I Was Once a Legend

Cui Zuojing didn't take it seriously. Although he entrusted his feelings to the clown, the fear and hysteria at the end of the dream still made him breathless. An unclear figure is firmly imprinted in my mind.

In the end, Cui Zuojing rubbed his eyes, lay back on the bed again, and said to the man, "Can I rest for a while?"

"Okay." Dong Zheng agreed.

It was rare for Cui Zuojing to show a bit of softness. He closed his eyes, kneaded the center of his eyebrows with two fingers, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Back then, Luo Yan became the master of dreams in the end, and the dream just now should be a reminder from her.

It reminds him that he can't fight against the queen by himself, and to rescue his companions, he can only achieve his goal by relying on the help of others?

And this other person, could it be Dong Zheng and his party?

Cui Zuojing was not sure.

Dong Zheng glanced at Cui Zuojing, and continued to sit at the table and fiddle with electronic equipment, when he suddenly heard a scream downstairs.

The voice obviously belonged to Allen, Dong Zheng frowned and got up to go out to see what was going on.

In the living room, Allen was lying on his back on the ground, covering his head, moaning constantly, while the mural that had been hung on the wall fell off, and the picture frame was cracked with long marks.As the master of the painting, Fu Zhe held his forehead in love.

Dong Linhai held back his laughter and pulled Ailun up. Seeing that his forehead was only a little swollen, he said, "You're calling it too exaggerated. If you don't know, you might think that something happened to you."

"How about it?"

Just as Dong Zheng took two steps down the stairs, he suddenly slipped without warning——

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Dong Zheng slid down four or five steps one after another, and sat down on the steps. Thanks to his left hand grabbing the handrail in time, he barely stabilized his figure.

Dong Zheng was stunned for a few seconds, and when he came back to his senses, there was already a layer of cold sweat on his back.

Lin Hai shouted: "It's all right!"

He waved his hands and tried to stand up, but there was a sharp pain in his right ankle.

Dong Zheng hissed and lifted his trousers, his ankles were already swollen up to the naked eye.

The source of all disasters - Lin Hangzhi shrank aside in horror, not daring to speak.

Who am I What have I done Why am I here?

Under the effect of the blood contract, half of the injury was faithfully shared on Cui Zuojing's body, and the sudden pain caused Cui Zuojing to suddenly open his eyes.

The thoughts he had just now were interrupted, the boy let out an irritable "ah", got up, and limped out angrily.

Unhappy written all over his face.

Dong Zheng was sitting on the stairs, turned his head and saw that Cui Zuojing was inconvenient to move, and then remembered that he would share part of his injury.

"Uncle, help him heal, it hurts so much." Cui Zuojing sat down on the top step, facing Lin Hangzhi's timid rabbit-like gaze in the upper living room, took a deep breath, and tried to suppress his anger, Pull out a "kind" smile.

He was the one who asked Lin Hangzhi to do the test, and he was the one who made the guarantee. Now that the retribution has fallen on him, he has no position to blame anyone at all.

Seeing Cui Zuojing's smile, Lin Hangzhi couldn't help being even more frightened. He smiled slyly, and took a step back quietly, only to step on Dong Linhai's foot.Heavy kick.

Linhai: "Aww!"

Victor quickly jumped up the stairs and pressed his paws on Dong Zheng's ankles.After the white light passed, the redness and swelling disappeared a lot with the naked eye. Victor drooped his tail tiredly, shook his head and said, "This is the only thing we can do at the moment. Now, the cat's body is very restricted, and it can't even half its ability." play."

"Thank you." Dong Zheng stood up holding the armrest, went down to the living room, patted Lin Hangzhi on the shoulder, and said, "It's okay, since we agreed to make you a teammate, no matter what happens, we won't blame you."

Lin Hangzhi's bad luck lasted for nearly five days. Except for him, the rest of the team have been looking for a suitable box outside these days, which happened to be able to stay away from the center of the bad luck.

Everyone came out of the maze of time. Dong Zhenglinhai obtained seventeen sticky notes with clues to other boxes, Alan seven, and Lin Hangzhi eight, but only five of them could be used in Area XII.

After searching hard, everyone finally found three of them.

When they came back, Lin Hangzhi, who was already full of depravity, had been tormented and thinned, his eyes were black and blue from lack of rest, as if all his energy had been drained.

"Thank you." Alan patted him on the shoulder sincerely. Lin Hangzhi sighed and said, "I've been unlucky since I was still alive, and I'm almost used to it...By the way, did you find the box? "

Allen: "I found three, let's hold a meeting to decide which one to enter. These clues are written very cryptically, and I don't know if they will come in handy."

Dong Zheng sat in front of the table with a teacup in his hand, and said: "After confirming, you should be able to enter tomorrow. Is Hang Zhi sure that the bad luck is completely over?"

Lin Hangzhi: "Well, I haven't been unlucky for three hours and four minutes, so I should be fine."

Dong Linhai came over with a jewelry box, a gift box and a plain white box, and put them on the table.The jewelry box is only the size of a palm, and the gift box is tied with a pink bow, painted with colorful stars and candies, as if to be given to a child.

"These three correspond to [Northern Lights Gift] [Doll's House] and [Dream Gallery]." Dong Zheng said, "The type of [Northern Lights Gift] is fairy tale/challenge, [Doll's House] horror/survival, [ Dream Gallery] Horror/Alien, they should be similar in terms of difficulty, do you have any comments?"

"It doesn't sound too good," Allen said.

Lin Hangzhi: "My words... I don't recommend choosing to challenge. I entered a challenge box when I was still in the novice area. At that time, I didn't know that there would be such a classification. In the end, I was beaten to death."

Dong Zheng hasn't entered the challenge box yet, so he doesn't know the situation inside, so he asked, "Can you tell me more about it?"

Lin Hangzhi organized his language slightly, and said: "The type is probably like setting a challenge task for you, and you must complete it within the specified time to start the next plot, otherwise you will be hunted down by the npc in the game or something. The degree of freedom is not high, the whole process must be controlled by the plot, and the difficulty is also high. The point is that many of the tasks it gives are insane, insane that you can't imagine!"

Lin Hang's resentment was hard to express, and everyone wisely didn't ask him what he experienced in that box, but it was certain that it must be very painful.

"Okay, let's rule out this one first." Dong Zheng put the jewelry box aside, "Including the novice level, Linhai and I have only participated in the box three times, which are horror, fairy tales and random, and we don't understand many things. , your experience with Alan is very important. Alan, do you have any other ideas?"

Allen, who was leisurely waiting for the final result with his face on the side, unexpectedly said "ah?": "It doesn't matter to me, you just decide."

Lin Hangzhi also waved his hand: "I'm not sure about the rest. Since they all have horror labels, it doesn't matter which one you choose."

Dong Zheng asked Cui Zuojing, who had been silent beside him, "Do you have any comments?"

Cui Zuojing: "No, you decide for yourself. I won't interfere too much with you as long as it doesn't affect the general direction."

After going around in a circle, the final decision still fell into the hands of Dong Zheng. He didn't ask any more questions, and expressed his thoughts: "My suggestion is to go to the [Doll's House]. Victor followed the little girl to get it before. Fragments of the story, you should have some understanding of the style of the box and part of the plot, choosing this box should be better than the [Fantasy Gallery] that only knows one line of clues."

Victor, who had just come out of the bathroom after picking up cat litter, knocked his paw on the door frame. The cat's sensitive hearing allowed him to successfully catch the sound of Dong Zheng calling him. He tilted his head and leaned out half of his body, asking, "What?"

Cui Zuojing: "It's okay, the meeting is going on, do you want uncle to come and listen?"

No one raised any objections. Although Victor would not help on the surface, he knew the clues after all, and he would definitely reveal something behind the words and behaviors in the box.

It is of course a promise to improve the strength to help Cui Zuojing and the others, but before that, saving one's life is the most important thing.

"Then decide to enter the [Doll's House]." Dong Zheng put the gift box in the middle and said, "Take a good rest tonight and adjust your state. After breakfast tomorrow, we will go into the box. The meeting will end."

After running around for several days, everyone was very tired, and Lin Hangzhi, the only one who stayed in the castle, was even more exhausted physically and mentally. After they went back to their rooms to rest, the huge castle was immediately deserted.

Fu Zhe came out of the study, holding a black copy of "God and Alchemy". Standing in the corridor, he looked down at the teacups on the table in the living room, the chairs pulled out, and the sticks glued and hung crookedly on the wall. Everywhere is full of traces of life.

Ever since he was imprisoned in the castle, he had never come into contact with such a fresh breath.

Fu Zhe couldn't help showing a gratified smile. He leaned over and picked up Victor who was pacing at his feet, walked to the kitchen, and said, "Well, it seems that I should make dinner again today."

Early the next morning, after breakfast, everyone was ready to go. Fu Zhe's castle was a very special existence, and they couldn't directly enter the box from it. They returned to the house they applied for in District Ⅻ, where they interviewed Lin Hangzhi.

After making sure everyone was ready, Dong Zheng squatted down and pulled off the ribbon of the bow.

The beautiful ribbon slid to the ground, the gift box spread out automatically, and a dazzling white light burst out, engulfing everyone.

【…】

Tick, tick.

The wall clock rang lightly as time passed, the sound of marbles bouncing and rolling to the side came from the ceiling, and the oxygen generator in the fish tank was rumbling, and everything seemed to be quiet.

Dong Zheng opened his eyes.

He was lying on the sofa, the opposite TV was on, muted, playing an unknown variety show, the fish tank was at his feet, with green aquatic plants and red fish.

Dong Zheng sat up, and a paragraph appeared in his mind.

【It's already seven o'clock in the evening. It's long past the time for school. The children upstairs have already had dinner at home, but your children haven't come back yet. 】

[Call the head teacher, she doesn't know what's going on. 】

【You decide to go to school to find him. 】

Then the task progress in the upper right corner of the field of vision is updated: arrive at the school.

The sound of marbles above his head no longer appeared. Except for the living room, the doors of other rooms in the house were closed. Dong Zheng was not in a hurry to go to school. He took a rough look at the whole house. Holding the shoulders of a boy, about eleven or twelve years old, whose face cannot be seen clearly, presumably it is his missing "child".

There is no figure of the hostess in any of the photos, and there is no trace of a woman's life in the home.The child's room is a bit messy, and there are two dinosaur dolls with teeth and claws on the bed.

Dong Zheng found out a flashlight, determined that there were no necessary clues, and opened the door without wasting time.

This is the building style of an old-fashioned community. There are two households on the first floor, and the doors of the two houses are facing each other. The milk box and the switch of the corridor light are installed on the central wall, and green numbers are flashing on the electric meter box above.

On the whitewashed wall, children have drawn many patterns with pencils, mixed with small advertisements.Dong Zheng walked downstairs, and the sound of marbles falling to the ground sounded from above his head again, rolling drippingly.

Dong Zheng firmly remembered the horror label of this box, and he couldn't help but pause.

At this moment, with the sound of a "click" switch being pressed, the lights in the corridor on this floor suddenly went out behind Dong Zheng.