Love Apartment (14)
/Text: Green Plum Sauce
The big man NPC seemed to react after he finished speaking, and scratched his head strangely: "Hey, strange, why do I think this is a normal thing?"
The others exchanged glances silently.
The situation is now obvious. The disappearance of the NPC in Room 1103 is indeed something that is allowed to happen by default in this copy, and it is not just the first time it has happened. That’s why people who have been in this apartment for a long time have Even if the NPC has no relevant memory, he still instinctively feels "used to it".
Chi Ting waved his hand to indicate that the big man NPC Ba had no choice but to stay longer. He immediately nodded and said goodbye with a bow, and hurriedly closed the door.
Xiang Xianwan is a novice and may not be able to realize that veteran players like Li Tao who have cleared several dungeons are always the only ones being chased by NPCs. How could I ever see an NPC begging them to stay away?
When he looked at Chi Ting again, his eyes became more admiring: "Brother Chi, what should we do now?"
Chi Ting was quite happy-go-lucky: "If the NPC is gone, then he's gone. It won't do us any harm anyway. It's still early. Why don't you continue going downstairs to take a look?"
Xiang Xianwan asked: "Do you want to call that Li Hou?"
Chi Ting: "No need. The fact that he can go to the 9th floor to find someone means that he has already gained enough favorability on the 10th floor. There is no point in being together. Just call him when he is about to go down to the 9th floor."
The others nodded obediently: "Okay, Brother Chi!"
Thanks to Chi Sui, today's progress can be considered to be quite smooth. If possible, everyone naturally hopes that it can go on smoothly until the end of the customs clearance... That's weird.
Just as the group was preparing to go down to the 10th floor with high spirits, and just after passing the corner of the stairs, their attention was attracted by the blood stains on the handles, and their expressions suddenly became more or less subtle.
These marks look like the shape of human hands, spreading down bit by bit along the stair railing.
The first half is relatively sporadic, and then it transitions very naturally to bloody footprints one after another, and finally gradually disappears around the corner of the corridor on the 10th floor.
Everyone stopped subconsciously.
The game has been going on so far. Although they have been frightened for a while, at least it has been psychologically focused so far. For the first time, they are unprepared to face these possible substantive harms, which makes the three of them subconsciously turn around and face Chi Chi. Stop looking.
When he turned around, he happened to see Chi Zhan approaching the dried bloody handprints on the railing in a blink of an eye, and smelled it very seriously: "Good news or bad news, which one do you want to hear?"
Li Tao: "...good news?"
Chi Ting pointed to the railing in front of him: "This is cat blood."
Li Tao breathed a sigh of relief: "What's the bad news?"
Chi Ting raised his eyes and looked downstairs, his eyes falling on the door of Room 1002 directly opposite the security entrance: "But the pool over there should be human blood."
As his words fell, the surroundings became silent for a moment.
After a long time, Xiang Xianwan laughed twice: "Brother Chi, please stop scaring us."
"Why am I scaring you?" Chi Ting asked, and everyone's expressions became even weirder. He didn't care and asked Li Tao directly, "That Fan Pengyue in Room 1002 hasn't spoken to the group for a long time, right? ?”
Li Tao was forced to cheer up, took out his phone, took a look at it, and confirmed: "He hasn't appeared for a while before we reminded him in the group."
Chi Ting nodded: "Then he was probably killed."
The more understated the conclusion, the more unacceptable it is.
Although everyone had no interaction before being involved in this game, they are all players after all. If someone can be killed, does that mean that the same thing can also happen to other people present?
This is probably the legendary rabbit-dead-fox effect. Gong Jing's scalp felt numb for a while, but he still held on to the last glimmer of hope: "Brother Chi, are you thinking too much? Maybe the blood over there is also cat blood, and Fan Pengyue is just Like Chang Hefeng, are they both assimilated by the copy?"
"Alas." Chi Ting muttered helplessly, "What kind of work did I do before? I can't be someone who can't tell the difference between the blood of different species."
With one sentence, everyone else's eyes suddenly turned over, and their curiosity temporarily defeated their fear.
The performance along the way has indeed made it difficult for everyone not to be curious about the nature of Chi Ting's previous work.
It’s okay to be able to fight, but you can actually tell what kind of blood it is just by smelling it, uncle policeman?
Chi Ting didn't seem to notice the inquiring glances. He waved his hand and motioned for the three of them to follow: "Actually, whether it is assimilation or murder, we will know after confirming it."
"Confirm? How to confirm?" Hearing Chi Ting say that the pool over there is human blood, Li Tao felt a little repelled and didn't want to go there. When he looked up, he found that Chi Ting had already walked to the door of Room 1002. Such a familiar scene He reacted instantly: "Oh, Brother Chi, are you going to--well, okay, just kick him in again."
At the end of the sentence, he found that he had unknowingly felt a little numb to such a scene.
Chi Ting kicked open the door and stood there without moving, as if he was carefully studying the scene inside.
After a moment, he turned slightly to the side and showed the scene inside to everyone: "Just, see for yourself."
At this time, a gust of wind happened to pass by, and the smell in the house was pushed straight into the corridor with the wide open door.
Such a strong smell of carrion, coupled with the visual impact of the blurry flesh and blood that hit their eyes, made the three people still standing at the stairs clearly dilate their pupils. After a few seconds, they all leaned over and vomited helplessly. .
Perhaps they only caught a glimpse of blood, and the rest of the picture had been instinctively blocked by the body's protective mechanism. But even so, the floor that had been stained by the blood pool was too deeply rooted in people's hearts. Just imagining what might happen in this room in their minds was enough to make all the cells in their bodies resist.
Only Chi Zhan could stand in front of a scene that looked like a large-scale murder scene and his expression remained unchanged.
Chi Ting touched his chin thoughtfully, his eyes calmly observed every detail in the room, and finally gave a statement: "Fan Pengyue must have been chased by something, and there was more than one. It took a lot of effort to get all the way." He ran back to his home. But unfortunately, it seems that running back at this time is of no use. It may be a curse or some kind of system judgment you mentioned. In short, not even a body was left behind. "
There was a pause in his words at this point. Finally, he sighed slowly: "It's a bit miserable. Even if I can only have one finger left, I can at least help to save it."
The others had vomited and recovered a little, but when they heard Chi Ting say "curse" and "no bodies were left behind", their faces suddenly turned pale.
Li Tao wore a mask of pain the whole time, until he heard the last sentence from Chi Ting, and finally couldn't stand it any longer: "Brother, now is the time to think about how to put people to rest!"
Chi Ting wanted to tell him that "transcendence" and "rest in peace" were two different concepts. When he turned around, he finally saw those faces that had completely lost all color, and he also reacted: "Oh, yes, you are in peace... I can’t stand this.”
As he spoke, he reinstalled the crumbling door very neatly, making sure it was tightly closed before stopping, pointing to the blood on the ground, and reiterated: "Do you believe it now, human blood."
"I... believe it, believe it all." Li Tao did not dare to touch the bloody railing and weakly supported the wall. "There is really a problem on this floor. How about we go here first today and go back to find out. Let’s see if we can find out what killing rules Fan Pengyue triggered.”
Chi Ting asked strangely: "Why must it be because of the killing rules?"
Li Tao was taken aback by the question, and was obviously surprised that Chi Ting, an old player, could ask such a question.
Then he thought of some other things downstairs that Chi Ting mentioned before, and his attention was distracted. He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "In non-survival and confrontation type dungeons, there are rarely hard indicators of combat effectiveness. As long as you master it, Knowing the killing rules and avoiding violating them often leaves a way for ordinary players to survive. If Fan Pengyue did not encounter an accident because of triggering the rules, it can only be said that the designer of this dungeon... did not want the players to get out alive from the beginning. .”
He let out a deep breath and stated with a somewhat helpless voice: "After all, those who can awaken their fighting talent are still very rare."
Chi Ting had just arrived and was not very clear about the situation in this infinite game world, but he understood what Li Tao said very well.
In the apocalypse they were in, except for a small number of people who had awakened various powers, the majority were still ordinary people struggling to survive in a desperate situation. It is precisely for this reason that this special group of people with superpowers can be called the last hope to protect mankind.
Unfortunately……
When Li Tao came to his senses, he realized that Chi Ting had walked up to him and gently put his arm on his shoulder.
When their eyes met, the light that fell into his eyes was still dazzling, adding a bit of unprecedented tenderness.
"Don't worry, even if the dungeon designer you mentioned really doesn't want to leave a way for ordinary players to survive, I will still protect you from leaving safely." Chi Zing lowered his eyes slightly, and the corners of his mouth were as calm and gentle as ever, "In fact, To be honest, my biggest wish is world peace, and I may have failed once, at least this time——"
He met Li Tao's dazed gaze, and his slow words fell from the silent space, causing the surrounding temperature that had already dropped to freezing point to drop several degrees.
It's like the devil's murmur: "At least this time... everything that blocks me will die."
