September, late summer.

The young man stood at the crossroads and waited for the red light with the beer he just bought from the convenience store.

He was slender and wore a gray hoodie.The black shattered hair is soft and docile, the slightly deep-lined eyes are half-closed, and the expression is light.

He looks like a cold and unapproachable person.

The rain that changed everything was caught off guard. It was clear that the sky was clear, but the water droplets suddenly fell.

It was the two little girls behind Chen Yan who yelled first, from a small exclamation to a horrified scream.

Then, one after another screams pierced the sky above the city.

Chen Yan raised his drooping eyelids, and in his blurred vision, he vaguely saw that there seemed to be a lot fewer people on the other side of the zebra crossing.

The young man finally noticed something, subconsciously looked down at his body.

The place that was drenched by the rain seems to be integrated with the water droplets, becoming clear and transparent, and even the wet ground can be seen through it.

Chen Yan stretched out his hand and touched it. It felt like jelly, but he didn't feel any pain.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and even the buildings began to change.With a "poof", the man under the traffic light turned into a puddle of water and hit the ground.

The shouts on the street gradually faded away, and finally only the patter of rain remained.

Chen Yan opened his eyes again.

His consciousness seemed to go offline for only a short moment, probably no more than a minute.

Of course, this is the answer given by intuition.

His intuition also told him that the beer he just bought was gone.Chen Yanxu shook his empty right hand, looked up and looked around.

He is in a dilapidated house.The cement-paved floor hides accumulated dust, and the walls are stained and moldy.

He was standing in the living room, not far in front of him was a wooden table with no original color, on which was a heavy old TV set.Behind him is a rectangular coffee table, and the fruits in the bamboo basket have rotted and shriveled.

So the brand new LCD screen hanging on the wall seemed so out of place.

Chen Yan was about to step forward to check, but stopped suddenly after taking two steps - he heard another breathing sound, right where he was standing just now.

The young man moved his fingers, and all the muscles in his body tensed up.He turned around abruptly, and there was a "water man" behind him at some point.

The transparent water film slowly peeled off, revealing a handsome man.

He is about 26 seven years old, wearing a black suit, and his hair is carefully combed.A pair of half-rimmed glasses hung on the bridge of the nose, and golden anti-skid chains hung on both sides.

Four big characters instantly appeared in Chen Yan's mind - intellectuals.

When the water film completely disappeared, the man seemed to "wake up".He opened his eyes, looking a little confused.As the only human being in the room, the other party's gaze immediately cast over.

But before he could speak, he was interrupted by an overly sweet mechanical female voice.

The LCD TV on the wall lit up, and the petite and cute girl "climbed" up from under the screen in a clumsy posture.

"Welcome to the large-scale human survival game - Blue Star OL."

"Friendly reminder: Game death is equivalent to real death,

Lies and truth are but a wall. "

"Please keep in mind the survival rules of the game: Be a kind person~"

The girl showed a creepy smile: "Then, please leave the red house and go to Novice Village. I wish you all a happy game."

The screen went black, replaced by a bright red countdown.

90:00

"Maybe we should get to know each other first." The man behind him said.

His voice is beautiful, like a cello.The speed of speech is neither too fast nor too slow, which makes people feel good about it.

The man stretched out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Fang Jiang."

"Chen Yan."

The moment his hands were clasped, Chen Yan's slightly long eyelashes trembled, and he asked casually, "Have you practiced?"

"I've punched for a few years." Fang Jiang smiled, "You seem to be here before me."

"Ah, less than a minute early."

Fang Jiang pushed his glasses and asked, "What happened when I came over?"

Chen Yan blinked, and replied solemnly: "The whole body is naked/naked..."

The man froze for a moment, and the tips of his ears turned red.

"Blingbling colorful light shines on her body, and she puts on clothes one by one amidst the sound of wonderful music."

"..." Fang Jiang narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile, "Mr. Chen is really humorous."

"There is a more humorous one, do you want to hear it?"

"what?"

Chen Yan pointed to the wall behind: "Do you prefer being headshot by AK-47 or M16?"

Fang Jiang turned to look in the direction of his finger, and saw several dark gun barrels on the wall above the room, aiming straight at them.

"I prefer to keep my head on my neck and do its work." Fang Jiang tugged his tie down. "So, let's go out of the room first and then discuss other issues."

Chen Yan walked to the window. There were stickers on the glass, so he couldn't see the situation outside clearly.The latch on the window frame wasn't locked, and he pushed it, but the window didn't budge.

"Usually this happens..."

As soon as Fang Jiang's words came out, Chen Yan raised his hand and hit him with an elbow, making a loud noise in an instant.Too bad it did zero damage to the windows.

"Violence doesn't work."

Chen Yan rubbed his arm quietly, and said expressionlessly, "Please speak up sooner next time."

"However, at least it proves that the conditions for pulling the trigger of these guns do not include violence." Fang Jiang thoughtfully pretended not to notice, "Do you play games?"

"Play."

"Have you ever played secret room decryption?"

Chen Yan shook his head.

Fang Jiang recalled the young man's previous actions, and speculated: "Do you prefer fighting or shooting games?"

Chen Yan still shook his head.

"Then what games do you usually play?"

"Mu × Monogatari, Star × Gu Yu, Wave × Ya Time." Chen Yan said, "It was recommended by a friend."

Fang Jiang was silent for a moment, "Is it fun?"

"It's okay, to pass the time. Except that the money is often not enough, everything else is fine."

Fang Jiang: "..."

Chen Yan walked from the living room to the entrance, and found a wooden cabinet with a height of one person built on the wall facing the door, with a keyhole on the door.He pulled it with his hand, but as expected, he couldn't open it.

"This situation means that we should look for the key. Generally, there are more important mission props in locked places." Fang Jiang glanced at the display screen, "Time is limited, let's split up."

Chen Yan made an OK gesture and began to check the entrance, while Fang Jiang turned back to the living room.

In addition to the wooden cabinet that cannot be opened in the entrance, there is also a shoe cabinet near the door.

Chen Yan squatted down and opened the cabinet door, there were four compartments inside.The upper two layers are adult shoes, both men and women, and the lower two layers are children's shoes.

Depending on the size of the shoe, the child should not be too old, at most five or six years old.There are sneakers and fancy leather shoes, and the family has at least one daughter.

After turning around, there was nothing else in the cabinet. Chen Yan rearranged the shoes and was about to go to other places to have a look, but the hand that closed the cabinet door suddenly froze in place.

"Mr. Fang." Chen Yan shouted.

Fang Jiang responded in the living room: "Huh?"

"The decryption game you mentioned," Chen Yan paused, "Will there be ghost elements?"

"If it's horror-oriented, probably there will be." Fang Jiang poked his head out and said, "Why do you think of asking this?"

"Then we probably encountered horror." Chen Yan replied looking at the extra feet on the small leather shoes.

Fang Jiang heard the words and immediately walked behind the young man: "Where is it?"

"Here, there are a pair of phantom feet." Chen Yan pointed at the shoes, and subconsciously looked sideways at the person coming, avoiding exposing the fragile neck.

Fang Jiang bent down and approached, "Where?"

"Can't you see..." Chen Yan turned his head and found that the ghost in the shoe cabinet had disappeared, "It's gone? Are you scared by the crowd?"

Fang Jiang: "..."

"Although there are horror elements, it seems that it's just scaring people and can't cause real harm." Fang Jiang straightened up, pushed his glasses with his index finger and said, "The npc on the screen just mentioned the vocabulary in Xinshou Village, If you have to use a game to describe it, it’s mostly a teaching level now.”

"That is to say, the difficulty will not be very high." Fang Jiang glanced at the dark gun hole behind him, "Besides, if ghosts can kill people, there is no need to engage in this thing."

"Well." Chen Yan nodded in agreement, "I didn't find anything useful here, did you find anything?"

"The power cord of the old-fashioned TV in the living room is broken, and it probably needs props to connect it back;" Fang Jiang deftly flipped a coin with the back of his fingers, "There is also this one, which is stuck under the table, and I don't know what it is for now. "

"Go and have a look inside." Chen Yan stood up, passed by the cabinet, and walked into the dining room.

On the right side of the restaurant is the staircase leading to the second floor, and in the left corner is a horizontal refrigerator. The round table and four chairs are folded and propped up against the window.

In the empty space, there were three coffins, one large, one small, and three coffins.

The two walked around the coffin and looked up at each other.

Chen Yan asked: "Do you want to drive?"

Fang Jiang believes that he "will not have a life-threatening situation before the end of the game time" and judges [-]% that there is no problem, so the more frightening the place, the more likely there are clues hidden.

So, he nodded without hesitation: "Yes."

The coffin boards were not heavy, and they lifted them up easily.

In the first coffin near the window was the head of a man.The game is thoughtful, the head is well preserved with smooth cuts and no blood.

Chen Yan stared at the gray face for a long time.

"Is there a problem?" Fang Jiang had already walked to the coffin next to him, and asked when he saw that he hadn't moved.

Chen Yan shook his head, and cooperated with the other party to open the second coffin: "I think his face looks familiar."

Fang Jiang frowned slightly: "Is it someone I've met in real life?"

"I can't remember," Chen Yan pointed to his eyes, "However, he must have been in close contact with someone."

"Because my eyesight is not very good, and seeing things and people is blurry, so I often face blindness and cannot recognize people."

Inside this coffin is a woman's right arm, thin and slender, at least she hasn't deliberately trained her muscles, and she still wears a wedding ring on her hand.

"Why don't you deserve a pair of glasses?" Fang Jiang asked.

"I don't like it." Chen Yan shrugged: "And after getting used to it, it didn't affect my life much."

While talking, the two opened the last coffin, but this one was empty, and a doll with golden curly hair was placed inside.

Chen Yan picked it up curiously, but somehow he touched the doll, and the doll suddenly sang.

"Dingdong, I know you can hear me,

(Ding dong, I know you can hear me)

open up the door, I only want to play alittle,

(open the door, I just wanna play with you)

Dingdong, you can't keep me waiting,

(Ding dong, you can't keep me waiting)

it's already tooled for you to try and run away...  

(It's too late for you to try to escape)"①

Along with the rhythm of the singing, there was a knock on the door outside.

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①Excerpt from the song "Hide and Seek".

Originally, I wanted to use the Korean version of the lyrics, but the Korean version could not be displayed, so I switched to the English version.

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