The moment Yan Wei saw this familiar face, Yan Wei felt a chill down his spine. Not far away, those players who had learned Yan Wei's way of breaking the game were getting closer and closer, even bringing crows flying from several places around the castle. The crows continued to cry, and their hoarse cries were like screams from the abyss.
The night wind was a bit chilly, Yan Wei closed up the windbreaker, pocketed with both hands, and fumbled for the coins in the pocket of the windbreaker with her fingertips.
There are a lot of figures. He is standing in front of the castle gate, and he can't see the puppets behind him clearly, but he can also see another slightly familiar figure. It is very likely that he just loaded the copy and died in front of him. player.
He whispered to Yan Mingguang with a solemn expression: "There are people I have seen in the maze here, and they were eaten by crows."
Yan Mingguang ran all the way to look for Yan Wei before, and saw more things than Yan Wei, he said: "I also saw some on the road."
The ones seen here naturally do not refer to those players who are still alive.
"So that's the purpose of the maze..."
Puppet castle, the focus is not on the castle, but on the puppet.
The maze is just a screening tool, allowing players to target each other without knowing it, and send other slightly weaker players to the crows alive. The way the owner of the castle made puppets was dead. Those people who died in the maze turned into these gloomy puppets in front of them.
The dead people will become puppets, and they will become people on the side of the castle npc.
Even though Yan Wei had always been very confident in himself, his heart sank when he thought of this crucial moment.
In previous dungeons, what players like them had to do was to survive and find the ladder. As for other irrelevant players, if they die, they will die. At most, there will be fewer teammates who can help each other find clues. Even for those who have grievances, it is a good thing to die against the enemy.
But now, one player dies, one more puppet—one goes up and down, and the gap is doubled.
The castle still exudes a warm yellow light. On both sides of the open castle gate, players who have turned into puppets stand expressionlessly on both sides. The hoarse and deep voice from before came again: "Please come in."
Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang glanced at each other, Yan Mingguang lifted his foot first, and walked in with Yan Wei back and forth.
The terrain inside the castle is very complicated. As soon as the two of them entered, there was a path full of towering trees on both sides, surrounded by some small western-style buildings, and walking further inside was the main body of the castle.
The first floor is a spacious hall with intricate staircases on both sides. It can be seen that there should be many rooms going up these stairs, and the terrain must be very complicated. Although the style of the castle is very old, the light inside the castle is emitted by exquisite electric lamps. At the top of the hall hangs a large retro clock, which is also connected to the power supply, and there is a display screen attached to the big clock above it, showing the current time.
Except for the puppets and these things in the castle, there was no one in front of Yan Wei and the others.
The voice didn't say anything else. Obviously, it was useless for the two of them to arrive, and they might not know what would happen next until midnight in the maze was completely over.
Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang just took advantage of this opportunity to rest for a while. Not long after, Lin Zhen and Yu Feizhou also arrived one after another.
The waning moon on the sky gradually shifted, and more and more players arrived at the castle. Some of them saw the method of self-injury from the cracking methods of Yan Wei and others, and some of them used the players to pave the way.
Without exception, when these people saw the puppets on both sides, they all showed more or less horrified expressions.
There were also people who arrived earlier looking at Yan Wei and the others—they were very unfamiliar faces to the seed players in the 40s, but they were the first to arrive, and they were obviously the first to discover the method of self-injury to break the game.
Yan Wei didn't bother to care about the gazes of these people, but carefully looked at everything in front of him, keeping everything about the castle in mind.
"Boom—"
There was a sudden sound from the big clock hanging directly above it, which made the people present dizzy for a moment.
—It's twelve o'clock at midnight.
Yan Wei received a notification that he had entered the state of immortality.
The puppets standing on both sides moved again, and slowly closed the castle door. There were screams and screams outside the castle—the players who hadn't reached the castle before twelve o'clock. As stated in the background introduction when cutting into the dungeon, those who do not arrive will be eaten away by crows.
When the gate of the castle was completely closed, the voices outside gradually quieted down, leaving only the faint crowing. There were more puppets around without knowing it, and those players who died outside just now became puppets in an instant.
On the stairs directly in front, a man in a black robe, whose face could not be seen at all, walked down slowly.
All players looked at the past at this moment.
At the same time, Lou's notification sounded at this moment.
[Congratulations to the players who have successfully arrived at the Puppet Castle. The competitive dungeon "Puppet Castle" has officially started, and the ranking table has started to be calculated. Players who come in due to the failure of the gambling house, if they belong to an organization, their scores will also be included in the organization's score. If there is no organization to belong to, it will automatically be classified as a team. If it survives successfully and walks out of the dungeon, it will be counted as a new organization established. ]
Before the words were finished, an additional option appeared on everyone's information panel—view ranking.
If you click on it, a score table listing the names of all organizations will pop up, with Xuanniao, Qixingxing, Yuemang, Broken Scythe, etc. on it... and the scores behind all organizations are the initial zeros.
The man in black finally walked in front of the players.
He bent down slightly, bowed to everyone with his hands in an extremely gentlemanly manner, and said in a deep voice, "Guests are welcome to come to my castle to play games."
The man in black straightened up, raised his hand, and snapped his fingers.
The next moment, seven coins suspended in the air suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"Take your coins, seven for each of you," said the man in black. "This game lasts up to seven days, and everyone's initial chip is seven coins."
He spread his hands, swept across the puppets standing not far away, and said: "These coins can catch my puppets. As long as you can successfully hit the coins on them, you can catch them and kill the puppets you caught. Give it to me, and you'll get a point in this game."
"Every day, my puppets will wander around the castle—guests, be careful... Of course, you can also find opportunities to catch them with coins. But the guests need to pay attention, the puppets I make are divided into good puppets and good puppets. Evil puppets and good puppets can be caught, but evil puppets... "
The man in black gave a grin, his hoarse voice was three points harsher than the crowing of a crow.
"If you catch the wrong puppet, or let the puppet catch you, you will join them."
Yan Wei raised an eyebrow.
What this means is... not only dead players will become puppets, but also puppets who catch the wrong ones will be assimilated. Players not only need to distinguish the classification of puppets, but also need to avoid the hunting of evil puppets.
After everyone collected their coins, the man in black raised his hand and clapped his hands.
The next moment, lights were lit under everyone's feet, and a number was lit under each person's feet.
"Why are you showing embarrassment? The guests and my children are fair, they can disguise, and the guests also have extra help. The floor of the entire castle is made of light panels, and the numbers under your feet are based on your own. As the center, the number of puppets within a range of 300 meters, this is the only help I can provide to the guests—after all, the game is fun if everyone is fair."
"The second floor is the guest's room, and the guests can live freely."
"Every time you catch a good puppet, in addition to getting one point of the game, you can also get ten gold coins calculated separately by me. The number of different gold coins can be exchanged for a puppet that belongs to you from me."
"Within seven days, the guests can use the gold coins you got to come to me to exchange, and open the gate of the castle with the exchanged puppet to leave. As for what you see after opening the gate... not necessarily."
"Without the puppets that have been exchanged from me to open the door, you yourself will not be able to get out within these seven days. This is my great paradise, guests, what you see is my great masterpiece, this world The most realistic puppet ever."
The man in black laughed several times.
He snapped his fingers, and the puppets with numb faces disappeared instantly around the player.
The man in black turned around and walked up the stairs slowly, his hoarse voice getting farther and farther away: "The game has begun. If the guests want to come to me, I am at the star observation deck on the top floor."
The sound dissipated, and the man in black disappeared around the corner of the stairs.
The players did not move for the first time, but looked at each other, and some seemed to be whispering something with props.
Yan Wei went through the words of the man in black robe just now in his mind, and slowly spread out his perception, connecting with the perception of Yan Mingguang and others.
Lin Zhen took the lead and said: [How do you say?]
[Do you all understand the rules? To put it simply, there are two types of puppets. Evil puppets are very dangerous. They will kill players and turn players into puppets. Only by catching a good puppet and handing it over to the castle master can you get one point and ten gold coins. The points are used to rank each organization. Help open the door to open the castle gate and leave.]
Yu Feizhou: [That is to say, no matter what, catching puppets is the most important thing. We not only have to work hard to climb the rankings, but also to find the ladder. The hint of the castle owner is already obvious-exchange to the correct puppet to open the door, and the door is the ladder to leave.]
Yan Wei nodded: [Yes, we want to get as high a score as possible while ensuring that the number of puppets does not increase enough to overwhelm the player, and we also need to find out among these puppets that a ladder can appear when opening the castle gate , must also have some clues or characteristics.]
This is a looming balance.
As time goes by, more and more players will fail to catch puppets, and more players will become puppets. The difficulty and danger will increase, but the probability of catching puppets will also increase for players who are still alive.
Lin Zhen made a "cut" sound, and didn't use his perceptual ability to talk at all, and said directly: "That's not to put it bluntly, just use the coins in our hands to catch puppets."
Yan Wei opened his mouth, and was about to say something, when there was a "pop", all the lights in the castle suddenly went out at this moment, only the light under the player's feet showing the number of puppets around was still on.
The numbers under everyone's feet were all "0" when the lights went out.
But the next moment, Yan Wei watched helplessly as the number under his feet changed to "1", and a player's scream suddenly came from not far away.
"Ahhhhh!!!"
In the dim light, Yan Wei felt that Yan Mingguang was looking at him.
He murmured in a low voice: "The castle owner has said just now that the game... has already begun."