Human dimension reduction

[A key always needs to be matched with a lock, although a lock can have many keys... Ah, there is no other meaning in saying this, just to congratulate you, you found a key without a lock!The craftsman who built it was a careless and clumsy beginner. He obviously didn't grasp the size when making the mold, so the unique key was born!It can't open any locks, but it can open anything that doesn't have a lock!Due to the poor level of its owner, this key can only be used three times. 3/3】

When this line of words appeared in front of Zhou Jianqing's eyes, he was already too tired to react immediately.

The pilot group of 15 people hid in the townhouse full of supernatural and ghost elements, stayed in the hotel suspected to be run by Kayako, encountered the well suspected to be inhabited by Sadako, went to the toilet suspected to have Hanako as a sojourner, and the next door was Baba. The barber shop and the food passer of the restaurant operated by Tougui are gap girls who like to ask questions...

The experience was tragic enough to bring tears to anyone who has heard the story.

If it weren't for the fact that there are three game experts who have read all kinds of routines in the group, I'm afraid the entire pilot group will be folded here.

But the current situation is not much better.

After trying their best to get out of the townhouse densely populated by ghosts, they entered another world of comparable horror.

a street.

It is still a typical island-style street, which is endlessly long. There are densely packed low shops on both sides of the street. The style of the shops is no longer the old style of the Edo period, but it looks very chaotic. There are old houses with all wooden structures and The three-story building is built with concrete and steel bars. Because the style is too inconsistent, this street looks like a bit of post-modernist mix-and-match aesthetic.

The 15 people have long been divided into three groups that are easy to move. Zhou Jianqing signaled the two and three groups to separate slightly, quickly observed the quiet and deserted street, and turned to ask the experts in his group: "Do you have any comments, Mr. Qiao?" ?”

As the saying goes, the fastest way for a man to develop a relationship is to go whoring together and carry a gun together. Prostitution is an activity that is clearly prohibited by the state. Zhou Jianqing, who was born in the army, will naturally not commit such style problems. During this period of time, life and death are shared The latter condition was already met very well. After seeing Qiao Zhou's flexible thinking and calm attitude, Captain Zhou seemed to have included Qiao Zhou in his own category.

"Before I came here, I said it was a game-alienated world, so there doesn't seem to be any game here?" A soldier with a round head and round face complained.

Qiao Zhou has been following them to run away from ghosts in real life these days. No matter how many accounts he opens, it can't conceal that his body is actually a crispy skin with negligible combat power, and he doesn't want to use his life to experiment with the enthusiasm of ghosts. What does a hug look like, so he now has two big dark circles like everyone else.

"It doesn't have to be a single world," Qiao Zhou explained distractedly while looking at the shops on both sides. "It may be the alienation of the fusion of many sources, and the scout only saw one of them."

Only in this way can we explain why Abe Seimei in the Heian period appeared in the Edo period, why the time and space here seem to be a bit disordered, and many works are fused together, games, movies, and novels are all mixed together. Together they make up this huge black hole that envelopes Tokyo.

According to Qiao Zhou's guess, the scope of the palace may be a novel. The main line is the fighting between Abe Seimei and Ashiya Michiman. There are many small worlds in Kyoto derived from other works. What they have experienced in the past few days is many. A hodgepodge of horror movies, as for the game cassettes observed by the scouts...

Maybe it's hiding somewhere—

Just as he was thinking this, Zhou Jianqing, the leader of the team, stepped on something.

Zhou Jianqing quickly tensed his nerves, and gestured around, signaling everyone to stay away from him.

He didn't know what he stepped on, but his instinct told him that this thing was dangerous after a long trek.

The rest of the people who had a tacit understanding did not talk much, and quickly followed the instructions to avoid a few steps. Zhou Jianqing then lowered his head. From the edge of the shoe, he saw a little metal light.

Metal?

Zhou Jianqing carefully moved his foot away and found that it was a very ordinary key. He was about to bend down to pick it up to have a look, when suddenly there was movement from the shop closest to them.

An old man with gardening scissors tremblingly opened the door curtain and came out with a bent old man, smacking his mouth with most of his teeth missing: "Ah... so many people, I lost a key, it was me The son gave it to me, has any of you seen it?"

Zhou Jianqing frowned. He didn't know whether to answer whether he saw it or not. His experience in the past period told him that if a ghost wanted to violently kill people, no matter what the answer was, it would be useless.

He subconsciously turned his gaze to Qiao Zhou beside him, and at the same time, he clenched his fist behind him and swung it slightly from side to side. The members of the second and third groups who saw this gesture held their breath and were ready to run for their lives.

"Oh, you said the key." Seeing the old man staring straight at them, obviously not going to stop until he got an answer, Qiao Zhou answered calmly, "What kind of key is it? Round or square? What kind of material? Metal or wood? Why did you lose such an important key? Do you remember where you lost it? Did you tell your son? Did he say to give you another one?"

A series of questions like a cannonball made the old man a little confused, and a little funny blankness appeared on his ghostly gloomy old face, obviously he had never met anyone who responded like this.

The members of the pilot team are very used to this situation. Mr. Qiao seems a bit cold and difficult to get along with, but he is actually very gentle, but sometimes his brain circuit is a bit strange, but maybe this is the characteristic of a smart person?In short, they believed that Mr. Qiao must have a reason for asking this question!

This kind of blind trust comes from the experience of being rescued by Qiao Zhou many times.

"The key...it's metal, silver, and you lost it when you went out?" After answering, the old man's voice showed uncertain hesitation, and Qiao Zhou immediately seized this point of hesitation and output crazily.

"I don't remember where I lost it? Why don't you hide such an important thing close to your body? Children know that the key should be tied with a rope around the neck. How can you walk around with the key? Your son knows that the key is missing. Is it? Why don’t you tell him quickly? In order to prevent the house from being stolen, it’s better to change the lock as soon as possible. Since the lock is going to be changed, the key doesn’t need to be looked for again. Is there anything else? If not, we’ll leave first. Goodbye old man."

Qiao Zhou spoke nonsense at the old man quickly and steadily, and managed to make the old man stunned for a while. Qiao Zhou quickly turned his head, and the second and third groups who received the signal immediately lowered their heads and left on the other side in a low-key and quiet manner. When one group started to move, the old man got away from Qiao Zhou's weird logic, and he seemed a little anxious: "Did you, did you see my key! Yes or no!"

The phlegm-like grunting voice deliberately emphasized the two options, and his neck began to stretch strangely, seeing that he was about to fly away from his body. Of course, Qiao Zhou would not be so stupid as to answer according to the template he gave. Questions, a lot of hell ghost quiz routines are like this, no matter how you answer it will be fatal, it is better to skip the last step directly.

Zhou Jianqing reacted very quickly, bent down and picked up the key, grabbed Qiao Zhou's wrist and threw him in front of him, shouting "Run", and the 15 people ran wildly.

In the process of running wildly, perhaps because they made too much noise, the originally silent street gradually became noisy. Only then did the leading team realize in horror that this is not a deserted street, but evil spirits at all. The lair of monsters!

The members chasing behind the leading team gradually changed from an old man with flying heads to human-faced spiders, conjoined triplets, and black-haired ghosts, and finally turned into a huge team that can be called mighty. The sprawling structure had no place to hide except for the buildings on both sides, but these ghosts all ran out of the houses. The leading team could only grit their teeth and run desperately, trying to find a temporary shelter.

The houses on both sides are not closely adjacent to each other. There is a narrow alley in the middle of the houses, but this alley is also blocked by the wall, and there is a sign saying "This road is not open" on it.

While running, Zhou Jianqing noticed a paragraph of words floating on the key in his hand.

This text will only appear when he pays attention to observe the key. As soon as his attention is diverted, the text will turn into bubbles and disappear without a sound. It's like the explanation of props in the game, although the style of text and painting is a bit unserious.

game? !

Zhou Jianqing reacted quickly, so they have entered the alienated area of ​​the game?

While running wildly, Zhou Jianqing kept an eye out for anyone falling behind. His physical strength was extremely good. As soon as he saw someone showing signs of falling behind, he would go over and grab him immediately. After going back and forth like this, he still managed not to fall behind. Being overtaken by him, he ran to Qiao Zhou's side and quickly summarized his findings.

Qiao Zhou gritted his teeth and ran, his face turned pale with exhaustion, he couldn't utter a word, so he spread his hands in front of Zhou Jianqing, gestured twice, the leader of the leading team understood, and put the key in Qiao Zhou's hand.

The string of words appeared in front of Qiao Zhou's eyes at the right time, and apart from Qiao Zhou, Zhou Jianqing, its former owner, couldn't see this line of words anymore.

A master key with limited scope.

After reading the notes, Qiao Zhou immediately understood the general purpose of the key. It can't open any lock, but it can open anything without a lock, that is to say...

Qiao Zhou only read this line once, and after thinking about it for less than half a minute, he stuffed the key back into Zhou Jianqing's hand, and pointed at the still dead street ahead with trembling fingers: "The walls of the alley... ...put the key in the wall and open the door."

His instructions were really bizarre, but Zhou Jianqing didn't question them at all, nodded hastily, took the key and sprinted forward for nearly 50 meters, followed Qiao Zhou's instructions and randomly inserted the key into a wall blocking the alley——

An amazing thing happened. This seemingly ordinary key was smoothly inserted into the whitewashed wall like a knife stabbing tofu. When it was turned to the right, a door cracked in the wall. , revealing a narrow narrow path inside.

Zhou Jianqing dodged to the side, beckoning to the team members behind, seeing the eyes of the vanguard team members who hoped for the dawn, a burst of strength suddenly surged from the depths of their bodies, and they plunged into the alley one by one.

Zhou Jianqing was the last one to come in, and after he closed the door, it merged into a wall again, as if the door just now was completely their illusion.

In Zhou Jianqing's eyes, at the end of the text indicating the function of the key, 3/3 became 2/3.

Fifteen people squeezed into the narrow alley, temporarily gaining some peace. Those ghosts seem to have no ability to penetrate the wall, but it may also be the limitation of the game mechanism——

[This is a wall, and the wall must have the professional ethics of the wall. No matter what it is, you can't walk around through the wall!Of course, if you have special props, that's another matter. 】

In the line of sight, staring at this wall for a certain period of time, a few lines of translucent text like this will appear in front of my eyes.

Others also quickly discovered this. The most excited ones were the two masters of the strategy group. They had not been able to fully develop their professional skills before and were often helped in terms of physical fitness. The two game players who felt deeply guilty When I saw this familiar lines and painting style, my spirits were lifted by coincidence.

"Game interface!" The two blurted out one after the other, regardless of physical fatigue, they excitedly touched everything they could touch with their hands, trying to find more keywords.

They lay down on the ground and touched the grass and dirty wall joints, while explaining: "Many games are like this. Key props and so on are hidden in messy corners. Computer games are okay, and they will limit the scope of exploration. , the props that can be used will be marked, but in this kind of realistic scene, it is likely that you have to touch it little by little.”

"Yeah, one of the most perverted games I've ever encountered. The clues are hidden in the steel pipe that prevents falling from the iron shelf bed in the student dormitory. Can you imagine?! The student drilled a hole in the steel pipe to plug it in." Cigarette butts! Clue fragments are still stuffed in a cigarette butt! What a crazy mental patient.”

A player was pulling out grass in his hand, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

"Wow, I met a perverted designer who hid clues in a sewer full of maggots! This thing still can't actively trigger the action of entering the sewer. It has to be chased twice by a monster, and then kicked into it Only in the sewer can you get clues. Isn’t this nonsense! As long as the technology is better, you can’t get clues. I have been on this level for almost a week! Who the hell would have thought that I would be beaten into the sewer here?!”

Another player felt the same way and started pouring out his bitterness.

The soldiers listening to their conversation opened their eyes wide and listened full of curiosity. Zhou Jianqing kicked him on the butt one by one: "What are you doing in a daze? Looking for clues!"

Fifteen people crowded in the alley, eager to dig every inch of the land to have a look, but when they explored the alley from the beginning to the end, they found nothing useful.

No matter where the wall is touched, there will only be a few fixed lines of introductions, and the introduction of the grass is even more perfunctory: [A clump of grass, green, non-toxic. 】

It seemed that if they wanted to leave, they had to use the key again to go out. However, judging from the shaking of the ground and the high and low roars outside, the ghosts following them did not leave at all.

Now, they have two choices, one is to sit here and wait patiently until they leave; the other is to use a key to randomly select a house on the left and right, go in, and confront the unknown ghost inside. You have to drag a bunch of ghosts along the way, but this time there is only one chance to use the key, and hiding in the alley to continue your life is easy to get in but hard to get out.

The first option is safe, while the second option is dangerous but also has more opportunities.

If Qiao Zhou was alone, of course he would happily choose to break in, but with fourteen companions, even if he really wanted to play a large-scale live game, he had to be more cautious.

Staring at the empty wall, Qiao Zhou's eyes showed a little regret and grievance. The others were still seriously choosing from one or two options, but Qiao Zhou had already chosen three for them: call for off-site rescue.

Suddenly there was a louder noise than before, and the ghosts who were waiting in groups sensed the approach of a more powerful natural enemy.