At dawn, another piercing scream shattered the silence.
The girl, with severe dark circles under her eyes, ignored the noise rising in the vige and painted on the white wall with utmost seriousness.
She had been painting from night till sunrise, her hand steady, not the slightest bit tired, and as the painting nearedpletion, her mood became quite excited and her mind was clear.
The pitch-ck paint was sshed onto the wall by her, gradually tinging the white wall into an abyss, then, amidst the darkness, brilliant colors outlined lines, slowly forming a painting.
It depicted an adorable child with messy double buns, wearing tattered clothes, but with eyes that were clear and bright.
Behind the little girl in that dark abyss, monsters with bared fangs and ws dwelt amidst ck and red intertwining distortions, the scene like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, exceptionally terrifying!
The painter felt her thoughts had be uncontroble, like a fervent artist who took the brush in hand as a weapon, treating the nk wall before her as a battlefield!
Her brain, operating at high speed all night, was still clear as ever, the girl excitedly adding dabs of color, finishing the painting with a beautiful flourish of ink!
[Congrattions onpleting the task: Paint the true face of the "Green-Faced Fangs".]
It really was so!
The vige chief had brought out that butterflyst night, aiming it at the twisted ck monster, and tonight, he did the same to the little girl!
Recollecting what the vige chief had asked her to paint during the day...
In that moment, the girl who had witnessed the scene at the entrance of the shrine felt as if she had been enlightened, and she was so shocked and excited that she almost lost her mind!
She had rushed back to the vige chief''s house and retrieved all her paints; she was not very good at painting, but now she felt an endless stream of inspiration, her hands and mind uncontroblypleting this twisted painting!
This was the "true face of the Green-Faced Fangs"!
How absurd, from the paintings at the entrance of the vige, depicted bit by bit, born from the vigers'' prayers, this monster that murdered and arsoned without guilt, seen as a cmity—yet when its true face was revealed, it was nothing but an innocent, naive child.
Gasping for breath, the girl looked at this final painting, blinked slightly, and suddenly realized that it was daylight, that it was already the next day.
Then, another notification sounded in her mind:
[Congrattions, yers, forpleting more than 50% of the main mission. This theater will end in one hour, please prepare ordingly.]
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Xu Shuo sat in the shrine ying with the little girl, and upon hearing this system notification, he merely nced sideways before turning back to the policemen in front of him.
"I don''t mind doing that, but..." Xu Shuo pondered and said, "You''re not nning to arrest everyone in the vige, are you?"
"What...?" The officer was taken aback, his eyes widening at him.
"Could it be that every single person in your vige is guilty?!" another eximed in astonishment.
The police had learned the full story from Old Li and the female reporter the previous night. If the monster had appeared because of the vigers, then they might as well hold a mobilization meeting and clearly state the truth!
However, even if the truth was told, the monster would still silently consume the vigers at night without anyone noticing.
The reason Old Li woke upst night was purely because the sense of crisis Old Zhang had brought him when attacking had subconsciously awakened him.
As a result, the first thing he saw upon waking was the monster brutally tearing a person apart, scaring him to the point where his soul was still not at rest.
Thus, the other idea the officers had was to arrest those in the vige who were spreading rumors andmitting crimes, hoping that at least it would purify the vige a bit.
The words of the vige chief left them speechless at this point.
Counting on his fingers, Xu Shuo said, "Actually, I guess the reason Old Zhang wanted to kill Old List night was not only because he stole his family''s heirloom but probably also because he slept with his wife... and in fact, Old Zhang''s wife also has an affair with the neighbor, Old Wang. Old Wang used to be a hooligan in his youth, often throwing his weight around in the vige; I bet there are also quite a few people now who wish him dead. Besides, Cuihua at the entrance of the vige was with that neighbor..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" the officer interrupted him with a dark face, sighed deeply in frustration, and said, "How about you just revere that ''Green-Faced Fangs'' as a deity again?"
"Sacrifice to the mountain god, repair the temple, bear the incense offerings, and may it absolve your vige of its sins."
Xu Shuo smiled amply, "Actually, I was thinking the same thing."
Officials were, after all, not too fond of these acts of seeking gods and worshipping buddhas, but they didn''t have a solution for the issue either. The monsterst night had killed one of theirpanions right before their eyes using mysterious methods.
Nobody would believe such a thing if it were told.
Xu Shuo continued, "So this matter..."
The police officer helplessly waved his hand, "I know, it''s all idents, the detective as well."
Upon hearing this, Xu Shuoughed again.
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The entrance to Old Li''s house was inplete disarray, the door smashed to bits. Someone went in to investigate and discovered a scene simr to what had happened at Elder Huang''s house the night before.
People in the vige had died two days in a row, both times leaving no trace of their bodies, causing enough panic already.
Unexpectedly, the deceased was not Old Li this time. Early in the morning, Elder Zhang''s wife was shouting that her husband had disappeared, until Old Li returned from the vige chief''s house, and the truth came out.
So the new question arose, why on earth was Elder Zhang at Old Li''s house in the middle of the night?
Now there was plenty to specte about.
People are only concerned with their own affairs; if it doesn''t happen to them, they won''t take it to heart. Vigers watched with a mix of fear and schadenfreude.
The three policemen who had just finished talking to Xu Shuo saw this and all wore dark expressions. A realization suddenly dawned on them. Could this vige that nurtured a twisted monster like "Green-Faced Fangs" still be saved?
Although they appeared harmonious and friendly on the outside, they were probably already corrupt through and through.
Even their surface respect for the Acting Vige Chief and hismands was merely because they benefited from it.
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What happened?
Only one hour left until the game is over?
The female journalist, after being stunned for a moment, quickly reacted and remembered that she hadn''t seen the painter returnst night. She immediately packed her things and rushed to the mural at the vige entrance.
The girl leaned against the wall, appearing very ufortable, dry heaving.
"What''s wrong with you?" The approaching female journalist was taken aback, hesitating toe closer, but given that it concerned her mission, she still needed to ask clearly.
"I feel like some ghostly thing is forcefully cramming into my brain," the girl said, crouching on the ground, covering her mouth in difort, her voice muffled.
After she finished painting, she felt something was wrong with herself. The feeling of nausea in her mind became unbearable, like a person about to drown, feeling both suppressed and suffocated, her entire body was in extreme difort!
She feared that she had painted something dreadful!
The girl trembled with fear, but upon realizing that she hadn''t thrown up anything, just pure dry heaving of stomach acid, she decided to grit her teeth and endure for one more hour.
However, upon seeing the female journalist who hade to find her, her eyes suddenly brightened.
"I''ve finished painting ''Green-Faced Fangs,''" the girl said shakily, extending a hand to point at the painting above, and looked at her hopefully.
"Green-Faced Fangs?" The female journalist looked up, then froze, "Is that her?!"
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