Chapter 320: Pat on the Shoulder
There are 7 people left, but the number of branches is 8.
There is one more.
"How could this happen?" Youqi looked sad and stretched out his hand, facing everyone as if hoping someone could claim the extra branch, and asked tremblingly: "Who is this extra branch? "
Of course no one will claim it, everyone is staring at him with pity.
Chen Qiang glanced at the painting subconsciously. This action seemed to trigger a chain reaction, and the remaining people also looked at the painting.
If there is another "person" in this room, it should be the woman in the painting.
Could this branch be hers?
Seeing this scene, Youqi's face turned pale, as if his blood had been drained.
Although he was very scared, he did not dare to throw away the branch given by the NPC casually. Moreover, he did not know which one of the two to throw away, and his whole face was twisted together.
Just as everyone thought, there is still drama to be performed tonight.
"Have you noticed?" An Xuan said: "What she said just now was that the master asked her to inform."
Before that, she mentioned the young master.
Nodding, Xia Meng squinted and said, "It seems that they already know that we have guessed Master Huang's true identity, so they no longer hide it."
It gets dark very quickly, After dinner, everyone gathered in Jiangcheng's wing, waiting for the mission to begin.
An Xuan once again led everyone to review some details of the mission and what needs to be paid attention to. "According to the rules this time, the ghost is likely to dress up as one of us during the process and then lure others to talk."
He looked at everyone one by one. When he saw Jiang Cheng, he realized that the other party was also staring at him. An Xuan looked away very naturally. "So I suggest that no matter what you see or hear, don't speak."
"And this branch." He opened his hand, and there was a branch segment lying quietly in his palm, " Once you put it in your mouth, don’t take it out until the mission is over.”
Mentioning the branches, everyone glanced at Youqi who was huddled in the corner, and his expression seemed to be getting worse.
“Boom!”
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The sound of the drum was very dull.
Everyone’s pupils shrank, the task was finally here.
Rush to the shore, there is still fog on the lake, and what is even weirder is that this time the fog is thicker than before. It floats on the lake. Everything in front of you is white and the visibility is very poor. .
A small boat broke through the thick fog and docked on the shore.
No one is surprised about this. The rule is that everyone needs to be dispersed by boat.
But to everyone's surprise, the boat was not empty as before, but there was a paper head and a bright red costume.
The costume was supported on a wooden frame and stood on the bow of the boat. The paper head was just buckled on the costume. At first glance, it looked like a person standing on the boat with his arms stretched out, which matched the current environment. , very strange.
The rules say that you are not allowed to speak until you arrive at the designated place and take the branch into your mouth, so at this moment Youqi couldn't help it anymore and asked: "Is this... is this for us to put on? It’s not in the rules”
Halfway through, Youqi was like a duck whose neck was stepped on, unable to speak a word, because he saw many more boats sailing out of the fog.
Silently, a bright red costume stood on each boat. The sleeves and hem of the costume were waving in the night wind, like people dancing.
Xia Meng counted 7 boats in total.
An Xuan took a deep breath and was the first to jump on the boat. The situation was already obvious. They needed to change into red costumes and put on paper heads.
But everyone was careful and did not take off their original costumes. Instead, they put on the red costumes, which made them look bulkier.
The moment they changed into their costumes and put on their paper heads, the seven boats started at the same time and sailed in different directions, quickly disappearing in the mist.
With his throat rolling, the fat man looked left and right. The surroundings were foggy and he couldn't see other boats at all. The sound of water coming from under the boat was also very strange. The fat man wanted to poke his head out several times. But they were all killed by reason.
He was worried about seeing something that he shouldn't bear, such as a soaked dead face, or a corpse with pale arms waving.
His brainstorming ability has always been very strong. In just a few seconds, he had already brainstormed dozens of possible ways to kill people. The final result was that he squatted in the middle of the boat, his huge body shrinking. It formed a small ball, with its neck rotating 360 degrees without any blind spots, like a stocky humanoid radar.
This situation continued until he came ashore.
According to the rules of the game, he only needs to wait here, and then someone will come to him and hand over the bride to him, and then he will take the bride to the next person.
The process is not complicated. In the words of the doctor, it is just a game of shoulder tapping in disguise.
The shoulder tapping game requires four people to turn off all the lights in an empty rectangular room in the middle of the night, and then place one person in each of the four corners of the room.
Facing into the corner, do not look back.
When the game starts, the person in one corner walks towards the person in the other corner and gently taps the person in front of him on the shoulder. Then, the person being patted follows the same method. , repeat the above steps.
The premise is that everyone is walking in the same direction, either clockwise or counterclockwise.
When someone comes to a corner where no one is around, he should cough first, then cross the person's corner and continue walking forward until he sees the next person.
After a while, you will find that there will be times when no one coughs, which means there are people in every corner, but according to the rules, there is one person who always leaves.
The extra person is the new player in this game.
The difference in this scene is that the venue is larger, and they are surrounded by this ghostly lake.
The seven people were spread far apart, so the coughing could not be heard at all, and the rules of the game did not allow them to do so.
Wearing uniform paper heads and red costumes also made them unable to recognize each other.
This is too deliberate. It is almost written in the rules that ghosts want to sneak into their midst and kill people.
After docking, Fatty immediately saw a paper man.
The paper man stood under a tree 7 or 8 meters away from the shore, with extremely exaggerated and weird makeup on his face, wearing a green melon skin hat, and a big braid hanging down beside him.
Under the pale moonlight, the paper man posed in a strange posture, slightly hunched over, with one arm stretched out, pointing to the dark left side.
The fat man's breathing accelerated uncontrollably, and the fat man gradually turned around. Following the instructions of the paper man, he faced the left side and waited quietly without saying a word.
I don’t know how long this torture lasted. A "rustling" sound sounded behind me. It sounded like someone was not leaving the ground, dragging their legs on the ground, rubbing forward bit by bit. . (End of this chapter)