"This event is from 19:00 to 24:00 and lasts five hours."
"The activity area is filled with lanterns. Players who correctly guess the puzzles on the lanterns will receive random rewards from the lanterns. The lanterns that have guessed the puzzles will then disappear. There will be no penalty for wrong guesses..."
"But players please pay attention to the following points!"
"Each lantern has a ghost parasitic on it. Every fifteen minutes, the ghosts parasitic on the lantern will come together for five minutes to look for players in the area. Please avoid them!"
At this time, Gu Mian had found the door of this broken house and pushed it open.
After opening the door, he saw the scene outside.
This is an alley, like an alley in a Qing palace drama, with red walls, gray tiles, and blue-grey stone floors.
Looking further away, you can even see the roofs that only exist in costume dramas, but Gu Mian has no time to pay attention to these.
As expected, the place was full of lanterns. The white lanterns were hung one by one above the head of the alley, swaying together when the wind blew. This posture looked like someone was going to a funeral.
Hanging from each lantern was a piece of white paper with black words written on it, like an elegiac couplet, but Gu Mian knew it was a riddle.
There seemed to be speakers installed outside, and these speakers were loudly broadcasting sounds.
Gu Mian felt that this place had definitely been modified by the Game Demon. There should not have been so many speakers installed before.
"The timer has now started, and the ghost will appear for the first time in fourteen minutes..."
Gu Mian looked at the time, it was now 19:01.
"Players please note that death during the event will be a real death!"
"Deaths during the event will be real deaths!"
Probably because they thought this was more important, they repeated the loudspeakers loudly.
Gu Mian listened quietly. There was no one around him, and Fatty and Chu Changge didn't know where they were scattered.
"After the event ends, players who have not died in the area will be teleported directly out of the event area..."
Then it said some auspicious words such as "good luck to you" and "good luck opening the door", and then stopped speaking.
Gu Mian touched her chin and thought about this magical rule: "This activity looks like guessing lantern riddles, but is it actually hide-and-seek?"
Ghosts will appear every fifteen minutes for five minutes at a time.
Therefore, in these fifteen minutes, players not only have to guess the riddles, but also find a good place to hide, otherwise it is not worth losing their lives just to guess the riddles.
When thinking of this, Gu Mian glanced at the time in the upper left corner of the game panel.
It is now 19:03.
Counting from the moment you enter the game, there are still twelve minutes left until ghosts appear.
Gu Mian looked up at the lanterns hanging above her head. There were really many of them, probably to create a "Hundred Ghosts Night Parade" atmosphere in twelve minutes.
Gu Mian casually pulled off a strip from the lantern, and then discovered that this lantern riddle was not simple.
"Walk forward fifty meters and turn left. Continue forward twenty meters and then turn right. You can see a well. What will happen if you plunge into it?"
Gu Mian: "..."
He has never seen such a unique lantern riddle.
"I won't dive into the well anyway, so give up." Gu Mian put down the lantern riddle in his hand.
He said while looking around.
This place was ancient. Gu Mian knew that there were many attractions in Hengdian Film and Television City, but he had never been there, so he really couldn't tell which one it was.
But he didn’t come to this event just to guess which attraction this was.
Gu Mian had no intention of guessing this lantern riddle. He took a few steps forward and said, "Let's wait until we get out of this alley..."
As he walked forward, he glanced at the time. In ten minutes, the first hundred ghosts would appear.
"I have to find out what these ghosts are like first. The first priority is to find a place to hide." Gu Mian walked out of the alley while thinking deeply.
At this time, Fatty and Gu Mian had the same idea.
After he came in, he listened to the rules and immediately started looking for a place to hide.
The fat man was in an antique room, like a lady's boudoir. This was the place where he was born.
"Who knew you had to be separated from the doctor before entering this event!" The fat man muttered to himself while wandering around the room.
He first bent down and lifted the bed curtain, trying to hide under the bed, but considering that this place was also a place frequented by ghosts, the fat man gave up this plan.
Fortunately, there is a wardrobe next to the window in this room, which is quite large and empty.
Probably this cabinet was placed here just to take pictures of the surface, so there was nothing inside, not even the partition, so the fat man got in as he wished.
After getting into the cabinet, he glanced at the time. It was already 19:10.
In five minutes, the ghosts will appear.
Fatty took a cursory look at the lanterns outside and saw that there were quite a few hanging up. If every lantern turned into a ghost, then the ghosts in this place would definitely be everywhere.
"Alas" the fat man huddled in the closet and sighed slightly: "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come to participate in this Laoshizi event..."
And just as he sighed softly, he suddenly heard a noise outside.
The noise came not from his room, but from outside the window.
The fat man immediately held his breath and listened carefully to what was happening outside.
"It's not time yet. There can't be ghosts, right?" The fat man was a little anxious.
Because the wardrobe is relatively close to the window, even though the sound outside is low, the fat man can still hear it.
It seemed like a person was talking.
The first thing he heard was a frightened male voice: "Boss, I was here when I came in. I didn't see anyone else."
Then a slightly sharper voice came: "Don't worry, since we are separated, the others must have separated too."
This should be the boss that the voice called before.
The fat man heard that the boss seemed to pause for a while, and then he said, "You haven't seen anyone else except me since you came in?"
"I thought I saw a woman, but I didn't pay attention. She disappeared in a flash."
"Well" the old man's voice came next: "Don't worry about others, let's find the person we are looking for first, the doctor first. The old man has a locator in his hand. Let's meet the second man first."
"Then that fat guy and the four-eyed guy next to the doctor..."
"Don't worry about it, they look useless, and he didn't let us catch them either."
The fat man was shocked. This was obviously describing them. Why did these people want to arrest the doctor? Who is that "he"?
Then he heard the sound coming from outside.
"Damn it, it's almost time, find a place to hide first!"
Then there were some hasty footsteps.
The fat man took a look at the time. It was now 19:13, and the ghost would officially appear in the world in two minutes.
He tried to open the friend panel to contact Gu Mian, but found that this function was locked in the event and could not be opened.
The attempt failed, so Fatty had to give up.
But at this moment, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from another direction.
The footsteps were also urgent, and they came directly to his door, and then opened the door.
