The glaring red countdown has been moved to the wall, and below it there is an old clock, which currently points to 4 p.m. A warm sunset shines into the room through the window, leaving mottled warm light and shadows.

Zhuang Yan pursed his lips and said, "This background introduction is too simple and crude."

Hongmei chimed in: "The hint of 'invisible family' is also very abstract."

"Perhaps you can understand it this way," Yue Ya said, "Everything related to 'family' could be a clue."

"Family..." Zhuang Yan looked at Hongmei and Laoliu, then at Yunyu and the little Yueya standing beside him, and suddenly said, "Don't you think that when we stand together, we look like a family of five?"

"How are they similar?" Hongmei raised her eyebrows.

Zhuang Yan pointed at Yue Ya and said to Hong Mei: "This is a little boy. Yun Yu and I are his parents, and you and Lao Liu are..."

"Stop it," Hongmei frowned, "We are not old enough to be grandparents."

Zhuang Yan was just joking, but Yue Ya and Yun Yu became serious.

Yueya: "Is it just a coincidence?"

"If it's not a coincidence, but it's intentional to make us correspond to this family of five..." Yun Yu's words stopped abruptly, because her voice turned out to be old and hoarse!

"Yunyu, your face!" Zhuang Yan was shocked when he opened his mouth. He nervously touched his face. The skin under his hands was loose and wrinkled. The feel was completely different from the original youthful and tight skin. "Am I getting old too?"

The welfare copy did not have a live broadcast room, so they could not see their faces at the first time. But Zhuang Yan and Yun Yu saw each other's old faces, not only in appearance, but they all turned into the state of being in their sixties.

"Ah, my youth is gone, will I still be handsome when I'm old..." Zhuang Yan wanted to find a mirror to look at his face, and his eyes caught sight of Yue Ya, and he suddenly paused: "Boss Yue, have you grown taller?"

Yue Ya stretched out his hand and took a look. He was indeed not as childish as before. He had also grown a lot taller and looked like a boy of seven or eight years old.

Before, Yue Ya might have thought that the curse had been lifted, but now it seems that the copy is making their state closer to the original family of five.

Zhuang Yan: "So Xiao Ming is a boy of seven or eight years old?"

Yue Ya shook her head: "Xiao Ming's handwriting doesn't look like that of a seven or eight year old child. It should be the curse on me that is resisting the power of the copy, so I can only grow to that size."

Hongmei took out a mirror at some point and touched the corners of her eyes with melancholy: "I'm getting old too, and I even have crow's feet."

"Sister, let me take a look too." Yun Yu took the mirror from Hong Mei and looked at her old self. She was not very satisfied: "It's obvious that I haven't taken good care of myself."

"Let me see it too!" Zhuang Yan took the mirror away and blinked at it: "Oh, I've become an old handsome guy. I'm sure I'll be very popular if I go to square dance."

Yue Ya: “…”

This copy might as well be called "The Conceited Family".

Yue Ya patted Zhuang Yan's arm and said, "Old handsome man, your guess is right. We have really become a 'family'."

"I just said it casually. I didn't think of this level, nor did I think that I was the 'grandfather'," Zhuang Yan blinked innocently: "My dear grandson, call me grandpa."

Yue Ya narrowed his eyes: "What did you say?"

"I'm so old now, please fulfill my wish..." Zhuang Yan felt the invisible murderous aura and immediately changed his words: "It's okay for me to call you grandpa!"

Yun Yu: "Can you be more cowardly?"

Zhuang Yan: "Life is more important than face. Being a human being means being able to bend and stretch."

Hongmei smiled and shook her head: "Even after it has become like this, you are still in the mood to joke around. You have a really good attitude."

Zhuang Yan said seriously: "As a human being, you need to be open-minded."

Yueya remembered something and looked at Hongmei: "What is the structure outside the door?"

"It's not dangerous, but..." Hongmei didn't know how to describe it: "You should go and see for yourself."

Yueya nodded and walked towards the door.

Zhuang Yan walked in front of him and helped him open the door.

There was only a small flight of stairs outside the door, and the stairs going up and down were covered in white fog. There should be another house opposite, and the door was also buried in the white fog, giving people a feeling that they would fall into the abyss if they were not careful.

Compared with the outside, the house shrouded in sunset looks more like a dream that could be shattered at any time.

Zhuang Yan: "I always feel that there may be something hidden in this white fog. How about we go back first?"

"good."

Yue Ya went back into the house and looked at it again. There were four rooms in total, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a balcony, but the balcony door was locked, and looking out could only see the sunset.

Hongmei: "We need to start investigating as soon as possible."

Suddenly a gust of wind blew in the room, and a piece of paper appeared out of nowhere and stuck to Yueya.

Yueya picked up the note stuck on her clothes and saw that it said: You are not at home.

The next second, he heard Zhuang Yan's surprised voice: "Where's Yueya!"

Yun Yu immediately raised her head, and when her eyes swept over Yue Ya, they were not focused, as if she didn't see him at all: "Yue Ya was here just now, how come he suddenly disappeared?"

Zhuang Yan gritted his teeth and said, "It disappeared suddenly. This house is too weird. Yue Ya might have accidentally triggered some taboo. Let's split up and look for it."

They can't see me? Yue Ya frowned and waved his hand: "I'm here."

Zhuang Yan and Yun Yu immediately responded: "Where is it?"

"Fortunately, I can hear the sound. Let's see if I can touch it first." Yue Ya walked to Zhuang Yan and held his arm: "There is no problem with the touch."

Zhuang Yan was caught off guard and shuddered. He reacted: "Yue Ya, you are in front of me?"

"Yeah." Yueya let go of his hand and said calmly: "The note that was blown onto me said 'You're not home', and then you couldn't see me anymore."

Another gust of cold wind blew, and strange notes were also stuck on the bodies of other people.

Zhuang Yan read the contents of the note: "You sit on the sofa and watch TV."

Yun Yu: "What a coincidence, my note also says this."

Zhuang Yan took a breath and said, "Hiss, who is pushing me, Yue Ya, is it you?!"

Yue Ya shook her head, and then thought that Zhuang Yan couldn't see her, so she had to answer out loud: "It's not me."

Zhuang Yan broke out in a cold sweat: "Damn, a ghost came out in broad daylight?"

Yun Yu's face turned pale, and he raised his hand to grab behind him: "Who's behind me!"

There was nothing in the living room except the players, but Zhuang Yan and Yun Yu both felt someone was pushing them. The force was so strong that they were quickly pushed onto the sofa.

Then, the TV screen in the living room lit up, playing an unknown TV series.

The same thing happened to Hongmei and Laoliu. One of them was taken to the kitchen by an invisible force, and the other was taken to the study.

When it reached the location specified on the note, the force disappeared and the room became quiet again.

This was the first time Zhuang Yan encountered this kind of copy, and his palms felt a little cold: "What's going on? Yue Ya, are you still here?"

"I'm near you."

Perhaps the juice of the Wind Spirit Flower can allow them to see him, but the Wind Spirit Flower is very precious and cannot be cultivated without blood. One less flower is used, and Yue Ya doesn't want to waste it.

"We correspond to Xiao Ming's family. Judging from the current situation, the 'people' hiding in the dark want us to restore what happened here." Yueya paced slowly: "Grandpa and grandma are sitting on the sofa watching TV, Dad is working in the study, Mom is busy in the kitchen, and the 'Xiao Ming' I correspond to is not at home.

"It was mentioned in the background that 'one day Xiao Ming's happiness was ruined'. The weirdness of this house must be related to what happened on that day. Maybe what we are restoring is what happened on that day."

"It's very likely," Zhuang Yan looked at the TV screen and stood up: "Grandpa, I've already watched TV, so I should be able to leave the sofa now."

Zhuang Yan walked away from the sofa and took two steps. He breathed a sigh of relief as he did not encounter any danger. "Yunyu, you should get up too. I don't know what material this sofa is made of. It feels really uncomfortable."

Yun Yu nodded: "It smells like blood."

"Let's discuss this first..." Hongmei said as she walked out of the kitchen. Suddenly, she lost her voice. She put her hand to her neck, as if she was trying to break something. What was even more terrifying was that her face turned the color of liver, as if someone was pinching her neck!

Yueya guessed what happened immediately: "Go back to the kitchen!"

Hongmei opened her mouth wide and could only utter some fragmented moans. It was seen that she tried to go back to the kitchen, but she only moved a little before falling to the ground in even more pain.

"A Mei!" Lao Liu was so anxious that he wanted to rush over.

"You stay where you are, I'll take care of it!" Yueya's puppet appeared beside Hongmei and pushed her back to the kitchen. In a short time, several exaggerated palm prints appeared on the bodies of the two puppets, squeezing their abdomens out of shape.

The puppets had no sense of pain, so Yue Ya recalled them and repaired their bodies.

As an "invisible man", Yue Ya has privileges that other players don't have. He walked to the kitchen door and threw a blood-recovering medicine to Hong Mei: "What does your note say?"

Hongmei recovered a little. She sat up and touched her neck, gasping in pain. She couldn't see Yueya, so she blinked: "Yueya? Are you in front of me?"

"Um."

"The note is gone," said Red Rose. "It said 'You are cooking in the kitchen.'"

Yueya thought for a moment and said, "You can leave the kitchen only after you finish cooking, otherwise you will be punished."

"I was careless," Hongmei threw something into the living room, "Thank you, luckily you reacted quickly. I'll give you this item as a reward for the blood-recovery potion you gave me just now."

Yueya picked up the bottle on the ground. It was an advanced item that was much better than the blood recovery potion. It was called Disguise Potions. After using it, one could transform into anyone and the effect lasted for 10 minutes.

Yueya: "I accepted it. What did you want to discuss?"

Hongmei smiled and said, "There are many good things in the welfare book. Whoever finds it will own it. But the thing you are looking for, even if I find it, I can give it to you unconditionally. I will just cook a meal first, and then investigate the kitchen here. How about I leave the living room to you?"

"good."

When she returned to the sofa, Yue Ya heard Zhuang Yan muttering, "Luckily I just glanced at the TV before leaving the sofa. This copy is too brutal, and I can't even tell if it's a ghost or something else that's attacking."

Yue Ya said calmly: "Let's start investigating."

Zhuang Yan suddenly heard Yue Ya's voice, and the hair on his hands stood up: "Boss Yue?"

Seeing that he was frightened, Yue Ya asked Fei Fei, who was in the player's backpack, to come out and lie on his head: "Wherever Fei Fei is, I will be there."

Zhuang Yan gave a thumbs up: "This is much better."

Where should I start the investigation... Yue Ya thought that the oil painting itself should reveal some information. He tried to take on the perspective of "painting" and look forward.

He saw a sofa, clothes rack and a wall of photos. The photos with blurry faces suddenly became clear, but the people in them were clearly players!