Night arrived as expected.
This time, as soon as it got dark, a large group of ghosts appeared outside. Just as Xia Yan said, all the dead players turned into large ghosts, and more than a dozen ghosts completely surrounded the house.
"What should we do now? If we don't find a solution, our entire army will be wiped out today."
Eddie tried to close the windows on the first floor, but there were no locks on the windows, either from the inside or the outside, so he couldn't close them at all.
Moreover, there were windows on every floor and in every room of this house, so no matter where they hid, they could not avoid it.
"Go to hell with me~" The large ghosts outside kept shouting, and then they grabbed the eaves and began to shake.
Everyone who had been prepared discovered that the shaking frequency did not seem to be very fast at this time.
"Their movements seem to be slowing down?" The position Eddie chose today allowed him to see out the window. He found that the ghosts outside were moving slower than yesterday. Could it be because there were more of them, so their movements were not as agile as yesterday?
Although it is not too strenuous now, for a player who has been playing dodgeball for a whole day, it still won’t last long.
After a few minutes, several ghosts behind also floated over, and then grabbed the eaves together, and the shaking began to increase.
Everyone in the room was shaking so hard that their heads were dizzy and some of them could no longer hold on.
The first person loosened his grip because he had no strength left. As if as a signal, several of the remaining players also loosened their grip.
Although they did not fall out of the window all at once, they rolled left and right on the floor, occasionally bumping into the furniture or walls in the house.
Shirley and Cole were two of them, and Eddie was almost out of reach.
"Shirley! Koli!"
Zhou Zhou looked back from time to time at Shirley and Keli who were trying to grab something on the ground. He wanted to go over to save them, but they were too far away. Even though there were a few times when they fell not far from Zhou Zhou, before he could reach out to grab them, the two of them rolled to the other side again.
If the shaking continues like this, sooner or later a player will fall out of the window. Since there are so many ghosts, they not only shake back and forth, but also to the left and right. The window that the players sliding on the ground are leaving is getting closer and closer.
"Ahhh, help, I can't hold on!"
Finally, half of Keli's body fell out of the window during a shake. Although he grabbed the window frame in time, he probably couldn't hold on for long.
"Keli!" Looking at Keli who was about to fall out, Zhou Zhou suddenly let go of his hand. During the next shake, the house tilted and hit the door. The door of the house also faced outwards, but it was the only one closed, and it would not open by itself even when shaking.
Zhou Zhou grabbed the door handle, opened the door and ran out the next time the house tilted towards the door.
Sensing someone coming out of the house, the ghosts stopped what they were doing at the same time and looked at the little guy on the ground.
"Koli, come in quickly!" Zhou Zhou looked at the large ghost outside and shouted to Keli hanging on the window.
At this time, the shaking of the house stopped, and Keli quickly climbed into the window. Shirley also quickly got up from the ground and grabbed Keli's sleeve to help him.
"Zhou Zhou, come in quickly." After finally helping Keli climb into the house, Shirley hurriedly shouted to Zhou Zhou outside the window.
Zhou Zhou stood not far from the door, his eyes fixed on the big hands stretched out by the ghosts, then turned around and sprinted towards the door. At the moment when the ghost's big hands were about to fall on Zhou Zhou's back, he successfully ran into the door.
Shirley was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat and almost thought that Zhou Zhou was going to be arrested.
"Come to hell with me~"
That was all the ghosts could say, but this time, their shouts seemed to be filled with anger at being fooled.
Then, just as the ghosts stood up again and prepared to shake the house again, Zhou Zhou ran out of the door again.
"I'm here!" He shouted at the ghosts and waved his hands, afraid that the ghosts couldn't see him.
The ghosts stopped moving again and stretched out their big hands towards the tiny person on the ground.
Then Zhou Zhou ran in again.
He seemed to have calculated it well, and always ran into the house at the moment when the ghost was about to catch him. Then, when the ghosts grabbed the eaves and prepared to shake it, he ran out again.
This goes back and forth several times, and the ghosts are fooled every time.
After all, they are NPCs created by the system and will only act according to the settings, so Zhou Zhou's fishing-like method is very effective and buys other players some rest time.
Shirley looked at Zhou Zhou running back and forth and said in surprise, "Zhou Zhou looks very strong. He played dodgeball so hard today, and now he still has the energy to run back and forth with a ghost hanging on his shoulder."
Keli sat in a chair, catching his breath, and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, when he returned to the house after the game, he looked almost the same as us, but now, he has recovered so quickly."
In fact, Zhou Zhou had already forgotten about this matter. At first, he just wanted to buy time for Keli to return to the house quickly. After running back and forth several times, he found that this method could allow everyone to rest for a while, so he kept running back and forth. The issue of NPCs not being able to show abnormalities and the physical strength of normal people had long been forgotten.
Afterwards, the other players and Zhou Zhou took turns chasing the ghosts back and forth. Half an hour later, the ghosts, which had gained nothing, finally stopped and slowly floated away.
At this time, everyone could finally have a good rest and collapsed on the ground. They felt that this copy was particularly tiring.
Keli was lying on the ground, tilting his head to Zhou Zhou, who was sitting on a chair holding a fat duck, and said, "Zhou Zhou, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have been eliminated."
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "This is what I should do." After all, their relationship is now special!
What should be done? Because they are good friends and good companions? Keli was deeply moved.
After a long rest, everyone discussed how to look for clues again.
"Since returning the dolls to the children yesterday, there has been no other movement in the main mission, so if the clue to the exit is not in this house, then it must be on those children." Xia Yan guessed.
"But where can we find those children?" This house has five floors in total. We have checked almost all the other rooms, but there is no trace of children at all. We don't know where they are.
"We were teleported to different rooms at twelve o'clock last night, and I don't know if it will be the same routine tonight." Xia Yan glanced at the clock. There was still some time before twelve o'clock.
"If we are teleported again at twelve o'clock tonight, we'd better ask those children for clues, or pay attention to whether there are any words related to the tree hole in their words."
At this time, Xia Yan seemed to have become the backbone of the group, mainly because what he said was indeed very reasonable.
Before twelve o'clock, everyone looked for clues outside the house, but still found nothing. It seemed that perhaps the children were really needed to find clues about the exit.
The clock struck twelve, and the people who were looking for clues in different locations were teleported to different rooms again.
A player was teleported to a dark and narrow place. Not only could he not see anything, but even where he was, he saw obstacles on all sides when he stretched out his hand.
"What is this place?" He patted the front and found that it was a wooden board, so was he now in a place similar to a wooden cabinet?
The player tried to push the wooden cabinet open, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't.
"Knock, knock, knock." Someone knocked three times outside the wooden cabinet.
"Is there anyone here? Can you help me open it?" the player shouted outside.
"Uncle, I found you."
The voice outside the closet sounded very familiar. It was the little devil he met last night, who was chasing him for a green dinosaur. If he hadn't pushed the little devil away and ran away, he would have been eliminated yesterday. But now, this little devil is here again.
The player remained silent, wanting to wait for the child to leave before finding a way out. The child outside also stopped talking, but because of the wooden board between them, he couldn't hear whether he had left or not.
Stroking the wooden board near the front, the player put his ear against it, trying to listen to the child's movements.
Then a familiar child's voice sounded behind him: "Uncle, what are you doing?"
The player's heart skipped a beat and he turned around abruptly to look back, only to find a little boy standing behind him in the dark cabinet. His expressionless little face was pale and two bloody tear marks on his cheeks were particularly noticeable in the darkness.
“Ahhhhh, help!”
The cabinet shook violently a few times, and then there was no movement inside.
With a creak, the cabinet opened and a little boy walked out. He scratched his head and said to himself, "What a coward! How could you faint so quickly?"
The lights in the room were on. It turned out that the player was in the closet in the room. There was a green dinosaur more than one meter tall in the room. Its fluffy appearance looked cute. The dinosaur staggered into the closet, and then ate the player in one bite.
The little boy took the dinosaur that had turned back into a doll in his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go back quickly. Yesterday a player dared to scare Xiao Jin, let's go and avenge him!"
The little boy disappeared after he finished speaking.
Zhou Zhou found that this time he was teleported to a very large room. There were many small dolls hanging from the white ceiling, and there were also paintings of the sun and rainbow. The surrounding walls are also snow-white. The bright lights and childlike decorations indicate that this should be a children's playground, with many toys, as well as a small sand pit and slide.
A dozen children were playing, some on the slide, some playing in the sand, and some playing with toys. When they noticed Zhou Zhou suddenly appearing in the center, they all put down their toys and surrounded him.
If it was just one or two children, it would be fine, but being surrounded by more than a dozen children, even if these children looked very cute, but they stared at Zhou Zhou with expressionless eyes, anyone would probably feel uneasy in such a situation.
Zhou Zhou didn't see anything unusual. He looked around while holding the little yellow duck, but he didn't see the angel-like little boy from yesterday. He couldn't help but ask the other children, "Hello, do you have a child with golden hair and golden eyes?"
His main task has not been completed yet, he has to give the duck to that little boy.
The little girl with blond hair and blue eyes who looked like a doll frowned and accused, "It was you who frightened Xiao Jin and made him cry yesterday."
The child did run away crying last night, but that was because Al suddenly kicked the door open and scared the child, not because of him.
Zhou Zhou blinked, feeling very innocent, but thinking that Al had kicked the door and broken it just to find him, scaring the child to tears, he still apologized honestly: "I'm sorry."
Seeing that the other party apologized, the children's attitude improved a little, but they still said to Zhou Zhou fiercely: "What did you do last night?"
"I wasn't the one who scared Xiao Jin to tears last night. I just told him a few bedtime stories. It was my friend who scared him. He suddenly kicked the door open, and then Xiao Jin was scared."
Bedtime story?
The children's eyes lit up. Xiao Jin had been crying since he came back last night, and he didn't say why he was crying, so everyone agreed that the player scared him, which made Xiao Jin cry.
A group of children gathered to the other side, and from time to time they turned back to look at Zhou Zhou who was looking at them curiously, and discussed in a buzzing manner.
"I haven't heard any bedtime stories."
"Didn't you say you were going to punish him? You scared this player to tears."
"But he can tell bedtime stories, and he wasn't the one who scared Xiao Jin."
"What should we do then? Should we continue to scare him?"
"How about we let him tell us a bedtime story first, and then scare him after he's done."
"good."
"agree."
"That's it."
A group of children discussed it and surrounded Zhou Zhou again.
"We'll forgive you if you tell us a bedtime story, too."
Zhou Zhou thought it was okay. He had already coaxed the children once yesterday, and he also told the children a very good story last night. There were just a few more children now, only about a dozen or so, so it should be about the same.
"Okay, I just told Xiao Jin two stories last night. There are so many of you here today, so I can tell you a few more."
The children all sat on the ground, surrounding Zhou Zhou in the middle and nodding, saying, "Okay, okay, the more bedtime stories the better."
"Then I'll tell you the first one, about a little kid who likes to hide in the refrigerator and look for his parents every night."
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