Infinite spooky game

Chapter 99 Double Happiness Town ([-]) Taking the Yin Road
"Let me tell you, our Shuangxi Town is a first-rate big town. If you look anywhere else, you will see it is in the corners of the poor countryside. You will never find a town as big as ours!"

The hoarse sound was like a brush rubbing against the bark of a tree, ringing happily around me, accompanied by the "swishing" sound of a wooden paddle hitting the water.

Qisi opened his eyes and found himself sitting on a raft. Standing in front of him was a skinny little old man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, holding a wooden oar and paddling.

The raft floated on the black-green river water, moving forward slowly and steadily.

"I'm telling you again, our Feng Shui is good every time. We rely on water to gather wealth, and the wealth will not be revealed. This river is a source of income, and it is allowed to come in but not come out. Once the wealth comes in, it will not leak out at all."

The river was extremely calm, as quiet as stagnant water. The ripples caused by the wooden paddles rippled for a while and then became as smooth as glass again.

The river is extremely deep, so deep that you can't see the bottom.There was a thin river sandwiched between the cliffs on both sides. No light came through, and the water was as dark as a cloudy night.

The old man holding the boat was quite talkative, and he kept talking all the way, boasting: "This river only has one boat, and ordinary people can't come, and they don't dare to come!"

Qisi listened for a while, and now he spoke in the same tone and joked: "Old man, that's what I said, but the river is too narrow. If two ships come in and out, they will get stuck. Are you staying?"

As he spoke, he lowered his gaze without any trace, and saw a name tag hanging around his neck, with the words "Folklore Investigator" written on it, which should be his identity in this copy.

The plastic card sleeve wrapped with the famous brand was thick and bulging, and it seemed like something was stuck in it.

The old man said: "Didn't I say that we are not allowed to enter or leave this river? If you want to go out, take the dry road."

"Is there something special about it?" Qisi casually lifted up the identity tag on his chest and glanced down.

There is a stack of photos on the back of the name tag. The top is a group photo of a girl in her early 20s holding the hand of a young man in a white shirt and smiling sweetly.

The girl on the left has long hair, a baby face as white as plaster on the wall, white lips, and eyebrows so light that they are almost invisible. Only her eyes are a thick black circle that cannot see the light, and she looks like she will be short-lived.

The young man on the right is Qisi himself. To be precise, it is the unknown thing holding Qisi's face. He is making an expression that Qisi is not familiar with, with a look of happiness that is dazzled by love. This aroused the righteous owner's spiritual obsessiveness.

Qisi lowered his eyes and kept talking: "We specialize in folk culture. Uncle, tell us anything you know. When the time comes to start the tourism industry, it will be easy to take these into consideration."

The old man snorted and said, "What's so important about it? We all have to go the same way and don't run into each other?"

What a simple and unpretentious answer...

Qisi was a little disappointed, and then he heard the old man lower his voice and say mysteriously: "If I really want to ask for an explanation, I can tell you one, two, three, four..."

His voice was gloomy and slurred, as if he had phlegm in his mouth: "Water belongs to yin, and the water path is the yin path. The yin path goes in and the yang path comes out. Humans and ghosts take different paths, and life and death are different paths..."

White mist curled up in front of me, and the wet vapor hit my face and rushed into my nose, giving me a sticky suffocating feeling.

Silver-white text appeared before his eyes, accompanied by an emotionless electronic sound.

[Copy Name: "Double Happiness Town"]

[Copy Type: Team Survival]

[Main mission: Find Xu Wen and take her away]

[Pre-tip: The living are not necessarily alive, and the dead are not necessarily dead]

Qisi now knew the name of the girl in the photo, which was Xu Wen.

"This is a team survival dungeon, it's great!" A thick voice sounded from behind, "The confrontation dungeon seven days ago was too bad. Fortunately, I'm good at pretending to be dead."

This person sounded like he was not very smart. After expressing his feelings, he continued: "My name is Liu Bingding. This, plus the novice pool, is my sixth dungeon. I am an actor, and I am ashamed to say that I am the right person." The backdrop is for corpses."

Someone raised his head and introduced himself one after another:
"My name is Du Xiaoyu, and this is my fourth dungeon. Hey, I just became an official player, but in reality I am a freelancer."

"Li Yao, the fifth time. I mainly write supernatural novels and know more about folklore."

"Shang Qingbei, the fourth copy...well, I am a senior in high school and will take the college entrance examination this year."

Qis pretended not to hear and continued talking to the old boatman: "Old man, to tell you the truth, I have a girlfriend who also does this business, but she disappeared after coming to your town. I don't know..."

"Never seen it, never seen it!" The old man waved his hand impatiently and interrupted, "Our town only allows outsiders to stay for seven days, and this month's nest can support a whole bunch of you."

He muttered and pointed at Sang Huai and said: "Look for someone, look for someone. If you lose someone, come to the nest to look for it. If you don't like your own people, you still come here to talk nonsense..."

Qisi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are there other people besides us looking for someone?"

The old man didn't say a word, but a dark hand put his hand on Qisi's shoulder: "Brother, let's get to know each other. What's your name? What do you do?"

This voice came from Du Xiaoyu.

Qisi turned around expressionlessly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw the lean and dark little man behind him with a surprised look on his face, pointing at him and saying: "I've seen you in the newspaper, you are the Qi...Qi... "

"Qi Wen." Qis said.

It was only published once in the newspaper. The photo was still very blurry, and now his face is even covered with makeup. I didn’t expect him to be recognized... I don’t know if it’s because he has an idea, or because the other person is gifted.

In short, the plan to install NPC was ruined.

"Yes! You are that Qi Wen!"

The little black monkey-like man is no more than [-] or [-] years old. He wears a black T-shirt with a skull printed on it and looks carefree. He is the most typical image of a homeless man.

After receiving Qisi's words, he winked and said "I understand you", and then said with a smile: "I'll call you Brother Qi! I cut out the report and posted it at home, and read it back and forth dozens of times. You are my Idol!"

Qisi recalled the report titled "A 22-year-old boy from our city held a county-level exhibition to win glory for his hometown" and his eyes twitched slightly.

He didn't believe a word of Du Xiaoyu's fan comments, but in full view of everyone, he still smiled and nodded: "Haha, I didn't expect that I'm so famous and can be recognized everywhere."

He directly copied Lu Li's lines and went on to say: "This is my ninth dungeon. I happen to have some guesses about the background of this dungeon."

As soon as the words "Ninth" came out, the players' eyes lit up, and four eyes were directed towards them.

Qisi's expression did not change and he spoke eloquently: "The main plot of this dungeon is to find people. A girl named Xu Wen disappeared in Shuangxi Town. We are all her relatives or friends. We have made an appointment to find her and take her with us. go home."

"Since this is a team copy, I hope everyone will share clues and don't hide any ideas. Pretending to be smart and making your own decisions may harm more than just yourself. Everyone is important, and I don't want the five of us to People are attrited because of stupidity.”

As Qisi spoke, he silently checked the names and faces of several players.

The burly man with sharp edges and corners is Liu Bingding, who calls himself an actor. His figure determines his powerful voice.He is about 30 years old. He wears blue long-sleeved trousers, his hair is parted in the middle, and his face is neatly groomed. Unfortunately, he is not good-looking, so no wonder he can only play the role of a corpse.The slender boy in the blue and white school uniform is naturally Shang Qingbei. He has an ordinary appearance and a pimple on his forehead can be faintly seen under his bangs.With a pseudonym that doesn't sound real at all and holding a thick English dictionary, it's obvious that he really wants to go to Qingbei.

Li Yao is the only woman among the five and is very easy to recognize.Wearing black tights, he looks about 25 or [-] years old, with short and neat hair.Because she was sitting down, she couldn't tell her exact height, but looking at her upper body, she should be quite tall.

The names of "Folklore Investigator" were hung around the necks of several people. Judging from the thickness of the plastic shell, there must be something clamped on the back.

Qisi raised the corners of his lips and said warmly: "I can tell you that I am Xu Wen's boyfriend. What about you?"

As soon as these words came out, the four people's faces looked unnatural.

Du Xiaoyu glanced wildly, obviously looking at the system interface, and said sarcastically: "Brother Qi, I didn't say my identity here, not even a narration. I don't know!"

Li Yao also shook her head: "Me too, the game didn't tell me anything."

The other two nodded, indicating that Li Yao was right.

This is normal. The identity and so on are just Chis's speculations. It's up to two people to say whether it is correct or not.

After all, the game system currently only has four lines of prompts about this copy.

Qisi looked around at everyone and smiled to himself: "It seems that this is the special treatment given to me by the game. It only told me my identity."

As he said this, his eyes were full of disappointment, and the subtext could not be more obvious.

Although they have a clear conscience, the players can't help but suspect that they are the sinners who hid key clues and are unworthy of Zeiss's trust.

As soon as it started, silence quickly spread among the players. In the silence, only the sound of wooden paddles could be heard.

Satisfied, Qisi turned back to the bow of the ship, turned his back to the four people behind him, and looked at the vast white mist ahead.

The dew is cold and the fog is heavy, and the distant scenery is blurred in the tiny gauze-like water drops. Only high and low gray shadows can be seen, and the vague outline outlines the appearance of the water town.

The old man standing at the bow of the boat had a stooped figure, but his thin arms exposed from under his raincoat were extremely powerful, and he slapped the wooden pole on the water again and again.

wow... wow...

With a uniform sound, the stretching stone walls on both sides stopped abruptly, and the eyes became vast, spreading out to a lake with no visible edges to the left and right.

Shang Qingbei muttered in a low voice: "When the river flows into the lake mouth, it will form a delta. The landform here is wrong."

Liu Bingding laughed: "This is a weird game. Abnormality is normal. Just treat this as a messy nightmare. If we talk about science, ghosts are even less scientific."

The fog dissipated at some point, and a quaint southern town appeared on the other side of the lake. The color scheme of white walls and black tiles looked like a picture made with ink on rice paper.

The shore is paved with blue stone slabs, and several women in floral clothes sit in a row on their knees, rolling their clothes with wooden sticks, and the white soap foam they break out floats along the current.

The raft approached a stone step, hit it with a "click", and was pushed away by the reaction force.The old man remained motionless on the bow of the boat. He skillfully used a pole to stabilize the raft and docked it firmly at the edge of the stone steps.

"We're here, get off!" the old man said, and then warned, "Remember, outsiders can only stay for seven days."

Zeiss asked, "What happens after seven days?"

"I don't know! No outsider has ever stayed in our town for seven days and still hasn't left." The old man muttered, "Seven more days, seven days is enough!"

This sounds strange. Li Yao murmured: "Seven is the child of the yang number in Taoism, the intersection of yin and yang. The first seven souls return to pay off the debt of gratitude and end the fate of the world."

When encountering an NPC who obviously knows a lot of information, the players will naturally not let him go.

Du Xiaoyu asked: "Old man, why can outsiders only stay for seven days? Also, what do you mean by the first seven days?"

The old man squinted his eyes and waved his hands twice as if to chase people away: "Why are you young people so embarrassed? Go and go, when we get to the town, everyone who needs to know will know."

The NPCs began to chase people away, and the players did not dare to neglect and stepped ashore one after another.

Qisi stood on the bluestone floor, turned his head and asked: "Old man, have we paid the boat fee? My memory is not good, I kind of forgot."

"I didn't pay," the old man replied.

He opened his toothless mouth and made a "ho ho" sound from the black hole: "You don't have any money that can be used here..."

His figure suddenly became transparent, and even the raft under his feet became as light as clouds of smoke, and disappeared in a few breaths.

Where were the lakes and cliffs in the direction we came from?There is clearly only a narrow inland river, with white walls and black tiles on one side of the river, and white walls and black tiles on the other side of the river.

Houses of different heights take the inland river as the central axis, with terraces extending to both sides. Players are already in the center of Shuangxi Town.

"The ghost beats the wall." Li Yao spit out three words, but no one answered.

The surrounding scene has become very different from what it was when viewed from a distance.

Bright red silk fabrics with flowers hanging down from the dark eaves, connecting the houses together, stretching to an invisible end.

Huge bright red characters "囍" are pasted on every wall, reflecting a thin red color on the white walls.

The women washing clothes that I saw earlier were still kneeling on the same spot, without raising their heads, as they concentrated and silently washed the clothes.It's just that the clothes in their hands are all dazzling red, which are clearly the wedding clothes of traditional Chinese wedding brides.

Something fell from the sky, white, like snow.

Qisi raised his hand to catch a few pieces. There was a hole in the paper ring. They were paper copper coins used in funeral ceremonies to send out impediments.

[Double happiness in life, one is wedding and the other is funeral]

On the system interface, white words refreshed.

The indistinguishable voices of men and women lengthened their pitch and chanted like a blessing:
[When you get married, you wear new clothes, welcome new people, enter a new house, and wear red makeup for ten miles]

[During the funeral, one wears pure clothes and sends the old person off to the graveyard, covered with ten miles of white gauze]

【Come naked, marry in glory, leave naked——】

The voice suddenly rose in pitch, mixed with sharp and terrifying laughter, and shouted:
[Happy, happy! 】

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