Congratulations on Your Successful Escape

Mo Yi and Yu Ran looked at each other, then turned and ran into the corridor.

The whistling wind poured into the ears with the fast pace, and the dark and twisted wall blurred into a phantom in the afterglow.

While running, Mo Yi counted the number of remaining players in his heart. The more he thought about it, the heavier he became, as if a heavy piece of lead was falling on his heart and slowly sank.

A total of [-] people entered the dungeon, and up to now, including him and Yu Ranzaihe, six people have survived.

Mo Yi's heart was full of mixed feelings for a while - although the number of people means that the number of people will decrease, but it has to be admitted that it is easier to manage when the number of people is small, especially in the current situation.

Before they had time to continue thinking, the two had already returned to the hall.

Mo Yi stopped on the uneven ground and looked around the entire room.

In the silent room, the ear-piercing and monotonous nursery rhymes became louder and louder, the same melody was repeated over and over again, and the children's voices with shifted pitches sounded eerie and terrifying, making one's hair stand on end.

The entire room was empty, without the slightest trace of popularity, as if... the other players had disappeared out of thin air.

At first, the two thought that the other players were far away because they were afraid, but they soon realized that something was wrong.

Yu Ran came out of the room beside her, and shook her head at Mo Yi helplessly.

It seemed as if there were only the two of them left in the whole room.

Only the weird nursery rhyme still lingers, and the vague lyrics are intermittent, but they still sing persistently.

Yu Ran's face was pale, and there was an uneasy look in her calm eyes. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty, and then said, "You said...they shouldn't...?"

Mo Yi's complexion was also not very good. He closed his eyes and thought about it carefully, and then replied decisively:

"impossible."

He raised his eyes and searched the whole room carefully, with a slight coldness in his pupils:

"Every step must be strictly followed to complete the sacrifice. Killing everyone now is digging one's own grave."

Mo Yi paused, narrowed his eyes slightly, and continued:

"As for Ivy... even she can hardly kill everyone in such a short period of time without leaving any blood-stained corpses and traces of struggle. Besides, there is no need for her to lie to us, after all, They didn’t attack us when they had an absolute advantage just now, let alone now.”

His voice was cold, and his speech was neither too fast nor too slow, and he analyzed them one by one rationally and calmly.

Yu Ran stared into Mo Yi's calm eyes, the indifference but deep, cold and sinking like the deep sea made people unconvincing.

Inexplicably, it calmed down her tense nerves—even her impetuous state of mind became calm.

Mo Yi frowned, turned his eyes to look at Yu Ran, his pale complexion was stained with worry:

"For the current situation, I only have some unformed guesses in my heart..."

Yu Ran interrupted him anxiously:

"It's okay, don't worry about guessing or not, if there is any evidence, you can tell it first and listen."

Mo Yi took a deep look at her and said:

"After the opening of the branch plot, the difficulty of the entire dungeon will be greatly increased. For Ivy, she regained her extreme and paranoid rational thinking, so she decided to kill all the players once and for all. Now that this is the case, this room will Wouldn't it be equally prepared to follow the same path?"

Yu Ran was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"……Yes."

Mo Yi glanced at her, nodded slightly, and continued:

"My guess is, if this house also wants to be done once and for all? Ivy's method is to cut the weeds and roots, then its method should be to raise its sacrifices, and then kill a few every hour, which is the safest , isn't it?"

He smiled lowly: "If it were me, I would do the same."

Yu Ran looked at Mo Yi's plain side face, and couldn't help but shiver, and a chill spread up his spine:

Please don't make dangerous speeches in this atmosphere!very scary!

But... I have to say that the logic of Mo Yi's guess is very clear and reasonable, the more he thinks about it, the more likely it is.

Yu Ran suddenly heard something, and his face suddenly turned ugly: "Wait, but the nursery rhyme has already sounded this hour... If this house has successfully raised other players, doesn't it mean that someone has probably died Yet?"

Mo Yi raised his eyebrows, and said without any surprise: "It's true that the nursery rhyme has started, but it hasn't stopped, has it?"

Yu Ran was taken aback.

He didn't care about the change in Yu Ran's expression, but continued:

"The nursery rhyme will stop only after successfully killing someone, and now the nursery rhyme is still ringing, and Ivy has not jumped out to kill us, which means that the sacrifice at this hour has not been completed, that is to say, There are no new deaths yet."

Yu Ran frowned, and asked inexplicably, "Then why did you wait so long?"

The nursery rhyme music in the background sounds scary and eerie. The vague and stuck children's voice sings the same melody over and over again, echoing monotonously and harshly in the quiet and empty room.

Mo Yi listened intently, and was a little distracted for a moment, he turned his head to look at Yu Ran, and said:

"I think it may be a kind of constraint imposed by the dungeon on them, just like that Ivy's pendant, which can prevent such monsters from directly torturing the player in the dungeon after the difficulty increases.

After all, this game will never put players into such a dungeon with no way out. "

...it's just going to get you close to death.

Mo Yi took a deep breath to suppress the deep resentment towards this game in his heart.

Yu Ran also thought of this, sighed wearily, and continued to ask: "Then what shall we do next?"

Mo Yi was still a little distracted, he was brought back to reality by Yu Ran's words, but his mind still seemed to be wandering outside.

He didn't answer Yu Ran's question, but hesitated for a moment, frowning and changed the topic:

"Do you remember how these nursery rhymes... usually come about?"

Yu Ran didn't expect him to ask this question, so she couldn't help being stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"

Mo Yi glanced at her quickly, and spoke at the same speed:

"The first nursery rhyme is Crookedman, sung by the twisted man himself. The second and third nursery rhymes are played upstairs, and those monsters also climbed down from upstairs. The fourth nursery rhyme The first nursery rhyme, averyuntidyman, was sung by the disjointed man himself."

Yu Ran's eyes lit up: "So, the sound source of this nursery rhyme should be the position of the monster!"

Mo Yi slightly nodded, and added with a smile: "The worst thing is that the monsters come from. In short, it's a starting point."

He raised his head, listened carefully to the indistinct sound of the nursery rhyme, and then took a few steps towards the source of the sound.

In front of the twisted and narrow stairs, Mo Yi's steps stopped, he squinted his eyes, and looked straight into the deep darkness above the stairs with his dark eyes.

It was from upstairs that the hoarse, monotonous tunes of the nursery rhymes came.

Mo Yi tightened his fingers slightly, his cold fingertips curled up in his palm, and a cold dull pain came from the nerve endings.

The shocking scene upstairs just now is still vivid in my mind, but this time I went upstairs with nursery rhymes playing, so I am afraid it will be even more dangerous.

Yu Ran also walked to his side, raised her head and looked up the stairs complicatedly, as if she wanted to break the heavy atmosphere in front of her, she joked a little stiffly:

"It's a good thing you have the experience of getting down from upstairs alive, otherwise I wouldn't dare to go up."

Mo Yi shook his head heavily, and replied, "That's what I'm worried about."

He paused, did not look at Yu Ran's surprised gaze, and continued:

"When I came back from outside the house just now, I didn't have time to emphasize the danger above, but went directly to the kitchen.

The other players have basically searched the first floor, and the upstairs area will naturally be the place they will explore next. "

When they were in the kitchen just now, they ran out as soon as they heard the nursery rhyme, and it took no more than a minute before and after, and in such a short period of time, the monster would definitely not be able to come down from upstairs and take everyone away.

The only explanation is... the players were not downstairs at the time, but upstairs.

And wrongly underestimated the danger upstairs.

Mo Yi turned his head to look at Yu Ran, his eyebrows and eyes were stained with rare seriousness and prudence:

"I almost fell upstairs just now, don't take it lightly."

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something, and said to Ran very fast: "Do you still remember the kitchen knife you got in the kitchen? It's best to take it with you."

That kitchen knife once cut off the blind mouse's tail, proving that it can harm the monsters in this dungeon, and it is beneficial and harmless to bring it along.

Yu Ran didn't ask him why, but nodded hastily, turned around and ran back to the kitchen, when he appeared again, there was already a rusty blade in his palm.

Although it may not be useful, it is at least reassuring to have a weapon in hand.

Mo Yi glanced at the extremely heavy kitchen knife in her hand without any trace, and Yu Ran's relaxed expression without changing his face, then secretly pinched his thin arm that could touch the bones.

Fitness will pay off one day.

The two didn't delay any longer, and walked up the stairs one after the other.

The aperture of the flashlight swayed in the cramped and narrow stairwell, and the monotonous nursery rhymes became clearer and louder.

The crooked stairs and the deep darkness in front of him almost made people feel uneasy, and the wooden stairs under their feet creaked slightly.

They stepped on the floor of the second floor, and the smell of rotten wood and dust came to their faces. Besides... there seemed to be a subtle, strange smell of dampness.

The nursery rhymes grow louder.

The two walked forward cautiously, holding their breath subconsciously, their deliberately light steps were almost silent under the cover of the dirty carpet.

At this moment, there was a strange knocking sound, which seemed to come from the darkness at the end of the corridor.

Mo Yi's heart tightened, he grabbed Yu Ran, and dodged to hide in the nearest room.

The sound of tapping and the nursery rhyme were getting closer and closer, Mo Yi turned off the flashlight, held his breath, and hid himself motionless in the darkness.

The heavy and dense percussion sound, accompanied by the sweet song of the little girl, is getting closer and closer to the ears.

—and finally stopped at the door where they were hiding.

The author has something to say:

Mo Yi: I am absolutely not envious of good physical strength or anything, not at all.