Survival game: my plug-ins can stack up

Zhao Xun walked to the carriage door and waited quietly.

Soon the train stopped.

[This train will stop for three days and depart on time at twelve o'clock on the night of November 4. 】

[Passengers who get off the bus, please be sure to get on the bus before twelve o'clock on the night of November 4th. 】

As soon as the words fell, the carriage door opened instantly.

Zhao Xun got out of the car in a relaxed mood.

Very good, when he comes back from the platform game, there is still enough time to enter the dream game.

Nothing is delayed.

Passing through the familiar thick white fog, Zhao Xun stood in the open space and listened to the footsteps approaching in the distance.

Soon, everyone arrived.

Including Zhao Xun, there are 12 players in total.

Three of them are very recognizable.

One is a monk with a scar on his bald head, one is a Taoist priest wearing a robe, and the other is a Christian wearing a cross necklace around his neck.

Zhao Xun had reason to suspect that these three people only temporarily chose to get off the car after hearing the name of the game.

[Haunted House] This name is easy to understand. It is either related to fake ghosts or real ghosts.

Anyway, the word "ghost" cannot be separated.

These three people may feel that they are just the right match for their expertise, and they may have a better chance of passing the level than others.

However, it is quite interesting that new players can get these three varieties together this time.

Zhao Xun only glanced at the other eleven players, then turned to look at the dark house in the distance.

The house had three floors. The exterior of the building was painted or something, and the whole building looked dark, making it difficult to see clearly the positions of the windows and doors.

Zhao Xun was taciturn but not aggressive and did not attract anyone's attention.

This is the first platform game for new players in November. As long as he does not take the initiative to show his proficiency in the game and look down upon new players, no one will realize that he is an old player.

There is no need for him to express himself deliberately at this time.

A huge public screen appeared above everyone.

【Welcome to the [Haunted House] platform game. 】

[Players need to find all the ghosts in the haunted house and kill them to pass the game. 】

[The number of ghosts is unknown, players need to find clues to confirm. 】

[The method of killing ghosts is unknown and players need to try it themselves. 】

[In addition to players trying various methods on their own, there are weapons in the haunted house that can definitely kill ghosts, but there are only five of them. Players are asked to work hard to find them. 】

[Players cannot leave the haunted house before they find all the ghosts in the haunted house, otherwise the game will be directly judged as failed. 】

[If all ghosts are not killed before the end of the game time, the game will be deemed failed. 】

[I wish all players a happy game. 】

After reading the rules of the game, Zhao Xun felt enlightened.

The difficulty of this game mainly lies in two aspects. One is to determine how many ghosts there are, and the other is how to kill the ghosts.

If you don’t know the number of ghosts, you won’t be able to clear the game if you miss something.

If you're not sure how to kill a ghost, every time you do it, it's likely to be a futile effort.

If the ghost disguises itself so that the player thinks it has been killed, but in fact it is not dead at all and instead hides, that is the end of it.

There is actually an invisible rule.

In this process, it is impossible for the ghost to be passively beaten, and the player is too safe.

Ghosts can definitely take action against players.

Players have to find enough clues to determine the number of ghosts and ways to kill them while ensuring their own life safety. It is quite difficult for new players who have no experience at all and whose special abilities are in the early stages.

As soon as Zhao Xun finished his thoughts, his eyes blurred.

When his vision returned to normal, he could only vaguely see the outlines of various items in the darkness.

Behind him, a man suddenly asked tentatively: "Hey, are you a player?"

Zhao Xun turned around and saw an afro standing in the corner.

The other party's clothes and appearance were not clearly visible in the darkness, but the popcorn-like head was very conspicuous.

Zhao Xun had an impression of this player. His hairstyle was unique among the 12 people and very eye-catching.

However, he did not take it lightly.

The possibility that something is deliberately disguised as a player cannot be ruled out.

Judging from the current situation, after entering the haunted house, the players dispersed.

There may be two or three players in one room, but it's also possible that each player is spread out across different rooms.

Zhao Xun took out a strong flashlight, and suddenly the whole room seemed as bright as day.

He was finally able to see what the other person looked like.

It is a normal human face and limbs, with no traces of weird patchwork.

After the light appeared, Afro's originally uneasy expression relaxed a little.

"That's great, you actually have such a bright flashlight!" Afro approached Zhao Xun happily, "I'm so lucky to be with you, otherwise I wouldn't know how to walk in the dark."

"Don't get too close." Zhao Xun warned.

Afro's footsteps paused, and he asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Xun thought for a while and then shot a ball of flame the size of sesame seeds into the afro's hair.

Before Afro could react, a hole was burned out in the middle of Afro's head.

After Zhao Xun quickly withdrew the flame, he could smell a faint smell of burning from his explosive head.

"What just swished out in your hand and came back again? It was too small and I didn't see it clearly." The explosive head raised his head and looked around, but he really couldn't figure out what the small light spots that just came and went were. He sniffed, "Why do I feel like something is burnt? Did I smell it wrong?"

Zhao Xun looked at the faint wisp of smoke coming out of the hair of the afro. After waiting for a few seconds to make sure that it would not re-ignite, he directly changed the topic: "First, search this room to see if there are any A weapon that can kill ghosts, or a clue as to how many ghosts there are."

Since the rules of the game say that the people in the haunted house are ghosts, that directly rules out the possibility of people pretending to be ghosts.

Ghosts are not necessarily afraid of fire, but if the other person is really a ghost, the fire should not be able to burn the other person's hair.

So it must be a human being.

Since they are human beings, they are players.

After confirming that the opponent is a player, Zhao Xun does not have to worry about anything. The first thing is to seize the time to start the task progress.

"Oh, right." Afro's attention was immediately diverted. He hurriedly started to look for things nearby. At the same time, he did not forget to explain to Zhao Xun, "I'm a little afraid of the dark. I didn't expect it to be dark when I came in." In the dark scene, I may have been a little too excited just now, don’t mind.”

Zhao Xun said "hmm" casually, walked to the other end of the room, and began to rummage through everything carefully.

The light of the strong flashlight is very bright. Even if the two people are scattered in the farthest corners of the room, the light in Zhao Xun's hand can allow Afro to see clearly what is around him.

It looks like a children's toy room, filled with children's toys.

There are even slides and trampolines in the playground.

There's even a small ocean ball pool.

"Wow, I feel like the owner of this house must be quite rich." Afro seemed not used to the too quiet atmosphere, and took the initiative to speak, "Even if ordinary people have a children's room, they just put some simple toys. How can there be such luxury?"

"The area of ​​​​this toy room is larger than the total area of ​​​​three bedrooms and one living room for many people," Zhao Xun did not find it annoying. He opened the toy boxes piled on the wall and looked at all the toys one by one. "From this alone, we can see that the owner is rich."

"That's right." Afro sighed, "It's a pity that this is a haunted house, otherwise I really want to take a look at every detail of such a luxurious house to satisfy my curiosity."

Now...he could only pray that a ghost wouldn't suddenly appear and scare him to death. He wasn't that curious at all.

This time, Zhao Xun did not respond to the explosion.

He looked at several toys in his hand and found that they all had some numbers or letters on them.

Some have numbers like ①②③ and so on, and some have a series of letters like ABC.

But there is no obvious similarity between dolls with the same number or the same letter.

They are neither divided by size nor color, and even the materials and styles of toys are different.

Take the toys that also read ① as an example. They are made of plastic, metal, or velvet, with different sizes and colors.

There is really no way to see the rationality of all classifications as ①.

Did they buy it at the same time?

Thinking of this, Zhao Xun opened the second toy box.

There is still a box full of toys inside, and there are still a series of numbers written ①②③, and a series of letters ABC.

This is strange.

Since the toys have been marked, it stands to reason that when storing, toys with the same number should be put in a box.

Rather than all being put together in a mess like this and scattered into different boxes.

What's the meaning of that mark?

It didn’t look like they were bought at the same time to mark the toys, because Zhao Xun saw two different toy cars also marked ⑤. One was obviously old and badly worn, while the other was brand new. .

"Hey, I suddenly remembered that we should go find other players first, meet up with everyone, and then collect clues together, right?" Afro asked belatedly, "It will be beneficial for everyone to work together and help each other. Complete the game!"

"The rendezvous may not be smooth, but it will delay time." Zhao Xun answered briefly, "It is more appropriate to meet other players while searching for clues and share the current progress with each other."

Since the game disperses players to various places, it is to increase the difficulty of players joining together.

There are three floors here. It would be easy to just walk out of the room and join together.

But in this process, encountering unknown obstacles or encountering ghosts will affect the progress of the convergence.

It would be too much of a waste of time to hold on to the thought of having to gather together before starting the mission.

Afro thought about Zhao Xun's words carefully, and finally understood what Zhao Xun meant. He nodded: "That's true."

"Do you have a toy box over there?" Zhao Xun didn't want to listen to Afro's nonsense anymore, so he simply started assigning tasks, "See if the toys inside are all marked with numbers or letters."

Afro, who was reading picture books one by one, heard Zhao Xun's words and looked around him. Sure enough, he saw neatly stacked plastic boxes on the wall.

He opened a box at random, and it was full of toys.

He took out the toys inside and looked at them one by one, with a surprised look on his face: "There are all of them. Each toy has a number or letter on it."

Zhao Xun thought for a while and asked: "Look at the toys over there, what is the largest number or letter, and then look for anything else suspicious in the toy box."

At present, no more information can be inferred from the numbers on the toys, so we can only collect as much relevant data as possible and look for other clues.

Maybe it will come in handy later.

In fact, Zhao Xun had guessed whether these numbers and letters might be the number of ghosts in this [haunted house].

After all, this is the only clue so far that can be linked to "quantity".

If his guess is correct, then he thinks the meaning of marked toys may be that toys marked with the same number or letter belong to the same ghost.

But this was just his conjecture, without enough evidence to support it, so he had to look for other clues.

While Zhao Xun was thinking, he quickly checked all the toy boxes here.

No other useful clues or strange things were seen, and the largest number he saw marked was the letter z.

If he guessed correctly, there would be too many ghosts.

The meaning of this children's toy room is completely different from the conventional understanding and becomes very strange.

But in a haunted house, it’s normal to be weird.

After Zhao Xun finished checking all the toy boxes, there was finally movement on the side of the afro: "I've finished reading. The largest number here is the letter z."

"It's the same here." Zhao Xun responded and asked, "Did you see anything strange over there?"

"I didn't see anything strange in the toy box." Afro replied, "But in one of the picture books, I found... um... it should be blood."

He took out one of the colorful picture books and opened it to a certain page.

Zhao Xun quickly walked to Afro, picked up the picture book, and saw deep red traces in one corner.

It doesn't look like graffiti with a brush, nor does it look like paint, it looks like blood.

Because the paper has obvious signs of hardening after blood coagulation.

"It's not spray-like blood, nor is it dripping blood. It seems like the blood has stained this place after it flowed over." Zhao Xun said while looking at the other pages.

Sure enough, half of the pages in the entire picture book had a corner stained with blood.

It’s just that the page with the afro unfolded has the most blood.

In other words, the picture book was opened to this page at that time, and the footer was soaked in blood.

"You put it like that, I have a sense of the picture." Afro scratched his head, his expression a little uneasy, "Could someone be beaten to death here?"

"Absolutely," Zhao Xun's tone was calm, "You have to die to become a ghost. It's normal to be beaten to death here."

Explosive head: "..."

Don't say this in such a tone that you ate an apple tonight, okay?

It's scary! Hey!

Afro lowered his head and looked around: "The body is not here, so where is the ghost?"

"The corpse may have been disposed of long ago." Zhao Xun shrugged, "As for the ghost..."

Before he finished speaking, the blood-stained picture book suddenly turned its pages automatically.

Afro was so frightened that he stepped back again and again, his eyes fixed on the picture book whose pages were turning faster and faster, and he was so nervous that he couldn't say a word.

Zhao Xun subconsciously raised his finger, and a fireball the size of a table tennis ball immediately rushed towards the picture book.

The picture book burned quickly, followed by a sharp and piercing cry.

Afro felt a stinging sensation in his eardrums and quickly covered his ears.

After a while, the flames burned the picture book clean, and the screams disappeared.

Zhao Xun withdrew the flame, leaving only black ash on the table and a hole in the wooden table.

At the same time, a pop-up window appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations to player Zhao Xun for successfully killing a ghost, earning 10 points and 10 hours of survival time. 】

Zhao Xun raised his eyebrows slightly.

He originally wanted to burn the picture book before the ghost came out of it.

Without the picture book as a lodging item, the ghost might die.

Even if the ghost won't die, at least it will be exposed, which is better than letting the ghost keep turning pages here to scare people.

Unexpectedly, the ghost was burned to death along with the picture book.

If you think about it carefully, ordinary flames should not have this effect. The fact that it can reach this level should be related to the fact that [Fire Control Level 3] was quadrupled and turned into Samadhi True Fire.

The true fire of samadhi can burn evil spirits to death, which is in line with the setting.

In this way, he no longer needs to look for the weapons in the haunted house that can kill ghosts. He can directly rely on the Samadhi True Fire to kill those ghosts.

He can spend all his time looking for ghosts and doesn't need to be distracted looking for weapons, saving a lot of time and energy.

Zhao Xun was very satisfied with this.

He walked aside and started flipping through picture books, comic books, and fairy tales page by page.

Maybe there are other ghosts hiding in a certain book.

Afro didn't come back to his senses until this moment. He carefully looked at the pile of black ash and whispered: "Is there... is there no movement?"

"Obviously, it's easy to see." Zhao Xun spoke concisely. He looked up at the afro and reminded, "Don't hold back, otherwise I will leave you behind."

In this game, there is indeed no conflict of interest between players.

What's more, the haunted house is so big, finding clues together with someone is indeed faster than just one person.

In addition, Afro was more cooperative and did not cause any trouble so far, so Zhao Xun did not drive away Afro.

But if Afro behaves inappropriately, Zhao Xun will immediately kick him away.

The explosive head reacted very quickly this time. He immediately understood what Zhao Xun meant, and hurriedly walked to another bookshelf and started flipping through the books page by page.

He was afraid that he would appear lazy and make Zhao Xun think he was a burden.

He is now at least certain that Zhao Xun can kill ghosts without looking for other weapons. If he stays with such players, his chances of surviving to clear the level will be higher.

He can't miss this thigh!

Thanks to [The Beauty of Darkness in the Morning] for the April vote, [Reader 1535179039390588928] for the January vote, and [New Book Friend 001] for the January vote~