Puzzle games

Several other people quickly understood my intention of asking this question, their faces became ugly, and they looked at Liz with a little more vigilance.

"If you find it, you will be eliminated. Of course, the eliminated guests will not be able to participate in the next game." Liz looked at me contemptuously, as if she was asking such an obvious thing.

However, my intuition tells me that the so-called elimination will never be so simple.

"One of our companions just left, how does he count?" Ma Jiayang seemed to have a good relationship with Wang Wen, and asked anxiously at this moment.

"He's already hidden." Liz giggled, raised her hands and said loudly, "Then, our game has begun!"

Then she closed her eyes and sang slowly in a low, distant tone.

Lizzie Bordentookanaxe,

Lizzie Bordentookanaxe,

and gave her father forty whacks.

Whenshesawwhatshehaddone,

she gave her mother forty-one.

Lizzie Bordentookanaxe

……

Singing together, the remaining six people immediately dispersed, me, Ye Zhao and Ruan Xiaoshui ran in one direction, Li Modong, Ma Jiayang and Shen Kuo in the other direction.

"Wow, this song is still in English!" Ruan Xiaoshui kept on stepping, complained in a low voice, hesitated for a while, and asked: "Brother Tian, ​​do you know what this song means? I feel so scared when I hear it Woolen cloth?"

"This is the famous nursery rhyme of Mother Goose in Britain." I replied casually, "The nursery rhyme of Mother Goose is also called the nursery rhyme of the dark, are you sure you want to know the meaning?"

"Brother Tian, ​​you underestimate me too much. Isn't it just a nursery rhyme? What's dark and not dark?" Ruan Xiaoshui tried his best to look indifferent, but I saw that his teeth were starting to chatter.

"Okay then. The nursery rhyme translates to: Lizzy Borden took the ax and struck Papa forty times; when she realized what she had done, she struck Mama forty-one times."

"Damn, whose kid is cheating on her father and mother, is she crazy?" Ruan Xiaoshui broke out in a cold sweat from the content of the lyrics, "Liz, Liz, the kid who played games with us is also called Liz Here, can't it be her?"

"Nine times out of ten, it's her, and don't forget, we are in a madhouse, and the one who will appear here is not a lunatic!" I told Ruan Xiaoshui angrily, "So don't let her find you."

Ruan Xiaoshui nodded hurriedly, and suddenly said: "Brother Tian, ​​you are really amazing and know a lot. I think you must be a genius if you are not a lunatic."

"Nonsense, of course I'm not crazy, I just don't like potatoes!"

In fact, in my heart, I really don’t think I’m a lunatic, neither is Ye Zhao, nor is Ruan Xiaoshui, nor is Shen Kuo, neither is anyone, it’s just that this world is crazy.

The building in District A is a twin building with three floors. The first floor is mainly the hall, the doctors' offices and the dining room. The doors of all the rooms are not locked.

But we don't intend to hide here. Many people like to play under the lights. I don't want to take the risk. This child who killed his father and mother is obviously out of his mind. Maybe the first thing she thinks of is the so-called most dangerous one The place is the safest place.

The stairs leading to the second floor have completely changed. The stone steps have been replaced by old wooden escalators, and there is a creaking sound when stepping on them, so scared that Ruan Xiaoshui hastened to lighten his steps.

The second floor has been rebuilt at some point, and the rebuilt appearance is not very different from the original one, but everything seems to have been given a nostalgic filter.

The wards on both sides were also unlocked. I opened the door of one of them casually, and there were two patients lying in it. They were sleeping soundly, and they seemed to be completely unaffected by the movement downstairs.

This surprised me a little. I originally thought that there would be no one else in Area A except the seven of us, the dean, and the little girl Liz. Is this really another madhouse?

I quickened my pace and opened those doors one after another. There were patients sleeping inside without exception. I didn't know any of these patients until I opened the last door.

There was only one patient inside.

There is no beard, although he is young, he still has the same wrinkled facial features as a hobbit, and a short stature. I recognized him at a glance—Karl.

At this moment, Dr. Carl is not wearing the white coat that he is proud of. The sleeves that are exposed outside the quilt are the same striped shirts as ours.

"Brother Tian, ​​what's going on? Isn't this Karl the dog/bastard!" Ruan Xiaoshui was extremely surprised, and seeing his disgusted expression, if it wasn't for the wrong timing, he would have rushed over to beat him up again.

I had a guess in my heart, but instead I had more doubts. I shook my head and signaled the other two to move on.

Liz was still singing that extremely uncomfortable nursery rhyme slowly, and no one knew when she would stop, so we had to pick up the pace and walked to the higher third floor.

The twin buildings are connected by a corridor, and Shen Kuo, a big fool, is still singing dirges, and the desolate singing comes from the opposite side.

"Oh my God, this idiot is still singing, and Liz will definitely be the first to find him by following the sound." Ruan Xiaoshui's tone was full of sadness, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

The third floor is much smaller than the two floors below, and the decoration is also very special. The walls of the corridor are covered with delicate and beautiful blue iris wallpaper, and the pure white magnolia flower wall lamps exude a soft light.

This floor was nothing like a ward in a madhouse.

I have never been to the third floor in Area A before, and it can even be said that I have never noticed that there is a third floor in Area A.

With the light of the wall lamp, we can clearly see a large photo frame standing at the end of the third floor. Inside the photo frame is an old black and white photo that is slightly yellowed.

In the photo is a family of four, two adults love each other, the younger son is sitting in the arms of his mother, with big innocent eyes open, he looks only three or four years old, but the older daughter is very familiar to us, it is That little Liz girl singing scary nursery rhymes.

Such a black-and-white photo in this situation reveals a deep sense of weirdness, and the three of them couldn't help shivering in unison.

"I didn't expect this little girl to have a younger brother. I didn't hear her mention it just now..." Ruan Xiaoshui muttered while shaking his goosebumps all over his body.

At this time we were already standing in front of the only ward on the third floor, and Ye Zhao pushed the door open without fear—a small pink bed that was obviously a girl’s bed, with a few dolls, a large wardrobe, and a dressing table on it. , Bookcases, there are many places where people can hide.

I raised my chin towards Ruan Xiaoshui, signaling him to hide inside.

"Brother Tian, ​​aren't you planning to come with me?" Ruan Xiaoshui looked at me pitifully and then at Ye Zhao.

"You are stupid, if you are found, wouldn't it be like catching crayfish, one by one bringing out a bunch?" I couldn't help but push Ruan Xiaoshui in, and then closed the door.

"I'm with you." Ye Zhao turned to look at me.

"it is good."

The two quickly went down the third floor, and then walked along the corridor on the second floor to the other side of the twin buildings. The deep singing was getting closer and closer. I could almost guess where he was hiding, but I couldn't stop him , otherwise he will surely cry terribly and be found as well.

We didn't stop here, and continued down the stairs, and soon returned to the hall on the first floor, where Liz had already started singing nursery rhymes for the fifth time.

There is a side door on the west side of the hall, which leads to the plantation in Area A, which is where Ye Zhao and I are going.

Liz said that the scope of the game this time is the entire villa, but whose villa doesn't have a small garden?

The plantation in the middle of the night has been covered with a thin layer of white mist, and the damp and cold air made me shiver -- the weather is so weird, it's as hot as a stove during the day, and it's so cold as to freeze to death at night. Zhao led the way, and I followed behind rubbing my arms.

In addition to the Damascus roses we picked in the afternoon, there are many other cash crops planted in the plantation, mainly small shrubs such as blueberries and raspberries. However, these shrubs are too short and not suitable for hiding. Our destination is The dense cold pine forest in the east.

I expected that such a pine forest also existed in the madhouse at night, and it seemed to be more prosperous than in the daytime.

This seems to be the border of the plantation. I have never set foot here before, and only watched from a distance. First, patients are not allowed to come to such a remote place if there is no task assignment. No thought of escaping the madhouse.

The fog was getting thicker and thicker, and when I entered the cold pine forest, I could barely see my fingers. With the help of Ye Zhao, I climbed up one of the pine trees with difficulty.

At this moment, Liz's nursery rhymes stopped—strangely, we could still hear the little girl's singing after a long distance. At this moment, no one has the extra energy to care about these.

The time passed by every minute and every second. I didn't wear a watch, so I could only make a rough estimate based on the heartbeat and pulse rate, but anyone's heartbeat would be frighteningly fast, and it was not accurate at all, so I had to give up.

This hour seemed extraordinarily long, and soon my arms began to feel sore and my legs and feet became numb. The white mist wet my hospital gown and stuck to my body coldly. My breathing gradually became heavy. I knew it was due to exhaustion. Performance.

I blinked to drive away the small drops of water on my eyelashes, and tried to open my eyes wide, trying to see Ye Zhao clearly on another tree not far away, but I couldn't see anything except the thick fog.

Then something worse happened.

There was a rustling sound from the ground, as if something was gently stepping on the needles, except for the inevitable sound of footsteps, that thing didn't make any more movement.

I subconsciously held my breath, and the voice became clearer, as if it was circling around the tree I was in.

I tried my best to stabilize my mind and hugged the trunk tightly. The movement below disappeared, but the uneasiness in my heart expanded-I didn't hear the sound of it leaving, it was still waiting below!

Sure enough, the other party's patience was probably exhausted first. Accompanied by the howling of a hoarse beast, the thing actually jumped a few feet off the ground, climbed onto the trunk, and then fell down. I could feel the whole tree trembling, making me I couldn't hold it firmly, and I slid half a meter down.

This thing can't climb trees!

Realizing this, I felt relieved, swallowed my saliva, and tried to move up with hands and feet, but the thing changed its strategy, and it began to hit the tree trunk one after another.

Soon, with the uninterrupted thumping sound, I began to fall half a meter and a half meter. I screamed in my heart that I couldn't last long.

The thing stopped hitting after a while, instead, it jumped up like the first time. I felt a gust of smelly wind rushing towards me, followed by a blood basin full of fangs that was about to grin behind my ears. It has a big mouth, a pair of red eyes that bite people, and a huge sarcoma on its head.

This is a deformed monster that looks like a human!