The lights in the yard have been turned on by Jiang Bei, and there is a light bulb hanging on the outer wall of this house, and the switch is the kind of old-fashioned rope pull switch, which can be turned on when you pull it, and turn off the light when you pull it again.

The dim light illuminated half of the courtyard, illuminating the faces of the eight people in the courtyard a little white.

"Don't wait outside, check these two rooms first." Probably thinking that Zhu Ping'an was more than lucky, Chen Wuji spoke, "Settle down and talk about it." ”

Hearing this, everyone set out to inspect the two houses next to them.

Chen Ersan and Mingyue went to inspect the relatively small house, and the rest of the people went to inspect the main house next to it.

The house is very old, the door is a double-leaf wooden door that has been painted, and the door is pasted with half-lost spring couplets.

Jiang Bei walked in the front, he pushed open the door and looked into the house by the light of the courtyard, only to see that there was a window opposite the gate, but it was covered with newspapers.

Under the window was an old dark red table, and there seemed to be something on it.

Generally, the light switch is next to the door......

Jiang Bei reached out and touched the side of the door, and sure enough, he touched a rope, and he pulled the rope down. With a click, the light bulb hanging overhead was turned on.

Only then did a few people fully see the situation in the house.

I saw that the walls on all sides were a little black, and there were patches of black spots in several places on the roof, as if they were moldy.

Ebetsu had rented a basement to save money, and he knew it was a sign of a leaky wall.

At this moment, he also saw clearly the things on the mahogany cabinet opposite, with a picture frame on it, and inside were the headshots of two old men, who should have been the original owners of this house.

The photo is very faded and looks a little old.

Looking to the side, there is a room on the left and right.

Jiang Bei raised his feet and walked to the room on the left, but he didn't expect to see something familiar as soon as he entered the door.

It was a statue of a human bird's head that he had ever seen before, and this statue sat in a shrine with several plates of offerings in front of it.

"What is this?" Wang Watermelon had never seen such a strange statue, and silently took a step back and retreated behind Jiang Bei.

Jiang Bei didn't care about Wang Watermelon's movements: "I saw that everyone in the village worshipped this statue, and I don't know what the meaning is." ”

If there is a Buddha Bodhisattva Zhong Kui or something like Jiang Bei, he can still talk to them in general, but at this time, a statue of a god with a bird's head popping up to Jiang Bei really doesn't know, and there was no such strange-looking immortal in his previous world, but there may be such a creature in the Book of Mountains and Seas.

"Every household has a ...... This could be a game-breaking clue for the dungeon. Chen Wuji looked at the statue intently, but did not come closer.

Jiang Bei also glanced at the statue a few times, but didn't see anything special, so he turned his head to look around.

The bedroom was large, with a bed on the left and right of the entrance, made of bricks.

There were also a few open travel bags cluttered up on the bed, which they were supposed to have brought. On the table next to the bed were some painters' drawing boards and boxes of watercolor paints, which were also in line with their status as painters.

It is worth mentioning that there is an old dressing table opposite the bed, which should have a large mirror, but the mirror inside is gone, leaving only an empty frame.

Ebetsu looked down at the ground around the dressing table and noticed a few small pieces of mirror residue on the ground.

Wang Xigua also noticed the lens residue on the ground: "The mirror inside seems to have been broken and taken away, right?" Why? ”

Are they afraid that something will peek at them in the mirror at night?

On the other side, Chen Ersan and Mingyue were also carefully inspecting another small room in the courtyard, which was indeed used as a utility room, with some firewood and unused pots and pans stacked in it. Chen Ersan checked all these sundries, but found no clues hidden inside.

"Did you find anything over there?" She looked at Mingyue beside her.

Mingyue put down the porcelain basin in her hand and shook her head: "Nothing worth noting." ”

"Then go find Jiang Bei and them first."

The two of them walked towards the door together.

Halfway through, Chen Ersan suddenly felt that something was wrong, she frowned and looked back, and was stunned for a moment.

I saw a puddle of water stains on the ground behind me.

"This house is a bit weird, the mirror in the bedroom has been smashed open and taken away, and a puddle of water has inexplicably appeared on the ground." At this time, the two groups of people had gathered together and were communicating with each other.

There were two bedrooms in the big house, and they didn't want to go to the one with a dressing table, so they moved into the other bedroom together.

Fortunately, there are also two beds in this bedroom, so eight people can sleep together.

The window of this bedroom is a little leaky, and the cold wind drills into the room through the gap between the windows, and it makes a "whine" sound, as if someone is crying.

The light bulb overhead also flickered from time to time, adding a touch of weirdness to the already terrifying environment.

"I wonder if the sudden water stains in the beach have something to do with the figure we saw in the lake," Mingyue sat on the edge of the bed and recalled the situation when she entered the dungeon, "I think the ghost in the lake may have followed us......"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the people around him changed.

Wang Xigua cautiously turned his head and scanned the whole room, making sure that there were no ghosts before he put his mind at ease: "The ghosts will follow us back to the village, is this what 'return' means?" ”

Jiang Yang pondered: "Maybe the ghost was originally from this village, so the name of the copy is 'Return'"

"Speaking of which, something strange happened to me when I first entered the dungeon." Jiang Bei held the axe in his hand and described to them the scene of a group of people carrying coffins into the village when he entered the dungeon.

"It's weird and scary to hear, and I don't know if those things are people or ......ghosts," Wang Watermelon pursed his lips.

"Now it seems that only Brother Bei and Mingyue Chen Ersan encountered strange things when you came in," Jiang Yang thought about the situation when he first entered the dungeon, and then turned his head to look at Lin Huohuo, "The two of us were together when we entered the dungeon, next to a burned out dilapidated house. After coming in, I didn't meet any ghosts or strange people, so I brought them here directly to the villagers. ”

Lin Huohuo nodded.

"Dog and I didn't encounter anything strange." Wang Watermelon said.

Chen Wuji also said that he didn't encounter anything noteworthy after he came in, he was on the edge of a cliff when he came in, and he was seen by the villagers taking him back here not long after.

Now they don't know only the situation of wishing peace.

Jiang Bei thought as he looked up at the bulky clock hanging on the wall, the hour hand of the clock was already pointing to "10", and it was almost ten o'clock in the evening.

I wish peace has not returned.

"Peace should be...... Something happened. Mingyue hesitated to speak.

"Did you find that each of us was brought here by the villagers. But it was also too coincidental that a few of us were scattered in different places as soon as we entered the dungeon, but we all happened to run into the villagers who led the way, as if they already knew our location and waited there in advance. "Jiang Bei thinks this is too coincidental.

"That's right," Chen Wuji also spoke, "I was near a cliff at the time, which was almost on the top of the mountain, far away from the village, and very remote, but in such a remote place, I could meet villagers who happened to pass by. ”

"Mingyue and I are actually very remote, but I happened to meet villagers passing by." Chen Ersan frowned.

"So it is very likely that these villagers have known where we are for a long time, since the villagers know the location of the eight of us, then there is a high probability that they also know the location of Zhu Ping'an, I guess Zhu Ping'an is very likely to have met the villagers who went to pick him up." Jiang Bei stretched out his hand and pressed the window next to him that was leaking and leaking, "But he didn't come back......"

Mingyue pinched the corner of her clothes: "He and I used to be teammates, so I am more familiar with him." Zhu Ping'an is a bold and careful person, and it is easiest to find some trivial clues. He probably spotted something halfway through and had an accident. ”

Zhu Ping'an is the best among the last graduates.

I didn't expect to disappear on the first day of entering the dungeon, and most of them were more than lucky.

Thinking of this, everyone was a little silent.

"I'm a little curious now about why the villagers know where we are entering the dungeon, could it be that we have some locators on us?" Wang Xigua raised a question, he had reached for his coat pocket, but found nothing.

Jiang Bei looked at the dilapidated house: "There should be no such high-tech things in this place." ”

Even if there is, there is no signal.

They dug through several mobile phones in their travel bags on the bed, some of which looked like the Nojiya that Jiang Bei used to smash walnuts in the early years, and the screen showed that there was no signal.

Chen Wuji turned the mobile phone in his hand and thought: "And all the villagers are disguised as having a chance encounter with us, which is very strange." ”

Jiang Bei felt as if these villagers were hiding something from them.

Chen Ersan thought of the quest: "Speaking of which, the rules of the quest are to survive for thirty days, do you remember the first batch of 2185 teams that were pulled in, some of them lived to the twenty-ninth day before they died, and they could clear the customs in one day." ”

That's right, Team 2185 almost cleared the level.

A team of 2,000 people can almost clear the level, so it stands to reason that this quest shouldn't be too difficult.

But the 1543, 981, and 313 squads that came in later died one after another, and the speed of death became faster and faster.

Why is that?

At this time, a rather terrifying thought suddenly appeared in Chen Ersan's heart: "The name of this copy is Return, it can't be that everyone who dies will turn into ghosts and come back, right?" ”

Then it's an infectious copy.

But just the infectious copy is nothing, Chen Ersan continued to speak: "I have a guess, but it's outrageous. ”

It didn't take long for Jiang Bei to know how outrageous her guess really was.

"I'm guessing that the squads that died in this dungeon before will all be ghosts and stay here, waiting for the next group to come in...... In this way, there are more and more ghosts, so the sooner people come in will die......"

If that were the case, there would be at least thirty ghosts in the village by now.

"It shouldn't be like this," Mingyue was startled by her guess, and her face turned a little pale, "Different batches of copies will not be interconnected, and it is impossible for the upper batch and the next batch to meet." ”

Chen Ersan nodded: "I also think this idea is unlikely, but now I really can't think of why the people who come in later die faster." ”

Jiang Bei felt that Chen Ersan's guess was outrageous, but one thing might be right.

"It is indeed possible that the meaning of this return is that the dead have turned into ghosts and returned." He thought of the big coffin that the group had carried when he first entered, and maybe it was the one in the coffin who had returned.

Wang Xigua rubbed his hands: "Maybe the way to break the game is to let us figure out who is 'returning', and by the way, fulfill his last wish or something." ”

Jiang Bei felt that things were not so simple.

"There is no basis for the speculation I am making now, and I still have to look for clues in the village tomorrow to make useful inferences." Chen Wuji glanced at the bulky wall clock on the wall, it was almost eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, "It's not good to go out at night, rest first." This quest has a long cycle and must be prepared for the long term. ”

Someone also needs to keep vigil when sleeping.

Eight people were divided into four groups and each group kept watch for three hours.

Jiang Bei Chen Wuji group, Wang Watermelon A Dog group, Jiang Yang Lin Huohuo group, Chen Ersan Mingyue group.

Jiang Bei and Chen Wuji kept the first three hours.

He and Chen Wuji have only been teammates for a long time, and they are not familiar with each other, so naturally they have nothing to talk about.

Chen Wuji is only one year older than Jiang Bei, and before he has time to start a family and have a son, he has no photos of his son to show Jiang Bei.

So the two of them sat for an hour with big eyes and small eyes.

After everyone was asleep and let out a heavy breathing sound, Chen Wuji said to Jiang Bei: "Do you think it's strange, in the past, the team used to get together after entering the dungeon, but this time they scattered everyone, so that we didn't know about the situation of the other teammates from the beginning. ”

His voice was very soft, almost leaning into Jiang Bei's ear to speak, as if he was afraid that others would hear this.

Jiang Bei understood what he meant after a little thought.

"You're saying it's possible that one of us has been replaced by a ghost?"

Chen Wuji nodded lightly and did not speak again.

Jiang Bei knew that his conjecture was not unreasonable, ghosts pretending to be adults were common in dungeons, and most of these things happened after people were dispersed.

If that were the case, he wouldn't dare sleep at night.

What if the person next to him suddenly turns into a ghost and pinchs himself.

The three hours passed quickly, and it was the turn of Wang Watermelon and Ah Dog to keep vigil.

Jiang Bei lay on the bed holding an axe and pretended to sleep, but in fact he was paying attention to the movements around him.

The people in the base have received physical training since they were children, and their physical strength and endurance are far beyond ordinary people, and it is nothing if they don't sleep for a night, so Jiang Bei decided to observe for one night first.

Ah Dog is mute, and although Wang Watermelon is very talkative, he really can't talk to him.

The two spent three hours in silence, followed by Lin Huohuo and Jiang Yang's vigil.

These two people are talking a lot, Jiang Bei listened to these two people talk all the way from Tiannan to Haibei, from the doubts and solutions of this copy to which breakfast shop in the base is the most delicious.

The topic gradually drifted away.

Now he was almost certain that these two were not ghosts.

Soon it was Chen Ersan's turn and Mingyue's vigil.

The two girls didn't seem to have much to say, so they sat on the wooden chairs in the bedroom and stopped talking.

I don't know how long it took, Jiang Bei was almost bored to fall asleep, and suddenly a "squeak" sound of the wooden chair moving pulled his thoughts back.

He squinted in the direction the voice was coming from.

I saw Chen Ersan suddenly stand up and walk towards the bedroom in a daze.

And Mingyue next to her stood motionless as if she didn't see it.