Chapter 265: The Unexpected Shock Point
Desolate wooden row houses that have been in disrepair for a long time, dry pools filled with dead bones, piles of bones scattered here and there on the stone square, and skeletons moving among the bones...
If there were some scary BGM accompaniment, this scene could be used to make a horror movie.
But for players, this scene is not really terrifying enough - there is no need to compare it with other scenes. The weekend activity book where players have to go to brush up on enchantments and wash equipment enchantments every week is much more terrifying than this place; the gloomy grove in the Hal's Heart Demon book where players have brushed it countless times and been wiped out countless times is even more creepy than this place.
"Damn, my mom is really terrible. She kept nagging me for playing more games during Chinese New Year, as if I had committed a serious crime by staying at home playing games. She kept saying that I couldn't take the money out. What should I do with the money? Should I sell it by the pound?"
A pile of bones suddenly formed into a human form, and while skillfully putting on a novice suit and equipment to cover up the ugliness, he complained with resentment: "If I had known earlier, I would have made up an excuse to stay at school and not go home like you, Xiaotang, you really annoy me."
"I'm a man of foresight, you see?" Tang Jia, who was still online, sat next to him and said smugly, "But your situation is different from mine. At your stage, your family is either urging you to take the civil service exam or find a boyfriend. It would be best if you could pass the civil service exam and get married right after graduation. That would make you a 'good kid that other families would praise.'"
"How come you are so skilled? My mother really told me to take the civil service exam as soon as I graduate." Jialuo said depressedly.
"Because I saw my cousin being urged in the same way when I was in high school. Her family asked her to prepare for the civil service exam when she was only a sophomore." Tang Jia laughed heartlessly, "My parents are the same. When I was only a senior in high school, they mentioned to me which popular department I wanted to apply for. Anyway, I pretended not to hear it. I went for an internship in my junior year, and found a job to stay in the provincial capital before graduation. I'm not cut out for the civil service exam, so I won't go through the trouble of following them."
"Why do so many parents treat the civil service exam as a cakewalk? Do their children get it if they want? If they don't get it, it means their children didn't work hard? Why don't they take the exam themselves?" Jia Luo scratched her head in annoyance. "Then they said something about so-and-so's daughter marrying an excellent husband and living a good life. Isn't that nonsense? Can others tell you if their lives are not going well?"
Qin Guan came over and was about to say something, but after hearing what they said, he was speechless: "You female college students usually talk about such realistic things?"
"How else? Pulling your hair out for your boyfriend like in the movies? Or getting entangled over who used whose shampoo?" Jialuo was angry and didn't speak to Qin Guan politely. "Realistic? Who still lives in a vacuum? Who is unrealistic? Oh, the realism of a romantic man is called rationality and reason, which are all advantages. But the realism of a female college student is not good. Is it a disadvantage?"
"I didn't provoke you, sister!" Qin Guan was dumbfounded.
Tang Jia was a careless person who only cared about what she wanted to care about. She didn't care at all that her friend Jia Luo had just scolded Qin Guan. She said carelessly, "Hey, Mr. Vanilla, when can you let me show my face in that player special video? Isn't it worthy for me and Sister Ying to have such a wonderful and cool double warrior cooperation?"
"I was just about to tell you about this." Qin Guan wiped his face, walked around Jia Luo, who was covered in thorns, and squatted next to Tang Jia. "I want to make a big collection for the female players in our Blood Alliance. You and Sister Ying are double warriors, Sister Qingyue and Huahua are double military advisors, and the highlights of others are all worth showing..."
"Are you trying to use us as a gimmick to recruit people?" Jialuo glared at him with sharp eyes.
"Highlights! It's a highlight!" Qin Guan was afraid of this girl. No wonder the orange cat boss was often yelled at like a grandson. "Highlights are worth promoting and displaying. This is a good thing. There is no other meaning!"
"I want to be in the camera too! Take a beautiful picture of me!" Jialuo slapped Qin Guan on the shoulder.
Qin Guan: “…”
If he can take beautiful photos of skeletons, then what is the point of being a small UP host? He should have competed for the position of Spring Festival Gala director long ago!
Qin Guan is not as thick-skinned as the orange cat. He is embarrassed to hang out with female players all day. If he wants to edit a collection of female players, he has to ask the female players to help provide materials. He can ask the female players to take more photos of their companions when they are killing monsters or participating in activities, and then send them to him for editing.
Tang Jia and Jia Luo patted their chests and promised to provide the materials. Qin Guan continued to look for the next group of female players to discuss, and took the opportunity when everyone took turns to log off and rest to explain everything.
Not only male players like to be in the spotlight, female players are also keen on pursuing this. When the break is over and the group is ready to set off, the female players' spirits are obviously much higher than before.
There is no wall around Laundry No. 38 in the dungeon, and you can walk directly into the Laundry Lane.
The multiple laundries and rows of sheds in Laundry Alley are roughly similar to what players saw before "entering the game", with only a few different details - there are no clothes hanging out to dry, the pools are mostly dry, and the sheds are older and more dilapidated.
The players searched the laundry alley and found that they could enter all the laundries, but they were all empty.
The players could enter the laundry yard but not the shed. No matter whether it was a house with an open door or a wooden house with a door blocked by cloth curtains, straw curtains or wooden boards, the players could not push open those light cloth curtains or straw curtains no matter how hard they tried.
"It's really a copy. The long-lost air wall has appeared."
Despite such a bizarre scene, players are not surprised at all... No matter whether they are playing stand-alone console games or online games, who hasn't seen an air wall?
When the crappy planners are too lazy to make the scenes, they just use textures to fool people, and then set up an air wall to prevent players from crossing the line. Players all over the world know this operation well.
After discovering the air wall, Miaobishenghua felt a lot more relaxed: "It seems that this dungeon is quite reasonable. It looks big, but the area required to search should not be very large."
Entropy does not increase and says: "Yes, it saves a lot of trouble. We just need to search the places we can get into."
As they were talking, a group of players came out of the laundry alley and came to the main street of the Sailor District.
The Sailor District Street in the dungeon is basically the same as what the players have seen before, with a flagstone road about four lanes wide, sidewalks paved with blue bricks, rows of street-side shops, and a group of dome-shaped and sloping-roofed buildings with a relatively neat overall style.
It’s just… I can’t enter the shops filled with goods even though they are open. Not only can I not touch the wide variety of fruits on the roadside stalls, the colors also look very strange, and they don’t seem like colors that can be found on fruits.
There was no one to be seen or heard in the entire neighborhood.
Not only people, but also cats, dogs, mice, and even flies and mosquitoes disappeared without a trace.
Thrown into such a deadly world where there is not even the sound of wind, even the most determined person would probably collapse emotionally within a few hours.
But such a weird and strange space... in the eyes of players, it is not even worth a shock - how rare it is, isn't it normal to have an empty map in the game?
There are only textures, and you can't enter or interact with buildings or street scenery. Who hasn't encountered this when playing games?
The fruit colors are off - the artist was lazy on the textures.
There are no cats, dogs, mice, flies or mosquitoes - the system saves resources and does not brush.
There are no natural sound effects including the sound of wind - this is a dungeon, so it’s not too unacceptable that they are too lazy to design scene sound effects in the dungeon !
Not only were the players not afraid, they also looked around as they walked, expecting a monster to jump out and chop them up...
Walking along the same path we came from, the air wall appeared again.
An invisible wall appeared on the street that seemed to lead to another city, blocking all the players halfway.
"Find a path that can be taken. There should be a path that can lead to the key point of solving the puzzle."
With a wave of his hand, the players scattered and searched around.
A deserted city, an invisible barrier that forbids even a single step from being stepped out of bounds... This kind of "design" that would scare normal people would not cause any disturbance in the players - the dungeon could not be designed as a super large seamless map!
A group of players who didn't get the scare point fumbled around and found a passable alley.
After walking along this long and narrow alley for an unknown amount of time, another street appeared in front of the players.
This street is much narrower than the streets in the Sailor Quarter. It is barely wide enough to accommodate four lanes of traffic, including the sidewalks. The sidewalks are paved with stones, and the main road is not paved with stone slabs, but a dirt road that is uneven due to the wheels.
The buildings on both sides of the road are much worse than those in the Sailor District. None of them are more than three stories high, and at least half of them are made of wood or brick-wood mixed structures. They all look quite old.
The players came out of the alley and looked around curiously for a moment, and someone noticed that the name "Morgan Street" was written on the house plate facing the street.
"Morgan Street, the address of the first missing person, Kent Bennett!" His eyes lit up as he wrote brilliantly.
"Hurry up, find where No. 206 is!" said En Bu Zeng.
The street was quite long, and not all houses had house numbers on them, but there was strength in numbers, and no one would hesitate to act out of fear of danger or loss of life, and it didn't take long before they found the address of Kent Bennett's house.
"The first floor is a grocery store, the second floor is a residence... The house next door is No. 205, so it should be here, right?"
Qin Guan stood in front of a two-story wooden building without a house number. He checked the neighbor's house number from left to right, and then looked at the grocery store with its doors and windows closed. He put his bone claw on the door handle, twisted it gently, and said in surprise: "The door can be opened! It's here!"
The one who was acting with Qin Guan nodded and said, "It's good that we found it. Let's wait for Huahua and the others to come over first - hey, vanilla!"
Before he could stop him, Qin Guan opened the door.
Because he greeted him, Qin Guan, who opened the door, did not pay attention to the situation inside the grocery store, but turned his head to look at him.
The first person who saw the scene inside the grocery store was the one who tried to call Qin Guan to give me medicine.
"Nima——" The man who was giving me medicine uttered a half curse and disappeared into white light on the spot.
"Fuck!" Qin Guan's hand shook, and he slammed the half-open wooden door shut.
