Chapter 130 Sea Amusement Park (Thirty-nine)
Now every attack is bound to hit the player. Ning Hanqi saw that the arrow piercing his shoulder was fake. If he stood outside and looked at the scene on the pirate ship at this time, he would find that everything was normal except that the players' faces were very distorted. However, the pirate ship gave people mental pain and hallucinations, allowing humans to clearly feel the despair of being on the verge of death.
Players are surrounded by imprisoned pirate souls, and they will experience the torture suffered by the pirates in the same row. Under this torture, every minute and every second will be infinitely stretched. If the player cannot bear such pain and chooses to give up resistance, or feels that he has no chance of survival, then death will truly come.
Looking at the miserable appearance of those pirate ghosts, you can tell that this torture is comparable to lingchi. People with weak wills are likely to commit suicide on the spot. The tour guide is afraid that something might go wrong with the sea hare and trigger the power of the sea god, so he has to find a way to keep her so that he can push the difficulty to the highest level without restraint.
Even if they can't kill them, they can still make the player suffer a lot. How many can be killed in this round? At least two, right?
But the level of this group of players is generally high, so the tour guide is destined to be disappointed.
Xia Yingnuan's heart began to beat violently.
But even so, she still remembered the hidden rule - "If a corpse or part of a corpse suddenly appears in sight in the corridor, it is their leftovers. Pretend you didn't see it, don't say a word, and leave the floor. After a while, the corpse will disappear on its own."
The rules are set up so that if you speak, something bad will happen.
So she covered her mouth tightly with her hands to prevent herself from making any sound.
Less than 24 hours into the dungeon, Xia Yingnuan felt her mental fortitude improve exponentially. Her older self would have cried out long ago. Thanks to the scares she'd endured in the dungeon and the way she'd learned the rules, she wouldn't have been able to withstand this.
Ning Hanqi gestured at her, signaling her to retreat.
Xia Yingnuan understood, stopped looking at the head on the ground, and turned around silently.
It didn't matter that she saw it, she almost screamed.
I saw two rows of puppets quietly appearing in the corridor that was empty just now.
The doll appeared to be made of wood, about the same height as her, with its facial features painted with brightly colored oil paint, and it was wearing cheap, shoddy clothing, with an exaggerated and weird smile.
There were so many dolls, extending from her feet to the stairs.
The closest one was only half a step away from her.
Where... did this come from?
Wait, this is the second floor, could it be Ren Qiu?
Xia Yingnuan suddenly remembered the doll she saw in Ren Qiu's room last night, but that doll was very lifelike, incomparable to these crudely made dolls in front of her.
This scene was too bizarre. Xia Yingnuan's heart was beating wildly. She looked at Ning Hanqi and asked with her eyes - "What should I do?"
Ning Hanqi's expression didn't change at all. He raised his hand and pointed at the corridor, also signaling with his eyes - "Do you want to go first or me?"
Xia Yingnuan didn't bother to be polite with her and gestured for her to go first.
She didn't dare to take the lead, for she was afraid that she would be beaten up as soon as she went over.
Being beaten to death would be considered good. If she made a sound and attracted ghosts, the next half head that appeared would be hers.
Ning Hanqi raised his hand, and the black ribbon on his arm lightly wrapped around Xia Yingnuan's wrist.
Xia Yingnuan only felt a strong force pulling her forward, causing her to take two steps forward involuntarily.
Ning Hanqi stood in front of her and stopped facing the first puppet.
I wonder if these puppets are also afraid of Ning Hanqi, because each one behaves very quietly, not one of them makes a rash move. Ning Hanqi lowers his eyes and gently raises his finger, motioning Xia Yingnuan to come over and look.
Seeing that the puppets did not move, Xia Yingnuan bravely moved closer and found that there were several transparent silk threads on Ning Hanqi's fingers.
These are the puppet strings, someone is controlling them in the dark!
Xia Yingnuan felt a little better. Although she didn't know how he did it, it was better than these puppets being alive.
She also guessed the other party's intention, probably wanting to seize the opportunity to scare them, make them make noises and then be captured by ghosts. It was truly despicable.
Xia Yingnuan took a deep breath and clenched the hammer in her hand. She planned to give it a hammer if the puppet was so foolish as to provoke her, so that it would learn the dangers of society.
But as she walked along, the puppets, although twisting their bodies stiffly and their eyes glued to her viciously, did not actually attack her.
As Xia Yingnuan neared the end of the line, her tense nerves finally relaxed a bit. However, at that moment, the necks of the two puppets in the last row suddenly twisted, and then their heads slammed heavily onto the floor in front of her, making a loud noise.
Xia Yingnuan:!
She kept her mouth tightly shut and didn't make a sound.
However, Ning Hanqi obviously did not believe in her courage. The moment the head fell to the ground, the black silk ribbon climbed up her shoulders and quickly covered her mouth and nose tightly, leaving no room for any airtightness.
Xia Yingnuan: ...Are you helping her or do you want her to die?
She was out of breath and her face flushed red. She used her eyes to desperately signal to Ning Hanqi that she would not make a sound.
Only then did Ning Hanqi let her go.
Xia Yingnuan took two deep breaths, and the feeling of lack of oxygen was relieved.
Many people have the same weakness—it's easy to let down their guard at the last moment. Just now, Ren Qi wanted to take advantage of this, creating an accident when she thought nothing would happen, leading her to scream out.
People are so vicious, luckily she reacted quickly enough.
Xia Yingnuan followed Ning Hanqi, walked along the silk thread, and stopped at the door of Ren Qiu's room.
She squinted her eyes and looked carefully, and saw densely packed thin transparent silk threads in the crack of the door.
It turned out that it was Ren Qiu who was behind this. I felt that she was hiding it yesterday, but I didn't expect that she couldn't hold back and took action against them so soon.
There was a flash of light before my eyes, and the ribbon on Ning Hanqi's wrist cut the transparent string.
The puppets behind him lost their shackles and fell to the ground one after another, making a crackling sound.
A few more flashes of light passed by, and the black ribbon was like lightning, cutting the puppet into a pile of wooden fragments.
Xia Yingnuan felt relieved seeing this. It would take some time to clean this corridor, but this did not affect her good mood at all.
Ning Hanqi still looked at ease. He raised his hand and pointed at the stairs - hurry up and go upstairs.
The two quickly reached the third floor. Xia Yingnuan let out a long sigh and sat down on the ground.
She was too tense just now, she needs to relax.
She turned to talk to Ning Hanqi: "Sister, can the trash can hold so many dolls?"
The amount of wood fragments was quite impressive. She felt that even the trash cans on the seven floors combined wouldn't be able to hold them all. Wouldn't that affect the completion of the mission?
"If it can't fit, just burn it. There's a lighter in the drawer." Ning Hanqi tapped her fingers lightly, and the black ribbon that was waving its claws just now obediently wrapped around her wrist again.
She asked, "Didn't you find anything else?"
Anything else?
Xia Yingnuan was slightly stunned, quickly sorted out her confused thoughts, and then realized something.
She was delighted. "I think it's not just that we can't attack NPCs, but that NPCs are also under some kind of restriction that prevents them from attacking us."
It wasn't hard to deduce this. If NPCs could attack her, then Ren Qiu would have already controlled the puppets to attack her. Once a fight breaks out, people will inadvertently make some noises, especially when they're hurt.
Ren Qiu made the puppets appear in the corridor at an extremely fast speed and bluffed them in an attempt to scare them, but he did not let the puppets cause any harm to them.
Then the only possibility is that she can't do it.
It’s not that I don’t want to, but I can’t.
Ning Hanqi agreed with her point of view, "Not bad, not too stupid."
She shook the key in her hand and said, "Let's go to Liu Zhou's room."
Just now they were stopped outside Zhang Wanjing's door by the system because the other party was not dead yet. But since Liu Zhou is dead, they can enter his room.
But how did Liuzhou die?
As Xia Yingnuan was thinking, she had already walked to the door of Liu Zhou's room.
Liuzhou's door was tightly closed, showing no signs of damage. Furthermore, the door was strong and heavy, making it unlikely to be damaged.
There are two possibilities that his body was eaten by ghosts.
First, he didn't put an apple by his bed, so when the ghost came to his house in the middle of the night, it ate his head as if it were an apple. Due to some rules, the leftover body appeared in the corridor.
Second, he ran out by himself in the middle of the night and encountered a ghost in the corridor.
But both situations seem strange. According to the work records of the previous administrator, this building has existed for some time. It originally had 140 households, but now only has 7. Since Liuzhou has survived to this day, it is impossible that he is unaware of these two rules.
So what happened to him last night...
No, there is a third possibility - Liu Zhou was lured out of the room and killed, his body thrown in the corridor, and then eaten as a snack by ghosts.
However, there are not enough clues now, and the cause of Liu Zhou's death cannot be determined.
This time, the two were not hindered by the system and successfully entered the room.
As soon as Xia Yingnuan entered the room, she was hit by a pungent, unpleasant odor—the smell of rotting food. She quickly opened the window to let in some fresh air. Outside lay a desolate wilderness, the gray sky hanging low, as if a sunny day would never come.
Liu Zhou's room was a mess. Besides the apple they had seen yesterday, there were also a number of empty beer bottles on the coffee table. The trash can was filled with so many instant food packaging that it was almost overflowing.
Ning Hanqi said, "Take all the apples with you."
Using Xue Lan's apple at night will stack the buff, I don't know if using Liu Zhou's will also stack the buff. But even if it does, Liu Zhou is already dead, so it probably won't trigger anything.
Xia Yingnuan did as she was told. The two of them walked around the living room, but found nothing, so they turned and went into the bedroom.
The bedside table in the bedroom was empty, without an apple. I wondered if a ghost had eaten it yesterday, or if Liu Zhou hadn't put it there in the first place.
Xia Yingnuan pondered, "Will Xue Lan know something?"
Xue Lan came home late yesterday and admitted to murder. Two people are now dead in the apartment: Xin Na, the former administrator, and Liu Zhou, who lived on the third floor. Could Xue Lan be responsible for their deaths?
Ning Hanqi said: "She won't tell the truth."
Her eyes fell on the desk, "Come and look at this."
Xia Yingnuan walked over and saw a piece of paper taped to the desk. On it were seven crudely cut ceramic figures, each labeled with a name. These were the seven remaining people in the apartment. Lines stretched in different directions from the figures' feet, each labeled with a different name, forming a relationship diagram.
The system prompt pops up:
[Congratulations on obtaining the clue [Liuzhou's character relationship diagram]. Please take a closer look, it will definitely be helpful to you.]
Xia Yingnuan was secretly surprised. It seemed that Liu Zhou was not completely stupid. Apart from being lustful, he could also do some serious work.
But this was a big help, as they now had a basic understanding of the apartment's rules. In order to complete the mission and survive, they also needed to sort out the relationships between the characters, infer the tenants' intentions and intentions, and take precautions.
On the villain, there is a note behind each person's name.
Zhang Wanjing (madman), Ren Qiu (puppet master), Lu Jun (super strength), Mo Shu (witch), Song Yun (little beauty), Xue Lan (executioner).
Xia Yingnuan was speechless and choked up. It was already this late in the night, and he could still write such a useless, dog-licking comment like "little beauty". He really was still a pervert.
It seems that among so many women, Liu Zhou likes Song Yun the most. Song Yun is really unlucky.
However, except for Song Yun, the comments of others are quite valuable.
Xue Lan had said that there were no ordinary people here; everyone possessed unorthodox magic. They had just witnessed Ren Qiu's puppetry, confirming her identity as a puppeteer.
The skills of others are still unclear, but Xia Yingnuan feels that most of the notes are very practical.
For example, Zhang Wanjing looks like a dark little girl who is a little crazy, and Mo Shu's door is covered with talismans, making her look like a witch.
Not to mention Xue Lan. When you think of her smiling face while holding a knife, you will feel that the word executioner is very suitable for her.
There were double arrows between Lu Jun and Zhang Wanjing, topped with hearts, perhaps signifying a mutual affection. There were also double arrows between Liu Zhou and Song Yun, topped with hearts. Thinking of Liu Zhou, reeking of alcohol, Xia Yingnuan frowned. She wondered where his confidence came from.
It seems that Liu Zhou doesn't like Xue Lan. There is a line between his name and Xue Lan's, with a knife drawn on it.
Ren Qiu's little man is all alone and has no connection with anyone.
Ning Hanqi watched and suddenly chuckled.
Xia Yingnuan was confused by her laughter, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Ning Hanqi curled her lips and pointed at Liu Zhou's name with her slender fingers. "He seems to like women who look easy to control."
Easy to control, are you talking about Song Yun?
Thinking back to yesterday when Song Yun didn't dare to open the door and looked so pitiful, it fits this description very well.
And when he came to say hello yesterday, Liu Zhou was obviously more interested in her than Ning Hanqi. Perhaps he was blinded by her appearance and mistook her for a pretty girl.
Xia Yingnuan thought for a moment and said, "I don't think Song Yun is that simple."
This apartment is full of hidden dangers, and the poor little white flower will not survive to this day.
Ning Hanqi nodded, tacitly agreeing with her statement.
She nodded at the two little figures of Song Yun and Mo Shu and said, "Let's go and meet these two mysterious ladies."
Between the names of Song Yun and Xue Lan, and Mo Shu and Xue Lan, there is a double arrow, and three knives are drawn on each arrow, which is full of murderous intent.
Ning Hanqi extended a slender finger and mercilessly pushed Xue Lan's little figure to the ground. "Enemy can see through your weaknesses better than friends."
Xia Yingnuan followed closely. The madman was not too stupid. He knew to hold Gao Yu hostage to block her attack.
Behind that madman was the darkest bottom layer. Xia Yingnuan could even hear slight noises in the pipes. It was the sound of countless tentacles wriggling. Beyond that layer of floor was the nest that bred countless monsters.
The madman only then realized that the wound on his body was very painful, and he pouted and let out a strange cry.
Gao Yu, who was closest to him, had blood flowing from his mouth and nose, and the cries of these monsters were still as unbearable as ever.
Xia Yingnuan quietly deployed her power around the madman, hoping to shatter him into pieces in an instant so that he could no longer threaten Gao Yu's safety.
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