Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

After coming to the living room, everything he saw was too weird, which gave Zhou Qian a great sense of disobedience.

This is not just the visual impact brought by exotic flowers and plants and strange butterflies.

If the whole world was full of these strange things, it wouldn't make people feel out of place-it was nothing more than a strange and magical world.

But this is not the case now.

The construction of the room, the original appearance of the street, and the TV, sofa, and coffee table in this room are quite modern and technological.

Modern furniture with a full sense of technology appears together with these grotesque flowers and plants, which becomes the source of the sense of disobedience.

The TV in the living room is made very thin, like a piece of paper stuck to the wall.

The material of the sofa cannot be seen, and the overall lines are smooth, which can make people feel that sitting on it will be very comfortable, and it is completely in line with human mechanics.

The small coffee table is black and white, with a very peculiar shape, an irregular polygon, and a button on it.

After a long while, Zhou Qian didn't care about the strange flower that grew into the house, or the stamen with a human face, he went straight up and pressed the button on the coffee table in full view.

Immediately, the coffee table was delicately separated and reassembled, and finally turned into a square dining table.

The previous layout of the study was very classical, and with the addition of a "witch" setting, Zhou Qian thought that this dungeon had a medieval western background.

But judging from the living room now, this era has developed a certain amount of technology, so that compared with magic and weird plants, these furniture all seem a bit out of place.

Lowering his head, he saw that there was a button in the middle of the dining table. Zhou Qian stepped forward and clicked it, and a small square was inserted, and then a hidden grid appeared.

There was a letter in the dark compartment, Zhou Qian picked it up and looked, and found that the letter was written to the witch "Eva".

"Dear Eva, indeed, the development of science and technology is the original sin, we should return to our beliefs, and instead respect everything that ancient books and magic have taught us.

"I have dismantled all the TVs, computers, etc. at home. I hope you will throw them away in your life as soon as possible. Only by throwing them away and returning to the most primitive state, can we find communication with heaven and earth like the ancient saints. way.

"Looking forward to meeting you next time at the 'Witches Association'—Sarah. October 85, XX10."

After reading this letter, Zhou Qian can probably understand why the styles of the study room and the living room are so different.

A very big possibility is that after receiving this letter from this person named "Sarah", Eva began to gradually abandon electronic devices and began to redecorate the entire home to make it retro.

But before she had time to finish all this, the town caught witches, tied them up and burned them.

In this case, of course, Eva cannot let anyone discover her identity as a witch.

Therefore, in the end, she just remodeled the study, a secret space that is not easy for outsiders to enter. Eva did not make any changes to the living room.The living room is the facade of entertaining guests, and it is also a disguise.In doing so, she is telling others that she is not a witch.

In addition, this letter was written in 85, while the suspicious Strawberry Music Festival was in 92.

It can be seen that Eva did become a witch a long time ago.Her daughter may have just been born then.

The last information that can be obtained from the letter is that there should be a lot of witches in the town, which is why there is such a thing as the "Witch Association".

Among them, the tone of Sarah's letter was very similar to that of the boss of the Witch Association.

In other words, Sarah may be the president of this association.

At this moment, among the players, Zhou Qian is the closest to the strange flower.

Qi Liuxing glanced at him, and felt that a stamen with a human face was almost hanging down on his shoulder.

"Zhou Qian, be careful." Qi Liuxing couldn't help reminding.

Yin Jiujiu also came out at this moment, and after looking around the living room, she said: "The street outside is full of this kind of flower, is it the 'flower of evil'? But...according to my judgment, These flowers and plants are harmless for the time being.

"After all, if they're going to hurt us, there's no running for our lives. Because they're all over the place."

After a pause, Yin Jiujiu said again: "Since this is the case, we can go out to investigate without worrying about these strange flowers at all. After all, according to that little girl's intention, we have to leave this house and go to the place where the music festival was once held to do music. Investigate and find out what happened there."

After saying this, Yin Jiujiu looked at the rest, as if he was foolishly looking at their meaning.

Ke Yuxiao frowned and pondered for a moment, then said: "Music festivals must be checked. But before that, we should search the whole house again. The system has said that it is recommended that we fully explore here. Maybe, we Not only can you find important clues, but you can also find extra life points."

At this moment, Wu Ren walked to the door, grabbed the doorknob and tried it. The doorknob could be turned, but the door could not be pushed out.

It can be seen that the place outside the wooden door should still be sealed by iron railings or iron sheets.

After pushing the wooden door violently a few times, Wu Ren turned his head to look at the others after trying to no avail, and said, "Go and check for clues. I'll open the door in a stupid way. Division of labor and cooperation."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian looked at him, Wu Ren's small eyes met, and he said loudly: "Didn't you say that? I'm the king, you're a soldier, you should go run errands!"

Zhou Qian smiled, walked up to Qi Liuxing, patted him on the shoulder, and led him up to the second floor.

On the way, Qi Liuxing asked him through the private earphone: "What's the situation with Wu Ren now?"

"Theoretically speaking, if the Pink Legion wants to kill me, it must send a strong one. It is reasonable for Situ Qing to lose his halberd and replace him with a stronger Wu Ren. But at present, I have not seen Wu Ren's flaws.

"If he really had a problem, he should have agreed to cooperate with me earlier. He was indeed forced to agree to me at the last moment. All his reactions were too real, not like fakes .”

Zhou Qian said, "It's just that it would be a bit strange if it wasn't for him."

"It's not his words, it's Yin Jiujiu? Hmm... Maybe it's Li Buhui. Or it's possible for the two of them to cooperate."

Qi Liuxing said, "Why did his gamblers emphasize that he would hold Yin Jiujiu's thighs, and said he was mediocre? By the way... Li Buhui was acting quite naive, and even dropped 6 points in a row. Maybe he did it on purpose." Playing stupid and pretending to be dumb, in the end, to win your trust!"

Zhou Qian pondered for a moment, and said: "The premise of pretending to be stupid is that he is strong enough. But as far as I know, there doesn't seem to be some kind of props in the system that can hide his strength. Besides, you have heard of the 'cucurbit baby' Save Grandpa' story?"

Qi Liuxing said: "Ah... the seven gourd babies, each went to kill the snake spirit to save Grandpa, and failed successively to give away their heads. But if they work together at the beginning, they will actually win."

"Yes. If it's Wu Ren, Yin Jiujiu, and Li Buhui, it's not surprising that the three join forces to deal with me. They do have a chance of winning. Besides, Situ Qing is still an uncertain move. What if they have another move? How to control her?

"But if it's just Yin Jiujiu and Li Buhui, it would be very strange. They don't need to learn from Calabash Baby and send people one by one to give away their heads."

Pausing for a while, Zhou Qian's pupils shrank, and then shook his head, "But it doesn't matter, I know it in my heart, let's explore first. They don't dare to act rashly now."

After talking to Qi Liuxing, Zhou Qian came to the second floor with him and Ke Yuxiao.

The villa is not big, there are only four rooms on the second floor.

The one near the stairs is the toy room, which contains many children's toys and some musical instruments, which is very modern.Those toys are not ordinary, there are automatic trains, and even a very advanced dynamic galaxy model, the moon on the model will revolve around the earth, and the earth will revolve around the sun while the earth rotates.

The other three are all bedrooms.

One bedroom is obviously occupied by children, so it should be Lili's room; the other room has no odds and ends except for the bed and wardrobe, so it should be a guest room temporarily unoccupied.

These two rooms are also very modern and technological houses.Among them, the Barbie doll in Lili's room is particularly high-end. After looking at the manual, Zhou Qian found that it has AI functions, which can teach Lili to recognize letters and learn simple arithmetic.

Of course, the windows of all the rooms were sealed without exception, which was consistent with Zhou Qian's previous judgment.

The last master bedroom should be Eva's room.

Her room is very similar to the study, without any modern equipment, and the decoration style also reveals a strong medieval style.

Even the curtains in her room are very thick, maybe when she uses magic, she needs to avoid sunlight.

When Zhou Qian walked into the master bedroom, the first thing he saw was a letter on the bedside table, two used bus ticket stubs, and a similarly used ticket stub.

The letter was not signed, but judging from the content, it was written to her by a friend Eva knew very well.

Eva should be so familiar with her handwriting that she doesn't need to sign the letters between the two.

In addition, in the background of this dungeon, TVs and toys have developed so high-end, so there should be mobile phones.

But Eva and her friend need to communicate by letter, so her friend is probably a witch who decided to abandon technological products.

The letter was written on March 3.

"Eva, both of my husbands have passed away, and we are left to raise our children alone. It's been so tiring after all these years. We only have one day off all year round. This year's Strawberry Music Festival is finally here, and the children will go , They will be taken care of all day long. In previous years, we were all doing housework in the house. This year, we will go back to lazy and go on vacation!

"A new scenic spot has opened in the town next door. I heard that many adults plan to take advantage of the music festival to go on vacation. After all, this is the only day that they don't have to take care of their children. I've already bought the tickets for you. Let's take the bus to go on vacation together Bar!"

The ticket stub next to the letter really read: "Maple Leaf Town Resort: A tourist attraction with beautiful scenery, which will purify your soul and connect you with heaven and earth."

Finally, regarding the bus ticket, it is one round trip.

The ticket shows that Eva left Lihua Town at 3 pm on March 30, and went to the next-door town, Maple Leaf Town, [-] kilometers away.

And the time she set off from Maple Leaf Town was at 4 o'clock in the morning on April 1st.

The children's participation in the music festival is on March 3st.

According to Lina's ghost, she was killed on the night of March 3, or in the early morning of April 31.

Then, when Eva returned home, she probably just discovered the fact that her daughter Lily had killed Lina.

After that, when she felt that her daughter was possessed by an evil spirit, and when she was locked up, it is temporarily impossible to verify.

Half an hour later, Zhou Qian, Qi Liuxing, and Ke Yuxiao explored the entire second floor, found two arms and one leg that should belong to Lili, and then returned to the first floor.

The teammates on the first floor also gained a lot.

They found the torso that belonged to Lily.In this way, her whole body was basically found.

After asking everyone where she found her body, Zhou Qian took out a blank piece of paper, drew the approximate location, and restored it.

Not counting the hand accidentally broken under the window sill, the single finger in the cabinet, and a strand of hair, but connecting her head to her limbs, it seems to be just enough to form a three-dimensional pentagram.Among them, her torso happened to fall in the center of the pentagram.

In this way, hiding her severed limbs in different places does seem to follow a certain pattern, which is very similar to some kind of spell to seal evil spirits.

In addition, the teammates on the first floor found another body in the large freezer in the kitchen.

Compared with Lili's monstrous limbs, this corpse is much more normal.

Because of being frozen, the corpse did not decay, and it could be seen that her facial features and skin were the same as those of normal humans.

The corpse allows players to see why she died.

— There was a hole in her chest, and it was empty inside, as if someone had put his hand directly into her chest and ripped out her heart.

This person is undoubtedly Lina who was killed by her good friend Lili.

It should be that Eva came home from vacation, and after discovering her daughter's evil deeds, she temporarily hid Lina in the freezer.

After examining the corpse, Yin Jiujiu was the first to make a guess. "Could it be... What devil organized the music festival? He put a curse on the children? Turned the children into monsters who couldn't control themselves?"

"I don't know. Other clues related to the background of the story are too limited." Li Buhui said, moving closer to Yin Jiujiu, "Goddess of Wine and Wine, please cover me. I'm really, really scared."

Yin Jiujiu glanced at him, noncommittal, but continued to examine the two corpses.

Of the two corpses, one was just pieced together from the mutilated body parts; the other was still intact.Yin Jiujiu checked them in detail again wearing gloves, trying to find other clues from them.

At this time, Wu Ren asked, "So, have you found any other cards related to life points?"

When asking this sentence, Wu Ren first looked at Zhou Qian.

Zhou Qian shook his head at him. "Maybe you need to trigger the plot to get points. Let's take a look later. Don't worry. Your side..."

Glancing at the door, Zhou Qian found that the wooden door had been completely dismantled, but the outside was indeed covered with railings made of iron bars.

He asked Wu Ren: "Didn't find a way to open the door?"

"No. Damn—" Wu Ren cursed, "I used a very precious prop, but I couldn't break the railing outside! It's a waste!"

"The clues in this house should all be found. We have to go to other places in the town, especially the place where the Strawberry Music Festival is held." Yin Jiujiu said seriously, "We can't stay here any longer. Wait for the health points to slowly decrease. The question is... how to get out?"

How to get out?

Do you want everyone to forcefully demolish the whole house together?

The players hadn't reached a conclusion yet, but they suddenly saw three people dressed in black coming out of the door.

Those three people were wearing thick black robes, black masks on their faces, and their heads were covered by black cloaks. They were completely wrapped up so that people could not see their faces clearly or even recognize them. Men and women.

After a while, the three people actually came to the gate of the house, as if they were watching the players in the room.

Immediately they began to speak—

"You read that right, there is indeed someone in Eva's room."

"They're trapped."

"It's not up to them to keep being locked here."

"We have to take them away."

Only after these conversations did people know that they were all women.

Through their conversation, it is impossible to deduce the reason why they came here - the seven players just spent about half an hour rummaging and exploring in this room.During this period, the street, or a house across the street, was not empty.Someone saw them through the gap in the iron railing outside the room, so they called someone over.

The three women walked to the front and back of the door, took out the metal cutters, and actually sawed through the iron railing in two or three strokes.

Their movements are very skilled, as if they are used to doing this kind of thing.

Then the three of them walked into the room.

One still holds the metal cutter in his hand, while the other two each hold a black wooden staff that looks like a magic wand.

All three are supposed to be witches.

The leading witch was quite tall. She held a magic wand in one hand, and quickly took out a crystal ball from her pocket with the other.

Holding the crystal ball, she walked around the room for a small half. During this period, the crystal ball was always emitting a faint blue light, exuding a very mysterious atmosphere.

After turning around the living room for half a circle, the witch returned to the original point and nodded to the other two people behind her.

Afterwards, the three of them took off their black masks, put down their black capes, and unbuttoned their black robes, revealing the uniform black long skirts they wore inside.

It was at this moment that Zhou Qian saw the appearance of the head witch.

She has fair skin, deep facial features, and a high nose bridge, which is a typical appearance of a Westerner.With deep eye sockets, she has light golden eyelashes. Under the long and straight golden eyelashes, there are a pair of pupils as blue as sea water, which is very stunning.

"Very well, you are not infected yet. I can get you out of here."

The leading witch looked at the seven players and said this sentence.

Her voice is also very pleasant, like a spring breeze blowing through white snow, or like a mountain stream flowing through pebbles.

Afterwards, the witch counted the number of people present, and asked the person behind her to take out seven black robes, seven skirts, and seven masks from the backpack.

These black robes, skirts and masks were placed on the dining table and sofa respectively.

It can be seen that they are exactly the same as the equipment worn by the three witches.

The leading witch said again: "Please put these things on. I checked with a crystal ball just now, and the situation in this room is not serious. So you haven't been invaded by evil spirits yet.

"But on the streets outside, there are vicious evil spirits everywhere. If you are not careful, you will be infected and possessed by evil spirits. These clothes are cursed by us to keep you safe. Please be sure to After putting it on, leave the house."

"Who are you?" Zhou Qian stepped forward, staring into her beautiful eyes and asked, "Why should we trust you?"

"I am the president of the Witch Association, and my name is Sarah."

The witch looked at him seriously and replied, "Only I can protect you now. Otherwise, you will be infected by evil spirits and become brutal and bloodthirsty demons. In this small town... many people have been killed by demons. We will patrol here regularly, one is to find survivors, such as you; two, we are to kill and seal the demons."

Zhou Qian asked again: "Where are you taking us?"

"Go to the base camp of the Witch Association. Only there is safety." Sarah said, "You can no longer stay in Lihua Town, please return to the base camp with me to hide."

Zhou Qian glanced at her up and down, and asked bluntly, "What if...we disagree?"

Sarah's voice suddenly sank, with a little pity and helplessness, she said: "If you don't leave with me, in order to prevent you from becoming murderous demons after being entered by evil spirits, I have to kill you now, lest you continue to slaughter innocent people."

Hearing this, the hearts of all the players sank.

Through the system panel, every player can see that the levels of these witches are all as high as S-level, and even Wu Ren, who is A-level, is far from their opponent, and the values ​​​​of the two sides are not in the same order at all.

It seems that the players can only act in their own way first—dress themselves up as witches, and then follow them back to the base camp of the so-called Witch Association.

Turning around, he exchanged glances with Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao, and then Zhou Qian looked at Witch Sarah in front of him.

This time his tone was lighter. "Let's go with you to the base camp of the Witch Association...and then? Do we have to become witches too?"

Sarah nodded and said, "Yes. Evil spirits are afraid of witches. Becoming a witch is the safest thing for you."

Qi Liuxing came out from behind Zhou Qian, glanced at those clothes, and was the first to be unhappy.

With a straight face, he asked Sarah seriously and awkwardly: "But we, we are men. How can we wear skirts? Can't we be wizards?"

Sarah said quite seriously: "A long time ago, there was also a Wizards' Association here. There was a competitive relationship between the two associations. Later, the Wizards' Association was defeated, declined, and finally disbanded. But because of the previous competition between the two sides, Many girls in the association are dissatisfied with male wizards. If you go to our base camp to hide in the identity of male wizards, you will be bullied.

"In order to ensure that you will not be teased by other witches when you go back, you'd better dress up as girls first. Of course, this is just a stopgap measure. I will order later that everyone is not allowed to fight among themselves. But right now I don't have so many Time, I have to focus on more important things—cleaning out the evil spirits in Lihua Town."

"Okay, you guys put on my protective clothes as soon as possible."

After saying this, Sarah turned her head and nodded to the two subordinates, and the three of them put on their cloaks and masks again.

Behind Zhou Qian, the players took action one after another, taking over the black skirts and robes one after another.

Zhou Qian did not move for a long time.

Under the surprised eyes of a few players, Zhou Qian walked towards Sarah step by step, and stared into her eyes from a very close distance again. "Wait, I still have a question."

"What's the problem?" Sarah's tone became more and more serious, "Please hurry up. The glass in this room is broken, and it won't be long before this place will be polluted by evil spirits."

"Well. I'm just asking. I heard..."

Zhou Qian narrowed his eyes and asked, "Aren't witches unpopular? If the identity of a witch is exposed to the public...it seems that they will be burned to death in public. If we become witches...can you really ensure that we will be safe?"