A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Gu Jinhong lined up the dolls he picked up in front of him, and placed seven or eight almost identical dolls side by side. This picture had an inexplicable impact, which attracted everyone's attention.

"What is this, handmade?" He Xiangwu picked one up curiously, "Is it handmade from pure wood? It looks pretty good, who made it?"

"..." This is probably called a nerd seeing a nerd. When an otaku sees a villain, he immediately thinks of a figure.

"The figurines are all plastic figurines. I've never seen a wooden figurine." You Qingyu also picked up one, "Is this some kind of curse prop? A voodoo doll or something like that?"

"Uh, shouldn't that kind be made of grass..."

Fang Shiqing and Gu Jinhong looked at each other.He began to feel that the players usually communicated too little, but at this moment, the others didn't even know the seriousness of it.

"This kind of doll... I seem to have seen it before." Zeng Xin said suddenly.

"Have you seen it?"

"Yes, ah, no..." She recalled for a while, and said uncertainly, "It seems that I have dreamed about... right?"

"Dream?!" Fang Shiqing grabbed her suddenly, "What did you dream about?"

"It's... nothing, right?" Zeng Xin was a little at a loss, "I don't really remember, it seems to be a high school reunion, and there is a classmate who looks like this doll."

"That said, I seem to have dreamed about it too." He Xiangwu rubbed his head and said, "It seems that our department is doing team building, and a girl who looks like this also went."

"...Actually," Gu Jinhong said with a wry smile after a while, "I dreamed about it too. I dreamed that at the graduation ceremony several years ago, a friend introduced a black-haired woman to me."

Fang Shiqing felt that the seriousness of this matter had exceeded his imagination, which made him feel strongly disturbed—and this was a problem that he could not handle with his current ability.

He didn't know if Xiao Fengdi had come back, he wished he could fly to the library to have a look.

But before that, "Why hasn't Zhao Jun come yet?"

Reminiscent of the various abnormal phenomena in the past few days, he always felt that Zhao Jun's absence was very bad.

"Maybe he doesn't plan to come today at all." You Qingyu saw his expression, "Is there any problem? Or, let's go and find him?"

This matter sounds a bit motivating, but Fang Shiqing immediately agreed.On the way he finally had a chance to explain about the dolls, but it didn't cause the expected panic.

"It doesn't sound like a particularly dangerous monster, on the contrary, it's quite...romantic. It looks like it came out of a romance comic." You Qingyu said.

Fang Shiqing couldn't refute it. Indeed, compared to the pale female ghost who came out of the mirror to kill people, a wooden doll who wanted to fall in love with a human was quite romantic.

"According to what you said, isn't that monster just a large action figure?" He Xiangwu muttered in a low voice, "Brother Fang, I think you don't have to run away when you encounter it, just go up and touch it."

"It sounds like it should be able to communicate," said Zeng Xin. "I don't think a monster that can communicate is not scary."

"That's true, but..."

——Is that doll girl really "able to communicate"?

Fang Shiqing had a strange fear of that puppet, maybe it was because he had a little puppet phobia, or maybe it was because of Xiao Fengdi's cautious attitude towards this matter.

However, when the group arrived at the courier point, no one could laugh anymore.

——The door of the warehouse is closed, with a huge lock hanging on it.

There are two NPCs complaining at the door.

"Why isn't the door open today?"

"I was notified that the express mail had arrived the day before yesterday, but it didn't open yesterday, and it didn't open today. How do the people in Tongtong Company work? It's so unreliable..."

"Wait, excuse me." Fang Shiqing's heart fluttered, and he immediately called out to the NPC, "You mean, the delivery point was not open yesterday?"

"That's right, the door was locked yesterday afternoon, and it hasn't been opened today."

The two NPCs complained and walked away, leaving the players in silence.

——According to this statement, Zhao Jun wasn't here yesterday.From yesterday to today, at least 24 hours have passed, where can he go?

The nature of his work is destined to prevent him from leaving the delivery point for a long time.Zhao Jun is a person who is very concerned about his work—more precisely, he is very concerned about making money and doing tasks. What can make him leave his job and leave for such a long time regardless?

"..." After a while, Gu Jinhong asked, "Has anyone seen Zhao Jun in the past few days?"

Everyone is shaking their heads.After entering the summer, the players were all very busy, and even if they met occasionally on the street, they couldn't say a few words.

Calculated in this way, the time Fang Shiqing met him on the tenth day was actually the last time Zhao Jun appeared in front of the players.

"I... let's make sure now, when exactly did he disappear," You Qingyu murmured, "Maybe he just went out to do some errands during the past two days and came back at night."

"I'm afraid not," Fang Shiqing became more and more anxious, "Today is the day when Tongtong's truck comes from other places to deliver the express, and he shouldn't leave the station no matter what."

The players walked around and soon found a truck with the company's logo parked on the side of the road.The driver NPC was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, and hearing them ask about Zhao Jun, he was full of resentment.

"Well, yes, that kid isn't here. I don't know where he went," the driver flicked the cigarette ash irritably, "I always come here at ten o'clock in the morning, and the door was locked when I got here today. There’s no place to unload.”

Now that things have happened, I have to admit that Zhao Jun is really missing.

"This... what should we do now?"

The players gathered outside the courier point, helpless.Zeng Xin looked bewildered, "Are you going to look elsewhere? I don't know where he usually likes to go..."

"Why don't you wait a little longer, didn't you say that the case was filed after being missing for more than 48 hours, maybe he came back by himself tonight..." He Xiangwu said vaguely.

"Then what if you can't come back? Will you keep procrastinating?"

There was a worst guess on everyone's mind, but no one said it.

According to the experience so far, the monsters that appear in the game can be divided into two types.The first type, let’s call it map monsters, are those ghosts, zombies, etc. that wander around after nightfall; the second type can be called dungeon monsters, which only appear in dungeons or when the dungeon entrance is triggered.

Now there is no announcement to trigger the dungeon, that is to say, if Zhao Jun disappeared after encountering a monster, he should encounter a map monster.

——Instance monsters usually don't directly kill people, they just pull players into the instance, but map monsters are always merciless.If Zhao Jun was caught by them, it is very likely...already...

"Anyway, I'll go to the library first." Fang Shiqing was very confused. He asked Gu Jinhong for a few wooden dolls, and then ran straight to the northeast.

"Do you want us to go with you?" Zeng Xin shouted behind him.

"All right!"

Fang Shiqing ran away without looking back.You Qingyu hesitated for a moment and said: "Let's not follow, anyway, it won't be of much help. Why don't you ask the NPC residents around, maybe you can get some news."

Fang Shiqing rushed to the library.Most of the NPCs are still gathered in the square, there are no people on the road, and it feels quite deserted.

He ran forward sullenly, and suddenly felt something in his heart, and turned his head suddenly:

Across the road, on a bench under a street tree, someone sat quietly.

——To be more precise, it was a black-haired female doll.

She looked at this side quietly, with the corners of her mouth raised and lowered, as if she had some deep meaning.

The combination of that overly delicate face and the bottomless expression made Fang Shiqing feel a strange fear.

——Why is she here?

She hasn't appeared directly in front of his eyes for nearly two weeks. What's the purpose of appearing here now?

He hesitated, grabbed the hem of his coat, and walked to the other side of the road, standing only a few steps away from the bench.

"you……"

He felt nervous for a while, but the puppet girl held her chin, looked at him with interest, and spoke first: "Long time no see, Shi Qing, dear. By the way, can I call your name?"

After being teased like this, Fang Shiqing calmed down a little.He took a deep breath and decided to ask the question directly.

"It's not that long. I only saw you three days ago. Although I just glanced over someone's shoulder."

The girl smiled slightly, but didn't speak.

"The one attached to my friend's back at that time, is it really you?" He asked while thinking, "My friend disappeared. Did you do something to him? And you, are you still trying to treat me?" What are your other friends doing?"

"Well, since you asked that," she sighed, and gave Fang Shiqing a resentful look, "it is true. I need to feed on your human emotions or souls for a living, but in fact, I have been very hungry for a long time... ...I just wanted to find something to eat. I deliberately targeted people you know, otherwise, you wouldn't want to bother with me."

"Where did you... get Zhao Jun?"

"Huh? Who are you talking about?" The puppet girl moved her neck slightly and turned her gaze to the road to the east.She seemed to be paying attention to the direction of the library, "Oh, that acquaintance of yours seems to be named Zhao. Sorry, I don't remember his name."

"..."

She saw it accurately, he and Zhao Jun were indeed not friends, the most appropriate term was actually "teammates".

"However, even if you know where he is now, you can't do anything," her tone was gentle, but the content of her words was terrifying, "it's too late."

"—have you killed him?"

"How can you use such a bloody word like 'kill'?" The puppet's expression was innocent. "A spirit like me always hates violence. I just extended a friendly invitation to him."

"Invitation..." Fang Shiqing suddenly remembered his previous experience, and suddenly understood, "What you mean by 'invitation' is to invite him to come to your side?"

"Of course not, I'm not that casual, am I? How could I want to grab a male human being when I see it? I only invite people I like to come to my side," she propped her chin with her hands, her words were infinitely ambiguous, "and I like Yes, only you."

Fang Shiqing pretended not to hear, so she could only sigh boredly: "I just invited him to make a deal."

"The content of the transaction is very simple: I need some human souls as food, and his life lacks a sense of accomplishment and identity; so, I gave him a dream sweet enough to let him enjoy success forever in the dream world, In return, he offers his soul to me as my food. We each take what we need."

Fang Shiqing understood, and gasped suddenly.

Her setting is actually not uncommon. There are similar monsters in many legends: they feed on human souls, paralyze human minds with virtual and beautiful illusions, and wait for opportunities to take people's lives.The human beings who are killed are often immersed in illusions until they die, with a happy smile on their faces.

Xiao Fengdi also said before that a spirit like her is used to bewitching people's hearts, defrauding human souls by "entering dreams".

The girl tilted her head and said: "The human has fallen into a deep sleep now. In his dream, he has everything he needs, and he is extremely happy. This is a fair and just transaction established on the premise of mutual consent. He knows very well what will happen. What; otherwise, why do you think he deliberately concealed my existence whenever you asked, and just pretended nothing happened?"

No wonder Zhao Jun would vehemently retort every time he noticed something strange before. It turned out that the guy had been bewitched by her long ago?And during this time, the puppet girl has been hiding by Zhao Jun's side?

"Where is he?" Fang Shiqing asked again, his mind spinning rapidly, "I can't believe it's 'fair' just because you said it. No matter how you say it, he has to admit it himself."

"That is to say, are you going to find him?"

"Correct."

"I knew you would say that," she suddenly burst into a glamorous smile, "this is really great, it couldn't be better. Your 'acquaintance' is sleeping at my house right now; if If you want to see him, come to my house as a guest."

"—I will make all the preparations and wait for your arrival."

After finishing speaking, the doll girl disappeared like a bubble in the sun.

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After a little revision, I am still not satisfied... I don’t know if this chapter is written clearly. If you feel that there is something that is not clear, please tell me, and I will revise it again.

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