There is a very iconic building at Helland Castle - the clock tower.
The bell tower is very tall, standing on the edge of a steep cliff. Every afternoon at 15:00, the bell will ring. The distant bell sound echoes through the mountains and reverberates in the castle.
It has been the third day since the players came to Herran Castle, but they have not paid much attention to the bell. The reason is that when the bell rings every afternoon, most players are doing shooting tasks and rarely pay attention to the bell.
"In fact, we also found out about this by exchanging information with other people." Ruan Yuan said with a smile. She has a round face and round eyes, and she looks particularly pretty and cute when she smiles.
If you meet such a girl in real life, she will probably be easily liked by people.
Because she can always bring up topics at the right time, and every topic is what people around her want to know, making them want to talk. She is very observant and knows how to control the scale of interacting with people. It is because of this that they can come to this point in the game world as a couple.
Gu Jiu was not surprised by this. Since Ruan Yuan was able to find them, he must have also found other players and exchanged information with them.
But judging from their intentions, they were just exchanging information with those people, but had no intention of reaching a cooperation, so they probably didn't trust them. Of course, it wasn't that she believed in Gu Jiu and Lu Ji, but because of the strength and character they showed, they decided to take a risk.
In the gaming world, players are all gamblers and may take risks at any time.
The four of them walked towards the clock tower.
Because it was drizzling outside and Gu Jiu didn't want to get wet, the four of them went to the clock tower through the indoor passage.
They had been to the clock tower once yesterday and were familiar with the route.
It was the first time for Ruan Yuan and Lu Haidi to walk through this passage. When they saw the paintings hanging on the walls on both sides of the passage, their expressions became solemn, because they remembered what Gu Jiu said, that the paintings on the fifth floor of the castle were all blank, and the black figures that attacked her were obviously the characters in the paintings. They were normal characters in the paintings, but when they came out of the paintings, they were pitch-black figures.
Could it be that the audience in the dance hall yesterday were actually the characters in these paintings
If so, just thinking about the paintings of people in the castle makes your scalp tingle.
Because there are so many paintings of characters in the castle, if the player has to fight against the characters in these paintings in the end, it will be overwhelming and there will be no chance of winning.
Once they reached the clock tower, they began to climb the stairs.
The clock tower has ten floors, and the big clock is on the top floor.
When you get to the top floor, the first thing you see is a big clock, simple and heavy, standing there quietly.
Gu Jiu and Ruan Yuan walked over and walked around it, feeling impressed by the huge size of the bell. It was not easy to ring it. They both had a premonition that the bell ringer's mission was to "ring" it, and they were afraid that the process would not be very pleasant.
Lu Haidi looked at the time and said, "It's almost 15:00, you guys go over there first."
When each player is taking a photo, other players should not approach him, otherwise he will be regarded as a player taking part in the photo, and the threat of death will follow him. However, once a player is taking a photo, other players can no longer approach him, and there will be an invisible barrier separating irrelevant players. At this time, even if those irrelevant players want to help, they can't.
Gu Jiu, Lu Ji and Ruan Yuan retreated to the stairs.
At 15:00, Lu Haidi, who was standing on the top floor, moved.
His body walked uncontrollably towards the clock. When he arrived in front of the clock, the two hemp ropes hanging in front of the clock tied up his body as if they had self-awareness and slammed his head against the clock.
The shooting task of the "bell ringer" is to ring the bell with his own body.
Given the thickness of the bell, if you try to ring it, your head will be smashed.
Just when Lu Haidi's head was about to hit the bell, a bronze armor covered his head. The armor collided with the bell, and the bell emitted a long and powerful bell sound, resounding throughout the castle and lingering among the mountains.
After three collisions in total, the force that bound Lu Haidi finally stopped.
Ruan Yuan seized the opportunity and after the transparent barrier separating them disappeared, she rushed into the top floor and used her body to help Lu Haidi, who was tied with a hemp rope, come down from mid-air.
Lu Haidi's body felt a little weak, and even though he was protected by a helmet, he still felt dizzy.
He sat on the ground for a while before he recovered. He shook his head and said with some fear: "I almost thought my head was going to break. I'm still a little dizzy now."
Ruan Yuan touched his head and comforted him: "Don't worry, Brother Lu, your head is fine, there is no bleeding."
Even though she said that, she still felt a little scared.
She looked at the bronze armor and explained to Gu Jiu and the others, "We got this bronze armor in a certain game world. It's a rare defensive item. I didn't expect to use it this time."
As everyone knows, the most scarce item in the Zhutian game world is defensive items. Even in Wanjie City, there are not many defensive items for sale. Every defensive item that appears is priced sky-high, and players are willing to spend a large amount of points to buy defensive items.
At this time, spider-web-like cracks appeared on the bronze armor, proving that it was useless.
In this game world, almost every shooting mission requires the use of a prop every day. No matter how rich the players are, they cannot afford such consumption.
It's not so bad for those players who have been in the game world for a long time. For example, these two have only been in the Zhutian game for a year, and the items they have accumulated are limited. Unless they have to, they are reluctant to use the items, especially those disposable consumables. Every time they use one, there is one less.
Gu Jiu looked at the bronze armor item and felt for the first time how important the item was to the player.
Although there are many death traps set up in the game field this time, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal if players have a wide variety of props.
Of course, this idea became more cautious when seeing Lu Haidi almost got a concussion. Even with props, some injuries are still inevitable.
When Lu Haidi had almost recovered, they left the clock tower.
Next comes Ruan Yuan’s photographer’s task.
Ruan Yuan handed her task note to Gu Jiu for review.
You are a photographer and you deeply love the beautiful Helan Castle. You are invited by Mrs. Helan to take a death landscape painting in the castle at 16:00 tomorrow that will satisfy Mrs. Helan.
"It's not just a landscape painting, but they also have to add the word death. It seems to be inconsistent with the theme of a death movie." Ruan Yuan said puzzledly, "I'm sure there will be another death trap when I shoot later."
Gu Jiu said: "There is no specific location this time?"
"Yes." Ruan Yuan said solemnly, "The photographer can shoot in a very wide area. Without a clear shooting location, it is the most unsafe. There is a risk of death at any time."
That's not quite right, even if there is a clear location, there is still an obvious death trap.
Lu Haidi was very worried about his girlfriend. "I feel that our current situation is just like the characters in the movie 'Final Destination'. It just so happens that our mission is also to shoot a death movie."
Gu Jiu said: "It's not bad actually. After all, there is a designated mission and we know how we will die, which is better than an unpredictable death threat."
Hearing this, the couple Ruan Yuan and Lu Haidi couldn't help but look at her, thinking that she was too calm to be a player who had just been promoted to the C-level field. Thinking back to their reactions when they were promoted to the C-level field, they were very panicked and far from being as calm as they are now. They also experienced several dangerous situations to have the current strength.
Looking at these two people again, there is no need to say anything about Gu Jiu. Her performance in the dance hall yesterday was eye-catching. Although she said that she used props, she did not say what the props were, and it is possible that she did not use any props at all.
Although Lu Ji doesn't talk much or show much, just like Gu Jiu's follower, the calmness she shows should not be underestimated.
As there was no designated filming location, Ruan Yuan decided to shoot in the garden, where there were no dangerous weapons and the area was wide open. If there was any danger, it should be possible to avoid it with the player's quick reactions.
It was still drizzling, and everyone came to the greenhouse in the garden holding umbrellas.
Ruan Yuan took out his camera and took a picture.
Everyone looked at the photo she took. Maybe it was because it was not yet time to take the photo, so the photo looked very normal. There was a rainy castle and roses in front of the castle bathed in the rain. The roses were blooming very brightly, and looked like blood in the rain.
"Where did this camera come from?" Gu Jiu asked.
Ruan Yuan said: "It was in the room we stayed in. It was there on the first day."
Because her shooting task today was "photographer", she brought it with her to match her identity.
In fact, she didn't want to leave the camera behind, but she didn't dare to gamble with her life. After all, the game world will not provide players with any tools casually. They usually have a purpose. This is the rule of the game world.
Gu Jiu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked back at Lu Ji, "Aji, is there anything special in our room? Like electronic products?"
Lu Ji shook her head. The decoration and furnishings of the castle were very much like those of a medieval castle. There were very few electronic products in the castle. Even the lighting lamps were shaped like night pearls. If she hadn't opened the night pearls to see the structure inside, she would have really thought that the castle was wealthy and used night pearls for lighting.
Thinking of Mrs. Helan's collection room, it can actually be described as "wealthy and powerful", but this wealth is not used in the castle.
Seeing this, Ruan Yuan and the others became more certain that they should bring a camera with them.
At 16:00, Ruan Yuan started taking pictures.
Gu Jiu and the other two stood in the greenhouse, looking at Ruan Yuan outside. Nothing happened until she finished taking a photo.
Ruan Yuan looked at the photos taken this time and her pupils shrank slightly.
In the photo, a woman is lying in a rose bush on a rainy day, covered in blood. Her heart is pierced by a rose and her clothes are stained with blood, like a blooming rose. The fallen petals all over the ground are like spreading blood, creating a poignant and beautiful landscape painting of death.
As she was stunned, her body moved uncontrollably towards the rose bushes.
“Yuanyuan!”
Lu Haidi yelled and ran towards her, but was blocked by an invisible barrier in front of the rose bushes. He could only watch Ruan Yuan walk into the rose bushes and then lie on her back in the bushes...
After a while, Ruan Yuan climbed out from the rose bushes with a pale and sweaty face.
Her hair, face, and clothes were all wet by the dense drizzle. Her black hair stuck to her pale face, and her lips were so white that there was not a trace of blood.
Lu Haidi felt that the barrier blocking the players disappeared, and quickly ran into the rose bushes to help her up. He found that her body was shaking violently and was extremely cold. He didn't know whether it was because of fear or the rain was too cold.
He looked down and saw that she was holding a thorny rose in her hand, with the other end pointing to her heart.
Although piercing the heart with a rose is an incredible thing, in a game world without logic, everything is possible.
He quickly pulled the rose away and threw it away, holding Ruan Yuan away from the rose bush, looking at the rose bush as if he was looking at a king angel flower that wanted to eat people.
The two returned to the greenhouse. Lu Haidi put Ruan Yuan, who was soaked by the rain, on a chair in the greenhouse, wrapped her in a large clean towel, and helped her wipe the rain off her body.
Ruan Yuan's face was pale, and she said to her boyfriend: "Brother Lu, I'm fine."
Lu Haidi held her hand tightly, with a sullen face and no words.
Ruan Yuan knew his worries, so she held her boyfriend's big, strong hand in return and looked at Gu Jiu and Lu Ji. She found that Gu Jiu was looking at the rose bushes outside the greenhouse, as if thinking about something, while Lu Ji was staring at them, not knowing what he was thinking.
This look, as if he was observing some rare species, made Ruan Yuan feel confused.
She asked in a somewhat strange tone: "Sister Lu, what are you looking at?"
Lu Ji glanced at her indifferently without saying anything.
Ruan Yuan didn't care about this cold and taciturn attitude. After all, after players entered the Zhutian game, their personalities would change dramatically because of their influence in the game world. There were many people like this taciturn type, and they were better than those players with extreme personalities who would kill other players at the slightest disagreement.
Gu Jiu came back to his senses and asked, "Ruan Yuan, can you show me your camera?"
Ruan Yuan took the camera off her neck and was about to hand it to her when she suddenly paused and said, "The camera is broken."
The camera was indeed broken and could not be turned on no matter what it did. It was as if its mission had been accomplished after Ruan Yuan completed the shooting task.
Gu Jiu didn't care too much about this and asked Ruan Yuan about her experience just now.
"I saw a picture of myself dying, lying among rose bushes, with a rose planted over my heart..."
This death scene was not surprising. Gu Jiu asked, "How did you escape death?"
Ruan Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "I used a substitute card."
In fact, she didn't want to use the Stand Card, but given the situation at the time, she found that all the props she had could not save her from death, so she had to use the Stand Card.
Unexpectedly, the substitute card was used up on the third day, which made Ruan Yuan feel a sense of urgency.
I don’t know how many days it will take to pass the level successfully. There will be several more games with such fatal endings. If every game is like this, without substitute cards and defensive props, I’m afraid I’ll be really finished.
A group of people returned to the hall on the first floor of the castle in the rain.
Although I was holding an umbrella, my clothes were still inevitably wet by the drizzle, and a lot of rain fell on my skin. The cold and damp feeling spread from the soles of my feet upwards, like the shadow of death, making me very uncomfortable.
Gu Jiu frowned, not liking such weather very much.
Lu Ji took out a tissue and helped the young lady wipe the rain off her face and hands. She wiped it very carefully, and Gu Jiu naturally looked up and let her wipe it.
This scene made Ruan Yuan feel weird. It was obviously a normal scene, but she could sense the atmosphere of lesbianism.
It must be an illusion.
It was already evening when they returned to the castle, and most of the players gathered in the hall on the first floor of the castle, waiting for dinner time to come.
Gu Jiu looked over and saw seven people sitting here. Including them, there were eleven people in total.
It was unknown whether the remaining people were still performing the filming mission or had already died. Among them were the players who played the musician and the clown yesterday.
When they came in, everyone in the hall looked over, examined them for a moment, and quickly looked away.
Until dinner time came, no one showed up, and it might be dangerous.
A group of players headed to the restaurant.
The butler was standing in front of the restaurant as he had done in the past few nights, and he still looked at them with stern contempt, as if he was looking at a group of insignificant people.
The butler cleared his throat and was about to speak when a man stumbled into the restaurant.
Gu Jiu turned his head and saw that it was the player who played the clown yesterday. Today he looked just as miserable, covered in blood, and it was unclear whether it was his own or someone else's.
The clown player looked at the time and found that he had caught up, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Including the Joker player, there are now twelve players in total.
It looks like four more people died today.
This discovery made all the players present feel bad, as the death rate of this game was too high.
The butler looked at the clown players who had arrived with a cold gaze and said, "Please take your seats and check your shooting tasks for tomorrow."
The players were a little hesitant.
Starting from dinner time on the first day, they all chose their seats at random. It can be said that the content of the task notes placed on each seat on the table was different. It was they who chose the task notes, rather than the notes choosing them.
The task they choose is determined by where they sit. If they choose a simpler shooting task that is easy to avoid death threats, it will be fine. But if they choose a difficult task, it will be a nightmare.
Gu Jiu and Lu Ji didn't hesitate too much and chose the nearest seat to sit down.
Seeing this, Lu Haidi and Ruan Yuan also sat down next to the two of them, followed by the player who played the clown. Seeing this, the remaining seven people had no choice but to take their seats.
Gu Jiu opened the lid of the basin in front of him and picked up the note on it.
You are a widowed woman. In order to revive your partner, you choose to come to Helan Castle and make a deal with the devil. At 4:00 in the morning, you will come to the hall on the first floor of the castle to perform the resurrection ceremony and dance with the devil.
Gu Jiu: “…” Do you really want to kill her
After reading the task notes in their hands, the expressions of the others changed.
Gu Jiu put the note away, looked at the other players, put his hands on the table, and tapped them lightly.
After the butler left, the players left their seats, still not having any interest in the delicious food on the table. Although the food in the castle looked delicious, when lives were threatened, even the most delicious food would be like chewing wax, and they would not have any appetite at all.
After walking out of the restaurant, Gu Jiu heard someone calling her.
"Ms. Gu!"
Gu Jiu turned his head and was surprised to find that it was the player who played the clown. His head was covered in blood and he looked like a murderer. He looked very scary.
Lu Haidi and Ruan Yuan also stopped and looked at him carefully.
The male player was a little embarrassed and said hesitantly: "Miss Gu, can I, can I exchange information with you?"
Gu Jiu was a little surprised, "Why did you choose me?" There is very little trust between C-level players. Everyone wants to get more points, and very few will choose to cooperate with others.
"Because you saved us yesterday, I think you can be trusted." The man said softly, "Also, I found that my filming mission is getting more dangerous day by day..."
If he doesn't find someone to cooperate with, he will definitely die in tomorrow's filming mission.
There was really no other way, he could only try to find someone to cooperate with. If Gu Jiu didn't agree, he had no choice but to find other people and have the last gamble.
Gu Jiu did not refuse: "Okay, go to my room."
A group of people came to Gu Jiu and Lu Ji’s room on the third floor.
The male player who played the clown was called Wan Xingzhou. After entering the door, he told them about his task for the day - the bartender of the castle.
"I went to the wine cellar in the castle to get some wine today, and I was almost pushed into a wine barrel and drowned. The blood stains on my body are actually from one of the barrels. It was a bucket of blood, and I accidentally knocked it over, and that's how it became."
Gu Jiu and Ruan Yuan looked at him with sympathy. It seemed that this bartender was not safe either.
"This is my assignment for tomorrow." Wan Xingzhou handed over his assignment note.
Before completing the task, it is best for players not to pass their task notes to other players to avoid having their tasks taken away by other players. However, if your task is really dangerous, you don't have to worry about it being taken away by others.
You are Mrs. Helan's lover. Tomorrow at 13:00, in order to give Mrs. Helan a surprise, you will hide in the master's room of Helan Castle, waiting for Mrs. Helan to return.
Seeing the task on the note, everyone's expressions froze slightly, and their eyes turned toward Wan Xingzhou with sympathy.
There is no doubt that Mrs. Helan, who has not appeared yet, may be the boss of this game world. Becoming the lover of the boss is definitely not a good thing.
"Does this count as a lucky break in the gaming world?" Gu Jiu asked with interest.
Wan Xingzhou felt very aggrieved, "I, I don't want such good fortune."
Ruan Yuan and Lu Haidi were speechless. Was there something wrong with Gu Jiu's reaction
What made them even more excited was that Gu Jiu actually patted Wan Xingzhou on the shoulder and said with a look of joy: "Oh, your mission is really good. You can actually meet Madam Helan. I have always wanted to meet her! If she is really the boss of the game world, it would be even better."
Wan Xingzhou asked tentatively: "Then I will exchange with you?"
Gu Jiu confirmed again and again, "Are you really willing to exchange with me?"
Wan Xingzhou thought, Gu Jiu’s shooting task shouldn’t be as challenging as his own, right
So he nodded and took the task note handed to him by Gu Jiu. When he saw the task clearly on it, he was completely dumbfounded.
This is hell difficulty, right
The author has something to say: Today’s two updates are combined into one.
Normal update time will be restored tomorrow =-=
Moving is really tiring. Even if you have a moving company to help, sorting and putting things in order is still a very tiring task. I feel completely exhausted.
I was busy all day yesterday, but I still haven't finished packing. I guess it will take another two days_(:3∠)_
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