Forces of Temptation

Li Yinhang's notebook draws a simple timeline, followed by simple text notes.

"It's a movie." Li Yinhang made it clear, "All the horrible phenomena we have encountered so far are all plots in movies."

Speaking of it, the reason why Li Yinhang thinks of the movie is entirely because of what happened to the thin monkey yesterday.

When she was a child, she watched an old Hong Kong film on the movie channel.

She has long forgotten what she said in detail, but there was a scene in it that made the young Li Yinhang so scared that he got into his mother's bed——

A man stood in front of the TV, fascinated by the bright red lips that kept opening and closing.

The red lips opened, swallowing the man whole into the TV, and finally stuck out his tongue, licking his lips with satisfaction and satisfaction.

This resulted in Li Yinhang not daring to stay too long in front of electronic screens like TVs for quite a long time.

Unexpectedly, what happened to Thin Monkey has a subtle correspondence with her childhood shadow.

Only then did she have a little basis for getting to the bottom of it.

"However, I don't dare to make a conclusion based on this fragment of memory from my childhood."

Li Yinhang said with a bitter face: "...so I watched all the horror movies on the computer."

She opened the notebook and spread it in front of Nan Zhou.

"Human Shape", a heart-warming horror film, the plot of the story is about a child who always feels that his house is haunted, and no one will believe it when he tells others. In fact, his dead father has returned.

He would stand at the head of the bed and watch his sleeping son, accompany him to and from school, and play basketball with him until he watched his son run to the temple to pray, hoping to die.

"Bathroom", a Korean film, at a little over 29 minutes, the heroine was washing her hair, and she saw a pair of feet appearing behind her out of the corner of her eye.

"Night Howl", an American film, a werewolf secretly hides under the child's bed. When the child is playing, a remote control car slips under the bed. When he reaches for it, the werewolf pulls him under the bed.

This plot is at the beginning of the movie, around 3 minutes and 25 seconds.

The old Hong Kong movie "The Haunting of Ghosts" mentioned by Li Yinhang is also listed.

Li Yinhang explained: "The situation that Lawyer Yu encountered today is also on the computer. It is called "The Choir", a Canadian film, a demon leads faceless children to sing in church, seduces devout believers, catches them and eats their souls .”

Nan Zhou was stunned.

That way, it all makes sense.

Why do ghosts appear irregularly?

Why is the randomness of the appearance, and the randomness of the attack target?

Why do ghosts have both intangible, tangible, and even wolf claws?

Triggered facial recognition, feet in the bathroom, cannibal red lips on a computer screen, seduction in a dream...

Horror plots that have appeared in movies, houses that are constantly compressed and distorted, and doors that disappear...

A timeline that is almost completely synchronized with the time of the murder, but there is no trace of the murderer, nor the timeline of bloody corpses...

All kinds of clues gathered in one place, pointing to a somewhat unimaginable possibility, but only this can explain it.

Li Yinhang said: "This is the movie world."

Jiang Fang said, "This is Xiao Ming's world."

Li Yinhang: "..."

Li Yinhang: "...Huh???"

She spent more than half a day reviewing more than 2 horror movies at 20X speed, and tried to avoid people's eyes and ears so that other groups would not find out what she was doing.

She eventually came to the conclusion that it was a world of multiple films mixed together.

As a result, Jiang Fang gave a completely different answer after listening to her analysis in 20 seconds.

... She had a feeling of grief and indignation that she was full of confidence after the exam and checked the answers with Xueba, but was told by Xueba that she still had one side that she didn't write.

She waited for a few seconds before she could think about what Jiang Fang said just now.

...What is "Xiao Ming's World"?

Nan Zhou sat cross-legged on the ground, with the handiwork he made for Xiao Ming placed in front of him.

That was completed by Nanzhou within today.

He feels that if tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the flow of time speeds up again, there may be no time to do manual work.

So he planned to set it up in advance, and tomorrow, as long as he added a few, the task would be considered complete.

Now, Xiao Ming's dream family has taken shape.

Three stick figures of different heights are holding hands and standing in front of the house.

The light makes the matchstick emit a faint wooden glaze. If you don't look closely, it looks like a few miniature tooth carvings, delicate and warm.

Nan Zhou picked up a toothpick as thin as a hair with tweezers the size of a toothpick, and placed it on the empty side of one of the villains.

... This is Matchstick Xiaoming's arm.

His hands were steady, and he could even separate his mind, answering Li Yinhang's questions in a soft voice: "'Xiao Ming's world' refers to the fact that we are now in Xiao Ming's mind."

When Li Yinhang was confused, Jiang Fang took the call: "Yinhang, do you remember that call? It was when we went to inquire about the water bill."

"The operator told us today is July 7."

"In June, the water consumption of this family of three was still normal, 6 tons. But after only three days in July, the water consumption suddenly increased to 12 tons."

Li Yinhang tried to keep up with the rhythm: "So, the dismemberment will either happen on the 1st or the 2nd?"

Because the oil in the pressure cooker is very fresh and still shiny.

Jiang Fang said: "The exact time cannot be determined. However, it is very likely that he just saw off his daughter on the night we came here."

Nanzhou adjusted Matchstick Xiaoming's square head.

He wondered how long it would take a man of prime age with a handsaw, a bathtub, and a spacious bathroom, realizing his mistake, to disintegrate a human body to the point where it could be shipped out and thrown away.

How long will it take to saw off the hard-to-hidden bones in sections, boil them in batches until softened, and then pretend to be broken ribs and throw them into the kitchen waste downstairs.

The answer is, four or five hours is enough.

Thinking this way, he said: "Perhaps, Xiao Ming's father really came to Xiao Ming's bedside on the night after the murder, stood by the bedside, and stared at Xiao Ming."

After lightly saying something that made Li Yinhang's hair stand on end, Nan Zhou continued to lower his head to build Xiao Ming's house, and said slowly:

"...However, if this game is a reality that the character Xiao Ming is experiencing simultaneously, then this game shouldn't be designed like this."

"Xiao Ming's father should still be at home. We should have an intersection with Xiao Ming's father, the NPC. Our mission should be to find out the fact that he killed people, and then try to escape, while he will chase us after us with a hand saw. ... And It’s not like now, throwing us into an empty house, some inexplicable ghosts appear, let us find a door we don’t know where it is.”

"From the very beginning, all of us have been playing Xiao Ming, living, washing, entertaining, doing homework, and doing activities in this home according to Xiao Ming's habits."

"Since then, I can't figure it out. There is only one Xiao Ming, why should eight people be gathered to participate in this dungeon?"

"Now I probably know why: the number doesn't matter. Because we can all be Xiaoming."

"This copy is the world in Xiao Ming's mind."

Inspired by Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang's cooperation, Li Yinhang finally opened his mind.

If they are in Xiao Ming's thoughts now, then the day when his sister was dismembered was just a normal day for Xiao Ming who just woke up from sleep.

From his point of view, he didn't notice anything.

So when he woke up from a blissful sleep, he didn't smell blood, and he didn't hear the sound of dismemberment.

And as players, they didn't hear anything.

By the time he woke up at 7 o'clock on July 3 and started a new day, the ground had been cleaned, the blood was flushed into the sewer, and the fresh air system and the smell of detergent completely covered up the smell of blood.

Perhaps he could only smell a lingering scent of meat in the air.

In reality, the father may still be at home, changed into a new dress, and looked a little haggard, as if he hadn't slept all night.

Xiao Ming started his ordinary daily life without knowing it.

And the players on the first day also started their search in such a false peace.

At noon, Xiao Ming probably had a dream.

Although Xiao Ming himself had no idea what happened last night, his consciousness had already received enough signals.

So he dreamed of the screeching and grinding of a handsaw.

... So Yu Tuisi also dreamed.

This dream may have put Xiao Ming in a bad mood, so that when he took a bath at night, thinking of a certain plot of a horror movie on the computer, he was very afraid that a pair of women's bare feet would appear behind him.

And Shen Jie saw those pale feet.

Before going to bed, Xiao Ming, who hadn't seen his sister for a day, would ask his father.

"Where did my sister go?"

Or "Dad, where's sister?"

For any father with a sliver of conscience, after dismantling his daughter with his own hands, it may be difficult for him to maintain a normal mental state.

Will he say, my sister went out to play, or will he say, my sister went to find my mother?

Anyway, that wouldn't be a pleasant answer.

Because after one night, the world Jiang Fang and the others lived in was strangely distorted.

If this is Xiao Ming's heart, he should be nervous.

He found something strange, maybe his sister's things disappeared overnight, maybe he also saw a few bloody hairs just like them.

He even dreamed of the smell of meat during his nap.

Xiao Ming's atrium contracted violently, protesting strongly, the normal part shrank and got smaller, and the deformed part got bigger and bigger.

... This is their third day, the clock is spinning crazily, the madness is getting worse, and the whole family is distorted into the appearance of a kiln.

In the past, Xiao Ming was just lonely, and he complained alone, why they didn't play with me.

The only thing that can illuminate his sensitive heart is his own one among thousands of lights.

Now the light is slowly going out.

The key words for passing the level have been inserted in the name of the dungeon from the very beginning.

The task they want to complete is "Xiao Ming's daily life".

It is his ordinary daily life, and it is also a daily life in which he gradually struggles and deforms in pain, anxiety, and fear.

"So..." Nan Zhou came to a conclusion again, "We are in Xiao Ming's world."

A world that evolved from the mind of a child who was accidentally murdered.

A world falling layer by layer into darkness.

There are hidden ghosts that children are afraid of, nightmares, and secrets that are unknown.

Only there is no door from which to escape.

That's why they have been unable to find the door.

After experiencing the momentary joy of discovering the truth, Li Yinhang suddenly became depressed again.

Even after discovering the truth of being in the world, they still can't find the door.

Her discovery does have some value, but it has nothing to do with the main storyline, so the reward notification sound didn't even sound.

For example, what she found was an opportunity to find the keyhole.

But without the key, it is still useless.

Jiang Fang praised her: "You have done a good job."

Li Yinhang: "..."

Although I got the clue and immediately thought about the wrong direction, thank you for your encouragement.

Jiang Fang turned to Nan Zhou, "What do you think?"

Nan Zhou didn't speak, but pursed his thin lips and frowned slightly.

After a while, he said, "Today is our third day here. If we can go out before 24 o'clock today, we will be rewarded with a lot of points, right?"

Jiang Fang raised his eyebrows slightly: "You thought of it?"

"It's not difficult."

Li Yinhang: "..." She felt that her IQ was being rubbed against by two big bosses in turn, one was symbolically gentle, and the other was simply rude.

Nanzhou turned to Li Yinhang and confirmed, "...the points will be a little more, right?"

Seeing the hope of getting out of this ghostly place, Li Yinhang blushed with excitement: "Yes, yes, yes."

So, Nan Zhou swallowed what he wanted to say.

He reached out and picked up Xiao Ming's math summer homework, opened the cover,

What caught his eyes was a big clock that Xiao Ming drew on the title page of his workbook.

Xiao Ming wrote in his diary: "I hope the clock turns to the end, and the math homework can be finished automatically."

Nan Zhou's fingertips slid across the cool pages of the book.

In the depths of Xiao Ming's heart, what is he longing for?

How to find a door to escape from the pain with the hope of Xiao Ming falling down layer by layer.

Nan Zhou lightly rested his finger on the hour hand of the graffiti clock.

They had already searched the house, and it was unlikely that they would have any other clues.

Looking at all their discoveries so far, only this virtual clock is entrusted with Xiao Ming's wish.

It does not belong to reality, but to Xiao Ming's heart.

He turned the pointer back and forth.

And the hour hand, which was stagnant in place and drawn with a water pen, actually moved.

Round and round.

Simple operation back and forth.

As Nanzhou said, it's really not difficult, it's very simple.

Xiao Ming wants to go back to the past.

Back to the day when there was no tragedy, back to the time when my father and sister were still there.

Nan Zhou's fingertips moved faster and faster, but his eyes were fixed on the three small figures standing in front of the small house holding hands.

The reversed time flowed quickly with his fingertips, leading them out of the prison of the heart.

If you could turn back time, what wishes would people make?

Go back and see what your parents and relatives looked like when they were young and healthy?

Buy a lottery ticket and fulfill your wish of getting rich?

Say sorry to the person you hurt when you were young and ignorant?

Nanzhou didn't know.

He didn't have anything in particular he wanted to do.

If there must be...

A burst of pleasant system music sounded at the right time, interrupting Nanzhou's reverie.

After the music, everyone heard the same thing:

[Ding Ding Ding Dong——]

[Congratulations to the "Cubic Ark" team for completing the dungeon "Xiao Ming's Daily Life"! 】

[Congratulations to "Lifangzhou" team members Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang, and Li Yinhang for finding the "escape door" and getting 2000 points each! 】

[Congratulations to Nanzhou, a member of "Cubic Ark", for discovering the A-level prop "Countercurrent Hour Hand"! 】

[Congratulations to the "Lifangzhou" team, the "Shunfeng" team, and the "Nanshan" team for completing the basic tasks and getting the reward "Xiao Ming's completed daily life", each with 500 points! 】

[Congratulations to the three teams, within the seven-day game time, they found the exit four days in advance, and each won 800 points! 】

[The current quest mainline exploration rate is 98.7%.If the completion rate is more than 95%, it can be judged as a perfect S rank! 】

[DiDi——S-level rewards are 1000 points each and any random item, and the item will be sent to each player’s backpack within three days~]

[Please leave the instance within 3 minutes——]

Nan Zhou immediately dismissed all unnecessary thoughts, and put the summer homework with the clock in his arms so fast that Li Yinhang had no time to blink.

When the three pushed the door out, Shen Jie who was just about to take a bath was standing in the middle of the living room.

Shen Jie's hands trembled slightly, and she asked the three of them with unspeakable joy: "What's going on?!"

Nanzhou let Li Yinhang briefly explain to them, while he looked around.

The walls are still twisted.

It's just that where there should be a door in the entrance, there is a door that was crookedly drawn with a child's crayon.

...Xiao Ming's heart has finally become like this.

Nan Zhou originally thought that if he didn't have time to reward points, he wanted to stay with Xiao Ming in the next four days.

But from this point of view, the wounded heart will not heal easily.

Li Yinhang barely described their reasoning process based on his own ability.

Shen Jie didn't understand at all.

She ignored the little jealousy and envy of "Cubic Ark" in her heart, and directed the fitness trainer to quickly carry the thin monkey back.

As long as she can go out, she doesn't care so much.

Chen Sufeng pushed Yu Tuisi, who had just taken sleeping pills, out of the master bedroom.

The latter supported his head, drowsy.

Shen Jie asked Li Yinhang: "Where are you going after you go out?"

Li Yinhang: "We come from Rudu."

Shen Jie warmly invited: "Come to 'Paper Gold', we are from 'Paper Gold'."

"Paper Gold City" is also a teleportation point for the game "Gravity".

Different from the highly mature post-modern city in the past, the "Paper Gold City" is resplendent and glamorous. It is a gold-selling cave that is rich in gold mines and diamonds in the setting and has a high-end equipment exchange market.

Chen Sufeng was studying that weird door.

Jiang Fang was watching the structure of the door from a distance.

Nan Zhou entered Xiao Ming's room, wanting to see if there were any hidden props.

In the last 3 minutes, Shen Jie and Li Yinhang decided where to go after leaving.

Yu Tuisi in the foyer watched several people who were in a hurry to discuss where to go, as well as the fitness coach who was carrying a thin monkey on his back and walking towards Shen Jie from the sofa.

He narrowed his blurry eyes due to the effect of the medicine: "...Why is there an extra person?"

It's too late to say.

Jiang Fang suddenly looked back.

A monster who didn't know when it appeared appeared behind the fitness coach.

It was a naked male zombie with rot dripping from his chin!

It pulled its half-rotten vocal cords, roared sharply, and grabbed the arm of the fitness trainer's back, which was densely covered with broken tendons and muscles.

Who would have thought that Xiao Ming's terrifying imagination would be refreshed the moment before they left? !

Li Yinhang's mind went blank for a moment.

A long list of messages flashed quickly before her eyes.

The plot of the American zombie movie "Lost" lasts about 2 hours. When everyone thought that the zombies were completely wiped out, there was still one lurking in the protagonist's house.

...fucking open ending.

The living room was too narrow, and there was nowhere for everyone to hide.

Chen Sufeng reacted the fastest, grabbed the armrest of Yu Tuisi's wheelchair, and walked through the drawn door out of thin air.

Before the fitness instructor could even turn his head, Shen Jie grabbed his arm and yelled, "Run!"

The fitness coach trusted Shen Jie 100%, and he didn't dare to turn his head. He ran very fast and jumped out the door in a few steps.

Li Yinhang had already planned to run away, but when it was time for her to die, when the fitness trainer was running wildly with the thin monkey on his back, because the former hugged the latter's knee, Li Yinhang was hit hard, and he staggered two steps. While screaming "don't fall" and "don't fall" repeatedly, she still couldn't resist the force of gravity and fell to the ground.

Jiang Fang couldn't run away because of his height.

So he had no intention of running at all.

He moved his wrist, and pressed the middle knuckles of his hands with his thumbs, making a slight bone sound.

Seeing that the fitness trainer was lost, the zombie was furious, let go of its hands and feet, tilted its head, and rushed towards Jiangfang frantically!

Just as Li Yinhang was about to scream, he suddenly saw a figure walking quickly, coming directly to the side of the zombie.

... She even forgot that there was a Nan Zhou in the room.

The next moment, Nan Zhou's left hand supported the bottom of the corpse's chin.

His right hand rested on the upper right side of the corpse's head.

Before Li Yinhang could remember why this movement was so familiar, he saw his hands swung to the sides like thunder.

click-

After a crisp bone sound, the zombie's neck was directly separated from the connection between the cervical spine and the head, and turned backward 180 degrees.

Zombie: "..."

He probably didn't understand why his face was facing the door just now, but now he was facing the toilet.

Li Yinhang: "..." He didn't scream, it was because his throat was stuck.

Naturally, the zombies did not die, and they spun around in silence, as if they were going to make a fuss about the north, south, east, and west.

Nan Zhou looked at his hands covered with unknown mucus, quickly pulled a scarf on the hanger, and wiped his hands a few times.

While wiping his hands, he raised his head and said to Jiang Fang, "Don't be afraid next time, remember to run, you can't beat me, I can do it."

Jiang Fang put his hands in his pockets, completely concealing his aggressive posture just now, and said with a smile, "Yes, Teacher Nan."

After cleaning up briefly, Nan Zhou walked to Li Yinhang's side: "Let's go."

Under the double shock, Li Yinhang stared at the circling zombies, his legs went limp.

Seeing that she was not moving, Nan Zhou simply grabbed her by the clothes at the back of her neck and half-lifted her from the ground like a chicken.

"Let's go." Nan Zhou said concisely, "I want to wash my hands."

The author has something to say:

escaped from the prison called daily life qwq

Nanzhou: I regret it now, I regret it very much, I shouldn't just start breaking my head.jpg