Chapter 51 Yinghu Park (Part 4)
Li Mingke was puzzled, but still ran towards the four men.
They didn't notice him at all until he ran up to them and wanted to say hello, then Li Mingke realized something was wrong.
——These four people were standing in front of him, their mouths opening and closing, talking one after another, but he could not hear their voices at all.
They haven't even turned around to look at him yet, as if he has become a piece of air!
Li Mingke's face turned pale and he stammered, "Mu, Mu Yu, Lu Chongnian?"
Mu Yu rested his fingers on his chin, frowning in thought. Lu Chongnian said something indifferently to Ye Sui and Hong Yang, but none of the four responded.
Li Mingke looked around again.
Only then did he realize that the NPCs were coming and going, playing and laughing, but he could only see their happy expressions and could not hear any of their sounds at all.
Only the sound of the wind swept across the wide lawn, as if it was blowing across the vast world where he was the only one left.
how so? ?
Could it be that... he can enter the park, but once he enters he will become invisible?
Before Li Mingke could figure it out, his expression suddenly changed and he covered his throat.
The feeling of near death is coming again!
“Time limit” appears again?
What are you going to force him to do this time? !
Li Mingke was wandering around on the lawn like a headless fly. No one saw him and no one paid attention to him. He was the only one who was desperately unable to find the source of the "time limit" and his face was as pale as a ghost.
He had nowhere to escape, so he had no choice but to run back to the gate of Yinghu Park and stepped out.
The feeling of dying disappeared instantly, and he could breathe again!
However, before he could take two breaths, the feeling of impending death came again, slowly pressing down on him.
After round after round, Li Mingke was going crazy——
Why?
Why?! What the hell is going on?!
What on earth does the copy want him to do? !
Could it be, could it be——
His pupils suddenly dilated.
...Is it possible that there is no permanent place for him to stay, either inside or outside the park?
If he stayed on either side for too long he would die, and his only way to survive was to keep running back and forth between the two sides until it passed zero...?
Is this the real way to survive as a "single person" in this copy?
Li Mingke supported his knees with his hands, stared at the ground with wide eyes, gasping for breath, and cold sweat dripping down.
...But why is the copy like this?
Could it be that because he was too idle, you wanted to give him something to do?
...That's impossible. Ye Sui said that there is nothing inexplicable in the copy.
The copy is set up like this, there must be another meaning...
When Li Mingke thought of this, his body trembled, and he suddenly raised his head and looked into the park.
——He found that the four people who had just stood under the candlelight had disappeared again.
Once again, the entire lawn square was filled with only the NPCs, with no players to be seen.
"..." Li Mingke's heart began to pound. He stood up, staggered over, and stepped into the park.
This time, he did not blink, so he clearly saw the changes in the scene in the park the moment he stepped into the park.
Mu Yu, Lu Chongnian, Ye Sui and Hong Yang appeared again.
But they had left the candlelight and ran towards the grove.
The positions of the NPCs teleported. The one who was originally standing on the right side of the lawn appeared on the left side. The one who was close to him teleported to the distance. The one who was sitting on the lawn suddenly stood up.
Li Mingke's breathing became rapid.
He stepped back and left the park, and the scene in the park returned to almost the same state as before he stepped in.
He stepped into the park again and the scene changed again.
Li Mingke finally picked up the phone with trembling hands and turned on the screen.
The time displayed on the screen is 00:01.
He was almost dizzy.
…When he stepped into the park, he unexpectedly stepped into the world after midnight…?
"Singles please come back another day", this is what it means? ?
But what is there in the world after midnight——
At this moment, he suddenly noticed that there was a candle burning in the heart-shaped candle array on the right side of the lawn.
It was unknown when the candle started burning, as he had not been looking here just now.
The tiny flame kept swaying in the wind, as if it would be extinguished at any time, but it kept burning no matter how windy it was.
Li Mingke was startled and immediately left the park. The time on his mobile phone jumped to 11:23.
At this time, a pair of NPCs in the park walked towards the candle array with laughter.
One of them bent down and lit the candle with a lighter!
*
Lu Zhongnian turned his body and looked around him.
They were dispersed in this way, and it was obviously no longer feasible for them to take turns to observe the candle array. From now on, whoever was closer to the edge of the woods would go out.
At this moment, most of the area around him was dark. Apart from the trees and the faint burning red candles, there was no sign of human beings at all.
Turning to a certain direction, he saw more light through the shadows of the trees.
That direction is the lawn.
After making the judgment, Lu Chongnian decisively ran over there first.
Sure enough, the game base station was right in front of him, but the moment he stepped out of the woods, a feeling of impending death enveloped him.
Lu Chongnian's eyes moved slightly.
——It seems that after the couple game starts, players can no longer stay outside the woods for a long time.
At this moment, one candle in the love candle array on the lawn has been lit, and Li Mingke at the gate is jumping up and down desperately, signaling him to blow out the candle.
Lu Zhongnian rushed over and blew out the candle as quickly as possible, and the candle wick emitted a puff of green smoke.
He turned around, walked to the branch stuck in the ground, took out a sticky note and wrote: "11:23, blow out a candle, Lu Chongnian."
Tearing off the sticky note and sticking it on a branch, Lu Zhongnian ran back to the woods.
However, when passing the game base station, he stopped and recalled the seven "groom precautions" he had just seen.
1. Don't lose your scale.
2. After finding the bride, you can choose to go up and ask, and you can only ask "Can I reveal it?"
3. Please make your choice carefully. Once made, it cannot be changed or regretted. If you get a positive answer, you must lift the red veil.
4. If the bride does not respond within three seconds, she can choose to leave.
5. The red veil unveiling operation must be done one-on-one. If two grooms want to ask the same bride, they should discuss the order and then proceed in turn. If it is difficult to decide, they can use rock-paper-scissors to decide. During the one-on-one questioning process, other grooms are not allowed to interrupt.
6. There are candles placed by the game group in the woods. Fire safety will be ensured. Participants are requested not to blow them out at will.
7. You can get clues about the bride’s location by using the love weight exchange scale.
The seventh rule, the love weight exchange scale... Could it be this electronic scale placed at the entrance of the base station?
Lu Zhongnian judged the speed at which his near-death feeling was progressing and felt that there was still some time, so he raised his head and asked the NPC who was still rummaging through the boxes in the wooden house looking for the three ballpoint pens:
"Boss, how do you play this?"
The boss said without turning his head: "Just put the things on it. The weight displayed when you put it on it will be the weight of the love between you two!"
"One pound of love can be exchanged for a photo of your bride's location. One kilogram of love can be exchanged directly for a reminder of her location. If you exchange for 2 kilograms of love, I will give you the locations of all the brides now!"
Lu Zhongnian was thoughtful.
“Put something on it”, what does “thing” refer to?
He thought for a moment and rummaged through his body. He only had Xicheng, a cell phone, a demon coin he carried with him (the other one was given to Mu Yu in the previous copy and he didn't take it back), half a notebook of sticky notes, and a gel pen.
He put the five items on the electronic scale one by one.
First, the mobile phone, which should have weighed about 200g, was placed on the electronic scale, but the weight displayed was only 0.1g.
Lu Chongnian quickly added the happy scale, devil coins, and sticky notes, and the weight shown on the electronic scale barely increased by 0.05g.
Until the gel pen was put down, the weight suddenly increased by 50g!
50.15g is the total weight of love that can be exchanged for these five things.
Lu Chongnian didn't have anything else on him, but the weight was still far from 1 kilogram.
He was silent for a moment and took off the groom's clothes.
Rule 2 of the Find a Bride game: To ensure fairness in the game, all participants must change their clothing and must not take it off unless there are special circumstances.
The clothes that the players wear should also be one of the "things" that can be used for weighing, and if they want to take off their own clothes, they must first take off the groom's wedding clothes. This should be the "special situation" mentioned in the rules.
——Sure enough, Lu Chongnian took off his wedding clothes and was safe and sound. However, considering that the things the copy gave them might not be worth much, he just threw the coat on the ground.
Then he crossed his hands, grabbed the corner of his sweatshirt, flipped it up, and took off the sweatshirt he was wearing.
The exposed cold white skin seemed even colder than the air in the late autumn night. The swaying light from the chandelier in the wooden house swept across the muscle texture on his body.
Lu Zhongnian had a calm face and threw the shirt onto the electronic scale.
The total weight shown on the electronic scale is: 100.15g.
Lu Zhongnian: “…”
A bit unexpected.
I just wanted to try it casually, but I didn't expect that the love weight gain of this top would be comparable to that of the pen.
Inside the cabin, the boss seemed to know what was happening outside. He snorted and said, "Why don't you take off your pants and try it. Your bride might like it more."
Lu Zhongnian: “…………”
He picked up the clothes and put them on quickly, and put the remaining five things back into his pockets. He had a blank expression on his face the whole time, but the night concealed the redness on his ears.
He ran back into the woods, the feeling of near death instantly gone.
However, Lu Chongnian did not run into the depths of the woods. Instead, he waited for a while, then turned around and ran out of the woods again.
——He wants to experiment.
This time, when he ran towards the candle array, he found himself blocked by an invisible barrier.
Lu Zhongnian wrote on the sticky note:
1. Electronic scale. Put down your belongings to exchange for the weight of love. Only things related to both of you can be exchanged for a larger weight. 1 jin of love can be exchanged for the bride's location photo, 1 kilogram can be exchanged for the bride's location reminder, and 2 kilograms can be exchanged for all the bride's locations.
2. The time limit for activities outside the woods is about 5 minutes. The same person cannot approach the candle array twice in a row. It is not known how long the interval will be.
Lu Chongnian stayed.
He tore off the sticky note and stuck it on a branch, then ran back to the woods, this time rushing into the depths of the woods without looking back.
*
Outside the park.
Li Mingke breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lu Chongnian blow out the candle in time.
Then he finally began to think calmly about his current situation.
The copy gave him such a setting that transcends time and space, which must have its purpose.
Just before Lu Chongnian appeared, he once again walked into the deep night after midnight, trying to blow out the candle that was lit after midnight, but found that he couldn't do it.
Obviously, he could only watch the world after midnight and could not intervene.
What can just watching bring to their players?
——Of course it’s information and clues!
This is a predictive ability. He can give the eight players clues about the future by observing the world after midnight!
After realizing this, Li Mingke became a little excited.
The guilt he felt was slightly alleviated by the fact that he was not completely useless.
And now, the time has come to 11:25, and the corresponding world after midnight should be 00:03.
Li Mingke straightened his face and stepped into the gate of Yinghu Park again.
Let him see what the world has become like after midnight!
The moment he stepped through the gate, the scene in the garden changed.
At this moment, none of the eight players were on the lawn, but Li Mingke discovered that there was a figure standing in front of the candle array, staring down at the candles.
Another NPC who wants to light some candles?
The strange thing was that this person just stood there and watched, without moving, with a thoughtful look on his face.
This is a man with handsome features and tall stature. He is wearing a white shirt, which makes him look particularly elegant. If it weren't in a copy, Li Mingke might have thought he was a male star.
He walked around to the man with doubts, but the man turned around and walked calmly towards the woods.
Li Mingke was stunned.
…This person is going to the woods?
...Why did NPC go into the woods?
Before he could figure it out, two people suddenly rushed out from the woods.
Li Mingke looked over subconsciously, and goose bumps appeared all over his body at that moment.
——It turned out to be Jiang He and a monster with only a mouth on its face!
The monster was wearing a bright red suit of a groom and had a head like a huge ball of flesh without eyes, nose, ears or even hair.
It was very close to Jiang He, and Jiang He was talking to it intimately, as if he didn't notice anything was wrong at all.
It was not until he ran into the strange man who was about to step into the game base station that Jiang He was stunned, took a step back vigilantly, and opened his mouth.
Li Mingke's heart was beating very fast. He hurriedly ran closer to take a look and made out that Jiang He's lips seemed to be asking the strange man "Who are you?"
The man raised his eyebrows and opened his lips.
Li Mingke was anxious and wanted to see it more clearly, so he couldn't help but take two steps closer.
——Just then, the monster beside Jiang He suddenly turned his head and "looked" in his direction.
Li Mingke was startled and stopped.
Jiang He noticed the monster's gaze, and while being wary of the strange man, he asked curiously: "XX, what are you looking at?"
The shape of his lips when he called the monster's name was...
Li Mingke's scalp felt numb and he turned around and ran. He rushed madly to the gate of the park, supported his knees with his hands and gasped for breath, with cold sweat pouring out of his back.
Why was the monster looking at him?
Did it see him?
How could it see him?
In the world after midnight, all NPCs and players cannot detect his existence, except monsters?!
Li Mingke swallowed hard and cursed wildly in his heart.
Also, Jiang He seemed to have mistaken that monster for...
Could it be that the monsters in this copy have the ability to disguise themselves as players, and only he can see their true appearance in the world after midnight? !
Then, then he has to tell the eight people at this moment about this right? !
Li Mingke stood up suddenly, but paused, and thought again -
If he really wanted to pass on this message, he must not get the wrong person, otherwise it would be easy to hurt someone by mistake...
Go in again and confirm again...?
He breathed rapidly, hesitated for a moment, and then mustered up his courage.
This is all the role I can play, how can I retreat at this time!
He took a deep breath, turned around, and stepped back into the park gate.
moment.
——A cold breath hit me in the face.
He was caught off guard and face to face with a blank face.
A porcelain-white face with only a mouth and no other facial features enlarged in front of him. The smooth facial skin almost touched his nose, and it felt cold and slippery to the touch.
A huge shadow covered him like the sky and the sun. The hands hidden in the red sleeves of the groom's formal suit were raised and spun towards him like a snake.
Li Mingke's heart stopped beating at this moment.
He turned around and crawled back out of the park, where his face hit the ground hard.
——The monster was actually waiting for him at the park entrance after midnight!
…
…
In Yinghu Park shrouded in darkness, everything is calm and peaceful before midnight.
An NPC walked up to the candle array, bent down, and lit the candles.
*
Somewhere in the woods.
Lu Bin didn't know where he was at the moment.
Although he and Qin Jiang had been to Yinghu Park many times, he was not able to remember every tree and blade of grass here. His sense of direction was not good either, so he had no choice but to choose a direction at random and walk forward.
After walking cautiously for about five or six minutes, he vaguely saw the reflection of the lake hidden behind the shadows of the trees not far away, and finally knew where he was!
He is walking deeper into the woods!
If he wanted to go to the waiting location he and Qin Jiang had agreed on in advance - the edge of the woods, then he had to go in the opposite direction!
Lu Bin quickly turned around, but at this moment, he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, his eyes suddenly widened, and his steps paused.
Right in front of him, there was a tall towering tree.
On the tree... there was a bride sitting quietly.
The bride, wearing a red wedding dress and a red veil, sat upright on a thick tree branch, silently disappearing into the darkness, with a pair of feet in embroidered shoes hanging naturally.
She didn't move, the candlelight was burning on the ground beneath her feet, the scene was extremely horrifying.
Lu Bin was immediately terrified.
Why would someone choose to be in a place like this... Is this a monster?
But, but if this is a monster, wouldn’t its identity be a little too obvious?
He hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to give it a try.
He cleared his throat and said to himself, "Ah, it's so dark here..."
The bride on the tree remained motionless, without any reaction, only the candles around her swayed in the wind.
Lu Bin added: "This place is a bit far from the base station..."
The bride still did not move.
Lu Bin shut up.
He suddenly thought, the seven points of attention for the groom set strict rules for the entire question-and-answer process, so would it be the same for the bride?
Would their rules require that they not give the slightest reaction or hint, not even wiggling their toes?
If that's the case, then this game is too difficult...
If they can't get a response from the bride, they can only rely on their own judgment to decide whether to go up and ask "Can I reveal it?"
But if the person opposite is really a monster, then the monster will definitely agree, and then they will have to lift the red veil, and then it will be over, right?
Lu Bin felt a little headache, and he carefully observed the bride's figure.
Seems to be thinner and shorter than Qin Jiang?
It doesn't look like her anyway.
He noted the bride's location, turned around and hurried towards the edge of the woods.
…
When Ye Sui came to his senses from the darkness before his eyes, he found that he had been teleported to the edge of Yinghu Lake, in a very remote location.
Behind him was the park wall, and he had to walk around Yinghu Lake and diagonally to the opposite side before he could enter the main area of the woods.
It’s too far.
He looked to his left and right, decided it would be faster to go around to the left, and started running.
…
Qin Jiang was sitting motionless in the dark, with a stone under his hips, feeling very uneasy.
Where is she now?
The red veil blocked her vision and she could only see the land beneath her feet.
The red veil was opaque, and the ground beneath her feet was pitch black with no light shining on it... Was there not even a candle around her now?
The magical thing is that at this moment, although Qin Jiang could hear the whistling wind, he didn't seem to feel the wind blowing on his body.
The location she chose was "a quiet place that is not exposed to wind or rain," and the copy seemed to have really teleported her to such a place.
But where in this grove could she find shelter from the wind and rain?
It can’t just be “under the tree”, right?
Qin Jiang was thinking seriously when he suddenly heard footsteps!
She shuddered and pricked up her ears.
The footsteps came from her left, the pace was very rapid, and the other party was obviously running.
A friend?!
Someone came here?!
The man quickly ran from a distance to right in front of her and suddenly stopped.
Qin Jiang was excited and nervous, her heart was in her throat - was it someone else, or was it Lu Bin? Who was it? !
The next second, she discovered...
The other party's rapid breathing sound came from above her head...
...It's not the height difference that can only be caused by sitting or standing...but, but it comes from a very, very high position...
The breath sprayed over her, and the airflow was so strong that it slightly fluttered her red veil.
Qin Jiang froze.
There seemed to be a huge creature standing in front of her.
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