eurekapd Chapter 2 This old woman wants to eat meat.
Chapter 2 This old woman wants to eat meat.
Wang Zhe swallowed hard: "My God! What is this?!"
"What is that!" Jiang Hai finally noticed the abnormality in his body after being reminded by the others, and scratched the black scales on his abdomen in horror.
Jiang Lin's eyes darkened: "It's snake scales."
Snake scales are arranged like overlapping tiles; unlike fish scales, they are integrated with the skin. Jiang Hai almost fainted after picking off a few scales, his hands stained red with blood.
It wasn't just the snake scales on Jiang Hai's body that grew wildly, but also the invisible fear.
Guo Yuan: "Now you should believe me, right? This really is a death game!"
Tao Tao screamed and hid behind Ding Xuehui.
Yang Bin grabbed Guo Yuan by the collar, lifted him up, and slammed him against the red pillar, roaring, "What does this mean!"
Guo Yuan, being rather thin and no match for a muscular athlete like Yang Bin, replied with a grim expression, "These are the rules of death! The game is full of hidden dangers, and experienced players will deduce the rules of death based on clues. Players who violate these rules will be attacked. I guess... I guess this rule is that you can't eat the snake spirit's offerings!"
"Don't touch anything in the temple!" Ding Xuehui suddenly realized, but then felt that wasn't enough, and immediately said, "No, we have to leave!"
Under Ding Xuehui's orders, everyone hurriedly packed their belongings and evacuated the Snake Fairy Temple.
"No...don't leave me! Help...help me!"
Jiang Hai's weak pleas did not stop anyone; on the contrary, they made people even more anxious, like a raging flood.
"Should we just leave him here?" Wang Zhe said, but he ran faster than anyone else.
"How can I save him? Do you have superpowers?" Jiang Lin glanced at Jiang Hai one last time. In just a short while, black scales had already climbed up Jiang Hai's neck.
Will he turn into a snake?
Will I still die?
Nobody knows, and nobody wants to know.
If the masterminds of the death game are beings with supernatural powers, how can they, who are just ordinary mortals, possibly stand against them?
Inside the Snake Fairy Temple, under the flickering candlelight, the originally peaceful demon statue revealed a sinister smile. She gazed at the departing figures of the six people, seemingly mocking humanity's incompetence and ridiculing the coldness of human nature.
A group of people ran along the mountain road until they could no longer see the Snake Fairy Temple, and then they stopped.
The two girls, who had originally worn exquisite makeup, were now in a sorry state, their skirts and shoes covered in mud, but no one cared about their appearance at the moment.
The cold wind howled through the forest, as if sowing seeds of fear.
Anger surged up in Yang Bin's heart again. He angrily kicked Guo Yuan to the ground and asked through gritted teeth, "I'm asking you, is our entry into this damn game related to you?!"
Guo Yuan was kicked to the ground and rolled around in the mud, looking like a mud-covered figure. He was furious but too scared to fight back: "It wasn't me! It has nothing to do with me! I don't want to play this damn game!"
Wang Zhe wanted to intervene and break up the fight, but Jiang Lin stopped him. Yang Bin was strong, while Wang Zhe was just chubby; it would be too unfair for them to be accidentally injured in a death-defying situation. Besides, Jiang Lin felt that Guo Yuan might not be telling the truth.
When Guo Yuan was out of breath, he heard the girl shout.
"Stop it, all of you!"
A thin layer of anger appeared on Ding Xuehui's fair face. After scolding him for his recklessness, she stepped forward and pulled Guo Yuan out of the mud, saying softly, "Guo Yuan, I'm sorry. I hope you can understand how we feel. The most important thing now is how to get out of this hellhole. We need to stick together!"
Jiang Lin couldn't help but glance at Ding, the school beauty, again. It was rather amusing that she waited until everyone was done beating her before calling a halt. Jiang Lin's gaze swept over Yang Bin; this idiot was practically offering himself up as a weapon.
The girl's words softened Guo Yuan's expression considerably. He wiped his face and said in a trembling voice, "Have you ever played puzzle games? We need to explore the story of this world's instance and find hidden clues to unlock the extraction point."
Even after experiencing a death-defying instance, Guo Yuan still feels lingering fear when recalling the terrifying experience of the previous instance.
Players can only leave this world by using extraction points!
Ding Xuehui pursed her lips, gritted her teeth, and said, "Okay! Let's continue along the mountain path."
"Xuehui, can we really get out of here?" Tao Tao's hands, which were still trembling as she held Ding Xuehui's, were still just college freshmen and not very mature.
Ding Xuehui remained silent; she simply couldn't answer the question.
Time: 02:46.
The mountain road was pitch black, and cell phones could not contact the outside world, but fortunately, the batteries were fully charged, and the flashlights of the six people worked very well, illuminating the road ahead.
They walked in silence for the rest of the way. Compared to the panic of the others, Jiang Lin was much calmer and opened the Dead Soul Island app.
Only six little figures remain on the game screen.
Continuing to open the game map, Jiang Lin noticed that apart from the marked birthplace, the Snake Fairy Temple, only the paths players had traversed were illuminated. The rest of the map remained completely dark.
Just then, another place name, "Snake Fairy Mountain," suddenly appeared on the map!
The next second, Jiang Lin heard Tao Tao's exclamation: "There's someone there!"
Jiang Lin immediately shone his phone light on the spot and saw a hunched old woman standing by the roadside.
The old woman was dressed strangely. In mid-October, the weather was hot and the wind was strong in the mountains at night. Wearing long sleeves was one thing, but she was covered from head to toe in an opaque brown linen garment, and even her head was wrapped in a linen scarf. She didn't look like a normal person at all.
She carried a bamboo basket on her left arm, which contained only a rusty machete.
Tao Tao instinctively hid behind Ding Xuehui: "This person is so strange!"
Yang Bin glanced coldly at Guo Yuan, who immediately explained, "When you encounter NPCs, you usually just build up their favorability, which gives you a chance to get information about dungeons."
Ding Xuehui patted Tao Tao's hand, stepped forward and smiled sweetly at the old woman: "Grandma, hello, we are college students who came to visit, but we accidentally got lost. May I ask where this is?"
She deliberately emphasized the words "college student," believing that her stunning smile would surely win the other person's favor.
To everyone's surprise, the old woman merely raised her eyelids slightly and sneered, "This old woman doesn't understand what you're saying. You outsiders, get out of here right now! Otherwise, you'll be in for the wrath of the Snake Fairy!"
"Jiang Lin, do you have a solution?" Ding Xuehui frowned and turned to ask the handsome young man behind her.
"Our school beauty really likes you!" Wang Zhe couldn't help but whisper in Jiang Lin's ear.
Jiang Lin gave him a speechless look, then slightly raised his chin to indicate the empty bamboo basket slung over the old woman's arm: "What did you bring? Do you have any food? You can try some."
Ding Xuehui's gaze froze for a moment, then she suddenly understood the trick: "Tao Tao, I remember you brought some food?"
Tao Tao nodded: "I still have an apple in my bag. Xuehui, are you hungry?"
After Ding Xuehui accepted the apple from the short-haired girl, she didn't eat it herself, but carefully put it into the old woman's empty bamboo basket.
Wang Zhe asked Jiang Lin in a low voice, "What kind of riddles are you two playing?"
Jiang Lin chuckled: "Death Game. Death is the adjective; the emphasis is on the game. Since it's a game, we need to understand the logic of this world using a game-like mindset. If you encountered an NPC carrying an empty basket in the game and couldn't communicate with her, what would you do?"
Of course, you should submit items to the NPC to obtain clues!
"Wow!" Wang Zhe instantly understood Jiang Lin's meaning: "I see, it doesn't feel that difficult after all!"
Wang Zhe plays a lot of games. It's just about doing tasks and increasing favorability. He's really good at it!
"Little girl, you are such a kind person!"
The old woman stared at Ding Xuehui with her cloudy eyes and said softly, "But this old woman... wants to eat meat!"
Several people looked at each other.
Meat? Where are they going to get meat for people so late at night?
Jiang Lin's bright eyes flickered slightly when he caught sight of the machete in the bamboo basket.