When Xiaolan finally broke free from the net, she was almost unconscious with stars in her eyes.
"Wake up! Wake up..."
Jie Yan pinched Xiaolan's cheek and shook it from side to side, but Baomu was so angry that he waved it away with his palm.
After a long while, Xiao Lan opened her eyes quietly.
When she suddenly woke up, the first thing she did was to bend over and look towards the back door of the main room.
"Phew - luckily no one heard me."
"There's no one inside," Baomu helped Xiaolan up, "We searched inside for a while, but we didn't see you coming in, so we were a little worried."
Xiaolan hugged Baomu gratefully, "This family's trap is set here, which means the face should be nearby. Come, let's look for it together."
The four of them started rummaging around the small warehouse together. It was still a long time before dawn.
Xiaolan's steps were still a little wobbly, and she walked around a curve towards the shiny thing.
However, when Xiaolan came closer, she only saw a ball of rags covered with straw.
This thing...will reflect light?
Baomu also came over and looked down, "What is this?"
"I can see this thing reflecting light from there," Xiaolan turned back and pointed to the place where she stepped on the trap, "but it doesn't look like it can reflect light."
"Is it like that photo frame, where the mystery can only be discovered from a certain angle?" Jie Yan also walked over.
"At least there is glass in the photo frame as a reflector. This is just a rag." Xiaolan picked up the rag and shook it a few times. Nothing fell from the top, and there was just ordinary straw under the rag.
The other three people stared at the rag for a few times, then walked away in unison and continued searching.
Only Xiaolan held the piece of rag and looked at it suspiciously.
I always feel...something is weird.
This rag...
Xiaolan turned the rag over and over again.
Then, as if by some strange coincidence, she covered her face with the rag.
The rag is gray-brown, and its surface exudes a warm smell.
Xiaolan smelled the reassuring smell and opened her eyes under the rag.
She can see things.
Through this layer of opaque rags, everything around her was visible to her, and she could even see the weird expressions on her companions' faces when they looked at her.
"Come here quickly!" Xiaolan raised her face and called others to come over, "come quickly! I think I found it!..."
The three men approached doubtfully.
"What are you doing?" Jie Yan glanced at Xiaolan.
"Bring me that book." Xiaolan waved her hand towards Jie Yan.
Jie Yan opened his coat, took out the precious coffin book from the inside of the coat, and handed it to Xiaolan.
Xiaolan quickly turned to page six and held the book in the coffin in front of her.
On the page, a semicircle consisting of nine gates appeared, and nine people stood in front of the nine gates.
"I saw it."
As soon as Xiaolan said these words, the other three people suddenly became excited.
"Really this rag?" Jie Yan's eyes suddenly changed when he looked at the rag.
Xiaolan took the rag off her face, handed it to Baomu, nodded and said, "Really, the face is either hidden in the middle of the rag, or the rag may be the face itself."
"I saw it, I saw it!" Baomu also shouted in a low voice.
In this way, the four people took turns to see what the picture looked like. After copying the picture onto the white paper, everyone put the rag back to its original place and ran back to the base in the last darkness.
"Is this a door?" The four of them gathered around the piece of paper to discuss. Jie Yan pointed to the arc on the painting and asked.
"What should we do? Will each of us nine players have to enter a door, and finally we can run out together?" Qin Sicong became worried again.
The four of them were silent for a while.
"Let's not think so much," Xiaolan said directly without raising her head, "First try your best to collect all the contents in the book, and then... there must be a way."
"That's right." Baomu cheered.
During the day the next day, the three of them repeated their same tricks and successfully entered the next house. They became more and more proficient in Jie Yan's business and soon found the location where the family's face was hidden and completed the task.
After walking out of the yard, Xiaolan looked up to the horizon. Although night had not yet fallen, it was estimated that the daylight hours would not be enough for them to complete the task of the next household. The three of them ran back to the large yard where Qin Sicong was.
The evening experience went very smoothly, and the four of us got the eighth painting with satisfaction.
On the seventh painting, there is no pattern, only four words.
Life or death is uncertain.
On the eighth painting, there is a square door with a mask pattern painted in the middle of the door.
The moment the four people saw this picture, they saw its mystery - the pattern of this mask was very similar to the mask Qin Sicong found in the old man's house.
"Life or death is uncertain," Jie Yan poked the white paper with his finger, "Is this a reminder? Don't we still know that our life or death is uncertain?"
The four people stared at the paper.
"Actually, if you look carefully," Qin Sicong said softly, "the gaps between these four characters seem to be different."
Seeing that others noticed his words, Qin Sicong hurriedly added, "It's like a word for life, a word for death, and then the two words "unsure" are connected together."
"Is this what the original picture looks like?" Xiaolan first asked Jie Yan, who was conducting the specific task.
"Exactly the same," Jie Yan raised his hands and said sincerely, "I swear with all my talent, I traced it exactly according to the original drawing."
Everyone put down this picture first, then picked up the eighth picture and started looking at it.
Qin Sicong placed the mask next to the white paper. After comparison, it turned out that they were exactly the same.
"This thing is useful, we have to keep it with us from now on." Jie Yan stretched out his hand to get the mask.
Xiaolan picked up the mask before him, thought about it, and handed it back to Qin Sicong, "Take this, you found it after all."
Qin Sicong looked at Xiaolan gratefully, and put the mask into his arms a little embarrassedly. After putting it away, he patted it without worry.
Jie Yan glanced at Xiaolan lightly and said nothing.
"Okay, now we have one page left to complete the task." Xiaolan said an encouraging word.
A few people were only a little excited, because they now knew the content of the first eight pages, but they still had no idea how to pass the level. Of course, the problem mainly lies on the fourth page, and the four of them have not been able to distinguish it yet.
What are those irregular circles that fill the picture? Even the content after the fourth page is half-understood by them.
As soon as it dawned, Xiaolan, Baomu and Xieyan took the last piece of meat in their hands and embarked on the road to find the last family.
As they went to the back, Baomu became more and more stressed at work. Not only did he make several mistakes, but he even led the two of them back to the stores they had visited before.
Jie Yan gradually lost his patience and complained a few words to Baomu. Baomu worked hard and did not dare to refute, but Xiaolan angrily criticized Jie Yan several times, making the atmosphere between the three of them more and more tense.
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When Baomu finally found the last house, more than half of the rapidly changing day here had passed. The four people stood outside the courtyard door, looking inside exhaustedly.
No one was seen in the yard or in the house.
Xiaolan stretched out her hand to open the door bolt of the yard, when a man's fierce voice rang out in the distance.
"What are you doing?!"
Xiaolan immediately retracted her hand, and the three of them looked towards the place where the sound came from, with guilty looks on their faces.
At the other end of the path, a tall figure hurriedly ran over.
Seeing this, Jie Yan went up to him with a piece of meat, "Brother, I'll give you some meat..."
The man came running over with a huff, Jie Yan's flattering smile frozen on his face.
Because the man was holding two large pieces of meat in his hands.
"What are you doing here?!" The man ran to his yard and guarded the door to prevent them from approaching.
"Let's... deliver meat." Baomu said hesitantly.
"We can't finish the meat, so I'll give some to everyone." Xiaolan quickly added with a smile.
"Do I still need your meat?" The man's attitude softened a little. He rolled his eyes at the meat in Jie Yan's hand, "There is new meat. Since you can't eat it, you don't have to go and get it. It's so troublesome...
…”
After the man finished speaking, he ignored them and opened the courtyard door himself. After entering, he turned around and closed the courtyard door again, locking the three of them out.
The three of them looked at each other.
Is there new meat?
Several villagers came from the same direction, and the three of them looked in that direction.
There was a large pool of bright red blood in front of the two courtyards next to each other. A woman was standing in front of one of the courtyards packing her things. Seeing them approaching, she quickly shouted, "Oh, why did you come here! We
I just finished dividing the meat and there isn’t even a piece left!”
Xiaolan stared at the two pools of blood on the ground and asked tentatively, "Have you two... finished dividing it?"
"Yes, both pieces of meat have been divided!" The woman picked up the remaining lotus leaves, "Look, it's almost dark, of course they've all been divided. If you want to blame, it's your own fault for being too slow! ...
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As the three of them walked back, the night gradually became darker.
The last two people also died.
Now only four of them are alive.
"We can't tell Qin Sicong about this." Jie Yan said suddenly.
Xiaolan and Baomu turned their faces to look at him and asked, "Why?"
"The face he is using now is not his own. His own face has not been found yet," Jie Yan stopped and said softly, "If he knew that the three of us had changed faces, he was the only one who could not find the face.
, I'm worried that he will do something to us..."
"How could you think so?" Baomu said angrily, "He has the right to know the truth. Is it just because he is worried that Qin Sicong is jealous of us that we have to hide it from him?"
"I...I didn't mean that," Jie Yan quickly defended, "I meant that I was worried that he would be sad and uncomfortable. Where did you go?"
Xiaolan looked at the two of them without saying anything. After a few seconds, he slowly said, "We don't have to put the face on our face to find it. As long as we find something hiding Qin Sicong's face, take it."
It should be the same if we use that thing to pass the level, after all, our faces are not on our own faces."
"That's not bad..." Jie Yan said dullly.
The three of them opened the door and shook their heads at Qin Sicong, who was looking forward to the door. "Come out, let's go find the last one together."
On the way, seeing that the expressions of the three of them were not good, Qin Sicong asked timidly, "What happened?"
Xiaolan and Baomu looked at each other and told him that the last two players were also dead.
Qin Sicong's face turned pale. Soon, he understood what this meant to him, and his pale face suddenly turned purple.
"But don't worry," Xiaolan soothed, "As long as we find the thing hiding your face and take it away, it will be fine. In fact, the faces on the three of us are not our own faces."
Seeing Qin Sicong's surprised eyes, Xiaolan recounted what happened to the three of them.
"Are you a girl?" After listening, Qin Sicong's first sigh was this.
"Uh...yes," Xiaolan nodded, "What's the matter?"
"You...you don't look like a girl." Qin Sicong grinned.
Xiaolan was a little unconvinced, "Why don't I look like a girl?"
"It's nothing..." Qin Sicong stopped the topic at the right time and turned to a strange place, "It's nothing..."
After knowing that the three people were in similar situations to his own, Qin Sicong seemed to relax a little and get along with them more naturally.
The four people came to the man's yard during the day, climbed over the fence skillfully, and walked towards the main house.
Opening the door, the four of them crept into the living room.
Xiaolan waved her hand, indicating "split up", and the four of them walked in four directions in tacit agreement. Baomu stayed in the living room, Xiaolan walked to the right side of the corridor, Jie Yan walked to the left side of the corridor, and Qin Sicong went straight to the back.
room.
The room on the right side of the corridor was a pitch-black storage room filled with messy items. Xiaolan rummaged around in the dark with a headache.
Not long after, Baomu's voice sounded from the living room.
"Come here quickly!..."
So fast?!
Xiaolan ran out and bumped into Jie Yan running from the opposite side. The two of them ran back to the living room together.
Baomu stood in front of a mahogany ornamental shelf, looking at something on the shelf, lost in thought.
"Found it?" Xiaolan grabbed Baomu's arm and moved closer.
Baomu turned to look at them and nodded, "Look at this."
What his finger pointed at was a huge bright yellow orb.
Although Xiaolan didn't know what kind of gem it was, she could easily tell from the round luster of the orb that it must be a good thing.
Jie Yan quickly took out the book in the coffin and turned to the last page.
His hands were shaking with excitement.
The orb reflected the twisted appearance of the paper.
Several curved black lines also appeared on the surface of the orb.
That’s it!
"But what is this?" Jie Yan looked at the content reflected in the orb and asked doubtfully.
Xiaolan also shook her head.
The lines are too distorted by the round surface of the orb, and the paintings in this book themselves belong to the abstract style, making it harder to distinguish the content of the paintings.
The three of them stared at the orb for a long time before they realized something was wrong.