(The random update cannot be used for the Silver Alliance Leader, and the progress is 3/50. At the same time, I would like to thank the book friend LAILLLL for the 100,000 reward. This book has one more Alliance Leader.)
Lying in a coffin and closing the lid of your own coffin from inside is a rather strange experience.
The white mist felt fresh, but the rotten smell grew stronger as the coffin board slowly covered it.
When the coffin was completely closed, he felt as if he had entered another world. Everything outside became quiet in an instant, and the sound of the suona that had been ringing all the time suddenly disappeared.
He lay there motionless, inside the coffin, seemingly unable to feel the passage of time.
He didn't know how long he had been lying there, nor did he know how long he would have to lie there, but he was not in a hurry at all.
It even felt like it was raining heavily outside and there were hairs everywhere, but the coffin in the mourning hall was quite comfortable and warm to lie in.
He slowly sorted out the clues, waiting for the opportunity to leave the coffin.
"I still haven't found what my eyes suggest. The key has begun to penetrate the lock, but I have to find the door first. Does this mean I can find the entrance to the next area?"
Now the whole area is still too confusing and shrouded in white fog.
The fortune-teller, the married couple, the person hiding in the coffin, and those paper figures should all have deeper meanings.
Bai Wu guessed that the final destination, the answers to all the secrets, were in that lake.
He had a vague idea of the story.
The people in the village want to survive, but as the end of the world approaches, many strange things begin to happen in this ancient village.
An evil monster was born in the lake, which would bring death and disaster. If a villager saw this monster, there would be bloodshed in his family.
"The villagers should be trying to find a way to get rid of the monster in the lake. According to the notes, the witch wants to kill the monster. Others want to use various superstitious methods to please the monster... paper figurines, getting married, living in a coffin, all like that."
"Speaking of which, if I hadn't found the clue and hid in the coffin, would I have been... accompanied by those growing hairs in the end? Judging from the changes I saw last time, those 'hairs' in that village are the product of some kind of resentment, and they should be increasing in number."
"The guardian of this place also looks like a powerful evil being. If you don't follow the rules, you'll probably be completely locked up somewhere by these grievances."
Bai Wu analyzed it bit by bit and guessed correctly.
The six of them came out of the tower and here, and now one of them has suffered the consequences for constantly destroying the scene.
Those hairs seemed to have released some kind of switch that had removed the growth restriction. They grew wildly and out of control, and began to occupy the entire space little by little.
No matter how Liu Hu struggled and pulled, it was useless. The last scene he saw was—
Countless paper figures lined up in front of him, with endless hair wrapping him up little by little. There was strange music in his ears and the eerie laughter of an old woman.
Among the six people, five entered the second round of scenes, and only Liu Hu was in the first round of scenes, being tortured by those paper figures.
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Suddenly, there were sounds of gongs and drums and firecrackers outside. Bai Wu suddenly opened his eyes and felt the noise outside. He knew it was time to get out of the coffin.
But soon Bai Wu discovered something wrong. He was indeed lying in a dark space, but not in a coffin.
There is no coffin here either.
Are you awake? The operation was successful, and you are now a young lady... Oh, sorry, I got the wrong script, and the village you are in does not have gender-changing rules. Well, congratulations on entering the second round of the game of death. There are five players in this round. You will play five different roles in five different families, and finally make a choice based on the information you get before you die.
I have to remind you that you have given up the chance to leave here, so you can't leave before reaching the lake and seeing the poor little thing. Returning to the roulette wheel is invalid because in a sense, your current body is not your real body.
The eyes gave a lot of information. Bai Wu now discovered that he was not hiding in the coffin, but under the bed.
"The character I play is... Zhao Kuan... the son of the Zhao family, sixteen years old."
Memories of the person he had played began to slowly emerge, and Bai Wu quickly figured out his own identity.
"Interesting... Five people advanced? That means, among the six of us, only one person didn't find the way to enter the second round, and the other five all entered the second round?"
The second round of scenes is still in the mountain village, but it is not as gloomy as the first scene.
Bai Wu could feel that everything around him was normal. He could even hear the sounds of gongs, drums and firecrackers outside on the street.
"The person who was eliminated, couldn't it be the captain?"
Bai Wu was still very worried about the safety of his captain, although it was obvious that the only one among the six who was not good at thinking was Liu Hu.
Bai Wu stopped thinking and began to think about the situation in front of him. He knew his identity, he was the descendant of the Zhao family in this mountain village, and the Zhao family was considered a wealthy family in the village.
"Just why would I hide under the bed?"
Bai Wu’s doubts were soon answered.
The game officially began at this moment. Bai Wu, who was hiding under the bed, suddenly saw two black feet...
Those feet were different from human feet, more like duck webbed feet. This was obviously not a human, but some kind of monster.
Thinking of the notes on the calendar in the first scene, Bai Wu suddenly realized... Water ghost, evil in the lake!
Bai Wu didn't know whether to cry or laugh. This was the beginning of hell. As soon as he appeared, he encountered a monster that could bring death.
He held his breath.
Since the rules require you to play a certain role, no matter what the game is, the first priority is the survival of the character.
The black flippers stopped beside the bed. At this moment, Bai Wu could feel a resentment that chilled his soul slowly spreading.
He still hid under the bed calmly, not panicking. As long as he didn't feel fear, he would not be sensed by the evil.
Soon, the black flippers began to move, slowly away from the bed.
Bai Wu breathed a sigh of relief and blinked, but in the blink of an eye, a cold and terrifying gaze suddenly locked onto him.
A face that was so ugly that it was definitely not something a human could have also appeared under the bed. Bai Wu's face was almost touching the monster's face, with only a few centimeters between them.
So much so that in the dim light under the bed, Bai Wu could even see the disgusting pores on the face that was as black as mud.
At this time in history, Zhao Kuan, the son of the Zhao family, was frightened to the point of fainting.
Bai Wu looked at this face, stepped back a few centimeters, and suddenly spoke:
"Are you coming to kill me?"
“Does this game have a resurrection mechanism?”
The face that appeared in front of Bai Wu had extremely uncoordinated features, a flat mouth, and eyes so big that there was not much forehead left. The dense hair seemed to be twisting and swaying like strands of water grass, and the dark skin exuded a rotten and foul smell.
There are many things that died in the lake, and their obsessions gathered together as the rules outside the tower changed. Until a sacrifice fell into the lake, the obsession merged with the sacrifice to form this special monster. Now is not a battle scene, so I have no way to tell you its data.
In horror movies, ghosts are most terrifying when they are about to appear. Once they appear, it means everything is settled.
The evil creature in the lake made a strange sound, as if something was stuck in its throat. The sound was extremely harsh.
With its ferocious expression, the white mist felt like it was performing some kind of ritual.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand, but in this situation, do I have to be scared all the time?"
Bai Wu pretended to tremble. He guessed that the monster might want to see the fear on the human face before it would stop.
But the strange thing is... this monster also showed a thoughtful look.
For the evil in the lake, this was the first time it had seen the white fog's reaction like this.
Bai Wu thought that shouldn't happen...
Any game should give players some living space, so that they don't have to face the big boss right at the beginning.
And why didn't the other party kill him? Could it be...
"Ha! You found me. Is it my turn to find you this time?"
Bai Wu suddenly spoke and gave a stiff smile.
He not only had imagination about the future, in fact he had imagination about every moment, so much so that at this critical moment, he even wondered - could it be that the Zhao family's son was playing hide-and-seek with the water ghost
The answer is certainly not this. The monster looked at the white fog, and his gaze was still extremely creepy.
It kept making strange cries, the meaning of which was as unclear as the spells chanted by a medieval witch.
But after struggling for a while, the water ghost slowly moved out from under the bed. It lay on the ground like a gecko, slowly twisting its neck, making a terrifying crackling sound as if its bones were twisting.
Seeing such a horrifying scene, Bai Wu really wished he was watching from a third-person perspective, and the person lying under the bed at this moment was Lin Wu Rou.
The scene of the monster and the white mist staring at each other did not last long.
As the sounds of gongs, drums and firecrackers outside the house got closer, it let out a sharp cry, kicked its legs, jumped out of the window, and left the Zhao family's yard in a few jumps, as if it had never been there.
When the monster turned around, Bai Wu saw the dense hair on its back.
He always felt that... it didn't look like hair, but more like waterweed covered with filthy and rotten things.
This also proves that this monster is very likely... the water ghost in the lake.
White mist crawled out from under the bed.
The sun was shining brightly in the yard and the Zhao family's door opened quickly.
A large group of people poured into the yard, looking quite festive.
At this time, Bai Wu remembered that in this kind of ancient village, boys had to get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and girls at the age of twelve or thirteen.
These people are from the Zhu family, and he is about to marry the daughter of the Zhu family.
The daughter of the Zhu family encountered an evil creature and asked the only witch in the village for help.
The few people who had encountered evil spirits before were all young people. Without exception, there was a bloody disaster in their family - either they died or the elders in the family died.
And the way they died was usually sudden death: being bitten by poisonous insects while hunting, or being burned to death in a sudden fire at home, or accidentally falling into the water and drowning when going to the lake. Even livestock suddenly went crazy and the usually docile livestock bit people to death.
The outside world is collapsing because of the doomsday, and many strange things are also beginning to happen in this ancient village.
The mountain village and Zao Lake, which were once so familiar to me, suddenly became dangerous.
The Zhu family is a wealthy family in the village, and everyone wants their son to marry the daughter of the Zhu family.
But the Zhu family had already been targeted by evil spirits, and no one dared to contact them.
The Zhu family later asked a fortune teller, who said that only great joy could ward off evil spirits. So someone from the Zhu family came to propose marriage.
The Zhao family was unwilling to do so, but the problem was that the Zhu family offered too much. Even the fortune teller was bribed by the Zhu family and kept speaking well of the Zhu family, saying that this marriage was great and that if the two families became relatives, it would bring good luck to the entire village.
So today's streets look particularly festive.
The irony is... the Zhu family didn't know that the evil spirit that looked like the god of death had just visited the Zhao family.
Bai Wu frowned as he looked at the group of people in the Zhao family yard. The information given to these people was the same -
They are just props used to provide information. There is no need to look at them. The four people you are looking for are not among this group of tools. They are experiencing the same thing as you at the moment.
At this moment, Yan Zizai, Xie Xingzhi, Cain, and Wujiu were all experiencing the terrifying scene of having their faces touched by the evil spirit in the lake.
Bai Wu showed a puzzled expression:
"I am playing Zhao Kuan... The first and second scenes are both related to memory. Whose brain am I in? If I am Zhao Kuan, then theoretically, this is Zhao Kuan's memory. But the eyes mentioned that the captain and the others are playing other people, so who is this memory that we are in?"
If following the historical process, Bai Wu guessed that the Zhao family courtyard where he would be next would be the red house in the first scene.
The sound of underworld music filled the air, and then two men and women in red got married... It was a pretty spooky scene.
Bai Wu felt from the beginning that he was in the mind of a monster. He even thought of what Bai Yuan had said before he set out:
“Perhaps in the future, you will enter someone else’s brain and see a locked room… There may be the darkest secrets in your heart, or the softest memories. Don’t waste time, try every possible way to open it.”
But the question facing Bai Wu now is... whose brain is this
A witch? The owner of the paper man house? A ghost in the lake? Hong Yin? Zhao Kuan? The bride of the Zhu family
"There are still too few clues. If I am really in a monster's mind, then this monster's mental ability is obviously at the same level as Hong Yin."
Bai Wu suppressed his doubts and decided to follow the development of the plot.
"The Zhu family's bride... has seen an evil spirit. I may be able to get some clues from her."
Bai Wu felt a little weird when he thought about getting married.
He was now very curious about who the captain was playing. Suppose everyone played the role that appeared in the first scene.
Then the owners of the paper figures in the Paper Figure House, the Zhu family’s bride, the witch, and the coffin maker… are they played by the captain, Cain, Yan Zizai and others
(Tomorrow should still have two chapters. This chapter is mainly difficult to write... It was exactly 12 o'clock when I finished it. But it will still be counted as the update on the 19th.)