Penitent hand, trembling slightly

Shen Maomao looked around the dance floor, and finally found the old acquaintance Luzhu from a corner.

Luzhu stood in the corner of the banquet hall, not knowing what she was doing.She moved quietly in that direction, wanting to ask Dew what happened in the castle after they left.But just two steps forward, the nobleman standing in front of Luzhu moved away, and the candlelight hit her feet again...

Shen Maomao opened his eyes wide and stared at the ground.The ground was empty and there was no shadow.

Depend on!

What kind of relationship is there to recognize, if you go there, you will die.

She silently withdrew her forward steps, retreated to her original position, and squatted quietly behind a long table covered with floor-to-ceiling tablecloths.Although this position is on the side, it is not the most side. There will often be some servants passing by with trays, and everyone who passes by can't help but look at her.Fortunately, these big girls all have shadows, but squatting here is not a long-term solution after all.

If Lou Jingmo and Xiao Jin Mao can't get in, then she is the only one who can participate in the development of the plot, so she has to stay, at least until the end of the dance.

She looked around, but couldn't find any better hiding place. Finally, she just gritted her teeth, lifted the tablecloth and got under the table directly.

Then she made eye contact with another pair of eyes.

Shen Maomao almost screamed.

The man rushed up to cover her mouth, leaned close to her ear and said, "Don't bark! Check the code! Are you a player?"

Hearing this, Shen Maomao's shoulders trembled uncontrollably twice, and his overly tense spirit suddenly relaxed.She nodded, motioning for the woman to let go.

The tablecloth was a bit dim, but she could still see this person clearly—it was the female newcomer, the tutor of the four young ladies.

Shen Maomao asked her, "Why are you here?"

The woman said, "Because there is no shadow here."

Shen Maomao glanced down reflexively. It was dark enough under the tablecloth, and there were no shadows under their feet.

From her words, Shen Maomao heard that she must know something, so he immediately asked: "What happened?"

The newcomer didn't hesitate to talk about his experience: "You should have just arrived, right? I was there at the beginning of the banquet. Before these people danced, a bunch of shadows rushed in from the door... You are all old players, I say so You should be able to understand, right? This is a bit unbelievable, the shadow will disappear!"

"Some of those shadows held knives and slashed at other shadows. The people who were cut became people without shadows; some covered other people's shadows, and then doubled in size, as if they had eaten the a shadow."

"The shadows of many people disappeared, but then new shadows grew under their feet. I seem to use the word "shadow" a bit too much. Anyway, I can't tell which people's shadows it is. It’s gone, and the shadows of those people are intact.”

"I was almost scared to pee! I hid under the table in a panic... I was paying attention to you when you were wandering outside, but I didn't expect you to sneak in."

Shen Maomao: "Isn't this a coincidence?"

The woman pursed her lips and smiled, to give her face, and then quickly returned to a frowning look: "Did you find anything?"

Shen Maomao said: "Does it count that the ladies in the picture frames outside have all come out to play?"

"Grass." The woman cursed, "This bitch is attacking from both sides."

Shen Maomao was tired from squatting, so he just sat down on the ground.She bent her knees, put her arms around hers, put her head on her knees, and asked her, "Another governess taught you common sense?"

The woman nodded: "His name is Shang Zhou, and he is a very nice person. I can live until now thanks to his care..."

"Which shang, which zhou?"

"The merchant's merchant, the ship's boat."

Shen Maomao kept this name in her heart. She suspected that Shang Zhou was the big picture pusher, but she had no evidence, so she could write down the name first and ask Lou Jingmo later.

"Then what about the Shangzhou people?"

The woman replied: "He said he wanted to find clues and let me be safe. We came earlier than you, and I might know a little more than you. Lady's sale..."

She sighed: "The baron collects beautiful girls for himself to play with, or trades them to other nobles to gain benefits from them."

Shen Maomao spat: "Trash!"

The woman agreed: "Isn't it? Shangzhou's job is to teach them knowledge, and I'm responsible for teaching them etiquette and..." She paused for a moment before continuing: "And how to please men."

Shen Maomao: "Scum!"

Woman: "Oh, the life of a girl in this day and age is not worth anything at all. Besides, I forgot that lady, the one named Vera or Ravi, she is quite happy to be sold as a commodity. In her words , she is glad that she is beautiful enough to be picked by the baron to be a master..."

Indeed, without this crop, she would never have worn such fine clothes, worn such beautiful jewels, and enjoyed the delicacies eaten by the nobles...

But this kind of thing is about what you like, and there must be some people who don't want to be sold as "commodities".But with their status, even if they don't want to, they probably can't resist.

Shen Maomao said: "There are quite a few people who are reluctant, right? Have all the young ladies in front been killed?"

"Who knows. But these four new ladies may not be normal human beings. I have been attacked by their shadows..." The woman tried her best to express to her what she had experienced in the past two days, and from time to time scolded Two sentences from the game maker, and at the end she said, "This is almost what I experienced. You are old players and know more than me. Please think about how to leave. If I am still alive when I find the exit, please Please let me know if I can barely help..."

This woman was so transparent that Shen Maomao couldn't help but give her a high look.

She was very aware of her abilities and knew her role from the beginning.She is also greedy for life and afraid of death, so she doesn't hide her secrets like Yun Shengjin, but submits clues obediently... I'm afraid this is why the boss is willing to take time to take care of her.

Shen Maomao has gone through three dungeons and met various types of players.Among them are ignorant and ignorant new types who like to kill others, there are Yun Shengjin who harm others and benefit themselves, there are Ye Tingnan and Shao Mei who can't see the situation clearly, and there is that Lin Fei, Gan Nima sleepy ghost type of……

But it was the first time she saw such a smart, non-pretentious newcomer—maybe it was because she didn't meet many people in the first place.

Shen Maomao's impression of her instantly went up two notches.

After exchanging information, the two began to pay attention to the situation at the dance outside.The long table was long and wide and short, and the two of them were at the head and one at the end, lying on the ground and looking out through the seams of the tablecloth.

The opening ballroom dance has come to an end, and the music has become extraordinarily long.Shen Maomao couldn't help but yawned, feeling drowsy.

With a "bang", her forehead hit her arm, which made her wake up all of a sudden.The originally long music is even longer, as if it has been slowed down several times.The distorted and distorted voice was very low and eerie, as if some kind of creepy cold wind was blowing on her back, making her shiver uncontrollably.

The music is infinitely elongated, and the movements of the people on the dance floor are also infinitely elongated, as if the tape is stuck, making a very uncomfortable noise.

Shen Maomao got goosebumps all over his body and kicked the woman's leg with his foot.

The woman also woke up suddenly, shaking with Shen Maomao.

This state on the dance floor didn't last long, and soon there was another burst of brisk singing from nowhere, which formed a sharp contrast with the music of the dance.

Shen Maomao's face turned pale.

She was very familiar with the later singing, and she was almost able to sing...

"Ring around the roses,

Apocket full of posies,

Ashes! Ashes!

Weallfalldown."

oops!oops!

We fell!

The singing stopped and people on the dance floor suddenly collapsed in groups.The moment they fell down, the shadows under the feet of those people separated from the soles of their feet, like a child who had finally escaped from the shackles of his parents, and quickly rushed up the walls and roofs, but refused to return to his master.

As for the rest of the people who did not fall, there were no shadows, they still maintained their dancing movements, moving their bodies slowly and mechanically like puppets whose clockwork was not wound up enough.

"Ashes! Ashes!

Weallfalldown."

Turned to ashes!Turned to ashes!

All dead!

A speck of fly ash was blown up by the wind pouring in from the blinds, and the people who fell on the ground were like sand paintings, which were scattered by the wind and turned into fly ash all over the sky.

At the same time, the walls of the banquet hall began to liquefy, and several bubbles bubbled up.Colorful viscous liquid flowed down from the four walls, spreading forward slowly but firmly.

It's oil paint...

"No way!" Shen Maomao put down the tablecloth that she lifted up a little, turned back and said to the woman, "We have to find a way to leave!"

As soon as the words fell, the heavy metal gate of the banquet hall closed "duang", leaving no room for them.

"Grass! What should we do now?" the woman asked in a panic.

Shen Maomao lay down on the ground: "Let's resign ourselves to fate."

woman:"……"

They were relatively close to the wall. Seeing that the flowing paint was about to pass by the long table, Shen Maomao suddenly lifted the tablecloth and crawled forward, and at the same time did not forget to call: "Don't touch the paint!"

Those paints gave her a very bad feeling, even worse than the singing shadows outside, and no one knew what would happen if they touched it.

The woman hurriedly crawled out together, and the two of them jumped over the nobles who were frozen in place, rushed to the middle of the dance floor, and stood back to back.

A pool of paint that violated Newton's laws "stands up" from the ground, gradually condensing into a human shape.The man had lake green eyes and golden hair.

Shen Maomao called out her name in a deep voice——

"Vivian."