Hyperreal board game

Chapter 077

Yizi hastily stretched out his hand to protect the flame, but fortunately, although the candle flame shook violently, it kept burning in the wind very stubbornly, worthy of its title of windproof candle.

However, when his hand blocked the light, a huge shadow area suddenly appeared in the originally bright house.

Little Xingxing happened to be standing on the edge, and the moment the shadow was cast on his left arm, he screamed and dodged to the side, and a raging flame was inexplicably ignited on his arm.

The hero hurriedly grabbed a cushion from the sofa to help him put out the fire, but the effect was minimal, and the sofa cushions were also caught on fire.It was An Ge who reacted quickly, picked up a small fire extinguisher from the corner, and sprayed wildly at the two of them.

The flame was extinguished, but Xiao Xingxing's left arm was severely burned, bloody and bloody, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't even cry.

The hero turned pale, and hurriedly picked up the young man and put him on the sofa, took out a bottle of medicine and fed him.The red stamina potion looks like it came out of the fantasy world mod.

Of course...it didn't work at all.

Little Xingxing was sobbing and was about to faint.Xianxian bit her finger, and finally said: "Let me come... I have studied medical treatment and first aid."

The hero stepped aside hastily, and said in a distressed voice, "Please."

There was first aid over there, An Ge couldn't get in, so he turned to study the candles.

Yizi looked very guilty, he had already put down his hand: "Sorry, I didn't mean to."

The hero didn't know whether he didn't hear it or he didn't know it, and he didn't even look back.

An Ge patted Yizi's arm and asked him to help.

Then he did several experiments.

Let Yizai block the candle flame in a direction where no one is present, and the black shadow reappears, like a black abyss that splits the bright room.

He picked up the fruit knife from the coffee table and carefully poked it into the shadow, but the fruit knife didn't move.

Maybe because it's an inherent item in the side quest, it doesn't affect it?

An Ge took out the notebook from the package again, and tore off a page.

The paper burst into flames as it plunged into the shadows.

Yi Zai gasped, and put down his shielding hand from the side of the candle flame, "What's going on?"

An Ge said: "I guess everything we see is a phantom, which is protected by the light of the candle, so once we get out of the range of the light, something will happen..."

His words made everyone feel cold.

Xianxian used his skills and healed Little Xingxing's injury. His entire right arm was wrapped in layers of white bandages, like a mummy's hand.However, the spirit of the young man was much better, and he kept choking with lingering fear: "It's terrible... woo woo woo..."

The hero stroked his hair, "Don't be afraid, it's all right."

Little Xingxing tugged at the hero's arm: "I saw it just now, the house is full of fire... It's so scary here..."

An Ge asked, "It's all fire? Do you mean that shadow?"

Little Xingxing nodded slowly in affirmation.

An Ge closed his eyes, "Xianxian, please do one thing. Take an exorcism talisman and try it out."

Xianxian did as she said, but just as she took out the magic talisman from the package, the talisman paper burst into flames, and she had to throw it away.

This is exactly the same as what happened in the sample room before.

Xianxian's face darkened: "The exorcism talisman ignites spontaneously after taking it out, which means that there are...evil spirits or ghosts that are too powerful to be expelled."

An Ge said, "Yes, we are surrounded by them."

Xianxian covered his face with a pale face and sighed: "Why do you also learn from Yizi..."

An Ge smiled, "I didn't learn from him, he just talked nonsense, I deduced the facts based on the existing clues."

Yi Zai protested aggrievedly: "I didn't just talk about it, it was based on intuition... Uh, guessing?"

An Ge actually nodded in agreement, "Well, your intuition is very reliable, not just guessing."

The little boy was immediately happy when he was recognized.

An Ge continued to tell everyone: "So there are two points that we must pay attention to. First, we must never let the candle go out; We found such vital information...and paid so little."

"Such a small price!!" Little Xingxing screamed, propped himself up and glared at him angrily, "I almost died, what is this called such a small price?! Did you do it on purpose? I knew it! You should have seen it earlier I don't like it! Oh, it's terrible, the heart is evil. Heroes! We don't want to be with these people."

Xianxian looked at him with silly eyes: "People who almost died, now they have the strength to shout."

Little Xingxing was stunned, and the hero hurriedly checked his status. His HP had been replenished, and the injury on his arm disappeared. The only loss was his clothes.

Hero: "...Thank you."

Xianxian snorted coldly: "My first aid skill can only be used once a day, so don't be so desperate for the rest of the day."

Little Xingxing also snorted hard.

While chattering here, An Ge has already continued to do experiments.Including lighting the second windproof candle, a system prompt pops up:

【Only one windproof candle can be used for the same task. If the task cannot be completed before it goes out, the time limit cannot be extended by using a second candle. 】

So... Combined with the scene seen by the little star, it can be concluded that there is a sea of ​​​​fire outside the range of the candle's light.Once they lose the shelter of candlelight, they will be consumed by flames.

An Ge warned his companions again about the importance of candles.

Yi Zai went to fetch the candlestick and put it on the coffee table, in the center surrounded by five people.

Several people looked at the candlelight and felt uneasy in their hearts. Their lives depended on this fragile little light.

In the end, Yizai clapped his hands, "It's useless to worry about it, let's check what's in the safe room first, and then discuss the next plan."

He came up with very constructive plans, so next they started inspecting the house.

Because everyone was afraid of falling out of the light range, Xianxian held the candlestick, and others surrounded her for inspection.

As the name suggests, the house is indeed a detective agency.

The first floor is divided into meeting and work areas, while the second floor is the staff living area, including an open kitchen and a spacious dining room.

If there is anything special, it is the monitor in the work area on the first floor.

The monitors are all in working condition, and the picture shown is the busy moving scene of their neighbor next door.

Living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, study, baby room...

All presented in front of their eyes.

An Ge gasped.

Are you monitoring Du Yiyu's family in all directions?Which pervert commissioned this task...

It must be found out, it must be related to export.

The others also agreed, so they dispersed and searched for information in the work area.

When entrusted by customers, there will always be documents retained, such as contracts, payment records, copies of receipts, and the like.

But they searched around, no matter whether it was paper or electronic documents, there was no clue.

Yi Zai stroked his chin: "Could it be someone's bad taste... peeping or something."

Before An Ge could respond, he suddenly saw a certain monitor flickering from the corner of his vision.

That was the camera installed in the bedroom. It was originally looking at the powder blue bed and the rococo-style white gold lacquered bedside dressing table. No one else was there.

……original.

At this time, there was a woman standing in the bedroom wearing a red flower nightgown with a skirt hanging down to the ground.

An Ge thought it was He Jiao at first, but when they met He Jiao before, she had brown shawl hair that shone like satin, but now the woman in the camera had black hair that reached her waist.

And the hair is loose, covering most of the face...

"Like Sadako." Yizai concluded.

Before he came to a conclusion, the woman suddenly turned her head to look at the camera. Before they could see the action clearly, there was a magnified face on the screen, with its mouth wide open as if screaming, and its eyes bloodshot.

Because it was too sudden, Xianxian screamed in fright, and let go of his hand.

The candlestick fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Yi Zai moved quickly and caught the candlestick, "Be careful, even though it is a windproof candle, it is not impossible to extinguish it."

Xianxian's face turned pale with fright: "Yes, I'm sorry..."

The strange face on the monitor was gone, replaced by Du Yiyu and his wife who entered the door with a warm kiss.

An Ge went to turn off the screen.

Little Xingxing yelled dissatisfied: "What are you doing! You are about to go to the exciting place."

The hero ruffles his hair: "Excellent hair, not suitable for children, it will make a needle eye after seeing it."

Little Xingxing slapped the hero's hand, turned his head to complain, but then suddenly pointed at the monitor and screamed.

There is a face on all the monitors, staring at the bloodshot eyes, and the mouth is so wide that blood can even be seen bursting from the corner of the mouth.It seems to be screaming continuously against the camera.

There are no voices, only faces of different shapes, different people.

Little Xingxing and Xianxian were too frightened to look at them, but An Ge bit the bullet and continued to observe the looks of those faces, because the muscles of these faces were twitched and distorted, and it was not easy to distinguish them for a while.

The hero suddenly stiffened his back, pointed to one of the faces and said, "This person...I know him."

An Ge asked, "You know him?"

The hero swallowed his saliva, restrained his fear, and then continued: "You should have seen it too, in the conference room..."

It was the face of a young man, shaking his face nervously, his eyes were bleeding and tearing slowly, and his lips were opening and closing, as if he wanted to say something to them.

Yi Zai moved closer to the screen and carefully observed his lips: "So he is also a detective? He seems to be saying...he is repeating something...quick...run away?"

He just said this when An Ge suddenly realized something.

The faces in the seven or eight screens are all different, but the amplitude and movement of their lips are very consistent.

With a terrified expression, he repeated the same sentence to the camera, or to An Ge and the five of them.

Run away, run away, run away, run away, run away! !

An Ge stepped forward decisively and cut off the power of all the monitors.

Everyone was speechless, and a shuddering silence enveloped the entire house.

After a while, it was Little Xingxing who spoke first: "I, let's get out of here... I gave you a hint."

"It depends on how you understand it. Is it a hint or misleading? Or is it purely for scaring people? In fact, it's all possible." An Ge calmly rubbed his arms. He was actually terrified, but since everyone looked Depending on his appearance, he had to at least put on a calm expression.After thinking about it, he said, "The date of the fire in the family next door is November 2030, 11. Let's confirm the exact date first."

Yizai found the current date on the computer: May 2022, 5.

That is, the fire occurred eight and a half years later.

Then the problem comes again.

Why is this point in time considered a side quest?Are there any clues hidden?

While thinking, An Ge went to the work area to look through the drawers of each computer desk, and found a USB flash drive.

He took the flash drive and asked, "Anyone bring a computer?"

The remaining four people looked at each other in blank dismay. So far, no one has such high-end equipment.

Yi Zai took the USB flash drive from him, handed him the candle holder, and sat down in front of a computer desk: "I'm going to turn on the computer, I don't know if there is a head on the monitor here, those who are afraid should turn around first. "

In the end, only Little Xingxing turned around.

The screen of the desktop computer flickered, and an enlarged face filled the entire screen.Unlike those distorted faces that were almost convulsed, although they couldn't see their faces because they were so close, they were very calm.It looks like a... woman, quietly staring at the people in the house through the screen, so dignified that it makes one's heart shudder.

But Yizai tapped the frame of the monitor twice, and the face disappeared.

Then read the USB flash drive normally. Although it is called a detective agency, the USB flash drive does not even have any encryption measures, and there are two folders lying carelessly.One folder is named Du Yiyu, and the other is He Jiao.

It contains a large amount of information related to people, including Du Yiyu's birthplace, parents' occupation, graduation from prestigious schools, successful entry into the company, awards he won, current annual salary, etc., which are recorded in great detail.

Compared with Du Yiyu's smooth sailing to almost simple life trajectory, He Jiao's experience is much richer.

He Jiao is seven years younger than Du Yiyu. Her real name is He Hua. She comes from a rural family. She has two older sisters and one younger brother.Parents favored sons over daughters, so He Jiao only started working when she was in high school.

However, she was beautiful and ambitious, unwilling to spend her whole life in poverty and ordinary life, so she went to college while working and studying, and even changed her name.But it's hard to find a job and make a living, and she has been living a bad life.I have worked as a micro-business, opened an online store, and tried many methods. In order to marry into a wealthy family, I even saved money to go to the women's Durban.

The turning point came during the rise of live streaming apps.He Jiao started doing cosplay live broadcasts, accumulated a lot of popularity, and started to make money, unknowingly became a little famous Internet celebrity.

But He Jiao is very smart, and she has always known what she wants - her biggest goal is to get a wealthy husband.

Therefore, He Jiao carefully crafted her own personality: she was born in a poor family, her parents disliked her, but she is clean, self-loving and studious.

When an Internet celebrity does live broadcasting, it is all to save tuition fees. She has various qualities such as intelligence, beauty, kindness, gentleness, and virtuousness. In short, she is an ideal wife candidate.

Then when she was 25 years old, she finally succeeded in catching Du Yiyu, the golden turtle son-in-law.

After half a year of marriage, she moved into the small town of Fontainebleau, becoming a middle-class full-time lady, elegant and refined, with outstanding temperament.

She was completely different from the little girl who was squatting in the kitchen while burning the fire while starving, and at the same time peeping enviously at her parents giving her younger brother strawberry cake.

From Du Yiyu's point of view, this is also a perfect marriage.He was 32 years old, and his love history was blank. He Jiao was his first love.

And He Jiao is also said to be her first love...

After these words, the person who wrote the document deliberately put a series of question marks in red.

It seemed that the investigators were more interested in the woman than the man.Of course, it may also be because the woman's experience is more complicated and requires more effort to investigate.

An Ge stood behind Yizi while reading the document and said in thought: "I have an idea, but it's a bit ridiculous. If my deduction is wrong, please don't laugh at me."

The hero nodded: "Please speak."

An Ge said: "The content of this document investigation ends before the two get married. Moreover, in terms of structure, Du Yiyu's information is like a detailed personal resume, which is somewhat official. In contrast, the woman's information is detailed. Exhausted and messy, it involves a little bit of everything... Especially the investigators seem to be particularly concerned about whether she has ever been in a relationship, so I think..."

He said hesitantly: "The detective agency probably accepted Du Yiyu's commission to investigate He Jiao. Even the installation of the camera was also at Du Yiyu's behest."

The hero's eyes froze a little: "He wants to investigate whether his wife is really his first love with him. I can understand to a certain extent...Isn't it a bit too much for someone to install a camera?"

Little Xingxing sneered: "What do you know? Some people are born perverted. Not only do they like to spy on others, but they also like to be watched by others. It seems that this dead otaku's hobbies are really curious enough to pay someone to spy on him and his wife? What kind of snake spirit disease."

This time, An Ge felt that although Little Xingxing was damaged, there was some truth to what he said.

If it’s only because of worries such as “my wife doesn’t know what to do at home all day, did she wear a hat of a strange color for me”, installing a camera at the door of the house is enough.When to go out, when to who, you can master.It is not necessary to install one in every room and let people monitor it for a long time.

"It's easy to confirm this," An Ge said, and went to turn on all the monitors again, "Have the courage to continue monitoring."

There are still all kinds of distorted faces on the screen to scare people. Xianxian gritted his teeth, squinted his eyes and peeked at the screen from the corner of his eyes, and asked, "Do you think...these faces are here to hinder our investigation? The means are too low..."

Low belongs to low, but it is very effective.

After a while, the faces on the screen disappeared.

The bedroom was messy, but there was no one there. Du Yiyu installed the computer in the study, and He Jiao was busy in the open kitchen.

An Ge was stunned, and subconsciously said, "So fast?"

Yizai turned around and looked at him with a half-smile, Xianxian turned his head to ignore them, Little Xingxing was still dazed, and the hero forcibly turned his head away.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

Only then did An Ge realize that his ears were flushed, he coughed twice, and changed the subject nonchalantly: "Be careful and observe, if any of these two people know about the existence of the camera, there will definitely be some clues revealed from their actions."

The five people dispersed and sat on chairs watching the monitor.

The weird faces always flashed and disappeared suddenly, and the appearance was completely irregular, which could scare people every time.Little Xingxing couldn't take it anymore after watching it for a while, so he covered his face: "Don't we really need to run away?"

Xianxian sat down, dodging to observe the monitor, bending over to open the drawer, and complaining: "Where are you going? Tell me a place."

Little Xingxing couldn't speak, frowned and stopped talking.

Xianxian found a bag of potato chips from the bottom drawer, which looked fresh according to the date, so he opened it and took it to his mouth.

Unexpectedly, after taking a bite, he spit it out, his face wrinkled into a bitter gourd: "What the hell!"

She poured the whole bag of potato chips on the table. The original potato chips were golden and attractive, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with them.

Yi Zai asked what was the matter, stretched out his hand and took a piece to his mouth.

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Xianxian to speak, he also spit it out: "Why... it's like chewing carbon."

Seeing the reactions of the two, An Ge turned to the large refrigerator in the work area, "This is not good."

He went to open the refrigerator door, and the refrigerator was full, full of all kinds of ready-to-eat and semi-finished products, and even fruits.

He took out a box of cut honeydew melons and tasted a piece himself.

It looks like a light green and juicy piece of fruit, but when it is put into the mouth, it is like charcoal. After chewing, it is full of dry residue, as if picking up a piece of carbon from the ruins and throwing it into the mouth.

He had no choice but to spit it out, threw the whole box of fruit into the trash can, wiped his mouth, and asked, "It seems that all the food in this time and space is inedible. How much dry food did you bring?"

Next, they tried beverages, semi-finished products, and tap water. The solids were all carbon residues, and the liquids all evaporated as soon as the lid was unscrewed or flowed out of the faucet, and they didn't even wet their hands.

So they had to start taking out the water and dry food in their backpacks and piled them up in small piles.

Even if the rationing system was implemented, it would not be enough to feed five people for a month.But fortunately, the water is enough to drink, but it can't be used to shower the flame monsters in a hurry.

As for the food rationing system, Little Xingxing babbled and yelled against it, and then was sent back by Xianxian.

Then there is the allocation of overnight stays.

Considering the issue of candles, five people must spend the night in the same room, and there must be a vigil.

It is necessary to take care that the candles are not extinguished, but also beware of something attacking at night.

The final result of the discussion was that Yi Zai would stay in the first class first, An Ge and Xianxian would stay in the second class, and Heroes and Xing Xing would stay in the third class.

Fortunately, the first day passed so smoothly.

But when we woke up in the morning, the candle that everyone cared about first was half as short as the day before.

Xianxian grabbed Little Xingxing's skirt angrily: "What did you do! What's going on?!"

Little Xingxing rubbed his eyes as if he didn't wake up, only to be angry when he was shaken by the fairy, subconsciously saw the candle, and then turned pale: "What, what's wrong? What happened?"

Xianxian was furious, but the hero pressed her hand and said in a deep voice, "It's none of the little Xingxing's business, blame me..."