Qi Yan exchanged the candy man he had purchased from Melissa from the "Road Circus" from the system, and through the crack in the door, he handed the sugar man to the door, and opened his mouth to come: "This is what your grandmother asked me to bring back from the circus in other places, and give you a New Year's souvenir, I hope you can like it." ”

When it comes to "bribing" NPCs, perhaps no one is more skilled than Qi Yan.

And Melissa's handmade little candy man is also perfect as a New Year's gift for children.

Just a second after Qi Yan sent out the little sugar man, a rustling sound came through the door, and then, an old colorful poster was passed into the room through the crack in the door-

[The 79th phase of the "Colorful Years, Walking with the Stars" Children's Star-Making Program is now open for ticket purchase, please contact 626-2573079 as soon as possible if you want to purchase tickets]

The moment Qi Yan saw the content of the poster, the original indescribable sense of coldness disappeared, and the power supply in room 407 returned to stability, the lights no longer flickered, and the original brightness was restored.

Obviously, the uninvited guest outside the door has left.

At the same time, Qi Yan checked the system interface at a glance, and the plot progress of the "Duoxi and Duole" branch has reached 50%.

It seems that this old poster is an important plot prop.

Qi Yan immediately picked up his mobile phone and dialed the contact information given on the poster to buy tickets, and after waiting for half a second, a disappointing busy sound came from the other end of the phone.

Qi Xiaonian had already stepped down from the top bunk, and he came to Qi Yan's side: "Could this contact number have expired?" After all, it seems too old..."

"It doesn't matter, just try a few more times to know, this kind of official phone has always been difficult to get through."

Qi Yan patiently dialed back twice, it was still a busy tone, and Qi Xiaonian beside him almost had no hope, but when Qi Yan dialed the phone for the fourth time, the busy tone disappeared, and was replaced by a long waiting tone-

"Toot, toot, toot......"

Immediately afterwards, the strange sound of electricity came from the mobile phone, and a series of indistinguishable noises, after the small noise gradually faded, the mechanical female voice gradually became clear-

"Welcome to call the official ticket purchase channel of "Colorful Years, Walking with the Star Road", on behalf of the organizer, I am very sorry to inform you that due to a serious stage safety accident at the performance site of this issue of the Star Making Project, in order to investigate the safety of the performance and the accident responsibility, my program is being removed from the shelves for rectification, and all ticket purchase channels will be closed to the outside during the rectification period, and the audience who has purchased tickets can apply for a refund, and we will refund the ticket purchase amount within three working days after we have passed the review..."

Qi Jiu's brows furrowed: "Can you tell me what happened on the stage?" ”

"Welcome to call the official ticket purchase channel of "Colorful Years, Walking with the Stars......" The other end of the mobile phone repeated the words just now.

Qi Jiu: "Can you help me connect to the human customer service?" ”

"Toot toot..." not only did his question go unanswered, but a busy sound came from his phone as he was forced to hang up.

Stage Safety Incident... Does this have anything to do with Mrs. Xu's mention of "it's not safe outside, let them go home early" when she saw Duoxi and Duole performing?

[Congratulations, you have successfully mastered the important clues of the side story "Duoxi and Duole", and a new plot is about to open, so stay tuned]

At the moment when the system prompt fell, the TV screen that was originally covered with a floral cover lit up without warning-

Chapter 193: Year (12)

A flickering white light came through behind the shroud, but there was no sound.

After the system announced that the new plot was about to start, the screen of the old TV set placed on the cabinet automatically lit up.

Almost without hesitation, Qi Yan stepped forward, and when he lifted the polyester cover on the TV, the noise of the snowflakes jumping on the screen gradually subsided, and a stage with a huge paper-cut rainbow as the background and a colorful piece of paper with the theme of "Colorful Years, Walking with Stars" appeared on the TV.

The host standing on the stage still looks like a paper figure, holding the microphone and introducing in a subdued voice: "Next, please welcome the two children of Duoxi and Duole with warm applause to bring us the song "Non-existent Friends". ”

The paper figurine-like duo Xi Duole walked onto the stage amid the applause of the audience, holding the microphone in their hands and bowing generously to the audience.

The exaggerated colorful lights go out, the spotlight hits the two sisters, the pink blush applied to the cheeks of the paper figure looks stiff and abrupt, and the ill-toned lipstick outlines the curve of the paper man's raised lips.

Then the melodic and strange music spreads out, and with the crisp children's voices of the Duoxi Duole sisters, the grotesque dissonance makes everyone's scalp tingle.

"Why is this song weird..."

"That's right, and it's sung in the image of a paper man, it's too underworld..."

At this time, all the players in room 407 were attracted by the sudden performance program, and after watching it for a while, a chill crept up their backs.

But this was the beginning of the horror, no one could have predicted that in the middle of the singing performance, a loud "boom" suddenly came from the performance site, and the huge sponsor advertising screen and the steel frame that fixed it fell from above the stage, just hitting Duoxi and Duole, who had no time to react at all!

The audience erupted in screams for help, and even if the camera did not reach the audience, the audience staring at the screen could still associate the scene of chaos in the audience.

On the stage that collapsed unexpectedly, the screen and steel frame that were shattered in half pressed against Doxiduo Le, and they didn't even have time to make a cry for help, while the speakers behind the stage continued to play accompaniment music......

Suddenly, the TV screen flashed, the graphics became distorted and blurred, and before everyone had time to ask questions, a background similar to a live news room appeared on the TV screen, and a paper man host with a microphone had a heavy face: "This afternoon, a terrible accident happened at the filming site of "Colorful Children's Star-Making Performance", and the contestants and two sisters were unfortunately killed in the accident. According to eyewitnesses, during the performance of the show, the big screen above the stage suddenly collapsed and fell, crushing the two sisters who were singing and performing under the big screen, the victim's mother was also at the scene at the time, and the staff and emergency responders quickly rushed to the scene of the accident, but the damage caused by the accident was irreparable, and the two sisters unfortunately passed away in the process of being taken to the hospital. ”

"It is reported that the day of the stage accident was also the seventh birthday of the two sisters of Duoxi and Duole......"

At this point, the picture stops.

One of the players subconsciously stepped forward and patted the top of the TV: "I have used this kind of old TV at home, and it often freezes, just pat it." ”

Sure enough, after he slapped the TV twice, the stuck picture was back in motion.

"Look, we still have to use violent means to cure this old machine."

"Although, however, the show loops again..."

Although the picture is no longer stuck, the scene of the accident and the content of the news broadcast just now are played out on the screen again, and the cycle repeats.

Honest TV doesn't have a remote control,Qi Ji toggles the change button,It's a pity that except for this channel that loops the accident,No other channels have received a signal,Nothing but beating noise。

Qi Ji thought for a while, and was not in a hurry to continue to change the channel, he waited patiently for a moment in the noise of snowflakes, and suddenly, the originally quiet and silent picture suddenly sounded.

The screen was still flickering gray and white, but there were small quarrels and desperate cries on the TV.

The sound and picture did not match, but it did not prevent Qi Yan from pricking up his ears-

"If you hadn't insisted on letting them sign up for this star-making contest, you wouldn't... Toki and Toh Lok will not... On their birthdays, they were originally scheduled to go to an amusement park, and they were promised last year... I didn't expect..."A man's voice came from the TV, his tone was vague and sad, and he seemed to be speaking with suppressed tears.

"Xu Minxin, what do you mean... Have you forgotten? The promotional poster of the competition was brought home by you from your unit! A hoarse female voice said hoarsely.

Man: "What's the use of talking about it now... What's the use... Doxitole is gone... Asking the bottom of the matter will only break us down, won't it? ”

Woman: "What do you mean?" Are you going to run away?! ”

Man: "Junyi, the matter has come to this, we have no room to escape, if there is, I am willing to completely escape everything, nothing has happened, nothing knows!" ”

Woman: "It's your fault, you shouldn't take that bad poster home, it's all its fault, it's all your fault, it's your fault!" ”

There was a dense cracking sound of porcelain on the snowflake noise screen, and it was conceivable that at this moment, the woman was out of control and was throwing the cups, plates, dishes and chopsticks on the table to the ground.

"It's my fault that it's good, it's my fault that peace depends on me, what are you doing?! Junyi, calm down! This was followed by hurried footsteps and the sound of physical scuffling, as the man tried to stop the out-of-control woman.

"You're right... I'm going to find it... Without it, Doxiduo would not have gone to this race, would not have left us in such a way..."

The cracking of porcelain and the crying of women faded into taten, and finally disappeared silently in the monotonous noise of snowflakes.

This "farce" without pictures tends to be silent, as if it never happened.

Qi Yan tried to continue turning the channel button, and after he jumped three or four channels, the sound of the music box came from the TV.

The silhouette of the paper figure floated above the noise, and Duoxi and Duole in red dancing shoes reappeared on the TV screen, the corners of their lips cracked and stiff, and they held the circus candy man given by Qi Jiu in their hands: "If you don't participate in this competition, your parents won't quarrel because of us." ”

A familiar and eerie melody came from the TV, which was the soundtrack of the death show "Non-Existent Friends" just now.

"If it wasn't for this game, we would have been able to go home for the New Year."

"Dear guest, can you help us?"

The paper figures had no eyes, and they looked at Qi Ji in front of the TV with their hollow eye contours, giggling and laughing sadly.

At this point, all the pictures came to an abrupt end, and the TV turned off with a "pop".

Before everyone could come to their senses, the room was dead silent, and the players' stunned expressions were reflected in the unframed TV screen.

Qi Yan checked the TV again, and only after making sure that it could not continue to play did he re-cover the floral cover.

[Congratulations, you have successfully watched the important audio and video materials of the "Duoxi and Duole" branches, and obtained the new branch unlock: 80%]

[Completing the side quest will be able to obtain important items and clues, please continue to explore]

Qi Ji looked thoughtfully at the current side progress bar, and it was clear that the remaining 20% of the progress needed to meet the requests of Duoxi and Duole in order to advance.

Qi Ji sorted out the information he had just seen in his heart, the two sisters suffered a stage accident and unfortunately left because they participated in the "Colorful Years" star-making competition, they didn't want their parents to quarrel over their own affairs, and they were thinking about going home for the New Year, and the premise of these was that there was no accident......

- How can we "turn back time"?

Qi Yan's eyelids, who were in thought, jumped slightly, and in the light of light, he was blessed to the heart, and he had already found the answer from the conversation between Xu Minxin and his wife just now.

And on the stage of the accident, the song "Non-existent Friends" sung by Duoxi Duole also made Qi Yan a little concerned.

Is the title itself a metaphor? Who is the non-existent "friend"?

Players who didn't trigger the side quest looked at each other, they themselves were caught off guard and caught up in the dungeon, and the top priority was just to save their lives, and they didn't seem to be very interested in completing the dungeon.

Among them, the player who slept on the innermost iron frame bed crossed his arms and shivered palely, he looked around in a panic and muttered, "Anyway, it's suddenly so cold since just now... Why is it so cold..."

Qi Yan subconsciously glanced at the other party, and Qi Xiaonian also realized that something was wrong: "Cold? I didn't feel any change in temperature..."

Before Qi Xiaonian's words fell, there was a sudden "zila" sound, and the lights in the room flashed and went out.

Room 407 was instantly plunged into darkness with no fingers visible.

Someone scolded "grass" in a low voice, afraid of something, of course everyone remembers, the fourth rule mentioned at the party -

"Please don't turn off the lights to sleep tonight, the lights won't go out for no reason, if the lights don't go out very well, please find the extra person in the room within two minutes."

At first glance, this rule seems illogical, and there seems to be a lack of important information between the lights not going out and the extra people in the room, but it is this kind of confusing and vague statement that makes people think about it.

So once the lights in the room go out, there will be an extra "person"? And this extra guy must be found within two minutes, otherwise it will lead to uncontrollable consequences......

The situation suddenly became extremely urgent, and players who had just wanted to complete the basic tasks in a solid way had to take action.

Faced with the lights out, the first reaction of all players is to restore the lights as soon as possible.

The player closest to the light switch tried to press the button several times in the first place, but as expected, the light could not be turned on again after it went out.

"It's too unlucky, is this a trip?"

Everyone has a different way of soothing their fears, some people need to be silent to relieve stress, others need to scold and be courageous.

"Grass, the inventory has frozen all my lighting!"

"It's the same on my side, it seems that the copy wants us to find the so-called extra 'people' in the dark..."

After the lights went out for no reason, Qi Yan immediately checked his inventory, and sure enough, as the other party scolded, all the luminous props, including the "Ghost Fire Bamboo Lantern", were disabled, and the system didn't leave them any room at all.

And the darkness at this moment is very "special".

This is a kind of thick darkness that cannot be truly perceived without being in it, not only is the light in the room extinguished, everything that can emit brightness is blocked, at this time, the window is obviously not curtained, but even the light in the corridor cannot penetrate it, and the entire 407 is shrouded in darkness and impenetrable wind, and even the outline of the object cannot be distinguished.

In the suffocating absolute darkness, human instinct can make players feel lost and devoured.