flstandardbreds Chapter 134 Easter Egg
Chapter 134 Easter Egg
When Jiang Qi entered the villa carrying a bag of mung bean cakes, Chi Miaomiao had already finished showering and changing her clothes, except for her hair which was still wet.
At the beginning, Chi Miaomiao was disheveled and her face was dirty.
The original clothes were old and dirty, covered with patches and unidentified stains, and the edges of the garments were severely worn.
The shoes were also tattered, with a hole in the toe area, leaving the toes almost completely exposed.
Now, after Lu Xue, Chu Qidie and Xu Yan's remark.
After changing into a new and thick cotton-padded coat, Chi Miaomiao looked much more energetic.
Chi Miaomiao huddled on the sofa, almost timidly.
She can face malice with composure, but seems at a loss when faced with kindness.
After eating something, her complexion became rosy.
She couldn't take her eyes off the mung bean cakes Jiang Qi had placed on the table.
Lin Wanchu didn't join them. She lazily leaned against the small sofa and slowly picked up a round, peeled grape and put it in her mouth.
Sure enough, the fruit washed by Wall's is delicious.
Lin Wanchu squinted her eyes contentedly; everywhere was comfortable outside the dungeon.
Chi Miaomiao's hair was dried by the wind. Lu Xue saw what she was thinking and gave her some mung bean cake to eat.
She didn't care about her table manners at all, wolfing down the mung bean cakes, when a tear fell down without warning.
But Chi Miaomiao was still smiling. As the three men watched her cry, they hurriedly handed her tissues.
In this situation, Lu Zhi lay slumped to the side, looking at his brother. He clenched his fist, pressed it against his lips to suppress a laugh, and smiled.
Lu Xue couldn't help but burst into laughter, which made Chu Qidie and Xu Yan also chuckle.
It wouldn't be difficult for them to accept their new companions; in fact, there were concerns that Chi Miaomiao might not adapt well.
Since the dungeon ended, the system hasn't released any messages, probably because they're dealing with Mo Yuan's matter.
More importantly, the inventory for the sisters Qiqi and Qiqi is still grayed out.
Unfortunately, Jiang Qi's wish came true.
The system voice suddenly rang in his mind. Looking at the expressions of the people around him, Jiang Qi understood that this was not just directed at him.
The system, which had been inactive for a long time, finally went into overdrive.
The news came one after another.
[Dear player, the Nightmare Game System update is complete. Your personal panel has been updated. Please check it.]
[Congratulations on successfully clearing the [Miao Territory Gu Village] dungeon. Each member of your team has received a total of 3000 points upon completion.]
[Ding dong, congratulations to player Jiang Qi for triggering the Easter egg—the last Fallen Flower Cave Maiden of Peach Blossom Village.]
[This instance has collapsed, permanently closing. Players have achieved the open-end ending; no rewards are given.]
Please choose whether or not to view the above information.
【Yes】
Permanently delete
Jiang Qi chose to check his updated personal panel first.
[HP: 100/100]
Stamina: 100/100
[Spirit value: 120/100]
[Luck Value: 1/100] (It seems I'm not only an unlucky person, but my luck value can also decrease, which is quite surprising to the system.)
[Talent: ???] (Error code, cannot be detected. There are talents that the system can't detect?)
[Inherited Talent: Not Activated]
Before Jiang Qi could ponder what those three question marks meant, he quickly clicked on the dungeon's easter egg.
This Easter egg is something that happened after Wall's personal experience.
And that boy has become the same boy he always was, no longer Yuan Qi.
But the wishes they made were exactly the same.
The boy's original name was Mo Yi, and he was the only child in his family.
The entire Easter egg unfolds from Mo Yuan's perspective.
Mo Yi wanted to take Mo Yuan away, so he began to plan how to escape the village chief's surveillance.
Untie Mo Yuan's restraints and the chains on her feet, and take her away.
Mo Qing, the simpleton who went up the mountain to deliver food to the woman in Luohua Cave, let slip that Mo Yi overheard that the key to the shackles had always been kept by the village chief.
News from the village was still carried up the mountain in Mo Qing's food basket.
At first, the man who made the initial wish did indeed make him rich.
I heard he went to the city to buy a lottery ticket and won a grand prize of tens of thousands of yuan.
Now they eat meat and fish every day, and live a more comfortable life than everyone else in the village.
The mother even found a wife for her son, but the two of them didn't cherish her after getting her. They treated her like a beast of burden, beating and scolding her at every turn.
The wife didn't run away. Every time she was beaten, she would sit alone by the roadside in front of her house and cry. After crying for a while, she would obediently go back to cook.
The villagers all said that the woman was a daughter-in-law bestowed upon the Mo family by the mountain god, and that she couldn't escape even if she wanted to.
Mo Yilei went up the mountain every day without fail to share with her his plan to help Mo Yuan escape.
Seeing the growing anticipation in Mo Yuan's eyes, he always smiled broadly, his eyebrows and eyes hidden in the flickering candlelight.
That day, Mo Yi secretly told Mo Yuan that he had stolen the key to unlock her anklet from the village chief's house and would take her away the next morning.
However, plans cannot keep up with changes.
The next morning, as soon as Mo Yi and Mo Yuan emerged from the cave, they were surrounded by villagers who had rushed over, with the village chief standing at the front.
Seeing that things were not going well, Mo Yi shook off Mo Yuan's hand and said excitedly, "It has nothing to do with me. She seduced me and wanted me to take her away. She even said that if I didn't agree, she would let the mountain god punish me. I had no choice but to steal the steel key from the village chief's house."
Mo Yuan froze on the spot, never expecting him to betray him and shift the blame onto her.
However, the villagers unanimously believed that Mo Yi was talking nonsense, so they kidnapped him.
He hadn't expected things to turn out this way, and struggled to look at Mo Yuan.
Mo Yuan looked at Mo Yi, who had been kidnapped, and smiled without saying a word.
She was locked back in the stone cave.
In the evening, Mo Qing brought food to Mo Yuan and told her that Uncle Mo had made a scene with the village chief, demanding that he release Mo Yi.
The village chief naturally wouldn't agree.
In a fit of anger, Uncle Mo said he would leave the village to call the police and have them rescue his son.
Unexpectedly, they encountered a rockfall on the mountain road. The rockfall knocked Uncle Mo and his car into a ravine and blocked the road out of the village.
Hearing the noise, the villagers worked together to lift him out of the ditch.
Although he survived, he remained unconscious in bed.
After examining Uncle Mo, the village's barefoot doctor shook his head. He said that Uncle Mo had been hit on the head and would probably be bedridden for the rest of his life.
The villagers were all saying that Uncle Mo was injured because he had angered the mountain god and was being punished by him.
Therefore, Peach Blossom Village must seize the time to hold a sacrificial ceremony to appease the mountain god's anger.
Otherwise, the mountain god will begin to punish the other villagers.
According to Mo Qing, people had piled up a stack of firewood almost as tall as two people in the center of the village.
Mo Yi was threatened with death and tried many ways to escape, but each time he failed.
Of course, each failed escape attempt resulted in a severe beating, the worst of which resulted in both of his legs being broken, rendering him unable to escape again.
At dusk, Mo Qing took a steel key out of her pocket, saying that the village chief had asked her to bring it up.
She blinked and asked Mo Yuan, "Should we go see him?"
Mo Yuan nodded.
Late at night, in the ancestral hall, Mo Yuan saw Mo Yi, who was covered in blood.
Mo Yi opened her eyes and was stunned to see Mo Yuan. Then she scrambled over on all fours, reaching out to grab her, her voice hoarse: "You, why are you able to come down the mountain?"
"Didn't we say we couldn't leave the cave? Didn't we say we'd be punished by heaven?"
Mo Yuan crouched down to be at eye level with him, his expression sorrowful: "I heard you're not doing well, so I wanted to come and see you."
Mo Yi looked at him with a fierce gaze, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
"Don't pretend to be a good person now. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be in this state now!"
"Bitch!"
Mo Yi tried to betray Mo Yuan but failed, and instead blamed her for the mistake.
Mo Yuan's expression changed slightly for a moment, but upon hearing the term "bitch," he frowned, as if he had thought of something bad.
Seeing Mo Yuan's pained expression, Mo Yi finally felt a sense of satisfaction, and said in a malicious tone, "No way? You don't really believe that I meant to take you away from the village, do you?"
"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. What kind of bullshit Falling Flower Cave Girl is this? What kind of trash Mountain God Bride is this? They can't even tell the truth from a lie."
"You don't know, do you? Everything I said was a lie. I just wanted to see you betray your promise and be abandoned by the whole village. People like you should be locked in this cave forever to rot and stink!"
Mo Yi finally spoke her mind, and became completely frantic.
The reaction he had imagined—Mo Yuan breaking down and crying upon learning the truth—did not occur.
It took him a while to realize something was wrong. He stopped laughing and stared intently at Mo Yuan.
They happened to be looking directly at Mo Yuan's smile, illuminated by the kerosene lamp.
"You're right, I can't live without you."
"All the promises I made to you were lies. I just wanted to see you abandoned by the whole village."
Mo Yuan returned the same words to Mo Yi verbatim.
Mo Yuan continued speaking with a smile.
"You probably don't know yet, but your wish has already come true."
Mo Yi couldn't help but shudder and screamed at Mo Yuan in terror.
Despite his shouts and yells behind him, Mo Yuan was taken away by the village chief.
From that day on, Peach Blossom Village entered a prolonged rainy season.
In the short three days leading up to the sacrificial ceremony, many things happened in Peach Blossom Village.
At first, it was Mo Yi.
He gambled away all the money he won from buying lottery tickets, and ended up with a mountain of debt. He was beaten half to death by the debt collectors.
My wife accidentally fell into the river and drowned.
In the dead of night, he went berserk and set his own house on fire. Dragging his broken leg, he got up and hanged himself from a beam in his own house with a rope.
Next up was Aunt Mo's house.
Aunt Mo's daughter-in-law, heavily pregnant, was caught having an affair with the widower next door. During the struggle, she lost her footing and fell, causing her to go into labor prematurely.
With the help of the village midwife, a stillborn baby was born after a whole night.
The woman couldn't bear the shock, suffered a postpartum hemorrhage, and ultimately died on the delivery bed.
Not a single one was saved.
……
The first few people whose wishes came true all encountered misfortunes one after another.
The villagers were filled with fear, everyone saying that the mountain god was truly angry this time.
In just three days, an atmosphere of despair enveloped the entire Peach Blossom Village.
The sacrificial ceremony to Heaven was held as scheduled amidst great anticipation.
On the day of the ceremony, Mo Yuan was "invited down the mountain".
The village chief declared that the woman from Luohua Cave must witness the death of the traitor with her own eyes and then return to tell the mountain god what she had seen and heard. Only then would the mountain god feel the sincerity of the villagers.
Only in this way can Peach Blossom Village be forgiven and willingly continue to be protected.
Mo Yuan was still wearing her bright red wedding dress and was placed on a chair, while Mo Yi was covered in dried blood and tied to a wooden stake.
Under the woodpile, a "master" hired by the village chief at great expense was performing a ritual, wearing a ferocious mask and chanting incantations.
Two shirtless men stood nearby, with several jars of strong liquor at their feet and torches in their hands.
As death loomed, Mo Yi struggled to spit out the rag stuffed in his mouth, his eyes wide with fury as he roared at the villagers.
"Liar! Liar! This woman is a fraud. There is no such thing as a mountain god. You've all been fooled by her!"
"Let me go! You're killing people! Murder is illegal! You'll all be arrested and shot!"
Unfortunately, no one believed him. The villagers knelt down devoutly, clasped their hands together, and prayed to the mountain god for forgiveness. The ceremony continued.
He got tired of yelling and started crying again, his face covered in snot.
"Let me go! My family has a lot of money. I know my dad's bank card PIN. I'll withdraw all the money and give it to you. Please let me go."
"Waaah, I'm still young, I don't want to die."
Father, please save me!
Unfortunately, his father couldn't get there in time to save him.
Everyone looked up at him, listening to him cry and curse intermittently, their expressions numb.
When it comes to one's own interests, what does the death of one person matter?
If only the mountain god would forgive them and continue to grant their wishes.
Everyone thinks so.
The villagers are apathetic and ignorant; only self-interest can sway them.
Mo Yuan sat in his chair, coldly watching Mo Yi go mad.
Seeing him gradually break down, the master performing the ritual stopped, then picked up the wine jar from the ground and smashed it hard against the pile of firewood.
Watching the flames soar into the sky, the tongues of fire licking upwards, almost distorting the entire space.
Mo Yi's screams gradually subsided amidst the crackling of burning firewood, eventually fading into complete silence.
Hundreds of villagers knelt on the ground and cried out, "We beg the mountain god to show his power, forgive us, and protect us."
A torrential downpour began.
The villagers braved the rain to collect the remaining bones after the fire, handed them over to the village chief, and then went home.
According to custom, the remains of a punished sinner are wrapped in burlap and thrown into the river so that the floodwaters can wash away their sins.
Everyone else has left, leaving only Mo Yuan and the village chief.
Peach Blossom Village has a legend of a mountain god since ancient times, but no one has ever actually survived the torment of endless darkness.
Only Mo Yuan survived; the other four either died or went mad.
She was even forced to give birth to a child, and if the child was not satisfactory, it would be thrown into a baby tower.
Mo Yuan lived like a walking corpse, sustained only by the thought of revenge.
Mo Yi's dying words were true; the whole thing was a hoax, a conspiracy.
It was a lie fabricated by the village chief using external forces.
Only by diligently verifying the story of the mountain god's miraculous appearance could they continue so many dirty deals.
The village chief did all this simply to make money.
Of course, he also made a fortune.
With the passage of time, the initial panic and trepidation have long since become insignificant.
Those men probably can't even remember what the victims looked like; only the victims remain forever trapped in the abyss.
Everyone in Peach Blossom Village believed in the mountain god, except for Mo Yuan and the village chief.
If there really is a mountain god in the world, then he must be a god who is blind in both eyes and mind.
Otherwise, why do so many female victims suffer so much pain while those who harm them live carefree and happy lives?
Therefore, Mo Yuan decided to use the name of the mountain god to make the entire village pay for it.
The village did not receive the mountain god's forgiveness and protection as expected.
Instead, this angered the true gods.
In the end, the entire village died at Mo Yuan's hands. Her proud Gu-raising technique eventually turned into a harmful witchcraft.
Everything ends where it began.
The village chief was the last to die, and his death was the most tragic.
When the village chief was tied up in the stone cave by Mo Yuan, he still looked incredulous. She reached out and patted the village chief's face.
“Everyone in this village deserves to die. They are selfish and greedy, only caring about their own interests and not about the lives of others.”
He then grabbed the village chief's hair again, forcing his head back, and whispered in his ear in a chilling tone: "Even if there really are gods in the world, they will not favor them; they will only despise them."
"You don't know yet, do you? I killed everyone in the village."
The stone gate behind them fell down, Mo Yuan's right hand was covered in blood, and he held Mo Qing's hand with his left hand as they walked further and further away.
The Easter egg ended there, and Jiang Qi was still in a daze for a long time. Lu Zhi, who was next to him, squeezed his fingers reassuringly.
It turns out that the dungeon was ultimately just a mirage, a beautiful vision created by Mo Yuan.
The cycle continues, and it's unclear whether it's a punishment for the villagers or for herself.