It appears that only players who break the bowl can see this anomaly.

The two girls on the screen also had their heads gouged out, just like Mrs. Xu's family in the photo...... Isn't it understandable that the two girls who are performing the children's chorus on the screen are also Mrs. Xu's family?

Only after the player violates the rules and dies can the wandering paper figure return home, and the family can have a face when they return home.

Just like Nian Nian, who was sitting next to Qi Yan at the moment, her face reappeared on the group photo.

At this moment, a scream suddenly erupted in Room 405, where there was only applause.

All of the affected players came to their senses in an instant and looked back in the direction of the sound.

I saw a player pick up the scissors that Mrs. Xu put on the coffee table to cut window flowers, and plunged the tip of the knife deep into the eyes of another player with a force that ordinary humans could not use!

"Ahhh——!hhh The player who was stabbed in the eyeball by the scissors screamed in pain, and he wanted to use the item to resist at the first time, but because the pleasure value dropped to a critical value, his system item interface has been locked and cannot be used normally.

Eyeball fluid splashed with the pulled scissors, and a series of suspicious mucus trails were quickly left on the light-colored curtains.

In the next second, the tip of the scissors cut through the major artery in the opponent's neck, and the poor player subconsciously covered the blood that spurted out, and after a few convulsions, he fell to the ground with a bang, completely losing his breath.

It all happened so suddenly that the players who were disturbed to varying degrees of pleasure had not yet reacted.

The smell of blood, which had not been completely dissipated in Room 405, became stronger and stronger.

I don't know if it's Qi Jiu's delusion, but after the player is brutally murdered with scissors by his companions, he seems to hear a burst of cheerful shrill laughter erupting on the TV.

Qi Ji remembered that the two players who killed each other were the players who were competing with the bald middle-aged man for coin dumplings at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table just now.

"Hell! These wastes are always breaking the rules at such critical times! The female player with her hair in a bun rarely lowered her face, and she quickly exchanged for a tube of anesthetic and injected the anesthetic into the killer's neck as quickly as possible.

The player's expression was blank for a moment, and he instantly fell backwards and fell into a coma.

"I'm going to clean up the mess of these waste teammates again, wasting a tube of my anesthetic." She kicked the unconscious player and another corpse aside in disgust, her face undisguised with impatience, "It's a real headache to be pulled in at random like this. ”

Although this dungeon does not explicitly state that players should not kill each other, there has always been an "unspoken rule" in the "Rules Book": players who kill other players directly and rudely without resorting to rules will often violate the hidden rules and cause trouble.

Therefore, players often use the rules to kill opponents with different positions, or take advantage of the loopholes of the rules, and it is considered very unwise to do it directly, so this female player with a bun chose narcotics.

After all, it is clearly mentioned in the rules of watching the party: please be sure to avoid negative emotions during the viewing process.

The appearance of such rampant players is very bad for everyone.

However, after the accidental death of a player, the number of spectators in room 405 reverted to an odd number.

Qi Xiaonian reacted quickly, he immediately opened the locked door, raised his voice in the direction of Room 401, where Mrs. Xu was, and shouted: "Mrs. Xu, we have repaired the door, and we don't need to trouble the locksmith." ”

At this time, Mrs. Xu was still trying to call the locksmith, but no matter how many times she called, she couldn't dial the phone normally.

After hearing Qi Xiaonian's voice, she immediately put down the phone and walked in the direction of 405, "Just fix it, the bad things of the New Year are very troublesome, everyone is celebrating the New Year, and no one wants to come out to make money at this moment of family reunion..."

At the same time, the evening program on the TV screen was stuck, the party was frozen on the host's funny and weird expression, even the beating snowflake noise was still, and the amplified freeze-frame picture presented an indescribable horror texture, and the sharp current sound came from the TV, no matter how the sound was suppressed, it couldn't be eliminated, and everyone's pleasure value began to decrease significantly, even if Qi Xiaonian and Qi Yan had special idol props, they would inevitably be disturbed.

There are a series of visible "mutations" in the entire 405 room, such as the pendulum clock hanging on the wall, the vase on the gray-blue coffee table, the enamel teacup and the kettle printed with the word "Xi"... These small furnishings gradually lose their edges and luster, becoming flat and dull like paper.

Even the corpse lying on the ground gradually lost its three-dimensional silhouette, the color of the blood faded, the hideous expression froze, and in an instant, the dead player turned into a shriveled paper corpse.

Qi Ji realized that after the party was stuck, room 405 they were in was being papered!

Maybe it's not just 405, it's probably the old apartment building that's changing......

The old-fashioned TV didn't have a remote control, Qi Yan quickly stepped forward and tried to twist the channel switch button embedded in the TV body, but before he could turn the button, a player stepped forward to obstruct him: "How can you be sure that the suggestions on the subtitles are correct?" What if that's another trap to lure you? Doesn't this accelerate the progress of mutation and make it impossible for us to retreat? ”

"Yes, the host mentioned that it will automatically resume after one minute, why don't we wait a minute and then change the channel to adjust?"

Qi Xiaonian quickly blocked in front of Qi Jiu, successfully blocking the obstructing player, Qi Jiu turned the TV channel button and said quietly: "I'm not sure, but I don't want to become a paper man." ”

The system seems to have treated Qi Ji preferentially, and has already warned him that at the current speed of paper, it will not take a minute for all the items in this room, including humans, to be completely papered!

Moreover, before taking action, Qi Ji had already quickly analyzed it-

Mrs. Xu's so-called "luck" is death for the player, so according to this logic, the "bad luck" in Mrs. Xu's mouth may be a good thing for the player? After all, the positions between the player and Mrs. Xu are opposites.

She thinks that breaking things during the Chinese New Year is "bad luck", but such "bad luck" can help players see the hidden subtitles of the party, and the subtitles may be the truth.

And between words and dictated lines, Qi Yan prefers to believe words, after all, the lines are spoken from the mouth of a paper mouth.

Paper figures themselves are not credible, so how can the lines they say be credible?

Only one player tried to stop them, and the other players chose to wait and see, after all, no one wants to see themselves turn into paper figures.

Qi Ji switched the TV channel, and after a brief flicker of snowflake noise, another channel was also playing the Chinese New Year's Eve party.

- I see, once the TV screen is stuck, you only need to switch the channel. After all, this is the party on Chinese New Year's Eve, and all TV stations are broadcasting it simultaneously tonight.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the player who had just tried to obstruct him retreated, he had been eating his old book in Dying City for a long time, and his ability to pass the book had almost degraded, and he was used to daily life, and he was already very unsuitable for the rhythm and way of thinking of the dungeon.

Mrs. Xu's appearance changed the "number of people" in the room back to sixteen, an even number that met the requirements of the rules.

Mrs. Xu turned a blind eye to the blood all over the ground, only bowed down and picked up the scissors that fell in a pool of blood, wiped the blood stains on the tip of the knife with the corner of her clothes, and sighed: "Remember to put the scissors back when they are used up, otherwise children like to play and make trouble, and it will not be good to fall and be injured by scissors." ”

"You sit," Qi Yan politely pulled out a chair for Mrs. Xu, and asked tentatively, "Mrs. Xu, your family also appeared at tonight's party, right?" ”

Mrs. Xu's action of wiping the scissors stopped instantly, and she looked at Qi Yan fixedly in the dark, without making a sound.

Qi Yan still had that harmless smile on his face, and continued to ask: "I seemed to have seen your family in the children's choir program just now. ”

Chapter 190: Year (9)

Mrs. Xu never took her eyes off Qi Jiu, and after a while, her gloomy expression gradually regained its brilliance: "Yes, my two little granddaughters, Duoxi and Duole. ”

"They've been invited to countless galas since they were young, and they've been invited to countless galas," Mrs. Xu murmured with a kind face, looking at the noisy TV screen with snowflakes, "Is their choral show over?" It's a pity, I want to see how they do..."

Qi Jiu: "Don't worry, there will be countless reruns of the party." ”

Mrs. Xu nodded: "Yes, every year, the Chinese New Year's Eve party has been rebroadcast on various channels until the fifteenth day of the year, and when the fifteenth day of the new year, there will be a new Shangyuan party, when the family is back, complete, gather together to watch the lantern party." ”

Qi Yan asked tentatively: "So Duoxi and Duole are going to perform at a party, so they don't have time to come back to accompany you for the New Year?" ”

Mrs. Xu was stunned for a moment, her memory seemed to be a little fragmented, and a confused look appeared on her face: "Yes, yes... It must be... Duoxi Duole is very well-behaved, and he didn't go home because he went to the show. ”

Qi Ji was already keenly aware that something was wrong, and he didn't say anything: "Duoxi and Duole will come back, don't worry." ”

At the same time, the system, which had been silent for a long time, finally spoke-

[Dear traveler, you have triggered the side quest "Duoxi and Duole", and the side quest will bring rich plot integrity and survival coin rewards, unlock special items, so stay tuned]

Qi Zhen immediately understood that he had discovered that the anomaly of the chorus children, coupled with his tentative behavior towards Mrs. Xu, had successfully triggered this branch.

At this moment, Mrs. Xu noticed the sunglasses that the paper man Niannian was wearing on her face, and frowned: "Niannian, where did you get these strange glasses?" It's not pretty. ”

Youth in Hawaiian shirt: "......"

Qi Yan hurriedly said: "My friend gave it to Niannian, I see that Niannian likes it." ”

Paper Man Niannian: ......

It's also thanks to her wearing sunglasses, otherwise she would definitely roll her eyes at Qi Jiu.

The old lady took off her sunglasses in disgust and returned them to Qi Jiu's hand: "Give it back to your friends, Niannian is not suitable, these are all street gangsters, we are good children, don't get contaminated with these." ”

In those days, in more old-fashioned families, dresses such as sunglasses and jeans would be labeled as "bad youth".

"Okay." Qi Yan carefully wiped the sunglasses in his hand, intending to return them to the Hawaiian youth, who waved his hand at him in horror.

"I don't want it, you can keep it." The young man in the Hawaiian shirt avoided this pair of sunglasses that had been worn by the paper man and disliked by the paper man's mother.

Silence returned to room 405, and the sound of snowflakes flickering was amplified by dead silence.

But the sound of swallowing melon seeds from the dark place before stopped, Qi Zhen glanced at the soda drink on the coffee table, the male artist printed on the wrapping paper regained the three-dimensional outline of the human photo, and the stiff smile on his face disappeared.

As the hapless player was stabbed to death with scissors, the weirdness that spread within 405 gradually faded, and the daily order seemed to return.

Now it was Mrs. Xu who was beginning to chew on melon seeds and broad beans, and the paper-pierced man who had taken off her sunglasses sat beside her, his blood-painted eyes rolling in the dark.

The party on the screen continues, the players applaud and smile along with the show, and the whole atmosphere has an indescribable cult feeling, not so much watching the party and keeping the New Year, but doing some kind of weird ritual.

Time had sped up, and it was half past eleven at night.

At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded in the originally quiet corridor, and everyone's slightly relaxed nerves tensed again.

The sudden appearance of footsteps means one thing: the player who died just now has been exchanged for a place in the "family", and a new paper figure is going home.

"Da, da, da..."The footsteps were approaching Room 405, and there was a faint eerie sound of "tick, tick", like some kind of liquid dripping all the way down the aisle with the other party's footsteps.

But the next thing turned out to be beyond everyone's expectations-

The footsteps stopped outside Door 405, and the ticking continued.

Mrs. Xu didn't lock the door when she entered the house, and the guy outside the door neither knocked nor pushed the door directly, but just stood quietly outside the door, as if hesitating about something, and like a silent warning.

Qi Ji looked at Mrs. Xu beside him, but found that her face was tense, her complexion was instantly gloomy, and the corners of her old and dry lips even twitched, showing an extreme vigilance and disgust for the person who came, which was not at all like the gentle joy when she returned.

Qi Yan was a little surprised, wasn't the guy who made the footsteps outside the door Mrs. Xu's family?

But according to the logic of the dungeon, if a player dies, it should be Mrs. Xu's family who comes back, right... This is the family that Mrs. Xu doesn't want to see?

Mrs. Xu began to close her eyes and babble non-stop, Qi Zhen pricked up her ears and listened carefully, but what Mrs. Xu said in her mouth did not seem to be words that ordinary people could understand.

The female player with her hair in a bun next to her said lightly: "It's the "Death Curse" of the over-deceased." ”

"Thank you." Qi Zhen replied in a low voice.

Mrs. Xu recited the mantra to the new "home" paper figure, apparently hoping to "send" the other party away as soon as possible, and she was afraid.

Since the other party is also a family member, what is Mrs. Xu afraid of?

After about ten seconds, the footsteps in the hallway resounded, and faded away in the direction of the stairwell, and finally disappeared completely at the entrance of the stairwell.

This was followed by the faint sound of the door opening, and I don't know which room the paper man entered last, and all the sounds were still.

Everyone's tense nerves gradually relaxed, and while Mrs. Xu breathed a sigh of relief, the paper figure stiffly drew circles with her fingers, as if she was trying to curse something.

This discovery made Qi Zhen interested, and he tried to ask the paper man Niannian: "Are you afraid of the footsteps at the door just now?" ”

Nian: "Ahh

It emitted a series of indistinct characters from its mouth, as if it couldn't answer Qi Jiu's question.

The female player with her hair in a bun reminded again: "Paper people can't communicate with people at will. ”

Qi Jiu: "How do you make the paper man speak?" ”

The female player with the bun chuckled in a low voice, "I said that I am very willing to work with lucky and smart people, except for this dungeon. ”