Those little ghosts didn't move much, and because of their young age and other reasons, they didn't move fast.
But fortunately, Ruan Bai has a special constitution and has very keen hearing. Even on the third floor, she can still hear their footsteps through a wooden barrel.
She calculated and felt that they had reached the third floor, and seemed to be heading towards her.
rustle... tick tick...
The sound became more and more obvious, and the footsteps became lighter and heavier, and they were getting closer.
Something is wrong, Ruan Bai thought.
Although they were slow, she could hear them moving without the slightest hesitation.
They are purposeful.
Are they coming in their direction
But how did the ghost determine its position? Is it because of the rules of the game, or someone tampered with it
Ruan Bai didn't know, but what she knew was that she couldn't stay here any longer.
If she really came here to look for her, then she would be finished!
Without hesitation, Ruan Bai climbed out of the barrel immediately.
She quietly left from a group of wooden barrels, and after thinking about it, she took off her coat and shoes and stuffed them into the wooden barrel she had just hidden in.
After the ghosts traveled together, the whole cruise ship became extremely cold.
Ruan Bai took off his coat, and felt as if his whole body was soaked in water, especially his feet, which seemed to be walking on the tip of ice.
She gritted her teeth, and while observing the movement at the stairs, she fled in quickly.
The location of the tavern was far away from the entrance on the third floor, and there were still many shops blocking it, and the ghosts moved slowly, so Ruan Bai easily escaped before they came, and was not found much.
In order to delay the ghosts a little bit, and to test how the ghosts catch people, she also spent two points to exchange for a crystal ball called "Pure Love White Lotus Flower Must-Choose Gift, Boyfriend Cried When Received", and pressed it The switch will jingle and sing.
She took out the crystal ball and hurriedly placed it in an obvious corner not far outside the tavern.
This kind of ball is usually a useless decoration other than beautiful, but now, it is unexpectedly useful.
Ruan Bai tuned out the music of the crystal ball, and the gentle and romantic tune accompanied by a pure white snowflake came out of the crystal ball.
"La la la... la... la la..."
In the silence, the singing of the crystal ball seemed abrupt and sharp, blowing through the air for no reason, and it felt inexplicably penetrating.
After finishing these, Ruan Bai first hid behind the flowerpot very close to the stairs on the fourth floor, and quietly observed the ghost.
As she expected, most of the ghosts in that group were children, whose height could barely reach the waist of an adult.
Many of them died in the sea water, so the whole ghost is wet, the clothes are all soaked, and when walking, there will be a string of water marks on the ground.
Ruan Bai quietly counted and found that there were 4 ghosts.
The cruise ship is huge, and players can change their positions at will, so Ruan Bai is not surprised by the large number of ghosts.
What surprised her a little was that these ghosts stood together and did not separate to search for people.
And just as Ruan Bai expected, they didn't look sideways on the way they came, and they didn't have the slightest interest in the shops next to them. They didn't take it seriously when they saw the singing crystal ball, and walked directly to the tavern where she was hiding.
Seeing this scene, Ruan Bai's eyes narrowed immediately.
The ghosts are not walking towards her current hiding place, which means that they should not be able to directly confirm the player's location.
How did they know that they were hiding in the tavern just now
Ruan Bai walked back a few steps quietly, and saw that the four ghosts didn't even search, they helped each other to climb to the top, and took down the large decorative wine barrel.
They were obviously surprised to find no one in the barrel, and stood there blankly for a while.
Generally speaking, some ghosts are dead players, and some are alternative NPCs produced by the escape game system.
Except for the ghosts that players turn into, normal ghosts have slow IQs and poor thinking skills.
They are not so much ghosts as a tool to do things according to the rules of the game.
But now, they are all gathered in one place.
These ghosts stared blankly at the empty barrel, and after a long while, they picked up Ruan Bai's coat.
After studying for a few seconds, one of the ghosts tore up his clothes and threw them on the ground.
The moment Ruan Bai's coat was torn apart, a piece of talisman floated out of her clothes and was burned in mid-air.
It's an item... and obviously, it's an item produced by the escape game system that can only be redeemed by player points.
Ruan Bai's heart shuddered slightly, and he regained consciousness.
She closed her fingers, and her fingertips felt cold at some point.
After that, the three little ghosts came out of the tavern as if they had escaped from something.
They also stared at Ruan Baifang's crystal ball for two minutes, it seems that these movements have affected them.
They only came towards Ruan Bai before, probably because the talisman paper on Ruan Bai's coat was more attractive to them.
When the coat is torn, the function of the talisman paper will be gone.
The ghosts staggered apart, and each walked in four different directions, as if they were about to start searching for people separately.
Seeing this, Ruan Bai quietly took a few steps back, and then fled quickly.
She thought, she made a mistake.
It couldn't be more obvious who pasted that talisman paper and how it was pasted.
The female player of the raccoon dog must be her.
Raccoon's malice towards her was too obvious, but the female player acted too stupidly, Ruan Bai didn't take it seriously.
She even felt that there was a promise from her master on her body, even if it was a raccoon dog, it would not kill her because of that promise.
Thinking about it now, her previous self-confidence was really too much.
No, in other words, she shouldn't think about raccoon dogs with normal people's thinking.
Although the raccoon dogs who had not been separated before did evil, it can be seen that they are actually normal people who understand reason.
The reason why they harm others is to survive, and they commit crimes knowingly.
Although some people in it have gradually become psychologically distorted and have begun to evolve to the point of harming others and benefiting themselves, but generally speaking, they are still within the controllable range.
After all, this kind of people often leave the game, and when they return to real life, they can't control themselves, and often put themselves in prison.
After all, the purpose of most raccoon members is to clear the level and to survive. They don't want to team up with a lunatic who will cheat them at any time.
But now, the part of the players who have been separated basically gathers all the players who are gradually becoming abnormal in fear.
Normal people don't know what is going on in their minds, because some of them are not even afraid of death.
Therefore, it is really not difficult to understand that some of them would attack Ruan Bai.
Just herself, too lax.
After Ruan Bai figured it out, he took a deep breath and ran upstairs.
Those children and ghosts were not moving fast. After they searched the third floor, I still had spare time to hide.
As for remorse, she may have it in her heart, but not so much.
It's not so much remorse as it is a feeling of "it's finally here".
The female player from the raccoon dog was not very clever. Whether she was approaching Ruan Bai by pretending to be a passer-by or framed her, Ruan Bai easily found out.
This shows that she is not smart, so Ruan Bai is not afraid of her next trick.
For Ruan Bai, the code of conduct she agrees with is "I will not be attacked if I am not attacked". She will not take the initiative to hurt or deceive others, unless those people are extremely dangerous and she has to guard against them.
But once someone else made a move on her, she would have no scruples.
She was too lazy to pretend anymore.
After three rounds of the game, her intuition told her that the information she could obtain through female players had come to an end.
Since they made a move first, don't blame her for fighting back.
Thinking of this, Ruan Bai twitched the corner of his mouth slightly.
When she was chatting with female players before, she discovered that the female players showed no interest in the various corners of the first, second and third floors. Instead, when they were on the fourth or fifth floors, they would deliberately observe the surroundings and search for various kind of hiding place.
She guessed that the hiding place the female player would choose was on the fourth or fifth floor.
There are not many buildings on the fifth floor, because the master's room is on the fifth floor.
In addition, the owner is a bit dangerous, and most players will subconsciously stay away from him.
Therefore, Ruan Bai guessed that the female player must be hiding on the fourth floor!
While guessing, Ruan Bai's footsteps gradually accelerated.
——And at this moment, a scream appeared out of thin air, completely tearing the silent air!
"Ah! Don't grab me! Don't grab me!"
The voice was extremely sharp, as if he had endured a great deal of pain, it was so tragic that it made one's scalp numb.
It was a man's voice.
Halfway through his yelling, his high-pitched voice stopped abruptly, as if it had been roughly cut off by something.
Ruan Bai listened carefully, and the source of the sound was probably on the second floor.
Among the four child ghosts just now, there should be ghosts who went downstairs and started searching.
So, presumably a player has been discovered.
But just being caught, would it make such a painful sound
Ruan Bai frowned, and suddenly thought of what the steward said when announcing the rules earlier.
"...if anyone among you is caught by a ghost, from the next round of the game, you will become 'ghosts' to catch people..."
Become a ghost? How did it change
Ruan Bai's heart moved slightly, and a bad idea flashed through her mind.
She looked at the child ghost on the third floor who was far away from the stairs, and weighed her strength again.
If you go straight down, it is easy to encounter a crisis and even be caught out.
But if she didn't read it, she might miss some important information.
She thought for a while and let out a breath of white air.
Without hesitating for too long, she spent some points and bought a coat and shoes in the system mall to put on.
In games, fear is the most useless emotion.
No matter what... She can't be intimidated.
Worried that the ghosts on the third floor would go to the second floor, she specially spent points to exchange for a crystal ball, played the music and placed it on the stairs on the fourth floor.
After doing all this, Ruan Bai gritted his teeth and rushed towards the place where the voice came from the second floor!
Ruan Bai's movements were light and quick, and not long after the screams disappeared, she arrived at the stairs on the second floor.
The moment she entered the second floor, she keenly felt that something was wrong here.
The temperature on the third and fourth floors was low enough, but the temperature on the second floor was even lower.
Ruan Bai felt that the temperature was already close to zero, and maybe it would take a little longer for frost to appear on the ground.
She held her breath and carefully visited the past.
With almost no effort, she saw the male player who just screamed.
The male player seemed to be hiding under a counter before, but now he was lying on the ground next to the counter, his whole face was lifeless gray, his eyes were closed and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
And the little kid ghost was standing beside him.
There was a sinister, creepy smile on its stiff, pale face.
Ruan Bai watched helplessly, the child's ghost was just laughing like this, while pulling a black mass out of the male player's body!
The black thing has no substance, but it has an obvious human shape, and the "face" of the black mist is exactly the same as that of the male player on the ground.
This kid ghost actually pulled the player's soul out!
After the male player's soul came out, the temperature on the second floor dropped to the lowest for a while.
He still had a painful and bewildered look on his face, as if he was still indulging in the pain of tearing his soul, and didn't understand his current situation.
It turns out that this is what it means for a player to become a ghost...
Ruan Bai bit his lower lip, feeling cold in his heart.
After the child ghost dragged out the player's soul, it let out a small and strange laugh.
It gets close to the player's body on the ground, and lays down inside.
Seeing this, Ruan Bai held his breath involuntarily.
The soul of the male player on the side also noticed something was wrong, and a look of panic appeared on the entire ghost face.
He tried to catch the child, but the child's movements were more sensitive than his, and the movement of getting into the body was also very fast.
After a few breaths, the male player's body on the ground moved.
The corpse's hands and feet moved for a moment, and finally, it opened its eyes and staggered up from the ground.
It looked in amazement at its own hands, its own feet, and even the height of standing up, as if it was not used to it.
And the real owner of the corpse showed a broken look on the side.
He wanted to hit his body like crazy, but he could only pass through the body over and over again.
Looking at this scene, Ruan Bai was certain in his heart that what was in the male player's body was most likely the kid ghost.
She thought about it carefully, and the game of hide-and-seek she had played before gradually became abnormal.
In her impression, in the hide-and-seek game that children like to play, one child is usually selected to act as a "ghost" to catch the other hidden children.
After the game starts, the first child who is often caught by the "ghost" will pretend to be a ghost in the next round of the game.
And the ghosts in the previous round can join other children in the next round of the game, hiding and waiting for others to catch themselves.
So what about the kids who played "ghost" in the first round in this escape game
Where do they go after they catch someone
When announcing the rules, the steward deliberately concealed this and only told them half of the rules.
So everyone agreed that only the player can return to the player's queue by catching people, but they never thought that ghosts can actually occupy the player's body.
After being caught by ghosts, the ending you will get is not just about becoming a "ghost".
The bodies of their players will also be occupied by ghosts!
Perhaps it was because the body was still alive, so after the little ghost possessed it, the body quickly returned to its normal appearance.
It has a normal complexion and a ruddy complexion. Except for some inconveniences in its behavior at the beginning, it is completely indistinguishable from normal people.
As for the real male player on the side, after a while of changes, it gradually became shorter and smaller.
In the end, his soul took on the same form as the previous child.
Players and ghosts have completed a one-to-one replacement.
After that, the "male player" patted the ashes on his body, slowly got up, and continued to find a place to hide.
And after the replacement, the child ghost, after a short period of despair, also regained his strength and began to search around, preparing to catch the next person and carry out "replacement".
After reading these, Ruan Bai knew that she couldn't stay here any longer.
While doing so was very risky, her payoffs were clearly huge.
There are ghosts in the players, and players in the ghosts.
Although it is not clear what the use of this information is, Ruan Bai knows that she must not miss it!
There are not many people hiding on the second floor, and the male player probably knows this.
After being replaced by the ghost, the newly released ghost walked slowly towards the far stairs without any hesitation.
Ruan Bai's hiding place is right here at the stairs.
Seeing the ghost approaching, she quickly turned around and prepared to go upstairs again.
But before she took two steps, she suddenly heard a slight movement from the stairs on the third floor.
rustle... tick tick... rustle...
The ghost on the third floor happened to come to the stairs too!
Ruan Bai panicked, and the movement of going upstairs stopped immediately.
No, the ghosts move slowly. When the ghosts on the second floor come to the stairs, 80% of the ghosts on the third floor will not be able to go upstairs.
When the time comes, she will definitely be discovered!
Then go downstairs
After hearing this, Ruan Bai found out with a grim expression that there were also ghosts on the first floor.
And the ghost on the first floor is not far from the stairs.
After they separated on the third floor, they chose to search the four floors below separately!
Ruan Bai took a few steps back, feeling for the first time what it means to be "enemy from the back".
As long as the usual ghosts are okay... But the game of hide and seek, although it is said to be "catch", but in fact, as long as she is discovered by ghosts, the game will be considered a failure.
Her previous experience of fighting ghosts may not work here at all!
rustle... tick tick...
The ghost's footsteps were getting closer, and Ruan Bai's breathing became more and more rapid.
She can't be seen by them, but how to do this!
In desperation, Ruan Bai took a deep breath, trying to calm down his flustered heart.
She calmed down and listened for two seconds, silently weighing the distance of each ghost from the stairs.
The ghost on the third floor has recently left the stairs.
Second on the first floor, wandering around the edge of the stairs.
The second floor is the farthest, but it is only thirty or forty meters away from the stairs.
The third floor will be attracted by the crystal ball to the fourth floor, the first floor will definitely go to the second floor, and the second floor is temporarily uncertain, but it is likely to go to the third floor.
So after weighing it, the best place she can go is to go to the third floor.
But going upstairs can only barely delay her elimination time...
She was desperate, but she had no other choice.
After wiping off his sweat, Ruan Bai tried his best to avoid the sight area of the ghosts on the third floor, and climbed up the stairs cautiously.
Because of the crystal ball she had placed before, after the ghost on the third floor appeared, she walked directly upstairs.
It's just that it went upstairs too slowly, and Ruan Bai didn't dare to act rashly for fear of being discovered.
At the stairs, she carefully controlled the sound of her breathing to a minimum.
One step, two steps, three steps...
After walking for about two minutes, the ghost on the third floor climbed seven or eight stairs, and she also came to the corner of the stairs.
At this time, the ghost on the first floor had already arrived at the stairs, and the ghost on the second floor also appeared.
In order to prevent the ghost on the second floor from seeing him when he looked up, Ruan Bai had no choice but to go around the corner and try his best to lean against the wall.
But in this way, she is equivalent to exposing herself to the sight of the ghost on the third floor, and she only needs to look down a little to find herself.
don't notice... don't...
Just as Ruan Bai was trembling in fear and slowly climbing up, there was a strange crashing sound from the second floor.
It turned out to be the newly appointed "ghost" on the second floor, who stumbled because he was not familiar with the body!
The moment the voice came out, Ruan Bai's heart sank.
At the same time, the gaze of the ghost on the third floor suddenly lowered its head downstairs!