When Yin Weiyu came out of the bathroom, she saw Jun Yao sitting on the chair in a daze, she called Jun Yao softly twice, but she didn't get a response, so she approached her and stretched out her hand and shook it in front of her eyes, "What are you in a daze?" ”

"Ah, Weiyu, you're out......" Jun Yao came back to her senses and smiled reluctantly, Weiyu saw that she was not right, and hurriedly pulled out another chair and sat down, "What are you thinking?" So fascinating. ”

Jun Yao was silent for a moment, and then said with a straight face, "Weiyu, is what Ai Yu said in the living room today all you heard?" ”

Yin Weiyu was stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully, and nodded, "Almost word for word, her memory is very good." What's wrong? Do you think there's something wrong? ”

"Xu Qingran's inference is the same as mine, this woman did lie, and I have been wondering where this contradiction is...... Did it go wrong with Lily's disappearance, or did it lie about the rules? Jun Yao recalled what the woman said over and over again, about the incident of Lily's disappearance, her narrative was indeed made from the position of a third party, she knew nothing about the whole incident, the time point was clear and clear, but the process of the incident was vague, and her way of remembering the strange points before the disappearance was also in line with common sense. So, the point of lying should be in this part of the rules.

"The woman tells you the most important rule here - don't go out after sunset......" Jun Yao read the rule again.

"To be precise, this is her warning to us. In fact, at the beginning she said that at the last moment of sunset, she must return to the house, otherwise she will be cursed by time. She then tells the story of the mayor's daughter thirty years ago, and then sternly warns us not to go out after sunset. Yin Weiyu recalled the scene when they went in to inquire again, and corrected Jun Yao's words, Jun Yao suddenly raised her head, as if she had found something, "Yes!" I see, herein lies the contradiction! ”

"What do you mean?"

"Having to go back to the house at the last minute before the sun goes down and not going out after sunset are two completely different concepts!" Jun Yao clapped her hands, "Do you remember what the mayor said when we first came to the town, when he told us about the incident?" He said that the children were sleepwalking in the middle of the night, so they followed the sleepwalking children and found them all gathered in the street park. Moreover, in the woman's recollection of the incident thirty years ago, the mayor was too anxious about his daughter's whereabouts, so she went out to look for it, and she said that the mayor didn't care about any rules, but she did not elaborate on the rules that the mayor had violated. Take 10,000 steps back, if you can't go out after sunset, then the sleepwalking children have violated this rule, they should have been cursed a long time ago, we have been tasked with finding the missing children and unraveling the truth of the strange incident, if the strange incident of the children's disappearance is due to the violation of the rules of time that led to the curse, then now, when I say these words, my mission progress should have changed. ”

Jun Yao clicked on her quest page after speaking, but the main quest did not change in the slightest, so she smiled, "Another word game......"

Yin Weiyu struggled to understand what Jun Yao said, "In other words, just enter the house before sunset and wait for the sun to set completely, right?" And the rule not to go out after sunset was added by the woman herself? What is her purpose in falsifying and tampering with the rules? ”

"I think maybe her purpose was to keep us from going out at midnight, and her behavior just proves that midnight must have important clues about the mission." Jun Yao grabbed the coat that was thrown aside, and walked out while putting the coat on his body, "We should go out tonight to see the situation, the first day may be the time when the clues are the clearest, because the mission put so many smoke bombs in front of us, just to confuse our audio-visual, so the first day must be the weakest day." The more we get to the back, the more clues we get, whether it is the key NPC or the quest boss, they will be restrained and do not choose to show up easily, and then we will not get any useful clues when we go out again. ”

When Jun Yao opened the door, she happened to see Xu Qingran who also opened the door on the other side, and the two of them were stunned when they saw each other, Xu Qingran was the first to laugh, took two steps forward, and closed the door with his backhand, "It seems that you think the same as me." ”

"It's a clever play on words, the woman's narrative makes use of the intersection of the past and the present, half-truths, truths and falsehoods, and then some of the more obvious loopholes to draw our attention and smoothly steer it in the wrong direction. It's too risky, if there is a deviation in the memory of what she said, or if you can't relate these things when you recall them afterwards, you will fall into the trap she designed. Jun Yao also smiled, she looked at Xu Qingran, and said seriously, "Let's go as usual with our plan tonight, the purpose of her use of words to create a trap is to prevent us from going out at midnight, then we have to do the opposite." ”

"Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, do you prefer to go to the tiger mountains? I like this style very much. Xu Qingran smiled, "Then let's prepare, don't go out too many people at night, it's best to go out with people with strong self-protection ability, so I want to ask you and Yin Weiyu's prop holdings." ”

Jun Yao was stunned for a moment, and was a little hesitant to say it, after all, she had heard about the situation of Dream Travelers maliciously snatching other people's props in the past few days, although Xu Qingran did not reveal such intentions, but Jun Yao always thought that Xu Qingran had something unusual on her body, which made people involuntarily jealous, so she didn't dare to answer so easily.

"Don't worry, I know what you're worried about, there have been a lot of malicious looting of items recently, and the guild has warned various organizations. You should have seen that I, Ai Yu, and Lin Mo belong to the same organization, and our organization is called 'Beidu', which is a relatively large organization under the Dream Traveler Guild, and we already have five members who have encountered the situation of prop snatching and creating malicious lore, so our organization is currently the main force in the investigation of these malicious incidents. Xu Qingran naturally understood Jun Yao's concerns, "I don't need you to say what kind of props you have, just to judge whether your life-saving ability is enough, after all, you have only completed the novice task, and there shouldn't be a lot of props in your hand, if it weren't for that kind of very strong props, it would be safer for you to stay in the hotel tonight." ”

"As for Yin Weiyu, after all, she is now on her second mission, and there should be at least ten props in her hand, so I want her to act with us tonight." Xu Qingran said his own arrangement, Jun Yao was a little less afraid and defensive of him because of his self-detonation identity and intentions, if it was because he wanted to investigate these malicious incidents, then the sense of danger he revealed intentionally or unintentionally at the beginning could make sense. After all, if there are people among them who are looking for such shortcuts, and they feel the sense of oppression from Xu Qingran, they will also restrain themselves a little and consider it before acting.

"Although I know Weiyu, I really don't know very well about her prop holding status, after all, props are things closely related to my life, and I don't know her very well, so I haven't asked these questions. But I think it's a good choice for Weiyu to go out with you tonight to see the situation, Lin Mo's physique is so special, and I don't know what will happen tonight, so I'll stay with her when you go out, if there is any situation, we can also take care of each other. Jun Yao doesn't have to say that he actually has a lot of props, and he can also go out with them to see the situation or something, Xu Qingran will do what she does, after all, the decisions he has made so far are all correct, and the task is progressing smoothly.

Moreover, what happened in the hotel this evening made Jun Yao haunted. Due to a series of events caused by the clock, and even they almost died inside, Lin Mo said that there were ethereal spirits in the hotel at that time, but then they left and the hotel became safe. However, in Jun Yao's cognition, the initial rest point arranged by the general system is safe, especially this kind of task with a huge plot, which needs to be supported by one link of reasoning, and the information has to be pieced together little by little to restore the truth. If the system really wants to do this, it just doesn't want to give them a way out, so in this case, there is no need to make a special main story, and it is more exciting to have a battle royale mode just like the previous novice mission.

The inn was supposed to be safe, but why would an ethereal spirit suddenly appear and kill all four of them was unreasonable. Whether it is the existence and appearance of ethereal spirits, or the strange events related to time, it is not logical.

Jun Yao felt that this Eternal Sleep Inn either had a relevant rule that could not be violated, or it was not a rest point prepared by the system for them at all, but a task point, so it would not be absolutely safe.

Therefore, she will stay in the inn tonight to see if anything strange will happen at the inn at midnight, which will help her determine whether the inn has rules or a quest point with clues.

"Then I will trouble you to protect Lin Mo, I will call Yin Weiyu and Ai Yu now, it is enough for the three of us to act tonight, it is ten o'clock, we will discuss the issues related to the action in the hall, and we can go out directly after calculating the time." I'll hand over the two newcomers to you, and the five of you will stay in the inn, and if something really happens that you can't deal with, you will do your best to run outside and make peace with us. Xu Qingran said and knocked on Ai Yu's door next to him, he called Ai Yu's name, and Ai Yu walked out of the room after about ten seconds, she didn't close the door, it seemed that she deliberately left the door for Jun Yao. Xu Qingran walked back and opened his room with the key, walked in and said a few words to Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao, and the two of them ran out, looking at Jun Yao and bowing obediently and shouting "Sister Shen". Jun Yao wiped the black line on her head again, turned around and opened her door, "Weiyu, you get dressed and come out, there are some things to discuss." ”

Yin Weiyu answered, and then there was a sound of rustling in the room, so Jun Yao closed the door again, "She's changing clothes, so ...... So I went in with them. ”

Ai Yu smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Jun Yao." ”

Jun Yao smiled and nodded in response, pushed the door and entered the room, Jiang Xian was guarding the kettle boiling on the stove, Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao were sitting on the sofa and carefully went to get the remote control board of the TV, and Lin Mo was sitting on the bed by the window, looking at the night outside. It seemed to notice Jun Yao's gaze at herself, Lin Mo turned her head to look at her, the moment she looked at her, Jun Yao only saw the emptiness and nothingness in her eyes, she was so shocked that she subconsciously raised her hand to cover her mouth, and the next second Lin Mo lowered his head, and when he raised it again, he had returned to his normal appearance.

"Jun Yao, I'm going to trouble you tonight." Lin Mo smiled softly, but this smile didn't feel any warmth. Jun Yao nodded stunnedly, waved her hand a little awkwardly and said, "It's not troublesome, it's not troublesome, everyone is teammates, and it is also appropriate to take care of each other, and besides, your ability is stronger than mine, in fact, I am more cared for by you." Jun Yao responded to Lin Mo politely, sat on the chair next to him, casually pulled the sticky notes placed on the table, took a pencil and circled the paper, but didn't want to say anything to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo was a little weird, Jun Yao came to this conclusion after seeing her series of actions just now, and Lin Mo seemed to have a lot of hostility towards herself—unprovoked hostility, deliberately hidden hostility. This made Jun Yao feel very uncomfortable and vigilant, so Jun Yao deliberately chose a place far away from Lin Mo and closer to the door, which could be regarded as leaving a way back for herself.

I don't know when, Jiang Xian sat next to her, she seemed to be looking at what she was writing very seriously, so Jun Yao drew a question mark next to Alice's father, stopped her pen and looked up at Jiang Xian. Jiang Xian gently hooked the corners of her mouth and pointed to Mayor James's name, "I think there is a big secret in the mayor, I don't know if you remember, when we asked about the five missing children at his house, he said that Alice went to play in the forest during the day and never came back." And Lily and Alex, who disappeared later, also wanted to go somewhere with an appointment and never came back. One child ran away from home and the other child who lives in the South Side never came back on the way to buy groceries......"

Lily's mother told the story of the town people breaking the rules thirty years ago, starting with the mayor's daughter who went to play in the forest and got lost and didn't come back before sunset. To sum up, if the mayor is telling us the truth, then the commonality of these disappearances has already emerged at a point. Jiang Xian pointed to the guidance map on the table, and Jun Yao looked at the location carefully, "Suppose that this kid runs away from home and walks from the North District to Jiexin Park, or a little further inside, then it is in the direction of the forest." Similarly, children who go out shopping in the South Side know that the South End is very close to this forest...... So, there's a secret in the forest about the disappearance of the children?"

"That's right, when we go out tomorrow to ask, we'll have to ask if there are any taboos in this forest or anything like that, and if the children have ever been to the forest. I think that's going to be a very important clue. Jiang Xian nodded, Jun Yao glanced at the clock in the room, the hour and minute hands were about to coincide, so she said, "If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have found out about this thing, it's almost twelve o'clock, and finally this strange thing is about to be lifted......"

Her eyes suddenly became blurry, Jun Yao felt as if her consciousness had been forcibly stripped away by something, Jiang Xian's expression became more and more serious, she reached out to grab something, but she could only pounce.

"Jun Yao...... Jun Yao......

The clock strikes twelve o'clock at midnight, and the world falls silent.

"Hee-hee-hee...... Let's play the game. ”