Chapter 305: 301 This Is a Lie (Supplementary Chapter)

301 This Is a Lie (Supplementary Chapter)

"Didn't your parents teach you when you were little that you shouldn't just eat things you find outside?" Fang Mu sighed, complaining inwardly, though he knew this couldn't really be blamed on them; once bewitched by Abnormal factors, it was no longer something a normal human could resist.

Looking at the dejected Mo Longwei, Fang Mu simply pretended to be a Mysterious Investigator of this era, using it as an excuse to continue asking about other matters.

He himself had spent some time in the Xuanmi Group as "Extra-departmental Personnel," so pretending to be a Mysterious Investigator was not very difficult.

"You are also a Mysterious Investigator?" Who would have thought, when Mo Longwei heard Fang Mu's "self-exposure," he did not show much surprise. "What a coincidence, you have companions who have already entered the mountain one step ahead of you."

Fang Mu also raised an eyebrow in surprise, "Companions, two of them?"

Mo Longwei nodded, "One man and one woman."

Fang Mu understood; it turned out the other two "outsiders" registered at the inn were the two modern-day Mysterious Investigators, and they were following right behind his first-life self.

"Please, tell me the cause of the incident that changed the whole village, and the entire sequence of events up to now." Fang Mu asked Mo Longwei to recount it, and the latter quickly and obediently confessed everything.

After the Fang Mu of the first life and the tour guide Mo Guangning ignored advice and forcibly broke into the Anomalous Domain where Nong Mountain was located, Mo Longwei was very worried about his nephew's safety. So, after waiting two days without seeing them return from Nong Mountain, he immediately gathered a group of herb gatherers and hunters with experience in entering the mountain from the village, and had them enter Nong Mountain together to search for the whereabouts of his nephew and Fang Mu.

But after waiting another two days, the volunteer team returned, but they hadn't managed to bring back the people they were looking for; instead, they brought back a few strange-looking toads.

Their behavior at the time was very strange, as if they were bewitched or possessed. They treated those toads like trophies to show off, displaying them in front of every household in the village. As a result, after the villagers heard the croaking sounds made by those toads and made eye contact with them, they also became as strange as those who had returned from the mountain.

Of course, not everyone in the village was bewitched by those strange toads, but when those toads were put into a pot and boiled into soup, the villagers who hadn't been bewitched were forced to drink the soup because their bewitched family members shared it with them, and in the end, they also became like the bewitched people, turning into what they were now.

Mo Longwei had originally been about to drink that bowl of soup at the time, but he was saved by two passing Mysterious Investigators who destroyed the soup he was about to drink, which was how he escaped disaster.

But this was not absolute luck; good and bad in the world are always relative.

Those two Mysterious Investigators could not save all the villagers who drank the soup. Under the pursuit of those violent villagers, they also had to flee in a sorry state into Nong Mountain, both to escape and to resolve the Abnormal problem in Nong Mountain as soon as possible, which might lift the Curse hypnosis lingering over Wenya Tun.

Mo Longwei let the villagers who hadn't drunk the soup flee the village, and as the village chief, he had an obligation to watch over and protect the village; he could not just leave the cursed villagers to their own devices.

Fortunately, the curse of that bowl of soup only took effect at night when the villagers were asleep, so most of the time during the day recently was still a mundane daily life, but it became a scene of dancing demons once night fell.

He could only lock his doors and windows before night arrived, then hold a weapon and stand guard in his home, not daring to fall asleep, waiting for the dawn of hope to arrive and a new day to begin.

Staying up late at night and sleeping during the day—Mo Longwei had persisted in this day-night reversal for three days. Highly tense when awake and plagued by nightmares when asleep, Mo Longwei's mental state had already shown obvious problems.

He could occasionally see some strange hallucinations. The familiar-looking villagers he saw in broad daylight felt sometimes kind and sometimes manic. His fragile and sensitive nerves felt like they were being frantically sliced by a dull knife, torturing him to the point where he sometimes wanted to end it all.

The most critical thing was that Mo Longwei didn't even have anyone to talk to. He couldn't tell the villagers who were completely normal during the day that they would change at night; that would only make him a target for everyone and be seen as a madman.

Discovering Fang Mu breaking into the village tonight, Mo Longwei felt no sympathy or sorrow for Fang Mu; instead, he felt fortunate and pleased.

Finally, he could see a living person to share his story with!

Fang Mu finished listening to the story shared by Mo Longwei and roughly understood the entire course of events, but he did not believe Mo Longwei's version entirely.

"I see." After hearing Mo Longwei finish his story, Fang Mu felt rested enough and planned to set off under the cover of night.

Mo Longwei said anxiously, "Didn't you hear what I just said? It's too dangerous to go out now; those crazy villagers are searching for your whereabouts outside! Why not just rest here until dawn?"

"No, thank you." Fang Mu shook his head and refused Mo Longwei's suggestion.

Hearing the other party refuse so bluntly, Mo Longwei's expression sank immediately, but the gloomy look quickly recovered as if nothing had happened, and he said, "Then how about having a drink of water?"

Hearing this, Fang Mu was silent for a moment, then nodded, "Alright, then I'll trouble you; I happen to be thirsty."

Mo Longwei stood up, his movements agile: "Alright, I'll go get you some water now, comrade, please wait here."

He passed by Fang Mu, his footsteps hurried.

Fang Mu turned around, looked left and right, and picked up a massage stick placed on the wooden sofa. Holding the massage stick with its protruding rollers in his hand like a baseball bat, he smashed it directly onto Mo Longwei's head without warning.

Thud!

A muffled sound came from Mo Longwei's head, and his whole body shuddered on the spot before he suddenly collapsed to the ground, unable to rise.

Fang Mu threw the broken massage stick aside and looked down at the fallen Mo Longwei with a cold expression. He had not held back, nor did he want to care whether the other party lived or died.

This guy was truly dishonest, his words a mix of truth and lies. If he hadn't peeked into the houses of several villagers beforehand, he would have had no way to determine which parts of what Mo Longwei said were true and which were false.

First of all, Mo Longwei acted righteous, claiming repeatedly that he was the village chief and stayed behind for the sake of the villagers, but in reality, the first moment Fang Mu entered the door and saw him, he had already used his ability to peek at someone's behavior and appearance at a certain point in time, and saw the other party eating grilled strange toads.

Yes, the other party didn't drink the soup, but he ended up eating the meat. Don't look at how he appeared more normal than the people outside; in reality, he was already beyond saving.

Moreover, those lucky villagers who didn't drink the soup and weren't cursed likely didn't run out of the village, because if that were really the case, the outside world would have received word long ago. Not to mention whether the news media would be in an uproar, that group of Mysterious Investigators definitely wouldn't have been able to sit still and would have already come charging in in droves.

But none of that happened. Coupled with the fact that Soul Banners for mourning the dead were placed at the entrance of every household, all of this indicated that people had died in the village in the short term, and many people had died.

These things almost told Fang Mu that the bad news hadn't spread, and the villagers who wanted to leave the village but didn't escape had mostly already met their end.