After a day of searching, six people sat at the round table again.
Lin Huai did not turn off the call on the earrings. Through the earrings, he could hear the sound of rustling rain and Chu Tianshu's footsteps walking in the rain.
In this reassuring voice, he rested his chin on one side, listening boredly to a few people arguing.
"So, the core test point of this game is to let us distinguish real human women from evil spirits through the analysis of the characteristics of human women." The muscular man made a conclusion,
After a lengthy discussion, this was the only point of consensus they reached. The ordinary man asked, "Then what do human women have in common?"
"Evil spirits are game-loving ghosts. They are intelligent, but they don't have human emotions." Du Zhongshan said, "They may be able to pretend to be human women through imitation, but there must be a difference between them and real human women."
"Honestly speaking, women in reality have different looks." The ordinary man complained, "Whether it's appearance, figure, temper, occupation or habit, how would I know what they are like, and what kind of appearance is right?" Doesn't fit the profile of a 'human woman'?"
"Through a few questions, there is definitely no way to know their true identities. They can give false answers, and the worst thing is, they can only give 'yes' or no." Du Zhongshan thought , "Since that's the case... definitely can't judge from their answers alone."
Lu Jin said: "Or we can spend more time with them and observe their living habits..."
"There are 120 people in total, can you observe them?" The man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks scolded him.
"Well... It's always okay to go to the toilet, or sweat!" Lu Jin argued.
"Going to the bathroom? Sweating? We only have seven days in total, no, six days for judgment. After today's day is removed, there are only five days. You go to each place and guard them all afternoon to see if they beat them fart?"
"you… "
The man with the sharp mouth and monkey cheeks spoke extremely vulgar words, making Lu Jin blush and thick neck in anger. The man with an ordinary face sitting on the other side showed a thoughtful expression.
"It's just you who haven't said anything." Du Zhongshan moved closer to Lin Huai's side, "What do you think?"
"Me?" Lin Huai pointed to himself, "I personally think that looking for the common characteristics of women is a false proposition."
"Shared personalities? Jealous? Hot and cold? Jealousy?" The muscular man pondered, "Evil spirits have no emotions, while human women have..."
"Dang-dang-dang-"
The ringing of the bell startled everyone. When they looked up, the witch in the red and white dress had already appeared on the stairs.
"It's time for bedtime, please go back to your room and go to bed."
Under the witch's cold voice, everyone could only go back to their rooms despite their unwillingness.
"Crack, click."
The witch stood on the stairs, like a porcelain figure, but also like a heartless sculpture. The sound of something breaking alerted Lu Jin who was turning around. He saw a white piece dropped by the witch's feet, so he raised his head and shouted: "Your things fell—ahh!"
"What, it fell."
The witch squirmed her lips and spoke.
The chin, which was originally covered by the white mask, is now exposed in the air because of the shattering of the mask.
"What, dropped?"
The tan chin squirmed and turned to Lu Jin, and what was exposed under the shattered mask was clearly composed of countless writhing earthworms, entangled together—
root!
Hundreds of roots are intertwined with each other to form the witch's jaw. A few of the slender roots were floating and wriggling in the air, with a little fluff, as if they were looking for suitable soil.
"Ah—" Seeing the witch walking towards him step by step, Lu Jin sat down on the ground, "Don't come here—"
"It's nothing, just ignore him." Lin Huai covered his mouth to stop the other party from screaming, "This is a way for him to strike up a conversation."
Witch:
"He does this to pretty girls." Lin Huai didn't bat an eyelid.
The witch stood there for a while, then nodded slightly.
"It's time for you to go to bed." Her tone was flat.
Du Zhongshan: ...
For a moment, the originally terrifying scene was made a little harmonious by Lin Huai. Taking advantage of the time when Lin Huai dragged Lu Jin back to the room, he whispered in his ear, "Why did you say this..."
"Girls like others to praise them for their good looks." Lin Huai said inexplicably, "Ghosts are no exception."
"Wrong, people like others to praise them for their good looks." Lin Huai lazily said, "I am no exception."
Du Zhongshan: ...
"Fuck?? Tianchu??" He made a black question mark voice, looking at Lin Huai's earrings in shock, "You fucking...why the fuck are you here?"
Earrings: "Hi."
"No, you, me, shit, these are SS-level stud earrings! Shit, who are you?"
The terrified Du Zhongshan finally realized a very simple point. The earring continued: "My brother, right? Brother?"
Lin Huai: ...
He had absolutely no intention of saying "Yeah brother". Du Chongshan watched him close the door with a dazed expression.
After returning to the room, Chu Tianshu continued: "You never praised me for being handsome."
"Well, I remember I said you were a jerk?"
"Lin Huai, Lin Huai! Stop calling your boyfriend!" Lu Jin continued to cry after returning to the room, "Then, that witch is a strange thing!"
Lin Huai comforted him: "Don't make a fuss, there are strange things here."
Lu Jin: ...
He was not comforted at all. Chu Tianshu roughly understood the situation in a few words, and teased: "It seems that the mask is the so-called restriction. Within seven days, if you don't solve the puzzle, the whole mask will be shattered, and then..."
Lu Jin: "Then what will happen?"
"Maybe a lot of tree roots will protrude, go deep into your flesh and blood along every pore, and then suck you up as nourishment." Lin Huai shrugged, "Then you become..."
Chu Tianshu: "Zhou Shuren?"
Lu Jin: "Fuck!!"
He broke down again: "I will definitely kill myself before that..."
"By the way," Lin Huai asked, clutching her earrings, "Do you think women have any decisive distinguishing features?"
"Hmm..." Chu Tianshu thought for a while, "is the sex chromosome xx?"
"… and then."
"It's gone." Chu Tianshu spread his hands.
Lin Huai: ...
"Forget it, let me think about it again." He muttered, "How are you doing over there?"
"It's okay, I just want to see you... Fuck, a ghost came out of this pool and grabbed my ankle, let's not talk for now..."
The phone hangs up at this moment. After Lin Huai pondered for a while, he fell asleep.
midnight.
"Shusha, Rusha..."
There was a dead silence in the pitch-black red building, so the sound of the paper door rubbing against the floor was particularly clear.
The ordinary-looking man poked a small hole in the paper door. Entering the eyes, it is an empty lobby on the second floor.
He opened the paper door and looked around vigilantly. After confirming that there was dead silence above the third floor, he followed the stairs and walked lightly to the first floor.
In the gloom, the well stood in the center of the first floor. The man swallowed lightly, and clenched the paper bag in his arms.
What is contained in the paper bag is a strong laxative.
—Down the laxative in the well. Tomorrow, when the whole village comes to fetch water, we can judge who is a real human being based on whether they have diarrhea or not.
He tiptoed, step by step approaching the dark well.
Ten meters, five meters.
Two meters, one meter.
Seeing that the well was close at hand, he was overjoyed and couldn't help but quicken his pace.
"Gah!"
The man's feet slipped inexplicably.
It is extremely weird for a slip of the foot to happen to an intermediate player. The sound of uneven force on the wooden floor resounded under his feet, and the man subconsciously stopped his feet, not daring to move.
Cold sweat broke out from his back.
He raised his head tremblingly and looked towards the stairs—there was still no one on the dark stairs.
He waited for a long time, but there was no sound of footsteps upstairs.
'Or, let's forget about it today? '
A thought appeared in his mind. However, looking at the well that was only one step away from him, he swallowed a mouthful of water.
Yes, it was only one step away—and the female ghost upstairs seemed to have no intention of coming down to take a peek. He also saw it today, the moment when the female ghost's mask peeled off as the three bells rang—
After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and continued to approach the well. This time he was fine and didn't make any noise.
He approached the mouth of the well and looked down tentatively. As far as the eyes can see, it is pitch black, and there is a faint sound of water in it.
He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, gently grabbed the handle, and turned the pulley.
"Squeak—squeak—"
The sound of the potter's wheel swaying was extremely slight, and the rough hemp rope was rotated, winding around the wooden pole round and round. He was shaking the rocker with one hand and holding the hemp rope with the other, concentrating on it, for fear that the bucket connected by the hemp rope would accidentally hit the smooth wall of the well.
The wooden barrel was shaken up, and the man was already covered in sweat. He wiped the sweat off his face and glanced upstairs again.
In the dark corridor, there is still no trace of anyone coming.
He was relieved, fixed the rocker, and opened the paper package of laxatives.
Then, he carefully poured all the yellow powder into the well water!
However, what he didn't realize was that when he turned around, a pale face had already appeared on the corridor, watching him silently in the darkness!
All powder is poured down. The man licked his lips, folded the paper bag, and put it in his arms. After finishing everything, the man breathed a sigh of relief. He held the rocker with sweaty hands, trying to restore the barrel to its original position.
'One lap, two laps... a total of eight laps. ' he muttered silently.
The first three laps were very smooth. This made the man breathe a sigh of relief, the fourth, fifth, and even sixth laps... There was no obstacle.
'It's the seventh lap. ’ he thought, ‘Just half a turn and that’s it. '
He held the handle, set it to the original scale, and let go of it slightly to confirm that it would not slip down again.
You're done!
The man let go of the rocker and turned around with a relaxed and expectant mood. At the same time as he turned around, that pale face also retracted into the shadows.
The man did not see that face. When he took the first step, there was the sound of a pulley turning behind him.
"Gululu... Gulululu."
not good!
The potter's wheel, which was originally stationary, turned crazily as if it hadn't been fixed. The circles of hemp rope were loosened during the rotation. If it was not controlled, the wooden barrel would fall into the deep bottom of the well and hit the water surface hard!
And the loud sound it produces is enough to attract the women on the third floor!
The man hurriedly turned around, and in a moment of desperation, he only had time to hug the joystick. Perhaps due to inertia, he couldn't stop for a while.
'It's over... it's over...'
He closed his eyes and exerted all his strength to feed the baby, and his back was cold for a while. In the end, he managed to stabilize the pulley before the rope was exhausted.
"Hoo... hoo..."
Gritting his teeth, he shook the barrel up round and round. Because he was too nervous, he didn't even notice that that face appeared at the stairs again.
'Eight laps...well...just right. '
This time he didn't dare to let go of his hand in advance, but at the next moment of escaping from death, a question suddenly appeared in his mind:
Why is it so heavy this time
"Crack, click..."
There was a strange sound coming from the wall of the well.
The sound was extremely strange, as if the well wall was being rubbed against, like nail scratches on the blackboard, or something... was climbing the well wall.
The last thing the man saw was a bloody hand.
Its nails had been completely broken, and the ends of its fingers were even worn out with phalanges. The white phalanges appeared on the edge of the well.