Chapter 243
There were no words on the stone tablet. Yitu raised his hand and touched it, then sighed.
The red words on the stone tablet emerged, but the answer was still missing.
I have been walking, just to seek the truth of the world, but I have found nothing.
Until I came here, it was death that gave the answer
It turns out that I have never escaped the clutches of fate, and what has bound me has always been
Time. Yitu filled in the answer in his mind.
At the same time, an irresistible force grabbed his body and dragged him into the stone tablet.
When he opened his eyes again, Yitu saw the crystal chandelier above his head, which was so familiar that it made him feel dazed.
There was a time when he was held in Jiang Hanyu's arms. After he sat down at an incredible depth, when he looked up and lost consciousness, there was this crystal chandelier above his head.
Is this...his room?
Yitu quickly sat up from the bed. The familiar furniture and environment gave him a strong illusion.
Until he saw the red card on the table, a Queen of Hearts.
Turning over the back, there was a line of small black words written on it.
[Don't leave here, they will die tonight]
Yitu couldn't help but frown. Who were they referring to?
Are there other players who have entered the Trial of God and are in the same scene as him?
Yitu went downstairs with a lot of doubts in his mind. When he saw his parents sitting in the living room drinking tea and watching TV, the ominous premonition in his heart finally came true.
This is his home, and there is no way other players would appear in his home.
So the “they” on the card refer to Yi Tu’s parents.
"Xiao Tu is finally awake?" Yi's mother looked up at her son and pointed towards the kitchen with a smile:
"Hurry up and wash up and have breakfast. Don't let your stomach get hungry."
Yitu nodded belatedly, and walked towards the bathroom while secretly looking at his parents not far away.
Yi's mother was watching a family ethics drama, while Yi's father handed the brewed tea to his wife, and the two chatted about the TV series.
During this period, Yi's father even took the time to look at his son.
I saw him brushing his teeth while looking towards the living room with a serious look on his face, and I didn't know what he was looking at.
Father Yi found it a little funny, and turned around and said to Mother Yi:
"Has that brat fallen in love lately? He's got a sullen face this early in the morning. Could he be so useless as to get dumped?"
Yi's mother wouldn't believe it and slapped him angrily:
"Go away! Xiaotu is so focused on studying, studying so late every night, can't you see it?"
"Besides, my son is so handsome, why should I worry that he won't be able to find a wife in the future?"
Yitu: “…”
Yitu turned away with mixed feelings, pretending he heard nothing.
If he hadn't clearly known that he was in an Easter egg game, he would have thought that time had gone back to the year he was in school.
The data simulated by the game was so realistic, it was as if his biological parents were sitting there, and there wasn't a single flaw to be found.
Yitu walked around his house several times but found nothing.
He is extremely familiar with every piece of furniture and every room here.
The environment he grew up in, even the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the backyard, still has the words he carved when he was a naughty child.
Yitu clearly realized that the world he used to live in had been completely replicated.
It's very likely that the game copied his memories without him realizing it.
In other words, he was trapped in the node of memory and could only passively wait for danger to appear.
Yitu was a little annoyed. He didn't even know what the purpose of this game was.
He took the keys and decided to go out for a walk. Yi's mother was a little surprised, thinking that her son was a little strange today and didn't even study.
Yitu didn't want to explain much, just said that he would be back soon.
After leaving home, walk straight ahead along Xiangyang Road and you will soon pass by the primary school he once attended.
Continue walking forward and you will reach People's Square and Lixue Library.
The scene passed by little by little, and Yitu could not find any flaws.
Even if you meet classmates or neighbors on the street, a simple chat with them is the most normal greeting.
The whole world is normal, the only abnormal person is Yi Tu who has fallen into mental disorder.
He wandered outside until the evening, and then returned home exhausted both physically and mentally.
Yi's mother had already prepared dinner and asked him at the dinner table what he had done today. Yi Tu's answer was very perfunctory.
Something was wrong. Yi's mother and father exchanged glances and both of them shut up in tacit understanding.
After dinner, Yitu returned to the room. The cards on the table could not be removed, as if they were fixed with glue.
All his skill cards and even the game control panel disappeared.
It was as if he had really returned to the real world, and this was the real reason why Yi Tu felt scared.
The cards on the table didn't reveal anything else, so Yitu stayed quietly in his room until night fell.
The lights in the room were turned off. Yitu sat on the bed, waiting quietly, like a lonely statue, his nerves tense.
He heard Yi's father getting up and going to the kitchen to drink water as usual. The time was 10:15, which was indeed Yi's father's habit.
Not long after this, Yi's mother would get up to go to the toilet.
As they get older, the amount of sleep they get becomes shorter, especially for Yi's father, whose lungs are not in good condition. He has to get up several times a night to clear phlegm and drink water.
Yitu has long been accustomed to this; he just doesn't know when an accident will occur.
Yi Tu kept his eyes open, missing Jiang Hanyu very much on such a night. He heard the sound of Yi's father getting up again, and subconsciously glanced at the time.
One thirty-two.
Just then, the doorbell rang suddenly in the middle of the night, instantly making him break out in a cold sweat.
Without any hesitation, Yitu picked up the fruit knife hidden under the pillow and immediately went out and downstairs.
"Who is it? It's late at night." Yi's father shouted outside the door, but did not rush to open it.
The person outside did not respond, but just rang the doorbell more frequently, which made Yi's father, who had his hand on the door handle, feel strange.
Yitu rushed down and immediately shouted:
"Dad, don't open the door!"
Yi's mother heard the noise and stood up:
"Yongyi, what's going on? Who's knocking on our door?"
Father Yi shook his head and withdrew his hand, not really afraid:
"Maybe he was a drunkard who got to the wrong house."
Yi's mother also thought so. "Then don't worry about it. It's too unsafe at night."
After Yi's mother finished speaking, she was about to let her son go back to his room to sleep, but suddenly she caught a glimpse of the fruit knife in her son's hand and was stunned.
"Xiaotu, what are you doing?"
Yitu stood there without saying a word, with no extra expression on his face, just staring at the door.
His reaction frightened Yi's mother, and she quickly comforted him:
"It's okay, baby. Are you too tired recently? The people outside will leave soon. Don't be afraid."
Yitu looked at his mother in front of him, feeling a little reluctant. He shook his head:
"Mom, you and Dad go back to your room first..."
Before he could finish his words, the person outside stopped ringing the doorbell and started banging and hitting the door.
This made Yi's father very angry, and he didn't care about being polite even through the door:
"Who the hell are you? You're disturbing people here in the middle of the night for no reason. I'm going to call the police!"
With this roar, the sound outside the door suddenly disappeared, and the surroundings fell into an eerie silence.
Yi's father thought his warning had worked, and his expression relaxed a little.
Suddenly, there was a sound of keys being inserted outside the door, and then something creepy happened.
After the door handle was turned, a dark gap was opened from the outside with a "creak".
But it was too late for Yitu to close the door. He saw the figure outside the door almost disappearing into the darkness, and felt a chill on his back.
Yitu turned on all the lights in the living room, and the dazzling light illuminated the strange man outside the door.
He was undoubtedly a very strong adult male, his naked upper body covered with wounds stitched with needle and thread, his head tightly wrapped in a sack, and a red rope as thick as a finger tightly wrapped around his neck.
In his right hand, he held a half-meter-long machete, and blood was dripping from the blade onto the floor, which was extremely horrifying.
Yi's father and mother were so frightened by the scene that they were stunned and had no time to react.
"run!"
Yitu pushed his parents without thinking, trying his best to change the outcome already determined on the card.
However, all these were undoubtedly in vain. After the fruit knife in his hand stabbed into the man's aorta again, there was no bleeding and the weirdo was not even affected at all.
Yitu knew that they would all die.
The next second, the screams of two old people were heard in the house.
The fishy smell filled his nostrils. Yitu gritted his teeth, and there was a blur of red in front of his eyes.
He didn't understand, and he wouldn't accept it. This was the ending that he and Jiang Hanyu had to face.
When the last ray of light disappeared, Yitu fell into deep darkness.
He never thought that he would wake up again. When Yi Tu sat up in bed with shock and saw the scene around him clearly, he was in a trance for a moment.
That's right, he was back to where he started.
Same room, same time, same card on the table.
[Don't leave here, they will die tonight]
Yitu stood barefoot in front of the table, staring at the short sentence for a long time.
Obviously, this is an infinite loop of horror game.
He didn't get much useful information on the first day, and even felt confused and helpless about what would happen next.
Now that he knew what would happen next, Yi Tu gradually had some ideas in his mind.
It is impossible to determine the specific conditions for achieving clearance, so Yitu can only speculate as much as possible.
There are only four important characters in this game: him, Yi's father, Yi's mother, and the murderer who caused the death.
Even the scene where the story takes place is fixed, that is, his home.
According to common sense, in a horror game with an infinite loop, you can exit the game by simply changing the plot's final death ending.
If nothing goes wrong, this game also has similar clearance conditions.
However, Yi Tu was not sure how to change the ending of the game and ensure that Yi's father and mother would not die.
Because he didn't know where the difficulty level of this game was.
After understanding the background of the game, Yi Tu felt more at ease than at the beginning. He went downstairs as usual and greeted his parents with a normal expression.
Nothing around me has changed, except for the calendar hanging on the wall in the corner of the living room.
On that simple calendar without any complicated patterns or designs, someone had drawn a big cross on one of the dates with a red marker.
The date crossed out was September 24th.
Yitu stood there with a frown, thinking for a long time. He had no impression of this suddenly appearing calendar.
But when I think about it carefully, I feel that it does exist here.
For a moment, he couldn't figure out whether he remembered it wrongly or the game modified his cognition.
Yitu didn't continue to dwell on it. Obviously, the appearance of this thing was a reminder and a warning. The so-called infinite loop did not really have no limit on the number of times it could occur.
Yitu flipped through the calendar. Except for the September page, the rest of the pages were blank and had no numbers.
In other words, excluding the day on the 24th, he still has six chances to change the ending.
Once the number of times is used up, he will stay here forever.
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