Players Please Get In the Car

Xu Huo stopped washing dishes and pointed to the window, "I just saw a figure walking by, and I didn't hear the knocking for a while."

Seeing his actions, the woman's face changed, and she quickly lowered her voice and said, "Don't talk!"

The other two people in the room also became nervous, rushed into the room with a vigilant look, took the two children out, and covered their ears.

With Xu Huo and the painter's faces full of confusion, the door was knocked:

"Knock, knock, knock."

The evenly rhythmic knocking sound rang twice in a row. Xu Huo patted the woman's sleeve, pointed at the door, and asked her with his eyes if she wanted to open the door.

The woman closed her mouth, looked at him fiercely, and then shook her head vigorously.

Xu Huo stood there honestly, and the knocking sound rang again, and then fell into endless silence.

When these people relaxed, he asked, "Who knocked on the door just now? Is there anyone living here... a bad person?"

He deliberately said it in an obscure way, but the old man understood what he meant, "It's not someone else. There are no bad people here, and even if there are, they dare not come out at night."

Xu Huo sat down at the table, showing a gesture of wanting to hear more.

The painter shared two fructose candies with the children, and the two children also pulled her to sit down and begged the old man to tell a story.

The old man finished drinking the tea, chewed and ate all the tea leaves in the cup, and then began to tell this story passed down from generation to generation.

"Hidden friends."

Similar to the background introduction of the game, human figures began to appear in the fog here a few generations ago. At first, everyone thought they were dazzled and saw it wrong. After all, there were many trees and fog, so it was not surprising to see any strange things.

But gradually, as more and more people saw the human figure, some of them suddenly disappeared, one today, one tomorrow. At first, no one suspected the human figure, thinking that they were just lost in the forest or eaten by wild animals. Before the forest mutated and evolved, there were many people living here, and the forest was not so dense and wide, and there were almost no large beasts like now.

Until later, one person saw with his own eyes that another person was called away by "himself".

The story was like this. Two people went into the forest to hunt one after another. The two people knew each other. The person behind caught up with the person in front and wanted to ask him to go with them. Unexpectedly, before he opened his mouth, the person in front suddenly raised his hand and waved to the farther distance, responded and called out the name of the person behind, and asked him to wait and walk together.

At that time, the distance between the two was only more than ten meters. Although the person behind was not sure whether there was really no one in front, he was sure that the person was definitely not himself.

Under normal circumstances, the person behind only thought that the person in front had misidentified the person, or that someone in front who knew them was joking, so the person behind quickened his pace to catch up. He wanted to call the person in front, but there was a thick fog ahead, and the person in front disappeared before he had walked far. The person behind shouted for a while but there was no response, so he gave up.

On the second and third day, the person in front did not come back. The person behind went back and asked a friend who was familiar with the two people, and learned about their whereabouts that day. He was sure that it was not a joke from his friend, so he told what he had seen.

At that time, many people had seen people calling and greeting themselves in the woods. There were so many people that they could not use dazzle to get away with it, so they made a response strategy.

Those who saw the human figure were generally alone, so they must go into the woods in groups. If you meet someone who greets you, don't answer until you see the face clearly. After a period of peace and quiet, people began to be dissatisfied with self-protection and wanted to find out what happened to the missing person.

So some people started to go into the mountains alone with their equipment. None of these people really took photos of "human figures", but some people and their equipment disappeared together.

This incident gradually spread, and some authoritative organizations came to detect and search, and finally came to the conclusion that the magnetic field chaos caused hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. As for the human figure, no one was seen at all.

After a few times, some experts jokingly called this figure "the hidden friend".

At that time, this was still a relatively large town. Although there were legends, most people did not live in the forest, and they would not go there if they were not in a hurry, so they did not consider the issue of relocation until a plant mutation occurred. In a very short period of time, a large number of mutant plants emerged from the woods, submerging the town and the two nearby large cities.

At that time, except for those who went out to work, the original residents of these cities all died, and not even a body was found.

I don’t know if it was because of this tragic incident that many residents in other places had hallucinations and always saw human figures calling them in the fog. In fact, the fog that started from this mutant forest was indeed spreading to the surrounding areas.

Originally, this incident would end with some people being sent to a mental hospital, but then other areas also experienced mutations, and the human settlement area continued to shrink. New rules were formulated in the safe zone, and some people who had no ability to protect themselves were abandoned - not directly driven out, but under the pretext of letting them go out to explore.

Some of these abandoned people survived in the undeveloped areas and built cities here.

However, there were so many mutant plants, and after repeated destruction and reconstruction, the people living here could only use local materials. They lacked resources and talents, and there were few players among their descendants, so they lived in such a difficult way.

"It is a great fortune for us to live in this forest." The old man said: "At least there are no mutated beasts here, and the hidden friends... friends we don't need."

From the experience of people living nearby, their coping methods are enough to protect themselves, but the old man mentioned that the way the "hidden friend" finds friends sometimes changes. In the past, it was in the mountains and forests, and it is unknown when it will appear outside the house, and sometimes it will even imitate outsiders. For example, just now Xu Huo knocked on the door, and the "hidden friend" might imitate him to knock on the door.

The knocking sound just now was just a trigger made by Xu Huo, but there really were people knocking on the door, mostly players doing dungeons.

However, the "hidden friend" has appeared for such a long time, but no one has mentioned it in the dungeon data near the Beautiful Tomorrow Station, and it is simply classified as a strange story.

It is impossible that none of the players who came in to do the dungeon came out alive, right?

"It's getting late. You should go to bed early. The two children's rooms have been cleaned up." After the story was finished, the two children fell asleep in their parents' arms contentedly. The old lady was also a little tired, but she still warned: "If someone calls you outside at night, you must not answer."