Chapter 12 Yizhuang
Blinding lightning streaked across the sky, making the already dark world even more oppressive and terrifying.
The man with glasses and the strong man were stunned at the scene in front of them, and their hearts were shocked: "Is this really just a game?" ”
The cold raindrops dripped down the cheeks through the oil-paper umbrella that had long been torn, bringing an indescribable cold.
The soaked clothes clinged to their bodies, and the discomfort of being soaked in the rain made the two of them feel extremely familiar.
It feels too real.
Whether it is a strong man or a man with glasses, they are shocked by the game scene in front of them and the experience beyond imagination.
The first to calm down was the man with glasses, he first looked at his own outfit, only to find that he was already dressed as a scholar at the moment, and there was a bag made of bamboo and cloth on his back, which was specially used to hold books and some personal items.
looked at the strong man who was still confused, and found that the other party had also changed his appearance, and his originally fierce face had also become the appearance of a white-faced scholar, just like the kind of students rushing to take the exam on TV.
It seems that this boss really has two brushes, and the character modeling is so vivid, this experience hall is not simple.
Subconsciously wanted to mention the glasses on the bridge of his nose, only to realize that he was in the middle of a game, and this sense of fit with reality made him almost forget that it was a game.
"Looks like I'm underestimating this experience hall, this game is indeed better than other games, but it's average." The strong man who had been sluggish for a long time finally reacted, but in order not to lose face, he was still as hard as ever.
"Let's go, don't forget that we're looking for Yizhuang." The eyed man preached lukewarmly.
The place where they were now was a dense forest, and the strangely shaped trees were like deformed human figures, filled with a strange aura, and this was not their destination.
"Don't order me, I know what to do." The strong man doesn't seem to like to listen to other people's arrangements, and scoffs at the glasses man's reminders.
"You!" The man with glasses was a little angry, but he still suppressed the anger in his heart, the current situation is not clear, and there can be no infighting, otherwise he will be in the middle of it, "Okay, then what do you say?" ”
Seeing that the other party was soft, the strong man was quite satisfied, so he nodded and said, "Let's look around first and see if there is any hint to help us find Yizhuang." ”
"Uh-huh." The man with glasses also agreed to this decision, and he thought so too.
So the two students who were rushing to take the exam began to look for clues in the neighborhood that would be useful to them.
The rain was still falling, and the thunder resounded in the night, like the ghosts of hell roaring endlessly.
Not long after, in the cold of the rain, the man with glasses made a discovery not far away: "Come here, look here." ”
Hearing the sound, the strong man also trotted over, his body was frozen enough, and his lips were trembling: "What's wrong?" ”
"Look at the ground, it's a rut that has been pressed by the carriage, and although it has been washed away by the rain, it can still be clearly seen, and I guess it's left over from the transport coffin." The man with glasses pointed to a puddle and analyzed it reasonably: "We should be able to find that Yizhuang by following this trace." ”
Looking down, the strong man really found the traces of the two wheels pressing, and felt that it made sense: "Well, I think so too, then let's find it quickly." ”
After a long time, the two of them followed the rut marks and searched in the dark forest.
"Is this really a game?"
"Niu Pi, I've lived so big, it's the first time I've seen a game so realistic."
"I'm scared just to see this wood, let alone go to any Yizhuang."
At this time, outside the game, the people with the strong man were also amazed after seeing the picture on the screen.
I have a new understanding of this experience hall in my heart.
Seeing the shocked expressions of these people, a few people who kindly reminded them before snorted coldly: "I have long said that the game in this experience hall is not ordinary, you don't believe it." ”
In addition, Lao Cao on the side was also taken aback after seeing the player's perspective on the screen: "Oh my God, Xiao Xia Xia, where did you find this game?" ”
Just like Lao Wang before, he was also impressed by this game.
"Secret." Boss Xia didn't say how he got it, after all, it's useless to say more, and the more you explain, the more loopholes there will be.
And about the origin of the system, he is not very clear.
"Mysterious." Lao Cao muttered a few words, but didn't care, and continued to follow the others to look at the picture on the screen.
Back to the game.
In the cloudy sky, dazzling thunder arcs continue to loom, giving the strong man a glimmer of light through the dense forest, and he can barely see the road on the ground.
The two of them didn't know how long they walked in the forest, and suddenly the strong man pointed not far away and shouted happily: "There is light, look!" ”
The glasses man's tired eyes instantly rose a little bright, and he looked in the direction of his finger.
Sure enough, there were two striking white dots of light not far from them, which were a little dim, but still very obvious in the dark night, like candle flames.
If they guessed correctly, the Yizhuang they were looking for should be there, the man with glasses thought to himself.
Then the two of them quickened their pace and ran in the direction of the point of light, but since the distance was not very far, it did not take much time.
When I looked closer, I realized that the previous point of light turned out to be two white lanterns hanging under the eaves.
The lantern swayed in the breeze, like a pair of miserable white eyeballs watching around, and the bleak cold light was mixed with an inexplicable chill.
In the dim light, there was a somewhat dilapidated mansion, where most of the walls had fallen off, and dark green moss was crawling on it.
The wooden courtyard gate has rotted very badly, and you can smell the musty smell when you get close, but the plaque directly above it is relatively well preserved, and you can vaguely see the word Yizhuang, and I don't know what to write it with, dark red and black, a bit like dried blood stains.
"This is Yizhuang?" The man with glasses looked around for a while, and couldn't help but sigh that the production of this game scene was too good.
Whether it's the moss on the walls or the rotten wooden doors, it's almost impossible to find fault with every detail.
Compared with him who was more adaptable, the strong man on the side seemed a little flustered, this Yizhuang brought him an invisible sense of oppression, coupled with the extremely dark dense forest behind him, he always felt that something strange would pop up at any time.
"Knock on the door first, we need to find the night watchman first." The man with glasses proposed to the strong man, who nodded, but had no intention of making a move, obviously not daring to do so.
Shaking his head helplessly, the man with glasses had to do it himself.
Knock knock!
"Anyone?" The man with glasses tries to keep his tone as gentle as possible to prevent unnecessary misunderstandings.
It was about a minute or two before I heard footsteps from behind the door, dull and stiff, not quite like the sound of a living person.
"Is it a zombie?" The man with glasses subconsciously stepped back, and this guess flashed through his mind, but it was quickly dispelled.
Zombies, also known as jumping corpses, are rumored to be the products of human death, gathering gloomy atmosphere, walking with their feet together, standing upright and jumping, and the sound should be a little bit.
Although the sound in front of me was strange, I could still hear that it was made by a person walking.
The deadbolt was removed, and the damp, moldy wooden door creaked open, reaching a gap two fingers wide, and then stopped.
Half of an old and wrinkled human face was revealed in the cracks, and the dry skin seemed to be attached to the bones, which looked particularly terrifying.
"Old man?" His pupils shrank, and the man with glasses looked at the face in the crack of the door in disbelief, he thought that the night watchman should be a middle-aged man, after all, Yizhuang's life was not easy, but he didn't expect it to be an old man.
Lao Suo's cloudy eyes rolled and stopped on the face of the man with glasses, and his vocal cords seemed to be torn apart: "Is there something wrong?"
"Old man, we are students who went to Beijing to take the exam, and we encountered heavy rain at night and wanted to spend the night here." Adjusting his fluctuating emotions, the man with glasses preached with a kind face.
As he spoke, he also looked at the other party.
The old man in front of him may be the so-called night watchman, and the soul bead should also be on his body.
But for some reason, he always felt that something was not quite right, but he couldn't say it.
"Candidates?" Lao Suo's drooping face squirmed for a moment, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or laughing, but after staring at it for a long time, he always felt that something was weird, "I'm not an inn here, this is a righteous village, a place to put the dead." ”
"It's okay, we just want to be able to hide from the rain and spend the night." The man with glasses recalled every move of the candidates in the previous film and television, and waved at the old man according to the gourd and the scoop, trying to make the old man feel a little more good about himself, maybe it will help them complete the task later.
"Well......" said the old man muttered for a moment, then opened the wooden door completely, "if you are not afraid, then come in." ”
The moment the wooden door opened, the two of them also saw the full appearance of Lao Suo, less than one meter six, with a withered body, and an oil lamp in his dry wood-like hand, giving people a sense of horror that was about to die.
After opening the door, Lao Suo turned around and walked to the depths of Yizhuang with an oil lamp.
"Is this really a living person?" Suppressing his voice, the strong man leaned into the ear of the man with glasses and said, the old man in front of him made him only feel hairy.
The man with glasses did not respond to him, but followed closely behind Lao Suo, and asked seemingly unintentionally as he walked: "Old man, are you alone here?"
"Isn't it just my old man, who wants to watch Yizhuang among young people now." Lao Suo walked trembling on the ground, his feet were limping, very unpleasant, and he looked a little sick.
"I see." The man with glasses smiled dryly, his eyes constantly scanning the Yizhuang, and found that there were coffins placed randomly everywhere around him.
Some of the coffin lids were still there, some were long gone, and some had even split into two knots, as if something had escaped from inside.
However, compared to those open coffins, the man with glasses is not so afraid, he is afraid of those coffins that are intact, because there are very likely zombies in them.
But the entire courtyard is very large, and the coffins inside are even more numerable, so it is difficult to tell which coffin the zombies are in, or somewhere else.
Lao Suo led the two men with glasses to the main house, and there was a stove on the ground, and the dark red flame kept spitting out Yan tongue and emitting heat.
The two of them stepped forward in an instant, gathered around the stove, and felt the warmth they had not felt for a long time, they had indeed been frozen in the rain before.
"Drink some hot tea and warm up." Lao Su didn't know where to come from two bowls of hot tea and handed them to the two of them, "In all these years in Yizhuang, this is the first time I have met a candidate." ”
took the hot tea, but the man with glasses didn't drink it, just held it in his hand, and at the same time glanced at the strong man without leaving a trace, and responded with a smile: "I don't know how long the old man has been guarding here?"
"Me?" Lao Sue squinted his eyes and stirred the wood in the stove with an iron rod, making a crackling and popping sound, "It should be almost fifty years." ”
"That's been a long time." The man in glasses echoed.
In this way, the three of them talked without saying a word, and the man with glasses tried to mention the matter of the soul bead, but they were all prevaricated by Lao Suo, and I don't know if they didn't know or there were other reasons.
I don't know how long it took for Lao Suo to stand up with difficulty: "I'm old, I can't stand it anymore, you can find a room to live in, but remember, no matter what movement there is at night, don't open the door."
With that, he turned and walked into one of the rooms inside.
After the old man left, the strong man who had been silent breathed a sigh of relief, but he had completely lost his previous arrogance, and the whole person looked around unnaturally: "What should I do now?" There are so many coffins here, the devil knows where the zombies are. ”
"I don't know very well, that old man is very problematic, the condition for clearing the game is to get the night watchman's soul orb, but he deliberately avoids such problems, I don't think he is necessarily a real night watchman." The firelight was reflected on the beautiful face of the man with glasses, who was much calmer than the strong man, and had been rationally and objectively analyzing the current situation.
"Not really a night watchman?" After listening to the other party's words, the strong man was stunned for a moment, and then his thick black eyebrows were twisted together, "Damn, why did this boss design the game like this?" ”
I thought it was just an ordinary VR game, but I didn't expect this boss to design the plot so complicated, and the strong man had already greeted the eight generations of Xia Ning's ancestors in his heart at this time.
"Now is not the time to dwell on this, if you give up, you will only make the boss laugh at them, and if you come, you will be safe, since we have arrived in Yizhuang, let's look around, maybe there are clues to clear the customs." Putting down the already cold tea bowl in his hand, the man with glasses got up and looked at the other rooms in the main room.
In addition to the one used by Lao Suo, there are three rooms left, two of which are ajar, but the innermost one is locked, or the kind of copper lock in ancient times.
"Good, good." After seeing the eerie coffin in the house, the strong man was already flustered, and at this time put the so-called hopes on the man with glasses.
With a slow footstep, the man with glasses walked to the nearest room, held the oil lamp that Lao Sue had used before, and slowly pushed open the cobwebbed door, and suddenly a piece of dust fell, and it seemed that no one had taken care of this room for a long time.
With the help of the faint light, the man with glasses casually looked inside.
The room was small, with only a couch of less than two meters, some broken coffins and tattered paper figures with white cheeks.
"Paper man?" The man with glasses walks into the room.
It seems that because of the resurgence of rain, the ground is extremely slippery, as if stepping on a pile of rotting flesh, which is extremely uncomfortable.
Slowly stopping in front of the paper man, the man with glasses raised the oil lamp and tried to see it as clearly as possible.
He noticed that these paper people were different from those in ordinary paper shops.
How to put it, it is to be more vivid, especially the eyes of the ink spots, as if they can move.
"How is this paper figure the same as alive?" After staring at the paper man for a long time, the man with glasses felt a chill on his back inexplicably, and immediately withdrew his eyes, "The weird atmosphere of this game is already affecting my mind, it seems that I have to find the clue quickly, otherwise after a long time, people will go crazy." ”
He turned and walked over to the couch, which contained only a moldy straw mat and a few rags for unknown purpose.
"Is it down here?" According to years of experience in escape rooms, the clues to the general game clearance are hidden in these inconspicuous places, so the man with glasses lifted the straw mat, but there was nothing below except some shriveled insect corpses, "No? ”
He continued to remove the entire bed board, but still found nothing, "Could it be that the Soul Bead is really on that old man?" Then this game is too simple. ”
"Brother, you... Did you find the clue? His legs trembled slightly, and the strong man who was arrogant before the game started, had completely lost his courage at the moment, especially when he saw the coffins and those weird paper figures in the house, his heart was even more throbbing, "Why don't we quit the game?" ”
"Weren't you brave before? You picked the difficulty of the game, and now you tell me that you want to quit? If you want to be embarrassed, go by yourself, don't pull me. Glancing at him with disdain, the man in glasses patted the dust off his hands and turned and walked out of the room.
"Don't go, wait for me!" Seeing the man with glasses leave the room, the strong man hurriedly followed, leaving himself alone in the room, which was equivalent to killing him.
In fact, he didn't expect this game to be so real, which is completely opposite to the haunted house he has been to before.
After the two left, the paper figure leaning against the wall suddenly shook slightly, making a strange sound like laughter.
"How do I hear someone laughing?" The strong man who walked behind was highly nervous and extremely sensitive to any wind and grass.
The man with glasses who was opening the second door didn't pay attention to him, the most important thing now is to stay calm, the scariest thing about this game is not those coffins and paper figures, but you know that there are terrible things here, but you don't know where they are.
That fear of the unknown is the most tormenting.
The situation of the second house is the same as the first, except for some miscellaneous items and no useful information.
Two of the four rooms had been found, and now only the old man and the innermost locked room remained.
"It seems that the items needed to clear the game should be in these two rooms, but which one are you going to go to now?" The man with glasses hesitated to switch back and forth between the two doors, unable to make up his mind.
There is Lao Suo in a room, but I don't know if it's good or bad, if it's good, it's just to go in, if it's bad, it's a sheep in the tiger's mouth.
The other room was locked, obviously different from what they lived in, and there must have been something greasy in it, and the zombies that they were looking for were in it.
Boom!
Just as they were in trouble, a strange noise came from the courtyard of the house without warning, startling both of them.