Day of Imprisonment

"Mr. Luo, how did I do?" Fatty Qian's lips were trembling as he spoke, and it was obvious that he was in a state of excitement, the kind that was both scared and eager to show off.

"Not bad!" Luo Xi gave a serious evaluation.

Fatty Qian smiled.

To be honest, knocking on doors from house to house on the first floor just now was too exciting. At that time, he was completely determined to die, planning to take a gamble, with death as the worst outcome.

He didn't expect to survive.

Moreover, he achieved his goal.

He even felt a sense of exhilaration under the extreme stimulation and fear.

"Then on the second floor, should we continue knocking?" Fatty Qian looked expectant.

Luo Xi looked around at this time. At the same time, he and Fatty Qian both heard exclamations and screams suddenly coming from downstairs, as well as the terrifying laughter of the bird-faced old woman.

"Damn it, could it be that Brother Mao and Liang Qiu have been discovered?" Fatty Qian's expression changed.

Luo Xi listened for a while and shook his head: "No, it's other people."

At this moment, on the first floor.

Zhao Sen and others were experiencing an unimaginable horror.

They entered the scene a little later, so they didn't hear the time switch broadcast, but they were lucky at the beginning and didn't encounter the hide-and-seek ghost children, so they walked smoothly for a while.

Then, they were very 'lucky' to run into the bird-faced old woman who was furious because something had been stolen.

This time, the bird-faced old woman had a punching bag.

She came up and used scissors to peel off a piece of skin from a Memory Seeker.

The technique was so fast that the Memory Seeker didn't even react before feeling a coolness on his thigh.

Immediately following was a sharp pain.

An unimaginable sharp pain.

The pants on his thigh, including the skin, were peeled off in a large area.

And this was just the beginning of the massacre.

Zhao Sen and the others also reacted immediately and began to fight back.

What they used was naturally cards.

Some could bless the state of strength and speed, some could use weapons and props with special abilities, and there was even one who directly summoned a 'creature' into the arena.

It was a masked killer.

It required paying both [Gold Coins] and [Food] cards to summon.

As a result, this creature, on which they had placed high hopes, had its neck cut off by the bird-faced old woman almost immediately, and blood splattered.

At this moment, Zhao Sen and the others also realized that this bird-faced old woman was not someone they could deal with.

"Run, run!"

"This old woman is too terrifying, we can't fight her!"

"That way, the B area passage, go to the B area."

A beam of light shot out with a bang.

It was like a flash bulb suddenly turned on, dazzling and radiant. The bird-faced old woman screamed and immediately retreated to hide.

Taking advantage of the power released by this card, Zhao Sen and the others finally escaped to the B area passage in a disheveled manner.

Second floor.

Luo Xi guessed the general situation after hearing the receding footsteps and shouts just now.

"Fatty."

"Mr. Luo, I'm here!"

"As a precaution, go change your identity now." Luo Xi pointed to a large jar placed in a corner of the second floor: "There's a ghost hidden there. Go open the lid and say you found it, let it go find other people, and then find a place to hide. Wait until you hear the daytime broadcast before coming out."

"Okay." Fatty Qian didn't hesitate.

He might not listen to what others said, but he would definitely listen to what Luo Xi said, and he would never ask why.

So Fatty Qian walked over and opened the lid.

There really was a little ghost hidden inside, soaked and bloated.

A stench came over him.

Enduring the stench, Fatty Qian said: "Haha, haha, I found you. This time it's your turn to find other people."

"Great!" The little ghost looked very excited. Although you couldn't see the expression on his bloated face, you could hear it from his voice.

It was probably hiding in this water tank for a long time.

In fact, from the stench and some residual children's handprints on the water tank, you could tell that a little ghost was hidden here. As for why no one had found it before, it was obviously because this revised scene was open for the first time today.

The little ghost happily went to find someone.

It saw Luo Xi, but ignored him.

Because Luo Xi's current identity was 'Seeker', the same as it.

Fatty Qian changed his identity and hid again.

Luo Xi calculated the time.

"Among the Earth Yuan attribute scenes, the only one I've experienced before is Youzu Temple. This attribute scene seems to have a characteristic: it will fit some traditional religious cultures as the keynote of the scene. In addition, the ghosts here also seem to conform to some descriptions of ghosts and monsters in the 'Daozang'."

Luo Xi was also very curious about the knowledge he had mastered.

This knowledge was like a kind of memory, which could be recalled at any time.

But had he really read the 'Daozang' himself?

He couldn't remember.

Perhaps, he hadn't!

"Day and night are not based on actual time as the standard, so there must be some kind of basis. It's definitely not a random design. The Earth Yuan attribute scene doesn't have the Chaos attribute. According to my understanding, only the Chaos attribute would be a random design, with all possibilities. But Earth Yuan won't..."

"So, the time, day, and night must have a pattern. It may be divided according to the twelve hours. If you shorten the time and regard one minute as one hour, then the possible conversion time interval between day and night is twelve minutes; if according to the saying 'nine is the extreme', it cannot exceed nine, then it is nine minutes for one day and night rotation..."

Luo Xi thought of two possibilities at this moment.

And eight minutes had passed since the nightfall broadcast just now.

That's why he asked Fatty Qian to change his identity and hide first.

Of course, he had to hurry up and change his identity as well.

Playing hide-and-seek is essentially understanding the environment and observing details.

And before, letting Fatty Qian knock on the door, in addition to seeing if there were ghosts in every household, was also to determine whether there were any little ghosts hiding in the house.

Currently, it seemed that there shouldn't be.

Even if there were, it would be very few.

Luo Xi had actually locked on to several hiding spots. It could be said that there was a high possibility that little ghosts were hiding there.

The conversion between 'Seeker' and 'Hider' of course had to be done by finding the ghost children, especially near 'daytime'. If he found his own people to change identities, it was easy to kill the other person.

Walking to an old wardrobe placed in the corridor ahead, Luo Xi opened the cabinet door and took a look.

Inside were some old clothes, but obviously, no one was hiding.

But Luo Xi could smell a musty smell. In addition, he also found faint handprints on the cabinet door.

It was like some kind of specially set clue, implying that little ghosts were hiding here.

But there was no one in the cabinet. Below, there was a drawer.

More than two feet wide and one fist high.

Luo Xi pulled open the drawer. Inside was a twisted and squeezed body, like someone with some kind of bone shrinking skill, or someone whose limbs had been forcibly broken, stuffed into such a small drawer.

Most importantly, the person inside seemed to sense something at this time, and actually turned his head, revealing his face, and glanced at Luo Xi.

"I found you, it's your turn to find other people!"

Luo Xi seized the time to change his identity.

Time was about to exceed nine minutes.

There were still ten seconds left.

Luo Xi silently calculated the time. After ten seconds passed, exceeding nine minutes, he still didn't hear the daytime and nighttime conversion broadcast.

"Then, it's not nine minutes. In this case, there is a high probability that it is a twelve-minute rotation. Then twelve minutes of daytime, twelve minutes of nighttime, one white and one black is one day, seven days, a total of one hundred and sixty-eight minutes, which is less than three hours..."

At this time, Luo Xi found that the little ghost in the drawer didn't come out, just looked at him.

One person and one ghost looked at each other.

"Can't you come out? Because your limbs and spine are broken?" Luo Xi made a guess.

He could have left directly.

He had already changed his identity. Currently, he didn't have to worry about being killed by the rules during the white and night rotation because of his identity as a 'Seeker'.

However, Luo Xi didn't leave. He thought about it, and reached out and pulled the little ghost inside out.

This process was more frightening.

First of all, the little ghost's body was rotting very badly, and coupled with the fracture, the feeling of pulling it up was definitely quite terrifying, especially since the other party's drooping head was still staring at you.

His eyes were very fierce.

"In your situation, don't even talk about walking, you can't even crawl, how can you continue playing?" Luo Xi asked.

Unexpectedly, the little ghost actually responded.

"I don't want to play. They forced me to play, and they stuffed me in here." It turned out that the hatred in the little ghost's eyes was real, but not towards Luo Xi.

"Then I'll send you home. Where do you live?" Luo Xi said. If the little ghost wasn't lying, it was indeed quite pitiful.

Although Luo Xi didn't have any sympathy at all.

"Really? Then please take me to the small dining table on the third floor. We all live there." The little ghost's bones were broken, so his head was drooping, swaying to this side for a while, and then to that side for a while.

When it said 'we', Luo Xi understood that it was referring to those ghost children playing hide-and-seek.

"Okay, I'll send you back!"

Luo Xi didn't refuse. Triggering the plot in the scene was a necessary means in itself.

Of course, opportunities and dangers coexist at all times.

"But wait a moment."

Luo Xi calculated the time.

He also needed to verify the time rules of white and night conversion in this Haunted Building.

This was very important.

Waiting until just over twelve minutes had passed.

Sure enough, the bell rang again, followed by the broadcast.

"Please note that the night is over and daytime is beginning!"

"Please note that the night is over and daytime is beginning!"

"Please note that the night is over and daytime is beginning!"

It was the same three consecutive broadcasts.

Basically, anyone in any area of the entire Haunted Building could hear it.

Luo Xi knew that he had at least mastered the rules of white and night conversion here.

"Then you... uh..."

Luo Xi went to look at the little ghost again.

But found that the other party was gone.

Vanished into thin air?