A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"What? That's for sure? Isn't it too childish to ask such a question?" Zhao Jun said incredulously, "This is not a joke. Stop messing around and be serious."

"Who is fooling around with whom? I'm very serious," You Qingyu frowned and retorted, "Isn't this a very serious question, and the answer to it can only be known by players who come from reality, and it is definitely not something that ghosts and ghosts can guess casually."

Moreover, she also used a little trick in the question just now, directly listing three wrong options, and most people would only think of randomly guessing one of the three, and would not want to guess elsewhere.

This trick is just clever, but it always works.

Fang Shiqing felt that You Qingyu's question was normal.These players have just known each other for more than ten days, and they don’t have any common memories with each other. At this time, there is nothing else to ask; but You Qingyu and him both play games, and occasionally chat about this when they meet each other. , It is estimated that "Fang Shiqing = game chat friend" has already been drawn in her heart.

The game is equivalent to a kind of tacit understanding between the two of them. At this time, the first reaction is to ask the game, which is not surprising.

However, being disturbed by such a disturbance, the atmosphere of joy that he escaped from the dead is completely gone now, and it has become a bit awkward instead.Zhao Jun and You Qingyu stared at each other, and there was an atmosphere of tension inside and outside the stairwell.

Fang Shiqing scratched his hair and felt a little embarrassed, so he said directly: "Anyway, that's what happened, I was just..." He glanced at Xiao Fengdi, "I was saved by the boss. Cough, in detail Let’s talk about the process in a while, the boss said that he found something elsewhere, let’s go and confirm the clues he found, you wait here first, and we will explain it together when we come back.”

Xiao Fengdi nodded lightly at several people with a cold expression, then turned and left without hesitation.

Fang Shiqing felt that he might still have resentment towards Zhao Jun's sentence "These two people are actually dead" just now, so he didn't want to talk to these people; Occasionally, I pay special attention to certain details.

"Ah, wait, I'll go too—" Zeng Xin shouted as she hurried over, but stopped suddenly when she ran to the door.

"I...can't get out," she tried several times but couldn't take a step, and was suddenly very frustrated, "kept telling me 'this operation cannot be performed'."

"...It seems that this dungeon is really a one-way street everywhere. Come on, let's wait in peace."

Fang Shiqing suddenly felt that he was too smart to avoid stepping into the stairwell before.He waved his hands at several people: "It's okay, we'll be right back, everything will be fine."

Then he joyfully chased after Xiao Fengdi, the two of them one in front of the other, quickly submerged in the darkness.

*

After walking behind Xiao Fengdi for a while, Fang Shiqing soon discovered that the area of ​​this maze was far less spacious than they thought before.

After all, this is just a shopping mall built in the town, and the area of ​​the first floor will not exceed [-] square meters.If the field of vision is wide enough and the light is good, this distance can be seen at a glance, which is nothing at all.

It’s just that due to the dark scene, most of the locations are in darkness, and various gravel, cement and garbage are piled up everywhere, which greatly hinders the sight, so it is easy for people to have illusions and mistakenly think that there is a place in the dark. There are more unknown things hidden.

Now that Xiao Fengdi has clearly memorized the road, and he walks directly and quickly, this illusion has been greatly weakened.

The two walked across the entire floor until they reached the diagonally opposite corner.The ground here is very dirty, with a layer of white-gray dust on the ground, as if no one has stepped on the building since the day it was sealed.

Xiao Fengdi bypassed the dust and came to the wall.Here, against the wall, was a shapeless plank that looked like it had been placed carelessly by construction workers.He took a photo of the back with a flashlight: "Look."

Fang Shiqing was dazzled by the aroused dust, and choked so hard that he coughed. The boss of Xindao really checked thoroughly enough, so that he could notice the details in the corners.

But when he rubbed his eyes, he looked at it with the flashlight, and was immediately startled.

——Including that piece of wood, a large area of ​​eye-catching blood smeared on the wall behind.

The bloodstains were dark red, and they were pasted on the wall in large handfuls as if they didn't want money. At first glance, it looked like some kind of post-modern art work.

Seeing him staring at the mark for a while, Xiao Fengdi simply started to lift the wooden board and put it aside, revealing the things underneath.

I thought there would be something more terrifying like corpses underneath, but in fact there was nothing but emptiness.The wall covered by the boards was clean with only a few signs of penetration.

"Come here," Xiao Fengdi was very patient, and called him again, "You can't see anything from such a distance."

Fang Shiqing also imitated the other party's appearance, squatting down close, and the two leaned close to each other almost head to head.

Only then did he realize that a lot of words had been densely written with pencils on that wall.

The color of the pencil is already light, and the traces here have been a little faded for some time, and the light problem is really hard to identify.

The strangest thing is——

"This is, uh... English?" What was written on it was all in English, not a single Chinese character!

After all, he is a modern person with a university education. If he speaks German and French, he can't recognize it, but he can recognize English characters. He must be right, this is the real English.

How can there be small English essays in such a place?

Could it be that the architect BOSS here was not only busy building buildings, but also preparing for the IELTS test before his death, so he was thinking about practicing his writing skills?

He couldn't help but look at Xiao Fengdi next to him with doubts on his face.

Xiao Fengdi crouched next to him and lit the light with a flashlight. He received his gaze and said, "Yes, it's English. What's the matter, don't you understand? Do you need me to translate for you?"

"...No, no need."

Although it has been two years since graduation, Fang Shiqing has never given up on English. After all, not all 3A masterpieces have simplified Chinese versions. If you want to play the original new works as soon as possible, you must know some English.

This paragraph of text is actually very simple, and there are not too many obstacles to read. There are some misspelled words and some typical Chinese grammar in the middle. It can be seen that it was written by a native.

The content is translated roughly as follows:

"No matter who you are, since you understand this message, you must be a victim who unfortunately fell into this building like me.

I don't know what's going on in this building, and I don't know if I can escape, but I want to tell you that there is a terrible ghost in this building, which has been wandering around for a long, long time, hunting and killing mistakes. into the victims.

No, I'm not talking about those armors, and I'm not talking about the big guy underground, but something even more—vicious, cruel, and weird.

The appearance of this evil spirit is exactly the same as that of ordinary humans. He looks like a simple middle-aged man, even a little shy, and his attitude is very sincere when he talks to people.It is dressed in workers' clothing and has a strong body.It said that its occupation was a construction worker. Like us, it was a passerby who strayed into the building and was trapped. It wanted to escape with us in a team. We believed it and agreed-this was the beginning of the disaster.

There were nine of us and it had killed everyone but me, my poor English can't describe the horror.

I am not a foreigner, I use English to avoid being recognized by it.I found it very low literacy level and didn't understand English.Maybe it really is the evil spirit transformed from the resentment of the construction workers.

It won't let me go, I want to run away quickly.Hope this helps, just remember that if a down-to-earth guy dressed like a construction worker accosts you, ignore him and run as far as you can; it must be the real devil. "

By the end of the reading, Fang Shiqing's heart had already set off a huge wave.

"This is... the message left by the previous victims..."

Intellectually, he is very clear that this is just a background story set up in the dungeon for solving puzzles, but emotionally, seeing those messy pencil words, he is still involuntarily brought into the atmosphere of panic and despair .

And in that case, he also left key information, only to provide clues for later generations——

Although his English is indeed poor, there is no doubt that this is a good person.

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw a small piece of wooden pencil falling not far from the corner of the wall, so he picked it up and solemnly held it in the palm of his hand.This should be the pen that the "victim" used to write this message.

"Do you understand?" Xiao Fengdi stood up slowly, "Any thoughts?"

"Well," Fang Shiqing took a deep breath to calm the fluctuations in his heart, "he wrote quite clearly. He should also be an ordinary person who strayed into this abandoned building, and here he met a person who claimed to be the same victim... ...construction workers. But this worker was not a human being, but a 'demon' and killed them all."

"According to the construction background of this abandoned building, I guess," he said after a pause, "this construction worker is the murderer of that murder."

——The reason why the abandoned building became an abandoned building was all because of the murder case many years ago.A construction worker kills a colleague, then an architect who witnessed the scene, innocently implicating a passing museum employee.

After that, the insane murderer was undoubtedly arrested and brought to justice, and he might have been executed, but who stipulated that his ghost could not appear in this building?

"Hmm. I think so too."

Xiao Fengdi nodded in agreement.Two construction workers appeared in that incident, but considering adjectives such as "violent and cruel", it is obviously more likely that they were the perpetrators.

He lightly pressed the blood-soaked wall, and said, "The person who left the message was probably killed by something behind him when he just covered the words with a wooden board. Look at the distribution of bloodstains." , the artery in the neck should have been severed with a knife."

—blood splattered all over the wall, seeping below the surface.

Fang Shi's heart is pure and compassionate.He shook his head vigorously, trying to remind himself that it was just the background story of the game design, not a tragic scene that really existed, so as not to immerse himself too deeply.

"We haven't encountered this evil spirit yet...Boss, have you seen it?" He murmured, "So, it may appear on the upper floors, and we need to pay more attention."

He wasn't very scared, even if it was some kind of vicious and weird ghost, after all, it wasn't the final boss, could it be more fierce than the ghost in the mirror in the previous book?

Fang Shiqing took out the architect's handbook, and used the pencil to copy the victim's last words on the last few blank pages.Then Xiao Fengdi moved the board back, and the two got up again, and walked towards the stairwell again.

Because the record just now made people associate it very tragically, the two of them didn't speak for the time being, they just walked in silence.

"—Ah, boss, boss, wait a minute."

Suddenly caught a glimpse of a glimmer of light not far away from the corner of the eye, Fang Shiqing's spirits lifted immediately, he grabbed Xiao Fengdi's sleeve, and pointed over there——

The direction of the finger is the isolated wall where the corpse is buried.

"Did you know? There are precious stones on the back of the wall, um... let's dig it out?" He was afraid that the other party would not understand, so he emphasized, "Maybe it's very valuable! Dig it all up, nothing else. It must be more profitable than mushrooms."

"..." Xiao Fengdi looked at him, his face was full of speechlessness and incredulity, his eyes were like looking at a mental patient.

"Are you referring to the wall that was specially built to bury corpses?" He also emphasized emphatically, "—is it the wall that you almost buried yourself in?"

Fang Shiqing: "..."

It feels safe to be next to the boss, he has almost forgotten the tragic scene of almost dying before.

The so-called remember to eat but not beat, probably refers to him like this.

"This... These are two different things. In any case, the money that should be earned is still earned."

Moreover, according to the boss, he has removed all three armors on the entire layer, and there is no danger around.After they set foot on the third floor, they can't go back. Isn't this equivalent to throwing away the money they can earn?

Xiao Fengdi also knew that it would be difficult to convince him once he wanted money but not his life. Besides, making money is not a bad thing. In the end, he didn't say anything, just acquiesced.

The two came to the wall again.

Looking at the distorted heads inside, Fang Shiqing was no longer afraid, but more sympathetic.He took out the pickaxe, carefully knocked off pieces of gemstones from the back and put them away, and said to the wall: "I'm sorry, friends. After all, I almost became a brother and sister. I must be careful not to destroy it. your corpses."

Xiao Fengdi looked at him with folded arms not far away, couldn't help but sighed again, showing a hint of helplessness.

"What was going through your mind at the time—when you almost died?" he asked.