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Estimated from the sun's point of view, it is about 16 o'clock now.

The sun is westward, and the daylight tends to be decadent and weak. There is a thick haze like ink on the dark sea outside the horizon. It is expected to rain at night.

"Sunset, rain, there are countless killing rules that can be triggered. We must find a shelter immediately," He Ye said in a deep voice, "It seems that whether it is staying overnight or exploring the 'plot', we have to go to the 'Upside Down Villa' gone."

After reaching an agreement, everyone walked towards the "tall building".

The wild beach is full of gravel and rough gravel, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the gravel flies into the sports sandals from time to time, making it very difficult to walk.The smelly and humid sea breeze blows, making people feel cold all over.

Xuelu took the opportunity to look at the images of the crowd who were on their way.

Among the ten people, the girls are all in skirts, and the boys are all in shorts and shirts, as if they were dressed for a summer vacation.Everyone in the group is in their early twenties, and the biggest Sanda champion is only 25 and six. It is a group of "young people".

What are the characteristics of young people, youth, vitality, and poverty.

Judging from the quality of the badges, this "Anduras tour group" is probably a third-rate small group, and the fees will not be very high, otherwise these young people cannot afford it.

Correspondingly, the quality of the cruise ship must be very rubbish. It is probably a scrapped fishing boat that dared to go to sea after being painted and rebuilt, so it is reasonable to encounter a shipwreck.

What Xuelu cares about is this island.

As mentioned in the identity information, the island is not recorded on the map. Is it too small, or has it never been discovered?

In the era of advanced information, it is unlikely that the small island will not be discovered.So either the dungeon is old and the technology level is low, or someone deliberately wiped the island off the map.

The reasons for erasure are nothing more than two. First, the private island does not want to be disturbed. Second, the island is very dangerous, too dangerous to be known.

There are still many puzzles, such as his NPC identity "Wen Shuyu", who is it?Why is naughty disappearing and no one cares?

If a family supported each other and lived on an isolated island with unknown safety factors, the disappearance of someone should cause a lot of panic.

And the number of players is 20, and the corresponding number of NPCs is between 5 and 6. There is no possibility that too many people will disappear and one cannot see it.

All these can only be answered after entering the "Upside Down Villa".

The way he frowned caught He Ye's attention, and the beautiful girl asked him with a smile, "What are you thinking, you look so stinky."

Xuelu smiled awkwardly: "No, just... thinking about that nursery rhyme."

They passed by the messy grassland and the neatly manicured mountain path. After 10 minutes, they stopped at the peak of a short hill about 100 meters above sea level in the north far from the beach.

This "Upside Down Villa" is much bigger than estimated.

This building standing on the highest point of the island has a square shape and orderly doors and windows.

There are about ten households on the first floor, and at least sixty households on the sixth floor. Of course, there may be cross-floor rooms in the outer design, which is conservatively estimated to be about forty households.

— like a common apartment building on Earth.

But seeing it on an isolated island, apart from making people feel creepy and deceitful, it doesn't do much.

Through the baroque iron fence gate, you can see the neat and beautiful green plants, gazebos, and even fountains spraying cool water in the "Village".

In the middle is a spacious cobblestone road, spreading all the way to the core building of the manor.

On more than a dozen steps, there is a fully automatic glass door, and the first-floor hall with no lights inside can be vaguely seen.

But... is there really someone living in this apartment?Looking at the windows one by one, there are at least dozens of windows on the entire six floors, but none of them are lit.

Like a dead building.

But if no one lives there, why does the building look so new?

The blue-gray exterior wall paint is clear and clean, and there are no stains on the windows. It is in stark contrast to the dirty coast, like a model building that has just been built.

On the back of the villa, the dark waves lapped tirelessly against the dirty shore, and Xuelu finally realized where the contradiction came from: there were no seabirds on the shore where such dirty microorganisms gathered.

He has a preconceived wrong conclusion: because there are wolves in the forest, he thinks the island is Wild Island.And judging by the abundance of microbes but the lack of seabirds, the island must be taken care of.

He Ye also opened her mouth, trying to say something, but got stuck in her throat again.

Angel and Cyclamen whispered together. After a long time, Angel glanced at the boys anxiously and asked, "Are we sure we want to go in and stop exploring other parts of the island?"

The boys also showed embarrassment.

As long as the players who walked to the A-level dungeon safely, their intuition is not dull: this building is already so weird that the word "dangerous" is almost written on its face.

but……

Lotus Ye urged: "I also agree to explore other parts of the island, but look at the weather, it will rain at any time... Be careful to trigger the killing rule. The copy time is not short, we can wait for the clear day to explore."

She was right, 11 players died for no apparent reason, and one Xiaohao died, which was already the beginning of the collapse of the sky.The plot dungeon of such a large map can no longer reduce the number of staff, otherwise, the investigation will be very passive.

Seeing that everyone was hesitant to move forward, the Sanda champion said loudly: "How about this, some gay men come with me to explore the way, and the rest will protect the ladies."

Seeing that the man didn't move, he cheered up again: "The clue of the dungeon points directly to this, and sooner or later we will enter."

Xuelu stood up first: "I'll go with you."

The other men showed surprise. After all, Xuelu seemed to be the youngest of them all. He had fair skin and tender features. He seemed to be a freshman at most, and belonged to a vulnerable group that needed to be protected.

He was the first to stand up, and He Ye looked at the brotherhood mockingly: "Don't you have two, oh no, three living men? Why, you don't exchange clues, and you dare not go to explore the road, you are here for vacation ?”

The cyclamen of the fraternity was obviously arrogant, she gave He Ye a hard look, and cursed something in a low voice, which made the boys of the fraternity feel strange comparisons, and they all said together.

Lotus Ye rolled her eyes and wanted to join in, probably because she was afraid that she would be robbed of clues if she went late, but in the end, everyone wanted to join together.

The Sanda champion held a doll prop, pushed open the gate of the iron fence, and walked towards the villa.

This villa looked weird from a distance, but after entering it, it became even weirder.

Neatly manicured lush green plants, ivory-white palace-style pavilions, and fountains from the Little Mermaid, it is as elegant and quiet as a high-end community, but...

"It's too quiet," Cyclamen held up an oiled paper umbrella with ghostly patterns, and let Angel in. "Shhh, listen carefully—"

No insects, birds, or people.

In addition to the wind, there are only ten pairs of footsteps stepping on the cobblestone road, and the sound of heavy or light breathing.

Ambient sounds such as insects and birds are easy to be ignored in the natural environment, and no one will listen carefully, but when they disappear, it will make people feel creepy.

All the way to the glass door safely, there is no abnormality, but in just a few minutes, everyone's backs are covered with cold sweat.

Especially for the mammoth who was at the end, he had to turn his head subconsciously every two steps.There was clearly no one behind, but he couldn't let go.

There was no need for Lotus Ye to say anything about the reason for "mutual trust". When everyone was on their way, they already consciously sat in a group, for fear of falling behind.

Walking in such a community, a thought will involuntarily arise in my heart: Is there no living person besides our group?

And this sense of fear reached its peak after the glass door suddenly opened.

Victor screamed: "Why did the door open suddenly! There is a ghost!!!"

With his voice, Cyclamen and Angel hugged each other in fright, He Ye also raised a talisman and stared.

After the glass door opened slowly, it paused for more than ten seconds, and then slowly closed again.

……

"Don't be so fucking surprised, people are scary!" Mammoth wiped off his cold sweat and cursed, "It's just a sensor door!"

Victor knew he was making a fuss, and shrank cowardly: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid of danger, so I remind everyone."

Although the door was fine, the Sanda champion still threw a shoe in.

Wet sneakers rolled into the hall, leaving dirty water marks all over the floor. The sound of "dong" and "dong" echoed in the empty space, and then it returned to silence.

The Sanda champion waited intently for a while, then raised his leg and entered the door.

The others looked at him holding their breath and entered one by one when they saw that it was indeed safe.

The decoration of the lobby on the first floor is like that of an ordinary apartment building, with polished tiles as bright as a mirror, a few fabric sofas in the corner, and a wide front desk.

There is no one at the front desk, it seems that there is no plan to open the door to kill.Everyone waited in place for a while, but no one showed up for 5 minutes, so they were relieved and dispersed to investigate.

There is a metal shelf next to the front desk, which looks like a billboard for advertising in the hotel. It is now empty, and the peeling paint can be seen.

Xuelu wiped it lightly with her fingertips, but there was no dust.

He looked at the front desk again, and it was very simple: an old-fashioned red-lacquered rattle, two dry rags hanging in the corner, no computer or notebook.

He Ye was also investigating this circle, she said in doubt: "It's not as clean as a front desk."

As she spoke, she went around inside, rummaged through the small cabinet, and screamed.

Xuelu hurried over: "What's wrong?"

He Ye took a breath: "No, look."

In a small empty cabinet, two "smiley faces" were painted with bright red paint.

It's just dripping with paint, more like a sad face than a smiley face.

"A child's prank? Or a clue."

The two searched the remaining small cabinets together, but found nothing.

"After bankruptcy, was it emptied?" He Ye was thinking, "But there is no dust or rubbish. It seems that someone often cleans it."

The two didn't find any clues, so they looked at the terrain again.

There are two elevators on the left and right sides of the hall. Victor pressed the button and found that it couldn't run, as if there was no electricity.

The elevator goes out to the rooms on the first floor. Judging from the distance between the two doors, each room is within [-] square meters.

At the end of the corridor, there is an escape staircase, and the escape staircase doors on both sides are wide open.

"It's a very simple terrain." During the investigation, Angel had already drawn the topography of the first floor with a small notebook. "We entered from the middle of the building, and then the left and right corridors lead to the left and right guest rooms. There are five rooms on each side. The same number as observed outside.

Cyclamen nodded: "It means that there is a high probability that there is no darkroom?"

"Yes."

Angel continued: "If there is no wide public space like the hall on the first floor above the second floor, each floor will have twelve rooms."

Victor didn't quite understand: "What is the scale of this building? Is it very big?"

"It's okay," Angel shook her head. "It's not too big or too small. It looks like a dormitory building built decades ago. Compared with new-style communities and apartment buildings, this type of building is not mainstream. It's not like a hotel."

"By the way," Angel took out a leaflet from her pocket, "I saw a very strange thing, did you throw it away?"

Xuelu leaned over her head, and it turned out to be an advertising leaflet for "Anduras Tour Group".

The cheap artwork printed in large red and yellow characters "Seven days, 1999 luxury cruise ships, only [-] for a limited-time discount group!"

The contact information of the Anduras tour group is printed next to the whitish corner after being swelled and dried by blisters. The strange thing is that the two strings of mobile phone numbers are blacked out with black markers.The time-limited preferential time for advertising printing is from September 2011, 9 to September 1, 9.

"Which of you is this?"

"No, there is nothing else on our group except clothes..."

"Could it be left by the previous nine players?"

A group of people circulated it once, shaking their heads, and then found a problem... The number of people seems to be wrong?

What about the Sanda champion?

He Ye made a quick decision: "When was the last time you saw him?"

Just like the lobby of an apartment building, this place is very empty, and there is no place to hide people. If there are no people, there is a high probability that they are really gone.

He Ye looked suspiciously at the five members of the fraternity. Cyclamen couldn't stand her mocking gaze, and argued: "Shouldn't we disperse and investigate after we come in? The five of us stayed together all the time, and didn't notice Where is he."

The five members of the Brotherhood walked in a group, and there were clues internally digested. He Ye felt that Xuelu was kind and pulled him together, so Victor, Mammoth, and Brother Sanda huddled together.

Joker glanced sharply at the mammoth: "Isn't he with you?"

Mammoth wiped his cold sweat and said, "Don't ask me... I thought he was with you!"

Mammoth was bold and was the first to go up to the second floor.He said, Victor didn't dare to go to the second floor, he went to Brother Sanda, but he was nowhere, so I came back to find you.

He also made sure that Brother Sanda did not approach the escape stairs on both sides of the corridor.

As soon as everyone discussed, no one noticed where Brother Sanda had gone.

But... how is this possible?

All of you here are old players. You have seen many different killing rules and weird ways of dying. It is even said that the way of death may be a link in the clues. No one is still afraid of death and corpses.

But Brother Sanda, a 1.9-meter tall man with strong physical skills, actually "disappeared out of thin air", and his life and death are unknown.

The most unacceptable thing is that there is no sign before it disappears.

There was no screaming, no roaring, and no trace of "struggle".Like being erased from the paper with an eraser, the existence of a person is obliterated in such an understatement.

If Angel hadn't taken out the flyer and asked who it was, Mammoth couldn't find Brother Sanda and came back to hold a group, and no one would have noticed that he disappeared.

When, where, and what did you do before disappearing?

If it is a murder rule, it is too evil.

Angel suggested: "Which one of you is wearing a rope? I suggest that everyone be connected to each other with a rope, so that who does what and who triggers what, the people around will know immediately."

But this suggestion was first rejected by Victor: "It's useless. The death of Xiaohao is also... At that time, Xiaohao, Mammoth and I ran together. After running, Xiaohao suddenly disappeared."

"Could it be a ghost book?" Cyclamen frowned, "I ask you, do you have any memory of what Xiaohao did before he disappeared?"

Victor repeated the whereabouts he had told He Ye before: "... If you want to talk about what you did, what Xiaohao did, Mammoth and I did it too. I really can't think of anything special."

It has been a long time since Xiaohao disappeared, and everyone began to think about Sanda brother's unusual behavior.

But at that time, they scattered around to investigate. The Sanda champion had strong personal strength and had no teammates. No one paid attention to him. For a while, he couldn't think of what the Sanda champion would do if the killing rule was triggered.

A detail suddenly flashed in Xuelu's mind.

There are very few things in the front desk, and the items are very old. The old rattles have peeled off the paint, but they are still very clean.

Add to that the mirror-bright tiles, and you can see that the apartment building is being cleaned regularly by its current owner—he loves the place and loves to keep it clean.

And what did the Sanda champion do when he was exploring the road? He threw the wet and dirty shoes in the clean hall without hesitation, and stepped on the tiles with his feet in dirty socks.

Xuelu raised his eyes, met Guipai's gloomy eyes, and was stunned for a moment.

The ghost card is tall and straight, and his facial features are also very handsome.His face is actually the handsome guy in the sun, but for some reason, he has a straight face, which makes people feel alienated and indifferent.Xuelu doesn't like to get along with people with such a temperament. He always feels that communicating with them is like hitting the ice with enthusiasm, and he can't get hot.

But... this ghost card seems to have thought of what Xuelu thought.

As an NPC, Xuelu naturally wouldn't reveal important guesses, but the appearance of the ghost card clearly also thought of it, if Xuelu didn't make a sound, his status would be lowered.

Just as the heaven and man were at war in Xuelu's mind, something happened that attracted everyone's attention.

An NPC comes out.

A middle-aged woman about 1.6 meters tall.

She was wearing a faded but clean goose-yellow dress, her hands were wrapped in bright yellow rubber gloves, and in her left hand was holding a black lacquered iron bucket, which was filled with something heavy, like dirty water, Slowly swaying with the steps.Holding a black mop in his right hand and wearing rubber rain boots, he appeared from the escape stairs on the left and walked towards the hall.

After walking in, you will find that she has a very unique appearance. Her eyes are surprisingly big and dark, as if she has no whites.

Suddenly, she looked up and saw nine people crowded in the hall, and the middle-aged woman stopped in her footsteps.

The inorganic black pupils turned mechanically, like the eyeballs of wooden dolls running smoothly on the mechanism.

"Why are you here...?"

Xuelu noticed that the woman's voice was very hoarse when she opened her mouth, but after clearing her throat, it became clear again, as if she hadn't opened her mouth for a long time.

The NPC appeared unexpectedly, not sure if it was an aborigine, they looked at each other, and He Ye took a step forward, walking in front of the woman.

Staring at the lifeless big black eyes, He Ye resisted the trembling of her body and smiled flatteringly: "Hello, are you here... er, a resident?"

"Yes, what's the matter with you..."

Because the lotus leaf looked kind and weak, not like a villain, the woman's dignified complexion softened a little.She put the mop she held high on the ground, pretending to be listening.

Seeing that women can communicate, He Ye strikes while the iron is hot: "That's right, we don't mean to offend, but the situation is really urgent... We were traveling at sea, but we were accidentally hit by a shipwreck. I rushed to this island and survived."

"We found this building on the island and thought it might be inhabited, so we came over and asked for help. So, can you call the Coast Guard for us? And then, can you let us stay here until rescue? We swear we're not Bad guy, we'll pay! When the rescue ship comes, we'll leave!"

These words were well-founded and full of emotion, and the woman seemed to believe them.

Her rough wheat-colored hands supported her chest: "God, it's so pitiful, God bless, you're all right."

The big dark eyes were filled with moisture: "I confess, I'm guilty, I thought you were bad people just now, my God, how helpless you must be..."

The more she talked, the more sad she became, and the woman burst into tears.

Oh no... a group of shipwreck survivors haven't cried yet, why are you crying!

This development was caught off guard, several people looked at each other, Angel quickly comforted the woman: "It's okay, we are lucky, we are still alive! Well, so... do you have a mobile phone or a phone? Can we call the police?"

The woman wears gold earrings under her short, coarse hair, a gold ring on her hand, and gold bracelets on both wrists.It can be seen that women are careful, love life, and love to dress themselves up.

I don't know what farm work the woman was doing just now, under the gold bracelet, I can vaguely see red strangle marks flashing past.

Once she cried, she couldn't stop.

She whimpered: "You guys stay here, there are a lot of empty rooms here, stay as long as you want, this is the only help I can give you. I'm sorry, I'm so incompetent... Stay here, I'll cook It's delicious, you must try my handicraft..."

Cyclamen stopped Angel, who was still wanting to continue asking, pulled him aside, and said in a low voice: "This person probably has mental problems, let's not ask about calling the police, ask about something else."

Victor scratched his hair: "Thank you, Auntie, I haven't asked how to call you yet?"

The woman finally lifted her head from the handkerchief.

Only then did everyone realize that there were no tears on her face at all.

The pitch-black eyes rolled their eyes, and smiled: "You...hehe...you have decided to stay, right? You can just call me Aunt Xiaoyu."

Seeing her back to normal, Victor asked boldly again: "So, is this building yours? You live here alone."

"You child, what are you talking about?" Aunt Xiaoyu giggled, "Of course the building is not mine anymore... Besides me, there are also my husband, children, sister-in-law, old people... Our whole family lives here... ..."

Suddenly, she patted her thigh: "Look at my memory, I still let you stand. Come on, I'll take you to the spare room..."

Aunt Xiaoyu took a long time out of the left pocket of her dress. Everyone thought she was picking out the room key, so she stretched out her hand.

"I'll give you the keys and choose a place you like to stay in."

Aunt Xiaoyu stared at everyone with her dark eyes: "Oh, I forgot to mention that our family lives in Room 1 on each floor, so there is no Room 1."

Those hands were rough, yellowed, and covered with all kinds of calluses. They were hands that had been working all year round.

"Choose it, choose it... don't be shy," the woman giggled, "choose the room you like, stay here, stay here..."

But... what about the key?

There was nothing in the woman's hand.