Infinite weird games

"Don't get too close." The scholar warned, but his feet stayed in place and did not follow the player.

According to the rules of Yanghua Town, as a town citizen, he had to avoid the mourners while they were carrying the deceased out of the town.

The only ones who can follow the paper man out of town and take a look are the players.

Four paper figures on donkeys carried the old man's body, bumping rhythmically up and down, like a boat on the sea, ups and downs along the street.

Most of the roads in Yanghua Town run east-west. The player's residence is located in the west of the town. The funeral procession left the residence and headed east.

Everyone followed the team from a distance, leaving behind them the sound of people and the smoke of fireworks. Looking back, they could only see the shadows of houses.

The figures of the townspeople were like ants in the soil, hidden in the larger shadow, and could not be seen.

The paper man was always ten feet away in front, with a few shadowy dots of white floating in the dark streets and alleys. The buildings on both sides faded away like ink paintings, leaving only the paper man's figure as bright as a will-o'-the-wisp.

Lin Chen walked between Qi Si and Tang Yu and asked in a low voice: "Brother Lin, Brother Tang, do we really have to follow them out of town? I always feel that if I am unfamiliar with the place, something bad will happen... "

Tang Yu held a lantern in one hand and pressed it on the hilt of the knife with the other, nonchalantly saying: "Wealth can be found in danger. It's a death and a funeral. It's obviously an important plot point. There are key clues, how could we miss it?

"And have you forgotten? The reason why we are still arguing with them in this town is because we can't find a way out of the town? If we can follow them out of the town, not to mention fundamentally solving the problem, at least we can help Luo Teacher, let’s move forward with the mission.”

After the players entered Yanghua Town, the road with the archway disappeared; the main mission of Luo Haihua and his wife was to find a way to leave Yanghua Town directly written on the system interface.

If you can really follow the paper man to find the exit of Yanghua Town, you will definitely make a lot of money.

"Will the game really let us leave so easily?" Lin Chen was not convinced, "Even if we do find a way out of the town, in order to prevent us from leaving, there must be death points popping up to stop us, right? "

"It's not a loss if you can't leave the town. It's daytime anyway." Qisi moved his left wrist holding the lantern, and the white paper lantern swayed back and forth on the head of the pole.

"The ghosts only move at night, and the townspeople have an agreement with the mountain god. Generally speaking, it is relatively safe during the day. Even if something happens, Tang Yu and I have ways to deal with the danger."

He raised his eyelids and glanced at Tang Yu: "I am on the newcomer list. As for Tang Yu, if I remember correctly, you are a core member of the Jiuzhou Guild. I believe that someone who can have a place in a big guild like Jiuzhou will be able to deal with The death point on the second day of the copy is more than enough.”

The copies of Weird Game are staged. Generally speaking, the first third of the time is relatively calm, mainly used to help players adapt to the environment and substitute into the background of the instance.

In the middle third of the time, there will be some death points with a mortality rate of about half. On the one hand, it will begin to take away the lives of players, bringing the number of players closer to the guaranteed number of deaths; on the other hand, it will also provide some more direct clues and Tips to help the remaining players crack the world view as quickly as possible.

In the last third of the time, players will die on a large scale. Players who encounter the death point have no room for change. Players who survive to the end may trigger the guaranteed death toll mechanism, or complete the main mission in a desperate situation and clear the dungeon. .

Therefore, some players who have requirements for MVP or TE clearance records will try their best to act aggressively in the early stages of the dungeon in order to collect enough effective clues - even if they cannot crack the world view, at least they must ensure that they know more than other players and have a better chance of surviving. to the end.

Tang Yu turned his head and looked at Qisi: "Have you heard of me? Or... know me?"

"I have watched your live broadcast." Qisi said, "I happened to catch a glimpse of the copy of "Misty Town". I remember that you formed a team with a young girl and persuaded her to join your guild. "

Jiuzhou adheres to the principles of mutually beneficial cooperation, openness and transparency, and has clear requirements for members' live broadcast frequency. The more core members are, the higher the live broadcast frequency will be. It is euphemistically called "accepting supervision."

Qisi directly retells what he saw from Liu Yuhan's soul blade from a different perspective and said with a smile: "When you introduced yourself at the beginning, you didn't mention your identity as a member of the Kyushu Guild. I thought there was something hidden, so I pretended to be so. do not know you.

"But now it seems that you are not very obsessed with hiding your behavior pattern."

Tang Yu relaxed and smiled bitterly: "Actually, there is nothing hidden, it's just that I committed something and was expelled from the guild. It's embarrassing to say it, so I didn't tell you."

Qisi raised his eyebrows: "Expelled? I remember that whether it is voluntary withdrawal or expulsion of members, the process is quite troublesome."

Tang Yu sighed and said: "Even if it's troublesome, you have to follow the rules. In the last dungeon, I accidentally injured a companion. The situation was very serious."

"It seems that Kyushu is really as strict in rules as rumored." Qisi chuckled, and his tone could not tell whether it was ridicule or admiration.

Tang Yu had no intention of following his words.

Lin Chen listened to the conversation between the two and gained a new understanding of Kyushu.

In the copy of "Frog Hospital", he saw too many players attacking and hurting each other, and always felt that unity and cooperation were a false proposition, and Kyushu used this as its slogan to be hypocritical and unrealistic.

But from Tang Yu's experience, Jiuzhou did set an example, and his words and deeds were consistent, even strict to the point of being inhumane. It's like a utopia built by a group of idealists, naive and beautiful.

In the background of the zero-sum game of the weird game, such an existence is too fragmented to be real.

Similarly, Tang Yu himself is also very fragmented.

From the perspective of clue analysis and decision-making, it can be seen that he is a rational and calm person, and he usually speaks in an orderly and unhurried manner.

But on the first day, he had a verbal conflict with the scholar with a common hatred, and even killed the old man who managed the residence with a knife; on the second day, he still didn't say a word to the scholar.

Is it hatred of evil? Not entirely, it seems like a deliberate disguise.

But which side is true? Which side is false?

After the players fell into the funeral procession, they unknowingly walked to the territory of the east of the town.

The crooked wooden buildings were lined up in front of us, dark and eerie. The dilapidated windows and doors moved without wind, and a strange "creaking" sound could be heard from afar.

The paper people moved silently, as if a gust of wind blew the paper pieces lightly and delicately. Their presence was quickly buried by the sound of the wooden buildings, as if they were just a foil to the scene, and the guests passing by.

"This is the mansion we lived in." Lin Chen was the first to find something wrong and whispered, "I have been sensitive to graphics since I was a child, so I won't remember it wrong. The appearance of these wooden buildings is exactly the same as the mansion we lived in.

"Look at the door in the middle, the pile of stones in the lower left corner, there are exactly three, two at the bottom and one at the top; the window on the right, the hole on it is just a big hole plus a small hole connected together, like a twisted gourd; and on the left..."

Lin Chen pointed out several similarities one after another. If it weren't for the paper people carrying After the coffin entered the door, he probably could say more, and his words were all to make the two believe that the row of wooden buildings in front of them was the mansion familiar to the players.

Qi Si didn't have such a good memory as Lin Chen, but with the soul contract skill, he could be sure that Lin Chen was not lying.

Tang Yu took a few steps forward and lowered his head to search on the ground.

He suddenly pointed to a bunch of white things in the bushes beside the door, and his expression was slightly stern: "I remember that thing. After the old man was resurrected last night, the bunch of keys in my hand turned into white stones, and I threw it in the corner... I didn't expect it to be here too."

He paused for a moment and said decisively: "We are back."

"Not quite right." Lin Chen shook his head, "I remember we have been walking straight east and have not changed direction. The mansion is located to the west. Even if the physiological structure of the human body will unconsciously deviate to one side when walking in a straight line, it is impossible to go back unknowingly.

"Besides, the townspeople are gone, and the shops are closed. It's still broad daylight, so there's no reason for them to close so early. And it's only been less than half an hour, so they can't move so fast."

Qis nodded slightly, saying, "What Lin Ya said makes sense, and I also think we are not back to where we were."

He looked at Lin Chen: "Lin Ya, if you have any speculation, you might as well say it first, maybe it will be inspiring."

Lin Chen swallowed his saliva and said hesitantly: "Brother Lin, Brother Tang, I didn't pay attention to it before, but now I remember it.

"There was a section of the road before, with two identical houses, and all the buildings I passed by afterwards felt familiar to me, as if they were deliberately trying to keep symmetry with the buildings on the other side.

"But those buildings are shops, and because they have closed their stalls, they don't look as similar as the mansion. Haha, it wasn't until I saw the mansion that I was sure that the previous sense of familiarity was not an illusion."

When talking about the areas he is good at, Lin Chen's confidence is obviously much stronger, and his words are well-founded.

"Mirror." Tang Yu blurted out.

He paused and continued, "I suspect that the 'mirror' is a key point in this dungeon. The east and west halves of Yanghua Town are mirror images of each other.

"I don't know if you have similar experiences. Anyway, when I first entered this dungeon, I saw a mirror with my image reflected in it. It only existed for a second and then disappeared. Now that I think about it, it should be a hint."

"I saw it too." Lin Chen responded, "I also saw a mirror flash in front of my eyes at the beginning of the dungeon..."

"Whether it is a mirror or not, we will know when we go upstairs." Qi Si interrupted the conversation between the two and said, "We left some paper and pen upstairs, didn't we?"

The paper man carrying the corpse passed through the lobby of the mansion and disappeared behind the wall opposite the door.

The players then discovered that there was a secret door at the bottom of the mansion, which was just right covered by shadows and could not be noticed without careful observation.

Tang Yu asked, "Then should we continue to go out of town with those paper men?"

"It doesn't affect it. "Qisi said, "We will split into two groups. You are stronger, so take Lin Ya with you, and I will act alone.

"You choose first, go upstairs or leave town?"

Tang Yu thought for a while and said, "Then Lin Ya and I will continue to follow the paper man. If we encounter danger on the way out of town, we can take care of each other."

Lin Chen naturally had no objection.

Qisi nodded slightly: "Okay, we will meet downstairs in the mansion and exchange clues."

Tang Yu and Lin Chen followed the paper man and entered the secret door of the mansion.

Qisi held a lantern in one hand and held the curse pendulum in the other hand, and stepped on the steps to the second floor of the mansion.

The rustling sound of the wooden board under pressure was exactly the same as the sound made by the players when they went downstairs in the morning, and the decayed smell in the air was equally familiar.

Everything seemed to indicate that the building they were in was the residence where the players had lived.

Qi Si stood in front of the door on the far left of the second floor.

A heavy iron lock hung on the wooden door, tightly tying the door leaf to the wall. It was expected that the old man had locked the players in like this last night.

Qi Si pulled out a thin wire from his bracelet, inserted it into the keyhole and turned it twice.

With a "click", the door opened.

On the two beds inside the door, there were two people covered with quilts, sleeping soundly and breathing evenly.

Qi Si held the curse pendulum tightly, pressed the footsteps and approached, and finally saw the faces of the two people clearly.

It was Luo Haihua and Luo Jianhua!

On the bedside table between the two beds, there was a pile of papers full of words, and the handwriting belonged to different people——

[Teacher Luo, I am Tang Yu, Lin Ya and I are still in the dungeon...]

[Last night, we held the lantern and did not dare to let it fall over. In the second half of the night, we realized something was wrong, but it was too late...]

[We are trapped in the old days and may never get out...]

…

On the other side, Lin Chen and Tang Yu followed the paper man, bypassed the towering pile of corpses behind the mansion, stepped on the soil where corpses were lying, and finally saw the shadow of the bamboo forest in the distance.

Countless bamboo poles of different heights were outlined in the mist, standing upright, like ink marks splashed on white paper and flowing down with gravity.

There was a damp and cold breath in the air, and the cold water droplets were attached to the players, soaking their clothes; the paper man and the paper donkey were also soaked wet and soft, shaking even more.

"Ah, uh..." The paper donkey suddenly cried out in a long and hoarse voice, which was eerie in the silence.

As if they were reminded of the place, the paper figures floated down from the donkey, grabbed the hands and feet of the corpse, and stood it up.

Two paper figures supported the arms of the corpse, and two paper figures lay on the ground, digging the soil with their hands.

Lin Chen had good eyesight and could see the outlines of the paper figures and the corpse.

At first, he thought that the paper figures thought it was convenient to hold the corpse vertically, and the paper figures who didn't want to dig the soil stood up after a while, took the corpse, and still held it vertically.

Has the pit been dug? How big a pit can be dug in such a short time?

Lin Chen watched intently, but saw the paper figures directly inserted the corpse vertically into the soil.

The ankles of the corpse sank into the pit, and two paper figures were responsible for supporting and fixing it, and two paper figures buried the soil in the pit.

After a while, the paper figures retreated, leaving the old man's body standing alone in the bamboo forest, stiff and straight.

It's like... a scarecrow. (End of this chapter)