Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1718 In the Deadly Game 5

Now that they have the key, they must quickly find a way to find the door. Ruan Baijie suggested that they could use the wild wolf killed outside the village to temporarily fool the female monster, and then everyone would take the opportunity to go down the well to find the door. Jiang Xinxin thought it was feasible and was the first to agree.

So everyone found the wild wolf that Ruan Baijie had killed a few days ago outside the village. To be on the safe side, Jiang Xinxin even cut her fingertips and let the blood flow, which attracted the two surviving wolves.

After the three wolves were thrown into the well, the well became quiet, with only the sound of chewing. Everyone went down into the well one by one and found the door at the end of a passage.

However, when Ling Jiushi opened the door, he accidentally dropped the key on the ground. A strand of hair reached out and quickly took the key away, so everyone had to hurry back to the ground.

Beside the fire pit, Xiong Qi couldn't help but lash out at Ling Jiushi, "Miss Jiang clearly warned you to keep the key safe, but you, a grown man, can't even do something as simple as opening the door?!"

Ling Jiushi understood Xiong Qi's anger. The longer he stayed in this place, the more danger he would have to endure. He blamed himself and felt guilty, but he could only apologize hesitantly.

Jiang Xinxin frowned and said, "No one wants an accident to happen. There's no point complaining or getting angry. If we want to get through, we have to find a solution quickly."

"In my opinion, why don't we first investigate the origins of the female monster so that we can prescribe the right remedy."

Only then did Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke reveal that the cause of death of the three people who died on the terrace and those who were carrying the tree was related to the proprietress.

It turned out that when the first person died, Xiao Ke watched him being swallowed by the female monster with his own eyes. Before that, Xiao Ke saw him chatting with the proprietress on the terrace, and then the proprietress went downstairs with an angry look on her face, leaving the man alone holding the railing, and then he was eaten by the female monster.

Xiong Qi saw that when they went up the mountain that day, the proprietress stopped the three young men to talk. Later, at the proprietress's reminder, everyone prepared to enter the mountain goddess temple one by one to worship.

So Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke concluded that the female monster must be connected to the proprietress.

Ruan Baijie chuckled, "Miss Jiang shared all the taboos with everyone. I didn't expect you to notice them beforehand and not even say a word."

Xiong Qi looked at Jiang Xinxin and scratched his head sheepishly. "Miss Jiang, it's not that I'm a mean person, but those of us who have been married many times are like this. We've seen too many noisy newcomers who either rely on a serious mentality of taking chances or who refuse to listen to advice and insist on having their own way, and end up losing their lives in vain."

There is no need for Xiongqi to explain what follows, as everyone knows it.

Therefore, the old people who have married into the family almost always ignore the new people. The more ruthless ones will even actively lure the new people into taking risks and treat them as consumables.

Jiang Xinxin was speechless. Normality does not mean correctness, but there was no point in saying it out loud.

Ruan Baijie took Jiang Xinxin and Ling Jiushi out to chat with the villagers, and someone really told the truth about what happened that year.

It turned out that there was a wolf plague in the village that year. The strong wild wolves harassed the villagers from time to time, causing them to lose livestock at best and be injured or even killed at worst. So the villagers organized themselves to dig a well as a shelter.

One day, a wolf plague struck and everyone went down the well to hide. However, the patriarch and the proprietress's daughter, Xiaojiu, was accidentally caught up by wild wolves while picking up a kaleidoscope. The patriarch wanted to go out to save his daughter but was stopped by the villagers.

Later, Xiaojiu died at the hands of a wolf, and there was no more wolf disaster in the village. Everyone said that Xiaojiu sacrificed himself to save the entire village.

But the landlady did not agree with this, so when someone came to visit her, she simply opened a tavern to specifically receive the visitor and send him to her daughter to feed her.

The patriarch was going to accompany his daughter, so he asked the bride to help him cut a tree to make a coffin.

After hearing the story of the female monster Xiaojiu, Ling Jiushi was in a very low mood. Jiang Xinxin couldn't help but shake her head, "Xiaojiu brought this incident upon herself."

Ling Jiushi looked at Jiang Xinxin in surprise. He didn't expect her to say such a thing.

Jiang Xinxin explained, "The villagers said that Xiaojiu was left behind because she wanted to pick up the kaleidoscope."

"Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if Xiaojiu has been spoiled by her parents. In such a tense situation, people do indeed do some incredible things out of excessive nervousness, but ignoring your own safety is foolish in itself."

Ruan Baijie also stood on Jiang Xinxin's side. "Yes, if the villagers are right, Xiaojiu died because of her own stupidity. But the series of events that followed were forced upon her by the villagers."

Back at the fire pit, Jiang Xinxin offered her analysis: "Perhaps the kaleidoscope is an important item to the female monster. Also, I believe she doesn't want to be confined to that mountain goddess temple. Perhaps she would rather die naturally."

Everyone searched everywhere but couldn't find the kaleidoscope. Now the only thing they could do was to gather the villagers and the female monster together and help her resolve her emotional issues.

Ruan Baijie and Ling Jiushi went to ring the big bell that was left behind to avoid the wolf plague. When the villagers heard the urgent bell, they thought the wolf plague had reappeared and hid underground.

Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke went to see the well together and lured out the female monster. Jiang Xinxin waited for an opportunity to help them escape. Finally, everyone gathered together in the passage under the well.

When Xiaojiu saw his parents and villagers, he finally stopped.

The villagers all knew that the female monster was Xiaojiu, so they acquiesced to the proprietress opening a tavern to lure passers-by to break taboos to fill Xiaojiu's stomach. Ling Jiushi despised these people for their selfishness in pushing Xiaojiu out for sacrifice, and also despised them for pushing other more innocent passers-by to sacrifice for Xiaojiu.

"...In the end, none of you have ever thought about Xiaojiu, never considering what Xiaojiu really wants!"

"Perhaps she wasn't originally going to become a female monster, but unfortunately died at the hands of a wild wolf. It was your various thoughts that alienated her, turning her into someone who now wears the skin of the mountain goddess, but is actually a White Walker!"

Jiang Xinxin simply reminded him coldly, "Since you insist on saying that Xiaojiu sacrificed himself to save the entire village, then you at least owe him a sincere thank you."

These villagers were very sensible. They knelt down one after another and kowtowed to express their gratitude to Xiaojiu. Xiaojiu was also a very soft-hearted girl. She easily forgave everyone and transformed from a female monster in a white dress and long hair back to her former round-faced cute girl.

The proprietress was the first to run over and hug her daughter, crying bitterly. The clan leader also followed and confessed that he had sacrificed Xiaojiu's bad behavior for the so-called clan leader's face and responsibility.

The clan leader did not mention that he wanted to commit suicide to accompany his daughter, but in Jiang Xinxin's opinion, this clan leader might be the most normal person in the village.

All the villagers quickly disappeared, and all that was left in front of everyone was a door and a key. With everyone's encouragement, Ling Jiushi picked up the key and opened the door, and everyone returned to the real world together.

And this door completely disappeared.