Elvia naturally smelled it as well. The smell came from room 106 and seemed to be the aroma of food.
Without waiting for Elvia to answer, Zhou Zhou walked a few steps to the door of Room 106 and knocked carefully.
After a few clang sounds, there was no movement in the room. Zhou Zhou waited for a while and tentatively opened the door.
"I'm coming in."
The door was not locked and was easily opened. Once it was opened, the fragrance became even stronger. Zhou Zhou couldn't help but open his eyes wide, looking at the rectangular dining table in the room. The table was covered with a white tablecloth, and a sizzling steak was placed on a white porcelain plate with a knife and fork next to it. There was even a candlestick and a burning red candle on the table.
"Wow!" Zhou Zhou exclaimed and took two steps forward.
Alvia walked behind Zhou Zhou and found that there was only one piece of food on the table. The aroma of steak spread throughout the room, constantly stimulating the sense of smell and making people saliva involuntarily.
"Why do I feel a little hungry?" Zhou Zhou lowered his head and touched his empty stomach, muttering to himself.
Alvia also noticed that from the moment she smelled the aroma of steak, the hunger in her body became more and more obvious.
In the virtual world, players will not feel hungry. Those restaurants opened in the Nightmare City only provide people with oral satisfaction, and they will never feel full no matter how much they eat. Some players who love to satisfy their appetite often stay in Nightmare City and eat everywhere from morning to night. It does not affect their health and they can also taste delicacies from different regions. It is simply a paradise tailor-made for them.
Therefore, in the dungeon, if you feel hungry after smelling the aroma of food, there is obviously something wrong.
Alvia glanced at the steak on the table, then looked around at the surroundings.
Zhou Zhou's stomach growled. He looked down at his stomach curiously and even poked it with his hand through his shirt. Then his stomach growled again.
The waves outside the room were surging, and neither of the two people in the room spoke, so Zhou Zhou's bowel sounds were very clear, and even Elvia, who heard the sound, couldn't help but look over.
Why is his stomach rumbling? Zhou Zhou was so surprised that he was even ready to lift up his shirt to take a look.
"What's wrong?" Alvia asked while calmly brushing away Zhou Zhou's hand that was grabbing the corner of his shirt.
"I'm so hungry, and my stomach is rumbling." He patted his stomach and said to Elvia.
It was already an incredible thing for Zhou Zhou to feel hungry, and now his stomach was rumbling. It was the first time he encountered such a situation. However, many things in the Nightmare City during this period were new to him and very new to him, so the rumbling stomach didn't seem to be a big deal.
After Zhou Zhou finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on the steak on the table, his teeth biting his lower lip, looking extremely greedy. There were wisps of hot steam rising above the steak, as if he was constantly waving his little hands to lure the two hungry players in front of him.
Alvia was indifferent. Hunger was nothing to him. He was just worried that the increasingly intense hunger would make Zhou Zhou feel uncomfortable. Moreover, the sudden appearance of a freshly cooked meal on the boat looked more like a blatant trap.
Just as he was about to say something, he saw a piece of beef jerky in Zhou Zhou's hand. He was staring at the steak on the table while chewing the beef jerky like a squirrel.
Alvia: “…”
Yes, Zhou Zhou bought a bunch of food in the store before, and all of them were more expensive than ordinary food and could be brought into the copy.
Alvia opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing.
Zhou Zhou was chewing on some beef jerky, and only then did he feel less uncomfortable in his stomach. Noticing Elvia's gaze, he turned around in confusion and found that she was looking at him helplessly.
"Are you hungry too? Here you go." Zhou Zhou generously took out a piece of beef jerky and handed it to Al.
The long strips of black and red beef jerky look much worse than the steak on the table in terms of color, but they are chewy, spicy and delicious, and are definitely a must-have snack for killing time. Zhou Zhou liked the taste very much, and seeing the steak reminded him of his beef jerky.
Alvia looked at the beef jerky Zhou Zhou handed over and shook her head: "You eat it."
"Aren't you hungry? Or do you want to eat something else?" After all, the two of them went shopping for food together, so Elvia knew best what food Zhou Zhou bought.
"No, you...don't want to eat the steak on the table?"
Zhou Zhou looked at him in surprise, as if wondering why he would ask such a question.
"That's other people's food. How can we eat it without permission? Besides, I have my own, a lot of them, and they're better than his." Zhou Zhou sounded proud that he had so many delicious things.
Alvia chuckled, looked at Zhou Zhou who was trying hard to chew the jerky, and couldn't help but reach out and rub his hair.
Zhou Zhou didn't resist. He ate while leaning his head on his back and letting him rub it.
At this moment, a clanging sound in the room attracted the attention of the two.
Alvia and Zhou Zhou walked around the dining table at the same time and found that the noise just now was just a silver disc falling from the cabinet.
This room is more of a dining room than a guest room. In addition to the candlelight dinner for one person on the dining table, various tableware and utensils of different materials and styles are placed on the wine cabinet against the wall in front.
The silver plate on the ground shook for a long time before it stopped. Zhou Zhou held the dried meat in one hand and picked up the silver plate on the ground with the other hand.
The silver plate had an intricate relief pattern, and it looked more like a work of art than a tableware. However, this work of art had fallen from above, and a corner of the edge had sunk in, turning it from a flawless product into a defective one.
Zhou Zhou was eating the dried meat and looking at the pattern on the plate carefully. When he saw the base of the plate, he suddenly stopped.
Sensing Zhou Zhou's abnormality, Elvia turned his head and looked over, and saw a few words on the base at a glance.
[I'm watching you]
Five words that looked bloodstained came into view.
The red liquid continued to spread and drip from the tilted text to the periphery of the disc, making it look even more bizarre. Zhou Zhou turned his wrist slightly and found that the fingers of the hand he was using to hold the plate were also stained bright red.
Alvia glanced around and found that when the disc fell to the ground, the surrounding cabinets and white tablecloths were also splashed with a few drops of red liquid.
The strange handwriting seemed like a warning and also like a curse, making people wonder if there was a pair of eyes watching them all the time.
"This... seems to be the captain's handwriting." Zhou Zhou frowned and hesitated. He had read all the contents of the logbook and was very familiar with the handwriting. Although the words on the base of the disc looked a little crooked, if you looked closely, you could see that the strokes were exactly the same as in the logbook.
Elvia took the disc from Zhou Zhou, not caring whether the liquid would get on her hands. After careful identification, she confirmed that the person who wrote the log was the same person. The writing material was slightly cool and reddish, and looked very much like blood that had not yet dried.
"Is the captain still alive?" Zhou Zhou said something that made people's backs chill. He looked at the steak on the table and asked, "The captain was about to eat but was interrupted by us?"
Elvia's mental power did not work on the boat. Of course, this was not the first time. In the strange shadow of the villa, facing the resentful woman who suddenly appeared and disappeared, Elvia's mental power was unable to detect it. It's not that his mental power is too weak, but in order to make the game as fair as possible and to allow each player's mental power to be better trained, the higher the level of mental power, the greater the degree of restriction in the game.
When Elvia is at a copy-related mission location, especially in a semi-enclosed space like this, his mental power will be suppressed to the minimum. Just like in the previous copy of the doll's house, he could not use his mind to detect which room Zhou Zhou was transferred to.
Therefore, in the copy of Deep Sea Things, although he had used his mental power to test at the beginning and found that there was indeed no one on the ship, he could not be completely sure whether his mental power was disturbed and therefore he could not detect the people on the ship. And judging from the various traces inside the ship, many places here are full of life.
"The writing hasn't dried yet. Maybe the other party is still here. Let's look for him first." Elvia was very calm and said to Zhou Zhou in a deep voice.
If it were other players on this ship, they would have been scared out of their wits by the sight of an empty ghost ship and a captain who might have come back to life, as well as the red words that looked like a curse.
However, there was nothing unusual about the two people here, and there was no scary or weird atmosphere created. Elvia had an indifferent expression with only a slightly wrinkled brow, looking like she was participating in a puzzle game, while Zhou Zhou looked carefree, gnawing on food all the time, more like he was participating in a food show.
He had already eaten several pieces of jerky. Although his stomach had stopped rumbling, he still felt very hungry, so he had to continue eating. However, while eating, he did not forget to help and searched around the room with Alvia.
No matter whether it was under the dining table, in the corners of the cabinet, or anywhere else, nothing was found. Even in this room, nothing expensive or valuable was found.
"Where is the captain?" Zhou Zhou seemed to be sure that the person writing on the base of the silver plate was the captain, and asked Elvia while chewing on jerky.
Alvia pondered for a moment, and looked around the room with cold eyes: "There is no one else here, and there are no clues related to the mission. Let's go to other rooms to look."
Zhou Zhou thought so too. Apart from this room, they had to look for clues in other places. They could only come to see the captain next time.
The two men walked out of the room, and Zhou Zhou closed the door when he left.
The sky outside was getting darker and darker, and the view in Room 106 also became dim. Two orange candles were jumping slightly in the darkness. Suddenly, the flames swayed from side to side a few times, and then returned to calm.
Since they had reached the last room, Alvia and Zhou Zhou chose Room 105, which was the closest to them.
The room was not locked. After Zhou Zhou knocked on the door and went in, he found that it was empty and there was nothing inside. Has the stuff inside been emptied? He walked forward in confusion, but before he had taken two steps, the wooden board under his feet suddenly broke, and several nearby wooden boards fell down with it. In an instant, the place where Zhou Zhou was stood turned into a huge deep pit.
A few wooden boards seemed to hit some iron products, and fell to the ground with a loud bang, sounding like they were broken into pieces.
Zhou Zhou missed a step and was about to fall along with the wooden board, but someone grabbed his wrist in time.
The whole person had fallen into a pit that suddenly collapsed. Zhou Zhou did not scream. His feet in the air dangled slowly, trying to find something to stand on. Elvia grabbed one of Zhou Zhou's hands and slowly pulled him out.
Both of them had good night vision. Elvia had seen clearly that on the ground four or five meters away from this floor, there were more than a dozen swords stuck in a crisscross pattern. Some were broken, and some were rusty. There was also a sword without a hilt facing Zhou Zhou. Even though it did not look sharp at the top, it would definitely become a string of Zhou Zhou if it fell from this height.
Zhou Zhou was not heavy, but Elvia was very careful. Cracks appeared on the wooden board under his feet, and the cracks were even extending backwards. If Zhou Zhou was pulled up all at once, the wooden boards around him would surely collapse, and both of them would fall down. They could only slowly pull Zhou Zhou to a suitable position, and then take the opportunity to leave the room together.
Zhou Zhou also heard the sound of the wooden board cracking. Although the sound was extremely subtle and even drowned out by the sound of the waves outside, the two people with excellent hearing were still able to capture the tiny sound very close to them.
"Let me go." Zhou Zhou raised his head and mouthed. He didn't dare to speak, for fear that loud noises would make the wooden board crack faster, and he didn't dare to move around.
Alvia ignored him, concentrating on feeling the speed at which the wooden board beneath his feet was cracking, and used his arms to pull Zhou Zhou out at an extremely slow speed.
“Crack.”
A sound slightly different from the previous sound of wooden boards cracking rang in the ears of the two men. At this moment, the ship suddenly tilted sharply, and the wind outside was getting stronger and stronger.
At the same time, Elvia, who had pulled out half of Zhou Zhou's body, suddenly embraced Zhou Zhou and retreated backwards. Because the speed was too fast, he even bumped into the corridor outside the door. The walls on both sides of the corridor were also made of wooden boards, but the walls here were much stronger than those in Room 105.
Even if two people crashed into it, it would only create a few cracks, but would not directly create a big hole that would throw the two people out.
The moment Elvia took action, the wooden boards of Room 1055 began to collapse from the middle, and finally the entire floor of the room disappeared.
If Alvia had been late for one second, the two of them would have met the same fate as the wooden board.
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