Chapter 4
The night was unexpectedly peaceful. When Yitu woke up in the morning, everyone was sitting at the table downstairs, without a single person missing.
Fu Xue smiled and invited them to come over for breakfast. Aniu beside her had already finished several steamed buns.
Yi Tu sat opposite Lin Fei. He held a bowl of porridge and watched A Niu eat half a steamed bun in one bite. He wanted to say something but was afraid of being beaten, so his face was twisted.
"Nothing happened last night, everyone?" Zhao Haichuan asked first.
"No, Mengmeng and I didn't dare leave the room," said Huang Tianfang.
"Us too." Duan Zixi echoed.
On the first night at the card room, everyone was very cautious. Without understanding the rules of the game, they could easily get themselves into trouble.
Zhang Queshan, who was sitting next to Yitu, drank his porridge while habitually taking out the game cards to check the information.
"Tsk, there are quite a lot of card room owners coming in this time."
Yitu then remembered that the six hours since Judith reminded him that the card room owner should enter the viewing area had passed.
He took out his game cards and took a look. At this time, the game panel on the card changed.
[3 of Hearts Card Game - Village Festival:
No.: 239560
Card game difficulty: low
Number of players: 11
Number of players entered: 11
This card game will last for 3 days (the countdown has been started)
Bonus points for this card game: 16500/9 (currently 9 players are alive)
Player ranking for this card game: 7 (will be refreshed in 2 hours)
This card game requires you to complete the following tasks: Participate in the village festival (0/1)
Props available in this card game: (?/?)
Status of the escape door in this card game: Not refreshed (80% of the plot of the card game is completed, and the refresh status is changed)
Servant's assessment of player survival rate: 32%]
Yitu was surprised to find that the survival rate Judith had assessed for him had dropped again.
And at the bottom of these raw data, there is a new line of prompts.
[Tickets for this game are now open, please click to view details]
Yitu clicked lightly, and the Queen of Hearts' prompt appeared first.
Judith:
Dear master, what will be opened for you next is the interactive and win-win area for players inside and outside the card field.
The owner of the card room whose level is not less than that of this card room can pay JR points to enter the game viewing area and obtain a recommendation ticket.
The card room owner can use his recommendation vote to vote for any surviving player in the card room before the voting deadline to change his ranking.
When a player successfully passes a level, he or she will vote for the owner of the card room according to his or her game ranking and receive benefits in proportion.
If the player dies, the owner's benefit for voting for him will be 0.
Therefore, the casino owner will be more optimistic about the players who perform well and will directly buy them away.
(Note: When a player clears all the suits of a certain level of card games, he will be promoted to the owner of that level of card games)
[Next, you will see the card room ticket auction panel and the card room owner interaction area...]
The number of owners entering the viewing area: 369 (number continues to rise)
Total number of recommended votes cast: 34
Yiqijuechen reports: Your opponent Duan Zixi was the first to obtain 23 recommendation votes, and was deeply recognized by most card field owners!
Slightly better report: Your opponents Fu Xue and Aniu received 6 recommendation votes, and are undoubtedly potential stocks in the eyes of the card room owner!
Small achievement report: Your opponent Zhao Haichuan received 5 recommendation votes and is following closely behind!
.....
You have achieved nothing. Announcement: Sorry! You have not received any support from any casino owners at the moment. Please keep up the good work.
Yi Tu took a rough look and found that except for the top three players on the list who received the recommendation votes from the card room owner, the others all received 0 votes like him.
It is a gambler's game after all. Although it is covered with the terrifying shell of real people, its essence is still a guessing game.
The interactive area for card room owners is much more interesting. Card room owners who enter the card room to watch the game can speak freely in this area, except that they cannot canvass for votes blatantly.
Since the game has just begun, their focus is on the players' appearance and ranking.
I scrolled through the pictures and felt a little weird.
[Anonymous Player 6: Brothers, the old rules, 11111111, the system review is always awesome!
Anonymous Player 9: Bet 1, bet 1, guaranteed profit
Anonymous Player 10: There are actually couples in this numbered card room. The girls are really pretty.
Anonymous Player 23: Fair skin, beautiful face, long legs! Love it, I voted, I hope I don’t lose money
Anonymous Player 34: Don't vote for couples, they're always a pitfall! I've been pitted so many times, really.
Anonymous player: 57: Has anyone played at this card game, number 239560? The content is so unfamiliar.
Anonymous Player 90: Are you new here, brother? System warning: If you continue discussing anything related to the poker scene, you'll be locked up in the black room.
Anonymous Player 57: Oh, sorry, I just became the owner~ And I'm not a brother! I'm a girl~
Anonymous Player 90: Girls? Sister is a perfect match, brother is so strong! Lots of points!
Anonymous Player 57: No, no, I’m obsessed with looks. I like handsome guys like Player 7 (shy.jpg)
Anonymous Player 102: Newbies die quickly in the poker world. They are totally worthless.
Anonymous player 103: But speaking of which, this newcomer No. 7 is indeed good-looking. He probably hasn't used a face simulator.
Anonymous player 128: The face simulator costs 30,000 to 40,000 points, so newcomers probably can’t afford it. But it would be a pity to see such a good-looking person die.
Anonymous Player 231: No doubt, he will die miserably.
Anonymous Player 229: The first and third ranked ones seem to be from a top 500 team...
Anonymous Player 78: Is this true? If you bet on one, you will definitely be safe, or you can bet on three and get more dividends in proportion.
......】
Although the comments were jumping quickly, Yitu still noticed the comment about the team.
The first and third place are from a top 500 team...and these two people are Duan Zixi and Zhao Haichuan.
Yitu subconsciously glanced at the others, wondering if anyone had noticed this comment.
"The number of people is still increasing." Fu Xue's eyes moved back and forth among the others, "Maybe some people brought their own audience."
"It's already July. Before the August team competition begins, many teams are recruiting people everywhere." Zhao Haichuan raised his glasses and said calmly:
"They always like to pick up obedient and capable newbies in low-level card games. Isn't that normal?"
"You're right."
Fu Xue thought for a moment, said nothing more, lowered his head and drank the porridge slowly.
Lin Fei was confused as he listened: "Team? What team competition?"
"You'll know later." Zhao Haichuan was too lazy to explain and dismissed him with just one sentence.
They are all newcomers to the card game. Whether they can get out alive is another matter. No matter how much they know, it will be useless.
Lin Fei rolled his eyes on the spot, looking down on who?
Yitu didn't say a word the whole time. It wasn't because he wasn't interested in understanding, but his current precarious ranking made him temporarily unable to think of anything else.
When everyone had almost finished eating, the village chief came in from outside. He took off his thin windproof coat and hung it aside:
"It's such a nice day today, could you guys do me a favor?"
Although it was a request, the village chief did not give the player any chance to refuse. He continued:
"The stone tablet in the temple is broken. Tomorrow is the village festival, and we must make a new one before the festival."
"Could you please go to the hill behind the village and carry down a stone tablet for me? There should be extra stone there."
After saying these words, the village chief left in a hurry, and they had no time to ask more questions.
"Could this temple stele be related to the house number?" Huang Tianfang pondered.
"It's possible."
"Let's go. Since the card game has given a hint, let's do as it says." Fu Xue waved her hand.
Lin Fei, who had been holding back his words, immediately became furious when he heard that he really had to go up the mountain to carry the stone tablet.
"Are you mentally ill? You just carry it when he tells you to? Is that stone tablet something a person can carry? Anyway, I won't carry it, so you have to carry it!"
Ah Niu sneered, "We never counted on you."
Lin Fei was not annoyed, "Okay, okay, this is what you said."
"Are you still going to leave?" Zhang Queshan turned around impatiently and urged.
Seeing that he was the only one left behind in the team, Lin Fei rushed forward. He didn't dare to stay alone in this ghost place.
There is a small path leading to the mountain behind Mengjia Village. Yitu pushed aside the messy weeds and found that the path was almost covered by weeds.
He looked up. The top of the mountain was flat and didn't look far away, but it was still some distance to climb.
"Why are there stones on the mountain?" Yitu suddenly thought of this.
"I don't know." Zhao Haichuan shook his head.
Many things in the card game are unpredictable at first, and only when death occurs will they know the rules of the game.
Several people walked up quietly, no one spoke, and the atmosphere became a little tense. Everyone had to be highly vigilant.
The higher we went, the sparser the trees on the mountain became, as many of them had been cut down by the villagers.
When the first mound of earth covered with weeds appeared in front of everyone, they finally understood why the trees were cut down.
"This is a mountain of graves." Yitu's expression was complicated.
In front of each mound of earth stands a tombstone with the name and age of the deceased written on it.
The reason why the village chief asked them to go up the mountain was probably because there were extra empty tombstones here.
"Damn, is that old man sick?" Lin Fei said speechlessly: "Using the tombstone of a dead person to make a temple stele? This is immoral."
Especially with such a large graveyard, the stone tablets being carried down will have even heavier negative energy. I wonder if anything bad will happen next.
The higher they went, the more mounds there were. At first glance, the mountain looked like the back of a leper, with dense bulges that looked a bit creepy.
Fortunately, they climbed the mountain in the morning and the sun was shining brightly. There was no gloomy atmosphere like at night, so everyone was not so scared.
"How strange." Duan Zixi whispered, "Did so many people die in their village?"
"A lot of people died when the boat capsized thirteen years ago," Yitu continued. "There must be many empty graves here, so there are stone tablets in front of them."
“And some of them are wooden tablets.”
Zhao Haichuan followed his gaze and saw that there were indeed quite a few wooden tablets inside, and the grave mounds with wooden tablets were much larger than those with stone tablets.
While a few people here were talking seriously, Lin Fei was dragging a high school girl around. There was no one else there who could be bullied by him.
"We are not here to look for the tombstone, we are here to visit the graves of these dead ghosts." Lin Fei couldn't control his mouth again, and kept talking nonsense.
"Hey, have you ever heard of the story about a young widow visiting a grave? I'll show you two parts!"
Lin Fei chuckled and hummed a tune:
"In the first month of the lunar year, every house has red lanterns hanging in front of their doors, but the little widow has no lanterns hanging in front of her door~"
"So sad~ I can only cry for my loved ones in front of the coffin, damn~"
"Stop singing!" Zhao Haichuan got angry for the first time, "Are you crazy? Do you think you're lucky?"
In the card room, if you accidentally say the wrong thing, someone could die. Moreover, this is a situation that people have to be cautious about in real life, but Lin Fei dared to be so presumptuous.
Yitu also felt that this guy was going a little too far.
Seeing that everyone's expressions had turned cold, Lin Fei shrank his neck awkwardly:
"I, I won't sing. Why are you so scared? There won't really be any ghosts..."
"You don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is." Fu Xue frowned and glanced at him, "Hurry up and find the stone tablet. This mountain is not safe."
The few of them continued walking up the mountain. When they reached the top of the mountain, they found that there were so many mounds that it was a bit scary. Yitu looked at the tombstones standing in front of the graves. Many of them only had surnames written on them, and some didn't even have surnames written on them.
What was erected was an empty monument.
For a moment they didn't know whether to take the deceased's empty tombstone or look for something else.
"It's better not to take things from the deceased. It might be a taboo." Huang Tianfang shook her head.
Maybe when they pull out the stone tablet, it will trigger some horrible things.
The others thought the same thing, so they could only disperse and look around, praying that they would not be allowed to touch the empty tombstone.
Otherwise, if someone were to resurrect a corpse on a mountain full of graves, they would have no way to escape.
"If you really can't find it, just use an empty tombstone. They're all stone tombstones anyway, and the old man doesn't know about it."
Lin Fei picked up a small wooden stick from somewhere and fiddled with the tangled weeds. He looked at Ruan Mengmeng, who was also unable to help, and suddenly lowered his voice and said:
"Let them find it. It's best if we don't do anything."
Ruan Mengmeng looked embarrassed, "This, this is not good..."
"What's wrong with that? Haven't you heard what the old people in your family said before?" Lin Fei glanced at the others and whispered:
"A graveyard like this is most likely to be haunted!"
If you see a green-headed rooster on a grave, there might be a bloody disaster. He said it with certainty, but Ruan Mengmeng was not easy to fool and she didn't believe it.
Lin Fei was a little disappointed and instantly lost interest in teasing her.
The conversation between the two was overheard by Huang Tianfang who came back to look for Ruan Mengmeng. She frowned and warned Lin Fei not to talk nonsense, but the guy shrugged his shoulders as if nothing had happened.
Anyway, I have a thick skin, so it doesn't matter if others scold me.
Huang Tianfang was so angry with him that it would be a waste of words to say anything more. Soon, there was a noise coming from the east side of the forest.
"Found it."
Yitu turned around and shouted, and everyone heard it and ran over quickly.
The stone tablet he found had been abandoned in the small woods in the east. It was a heavy piece without any inscriptions and still had the fishy smell of mud on it.
After discussing it, they decided that the stronger men would take turns carrying the child down the mountain.
Yitu and Zhao Haichuan carefully lifted the stone tablet and placed it on Aniu's back. The heavy stone pressed down Aniu's strong waist a little.
"Is it okay?" Fu Xue asked with concern.
"It's okay, let's go." Aniu shook his head. The key now was to get down the mountain.
Fortunately, the stone tablet is not too big, so it would be faster for one person to carry it on his back than to carry it up.
When a few people were preparing to go down the mountain and were about to leave the top of the mountain, Lin Fei, who was following behind, suddenly let out a strange cry.
"Look! There's a chicken!"
Yitu subconsciously turned around and saw Lin Fei pointing at a small mound not far away with a look of horror on his face. There really was a huge rooster standing there.
The rooster was green all over, and even its eyes, as big as soybeans, were emitting a strange green light, staring straight at them.
"Oh my god! This is actually true!" Lin Fei screamed: "Seeing green, green-headed chickens on graves will bring bloody disasters!"
As soon as he shouted this, the green rooster dived into the grave and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Everyone's expression turned grim. Zhao Haichuan turned to look at Lin Fei with a gloomy face.
"Are you talking nonsense again!?"
Just now, the card he had been holding in his hand began to emit a dazzling red light, even if it was only for a few seconds.
"What did I say?" Lin Fei retorted with a stiff upper lip, but when he met Huang Tianfang's gaze, he felt a little guilty.
"Stop talking, Haichuan, we have to get down the mountain as soon as possible." Duan Zixi grabbed Zhao Haichuan who was about to get angry.
The green rooster that appeared out of nowhere was like a silent warning, alerting them that danger was about to come.
"Go down the mountain." Zhao Haichuan nodded and said, "Move quickly."
Everyone immediately returned the same way they came, and Yitu followed behind Aniu to prevent him from becoming exhausted so that they could replace him in time.
However, before the group had gone far, the cards in Zhao Haichuan's hand began to glow red again.
Duan Zixi saw it and couldn't help but say, "How could it be so fast!"
"Lin Fei must have said something that worked in the card room." Zhao Haichuan's palms were sweating.
"Is this your Disciple Card?" Huang Tianfang asked.
The Disciple Card is a card that will automatically take effect, and Zhao Haichuan's is a third-level Disciple Card.
Once someone says or does something in the card room, as long as it happens within ten meters of the license holder and touches the death rule of the card room, a red light will be flashed.
Zhao Haichuan didn't have time to explain in detail, but Zhang Queshan suddenly turned around to look.
Yitu immediately said, "What's wrong?"
Zhang Queshan said in a deep voice, "Something is approaching."
His hearing was enhanced by the function card and was much more sensitive than that of ordinary people.
As soon as he finished speaking, heavy breathing sounds were heard behind everyone, like the pursuit of some large wild beast, which made people shudder.
“Don’t look back!”
At this moment, the sun was obscured by thick clouds, and darkness enveloped the forest.
The sound of increasingly heavy footsteps came from behind them, and the eerie and strange panting sounds never stopped.
The men with long legs walked very fast, including Aniu who was carrying the stone tablet, and it didn't look like he was struggling, but the girls were far behind.
Especially Fu Xue, who was wearing high heels, couldn't walk at all on such a mountain road.
Ah Niu stopped and called her. Zhao Haichuan said, "I'll carry the stone tablet. You go find them."
"Can you do it?" Aniu hesitated.
"Don't worry, go ahead."
Zhao Haichuan took the stone tablet off his back. It was so heavy that it was difficult to lift it.
Duan Zixi hurried over to help him.
Yitu saw that the card hanging on Zhao Haichuan's body was still flashing wildly. He hesitated for a moment and followed Aniu to run back.
Zhao Haichuan was carrying a heavy stone tablet on his back, his waist bent like a bow. He was only a few dozen meters away from the foot of the mountain when suddenly a shrill scream came from behind him.
His heart suddenly trembled. Something happened.
The author has something to say:
See you tomorrow morning! This chapter is pretty rough, isn't it? (guilty,jpg)
Some cute kids asked when the attacker will appear. He will appear in the middle and late stages of this dungeon, and his appearance method is a little special.
Because the Queen is a newbie now, and the King is already a max-level player, the beginner card game is not suitable for him to mess up hahahahahaha
In the second copy, the two of them will...well, no more words, see you tomorrow morning!
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