Ning Shu was stunned for a moment, he couldn’t help but gently look around at the people nearby, but he found that none of the players around him had noticed him.
Michelle lowered her eyes, carefully tending to the food over the hearth fire.
Is it his delusion?
Ning Shu pursed her lips involuntarily, drawing her legs back a little. As the middle-aged man continued to question her, her gaze shifted along with the others.
And just then, he noticed that his calf seemed to be gently tickled by something again.
Ning Shu lowered her head and glanced over. But nothing happened, as if it had only been her imagination. As she looked at Michelle, she seemed to sense the man’s gaze upon her.
A strikingly handsome boy, as if sculpted by the gods, looked up with a questioning gaze.
Then she said softly, “You’ve been watching me. Is there something you want to say?”
Because of Michelle’s words, the remaining players all turned to look at him. Ning Shu hesitated for a moment, but it was a bit hard to speak up. He couldn’t possibly say that he suspected Michelle had never lost her memory, or that she didn’t recognize him.
These words are beyond expression.
And the stranger look in the boy’s eyes didn’t seem like an act.
Ning Shu took a deep breath, under the gazes of the other players who were all different, then softly said: “….Nothing, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to stare at you.”
Bai Luo didn’t mind, after all, the boy’s appearance was too outstanding. In reality, he wouldn’t have such a godlike appearance at all. The moment he saw Michelle, he almost fell and couldn’t look away.
He still didn’t dare to look too much.
And Ning Shu’s reaction is much more normal, after all, Michelle’s beauty surpasses that of any human. It’s understandable that he couldn’t help himself.
Other players thought the same way.
But willow gently bit her lip.
The aroma of food cooking over the fire began to waft through the air, making the players, who hadn’t eaten all day, feel ravenous. They swallowed hard, their eyes fixated on the source of the delicious smell.
Michelle wasn’t stingy and was willing to share her food.
All the players were delighted upon hearing this.
Michelle’s food was all in a bag, which he had brought back at dawn. But sitting by the hearth, he thought about the words spoken just moments ago. These players knew that the young man before them wouldn’t be as simple as those villagers either.
After all, he was very familiar with this village, and he was also very smart. If he had any ideas…
Michelle retracted her hand, retrieving the sizzling food and breaking off a piece that looked most appealing. Then, she lifted her delicate, beautiful face, her blue eyes locked on him.
He then casually placed it in front of Ning Shu.
Ning Shu was slightly taken aback.
He had a moment where he thought Michelle remembered him, but her unfamiliar brows and eyes made him hesitate. After a moment of pause, he asked, “Is this for me?”
Michelle nodded.
As Ning Shu took it, she casually turned her head away.
He looked inviolable, like a deity of this mountain, untouchable. He didn’t look like an outsider or a monster from the village at all, but rather more like the beautiful, spirit-nourished creature described in books.
Everyone looked at the young man’s cold and beautiful face, once again lost in their thoughts.
While Yangliu bit her lip quickly, especially after she saw Michelle giving food to the men. She didn’t intend to interfere with them and simply left the remaining food there for them to divide themselves.
But the best, by far, was in Ning Shu’s hands.
Fortunately, Bai Luo immediately asked her own question, expressing a hint of dissatisfaction: “Why did he get the most food?”
Ning Shu, holding the food in her hand, was also a little puzzled.
If Michelle didn’t know him, … why would she give him this food?
The other players also looked at each other with curious expressions.
Michelle, however, remained unmoved. She stirred the fire, saying, “Because he’s the only one who saw me and didn’t have any thoughts about it.”
“Is that a good enough reason?”
Several players’ faces changed instantly, especially the middle-aged man. His murderous intent was the heaviest among them; after all, in that situation, he truly wanted to kill the young man and dispose of the body.
She doesn’t seem to have any particular feelings about it…. Why is the young man only special to Ning Shu?
But she saw that the Evil God didn’t seem to remember “Ning Shu,” the bride.
But what about the marks on a man’s neck?
Willow leaned towards the idea that perhaps the evil god simply didn’t know what the bride looked like. Maybe she had many questions in her mind, or perhaps the evil god discovered Ning Shu’s true identity later and let him go.
It’s also possible that…Ning Shu is destined for great fortune.
Yangliu knew the young man before her was the evil god. She observed him for a while. Suddenly, she had a bold idea: maybe the evil god during the day had no memory and was no different from ordinary people.
…
Ning Shu heard Michelle’s answer and couldn’t help but pause for a moment. Then he ate the grain, perhaps because it was meat, so Ning Shu felt that it tasted good when he ate it.
Moreover, because he had been eating coarse grains in the village for this period of time, he raised his hand and carefully wiped his lips, then drank some water.
My heart had finally accepted the fact that the person before me could be Michelle, but…he didn’t remember himself.
When Ning Shu was feeling a little down, she also let out a slight sigh of relief.
It’s probably better not to remember, lest every time he thinks of what Michelle did… his toes curl up involuntarily.
By the time everyone had finished eating and drinking.
The young man suddenly had something to say to Ning Shu and the others.
When they spoke, they naturally avoided Michelle’s ears, so the few of them steered clear of the young man and began to discuss the dungeon run.
A young man’s voice broke the silence: “Just now, I had a new idea.”
“What do you think?” Bailuo asked.
A young voice spoke, “Our mission in this instance is to return the village to normalcy. But the question arises: why is the instance’s mission this? It proves that something is amiss with this village.”
The middle-aged man pondered, finding his words to be reasonable.
“Willow, her voice soft, said: ‘…What’s abnormal? Aren’t the villagers of this village abnormal?’ ”
The young man shook his head and said, “Although the villagers of this village are fierce, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are abnormal…. A village being abnormal isn’t necessarily because of something within the village itself, but rather something else….”
As soon as he finished speaking.
A few players’ faces instantly turned serious.
Ning Shu couldn’t help but pause, seeming to vaguely realize what the young man was going to say.
As expected, the young man quickly said: “I suspect this village’s abnormalities are related to a malevolent deity.”
Several players wore expressions of varying intensity.
Willow’s face paled slightly, but no one noticed her expression.
All eyes were on the young man’s words. Bai Luo couldn’t help but say, “What do you mean by that?”
The middle-aged man spoke in a low voice: “…his meaning is, our target might be an evil god, the evil god is the biggest abnormality in this village.”
The youth continued to nod, saying, “Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. This village is said to be protected by a demon god, but what has it brought the village? These people worship spirits and don’t think like us. After all, in ancient times, everyone had a reverence for supernatural beings…”
And after this evil god appeared… the village there used to have five thousand people;… later because of a disaster, it became two thousand…. And then as you all know, the population of this village has continued to decrease….
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“And yet this evil god seems to be enjoying the village’s worship… I wonder, if there wasn’t this evil god, would the village be happy and prosperous instead of sacrificing to a so-called evil god with such an odd name…”
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.
Ning Shu thought that the young man’s way of thinking didn’t seem to be a problem, but he slightly clenched his hands.
Because he knew Michelle was a demon, he couldn’t think about it in a normal way.
Especially regarding the youth’s points of agreement.
“So, you’re saying that if the evil gods didn’t exist, this village would return to normal, right?”
The middle-aged man said bluntly.
The youth nodded. “That means, this evil god is the biggest boss of this dungeon.”
The mood among the crowd wasn’t quite as joyful anymore. They had encountered similar situations before when they cleared the level, but those were always unexpected and frustrating.
And this evil god, being able to instill fear in the villagers, would probably not be so easy to deal with.
“Our mall is about to thaw,” the young man said quickly. “So I think even if this evil god is difficult to deal with, as long as we have enough props, we can still clear the level, right?”
As soon as everyone heard this, their expressions instantly relaxed.
After all, the youth was right. Their store unfroze quickly. One person’s points weren’t enough, they had five people here in total. Surely that was enough to handle a single evil god?
But most importantly, they did not truly understand the nature of the gods.
This is the biggest issue at the moment.
Just as a few players emerged, they saw Michelle’s faintly somber expression, as if she could see through them. The players couldn’t help but feel embarrassed, while the young man walked over and said: “Sorry, Michelle… Do you know more about the evil god?”
The young man, however, looked at them and said, “You don’t trust me.”
He turned and said, “If you don’t trust me, why bother coming to me with feigned concern?”
Everyone looked at each other, but they definitely couldn’t let the young man know about the instance.
Things seem to be taking a turn for the worse.
Especially since Michelle was missing for half the day, and they needed her.
The boy is back.
The young man walked up to Ning Shu and said hesitantly, “He seems to have a bit of a crush on you, Ning Shu… Could you go and try to get some information from him?”
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