After doing all this, he turned back and looked at Claude expressionlessly.
Soon, the two set off again in the wind and snow, but the difference from the last time was that this time they put down the nylon rope in their hands as they walked.
This time the trip was as smooth as ever, and there was no accident like the rope suddenly breaking. However, after ten minutes, they walked back to the starting point again.
"..."
He glanced at the tight nylon rope tied to the tree in front of him and stretched slightly upwards in the wind and snow. Then he lowered his head and looked at the other end of the nylon rope in his hand that came from behind. He couldn't help but fall into it in an instant. In silence.
"...Have we unconsciously made a big circle?"
With a forced smile on his face, Claude asked Abel, who was in silence in front of him.
"For example, we walked out of a big circle unconsciously and hung the rope on the tree... In such blizzard weather with poor visibility, this situation should be easy to happen, right?"
"One is going up the mountain and the other is going down the mountain."
He turned his head and glanced at Claude, his face expressionless for a moment.
Even if the road ahead is not clear due to the blizzard, it is indeed possible to walk out of a big circle, but what they are in now is not a plain flat environment, but a mountainous environment with quite obvious slopes.
They had been walking towards the top before, but in the end they walked up from a lower slope... This can already explain the problem.
—No matter how lost you are, you will never get lost to such a ridiculous extent.
The ropes were slanted upwards, including the nylon rope he was currently holding in his hand. This was a completely unreasonable phenomenon from both a physical and spatial perspective.
The other end of the nylon rope in his hand was firmly tied to the tree. Setsuna turned his head expressionlessly and spoke to Claude beside him.
"I go down, you go up."
The rope tied to the tree, whether it is the part that was tied to the tree at the beginning or the part that is tied to the tree in an instant, has an obvious upward or downward trend.
Walking along the rope, you may be able to explore the rules here a little bit...
He quickly understood the meaning of Abel's words, and after a moment's hesitation, Claude nodded.
… In fact, under the current situation, he had no choice.
In this way, relying on the nylon rope tied to the tree, the two walked away from each other, Setsuna went down along the nylon rope, and Claude went up along the nylon rope.
If nothing else happens, they should meet in the middle of the long nylon rope.
However, the development of things was far beyond their expectations.
Ten minutes later, the two met again next to the tree.
Claude, who was originally upward, appeared in Abel's position, and Abel appeared in Claude's position. Because of Claude's foot injury, Abel had to arrive a little earlier.
—During this process, they did not meet each other.
"It's not a Möbius strip... space folding?"
Leaning against the tree stump, Claude sat down slumped under the tree.
"Yes, this is really a ridiculous game of cat and mouse. We are the ridiculous mice running away from the cat's hands..."
Under the blow of multiple events, he had completely given up the idea of resistance. Instead, he felt a powerless despair from the bottom of his heart.
"..."
He stood next to the tree and seemed to be thinking about something, without saying a word for a moment.
Just when the situation on their side reached a deadlock, the originally tight nylon god suddenly broke from it, and a figure walked out of the snow and wind with a cut nylon rope in his hand.
When he saw the face of the visitor, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
The visitor is Victoria, the quasi-girlfriend of the identity he plays, and the second main supporting character.
—[The moon reflects the snow and the clouds disperse].
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The north wind was blowing loudly, and the snow was falling heavily. Suddenly, there was a sound...
"When did you come here?"
Frowning slightly, he immediately asked Victoria, who was approaching.
However, this obviously meaningful question was automatically interpreted as concern by Claude on the side. After all, the relationship between Abel and Victoria was just a thin layer of paper.
Out of concern for Abel, love defeated fear and monsters, and it was very logical for Victoria to follow the traces of the other party.
"Of course it's out of concern... Why, don't you want to see me?"
Putting her hands behind her back and leaning forward slightly, Victoria blinked.
"…Where did the rope in your hand come from?"
He turned back and glanced at the still tight nylon rope behind him, and then looked at the rope in front of him that had fallen limply and the other end of the connector was held by the other party. After a moment of silence, Susuna opened his mouth and asked as if he was asking a question. got up.
"Rope? When I came here, I found that the rope was tightly tied to a tree and tied with a tight knot."
Shaking the knot in her hand, Xiaoyue looked slightly curious.
"Speaking of which, what exactly happened here?"
"Tie to a tree...?"
Before Setsuna could reply, Claude on the side couldn't help being slightly stunned, and then looked at the still tight rope in front of him.
"If that's the case, then this rope is also like this?"
Suddenly feeling refreshed, Claude climbed up from under the tree and spoke loudly to Abel and Victoria in front of him.
"The rope was actually cut at the beginning, and then it was secretly tied to the tree!!"
"..."
He turned back and glanced at Claude, his face expressionless for a moment.
However, Claude had already been accustomed to Abel's character before, so he didn't care at all at this moment. Instead, he walked over quickly and eagerly reached for the hemp in Victoria's hand. rope.
"If the problem with the rope is..."
Looking at the nylon rope in his hand, his words suddenly got stuck, and a look of fear began to appear on his face.
Where is the rope that he took from Victoria at this moment? It was clearly a bloody intestine! !
But when he dropped the rope in a panic, he found that the intestine that had sunk in the snow had turned back into a normal nylon rope.
But the blood stains remaining on his hands still reminded him that the scene he saw before was not an illusion that existed in vain.
"What's wrong?"
Because she had been looking at Abel before, Victoria did not see the scene that Claude saw just now, so when she saw the other party, she threw the rope into the snow as if avoiding a snake or scorpion. At that time, she couldn't help but asked the other party strangely.
"I… "
"hurry up."
Before Claude could say a word, he was interrupted by Setsuna.
At this time, he had bent down to pick up the rope from the ground, and by the way, he also untied the section tied to the tree, then rolled it up again and put it back into his backpack.
Meeting the gazes of the two people in front of him, Setsuna's face was expressionless.
"If anything happens, let's go back to the villa first."
… … … … … … … … … … …
The wind and snow raged.
Perhaps it was because there was one more person among them, or because some invisible rules were broken. When they set out again this time, they did not encounter the bizarre incident of ghosts breaking into the wall. Quite smoothly.
However, compared with his previous mental state when he just set off from the villa, Claude is now in a state of complete indignity. He follows the two people in front of him regardless of the pain in his feet.
—When you encounter danger, you don’t need to run faster than the danger, you just need to run faster than the people around you.
This is what he thought before. After all, there are so many people. What if he is lucky and the monster doesn't come to him but chooses to find someone else
As long as you can be saved, what does the life and death of others have to do with you? At the beginning, in his heart, he wished that others would become the prey of that monster...
But now that he has become the prey of being targeted, Claude's thoughts have made a 180-degree turn. He is afraid that he will be abandoned by others, so that he follows the people who were originally dismissive. Abel and Victoria...the whole performance can be said to be quite real.
But because he focused all his attention on the two people in front of him, he didn't notice what happened behind him.
—In the snow where there should have been only the footprints of the three of them, a pair of brand new palm prints appeared.
To be precise, brand new palm prints appeared immediately next to Claude's footprints. These palms appeared as Claude's feet fell, and disappeared as they lifted up. Perfectly keeping pace with him.
It looks like there is an invisible being in the snow and wind, following Claude upside down and working together with him step by step...
However, Claude never noticed this strange, bizarre and extremely terrifying scene. He was still walking with the invisible monster beside him... all the way.
… … … … … … … … … … …
At the same time, here at the villa.
Rohard and Smith, who had been holding shotguns at the window, waiting for the car to return, simultaneously discovered certain changes that had occurred in front of the yard on the first floor of the villa.
Bob's twisted corpse that was thrown away before suddenly disappeared right under their eyes at an unknown moment.
—In the blink of an eye.
The disappearance of the corpse represented the return of the unknown monster. While cursing fiercely, Rohard and Smith opened their eyes wide and began to search for any signs of trouble in the courtyard below.
But what disappointed them was that, except for the unusual incident involving the disappearance of Bob's body, nothing happened in the villa in the next half hour.
The night was dark, and the wind and snow outside were getting heavier.
"Don't we need to make any other preparations?"
Xia Wen, who had been staying by Bai Zhi's side all the time, looked at the snowflakes outside that were getting bigger and bigger and seemed to drown the whole world. Xia Wen asked with some worry.
There were still a few hours until dawn, but she doubted how many people here could hold on until dawn.
Bob died tragically in the bathroom, Eric was taken away by the car, and Joshua, Claude, and Abel chose to leave the villa to fend for themselves. These people are probably in danger.
Rohard, Smith, Aini, and Shouka chose to stay in the villa to fight the monsters. Victoria and two other people who were completely frightened hid in the basement of the villa and locked the door.
All counted together, there are twelve people in total.
"If we don't do anything, by the end of the story, the rating of the story won't be very high, right?"
"Let me ask you a question, what kind of story do you think has a high rating?"
Bai Zhi didn't mean to answer Xia Wen's question, but instead turned to face him and asked him a question.
"…No one survived?"
After thinking for a moment, Xia Wen spoke with some uncertainty.
"If you look at it from the perspective of a weird story, the content of the story should be scary enough, full of suspense and thriller elements, and then bring deep emotions to the people in the story at the end, just like the character who was rescued in the movie "The Mist" He was as desperate as the hero who shot his entire family the moment before... maybe?"
"If there is something that will rate this ongoing story of ours, what do you think that thing will be? And what kind of standards will it use to rate us?"
Looking noncommittal to Xia Wen's answer to the previous question, Bai Zhi asked the next question.
"The scoring criteria... aren't they a weird story?"
Xia Wen was slightly stunned.
"The name of this story is called [Monster], so this is a strange story based on monsters. What we have to do is..."
"The book didn't say it was a weird story. It didn't mention it from beginning to end. It just said there would be monsters."
Interrupting Xia Wen's words, Bai Zhi shook his head.
"Don't use the dungeon name as a reference. That was before the dungeon changed. After the dungeon changed, no one knows what is going on in the dungeon."
"Uh... Is it possible that we need to show off our power now to kill that monster, and then immediately change from a weird story to a superhero story? But that would obviously lead to a ridiculous place... "
Sitting next to Bai Zhi holding his legs, Xia Wen looked very distressed.
"Under the premise that no clear scoring rules are given at all, we are too restricted. If we are scored according to the standard trick story, I can hold a gasoline barrel and die together with that monster right now. , maybe it can be more heroic... Anyway, there is enough wine here."
"You got a concept wrong at the very beginning. You confused the system with strange stories."
Bai Zhi shook his head slightly, with a noncommittal look on his face.
"Although every Kaidan has its own set of rules, Kaidan itself will not provide such detailed rules. It requires careful observation and discovery by players to figure out... The scoring rules are Hidden, understand?”
"Well… "
"This story does not say that there will be scoring rules, nor does it say that if you score below six points, you will be subject to mysterious punishments. These are all information given by the system, not the information given by Kaitan. The system does not mean that Kaitan .”