Infinite spooky game

Chapter 100 Double Happiness Town ([-]) Happy Temple

"Ah, is this a distinguished guest from the county?"

A high-pitched voice followed the narrator and shouted from a low house to the right of the players:

"You guys came at the right time. Xi'er is getting married, and the town is about to make a big deal for her. I can guarantee that we can't handle all the important things from far and near here!"

With a "squeak" sound, the wooden door covered with red paper-cut was pushed open from the inside, revealing the dark hall. A little old lady about 1.5 meters tall walked out on tiptoes, pointing a finger at the leader Qisi. Pointing.

"My surname is Xu, old lady. Just call me 'Sister-in-law Xu' like the other kids in town!"

Sister-in-law Xu's wrinkled face was frighteningly white. She applied blush on her face. She was also wearing a festive red dress. Even her cloth shoes were red. A yellow-white foot wrap wrapped her inverted tapered legs. , always makes people suspect that she is not stable and will fall down if touched.

"I'll arrange a place for you!" She didn't look like a living person, but her voice was enthusiastic and filled with a hint of pride, "This battle was only held in 49 years! With us Compared with here, other places are just kids playing house——"

Zeiss understood somewhat.

One of the reasons why players as "Folklore Investigators" come here is probably to experience a traditional Chinese wedding.

What the players have to do is to collect clues through the investigation and complete the main mission.

"Sister-in-law Xu, hehe, do the girls in your town only get married once every 49 years?" Du Xiaoyu followed closely behind Qisi, now stretching his neck and leaning towards her, with eyebrows all over his face.

Mrs. Xu turned her back to the player, swung her two thin legs nimbly, and led the way. She said with a smile: "Every year, people get married, but this time is different. Xi'er has a good life, and we all The town people help her do it!”

"Is this good?" Qisi said with a half-smile, "If we hold one in 49, the whole town should do it together. I'm afraid it's not just a wedding."

These words were thorny, but Mrs. Xu was not annoyed, and her voice was still smiling: "To tell you the truth, we are not just celebrating a happy event this time, the main thing is to get together and pay homage to the God of Joy. It was passed down hundreds of years ago. It’s an old rule, every 49 years, a girl with good luck is chosen to have a grand show and make the Goddess of Joy happy.”

Qisi raised his eyebrows and asked: "Who is the Goddess of Joy? Sister-in-law Xu, please tell us. We are here to collect these stories."

The group of people walked slowly, led by Mrs. Xu, and arrived at a temple-like building in the center of the town.

The two-entry building is surrounded by a circle of small white houses clad in red. The newly painted vermilion doorposts support bright yellow eaves, and two red lanterns hang under the eaves, with the words " The word "囍".

Mrs. Xu stopped, raised her hand and pointed at the temple that was as red as blood. She turned to Qisi and said, "This is the Temple of Happiness. The Goddess of Happiness is sitting inside - do you want to go in and pay homage?"

The temple door was wide open, like a monster opening its bloody mouth, tempting people to enter.

Chiss glanced inside.

Both sides of the room were filled with red incense candles, their flames swaying; the shrine was placed in the deepest part, against the wall, and the red dress of the god could be vaguely seen under the curtain, but the face could not be seen.

From the angle where the players are standing, they can only see a pair of stone statues kneeling at the feet of the statue. They appear to be a man and a woman, both wearing bright red wedding clothes and making worship gestures.

Maybe it's the uncanny valley effect, but this picture gives people an indescribably weird feeling.

Qisi looked away, bumped the hiking bag on his back, looked at Mrs. Xu and said, "Our luggage is heavy and we are tired after walking all the way. Let's find a place to settle down first and then come and pay our respects."

He lowered his eyes and added: "Of course, if there is any particularity, you have to go in and pay homage when you pass by. We have no problem with that."

——At worst, if the situation is not right, just run away. If you can't run away, just use the fate pocket watch.

"No rush, no rush, you have to stay here for seven days, you have plenty of time!" Mrs. Xu smiled brightly, and white powder fell from her face like sheep dung, "The cleaned guest room is just ahead. , it’s not far, you guys have a good rest. I’ll tell you about the Goddess of Joy.”

The group set out again, and Mrs. Xu spoke in a soft voice: "The Goddess of Joy in our town is the most effective. The newlyweds should join hands to worship, and let the Queen see it. The two of us will be together for the rest of their lives." We will never be separated for a long time. Your Majesty loves hearing the laughter of the newlyweds the most, and hates those who betray your heart the most. If anyone changes her heart, I will not forgive him!"

"It is said that the Goddess of Joy was also a girl hundreds of years ago. Unfortunately, she fell in love with a heartless man. The man left her and never came back. The queen was so heartbroken that she threw herself into a well at the west end of the town and died. The predecessor made great ambitions to protect the newcomers..."

The chattering words stopped along with Mrs. Xu's footsteps. The little old lady pointed to a house in front of her and said, "It's inside. I'll take you. Don't walk around after you go in, or bump into the bride. "

The house was not big, only the size of an entrance. The tiles were broken and several pieces of the wall were missing. However, there were layers of bright red curtains hanging from the eaves; red cloth flowers and paper-cuts were piled up noisily. Decorate the dilapidated old house into a beautiful place.

Du Xiaoyu said "Yo", took a few steps forward, and asked with a smile: "Why, the bride is also in there?"

"Other families in the town can't make room, but Xi'er has a vacant room. In the past, all the guests who came here stayed at her place." Mrs. Xu explained, and at the same time she stepped forward and opened the door, "She will be there tomorrow." Once you get married, no one will live in this house."

"Is Miss Xi'er an orphan?" Qisi asked.

He followed Mrs. Xu through the door and saw a house as soon as he entered.The west side is covered with red silk and paper-cut window grilles, and the whole thing is red; while the east side only has a few "囍" characters sporadically pasted on it, which looks cleaner and more distinct.

"Yes, Xi'er has been suffering since she was a child. She has no father or mother, and has grown up eating the food of hundreds of families. But once you pass the exam, you won't have to suffer in the future." I don't know if it was because of the lack of light in the courtyard, but Mrs. Xu's voice was a little louder. It was very dark and dim, like the fog on the lake.

She pointed to the east wing and said, "You guys can stay here for the next few days. I will bring food to you later. Don't run to the west wing. It will be bad if you scare Xi'er."

All five players were already standing in the courtyard. Mrs. Xu turned her back and was about to leave from the door.

The moment she was about to cross the threshold, Li Yao suddenly said: "Sister-in-law Xu, I see that you have just done a white matter here. The red and white matters have been done before and after. The devil is not gone, and there will be disaster if people collide with ghosts." "

She waved the wad of paper money in her hand, which fell from the sky when the narration sounded.

Mrs. Xu squinted her eyes, and the wrinkles on her face were squeezed together: "What are you afraid of? Our town specializes in organizing this kind of wedding, and people from near and far beg us to do it for them. There is a way to celebrate and mourn, and it has been this way for hundreds of years. , and nothing happened.”

Li Yao said coldly: "It's a small amount of luck if nothing happens, but it's a big bad luck if something happens."

Mrs. Xu sneered "Haha" twice, and pointedly said: "Newly dead ghosts cannot become evil spirits. There is Yang Fire on the shoulders of living people. As long as this fire is not extinguished, it can burn the little ghosts to death!"

Li Yao added: "The kid blows out the lamp, you can't help but say whether it will be extinguished or not."

Mrs. Xu seemed to be annoyed. She rolled her eyelids up and down. She looked at the thin and tall girl a few more times, then turned and left without saying a word.

It wasn't until her back disappeared outside the door that Liu Bingding asked curiously: "Li Yao, what are you doing with that old woman? She sounds pretty powerful."

Li Yao shook her head slightly: "It's nothing. The supernatural theories here are different from those outside." The players were not in a hurry to enter the house, but stood in the yard and observed their surroundings.

Du Xiaoyu tiptoed to the central axis of the house, poked his head towards the colorfully lit west wing, and muttered: "Is there really anyone inside? I can't see anything."

Liu Bingding also stared at the lantern hanging from the eaves of the west wing.He looked at it for a while, with a bitter look on his face: "This town is too quiet. Although there are so many people, it is not lively at all. There is a bride in the house, but it doesn't look like someone is living there. I'm afraid it's a ghost. Town, everyone is a ghost..."

"Yes," Chiss agreed, "Maybe the bride is just a corpse, lying on the bed, rotting and smelly. If we wake up at night and touch a zombie wearing a red wedding dress next to us, that's not the case either impossible."

Few people can understand Qisi's sense of humor. Shang Qingbei's eyes twitched, he lowered his head and muttered "abandon" and "ability", indicating that he couldn't hear anything.

Liu Bingding pushed open the door of the wing first and walked in.Zeiss followed.

According to Mrs. Xu, this empty room has not been occupied for a long time.But the cleanliness is much better than expected. The furnishings such as beds and wooden tables do not look dilapidated, and there is not much dust accumulation. It does not irritate the player's face when opening the door.

The wing room may not look big, but the layout makes full use of every space.Perhaps it was specially modified for people to live in. With six beds placed in a row, it doesn't look crowded. It looks more like a common Datong bunkhouse in the last century.

Shang Qingbei analyzed: "Sister-in-law Xu said that all the guests came here to stay, so Xu Wen should also have stayed here. I wonder if there will be any clues left."

Qisi smiled approvingly and continued: "There are three situations. The first is that she is not a guest. Mrs. Xu's surname is Xu, and her surname is Xu. Maybe she is a resident of the town?"

"The second type is that she is related to Shuangxi Town, but she has not been back for a long time and does not have a house. The third type is that she has nothing to do with Shuangxi Town and is simply here to investigate folk customs."

"The latter two situations lead to the same result. She came to Xi'er to stay temporarily, and she is probably our previous resident."

This analysis covered all the situations, and the other four looked at Qiss with a little more conviction.

"Why do you say that Xu Wen is the previous guest before us?" Du Xiaoyu took the lead in digesting the information and asked if he didn't understand, "What if there are other guests who came between her and us? Didn't Mrs. Xu mean far and near? We have to come to them for all matters of public and private affairs, so there should be a lot of people coming."

Qisi answered patiently: "The boatman said that he only ferried a boatload of us this month, which means that no other guests came here in the previous month. And I believe that as Xu Wen's relatives and friends, we are waiting for her It was already too late to find her after she had been missing for more than a month."

Shang Qingbei questioned: "How can you be sure that the boatman is telling the truth? What if he is lying?"

Qisi raised his eyelids, glanced coolly at the high school student with thin arms and legs, and said: "That's not necessary. His motive for saying that to me was to show that he didn't know about Xu Wen's disappearance. If you want to To lie to us, he could have just said that he had never seen the female passenger, instead of choosing the lie that is easiest to expose."

He changed the topic: "Of course, it can also be assumed that all the NPCs have conspired to make confessions and deliberately passed on false information to us. Then this dungeon will no longer be able to be played. It depends on the character and waits for death. May you wish for yourself."

Liu Bingding looked confused and stern, nodded and said: "That's the truth! Let's look for it. Maybe Xu Wen left some key information in this room and specially led us to find her."

As he spoke, he went straight to the wooden table by the window, opened the drawer, and raised a puff of dust.

Chiss smiled and looked at him for a while, then suddenly stepped forward and put his hand into his pants pocket.

"Liu Bingding, it seems you know a lot." He said this at a volume that everyone could hear.

Liu Bingding was so frightened that he jumped to the other side of the wooden table.

However, Qisi had already taken out the contents of his trouser pocket, held it in his hand and waved it up.

That's a smartphone.

The expressions of the players all changed.Shang Qingbei blurted out: "How did you bring it in? I remember they didn't sell it in the mall..."

Weird Games has strict controls on smartphones.Maybe they are worried that players will be addicted to the Internet and dilute the sense of fear; maybe they are worried that players will download the txt file of the guide in advance and bring it into the copy for real-time search——

In short, in 36 years, no player has been able to bring electronic products such as mobile phones into the game.

Li Yao stared at Liu Bingding with a solemn expression.

Bringing her mobile phone into the game actually reminded her of the secret of the "weird invasion".Weirdness can penetrate into reality, and maybe reality can penetrate in reverse?
Could this be related to the prophecy about the "Gate" spread by the Listening to the Wind Guild not long ago?

Qisi estimated that the players' suspicions were almost fermented, and then he made a leisurely judgment: "He didn't bring it in, it should be the clue sent to us by this copy."

He pressed the power button, and the screen saver of his phone was a strange photo: a man in red clothes and a red mask was carrying a bright red wedding sedan, blowing and blowing; but white paper money was scattered in the air, and accumulated on the top of the sedan. layer.

Liu Bingding was completely confused at this time: "I didn't even know this thing existed. When did it appear in my pocket? If I had known, I would have taken it out long ago!"

"Morality!" Du Xiaoyu rolled his eyes at him in a strange way, "You put a mobile phone behind your butt, so you didn't feel uncomfortable and panicked along the way?"

"Believe me, I really didn't notice it! This is a team copy, I can't hide clues!"

No one believed him.Everyone looked at him with suspicion.

The existence of massacre players is no secret. This type of person loves to turn all copies into a zero-sum game problem, killing other players, reducing competitors and getting bonus points for "being the only survivor".

According to the statistics of the forum, there is one massacre player for every five people, and this copy has exactly five players...

"I really don't need it. I lived to be 30 without even passing a traffic light..." Liu Bingding couldn't argue, and sweat broke out on his forehead in anxiety.

Qisi pondered for two seconds, smiled pretending not to care, patted Liu Bingding on the shoulder, and said: "Forget it, there was no time to exchange clues along the way. Liu Bingding probably just didn't have time to take out his phone."

He said this sincerely, as if someone else had just found the mobile phone from Liu Bingding.

He paused for a moment and his expression became serious: "The team copy requires us to unite as one and work together to crack the world view. I don't want you to have any grudges next."

The players fell silent.

The seeds of doubt have been sown, but it's hard to break up; in a life-and-death game, no one wants to test the other's cards with their lives.

In the silence, Qisi raised the phone in his hand and said with a smile: "Let's see what clues there are in this phone first."

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