Chapter 266: The House of Dwarfs
(including the November 7th update)
The moment the rules of the game were announced, You Xi realized that this was definitely not the normal process of a fairy tale park.
She has been checking in at various amusement facilities today, looking for the possibility of triggering a mission prompt. But now think about it, this is an S-level station, so it is very likely that various events have already occurred, and the situation has even deteriorated to a certain extent.
Man-made?
It is indeed possible, but - can humans really do this?
The amusement park outside the hotel should have been closed during the closing hours, but it suddenly started operating automatically. Such loud bells and weird children's voices, coupled with the flashing lights and noisy music of the amusement facilities, should have woken up even the tourists who were originally sleeping soundly.
But at this moment, in the other guest rooms on the left and right of her room, the tourists were still sleeping peacefully, with no sign of waking up.
On other floors of this hotel, some tourists opened the door of the terrace, looked at the ding-dong amusement park outside with a confused look on their faces, and looked at their bracelets in confusion: "What's going on? What nightmare park? 'Queen's Magic Mirror'? Didn't I go to this facility during the day? What does it mean to let me go again?"
You Xi instantly thought that the tourists who woke up were the ones who were drawn, so she...
She immediately clicked on the bracelet, and sure enough, after the three-dimensional screen popped up, a line of blood-red words appeared on it: You have been drawn to participate in the night amusement park game activities, please open the map of this amusement area.
Youxi opened the map as requested. On the dark grey three-dimensional map, there was an amusement facility that was glowing with golden light.
She clicked on the facility, and the small icon immediately enlarged automatically, showing the three-dimensional image and name of the facility: Dwarf House.
**
Outside the "Dwarf House" amusement facility.
"What's going on? I've never heard of a fairy tale park having such a night special?" A thin man pushed his glasses on his nose and frowned as he looked at the illuminated amusement facility in front of him.
"Is it a surprise?" A middle-aged white man said.
"Is this a surprise? What kind of surprise would be so inexplicable? My friend and I live in the same room, but she didn't respond no matter how I called her just now!" A woman with red curly hair standing behind the white man looked unhappy, "And the voice just now said... If you don't participate in the game, you will die. What kind of surprise would use such wording? I think it's more like a prank!"
"Possibly!" On the other side, a mixed-race woman in sexy pajamas stroked her long hair, "Could it be a star live broadcast? I didn't even change my clothes. I'm so sleepy. I really want to go back to sleep..."
Some people were puzzled, some were cautiously suspicious, and some didn't take it to heart at all.
"What should we do? Should we really go in?" A young girl snuggled up to her boyfriend. She woke up with her boyfriend. "Who is playing a prank? Why does a place that looks beautiful during the day make people a little scared now..."
You Xi, who was standing in the crowd, raised her eyebrows when she heard this.
Indeed, it was the same building facilities, full of the same childlike and dreamy lights and colors, but under the deep blue sky at midnight, it had an inexplicable feeling, as if it had a hint of... evil.
She tapped the bracelet again, opened the map of the amusement park, and carefully confirmed whether the icon that was lit up was the same place as the game facilities in front of her.
Twenty minutes ago, when she tried to contact her teammates on another planet through her bracelet, she found that neither voice nor video calls could be connected.
After that, she tried to contact the hotel customer service, the park customer service and even the security personnel, but all communications seemed to be cut off by something invisible.
And now, she has confirmed from other tourists that other unselected tourists cannot be woken up at all.
Therefore, from the moment the midnight bell rang, those who were selected to participate in the night amusement park have been completely isolated.
She finally contacted the other three people in the team group through the mobile phone of the Endless Train World.
Almost as soon as she sent the message, the other three also sent messages. It turned out that they were also awakened by the bell, and then found that they were selected to participate in the night playground project.
Today was the first day that the four of them arrived at the station, but they were all selected to participate in the nightmare park at night. The chance of winning was a bit too high.
But the rules of the game have been announced, and everyone agreed that the most important thing at the moment is to complete the game first, and any ideas can be discussed later.
She walked all the way here from the hotel where she was staying, passing by several lighted amusement facilities in the middle, and found that the number of tourists in each place ranged from about 20 to 30 people.
When the number of people reaches the game standard, the entrance to the amusement facility in front of them will automatically open, and at the same time, the childish voice heard before will come from inside the facility, announcing that the amusement project will start in ten minutes, and all tourists participating in this project are requested to enter immediately.
Among the tourists who are generally on the lookout, as long as one tourist walks in, the other tourists will hesitantly follow.
Of course, there will occasionally be one or two tourists who are hesitant and have never made up their minds to enter.
Because she hurried to the facility that was lit up, she did not stay in other places for a long time, and she did not know what would happen to those tourists who stayed outside the amusement facility after the time limit...
Five minutes later, several more people came to the outside of the "Dwarfs' House". Youxi secretly counted them and there were a total of nineteen people.
The entrance outside the amusement facility that was originally closed suddenly opened automatically, and the neon lights in the passage began to flash. A tender child's voice came from the depths of the passage. No matter the tone or intonation, it was almost exactly the same as what Youxi heard outside other amusement facilities.
——Hehehe, it's nice to see you all. I'm NPC No. 32. Please enter as soon as possible. The game will start in ten minutes.
——Please note that the amusement park will be closed in ten minutes. Visitors who fail to enter in time will be considered to have failed the game.
Youxi turned off the bracelet and walked in first.
**
"The Dwarf's House" is an immersive experience amusement facility that creates a realistic fairy tale forest and several forest huts inside the huge venue.
There are seven sets of tableware and food on the table in each forest hut, and there are seven identical beds on the side.
Here, visitors can play the role of Snow White or any of the dwarfs, wear medieval costumes, enjoy ancient food (improved version), and make friends...
The characters not chosen by the tourists will be played by the park staff, who will create and arrange some unexpected events, such as Snow White hiding in the forest hut, letting the evil stepmother show up to deliver ribbons, combs and apples, holding a happy bonfire party, etc.
The surrounding forest and forest hut can change color and move positions at will, including the weather, rainbows and waterfalls can change with the scene, making the tourists feel that they have really traveled through time and space and went to the world in the story.
Youxi played the dwarf here during the day, mined gold in the mine, and watched other tourists play Snow White and even the queen, so he knew the general process of the game here.
At this moment, in the middle of the forest in the venue, the tall trees automatically moved away, revealing the vague red circle around and the forest hut in the middle. The door of the hut was open, and a slender man stood at the door, welcoming the arrival of tourists with a huge smile.
Youxi stared at the other person for two seconds, and then found that the huge smile on the other person's face came from a mask similar to a real person on his face. The mask was made lifelike, exquisite and perfect, even the eyes were complete, and there was not even a vent on it.
Without eye holes and vents, how did the other person breathe and see clearly outside through the mask?
The other tourists walked in in a fog, and had not yet noticed the abnormality of the man. This was the first amusement park staff they saw after waking up in the middle of the night. While breathing a sigh of relief, someone immediately complained and walked over, expressing dissatisfaction with this prank that disturbed their rest.
"The game will start soon. Please be patient and wait." The masked staff spoke, but it was a childish voice that made people's scalps numb.
The red curly-haired woman who was closest to the other party took a step back in fear. She looked at the face with a huge smile hesitantly, not understanding why the other party changed his voice.
"Hey, don't go too far!" The middle-aged white man frowned, "We have already said that we don't like such pranks, and we don't want to participate in any night amusement park. Where is your superior? Let him come out to see me. I want to complain to the park for this inexplicable frightening and disrespecting guests!"
The staff member still stood there, and spoke again in a childish voice, repeating the same words: "The game will start soon, please be patient and wait."
"I told you not to scare people! Why are you still talking in this voice!" This childish voice coupled with a human-like mask made people feel uncomfortable from the bottom of their hearts. The white man became impatient, stepped forward, and directly stretched out his hand to tear off the other person's mask.
"Oh..." The other person made a surprised sound, as if he didn't expect that his mask would be directly torn off.
The white man who had taken off the mask stared at the other party with wide eyes, and took two steps back in fear.
Under the human-like mask was a white face.
No, it could not be called a face. A normal face would have facial features, but there was only a black line at the mouth of his face. At this moment, the line was opening and closing, and he was continuing to speak in a childish voice: "Have you seen enough?" "
He" tilted his head slightly, which seemed to be a very innocent action, but with "his" appearance, it only made people feel creepy.
A blood-red tongue poked out from the black gap and gently licked the non-existent lips: "Tourists who disturb NPCs are not good tourists... Hehe, we can deal with it--"
Before the last word fell, the other party reached out to take off his hat, and his head suddenly twisted 180 degrees backwards, revealing another face behind.
It was a cute and cheerful face, a childlike mask that the staff wore when they played dwarfs during the day. But now the mask seemed to come alive, not only could it open its mouth, but it also showed its sharp fangs.
He bit the white man's neck, piercing the artery on his neck, and blood gushed out instantly.
The white man covered his neck, and because his throat was bitten, he only made a series of broken bubbling sounds, and then fell to the ground stiffly.
The tourists froze for two seconds, and then screamed in fear. Some were paralyzed on the ground, unable to move, some turned around and ran out of the venue, and some opened their bracelets to try to call the guards again.
That person, or rather that "thing" that was unknown, raised his face. His originally open mouth had closed. His face was still cheerful and lovely, but it was covered with sticky blood.
"He" glanced at the tourists running out and stood there indifferently.
The entrances and exits outside the venue were slowly closing. The time was up and the game was about to start. Someone ran ahead regardless of everything and ran out before the door closed.
But as the entrances and exits of the amusement park closed, the bracelets on the wrists of the tourists who ran out suddenly began to flash red. The next second, the red light exploded, and the tourists' bodies were burned into black powder by the exploding red light, which scattered all over the ground.
The tourists who had not had time to run out and were lying on the glass door took two steps back in shock, their faces as pale as dead people.
The next second, some tourists reacted and tried to take off the bracelets on their wrists, trying to get this dangerous thing off their bodies. However, no matter how hard they tried, the bracelets seemed to be growing on their wrists.
Someone took out a tool to pry it off, but after just two tries, the bracelet light screen automatically opened, and a bloody warning appeared on it: Anyone who forcibly removes the bracelet will be considered to have failed the game.
The tourists stopped trying to forcibly remove it.
NPC No. 32 sighed with regret, muttering that it was a waste, put on his hat, turned his head back, put on the torn human face mask, and returned to the appearance of a normal working person: "The game is about to start, listen to the rules."
This time, no tourists made a sound.
"Immersive role-playing game: We are all Snow White.
Rules: The Queen's soldiers are chasing us. Within five minutes, choose a place to hide within the red circle. The Snow White who is not found by the soldiers within half an hour wins.
Note: You are a weak and helpless Snow White. You cannot resist the soldiers. Any counterattack will be regarded as a violation. Violators will fail the game."
After reading out the game details, NPC No. 32 put his hand on his chest and bowed to the frightened tourists in front of him, "Game - start!"
As the other party's voice fell, a small countdown popped up on the bracelet on Youxi's wrist: 4 minutes and 59 seconds.
She looked up and saw NPC No. 32 moving neatly and strangely like a monkey, climbing up a big tree nearby. The trunk of the tree was straight and smooth, and there were no branches at the bottom. No one knew how the thing climbed up.
**
While other tourists around were running around in panic, looking for a place to hide, Youxi stood still.
This kind of game reminded her of infinite flow novels again. Generally speaking, as long as it is a game, it will not only give a death ending.
The red circle is not very large. There is only a forest hut, a dense and tall grass, a pond, a two-meter-wide river and a wooden bridge over the river, and several tall trees around.
In the story, Snow White came to the forest and saw the dwarfs' wooden house after being released by the servant who had a change of heart. There were no soldiers chasing her. According to normal thinking, Snow White should hide in the wooden house and find a hidden place to hide herself.
The dwarfs' wooden house is equivalent to a shelter for Snow White.
Many other tourists thought of this. They rushed into the wooden house, some hid in the closet, some hid under the bed, and some hid in the fireplace.
The couple successfully found the entrance to the cellar and hid themselves in the dark cellar.
If hiding in the wooden house is enough to escape, this game is too simple. Moreover, she has always felt a kind of evil and weird feeling since she entered this venue. She doesn't think this night playground will follow the rules in the story and let participants pass smoothly.
There are also tourists who think the same as her, so the thin man with glasses finally hid in the tall and dense grass, and the red-haired mixed-race woman took out a small breathing mask from the space in the bracelet and hid directly in the pool.
The mixed-race beauty in pajamas probably wanted to hide in the water, but probably because there was no breathing mask in the space, she finally tied up her long hair, waded under the bridge, and relied on her nimble skills to hang herself under the bridge.
In Youxi's view, underwater and under the bridge are both good choices. There are only ways for soldiers to pursue, but the more dangerous the place, the safer it is sometimes.
But at this moment, in her eyes, there is a safer place.
Countdown: 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
She ran quickly, heading in a certain direction.
**
Five minutes of hiding time ended, and the soldiers appeared. They were all in black, holding unsheathed swords, wearing helmets and masks, and marched into the originally quiet forest in neat steps. They passed through the grass, crossed the small bridge and the pond, and headed directly for the forest cabin.
A moment later, as tourists were found one by one, screams of fear came one after another.
"You are breaking the rules! I have participated in this game! Snow White will be safe as long as she hides in the cabin! This is a safe house! You can't come in, ah-" "
I am a guest of the Capital Star! I am an SVIP guest! I enjoy the highest rights in the park! You are committing a crime-"
"Don't, don't kill me-"
...
One by one, tourists hiding in the cabin were found, and they were dragged out by the black soldiers like animals, pulled to the open space outside the cabin, and then their throats were cut with swords.
The smell of blood filled the forest, and tourists hiding in other places trembled and covered their mouths desperately to prevent themselves from making any sound.
There was only one thought in their minds: survive! They must survive this half hour!
After being found, some people screamed in despair. In order to save their lives, they shouted that they knew where the other tourists were hiding and begged the soldiers to let them go.
The man had seen the couple hiding in the kitchen cellar before. He did not hesitate at all and immediately pointed out the entrance to the cellar.
In the end, the couple was found and beheaded in the open space, and the tourist who betrayed others still could not escape and was pierced by a sharp blade...
This was not a game at all, it was a complete massacre.
Some tourists were extremely scared. Before they were found, they took out the dagger in the space of their bracelets, rushed out and stabbed the black soldier in front of them. The soldier was stabbed in the neck and his body tilted and fell down.
But before the tourist could be happy, his bracelet suddenly flashed red, and the next second, his whole body was burned into a pile of black powder by the exploding red light...
- Those who violate the rules of the game will die.
Except for the white man who died at the hands of NPC No. 32 and the three tourists who ran out of the game venue, eleven of the remaining fifteen people have been found and killed.
With only five minutes left, the soldiers searched the entire wooden house and began to search other places. They started from the periphery of the wooden house and gradually expanded the search area outward.
The three tourists hiding in the bushes, the pool and the wooden bridge had their hearts beating violently. Fortunately, when the soldiers searched again, their hiding place was outside the search area.
Finally, when the mixed-race beauty hiding under the wooden bridge heard the footsteps of the people stepping onto the bridge, the half-hour countdown finally ended.
The soldiers quickly retreated, and they survived.
"Congratulations to the five players for passing the game of 'We are all Snow White'! The game rewards have been distributed through the wristbands. Please follow the order and leave the venue from the exit. Nightmare Paradise is looking forward to your return." The tender voice of a child rang out from the surrounding speakers.
Three people appeared in the open space with empty steps, and they didn't understand why there were only three people, but it was said that five players had passed the level.
On the side, at the top of a tall tree, NPC No. 32 wearing a human face mask announced the end of the game through the loudspeaker, while tilting his head and looking sinisterly at the young woman on the other side of the tree canopy with his non-existent eyes, as if he was very dissatisfied with the other party hiding here with him.
You Xi hooked his feet on the branches and fixed himself firmly on the tree canopy, as if to deliberately anger the other party, and slowly spoke, "During the daytime game, I remember that the vacant roles would be played by the staff, and they would also become a member of the game. Since you are wearing a staff mask, it means that you are also a participant in the game in this venue tonight. Therefore, the place where you are hiding must be the safest place in the entire game."
In fact, it is not difficult to confirm this.
The other party has been emphasizing the rules of the game, but the white man who provoked it was not burned into black powder by the red light on the bracelet like other violators, but was attacked to death by it. Even now, the body of the white man is still lying on the ground and has not been burned.
This shows that the white man only violated the rules of the NPC (the rules of attacking) and did not violate the rules of the entire game - this also shows that the NPC does not represent the game, and it is very likely that it is also a participant in the game like them. The
action of quickly climbing up the tree after it announced the start of the game can also confirm this: after the game starts, it is also "Snow White", and if it is found by the soldiers, the game will fail.
However, this guess is not 100% correct. She climbed the same tree as the other party because it was tall and straight, and ordinary people could not climb it at all - such as other tourists. Therefore, it would be a relatively safe hiding place within the red circle of the game.
The second reason was naturally because she was confident in her own strength. As long as she did not violate the rules of the game and did not trigger the deadly red light, even if she angered the NPC, she would be able to deal with it.
Now that she heard the other party announce that five participants had passed the level, she knew that her guess was right.
Youxi glanced at NPC No. 32 who was still "staring" at her sinisterly, quickly got down from the tree, and left the game venue through the exit.
**
On the three-dimensional screen of the bracelet, the red font had disappeared, replaced by normal black font: Congratulations on passing the night playground game activities, please claim your rewards in the bracelet space.
Youxi had just observed the game rewards of the other three tourists. The rewards for the three people were the same, a black card called the free draw card. After they clicked to take it out, the card turned into powder and disappeared on their bodies.
Youxi guessed that this card should be able to exempt them from being drawn by the night playground again.
Her game rewards were different from theirs, and she suspected that this was because of her identity as a "traveler".
Game rewards: Dwarf's bread (after eating, you can get the dwarf's keen insight at the current station, valid for 1 hour)
Youxi looked at the bread the size of her head in her hand, and there were only two words in her mind: outrageous!
Who can finish such a big piece of bread in one breath? She just has a stronger body, not a bigger stomach...
At 2 a.m., the tender voice of the child announced to the whole place.
- Friendly reminder, there are still two hours before the night amusement park closes, everyone keep up the good work!
However, at this time, some tourists were completely trapped in the game, and some were accidentally lit up by physical amusement facilities. At this moment, they were thrown out of the seats and bleeding. Even if they heard the announcement, they didn’t know how to pass the level...
On the way back to the hotel, Youxi saw many tourists still looking around at the service desk near the square, trying to find staff to end this absurd farce, but they couldn’t find anyone.
There were screams and crying everywhere...
At 4 o'clock in the morning, with the announcement, all the lighted amusement facilities were instantly darkened. Looking out from the floor of the hotel where Youxi was, there were red lights everywhere in the park.
That was the punishment for game losers and non-participants when the amusement park was closed at night.
At this moment, there were still three hours before dawn, which was the darkest time before dawn.
**
When Youxi woke up again, it was already daybreak outside. In the light red sky, there were several beautiful planets floating. The long night ended, the day came, and the whole fairy tale park seemed to have returned to normal order.
Just like when she woke up at midnight before, she still couldn't remember how she fell asleep.
She walked to the window to check and found that there were already early risers walking in the quiet garden, parents with their children, and lovers cuddling each other. There were faint laughter and joy coming from the distance. They were planning today's itinerary and sharing fun things about the amusement park. They seemed to be completely unaware of the nightmare of the four hours last night.
After observing for more than half an hour, Youxi found not only the tourists who were not selected, but also the tourists who participated in the night amusement park last night among the gradually increasing number of tourists.
At this moment, they, like other tourists, all have smiles on their faces, and seem to have completely forgotten what happened last night.
Therefore, ordinary tourists who participate in the night game and survive will get a free card, and will forget everything that happened in the night game.
And the reason why she remembers it clearly is probably because of her identity as a "tourist".
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