Chapter 113 Evening Study (XI)
Mu Yu stared at the house and asked Lu Zhongnian softly, "What did you do just now?"
"Nothing was done," Lu Zhongnian's eyes moved slightly, "Maybe something went wrong on the other floors."
"...You stay here. I'll go check upstairs and downstairs," Mu Yu finished the half sentence that was interrupted by the monster just now, "and ask about their current progress by the way."
Lu Zhongnian never took his eyes off the ground.
He shook Mu Yu's hand: "Well, be careful."
*
Mu Yu first ran to the first floor.
Ye Sui was jumping on an ordinary house with black letters on a white background, and had already jumped to the 8th square.
This is obviously the ordinary house that Mu Yu jumped into in the first round. The family of three living in it all look exactly the same.
Ye Sui knew what he was here for without Mu Yu asking: "The last house I jumped to was outlined with green lines and had a skeleton. I stepped on it and it died."
"Okay!" Mu Yu reminded everyone not to step on the ghost behind them, and then ran upstairs.
Mu Chenxi on the 3rd floor was jumping a house with purple outlines in the middle of the corridor. He jumped to 9 squares easily. The skeleton was lying on the border of the 8th square, baring its teeth in anger.
He turned around and threw the tile back, but unfortunately he missed the grid this time.
"There were two houses in front of us. One was an ordinary house without any ghosts, and the other was a house with a pink outline and a ghost. I didn't step on it." Mu Chenxi briefly explained the situation.
Mu Yu muttered to himself, summarizing the pattern: "It seems that there is only one house without ghosts. The houses with colored outlines are all haunted houses...Okay, brother, I'll go upstairs!"
4th floor.
Hong Yang is jumping in a house.
After jumping to the 7th safe zone, he paused, turned around, and carefully searched for the skeleton in the first 6 squares.
...The skeletons in this house bothered him a little.
He had already jumped over a house with skeletons in front. The skeletons inside did not interfere with the family of three. The family of three seemed unaware of the existence of the skeletons, and the skeletons also ignored the family of three.
But the situation with this new house was a little different.
The skeleton appeared in the fifth frame just now. When Hong Yang swept his eyes over it, it seemed to be pressing down the head of a little girl, pressing her entire body under the sink in the bathroom, and disappearing from the "camera".
...He didn't see clearly and was not sure whether the girl was the daughter of the family of three living in this house.
Hong Yang's eyes swept across the third living room...but her daughter was clearly doing homework in the living room.
He waited for a while but the skeleton didn't appear again, so he had to give up and continue jumping forward.
After jumping to the 8th square, he turned around and jumped backwards with all his strength.
…
Mu Yu rushed to the 4th floor, looked forward, and suddenly stopped.
…The corridor on the 4th floor was empty.
Where did Hong Yang go...?
Mu Yu panted, looked around vigilantly, and walked slowly forward.
"Yangyang?"
He tried to shout.
However, no sound responded to him in the dark corridor.
It's impossible for Hong Yang to go to a classroom for no apparent reason and hide without responding... Did he go upstairs, or...
Mu Yu had a bad feeling in his heart.
He turned around and walked back, wanting to go upstairs to see if Hong Yang was upstairs. Suddenly, a house with a blue border and black letters on a white background appeared in front of him.
Mu Yu paused, frowned, turned around again, and wanted to go up the stairs from the west - he didn't have the heart to deal with the monster now.
However, the house actually moved along with him, always blocking his way.
…It seems I can only skip it.
He let out a breath, bent down to pick up the tile on the ground, and jumped up on one foot.
The layout of each house is similar, the only difference is in the details.
There is a family of three here. The mother is watching TV, the daughter is drawing in the bedroom, and the father is washing things in the bathroom.
The skeleton appeared in his parents' bedroom and smiled sneakily at Mu Yu.
Mu Yu jumped all the way over with an expressionless face. When he reached the 8th square, he turned around. By then, the skeleton had disappeared from his sight. He didn't know where it had hidden.
He was about to jump back when a question suddenly popped into his head.
...Can the ghost enter the 9th frame?
Admittedly, he hasn't seen any ghost appear in the 9th grid so far, but there is no evidence that ghosts can't enter, right...?
Mu Yu looked back.
The 9th grid is the attic, and the 9th grid behind him is still in its initial state and is not lit.
The grid was filled with white, and a big black number "9" lay in the middle.
...I have no idea what the situation is like inside right now.
Mu Yu turned around and looked straight ahead.
The next second, he jumped up with all his strength—jumping diagonally outside the 9th square!
At this moment, he clearly saw that the lit 9th grid was stretched to a full five meters. The skeleton was lying in this grid with a frozen smile on his face.
——Ghosts can indeed enter the 9th square, and they can change the shape of this square!
The skeleton disappeared instantly, and the 9th grid shrank back to its original state.
Mu Yu pursed his lips, came to the front of this grid, turned his back to the house, and threw tiles.
This time, he hit the 5th box!
[Congratulations to player Muyu for opening the safe zone! ]
The house disappeared.
Mu Yu rushed up the stairs without stopping and ran to the 5th floor.
Fu Xiaoju and Jing Qiao on this floor just started jumping on a new house - it was the one with a blue border that Mu Yu had just finished jumping!
"Fuck, how did you get up here? Didn't you just finish dancing?" Fu Xiaoju was shocked.
The string of fireworks congratulating him for opening the safe zone had just disappeared!
"The house you are jumping on now is the one I jumped on just now. Remember to jump diagonally on the 9th square later, so ghosts can go in and stretch the squares," Mu Yu quickly explained and asked, "Have you seen Hong Yang?"
Fu Xiaoju and Jing Qiao didn't catch up with Mu Yu's rhythm and said blankly: "Hong Yang? No, isn't he downstairs?"
"He's gone," Mu Yu's heart sank completely, "Did you hear any noise coming from downstairs?"
The two looked at each other, Jing Qiao shook his head, worry showing on his face: "No, it's been pretty quiet down there."
Fu Xiaoju jumped to the third square and said, "...will he be tricked by the ghost?"
...This is also what Mu Yu is afraid of.
He took a deep breath to calm himself down and asked, "So which houses did you two jump over just now? Let me do a count."
Fu Xiaoju and Jing Qiao said that the first house they jumped into was one with black and white checkered borders, the second one was one with purple checkered borders, and the third one was the current one.
At this stage of statistics, the number of duplicate houses seems to be increasing.
Mu Yu told them to be careful and rushed to the 6th floor.
Huang Jiajia and Su Mingyun were dancing on a house with a grey outline. They had previously jumped over a house with an orange outline and a house with a rainbow outline. Both of them had ghosts in them, but they didn't dare to step on any of them.
They had never seen Hong Yang either.
Mu Yu ran down the stairs, feeling a lot on his mind.
First of all, the types of houses that have appeared so far can be summarized.
A plain house without any colored borders and no ghosts.
The remaining houses are haunted, and the outline colors are: pink (disappeared), green (disappeared), purple, black and white, blue, orange, rainbow, and gray.
There are 9 types in total.
But Hong Yang disappeared, and no one knew which houses he skipped, or whether the actual total number of houses was 9.
…Shouldn’t the personnel be divided up like this?
Mu Yu walked down the stairs with a somewhat stiff step.
Did Yangyang step on a grid? What will be the punishment if she steps on it?
In the first two rounds of the game, even if the player is really being chased by monsters, there is still a chance of survival as long as he tries his best to escape.
The punishment mechanism in this dungeon is obviously not as swift and strong as in other dungeons, which is why they believe they can disperse it to advance the game with maximum efficiency.
Can……
Mu Yu slowed down his pace.
But what if there is indeed a chance?
Hong Yang disappeared, but that doesn’t mean something happened to him.
Mu Yu raised his hand, put his fingers to his lips, and fell into thought.
*
Lu Chongnian finished jumping around the black and white checkered house and nothing happened.
The ghost was circling around in several grids, provoking Lu Chongnian frequently, but he remained unmoved.
The ghost was very disappointed, and finally gave him the middle finger, then disappeared into the ground along with the house.
Lu Zhongnian walked forward without changing his expression and went straight to the door of the lounge. The new house did not appear again.
You were blocking the way so urgently just now, but now you let him walk here?
Lu Zhongnian raised his eyes and looked inside the lounge.
Whether outside or inside the coffee room, everything was still quiet and nothing unusual happened.
Mu Chenxi suddenly came down from upstairs, looked around and asked, "Ayu hasn't come back yet? Did something happen here just now?"
Lu Zhongnian explained the situation in the black and white checkered house, and Mu Chenxi said, "Everyone must have been playing hopscotch at the time, and it's impossible for them to do anything outrageous. Besides, this game is not a battle royale, so there is no possibility that players would run into the classroom in a panic and violate the rules."
"If something really happened on another floor, causing the monster to become so sensitive and expose its true thoughts to block you to the east, then it is most likely related to the house that appeared on another floor at that time."
Lu Zhongnian looked at him and said, "Do you think the key point of this game lies in one of the houses?"
"Why else would there be so many different houses in the dungeon? The outlines of each house are different, and the family of three in each house is also different."
"Obviously, each house is unique, so there must be a very special one among them. The least special one should be the one without ghosts, because it cannot be eliminated, so there will be no situation where the player destroys the correct answer by himself, and the copy will not set it as the core of the game."
Mu Chenxi's words directly pointed out a key point - although eliminating the houses can allow them to eliminate interference items, it may also cause them to eliminate the correct answer.
Because there must be a house that cannot be eliminated.
Otherwise, if they could step on all the ghosts and remove all the houses that can be removed, wouldn't they be able to pass the level?
But the game is certainly not that simple.
Mu Chenxi came over.
His face is 50% similar to Mu Yu's, but his eyebrows and eyes are much sharper than Mu Yu's. If he doesn't speak or make any expression, he will look very cold and difficult to approach.
But when the two brothers think seriously and analyze problems, their auras are almost exactly the same.
"You can walk here smoothly now, and the monsters don't react at all. It's probably because the most special house has disappeared from this building. It may be that the player who jumped to that house has finished the game, or it may be that the house has been eliminated."
Mu Chenxi raised her lips and said, "But if it is really eliminated, then we should have failed in this game. Since the game is still going on, the reason should be the former."
He raised his hand and pointed to the coffee room inside.
"When that most special house appears in this teaching building, the coffee room may change. This is why the monster wants to stop you."
"And the dungeon allows these two doors to remain open all the time, probably because if the player keeps waiting inside, the 'things' in the coffee room won't appear at all. It's not afraid of you taking shortcuts in this way."
——This also means that if players want to find the answer, they must consciously keep a certain distance from the lounge, wait until the coffee room is successfully transformed, and then find a way to enter it.
"So now," he glanced at Lu Zhongnian's feet, "you can step back a little more."
Lu Zhongnian stepped back.
The width of the corridor is only three or four meters, so there is a limit no matter how far you retreat.
The two of them retreated together to the west of the corridor, and the open door of the lounge gradually disappeared from their sight.
From that moment on, even if changes occurred in the small coffee room, they would not be able to see them.
"These houses appear every three minutes. How long has it been since you jumped to the last house?" Mu Chenxi asked without turning his head.
Lu Zhongnian replied calmly: "Two minutes."
Once a house breaks the rule of appearing once every three minutes and suddenly appears in front of them, it must mean that the most special house has appeared on other floors.
——Of course, it is also possible that the opponent will appear directly under their feet.
They retreated to the middle of the corridor. At a certain moment, Lu Zhongnian stopped and said softly, "It's almost time to move forward."
Mu Chenxi did not refute.
They walked slowly forward, approaching the lounge again.
There is still half a minute left before the three-minute limit.
27 seconds.
25 seconds.
20 seconds.
18 seconds.
A house with purple outlines appeared in front of them.
"It's out," Mu Chenxi stopped and narrowed his eyes. "This is the house I just skipped. The most special house should not be this one. It should be on another floor."
*
Mu Yu quickened his pace as he ran down while thinking.
An answer seemed to be born in his mind, the answer to where Hong Yang was at the moment, but it needed to be confirmed...
Suddenly, a house with black letters on a white background with a yellow outline appeared in front of us, above the downward stairs!
Mu Yu braked suddenly, but had no choice but to pick up the tiles and start jumping.
but……
He looked at the outline color of the house under his feet suspiciously.
This is yellow, not orange, right?
Just now, Su Mingyun and Huang Jiajia clearly stated that a house they had encountered before was orange, and Huang Jiajia added that it was "orange-red in color."
But the house under his feet at this moment has a lemon yellow outline.
Is it the tenth house that no one else has encountered so far?
Mu Yu jumped and observed carefully.
His toes jumped to the sixth square, and that square was lit up.
Again, so far, the layout of almost every house is similar.
The first grid is basically the entrance, the second and third grids are the living room and kitchen. These two rooms will occasionally swap grids, but never beyond 2 or 3 grids...
Similarly, the 6th, 7th and 8th rooms basically revolve back and forth between the parents' bedroom, children's bedroom and study.
But because the 7th grid becomes a safe zone and will no longer be lit up, there will always be one missing from these three rooms.
The sixth compartment of the house under his feet was the study. Rows of bookcases were placed against the wall, the lamp on the desk was on, and a sweater was thrown on the table by someone, but no one was in the room...
etc.
Mu Yu's pupils shrank.
He jumped to the 7th safe zone, landed on his feet, turned around and looked at the 6th box again - under the lamp, the white sweater on the desk was clearly Hong Yang's!
Mu Yu's heartbeat quickened.
He would never make a mistake, that was Hong Yang's clothes, and Hong Yang had indeed entered the house!
He looked again and found a white piece of paper on his clothes with a few words written on it.
Mu Yu quickly squatted down, held his breath, and carefully identified the words.
After a moment, he shouted, "Yang Yang!"
Only the ghost was called out, shaking his head mockingly at him in the toilet in the fourth cubicle, and there was no sign of Hong Yang at all.
Mu Yu shouted twice more, but there was still no response. The time they could stay in the safe zone had reached its limit.
It seems that inside the house, even the players are shielded from all noise from the outside world, with ghosts being the only exception.
Mu Yu didn't hesitate any longer, quickly finished this round of the game, and ran upstairs again.
*
Mu Chenxi and Lu Chongnian were facing the purple house in front of them. Before they could move, they suddenly heard Mu Yu's voice coming from the stairwell.
The shouting continued from top to bottom, repeating over and over again.
"Everyone, step on all the houses except the yellow one! It's yellow, not orange, don't make a mistake!"
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