Most of the people here are supernatural lovers. Except for Qi Yunjing and the white-collar Xu Lian who accidentally entered by mistake, before the others came in, they were all doing something related to supernatural.
Now everyone is still at a loss about the task, and they can't figure out a solution after discussion, but people who enter this game for the first time are always a little curious about how they got in. So they ask each other what everyone was doing before they came in.
The female student named Cui Ting was playing Pen Fairy with her roommates in the dormitory before she came in, but the pen was not manipulated by an unknown force. She and her roommate's hands were cramping when they held the pen, but nothing happened, so she simply cleared the place and stopped playing.
Unexpectedly as she just got up to pour a glass of water, suddenly her eyes flashed, and the surrounding environment changed drastically.
Liu Ming, who had a hint of purple in his hair, was visiting the abandoned house with two of his friends before he came in.
He went back to his hometown to participate in some kind of sacrificial ceremony. He thought the sacrificial ceremony was boring, so he told his two friends from the same village to go to the abandoned house for an adventure.
That abandoned house has been abandoned in their village for a long time. They often went there to play when they were children. This time they said it was an adventure, but in fact it was just to reminisce about their childhood. It's just that he didn't expect that he would get into this weird game by mistake.
Before coming in, the others were either playing supernatural games, or clocked in places where there were rumors of supernatural beings.
Only Xu Lian was looking at houses before she came in. It is not easy for white-collar workers to support themselves these days, the rent is too high. If you want to live in a slightly more relaxed environment without being too expensive, haunted house is a good choice.
A haunted house generally refers to a house where someone died. Xu Lian, who didn't believe this thing, found a haunted house for cheap. The rent for a two-bedroom house in City Y is only 1,500 a month. So cheap, of course she couldn't miss it, but she ended up in this game out of nowhere.
After everyone finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Wen Ran and Qi Yunjing. Wen Ran looked like a supernatural lover. After all, he was young and curious about everything. But Qi Yunjing looked like a successful person and felt that he had nothing to do with this kind of thing.
Wen Ran said: "I was playing Spiritual Conjuring before I came in, but I didn't expect that there are really ghosts in this world." That expression didn't have the slightest fear, but was filled with excitement. A silly and sweet expression that didn't know the hardships of life.
Qi Yunjing only said two simple words: "Inspect the house." The implication was that the situation was similar to Xu Lian's, both entering by mistake.
It's just that You Chang's eyes lingered on Qi Yunjing for a moment. He was so calm and didn't look like a new player at all.
In this game, there are often old players pretending to be new players. Because of the specific instance rules, the taboos of each instance, and various clues sometimes require human lives to fill in.
In this kind of game, new players will rely on old players to a certain extent, but at the same time, new players will be wary of experienced old players. So it is sometimes easier to act in as newcomer.
Wen Ran, who was at the side, listened to everyone's exchanges. And confirmed again that the selection of players in this game is random with a trigger condition, which is caused by some deliberate or unintentional stepping into a place where the Yin energy is too high. So there is no special connection between Sijing Mountain and the old building, it is purely because it is too Yin.
There are many places like that in this world, and it wasn't known how many people are involved in this weird game now.
After they got to know each other about the situation, they decided to form a team and take a look around. Clues don't come out by themselves just by sitting here.
As a veteran player, You Chang felt that he had the right to distribute, so he started arranging people to form a team without even thinking about it.
He directly put together Wen Ran, Zi Mao, and Cui Ting, and then Qi Yunjing, Xu Lian, and Huang Ruifeng was in a group, and as for himself, he was with Qiu Tian and Zhang Ning, a girl who was calm and indifferent from beginning.
He arranged it like this, but Wen Ran had no intention of following it: "I think it's better to divide it by floor, and it's convenient to discuss things if we live close together." As he spoke, he walked to Qi Yunjing's side: "Handsome guy, shall we go together?"
Qi Yunjing glancing at him, humming, got up and left. Wen Ran followed up with a smile, and waved to the people behind him: "Let's go around first, and we will share information together later."
Seeing the two of them walking away like this, You Chang's face turned ugly.
At this time, Cui Ting carefully came to Zhang Ning and asked, "Can I be with you?" She wanted to be with girls more than with boys. Although it might be safer to stay with the boys on this ship surrounded by dangers, but she doesn't like this guy named You Chang. She would rather stay with a girl and help each other.
Although Zhang Ning didn't talk much, she didn't seem to be difficult to get along with. She nodded. Just like Wen Ran and the others just now, she got up and left, and Cui Ting hurriedly followed.
Among the remaining five people, Qiu Tian said indifferently: "I can do whatever as you arrange."
You Chang felt that this Qiu Tian was the smarter among these people, and forming a team with him was better than teaming up with the other three. So he said: "Then two of us go together. The three of you act together. It will be safer if there are more people."
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Afetr Wen Ran and Qi Yunjing left, the first thing they did was to find the map of the cruise ship.
The cruise ship has a total of thirteen floors. The bottom three floors are staff cabins, tourists are prohibited from entering. The fourth and fifth floors are duty-free areas. The sixth floor is a whole floor restaurant. The seventh floor, ninth floor, tenth floor and eleventh floor are rooms for tourists. The twelfth floor is some scattered restaurants and game areas, and the thirteenth floor is an open-air deck and swimming pool area.
Wen Ran looked at the layout and said with some interest: "Where shall we go first to start playing?"
Qi Yunjing looked at him sideways: "Play?"
Wen Ran kept his eyes on the floor distribution map: "I haven't been on this kind of cruise ship before. It said that you can get whatever you want on it, and the restaurant is free to eat. I don't know if it's true?"
Qi Yunjing said: "Part of it is free."
Wen Ran pulled him and walked to the restaurant: "Let's go around first. Let's see which one is the best, the free ones are sure to be mediocre. Go and see the high-end ones first. We'll talk after we're full."
Qi Yunjing didn't refuse, and followed him along, just saying: "Do you have the money to pay the bill?"
Wen Ran picked up the room card hanging on his chest: "The consumption on the ship is directly by swiping the room card. I have never eaten pork, but I have seen a pig running. You will know if you try it. At worst, you will be kicked out if you have no money to pay the bill. That's it."
The cruise ship is very lively, almost all of passengers are travelling in groups of three or four with their families. Everyone's face is filled with the joy of traveling, talking and laughing happily, and there are crazy children chasing and running past from time to time. It doesn't look like a supernatural event will happen at all.
Just as Wen Ran expected, the room cards here are all bound to consumption cards. It seemed as if the Ghost Domain has automatically completed the rationality of their existence. Anyway, Wen Ran can spend normally by swiping the room card. Eats and drinks along the way. How happy it is.
Seeing Wen Ran's unrestrained purchases, almost buying up an imported snack shop, Qi Yunjing said in a low tone, "Have you thought about it?"
Wen Ran pushed two small carts by himself, Qi Yunjing didn't cooperate at all. Hearing Qi Yunjing's words, he turned his head gently: "What have you thought about?"
Qi Yunjing said: "That force can pull us into this place. There is an open mall on the game interface. In other words, there are likely to be some very precious things for sale inside, otherwise it will not be worth the same value as the ghost energy earned through hard and desperate efforts.
"Regardless of whether it is a human or a god who makes this ghost domain game, his ability exceeds our cognition. Such an existence, do you think he will..."
Wen Ran thought that Qi Yunjing had discovered something, so he stopped and listened to his analysis seriously: "What will happen?"
Qi Yunjing glanced at Wen Ran's hands. There are two carts piled up to the top: "Could it be that this room card is actually bound to our own card?"
Wen Ran's eyes widened instantly. It's very possible. The game controls his mobile phone, and the payment information can be controlled at the same time!
So when it was time to check out, Wen Ran generously took out a card, watched the clerk swipe it, and handed the room card to Qi Yunjing naturally.
When Qi Yunjing saw that it was in Wen Ran's hands at some point, he really didn't know whether to laugh or angry: "When did you take it away?"
Wen Ran squinted and smiled: "Just now when you said that we might bind our own cards. This food is for the two of us to eat together, so the boss please be generous."
Qi Yunjing looked at those sly eyes that were blinking towards him, and gave him a cold glance without emotion but did not object.
Wen Ran settled the bill and left Qi Yunjing's room number. Later, the staff of the cruise ship will deliver the things he purchased directly to the room.
Wen Ran walked and bought all the way, Qi Yunjing saw that Wen Ran swiped his room card as if he was going to buy the whole cruise ship, and held his hand with some helplessness: "If there is a shipwreck, we can't take that much food with us."
Wen Ran said, "What do you think is the probability of a shipwreck on this kind of cruise ship?"
Qi Yunjing: "According to the data analysis, the probability of a shipwreck is lower than that of an air crash, but the casualties of a shipwreck are higher than that of an air crash. It is dozens of times more serious.
"Moreover, this is a ghost domain, and the unpredictable crisis in real life will only be more unpredictable in the ghost domain, so it is completely unnecessary to analyze this kind of probability."
Wen Ran pulled Qi Yunjing and signal him to come closer.
Qi Yunjing looked at him for a while, then slowly lowered his head slightly. Wen Ran said gently: "Have you carefully looked at the crowd around us? While we passing by, although I didn't count carefully, there are many people coughing."
Looking at the crowd following Wen Ran's words, Qi Yunjing saw that while most of the people were still having fun, but some of them did have coughs with different symptoms. With so many people, it would not be uncommon if only one or two coughed, but the number was too large. There are dozens on the shopping mall halls on this floor alone.
Qi Yunjing withdrew his gaze, his eyes darkened and said: "Continue to buy."
Wen Ran grinned: "Swipe your card?"
Qi Yunjing never cared about it from the beginning. Seeing that he was still in the mood to joke, the trace of heaviness was also dispelled a lot: "Well, use mine."
The two bought everything from daytime to dark. Food, cold and warm, equipment for infectious diseases or shipwrecks, and then they went to the deck on the thirteenth floor.
There is a sofa area on the deck. Because it is open-air, it is also one of the few smoking areas on the ship. All the players made an appointment to meet here.
When Wen Ran and Qi Yunjing came up, they saw Zi Mao and the middle-aged man named Huang Ruifeng. The young man was smoking, so he stayed away from them, mainly because the smell of smoke was too unpleasant.
Seeing them coming up last, You Chang asked directly, "How is it? What did you find?"
Qi Yunjing didn't say anything, and Wen Ran had no choice but to say, "We found the voyage log. This cruise ship is on a 15-day voyage. It will pass through four ports. The port we came from before is the last one. According to the original route, the cruise ship will return to the port in three days. That is to say, if we follow the clearance requirements, we only have three days."
Everyone was taken aback when they heard the words, they were only focused on looking for suspicious people on board, or paying attention to observing any suspicious emergencies, they didn't investigate the ship itself at all. Obviously, Wen Ran gave them a very important information.
You Chang looked at him in surprise, it was completely different from the domineering and silly appearance he showed before. But he acted with another person who was suspected of being an old player. You Chang believed even more that this important information was discovered by the man next to him.
After Wen Ran finished speaking, he continued: "In addition, there seem to be a lot of sick people on this ship. If something will happen on the ship, maybe shipwreck is not the only possibility. Buy more food and prepare it in the room."
Wen Ran looked at everyone after talking about his discovery: "What about you? What did you find?"
Everyone shook their heads. The scope of the activity this time was really too large. There were at least several thousand people on the entire cruise ship. Such an aimless search without any hints is completely equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack.
Seeing that they didn't find out anything, Wen Ran didn't care. On the first day, if it had been so easy, then so many people wouldn't have died in this game: "Okay. It's getting late, I'll go back to my room first."
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Wen Ran didn't go back to his room, but followed Qi Yunjing back to his room. There were no detailed rules in this game. It didn't say that everyone could only stay in their own room, so he followed Qi Yunjing at night. If something happens, it's better to stay together than to be locked in a room alone.
When Wen Ran took a shower, Qi Yunjing sorted out the things they had bought before. Put some in a bag, and piled up the rest in the cabinet in the room, so that no matter if they were trapped on the ship or had a shipwreck, they would be safe.
Seeing that Wen Ran came out of the shower, lay directly on the bed, and started messing around with his mobile phone. Qi Yunjing stood by the bed and looked at him without saying a word.
Wen Ran looked up at him, then rolled half a circle, leaving half of the space. He lay on his side and patted the bed.
Qi Yunjing walked directly around the bed, took out a set of pillows and quilts from the cabinet on the side and walked to the sofa downstairs. The suite they lived in had two floors, the first floor was the living room, the second floor was the bedroom. The downstairs sofa is quite big, enough for Qi Yunjing to sleep on.
Wen Ran leaned on the railing on the second floor to look down, and clicked his tongue lightly: "Why can't you sleep in such a big bed? Are you so disgusted?"
Qi Yunjing who was covered with a quilt didn't look back: "I didn't share a bed with others. Habit."
Wen Ran secretly clicked his tongue twice, and then rolled his eyes at his back.
This Qi Yunjing, his character and appearance are not bad. In this kind of environment such a man keeps a distance, doesn't get ambiguous at all, is so clean and self-conscious. Even so, he didn't attract the White Moonlight. Just how much better is the man White Moonlight likes.
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The night passed without incident, and Wen Ran and Qi Yunjing were not attacked by ghosts because they lived in the same room. That is to say, changing rooms was within the rules.
It was agreed to act separately during the day, and those who wanted can stay together. At the agreed time in the evening, met on the top deck to exchange information.
Stayed on guard for most of the night, Wen Ran didn't go to sleep until it was almost dawn, so he just stayed in bed in the morning. When he woke up, Qi Yunjing had already had breakfast, and was sitting on the sofa on the first floor by the window facing the sea, looking at something in his hand.
Wen Ran scratched his messy hair, and poked his head out from the gap in the railing to look down: "What is that?"
Qi Yunjing looked up at him: "Invitation letter, for the night after tomorrow, which is the last day on the ship. The captain's daughter's will held an engagement party, so tourists are invited to participate."
Wen Ran suddenly became sober: "Engagement party? Could this be a clue?"
Qi Yunjing shook his head: "Let's see, we'll know when the clue comes out."
Wen Ran changed his pajamas and said, "The captain has such great authority? If he can hold a party for his daughter directly on the ship, then the captain will pay for it himself, or the cruise company will pay for it?"
Qi Yunjing said: "Every cruise ship will prepare enough food for every trip, and often on the last day, because there is a lot of food left, they will sell high-end cuisine at a lower price than before, and even randomly invite customers who are eating in the restaurant to taste the food that they could not pay for before.
"So the captain has the authority to hold a farewell party for dinner on the last day, and neither the cruise company nor the captain is responsible for the cost, and it is included in the passenger's ticket."
Wen Ran looked at Qi Yunjing: "Such procedure, as expected of a capitalist, he understands so clearly."
The capitalist Qi Yunjing looked at Wen Ran, and smiled slightly, "Qi's Group has a cruise company under its name."
Wen Ran was at a loss for words.
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The calm sea lasted until the afternoon. At about three o'clock, a layer of fog suddenly formed on the sea. The fog was so thick that standing on the deck, one could not see the person opposite even ten steps away.
In the sunny afternoon, many people were having fun in the open air, but this sudden change of weather scared many people into panic. If it was on the ground, people might not be so scared, but this is at sea, and the fog is so strange that many people's faces turned pale with fright.
Wen Ran immediately grabbed Qi Yunjing's hand when the fog suddenly started. Although he didn't say anything, he had already regarded it as his responsibility to take Qi Yunjing out of this ghost domain. If Qi Yunjing hadn't gotten out of the car to find him, he won't be implicated.
Although with Qi Yunjing's fate, this ghost domain may not be able to kill him, but there is always a possibility in everything. Especially since they have no idea whether the person behind this game is a human being or not.
Qi Yunjing didn't think much about it. He thought that Wen Ran was on guard against the sudden change in the environment, so he held him back to prevent separation in case the crowd broke into commotion.
Wen Ran and Qi Yunjing walked indoors along with the crowd, and said: "Could we have miscalculated? Maybe this is a monster special? This fog is so thick that it's like a monster is coming next second."
Qi Yunjing's tone was as calm as ever: "You said that the ghost domain is the past memory of the creator."
Wen Ran touched his chin: "That is a normal ghost domain. What if there is something abnormal? Who can say?"
Within a few words, the two of them had already returned indoors. After many panicked people entered, they slowly calmed down. Being inside buildings can always give people a sense of security.
The cruise ship's broadcast is telling all people who are exposed to the outside to enter the room as soon as possible, and then many staff members block the doors leading to the deck on each floor. After all, no one knows where the dense fog comes from, and whether there will be terrible stuff inside.
Wen Ran and Qi Yunjing were on the thirteenth floor. Because most of the top floors were outdoor facilities, it seemed a bit crowded when everyone entered the room. They were thinking whether to go downstairs first, but they heard the broadcast again.
All the tourists are to returned to their rooms, and the staff responsible for the evacuation couldn't hide their panic.
The two looked at each other, and decided to follow the arrangement of the cruise ship staff and wait and see what happened.
The two returned to the room and looked at the thick fog outside through the glass of the balcony. It was less than four o'clock, and the outside was already dark, no matter how you looked at it, it seemed strange. At this time, Cui Ting sent a message in the group they formed before.
Wen Ran glanced at it, and said, "Look at your phone. Cui Ting said they were on the fifth floor just now, but suddenly there was a lot of fog outside. After everyone went indoors to take shelter, a middle-aged man in the crowd suddenly coughed. He vomited blood and then fell down."
As soon as Wen Ran finished speaking, he heard a rattling sound from the door. Wen Ran glanced at Qi Yunjing, who got up and walked to the door. He pulled the door twice, and frowned: "The door is locked."
Immediately after, the broadcast speaker in the room sounded, a gentle female voice came from inside, indicating that the situation outside is special now. To prevent tourists from accidents, safety locks were placed in each room. If necessary, you can call the cabin customer service number.
The door will be unlocked for one hour every day to provide meal delivery service, so that tourists in the room do not panic and can wait with peace of mind.
Wen Ran walked to the door, and wanted to try the possibility of kicking the door open, but was stopped by Qi Yunjing: "This kind of large cruise ship, the doors of each cabin are made of special materials, which are fireproof and explosion-proof. If you try to kick it open, I'm afraid your leg will be broken."
Wen Ran looked out through the peephole of the door, and said, "It's locked and you can't go out, so how can you pass the instance?"
Just as he was talking, Wen Ran suddenly saw out through the peephole the staff wearing protective clothing spraying the corridors with professional disinfection equipment.
Wen Ran said: "It seems that this instance is not only a special episode about monsters, but also about infectious diseases."