At the same time as the TV screen lit up, the heavy bell also rang.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Bells echoed in the hall. Everyone's eyes were terrified, and they all looked at the TV in the center of the living room.
Lin Huai was a little confused. At this moment, Chu Tian leaned closer to his ear.
"Rookie, the game has begun."
He seemed to give him a meaningful look.
There was a long blast of white noise from the TV. After that, a hoarse and old voice finally came from the speakers.
"Welcome." Snowflakes flickered on the screen, "Let me see, one, two, three, four, five... Eleven, huh? Eleven? Interesting, ha ha."
"In modern society, the express delivery industry is developed... It's all due to the development of the express delivery industry. Nowadays, young people don't like to go out very much... Hehehe... they can receive express delivery without leaving home. I am really unhappy about this Ah." The old voice chuckled, "So this time, the task is to let everyone shop and receive express delivery to their heart's content. Don't worry, we ghosts are not the same as those who steal a small amount. We are all honest merchants with the same heart. We Guarantee that all goods are genuine at a fair price, [return and exchange]."
"In order to facilitate the shopping of players, we specially designed an APP for you." The old man said slowly, "Download the APP, and then purchase the product—"
"That, that." Ye Keke boldly interrupted him, "What are the products sold in this app?"
The sound from the TV stopped.
"The mall opened by ghosts, of course they sell everything—"
"Damn it!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Extremely vicious and old laughter came from the TV, as if long fingernails were scratching the glass. The lights in the living room flickered for a while, flickering on and off.
Feng Yao's face turned pale slightly, and she took a step back from Zhang Lu who was also trembling. Lin Huai glanced at the crowd, stretched out two index fingers, one left and one right to cover the ears.
"boom!"
The TV suddenly turned off. It turned out that it was Chu Tian who stepped forward and unplugged the TV's power cord.
The old man's voice disappeared unwillingly along with the black screen, and the chandelier in the living room also stopped flickering.
"I didn't come here to watch the editing of the ghost's laughter." He shook the plug in his hand, "It's time to get out when you finish talking, and you want to rely on the ghost's laughter to make up the length of the video?"
Everyone looked at Chu Tian who was looking for death: ...
Lin Huai maintained the posture of covering his ears with two fingers, and squatted over: "This TV..."
"If the TV is unplugged, it will lose power." Chu Tian said, "This is science."
"Are you really a materialist?" Lin Huai turned to look at him.
Chu Tian said: "That's right, we programmers, monks don't lie."
As he spoke, he looked up proudly and narcissistically.
Lin Huai pursed her lips and stared uncontrollably at his hairline.
At this moment, a voice sounded in everyone's ears:
"The task has been released: Survive for four days in Shangjin Villa. Everyone will get a shopping app and 998 yuan of funds, buy at least one product on the app every day, and ensure that the account balance is zero at the end of the game."
"Additional task, there is a ghost among the players. The ghost will do everything possible to destroy the game, and will kill the players who have not completed the task after four days. If the player recognizes the ghost, the game ends immediately and the player survives. If the player kills the ghost , there will be additional rewards. If the player makes a wrong identification... Hehe, the ghost will lift the restriction."
"It's getting late, the game will start at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Every morning at 8 o'clock sharp, the market opens on time. Every night at 8 o'clock, the express delivery starts. Players are requested to carefully arrange daily shopping, do not buy too many useless items, and Take an early rest."
The voice stopped abruptly, and everyone's expressions were not very good.
Among them was Lin Huai, whose already pale face became even paler.
He touched his nose with some guilt, and looked at everyone without any trace.
"The content on the note is true..." Huang Lu murmured, "There really is a ghost..."
As she spoke, she unfolded the note that everyone found before Lin Huai arrived at the villa. A few words were written crookedly with a carbon pen on the note.
"Among you, there is a ghost."
There were clearly twelve people present, but the old man only counted to eleven. After hearing the count to eleven, the polyethylene-like friendship between everyone instantly disintegrated like oxidation. Several people who don't know how to hide their expressions have begun to look at each other suspiciously and fearfully.
"There are ghosts... There are ghosts!" Zhang Lu looked panicked, "Why are there so many conditions this time?! So many restrictions? It's a survival mission, an initiative mission, and a ghost hunting mission..."
Lin Huai felt very strange seeing the ugly expressions on everyone's faces. He wanted to turn his head to ask the person next to him, but when he saw the wrench in Chutian's hand, he silently turned his head to the other side.
The boy named Ye Xian on the other side also looked pale: "Generally speaking, game missions are divided into three types, including survival missions, active missions, and undercover missions. It stands to reason that there will only be one or two kinds of missions in a game. , but this time... all three."
"Unless," Huang Lu said, "there is a senior player in this mission, or a player rated as 'excellent aptitude'. It makes our difficulty higher. And he is not an ordinary senior player, because this This time there is a newcomer among us. It stands to reason that the game with a newcomer would not be too difficult. Among us, who is the senior?"
After she finished speaking, she looked around, and no one's expression changed.
No one admits.
Lin Huai: ...
He suddenly realized what was written in the diary he saw in the dormitory after he picked up the body of the college student who jumped off the building that day.
Could it be that what I took away was the body of a senior? Lin Huai's mind wandered into the sky.
But after thinking about it, he felt that this matter was very unscientific. Even if the original owner is a senior player, and now the shell has been replaced with a core, then the character that should be certified by the game should be Lin Huai himself, not the former college student.
'Therefore there is only one truth. ’ he thought, ‘The game recognizes my strength, or… there is another senior here. '
Suddenly, at the window where his eyes swept past, a figure appeared.
It was a very tall courier in a blue uniform. His neck twisted and broke, his head hit the window frame, his fingers gripped the cold glass, and he showed a twisted and vicious smile.
"Ah!!!" Someone noticed the scenery by the window, "It's that! That dead courier!!"
There were several screams from the crowd, and they retreated in groups. When Chu Tian walked over with a wrench, the courier had disappeared, leaving only the courier's handprint on the glass.
"This floor is two and a half meters high. The courier climbed on it, his head... reached the ceiling..." The person who saw the courier said tremblingly, "It will come in! It will kill us!"
"We can't procrastinate." Huang Lu said, "This kind of game becomes more and more difficult the longer it is delayed. Since there is a way to catch the hidden ghost and end immediately, our first goal is to catch that ghost..."
"I don't agree." Yu Fu, a middle-aged man in expensive clothes, said angrily, he seemed to be in shock, "I don't care if you have any seniors or messes, it's a ghost! If you correct me wrong, we will all have to be buried with you !"
"Yeah..." Feng Yao, a high school girl, also nodded with a pale face, "Unless there is sufficient evidence, you can't identify..."
"In my opinion, we might as well focus on shopping, supplemented by pointers." Another middle-aged man with a calm temperament, his name is Tang Wen, said, "Every day we collect and review the purchase records to see who is the ghost. How? If it is a ghost, it will definitely buy some items that will cause events.”
"I think what Tang Wen said makes sense," said Ni Xiao, a young female white-collar worker.
Everyone discussed with each other, and reluctantly decided on Tang Wen's words as the basic outline. Although it is known that ghosts cannot kill people until the restriction is lifted, the existence of ghosts still makes people frightened.
"I checked the villa when I came here, and there are a total of 6 rooms for accommodation, but I suggest that the three of us sleep in one room." Chu Tian said, "It doesn't matter if the person next to the pillow is a ghost, there can still be a ghost." A helper to hold each other down?"
"Okay, let's allocate a room." Tang Wen nodded, "There are exactly six men and six women here."
Huang Lu said: "The villa is divided into three floors. The first floor is the living room and kitchen, the second floor has three rooms, and the third floor has three rooms. Considering the mutual help factor, I suggest that we use two rooms on each floor."
As she said that, she looked at Lin Huai who seemed to be wandering in the sky: "Newcomer, what do you think?"
Lin Huai: "Ah? What did you say?"
Seeing the other party's absent-minded appearance, Huang Lu was a little displeased.
The death rate of newcomers in the game is very high, which is one of the reasons why many old people don't like to bring newcomers. The game is different from outside the game. Once the death flag is triggered, the mistakes made by newcomers are likely to affect the elderly and trigger a series of chain consequences.
After three gaming careers, Huang Lu's originally soft heart gradually hardened. Even so, this newcomer who didn't cry or make trouble this time made her feel a little bit fond of him, but looking at him now... I'm afraid he hasn't adapted to this game.
"You have to know?" She suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, "This is not a game for one person, but a game for all of us to cooperate to clear the level. Everyone needs to make their own suggestions and think about the puzzles. You Don't think that someone will take you through the customs... "
Lin Huai thought about it, and felt that what she said made a lot of sense. Finally, he asked sincerely: "I have a suggestion... How many beds are there in a room?"
Huang Lu: "?"
"Two." Chu Tian who was standing aside said casually.
Huang Lu didn't quite understand what he was trying to do by asking this question. Lin Huai then said: "In this case, in terms of room allocation, in order to ensure everyone's safety and comfort..."
"I suggest that everyone be grouped according to fat and thin, with one fat and two thin." He said, "Otherwise, two beds can't fit together."
Everyone: ...