A group of cute children surrounded a handsome boy, and the boy's clear and pleasant voice echoed in the children's playground.
He seemed to be telling something to the children, his expression serious and focused. The children sat cross-legged on the ground, looking up and listening attentively.
This scene looks very warm from a distance.
But as they were talking, the children's expressions seemed to become strange.
At first, only one or two children frowned, seeming a little confused. Why did this story sound strange?
By the time Zhou Zhou finished telling the first story, several children had already hugged their friends with looks of fear.
Although Zhou Zhou noticed something was wrong with the children, the two kids hugging each other looked very cute. Their chubby faces pressed together made them doubly cute.
By the time he finished telling the second bedtime story, the children were already huddled together, shivering.
"Then I will start telling the third story. The third story is more interesting than the first two. Everyone please listen carefully." Zhou Zhou found that the children seemed to have moved back, so he also moved towards the children, wanting to sit closer to them so that they could hear more clearly.
On the first day here, Zhou Zhou felt that these stories were just small stories and didn’t have any other feelings.
But after just a few glances, Keli felt terrified and immediately called Shirley to come and accompany him. It can be seen that these stories are "selected" horror stories, and their power is evident.
Not to mention that the people listening to the stories now are a group of children, who have richer imaginations about horror stories. Although they have their own friends around them, these stories are really, really scary.
"...Xiao Hai felt that this hotel was full of weirdness, so he secretly called his friend in the middle of the night and told him everything he saw and heard in the hotel. But when his friend heard the name of this hotel, he was horrified and shouted on the phone to tell him to leave there quickly. He didn't give Xiao Hai any free hotel coupons, and the hotel was abandoned a year ago because the owner's family of four was killed. Xiao Hai was very scared and confused at the same time. Who put the free hotel coupons in his house?"
Zhou Zhou paused, watching the children staring at him with wide eyes, as if they were also thinking about the answer to this question, and then he slowly said, "At this moment, someone suddenly patted him on the back and said faintly, 'It was me who put it there.' Xiao Hai was startled, turned around and looked back, and found that the owner's family of four were standing behind him..."
"Waaaaaa~" One little kid finally couldn't help it and started crying loudly with his head tilted back.
The other children also hugged each other and cried loudly in each other's arms.
Zhou Zhou stopped telling the story he had not yet finished and looked helplessly at the room full of children crying very sadly.
"What's wrong with you?" The culprit was even confused. The story he told shouldn't be the kind that would move people to tears, right?
The children didn't say anything, they just kept crying. It seemed that they finally understood why Xiao Jin had been crying since he came back yesterday.
This adult is so mean. He deliberately scares the children and tells them ghost stories.
"Don't cry, I'll tell you another story, okay." Zhou Zhou wanted to go over and hug the children to comfort them, but no matter which child he walked up to, the child would cry even louder and then crawl away.
In the end, he could only stand there in a daze, watching the children on the ground crying loudly, and told everyone in a dry voice to stop crying.
Apparently his feeble attempts at comfort had no effect.
What now? It was the first time that Zhou Zhou encountered such a situation. He was able to coax one little child just fine yesterday, and he thought he could coax a group of children too. But why did it turn out like this today?
The sound of a group of children crying at the same time was like a devil's sound filling the ears, echoing throughout the house.
For a moment, no matter where the players were, they either had a solemn look on their faces, thinking that something unusual would happen next, or they were simply scared. Listening to such a sound in the middle of the night was really not good for the heart.
Otherwise, ask someone else for help.
Zhou Zhou was really at a loss. After all, it was not good to have so many children crying all the time, and they wouldn't let him get close. Zhou Zhou could only look for an exit in this large children's playground.
Finally, he found the exit at a place on the wall where there was a painting of clouds. The exit was very small, and its height was about the same as the height of the children. Zhou Zhou could only bend over to go out. There was a small staircase outside. He went down the staircase and continued to open a door in front of him, and found himself in the corridor on the fifth floor.
At this time, Elvia just walked up the stairs and met Zhou Zhou, who was standing in the corridor on the fifth floor looking around as if looking for something.
"Al, please do me a favor!" When Zhou Zhou saw Al, he hurried over and said to him.
"What's wrong?"
Zhou Zhou pulled Al's sleeve and led him to the door, explaining, "The children suddenly started crying, but I couldn't comfort them no matter what I did. Can you help me?"
Al had heard it. After all, the crying of children echoed throughout the house. Yesterday it was just one child, but today it became a group of children.
He walked to the door he had come out of before, but found that he could not open it. It was clearly not locked or closed when he just came out. Why couldn't it open now?
Looking at Zhou Zhou who was trying hard to turn the doorknob, Al glanced at the door in front of him, which was exactly the same as the doors in other rooms.
"I'll do it." Alvia said.
Zhou Zhou knew that the other party would definitely kick the door again, but now the door could not be opened, so it seemed that this was the only way. The children were still crying, and he wanted to take Al to find those children as soon as possible so that they would stop crying.
"boom!"
The door was kicked open again. Zhou Zhou quickly looked inside and found that it was just an ordinary room. There was no staircase he had seen before, nor was there the small door.
"It's different. It wasn't like this when I came out just now." Zhou Zhou asked in confusion.
Elvia also saw the layout inside, which was similar to the other rooms, and there was no sign of any children inside.
Zhou Zhou walked into the room and looked everywhere to see if he could find the small door, but he couldn't find it at all.
"Let's go to the first floor first." Elvia's ice-blue eyes flashed. It seemed that the room had been moved after Zhou Zhou came out just now.
After most people were transferred out, they returned to the first floor. Only the two individual players were missing. Now there were only Zhou Zhou's team and the four people from Sharp's family.
When they learned from Zhou Zhou that there was a children's playground here, everyone wondered if the exit might be there. After all, they had searched other places and found nothing.
"Zhou Zhou, what's with all those crying noises?" Shirley asked in confusion when she learned that Zhou Zhou was teleported to the children's playground. The crying sounds never stopped and everyone was in a panic.
Zhou Zhou looked at Shirley, his long eyelashes trembling slightly, with an innocent look on his face, even a little helpless: "I don't know either, they suddenly started crying, I came out to find someone to help, and then I couldn't find the room."
Eddie rubbed his chin and guessed, "Could these sounds be their way of scaring people? After all, the sound of a child crying in the middle of the night can easily make people think of some horrific scenes."
Keli looked at Zhou Zhou, who looked innocent and didn't seem to understand, and suddenly thought of something: "Zhou Zhou, what were you doing when you were with those kids?"
"I just told them a few bedtime stories."
Keli: Could it be those stories?
Keli suddenly understood why those children were crying so miserably and had not stopped crying for such a long time. No matter which child it is, if he meets someone who tells horror stories as bedtime stories in the middle of the night, it would be strange if he doesn't cry.
However, Zhou Zhou was his teammate, so he could only sigh and sympathize with those children who were tortured by "bedtime stories".
Seeing that everyone was still wondering what the crying was about, Keli could only keep the truth to himself. It would be fine for them, but if the other players knew that it was Zhou Zhou who scared the children to tears, causing them to miss some important clues, they might even blame him.
"Now we need to find that room. There might be clues about the tree hole in there." Xia Yan said.
"But how do we find it?" asked another boy from the Sharp family.
"Yes, we have searched all the rooms, and no one has ever seen that place that looks like a children's playground."
Several people from the Sharp family looked at Zhou Zhou, but Zhou Zhou himself didn't know where the room was.
"We will be moved these two nights, so the children's playground may also be moved. If we are looking for it on the first floor, the room may be moved to the second floor. When we are looking for it on the second floor, it may be moved back to the first floor."
Seeing that everyone in the Sharp family was looking at Zhou Zhou, Alvia couldn't help but remind them.
"Then how can we find it? There are so many rooms and there are only ten of us. Even if each of us looks for one, it is impossible for us to check all the rooms at the same time. The children's playground must have been moved to other places." Eddie frowned and felt that this problem was very tricky.
"And tomorrow is the last day. If we still can't find it, all of us will be eliminated," Hea added.
Thinking of this, everyone fell silent.
Alvia looked at everyone present who was thinking about how to find the children's playground, and said nothing.
In fact, the movement of the rooms is regular. Before he found Zhou Zhou, he had looked at several rooms on different floors, which confirmed his guess. As long as he could find the pattern and time of the movement, he could start from the room on the fifth floor where Zhou Zhou came out and calculate where the children's playground is now.
As Zhou Zhou was thinking, he suddenly looked down at his hands, then looked around as if he was looking for something.
"What's wrong?" Alvia asked.
"I remembered that I left my little yellow duck in that children's playground. That should be considered as returning the doll to its owner, right?" Zhou Zhou asked uncertainly.
After all, according to the way other people completed the task, he should have returned the little yellow duck to the little boy named Xiao Jin, but he was not there tonight, and the other children were all crying, so he left without bothering to ask them to hand it over.
"Just look at your task panel and you'll know." said Elvia.
Zhou Zhou immediately opened the task panel and found that it showed that he had completed the task, and he couldn't help feeling relieved.
"It seems that those kids helped me return the little yellow duck to Xiao Jin."
Alvia suddenly remembered that there was a frog in his pocket. He didn't know if it was because of Zeus, but after he was transferred to other rooms tonight, nothing happened, so he had time to observe everywhere.
"Doll's house, doll's house..." Shirley walked back and forth there, muttering something from time to time, looking very strange.
Keli had just finished lamenting that Zhou Zhou was a natural black, when he noticed something was wrong with his sister: "Shirley, what are you doing?"
Shirley paused suddenly: "I remember now."
"What did you remember?" Keli was confused.
"Do you remember? The toys we played with when we were little."
"Which toy?"
Shirley immediately gestured to Keli: "It's that toy that looks like a small house. It can be disassembled, and the small houses inside can be moved around one by one."
Ke Li also began to recall: "I seem to have some impression."
"That house looks exactly like the one we are in now. I felt it was familiar before I even entered the house."
Keli also remembered: "It was the one you broke after playing with it for only two days, right? You even framed me and told my parents that I broke it."
Shirley: "...There's no need to remember this so clearly."
Eddie heard that they seemed to have discovered something, and immediately came forward and asked: "What toys are you talking about? Do you have toys like this house?"
Shirley nodded and said seriously, "Well, this is a toy we played with when we were young. It has a similar structure to this house. The rooms are small cubes that can be moved left and right, while the houses on the left and right can move up and down."
Zhou Zhou understood: "Is this house also moved in the same way?"
"In theory, it should be possible. Let's try to find the movement pattern now. Maybe we can use this pattern to find the children's playground."
Xia Yan stood up and said to everyone, "Now, who still remembers what the room you were in before looked like? Let's deduce the movement rules based on your previous and current positions."
Eddie wondered, "Aren't all the rooms here the same?"
Shirley was speechless: "How can it be the same? The size is different, the decoration inside is different, and the graffiti on the wall is different."
Eddie: "Do you remember the decoration of the room you were just transferred to?"
Shirley: “…I don’t remember.”
Eddie raised his eyebrows with an expression that said, "You see, you don't know either."
Only Zhou Zhou, Heya, Elvia and Xia Yan remembered the people present, so starting from the first room they entered yesterday, as well as the locations of the subsequent rooms, they began to look for the pattern of movement.
After Zhou Zhou was teleported yesterday, the room he stayed in with the little boy was originally on the first floor, but now that room is on the third floor, and the rooms of other people have also changed.
Based on the changes in the positions of these rooms, it was found that they all moved in an S shape, continuously going up, and after reaching the fifth floor, they continued to move from the first room on the first floor.
"So can we find the children's playground now?" Eddie couldn't hide his excitement. He had found the pattern and was not far from passing the level.
Xia Yan found a piece of paper and a piece of crayon that a kid had used, and continued to draw the direction of the room on the paper: "No, there is something missing."
Alvia glanced at the time. It was almost daytime again. They had spent too much time looking for the pattern of the room. If they delayed any further, they might not be able to pass the level within the specified time.
"The time, the time for the room to move is not included. The room will move every half an hour." Elvia reminded again.
Xia Yan looked at Elvia deeply, curled the corners of his mouth as if he was laughing at something, then lowered his head and wrote and drew on the paper.
But before he could figure out where the children's playground was, daybreak came and the crying that had been echoing in the house finally stopped.
Everyone frowned as they watched the surroundings suddenly brighten, and thought of yesterday's game.
There shouldn’t be any games waiting for them today.
Two days have already been spent, and there is only one day and one night left. They have to find the children's playground within one day and look for the exit inside.
And the worst case scenario is that their guess is wrong, and the exit is not inside the children's playground. Then they might have to continue searching outside and cannot afford to waste even a minute.
As expected, as I thought, something happened. Ding-dong sounds were heard on the stairs, and a doll poked its head out from the stairs, looking over here cautiously.
Shirley was puzzled: "What's going on? Yesterday the doll looked like a naughty child, but today it looks..." as if it's afraid of something?
"Let's play games together." The doll poked its head out and whispered.
If they weren't all staring at the doll, waiting for it to speak, the voice would have been so soft that it would have been inaudible.
Seeing that the doll was not so arrogant today, Eddie squatted down and asked, "Can we not play?"
The doll clung to the steps for a while, then turned its head slightly to look at Zhou Zhou who was standing behind it. Zhou Zhou seemed to notice that the doll was staring at him, and immediately smiled at it.
The smile was warm, but the doll shrank back in fear and whispered in a sobbing voice, "Okay."
Eddie was just bargaining out of habit, and never thought he could really make the other party compromise. He was surprised to hear the doll say this: "Really?"
Others hadn’t expected that they wouldn’t have to play games anymore, and they were all surprised and happy.
Zhou Zhou took a step towards the doll. He recognized the voice as that of the little girl with blond hair and blue eyes whom he met last night. He wanted to go up to her and ask her if the other children were still crying. The doll suddenly turned around and ran upstairs, crying, "We don't want to play with you anymore. Play with them instead."
When Eddie looked up the stairs, the doll was gone.
"It runs pretty fast. Who did it just tell us to play with?" Eddie scratched the back of his head and turned to ask his companions.
Everyone else shook their heads. Who were they?
Just when everyone was thinking that these dolls were not going to play games with them anymore, something else popped up and the surrounding scenery suddenly darkened again.
"Is it getting dark so soon? It feels like the day has just begun?" Keli asked puzzledly.
"No, the sky above this house is covered by a large dark cloud." Heya said, standing in front of the window with his arms folded.
"Is it going to rain?" Eddie also asked in confusion.
"Go to hell with me~" An extremely familiar voice sounded outside the house.
It turned out to be those large ghosts. They appeared from nowhere and floated towards the house.
"Is it going to start again? Can't we just keep quiet? We might as well be playing dodgeball with the dolls." Shirley complained. The large ghost during these two nights was really annoying, I didn’t expect it to come out during the day as well.
"We're not going to have to stay here all day, are we? Even if we can have someone else stand at the door to attract the ghost's attention, it will still take a lot of time."
Just as everyone was holding on to the furniture in the house, Zhou Zhou ran to the door skillfully, ready to run out as soon as the ghosts started shaking, but the ghosts did not shake the house, but slowly approached.
Then he put his legs into the window and tried to come in through the window.
These unpredictable ghosts also made everyone present stunned for a few seconds. Shirley waved her hand and said, "It's okay. They are so big that they definitely can't get in."
Just as he finished speaking, the first large ghost that had its legs stretched into the window suddenly became slender and slid inside through the window.
"Damn! Get them out!" Eddie shouted, picking up a chair and rushing to the window, grabbing the chair with both hands and trying to push the ghost out.
There are six windows on the first floor. Except for the one that Eddie was dealing with, there were ghosts trying to put their feet in through the other windows.
Zhou Zhou stood at the door and heard the sound of the doorknob turning. It seemed that there was a ghost trying to come in through the door.
Elvia kicked out a ghost that was half stuck in the window, but the structure of these ghosts was very special and they could not be broken at all. After being kicked away, they were ready to come in through the window again.
Zhou Zhou closed the door to prevent the ghosts outside from coming in, while looking up at the ceiling.
There are now seven ghosts on the first floor ready to come in, so what about the other ghosts?
There are a lot of windows in this building, and every room has a window. Although it is much smaller than the windows on the first floor, ghosts can stretch and shrink themselves, so could the remaining dozen or so ghosts have already come in through the windows upstairs?
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