Chapter 546 [(*^▽^*)]
The family was terrified. They all huddled together, as if more people would make them feel safer. "The circuit breaker isn't working at all. Something must be wrong!"
"Run! Run... Ugh!!"
Some people couldn't continue speaking before they finished their sentences.
The man felt as if his neck was being tightly gripped by a pair of icy hands. Just as he was about to cry for help, he managed to catch a glimpse of his family members looking at him with eyes filled with fear and dread.
As soon as he reached out his hand, the people scattered in all directions, some jumping out of windows and others opening doors. In just a second or two, they were all gone.
Before he could think, he heard his neck cracking under the strain, and the next second he lost consciousness.
The body was left on the ground, lying alone in the messy house.
After his four henchmen made their way out, Lin Leyou led them away. Meanwhile, the rest of the family screamed in alarm outside, quickly attracting the attention of the villagers who were already suffering from nervous breakdowns.
Even some of the players who were far away gathered together and came over.
Guo Xia and Guo Chengzheng also came along, but they lagged behind. Before leaving, they deliberately left a puppet in the hut, as well as some other things that weren't props.
These things were found in the village, especially in houses that were no longer inhabited. They took everything they could find, brought some back, and hid them in the houses. Now they can use them.
The puppet is useless, but it's easy to use it to set a fire.
After some players came to join in the fun, the puppets in the player's hut also started to move. The players controlled the puppets, and they were multitasking without any problems.
After all, they were just standing there watching the excitement, not chatting or asking for information.
"What happened? Has this family seen a ghost?"
"Don't joke around, where would a ghost come from in broad daylight?"
"What do you mean 'in broad daylight'? Haven't you noticed how gloomy the sky is? It looks almost like nighttime during the day! In this state, it would be perfectly normal for ghosts to come out even during the day."
Upon hearing this, everyone was incredibly surprised. "Why is this happening? If there are ghosts even during the day, what are we supposed to do? Does that mean we can't just wander around anymore?"
"Does this mean we can only stay in the ancestral hall and the hut from now on? If we go out during the day, we'll encounter ghosts. How will we cook, eat, and drink?"
"So we only have two paths before us? Either we're killed by ghosts, or we die of thirst or starvation?"
"No, no, I can't accept this! I can't accept this..."
"It's not like anyone can accept this. Instead of going crazy like this, why not think of a way to save yourself? You can't just give up and wait to die, can you?"
"What else can we do? What can we possibly do? We should hurry up and pack some food and water to get a good spot at the ancestral hall..."
"I'm going back now. I don't know where the ghost that attacked them is now. What if it's hiding in someone else's house? What if it's in my house?!"
"Good heavens, don't talk nonsense! They must have seen so many people coming and ran away! They must have run into the mountains! Hurry, hurry!"
Just as everyone turned to rush home, a villager suddenly pointed in a direction, "Hey? Is there a fire over there? That flame..."
Everyone looked over there, and sure enough, they saw flames. Just moments before, they could only see a tiny spark, but within seconds of them looking, the flames suddenly intensified and shot straight into the sky.
Rong Yuwen shouted, "The hut is on fire! Go back and put it out!"
There was no time for any of the players to react. The most important thing now was to get back and put out the fire. Nothing else mattered!
When they arrived at the player's cabin, they found that four cabins were on fire. "Quickly put out the fire! Be careful that sparks don't fall on the other houses! Put out the fire as soon as possible, and speed it up!"
All the players frantically tried to put out the fire nearby, some even using their own items. Fortunately, the fire was put out quickly enough, but four cabins were still burned down, and another cabin that was relatively close by was half burned down, making it uninhabitable.
Rong Yuwen was somewhat annoyed, but seeing that there were still five intact cabins left, he felt somewhat comforted, at least all the players still had a place to stay.
"I never imagined that so-called safe houses could be destroyed. They can only keep out ghosts, not people."
Players naturally wouldn't suspect their own people, so they naturally suspected the villagers who were just watching the fire without helping to put it out.
The villagers who were watching the commotion suddenly met the suspicious gaze of the player and immediately felt uncomfortable. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Hey! We didn't do anything! Don't wrong an innocent person. We're all at home. We just went over there, but we didn't come to this area!"
The villagers had done nothing, so they were naturally in the right. However, they couldn't withstand the players here, who were tall and strong with unfriendly eyes. So after saying a few words, they were still a bit timid and afraid of being beaten, so they quickly left.
Only then did Rong Yuwen and the others turn their attention away. "Didn't we install surveillance cameras and detection equipment? Let's take a look."
Some people say, "The detection equipment didn't react, and the ghost in the safe house definitely can't get close, so it must have been done by the villagers! After all, we chased them out of the house."
"What a joke! It's good enough that I didn't kill them. Letting them stay outside the cabin, I'll deal with them later. Anyway, I'm not doing the side quests anymore, so killing them all won't hurt."
"Okay, let's take a look at the surveillance footage first."
All the surrounding surveillance footage was retrieved, but from the moment they were drawn to the commotion over there, to the moment most people went there to watch the excitement, and then to the moment the fire broke out here, they managed to capture nothing.
Guo Xia looked at herself and Guo Chengzheng walking at the back in the surveillance footage. Their eyes didn't change, and their expressions were normal, as if this matter really had nothing to do with them.
Rong Yuwen: "Where are the people who stayed in the cabin when we went out to scout the area?"
Although nothing was captured on camera, that's because most of the surrounding surveillance cameras were angled outwards, preventing the safe house and nearby ghosts from getting close. Even if they were filming from inside, there wouldn't be anything of value, so...
The fact that the culprit wasn't filmed doesn't mean they weren't there. The surveillance footage only confirms that no villagers approached, but there were still some players around the hut.
"No way, as fellow players, are we really going to cut off our own escape route?"
Rong Yuwen waved his hand, "No matter what, we still have to ask what needs to be asked and investigate what needs to be investigated. In the end, we brought in ten new players and ten veteran players."
The ten veteran players had simple reasons: they wanted to rest in the house, or to put it simply, take a nap. The ten new players, on the other hand, were simply afraid of something going wrong. After all, they could hardly move an inch in this dungeon, and if they went out and wandered around, they might die just from taking one wrong step.
The remaining players all gathered at the spot where the incident had occurred to watch the commotion.
Rong Yuwen looked at them, feeling conflicted. In the end, she took out a prop, something that looked like a microphone, and said, "This prop, which looks like a microphone, is for lie detectors. You all come and try it."
Lie detector equipment!
Everyone looked at the prop in amazement. It would be amazing if it could test everyone. Twenty players were tested one by one, and they were all found to be truthful.
Everyone was completely dumbfounded. Did no player really make a move?
"Captain Rong, we are all players, and the safe house is our lifeline. I don't think it could have been done by players."
Rong Yuwen put away his microphone. In fact, this lie detector has a limited number of uses per day and cannot be used twenty times in a row. Apart from the first few times, he had to rely on his own observation to determine whether the players were lying.
As it turns out, they weren't lying. Everyone spoke naturally, and even some new players who were nervous weren't nervous because they were lying about what they had done, but because everyone was staring at them, so... it wasn't them who did it.
Guo Xia and Guo Chengzheng thought Rong Yuwen would have everyone take lie detector tests, but they didn't expect him to put them away. "First, pack your things, and then protect the remaining five small houses. Now there are only these five safe houses left. Let's divide them up. Oh, and move the beds that are still intact to the other small houses. We'll definitely need them tonight. Let's hurry."
No one objected, since after cleaning up the place, they would need to reassign the players who had lost their homes to other cabins. Fortunately, there were five cabins left, with a total of seventy-six people. Each cabin would accommodate about five more people, which wasn't too much.
After Rong Yuwen and the players worked around here for a while, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. "The situation isn't too bad. The surveillance cameras didn't capture anything, but this matter is definitely related to the BOSS, so spending time trying to find out who did it is a waste of time. What do you guys think?"
"So we are now..."
Rong Yuwen said, "It's okay if we can't find the BOSS for now. The BOSS will definitely come looking for us. Our task now is to protect the remaining safe houses. There are only these five houses left, so we must make sure they are intact."
"We know that, so we can only wait here?"
"Could it be that the BOSS possessed one of the villagers and then sneaked over to burn our houses down? After all, the possession talent is quite powerful."
"The possessed resident should die after the BOSS leaves, but did any of the villagers die?"
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