Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

The wind was not too strong, but it carried a biting chill.

Yun Xiangrong's hair was cut short, only reaching shoulder length, and the wind blew her hair up, which made her look even thinner and thinner.And the moment he looked at her, Zhou Qian felt that his luggage moved by itself.

He guessed that it was the mountain in the god's bone that had sensed it.

Zhou Qian patted his luggage, barely comforting Shengu, and then said nothing for the time being, turned around and walked to the hotel first.

When Zhou Qian left, Bai Zhou naturally followed closely behind.

Not long after, the eight players all entered the Tatar Hotel together under the system's instructions.

The owner of the inn is a middle-aged woman in a long white dress and a plaid sweater. She is sitting in front of the fireplace knitting a sweater.

Seeing eight guests coming in, she looked up and smiled at them, and said, "You can choose your own room. The holiday is coming soon. I'm very busy, please make a choice within 10 minutes. I advise you, every day Individuals must choose a room, it is best not to live together, there is only one bed in a room."

holiday?

The farmland has been harvested, and the leaves and vegetation have turned yellow. Judging from what I saw outside the hotel just now, it should be late autumn now.

This season, the people in the background of this dungeon... what festival will they celebrate?

Zhou Qian looked carefully at the hotel lobby, and noticed that there were dried meat, corn, peppers and other things hanging on the door.

What is quite special is that there are seven cauldrons placed near the door.

Meat was being stewed in the pot, and the aroma of the meat filled the hall.

In fact, before entering the hotel, the players could already smell the meat here.

However, things like meat, combined with hotels, will inevitably remind people of rumors of black shops such as "human meat buns".In this way, no one dared to covet the meat.

Looking back at the proprietress, Zhou Qian asked, "What kind of festival is it? Is this meat... prepared for the festival?"

"Yes. There will be a banquet these few nights. Everyone can open up and eat meat." The proprietress smiled and glanced at Zhou Qian, "You can eat as much as you like."

Zhou Qian heard He Xiaowei swallowed obviously beside him. "That meat is really delicious. But I dare not eat it. How dare you eat the meat in this dungeon casually?"

"That's not necessarily true. Doesn't the game designer like to play tricks on people? The less edible it looks, the more edible it may be." Zhou Qian walked to the second floor with a smile, "Anyway, let's find a room first."

He Xiaowei sighed: "Qian'er, although I have been playing games with you for so long, I still can't tell whether you are joking or the truth."

"Really? Can Brother Zhou tell the difference?" While going upstairs, Zhou Qian bumped Bai Zhou with his elbow, asking very meaningfully.

Bai Zhou glanced at Zhou Qian, held his hand, and before he could answer, He Xiaowei added after the two of them stood behind him: "Don't keep asking others, but reflect on yourself!"

"Hey He Xiaowei—"

He Xiaowei couldn't continue to answer, because he was hit on the head by the hidden knife.

"Master, why did you hit me?"

"Misfortune comes out of your mouth. Take a good look at which room you should choose."

"Which room do you choose?" He Xiaowei asked.

Yindao: "You forgot that—"

"Oh, I remembered..."

He Xiaowei didn't finish his sentence, but was blocked by Zhou Qian's hand from behind.

Then he heard Zhou Qian say to the two girls: "Ladies first, you choose first."

At this time, eight people had already gone up to the second floor via the stairs.

After realizing something, He Xiaowei was startled for a moment, not understanding what Zhou Qian meant.

—what is he doing?You don't want to harm these two girls, do you?

Last time, Yin Jiujiu got into some trouble with everyone, and she was quite naive and impulsive, but her enemy was Situ Qing.For others, she still didn't do anything on purpose.She doesn't really have a grudge against us.This game just started, so it shouldn't be so simple and rude to kill her, right?

As for Yun Xiangrong, she is a poor girl.Zhou Qian shouldn't have hurt her, right?

What is he going to do?

Sensing the look in He Xiaowei's eyes, Zhou Qian probably guessed what he was thinking, but didn't explain much.When he looked at the two girls, he even had deliberate mockery in his eyes.

Looking at each other, Yun Xiangrong seemed to understand the provocation and sarcasm in Zhou Qian's eyes, and she immediately turned cold, and said in the same mocking tone: "I also received that ban—" — 'You can't spend the night in a house where you can see the fire from the window after sunset'. Don't even think about using information asymmetry against me."

Hearing this, Yin Jiujiu looked back and forth between Yun Xiangrong and Zhou Qian. "You two have a grudge?"

Then she looked at Zhou Qian again, and asked, "But Zhou Qian... you won't cheat me, will you?"

"Misunderstood. Of course I didn't cheat you." Zhou Qian smiled and said this to Yin Jiujiu, walked up to Yun Xiangrong a few more steps, stared into her eyes and said, "I really thought you didn't know this information, so I let the two of you choose first.

"But I didn't do this to harm you. I just wanted to pretend to be a good person to save you after you triggered a crisis because you didn't know the information."

Yun Xiangrong nodded, and continued to mock: "Oh. A familiar routine. Isn't that how you dealt with Situ Qing in the dungeon where Brother Shan died? Why, playing the routine won her heart... But After you finish using her and leave that copy...you don't seem to care about her?"

"The situation of the two of you is of course different. She was indeed an enemy who wanted to kill me. But you were at least my teammate that I could trust. This time, I just played a trick to express my goodwill to you That's all. Now that you know the prohibition... well, I can't play this trick anymore, and I have nothing to say. But..."

Zhou Qian said solemnly, "I want to tell you that Brother Shan has become my bone spirit. He has a chance to be resurrected. Only I can truly resurrect him.

"So, what you have to do now is to immediately withdraw from the Pink Army and come to me. As you can see, my team is getting stronger and stronger. My people and I can completely protect you from any danger."

"Really? Will you give me your weapon then?"

Yun Xiangrong curled his lower lip coldly, and stretched out his hand towards him, "Give me your weapon, and I will trust you."

"Sister Rong, you are meaningless. What if I give you the weapon and you want to kill me?" Zhou Qian narrowed his eyes, "I haven't forgotten. You said that I am your first target of revenge .

"Besides, without the god bone, I don't have any skills. All my skills depend on it."

"So you see...you dare not give me a weapon at all."

Yun Xiangrong turned around, walked into the corridor, opened a room randomly, walked to the bed, looked out at the village through the window, "I knew you were not sincere."

"It doesn't make sense for you to say that."

Zhou Qian said, "The one who is really dishonest is the Pink Army. They are testing you, can't you see it? If they really want to help you kill me, it is impossible for you to face so many of us alone.

"They are testing the real relationship between me and you. They want to see if I will kill you in this copy in order to get rid of your future troubles. After all, I have never shown mercy to my enemies .So Yun Xiangrong——

"If I let you go this time, they will probably be the ones who will kill you after you get out of this dungeon."

Zhou Qian said this, on the one hand, he was acting for the "traitor gambler" to show to the people of the Pink Army.

On the other hand, he was really trying to persuade Yun Xiangrong, he wanted her to completely give up the path of being a mole.After all, the Pink Legion obviously doesn't trust her, and the intentions of sending her here this time are really sinister——

It is definitely not a good time to kill Zhou Qian in this dungeon.There are a total of eight players, and there are six on Zhou Qian's side, and two of them are god-level players.

The Pink Legion sent her here, of course, to test Zhou Qian's attitude towards her.

In this case, either she died in Zhou Qian's hands; or, because of the fact that Zhou Qian let her go, the Pink Army thought that she was pretending to surrender, but was actually still on Zhou Qian's side, so they chose to kill her.

So, no matter how you look at it, Yun Xiangrong seems to have a dead end.unless--

Unless there are two other possibilities.

The first possibility is that for some reason, Yun Xiangrong really turned his back and joined the Peach Red Army.

Well, she dared to come here at this time, or Taohong dared to send her here, maybe it was because they were sure that Zhou Qian would let her go.Then the purpose of Yun Xiangrong's trip might just be to get a special reward for a very important dungeon, and she and Legion had no plan to kill Zhou Qian in this dungeon.

The second possibility is that the Taohong Legion still wants to kill Zhou Qian, but they still have other chess pieces buried, such as Yin Jiujiu, or...among the five people around Zhou Qian, there are still people who have problems.

If this is the possibility, from Zhou Qian's point of view, he doesn't believe in anyone except Bai Zhou.

It's not that he easily questioned the character of his teammates.But compared to He Xiaowei, who is usually less defensive, it is not impossible for his brain to be manipulated when he is tricked without knowing it.

Zhou Qian knew in his heart that the obvious methods of the Taohong Legion had failed, and of course they would turn to the people they trusted around them.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and Zhou Qian heard Yun Xiangrong say again: "What is the function of your divine bone, and what is the soul it produces? It's hard to say. Maybe you can't be resurrected at all. Brother Shan, you will only create one monster.

"Brother Shan, he is a living, thinking, and perceiving soul, but he is trapped in a bone day and night. If it were me, I can hardly imagine that feeling..."

At this point, Yun Xiangrong's words were briefly sad, and then her eyes suddenly became extremely cold.

After a while, she continued to look out of the window, and Yun Xiangrong's eyes showed a bit of longing, and she continued to speak: "But in the Pink Army, I have seen it with my own eyes... that is the real power of resurrection. By your side Aren't there two god-level players?"

Glancing back at Bai Zhou and Yin Dao, Yun Xiangrong's gaze shone with some kind of brilliance. "You've heard of the Peach Blossom God Xie Huaying, right?"

Listening to these words, He Xiaowei who was behind the crowd asked Yin Dao in a low voice: "Master, who is the Peach Blossom God?"

Yin Dao said: "I heard that she was one of the first players to enter this game and successfully become a god. I have indeed heard...she can resurrect people. Not only in the game, but in real life, she can also do it at this point.

"But she hasn't appeared for a long time. Some people say that she doesn't exist at all, and the legend about her is just a way to trick us into practicing. Others say...that she is already dead."

"Ah? Did you say when she died?" He Xiaowei asked.

"She disappeared about six years ago." Yindao said, "I don't know the details."

six years ago?

Isn't that a year after Bai Zhou first entered the game?

Does he have anything to do with it?

Hearing this, Zhou Qian could not help but associate this matter with Bai Zhou.

As soon as he entered this instance, he and Bai Zhou wore props that allowed them to chat privately, without being heard by other players or even gamblers.

With doubts in his heart, Zhou Qian turned his head to look at Bai Zhou.

As soon as he caught Zhou Qian's gaze, Bai Zhou already guessed what he wanted to ask.

Without waiting for him to open his mouth, Bai Zhou immediately chatted with him in private: "I have nothing to do with this matter. But the news I got from Shao Chuan was that he killed Xie Huaying back then, and there was another god-level player I didn't know. As a result of that incident, he was seriously injured."

This news surprised Zhou Qian somewhat.

But at this time, he has no time to ask more questions. There are only 10 minutes in total. He has to solve the first question "choose a room" first, and then think about other things.

The hotel is a square building, and the second floor is built around the corridor on four sides, which happens to be aligned in four directions.

There are four doors in each direction, which means that there are sixteen rooms in total.

Among them, four rooms occupy the four corners, are slightly larger in size, and each has two windows located in different directions.The remaining twelve rooms have only one window.

According to the request of the proprietress, the player now has to choose eight rooms to stay in.

Zhou Qian first asked his teammates to quickly open the doors of each room, and then he went to each room to take a look, and after getting a general idea of ​​the structure here, he began to enter the room to inspect in detail.

One thing was plainly seen—a whole of sixteen rooms, each with a fireplace, plenty of firewood, and candles.The village does not have electricity.If you need lighting at night, you must use candles.

After checking several rooms, He Xiaowei took the lead and said, "I have an idea... This question may not have anything to do with which room we choose. As long as we don't turn on the lights, it will be fine!"

At this moment, Zhou Qian opened the simple wooden wardrobe in the house, and then patted He Xiaowei on the shoulder.

"what's wrong?"

He Xiaowei turned his head and saw that there were many strange clothes in the cabinet, each of which was weirder than the last, some with skulls and ghosts painted on them, and some with red blood on them.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qian picked something from the cabinet and threw it out to him. He Xiaowei caught it, and after seeing what it was, he was so frightened that his hands shook, and he quickly threw it out—it turned out to be a snow-white skull!

"Don't panic, little Viagra." Zhou Qian stepped forward to pick it up, tied the plastic rope on it to the back of his head, put it on, and then made a gesture of grabbing someone with his hands, and approached He Xiaowei a few steps.

Only then did He Xiaowei realize that it was not a real skull, but a skull mask.

Even so, He Xiaowei retreated step by step until Zhou Qian forced him to the base of the wall.

He thought of something, and couldn't help but say to Bai Zhou who was rummaging around on the big bed next to him, "Who...you don't care? Let me tell you, I have been in love before, and I have experience. You No matter now, he will ride on your head in the future! When it comes to falling in love, whoever lowers his posture at the beginning, it will be difficult to raise his status later on!!"

Before he finished speaking, He Xiaowei saw that Bai Zhou had also pulled out a yellow head from under the quilt, and then looked down at it silently, as if he was looking at something.Then he turned to look at He Xiaowei. "You want to play this?"

He Xiaowei: "..."

He Xiaowei decided not to follow Zhou Qian anymore, and gave up asking Bai Zhou for help, instead, he went to the next room to find his master.

As soon as he walked to the door, his back felt cold, as if he had been blown by someone, and his heart suddenly lifted.

Gathering up the courage to turn around, he saw a yellow grimacing head close at hand.

He Xiaowei couldn't help but yelled, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

After that, the yellow head was put down, revealing a white skull mask behind it, then the mask faded off, and behind it was... Zhou Qian's face.

The two ghosts who dare to love are both Zhou Qian.

He Xiaowei became a little annoyed and complained very aggrieved: "Qian'er, you clearly know that I am afraid of this!"

"Look carefully at what this is. You can smell it."

After picking up the skull again, Zhou Qian didn't continue to wear it, but put it down again.

Then he lifted another object and put it in front of He Xiaowei. He Xiaowei had the courage to sniff it, and then he recognized that it was actually a hollowed-out pumpkin.

His facial features were dug out by a knife, so that he looked a bit like a ghost.But it's still a pumpkin at heart.

Pumpkin heads, skull masks, exotic costumes...

He Xiaowei thought of something, immediately went to the window and looked out.

The sun has not yet set, and by the light of the setting sun, he can see a lot of grains, pigs and sheep piled up in the square in the distance, as well as many bones of suspected animals. They are arranged in circles one after another, like some kind of sacrifice occasion.

"This, this..." He Xiaowei was suddenly speechless.

Zhou Qian said: "Actually, you should easily think of a Western festival."

"Halloween!" He Xiaowei said, "Extraordinary costumes, skull masks... these are masquerade balls?! And jack-o-lanterns too! Then do we need to prepare candy? Is there a child knocking on the door at night? A trick?"

"Halloween, November 11st, the time is indeed in line. However, in fact, the masquerade on Halloween can be traced back to an older festival-Sahain."

Zhou Qian said, "Those who celebrate the Samhain Festival believe that November 11st is the beginning of the new year. On the night of October 1st, before November 10st comes, there will be a period of time in the world that does not exist. During this period of time, on the earth, the gates of Yin and Yang are opened, and the god of death and ghosts will return to the human world to find a substitute.

"In order not to be recognized by the god of death, people dress themselves up as ghosts. Besides—"

"When people welcome the Samhain festival, they will light various sacrifices at sunset, and burn ox bones and other items to please ghosts and gods. That is, those displayed in the square.

"Not only will sacrifices and bonfires be burned in public areas, but in everyone's home, the fire cannot be broken. On the night of Samhain Festival, you must light the fireplace at home to prevent yourself from being infested by ghosts. So Xiao Viagra, about Did you find any inconsistencies in the solution you just proposed?"

He Xiaowei found out.

The prohibition related to the players is that they cannot spend the night in a room that sees the fire from the window.

He originally thought that it would be fine if he didn't light the fire.

But now it seems that this plan will not work.If the fire in the hearth is not lit at night, they are likely to die from ghosts returning from other worlds.

"Damn it." He Xiaowei couldn't help but said, "So I came up with a dungeon that I'm most afraid of... This time it's really a fucking ghost."

"You can't say that, it's just a possibility." Zhou Qian said.

"Then how do we choose a room?" He Xiaowei thought for a while, and then proposed another trick, "Just build all the windows with bricks and cement, and completely block them!"

"It's really a drudgery. But in case something strange happens outside the house, you won't be able to see it at all," Zhou Qian said.

He Xiaowei was at a loss. "Yes. Without intelligence, we may miss a lot of information. So what should we do?"

But Zhou Qian said: "Choose whatever you want first."

He Xiaowei: "?"

"There isn't that much information for now. So choose whatever you want."

He Xiaowei saw Zhou Qian with a smile and said: "The word 'overnight' is mentioned in the ban, which means that as long as the night is not really over, until the last moment, we are not considered to have violated the ban. Then the consequences of violating the ban are as follows: cannot take effect."

"Hiss...that's right. Then we can watch while walking!" He Xiaowei said.

"Well. Although the female boss reminded us that it is best for each of us to share a room and not to live together. I guess there is something behind it. But there is no prohibition that we must live alone. Then..."

Zhou Qian walked out of the room, just in time to see the two girls on the opposite side also coming out.Both of them are a little serious, and they are probably thinking about how to avoid the ban.

Zhou Qian then said to them: "At the beginning of the game, listen to me. There are eight of us, and every two people choose to live in one direction, and we can adjust it at any time later depending on the situation. You two girls can choose two rooms in different directions for convenience. Respond to each other."

Everyone had no objection to Zhou Qian's arrangement. After choosing their rooms, there were still a few minutes left before the proprietress's time request, so they didn't go down immediately to answer, but searched on the second floor again.

After a while, Qi Liuxing found that there was a problem with the ceiling in one room. After going up to try it out, he found that a few bricks were loose and could be removed.

Part of the bricks were removed, exposing a large opening in the ceiling, allowing people to climb on the roof.

After knowing this, Zhou Qian was the first to follow Qi Liuxing to the roof.Bai Zhou and Ke Yuxiao followed behind them.In this way, the four of them climbed onto the roof together, allowing them to have a better view of the entire village.

After looking around, Zhou Qian could clearly see a rather tall stone tablet to the west.

With such a distance, the words on the stele could not be read clearly, so Zhou Qian took out his binoculars.

On the side, Qi Liuxing glanced at him, and felt that his movements were too skillful, so he couldn't help but said, "Did you use this telescope when you were 'watching the husband stone'?"

Zhou Qian: "..."

It was rare for Qi Liuxing to tease Zhou Qian once, and when he saw that he was silent, he imitated his appearance and showed a happy smile.

But soon he felt that if he deliberately smiled like that, it would look awkward, and even the muscles of his face seemed to twitch a little, so he gave up and just looked up at the stone tablet.

At this moment, he felt a gaze that made people dare not take it lightly, and his spine felt a little chilled.

Looking sideways, Qi Liuxing met Bai Zhou's eyes.

At that moment, Qi Liuxing seemed to be blessed in his heart, and replied: "The person he is looking for should be you."

"Brother Sword God, have you been hanging out with Brother Xiaowei for a long time? If you talk too much, you won't be aloof. Your Sword God character design will collapse." Zhou Qian reminded him immediately.

Qi Liuxing replied calmly: "It doesn't matter. I have already collapsed my avatar [-] times in front of you."

Zhou Qian: "..."

Then Zhou Qian caught a glimpse of Bai Zhou walking beside him from the corner of his eye, and seemed to be looking at him with a smile in his eyes.

Zhou Qian didn't look at him, his ears were glowing red from the setting sun.

Then he cleared his throat and said, "The stele is engraved with the third prohibition: don't go around Brega clockwise."

·

The 10-minute room selection time is over.

Eight players went to the lobby on the first floor to inform the proprietress of the result.

The proprietress put down the sweater in her hand, smiled and said to them: "Okay. Then please go to the square with me. The festival activities tonight are about to start. I will take you to the first event first."

He Xiaowei couldn't help asking: "Do we need to prepare candies?"

—and he's thinking about the trick-or-treating Halloween game.

"No need." The proprietress smiled, "Do you like candy?"

He Xiaowei seems to have realized something—well, so, tonight's festival is really the older Samhain festival?

After a while, Yun Xiangrong opened his mouth and asked the proprietress: "May I ask the first event tonight, what is it?"

"Small game. It's like throwing a handkerchief. It's fun."

The proprietress said, "The winner of the game will be rewarded, and the loser will be punished."

Lose the handkerchief?

The kind where a group of people play in a circle?

Zhou Qian caught something instantly.

Without waiting for him to ask, Yun Xiangrong obviously reacted immediately, and immediately asked: "So... May I ask how many people are participating? Also, what's your name?"

The author has something to say:

1. It is not allowed to walk counterclockwise around Tara

2. It is also not allowed to circle Brega clockwise;

3. Don't spend the night in a house where you can still see the fire from the window after sunset

All three prohibitions are quoted from: Nimgrand's Instructions to King Cornell Mer.The story behind it seems interesting, but I couldn't find it.After finding the information, I will sort it out and tell you about it~