"Come on, I've finished watching the fun, it's all over, it's all over!"
At this time, a middle-aged man's voice sounded in the lobby, making the originally bustling main hall suddenly quiet.
Ji Xuan followed the prestige and saw a few monsters standing in the corridor on the third floor of the main hall. The fairy king in Daozi's painting.
Meiran's steward has a good demeanor and doesn't yell, but when she speaks, her voice is extremely penetrating.
His voice echoed in the hall, and everyone could hear it clearly.
"Tonight's banquet will start soon, so make preparations!"
This handsome bearded steward obviously had a high status, and all the monsters gathered in the banquet hall obediently dispersed.
Ji Xiaoniao also followed Ya Jing, preparing to leave quietly.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Thrush carefully looked at the layout of the main hall.
This room looked a bit like the inn structure he had seen in ancient costume films. The entrance was a lobby that could accommodate more than a dozen seats. There was a staircase on each side of the main room, leading to the corridors on the second and third floors.
At this time, a group of tall and strong monsters in blue short jackets came in carrying tables, chairs, and low couches, presumably to prepare for the opening of the banquet.
Ji Thrush raised his eyes abruptly, and looked at one of the men in blue and short jacket.
—Damn it, Brother Dagen!
Mo Tiangen grew a big bushy beard this time, and he looked ten years old in plain sight, and wrapped his head with a blue-gray cloth scarf. If he changed into a long robe, he would look like an Arab!
But how familiar they are, not to mention just having an extra beard, even if he is wrapped up like a ninja with only a pair of eyes exposed, Ji Thrush is confident that he can recognize each other.
The eyes of the two met for a second, then moved away as if nothing had happened, passing by tacitly, as if the two were just passers-by who had never met.
"Ouch!"
Just when Ji Thrush stepped over the threshold of the lobby, he suddenly heard a low cry from the duck spirit next to him:
"When did those two pottery puppets break?"
Hearing this, Ji Thrush followed the duckling's line of sight, and sure enough, he saw all kinds of decorations randomly placed in the courtyard outside the lobby.
The location of these things is very arbitrary, completely disobeying the ancient architectural regulations, it looks messy, and it is particularly careless, without the sense of solemnity that a big family should have.
—As expected of a house where monsters live!
Ji Thrush said with disgust in his heart.
As long as he thinks that these things might all be transformed from living human beings, he just feels terrified.
While complaining about this messy house in his heart, Ji Xiaoniao moved his eyes and scanned the decorations outside the lobby door one by one.
Soon, he saw some ways.
On the far right are three statues of brass soldiers in armor that are the same height as real people, holding spears and halberds, majestic and majestic.
There is a dead tree behind the brass soldier, its leaves have fallen off long ago, but four wooden masks are hung on the branches, all of which look like ferocious ghosts.
Directly in front is a small-scale landscaping of a rockery and spring water. The gurgling spring gushes from the top of the rock and pours on the two playing boys carved from blue crystal in the pool.
On his left, there are three half-length dolls carved from hematite, with rough styles and mottled colors, almost like products of the Stone Age, which are incompatible with the exquisite Soviet-style gardens.
Beside the three red iron dolls, there are ceramic fragments all over the place. Ji Thrush can only judge from the four remaining shoes on the base, which were originally pottery figurines in the shape of a man and a woman.
Ji Thrush noticed that these five groups of rather abruptly placed human figures were arranged in the order of the five elements of "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth" from right to left.
"Hey, let's go, let's go back!"
The duckling turned around and saw Ji Thrush slowing down, so he waved to him and urged:
"It's almost midnight, and if we won't be found later, Manager She must be in a hurry!"
Ji Thrush immediately withdrew his attention from several groups of statues, glanced at the water leak in the courtyard, and saw that the scale on the water surface was less than a quarter of an hour away, so he hurriedly trotted and caught up with the water in front of him. duckling.
As he walked, he was still thinking about the statue of the Five Elements he saw just now, and he couldn't help but lightly pressed his hand on the belt.
Not long ago, when the participant from "Peach Blossom Spring" was besieged by monsters, Ji Thrush picked up a sign that fell from him.
It was a wooden sign not much bigger than mahjong, with a log background and only a light layer of varnish on it—it was clearly the same as the one Ji Thrush found in his shirt when he woke up. The only difference was the lettering on it. up.
Ji Thrush's original piece was engraved with "Golden Armor", while the piece dropped by the servant was engraved with "Earth B".
These two words came by such a coincidence that Ji Thrush couldn't help but associate them with the statue of the Five Elements he saw just now.
In particular, the sign in the manservant's hand starts with the character "Tu", which coincides with the broken male pottery figurine. Following this logic, Ji Thrush made a little guess and found it possible that "Tujia" refers to another The broken female terracotta figurine, that is, the maid who turned into a peach tree
After making this inference, Ji Thrush quickly counted the number of all puppets.
There were three brass soldiers, and he felt that they most likely corresponded to himself, Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen.
Calculated in this way, there are four people in the wooden group, two in the water group, and three in the fire group. Not counting the two people in the soil group who left the stage before midnight, there should be twelve participants left in this "world" By…
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Ji Thrush and the duck spirit returned to the back hall, and the snake spirit male steward surnamed She had already bluffed for all the little demons to come to the back kitchen to help.
Ji Xiaoniao lowered her head, mixed herself into the crowd of busy monsters, and took this opportunity to firmly print all the road maps of the places she had been to in her mind.
The time passed by every minute and every second, and soon there was only a short time left before midnight, which was twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.
The sound of silk and bamboo rang out one after another in the mansion, and at the same time, Ji Thrush heard a strange young man's voice, as if it was close to his ear, it rang softly.
[Today there is a game of hide and seek, all gentlemen are invited to attend.]
The voice is indistinguishable between male and female, but it is different from the eunuch's sharp and thin male duck voice, which is like a eunuch. This voice sounds like a boy and girl before the voice change period. The tone is sweet and soft, and still With a bit of waxy nasal sound, it adds a bit of cuteness.
Normally, when Ji Thrush met a young man who spoke like this, he would probably imagine that he was a delicate and beautiful child like a flower, and he would be curious about his appearance while feeling good in his heart.
However, Ji Xiaoniao's feeling at this moment can only be described by the word "creepy".
His hair stood on end, goosebumps covered his body, he resisted the urge to look around, and forced himself to remain calm, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the monsters around him.
Sure enough, except for Ji Thrush, those busy little demons around him were still doing their own things, and no one noticed the sudden soft youthful voice.
Season Thrush is more certain.
This voice can only be heard by him, or in other words, the participants from "Peach Blossom Spring".
And the invited objects of this "hide and seek" game are only the twelve "participants" who are still living in the house.
[I will randomly choose one of you as a [ghost].]
The boyish voice with a nasal voice continued to explain to everyone.
Ji Thrush listened carefully, and found that the rules of the game sounded uncomplicated, but they were very cruel.
The boy told them that he would randomly select one of the participants to play the role of "ghost" in the game, and this "ghost" person must find any ghost within half a stick of incense, that is, within fifteen minutes. Only when a player touches any part of the opponent's body with his hand and says "caught" at the same time can he transfer the role of "ghost" to the opponent.
If a "ghost" player fails to find and capture a person who can replace him within fifteen minutes, he will be "out" immediately—as for the price of being out, of course, there is only one dead end.
What's even more frightening is that the same person can only be a "ghost" twice at most. In other words, when he is caught for the third time, he will die immediately on the spot.
After listening to all the explanations of the game rules, a drop of cold sweat silently dripped from Ji Thrush's forehead.
Ji Xiaoniao remembers clearly that this is a big house full of monsters!
In other words, on the premise of hiding one's human identity, it is a very difficult and risky thing to run around the house to find another human being.
What's more, apart from Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen, he couldn't recognize any other participants...
—Damn it, it's too insidious!
The quarter thrush secretly gritted its back molars.
——The sinister part of this game is to let the participants, when their lives are threatened and desperate, attack their most familiar companions!
Just when Ji Thrush had figured out this key point, there was the sound of drumming at the right time from outside.
At the same time, the soft and waxy youthful voice lingering in his ears announced word by word in a tone of smile:
[The game starts, [Ghost] has been born!]
Ji Thrush's heart tightened, and he looked down at the watch on his wrist reflexively, and found that there was an additional 12-hour electronic clock on the dial, which was exactly the same shape as a modern electronic watch. There is only a line of time reminders, and now the electronic watch is starting from 00:00:00 and jumping forward second by second.
However, the pointer on the progress bar moved forward by one section, and the color of the pointer skipped over the relatively safe white and directly entered the yellow state.
These changes clearly told Ji Thrush the fact that the "hide and seek" game has begun!
Although he was not lucky enough to be randomly assigned the status of "ghost" in the first round, it also means that from this moment on, not only the room is full of monsters, but also other actors from "Peach Blossom Spring" Both of them have become potential threats!
Ji Thrush couldn't help recalling the two sentences he saw in the trailer:
- Don't get caught, don't get caught!
— Be careful, that ghost is hiding beside you!
The author has something to say:
The meeting between the big root and the little bird:
Ji: Brother Big Root! ! QAQ
Mo: Ji Xiaoniao! ! TAT
Ji: Brother Dagen, I miss you so much! !
Mo: Brother Ji Xiaoniao misses you so much too! !
Ji: But I can't come to meet you now! !
Mo: Yes, I dare not recognize you! !
The whole time was expressionless, and then walked away silently.