Flirting with old enemies in escape games

It's hard to describe this smell in words. It's not bad to say it's smelly, but it definitely doesn't smell very good. It should be because the room has been sealed for a long time and the smell is caused by no ventilation.

Not only that, but there is also a strange and gloomy atmosphere in this dull air.

There is no light inside, and the white dome light in front of the door has a limited range of illumination. The interior is very dim, and only the outlines of some furniture can be vaguely seen.

When the flashlight shone in, there was no one in the narrow room.

"Go in and have a look."

Nie Yuan took Ji Wuhuan's hand and walked in the front, and the players followed carefully, looking around and asking questions.

"Hey?"

"Master Administrator?"

"Old man? Old man?"

Li Si, who was walking behind, saw the light switch by the door, so he stretched out his hand and pulled it open. With two hissing sounds, the fluorescent lamp above his head lit up, completely illuminating the room.

Compared with the room where the players live, this room looks smaller. It is only about 10 square meters. There is a small bathroom, but the inside is dirty and smelly, and there are no doors and windows.There are not many things in the house, only some necessary daily necessities, such as beds, tables and chairs, refrigerators, fans, cabinets, etc., in addition to some glove boxes for things.

But did not see the figure of the npc.

"Strange."

"Where did he go?"

Just like the outside, the conditions inside the house were not bad. There were large pieces of wall dust falling off the walls, and cobwebs formed in the corners. Even the newspapers on the table were several years old.

Ji Wuhuan walked to the table and found that it was full of sundries, besides newspapers, there were also some old books, medicine boxes, pens, glasses cases and so on, some of which were covered with dust.

Someone lives here, but that person is obviously not very clean, everything is messy and dirty, but it may also be caused by inconvenient legs and feet.

So where does an old man who needs a wheelchair to walk go?

Ji Wuhuan had some bad guesses in his heart. Just when they were about to find clues, Xu Lan and her companion opened the refrigerator behind, and then there were two exclamations.

"Damn it!!"

"Wow!!"

"What's wrong?" The players were already in a state of high vigilance, and they turned to look over after hearing the screams.

Looking at the open freezer door and the terrified expressions on the faces of the two, Ji Wuhuan immediately guessed something, and blurted out: "Corpse?"

After all, he is an old player. Although Xu Lan was startled, she was not afraid. She nodded and replied, "Yes, that's right."

"Is it the old man's?"

"I'm afraid... yes," replied her male teammate.

Although I didn't take a closer look, the stiff and thin body curled up under the refrigerator did indeed look like an old man.

"Quickly, get it out and have a look." Li Si and Wang Wu put on gloves to carry the corpse. With their strength, a large amount of ice slag fell off the inside and fell to the ground. Some of them were still stuck with red and green things, which may be It could be human tissue or some kind of unknown liquid, which looks very disgusting.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't have been frozen for long, but the skin seemed to grow on it. They took some effort to dig it out. When they dragged it out and fell to the ground, there was a bang, and the condensation on it Frost shattered all over the ground, and his body was like frozen tofu, so hard that he couldn't break it.

Ji Wuhuan leaned over and took a closer look. Judging from his figure, this person was indeed an old man, and he didn't know why he was stuffed into the refrigerator, let alone how long he had been frozen.

He curled up into a ball, kneeling face down, with his hands and arms facing the ground, as if trying to support himself to get up, his hands just blocked his face, so he couldn't see clearly.

In order to see his face clearly, Wang Wu and Li Si tried to drag him up and pulled away the hand in front of him, but when he pulled hard, the elbow fell apart and turned into a piece of naked rotten flesh !

"Damn!" The two quickly let go of the meat and put down the piece of meat. After taking off their gloves, they put their fingers to the tip of their noses and sniffed, retching in disgust.

Seeing their expressions, Ji Wuhuan immediately gave up the idea of ​​touching the corpse, but Nie Yuan was more aggressive, took the chainsaw to remove the corpse's hands, and then kicked him to the front.

???

Brother, this is a corpse after all, aren't you afraid that it will come to settle accounts with you in the middle of the night? !

Staring at the corpse under the amazed eyes of "Fuck, this is a ruthless person", he concluded with a blank expression: "It should be him."

"should?"

"..."

Of course it is impossible for a person like Nie who cares about face to admit that he is blind in public. With a hint in his eyes, Ji Wuhuan secretly laughed and followed the man, peeping out two eyes from behind the man.

It was a jealous, distorted and old face, and it seemed that he had seen something extremely frightening before he died. Rather than being frozen to death, it was more like being frightened to death.

Even so, I can still recognize it: "It's him!"

Hearing this, other players also moved closer to confirm that, yes, it was him!

Seeing the old man's death, everyone was surprised except Ji Wuhuan who had a premonition.

"How did he die?!"

"Could it be that we were thinking wrong?"

"Shouldn't he be a key npc?"

Lu Yi casually raised another possibility: "It may also be twins."

From a scientific point of view, maybe it is true, but discussing "science" in the Rubik's Cube game is very unscientific in itself.

So she just said it casually and can be ignored.

First of all, the legs of the corpse had been amputated and he was unable to walk. With the clothes on his body and the wheelchair in the room, it was basically certain.

This corpse was the old man they had seen yesterday, the npc administrator of this haunted house.

If this is the case, then the truth of the matter may be completely different from what they imagined.

Originally, nine out of ten players thought that the murderer was the administrator. After all, there was only this npc besides the players.

Who else but him?Even if it wasn't him, there must be a direct connection with the murderer. Maybe the real murderer behind the scenes is a group of people who just sent him out as a representative, known as the "administrator".

But since he is dead, there is no such problem.

Death is dead, how can the ghosts in the haunted house need revenge?So since the game is not over, he must not be the murderer.

Speaking of this...

administrator?Ji Wuhuan suddenly began to think about the meaning of this title. The identity of "administrator" was not what he claimed, but was identified by the Rubik's Cube system. After lean meat verification, it was confirmed that he was not lying.

The player is a night watchman, as the name suggests, the task is to watch the night.

What about administrators?Is he managing this haunted house, or is he managing something else?

And wouldn't his death be a bit too coincidental?I just suspected him last night, and died today, and the npc can listen to them through the walkie-talkie.

Could it be that he committed suicide in fear of crime?Rather than being killed by them, it is better to solve it by yourself?But if that were the case, the game should have been over long ago.

Ji Wuhuan couldn't think of the answer for a while, so he could only give up thinking and look for other useful information in front of him: "Forget it, Yuanyuan, let's search first."

The players dispersed and searched for clues in the house.

Soon they made some discoveries.

First, the old man was probably here when he was young.

The evidence is that there are photos of his youth in his drawer, and the background is here.

"This is very unusual."

When he was young, his limbs were healthy, and he was dressed in a typical family. The young man who went to work in the city obviously couldn't be the manager of the dormitory building for the rest of his life, even if he really liked being a manager. But now that this place has become like this, why doesn't he leave?

"So maybe he, like us, couldn't leave for some reason." Ji Wuhuan guessed.

The suspicion in my heart that the administrator was the murderer behind the scenes was a little less.

The second point is that he died very abnormally.

Lu Jia was supported by Lu B to stand up and told everyone what they had just discovered.

"The old man didn't have any wounds on his body, he was frozen to death, but the problem is." Lu Jia pointed to the wheelchair behind the glove box over there with his chin: "How did he get from there with both legs amputated?" came here?"

"Climbed over?" Zhang San took it for granted without thinking too much.

"He doesn't have to do that." Lu Yi said.

"Maybe... what kind of danger did he encounter? A ghost was chasing him? He fell to the ground in panic?" Li Si speculated, "Old man, his limbs are not well coordinated, and his brain is not very clear. It's not impossible to climb into the refrigerator."

"Does he have dust or gravel on his hands?" Ji Wuhuan asked Lu Jia.

Lu Jia shook his head, and replied clearly and positively: "No, and there is no scratch."

I have to say that Ji Wuhuan admires her very much now.

It's okay to be alive and kicking with injuries all over his body, but he really didn't change his expression when facing such a disgusting corpse, and even took out a scalpel to cut the corpse open for a look.

Even in the Rubik's Cube game, she is a very courageous girl.

Lu Jia said that her mother is a surgeon and her father is a forensic doctor, and she has been exaggerating since she was a child. If she hadn't been forced to suspend high school because of entering the Rubik's Cube game, she would have planned to enter a medical university.

"Then what does that mean?"

Half of the players haven't reacted yet.

"He didn't go into the refrigerator by himself, but something forced him into the refrigerator and froze to death." Ji Wuhuan gently pinched his earlobe.

"Oh?" Zhang San touched the back of his head and shuddered: "Did it be done by ghosts? Those ghosts in the haunted house?"

"It's possible." Ji Wuhuan raised his eyelids and glanced at him: "But...it might be a human."

As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly, there was a sudden crash from behind the wall beside him.

It seemed that someone stepped on a pile of plastic paper, the sound was very faint, but because the room was relatively quiet, Ji Wuhuan heard it.

He turned his head suddenly, and suddenly found a hole the size of a little finger next to the painting on the left wall!The moment he looked over, a black shadow flashed past from behind!

Apparently, something was surreptitiously watching them!

"Yuanyuan!" Ji Wuhuan shivered, his voice changed, and he quickly grabbed the man's hand: "There is someone behind the wall!"

Nie Yuan looked at the direction he pointed and said without hesitation, "Go."

Go look next door.