"What should I do now? Should I give up visiting Zeng Yishuang's home?" Lu Yuhua bit her fingertips and said to herself, "I must successfully visit a player's home today, otherwise..."
Among all the players, Lu Yuhua is under the greatest pressure, because other players have successfully visited other players' homes, but Lu Yuhua has not yet succeeded in visiting other players' homes.
If the second day's visit is still a failure, then as time goes by on the third and fourth days, no one can guarantee whether the difficulty of the next visit will gradually increase.
This is also the reason why Lu Yuhua is willing to share the precious treatment tools with Zeng Yishuang.
"Tangning, that porcelain doll in your hand." Lu Yuhua rolled her eyes and stared at the doll in Tangning's arms. "It looks like it has a deterrent effect on the Zeng family's things. Is it a consumable tool? Every time it is used, there will be one more crack? I want to make a deal with you. If you lend me the tool for ten minutes, I will give you something of equivalent value."
Tangning looked at her doll and subconsciously thought, "I'll have to ask my brother about this." But before she could answer, Lin Yun asked, "Do you have anything that can be used as an alternative?"
Lu Yuhua's eyes wandered over Lin Yun: "A lot."
Lin Yun looked at Lu Yuhua coldly and asked, "Will you help Tangning bear the risk of excessive use of tools?"
"Of course I do."
"If you can't afford it?"
"Alright, alright. We don't need to use tools yet." Bai Wuliang smiled at Lu Yuhua and Lin Yunzhong who were arguing with each other. "Let's all be calm and see if we can come up with a useful plan. After all, the information we have explored this time is much more than that of Zhou Kang's family."
"We already know that once we enter, we will become different age groups of Zeng Yishuang. Except for the fifteen-year-old Zeng Yishuang, we will inevitably encounter attacks from Zeng's fathers in the scenes we encounter. The younger the age, the lower the danger we will encounter in the house. The greater danger is when going downstairs. People like Tang Ning and Lin Yun need to go down four floors to truly leave Zeng's house. The Zeng's fathers upstairs will attack us indiscriminately, and Zhou Kang and I need to go down one floor."
"Weapons purchased outside cannot be brought into the house, special tools are exceptions. In this case, is there anyone who can hold on for ten minutes?" Bai Wuliang asked.
Jiang Mianmian frowned, "It's difficult. Would it be easier if we split up? When the six of us entered this instance together, we met six great-fathers. If one person went in, there should be only one great-father, right?"
Lin Yun looked at Tang Ning with some concern. Tang Ning understood what Lin Yun was worried about. If Tang Ning entered the dungeon alone, it would be very difficult for him to climb the four-story stairs. However, Tang Ning was not sure if he could draw the four or five-year-old form if he entered the dungeon again.
"You can try again." Bai Wuliang said solemnly: "Who wants to go in first?"
Being the first one to enter is the most thankless, as it is equivalent to helping the players to test the information. For example, if the first person draws the same age and scene as the initial one, then the next players will be able to be better prepared.
"Let me try. I can find a weapon that suits me." Jiang Mianmian stretched out her hand to Bai Wuliang, "Give me the key."
Bai Wuliang didn't take out the key at the first moment. He looked at Jiang Mianmian for a moment, his eyes lingering on the increasingly dark circles under Jiang Mianmian's eyes, "I'll go in with you."
“No need.” Jiang Mianmian rejected it: “If we enter together, we will be in the same room. If we cannot guarantee that we will leave at the same time, this team will be a useless one. If someone escapes first, the ones who fall behind will face the boss at the same time, which will do more harm than good.”
Bai Wuliang couldn't refute Jiang Mianmian and asked, "Aren't you going to take a break?"
Jiang Mianmian yawned, "I can't sleep anyway, there's no good way to rest."
Bai Wuliang took out an unopened wet wipe from his bag and said, "There's blood on you, wipe it off."
"Trouble." Jiang Mianmian muttered, but still took the wet wipe and wiped her face casually.
"The chin is not wiped clean." Bai Wuliang took the wet wipes and carefully wiped the blood splattered on Jiang Mianmian's jaw.
Jiang Mianmian waited patiently for a while. She took the key from Bai Wuliang and threw it into the air like tossing a coin. She didn't even need to look at the direction where the key fell. Her fair palm easily caught the key.
Without even checking which side of the key was facing up, Jiang Mianmian said in a relaxed tone, "It's a great fortune."
The key was inserted into the door lock, and she walked into the house without looking back under the gaze of others.
The door of Zeng's house was closed again, and four players and a corpse stayed in the quiet building together.
While Bai Wuliang took out his cell phone and looked at it from time to time, Lu Yuhua kept looking at the porcelain doll in Tang Ning's arms, Lin Yun stared at Lu Yuhua vigilantly, Zhou Kang squatted on the ground without any fighting spirit, and Tang Ning sat next to Zeng Yishuang's body.
Although death is common in the card world, Tangning still felt a little breathless when she saw a player she had met several times die. She could hear the words of Zeng Yishuang in her ears, "Our mother is the same, but you don't want to be like me."
Part of this sentence means that everyone's mother is dead. What does that other part of the sentence mean
Tang Ning was a little confused. Fatigue and sadness once again piled up in Tang Ning's heart. She stroked the cracks on the face of the porcelain doll. This doll made Su Anyun's voice in Zeng's house. Although she didn't know what this doll was, the doll did protect her.
Tang Ning put his face against the doll's face and took out his cell phone from his arms. It had been five minutes since Jiang Mianmian went in, and he could not hear any movement in the room through the door. Bai Wuliang picked up his monocle as if he wanted to see what was happening in the room, but he didn't get anything and put the glasses away in disappointment.
Just as Tangning was about to turn off her phone, she received a message from Su Anyun: "Want some ice cream? If so, I'll buy you a box."
Tangning had no appetite at the moment. She remembered that Su Anyun had a way to save Bai Yingxue, so she asked with a try-it-out attitude, "Brother, I want to visit a friend's house, but her father is extremely unfriendly and violent, and her mother seems to be dead. How can I stay there for ten minutes under these circumstances?"
Su Anyun: "Another bad family."
Tang Ning was holding the phone, and was keenly aware of the displeasure in Su Anyun's words. It seemed that Su Anyun had also expressed his dissatisfaction with his friend when he went to Lu Yuhua's house to pick her up.
Tang Ning was a little afraid to speak, and typed carefully: "My friend comes from a bad family, and she herself seems to be ill."
Tangning silently deleted everything in the chat box.
Su Anyun: "Too weak a mother."
The Zeng family's door suddenly opened. Tang Ning put down his phone and looked up, only to see Jiang Mianmian suddenly running out and then slamming the door shut.
“How are you?!” Bai Wuliang supported Jiang Mianmian, who had a dart stuck in her body. She pulled the dart out expressionlessly and covered the wound on her shoulder, “Damn this crappy game!”
"Did you meet him in there?" Lin Yun asked, standing up.
Jiang Mianmian asked Bai Wuliang for a bandage. As she treated her wound, she said, "It's the same scene, but it left a deep impression on me. They knew I could use the slingshot and that I was going to run away. This time, they first took the slingshot away, and then blocked the door to prevent me from leaving."
Tang Ning was frightened by Jiang Mianmian's simple words, and the player's face looked equally bad.
"If Zeng Yishuang's mother hadn't tried so hard to stop me, I would have died there."
After hearing Jiang Mianmian's words, Tangning subconsciously looked at her phone. The chat screen with Su Anyun was still stuck on Su Anyun's comments about Zeng's mother.
Tangning couldn't help but retort, "Her mother is a very brave person. She has always tried to stop her father from bullying us."
After a while, Tangning received a new message from Su Anyun. The simple sentence made Tangning stunned: "You have turned into a fierce ghost, but you are still so weak."
"What's wrong? Tangning." Lin Yun looked at the dazed Tangning in confusion. Tangning stared blankly at everyone who saw the message sent by Su Anyun.
Every player who saw this message was stunned. Zeng Yishuang's mother was indeed always in the image of helpless crying. Even when she was helping the players escape, she hugged Zeng's father's thighs at the cost of herself, crying and asking the players to run faster.
It is difficult for people to understand such a Zeng mother clearly and deeply. She is dead and she has become it.
Bai Wuliang was the first to react, and said cautiously: "If I understand correctly, your brother means that we can use Zeng Mu's power?"
"Yes, it is indeed possible." Jiang Mianmian didn't even care about her own injuries. She was excited: "So this is the way to pass the level!"
Even Zhou Kang, who had been drowsy, stood up. "Then the key point now is how to make Mother Zeng use her true strength to attack Father Zeng."
After saying this, no one responded, because the way to anger a mother is actually very simple, and this method is even in front of everyone.
The players lowered their heads and looked at Zeng Yishuang who was lying against the door.
During a period of silence, Bai Wuliang, who was closest to the door, raised his hand and knocked gently.
After knocking again and again, the door was carefully opened after a while. A woman in an apron half showed her face from the crack of the door. She looked at the players outside the door with a little doubt and lowered her voice: "Are you here to look for someone?"
She didn't seem to remember the player, but when Bai Wuliang moved aside, she looked at Tangning who was standing next to Bai Wuliang and said softly, "I remember you. Are you Youyou's friend? Come in and have a seat."
Once inside, players will transform into children and make a difficult escape.
Tang Ning was speechless for a moment under the gaze of this woman. She didn't want to say anything, but it was obvious that among all the players, she had the highest favorability in the heart of this NPC.
Tangning stared at the mother. They were silent for a long time before she slowly asked, "Auntie, can you take Youyou home?"
The woman looked at him in confusion.
He lowered his head and looked at Zeng Yishuang who was lying in a pool of blood.
The mother, who was smiling warmly, was stunned for a moment. She also lowered her head and stared blankly at her daughter who had fallen to the ground at the door.
"Again?" The woman was in a trance.
She pushed the door open, reached out her hand tremblingly, and placed her fingertips under Zeng Yishuang's nose.
"Youyou? Are you kidding me?" The woman patted Zeng Yishuang's cheek in panic, "Youyou? Youyou? Don't scare me, Youyou."
Her voice was constantly trembling, tears and blood were dripping from her body, and the exposed skin showed horrific wounds, bruises and bloodstains, but the most terrifying thing was the cracks on her skin that looked like they were cut by a knife.
She hugged her child's body, and the crying voice kept rising, higher and higher, a sound that didn't seem like a human being could make.
“Ahhhhhh!!!”