Forced to bind with escape game NPC [unlimited]

When the players were scanning the environment in the house, Albugu's words drew everyone's attention to the simple wooden coat rack at the wooden entrance of the wooden house.This coat rack is no different from the floor coat racks on the market. There is a round center of gravity chassis below, and a solid wood bifurcated pole on it. The fur on Cuckoo's body was bald a lot.

"This must be from the previous batch of passengers." Xiaoyuan, the tour guide, took the coat from the hanger disapprovingly, "We have received a lot of tourists, and the last batch was just a day or two ago. It's not the first time that one or two people have bumped into their shirts. There is a big temperature difference between day and night here, and many tourists come here wearing thick clothes, and it gets hot again at noon, and once they take off their clothes, they don't know where to put them." After Xiaoyuan finished speaking, she took The clothes went to the corridor behind the wooden house and disappeared from the player's sight.

"Sister Qiqi, I feel that this dungeon has already started to scare the players." Jiang Shuimiao opened the shoe cabinet with some trepidation, for fear of seeing a pair of sneakers that were exactly like hers inside.

The other players thought the same thing. Maybe this house already knew who they were going to receive.

After Qi Anqi put on disposable slippers, he walked into the living room of the wooden house. The living room is a rectangular structure. The door is facing the corridor with stairs. There is a glass window beside the door. A warm fire in the living room is facing the sofa. , the sofa is very wide, there are two single sofas on the left and one on the right, and a wooden coffee table in the middle, with some colorful sugar on a small tray, the amount of sugar is very small, as if someone else eats it For the rest I forgot to add, there are two ceramic teacups on the left and right of the coffee table.

There is a big long table at the other end of the living room, which can seat more than eight people. The long table is facing a glass window. At this time, the fire in the fireplace in the house is burning red, and it is already pitch black through the glass window. .

To put it simply, the living room of this log cabin is very simple in structure, one side is the door, the other side is the stair walkway, and the remaining two sides are the fireplace and the dining room with glass windows.

Not long after, Xiaoyuan came back again, and she greeted everyone to sit on the sofa: "I have asked the kitchen to cook dinner for you, before that, let me emphasize tomorrow's itinerary."

The couch can only seat four people, and only the couple and Chen Ke sat on it. Qi Anqi saw that no one else was moving, so he sat on the single sofa near the door. Jiang Shuimiao stood beside him and said he didn't need it. sit.The rest of Albuquerque was leaning against the wall, and the young woman was wearing low-heeled shoes, but she had no intention of sitting down.

Just when everyone thought that a seat was going to be vacant, the little girl in the black robe who had been silent all this time sat on it quietly.

The tour guide Xiaoyuan saw that everyone stopped changing positions, and she showed that standard smile. She stood in front of the fire, obviously not facing the fire, but the players felt that her face was extra shiny, as if she had been painted. A layer of water, and then illuminated with yellow light, her hairstyle is also the mushroom head, firmly fixed, without a trace of mess caused by the bumps of the journey just now.She folded her hands in front of her body, wearing an old lady's watch on one hand, and the other ring made of red string was already dark red, as if it hadn't been changed for many years.

"Tomorrow we will go to Xuyuan Village in the east. We will gather for breakfast at [-] o'clock and depart at [-] o'clock. It will take an hour. The villagers there are simple, hardworking and hospitable. We will experience their traditional customs and culture, and then visit Their famous cultural heritage. After that, we will give everyone free time and drive back to the hut on time at [-] pm."

During the female guide's introduction, Qi Anqi had been looking at a painting on the opposite wall. The painting showed a sun half exposed on the horizon. I didn't know whether it was the rising sun or the setting sun. On the cabinet, there is a candy with blue wrapping paper placed abruptly on it.

And at this time, her peripheral vision happened to fall on the little girl opposite her. The little girl still didn't take off the black robe that didn't suit her sunny age, but just took off the cap. Leaning on the sofa chair, he suddenly frowned slightly, and then fished out a candy wrapped in rose red from behind with a confused expression.She glanced at the candy, then put it on the coffee table.

Candy again?

Qi Anqi's eyes fell back to the coffee table, and then he reached out and lifted the upside-down teacup on the coffee table, and inside was another candy with blue wrapping paper.

"... I want to emphasize again that in order not to disturb the lives of the villagers, we have always discouraged passengers from using cameras and other recording devices."

"It's all taken away by the system, so I can't use it even if I want to." Linlin complained beside her.

Her boyfriend Zhang Sen immediately told her not to speak at this time, and then went to see the tour guide's expression.Fortunately, the tour guide Madoka didn't respond. She looked down at her watch and said, "It's time for dinner. Passengers, please go to the dining table and wait for dinner."

Until now, this copy has not made players feel creepy.Qi Anqi only passed the instance for the second time, so she didn't know if it was normal or not.

The dinner was also served by Xiaoyuan, if it wasn't for Xiaoyuan explaining tomorrow's itinerary to them during the cooking, the players even thought that all the NPCs in this wooden house were only Xiaoyuan.

While serving dinner to the players, Madoka said, "The weather here is good in all seasons, it never rains, and it's safe during the day, but not necessarily at night, so I don't recommend travelers to go out at night."

At this time, the window by the dining table was still pitch black. Even though the wooden house was so bright, it was impossible to see if there were any shrubs by the window.With such a scene alone, no one dared to think of going out at night.

After dinner, Madoka assigned room keys to the players. The pair of CPs in the players lived in the same room, and the rest of the players shared a room with each other.Qi Anqi lived on the third floor.

"Your driver and I both live in the downstairs room. If you encounter any problems, you can come to see us downstairs. We will leave on time at nine o'clock tomorrow. Please remember." After speaking, Xiaoyuan disappeared into the corridor.

Jiang Shuimiao's room is next door to Qi Anqi's, but no matter how scared he is, it's impossible for him, a big boy, to sleep on the floor in a girl's room.

Qi Anqi: "I don't think anything will happen tonight, tomorrow's schedule is the highlight."

Jiang Shuimiao: "Sister Qiqi, are you sure?"

Qi An chirped: "Not sure."

Jiang Shuimiao: QAQ

……

Nothing really happened that night, Qi Anqi also fell asleep and woke up naturally, when she opened her eyes, it was still pitch black outside the window.But when she put on her clothes and went downstairs, she found that several players were already sitting downstairs.

"Do you know what time it is?" Chen Ke happened to be asking other people.

"More than that." Albuquerque replied.

The little girl and the young woman ignored him.

"My room doesn't even have a clock, and I don't know the time at all." Chen Ke pushed down the glasses frame helplessly.

Qi Anqi glanced at the living room again. As Chen Ke said, there is no clock in this wooden house. It clearly tells the players the time to eat and leave, but does not let the players know the time. This is really strange.

At this time, Xiaoyuan appeared from nowhere, brought two plates of breakfast, and put them on the table in the living room: "You guys got up on time." went downstairs.

"Sister Qiqi, I just knocked on your door to see if you weren't scaring me to death anymore." Jiang Shuimiao was obviously terrified.

"I woke up suddenly, and I just wanted to go downstairs to have a look. I was just about to go up and call you." Qi An replied.

At breakfast, the only source of light was still the lamp and the stove in the log cabin, and there was still no sign of the sun rising outside the window.

"Sister Qiqi, did you get this bottle of water from your room?" Jiang Shuimiao, after breakfast, found Qi Anqi with a bottle of mineral water by his hand.

"Yeah." Qi Anqi casually picked up the bottle of water and turned the bottle. This bottle of water was the same as the one she saw on the bus last night, and the label was an ordinary well.She thought it looked familiar, so she took it down and wanted to study it on the way.

After everyone finished breakfast, there was movement outside the silent wooden house, and the sound of the engine of the vehicle rang outside the house.

"Oh, it's almost nine o'clock, everyone get ready." Xiaoyuan said with a smile.

"Tour guide, are you sure? It's still dark outside." Linlin swallowed subconsciously.

"I'm sure, I'm leaving on time at nine o'clock, how could I be wrong." Xiaoyuan looked down at her watch, her hand was already on the doorknob, and the moment she opened the door, it was like pressing With a certain switch, the outdoors suddenly lit up, and the entire cabin was bathed in sunlight in an instant, and the field of vision was clearly opened up.There was no sun, only sunshine, as if the world were one big room to them, and now the lights were turned on.

The players showed astonishment in their eyes.

Madoka did not give the players any time to be surprised, and was the first to get on the bus: "Passengers, we are running out of time, please get on the bus quickly."

Since the NPC said so, everyone got into the car one by one before they had time to ask questions.

Today's driver is still Lu Qi, only when Qi Anqi got in the car and passed by, he raised his eyes and looked at her calmly, Qi Anqi also glanced at him without any concealment before walking to his seat superior.

As the tour guide Madoka said, they did leave the wooden house at nine o'clock, because only at nine o'clock will the sky here be bright.

When the last player gets on the bus, the bus starts and heads for the first stop.

Along the way, Qi An looked out the window, as Xiaoyuan said, the vehicle was driving eastward all the time, without changing direction in the middle.

After an unknown amount of time, the tour guide Xiaoyuan stood up: "It will be ten o'clock soon, and we will arrive at Xuyuan Village."

Seeing Xiaoyuan's movement of looking down at his watch, Qi Anqi said calmly, "What she said is so strange."

"Why is it strange?" Jiang Shuimiao asked.

"How do you know where you're going?" Qi An asked back.

"Of course it's looking at road signs or reference objects..." Jiang Shuimiao came to her senses, "But she's looking at her watch."

In the distance, a small village gradually appeared in front of the players.

"That's right." Qi Anqi raised the corners of her mouth and said in a deep voice, "As a tour guide, her reference point is not the scenery and landmarks, but the watch, isn't it strange?" Yesterday was the same, Xiao Yuan first looked at the watch, and then Tell them the place to stay is here.

And she didn't feel like "It's nine o'clock, we should be there", but "It's nine o'clock, we must be there".

The bus stopped at the gate of Xuyuan Village. This time, after the player got off the bus, the tourist bus did not leave.

Jiang Shuimiao saw the driver's face through the front windshield for the first time: "Sister Qiqi! Do you think this driver looks familiar? He seems to be..."

"do not think so."

Jiang Shuimiao: "..." That's fine.

Xuyuan Village is indeed a small and simple village. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw heads protruding from the houses one by one. These villagers were all dressed in plain white linen clothes and looked at the outsiders frankly.

Compared with the so-called "hospitality", this kind of welcome only makes players feel weird.

"How do I feel, these people are in mourning." Chen Ke's voice came from the players leisurely.

"Mourning?" Zhang Sen asked in surprise.

"Although these villagers only show half of their bodies, look at their clothes, they are all white linen, and look at the pigsty..." The players all looked in the direction Chen Ke pointed, and the pigs In addition to pigs, there are other poultry and dogs in the pen.

"Generally, chickens and dogs in rural areas are kept free-range. At least dogs will not be housed together with pigs and chickens. I have only seen this behavior in the mourning culture in some areas before. They will put all poultry and domestic cats and dogs in pens. Get up, so as not to disturb something passing by." Chen Ke explained.

After he finished speaking, everyone was taken aback for a moment, only Albugu asked curiously because he couldn't keep up: "Shrimps?"

But no one answered him.

"Village Chief, I'm bringing tourists here again. Please take them to experience your folk culture." While the tour guide Xiaoyuan said this, the players all saw an old man walking out of a house. He wears a cane and wears the same white sackcloth as other villagers.

When the village chief saw that it was Xiaoyuan, he paused for a moment. Judging from her expression, she didn't welcome tourists as much as Xiaoyuan said.

"Guests, please go with the village chief. You can only visit the cultural heritage here if you have experienced the folk activities here." Madoka turned her head and narrated to the players, and then seemed to have not seen the various uneasy expressions on everyone's faces. Take it straight to the direction of the village chief's house.

In the small dark room of the village chief, eight players were crowded in the blink of an eye. Albugu is too big, and if he is not careful, he will bump into the furnishings in the house. The little girl in black robe is always ignored because she is too small. The player accidentally touches it.

"Please sit down." The village head is a wrinkled old lady. She bends down slowly and drags out a cardboard box from the back room. There are two colors and shapes of paper in the cardboard box.One is platinum foil and the other is white cardboard.

Seeing these two colors, Qi Anqi suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

The village chief's house didn't have a so-called chair enough for eight people to sit on, so when the old man turned around and dragged the cardboard box with stacks of paper over, he found that the players were still standing and didn't say anything.

The old man picked up a piece of paper in each of the two colors, and then sat on the chair opposite the player.

The movements of her hands and the cold breath from Chen Ke's mouth verified what happened next.The old man seemed to be very old, but his fingers were extremely nimble. After folding a gold ingot, he picked up the white cardboard and folded a little triangular hand on the left and right, and a small figure with a square head in the middle.

The old village head stood the little paper figurines on the table, and put the ingots in front of the paper figurines, and then the old voice sounded in the house, "I will let you visit our village only if you stack up to 11 before 200 o'clock." place." After she finished speaking, she built a cane and left the small room.

The players looked at the two ingots and paper figurines on the table and looked at each other in blank dismay.

"200 each, that is, 400 in total. 8 people, 50 each." The young woman's voice suddenly sounded in the room. This was the first time she expressed her opinion in front of everyone, "I don't want to be together with you. Punishment, fold it quickly." After she finished speaking, she picked up a dozen of each of the two colors of paper in the box.

Apparently, although the system hasn't notified anything yet, the task has already been given by this NPC, that is, each person will stack 25 paper figurines and 25 gold ingots within the next time.

They arrived at 10 o'clock sharp, plus the time wasted in the village, it is estimated that it will only take about 1 minutes, stacking one in a minute?

The players frowned.

Qi Anqi also walked to the cardboard boxes and picked up a dozen: "Fold it quickly, we don't have much time left."

Then, the rest of the players stopped talking nonsense, picked up dozens of papers one by one, and stacked them.

Paper figurines are relatively simple, and players can complete one in almost 30 seconds, but it is not so easy when it comes to gold ingots.

Some old people stacked too suddenly and didn't pay attention, while others stacked too fast and didn't keep up.

"Sister Qiqi, can you fold ingots?" After Jiang Shuimiao asked, Qi An neatly folded one and placed it in front of him.

"Sister Qiqi, you have learned it." Jiang Shuimiao was surprised. When he said this, other troubled players also looked over.

Qi Anqi replied casually, but the movement of his hands didn't stop: "I've done it once before, so I just remembered it."

"Learned from the elders?"

"No, I encountered it in the game."

Players who heard this sentence: "..." What kind of game will teach people to stack dead money.

In the blink of an eye, Qi Anqi made another one.

"Chen Ke, don't you know?" A player asked.

"Of course not. Although I study folk customs, it doesn't mean I know how to fold paper money." Chen Ke was talking, and the person next to him folded one according to the gourd painting.

The house of the old village chief is the same as the log cabin, without a clock, the players have no way of knowing the time, so they can only stack as much as they can, just like a novice making dumplings for the first time, the ingots come out in different shapes.

Qi Anqi finished early, just in case she stacked some more, for fear that some players who didn't complete it would hurt her later.

Soon, Zhang Sen also finished folding and started to help Linlin fold.

At this time, Qi Anqi noticed the little girl sitting alone in the corner. There was already a pile of ingots in front of her, but there were only a few ingots. forming.

The little girl was a little frustrated, this thing was a bit difficult for her, she sighed, but when she looked up, she saw Qi Anqi standing in front of her, without saying a word, she put the ten extra ingots she had stacked on the She stood before her and turned away.The little girl glanced at her, and wanted to say something, but felt that it was not the time to continue with her movements.

Finally, when the old village chief walked into the hut again, 200 ingots and 200 paper figurines were piled up in the original box.

She glanced at them, and without even counting them, she showed an uncomfortable smile. There were almost no teeth in her mouth, and only the black hole could be seen.

"Now, let me take you guests to a good place." The old lady took out a key out of nowhere and led the players out.

"You said, if we folded less just now, would she find out?" Jiang Shuimiao asked.

"Little friend, don't think about it like that. The person I met last time who thought about it died in front of me." Chen Ke suddenly appeared next to him, and said quietly.

"Little friend" immediately fell silent.He didn't even dare to refute that he was an adult in a month.

"Village Chief, what are these stacked things for?" Qi Anqi asked out loud at this moment.

The village chief didn't look at her, and said in an old voice: "Paper money is of course used to give to the dead, and paper figurines are of course used to guard the dead."

"The dead still need guards?" Linlin asked.

This time, the old lady of the village head did not answer.

When they were led to the back of the village, they saw a well not far away. Strangely, the mouth of the well was covered with a board with a lock on it.Madoka, their guide, was standing by the well right now.

The players watched the old lady of the village chief open the lock almost carefully and then push off the manhole cover above.Although the players didn't see the well very much, they didn't think the well was special. It wasn't even hand-cranked, and they had to put a bucket down to fetch water.

Jiang Shuimiao probed his head and found that the mouth of the well was extremely deep, and the inside was so dark that the end could not be seen.

"If this thing is a cultural heritage, I feel a little sorry for the word culture." Jiang Shuimiao continued to observe the bottom of the well while complaining.

"This is the most popular attraction in our five-day tour."

The head that suddenly protruded from the side scared Jiang Shuimiao so much that he almost fell into the mouth of the well.Xiaoyuan's head was also moved to the mouth of the well at this time, and there was a weird look on her face, as if she was recalling something she was unwilling to do, and then she turned around and looked at the players present, A smile appeared again.

"Next, let me introduce the story of Xuyuan Village to the passengers."

"Xuyuan Village has always been a small remote village, and the villagers live a simple and peaceful life. Until one day, bandits took a fancy to this village, and they released news that the villagers in this village were given three days to prepare food and marinate for them. Otherwise, they would burn the village to the ground. There are too many old and young people in the village to be able to fight against the bandits, so they can only pray to the river god every day while preparing what they need for the bandits. "

The word "pray" made players tense up on May Day, because the goal of this game is to pray for success.

"Three days later, the mountain bandits encountered heavy rain on their way to rob the villagers. They were swept away by the flood when they crossed the river. Except for a small accident, everyone else in the village was safe and sound. Since then, the villagers here have begun to worship God of the river, bless them with good weather. This will involve tomorrow's Xuyuan Temple."

"What little accident?" Qi An asked in a low voice.

Xiaoyuan glanced at her and said, "It's just one person who died. He accidentally drowned while crossing the river, and was later buried in the west of the village."

Players: "..." Little accident...?

Seeing that Madoka had no more content, Chen Ke raised his eyes and asked cautiously: "I know that adding stories to some objects can generate cultural value, and it's okay to call them cultural heritage, but... this river god What does it have to do with this well?" The river god doesn't live in the well.

Chen Ke didn't dare to say the last sentence.

"Well..." It was the old lady of the village chief who interrupted, "At that time, there were many old and young villagers, and their legs and feet were not convenient, so we made a wish to the river god through the well."

The players fell into a silent silence: "..."

However, what is fished out of the well is groundwater.

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This chapter still has 20 red envelopes