Qi Yan said as he tried to push up with his hand, and when he heard a creaking sound, he was sure that the coffin was not locked, and then lifted the coffin board gently, and the whole person sat up straight, poking his head out of the coffin-

"I heard your prayers and calls, so I woke up," Qi Yan smiled kindly at the complicated expressions of fear on everyone's faces, "I hope it didn't scare you." ”

"Oh my God... I didn't expect the content of the guide book to be really useful..."

"There was no one in the coffin before, but now there is suddenly a priest, I didn't expect the result of the prayer to be like this..."

"Anyway, this priest seems to be quite gentle, and he shouldn't be a dangerous character..."

The crowd gradually recovered from the shock, and began to talk in a low voice, although the players did not completely let down their guard, they were clearly relieved, and did not suspect the pirated priest who sat up from the coffin.

Only then did he notice that the coffin was placed in a medieval-style inn room, made of coarsely mined cobblestone and long strips of wood, and the scattered dark gray stones gave it an ancient and serious visual effect.

There were only candles lit in the room, and there was an altar painted with a grotesque blood totem on the altar, on which roses, rings, high heels and scarecrows were placed.

On the ground, not far from the altar, there was a pool of rotten flesh.

If you have to look closely, you will find a skinned corpse lying in a pool of blood, the dark red muscles and white bones of the corpse overlapping and exposed, and the extremely distorted posture indicates that the person experienced great pain before death.

It seems that the scalp-numbing wail just now was from the corpse before he died, and he couldn't stand the great pain, and he begged the other players to give him a good time, so a good Samaritan shot decisively.

079 muttered: "I have an impression of the Midnight Bride, and the system sent me an invitation before, hoping that I would come to this copy to play a cameo role, but at that time I didn't like this kind of marriage and love-themed copy, so I refused." ”

"Marriage theme?" 079's summary made Qi Yan laugh, "Why don't you like it." ”

079: "Because it's boring." ”

Qi Ji sighed: "What about now?" ”

079: "I refuse to answer the topic you knowingly asked. ”

Qi Yan smiled: "If you agree to participate in the copy, it is likely that the midnight bride is you." ”

079 also smiled: "Huh? If you're here as a passer, I, as the bride, won't be able to wait until midnight. ”

"Mr. Priest, we need your help." A young player wearing glasses and looking very responsible stepped forward and said sincerely to Qi Jiu, who was wearing a priest's regular clothes, "We are tourists from out of town, trapped in this strange town, and every night at twelve o'clock a guest dies, the way of death is very terrible, the skin of the selected deceased is like a snake shedding alive... We hope that you will give us the right guidance to get out of this town shrouded in death sooner rather than later. ”

Qi Zhen nodded: "I'm sorry, because I've been asleep for too long, I don't know what is going on in this world, I need you to give as much information as possible to give you the right guidance to help you solve the difficulties in front of you, the more detailed the information, the better." ”

He noticed that the players gathered in the hotel were all male, perhaps because the theme of the quest was [Midnight Bride], so only male players could come in and break through.

The young player nodded: "Here's the thing, there is a ghost bride in this town who will share the life of a male guest from afar at midnight, and we are trapped here, and a companion dies every day because of it..."

Fr. Qi: "What have you tried to stop this from happening? ”

Young man: "We've had the local priest in the area, we've done exorcisms in our minds, and we've even tried to avoid being killed... Collective women's clothing, but all these methods have failed, and death is played out every day. ”

"Then we called you out through the guide book given to us by the pastor......"

Father Qi nodded thoughtfully, and when he heard this, he quickly had two thoughts to deal with:

First: The ghost bride is also bound by the rules, it seems that she can only kill one guest a day, and she is limited to 12 o'clock at midnight to kill, so as long as the time can't go to 12 o'clock at midnight, is she unable to kill?

Second: find the real motive and constraints of the ghost bride's murder and solve the problem fundamentally.

Father Qi hurriedly asked, "Have you investigated the background story of this ghost bride?" In my slumbering days, there were no legends about ghost brides. ”

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The young man nodded: "There has always been a story about the ghost bride in the town, the story originated from a bloody wedding, the bride and groom, the guests present, and the wedding priest were all killed on the wedding day, it is said that the church where the wedding was held at that time was full of blood, and the groom was beaten into a sieve by a group of murderers with bullets, and finally nailed to the cross of the wedding, as if used as a sacrifice by religious fanatics, the bride's face was smashed by bullets, and the whole face exploded and fell in a pool of blood, and she was still holding a □□ to defend herself, In short, it is very tragic and perverted..."

Qi Yan frowned: "Who are these murderous maniacs?" ”

The young man shook his head: "There are many versions of the identity of the murderers, some say that a group of murderers escaped from a nearby prison, they crossed the border from the south and □□burned all the way, and it happened that the church was built on the wasteland, and the wedding was held at night, so they were unlucky to become the target of the prison escape murder gang." ”

"It is also said that they were a group of cruel religious fanatics who were always looking for suitable targets for sacrifice, and the couple and all the guests of the wedding became the objects of their sacrifice."

"It is even said that these murderers are the bride's ex-lovers, and love must not be hated because of love......"

Qi Jiu: "Is there any explanation in the guideline that the guests who come from afar need to complete specific tasks before they can leave here?" ”

The purpose of his question is to set out the main quest obtained by serious players, after all, only players who enter the dungeon from the serious path can receive the main quest.

Young man: "I said I was going to "help the poor bride finish her bloody wedding again", but we couldn't do it, first, her groom also died on the wedding day, and my friends and I tried it, and even using the spirit conjuring method could not summon the other party's soul. ”

"Second, we have some doubts about the wording of this task, what does it mean to 'complete her bloody wedding again'?" Why do you want to emphasize the word "bloody"? ”

"The poor bride and the bloody wedding...", Qi Zhen pondered this sentence repeatedly.

Without a doubt, this is the main quest of the dungeon.

Judging from the version of the story provided by the players, the pitiful thing about this bride is that she was killed by a group of murderers on her wedding day, and if you follow this logic, the ghost bride doesn't want her wedding to be bloody, but since the keyword "bloody" is mentioned in the main quest, it's not that simple.

"079, according to what you know about the screenwriters of the system, is "Midnight Bride" really just a healing love book?" Qi Yan asked 079 half-jokingly.

079: "Of course not, will the bride protagonist of the healing love book peel the skin of the guest?" ”

Qi Ji sighed: "It's a pity, you are not this bloody bride." ”

079 was silent for a moment and smiled: "Maybe there is still a chance." ”

Qi Yan also smiled: "What? Do you want to steal your colleague's job? ”

079: "How can you call robbing a colleague's job?" Obviously, it is to help colleagues get off work early and take marriage leave. ”

During the discussion between the two, Xiao Qijiu, who was stored in the crib in the safe space, began to be restless, and squeaky and squeaky began to cry and protest.

Originally, Qi Zhen carried the baby with him, but because he had just entered the main system from the "android" copy, he was worried that the weightlessness caused by the spatial twist would not be good for the baby, so he temporarily stored it in the safe space of 079.

079: "Let the kids out, right?" ”

Qi Yan smiled bitterly: "Is the priest with the child like a talk?" ”

079: "Do you want to see the priest in a wedding dress and talk like that?" ”

The two smiled tacitly, and then the baby appeared in the priest's arms.

"Wow Wow Wow Wow ——!" The sudden appearance of the child in the coffin stunned the players, and their eyes widened in disbelief, and their gaze wandered between the crying child and the ascetic priest.

The young man cautiously asked, "This... Who is this kid...? ”

Qi Jiu, who was wearing a priest's uniform, hugged the baby: "My child, I hope you don't mind, he won't disturb the guests to complete the task." ”

Young man: "No, it won't... How would we mind..."

It's just that the scene of the priest holding the baby is a bit too outrageous, and it takes them a little time to get used to the setting.

Qi Yan curled the corners of his lips: "That's good." ”

He stood up from the coffin with the baby in his arms, and the little baby who had been crying immediately quieted down and continued to sleep deeply.

But who will hold a wedding in a coffin? And the inside of the coffin is inlaid with mirrors on all four sides, which looks very contrary and weird.

079 seemed to see through Qi Yan's thoughts, and replied, "This coffin is very much in line with the wedding aesthetics of vampires. ”

Qi Yan glanced at the mirror in the coffin and smiled: "It has to be a very narcissistic vampire." ”

The young man was still synchronizing the information that the players had explored to Qi Ji: "Now this motel is run by the unlucky groom back then, and after the groom died, the hotel changed owners, and all of us strangers were arranged to live here. ”

Qi Jiu: "Have you tried to spend the night in another accommodation?" ”

The young man understood what Qi Zhen meant, nodded and said, "I've tried, but even if I don't spend the night in this hotel, death will continue to happen... The priest said that as long as the travelers didn't leave the bloody town for a day... Death doesn't stop..."

"That's right..."Qi Ji looked at the coffin thoughtfully, and tried to push it with his hand, but found that the coffin was motionless as if it was fixed in the room.

"Was this coffin originally in the hotel?" Qi asked the players.

"Yes, this room was originally the groom's own house, so the priest asked us to perform the summoning ceremony here...", a player immediately replied to Qi Jiu's words.

Qi Zhen tried again, and made sure that the coffin was fixed on the hotel floor, and he said to himself thoughtfully: "Who would put a coffin in their own room, and they are not vampires..."

"079, if you were the bridegroom, under what circumstances would you have such a coffin in the room?" Qi Zhen asked the guy who lived with him.

"If it were me, such a coffin might be used to hold my own bride," 079 thought for a moment, his tone a little disgusted, "but this guy's taste is obviously too bad." ”

Qi Yan agreed: "Not only is the taste poor, but the design of the coffin does not take into account the feelings of the bride lying inside, which is really a bit awkward." ”

"Since the coffin has been prepared for his bride, is it understandable that the groom knew that his bride would die, or ... He wasn't ready to let his bride survive from the beginning? Qi Zhen made a bold and reasonable speculation.

"But what do these mirrors mean?"

"Rather than wasting time guessing, let's just break it up and take a look," 079 said lightly, "and this coffin serves as a connection between the copy and the main system, and the more mirrors there are, the better it will be for us." ”

Qi Yan smiled: "Makes sense." ”

He turned to the player behind him and asked, "Is there any mention of the rule in the priest and the guidebook that you can't destroy the coffin?" ”

The players shook their heads: "No, I just said that this coffin is a container for prayer ceremonies, and nothing else is mentioned." ”

"That's good."

Qi Yan said with a smile, but the moment his words fell, he had already picked up the candlestick on the altar and smashed it towards the coffin without hesitation-

"Bang!"

The sudden loud noise and the strange behavior of the priest startled everyone, and the broken glass splashed out, and the players subconsciously took half a step back.

In addition to the sound of glass breaking, the sound of falling glass was heard from inside the coffin one after another.

Qi Yan pricked up his ears and quickly determined that there was "something else" in the coffin.

The young man who looked reliable was also quite bold, not only did he not retreat to dodge, but instead stepped forward and followed Qi Jiu's line of sight towards the inside of the coffin, and when he saw the true face of the coffin after the glass was broken, an incredible look flashed on his face-

"Hey, there's a basement entrance under the coffin!"

When the glass shatters, the narrow staircase under the coffin is exposed.

"No wonder there's a coffin here, it turned out to be a cover-up."

"Yes, I also said that this coffin can't be moved."

"I have a hunch that I guessed right, this unlucky groom is not simple, maybe this bloody wedding has nothing to do with him..."

The players talked about it, and Qi Yan lifted the skirt of the priest's usual clothes, and walked into the basement with the sweet baby who fell asleep.

Players, you look at me, I look at you, as if they were hesitating something, and finally followed the footsteps of Qi Yan under the leadership of the young man into the basement under the coffin.

Qi Zhen took out the ghost fire bamboo lamp, and the blue-blue flame illuminated the damp stone staircase, and the further down he went, the stronger the smell of corruption became.

The staircase was not long, Qi Zhen raised the ghost lamp to shine in the entire basement, and when he saw the candlestick on the table, he borrowed a fire from the players next to him to light the candle.

There were no windows in the basement, but the candles were flickering.