Chapter 46.3 (1/2)
Aside from their sudden appearance, these seven people look no different from ordinary tourists. They were dressed casually and comfortably, carrying large bags and small bags, and holding a map of the amusement park in their hands… Compared to them, Xiao Tangqiu and the other players looked more like outsiders who had unknowingly entered.
At this time, they also seemed to have noticed Xiao Tangqiu and the others, greeting them warmly, “Are you also players? What a coincidence! Let’s go together then!”
Xiao Tangqiu looked at these people silently. Tang Mianmian turned and smiled. “Yes! Have you played this game before? You’re so well prepared but we haven’t prepared anything! “
“No, but I’ve heard other people talking about it!” One of the men said, “You’re a little less prepared than we are. Although the game time is only six hours, you may get thirsty and hungry on the way. But it’s alright, we brought extra and can share some with you.”
“That’s great then!” Tang Mianmian turned his gaze on them again and continued to quietly spy on them. “We came too hastily and didn’t have time to understand anything. Can you tell us anything? How exactly is this game played?”
“Yes, no problem. Let’s talk as we walk!”
Before they all left, the handsome boy suddenly yelled out, “The gates have disappeared!”
Xiao Tangqiu looked back and sure enough, the gates that they came through had disappeared and turned into a wall. Even if they were afraid and wanted to go back to where they came from, it wasn’t possible.
The other group of people disagreed, grinning as they said, “Maybe it’s some kind of mechanism! Isn’t this kind of mechanism very common in amusement parks?”
“Why the big surprise? I heard that the facilities in this amusement park are very high-tech! You haven’t seen such a thing, have you?”
At the time, the air was filled with a happy atmosphere.
The handsome boy looked at the wall, then at Xiao Tangqiu and others, and finally closed his mouth wryly.
“The clown is gone!”
At this time, Tang Mianmian also cried out. They all turned to look over there. Sure enough, the carousel was still turning, but the clown was gone.
“The clown should be waiting for us at the first game!” A man with a map said, “Let’s not delay any more. Let’s go.”
Everyone cheered except Xiao Tangqiu and the players he came with.
“Let’s start quickly! I can’t wait!”
“This looks really exciting!”
“Let’s go! Our first stop seems like a haunted house!”
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As the other six players cheered, Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other. There wasn’t any doubt that these guys thought they were just playing a game, unaware that it would be a game of death.
“Do you think they are players like us?”
“Maybe they’re NPCs?”
The two men discussed in a low voice.
“But we’ve never met such NPCs before…”
NPCs that were “players”?
“Maybe there really is such an NPC?” Xiao Tangqiu speculated, “If they’re also players, they should come in from outside like us.”
“Forget it, whatever. It doesn’t have much impact on us anyway,” Tang Mianmian said. Rather than focus on the identities of those people, finding a way to live was the most important thing. “Maybe they can provide us with some useful information.”
Anyways, at least those people had important props such as maps in their hands.
And they seemed to know where to go next.
Sure enough, under the guidance of the map in the hands of the group, they soon came to the so-called first game – a haunted house that looked extremely horrible and frightening from the outside.
But no matter how horrible it looked, it couldn’t change the fact that the haunted house had been abandoned for many years. The surrounding area was overgrown with weeds, and the walls were covered in cobwebs, dusty and dirty everywhere. This sense of desertion added a bit of gloominess and horror to the haunted house.
At first, Xiao Tangqiu wasn’t sure whether the haunted house was their destination, but he soon decided that it should be right because along the way, all the other game facilities except this haunted house were damaged beyond form and the wood on some of the facilities had been eroded by time.
Most importantly, at the door of this haunted house stood a sculpture of a clown, exactly like the clown they had seen before.
As Xiao Tangqiu and the other players gradually approached the haunted house, something magical happened – the deserted and dark haunted house suddenly lit up. Although the light was dim and flickering and looked like it would go out at any time, it seemed as if the originally “dead” haunted house had come alive in an instant.
That’s right, come alive.
At the same time, the clown sculpture at the entrance of the haunted house suddenly moved.
“Fuck! It moved!”