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"Explore the science?"

The burly man stood there a bit bewildered, thinking hard for a while before he finally chose to shake his head and give up, "I don't understand, brother, speak your mind directly, so we can all consider it together."

"Don't rush."

Chen Miao shook his head and spoke softly, "It's just a rough guess for now, not yet confirmed, what we need to do now is wait, wait for the village chief to wake up, then take us to judge at noon."

This had already been decided by the village chief the day before.

It's worth mentioning that the main task of this secret realm is to gain the village chief's approval, while the side task is to gain the approval of any one of the three bound people on the high platform. How to start getting any of these approvals was somewhat puzzling.

...

Soon—

At noon, the village chief woke up on time but did not go to the high platform immediately. Instead, he sent someone to tell them that today's plan was canceled and the trial would be postponed to noon the next day.

Just a simple sentence like that.

Similarly, they had already been put under house arrest here during the daytime, forbidden to step out of this area.

Chen Miao's eyes narrowed slightly, perhaps understanding something.

But he made no move.

As night fell, and with the darkness deepening, Chen Miao ignored the strange events outside the window and walked slowly along the streets of the village. Not a person could be seen on the entire village street, as if it was deserted, with only white lanterns hanging from each household.

It looked incredibly eerie.

Anyone with weak nerves would start to feel their legs go weak and be unable to stand firm upon setting foot on this road.

But Chen Miao was calm as he lit a cigarette and put it to his lips, took a deep breath, and then slowly looked around. After quickly determining his direction, he walked steadily and slowly towards the direction of the high platform.

Faint wisps of smoke trailed behind his head.

It wasn't long before he arrived at the base of the high platform and saw the three people bound there. Just as he had guessed, the strange events after nightfall could only cause psychological terror but couldn't inflict any real physical harm.

The eerie events were man-made.

They belonged to the realm of science, not the paranormal.

This idea had firmly taken root in his mind ever since he noticed that the red-haired sister, despite not having a protection talisman for an entire night, experienced nothing at all.

...

What was the first strange event?

It was a shadow that slipped through the window and paused at the door. Then, as if it had been struck a critical blow, it scampered away through the window, the sound vaguely coming from under the bed.

Before he came here, he had smashed his bed.

In the middle of the wooden board, he found a small Bluetooth speaker. This was the source of the sound.

He had also smashed the mirror but had confirmed that the mirror was just an ordinary one with no differences, except... he found a pocket-sized projector inside the white lantern hanging on his door.

It was a 3D holographic version, no less.

By projecting directly and refracting parts of the light through the room's mirror multiple times, a 3D holographic image could be formed inside the room, which was not a difficult task. The technology level of the Federation could accomplish this as well.

These two devices together created the first strange event.

That's why only the burly man heard the sound but saw nothing; the reason is simple – the most critical mirror, which was supposing to create the holographic image, had been hidden by the burly man.

If the burly man had observed closely, he might have noticed a spot the size of a little finger shining on the wall where the mirror once hung; that was the compressed image.

The reason why the red-haired woman, when clearly there was no protection talisman at the door, saw the shadow struck and fleeing, was because the protection talisman was just for show and completely useless. The shadow's "injury" and escape were just a programmed routine.

This was also the purpose of the first strange event.

To tell everyone that there really were strange events at night, and that the protection talisman could indeed ensure your safety; as long as you stayed indoors, everything would be safe.

All the subsequent strange events, without exception, were extremely creepy but unable to harm those hiding inside their houses. This was also a way of telling them that it was dangerous outside with many strange events, but as long as they stayed in their houses, nothing would happen to them.

This village, or rather this village chief, was using this method to prevent them from going out at night.

Unfortunately...

What was originally a perfect plan now had some loopholes. The trial conducted by the village chief during the daytime yesterday caused the sisters to lose some of their sanity, to the extent that the red-haired woman didn't even know her protection talisman had been stolen.

This was the biggest loophole.

If it weren't for Chen Miao having the chance to steal the protection talisman, he certainly wouldn't dare to risk validating whether the talisman was useful or not.

Only with the condition that the protection talisman was a mere trinket could he deduce more things.

...

"Huh!"

Standing beneath the high platform in the dead of night, Chen Miao held a cigarette between his fingers, allowing the pale blue smoke to drift in midair. After standing still for quite some time, he suddenly broke into a grin, "Pretty good."

Why would the village chief go to such lengths to stop them from going out? There was only one answer.

It was that the village harbored an unspeakable secret after dark, a secret that could be a devastating blow to the village chief. This secret was likely the key to their victory, but what secret could there be in a village?

He had two guesses in his mind.

But by the time he was standing here, there was only one guess left.

Originally he thought the biggest secret in this village was none other than the three people who had been bound on the high platform all the time, waiting for the trial; but once he actually arrived here, he realized this guess could be discarded.

These three were not any secret at all.

They had been standing there from the beginning to the end.

For as he stood there, the three people who had been unconscious during the daytime somehow woke up. Seeing his arrival, they all became excitedly agitated, begging him, "Please, let us down. We are innocent!"

"As long as you release us, I'll fulfill any of your requests."

"Only you can untie these ropes."

"I haven't eaten for many days, I'm about to starve to death."

The voices of the three people were a cacophony in his ears, each with desperation in their eyes. They were indeed innocent, as they claimed.

He knew the identities of these three people.

1: The Poor Family's Filial Son.

2: The Tomb Guardian who guarded the general's tomb for decades.

3: The Senior Who Played Suona for a Lifetime.

In that order, from left to right.