Infinite spooky game

Chapter 116 Double Happiness Town (Seventeen) Who is the guest?
Liu Bingding opened his eyes and found that he was wearing a bright red wedding dress and sitting in a closed room.

The wing room was decorated like a wedding room in ancient times, with large Chinese characters "囍" posted on the windows, and red curtains hanging down from the ceiling and the top of the bed, like blood dripping in clear water.

A line of white text refreshed on the system interface in the upper left corner of the sight:

[Side mission (must do): Take "Miss Xu" to escape from Xu's house]

"What's Miss Xu? It's not about elopement, right?" Liu Bingding lowered his head and checked himself from top to bottom.

After discovering that he was wearing a groom's suit instead of becoming a "bride" for no reason, he breathed a sigh of relief and took stock of the scene he was in.

"Looking at these furnishings, I must have arrived in Shuangxi Town hundreds of years ago, right? This place is called 'Xu's House'. What does it have to do with Mrs. Xu?"

Liu Bingding kept talking, muttering to himself to get rid of his inexplicable fear. At the same time, he stood up carefully and walked to the window step by step.

"Crack." Something fell out of his cuff, and he bent down to pick it up.

It was a thick folded piece of letter paper. It could be seen from the ink marks seeping through the back of the paper that there were a lot of densely written words on it.

Liu Bingding spread out the paper without thinking too much, and large sections of text were refreshed on the system interface like mosquitoes and flies, one after another, which made people dazzled.

And just when he was about to read the text message from the beginning, two people's voices came from outside the door:
"The lady has been put into the coffin according to the old lady's wishes. Then she will be fooled with that batch of goods..."

"Let's kill the little county magistrate first while the young lady is still awake, so as not to have a long sleepless night while he sends the message."

No matter how slow he is, Liu Bingding can still tell that someone is evil.

He couldn't figure out what the plot of this side mission was for a while. It was both a "young lady" and a "county magistrate". It looked very much like the third-rate costume drama he had participated in before.But this does not prevent him from finding ways to solve the imminent crisis.

At that moment, he moved a chair next to the bed and raised it above his head, walked closer to the door, and waited there with bated breath, waiting for the door to open and hit him on the head.

With a "squeak" sound, the wooden door was pushed open from the outside.

Liu Bingding's spirit was extremely tense, but the movements of his hands were unambiguous. He swung the chair in front of him three times smoothly, making three soft "puff-puff" sounds.

There was no solid porcelain feeling of wood and flesh colliding. Instead, it was as if a ball of paper had been hit. Most of the power was absorbed, and the person who exerted the force was pulled staggering by the inertia.

"he he he he he……"

Something coming in from the door let out a shrill, eerie laugh.

Liu Bingding finally stabilized his figure and looked intently. Where were the two shadows in front of him?They are clearly two paper figurines wearing paper clothes. Their limbs and heads are carved out of earthen paper, and red paint is used to smear blush and smiles on their pale cheeks.

——At first glance, it doesn’t feel festive, only ferocious.

Liu Bingding was startled and took a big step back. His leg hit the edge of the wooden bed. The pain made his whole body tremble and he almost fell down on the bed.

"he he he he he……"

The two paper figures seemed to be amused by him, and they laughed louder.

They waved their arms at the same frequency, drifted toward him with a grin, and blocked his way tightly.

From Liu Bingding's perspective, he could even see a touch of red on the pale fingertips of the paper man. The red grew and stretched as if it were substantial, as if it had grown into nails as sharp as swords, stabbing brightly. he.

If you are caught... you will die, right?
Liu Bingding's breathing almost stopped. He was so frightened that he could only rely on his survival instinct.

His whole body was shaking, and he reflexively put his hand into his pocket and fumbled around, grabbed a prop and threw it forward.

The prop rotated in the air, shooting out a light that was so dazzling that it blinded people...

……

Darkness, darkness that can engulf everything.

Li Yao lay flat in the darkness, her eyelids so heavy that they seemed to be stuck together with glue, and she couldn't open them.

Her consciousness was as chaotic as willow catkins, and it was difficult to condense into a complete understanding. She seemed to have fallen into a dark sleep, in which everything was meaningless. She had forgotten who she was, where she came from, and where she was going... …

"Wake up! Li Yao, wake up!" A voice called urgently in the ear, and the sound waves shook the entire dream.

Part of her consciousness solidified, and Li Yao remembered that in the copy of the weird game, she responded to the arrangement of "Qi Wen" and went back to Xi'er's house to explore with two teammates, accidentally triggering a side mission.

The last image in her memory was a strange smiling face that almost touched the tip of her nose, a paper figurine dressed as a servant...

Li Yao finally opened her eyes, but the darkness before her was still the same as in her dream, making her wonder whether she had gone blind or sunk into a place without light, waiting to rot.

Confused, she subconsciously stretched her arm, and her elbow hit the hard board, causing a dull pain in her elbow joint.

She was completely awake and reached out to touch around. From the top of her head to the bottom of her body, there were wooden boards, and she was suddenly sealed in a small space.

'Where is this?Have I been tricked?Am I... still alive? '

Countless terrifying associations grew in her heart, and Li Yao couldn't help but shudder.

A harsh suona sound suddenly sounded, and the sharp and long tone was like fingernails scratching glass.The distance of the sound is difficult to grasp. It seems to come from far away, and it also seems to be blowing right next to the ear.

very noisy……

Li Yao's head felt a little stinging, and she felt that the wooden board under her body was moving, swaying, and rising and falling, like a boat on the sea.

She seemed to be lifted up.

"Whose daughter is reckless and stupid, foolish and easy to have children."

"Whose family is in ruins and is a prodigal, but he is buying a bride with all his glory."

The loud and high-pitched singing voice babbled loudly, accompanied by the unpleasant suona accompaniment, which seemed to be a kind of musical instrument, playing a discordant song together.

"The coffin was carried as a red sedan chair, and the sky was full of white clouds."

"But I hope that the husband and wife will live and die together, and their souls will be buried in the same mound on the same day."

Xu Yao understood everything now, and she thought sadly: "I am in the coffin, they locked me in the coffin, and when the ceremony is completed, I will know nothing and remember nothing..."

Thinking of this, Li Yao felt that the blood all over her body had gone cold. She struggled wildly and hammered the coffin, making a "bang bang" sound.

"Help me! Let me out!" Xu Yao shouted loudly, her voice gradually turning into a crying tone, like the wail of a lonely ghost.

"Help me... let me out..."

The sound of the suona died down at some point, and a voice muffled through the thick coffin board: "Why should I save you? Can you do me any favors?"

The tone and timbre were very familiar. Li Yao was stunned and her eyes widened.

……

It was already noon in Double Happiness Town, and the pointer of the destiny pocket watch pointed to the Roman numeral 12.

Mrs. Xu stood in the middle of the empty avenue, looking at Qisi monk Qingbei, and said with a smile: "You have a total of four guests, how can there be any girls? If there are girls, they must be from our town. "

"Ah?" Du Xiaoyu was closest to Mrs. Xu and counted on his fingers blankly, "There are obviously five of us, me, Li Yao, Liu Bingding..."

"We remembered it wrong." Qisi interrupted Du Xiaoyu's words, but stared straight at Mrs. Xu, with a smile that had not yet penetrated her eyes. "We are indeed four people, all men, no women."

The smile on Mrs. Xu's face became even brighter, and her whole face wrinkled up. She looked extremely satisfied with Qisi's words.

Du Xiaoyu didn't know why, but he also knew that something had probably happened, so he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

Mrs. Xu slowly turned around and continued to lead the way, her swinging legs and short fat body like a top.

After walking in silence for a while, Shang Qingbei approached Qisi and asked in a low voice: "Is Li Yao a ghost?"

"I don't know, it's possible that she triggered some mechanism and was temporarily excluded from Double Happiness Town." Qisi said his judgment at the same volume, "I thought that after listening to Xu Wen's phone call at the beginning of the dungeon, 'This It is our consensus that there is more than one copy space."

He wasn't telling the truth.

Just like meeting a bear in the forest, you don't have to make sure you can run faster than the bear, as long as you run faster than your teammates.

In puzzle games with a guaranteed death toll mechanism, you also don’t need to make sure you know the overall information, you just need to make sure you know more than others.

Listening to Qi Siyun's calm tone, Shang Qingbei twitched his eyes and asked, "It's been confirmed that there is something wrong with the phone. Do you still believe Xu Wen's words?"

"She doesn't need to lie to us about those details, does she?" Qisi stepped forward on the bluestone floor and walked a few steps quickly, following Mrs. Xu three steps away. "The best lies are often mixed with some..." The truth, only in this way will it be more difficult to distinguish between true and false.”

"How do you determine which information is true and which is false?" Shang Qingbei questioned.

Qisi looked back at him and smiled: "I'm not sure. What I said are all my guesses. You can also have yours."

"..." When Shang Qingbei heard the familiar tone of coaxing a child, he knew that there would be no more conversation that day, so he could only purse his lips and say nothing.

Qisi got a moment of peace as he wished. He walked leisurely on the bluestone floor and followed Mrs. Xu towards Xi'er's house. What came to his mind was Li Yao's various performances since entering the dungeon.

The girl didn't talk much. Most of her words were related to supernatural knowledge and the background of the copy. It was easy to extract important information from it.

In the early morning, she once said worriedly:
'Before entering this dungeon, I dreamed that I died. The body was placed in a very dark and deep place, and I could still hear the sound of water. Now that I think about it, that should be the well...'

'I remember that in that dream, there were many corpses around me, and I seemed to see you...'

Could this be important information?
Qisi lowered his eyes and thought vaguely: It seems that he has to go to the bottom of the well; if nothing happens, he will soon have the opportunity to leave the team...

"We're here, you're tired today, go in and have a rest." Mrs. Xu stopped at the intersection and raised her hand to point ahead.

The alleyway with no human figures was clean and open, and a red house loomed at the end of the alley. Players and NPCs present knew that someone had just died inside, but no one showed any abnormality.

The door to the mansion was open, but none of the players went in.Just as Du Xiaoyu was about to cross the threshold, seeing Qi Si not moving, he also stepped back and stood next to Shang Qingbei.

Qisi looked at Mrs. Xu who was walking in the opposite direction, and his eyes fell on the soul-calling bell on her waist again, and he asked abruptly: "Sister-in-law Xu, didn't you say you lost the bell before? Why did you put it on again?" Already?"

Mrs. Xu stopped, turned her face sideways and said with a smile, "I found it on the chopping board. It turned out to be the old lady. I took it down while cooking."

"Why do you need to take it off? Isn't it good to keep it on all the time? What if I lose it if I wear it now and then?" Qisi's tone was sincere, as if he was giving the suggestion sincerely.

"You can take it off if you want." Mrs. Xu replied perfunctorily.

She frowned in displeasure, stopped looking at Qisi, and continued on her previous path, drifting away.

Seeing Mrs. Xu's back disappearing around the corner, Du Xiaoyu muttered: "There's nothing wrong with the soul-calling bell. If it's a good thing, I'd definitely want to wear it every day."

Shang Qingbei adjusted his glasses and analyzed: "At present, it seems that the soul-calling bell has the function of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits. Sister-in-law Xu is a ghost, so she cannot wear it for a long time. It is only when delivering meals, in order to prevent us from finding out that there is something wrong with the meals. Just wearing a cover up."

"Wrong." Qisi fiddled with his phone without raising his head. "So what if we know there's something wrong with the food? So what if we don't know? There's no way we won't eat anything in seven days."

Shang Qingbei opened his mouth to refute, but heard the young man continue: "The location is the key." Mrs. Xu wore the soul-calling bell twice, once when she came to Xi'er's house in the evening, and once when she went to the Xi'er Temple after the banquet, because She knew that there would be ghosts and ghosts in the land at that time."

"Isn't Mrs. Xu a ghost? How can ghosts be afraid of ghosts?" Du Xiaoyu asked without understanding.

Qisi raised his eyelids and said calmly: "Firstly, she may not think she is a ghost; secondly, she has a ghost in her heart. Do you still remember what she said to us on the road in the morning?"

Du Xiaoyu was stunned and quickly searched for the corresponding sentence in his mind.

'There were several sneaking incidents in our town. We went to the empress's temple to burn paper and pray for her blessing, and all the sneaks were suppressed in the well. '

Mrs. Xu's hoarse voice echoed in the bottom of his mind. Shang Qingbei frowned and said, "It makes sense that the Xi Temple is sneaky, but how come the Xi'er family is also sneaky?"

"There have been deaths in Xi'er's family, and they were killed directly or indirectly by Sister-in-law Xu." Qisi changed the phone to his left hand, raised his right hand and put it in front of his eyes. His fingertips were pale as usual and not dirty, "Remember the first time? Is that the blood stain we saw on the window sill? That should be a very clear clue."

"Xi'er is an orphan... Xi'er's family was killed by Sister-in-law Xu?" Du Xiaoyu made a guess. When he looked up, he saw Qisi looking at him with caring eyes.

"You might as well make a bolder guess. For example, is Xi'er really from the town?" Qisi asked a question, then continued talking to himself, "Sister-in-law Xu asked us to live here with Xi'er. Is it just because there is an empty house here?"

"Is there a possibility that this house itself is used for guests from outside the town, and Xi'er was also a guest?"

"Ring, ring, ring..." The call rang without warning, interrupting Qisi's words.

Qisi lowered his eyes and looked at the caller ID on his phone. The word "Xu Wen" was very clear.

He pressed the answer button and turned on the speakerphone.

　Now that you’ve finished your thesis, reward yourself by writing a chapter of a novel!
　　
　
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