Lin Huai wiped off the blood splashed on his face with the back of his hand. After he went crazy, the fat man who had been slumped on the ground was finally helped up by the good old man cooperatively, and he started to set off.
Chu Tianshu stood by and looked at him, Lin Huai wiped off the blood on his face, turned to him and said, "I suspect that the system hasn't reacted because of my fright, when all the settings are deducted from me, remember—"
stop me.
Before Lin Huai finished speaking, her body moved by itself.
Lin Huai: Grass.
He heard the prompt sound of the system deactivating the person's settings, and saw himself glance at Chu Tianshu next to him, showing a frightened expression, and fled outside.
And what shocked him even more was...
Not only did Chu Tianshu not stop his behavior...
And took two umbrellas and followed him into the rain
Lin Huai:? ? ? Are you OK
Lin Huai uttered Lei Jun's voice, and saw his body running forward like a wild cat running away. Chu Tianshu was holding two umbrellas, running beside him at the same speed and chasing after him, and thus achieved a relatively static effect.
Lin Huai:? ?
If the soul had color, then Lin Huai's head should now be filled with black question marks. He watched his body go through the streets and alleys, and finally stopped at a street corner - there, it was a dilapidated commercial street.
That street looks like it sells small food and snacks. There are many izakayas, yakiniku restaurants, ramen shops, and a small stall selling Oden on the roadside. However, the only thing they have in common is that they are all part of a black hole. The cold wind blows these dilapidated storefronts, and the wooden doors and windows that even have the window paper cracked make the sound of "hissing" and "hissing".
Just before Lin Huai was about to run into the commercial street, Chu Tianshu hugged Lin Huai from behind.
"So it's here." He said.
Lin Huai didn't know what Chu Tianshu wanted to do at all, he could only stretch his teeth and claws to struggle on the opponent's shoulders—Chu Tianshu just carried him on the shoulders.
Finally, the controlled time passed. The first thing Lin Huai did when he was released from the system's control was to claw like lightning, hook Chu Tianshu's throat with both hands, and clamp it tightly.
"Wait, wait... it hurts..." Chu Tianshu screamed that he was about to be strangled to death.
"What the hell are you doing?" Lin Huai said coolly.
"Go back first, calm down, calm down." Chu Tianshu explained intermittently under Lin Huai's poisonous hand, "Just now when you were controlled, I thought of a point..."
Lin Huai snorted coldly and let go of his hand.
"That is, if the setting of this 'human value' is intended to make you do more dangerous things in order to increase the human value. Then when you lose control due to the loss of human value, is the place you go to Will it be the most dangerous place in the current situation?"
"So?"
"So," Chu Tianshu took out a flashlight, shining a strong light on the dilapidated food street not far away, "this is the most dangerous place at this stage."
The food street was dark and empty. But Lin Huai felt a chill for no reason. Chu Tianshu said: "Okay, since we have found this place, let's write down the location and go back to pay attention to those NPCs."
"What about here?" Lin Huai stood on tiptoe and looked inside, "Do you want to go in and have a look? Although this place looks like a gathering place of hawkers who died in gutter oil and Sudan red due to unqualified health and quarantine... "
He looked with his Yin pupils, and saw the thick Yin Qi lingering on the top of the food street...
But he didn't notice any cold creatures in the houses in the food street.
It looks like it is indeed an ordinary, unmanned, dilapidated snack street.
"Some things won't come out until night." Chu Tianshu shrugged, "Let's go back and explore the town with them first. I want to see what tricks this group of people can play."
Lin Huai nodded in agreement: "That's right, it's more exciting to come at night. Just like a mobile phone, it's always the most fun after midnight."
Chu Tianshu: ...
Before he left, he looked back, and the dilapidated snack street was still buried in the hazy rain.
The two were walking back, when they turned a corner, Chu Tianshu suddenly said: "Look over there, there seems to be a bathhouse."
"The bathhouse...that's called the bathing place." Lin Huai turned around speechlessly, and sure enough, she found a bathing place with curtains on the corner of the street.
A pair of lanterns hung from the eaves of the baths. Pale lanterns sway quietly in the rain.
Lin Huai walked over to have a look.
There was a slit in the middle of the curtain, so it became two pieces. Lin Huai looked in through the gap, only seeing the empty counter. There is a wooden screen in the center of the hall, and behind the screen are two bathhouses for "male" and "female".
There was a faint sound of mopping the floor behind the screen, as if someone was cleaning.
"Want to go in and have a look?" Chu Tianshu asked him.
Lin Huai hesitated for a moment, and said, "Forget it, let's go back and check the situation of those NPCs first."
With that said, he put the door curtain back.
Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu walked back. After they turned around, a thin hand finally opened the door curtain that Lin Huai had once opened.
And in his other hand was dragging...
It was the corpse of a woman with long hair!
…
Lin Huai yawned and watched Chu Tianshu push open the door of the villa. After Chu Tianshu saw the few people sitting in the living room honestly, he showed a pleasant expression: "So you are still waiting here, I thought you had already escaped... No, you have left."
Lin Huai gave a "tsk" in agreement.
"No, it's nothing, hahahaha." In the dead silence, only the old man replied, "Mr. Xiaolin is also for... the team."
"Look." Lin Huai bumped Chu Tianshu with his shoulder, "He is very sensible."
Chu Tianshu: "Yes, that's great."
It was still raining heavily outside, but despite this, the situation had reached a point where no one could be willful. Just when several people packed their rain gear and were about to go out, Lin Huai, who was isolated by everyone, caught a glimpse of Chu Tianshu walking back into the room.
He walked in with the other party, and saw Chu Tianshu was stepping on a stool and tiptoeing, hanging the sunny doll that belonged to a fitness man on the eaves.
Lin Huai:
"what are you doing?"
"An experiment on sunny and rainy days." After Chu Tianshu finished speaking, he held a meter for an hour, "We'll see how long this rain lasts when we get back."
Lin Huai: ...
He and Chu Tianshu were the last two to walk out of this room. Outside the door, the rest of the people were already waiting tremblingly with umbrellas. The girl in the blue skirt hid behind the girl in the yellow skirt. She held an umbrella and lowered her head, as if she was afraid of something.
Lin Huai stared at her. The girl in the blue skirt gave him the impression that she was a timid girl. Like the good old man and the girl in the white skirt, she used to live in this town when she was a child, and she knew the horror of this town. After she had to come back with her club partners, she fell into extreme fear. The biggest impression he had on her was that she always hid behind the girl in the yellow skirt.
After a while, Lin Huai faintly noticed something strange.
The characters about the good old man and the girl in the blue skirt are weird.
Not to mention the girl in the white skirt who has not been determined to be a human or a ghost, the good man and the girl in the blue skirt are both natives of this town. However, what the good man expressed in the van when he mentioned that he was going back to the town was only nostalgia and joy. Instead, the girl in the blue dress dreaded returning to the town from the start. And from the beginning to the end, she seems to know more than the good old man, from the reminder of "don't pass things under the cherry tree", to the previous conflict with the fitness man in the car, to yesterday's fever...
Is the town they lived in as children a few years ago really the ghost town it is today? And because of what qualities does the girl in the blue skirt know more about the weirdness of this town
Seeing Lin Huai glance at her, the girl in the blue skirt shrank her body even smaller.
As the leader of the crowd, the girl in the red dress naturally wanted to speak. She coughed and said, "Although it's still raining heavily, it's time to act. First, let's go to the mayor's house and see if we can find anything... Eh?"
She stretched out her hand to catch the raindrops outside, and asked a little confused: "The rain...is it getting smaller?"
The rain has indeed diminished.
The pouring rain just now gradually became smaller, and finally, it became a patter. The sky turned from darkness to haze, and the rain gradually disappeared.
The rain stopped.
"Okay! Let's take this opportunity to go out and explore." The faces of the few people finally eased a little, and the old man looked at Lin Chu and the two flatteringly and said, "I don't know you..."
He unconsciously looked at Chu Tianshu first, but did not dare to look at Lin Huai.
"Tsk... My popularity is getting worse and worse."
Lin Huai walked behind the crowd, squinting, while Chu Tianshu followed him. Lin Huai scratched her hair and said, "It's just so small, so nervous..."
As he spoke, he looked up at the sky where it was no longer raining, and said to Chu Tianshu, "What's going on?"
"It should be because of the sunny doll, do you still remember? It stopped raining for a while yesterday." Chu Tianshu said, "Then on the eaves, there appeared a sunny doll belonging to the dead girl in white skirt. She rotted over time, and after she rotted, the rain started again."
"... That is to say, these NPCs." Lin Huai glanced at everyone and whispered, "After their corpses become sunny dolls, can the sky clear up for a while?"
"OK."
"It's interesting." Lin Huai said.
Lin Huai held up the camera to record the journey to find the village chief. The atmosphere in the whole town is extremely desolate, and the people's livelihood is desolate. Along the way, I saw only a few passers-by in a hurry, and even the boss sitting in the grocery store was deserted and listless.
"Hey."
After hearing Lin Huai's voice, the good old man trembled.
"Did this town look like this when you were young?" Lin Huai asked him.
The good old man hesitated for a moment, and said: "No, the town was quite prosperous when I was a child. Maybe it's because of the impact of industrialization..."
Lin Huai stared into the eyes of the old man, who unconsciously turned his face away. Then, Lin Huai said: "Speaking of which, I still have something to ask you."
After finding out that Lin Huai was asking about the good old man, Chu Tianshu also moved his ears closer.
Lin Huai: "Your sister, how is it now?"
Chu Tianshu:?
The old good man was stunned for a moment, then stammered: "Sister, she... is still... not bad."
"Oh?" Lin Huai gave him a meaningful look, patted his shoulder and said, "Yes, I thought she would never forgive me. I didn't expect her to be so magnanimous. She introduced her to me when I was poor. If I still have the opportunity, I will visit her personally and thank her when I go back.”
After saying this, Lin Huai clearly heard the prompt from the game's [personal setting value -1]. At the same time, there was the excited voice of the girl in the red skirt: "The mayor's house is here!"
What appeared in front of everyone was a two-story white building. Only then did Lin Huai stop the conversation with the good old man, and turned to look at the mayor's house.
This time he is not worried at all about the lowering of the value of people, because he has found the meaning of the so-called "value of people".
Since his character setting value has been reduced by one because of what he said just now, it means that his question just cut the key point of the game.
The girl in the red skirt kept ringing the doorbell over and over again, but the mayor, who was clearly supposed to live in the building where the residence and office were combined, never came out.