deadly round table

Compared with the light source, there is something that the black shadow monster likes more, and that is the living person with shadow.

More than twenty black shadow monsters rushed out of the forest, but in the blink of an eye, they came to the vicinity of the second-story building.Jiang Wenyuan could see clearly that the black shadow monsters swarmed towards the villagers of Dabu Village who were wearing black gauze. Only three or five black shadow monsters were attracted by the players, professors, assistants and tourists tied up in a row.The black shadow monsters stretched out their deformed and elongated claws, digging towards the hearts of living people.

The villagers of Dabu Village gathered together and retreated towards the place where they could hide their shadows while fighting.

Some of them were in charge of blocking the attack of the black shadow monsters, and some were in charge of counterattacking the black shadow monsters. The young man from Dabu village was extremely brave. He stabbed the hearts of the two black shadow monsters with his silver knife .The black shadows of the two black shadow monsters that were pierced into the heart trembled violently, evaporated and disappeared in the sunlight, leaving only two pinches of sulfur.

Although there were only five black shadow monsters among the people tied up in a row, their hands were bound and they couldn't move freely, and they didn't have the weapons and experience to deliberately deal with the black shadow monsters. Soon one player was caught.The sharp claws of the black shadow monster completely penetrated into the player's chest cavity. When the black shadow monster pulled out the heart from the player's chest cavity, it did not cause any superficial damage to the player's skin and tissues.

When the heart is completely separated from the body, the player's shadow is sucked away by the still beating heart.Even though the heart was dug out, the player did not die. He looked terrified and knelt softly on the ground. The sun shone on him, and what happened to the two living dead people who were burned into black charcoal also fell on him. Crying to be engulfed in flames.

The black shadow monster that got the heart seemed to lose interest in other players all of a sudden. It carefully held the heart in its two paws, turned and ran into the forest quickly.

Since the discovery of the shadow monster, only 30 seconds have passed, and two players have already had their hearts dug out.

Jiang Wenyuan wanted to go to the chaotic players, but was stopped by Jiang Zhan. His tone was a little harsh, "The few villagers in Dabu Village who have dealt with the black shadow monster all their lives have died. Now the players I found that the black shadow monster would leave as long as it got a heart, so don’t fail to save people, but they will push you out as a victim instead.”

Jiang Wenyuan didn't have much confidence in facing the black shadow monster. He originally wanted to help the players cut the rope so that everyone could escape, but now that Jiang Zhan interrupted him, Jiang Wenyuan couldn't bear to continue watching.Jiang Wenyuan and the others returned to their room and hung the black gauze as curtains.

Li Na squatted down in the corner and covered her ears vigorously, trying to block the screams and cries that penetrated the soundproofing of the house.Lu Yingqi pushed the wheelchair to block Li Na from outside, and covered Li Na with her own black gauze.

The hell on earth, which was isolated from the outside by the door, lasted for more than ten minutes before it gradually quieted down.Those who survived by luck hid in the small building on the second floor, those poor people whose hearts were pulled out were burned to the bone in the sun, and the black shadow monsters who failed to get the heart were still wandering around the small building Hunts for prey and does not leave lost until dusk.

Jiang Wenyuan opened the door and observed the situation outside, "Now the game has fallen into chaos, the longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be. Before the conflict has intensified to the point of no return, we must as soon as possible clearly understand the situation of this world. Story line. I am going to find the young man in Dabu Village who is carrying a silver knife, so you should come too.”

"Should I go together too?" Lu Yingqi pointed to himself, "Those black shadow monsters probably haven't finished their journey. If I meet a black shadow monster halfway, I might hold you back."

"It's getting dark now, and there are many places in the village where you can hide from the shadow monsters, and we already know that the weakness of the shadow monsters is the heart, and you can kill them with weapons made of gold and silver." Jiang Wenyuan looked into Lu Yingqi's eyes , "You haven't forgotten your promise to me, have you?"

Lu Yingqi shrank her neck, "Of course I remember, I will be obedient."

Although Li Na was a little scared, Lu Yingqi went together. It might be more dangerous for her to hide in the house by herself, so she could only grit her teeth and go with her.They had two black gauzes and one black gauze umbrella. Jiang Wenyuan gave the black gauze umbrella to Lu Yingqi who was in a wheelchair, and the other two black gauze gauzes to Li Na and Jiang Zhan. He walked out of the room without wearing anything. .

The moonlight is very pale tonight, and no one turns on the lights in the small building on the second floor, for fear of attracting shadow monsters.

Jiang Wenyuan and the others could barely make out seven scorched marks on the open space in front of the second-floor hut by the moonlight, except for the two players who lived in the third room on the second floor and who had already turned into living dead and The traveler, a villager of Dabu Village whose heart was unfortunately gouged out, and four of those who were tied up in a row died.It's just that the moonlight was very dim, and Jiang Wenyuan couldn't tell how many of the four dead were players from the burnt leftovers.

When Jiang Wenyuan and the others came to the young man's home in Dabu Village, he was not at home.

"An accident happened at the village chief's house. From the interaction between him and the village chief, it can be seen that he is very respectful to the village chief. If he is not at home now, it is probably at the village chief's house." Jiang Zhan, who casually draped black gauze on his body Said, "There should be quite a few people in the village chief's house now. If we go, we must be careful. Although the death of the village chief has nothing to do with us, it is inevitable that someone will take their anger out on him."

Jiang Wenyuan nodded calmly, and then told Li Na and Lu Yingqi: "You guys stay near the door for a while, if anything goes wrong, you can run away immediately."

The four of them tried their best to hide in the place where the moonlight could not reach, and went smoothly from the young man's house in Dabu Village to the village head's house without encountering any shadow monsters on the way.Sure enough, as Jiang Zhan said, many villagers gathered in the village chief's house.The village chief's house is even cleaner and tidy than when they came last time, it should have been cleaned up just now.It's just that the ventilation in the room is not good, and the residual smell of blood proves that cruel things have indeed happened here.

The young man from Dabu Village that Jiang Wenyuan was looking for was standing among the villagers, as if he was being supported.He is not wearing a black veil now, and the gloomy expression on his face can be seen at a glance, "What are you doing here?"

Jiang Wenyuan didn't back down because of his unfriendliness, "I have a few questions I want to ask you. These questions are very important, and I hope you don't hide anything when you answer them."

Several villagers in Dabu Village were enraged by Jiang Wenyuan's words, and a middle-aged man scolded: "What do you mean don't hide anything? Don't you just think that we treat you as sacrifices?"

The young man from Dabu Village had a brief contact with Jiang Wenyuan when he captured the two living dead. He interrupted the middle-aged man, "If you have any questions, please tell me, but I don't guarantee that I will answer them."

The middle-aged man wanted to continue scolding, but the next village head he had identified had already spoken, so he could only shut his mouth angrily.

"Thank you." After Jiang Wenyuan thanked Dabu Village, he continued, "Actually, I can understand why my classmates and teachers misunderstood Dabu Village. Dabu Village concealed the existence of the Black Shadow Monster from us. Give us a bright two-story house with no curtains and extra teacups and chairs. When they find out that someone lost their shadow and turned into a living dead, it's hard not to misunderstand. My question is, why are you hiding it With the existence of the black shadow monster, why did you arrange the two-story building like that?"

The young man in Dabu Village was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "We in Dabu Village have..."

Sitting in a corner, hugging Niu Niu and weeping silently, the son of the village chief suddenly interrupted him, "Stop it!"

"It's come to this point, what else can we say." The young man in Dabu village ignored him and continued, "Because the whole village of Dabu village suffers from a genetic disease of photophobia, it is difficult to leave the village to go outside. To make a living, no outsider is willing to marry into Dabu Village. Since Dabu Village has multiplied, the whole village can be related by blood, and the genetic disease of photophobia has become more serious. But with the development of the times, We can catch less and less prey, and it is difficult to maintain food and clothing only by picking up dead branches and leaves. We wanted to find a way out. Just at this time, a person with half the blood of Dabu Village returned to the village. He and The village chief left after a meeting, and then the village chief told us that we could find a way out of Dabu Village through tourism and scientific research. Uncle Dong, you participated in the construction of the two-story building at that time, tell me.”

"We don't know much about the outside world. The two-story building was built according to the order of that person. The person suggested that we build the two-story building by the edge of the forest. He also said that the people outside are more hospitable, so we should prepare more A set of tea sets and chairs, and strong light is needed, and it is taboo to hang curtains." The middle-aged man who was called Uncle Dong had a naive look on his face, his words were a bit absurd, but it didn't sound like a lie.

Jiang Wenyuan said affirmatively: "You have been deceived. We have phototaxis, but we still need curtains, which can protect our privacy. And when we go out for tourism or scientific research, we are generally not particularly hospitable. Outside hotels, The hotel prepares utensils according to the number of occupants, and will not prepare an extra set."

Now the village head's son was startled, but Niu Niu managed to fall asleep. He didn't dare to speak too loudly, but everyone could feel the anger in his tone.

"When my father decided to introduce tourism and scientific research, he was actually hesitant. Because the sacred tree bestowed not only food and clothing, but also black shadow monsters on Dabu Village. Our sacred tree sacrifice, in addition to thanking the sacred tree, also includes prayers Shenshu was able to treat Dabu Village kindly. But the man told his father that he could not tell the outsiders about the black shadow monster, otherwise tourism and scientific research would be in vain. Father had to find another way, he decided to stay in Dabu with outsiders. During the village, let them eat enough fresh branches and leaves, and then let the villagers try to move outside as much as possible during the arrival of the foreigners, so as to attract the attention of the black shadow monsters, and the safety of the foreigners will not be worried."

The son of the village chief hugged his daughter with one hand, covered his face with the other, and wept depressively, "Picking fresh branches and leaves is a very dangerous thing, and it is easy to attract black shadow monsters. There are too many people here this time, and the whole village Almost half of the people went to pick the branches and leaves for you. My daughter-in-law was attacked by a black shadow monster when she picked the branches and leaves in the early morning. Niu Niu lost her mother. We did so much, just to keep Dabu Village alive. Why did things happen? so……"

Jiang Wenyuan and Jiang Zhan visited the village chief's house after nine o'clock last night, and they were lucky enough to meet Niu Niu's mother, but they didn't expect her to sacrifice herself for their six o'clock meal of fresh leaves this morning.Jiang Wenyuan asked the village chief's son: "Do you know who the person who advised your father to develop tourism and scientific research? I suspect that he has an old grudge with Dabu Village. He is not here to help Dabu Village, but to revenge of."

The son of the village chief shook his head, "That man only came into contact with his father. We have never seen what he looks like, and we don't know his name. I asked my father about that man out of curiosity, but he refused to tell me anything. .”

Jiang Wenyuan suspected that that person was a resident of the second-floor building, and he must have come to the village chief's house today to question the sacrifice, and he might have something to do with the village chief's death.Jiang Wenyuan really wanted to know how the village chief died, but at this juncture, it was inconvenient to ask them to describe the death of the village chief in detail.Jiang Wenyuan could only take the next best thing and guide the village head's son to think, "Recall carefully, what unusual behavior did your father do after meeting that person?"

The village chief's son suddenly put down his hand covering his face, and looked at Jiang Wenyuan with burning eyes.

"I remembered that my father often took out my aunt's tablet to look at it recently, and sighed while wiping the dust on the tablet. When my aunt was in her 20s, she rescued a foreigner who was exploring in the wild near Dabu Village. That The foreigner broke his arm, and my aunt took him home to take care of him. After a period of time, my aunt fell in love with the foreigner hopelessly and had an affair with him. Later, the foreigner's arm healed and he left In Dabu Village, she promised to come back to look for my aunt. My aunt found out that she was pregnant, and she often waited for him at the place where the stranger left. Day after day, she failed to wait for the stranger, and was attacked by a black shadow monster. Later, my aunt She has been carefully concealing that she is already a living dead, and it was not until the day of giving birth that her father discovered that she had no shadow."

"My aunt begged my father to let her give birth to the child. The black shadow monster took her heart, and her child's heart is still there. The relationship between the father and my aunt has always been very good. He delivered the cousin himself. After the cousin was born, My aunt smiled and walked out of our house. It was daytime. Fortunately, my cousin did not have genetic photophobia, because my aunt was a living dead, and my father worried that my cousin’s position in the village would be embarrassing, and he might even be executed, so He left a letter with his little cousin and sent him out of Dabu Village."

Hearing this story, Li Na's eyes turned red, "Why did your aunt die? Losing her shadow just makes her more photophobic. Living in Dabu Village is no problem at all!"

The son of the village chief shook his head, "The living dead who have lost their shadows live together with the living. The living will gradually get sick and die if they die after a long illness. The living dead will gradually lose their humanity and turn into monsters."

In terms of age, Jiang Wenyuan has basically locked the target, "Thank you for telling us, we will go back and tell our classmates and teachers the truth. Now that the tragedy has happened, we cannot let the tragedy continue to expand."

The villagers of Dabu Village didn't make any trouble, and silently watched Jiang Wenyuan and the others leave the village head's house.

Li Na held the armrest on the back of Lu Yingqi's wheelchair with one hand, pushed Lu Yingqi down a shadowy area, and said to Jiang Wenyuan, "The cousin of the village chief's son should be our teaching assistant..."

"Nine times out of ten." Jiang Wenyuan pulled away Li Na's hand pushing the wheelchair, and pushed Lu Yingqi's wheelchair out of the shadow area.

Li Na looked at Jiang Wenyuan in astonishment, "Brother Chen, what are you doing? If you don't follow the shadow area, what if you encounter a black shadow monster?!" Li Na wanted to pull Lu Yingqi back into the shadow from the moonlight district.

"Don't go!" Jiang Wenyuan shouted.

Li Na was startled by Jiang Wenyuan and froze on the spot.

Jiang Zhan stood beside Jiang Wenyuan with his arms folded, "We suspect that there are three behind the death of the village chief, tourists, professors and teaching assistants, and betrayers. Tourists are tricked into looking for the way of immortality. Excluded. If the purpose of the teaching assistant was to kill the village chief, the village chief would have died long ago. There is no need to spend so much time preparing for so many things, so the suspicion of the teaching assistant is also ruled out. There is only one possibility left, the death of the village chief. Those behind it are the traitors."

"I talked with Jiang Zhan in private. If the man behind the scenes is the betrayer of the round table game, that betrayer will definitely not be involved in the death of the village chief. Therefore, there is a high probability that the betrayer is among the four of us." Jiang Wenyuan The voice said coldly, "Jiang Zhan and I have confirmed the location of the ring with each other, and our answers are both correct. We are not traitors. You two are left without confirming your identity."

Li Na shook her head blankly, "I am not a traitor."

Jiang Wenyuan handed the black gauze umbrella to Li Na, and Lu Yingqi looked at the umbrella. When he came to the village chief's house, Jiang Wenyuan gave him the umbrella to use, saying that the umbrella had a large area and was convenient for him to use to cover the whole area. However, when they left the village chief's house, Jiang Wenyuan took the folding umbrella away.Jiang Wenyuan said to Li Na: "You can randomly pick a piece where Lu Yingqi put the needle."

Li Na didn't know why, so she could only take the black gauze umbrella, and pick one at random according to what Jiang Wenyuan said.

The stitches snapped, and the entire piece of black yarn quickly fell off the umbrella, leaving only two-fifths of it still attached to the umbrella, and the rest was just the crooked part that Li Na sewed crookedly.

Li Na looked at Lu Yingqi incredulously, "This... this... After all, I sewed with one hand, and the needlework is not good. It can be explained if you sew with both hands faster. In fact, your needlework is not good, but you have Obsessive-compulsive disorder, so the needle and thread are very neatly sewed. Hahahaha... how can you be so careless and sew so unstable."

Jiang Zhan's eyes locked on Lu Yingqi, and his muscles remained moderately excited, ready to make moves at any time.

"Actually, looking deeper, there are many doubts about Lu Yingqi. He said that the price of his being taken away was his legs. I was responsible for taking him to the toilet. Ordinary people would be very ashamed if they suddenly needed help from others to squat, but Lu Yingqi adapted well. Very soon. Before going out today, I took a special look at his shoes. His soles were not new, but they were clean and barely worn. I think he lied. The function of his legs was not taken away in the game, but It was disabled in the real world."

Regarding Jiang Wenyuan and Jiang Zhan's repeated evidence bombardment, Lu Yingqi remained silent.

Li Na still couldn't believe it. She suddenly remembered that she and Lu Yingqi were sitting next to each other. She hurriedly asked Lu Yingqi, "Tell me, which finger is the ring on my right hand? Tell me quickly? I reached out and touched you on the round table." hand, you should have an impression, think about it!"

Lu Yingqi, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, but his words were like a basin of ice water, which chilled Li Na, "What is the ring? Brother Chen also mentioned the ring. It seems that it is a very important prop."

Li Na looked at Lu Yingqi tremblingly, her voice was full of despair, "So are you admitting that you are a traitor now?"

Lu Yingqi slowly turned the wheelchair around, facing Jiang Wenyuan and the three of them, "Yes, because I have completed the task, I can leave this round of the game. The round table game told me that newcomers who enter the round table game for the first time become traitors, With a novice halo, as long as half of the other players in the round table game die, the mission will be considered complete."

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he began to count with his fingers, "Four of the unlucky bastards whose hearts were cut out in the forest died at the village chief's house, and three were tied up and had their hearts cut out, so there are eight in total. Just now, they died again." One, she is such an unlucky girl, she took the blame for me." When ordinary players die, traitors can clearly feel the process of death, which is a common trick for traitors.

Just as Lu Yingqi was counting, a black shadow monster approached from behind him.Li Na's body's reaction is always faster than her brain, she exclaimed: "Lu Yingqi, be careful of the black shadow monster behind you!"

Lu Yingqi was stunned. He looked at Li Na with complicated eyes, but he quickly restrained his emotions, "A person who is too kind will not live long. Chen Mian, you too, why bother to save a person whose legs are crippled?" What about the newcomer?"

While he was talking, the black shadow monster squatted down beside Lu Yingqi like a large pet, and tried to use its head to touch Lu Yingqi's hand.

Jiang Wenyuan's muscles were tense, he clenched the wooden handle of the golden fork in his hand, and looked at Lu Yingqi with high alertness, "Controlling the shadow monster, is this the trick that Round Table Games gave you?"

"Don't be so nervous. I'm not a murderer, it's just that the game made me a traitor. I have a wish that must be fulfilled. I can't die in the round table game. I can only ask other players to die." Lu Yingqi fulfilled the wish of the black shadow monster , reached out and touched its head, "My mission has been completed, it's time to leave the game."

More and more black shadow monsters gathered around Lu Yingqi, they opened the crack in the pitch-black space, and pushed Lu Yingqi's wheelchair in.At the last moment when he was about to leave the game world, Lu Yingqi looked at Jiang Wenyuan and Li Na, "There is something that I shouldn't have told you. I just want to thank you for your kindness and rescue me. Let me tell you as a gift. Anyway, round table games There is no rule not to tell others.”

Lu Yingqi pointed to Jiang Wenyuan: "The round table game can fulfill any wish, including wishes that may pose a threat to its existence, so when the round table game detects such a wish, it will generate a traitor, hoping that the betrayer will take Kill those players with 'bad' wishes. Chen Mian, I can feel that my real target in this round of the game is you, so I prepared that folding umbrella for you."

The space crack closed, the wheelchair was still there, but Lu Yingqi was gone, and the black shadow monsters also dispersed.

Li Na had heard about Jiang Wenyuan's lover, and she had been speculating whether Jiang Wenyuan would wish for his lover's resurrection, but what did she hear now?Will Jiang Wenyuan's wish threaten the survival of the round table game?Li Na's curiosity about Jiang Wenyuan's wish rose to the peak in an instant, but now is not the time to ask Jiang Wenyuan's wish, they still have a lot of things to do.

Li Na did not expect that Jiang Wenyuan would take the initiative to express his wish at this time.

Jiang Wenyuan glanced at Jiang Zhan, and walked towards the next shaded area first, "My wish is to fulfill my lover's last wish. Now I'm also curious, what kind of wish my lover made on the round table game."