Six people were standing in a children's playground full of childlike fun. Opposite them was a group of crying children. Their eyes were red from crying. They were sobbing and drawing on the wall with crayons. For a moment, it was impossible to tell what they were drawing.
The scene looked like six adults bullying a group of children. Several people looked at each other with helplessness in their eyes. They didn't know what Zhou Zhou had done to make these children cry, and they didn't know how to coax the children, so they could only stand there.
Each child had a crayon in his hand and was drawing on the wall in front of him. As the children's drawings became more and more complete and gradually connected with the drawings of other people on both sides, they finally saw the true appearance of the painting.
It turned out to be a lying tree!
Is this the exit they are looking for?
Eddie didn't expect that his threat would actually succeed. It turned out that they couldn't find any clues in the entire building because the exit was drawn by the children.
If they don’t find the base camp of these children, they may not be able to find the exit until the time runs out.
Finding the exit was originally a very happy thing, but for Zhou Zhou, this incident was far less devastating than scaring so many children to tears.
After the sadness, he felt uneasy. He quietly looked up at the children who had their backs to him, and Zhou Zhou felt that he had to do something.
The children finally finished their drawing. The lush green leaves and thick trunk were very vivid and lifelike, except that the tree was lying horizontally. It didn't look like a child's drawing at all, not to mention that they had drawn it with crayons.
After finishing the painting, the children huddled together again, like a group of little mice seeing a cat, with fear in their eyes.
A little fat boy who had never seen Zhou Zhou from beginning to end and just howled along with his companions looked around. He was tired and could not cry anymore. Why were everyone still crying?
The little fat boy walked out from a group of children and stood in the front. His two eyes, which were almost squeezed out by his chubby face, looked at the group of adults in front of him, pointed his finger at the painted tree and said, "The exit is right there."
Eddie walked a few steps towards the wall, looked at the painting on the wall closely, and touched it with his hand. The touch was delicate and slightly cool. It was obviously just a tree painted on the wall. How could there be an exit?
"Where is the exit?" Eddie turned around and asked.
The little fat boy still pointed behind him with his fat finger, but suddenly took a few steps back.
Not only the little fat boy, but the other children also moved several steps to the side.
Eddie looked at the kid's actions in confusion, then looked at his companions.
Shirley's eyes widened and her mouth opened unconsciously.
Keli pointed his finger tremblingly behind him and shouted, "Behind, behind!"
later? Eddie turned around in confusion and saw an unbelievable scene.
The big tree that was just painted on the wall was now slowly protruding outwards, changing from a flat plane to a three-dimensional one. This alone was not enough to make Shirley show such an expression, the main thing was that a human face actually appeared on the trunk of the tree.
The rough bark formed an old human face, and the dense roots seemed like the feet of an old man, slowly emerging from the wall, and then slowly rolling to the ground.
With a loud bang, the whole tree fell from the wall to the ground. This strange creature, which looked like a dryad, lay on the ground and couldn't get up.
Eddie was startled and almost hit by a tree falling from the wall. He quickly jumped a few steps and ran to his companions.
The tree demon rolled on the ground a few times, and its roots continued to sway slowly. With its aging face, it looked like an elderly man who had fallen to the ground and was unable to get up for a long time due to his weak body.
The eyes formed by two eight-shaped cracks on the tree trunk slowly looked at the six people present. Although it did not make any sound, its eyes seemed to be asking for help from the players.
Keli sucked in a breath of cold air, and his scalp tingled as he looked into the other person's eyes. If the person in front of him really was an old man, he would definitely help him, but forget about this NPC who was not sure whether it was Painted Skin or a tree demon.
Shirley didn't dare to go up either. The children had drawn a dozen tree roots. The short and thick roots were shaking as if they were struggling. They were so densely packed that it made people's scalp tighten just by looking at them.
A few people watched for a while, and this strange tree monster actually slowly stood up by itself. Its total height was about five meters. It stood up like this without the help of any human power?
Even after the tree demon stood up, it was still a tree demon, but after standing up, the old face that resembled a human face looked more real.
On the trunk, below the human face, a small crack actually appeared under the gaze of everyone. The crack continued to expand and finally turned into a tree hole.
This is the only place in the whole house that meets the requirements for completing the mission, but no one has moved.
Zhou Zhou took a step forward and was immediately grabbed by several hands behind him.
"Zhou Zhou, what are you going to do?"
"There's something wrong with this exit."
"Why don't you ask those kids again?"
The clearance was in sight, but the reason everyone hesitated was that the tree hole was too small. It looked like only a child could climb in successfully, and the adults would probably get stuck if they put their heads in.
How do I get out of this?
It shouldn't be possible to clear the dungeon by just sticking out one's head, right?
Everyone thought Zhou Zhou wanted to give it a try, so they quickly grabbed him.
Shirley looked at the old man's face above the tree hole again. He was actually sighing. She always felt that if they put their heads in, they would be eaten by the tree monster.
Eddie turned to look at the kids: "Is this really the exit?"
The children nodded vigorously with red eyes, looking very sincere.
Zhou Zhou turned his head to look at the corner of his clothes that was being pulled, then raised his head to look at everyone: "It's okay, I'm just trying it first."
He pointed to the trunk and explained earnestly, "A hole just appeared. I'll try to expand it. Otherwise, this hole is too small for us to get out."
As soon as the voice fell, He Ya immediately passed Zhou Zhou and said, "I'll take care of this kind of thing."
He stared at the tree hole, grabbed the edge of the tree hole with both hands, and exerted force suddenly. The tree hole was actually torn open again.
As Heya exerted his strength, the old man's face of the tree demon let out a sharp cry. The people in the room were caught off guard and their ears suddenly felt a sharp pain.
The children already knew about this, and they covered their ears after Heya went up.
Shirley and the others quickly covered their ears.
Heya frowned, obviously not feeling well, but he still tried hard to expand the tree hole outwards.
Finally, the tree hole was changed from a regular circle into a half-person-high arch, just enough for everyone to bend over and pass through. At this time, the old man's face above the tree hole no longer screamed.
The tree hole was pitch black, as if it had merged into the darkness. Heya turned his head to look at Zhou Zhou and Elvia, nodded slightly at them, then bent down and walked into the tree hole first.
Alvia seemed to have noticed something, glanced at the entrance of the room, and said to everyone as if nothing had happened: "Let's go, time is running out."
Shirley was the second one to step forward, while Keli tightly grasped the back of his sister's clothes, and the two of them bent down and walked in together.
Eddie glanced at the remaining two people at the entrance of the tree hole, then bent down and entered the tree hole.
Zhou Zhou stood there without moving. Alvia asked, "Aren't you leaving?"
He pursed his lips and finally moved his feet, but he walked in front of the children. Looking at these children who were still afraid of him, Zhou Zhou lowered his eyebrows and bowed to the children: "I'm sorry."
Before entering the copy, Zhou Zhou clicked on the black star, which means that some of the NPCs in the copy are played by real people.
The characters that are closest to real people here are probably these children.
Zhou Zhou wanted to be like Molan and make friends with everyone, but he failed and instead scared everyone.
"I'm sorry to scare you guys. I'm leaving now. My ID is ##**&... You can contact me and I... I'll treat you guys to a meal, okay?"
After Zhou Zhou apologized to the children, he bent down and walked into the tree hole.
Alvia noticed that when these kids heard about dinner, many of their eyes lit up. It seemed that many of them would come to find him.
With the corners of his mouth slightly raised, Alvia felt that he seemed to have laughed a lot in the past two days. He looked towards the entrance of the children's playground, and the small door was immediately opened. Xia Yan walked in front. With a frown on his face, he only saw Alvia glance at him coldly, and then entered the tree hole.
The moment his figure disappeared, the abrupt tree also disappeared.
At first, they could only walk in the tree hole by bending over, but it became more and more spacious, and everyone realized that this seemed to be the tunnel they came from.
In the darkness, Eddie's fluorescent green hair pointed out the location to everyone, and several people gathered together again.
"Why are you so slow? We've been waiting for a while." Shirley complained, but her face was full of joy. Finding the tunnel they came from meant that they had really passed the level.
And the difficulty this time is so high, I should be able to get a good score.
Zhou Zhou: "I said a few words to the children."
Eddie stretched and said, "I'm really exhausted this time. It feels like I've been in the dungeon for a long time. I have to go home and rest."
Keli nodded in agreement: "It is indeed very tiring. We still have to go to work tomorrow."
Shirley remembered that she had to go to work tomorrow, and her face, which had just been full of joy, suddenly fell: "Ah? I still have to go to work."
Eddie looked at them sympathetically and said, "Fortunately, school hasn't started yet, so I still have time to play. But the holiday is only a few days away, and I don't know if I can continue to play at school then."
Nightmare City was launched during the holidays. Although it was officially launched and the game can increase people's mental strength, the school is still unclear about the procedures for this.
Most of the practical courses in college are conducted in the holographic network. Although Nightmare City is a game, it can exercise mental strength. Maybe the school will encourage students to spend more time on this aspect.
But this is just his guess. After all, they have a lot of courses in college and the academic pressure is very heavy. It is possible that they will not be able to squeeze out time to play games.
Thinking of this, Eddie also sighed. With the help of the light above his head, he looked at Zhou Zhou who was walking on the side and asked, "Zhou Zhou, which school are you in? When does school start?"
Zhou Zhou looked younger than him, and he spent the entire day playing games. He couldn't possibly be in a lower grade, since the lower grades had already started school.
He should be a college student like him. The famous universities in the empire are concentrated on several planets in the same galaxy. Many people are too far away from home and it takes a long time to travel by spaceship, so the university holidays are basically in June. Although the time of returning to school is different for each school, they are almost concentrated in early August. There is only one such holiday in a year.
After going through two copies, he felt that Zhou Zhou must be a student from one of the top universities. He was excellent in terms of reaction, sensitivity and other aspects. Maybe he could go to Zhou Zhou's school to find him after school started.
Eddie really thought Zhou Zhou was a good person and wanted to make friends with him, but his words put Zhou Zhou in trouble.
Zhou Zhou suddenly felt flustered. He could still fool Xia Yan when he asked him before, but now that Eddie asked this, Shirley, Keli, and Heya all looked at him curiously.
He didn't know what schools there were in the world outside of the game, and he couldn't make one up, and he didn't want to lie to everyone.
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