Tao Xin was very happy.

After the nightmare came, the entertainment industry was greatly affected and many artists lost their jobs. After all, under the destructive power of an event that exceeded the level of a world war, who would still have the heart to chase stars or listen to music?

This is the Ice Age of the entertainment industry.

Other stars also make traditional investments, but at this time, most industries and investments are losing money, or even losing all their money.

But she lived a pretty good life, all because she had a stake in Lin Mo and Fatty's company.

In fact, among the unofficial "security companies", Happy Life Security Consulting Company is quite famous. Because she is one of the shareholders of this company, even if she no longer works as an artist, she is still a guest of honor for wealthy people from all sides, and is more respected than before.

"If you ignore the high walls around it, this place is actually similar to the former Whale Swallowing City, and it may even be more lively." Lin Mo was walking on the street at the moment, looking at the colorful flowers around him, and spoke.

Tao Xin also agrees with this view.

"At first, I was a little uncomfortable with it. For a while, I really thought that there was no hope in life and no future. I felt that something was wrong. But I found that people have a strong ability to adapt. Anyway, I have gotten used to it. Sometimes when I think about my past life, it seems like a long time has passed."

She spoke from her heart.

After thinking about it, she couldn't resist her curiosity and asked about Lu Ping.

Lin Mo did not hide anything this time. He felt that it was no big deal, so he just told it out loud and let Tao Xin judge it.

So he told the story of Liu Jian and Lin Rou.

And there was the fire ten years ago.

After hearing this, Tao Xin's face turned pale.

Mainly because Lin Mo described the process of Liu Jian killing people and skinning people so vividly that it scared people.

"Tao Xin, please judge for yourself. If Lu Ping set the fire, should she be held responsible? If she did it, should she die?" Lin Mo asked.

Tao Xin nodded without hesitation.

"should."

But she added: "That Liu Jian killed so many people just because of suspicion, he should also take responsibility."

Lin Mo also agreed with this.

Thinking of that game, Lin Mo felt that Liu Jian being trapped in this game scene was also a kind of torture.

Tao Xin didn't ask more, and Lin Mo didn't say anything more.

It was like they were discussing some news that had nothing to do with them.

"Expert Lin, I have a small request." Tao Xin said in a low voice, not knowing what he was thinking of.

"What request?"

"I want to see you in the nightmare world."

"That's it? Fine."

Lin Mo saw a seat on the side of the road, asked Tao Xin to sit there, and then stretched out his hand and waved it in the other's face.

Tao Xin fell asleep immediately.

Lin Mo also closed his eyes.

The safe zone is an almost one-to-one restoration of the inner and outer worlds.

In the dim street, Tao Xin looked at Lin Mo who was standing opposite.

“It feels pretty much the same as in the real world.”

"Almost. Even my hands are different. Look."

Lin Mo lifted his sleeves.

I saw his arms, one was normal, and the other was obviously a woman's arm.

Tao Xin looked surprised.

"Can I touch it?"

"able."

"It's so hard, this isn't normal skin, is it?"

"Of course not, can't you see? It's the doll's arm."

"how so?"

"It's a long story."

At this time, Tao Xin saw a cardboard box not far away. At this moment, something that looked like a purple-skinned sweet potato was sticking out from the cardboard box.

After she looked carefully, Tao Xin felt numb all over, as if a basin of cold water had been poured over her from head to toe. At this moment, her whole body was cold and she was shivering.

The next moment, she screamed.

"It's okay, that's my son, Doudou. Who told you to run away by yourself? Look how scared you made him."

Doudou said indifferently: "She is just timid, why do you blame me?"

"Hey, have you learned to talk back?" Lin Mo walked over with his hands on his hips. Doudou immediately became timid and admitted his mistake.

It took Tao Xin some effort to recover.

Like most of the social elite, she followed the country's emergency procedures for nightmares, carried out nightmare separation step by step, lived in a safe zone when she slept, and could move around outside the safe zone at other times.

In fact, she had seen few nightmares.

The last time I saw Nightmare was when she was having a nightmare separation.

For people like her, it is actually rare to face truly dangerous nightmares.

That's why I'm so scared now.

Lin Mo said that you are too timid and you won’t be afraid after seeing it a few more times.

"Go, Doudou, hold your aunt's hand and help her build up some courage."

When Doudou heard this, he ran over happily.

Tao Xin burst into tears.

She cried so miserably. As a big star, Tao Xin thought she had strong self-control, but when she saw the scary purple-skinned sweet potato-like little ghost running towards her, her mind went blank.

Just know how to cry.

When that cold little hand grabbed her hand, Tao Xin felt completely numb.

I can't even cry anymore.

Lin Mo watched from the side.

He really means well.

The current situation seems to be fine, and everything seems to be going according to plan, but who can predict what will happen in the future?

If you encounter a nightmare, your reaction speed determines whether you can survive, especially for ordinary people.

"This is for your own good." Lin Mo said earnestly. He decided to out of sight out of mind, so he got up and took a walk.

There are also many people in the safe zone in the nightmare world.

It was just that most people were not asleep yet, so there were few people on the street. At this time, someone saw Doudou, felt the breath of nightmare, and immediately screamed in fear.

One person tells ten people, ten people tell a hundred people.

After a while, the night watchman from the Security Bureau arrived.

This is a job type in the Security Bureau's expert group, belonging to a special team that also exists in Qianlong City.

One of the conditions for joining the Night Watch is that one must be dead in the real world.

There are even some who, through surgery and other means, have merged part of the nightmare's body tissue so that they can use the nightmare's power to fight the nightmare.

Lin Mo stopped several night watchmen and showed his ID.

The night watchmen saluted immediately.

There is no way. In the Security Bureau, Lin Mo’s rank is very high.

"That nightmare has been filed and is controllable."

Lin Mo said.

Several night watchmen nodded and left immediately without saying a word.

When Lin Mo came back from his walk, Tao Xin felt much better.

This is a hardcore courage test.

It's the same as kicking someone who can't swim into the water and forcing him to practice.

Although the method is a bit awkward, it has to be said that the effect is quite good. Look, Tao Xin and Dou Dou are now holding hands and chatting.

That's progress.

Lin Mo felt very accomplished. He had done another good thing today.

"Since they are chatting so happily, I won't go over to disturb them."

Muttering something, Lin Mo turned and left.

Lin Mo felt relieved to leave Doudou there. Doudou was a naughty and mischievous kid, but he really didn't dare to break the rules set by Lin Mo.

Lin Mo plans to go to Lu Ping's nightclub.

I don’t know whether the woman Lu Ping entered the dream, or whether the dummy successfully imitated her.

After walking all the way, Lin Mo looked at the building in front of him. It was very quiet at the moment, with no other movement. Lin Mo was not in a hurry, and then found a place on the side of the road to sit down and wait.

About half an hour later, the door opened and someone came out.

It’s Lu Ping.

It's not the real Lu Ping, it's a fake one.

From the outside, there is really no difference. If Lin Mo could not detect the breath of the dummy, he might not be able to tell them apart.

Seeing Lin Mo, the dummy Lu Ping came over.

"How is it? Do you have any memories of the fire ten years ago?" Lin Mo asked directly.

If it doesn't work this time, Lin Mo has made up his mind to ask the repairman to borrow five more dummies. He will imitate all five dummies once, and he doesn't believe that he won't be able to obtain that memory.

As a result, the dummy Lu Ping on the opposite side said yes.

"Really?"

"right."

"Did she set the fire?"

"She did it!"

Lin Mo took a deep breath.

That's enough.

If the fake person says there is, then it must be there. Memory cannot be fabricated out of thin air. However, if this goes to court, the judge may not consider it as evidence, but for Lin Mo, this is solid evidence.

It's enough to sentence the other party to death.

Now what we need to consider is how to get Lu Ping into the game.

Regarding this problem, the dummy Lu Ping said it has a solution.

"What method?" Lin Mo was quite curious, but then he thought, this dummy has obtained a lot of Lu Ping's memories. To some extent, it is now the person who knows Lu Ping best.

So it's no surprise that it has a way.

Just give it a try.

“Is there any way to get a male model?”

"No need to deal with it, this male model is ours." The mannequin Lu Ping smiled slightly.

Your people?

Lin Mo understood.

This male model has long been replaced by a dummy.

This male model should have been among the group of people who came to the police station to "turn themselves in".

I didn't expect such an unexpected gain.

"Go and find it. Wait, have it come to the Security Bureau in the real world to find me."

The dummy walks.

Lin Mo couldn't sit idle either. He had to prepare the gaming equipment and download the games first.

He ate the escape beans, immediately asked someone to buy a set of equipment, and then copied the Death Chamber from his own equipment.

Installed, tested, no problem.

Just waiting for that male model to come.

Lin Mo found that there was another problem, which was how to pull her to that specific game scene.

You can ask Sickly Man and Blackie about this matter. They are veteran players and they entered the horror house scene halfway through.

I will be doing the third level mission soon, and I can ask them later.

About half an hour later, the male model arrived.

When Lin Mo saw the other person, he just felt that he was a sissy and a little puppy.

Does this woman like Lu Ping? Because this male model is a fake, there is no need to worry about any unexpected problems.

Lin Mo explained the situation to the male model.

The latter said that if he could take care of the matter, he would definitely do it beautifully.

Lin Mo felt much more relieved now.

The next step is to find the sickly guy and the black man and ask them how to get Lu Ping into the horror house scene.

After finishing all these, Lin Mo saw that it was almost time, so he put on the VR device.

Lin Mo didn't know that he had forgotten one thing and also forgot someone.

Safe zone, nightmare world.

Tao Xin was sitting stiffly in the nightmare world, holding hands with Dou Dou and chatting.

Although he was smiling, everyone could see that it was a forced smile.

From time to time, I looked at the intersection in the distance with hope, but found that no one was coming. I could only continue to hold on and look again with fantasy.

"Auntie, what are you looking at?"

"No, didn't you see anything?"

"Is the story I told you not good?"

"It sounds good, it sounds good, Auntie likes to listen to it."

"Then I'll continue to tell you."

…

In the lounge of the horror house game, Lin Mo looked around.

The sickly boy still kept his head down and did not move.

Lin Mo wanted to touch it, but couldn't.

It seemed as if there was an invisible wall blocking each other.

Bingyangzi and the others had mentioned this before, that when a player temporarily goes offline, the body will have this kind of protection mechanism to prevent sneak attacks from other 'players'.

But the plot characters can touch them.

The black man had already arrived, and when he saw Lin Mo recover from the 'offline' state, he also came over.

Lin Mo raised the question of how to pull other players into this scene.

"This is easy." The black man took out a card from his pocket and told Lin Mo that there was a special card in this game. Using this prop, one can enter the corresponding game scene.

"Look at the back of this card. It says 'Death Horror House'. This is a card exclusive to the Horror House. You can take it out. If you want to let a player in, just write the game ID on it."

The black man said that he just happened to have an exclusive card for the 'House of Death and Horrors' and could give it to him.

"But this name will only take effect if it is written by the player himself." The black man added after handing it to Lin Mo.

This is also simple.

With the male model Xiao Nai Gou as an insider, there is a high chance that Lu Ping will fall into the trap.

Lin Mo put the card away.

The practical difficulties have been solved, and what remains is the implementation.

Strictly speaking, it is actually very difficult to complete the task entrusted by Liu Jian and Lin Rou. It is impossible for ordinary people to do it.

Just the first step of finding Lu Ping would stump most people.

However, the higher the difficulty, the higher the reward should be.

It's still worth looking forward to.

You can tell Liu Jian about this good news in advance.

Glancing at the bar.

The horror house owner is not here.

Maybe it will be here soon.

But when all the sick people arrived and the time came, the entrance door opened automatically, but Liu Jian didn't come.

Very strange.

But after the entrance to the last level is opened, you must go in.

Bingyangzi said that there would still be a chance to pass the level after entering, but if he didn't go in, he would definitely die.

Lin Mo and the other three must have been the first to go in.

The other three plot characters were somewhat hesitant.

Maybe they thought that since the horror house owner was not around, they could just stay in the lounge.

Although there is no exit in the lounge, it is still better than a level where people may die.

After a while, the three characters came screaming and chasing after them. Lin Mo asked them what happened. The muscular man said with fear on his face that the lights in the lounge suddenly dimmed, and then he saw a sinister figure appear in the corner.

They were afraid, so they chased after us.

The sickly man and the black man were used to it. They told Lin Mo that this was the mechanism of the game and if they didn't follow the rules of the game, something bad would inevitably happen.

At this point, all six people entered the last level of the horror house.

This was also the first time for Lin Mo to experience such a huge game scene. The owner of the horror house said that the third level would be the real challenge.

I don’t know what others think, but Lin Mo is quite looking forward to it.

It was the sudden disappearance of the owner of the horror house that made Lin Mo feel something was wrong.

Lifting aside the thick cloth curtain in front, they saw a house.

The room was not big, and looked like a dormitory from decades ago. There were old beds, a table, and a shelf for thermos.

There are weird places too.

There was an Arabic numeral '1' written on the floor, and on the first three walls, there was a door with '2', '3', and '4' written on them.

This is the first time for all of us here, so we don’t know much about the situation.

Observe first, no danger found.

"Spread out and look for clues." Lin Mo is already familiar with the routine of the horror house. There are usually some "guidance" in the scenes.

But most of them are hidden very secretly and need a pair of eyes to discover them.

The black man found a picture on the wall.

There is a pattern of a beautiful woman wearing a swimsuit on it.

At this moment, the black man pointed to the blank space in the picture and said, "There are words here."

There are indeed words.

I looked at it and saw that it said: "Old Five is back. We must hide, or we will all die."

This sentence is written without a beginning or an end, and there is not much to be learned from it alone.

The key words are 'Laowu', 'hide', 'us', and 'die'.

Lao Wu should be something dangerous.

It could be a human, or a ghost, or of course it could be some kind of ferocious beast.

The word "hide" is easy to understand.

'We' means that it's not just one person hiding.

Not to mention death.

That is to say, there are several people hiding from a thing called Lao Wu, and it seems that if they are found by "it", they will die.

After a while, another discovery was made.

The muscular man found an old diary in the compartment under the bed.

I opened it, skipped the meaningless part at the beginning, and turned to the last page, which recorded a horrible experience.

"We threw Lao Wu into the river and tied stones to his body. He will sink in the water forever. We swear not to reveal this matter. Anyone who breaks the oath will die without a burial place."

Behind this sentence, there are four people’s signatures.

Zhang Dehan, Wang Quan, Liu Genbao, Zhao Dong.

Combined with the sentence just now, 'Old Five is back', there is an inexplicable creepy feeling.

The fifth one must be a person, and he was most likely harmed by these four people and sank to the bottom of the water.

They swore to keep the matter to themselves, but no one could have imagined that Lao Wu would come back.

There is nothing written in the diary, but I can think of it. There are only a few possibilities.

Either they escaped, or they didn't escape and were caught. There is another possibility: they all died here.

As for the fifth one.

Maybe the other party was lucky and survived, and came back for revenge after escaping death; another possibility is that the other party died, became "Pa Pa" and came back for revenge.

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