"I like her. I don't know why, but I have a feeling that I am very close to this child. I like her very much. If I have a child in the future, I want one like this." As she spoke, Karen's face suddenly turned red, and she glanced at Wang Chen from time to time.
"What's wrong? Kallen?"
"Nothing...nothing! I'll go check on the little girl!" Karen said this and hurriedly passed by Wang Chen. Wang Chen shook his head and went to the kitchen. He was going to prepare dinner for the three big eaters.
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"Wow... I can't wait to eat your cooking again, Chen!" Karen grabbed a chicken leg and started tasting it. While eating, she said, "It's my favorite sweet flower-stuffed chicken~ But Chen, you made a lot of weird rice balls, and what are these desserts? I've never seen them before. Especially this pink thing. It looks so good."
Kallen asked, pointing at the plate of pink flakes on the dining table.
"This is Sakura Shrimp Senbei. I saw a lot of cherry blossom petals around here, so I just used local ingredients. Those various kinds of rice balls are actually sushi. This is the rice ball. Well, but in a broad sense, they are all the same thing," Wang Chen said as he handed the rice balls to the three girls.
"How amazing... Although this is the first time I've eaten rice balls made by someone else, I've always been quite confident in the rice balls I made before. It's only after I officially ate the rice balls made by others that I realized there are always people better than them." Yaezakura took a light bite, said with surprise in her eyes.
"It's not that exaggerated. Just enjoy it." Wang Chen said, and then noticed that Theresa beside him started eating without any hesitation. After all, Theresa had long been accustomed to the food in Wang Chen's house.
"But... I only have rice, grains and some side dishes at home. Where did you find the ingredients for this chicken and those desserts? It seems that there are no such things in the village. I feel that these things must be very valuable." Yaezakura asked puzzledly.
"Oh, these are just the ingredients we brought with us, from different areas." Wang Chen said slowly, "It's okay, Miss Yaesakura, just think of these as our reward for saving your life, just accept them with peace of mind."
"Chen...Chen, aren't you going to deal with that bear?" Karin poked Wang Chen's thigh, then pointed at the bear in the courtyard and asked.
"WoC Lianzi sister, you are really not picky. You even eat Honkai beasts?" After saying that, Wang Chen flicked Kallen's head and said, "Don't say such things next time. Is it appropriate to eat Honkai beasts?"
“Hehe… I just saw that the bear was mostly corroded by the Honkai, there were still a lot of flesh and blood parts.” Kallen scratched his head and said.
"Offering this monster as a sacrifice should be enough." Yaezakura stared at the bear in the courtyard in a daze, muttering quietly to herself.
Chapter 93: Clergy
After having enough wine and food, several people started to prepare for a rest, but Wang Chen did not plan to rest, after all, he still had two things to deal with. The first was to explore what kind of changes would happen to Yae Village at night. After all, he had seen those rules, and Wang Chen wanted to know what would happen if all those rules were broken.
The second one was naturally the information from Lin's spirit. He wanted to meet Lin at night to see what was going on. So he explained to Karin and persuaded her to let him go around Yae Village alone in exchange for a promise. Then Wang Chen immediately walked out of the house.
But not long after Wang Chen walked out, a small hand grabbed Wang Chen.
"Captain Wang Chen, there is a situation here." It was Theresa. Theresa brought Wang Chen to her room.
"What's wrong? Is there any problem?" At this moment, Wang Chen had temporarily terminated the synchronization link with Theresa, so Wang Chen asked directly.
"It's here, here." After Theresa opened the cupboard, Wang Chen noticed a piece of clergy clothing and a fox mask, and a note beside it. Wang Chen's heart moved, and then he went forward to pick up the note and saw it. Sure enough! It was another new rule, and the content on it was as follows:
Rules for Shrine Apprentice Clergy:
1. With the consent of any one of the shrine maiden, chief priest, or god, you can become an apprentice priest of a shrine and your status will change.
2. When you are ready to perform your duties as a priest, be sure to wear appropriate clothing and a fox mask.
3. During the day and at night, people can wear clothes according to their own needs, but when performing sacrifices at night on sacrificial days, they must wear clergy clothes.
4. The clergy have the duty to maintain the sacrifice and the dignity of the gods. The clergy are qualified to punish those who disrespect the gods.
5. The clergy need to check the offerings paid by the villagers. When there is a mistake or omission in the payment, they should catch the person and bring him to the shrine, where someone will take him away.
6. After nightfall, when clergymen patrol the village, please remember to bring the little fox with you.
7. When you patrol a house and find a foreign object knocking on or turning off the lights, use the little fox to drive it away.
8. When you are patrolling and see someone carrying a doll, please move away from him immediately.
9. When you are patrolling and find a villager leaving his home, take him to the shrine and someone will take him away.
10. On the day of the high sacrifice, listen to God’s voice and carry out His commands.
"It's endless, isn't it? Why do these two guys make so many rules? I've been running around all day today, and apart from Theresa and I, I didn't see any other outsiders." Wang Chen couldn't help but curse after reading it.
"Ah? What's going on?" Theresa was very surprised and didn't understand why Wang Chen suddenly said this.
"Synchronize link." Wang Chen said nothing and directly connected with Theresa again. He played all the rules he had seen before to Theresa and told her his own speculations.
"You mean... this world is a world that reincarnates every three days, and almost the same things happen in each reincarnation. And those rules are the rules of the game set by the two Herrschers? And these are also related to the students of Yu Academy?" Theresa asked.
"That's right. The reason I made this speculation is that when I was in Yae Village before, I heard a guy who was obviously not from this world talking about reincarnation and hoping that the miko would die. From this, it can be inferred that the other party must have gone through at least one round of reincarnation." Wang Chen said thoughtfully.
"Actually, you hope that Miss Miko dies? What kind of thing did Miss Miko do to make a student say such a thing. Although the vixen in reality is not that good, Miss Miko in this world looks pretty good... Could it be that Teriri was fooled by her acting again?" Theresa said in shock.
"Yae Sakura is the key to this world, I'm sure of that. There's no doubt about that. Please keep these rules for now, Principal. It looks like I have to take you out and try out the information in these rules." Wang Chen said.
"You mean... let me change into this outfit? Okay, you go out first, I need to change into this outfit." Theresa frowned, then drove Wang Chen out of the room and changed clothes alone in there.
"Has Theresa forgotten that we are now in a connected state, and her perspective can be transmitted to me in real time. Forget it, I'll interrupt her perspective." Wang Chen leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and waited for Theresa to change her clothes.
But not long after, the sliding door opened again, and Theresa, wearing red and white clothes, with a fox mask on her head and a huge red bow tied around her waist, walked out.
"You haven't changed your clothes at all?" Wang Chen said after looking at Theresa's clothes.
"Because I found that the clothes in the closet are almost exactly the same as the one I'm wearing. In that case, there's no need to waste time changing clothes. Let's go, Captain." Theresa said as she walked out of the house first.
Wang Chen naturally followed closely behind.
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"Well, the rules say that I need to bring a little fox with me before I can start my normal life, but where is my little fox?" After leaving the shrine, Theresa first tried putting on the fox mask and found nothing unusual. Then she looked around but didn't see the fox she wanted for a long time.
Wang Chen, who was standing by, picked up the golden-haired doll that he had placed outside in the evening from the stone, put it on his shoulder, and then said, "Let's go. Maybe there is a conflict with the doll on my shoulder. In this game, dolls and foxes are obviously two camps. If you choose one, you can't choose the other."
"Is it still like this?" Theresa was speechless, but she recalled the rules that Wang Chen had shown her before, and it was indeed the case. So she had no choice but to follow Wang Chen in dismay and said, "Then as a clergyman, I can't do anything at night, right?"
"Why do we have to stick to the rules? The main reason why we act according to the rules is to collect intelligence. Besides, without the little fox, we can't drive away those so-called foreign objects? Principal, you have been connected with me for so long, can't you lift the knife?" Wang Chen said with a smile.
"Yes, I almost got caught up in these complicated rules." Theresa nodded, gave up the idea of continuing to look for the little fox, and followed Wang Chen down the mountain. The journey was relatively easy, without any unexpected situations. The two of them quickly walked down the stairs and came to a bamboo forest area. The wind blew the bamboo leaves, and the whole bamboo forest made a rustling sound, which made people feel particularly terrified.
"Wait...something's going on." Wang Chen stopped Theresa and took her into the bamboo forest. Not long after, a few footsteps were heard and a group of people wearing clerical clothes came over. They wore fox masks, which covered their appearances, so it was impossible to tell each other's identities. They were holding a little fox in their arms.
"From their looks, it seems like they just finished the inspection and went back to the shrine..." Theresa said through telepathy.
"We'll go out again after they all leave... huh?" Wang Chen was just about to arrange the next move when he suddenly noticed that the person at the end of the team was getting slower and slower, and finally stopped, then turned around and started running towards the village.
"What's going on? Why did it suddenly change direction and run towards the village? Did it drop something?" Theresa said after seeing this scene.
"Let's go, let's follow him, maybe we will make some new discoveries. Be careful not to be noticed by the other party." Wang Chen did not return to the main road, but chose to continue staying in the bamboo forest, using the cover of the bamboo forest to track the clergyman whose movements were strange.
Chapter 94: Imaginary Numbers Make the Body
At this moment, Theresa and Wang Chen were hiding at two large rocks outside the village entrance, observing the strange clergyman. After seeing him enter the village, Theresa said:
"It entered the village. It had clearly come out of the village before, so why is it going back now?"
"Theresa, have you noticed any difference between this clergyman and those before him?" Wang Chen suddenly asked.
"Different... except for turning his head, there seems to be no difference. He's wearing the costume, the mask, and holding the little fox in his arms... wait! Where's the little fox?" After continuously screening according to the requirements of the rules, Theresa noticed that the other person was not holding the little fox in his arms.
"Keep watching. Logically, if you want to drive away those foreign creatures at night, you need to bring the little fox with you. But the other party is so fearless... It's going to be a good show. By the way, this is for you."
Then, Wang Chen handed something to Theresa. After Theresa took it, she was stunned and asked, "Where did you find this telescope?"
"Don't ask. If you ask, I can open my storage space even here. Otherwise, where do you think all the ingredients for dinner tonight came from?"
Wang Chen didn't take the telescope. After all, he had the system's built-in tactical eyepiece, which was enough to observe the situation in the distance. So he continued, "When I was tracking the villagers before, several villagers suddenly disappeared in a way I didn't understand. There may be some means of movement in this village that I don't know about."
"However, no matter what means of transportation you use, you always need to go to a destination. Now, there is only one clergyman in the entire village. Theresa, you go to the highest point of the village and help me keep an eye on the other party's position. The maximum length of the synchronous link thread can span the entire Changkong City, so it is not a problem for such a small village." Wang Chen said.
"I see. Then I'll climb up to the roof from the other side." Theresa nodded and said.
When Theresa saw that the other party was about to turn the corner, she immediately stepped forward, ran into the village, climbed onto the roof of a small house, and then used her jumping force to keep jumping higher and higher. She tiptoed to the roof of the tallest building in the entire village and lay in ambush.
She took out the telescope Wang Chen had given her and looked down. Just as she saw the clergyman, she found that he had disappeared as soon as he turned a corner, just as Wang Chen had said. So Theresa quickly looked around, and the next moment, she found him in a circular square on the northwest side of the village.
"Captain Wang Chen, the enemy has suddenly moved from the village entrance area on the southeast side to the circular square on the northwest side of the village." Theresa said as she shared the footage she saw with Wang Chen through a synchronous link.
"So that's how it is. I've noted the location." Wang Chen hurried to the place where the other party had just disappeared. He searched around but couldn't figure out how the other party had gotten from this location to another.
"Theresa, you continue to monitor the other party and see what it is doing. I will go to the steps of the circular plaza to surround it first. If my guess is correct, it is either an important role in cracking this world, or it is just like us, someone who was sucked into this space and is very likely a student of Qianyu Academy." Wang Chen said.
"Okay, now it's heading towards a place where materials are piled up. There look to be a lot of things there, including farmers' hoes, cloth, and... in short, all kinds of things, and there are also some signs hanging on them." Theresa said as she observed.
"It tore off a few signs, put some things into a sack, and then carried away with the things? What was it doing? Stealing? But those things didn't look valuable. There were just a few small fish, some herbs, and a few pieces of wood." Theresa asked puzzledly.
"Small fish, herbs, wood... with a sign hanging..." Wang Chen seemed to have thought of something, and then continued to ask, "Theresa, did you see it coming towards the steps?"
"No, it didn't walk down the stairs to the south. Instead, it walked towards a high wall to the east. It looked like it wanted to climb over the wall and come to the alley under my feet... No! It disappeared again!" The moment the other party touched the wall, its figure disappeared again. Theresa hurriedly began to look for its location.
Theresa quickly looked around and finally found the man in the center of the village. He came down the stairs and came to a house. He then knocked hard on the door of the house, which was still lit. The people in the house immediately turned off the lights. After seeing the man turn off the lights, the clergyman went to the back of the house, quietly opened the window, entered the house, and then quickly climbed out of the house.
Theresa analyzed the situation to Wang Chen, and after Wang Chen checked the position of the wall leading to the circular square and found that he still could not teleport, he hurried to the center of the village.
Of course, Wang Chen still came up empty-handed this time, as the other party disappeared again. Wang Chen hurriedly said, "Theresa, check the situation in the southwest and northeast directions. Look to the southwest first, the probability is that it is in the southwest."
"Okay... the other party really appeared near the southwest side! Captain Wang Chen, how did you know?" Theresa said in surprise.
"Teleportation points have already appeared in the northwest, southeast, and center areas. The only two areas left are the southwest and northeast. The northeast area has the rear entrance and exit of the village, so it is the most suitable direction for the final exit. You continue to observe the situation, and I will wait for you in the northeast." After Wang Chen finished speaking, he went directly to a landmark building on the northeast side, the withered cherry tree at the rear entrance of the village, and waited for the other party.
And Theresa continued to monitor the target, only to see that the other party did the same thing as the previous house, sneaking into the house and crawling out. However, Theresa noticed that this time the other party's bulging sack was actually much shriveled. Theresa originally thought that the other party was here to steal things, but she never expected that not only was the other party not stealing things, it looked more like... robbing the rich to help the poor?
Theresa didn't know how to describe this scene, so she just shared everything she saw with Wang Chen. When Wang Chen saw these scenes, he became thoughtful.
Soon, the clergyman repeated his old trick and walked towards a blind spot. The next moment, he disappeared in the distance.
"Here it comes..." And the next moment, Wang Chen noticed that there was an extra breath around him.
"Haha...it's finally done. These damn fools will all die at the hands of the monsters they believe in!" The clergyman laughed, took out the last three pieces of wood from the sack, and prepared to walk towards the house.
"Sure enough, the person who spoke ill of the witch at the entrance of the village was also you." A voice came into the ears of the clergyman. The clergyman was startled and turned around quickly, only to see Wang Chen walking out from behind the cherry tree.
"Don't be nervous. Judging from the situation, you are also a person who has been dragged into this world. You are from Qianyu Academy..." Wang Chen was about to inquire about the other party's situation, but was interrupted by the other party's roar: "Die!"
The clergyman took out a puppet from his arms and threw it to the ground. Then, a huge black shadow emerged from the puppet. Several silk threads connected the shadow, and the shadow turned into a monster entity. It was the virtual number series monster that appeared in the Thousand Herrscher period - the virtual number corpse.
The virtual skeleton grabbed Wang Chen directly. Wang Chen said softly, "So this is the so-called strange object that appears at night?"
Raising his fist, Wang Chen's hand burst out with huge electric light. In his eyes, the virtual number skeleton was only about the same strength as a 900hw Honkai beast, and he could kill one with one punch.
Chapter 95: How to Save Yaezakura
Wang Chen raised his fist, just as he was about to use his own strength to punch the huge monster to death. Suddenly, his right shoulder sank. Wang Chen looked over his right shoulder and saw the puppet on his shoulder emitting a golden light. Then the puppet flew out and came in front of Wang Chen, also transforming into an imaginary skeleton. The two skeletons collided directly, and the moment they came into contact, both sides were shattered.
“??? What’s going on?” Wang Chen had no idea what was happening in this scene. The opponent’s puppet turned into ashes and dissipated after its skeleton was shattered, but his own puppet turned into a puppet again and lay on the ground. He looked listless, as if he had just used up his power.
Wang Chen picked it up and put it back on his right shoulder... It slipped down. It seemed that the doll had temporarily lost its vitality. So Wang Chen grabbed the doll and notified Theresa to come over to him.
As for the clergyman, he was teleported away by some unknown means the moment he summoned the Imaginary Corpse, and Theresa observed him in the village for a long time but could not find him. He was either hiding in the house or running to the back mountain. It seemed that this time they had alerted the enemy, and it would be difficult to wait and catch him.
"I should have attacked him first, knocked him unconscious, and then tied him up." Wang Chen originally did not intend to use malicious means, but wanted to communicate peacefully. However, seeing the other party's hostile attitude towards the villagers and the witch, he had to let him calm down before he could talk properly.
"There is always a way to catch the other party." Wang Chen thought to himself, and then he saw the wood and sacks scattered on the ground, picked up the sack, threw the doll into the sack, and tied the sack. After knowing the real body of this thing, if Wang Chen didn't think that this doll still had value, he would have thrown it into the river and let it sink to the bottom of the river.
Soon, Theresa came to Wang Chen and said, "What should we do? Let the other party run away."
"It is very hostile to the villagers of Yae Village and the priestess Yae Sakura. It will not give up and will definitely appear again." Wang Chen said slowly.
"By the way, Captain, what was it trying to do by doing those things just now? It stole these things from the square, and then secretly stuffed them back into the villagers' homes." Theresa asked puzzledly.
"Theresa, do you still remember the rules of the village? Look, they're right here. You can read them again." Wang Chen pointed to the sign under the cherry tree and said, "If I'm right, he wants some villagers to be taken away by the clergy."
"Are you referring to the violation of Article 2, which is about paying tribute? The villagers of Yae Village need to pay tribute to the gods every day, and they need to pay objects that correspond to their status. For example, farmers need to pay hoes, and tailors need to pay cloth. If you find that someone's payment does not match his status, please notify the shrine staff and they will come to solve it." Theresa read out the rules, and then said:
"It took down those signs just to do this? But what's the point? Let's not talk about whether the clergy will investigate the matter. Even if they don't pay the offerings, the clergy will just take the villagers away. They shouldn't do anything substantial to harm them." Theresa asked doubtfully.
"That's unclear. We can only wait until tomorrow to find out the answer. Maybe we can catch that guy on the spot again." Wang Chen said slowly, "Let's go. It looks like we won't get anything in Yae Village tonight. Let's go back to the shrine first."
"Tsk, that's the only way." Theresa said somewhat unwillingly. This night operation, apart from noticing that there was a clergyman who wanted to target the villagers of Yae Village and Yae Sakura, it can be said that there was not much gain. Of course, Wang Chen himself confirmed a lot of intelligence.
Walking out of the back entrance of the village and coming to the fork leading to the back mountain Zhuquepo and the shrine, Wang Chen said, "It is possible that the other party will return to the shrine like those clergymen and blend in with them again. Of course, it is also possible that they will stay in the back mountain area. I don't want to give up. Theresa, let's split up. I will go to the back mountain to check, and you go to the shrine to look for it. How about that?"
"Okay. Then, do I need to remind Yaezakura about this?" Theresa asked.
"No, there is no need to let Miss Yaesakura know about this for the time being. Besides, have you forgotten? Your current identity is a lost child." Wang Chen said.
"Well, Captain, if you haven't found any trace after searching for a while, you'd better come back early. After all, this is the territory of those two guys. Who knows if there are any traps set by these two guys in the back mountain at night." Theresa reminded.
So the two separated at the fork in the road, Theresa returned to the shrine, and Wang Chen went to Zhuquepo. Of course, looking for the clergyman was just a side purpose, and Wang Chen's real purpose was to find the soul of Lin he met during the day. Although Lin asked him to come after 12 o'clock at night, Wang Chen thought about it and thought that the reason why he asked him to come after 12 o'clock at night was probably because after 12 o'clock, something that was watching him would fall asleep.
That's right, it was the doll that appeared at his feet not long after he met Rin. Judging from the doll's transformation, it was undoubtedly the spy of the Thousand Herrscher. If Rin wanted to tell him how to save Yae Sakura, he would definitely avoid the spy of the Thousand Herrscher.
Now, because of what happened in the village just now, the puppet had consumed its power and fell into a deep sleep in advance, losing its vitality. Now it has no reaction when it is put into the sack. Therefore, the real condition for meeting Rin has been met. So Wang Chen came to the cemetery, put the sack at the entrance of the cemetery, and then came to Rin's grave.
Sure enough, as Wang Chen expected, a pink will-o'-the-wisp appeared on the tombstone, swaying and transforming, and once again became the appearance of Yae Rin.
"Big...big brother."
"Stop! Can you please stop calling me big brother? I'm scared! Also, let's get straight to the point. Stop emphasizing what happened to your sister. I've already commented enough on what happened to your sister. Just tell me what to do next. How can I save your sister and break this space?" Wang Chen said.
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