novelTele Chapter 69 seems manageable.
Chapter 69 seems manageable.
I got out of bed and opened the door.
With a creak, the door opened, but there was no one outside, only the back of a running figure.
Most people would be completely baffled in this situation, but Chen Feng had seen many horror movies and knew this plot point.
"According to the usual formula, this should be a character who knows everything. As long as I follow him and we get to a secluded place, he will explain the whole story to me."
"Of course, it's also possible that they'll tell me a bunch of riddles and leave me to find the answers myself."
But no matter what, it's better than having no clues at all.
Chen Feng decisively followed, only to find that the guy was running very fast and had no intention of being caught.
Something doesn't seem right.
Chen Feng suddenly accelerated and caught up with the other person, only to find that this person was neither the trafficked woman seeking help, nor the madman or old man who knew all the secrets often seen in horror movies.
He looks familiar. Isn't this one of the guys who's been lecherously staring at She Qingqing?
Chen Feng wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the young man seemed a little taller than when he first saw him.
Why were you knocking on the door?
Faced with Chen Feng's questioning, the young man retorted, "I don't like you, so I wanted to bother you and not let you sleep so comfortably."
Was it just a simple prank?
That's a lie.
If Chen Feng had just arrived in Cihang City, he might have been fooled, but now he's not buying it: "If you don't tell the truth, you're in for a rough time."
Seeing Chen Feng grab his hand, the young man panicked and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Snapped!
With a sharp crack, Chen Feng covered the other person's mouth with one hand and broke one of their fingers with the other.
"Ugh!"
Pain, discomfort, surprise, fear—countless expressions appeared on the young man's face.
Chen Feng said coldly, "Now I'm letting go. If you don't tell the truth or shout, it won't just be your fingers that get broken next."
The young man immediately nodded, indicating his submission.
After lowering his hand, the young man immediately said, "It's not my fault, the village chief told me to do it!"
I knew then that the village chief was up to no good.
Chen Feng revealed an expression of certainty and asked, "What did the village chief ask you to do?"
An hour ago, at the village chief's house.
The young men who were watching She Qingqing were lined up and receiving training.
The village chief slapped one of them across the face: "Look at you guys, so impatient! You almost scared the person away!"
"If you make the same mistake again, get out of the village!"
Faced with the reprimand, the young men looked at each other, and finally, one of them stepped forward to speak: "Great-Grandpa, we were wrong, but we've been single for too long. You always said we'd be next, but it's been so long!"
The village chief pondered for a moment: "Indeed, the village owes you a bit, but these two people seem quite troublesome. The woman is a bit naive and easy to fool, but the man is no pushover. He's tested me repeatedly. Maybe we should just let this go."
As the saying goes, a steady stream will eventually flow; there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.
The young man who was pushed forward got anxious: "Forget it? That woman has big breasts and a nice butt, she must be good at having children. Great-grandfather, you can't back down!"
Several people nearby also knelt down and said, "Please, Great-Grandpa."
After hesitating several times, the village chief finally relented, saying, "Alright, let's do it the old way. Remember, don't make a mistake!"
The group said happily, "We've done it so many times already, just you wait and see."
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After hearing the young man's description, Chen Feng was confused: "So you want to harm us, but what does it mean to just knock on the door?"
The young man said, "Brother, come with me to the stone tablet at the village entrance, and you'll see!"
Stone tablet?
Led by the young man, the two arrived at the village entrance.
The young man pointed to the sheet metal under the stone tablet and said, "Brother, there are words inside."
Chen Feng ripped the sheet metal apart with a single blow, and the force of the blow immediately sent a chill down the young man's spine.
Oh no, how did I manage to offend such a scourge!
Chen Feng was also dumbfounded, because under the character "色" (color) on the stone tablet was a strange tale of rules!
【Dear visitors, welcome to Color Village. To ensure your safety, please strictly abide by the following five rules.】
First: Don't eat food from strangers.
Second: Don't be alone with your partners.
Three: Do not stay overnight at a stranger's house.
4. Don't talk to strangers.
Five: Do not open the door to strangers.
[Violating the above rules may have serious consequences, such as being permanently barred from leaving the village.]
What the hell!
"Talk to them, open the door, spend the night, be alone, eat something."
Chen Feng wasn't being paranoid; there was indeed something wrong with the food, but the real issue wasn't poisoning, but rather the rules.
As long as you follow the rules, you won't be attacked by ghost stories; that's an ironclad rule.
But the villagers here hid all the rules, causing Chen Feng and She Qingqing to break them all.
The "Rules of the Strange" forum doesn't allow you to see the rules; it's incredibly sneaky.
Sometimes, the human heart is more terrifying than monsters.
Chen Feng had seen this sentence in more than one movie, anime, or novel, but now he finally understood its profound meaning.
"Tell me quickly, what will happen if you break the rules?"
Faced with Chen Feng's questioning, the young man snorted and said arrogantly, "If a woman breaks the rules, all her past experiences will be erased, and she will become an unregistered person who has lost all her memories. As for men, their age will be reduced, and they will become babies again."
Chen Feng gasped: "Cognitive pollution, brainwashing, and age reduction."
Even the monsters in a small mountain village have such amazing mechanics?
As expected of Cihang City!
The young man's expression was vicious: "Your woman has big breasts, I'll treat her well, and as a token of my gratitude, I'll raise you as a baby, make you my slave, call me 'Dad,' and watch me sleep with your wife."
It turned out to be the case.
Chen Feng could roughly guess.
It must have been decades or a hundred years ago when a villager discovered this strange tale. Then, they had a brilliant idea and decided to use the mechanism of this strange tale to seek personal gain.
In that case, everything makes sense.
No wonder the women here don't seem panicked after being trafficked; they've all lost their memories.
No wonder the middle-aged people here don't fight back when they are beaten and scolded; it turns out they have been turned into babies and raised as slaves from childhood to adulthood.
No wonder the village chief here is so young. They must be constantly updating their age by using ghost stories. That's why there are so many people in one family in this village. It's because their ancestors for eighteen generations are still alive!
Damn it, all these years.
Countless couples have fallen victim to their cruelty.
The more Chen Feng thought about this, the gloomier his expression became.
But the young man was no longer afraid. Looking at Chen Feng, who had shrunk considerably, he said smugly, "You've broken the rules now. Every so often, you'll become a year younger. At twenty-six, you might be very strong, but at sixteen, can you still beat me?"
The voice just fell.
The young man's head exploded instantly.
Chen Feng glanced at his hand, which had shrunk a bit, and said calmly, "Looks like I can still win."