Chapter 198
This multiple-choice question does not contain any hint of a death option, but different options will inevitably lead to different death results.
The system only gave each of them one minute to choose, and the three options could not be repeated.
Huasan was the most decisive of the three. After he made his choice, option B in front of the other two people suddenly dimmed, and Huasan's name appeared in front of the option.
Yitu didn't think too much about it. In fact, they all knew clearly that no matter which option they chose, there was a considerable risk of death.
However, compared with the guest room in option B and the woodshed in option C, apart from the currently known possible causes of death, the ear room in option A, where the situation is unknown, is likely to be safer.
So after Huashan chose the guest room, Yitu followed suit and chose the woodshed, leaving the ear room, which seemed safer, to Xu Heng.
After the three people made their choices, the darkness in front of their eyes slowly faded away. They were still standing in the dim lobby, their expressions looking a little dull.
But Old Chen skipped the questioning process, yawned and said to Yitu:
"It's getting late, go get some rest, little brother."
After saying that, he stood by the lobby door, waiting for Yi Tu to leave so that he could bolt the door.
After all, among the three of them, Xu Heng and Hua Shan both chose to live in the hall, and only Yi Tu lived in the yard.
Yitu hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Xu Heng and Huashan. They didn't communicate further, just glanced at each other briefly, and then Yitu walked out the door.
Old Chen, who was standing inside the door, smiled at him and said something in an ambiguous tone:
"Sweet dreams."
The next second, the hall door was closed and darkness swarmed in.
And at this moment, Yitu finally realized the terrifying aftermath emanating from the God-level card field.
All the fear in the world comes from the unknown and all that may happen, and the most fundamental reason is that one's own fighting power is not enough.
Even Yi Tu, who had experienced many supernatural card games, could not help but experience the panic of being a newcomer again when the props were restricted.
But the only benefit of having more experience is that it becomes easier to overcome negative emotions.
Yitu glanced around the yard with great vigilance. Although he couldn't see clearly in the dark, there was no female ghost near the well.
The fat old dog was still lying in the kennel, motionless and without making any sound.
But Yitu had a strange intuition that the dog was looking at him, staring at him intently.
Yitu suppressed the strange feeling in his heart. He was not stupid enough to go forward and observe the strangeness of the dog.
He just pushed open the door of the woodshed before anything weird happened.
The woodshed is on the right side of the kitchen, very close to the well in the yard.
As soon as he opened the door, a strong musty smell hit him in the face, but Yitu didn't care about it and groped in the dark to light the kerosene lamp.
There was a faint light in the woodshed, and Yitu used it to see the situation inside the house clearly.
Although it is called a woodshed, it is actually just a storage room for storing grain.
The tall rice piles took up most of the space, and next to the rice piles was a small wooden bed.
Yitu reached out and flipped through the old bedding on the bed. Not surprisingly, he choked on the dust. The whole room was filled with a lingering musty smell.
The only small window for ventilation in the woodshed was located quite high. Even though Yi Tu was 1.8 meters tall, he had to raise his hand to reach it.
In addition, on the walls on both sides of the window were hung farm tools, a straw hat for sun protection, and several strands of twisted but damp hemp rope.
There was also a black hooded raincoat hanging on the wall in the dim light, which undoubtedly added a bit of horror.
Yitu walked up to the raincoat and didn't smell any obvious rubber smell. The raincoat had been used for at least several years, but that wasn't obvious from the outside.
This raincoat is most likely Lao Chen's. After all, Lao Chen is the only male owner in this house, and the heavy work at home should be done by men.
But while guessing, Yitu had a doubt.
If Lao Chen is the owner of the raincoat, this is obviously inconsistent with the degree of wear and tear on the raincoat at this moment.
Yitu didn't think that a man who often had to do farm work and had a rough mind could keep his raincoat in such good condition.
Such a careful and frugal housekeeping style is very consistent with the behavior of a hostess.
Facts have proved that Yitu's judgment is correct.
Under the wooden bed, there was a small wooden bench and a pair of size 36 rain boots.
As the male owner, Mr. Chen works away from home all year round, so basically all the household affairs have to be done by the female owner herself.
However, a woman who only guards her house in such a remote village would live in extreme fear even if she did not suffer from bullying and cold words from her neighbors.
Especially since she has a young child and is busy with all the farm chores at home.
Although Old Chen said that his child died because a spark from the heater accidentally caught fire on the quilt, which led to the child's death.
It was the death of the child that led to the tragedy of the wife choosing to commit suicide by jumping into a well out of self-blame and guilt.
But these are just Lao Chen's one-sided words. No one knows whether he lied to the players or what the truth hidden in the strange house is.
Yitu didn't completely believe what Lao Chen said, especially after he told the ghost story to the players, Yitu became more and more confused.
You have to know that there is no necessary connection between that ghost story and what happened in this house.
Although they all take place in one family, the main components of the story are only four.
That is the host, the hostess, the stranger passing by, and the child who caused the tragedy.
The only difference is that in the ghost story, it was the male owner who died at the beginning, but in this house, it was the female owner and the child who died.
The ending of the ghost story is that everyone dies after learning the truth.
Then, as players who are also outsiders, will they end up with the same ending as the ghost story after learning the truth?
It is not difficult to figure out the connection between ghost stories and games. The problem lies in what message this ghost story wants to convey to them.
Yitu was not stupid enough to think that Lao Chen told this ghost story purely to scare them, or just to tell the players that they would die.
Apart from these similarities, there is one obvious difference between the ghost story and what Lao Chen experienced.
That is, ghosts clearly appear in ghost stories.
Of course, the ghost here does not refer to the husband's ghost, but the third child who no one noticed.
In the ghost story, the hostess tells the guests that she only has two children, but there is clearly a third child in the house.
If the third child who appeared inexplicably was not the ghost of the hostess's previous child who died, then there was only one possibility left that did not require any reason or explanation.
That child was the real evil spirit that caused the tragedy.
The appearance of evil spirits may be just an accident or coincidence, but the existence of evil spirits will inevitably lead to death.
So at the end of the story, everyone died that night.
As for which direction Lao Chen's story will take, no one knows, at least Yitu can't guess it now.
But out of fear of force majeure, he still didn't want to encounter the evil spirit.
First of all, there is no reason for the appearance of the evil ghost in the river, and the evil ghost kills people without any rules.
Secondly, if there really is such an evil ghost in their story, who would that person be?
You have to know that so far, the only NPC the three of them have met is Lao Chen.
In the ghost story, the two guests were unaware of what they saw, as they saw an evil ghost disguised as a child.
If they had the same experience as the guests in the ghost story, then the only person they could see who was an evil ghost was Lao Chen.
Old Chen, disguised as the male owner, is the evil ghost that they see but cannot recognize.
Yitu's conjectures are not reliable. Firstly, the time is too short and his analysis has no definite basis to stand up.
Secondly, there are still too many differences between ghost stories and Lao Chen’s stories.
For example, the ghosts in ghost stories have pale faces and never speak from beginning to end, but Lao Chen behaves like a normal human being.
Real ghosts have no presence, but Lao Chen is more like a guiding NPC. He gives players information and makes up the story itself.
Rather than saying that he is an evil ghost, it is more appropriate to say that his identity is more in line with the hostess who guides the strange guests.
Yitu no longer dwelled on the true message that the ghost story was trying to convey. After analyzing the story to this point, they just had to wait for the plot to progress a little bit and the truth would be revealed.
If nothing unexpected happens, the truth will only be one of them.
His only hope was that by that moment, it would not be too late to know everything.
There is a one-meter-high water tank next to the small window. I don’t know what it is used for, but it contains a lot of water, which is not very clean.
Yitu's intuition told him that there was a high probability that something bad would happen with the presence of this water tank.
However, if he wanted to move the water tank or pour out the water at this time, he would have to open the door.
You have to know that there is a strange-looking old dog tied up in the yard, and no one knows what will happen after the door is opened.
Yitu hasn't felt this kind of dilemma and frustration of being restricted everywhere for a long time.
In fact, there is not much difference in essence between the God-level field and the ordinary high-level card field, but the restrictions of the God-level field are higher than those of the high-level field.
Without the ability to use items an unlimited number of times, even the best players will just be mediocre.
Even though their experience makes them smarter and more flexible, it is all in vain in the face of truly irresistible fear.
Yitu took out the stool from under the bed and placed it under the small window. When he stepped on it, he could just see the scene in the yard.
The small window was right above the well, so Yitu could clearly see the dark opening of the well.
Yi Tu still didn't feel relieved when the imagined ghost didn't appear. He looked at the doghouse in the corner of the yard again.
The old dog, which was not small in size, had half of its body in the doghouse, but its upper body was still upright, its eyes staring straight at the window in front.
That was the guest room where Hua Umbrella Fu Hengyi was, and he seemed to be looking at something.
Its action was so strange that Yitu couldn't help but take a few more glances.
A question came to my mind. There were no animals in the ghost story, but Lao Chen had a dog at home.
If the two stories correspond to each other, then what role does the dog play in the ghost story?
Yitu was so focused on his thoughts that before he could come up with an answer, the dog suddenly turned its head.
Yitu was shocked and quickly got off the bench.
He leaned against the wall and took a deep breath, his mind full of the image of the dog looking at him just now.
Its upper body stands upright, its gaze is straight and straight like a human, and its mouth is short and round.
That's not a characteristic of a dog, it's more like... a human.
After a while, Yitu's breathing gradually calmed down. Just as he was about to walk to the bed, the kerosene lamp in the room went out.
All this happened so suddenly that Yitu's eyes went dark.
He didn't even dare to move his body. He supported himself on the wall with his hands and felt the damp and rough touch of the hemp rope.
At this moment, a ticking sound suddenly broke the silence.
That was the sound of water droplets dripping into the water tank, ringing so clearly in my ears.
In the darkness, Yitu's pupils suddenly contracted, and his gaze temporarily fell on the small wooden bed, unable to move away.
The ticking sound beside his ears became faster and faster, more and more frequent and urgent, as if trying to attract Yitu's attention.
At the same time, there was a knock on the woodshed door.
"Knock, knock, knock."
The knock on the door was not loud, just the simplest three times, and after three knocks everything returned to calm.
It's that dog!
Yitu had an extremely certain answer in his mind without even thinking about it.
Just as he was about to pull the bolt chain on the woodshed door, several rows of scarlet words suddenly appeared before his eyes.
[Tonight you are sleeping in a small, musty woodshed and you have been suffering from insomnia because you are not used to it. Just as you were counting boringly and trying to fall asleep, a strange dripping sound suddenly came from the water tank in the room.
At the same time, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the woodshed. You were extremely frightened and decided:
A. It is very likely that the host wants to see you and decides to open the door.
B. You are not sure who is outside the door, but you can take a look through the small window before deciding whether to open the door.
C. Pretend to be asleep and ignore it.
[Friendly reminder: Choosing the wrong option will result in your death! Your remaining number of resurrection cards is: 3]
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