However, Xia Qi smelled the familiar scent of roses and took a step forward unconsciously.
Xia Qi followed the scent and slowly walked into the room. A moment later, he was in darkness.
“Bang!”
As the old man and his sister screamed, the door behind Xia Qi was quickly closed, and darkness surged towards him like a tide.
There was a sound of footsteps coming from behind him, accompanied by slightly tense and rapid breathing. Before he could turn around, a pair of strong hands passed through his waistline and gently embraced him from behind.
"Hmm?"
Wrapped in the arms of the man behind him, Xia Qi's whole body stiffened.
The warm chest continuously transmitted heat to him, and feeling his strong heartbeat, Xia Qi dared not move at all, and was so nervous that he could hardly breathe.
"Count?" When he was almost unable to hold his breath, Xia Qi let out a breath and asked carefully.
At this moment, a warm breath sprayed on his ear, and the man's hoarse and magnetic voice came, calling his name softly: "Qi..."
The man deliberately dragged out the last syllable of the word. He sighed and made it take seventeen or eighteen turns. Xia Qi felt as if he was drifting in a narrow canyon, constantly crossing one exciting rapids after another, which made him unable to recover for a long time.
Xia Qi clenched his fists nervously and pinched his palms to quickly regain his senses.
Judging from the Earl's behavior and tone, the Earl should be in a human state at this time, and has not been forcibly reduced in intelligence and transformed into a boss by the game.
Xia Qi raced against time and asked tentatively: "Do you know... Clearance?"
"What?" the Count replied in surprise.
The Count didn't even know that he was in the game, nor that he was the boss.
Xia Qi frowned slightly. That would be a difficult situation.
Apart from killing the boss, what is the blue team's method of clearing the level
Seeing another minute had passed, Xia Qi was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. He took out a black velvet box from his pocket and asked, "This..."
"No more." The man suddenly grabbed his hand and threw the black velvet box towards the velvet mattress.
Xia Qi: “!!!”
His props for passing the level!
Xia Qi quickly broke free from his arms and rushed towards the mattress, but the room was too dark and he couldn't find the box after groping for a long time.
The man walked up to him at some point, grabbed his wrist and pulled him up without saying a word.
"You should leave now."
Since he couldn't see the Earl's face clearly, Xia Qi could only judge his mood by his voice. Unlike the romantic night on the dance floor, the Earl now seemed very emotionally unstable, and his voice was full of anxiety and hesitation.
Although the Earl held his wrist tightly, he did not use much force. Xia Qi did not break free, but asked again: "Where are you going?"
"The farther the better, and never come back." He said this with great determination.
True love is worth 999
Xia Qi: “…”
What the hell, let him go and give him more true love points
Xia Qi was about to speak when a light kiss suddenly fell on his forehead.
The Earl's lips were not as cold as he had imagined. Instead, they were hotter than normal human temperatures. Just touching Xia Qi, he felt as if he had been scalded.
"Goodbye, my rose."
Just like the Count's mysterious identity, his farewell kiss also came very suddenly, just a touch of the water, and was fleeting.
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind. Xia Qi was about to resist, but was pushed out by the count without any explanation.
With a bang, the door closed behind Xia Qi, and his sister and the old man hurried over.
"Brother Xia!"
The two looked at him eagerly, waiting for his explanation.
Xia Qi stared at the door in front of him, slightly distracted.
It was the old man who reacted first and asked quietly, "Failed?"
If Xia Qi had successfully passed the level just now, they would have been teleported out of the game by now, but Xia Qi was pushed out, which meant that he did not find a way to pass the level.
Xia Qi nodded and briefly described what had just happened.
This man was so fickle that Xia Qi couldn't understand his attitude for a while.
"Something's wrong, very wrong!" The old man wiped the sweat from his forehead, his throat burning with anxiety, "The method of clearing this game is likely to be different from other copies!"
The old man had completed several games before. The way to complete the games was simply to use the props to satisfy the wishes of the game boss. He had never seen a boss throw away the props.
Moreover, those bosses all knew that they were bosses, but the Count was completely unaware of himself and lived like a person in the real world.
So, this means that the method to pass this copy cannot be solved using normal thinking.
"This copy is very likely an advanced copy, and the method of passing it is different from other copies." The old man thought hard and finally came to this conclusion.
"you mean… "
The old man's words inspired Xia Qi. Maybe from the beginning, they were all wrong!
Previously, they were thinking about how to pass the game based on the logic of the game. If they were to start from the relationship between him and the Earl, then the way to pass the game would be completely different.
Xia Qi suddenly had an idea in his mind, and he punched the door: "I know!"
"Brother Xia, there are only three minutes left before the long night begins!" the younger sister whispered, "We must leave one minute to retreat!"
Even if we only have 1 minute to retreat, it would be very dangerous.
Once night falls, the strength of NPCs and bosses will increase greatly, and their situation will be very dangerous.
Xia Qi banged on the door fiercely: "Count! I have something to tell you!"
The old man gritted his teeth, not caring whether there was a boss hiding inside, and took out the wire to continue prying the door.
After 10 seconds, the door opened.
Xia Qi rushed in and ran in the darkness, looking for the earl, but found that the earl had disappeared again.
Facing the void of darkness, Xia Qi took a deep breath and said loudly to the air: "You are not a monster!"
Another two seconds passed, and the room was still so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. As long as he didn't come out, Xia Qi had no way out.
"You have the softest eyes in the world."
Xia Qi suppressed his irritable heart and tried hard to dig out the love words in his mind while groping in the darkness.
He could feel that the Count was still in the room.
After saying a few words, there was still no response. Xia Qi seemed to have made up his mind and continued, "I, I want to tell you, I..."
At this moment, the ground on the third floor trembled violently, and a piercing roar sounded outside the door: "Xia Qi, I'm going to kill you!!!"
"It's the old count!"
The younger sister and the old man didn't dare to stay outside the door for a second, and didn't care whether there was a boss in the room, and they hid directly behind Xia Qi.
“3, 2, 1… Time’s up!”
My sister hurriedly pulled out her revolver and pointed it at the door.
It was pitch dark in the room to begin with, and after the long night, the temperature of the entire world dropped sharply, making the three of them shiver with cold.
"Xia Qi! I'm going to drain your blood! And tear you into pieces!"
As soon as the old earl finished his roar, there was a "snap" sound, and a pitch-black claw grabbed the door frame. The nails on the black claw suddenly grew and turned into sharp knives.
At the same time, the old earl's figure suddenly grew taller, his scarlet eyes glowed red in the dark night, and the corners of his mouth, which were originally bleeding, were now almost grinning to his ears, and he was smiling sinisterly at the three people opposite.
After letting out an even more ferocious roar, the old earl opened his mouth full of fangs and pounced towards Xia Qi.
“Get out of the way!”
When Xia Qi raised his hand and prepared to splash the holy water, suddenly, a thunder-like roar sounded behind him!
"roar!!"
A gust of wind filled with violent energy blew past Xia Qi and knocked the three of them against the wall.
The tall figure who had just passed by them was as fast as lightning. With a "bang", he collided with the old earl who rushed into the room, and they wrestled with each other outside the door!
The two vampires were biting each other frantically, destroying all the vases and picture frames in the corridor, making sharp "ping pong" sounds. As the father and son continued to fight, the whole floor shook violently, and the three of them had to hold on to the wall to stand firmly.
Numerous explosions were heard from near and far, Xia Qi stumbled to the door and quickly closed it. He had no time to care about the Earl now, who even looked much stronger than his own father.
"Help me find the props to pass the level!" Xia Qi rushed towards the mattress with a flashlight in hand.
"Okay, okay." The old man replied. It was not until Xia Qi reminded him that he came back to his senses from the psychedelic scene of the boss fighting the players and NPCs.
Fortunately, the black velvet box was not thrown under the mattress. After groping for a long time, the three of them finally found the box.
"How do we get out now?" asked my sister.
The two vampires have fought from the third floor to the second floor, and it is too unsafe to take the stairs now.
Xia Qi pulled open the curtains and came to the landscape terrace: "Let's climb down."
"OK."
The old man had prepared the rope yesterday. He was used to climbing walls and climbing rooftops, so he quickly calculated the escape route.
They planned to start from the terrace, swing through the rope to the castle's open-air corridor on the second floor, and then walk down along the corner tower.
The old man was responsible for leading the way, then took his sister downstairs, and Xia Qi was responsible for the rear guard. As soon as Xia Qi landed in the open-air corridor, he heard a series of loud noises coming from not far behind him.
The three of them turned around at the same time.
"boom!"
There was a loud bang from the window on the top floor of the castle, and a hole was instantly broken on the window. Amidst countless broken colored glass fragments, a familiar figure flew out with a whoosh.
The old earl fell from the top of the castle into the distance in a parabola. In the moonlight, Xia Qi saw the old earl's figure getting smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a small black dot and fell on the cemetery.
"If we remember correctly, the Earl is the old Earl's son." The sister was silent for a long time and suddenly said.
Old man: “…”
Xia Qi: “…”
Witnessing the boss's terrifying strength in beating his own father, the three men felt a chill down their spines. They fled even more cautiously, not even daring to breathe.
As he climbed, Xia Qi found that the temperature around him was getting lower and lower.
A biting cold wind penetrated his clothes, and Xia Qi shivered all over, feeling that he was being watched by something again.
"Plop", a piece of gravel fell near them.
Just as my sister raised her hand and was about to climb into the small window on the corridor, she heard a "click" and the tip of a sharp knife pierced her forehead.
The sharp edge of the blade cut her forehead, and the sister felt a stinging pain on her skin and shrank back suddenly.
Even though she was almost beheaded by this giant blade once, when she saw this giant blade again, the sister who had already put life and death aside still felt boundless fear.
Looking up along the giant blade, they saw a tall black shadow on the corner tower of the castle, clinging to the wall, looking down at them.
The count's eyes were bloodshot again, and when he looked at them, his eyes were full of bloodthirsty desire.
"Don't do it!"
Worried that they would hurt each other, Xia Qi pulled his sister behind him.
"Bang." The count landed in the corridor. He pulled out the giant blade that fell on the ground and took a step towards Xia Qi.
In an instant, his mountain-like figure enveloped him. Xia Qi swallowed, trying to overcome the fear brought about by the oppressive feeling, and with a trembling right hand, he took out the black velvet box.
One of his legs was bent, ready to evacuate at any time.
After opening the box, Xia Qi met the Earl's confused gaze and held up a red diamond ring.
This pair of diamond rings originally belonged to Margaret and the old Earl as a wedding token. Judging from the wedding portrait of the Earl's ancestors in the East Hall, the pair of diamond rings were family heirlooms, and were also what he called "contract items."
"You originally wanted to give it to me, right?" Xia Qi asked tentatively.
Ever since Xia Qi took out the diamond ring, the Earl's eyes have never left the diamond ring and him.
Slowly, his eyes began to focus and the red in his eyes began to fade away. Then, he suddenly knelt on one knee, blinking his red eyes, and looked Xia Qi in the eye.
Seeing his reaction to the diamond ring, Xia Qi smiled and said in a gentle voice, as if coaxing a kindergarten kid, "You recognized it, didn't you?"
The count looked at the diamond ring, then looked at him, and blinked in confusion, as if he didn't understand what Xia Qi was saying.
Xia Qi scratched his head and wondered, how can I restore the IQ of the berserk boss
Humans and vampires cannot communicate at all!
At this moment, the Earl suddenly moved again, slowly approaching Xia Qi, and finally, rested his head on Xia Qi's neck and rubbed it gently.
Xia Qi subconsciously raised his right hand and rubbed his golden curly head.
"... Ang?" The count made a sound similar to that of an animal.
Although his voice was quite strange, Xia Qi could tell from the single syllable that he was very happy.
It's getting stupider and stupider...
Yesterday, the frenzied Count could still say "Please give me true love's kiss", but who would have thought that today, he can't even speak
As if feeling very dissatisfied, the Earl rubbed his face again. Xia Qi couldn't help but rubbed his hairy head twice.
After kneading, Xia Qi always felt something was wrong, as if he had become... a tamer
"My daughter-in-law!" Margaret continued to chatter to Xia Qi, "Oh, you are so beautiful, you are the most beautiful rose in the Rose Castle!"
Xia Qi: “…”
Is it over yet
Xia Qi quickly changed the subject and asked, "The Earl is not a human, so what is he?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as Xia Qi finished speaking, Margaret screamed. She quickly stepped back, shouting with her teeth bared, "I don't know! I don't know anything! Ah!!!"
Her voice was filled with fear, and her face was distorted, looking so hideous that she looked like a female ghost.
The younger sister sighed, took out a roll of yellowed newspaper from her pocket, and pushed it in front of Xia Qi: "Brother Xia, take a look at this."
This was the clue she found in the cemetery that day, which increased the blue team's plot progress by 10%.
Xia Qi took the newspaper and saw a huge headline written on it:
《Shock! The Countess eloped at night for this man! 》
Xia Qi: “…”
The text translated by this system can actually be localized.
Xia Qi decided to ignore the title and continue reading.
In general, the newspaper mainly tells the story of how the Countess eloped with her cousin after giving birth to a child. In the corner, there is a photo of Margaret, and the housekeeper's face is also in the photo.
Xia Qi looked at Margaret suspiciously, and then tried to ask, "Why do you want to elope?"
Margaret was still screaming in the room, as if she was completely in a state of madness. After a while, she suddenly calmed down, danced a minuet in the room, and hummed softly.
"You can't get the answer from her. She's crazy again." The younger sister said helplessly. She had asked these questions before.
"Since she wants to elope, why does she take the child with her? Wouldn't it be more convenient to leave the child behind?" This is what Xia Qi was confused about.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a very light knock on the door.
Xia Qi stood up instantly and held the magic wand of true love in his palm. His sister also grabbed the knife on the table and pointed in the direction of the door.
"It's me." The old man's voice came from outside the door.
Hearing that it was the old man coming, my sister breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door.
After not seeing him for a day, the old man looked like he had crawled out of a dark coal mine. Under the light, Xia Qicai could finally see him clearly and his white dentures.
"I can't stay out here any longer." The old man walked to the table and poured himself a glass of water without hesitation. "The boss and NPCs are killing people everywhere. I don't even have a place to stay, so I have no choice but to come to you."
"Where did you go yesterday?" The old man looked so miserable, as if he had dug up the grave of the Earl's ancestors.
The old man's face changed, and he suddenly lowered his voice and said in a spooky voice: "I went to the cemetery of the castle, and I tell you, it's very scary in the cemetery. It turns out that their whole family is..."
At this moment, the system's full-frequency broadcast sounded.
Ding Dong! The Red Team has reached 30% of its progress. There are 3 survivors left and 4 have died.
The Red Team's progress has skyrocketed by 30%...
What's even more outrageous is that two of them died suddenly.
"What happened to the red team?" Even though the sister had been calm, she became a little uneasy when she heard that two people had died.
Originally, the blue team had 60% of the plot progress and had a firm advantage. Unexpectedly, the red team's plot progress skyrocketed to 40%, and now the two sides are tied at 6:4.
The only thing to be thankful for is that two more people on the red side died, and now there are only three people left on each side.
"The deaths of these two people are so strange, could it be that they deliberately went to die?"
Judging from the Red Team's ruthless and cruel style of doing things, Xia Qi couldn't help but suspect that these two were sacrificed for 30% of the plot progress.
My sister and the old man looked at each other and thought that the red team was really capable of doing such a thing.
Xia Qi clenched his fist nervously and asked the old man: "The total progress of the red and blue sides is currently 100%. Does this mean that all the clues have been mastered by the players?"
"It's not necessarily a clue." The old man scratched his chin. "It's impossible for the price to increase by 30% just by clues. They should have obtained important props to pass the level."
"This game... is designed to make us kill each other." My sister looked unhappy.
The reason for setting up the red and blue camps, and setting the plot progress of both sides, is to let the two sides snatch clues from each other.
Now, the Blue Team has a higher level of progress and more information than the Red Team, but the Blue Team does not have the props to clear the level. The Red Team has the advantage with the props to clear the level, but they still lack clues.
Therefore, their real opponent now is the hostile camp.
However, it is possible that someone can deduce a way to pass the level from limited clues.
The old man laughed dryly and said, "I forgot to remind you that the game has entered the long night mode. According to the time calculation, in two days, this copy will enter the eternal night mode."