Lu Ning stood at the door of the villa.
With either expectation or confusion, she silently waited for the so-called "return" vehicle. It didn't take long. Amidst the sound of horse hooves, a "carriage" appeared on the mountain road in the distance.
It was not a carriage driving on the ground, but four divine black horses with blue-black flames on their feet, pulling a carriage as big as a train carriage, traveling smoothly about 20 centimeters above the ground. in the air. A coachman whose torso and limbs are more slender than ordinary people is driving this carriage. The most special thing about "it" is that the head is not a human head, but a white paper lantern with a light inside. In the light of the fire, a circle of ten days dry was written in ink on the outside of the lantern; the high stand-up collar of the black cloak completely covered the neck, and the lantern was embedded in the collar.
"Good morning, miss."
After the carriage stopped, the coachman did not get out of the car. Instead, he stretched out his white-gloved hand and touched his chest lightly. This was a very magnetic male voice with a polite and gentle tone, which was exactly what Lu Ning thought of as the "mastermind behind the scenes." Doesn’t match.
"Are you... here to pick me up?"
Lu Ning asked.
"Yes, this carriage is here to pick up the tourists from Ghost Villa No. 6 to 10 to the distribution area. You can rest assured that you can relax your tense mood in the past few days on the carriage. If you have any questions, I will do my best for you. Possible answers."
After saying this, the coachman didn't see any movement. A door had been opened at the front of the huge carriage behind him.
"Now you can let people out who haven't come out yet."
Lu Ning was stunned when she heard this.
"I'm the only one left..."
The driver's tone was slightly surprised: "Really? There is only one person left? It's not as expected... But if you are the only one, please get in the car, we have to pick up the others."
The rest?
Thinking back to the "Ghost Villa No. 6 to No. 10" mentioned by the driver before, Lu Ning couldn't help but have a guess in her mind.
Yin Lian's words still echoed in her mind.
[If this kind of game continues...]
"Should I... continue to enter such a... dangerous world?"
"This question is not suitable to answer you now, Miss." The coachman reached for the car door, "Please get in the car. After treating your body and returning your memory, I will answer everything I know for you. "
Lu Ning looked at the coachman. The lantern head made it impossible for her to judge the other party's attitude. Finally, she felt relieved and walked directly onto the carriage.
The moment she walked into the car door, a scream came from behind her head. A stream of gray-black mist rushed out from the back of Lu Ning's head, condensing into a twisted and roaring grimace in mid-air, and disappeared after a moment.
Lu Ning, who turned around and saw the grimace, also recognized the face.
Shi Song.
After the grimace disappeared, a warm feeling flowed into Lu Ning's limbs. The accumulated coldness was dissipated, and the feeling of fatigue disappeared instantly. The wounds on his head, the soil and blood on his body all disappeared, and his clothes changed back to normal. What it looked like when I first came to Ghost Villa.
Immediately afterwards, countless memory fragments suddenly appeared in his mind, gradually filling in Lu Ning's incomplete memories.
During this process, the carriage had started driving again. It circled steadily around the entrance of the villa and headed down the mountain. A bell rang again from the villa behind him, as if to bid farewell to the last tourist.
Just after turning a corner and no longer seeing the villa in sight, Lu Ning had already accepted her lost memory.
Complicated feelings.
She was probably the one who least deserved to survive in the entire villa, not because of qualifications or anything, but because - the last thing Lu Ning remembered was suicide.
"Are we all dead?"
"Yes, miss. We have given you a temporary second life. From a human perspective, you have already died once."
As expected, the coachman answered all questions.
Lu Ning leaned against the carriage and looked around inside.
It's the size of a train car, but the layout is like a bar, except there are no waiters at the bar. A wide variety of drinks are placed on the cabinets behind the bar, with a refrigerator and a vending machine filled with snacks next to it.
Lu Ning found a bottle of orange juice, took it over and opened it to drink. The cold and sweet and sour taste rushed into her mouth, which was refreshing. She carefully sorted out her memories and remembered what happened before coming to Ghost Villa.
"We deeply regret your death, so there is an opportunity here to allow you to go back. A true resurrection is not a miracle that anyone can pray for, so you need to rely on your own ability to fight for it."
Full of seductive sounds, a huge room in dim light, densely packed with people.
"You will face all kinds of situations. In this process, courage, strength, wisdom, and luck can make you stand out. After the final test, you will be resurrected, and you can take everything you have learned here, And a flawless body——"
Perhaps it was this last sentence that moved Lu Ning.
Her suicide was precisely because she had been plagued by illness for many years, and finally could no longer bear the unrequited medical expenses her parents had invested in her, as well as the increasingly frequent pain and suffering.
But, if I can go back healthy...
Those memories were not false. Her parents cared for her so much. She had been cared for by her classmates and teachers because she had been sick since she was young. The doctor she found really tried his best to alleviate her pain.
Lu Ning is indeed a person surrounded by these "loves". However, these loves have gradually turned into unbearable despair in the heart of Lu Ning, who has become more and more surly due to illness.
Therefore, even if there is only a little hope, she will seize it.
"I agree."
Lu Ning agreed to the conditions put forward by the seductive voice without hesitation, and then she was temporarily cleared of the memory related to death, and was sent to the testing site with the others.
Ghost Villa.
"——Can I really be resurrected?"
This is the second question.
"It depends on you, miss. The reason why a miracle is a miracle is that it is extremely difficult to achieve. If you want to go back to the previous world, you have to pass five tests - not a simple test like this ghost villa, but It is a test that may really have an impact on your mind and soul. Of course, before that, you can also choose such a simple testing ground to accumulate experience and the currency necessary to live in the distribution center."
"currency?"
"Your mobile phone has now been installed with the personal information query function. The overall evaluation you received in this Ghost Villa has been converted into corresponding currency and credited to your personal account."
Lu Ning immediately took out her phone and glanced at the battery, which was full again. She swiped a bit and found an APP with a crow icon.
After entering, Lu Ning's personal page is immediately displayed. However, except for the name and a number, all other information on this page is blank. There are also options such as [Account], [Friends], and [Mall] below.
"You can fill in your information yourself, and there is no problem if you don't fill it in. No matter whose client you use, what opens is your own account information, but if you use it by yourself, others can see your information. In addition, the rest of the functions are also very useful in your life at the distribution center, so rest assured that you have enough time to get familiar with them.”
The coachman explained thoughtfully.
Lu Ning nodded and opened her account.
[Account amount: 3100 (check details)]
The content in the details is rather disappointing. It only shows a description like [Ghost Villa, Test, Enter 3100].
"You said before that I shouldn't be the only one to survive in Ghost Villa, so how many people do you expect to be there?" Lu Ning asked.
"It is expected that there will be seven people, no more than ten, and no less than three is normal." The coachman replied, "Ghost Villa is indeed difficult, and the elimination rate required for the test is relatively high, but it is rare to have only one left. "
Lu Ning went through the seven days in her mind. Seven people survived?
Even if she wasn't in such a bad situation later on, she didn't think this number of survivors could be achieved.
"How can this be?"
The driver smiled: "Miss, we are about to arrive at Ghost Villa No. 7. The rules are no different for you, so you might as well take a look."
Lu Ning was stunned, opened the black curtains of the window, and looked out the window.
The scenery is exactly the same as when I left before, as well as the mountain villa slowly approaching in the distance.
However, there were a few people standing in front of the door.
The two men and two women both looked dull and sad, and their embarrassment was not much different from Lu Ning's before.
But there are four people?
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to pick you up on your return journey. Please get in the car."
"Return! Can we go home?"
A woman with disheveled hair rushed directly to the car. Regardless of the driver's strange appearance, she grabbed the driver and asked loudly.
"My task is to take you back to the distribution center. I am not responsible for what happens after that." The coachman reassured softly, "But you are fine now. Please get in the car, have a good rest, and enjoy some drinks and snacks. That will be very helpful to you." help."
A man wearing glasses nodded, stepped forward and pulled the woman away, and then said to the driver: "We understand, thank you for coming to pick us up... What do you call us?"
"You're too polite. My name is Chui Ying. I'm just a driver responsible for picking up and dropping off tourists. If you need anything, please feel free to tell me."
The four people got into the car one after another and went through the same wound treatment and clothes cleaning as Lu Ning. The four people did not look surprised when they found Lu Ning in the car. Instead, they chose a place to sit farther away. together.
When Lu Ning saw this, she didn't want to talk anymore.
The carriage set off again. This time Lu Ning observed the outside. Soon after leaving the villa, the carriage entered a mist. After the surrounding scenery became clear again, it drove on another identical mountain road, but the direction changed again. It became uphill.
"Are these... many parallel worlds?"
"Of course you can understand it this way, but they are just fragments and cannot be called a world." Chui Ying replied with a smile.
"So, is there a prototype?"
"You are really perceptive, indeed. This is a fragment we copied from a certain world."
