Chapter 30: No Moon Tonight
The first thing that caught my eye was a long strip of paleness, which was slightly folded in the middle. The hands hidden in the long sleeves were placed across the waist, as if bowing. The paper-made face was printed with red and black colors, and the black ones were the tiny eyeballs, which were almost dotted to the top of the head.
Only the upper half of the lips were left red, with the corners of the mouth raised stiffly.
Its entire face was perpendicular to the ground, and its eyeballs seemed to be rolling around. It stood in the dark gap between the two doors, staring at Sun Yuancheng.
Looking more closely, there were doors one after another in the room, and next to every two doors there was a paper mannequin.
The deeper the door was, the closer the dummies were to the center of the door. In front of the last door that could be seen clearly, the two dummies were only separated by a distance as wide as a child.
Mysterious and mysterious.
The ghost marriage venue was chosen to be a temple, but a paper dummy that should be placed in the mourning hall was stuffed in the gap between the doors...
Li Ziyue was not in a hurry to enter the room, but prepared to try from the window next to it.
There are too many unresolved questions at the moment, and the probability of death if you rush in is very high, so acting with caution is the first choice.
Sun Yuancheng followed behind Li Ziyue obediently, but saw him suddenly stop, and then heard his deliberately low voice coming from the front: "Do you remember the appearance of the few people bitten by zombies in the courtyard just now?"
Sun Yuancheng was stunned. He didn't know why Li Ziyue asked this out of the blue, but he nodded first: "I have an impression."
"If you run into them again in the future, remember to observe them carefully."
"Ah?" Sun Yuancheng scratched his head, "What are you observing?"
"There are too few samples for reference. I can't be sure of my conclusion. You can only go and see for yourself," Li Ziyue lowered his voice. He felt his shoes stepping on something soft. He looked down and saw that for some reason, a thick layer of dead grass was spread around the room.
The dead grass was filled with water, and it felt indescribably damp when you stepped on it.
What is the function of this grass?
Li Ziyue felt a little uneasy: "...If something happens later, don't panic."
"Wha...what..."
Sun Yuancheng was stunned for a few seconds and heard his heart beating nervously.
Li Ziyue didn't look back, his voice gradually became hoarse: "In the dungeon, most people don't die from physical pain or lack of physical strength, but from spiritual despair."
"So no matter what happens, you must firmly believe that there is a way to pass this dungeon. No matter how harsh the situation is, you must use your eyes and your brain to think."
“As long as you keep thinking, you will always find a solution. You must believe this, it will save you thousands of times.”
Sun Yuancheng opened and closed his mouth, but in the end he couldn't say anything.
A nameless panic floated in his heart.
Li Ziyue's words... didn't sound like he had shared his dungeon experience with him normally, but...
His throat seemed to suddenly block up and his eyes turned red.
Sun Yuancheng didn't dare to think about it, let alone speak out this guess.
He was afraid that his words would come true, afraid that he would be a pessimist. He just looked up at Li Ziyue.
The sound of rain was trickling and the cold wind was blowing through the corridor layer by layer.
Only then did he realize that since some time ago, Li Ziyue's originally upright back had quietly bent due to the unbearable pain.
He seemed to have gotten used to Li Ziyue's calmness in holding the entire copy in his hands, and forgot that Li Ziyue was actually just an ordinary person.
He forgot that Li Ziyue would also get hurt and make mistakes, but he just followed behind Li Ziyue without doing anything, quietly waiting for Li Ziyue to hold up the sky for him.
It seems that as long as Li Ziyue pulls me along, I can pass this copy smoothly.
Sun Yuancheng silently clenched his fists, his eyes moved downwards guiltily, and he gradually became afraid to look at Li Ziyue.
But suddenly I felt a warmth on my head.
Li Ziyue raised an eyebrow at him, smoothed the messy hair on his head, and couldn't help sighing: "What are you sad about?"
"You are just a novice, and there is still a lot of time for you to grow. Growing through suffering is certainly helpful, but does one have to grow through pain?"
"Reaching the top is not about who has endured more hardship, but about who has the right idea. This is only your second infinite dungeon. You have nothing to feel guilty about hiding behind me for a while."
"Do you think that if I tell you, Sun Yuancheng, that you can solve the main plot of this dungeon by yourself, you will definitely grow rapidly?" Li Ziyue thought seriously about how to comfort Sun Yuancheng. "No, the ending will most likely be that I will collect your body."
Sun Yuancheng was originally so moved that he wanted to cry, but suddenly his mood froze.
Who would have thought that Li Ziyue would continue to finish off the enemy: "Although I was already the top player in the dungeon in terms of combat power when I went to the dungeon for the second time, you are not much worse than me. At least you didn't fall down when I pulled you to run."
At this moment, Sun Yuancheng wanted to throw himself on the ground and cry loudly.
Who comforts people like this! Isn't it a basic requirement to not fall down and not hold others back?
Li Ziyue hummed slowly, and when he saw that Sun Yuancheng's mood had returned to normal, he turned around and continued to observe.
However, Sun Yuancheng sensed a slight change.
In the first primary pseudo-human copy, the scene where Li Ziyue pinched his neck and scolded him seemed to be still in front of him. Now, as the contact between the two deepened, Sun Yuancheng realized...
Li Ziyue is actually a very gentle person.
Even though he himself would not admit it.
Li Ziyue took a few slow, deep breaths and silently poked a hole in the paper window outside the room. He gradually enlarged the hole, but could still only see darkness.
It was raining heavily and it was so noisy outside that I couldn't hear any sound in the room.
He approached the hole slowly.
The distance is getting closer...
10cm.
5cm.
4cm.
…
Until finally there was only a finger's distance left.
“Boom!”
Thunder roared, lightning struck the sky, and a cruel white light suddenly appeared in front of everyone like a fast-flying meteor, illuminating the entire temple as bright as day.
In this brief 0.2 second flash, at a distance of less than two centimeters, Li Ziyue could clearly see the appearance of the thing hidden in the black hole.
It was a stiff, trembling eyeball, surrounded by thick black, but the eyeball in the middle was white, shrunk to a tiny point, hidden in a darkness as thick as mucus.
The upper body of the paper man in the house was rotated 180 degrees in an extremely ridiculous manner. Its limbs were twisted, and its face was greedily stuck to the paper wall. Its eyeballs filled the holes in the window, and under the cover of night, it stared eerily at the unsuspecting Li Ziyue for a long time.
Until the lightning struck and the light made it visible.
Sun Yuancheng was so frightened that his limbs instantly went limp and cold sweat instantly broke out all over his body. With two "clangs", he fell to the ground without any resistance.
The rain on the ground burned his palms, but he seemed to be unaware of it. His voice trembled, "Brother..."
After a few seconds, there was still no response. Sun Yuancheng's heart suddenly tightened. The abnormality of Li Ziyue before reappeared in his mind. He tremblingly moved his gaze to the other side.
Gone.
Li Ziyue disappeared from his side without him knowing when.
…
The rain slowed down, but the accumulated water did not decrease at all. When people walked by, ripples of water would be stirred up, and the sound of rushing water would penetrate into the ears.
Ji Mingyun stood under the eaves with an expressionless face, holding a cold iron chain in his hand.
The sturdy man at the other end of the chain was already dying, leaning against the wall. Hot air was rushing through his body, and the skin near his neck was inexplicably covered with rows of dense bubbles.
The chains trembled slightly.
Ji Mingyun didn't even look at the burly man, but just stared at the darkness in the corner.
"Why do you think Li Ziyue will definitely kill someone?"
The man in the corner laughed: "Look at my face, can't I guess what Li Ziyue will do?"
He gradually walked out of the darkness. Ji Mingyun narrowed his eyes slightly, and with the dim light from the aisle, he could just barely see the man's outline.
She walked slowly and lazily. She was tall, slightly thin but strong. The half of her arms that were slightly exposed had beautiful lines and obvious joints at the bottom.
He seemed to have just woken up, with a sleepy look on his face. The strands of hair on his forehead were restlessly sticking up a few times, and underneath, a pair of peach blossom eyes were slightly narrowed with a quiet smile.
The weather was still cold and the air was humid. He shrank his upturned nose and seemed to have a piece of candy in his mouth, biting it neither slowly nor quickly.
He is no different from Li Ziyue. If you have to say the difference, this man seems to be more relaxed.
Ji Mingyun thought of Li Ziyue whom he had seen in the player lobby. Although his face was calm, there was a hint of alertness and repression between his brows. And the man in front of him...
If he hadn't suddenly come to Ji Mingyun to conspire, Ji Mingyun would have thought that he was a heartless student.
I only worry about how difficult the test is and what to eat for lunch, and have nothing to do with the infinite flow copy.
Ji Mingyun sighed, but before he could say anything, he heard Li Ziyue say, "I need you to tie a rooster to the pillar at the door of the room facing the main entrance, and put a red flower on the rooster."
Ji Mingyun frowned: "Then what?"
"Then spread a layer of dead grass around the room."
"Why?"
Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows and said, "When you lay the grass later, you will find that the ground around that room is empty. There is a circle of secret passages underneath, and it is easy for people to step on empty space and fall down."
"The grass is laid to prevent Li Ziyue from finding out that there is nothing underneath. After all, there is a clear difference between stepping on a solid surface and on an empty surface."
"Secretly?" Ji Mingyun rubbed his swollen temples, "How do you know that Li Ziyue will definitely..."
Before he finished asking, [Li Ziyue] interrupted him: "He will definitely do so."
"I know him better than anyone," he sneered, "When Li Ziyue finds that the rooms around him are all the same, he will pay special attention to unique rooms. The rooster tied to the door will make him think that the bride in this room is marrying a rooster instead of a giant Buddha. In other words, there may be no Buddha statue in this room."
"This is the first step, to lure him over."
"Then the paper figurines placed in the room will make him suspicious again." Li Ziyue pointed to the window of a nearby house, where there was a hole about the width of a finger. "Li Ziyue is a very suspicious person. If he doesn't find sufficient reasons, he will most likely not act rashly."
"Therefore, he would not enter through the main gate. He would go around to the side and observe."
"This is the second step, to lure him into the trap."
Ji Mingyun said nothing.
"After he falls, he will immediately think of a solution. At this time, you need someone close to you to help." Li Ziyue glanced at the sturdy man who seemed to be dying. "Is he really loyal to you?"
"Sincerely." Ji Mingyun raised his eyelids slightly and said nonchalantly, "I have his weak spot in my hand. He has to be loyal to me even if he doesn't want to."
[Li Ziyue] raised half of his eyebrows and smiled.
"Do you know how Liu Fengfeng died?" he suddenly brought up this.
Ji Mingyun pondered, "Did those villagers kill him?"
"No," [Li Ziyue] just shook his head, "What really killed him was that he didn't have time to think."
"For example, even after so long of anti-fraud publicity, many people still fall for it, including some with high IQs. It is common for them to be defrauded of millions of yuan."
"The reason why the fraudsters are so successful is because they seize the time," Li Ziyue said. "They create an atmosphere of urgency and force the victims to decide whether to transfer money within a very short period of time. The victims are afraid of not being able to bear the risk and will subconsciously choose to give money for peace of mind."
"At that time, many players pretended to compete with Liu Fengfeng for this task, which was actually a disguised way of forcing him to decide whether to water the plants in a very short time."
"If Liu Fengfeng had had time to think, he would not have died."
[Li Ziyue] propped his chin with one hand and said lazily, "Luring Li Ziyue into the secret passage so that he is in a narrow space and cannot move normally is one thing. Let the people around you chase him and kill him, depriving him of the time to think is the other."
"As for the third protection," he stretched out his hand to receive the cold rain falling from the eaves, "Li Ziyue will have a fever because of protecting that Sun-something beside him, and his thinking speed and physical strength will be greatly reduced."
Ji Mingyun said “hmm”.
"But even if he is in poor health, the people around you may not be able to kill him, so you just need to force him to the innermost part of the secret passage and let him pass through the secret passage into the 'murder scene' I prepared for him. What really kills him is the villagers' hanging."
Ji Mingyun looked at Li Ziyue deeply and said, "Now I really believe your inference about his actions. No matter what he does, he always finds reasons. This is indeed his style of doing things. You are very similar to him."
[Li Ziyue] just smiled. He looked at the continuous rain and the zombies pouring down from the other side of the mountain. His voice sounded particularly cold in this rainy night: "Yes. There is no one else in the world who understands him better than me."
"You are as weird as him," Ji Mingyun looked the man in front of him up and down, "You two are obviously twin brothers, but you want to fight each other. It's also interesting."
[Li Ziyue] said, "Ah!" "Twins... not really twins in the strict sense. But according to what you said, he is the older brother who is six years older than me."
Although he knew that Ji Mingyun had misunderstood, Li Ziyue did not point it out directly.
Things are starting to get interesting.
Ji Mingyun frowned slightly: "You are so cruel to your brother. It is most pitiful for him to be hanged to death."
"My brother hates me very much," Li Ziyue sighed, "If I fall into his hands, I'm afraid I'll die a more miserable death. I just want to protect myself."
"Besides," Li Ziyue glanced at the burly man in the corner and said to Ji Mingyun with a half-smile, "To be honest, we are evenly matched, so let's not say anything."
Although Ji Mingyun had a smile on his face, his eyes gradually turned colder: "It's none of your business."
【Li Ziyue】Just smile.
Just as Ji Mingyun was about to leave, he heard Li Ziyue calling him from behind.
"Hey, Ji Mingyun, you come too," Li Ziyue smiled brightly at him, "When solving a crime, how can a detective not be at the scene, right?"
Ji Mingyun looked at him with an unclear expression.
He had never seen Li Ziyue's smile so brightly.
[Li Ziyue] Her beautiful eyes curved into two cute and slightly childish crescents, and the corners of her mouth turned up, revealing small and sharp fangs on both sides.
It turns out he had canine teeth.
Ji Mingyun thought in confusion.
[Li Ziyue] His brother's smile was completely different. Ji Mingyun had only seen him smile with a cold look in his eyes, with the corners of his mouth twitching symbolically. Most of the time, his eyes looked like a jar of spring water that was cold to the bone.
clear?
It was as if these two words had been cruelly taken away from him.
On the way out, Ji Mingyun couldn't help but recall the previous chat between him and Li Ziyue.
"A lot of people like me," Li Ziyue said with a smile, "They say that when I smile, my eyes turn into the moon in the sky, and seeing me makes them feel good."
The moon?
Ji Mingyun looked up at the sky slightly.
The rainy night was dim, with dull thunder hidden among the thick dark clouds. The lightning was like a murderous cold knife, piercing straight into the clouds.
There is no moon tonight.
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