Forces of Temptation

……can not eat.

After realizing this, Nan Zhou had a cold expression on his face, and his mood was not obviously depressed.

After noticing Nan Zhou's careful thinking, Jiang Fang couldn't help laughing, and touched his arm: "Look at me."

Nan Zhou looked at him.

Jiang Fang lowered his head and whispered to him: "I will learn to do it in the future. It's not difficult."

Hearing this, Nan Zhou blinked.

His stomach, which was cold and hard because of hunger, gradually felt a strange, flowing warmth because of his words.

It seemed that a butterfly with thin scaled wings brushed his internal organs from inside, and wanted to take his whole body up to fly.

He had to look into Jiang Fang's eyes and be guided by his eyes so that Nan Zhou's spirit would not fly out of nowhere and fly to places he didn't know where he was.

...Jiang Fang seemed to be his anchor.

Nan Zhou turned his gaze away.

He seemed to have a reproductive urge again.

And a very specific reproductive drive.

As if someone had taught him that when there is a peculiar reproductive urge, one doesn't particularly want to have sex, only to cuddle.

But in which book he read it, he forgot.

Nan Zhou thought, this is not good.

They are still on task.

The boiling air waves in the black teapot hit the lid of the pot, and collided with the body of the pot to make a clear and fine sound.

There was an ominous heat from the depths of the floor beneath his feet.

The earnest and childlike smiles of the two brothers and sisters are right in front of them.

Thanks to the brothers and sisters, Nan Zhou's somewhat swaying spirit was brought back on track.

He wiped the silver fork clean and picked up a soufflé.

When the egg skin, as soft as cotton candy, was torn apart by the silver fork, there was a strong and delicious egg fragrance mixed with the rich strawberry cream fragrance, which shocked Li Yinhang's skin to the side.

Exposing a hungry person to a close-up smell of this soggy, warming food aroma is mental torture.

Seeing Nan Zhou move the fork and spoon, the expressions of the brother and sister were visibly more relaxed than before.

...after all, he was still a child.

Happiness is hard to hide.

Jiang Fang had a panoramic view of this emotional change, and asked naturally, "Did you cook all these foods?"

The attention of the two was drawn away from Nan Zhou.

My sister nodded: "Yeah."

Jiang Fang slightly bent his eyes, leaned on the sofa relaxedly, and praised, "That's amazing."

Jiang Fang has the ability to make anyone feel that he is very approachable in a short period of time.

Sure enough, the younger sister blushed a little proudly: "A small part was made by my brother, and most of it was done by me."

The older brother glanced at her and shook his head disapprovingly.

Jiang Fang softened his voice: "Where did you buy the raw materials? I also want to make such a house for my teammates and bring him to live in it."

Sister: "That's impossible. The Candy House is unique and will continuously produce new, best candies in the world."

...is completely the tone of the protagonist.

Jiang Fang calmly and induced to obtain information: "Then have you considered opening a dessert shop..."

Thanks to Jiang Fang diverting attention from the side, the brother and sister failed to notice that Nan Zhou didn't take a bite of dessert at all.

There is not much time left for them.

The siblings have been forcing them to eat dessert, consciously or not.

Many players tend to interpret their act of asking for dessert as "a task that needs them to complete".

Nanzhou's thinking is single-threaded, and he doesn't think about any twists and turns.

——The two brothers and sisters said that they don't need the player to complete the task.

——As the only NPC currently visible in the game, this sentence itself is a lie.

——So, it is common sense not to trust the words of liars.

The brother and sister's intention to ask them to eat dessert is too strong.

It is difficult to predict what they will do if they are made aware of the flaws in the plan.

The hunger at the moment was not strong enough to affect his judgment, but instead made Nanzhou's thinking more powerful and efficient.

The path they've traveled since entering the level is an obvious one-liner.

Another barren road leading to Daze, they also explored in advance.

They have nowhere to escape but the candy house.

In other words, the elements that broke the game must be hidden in the candy house.

Fortunately, the area of ​​the candy house is not very large.

After Nan Zhou wandered around, he noticed two details.

First, there is no trace of a third person's life in this family.

Cups, photos, are exclusive to the siblings.

Even the beds were two fluffy toast cribs.

The character that should have existed in the fairy tale—the father of the two siblings—has disappeared silently in this dungeon.

Second, a display of slices of chocolate crepes built against the wall, opposite the door they had entered into the candy store.

It is decorated with fondant cakes made in the shape of various small animals such as sheep and squirrels.

But the display rack is not completely against the wall.

There is a distance between it and the wall, which makes the design look a bit inconsistent.

Nan Zhou held Souffle in his arms, put on a relaxed posture, readjusted his sight with the help of body changes, and looked again.

This confirmed his judgment.

... There is something behind the shelf.

The thing happened to be blocked behind the third display board from the top.

Taking a closer look, Nan Zhou roughly guessed what was behind the display shelf based on the location of the thing——

There, there is a hidden door.

A layer of mousse coating was applied to the wall behind the display rack in an attempt to blend in with the original wall.

However, the imperceptible gap between the door and the wall cannot be whitewashed to leave no trace.

And door handles are even harder to hide.

So they simply set up a decorative stand to cover it.

Although this method of covering is a bit clumsy, considering that the area of ​​the candy house is not large, if a large area and too thick covering is placed there, the area of ​​the room will be compressed, but it will be more eye-catching and try to cover up.

According to his own eating habits, Nan Zhou cut the soufflé open with a silver fork to delay time, while he put his hand into the storage tank and meditated.

...Is it okay to leave as long as you don't eat the food they provide, and then find this door?

Could it be that simple?

When thinking of this, Nan Zhou suddenly felt a cold gaze cast on him: "Why...don't you eat?"

Nan Zhou raised his eyes, and met his brother's peacock green eyes.

Looking at the soufflé on the plate that was almost chopped into pieces by himself, Nan Zhou stopped trying to explain.

He throws a backhand—

The elder brother closed his eyes reflexively, but his younger sister screamed from beside him.

The souffle cream exploded on her face.

Knowing that the plan had been revealed, the elder brother got up quickly, intending to grab Li Yinhang's shoulder.

When Li Yinhang saw his younger sister's face covered with cream, he sensed something was wrong and planned to run away.

But my brother moves extremely fast and is exceptionally flexible.

Seeing that he was about to dodge in time, Jiang Fang kicked the coffee table in the air, and moved his brother's legs with the coffee table, holding him back.

She didn't look any more, and just when she was about to run away, she felt a gust of cold wind blowing over her waist, pinching her whole body to her side.

With Li Yinhang between them, Nanzhou strode towards the display rack.

Jiang Fang immediately sensed his intention and followed closely behind.

On the way to escape, Nan Zhou turned his head.

The two brothers and sisters did not catch up.

Instead, they came to the two floorboards next to the wall, held hands, and looked at the three of them bleakly.

With a thought in his mind, Nan Zhou gave an order to Li Yinhang: "Close your eyes."

Li Yinhang clenched his teeth and closed his eyes tightly.

Instead, he called out to Jiang Fang: "Brother——"

Jiang Fang didn't react slowly. He could hear the difference in Nan Zhou's voice, and without hesitation, he touched the ground with one foot, jumped up, and grabbed the jeweled sugar chandelier on the ceiling.

In just a short breath, the floor under the three people's feet began to move.

——the floor on which they stood was folded, and they folded away to both sides at high speed.

The exquisite small tea table, sofa, and bed in the house turned out to be appendages of the floor.

With the folding, because of some special force, the furniture is compressed like a piece of paper like the mustard seed Nasumi.

The area where only the siblings stood, and the small patch of floor under the display rack that blocked that door, were carefully crafted safe zones.

Nan Zhou thought, no wonder.

No wonder player's fingernails show up in the cracks in the floor.

No wonder the siblings didn't find the pinched nails.

The player who lost his nails probably fell off the sofa.

He tried to grab hold of the folded floor, only to have his fingernails lifted off by it.

After the floor was restored to its original state, the sofa that returned to normal naturally blocked the bloody secret.

And after the floor was removed, what was hidden underneath were a dozen huge soup pots crowded together side by side, with snow-white boiling foam.

Like a living coffin.

The flame under the soup pot suddenly came into contact with sufficient oxygen, and the tongue of the flame burst out, like a greedy fire phoenix, with its mouth wide open, welcoming Nanzhou and Li Yinhang who were falling down from above.

The intense weightlessness made Li Yinhang almost bite his lip.

She didn't need to look with her eyes, but she could guess what they were going through by relying on the scorching heat from below her body.

The scene must have been pretty much the same as Falling into Hell.

However, just as the fire came up along Nan Zhou's windbreaker, Jiang Fang's body accelerated and he kicked the display rack to pieces and landed on the edge of the floor.

With a muffled sound from above, Nanzhou moved.

He just probed into the warehouse and re-worn the light finger chain. With the help of the flames, the red silk thread was shot upwards.

The silk thread was coiled around the exposed doorknob.

The light from Nanzhou's fingertips gathered at a high speed, pulling the bodies of the two people up, and escaped from hell.

Immediately, Nan Zhou jumped up and squatted on the light that was receding towards the chain.

With this turning around, he flicked his index and middle fingers, and two candy-colored rays of light crossed half the room, leaping towards the brother and sister who were stunned watching him flee—

The two just stand together, there is no other place to run, very easy to control.

After tying the two life-threatening bear children together like a lasso, Nan Zhou has also successfully landed next to the broken shelf.

He tossed Li Yinhang to Jiang Fang, wrapped his free hand around the light twice, and pulled it down with all his strength——

The two siblings screamed, back to back, and were hung alive by the chandelier in the center of the room.

Nan Zhou tied the two of them into two meat dumplings with light, cut off the other end of the light from his chain, and tied them to the fully exposed doorknob.

... The brother and sister became little bacon hanging on the flame.

Feeling the temperature under her feet, the younger sister kicked on her beautiful little boots in fear and cried out in a high voice.

The elder brother stared at the three of them with fierce eyes.

Nan Zhou ignored them.

As a dungeon NPC, Nanzhou understands them, but it doesn't mean he will get used to their faults.

This is a business capability issue, and they should reflect on it first.

The door handle looks familiar.

It is the doorknob leading to every room in the corridor of the brain.

Jiang Fang held Li Yinhang with one hand, and pressed the doorknob.

And Nanzhou cooperated well and quickly dodged inside.

After a clear light mixed with greenness flashed by, the eyes of the three suddenly brightened up again.

Li Yinhang dared to open his eyes only when the smell of smoke and burning had completely disappeared and the person was put on the ground again.

She braced her legs that were weak from hunger and tension, took a few steps forward, and looked around.

Li Yinhang was extremely surprised: "We... are back?"

It is indeed back.

After pushing open the door, they did not succeed in getting out of the game.

Hunger still haunted them like tarsal maggots.

They were standing in the woods they had teleported to when they entered.

The difference is that the arc-shaped trees and vines wrapped around the trees behind them all disappeared.

It opened up an unknown passage, heading in the exact opposite direction of the candy house.

After going through the thrilling experience just now, he thought he could get out of trouble, but once again entered a new puzzle, Li Yinhang leaned against the tree in frustration, his legs trembling uncontrollably, as if he had lost all strength.

Complications of starvation began to flare up further.

Dizziness, weakness, weak legs.

Hunger is like a greedy animal, biting their stomachs with small bites.

The situation of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang is similar to her.

After passing the level just now, the hunger did not decrease but increased.

They can even clearly feel how the stomach acid is burning and boiling in the body.

Nan Zhou found some stored food from the warehouse and handed it to her.

Jiang Fang also brought out some food: "Eat slowly, chew with your teeth, don't swallow."

Feeling that he could swallow a cow in a second, Li Yinhang had no choice but to resist the urge to gobble it up, bit the edge of a piece of jerky with his teeth, and bit down slowly.

She compressed the meat in one bite, and when the fine fiber of the meat burst open in her mouth, she almost cried out.

For the first time, she discovered that meat is so delicious.

Nan Zhou didn't talk when he was hungry, he just held a biscuit and sipped it.

And Jiang Fang would say more: "We still have a lot of food. If it is not possible, you can also find linden trees, oak trees, or birch trees. I will teach you which parts you can eat."

Li Yinhang swallowed a mouthful of meat, and asked softly, "Where are we going?"

Nan Zhou, who ate three biscuits, said: "Look at the candy house first, then at the swamp. Then look back, what's there in the woods."

Upon hearing such a long journey, Li Yinhang's legs softened first.

Now every step they take, consumes their body's energy exponentially.

Tortured by hunger, Li Yinhang even thought of retreating.

But she didn't say anything, she stood up reluctantly, and walked with them.

Nanzhou's decision seems to be a waste of energy, but it is indeed extremely valuable.

Li Yinhang found that the woods here were completely different from the woods they walked through last time.

A gravel path with no breadcrumbs on the ground.

The roads are deserted.

The overgrown bushes on the side of the road kept tugging at their pants.

The arrangement of trees is not as orderly as before.

Daze was no different from what they saw last time.

And in the candy house, there are no children and no witches.

Because they were afraid of stepping on the trap on the floor, they did not go in to investigate.

But just by taking a few glances outside, Nan Zhou can tell that the decoration is obviously different from the last time they saw it.

There was an overturned pot on the floor.

From the mouth of the pot, protruded a human bone finger claw with loose flesh.

The shape is like a skeleton trying to crawl from hell to the world.

Seeing this scene, Nan Zhou speculated that they returned to the candy house at another time point.

It seems that it should be after the witch was killed by the brothers and sisters.

The brother and sister fled back home.

The candy house was abandoned on the spot and left unattended.

Well, those brothers and sisters should be at their home now.

After walking this distance, the energy they had just replenished was exhausted.

The candy house can see and can't eat, and all three of them understand it.

Instead of seeing it as uncomfortable, they turned back immediately without stopping, eating as much food as possible on the road, and at the same time looking for the original home of the two brothers and sisters.

In the last level, they opened the secret door in the candy house and returned to the forest.

By analogy, they should go to find the next door.

In the forest, there are no sounds of birds or animals, only their footsteps, which sound quite strange.

Jiang Fang searched and walked all the way, also thoughtful.

Not only are there no birds or animals in the forest, even edible ferns and mushrooms are gone.

He managed to find a fungus pit, approached it tentatively, and only got a few pus mycelia with a pungent fishy smell on his fingertips.

…even the poisonous mushrooms have been hollowed out.

For now, it seems that they have no new food source and can only sit and eat.

In the original fairy tale of "Candy House", after the two brothers and sisters were abandoned by their father into the forest, they couldn't find their way home without signs to guide them.

The hunger that follows like a shadow, accompanied by the anxiety of an unknown future, makes a gloomy depression permeate uncontrollably.

Nan Zhou originally thought that they would spend more time looking for the pair of brothers and sisters.

However, after they walked in the dense forest for half an hour, a strong smell of meat made the three of them directly locate their destination.

——A cabin filled with warm and warm light.

It was just getting dark when we came out of the dense forest.

The three of them sneaked all the way and came under the window in the foyer.

Nanzhou probed, leaned on the edge of the window, and looked into the house.

Not surprisingly, he saw the pair of siblings.

The clothes of the two little guys are similar to those just now.

They were dressed in velvet garments, which seemed to be expensive, not a standard that the children of woodcutters could easily enjoy.

This further confirms what Nanzhou and the others discovered just now.

In this timeline, the two brothers and sisters have already experienced the whole process of narrowly dying, killing the witch, and escaping from the candy house with the witch's treasure.

Now, it should be a warm story of "brothers, sisters and father live a happy life".

But their appearance was much weirder and hideous than before.

Sitting at the dining table, the siblings had uniformly green faces and sunken cheeks, like hungry people who had been hungry for more than ten days.

The dishes on the table are rich, but weird.

There is meat, there is chicken,

There are braised squirrels, fried birds,

And plates of raw leaves and mushrooms.

The younger sister ate hard, gulping down a large mouthful of cooked meat, but her frown did not show any sign of relaxation.

She tore off another bird's leg, opened a mouthful of small white teeth, and chewed the bones together.

My brother simply grabbed a handful of emerald green leaves and fed them into his mouth.

With good eyesight, Nan Zhou found a fat, snow-white caterpillar crouching on a leaf.

But my brother turned a blind eye to this and stuffed it into his mouth.

The plant made a loud bursting sound in his mouth.

They couldn't help but make the dull purring sound of pigs eating frantically, but there was no enjoyment on their faces, only the mechanical numbness of stuffing ducks, and incomprehensible pain.

Not long after, my sister lay down on the table in despair, moaning weakly:

"very hungry."

"Daddy, we're so hungry—"

The author has something to say:

No matter how many times Zhou Zhou will be seduced by Brother Fang's tenderness

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