The group ran back upstairs and found that one of the players was dead.
His head was hanging from the ceiling, while his body and feet were hanging vertically downwards.
A thin hemp rope was around her neck, hanging from the chandelier.
His face was pale and he died a tragic death.
Hanging precariously in mid-air, it was exceptionally eerie and terrifying.
"Is anyone else here...?"
"There's danger!"
"Could there be ghosts?"
"sunflower……"
No one mourned the player's death; everyone stood on guard, watching their surroundings.
If there were people here, they couldn't possibly not have noticed.
It seems that this game, besides the tasks it presents, hides many other deadly dangers.
"Put him down and take a look."
Someone suggested in a low voice.
Someone cut the rope, and the player's corpse fell to the ground.
It was intact when it was hanging there, and when I touched its body, I didn't feel that special human warmth that comes from someone who hadn't been dead for long.
After the rope broke and he fell to the ground, his body was smashed into a pile of minced meat like a clay statue!
"ah!"
Blood flowed freely and splattered everywhere, causing some people to jump back in fright.
Only the head remained, standing intact amidst the pile of flesh.
Everyone looked on in astonishment.
"How could this be..."
"Everyone be careful!"
"It seems like this group of people who formed an alliance is leading them," Luna reminded him.
Xu Gou examined the top and said, "This rope seems to have appeared out of thin air..."
The buildings in this manor are all dilapidated and resemble European style.
The chandelier was already too fragile to support a person.
This player definitely did not commit suicide by hanging himself.
"Could it be the ghost of the mistress of the manor, that is, the wife?" a middle-aged man with a crew cut asked.
It's not impossible that his spirit might return to visit on the anniversary of his wife's death.
Qiao Zhi frowned and looked at Su Deng, "I don't think the rules of this game are what they were announced to be..."
Of course they are different.
The above-board rules of the game were established and released by the game's creator, Divine Court Technology, which is in charge of its construction.
The hidden rules of the game, concealed in the darkness, are revealed by an evil god who emerges from the shadows where there is no light.
With the two sets of rules clashing, this is no longer the original game.
Su Deng didn't say anything, her eyes filled with darkness.
"Look!"
Just as the players, who had not found any clues, were about to continue their search, someone pointed to the mud on the ground where the dead player had turned into and exclaimed in surprise.
Something seemed to be wriggling on the head of the person in the pile of flesh on the ground.
Small green shoots sprout and grow through the scalp covering the black hair.
It takes root, sprouts, and grows leaves at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming a green plant more than a meter tall, from which a flower blooms.
A sunflower, its petals and leaves outstretched, blooming brilliantly.
Golden sunflowers.
It's more beautiful and dazzling than the sunflowers that cover the hillsides outside.
Just like real gold, it refracts light in an alluring way.
"gold……"
"...It really is gold!"
Xu Gou mustered up his courage and touched it; the sensation shocked him.
From the pistil to the petals, and even the melon seeds that grow inside, everything is made of gold.
[Among ten thousand sunflowers, find one golden sunflower.]
"Could this be...?"
"Wang Ergou, what are you doing!"
"Whoever gets it first gets it!"
Before Luna could finish guessing, a hand reached out and plucked the golden sunflower.
Others immediately joined the fray.
Luna and Xu Gou exchanged a glance and joined in.
But this battle didn't even last a minute.
Five or six people stood there, staring at what Wang Ergou was holding.
"Why did it wither?"
"...The flowers have withered!"
The location isn't far; even if Su Deng doesn't stand at the same angle, he can still see it.
Qiao Zhi moved closer and stood on tiptoe to look over there.
The sunflowers, which had been golden just moments before, suddenly turned black from the center, as if they had withered and died.
After turning completely black, it dissolved into a pool of blood in Wang Ergou's hands.
"ah!"
Wang Ergou screamed in terror, frantically waving his hands and jumping three feet high.
Snap——
A thin bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, illuminating the view outside the window as if it were daytime, and the undulating sunflowers swayed in the sudden gust of wind.
Inside the broken window, Wang Ergou's hands were covered in bright red blood.
"how so……"
"I see!"
Luna's eyes gleamed. "It seems we've been assigned a mission beyond our level."
Finding the golden sunflower is the second task.
You must complete the previous task before you can trigger the next one.
Because the first task was not yet completed, the golden sunflower withered and died instantly after being picked.
Xu Gou consoled himself, "But at least we now know what a real golden sunflower looks like."
“I think…” Qiao Zhi was also surprised when she saw the sunflower, but she didn’t excitedly try to snatch it from them. After thinking for a moment, she said, “That’s not the point…”
She looked at the pile of minced meat on the ground. "This golden sunflower grew from the minced meat of a dead player's corpse..."
Her words caused a moment of silence in the room, and everyone turned to look at her.
Qiao Zhi looked at Su Deng.
This subconscious reaction of seeking confirmation from Su Deng made Qiao Zhi pause, and she felt a little strange.
Su Deng knew what she was thinking and slowly nodded, "Yes."
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