With an extremely heavy heart, Ji Thrush and his two companions returned to the Linke.
Ji Xiaoniao held a large glass of fat house happy water with ice, raised his head and drank it dry, and let out a long sigh of relief.
He had to admit that before he had fully prepared himself, the sudden increase in the difficulty of "The World" created a lot of psychological pressure on him.
However, Ji Thrush was the captain of the youth training team for two years before, so he naturally understands that "morale" is very important to a team. If even the leader shows a lack of confidence too early, the others will only feel more uneasy .
"I think the next 'world' is okay."
Although he is the youngest in this three-person team, he is also the leader of the other two, so he couldn't express his anxiety too clearly, so he tried to liven up the atmosphere, jokingly said:
"At least the demons and ghosts in it all look like human figures, which is considered an improvement over the previous two rounds."
"Did you call that fox face a 'figure'?"
Mo Tiangen was speechless.
He thought he was a mature, stable, responsible and good man who was about to stand up, so he would not drink iced cola like a childish child, so he chose black coffee full of wisdom.
It's just that "Taohuayuan" provides freshly ground coffee with the best quality. The purity and concentration are not comparable to the two yuan and eight cents a pack of instant coffee he used to have. Naturally, the taste is surprisingly bitter, and Mr. Dagen grinned when he drank it. But for the sake of face, I don't want to add sugar and milk.
"Also, I don't think that vixen will be easier to deal with than the skeleton skeleton in the 'world'!"
The fox face enlarged to almost fill the screen is so impressive. After watching the trailer, Mo Tiangen focused almost all of his attention on it:
"In my impression, vixens are very powerful!"
"Oh?"
Ji Thrush raised his eyebrows:
"Have you met vixen before? How do you know they are powerful?"
"Hi! At first glance, you seem to be someone who rarely plays games, right?"
Mo Tiangen, as a gamer who played games every day until two or three o'clock in the morning in college, taunted the sports students who were addicted to training:
"Su Daji, have you heard of it? Nuwa God's special agent, one shot to overthrow a dynasty! Yuzaoqian, you know? Which Dongying Kingdom game doesn't have such a big-breasted fox girl who is too embarrassed to come out to meet people! And Ah Zi, although the origin is a bit unpopular, but he is also very famous... "
Ji Thrush: "..."
"No, wait a minute, I don't think the point is the fox, is it?"
Classmate Ji Xiaoniao decisively interrupted Mr. Dagen's game setting science popularization, and brought the discussion back to the key point:
"I guess, the people in the entire banquet hall should be monsters!"
Mo Tiangen shuddered, "But it's such a fool!"
He said:
"If the whole big house is full of fox spirits, spider spirits, mountain chicken spirits and centipede spirits, if we rush up together, the three of us won't be enough to fill their teeth? Is this "Liao Zhai" or "Journey to the West"? !"
Although I don't know from which details Mr. Dagen deduced that there are spider spirits, mountain chicken spirits, and centipede spirits, but Ji Thrush also agrees that unless he really has the fighting power of Sun Dasheng to smash a piece with a stick, otherwise even if the next "world" enters ten There were dozens of participants, all of whom were just delivering food.
"so… "
Ji Thrush reached out and touched his chin:
"Perhaps the trick to clear the next 'world' is not to fight them directly?"
As he spoke, he raised his eyes and glanced at Ren Jianmo, wanting to ask for his opinion.
Ren Damei gave Ji Xiaoniao a faint smile and nodded.
"Indeed, if the people in that house are all goblins and goblins, then the participants will basically die if they only rely on brute force to fight."
Ren Jianmo said:
"So, I personally think that the key to surviving in the next 'world' is to hide yourself among monsters."
Mo Tiangen and Ji Thrush gasped together.
— This condition is too difficult!
Knowing that the people around him are all a group of ghosts and monsters, you have to force yourself to pretend to be in the middle of it, and you can't show any flaws... Just thinking about it makes people feel creepy, okay!
"In addition, there is another very important point. I want to hear your opinions."
Ren Jianmo continued, but this time he asked a question:
"What do you think the last two sentences mean?"
Mo Tiangen scratched his head:
"Is that... 'Don't get caught' and 'Look out for ghosts'?"
He felt that he had really watched the trailer very seriously, and his memory was not bad, but the subtitles flashed by in just two seconds, and it was too difficult for him to memorize them word for word, so he just couldn't bear it. I just remembered a key word.
"Don't be discovered, don't be caught. Be careful, the ghost hiding beside you."
Ren Jianmo recounted those two sentences in full.
Ji Thrush: "Does the so-called 'discovered' and 'caught' refer to the monsters at the banquet?"
He thought for a while, then looked at Ren Jianmo:
"Just as you speculated, if we accidentally expose our identities as humans and are discovered by monsters, it's time for GAME OVER?"
Mo Tiangen also nodded in agreement.
"So the next preparatory work is to study how to play a goblin well?"
Teacher Dagen solemnly suggested:
"Starting tonight, let's read "Journey to the West" every day. Should we be able to improve our acting skills?"
Ji Thrush: "..."
— No, I don’t think that’s what Ren Dameier means. You see, he’s looking at you with sympathy mixed with pity...
"If you say 'be careful not to be found', you can also explain that you should hide among monsters and not reveal your identity as a human..."
Ren Jianmo looked away.
"Then this one reminder is enough, so why add another 'be careful not to get caught'?"
"Maybe it's for rhyming. In movies, don't there often be such lines that must be made into couplets?"
Mo Tiangen scratched his head and blackened himself:
"Hey, I didn't do very well in reading comprehension when I was studying. I can't help it if I'm purely a science student..."
Ren Jianmo smiled noncommittally, and continued his analysis:
"If you connect 'be careful not to be caught' with the next sentence 'be careful of the ghost hiding around you', will it remind you of anything?"
Ji Thrush opened his eyes wide.
A second later, he let out a soft "ah".
"...I don't know if I'm thinking right..."
Seeing that both Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen were looking at him, Ji Thrush shook his head lightly, "These two sentences remind me of a game..."
He paused, and said three words one by one: "Catch, hide, hide."
"hiss!"
Mo Tiangen slapped his forehead, "That's right! At the end of the trailer, the owner of that hand... ah, it's the hand covering the man—didn't he say, 'It's your turn to be a ghost next'?" talk?"
Teacher Dagen desperately recalled the rules of hide-and-seek he played with his friends when he was a child:
"That game, isn't it that whoever gets caught will be a ghost!"
Ren Jianmo closed his head.
He confirmed the conjectures of Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen.
"If it's really a game of hide and seek..."
Ji Thrush tried to speculate on this clue:
"Then what we have to face is a 'ghost' who is like us, mixed among monsters, and we cannot be caught by him..."
As he spoke, his eyebrows twisted into a Sichuan shape.
"After listening to your analysis, what I'm more worried about now is..."
Teacher Dagen's lips trembled with his body:
"... What if I get caught accidentally? Will it really become a 'ghost'?"
Ji Thrush: "..."
The small conference room suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
A series of classic female ghost images such as Sadako, Kayako, Hanako, and Mimiko appeared in the minds of both Ji Xiaoniao and Dagen.
As long as I think that if I am accidentally caught, I will probably turn into that disheveled ghost, and I feel that this fate seems to be no better than the flesh and blood skeleton zombies in the last "world".
——"Peach Blossom Spring" is really ruthless!
—This clearly means that they are not even willing to give them a decent way to die!
Ren Jianmo looked at the expressions of Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen, and found it a little funny.
The two of them first looked horrified, then gritted their teeth, and the synchronization rate of changes was astonishingly high.
Ren Jianmo coughed lightly and changed the subject:
"I wonder if you have heard of the story "Painted Wall"?"
Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen shook their heads together, like mirror images.
"Cough..."
Ren Jianmo lowered his head and coughed to cover up his laughter.
"It's an article in Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio. It's about a Juren surnamed Zhu. In a monastery in the capital, he saw a painting of many fairies on the wall. Among them was a young girl, beautiful and spirited. It made Zhu Ju's heart tremble, and when he came back to his senses, he had already entered the fairyland in the painting."
"Oh, so it's this type of story!"
When Mo Tiangen heard the words, he suddenly realized:
"Next, it must be a standard drama where the master Juren and the fairy in the painting fall in love with each other, and the spring breeze once!"
Ren Jianmo nodded:
"Later, a golden-armored god came from the fairy world and said that he wanted to search for the next mortal hiding here. The fairy hid Zhu Juren under the bed in a panic and ran away. The golden-armored god entered the house and searched. When no one was found, he left."
Ji Thrush has completely entered the state of listening to stories, and couldn't help asking:
"and then?"
Ren Jianmo replied with a smile:
"After that, Zhu Juren didn't dare to crawl out from under the bed, so he could only lie down where he was, waiting for the fairy to come back..."
He came to a pause here, and his relaxed and casual tone suddenly became serious:
"Zhu Juren has been hiding under the bed, silently eavesdropping on the conversations of other people outside the house. As he listens, he gradually forgets who he is and where he came from..."
Ji Thrush "Gudong" swallowed:
"Then, what then? He just stayed in the painting wall like this?"
"No."
Ren Jianmo shook his head:
"Later, the monks in the temple knocked on the wall and called Zhu Juren's name, which made him hear the roar of thunder. He followed the thunder and came out from the painted wall."
Having said that, Ren Jianmo looked at his two companions:
"Does this story remind you of anything?"
The author has something to say:
Ah Zi is a thousand-year-old vixen in "Sou Shen Ji", who turned into a beautiful woman and seduced a captain.
Sadako Kayako needs no introduction. Hanako is the little girl who is said to be hiding in the third room of the women's toilet. Mimiko is from the first part of "Ghost Calling".