Forces of Temptation

Li Yinhang's notebook has a simple timeline, followed by simple text annotations.

"It's a movie." Li Yinhang made it clear, "All the horrors we've encountered so far are plots in movies."

Speaking of which, the reason why Li Yinhang thinks of movies is entirely because of what happened to the thin monkey yesterday.

She watched an old Hong Kong movie on the movie channel when she was a child.

She had long forgotten what she said, but there was a scene in which young Li Yinhang was so afraid of getting into his mother's quilt—

A man stood in front of the TV and was fascinated by the red lips that kept opening and closing.

Red lips opened, swallowed the man whole into the TV, and finally stuck out his tongue and licked his lips with satisfaction.

This has resulted in Li Yinhang not daring to stay in front of electronic screens such as TV for a long time.

Unexpectedly, what happened to the thin monkey has a subtle correspondence with her childhood shadow.

She only has a little basis for getting to the bottom of it.

"However, based on this memory fragment from my childhood, I dare not draw a conclusion."

Li Yinhang said with a bitter face: "...so I watched all the horror movies on the computer."

She opened the notebook and spread it out in front of Nan Zhou.

"Human Shape", a warm horror film, the storyline is probably that a child always feels that the house is haunted, and no one will believe it when he tells others, in fact, his dead father has returned.

He would stand at the head of the bed watching his sleeping son, accompany him to and from school, play basketball with him, until he watched his son run to the temple to pray and hope that he would perish.

"Bathroom", a Korean film, at a little more than 29 minutes, the heroine was washing her hair, and a pair of feet appeared behind him.

"Night Howl", an American film, the werewolf secretly hides under the child's bed, while the child is playing, the remote control car slips under the bed, he reaches for it, and the werewolf pulls it under the bed .

This plot is at the beginning of the movie, about 3 minutes and 25 seconds.

The old Hong Kong movie "Ghost Invasion" mentioned by Li Yinhang was also included.

Li Yinhang explained: "What happened to lawyer Yu today is also in the computer. It's called "The Choir", a Canadian movie. A demon leads faceless children to sing in the church, seducing the devout. believers, catch and eat their souls."

Nanzhou was taken aback.

It all makes sense.

Why do ghosts appear irregularly?

Why is it random, and the target of the attack is more random?

Why ghosts are invisible, tangible, and even dewclaws?

Facial recognition triggered, feet in bathroom, cannibal red lips on computer screen, seduction in dreams…

The horror plots that have appeared in the movies, the houses that are constantly compressed and distorted, the doors that disappear...

The time axis is almost completely synchronized with the murder time, but the murderer is not seen, nor the **** body mass...

All kinds of clues, gathered together, point to a possibility that is a little bizarre, but only in this way can be explained.

Li Yinhang said: "This is the movie world."

Jiang Fang said: "This is Xiao Ming's world."

Li Yinhang: “…”

Li Yinhang: "...Ah???"

She spent more than half a day, revisited more than 20 horror movies at 2x speed, and tried to avoid people's eyes and eyes, so that other groups would not find out what she was doing.

She ultimately came to the conclusion that it was a world of multiple cinematic hybrids.

After listening to her analysis, Jiang Fang spent 20 seconds and gave a completely different answer.

...She had a feeling of grief and indignation that she was full of confidence after the exam and told the master about the answer, but was told by the master that she still had a side she didn't write.

She paused for a few seconds before thinking about what Jiang Fang just said.

…What is "Xiao Ming's World"?

Nan Zhou sat cross-legged on the ground, with the handicrafts he made for Xiao Ming in front of him.

That was done by Nanzhou today.

He felt that if the flow of time speeds up again tomorrow and the day after, it may be too late to do manual work.

So he planned to set it up in advance, and by tomorrow, as long as a few additions were made, the task would be completed.

Now, Xiao Ming's dream family has taken shape.

Three matchstick figures of different heights stood in front of the house holding hands.

The light makes the matchstick emit a faint wooden glaze. If you don't look closely, it looks like a few miniature ivory carvings, delicate and warm.

Nan Zhou used a toothpick thick tweezers to pick up the hair-thin toothpick and put it on the empty side of one of the little people.

…This is Matchstick's arm.

His hands were very steady, and he could even separate his mind, answering Li Yinhang's questions softly: "'Xiao Ming's world' means that we are now in Xiao Ming's mind."

When Li Yinhang was at a loss, Jiang Fang answered, "Yinhang, do you remember that phone call? That's when we went to ask about the water bill."

"The operator told us that today is July 3rd."

"In June, the water consumption of this family was the normal 12 tons for a family of three. But after only three days in July, the water consumption increased to 11 tons."

Li Yinhang tried to keep up with the rhythm: "So, the dismemberment either happened on the 1st or the 2nd?"

Because the oil in the pressure cooker is fresh and shiny.

Jiang Fang said: "The exact time cannot be tested. However, it is very likely that on the night we arrived, he just sent off his daughter."

Nan Zhou adjusted Matchstick Xiaoming's square head.

He was wondering how long it would take a man with a handsaw, a bathtub and a spacious bathroom to disassemble a human body to the point where it could be shipped and thrown away after realizing his mistake .

The answer is, four or five hours is enough.

Thinking like this, he said, "Maybe, Xiao Ming's father really came to Xiao Ming's bed on the night he finished killing people. He stood beside the bed and stared at Xiao Ming."

After saying something that made Li Yinhang horrified, Nan Zhou continued to lower his head to build Xiao Ming's home, and said slowly:

“…But if this game is a reality that the character Xiao Ming is experiencing simultaneously, then this game should not be designed that way.”

"Xiao Ming's father should still be at home, we should have an intersection with Xiao Ming's father, an NPC, our task should be to discover the fact that he murdered, and then try to escape, and he will hold a handsaw in the Chase us from behind. ... Instead of throwing us into an empty house, some inexplicable ghost, let's find a door we don't know where it is."

"From the very beginning, all of us are playing Xiao Ming, living, washing, entertaining, doing homework, and doing activities in this home according to Xiao Ming's habit."

"Since then I can't figure it out, there is only one Xiao Ming, why should we gather eight people to participate in this dungeon?"

"Now I know probably why: the number doesn't matter. Because we can all be Xiao Ming."

"This copy is the world in Xiao Ming's brain."

Inspired by the cooperation of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang, Li Yinhang finally opened his mind.

If they were in Xiao Ming's mind now, then the day when her sister was dismembered was just a normal day for Xiao Ming who had just woken up from her sleep.

From his perspective, he didn't notice anything.

So when he woke up from a happy sweet sleep, he didn't smell blood or hear the sound of dismemberment.

And as players, they heard nothing.

When he woke up at 8 o'clock on July 3rd and started a new day, the ground had been cleaned, blood was flushed into the sewer, and the smell of fresh air system and detergent would smell **** All cover up.

He could only smell a trace of meat in the air.

In reality, the father may still be at home, changing into a new dress, looking a little haggard, as if he had not slept all night.

Xiao Ming started his ordinary daily life in ignorance.

And the players on the first day also began to search in such a false peace.

At noon, Xiao Ming probably had a dream.

Although Xiao Ming has no idea what happened last night, his consciousness has received enough signals.

Then he dreamed of the screeching noise of a hand saw.

...So Yu Tuisi also dreamed.

This dream may have made Xiao Ming in a bad mood, so that when he was taking a shower at night, when he thought of a certain episode of a horror movie on the computer, he was very afraid that a pair of women's bare feet would appear behind him.

And Shen Jie saw the pale feet.

Before going to bed, Xiao Ming, who did not see his sister for a day, would ask his father.

"Where did my sister go?"

Or "Dad, what about sister?"

Any father with a trace of conscience may find it difficult to maintain his normal spirit after breaking down his daughter by himself.

He will say, my sister went out to play, or will he say, my sister is looking for her mother?

In short, that would not be a pleasant answer.

Because after one night, the world where Jiang Fang and the others were in a strange twist.

If this is Xiao Ming's heart, he should be nervous.

He found something strange, maybe his sister's things disappeared overnight, maybe he also saw a few **** hairs like them.

Even, he dreamed of the smell of meat during his nap.

Xiao Ming's atrium shrank violently, protesting strongly, the normal part shrinks smaller and the deformed part enlarges.

…This is their third day, the clock is going crazy, the crazy is getting stronger, and the whole house is twisted into a kiln.

Before, Xiao Ming was just lonely, he complained alone, why they didn't play with me.

The only thing that can illuminate his sensitive heart is the one that belongs to him among the lights of all households.

Now this light is slowly going out.

Keywords to pass the level are placed in the name of the copy from the very beginning.

The task they want to complete is "Xiao Ming's daily life".

It is his normal daily life, and it is also a daily life in which he gradually struggles and deforms in pain, anxiety and fear.

"So..." Nan Zhou came to a conclusion again, "We are in Xiao Ming's world."

A world that evolved from the heart of a child who suffered an accidental murder.

A world falling into darkness layer by layer.

There are ghosts that children are afraid of, nightmares and secrets hidden here.

There is no door to escape.

So they never found the door.

After experiencing the joy of discovering the truth for a moment, Li Yinhang suddenly became depressed again.

Even if they discover the truth about the world they are in, they still can't find the door.

Her discovery does have some value, but it has nothing to do with the main line, so even the reward sound did not sound.

For example, what she found was an opportunity to find the keyhole.

But without the key, it is still useless.

Jiang Fang praised her: "You have done a good job."

Li Yinhang: “…”

Although I got the clue and went in the wrong direction, thank you for the encouragement.

Jiang Fang turned to Nan Zhou: "What do you think?"

Nan Zhou did not speak, just pursed his thin lips and frowned slightly.

After a while, he said, "Today is our third day here. If you can go out before 24 o'clock today, will you be rewarded with a lot of points?"

Jiang Fang's eyebrows moved slightly: "Did you think of it?"

"It's not difficult."

Li Yinhang: "..." She felt that her IQ was being rubbed by two bosses in turn, one was symbolic tenderness, the other was simply rude.

Nan Zhou turned to Li Yinhang and confirmed, "...points will be a little more, right?"

Seeing the hope of getting out of this ghost place, Li Yinhang blushed with excitement: "Yes, yes."

So, Nan Zhou swallowed what he wanted to say.

He reached out and picked up Xiao Ming's math summer homework, opened the cover,

What caught his eye was a big clock drawn by Xiao Ming on the title page of the workbook.

Xiao Ming wrote in his diary: "I hope the clock will be turned to the end and the math homework will be finished automatically."

Nanzhou's fingertips ran across the cool pages.

In the depths of Xiao Ming's heart, what is he longing for?

How to find a door to escape from the pain with Xiao Ming's falling hope.

Nan Zhou gently placed his finger on the hour hand of the graffiti clock.

They have already searched this house, and it is unlikely that there will be any other clues.

Looking at all their discoveries so far, only this virtual clock holds Xiao Ming's wish.

It does not belong to reality, it belongs to Xiao Ming's heart.

He moved the pointer backwards.

And the hour hand, which was originally stagnant and tickled with a pen, actually moved.

Round and round.

Simple operation of back and forth.

As Nan Zhou said, it's really not difficult, very simple.

Xiao Ming wants to go back in time.

Back to the day when there was no tragedy, back when my father and sister were still there.

Nanzhou's fingertips turned faster and faster, but his eyes were fixed on the three little human figures standing in front of the small house.

If time could be reversed, what wish would people make?

Go back and see what your parents and loved ones looked like when they were young and healthy?

Buy a lottery ticket and fulfill your wish to become rich?

Say sorry to the person you hurt when you were young and ignorant?

Nanzhou does not know.

He doesn't really want to do anything.

If I had to…

A pleasant system music sounded at the right time, interrupting Nan Zhou's reverie.

After the music, everyone heard the same thing:

【Ding Ding Ding Dong—】

【Congratulations to the "Cube Ark" team for completing the copy "Xiao Ming's Daily Life"! 】

[Congratulations to the "Lifang Ark" team members Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang, and Li Yinhang for finding the "Escape Door" and getting 2,000 points each! 】

【Congratulations to the "Cube Ark" member Nan Zhou for discovering the A-level prop "Countercurrent Clock"! 】

[Congratulations to the "Lifang Ark" team, the "Shunfeng" team, and the "Nanshan" team for completing the basic tasks, and get the reward "Xiao Ming's daily life", each with 500 points! 】

【Congratulations to the three teams, they found the exit four days in advance within the seven-day game time, and each won 800 points! 】

[The exploration degree of the main line of the current mission is 98.7%. If the completion degree is above 95%, you can judge the perfect S grade! 】

[Didi-S-level reward is 1000 points and any random props, the props will be sent to the players' backpacks within three days~]

【Players please leave the instance within three minutes—】

Nan Zhou immediately eliminated all unnecessary thoughts, and carried the summer homework with the clock into his arms so fast that Li Yinhang didn't have time to blink.

When the three pushed the door out, Shen Jie, who was just about to take a shower, was standing in the center of the living room.

Shen Jie's hands trembled slightly, and she asked the three of them in ecstasy: "What's going on?!"

Nan Zhou let Li Yinhang explain to them briefly, while he looked around.

The walls are still twisted.

Just where there should be a door in the entrance, there appeared a door drawn crookedly with a child's crayon.

...Xiao Ming's heart, after all, has become like this.

Nan Zhou originally thought that if he didn't have time to reward points, he wanted to stay with Xiao Ming for the next four days.

But in this way, the heart that has been hurt will not be healed easily.

Li Yinhang reluctantly described their reasoning process by his own ability.

Shen Jie didn't understand at all.

Ignoring the little jealousy and envy of the "Cube Ark" in her heart, she instructed the fitness coach to quickly carry the skinny monkey over.

It's good to go out, she can't care so much.

Chen Sufeng pushed Yu Tuisi, who had just taken sleeping pills, out of the master bedroom.

The latter propped his head up, drowsy.

Shen Jie asked Li Yinhang, "Where are you going after you go out?"

Li Yinhang: "We come from Rust."

Shen Jie warmly invited: "Come to 'paper gold', we came from 'paper gold'."

"Paper Gold City" is also a teleportation point of the game "Gravity".

Different from the post-modern cities where the rust is highly mature, the "paper gold city" is resplendent and splendid.

Chen Sufeng is studying the weird door.

Jiang Fang is watching the structure of the gate from a distance.

Nan Zhou entered Xiao Ming's room to see if there were any hidden props.

In the last three minutes, Shen Jie and Li Yinhang decided where to go after leaving.

Yu Tuisi in the foyer looked at the few people who were hurriedly discussing where to go, and the fitness coach who was walking towards Shen Jie from the sofa with the skinny monkey on his back.

He squinted his eyes, which were blurred by the effect of the medicine: "...Why is there one more person?"

It is too late.

Jiang Fang looked back suddenly.

A monster who did not know when appeared behind the fitness trainer.

It was a naked male zombie with scum dripping from its chin!

Who would have thought that Xiao Ming's terrifying imagination would be refreshed just before they left? !

Li Yinhang's mind was completely blank for a moment.

A long list of messages flashed before her eyes.

The American zombie movie "Loss", the plot is about 2 hours. When everyone thought that the zombies were completely eliminated, there was still one lurking in the protagonist's home.

…It's a **** open ending.

The living room is too narrow, there is no way to hide.

Chen Sufeng reacted the fastest, grabbed the armrest of Yu Tuisi's wheelchair, and passed through the drawn door out of thin air.

Before the fitness coach could even look back, Shen Jie grabbed her arm and yelled, "Run!"

The fitness coach had 100% trust in Shen Jie, he didn't dare to turn his head, he ran so fast, and jumped out the door in a few steps.

Li Yinhang had already planned to run, but when it was her fate, when the fitness coach ran wild with the skinny monkey on his back, because the former hugged the latter's knee, Li Yinhang was hit hard At one point, he staggered two steps, screaming "don't fall" and "don't fall" repeatedly in his heart, but he still couldn't resist the gravity and fell to the ground.

Jiang Fang was unable to run because of his height.

So he didn't plan to run at all.

He moved his wrists, his thumbs pressed the middle knuckles of both hands with a slight bone sound.

Seeing that the fitness coach was lost, the zombies were furious, let go of their hands and feet, tilted their heads, and rushed towards Jiangfang!

Li Yinhang was about to scream when he saw a figure walking quickly and came directly to the side of the zombie.

… She even forgot that there was a Nanzhou in the room.

The next moment, Nan Zhou's left hand supported the bottom of the corpse's chin.

His right hand was placed on the upper right side of the corpse's head.

Li Yinhang hadn't yet remembered why this action was so familiar, when he saw his hands sway to the sides like thunder.

Click—

After a crisp bone sound, the zombie's neck was directly disconnected from the connection between the cervical vertebrae and the head, and turned back 180 degrees.

Zombie: "…"

He probably didn't understand, he turned his face towards the door just now, why is his face towards the toilet now.

Li Yinhang: "..." I didn't scream, it's my throat.

Nan Zhou looked at his hands covered with unknown mucus, quickly pulled a scarf on the hanger, and wiped his hands a few times.

While wiping his hands, he raised his head and said to Jiang Fang, "Don't be afraid next time, remember to run, you can't beat me, I'll do it."

Jiang Fang put his hands in his pockets, completely covering up his attacking posture, and said with a smile, "Yes, Teacher Nan."

After a brief cleaning, Nan Zhou walked to Li Yinhang: "Come on."

Double fright, Li Yinhang stared at the zombies that were still spinning, his legs were weak.

Seeing that she didn't move, Nan Zhou grabbed her clothes by the back of her neck and half lifted her from the ground like a chicken.

"Go quickly." Nan Zhou said concisely, "I want to wash my hands."

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Escaped the prison called daily qwq