Flirting with old enemies in escape games

But candles!

This so-called "talk back" action is actually blowing.

Reminiscent of what the npc had been slurring that day: "Revenge...destroy...it" is nothing else.

What he wanted to say was "take revenge, stop everything, blow out the candles!"

The deadly root is not the red box, but the candle!

After Ji Wuhuan figured this out, he stood up abruptly, just in time to see Li Dongwen raised his ax and was about to strike down, so he rushed over to stop him: "Wait!"

"what happened?"

Anyway, she is a beautiful woman, Li Dongwen stopped and waited patiently for him to explain.

"It's not a wooden box!"

"what?"

"Yes..." Ji Wuhuan looked around: "Candle, where is the candle?"

"Candle? What candle?"

"That white candle in a bronze cup!"

One player recalled: "Oh, I saw it, in the living room!"

Hearing this, Ji Wuhuan led the players out of the room to the living room, and sure enough, she saw a burning candle on the window sill of the living room.

At this time, someone also reacted: "Hey, no, why is this candle still burning?"

"Yeah, it burned for two days and two nights!"

From the first night they entered the village, they discovered that every household here had burning candles. At first they thought that the lights would attract monsters, so they had to use candles. Later, they thought it was to save electricity, so Only use candles.

After all, this village exudes an atmosphere of poverty from beginning to end.

Later, unknowingly, they all ignored this kind of candle.

In other words, the sense of existence of this candle has become weaker. Now that I think about it carefully, when Ji Wuhuan and Nie Yuan were cleaning up the house yesterday, they obviously moved all the furniture out of the house, but they don’t remember whether they saw it at all. Been to the candle, or put it somewhere.

Ji Wuhuan clearly remembered that the last time he watched it was on the TV cabinet, but he didn't even remember it at all after that.

At this moment, when everyone's attention was focused, it became clear that this candle was suspicious.

Yeah, why does it burn for so long?

"It also came out of the tomb." Li Dongwen explained: "It should be the legendary eternal lamp, which can burn for many years...Miss Su, what happened? Is there something wrong with it?"

"The movement of that npc before he died." Ji Wuhuan stared at the candle, pointed to his own lips: "Take a few breaths yourself and try."

A group of players followed his words subconsciously, some of them were still at a loss, some of them came to their senses, and suddenly realized, they shouted: "Damn, that npc was blowing out candles that day?!"

"Yes."

The npc wanted to blow out the candles that day, but the hallucinations affected him, making him think that the wall was the candles. After blowing his lips against the wall for a long time, he couldn't blow it out. He smashed it wildly in impatience, and finally picked up the axe, but chopped it out. dead himself.

Ji Wuhuan uttered his guess just now: "After he went down to the tomb, he knew that the source of death was actually the candle. After he came out, he wanted to blow out the candle to take revenge and stop it all, but failed."

Although it is still unclear where he learned about it, maybe he just happened to know the ancient texts on the walls, or maybe he went to other tombs and saw the truth.

"Can……"

"No, but the verification method is very simple."

See if you can blow it out and you'll know.

"There are many candles of this kind in this village. Even if you blow them out, there will be bad results, and the impact is under control."

After Ji Wuhuan finished speaking, she walked directly towards the candle, and cautiously approached the window sill step by step.

The white candle placed in the bronze cup was burning quietly, but now it felt a little weirder. The flame in the middle was not big, and it looked like it might go out at any time.

When Ji Wuhuan got closer to the wick, he couldn't feel any warmth. On the contrary, a cold breath spread in the air, it was chilly, and his back felt cold.

Without thinking too much, he held his breath and blew up gently: "Huh—"

The flame swayed from side to side, but it didn't go out. It really wasn't that easy, so Ji Wuhuan leaned over again, and carefully mended it, but it still didn't go out. Just when he was about to take another breath.

Nie Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, pushed him away, and directly leaned forward and blew violently. This time, the flame didn't even shake, and it went out directly.

Went out? !

Fuck?Extinct just like that?

Ji Wuhuan looked up at Nie Yuan in disbelief, but found that the man's brows were slightly wrinkled, his eyes were a little more serious, and he was staring fixedly at the window sill.

He hurriedly looked over, only to find that the candle that had just been blown out by them ran to the corner of the window sill, it was clearly in the middle just now!

How could this be?

Ji Wuhuan frowned, leaned forward again, and went down in one breath. In the blink of an eye, the candle went to the other side again.

"How could this be?"

Nie Yuan reached out his hand decisively and grabbed it directly, holding the candlestick tightly.

You can't run away this time, can you?

However, when he blew it up in one breath, a strange scene appeared again. The thing in the man's hand turned into a cup, and the candle went out of the window sill!There is a layer of glass in between.

???

Is this hallucination?Ji Wuhuan couldn't believe it, she reached out to touch the candle, but was blocked by the glass, it was really outside!

Nie Yuan dropped the cup in his hand to the ground with a snap, and it shattered.

Sure enough, what happened just now was an illusion.

All the players were stunned and stared at them dumbfoundedly. Some of them asked, "Li Dongwen, didn't you say that we are so many that illusions can't do anything to us?"

"How is this possible?!" Li Dongwen was also stunned: "Keep an eye on it, don't let it disappear, I'll go out and have a look!"

After speaking, he ran out with Tang Shuai and two other players. When they went outside and were about to blow out the candles, the same situation happened again. middle.

"Fuck." Seeing this, Li Dongwen took two steps back, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it, but the stone hit nothing.

This time the candle disappeared straight from the windowsill!

hallucination?Or did it run away on its own?

Ji Wuhuan was a little unbelieving, she leaned close to the glass window and looked out carefully, and found two shallow circular marks in the dust on the table outside.

Exactly where the candle was just now!It proves that the candles were actually here in the first place!

Ji Wuhuan was about to open the window with his hands, when his fingers suddenly stopped in front of the window frame, wondering why there was a handprint on it?He put his thumb on it and it fit perfectly.

It was his handprint!

The young man shivered, his fingers flicked away like an electric shock, and he doubted his eyes and memory again. Could it be that he opened the window and let the candle out just now?

Recalling the terrified gaze of that npc before he died, what made him so desperate?what did he see

At first Ji Wuhuan couldn't figure it out, but at this moment, he seemed to understand.

At that time, when Zhuo Lezhen went out and squatted on the ground to vomit, candles happened to be placed on the TV cabinet next to her. Is this a coincidence?

No, probably not.

It was Zhuo Lezhen who was manipulated unconsciously, picked up the candle and went out, and put it outside!

Because if the candle was still in the room at that time, it would definitely attract the attention of the players!

Perhaps Zhuo Lezhen discovered some clues afterwards, so she was silenced.

If so, then...

"It..." Ji Wuhuan felt a creepy feeling, pursed his lips, looked at Nie Yuan, and spit out a very scary guess: "It probably has a mind."

This candle seems to have the ability to think. It has the ability to control the player to a certain extent. It uses this to protect and hide itself, and then uses hallucinations to kill the player.

Now where does the candle go now that it needs to manipulate the player to move?

Ji Wuhuan raised his head suddenly, just in time to see Li Dongwen and the others coming in, and asked loudly, "Where is Shuai Tang?"

Tang Shuai, who was walking at the back, raised his head when he heard the sound, and asked strangely, "I'm here, what's wrong?"

"Oh..." Was he thinking too much?Ji Wuhuan breathed a sigh of relief, but when his eyes swept over everyone in the room, he immediately realized something was wrong: "There is one person missing!"

Li Dongwen turned his head and found that one of the people who followed him was gone: "Where did Deng Li go?"

Tang Shuai was also taken aback: "Eh? He was still by my side just now, we entered the room together!"

"Oops." Ji Wuhuan understood that he was in danger.

When the four of Li Dongwen went out just now, why did the candle disappear?Probably because it was taken by one of them.

who is it?It was the missing person.

"What's wrong?" The players were stunned again, and they couldn't keep up with Ji Wuhuan's thinking speed at all: "What do you know? What's going on here?"

As soon as the words fell, they heard a scream from outside, and it turned out to be in the kitchen!

When a group of people rushed in, the scene in front of him was already what Ji Wuhuan expected. The missing player was dead, and he stabbed a sharp knife into his mouth in the kitchen. He pierced his throat obliquely, pierced directly from the back of his neck, and he also chopped off his own fingers.

When they entered, the man just fell down, his body was still twitching, his mouth that could not be closed made a painful sound, and his eyes were staring at the stove in horror.

I saw that there was still a quietly burning candle beside the iron pot.

Apparently he intended to chop off the candle directly with the knife.

"..."

OMG!

There was a dead silence, and the fear was like a mountain falling down, making everyone breathless, covering all players, and their hearts were ashamed.

The hope he just saw was wiped out, and Li Dongwen felt desperate again: "Fuck, what the hell is going on? It's impossible to blow it out!"

Isn't it? It's hard to even touch it, let alone blow it out. Even if you take out the Rubik's Cube props, you must first be able to determine its true location to be useful.

When do you see an illusion and when do you see the truth?

No one can judge at this time.

What should I do?

At this moment, Ji Wuhuan, who was always full of ghost ideas, felt helpless.

At this moment, Liu Feifei suddenly suggested: "Why don't we burn this house down?"

Ji Wuhuan couldn't help giving her a blank look: "Don't burn yourself."

The dead npc and Deng Li have already proved that if you use violence against the candle, you will only die faster.

"It's just a candle, how can it be so smart?" Liu Feifei was even more unconvinced: "We can set fire outside the house. There are oil, combustibles and windows in the firewood house. We just set fire from outside the window."

"That's right!" A player felt that what she said was feasible: "We can set fire from outside!"

"I also think this method is feasible, high temperature can melt it, and since it has been in the room, it means that it is still afraid of being extinguished, even if a player takes it out, it is likely to be extinguished when the wind blows outside. "Tang Shuai also agreed with this idea, and the more he said it, the more feasible it became.

The ever-burning light stayed outside for less than 2 minutes just now, which shows that it is not impossible to be extinguished as it is said in the legend.

"But how can you guarantee that no one will rush in to save the candles and send them directly to other houses?" Luo Zi interrupted their discussion: "Don't forget, one who is not careful may be controlled."

"It's not easy." Liu Feifei continued: "We form a circle, hold hands, and look at the people opposite each other. They can't directly control people to commit suicide. Don't resist the illusion, and then the hands are pulled, as long as If there is a change in one person, everyone can find out that something is wrong."

"Then who will set the fire?" Luo Zi asked: "And what if the person who set the fire is controlled and burns himself?"

This is a good question, Liu Feifei immediately shut up.

There was silence again for a while, and finally an old player thought of a way: "Yes, I can light the fire, but let's agree first, if this method is useful, you must give me the extra reward of No.1."

Li Dongwen first said that there is no problem. Survival is the most important thing. This candle is too evil. If someone is willing to try it, he naturally has no objection. The other veteran players can't think of a way, so they can only agree.

Ji Wuhuan shrugged, and stopped one last time: "I advise you not to try."

He didn't approve of the plan at all.

"Then do you have any other solutions?" Liu Feifei retorted.

"No." Ji Wuhuan said so, but she did not admit defeat in her imposing manner, she straightened her big breasts, and rubbed against handsome Nie Yuan like a demonstration.

"You!" Liu Feifei stomped her feet in anger again.

"Okay, let's get down to business." Li Dongwen quickly interrupted them: "Liu Jiayu, what did you think of just now?"

The way this old player thought of was to wet himself with mineral water, so that it would be impossible to burn himself when he lit the fire.

This method sounds quite reliable, even if it can't be burned, it can avoid accidents.

Then, as Liu Feifei said, they formed a circle and stood outside the house holding hands.

Standing in the middle of the circle, Liu Jiayu threw the lit stick into the woodshed.

As long as the firewood room is lit, it will soon burn to the kitchen.

Up to this stage of the plan, everything went smoothly, including when the kitchen was set up just now, the candles were standing quietly on the stove and burning, as if they didn't feel that a catastrophe was imminent.

But Ji Wuhuan did not let down his vigilance at all, and Nie Yuan also held his hand tightly.

The moment the torch was thrown in, it touched the oil on the ground and immediately burned, and quickly climbed onto the firewood.

Just like that?Ji Wuhuan felt a little surprised, it was so easy?Could it be that he was thinking too much?

He kept looking around to make sure there were no fewer players.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, the other players became excited.But the more Ji Wuhuan thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, it was too smooth, it was unexpected.

Why didn't the candle resist?It's impossible for players to burn it. If it was that easy, how could everyone in this village die?

At this moment, he suddenly smelled a burning smell. It's not surprising to have this smell, but it's a bit too strong.

Could it be... He suddenly thought of something, pushed away the hands of the players around him, turned around and rushed back.

"Stop her!" Liu Feifei shouted immediately: "Don't let her do bad things!"

Nie Yuan was the first to chase after him, but instead of stopping Ji Wuhuan, he followed him to the kitchen window.

When he saw the scene inside, Ji Wuhuan couldn't help screaming, and with an exclamation, the hairs all over his body stood on end.

At this time, there were twelve people standing in the kitchen, forming a circle, holding hands and staring blankly ahead, while the flames had already reached the door of the woodshed.

Those twelve people were none other than themselves!

They never went out at all!

The author has something to say: Candle: Heh, a bunch of little scumbags!

Pippi: Look at my protagonist's halo before talking!

Yuanyuan: If I catch you, you will be dealt with immediately.

Candle: QAQ is suddenly scared