Chapter 302

After the oil painting, it is the familiar rainy town.

This place is completely different from Xingwang Hotel.

The sky was dark and gloomy, and the cold raindrops fell and hit the bluestone path, making a fine sound.

In the distance, there is a two-story building with a wide open door.

Already having the previous experience, this time, no one dared to stay, and rushed all the way towards the small building at the fastest speed.

The cold rain poured on the body, and the vitality and heat flowed away quickly.

Fortunately, the small building this time is much closer to the [door] than the abandoned hut last time.

Soon, two teams rushed through the door within the time limit.

The raindrops fell on the top of the head with a dull sound, and there was a damp and musty smell in the air.

Wen Jianyan gasped for breath, her face turned pale.

He raised his hand, picked up his hair, twisted it vigorously, and the cold rainwater dripped down, forming a small puddle of water beside his feet.

With short hair, tossing would do just fine, but this look with waist-length hair hanging wet, heavy and cold is a real nuisance.

The rest of the people also stood in the room, waiting for the effect of the rain to fade from their bodies.

Wen Jianyan turned to look at Huangmao:

"Go and observe the structure of the [door]."

In any case, they can't return the same way, that area has been blocked by "guests", and they will die if they go back, so they can only find another door in the small town that leads to the Xingwang Hotel. Only in this way can they bypass the blocked area and enter other rooms or floors in Xingwang Hotel.

Huang Mao nodded and looked out the door.

The sky in the town was dark and gloomy, and with the rain blocking the view, ordinary people really couldn't see things in the distance, but he was different.

However, Huang Maozai searched carefully in the rain for a while, his face turned pale:

"The door, the door is gone."

"What do you mean?" Chen Mo's expression was startled, "What do you mean the door is missing?"

"Just, that's right, it literally disappeared."

Huangmao stared at the place where they just ran over, and seemed to be a little bit disbelieving in his vision, and stammered: "...doesn't exist at all."

In his field of vision, the area just started was shrouded in a gloomy rain curtain, the end of the bluestone slab was engulfed in boundless gray darkness, and countless undulating low roof ridges could be vaguely seen in the distance , but no matter what, the door leading to Xingwang Hotel could not be seen.

It was as if, after they left Xingwang Hotel, the door automatically disappeared.

In an instant, everyone's hearts sank.

"No, what's going on?" Yun Bilan frowned, "We didn't seem to be like this last time."

Wen Jianyan was also taken aback for a moment.

To be honest, they didn't pay attention to this issue when they entered the town last time.

Not long after they ran into the abandoned hut, the second team appeared and attracted all their attention. After that, they began to search in the hut. 】What does the door look like?

However, when they went back, the door was still there.

…wrong.

Not quite there.

Because when they went back, there was only one door in front of them.

Only the door back to their room was still there, but the door that Zhong Shan's team passed through was gone.

"No,"

Wen Jianyan quickly figured out the joints.

"It is indeed the same."

Yun Bilan was stunned, and turned to look over: "What?"

"Only after inviting a guest and getting the 'painting', the door back to Xingwang Hotel will appear again," Wen Jianyan raised his hand, wiped the rain from his face, and said slowly,

"The reason why we were able to return to the hotel smoothly was because we had already obtained the painting in advance, so we were not stuck at this step."

Although she already knew the answer, Wen Jianyan didn't feel at ease in her heart.

That is to say, in this rainy town, the existence of [door] is invisible.

Only when the painting is obtained, the [door] will appear again.

This also means that if they want to return to Xingwang Hotel, they have to pull another guest into it.

Wen Jianyan has a feeling that he is now filling in the missing chain of rules in the dungeon [Xingwang Hotel] little by little.

The more complete it was, the more frightened he was.

This also means that the dungeon of [Prosperous Hotel] blocked the last way for the anchors to pass the level peacefully.

Although the previous mechanism of scrambling for rooms will allow the red and black sides to fight, but after all, this is a confrontation, not a life-and-death camp.

Therefore, there is indeed a certain possibility that the anchors of both sides have no intention of disputes and work together.

After all, as long as no customers are invited to enter the instance, Xingwang Hotel is very safe, but... as long as any team of anchors starts to invite guests into the instance at the beginning of the game, even if there are only a few sporadic ones, the entire instance will be destroyed. It must be dragged into the endless death mechanism.

"Guests" can move freely and block their way.

If you want to escape from that area, you can only enter the inside of the oil painting. However, as long as you enter the town, the way back will disappear. If you want to open a [door] again, you must invite another person within an hour. A "guest".

Otherwise, the anchor will be trapped here and never find his way back to the hotel.

As a result, the entire copy will inevitably fall into a vicious circle.

Wen Jianyan didn't know if it was because his body was wet from the rain, but Wen Jianyan felt a chill.

In theory, this situation can be avoided.

After all, the identity card clearly stated that "the main task does not have to be completed".

Unfortunately... 【Nightmare】Spoilers are prohibited.

Any attempt to leak the copy mechanism is not allowed.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for all the anchors who enter the dungeon of [Prosperous Hotel] to understand the vicious mechanism of this dungeon in advance. Therefore, among the more than two hundred anchors, there must be someone who tries to complete the main task and invite guests to enter , and start this cycle of terror.

No matter how you think about it, this is a death trap that you will definitely step into.

And it will also tell you halfway through your exploration instance:

Can't think of it, in fact, these things can't happen!

cheap.

Really cheap.

"However, if you think about the good," Yun Bilan said, "the passage will be closed after we leave the hotel, so the two guests shouldn't follow?"

Wen Jianyan withdrew from his thoughts.

He looked deeply at the misty rain outside the door, and shook his head: "It's hard to say."

Judging from his current observation, the copy of [Prosperous Hotel] is full of strong malice, which is too obvious, even more vicious than [Fantasy Amusement Park] and [Prosperity Building].

No matter what, other dungeons will at least create a safety zone for the host, or provide some regular protection, but Xingwang Hotel is different...

It is like a greedy monster that feeds on the tragic situation of human beings. All the mechanisms and rules are guiding the anchors to attack each other and self-destruct.

In this case, even if the two residents did not follow, what awaited them next would not be a very good thing.

"But this is not something we should consider for the time being."

Wen Jianyan paused, "Anyway, the first thing we need to do now is to find the door, or in other words, find the painting."

Wen Jianyan turned to look at the black team and said:

"In short, we'd better search this small building first to see if we can find anything useful."

The discussion between him and his teammates just now did not deliberately avoid the black team on the side.

Although the camp positions of the two teams are opposite, under the current circumstances, the survival rate of the two parties operating separately is very low. More importantly, Wen Jianyan has not yet figured out the [door] inside the Xingwang Hotel and the rainy town. The corresponding relationship between positions, if he really finds a way out, but happens to still lead to the black area, he will be caught in the tiger's mouth, and he will fall into the trap.

Having a small black team acting together greatly increases their chances of success.

Naturally, the black team will not raise any objections here.

They nodded, and the group quickly separated and began to search the first and second floors respectively.

The black team is on the second floor, while Wen Jianyan and the others are on the first floor.

After the black team entered the second floor, Chen Mo on the side showed a thoughtful expression, turned to look at Wen Jianyan, and asked:

"Captain, why do you think there is something useful here?"

They had carefully searched the dilapidated house in the previous painting, but the final result disappointed them. Apart from the oil painting with the portrait of the weird woman, there was almost nothing useful, and it was all dusty. sundries.

Since Wen Jianyan said just now, the possibility of residents chasing into the painting cannot be ruled out...

Then, the most sensible option now is to leave here as soon as possible to avoid being chased by those two terrifying residents.

However, unexpectedly, Wen Jianyan came to the opposite conclusion:

stay.

"Because the paintings in this building must not be taken out, otherwise, we will still return to the original point. Therefore, in order to return to Xingwang Hotel, we must leave this small building and look for paintings elsewhere."

Wen Jianyan turned her head, looked outside the rainy door, and said slowly:

"However, the size and structure of this small town are still unknown, and the heavy rain outside limits their range of action. Blindly rushing out is tantamount to death."

"the most important is…"

Wen Jianyan pointed to the surroundings:

"Don't you think it's too lifelike?"

Everyone followed his directions and looked around.

Indeed, compared with the previous house, this place looks very lively.

The walls are covered with wallpaper, the surrounding furniture is neatly arranged, and clothes are hung on hangers.

There are four chairs beside the table, and the number of bowls and chopsticks on the table is equal to the number of chairs. There is still food left in the bowls and dishes. Logically speaking, in such a humid environment, the food should have been moldy and rotted long ago, but But inexplicably still maintained the original state.

However, chopsticks, spoons, and dishes are still in a very life-like state.

Some lay flat on the bowl, some by the plate, and some half-poured on the table.

just like…

The family was halfway through eating, and suddenly disappeared without warning.

"It's almost like time is frozen."

Wen Jianyan expressed the thoughts that came to everyone's minds.

"So, I guess, the concept of time and space in this small town has come to a standstill. There is no valid item in the hut we went to before, probably because it has been abandoned, not because the entire town Nothing useful exists."

Wen Jianyan raised his eyes and looked around:

"And the small building we're in now must have been inhabited before the town shut down, so I guess...we won't be as fruitless here as we were in the last location."

As if to confirm his conjecture, the voice of the black team came from upstairs. Through the stairs and the ceiling, the voice seemed a bit dull, but it made people feel refreshed.

"Hey! Come up here, we have found something!"