Chapter 41: Mini Game: Blind Man Touching the Elephant
After the system sound disappeared, the only sound in the coffin was Jane's sleepless breathing.
Jian Busian was completely dragged into the coffin, but he did not touch the hard and cold bottom of the coffin. The feeling on his back was the man's slightly rising and falling chest.
He was currently lying on top of the man, with the back of his head resting on the man's shoulder.
The touch was almost the same as the one Jane Busian had experienced in the player's hotel.
The man's thin lips were pressed against Jian Bumian's ear, and his breath sprayed out, proving that he was indeed a living person.
"Mianmian?"
When Jian Busian heard the voice, his eyes slightly opened. The voice was exactly the same as the man's voice he remembered, magnetic and low, mixed with a faint smile.
The man sighed and continued, "I opened my eyes and found myself in this broken coffin. This game looks childish and not suitable for our children."
"Mianmian, let's not play here anymore, okay?"
Jian Bumian: "..."
The elephant he encountered now was exactly the same as his owner, even the breath he exhaled had a faint scent of cedar.
A pop-up window appeared in his dark vision.
[Do you think the "elephant" you encountered is the real one or a clone? ]
【Note: If you answer incorrectly, you will be eliminated.】
The man noticed that Jane Bumian was distracted. He held down Jane Bumian's waist and forced her head towards him.
"Mianmian, I am the real body. Tell the system and I will take you out of this game immediately."
"After all, you don't want to run around barefoot in your flimsy wedding dress, do you?"
Jian Bumian didn't say anything. He pursed his lips, his fair feet crossed together uneasily, and his tender white soles had been rubbed red.
Then, he felt the man's hands on his waist tighten.
The man's voice no longer contained a smile, and he said coldly, "Don't you believe me? Did you see the photo of me on the coffin? That's me. We look exactly the same."
Jane Busian remained silent, with her eyes closed, and was held tightly in the man's arms.
The man did not get a response from Jian Bumian, and his voice became colder:
"Mianmian, why don't you believe me?"
"I trust you so much, but you don't even trust your lover?"
Jian Busian frowned, feeling a little disgusted.
He closed his eyes and said in a cold voice: "He has never called me 'Mianmian', and he will never call himself my lover."
Although the voice, appearance and touch of the "person" behind him were almost the same as those of a man, its words to Jian Bumian still exposed its truthfulness.
Moreover, the coffin it is in now belongs to Jane Bumian.
The coffin that truly belonged to a man was empty.
,
Jian Busian knew without thinking that it was fake and extremely shoddy.
Jian Busian said to the system calmly: "I think this 'elephant' is a clone."
The pop-up window in his mind showed new changes.
【…………】
【……】
【The answer is correct.】
The "person" behind Jian Bumian slowly became nothingness, and then suddenly disappeared.
Jane Bumian's body actually touched the bottom of the coffin, which was cold and hard.
His vision returned, and he could see the scene outside through a small gap in the coffin lid.
The blood-red light from the lantern shone through the gap and illuminated Jane Busian's face.
Just as Jian Bumian was about to push open the coffin lid and leave this narrow place, his hand that was pushing the coffin lid suddenly stopped.
He heard a sound coming from the hall outside the coffin.
There were no footsteps.
But Jane Bumian was sure that "something" was approaching.
That thing was wearing a long robe with the hem dragging on the ground. As the light hem swept across the ground, there was an extremely secretive rustling sound.
It was a silent night, and Jian Busian was in the coffin that was isolated from all noise. He could clearly hear the faint sound of his clothes dragging on the ground.
The system did not pop up any text indicating that this was a new "elephant".
Obviously, it is a ghost.
This blind man's elephant game incorporates a hide-and-seek element, where players must identify the elephant while trying to avoid being caught by the ghost.
Although a player will be killed only after being touched by a ghost more than three times, it is difficult to guarantee whether the ghost will do something to the player.
Some NPCs with bad tastes, after catching the player, will not kill him, but may cut off the player's limbs, erase his memory, and insult him, etc.
Jian Bumian decided to hide in the coffin and wait for the ghost to leave.
The sound of clothes dragging on the ground was gradually getting closer. It was obvious that the ghost was approaching the coffin where Jian Bumian was.
Jane Busian looked through the gap and saw the red hem of a dress sweeping across the floor.
Finally, the hem of the dress stopped in front of Jane's sleepless coffin.
Jane Bumian held her breath and did not move.
You don't need to look to know that the ghost must be standing in front of the coffin, observing whether there is anyone in it.
Jian Busian heard water dripping onto the coffin board, and the thick wooden board was hit by the water drops, making a tapping sound.
This water must have dripped from the ghost, but I don’t know what kind of water it is. It could be saliva, blood, etc.
After a while, the water no longer dripped on the coffin lid, but dripped on the ground.
The ghost bent down.
It discovered a small gap in the coffin lid and tried to stick its head in to look inside.
Jian Bumian was inside the coffin. The coffin was narrow and he had nowhere to escape. He would definitely be discovered.
But unexpectedly, the ghost looked into the gap for a few times, then raised his body again, and the water drops fell on the coffin board again.
Jian Busian had expected that the other party would look inside through the gap.
He blocked the small hole-like gap with the palm of his hand in advance.
He only felt the other person's long, thick eyelashes brushing across his palm.
This should be a female ghost wearing a long red dress. Maybe her body is covered in blood and blood will flow down with every step she takes.
Jian Bumian waited in the coffin for a while, and the ghost picked up his clothes again and disappeared into the darkness.
Only then did Jian Busian push open the coffin lid and leave the coffin.
He returned to the hall and found that there were more paper figures crowded in the hall.
He suddenly remembered that the time limit for this game was three hours, and how many hours had passed now?
The system pops up a prompt.
[Players can judge based on the three incense sticks before the word "囍", one incense stick equals one hour. ]
Jian Busian followed the prompt and looked at the three incense sticks.
Three incense sticks, one has already burned...
Time is running out.
Jian Busian not only needs to identify whether the elephant is real or fake, but most importantly, he needs to find out his true identity.
Where would his damn owner be hiding now?
Jian Busian sighed softly, a little dissatisfied why he drew a blind man instead of an elephant.
If only he were an elephant, he could hide somewhere and sleep, occasionally watching how men would find him.
Jian Bumian walked around the hall and found nothing except some wedding supplies.
But what was weird was that those wedding supplies were all made of paper, as if they were prepared for the dead.
Jian Busian didn't take it to heart. He found the stairs and went up to the second floor.
The second floor is usually where the host rests. In ancient weddings, it might be the place where the bridal chamber is disturbed.
The wooden stairs creaked like a child's screaming laughter.
At the same time, Jian Bumian discovered that the paper-made children in the hall on the first floor not only moved, but their movements also followed Jian Bumian.
They looked wherever Jian Bumian walked. When he walked up the stairs, they tilted their heads in a strange posture and stared at him intently.
Jian Bumian: "..."
Jian Bumian didn't want to look at them and quickly went to the second floor.
The second floor was indeed the owner's resting place, and the walls were hung with oil lamps emitting red light.
In the dim red light, he saw a bed. It was the kind of bunk bed commonly seen in ancient times. It was surrounded by wood on three sides, with only one side exposed for people to get in and out of bed.
However, at this moment, that side was also covered by the crimson bed curtain, and only a vague human figure could be seen inside.
There was a small, exquisitely crafted coffee table in front of the bed, with some snacks on it. The snacks were a few long steamed cakes that had been there for who knows how long.
Next to the steamed cake there are two cups filled with wine.
According to custom, the bride and groom must drink the wedding wine before they can enter the wedding night.
Jian Bumian didn't look at the things on the coffee table. He walked directly to the bed and vigorously pulled open the red bed curtains.
The quilt with the word "囍" printed on it was bulging, and someone was lying inside it.
The man had his back to him, with only his head showing, and his long silver hair spread out like silk.
The man's hair is silver.
Jian Busian raised his hand and grabbed the other person's shoulder fiercely, causing him to turn around.
The face that appeared in front of him actually looked exactly like the man!
She has a high nose bridge, thin lips, raised eye corners, and long silver eyelashes that are trembling slightly.
Jian Busian frowned. Could it be that he had discovered his true identity?
But he didn't see any reaction from the man for a long time, so he tried to touch the other's face.
What he felt was not the soft touch of human skin, but the cold, hard, smooth surface of porcelain.
Only then did he realize that the person lying in the bed was a ceramic statue. The face was almost lifelike, and the hair and eyelashes seemed to have been taken from a living person, giving it a strange vitality.
Jian Bumian: “…………”
Why put a ceramic man who looks just like a real person in the bed of the cave?
Jian Busian wanted to pull up the bed curtain and start looking for his target again, but he stopped pulling the curtain. He chuckled and pulled the curtain open with his backhand!
Why should he go through so much trouble to find the other person? Why can't he lure the other person out?
He remembered that in the previous copy, the man didn't like him to contact others, not even his own secondary personality.
So what would happen if he came into contact with a fake ceramic man who looked exactly like a man?
The man should take the initiative to appear in front of him.
The more Jane Bumian thought about it, the more interesting it became.
He jumped onto the bed.
"hiss……"
Before Jian Bumian sat down firmly, he suddenly felt something touching his thigh, and his skin was poked painfully.
He quickly changed his position and tried to sit next to the porcelain man, but in doing so, he accidentally pulled off the blanket that was covering the porcelain man.
The quilt fell, and Jian Busian saw clearly the thing that had hurt him just now.
...is it something like a bamboo shoot???
Jane Busian was even more confused.
...This thing looks very out of place on the ceramic man.
Jian Busian scratched his head, unable to figure it out, but he was too lazy to delve into it.
He lay beside the ceramic man, face to face with the other's handsome ceramic face.
He imitated what the man liked to do to him the most, reaching out to pull up the porcelain man's cold chin and forcing the porcelain man to get close to his face.
The boy's fingertips gently stroked the thin lips that were exactly the same as the man's.
Then, he slid down along the other person's perfect facial features, and finally his fingertips paused at the bulging Adam's apple on the porcelain man's neck.
It has to be said that the craftsmanship of the craftsman who made this ceramic man is very superb. Even the blood vessels and veins on the neck are made to look lifelike.
Even the Adam's apple is made very realistically.
Jian Bumian originally wanted to kiss the ceramic man's mouth, but he changed his mind at the last minute and wanted to kiss its Adam's apple instead.
He put his arm around the porcelain man's shoulders and pressed his chest against his.
They seemed like a real newlywed couple, preparing to start their wedding night with a bang.
Suddenly, he felt a pair of hands grabbing his waist and abdomen tightly, and then he was pulled out of bed mercilessly.
The touch of his palm against Jian Bumian's waist and abdomen had the warmth of a living person, no longer as cold as a porcelain figure.
Jane Bumian: “???”
He hadn't even done anything intimate with the ceramic man yet, but he had lured her out just by sleeping in the same bed?
Jian Busian subconsciously wanted to turn his head to look.
But he only saw a pair of cold red eyes before his vision fell into darkness again.
[Congratulations to the player for finding the "elephant". The elephant may be a clone NPC, or it may be your real lover. 】
[The player's vision has been temporarily deprived. ]
[Please use various methods other than visual to identify whether it is your lover. ^v^]
There is not much time left for Jian Bumian, he must find the real body quickly.
But could the person he lured out in this way really be his owner?
Before Jian Bumian could speak, the man who was hugging him spoke first: "Jian Bumian."
Jian Busian was placed on a chair by the man, but he did not feel relieved. His body was tense and he was still a little alert.
The man's voice was filled with anger, as if he was trying hard to suppress some impulse: "In the future, don't do this to others, even if they are fake."
Jian Bumian: "..."
He remembered that the man had said something similar to him in the previous copy.
"I know."
Jian Busian muttered quietly. In fact, if he didn't want to finish the game quickly, he wouldn't have been idle and got intimate with other things.
His vision was now dark, but he could vaguely perceive that the man was half-kneeling in front of him. He raised his hand and could touch the other's long hair.
The touch was exactly the same as it had been before, cold and soft.
He was also very familiar with the tone of the man's voice.
Jian Busian opened his mouth, wanting to identify the man in front of him as his real self.
But somehow, he suddenly felt a little hungry.
Ever since he got an owner, his stomach has become more delicate. He gets hungry easily and always wants a man to feed him.
Jian Busian suddenly remembered something. He raised the corners of his lips and held up the handsome face of the half-kneeling man with both hands, his movements just like teasing a big dog.
He licked his lips and said a little aggrievedly: "I'm a little hungry, do you have anything to eat?"
The man looked up at Jian Busian's pretty face and opened his thin lips: "Yes, but are you sure you want to eat it now?"
"Um."
Jane Busian nodded.
Then he heard the man standing up and the friction sound of oil paper being unraveled.
The man took out the food wrapped in oil paper and said calmly, "You can't see now, let me feed you."
"Okay." Jian Busian nodded, opened his lips slightly, and waited for the other party to put the food into his mouth.
But the next moment, his mouth was forcefully opened by the man's fingers.
Jian Bumian's pupils shrank, and he let out an unclear scream: "Wuwuwuwu——"
He had a small mouth, and when the other party pushed it like that, red marks appeared at the corners of his mouth.
Then he felt something hard and cold being forcefully stuffed into his mouth.
He subconsciously touched it with the tip of his tongue. It tasted lightly sweet, but was very hard and could not be eaten with the tongue alone.
“Woo woo…”
Jian Busian's eyes were stretched so wide that tears welled up in his eyes. He wanted to spit the thing out, but he couldn't because it was too big.
The man lifted his chin and forcefully stuffed the long strip of food into his mouth.
From the man’s perspective, he saw a young man in a bright red wedding dress, pressed against the edge of the table, with a long, hard and cold glutinous rice cake stuffed in his mouth.
The boy's mouth was stretched to the limit, tears oozed from the corners of his eyes, and his chest let out a weak cry.
The steamed cake was melted a little bit by the boy's saliva, and the white sticky powder liquid flowed out of the corners of the boy's mouth and gathered on his pointed chin.
Jian Bumian struggled for a long time, finally finding the feeling to control his mouth. He slowly bit off the hard steamed cake with his teeth.
"Pooh!"
The steamed cake was bitten into two pieces by the teeth and was spat out on the ground pitifully.
Jian Busian did not hesitate and instructed the system: "I think this elephant is an avatar."
【…………】
【……】
【The answer is correct.】
The man disappeared, and Jane's sleepless vision returned. He leaned over the edge of the table and exhaled a breath of relief.
As time went by, the "elephant" that appeared in front of Jian Bumian became more and more realistic, almost to the point of being indistinguishable from the real thing.
Unfortunately, they are still missing the most important thing.
What the real man feeds him is not ordinary food, but special food with the power of evil spirits.
As for the "elephant" that had just appeared, he was fed with ordinary steamed cakes taken from the coffee table.
Moreover, it was already cold and hard, and the feeding action was very simple and rough.
His owner wouldn't do that.
Jian Busian wiped the water marks from the corners of his mouth vigorously. Fortunately, the corners of his mouth were not torn, but just a little painful.
I guess it will be fine after a while.
Jian Bumian left the room, went down to the hall on the first floor and checked the time.
Of the three incense sticks, two have already burned, leaving Jian Bumian with only one hour.
Jian Bumian’s top priority is not to find out the flaws of his clone, but to find out where his real body is.
This game is cleverly designed. Clones will constantly appear, and players are asked to find flaws. Over time, players will just be immersed in the pleasure of finding faults.
The players will completely forget that they can only truly complete the game by finding out where the real body is. Otherwise, once three hours are up, no matter how many flaws the players have found in the clones, they will all be wiped out.
After all, this game incorporates elements of hide-and-seek, and finding the real body is a bit like hide-and-seek.
Jian Busian stood between a pair of paper figures, frowned, and wondered where the real man would be hiding.
In front of him was a huge "囍" character and three incense sticks.
This scene is clearly an ancient wedding, but in front of the word "囍" there are incense sticks for worship.
Obviously, this is a ghost marriage scene.
Before Jian Bushian entered the room, he inadvertently saw the pale white word "sacrifice" under the word "囍". In addition, he saw the paper-made boy, the double coffin, and the portraits of him and the man...
He had already guessed it by then.
Moreover, the person placed on the bed in the bridal chamber was not a living groom, but a dummy, which proved that the groom was dead.
Jane Bumian plays a bride who is going to marry a dead person.
However, if his true identity is the groom, and the groom is already dead, then doesn't that mean he will never find a man? ?
...Will he be trapped in this hellhole forever?
Jian Busian frowned and began to think carefully.
Ghost marriages usually involve both a funeral and a wedding being held together. As the name suggests, a funeral and a wedding are held together.
The most typical part of the ceremony is that the bride and groom's dowries and gifts must be made of paper, and the bride and groom's families must cry and celebrate during the ceremony.
Happy and sad.
Red and white...
Happy events represent the world of the living, and sad events represent the world of the dead... ?
Jian Busian looked around again and saw that the color of the surroundings was mainly red.
He is now in the world of the living.
No wonder there isn't a single NPC except for the clone in this huge courtyard.
The NPCs are all waiting for him in the underworld as a living bride.
Including his "groom", that is, his real body.
But how can one get to the underworld?
Jian Bumian paced back and forth in the hall while he was thinking. The paper-made children who were crowded together also followed Jian Bumian and the friction between the oiled paper made a rustling sound.
The scene was extremely strange.
Finally, Jian Busian stopped and stood in front of the big fiery red word "囍". Suddenly, he reached out and pulled the word "囍" off, completely revealing the word "祭" underneath!
Not only the "囍" in the hall, he ran out of the main house and quickly tore off all the "囍" in the entire manor. As expected, under the word "囍", there were all the pale white "祭"!
After he finished all this, he returned to the main house.
There are new changes in the layout of the main house.
Oil lamps, furniture, food...all turned into paper!
But the paper-made boy who was crowding the main house was gradually coming to life.
Blood vessels and muscle veins gradually appeared on the oily yellow paper skin, and the eyeballs, which had originally stared stiffly in one direction, began to roll around.
Jian Bumian was too lazy to pay attention to them. He ran to the coffin behind the screen, pushed his coffin open with force, and then lay down in it without hesitation.
The last step of the ancient ghost marriage was to bury the bride and groom together.
Regardless of whether the bride or groom is alive.
After Jane Bumian lay down in the coffin, the coffin lid closed by itself.
He didn't know how long he had been lying there until he heard a woman crying, from far away to near, from vague to clear, and slowly reached Jian Busian's ears.
The woman's cry was heart-wrenching and extremely piercing, but the words that came out of her tears were "great joy".
At the same time, there were the sounds of many people talking and footsteps.
Jian Bumian successfully arrived in the underworld.
He wanted to push the coffin away and leave, but he was surprised to find that -
He can't move.
In the world of the living, the groom is a corpse and the bride is a living person.
In the underworld, the groom is a "living person" in the underworld, while the bride becomes a corpse.
The author has something to say:
Please be merciful, this chapter is really pure qwq
The next article "Bullying" will be renamed in the next few days. It will probably be changed to "The Childhood God of Creation" or something like that. Just remember that the author is Biting Cat's Ear and the copywriter is fine!
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