Jiang Lai said.

They went to the homes of several children, and even to the home of the deceased Tiedan and the village chief, but they did not see anyone in the village, nor did they find any valuable clues.

The others all frowned, but Jiang Lai vaguely felt that the surrounding environment... seemed to be a little different from what she remembered, but she couldn't tell exactly what was different.

Because no matter where you go, there is no sense of incongruity in the surrounding environment, as if it was supposed to be that way.

As he was walking, Jiang Lai suddenly stopped and turned to look at Lu Zhou beside him.

"The carvings on this door... were they originally like this?" she asked suddenly.

"Ah? Carvings? What carvings? Is there something wrong with carvings? I didn't even notice them..." Lu Zhou said puzzledly. As he spoke, he looked around, trying to find the carvings that Jiang Lai mentioned.

"No, something is wrong here!" Jiang Lai and Hu Zhiguo said in unison.

"Ah, what's wrong? Did you two find anything?" Zhen Zhen asked quickly.

Like Lu Zhou, she looked around while asking, but didn't find anything wrong.

"The surrounding environment has changed. It is changing from the state when we just entered this copy to a more retro style. Judging from the architectural style, it has been advanced at least three hundred years." Jiang Lai replied.

It was after she noticed something was wrong that she was reminded by Xiao Ai, and then she discovered more things that were wrong. Based on Xiao Ai's reminder, she determined the specific year when the environment changed.

"This kind of change is more like a slow integration like a frog in boiling water. Coupled with the slowly appearing changes, it is more in line with the style of the bluestone paved streets, the old buildings on the streets, and even the entire Pingguling Village. It gives people a very harmonious feeling, as it should be. So, it is difficult for us to notice it." Jiang Lai said.

Ever since she went out this morning, she had a vague feeling that everything around her seemed a little wrong.

I didn’t expect it was because the whole environment had changed.

"This place is very much like the other world, but it is also different. Because everything here is slowly changing, just like... we want to make Pingguling Village return to what it was three hundred years ago..."