Chapter 76: Lost cruise ship (14)

The movements of those little ghosts are not big, and because of their young age, etc., they don't go fast.
But fortunately, Ruan Bai has a special physique and very keen hearing. Even on the third floor, she can hear their footsteps through a wooden barrel.
After she had the final say, she felt that they had reached the third floor and seemed to be walking towards her.
Rustle...tick...
The voice became more and more obvious, and the footsteps became lighter and heavier, getting closer.
There is something wrong, Ruan Bai thought.
Although they are slow, she can hear them, and they move without hesitation.
They are purposeful.
Will they come in their own direction?
But how did the ghost determine its position? Is it because of the rules of the game, or is it because someone has moved?
Ruan Bai didn't know, but what she knew was that she could not stay here anymore.
If she really came to find herself, then she would be done!
Without hesitation, Ruan Bai immediately climbed out of the barrel.
She gently walked away from a group of wooden barrels, then after thinking about it, she took off her coat and shoes again and stuffed them into the wooden barrel she had just hidden.
After the ghosts traveled together, the entire cruise ship became extremely cold.
Ruan Bai took off his coat, only to feel that he was immersed in water, especially his feet, as if walking on the tip of ice.
She gritted her teeth and ran away quickly while observing the movement of the stairs.
The location of the tavern was far away from the entrance on the third floor. During the period, there were many shops blocked, and the movements of the ghosts were a bit slow. Therefore, Ruan Bai easily rushed away before they came, and was not noticed.
In order to delay the ghosts a little bit, and to test how the ghosts arrested people, she also spent two points and changed the crystal ball called "the innocent white lotus must-choice gift, and her boyfriend cried when she received it." The switch will jingle and sing.
She took out the crystal ball and hurriedly placed it in an obvious corner not far from the tavern.
This kind of ball is usually an ornament that is useless except for being beautiful, but now it is surprisingly useful.
Ruan Bai tuned the music of the crystal ball, and the gentle and romantic tune came out of the crystal ball accompanied by a pure white snowflake.
"La la la... la la... la la..."
In the silence, the singing of the crystal ball appeared abrupt and sharp, and it was blown through the air for no reason, and it was inexplicably permeating.
After finishing this, Ruan Bai first hid in a flower pot close to the stairs on the fourth floor, and quietly observed the ghost.
As she expected, most of the ghosts in that group were children, and they were as tall as the waist of an adult.
Many of them died in the sea, so the whole ghost was wet, and the clothes were soaked. When walking, there would be a series of water marks on the ground.
Ruan Bai quietly counted and found that it was 4 ghosts.
The cruise ship is very large and players can change the location at will, so Ruan Bai is not surprised by the large number of ghosts.
What surprised her a little was that these ghosts actually stood together and didn't search for people separately.
And just as Ruan Bai expected, they didn't squint their way along the way, and were not interested in the shops next to them. They didn't take it seriously when they saw the singing crystal ball, and they went straight to the tavern where she was hiding.
Seeing this scene, Ruan Bai's eyes suddenly narrowed.
The ghosts did not walk towards her current hiding place, indicating that they should not be able to directly confirm where the player is.
How did they know that they were hiding in the tavern just now?
Ruan Bai walked back quietly a few steps, and saw that the four ghosts hadn't searched, so they helped each other climb to the top and took down the large decorative wine barrel.
They were obviously surprised when they found no one in the barrel, and stood there for a while.
Generally speaking, some of the ghosts are dead players, and some are alternative NPCs made by the escape game system.
Except for the ghosts that players become, normal ghosts will have a slow IQ, and their thinking ability is quite poor.
They are not so much ghosts as they are tools that act in accordance with the rules of the game program.
But now, they are all gathered in one place.
These ghosts stared at the empty barrels, and after a while, they picked up Ruan Bai's coat.
After studying for a few seconds, one of the ghosts tore his clothes to pieces and threw them on the ground.
As soon as Ruan Bai's coat was torn apart, a piece of talisman paper floated out of her clothes and was burned in midair.
It's an item... and obviously, it's an item produced by the escape game system that can only be redeemed by player points.
Ruan Bai's heart froze slightly, and his whole body became sober.
Her fingers were closed, and her fingertips were cold.
After that, the three little ghosts came out of the tavern as if they had gotten rid of something.
They also stared at Ruan Baifang's crystal ball for two minutes, and it seemed that these movements had an impact on them.
They only came towards Ruan Bai before, probably because the talisman paper on Ruan Bai's coat was more attractive to them.
When the jacket is torn, the function of the talisman is gone.
The ghosts swayed apart, each walking in four different directions, seeming to be preparing to start searching for people separately.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Bai took a few steps back quietly, and then ran away quickly.
She thought, she made a mistake.
Who put the talisman on it, and how it was put on it, it couldn't be more obvious.
The female player of the raccoon dog will definitely be her.
The raccoon's malice towards her is too obvious, but the female player behaved too stupidly, and Ruan Bai didn't take it seriously.
She even felt that she still had a promise from her master, even if she was a raccoon dog, she would not be killed by that promise.
Thinking about it now, her previous self-confidence was really too much.
No, in other words, she shouldn't think of raccoon dogs in a normal way.
The raccoon dogs who hadn't separated once did evil, but it can be seen that they are actually normal people who understand the truth.
The reason why they harm people is to survive, and they commit crimes knowingly.
Although some of them have gradually become psychologically distorted and have begun to evolve to the point of harming others to their own detriment, they are generally within a controllable range.
After all, such people are often out of the game and when they return to real life, they can't control themselves and often put themselves in prison.
After all, the purpose of most raccoon members is to pass customs and to survive. They don't want to team up with a madman who will cheat them at any time.
And now, the part of the players who separated out basically gathered all the players who were gradually perverted in fear.
Normal people don't know what they are thinking about, because some of them are not afraid of death.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that some of them will start with Ruan Bai.
It's just that she is too lax.
After Ruan Bai figured it out, he took a deep breath and ran upstairs.
Those kid ghosts are not fast, and when they finish searching the third floor, they still have free time to hide.
To say regret, she had it in her heart, but not so much.
Rather than remorse, it's better to say "finally here".
The female player from the raccoon dog was not clever, whether it was pretending to be a passerby to approach Ruan Bai or framed her, Ruan Bai found it easily.
This shows that she is not smart, and therefore Ruan Bai is not afraid of her next methods.
For Ruan Bai, her more recognized code of conduct is "People don't offend me, I don't offend others." She will not take the initiative to hurt or cheat others, unless the danger of those people is extremely high and she has to guard against it.
But once someone else took action against her, she would have no scruples.
She was too lazy to go on vainly and condemned.
After three rounds of the game, her instinct told her that the information she could obtain through female players had come to an end.
Since they did it first, don't blame her for fighting back.
When Ruan Bai thought of this, the corner of his mouth ticked slightly.
When she was chatting with the female players before, she discovered that the female players showed no interest in the various corners of the first, second and third floors. Instead, when they were on the fourth or fifth floor, they would deliberately observe the surroundings and search for them. Kind of hiding place.
She guessed that the hiding place that female players would choose is on the fourth or fifth floor.
There are not many buildings on the fifth floor because the owner’s room is on the fifth floor.
In addition, the owner is somewhat dangerous, and the average player will subconsciously stay away from him.
Therefore, Ruan Bai guessed that the female player must be hiding on the fourth floor!
While guessing, Ruan Bai's footsteps are getting faster.
And at this moment, a scream appeared out of nowhere, completely tearing apart the silent air!
"Ahhh! Don't catch me! Don't catch me!"
The voice was very sharp, as if suffering a lot of pain, and it was so tragic that people couldn't help their scalp numb.
It's a man's voice.
Halfway through his screaming, his high voice stopped abruptly, as if he was roughly cut off by something.
Ruan Bai listened carefully, and the sound source was probably on the second floor.
Among the four kid ghosts, some ghosts should have gone downstairs and started searching.
So, probably a player was discovered.
But it's just being caught, will it make such a painful noise?
Ruan Bai frowned, and suddenly thought of what the steward said when the rule was announced.
"...If someone among you is caught by a ghost, then from the next round of the game, you will become a ghost to catch people..."
Become a ghost? How did it change?
Ruan Bai's heart moved slightly, and an unpleasant thought flashed through her mind.
She looked at the kid ghost on the third floor still far from the stairs, and weighed her strength again.
If you go straight down, it is easy to encounter a crisis and even get caught.
But if you don't read it, she might miss some important information.
She thought for a while and exhaled in vain.
Without hesitating for too long, she spent some points and bought a coat and shoes in the system mall.
In the game, fear is the most useless emotion.
No matter what... she can't be frightened.
Worrying that the ghosts on the third floor would go to the second floor, she specially spent points to exchange for the crystal ball, and rang the music on the stairs on the fourth floor.
After finishing all this, Ruan Bai gritted his teeth and rushed towards the place where the sound came from the second floor!
Ruan Bai's movements were very light and fast. Not long after the scream disappeared, she came to the stairs on the second floor.
The moment she entered the second floor, she keenly felt that something was wrong here.
The temperature on the third and fourth floors is already low enough, but the temperature on the second floor is even lower.
Ruan Bai felt that this was already close to zero, and maybe longer, frost would appear on the ground.
She held her breath and carefully visited the past.
Almost effortlessly, she saw the male player who just screamed.
The male player seemed to be hiding under a counter before. Now, he is lying on the ground next to the counter, his entire face is a lifeless gray, his eyes are closed and he does not know his life or death.
And the little kid ghost stood beside him.
There was a grim, creepy smile on its stiff and pale face.
Ruan Bai watched as this kid’s ghost smiled like this, while pulling a bunch of dark things out of the male player's body!
The black mass has no entity, but has a very obvious human form, and the "face" of the black fog mass looks exactly the same as the male player on the ground.
This kid ghost has directly pulled the player's soul out!
After the male player's soul came out, the temperature on the second floor dropped to a minimum for a while.
There was still a painful and dazed look on his face, as if he was still indulged in the pain of tearing his soul, and he didn't understand his current situation.
It turns out that the player turns into a ghost, which actually means...
Ruan Bai bit his lower lip, only feeling cold in his heart.
After the kid ghost dragged the player's soul out, he let out a faint strange laugh.
It approached the player's body on the ground, and then lay in.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Bai's breath was involuntarily held.
The soul of the male player on the side also found something was wrong, and a panic appeared on the entire ghost's face.
He tried to catch the child, but the child's movements were more sensitive than his, and the movement of getting into the body was also quicker.
After a few breaths, the corpse of the male player fell to the ground and moved.
The corpse's hands and feet flicked for a moment, and finally, it opened its eyes, and staggered up from the ground.
It looked at his hands, his feet, and the height at which he stood up in surprise, as if he were not used to it.
And the real owner of this corpse showed a look of collapse on one side.
He wanted to hit his body like crazy, but he could only get through his body again and again.
Looking at this scene, Ruan Bai was sure in his heart that now in the male player's body, eight achievements are the kid ghost.
She thought about it carefully, and gradually figured out the anomaly of the hide-and-seek game she had played before.
In her impression, in the hide-and-seek game that children like to play, one child is usually selected to play as a "ghost" to catch other hidden children.
After the game starts, often the first child caught by the "ghost" will pretend to be a ghost in the next round of the game.
The ghosts from the previous round can join other children in the next round of the game, hiding and waiting for others to catch themselves.
So, in this escape game, what about the children who played "ghosts" in the first round of the game?
Where will they go after they catch people?
When announcing the rules, Guan Shi deliberately concealed this and only told them half of the rules.
So everyone acquiesced that only the player can go back to the player's queue by catching people, but they never thought that ghosts can actually occupy the player's body.
After being caught by a ghost, the ending will be more than just becoming a "ghost".
The bodies of their players will also be occupied by ghosts!
Perhaps it was because the body was still alive, so after the little ghost possessed, the body quickly returned to its normal appearance.
It has a normal skin color and a ruddy complexion. Except for the inconvenience at first, it is totally indistinguishable from normal people.
As for the side, the real male players, after a period of changes, slowly become shorter and smaller.
In the end, his soul became exactly the same as the child before.
Players and ghosts have completed a one-to-one replacement.
After that, the "male player" patted the ash on his body, slowly got up, and continued to find a place to hide.
After a short period of despair, the kid ghost after the replacement also cheered up again and began to search around, preparing to catch the next person and "replace".
After reading this, Ruan Bai knew that she could not stay here any longer.
Although this is very risky, her gains are obviously huge.
There are ghosts in the players, and players in the ghosts.
Although it is not clear what is the use of this information, Ruan Bai knows that she must not miss it!
There are not many people hiding on the second floor, and the male player is 80% aware of this.
After being replaced by the ghost, the newly-launched ghost walked slowly to the far staircase without any hesitation.
Ruan Bai's hiding place is right here at the entrance of the stairs.
Seeing the ghost coming, she quickly turned around, preparing to go upstairs again.
But she hadn't walked two steps yet, but suddenly she heard a slight movement from the top of the stairs on the third floor.
Rustle...tick... rustle...
The ghost on the third floor happened to come to the top of the stairs!
Ruan Bai panicked, and the movement of going upstairs suddenly stopped.
No, the movements of the ghosts are slow. When the ghosts on the second floor come to the top of the stairs, 80% of the ghosts on the third floor will not be able to go upstairs.
At that time, she will be found!
So go downstairs?
After hearing this, Ruan Bai looked bad and found that there were ghosts on the first floor.
And the ghosts on the first floor were not far from the stairs.
After they were separated on the third floor, they chose to search the four floors below separately!
Ruan Bai stepped back a few steps, and for the first time felt what it meant by "being attacked."
If the usual ghosts are okay... But the game of hide-and-seek, although it is said to be "catch", but in fact, as long as she is discovered by the ghost, the game will fail.
Her previous experience of wrestling with ghosts is not feasible here!
Rustle...tick...
The footsteps of the ghosts are getting closer, and Ruan Bai's breathing is getting faster and faster.
She can't be seen by them, but what to do! ?
Desperate, Ruan Bai took a deep breath and tried to calm his flustered heart.
She listened quietly for two seconds, and silently measured the distance between each ghost and the stairs.
The ghost on the third floor has recently exited the stairs.
The second on the first floor hovered around the edge of the stairs.
The second floor is the farthest, but it is only thirty or forty meters away from the stairs.
The third floor will be attracted by the crystal ball to the fourth floor by visual inspection. Those on the first floor will definitely go to the second floor. Those on the second floor are uncertain for the time being, but they are likely to go to the third floor.
So after weighing it, the best place she can go is to go to the third floor.
But going upstairs can barely delay her elimination time...
There is nowhere to go, but she has no other way.
After wiping his sweat, Ruan Bai tried his best to avoid the sight area of ​​the ghosts on the third floor and carefully climbed upstairs.
Because of the crystal ball she had placed before, after the ghost on the third floor appeared, she walked directly upstairs.
It's just that it was too slow to go upstairs, and Ruan Bai didn't dare to act rashly for fear of being discovered.
When she was at the top of the stairs, she carefully controlled her breathing to the lowest level.
One step, two steps, three steps...
After walking for about two minutes, the ghost on the third floor climbed seven or eight steps, and she also came to the corner of the stairs.
At this time, the ghost on the first floor had come to the top of the stairs, and the ghost on the second floor had also appeared.
In order to prevent the ghost on the second floor from seeing himself as soon as he looked up, Ruan Bai had to go around the corner and tried his best to lean against the wall.
But in this way, she is equivalent to exposing herself to the vision of the ghost on the third floor, and she only needs to look down a little to find herself.
Don't notice...Don't...
Just as Ruan Bai was frightened and crawled up a little bit, there was a strange crash on the second floor.
It turned out that it was the newly appointed "ghost" on the second floor, because he was not familiar with the body, he fell over!
The moment the voice came out, Ruan Bai's heart sank.
At the same time, the gaze of the ghost on the third floor suddenly bowed downstairs!