Bao Guangyuan was trapped in darkness. He couldn't see anything around him and there was silence in his ears. He went from being frightened to angry to terrified. He found that he couldn't move forward no matter what. He was completely desperate.
He sat there in a daze for a long time. He didn't know how long it had passed. When he was about to go crazy, suddenly, there was a bright light in front of him.
A beam of light shone through the wall and fell on Bao Guangyuan's face.
Bao Guangyuan's eyes had completely adapted to the darkness. When the light suddenly shone into his eyes, he felt pain and tears flowed almost reflexively.
He quickly covered his eyes with his hands. After a few minutes, Bao Guangyuan's eyes adjusted to the light and he slowly opened his eyes.
He saw a man holding a flashlight, standing in front of him.
Without thinking, Bao Guangyuan rushed forward and tried to snatch the flashlight and subdue the other person.
However, the next moment, he missed and his whole body passed through the man's body and fell heavily to the ground.
With a thud, Bao Guangyuan fell to the ground. He turned back in horror and found that the man was still standing there, without even changing his posture.
It turned out to be just a projected fake.
At this time, the man's voice, which had been specially processed with a voice changer, rang out all around.
"The ten most important people in Bao Guangyuan's life: grandpa, grandma, grandpa-in-law, grandma-in-law, father, mother, brother, sister, cousin, and Meng Xinyi."
The processed voice of a man, neither male nor female, echoed eerily all around.
Every time he read a name, two figures appeared in front of Bao Guangyuan's eyes, they were his relatives and friends!
As the man's voice fell, ten women stood quietly in front of Bao Guangyuan, and they all looked at Bao Guangyuan with smiles on their faces.
Bao Guangyuan grew up in a happy family. He has many relatives who all love him, and he also tries hard to give love back to everyone around him.
When filling out this card, Bao Guangyuan's first reaction was to write down his family name.
Since ten forms needed to be filled out, all the forms at home had been filled out. Meng Xinyi happened to be standing next to Bao Guangyuan, so Bao Guangyuan filled him in.
Anyway, to him, the eight people in the group are all his friends. It doesn’t matter who he fills in, because that name represents friendship.
If he could live peacefully, with so many family and friends looking at him, Bao Guangyuan would only be surrounded by happiness.
However, at this moment, in such a scene, seeing his relatives and Meng Xinyi appear one by one, Bao Guangyuan had a bad premonition in his heart.
He would rather continue to be trapped in the darkness alone than have his family exposed. Even if it was obviously fake, he didn't want to see it!
The man's words continued.
"Bao Guangyuan and the ten most important people in his life were on a boat. Rain was falling on the boat. As the clouds collided, there were lightning and thunder. The boat was swaying on the water. The boat was overloaded. One of the people had to leave so that the remaining ten could survive."
The man's voice floated eerily into Bao Guangyuan's ears.
"Who do you choose?"
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At this point, Bao Guangyuan paused and remained silent for a moment.
Ji Mingxia glanced at Yu Ning. They guessed Bao Guangyuan's answer almost instantly.
For nine relatives who I spend every day with, and a friend with whom I often chat in an online group and whom I met for the first time today, the answer to this question is obvious.
Bao Guangyuan didn't want to face this answer, but Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning had not yet heard the truth they wanted to know.
Ji Mingxia asked: "You chose Meng Xinyi?"
Bao Guangyuan nodded, and then as if explaining, he suddenly said: "I was going to choose myself, but he told me that I am a player and I cannot choose myself. I must choose from the ten most important ones. Otherwise, I will be trapped here for the rest of my life and will never leave.
"And by making a choice, you can leave this room and enter the next one!"
Bao Guangyuan said: "My grandparents worked hard all their lives, and at such an old age, they finally had children and grandchildren. My father and mother loved me the most since I was a child. My brother was very outstanding and the smartest in the family. He always ranked first in every exam. And my sister and cousin had just started kindergarten at that time..."
Ji Mingxia said slowly: "You chose Meng Xinyi first, so you have always felt guilty towards her. This is also the reason why you teamed up with Meng Xinyi and always gave in to her and took care of her when you were trapped in the forest?"
"Yeah." Bao Guangyuan said, "I chose her from ten people, and then, she was drowned in front of me..."
The projection was extremely lifelike, otherwise Bao Guangyuan would not have made a mistake and rushed towards it, causing himself to fall.
Ten lifelike projections appeared in front of him, almost the same as if they were really standing in front of Bao Guangyuan.
Standing there was very realistic, and the process of death was naturally... exceptionally clear.
From drowning to death, every process and every detail were presented to Bao Guangyuan one by one.
He watched "Meng Xinyi" struggle and fail before dying. Before she died, her eyes stared at him. At that moment, Bao Guangyuan almost collapsed.
At this moment, there was a "click" sound, and a door opened to Bao Guangyuan in the darkness.
Bao Guangyuan didn’t dare to look at the “dead” “Meng Xinyi” again. He stood up awkwardly and ran to the next room without looking back.
At this point, Bao Guangyuan fell silent again.
Ji Mingxia had no choice but to say, "One person dies, one door is opened. This place is similar to an escape room. There are ten most important things in life, so there should be ten doors, right
"You escaped from the first room. In the next room... you will be asked to make more choices. You will die once for each one, right?"
Bao Guangyuan trembled all over. Even if he just recalled the past, he was extremely painful.
Ji Mingxia felt a little reluctant to see him like this, but things had come to this point, and compared to those memories of the past, what was about to happen was more important.
They must know the truth before they can find a way to deal with the monster.
Today is the seventh day that Bao Guangyuan and his companions have entered the forest. There are seven of them in total. According to normal speculation, the monsters will definitely appear today, and it is even likely that they will fight with Bao Guangyuan and put an end to it.
The sooner Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia find out the truth and the more detailed it is, the more confident they will be when dealing with the monsters.
Bao Guangyuan also felt relieved and had to explain everything.
He calmed down a little and continued his story with his head down.
Ji Mingxia's guess was correct. Bao Guangyuan escaped through the first door, but did not escape from the residential building.
In the second room, Bao Guangyuan once again faced a choice.
"Bao Guangyuan and the nine most important people in his life were taking a nap at home. A serial killer fled to their house. The killer was holding an electric saw and was famous for killing people by disemboweling them. At this moment, the killer was hiding in an empty room - under whose bed was the killer hiding?"
"Bao Guangyuan and the eight most important people in his life were in the zoo. The handrail broke down and one of the nine fell into the tiger pack. The hungry king of beasts had to eat a cat before he was willing to leave. The tiger would bite all the limbs of the cat to pieces, cut open its stomach, lick its soft internal organs, bite its head to pieces, and suck its brains - who did the tiger eat?"
"The seven most important things in Bao Guangyuan's life..."
"The six most important... "
"Five..."
As he looked inside, Bao Guangyuan's expression gradually became numb.
The cruelest part of this game is that it allows the player to personally choose the most important people in his life to die one by one in front of his eyes.
Every way of dying is extremely cruel.
Once he makes a choice, a relative will be killed in front of him.
Even if it was all fake, this realistic projection was more real than a dream, with every detail revealed before my eyes.
It was as if he had killed his loved ones with his own hands.
Don't mention Bao Guangyuan, Ji Mingxia felt a little scared just by listening.
He simply couldn't imagine what he would do if he encountered such a thing.
Bao Guangyuan's expression became numb, Ji Mingxia's face was also a little pale. Among the three, the only one with a normal expression was Yu Ning.
In his life, before he met Ji Mingxia, there was no one most important person in his life. After he met Ji Mingxia, he was the only one in his life.
And Ji Mingxia was right beside him, and he would protect her at all costs.
He would not let himself get into this kind of situation, and neither would Ji Mingxia.
Seeing that Ji Mingxia's face was not looking good, Yu Ning reached out and touched the back of Ji Mingxia's hand.
Ji Mingxia felt the cold touch of Yu Ning's fingertips and was stunned for a moment. Seeing that Yu Ning was looking at him, Ji Mingxia thought that Yu Ning was frightened by Bao Guangyuan's "hide and seek game" just like him.
Ji Mingxia then held Yu Ning's hand and gave him a comforting smile.
When Yu Ning saw Ji Mingxia's face, he was also stunned for a moment. He felt that face was like a soft warm current that fell into his chest and warmed every part of Yu Ning's body.
After being interrupted by Yu Ning, Ji Mingxia's mood recovered a little.
And Bao Guangyuan's story finally came to the most important stage.
"When there were only five of my family members left, the killing game suddenly paused." Bao Guangyuan said, "After walking through ten rooms, the game entered the next stage, and the hide-and-seek game was officially launched.
"In the darkness, there will be monsters chasing us. All rooms that have been opened can be used as hiding places. In other words, the more relatives who have died, the more places there are to hide.
"The game time is sixty minutes. If all six are found within sixty minutes, the player will be judged as the loser."
Ji Mingxia looked at Bao Guangyuan who was intact, and thought of the past few days, when his life had been very smooth.
Ji Mingxia asked: "You won?"
"No." Bao Guangyuan shook his head. "We lost. All six of them have been found. Game over."
“When we left, the man gave us a blood-red ring as a ‘reward’.” Bao Guangyuan said.
This is the last choice of this game.
Eight invitations and a blood-red ring.
It is up to them to decide on whose hand they want to give the ring.
Hearing this, Ji Mingxia recalled the past and felt a chill in his heart: "So, you gave the ring to... Lin Siyun and Li You, who never participated in the game and were completely unsympathetic?!"
Bao Guangyuan lowered his head in shame.