The next few days were the same as before, the ghosts displayed their escape skills in various ways, and the players were dumbfounded.
"Is this really a human escape game?" Someone muttered in a daze.
I don't know, I thought it was a ghost escape game...
Thanks to these ghosts, Gu Mozhi's action of pulling out the beads was finally discovered by the players. Although they didn't see Gu Mozhi chewing ghost beads, they vaguely realized that Gu Mozhi was probably not a normal person, and he could benefit from ghosts.
So it didn't take long for the inexplicable title of "belly digging devil" to spread in private.
Gu Mozhi who overheard it by chance: "???"
He gave up the ghost of the sixth night to the little apprentice with a blank face, suppressing the ghost and letting Jian Linglong take out the ghost bead. Because of Jian Linglong's slow speed and unskilled business, their operation was naturally seen by the players clearly.
By the next day, the title of "belly digging devil" fell on Jian Linglong as expected. However, Jian Linglong didn't know about everyone's secret nicknames, so she just chewed on ghost beads and was silly. She didn't know that her teacher suddenly kindly gave her a delicious meal last night. .
The college girl looked helplessly at the little girl's silly appearance, and after thinking about it, she still didn't remind her. If you know too much, life will be no fun, it is better to be a happy little fool.
Today is the daytime of the last day, and this night will usher in the first seven soul-returning nights. As long as you get past it, you can pass the level and leave. Even the usually prudent Fenmao duo couldn't help being a little excited and looking forward to it.
Of course, there are some concerns.
For six whole days, they didn't find out anything useful, and they kept going over and over again. To be on the safe side, everyone unanimously decided to take out the pipe tobacco and wine jug that the deceased loved most during his lifetime, and put them in the mourning hall in advance.
Maybe the ghosts of the dead saw these things and let them go as soon as they were in a good mood
In addition, they turned the house upside down to see if there were any props to restrain ghosts. It's a pity that I didn't find anything. There are no NPC Taoist priests or monks in this town. It seems that I can only rely on myself.
seventh night.
As soon as it was dark, someone among the players suddenly spoke up and said a very strange sentence: "Are we all going to stay here? Why not just leave one night watchman, and everyone else go back to the house?"
"Are you crazy?" The others looked at him in surprise, "How dangerous the house is!"
He smiled suddenly: "That's not necessarily true. At most there are some little ghosts harassing us in the room, but what we have to face in the mourning hall is the big boss."
Now the other people's faces became weird, and they had to admit that what this person said made sense.
They dare to stay here now, but because of Gu Mozhi's presence. But what if Gu Mozhi can't deal with that boss? Even if it can be dealt with, the boss is so powerful, if he suddenly attacks others, Gu Mozhi may not be able to stop it in time.
In the past few days, they lost several players during the day. They accidentally said something they shouldn't say, and were stabbed to death and dragged away by the NPC after hearing it. Although this gave everyone a wake-up call, letting them know that they could not say anything related to the game or the system in front of the NPC, it also caused the remaining players to panic, fearing that they would become the next victim at any time.
And the cramped and cramped room actually gives people a more psychological sense of security than the mourning hall... The big deal is that several of them squeeze into one room, so they are more courageous, and after encountering ghosts, they are not so afraid.
To be honest, because of Gu Mozhi's fancy ghost fighting for six consecutive nights, these novice players have a little misunderstanding of the lethality of ghosts, and feel that they are easy to deal with.
Of course, the little ghosts in the novice dungeon are really not difficult to fight. Although it is impossible for a strong young man to crush them, if two of them fight together, it is more than enough to deal with one ghost. They can't beat ghosts to death, but as soon as ghosts find that they can't succeed, they will take the initiative to retreat, so the degree of danger is indeed not too high.
A group of people discussed noisyly for a long time, and they really felt that it would be safer to go back to the house to rest. Although there were still some people who were unwilling and kept making trouble when they proposed to choose the night watchman, it was obvious that nothing could be stopped.
Those who wanted to leave simply opened the door and went to the backyard without talking nonsense with others, and expressed their attitude with actions.
"Let's go, the system will definitely force them to come back after a while." The young man snorted.
Now there are only a few people left in the mourning hall. Originally there were only eighteen players, several of them died during the day, and the remaining twelve left halfway. At this moment, besides the four of Gu Mozhi, there are two players left in the room, one is the honest woman from before, and the other is the young man.
As for the six who left, I don't know whether they will sleep in two rooms or simply squeeze together.
Today's night watchman selection came earlier than before. Usually, appointments are made at 0 o'clock, but today it was a few minutes before nine o'clock, and the system asked. But as usual, no one spoke, and everyone present remained silent. So at exactly nine o'clock, the system announced the result.
[On the night of returning to the soul on the seventh day, everyone in the mourning hall will hold a vigil together by default. Players outside the mourning hall are asked to rest in a room.]
The young man laughed out loud almost instantly, the wishful thinking of that group of people seemed to be in vain. But it was too late to regret it now, the back door couldn't be opened, and they couldn't come back even if they wanted to.
Gu Mozhi ignored him, and he and Jian Linglong immediately turned to look at the back door. They smelled the aroma of food coming from the back door of that door. Moreover, this time the aroma is stronger than before.
If the food aroma they smelled in the past six days was delicious and cheap daily food, what they smelled this time is rare delicacies from mountains and seas. From this taste alone, one can tell that it should be a BOSS.
Jian Linglong couldn't hold back, and sighed in a low voice: "This time it must be very delicious!"
The corners of the mouths of the pink-haired couple sitting next to them twitched, they really were ghost eaters.
"The boss has gone to the backyard." Gu Mozhi said lightly, kindly reminding the two people not far from the back door.
The two got up immediately, rushed to the group of four in twos and threes, begging for protection with shy faces. Gu Mozhi glanced at them, because they didn't dislike him very much, and he didn't call him nicknames behind his back, so he acquiesced in allowing them to stay here.
Compared to the six people who went to the backyard, the two of them were considered the rare "good guys" among this group of players.
"Did you really go to the backyard?" The woman clicked her tongue, but she didn't say anything sympathetic to them. She just shook her head and sighed, "I told them not to make their own decisions."
In this kind of place, they don't have the extra ability to sympathize with others, and it's good that they can survive. Now the boss has gone to the backyard, but sooner or later he will return to the mourning hall. They don't know if they can survive.
It didn't rain tonight, but they still couldn't get out. Because when the system notified at nine o'clock, the door was slammed shut by the wind. Jian Linglong tried it, but found that she couldn't push it away either.
In other words, all of them can only stay in the mourning hall and confront the boss head-on.
Thinking of this place, the college girl suddenly had an idea: "If the opera ghost didn't take the umbrella away a few days ago, can we go out with her umbrella that night? We can't find anything during the day, maybe It’s because the clues are all at night, and we need to find something that can keep out the rain, and then go out to search in the dark.”
This idea makes sense, but it is too late to say these now. At this moment, the door has been closed, and there is no possibility for them to go out, so they can only regret it.
It's a pity that I didn't think of it before. If I thought of it earlier, I could give it a try. But after thinking about it, an umbrella alone might not be able to cover all the rain, and a little bit of rain would be fatal, so they should find a raincoat and wrap themselves tightly.
The girl here is still talking about the operation method, planning to reflect on her previous carelessness, so that she can learn from it in future dungeons. As a result, halfway through the speech, he was suddenly interrupted by a scream.
The screams came from the backyard. Everyone turned their heads immediately, but they could only see the closed door. It didn't take long before the sound of messy footsteps, girls crying, knocking on the door and all kinds of messy screams mixed together.
Some screams were made purely out of fear, which only made people feel irritated; but some screams were miserable, and it was estimated that the person who made the sound was in danger, which made people frightened for no reason.
"What, what should I do?" The young man's tongue was almost tied.
"Wait." Fenmao tried, but the back door really couldn't be opened, and they couldn't save them, so he had to walk back, "Come find us when the boss is done."
At this time, no one was sitting any longer. In order to dodge and escape, they all stood up one after another, staring at the back door warily. I don't know if the boss will break into the door, pass through the wall, or suddenly appear somewhere in the mourning hall.
Only Gu Mozhi stared at the coffin in the middle with interest, eager to see the fake corpse.
"Actually, there is a way to save people." Gu Mozhi stared at the coffin with a malicious look on his face.
The girl didn't like it, so she quickly thought about it, but before she could speak, she heard the honest woman ask stupidly: "What can I do?"
"Open the coffin and whip the corpse." Gu Mozhi said earnestly, "There is a high probability that the BOSS will go mad with anger, and then leave those people to trouble us. The only trouble is that the BOSS may be more difficult to deal with."
Everyone: "..." You better shut up.
This sounded like a bad idea, and no one except the Holy Mother would be willing to do it. Just because a woman is honest does not mean that she has the noble sentiment of self-sacrifice, so she chose to remain silent.
The college girl and Fenmao didn't speak at all. Of course, they knew how to choose between life and death options. Few people would make such a big sacrifice for the strangers who met a few times, especially those strangers who often resist them, and the relationship between them can even be said to be very bad.
They didn't open their mouths, so Gu Mozhi didn't move the coffin willfully. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, but subconsciously stood between Gu Mozhi and the coffin, lest he do something on the spur of the moment.
The movement in the backyard became smaller and smaller, and finally there was no sound at all. Just now, someone was slapping the door panel and shouting for help, but half of the shouting was silent, and the cold air settled in the candlelight, making people breathless.
Finally, the backyard was completely silent. Everyone opened their eyes vigilantly, and each assigned a direction to monitor.
Five minutes passed and nothing happened.
ten minutes passed...
"Boom." There was a slight movement in the middle of the mourning hall.
Gu Mozhi stared at the coffin with bright eyes for a moment: "The corpse is a fraud!"