[Nightmare City]
After the first version update, players found out that they could upgrade if their points reached one million and could even design their own copies!
They have suffered a lot in so many crappy dungeons, and now they know that they can cheat others.
Okay!
The chance for revenge has finally arrived. After being cheated in the copy, they must... continue to cheat others and pass on this business of cheating forever, so that others can taste the same thing.
Hehe~
Just looking at their pitiful few points, which are still a long way off from one million, most players have calmed down. They are not even sure whether their points will become negative next time. One million, that's too high. They can still work hard to get one hundred thousand points.
The game has only just started, how is it possible for anyone to reach one million? Not to mention that most people's clearance rate is less than half. Even if someone really has a 100% clearance rate, he still gets an average of 20,000 points for each clearance, so he needs to successfully clear the game 50 times to reach one million.
Successfully passed the level fifty times, is this a human being? This must be God.
Just when players were complaining about how difficult it was to level up, the latest rankings from Nightmare City shut everyone up.
At the top of the list, a player named Zhou Zhou has surpassed one million, and his total points have even reached 1.1 million.
And the second place is less than half of his.
Players who are still cursing how it is possible for someone to reach one million: …There really is a God! ! !
People who knew Zhou Zhou were sending messages to congratulate him, while players who didn’t know him began to collect information about this god, no, this player.
The forums these past two days have been discussing who Zhou Zhou is. Some say he is the next heir of a great noble family, others say he is a general in the army, and there are all kinds of messy speculations.
There were also people who pretended to be Zhou Zhou and enjoyed the flattery of other players in the forum, but were eventually discovered and scolded.
In short, the hottest topics in the game during this period are all related to Zhou Zhou.
Every section in the forum is discussing how this player did it, and whether it is possible for this player to offer a training tutorial!
They are really about to be killed by these copies.
And in this way, Zhou Zhou made himself known to everyone in the Nightmare City.
During this period, Zhou Zhou has been obsessed with designing copies and has not read the forum at all. When other friends learned that Zhou Zhou was designing copies, they stopped disturbing him. So as the person at the center of the topic, Zhou Zhou did not know that he was no longer the unknown Zhou Zhou he once was.
It’s the King of Topics, God of Dungeons, and No. 1 on the Ranking List, Zhou Zhou.
Until this day, a small plus sign appeared quietly behind every column on the ranking list.
Some careful players discovered that only the small plus sign of Zhou Zhou, the only intermediate player they knew at the top, could be clicked.
After clicking it, there were only a few words written on it.
【Copy designed by Zhou Zhou】
【1.Warm Home】
Is this a replica that has already been designed?
The news quickly spread to the forum and caused quite a stir.
After all, Zhou Zhou has become a person that everyone looks up to in the game, and his every move will naturally attract the attention of all players.
Everyone wants to know what the first copy designed by an intermediate player will look like.
Moreover, the name of the copy has been announced. Although it doesn't seem to pose any threat at all, it is unique among all the copies that players have come into contact with.
A dungeon with such an innocent name should be easy to clear... right?
The players wondered uncertainly.
Let’s not worry about that for now. This is the first copy designed by an intermediate player. After successfully completing it, you can show off on the forum.
Although the dungeon is matched randomly, you might be lucky enough to draw this [Warm Cottage]. For a while, many players began to match the dungeon, hoping to have a chance to enter the first dungeon designed by Zhou Zhou.
Good luck does not necessarily depend on chance, sometimes it can also depend on financial resources.
Shirley and Keli looked at the lucky items they had just bought at great expense, and smiled with satisfaction at the same time.
With this lucky blessing item, their chances of entering Zhou Zhou's copy are greatly increased.
As good friends of Zhou Zhou, they naturally had to support him, but they themselves were not sure which copy they would get. At this time, the two learned about the lucky blessing props through some special channels. As long as they wrote their wishes on it, the possibility of realization would increase by 50%.
Of course, the price is not cheap, almost equivalent to a resurrection item.
But for Zhou Zhou, I gritted my teeth and bought it.
After writing their good wishes of doing the dungeon quest [Warm Cottage] on the props, the two began to match the dungeon with great anticipation.
It must be a [cozy cottage]!
Sure enough, the props that I bought at a high price really work.
Looking at the [Warm Cottage] copy that appeared on the task panel, and the designer Zhou Zhou marked below, the two of them clasped their hands in tacit understanding.
"I don't know what the copy designed by Zhou Zhou will look like." Keli was very curious.
"But this cozy cottage is obviously in Zhou Zhou's style." Shirley's expression was soft. After all, Zhou Zhou gave people the same feeling, gentle, bright and pure.
"Okay, let's hurry up and complete the task. We can't embarrass Zhou Zhou. He must successfully pass the first dungeon."
After the two finished talking, they walked in the direction indicated by the map. From the back, they looked very confident.
They are Zhou Zhou’s best friends and will definitely be able to pass the level smoothly.
Players whose two filters are so thick that they forget that this game is essentially a horror game are actively walking into the arms of the devil.
And Keli seemed to have forgotten that in the Doll's House, he had described Zhou Zhou as - natural black.
In a building in the Novice Village of Nightmare City, Koli and Shirley were standing on the 99th floor. A small wooden sign with four words written on it was hung on the white wooden door.
【Warm cottage】
It seems that this is indeed the right place.
The two looked at each other, and Keli reached out and turned the doorknob half a turn. The door was not locked and was opened easily.
Even though they knew that this was a copy designed by Zhou Zhou, the caution they had shown in making copies in the past was still deeply imprinted in their actions.
Inside, there is a bedroom.
A large amount of light came through the floor-to-ceiling windows, making the entire room bright. The light yellow gauze curtains next to the window were half-open and half-closed, floating slightly as they opened the door. There is a thick plush bed in front, and you can imagine how soft it is at a glance. The bedside is also filled with small dolls of various colors and shapes, each of which is only the size of a palm, cute and childlike.
The small bedroom was cozy and compact, which surprised the two people who had originally thought they would see some weird and dark scene.
Walking into this small bedroom, the white wooden door behind them slowly closed and disappeared, finally merging with the snow-white wall without leaving any trace.
The two of them looked around the small room, its bright and warm colors and furnishings making them feel relaxed.
"It's indeed Zhou Zhou's style." Shirley couldn't help but say.
Keli also nodded in agreement. There was a sudden movement on the task panel, and they both lowered their heads to check.
[Instance name: Cozy cottage]
[Task content: Successfully leave from the escape exit within 12 hours. 】
【Main Mission 1: Walk out of the room. 】
12 hours? It seems that the size of this copy is not very large, and the time limit is very short compared to the copies that take several days and nights.
On the other side of the bed, on the far left side of the wall, there is a wooden door. Compared with the door that disappeared after they entered, this door is more harmonious with this bedroom. The main task should be to let them find a way to get out through this door.
Keli took the lead and walked up to the wooden door, tentatively turning the doorknob.
"It is locked. It seems the first thing we need to do is find the key."
The originally tidy room gradually became messy. The two searched the bedroom separately, but could not find the key to open the door.
"Let me look under the bed." Keli suddenly remembered that he hadn't looked under the bed yet, so he squatted on the ground and leaned over to look under the bed.
The bed was very low, and Keli had to almost lie prone on the ground to see inside.
However, even though the room was so brightly lit, it was pitch black under the bed and nothing could be seen.
Keli stood up, took out the lighting tool, and once again lay on the ground and scanned under the bed with the light.
As the light moved, the bottom of the bed was gradually illuminated, and there was nothing underneath.
Feeling disappointed, Keli was about to get up when something suddenly appeared in his field of vision, quickly flashed under the bed, and disappeared into the darkness where no light could reach.
"Shit!" Keli was startled by something that suddenly appeared and stood up suddenly.
His actions also scared Shirley: "What's wrong?"
"I think I saw something under the bed just now."
Shirley was silent for a moment, then she quickly climbed onto the bed, causing the soft bed to sink slightly. "Did you see anything?"
Keli recalled in doubt, but the thing was moving too fast and he couldn't see it clearly, but there was definitely something there.
"Do you want to take another look?" Shirley asked, lying on the bed.
Keli felt a little uneasy. He thought that the thing that flashed by just now seemed a little familiar, but now there were only two of them here, and Shirley had already climbed onto the bed, so he didn't dare to look at it alone.
Seeing her brother hesitate, Shirley thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Could it be a ghost?"
Keli thought it was possible. After all, ghosts were almost becoming a standard feature of the Nightmare City dungeon. In addition, Zhou Zhou likes these things very much, and putting a few ghosts under the bed is also in line with his personality.
If it is a ghost, there is no need to be afraid. They are no longer the novice players who fainted when seeing a ghost. After experiencing a series of dungeons such as capturing ghosts with bare hands, fighting ghosts with wits, fighting large ghosts, etc., they can now remain calm when seeing a ghost. Well... probably.
Keli calmed himself down and changed to a new lighting tool. The brightness was much higher than before and the range was wider, so even if there was anything there, he would be able to see it at a glance.
Prepared to see a lot of ghosts under the bed, Keli slowly leaned over, with his head almost touching the ground, and shone a white light that was almost blinding towards the bottom of the bed.
Almost at the moment his eyes fell on the bottom of the bed, Keli saw the appearance of the thing clearly.
That's a human hand!
Keli's breath was choked. Why was there a human hand under the bed?
The next second, the hand actually moved.
The flesh-colored human hand was originally placed casually on the ground under the bed with the back of the hand facing down. After being exposed to the strong light, it suddenly turned over, with its fingers touching the ground, and "standing" firmly on the ground.
Although he had no eyes, Keli felt that he was being "watched" by that hand.
Like some kind of reptile, the four fingers of a human hand suddenly crawled towards Keli's direction alternately.
Very quick action!
"Oh my God!" Keli felt a sudden chill in his heart. He jumped up as if he had been electrocuted and leaped onto the bed in one stride.
Shirley, who was still looking around at her brother, was startled again by his actions. She stood up from the bed and asked in panic, "What's wrong? What did you see?"
"There's a hand under the bed!"
Shirley: "... One hand scared you like this?"
"No, it can move and run. It's running towards me!" Keli tried his best to explain to his sister what he saw. He used his fingers to gesture the movements of the hand and looked around from time to time, fearing that the hand would suddenly rush out from somewhere.
Shirley also became nervous, and she and her brother lowered their heads and looked around, but she didn't see any hand.
"You wouldn't..." You must have seen it wrong.
Before he could finish his words, there were sudden tinkling and clanging noises from under the bed, as if someone was knocking on the bed in different positions, in a trivial and irregular manner.
It keeps going on and on…
These sounds successfully stopped the two people on the bed from talking and moving. They carefully tried to identify the source of the sound, but found that there was movement everywhere under the bed.
It was as if there were many unknown creatures moving under the bed, invisible to the eye, and they might even crawl up along the edge of the bed.
Shirley was frightened by her own imagination and asked in a trembling voice, "What the hell is under the bed?"
How could Keli know? He only saw a hand, a severed human hand that could run at a very fast speed. But the movement now doesn't seem like it can be created by just one hand!
The two seemed to be trapped on an isolated island, and the bed, which occupied the highest point in the entire room, was their only safe spot.
The clanging sound lasted for a long time, and suddenly stopped in an instant.
Shirley and Keli were still standing on the bed, not daring to even breathe. The sudden stop of the sound not only did not relax them, but made their nerves even more tense.
It feels like the calm before the storm.
The whole room was extremely quiet, as if even time had stopped.
The next moment, many strange creatures suddenly emerged from under the bed.
Those were human hands.
It ran on all fours like a mouse, but was faster and more agile than a mouse, crawling from under the bed toward the floor of the bedroom.
In the blink of an eye, the originally smooth and clean ground was filled with human hands.
Even these hands were still climbing higher, grabbing the lace bedspread hanging on the side of the bed, grabbing the sheets with their index and other fingers, and climbing up continuously.
As soon as Shirley and Keli saw the scene of people pouring out, their scalps went tingling, their backs went cold, and they felt a chill.
The ordinary hands that originally grew on the human body have now turned into another kind of strange creature. Each one seems to have life and is so flexible that it is frightening.
When they realized that these hands, which seemed to have self-awareness, were crawling onto the bed from all over, the two of them collapsed instantly.
Even though "they" hadn't come up yet and hadn't touched them yet, Shirley felt a tingling sensation as if she had been touched by some strange creature, and goose bumps appeared all over her body.
Keli felt the same way.
They hit the hands that had climbed up with pillows, kicked them, threw dolls at them, and pulled the bedspreads, using every method they could to get these strange hands down.
I don’t know if their crazy actions scared the people, but in the end no hand continued to climb onto the bed. But there are still a lot of them on the ground, constantly wriggling and crawling, so densely packed that even people who don't have trypophobia would probably have to close their eyes.
They didn't even know when these horrible and weird things would continue to crawl onto the bed.
This was the first time that Keli and Shirley encountered such a situation.
They had been afraid of floating ghosts, resentful women who looked like evil spirits, and endless cycles before. However, only these strange creatures without human form, as if haunted by nightmares, made the two siblings, who were not very courageous to begin with and followed Zhou Zhou to win, burst into tears.
"Wow, can we not do the mission? This thing looks so disgusting."
"I'm so scared too. Are they trying to climb on me? No! Help me!"
The two cried miserably, but there was no such thing as giving up in the copy, and they couldn't even be eliminated immediately.
With tearful eyes, Keli glanced unconsciously and saw a hand climbing up the curtains.
The point is, there is a silver key tied to this hand, which is swinging with the movement of the hand.
It was the house key.
Keli immediately thought that if they could get out of the room, they could lock the hands in the room.
But why is the key in the hands of a strange person? ! !
Wiping away his tears, Keli comforted his sister not to cry, and told Shirley his plan. In order to leave this horrible room, they must find a way to get the key.
Perhaps it was the strong desire to get out that inspired the two men's fighting spirit and courage. While shedding tears, they used the props they brought with them to repeatedly knock the hand with the key off the curtain.
The hand fell from the curtain, landed on the ground with a plop, and then nimbly used its fingers to "stand up" and crawl around.
The prop used by Shirley and Keli is a very long wooden stick. Apart from the resurrection props and lucky props, they have not bought any expensive props. They are all tools that can be used in daily life with only a few points.
The focus of this plan is to use a wooden stick to pick the key off, or pick off the hand.
The hands were climbing very fast, and Keli, who was holding the wooden stick, was a little slower and couldn't get the key down at all. In addition, the hands crawling around next to him made it even more difficult for him to get the key.
Shirley looked at her brother nervously, while keeping an eye on the surroundings to see if anyone would climb onto the bed.
Keli tried for a long time without success and was sweating profusely.
Realizing that this method was not working, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said to Shirley: "Let's try another way. Maybe we can get out quickly, but we just need to be patient a little bit."
Shirley's forehead was also covered with sweat, and she was very anxious as she watched from the side: "As long as we can get out, it's fine."
A few minutes later, the hand holding the key was pressed tightly by a wooden stick and moved towards the bed.
The hand that kept rubbing and sliding against the ground tried to escape many times. He dug his fingers into the ground and grabbed other hands, but he was still unable to resist the pressure of the wooden stick on the back of his hand.
Finally, the hand was moved under the bed and the key was within reach.
Shirley knelt beside the bed, her whole body trembling, but she took a deep breath and quickly reached out for the key.
Even though she knew that her hand was pinned down by the stick and couldn't escape, when she took the key, her entire arm was covered with goose bumps and goose bumps.
Especially when her hand accidentally touched the severed hand that was still struggling, she felt her hand numb from the fingertips to the heart.
Wuuuu, I can’t keep my hand anymore.
Finally, the key was taken down.
The two stood on the bed, excited, but they were faced with another problem: how to get across the distance from the bed to the door...
A huge light-colored bed sheet fell from the sky and landed on the ground, covering all the hands on the ground. Shirley and Keli jumped off the bed quickly and ran towards the door.
The sheets were not thick, so I could feel many hands stepping on them under my feet, and they had a soft touch.
This disgusting touch made the two men's hair run down their backs all the way to the top of their heads, and they wished they didn't even have any feet left.
Keli's movements had never been so fast before. The moment he touched the door, he accurately inserted the key into the lock and turned it, while his other hand turned the door handle at the same time.
“Crack!”
The door is opened!
The two of them didn't even have time to see what was behind the door before they slipped out.
The moment the wooden door was closed, both of them felt their souls relaxed for a moment.
As the door was closed, the sound of the severed hand crawling was left in the room.
What catches the eye is a living room.
The living room was well lit, with the same warm tones as the bedroom, and most importantly, very quiet, with no one present. The quiet environment allowed the two to slowly relax, and at this time, Shirley and Keli's legs were shaking.
The two of them supported each other and sat on the sofa in the living room, adjusting their breathing and calming their moods.
"Tell me, Zhou Zhou, how did Zhou Zhou..." come up with this kind of thing.
Shirley's lips were still trembling, and it was obvious that the scene just now still frightened her.
Keli licked his dry lips. He had used all his strength to suppress the hand and prevent it from moving. His hands were shaking now. "I don't know, and I think it might be even scarier later."
Keli said it with difficulty.
Shirley was silent for a moment: "That shouldn't be the case. I guess the scariest thing was what happened just now. We might be able to find an escape exit soon after that."
Shirley herself didn't quite believe what he said, so she could only use it as a consolation. She clasped her hands together, her eyelashes fluttering nervously, and looked around.
After calming down a little, she always felt that those hands might appear from somewhere.
Her eyes gradually swept across the entire living room and the doors of several other rooms. She didn't know what was behind those closed doors, but she didn't dare to go over and take a look alone.
But when her eyes swept to a certain place behind her, Shirley vaguely saw a few words written on the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room that was covered by gauze.
Even though it was only a few steps away, she didn't dare go there alone, and finally went over with Keli to check it out.
The gauze-like curtains were drawn open, revealing four words neatly written on the floor-to-ceiling window.
【Escape Exit】
There is even an arrow thoughtfully marked to point to the floor-to-ceiling glass in the middle.
Keli: “…”
Shirley: “…”
As expected, it is still Zhou Zhou's style. The escape exit is written so large, as if he is afraid that the players can't see it.
It would be a big mistake to think that they can pass the level immediately.
The windows could not be opened or broken.
There are three keyholes on the window frame. It seems that we need to find the corresponding three keys to open the escape exit.
Shirley looked at the keyhole, then looked at the room they had just escaped from, and asked hesitantly, "Could the key just now also be one of the keys to the escape exit?"
Keli, who didn't even take out the key when he escaped, said: "...That makes sense."
The key was still in the inner door of the bedroom. The two brothers and sisters were very respectful to each other and neither of them was willing to enter again.
Even though they only needed to open the door, reach in with a hand and quickly remove the key, the whole process might only take a few seconds, but they still didn't dare.
After all, no one can be sure whether what they touched was a key or a human hand.
After "giving way" for a long time, I decided to find the remaining two keys first. The key was already stuck in the door and couldn't escape, so I would deal with it later.
The two of them acted together and did not dare to separate. After a quick observation, they found that the structure of this house was very simple. The living room and dining room were connected, and there was also a study and a kitchen. The overall area was not large, and the remaining time was enough for them to find the key.
Of course, if the other two keys are with some other strange creature, then... it’s not certain.
The two started looking in the living room, but before they had searched for a few minutes, there was a knock on the door.
The door refers to the main entrance of the house. The door next to the kitchen is obviously the real entrance and exit of the house. However, they just tried it and the door handle couldn't be turned. There was no keyhole, so it seemed more like a decoration.
The cat's eye on the door was pitch black.
Shouldn't it be a decorative door? Why is someone knocking on the door?
"Boom, boom, boom."
There was another knock on the door, slow and polite.
Keli and Shirley shrank back like frightened birds, staring at the door and not daring to move forward for a moment.
"Boom, boom, boom."
The voice sounded again, very patiently.
Although the two were afraid, they hesitated because they didn't know what the situation was outside.
"Could it be another player?" Keli stared at the door.
"It could also be a ghost." Shirley also stared at the door.
"What if it's..." manpower again.
"Impossible, impossible. One time is enough. If it happens again I'll really go crazy!" Shirley wanted to cry again.
"Boom, boom, boom."
The knocks on the door came three times, once every so often, and it seemed like they would keep knocking if they didn't respond.
The two were very nervous, and Keli finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Let's go over together and take a look through the cat's eye first." Although the cat's eye was pitch black just now, there must be someone outside now... or something else, so maybe they can see something.
Shirley nodded and clutched Keli's sleeve tightly.
The two of them slowly moved towards the door, not daring to make any loud noise.
Finally I moved to the door, and the knocking continued.
Keli held his breath and found that the cat's eye, which was pitch black before, now had a little light coming through. It was really different from what he had just seen.
Shirley also noticed the difference. She and Keli looked at each other, then watched her brother move closer to the door and look into the peephole with one eye closed. She pursed her lips tightly, clenched her hands tighter, and looked extremely nervous.
Keli looked through the peephole and the person outside knocked on the door again at the right time. The slightly arc-shaped peephole made the corridor outside also become arc-shaped, but the person facing the door could see it very clearly.
He was a man wearing a black sweatshirt and looked very familiar.
As if he noticed someone was looking at him through the cat's eye, the man stared at him, his eyes met Keli's, and he gave a faint smile.
A chill suddenly rushed up, Keli's pupils constricted, and he could not believe his eyes.
The person outside—it was himself!
The author has something to say:
Zhou Zhou asked Locke if he could lend him a hand as he wanted to use it in the copy.
Locke generously gave a large box. Because their hands and feet often moved around, sometimes they got lost and could not be found, which affected their daily life, so they used biotechnology to copy a large number of them.
In virtual games, it can be copied infinitely.
Locke, who wanted to become good friends with Zhou Zhou, smiled shyly: "If it's not enough, just come and get it. I have a lot, all parts. If one box is not enough, I have several boxes."
Zhou Zhou was very grateful to the other party. He originally wanted to use only one hand to put the key, but it seemed like a waste of Locke's kindness if so many hands were not used.
So Zhou Zhou poured the entire box of severed hands into the bedroom.
Zhou Zhou (spinning happily): I’ve used them all! Nothing wasted!
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