Everyone at the table stared in amazement as Locke nonchalantly lifted up his crown. They were so shocked that no one spoke for a moment.
Afterwards, Locke calmly put his crown back and said, "That's how it's used."
He didn't seem to realize how much of a shock his actions had brought to the people present. He just glanced at Zhou Zhou and found that he also had his eyes wide open, with obvious surprise and interest in his eyes, as if he was very interested in these things.
Locke immediately and actively stretched out his wrists and the scars on his neck that were covered by his clothes to show Zhou Zhou, indicating that any place with scars could be removed.
Zhou Zhou listened very seriously. After all, when he put the old butler and Locke together before, he found scars on the broken parts. Now when the other party explained, he immediately understood that the places with scars were parts that could be freely removed.
Not only Zhou Zhou, but other players present also thought of it. After all, the old butler could be torn into pieces, so it was too normal for Locke, as the owner of the castle, to have the same ability.
It's normal!
Seeing others opening their skulls up close, the players felt their scalps tingling. If it weren't for the old butler's head as a prelude, they would have run away by now.
The players looked at each other, the bitterness and fear in their eyes were obvious, but in order to pass the level, they endured it.
Lan Ya was sitting farthest from Locke. The moment he raised his hand, she vaguely guessed what he was going to do and immediately lowered her head. As long as she couldn't see him, he didn't exist!
Zhou Zhou originally wanted to discuss his unique skills with Locke, wanting to know if he could do the same, but the players present suddenly fell silent, and the entire hall was silent. Zhou Zhou looked at the players around him strangely, and found that everyone was staring at the food in front of them, as if they couldn't wait to eat immediately.
The players originally wanted to ask Locke for some clues, but now no one spoke. Even the player who had taken the initiative to talk to Locke before lowered his head and wished he could shrink and become invisible.
Alvia sat next to Zhou Zhou, glanced at everyone, and picked up the chopsticks at hand.
Almost at the moment he picked up the chopsticks, the players around him also immediately picked up their chopsticks and buried their heads in eating as if they had been hungry for a long time. Not long after, the players around him started to communicate again, but this time the voices were much quieter than before, and no one talked to Locke.
Even the players sitting on both sides of Locke were trembling as they focused on eating, not daring to even look at Locke.
After an awkward and suffocating lunch, the players were assigned by the old butler to clean the entire castle. Except for the room on the top floor where Locke lived, all other places needed to be cleaned.
However, there were less than ten players present, so cleaning was still very troublesome.
Players also didn’t expect that they would have to work just to play a game?
Finally, two or three people cleaned the first floor, Zhou Zhou, Elvia and Lan Ya cleaned the second floor, and the others cleaned the first, third and fourth floors. The old butler took Locke back to the spire and said that he would come to check their cleaning results before going to bed.
On the second floor, Zhou Zhou and Lan Ya were cleaning the corridor while Alvia went to the room.
Lan Ya stood beside Zhou Zhou with lingering fear, holding a rag in her hand, but looking around anxiously. Although there were lights at intervals in the dim corridor, there were more dark places. In such a dim and depressing environment, if Zhou Zhou had not been by her side, she would definitely not be able to stay here alone.
Suddenly, Lan Ya felt a little cold. She rubbed her arms and looked at the lights flickering quietly high up. There were no windows here and the wind could not get in, so why did she suddenly feel cold?
Realizing that something was wrong, Lan Ya immediately moved closer to Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou was standing two meters away from her, bending over and sweeping the floor very seriously. However, after she took several steps, Zhou Zhou was still two meters away from her.
"Zhou Zhou?" Lan Ya was startled and broke out in a cold sweat, and shouted hurriedly.
But Zhou Zhou was still concentrating on cleaning and seemed not to hear her shouting at all.
The swishing sound of Zhou Zhou sweeping the floor echoed in the silent corridor. Only now did she realize that the sound was very strange, as if the same sound was repeating itself over and over again without any pause or change.
What's going on?
Lan Ya bit her lip and stood stiffly in place, looking around in horror. The rustling sounds coming from all directions made it impossible for her to tell where the sound came from. Remembering that Al was also in the room not far from her, Lan Ya slowly turned her head.
The corridor behind him was so long that there was no end in sight. There were countless identical rooms lined up, and it was impossible to tell which room Al was in.
At this moment, Lan Ya clearly realized that she was the only one here. She felt like she had entered a different dimension and couldn't find her way back.
Lan Ya was panicking. She dropped the rag and ran to the back. Did she go to the wrong place just now? Could she go back now?
Zhou Zhou was holding a broom and sweeping the corridor carefully, but the floor was very clean. He swept for a long time but couldn't sweep out even a few grains of dust. Looking at the spotless floor, Zhou Zhou held the broom and wondered distressedly whether he should do something else.
When he turned around, he found that Alvia and Lan Ya were gone. Lan Ya said she was scared just now and was standing very close to him. How come she was gone now?
"Lan Ya?" Zhou Zhou knew that Lan Ya was standing very close to him because she was afraid. How come she suddenly disappeared? He also didn't hear any sound of Lan Ya leaving.
Not getting a response, Zhou Zhou took a few steps back and saw someone standing at the door.
This is the room that Al entered. Al clearly did not close the door when he entered, but now the room is closed and a stranger is standing at the door.
He couldn't be considered a stranger. Although the other party hid his body in the darkness, Zhou Zhou still recognized him at a glance. He was the player who disappeared last night.
When the old housekeeper made it clear that they could not go out at night, he and another player left the room. Screams were heard outside the room, and when they woke up in the morning, the other person was gone.
Zhou Zhou thought he had been eliminated, but now, the player was standing at the door of the room intact, and when he saw him coming, he smiled at him.
Zhou Zhou walked forward with a broom and looked the other person up and down. The player was neatly dressed and looked at him with a gentle expression.
"Why are you here?" Zhou Zhou asked.
"I'm here to tell you something."
Zhou Zhou looked at him curiously: "What's the matter?"
"There is a ghost in this castle. You should leave here immediately."
Is there a ghost? Zhou Zhou thought of their screams last night, and after a moment's thought, he continued, "You're not talking about Locke and the old housekeeper, are you? They're not ghosts."
Others thought that the butler and Locke who could be torn into pieces were very strange, but Zhou Zhou thought they were very powerful. After all, being able to take off one's limbs and then put them back together was not something that could be done casually.
If Locke hadn't said it was innate, he would have wanted to give it a try.
The player shook his head. "No, not them. There are other things in the castle."
Zhou Zhou: "What else?"
The player was about to speak when he was interrupted by Alvia's voice.
"Zhou Zhou."
A voice sounded behind him. Zhou Zhou turned around immediately when he heard the other party's voice. Elvia was standing at the door of the next room looking at him.
"What are you standing there for?" he asked.
"I'm chatting with the players." Zhou Zhou said as he turned his head, but when he turned his head, there was no one in front of him.
Alvia walked out of the room and walked behind Zhou Zhou: "I only saw you standing at the door talking to yourself."
"But there was clearly someone there just now. It was the player who disappeared last night." Zhou Zhou explained to Elvia.
Alvia walked forward and opened the door of the room. It was pitch black inside and there was no light on, but the two of them could see clearly that there was no one there.
“I really saw it.”
Alvia nodded. He did not doubt Zhou Zhou’s words, but why could only Zhou Zhou see it? And the players from last night should have been eliminated, so why did they appear here? Could it be that what he saw were the players who turned into ghosts?
Zhou Zhou looked around the room, then turned his head to look at the room where Alvia came out. Only then did he realize that this room was not the room Al entered, but the next one. However, he identified it as this one at first sight.
He would never make such an obvious mistake, so there was something really weird going on here.
The moment he thought there was a problem with the castle, Zhou Zhou suddenly turned his head and looked around the corridor.
"Lan Ya is missing."
He walked around Al and strode towards the place where he last saw Lan Ya. The surrounding lights suddenly flashed, and the next moment, Lan Ya appeared in the corridor.
The place where she appeared was exactly where she was before she disappeared, but now she looked very embarrassed, with sweat on her forehead and she was breathing heavily.
"Lan Ya, are you okay?" Zhou Zhou stepped forward immediately.
Lan Ya didn't know how long she had been running in the corridor. The next moment, when she saw Zhou Zhou and Ai'er standing in front of her, she realized that she had finally returned to the real corridor.
"Just now, I suddenly found myself in another place and I could see you, but I couldn't get close to you, so I kept running." Lan Ya explained to Zhou Zhou about her previous experience incoherently. When Zhou Zhou approached, she grabbed the corner of his clothes with one hand, as if she was afraid that Zhou Zhou would disappear again.
"It's okay, don't be afraid. You are safe now, we are always with you." Zhou Zhou comforted Lan Ya, hoping that she would recover as soon as possible. At the same time, Zhou Zhou felt a little annoyed. Lan Ya was obviously very afraid of these things. When he found out that she was missing, he should have gone to look for her the first time.
Zhou Zhou did not take off his clothes and let Lan Ya hold them.
Zhou Zhou signaled with his eyes that Elvia should say something to comfort Lan Ya. Elvia looked back at Zhou Zhou expressionlessly, as if he didn't understand what he meant at all.
"It seems that we have all encountered some inexplicable things. Is there any problem with you, Al?" Seeing that Elvia did not respond, Zhou Zhou could only continue speaking himself.
Alvia glanced at Lan Ya's hand that was grabbing the corner of Zhou Zhou's clothes. Although they did not have direct physical contact, it was still very annoying to look at.
"Nothing happened. I just heard your voice, so I came out to check."
"What should we do now? Should we stay together and continue cleaning?" Lan Ya asked uneasily. She didn't want to be separated from her companions anymore.
Zhou Zhou glanced at Elvia and suggested, "Why don't we go ask other players to see if there are any abnormalities there."
Elvia: "That's good. If they have abnormalities there, it means that there are other problems in this castle, and these problems may be related to whether we can pass it."
The three of them went to other floors together, and as expected, other players encountered similar situations. They either saw players who had disappeared, or their companions around them suddenly disappeared.
These abnormal situations caused panic among the players. The information they received from the disappeared players was exactly the same, that there were other things in this castle.
Zhou Zhou's conversation with the other party was interrupted by the sudden appearance of Elvia, but to others, those players who had disappeared long ago left a message.
"They will come to you at night."
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