March 18, 9:30 in the morning.

Ji Lu, Ren Jianmo, Mo Tiangen, and two new members of their team, Fan Hemian and Fan Luming, stood together in front of the huge hourglass in the hourglass cube.

Even if it's not the first time, Ji Xiaoniao is still a little nervous.

"Then I smoked?"

Ji Yuan rubbed his cold fingers and looked back at his four companions.

Anyway, extending the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife. Mr. Dagen waved at him, "Pick it!"

Ji Yu stretched out his hand to the huge hourglass and touched the familiar wall of air.

[Please select the difficulty of [World] you want to challenge. 】

When the prompt sound fell, Ji Yu finally saw two options this time, [B] and [A].

Ji Xiaoniao pressed the option "B" in accordance with the results discussed with his companions.

The luminous cube floating in the glass hourglass slowly revolved, the light particles converged, and then one of the cubes broke away from the light rotation, passed through the slender neck of the hourglass, and fell down with a crisp collision sound.

Immediately afterwards, the air wall suddenly lit up, and all five people heard loud cheers.

Everyone focused their attention on the screen.

【welcome! Welcome everyone! Welcome to the "Twenty Four Points" game! 】

The screen was dark, and only a man's voice sounded.

The person's voice carries the harsh electric current produced after filtering by the machine. Although it is not harsh, there is always an overly deliberate sense of unreality.

Then, countless electro-optical dots appeared on the black screen. They merged and gathered with each other, and finally turned into six three-dimensional characters with concavities and convexities.

That is a title: "Twenty-Four Points in Guess".

The male voice of the mechanical voice is still going on, [Have you heard of the strange talk in this city? 】

The title composed of light particles disappeared, replaced by a weird man wearing a rabbit head mask sitting in front of the camera.

The rabbit mask is not ugly, but it has an indescribable sense of comicality and weirdness, especially the three-petal mouth grinning to the sides of the cheeks in a very exaggerated arc, and the holes dug under the brow bones are dark in the eyes. Yes, I can't see the eyes of the man below, it's like a rabbit doll talking directly in front of the camera.

[Do you want to experience the fun of ghost talk for yourself? 】

As these words fell, the man with the bunny head mask disappeared again.

On the large screen, a map of the city was unfolded, and the small coordinates in the shape of inverted droplets were inserted on the map like small arrows.

Because the speed of punctuation is so fast, with Ji Shu's eyesight, only about two-thirds of the landmarks can be seen.

——Schools, aquariums, residential areas, riverside...

Ji Shu said to himself quickly in his heart.

[Only those who get [twenty-four o'clock] can be rescued! 】

The man wearing the rabbit head mask said in a grandiose tone, as if singing an opera.

【bring it on! Look for your 〖twenty four o'clock〗! 】

The marked areas on the city map were enlarged one by one, and finally all five people present could see the contents clearly.

There are a total of thirteen landmarks.

Because the entire trailer is only thirty seconds long, excluding the beginning and the end, the time allocated to each landmark is only a short second or two.

They saw the hanging schoolgirls reflected in the school windows, a black shadow resembling a mermaid in the aquarium, fresh trailing bloodstains outside an abandoned tube building, an unmanned river bank and a circle of spreading ripples...

And behind every scene, there is a playing card.

The picture flashed by in a hurry, and Ji Shu was really unable to match the suit and scene of the card one by one.

But even so, based on these ghostly scenes, combined with the title that I just saw, classmate Ji Xiaoniao is 100% sure that what they are about to face is a city full of strange urban talks. "world"!

After the thirteen scenes were played, the inverted drop-shaped landmarks all returned to the map of the city one by one, and the trailer came to an end.

The man in the rabbit mask suddenly leaned in front of the camera, a strange smiling face completely occupying the large screen.

[Remember, no more, no less, it's just [twenty-four o'clock]! 】

[Come on, accept the challenge of [twenty-four]! 】

He finally said so.

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"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

In the small meeting room of Liange, Fan Hemian yelled and thumped the table one after another, with a frantic expression, "How could it be so unlucky this time! How could it be so unlucky!"

Ji Yu carefully confirmed:

"Is it difficult for the world we got this time?"

"It's hard!"

Fan Hemian answered without hesitation.

Fan Luming beside her also nodded repeatedly, expressing agreement with her sister's words.

"Well, the time you came to'Peach Blossom Spring' was not bad, no wonder you don't know."

Fan Hemian pushed away the bangs in the corner of his eyes, and explained to the three of them:

"That's it. In the'Peach Blossom Spring', the most afraid of encountering the participants is the supernatural'world'."

She briefly cited an example:

"The most famous Kayako and Sadako, surely no one doesn't know, right? In various series of movies, the people who died in the hands of these two have at least three digits."

Ji Lu thought for a while: "You mean, they are difficult to deal with?"

"It's not difficult to deal with, it should be said that it is impossible to deal with at all."

Fan Luming took the conversation.

"Ghosts of their level can't attack them physically. It doesn't even work to exorcise evil spirits and jump gods. If they encounter them, they will be entangled. There is no safe zone, and there is no escape. Ninety-nine percent only A dead end."

He raised his hand and compared with a gesture of cutting his throat, "Like this kind of'world', there is a pronoun in'Peach Blossom Spring', called'Mr. It's dead."

"Wow……"

Ji Lu took a sigh of relief, "Don't tell me, what we got is this kind of ‘unsolvable ghost film’, right?"

"That's not enough."

Fan Hemian waved his hand.

"This kind of'world' is too difficult and the mortality rate is too high. It will only appear in a very small number of S-level difficulty. We are only B-level. How can we encounter this type!"

Ji Shu and Mo Tiangen both breathed a sigh of relief.

Both of them felt that the "world" they had drawn three times before was difficult enough. If another "unsolvable" level ghost film comes, they will see a Sadako or Kayako waiting for them when they open their eyes. It's better to commit suicide now, so that you don't have to go in again and suffer those frights and tortures.

"However, although the difficulty of level B is not as ‘unsolvable’, the ‘world’ with supernatural being the main thread is still recognized as extremely tricky."

Fan Luming spread his hands, "We are not celestial masters. Even if we are going back with a copy of "Maoshan Pictorial", we won't be able to learn it this month! And even if you are asked to draw a gourd and describe the ghost-expelling talisman, it doesn't matter. Have to say something else!"

"oh, I understand now."

Ji Shu nodded.

What the Fan’s sister and brother mean is that when they encounter monsters like ghosts that cannot be killed by physical means, these actors from the "Peach Blossom Spring" do not have effective means of attack, and many times they can only escape by "escape". , The situation will become very passive.

But from the trailer, it is not difficult for them to know that this is not a mere strange talk about the "world", and a task of "gathering twenty-four points" is attached to them, which means that they can't just try to escape. It is also very possible to know that there are tigers in the mountains and go to Hushan, and take the initiative to get up to look for abuse.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Thinking of this, Ji Yu couldn't help but screamed, "It's really unlucky! I will never be the captain of the lottery next time!"

Fan Luming glanced at him and poured a basin of cold water mercilessly. "Let's talk about this ‘world’ first."

"Okay, troubles are not helpful, let's study the details of the trailer."

Teacher Dagen looked very open.

He felt that anyway, even if the first three "worlds" were not supernatural, they didn't see where they were easy to go. Since they were entangled and couldn't draw a lottery again, they should calmly face the reality.

"I actually have a guess."

Fan Hemian said, stood up, took a pen and paper from a shelf, spread it out on the table, and began to draw a sketch.

"I guess we should be playing a game similar to'Blackjack', but the number of points to be collected is not 21, but 24."

The good boy Ji Lu asked: "What is'Blackjack'?"

"Oh, to put it simply, it is to draw cards other than the big ghost and the little ghost, and then add the points of the cards drawn, the closest and not more than 21, even if you win."

Fan Hemian explained briefly:

"However, the number to be pooled has now become 24, and from the perspective of the rules, it is not the closest, but it must be 24 to win."

Everyone sitting around the table nodded.

They all remember the words that the man wearing the rabbit face mask said at the end of the trailer, "Remember, no more, no less, it's just ‘twenty-four’!"

"We saw thirteen scenes in the trailer, which happened to correspond to the thirteen numbers of playing cards."

As Fan Hemian said, he listed thirteen patterns from 1 to K on the paper:

"However, in the game of blackjack, A can be equivalent to the two numbers ‘1’ and ‘11’ at the same time, and the four cards of 10, J, Q, and K also represent ‘10’.”

"I see."

This is the first time Ji Shu, who has little exposure to board and card games, has heard of this rule. He pondered it a little and immediately understood, "So, we need to get at least three playing cards to get the number 24? "

"Yes."

Fan Hemian, who is very sensitive to numbers, actually discovered this a long time ago, "I think this is why they use the ‘blackjack’ rule, but let us collect the ‘twenty four’.”

"At least three scenes have to be experienced..."

Ji Lu lightly smacked his tongue, "This is too difficult to be a man."

To be honest, he is a little afraid of ghosts, he doesn't even want to go to a landmark, let alone experience at least three!

At this moment, Ren Jianmo, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

"I can remember each scene and its corresponding card points."

In the eyes of everyone in surprise, Ren Damei smiled slightly, "Guaranteed that the score is correct."