"Remember your instructions? You asked us to find the person who seized the most lifespan." Xiangdong grabbed the middle-aged man on the ground, "You are the only one left in the town, Gao Degui, you are the one who ate the most named fish, right?"

Gao Degui finally reacted, and his mouth moved slightly: "I don't eat fish, I hate fish..."

Go east and throw people to the ground, just be able to speak.

In the utility room, Chen Yang always paid attention to the situation at the entrance of the passage, but unexpectedly, Xiangdong's voice came from outside the courtyard.

Xiangdong dragged Gao Degui, who was half dead, into the courtyard. The first sentence was "There are two exits in the basement, and the other one leads to the river." He ran back from the river, sweating all over his head, and water dripped on his head.

Xiangdong briefly revealed the things in the basement and passage: "On the way back, I thought of a speculation, three cats and three heads, these two might be a soul."

Chen Yang looked at Gao Degui who was sitting under the door: "Mayor, should you tell me the part you concealed?"

Gao Degui's blue cloth jacket was covered with gray, and his goatee and sparse hair were drooping, leaving no life.

"I didn't hide it." His eyes looked at the ground.

Chen Yang stopped Xiangdong, who was about to take action, and he took out a few pieces of rough paper stuffed by Chao Jian in his backpack, smoothed it out one by one, and then looked up at Chao Jian.

"The Six-Syllable Mantra, the Upasaka Precepts Sutra, the Buddha said the Amitabha Sutra... "Touching towards Jian's crutch, pressing against the rough paper, and pointing from left to right.

All are scriptures to save the dead.

I pointed to Jian’s crutch to the last piece of rough paper, which was densely filled with ‘wrong’ and ‘retribution’.

Gao Degui's head was hanging very low, without any response.

"Who are you saving? The person who was robbed of his life still died after eating other people's name fish, or, "Chen Yang, "those cooked creatures?"

Gao Degui's eyes suddenly widened.

Chen Yang took out the fortune-telling book, spread out the annotations on it, and then looked for a red umbrella, a stone with cat claws...

Every time he took out something, Gao Degui's face turned pale.

Gao Degui grabbed the stone and finished pronunciating the above two sentences word by word. He laughed a few times, and tears flowed.

A past that was sealed by death and dust was seen again in Gao Degui's tears.

That happened when Grandpa Gao Degui was alive.

Many years ago, a plague broke out in the town. His grandfather believed the evil words and held a large live festival.

Fish, mice, cats, babies, girls, hundreds of creatures died in that live sacrifice, and their corpses were put into the river.

After that, strange things began to happen in the town, first it was raining, and then the name fish appeared.

No one knows what happened to the fish in the end.

Gao Degui’s grandfather did not write it in his notes, and his life stopped on the way to record that incident.

Until three years ago, the madman's father caught two fish with names.

The two fish were exactly sixty years away from the fish that Grandpa Gao Degui came into contact with, and it was a hundred years old.

The madman's husband is a timid and cowardly person. He was afraid that the name fish would bring bad luck to him, so he secretly went to Gao Degui.

At that time, Gao Degui meant to put the fish and let them go back and forth, and he didn't care. His attitude was very firm and almost an order.

Because he felt the danger of the fish from the notes left by his grandfather and could not touch it.

Gao Degui didn't expect that when he was talking to the madman's husband, his brother eavesdropped outside the door. He even stopped the man when the madman's husband left and made a private deal.

Even his parents were involved.

One of the two fish was sold to Zhu Yun's family, and the other was asked to eat with his brother and his parents, and they cautiously didn't give him a bite.

It was too late when Gao Degui found out.

The two fish that were eaten by the name fish died in the inn. Gao Degui's parents and brother realized that something was wrong and wanted to hide in the basement. They hid for a while before talking. Unfortunately, they failed to get what they wanted, and they all turned into cats.

It was raining at home that night, and Gao Degui's neck and shoulders were burned, and he didn't dare to unbutton the buttons of the cloth jacket.

In order to protect themselves, the patriarchs of Zhu Yun’s two families invited experts to make an umbrella with their closest skin and calves, and they still needed a full month baby.

The madman's husband sold the birth date and horoscope to the Zhu family's children.

The baby's eyes were dug off alive and pressed on the second floor of Qijia Inn.

When Chen Yang heard this, his heart was chilling. Those two eyes were indeed used to suppress the resentment of the creatures.

So once you cover your eyes, it will rain.

When the madman covered his eyes, he must have felt ironic that it was her child who was guarding the town.

"It's not been a century since this year, but the fish appeared." Gao Degui pinched the stone tightly, his shoulders trembled, "I have long said that I can't eat or not. No one listened to me. Retribution is retribution, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous, and thunder was struck by heaven."

After noon, the sun was bright, but there was an invisible darkness in front of the door.

Chen Yang cleared the clues related to the task and asked Gao Degui: "How did they think of eating the fish back then?"

Gao Degui said: "Like this time, when fish appear, there are rumors of eating fish and snatching lifespan." He mocked, "That's a ghost."

Chen Yang nodded, he was indeed obsessed with ghosts. The curse of the creatures was aimed at the desires of the people. This was too easy. Longevity was the center of desire.

"Wife Zhou from Qijia Inn has long died, do you know?" Chen Yang looked at Gao Degui and said.

Gao Degui obviously shrank his shoulders.

Not only Chen Yang, but others also noticed Gao Degui's reaction, and no one pointed at him and scolded, "Then why did you let us move in?"

Everyone knows that this is a task. Gao Degui is an NPC-like existence. His position is that they dig holes.

Chen Yang said: "The two of you came to the town the second year after their death. They have been staying in inns every year. What measures have you taken?"

Gao Degui smiled bitterly: "They are obsessions that remain in the world, what can I do?"

"Besides, they are like people. No, they are simpler than people. They only stay for a few days each time, not going downstairs, and not causing trouble." Gao Degui's haggard face was full of decay. "Living talents are complicated. I failed to persuade a fellow villager. It's all over."

Chen Yang's mouth was dry and he pointed to what he could say to other teammates, but they either had expressionless expressions, were indifferent, or were immersed in their own thoughts, and each had no intention of making a sound.

"You have found the paper by the river." Chen Yang observed Gao Degui's expression, "Have you seen a female madman?"

Gao Degui's eyes were all red: "She is a miserable person."

"Then you tell me, why did she lie into the river with the stone statue of her child?" Chen Yang stared at him.

Gao Degui shook his head: "I don't know..."

"There are too many undead in the river, so it would be great if it could be filled." He got up to himself and walked staggeringly into the house.

Chen Yang patted Chao Jian's arm where the breasts were pinching: "The mission background is all complete, but the mission has not been completed yet, and I don't know where the goal is."

The next moment he shouted at Gao Degui's back: "Mr. Zhu has eaten ten young fish with names, but he is not the one who seized the most lifespan. Anyone in the town eats more than him?"

Gao Degui did not answer, and his steps kept going, he quickly entered the house and closed the door.

"NPC is offline." Qian Han murmured.

Chen Yang's doubts were not resolved. He walked around the door anxiously, and walked around Zhao Jian unknowingly.

Several people present witnessed the scene, and their expressions on their faces were different.

Chen Yang didn't notice it. He walked around Chao Jian several times, fainted before stopping, facing Chao Jian.

Chao Jian didn't say anything from beginning to end, nor did he walk away.

A minute or two later, Chen Yang grabbed Chao Jian hard and said, "I understand, young people may not necessarily live long."

He lowered his eyes and glanced at Jian, holding his hand, rolled in his throat, and faintly emitted a "Yes" syllable.

"Yes," said Xiangdong, "some young people died when they were young."

"Especially our generation, sudden death accounts for the largest proportion." Xiang Shousai didn't look at his Chao Jian at all, and said pretending, "I didn't say you, you are not the same generation as us, and your brother has a generation gap."

Chen Yang: “…”

"No, don't listen to Xiang Dong's nonsense." He whispered to Chao Jian.

Chao Jian: "I know."

Chen Yang was stunned for a moment and returned to the main business: "That means, not counting the number of fish, only the lifespan of the seized is calculated. When Mr. Zhu was not dead, some people seized more lifespan than him, so we didn't find the right target."

"But there is no one in the town now." Zhuzhu's eyes were heartless.

Chen Yang fell silent. This was exactly where he felt that the mission had entered a dead end.

At this time, Ge Fei said something from his mouth: "Before Gao Degui appeared, I thought the target was him."

Zhuzhu said: "So too."

"I'm ready to go home." She hugged her knees and wanted to cry.

However, the fact is that Gao Degui's eyes did not mutate and he did not eat fish.

Xiangdong kicked the tree in a furious manner: "This mission is so fucking weird."

The leaves fell down and fell on Chen Yang's head and shoulders. He didn't care and was thinking all over his mind. Is there no task prompt, is it also a reminder?

Chao Jian took advantage of Chen Yang's dazed and casually removed the leaves on his body: "Go back to the inn."

Chen Yang responded subconsciously.

The painter limped behind him, walking towards the east, looking at his swollen ankles: "It's all like this, and I'm still so energetic, and I can't even compare to you in my rebirth."
To be continued...