"What are we going to do next?" Someone asked after everyone reported their homes.
Everyone was silent, and finally the male writer spoke: "Have you finished checking the first floor?"
The four of Ye Xu shook their heads: "I only had time to check two rooms."
"Then let's divide into two groups to check the rest. The five people who have just been found corresponding to the story form a group, and the others form a group. Do you have any opinions?" He asked.
For everyone's safety, of course, these five players who may be ghosts act together. Everyone had no objection, so they formed a team like this.
Ye Xu followed the crowd to the third room. This room was nothing special, just a bedroom that had not been used for a long time. But it doesn't look like the owner's house, but a servant's room.
This also indirectly proves that the NPC servants here do not live in the castle.
In the maid's room, there is an admissions brochure of a certain university, and there is a QR code on it, which can be scanned for more information. The male writer turned on his phone and tried it, but the weak signal allowed him to scan the code successfully, which was not easy.
After entering the page, it is the official website of the school, which are all official announcements that are not interesting. There was a link in the corner leading to the school's forum, and the male writer clicked in with a thought.
Things in the forum are much more interesting, except that there are no necessary posts to check, but there is a very popular new post on the homepage. Judging from the title, it is just an ordinary flower selection.
"This post is not right." The male writer said, "I have noticed the time, it is summer vacation, logically speaking, the time for the general department flower selection has already passed by now."
With the lustful nature of male students, can the selection of a department flower be delayed for a whole school year? One semester at most
The male writer clicked in and took a look. Sure enough, the content in the post was not about the selection of tie flowers at all. In the first few paragraphs, I was still seriously commenting on some beauties in the department, but then changed the subject and mentioned a female student.
"...The above female students each have their own characteristics, and it is difficult to tell the winner. In contrast, the former flower who passed away suddenly a few days ago deserves her name... The host is a classmate of the former flower. She I usually treat people with enthusiasm, and it doesn’t look like she has a weak mental ability. She jumped to her death suddenly before. Although it was said that she was under pressure from the postgraduate entrance examination, I don’t think it looks like... Do you still remember the top ten horrors in our school? Is it a rumor? There is an incident of Xihua jumping off a building, the host always feels that his heart is creepy, maybe it is the ghost of that Xihua... "
The male writer read out the key sentences. After reading, everyone was silent for a while. After a while, the female student said: "I am a student of this school, and I belong to this department. In the chat records of my mobile phone, they all call me class flower, and some people call me department flower."
If you have to say it, you can also say that the female student was jokingly called a department flower by her classmates after the previous department flower died. But with the lessons learned from other players, everyone always thinks that the previous Xihua who committed suicide by jumping off the building was the girl student.
"Do you think that if we die in this instance, in the eyes of the NPC, we will die as described above? But now, we just saw our own ending in advance."
No one can say for sure, but judging from the current situation, ten players probably have corresponding death stories. So in this way, the possibility is very high.
"But why does the dungeon let us know these stories in advance?" Someone asked.
This is not known.
Ye Xu thought for a while and said, "Then remember the five locked rooms on each floor? I think those rooms may be the rooms where the deceased lived in the story. We are so similar to the deceased, have you ever thought A story with a similar purpose?"
"what story?"
"The story of twins." Ye Xuyan briefly introduced, "I read a ghost story before, it said that there is a kind of ghost that will turn into exactly the same appearance as you and approach you and become your good friend. Then it slowly Slowly intervene in your life, and get closer and closer to your relatives and friends."
"Gradually everyone will start to ignore you, or even start to be unaware of your existence. Then, people around you will start to be unable to distinguish you from it, and even gradually mistake it for you. Wait until it completely replaces your At that time, she will take over your identity and become a human, and you will become a ghost."
"If you want to turn back into a human, you have to repeat its old ways. Find the next unlucky ghost to replace that person. We are so similar to the people in the story, it may not be that the so-called castle owner has the same person to kill It's a hobby, but ten ghosts in the old castle looking for a scapegoat."
This castle may have long since lost its owner. It is dominated by only ten ghosts, and the ghosts use various names to attract people with the same characteristics, and then kill them and replace them.
The female student was horrified when she heard this: "Isn't this similar to how a water ghost drags a person into the water to kill him before he can be reincarnated?"
"Yeah, it's pretty much the same." The male writer frowned slightly, "I've heard this story before, but I didn't think of it before. Hearing what you said, I think it's very possible. It doesn't matter whether the ghost wants to replace us or kill us. It is not a good thing for us to act as a dead ghost so that we can reincarnate ourselves."
However, this also reminds everyone. It is very likely that each person has only one corresponding ghost to deal with, and the other ghosts are too lazy to deal with the person who is not their counterpart. And once someone dies, the number of active ghosts will decrease accordingly.
This guess is relatively reliable, with a probability of about 80%.
There was nothing else to be found in the maid's room, so everyone moved to the next room. Before dark, they rummaged through all the rooms on the first floor, and really got ten stories together.
Now, no one can say who is dangerous, even if there is really a ghost among the players, everyone is equally suspicious. Everyone finished their dinner in silence, and made an appointment to check out the locked rooms on the second and third floors together during the day tomorrow and go in to have a look.
If there are things corresponding to each player and the deceased in these rooms, such as a painter’s stuff in one room, a writer’s stuff in another room, etc., then Ye Xu’s guess that the dead man lived in the room can be confirmed. Similarly, the inference about finding a scapegoat later is more reliable.
But the premise is that you can survive tonight. They only need to survive the third night here, but every night is probably thrilling.
After Ye Xu washed himself casually with cold water, he sat on the edge of the bed.
Tonight is definitely not peaceful, even if the awakened ones don't come to him, there will be screams from next door disturbing the people. Ye Xu felt that it was better not to be in a hurry to sleep. After confirming that the ghost would be sound-proof when it made a move, he would consider the issue of sleep. Otherwise, if you are woken up in the middle of the night, you will be really irritable.
Ye Xu simply turned on the Awakened System and started browsing the forum.
Recently, a kind of word game has become popular in the forum. The landlord who has nothing to do will post a description of the plot, and then give everyone a few options. According to the choice of the first responder, continue to develop the plot and provide options.
A group of people had such a great time, that even fewer people played games.
It is said that this type of post emerged after the last assembly task, because the last assembly task was to play multiple-choice questions. But since then, there has never been a copy of the selection type. Many Awakened who like this type of gameplay are really panicked, so they have to open a post to enjoy themselves.
Ye Xu looked through a few posts and found that they were all unfinished and to be continued. After following the trend to "update" the host, he took a look at the time and found that it was still enough for him to play games, and he was about to close the forum and play games.
At this moment, the lights suddenly went out.
Ye Xu: "..."
So does he turn on the flashlight, or does he not? If you see something scary, you will be frightened; if you don’t have a meeting to imagine scary things, you will still be frightened.
So he hates turning off lights the most. Do ghosts have a grudge against lights? Why do they like turning off lights so much
Before Ye Xu struggled to become ugly, he suddenly heard a rustling sound. It seemed that something had crawled out of the crack in the wall and was approaching him.
Ye Xu paused, took out the flashlight, and slapped it on the place where the sound came from.
Although he was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by the ghost crawling on the ground. The ghost was wearing exactly the same clothes as Ye Xu, and even looked exactly the same. In addition to his pale face and bloody forehead, he was just like a copy of Ye Xu.
Ye Xu suddenly groaned: "Do you want to be so dedicated? Why do you even borrow your face? I still want to use this face in the next game. How can I look at it directly when you play this one? Getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and seeing this face in the mirror, I’m sure to scare myself!”
Awakened person pretending to be a ghost: "..."
No, big brother, why are you looking in the mirror in the middle of the night? This is a horror escape game, isn't it scaring you to look in the mirror in the middle of the night
"Didn't you say you don't want to 'cannibalize'? Why did you come here and disturb my sleep?" Ye Xu complained a lot, the little heart that was frightened calmed down a lot, and finally he could communicate normally Nope, he looked at the ghost helplessly, "Let's discuss it, can you let me sleep well at night? There are so many players, it's not good to scare anyone, you have to catch me."
The ghost crawled up and roughly wiped the blood that flowed down and affected his vision with his sleeve. He sat down beside Ye Xu carelessly, and sighed faintly.
"Isn't there no way?" The Awakened patted the dust that had just crawled on the ground. "A ghost corresponds to a player. I want to attack other people, but I can't snatch other people's prey."
Ye Xumo took a moment and said, "Then you just don't do anything, just scare the other party. It's the kind of ghost that turns black. If you scare anyone who is alone without encountering a ghost, it's not considered stealing business, right? "
"What you said makes sense." The awakened person suddenly realized, patted Ye Xu's shoulder gratefully, and praised Ye Xu several times as if he was a good brother.
But because everyone is busy at the moment, this ghost can't catch the leak. So he simply stayed and chatted with Ye Xu, and waited for the others to leave before he went to scare him a second time.
So Ye Xu sat in a row with the ghosts, put a flashlight in the middle, and chatted. If others saw it, they might have a heart attack.
It was as if the living Ye Xu was chatting with the dead Ye Xu, the scene was extremely weird. Only someone with a big heart like Ye Xu would quickly ignore that face that was the same as his own, and still chat happily.