Chapter 110 I Really Want to Open It
Although the position of the box girl changes, the position of the items inside the box does not change. This means that if one person opens a box and sees what's inside, the next person doesn't have to waste their time on a box they've already opened.
Opening a box is dangerous, but there are also benefits in danger. If you find an item that can kill or liberate the box lady, or something like the combination to a safe, then humans are getting the upper hand.
After Sun Yuanzhou finished speaking, his gaze swept through the crowd. His voice was frighteningly cold. "I know what you're thinking. You want to take advantage of others' mistakes, right? Zhu Meng, you've played the game before. Tell me, can the Box Girl enter a box that has already been opened?"
"Of course you can," Ruan Nanzhu said calmly. "Once the box is opened, it will close again, and the box girl can naturally move inside. So if anyone wants to avoid danger, I suggest you don't take advantage of the opportunity and just starve."
"Did you hear that?" Sun Yuanzhou said, "Information, the most important thing now is information. When opening the box, there should be at least two people in a group, so that if any accidents occur, they can record it." To put it bluntly, this is because they are afraid that the person or woman who opened the box will disappear before others know about it.
"By the way, didn't Xiao Ji unlock a skill called False Response yesterday?" Ruan Nanzhu shared their discovery to prevent the next person from being deceived. "In the board game, this skill allows the player playing the Box Girl to lie. But here, it's a bit different—the Box Girl can hide in a box and make a familiar voice. So, if you hear that voice, don't assume it's someone you know who's been trapped in the box."
Sun Yuanzhou nodded to indicate that he understood, and looked at the others: "Any other questions?"
The people sitting around the table began to whisper and discuss the information given by Ruan Nanzhu and Sun Yuanzhou's suggestions.
"We won't force you to open the boxes. If you feel you can go hungry, then go ahead and keep going." Sun Yuanzhou added, "You can also wait until you can't stand the hunger anymore before opening the boxes."
"I have a question." A girl in the crowd stood up. Lin Qiushi remembered her name as Xuan Zihui. She pointed at Ruan Nanzhu and said, "She told us everything. If she lied to us, we wouldn't know."
Sun Yuanzhou was about to speak when Ruan Nanzhu laughed. He raised his chin and said provocatively, "If you want, you don't have to believe me at all. I have no objection."
Sun Yuanzhou said, "That's right." He was clearly on Ruan Nanzhu's side. Facing Xuan Zihui's questioning, "If you can provide us with other information, no one will mind."
Xuan Zihui wanted to say something else, but the person next to her pulled her hand, signaling her not to continue.
"If it were any other door, I might have benefited from lying to you, but with this door, there's no benefit at all from lying." Ruan Nanzhu didn't even look at Xuan Zihui, his questioning extremely dismissive. "Will adding a few more people in the box lower the difficulty of my game?"
"The nature of this door is indeed somewhat special. We don't need to consider this kind of thing for the time being. I think we should focus on unpacking the box." Someone came out to act as a peacemaker.
Sun Yuanzhou took out a note from his pocket and distributed it to everyone present, and reminded everyone that if they got props or the box girl's skills, they must tell others and not hide it.
Everyone received the note, their expressions were quite varied, and it was obvious that everyone had their own thoughts.
After that, everyone made an agreement to exchange information at noon every day, share their discoveries from the previous day, and determine the number of survivors.
After the meeting, everyone dispersed.
"Do you think they will open the box?" Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu discussed this issue. They had him to listen to the box, so the safety factor was much greater than with other people.
"No," Ruan Nanzhu said, "They are all old foxes who value their lives. At least no one will open it today."
"Then we have to wait until morning?" Lin Qiushi also understood Ruan Nanzhu's meaning. "Breakfast, right?"
Ruan Nanzhu smiled and said, "Yes, even though we only have one meal a day, we won't starve to death."
"Oh." Liang Miye said, "Actually, if you think about it carefully, this method is not bad." She was talking about the restrictions inside the door. After all, if everyone was not forced to open the box, this group of people would definitely live in the villa for several months.
She murmured, "Who doesn't want to go out early..."
Many people stayed awake that night, perhaps because of hunger or fear.
Lin Qiushi didn't sleep very well. He was half asleep and half awake most of the night. In a daze, he felt Ruan Nanzhu suddenly climb onto his bed.
"Nanzhu..." Lin Qiushi called out dazedly, "What's wrong?"
Ruan Nanzhu leaned close to Lin Qiushi's ear and whispered, "Linlin, are you hungry?"
Lin Qiushi said vaguely, "A little..." Who wouldn't be hungry after not eating for a day? But he was just hungry, not to the point of being unbearable.
Who knew that after he said this, Ruan Nanzhu actually took something out of his pajamas pocket. Lin Qiushi lowered his eyes and found that it was actually a piece of chocolate.
"You have half and I have half." Ruan Nanzhu pinched the chocolate and broke it open gently, "Let's do it secretly." He curled his eyes and showed a nice smile.
"How much did you bring?" Lin Qiushi asked.
Ruan Nanzhu said, "Not much..." He tore open the wrapper and handed the chocolate to Lin Qiushi's mouth, "Eat it."
Before Lin Qiushi could say anything, he felt chocolate stuffed into his mouth. He licked Ruan Nanzhu's fingers reflexively and watched as Ruan Nanzhu's eyes darkened.
Ruan Nanzhu asked, "Is it sweet?"
Lin Qiushi nodded.
Ruan Nanzhu came over and licked his lips, saying, "It's really sweet." But he didn't eat the other piece. Instead, he wrapped it up and stuffed it into his pajamas pocket.
"Why don't you eat?" Lin Qiushi asked.
"I'm not hungry." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Go to sleep. We have to get up early tomorrow."
Lin Qiushi looked into Ruan Nanzhu's eyes. No matter how powerful Ruan Nanzhu was, he was just an ordinary human being and would get hungry if he didn't eat.
Lin Qiushi wanted to say something, but Ruan Nanzhu had already snuggled into his arms, kissed his chin, and whispered, "Shh, stop talking. Don't wake Mi Ye up. Go to sleep."
Seeing Ruan Nanzhu's firm attitude, Lin Qiushi had no choice but to keep quiet and reach out to hug him tightly.
Ruan Nanzhu inside the door wasn't frail, but rather more lively than the one outside. At least if he were outside, Lin Qiushi wouldn't have dared to embrace Ruan Nanzhu and cherish him...
The next morning, Liang Miye woke up and stared at the two people hugging each other on the bed with wide eyes.
"Good morning." Ruan Nanzhu greeted her calmly after waking up.
Liang Miye said, "You guys..." She was just about to ask why they were sleeping in the same bed when she saw Ruan Nanzhu kiss Lin Qiushi on the cheek and called out, "Linlin, get up."
Lin Qiushi mumbled drowsily, "Good morning."
Liang Miye: "..." Shit, she seemed to know something she shouldn't know. The leader of Obsidian was dating one of their own members?! Isn't this the same as her boss?!
Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu ignored Liang Miye's shock, washed up calmly, and went to the dining room.
As soon as they entered the dining room and saw the atmosphere among the crowd, they knew that their guess from yesterday was confirmed. The door really could not be so kind as to provide them with a loophole - if they did not open the box, they could not have breakfast.
Only Xiao Ji, who had opened the box yesterday, was still happily stuffing the hot cake into his mouth, making the eyes of the people around him red.
Xiao Ji chuckled and said, "Look at me, it's no use. If you want to eat, just open the box."
Lin Qiushi and the other two found a seat and sat down, waiting for the others. A while later, Sun Yuanzhou and his companions finally arrived. After they sat down, they smiled at everyone and actually picked up the food on the table and began to eat. They also opened their boxes.
"Have you opened the box?" Xuan Zihui, who had questioned Ruan Nanzhu yesterday, asked anxiously, "What did you find?"
"It's neither good nor bad luck." Sun Yuanzhou took a sip of porridge before speaking, "Two empty boxes, and the skills of a box girl."
"Another skill has been revealed!" Everyone was a little desperate. "What did it reveal?"
Sun Yuanzhou placed the skill card on the table. Lin Qiushi was close enough to see the words clearly at a glance: I really want to open it.
"What does this mean?" Everyone looked at Ruan Nanzhu, the only one who knew the rules.
"A very troublesome skill." Ruan Nanzhu sighed, "The Box Girl can force a player to open a designated box..."
Everyone fell into silence in an instant.
"What do you mean? Doesn't it mean she can kill a specific person?" The newcomer spoke, looking on the verge of a breakdown. "Is that what you mean?"
"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said in a light tone.
"But this is also our opportunity." Ruan Nanzhu saw the deep despair on everyone's faces and added slowly, "The Box Girl and the Box Man can actually be killed, but it requires some special items, and the way to kill them is to use the items on the box before opening it. These items are also hidden inside the box. If we can open it, we can break the Box Girl's skill."
No one spoke, as everyone knew that this matter was not that simple.
Two hundred boxes, who knows where those props are hidden.
An atmosphere of despair enveloped everyone, and the sound of crying was heard again at the dinner table.
Sun Yuanzhou obviously didn't like these newcomers who were crying out of breath. After finishing his meal, he got up and left with his companions.
Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi didn't waste time at the table - they couldn't eat anyway.
"Let's go check the box in the study first." Ruan Nanzhu suggested after leaving the dining table.
"Okay." Lin Qiushi nodded.
When they arrived at the study, Lin Qiushi randomly selected two boxes, lowered his head and listened carefully. After making sure there were no other sounds inside the boxes, he took a deep breath and prepared to open the first one.
"Let me try first." Lin Qiushi said. In fact, he was not very confident. He took a deep breath, grabbed the lid of the box, and then opened it with force - empty, there was nothing in the box. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt a sense of regret.
He failed to produce any useful props.
"You take the next box." Ruan Nanzhu looked at Liang Miye who was standing next to him without saying much.
"Me?" Liang Miye was a little surprised. She had already prepared herself to starve for two days. After all, it was Lin Qiushi's skill. Besides, starving for two days was no big deal. It wouldn't kill her anyway. But she didn't expect Ruan Nanzhu to give her this opportunity.
"Yeah." Ruan Nanzhu nodded.
Liang Miye was about to refuse, but seeing Ruan Nanzhu's firm attitude, he said, "It's only two days, it's not a big deal."
Liang Miye said, "Okay...but you don't have to starve. I brought some food with me. It's not much, but it's enough to fill your stomach."
Ruan Nanzhu smiled and said, "Okay."
Liang Miye chose a box, and Lin Qiushi nodded, signaling it was time to open it. Like Lin Qiushi, she held her breath as they unpacked the boxes. Then, carefully opening the box in front of her, she saw what was inside—a card with the number three written on it.
"It's the password to the safe!" Lin Qiushi said in surprise.
"Good luck." Liang Miye smiled and put the card into his pocket.
Ruan Nanzhu didn't laugh much, but sighed.
"Why are you sighing?" Lin Qiushi asked him.
"Opening the safe is the most troublesome way to leave here." Ruan Nanzhu said.
"Why do you say that?" Liang Miye asked.
"Because the password might not be in the hands of one person, who would then be the one to get the clue to leave?" Ruan Nanzhu said, "But it's too early to think about this now. Let's talk about it later."
The three of them were discussing something when they heard a girl's wailing coming from the dining room downstairs. The wailing sounded shrill and desperate, and it was exactly the voice of the box girl.
Hearing this voice, the three of them looked unhappy.
In the board game, after the player finds out the skills of the Box Girl, she cannot use them at will. The skill will only truly belong to her after she cries once. Although the Box Girl's crying exposes her position, it also tells the player that she has gained another skill.
"It feels really bad." Liang Miye said.
Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu remained silent.
The entire villa was shrouded in an atmosphere of despair. Lin Qiushi came down from the second floor and saw several newlyweds with pale faces sitting in the living room. They looked like they had lost hope of living and sat there motionless like puppets.
These people were brought in by Wei Xiu De, but Wei Xiu De was nowhere to be seen at this time. It was obvious that he had given up on them after they became a burden.
Lin Qiushi felt that Wei Xiu De's name should really be changed, and it would be more appropriate to change it to Wei Que De.
At lunch time, only half of the twenty people started eating, while the rest either didn't come to the restaurant or just watched.
Sun Yuanzhou was a little surprised that Ruan Nanzhu hadn't touched his chopsticks, and asked, "You haven't opened yours either?"
"I'm just scared," Ruan Nanzhu said softly, leaning on Lin Qiushi's shoulder. His long eyelashes trembled, and his expression was pitiful. "What if something strange comes out?"
Sun Yuanzhou said, "Then you can't just not eat all the time." It seemed that he had a good impression of Ruan Nanzhu, otherwise he wouldn't care about him so much.
Ruan Nanzhu did not respond.
In fact, there were quite a few people who didn't pick up their chopsticks, including a few elderly people. Wei Xiu De, thanks to Xiao Ji, ate his fill and looked very satisfied, which made the others feel very bad.
After the meal, everyone exchanged information with each other. No one had come up with a particularly useful item, and only one person had come up with a barrel of gasoline.
Ruan Nanzhu explained the function of gasoline. Gasoline can limit the action of the box girl and kill a box man, but the prerequisite for its use is that you must make sure that the box man and the box girl are in the box and use it without opening the box.
The man who got the gasoline breathed a sigh of relief and said that he would be safe tomorrow because as long as he used the gasoline first and then opened the box, he could be 100% sure that the box he opened was safe.
Liang Miye also told everyone that they had found a safe combination, but she didn't say what the combination was. She just said that if others also found one, they could cooperate. Whoever found the combination with more digits would have the key. If everyone found the same combination, they would play rock-paper-scissors to decide who would own the key.
This method is fairer, and no one else has found the password yet, so everyone agreed.
After exchanging information, everyone dispersed.
Ruan Nanzhu seemed a little sleepy and kept yawning after leaving the table.
Lin Qiushi asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Yeah, I want to sleep." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Let's go back to the room first." He rubbed his eyes and looked very sleepy.
Lin Qiushi said, "Okay, maybe you didn't sleep well last night." They went upstairs and returned to their room.
Ruan Nanzhu sat by the bed but did not get into bed. His eyes fell on a box against the wall.
Lin Qiushi sat behind him, a little confused: "Zhu Meng?"
Ruan Nanzhu didn't say anything.
"Zhu Meng?" Lin Qiushi walked up behind him, patted his shoulder, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Ruan Nanzhu suddenly came back to his senses. He said, "...Nothing." There was a slight hesitation in his expression, but in the end he said nothing. "Nothing."
Liang Miye said, "Zhu Meng, you haven't eaten yet, I'll make you a bowl of instant noodles."
She even brought in instant noodles.
Liang Miye went to the kitchen to boil water. Lin Qiushi sat next to Ruan Nanzhu. Thinking that Ruan Nanzhu was feeling unwell, he reached out and touched his forehead, confirming that it wasn't too hot. "Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
Ruan Nanzhu shook his head. He seemed a little troubled by his condition. "It's okay."
Lin Qiushi didn't say anything. He followed Ruan Nanzhu's gaze and saw a black wooden box placed against the wall. It was still an ordinary wooden box, but Ruan Nanzhu's eyes made it seem as if there was something extremely important in the box.
An absurd thought flashed through Lin Qiushi's mind. His expression froze instantly, and even his voice became a little hoarse. "Zhu Meng." He reached out and grabbed Ruan Nanzhu's face, forcing it to face him. "Don't look at that box anymore."
Ruan Nanzhu didn't say anything, his expression looked very wrong.
Lin Qiushi asked, "Zhu Meng?"
Ruan Nanzhu reached out and pressed down on Lin Qiushi's arm, forcibly prying it apart. Then he turned his head and his gaze fell on the box in the corner again: "There seems to be an important prop in that box."
As soon as these words came out, Lin Qiushi knew that his guess had come true—the box girl had used a skill.
He really wanted to open it. There must be something important inside, maybe a tool that could kill the box girl. As long as he opened it, they could leave here and return to the real world. Ruan Nanzhu's eyes became more and more determined, and he slowly stood up from the bed.
“Nanzhu—” Lin Qiushi no longer cared about anything else. He directly called out Ruan Nanzhu’s name and hugged his waist, “Nanzhu, wake up!!”
Ruan Nanzhu said nothing. He was extremely strong and easily tore away Lin Qiushi's hands that were holding him and walked towards the box.
"Nanzhu--" A layer of cold sweat appeared on Lin Qiushi's forehead. He used up all his strength, but could only barely slow down Ruan Nanzhu's walking speed. "Nanzhu, wake up, that box cannot be opened!!!" He roared, trying to wake Ruan Nanzhu from the hallucination.
But it was no use. Ruan Nanzhu could not hear his voice at all. He walked forward step by step and was about to reach the box.
Liang Miye also came out of the kitchen because of Lin Qiushi's voice. Seeing this scene, she said in horror, "Linlin, what's wrong?"
"The box girl's skills!" Lin Qiushi, sweating profusely, panted heavily and said, "Come and help me!"
Liang Miye also rushed over, wanting to help Lin Qiushi catch Ruan Nanzhu.
However, facing Ruan Nanzhu's immense strength, their attempts to stop him were like an ant trying to shake a tree. At this critical moment, Lin Qiushi suddenly had an idea and roared, "Liang Miye, hurry! Go get my backpack!"
Although she didn't know what Lin Qiushi's action was for, Liang Miye still ran towards the backpack and quickly brought it to Lin Qiushi: "And then?!"
Lin Qiushi said, "You come and hold Ruan Nanzhu back!" He took the backpack and quickly searched inside - he didn't know if it would be useful, but this was Ruan Nanzhu's only hope of survival!
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