deadly round table

At the end, Li Na was hoarse and did not dare to continue.

Lu Yingqi, who was sitting next to her, spread out what she didn't want to say on the table, "Did Dabu Village regard us as sacrifices for the sacred tree festival?"

Jiang Wenyuan did not answer Lu Yingqi's question, but instead asked, "What is your basis?"

Lu Yingqi's figure was hidden in the darkness, but he could still feel the eyes of the other three people falling on him as if they were real. He analyzed a little awkwardly, "We have a total of 19 players, including two professors and teaching assistants, as well as tourist NPCs. Three people, a total of 24 people, according to two people in each room, we can just fill the twelve rooms of this two-story building. The time limit of this round of the game is twelve days, and the sacred tree festival is at the end of the game time limit It was held on the last day. The numbers dovetail."

Li Na kept nodding to Lu Yingqi's words, and she added: "There are such dangerous black shadow monsters in Dabu Village, but they concealed the existence of monsters from us. There are also room layouts, no curtains, strong lights, and the room between the two But it is equipped with three teacups and three chairs. The purpose of Dabu Village is to treat us as snacks for that black shadow monster!"

"Brother Chen, am I right?" Li Na became angrier as she spoke, and she looked at Jiang Wenyuan under the fluorescent light.

Jiang Wenyuan seemed to be in a daze and did not answer her words. Li Na was eager to seek approval, so she couldn't help but raise her voice, "Brother Chen!"

Jiang Wenyuan took out the teaching assistant's lantern, lit it and placed it on the round table. He looked at the light blue light of the lantern, "If you want to know my opinion on sacrifices, I can only say that I am not Sure."

Li Na was very puzzled, "Isn't this evidence enough? Why can't we be sure?"

"Because there are too many suspicious points." Jiang Wenyuan looked at the lantern intently, "If you can explain these suspicious points, I will accept your sacrifice hypothesis."

Jiang Wenyuan made an analysis: "You think the black shadow monster is an important basis for supporting the sacrifice hypothesis, but I think the biggest doubt lies in the black shadow monster.

The villagers of Dabu Village must wear black gauze when they go out, imitating the image of the black shadow monster. They also know how to avoid the black shadow monster. Many shadow areas where people can hide are deliberately set aside in the village.There are enough signs to prove that the black shadow monster is a part of the daily life of Dabu Village. It is not controlled by Dabu Village. It often appears in the village and has a strong aggressiveness towards people.Our identity is set as a student studying folk culture, and we must often walk around the village, and we have a considerable chance of witnessing shadow monsters.If we are sacrifices to the shadow monster, wouldn't it be too imprudent for Dabu Village to let us move freely in the village? "

Li Na was at a loss for words, but she still insisted on her own thoughts, and tried to refute, "The appearance of the black shadow monster is similar to that of the villagers, and we don't know its weakness. Brother Chen, you are still very few game masters. Some ordinary people were killed when they encountered black shadow monsters. So Dabu Village doesn’t have to worry about whether we will find black shadow monsters! Their only miscalculation is that they didn’t count Brother Chen and Jiang Zhan.”

Jiang Wenyuan shook his head, "Your statement is still too forced. Take ten thousand steps back, even if your statement is true, Dabu Village is not worried that we will find black shadow monsters. But right now, Jiang Zhan and I have not only discovered black shadow monsters. We know how to avoid the shadow monsters and how to explain the behavior of the villagers. They just pretended not to know the shadow monsters, but they didn’t take any measures against us. Once they let us back, we There is a high probability that they will find a way to leave. When the time comes, all the sacrifices will run away. Isn’t that going to be the villagers of Nadabu Village as sacrifices? Do you think they will easily let us escape if they really treat us as sacrifices?”

"This..." Li Na opened her mouth several times, but then closed her mouth silently. She stretched out her hand and rubbed her hair into a chicken coop, "I can't say you're done!"

Li Na announced that she was giving up. Lu Yingqi patted her on the shoulder to comfort her. The two seemed to have cultivated a revolutionary friendship. Lu Yingqi helped Li Na continue the debate, "It is possible that Dabu Village is not worried that we will escape. The branches and leaves eaten by the villagers of Dabu Village They are all dead branches and leaves, and there are only two chances to eat fresh branches and leaves a year, but they generously give us two meals of fresh branches and leaves every day. to us."

Jiang Wenyuan pursed his lips. Who hasn't had a revolutionary friendship? He looked at Jiang Zhan.

Jiang Zhan smiled slightly, "Lu Yingqi, use your brain. If the black shadow monster can lock the prey according to the breath of the branches and leaves, do you think we still have a chance to discuss the issue of sacrifices here? And you and Li Lingling share the branches and leaves with the children If there is something really wrong with these branches and leaves, why didn't adults stop you, and the children ate happily."

Now Lu Yingqi had nothing to say. He and Li Na looked at each other silently for a moment, and they both said in unison, "Okay, we surrender. We are not sacrifices."

Jiang Wenyuan said coolly, "Who says we are not sacrificial offerings anymore."

Li Na: "!!!!"

Lu Yingqi: "????"

Are you kidding us? !

"Your point of view is 'Dabu Village regards us as sacrifices for the sacred tree sacrifice', but what I object to is the subject of 'Dabu Village'." Jiang Wenyuan explained, "As far as the current facts are concerned, we are indeed in the The location of the sacrificial offering. Although there are many doubts in Dabu Village, if you look deeper, you will find many contradictions. Who is the murderer who sent us to the sacrificial altar? There are too few clues now, and I have no idea."

Under Jiang Wenyuan's reminder, Li Na remembered the murderer in the last round of the game. Catherine hid it very deeply. If Jiang Wenyuan and Zuo Zhiyan were not calm enough, she would definitely mistake Lyle and Leo for the murderer.Li Na immediately became vigilant, and she asked Jiang Wenyuan, "Then what should we do next?"

"No matter who the murderer who sent us to the sacrificial altar is, we can't get around the sacred tree and that black shadow monster." Jiang Wenyuan counted on his fingers, "We have a lot to do. Go see that The player who threw away the mobile phone in the forest; at the next meal, try to steal the knife from the boy who delivered the meal; we now know the way to avoid the shadow monster, until tomorrow daytime, we will go to the forest, go to Look at that sacred tree."

At this time, the time has come to eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. When Dabu Village is busy, most of the players have returned to their rooms. There are no corridor lights in the second-floor building. However, even if Jiang Wenyuan is holding The lantern was out, and there was enough light from the house to light their way.Lu Yingqi was inconvenient to move. This time, he went to find the player who threw the phone, but he didn't follow. He was sent by Jiang Wenyuan to make friends with the villagers of Dabu Village and buy black yarn.

Jiang Wenyuan had noticed beforehand that the player who threw the phone and a tourist NPC lived in the third room from left to right on the second floor.Unlike other bright rooms, the lights were not turned on in his room.

Li Na timidly followed behind Jiang Wenyuan. Although she had never seen the black shadow monster with her own eyes, Jiang Wenyuan's description of the black shadow monster was too realistic. She was very afraid that the black shadow monster would follow the light and shadow at this time After looking for him, even the voice was involuntarily lowered, "The lights are not turned on in the room, so he will go out."

Jiang Wenyuan squeezed the center of his brows with a painful headache, "Have you forgotten what I told you, he suddenly became photophobic in the forest, if the lights are on in the room, I would only think if he has gone out."

Li Na smiled awkwardly, "Accidentally forgot..."

Jiang Wenyuan knocked on the door, and after a while, there were footsteps in the room, and someone opened the door, he only opened a crack in the door, glanced at the three people outside the room through the crack, and looked away, "What's the matter?" ?”

This person was not the player Jiang Wenyuan and the others were looking for, but a tourist who lived with that player.

Jiang Wenyuan put his foot on the door without making a sound, and held the doorknob with his hand, "Hello, we are here to find the classmate who lives with you, we have something to discuss with him."

The visitor yelled into the room, "Hello, your classmate is looking for you."

The player murmured and cursed several times, "What kind of students don't learn from each other, see you!"

Taking advantage of the tourists not paying attention, Jiang Wenyuan slammed his shoulder hard and knocked the door open.Jiang Wenyuan and Li Na walked into the room, Jiang Zhan did not follow, but stood at the door, keeping the door open.

The lights were not turned on in the house, they covered the windows tightly with sheets, and they removed the bright lights for lighting.Jiang Wenyuan rushed into the room with the teaching assistant's lantern. The player and tourist who threw the mobile phone were caught off guard by the blue light of the lantern, and they both covered their eyes in pain and screamed.

Their screams were so miserable, Li Na hid behind Jiang Wenyuan, and stammered to Jiang Wenyuan: "Brother Chen, do you want to, first turn off the lantern..."

Jiang Wenyuan didn't listen to Li Na's words and put out the lantern, "Look at their shadows."

Li Na poked her head out from behind Jiang Wenyuan and looked at the two people who were already rolling on the ground in pain. At this moment, a few players with better ears on the second floor opened the door and ran towards their room.Among them were Yang Xie and Liu Yunyun who wanted to curry favor with Jiang Wenyuan.Yang Po, who has a violent temper, hated him after Jiang Wenyuan scolded him badly. As soon as she saw the two rolling people in the room, she screamed, "What are you doing, you killed someone! Someone killed someone! "

Yang Po wanted to make things worse, so she yelled at the top of her lungs, she didn't expect anyone to have a louder voice than her.

Li Na broke down and screamed: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

Yang Xie felt a sense of frustration that he couldn't bear to cry out: "..."

Jiang Wenyuan was right next to Li Na, and his ears were under unprecedented attack. He was holding a lantern in his hand, and he had to be on guard against the two people on the ground to counterattack at any time, so he had to ask Jiang Zhan for help, "Jiang Zhan, help me!"

Jiang Zhan came over and helped Jiang Wenyuan cover his ears.

Jiang Wenyuan: "..."

Li Na gradually calmed down, and cried, "He, they have no shadow..."

Jiang Zhan let go, and explained his behavior to Jiang Wenyuan as a matter of course, "I'm a clean freak, she cried with an unclear face, I don't want to reach out to gag her mouth."

Jiang Wenyuan lost his voice again. Are you afraid of cleanliness if your emotions block my ears?

After a farce, the other onlookers finally noticed the abnormality. Under the lantern in Jiang Wenyuan's hand, everyone else had blurred shadows, only the two rolling on the ground covering their eyes. Download nothing.

The brightness of the lantern in Jiang Wenyuan's hand was still too low. In order to confirm that it was not an illusion caused by too low brightness, a male player onlooker turned on a professional flashlight that he had brought by hand, and shone the bright light on the two people on the ground.When the strong light came into contact with the skins of the two, their skins started to smoke, red sparks spread in the illuminated area, and the smell of meat immediately permeated.Under such bright light, they still have no shadow.

The male player with the flashlight was so frightened that he quickly turned off the flashlight, and Jiang Wenyuan took advantage of the situation to back out from the room and closed the door again.Some of the onlookers shouted in dissatisfaction: "Those two people have turned into monsters, why don't you kill them, or tie them up. Just leave them alone, what if they are not good for us!"

Jiang Wenyuan gave the player a cold look, "I don't think they pose a threat to me. If you think it's wrong for me to let them go, you can tie them up yourself."

The player choked on Jiang Wenyuan's words, muttered that Gao Wan was amazing, and went back to his room angrily.The other players also dispersed one after another. Yang Xie and Liu Yunyun hadn't succeeded in their troubles, so they had already quietly run away.Suddenly, only Jiang Wenyuan and his party were left in the corridor on the second floor.

Jiang Wenyuan's face was a little dignified, and he said to the two: "Let's go back and see if Lu Yingqi bought the black yarn back. If not, we must find something to replace it as soon as possible. If my idea is correct, this round of games will be delayed." The longer it takes, the more dangerous it is."

When Jiang Wenyuan and the others returned to the first floor, Lu Yingqi was already waiting for them in the room. He didn't turn on the light, "It seemed a little noisy up there just now, what happened?"

Li Na stood at the door, looking at Lu Yingqi vigilantly, "Why didn't you turn on the light!"

Lu Yingqi was stunned, "Isn't it possible to attract black shadow monsters by turning on the lights? I can't run alone. Compared with my life, turning on the lights is not so important."

Li Na thought so, but she still turned on the light switch, and after confirming that Lu Yingqi had a clear shadow under the lamp, she turned off the light again. She sat down on the chair next to Lu Yingqi by the light of the lantern, and poured a glass. The water went up, "You don't know how thrilling it was just now, the player who threw the phone has no shadow!"

Jiang Wenyuan put the lantern on the round table, and picked up the black gauze that Lu Yingqi put on the table.Lu Yingqi said helplessly: "They are only willing to sell me two black gauzes, and they won't give me any more. It's useless to add more money."

"It's good if you can buy it." Jiang Wenyuan folded the black yarn and put it back on the table, "Li Na, how is your sewing?"

Li Na was a little embarrassed, "It's okay to sew a button or something."

Jiang Wenyuan took out a sewing box and a folding umbrella from his carry-on bag, "You sew black yarn around the edge of the umbrella. It doesn't matter if the stitches are crooked, but you have to make sure that the stitches don't leak light. I'll use them tomorrow morning. You need to move faster."

Li Na took over the sewing box and the folding umbrella as if she was facing an enemy. As long as she thought that Jiang Wenyuan might run into the shadow monster with this umbrella, no matter how many holes she would poke in her hand, she would definitely go back and forth. Sew at least five times. Even if Jiang Wenyuan accidentally stepped on the black yarn that was dragged to the ground, the black yarn would not be torn off.

Jiang Wenyuan took another newly bought black gauze with him, "Jiang Zhan and I will go out again, you can turn on the light and do your needlework, the black shadow monster will not attack the second-floor building again tonight... "Twelve rooms, the shadow of the first room has been taken away.

"Where are we going?" Jiang Zhan asked Jiang Wenyuan after following him for a while.

"Of course it's to find a weapon. You saw the appearance of the two people on the second floor, don't tell me, you think a weapon is enough." Jiang Wenyuan said this without stopping.

"Then we should go this way." Jiang Zhan pointed in a direction, "I have observed that this family is the richest in Dabu Village. Rich people always cherish their lives, and they should have a lot of weapons."

The houses of villagers in Dabu Village have similar specifications, and all of them are wrapped in black gauze.Jiang Wenyuan really didn't know how Jiang Zhan found the richest family.Not only did Jiang Zhan have a vicious eye for distinguishing between the rich and the poor, but he also had superb sneaking skills. He did not ask Jiang Wenyuan to help him, and quietly took out a silver dagger and a golden fork with a wooden handle from the rich man's house alone. , did not alarm anyone at all.

When Jiang Zhan and Jiang Wenyuan, who was hiding in the dark, joined up, the guard dog of the rich family barked.Jiang Wenyuan hurriedly pulled Jiang Zhan up and ran, shouting as he ran, "Could it be that you used the doll's special skills to steal things out just now? Otherwise, why did the dog start barking as soon as you ran out!"

Jiang Zhan didn't feel disturbed when he ran. He snorted from his nasal cavity, "If I use all the dolls, can I ask you for a reward? Don't question my ability!"

When the two returned to the small building on the second floor, it was past four o'clock in the morning, and Li Na's needlework had not yet been finished. Every time she sewed a stitch, her eyelids dropped a little. When her eyes were almost closed, she accidentally pricked her. On the finger, awake again.Lu Yingqi probably couldn't see it anymore, and sewed black yarn along the stitched place in the opposite direction to Li Na.When the two of them worked together to finish sewing, Li Na's crooked needlework accounted for only two-fifths of the total, and the remaining three-fifths of neat needlework was the result of Lu Yingqi.

Li Na looked at the innocent Lu Yingqi: "..."

She raised her head stubbornly. I didn't lose. If I can't sew it well, it must be the fault of an arm's function being taken away.

There were still two hours before it was time to pick up the meal at [-] o'clock in the morning. The four of them set the alarm clock and squinted their eyes for a while according to the lottery table.Today's breakfast was still rich with fresh leaves and a moderate amount of barbecue, but no one wanted to touch the branches and leaves today. They didn't touch the branches and leaves, and settled their breakfast with barbecue and food given to Lu Yingqi by the villagers.

Jiang Wenyuan and Jiang Zhan packed up the tableware and prepared to go out.

Li Na called Jiang Wenyuan, "When Brother Chen and Jiang Zhan went out last night, I discussed it with Lu Yingqi. We don't want to hold you back all the time. We will go to the forest with you!"

Jiang Zhan whistled, "Come on then. But we only have two weapons now, wait a moment, I will make two weapons for you first."

Jiang Zhan took out his pair of silver chopsticks used for poison testing, dismantled the two legs of a chair, nailed the silver chopsticks to the top of the chair legs, and locked them firmly. The whole process took only 15 minutes. "Okay, here you go."

Jiang Wenyuan looked at Li Na and Lu Yingqi who were eager to try out the new weapons, and didn't say much, just sighed softly.

The four of them entered the forest stepping on their own shadows from the east of the forest. At night, the trees looked like ghostly shadows, but they looked a little ordinary during the day.The insects that have been singing all night have rested, but no birds are heard during the day. The forest is quiet, only the sound of three people stepping on dead leaves and the sound of a wheelchair rolling.

The four kept vigilant at all times and walked in the forest for more than half an hour.

"We're here!" Li Na exclaimed in a small voice.

Unlike other stereotyped trees, the tree Li Na mentioned had a trunk so thick that five adults couldn't wrap their arms around it.The branches of that tree spread out infinitely, and the emerald green leaves were densely adorned on the branches.Even if it is cloudy now, the sacred tree gives people a sparkling feeling, so beautiful that it cannot be described in words.

"Huh? Why do I seem to see fruit on the sacred tree?" Li Na stretched her neck and stood on tiptoe, looking at the sacred tree constantly, "Brother Chen, didn't you say that the village chief told you that the sacred tree had no flowers and no fruit?" ? Look there, the red ones are round at the top and pointed at the bottom, isn’t there a lot of fruit?”

Jiang Wenyuan hadn't answered Li Na's words, but the sun broke through the clouds and sprinkled on the sacred tree——

At that moment, everyone was speechless.

Under the sun, the shadow of the sacred tree was clearly reflected on the ground covered with dead leaves.Under the shadow of the tree, the shadows of the red fruits were completely different from the body's shape. The shadows of the red fruits fell on the ground, and they became densely packed figures hanging on the tree!

The morning wind, with the moisture of dew, played with the branches of the sacred tree.The jade-like dark green leaves are shaking, revealing the whole picture of the red fruit.