Chapter 113 The Day of Doomsday (Sixteen)
System: […Each has its own advantages?]
Qiao Yuan: "Humans are easier to control, especially during the apocalypse. As long as you save them when they are in desperate situations, you will most likely win their hearts, but you have to be careful of some infected people rebelling."
"The infected need to be lured by benefits, but they have the ability to protect themselves and are relatively resistant to killing."
System: [That’s indeed a difficult choice... No, how can it be like this? ]
Only then did it realize that it had almost been misled by Qiao Yuan and almost started thinking about the same problem as him. Fortunately, it reacted quickly .
Suddenly, there was a "click" sound from the other side, like the sound of metal breaking, which made Qiao Yuan look over subconsciously.
It turned out that the player hadn't opened the door for such a long time that his temper inevitably became bad. While answering in a low voice, the sound of turning the key caused the door to bang. Finally, when he pulled the key out again, he used too much force and the front end of the key broke directly in the keyhole.
Holding the remaining half of the key, the player's originally impatient expression froze. When he noticed his companion's gaze, he immediately explained: "I didn't mean to do that. I didn't expect this key to be so fragile..."
"It's okay." Liu Dong was the first to speak. He was obviously in a leadership position among his companions. "I see there is no property management in this community. Let's go back to the door and ask the person in charge of the keys what to do."
"Wait, why don't we just knock on the door and ask the neighbors?" The next person to speak was Jia Xue, Liu Dong's girlfriend in the real world. She had a cute baby face and spoke softly, "It will take more than half an hour to walk back. We have been walking for so long and it will be night soon. We should save our energy."
"I see there's still a light in the corridor. Maybe the neighbors have a phone and we can borrow theirs. And the neighbors across the street must still be there. When we went upstairs, I saw someone standing at the window..."
She had only been through one dungeon, so she was considered a novice, but Liu Dong had brought her all the way here. After entering the District 9 base, she finally felt relieved, and her tense nerves finally relaxed. At the same time, fatigue came over her like a tidal wave, and she naturally subconsciously didn't want to walk anymore.
However, what Jia Xue said did make some sense. If it wasn't for the last resort, Liu Dong didn't want to waste his energy on such things. And the player who was responsible for opening the door just now also knew that he was wrong, so he took the lead to knock on the door.
When Qiao Yuan and others saw several players busy knocking on the door, they said goodbye and went upstairs.
Their room was just upstairs from the player. With the player's previous experience as a lesson, Yu Guo took some effort to open the door this time, but he was extremely careful. After patiently turning around a few times, the door was finally opened with a slight sound.
Qiao Yuan and the others were not novices, so they observed the door for a while before entering and looking around.
This is a simple three-bedroom, one-living room apartment. Both the furniture and decoration are quite old-fashioned, and the calendar hanging on the door is stopped a week ago. On the coffee table is a card with a sticky note on it, indicating that this card can be used to pick up food and get some services at a fixed location.
The three rooms already had clean beddings. One of the rooms was the largest, obviously the master bedroom. The sheets and quilt covers were all in festive red, with pictures of mandarin ducks playing in the water embroidered on them.
Yu Guo's eyes flickered between Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye, and he said with a smile, "This looks like a special couple's room. It looks like we are still indebted to you."
The only person in the whole room whose face was the same color as the bed sheets was Song Yanchi, and he was just angry.
Because Qiao Yuan just said that this kind of thing doesn't matter, the most important thing is to get along harmoniously with companions, so he has endured it until now, trying hard to forget about it.
I didn’t expect that Yu Guo would dig it up again.
Although he knew that Yu Guo did it on purpose, when it came to Qiao Yuan, Song Yanchi found himself unable to remain calm, and his knife-like gaze turned to Sheng Guiye again.
However, before he could do anything, he was interrupted by a shrill scream coming from downstairs.
The soundproofing of the old house was not good, not to mention that the sound came from downstairs. Although the voice was a little out of tune, it was still identifiable as Jia Xue's.
Apparently something happened downstairs.
Yu Guo had already run towards the door, and Qiao Yuan did not miss the excitement on his face.
Yu Guo always seems to be particularly passionate about this kind of thing.
However, when he heard Song Yanchi asking them whether they wanted to follow, Qiao Yuan thought about it and finally chose to follow to check the situation.
Before going downstairs, Qiao Yuan observed from the stairs and saw that the door of the next room downstairs was open, and Jia Xue had already run out crying, and bumped into Yu Guo who had already gone downstairs.
Then another player ran out, his face also pale.
At this time, footsteps were heard downstairs. Obviously, more than just Qiao Yuan heard Jia Xue's scream, and everyone came out to check the situation.
When Qiao Yuan went downstairs, the already narrow corridor was already crowded with people and filled with a faint foul smell.
It's like...
The smell of rotting flesh.
Jia Xue still looked frightened, and the player following closely behind her took on the task of answering everyone's questions. However, due to fear, his voice was also intermittent: "The person in the house... is dead."
Before anyone else could react after he finished speaking, Jia Xue had already screamed in pain, holding her head. At this time, Liu Dongguo and another player who were originally in the room also came out. Although they were in better condition than Jia Xue, when they heard their teammates' words, their memories all flashed back to that time.
After Qiao Yuan and others went upstairs, Liu Dong and other players continued to knock on the door.
What was strange was that after knocking for several minutes, several people introduced themselves as new neighbors next door with a very sincere attitude, but there was still no movement from inside.
The player who knocked on the door subconsciously looked at Jia Xue: "Are you sure the other party is at home?"
Jia Xue was questioned and subconsciously argued, "Of course, a couple stood by the window and looked at us, but they soon stopped looking at us."
Jia Xue lived in a new residential complex with an elevator in the real world. When she suddenly saw this old-style residential complex in the copy, she couldn't help but take a few more glances at it out of novelty.
Because it is an old house, it is not built high, with only five floors in total, and two households on each floor.
Jia Xue and her friends lived on the fourth floor. She always felt that the number four sounded like death, which was unlucky. However, Liu Dong was very straightforward and comforted her not to think too much. In the dungeon, as long as the ghost wanted them to die, it didn't matter which floor they lived on.
Jia Xue: “…”
But she was indeed convinced, after all, Liu Dong was much more experienced than her.
Looking up now, she could just see a row of narrow windows. Some figures were swaying in front of some windows, some seemed to be coaxing children, and some were cooking. Jia Xue could even smell the fragrance of the food, which revealed a warm feeling.
At first, Jia Xue wondered if she could roughly see the house they would live in in the future through the window, but after seeing a figure in the window on the fourth floor, she realized that this was her neighbor's home.
Because of the distance, Jia Xue couldn't see clearly at first. She could only see two figures by the window. They seemed to be a man and a woman. They seemed to be looking at them with smiles on their lips.
Jia Xue also subconsciously smiled back and wanted to reach out to say hello, but then she became worried that she was being too sentimental and that the two men might not be looking at her.
However, when Jia Xue wanted to take a closer look, there was no one in front of the window.
In addition, they did not encounter anyone coming downstairs when they went upstairs, so Jia Xue was convinced that the neighbor was still in the house. But seeing that the neighbor had not responded, she was not sure.
Liu Dong frowned: "I guess he went to visit other neighbors. Let's go downstairs and ask."
The player who knocked on the door was already exhausted physically and mentally, and just wanted to open the door and have a good rest. He didn't expect that he broke the key. Now he couldn't get any help. He became more and more irritated and subconsciously punched the door.
When he reacted, he realized that this was not their door, but he quickly excused himself: "I was just too anxious, and there was no one inside, right?"
Liu Dong had already noticed the other party's punch, but still couldn't stop it. He could only curse at him and hurried to check the situation of the door.
After all, he was standing at someone's door, so he didn't say another situation, such as that the family just didn't want to open the door for them who were still strangers. He didn't expect that the words that were originally intended to comfort other companions were actually believed by the other party.
Unexpectedly, after the door shook violently a few times, it actually opened a crack.
Liu Dong was startled. His first reaction was that the people inside heard the noise and came out. However, when he looked up while apologizing frantically, he found that there was no one at the entrance, which meant that no one opened the door for them.
Could it be that the door was broken?
This thought popped up in Liu Dong and Jia Xue's minds.
Liu Dong didn't expect to encounter these two things in succession just after entering the base. He regretted that he was in a hurry to form a four-person team, so his two teammates were chosen to have more experience in dungeons. In this way, it would be much easier for three people to lead Jia Xue, a novice.
It's just that he screened the newcomers but failed to screen their tempers.
After all, they still had to wait to meet Hammers, and during this period they would probably have to be neighbors with this family, so they could only find a way to apologize, but they still had their own family affairs to resolve...
Liu Dong walked into the house with a headache, wanting to see if the owner was in the room and whether he had heard the noise just now. However, after stepping into the room, he did not expect things to go beyond his expectations.
As soon as she entered the room, Jia Xue, who had a sensitive nose, smelled a faint odor, and the source of the smell was the bedroom with the door half-open.
Through the half-open door and the light coming through the curtains, they saw two figures lying on the ground. Fearing that they were fainted people, Jia Xue subconsciously pushed the door open to check the situation, but unexpectedly, what came into view were two corpses, with broken ropes around their necks and overturned footstools beside them.
There was still a small piece of the beam on the house, swaying and spinning in their sight.
The body was already slightly decomposed, and it was obvious that he had not just been hanged.
Looking at this scene, Liu Dong already understood what Jia Xue saw at that time——
The figure she saw in front of the window was the homeowner who had hanged himself. Later, as the rope broke, two bodies fell to the ground, and of course Jia Xue could no longer see the homeowner.
Jia Xue naturally realized this. After a brief moment of shock, she retreated repeatedly, finally letting out a scream, then turned around and ran away.
Liu Dong had been through several dungeons before. He suppressed his fear and observed for a while before he withdrew with another player.
When they heard Liu Dong's addition, many residents present turned pale, and some turned around and walked home trembling. After all, some of them had seen the figure outside the window a few days ago, but had never thought about it carefully.
"So what did you observe?" Song Yanchi looked at Liu Dong.
Liu Dong: "It should be suicide. There is no sign of struggle on his body, and..."
He swallowed silently: "Still laughing."
This was also the main reason why Jia Xue collapsed. She could not accept that she was smiling and greeting the corpse at that time.
