Nightmare Illustrated Collection Record [Unlimited Stream]

Yin Luming looked at the revived townsman again.

He looks about five or sixty years old, his skin is rough and dark due to sea wind and sea water, his face is wrinkled, and his eyes are cloudy...

You can't see Si He's appearance at all.

Chi Xi also heard Si Cheng's words, and said in surprise, "You didn't admit your mistake, did you?"

Si Cheng bit his lower lip firmly: "No."

He suddenly rushed forward, stood in front of the townsman, clenched his fists, and stared at him closely.

The townsman raised his eyes to look at him, and said hoarsely: "This young man also wants to join? But you come from the devil's manor, and my old Luf will not agree."

Si Cheng tightened his lips, and it took him a long time to ask, "You don't know me?"

The townsman turned around slowly, and looked at Si Cheng carefully for a while with cloudy and yellow eyeballs.

Si Cheng became more and more nervous, looking at him with anticipation and fear.

The townsman finally shook his head: "I haven't seen it."

"Impossible!" Si Cheng was suddenly excited, and grabbed his wrist, "This is the injury you got when you rescued me when we entered the first dream! Don't you remember?"

Seeing Si Cheng's appearance, the townspeople showed a look of bewilderment, and tried to pull out their hands: "What is this young man talking about? This is the scar I accidentally injured when I cut down the tree... Could it be that I live in the devil's manor?" It's been a long time, have you been bewitched by a demon?"

Si Cheng gritted his teeth and stared at him, and it took a long time before he let his hand down.

The players next to them are not fools. After getting along these few days, the identities of the other players are not mentioned, and the relationship can be roughly understood. They all know that Si and Si Cheng are brothers.

——Is this revived townsman Si Cheng's brother who died?

What's weirder than the NPC resurrection is that the resurrected NPC is not the person himself.

Someone also asked in fear: "Is this person admitting his mistake?"

How could this old man with a fishy smell be the young man I saw yesterday?

Si Cheng tightened his lips, and suddenly turned around and ran away.

Yin Luming and Chi Xi looked at each other, nodded and followed together.

……

Si Cheng ran to the front of a dilapidated wooden house, took out his short knife and slashed fiercely at the nearby wooden pile dozens of times, almost turning the wooden pile into firewood, and then stopped panting.

Tears rolled down from his eyes.

Yin Luming stood behind him, sighed silently, then stepped forward and said: "To determine whether he is Si He, we can start from other aspects."

Si Cheng suddenly turned his head, his eyes lit up suddenly: "What way?"

"Look at the others." Yin Luming pointed in the direction of the pier, "When we first came to the town, almost no townspeople except the lantern bearer went out—since the player died, the townspeople gradually went out. They kept coming out of their homes. If the townspeople are the dead players, then the previous players should be the same."

Si Cheng pursed his lips, and said decisively: "Where do we start?"

Yin Luming thought for a while: "Let's start with the most recognizable one."

……

Among the players who died in the early stage, the most recognizable ones are the couple who died on the first day and the second day.

Yin Luming easily found the suspect - a couple who were not young.

Every time Yin Luming approached the pier in the past two days, they would just avoid it and never deal with Yin Luming directly.

Yin Luming chose to ambush this time.

He squatted at the door of the couple's house, and stopped them directly when they came back from the outside with the help of two people at noon.

The old couple saw that Yin Luming wanted to run away, but Si Cheng, who was extremely fast, pulled the rope around them twice and tied them together.

Yin Luming looked at her husband's face and nodded, "This townsman showed up at the pier the second day we came."

At that point the first player is already dead.

Chi Xi said: "This old lady seems to have appeared a day later."

Also after the female player died.

Si Cheng is not a very patient person, so he asked impatiently, "Do you know me?"

The old couple looked at him timidly and shook their heads in panic.

Chi Xi couldn't bear it: "How can you tell?"

They are not familiar with the couple.

Yin Luming thought for a while, and asked Si Cheng to tie the two separately, and then carried her husband to the back of the wooden house.

Not long after, the husband's screams came from behind the wooden house.

Suddenly separated from her husband, the originally peaceful wife suddenly struggled, raised her head that had been lowered all the time, looked directly at them with old eyes, and said hoarsely, "Give him back to me!"

This look is very familiar.

That's what the female player looked at Madam Solari when she asked him to hand over her boyfriend.

Yin Luming took a deep look at the female player.

Now there is no need to discern.

Si Cheng brought her husband back, and he could tell what had happened by looking at Yin Luming's expression. His expression suddenly turned sharp, and he asked the old couple, "What happened to you?! How did you become like this?"

The two old men struggled in vain, muttering words they could not understand, and refusing to communicate with them.

When it comes to the means of torture to extract confessions, Si Cheng still has a little bit.But when he thought that the person in front of him might be a player like them, and his brother who had also fallen to this end, Si Cheng couldn't do anything.

In the end, Si Cheng let the man down in despair.

Yin Luming said: "Maybe I have an idea."

He reached into his pocket and pressed on the illustrated book.

The only supplementary skill of the illustrated book that he caught in this dream was venom with hypnotic, paralyzing, and hallucinatory effects.

1 point for a bottle, very cost-effective.

The successfully exchanged venom appeared directly in Yin Luming's hands, and it was packed in a transparent glass bottle.

Si Cheng was slightly taken aback: "Are you exchanging in the dungeon?"

Isn't the redemption in the dungeon double the points?

Yin Luming shook the bottle of scarlet liquid and said with a smile, "It's all right."

Si Cheng pursed his lips: "Thank you."

The two townspeople looked at the venom in Yin Luming's hand in horror, as if they realized something, they struggled to run away.

Of course Si Cheng would not let them run away, so he uncorked the bottle and poured some into each of the old couple's mouths.

The two tried to retch, their movements gradually slowed down, their expressions gradually became numb, and finally became confused and dazed, and the wrinkles on their faces trembled with the changes in their expressions.

Yin Luming knelt down and stared into their eyes: "Who are you?"

The husband moved his lips: "Sif..."

The wife frowned, but stopped after trying to say something.

Seeing this, Yin Luming turned to his wife and said, "What's your real name?"

His wife's nasolabial folds trembled again and again, struggle appeared in her eyes, and she struggled to utter three words: "Shi, Shi Shanshan..."

Chinese name.

Si Cheng's eyes lit up: "Do you still remember what happened?"

Shi Shanshan was at a loss: "It hurts..."

"Where does it hurt……"

"Eyes...something is going to get in..."

Yin Luming thought of those sticky and fast tentacle monsters on the stone pillar, and frowned slightly: "How did you become like this?"

"Sea... the transformation of the fish god..." Shi Shanshan seemed to be dreaming, the struggling look on her face became more intense, and the pain gradually revealed in her eyes, "Who am I...Who are you?"

Si Cheng said in a deep voice, "You are Shi Shanshan."

"Shi Shanshan?...Who is it? I'm in so much pain, so much pain——" Shi Shanshan suddenly screamed, "Give him back to me! No, I'm in so much pain! Ahhh—help me!"

In the end, she gradually became incoherent, and she struggled so hard that she even broke free from the rope that tied Si Cheng to her body.

As soon as Shi Shanshan got out of trouble, she immediately grabbed her husband at the side and quickly ran away at a speed that ordinary people could not match.

Just as Si Cheng was about to go after him, Yin Luming said, "There's no need to go after him. What we want to be sure about has already been decided."

Si Cheng clenched his teeth: "Let's go find my brother."

"No." Yin Luming shook his head unexpectedly, "Investigate this first."

He gently shook the bottle of scarlet venom in his hand.

Yin Luming unscrewed the cork and looked at Chi Xi: "Smell it."

Chi Xi was startled, looked at Yin Luming uneasily, and confirmed that Yin Luming was not joking, then lowered her head and sniffed, then covered her nose: "It smells so weird!"

"Do you feel familiar?"

Chi Xi was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it for a while, she looked a little uncertain: "If it were a little weaker, it would be similar to the very weak drink from the townspeople..."

Si Cheng's expression froze suddenly.

Yin Luming shook the bottle and explained: "My venom is extracted from the monsters in the woods with a special method."

In other words, the townspeople took the venom of those bugs to make drinks for the players?

He glanced at Si Cheng, thought for a while, and said, "This venom has a certain hallucinogenic effect. You ran out impulsively last night, and it may also be due to it."

Si Cheng clenched his fists, lowered his eyes, and suddenly turned around to leave.

"Wait, there's one more thing."

Yin Luming stopped him, "Don't you think this liquid looks familiar?"

Scarlet, slightly viscous, like fresh blood...

Although Si Cheng was anxious, he was not out of his mind. He forced himself to calm down. After thinking about it carefully, his expression gradually became serious and shocked: "Madam Solari?"

The drink that Madam Solari drinks every night with dinner is almost exactly the same as this bottle of venom except that it is slightly lighter in color!

Chi Xi gasped, "What is she drinking this for?"

Yin Luming said flatly: "Maybe it's not that she wants to drink, but someone wants her to drink."

The venom with hallucinogenic, paralyzing, and hypnotic effects can just immerse Mrs. Solari in her own world, forgetting the existence of this dream, forgetting her purpose, and losing control of Solari Manor.

Presumably that was also the culprit who poisoned the players' drinks and killed them.

As for the person who poured the venom quietly...

"housekeeper!"

Si Cheng gritted his teeth, and flipped the dagger in his hand, "Where is he?"

……

Every dinner in the past, the housekeeper would serve a glass of scarlet drink to Madam Solari, so it was enough for them to sit around during dinner.

Fewer people gathered in the restaurant today than yesterday.

After asking, I found out that two more players died under the attack of unknown monsters—of course everyone knew that it was the tentacle monsters.

Together with the two players, two townspeople also died. In addition to the eye socket brain being swallowed like the player, there are many scars left by the hook on the body.

——One of the players who died was a combat type who was good at hooks.

Do the math, nine players have already died.

However, Mrs. Solari came in with a drink for dinner today: "Honey, you must be hungry. The housekeeper went out to ask the chef to make a big meal for you today. It will take a little time to come back. Please wait patiently and feel wronged for the time being." one day."

There was less bread and water on the table than in previous days.

With the lessons learned from the past, no player dares to touch it.

Madam Solari looked at the player in surprise: "Aren't you all hungry?"

Of course I'm hungry, but who would dare to eat this kind of food that may bring the flag of death?

Yin Luming looked coldly at Mrs. Solari's wine glass—more than half of the bright red liquid in it had gone into her mouth before entering the door.

He took a step forward: "Ma'am, when did the butler leave?"

Mrs. Solari frowned slightly: "Well, it should be last night. I left immediately after delivering the food for you. Don't worry, my butler is very reliable and will definitely be back before dinner tomorrow."

——I left last night...

Yin Luming nodded thoughtfully.

Out of the corner of his eye he glanced past Madam Solari.

While he was talking to Mrs. Solari, Chi Xi cautiously approached, and lightly sniffed the wine glass that Mrs. Solari put aside.

Afterwards, Chi Xi's complexion changed, and she nodded to Yin Lumeng.

Yin Luming politely ended the greeting with Mrs. Solari.

When Mrs. Solari got up to leave, Chi Xi came over impatiently: "Brother Yin, it smells the same!"

Si Cheng came over and asked in a low voice, "What should we do now?"

Yin Luming thought for a while: "Have you and Si He investigated the manor before?"

"Correct."

"Is there any place like a dungeon or a basement?"

"There is one. But it's empty. What's the problem?"

"Go over there to confirm something." Yin Luming said, "Maybe we can save two people."

Mi Ampere came over: "What are you going to do! I'm going too!"

Chi Xi originally planned to go with her, but Mi Ampere took the lead and silently closed her mouth.

Yin Luming glanced at him, first agreed to Mi Ampere's request to follow, and then patted Chi Xi's shoulder: "If you don't go, you can tell other players about our suspicion that the housekeeper poisoned you."

Chi Xi was shocked: "Did you give them information for nothing?"

"Just remind them." Yin Luming said, "It's good to save a few people from dying."

Si Cheng looked at Yin Luming in surprise, frowned, and said, "Don't be too holy to other players."

Yin Luming smiled and did not refute.

He is not the Holy Mother, but he is not worried that someone can crack it faster than him.

On top of that, just save as many people as you can by the way.

……

The dungeon at Solari Manor is behind the garden pool.

This was the first place Si Cheng searched when he and Si He investigated the manor before, and they easily found a way to crack the door lock at that time.

According to Si Cheng, the dungeon was empty when they came to see.

Yin Luming said indifferently: "Did you come in this morning to investigate?"

Si Cheng nodded.

"If you come later, maybe there will be new discoveries."

Yin Luming stretched out his hand and broke the lock directly, and walked in with a cold expression.

Mi Ampere poked his head and "tsk tsk" twice: "Brother Yin, does he have a split personality?"

Is the temperament gap between the night state and the day state too big?

Si Cheng glanced at him and followed him in.

Mi Ampere lost his support, and muttered resentfully: "If Xiao Chi is here, we must have a lot of common topics...you guys take me when you go out to play in the future!"

The dungeon in Solari Manor is very clean, and there are three or four levels of doors inside.

I didn't feel it when I first entered, but when I got closer, I could vaguely hear someone shouting hoarsely: "Is anyone there..."

Yin Luming quickened his pace, came to the last iron gate of the dungeon, and pulled open the heavy iron fence.

In the room inside, two dying people were bound with shackles and chains. One of them was paralyzed on the ground, raised his head from time to time and howled weakly, with a numb expression, as if he was just clocking in.

Suddenly seeing Yin Luming and the others appear, the fortunate player looked a little dazed, as if he thought he was dreaming.

Mi Ampere said "fuck me": "Why are they here?"

Yin Luming found the key on the table and went over to unlock it for them: "It was deported by Madam Solari."

"what?"

"They stole up to the second floor."

These two were the players Yin Luming met on the second floor of the manor before, who wanted to steal gems but were caught by Mrs. Solari.

"They're not dead?" Mi Ampei took out a bottle of water and two pieces of bread from his bag and gave them to them, and was immediately snatched away to eat and drink like crazy, "Damn, how long have you been hungry?"

A player swallowed the dry bread in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Two days..."

Trapped here for two days without eating or drinking!

When they were thrown here by Mrs. Solari at first, they were glad that they hadn't been instantly killed; afterward, they complained that they should not respond every day, and the ground was ineffective. Not to mention teammates, they didn't even have any enemies. Let them live here. Stayed up for two days!

Yin Luming said: "It was supposed to be the housekeeper and maid who came here to take away the players who violated Madam Solari's taboo and were imprisoned in the dungeon. It's just that the maid disappeared and the housekeeper also ran away. Naturally, no one cares about this place."

That's why these two players were not counted as "sacrifices".

Mi Ampere remembered the dirty water they used to throw the door at the maid monster: "Ah, aren't the maids also locked up here?"

"It should be dealt with by the housekeeper." Yin Luming said, "Madame Solari has never directly attacked the player. The way she punishes the player is to put the player in the dungeon. After feeding the venom to Madam Solari, come The person killed by the player and cast on the stone pillar in the forest is the steward."

Madam Solari was not their enemy... Ralph the Steward was.

Si Cheng's expression became more and more cold: "Where can I find him?"

"The butler left in a hurry yesterday, is it because something happened to the townspeople?" Mi Ampere wondered, "So he hurried over?"

Si Cheng asked, "Are you going to stay here tonight?"

Unknowingly, Si Cheng subconsciously wanted to follow Yin Luming's advice.

Yin Luming shook his head: "He didn't come over last night, so he must have given up on the layout of the manor. It's not good to just sit back and wait."

Si Cheng became anxious: "Then..."

Yin Luming suddenly turned his head to look at him, and there was a hint of sharpness in his sharp eyes: "Do you dare to take risks?"

Si Cheng was startled, and suddenly raised his head: "Of course!"

"Two townspeople died today, and the bodies were also sent to the sea?" Yin Luming said, "Let's follow up and have a look."

Mi Ampere gasped: "Damn!"

Take a canoe out to sea late at night!And still follow the corpse!

Si Cheng's eyes burned with excitement, but his voice calmed down: "You won't go if you're afraid."

Mi Ampei smiled "hehe" and said, "Actually, I am also very adventurous."

But he immediately had a new question, "But the three of us have never made a canoe, so how do we go to sea?"

Yin Luming said: "Let's bring one more person."

"Who?"

"Sihe."

Si Cheng was taken aback for a moment, and his eyes widened in random surprise.

The "resurrected townsman" who was suspected to be Sihe was responsible for guiding the players who chose the townsman faction to cut down trees, and dug out a canoe as an example!

Si Cheng wanted to go to that townsman a long time ago, but he suppressed himself forcibly. Now that he has a formal reason, he will set off immediately without hesitation.

At this time, a weak voice asked: "Then what should we do?"

Mi Ampere lowered his head and said curiously, "Go and play by yourself, are you still relying on us?"

The player devoured the bread and water brought by Miampe just now, and now he managed to regain his strength, and said with a smile: "How can you say that you have saved our lives, and we want to repay the favor." one time."

Mi Ampere said unceremoniously: "You just want to take credit for it?"

At the time of the final settlement, although the level-breaking reward will only be given to one person, the more efforts you make in the level-breaking process, the more points you will get.

The player had a thick skin: "How could it be? We are sincere..."

"Go back and tell the other players to let them investigate every house in the town." Yin Luming said indifferently, "It's best to control everyone. Emphasize the housekeeper."

The player suddenly became energetic: "No problem!"

Mi Ampere curled his lips and muttered, "It's cheap for you."

……

"Brother Yin, they went to sea?"

Chi Xi repeatedly confirmed from the mouths of the two rescued players, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

Again he was left alone.

But he cheered up immediately: he couldn't always rely on brother Yin, he also had his own wish to realize, and he had to work hard.

Lei Yingzhe, as the leader convinced by most of the players, quickly assigned teams to the remaining players to attack and control the townspeople.

Chi Xi and Lei Yingzhe were divided into a group.

Facing the envious eyes of other players, Chi Xi asked Lei Yingzhe with some embarrassment: "Mr. Lei, I..."

"Let me just say that your combat ability should be weak, and you are better at finding details, such as relying on your sense of smell." Lei Yingzhe laughed, "This kind of special talent needs special care wherever it is placed, so I will be with you. While ensuring your safety, it also allows you to participate in the decryption process as much as possible, and earn more points in the end."

It's reasonable, and Chi Xi couldn't fault it, so she could only be grateful: "Thank you, Mr. Lei."

"No need." Lei Yingzhe led him towards their target - a dilapidated wooden house near the woods, and asked with a low smile, "Are you also so polite to Yin Luming?"

Chi Xi was a little dazed: "Brother Yin saved my life..."

He suddenly looked at Lei Yingzhe warily.

Lei Yingzhe smiled and waved his hands: "Don't worry, I just want to recruit Yin Lumeng on behalf of the guild I'm in, and learn more about him. If you find it inconvenient to tell me, don't tell me."

Chi Xi breathed a sigh of relief, and made up her mind not to say a word about Yin Luming.

Lei Yingzhe also tactfully stopped talking.

Originally, with Lei Yingzhe's strength, it was easy to catch a townsman—unexpectedly, this wooden house was so dilapidated, the roof collapsed as soon as they broke through the door!

The townsman took the opportunity and ran towards the woods at an inhuman speed.

Lei Yingzhe immediately chased after him, and Chi Xi followed closely before he had time to think about it.

However, Lei Yingzhe and the townspeople were so fast that Chi Xi couldn't catch up soon.

With no trace of the enemy or teammates in front of him, Chi Xi stopped in a daze.

He frowned, thought for a moment, held tightly the weapon he exchanged before entering the dreamland, and walked towards the stone pillar following his memory.

Suddenly, his foot slipped, as if he tripped over something.

Chi Xi sat up with her arms propped up, rubbed her face, and immediately felt something climb onto his shoulders, with a faint, familiar smell of grass.

Then he felt his neck being scratched three times.

The thing paused for a moment, then scratched three times quickly and urgently, as if eagerly urging him to do something.