Chapter 16: Ghost Water Monster Talk, Shujing's Mystery
Due to the absence of Lotte, the living treasure, the words in the hall seem a little boring, except for occasionally talking to Huang Ying about firearms, and chatting with Goody about some things.
During this period, I went to look for Bai Ming a few times, but he didn't open the door, and I don't know if he had died in the game.
There were a few times in between when I tried to take the timer off while I was sleeping, but it all failed, and the timer seemed to be stuck in my arm like a tree that had taken root, and it didn't move even when I pulled it pain.
Under Huang Ying's teaching, after a few days of practice, I was able to hit a target 20 meters away, and although the hit rate was only five or six out of ten, I was still quite satisfied. I saved 12 psionic bullets for Yellow Shadow, after all, this thing is the only thing he can use to the fullest.
On the ninth day of our return to the hall, Huang Ying and I were practicing shooting when we suddenly felt a burning pain in our hands. (Is it coming?) I looked at Yellow Shadow and I. We usually practice shooting in the hall, so when Goody arrived, we walked up to the wooden door together.
Looking at the two people behind me, I sighed, the previous Castle Mystery was only the second game, and we died four people in a row, I don't know how many people can come back alive in the third game? As the timer in my hand got warmer and hotter, I shook my head helplessly and took the lead and walked through the wooden door.
This time I didn't even feel dizzy, I just felt that there was a flower in front of me, and I came to a river. Goody and Yellow Shadow stood behind me, apparently familiar with the "teleportation" of the wooden door. Looking around, I found Lotte, Shujing and others lying on the ground not far away. (It's good that they're all resurrected!) )
We walked over and sat around the four of them, quietly waiting for them to wake up.
Shujing opened her eyes, looked around, hugged me without a ladylike demeanor, and cried. I waved my hands in mid-air, not knowing what to do.
"Ale?" After Gu Le woke up, when he saw me and Shujing, he actually covered his face with both hands, and exclaimed, "You go on, I didn't see anything." (I said, "You really didn't see anything?") What if your open fingers are almost ready to run into a horse? Luckily, just when I was about to collapse at the end of my mind at the end of the day, the organizer's voice rang out appropriately: "The rules of the game, cross the river by any means within 24 hours, and those who can't pass are 'eliminated'." If the number of people who successfully cross the river is less than 4, the team will be 'eliminated' if the game fails. ”
I frowned, less than 4 people from the whole team are going to die? So, does this game require team cooperation? I looked at the river in front of me. The surface of the river is about 50 meters wide, and the water is clear and you can see the bottom of the river, and you can see the faintly swaying aquatic plants at the bottom of the water even in the deepest part.
At this time, Lotte came over and patted me on the shoulder: "I've always wondered, why would I reason wrong?" Theoretically, that's right. I shook my head and told him the last of my reasoning. Listening to me finish carefully, Le Tiancai patted his head: "Mistake, I should have thought of it a long time ago, you told me that the words on the maid's body are in Chinese, I should have thought of this." ”
The god muttered a few words to himself, and Lotte let go: "Forget it, don't think about the past, now think about this 'game'." ”
I nodded, looked at the river and said, "This game is so strange, the organizer directly gave the way to live, can you cross the river?" Wouldn't it be too simple? Lotte patted me on the head and said, "Nonsense, it's definitely not that simple, I think there should be something hiding in the river, right?" I looked left and right: "Huh? See? There's a bridge there. ”
Lotte also followed my vision, and sure enough, not far from us, there was a wooden bridge across the banks of the river.
Seeing that I was undecided, Lotte smiled and said, "Do you want me to go up and have a look?" ”
"No," I shook my head, "the organizers would never be so stupid as to leave behind a bridge, which is either a life-seeking mechanism left by the organizers, or the key to triggering a 'dead end'." Lotte pouted: "Am I not kidding." ”
(To be honest, the allure of this bridge is really great) Lotte and I sat back on the ground, fortunately, the other team members trusted us very much, and after we analyzed it, there was no intention of going to the bridge to explore. Lotte was silent for a while, pulled me aside and said, "Captain, can I ask a few questions?" ”
I looked at him curiously, why did he pull me aside and ask a question, and then said, "Say, what do you want to ask?" ”
Lotte's face suddenly fell, and he almost cried and said, "Captain, what the hell did you do before?" I looked at him curiously and asked, "What are you asking for?" ”
Lotte said helplessly: "I have far better reasoning ability than me, I am very knowledgeable, and I am well-versed in the past and the present." Even a piece of news from more than 20 years ago can remember, and I really want to dissect you to see what your brain looks like. I shook my head: "Actually, it doesn't matter what I did before I came in, you just need to remember that I am your captain and I will not give up on you." ”
Seeing that I didn't answer positively, Lotte didn't continue to ask, but said, "Captain, why did you say that Shujing was chosen by the organizers?" ”
I was slightly stunned and asked, "What do you mean by that?" Lotte counted his fingers and said: "Do you think, captain, not to mention the dead torture, as far as the rest of us are now, you and I are both intelligent and outstanding, Zhang Changxu is a racing driver, and the future 'game' will inevitably include driving; Cheng Hongsheng is a painter, but I have communicated with him in private, he has the ability to never forget, basically as long as he is allowed to take a look, he can draw accurately." And Yellow Shadow, the sharpshooter, his role doesn't need to be explained by me, and finally there's Goody, who has amazing numerical computing power, and those of us can be said to be the best of our kind. What about Shujing? ”
When Lotte said this, I felt strange. (It's really weird, the other 6 of us can be said to have a distinct surname, and they can play their due role more or less in the future "game", but what about Shujing?) It seems that until now, she has always been a little woman, why did the organizers choose her? Or is it that the Shujing we see now is not the real Shujing? Is she burying her true self? )
Originally, I have always had a good feeling for Shujing, she is quiet, beautiful, innocent, and charming. But now that Lotte said this, I felt a chill rise from the soles of my feet. If the current Shujing is all pretended by her, then how terrifying this woman should be, if it is not pretended, then what is the purpose of the organizers choosing her? Just because she is beautiful, although Shujing is beautiful, there are more people than her beautiful, why did you choose her?
"What are you doing?" A nice female voice startled both Lotte and me, I turned my head to see that it was Shujing, and quickly said, "No, it's nothing, we're discussing something." Shujing sat down next to me and asked, "What are you discussing, tell me about it." "I looked at Lotte and I. Lotte hurriedly said: "The captain and I are discussing why it is so bright, it stands to reason that it should be night, right?" Shujing looked at the timer in her hand and said, "That's right, the current time should be around 3 o'clock in the evening, but the current situation seems to be about ten o'clock in the morning." With that, she covered her forehead with her hand and looked at the sun in the sky. Then he said, "Have you discussed what the results were?" ”
Lotte and I shook our heads at the same time: "Not yet." Shujing pursed her mouth: "Okay, you haven't discussed it, then I can't figure it out, forget it, you continue to discuss, I'll go see what Goody is doing." With that, he walked away. After seeing Shujing walk away, I gave Lotte a thumbs up and said, "You still have a way, and you came up with an excuse so quickly." Lotte wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "There's a way to fart, this is the third thing I've been talking to you about." ”
I pondered for a moment before I said, "You're right, it's supposed to be night, so why is it daylight?" Do you think there will be a hint of a way out here? ”
Lotte thought for a moment and said, "This game seems simple, but it's actually very troublesome. First of all, as long as we don't approach the river, there shouldn't be any danger, but what if we do? Can there be ghosts underwater? The organizers asked us to cross the river 24 hours a day, and if there were less than 4 people, we would be wiped out by the whole group, would this be too difficult? You know, on the third day, the castle was hide-and-seek, and only 3 of us survived. ”
"So, there must be a simple and clear way to live!" I answered. Lotte nodded: "Well, I think so too." ”
At this moment, Huang Ying walked over from the side: "Captain, what do you guess we saw in the water?" With that, he took out a painting and handed it to me, the painting should have been painted by Cheng Hongsheng, it was a sketch, and I clearly saw that among the water and grass in the center of the river, a black figure turned into black folds with the fluctuation of the water surface.
"What is this?" I asked.
Huang Ying pointed not far behind me and said, "This is what I saw next to the bridge, do you want to go and see it?" ”
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