Please Stop Pretending To Be a Cute Newcomer!

In the winter, Daxiong Ridge is covered with snow everywhere. There are many towering giant trees growing on the mountain. The trunks of giant trees are straight and their branches are luxuriant, and the leaves are covered with heavy snow.

This snow fell last night, and it fell all night, completely blocking the path leading to the Daxiongling forest castle outside the mountain.

Shen Qingcheng dragged his suitcase and walked hard on the snow-covered, invisible path. The weather was very cold. He was wearing a turtleneck sweater wrapped in a thick down jacket, and knee-length warm boots on his feet.

As soon as I stepped down, the brown thermal boots sank deeply into the snow. When I lifted them up again, the brown color on the boots was darker, and it was obviously a little wet again.

"Brother Lu, where are you?" He stopped to take a breath, and shook his stiff arm from dragging the suitcase, "If you don't show up again, your beauty will be taken away by the bear!"

The game that Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi entered as a team was the same as the previous dungeon, the places where they entered the dungeon were not the same.Shen Qingcheng didn't know where Lu Qi was, but Shen Qingcheng himself was outside Daxiongling when he first entered the dungeon.

How peripheral is it?

He and a suitcase stood alone at the fork in the path. The left side leads down the mountain, and the houses hidden in the forest are faintly visible under the mountain. There are rising smoke, and the right side leads to the forest. The forest is quiet, not even the sound of birdsong. can not hear.

There are two roads, and anyone with a brain knows how to choose. Shen Qingcheng, who doesn't really want to go on vacation in the mountains in winter, naturally picked up his suitcase and went down the mountain immediately.

As for the result, if he successfully descended the mountain, he would not appear here.Even though he knew that the game would not allow the player to go down the mountain without completing the mission, Shen Qingcheng would not give up if he didn't try it.

Now that he has tried it, his heart is completely dead.

"Oh," he sighed, "I would have known better if I hadn't wasted energy." He was lost for a long time on the outskirts, wasting a lot of energy, so that he still hasn't been able to enter the mountain.

He raised his head, and the broken sky divided by tree branches was getting more and more gloomy. It should be snowing later in this weather, and it was getting dark soon.The phone automatically shut down due to the low temperature, and there was no way to contact Lu Qi.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingcheng wanted to yell at that Goubi game company, you are just a terminal disguised as a mobile phone, not a real mobile phone, why do you want to learn how to shut down a real mobile phone at low temperature and be so real!

After resting enough, he dragged the suitcase and continued to walk forward. Suddenly, the suitcase was stuck by something, and he tried his best to drag it but failed.Shen Qingcheng looked back, a bluish-white stiff hand stuck out of the snow and tightly grasped the roller of the suitcase.

"Big brother," he shook the handle in his hand, "please let go, we are busy on our way."

His hands remained motionless.

Shen Qingcheng had no choice but to lift his right foot and jio over, "Huh——"

Shen Qingcheng, a lonely ghost like this who died in the wilderness, has seen a lot. He just wanted to kick the corpse's hand away, but he didn't expect to kick the part of the hand covered under the snow. hand.

The severed hand was severed from the elbow, the wound was irregular, and there were many traces of beast bites.

Shen Qingcheng frowned.

"Squeak." A squirrel squeaked and jumped up and down a nearby tree, stepped on handfuls of small snowdrifts, and with a "pop", something fell in front of Shen Qingcheng.

It was a brown plush teddy bear. The outermost plush fabric of the teddy bear was torn apart by a sharp weapon, but the inside was not white stuffing, but a lump of red, sticky, bloody stuff. .

The atmosphere became inexplicably gloomy and treacherous, Shen Qingcheng shuddered, and let out a breath of white air, "Huh, it's so cold."

"Shen beauty?"

Shen Qingcheng, who was not frightened by the severed hand and the teddy bear, was taken aback by Lu Qi's sudden appearance. He was startled, then looked around, and asked tentatively, "Lu Qi?"

"Crack, click."

On the right front of the forest, Lu Qi used a knife to part the grass and came out. He was wrapped in a white coat and blended into the sky full of snow. Seeing that Shen Qingcheng's hair and eyebrows were covered with snow, he frowned and said in a deep voice: " Why so slow."

How could Shen Qingcheng dare to say that his attempt to go down the mountain failed, wouldn't that just tell Lu Qi that he had forgotten about him? He laughed and said innocently, "I'm lost." His expression was pitiful.

Lu Qi was silent for a moment, without saying anything, reached out to take Shen Qingcheng's suitcase, "Let's go."

Glancing at the teddy bear "exposing" its internal organs on the ground, he walked ahead and asked, "An accident?"

Shen Qingcheng followed behind with difficulty, first shook his head, remembering that the other party couldn't see, and then said: "No, a squirrel who doesn't know where it came from got it down, and saw a severed hand, it's very fresh, but it seems to me Bitten by a beast. Is he the player this time?"

Lu Qi: "I don't know, there are wild beasts in the mountains, especially when they can't find food after winter, they will be very cruel."

Shen Qingcheng: "So this game not only has to guard against ghosts and players, but also against wild beasts?"

Lu Qi, who already knew that Shen Meiren was the rookie king "Beauty Allure", was not surprised that he would ask such a basic question, and said, "To be precise, it is to guard against everything that could kill you."

This... sounds so difficult, I just want to support my old age, why do you treat me like this.Shen Qingcheng closed himself off.

Lu Qi walked around, and when he heard Shen Meiren lagging behind, he stopped and waited for him.

"The initial difficulty of this dungeon is about A. The mission objective is the same as before. Either survive enough mission time, or solve the story line. The mission location is the forest castle, and there are four main NPCs inside..."

"Wait, how do you divide the difficulty of the task? What was the difficulty of the last dungeon?" Shen Qingcheng caught up and asked.

Lu Qi: "Generally, it depends on the division of task time and the number of players. The task time of the high-difficulty dungeon is short, the number of players is large, and the opposite is true for the low-difficulty dungeon. The difficulty of the last dungeon was B-."

At that time, Zhou Anan said that the difficulty was above average, which was slightly different from what Lu Qi said.

Shen Qingcheng: "The dungeon with high difficulty has a shorter clearance time?"

"It's not that players who have enough time will be able to solve the complete story line," Lu Qi said. If the story line cannot be solved, the longer the task requires, the more dangerous it will be. would be too complicated."

Shen Qingcheng understood, nodded and asked again: "How many players are there this time?" He checked the mission time, it was half a month.

Lu Qi: "There are 14 players who have walked out of the forest and arrived at the castle."

There are players who have already walked out of the forest to reach the ancient castle, and naturally there are some who can't get out of the forest. Shen Qingcheng thought of the severed hand, and wisely asked what would happen if he couldn't get out of the forest, "Add me 15?"

"Well," Lu Qi nodded and stretched out his right hand. Seeing his doubts, he said lightly, "You are too slow."

When the sky was completely dark, the two saw the destination located in the depths of the forest. A little yellow light overflowed from the windows of the old castle, giving people an indescribable ancient charm.

Thin snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and Shen Qingcheng was dragged by Lu Qi towards the gate, his whole body was almost languidly hanging on Lu Qi's body.

At this time, he would be very emotional and thankful, thanks to Lu Qi's strength and physical strength.

"It's getting dark, Lu Qi hasn't come back yet, let's not wait for him, shall we?"

"Didn't he say to go out for a walk? It shouldn't be far away."

"Wait a little longer. If he comes back and finds that we haven't waited for him, everyone will be embarrassed."

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. This is a horror game. Every second we delay will make us dangerous. No one is obliged to pay for it!"

"Tch, do you really think he's embarrassed? He's afraid that Lu Qi will find out something and won't tell him because he minds."

"Okay, everyone, stop arguing and wait another 10 minutes. If Lu Qi has not returned after 10 minutes, we will go to the owner of the castle to arrange a room."

"Squeak—" The door was pushed open, and the cold wind blew in with snowflakes.

Lu Qi, who everyone was talking about, appeared at the gate. Compared with the empty hands when he went out, when he came back, he had an extra suitcase in his left hand and an extra person in his right hand.

Thirteen pairs of eyes looked at Shen Qingcheng. Shen Qingcheng waved his paws and greeted, "Hi everyone?"

A man sitting in front of the fireplace responded first. He turned his gaze between Lu Qi and Shen Qingcheng, got up and took two steps forward, and asked with a smile, "Lu Qi, who is this?"

Lu Qi took off the fur coat on his body, "I picked it up."

Shen Qingcheng nodded obediently, "My name is Shen Meiren."

"Beauty Shen?" The man repeated, looking at Shen Qingcheng twice more, "Beauty? What a good name, what is my name?"

He turned sideways to reveal the fireplace behind him, with a smile on his handsome face, he said gently to Shen Qingcheng, "It's freezing, come here and warm yourself by the fire."

"Lu Qi, there is a place here." A tall and beautiful woman shouted from the other side.

The players here are obviously divided into two groups. One group is headed by a man named He Wei, and the other group seems to be a woman who has spoken out just now. The two groups are not much different in number, and each guards a fireplace.

So if there is a third fireplace, will players be automatically divided into three groups?Shen Qingcheng thought about it with divergent thoughts.Before he could decide whether to go there or not, there was a slight sound of footsteps above his head.

The leather boots made a dull sound when they stepped on the wooden floor covered with thick carpets. Everyone followed the sound, and a woman wearing a gorgeous court dress appeared on the stairs leading to the second floor of the castle.

The woman has a coquettish appearance, heavy makeup, and a red fox fur shawl that looks very warm.She stopped when she was seven or eight steps away from the ground, raised her chin and smiled at the people downstairs.

"Welcome to the forest castle. The masquerade will officially begin in 7 days. During this period, as the hostess of the castle, you must fully obey my arrangements."

As soon as the woman opened her mouth, everyone couldn't help frowning inwardly. The voice of this woman who looked so glamorous was unexpectedly sharp and harsh.

Another reason for frowning is that the information revealed in the woman's words must completely obey her arrangement?

After the woman finished speaking, He Yue took up the duty of inquiry, and he asked politely: "Beautiful lady, do you know anything that needs attention in the castle?"

The woman didn't give him a good face because of the so-called praise. She clapped her hands lightly, and suddenly a group of servants in uniform black and white costumes appeared on the left and right sides of the hall, holding silver trays in their hands.

There were 15 players present, and 15 servants each walked to a player with a tray.

Shen Qingcheng took a look, there were upside-down masks in the tray, and all the servants looked numb, like stiff marionettes that only acted on the master's orders, no matter how the player asked, they didn't respond.

The woman stood on the stairs and watched them silently.

An impatient male player picked up the mask from the tray. The mask was red all over, except for a small white mark like a cat's paw print at the corner of the left eye.

"Mask? What's it for?" The male player looked over and over.

Seeing that nothing happened to the man, a curious female player also picked up the mask in front of her, "Ah, it's different." Her mask is just the opposite of the male player's. It's all white, with only a small red spot on the corner of the right eye. Feather imprint.

Two people in succession were safe after taking the mask, which gave confidence to the other players, they stretched out their hands one after another, Shen Qingcheng also opened the mask in front of him.

Everyone counted, and there are only two types of masks in total, Shen Qingcheng's is red with white cat's claws, and Lu Qi's is white with red feathers.

At this time, the woman who had been silent all this time said, "Very well, this is the mask that everyone will use at the dance in 7 days." A slightly excited smile appeared on her overly white face.