AWB Chapter 107 Human Bones
Chapter 107 Human Bones
The matriarch casually grabbed a small handful and let it clank and fall back into the box. The expression on her face returned to her usual seriousness, which seemed a little unreasonable.
"Pearls are produced in the village, and we will select the most perfect pearls when harvesting every year. We call them beauty pearls."
Beauty bead, beauty bone, the difference between one word, but the meaning is very different.
Shen Qingcheng ignored the other players who looked at them openly or secretly, didn't they just hit their names, there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Presumably, beauty is really a woman's nature and weakness. When others were secretly wary of the name "beauty beads", Li Jiao couldn't wait to ask, "Are these beauty beads?"
"Of course not," the matriarch glanced at the eye box, with a slight disdain in her tone, "These can only be called top-grade, far from the standard of beauty beads."
Oh my god, she couldn't take her eyes off the top grade, how beautiful is that top grade beauty bead!
Li Jiao was drooling greedily, but she also knew that the other party would not give away this kind of thing that only had one piece a year.
She doesn't dislike top-grade pearls without beauty pearls. The top-grade pearls from the patriarch's family are already comparable to the sacrificial pearls in the real world.
Li Jiao happily stepped forward to pick the most beautiful one.
Feng Tianrun quickly grabbed her.The two of them acted coquettishly, annoyed and persuaded gently, and ended up with Li Jiao ignoring Feng Tianrun, but at least they persuaded her.
This small episode did not affect other people. After listening to the words of the matriarch, Shen Qingcheng asked: "What kind of standard can be called a beauty bead?"
Is it size, color, shape or sheen?
The matriarch said: "There is no standard, you can tell at a glance."
She didn't show it to everyone. She didn't know if it was not available at home or something else, but urged everyone to pick it up.
The players each declined, and Shen Qingcheng stepped forward and picked a pink-purple one. The pearl's tentacles were moist and delicate, warm and cool, and it was very comfortable to touch in the hot summer.
But when Li Jiao saw that Shen Qingcheng had taken it, she quickly reached out to take two of them while her boyfriend was not paying attention, and said that she took two of them, Feng Tianrun could only smile wryly.
Li Jiao comforted him, "It's okay, you see he took it too."
Out of ten players, only Shen Qingcheng and Li Jiao took the pearl.
After the pearls were selected, everyone bid farewell to the matriarch and returned to the residence with the flashlight provided by the matriarch.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the moon was completely covered by thick clouds, so that no light could penetrate.
Aunt Huang walked in the middle of the line and complained: "Oh, the handsome guy who led the way before was too inconsiderate. We only walked once, so we don't remember the way."
She wasn't embarrassed when no one paid attention to her, she walked a few steps behind Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi, "Handsome guy, for the sake of our meeting in the afternoon, let me advise you, throw this pearl away, don't take it."
Don't look at her being careless, how can she not have any skills if she can live to this day, things like this kind of dungeon NPC stuffed, if you can, you don't want it.
She persuaded her sincerely, and Shen Qingcheng gave him a smiling face, "Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion."
When Aunt Huang saw this, she didn't say anything more. She had already said everything, and there was nothing she could do if others didn't listen to her.The second rule of life-saving, don't meddle in other people's business.
She was about to take two quick steps back to the middle of the line, when a gust of cold wind blew, she shivered, and goosebumps appeared on her exposed arms.
Where is the wind coming from?It is going to rain?
These words were blocked in his throat by the scene he saw next.
On a fork that the players had to go back to their residences, a skeleton was approaching them with all fours on the ground.
The meat on the skeleton frame disappeared, leaving only a little scarlet shredded meat sticking to the skeleton. The stench of water wafted from a distance, and the smell was nauseating.
Aunt Huang was so frightened that her face trembled, her eyes widened, and she didn't dare to vent her breath, while the player with the flashlight turned off the power without being called.
Everyone summoned the exchanged props, squatted down and hid behind the grass, holding their breath and concentrating.
Li Jiao suspected that the pearls on her body had attracted the corpse, and she was so regretful that she wanted to throw away the things, but she was afraid that the corpse would find her if she moved around, so she almost cried in fright when she hid in her boyfriend's arms.
The skeleton crawled very fast, and it crawled in front of the players in a blink of an eye. The first player was a male player who had cleared more than a dozen dungeons. He was experienced and held the props in his hand tightly, ready to take the initiative at any time.
But the skeleton frame deviated from the direction before entering the warning range.
It strayed past where the players were hiding, and disappeared into the night without stopping.
The players secretly breathed a sigh of relief, they didn't stand up immediately, they waited for a while, and sure enough, the second skeleton appeared.
Then came the third, fourth, and in the end, the players couldn't count how many corpses there were in total. They only knew that their legs were numb when they stood up.
The putrid smell of corpses still lingered in the air, Li Jiao sniffed and held the pearls in the bag tightly.
When she was in danger, she vowed to throw things away, but when the danger was over, she began to be reluctant. She asked in confusion, "Is it because of the pearls?"
"No," Shen Qingcheng said before Huang Pingwei sneered, he stared at the direction where the skeletons disappeared, "the corpses all went in the same direction."
"Well, there is a mountain there." Lu Qi answered him.
There were no other accidents on the road, and the group returned to the residence smoothly.
Turn on the lights in the room, the bright light dispelled the fear of seeing the skeletons, and the players picked up the water basins and lined up to draw water in front of the ancient well at the corner of the dam.
The weather is hot, it will be more comfortable to take a bath and then rest.
The two of Shen Qingcheng didn't squeeze with them, they moved a bench and sat on the dam to enjoy the shade, Shen Qingcheng took out the pearl he took from the matriarch, and observed it by the light.
Under the orange-yellow light, the lustrous pink-purple seemed to be plated with a layer of gold, making it even more dazzling.
"Look." He handed the pearl to Lu Qi.
Lu Qi took it and touched it, "It's not a human bone."
"I think so too," Shen Qingcheng nodded in agreement, "but it's very dark."
It was similar to the clam meat on the dinner table. The clam meat was indeed mussel meat, but the yin energy was abnormally heavy.
The player fetching water next to them heard them talking, and someone asked, "Is it human flesh for dinner?"
Shen Qingcheng: "No."
"No? I saw that the body of the corpse we met just now had been stripped clean, so I thought it was human flesh."
"Who said it must be picked clean, so it can't be rotten?" Someone retorted.
While talking for a while, everyone else had finished fetching water. The female player brought the water back to the room, while the male player washed it in the dam in his underwear.
The underwear was very close to the body after being wet, Shen Qingcheng glanced over and thought of Lu Qi's appearance in the shower.
By the way, he hasn't taken a bath with Lu Qi yet, and he hasn't touched his agreed abdominal muscles yet.
Hey, before Lu Qi always rejected him, now the whole person belongs to him, let's see what reason he used to refuse.
His eyes stayed there for a little longer, Lu Qi's face turned dark, he pulled Shen Qingcheng's hand to stand up, and stuffed the bench into his hand, "Go back to the room and wait for me."
Shen Qingcheng watched the man pick up the bucket and walked to the well, blinked, "Aren't we going to wash outside?"
"Do not."
It's okay, his boyfriend has such a good figure, he doesn't want to show it to other pheasants.
"Okay~"
He happily went back to the room with the bench, and put the pearls on the cabinet. After a while, Lu Qi came back with water.
He took the initiative to close the door, turned around and leaned against it with his back. He watched Lu Qi bend down to put down the bucket, and then found a towel from the suitcase.
The man looked up at him with a cold and sexy look in his eyes.
Shen Qingcheng immediately abandoned the door and ran over to hang on the other party, "Sir, do you need a shower service?"
Lu Qi understood, and cooperated: "What kind of reward do you need?"
"I'll do it myself!" Someone couldn't wait, and before he finished speaking, his cold hands had already slipped under the man's clothes.
Ah, first-class feel, great!
【Hey, do you come by yourself when you can't describe it? [shy]】
[Trust me upstairs, with a beautiful personality, he will definitely try the pose he came by himself.Thinking about it like this, I suddenly envy Seven Gods. I have a boyfriend who likes role-playing anytime and anywhere. Every day there are surprises and freshness_(:з」∠)_]
[Ah, ah, take a bath, let me be healthy!Let me be healthy! 】
[The dog game is mosaic, I want to see the beauty and the seven gods bathing in mandarin ducks! 】
[Did you grab the beauty today?No. [Sigh] Forget it, wait until midnight to see who wins the bet between the beauty and the Seven Gods]
On the first night of entering the dungeon, the players slept soundly, without night attacks by ghosts.
Shen Qingcheng woke up refreshed in the morning, there was no one around him, but there was a basin filled with water and towels.
After washing his face, he took a basin and went out to pour water, and found that the person sent by the matriarch to bring them breakfast had arrived, and it was the young man who led them the way last night.
Lu Qi walked over to him with the breakfast for the two of them, and Shen Qingcheng looked at it, porridge, kimchi and steamed buns.
"There are meat buns, but I didn't take them."
He nodded indifferently, "Is he today's tour guide?"
"Ah."
Alas, this young man looks like a robot with a stern face. It is probably difficult to find out about foreign couples from him.
After brushing their teeth and eating breakfast, the two went to the main room to meet other players. There were still two people in the main room who hadn't arrived, and the young man didn't rush.
In the end, it was the players who got impatient with waiting first. Li Jiao and Feng Tianrun arrived late, and they were still arguing about something when they appeared.
Shen Qingcheng listened casually, probably Li Jiao wanted to take the big pearl out to take pictures, Feng Tianrun was trying to persuade him, but he didn't.
When everyone arrived, the young man said the first sentence of the day, "Today I will show you the artificial lake where we raise mussels. Follow closely and don't fall behind."
After saying this, he turned around and walked out, regardless of whether the people behind him followed or not.
The players looked at each other and followed the young man out the door.
General tour guides, no matter how much they know, will always introduce the surrounding environment or customs on the way.
But the young man only cared about leading the way, and his speed was very fast, as if his only purpose was to bring them to the artificial lake at their destination. Once the artificial lake arrived, his mission would be completed.
The dirt roads in the countryside were difficult to walk, and Li Jiao, who was wearing high heels, was struggling to keep up with everyone's speed with Feng Tianrun's support, so she had no time to take pictures.
About half an hour later, the artificial lake mentioned by the youth appeared in front of everyone.
The area of each lake is small, but there are many in scattered distribution. A little further away are the houses built by the villagers, almost all of which are small buildings.
It seems that not only the matriarch's family is rich, but the whole village is rich.
The young man stood aside and said, "This is where we raise mussels. We can only look at them, and you can do whatever you want." After speaking, he left.
Everyone is almost used to the painting style of young people, so it's not too surprising.
Among the players, Li Jiao was the first to move. She likes pearls, and of course she also likes pearl oysters that produce pearls.
She took Feng Tianrun to the edge of the lake, and carefully looked into the lake.
She would like to see how the pearl oysters here are different.