Xiaolan and Qin Yin clung to the inner wall of the closet, holding their breath.
"Players please pay attention..."
Suddenly, a somewhat mechanical female voice sounded from the closet next door, which sounded like the central control on the intercom was speaking.
Xiaolan and Qin Yin were so frightened that they shivered. They heard a "thud" sound from the wardrobe on the other side, followed by a "hiss" sound from Jasmine in pain. It seemed that they were frightened and hit their heads.
"Players, please note that each wardrobe can accommodate up to two people hiding, and each wardrobe can accommodate up to two people hiding. If multiple people are forced to hide, everyone in the closet is at risk of being caught."
Zhong Kong's words were emotionless, and so were the looks Xiaolan and Qin Yin looked at the fool.
"What are you doing?" The fool grabbed the board cautiously, "I think we should let Xiaolan go. Anyway, she has had several waves of high energy, so she should be used to it, and she looks so cute, maybe she is not willing to let it go.
Take action."
Xiaolan tilted her head.
What did I hear?
"Look at what you're saying, do you think it's human?" Qin Yin grabbed the latch with her right hand, "I think you're quite cute, go ahead and eat high energy!"
Qin Yin suddenly pulled out the bolt, and the idiot on the outside flipped out.
"Remember! Never hit NPCs!"
"Bang!"
Qin Yin ignored the fool's desperate eyes, quickly closed the door, plugged in the bolt, covered her chest and gasped.
The murderer dragging the chain is approaching here.
"Boom!--Boom!--swish--swish--"
Xiaolan hugged her head, not daring to think about what would happen to the fool outside.
But——you actually want to throw me out? That’s too much!
If she really pushed herself to that point, Xiaolan would definitely not be able to resist a space travel and send herself home directly.
Except for the approaching murderer, there was no sound outside.
"Idiot!" Qin Yin asked softly, lying at the crack of the door, "Aren't you fainted from fright?"
"Shut up," came the idiot's breathy voice. Judging from the height, he was still sitting on the ground and hadn't gotten up. "I'm observing, and something is wrong."
Qin Yin lowered his head and said to Xiaolan, "I still have time to observe, which shows that this NPC is not that scary."
Xiaolan knelt down and looked out at the crack of the door.
The fool sat on the ground blankly, looking at the door motionlessly.
A shoe dyed red appeared in view.
It looks like a man's foot.
Another foot also appeared, followed by a chain that was as thick as an arm and was dragging on the ground.
A bloody human face came right in front of the fool's eyes.
The murderer raised the chain in his hand, intending to put it around the fool's neck.
"Wow, you are such a fool," Qin Yin lay on the edge of another door and shouted outside, "Why don't you even struggle!"
"You didn't let me hurt him!"
"Okay, forget it," Qin Yin muttered, "You're right, the NPC's life is more important."
The murderer pulled the fool's face in front of him and observed it carefully, growling like a beast from time to time in his throat.
The fool nodded, then shook his head.
"What are they doing? Chatting?" Qin Yin couldn't hear the two of them talking, so she simply put her ear against the door.
Xiaolan saw the fool holding the chain in both hands, looking at the NPCs very calmly, moving his mouth, and then turned back to point at them.
The murderer held the chain and pulled the fool up from the ground.
The two took steps and disappeared from sight.
"Huh--" Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, a blood-red eye suddenly appeared outside the crack of the door.
"ah!--"
Xiaolan fell down into the cabinet. Qin Yin didn't know what was going on and was so frightened that he hit his head.
"Bang bang bang!...Bang bang bang!..."
The murderer began to beat the closet door with an iron lock. The two of them held on to the door frame and latch while cursing the fool in their hearts.
The loud noise continued for a while, and the murderer seemed to finally give up, dragging the iron chain and the fool, and slowly left with heavy footsteps.
Xiaolan and Qin Yin were still in shock, still holding the door tightly, for fear that the NPC would come back and kill them again.
"squeak--"
"They left." The Taoist priest's voice said.
"squeak--"
Xiaolan and Qin Yin looked at each other. They opened the door and saw other companions.
They opened the door, helped each other and walked out.
"You idiot, you actually betrayed us," Qin Yin hugged her arms angrily, "It made my head swell."
The Taoist priest pushed the door open and said, "The door is still locked. We can't get out."
"Isn't this room finished yet?" Jasmine patted the ashes on her body.
The intercom rang, "Your companion has been captured by the murderer. Please look for clues and rescue your companion."
Qin Yin pouted, "I don't want to rescue him, let him live with the murderer."
After hearing this, the Taoist priest picked up the intercom and said, "Hello, do you need to rescue your companion?"
The central controller seemed to have never seen such a scene before. After a while, the answer came, "Must... must be rescued. Please look for clues in the room."
"Let's look for it."
The most painful thing happened to Jasmine. She thought it could be solved by just hiding in a closet, but she didn't expect that she could not escape the fate of picking up corpses no matter what.
"Alas -" Jasmine sighed and walked towards the pile of corpses, "I wish I had let the murderer capture me."
Xiaolan was not shy. When she was looking around and still had no clue, she took half a step back and stepped on something with her heel.
"Huh?" Xiaolan picked up the thing, "Is this... Brother Fool's doll?"
"It seems," Qin Yin came over, "he left the doll behind."
Xiaolan pinched the short-haired little man in a black suit and then raised it to his eyes.
"What's this?"
"What's wrong?"
"There is a sign hanging on the chest of this doll," Xiaolan narrowed her eyes, "There seems to be words on it."
Qin Yin pointed there, "Wen... literature..."
"Literature Army." Xiao Lan read out.
"It's a fool's identity," the Taoist priest said.
An idea hit Xiaolan's mind. She opened her mouth and her eyes were dull.
"Xiaolan, what's wrong? Why do you look so stupid?"
"I'm thinking."
Xiaolan rolled her eyes, feeling that the things in front of her were gradually becoming clearer.
"Moli," Xiaolan suddenly called, "do you still have the doll in your hand?"
"Here it is, I took it secretly when all things were alive."
"What is your doll wearing?"
Jasmine handed the doll over in confusion, "The red coat."
Xiaolan grabbed the doll, fiddled with it left and right, grabbed the hem of the doll's waist, pulled with her right hand, and with a squeak, the red cloth gown came away from the doll's body.
"look!"
Everyone stared.
There is actually another piece of clothing in the red cloth coat.
"This is the shroud," the Taoist Master said slowly, "it is the shroud worn by all living things in the coffin."
"Wow, Xiaolan, how do you know the doll is still wearing clothes?" Qin Yin asked.
Xiaolan and Qiao Nian looked at each other and nodded.
"Because when we found the Wenhua Army doll, it didn't look like this."