Chapter 69: The Game
"Bell—"
"Bell—"
"Bell—"
As soon as Duan Xu and Qin Nianbing stepped into the hotel, three bells rang in the store.
The seven of them turned their heads in unison and looked at Duan Xu and Qin Nianbing.
The appearance of these seven people made Qin Nianbing frightened.
They were all men, but their faces were haggard to the extreme, and the lower eyebrows, slightly open eyes, dull eyes, dry lips, and heavy dark circles all showed that the seven of them had not rested for a long time.
"Hey, hey, welcome, my guest."
A shrill female voice rang out in the store.
Who?
Duan Xu and Qin Nianbing followed the prestige, these seven men all kept their mouths shut, and none of them spoke at all!
Four of them were sitting around the square table, and three of them were standing aside, Qin Nianbing looked at the table, it turned out to be ...... A pair of mahjong?
"Welcome to the game, as long as you accumulate nine wins, you can get out of here safely."
"Your numbers are, eight, nine."
The moment the sharp and piercing female voice disappeared, two badges suddenly appeared out of thin air on Duan Xu and Qin Nianbing's left chest.
The number on Qin Nianbing's badge is eight, while Duan Xu is nine.
The two looked at the seven, and they had similar badges on their left chests, one through seven.
"Don't try to leave directly, things outside the inn don't have my patience."
Duan Xu raised his eyebrows, and the female voice ...... Seems to know what he's thinking.
But Duan Xu turned a deaf ear.
He walked around the room.
What does that voice mean that you can get out of here after winning nine times?
On the surface, there doesn't seem to be anything difficult about it, and even the unlucky person can win nine times slowly.
But after thinking about it for a while, Duan Xu discovered some weirdness in this rule.
Like what...... There are bound to be six people who win nine times first, that ...... What about the remaining three?
There's no way for them to play again......
And also...... What kind of existence is this woman who makes a sound?
Ghost?
Duan Xu has never seen a ghost who can communicate with people rationally in an undisguised state.
The ghost is a brutal, incalculable, incomprehensible existence, which is very different from the current female voice with a banter.
They don't have emotions other than malice just because humans are being toyed with and applauded.
And this voice is different, she is emotional.
Therefore, Duan Xu doesn't think she is a ghost, but the strange thing is that she dominates the rules of this inn.
Duan Xu came to the window, the window here was not closed, and the whimpering wind outside was biting at the rotten window lattice like a resentful spirit.
The occasional "squeak" sound is also like a hiss, which makes people feel chills in their hearts.
In addition to this set of tables and chairs, there are ...... in the room A pendulum clock hanging on the wall behind the crowd.
The clock was black, but the long hour and minute hands were a piercing red, like two sharp swords.
Other furniture and ornaments can be found everywhere and there is nothing special about it.
Duan Xu wrinkled his nose, he smelled ...... The wind leaking through the windows stenched of rotting corpses.
The night was unscrupulously dancing around with his teeth and claws, and at this moment, Duan Xu was sure of one thing.
That man...... can't directly kill him and Qin Nianbing.
It seems that he has to go through some means to end his life.
Is it this game?
Duan Xu looked at the table.
"Bell-bell-bell-bell-"
The bell rang four times in due course.
The faces of the seven men grew paler and paler, their faces contorted with pain, fine beads of sweat seeping from their foreheads, and it seemed that every bell that rang was a great torture for them.
"Game ...... Begin. ”
The sound of mahjong rubbing sounded in the hotel.
Duan Xu and Qin Nianbing glanced at each other, and as "she" said, they stood at the mahjong table and watched the game.
Qin Nianbing stared at the game with all his attention.
Duan Xu was a little distracted.
The key to breaking the game...... Is it really in this game?
He was a little skeptical.
Duan Xu looked at this room again, and coincidentally...... The doorway, the table, and the four people playing the game are all symmetrical.
And the furnishings and ornaments in this room are also symmetrical, which is exactly the same as outside the hotel.
Obviously this is not a normal world, here ...... It is a symmetrical world.
Where is the woman who made the voice hiding?
Maybe...... The anomaly in the world of symmetry, is she?
Just find her hiding place and escape from here?
It's not impossible...... Why else would she be hiding?
Only timid, cowardly, and weak beings will hide themselves.
That is, she can be hurt.
If she was a ghost, it would be impossible for her to use this kind of circumvention to deal with Duan Xu and Qin Nianbing.
Just as Duan continued to think, the game was just over.
Now sitting at the table are the number one, two, three, and four.
"I won! I won! Three's eyes were bloodshot and he raised the dice high.
"Congratulations, now you can decide who you want to punish and roll the dice."
The faces of No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 changed suddenly, and the three of them stared at the dice in No. 3's hand in a cold sweat, and kept swallowing saliva.
There was a strange hideous look on Three's face, he grinned nervously and stretched out his hand to Four: "He! ”
"Oh! Our No. 4 with the most wins was targeted, because of the designation of No. 3, No. 4 won less by one, and received a penalty. ”
"Three, throw it."
The female voice said with great pleasure, her voice echoing through the store, and I don't know where it came from.
Number Three threw it on the table, and the dice spun around a few times, and the number of points facing upwards was ...... Two.
Four's complexion has changed drastically! He can accept a win minus one, but the penalty represented by two points is ......
"Nope! I'm not going! Are you sick? Why is it targeting me? It's been two days, we've been fighting for two whole days! Why are you dragging me! Number Four yelled hysterically.
"Don't you want to go?" Three stared at Four with an eerie smile on his face.
At this time, a sharp and crazy female voice sounded again: "Two o'clock, the punishment of the fourth is ...... Leave the hotel and walk backwards on the road for five minutes. ”
Number Four trembled like chaff, this inn ...... At first there were twenty-two people, and now ...... There were only seven people left, plus two newcomers, for a total of nine.
The previous fifteen people all died in various punishments, and only a very few lucky ones survived......
And the penalty for throwing two points on the dice is the second highest mortality rate......
At this moment, the bell rang again:
"Bell-bell-bell-bell-bell-bell-"
Duan Xu looked back at the pendulum clock on the wall, although it had a minute and second hand, it was not a normal dial, but a ...... One to nine, nine numbers.
However, Duan Xu remembered very well that when he first came in, the numbers on this dial were one to seven, seven.
He and Qin Nianbing were added.