Chapter 296 Preliminary Exploration
Chapter 296 Preliminary Exploration
on the computer screen.
After the background introduction, the scene appears at the entrance of the town.
There is an old stone tablet there, on which are written the three powerful words "Huaishu Town".
Next to the stone tablet, there is a rather thick locust tree.
It is summer now, and the locust trees are full of leaves with some yellow flowers among them.
These three words were written in red paint and looked quite bright.
A lame old man wearing a white vest, with his chest exposed and holding a palm-leaf fan in his hand, stood in front of Su Ming and the others.
The lame old man shook his head and sighed: "Young man, why do you have to come to this town when you can go anywhere else?"
"Forget it, forget it. But now that you're here, it's too late to leave."
"Just stay in this town for three days and then leave, and nothing will happen."
"In the meantime, you must not violate the taboos of this town."
"Well, the first taboo is that you must not leave the town during these three days."
"In other words, don't step over this town monument."
"Otherwise, disaster is sure to befall you~"
After saying that, the lame old man fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan, shook his head and left.
A line of words appeared in front of Su Ming.
[Looking at that boundary marker, you feel uncomfortable. ]
[As a veteran of the ghost world who has seen a lot, you understand that something dirty has gotten to you. ]
[If you don't listen to the advice and leave here, I'm afraid there will be real danger. ]
Su Ming guessed that this should be a very serious restriction.
The horror game may use this taboo to restrict them from leaving the forbidden town within three days.
The horror game does not outright kill the player if they leave town.
Instead, through this taboo, they are made to bear the consequences.
To achieve this goal, the power behind this taboo must be extremely powerful.
Then, the other characters with Su Ming started talking.
This group of people were jumping around, looking quite excited.
"Haha! How exciting!"
"This old man spoke so seriously that the atmosphere immediately heated up!"
"Brothers and sisters, don't be afraid. I am a virgin with a pure yang body. If any ghost dares to come over, I will piss on it!"
"Yang Wei! Can you please stop doing that? If you keep going like this, you'll probably be a virgin for the rest of your life!"
"Interesting! I hope I can really see a ghost this time!"
"Don't be like before, where you worked so hard and got nothing."
"Then let's just treat it as a trip. This town has nice scenery!"
……
Look at these little people with bubbles constantly popping out of their heads.
Su Ming had a sense of déjà vu as if he was watching a horror movie again and seeing those supporting characters seeking death.
He complained: "If the player's teammates are really this group of people, I'm afraid the chance of survival will be greatly improved."
There are characters like this who like to seek death and are not afraid of death. They come out to test the taboos with their physical bodies and can directly obtain a lot of information.
When the horror game begins, players will replace these characters, and each one will be more cowardly than the other.
They are all waiting for other players to take the lead and help them explore the way.
After all, if we could know in advance what would happen after triggering the taboo.
You will feel more confident and have more time to think about how to deal with the situation.
It doesn't require you to rely solely on improvisation and quick wit.
Since I won't die anyway, I might as well try to leave the forbidden town early and see what happens.
Su Ming directly controlled the character and walked in the direction away from the boundary marker.
The other characters see him doing this and start to boo him.
"Old Qi is still very efficient. He has to break the taboo right at the beginning, right?"
"No, I won't let you play like that! I just told you not to leave the town, and you broke it?"
"That's right. If you go out and nothing happens, then wouldn't other people's taboos become a joke?"
"The weird atmosphere I created with great difficulty is about to be ruined by you doing this!"
"Follow me, brothers. We can't let Lao Qi take risks alone!"
"What taboo? If you want to kill my buddy, you'd better step over my dead body first!"
……
Led by a few pixel figures, these characters followed Su Ming and walked out of the town.
The lame old man who was leaving turned around and saw this scene.
The old man had a strange look on his face, and then shook his head and sighed: "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences!"
This was the most stubborn group of people he had ever seen.
Those who came here before would not commit suicide as soon as they entered the town. They did not believe it at first.
But generally, after two or three of them die, they will become quiet.
The remaining people still have a chance to leave alive.
However, this group of young people who came here were all seeking death together.
Su Ming didn't expect that this group of pixel people would be so united.
It seems that the little man under his control is still very influential among them.
Su Ming: "That's right. There are enough samples to observe. We can see more clearly what will happen if we leave the town."
As the character passes through the boundary marker.
A black shadow dissipated from the Ring of the Martyr on his hand.
Tips for the horror game started popping up.
[The evil spirit of one of your item, the Ring of the Martyr, dissipates, protecting you from a fatal curse. ]
However, none of the characters that followed behind died.
Su Ming: "Well, it seems that this fatal curse will only target the first person to leave the stone tablet."
"Or in other words, its triggering is time-limited."
The pixelated man behind him started to bubble up his head: "Is this really a trick?"
"You said it was so serious, but in the end, nothing happened after you stepped over the boundary marker!"
"Fuck it, Lao Qi, it's all your fault. You broke the taboo of Huaishu Town."
"Don't be discouraged, maybe this is the only taboo that's false, there are other supernatural events in this town!"
"If it really doesn't work, just treat it as a vacation, that's pretty comfortable."
"Then let's go to the town and look for other taboos!"
……
Su Ming: "Don't worry, it's not over yet."
He didn't believe that the crisis he faced could be resolved so easily after leaving the town.
As time passed, fog began to rise around.
rustling --
The sound of wind blowing through the leaves comes and goes.
It seems like something else is wandering around nearby.
thump—
A pixelated man suddenly covered his heart and fell to the ground.
Convulsing wildly and foaming at the mouth.
This situation scared the other pixel people.
"It's bad! Yang Wei is having a seizure!"
"Call 120 and call an ambulance!"
"Where can we get an ambulance in this remote place?"
"Take him back to town first and find the town doctor!"
"Come on, help me!"
"Where is the town? How come such a big town is gone?"
"Yan Zha! What's wrong with you? Yan Zha!"
"Is Yan Zi also ill?"
……
ten minutes later.
The group was wiped out in the increasingly thick fog.
It was clearly only less than a hundred meters away from the boundary marker.
However, no matter how hard they looked, they could no longer find any trace of the town.
The pixel figures fell one by one.
The character controlled by Su Ming held on to the end.
His Ring of the Martyr was being consumed at an increasing frequency.
Until finally, he saw the thick locust tree next to the boundary marker.
The trees were full of hanging ropes, and under the ropes were corpses.
【you are dead. 】
Su Ming returned to the main interface while thinking.
"Leaving the town directly is indeed a dead end."
"It seems that we need to go to the town to collect more information before we can hope to challenge this taboo."
He clicked to start the game and began the next challenge.
(End of this chapter)