Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 307: Liars from Foreign Countries

Putting aside the hidden secrets of Wenjia Village itself, Wen Rongxuan's story can be deduced by combining the few words revealed by Wen Jianyuan and the book brought by Bai Su, as well as the messy notes originally recorded in the book and later written down.

There is no doubt that Wenjia Village has secrets.

Although the secret hidden by the village is not yet fully understood, judging from the strange things revealed by the village and its people, it is related to fish, lakes, etc.

The secret of the village brought about physical changes to the villagers, but also psychological changes, but not very thorough. This also led to differences in the thoughts of the villagers.

Those who think that they cannot change the village and that their own power is too weak will choose to escape from the place where they grew up, away from the mountain village, and flee to the city.

Although this cannot completely cut off the connection between the villagers surnamed Wen and the village, it can weaken the connection as much as possible. In the end, the escapees only need to return to their roots.

This is one of the reasons why there are so many memorial tablets in the village ancestral hall.

All the dead in the village have been brought back. Even if they die outside, they will be buried in the end.

If you are not ruthless enough and are unwilling to cut off your ties with relatives in the village, you will drift with the crowd over time and gradually assimilate with other villagers.

Or, like Wen Rongxuan, he took the third path.

"Excuse me." The minors sitting around listening to the story raised their hands, "How come there is a third way?"

The speaker, Tang Nuo, pushed up his glasses: "This is what I want to say right away."

The young man wearing glasses pushed the palm-sized book forward and placed it in the center of the table.

"That's it." Tang Nuo said, "Wen Rongxuan got this book."

In fact, if you trace back the people in the village, there will definitely be people who have the same idea of ​​taking the "third way" as Wen Rongxuan.

Why should we obey everything in the village?Why does everyone have to be immersed in the village's secrets?Why... everything they have to encounter is why?
People in the past often had ideas but were unable to do anything about them. It may also be that they tried hard but failed to seek help outside.

Knowing that Wen Rongxuan had the same idea, someone sent him this book.

As mentioned before, Wenjiacun is not closed to the outside world.

People in the village would go down the mountain to purchase goods, and most of the time they had normal communication with the outside world. Wenjia Village's reputation among nearby villages and towns at the foot of the mountain was actually normal, except for being a bit lonely.

Wenjia Village only refuses outsiders to visit when there are large or small festivals or unique sacrificial activities, but this does not mean that there is no chance to participate. As long as you can communicate with the people in the village, prepare and enter in advance, you can stay In the village, wait until the event is over before leaving.

As long as people can leave.

Wen Rongxuan got this book from such an outsider.

On the title page, he wrote on the day of the month that he met a thin man. He did not describe his specific appearance, but said that they had a very pleasant conversation.

How happy are you?Wen Rongxuan used the excuse "I have a friend" to explain the troubles in his heart.

After hearing this, the man showed a mysterious smile and gave him such a book before leaving the village.

The man said that Wen Rongxuan's worries could be answered in the book.

Wen Rongxuan did not understand it at the time and was quite shocked after reading it for the first time.

According to his own comments, he fainted when he read this book for the first time, which made everyone in his family nervous for a long time.

After waking up, Wen Rongxuan put the book away with lingering fear, and did not open it again for a long time.

Until...until Wen Rongxuan's parents changed their appearance in front of him.

"Oh, did it look like a fish?" Gao Tianyi interrupted again, and was scratched by the short-haired police officer on the side before retracting his hand.

Wen Rongxuan didn't remember the specific changes. For the time being, the people present took the fish-eye villagers as their first impression.

"Wen Rongxuan wrote in the gaps a few pages after the title page - Is this also my future? Why do we have to become like this... I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to!"

The hoarseness seemed to be conveyed through the words scratching the paper, and because of the excessive force, the words on the second half of the page were unclear. Fortunately, the previous content was not important.

What Wen Rongxuan saw about his parents stimulated him again, so the young man found the book that had been given to him by an outsider and started reading it again.

This time, no matter what difficulties he encountered, he never put the book down.

If you can't read it in one week, it will be two weeks, if you can't read it in two weeks, it will be one month... However, Wen Rongxuan does not seem to have the talent in this area. He has clearly seen the door to the third road, but it took him a long time.

"You don't have any talent..." Xia Chengyin thought, "Isn't it called having no talent?"

The corner of the short-haired police officer's eyes twitched, as if he could see the black light condensed by the gurgling black sludge. If it is scattered, it will squirm and gather together. It is better to be injured by direct contact, otherwise he will be put into a state of coma and amnesia. debuff.

If you don't have talent, what will happen if you have talent?

"Actually, Wen Rongxuan thinks...because he failed."

Wen Rongxuan, who was walking on the third path of acceptance, escape and change, failed.

The words "failed" seemed to be sprinkled with blood.

It was obviously written with a black pen, but it was tainted with the meaning of death.

What does failure mean?Wen Rongxuan wrote it, which meant that his idea of ​​changing the village had failed.

The consequences of failure were also tragic - his parents died.

This record is a bit difficult to understand. Tang Nuo roughly guessed based on the reversed sentences that Wen Rongxuan wanted to use methods learned from books...or spells to save his parents.

At least they were rescued from the alienation of the "fish" in the village.

However, he failed.

'fraud. '

'Liar, liar, liar. '

'Liar Liar Liar Liar Liar! ! ! '

'That man lied to me, liar, this is not a method of recovery at all, this is obviously -'

"This is obviously a scam, going from one abyss to another." Tang Nuo clicked on the cover of the book, "That's how Wen Rongxuan summed it up. He didn't write any more comments after that."

This ends the inferred story of Wen Rongxuan's experience. The next thing to talk about is the content of the book itself.

They did not find the wrong person. Wen Rongxuan was indeed the source of the doppelganger incident.

Tang Nuo deduced a little, and listed Wen Rongxuan's actions based on some various spells in the book that he only roughly understood but did not learn.

First, I studied this book, and learned the simplest spell that could "save" my parents from the book. I used it out of joy, and the results are self-evident.

After waking up from his dream, Wen Rongxuan re-understood the book and found that everything the foreign men told him were lies.

If the act ended here, there might be no follow-up, but Wen Rongxuan did not stop.

"He seems...I guess the death of his parents caused a big conflict between him and the village, and he was eventually moved to the edge of the village to live? The order here is not very important, the important thing is...he started the summoning."

What is a summons?Summon something that does not exist in this world.

Hearing this, everyone present except Bai Su had their eyelids twitching, feeling troubled, and their breathing was stagnant.

Only Bai Su didn't take it seriously and even had the time to touch the book in the center of the table.The humans saw it, and before they could stop it, the book was held in Bai Su's hand.

Opening the paper, Bai Su also saw Wen Rongxuan's annotations from joy to despair.

Damn, there are very few people who engage in occultism who are not crazy.

Bai Su continued to listen to the human's narration in his ears, and turned the pages of the paper in accordance with the human's words, turning to the page when the effect of the spell was mentioned.

For example, when we are talking about Wen Rongxuan being so stunned that he walked all the way to the dark side and started to perform a summoning ritual to "resurrect" his parents, Bai Su spread the page at the summoning circle.

The summoning was successful, and the indescribable existence arrived.

The descending being took pity on His new believer and gave him the..."resurrection" he had dreamed of.

"Tang Nuo, did you add an accent to the word resurrection in your mouth?"

"Yes, if you put it in a written expression, it is used to express negation."

Resurrection may appear to be a success at first glance, but it is actually a failure.

The human body has been reshaped, and even the memories of life have been instilled, but Wen Rongxuan just knows that they are not his parents.

"By the way, the bodies of Wen Rongxuan's parents who were supposed to be buried are also missing. I guess they had another quarrel with the people in the village because of this."

No way, the sudden disappearance of the body must have attracted attention.

According to the inference of the doppelgänger incident, the fate of the corpse can probably be guessed.

"But." Bai Su listened and interjected, "Can those black sludge even replace corpses?"

"Uh..." Human beings were stuck. There was no place to explain this clearly. "Maybe, maybe their expressions were different at first."

Or maybe the existence of the black sludge evolved.

Anyway, Wen Rongxuan killed the resurrected "parents" with his own hands and lived on the edge of the village near the mountains and forests.

"I don't think he gave up..." Tang Nuo said with a headache. "He may have experimented with something after being driven away, which led to the doppelgangers flooding the city." That is, black sludge.

This can be confirmed by Wen Rongxuan's transformation into a living dog.

After Bai Su listened, he put the spine of the open book against his chin: "In other words, the culprit of the doppelganger incident has been found?"

The human nodded: "I don't know yet whether he himself or the summoned relic is the main target... but the general direction should be correct."

The progress was so fast that they found the final target only on the second day after entering the village.

Under normal circumstances, they would have packed up, reported and then been ready to take action, but now...

Xia Chengyin rubbed his temples and threw aside the new cigarette butt that was almost hot to the touch. There was already a thick layer of it in the ashtray at hand.

He glanced behind him: "Qi Zhuyue hasn't woken up yet?"

Gao Tianyi, who was closest, waved his hand and pushed the person twice: "Not awake."

The most common reaction from the female companion lying on the bed was frowning, and the rest of her body didn't even move her fingertips.

The short-haired police officer frowned. He gestured to the people present, picked up his cell phone and walked aside to contact the outside world.

He had to hurry up and get in touch while the sky wasn't completely dark yet and the signal was still there.

Qi Zhuyue's situation still needs to be consulted by professionals. If you let their team deal with supernatural beings, they will be better at treating doctors.

Bai Su saw Xia Chengyin going to make a phone call. Gao Tianyi squatted beside the bed and took his pulse in a decent manner, while he was still sitting at the table, flipping through the book.

His eyes lingered on the pages of the book. A book that would take hours for a human to read could be finished in Bai Su's hands with just a few breaths and two yawns.

When he turned to the page with the strange magic circle drawn, the black-haired young man was commenting in his mind that the magic circle was not good-looking and had no sense of beauty, just like a puddle of random scribblings. When the young man with glasses who was still sitting with him said: He struck up a conversation.

"You..." Tang Nuo looked at Bai Su strangely and considered, "Do you feel anything when you look at it?"

"How does it feel?" Bai Su asked.

The black-haired young man was too bored to flip through the book and couldn't help but yawned again.

His yawn made the human who wanted to ask something shut his mouth.

The difference between people and "people" is reflected here.

When Tang Nuo thought about the book he was reading in front of him, he almost got lost in the words on the page and couldn't get out. Even if he broke free, he was still stuck in the seat and sat there for three or four minutes. This time was very important at the critical moment. Deadly.

Looking at Bai Su again, he was so sleepy that his eyelids almost closed.

Considering that he didn't sleep much last night, it seems reasonable that he is sleepy now.

After flipping through the book to the bottom, Bai Su held his chin and raised his head and asked, "What are you going to do next?"

Either go directly to Wen Rongxuan, go down the mountain to seek more support, or wait in Wenjia Village and continue to explore the secrets of the village.

The first two...are aimed at solving the doppelgänger incident, and the latter...he feels that humans will not ignore abnormalities that are clearly visible to the naked eye.

Whether they get involved now or plan later, the people from the special department will definitely deal with the anomaly here. It's just a matter of time.

The focus now seems to be Qi Zhuyue, or "Wen Tao".

Bai Su's eyes slipped and fell on the woman with braided braids beside him.

Qi Zhuyue's abilities gradually failed after she fell into coma. As time passed, she now had her own face, and the simplicity that belonged to Wen Tao had disappeared.

Tang Nuo followed Bai Su's gaze and looked over. When he turned his head, he called out Gao Tianyi's name.

The young man who was named put away his hand regretfully. He muttered: "I just want to try drinking the Talisman Water to see if it has any effect... Okay, okay, I'll give it up."

The human boy raised his hands high to indicate that he would not try again, and then the adult gave up.

Qi Zhuyue still hasn't woken up. It's not clear whether there are individual differences, and her coma lasted much longer than expected.

Tang Nuo stared at his unconscious female companion and sighed for a long time: "I want to wait until she wakes up before making a decision."

Wen Tao, played by Qi Zhuyue, is an important role.

On this stage in Wenjiacun, he has almost reached the status of the protagonist.

"Speaking of which." The black-haired young man snapped his fingers, "There is a problem with 'Wen Tao''s identity, do you know?"

The young man wearing glasses nodded: "I know, Wen Rongxuan doesn't particularly care about her..."

"No." Bai Su interrupted the human, "It's not about this aspect."

When the human looked over in confusion, Bai Su closed the book in his hand and stood it upright on the table.

"We saw Wen Tao's tablet in the ancestral hall."

"The year of death...was one year after the flash flood reported in the newspapers."

(End of this chapter)