It was almost seven o'clock in the morning, and Ji Thrush and others came to the door hidden behind the spiral staircase at 6:58.
There is an electronic door lock on the wooden door. There is no password box on the lock surface, only a timer, and the countdown number on it is decreasing by the second.
At seven o'clock, when the countdown was over, the indicator light "ticked" and turned green. Mo Tiangen tried to reach out and turn the doorknob, and it opened easily, revealing a downward staircase behind the door.
"Let's go."
He raised his chin towards his four companions.
Everyone stepped down the stairs in a file, and walked deep underground to nowhere.
The decoration of the villa is warm and refined, and the design is very homely and practical.
But the underground stairs they are walking now, the ceiling and walls are made of silver metal that is smooth enough to be used as a mirror, and there are LAD light tubes arranged in parallel on both sides of the aisle, the lighting is very sufficient, making them feel as if they have traveled to a high In the space station full of sense of science and technology, the inside and outside of the door are completely like two worlds.
The stairs were twists and turns, and everyone walked down sixty-eight steps, and finally reached the bottom.
What appeared in front of their eyes was a straight corridor, about twenty meters long, with a closed metal door at the end.
Ren Jianmo suddenly said:
"We seem to be heading in the direction of the villa opposite."
Ji Thrush, Mo Tiangen, and the Fan family siblings all turned their heads in horror, staring at Ren Jianmo in shock.
You know, walking in a completely sealed space without seeing any reference objects around you, coupled with the twists and turns of the stairs going down several times, people's sense of direction will become extremely confusing, unless there is a compass. To determine one's current direction, it is simply difficult for others to do so.
However, Ren Jianmo's tone of voice was very firm, and Ji Thrush and the others had no doubt that he had enough confidence to make this judgment.
While talking, the corridor has come to an end.
Ji Xiaoniao took a deep breath, raised his hand and pushed open the metal door.
Outside the door is a square hall, but the structure is very strange. Two thick transparent glass walls have been erected in the hall, dividing the hall into a "pin" shape.
Ji Thrush and the others are standing at the lower left corner of the word "pin".
The space in the lower right corner is exactly the mirror image of theirs in terms of size and structure, but it is empty at this time, and no one has entered yet.
Through the transparent glass wall, they could see a giant rabbit doll seven or eight meters high placed in the space above the word "pin".
The appearance of the rabbit is exactly the same as the mask they saw in the trailer, and the weird smile that reaches the cheekbones feels even more permeating after being magnified dozens of times.
On the chest of the rabbit doll, there is a large fluorescent screen inlaid, and now there is only a snowflake with no signal flickering on it, without any content.
Finally, they noticed that the two hands of the rabbit doll were designed to be very long, protruding forward, passing through the glass wall, and protruding to the sides below the character "pin".
Several people took a closer look and found that the rabbit's hand was not in the shape of five fingers, but a card slot like an ATM machine.
"Is this going to insert something?"
As Fan Luming said, he took out the card with instructions written on it that Ren Jianmo found in the entrance, and tried to gesture towards the card slot, but found that the card was too big to be inserted.
Just as they were studying the bayonet slot, the door directly opposite them was suddenly pushed open.
Five other people walked through the metal door and into this eerie hall.
Opposite them were all men, all in their twenties and thirties, all unfamiliar faces that Ji Thrush had never seen before.
But Fan Luming next to him yelled: "Yes, it's you!?"
When the people on the opposite side saw the Fan family siblings, their expressions all changed in an instant.
Especially the leading man, his eyes are wide open, his nose is flaring violently, his expression can be described as "ferocious", "You—"
His eyes flicked over to the Fan family siblings, then turned to Ji Thrush, Mo Tiangen and Ren Jianmo, and finally returned to Fan Hemian's face, gnashing his teeth and scolding: "You stinky bitch!!"
"What did you say!?"
Obviously the one who was scolded was the only girl here, but it was Fan Luming who was angry. He looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and jumped up with wide eyes, "Shut up, you dare to talk nonsense, look at me—"
"Bah, brat!"
The man opposite had already rolled up his sleeves, swearing obscenities in his mouth, and made a gesture to rush towards them.
The atmosphere was tense for a while.
If it weren't for the glass wall erected in the middle to completely isolate the two groups of people, I'm afraid they would have directly resorted to violence without a word of disagreement.
Ji Thrush held down Fan Luming who was jumping, leaned into the other's ear, and lowered his voice, "Don't be angry, what's the matter, we'll talk about it when we go back."
Fan Luming turned his head and glanced at Ji Xiaoniao, his eyes were red, looking angry and wronged.
However, he has never been an impulsive character. After being persuaded by Ji Thrush, he quickly realized that the situation was unclear and it was not the time to act impulsively. So he took two deep breaths, suppressed the annoyance in his heart, and turned his head away from the group of people beside him.
Seeing that Fan Luming stopped stabbing, the leading man on the opposite side seemed to think that this was what he meant by admitting cowardice. The younger brother expanded to the three of Ji Thrush, and his four companions not only did not intend to stop them, but cooperated with their leader and cheered very vigorously.
Mo Tiangen was upset when he heard that, his two fists were clenched together, and they were clenched, "Rile, I really want to beat them up!"
Ji Thrush turned his head and glanced at the opposite side.
Objectively speaking, the leading man over there can be called a handsome guy just by looking at his face.
The man was about in his late twenties, with thin skin and tender flesh. He had a coquettish parted hair in the middle, and the ends of his hair reached his shoulders. He looked like a pampered son.
It's just that this person's temperament is too greasy, and he is domineering and uneducated from speech to demeanor. He belongs to the type that makes it difficult to leave any good impression on the first impression.
—Although I don't know who they are, they are definitely not good people.
Ji Thrush had already labeled the five people next door in his mind.
At this moment, a cheerful ringing suddenly echoed in the basement.
"Dingling, Dangdang, Dangdang!"
Everyone stopped talking and looked in the direction of the sound source.
The fluorescent screen on the chest of the huge doll rabbit suddenly lit up, and a man wearing a rabbit head mask appeared in the center of the screen.
[Welcome everyone to participate in our 〖24 o'clock game〗!]
The rabbit-faced man waved his hands and said the opening remarks in a pompous tone.
At the same time, there was a sound of clapping and cheering in the background, as if thousands of spectators were applauding in unison.
[First of all, welcome to our red team, the Birds!]
The rabbit-faced man spread his right hand. Amidst the clamor and applause, half of the room where Ji Thrush and the others were located shone red.
[Next, it's our blue team, the handsome team!]
The rabbit-headed man waved his left hand again, and a blue light flashed in the opposite half.
Ji Thrush complained in his heart: This red and blue team, which has no new ideas, and the team name that makes people can't bear to talk about it, is really enough!
[As we all know, every city has one or another well-known or unknown urban legends...]
After introducing the "competitors" of the two teams, the man with the rabbit face mask entered the stage of explaining the rules of the game.
At the same time, a VTR that looked like the essence of a horror movie began to play on the screen.
In the rapidly flickering screen, Ji Thrush recognized many classic ghost talk images.
What kind of gap girl, plush man, lizardman, mothman, cat-faced old woman, human-faced dog, ape car, Bachi-sama and so on.
Of course, there were many more characters he had never heard of or knew.
[In fact, if you search carefully, you will find that in our city, there are also many strange stories that have been passed down for many years, such as these thirteen places!]
A map appeared on the screen, which was exactly the one Ji Thrush and the others had seen in the trailer, but this time the picture was more refined, and it was made into a 3D projection effect, making it more three-dimensional and more intuitive.
"Whoosh, whoosh," thirteen coordinates in the shape of pouring drops were inserted on the map, almost evenly spread over every corner of the entire city.
[And in each location, there is a poker card.]
As the rabbit-headed man's voice fell, there was a label next to each coordinate, which was a number of a poker card.
Ji Thrush counted them one by one, and it turned out that there were thirteen suits from A to K, without repetition, one for each, and the corresponding locations were exactly the same as what Ren Jianmo remembered after watching the trailer.
——My family Ren Damei is very human!
Ji Xiaoniao was overwhelmed with admiration, and sighed silently in her heart.
[Now, what everyone has to do is to explore these locations one by one, unravel the truth behind each strange story, and get the poker cards of that location.]
The map on the screen disappeared, and a huge number appeared in black and bold with a glare edge—"24".
[You have to add up the points on the poker cards you got to make up the number '24'.]
The number flipped and turned into a row of additions that were quickly skipped, which is how to use the thirteen cards to add up to get the arrangement and combination of "24".
[It should be noted that the poker card 〖A〗 can be regarded as either 〖1〗 or 〖11〗, all determined by the contestant who gets this card; while 〖10〗,〖J〗,〖Q〗, The four cards K〗 are all equivalent to the number〖10〗.]
The rabbit-faced man continued:
[The first team to collect 24 points will win—after the victory, all surviving members of the winning team can leave here.]
In other words, if you die in the process of exploring and solving the ghost talk, even if the team wins in the end, there is no way to go back.
Saying that, the rabbit-faced man sneered and laughed twice again:
[Of course, the group that lost the game can only be out of the game with regret, and leave us forever, forever.]
This means that as long as the game is lost, there is no room for the loser to directly face the plot and kill.
[In addition, all contestants must also keep in mind the following three rules.]
The tone of the commentary changed, and at the same time, there were three drumbeats of "dong dong dong" in the background.
Ji Thrush's heart tightened involuntarily.
[first. If the sum of the cards of a certain team exceeds 24 points, it will be regarded as [Burst Card], the game will be lost, and you will be out on the spot; at this time, regardless of the total score of the other team, as long as there is no [Burst Card], it will be considered a win.]
On the screen, the sum of 7, 8, and K equals 25, and then the five villains were hit with a "X" and fell to the ground to die. The five villains next to them had the three letters "WIN" on their heads, jumping happily Cheers schematic.
[In addition, if the remaining cards in the city, no matter how they are combined, are not enough for a certain team to form 24 points, it will also be regarded as a game failure and will be eliminated immediately; at the same time, as long as the other team has cards to collect, it will automatically considered a victory.]
Immediately the new paradigm appeared on the screen.
A group of villains are holding 8 and Q cards. They are missing a 6, but there are only 3, 7, and 10 cards left on the map, so these villains are marked with "×" again; The other group of villains held 5 and 9, and they were short of 10. Because there were still some on the map, they were directly judged to win, and happily jumped up with "WIN".