There was a sudden discordant silence on the TV, and the screen was also stuck for two seconds, and the snowflake noise densely gathered on the face of the paper host, forming a colorful and grotesque smile.

After a few seconds of stuttering, the pale and stiff face of the paper man reappeared on the screen, this time zooming in, and the paper face with blurred facial features was magnified exponentially.

"Third, please be sure to avoid negative emotions during the viewing process, your emotions will greatly affect the signal of the party, and a bad signal will lead to the interruption of the party;

Fourth, no matter what the situation arises, remember that you must not interrupt the performance of the party, otherwise it will attract the curse of 'Xi';

Fifth, please cooperate with the performance of the evening program during the performance, laugh and applaud in a timely manner, the party performers look forward to the feedback and interaction of the audience, even if you are not on the scene, we can still feel your emotions and actions;

Finally, thank you again for watching tonight's party, and wish you all a happy new year and a happy family! ”

The snowflake noise floated on the screen again, and the players sitting at the table were momentarily stunned, and the scene of the party hosted by the paper man was too treacherous, and the colorful and stiff paper stage background was reminiscent of the grotesque style of cyber joy and mourning.

Moreover, these rules of viewing are extremely scary, and the sense of fear it brings to people is indescribable and impermeable, which comes from the sense of disorder and confusion in the perception of reality, which can awaken the fear and helplessness in the hearts of human beings more than the unknown.

However, compared to fear, players have begun to hurriedly compare the compliance between the rules and reality at this moment-

"Wait, the host mentioned that you have to make sure that the number of people watching the party is even, right? Now we have fifteen guests, and Mrs. Xu is sixteen, but that... Is it a spectator? One of the players asked cautiously by pointing to a paper man named Nian Nian who was sitting on the seat.

When his question was asked, all the players looked at the silent paper man.

Chapter 187: Year (6)

At this moment, the paper figure, which had been motionless, suddenly turned its head and smiled at the questioner.

The questioner shuddered suddenly, and his whole body was furious.

The female player with her hair in a bun sat on the sofa next to her, tucked her hair around her ear, and wrote lightly: "The paper man doesn't have the finishing touch, if you don't remember the king of Hades." ”

"Once a paper figure draws its eyes, it can't be called 'paper', but when it opens its eyes, it takes on the shape of a human being, and even attaches to the soul of a person." As she spoke, she turned to Mrs. Xu and said, "Am I right? Mrs. Xu. ”

Mrs. Xu did not answer her question directly, but only smiled approvingly in acquiescence.

Qi Ji glanced at the woman who was holding her hair in a bun and wearing a plain black dress, and preliminarily judged that the other party had reserved a lot of knowledge or skills about feng shui paper piercing.

After obtaining the rules for watching the party, the players began to fidget-

Everyone is thinking about what to do.

If the paper figure is counted as a "person", the number of people in the whole room adds up to just an odd number, and the base number cannot be split into two even numbers, no matter how it is split, it seems that it cannot avoid violating the taboo of the party.

"Judging from the current situation, if you want to break the odd number, it is impossible to add more people, and it is not practical to split, so you can only use subtraction," the pink-haired boy rolled his eyes vigilantly, and after being silent for half a second, he said tentatively, "For example, subtract one person." ”

The players in front of the TV have different expressions, some of them are wandering to observe the reactions of everyone, some are frowning and thinking, some are constantly turning their eyes and thinking crookedly, and some are restless with anxious faces......

Everyone knew that they couldn't go ahead and kill the NPC Mrs. Xu, or destroy the paper figure that symbolized the goal of their mission, so the easiest and most direct way was to sacrifice one player and keep the number of people watching the performance in the room at an even number.

At this time, Mrs. Xu was still chanting on the side: "The New Year's party should be watched by the whole family, this is the meaning of keeping the New Year, only the wandering souls spend tonight alone, how pitiful such a guest is......"

Mrs. Xu's trivial chatter made everyone's faces become more and more heavy, the noise of snowflakes on the TV screen "sizzled", and everyone fell silent in the tense atmosphere.

"It seems that only one guest can be sacrificed, and I don't think there should be any guest who will make a sacrifice, right?" The pink-haired boy broke the silence.

Qi Xiaonian complained in a low voice: "Here it is again." ”

He didn't like the atmosphere, and a group of people used the excuse of defending their own interests to force one of their weak teammates to choose to be forced to "sacrifice".

But in the "rule book", which adheres to the law of the jungle, the weak are always the object of sacrifice.

However, Qi Xiaonian also understands that at this moment, the players will not take him and Qi Ji under the knife, because people with a little eyesight can see at a glance that they must be acquaintances before entering the dungeon, and the travelers who "form a team" are never easy to mess with, and everyone tends to find the weak who is left alone to operate, so as to control the risk to the greatest extent and avoid future troubles.

Qi Jiu, who had been silent, said quietly: "You don't have to use such a drastic way. ”

The pink-haired boy turned to look at him with a questioning expression: "What do you mean?" ”

Qi Zhen: "As long as the number of people watching the party is even, not watching the party is not the same as 'sacrifice'." ”

This kind of habitual thinking of using violence as the main means to solve problems is not appreciated by Qi Jiu.

Pink and white hair asked: "Mrs. Xu has repeatedly emphasized that all guests should get together to watch the party, and no one wants to take the risk of not watching the party, right?" ”

Qi Jiu: "That's right, for us players, no one wants to break the rules and taboos, but don't forget, when counting the number of people, we count NPCs and paper people. ”

The other party wanted to refute something, but the words came to his mouth and were swallowed by him again, the pink and white hair was slightly stunned, as if he finally realized something, and his eyes widened slightly because of shock.

Qi Xiaonian hurriedly asked: "You mean, find a way to exclude NPCs or paper figures from the audience of the party, so as to ensure that the number of spectators remains at an even number, right?" ”

Qi Yan shrugged and said: "After all, only players are afraid of the rules, and their NPCs are not afraid, so it must not be a big problem to watch the party alone, right?" ”

According to the mindset, players usually start with the number of people who want to reduce the number of people, and it is difficult to immediately think of NPCs that will release missions and promote the story.

Sometimes, even if you take this into account, you don't dare to take action.

Pink and white hair naturally thought that Qi Yan wanted to start with the paper figure, and frowned: "But listening to Mrs. Xu's meaning, she will never allow others to touch her paper figure that has just returned home." ”

Even if Mrs. Xu didn't say anything, everyone was quite jealous of this bloody paper figure, and they didn't dare to do anything to it easily.

Qi Zhen nodded: "The paper man is really difficult to move, and we don't know what hazard trigger mechanism it has, compared to the 'living person' is much safer." ”

Several players on his side cast puzzled glances at him, and Qi Yan continued: "For example, our landlord, Mrs. Xu. ”

Mrs. Xu, who didn't know that these guests were plotting to remove them, cleaned up the table happily, and then put on cat ears, winter melon candy, tangerine peel and plum, melon seeds and peanuts and other ancient New Year's goods, all of which are familiar to everyone for the New Year.

But if you look closely, you'll see that these nostalgic foods are crawling with suspicious mold, and some even have dull red marks, like old blood splattered on them.

Mrs. Xu began to sit down and eat melon seeds, looking at the screen covered with snowflake noise with relish, and the sound of biting the melon seed shell with her teeth became abrupt at this moment: "The party will start soon, everyone sits around to watch the party, eat some peanuts and melon seeds to keep the New Year, wait for the new year to come, the new year, the children will go home......"

"My family is about to reunite, eat melon seeds together, peel peanuts together......"

I don't know why, the sound of smacking melon seeds in the room at this moment reminds Qi Xiaonian of the horror story of the old man scaring him when he was a child: if the child doesn't go to bed early at night, he will hear the "squeak, squeak" sound of the old lady next door chewing bones, and you can still hear the crazy swallowing sound through the wall, and gnaw it until dawn, if you want to knock on the wall and ask her what she is eating, the old lady will tell you that she is gnawing on soybeans, but the next day you will find that the child next door is gone, The old lady took a soaked red sheet to dry on the patio, and guessed where the child next door went.

Every time Qi Xiaonian heard this story, he would start a terrifying connection, and at this time, Mrs. Xu's voice and appearance of eating melon seeds coincided with the fear that Qi Xiaonian imagined when he was a child.

"It's really good, the melon seeds are freshly fried, not damp, it's so crisp..."

At this moment, Qi Yan took out his mobile phone again to call back, and less than three seconds later, a hurried phone call came from Mrs. Xu's room at 401-

"Jingle bells, jingle bells."

At the urging of the phone ringing, Mrs. Xu, who bit the melon seeds in her mouth, was momentarily stunned, and then she swallowed the melon seed shell and Ren together, and without having time to say anything, she quickly stood up and grabbed the door, and ran quickly in the direction of the phone ringing.

It seems that Mrs. Xu cares very much about the phone calls from the outside world, after all, she is an "old person" trapped in the old building in the past.

Before the players could react to what was happening, Qi Yan quickly closed the door of 405 and locked it from the inside.

Even if you have a key, you can't open the door from the outside.

Next, he pulled down all the curtains as quickly as he could, covering Room 405 tightly, for fear that Mrs. Xu, who would be guarding the door later, peeked through the cracks in the curtains to peek at the party on TV.

Qi Xiaonian rushed over to help, and asked cautiously, "Brother, is it really okay to lock Mrs. Xu out of the door like this?" ”

Qi Jiu: "Try it, how do you know if you don't try?" This is the most convenient way to solve the number of base couples for the time being. ”

Excluding Mrs. Xu, the number of people in the house is guaranteed to be sixteen, which is exactly an even number.

Qi Xiaonian nodded: "Mrs. Xu can't come in, but there is still a paper figure in our house, I don't know if it will have an opinion on this..."

Qi Xiaonian didn't finish his sentence, and there was a chilling "knock, knock, knock" sound behind him.

He turned his head slowly, and the strange scene of the paper man facing the crowd and the back of his head kept knocking on the door fell into view.

"Mom, Mom... Where are you..."Its voice was shrill and weak, as if it would die in the next second.

Qi Xiaonian: "......" is afraid of something, now the paper man is really restless, and I don't know what it will do later.

"Mom, Mom... Your favorite party is about to begin... Where have you been..."The paper man's voice became more and more shrill, the knocking on the door became more and more frequent, and the sound became louder.

That's when something even worse happened, and the system sent a warning to every player -

"Warning! At present, it has been detected that the audience watching the party is emitting negative emotions from the 'paper man nian', please calm down their negative emotions immediately, otherwise it will affect the viewing effect of tonight's party."

"Damn, I almost forgot, this unlucky paper man is also one of the audience, and its negative emotions will also affect the effect of the party!"

Unfortunately, at this moment, the screen that was originally filled with snowflake noise flashed, and the two paper hosts appeared on the screen again: "Good evening, audience and friends, the party has officially begun, please ensure that the environment you are in is suitable for watching this party......"

"Serious warning! Please calm down the negative emotions of this audience within 60s!"

"Ah, what can I do? How to get rid of the negative emotions of paper people? I don't know if it's useful to use props on it..."

"Damn, the system prohibits the use of props on paper figures!"

"Why don't you let the Mrs. Xu at the door in first, let them reunite and calm down the negative emotions of the paper people?"

"No, you can't! The party is on! If we let Mrs. Xu in, we're clearly violating the rules..."

“… Unless, at the moment Mrs. Xu is let in, kick a player out and lock the door. ”

In that case, no one wants to open the door......

"Serious warning! Please calm down the negative emotions of this audience within 50s!"

The sound of the paper piercing man knocking on the door became more and more intense, Qi Ji forced himself to calm down, and he thought about the sentence repeatedly-

"Once a paper figure draws its eyes, it can't be called 'paper', but when it opens its eyes, it takes on the shape of a human being, and even attaches to the soul of a person."

But if you think about it upside down and temporarily cover the eyes of the paper man, will it have a different effect?

Chapter 188: Year (7)

[The negative emotions of this audience are rising wildly, please suppress and clear them within 40s! ] 】

The system has lit up a high-level warning red light, and the players are a little overwhelmed for a while.

Usually the more urgent the situation, the more difficult it is for people to clear their minds and solve problems, but Qi Ji seems to be an exception, a crazy idea flashes through his mind, and the next second, he has to put madness into action.

Anyway, there's not much time, so let's give it a try-

Qi Jiu's gaze fell on a young man wearing a thick leather jacket and a Hawaiian shirt not far away, with a pair of black sunglasses pinned to his jacket pocket.

Time was pressing, Qi Ji simply didn't do anything, flashed forward directly, and skillfully took the pair of black sunglasses into his hand: "Offended, borrow it." ”

Before the other party could react to what was happening, Qi Yan had already put his sunglasses on the face of the paper man who "banged" against the wall.

The paper figure is made in a chic and delicate way, with the proportions of its facial features no different from that of a living person, and the sunglasses just right on its face.

Just now, Qi Yan completed a backward push in the shortest possible time-

Since it is the act of dotting the eye that gives the paper man a soul, the easiest and fastest way to curb it is to use physical means to re-blindfold its eyes, and the bell must be tied to the bell, and the root of the problem is the "eye".