Chapter 6: The Clown Mask
[Where is this?] Aren't you on the train? Is it in a dream again? 】
Jiang Liu, who was supposed to be asleep, was suddenly awakened by an indescribable fear. When I opened my eyes, I was surprised to find myself sitting at a black wooden round table.
The black round table is so big that a dozen people don't feel crowded when they sit at it. There were other people at the round table, but they all seemed to be asleep, and he was the first to be awake. I counted the number of people, and he was no more, no less, exactly 10 people. Everyone is wearing a black coat, they can't see their figure clearly, and they all have a black and white clown mask on their faces, the difference is that the clown expression on everyone's face is different, and if you look closely, they are jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, lust, gluttony, joy, fear, resentment, and the expressions that you can't see on your face.
[Dream? But I didn't feel like it was a dream at all! The thoughts are very clear, there is no vagueness in the dream at all, it can't be in a dream, where could it be? What's more, it was obviously dark all around, and there was no light in front of the table, so I could see everyone's appearance clearly! 】
Jiang Liu pinched his arm, found that he felt pain, and immediately determined that he was not in a dream. Then here's the problem! How did he get here, and in addition to the upper body being able to move, the lower body did not obey his own command at all, as if the lower half had disappeared.
"Huh?"
Just as Jiang Liu was thinking, someone at the round table had already begun to wake up. When they saw the strange scene in front of them, they let out a tone of surprise, and the man with the mask of the lustful clown yelled in a panic: "Who are you! Where is this? ”
The others who woke up also noticed the strangeness of their bodies one after another, and began to scream in horror. Except for one clown, who is supposed to represent laziness, he is very calm.
"Welcome to the killing game, we're going to play a game next"
Just as the others were panicked and at a loss, a cold voice that couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman came from the darkness around them, and this voice made Jiang Liu feel an extreme fear welling up from the bottom of his heart. Everyone was startled, and they all looked into the darkness beside them, and they scolded even more boldly: "Who the fuck is it, there is a kind of Lao Tzu coming out, don't fucking hide it and dare not come out to meet people!" ”
"Yes! Hurry up and get out of here! ”
"What a bullshit game, let me out quickly, or I want you to walk around without eating!"
"I don't want to participate in any killing game, please let me go, okay..." This was said by a clown on the other side of the river, and the voice was still a woman.
"It's a shame that when you come here, you won't go out without completing the game, and in order to convince you, you're going to get a little hell next, are you ready?" Said in a cold voice.
"What the fuck are you talking about..... Yes! Yes! The man in the Joker mask was scolding when he suddenly screamed, as if he had seen something that made him despair. At the same time, the other clowns around also screamed, and Jiang Liu, who just wanted to ask what was going on, found that the other clowns in front of him suddenly disappeared, and then what appeared in his eyes was a scene that made him desperate and collapsed, and he couldn't help screaming loudly under fear. In just a few seconds, the scene disappeared, and Jiang Liu, who had stopped screaming, felt as if he had come out of hell, breathing heavily, and his whole body was soaked in cold sweat.
[It's all true, it's all true.] I'll die if I don't follow the rules of the game! I see it...... What do you see? Hey! I can't remember what I just saw! 】
This discovery frightened him, and the scene he remembered clearly just now had disappeared from his mind, and the only thing left was the despair and fear that hovered around his body.
"Look at your expressions, you can believe it. Then next will be our game of death. There were a total of ten people present, and the code names started from the arrogant clown to 0~9, and then one person was randomly selected to become a ghost! Every night the ghost kills someone, and during the day there is half an hour of discussion where you need to find the ghost, identify the wrong person, and the person who is identified dies. Correct and the game is over! ”
Arrogant! Jiang Liu looked at the clown masks on the faces of the others, and did not find an expression that showed arrogance, and touched the mask on his face and felt that he should be arrogant, that is, 0.
"Game starts !!" The cold voice uttered the last word, and then disappeared into the darkness.
"I'm supposed to be the arrogant clown 0, now that the game has started, I'll say what I think first, I think we should follow the rules of the game and keep playing" Jiang Liu spoke first to attract the attention of the others.
The other clowns looked at Jiang Liu, not knowing what he wanted to say. Jiang Liu sorted out his words for a moment and continued: "Judging from the rules of the game, this is very similar to a dark day without police, please close your eyes, so I want to ask everyone present if anyone has not played this kind of game?" ”
No one spoke at the scene, he nodded with satisfaction and continued, "Since everyone has played, then everyone should know that before a certain decision, don't identify it casually, otherwise it is easy to kill your teammates."
"But I don't know who I am." The furious clown spoke.
"Since you don't know your identity, it means that you are a civilian." On the other side, Lazy Joker 3 said, "But I think the identities should have been assigned from the time we entered the game. ”
"Are you sure?" Vicious Clown 9 asked.
"It's almost certain," explained the lazy clown, "that I personally think there are two situations that can tell us who we are. ”
"Two scenarios?" Joy Joker asked.
"Well, the first one is the scene we collectively saw just now."
When Lazy said this, everyone showed a look of fear, but when they thought about it, they couldn't think of anything
"The other is that when it introduces us to the rules, it pauses for about 15 seconds before announcing the start of the game, and I think that's when it tells us the identity of one of the ghosts."
The rest of the clowns all nodded thoughtfully when they heard the lazy clown's guess. Jiang Liu felt a little relieved after hearing the lazy clown's words, his teammates were able to calm down so quickly and analyze so carefully, so the game might be over soon. Anyone who has played Please Close Your Eyes When It Gets Dark knows that the most dangerous thing is not the killer, but the civilians who like to follow the trend! Once you encounter the kind of civilians who have no claims, it is often the rhythm of group annihilation.
"We've got half an hour to discuss, but there's no clue right now that the ghost is!" Clown 5, who represents lust, speaks, sending the atmosphere into despair.
In such a game, everyone doesn't want to die, but if you can't find the identity of the killer, everyone's final result is death, unless you find the ghost, but once you find it, it means the death of the ghost, so that the ghost will definitely not take every step carefully, so that no one else will find out.