Yin Xiu paused for a moment, looked down at the diary for a few seconds, and finally said slowly, "...They were locked up outside the town."
"You can find them as soon as you leave the town."
The little girl's expression relaxed slightly. "Really?"
Yin Xiu nodded.
The little girl's expression finally relaxed, and she smiled, "I believe in my brother."
The players around them clicked their tongues and shook their heads. Just by looking at the house, they could tell that the two people were gone. Only the little girl could be so foolish as to believe Yin Xiu.
However, after Yin Xiu raised his eyes and gave them a threatening look, they dared not open their mouths to expose him again.
Yin Xiu looked down and flipped through the diary again. Among a bunch of blurry records, he found a message that vaguely revealed information about the statue in the square.
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22nd
Recently, many women have gone missing in town, all of them beautiful young girls. Everyone is very worried about their daughters and dares not let them out during the day anymore.
Some people speculated that this situation started after the new mayor took office, and wondered if it was related to him, but no one dared to bring it up, and no one saw him associating with those women.
The people who disappeared seemed to have evaporated from the town; there wasn't even a body. It was very strange.
27th
The Wang family's daughter is pregnant, and she's not even married yet.
That smart, quick-witted, and self-reliant girl rarely acted so confused. Her family didn't even know who the man was, and no one could get any information out of her. A while ago, someone saw her walking with the town mayor, and everyone suspected that she had become the mayor's woman, but still no one mentioned it. Everyone kept it as a secret, or as something to talk about after dinner.
The poor girl's mood deteriorated after she became pregnant. She often said that she saw many dead people. Everyone just thought it was pre-pregnancy anxiety, but the mayor still did not respond.
24th
Several months have passed, and the Wang family's daughter has suddenly disappeared. Everyone suspects that it is related to the town mayor, but several powerful families in the town have rallied together and sided with the mayor. The Wang family doesn't even have a place to seek justice and can only spend their days in tears.
Sigh, I miss my daughter.
8th
The Wang family's daughter has been found, along with the bodies of the missing persons, in an abandoned house outside the town.
When they found her, Wang's daughter had gone mad, sitting amidst the pile of corpses, crying and searching for her child.
She became very agitated when she saw the mayor and rushed up to kill him, but was held down by the others.
How terrifying... all those missing people were turned into specimens...
11th
The mayor said that the missing people were all killed by the Wang family's daughter. This woman had gone mad and wanted to avenge the dead, so he wanted to kill her in the square.
Sigh, I don't dare to go and see. Everyone knows what's going on, but no one is speaking up. The atmosphere in town has been very tense these past few days.
The poor girl's cries were so pitiful. I hope the same thing won't happen again in the town.
14th
People are still going missing in town, and it's not just women anymore; some good-looking, handsome young men have all disappeared.
Still, no one spoke up.
18th
A thick fog inexplicably descended upon the town. Some said they saw the dead Wang family girl in the fog, and that she was still searching for her child. Everyone they encountered died, and the town mayor began forbidding people from going out during the day.
Things are getting stranger and stranger in the town. People are getting sick one after another, and black hair is starting to grow on their bodies. The mayor says that they are cursed by the Wang family's daughter, and everyone is going to her house to make a scene.
23rd
As more and more people died in the town, the mayor decided to exhume the body of the Wang family's daughter and perform a ritual in the square to seal her inside.
The price was to offer a sacrifice every day. At first, no one agreed, but after it was confirmed that the first sacrifice was from the royal family, they agreed.
What a tragedy! To avoid being killed by the Wang family's daughter, the town has started making regular sacrifices. This place is doomed sooner or later.
3rd
The mayor built a new house in the square, supposedly to ward off evil spirits, but for some reason, after the house was built, more people went missing in the town.
All the people who disappeared were good-looking, and you could even occasionally see people who didn't belong to the town in the houses.
Sometimes when I pass by that house, it's like I can hear a lot of people shouting. It's so eerie. I think I have to leave here as soon as possible.
10th
I'm afraid I won't be able to leave the town for a while. My daughter is bringing her granddaughter to stay in town for a period of time.
Let's postpone the trip for now, and leave in a while.
I hope everything is alright.
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The last few pages of the diary describe Ya Ya's daily life in the small town. Aside from some of the strange parts, it's still a happy and harmonious story.
Until the 14th, when Ya Ya touched the altar, things weren't so happy anymore.
After reading the diary, Yin Xiu was basically certain that all the strange occurrences in the town started with the town mayor.
He flipped through several pages, recalling his conversation with the woman last night, and muttered, "It seems that what that woman said was true; the mayor is indeed no good."
Li Mo nodded quietly to the side.
"Have you finished reading? Let us see it too." Seeing that Yin Xiu and Zhong Mu had finished reading the diary, the others were also itching to see it.
Yin Xiu calmly handed it over, then turned and took the little girl's hand. "Do you know where your grandmother's basement is?"
The little girl shook her head. "I don't know. Does Grandma's house have a basement?"
The little girl didn't know, so she had to find it herself.
Yin Xiu then led the little girl around the house to check it out. They went to the mother's room, the grandmother's room, and finally Ya Ya's room.
Ya Ya's room was still decorated very cutely, with many pretty dolls and colorful decorations. Opening the wardrobe, you could see many pretty little dresses in various colors, mostly red, neatly folded and piled in the corner of the wardrobe.
"Ya Ya's favorite color is actually red, right?" Yin Xiu asked, tilting his head.
The little girl's eyes lit up. "How did you know, brother?"
Yin Xiu smiled and patted her hair, then led her to turn around and search for the basement.
The house wasn't big, and the basement wasn't hard to find. In old houses, the basement will eventually reveal signs of frequent comings and goings.
Yin Xiu finally found the entrance to a secret passage under his grandmother's table. By moving the table and lifting the floorboards, he could see a ladder.
Just in case there was anything unpleasant to see down there, he told the little girl to wait up there while he rolled down to take a look.
My grandmother was probably a person who took precautions. The basement contained some supplies, canned water, medicines, and daily necessities for the residents.
The area where medicines are stored is carefully categorized, with medicines for adults, medicines for children, and medicines for various diseases. Ya Ya's medicine is placed separately in a compartment on the cabinet and labeled with Ya Ya's name.
Just as Grandma wrote in her diary, some other medicines had recently been mixed into Ya Ya's medication. There were not only blue pills, but also red, brown, and white pills.
Yin Xiu pondered for a few seconds, took the blue medicine according to the rules, and casually put the red medicine into his pocket as well, then climbed up.
When he came up, he didn't see the little girl at the basement entrance; she was standing in front of the table, staring blankly at the photos on it.
"What are you looking at?"
"Mom and Grandma." The little girl looked up and pointed to the three people in the photo. It was a picture of her, her mother, and her grandmother. The photo was taken in this house, and the peaceful and harmonious scene, with the happy people, contrasted sharply with the chaotic state of the house now.
Yin Xiu didn't know what to say, but the little girl suddenly reached out and tugged at Yin Xiu's sleeve, looked up and said earnestly, "Brother, I want a knife."
Her childish voice sounded unusually calm, without any ripples, but what she was seeking in her words was not something ordinary.
Yin Xiu was taken aback; he really hadn't expected her to suddenly ask for this.
Dungeon Survival Rule Four: Do not give the little girl any weapons.
but...
Second rule for survival in the instance: You cannot refuse the little girl's request.
He fell silent immediately.