Chapter 5:

"Go out at this time?!" Ruan Bai said in surprise, "Is there no danger?"
The female ghost just left, Gu San is going out?
"There are some experienced old players who once summarized a game rule called'dangerous limit'," Gu San said, "In order to give players breathing time, but also to adjust the difficulty of the game, different levels of escape games encounter danger. The time interval is different."
"For example, in this B-level world, I encountered a crisis at this time, then for a certain period of time, I will be in a protected state, and there will be no more danger; in the S-level difficulty world, the danger is every minute It will happen, the rest time needs players to find a way to fight for it."
When Ruan Bai finished listening, he suddenly understood.
At this time, the door can already be easily pushed open.
They left the house lightly, walked to the window where the woman just stood, and looked around.
And this look revealed the problem.
On the eaves of every household in this village, there is a small wooden sign on which is written in cinnabar.
The mermaid village in the dark night is surrounded by a thick black fog that almost turns into a solid body. Everything around is blurred in the fog. Only on the wooden signs, the runes are like a blood-colored lamp. , Lit up in the dark very conspicuously, swaying with the wind, reflecting a layer of light red across the street.
And outside the window of the room where they lived, there should have been such a wooden sign, but I don't know who cut the rope and took the wooden sign, leaving only a red string under the eaves.
"What are these? Can the talisman protect people?" Ruan Bai looked around in a daze, then looked at the string on his head, "We will be stared at because someone took the wooden sign here. ?"
It's just that these runes, how are they all red, not only don't make people feel safe, but they look very strange.
"It should be," Gu San looked at the end of the rope, touched it, and his voice suddenly became a lot colder, "Moreover, it's probably only been cut short in these two days."
The cut of the rope is very new, not contaminated by dust, and does not look like old cuts.
Ruan Bai also noticed this, his face changed, and he immediately began to scan around.
She doesn't know who this person is, but maybe he will leave some traces that she can find.
Soon, she discovered that there was a footprint at her feet.
When the woman left, she took away the water inside the house, but did not take away the water outside. At this time, the land outside the window became wet and soft, and the footprints of the person were clearly left behind.
"The footprint is not big, it's about the same as mine, it should be a woman's foot," Ruan Bai said with a comparison, "I think this may not be the footprint of the woman just now."
The woman just now seemed to hate normal people like them. Ruan Bai guessed that this footprint should be left by others.
In this way, who is the person who cut the wooden sign to harm them?
Is it a villager or a player?
Gu San listened to her and refused to comment.
"Go back," he said lightly, "sleep first, and watch it tomorrow."
Ruan Bai thought for a while, and thought that there were only clues he could find, so he nodded and followed Gu San back to the room.
However, as soon as he entered the room, Ruan Bai felt a little bit and suddenly looked back at the house not far away.
I saw a pale, creepy human face faintly attached to the window of that room.
It is watching them.
"What's the matter?" Gu San noticed Ruan Bai's hesitation and asked in the room.
Ruan Bai's fingers trembled slightly, just about to say something, but after a faint look at her face, he quickly disappeared.
She took a deep breath, finally swallowed the words and entered the room.
Because she just completed the random task, she now has 1000 points in her hand.
After being stared at by the face, Ruan Bai was worried that something might go wrong in the future, so he opened the mall and prepared to exchange two life-saving items.
However, when she took a closer look, she saw a dazzling array of things inside, all of them "Yongrong Pill", "Chuchu Pitiful Mask", "No matter how much you eat, you can't pass the physique medicine."
Ruan Bai: "..."
Ruan Bai asked with difficulty, "...Well, Gu San, what are the items that can be exchanged for points in your system mall?"
Gu San's voice is still flat: "There are dolls that can die once, invisibility charms that won't be discovered by other people, mirrors that spy on the other side's truth...what's wrong with you?"
He seemed to notice that Ruan Bai's expression was wrong, Gu San half-talked, paused, and asked.
Ruan Bai: "..."
Ruan Bai: "No, nothing."
Is it too late for her to delete her account and start again?
[This is the choice of destiny, the host,] The system is talking coldly on the sidelines, [God understands that your ultimate destination should be beautiful, so it didn't give you those hypocritical and useless props. Ruan Bai thought in his heart that I don't know what my destiny is, but I know your destiny must be me!
If there is any entity in the system, she must beat it fiercely for three days and three nights!
Seeing that he couldn't change the props, and he was already a little tired, Ruan Bai went back to the bed disappointed and closed his eyes to sleep.
No dream for a night.
By the next day, Ruan Bai was awakened by a scream.
It turns out that several player teams other than them have more or less crashed into death, but some players died in groups, and villagers died in some groups.
Originally 15 players, after one night, there are 12 left.
When Ruan Bai and the others rushed over, the spirits of several new players were not very good, knowing that this is a death escape game is one thing, and facing death is another thing.
"We all fell asleep last night and don't know what happened." Qin Yu sighed and said, "I just called him to get up, but he didn't move. I thought he was asleep..."
His teammate died last night, but he did not show a look too touched, maybe he is used to death.
The newcomer Wang Wenwen, a female high school student next to her, had red eyes and a panic expression. She had obviously just cried, and the white-collar worker who had comforted Ruan Bai before was talking to her in a low voice.
"Woo...I want to go home...I don't want to stay here," Wang Wenwen choked and said desperately, "What did I do wrong, why should I encounter this?"
After hearing this, Ruan Bai might have been infected by the despair in her tone, and his mood has also deteriorated a lot.
If there is a chance, who wants to come to this game?
On the first night of the B-class world, three people were eliminated. After three days, wouldn't even less than half remain.
Such a death rate made Ruan Bai feel a little sinking.
After Gu San passed, he winked at Ruan Bai.
Ruan Bai understood it, and while others didn't notice him, he slipped out and quietly looked at the two houses.
As she expected, the wooden signs hanging outside these rooms were also cut.
This is not like an accident, it should be someone deliberately targeting their group of players.
After confirming the news, Ruan Bai returned.
At this time, other people gathered in the room Qin Yu and the others lived in last night, watching the dead player's body.
She stood outside and took a look, and saw the corpse lying on the bed, looking as if she was asleep. However, his lower body was chopped off by something, his legs disappeared out of thin air, leaving only wounds, shocking.
Even though he was prepared in his heart, Ruan Bai was still subconsciously surprised when he saw the corpse, and his face paled a lot.
Seeing Ruan Bai came back, Gu San found an excuse and came out of it.
Ruan Bai followed and whispered to him what he had just discovered.
"Sure enough," Gu San was not surprised at all. He took a deep look at the players in the room and said, "Go, go and talk elsewhere."
Ruan Bai knows that he suspects that there are ghosts in those players. To be honest, she also feels the same. After all, there are several groups of dead villagers. If the NPC intends to attack them, there are more opportunities. There is no need to cheat yourself. .
But why do players do this?
Shouldn't their purpose be to survive these few days?
Perhaps seeing Ruan Bai’s confusion, Gu San explained:
It’s normal for a ghost to appear in the player. When you entered the game, did you see the task assigned by the system?

Ruan Bai nodded: "Yes, my mission goal is to survive three days and find out the secrets of the Mermaid Village."
It was precisely when she saw the line of scarlet letters that she realized something was wrong.
"That's right," Gu San said lazily. "Each player has his own mission. This is the mission for me and you, but there will be players who have different missions."
"Some players’ missions are specifically for other players... If I’m not mistaken, at least one of these players will have her mission to eliminate other players as much as possible without revealing herself. ."
In this game, there is actually this kind of cannibalism?
Hearing this, Ruan Bai was stunned for a moment and looked up, only to see Gu Sanzheng standing opposite her, looking thoughtfully at the group of players.
He wears a hat and a pair of deep black eyes staring at them motionless, like a hidden black snake, silently watching the prey being stared at.
Who is he suspecting?
"The matter of catching the inner ghost, let's put it aside. What we need to do now is to find out the secrets of the village."
After speaking, Gu San suddenly looked back at Ruan Bai.
"Aren't you afraid of corpses?" he asked.
When Ruan Bai faced the corpse, he didn't react much except his face turned pale.
Ruan Bai shook his head.
afraid? Of course she will be afraid, and she will fall into the death escape game. Who is not afraid?
But she understood very early that it was useless to be afraid.
It has only been less than a day now, and there will be many deaths waiting for her. Even if Gu San is her teammate, she cannot pin all her hopes on him.
If she is fearful, it will be more difficult for her to live.
She has to overcome her fears, take the initiative to face and adapt to the existence of death.
When Gu San saw this, he glanced at her with interest.
"Yes, it seems you are quite assertive," he raised his chin and said casually, "Well, this time it's up to you to decide what we will do next."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Bai replied without hesitation: "Go to Taoist temple."
She had a hunch that there must be secrets and discoveries in the Taoist temple dedicated to the mermaid grandmother.