The bald middle-aged man was so frightened by his appearance that he kept retreating, and finally tripped over the corner of the table behind him, and he began to gnaw at his hands and feet like crazy, but because of his large belly, he tried to bite several times but failed to bite his ankle.

He began to gnaw frantically and intently at his fingers, palms, and wrists, and the cacophony of "creaking" spread through the dead silence of Room 405.

Everyone watched the absurd and crazy scene unfold in front of them, and almost forgot to breathe.

The few travelers who snatched the so-called lucky dumplings just now were completely stunned, and after they got rid of the negative impact of the reduced pleasure value, they came back a little while exchanging glances, all congratulating themselves on their defeat just now.

"Help me, help me!"

"Help me! Stop it! It's going to eat me, it's eating me! The bald middle-aged man was chewing and swallowing his own flesh with relish, and at the same time frantically crying for help with a trembling cry, as if he didn't realize that it was he who was eating his own hands.

"Help me! Kill it! Kill it! The man struggled to his feet, threw a porcelain bowl to the ground without warning, and then picked up the sharpest shards and stabbed them straight into his tongue and throat!

Then came the screeching sound of the porcelain slicing through his tongue, and he slashed the corners of his mouth, the wound cut straight to the base of his ear, blood spurted out of his mouth like a waterfall, and his desperate cry turned into a hideous and crazy laugh, and the whole person was bathed in a carnival of blood.

This bloody farce was finally paused at the moment when he cut his neck with a porcelain piece.

The bald man, whose neck had been broken in half, collapsed in blood and vomit, completely silent.

The crowd didn't even have time to react and emot properly, and even players who had gone through several dungeons had never seen such a crazy and bloody scene.

Mrs. Xu looked at the farce in front of her expressionlessly, and then took out a rag from under the TV stand, wet the water, she stood on tiptoe and carefully wiped the blood stains on the group photo.

Because this colorful headless photo is covered with a glass cover, the blood that has been splashed on it is easy to wipe it clean.

"Young children, don't be afraid, the New Year is like this, although the elders have told them not to have negative emotions, but it is inevitable that the chickens and dogs will be staged on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, there are always people who can't hold back, yes, it's been a year, it's time to hold back..."

Mrs. Xu kept muttering while carefully wiping the photo frame, "Such a small thing will not affect this night of reunion, on the contrary, a small friction can also reunite the separated family, it's time to go home, it's time for the children to go home." ”

Qi Ji and Qi Xiaonian quickly exchanged glances, and sure enough, as Qi Ji expected, Mrs. Xu's "going home and reuniting" was not a good thing for players.

He suddenly had a terrible guess, but he had to wait for things to turn out to be confirmed.

After wiping the photo frame, Mrs. Xu rinsed the rag, she calmly returned to the dining table, and changed a pair of clean dishes and chopsticks for the guests: "Fortunately, the dumplings were not splashed by those dirty things, clean, edible, not wasted, and not affected." ”

At this time, the players who returned to the table had different expressions.

Qi Ji chose to stay put, and he heard the two players around him who were responsible for preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner muttering to himself: "How can this be... The one wrapped in is obviously an antique coin given by Mrs. Xu... Why would it..."

Qi Xiaonian also looked at Qi Yan suspiciously, and Qi Ji said thoughtfully: "The shape of ancient coins is very similar to an eye, isn't it?" ”

Qi Xiaonian was slightly stunned, suddenly, and then asked, "Could it be that Mrs. Xu was lying just now?" Lying to us that the dumplings are wrapped in luck, or... She didn't lie, the so-called luck is not aimed at the player? ”

Qi Yan nodded in agreement: "I guess, that is probably only Mrs. Xu's luck, but Mrs. Xu's "luck" is the player's nightmare, she also mentioned just now that everyone has a different understanding of "lucky", and the position of the player and Mrs. Xu is different, and the meaning of "lucky" is naturally very different. ”

After all, dungeons like to play with words like this the most.

Qi Yan paused slightly, and continued: "As for the specific why... I guess there will be an answer later. ”

Mrs. Xu sat back on the main seat and hurriedly beckoned the surprised guests to take their seats: "The guests who did not have a good reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve will incur misfortune." ”

Just when everyone had to sit back at the table, there was a sudden knock on the door—

"Knock knock."

There was a knock on the door, even a little faint.

The frightened crowd was stunned suddenly, and Mrs. Xu reopened the corners of her lips: "It seems that a child has come home." ”

Chapter 186: Year (5)

"Knock knock—"

The knock on the door of unknown origin on Chinese New Year's Eve echoed in the dead silence, not as frequent as everyone's heartbeat and rapid breathing.

But there was something indescribably strange about the constant knocking on the door, the thump was weak and dull, not like the sound of a finger tapping on the door, and the tempo was getting faster and faster.

The "guys" outside the door seemed to be starting to get impatient.

"What's going on? Are there any players who are late...? One player asked cautiously in a hoarse voice.

"It stands to reason that there shouldn't be any players being pulled into the dungeon at this point in time, right? It's been an afternoon..."

"Who knows? Since we're all pulled in by quest bugs, anything can happen, after all, bugs don't follow the rules. ”

Qi Xiaonian looked at Qi Yan uneasily: "Brother, is this...?" ”

Qi Jiu's face was slightly gloomy: "Mrs. Xu has made it clear that she has a child coming home." ”

Mrs. Xu propped up the table with her hands and stood up from the main seat, but she did not intend to leave the seat, but swept her chilling gaze to everyone: "Dear guests, who would like to open the door for me?" ”

Mrs. Xu's question is like a stone in the sea, and now the situation is not clear, and no one wants to be a bird.

Seeing that no one answered, Mrs. Xu sighed and said: "Today's young people are really becoming less and less active, if no one voluntarily opens the door, then I can only personally appoint the candidate." ”

At the same time, the originally unhurried knock on the door became more and more rapid and louder.

"After all, it's not a good thing to keep the child waiting outside the door for a long time, look, the child is already impatient."

Mrs. Xu smiled softly, her old and sharp laughter was a little inconsistent, her eyes rolled to the bone, and finally locked her eyes on the player who didn't break the bowl when preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner: "Just you." ”

The young man, who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, was obviously stunned, and his pupils quickly narrowed due to fear: "I, me? ”

Mrs. Xu nodded affirmatively, and the smile on her face expanded: "I have to bother you to open the door." ”

The young man was obviously unwilling, but he didn't dare to openly disobey the request of the only NPC of the dungeon, so he had to drag his heavy steps towards the door with a "knock knock", and although he had tried to put his pace to the slowest level, he still couldn't delay for long.

"Who, who?" The young man standing by the door tried to ask in a trembling voice, he had even opened the system interface, intending to prepare offensive props just in case, but the sound of the system dispelled his thoughts-

[Please note that the use of offensive props in this scene may bring unpredictable risks, so please use them with caution]

The young man had to suppress the props that were ready to go, took a deep breath, and finally opened the door that had been knocked on and about.

The corridor of the old apartment was lit by snowlight, and the next moment, he was so startled by the sudden appearance in front of him that he forgot to breathe for a while—

At this moment, a paper figure is facing away from the door in a strange posture, shaking its shoulders and slamming the door with the back of its head.

The paper figure was supposed to be fluttering, but the sound of the knock on the door on the back of its head was as hard as a skull.

After the door was opened, the paper man's shoulders still swayed in the original arc, but the back of its head could no longer smash the door, and at this moment it looked like a strange tumbler.

The body of the paper figure tumbler is half bathed in the dim light of the walkway, and half is illuminated by the light of snow.

The young man froze by the door, and for a moment his hair stood on end, unable to move.

It is the instinctive fear of humans when confronted with humanoid objects.

Mrs. Xu slowly moved her steps and walked in the direction of the door: "It seems that the guest who ate the lucky coin just now has passed on his luck to this family." ”

As she spoke, she came to the door, turned the head of the mechanically shaking paper figure affectionately, faced the room, and said with a smile: "Niannian, you are finally home, are you tired along the way?" I've been waiting for you for a long time, and I know you'll be coming home..."

Mrs. Xu helped the paper figure into the room and placed it on the original seat of the bald middle-aged man.

The players looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief, and they clearly saw that Mrs. Xu dipped her hand in the blood that had been splashed on the side of the table, and dotted the eyes of the paper figure with the blood that was still warm.

"Paper figures don't have the finishing touch" is an old adage, but Mrs. Xu used the player's blood to break this rule tonight.

Everyone gasped.

"Let's continue to eat the New Year's dinner, the child has come home, and we should have a hot dumpling." Mrs. Xu removed the dumplings that had been cold and put them on a new pot, "Although the 'luck' in the dumplings has been shared, the taste of the dumplings is still very good." ”

"If you eat dumplings, you won't be frozen off your ears this winter."

The first to move the chopsticks was the female player with a bun in charge of the New Year's dinner, only to see her pick up the clean bowl and scald it with hot water, and then calmly put the hot dumplings into the bowl.

Qi Yan almost simultaneously put a dumpling into the bowl with chopsticks.

Qi Xiaonian asked him in a low voice: "Is this dumpling really okay?" ”

Qi Zhen: "Since Mrs. Xu has emphasized just now that there is only one lucky guest, then this guest appears, the dumplings should be fine, but not eating them may lead to bad things happening, after all, the copy emphasizes 'Chinese New Year's Eve'." ”

The bald middle-aged man who had a serious decline in pleasure just now was simply an unlucky guy in charge of minesweeping for other players.

Although the "thunder" in the New Year's dinner has been swept away, and the paper man who suddenly visited has not made any moves for the time being, Qi Zhen has realized the horror of this copy-

The so-called "luck" in Mrs. Xu's mouth is actually the practice of killing a player in exchange for a paper figure that symbolizes her family to go home.

If Mrs. Xu wants to reunite her family, there must be a player to make a "sacrifice".

But the chilling paradox is that the main quest of the dungeon is to help Mrs. Xu fulfill her wish and help her family return home before the fifteenth of the year.

And the price of reunion is the death of the player.

It is still unknown how many family members Mrs. Xu has, and how many players they will "sacrifice" in exchange for the achievement of the main quest......

Qi Ji cares a lot about the number fifteen.

Suppose one player dies a day, there are sixteen of them, and there is a fifteen days between Chinese New Year's Eve and the fifteenth of the year, is this just a coincidence? If it's not a coincidence, does it mean that only one player will survive in the end? Players who successfully complete the main quest of this quest must "kill" fifteen other people?

…… Is this a murderous copy?

What worries Qi Ji the most is that he believes that he is not the only one who has speculated on the connection between "Player Death" and "Paper Man Coming Home", which will turn the otherwise peaceful players into a cannibalistic relationship.

For Qi Jiu, players will always be more terrifying than rules and NPCs, because rules and NPCs are stable, but players symbolize countless variables.

The wall clock on the wall struck seven times, and the time came to seven o'clock in the evening.

"Ah, time flies so fast, it's time to watch the party." Mrs. Xu lifted the old curtain and turned on the old TV.

The unstable sound of the current echoes in the clashing of dishes and chopsticks and the sound of chewing.

The gray screen gradually brightens, and the black and white snowflake noise fills the entire screen.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared intently at the noisy TV screen—

I saw that the noise of the snowflakes gradually gathered, the image of the TV became clear, and two paper figures, a man and a woman, appeared on the screen.

Obviously, these two netherworld-looking papier-mâché figures are the hosts of a TV evening.

The voice on the TV was sharp and numbing, and the host's voice seemed to have been deliberately tuned to a tone that caused human discomfort -

"On this beautiful night, we get together to look back on the life of the year, we all sigh that time flies, but on this special day, we can forget our troubles, forget parting and death... Death... Death..."

The TV screen flickered, and the noise flickered and spread on the host's face, and then regained its calm in an instant.

The host continued: "This party will bring wonderful programs and performances to everyone, let us welcome the arrival of the New Year in joy! ”

"Before watching the party, please make sure that your home environment is suitable for watching the party!!"

"First, in order to ensure the quality of the party, you must cut off all light sources except the TV, and you must watch the party in a dark environment;

Second, it must be guaranteed that the number of people watching the gala is even, otherwise it will incur (beep - "