Chapter 70: Extra: Trapped Beasts (2)
A stump paradise?
Amano's gaze subconsciously swept across the room again. The bloodstains on the ground and the shocking severed limbs made it so terrifying that I couldn't see where it could be called a paradise.
Maybe this "paradise" is just for the puppet. Looking at the tragic situation in front of him, Amano seemed to be able to imagine how the puppets imprisoned these people in it, and then tortured them to death by various cruel means.
And this time, the target of the puppet's torture was changed to them......
"Hey, hey, maybe some of you are thinking that I'm a murderous maniac, and all these stumps left in the room were left behind when I tortured them."
As if to see through what he was thinking at this time, the puppet head laughed a few times, shook his head and continued: "No, no, those are all spontaneously cut off by them in order to escape from this secret room, and what I play in this is a horn 'color' that guides them how to escape. ”
And guide how to escape, it's you who put people in here! Amano subconsciously wanted to refute like this, but his mouth was tightly locked by the jaw ball, and he could only make a whining sound.
The puppet looked at him, shrugged, and said, "By the way, I forgot to tell you about it." It is possible to remove this hood and the jaw ball with its brute force......"
Seeing that the man in the vest had put his hand on his neck and was about to pull hard, the puppet's head said slowly: "But I personally don't recommend you to do this, because in that case, the mechanism on the hood will be activated, and your entire head will be cut off like a dog's 'leg' stepping on a trap." ”
The man in the vest froze suddenly. If this sentence had been said a few seconds later, perhaps he would have ended up in a different place by now. Amano saw his hands trembling and slowly lowering them, and it was obvious that he was afraid and happy in his heart at this time.
He can understand this, although it is in a virtual game, but after all, the man in the vest has just walked around in the ghost 'door'!
"Hey, hey, there's a way to take it off safely, and I'll sell it here. Again, the mechanism in this hood can be activated in another way, and that is when the time limit is exceeded. ”
The puppet's head looked up at the upper right corner as he said this, and everyone's eyes followed suit. In the upper right corner of the LCD screen, there is a small place where the numbers are jumping, and if you look closely, it seems to be a countdown or something, and it says 2:00:00
"The total time limit is two hours, and the timer starts when I say this." As the puppet's head uttered the next sentence, the beating countdown began to run quickly. Two hours is not long in the escape room, and it is not too short to say that it is short. In a real-life escape room game, those puzzle solvers can easily clear three or four rooms in two hours.
But the problem is that the game in front of you puts all the mortgage points up in one go, for a game that is a matter of life and death, every step needs to be thought twice, especially because of the jaw ball, the 'exchange' flow between each person is equivalent to being blocked, and it is difficult to get clues through the 'exchange' flow. In this way, the two-hour time limit is still too short.
It's just that Amano doesn't know the secret of this game at this time. He just played it as an ordinary virtual experience game, and at this point his expression was much more relaxed than the others, and he didn't show much panic about this time limit. Even when everyone was looking up in the direction of the puppet's head, he had the leisure to observe whether there were any seams on the puppet's neck such as a hood.
The conclusion is no, this puppet should not be a person wearing a hood and pretending. Amano guessed that someone was '' the puppet's mouth behind the back, and then dubbed it to make it look like it was actually talking.
However, none of these should be the most pressing issues at hand. The puppet on the screen seemed to notice Amano's anomaly, and it watched him with interest, letting out a sigh of slurp.
"Yo? There seems to be a guy here who is different from others. The puppet smiled, "I don't know if you're too bold or don't understand the situation at all, if you're a newcomer, I think someone should stand up and explain the rules to him." ”
Before he finished speaking, the system's prompt sound sounded in everyone's ears synchronously.
"The special task has been triggered, there is no need to choose to accept it, and the first person to complete the task will receive the reward by default."
"Special Mission: Teach new players the basics of the game. Reward: 3 Survival Points. ”
Amano wasn't sure if the puppet on the other side of the screen had heard what they were hearing, as it had continued before the tone could finish. The puppet raised its small wooden hand in a rare move, pointed to something like a phone booth in the left corner of the room, and said, "As far as I know, there are several pages of handwritten pamphlets in that little pavilion that record a certain traveler's knowledge of a certain game before, maybe you could consider using that thing to popularize common sense to this newcomer." ”
When it had said this, it looked at the crowd with a smile. Even though there is an LCD screen, you can feel the oppression of this gaze. It stands to reason that the puppet on the other side can still give feedback based on the situation here, indicating that there should be some kind of surveillance equipment in this room, and as long as that equipment is destroyed, at least it may not be as passive as it is now.
But now is obviously not the time to think about this, and when I heard that the reward for this rookie education mission was as high as 3 survival points, everyone here must have come to life.
It wasn't difficult to find out who the newcomer was, and the bald man glanced around and found that Amano, the expressionless guy, was the most suspicious.
Now that everyone's speaking function is blocked, it is basically impossible to popularize game knowledge in the way of explanation. Both the bald man and the punk 'woman' reacted quickly, and the two quickly glanced at each other as they ran away at full speed in the direction indicated by the puppet.
The man in the white suit was a little slower to react than they did, but Katsu was closer to that side from the start. He saw the two men turn around and rush over, and hurriedly stumbled towards the small pavilion in the corner. This thrilling chase lasted only a few steps, and as the white suit rushed into the small pavilion, an invisible force field unfolded at the entrance of the pavilion, and the bald man and the punk 'woman' rushed to the edge of the pavilion almost at the same time, but were blocked by this invisible 'door'.
Damn it! He was the first to do it!
The bald man and the punk 'woman' are desperately hammering the invisible wall, but although it is not the kind of hard metallic texture, it is also full of toughness. The fists of the two men smashed into it only a little dent, but as soon as the hands left, they returned to their original state.
It seems that the setting of the game is still very tight, since only one person can get the reward, then there should be only one person who can get the handwritten instructions, and the rest of the people will be blocked from this invisible force field even if they take a step at night.
It's just that the bald man already has other ideas at this time. This barrier is obviously one-way, and you can only go out but not enter, that is, the white suit inside can decide when to come out, but people outside can't get in. But it doesn't matter, even if he gets the handwritten instructions, he still has to successfully show them to the newcomer to complete the task. That is, sooner or later he will have to come out of it.
The bald man clenched his steely fists. Although the game generally prohibits players from attacking each other, there are occasional exceptions, so you can try it without losing anything. For the sake of these three days of life, even if he is strong, he must be 'forced' to 'hand over' things.
The man with thick eyebrows and the man in the vest also wanted to join in the battle, but their reactions were a little slower than the previous three, and by the time they caught up, it was too late. It's just that they are also from the streets, and it seems that the two of them and the bald man want to go together, and at this time, the three of them are standing outside the small pavilion, waiting for the white suit to come out.
The punk 'girl' probably knew that she was no match for the trio and had quietly retreated, while the long-haired 'girl' didn't seem to want to join the fight in the first place. She looked at the people over there, sighed softly, and then turned to Amano, trying to pass the message to him with gestures.
I have to say, this method is really ineffective.
The white suit in the small pavilion didn't seem to notice what was happening outside. After entering the kiosk and finding that no one outside could get in, he quickly rummaged through the pages of the legendary game description. The space of this small pavilion is slightly larger than a telephone booth, but it can only accommodate one person, not to mention that there are several large pieces of stumps that look like human bodies left behind after being burned by the fire, which is even more crowded.
Unable to find anything at a glance, the white suit could only hold back his nausea, reached out to the pile of stumps and 'touched' it a few times, and he really found a piece of yellow paper full of words. As soon as they saw that thing, the eyes of several people outside the pavilion lit up at the same time, and they waited for the white suit to come out of it and start robbing it.
However, at this moment, flames suddenly erupted from the top of the pavilion! The flames quickly swept through the small space in the pavilion, enveloping the whole person in the white suit inside!