absurd deduction game

The population of Song Mansion is not prosperous, and it is said that the family moved to Fengtou Town only more than ten years ago.

Gossips circulated among the people that Mr. Song had a falling out with several brothers in his hometown, so he left home with only his wife and daughter, and relied on his capital to build something from scratch in Fengtou Town and became a wealthy local businessman.

In the past ten years, Mr. Song married two concubines but had no children, so Song Xue's role was the only eldest lady in the Song family.

The relationship in this mansion was simple and clear, and there was no need for a deducer to calculate a bad debt at the back house. Yu Xing was able to find out everything about the situation in the Song mansion in a short period of time.

Using the darkness as cover, he quietly climbed up the courtyard wall, followed the height to the roof of the corridor, lowered his body, and looked down at the entire courtyard from a height.

The size of the Song Mansion can only be considered medium in Fengtou Town, not as good as the Zhao Mansion. The layout is quite simple. You can almost recognize at a glance which is the room of Master Song and Mrs. Song, which is the courtyard of the lady, and which is the guest room. .

After he left the beggar in the alley, he entered the Song Mansion directly. He arrived quickly enough, and at this time he could still see several little girls wearing simple maid clothes lighting up the lamps in the courtyard one by one with fire sticks.

Yu Xing's eyes glowed with a faint blue light, and he could clearly see the expressions of the little girls.

There was a kind of numb indifference on their faces, as if they were used to the weirdness in the dark night, or... in their cognition, they didn't think this was strange.

But it was obvious that they were well aware of the danger at this moment. After quickly lighting up the lights, they trotted back to their respective rooms.

Then the door was closed and the window was closed. From Yu Xing's point of view, the room was completely dark.

If I hadn't seen someone moving just now, I'm afraid anyone who comes here would think that everyone in the Song family went to bed early.

Yu Xing was thoughtful, then moved out and landed gently under the corridor.

This was not a good time to investigate the entire Song Mansion, and he did not have the ability to find out all the secrets that were likely to be in each room under such circumstances, so he looked in the right direction and went straight to the courtyard where the guest rooms were located.

In order not to be discovered, Yu Xing did not take the lighted path and kept moving close to the shadow of the courtyard wall.

All the lights in the mansion were on, but they couldn't suppress the rich darkness. On the contrary, the red lanterns under the eaves and the dim floor lamps on both sides of the path in the courtyard added an eerie feeling to the mansion.

After a while, he came to the courtyard called "Bafangxuan". The courtyard was quite exquisitely arranged. After entering through the moon gate, there were flowers and plants on both sides. As expected, there was a rockery in the center of the courtyard, which made it easy for everyone to relax. Two houses facing each other cannot open the door and see the other side.

There is also a row of evergreen bamboos at the end of the courtyard, and the bamboo leaves are rustling in the darkness.

Yu Xing remembered what the old beggar said, that he had to find a room first. He thought for a moment, tentatively summoned branch tentacles, and scattered them in several directions towards different rooms.

"You're here."

The next second, a cold body emerged from the shadows, and a voice fell behind him.

Yu Xing didn't need to look back to know that it was Zhao Yijiao. After the ability was unlocked, it would be very easy for them to sense the other party if they didn't intentionally hide.

Zhao Yijiu probably hid his aura for safety reasons, so he did not find the other party immediately after he came to the yard. However, Yu Xing took the initiative to release the branches, and the power of the curse trembled, and he was instantly captured by Zhao Yijiu.

Yu Xing turned around and saw Zhao Yijiu's current appearance.

The "Inugami" followed the local customs and changed out of the midriff-baring outfit that looked like it was easy to catch cold. He wore a black gown with good material and tied his hair into a ponytail. He looked neat and tidy.

However, there was still a string of incompatible animal bone chains hanging around the opponent's neck.

Yu Xing asked softly: "Do you know what happened to Song Mansion?"

"I don't know. No one revealed anything about what happened after dark during the day. Even Song Xue was caught off guard." Guijiu shrugged, "I don't know what will happen now, but I have a bad feeling."

Yu Xing thought to himself that the people staying in the Song Mansion probably didn't know the rules of entering the house at night and not lighting lights.

He said: "Go inside first."

Guijiu: "Huh? Aren't you going to take this opportunity to look around? I can also show you the way."

"Listen to me." Yu Xing didn't say much. Guijiu clicked his tongue, gave up the idea of ​​leading people to cause trouble, and led them to the room where he lived.

After a few steps, he suddenly paused: "Because it was getting dark too fast just now, which was abnormal. To facilitate the response, Zhao Ruru and I stayed in the same room."

"Oh... why are you telling me this? I won't wonder why the two of you are together." Yu Xing chuckled, "It would be strange if the Siren was alone in the same room with you."

"..." Guijiu seemed to have some curse words to say, but just when he was about to continue bickering, a vague sense of gaze suddenly arose.

They both fell silent.

They are no longer in an empty shell now, and their perception is very sensitive. Once this feeling occurs, it is definitely not an illusion.

Something is watching them!

Yu Xing witnessed with his own eyes that everyone in the Song family went into their rooms to hide, and there should be only two guests living in this Bafangxuan, the Inugami and the Saint.

Zhao Ruru's vision would not be so dark, so there are other things in the courtyard now...

His eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, the faint blue in his eyes disappeared, and the faint gloomy atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly came into view.

Wherever there are ghosts, there will be Yin Qi. He was not surprised by this. The next moment, he suddenly felt a trance in front of his eyes, as if he saw a rapidly enlarging ghost face!

The ghost face was pale and flat, like a thin piece of paper, and the eyes were like two hanging black crescents, forming a smiling face, exuding unspeakable filth.

The dark mouth of the ghost face opened and closed, and a high-pitched voice pierced his eardrums: "I saw you!"

The sight of that face flashed before his eyes for just a moment, but it actually gave Yu Xing a splitting headache and a muffled groan.

This kind of pain is not the same as a physical injury. It suddenly erupts from the depths of the soul, as if the brain is being wrapped and covered by the filth. There is an unbearable nausea.

He stopped, shook his head, and blinked again, and the grimaces and voices in his mind disappeared.

"Yu Xing?" Zhao Yijiu noticed something was wrong with him and reached out to hold his shoulders, with surprise in his eyes.

"Come into the room quickly!"

Yu Xing responded immediately.

What he saw just now must be the source of the line of sight staring at them somewhere in the courtyard.

That is not a good thing. If it is exposed to the sight of that thing for a long time, I am afraid there will be serious consequences——

The two quickened their pace and stopped again in front of the doorway of the room.

Because on both sides of the door of the room, two child-sized white paper figures were pasted at some point.

One of the smiling eyes was the one that appeared in Yu Xing's mind.

The other one has the exact opposite expression, making him look like he is crying.

The two paper figures, one on the left and one on the right, looked like door gods, both standing upright. They were obviously not doing anything, but they made Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu feel fear at the same time when they saw them.

There seemed to be auditory hallucinations in their ears.

"I see you!"

"I saw it too!"

"Hehe, are you lost?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...I'm lost..."

When he realized that his heart was getting hairy, Guijiu was instantly angry.

They are both "ghosts", and in his eyes there are only strong and weak ones. When have you ever experienced the emotion of "fear"?

These two things are nothing, just two pieces of tattered paper.

There was no way he was afraid of these two brats, so there was some kind of rule controlling his emotions that made his brain think "he was scared."

Zhao Yijiu stopped the killing and tore the two pieces of paper into pieces in the blink of an eye.

The fragments fell from the door and spread all over the floor. The feeling of gaze suddenly disappeared, and the inexplicable feeling of fear was also withdrawn from his mind.

Yu Xing was only a little slower than him. If Zhao Yijiao had not taken action, the power of his curse would have swallowed up the two paper figures until nothing was left!

But their intuition told them that the paper man was only temporarily "killed" and would appear again soon.

After the danger was temporarily relieved, the two quickly entered the door.

The room was dark.

As soon as he stepped through the threshold, a female voice said urgently: "Who!"

"It's us." Yu Xing thought that the old beggar didn't seem to have said that he couldn't make any noise at night, so he immediately spoke to comfort him, and then looked into the house.

Zhao Ruru sat next to the table, his face turned pale. There were several copper coins used for divination lying on the table, one of which was still stained with fresh blood. The candle used for lighting was placed on the table, and there was a broken one next to it. of matches.

It seemed that she wanted to light the candle, but she cleverly divined it in advance and got an extremely unlucky result, so she broke the match.

"What did you encounter outside?" When Zhao Ruru saw it was them, her tense back relaxed slightly. She let out a deep breath, "I was scared to death. Why didn't you just come back from the shadows? I I thought……"

"Originally I thought it would only be a few steps without me taking him into the shadow passage." Guijiu looked at Zhi Sha and found that Zhi Sha's blade was actually covered with a layer of paper as thin as a cicada's wings, and his face suddenly turned dark. Pulling the paper off, I felt more disgusted with the paper man outside, "I didn't expect to meet a kid."

Yu Xing saw that Zhao Ruru's expression was not right, so he locked the door of the room and asked, "What about you? Did something happen to you while you were in the room?"

Her lips trembled: "I heard two children running around the door, crying and laughing. They knocked on the door and called my sister to ask me to open the door for them."

"Then you came in, and the sounds outside disappeared."

There was a slight tremor in Zhao Ruru's voice. Logically speaking, she was not a timid girl and she was well-informed. How could she be frightened by two "ghost children" who had never even met?

Yu Xing took a deep breath, sat down at the table, and told her: "What you heard should be the voices of two paper figures. They didn't know when they were lying on the door, and they appeared without warning." He had just entered the yard. By the time, the two paper figures were probably not there yet.

It wasn't until Zhao Yijiu came out to look for him and they felt his gaze at a certain moment that the paper man appeared.

"Tsk, I hate them." Guijiu calmed down a bit, "They seem to have special abilities that can forcefully induce human beings' fear."

The three of them sat around the table in the room.

In the darkness, they purely relied on their enhanced visual senses to see each other's expressions clearly.

Yu Xing touched his heart where the heartbeat had not completely calmed down.

A little exciting.

It had been many years since he had experienced tension and fear caused purely by fear. Today he felt it suddenly, and he remembered that he was not the type to scream when he was scared, but only hold his breath. Freeze in place.

Even though he was out of control for only a moment, he still managed to capture the most critical information——

Only extremely high-level abilities can ignore their individual wishes and forcibly achieve the ability conditions.

He has experienced similar things, such as the memory twisted and cut off by the Qianjie statue in the Yin and Yang Corridor. For example, in Nanshui Town, [His] incarnation can ignore the home of the curse power in his body and leave a contract in his abdomen. Pattern print.

Both of these are the realm of evil gods. So, is there an evil god whose ability type is related to "fear"?

Since entering this deduction, this is the first time that Yu Xing has so clearly realized the influence of a certain evil god on the world. Sure enough, the stage world is a false small world in the copy, which misleads the deduction too much.

Now, as soon as we came to the real world, on the first night, clues related to the evil god appeared.

After all, they entered the deduction for the tickets that this deduction could provide. They did not need to find the truth of the deduction, but they had to get the tickets for the evil god.

After thinking about it, Yu Xing didn't tell Zhao Yijiao this clue now.

Night is obviously a manifestation of the power of the evil god. If you mention topics related to the evil god on this occasion, you may be directly noticed.

He could only pick up the important things first and say: "I just met a beggar outside Shuang Mansion——"

[Unknown Deducer, Cold Wine, Divination Master, and Doctor trigger the side mission: Song Mansion at Night. 】

Suddenly, the system prompt sounded.

[Master Song once came to Fengtou Town because he did not want to go with filth. He probably did not expect that in just ten years, he would become more terrifying than his previous brothers and sisters. But I heard that Mr. Song still has some guilt left in his heart, but there are some things that do not harm the evil people, but only harm those who have done bad things and are afraid of them! 】

[Please go back indoors immediately, stay awake before eight o'clock, don't fall asleep, and don't light the lights! They will try their best to get into the house. No matter what they see, don't open the door to them! 】

[This task is a regional task, shared by all deducers in Song Mansion. The current number of people in the area: 4]

[Night rules will be updated after eight o'clock. 】

Zhao Ruru breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that this kind of side mission was refreshed at night, which was simpler than she thought.

But the abnormal speed at night should be everywhere in the city, and it is not exclusive to Song Mansion. Judging from this rhythm, there should be missions appearing all over the city, right?

The three of them immediately got up and checked whether the doors and windows were locked, especially whether there were any holes in the panes.

Fortunately, the Song Mansion is a large family, and the houses are elegant and not as shabby as Yizhuang. There are no holes for ghosts to get in for the time being.

"When I came here, I saw other living people in the Song Mansion doing the same thing." Yu Xing suddenly understood, "Is it possible that every citizen in Fengtou Town is in the same situation as us at night?"

Is it true that every area in Fengtou Town will refresh similar rules and dangers at night, not just for gamers, but for all living people?

It's just that they are deducers and have system prompts, so their experiences at night are embodied into tasks.

Those people don't have a system in their minds, but they have lived in Fengtou Town for so many years and have clearly understood the rules of each area. They act according to the rules every night, survive as a matter of course, and pretend nothing happened the next morning. ?

For example, the maids in the Song Mansion and Mr. Song and his wife, whom he had not yet met, were just like them, huddled in their own rooms without turning on the lights or sleeping.

The more Yu Xing thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.

The existence of strange rules in the dark night is a normal event in the entire area of ​​Fengtou Town. The gamers are not targeted, they just come to join.

Only in this way can the strange reactions of the people in the city become reasonable.

"But..." Zhao Ruru frowned. She glanced at the scattered copper coins on the table with lingering fear, and then remembered the oppressive feeling brought to her by the child's voice outside the door. She asked uncertainly, "Can ordinary people bear it?" this one."

Something that all the extrapolators are afraid of.

Ordinary people would go crazy if they were lucky enough to survive for two or three days, right?

If the whole city came here every night, it would be impossible to show the population size and mental state they saw during the day.

"There is still a difference." Zhao Yijiu said something out of the blue, but did not continue. He only said, "Let's see first. Before eight o'clock, something will knock on our door."

The next thing to do is wait.

On the first night, it is best to be familiar with the rules and not to challenge loopholes in the rules and run out to cause trouble. After all, the players participating in this game are actually not afraid of anything except the instant death rule.

Even if they are restrained by "fear", they still have many means to save their lives.

If Yu Xing were not here, Guijiu felt that he would definitely run around and try out the intensity of punishment for breaking the rules.

Zhao Ruru agreed after hearing this.

She thought, just in time, if the next "attack" they received was within the range that normal people can tolerate, for example, if they can withstand it as long as they are strong-willed, then it is basically certain that the entire Fengtou Town will be like this.

If the intensity of the attack is obviously not bearable by normal people...

Boss Yu Xing's guess should not be wrong. She would probably think of the differences in the deducers themselves, and it was a certain trait in them that led to the fate of "being given extra care".

Waiting and waiting, they fell silent.

Ten minutes passed, and the sound of a slow old man walking outside the door was heard, accompanied by several coughs.

The "old man" walked from one end of the corridor to the other, then back again. He kept wandering in front of their door. His coughs became more and more frequent, and in the end he coughed so much that it was heartbreaking.

It is unimaginable that one day they will feel their heartbeats stop due to such small movements under the rule of "fear".

But the old man didn't even knock on the door. At a certain moment, there was suddenly no sound. It was as if he simply wanted to come and scare them for a while, then ran away after completing his purpose.

"Could it just stop moving and actually stand in front of our door?" Zhao Ruru whispered.

Yu Xing: "...Stop scaring yourself."

It is because humans have this kind of association, and because they want to confirm the authenticity of the association, that they do the stupid thing of opening a crack in the door and looking out, which gives the ghosts an opportunity.

Their door was quiet for a while after that.

There was no one talking in the darkness, and there was nothing to do, just waiting repeatedly, which really can make people sleepy.

Guijiu yawned.

Zhao Ruru reminded him, and he was also reminding himself: "Don't fall asleep."

"Then don't lie down and open your eyes." Guijiu was not polite to her at all and was very venomous.

Thirty minutes passed.

A very familiar female voice asked Zhao Ruru in a low voice: "What are you doing? Come out and chat with me?"

"Song Xue?" Zhao Ruru instinctively recognized the voice at first, and then was horrified - it wasn't Song Xue, it was a ghost!

"Who are you talking to?" Yu Xing asked from behind, "Don't fall into the trap."

It seemed that only she could hear the voice of the ghost pretending to be Song Xue. Zhao Ruru adjusted his breathing: "I know, I'm not stupid..."

Before she even finished speaking, she met Yu Xing's eyes with a raised eyebrow at the table.

Wait, Yu Xing's voice just came from behind her.

A chill went straight to Tianling Gai.

So Yu Xing’s voice just now was also fake!

"Aren't you a fool?" Zhen Yuxing looked at her and asked, "Who are you talking to?"

Zhao Ruru was a little nervous.

However, this time she was very sure that the person speaking was the real Yu Xing, because she could see in the dark and see Yu Xing move his mouth.

But what about ordinary people who can't see details clearly in the dark?

An incident like this would really scare ordinary people to death!

"It's too early for you to worry."

Behind him, Guijiu's mocking tone was so real: "How can you be sure that what you saw was not an illusion? What if I told you that you fell asleep three minutes ago and are now dreaming... What would you do?"

thump.

Zhao Ruru heard his heartbeat stop for a beat.

(End of this chapter)