13 How to break the deadlock?

◎Blood spilled all over the ground◎

After the worship, everyone returned to the car and the subsequent procedures were no different from yesterday.

The bus turned left and right in the forest and arrived at the orchard a little later than yesterday. The players had their meals in two pavilions and were then arranged by Xiaoxiao to go to the orchard to pick fruit together.

Everything in the park is still the same: the sky is blue, the scenery is beautiful, the air is fresh, and the fruits are sweet. The only difference is the state of mind of each player.

For example, Zheng Miao. Qi Qiuxue had observed her. After the worship was over, she was silent all the way, and after getting back on the bus, she covered her face with her hands and cried quietly.

For example, Wang Shuo. Everyone's prejudice against him will not disappear with the passage of time. Too many people, even his former teammate Dong Peng, avoid him. At this moment, Wang Shuo looks extremely decadent, and even has a bad temper. Shen Wei and Zhang Xin tried to find him many times in the middle, but he drove them away sarcastically.

Another example is Geng Hao.

Qi Qiuxue glanced sideways. This might be the only person who was still feeling proud. In the morning, Geng Hao stood up to expose Wang Shuo's affairs, which aroused the admiration and resonance of many players. Since when, more and more people have been around him, and even a small group has been formed.

The way the dungeon selects players is extremely random. Appearance, personality, identity, background... there are huge differences between players. Some are used to being independent, while others want to form cliques. No matter what you choose, there is nothing wrong with it. But no matter what, you still have to be cautious.

——Don’t become someone else’s pawn without realizing it.

"Axue!" Li Yiqing was still thinking about what happened before. As soon as he entered the orchard, he started to get busy, selecting, smelling, and picking. In a short while, he had picked a full bag.

She returned to Qi Qiuxue and showed her the fruit in the bag, her beautiful eyes sparkling. "Look, Xue, I've picked all the best fruits from the nearby fruit trees. I'm saving them for you. If you want some, just ask me for them."

"What about me?" Liu Ge interrupted.

"You." Li Yiqing rummaged through the bag and took out the ugly peaches left over from this morning. "These are yours."

"?" Liu Ge was silent for a long while before he said, "Why do you hold a grudge like this?"

Li Yi gave her a blank look and said, "Who told you to call me a dog yesterday?"

Liu Ge was speechless: "I'm impressed by you."

Li Yiqing: "I..."

"Alright." Qi Qiuxue spoke at the right moment to mediate the conflict, trying to get the two of them to be quiet, "Just talk less."

"Those trees are ahead." She didn't specify what kind of trees they were, but the three of them knew exactly what they were. Li Yiqing and Liu Ge cooperated very well and kept their mouths shut, moving forward in silence.

Until the deepest part of the orchard.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but there seem to be more fruits on the tree than yesterday, densely packed, one after another.

Qi Qiuxue carefully observed the fruits on the tree, and after feeling that there was nothing else worth paying attention to, she shifted her gaze to the ground. Then, she discovered a detail.

The soil under a tree was obviously different from that in other places, as if it had just been loosened. It couldn't have been too long ago, probably not long ago.

What's buried inside? Is it Liu Dawei's body?

Qi Qiuxue's mind was racing as she walked forward, thinking, but the closer she got, the more she felt something was wrong.

The area of that piece of soil was too small, very small and shallow. Even if there was something buried there, it was definitely not a corpse. Liu Dawei was stronger than the average man, weighing at least 200 pounds. No matter how it was planned, even if it was cut into pieces, it would definitely not be able to fit in such a small area.

Qi Qiuxue was not a hesitant person, and she immediately decided to start digging, but at this moment, Xiaoxiao appeared again.

"It's time to gather." She said in a sinister tone, staring intently at Qi Qiuxue, as if she had done something extremely bad. "Don't stay here any longer."

She appeared so suddenly that even Li Yiqing and Liu Ge couldn't notice which direction she came from or when she came. It was as if she appeared out of thin air and arrived in front of the three of them inexplicably.

"I dropped something here." Qi Qiuxue lied without blushing or beating her heart.

"Really?" Perhaps because she had been tricked by him before, Xiaoxiao no longer fell for it. "What is it? I'll ask the villagers to find it for you later. I'll give it to you when I find it."

Qi Qiuxue met her gaze and said, "This is a very important item. I don't feel comfortable letting anyone else come."

Xiaoxiao laughed when she heard that. She stood with her back to the light, her face hidden in the sunlight. It wasn't clear, except for her eyes, which were piercing, fierce, and emitting a dangerous light. "We still have a lot of places to go. Everyone's time is so precious. We can't waste it just because of you."

"But I can be flexible. If you insist on staying, that's fine. But if anything happens afterwards, we won't be responsible."

In fact, the meaning of the words is very clear, from the initial expulsion to the current threat.

Qi Qiuxue was silent for a few seconds, and finally stood up: "No need."

She fumbled in her pockets again, and after a few seconds, she smiled and said, "I was careless just now and didn't check carefully. In fact, the things were with me the whole time."

"Let's go," she said, temporarily abandoning her search of the land.

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There were some trivial attractions behind them, and time passed quickly. When everyone turned back, it was already nine o'clock. Just as Qi Qiuxue expected, the time was another hour late.

It started raining heavily outside again. The hotel owner came back with an umbrella and called the masked man to bring food. By the time the meal started, it was already 9:17.

Liu Dawei's seat was empty, but the hotel owner didn't care. He continued to explain the origin of the meat to the empty seat: beef, special breeding methods, complex production process...

Qi Qiuxue suddenly realized that there was something she had been overlooking. In the past two days, the bus had taken everyone to too many places and they had seen too many things, whether it was fruits or scenery, but there was one thing she had never seen from beginning to end.

- Cows, in fact, not just cows, she had never even seen any other edible animals on this island, but the meat seemed to be able to reproduce indefinitely and appeared on the table on time every day.

She didn't want to think about what kind of meat it was.

After dinner, the hotel owner left slowly, and the marble clock on the wall rang again. It was eleven o'clock, and there were still two hours before the sacrifice began.

Qi Qiuxue originally wanted to take advantage of this time to try to go out and explore, but before she could do anything, someone did it before her.

He was a man with little presence. I couldn't even remember his name, Qi Qiuxue. I could only vaguely remember that he was not very mentally strong. It seemed that he was so scared that his eyes were wide open on the first night he arrived at the copy, and he sat there trembling with fear.

Qi Qiuxue didn't know why he went out, but just as he was about to step out of the hotel, a masked man suddenly appeared at the door and reached out to stop him.

"It's late," he said to the man in a hoarse voice, "It's not advisable to go out. Please go upstairs and get some rest as soon as possible."

"I left something outside!" The man shook his head, still unwilling to give up the idea of going out. He tried to plead with the masked man who stopped him, "That's the amulet my late mother left me. It's very, very important to me. I can't live without it. Please, let me go out and look for it!"

"No." The masked man shook his head inhumanely, his tone cold, "Go back and rest."

"You!" The man was extremely anxious, but he couldn't persuade the masked man in front of him no matter what, and finally had to return home with hatred.

"This dungeon is pretty terrible." Liu Ge, who had witnessed everything, whispered to Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing, "If we leave after one o'clock, we'll die. Before one o'clock, there are masked men blocking our way. We can't leave even if we want to. They're trying to trap us here."

"I don't know how to break the deadlock." She sighed and watched the man turn back silently, walking across the hall, intending to return to his room.

But in the next second, he was stopped by Geng Hao, and the two of them whispered something, but their voices were too soft for others to hear.

"Please go back and rest." The masked man at the door urged again, and everyone had to reluctantly move forward and return to their own rooms, and spent another night like this.

Soon, it was the third day. When they gathered, Qi Qiuxue didn't see the man again. Xiaoxiao didn't encourage everyone to go look for him this time. She even counted the number of people as if it was a normal thing and asked everyone to get on the bus together.

The car started moving again, turning left and right in the forest, and then a scream was heard in the car.

Qi Qiuxue followed the gazes of all the players and looked out the window, and found that there was blood spilled on the ground under a tree not far ahead.

【Author’s words】

Here we come!

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: Shi Yi 1;

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: 2 for Returning to My Heart; Spicy Rabbit, Huhutu, Internet Addict, Langli's Dog, Qiu Lang is Beautiful 1 fairy, and 1 for Qishang;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: Don't Want to Go to Work, The Secret of Reincarnation Crossed by the Red Line, and Live in Harmony with the World (5 bottles); Spicy Rabbit, Two Small (1 bottle);