Ai Yue left the house with some hesitation.
After arriving outside the house, she found that this was a copy with a different feeling from Xujia Town.
Although the architectural styles were similar, Xujia Town left her with a damp, mostly flat road surface, giving her the impression of being located at a lower level. Meanwhile, Huaishu Village, with its less flat ground and surrounded by mountains, seemed even more remote than Xujia Town.
Ai Yue walked down the irregular stone steps and vaguely saw a figure peeking out from behind a tree. After careful identification, she felt that it must be a player. She walked quietly behind the player and asked, "Did you find anything?"
"Wow!" The player who was looking around was suddenly startled by the sound behind him. He quickly turned around and saw that there was another player behind him. He patted his chest and said, "Don't scare me!"
Ai Yue looked at the player consideringly, trying to confirm whether he was a real person.
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't be too loud." The player lowered his voice and pointed ahead carefully, "Look, the ghost in this dungeon."
Ai Yue followed the direction pointed by the player and saw a figure wearing strange clothes circling in the open space in front, with something that looked very heavy on his head.
And in the midst of such a gorgeous and complex cluster, there is a rotten face.
Ai Yue subconsciously held her breath to prevent the ghost from discovering her whereabouts, but found that the ghost turned around in place as if it couldn't find the direction. After turning around a few times, it raised its hand to support the heavy-looking decoration on its head.
Feeling... a little bit dull?
Although Ai Yue couldn't see the comments, Xiao Qin couldn't help but say something when she saw the ghost, "This one doesn't seem as scary as Xujia Town. What's going on?"
[It's still a bit scary, the face is rotten! ]
[It’s so dark that I don’t want to go in]
Xiaoqin couldn't describe the horror she encountered in Bluestone Alley. She could only say, "It just... feels different. You'll know once you try it yourself."
Ai Yue couldn't see what the sisters said, so naturally she couldn't discuss with them which one was more terrifying.
"This ghost player doesn't seem to be very good at playing. We can slowly look for clues. Miss, do you want to join us?" After observing for a while, the player who discovered the ghost enthusiastically invited Ai Yue.
Ai Yue did not refuse.
However, when she and the player were about to leave quietly, just like the standard plot of some horror movies, the player accidentally stepped on a branch on the ground while backing away, making a crisp cracking sound.
The exclamation of "Wow" just now did not let the ghost discover them, but the crisp click sound suddenly made the stupid ghost raise his head.
"...Run!" the player shouted and turned around and ran.
Ai Yue had already run away when the player stepped on the branch, but for some reason, the ghost chose to chase her when it caught up. Ghosts are naturally faster than players, and the roads in Huaishu Village are difficult to run. When Ai Yue reached the end of the stairs, the ghost was about to catch up with her.
The sisters in the chat channel watching in the small live broadcast room suddenly became nervous, and kept shouting [Ahhh! Run!] [Left, left, don’t get caught!]
The sisters in the chat channel who were watching the live broadcast nervously did not notice that the number of viewers in the live broadcast room had quietly jumped up by a few people. They were unsuspecting viewers who accidentally entered the live broadcast room.
[Huh? What is this?] This question was drowned out by the sisters' nervous cheers and went unnoticed.
At this moment, Ai Yue was surprisingly calm. When she ran to the end of the stairs, she looked back and saw that the ghost with a rotten face was very close to her and had raised his hand to grab her. She squatted down to avoid the waving hand, then dodged behind a water tank placed against a tree, keeping some distance from the ghost.
The ghost continued to come over to catch her. Ai Yue couldn't find any other place to hide, so when the ghost was chasing her, she went around to the other side of the tree and the water tank. When the ghost came around again, she went around again... Huh?
...This scene suddenly reminded Ai Yue of what she had seen in [When the Stars of China Shine], where Qin Shi Huang walked around a pillar when facing an assassin's attack.
She felt that her current behavior was inexplicably similar to that scene.
You know what, it's quite exciting.
Ai Yue circled around the ghost a few more times with this strange idea in mind. Seeing that the ghost wanted to catch her but couldn't, and was becoming more and more impatient and angry, she suddenly had an idea.
——"Is this the real way to play this game?"
Ghost player: “???”
He slapped the tree trunk with his paw angrily.
The player who played the ghost also played this copy after playing the human-computer mode, but he was actually scared when he came in.
Because the copy he played in the novice guide was made by Lake, and it was set in a city. Although it was also dim, there were still many turbid light sources of various colors. As a result, when he entered this copy, it was completely pitch black, and a cat ran past his feet with a sharp cry.
However, after being frightened, the ghost player realized that he would not be harmed here, so he was eager to catch the human players and scare them. As a result, he sadly discovered that he was lost in this locust tree village.
There are at least some road signs in the city, and the roads are straight and clear, but who can avoid getting lost on the winding roads in the village?
So there was the scene that Ai Yue saw of him spinning in circles and adjusting his hair crown.
He tried hard to catch the human player girl who had been circling around him, but after mastering the new gameplay, Ai Yue seemed to have discovered a new world and became even more slippery, almost making him dizzy.
Then, when he wasn't paying attention, she ran away from behind him.
This is different from when it’s a human-machine situation!
The ghost player is autistic.
The ghost player used a few skills a little awkwardly, but nothing happened. After walking around for a while, he was frightened by a cat that suddenly jumped over. After searching for human players in vain, he quit the game in disappointment.
The moment the ghost player quits, the human-computer takes over the identity of the ghost.
That is, the ghost of the actor who actually died in this village.
…
After getting rid of the ghost, Ai Yue calmed down her breathing and saw that some other players had already found a clue and also started looking for clues.
This time she approached the first house at the entrance of the path. It had two floors, and the wooden stairs used to go upstairs were half rotten and looked shaky, but the clues indicated that there was a clue on the second floor.
She carefully climbed up the shaky stairs to the second floor and saw a coffin in the room on the second floor. The first thing that came to her mind was the coffin used to hold players in Xujia Town.
But when she walked closer to take a look, she found that this coffin was a little small compared to the coffin in Xujia Town, and it was not empty. The body of a little girl was lying quietly inside this small coffin.
Is the clue on the body of this little girl?
Ai Yue was a little hesitant.
But just as she was hesitating, she suddenly heard a sharp and piercing cat's cry, and a cat jumped down from the beam and landed on the little girl's body.
A few seconds after the cat landed on the corpse, the little girl's body suddenly sat up and slowly turned its head towards her.
Ai Yue felt something was wrong and took a few steps back towards the door, but the next second the little girl jumped out of the small coffin and pounced on her. She was faster than the ghost player who was circling the pillar with her, and she had no time to run to the door and then run out.
Ai Yue had no way to escape, and at this moment she activated her game skill [Eye Control].
She didn't know whether the little girl's corpse could be considered a second-level ghost, so she could only give it a try.
After activating the skill, her eyes suddenly turned white, and she looked like a ghost. The little girl's body stopped in front of her.
The room was suddenly extremely quiet. The little girl's body almost leaned against her and 'looked' at her for a while before slowly backing away, turning her head stiffly, and walking out of the door.
The cat left with the little girl's body.
At the exact moment the little girl's stiff footsteps descended, the 15-second skill duration expired, and Ai Yue's eyes returned to normal. She held her breath as the footsteps of the little girl's corpse paused for a moment before resuming. She stood there for a long moment, making sure the little girl's body hadn't returned, before gently approaching the small coffin.
After the little girl's body got up and left, all that was left in the small coffin was a rough cloth doll.
This should be the copy clue.
Ai Yue reached out to take the rag doll, but she didn't expect that there would be a plot the moment she picked up the rag doll.
The scenery before her eyes changed.
It is still the scenery of Huaishu Village, but the Huaishu Village in this scene is what it looks like during the day.
"Is the big brother next door back?" She heard a little girl's voice cheering, and then she ran down the stairs. Her perspective also began to move as the little girl ran.
The little girl ran downstairs and into the yard next door.
The yard was covered with lush vegetation. There was a large water tank in the yard with a few lotus flowers floating in it and a few green fish in the clear water. An old lady was sleeping on a recliner. From the little girl's perspective, Ai Yue saw a figure sitting in the yard, facing a brass mirror with his back to the gate.
"My elder brother is in a theatre troupe. He only comes back to sing during the Chinese New Year. He mostly plays female roles." The little girl's voice sounded, not in the plot itself, but like a narration.
The little girl in the plot happily shouted, "Brother Qingyu!" and ran over.
The person with his back to the gate heard the sound and turned around. When he saw the little girl coming, he smiled and gently waved to her to come over.
Ai Yue was stunned.
...She didn't know what an opera troupe, singing, or female roles were.
She only saw that when this person turned around, only half of her face was made up. The lower half of her face was clean, and only the area around her eyes was made up. The corners of her eyes were bright red, which made her eyes look deep and clear.
If I had to say what my first impression was, it would be stunning.
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