While the little demons were having dinner, Ji Thrush lowered his head to study his wristwatch, which only he could see, under the cover of his cuffs.
Below the rectangular black LCD dial, the pointer on the progress bar stops at the far left, flashing a safe green light.
However, Ji Thrush is more concerned about a function of the watch that only appears in this "world": timekeeping.
"Taohuayuan" told him that as long as he taps the dial twice with his finger, the timing function will start, and a row of timing numbers accurate to one-tenth of a second will appear above the progress bar. It will stop, and the method of use is very similar to the stopwatch that the coaching staff used to have when he was training in the team.
Since his watch has an extra timing function this time, Ji Thrush wondered, does that mean that the concept of "time" is very important in this "world", even a matter of life and death
-correct!
He suddenly thought of a very terrible question - what time is it now
While thinking, Ji Thrush stretched his neck and began to look around.
In the "world" with an ancient background, there is no clock, and it is even more impossible to just take out a mobile phone to check the time.
After Ji Thrush's head turned around, he finally saw a drop-shaped hour glass in the corner of the back hall. The scale on the water surface covered about a quarter of the line at midnight, indicating that it was approaching midnight. It's two o'clock.
He clearly remembered that the damn "hide and seek" game would start at midnight, that is, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and now it was about two quarters of an hour before midnight, almost half an hour.
- There is only half an hour left!
Ji Thrush was about to break out in cold sweat, and couldn't help but glance at the little monsters who were still eating porridge with steamed buns.
There is not much time left, but he is still trapped in the back hall that only servants come in and out. He doesn't even know what it looks like outside, and he doesn't know where Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen are now. There are very few clues at hand...
Could it be that he just spent here in vain until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and when he couldn't figure out anything, he directly faced the "hide and seek" of the unknown method
The more Ji thrush thought about it, the more he couldn't wait.
Although it is indeed safer to mix with these little monsters, Ji Thrush still decided to take a risk and seize the last half hour to walk around in this big house full of monsters and ghosts.
After all, the game of hide-and-seek, regardless of other things, if you are not familiar with the map, when you really start playing, your eyes will be blacked out in minutes, and you don't even know where to hide.
Thinking of this, he whispered to the little demon beside him, "I'll go out for a while", and then raised his legs to leave the back hall.
"Gah!"
Unexpectedly, a little demon wearing a yellow belt put down his bowl and chopsticks and stood up after hearing the words.
"Are you going to the latrine?"
The little demon with a yellow belt wiped her face, wiped her puffy duck mouth into two thick lips, and concluded without authorization, "Let's go, let's go together."
Ji Thrush: "..."
Well, it's safer to go to the toilet with a duck spirit than to wander around alone.
So the two... one person and one demon went out together.
Outside the back hall is a corridor.
The little demon with a yellow belt has a rather chatty personality, chattering and chattering all the way.
Ji Thrush deliberately lagged behind by half a step, letting the duck spirit lead the way unconsciously.
"Oh? So, you already know what's on the menu tonight?"
As he walked, he tried to guide this silly looking duck to reveal more information.
"Hey, I dare not say everything, I still know one thing and two!"
The duck essence held its head high and held its chest high, "Three fresh fish stew, soy white shrimp, fried fish balls, pot roasted carp, braised rice field eel..."
It reported several types of fish in a row, and each time it reported the same thing, it licked its lips like a real duck.
“Delicious indeed!”
Ji Thrush echoed with a smile:
"It's just that there are so many good dishes, how many guests are there tonight?"
The duckling laughed loudly, "I heard from Sister Goose that there is a group of bandits, there must be twenty or thirty of them!"
As it said that, it smacked its mouth, shook its head and said, "I don't know how many people can go out this time!"
The little demon with a yellow belt showed envy, "If there are more waves, maybe we have a chance too!"
Ji thrush's heart skipped a beat.
It turned out that these monsters lured people into the house, neither to eat meat nor to drink blood, but more like exchanging one for one.
—Could it be...
Based on the words and phrases accidentally revealed by the duck spirit, Ji Xiaoniao started to reason.
—Could it be that for some reason, or in other words, these monsters were trapped in this house by some kind of force, and they can only get out by luring mortals in as their "substitutes"
…
While thinking about this, Duck Spirit had already led Ji Thrush to the courtyard.
Although it is a partial courtyard, in fact, the area is quite large.
Judging from Ji Xiaoniao's "poor" knowledge of ancient architecture even though he made up for it temporarily, the layout of this courtyard is very similar to the Soviet-style gardens he visited before. Pavilions, terraces and pavilions, ponds and small bridges, spring stones, flowers and trees, rockery and strange rocks can indeed be regarded as changing scenery with each step, and you can see the universe within a few feet.
But Ji Thrush is not in the mood to enjoy the beauty of the garden at this time.
The focus of his attention is that a group of monsters gathered beside the fish pond for some reason, noisy and bustling, who knows what they are making noise about.
"Ouch!"
Seeing the crowd gathered, Duck Spirit suddenly became excited, "Rice Krispy Candy! The sisters in the courtyard are distributing Rice Krispie Candy! Let's go! Let's rub it too!"
While shouting excitedly, he grabbed Ji Thrush's arm and pulled him into the crowd without any explanation.
At this time, more and more monsters gathered beside the fish pond. Besides the banshees wearing various light tulle skirts, there were also some servants and servants mixed in, all of which surrounded the beauty in a red dress with a falling cloud bun, and competed for it. They rushed to ask for the sugar in her dustpan.
Ji Thrush secretly groaned in his heart, but looking at the cheerful faces of these monsters, he knew that the so-called "rice flower candy" must be very popular with them. , that would be too suspicious.
Just when he was in a hurry, he suddenly saw a girl holding candy and stuffing it into her mouth. He was quick to think, and took advantage of the opportunity of being squeezed, put his fingers into the purse at his waist, and grabbed a " Explosive Energy Storage Candy", stored in the palm of your hand.
At this time, the duck spirit had already dragged him to the front of the red-dressed banshee.
"Sister, good sister!"
The duckling said, "Please, give me a handful of candies!"
The banshee in the red skirt smiled and said, "You are the only one with sweet lips!"
As she spoke, she grabbed a handful of sugar from the dustpan and stuffed it to the little duck.
Then the banshee in the red dress shifted her gaze to Ji Thrush's face.
Ji Thrush was shocked, and he quickly pulled himself together, imitating the duck spirit's coquettish tone, pinching his throat and begging: "Sister, I want candy too~"
The candy-distributing banshee smiled and stretched out her hand, wiping Ji Thrush's face.
"Oh, you boy, you look quite pretty!"
As she spoke, she grabbed a large handful of candy and handed it to Ji Thrush.
Ji Thrush still had props in one hand, so naturally he didn't dare to open his hand to take them. Fortunately, he was very witty, and immediately pretended to be extremely surprised, thanked him repeatedly, and picked up the hem of his clothes to pocket the candies.
After getting the rice cracker candy, the duck spirit led the thrush out of the crowd, squatted by the pond, and couldn't wait to eat it.
Ji Thrush took advantage of the moment when it lowered its head, and quickly stuffed the "explosive pulp energy storage candy" into its mouth, then lifted the hem of its clothes, and threw all the rice cracker candy into the fish pond.
"Oh, have you eaten all of it?"
The little duck looked up and saw Ji Thrush's clean hem, with a rather disappointed expression on his face.
"Uh-huh… "
Ji Thrush puffed up his cheeks, deliberately biting the props in his mouth, pretending that he ate deliciously.
The little duck turned his head and looked eagerly at the red-dressed banshee, as if hesitating whether to ask for some more now.
However, an accident happened at this time.
Suddenly they heard a woman's hoarse screams.
"what!"
The voice was so abrupt that it immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Ji Thrush followed the prestige, and saw about ten steps away, a middle-aged woman dressed as a servant was kneeling on the ground, digging her own throat with one hand, and grabbing a man dressed as a servant with the other. It looked extremely painful.
The man who was caught by the maid looked very panicked, trying to stop her screaming, but at the same time panicking to attract other people's attention.
Ji thrush's heart sank.
He vaguely had a very bad guess.
Sure enough, the woman licked her throat, and suddenly spit out a mouthful of mucus, which contained chewed rice cracker candies.
— This woman, like me, is probably a participant from "Peach Blossom Spring"!
— She ate the food here!
"Hey, what's going on?"
The red-dressed banshee, who was just distributing rice cracker candies to the little demons, threw the dustpan with half of the sugar grains to the side, and walked towards the fallen maid.
She spoke words of concern, but there was a strange sense of excitement in her tone, her eyes were burning, and her fingers covered with Kodan trembled slightly with excitement.
"You... are you human?"
Red Dress Banshee said:
"I don't know how you got in, but you are human."
As soon as the word "human being" was uttered, it was as if a stone stirred up a thousand waves, and it caused a hundred times more intense echo in the entire courtyard than the distribution of rice cracker candy just now.
All the monsters were in a commotion.
"Humanity!"
"It's human!"
"Someone! Someone is here!"
They repeated the word "human" one after the other, and surrounded the fallen servant girl and the male servant who was held tightly by her.
At this time, the woman was too painful to say a word.
Her body is gradually deforming.
The skin wrapped under the clothes gradually dried up and shriveled, the spine deformed and elongated, the limbs twisted and twisted, and the shoulders were crooked and towering...
Even so, she still seemed to be desperately trying to grab the last straw, using her gradually withered and hardened fingers to hold the man beside her tightly.
"It looks like..."
The banshee in the red dress had an evil smile on her lips, and looked at the panicked servant.
"Are you human too?"