Absurd Deduction Game

Chapter 20 The village chief is in the biggest house in the village

The setting sun casts golden light on this mountain village between two mountains.

Yu Xing's painter character also looks like a fashion-conscious person. His white clothes are furry, his round collar is wide open, his sleeves almost cover his fingers, his lower body is in tight jeans and white sneakers, and he carries an easel and other tools behind his back. He is very delicate. .

　　Although it is not a very serious dress, it is the kind that some young girls like most nowadays. At this time, the sun is hitting his body, and Yu Xing only feels warm, as if he is a ball of cotton sheep.

 It’s so warm~

The movement between him and the girl naturally attracted the attention of the remaining three people. The three people cast their eyes over, and their eyes collided in mid-air. They read the same message to each other - taking the opportunity to exchange information and let the characters know each other.

 The girl ran over at a trot.

Yu Xing followed and walked over. He saw that the curly-haired woman and a middle-aged man in his thirties were together. The girl could also see it, so the girl asked curiously: "What happened to those two people just now? Why not Let you in?"

"Hmph, maybe there is something wrong with my brain. I have to say that I am a Feng Shui master, but there is something wrong with the Feng Shui here. They didn't go in by themselves." The curly-haired woman sneered, but after expressing her dissatisfaction with the two people, she still said politely The girl and Yu Xing nodded, "Hello, let me introduce you. I am Xiao Xuechen. I am here for a trip. This is my colleague."

The man in his thirties smiled: "My name is Wei Fan, and I am an engineer. You can just call me Wei Gong."

They are really in a team, which means that this is not the first time these two people have played this kind of game. The two men who went in first looked similar, they were probably brothers and they were also in a team... Yu Xing muttered to himself.

There was a hint of worry on the girl's round face. She was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her acting skills were quite natural: "My name is Ju Lan, and I'm here to see someone. Two days ago, my boyfriend told his classmates that they would come to Guanjiacun to play. , and later, we lost contact. I didn’t dare to tell his parents, after all, we were in puppy love... Oh, by the way, this handsome guy and I met on the road, no, we didn’t come together..."

Hearing this, Xiao Xuechen, Wei Fan and the gray-blue-haired young man all looked at Yu Xing. The young man was playing with a palm-sized paper doll that he didn't know where it came from. He didn't know whether he wore contact lenses or was born with it. It turned out to be a beautiful and clear blue color. The corners of his lips curved: "Hello, who are you?"

"My name is San, I'm a painter. I was invited by fans to come here to collect pictures." Yu Xing responded with a slightly awkward smile. His character said that he was "indifferent", but he didn't like it. Indifference would hinder his performance. He just wanted to Pick out other people in the indifference.

As soon as he finished speaking, the young man said "Oh?" with great interest.

“I was also invited by a fan, what a coincidence.” The young man was alone. His flashy jacket and ripped trousers did not conflict with his temperament. Instead, they matched well together, giving people a sense of visual escape.

His tone was also lazy. When others were arguing just now, he was standing by with his pockets in his pocket to watch the fun.

Now, he stretched out his voice and turned his eyes around. He seemed to be in a good mood: "Guess, what do I do?"

"How can you guess this?" Xiao Xuechen flipped up her hair. She was actually very young, only in her early twenties, but she dressed more maturely, and her voice sounded like a queen, with her own aura, "Is she a star?"

"No~" The young man stretched out his index finger and shook it, looking at Yu Xing expectantly.

"The fingers are slender and white, but there are obvious calluses on the fingertips and sides of the knuckles. The rhythm of speaking is maintained at a rhythm that attracts attention but is not offensive, which shows that you have strong control over the conversation." Yu Xing was very happy. He answered the young man cooperatively and took half a step back, as if he was not confident, "Your job is related to this. Combined with your expression control, I guess, I guess you are a magician."

"Awesome!" The young man opened his eyes unexpectedly, "As expected of a painter, his observation of people is terrible..."

After praising Yu Xing until he almost blushed, the young man said to the others: "Carlos, the magician."

"Nice to meet you." Xiao Xuechen and Wei Fan nodded politely to him, and at the same time took a second look at Yu Xing, who showed quite a lot of reasoning ability.

He seems to be a person who is not very good at getting along with others, a bit shy, but has good reasoning ability...

Yu Xing was well aware of their appraisals, and remained calm on the surface, thinking secretly in his heart: magicians, painters, engineers, women with uncertain careers, students, and two guys who claimed to be Feng Shui masters...these professions It’s so complicated, it can’t be—he’s the only one who’s new, right?

Thinking of this, he did not forget his mission and said: "Well, since we all know each other, let's go into the village?"

It was already getting late. What he had to do now was to find Zhou Yongsheng, who invited him, and find a villager's house to stay for one night under his arrangement.

As for the others, although they are deducers and half companions, they do not necessarily have to act together before confirming their true intention.

Several people walked towards the village one after another. When they got closer, they could see a wooden sign standing at the entrance of the village.

 The wooden sign has aged, and the fonts on it are blurry, but two words can be vaguely discerned: Coffin Village.

"Coffin Village? Isn't it Guanjia Village?" Ju Lan's doubtful voice sounded in the silence. Before anyone else could say anything, they heard a cough coming from the village.

 “Cough cough cough…”

 A large locust tree was planted at the entrance of the village. A rickety figure stepped out from the shadow of the locust tree. Yu Xing raised his eyes and saw that it was an old man.

The old man's clothes are shabby and he is hunched over. His sparse white hair and wrinkles on his face show that he is old.

"Young man, ahem...what are you doing in our village?" The hoarse voice was grainy and heavy, with more air coming out than in. Yu Xing felt as if he was going to drive away from Hexi in the next second.

Ju Lan quickly stepped forward and said, "Grandpa, I'm here to find someone!"

"Looking for someone?" After hearing this, the old man walked over step by step on crutches, and tremblingly, he came up to Ju Lan and looked at her, but his eyes didn't look like he was looking at her normally, but as if he was looking at something else. …

Anyway, Ju Lan got goosebumps instantly.

"Old man, we all have our own things to do. We want to enter the village. Look - can you tell us where the village chief is?" Xiao Xuechen stepped forward and pulled Ju Lan back, widening the distance between him and the old man. He was polite. Exuding caution. "Looking for the village chief?" The old man's unique voice was like scraping glass. It sounded uncomfortable, as if he was trying to squeeze the anger out of his throat, "The village chief...the village chief..."

He "villaged" for a long time. When several people thought he couldn't remember, he said quietly: "The village chief is in the biggest house in the village..."

Following the old man's words, a gust of wind blew for no apparent reason. Yu Xing opened her collar wide and shivered in the cold.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but the sun completely set into the mountains at this moment. The warm sunset disappeared completely, leaving only the darkened sky, and the atmosphere became depressing in vain.

"Okay, thank you, we'd better go look for it ourselves." Sensing something was wrong with the old man, Wei Fan stood up and winked at Xiao Xuechen. Xiao Xuechen understood and said as if he was familiar with them: "Let's go to the village first to find the village. Chief, let the village chief arrange accommodation for us."

"Okay~ We are all exhausted." Carlos spoke skillfully and put a hand on Yu Xing's shoulder, "Come on, let's go in!"

Yu Xing nodded obediently and entered the village with the others.

At present, it seems that Xiao Xuechen will protect Ju Lan, who is also a girl, and Wei Fan and Carlos will also take care of others, which is good.

 This is his first time playing an investigator-type deduction game. He doesn’t know yet what kind of interests the players have in this kind of deduction, so he can just go along with it for the time being.

The scenery in the village is somewhat desolate. The houses are old-fashioned bungalows with tiled roofs. The white walls have become black and moldy due to wind and rain. The peeling wall ash accumulates on the ground, and even large pieces of wall shells have fallen off.

The ground is full of potholes and overgrown with weeds. It seems that no one has cleaned it.

Walking along the path into the village, I didn’t see a single villager along the way.

 It’s too quiet.

Yu Xing seemed to feel something, and looked back from a distance, only to see that the old man's figure had disappeared by the locust tree at the entrance of the village, and he didn't know where he went.

“Why is there no one here?” Ju Lan muttered to herself, looking a little uneasy.

"I don't know. Let's find the village chief first." Wei Fan comforted Ju Lan, and then remembered something, "Hey, Carlos, San, do you know any villagers? Didn't you say that the fans invited you here? Can the fans contact me?”

"Hey, you think I don't want to do it, Mr. Wei." Carlos scratched his gray-blue hair, "There's no signal, I haven't seen this fan before, and it seems he doesn't like me much, so he didn't even come to greet me. ”

Yu Xing had a thought in his mind and asked unconsciously: "Is your fan called Zhou Yongsheng?"

“Yo! Isn’t it? We have the same fan?” Carlos’s reaction confirmed Yu Xing’s guess. They looked at each other, but Ju Lan exclaimed:

 “Zhou Yongsheng!?”

 “What’s wrong?” Realizing that the first key point was coming, Yu Xing looked towards her.

“Zhou Yongsheng is my boyfriend’s classmate. It was that classmate who suggested the last time they came to Guanjiacun. I...” Ju Lan’s face turned pale, “Isn’t he a liar?”

 The five people stopped in the middle of the road and looked at each other. Carlos narrowed his eyes and repeated with interest: "...liar?"

"It seems that you have some issues to deal with." Xiao Xuechen paid attention to them. She guessed that the initial tasks of the seven deducers should be divided into three groups. She and Wei Fan came to see the village chief. These three people were Find a villager named Zhou Yongsheng, and there are two men, who probably have other ideas.

She pointed to a dilapidated house that looked a little grand and asked Wei Fan: "Wei Gong, is that the village chief's house?"

"Maybe, let's knock on the door." Wei Fan nodded, and when he walked towards the room, he found that everyone else was following him.

 “You?” Xiao Xuechen asked curiously.

“Anyway, Zhou Yongsheng didn’t show up, so I wanted to ask the village chief where he lives.” Yu Xing’s face didn’t change, and Ju Lan and Carlos also meant the same.

Nonsense, if there was a village chief, they wouldn’t have to look for targets one by one. It would be so convenient to just ask!

 Soon, Wei Fan knocked on the door.

The door opened, and a middle-aged man with a square face came out. When the middle-aged man saw them, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled enthusiastically: "How many of them are from the city?"

"Yes, are you the village chief of Guanjia Village?" Xiao Xuechen showed a decent and friendly smile, and the sense of distance in her body was suddenly diluted.

"Yes, yes, are you here for tourism like the two just now?" The middle-aged village chief was much more cheerful than expected. He hurriedly turned sideways and said, "Come on, come on, come on, tell me, the two of you just now are also here. It’s inside, hahaha, it’s been a long time since we’ve had so many guests, we just want to have dinner at my house.”

“Yeah, I’m really sorry for not saying hello in advance, then I’ll trouble the village chief.” Xiao Xuechen had no choice but to thank the village chief on behalf of everyone, and the five of them entered the village chief’s house together.

The village chief's house is not small. There is a small courtyard as soon as you enter. The aroma of food comes from the kitchen on the left. The two men Yu Xing saw at the entrance of the village were sitting at the big table in the courtyard waiting to eat. They saw a group of people. The people came in and the two nodded to them.

 The dispute is caused by the system, and they don’t really want to break away from the group!

"Come on, come on, sit down, just put the things you are carrying next to you. I'll say hello to my mother-in-law and ask her to cook more, hahahaha... The house hasn't been so lively for a long time!" The village chief asked them to sit down, and then Went to the kitchen.

There were seven people sitting in the courtyard, but there was always an eerie atmosphere.

 (End of this chapter)