Chapter 84 Midnight Horror 1
"Hello player Lu Cen, welcome to the solo level 5 dungeon."
"Instance name: Midnight Horror".
"Your name is Li Yan, and you are a sophomore in college. One day, you and some friends went out for a trip and an accident happened. Jiang Zhao died on the spot..."
"You feel very guilty and have been under a lot of mental stress for a long time..."
One night, Jiang Zhao suddenly knocked on your door. You were terrified, but he told you that he wasn't dead at all and that you had misremembered...
"He also said that the person who died was not him, but someone else named Hu Si..."
"You were in a daze after hearing that. After Jiang Zhao left, someone else knocked on your door. The person standing outside was Hu Si..."
"Mission: Find the person who is truly dead, and fill in the correct name to pass the level."
"This mission has no time limit. If you die in the instance, you will lose 15 days of survival days."
"Please try your best to complete the game."
This is a one-bedroom apartment with a living room layout. You can see the whole apartment at a glance. There is a small shoe cabinet at the entrance, with an ornament on the table containing keychains. Further in, there is a two-seater dining table against the wall, and then a two-seater gray sofa. Opposite the wall is a TV.
The only bedroom is very small, with only a bed and a small wardrobe, making it feel cramped and narrow, barely enough room for one person to move around.
Lu Cen glanced at the time; it was 8 PM. The neon lights outside were dazzling, and the building across the street was also lit. Lu Cen went to the kitchen and bathroom. There was no sign of cooking in the kitchen, which meant the character he was given in the game couldn't cook. The bathroom was small and didn't have a separate wet and dry area. Lu Cen washed his hands and thought about the game as he dried them.
The mission states that he needs to find the people who actually died in this instance, but the number is currently unclear—whether it's one or two.
Lu Cen thought for a moment and took out his phone.
As soon as he turned on the screen, a man named Jiang Zhao called him.
Lu Cen's heart skipped a beat. In the mission description, this person was already dead!
"Hello?"
The voice inside was clear and bright, carrying the unique vigor of a student: "Meet at the school gate at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, don't be late."
"gather?"
Jiang Zhao was silent for a moment before asking, "Don't tell me you don't want to go."
"without."
"That's fine, I'm hanging up now."
He hung up without a second thought, without a trace of regret.
Lu Cen seemed to be deep in thought, as if his time in the instance had just begun, and this was the time when they should go out and have fun.
If that's the case, if he pays close attention on the road, he should be able to find out who died.
Although Lu Cen understood this, his mood was not lightened, but rather heavier. Could a level 5 dungeon be so easy?
Lu Cen swiped open his phone. Li Yan had very few apps, and his only social media app was WeChat. There were no individual chat records, only a group message that kept coming in.
There are five people in the group, including himself. Apart from Jiang Zhao and Hu Si, whose names were mentioned by the original poster, there are two others: Chen Yiqing and Yang Jiali. The group is discussing what to bring tomorrow, with some saying to bring a tent, some to bring a charger, and some to bring a camera.
Lu Cen peeked at the screen for half an hour and roughly understood that the place they were going to tomorrow was a famous internet-famous scenic spot where they were going to take photos, since all five of them were members of the school's photography club.
We had planned to take the most beautiful sunrise photos, and we specifically chose to go during the National Day holiday. Seven days is enough for a round trip.
After reading the chat history, Lu Cen took out a black backpack. He first filled it with a lot of food and water, as he was starving in the last dungeon, which took up half the space. Then he filled it with clothes and daily necessities, such as tissues, which were essential. As he was packing, he realized there was no place to put the camera, so he had to take out a black suitcase, dump all the items into the suitcase, and barely managed to close it.
His camera was a DSLR, which was easy to carry. In terms of equipment, he was definitely a novice, since the equipment wasn't professional photographer's equipment. It seemed that he hadn't been in the group for very long.
With everything ready, the next day he pulled his suitcase and carried his bag downstairs and ate a bowl of beef noodles with an egg. He ate with a rosy face and burped contentedly. He arrived at the school gate at exactly ten o'clock.
When he arrived, there were two cars parked at the entrance.
Men and women stood in groups.
He couldn't tell who was Jiang Zhao and who was Hu Si, so he walked over slowly.
The group stopped talking and looked at him.
One of them complained, "Why are you so slow? We're waiting for you all!"
Lu Cen checked her phone; it was exactly ten o'clock.
He wasn't late.
However, he didn't say anything.
Lu Cen remembered Jiang Zhao's voice from the phone call yesterday. He heard him say, "Alright, let's set off once everyone's here. Don't delay."
A group of people were getting on the bus and putting their things away.
Jiang Zhao looked at him and said with disdain, "It's only a three- to five-day trip, why are you bringing so much stuff? It's not like you're going on vacation. Hurry up."
He opened the trunk, and Lu Cen walked closer and found that there were already two boxes inside, one blue and one red, with cute stickers on them, clearly belonging to girls.
Lu Cen thought to herself, "Don't be so hypocritical."
He moved the box around, put it in, and walked to the car before realizing that the driver was Jiang Zhao, a girl in a white dress was in the passenger seat, and there was a man and a woman in the back seat whom he didn't recognize.
He suddenly realized that this trip might be their romantic getaway.
When the boy inside saw him standing at the door, he moved his female companion to the inside and sat in the middle himself, leaving Lu Cen to sit next to him.
I don’t know if it was because I was too relaxed during the ten days I had rested, but once the car got on the highway, Lu Cen felt sleepy and couldn’t help but fall asleep by the car window. He could vaguely hear the boy next to him making the girl laugh, and the laughter made him even sleepier.
Girls really are lovable creatures.
Lu Cen drifted off to sleep peacefully, but before she knew how much time had passed, the car suddenly lurched forward. Jiang Zhao slammed on the brakes, and everyone was thrown backward. Lu Cen hit the car window and burst into tears from the pain.
Jiang Zhao gave the middle finger to the outside.
The argument was highly provocative, and the other driver was not easy to deal with either. The two sides actually started arguing on the road, neither willing to back down.
It wasn't until a few boys got off their side that things quieted down on the other side.
After driving for another half hour, the group rested at the service area. Lu Cen checked his phone balance and found that he had enough money, so he ordered a set meal and a corn and pork rib soup without any financial burden.
In this instance, his physique was basically the same as before: thin and weak, with a sickly pale face, long and slender fingers. He sat in the service area, head down, eating. The wind billowed his clothes, making his waist appear particularly thin, and he ate very slowly.
After the four girls finished using the restroom and eating lunch, Lu Cen was still gnawing on ribs. The person who had been impatient with her in the morning spoke again, "Can you hurry up? Why do we have to wait for you again? Time is precious."
Lu Cen held a rib in one hand and turned to look at him. The man was wearing a printed T-shirt, simple shorts and white sneakers. It was a very simple outfit, a very ordinary men's outfit. His hair was parted in the middle and grew up to above his eyes. When he was agitated, there was a strong sense of coldness between his brows. Lu Cen's mouth was shiny and his lips were glossy, but he didn't look greasy. He said, "If you're in a hurry, you can go first."
A sweet-looking girl came over and said, "Alright, Yang Jiali, waiting for him won't take much effort, why are you in such a hurry?"
Lu Cen's ears twitched, and she turned her head to observe him, noticing a mole under his eye. She could barely remember what Yang Jiali looked like.
Jiang Zhao held a bottle of ice water and leaned against the wall, watching Lu Cen eat.
I don't know what she's thinking.
A group of people were waiting for him, but Lu Cen didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
After he finished eating, he wiped his mouth.
Finally, looking at his oily fingers, he got up and went to the restroom. He squeezed out some hand soap and carefully cleaned between his fingers. He took a piece of paper and wiped his fingers as he walked. When he got to his car, he casually threw it into the trash can.
Since Yang Jiali was in that car, the person next to him must be either Hu Si or Chen Yiqing. This person had a very noticeable scar on the back of his hand. Lu Cen remembered these characteristics and was now having trouble recognizing the other four girls. They all had long hair, but their clothes were clearly different. However, if they changed their clothes tomorrow, he definitely wouldn't be able to recognize them. As he thought about it, he fell asleep again.
He was finally woken up by the girl next to him. He heard her call out to the boy, "Chen Yiqing, wait for me! I haven't gotten off the bus yet."
It was already getting dark. Jiang Zhao had booked the hotel in advance. To Lu Cen's surprise, there were nine rooms in total. He had thought they were four couples, but now it seemed that wasn't the case.
Several people are checking in.
Suddenly, amidst several screams, a car crashed through the glass doorway and hurtled straight toward the crowd. The headlights blinded everyone, and in an instant, the car arrived at the front desk. With lightning speed, it knocked two people standing at the front desk into the air, denting the counter and burying the front desk staff.
Lu Cen was shocked and his hair flew up. He was being subtly ostracized by the group, so he was the last to check in. Feeling crowded, he stood to the side and unexpectedly escaped the mess.
The two people who were hit were Jiang Zhao, who lay under the wheels, his chest heaving violently, and bright red blood gushing from his mouth. The other was a girl, the one who reminded Lu Cen to get out of the car. She looked more seriously injured than Jiang Zhao, her eyes were terribly unfocused, and she stopped breathing within seconds. Chen Yiqing was so frightened that he was trembling all over. Before anyone could react, he rushed towards the girl and staggered to his knees on the ground.
"Xiao Wei... Xiao Wei, don't scare me, I'm very timid..."
Screams and emergency calls echoed throughout the lobby.
Twenty minutes later, the doctor and police arrived. The receptionist only suffered minor injuries because the countertop cushioned the impact, but Xiao Wei and Jiang Zhao, who were hit with full force, didn't even have a chance to be saved and died on the spot.
The driver was a middle-aged man in his thirties who was driving under the influence of alcohol. Even with the police handcuffing him, he was still rambling incoherently. Hu Si and the others couldn't control their emotions and would have rushed up to beat him up if the police hadn't stopped them.
The entire group was taken back to the police station.
Lu Cen finished giving his statement in the middle of the night. On his first day there, two people had died.
After this incident, the police helped him book a room at another hotel. Exhausted, Lu Cen returned to his room, took a shower, and came out when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.
"Knock knock knock".
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