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Chapter 3 The Blood-Red Room (3)

"In order to better manage the town, the friendly earl selects an outstanding lady to be the countess every year. The ladies all hope that they are the lucky ones, and the earl has no choice but to pass some interesting little tricks. Game to choose the final winner.”

"The game is very simple, 'Hide and Seek'." Datou said with high spirits, "The count will be the ghost, and the person who is not caught in the end will become the new countess. If caught by the count, it will be regarded as a failure of the game and will be eliminated. Listen. understand?"

The woman in the red dress asked in a low voice: "What will happen if you are eliminated?"

Before Datou opened his mouth, the count smiled conspiratorially: "It won't be a big deal. If you are caught by a ghost, of course you will be eaten."

Several people looked at each other, shuddering, and could only hear keywords in their ears.

Will be eaten by ghosts!
Huo Ran: "What about game time? What if you don't even get caught?"

Datou said: "The game time is thirty minutes, and there is ten minutes of hiding time. As for the latter question..."

Mrs. Schreck, who had been silent until now, smiled sinisterly, and the groove on her face became clearer: "How come we haven't been caught? The count is very good at finding people."

The girl in the white skirt whispered to everyone: "I have tools that can prevent him from finding us. If you trust me, you can hide with me."

"Props?"

Huo Ran raised his eyebrows, and a rare expression of surprise appeared on Qingli's cold face.

Will there be props dropped here like in online games?
interesting.

The woman in the red dress calmly analyzed: "There are four of us now. Except for you, the three of us have already entered the dungeon and are more experienced. The ugly words are ahead, it is important to save your life. When disaster strikes, you will fly separately. Don't expect anyone to save you. "

Huo Ran nodded: "Of course."

"What are you whispering about?" Mrs. Schreck craned her neck with interest on her face, "Are you discussing where to hide?"

The count looked directly at them, licking his lips constantly, drool dripping on the ground, causing goosebumps in several people.

Can't help it.

So hungry.

Now I want to tear them all into pieces.

Bite their tender young bodies in the middle, then their internal organs...

Datou chuckled: "Are you ready? The relaxing and enjoyable hide-and-seek game is about to begin."

"The hiding time is ten minutes, the range of activity is the entire castle, timer -"

"start!"

……

……

Because the girl in the white skirt said before that she had props, the other three people all ran in the same direction with her.

The girl in the white skirt gasped and said while running upstairs: "Let's hide on the fourth floor. Even if we are discovered, we can survive for a while."

The woman in the red dress hummed: "My name is He Qingqing. Please tell me what your name is. It's convenient for you to call me."

White skirt: "My name is Tang Qian."

Another girl: "Just call me Bai Wei. What about you?"

Huo Ran said without thinking: "Zhang Jianguo."

Bai Wei: "?"

Tang Qian's mouth twitched, and even when she was running away, she looked back at Huo Ran: "Your name is Zhang Jianguo?"

Huo Ran nodded: "Is there anything I can't do?"

"It's nothing, it's pretty good." Bai Wei said.

Even if everyone gives you a fake name, you are too fake!
Huo Ran thinks this name is quite good.

Be patriotic and dedicated to building a beautiful China.

Zhang Jianguo, there are so many righteous names. It feels like he is full of courage and high-spirited in such a scary and evil place.

Huo Ran was very satisfied.

Zhang Jianguo, three ordinary characters, becomes more and more popular as he reads them.

……

……

The four of them ran to the fourth floor and opened a door.

The layout of the room was similar to the one Huo Ran stayed in. It also had a dressing table and a large wardrobe. There were several dolls leaning on the pillows on the bed.

Tang Qian urged: "Come in quickly."

He Qingqing asked in a low voice: "What prop are you talking about?"

Tang Qian closed the door vigilantly and carefully rolled up her sleeves, revealing the small transparent square screen on her wrist.

She just clicked lightly, and an enlarged transparent panel with encrypted text came out of the small screen. Huo Ran raised his eyebrows.

"This is?"

Tang Qian said nothing and clicked on it a few times.

Bai Wei explained to her: "This is common to all players who enter the game. Haven't you noticed yet? Look at your wrist."

Huo Ran really didn't pay attention and rolled up his sleeves to take a look.

Sure enough, a small screen flickered on her wrist, only as big as a little fingernail.

It's not physical, but something that seems to be embedded in the skin, like a chip.

Huo Ran clicked on it, and there was character information and several locked columns on the panel.

*Copy name:

009 Blood Red Room (no one has cleared it yet)

*Customs clearance conditions:
? ? ? (No clues found yet)

*Plot exploration degree:
0% (discovering clues to connect the plot will increase the degree of exploration)

*Character information:

Countess candidate: Zhang Jianguo (the count seems to notice you more)
*Backpack:

An ordinary knife (very sharp, seems to be able to cut many things. Wear rate 65/100)

Half a roll of very sticky tape (very sticky)
A dead flashlight (requires battery installation, currently unavailable)

*Awakening ability:

Not found yet
*Mall:

Not open yet

*Leaderboard:
Not open yet

Huo Ran saw the words Zhang Jianguo written clearly on the candidate, and thought that it was actually synchronized in real time.

Tang Qian took out a cloak from her backpack.

"Come closer quickly."

Bai Wei was surprised: "Isn't this the invisibility cloak? Is it a reward from the dungeon you went to?"

Tang Qian nodded: "I'm also lucky. I found this in my backpack after I left the last dungeon. Fortunately, I can still use it."

The four of them were covered with cloaks and squatted beside the bedside table, leaving only a pinhole-sized hole for easy viewing.

He Qingqing was still a little worried: "Is it true that I won't be discovered?"

Tang Qian comforted her: "Don't worry, words and smells cannot be transmitted outside through this invisibility cloak. There is no reason for him to find us again."

Huo Ran didn't think so.

She approached the hole, narrowed her eyes and stared at the doll on the bed, and said suddenly: "When you came in, was the doll facing the direction we are now?"

The three of them were shocked.

Bai Wei bit her lip and hesitated: "Yes, it should be!"

He Qingqing: "But why do I remember that the baby's face is always facing the door..."

Several people squatted in their cloaks, feeling dripping with cold sweat for a moment.

At this time, a message from Lolita came to my ears: "The ten minutes of hiding time is over, now it's time for ghosts to catch people."

Tang Qian suddenly screamed and stepped back, squeezing Bai Wei so hard that she almost sat on the ground.

Bai Wei: "What are you doing?"

Tang Qian covered her mouth and pointed in the direction of the doll on the bed: "She...I saw her eyes move!"

Huo Ran looked from the hole and saw that the doll in a gorgeous dress was still sitting on the pillow, its tortoiseshell eyes staring unblinkingly in their direction.

Huo Ran was about to speak when he suddenly felt wind blowing by his ears, and the hole in front of him became pitch black.

In the room, the windows are not open, where is the wind coming from?

A sarcastic and sharp voice came next to his ear, it was the earl.

Huo Ran stiffened.

The earl took two steps back, sticking out his long tongue, and bloody strands of meat could still be seen between his teeth.

He opened his mouth wide with a strange smile, revealing his dense teeth, and drool mixed with blood flowed out.

"Found you--"

(End of this chapter)