Chapter 297 Chapter 297
"My Lords, are you lost?" The girl's gentle voice sounded behind the three of them.
The man was startled and turned around suddenly to see a girl about eleven or twelve years old standing in the dark corner under the wall. She was looking at him with a pair of dark eyes and a timid expression.
The girl was wearing traditional winter clothes, with a black braid hanging behind her head and tied with a red ribbon.
This is still a little girl.
Seeing the short and thin child, the three men relaxed their brows a little. The child did not seem to pose any threat.
"Hey, little girl, did you see a woman? The one with long black hair..."
"Brother, wait a minute..." One of them patted the big guy who was talking and pointed at the child's feet, "Look at her feet..."
Following the direction of his finger, the two noticed that the child's feet were hanging down and not touching the ground.
The very natural drooping feeling reminded the man of a child he had hung, with two feet hanging like this, toes pointing downward, and when touched, they began to sway, like a hanging pendulum.
In the past, he and his two younger brothers could point at the corpse and laugh, but now when they see the pair of dangling little feet, they are just terrified.
"Go..." The man turned and ran, his hands trembling.
His two younger brothers reacted slowly and realized they had to escape only after seeing their eldest brother running away. There was no one else in the yard now. The others had already left after seeing the girl suddenly appear at the base of the wall. That is why the three of them had their backs to the corner and failed to notice it at first.
It is naturally hopeless to leave now.
How could someone who was asked to stay by someone strangely escape so easily?
As the three rushed to the side gate of the courtyard, the girl suddenly stood in front of the side gate. She still looked as if she didn't dare to speak loudly. She lowered her head slightly, looked up cautiously, and said softly: "My lords, dinner is ready."
The girl was wandering in front of the side door. The three men did not dare to approach her or talk to her. The man in the lead glanced around, looking for a place to escape.
There are three doors in this yard. The main door has been locked by that woman, and there are two side doors. If you can't go to the left, then go to the right...
However, the door on the right was closed at some point, and a big padlock was hanging on the door.
The door was clearly not locked before.
"My lords, dinner is ready." The strange girl spoke again.
Still no one responded to her, and the three of them slowly retreated, looking for other escape routes.
After two questions without any response, the strange girl's expression changed. She raised her head, no longer looking humble as before. Her eyes, which were originally black and white and not much different from those of ordinary people, turned red, and even shed tears of blood. She opened her mouth and shouted in a hoarse voice: "My Lords, dinner is ready!!"
The three men were so frightened by the sudden change that their legs went limp. One of the younger brothers kept pushing the leading man with his hands: "Brother, do we have to...answer her?"
The eldest brother was also frightened and kept shaking his head: "I...I don't know either."
He has never encountered anything weird. Although there are endless weird news, more than 80% of people in this world are lucky people who have never come face to face with weirdness.
But now this luck no longer exists.
"No, no need. We're not hungry." The man replied tremblingly.
The strange girl paused, and slowly lowered her raised hand. Her head dropped again. Although her bright red eyes did not return to normal, she did not look directly at them, but stared at her toes: "Okay, I'll bring the adults' meal right away."
man:???
Didn't you say you didn't want it anymore?
The strange girl turned around and disappeared, and within half a second, she reappeared with a plate in her hand.
On the wooden plate were three wooden bowls filled with steaming soup.
"Please enjoy the freshly prepared meat soup." The strange girl raised the wooden plate above her eyebrows and whispered.
Three bowls of hot soup mixed with chopped vegetables and minced meat, the aroma was fragrant.
Looking at the color and smelling the smell are all normal.
But can the weird things that are served really be eaten?
"This... I said I'm not hungry." The man resisted again.
"Yes, yes, we have food, enough." The two brothers nodded in agreement. To prove his words, one of them even opened his bag to show the food and water inside.
But the strange girl remained the same as before, holding the plate high, and repeated the sentence again.
But this time when she repeated it, she raised her eyes and stared at the three people.
Meeting the sinister gaze of the weird girl, the three of them felt a chill on their backs. Thinking of the three times they ignored her before, the weird girl looked like she wanted to eat them, so the three of them took the soup one after another.
But with the hot bowl in their hands, no one dared to touch it.
The strange girl returned to normal again. She put the plate down and hugged it tightly to her chest, whispering, "The city is under siege, and there is not much food. There are only pig offal and leftover dried vegetables. I hope it suits your appetite."
"Pig offal?" The man looked into the bowl. He shook the bowl and saw chopped meat and stale vegetable pieces.
Is it really pig offal?
"Once the siege is over, there will be fresh meat." The strange girl still lowered her head and muttered to herself, "Only three days, three days will be enough... three days..."
She kept repeating the number "three days" with a slightly crazy look on her face.
"Vegetables, meat, fresh, delicious... hehe..."
The three of them retreated in unison and distanced themselves from the strange girl.
"Brother, do you want to eat?" The younger brother looked at him pitifully.
The man stared at the food in the bowl, then looked at the weird girl who was about to go crazy, and gritted his teeth: "Eat!"
Otherwise, it looks like the strange girl won't disappear until they finish eating.
The man closed his eyes, trying not to look at what was in the bowl, and drank the soup in one gulp. The meat and vegetables were chopped very finely, so he could almost swallow them without chewing.
Seeing their eldest brother drink it, the two younger brothers gritted their teeth and drank it too.
They all drank the soup with their eyes closed, and did not notice the excitement in the strange girl's eyes as she stared at them.
"Drink it... Hehe, drink it all..." The strange girl's voice was almost inaudible, "Fresh pig, grow up quickly, three days left..."
After saying this, the strange girl disappeared.
After finishing the soup, the three put down their bowls and smacked their lips. One of the younger brothers said excitedly, "Brother, this tastes really good!"
"What a bullshit!" The man suddenly got angry. He found that the strange girl was gone. He immediately turned around and covered his throat and vomited, but nothing came out.
"This...Brother, it tastes really good." Another person also said.
"You don't even know what kind of meat it is..." the man muttered in a low voice and threw the bowl, "Go!"
"Oh, okay." The two followed and walked towards the only open side door. After leaving the yard, the younger brother remembered to ask, "Brother, are you still chasing that woman with long black hair?"
"What are you chasing? Life is more important." The man cursed. After experiencing a near-death experience just now, it is better to go back alive than to get gold.
Anyway, money is something like this. All I have to do is catch a few more kids and sell their body parts...
The man suddenly thought of something. He covered his mouth and his face gradually turned blue.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
The man turned around and asked the two people behind him: "Have you ever eaten human flesh before?"
The two younger brothers were stunned. The one in front answered decisively: "No, brother, we do those things for money, we are not really perverted."
It's not like we can't afford to eat, why would it get to that point?
The other person thought of something and his face turned ugly: "Brother, could it be that you mean?"
What was the bowl of pig offal we just ate actually?
"Don't say it!" The man immediately stopped him with his hand. "It's okay. If it's just this, it's fine."
At most, he is just a malicious person.
What he was more afraid of now was that the soup was poisonous.
The three of them were still relatively calm, but the comment section of the weird live broadcast room had already exploded because of what had just happened.
[The girl just now was dressed as a palace maid.]
[She is still a young palace maid, with her hair tied in a big braid. It is estimated that she has not been in the palace for long. When delivering food, she explained that she belongs to the kitchen.]
[The tiptoes are hanging down, which looks scary. It's obvious that he was hunged. 】
【Khan City was used more as a refuge for the king. The king fled to a remote place to survive, and the people below must have had a harder time. I remember that history once recorded that the city was besieged for a long time and people could not afford to eat. But suddenly one day, the kitchen brought out venison soup, saying that a deer was shot in the back mountain. But someone ate a little finger in the bowl. But in the end, no one asked whether the soup was real venison.】
[Do you even need to ask this? Can you tell me which kind of deer has little fingers? ? ]
[So this bowl of soup is actually...]
[In the past, palace maids who committed minor offenses would be whipped on their calves, and those who committed serious offenses would be hanged.]
[Ah... I no longer dare to ask how this weirdo died.]
[Retribution, have you seen the criminal history of these three people? They would capture children and then sell them for parts.]
【Selling dirty food, eating dirty food.】
【Don't tell it! 】
【Actually, there is one thing that I am very concerned about. Cannibalism is a taboo. On the one hand, it is a moral issue, and on the other hand, eating the same kind will make you crazy. Especially since this was served in a weird way, do you think these three people will go crazy?】
【It would be best to die here. 】
[It doesn't matter what happens, they are all evil people anyway. ]
【Just treat it as a show. 】
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On the other side, Han Kyu-hyun and Lee Jae-chun slipped away after the young people distributed the gold medals. They were the first wave of people to leave the front yard.
While others were still wondering how to leave through the main door or climb over the wall, Han Kyu-hyun had already called Lee Jae-chun and quietly left through the side door.
They walked around the front yard, passed a corridor, and headed to the side yard. They were lucky enough to find a box in a corner. When they opened it, they found packaged bread and fresh water inside.
They brought food with them before arriving at Khan City, but one never wastes too much of this stuff, so the two of them packed the food and water into their packages, and found a note at the bottom.
Written on the note in very poor cursive was the following: The city will be closed for three days. On the first day, people will eat each other. On the second day, people will eat each other. On the third day, people will eat each other.
Just a simple line of words made Han Guixian feel cold on his back. He didn't know what he was thinking. After reading the content, he stuffed the note into his pocket immediately.
Not even Li Jae-chun saw it.
Li Jae-chun was only concerned with organizing the package, placing the food that was not too fresh on the top layer of the package.
"Brother, this bread will expire in three days." Li Zaichun muttered, "What kind of crappy game is this? They don't even prepare food properly."
Han Kyu-hyun said nothing, waved to Lee Jae-chun, and the two went to the lawn behind the house.
There is a small stone table and chairs here. I guess someone likes this secluded and quiet corner and set up a private rest area here.
There happened to be a pear tree outside the wall next to me, with its branches extending into the wall. Now that the flowering season is about to end, only a few withered flowers can be seen left on the green branches.
"Brother, are we just going to stay here?" Li Zaichun asked, "Why don't we look for gold bars?"
If you can find all the gold, you will become rich overnight.
"Do you believe everything that person said?" Han Kyu-hyun asked this question instead of giving a direct answer.
Li Jae-chun shook his head and said, "I think it's a bit strange to give so much gold for no reason, but isn't that what live broadcasts on the dark web are all about? We risked our lives to participate in the battle royale, so I think that little money is not enough to give them some fun."
Han Kyu-hyun didn't say anything, he just took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth. He originally wanted to light it, but then gave up.
"We didn't register online when we came here." Han Kyu-hyun only said this.
The registration method stated in the post is to register on site. If you need to register online in advance, they will not come in the first place.
For those who came here after reading the post, since they did not register, the organizer probably does not know how many groups of people will come or how many people will come in total.
But the gold medals they prepared to share were neither more nor less.
It was impossible to prepare in advance. The last person before the doors opened arrived only three minutes early, which was a perfect timing.
Also, there was no surveillance outside the gate.
It is impossible for such an old building, which can be called a ruin, to have pre-buried wires and a pinhole camera.
If the distribution of the gold medals only made Han Kyu-hyun feel strange, then what he noticed afterwards made him even more horrified.
When the young man behind the table explained the rules of the game in detail, almost everyone's eyes were focused on the young man, or on the gold medal in front of him, and some people were observing the architectural structure of Khan City, thinking about how to act next. Only Han Guixian was staring at the woman who locked the door.
This woman had beautiful features and delicate makeup. She never spoke except for the words she said when she opened the door. She stood quietly to the side, like a background board, listening motionlessly.
Han Guixian didn't pay much attention to her at first, but when his eyes accidentally swept over her one time, he noticed a very small thing: did this woman blink?
Blinking is a passive behavior. Maybe someone can force themselves not to blink for a long time, but they cannot control themselves not to blink all the time.
Some people have participated in world challenges, but the longest time they have ever completed is still less than one hour.
If there is no special control, people blink about once every three to five seconds.
Ever since Han Kyu-hyun noticed that something was wrong with the woman, he had been staring at her for at least ten minutes. During this time, the woman was like a sculpture, motionless, without blinking, and without any movement of her facial muscles, as if she was really frozen.
She even seemed not to be breathing.
Once he noticed this, Han Kyu-hyun's eyes moved away from the woman and came to the young man who was talking about the rules, and then he found that unless he was smiling, the man's eyes would close slightly once...other than that, he didn't blink.
Unless people pay special attention to it, they generally don't notice whether the person they are talking to blinks or not, because the other person's arms are moving, his mouth is opening and closing, and his facial muscles are moving naturally. His language and body movements will attract all the attention of the people in front of him, and whether a small action like blinking is taking place will be automatically ignored by the person he is talking to.
But once he paid attention, Han Guixian's eyes would unconsciously look up, his heart beat fast, and he didn't dare to say this out loud.
When waiting in line to receive the gold medal, Han Kyu-hyun took the gold medal from the young man. His fingers rubbed the palm of the young man's hand. The slightly hard skin felt like the rough palm of an old man. But when he glanced at the other person's palm, he didn't see the roughness of the old man's palm.
These two are not human, they are weird.
They entered the weird lair.
This was probably the first time that someone used the Internet to deceive people, and they had to face it.
What is this? Retribution?
In the past, they used photos on the Internet to deceive people, but now they are deceived by posts on the Internet.
Having guessed most of the facts, Han Kyu-hyun took Lee Jae-chun away when someone dared to grab the arm of the woman who locked the door. The dark clouds looming behind them and the loss of cell phone signal made him confirm this guess.
This is definitely a strange place, and even if you climb over the wall, you can't leave. There are only two hopes to leave here alive. One is to hope that Qiyi will keep his promise and they can leave after surviving to the third day, and the other is to place hope on the Light Organization.
No strange domain has ever survived a day in the hands of Denghuo.
But are lights really reliable?
They are a weird organization, inhuman weirdos who never care about human lives.
"Brother, I don't quite understand." Li Zaichun shook his head, "Anyway, our situation is very dangerous now, right?"
"What a weird invitation." Han Guixian sighed.
It's more than dangerous, it's a life-threatening situation.
"I shouldn't have committed that crime back then." Han Kyu-hyun paused and glared at Lee Jae-chun fiercely, "I shouldn't have brought you, an idiot, with me!"
If it weren't for the friendship between them as fellow townsmen and childhood friends, this idiot would have been kicked out by him long ago.
As a result, he accidentally killed someone and had to run away.
Just as he was sighing, a woman trotted in and hid in here. When she saw the two of them here, she was frightened and screamed.
"Hey, you..."
Before Li Zaichun finished speaking, the woman knelt on the ground and waved her hands: "Don't, don't kill me! I will be obedient. I will give you the gold medal. I will give it all to you. I don't want anything else. I just want to leave alive!"
After saying that, he took out the gold medal and handed it over.
Li Jae-chun looked at the gold medal, then followed the hand holding the gold medal to look at the woman.
The woman with short linen hair was wearing rather thin clothes. The white shirt was tight around her chest, outlining the curves of her body. Her facial features looked delicate and her makeup was beautiful.
Whether it is her appearance or her figure, she can reach eight points and can be called a beauty.
Now this beautiful woman was kneeling on the ground, holding the gold medal in her hands and looking at him with pleading eyes. Li Zaichun was a little moved, but he was not the one who made the decision, so he whispered to Han Guixian: "Brother, how about... forgetting about her gold medal?"
Han Guixian glanced at the woman, frowned and said, "This is our place, you don't want the gold medal, go away."
Seeing that they didn't want the gold medal, the short-haired woman breathed a sigh of relief, and then when she heard them rushing to leave, she shook her head and said, "No, let me follow you. This gold medal can be used as protection money. I came here alone and I'm very scared. Please don't do it."
Then she added: "I thought I was just here to participate in an event and make some money for cosmetics, but I didn't expect it to be a battle royale on the dark web. I... I don't want to participate anymore. Life is more important than money."
"Two big brothers." The short-haired woman almost crawled over, put her hand on Li Jae-chun's thigh, and said softly, "I just want to go back alive, really, I'm very obedient..."
Her hands gradually moved upwards.
Li Jae-chun's face became redder and redder. He retracted his thighs and looked at Han Kyu-hyun hesitantly again.
A cold light flashed, and a small knife was placed in front of the short-haired woman. Han Guixian, holding the knife, said coldly: "Get lost, don't you understand?"
Seeing how fierce he was, the short-haired woman stopped talking, and when she stood up, she glanced at Han Guixian and left.
Seeing that the woman had disappeared, Li Zaichun showed a look of regret on his face: "I think it's okay to keep her."
"Keep her? You won't survive the night."
"What, what do you mean, brother?"
"She didn't come alone at all." Han Kyu-hyun sighed, "She arrived before us, with two companions, a man and an old man."
Li Jae-chun said "oh" and then felt that this statement sounded familiar.
"The taxi driver said that there were four passengers in front, two groups." Han Guixian said, "One group consisted of three people, a couple and an old man. The other young man came alone and got a ride halfway."
After hearing this news from the driver, Han Kyu-hyun began to pay attention to other people and secretly looked at who among them was in the same group.
There were only four women among the twenty people who came. He had observed while waiting outside the gate that the woman with long black hair really came alone. The other two women were obviously companions. Although the other woman seemed unfamiliar with the others, she was vaguely protected by an old man behind her, so it was obvious that they were together.
The woman protected by the old man is the woman with short linen hair.
She had just come to Li Jae-chun and his friend for help, but she lied that she came alone. She lied because she had other purposes.
What else do they have besides their gold medals and their lives?
"These people who come here don't look like good people." Han Guixian said in a low voice.
Although the linen short-haired woman looked pitiful and weak, when she left, there was not a trace of fear in her eyes when she glanced at Han Kyu-hyun, but rather a little bit of regret.
It's like it's regretting that the prey wasn't hooked.
Thinking of this, Han Kyu-hyun cursed again. Compared to being weird, this group of people who were also attracted to the event might be more dangerous.
Each and every one of them looked like they had seen blood.
I originally thought I could get away with it, but now it seems I may have to take the initiative to get involved.
He who does not hunt is the prey.
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