35 Cave 19 || Exit 1
"Calm down." Lin Hai said coldly.
"Calm down? What do you mean by calm? I'm very calm now!" Ye Qi wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and said anxiously, "You have no right to interfere with my choice. This is my own life and death, understand?"
"Everyone is just worried about you." Xu Yaoyu frowned and couldn't help but remind him.
"Yes, there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome. Living well is the real thing. When you die, there will be nothing left." Old man Li seldom speaks. Although he did not understand the situation, he could not help but persuade at this time.
A young and beautiful girl resolutely rushed to die, just because she loved him.
Tian Yiyi had never smoked since entering the game, but now she lit a cigarette. She bit the butt lightly, and the smoke rings slowly floated up, blurring her eyes. She only asked one question, "Is it worth it?"
"It's worth it!" Ye Qi said without hesitation, gritting her teeth and tearfully, "Just think of it as me being selfish. After he left, I realized how much I loved him. I'd rather be the one to die."
"Have you ever thought about whether he is really Liu Hu now?" Yan Shuang asked
"It doesn't matter anymore." Ye Qi shook her head. "Just being with him is enough for me."
"There shouldn't be any performances tonight, so just stay in your room and don't go out." Jing Ning finally said to her.
Ye Qi turned around and left the restaurant resolutely.
"What's going on?" Xu Yaoyu was still confused.
"Lei Daoquan died last night. We found Chen Rujing's body hidden inside a stone statue in Lei Daoquan's room. She died even earlier than Lei Daoquan," Lin Hai said, his eyes lowered as he pondered. "Based on speculation, he might have died on the first night."
"Oh my God!" Xu Yaoyu exclaimed, covering her mouth.
Lin Haichen said, "So it's not surprising that he can hear other sounds."
"Also, Jing Ning also found Liu Hu's body in the stone statue in Ye Qi's room yesterday." Yan Shuang took over.
Lin Haichen looked at Jing Ning and asked, "But how do you know Liu Hu is in her room? Didn't you see him when you went to her room yesterday?"
Yan Shuang was also curious. At first, he thought that when Jing Ning was referring to Liu Hu in the room, he was referring to his corpse.
Jing Ning said: "Ghosts can stay in the mirror."
"What is this game trying to say? Three people have died and we have no idea what's going on." Tian Yiyi said, "The theater, the chosen bride, the stone statue, the mirror... they don't connect at all."
"I said before that the groom choosing the bride was a ghost marriage, and I still stand by that view," Jing Ning analyzed calmly. "Let me add a little more. In ancient times, women were not allowed to show their faces in public. Basically, after marriage, they stayed at home to give birth and take care of their husbands. Moreover, many girls were arranged to be "sold" by their families as soon as they reached a certain age, and they had no say in the matter. Some, not wanting their lives to be ruined by men, would rather hang themselves in the sedan chair on their wedding day."
Jing Ning paused and continued, "However, even if someone dies, there will still be people who come to 'buy' their bodies and use them for ghost marriages."
"So what you mean is that the reason only the skin of the chosen person is left in the sedan chair is to complete the ghost marriage ceremony." Tian Yiyi asked.
"Yes." Jing Ning said.
"Could it be that the stone statue is like an eye, deliberately forcing players to encounter death conditions?" Yan Shuang thought for a while and said.
"It does make sense." Lin Hai said.
Time passed quickly, and the food seemed boring and they had no mood to eat.
Around eight o'clock, everyone returned to their rooms.
Just as Jing Ning had said, there were no tickets tonight. Yan Shuang was lying on the bed, bored to death, and was about to cross her legs to talk to Jing Ning.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - help, help -" Ye Qi's screams continued to come from next door, and then Yan Shuang seemed to hear the door opening.
He was about to get up to open the door when he heard another slight sound of the door opening, and then Ye Qi's shouting disappeared inside the door.
The corridor returned to its previous tranquility. These things happened in just a moment.
"The sound of a door opening in the back should be from Xu Yaoyu and the others' room." Yan Shuang sat up straight and listened attentively to the sounds outside.
Jing Ning narrowed his eyes, "What are you thinking about?"
"I wonder what Ye Qi saw that caused her to react so strongly." He ran out of the room desperately.
"Don't underestimate people's instinct for survival," Jing Ning said.
Yan Shuang slept in a daze in the second half of the night. The next morning, when Yan Shuang walked out of the room, she saw Xu Yaoyu vomiting violently, Tian Yiyi covering her nose, and Lin Haishen with a gloomy face.
Without looking at Yan Shuang, one could tell that Ye Qi's fate was not going to be good either. The door to the next room was open, and the smell of blood filled the entire corridor.
"How is it?" Yan Shuang asked Lin Haichen.
Lin Haicheng turned to look at him, "Same as Lei Daoquan."
Some things, once started, can never be reversed.
Chen Rujing's death was like a prelude. In just three days, three more people died one after another.
Jing Ning looked around the room and then came to the restaurant. No one had any appetite for breakfast and everyone looked unhappy.
"Are we going to see a performance again tonight?" Tian Yiyi asked.
No one answered.
"Are we going to die here?" Xu Yaoyu's face turned pale and tears fell down.
Jing Ning remained silent, staring blankly at the food in front of him. "The mirror is broken," he suddenly said.
"Huh? What?" Yan Shuang asked.
"The mirror in Ye Qi's room is broken." Jing Ning said again.
"Could it have been broken accidentally?" If the situation was critical, it was not impossible.
Jing Ning stood up and said, “I’ll go check on Lei Daoquan’s room.
Yan Shuang followed him closely, "Together."
The others followed.
The body in Lei Daoquan's room disappeared, and only the bloodstains on the wall and bed told people what had happened here.
If it weren't for the low temperature, the room would have been filled with stench.
They quickly came to the mirror. As expected, there was no intact mirror hanging on the wall, and the sink was littered with broken lenses.
"It's broken too." said Xu Yaoyu.
"What does a broken mirror mean? Does something come out of it?" Yan Shuang said casually.
Jing Ning's eyes narrowed. "In ancient culture and folk beliefs, mirrors are believed to be a gateway between the Yin and Yang worlds."
"'Psychic'" Yan Shuang was surprised when she heard this. "So this explains why dead people can hide in mirrors."
"So, could the door be in the mirror?" Yan Shuang continued, "The door connecting Yin and Yang."
"Let's go." Jing Ning took Yan Shuang to the bathroom and pressed his hand on the mirror, but the mirror did not respond.
Jing Ning closed his lips tightly, took out the chisel head and smashed it against the mirror.
"Crash--" the mirror shattered all over the floor.
"No response." Yan Shuang frowned. "Was the analysis wrong?"
Based on their analysis, they all agreed that the door had the highest probability of appearing in the mirror. Jing Ning had just smashed the mirror with the chisel, apparently to confirm their suspicions. However, the mirror shattered to the floor, and nothing changed.
Jing Ning lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "That's right. It just means it's not this mirror."
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