Standing in front of the gloomy and old castle, Ye Xu, dragging his suitcase, learned from the painful experience and decided not to open the player mode again.
As soon as he made this determination, Ye Xu felt that sooner or later he would renege on his promise and lose weight, so he silently added two words of evaluation - really fragrant.
"Hello." A housekeeper with a warm smile walked towards him, "Are you the guest who reserved Room 13?"
What an embarrassing number is this? Thirteen in the west and four in the east are the most unlucky ones.
Ye Xu nodded sadly.
Mr. Housekeeper didn't notice Ye Xu's strangeness at all, he only thought that his personality was so gloomy and withdrawn. He led Ye Xu inside, and introduced, "The scenery outside Room 13 is the most beautiful. I heard that you are a painter. You will definitely like this room!"
Ye Xu who doesn't know how to draw: I Cao? !
Soon, Ye Xu learned from the housekeeper that this ancient castle was left in the eighteenth century. The maintenance cost of the castle is very high, so the owner of the castle decided to rent out the rooms to tourists in a short-term rental method to earn rent.
You know, being able to live in this kind of castle is a very exciting experience for many tourists.
The maintenance of this old castle is actually pretty good. The furniture and decoration in the room still maintain the familiar western classical style. Although the things are old, they are never dirty and messy, but there is a charm that has been precipitated by history.
It was not easy to have electricity in the castle. In order to maintain the integrity of many ancient castles, it is difficult to pull wires and network cables inside.
Of course, there are no internet cables either. The mobile network signal is very poor, the only saving grace is that there is electricity, and you don't have to live by candles at night.
Ye Xu's room No. 13 is indeed very beautiful outside the window, facing the most beautiful location in the garden, there are several flower bushes below, and even a wisteria corridor. Looking from a distance, the colorful colors make people feel happy, and the sun is shining, which is as beautiful as a fairyland.
But no matter how beautiful the place is, it will become a paradise for ghosts at night. Ye Xu thought indifferently.
The butler went to receive other people, Ye Xu opened his suitcase and checked the items inside. He found out that the original owner was indeed a painter, and other people came here to experience the feeling of living in the castle while traveling, but the original owner came purely for painting.
He heard that room 13 had the most beautiful scenery and that the castle was very beautiful, so he came here and booked room 13 specially.
Ye Xu cried a thousand tears in his heart, why did he want to put on the original owner who deliberately came here to kill him? It would be fine if he was assigned to room 13, but he actually specified that he wanted to live in room 13... In this copy with a foreign background, it would be better to live in room 4.
In the salute of the original owner, there were not many useful things at all. In addition to his own album, it is his own brushes and paints. There is only one set of clothes for a change of clothes, and he may be worried that it will not be bright enough at night if the candles are lit here, so he also brought a flashlight.
It was so touching that there was a flashlight. In case the ghost tosses the castle to a blackout, he at least has a light source.
But in the dark, if there is no light, you will be frightened, and if you turn on the light, you will be frightened even more. This does not seem to be good news.
Ye Xu put the flashlight into his pocket and barely stuffed it in. It seemed a bit out of place, but it was better to carry this kind of thing with you. Comes with a plate of 4 new batteries in another pocket.
Other than that, he has nothing else. He rummaged through the room, but couldn't find any useful props.
Okay, so it seems that the resistance ability of the players in this field is not very good, at most they can live on the props they bring and the skills they buy.
Ye Xu still has a relatively large advantage, anyway, he just opened the shield without saying a word. As long as he didn't touch the black mud last time, his shield is still very powerful, and the custodian can't touch him.
After packing up his things, Ye Xu went downstairs.
Room 13 is on the third floor of the castle, rooms 1 to 10 are on the second floor, rooms 11 to 20 are on the third floor, and there are no guest rooms on the first floor. There are two four-story attics, but they are locked up.
The appearance of this castle is not very complicated, so the road inside is not very complicated, and it is more friendly to road idiots. Ye Xu walked around the second and third floors, and found that not all the rooms were occupied, and some rooms were locked with rusty old iron locks, which seemed to have been held back for a long time.
Generally speaking, since the castle is used to earn rent, there is no reason to lock some rooms and not rent them out, especially if these rooms are really scattered. Among them, the room of the owner of the castle is locked, and some rooms that look ordinary are also locked, which seems strange.
If this is not a copy of ghosts, it can also be explained that those rooms are the rooms of other deceased elders in the owner's house, or that there are old things piled up in it and it is not convenient for guests to live in. But this is a dungeon with ghosts, Ye Xu suspects that there is something wrong with these rooms.
He counted, and there were 5 locked rooms on each floor, which happened to be the same number as the number of open rooms, which was very weird.
Some players have already sat down on the sofa downstairs. After seeing Ye Xu, their attitudes were very cold. Ye Xu took a look and found that most of them were seniors with more than five or six dungeons, no wonder they were so indifferent.
He also found a random place to sit down, pretending to be in a daze, but actually searching for information on painting. The original owner knows how to draw, since he has nothing to do anyway, he just knows something about it. In case an NPC insists on talking about painting with him, it might be dangerous if he reveals his secrets.
However, it is really of little use to hold Buddha's feet temporarily. There is so much knowledge about painting that Ye Xu can't remember it at all, and he can't read much in a short time.
In fact, chatting is still relatively easy, the big deal is to chat with NPCs while searching for relevant information to cope. If the other party asked him to draw a picture to show his hands, it would be a tragedy in the world.
However, Father Tong shouldn't be so sick, right? This dungeon is good enough to deal with ghosts, but it is too much trouble to deal with NPCs.
Ye Xu was very anxious, afraid that the Awakened who played the role of ghost would be too aggressive, so he insisted on adding drama.
After half an hour, all the players arrived. A total of ten people, no more, no less. In addition to the butler, the NPC here also has a cook. The butler disappeared after leading the way. It is not known whether he left the castle or hid somewhere. The cook only appeared when cooking and washing the dishes, and disappeared in a flash after washing the dishes.
"The castle should have a separate passage for servants. They usually don't go through the main entrance." Everyone gathered at the long table and finished their lunch quietly, and then gathered in the living room to communicate. One of the players said, "I guess NPCs don't We will stay in the old castle, only us and the ghost in the old castle at night."
Another player followed suit and nodded: "The task is to survive the third night. If it's just three nights, it doesn't seem difficult. The simpler it looks, the more it means that the intensity of the ghosts' actions at night is not small, and I'm afraid it's difficult to deal with."
"The butler didn't see any problems when he faced us, as if this was a normal old castle, but he slipped so fast, it looked abnormal." Someone snorted, "And the cook, We bury our heads in cooking the whole time, and ignore people when we say anything, as if we are a scourge."
"We are not scourges, we are just dead people who can't live for a few days, of course she doesn't bother to talk to us."
"There should be rumors of haunting in this ancient castle, right? Or there are some stories, such as which generation's master killed his wife and children and then committed suicide. It's an old routine."
Everyone shook their heads: "I don't see any storytellers anywhere, and I can't even find books here, let alone newspapers and magazines."
"Except for the locked rooms on the second and third floors, the attic on the fourth floor is also locked. There are still some rooms on the first floor that I don't know what they are used for. Let's go in and take a look." Ye Xu said.
"What about the basement, have you seen the basement?"
Ye Xu's face was slightly stiff: "The basement is dark, I didn't go down."
It was a woman who asked the question, and she gave Ye Xu a surprised look: "Are you still afraid of the dark?"
Ye Xu: "..." No, I was just afraid that I would suddenly meet the awakened friends and be surprised by them.
Well, it’s actually fear of the dark and ghosts.
"I'll go down to the basement to have a look at that time. Have you brought flashlights?" The woman turned her head and asked everyone.
There are quite a few people with flashlights. It is estimated that they all thought that there was no electricity here and they wanted to light candles. Those who didn't bring it with them either "learned" the information of the castle in advance, or forgot about the electricity. Modern people live in an electric society, and it is easy to ignore the fact that some places may not have electricity.
Except for Ye Xu, everyone who brought flashlights went down to the basement together, and the rest of them saw that there were only four people left, so they didn't disperse at all. The four acted together to check what was in the room on the first floor.
The first door opened, revealing a room filled with portraits. When I first entered the door, the players were taken aback. Although the portrait didn't move, it looked weird.
Everyone quickly closed the door and went to the second room. There is something useful in this room.
This is like an evacuated reference room, only scattered pieces of paper scattered around. Ye Xu picked up a dusty newspaper, took it away, shook the dust off gently, and then tried to see what news was on it.
The newspaper was still dirty, but I had to bear it. Ye Xu looked at ten lines at a glance all night, but he didn't see anything useful, it was all parents' faults. He looked up, and the others were also holding different papers.
Ye Xu had no choice but to lower his head, and then looked down.
Not long after, Ye Xu saw a small piece of news in the back corner of the newspaper.
"... The owner of Price Castle is very hospitable, and often invites new friends to stay in the castle for a few days... Recently, a guest of the castle disappeared shortly after leaving the castle, and he has not been contacted so far... "
This piece of news is very short, similar to a missing person notice, and it tells the description and characteristics of the guest in detail. The more Ye Xu looked at it, the more strange he felt. At first, he just realized that the guests who died in the castle probably disappeared after leaving in the eyes of the outside world, but when he looked at the description of the missing person, he always felt a little familiar.
Wearing a light yellow floral lady dress, a head of smooth black vertical long hair, no jewelry such as bracelets, necklaces, earrings, etc., with a delicate and pleasant appearance-these descriptions happen to match a certain female player in this round very well!
Ye Xu shuddered suddenly, could it be that this female player is actually a dead guest? Is she a ghost instead of a human? !
He raised his head quickly, wanting to share the news with the three players around him. However, when he looked up, he found that all three of them had disappeared.
Ye Xu was the only one left in the dusty room.