The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

Muto said decisively: "Let me do the night watch task on the first night, and add one more person, who will join me?"

His eyebrows reflected the jumping candle color, making him extremely resolute.At this time, it was unknown whether it was everyone's hallucination or something else, there were countless rustling sounds in the dense forest far outside the house, as if some inhuman creature lurking in the darkness would burst out at any time and snuff out the wooden house. A hazy fire that symbolizes vitality.

His fighting ability may not be as high as Wen Zheliu and He Qin, but in the few times we spend together, he has always played the role of organizer, like a clumsy but reliable elder brother.He offered to watch the night on the first night, which surprised Zhou Qing and said, "Brother Mu, you are..."

Muto didn't hide anything. He took out something from the package and put it on the table. After smelling it, it was the candlestick-shaped prop that Muto got from the novice turntable.

This candlestick seems to be made of brass, with a simple shape and an old color. There are seven separate lamps on it, and the middle one is obviously higher than the six on both sides. Neither did candles.It was the first time for Wen Zheliu to observe this prop carefully, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Seven-branched candlestick."

With an encouraging tone, He Qin nodded and said, "Yes, it's a seven-branched candlestick. The middle one represents the Sabbath, and the other six represent the six days when God created the world. This prop has a strong religious flavor."

Muto said to the players: "Look at its attributes again."

Since the prop owner spoke, Wen Zheliu took a curious look.

[Prop name: Empty Candlestick (Incomplete)]

【Grade: C-】

[Activation type: Instant activation]

[Cooling time: 12 hours]

[Attack Power: Low]

[Effect: When the flames of the seven candles are all lit, the equipment will illuminate a space with a radius of 3-5 meters around it for 7 hours, and there is a chance to expel non-human creatures with a certain intensity for players within the range. 】

[Equipment level: 5]

[Introduction to props: After seven days, the light will last forever, and there will be nothing in the world except the fragrance of olive trees. 】

"You mean..." Wen Zheliu reacted instantly, "The reward for the few candle stubs that Marian just mentioned is likely to be the key item to complete your prop?"

Muto said, "That's right, so I need the side reward for the first night."

"Then I'll go with you." After a moment of silence, Zhou Yao stood up, "The attack power of the props I have drawn is not bad, and the two of us can also have a support."

"Brother!" Zhou Qing exclaimed in surprise.

"Anyway, I need to remind everyone." He Qin interjected, "You all heard the previous system prompts, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Mu Tuo, Zhou Qing, Zhou Yao, Du Zijun and others couldn't help but look at him.

"It is worth noting that this mode may seem cumbersome, but it is actually a mode that can only work in the uncanny valley. As the difficulty of the later world increases, it will have a more alienating effect on players. Effect." He Qin said in a deep voice, "After turning on the winning mode, if a player begs for your help, what will you do? Helping him will be of no benefit except to consume your own resources and energy, because you cannot guarantee He will definitely repay you; if you don’t help him, maybe you can reduce the difficulty of the world, increase your chance of survival, and the equipment he exploded can also belong to you, will you help?”

Xiong Lin scratched his head, wrinkled his face and said: "Then according to what you say, of course it's better not to help..."

"This is what it, or what she wants to achieve." He Qin said, "No matter how low the difficulty is, even if there is only one player left in the end, it is impossible for him to fight against the will of an entire intelligent world by himself. If we continue to kill each other, the result we will get will only be a total defeat caused by fighting in the same room, and it will not work if we are not united."

Muto thought for a moment: "You mean... let us help each other as much as possible, and keep the number of players on the player side no matter what? Okay... I understand."

When everyone was thinking about the ending outlined in He Qin's words, Du Zijun raised his eyelids and stared at He Qin through the flickering candlelight.

"Who are you?" She exhaled a smoke ring with a sullen expression, "Your real identity must not be an ordinary player at all."

Wen Zheliu raised his head abruptly, not knowing whether to be startled by this woman's keen intuition, or to complain about her weird personality...

By the way, why did you smoke again!Where did this smoke come from? !

He Qin was unmoved, with a sharp cold light in the corner of his upturned eyes, "Oh? Why did Miss Du say that?"

"Ordinary players can't detect such profound intentions in a short period of time." Her slender and slender fingers held an equally slender lady's cigarette, and the smoke was lingering, blurring her cold eyebrows and eyes, " What's more, two people died just now, and it was a tragic death, and you and the kid beside you didn't respond to it, and adapted very well."

"Plus | your skill... the kid named Wendi is just resistant to fighting and has a quick reaction, so you are different," she said bluntly, "Since you are a prop summoned by the kid, it stands to reason It is said that the level cannot exceed him, but judging by your performance, the shackles of the level can't affect you at all."

She had something to say, and her attitude was firm. Players who had doubts about He Qin's origin all turned their attention to him.

He Qin curved his seductive peach eyes, and there was a casual smile in his eyes. He looked at Du Zijun, and his expression suddenly became a little weird.

"It's okay to tell you," he turned his gaze away, "Yes, I was indeed a staff member during the closed beta of Uncanny Valley."

Wen Zheliu was silent, just listening quietly.

"what!"

"Is what you said true?!"

As soon as this remark came out, the players were in an uproar, and Du Zijun also raised his eyebrows in surprise. Several men even pushed away their chairs and stood up, "Are you the GM?"

He Qin smiled lazily, and looked at them leisurely: "Don't think about it, now that there are holy nuns covering the sky in Uncanny Valley, it is impossible to have a GM here. At most, I can only be regarded as an employee who knows a little bit about the inside story, but there is no way Execute the duties of an administrator."

"Everyone, calm down!" Muto also stood up and suppressed a few players who were extremely emotional. He said sincerely to He Qin, "Brother He Qin, since you know something inside, can you tell us? After all, Everyone knows so little about the world these days, if you could tell us more..."

He Qin avoided talking, and looked back at the old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall, "But I think we've wasted too much time, it's time to watch the night."

Mu Tuo's expression was a bit surprised, Wen Zheliu finally said: "Mu brother, Zhou brother, it is true that the side missions are more important at present, my brother and I can't run, everyone is tired all day, we should rest early, we will talk about it tomorrow Well, what do you think?"

Zhou Yao said: "It's true, everyone should be tired after traveling all day..."

He Qin stood up with Wen Zheliu, and said: "Don't doubt my identity, and don't doubt my purpose, now, good night everyone."

Back in the room, He Qin put down the lighting candlestick, turned around and looked at Wen Zheliu.

His handsome and profound facial features were shining under the dim yellow light, and there seemed to be a thousand stars floating in the bottom of the water in his eyes, Wen Zheliu felt an indescribable attraction, he held his breath, and gently turned his eyes away.

Fortunately, He Qin did not continue their unfinished topic, but asked him straightforwardly: "How is it, what did you find?"

Wen Zheliu felt relieved, he let out a breath, looked up at the man in front of him again, and asked, "Brother, why didn't you finish your sentence?"

There was a small desk in the room, and there was only one chair under it. He Qin sat on the edge of the bed, patted the place beside him, and motioned for Wen Zheliu to sit down.

"Because it's weird." He Qin said.

"What's weird?" Wen Zheliu suddenly became interested, "Don't say it, let me think about it."

He Qin looked at him with a smile, Wen Zheliu thought about it carefully, and then said slowly, "First, I think the deaths of Lu Hai and Lin Fangfei are strange."

"What is the condition to trigger the monster, why are the two of them killed, is it just because they are at the forefront of the team?"

"Second, I think the setting of the game is weird."

"Since monsters can come and go during the day, it proves that they are not afraid of light. In this case, why are they afraid of flames? If they are afraid of the heat of flames, then why do players need to watch the night? The lighted iron barrels are fixed around the wooden house, and it’s enough to keep the fireplace on all night—I can think of at least ten ways to protect the safety of the wooden house, what’s the point of this side mission that requires players to go out?”

"Third, I think Marianne is weird. But there is too little information now, and I can't tell where her weirdness is.

Wen Zheliu frowned: "That's about it for now, after Brother Mu and the others finish patrolling the night, maybe they will know more..."

As he was talking, he inadvertently saw He Qin's gaze staring at him, so he suddenly stopped talking.

This loving look with a smile and a little pride was like a ball of fire, burning his heart hot, and this heat was about to turn into steaming mist almost immediately, flowing along the blood vessels throughout his body.

"I……"

"You speak very well, brother is proud of you." He Qin stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his neck until Zhe Liu felt numb all over and almost trembled, "Then let's discuss it together. Actually The cause of death of Lu Hai and Lin Fangfei can be guessed by a normal person after a little searching..."

"It's because Lin Fangfei refused to ask for her self-defense weapon, and Lu Hai also threw away his own weapon to save her." Wen Zheliu said, "They are different from others only in this one."

"It seems that although Du Zijun's identity is unknown, she is very smart," He Qin raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "She thought of this right away, and asked Lu Hai to quickly pick up the weapon... "

Wen Zheliu made a helpless gesture: "But it's too late, he's still dead."

"Then let's assume that they triggered the death condition because they abandoned their weapons." He Qin said, "but can we make another assumption?"

He Qin drew a line on the bed sheet with his fingertips, "If the purpose of the system is to give players a bad start at the very beginning and let us see how powerful the boss is, then we can choose anyone to kill, but the monster's goal is very clear , it was the two of Lu Lin, and the reason for killing them was extremely frivolous. Are the weapons at this stage useful other than self-defense? Just because they threw away their weapons casually, they would suffer such a brutal massacre. It's too illogical, not like a plot that N-Star can devise."

"You mean..." Wen Zheliu slowly opened his eyes wide, and with the addition of the [Companion] attribute, he and He Qin seemed to have a sympathetic heart, and they could immediately understand each other's meaning, "Do they have another purpose in their death? "

He Qin praised: "Smart."

The fog in his mind was dispelled by He Qin at once, and the pleasure of solving the puzzle exploded like fireworks. Wen Zheliu couldn't wait to pick it up and said: "Yes, that makes sense! The cause of their death is indeed too hasty, It seems that the system must have them die, but just found a random reason. If it has any effect, it will lead to the two game modes of uncanny valley, winning and escaping! Looking at it this way, the deaths of Lu and Lin are like ...like..."

He opened his mouth, only to feel a lump in his throat, his whole body was cold, and he couldn't speak any more.

"——It's like a one-time consumable item specially made for the plot, isn't it?" He Qin said softly.

Wen Zheliu stopped talking, and all kinds of unimaginable and terrible conjectures kept circling in his mind. After a long time, he asked with difficulty: "So...are they real players, or NPCs like Marianne, or something else? thing?"

"Let's talk about this issue later, darling." Seeing that he was a little scared, He Qin stroked his hair reassuringly, "As for the second and third weirdness you mentioned, there is nothing you can do now For verification, I have to wait until tomorrow. I didn’t finish my sentence because I wanted to see the side rewards for the next day, so as to prove the strange things you said.”

Wen Zheliu asked: "So... what did you leave unfinished?"

"It's a specific method to crack the main mission." He Qin said, "In order to reflect the authenticity, the company set up the concept of participation value for players, so as to restrain their words and deeds to the greatest extent, let them treat NPCs as real people, and value the game In order to reflect the difficulty, they also moved a little: before the player finds and submits the key items that the NPC considers, the system will not allow the NPC to actively disclose the basic information of the main line.”

"It's actually an idealistic game of finding key items?" Wen Zheliu was surprised, "But it's so difficult!"

He Qin smiled slightly: "It's only difficult to be interesting, isn't it?"

Wen Zheliu was extremely depressed: "You wicked adult..."

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a faint scream of fear suddenly coming from outside the door!

"Who?!" Wen Zheliu was taken aback, and He Qin also frowned.

In the bedroom, Zhou Qing was leaning against the head of the bed, fiddling with the communication device in his hand.

Perhaps in order to fit the background of the times, this communicator for the whole group is also painted in a very simple copper-nickel color. It still does not know the nine-key pinyin that was popular hundreds of years ago, and the display screen only occupies half of the instrument... …

Equipment that is too advanced and too backward is quite a headache. Zhou Qing groped for a while before he was barely familiar with how to use it. At this moment, there was a faint knocking sound on the wall behind her.

She was taken aback for a moment, thinking about it carefully, isn't the bedroom next to Du Zijun's?

Zhou Qing laughed, because she and Zhou Yao's room was next to the storage room on the left, and Du Zijun lived on the right, so she remembered it very clearly.What's the matter now, could it be that Du Zijun slept alone, so he was a little scared and bored?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help stretching out her hand, and tapped the wall twice in response.

Although Du Zijun is a rather gloomy girl, in some respects, she is still a normal girl after all...

There was a pause on the other side, as if she didn't expect her side to respond, and the knocking sound came back more clearly.

Zhou Qing smiled, took out the communicator, and sent a message to her new friend.

Zhou Qing: 【What are you doing if you don't sleep at night? 】

After a while, Du Zijun's text message came back, but she was unexpectedly indifferent.

Du Zijun: [?What's the meaning. 】

Zhou Qing puffed up his cheeks, and replied angrily: [Hey!Knocking on the wall in the middle of the night, I found out and still don't admit it?Who do you think answered you those few times just now? 】

How long has this been read, and there has been silence for a long time, and there has been no reply.

Hmph, feel guilty!Zhou Qing was proud of herself, but the sound of knocking on the wall behind her was louder and clearer at this time. She could almost feel the tremor of the wall on her back. Suddenly replied.

Du Zijun: [I'm looking for information in the study downstairs, there is no one in my room, who is knocking on the wall with you? 】

Zhou Qing's smile froze on her face for an instant, she stared at these two lines stiffly, the hair on her back stood upside down, and cold sweat broke out all over her body.

Du Zijun: 【Stay in the room, don't open the door or come out!Do you hear me? ! 】

The banging on the wall behind him stopped.

Sitting on the bed with cold hands and feet, she didn't dare to make a sound, she could only hear the increasingly intense heartbeat pounding against her chest, almost jumping out of her throat.In the deadly silence, she stared ahead motionless, her mind blank.

dong dong!

Boom boom boom!

There were five knocking sounds before and after, and Zhou Qing's body also twitched five times unconsciously, but this time the knocking sound was not behind her, it was knocking on her door!

The communicator in her hand buzzed, she lowered her head slowly, but at this time irregular horizontal stripe fluctuations appeared on the screen that was originally on, followed by snowflake noises all over the screen, she pressed her trembling fingers hard I pressed the keyboard a few times, but there was no response at all.

Zhou Qing was short of breath, she wanted to yell, but she was afraid of what would happen after she yelled, so she had to maintain this frightening silence, and there were louder slapping sounds outside the door, across the door, Zhou Qing also heard a very familiar female voice that was blurred by the wooden door: "Zhou Qing, Zhou Qing! Open the door quickly! Why did you lock me out!"

Zhou Qing was sweating profusely in an instant, her face was pale, her teeth were chattering, she could hear it, she could hear it completely!This is Lin Fangfei's voice!

At this moment, her mental value is already plummeting at a rate of 6% per second, and it won't be long before she faces the danger of losing all sanity and falling into madness.Zhou Qing bit the back of her hand hard, forced herself to calm down, and thought of a solution as soon as possible. In her heart, she kept hoping that Du Zijun would be a life-saving straw, that people on the same floor could hear the voice, and open the door to come out and take a look... ...After all, Du Zijun was the last person to talk to him, but would she come to save him?

Her thoughts were spinning wildly, so erratically that she couldn't control herself.The wall clock on the wall was ticking, and the despair and doubts in her heart also increased sharply. Du Zijun, who had not come to the rescue for a long time, made her think of the winning mode they are now starting. Risking your life to save yourself, if she dies, not only will the rewards after clearing the level be more generous, but the difficulty of the world will also decrease accordingly. What a deal this is...

Just as she was thinking wildly, the knocking on the door stopped.

Zhou Qing waited for a long time, but there was no more dangerous news, which made her feel a little relieved.

Go, go...

Her head was covered with sweat, and she was paralyzed on the bed panting for breath. At this moment, her nose suddenly smelled a bloody smell that was getting stronger, and there was a slight sound from the window on the right.

She subconsciously turned her head to look, and was instantly frightened out of her wits!

At that moment, a pale human face was stuck outside the window, with empty eyes, bleeding from the corners of the eyes, and stiffly bent lips, showing a twisted and weird smile to her, staring straight at Zhou Qing who was sitting on the bedside.

Zhou Qing screamed violently, rolled out of bed and ran towards the door, "Get out! Get away!!"

With disheveled hair, a thin nightgown on her body, and bare feet, she fled to the door as fast as she could in her life, turned the key, and slammed the door open——

——A stench that was a hundred times more intense than before spewed out. Lin Fangfei, who was covered in blood, was hanging from the door frame. Her long hair was drenched in sticky strands, messy on her face, and her eyes were dead and swollen. Through the hair gap, he was staring at Zhou Qing who was cheek to cheek with it.

"You...why shut me out..."