Absurd Deduction Game

One minute after seeing the residents in the deserted house, Yu Xing was hurriedly welcomed in.

The excitement of the welcome was almost too eager, like a wolf about to starve to death in the next second when he sees meat. The middle-aged man raised a false and charming smile and dragged the three people in at the door - he seemed to see Even if you don’t see it, it’s clear.

Zhao Yijiu used a cold face to release the cold aura that kept strangers away from him when the middle-aged man stretched out his hand to pull him. However, the middle-aged man seemed not to feel it at all.

 “Please come in, please come in!”

The child who dropped the basket did not go out either. He followed behind him and imitated: "Please come in, please come in!"

They were going to stay in the house for the night, so the three of them did not resist, so they entered the house along with Qing Qing leisurely floating behind, looking around.

 As soon as you enter the courtyard, you will see a small open space with a well in the center and a large tank filled with water beside it.

Further inside, there is a somewhat shabby wooden table - it cannot be compared with the Eight Immortals Table in the Yin Yang Corridor Room. It is completely a small wooden table made of wooden boards and nails. Even if one person is sitting on one side, it will be too crowded.

On both sides of the open space are rows of ancient houses, which seem to be indistinguishable from each other. With the number of gatekeepers, this desolate courtyard can actually accommodate a dozen people.

The middle-aged man was obviously what the old man called a woodcutter. He grinned his yellow teeth and rubbed his hands: "We don't meet a living person here for eight hundred years. It's so rare. Hey, hey, you heard it too. It’s just the legend from outside.”

"Yes, we are here to stay." The actor took the initiative to take over the conversation, smiled and patted the woodcutter's hand, "I encountered some things in the outside world, and I need to hide away."

"Understood!" The woodcutter waved his hand boldly, "The three eldest brothers look a little strange in their attire, but it doesn't matter. There are not many people who come to our place to hide from trouble. So - are you staying in the guest room, or... Are you staying here?"

There is nothing to hesitate about this choice. They are just renting it, maybe only for one day, so naturally they choose a guest room.

The woodcutter was not disappointed either. He led the three of them to the row of houses on the right and introduced them as he walked: "Don't be surprised that I let you in without asking anything. We are very hospitable here."

 “Very hospitable!” The child is still imitating human speech.

"Some people have come here to stay in the past, stayed for a day or two and then left. They all know that our house is magical and enemies cannot come in. Some of them don't look like good people. Xiao Song and Xiao Yun are still afraid of them..." After passing the well, the woodcutter stepped aside, fear flashing in his eyes.

“Brother Song is a scholar, he knows a lot!” the child said, “Sister Yun likes to be a dressmaker. There are even embroideries hanging on the walls in the house. It’s so beautiful!”

“Why haven’t I seen them two?” the actor asked.

“They are all in the house. They are relatively shy, hahaha, not like me who is crazy and like to be lively.” The woodcutter opened a door and showed it to the three of them.

The inside of this room is much more comfortable than the outside. It has a bed, table, chairs, and wardrobe, which is enough for at least one night's stay.

 But the bed is very small, so only one person can sleep.

"One person per room, you can choose an empty room, it's the same anyway." The woodcutter wiped his hand on the door frame on his clothes, "But you can only choose the east row, which is for guests."

"By the way, there may be things in the house left by previous guests. Please don't throw them away. For us... they are all memorials."

Yu Xing said "hmm" in his nose and looked up at the sky: "I think it's getting cloudy too fast. What time is it now?"

The woodcutter's expression suddenly froze for a moment: "...hour? I, I don't know, since we moved in, we don't need to remember the time anymore."

“I see, I didn’t think it through properly.” Yu Xing smiled politely, “By the way, I just heard from you that there are only four people in this house who have decided to live in this house forever, including this child?”

"Yes, some of those who stayed overnight had feelings for us and couldn't bear to leave us. They agreed to go out and write letters to us. Since I couldn't read, I gave them to Xiao Song to read, but they left one by one. He disappeared and there was no news again." The woodcutter shook his head and said, "Hey, let's not mention it. There is nothing worth remembering in this poor place."

 It was obvious that the woodcutter was a talkative person. As soon as they met him, his resentment was revealed. "Ahem, you choose a house." The woodcutter probably also realized that it was not very useful to talk to the new tenants about the previous tenants, so he coughed and let the three of them take care of themselves.

This courtyard adopts a meander-shaped structure. Except for the courtyard gate, the other three sides are houses, with four rooms on one side and twelve rooms in total.

There are only four rooms for people to stay. In fact, since the woodcutter can't see it, they just have one room each.

Each room corresponds to a room opposite. Presumably the guest room is on the east side, and the residences of the four permanent residents are on the west side. They are exactly one to one. In the eyes of the deducers, this is too foreshadowing.

 However, the layout of these rooms is exactly the same, and the selection time is too early. Which one corresponds to it can only depend on luck.

The actor was very gentlemanly: "You go first, it's the same wherever I live."

Yu Xing: "Oh, I won't be humble to you anyway."

He didn't choose, but after thinking about it, he chose the second room on the east side, and asked Zhao Yijiu to stay in the third room, while Yiqing went to the fourth room. With one of them and one ghost there, the actor had no chance to deal with the weaker Zhao among them. What can you do with just one drink?

The actor knew this well, chuckled with unknown meaning, and walked into the room.

The woodcutter saw that they had chosen a room and tapped his head: "Suddenly I remembered that you also know the evil nature of my yard. There are some things that you must remember, which only people who stay here should pay attention to."

“First, don’t go out after dark. Everything you hear is false. Don’t run out to see it out of curiosity.”

“Second, every day there is food on the table in the courtyard. You have to go and eat it. You can’t pretend you haven’t seen it.”

“Third, you must stay in your own room when it gets dark and cannot visit each other.”

“Fourth, you cannot go to other people’s rooms without their consent.”

At four o'clock in total, the woodcutter understood the instructions and let them rest by themselves. He went back to the house.

Yu Xing saw from the corner of his eye that the woodcutter entered the fourth door on the west side, which corresponded to Yi Qing's room.

I'm afraid the woodcutter still doesn't know that there is a ghost living in the fourth room on the east side.

The child hesitated for a while, as if he was about to run away, but the actor waved to the child, lowered his head very gently and said something to the child, and then took the child to his room.

Once the door of the room was closed, the voice of the speech could not be revealed at all.

The remaining two people and one ghost isolated him and gathered in Yu Xing's room.

 “Do you see anything?” Yu Xing asked Zhao Yijiu first.

Zhao Yijiu nodded: "The woodcutter is very malicious. He seems to want us to never leave."

Yiqing spread his hands and said, "Of course, after all, he is a dead person. He may be just trying to harm people."

Yu Xing looked at Yi Qing and asked, "Are you sure he is a ghost?"

"Of course." Yiqing fanned, still looking down on the other ghosts, "You don't even have to look at it. I smelled four ghosts as soon as I walked in. There is no one alive in the whole yard."