Chapter 170: Spirit Exploration Live Room
What anger remained in the air vanished.
Standing in the dark corner that had fallen into silence again, Xu Zhiyan felt the force that was squeezing his fingers relax a lot.
Although this guy has a familiar smell of ashes, he is too stupid. He can't understand long sentences and is easy to coax. He doesn't think that wild slices would really be so mentally retarded. Is it possible that this transparent body is just a part of the slice?
After thinking about it, Xu Zhiyan finally decided to continue calling this transparent monster Little Transparent No. 1 for the time being.
After staying in silence for a while, I felt that the other party seemed to have completely calmed down.
After solving the monster crisis at the main gate and obtaining a powerful Little Transparent No. 1, Xu Zhiyan's mind became active.
It is known that Little Transparent No. 1 can defeat the fused monster, so can he return to the first floor and leave through the main entrance? No, the opponent is so powerful, it would be a bit of a loss to just return the same way.
Maybe get out of the parking lot.
After making the decision, Xu Zhiyan narrowed his eyes and smiled, looking like he was talking to himself in the air.
"How about we leave from the parking lot on the underground floor? You seem pretty powerful, but would you be scared if there were monsters in the parking lot?"
After all, this is still a copy, and he needs to explore more places to get clues to the rules.
At worst, it would be nice to get some side quest props!
There was no response, and Little Transparent No. 1 stood there like a piece of ice.
Xu Zhiyan tried to loosen his grip and found that the other party was not holding it so tightly and could be pulled out easily.
"Let's go find an exit."
After saying that, he turned around and left the abandoned bathroom first.
But when he walked out of the door, Xu Zhiyan discovered that in addition to the little transparent number one, there seemed to be a monster squeezing in behind him.
He stopped, turned around and shone the flashlight behind him.
The flying dust bounced off after hitting a transparent figure - in addition to the little transparent number one, the "they" that he had mistakenly pulled into the bathroom just now also followed.
Just as Xu Zhiyan was frowning and hesitating, an invisible cold hand landed on the top of his head and forced his head back.
“…”
Xu Zhiyan was a little confused by this forced head turning operation.
However, this allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of the character of this unknown person, who was suspected to be the dead ghost Bai Jin.
Tough, sluggish, lawful...
Yes, surprisingly lawful.
Although this little transparent number one is slightly different from those invisible 'them', the overall difference is not that big.
When it is within the rules, although it is not satisfied with turning its head to look at other transparent creatures, it will not take direct action like it did to deal with that mixed hybrid monster.
This means that the rules in the cinema are also restrictive for Little Transparent No. 1.
The door leading to the underground parking lot on the first floor below the abandoned cinema was locked.
There was a piece of paper taped to the door.
【Midnight movie viewing tips】
【Dear customers, welcome to Golden Amber Cinema. 】
[1. Due to the city's requirements, the main entrance on the first floor of the cinema will be closed to the public after midnight. If you want to watch a movie, please remember to go through the door of the underground parking lot. ]
【2. We will offer discounts after midnight. The specific discount will depend on the ticket price of the day.】
[3. If the door is closed, please go to the ticket office upstairs to find a staff member. The key is in the middle drawer.]
[4. The underground parking lot is a mixed-use parking lot. In addition to moviegoers, there are also cars of residents upstairs. Please remember that the main door to the outside is in Area A.]
[The parking lot area markings are painted white and must be white. 】
【5. If you encounter other people in the parking lot, please don’t worry, they may be residents of the upper floor.】
[Don’t say hello to the residents. Except for the theater staff, don’t answer anyone who says hello to you in the underground parking lot.]
【6. Please drive away. 】
[Remember to pay, the parking fee is 4 yuan per hour. ]
The handwriting is printed neatly on an A4 paper.
It is not difficult to judge from the above content that after the city stopped the midnight shows in cinemas, the owners of the cinemas not only did not stop, but changed the way they opened to the public.
Xu Zhiyan smacked his lips, a little surprised.
"Is this boss crazy about money? Even in such a situation, he still commits a crime?"
Shaking his head, he stepped forward to confirm that the door lock could not be opened and he had to find the key.
Frowning, Xu Zhiyan recalled the previous content of the barrage.
According to the previous live broadcast room prompts, one anchor did leave successfully and walked out of the underground parking lot, but the door here is locked inside the corridor...
There is no way the anchor who left could come back and lock the door.
In the live broadcast room, many people also realized what Xu Zhiyan was struggling with and began to speculate.
[So, are the person who wrote the wrong rules on the milk tea cup with lipstick and the person who locked the door the same person? ]
[I think so. The restroom is just on the underground floor, and the door to the parking lot is also there. It is very likely that the person picked up the lipstick in the restroom after closing the door, and then went back to write the wrong rule.]
[That makes sense. This makes sense.]
[I don’t think so. Didn’t the note left by the anchor say that his partner was not in good condition? Could it be that his partner had an accident and was controlled?]
[Vote for the partner. I watched the comments in the live broadcast room before. They only said that someone left the underground parking lot, but they didn’t say how many people there were.]
【! Oh yeah! Maybe there's only one person? 】
Although the live broadcast is for entertainment purposes, after the audience discovered that the rules here are traceable, they inevitably began to explore the logic.
However, not everyone chooses to watch the live broadcast attentively.
[What? Wrong rules? Are the rules on the milk tea cup wrong? ]
[…Oh my god, I’ve been out of touch with the other guys since I went out for a midnight snack.]
[Ah——So it was wrong? I was wondering why Xiao Baiwan didn't say no loudly after hearing the voice. It turns out that speaking is really not okay.]
[I have forgotten what the rules were before. I only know that Xiao Baiwan may have pulled the wrong monster just now, hahahahaha]
【Hahahahaha it seems so? 】
[What? Did I fish out the wrong monster? Hahahaha! ]
[You see him suddenly touch the invisible monster opposite in the bathroom, and then he has a look of "no way?" on his face, and then he immediately changes his expression and pretends nothing happened after opening the door, haha]
There are always many audiences who come here genuinely for entertainment, and there is great diversity.
The beam of light passed through the corridor, and Xu Zhiyan had to return to the first floor of the abandoned cinema with the invisible creature.
The first floor remains the same.
The entire ticket hall is no different from before.
But Xu Zhiyan stretched his head out to take a look, raised one eyebrow, and spoke in a serious tone.
"Where's the door?"
At the end of the corridor where he passed when he came, the dilapidated door disappeared, leaving only a wall.
After walking two steps forward, Xu Zhiyan stopped.
It was the Little Transparent No. 1 who grabbed his wrist. From the strength of the force, he could sense that the other party didn't want him to go forward.
I glanced at the time and it was already past twelve o'clock.
The first item in the midnight movie-watching instructions is correct. After midnight, the main entrance on the first floor of the cinema will be closed to the public, but the way it is closed is a bit unexpected.
It seems that we have no choice but to go to the underground parking lot.
After returning to the lobby and lifting the dusty front desk panel, Xu Zhiyan walked into the manual ticket window with his nose wrinkled.
The human head with mycelium growing in the popcorn machine is still the same.
But when Xu Zhiyan opened the middle drawer and successfully found the key, he discovered that the head in the popcorn machine had turned around...
Its eyes were wide open, no longer facing outside, but towards the drawer.
Xu Zhiyan stood where he was and put the key in his pocket. Although he felt a little scared by being stared at by so many people, his breathing was still steady.
According to known information, the convenience store employee has been dead for at least several months and it is impossible for him to move. However, this is a horror copy full of rules, so it doesn't seem strange that a head of a person who has been dead for a long time would move?
After trying to step back a few steps, Xu Zhiyan discovered that the direction of the head had changed slightly.
It seemed like the guy in the popcorn machine was really staring at him.
Calming down, he returned to the counter and searched around, trying to find some information or rules related to human heads.
But it was of no avail.
There was no content related to human heads in the surrounding materials.
Xu Zhiyan hesitated for a moment, but finally moved closer to the popcorn machine and tapped on the glass with his fingers.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The moment his fingertips touched the glass, the head in the popcorn machine actually shed two lines of blood and tears.
Xu Zhiyan was startled and jumped back a few steps.
The jump was not a big deal, the head in the popcorn machine cried even harder.
Watching the monster in the popcorn machine crying silently, Xu Zhiyan waited for a while and found that although the tears of blood flowed violently, there were no other adverse reactions.
"...Okay, I won't leave. Can you please stop crying?"
He scratched his hair and tried to communicate with the head.
"Do you want to leave here?"
It's been stuffed into the popcorn machine, so I guess it doesn't have any other wishes, right?
Sure enough, after hearing this question, the guy in the popcorn machine stopped crying.
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan was no longer afraid.
He looked at the head covered with mycelium inside and began to wonder what good it would be to run away with the popcorn machine.
"I'm still alive. Your popcorn machine is full of mold. If I open it and take a puff, I'll probably have to give it away. But this glass cabinet is too big, and it's very troublesome to move it..."
Xu Zhiyan seemed embarrassed to give a difficult example.
The head belongs to a convenience store employee. As a native, he should know a lot about this world and maybe even have some money.
Xu Zhiyan planned to talk about the difficulties first, and then ask for some benefits based on taking the head out.
He also needs money in the dungeon, and now he can't do odd jobs. The live broadcast only gives rules but no monetary rewards. He can't do anything with the 120 yuan he got from the landlord. He still has to find a way to get some money from other places.
Unexpectedly, before he could say what specific benefit he wanted, the popcorn machine in front of him seemed to have endured a huge force and shattered.
“Crash——”
The accident happened so suddenly that the glass exploded and mold stuck to the black popcorn and wrinkled human heads, rolling everywhere.
Xu Zhiyan quickly raised his arms to cover his mouth and nose to avoid inhaling a large amount of mold.
The next second, he saw the tearful, skinny head being lifted out by an invisible hand and suspended in the air.
As if he was disgusted by the dirtiness of the head, the little transparent number one who was pulling the hair shook it, trying his best to shake off all the mold on it, and then stuffed the head into Xu Zhiyan's hand.
“…”
Xu Zhiyan was stunned.
He took it in a daze, looked up at the air, looked down at the people, then looked up again and down again...
After repeating it three times, he finally figured it out. It turned out that it was the Little Transparent No. 1 who heard his seemingly distressed speech, and then thought of a solution, and kindly helped him shake out the head and sent it over.
Suppressing his soaring blood pressure, Xu Zhiyan's mouth twitched.
"…Thank you so much."
But the head is already in hand, and a lot of groundwork has just been laid. If we put it back now, it will only create a grudge.
He had no choice but to accept this 'gift' with a pinch of his nose.
In the live broadcast room, the audience who had just been slightly frightened by the turning of heads switched to gloating mode again, with rows of loud laughter.
【Hahahahahahahaha】
[I can guess what Xiao Baiwan is going to say next. He will definitely say that it takes a lot of energy to rescue the head, so he wants the head to repay him hahaha]
[I guessed the process, hahaha, but I didn’t guess the result. ]
[Who knew this transparent guy was so awesome! It made me laugh to death! ]
【Transparent Brother: Can’t take it out? No problem! I’ll do it!】
[Hahahahahahahahahahaha Xiao Baiwan's face turned green]
[Laughing to death, chance to cheat -1]
The clerk's head is very well behaved.
After being fished out of the popcorn machine by the transparent guy, the head stopped shedding tears of blood. It seemed to sense that the person holding it was in a bad mood, and it was as quiet as a chicken along the way.
Xu Zhiyan had a gloomy face and reluctantly returned downstairs with the head.
With the key, the road to the underground parking lot was particularly smooth.
After opening the door and before leaving, Xu Zhiyan found an eyebrow pencil from the makeup bag in the bathroom, and added another rule under the note stuck with chewing gum at the door.
[If the door to the parking lot is closed, you can first look in the flower pots on both sides to see if there is a key. ]
[If you see rules written in red lipstick, please do not believe them rashly. Those rules may be false and need to be carefully judged.]
He wasn't sure whether the person who wrote the wrong rules on the milk tea cup had left the content in other screening rooms.
But there wasn't much he could do, he could only remind them as much as possible.
He opened the door and threw the key into the flowerpot on his left hand side, Xu Zhiyan looking a little surprised.
Unlike the darkness and mess inside the abandoned cinema, the underground parking lot was dimly lit and not completely pitch black.
The smell of mold was much lighter and not as strong as it was in the cinema before.
But after he walked in completely, he glanced around, his expression gradually became solemn, and he quickly turned off the light on his cell phone and squatted down with his back hunched.
There's something wrong with this parking lot.
Too full.
The huge parking lot was packed with cars.
If this was a busy residential area, there might be such a scene of cars full of cars, but this is obviously not the case.
It was only nine o'clock when he arrived, which should be the most active time of the night.
But at that time, the whole area seemed to be in deathly silence, with only one or two lights on sporadically in the residential buildings upstairs.
There is no one here, where did the car come from?
After walking for a distance with his back half bent, Xu Zhiyan tried to keep himself level with the roof of the car so as not to appear too conspicuous.
There were lines drawn on the ground with white paint.
Carefully finding a map of underground parking lots, Xu Zhiyan looked at his location.
The underground parking lot of the cinema was not too big and was divided into four areas, ABCD. He was currently in Area C, which was in a diagonal direction from Area A where he wanted to reach.
[There are four exits in the parking lot. The automatic sensing system at Exit A is broken. Please try to leave from the other three exits.]
[After parking, remember not to close the windows tightly, and make sure to allow air to circulate in your car. ]
[If you come to the parking lot again and find someone in your car, please don't drive them away. You can try to make friends with them. ]
The rule of contradiction arrives late but surely not late.
I don’t know if it’s because he was mentally prepared, or because he had a powerful bodyguard like Xiao Toming by his side, but Xu Zhiyan wasn’t particularly scared.
Going around a thick pillar, he saw the district letters on the wall.
A large letter C painted in white lay fixedly on the wall.
According to the midnight movie-watching instructions, white should represent safety, which means that there is not much danger in this area.
The cars all looked fine, some new and some old.
Xu Zhiyan checked and didn't find any creature like a ghost driver.
Just as he reached the edge of Area C, he saw a hurried figure flash by, looking very panicked.
He dodged and hid behind the car, squinting at the man.
There was nothing wrong with the shadow, and the figure didn't look like a monster. Considering the previous midnight rules, Xu Zhiyan felt that this person did not seem to be a resident of the community.
The rule of non-communication implies that there is a high probability that something is wrong with the residents.
But this man was sneaky, wearing a hood and moving swiftly, sighing from time to time, as if he was in big trouble. He looked more like a living person than Xu Zhiyan.
As if he thought of something, Xu Zhiyan stood up, scratched his hair, and slowly walked out from the middle of the vehicle holding the head. His face was completely expressionless and full of indifference.
After walking a few steps, he heard the sneaky man suddenly scream, and the tone of his voice changed with fear.
"Fuck—ooh!"
The hooded man seemed to have remembered the rules and immediately covered his mouth after screaming.
Xu Zhiyan pretended to have just noticed the other person, slowly turned around, and walked towards the hooded man.
As he passed by the other person, he keenly heard the hooded man mumbling with his eyes closed.
"He can't see me, he can't see me, he can't see me..."
Xu Zhiyan stopped in front of the hooded man.
Hmm... judging from his reaction, he should be an ordinary NPC passerby.
He looked the hooded man up and down and saw that he was holding a videotape in his hand. The packaging was red and green, and it didn't look like a normal movie.
Just when Xu Zhiyan was wondering whether to speak, the hooded man opened his eyes first.
When he saw the young man holding a human head in front of him, he seemed to be frightened out of his wits. He screamed and collapsed, begging for mercy.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come to steal the car yesterday. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come to steal the car just because this place is deserted and no one is around. Please spare me, help me, wuwuwu..."
"I shouldn't have picked up the videotape. I was wrong. Please, I really don't dare to do it anymore. I'm going to die. Help me—"
The sound stopped abruptly.
Xu Zhiyan was a little confused. The hooded man in front of him actually fainted.
But after listening to the other party, he finally figured out the identity of the hooded man.
He is a car thief, and it seems that he picked up a videotape when he stole a car yesterday, then was scared by something, so he had to come back to return it today.
After searching the hooded man's pocket, Xu Zhiyan found out his name: Wu Chao, and he was nineteen years old.
Glancing at the age on the ID card, Xu Zhiyan inexplicably thought of Yu Xiu, who was also nineteen years old.
Tsk, they are both nineteen years old. The car thief in front of him looks almost thirty, and Yu Xiu only looks fifteen or sixteen. Is it true that you can't judge a person by his appearance?
A few minutes later, Wu Chao woke up.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a dried-up human head and almost fainted again from fright.
Then, a smiling young man squatted down, hid the head behind him, and the first thing he said was to ask where the stolen car was.
"Drive me to the police station and tell me about the videotape on the way."
You have to drive to leave here, and Xu Zhiyan is worried about not having a car.
As for that videotape...
He just picked it up and took a look, and found the message from the previous ghost hunting host in it, which triggered a new task.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the branch quest - Death Tape (Newly Married)]
[Note: According to rumors, this videotape is cursed. Anyone who possesses it will be cursed and enter the world inside the videotape, and will never be able to leave. However, this videotape can only digest one living person at a time. The videotape you picked up is trapping a human who has not yet been fully digested. You are a good person, and you decide to go in and save her.]
[Tip: You can enter early by watching the videotape, but you need to find the way to leave by yourself.]
[Reward: Monster Videotape (Prop)]
The new mission indicated that there were living people trapped inside.
The identity of this living person was explained in another note. It was the handwriting of the anchor who left the rules at the bathroom door.
[She accidentally touched a videotape and then disappeared. This is so scary. The person on the videotape changed and the person wearing the red wedding dress became her! ]
[Help, I don't dare to touch it again, can someone come and help me. ]
It seems that the anchor's partner was unable to leave in the end and was trapped in the videotape instead.
Xu Zhiyan glanced at the video on the tape and secretly despised the system.
Ghost Marriage
The fucking assignment says newlyweds!
But putting all that aside, Xu Zhiyan was very interested in the rewards for this branch quest.
Videotapes are something that can store images, so monster videotapes, whether they contain monsters or can store additional monsters, are excellent props for him.
Currently, the only monsters that can be brought out of the safe house are the relatively low-level Small Bones. It is really troublesome to bring higher-level monsters.
When Wu Chao heard that someone wanted to help him deal with the videotape, he burst into tears and raised his finger, saying that he was going to turn himself in to the police station, and only asked Xu Zhiyan to take over the videotape.
It turned out that Wu Chao, a gangster with nothing to do, heard the news that someone had made a fortune by getting old vehicles here some time ago, so he followed suit and came to this underground parking lot, attempting to steal a car as well.
"It's a bit strange that there are so many cars here. I didn't dare to steal the good ones, so I found one that was covered with dust and was about to be scrapped..."
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows. It seemed that not all the cars here could be driven away.
Wu Chao, who was crying in front of him, should be lucky enough, because he really found a scrapped car that no one wanted among a bunch of ghost cars. It was just that when he was leaving, he was so impatient that he picked up a cursed videotape, which he couldn't throw away, so he came back without stopping the next day.
"The residents here are very strange. Wuwu will appear every once in a while, but just ignore them..."
As they walked, Wu Chao talked about the situation in the parking lot.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the time. If what the other party said was true, then when he came out, he happened to be stuck at the time when the residents just disappeared, and luckily he didn't encounter them.
The two walked for a while and arrived at Area C.
After Xu Zhiyan got the videotape, Wu Chao relaxed a lot.
But just when he came to the door of the broken car he stole yesterday, he froze in place and began to tremble.
In the car, all four seats, front and back, were occupied.
Xu Zhiyan also saw it.
He looked around and suddenly realized that not only this car, but all the other cars with closed windows were also filled with people at some point.
It seems that if you close the car windows tightly, a "person" will grow inside.
Wu Chao was almost scared to death.
His legs were shaking and he didn't know what to do.
Xu Zhiyan looked around, walked up and patted Wu Chao on the shoulder, motioning him to follow him.
The two of them arrived at the edge of the parking lot, one in front of the other.
In the corner, a dusty white electric donkey was parked.
Receiving Xu Zhiyan's gaze, Wu Chao explained in a low voice with a sad face: "Brother, I took the key from the car window before, I don't know how to unlock it..."
Xu Zhiyan sighed, whispered something to the people around him, nodded, pointed to the back seat of the electric donkey, turned to Wu Chao and said, "Get in, we have to take a car to get out."
After saying this, he placed the dried head in the small frame in front of the car and sat in the main seat.
Wu Chao didn't understand why, but he still sat on the back seat of the electric scooter trembling.
He looked at Xu Zhiyan who suddenly lowered his head, still a little puzzled.
"Brother, why did you lie down——Ah——"
"Bang!!"
The electric scooter suddenly flew into the air, and because of the height problem, it hit the roof of the underground parking lot.
Wu Chao felt that his neck was about to be broken.
Xu Zhiyan, who lowered his head, escaped the disaster.
He turned to Wu Chao and said, "Let me take you to a new energy ghost power car, hold on tight."
After that, he changed his expression in the air in an instant, and said with a pleading tone: "Little Tone, you are my best friend, can we speed up a little?"
The air was quiet for a moment, and then it was as if something was released.
The next second, the small electric scooter took off into the air and rushed towards the exit of the underground parking lot as if it was swept by an invisible torrent.
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