"When players re-enter the game, the game undergoes a third evolution. Players are artificially divided into four categories, high-level players, intermediate players, primary players and unqualified players. Each occasion has its own camp. , not interfering with each other. After this horrific consequence, keys and doors became a complete taboo, and it became the consensus of all players not to enter the ultimate door. However, three years later, a person appeared."
Chu Tianshu said, looking at Lin Huai: "That person is the crow."
"The crow is an advanced field player. He walks alone and does not team up with anyone. After he learned the secret of the 'door', he used various methods to collect twenty-five keys and stand on the side of everyone. On the opposite side... He was therefore regarded as a deviant lunatic, besieged by the world, and hunted down by various mercenary teams... "
Lin Huai's heart skipped a beat.
"And then?" he asked involuntarily.
"Later..." Chu Tianshu smiled softly, "He was indeed a lunatic. Before he was trapped in the high-level camp and was about to be killed, he opened the ultimate gate in front of everyone."
He stopped.
"... After that, many people died because of him?"
For some reason, Lin Huai's heart actually felt a little... unspeakable sadness.
"No, nothing happened. He disappeared, and no one died because of him. The high-level mercenary team tacitly kept this matter as a secret that was not allowed to be passed on. A new study on the door was launched secretly. Even so, entering the 'gate' is still a taboo for the public. After that, I also quit Chenxing." Chu Tianshu stared at Lin Huai's face.
"Why quit Chenxing?"
"It may be because I also want to enter the ultimate gate, or it may be because I am curious about the unknown, or it may be because I want to be an administrator and understand the nature of ghosts..." Chu Tianshu said, "Then I can modify Source code, adding the world of Harry Potter, the world of Death, and the world of Naruto into the game." Chu Tianshu showed a fascinated expression, "Then travel to different worlds every day, split and study the high-tech of each world, and Ultimately bringing it back to the real world and advancing real-world science...”
Lin Huai: ... The joy of sand sculpture is beyond human imagination.
"So that's why you do so many copies of the primary field? To collect keys and enter the ultimate gate?" Lin Huai turned over, a little sleepy, "Speaking of which, do you think that crow... is really dead?"
Chu Tianshu shook his head: "Some say he is dead, others say he is still alive, who knows. But what I can confirm is..."
Lin Huai pricked up his ears.
"Some people are already alive, but he is already dead. Some people are already dead, but he is still alive." Chu Tianshu yawned, "Compared with these distant things, it is better to pay attention to the nearby things , such as what to have for lunch tomorrow..."
"Tomorrow? Want to eat sweet and sour pork ribs..." Lin Huai glanced at his watch, "Speaking of which, it's already the fourth day..."
In the early morning of the fourth day, as soon as Lin Huai opened his eyes, he heard the sad news of the death of the third NPC.
When they rushed to the village chief's house, they bumped into a group of people coming out of the village chief's house. Lin Huai glanced at them and vaguely remembered that this group of people were the family members of the third victim.
He didn't take this matter to heart. The rest of the team were already sitting in the hall, but to his surprise, even Yan Chuchu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, was among them.
She looked restless, her mouth was pursed, and she sat in the corner without saying a word. Zhang Mingge saw that Lin Chu and Lin Chu had also arrived, and looked at Cheng Xin who was on the phone: "Liao Guan and Ji Nanquan, have you got in touch?"
Cheng Xin shook his head.
"Leave them alone." Zhang Minge said distractedly.
He seemed to have injured his hand, Chu Tianshu asked: "Your arm..."
"We ran into a ghost yesterday." Zhang Mingo replied concisely, "It did it."
Then, he looked at the remaining five players in the hall, and emphasized: "Today is the fourth day. From today, we only have five npcs left. The minimum requirement for the task is four npcs, that is to say, we At least make sure that the two npcs tomorrow will not make any mistakes before entering the Taoist temple at night. And the npcs on the sixth and seventh days, under the protection of the Taoist temple, they are absolutely safe-I have confirmed with them, and I will also go to the Taoist temple I have watched it. The master of the Taoist temple can definitely protect every npc who enters the Taoist temple safe and sound."
"All success or failure lies in tomorrow, and today, my suggestion is to give up the fourth npc, explain the situation to the last four npc, and prepare for the worst." Zhang Mingo pushed his glasses, "There are still people who don't know Is it?"
No one responded, so Zhang Minge said, "Let's go, let's split up."
Before leaving, he pressed Cheng Xin's shoulder and exchanged a subtle look with him. Seeing it, Lin Huai was a little puzzled for a moment.
Under Zhang Mingge's arrangement, Zhang Mingge and Yan Chuchu went to Wang's house, the driver and Chu Tianshu went to another No. 05's house, and Lin Huai and Cheng Xin went to Du Xiaoran's house. As soon as the two arrived at Aunt Sun's house and expressed their intentions, Aunt Sun interrupted her loudly: "Are you kidding, how could the next person be my daughter!"
"Believe it or not, there is indeed a countdown sign above her head." Cheng Xin said patiently, "You..."
"You don't need to say it, I won't let her go with you!" Aunt Sun shouted, "Don't think I don't know what you are doing in the village these days, if you go to a house, one will die People, let me tell you that you are the ones who attracted the ghosts here, you..."
Du Xiaoran hid behind her mother the whole time. Several people talked from noon to dusk, but they couldn't reach a consensus. Cheng Xin used Aunt Sun to go to the bathroom, and asked Lin Huai distressedly: "They don't agree—what should I do?"
Lin Huai, who was sitting next to him, yawned, with a look of lack of interest: "It's fine if they don't agree."
"Huh? Forget it?"
"... When you find someone who is alone, take a sack, carry the person and run away." Lin Huai said, "Could it be that our group can't beat this family of orphans and widows?"
"... Pay attention to your words." Cheng Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You're talking about saving lives like a bandit..."
"Some people don't want to be saved, and we can't blame ourselves." Lin Huai said, looking at Du Xiaoran who was sitting aside, wringing his fingers, "Du Xiaoran."
Du Xiaoran shook his body.
"There are two kinds of people I hate the most when playing games, one is the npc who plays tricks, and the other is the npc who hides his words." He stared into the other person's eyes, "You know what a person killed by a ghost looks like Is it?"
He pointed to his heart.
"Here, that's it. The whole heart was dug out and disappeared." Lin Huai said, "In the final analysis, if it wasn't for the system's arrangement, I wouldn't need to save you... After all, if the same kind of business is for business, it's fine if you don't help. It is really not wise to set up obstacles for it... "
Then, he stepped forward suddenly, pressed Du Xiaoran against the wall, and looked down at her: "Chu Tianshu would choose to talk to you because you were afraid, but I won't. Did you see her in the yard?" What? What scares you like this?"
"I..." she said, "I saw ghosts... knuckle-knuckle ghosts... at Ren's house..."
Just as Du Xiaoran was about to speak, there was already a quarrel outside the door.
The sound of quarreling seemed to come from the courtyard next door. Apart from the sound of mourning, there seemed to be women's quarreling and shouting. Several people stopped talking and ran out the door. A few half-children rushed into Ren's house carrying Grandpa's body, teased Ren Qiula, and said strange things in their mouths.
"You said that your sister is not that ghost, who would believe it! If it's not your sister, who could it be?"
"... my sister, my sister is not such a cruel ghost!"
"Stop talking!" Cheng Xin rushed out and inserted himself between the two. Just when Lin Huai was puzzled by his actions, he heard Cheng Xin's voice: "Ren Chun was buried long ago, and she is safe in the ground. How could it be her..."
"It's safe to be dug out, who doesn't know if Ren Chun crawls out of the soil every night to kill people!" The leader of the youth sneered, "Maybe it's just an empty tomb! "
"That's right, no one has seen Ren Chun's burial, have you seen it?" Another young man said, "Maybe she wasn't buried at all, but turned into a ghost and hid in Ren's house, and you are the accomplices! "
"That's it! Go in and search! Go in and search!"
Several people coaxed, poured into Ren's yard, and started smashing. Ren Qiu, who tried to stop him, was pushed hard by the leader and sat on the ground. He lowered his head, shrugged his shoulders, yelled for a long time, pushed away the crowd of onlookers, and ran out of the village.
"Ren Qiu!"
Lin Huai yelled, and just about to catch up, his arm was grabbed by another person.
He turned his head in horror, and it was Zhang Minge who caught his eyes.
And the bright yellow talisman wrapped around his hand.
"...The body talisman, what a great skill." Lin Huai said coldly, "Use this precious item on your teammates, you are really..."
"Don't move, I don't want to hurt you." Zhang Minge said in a low voice, "Wait for Ren Qiu to go first."
"What do you want to do?" A bad premonition flooded Lin Huai's heart. He lowered his voice: "Aren't you supposed to be with the Wang family—could it be—could it be—you...!!"
A conjecture flooded Lin Huai's mind. Zhang Minge just pushed his glasses with the other hand, and said, "You have your guesses, and we have ours, please understand."
Then, he looked at Cheng Xin and said in a low voice, "Follow me."
Cheng Xin led his men to catch up hurriedly, followed by the driver and Chu Tianshu who had just come out of another house. Chu Tianshu asked everyone with a loud voice: "What if he is going here?"
"I don't know!" Cheng Xin replied panting, "Looking at his appearance, he is going to the cemetery!"
Ren Qiu looked thin and thin, but he ran very fast, and was dexterous because of his familiarity with the terrain. While everyone was still struggling in the mud, he had already arrived at the small grave. With a loud cry, he pulled out viciously—the mahogany card stuck on the grave bag!
Everyone stood behind him, quietly watching him swing the shovel, shoveling the ground one by one, shoveling away the soil from the grave. Chu Tianshu asked softly: "What is he going to do?"
"...It should be, dig out his sister." Cheng Xin said.
He closed his eyes, and remembered Zhang Mingo's words last night when he faced the body of the third victim:
"I suspect we've been going in the wrong direction... We have to find a way to dig up Ren Chun's body during the day."
"If we do it ourselves, it is very likely that we will be retaliated by Li Gui desperately. Therefore, it is best to find a way and let Ren Qiu dig."