Chapter 28(1/2)
Maybe it's related to that puppet?
At that time, Chen Ziming was sitting in the corner at the end, and Zhou Ran and Xiang Jiangming were also sitting behind. Although not all of them were seen, the people close to him witnessed the process of the puppet changing their faces.
If the puppet looks at each other and becomes the player's substitute, then Chen Ziming doesn't have to walk to the railway tracks by himself. As long as someone throws the puppet in and waits for the train to come.
But the puppet was picked up by a lumberjack, and no one knew where he went and what he did. Such blind guessing the conditions of death might lead to danger sooner.
This is true. People with only a slight understanding are always more likely to fall into dangerous situations than ignorant people.
Zhou Ran: "Don't we go in?"
Xiang Jiangming shook his head: "It's too dirty, wait for that woman to wipe it."
Sure enough, the woman walked down from the podium, squatted down with a rag in her hand, muttering quietly while wiping off the blood, then picked up the crushed glasses frame and threw it into the trash can.
Although she muttered and her movements were clumsy, she looked extremely skillful in cleaning up the blood.
I saw her rubbing the blood stains with a rag, and then grabbed her, skillfully replaced the other side and continued to wipe. As she wiped, her breathing gradually became much thicker. She raised the back of her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead while the blood stained. The picture was strange and unbearable, making people want to die.
Zhou Ran: "It seems that she has wiped a lot of blood from people."
Xiang Jiangming: "A normal person will feel more or less uncomfortable when he sees such blood. This woman's veteran is undoubtedly a veteran. Otherwise, let's not go in for the time being. It would not be a good thing if he is stained with that person's blood. Take this opportunity to go back and take a look?"
Zhou Ran agreed.
Chen Ziming's death was obviously more tragic than the girl in the morning. Blood was splattered in every corner of the classroom, and the tables, chairs and benches were messy. Zhou Ran was even a little glad that she was not inside just now, because just looking at this scene, you can imagine how bloody the scene just now was...
It is precisely because of this that the woman now has a lot of things to clean up and doesn’t care about the children for the time being, so the two of them took the opportunity to go around the backyard and wander around the camphor forest.
It was the time of day and night, and the sky was already late, but the moonlight was not very bright, making it look quiet and deserted. Fortunately, the camphor forest was not big, and the two children could touch it in just over ten minutes.
The two of them walked around for more than half an hour and found no clues about direction.
Xiang Jiangming: "There is nothing, but the taste here is the same as the wood section in that box."
The trees here are a little old and emit a cool smell. The trunk is very thick and the bark is dark yellowish-brown. Zhou Ran gently touched the cracks on it with her hands, then frowned and said, "That puppet should be made of them. Whether it is a substitute attack or not, but if that person dies, we must be careful of this thing."
"Yes, but there is nothing useful here. Let's go back first..."
Before Xiang Jiangming finished speaking, a burly figure flashed through the front of the woods. He immediately shut up and pulled Zhou Ran and hid behind the trunk.
The air was cold and carrying the mist, and Zhou Ran's body was blocked between the tree trunk and Xiang Jiangming.
She turned her head, Xiang Jiangming's face turned to the bleak moonlight and lipped her: "Dangerous, don't speak."
Zhou Ran was pulled over and noticed something was wrong. She almost instantly activated the "Qianli Eye Shunfeng Ear" skill. The originally blurry rustling sound became clear and turned into the sound of footsteps gradually approaching.
Click, click.
The sky gradually darkened, and the man's feet stepped on the dry fallen leaves, making a thud sound similar to the bursting of bones.
The sound was not loud, but after Zhou Ran activated her skills, she just needed to hide behind a tree to sense a small sound, and could even accurately judge the man's position with her eyes closed.
The steps lingered for a while, and there was no intention of coming. Just as Zhou Ran was about to relax, the steps suddenly changed direction and walked straight towards them, and the distance that was originally absolutely safe was quickly shortened.
As the man approached, Zhou Ran heard the sound of steel nails and wood colliding with each other - that was nothing else, the sound that could only be made by the puppets made by men.
Both of them had a very fast heartbeat, and they talked silently with their mouth shape with their mouth shape as they became weaker by the fog.
Zhou Ran: "He is holding a puppet."
Xiang Jiangming: "Let's talk about it when he leaves."
Zhou Ran's body tensed, focused, and pinched her fists.
The two of them did not move, lowering their breathing to the lowest point, and Xiang Jiangming's fist also clenched. It seemed that as long as he came over, they would activate the "King of Fighters Tyson's Gloves" skill to temporarily suppress the crazy man so that he would not copy their faces with a puppet.
The man was too burly, and Zhou Ran was not confident of using good skills, so she couldn't help but feel sweaty. Fortunately, he did not continue walking in, but stopped five meters in front of them and squatted down.
He pulled away the soil, picked up a branch and left.
The man walked around the woods again and picked up a few branches in the same way, and the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
Zhou Ran breathed a little relieved and poked her head out.
The vision of humans, which was not originally keen, also changed tremendously at this time. Zhou Ran's eyes passed through the layers of forest leaves and saw clearly the puppet in the man's hand!
The man turned his back to them, holding something forward with one hand, and drooped his arm, holding one of the puppet's legs. The puppet's body hangs in the air and sways, while the rectangular wooden face is facing Zhou Ran, with a pair of slender eyes on it.
Zhou Ran's heartbeat and quickly shifted her eyes upwards.
This action was originally because I didn't want to look at the puppet to avoid being copied, but unexpectedly, Zhou Ran found that the man's elbow was actually covered with some fine yellow tissue of wheat straw.
He's been to the track!
It was him! It was this man who threw the puppet with a changed face onto the rails, and the player exploded and died the moment the train arrived.
Too scary.
If the young man hadn't told them by chance that the train would pass by at seven o'clock, they wouldn't have been able to accurately judge the complete killing conditions of the lumberjack.
But of course, this makes the thinking much clearer.
If they accidentally encounter a puppet in the later game and their faces are copied by the puppet, as long as they are not picked up by the lumberjack but put them away by themselves, the death condition will not be triggered.
After the man left, Xiang Jiangming and Zhou Ran walked out of the forest.
On the other side, in the classroom, Xu Lang, who had experienced many times of player explosion, quickly calmed down.
He cheered up again and began to look for Zhou Ran and Xiang Jiangming. He searched in the building for a long time, but he could not find their shadows.
It is an amazing thing to disappear in this kind of death game, because the world at night is extremely dangerous, and disappearance is almost equivalent to death. Xu Lang was a little anxious for a moment, comforted the girl and came out to find someone.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I opened the door of the backyard, I saw Xiang Jiangming leading Zhou Ran out of the woods.
The fog dissipated a little, and the moon revealed its fat body. The little boy, who was carved with jade, carefully kicked the wooden section under his feet, and led the shorter girl to let her walk past the messy dead branches.
The little girl looked soft but her expression was calm and fearless. After stepping over, she thanked him. Two shallow dimples appeared on her little face as white as milk.
If it were outside, Xu Lang would definitely shout, "I'm so worried about you, you actually went to the woods!", but Xu Lang, who had just received Zhou Ran's concern and tips, is now much more tolerant.
The school beauty is laughing.
In school forums, it is said that they rarely see school beauties laughing, right? Since she can laugh so happily with Xiang Jiangming, then let them wait a little longer.
When Xu Lang thought of this, he showed a little bit of the old father's expression, and his toes were taken back from the air.
Xiang Jiangming, who had activated his skills with such a big noise, could not hear that Xiang Jiangming pursed his lips, thinking that his roommate had finally gotten out and did not run out to be a light bulb for him. Who would know that Xu Lang had completely turned against him now and stood by Zhou Ran to consider the problem...
Xiang Jiangming was immersed in his mind, smiled secretly, and helped Zhou Ran take off the debris on his body. The two of them walked into the classroom shoulder by shoulder.
The classroom was already packed. As soon as Zhou Ran entered the door, Lu Qing and Qi Wenyue, who were not enlightened and did not intend to enlighten, came over immediately and pushed Xiang Jiangming aside.
Lu Qing: "Why did you come back? Someone just died? Sister, please be careful of the puppet!"
Zhou Ran: "Yeah, thank you."
Qi Wenyue: "I just saw the lumberjack heading upstairs. I guess he will definitely move in a while. When we go up, be careful not to be plotted against him."
After Qi Wenyue finished speaking, he pointed to a boy in the crowd in a vague way and whispered to Zhou Ran: "That person, he just went to the fourth floor and picked up a puppet under the bed in the room. I guess he might be cold, so you must stay away from him."
Zhou Ran looked at the boy. He had slender eyes, and his eyes were raised at the end. His eyes were exactly the same as the puppet she had just seen outside. At this moment, he was sitting there in a daze and hugging his body tightly, with a man and a woman next to him comforting him.
The girl disagreed and said, "Luo Qi, it's okay, don't scare yourself."
The boy named Luo Qi shook even more and shook his head hard and said, "The puppet has grown my face and was picked up by a man. How could I not be in a hurry!"
The other boy didn't see the puppet's face change, he just thought he was fussy and snorted: "Are you okay? You are fine, Luo Qi, you, a big man, can you not be so pretentious!"
Luo Qi collapsed and said, "How come I am pretentious! The man was fine in the afternoon. Now, he has exploded and I am going to finish it!"
"Then you shut up! I shouldn't have looked for you!"
The boy who scolded people was Wu Qing, who was the director of a Taekwon Hall at a university. Both of them were his alumni.
Because the game became more and more dangerous, Wu Qing realized that he had come in alone and had no one to take care of him. If something happened, he would definitely die. So he mentioned the game in a vague way on the school forum and left his level, which meant that he wanted to form a team to pass the game and regain freedom.
That night, two alumni joined him. After discussing, the three of them found it appropriate. After randomly challenging a few low-level books, they challenged the sixth game together.
Who knew that these two people performed well in the low-level sections. After entering the sixth section, they immediately became timid and afraid of things. The girl was a little better. After seeing such a way of death, the boy actually hurried there and didn't even dare to find clues. He rushed to the grounds and searched for it.
Wu Qing was in another room at that time, Luo Qi was in another room. After hearing Luo Qi's scream, he rushed over immediately. He saw Luo Qi leaning against a wooden box in a daze, and he was in a state of madness. He pinched his throat and kept shouting: "My face, it grows my face!"
Wu Qing has been sitting in front of him, not next to Chen Ziming, nor has he ever seen a puppet copying a human face. Seeing him just frowning like this, he felt even more pretentious.
Wu Qing stepped forward and slapped Luo Qi, and said loudly: "I said that he deserves to die if that person dies, because he deliberately plots to murder others, and the blood becomes a curse after it gets stuck! The only condition of death is that game, and it has nothing to do with the puppet! Otherwise, you find another one and I will see if it can grow my face!"
The girl's name is Lu Xiaojia. After coming in, she also found that Luo Qi was extremely timid and sighed helplessly: "Luo Qi, don't be afraid. Brother Wu said that that person died because of a curse, and it has nothing to do with the puppet. Don't you believe Brother Wu?"
Zhou Ran looked at the three of them and her eyes gradually deepened.
The clock was about to reach nine o'clock in the evening, and the woman announced that today's class was over, allowing the children to go to the third floor to sleep with a grateful heart.
Her tone was gentle, not aggressive, and not urging, so Xiang Jiangming didn't rush back and called all his roommates in the corridor for a small meeting.
After he whispered to them the two conditions that triggered death and how to escape the ticket, Zhang Chong added some of his discoveries.
"After we finished our meal, we dug out the soil in the woods and dug out the arm of a puppet." Zhang Chong paused, then rubbed his arm and continued: "But there is not only one arm, but the body should be connected below. We didn't dare to continue digging down, for fear of any danger, but it is not ruled out that many puppets were buried elsewhere."
Xiang Jiangming nodded and quickly recalled the scene when the man went into the forest to pick up branches, because he and Zhou Ran were hiding behind the tree, just by listening. Now it seems that what he might have picked up is not the branches, but the puppets he made in advance.
He did find clues, but Xiang Jiangming said he didn't understand why they thought of digging soil.
Lu Yikun covered his mouth and smiled: "Today Zhang Chong told me confidently that the way to leave here is to dig tunnels, because the soil in the forest is very soft. Because Lao Zhang played the 'Mole Story' in the previous copy, and finally he dug the passage and left the ground."
To be continued...