Chapter 264 The Correct Way to Enter the Game
"Didn't we say that everyone should look for clues separately? I'm searching."
The orange cat boss who was squatting in a wooden shed and checking bottles and jars looked back and found that Jialuo, who had just been rummaging with him, was gone. He quickly dusted himself off and stood up. As he walked out, he sent a message to En Bu Zeng: "Are you not going to search anymore? Then I'll come out to find you--"
While typing the private message, the orange cat boss walked out of the wooden shed.
Laundry No. 38 is neither small nor big. It is about the same size as a middle school playground and you can see the end at a glance.
The orange cat boss came out of the wooden shed and was shocked to find... the entire laundry was empty, without a single player.
There was an orange cat: "Sister Qingyue, where are you?! Did you abandon me??"
There was an orange cat: "Don't mess with me, sister. What hatred or grudge is this? You know I'm afraid of horror stories!!"
There is an orange cat: "Where have you been~ Wait for me~~"
Entropy does not increase: "Calm down, orange cat, where are you now? Are you still in Laundry No. 38?"
There was an orange cat: "I'm here, I'm in front of the third wooden house on the left, the one that Jialuo and I searched just now!"
Entropy immediately looked at the place pointed out by the orange cat owner...there was nothing there.
"Calm down first. We are still in Laundry No. 38, in the open space in front of the pool. You must have triggered some mechanism and one of you was pulled into the dungeon, so you can't see us and we can't see you." Entropy was describing the Orange Cat Boss's experience in the team while sending a message to the Orange Cat Boss, "Now, tell me carefully from the beginning what happened before you separated from us. I'll see if I can get someone to the dungeon you are in."
There was an orange cat: "I just looked for clues like everyone else. Jialuo and I entered the cabin together. She searched outside and I searched inside. Then, while I was searching, I found you all disappeared!"
"It's not us who are dead, it's you who are dead. Okay , just stand still and don't log off. If there's no one in this instance, the CD will reset. If you log off forcefully, all your equipment will be exposed and no one will be able to pick it up for you."
After giving a warning to the orange cat boss, En Buzeng glanced at his friends and his eyes fell on Yang Ying.
When doing the "Redwall Farm" mission, Entropy Bu Zeng discovered that the player's potential value seemed to contain hidden settings such as inspiration. When entering the second floor of the big house, only the four players with the highest potential value could sense that something was wrong.
Although the orange cat boss is a funny guy with clumsy hands, there is no problem with his IQ. He is online long enough and his potential value has always been in the first tier like Yang Ying.
"Sister Ying, you will be the test subject. Jialuo, you and Sister Ying will repeat the actions you took with the orange cat before."
"Okay." Yang Ying pulled out his weapon and called on Sister Jialuo to lead the way.
When the two of them entered the third wooden house, En Bu Zeng and Miao Bi Sheng Hua stood side by side at the door, staring at Yang Ying who entered the inner room alone.
This wooden house is not much different from the one next to it. It is less than 12 square meters in size and is divided into two rooms, inner and outer, by thin wooden boards. The ground is compacted loess. On the walls of the slightly more spacious outer room, some wooden boards are nailed to serve as shelves, wardrobes and cupboards. The only decent furniture is a small square table used as a dining table.
The inner room was long and dark, with many jars and pots on one end and a straw mat on the ground at the other end serving as a bed. There were also a lot of rotten wheat straw in the corner.
Yang Ying imitated the action pattern of the orange cat boss as recalled by Jialuo, poking the rotten cans and the straw mat that was also rotten with his weapon.
"Um?"
When poking a certain spot on the straw mat, Yang Ying discovered that the feeling transmitted by the weapon was wrong.
Yang Ying immediately squatted down, grabbed a corner of the straw mat and lifted it up.
Under the straw mat, there was a wrinkled, moldy, mid-length sleeve short-sleeved shirt whose original color could not be seen.
At the collar of his short-sleeved shirt, there was a copper button that had rusted to a green color. When Yang Ying poked the straw mat with his weapon, he happened to poke this button.
"What is this--?" Yang Ying turned his head in confusion.
Then, the expression on her face froze.
Jialuo, who was standing on the other side of the tattered wooden wall, and Enbuteng and Miaobishenghua, who were waiting at the door, were all gone.
However, a ginger cat that had been missing for a short time appeared at the door of the wooden house, excitedly calling Yang Ying's name and waving at her excitedly while clinging to the door frame.
"Did you just turn over the straw mat in this room?" Yang Ying hurriedly confirmed with the orange cat owner.
"Ah?" The orange cat boss grabbed the door frame, not daring to enter the haunted house that separated him from his friends, "What straw mat?"
"Just the one on the ground." Yang Ying said.
"No?" The orange cat boss asked in confusion, "I stepped on it, and it didn't fall over."
Yang Ying lowered his head to look at the straw mat again.
The straw mat was still there, and the jars and pots that had been punctured by her were still there, but the mat... no, it should be said that the short-sleeved shirt with copper buttons that was hidden under the mat was missing.
Yang Ying immediately pulled out his friend list and sent private messages to En Bu Zeng and Miao Bi Sheng Hua: "The clothes under the straw mat! There's something wrong with the buttons on the clothes!"
She sent this private message very timely. Enbuteng and Miaobishenghua immediately stopped Jialuo who were about to rush to the inner room to find Yang Ying. They stood at the door and used their identification skills to identify the short-sleeved shirt under the straw mat that Yang Ying had lifted up in the inner room.
The wrinkled short-sleeved shirt was just an ordinary cotton top, and it showed up as gray garbage under the identification technology.
The copper buttons on the shirt did reveal some shocking information:
"A copper button (seal)"
"You discovered it by accident. You could sense a dangerous aura lingering around this button."
"When you become aware of its presence, it also becomes aware of you."
Before En Bu Zeng and Miao Bi Sheng Hua, who used the identification technique at the same time, could discover the treasure in surprise, Jia Luo disappeared in front of them and turned into Yang Ying, who had just come back to life right under their noses not long ago.
"Sister Qingyue! Huahua!" The orange cat boss was so excited that he almost cried when he saw that there were two more people accompanying him.
Entropy and Miaobishenghua didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, and chatted madly with their friends in the team: "Come to the third wooden house on the left and use the identification spell under the straw mat to enter the game!"
"Hurry! You can only collect this sealed object after you clear the dungeon!"
The sealed item is a super rare item that can be exchanged for 3000 points of territory reputation. Players who have not yet "entered the game" are so excited when they hear the news that it's like Chinese New Year, and they happily rush to the wooden house...
The "uncontained sealed object" that the Night Watchmen avoid is a "containment procedure" that normally costs lives, but for the players, it is the starting point for solving the problem...
All the players in the group were "teleported into the dungeon". Qin Guan quickly assembled everyone into the group and waved his bone claws in high spirits: "Let's go! Find the BOSS!"
He had just shown his big boss face when the orange cat boss, who had pushed his butt to the outer edge of the crowd for the players, started to cry and scream as he dived into the crowd: "There's a body! There's a body in the pool!"
"What's the name of Mao? It's just a skeleton. You see skeletons every day and you haven't seen enough of them!" Jialuo yelled rudely.
"What's going on?" En Bu Zeng and Miao Bi Sheng Hua squeezed out of the crowd and looked into the pool.
Before entering the dungeon, there was only a pool of stinky water. Inside the dungeon... it was replaced by a pool of human skeletons piled up in a haphazard manner.
These skeletons are not "connected" like the player's skeleton, but are scattered, with the torso and limbs wrapped in clothes, and some parts such as hats and shoes scattered in the pile of bones.
"It seems that all the missing people are here." Miaobishenghua took a step back with a little fear. Not only the orange cat boss was afraid to see these, but she was also afraid, but not as seriously as the orange cat boss.
En Buzeng frowned and observed the skeletons in the pool, then raised his head and looked around.
The laundry yard No. 38 in the copy is not surrounded by a four-meter-high wall. Standing next to the pool and looking out, you can see the street outside and the sheds of the laundry yard next door.
Of course, there aren’t that many NPCs in the dungeon, and the whole world is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.
"If the missing people were dragged in by that button for some reason and entered this place like us...then who dragged all their bodies into the pool?" En Bu Zeng asked.
"It was the boss who did it." Qin Guan said without thinking.
"Hmm? Wait." Miaobishenghua recovered from his shock and realized something was wrong. "This game is very particular about details. If the missing people came here, were killed by the BOSS and thrown into the pool, then why are there no scars on their skeletons and their clothes are still intact?"
"Yes! The scars on the bones of these corpses are not as many as those on our game characters." Yang Ying suddenly realized.
The battle damage in this game is so detailed that it has been criticized by many players. Many players basically do not wear "fashion" except for taking screenshots or visiting the main city. They only wear the cheapest novice suits. The reason is that it is difficult to avoid clothing damage when killing monsters.
"If he wasn't killed by the boss, then he must have died of natural causes?" Tang Jia said in confusion, "Emmmm... Was he teleported to a deserted mirror world and starved to death? That's too comforting, it would be better to just set him to be killed by the boss."
Qin Guan finally understood what was going on, and said with a look of annoyance, "Damn it, is there no BOSS for us to fight in the dungeon? Do we have to continue solving puzzles?"
"After all, it's a quest that rewards you with 40,000 copper coins, a magic staff, and a sealed item. It's not as easy as just spawning a boss for you to fight." Miao Bisheng said, "But it seems that as long as you find the correct way to enter the dungeon, this quest will not be difficult to solve. You see, the clues are all ready."
Entropy nodded: "Yes, if we can find someone who will not starve to death in the dungeon world and will collect the bodies of all the missing people who break in and put them in the pool, half of the task will be solved."
Qin Guan raised his head and turned his head to look around.
There are no decent buildings in Laundry Lane. Standing on the clothes drying yard of Laundry No. 38, you can see the overlapping shadows of buildings in the distant blocks by just turning your head.
"It sounds easy... Are you serious about searching such a large map with just a group of us?" Qin Guan said with a pained look.
At this time, the player who had shouted that he wanted to log off before entering the dungeon raised his hand weakly: "Brother, I really need to pee, can I log off and go to the toilet?"
"Uh... it does look like a game of holding back urine." Miaobishenghua was a little annoyed, "How about this, everyone take a half-hour break, those who need to log off quickly, those who need to eat should also hurry up and finish it, once all the trivial matters are taken care of, we can finish this dungeon in one go."
There was a loud crash, and half of the players were reduced to skeletons, and they were offline...
