The hair in front of Shi Yu's eyes was shaken down, revealing a pair of eyes as dark as ink: "There are so many of you, what do you want me to do?"
Fang Chen always had a certain indescribable fear towards him, and his voice lowered involuntarily: "Brother Cheng asked me to call you."
Shi Yu pushed her hair in front of her face again to cover her eyes: "Five minutes."
As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Wuye, who had just finished observing the corpse outside the door, came in, glanced at the person sleeping on the chair, and then looked at Fang Chen.
Fang Chen promptly relayed: "He said he wanted to sleep for another five minutes."
Cheng Wuye closed his mouth again as he was about to speak.
Fang Chen stood aside, thinking that this was just a quote about staying in bed that he had said countless times in elementary and middle school, but he didn't expect that Cheng Wuye actually seemed to believe it.
Just as he had never expected, five minutes later, not a second more or less, the person who was originally lying on the chair actually sat up.
Cheng Wuye asked, "Have you slept enough?"
Shi Yu blinked slowly, looked up at him, then lowered her head and walked out.
The tragic appearance of Hu Qiu's corpse was similar to that of the male player who died when the players just entered the game the day before yesterday. All the skin that everyone could see was peeled off, and the fingers of the deceased who peeled off his own skin were covered in blood, and white skin tissue was embedded in his fingernails.
Because there was an eyewitness like Lu Nan who told everyone how the player who died on the first day died, when the players saw her, they could connect her with the player on the first day and imagine the whole process of the other party scratching their skin personally.
The man standing outside looked extremely bad.
Fang Chen seemed to be afraid of disturbing something, so he spoke in a very soft voice: "Did he die last night?"
The man's jaw clenched. "I didn't hear anything during the night."
"Hey, I didn't hear anything either," Fang Chen squatted down and covered the woman with a white cloth he got from somewhere. Only then did he dare to look directly at the body under the bulging white cloth. "I guess this is the setting of this game. We must sleep at night."
The man barely moved his lips but couldn't utter a word.
Any experienced player can see this, and this was not what he originally intended to express.
But the woman slept in the same lobby with them last night, and she died quietly, but they knew nothing about it. They felt sad for her. If they were the ones who were killed, they wouldn't even have the chance to ask for help.
Fang Chen bowed to Bai Bu and sighed, "Sister Hu Qiu, have a safe journey. I guess there will be someone else to accompany you later."
Cheng Wuye finally looked him straight in the eye.
The people in the game are either panicking when they first come in as newcomers, or they have been there for so long that their compassion has been worn out early. Fang Chen's attitude towards the newcomers yesterday was obviously not that of a novice, but his attitude towards death now is not like that of a completely cold-blooded veteran.
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After the sun came out completely, the helpers returned to the house as usual to make breakfast, while the others took advantage of this time to search for clues.
Shi Yu did not participate. After looking at the corpse, he returned to the chair on the second floor as if he had completed a mission. He quietly looked at the increasing number of guests below, and also saw the players who came back from the help group.
...only two people.
The thin helper never showed up.
[Based on my experience watching live broadcasts, that player is most likely gone. ]
[This game is progressing so fast. It's only been less than two days and four are missing? Won't they all be wiped out in three days?]
[I guess it's because I got a short game. A short game means the progress will be fast. It's a pity for the new players. It's their first time playing and they have no experience and have to keep up with the game progress. ]
[Speaking of which, we promised to go out and look for clues last night. I wonder if those newcomers found anything. ]
——Found it.
Cheng Wuye ran into Lu Nan, who was walking back from work, at the stairs and called out to him, "Watch your step."
Lu Nan let out an "ah" a little late, and then he realized that he almost stepped on empty air. He stood up straight by holding on to the handrail: "Brother Cheng..."
Cheng Wuye responded: "Walking without looking at the road?"
Lu Nan picked at the skin on his fingers unconsciously. There was a dark circle around his eyes and a blister on the side of his mouth: "I... I'm sorry."
Cheng Wuye: "Nothing you want to tell me?"
Lu Nan was silent for a long time. Seeing that the other party was about to turn around and leave, he quickly took two steps forward to hold him back: "Wait! I, I have something to do."
The boy who had just graduated from college did not have many traces of being polished by society. When he saw the corpse on the first day, he still had the vitality and fear of a young animal, but now his eyes were almost filled with trance and deathly silence. This was a typical state of being on the verge of mental collapse.
Cheng Wuye was not surprised at all that the other party would become like this, nor was he surprised that the boy reached out to hold him. His voice was as calm as a safe haven standing still in the wind and rain: "What's the matter?"
The boat, which was about to capsize, grabbed the safe harbor and confided, "I went out yesterday."
Lu Nan opened his mouth, his voice shaking unconsciously: "I saw it, Bai Lu."
“It’s a white deer.”
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Let’s go back ten hours.
"Where are we going now?"
Lu Nan had made an appointment to go out with the thin helper. As for the fatter one, he refused to take the risk and it was impossible for the two of them to drag him out, so they had to go themselves.
The thin one asked, "This village is so big, and we don't even have a direction. Are we just going to wander around aimlessly?"
Lu Nan said: "Brother Cheng told me before that Guan Yueyue fell off a cliff and died, and Xu Zhukong was so heartbroken over her death that he almost jumped off the cliff. We can try to go to the back mountain to have a look."
The thin man's expression changed: "Going to the mountain? Are you crazy? It's so dark here, what if you can't see the road clearly..."
Lu Nan took out a flashlight from his pocket: "I found it in the house where I live."
The two argued for a while and finally set off.
Because it was raining, the two had a harder time walking. They finally arrived at the foot of the mountain where Cheng Wuye had described Guan Yueyue falling. The thin man was sweating as he looked at the dark forest.
Lu Nan was also afraid, but perhaps because he was young, the indomitable spirit of his middle school years had not completely disappeared. He gritted his teeth and dragged his thin body closer.
His skinny hands and feet were shaking, and he was almost completely dragged by him to move forward.
After walking less than two meters, Lu Nan threw his hand away in frustration: "Uncle, if you keep doing this..."
“Wow—Ah—!” the thin man suddenly screamed and slid down.
Lu Nan was stunned for a moment, then realized something. He turned his head stiffly and saw a figure appear in the originally dark forest.
It was a deer, with a pair of beautifully shaped pure white horns. Its body was completely white without a single strand of hair. In the darkness, it looked like a light source that attracted flying insects.
Then there was a muffled "bang" sound.
The thin player next to him suddenly fell to the ground, and the pure white antlers hit the man's head hard, leaving a huge bloody wound and completely sinking the skull.
When Cheng Wuye heard this description, he suddenly remembered how Lao Liu died, with his head cracked.
He lowered his eyes: "And then?"
Lu Nan licked his lips nervously, his pupils trembling: "I, then I ran away... I originally wanted to go back to the house, but I found the wrong door and went to the next door..."
The neighbor lived in a middle-aged woman's house. She probably felt sorry for him because he was running around so hard and crying so hard in the middle of the night, so she let him into the house to have a drink to calm down.
In the process, she couldn't help but ask why he appeared at the door. Lu Nan stammered and told the story. The woman slapped her head as if she suddenly realized something and said, "Silly boy, you must have met a white deer. But how come you don't even know about white deer in our village?"
Lu Nan bit his tongue and in desperation made up an excuse that he was a distant relative who didn't usually live in the village and only came back to attend the banquet because of the funeral.
Fortunately, the game did not trick them with their identities, and did not give them a character that grew up under the noses of the villagers, so they got through it smoothly.
The woman said, "The white deer is the spirit of our village. It blesses us with good weather, good harvests, and a worry-free life every year."
The woman said, "I just don't know how those people spread the word. After it got out, it became that making a wish to the white deer can come true. Every year, there are always such people who come in and wait for them. I have never seen such a thing in my life. How can a group of outsiders like them see such a thing?"
The woman said, "But young man, you saw the white deer, but did you see it take shape? I heard from my grandmother and her generation that white deer can take on human form, and they are usually very beautiful girls. Those enchanting vixens you often see are incomparable!"
Lu Nan didn't want to discuss with her at all about which one would look better as a human, a deer or a fox. After chatting for a few words, he hurriedly got up and said goodbye.
[Why does a game with a supernatural background in a mountain village involve fairy tales? 】
【Maybe it's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. 】
[I'd like to highlight the key point for you all. The white deer in human form is a very pretty girl, a very pretty girl, a very pretty girl.]
【？ ？ ？】
[Isn't that what I think it means? ]
Cheng Wuye listened to the whole thing and asked with a strange look in his eyes: "Transform into a human form?"
Lu Nan stammered, "Ah," "That's what she said, what's wrong?"
Cheng Wuye seemed to be thinking about something.
Yesterday when he went to Lao Liu's house, the neighbor next door mentioned Guan Yueyue to him and also used the adjective "beautiful".
Logically speaking, the person is dead. Unless she was very memorable in terms of her appearance when she was alive, it would be impossible for others to use this to describe her as the first reaction when they think of her.
In fact, it is very likely that it is just a coincidence. After all, he has never seen either Bai Lu or Guan Yueyue, and he only knows about them from what others say. The only known common point they have is that they are extremely beautiful.
But……
Cheng Wuye lowered his head, and his eyes curved silently under his messy hair.
But the name of this game is "White Deer".
Saying that they have nothing to do with you is a lie.
[Every time I see Brother Wu’s smile, I think of the fox following the hunter.]
The two left the stairs.
After a while, a person slowly walked down the stairs from the second floor.
Shi Yu looked quietly in the direction they left, not knowing how much he heard.
[This is the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole is behind. 】
"elder brother."
The boy with two red spots on his head appeared out of nowhere and hugged his thighs: "I found you."
Shi Yu tried to take a step back, but failed to break free from the child's shackles.
The boy's voice echoed in the empty staircase, sounding crisp: "Did you find my sister?"
[…I don’t know what the slingshot is under the tree.]
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