Chapter 671 Contrary to the Background Introduction
The hotel door is a glass door, and it is more intuitive to see from here than upstairs. The outside is completely plunged into darkness. Except for a slight trace of fog, you can't even see two or three meters away.
"It's like being restricted in the range of activities in an E-level dungeon," Wei Xian said.
It would be unwise to test the unknown. Tian Kunwen said: "You Jun will look for you tomorrow."
"More than one room was knocked tonight. Xu Zhi and the residents on the third floor are fine if they don't open the door. If someone knocks on the door later, please don't open it."
The players went back to their rooms. Fu Danhong and Xu Huo joked, "My brother has a bad temper."
She should have heard the "get out" sound just now.
"But thanks to this, if you open the door, you might end up like You Jun." Fu Danhong said and returned to his room.
Tian Kunwen nodded to him and closed the door.
Xu Huo turned around and unexpectedly saw a head poking out from the room at the end of the corridor. His eyes met, and the other person immediately retracted into the room.
That player checked in one day ago.
On the second day after everything was peaceful, Xu Huo went downstairs early. The administrator was already sitting at the front desk. When he saw him, he smiled and said, "The guest got up so early."
"I called the front desk yesterday and no one answered."
"Oh, look at me." The administrator took out the white money from his bag, "I had something to do and was not on duty yesterday. I will give you this money back."
Xu Huo stretched out his hand to take it, but the administrator was quite reluctant and pointed to the handicrafts on the cabinet in the back, "Why don't you buy two to play with? We don't have much to say about the handicrafts here."
Xu Huo glanced at it and put the money back into his pocket decisively, "The eyes are too ugly."
The administrator curled his lips and sat back down.
After a while, Yi Pei and the others also came down. Tian Kunwen said solemnly: "A total of three people were missing last night."
In addition to Liu Shiyan on the first floor and Fang Penghui on the third floor, other players who had not shown up yesterday also went downstairs to have breakfast. The player's disappearance was discovered by his neighbors who lived together. Some people were worried that someone was gloating about his misfortune. These people looked at Xu
After getting a few glances, he left the hotel.
"They won't tell you anything." The curly-haired Fang Penghui looked at Wei Xian who kept trying to talk to others and said: "This is a survival dungeon. Everyone is a competitor. The safety of others means that you will be in danger.
Only a fool would do this."
After speaking, he looked at them meaningfully.
This caused Tian Kunwen and others who had originally cooperated on a temporary basis to fall silent.
After all the other players left, Yi Pei said: "Let's go out and look for clues each. We can't just know everything and wait for others to dig holes. By the way, we'll look for You Jun."
There were three knocks on the door last night. The two people who didn't open the door were fine. You Jun, who opened the door, was missing. The intuitive judgment was that the door was open. But the other two people were missing. This means that the player's disappearance had nothing to do with whether the door was opened, or not.
The relationship is very small, and they need to find the reason themselves.
"I was in a hurry yesterday, and I just happened to be wandering around today." Fu Danhong looked around at a few people, "We are the last ones to come. If we don't stick together, we may be targeted by others."
They still agreed to cooperate temporarily. After leaving the hotel, they were divided into groups of two and three, with Xu Huo and Yi Pei together, Tian Kunwen, Fu Danhong, and Wei Xian together.
After having breakfast outside, Yi Pei took a backpack and a voice recorder and pretended to be a magazine writer to write an article about Sifang Palace and ask the locals for information.
I didn’t gain much in terms of substantive things, but bought a lot of handicrafts just to win the favor of the head of the household.
"They are all animal sculptures." Yi Pei touched the wooden bear, "They are just not very detailed."
After walking a few houses, Xu Huo decided not to follow. He said, "I'm going to take a look outside the city."
"There are woods outside the city...you want to find You Jun?" Yi Pei was quite surprised, "Why?"
"Whether you are alive or dead, you should leave some clues or traces and try your luck." Xu Huo asked her, "Do you want to come with me?"
In fact, the mere fact of the disappearance is a valuable clue.
Yi Pei refused, "How about I continue to learn about the background of Sifang Palace City, and we will each report the information after we meet?"
"Okay." Xu Huo walked alone to the woods outside the city. Before he entered, he saw the girl who met them yesterday coming out of the woods carrying half a basket of wild vegetables.
"What a coincidence. Have you had breakfast?" The girl with big braids smiled sweetly, "Would you like to come to my house to eat wild vegetable porridge? It's delicious."
"I've had breakfast." Xu Huo smiled, looking a little weak, "The air here is good. I want to take a walk. Is there a road in the woods?"
"There are some trodden paths that people took when they were looking for mushrooms and wild vegetables." The girl with the big braid pointed to the back, "But there are many mountains and forests in this area. Generally no one goes to places that are too far away. There may be snakes, so be careful.
What's going on?"
Xu Huo thanked her and looked at the lifelike wooden sculpture of a kitten hanging on her basket, "This is your handicraft. It looks better than other people's."
"This is my brother's craftsmanship." The other party said with a hint of pride: "He said he is second in the county and no one dares to say he is first. The sales volume outside is the best!"
"That's pretty good." Xu Huo said, "Can you sell me two of them?"
"Okay." The girl with the big braid's eyes lit up, "I don't have it with me now. I will send it to you later. Where do you live?"
"I'll go to your house to pick some. It's okay to buy a few more," Xu Huo said.
The two said goodbye in a friendly manner, and Xu Huo continued walking into the forest.
He was not the only one who came here. On the way, he also met Fang Penghui, who was squatting under a tree and looking at something. When he noticed that he was coming, he immediately stood up and covered the things on the ground with the soil brought up by his feet.
Xu Huo glanced at it, it looked like a stone.
Seeing this, Fang Penghui simply stepped aside and left. Before leaving, he said: "In this dungeon, it's better not to be so curious."
Xu Huo was obviously not a person who listened to others' advice. He dug something out from the mud with his kick, but he didn't expect it to be a broken stone sculpture. The upper half of his face was missing, and the lower half of his face was a more abstract religious image.
Judging from the fracture, it seemed that it had been damaged for several years, and there were signs of being disturbed many times.
This is the first religious-related item he has seen since entering the county.
According to the copy, religious sculptures should be seen everywhere here, but there are no traces of religion in the modern county, and even the handicrafts sold have nothing to do with religion.
There are no traces of religious worship in the living rooms, kitchens, courtyards and other public areas of the houses I just entered. There is no involvement at all, let alone piety, which is also contrary to the background introduction.
The county town itself is also very strange. It is said that the size of the city has been reduced repeatedly, but the residential areas are almost covered with large areas of vegetation, and it does not look like anyone has lived there. Even if they are relocated, there should not be any trace left in the neighborhood.
He changed direction and was about to continue walking deeper into the woods when someone suddenly called him from behind, "Hey!"