Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

From the outside, Saiyan Hotel has an artistic atmosphere. It used to be a rather high-end hotel, but it is like a human being, and it can easily not withstand the ravages of time. Now it looks very dilapidated and decayed.

There is a fountain park not far away, and there are high-rise lights farther away, but the whole city is in a hazy fog, and those faint lights are like floating in the boundless sea when sailing at night. The boat lights seem to be close at hand, but they are far away.

Undoubtedly, this is a very large city, perhaps the Blue Harbor City in a certain time and space.

Zhou Qian thought so, and tried it with the other players, and they found that they couldn't leave the Saiyan Hotel for the time being.Once they walk away from the hotel gate, they will receive a system prompt that they are about to leave the restricted area of ​​the plot.

In this way, everyone can only walk towards the hotel lobby.

The hotel lobby is quite spacious, but the color is dark and the furnishings look very old.

Occasionally, a few guests who live here come in and out, they seem to be quite poor, they are naturally NPCs,

At the front desk is a tall man with a pale and thin face

Seeing these eleven players coming in, he greeted them with a smile. "You are tourists who come to Blue Harbor City, right? Welcome to Saiyan Hotel. My surname is Wang, you can call me Xiao Wang."

From the mouth of the king's front desk, the players knew their identities—tourists.

The words at the front desk are undoubtedly a hint.

The information revealed in this hint is consistent with Zhou Qian's previous thinking - the story background of Hall C is still in Linekong City, but it is not the "now" Linekong City, but in another time and space.

Zhou Qian stepped forward and asked him, "Where is our tour guide?"

"Tour guide, he said there was a traffic jam, and we should be there in a while. Since you guys arrived first, you should choose a room to check in first." The front desk smiled and took out six room cards.

"Now is the peak tourist season, and the Saiya Hotel is very popular. There are only six rooms. You can choose for yourself."

Hearing this, the expressions of all the players froze.

——This hotel is 12 floors high and has hundreds of rooms. If it is really full of people and there is a serial murderer among them...how should the suspect be investigated?

"Hurry up and choose a room. Although your tour guide said hello in advance, our business here is very hot. If other tourists want to come in, I have to give up the room!"

Once the player cannot stay in the hotel, if they are driven out of the hotel by the security personnel at the front desk, so that they leave the restricted area of ​​the plot, they may die immediately. Thinking of this, everyone has to go forward quickly to get the room card , Let's talk about the check-in first.

Before Zhou Qian took the room card, he glanced at Bai Zhou beside him.

He stood tall and straight, looking both familiar and unfamiliar.

What Zhou Qian had to admit was that in the story of Hall A, both he and Bai Zhou were back to their childhood.

Zhou Qian was so familiar with the appearance of Bai Zhou when he was a child that he was able to joke with him naturally, as if the two of them hadn't really grown up.

But after coming out of Hall A, some tacit illusion was shattered, and both of them were forced to face the reality—they had indeed been separated for seven years, so that the other party in each other's eyes was actually still A little strange.

At this time, Zhou Qian stared at Bai Zhou for a second, and with a thought, he stepped forward and took out a room card from the receptionist Wang, hooked He Xiaowei's neck and walked towards the elevator. "I live with Viagra."

The other seven players had already drawn their room cards and left in another elevator.

So after a while, the elevator only carried four people, Zhou Qian, He Xiaowei, Bai Zhou and Yindao.

Zhou Qian glanced at Bai Zhou and asked, "Where do you live with Yindao?"

Bai Zhou watched Zhou Qian silently, Yindao coughed lightly, and said, "We live in 1109. Where is your room?"

Zhou Qian clicked, pressed the number "11" on the elevator operating panel, and said, "It's also on the 11th floor. Let's go up together."

The floor layout on the 11th floor is very simple.

The elevator is located in the center. There are six rooms on the left side of the elevator, and three rooms on each side of the corridor. Room 8 is opposite to No. 9, and further to the left is No. 10 and No. 11. The end on the left is No. 12 and No. 13 No. Two facing rooms.

The right side is a bit different. The layout of the six rooms 1101 to 1106 is similar to that on the left, except for room 1107 at the end. There is no room on the opposite side of it, but there is actually a wall.

In this way, Room 7 where Zhou Qian is located and Room 9 where Bai Zhou is located, although the numbers of the two rooms are very close, they are far away, separated by an elevator and three rooms.

Three minutes later, Bai Zhou and Yindao went out of the elevator door and turned left, while Zhou Qian and He Xiaowei turned right, and they reached 3.

He Xiaowei's heart skipped a beat when he saw that there was no room opposite Room 1107, but a wall.

Barely suppressing the fear in his heart, he followed Zhou Qian into 1107.

After entering the room, He Xiaowei couldn't help but said: "Qian'er, why don't I say that you are still good to me. My master is too cold. I'd better be happy with you. Don't be afraid if someone talks! "

Unexpectedly, what Zhou Qian said to him after entering the room was: "Hey, you go to 1109 now, and you say that you want to live with your master and change rooms with 137! Then you tell 137 to come over quickly."

"?" He Xiaowei was stunned, "Why? Ah no, I don't understand? Didn't you drag me here when we divided the rooms? Qian'er, you don't want to live with me?"

Zhou Qian: "Just go directly. Why are there so many questions?"

He Xiaowei: "What are you doing?"

Zhou Qian approached He Xiaowei, stared into his eyes, and said seriously: "I just don't think it's safe for you to live in this room. Haven't you heard a saying? If there is a separate room at the end of the hotel corridor, you must Hold on. Haunted!

"So little Viagra, I'm doing this for your own good."

He Xiaowei: "..."

Zhou Qian continued: "The ones we visited were all murder cases. It is estimated that many people died in this hotel. Maybe a ghost popped out somewhere——"

As Zhou Qian said, he raised his hands and walked towards He Xiaowei.

"Fuck, Qian'er, you've been scaring me all day long. Stop talking, I'm going to change rooms!"

He Xiaowei, who was afraid of ghosts, also ran away. On the way to room 1109 alone, he thought belatedly——wait a minute?If Qian'er was really worried that I was afraid of ghosts, why didn't he move to Room 1109 with me?

Hey, what does Zhou Qian mean?

He doesn't want to share a room with me, does he?

But I didn't offend him, did I?

Forget it, I will never understand Qian'er's mind.

·

While He Xiaowei left, Zhou Qian looked at the room.

Undoubtedly, this kind of poor and run-down hotel belonged to the kind he would never live in in the real world.

In fact, the decorations in the room are very retro, and the design is also very elegant. The former owner of the hotel must have carefully designed and furnished the place. Perhaps this hotel was once magnificent and specially used to receive dignitaries.

But that was decades ago, after all.

After such a long time, the objects have not been replaced, the walls and floors have not been redecorated, and the whole house has an old and dilapidated feeling.

After walking into the bathroom and wandering around, Zhou Qian returned to the room and walked to the side of one of the beds.

What he focused on was the lamp by the bed.

In fact, when he first entered the room, Zhou Qian was attracted by this lamp, because the lampshade outside it is also very beautiful, and it is very similar to the one in Hall C-1.

It's just that the pattern on the lampshade in Hall C-1 is a peacock's tail, while the painting on this lampshade is a butterfly.

The butterfly has lifelike powder-blue wings, as if it could fly out of the lampshade at any time.In contrast, the color of the lampshade itself is still very dull, dyeing the light in an old dim yellow.

Seeing this, Zhou Qian picked up the lamp and saw that there was also a "Swastika" symbol underneath.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Qian looked away from the lamp and looked at the pillow on the bed.

Compared with the dilapidated sheet and duvet cover, the pillow case looks very beautiful.

Zhou Qian noticed almost immediately that its material was similar to that of a lampshade, with beautiful patterns drawn on a dark background.

This time the pattern has a kind of Chinese beauty, it is a pair of mandarin ducks.

Under the mandarin duck, there are actually two lines of writing, the first line is written in a very famous line in the Book of Songs: "Life and death are in harmony with each other, and we can talk about it with Zicheng."

The second line is: "Chen & Huang", with a heart drawn next to it.

Some young couples have no public morality and like to engrave letters when visiting places of interest. At this time, they often engrave a love poem and add the names of the two people.

Or they will do the same when customizing some kind of commemorative item.

But Zhou Qian has never seen such a thing done on a pillowcase, especially on a hotel pillowcase.

What's more...

Flipping the pillowcase back, Zhou Qian saw a familiar "Swastika".

This symbol seems to have strong religious overtones.

What kind of couple would come up with something like this when expressing their love?

In any case, the overused love poems declaring love are put together with strange symbols, which is inconsistent no matter how you look at it.

After looking at the pillows and quilts, Zhou Qian opened the wardrobe and took a look at various drawers, and finally set his sights on a painting facing the two beds.

The painting has the texture of an oil painting, and it depicts a smiling lady.

There is a delicate and beautiful earring hanging on her earlobe. From a distance, it looks like a beautiful flying bird has shrunk and hung under her ear.

When you look at it from a distance, you won't feel that the earrings are made of different materials from the lampshade and pillowcase.

But when he looked closer, Zhou Qian could see that some of the paint that painted the birds had cracked, and the color of the material that came out from the gaps in the cracks still looked dull and yellowish, very much like lampshades and pillowcases. background color.

It took Zhou Qian about 5 minutes to look through the entire room.

After the cleaning brush he drew last time was scrapped in the "Bucket List", he had already drawn a similar brush from the treasure box, and immediately brushed the whole room before he would sit on the sofa.

Then he began to think about why Bai Zhou hadn't come yet.

He opened the system panel and counted the time. After a while, there was a knock on the door.

Zhou Qian went to open the door and found that the person outside was not Bai Zhou, but He Xiaowei.

"What's the situation?" Zhou Qian frowned immediately.

He Xiaowei: "Oh, my master said that 137 doesn't want to change. I came back after my pleading was fruitless. I came back to persuade you. If they want to live together, let's change with them together! Since this room may have It's dangerous, it should be lived by these two god-level players!"

"You'll live here." Zhou Qian opened the door and walked down the corridor with a dark face.

He Xiaowei: "Why are you going?"

"I'll change your master to this room. Or—" Zhou Qian gritted his teeth, "I'll change 137."

He Xiaowei became more and more confused. "What are you doing? You want to share a room with my master?"

Zhou Qian: "That's right. I should have a good communication with your master. We are all teammates now, we should have a full understanding of each other. You wait for me, I'll chat with him."

He Xiaowei was taken aback for a moment, always feeling uneasy, and quickly followed.

Zhou Qian didn't look back: "Remember to bring your room card!"

After finishing speaking, Zhou Qian took He Xiaowei to 1109 aggressively.

However, behind this menacing momentum, he actually faintly felt some excitement.

Although after entering the dungeon, in some respects, Zhou Qian's mental state did gradually improve, but most of the time, it was still difficult for him to really mobilize his emotions.

With one exception—

When he encountered something related to Bai Zhou, it was completely different.

So sometimes, Zhou Qian would enjoy this feeling of being angry.

When one loses all emotional cognition, one will know that all kinds of ups and downs should be part of life.Once these emotions are missing, you will not be able to feel true happiness.

So even though Zhou Qian was a little angry at this time, his nerve endings were also jumping with joy.

But Zhou Qian didn't make it to 1109.

——As soon as he reached the elevator entrance, the elevator door opened.

A handsome man came out of the elevator.

He was wearing leather boots, shiny jeans, a lot of earrings on his ears, and a colorful shirt with most of the buttons unbuttoned, exposing a large area of ​​skin on his chest and neck.

His skin is also colorful, if you don't look carefully, you will think it is clothes.Zhou Qian got close to him, and only then did he see that it was a tattoo.

"Oh, you guys are going out? Are you welcoming me? How do you know I will show up at this time hahaha." The man looked Zhou Qian up and down, his eyes showing some kind of ambiguity, "This little brother is so handsome !"

Zhou Qian looked at him and asked, "Who are you?"

"Oh, I'm your flower tour guide. Welcome to Blue Harbor City." The man smiled, took out a loudspeaker, and yelled at the entire corridor, "Tourists, let's go! Let's go to the first stand!"

After the voice of Tour Guide Hua fell, the rest of the players came out of the room one after another.

It was also at this time that Zhou Qian saw that everyone was living on the 11th floor.

The bald man, that is, Ba Tufei, the boss of the Invincible Legion, and "Ke Si" Liu Wansan, these two people lived together in Room 1105, which was next to Zhou Qian's current room.

"Ke Shi" Jian Erdan, and Chen Dami, who had been with the bald man before, lived in room 1105 opposite 1106.Zhou Qian remembered the two of them as "Egg Fried Rice Duo" in his mind.

Finally, there are three newcomers from Hall D, one of whom lives in 1102, and the other two live in 1101 together.

While waiting for the rest of the players to walk into the corridor, Zhou Qian looked at Tour Guide Hua and asked a key question: "Where is the first stop?"

The reason why Zhou Qian asked this question was because when he saw the colorful tattoo on Tour Guide Hua's chest, he suddenly had a very bad association.

"The first stop is the city's most powerful tattoo parlor, "Dream Flying".Countless people come to Blue Harbor City just to go to this shop to get tattoos! "

At this point, Tour Guide Hua winked at Zhou Qian, took off one side of his shirt, and made a half-way pose with fragrant shoulders, as if to seduce people.

Zhou Qian really got close to him.

Of course he wasn't being seduced, what he saw was the tattoo on the man's shoulder, it was a little fox, lifelike and naive.

Squinting his eyes and staring at the thing for a moment, Zhou Qian heard He Xiaowei behind him shout: "Master."

Knowing that it was Bai Zhou and Yindao who came over, Zhou Qian couldn't care less about getting angry at this moment.

Many fragments slid through his mind, which were peacock feathers, butterflies, mandarin ducks, birds located on lampshades, pillows, etc.... and then the little fox in front of him.

After these exquisite patterns with similar painting styles overlapped one by one, they were all erased by Zhou Qian. In the end, in his mind, there was only one dark and yellowish texture——

All the exquisite patterns are drawn on this kind of thing.

What the hell is this thing?

When Zhou Qian saw the skin under the tattoo of Tour Guide Hua, he had the answer in his heart.

— Lampshades, pillows, and paintings are probably all made of human skin.

The pattern of mandarin ducks crossing their necks, the love poems in the Book of Songs, and the lettering of the two lovers' surnames were not embroidered onto the pillow.

The real situation is probably that someone in the couple made these things into tattoos and tattooed them on his back, arms, or thighs, and then he was killed, and the part of the skin with the tattoos was killed Peel it off and make a pillowcase.

"If we go to visit that store... Do we have to get tattoos?" Zhou Qian asked the tour guide.

"Of course not!" Tour Guide Hua said, "That store is very expensive. You have to pay enough money! Oh no——

"It's useless just to have money. The tattoo master depends on fate. He doesn't give tattoos to people who don't have fate."

At this point, he covered his lips and looked at the crowd with a smile, and found that they were all there. Tour guide Hua said again: "Most of the people who come to Saiya Hotel are poor people. This is the only cheap hotel in Langang City. So here is a year-round business Hot!

"For the rich... Hehe, unless it's to experience life, it's impossible to come! I don't think you have any money, and you can't afford the price of a tattoo parlor. Just go and have fun!"

Zhou Qian keenly grasped something, and asked him: "Experience life? What kind of life do rich people come to experience? Poor life?"

Regarding this point, the former Zhou Qian could not resonate at all.

He grew up in an environment with very good material conditions, and sometimes it is inevitable to have troubles and demands are very demanding. He absolutely refuses to get close to this kind of place, let alone experience life.

Especially when his parents treated him badly, he felt that if he didn't ruin their family property to death, he would be sorry for himself.

Regarding Zhou Qian's question, tour guide Hua blinked and said mysteriously: "Because too many people have died here, it is haunted! A few rich people come here to witness supernatural events! I see, they are idle. panic."

Hearing this, He Xiaowei couldn't help interjecting and asked, "Then, why is there a wall opposite Room 1107? There should be a room there, right? Could it be related to ghosts?"

Tour guide Hua looked at He Xiaowei and said, "That's right. There was a family of three who were killed in that room! Later, every guest who lived in that room committed suicide, some jumped off the building, some They shot themselves in the head, and some wiped their own necks...there are so many tricks—"

Seeing He Xiaowei's arms trembling uncontrollably, Tour Guide Hua stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder. "Don't be afraid, little brother. Later, the boss invited Taoist priests to do the trick, and filled the room with cement, and sealed the door, so nothing happened!"

He Xiaowei had an indescribable expression on his face, and couldn't help but move closer to Zhou Qian.

Zhou Qian just asked Tour Guide Hua: "No more accidents happened in that room, what about the other rooms? According to what you said just now, the whole hotel is still haunted. Why do you still bring us to such a place?"

"It's cheap. For the price you pay, you can only live here." Tour guide Hua smiled at Zhou Qian, "Don't be angry, little brother!"

Zhou Qian asked him: "Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid." Guide Hua picked up the sleeve of his right hand, revealing a section of his forearm.

Zhou Qian saw that there was a "Swastika" tattoo there.

Tour guide Hua smiled and said, "This is a talisman. With him, gods and ghosts can't get close to me! This is also tattooed by the master in the tattoo parlor. It's free for him, so follow your mood.

"You can ask him, if he is in a good mood and tattoos this tattoo for you, you don't have to be afraid of ghosts!"

"Okay, okay——" Guide Hua raised his left hand and glanced at the time, "It's time! Come with me, everyone!"

Hearing this, a man with a cropped head looked at Tour Guide Hua and asked, "Well...you go down first. I'll go to the bathroom. We'll go in three to five minutes at the most, okay? You go to the lobby and wait for us?"

This short-haired man is one of the three players who have visited Hall D.

Hearing what he said, Tour Guide Hua didn't feel embarrassed, and turned around and walked into the elevator without hesitation.

Before leaving, he left only one sentence. "Okay. Then hurry up. Just three to five minutes."

After watching the flower delivery tour guide leave, the inch-cut man turned around to look at everyone, and couldn't help but ask, "What do you think about going to the tattoo parlor?"

Seeing that no one answered, he walked up to Zhou Qian again and asked alone: ​​"You asked the tour guide a lot of questions just now, it seems that you have a lot of ideas, you might as well share them. I think that in this kind of evil book , It is better for everyone to cooperate and win-win!"

"I don't have any special ideas." Zhou Qian said bluntly after thinking for a while, "I just have some guesses."

"What guess?" the man asked.

Zhou Qian said: "There are six exhibition halls, and there are no corpses in them. Did you think so before?"

"Yes. Is there anything wrong with that?" the inch-cut man asked.

Zhou Qian said: "Now it seems that there is a corpse in there, or at least a part of the corpse. It's just that we didn't recognize it. Those exquisite handicrafts are actually human skin. The patterns on them are tattoos on human skin. "

Hearing this, the faces of the inch-headed man and other players turned pale.

Zhou Qian said again: "I guess... Maybe the murderer of a certain serial murder case will specifically target people with beautiful tattoos, so I just asked, can we not have tattoos? How did the tour guide answer, you guys? Did you hear that?"

"heard it."

After answering this sentence, the inch-cropped man thought for a while, and said, "The tour guide didn't say that we have to visit. So, then I won't go.

"Think about it, if we say we don't have tattoos now, maybe someone will force us to get tattoos. Once we have tattoos, we will be in danger. If the killer becomes murderous, we may not be able to avoid it at all!

"You have been to other exhibition halls, right? Do you know this rule?"

After finishing speaking, without looking at other people, the cropped man went directly to his room. "Anyway, I've made up my mind. I won't go. In the last dungeon, I came here by accident. There is an important principle behind this dungeon—the murderer didn't even see you, so why would he want to kill you? ?”

After a while, not only the inch-headed man returned to Room 1102, but the fat one among the other two people in Hall D returned to Room 1101. It seems that he made the same choice as the inch-headed man—not to go to the tattoo parlor, but to stay. Come down and watch the changes, and respond to all changes with the same.

The thin one looked at Zhou Qian and the others with some uncertainty: "Then, what do you mean?"

"Of course I have to go." Zhou Qian said, "Relying on dogs to pass the game has never been an option for me. Since the killer kills people with beautiful tattoos, he is likely to appear near the tattoo shop. If you don't go to the tattoo shop, How to lock down the suspect and confront him again?"

After speaking, Zhou Qian pressed the down button of the elevator, and after the elevator door opened, he walked in.

Bai Zhou, Yindao, and He Xiaowei naturally quickly followed him.

Among them, although He Xiaowei also wanted to have a dog, he obviously didn't want to live alone in this hotel room that might be haunted.

Except for the four of them, no one else entered the elevator for the time being.

Zhou Qian waited for a while, then impatiently reached out and pressed the close button.

But when the elevator door was about to close, it was quickly pushed open again.

Immediately afterwards, the four members of the Invincible Legion, as well as the skinny man from Hall D, all squeezed in.

Zhou Qian glanced at them lightly, then looked away.

While the elevator was going down, his mind stopped thinking about the complicated dungeon information for the time being.

After thinking of something else, he turned his head and raised his eyelids, meeting Bai Zhou's gaze looking at him.

Zhou Qian blinked, and asked him through the private chat tool: "Why didn't you change rooms with He Xiaowei just now?"

Bai Zhou's eyes were slightly surprised.

Zhou Qian quickly realized what was going on—well, Bai Zhou didn't even know that he let He Xiaowei go.

However, even so...you still have to ask.

Zhou Qian continued to ask directly: "Do you not want to see me?"

Bai Zhou shook his head, his voice was very soft, but he said unquestionably, "Of course not."

Zhou Qian: "Why is that?"

After a pause, Bai Zhou said, "I thought you were angry with me."

Zhou Qian: "?"

Bai Zhou: "It seems to start from the rest area."

Zhou Qian: "?? Wait a minute, be more specific."

Bai Zhou: "Well, you asked He Xiaowei for things, not me, and then shared a room with him. I think you probably don't want to see me, or maybe you're angry with me. So——

"I want to wait for you to calm down for a night, and then talk to you tomorrow morning."

Zhou Qian: "..."

Ten seconds later, there was a "ding" sound, and the elevator reached the first floor.

The door opened, seeing Zhou Qian bowing his head and walking forward without saying a word, Bai Zhou frowned slightly, and followed. "Zhou Qian?"

"Well, here it is."

"so you……"

Zhou Qian laughed angrily.

He looked back at Bai Zhou, his eyes were fierce at first, but gradually, involuntarily, they became soft under Bai Zhou's gaze.

Then Zhou Qian said with emotion: "We haven't seen each other for seven years, it seems that we really need to get in touch."

Hearing this, Bai Zhou thought of something, and his expression became extremely serious.

Turning his eyes away from Zhou Qian, he seemed to be looking at the street outside the hotel lobby ahead, or at an unknown distance.

After a while, he said, "Zhou Qian, for so many years, I have never been in contact with... normal real life. I no longer understand this society, and I have very few opportunities to deal with people, so that... sometimes I I forgot how to get along with people.

"So a lot of times, I might say the wrong thing without realizing it, if I upset you, or—"

Bai Zhou couldn't continue with the rest of the sentence because he was a little stunned.

Stopping, bowing his head, he found that it was actually Zhou Qian who came over and held his hand.

"Zhou Qian...?"

Zhou Qian smiled, took Bai Zhou's hand and walked forward.

"Well, I was negligent, you have been isolated from the world for seven years...

"Fortunately, I am the most mundane one. I like wealth and splendor, I like intrigues, and I like to play with people's hearts. I know the world very well, and I also know the real society very well."

"Now, you first get to know me a little better.

"After you leave this game, I will take you to get to know the world again."

·

Behind the two, He Xiaowei could see Zhou Qian's movements in full view.

He Xiaowei shook the goosebumps on his body, and couldn't help but sighed to Yindao beside him: "Qian'er is sometimes quite nasty, really. But, you can't tell whether his nasty is true or not." It's still fake."

Yin Dao: "...No, you really can't see it?"

He Xiaowei: "See what"

Yin Dao: "It's nothing. Be careful when you go to the tattoo parlor."

He Xiaowei: "Good Master!"

In front of the lobby, at the entrance of the hotel, Tour Guide Hua smiled and waved a small flag to the players: "Go, let's go to the tattoo shop!"