Strange story player

"jingle--"

A clear bell rang, and two figures suddenly appeared outside Huaian Community in the old city in the south of the city.

Under the dim moonlight, the tall old locust trees quietly stretched out their branches and enveloped the entire neighborhood.

When everything condensed into essence and appeared in front of Xu Yan, he finally came back to his senses.

Thinking back to what happened just now, Zhong Xueran woke up and used the [Sanqing Bell] to escape from the twisted shadow and travel through most of the city to the predetermined location of the game [Huaian Community].

Wait, what happened from Zhong Xueran's perspective?

Xu Yi turned back to look at her.

I saw Zhong Xueran standing sideways under the moonlight, the moonlight shining on her face that had become completely unfamiliar, but the sparkle in her eyes proved that she was still Zhong Xueran at this moment, and not someone else.

"Remember to owe me a favor."

Zhong Xueran turned around and looked at Xu Yi with a smile on his face.

"Why did you bring me here?" Xu Yi walked to her side and asked aloud.

"I saw it." Zhong Xueran said.

"When I turned into her, her memory was also showing off to me unprotectedly."

Her explanation helped Xu Yiyou understand what the so-called beneficial information actually meant.

If a man and a woman go to face the curse of the red sedan chair together, and the woman can get the relevant memories of the ghost, that is indeed rare and beneficial information.

But obviously, the price to pay for obtaining this information is also extremely heavy. She may become irreversibly a female ghost until she dies.

Male players will also be irreversibly sacrificed to lose their vitality.

This is simply a way to survive.

"The root of this strange story is indeed the wedding dress."

she says.

"Which wedding dress?" Xu Yi asked.

"Let me tell you a story."

Zhong Xueran turned his head, looked at Xu Yi, and said.

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The old south area of ​​Fucheng is not only an old city, but also has many strange traditions and crafts.

Sewing traditional wedding dresses is one of them.

Shen Hong's father, Shen Yi, is the inheritor of traditional wedding dress craftsmanship.

But Shen Yi did not pass this craft to his daughter Shen Hong, but to his disciple Liu Junyan.

Because Liu Junyan's craftsmanship and ingenuity are much better than Shen Hong's, in Shen Yi's view, teaching Liu Junyan this craft can not only pass on the mantle, but may even carry it forward.

Traditional wedding dresses are always made by hand, stitch by stitch, embodying the highest level of dyeing and embroidery technology.

The tailoring method is also unique. Every pattern and every detail has a clear meaning. The traditional ideas of "harmony between man and nature" and "Tao follows nature" should also be included in the patterns and styles of the wedding dress. This is really no small project. .

Making a wedding dress is extremely labor-intensive.

Shen Yi's bridal clothing store is also closed for half a year and only open for half a year. His production is so exquisite and sophisticated that he has won the love of almost everyone in the old city.

However, just over a month ago, strange things gradually happened in the Shen family.

Logically speaking, it should be a happy event, because Liu Junyan, the heir to the Shen family, and Shen Hong, the only daughter of the Shen family, are about to get married.

But good things are approaching, but the wedding dress has never been completed.

For Shen Yi, of course he should wear the best wedding dress for his daughter's wedding. For Liu Junyan, of course, his new wife's wedding dress should be designed by herself.

The two men did not argue. They just focused on designing their wedding dresses and let Shen Hong choose them after they were made.

But……

More and more materials were consumed, and the state of the two people became more and more strange.

Shen Hong's mother passed away early, but she could occasionally hear her father talking to people outside his studio.

While they were talking, the person they were talking to was actually their mother!

But when she pushed the door open to take a closer look, she found that her father was just talking to a red wedding dress that had just been cut out.

After seeing Shen Hong enter the house without saying hello, Shen Yi became even more furious: "Who asked you to come in!"

"Get out! Get out!"

Her father drove her away with red eyes, tore off the half-finished wedding dress and threw it on the ground like garbage.

Shen Hong felt that her father's condition was a bit scary, so she went to discuss it with her husband Liu Junyan.

But when she saw Liu Junyan's appearance, she was immediately stunned.

Liu Junyan seemed to have been sucked dry of his flesh and blood. He looked haggard. He huddled on the ground, holding his head in pain. He looked at the exquisite red wedding dress and murmured:

"I won't do it anymore...I won't make wedding dresses anymore..."

"Brother Liu, what's wrong with you?" Shen Hong felt particularly distressed.

The two most important men in her life were both making wedding dresses for her, but one became irritable and the other became haggard, which was really hard for her to accept.

"I won't do it...Brother Liu, I won't wear a wedding dress anymore! Let's just get married like this, it doesn't matter..."

She hugged Liu Junyan and cried.

But Liu Junyan shook his head in despair: "I can't stop..."

"I don't want to make this dress...but...I can't stop!"

Shen Hong was shocked by her husband's words. She didn't understand what Liu Junyan meant by not being able to stop. She just felt that if she continued to do this, her father and husband would have big problems.

So, regardless of what her father and husband thought, she snatched all their clothing materials, piled them in the yard, and burned them!

Liu Junyan and Shen Yi went to put out the fire like crazy and rescue the semi-finished wedding dress, but in the end it was burned to ashes.

She thought her life would get back on track next.

But……

Shen Hong gradually began to feel that something was wrong with her father and Liu Junyan's spirits.

The two of them began to talk to themselves in the air and in the corners. Occasionally they would get up in the middle of the night and stare at the mirror in a daze with their clothes, without saying a word for a long time.

Every time she saw that scene, she couldn't help but feel scared.

She wanted to take the two men to see a psychiatrist, but she could not take the two men away by force.

Those two people...the way they looked at her sometimes gave her goosebumps all over her body.

In early November, she suddenly fell ill.

She herself couldn't explain why, but her body suddenly fell ill.

Her husband and father seemed to suddenly return to normal, busy around her, and taking care of her with all their heart.

But her illness continued to get worse.

She was so weak that she couldn't get up at all, and the two men were still unwilling to take her to the hospital.

She could only lie helplessly on the hospital bed, feeling her body getting weaker day by day.

That day... when she was so ill and unconscious, she suddenly felt something cold moving on her arm, but she was too tired and weak to open her eyes at all.

When she woke up, her left hand was bloody and the skin had been peeled off.

Then, she felt her calf was cold, as if some sharp blade had been scratched on it...

The shadows of two men were squatting beside the bed, their hands flashing with cold light, as if they were busy with something.

Every day after that, a piece of skin was lost on her body.

Until...she saw her "father" and "husband" standing beside the bed, cutting open her abdomen with a shining cold blade, and taking off the abdominal skin. The two men's eyes flashed with inhumanity. Excited look.

"This is the best material..."

"We will definitely make the best wedding dress!"

"whee……"

"..."

"I don't want to die..."

"help me……"

"I don't want to die..."

"help me!"

Zhong Xueran's voice stopped suddenly.

She looked up at the huge locust tree and whispered:

"This is her perspective, her skinned body, ended up buried under this tree."