Zhou Zhou, who had been walking around holding the golden egg, suddenly stopped, and stopped with one foot outstretched. Shirley beside him couldn't help but ask curiously, "Zhou Zhou, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh, the egg is cracked." Zhou Zhou looked down at the crack on the golden egg and answered calmly.
"Oh, the egg is cracked... No! The egg is cracked!"
Because Zhou Zhou's expression was too calm, Shirley didn't even react for a moment. When she figured out what he was talking about, she immediately rushed forward and looked at the egg in Zhou Zhou's hand.
Sure enough, there was a crack at the top of the golden egg, and the crack was still expanding.
"It's cracked! Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Shirley shouted in panic, not even knowing what to ask Zhou Zhou to do.
Hearing the noise, Keli and Eddie also looked over with frowns: "What's cracked?"
"Zhouzhou is going to crack!"
The miserable conditions of the three players were still vivid in her mind. As long as the eggs in their hands cracked, it meant that the players would be eliminated in the same way. Shirley couldn't even imagine what it would be like if Zhou Zhou was eliminated in that way.
Heya followed behind Zhou Zhou and naturally saw the golden egg in Zhou Zhou's hand cracking. He took a few steps forward and wanted to exchange the golden egg in Zhou Zhou's hand with his own. Now the egg has only a crack. If it breaks in his hands, he will be the one to be eliminated.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhou actually avoided Heya's hand while holding the egg.
"Don't steal my egg." Zhou Zhou looked at Heya's hand warily, and hugged the golden egg upwards, as if he wanted to hide the egg, but because the egg was too big, it could not be hidden at all.
Keli and Eddie also surrounded Zhou Zhou and yelled, looking like they didn't know what to do.
Only Elvia was still standing there. It seemed that the time had come. After all, this level only lasted three days, and it was impossible to spend all the time hatching the eggs. Now that it was almost evening, the eggs should be about to hatch.
Moreover, Zhou Zhou is a very careful person, and it is absolutely impossible for him to accidentally break the egg at this time, so these people were really noisy.
“Ahhhhhh, the egg cracked!”
“Ahhhhhhhh, Zhou Zhou is about to crack!”
"What should I do?"
"Do you have glue? Let's glue it back on."
"Who in the game would take something like this?"
"Zhou Zhou, do you have any useful props with you, the kind that can revive and save your life?"
Props? Zhou Zhou blinked. It seemed that he didn’t even look at how many points he had from the last copy, and he never thought about buying props.
Several people were shouting and screaming as if they were the ones who were split open. At the same time, people from other teams around also heard the noise and looked over here.
The golden egg continued to crack, extending from the crack at the top all the way down, and finally turned around and returned to the original crack.
At this moment, the egg looked like it was split in half. If Zhou Zhou hadn't still been holding it, it would probably have split into two.
Then, under the horrified gaze of several people, Zhou Zhou moved his arms.
“Crack!”
The eggshell broke into two and fell to the ground.
A little yellow duck appeared in the cracked egg. No, it should be called a big yellow duck. It was not the kind made of plastic, but a plush doll, and it was very fat.
The few people who were screaming in panic suddenly fell silent. It turned out that it had really hatched. However, this thing was too unexpected...
Shirley opened her mouth, not knowing what to say. Finally, she sighed and said, "I thought that at least the ones that hatched would be alive."
But it's actually a stuffed toy, so why does something like this need to be hatched?
“Gah!”
As if in response to Shirley's question, the fat yellow duck sitting in Zhou Zhou's arms actually spoke.
"Huh? It can still make sounds? But this is a game world after all, anything can happen, so this fat duck should be considered alive." Eddie stretched out his hand to poke the duck, but was almost pecked on his finger by the duck.
Keli was also watching the fat yellow duck: "So, our eggs will hatch into stuffed dolls too?"
"Maybe." Eddie looked at the pink egg in his hand and couldn't help but imagine what kind of plush toy it would be.
Soon after Zhou Zhou's duck hatched, the eggs in other people's hands also began to hatch. Because of Zhou Zhou's precedent, no one panicked when the eggs cracked.
The red egg that Shirley took hatched a little tiger, still a stuffed toy.
The pink one of Eddie is a pink pig. Looking at his depressed expression, he probably didn't expect it to be a pig.
The brown egg of Heya is a small puppet, the only one among the eggs hatched so far that is not a stuffed toy.
And when Keli's sea-blue egg was cracked, there was actually a fish inside, with a simulated fish body and a pair of dead fish eyes. Shirley laughed at her crazily, saying that the kind of person who hatches the kind of egg that he does.
Al's green-patterned egg hadn't hatched yet, and everyone was a little worried that there might be something wrong.
At the same time, the eggs in the hands of players from other teams were also hatched, and they were all dolls and toys.
When all the eggs were hatched, the one in Al's hand finally moved. After it cracked, a small green frog was inside.
It seems that the toys that hatch are related to their own colors. The color of the egg will determine the color of the toy that hatches.
Everyone's task panel indicated that the main task had been completed, and then a new line of text appeared on the panel.
[Please return the hatched doll to its owner. 】
Shirley looked at the little red tiger in her hand and said reluctantly, "We hatched it, so aren't we the owner? Do we have to give it back to others?"
Keli held the salted fish in his hand and said, "It's just a game. If you like it, you can just go home and buy another one."
"What do you know? You are a salted fish, but I am a tiger."
"Yeah, yeah, you're right, Tigress."
"What did you say?"
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, Eddie quickly said, "The key point now is where are the owners of these toys? We should at least find them first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the fat duck in Zhou Zhou's arms suddenly jumped to the ground, and then started walking with his feet turned inward.
The other toys also came down from the players' hands and arms and walked to the same place with the duck.
"Are they going to lead us to find their owner?"
"Hurry up and follow me."
A group of toys walk or jump in the same direction, followed closely by a group of players.
It seemed that at the same time the toys hatched, the unselected eggs on the ground disappeared, and everyone no longer had to worry about accidentally stepping on those eggs.
After walking for a while, Zhou Zhou's fat duck actually broke away from the toy team and walked to Zhou Zhou's feet, swaying with its legs turned inward.
"Quack." The fat duck looked up and shouted at Zhou Zhou.
Then Zhou Zhou held the duck in his arms again.
Shirley next to him asked curiously: "Zhou Zhou, can you understand what this duck is saying?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "I don't understand."
"Then how do you know it wants you to hold it?"
Zhou Zhou: “I guessed.”
Shirley looked at the largest duck among the dolls and couldn't help but say, "It's probably because it's too fat to walk, so it needs you to hold it."
“Ga ga ga!”
The fat duck seemed to understand that Shirley was calling it fat, and actually called out to her a few times.
Shirley quickly moved to the side. Although the duck looked cute, this was a horror game and she had not forgotten how those players died. So no matter whether it was a duck or anything else, it was best not to offend it. So she quickly stayed away from it to avoid the duck from holding a grudge against her.
I don’t know how long I walked, but it was dark.
In this copy, it is not pitch dark after dark. There is a round moon in the sky, and the clear moonlight shines on your body. You can even see the shadows under your feet.
Moreover, the moon here is very big. If you look at it directly, the moonlight may even seem a bit dazzling. It hangs high in the sky, and you can even see white clouds floating around.
Keli looked at the moon with great satisfaction. How could he do a copy in the pitch black night? This brightness was just right and he could see everything around him clearly.
Zhou Zhou held the duck and kept looking around, as if he was looking for something.
"What are you looking for?" asked Keli.
"I'm looking for a ghost." Zhou Zhou replied.
Ke Li paused, remembering how he was scared to death by a ghost in the Love Academy, and forced a smile: "With so many of us, the ghost shouldn't appear."
Eddie's fluorescent head was still bright. Hearing what Keli said, he immediately said, "Not necessarily. Three players just died. There must be three ghosts hiding somewhere. We'd better be careful."
This sentence successfully made Keli stay alert throughout the rest of the journey, but the ghost never appeared.
The surrounding scenery remained unchanged, with only low pine trees, until they finally reached their destination after climbing over a small slope.
Because a house appeared in front of them. The house stood abruptly on the grass, and there was nothing around it.
And the toys' destination is obviously this house.
The red roof, the white walls, and even a chimney on top; the moonlight made everyone's vision clear.
Shirley frowned as she looked at the house. She felt as if she had seen it somewhere before, but she just couldn't remember where. So she asked Keli next to her, "Does this house look familiar to you?"
Keli was originally on guard against any ghosts that might suddenly appear around him, but when he heard Shirley's question, he looked towards the house. After hearing what Shirley said, it seemed as if he had indeed seen it somewhere before, but when he thought about it carefully, the buildings in their hometown were not of this style.
Neither of them could remember, so they finally gave up.
The dolls walked toward the house, up a few steps, and when they reached the door of the house, the white door suddenly opened.
The first few players stretched their necks to see who opened the door, but there was no one inside.
The doll jumped into the house, and the players had no choice but to follow it in.
After everyone came in, the door was immediately closed.
Everyone looked around the furnishings in the house and found that there were many children's things here. There were graffiti all over the walls, and all kinds of dolls lying around on the floor and sofa. Some of them were exactly the same as the dolls they had hatched.
On the far left there is a very large table clock, the ticking sound of which continues to be heard, and the time on it shows that it is now eleven o'clock.
The clock is dark red, which doesn't seem to match the bright colors of the entire room. Every player looks around after coming in and notices the clock at first sight.
The dolls hatched by the players themselves no longer walk in the same direction, but instead separate.
Al discovered that these dolls were separated according to different teams. For example, the red lion, frog, salted fish, etc. in their team walked to the left side of the first floor, while dolls from other different teams walked upstairs.
Is it because the subsequent tasks require teamwork? If teammates are missing, will it affect subsequent tasks? Al looked at the group of three sturdy men and thought silently.
At this time, Zhou Zhou's duck jumped out of his arms again, quacked at Zhou Zhou, and then walked away with the dolls in its team.
Zhou Zhou nodded, looking as if he understood, and turned to his teammates and said, "It told us to follow it."
Shirley: "So Zhou Zhou, you really can understand it."
"I don't understand, but that's what its eyes say."
What kind of expression can a toy duck have? Several people wanted to complain but didn't know where to start. Forget it, regardless of the duck language, they just followed along.
The house looked small from a distance, but the space inside was very large and had about five floors, with each team occupying one floor.
Only the team that left early to look for the tree hole has not returned yet.
Zhou Zhou's team was on the first floor. They followed the doll into a room. The space in this room was also very large, with a very high ceiling, and it looked very spacious.
This room seems to be a child's room. The walls are covered with graffiti and there are six small beds in different positions.
The six dolls walked towards different beds.
Everyone looked at each other and followed the dolls they had hatched to the bed.
Zhou Zhou followed the duck and saw it waddle over to the crib, then quacked at him.
"Do you want to go up?" Zhou Zhou asked.
“Gah.”
Zhou Zhou carried the duck to the bed, placed it on the pillow, and considerately covered it with a quilt.
"Okay, is this okay?"
"Quack." The duck was obviously very satisfied. It curled up on the bed without moving, as if it had fallen asleep.
Others followed Zhou Zhou's example and placed the piglet, puppet, salted fish and lion on different small beds.
Al looked at the little frog that jumped twice by the bed and then croaked twice at him, and ruthlessly refused: "Jump up by yourself."
Little frog: “…”
The little frog was in a miserable state, no one carried it up, so it had to fend for itself, and continued to jump onto the bed. After countless attempts, it finally jumped up and lay there motionless.
These play idols have lost their life and become a real toy, motionless.
The players in the room waited for a long time and didn’t know what to do next. They returned the dolls to their owners. The key point was where were the owners?
"We can't just sit there and wait. Let's look for clues in the room," Shirley suggested.
So everyone looked around the room for clues about the toy's owner, or clues to the exit tree hole.
I searched for a long time but found nothing.
On the other side of the room are several small desks with bookshelves, which seem to be used by children.
Zhou Zhou stood in front of the desk and took a book off the bookshelf to read the contents. Maybe he could find clues there.
But as I read on, I became fascinated and kept standing there reading.
"Zhou Zhou, what are you looking at?" Keli walked over and asked curiously.
Zhou Zhou raised his head and said happily: "Read books, the books here are very interesting, I have never read such books before."
There are many books in the library of Love Academy, and he has read them all, but this is the first time he has read a book of this type.
oh? What book is so interesting?
Keli also became interested and took a book from the bookshelf. The cover of the book looked very cartoon-like. It couldn't be a fairy tale for children.
But seeing Zhou Zhou's focused expression, as if the contents inside were very attractive, he still opened the book.
After a few minutes, Keli closed the book stiffly and quickly put it back in its place.
What a fairy tale! This is full of horror stories! ! !
The cover looks cute, but inside are a bunch of small stories, the kind of horror stories that make people feel terrified the more they think about it.
Why does he want to read horror stories in horror games? Does he think his life is not long enough?
Maybe he took the wrong book, the one just now should be an exception.
Not giving up, Keli took another book with a pink cover from the bookshelf and opened it.
A minute later he snapped the book shut and called out tremblingly, "Shirley, Shirley."
"What are you doing?"
"Come here for a moment."
Shirley was confused and walked over to her brother, "What are you doing?"
Keli stood behind Shirley and grabbed her shoulders: "Don't be too far away from me, brother needs you."
Shirley got goosebumps all over her body. "What are you doing? Are you finally going crazy?"
After that, Keli followed Shirley closely. Shirley tried for a long time but failed to get rid of him. Finally, she had no choice but to let him follow her.
Seeing Zhou Zhou still reading seriously, Ke Li hid behind his sister and was puzzled: "Zhou Zhou, don't you have any thoughts after reading these books?"
Don’t you think the contents inside become more and more terrifying the more you think about them?
Zhou Zhou raised his head and thought for a while: "The meaning is very profound."
Keli: “…”
Well, he is a mortal, he doesn't understand, he doesn't understand.
In the game copy, the clock struck twelve.
The ding-dong ding-dong sound echoed throughout the house and all the players could hear it.
The next moment, the players' eyes blurred and they found themselves changing positions.
Originally, he was staying in the room with his companions, but now he was lying alone on the bed, with the doll he hatched next to him, and none of his companions were there.
Zhou Zhou found himself lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, while Little Fat Duck was lying at the head of the bed. The surrounding environment was very unfamiliar. It was not the room they entered together.
Sitting up from the bed, Zhou Zhou found that there was only a bed and a desk in the room, nothing else, and everyone was gone.
Hugging the little yellow duck, Zhou Zhou was still wondering how he got here when he suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from under the bed.
It sounded like something was crawling on the ground, the sound of clothes rubbing against the ground.
He lay on the bed, lifted the sheets that were dragging on the ground, and leaned down to look curiously.
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