midnight ten

Hide-and-seek is not a game that Guest.014 likes. He thinks it takes a lot of effort to find it, and it is far less enjoyable than picking up a knife.

But even he has to admit that there is a very fascinating moment in hide and seek, that is, the hider thinks he has hidden, but he has no idea that everything has been seen through.

Guest.014 is in this wonderful moment right now.

He could just rush in and kill the people inside, but that would be too boring, and the sound of breaking the door would also make the guys inside realize that a catastrophe is imminent.

He didn't want the other party to have such awareness.He hoped that he could appear out of thin air in front of unsuspecting passers-by, like a huge surprise that fell from the sky.

What will the faces of the guys in the room be like then?

Just thinking about it, Guest.014 couldn't contain his excitement.

Stepping lightly, he almost silently walked into the next room next to the door.

After entering the room, he didn't continue to walk in, but stood at the place where he just entered, clicked on the castle floor plan on the projection screen, and chose to teleport between the two rooms.

The field of vision suddenly went black, and the body lightened accordingly.

In an instant, the light returned.

Guest.014 opened his eyes with great anticipation, and then froze in place.

None of the terrified face or faces that had greeted him in fantasy, the piercing but exhilarating screams of fear, were there, just an empty living room.

The area is quite large, more than 20 meters wide from one end of the room to the other.The gorgeous big bed is placed in the center of the room, and the four bedposts support the blue velvet bed cover and curtains, which completely cover the scene inside the bed; beside the bed is a half-person-high double-door cabinet, and the top of the cabinet is Exquisite porcelain vases are placed; a huge golden chandelier hangs from the ceiling, and the double-layer lamp stand is extremely luxurious when it is intricately carved. Nearly a hundred candles stand on it. It is conceivable how bright it will be once all are lit. grand.

It's a pity that in order to match the atmosphere of the level, none of the candles on the chandelier were burned, and the lighting in the living room was completely dependent on a few small candlesticks on the wall.

In such dim candlelight, the decoration with the strongest sense of presence in the house—the huge portrait of the castle owner on the wall—showed a certain terrifying majesty.

But this visual effect doesn't work for Guest.014, because the person in the portrait is... Guest.013.

"They made you ugly." 014 stood in front of the painting, admiring it for a long time, and commented impartially.

After appreciating the paintings, Guest.014 started "down to business" in a leisurely manner.

Looking around the room, there are only a few places to hide. Guest.014 has no difficulty in choosing, so he went straight to the window closest to him.

The thick curtains are separated on both sides and stacked on both sides of the window. At first glance, it doesn't look like it can hide people.But the curtains stacked on each side are as wide as a person, and the bottom hangs all the way to the ground, which is actually quite suitable for hiding.

Guest.014 was caught off guard and lifted the curtain on the left: "I caught you—"

There is no one behind the curtains, only the ending voice of Guest.014, which lingers in the empty living room for a long time.

"Tch." Guest.014 snorted, not discouraged, and continued to do the same to the curtain on the other side, "I caught you—"

Still no one.

Then there are cabinets, bed curtains...

Ten meters away, on the wall facing away from Guest.014, a door that was hard to find had already quietly opened a very thin crack.

The reason why this door is difficult to detect is because the pattern on the door panel and the pattern on the wall are integrated. At a glance, anyone will think that this is a complete wall. , it is still easy to overlook the past.

Inside the door is the bathroom of the master room, and it is also the hiding place of Nan Ge and Zheng Luozhu.

The two found this place not by sight, but mainly by luck - when they entered the room, the door of the bathroom was open.

Now, they hide behind the door, through the crack of the door, watching Guest.014 pull the curtains, open the cupboard, look under the bed, pull the bed curtain, every time they exclude a place, they feel more nervous, even Guest.014 Those funny lines of "I caught you" sounded in their ears, and they were all terrified.

Before returning to the checkpoint, Tang Rin repeatedly told them that when meeting a murderer or a man in a bathrobe, no matter what the enemy's strength is, even if the ratio of the number of people in the battle can reach 10:1, don't start a fight as soon as your head gets hot, and run first.

"It's not that we can't win at 10:1, but we haven't finalized a targeted and feasible tactic yet. The probability of winning at 10:1 is the most optimistic estimate. Just treat it as 50%. I don't want you to take risks. Another 50% risk."

Both Nan Ge and Zhuzi memorized the exact words of their team leader verbatim.

But the problem now is that they don't want to fight, but Guest.014 insists on coming.

Nan Ge held his breath, and quietly closed the door again, so that the wall looked back to its original shape from the outside.

Zheng Luozhu's heart was pounding, and he asked with his mouth - he wouldn't have found this place, would he?

Nan Ge shook his head lightly - probably not.

Zheng Luozhu thought about it. When he and Nan Ge entered the room, if the door was not open, it would be difficult for them to find out.The murderer seemed to be a casual person at first glance, and he was probably not as careful as the two of them. It made no sense to see the flaws in the wall.

Nan Ge had only spoken halfway, when he saw Zheng Luozhu pondering on his own, and his expression slowly settled down, he quickly touched him and asked him to read the second half of his sentence - although he couldn't see it, but if he Thinking that this room should have the same layout as the other rooms, with a living room enclosing a bathroom, I began to look for it, and there was absolutely no way to hide it here.

Nan Ge's words were very long, and he mouthed them slowly twice before Zheng Luozhu understood them all.

But after reading it, he shook his head at the speed of light, and replied in seconds—impossible, the guy outside doesn't have such an IQ.

"..." Nan Ge looked at his partner with a determined face, and didn't know whether he should feel sorry for the murderer.

Soon, there was no movement outside. Obviously, the murderer searched everywhere he thought he could find.

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge didn't dare to open the door again, they just leaned against the door panel and listened carefully.

"Why isn't there even a ghost..."

The murderer's muttering was faintly discernible from a distance.

The two VIP partners looked at each other, and before they could feel relieved, they heard each other say——

"Strange, someone is closing the door in the house..."

Zheng Luozhu and Nange's breath was stagnant, and all the luck they held in their hearts was shattered.

Maybe Guest.014 has bad eyesight and can’t find the secret door. Maybe Guest.014 has limited IQ and didn’t expect that every room should have a bathroom, but if Guest.014 has seen the door being closed from the inside, then he is a Fool, also know that there must be a hiding place in the house.

As long as you are sure of this, even if the two of them are hiding in the secret room now, they may be dug three feet into the ground, not to mention that they are only hiding behind a thin and intuitive door.

In the living room, while looking around, Guest.014 frowned and thought hard: "What is missing..."

After thinking about it for a while, he became annoyed, and simply resorted to the "big killer" of hide-and-seek——

He shouted loudly: "I saw you!"

Only echoes echoed him.

Guest.014 curled his lips unhappily, and finally decided to give up, and between "his own eyesight" and "the people in the house have the ability to fly to the sky and escape from the ground", he decisively chose the latter as the official reason for the failure of the raid.

After making up his mind, Guest.014 turned around immediately and prepared to leave without dragging his feet.

At this moment, a vertical crack suddenly opened on the wall painted with patterns obliquely in front.If you look closely, it is clearly the crack in the door.

Nan Ge and Zheng Luozhu in the bathroom heard the "I see you" as if they were dying, and they were glad that the murderer really didn't have a high IQ, and his patience was even more limited. The door, which was struggling to open, opened by itself.

It was as if there was a force in the dark deliberately pushing the door open, so strong that it even pushed Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge who were stuck on the door together.

This is not a random disaster, this is simply a checkpoint that will kill them both!

"Almost escaped by you."

In the living room, Guest.014 approached the open door briskly, with a growing smile on his face.

Finally arrived at the door, Guest.014 impatiently played through the crack of the door and pushed the heavy door open: "I caught you—"

The luxurious bathroom came into view, equally dark and empty.

Guest.014: "..."

If you cheat his feelings like this again, he will file a complaint.

Huge bathroom, deathly silence.

Above Guest.014's head, on a double-layer chandelier of the same style as the living room, Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge hugged the lamp stand, held their breath, and did not dare to move.

The candles on the lamp stand were tottering because of their arrival.Fortunately, the chandelier itself was not lit. They just sat down a piece of dry candles and pressed them under their bodies to prevent them from rolling down.

Guest.014 is still standing there, looking a little confused, but it doesn't mean to look up 90°.

Fortunately, the location of the chandelier is very good, right at the entrance, perpendicular to the standing position of Guest.014, and the ceiling of the room on the top floor is so high that it is almost a blind spot of Guest.014's view.

Time passed minute by minute.

Guest.014 didn't go any further, because the bathroom's furnishings were so simple that it was almost unobstructed, and there was no need to search for it.

Nan Ge and Zheng Luozhu tried their best to endure their breathing, their nerves were tense, and there was only one thought in their minds - get out of here.

Perhaps their piety moved the heavens, Guest.014 sighed as if giving up at last, and turned around reluctantly.

At this moment, a candle on the chandelier that was pressed by the edge of Zheng Luozhu's arm, because it was pressed too far, rolled under the force and slipped out of Zheng Luozhu's arm.

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge gasped silently.

Because of the uneven weight of the two of them, the chandelier was tilted in the direction of Zheng Luozhu, and the candle followed the tilted direction and rolled to the edge of the lamp stand little by little.

Zheng Luozhu wanted to stretch out his hand to grab it, but if he stretched out his hand, the remaining candles under his arm would fall off.

The candle finally rolled out of the lamp holder, just when Guest.014 turned around and was about to take its first foot.

"Clap."

The candle was impartial, and hit the top of Guest.014's head, then rolled to the ground and broke into two pieces.

Guest.014 first glanced at the candle remains on the ground, then slowly raised his head.

In the gloomy bathroom, the six eyes met.

The air is unusually quiet.

"Hi." Zheng Luozhu smiled awkwardly.

Nan Ge also laughed, more natural and polite than Zheng Luozhu.

Then the next second.

"what----"

……

On the eighth floor of the castle, in a room separated from the master's living room by a corridor, under the bed.

Skeleton Bride: "Did you hear that?"

Edogawa: "Isn't it hard not to hear?"

Buddha pattern: "It seems not far from us."

Xia Shanhu: "Do you want to go over and help?"

Skeleton Bride: "Of course, don't say that we have cheated on the VIP so many times, we should return favors, even if we don't have these, we can't do nothing!"

Edogawa: "Skeleton, be real."

Skeleton Bride: "Let's hurry over to help the VIPs out of the siege, and then form a team together. We will definitely be able to pass the customs with them all the way."

Buddha pattern, downhill tiger: "..."

Skeleton Bride: "I knew you would despise me."

Edogawa, Buddhamon, Shimoyama Tiger: "But the words are rough and the rationale is not rough."

Skeleton Bride: "...Damn!"

It is the same as the eighth floor of the old castle, but it is far away in a certain room at the other end.

Xu Dingdong, who had just moved a large heavy cabinet with great effort, was about to search for secret passages on the wall behind the cabinet, when suddenly he was taken aback, and turned around to join Jiang Cheng, who was lying on the floor and concentrating on searching for traces of secret passages. Said: "I seem to hear a woman screaming..."

Jiang Cheng raised his head with difficulty, his face blank: "Is there?"

Jiang Cheng really didn't hear it, but Xu Dingdong couldn't be sure after being asked such a rhetorical question. He looked up at Bai Luxie who was sitting comfortably on the bed: "Captain, did you hear that?"

Bai Luxie simply affirmed: "I heard it."

Xu Dingdong was slightly startled, reflexively waiting for the next sentence.

He saw the white road slanting.

Bai Lu also looked at him obliquely.

In the end, Xu Dingdong couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Then?"

Bai Lu shrugged his shoulders obliquely: "What then?"

Xu Dingdong: "Aren't you going to help?"

The passers-by and the passers-by are all counted. For a woman like VIP Nan Ge, since she knows that the passer-by is in danger, or the VIP who contributed the most to the 4/10 pass, strictly speaking, the three of them can easily pass the pass. Thanks to the VIP, it would be unreasonable to stand by and watch now.

Bai Lu frowned obliquely, he was really not interested in such things as "sending charcoal in the snow".

Jiang Cheng was also beating drums in his heart. First, he didn't hear the screams at all, and second, even if they passed, with their current level of fighting the five scum, there was a high probability that they would give away their heads.

"Are you sure you heard the scream? What if you got it wrong? We took the risk and went out. We didn't save people, but we exposed ourselves instead." He tried to reason with Xu Dingdong, "Even if you heard it right , They are really in distress, we don’t even have a stationery tree now, how did we fight the gatekeepers in the past?”

Xu Dingdong sighed: "Are you too pessimistic, making it sound like as long as we go out, we will definitely meet those two perverts..."

"Sure," Jiang Cheng interrupted him directly, "Didn't you notice that there are no people in the corridor now? Everyone is struggling. It is estimated that many teams are not even looking for [Shengmen]. The current situation is that who dares to take the lead?" , who is the living target of those two perverts."

"Then let's have a fight." Bai Luxie suddenly said leisurely.

Jiang Cheng turned around in bewilderment: "What?"

Bai Luxie jumped off the bed, and in his evil eyes, eagerness to try before the battle began to gather: "Looking at the current situation, there is a high probability that you two will not be able to find [Shengmen]. Then why not change your mind, since If we can’t solve the game, we will take the initiative to find it and solve the game creator.”

Xu Dingdong: "..."

What kind of devil's thinking is this, hurry up!

Jiang Cheng: "..."

Couldn’t you find [Shengmen] because you insisted on sticking to the weird direction of “Secret Way” and didn’t allow others to refute it!

The castle is on the seventh floor, and the staircase turns a corner, which is located obliquely below the owner's living room on the eighth floor.

The three donuts who finally met——

Monk: "It's Nan Ge."

Fifty-five points: "The stationery tree has recovered?"

Monk: "It's hard to say, I feel that she can reach this level by screaming every day."

Fifty-five points: "The point is why is it called?"

Monk: "Either we are like us, the team is scattered, and they want to call their teammates with their voices at the risk of exposing their positions; or they are unlucky to meet those two guys."

Fifty-five points: "Go and see?"

Monk: "Sure, it's so close, I can't even pretend not to hear it. Although the three of us don't have a stationery tree now, it may not have been in the past..."

In the middle of the conversation, the monk stopped abruptly, because he found out that there were still three other people, and only him and Fifty Fen were left.

Monk: "Where is Leon?!"

Fifty-five points: "Go upstairs, run, before we talk."

The author has something to say: Nange's Scream, scientific name, Mandela, aka, assembly number =w=

Chapter 201 Rescue┃The bandaged young man holding a shield stood in front of them, and used the shield to hold Guest.014's bladed fist.

Trial area, consultant room.

The original giant projection screen was divided into dozens of smaller projection screens, which were randomly and messily suspended in the air.

Some of these projection screens are different perspectives of the same level, and some are simply different levels. The only thing in common is that these levels are currently being broken through by people.

The former gatekeepers were also sitting messily, and most of them just gathered around the level they were interested in and watched it on the screen. There were also very few wandering back and forth indefinitely, looking at this level and that level.

But a sudden shrill scream brought the attention of the entire consulting room back to 6/10.

"Is it beaten by a guest or killed?"

"No, it's just been discovered."

"And up to now, that number 14 hasn't touched her with a single finger."

"..."

"Then why is she called so miserable?"

"The key is to keep calling until now."

"The breath staying power is amazing."

"The usual stationery tree training should be quite hard."

Demos was sitting in front of the 6/10 projection screen, paying attention to this level the whole time. Looking at the screaming Nan Ge on the screen, his pale and handsome face showed a feeling of insight into the world: "I said it all, don't mess with it." Women, you are still too young to suffer a lot."

The only female gatekeeper obliquely in front, 1/10 Sif turned her head and raised her thin eyebrows slightly: "You seem to have a problem with me?"

Demos shook his head immediately, denying Sanlian: "No, no, no, I'm talking about her. I definitely didn't insinuate that you are so strict in guarding the level that the 1/10 clearance rate is always at the bottom of all ten levels."

The gatekeeper of the full consultant room: "..."

You deny it in too much detail.

Sif: "...the clearance rate is low because the base number of 1/10 passers is large!"

"Huh? Although there is no stationery tree, her scream is still very useful..." Someone discovered something new on the projection screen.

The gatekeepers looked up.

Really, there are three groups of people rushing to the source of the sound from different positions.

The skeleton bride who rises step by step, Edogawa, Buddha pattern, and downhill tiger.

Donut Monk, Five Five, Leon.

Bai Luxie, Xu Dingdong, Jiang Cheng of the white group.

The passers-by in 6/10 were not fully recognized by the passers-by, especially the passers-by after 4/10. , Charon, and Pan En, who guard the first three levels, only have an impression of the part of the people they have assessed, and they may not remember clearly.

However, through watching in the consultant room these days, especially the impressive performance of these guys in the 4/10 Hunter game, the gatekeepers are willing to, and passively remember this group of people.

Not only the face, but also the name, nickname, organization, and even all kinds of intricate interpersonal relationships.

For example, now, Paine controls directly from the air, pushes up the projection screen from the perspective of donuts, until he gets rid of the monk and Wuwufen, accurately frames the close-up of Leon who is running wildly, and says in a word: "Do you need to run like this?" Hurry up..."

Demos smiled ambiguously: "Heroes must be active to save the beauty."

"Wait, are you saying that he is interested in that woman?" The 7/10 gatekeeper, who had only recognized these passers-by for two days, dragged the projection screen in front of Demos to him, and pointed Nan Ge and Zheng Luozhu on the chandelier in the picture, their wide eyes were full of doubts, "Aren't they a couple?"

Demos was even more puzzled: "Where did you come to this conclusion?"

7/10: "Aren't you enough to walk side by side and interact intimately all the time?"

3/10 next to Charon shook his head, and the crow's feet in the corners of his eyes showed the wisdom accumulated over the years: "Based on my years of experience, these two are obviously siblings."

Paine, who is also a 3/10 gatekeeper, put his hands on the back of the chair, shaking the chair back and forth: "Many years of single experience?"

Charon: "..."

Sobek looked at the colleagues who were discussing enthusiastically, and listened to them chatting about these topics that had nothing to do with the level, feeling complicated for a while.

He thought, people really can't be idle.When they were guarding the customs, everyone was an outstanding talent, but after a few days of leisure, they became vulgar and only cared about gossip.

This realization made him feel depressed and lost his appetite.

Putting down the half-eaten bun, he looked up at the screaming woman on the projection screen, then at the indifferent man running wildly on the other side of the projection screen, turned his head left and right a few times, I gave a fair evaluation in my heart - quite a good match.

"Fuck, where did that kid come from?!"

1/10 Vader suddenly said in surprise.

The gatekeepers who were gossiping, raised their heads quickly when they heard the sound, and saw a person "whoosh" broke into the bathroom, and also broke into the projection screen where Nan Ge, Zheng Luozhu, and Guest.014 were.

But his speed was so fast that most of the gatekeepers only caught a phantom before he stopped himself.

The eighth floor of the castle, the bathroom.

Guest.014 is ringing in the ears, buzzing.

Although the woman's screaming had stopped, he still felt that there were still endless echoes in his ears, which was like a nightmare.

He really wanted to wait for these things to disappear before attacking, but no, he couldn't restrain himself from strangling the woman to death.

So, before Nange and Zheng Luozhu had figured out what to do next, whether to flee or fight, Guest.014 suddenly jumped up, leaped extremely high, and grabbed the lower layer of the double-decker chandelier with both hands. edge.

Both Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge were on the upper floor of the light stand, and Guest.014 did not touch them during this jump.

But the chandelier, which had already supported two people, was hung with a third person, and it immediately swayed violently.

Guest.014 didn't continue to go up to grab people, but grabbed the lower light frame and swung his body vigorously, like swinging on a swing.

The chandelier was already swaying, but with his force, the swaying range suddenly increased.

With a "click", the fixed point on the ceiling broke, and a chandelier, together with the three people on it, fell heavily to the ground.

The moment he fell, Zheng Luozhu instinctively used his arms to protect his and Nan Ge's heads, fearing that he would be hurt by the many sharp points on the lamp stand due to the impact of the landing.

"boom--"

A loud noise shook the bathroom.

The moment Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge fell to the ground, their bodies were so painful that they were about to fall apart, and they couldn't tell where they fell and where they were knocked by the lampstand.

But the head was still covered, at least Zheng Luozhu felt that his head was still awake.

He didn't care about getting up, and immediately lowered his arms to look at Nan Ge next to him, but before he turned his head, the face of Guest.014 was already in front of him.

Zheng Luozhu felt cold from head to toe in an instant.

At the same time, he fell to the ground before he lowered his arms, and the opponent was already in front of him!

Guest.014 no longer played hide-and-seek with playful jokes on his face, his eyes were cold and expressionless, and his eyes were dark.

At this moment, he is a murderous knife.

The sharp fist is like a gust of wind blade, coming out in an instant.

Zheng Luozhu saw it, but his body had no time to hide, so he could only rely on instinct to block it with his hands.But he knew that the moment his hand touched the opponent's fist, it would be cut open or even cut off immediately.

But he had no choice.

"Nan Ge, run—" the moment he stretched out his hand to block it, he shouted loudly.

Nan Ge didn't run away.

Zheng Luozhu's hand was not cut off either.

Because a figure broke into the bathroom at a ghostly speed, rushing between the two of them and Guest.014.

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge only felt a flash in front of their eyes, and then there was a "clang".

Metal collided and sparks flew.

A bandaged youth holding a shield stood in front of them, and used the shield to hold Guest.014's bladed fist.

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge finally saw the familiar figure: "Huo Xu—"

Sending charcoal in the face of hardship, meeting the boat at the crossroads, helping the poor... No amount of words can describe the current mood of Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge, and their gratitude to their partners.

but……

Medieval-style metal shields, modern simple and cold hoodies, black pants, and white bandages looming on the arms, this mix-and-match partner is really unique.

"Where did you get the equipment?" Zheng Luozhu also wanted to get such a shield, the style doesn't matter, the key is to save his life.

"Don't talk nonsense, run—" Huo Xu swung the shield upwards forcefully, deflecting Guest.014's fist.

Guest.014 was stunned.

The shield can block his attack, he is not surprised.Originally, my ability was not to the point where I could cut everything. It was easy to cut people, but it was a bit difficult to cut hard objects, let alone metal.

But he used all his strength in that punch, the speed and strength were at his best, and he didn't even want to give the opponent a chance to survive.

Even if this person rushed over and caught it with the shield, the shield and the arm holding the shield should have sunk due to his own strength.

But no.

This guy who looks like he may not even be 20 years old is neither tall enough to have exaggerated bones nor strong enough to have muscles. He actually used the strength of his arms to hold his fist firmly, not even an inch down. sink.

Guest.014 didn't believe it, and was even more unwilling, so he withdrew his punches, but continued to exert force, his fists pressing down hard against the shield.

The result is now.

The other party and those two shouted "Don't talk nonsense, run", and slammed the shield back, pushing his fist away.

Guest.014 can't believe it.But the shock in his heart made him move faster than before.

At the moment when his fist was pushed away, he slammed his leg across, straight to the bandaged youth.

Although Huo Xu didn't look at Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge, the shout of "Run" still distracted him. By the time he noticed the attack from the other side, it was already too late.

Although at the last moment, he withdrew his legs and avoided most of the attacks, but the opponent's toes still swept his calf.

The trousers and the skin were cut open at the same time, and the oozing blood stained the surrounding black cloth little by little.

Guest.014 did not attack again.

He even took two steps back to distance himself from Huo Xu so that he could observe the whole picture of the other party more clearly.

Huo Xu let him look at him, and at the same time said to the two people behind him without looking back: "Run. Don't make me say it a third time."

Nan Ge pursed his lips in silence.

Zheng Luozhu was speechless: "You came to save us, we left you and ran away, are you still human!"

Huo Xu clenched his shield tightly, completely ignoring the injury on his leg, and fixed his eyes on Guest.014: "I told you to run because you are in the way here."

Zheng Luozhu: "..."

Although he had just been rescued, he now wanted to save his benefactor with his own hands.

After the observation, Guest.014 did not find anything special about Huo Xu, but the more he was like this, the more he wanted to find out.

"Don't be nervous," he raised his eyes and looked at Huo Xu with a half-smile, "Since you stepped forward, I'll give you a chance. Before I kill you, I won't move the two of them."

Huo Xu sneered and looked at him contemptuously: "Kill me? Just rely on you?"

The author has something to say: The three groups of men and horses who are rushing to the battlefield——

Backgammon promoted four people, running.

There are three donuts, one is running wildly, and the other two are chasing wildly.

The three people in the white group are taking a walk.