Chapter 23: Fate (Seventeen)
[I don't dare to look, have you been caught by a ghost?]
[I haven't been caught, I'm just fooling the devil]
【? ? ? Mysterious direction】
[She suddenly walked towards the room where the bodies were kept...]
[What are you doing in that direction? Is it because you found that there is no way to survive, so you just give up? ]
[Damn, there are two ghosts at the door. Their laughter makes my scalp tingle.]
[She is still moving forward. Is she crazy? She is almost surrounded by ghosts.]
[woc, 2v2 has begun]
[How can there be a 2v2? Isn't it just Qiao Yuan against the fake Zhou Lian and the fake Lan Lan? No, there are also the fake Su Yan, the fake Chen Ge, and the fake Song Yanchi]
[The fake Su Yan's fall was also considered as our side, right?]
[Hahahahahahahaha, fake Su Yan: Received a team invitation, please choose "Accept" or "Be forced to accept"]
[Fake Su Yan: You're using me as a weapon, huh? Is that polite?]
[It turns out that even if we hold hands, we may not be able to go all the way]
[I told you not to watch live broadcasts if you are in love]
[I was quite scared at first, but I was stunned by your barrage]
[But Qiao Yuan's reaction is really fast. Not to mention the ghost kept in the dark by her, I didn't even react the moment she pulled the ghost.]
[I knew she could do it! ]
[Wait, what's okay? We are still surrounded by ghosts. Can anyone tell me what she wants to do?]
[Who said before that she staggers with every step she takes when running? Even the number one in track and field in our city doesn’t start as fast as her]
[So what exactly is she going to do now? Is this completely irritating the ghost?]
【Does she think the way out lies in that room? 】
[How is that possible? I've observed that it doesn't look like there is a way out.]
[Oh my god, she's lying in the coffin]
[Isn’t there a female corpse in the coffin?]
[No, it's Li Yaozu's coffin! ]
[This really seems to be a way out, otherwise how could Qiao Yuan lift the coffin by himself...]
[Damn, a ghost also jumped in...]
Dong Ge, who stayed in Qiao Yuan's live broadcast room, was still hoping to find out the real way out, but he soon realized how stupid his idea was. Although some viewers came from Song Yanchi's live broadcast room, the majority of viewers in this live broadcast room were novices who had only completed a few dungeons. There was no analysis in the comments that Dong Ge found useful.
As for the host Qiao Yuan, Brother Dong did not pin his hopes of finding a way out on him at first. After all, the other party had thought of the same fake way out as he did.
Perhaps, as some people in the comments said, Qiao Yuan happened to encounter a copy with no way out. Although this situation is rare, it has happened before. In this case, the most you can do is lament that you have bad luck.
Perhaps realizing that he had walked into the wrong path, Qiao Yuan actually walked directly towards the room where the corpse was placed. This time, Brother Dong thought the same as the other people in the barrage, thinking that it was a blind cat that met a dead mouse.
However, just when Brother Dong wanted to quit Qiao Yuan's live broadcast room, the situation took a turn.
Until Qiao Yuan lay in Li Yaozu's coffin, Brother Dong and other viewers in the live broadcast room fell into silence.
After a short silence, the first comment finally broke the quiet atmosphere:
[? ? ? ? ? My mind is full of question marks now]
【！ ！ ！ ！ ！ ！】
[The way out is actually there]
[I want to say something dirty. How can a normal person think of that?]
[Yes, the way out is actually in the room I stayed in at the beginning . If I knew this before I died, I would really die with regrets.]
[Although I have scolded the game hundreds of times, I still want to say that if you do this again, you will lose me.]
So why is the way out there?
[So is Brother Dong really offline? I really want to know his reaction when he sees this scene now]
[Really? You are still analyzing with great confidence, but what did you come up with?]
[Qiao Yuan is really amazing. He can even analyze this. If I had given up after my first wrong judgment, I would have been discouraged.]
[A passerby really turned into a fan]
…
Brother Dong stared at the scene in the live broadcast room.
How is it possible...
At that time, the first thing he ruled out was the room where the body was kept, but now he was told that this was the way out?!
And Qiao Yuan saw it? !
As Qiao Yuan found a way to survive, in addition to shock and admiration in the barrage, Brother Dong's name was also repeatedly mentioned and ridiculed.
It stands to reason that Dong Ge is arrogant and should not be able to stand this ridicule. He really wanted to leave the live broadcast room, but he hesitated when he was about to leave.
Someone is spending a lot of money to entrust him to find reliable teammates, and he is not satisfied with the few he chose before.
If Qiao Yuan can survive this time, he may be qualified to be pushed to the other party.
Qiao Yuan subconsciously tried to push away the approaching body, but his whole body seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, and his consciousness sank along with his body.
"Miss Qiao..." A familiar voice sounded, causing Qiao Yuan to open her eyes suddenly.
A worried face appeared in front of her, and at the same time, a hand was stretched out towards her. Qiao Yuan's first reaction was that she had made a mistake in judgment and chose the wrong way to survive, otherwise how could she find the fake Su Yan still squatting beside her when she opened her eyes.
But Qiao Yuan soon realized that she was not lying in a coffin, but on the ground, and the hand that the other party wanted to pull her up had a normal body temperature.
It's a real person.
She escaped.
After realizing this, Qiao Yuan's heart, which had been tense since he discovered that he was surrounded by ghosts, finally relaxed. The vigilance and coldness in his eyes also dissipated a little, so fast that Su Yan thought she was having an illusion, otherwise how could she see Qiao Yuan with such an expression.
She stood up with the help of Su Yan while looking around.
She was lying at the door of the room where the bodies were kept. Not far away lay Zhou Lian with his eyes closed. The lids of the two coffins were tightly closed, with no signs of being opened.
In addition to Su Yan, Song Yanchi was also there, but the latter was looking around with obvious vigilance.
After listening to Su Yan's introduction, Qiao Yuan realized that nearly an hour had passed since they entered the room, which was much longer than the time taken by Song Yanchi and others. This also made Brother Chen, Song Yanchi and others realize that something was wrong.
Brother Chen thought that the three of them had not come back for so long because they were lazy. Li Lei didn't dare to enter the room, so he sent Song Yanchi and Su Yan in.
As soon as the two came in, they found Qiao Yuan and Zhou Lian lying on the ground, but Lan Lan was nowhere to be seen.
Qiao Yuan's eyes were tightly closed, and she was still holding the wedding dress tightly in her hands. No matter how Su Yan called her, she did not respond. Because her body temperature was low, if she hadn't tested her and found that she was still breathing weakly, Su Yan would have thought that Qiao Yuan was already dead.
Fortunately, just when Su Yan felt sad, Qiao Yuan, who was lying on the ground, finally woke up gradually.
At first Su Yan didn't know what was going on until she heard Qiao Yuan say that another ghost was pretending to be her. Her face turned pale instantly and she cried without tears: "My face is not so popular in the real world..."
Or maybe her face is actually more in line with the aesthetic taste of ghosts, otherwise why do ghosts always pretend to be her again and again?
Although Su Yan did not participate in what happened just now, Qiao Yuan felt that the stimulation she received was no less than his own.
Qiao Yuan: "It's okay. Everyone has a role to play because the ghosts are dressed up as them."
After hearing what Qiao Yuan said, Su Yan felt inexplicably balanced, but she soon realized an important question: "Wait, what does it mean to pretend to be everyone..."
Why does it sound like there is more than one ghost?
However, before she could finish her words, Song Yanchi interrupted her coldly: "Now that you're awake, you don't have to lie on the ground anymore, right?"
Su Yan was startled, and soon realized that Song Yanchi was not talking to her.
Because after the words fell, Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi both looked at Zhou Lian lying on the ground.
Before Zhou Lian woke up, Qiao Yuan looked at the wedding dress in her hand, thought for a few seconds, then folded it casually, opened her coat and hid it in her arms.
Fortunately, the coat is loose, so it can't be seen even if it hides the clothes.
As if he noticed the three people's gazes on him, Zhou Lian slowly opened his eyes, as if he had just woken up, and his expression was still confused. After seeing Su Yan and Song Yanchi, he looked a little confused: "Ms. Su, Mr. Song, why are you here? Why am I lying on the ground?"
Without waiting for Su Yan and Song Yanchi to answer, his eyes fell on Qiao Yuan who was standing aside: "Hey, Miss Qiao, why are you alone? Where's Lan Lan?"
Qiao Yuan was very disappointed that Zhou Lian didn't die, but she still showed a horrified expression on her face: "Mr. Zhou, is it possible that you didn't encounter those things?"
Zhou Lian repeated doubtfully: "Those things?"
Qiao Yuan recounted a series of ghostly events that happened to him after he followed Lan Lan into the room, including encounters with the fake Zhou Lian, the fake Lan Lan, and others. He only concealed the fact of how he escaped.
Even so, it is exciting enough to others.
When Su Yan heard Qiao Yuan's account of the whole story, her face turned from red to white, and there was only one thought left in her mind -
Fortunately, she didn't encounter such a thing, otherwise Su Yan was sure that she would be the first person to confess there. I don't know if it was because of Qiao Yuan's words, Su Yan felt that the room they were in at this time became inexplicably crowded, as if there was someone standing there that she couldn't see now. The more Su Yan thought about it, the more scared she became. She also imitated Qiao Yuan's appearance and clasped her hands together in her heart, indicating that she would find Zhou Lian if she had something to do.
Song Yanchi also frowned slightly. He had never encountered such a situation in the previous copies. And according to what he knew about Qiao Yuan's character these days, he was afraid that the other party was hiding something, and the real situation was even more thrilling.
Qiao Yuan's attention was always on Zhou Lian. She spoke intermittently while observing Zhou Lian's expression.
Zhou Lian's expression was as if he had heard it for the first time. He was shocked when he should be shocked, and frowned when he should frown. He realized that the real Qiao Yuan and Lan Lan had separated from him the moment they entered the door, and that the two ghosts had been with him since then. Zhou Lian's expression was also a normal fear: "So that's how it is, but their every move is very similar to you."
Qiao Yuan understood this point very well. After all, she almost got fooled, and even felt that the domestic entertainment industry needed these ghost acting skills.
When he heard that Lan Lan was taken away, he sighed deeply and revealed a sad look. At this moment, silence was more powerful than words, as if he was saying "How could this happen?" In the end, the expression that seemed to have thousands of words turned into just one sentence: "Fortunately, you are okay."
If she hadn't known Zhou Lian's true face from Qiao Yuan, Su Yan knew that she would definitely be deceived by his appearance and thought that he was really worried about Qiao Yuan and Lan Lan, who was now missing. However, if it were before, she could still sigh in her heart, "There are people in the world who are so good at pretending." But after seeing Qiao Yuan standing with Zhou Lian, Su Yan's mood towards Zhou Lian has changed to "What kind of brother is this?"
After all, compared with Qiao Yuan's acting skills, Zhou Lian's acting skills have been made to look like a comedy.
However, Zhou Lian did not feel that Su Yan's gaze was as if she was looking at an actor, and he told the three people present about his experience.
He was the first person to step into the room, and Lanlan and Qiao Yuan followed closely behind him. Then the three of them worked together and quickly changed clothes for Sun Peipei's body. Then he fainted just before leaving the room.
Su Yan took a deep breath in her heart. After all, she also heard that among the three, only Zhou Lian had not encountered such a thing.
The other party's luck is so good?
Song Yanchi was more direct. He walked a few steps to Sun Peipei's coffin and raised his hand to cover the coffin lid.
As he exerted his strength, the smooth muscles on Song Yanchi's shoulders tensed, and the veins on the back of his hands were exposed. The coffin that had previously required Zhou Lian and A Dao to lift was now opened by Song Yanchi.
Qiao Yuan knew that he wanted to verify whether Zhou Lian was lying just like himself.
The moment the coffin lid was opened, Qiao Yuan saw that the blood words he had written had become a blur, as if they had been erased abruptly.
The female corpse lying inside was immediately exposed to everyone's view.
Su Yan subconsciously took a step back. After all, she still remembered that the female corpse in the coffin was the female ghost who had killed her companions before. So she just took a glance and turned away, not daring to look at it any longer.
Qiao Yuan stared at the body.
Sun Peipei's body was similar to the fake body she had seen before, except that it was now wearing a fitted red wedding dress, a veil, and a pair of embroidered shoes on its feet.
Just as Zhou Lian had described before, he did replace everything that could be exchanged in the black bag with the other party.
She did not forget what Lanlan had told her about her experience after she stepped into the door, which was similar to her own, but why did Zhou Lian not encounter the same thing?
Or...
Qiao Yuan's gaze fell on Zhou Lian, and sure enough, he saw signs of lying in his subtle expression.
Zhou Lian is lying.
He clearly encountered something, but he didn't tell them.
Qiao Yuan concealed the truth because of Zhou Lian, and there are only two possibilities for Zhou Lian's concealment:
One is that the other party found a clue related to the customs clearance and did not want to tell them; the other is that Zhou Lian had some concerns.
Qiao Yuan still remembered that after he closed his eyes, a body approached him.
She initially thought it was a ghost, but the body was still warm.
Is it Lanlan or Zhou Lian?
The reason why the former is considered is that Lanlan clearly ran out of the yard and should have been dead, but Qiao Yuan did not find her shadow among the paper man. Either Lanlan did not die, or she died somewhere else.
But if it was Zhou Lian, things would become troublesome.
There was a chill in Qiao Yuan's eyes.
After all, she had not seen Zhou Lian before except for the fake one. She guessed that Zhou Lian encountered a real corpse and encountered something similar to them after changing clothes. But Zhou Lian did not show up in front of her and Lan Lan, but hid himself. When she found the real way to survive, he jumped out and followed her to escape...
If this is true, then Zhou Lian's survival is a problem. Another problem is that it means that the other party has discovered her true side and is worried that she will become alert, so she is deliberately saying that she did not encounter those things.
However, all this can only be verified after Lanlan or her body is found.
Zhou Lian happened to look over as well. Their eyes met, and they both quickly expressed the same longing: "I hope Lanlan is okay."
Su Yan: “…”
With the previous experience of Adao's death as a lesson, she has become accustomed to the two of them showing off their teammate friendship.
Fortunately, neither of them seemed to be in any mood this time. After closing the coffin again, they immediately walked out the door.
Brother Chen's expression in the courtyard was visibly impatient, and Li Lei, who was standing next to him, looked listless. It seemed that he had endured Brother Chen's anger for a long time, so when he saw the few people coming out, his eyes lit up: "You finally..."
His words stopped abruptly when he didn't see the familiar figure in the crowd: "Why are there only a few of you? Where's Lanlan?"
Brother Chen also looked puzzled: "Yeah, why is there one person missing?"
Qiao Yuan and others all looked at Zhou Lian.
Qiao Yuan and others had no idea what Zhou Lian was thinking, but Zhou Lian still went forward to communicate with Brother Chen and found an excuse to get away with it.
When Zhou Lian said that they spent so much time in there because the flashlight was broken and the progress was slow, Brother Chen's anger gradually subsided and he snorted coldly: "Forget it, this won't happen again."
However, Li Lei's face became more and more pale. As a fellow player, and because Zhou Lian always made excuses to Brother Chen after his companions died, Li Lei realized that something must have happened to Lan Lan.
Although he often feels annoyed by Lanlan's clinginess now, he has truly loved her after all. After realizing that he will never have the chance to see Lanlan again, he still feels sad.
Lanlan...
Even though he knew he should endure it in front of Brother Chen, when Lan Lan's every frown and smile appeared in his mind, Li Lei couldn't help feeling sad.
They met and fell in love in college, and stayed together after entering the workplace. They were on the verge of breaking up due to some conflicts in life, but unexpectedly they were drawn into the game together again.
Because of this game, the rift in their relationship was temporarily repaired. However, Lanlan was too jealous, and she did not change at all during the game, which made Li Lei think about breaking up after participating in this copy.
Unexpectedly...
Although the other party was a little arrogant, she really loved him. Unfortunately, from now on, he would never hear Lanlan's coquettish voice again.
"you……"
This sound is...
A familiar voice came from the side. Li Lei turned his head suddenly and saw Lanlan standing not far away.
