Fang Miaomiao was silent for a moment before saying, "It's just that I don't think the male bride's resentment can be resolved so easily. You heard it just now, how deep the male bride's resentment is."
No one spoke around them.
"Then shall we move somewhere else? I have a feeling this place isn't very safe. I don't know if that male bride will find us."
Before Ye Fei could finish speaking, there were violent collisions outside the door.
"Come out, you get out here."
"He won't come in, will he?" Ye Fei's expression was solemn.
"What are you standing around for? Hurry up and go!" Chen Huan pulled Ye Fei's hand, and together with Fang Miaomiao, they ran out through another passage just as the door was about to be kicked open.
"Damn, who is it?"
"It's us."
Cui Mantong blinked. "What are you doing here?"
"No time for pleasantries, we have a male bride chasing us, let's go somewhere else."
"What a coincidence?" Cui Tong shivered. "We also have a bride chasing us."
Chen Huan looked around. "Let's run the other way."
The six of them embarked on the path of escape once again.
"Damn, it's really exciting, and it's really fun. My hairs were standing on end the whole time, running everywhere. This escape room is the best place for exercising and losing weight."
"Has anyone else noticed that the brides chasing the two teams seem different?"
"You just noticed? Didn't they say earlier that the one originally meant for sacrifice was the male bride, but the girl behind didn't want her boy to be sacrificed, so she knocked him out and went to be sacrificed in his place? So this time, there should be two brides, a male and a female."
"Male bride, I hadn't even realized. I thought they didn't have enough female staff, so they used male actors to fill in."
After the six of them evaded the two brides, they hadn't even had time to breathe a sigh of relief when they heard a strange children's voice again.
"Everyone, stand still and don't move," Chen Huan said immediately.
"My brother Dalang, where are you? Xiaoxiao can't find you."
"Alas, I have never done evil in my life, yet I am eternally imprisoned here. Brother Dalang, when will Xiaoxiao see you again?"
In the red light, a bride wearing a red wedding dress slowly appeared.
"Huh? Are you this round's bride?"
Fang Miaomiao couldn't help but hold her breath.
"That's not right. Xiaoxiao Village sacrifices boys, and you're a girl. How could you be sacrificed?" the bride's pale face was filled with confusion.
"Perhaps it's because I couldn't bear to part with my lover," Fang Miaomiao said, her eyes red. "So, I wanted to be sacrificed in place of my lover."
The bride was taken aback, her face softening. "So that's how it is. Then come with me. Don't worry, as long as you come with me, I will let you meet your lover."
Fang Miaomiao directly reached out and took the bride's hand. "Are you telling the truth?"
"Yes, come with me."
The bride, as if not seeing anyone else, pulled Fang Miaomiao towards another path.
Fang Miaomiao glanced back a few times, and seeing that they had all followed, she breathed a sigh of relief and followed behind the bride.
"Now, you have entered the next mission clue. What you need to do is find the endpoint of the male bride's resentment, and let Xiaoxiao be with the male bride."
Led by Xiaoxiao, the group soon arrived at the place of sacrifice, a thatched hut. In the center of the thatched hut was a blood-red coffin.
Cui Tong frowned slightly, his palm gripping Cui Mantong's hand tighter.
"What's wrong?"
"The coffin I saw in the well back then was a bit similar to this one," Cui Tong whispered into Cui Mantong's ear. "I don't know what this boss is up to, putting coffins everywhere."
Now, whenever he saw a coffin, his legs would go weak and he couldn't stand up.
"This is the place of sacrifice. As long as you and your beloved sleep here for one night, the villagers won't be able to find you, and then you can live happily with your lover forever."
"Really?" Fang Miaomiao asked doubtfully. "If I just lie in there for one night, I can be with my lover forever?"
"Of course," Xiaoxiao stroked the coffin, her face filled with obsession and madness. "Why would I lie to you?"
"Is that so? If I just lie in there for one night, the villagers won't make me be sacrificed, right?"
"Yes," Xiaoxiao moved closer and closer to Fang Miaomiao, her dark fingers slowly stroking Fang Miaomiao's clothes. "As long as you go in, that's enough. You also want to be with your lover, forever, don't you?"
Fang Miaomiao leaned against the coffin, smiling at Xiaoxiao. "Are you with your beloved now?"
Xiaoxiao's smile froze. "Are you going against me?"
Fang Miaomiao nodded obediently. "Yes, I just feel like you're giving me too many empty promises, and I can't eat them all."
"Don't forget, you're with me."
"Together, who are you with..." Cui Tong recalled what the Daoist priest had said when they first came in, and suddenly felt he didn't know what to say. "Fang Miaomiao is that soulless person?"
Fang Miaomiao nodded with a smile. "Yes, I even have to thank Brother Cui for saving me from the coffin. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what to do."
"So, are you betraying me now?" Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes.
"No, I came with you just to give you something."
"What?"
Fang Miaomiao took out a mirror from her loose sleeves.
Upon seeing the mirror, Xiaoxiao collapsed to the ground, looking at Fang Miaomiao with fear and horror. "Where did you find this?"
"Of course, my brother Dalang gave it to me," Fang Miaomiao said with a smile. "He told me to persuade you to put down your butcher knife and become a Buddha."
"How is that possible?" Xiaoxiao's voice was ethereal. "Brother Dalang doesn't even want to see me, so how could he give me something?"
"Alas," Fang Miaomiao sighed and shook her head. "You and the Daoist priest set up a trap to trap all these souls here. What was the point? No one can reincarnate, and you'll never see your brother Dalang."
"I hate it."
Cui Mantong also stepped forward and placed the key in Xiaoxiao's hand. "Your brother Dalang is waiting for you at home."
Xiaoxiao curled up and retreated. "No, I'm so ugly now, I can't let Brother Dalang see me like this."
Ye Fei looked in a direction. "Daoist priest, still watching the show?"
The Daoist priest chuckled and walked out of the darkness. "You guys are quite clever to have guessed it was me so quickly."
"Did you make it so Xiaoxiao and her lover couldn't meet?"
The Daoist priest shook his head. "That's not it. As capable as this humble Taoist is, I can't possibly make the dead meet the living."
Xiaoxiao's body stiffened, and she looked at the Daoist priest beside her in disbelief. "Didn't you say that Brother Dalang only has a body now, and is a living dead person?"