Volume 1 Wish Chapter 5 The Wooden Man
[Ladies and gentlemen, the first ghost hunt has ended. 】
[Remaining Dream Travelers: 8 people.] 】
[The second Goblin Hunt will take place 10 hours later, duration: 3 hours.] 】
[Remaining mission time: 2 days and 20 hours]
Jun Yao was woken up by the cold system sound.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Yi An standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, the dim light hitting her, giving her a layer of golden light, and in the dark shadows, there was loneliness growing wantonly.
Maybe it was the movement of his own waking up, Yi An turned his head and smiled, "Awake?" ”
Yi An's smile was like sunshine, and Jun Yao felt that what she had just seen was her own illusion.
How can a person as brilliant as light have such oppressive loneliness, like ice eroding bones.
Jun Yao nodded, and everyone opened their eyes because of Yi An's inquiry.
"So let's get down to business, shall we?" Yi An leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window, the glass behind her was blurry, and she didn't seem to be able to see the outside clearly, and she didn't seem to be able to see them inside, "On Jun Yao's map, there are a total of 5 safe houses marked, according to the rules, each safe house can only stay for 2 hours, and the next hunt is 3 hours, that is to say, we can't be completely safe when we stay in a safe house, after two hours, we either move to the next safe house, or we will fight with ghosts." ”
"Five safe houses, and if I'm guessing right, there are five ghost hunts, and the time may be longer and longer. And the system has already said that ghosts will increase and strengthen as the number of times increases, and if we use up the number of safehouses in advance, it will be extremely detrimental to survival. Besides, there must be a distance between the safe houses, right? Qi Ming said.
"Yes, take our current safe house and another safe house in the same direction, it takes ten minutes to walk, even if it is to run." Yi An nodded.
"I think it's safer for us to use only one safe house for a hunt. When we stay in the safe house, the walls around us will become transparent, which means that in the eyes of these ghosts, we are a gift wrapped in a glass box, although they are stopped, but once we can be attacked, they will definitely attack with all their might, and the most ruthless killing move is possible. In this case, it's far better for us to defend where we are, or to defend nearby, than to rush to the next safe house. Jun Yao put forward her own opinion.
"Jun Yao is right, but I think it would be better for us to choose the hidden mission to win. Many times we don't choose to hide the mission because we don't have a clue, but thanks to Jun Yao, we have already got a large part of the clues, if we can find all the clues, then we can complete the task and leave in less than three days here. Chiyo Dong poured a bunch of supplies on the coffee table, "These are all I just found in the kitchen, let's divide them, although it doesn't sound very comfortable, but if we get separated for some reason later, we can still save our lives if we take these materials by ourselves." ”
"Let's go now, shall we? We had ten hours to look for clues. Yin Weiyu had already put the supplies she needed into the backpack space, she got up, but she was suddenly stunned.
It's cold.
Obviously, there was air conditioning in the safe house, but Yin Weiyu felt very cold.
It was as if someone was exhaling cold air around her neck.
"Whew-"
There was a shallow breathing sound in my ears, cool and uncomfortable.
Weiyu was about to speak, but suddenly realized something.
The teammates in front of him, none of them were breathing, they didn't move, as if they were stopped, or were they dead?
"Qi Ming? Dong'er? Yi'an? Ling Feng? Li Hua? You guys...... Say a word! Are you still there? Jun Yao? Jun Yao? Weiyu felt the breath in her neck disappear, so she took a few steps forward and waved her hands back and forth in front of her teammates who were sitting motionless on the couch.
"We are all wooden people, we are not allowed to talk or laugh, and there is a ...... that is not allowed to move" is the voice of a child.
It's a boy.
He kept repeating these three sentences, and his voice became smaller and smaller over and over again, making people tremble.
When his voice fades away, he will die!
Yin Weiyu, who has already completed two missions, came to a conclusion.
No, she can't die! She didn't have a third chance to survive! Be sure to survive!
But—how can you escape?
Where the hell is this? Is it a different space? Or is it a fantasy?
What to do?
"Qi Ming? Qi Ming! Winter, winter? Jun Yao! Can you hear me? Please! ”
The little boy's voice was gone.
Weiyu heard the sound of someone walking barefoot on the floor.
One step, one step, one step.
"One, two, three, wooden man."
Jun Yao turned around at the last moment when she walked out of the safe house, and Chiyo Dong felt that her behavior was strange, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong Jun Yao?" ”
"I just heard someone calling me, and it looks like they're calling you." Jun Yao frowned, and then looked at the five people standing outside.
Wait a minute? Five people!
So Jun Yao looked back at the living room of the safe house again, there were eight water cups in total.
One less person.
Who is it? Who is missing?
Why...... Why can't I remember his name?
"We, have we forgotten someone?" Jun Yao asked.
"Who have you forgotten? We've always been seven people, huh? Chiyo Dong was a little puzzled by Jun Yao's question, and even thought it was funny.
"No, no, there were eight of us before." Jun Yao replied categorically, "You see there are still eight cups left on the coffee table, and we just rested here together." ”
Chiyo Dong and Jun Yao stood at the door of the safe house and didn't come out for a long time, which made Qi Ming a little worried, so he stepped forward, "What's wrong?" We'll have to look for clues to the Trevi House. ”
Jun Yao frowned when she saw Chiyo Dong, as if she believed her words, but she didn't seem to believe it. Chiyodong said that Qi Ming's memory is very good, so ask him if he remembers, right?
"Qi Ming, do you remember the name of each of the eight of us?" Jun Yao asked.
Qi Ming was stunned for a moment, a little puzzled, but he still opened his mouth and said, "I, Qi Ming." Then, Chiyo Dong, Shen Junyao, Ling Feng, Yi An, Li Hua, Chen Yao ......"
Qi Ming subconsciously pointed to the empty place, and he felt that there should be another person there.
There should have been another person there.
"Seven...... Jun Yao muttered, "Is there only seven?" ”
Chiyo Dong frowned and grabbed Jun Yao's hand, "Ghosts can blind their eyes, maybe it's possible that one more person will come out to scare us." We've always been seven people. ”
"No, it's not. Indeed, we started out as eight people. Qi Ming didn't listen to Chiyo Dong this time, he looked at Jun Yao, "It's indeed eight people, but I can't remember her name." ”
Jun Yao shook her head, "I can't remember her name either." ”
"You said there was an eighth person, but you couldn't say her name, isn't it ......" Chiyo Dong sighed helplessly, and before he finished speaking, Jun Yao suddenly clapped his hands and said, "I remembered!" I remember! It's a light rain! Yin Weiyu! ”
"Yin Weiyu?" Qi Ming repeated her name, and then smiled, "That's right, it's a light rain!" Yin Weiyu! ”
The little boy impatiently pushed down the two wooden men in front of him, "Tsk, I didn't expect there to be two wise men." "He was holding a wooden man in his left hand, and that appearance was Yin Weiyu!
"Looks like it's time for them to see you." The little boy smiled, "But that's fine, there are still people who remember, and it's not like dying alone." ”
"Boom-" There was the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground.
It's from the toilet! Shen Junyao and Qi Ming hurriedly rushed forward, and Chiyo Dong also remembered after hearing the name "Yin Weiyu", indeed they were eight people at the beginning.
What a ghost! It's a spirit ghost, by pulling others into another dimension, and then erasing the memories of people outside about that person, people in the other dimension will die if they violate a certain rule, but if they don't break it, then they can also survive at the end of the game.
However, how can you find out the rules of the different space in a short period of time and not violate them?
It's almost impossible.
Therefore, being pulled into another dimension by such a ghost is equivalent to death.
"Light rain ......" Jun Yao covered her mouth in shock, because lying on the floor of the toilet was a wooden man with a light rain appearance, and the wooden man's expression was very terrifying, always reminding them of how terrifying the things they saw when they turned into wooden people.
Qi Ming turned his head to look at the mirror in the toilet, there was only one glance, but he immediately realized that he had made a mistake.
Cold, very cold. Even the toilet is very yin, but it is still unusually cold.
"We are all wooden people, we are not allowed to talk or laugh, and we are not allowed to move......
Qi Ming saw Yin Weiyu fall to the ground with a bloodless face, while Jun Yao beside her was motionless, and Chiyo Dong at the door of the toilet did not react.
Alternate space.
Qi Ming knew that he had entered the same different space as Yin Weiyu.
Will you be able to survive?
"We are all wooden people, we are not allowed to talk or laugh, and we are not allowed to move......
"One, two, three......" The little boy's words were interrupted, and Qi Ming felt a burst of heat in his right wrist.
"Qi Ming?!" Jun Yao realized that something was wrong with Qi Ming, he stared at the mirror of the toilet and did not move, his body seemed to start to stiffen, it was too strange.
So Jun Yao also looked in the mirror.
She saw the world in the mirror, there was no toilet, there was no her, it was all wooden people.
A wooden man with a frightened face.
Qi Ming! She saw Qi Ming in the mirror world, which stood out in a pile of wooden figures.
He didn't appear in the mirror world, so Qi Ming was pulled into that mirror world!
"We are all wooden people, we are not allowed to talk or laugh, and we are not allowed to move......
Chiyo Dong saw that Qi Ming was motionless, a little anxious, and saw that both of them were looking at the mirror of the toilet, and were about to look over, but they were stopped by Jun Yao.
"Don't look!"
There must be something wrong with this mirror.
There are conditions for entering another space, which Yi An explained to her just now during the break.
I entered the strange space of the little girl in the study because of that weird oil painting. And Weiyu entered the different space because she said that she wanted to go to the toilet, and now Qi Ming also stared at the mirror motionless, and appeared in the mirror world.
Mirrors are the trigger.
"Do you hear that? The boy's singing. Jun Yao asked, Chiyo Dong didn't dare to look in the mirror because of her scolding, she listened carefully to the superfluous sounds in this quiet space, but she didn't hear anything.
What did Jun Yao hear?
Chiyo Dong felt that Jun Yao was really a very magical person, she could see oil paintings that she couldn't see, and she could also hear songs that she couldn't hear.
The little boy's singing voice disappeared, and Jun Yao saw Qi Ming in the mirror world slowly stretching out a hand behind his back.
"One, two, three......" The little boy smiled weirdly, and he whispered in Qi Ming's ear.
What to do? Yin Weiyu has become a wooden man, and there can be no more next! Jun Yao couldn't think of any other way but to grab Qi Ming's right wrist.
There was a fire in the mirror world.
The little boy raised his head in surprise and met Jun Yao in the real world.
"It's you-" The little boy trembled, Qi Ming felt his consciousness return, the bone-chilling cold was dispelled, and the next second he returned to the real world, and the mirror in front of him was burned by a raging fire, and the entire mirror world was shrouded in black smoke.
Qi Ming saw the little boy, who was wearing a primary school uniform and a small name tag pinned to his left chest.
John.
It's the little boy in Elsa's diary.
John shuddered and the flames seemed to envelop her, and John suddenly rushed towards the mirror, but failed to emerge from the mirror. His charred hand slapped the mirror hard, leaving black handprints on the mirror.
"You! It's you! How dare you show up! John was about to be consumed by the fire, and he looked at Qi Ming and Jun Yao with hatred, "You won't be happy!" You devil! ”
John disappeared into the fire, and the mirror returned to its original state, except for the dense and terrifying black handprints, this calm and normal environment would make people doubt their eyes.
[Dream Travelers Remaining: 7 people]
[Dream Traveler Qi Ming, Get the Hidden Clue: The Secret of the Wishing House 3]
[Dream Traveler Shen Junyao, kill the hidden character: John, and get the companion binding item]
[Ma Liangbi: (Companion Binding Props) Special props, things drawn on a flat plane can come true, if it is an item, the physical use time is three hours, if it is not an item, the use time is half an hour. Cooldown time 5 hours. 】
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Kill the hidden character John?
Oh my God, what did she do? She didn't do anything! Didn't you just scratch Qi Ming's wrist? Why is the mirror world on fire? Why did John die?
Chiyo Dong and Qi Ming didn't speak, just looked at Jun Yao quietly.
"I ...... I don't know. Jun Yao hurriedly waved her hand, "I saw you being pulled into the mirror world, I don't know how to save you, I'm in a hurry, so I'll grab your hand, I want to see if I can drag your consciousness back......"
Qi Ming still didn't speak, but Chiyo Dong suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Jun Yao's left hand, she was wearing a red jade bracelet on her left hand, this red jade was of excellent quality, without a trace of impurities, red like blood.
"This is the Blood Soul Jade." Chiyo Dong slowly let go of Jun Yao's hand, "Legend has it that when the divine consciousness of the gods falls into the world, it will be attached to this blood soul jade. Blood Soul Jade recognizes the master, and unless the previous master dies, it will not protect the new master. ”
"It turned out to be because of it." Qi Ming nodded, finally no longer doubting Jun Yao's identity.
But the person concerned, Shen Junyao, was stunned.
What Blood Soul Jade? What God? What confesses the Lord? What are they talking about?
She touched the Blood Soul Jade Bracelet in her hand, it was something that her mother had left to her before she died, it seemed to be an heirloom of her mother's family, and her mother had specially instructed her to carry it with her, because it would protect her.
It's just a piece of jade, and it's just a superstition to say it's protection. Could it be that if you encounter an accident, can the jade bracelet still appear out of thin air to block damage for yourself like in the anime game?
Of course it can't be, such a mysterious thing is less likely to happen than the end of the world.
Jun Yao used to think so, but the little girl Aisha before, and John just now, were injured when they approached her, if it was really as Chiyo Dong and Qi Ming said, perhaps, this jade bracelet could really protect her.
"Just now the system said that there are only 7 surviving dream travelers, that is to say, she ...... Weiyu" Qi Ming suddenly fell silent, he looked down at the wooden man on the ground with a frightened face, it was indeed Yin Weiyu, but she could never become a living person again.
She will remain in the world of dreams forever with this frightened and distorted expression.