sunk in yesterday

Wan'an's room is on the right side of the middle on the second floor, and after passing the stairs, he has to walk another 20 meters.

But the fog on the second floor was obviously thicker than that on the third floor, and the environment was not as bright as the third floor, so they could only use their general feeling to find the door.

In fact, there was no need to look for it specially, because the empty room next to him was opened, and the door frame had traces of being touched by hands, and the clear bloodstains could be seen at a glance.

There were no windows or furniture in this empty room, and the flashlight was blocked by the fog, so the range that could be found was really limited.Xia Zhuo took a step and then took half a step back, but Guan Yuzhou took his hand and stepped in without hesitation.

"Dang-dang-dang..."

The bell in the house rang again, Xia Zhuo clasped Guan Yuzhou's hand instead, and followed quickly without looking back.

Any corner here seems to have been installed with a microphone, even if the door is closed, it can't block the ringing of the minute, but Xia Zhuo noticed that the number of knocks has increased this time, and the clock was struck seven times.

The lingering sound was still hovering in the pinna, and he put down his hand covering one ear, a little surprised, "It took us only 10 minutes to come down from upstairs, how did it change directly from six o'clock to seven o'clock?"

"The time here cannot be compared with reality." Guan Yuzhou speeded up, looked around quickly, saw a big hole cut in the wall adjacent to Wan'an's room, and headed decisively in that direction, "Then The game of chess should be a puzzle, and when it is touched, the timer will start by default, although we have not reached that point, but the hourglass will also start to operate automatically."

"So the deadline is twelve o'clock?"

"No, it's nine o'clock."

"Why is it nine o'clock?"

"Because after nine o'clock, it is the night time for Xu Heze to move freely in this house."

At this point, the two of them were already standing in front of the hole in the wall.

Guan Yuzhou took Xia Zhuo's flashlight and took a look inside. He could barely see the outline of the bed, but he didn't know where Wan'an was.

Or... where is the body.

Ke Jingsheng volunteered to stand up at this time, "Let me go first."

Xia Zhuo glanced at him and felt that it didn't matter. Since the aborigines' activity time is after nine o'clock, they are still safe until the clock strikes nine.He moved back to give Ke Jingsheng some space, and continued to turn his head to talk to Guan Yuzhou, "I suddenly remembered the problem of the number of people."

He stretched out his hand to sign a "seven", and began to count with his fingers, "The two people between the pendulum clock, Wan An and Yang Yin, are only four now, does that mean that Xu Heze still needs to find a reason to kill three people? "

"No, there are two left." Guan Yuzhou pointed to the top of his head, "Old Patriarch Xu is also counted, the cheeks on his head are sunken, the flesh has shrunk and dried, his blood has also been drained, and it is very likely..."

"Maybe what?"

"Probably died of blood loss."

Xia Zhuo nodded, thinking: Who else will Xu Heze kill?

Ke Jingsheng's voice suddenly called to them from the other end of the room, but he sounded a little hesitant, "I'm looking for... I seem to have found it."

In a short period of time, the moisture in the mist has already attached to the clothes and hair of the person. Although there is not much, it still makes people unable to stretch their hands and feet, and feels that the clothes have become heavier than before.Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou followed the sound, and Ke Jingsheng was standing against the wall, his chest heaving and rising a little fast, as if he was suppressing the rising panic.

Xia Zhuo followed his line of sight, and saw a crooked person leaning against the door, his head lowered without expression, but his blue skin and shriveled body clearly indicated the passing of life.

He was covered in blood, and there was a long drag mark between the doorknob and the door panel. After he was injured, he should have thought about leaving the room to seek help outside, but someone stabbed him in the chest and died directly.

Xu Heze took his blood, threw the body here directly, entered from the next room, and then went out from the next room.

Ke Jingsheng pressed his chest, and he could imagine the pain of death just by watching others get hurt, "Can I ask the reason of the plot? This is the first time I have encountered such a situation, In the previous dream, all the participants were killed with one blow, and there has never been such a situation where the blood was drained."

Guan Yuzhou glanced around the corpse, then frowned and searched for other places in the room.

Xia Zhuo knew what was bothering him, Wan An was afraid that someone would take away the light brown leather book he found, so he found a place to hide it.But their time is limited now, and they don't have much energy to spend here. They have to go back to the study on the third floor before nine o'clock, otherwise they don't know what terrible things will happen in the fog.

"Look for the notebook first, and we'll talk about the rest later." Throwing this sentence to Ke Jingsheng, Xia Zhuo turned around.

Ke Jingsheng quickly agreed, and tore off the messy quilt on the bed to cover the corpse.

Every room the participants live in has the same layout. They have checked in their own rooms beforehand, so they are no strangers to places where things can be hidden.But the book just disappeared, even if they ransacked the box, they didn't find any clues.

Three minutes later, Xia Zhuo wiped the water on his face tiredly, feeling that since entering this dream, his body has always been sticky, and the time to dry up is only a handful.He lightly bumped into Guan Yuzhou's shoulder, "You can't search around like this, why don't you try to put yourself in another place? Teacher Guan, if you were Wan'an, where would you hide your things?"

Guan Yuzhou was silent for a while, and said, "I will hide in the light watch."

Xia Zhuo was taken aback suddenly, yes, he forgot that props can be stored in the warehouse, so only he can take them out.

"If the person is gone, isn't that thing also gone?"

"No." Guan Yuzhou shook his head, "After the participant dies, the items will go in two ways. If they are killed by a human being who is also a participant, the points, including points exchanged items and clues to the current dream will be dropped. It is owned by the killer. But if it is killed by the aborigines, that is, the dream itself, the points and exchange items will be cleared, and the clues obtained will be reset.”

"..."

Xia Zhuo didn't know what to say for a while, how could they have time to go to the third floor to find the initial refresh point of the Zongpi Book?

"It's not too late." Guan Yuzhou returned the flashlight to him, "Let's go, let's go back."

Xia Zhuo moved his lips, but before he could utter the word "good", Ke Jingsheng suddenly heard the sound of breathing in from behind, followed by staggered footsteps, accompanied by a hoarse roar.

"Run!" Ke Jingsheng stretched out his hand to pull Xia Zhuo. He was the closest to Wan'an, and he watched the quilt suddenly move violently.

Xia Zhuo intentionally avoided him and refused to let him touch it, but the flashlight in his hand was accidentally knocked out by Ke Jingsheng's hand. The beam of light instantly changed direction and hit him directly in the face, making him a little ugly His face was clearly illuminated.

The flashlight flickered for a moment when it fell to the ground, but it continued to function tenaciously. Ke Jingsheng failed to hold him back and had already run several meters away.

Wan An tore off the quilt covering his body, and raised his face that had been drooping.His eyes had also been gouged out like the previous two participants, leaving only two dark holes exposed under his brows.After the blood drained, the veins on the neck and face became more obvious, like earthworms growing under a thin layer of skin, leaving only a creepy ugliness.

Compared with Ke Jingsheng, Xia Zhuo was the closest to Wan'an. He stopped his pursuit resolutely, and with a strange "uh-uh" sound in his throat, he stretched out his sharp claws in the direction of the beam of light.

Before Xia Zhuo could react, the dazzling light blocked his sight.He could guess that Wan An's corpse was fraudulent, but he couldn't react immediately. He didn't even know that the crisis was approaching, so he could only let Guan Yuzhou lead him backwards.

This is what Ke Jingsheng saw when he turned his head.His heartbeat had broken the fastest record in just a few seconds just now. Seeing that Xia Zhuo closed his eyes reflexively, his running steps suddenly stopped, and he rushed back with gritted teeth, trying to kill those who had no time to escape. Knock open.

Perhaps remembering Xia Zhuo's joke about letting them act as shields, he ran with all his might, even faster than when he escaped just now.

But when he was only a few centimeters away from touching Xia Zhuo, he was kicked on the lower abdomen, and his whole body was thrown backwards with an unstable center of gravity, and his back hit the gravel under the wall, causing a burst of severe pain.

Guan Yuzhou withdrew his foot and didn't look at him at all. With his wrist, the knife blade was inserted directly into Wan An's eyebrows, with such force that the handle of the knife almost lost its bottom.

The sound of the knife point breaking the bones made Xia Zhuo's ears sore, and the hand on his waist was warm and strong. Such a sudden pull almost squeezed out his overnight meal, but fortunately, before he could savor the uncomfortable feeling, Guan Yuzhou had already let go of his hand, and put it on his waist instead.

Xia Zhuo let out a long sigh of relief, and grabbed the cloth on the other's chest.

Wan An's body fell back to the ground, unable to move.Guan Yuzhou picked up the flashlight on the ground, stuffed it back into his arms, and led him across the hole in the wall without stopping. Before leaving, he gave Ke Jingsheng a cold look, "Don't touch it with your hands!" he."

Xia Zhuo didn't know why Guan Yuzhou was so angry all of a sudden, and there was a poise of rain coming when he spoke. It seemed that if Ke Jingsheng touched him again, the knife would move from Wan An to him.

He looked up at Guan Yuzhou, wondering if he had misunderstood it, he seemed to see the monstrous hatred in those dark eyes.But when Guan Yuzhou lowered his eyes and looked at him as well, all the negative and scary colors were erased, and there was a unique warmth inside.

"Dang-dang-dang..."

The bell was rung again, and Guan Yuzhou kissed the tip of his ear, "If I kill him, will you blame me?"

After breathing, Xia Zhuo felt a little itchy, but he didn't hide, because he didn't hear what Guan Yuzhou said, and the bells that came from nowhere were too loud.After eight knocks, he asked suspiciously, "What did you just say?"

Guan Yuzhou stopped in his tracks, stared at him quietly for a moment in the mist, and then showed a normal smile, "I said, we have to move faster, there are only 10 minutes left."

Although he didn't hear it, Xia Zhuo could tell that the words before and after were completely different.

But he didn't ask any more questions, he just responded with a smile: "Okay."

The author says:

Ke Jingsheng really didn't like Xia Zhuo, but he had his own reasons to save Xia Zhuo.

┓(?′?`?)┏But Guan Yuzhou won't let him have a chance to save him.