Infinite Weird Game

Chapter 119 Double Happiness Town (Twenty) Death and Life
Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw herself and Liu Bingding lying in the coffin together.

Although she had no clues, she subconsciously felt that lying in the coffin meant she was safe and could avoid ghosts and monsters such as paper dolls.

It was as if... this scene had been repeated many times, and she was quite experienced with it.

'No, if I was already in the coffin, how could I see myself?How could I...see the coffin lid being closed before my eyes? '

Li Yao leaned against a huge coffin half a person's height, feeling the coolness of the coffin wall on her back. She felt something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

She stood up with some doubts and stared down at the coffin that Xu Yao and Liu Bingding had just laid in.

"he he he he he……"

The shrill laughter of the paper man rang behind his ears, and the wind stirred up by the dance of the paper mantle blew the tips of Li Yao's hair.

The wind on the back of her neck made her feel cold. Li Yao shivered and looked back reflexively.

A pale face suddenly touched the tip of her nose, and a scarlet smile stretched from ear to ear, so funny that it seemed like a mockery.

This is a very low-level jump scare. Although Li Yao is not afraid of ghosts, she was still frightened.

"Li Yao...Sister Li...wuwuwu..." The mournful cries were followed by laughter, which soon replaced the "hee hee" laughter.

The eyes and blush on the face of the paper man did not move, only the mouth suddenly dropped, and the smiling face suddenly turned into a crying face, filled with resentment and jealousy.

"Li Yao, you are the most experienced player among us. If you don't go down the well, no one can."

"Sister Li, I don't want to die... We are just missing a few clues, they must be underground..."

The coercive, pleading, and mixed voices were regurgitated in his memory, and Li Yao suddenly realized:

'Yes, I am not Xu Yao, I am Li Yao. The one who entered the coffin with Liu Bingding was Xu Yao... I am still outside...'

'Xu Yao and Liu Bingding and I went back to Xi'er's house to explore and triggered a side mission...'

'No, who is Xu Yao?Obviously Qi Wen only arranged for two people to go back to Xi'er's house. When did one more person show up? '

His mind flipped the switch on the blind spot, and all the details that had been subconsciously ignored emerged one by one before his eyes.

When she was hiding in a corner of the house, a faceless woman followed her like a ghost, huddled with her...

In the coffin, she whispered to a voice, and the timbre of that voice became more and more similar to hers, as if she was talking to herself...

Then, the coffin was pried open by Liu Bingding, and the woman who followed her had a face, and it was her face...

If the clues are correct, the lady in Xu Zhai who died by throwing herself into a well and the goddess of joy enshrined by the townspeople is called "Xu Yao"...

Li Yao's hands and feet were as cold as ice, and her mind was in confusion.

Xu Yao is a ghost, and Xu Yao who is lying in the coffin with Liu Bingding is a ghost!
And she had been alone with ghosts for so long!
She was so frightened that she could no longer think. Out of instinct, she turned around and lifted the lid of the coffin.

The coffin lid seemed to be welded shut, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't lift it.

She could only slap the outer wall of the coffin frantically and shout loudly: "Liu Bingding, can you hear me? Xu Yao is a ghost!"

There was no response, and all the sounds were like pebbles sinking into the swamp, being tightly wrapped and swallowed up.

Li Yao gasped, and belatedly remembered that she couldn't protect herself at the moment, so how could she have time to worry about others?
She smiled bitterly and reached out to touch the dagger at her waist, but found nothing.

There was no scabbard, nothing, as if nothing had been left there for a long time.

'Did you fall on the road?Or was it taken away by ghosts?Or...I didn't bring a copy? '

Li Yao recalled in vain, but could not recall any impression of the dagger prop. It seemed that as soon as she entered the dungeon, she subconsciously ignored the prop on her body and had no idea of ​​using it.

'how so? [White Blade] was an item I bought at the Points Mall before entering this dungeon. How could I not bring it with me? '

Li Yao shook her head slightly, feeling something was wrong.

She raised her eyes resignedly, only to find that the terrifying paper figures were just surrounding her, with no intention of attacking. Instead... they looked at her with a strange look, with a trace of ironic pity in their eyes.

Paper people were flying in the mist, and some of the faces looked more and more familiar, as if they had seen them deep in memory.

"Xiao Xi...hiss...Brother Zhang, are you guys?" Li Yao raised her hand to press her forehead, and the previously covered memories surged up like a tide.

In front of him was a gloomy and deep river, with towering mountain walls on both sides blocking out the sun. There was only a small raft floating on the river, which was as quiet as stagnant water.

This is the scene that the players were in when they first entered the copy of "Double Happiness Town".

But this time, there were only five people on the boat. Except for Li Yao and the boatman, the other three were all strangers.

It was November 2012, 11. After purchasing the prop [White Blade], Li Yao entered the dungeon before the countdown ended and met three teammates.

The tall man with scars at the corners of his eyes is Brother Zhang, the thin and weak young man who dares not speak is Ashu, and the girl who deliberately behaves cheerful and generous is Xiaoxi.

As a supernatural novelist, Li Yao was naturally promoted to be the leader of the four-person team because she knew a lot of folk customs and Feng Shui theories.

At first, she did live up to expectations, leading her teammates through death points one after another with her experience and knowledge.

But this copy is too big.Mrs. Xu appears regularly and takes the players here and there; white mist covers the land from time to time, and there are ghosts and monsters running rampant in the mist.Players can do nothing but passively experience the plot.

On the first day, the four of them dreamed of a woman sitting by the well and were awakened.

The next day, the four of them attended Xi'er's wedding banquet and went to the Xi'er Temple to offer incense. They were teased and embarrassed by the moving statues and weeping coffins.

Ashu was injured in the fight. Brother Zhang's words showed that he wanted to leave him, but Li Yao stopped him sternly.

On the third day, Xi'er was found dead in the well. The four of them found half a piece of the makeup mirror beside the well.

Xiao Xi recognized that it was the latest brand and should belong to Xu Wen.

Brother Zhang believes that this is a clue left by Xu Wen to inform the player that she is underground.

On the night of the third day, hundreds of ghosts walked at night.Xi'er's ghost returns home, possesses Xiao Xi, and randomly looks for people to kill.

During the fight, Li Yao stabbed the [white blade] into Xiao Xi's heart, and then discovered that Xiao Xi was still alive when she was possessed...

On the fourth day, players still had no clue about the main mission and world view.Xiaoxi's death turned into a haze hanging over the players, and cracks appeared in the three-person group.

The fog in the town is getting thicker and thicker, and even during the day, you can see scary things in the fog.

The players had the dream of the first night again. This time, the woman in red was lying at the mouth of the well with her limbs twisted and her eyes were bleeding with blood and tears, and she was begging for help from the passers-by.

On the fifth day, Brother Zhang asked someone to go down the well and have a look. As a leader, Li Yao couldn't shirk his responsibility.

She wrapped the rope around her waist, looked at Brother Zhang who had a cruel face, and then looked at Ashu who was pale due to injury, and finally put the [White Blade] into Ashu's hand in front of Brother Zhang.

She thought that after she went down the well, if Brother Zhang wanted to harm Ashu, Ashu had the means to defend himself; and if Brother Zhang wanted to harm her, Ashu could stop him in time.

In such a wishful thinking that was almost innocent and helpless, she jumped down the well, fell on the soft mud, and never returned.

In the darkness, her consciousness sank into something invisible, and she could only hear the conversation between the two people above her.

Ashu asked in a low voice: "Zhang...Brother Zhang, what are you doing? Sister Li is still down there..."

Brother Zhang sneered in a cold tone and said: "Oh, we just want her to die down there. Only if she dies can we have a chance to live." "But, along the way, Sister Li took care of all the death points. We went there..."

"It's just a few death points. Is she capable of leading us through the level? Didn't she say it herself? She is helpless with the main mission of this dungeon."

"Then...that can't be..."

"Haha, judging from the clues found so far, it is impossible to crack the world view. In the end, % will trigger the guaranteed death toll mechanism. You also know Li Yao's skill, 'Passenger Armor', which can reduce the sense of presence in front of ghosts and monsters. At that time, as long as she finds a place to hide, she will definitely survive until the end."

"..."

"If we don't kill her, we will all die. Kill her first so we have a chance to live!"

In the wet and cold darkness, Li Yao's perspective seemed to rise to the sky, looking down at the scene that year.

She saw Brother Zhang pull out a black knife and cut the rope.

And in the next second, Ashu stabbed the [White Blade] into his throat...

Li Yao didn't know how long she had been flying in the sky above Shuangxi Town. She felt sad for no reason as she watched successive players enter Shuangxi Town by boat and turn into ghosts such as paper figures after their death.

One day many years ago, she heard the voice of God.

God said: "Your soul is imprisoned in the game. From now on, you will be an NPC in this copy, repeating the process of the game over and over again."

Li Yao asked: "What do I need to do after I become an NPC?"

God smiled: "If it were in the past, I might have ordered you to provide false clues, but now, I have thought of an interesting way to play."

That voice was brewing with deep malice, and Li Yao shuddered uncontrollably. She looked up and saw only the scarlet eyes of the god.

God said: "I will seal your memory of death, retain your emotions when you were killed, and give you the knowledge to control the lives and deaths of others. I am very curious about how you will choose after experiencing a betrayal."

From then on, there was an NPC named "Li Yao" on the boatman's raft.

She looks exactly like the player. She follows the player's team into Double Happiness Town every time and tirelessly provides important information that points to the worldview.

During this period, there was betrayal, there was cooperation, I was killed, I was truly grateful and admired... and no matter what I experienced, all memories will disappear as the copy is recreated.

Until this moment, scenes of similar but different scenes overlapped, washing away the exhausted will.

Li Yao raised her hands to cover her eyes, tears falling from her palms.

"It turns out I'm already dead...It turns out I've been dead a long time ago...You are all dead too..."

……

"Life is not life, death is not death."

"Yin is not yin, yang is not yang."

"False is also true, true is also false."

"Mourning is also joy, happiness is also mourning."

There was a deep and long road at the bottom of the well. Qisi walked slowly forward in the dark.

Someone was singing blessings at the top of their lungs in his ears, as if they were crying in mourning. The mournful sounds were three-dimensional and surrounded, pouring into Qisi's mind from all directions.

He frowned a little irritably, and his steps became faster and faster under the urging of the noise.

Finally, there was a bright color in front of my eyes, and the listless light outlined a round hole. It was not dazzling, nor could it give people the joy of new life.

Zeiss stepped into the light without hesitation, leaving the noise behind.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a small town shrouded in fog.

The layout of this town is very similar to that of Shuangxi Town on the ground, but the overall tone is darker and paler. The white walls and black tiles on both sides are submerged in the fog, and there is no red silk on the surface.

The lingering gray fog is piled up in layers around you, limiting your field of vision to a very small area, and you can only vaguely see the shadows coming and going in the fog.

White paper copper coins floated down from the sky, flying all over the sky, like white butterflies emerging from the cocoon of the netherworld.

Several shadows raised their hands to catch the paper money in the air. The paper money fell into their hands and turned into real objects.They laughed "hee hee" and stuffed the copper coins into their bodies.

It was clearly afternoon, but in front of me was a hazy gray sky, like a polluted sky in a heavy industrial area.

Qisi subconsciously touched his pocket, trying to take out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, but found nothing.

It suddenly occurred to him that he had given everything he had to his corpse.

And now, he, a lonely ghost, was about to go to the meeting in a mutilated state. His journey was about to end, and there was no need to be pretentious in the last few hours.

Qisi stood at the intersection with a forlorn expression, squinting his eyes to look at the ghosts coming and going.

Some are hunched over, some are jumping up and down, some are trembling and walking slowly, and some are walking hurriedly.Men, women, old and young, from all walks of life, except that their faces cannot be seen clearly, they are all welcomed and sent off as they were before they were alive.

They seemed to be unable to see Qiss, and each was minding his own business. Some of them even bumped into Qiss directly.

Gray shadows passed through the body, spreading out and condensing like ink stains. The collision within a few seconds did not bring any real touch, only a coolness in the heart.

Qisi walked forward step by step and was passed by countless gray ghosts. His body became colder and colder, and he could gradually feel the mood of those ghosts.

Sad, unwilling, confused, relieved...

The woman who has been bedridden for a long time remembers her young children at home and hangs down her weak arms helplessly;

A man in his prime fell off a cliff while on a business trip. Before he died, he was thinking that he still had his long-cherished wish unfulfilled;

Children don’t know what death is, they just wonder that they are in a strange place and can’t see their parents;

The old man saw all the boredom and complaints of his children and grandchildren in front of the bed, and felt the pain go away at the moment he died...

There was a sound of the suona, and then the mournful music played. Some people cried along with the song, and even Qisi couldn't help but feel a bit sad.

"Can it actually affect emotions? The suona here seems to have some special effects. It would be great if we could study it..." Qisi felt his own abnormality and was a little eager to try it.

Then he thought that he couldn't contact his body now. Even if he got the suona in this dimension, he couldn't give it to him.

The greater the curiosity, the greater the disappointment. In order to make his last period of time better, he decisively decided to give up thinking and told himself a joke in the palace of thinking.

"This young man——" Someone shouted from behind, his voice low and hoarse.

Qisi turned around and looked with interest. An old man in a blue gown gestured to him with dull eyes: "Excuse me, have you seen a girl? She is about the same height, with willow eyebrows, bright eyes, and a double smile." A dimple..."

The old man's clothes obviously belong to ancient times, and his long gray hair is messy and messy. He looks like a madman: "I have been looking for her for a long time. She must be here... They hid her..."

Normally, Qiss would have thought that this old man who suddenly appeared might be an important NPC, and might have the time to talk to him for a few more words; but now, Qiss, who had nothing to offer, just wanted to die immediately.

He didn't want to be confused by the bloody love story at all, so he stopped talking to the old man, turned around and walked forward quickly.

Behind him, the old man murmured: "Please help me find her - by the way, her name is 'Xu Yao'..."

　有看不懂的请务必和我说！作者视角和读者视角是不同的，我最近脑子有点混，很可能会写出乱七八糟、信息越级的东西……（感谢子灼、Refrain。、城凉若陌、书友20220512160138298、书友20200718210010360、银月钺、书友161206112807048、又见青山在、城安阿巴阿巴阿巴、阴天、书友20210603215029109、书友20210501106452810648、但我只是个电灯泡、书友20210301106566363966、月星夜梦、嚴擺戲等朋友的月票！）
　　
　
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