Chapter 89: The Wandering Travel Group (Twenty)
But the moment Nan Huan opened the door, he heard some noise coming from next door.
Bei Xi, who was following behind her, quickly put her behind him to prevent any accidents.
However, he did not expect that the moment he stepped out of the room, Bei Xi disappeared from his sight as if he had been summoned by something.
Nan Huan was startled and hurriedly pushed the door open, only to bump into Bei Xi who was also coming out of the next door.
Neither of them seemed to have expected to see each other so soon. After looking at each other, they simultaneously lowered their heads to look at each other's shadows.
Behind the two people, the disappeared shadows returned to their original positions.
I don’t know if it was because they were exposed or because they left the room, but after the illusion disappeared, everything returned to normal, except that they were now in a strange place.
"Are you okay?"
Bei Xi didn't have time to pay attention to the surrounding environment. Instead, she turned Nan Huan around to make sure that he was not injured. However, soon all her attention was drawn to the thing on Nan Huan's neck.
She lightly picked up the bell on her neck and raised an eyebrow at Nan Huan, "She did it?"
There was an inexplicable displeasure in his tone, and he glanced behind him.
Nan Huan didn't notice that even after leaving the illusion, he still had the bell around his neck, but it was tied with an ordinary black string instead of the silver chain that he couldn't untie in the illusion.
"Um……"
Nan Huan was also looking at Bei Xi, and hearing the slight jealousy in her tone, he dragged out a long tone and blinked at her, "I think this account should be counted on you."
Bei Xi took the blame but did not feel wronged. Instead, he really enjoyed Nan Huan's complaining tone.
However, Nan Huan had no choice but not to take it off in the illusion just now. Now she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of more people. Before Bei Xi could react, she directly pulled the bell off and put it in her warehouse.
"I'll keep it for now and show it to you when the game is out. I haven't yet mastered the skill of keeping a straight face in front of other people, so please forgive me."
Seeing the disappointment flashing in Beixi's eyes and the shrinking shadow behind him, Nan Huan explained unhappily.
Then, as if he didn't want to continue dwelling on this topic, he quickly diverted Bei Xi's attention, "Okay, we don't have much time left. You see, the white fog in the corridor is much lighter than when we entered the side quest before. This should be a hint for us."
Yes, they discovered it after they went out.
They seemed to be in a certain room. The room they were in was still an arm, and the corridor in front of them was filled with white fog. There seemed to be other rooms on both sides, but because of the white fog, they were not clear.
"Follow me and check nearby to see if there are other players in other rooms."
In this situation, Bei Xi didn't want Nan Huan to be separated from her, so she took her forward, groping on the wall with one hand, and soon found a door.
But she pushed hard and found that the door couldn't be opened at all.
Nan Huan leaned over the small glass window on the door and tried to look inside to see if there were any clues.
But after looking for a long time, I couldn't see anything because of the white fog.
She shook her head at Bei Xi. "Why don't we check the rooms on both sides separately? This will save trouble, and it doesn't look like there's any danger."
The fog in front of him dissipated a little, and Bei Xi caught a glimpse of a room that seemed to have no end. Finally, he had to agree, "If you find anything wrong, call me. You are not allowed to act alone. Do you understand?"
Nan Huan nodded obediently, and the two of them went through the doors on both sides one after another.
It’s just a pity that Nanhuan passed seven or eight doors along the way, and they were all locked. Going further ahead was the wall on the other side.
"Not counting the room we just came out of, there are eight rooms on my side, all locked. How about yours?"
Bei Xi finished first. While talking, she listened to the noise and moved through the white fog towards Nanhuan.
"There are eight rooms here too, and there's not even a crack to open them."
Nan Huan was so angry that he grabbed the last door and shook it hard, but found that there was no sound. "Including our two rooms, there are a total of 18 rooms, which is exactly the right size for 18 players."
What is going on? They can’t enter other rooms, so where can they find the so-called Nine Shadows? What on earth does the system want to do?
Nan Huan didn't quite understand, and continued to feel around on the wall to see if there was anything strange hidden on it.
As a result, just at the end of the corner, she suddenly touched something on the ground.
Squeak——
"Hey? There's another door over here?"
The moment Nan Huan spoke, Bei Xi had already walked to her side.
The two then discovered that there was a door hidden in the wall at the end of the corridor.
However, this door does not have a palm-sized glass window, and it is deliberately embedded in the wall. Also, because it is obscured by the white fog around it, if you don’t look carefully, you can’t find anything strange here.
"It's hidden so deeply, and it's so deliberate to open a crack. What do you think?"
Nan Huan folded his arms and gently nudged Bei Xi with his elbow, amusement unconcealed in his eyes.
How could Bei Xi not understand what she meant? She reached out and pressed the person behind her, then she turned sideways and carefully pushed the door open.
"Since they have invited us so thoughtfully, of course we have to give them enough face."
Besides, the two of them had no clues at all. Seeing that the white fog in the corridor was gradually dissipating, they still had no clues. All the doors were locked, and only this door could be opened.
Even if it was just a trap, both of them had to go through it.
This room was no different from the room they had just been in. If Nan Huan didn't pay attention to the direction, he would have mistakenly thought that she had not left the room at all.
There was nothing in there, let alone other players.
Just when the two were wondering what the system was up to, the door behind them suddenly slammed shut.
Then the scene in front of the two of them suddenly changed.
The originally pure white room was replaced by a very familiar, but very different wedding room.
Its size was not much different from the one Nanhuan had seen before.
However, the decorations inside were much more than before, and they were also much neater and cleaner. In addition to the red silk on the wall, there was a mahogany box on the table, which contained peanuts, walnuts, red dates and other things.
From the furniture to the dressing table, to the bed curtains, to the windows, everything is covered with wedding characters.
It was a festive atmosphere, completely different from the depressing wedding scene that Nanhuan had experienced for the first time.
Nan Huan then remembered that before entering the shadow illusion, A Liu seemed to have always been by his side.
But she hadn't seen the other person in the copy for such a long time. She had thought that it was because of the system, or that she could only see the other person under certain special circumstances.
But now, seeing this familiar wedding room, she suddenly had a bad feeling.
Could it be that A Liu's shadow has also entered this side quest?
She didn't have time to think about it. The fact that ghosts have shadows was more ridiculous, or she was more shocked by whether A Liu and Jiu Ying were connected.
Then I heard a somewhat surprised voice coming from behind me.
"Nanhuan, Beixi, you are here?"
They both turned their heads and looked at the smiling A Liu.
The other person had a bright smile on his face and was not surprised by their appearance. Instead, he waved his hand and acted very familiar with them.
"You guys are coming to my wedding so early? But you still have to wait for quite a while?"
She was not wearing a wedding dress, and when she talked about the wedding, there was an indescribable shyness on her face.
Although Nan Huan didn't quite understand, judging from the current situation, the two of them seemed to be A Liu's friends and were invited to the wedding.
"We wanted to see you as soon as possible, so we came early."
Regardless of whether the person in front of her is really A Liu, Nan Huan is sure that there must be clues or even answers hidden here, so she immediately follows the plot.
However, having learned part of the truth about the wedding, Nan Huan couldn't bring himself to say "Happy Wedding".
Bei Xi was not very interested in acting. With Nan Huan as her cover, she had been observing A Liu's reaction, trying to see something from it.
"Then let me take you around the village first. You haven't been here before, right? There's a wedding going on soon, so it's very lively right now."
A Liu didn't find anything strange about the two of them, he just seemed very excited.
I don’t know if this is a system setting or for some other reason, but the two of them really don’t have much time.
When the two followed A-Liu out, Nan Huan had already spoken tentatively, "Do you remember? We just met not long ago? Just last xxxxxx"
The words "side quest" seemed to be blurred by the system, which made Nan Huan give up the idea of using suggestive words to test whether the person in front of him was the real A Liu or the shadow A Liu.
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have invited you here, right?"
Obviously, what fell into Liu's ears was a normal sentence, and it matched the plot in the other party's mind.
It seems that if it was A Liu herself, she could only wake up from this illusion by herself.
If it was A Liu's shadow, Nan Huan would just think that the other party was quite good at pretending.
Nanhuan had memorized the map of Fengmenling by heart, but after seeing so many illusions and experiencing the real scenes in the past.
She had to admit that the Fengmenling in front of her looked the most normal.
The village has been decorated in an orderly manner because of the upcoming wedding.
There were many villagers gathered at the door. When they saw A Liu coming out, they bowed and congratulated her. Some even teased the bride, and when they saw her shyly blushing, everyone burst into laughter.
They were all just the right jokes, and the villagers' faces were full of sincerity, which was completely different from the real world.
Obviously, no matter whose fantasy this is, everyone hopes that A Liu can have a warm wedding.
"The wedding is almost here, why is there no groom?"
Bei Xi glanced at the villagers around him and didn't find anything strange, so he asked about the situation of A Liu's other half.
After all, the main venue of this illusion looks like a wedding, and the Nine Shadows they are looking for might be one of the two protagonists.
Nan Huan noticed that when A Liu heard the word "groom", his reaction was a little subtle, but he quickly returned to normal.
"You mean Ah Hua? He said he prepared a wedding gift for me. I guess he must have hidden it in some corner to prepare a surprise for me."
Ah Liu covered her mouth and whispered to the two of them, her face unconsciously flushed.
Nan Huan noticed that this time she did not call him "Brother Ahua", but directly called him "Ahua".
"So how did you meet and fall in love? I haven't heard you mention it before, can you tell us about it?"
Nan Huan conscientiously played the role of the girl's friend, and also a gossipy best friend. She blinked her eyes and chatted with the other party, even though the villagers around them could not hear them at all.
I don’t know if it was because of this setting that made A Liu unable to refuse his good friend’s question, or if Nan Huan acted too realistically.
In short, A Liu had no intention of refusing to answer, and he generously shared his thoughts with them.
"In fact, there was no earth-shattering or tear-jerking process." She smiled slightly. "In the beginning, my family was poor. My mother passed away when I was very young, and my impression of her is very vague. Later, Ahua's family took pity on me and took me home to raise me."
"Their family treated me very well. I liked playing with Ah Hua in the first place. After I went to his house, I had the opportunity to stay with him. Over time, we grew up together and decided to stay together for the rest of our lives."
A-Liu spoke fluently, as if the words had already been engraved in her mind.
But after she finished speaking, she felt something was strange. She tilted her head as if something was not right, but she couldn't figure out the root of the problem for a while.
Nan Huan heard a modified version, and indeed this version sounded much happier than the real one.
It’s a pity that it’s just a beautiful dream woven by others.
All this information filled Nan Huan's mind, making her feel as if she had grasped an important clue, but it seemed like something was still missing.
Suddenly, the entire illusion seemed to sense something, and the originally bright weather suddenly became gloomy.
The smiles on the faces of the villagers who were watching happily around disappeared in an instant, and turned grim.
"The auspicious time has arrived, please move."
They approached A Liu step by step until they formed a circle of human walls, squeezing Nan Huan and Bei Xi out.
The dull happiness on A Liu's face disappeared. After hearing what the villagers said, he forgot that there were two people next to him. He followed the villagers very obediently and moved in one direction.
The moment she walked, her clothes had turned into a fiery red wedding veil.
"My personal skills are disabled."
Nan Huan originally wanted to transform his wings and take Bei Xi with him to follow A Liu, but he found that his wings didn't extend for a long time, and then he noticed that the entire virtual panel was prohibited from use.
"It has been disabled since we entered here. It is very likely because we are in someone else's illusion. We have to speed up. What should we do now? Should we follow A-Liu?"
For Bei Xi, it didn’t make much difference whether the virtual panel was there or not. She put her arm around Nan Huan’s waist and was about to catch up by passing the villagers, but Nan Huan held her hand.
"No, take me back to the previous wedding room first. There is something I need to confirm first."
Nan Huan had a rough guess in her mind, but she still needed to confirm it, and she had to do it as soon as possible, before the wedding started.
Since the wedding had already been interrupted in the real world, there was no need to continue it here.
Bei Xi never doubted Nan Huan's decision. As soon as she finished speaking, Bei Xi had already put his arm around her waist, turned around, crossed the crowd, and ran in the direction they came from.
When they moved, the villagers who had stayed there to block them also followed them, as if they didn't want them to get close to the wedding room, but also as if they wanted to get rid of the two of them completely.
"Why are you suddenly going crazy? You were fine just now, weren't you?"
Nan Huan was held in Bei Xi's arms. He was not worried about being caught up at all. He just didn't understand why everything was fine just now and suddenly turned into a zombie siege.
"Maybe the owner of this illusion has noticed us, so he wants to get rid of us. Or maybe he doesn't want us to ruin the wedding, or he doesn't want us to wake up A-Liu."
Bei Xi had guessed something, and with someone desperate, she basically understood why Nan Huan wanted to go back to the bridal chamber.
"Did you guess that, too?"
When Nan Huan heard her say this, he knew that she probably understood.
"Just a little bit. If it's not A-Liu, then it could only be someone else. But we probably haven't dealt with him before. Why would he appear here?"
Bei Xi really didn't like anything related to Fengmenling, and there was obvious disdain on his face when he spoke.
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, we have dealt with each other before."
Nan Huan pretended to be mysterious and explained, "Anyway, wait a minute, when we get to the wedding room, maybe you'll understand."
After she said this, she turned her head and looked at Bei Xi with her lips pursed, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
There was a hint of inquiry in her eyes, which made Bei Xi feel itchy, and he couldn't help but kiss her eyelids.
"I noticed that you don't seem to be paying attention this time. Didn't you always do this kind of thing of finding clues in the past? Why do you seem so uninterested this time?"
"I don't like the way they get along, and I feel bad for Liu, but the past is the past. There's no point dwelling on the past. It will only make Liu more miserable. If possible, I don't want to take you into this side quest, this fantasy."
Bei Xi sighed, surprised at Nan Huan's sharpness, and finally told the truth.
Nan Huan understood what the other party meant, hugged him, and kissed Bei Xi on the cheek.
Even though she usually doesn't take anything to heart, Bei Xi is actually very soft-hearted.
Nan Huan's eyes rolled, as if he had thought of a bad idea.
"Don't worry, I'll teach him a lesson later, and then when we get out of the dungeon, I'll take A-Liu away. It would be best if I destroy this place for him. Anyway, I'm very good at this."
This kiss did not contain any passion, it was more like comforting the other person, but Bei Xi enjoyed it very much.
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