"The streamer is so smart! I'm borrowing some of that intelligence."
"Damn, when the streamer speaks, I feel like I have no brain!"
"Letting ghost officers solve ghost problems, that's what you call professional expertise!"
The viewers in the live stream heard the conversation between the streamer and Uncle Feng.
Their expressions were much like those of Qi Liu and Liu Yao.
These thoughts, this line of reasoning,
It wasn't something ordinary people could easily come up with.
Was it because they were ghost officers? Encountering such strange matters often, hence the experience?
"Please, ghost buddies, give us more of this professional matching. Sending an invitation to the ghost officers (doge.jpg)"
"This is a high-stakes match."
"Huh, why is that beautiful woman in red still spinning around?"
...
The woman in the red dress was named Susan Shan.
Earlier, when Qi Liu asked her where she was before coming here,
She said she was at a friend's gathering.
In fact, that wasn't entirely true.
Midway through the gathering,
She felt a bit tired and decided to go outside for some fresh air.
Unexpectedly, at the door of another private room, she encountered her father and stepmother, bringing her half-sister to celebrate.
The air instantly froze.
She didn't say anything and turned to leave.
She didn't pay attention to which direction she was going.
After walking for a while, she soon heard footsteps behind her.
She quickened her pace, and the footsteps behind her also grew faster.
As she passed a corner of a private room, her vision suddenly went black.
When she could see her surroundings clearly again, she found herself in a forest.
There were unfamiliar people around her.
She had good reason to suspect she had been kidnapped.
Strangely, these people neither restricted her movements nor attacked her.
It looked more like...
They were playing a script-killing game.
Everyone was playing a role.
After painstakingly climbing the mountain for half a day, it was actually to plant trees?
And only one sapling?
Were they out of their minds?
At this moment, she felt like she had been recruited by some strange organization.
While these people were collecting saplings,
Susan Shan quickly slipped away.
As long as she could get down the mountain and find someone, or a mobile phone,
She could leave this place!
...
On the small path,
Jiang Lin and the other two watched the woman in the red dress walk towards them blankly, then walk back.
After walking back, she dazedly walked towards them again.
Her expression was vacant.
As if she had lost her soul.
"What's wrong with her?"
As a woman herself, Liu Yao instinctively paid more attention to the woman in the red dress.
Qi Liu mumbled, "I was wondering why I didn't see her just now. So she came out alone."
Seeing the woman in the red dress walking over again, Jiang Lin snapped his fingers.
*Snap!*
The woman's footsteps stopped.
Her eyes gradually regained clarity.
Upon seeing the three people in front of her, her expression froze, "Why are you here?"
Jiang Lin: "Where do you think you are?"
The woman in the red dress looked at Jiang Lin and blurted out:
"I'm not..." already home?
Before she could finish,
She noticed her surroundings and the scent of grass and trees filling the air.
Her face immediately turned pale.
Hypnosis? A ghost wall?
Everything that had happened today was too bizarre.
She was clearly scared, she wanted to escape...
But her first reaction was to look at Jiang Lin.
The one dressed like an ordinary person, yet with such familiar features.
"You... what should I do?"
She wanted to ask, are you the streamer?
But at this moment, she was more eager to know how to deal with this strange situation.
Jiang Lin's answer was also concise: "Go back and plant trees, water them. Before dark, move into the house arranged by the village."
After watching the woman in the red dress hurry back to the open space.
Jiang Lin and the other two continued down the mountain.
Liu Yao guessed, "Could it be that you can't go down the mountain if you don't plant trees?"
Qi Liu stroked his chin, "If this is truly a horror game, planting trees must be a mandatory condition, otherwise the plot wouldn't be able to proceed."
After discovering the streamer, he had hidden his precious computer in the bushes.
At this time, the computer was useless without internet and was just a hindrance.
Seeing that the two were thinking seriously, Jiang Lin offered a hint:
"Why did Uncle Feng plant saplings on the mountain?"
Qi Liu, with his sharp mind, quickly replied, "Because the mountain treasure was stolen, and half the mountain became barren?
As a forest ranger, he must want the mountain to return to its original state."
Although Liu Yao was a step behind, she also racked her brains to recall useful information.
"Uncle Feng mentioned environmental pollution and deforestation. This is an environmental tree-planting activity."
Uncle Feng also said he hoped more volunteers would join.
In the live stream,
The viewers were also actively answering.
But they were all saying the same few points.
All the information they knew was revealed by Uncle Feng.
"Did the streamer discover something new?"
"Is there something I overlooked?? That shouldn't be the case."
"I'll tell you a joke, my brain left home this morning."
...
After Qi Liu and Liu Yao had finished speaking,
Jiang Lin nodded slightly, continuing down the mountain, and said to the two:
"Uncle Feng mentioned before that this mountain was once called Mount Fu."
"After the mountain treasure was stolen, the entire village pursued it together."
Both of these points were enough to illustrate the mountain's importance in the villagers' hearts.
However,
"Now half the mountain is bare, why is only Uncle Feng diligently planting trees? Why aren't any villagers helping?"
Upon hearing Jiang Lin's analysis,
The two junior followers, as well as the viewers, suddenly had an epiphany.
That's right!
Why weren't the villagers helping?
Normally, even if adults were busy, children would play on the mountain and help out.
Qi Liu thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that the villagers are afraid of the mountain spirits and dare not come up?"
As soon as he said this,
He realized the contradiction himself, "No, the mountain spirits don't come out during the day."
Liu Yao added, "Besides, Uncle Feng also said that the mountain spirits dislike the spring water of Yingying Mountain, so even if they couldn't get down the mountain in time, they wouldn't be immediately troubled by the mountain spirits."
Before the streamer mentioned it,
The two hadn't thought much of it,
But now, upon careful analysis, everything felt wrong.
Villagers, Uncle Feng, mountain spirits, spring water...
All were suspicious.
Jiang Lin gave the two some time to think, and finally concluded:
"Looking at it from this perspective, there are three possibilities."
"One, the villagers believe that planting trees is useless for the restoration of the mountain.
Two, Uncle Feng is lying, and the spring water is ineffective against the mountain spirits.
Three, after the mountain treasure was stolen, a more terrifying entity appeared on the mountain, making the villagers avoid it at all costs.
But if it's the third point, we need to consider the function of the mountain treasure.
Is it to protect the mountain, or to suppress evil?"
"Of course, these are all just speculations for now.
After watering the saplings and meeting the villagers, we might be able to get some new information."
...
[This player's mind is too active. I feel like they can clear this level in three or four days, not seven.]
[? I always thought this was just a tree-planting level to torment players. There's actually so much plot in it??]
[Same here.]
The bullet comments in the sky were filled with confusion.
And a bit of bewilderment.
They had always thought this was a brainless prank game.
Turns out it requires a brain??
... But what does that matter? They were just here to watch the players struggle for survival.
The harder the players tried, the more spectacular their expressions would be when they died.
...