The players gathered on the first floor and discussed for a long time, but they didn't come up with anything valuable. After all, those players disappeared after saying a few words, and no one knew the specific situation.
According to last night's rules, they had to go back to their own rooms at night. But everyone got the news that something unknown would come to them at night, so if a person stayed in the room alone, something might happen.
"Why don't we go find the butler and find out?"
"They couldn't have told us that."
"An ancient castle like this might have some strange stories and legends. We'll know everything when we ask."
A player looked solemnly at everyone, hesitant to speak: "Did you notice? When the hand was severed before, several players ran upstairs and never came down again."
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the player continued, "When I was cleaning the corridor, I saw the player who was my companion. He had run upstairs and never came down again. The housekeeper never mentioned this. I thought he was eliminated, but it was him who spoke to me while I was cleaning."
This player happened to be one of the two players in the group. His partner ran upstairs and never came down again. At this time, these words attracted everyone's attention.
Other people also noticed this. They also thought that those players were eliminated. Although they didn't see anyone coming down, this was the case in many copies. After being eliminated, they disappeared from the spot and only left their corpses or turned into ghosts.
Zhou Zhou immediately raised his hand and said, "I've seen them before."
When they were looking for Lan Ya with Elvia, they saw several players hiding in various places. They just met each other at that time and did not communicate. No players followed them down, and they never saw these people again.
Zhou Zhou told everyone this, and everyone looked solemn. Someone suggested asking the butler or Locke. Although they were not sure whether they could get any information from them, it was better than having so many people guessing here.
The clock in the castle pointed to seven o'clock, and the old butler finally came down from upstairs.
He checked every floor with the help of a cane. The players followed the old butler, watching him walk around and check every corner, while asking other players indirectly where they had been.
"Others? Aren't you the only ones here?" The old butler focused his attention on the lighted corridor. He examined the ground inch by inch, as if looking for dust somewhere.
"There were fifteen of us when we came in together, but now there are only a few left. Have the others been eliminated?" The player couldn't wait and asked directly.
The old butler stopped talking, bent over, holding the lantern and looking at the corner.
The player took a deep breath. Faced with the stubborn NPC who refused to say anything, he couldn't beat him up.
"Someone come and ask again, I can't ask anymore anyway."
Others also came forward to ask questions one after another. No matter whether they asked indirectly or directly, the old housekeeper was very tight-lipped. When faced with questions that were too direct, he pretended that he was checking the hygiene and didn't hear anything.
All the players returned empty-handed, and now only Zhou Zhou and three others have not been asked.
Everyone's eyes fell on them. Zhou Zhou had no choice but to step forward and ask questions. However, everyone had asked all the questions they should ask and it was his turn to ask nothing.
Zhou Zhou thought for a moment and asked, "Where did the others go?"
Someone has asked this question before, but the old housekeeper just said he didn't know and didn't know how to answer it, so it was useless to ask.
What no one expected was that the old butler actually answered.
"Everyone else is dead." The old butler straightened up and said in a sad tone.
Players:? ? ?
What's going on? When I asked you before, you clearly said you didn’t know. How come you know now?
Seeing the old housekeeper replied, Zhou Zhou asked again: "Why did he die?"
The old butler shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I just heard a long time ago that there was something strange about this castle, but I have been here for so many years and I have never encountered anything like it. However, some travelers who passed by died for no reason."
The player then asked: "How did they die and where did they die?"
The old housekeeper lowered his head again and began to check the hygiene.
Player: “…”
The player took a deep breath and said to Zhou Zhou helplessly: "You should ask it yourself."
Zhou Zhou nodded and asked the same question the player had just asked. The old butler also gave a response this time, which was simply the extreme of double standards.
"I heard that the previous traveler died and his soul is lingering in this castle. We need to find a scapegoat to leave here."
When Zhou Zhou heard that there was a ghost here, he immediately became alert: "What does the scapegoat look like?"
The old housekeeper shook his head: "I have never seen them, so I don't know what they look like. Well, everyone has cleaned up very well, it's time to go back and rest."
The players still had many questions they wanted to ask, but the old butler just ignored them. As soon as they asked questions, he started checking hygiene everywhere. He only answered a few questions asked by Zhou Zhou and Elvia. Lan Ya also asked. Although the old butler did not ignore her, every time Lan Ya asked a question, the old butler would snort in response.
It seems that Locke complained to the butler, so the butler had this attitude towards Lan Ya.
"Why do you answer questions when they ask you two, but say nothing when we ask you?" Finally, a player couldn't help but ask.
The old butler pretended not to hear anything and led them to the room.
The other players looked at Zhou Zhou and Alvia standing nearby and said hesitantly, "Maybe it depends on your looks?"
"Fuck! Even NPCs start to judge by appearance. This game is unplayable."
"Are you stupid? Who cares if they look at your face or your figure? Just answer. Didn't we hear everything they asked?"
"What do we do now? We need to go back to the room soon, and we still have a lot of questions to ask."
Zhou Zhou was standing in the crowd. When he heard them say this, he turned around and said to everyone, "In fact, combined with what the old housekeeper said, we can already piece together what will happen."
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhou Zhou smiled at everyone and continued, "It means that ghosts will come into our room at night. In order to leave the castle, they will take the opportunity to kill us and make us scapegoats. The two players who died last night and the players who disappeared today were all killed by those ghosts. It's our turn tonight."
Although Zhou Zhou looked exquisite and noble, under the dim lights in the corridor, half of his face was hidden in the darkness, and the other half was stained with a hazy glow by the orange light. The arc of his mouth looked a little weird at this moment.
He said the most terrifying words in the calmest tone, successfully stopping the players in their tracks.
Looking at the room they were about to reach, all the players hesitated.
Can they not go back to the room? They don’t want to die yet!
The old butler did not look back: "If you are not satisfied with the guest rooms here, you can go outside the castle and find another place to stay."
It was exactly the same thing he said last night. In order to pass the level, the players could only follow the old butler dejectedly and continue walking towards the room.
Although there are several fewer players, the rooms remain unchanged. You will stay in the same room for the next three days as you stayed last night. I know it's not okay to stay in the room alone, but I have to obey the rules and hope I can survive tonight.
The players entered the room one by one. Before entering the room, Zhou Zhou saw Lan Ya biting her lips tightly with a look of panic on her face. He walked up to her and whispered, "If anything happens, just shout loudly, and Al and I will come to save you."
The three of them had adjacent rooms, so if there was any noise, the two of them would definitely be able to hear it with their hearing abilities.
Lan Ya forced a smile and said, "It's okay. If you leave the room, you will be eliminated. Don't worry. Although I am timid, I am still lucky. I have passed the level smoothly with Yue Ling before."
The old butler raised his eyelids and glanced at Lan Ya. Alvia keenly noticed the disgust in his eyes. It seemed that the old butler was very dissatisfied with Lan Ya because of Locke's matter.
"Whether we can pass the level or not is not important. What's important is that the three of us are on the same team. It's normal for us to help each other."
Now Zhou Zhou no longer has to worry about being eliminated and dying in the copy. With the existence of Zeus, he can do a lot more and has fewer worries.
Lan Ya felt a little warm in her heart. She nodded to Zhou Zhou and Alvia and went into her room.
Afterwards, all the players entered the room. Even those who hesitated and wanted to delay time were forced to go in after a few warnings from the impatient old butler.
The room was very quiet, and the players were sitting on stools or beds, waiting for the arrival of unknown things.
"They will come to you at night."
This sentence weighed heavily on everyone's mind. The players held "weapons" in their hands, and the candlesticks, stools, etc. in the room were on guard against the surroundings.
Only two of these people were the most leisurely.
There were a few books in the drawer of the room. Alvia, who had nothing to do, sat at the head of the bed and read leisurely. He had searched the room thoroughly last night, and just now he came in and checked it again, but found nothing unusual. All he had to do now was to wait.
Unlike everyone else who were on high alert, he was quite relaxed. After all, even if there really was a ghost in the room, it wouldn't be a big problem for him.
Another leisurely person is Zhou Zhou.
He fell asleep again.
After all, it was night and he couldn't go home and there was no one to play with him. He had just read the books in the room and there was really nothing to do so he could only go to bed.
He was a light sleeper and could immediately notice any noise, so there was no need to worry about Lan Ya not being able to hear any sound.
Although Lan Ya said at the door that she could handle it, she actually curled up in the quilt as soon as she entered the room. Ever since she heard Zhou Zhou's conclusion in the corridor, she had begun to feel scared, but in order not to cause trouble for her teammates, she could only suppress her fear.
If you can't see it, it doesn't exist!
The quilt on the bed seemed to still be shaking. Lan Ya closed her eyes and muttered to herself, trying to hypnotize herself in this way.
Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it was midnight in the copy.
At twelve o'clock midnight, several figures suddenly appeared in the rooms of four of the players.
Zhou Zhou woke up the moment he noticed someone appeared in the room.
He sat up from the bed, with his furry little curly hair, looking at the person who suddenly appeared in his room. This person turned out to be the player who appeared in the corridor in the afternoon and warned him to leave here as soon as possible.
So, is he a ghost?
Zhou Zhou was unsure, so he sat on the bed and stared at him motionlessly.
The other person also did not move, looking at Zhou Zhou with a smile on his face. His unchanging posture made him look like a mannequin. But Zhou Zhou was not much behind. After all, he had also worked as an NPC and was very skilled in this business. He sat on the bed for a long time without moving or even blinking.
The two "puppets" just stared at each other from a distance, neither of them spoke, neither of them blinked.
The two-person game of statues ended only when screams of players were suddenly heard in the corridor.
The other party stretched out his hand towards Zhou Zhou: "This castle is in danger. I will take you away from here before they come."
Zhou Zhou was indifferent. He glanced at the ground and asked, "Who are they? Who is coming?"
The other party seemed to have something to hide, frowned slightly, and hesitated to speak. After a long while, he still didn't say anything. He just looked at Zhou Zhou sincerely and said: "Please believe me, leave here quickly, otherwise something terrible will happen."
"What's so terrible?"
“You could die.”
"Oh, anything else?"
The conversation between the two was meaningless, and Zhou Zhou's attitude did not change at all. He was still sitting on the bed with the quilt covering him, which made it hard not to suspect that as long as the people present left, he could still take a nap.
The other party gradually lost his patience. He kept his hand outstretched as he approached Zhou Zhou. The corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl downwards: "Don't you want to know what terrible things will happen?"
He walked closer and closer to Zhou Zhou, and he looked completely different from when he first came in. His facial features gradually faded, and finally formed a face without any facial features. The fingers also gradually melted, and the fluid substance slowly dripped downwards, looking like a pool of flesh-colored mud.
“What’s so scary? Of course I will become your appearance, and then during the day I can use your identity to eliminate other players. No one will be able to recognize me.” The other party became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he had already imagined himself becoming Zhou Zhou’s appearance and then eliminating all the players.
The flesh-colored mud was no longer restricted by its shape. It slowly became thinner and larger, like a huge blanket trying to wrap up Zhou Zhou, who seemed to be petrified on the bed.
The light in the room was very dim, and was mostly blocked by unknown objects. Zhou Zhou was gradually shrouded in the opponent's shadow and was about to be swallowed up.
Zhou Zhou was indeed surprised, but the reason for his surprise was different from that of others. He looked at the other person who was already unable to tell the beginning from the end, and suddenly asked: "After your mouth disappeared, how did you make sounds?"
Zhou Zhou widened his eyes not because he was frightened, but because he found that the other party didn't even have a mouth, but he could still hear the sound, so he was very curious about it.
The flesh-colored giant approaching Zhou Zhou paused for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said: "What you should be concerned about now is that you are about to be eliminated!"
He originally wanted to slowly approach Zhou Zhou and watch him collapse and struggle, but Zhou Zhou's indifferent reaction made him feel very unfulfilled, so he decided to make a quick decision.
The originally slow speed suddenly increased to the highest speed, and the huge black shadow in the room expanded instantly, completely wrapping up the person with messy hair on the bed.
If a player is covered and swallowed by flesh-colored objects, he will be eliminated, and the opponent will imitate Zhou Zhou's appearance, continuing to confuse and swallow other players until everyone is eliminated.
At the moment when the other party covered and swallowed Zhou Zhou, there was silence in the room, as if time had frozen.
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