Zhuge Ye took a moment to gather his thoughts.

Then, he leisurely sipped his tea.

Afterward, he gathered his thoughts again.

Picked at his ears.

Fiddled with his nails.

Squeezed a blackhead.

Dug at his nose...

Jiang Che: "Patience has its limits."

Zhuge Ye: "Alright, alright, I'm about to speak."

"Go ahead."

"Are you ready?"

Jiang Che took a deep breath, the murderous intent in his eyes growing stronger.

Zhuge Ye: "The villagers in this village are cannibals. The invitations to dine at their homes are just a ruse to poison us and then eat us!"

"You could tell from the road to the deputy village chief's house."

"And the darkness that descended earlier is likely the village's curse, or perhaps the encroachment of darkness, causing these changes in the villagers."

"We can only deduce so much about the challenge task for now, given the limited clues."

"However, the direction of the main task is now quite clear."

"Since the task requires us to find the village chief, the village chief must be missing. Why did the village chief go missing? How did it happen?"

"I think we can find the answer with the deputy village chief."

"In such a remote mountain village, a deputy village chief lives in a small villa, and his wife could be his granddaughter. It all seems suspicious."

"I think it's very likely that the deputy village chief killed the village chief! A coup to seize power and rule the entire village!"

"Wow, the deputy village chief has quite the ambition!" Zhuge Ye slapped his thigh and continued analyzing.

"From the situation this afternoon, the villagers are all very afraid of this deputy village chief."

"Underneath the deputy village chief's amiable facade, he must be a hideous devil!"

"Is there a problem with my deductions? No, there isn't."

"What we, as father and son, need to do next is tie up the deputy village chief! Torture him, and the main task should be completed."

"This D-level difficulty challenge is nothing more than this!"

"Besides these, do you have anything to add? You can't possibly have anything to add."

Jiang Che: "..."

Jiang Che rubbed his chin, sizing up Zhuge Ye.

Zhuge Ye: "o(´^｀)o"

"Please don't fall for me, I'm just a legend."

Jiang Che: "Are you really from the Zhuge family? Or do you just happen to have the surname Zhuge?"

The Zhuge family isn't one of the Mystic families in Tianqing City, but it's very famous, you could say it's a household name.

Rumor has it that everyone in the Zhuge family has a high IQ.

Therefore, in the Mystic World, where challenges emphasize mechanisms, the Zhuge family rose quickly and became famous.

But from Zhuge Ye's various behaviors, Jiang Che had his doubts.

However, Zhuge Ye was indignant, hands on his hips, fuming: "What? What's there to doubt?"

Jiang Che said, "Then how do you explain Gou Dan we met on the road, and the woman in the well at the village entrance?"

"When the darkness came, who appeared behind me?"

"Besides, there are many other doubts. If the villagers really wanted to eat us, the deputy village chief would certainly do the same."

"Why are we still unharmed?"

"Also, if you were the murderer, would you openly display the villa and young wife, which could become points of suspicion, in front of others?"

"You might as well write 'I'm the murderer' on your face."

"As for the dark encroachment, it could indeed be the village's curse."

"But since it's a curse, there must be someone who cast it."

"I observed earlier, the deputy village chief's strength at best is E-level, but his wife... she's hard to read."

Zhuge Ye: "Is it because she's wearing clothes?"

Jiang Che: "I mean her strength is hard to read."

Zhuge Ye: "Don't you want to see?"

Jiang Che: "..., do you have a way?"

Zhuge Ye: "No."

"Then why are you talking nonsense?!"

At that moment.

The piercing alarm sounded again.

"Woo—woo—"

"Here it comes again." Jiang Che frowned slightly.

Zhuge Ye also put away his cheeky smile, his expression turning serious.

"Woo—woo—"

It was already past 7 PM, and the sky was already quite dark.

But when the alarm sounded, the dim sky quickly became even darker.

Three minutes later.

Everything was engulfed in darkness, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

"......"

"......"

"Brother Che, do we have any plans?"

"No."

"Do you smell something?"

"I just farted."

Zhuge Ye: "??? Your butt, is it burnt?"

Jiang Che: "..., it seems like something's burning."

"Do you feel hot now?"

"What?"

"I mean, do you feel hot?"

"You mean warm..."

Zhuge Ye: "Yeah, I feel really hot, like I'm being cremated."

Jiang Che: "I didn't know you had such experience."

"Take out that bead of yours."

"I'm afraid..."

"Just take it out! Why so much nonsense?"

"You told me to put it away, now you want me to take it out... You wanted to separate, so we separated..." Zhuge Ye muttered softly.

Soon, a faint white light appeared.

However, when Jiang Che and Zhuge Ye saw the surroundings.

They were dumbfounded, eyes wide in disbelief.

"What, what happened here..."

The walls were peeling away.

The bed, windows, table, door.

Everything was "burning," rapidly turning to ash.

Yes, this time it wasn't decay, it was burning!

But there was no flame, no fire, just the signs of burning spreading continuously.

Gradually, the table turned into a pile of charcoal.

The bed became a heap of ashes, the door completely burned through.

The air was filled with countless ashes.

The pungent smell was suffocating, the oxygen rapidly depleting.

At this moment, screams suddenly came from outside.

"Don't, don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

"Ah—!!!"

"Hehehe..."

After the screams, came the laughter of a group of children.

It sounded eerie and uncanny.

At this time, Xiaoman spoke up: "The thing outside is strong, don't get yourself killed."

Jiang Che: "..., is it the Uncanny?"

Xiaoman: "Sort of, just don't get yourself killed."

Even Xiaoman had to be cautious?

Jiang Che swallowed hard, finally realizing the terror of a D-level difficulty.

And at this moment.

Zhuge Ye suddenly let out a scream.

"Eeeek—!!!"

Jiang Che: "What the hell are you screaming for?!"

Following Zhuge Ye's terrified gaze.

The deputy village chief had somehow appeared outside the door.

He leaned on a cane that was almost charcoal, his entire body charred black.

"You two are awake..."

"You fell asleep just now, Meier didn't wake you."

"Come down for dinner, we've been waiting."

"Customs, our village customs, don't mind..."

After speaking, the deputy village chief turned and walked back.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "pawread.com".

Zhuge Ye's voice trembled, "He's, he's a charred corpse, and he's inviting us... to dinner?"

"Could it be he wants to eat us?"

"I heard those burned to death are very fierce..."

"Brother Che... what do we do?"

"Are we really going down?"

Jiang Che: "It's so touching..."

Zhuge Ye: "What? What did you say?"

What's touching?

You must be out of your mind!

Watching Jiang Che head downstairs.

Though Zhuge Ye had a hundred thousand reasons not to, he still followed reluctantly.

God bless.

I am willing to sacrifice fifty years of Jiang Zihao's life,

In exchange for a safe journey for Brother Che and me...