While talking, two people came down from the upstairs of the small building. At the beginning, after the man who was so anxious and unable to do anything read the words on the note, he took a picture of it on the table.
The girl wearing glasses comforted Lin Yining just now, and whispered, "It's not evening yet, we have time to discuss countermeasures."
"That's exactly what I want to ask." Lin Yining looked around and counted. Now that the dungeon has been opened, there should be six people. In the room now, he, the girl wearing glasses, the man reading the note, plus a man and a woman who just came down, there are only five people in total. Lin Yining didn't ask where the other person went, and went directly to the program: "How long have you been in the dungeon, have you noticed any clues?"
Among the men and women who just came down, the man's face remained unchanged, the girl seemed to have no desire to speak, she brushed her hair, her eyes didn't know where to go. The man who just started reading the note also said, "Why are you asking so many questions? Pretending to be aggressive?"
Lin Yining said, "Do you want to die?"
Lin Yining's sudden tough attitude made the four people in the living room unexpected.
"I'm not joking with you, and I'm not trying to scare you by saying this." Lin Yining said: "I'm just stating the facts. If looking for clues in the dungeon is to be defined as pretending by you, it would be easier for you to commit suicide directly .” His voice paused, and he continued: “Often in dungeons, suicide is better than dying at the hands of monsters.”
"Scaring people, it seems like no one has ever played a dungeon." The man who was forced back by Lin Yining said this in an embarrassing way, and then hid behind him and didn't make a sound. Lin Yining's eyes turned around them, and he thought to himself, these people are not good candidates for teammates, if they don't have a tougher attitude, maybe they will fall here this time.
So Lin Yining directly lowered his face: "Ugly speaking, I would rather bring a piece of trash than teammate with someone who has no brains and will only drag you down. Don't let me find out that you have such a tendency, or for me Live on your own, I don't mind killing you directly."
Several people were silent, and no one spoke this time.
"Very good. If you have no other comments, you can go back to my original question." Lin Yining looked at the few people and said, "I'll repeat my question again. During the period of time you lived here, did you have any questions?" Didn't notice anything amiss."
The anxious man who was put down by Lin Yining turned his face away and simply refused to cooperate non-violently. As for the other man, he looked at you pretending to be aggressive. Looking at who I am and where I am at a loss, only the literary girl who started the conversation spoke weakly: "After entering the dungeon, I... I stayed in the room all the time except for eating."
Seeing her dazed and innocent look, Lin Yining suddenly felt that the teammates this time might be worse than he imagined.
"Is this your first time entering the dungeon?" He originally asked a little tentatively, but unexpectedly the literary girl nodded.
"It was an accident that I entered this dungeon." She said weakly: "I haven't been through a dungeon since I came to the game. I found a job in the central city and have been doing it. Later... met A strange little shop, the name of the shop is Xinxiangshicheng... I bought a pendant in it, and then I was teleported in."
"Which store is in the central city?" Lin Yining asked.
"Yes, Central City," she replied, "I live in the Twin Cities."
In this way, Lin Yining finally knew the reason for the 'unprofessional' attitude of these temporary teammates. The dungeon may be facing marginal players with no experience at all. Somehow, Duan Muxiao got this item. He is the one in this dungeon. Heterogeneous.
Fortunately, such an identity can provide him with some convenience, at least in this way, they will not be too disobedient.
Lin Yining rubbed his forehead and said, "Since this is the case, I don't think you have exchanged names yet?"
"...Yes." The literary girl replied in a low voice.
"Then introduce yourself." Lin Yining emphasized again: "Don't make me say it again—there is another player, where is he?"
"I'm sure he's dead." A sneer suddenly came from the side, and he said to the player who had been arguing to Lin Yining: "That cowardly thing found out that the game has already started, so he killed himself in fright."
"I saw him come down just now, he should go to the toilet." The literary girl said.
The elf stared at him impassively with jewel-like red eyes. The person who spoke just now didn't use it like this immediately, and immediately took a step back and said, "Fan Heng, my name is Fan Heng."
Literary girl: "My name is Lian Qing."
A man and a woman who came down from behind also reported their names.
The arrogant man said, "My name is Chen Zilian."
The girl who has always been indifferent said: "Chu Qiqi."
"You guys... have you started the mission yet?" A weak voice came from behind. They looked over and found that another boy was born. He looked young and was wearing an old loose T-shirt. He whispered Said: "Do you want to introduce yourself? My name is Qian Xiaoyong."
Fan Heng raised the bar like a conditioned reflex, and said in a low voice: "You are so timid, what is it called brave?"
Qian Xiaoyong trembled, lowered his head, blushed, and said nothing.
Lin Yining said: "I can tell, maybe none of you have experience in dungeons, coincidentally, I..." He glanced around at several people, and said: "I also have no experience as a kindergarten teacher. I believe the first Overnight, you will have a deeper understanding of what kind of place the dungeon in the game is—or maybe not, because at least you don’t care about your own life after the novice dungeon.”
He said, "Maybe it's better for me to ask about some things tomorrow."
Lin Yining glanced at the clock hanging on the wall of the restaurant, the current time is four o'clock in the afternoon.
"It will be dark after eight o'clock, and I will come down during the dinner and storytelling session. I hope that by that time, you can be a little more awake."
After he said everything he thought he should say, he nodded to everyone and left the restaurant directly. Lian Qing, a literary girl, looked at Lin Yining, then at the people standing there, gritted her teeth, and finally caught up with Lin Yining.
The first floor of this small building is arranged with a kitchen, dining room, living room and a small toilet. As for the guest rooms, they are uniformly arranged on the second floor. After Lian Qing caught up with Lin Yining, he said to him: "You...you come with me, I have something to tell you."
She pulled Lin Yining up to the second floor, looked at a row of rooms, and added: "The rooms with the sign on the door are occupied, and now there are five rooms that are occupied, and only one is left. Innermost."
She took Lin Yining over, pushed open the door, and Lin Yining saw the scenery inside.
This is a small room of less than twenty square meters, about five meters long and four meters wide. The decoration is simple and warm. There is a small desk next to the window, and there is a hanger next to the desk. A small country-style sofa is placed directly opposite the desk, and the rest is the bed. Perhaps it is because it is used to open a homestay, there is not much storage space in the whole room, and everything is clear at a glance.
"My room is also like this, with a similar layout." Lian Qing dusted Lin Yining's already neat bed sheets, and said, "I sneaked in to check before, but I didn't find anything here."
Lin Yining said: "Maybe it's because the dungeon hasn't officially started yet, maybe there is a clue now, you can go back and look for it."
"Okay, I remember." Lian Qing asked Lin Yining as if mustering up his courage: "You seem to be different from us, why did you enter this dungeon?"
Lin Yining: "Is this helpful for passing the copy?"
Lin Yining didn't really want to talk.
"I'm sorry." Lian Qing lowered his head and said, "I..."
"Okay." Lin Yining stopped her apology, and said directly: "Didn't you say that you have some clues? You can tell now."
"I... I'm really not very good at communication, but in the game world, if you don't have teammates, it's hard to survive in the dungeon." She said this slowly, and after she finished speaking, she seemed to be afraid that Lin Yining would not With patience, he quickly said: "The clues I noticed are related to this point. Because I found that several of us have something in common."
"Some people are stern, some are pretentious, some are bluffing, and some seem to commit suicide at any time..." She recalled: "Based on my experience in reading novels, this is probably a clue. The store appeared very casually, that day I was in such a bad mood, I saw it on the road, and suddenly I had a strong urge to go in...”
"I went to look for it the next day, but it was gone." Lian Qing said: "It has certain rules for selecting people, and the other four people told me that my guess was right until you came in."
Lin Yining said: "This pendant of mine was given by a friend."
"Sure enough, you are very different from us." Lian Qing said, "I have a heartfelt request. If you still have time to pass the dungeon, can you help me?"
Lin Yining looked at her for a few seconds and said, "Yes."
Lian Qing felt relieved.
"I came in because the second night after I bought the pendant, someone asked me if I wanted to change everything. I agreed, so I came in." She whispered, "Anyway, I really want to I don’t want to die…”
Lin Yining said: "You will not die."
Hearing Lin Yining's promise, Lian Qing seemed to have got some life-saving straw. After seeing her off, Lin Yining looked around the room again.
The room was cleaned very clean, including under the bed, there was nothing dirty.
After he moved the sofa, Lin Yining finally found something under the sofa.
It was a notebook with the words on the cover: "First Night."
Inside is white, nothing.
Lin Yining put the notebook on the desk, sat on the chair in front of the desk, thinking about everything in the copy.
What Lian Qing said just now is not unreasonable. There is only one criterion for selecting candidates for this dungeon, and that is to look like ordinary people outside the dungeon, which is very normal.
As for why, more clues should be needed.
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The dinner is very rich, just like in the game, when the time comes, the dinner will be refreshed on the table.
But the atmosphere at the dinner table was not so good.
Lin Yining ate his meal quietly, only moving the few dishes in front of him, and the others were almost like this, eating in silence, no one wanted to say anything unnecessary.
After eating, the food on the table seemed to be refreshed and disappeared.
There was a note on the table:
The first line of the note is a big tilde. It seems that these notes want to express themselves more lively.
Lin Yining skipped this line if it didn't matter, and went straight to the next line.
A thing appeared on the table without warning, a bit like a compass, but its needle tip has only one end, and the other end is flat.
The handwriting on the note ended here, no matter how they turned it over and over again, there was nothing more on it. Everyone circulated this note, put it on the table, and no one said a word. The thing on the table turned without warning, and everyone held their breath for fear that it would point at themselves.
The needle tip frantically turned round and round, and finally it pointed to Lian Qing who talked to Lin Yining the most.
The rest of the people showed some gloating expressions on their faces, only Lian Qing's face was full of despair.
"It's just telling a story, it's not a big deal." Lin Yining said, "Let's tell it."
Lian Qing seemed to have received some encouragement from Lin Yining, staring at this thing, his voice trembling, and began to say:
"The story I want to tell happened to a family of three. They just came to a new city and moved into a small building, but they encountered many strange things. Later they realized that the house they live in now is a The haunted house, its previous owner was also a family of three, who used to be very happy, but one day, they met an accident, the house caught fire, and the family of three died inside, and no one came out."
"After knowing the truth, the first reaction of the father of the family was to go to the original owner to reason. Anyone with a little bit of legal knowledge knows that when buying and selling houses, things like death must never be concealed. But he didn't expect it. Angry Chong Chong looked over and saw that the person who sold him the house was also dead."
"And the death was very miserable. When my father returned home, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. He tossed and turned all night, and finally made up his mind that the family could not live here no matter what. As a result, the next morning, the neighbor rang them. After the door of the house, I found that the whole family was dead."
"This matter spread quickly, and countless rumors came one after another. In the end, the roughly combined truth is roughly like this. In the first family of three who lived here, the father was a gambler and alcoholic, and the mother was very cowardly, so they never had the guts to divorce. Only the child has always hated this kind of life and his father, but this hatred brought him a fatal disaster, and his father killed him during a resistance."
"After the child was killed, the father threatened the mother to help him deal with the scene. They embedded the child's body in the wall and announced that the child had gone to grandma's house to play. As for what happened to the fire, no one knows .”
After the last word of Lian Qing's words, the lights suddenly went out. In the darkness, everyone felt a little flustered.
"A note... Has the handwriting on the note changed?" someone asked.
Lin Yining looked over there, and sure enough, he noticed that the handwriting on the note was not quite the same as before.
"The power went out, or..." Or was it part of the design of the man behind the game? Lian Qing said tremblingly.
Lin Yining stood up and said, "Let me see—where is the switch? If there is a power outage, there should be candles. Do you know where there are candles?"
"Under the TV cabinet, there is a pack of candles." Another girl who had been seldom speaking suddenly made a sound, and Lin Yining had the opportunity to take a good look at her by the candlelight.
She has long straight black hair, and a wide skirt on her slender body, which seems to be floating on her body. Her face was neither good-looking nor bad-looking, it was all covered by a unique temperament, her lips were pale, as if she was seriously ill, it reminded him of what Lian Qing said in the daytime, 'Someone wants to commit suicide'.
She should be the one who wants to commit suicide.
Lin Yining lost his thoughts and walked to the living room. The living room and dining room are located at a diagonal, just a few steps away. As for the electric switch in the kitchen, the door opens in the living room.
He went to check the electric switch first, and found that it hadn't tripped, so he could only go to get the candle. As for whether there is a problem with the circuit in the whole room, it is none of the business of ordinary players like them. Lin Yining found a pack of white candles under the TV cabinet, and the other party thoughtfully put a lighter here.
Lin Yining lit a candle and walked towards the restaurant with it.
In the faint firelight, he seemed to see some shadow on the wall.
As if it was just an illusion, the shadow disappeared after a moment like lightning in the rain.
He took back the candle, picked up the note on the table, looked at it by the firelight, and read the words on it:
As soon as he finished reading, the edge of the note was lit with fire, but Lin Yining obviously didn't put the note on the flame of the candle. Before anyone could complain, the light of the candle was also extinguished.
The flame from the note became the only light source, and Lin Yining tried to use it to relight the candle. But it burned too fast, and it was about to reach Lin Yining's hand, so he had to let it go and let the note fall to the ground.
The orange fire is like a fallen butterfly, gradually extinguishing. The only light source disappeared, and the room ushered in pure darkness, and then lit up again. It was not the lights but the moonlight that brought them back to the world.
The rain outside did not know when it had stopped. Obviously from the window of the restaurant, there are plants outside, but Lin Yining always feels that the plants he sees now are a bit different from the ones he saw just now.
He took a look, and the dining table in front of him was not what it was just now. A tablecloth made of plastic was added to the log-shaped dining table, and a meal that smelled of poor craftsmanship was placed on it. There are three bowls of noodles with a plate of pickles in the middle, which has a pungent taste.
Diagonally across from them, in the living room, there was the sound of something scratching the ground, stinging, stinging, and a woman's sobbing.
A car drove by outside, and the lights of the car shone through the window, shining on the faces of the six players. Only then did they realize that two people were hiding in the corner of the restaurant.
The mother was holding her baby, a chubby kid, four or five years old.
Her eyes widened in horror, begging them to keep quiet.
The teeth-piercing voice was getting closer and closer, and the players all looked back. What they saw was a tall charred corpse walking towards this side, dragging an axe.
In the story just now, Lian Qing told such a story, a family of three were killed by the ghosts in the haunted house, and the ghosts were also a family of three. The scene in front of me is probably the night that the souls of the dead killed people.
The marginal players who had been hiding in the ivory tower reported that they were no better than the victims. The man who had been arguing with Lin Yining screamed and hid under the table. Lin Yining directly summoned a bow and pointed it at the charred corpse One arrow!
The charred corpse fell to the ground, motionless.
Lin Yining stretched out his hand towards Lian Qing and said, "Let's go."
Lian Qing staggered up and followed Lin Yining forward.
"Now... what to do now?" She said in a trembling voice.
"It depends on the situation, find a safe place first." Lin Yining said. Since he promised Lian Qing to protect her, he would not break his promise.
The surroundings obviously still look like a small two-story building where the mission is in progress, but it strangely overlaps with the house in the mission. There are also two doors on the first floor, leading to the toilet and kitchen, and the living room and dining room are connected open spaces.
The scene in the open space was clear at a glance, Lin Yining also wanted to see what was in the toilet and kitchen on the first floor.
He opened the door of the kitchen. Inside, he saw a half-rotten white bone, not tall, only 1.23 meters. He tilted his head and prepared to set the room on fire.
Hearing the movement, he turned his head and glanced at Lin Yining, with a smile on his rotten lips.