Demon Gatekeeper [Unlimited]

The mother's expression froze for a second, and then she laughed: "You silly child, are you sleepy? Today is your 21st birthday."

21th birthday?

The memory in Dugu's mind gradually became clear with these words. His birthday was in October, just in time for the weekend. Since the university is in Xiacheng, he would go home every weekend.

Dad works overtime at work, and there are only him and his mother at home. He always sleeps until midnight on weekends, and my mother likes to cook some pastries and biscuits in the kitchen in her spare time. When he wakes up, let him help to try them. The taste is always good of.

Everything went smoothly.

But... Duguxu clenched his fist.Mom's hands are always dry and warm.The hand just now was a little cold, with a damp chill, as if it had just been soaked in cold water.The sense of disobedience suddenly became stronger.

Dugu also felt that he was a little nervous, maybe his mother just washed her hands just now, and didn't have time to dry them, so they got wet.Or grab something from the fridge.But the uneasiness in my heart still clamored, saying, don't believe it, don't pass it.

What don't you believe?Your own memory, your own family?How could I suddenly have such an idea, am I crazy?

"Are you feeling unwell?" The mother put down the tray in her hand and walked towards Dugu.

"Maybe I didn't sleep well." Dugu rubbed his eyebrows lightly.

There was a sound of tinkling bells, and Dugu raised his head, only to find that his mother had fallen on the ground by the door, and there were puddles of water at her feet, which might have been accidentally spilled just now, and she just stepped on it and slipped.

"Ouch." The mother stood up with difficulty, as if she had hit a bone, and was so painful that she couldn't stand up.

Dugu wanted to help.

His toes had already touched the door frame of the kitchen, and he stopped suddenly, staring at the person lying on the ground, and suddenly raised the corner of his lips, and sneered: "Okay, stop acting, you are not my mother, and this is not my home."

The people on the ground showed astonished expressions, and their appearance gradually changed, turning into the face of a strange man, with profound features, and a handsome appearance, but his skin was too pale, and he hardly looked like a living person.

With this change, Dugu's memory slowly came back.

How dangerous, he thought, that he almost died.

"How did you find out?" The man sullenly said.

Dugu blinked slyly: "Invaded my memory, acting tricked me to go out of the window. The details are all consistent, and there is no problem with the acting skills, but it's a pity..."

"What's the pity?" the man asked.

"You answer my question first, and I'll tell you." Dugu squatted down, looked at the other party at the same level: "Who are you? Evil spirit? Or some other faction, or simply a game NPC?"

"Me? I'm just a dead person." The man said mockingly.

dead?Dugu recalled the notification tone he heard earlier: [The gatekeeper task is released below: 1. Find the dead who opened the door of evil. 2. Eliminate the resentment of the deceased. 】

It can't be the dead person in the mission, right?The big boss of the game?

"Where are you, how did you die? Is this building like this related to you? This place is the window, you want to trick me into jumping? Did you trick the security guards just now?" Dugu's expression became serious. , The questions were thrown at the opponent like a cannonball.

"Tsk, you have too many questions." The man said impatiently, and did not ask how Dugu realized that this was an illusion. His figure gradually faded away, and the illusion around him also melted away.

The illusion was lifted, and Dugu saw himself standing by the window, one foot had already stepped on the window sill, and if he went a little further, he would come into contact with the gray mist outside the window.

"Bang." Dugu jumped down from the window frame, and closed the window with a slap in the face, with the horror of the rest of his life in his eyes.

When he just said the words, he was not as calm as he was in the illusion just now, and he would be afraid between life and death.If he was more careless just now, he is already a piece of minced meat in the gray fog.

"Dugu! Why are you running there?" Ren Hao suddenly noticed Dugu at this moment: "No, didn't you just stand behind?"

just?Dugu feels that he has spent quite a long time in the illusion. Is the flow of time in the illusion different from the outside?

Dugu looked at Yu Yuan subconsciously, he was standing closest to Yu Yuan before.

"What happened to me just now?"

Yu Yuan's expression was a little cold, and when he noticed that Dugu was looking over, he returned to his usual gentle and gentle smile: "It's just that you are near the window, and no one noticed how you passed. Is brother all right? What happened?"

Dugu left the window and walked back into the crowd: "I stared at the window, unconsciously fell into an illusion, and almost jumped down. That illusion will affect people's memory, change the surrounding environment, and even become like a family member to deceive people. The things in the illusion just now became like my mother, and they lied to me, and I almost fell for it."

"You mean you fell into a hallucination just now and climbed onto the window sill by yourself?" Song Wan stared at Dugu and asked, "Then why were you okay in the end?"

"It's just a fluke." Dugu didn't elaborate, anyway, even if he shared his experience now, others would forget it when they entered the illusion.

In fact, he didn't see any problems, everything was exactly in line with his memory, except for the temperature of his mother's fingers, and the inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.

So he cheated the other party at the door.If the other party can hold their breath a little more.If he plays for a few more minutes, he is probably already a wisp of dead soul in the gray mist.

"Be careful not to stare at the window for a long time, I think Uncle Zhang and the others, maybe just like me just now, stared at the window for a long time, and then they fell in love." Dugu reminded.

The person who was still looking at the window turned his head back in fright.

"But there are more than one of them, could it be that they all fell under the illusion?" Yang Chu adjusted his glasses and asked.

Dugu turned his head and replied, "If you were chatting just now and suddenly heard me jumping out of the window, how would you react?"

What would be the reaction, of course... look at the window.

Everyone understood Dugu's meaning. After the first person got hit, the people behind heard the sound, and they easily looked at the window subconsciously, and then entered the illusion one after another.Unless someone among them wakes up from the illusion and reminds others, it will be the end of the group.

This illusion in the fog is more dangerous than the fallen.Fortunately, after knowing it, as long as you take precautions, it is not too dangerous.

"That's not right. There were so many people staring at the gray mist on the first floor before, so it's okay?" Song Wan questioned.

"Maybe it's only for the gatekeeper camp players." Ren Hao said: "My back is facing the window, and Dugu is facing the window. It wasn't just Dugu who looked out the window just now, Yang Mo and Qian Fang also watched it. But only Dugu met Danger."

Others echoed this claim.However, he still had lingering fears and did not dare to look out of the window again, for fear of being stunned.

Song Wan walked quickly to the window, her heels hit the wooden floor, making a series of crisp clicking sounds.

Jiang Yuan was startled, and reached out to stop her

"Why, I'm going to close the curtains." Song Wan said angrily.

"Oh." Jiang Yuan withdrew his hand in embarrassment, staring at Song Wan uncomfortably until she drew the curtains and came back.

"However, entering the illusion is not without gain. After I saw through the thing hiding in the gray mist, it turned into a man. I suspect that he is related to the game mission." Dugu said.

"What kind of man?" Yang Chu asked.

Dugu carefully recalled: "Looks like he is in his early twenties, with short hair parted in the middle, he squats at that time, his height can't be seen, he feels taller than me, with a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, and a red birthmark on his forehead. I'm not in the building I’ve seen him before, so he shouldn’t be an old resident.”

"Is it Lu Yu?" Fang Zhuo, a handsome guy in a windbreaker who had been silent since joining the team, suddenly asked.At the same time, Zhang Maowen's expression became a little unnatural.

"Hey, you know him?" Dugu looked at the handsome guy in the windbreaker.

"I'm not sure. The conditions match. His birthmark is above the left eyebrow." The handsome man in the windbreaker put his hands in his pockets and looked at Zhang Maowen: "Zhang Maowen knows him."

The location of the birthmark matched, Dugu looked at Zhang Maowen: "Do you have a photo?"

"We are just ordinary friends, I don't have a photo of him." Zhang Maowen squeezed the corner of his clothes with his fingers.

"It should be available online." Fang Zhuo reminded.

"Yeah, I didn't add friends." Zhang Maowen whispered.

"Tsk." Fang Zhuo frowned, and squinted: "Ordinary friends who always knock on the door in the middle of the night, do you usually make appointments by text message?"

what?who?Zhang Maowen and Lu Yu?Dugu stared at Zhang Maowen's flushed face, feeling that the words contained too much information.

"Fang, Fang Zhuo, what nonsense are you talking about? We don't have that kind of relationship!" Zhang Maowen raised his voice in anxiety.

It turns out that the handsome guy in the windbreaker is called Fang Zhuo, and he probably lived here not long ago, so I haven't seen him much before.Dugu thought, if he could hear someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night, he probably lived very close to Zhang Maowen, also on the top floor.

Fang Zhuo didn't speak anymore, as if he was too lazy to argue.

On the other hand, Zhang Maowen was on the side, trying to explain to everyone: "Lu Yu and I met by chance. He has conflicts with his family, and he sometimes comes here to borrow money, but he doesn't come often."

"Where is he now?" Ren Hao asked, it was rare to have a clue, and Ren Hao didn't want to miss it.

"Not here, he didn't come yesterday."

Ren Hao: "Not here?"

Zhang Maowen: "Well, so it must not be him."

Song Wan glared at Zhang Maowen angrily: "Then you said it earlier? It's going around and delaying everyone for so long. Let's go, let's look for other clues."

Are you really not here?Dugu is dubious.Zhang Maowen has a problem, he will knock on the door in the middle of the night, and he doesn't even add friends?After hearing Lu Yu, he was eager to deny it, and his logic was confusing, which was too suspicious.

What Dugu didn't say was that the man in the illusion said he was a dead person.If that person is really Lu Yu, what role does Zhang Maowen play in it?

In short, you can't believe everything Zhang Maowen says, and focus on searching on the top floor.

Before leaving, Ren Ranran looked at the old lady on the rocking chair: "Grandma, we are leaving, you must be careful at home, and if you see someone with red eyes and a strange expression, don't open the door."

"Don't worry, the old woman has lived such an old age that she can tell the good from the bad. Don't run around, it's not safe outside." The orange cat in the old lady's arms meowed, as if echoing the old lady's words.

Ren Ranran wanted to persuade her again, but was stopped by Yang Chu: "Let's go upstairs, it should be relatively safe downstairs."

"Then grandma, please lock the door. Let's go."

Nothing was found for two consecutive floors, and the time had reached 01:30 in the afternoon. The group of people quickened their pace, trying to go through the entire building as much as possible before dark.

Accidents always come unexpectedly.

As soon as the group entered the third floor, Qian Fang, who was walking in the middle wearing cleaning clothes, suddenly turned around, and the slender blade in her hand stabbed straight into Song Wan's heart.

Jiang Yuan's eyes turned red for a moment, he caught Song Wan who fell backwards, and shouted: "What are you doing!"

"Ha, ha ha, ha ha ha." Qian Fang pulled out the knife, blood splashed on her face, making her smile even more ferocious, her pupils were erected, and her eyes were red: "Looking for clues, looking for clues, looking for more than an hour, shit! Nothing. What kind of bullshit gatekeeper camp, if it is activated, it will still be dead! It’s better to kill people, kill all of you, and I can live.”

Everyone's faces changed in unison. The situation they were most afraid of happened finally happened.Qian Fang was possessed by an evil spirit.