Chapter 64: Road Trip Tips
Cold... Dangerous... Wake up!
The [Danger Sense] in her pocket warned frantically, and Zhang You tried her best to open her eyelids.
Her body's senses gradually recovered, and it seemed that she was sitting on a hard chair. Her whole body was almost frozen and numb, and the cold air was still getting into her skin.
The light orange light pouring down from the top of the head illuminated the outline of the room. With her blurred vision, Zhang You saw the wooden table in front of her, and beyond that was the vague stove.
This was the kitchen of a family's home.
There was soup simmering on the stove, emitting a fishy and stinky smell that immediately made people sober up when it entered their noses.
Zhang You swallowed twice, resisting the desire to vomit. She felt as if there was a layer of glue on her upper and lower eyelids, and it took a lot of effort to open them.
Then her heart skipped a beat.
She was not the only one sitting here!
On both sides of the dining table, at her left and right hands, were Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing with their eyes closed respectively. Their postures were stiff and motionless, their faces covered with a thin layer of white frost.
They hadn't woken up yet.
How could this happen... Why are the three of them here?
Her brain was like a lump of frozen ice, and the memory became hazy. Zhang You subconsciously wanted to take out her phone, but held back the second before she made the move.
Through her collar, she could feel the button-shaped [Danger Sense] radiating heat. This was her upgraded silent version of the sensor. It would not make a sound when it sensed a malicious environment, but will only raise the temperature as a reminder.
But now, the prop was like a hot iron, almost scalding her chest!
It was the heat of the sensor that pulled her out of her stupor... The environment was extremely dangerous and she could not act rashly.
Zhang You resisted the urge to wake Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing, slowed down her breathing, and still sat motionless, with only one pair of eyes rapidly observing the surroundings.
The decoration looks like an old-fashioned style from decades ago. The dining table is covered with a dark floral tablecloth. In addition to the stench from the stove, there is also a smell of decay in the air, which lingers in the biting cold. .
Looking carefully, there were green flames dancing faintly under the soup pot. It seemed that not only did it not bring any heat, it actually made the room colder.
Within a few seconds, Zhang You's teeth were chattering slightly: This place was obviously a kitchen, but it was so cold that it felt like being in an ice cellar.
At this moment, she suddenly heard footsteps.
Da da da.
Someone came in wearing slippers.
A stronger putrid odor poured into her nose, and Zhang You quickly drooped her eyelids, leaving only a small crack that was difficult to detect.
"Oh, why isn't the soup ready yet? Didn't the book say it only takes four hours to serve four people? Why does it take so long today?"
Through the slit in her eyes, a short old lady walked into the kitchen. She stood in front of the stove and took a spoonful of soup and smelled it.
"It smells good." The old lady sighed with satisfaction in her hoarse voice. "It's a pity that the soup base was made two months ago and was no longer fresh. Fortunately, four more came in today..."
The old lady turned around, and Zhang You could feel a sticky gaze falling on her, which made her spine shiver.
Snap! The old lady opened a drawer, took out something from it, and walked slowly to the dining table.
"It's still alive. Its vitality is so strong. It will definitely last a long time even if it is made into a soup base."
Guo Guo's face was pinched by a skinny hand, and immediately another layer of white frost appeared, making her face turn blue from the cold.
"It's a pity that there is human breath all over the body, including the nose, mouth, ears, and eyes. As soon as the breath comes out, the material in the body falls apart. It needs to be sewn up quickly."
The old lady muttered as she deftly picked up the cloth clip she took out. When she opened it, she saw a row of needles and threads. She seemed to be comparing where to start sewing.
! ! !
Zhang You's heart beat violently!
She was almost exposed and rushed forward, but fortunately the old lady let go of Guo Guo the next moment.
"I'm so old, I almost forgot that there is a fourth one. I'll sew them together when the four are complete."
The old lady laughed strangely twice and walked out of the kitchen with her slippers on. It didn't take long for the phone to ring, and harsh words of complaint came in from a distance.
Zhang You breathed a sigh of relief. The temperature of the sensor dropped slightly. She quietly turned her head and found that there was a short corridor between the kitchen and the living room. The viewing angle was so poor that she could only see the corner of the old lady's green apron.
Take advantage of this opportunity!
Zhang You immediately took out a sensor and put it on the foreheads of the other two people, hoping that they would wake up quickly.
Since she just saw the old lady, her stagnant memory has gradually started to work, and she had gradually remembered everything that happened.
A circular road with no end, each time a roommate disappeared, until the third cycle, the person who "disappeared" became her.
When she stood in the fog, all the looped memories came back, but it was too late. There was a small house with lights on the roadside. She was attracted and walked over involuntarily. Then the red wooden door opened, revealing an old woman's face full of wrinkles.
"Dear child, have you brought the specialties I want?"
Zhang You knew something was wrong, but she could no longer move. She could only watch the old lady's smile getting deeper and deeper in stiff silence: "What a bad child who can't do things well, but Grandma Mayas has always been very tolerant to the children. Why are you left cold and hungry outside? Come in quickly."
When Zhang You stepped through the door uncontrollably, she lost consciousness at the same time. It wasn't until just now that she woke up again and regained control of her body.
Perhaps the high temperature of the sensor was really effective, and with Zhang You shaking their heads, Zheng Wanqing also woke up faintly, her eyes widened and she was about to speak when her mouth was covered.
Zhang You shook his head crazily and made sure the other party understood before continuing to wake Guo Guo up.
But after being touched by "Grandma Mayas", Guo Guo's body was covered with more hoarfrost than Zheng Wanqing's. She didn't respond for a moment, her body was lifeless, and she could barely hear her breathing.
Zhang You was so anxious that she burst into tears for the first time, but it was Zheng Wanqing's reminder that calmed her down.
On the [Dormitory Member Status] interface of the mobile phone, although there are many negative buffs under Guo Guo's status bar, her health value has not changed. There should be no danger to her life for the time being.
Through the door, Grandma Mayas’s voice became clearer and clearer.
"Oh, of course, of course I will give you a bowl of soup. I will ask those cunning and annoying students to send it to you. After all, my dear cousin has been unable to go out because of hunger. What, you want the new one? Send [stupid students] over? This is a bit difficult, but I know a few course teachers who are having trouble setting questions, and there will always be a way..."
Grandma Mayas seemed to start walking towards the kitchen:
"Speaking of which, why hasn't the fourth stupid student come yet? The highway should have sent her to me a long time ago. The same goes for the soup in the kitchen, which is never cooked."
At the same time, Zhang You had left the chair. There was no place for them to hide in the small kitchen, but looking against the corner, there was a small brown door that was ajar between the corridor between the kitchen and the living room.
Grandma Mayas's voice continued: "Nonsense, of course I know. The color of the soup base indicates success or failure of the soup of living death... Wait, what do you mean?"
There was silence outside the door for two seconds. When she spoke again, she said angrily: "You mean my soup base will fail? This is impossible! Three stupid students have already entered the door, and they can't fly! You reminded me... I will go and get those three sewn into the living dead now to prevent the soup from being impure."
Zhang You and Zheng Wanqing looked at each other quickly. They had no time to wake Guo Guo up, so they could only hold her up and rush to the corridor.
"I don't believe it..." Grandma Mayas's voice stopped abruptly as the floral curtain was opened.
A second later, the hoarse and unpleasant shrieking* screams echoed through the entire house.
*the original text is 桀桀, the onomatopoeia of ‘Jie Jie’, which is used to describe a villain's evil laughter.
The old lady threw the phone, and her muddy but sharp eyes swept around the room: "Stupid students, do you think you can pass the level by hiding? When I find you, I will drain your blood and flesh and make your life worse than death. My soup base will last a hundred years!”
Inside the small brown door.
Zhang You held the protective talisman tightly, her nerves stretched like a bow.
Directly opposite, Zheng Wanqing supported Guo Guo with her movable left hand. A shadow of an iron fist gradually formed in her right hand, her expression solemn.
The room they were in seemed to be a freezing storage room, filled with several freezers. When they broke in, she took a quick glance and saw that the freezers were filled with green liquid and an unknown number of "people".
They were frozen in green liquid, with tubes inserted into their bodies, and their faces were no longer visible. This should be what the NPC calls the "soup base".
Obviously, if they failed in this exam, they would also become the soup base and be sealed here forever.
Zheng Wanqing gritted her teeth and even wanted to go out and fight to the death. But obviously she couldn't do that.
[Guest Suppression (Negative Buff): You are a guest who was kindly taken in by Grandma Mayas in this house. How can you use dangerous props against the owner of the house? ]
[Within the confines of the house, you will not be able to resist Granny Mayas, a trick she has specifically designed to deal with the students.]
Could they just wait here to die?
Grandma Mayas' heavy footsteps moved outside, accompanied by angry curses. Zhang You tried to calm herself down and kept thinking about various possibilities.
Soon she realized: "The NPC is not only angry now, but also a little panicked. This shows that the students who entered the house are not 100% unable to escape, and we still have a chance of survival!"
Zhang You's voice was extremely soft, and the NPC seemed to be unable to escape the fate of being old and deaf. Instead of walking towards the warehouse, he cursed and went in the opposite direction.
Taking this opportunity, the two of them woke up Guo Guo while observing the room, trying to find a way to escape.
It was unrealistic to run out of the living room, as they would definitely be discovered immediately. Perhaps, was there another exit from the house?
At this time, Guo Guo coughed twice and finally woke up. The moment she opened her eyes in confusion, her eyes suddenly widened, and she almost blurted out a shout. Fortunately, Zheng Wanqing covered her in time.
"Ahem, cough, cough," Guo Guo hadn't figured out the situation yet. She trembled and hugged herself, and asked with a pale face: "What's wrong with this room? Why are there so many people?"
Zhang You: "You mean those in the freezer, they are not..."
She suddenly stopped talking. From this angle, Guo Guo couldn't see the inside of the freezer. How could she see the "people" inside?
Unless, what Guo Guo saw was——
Guo Guo also noticed it and turned even paler: "Can't you see anything?"
Swallowing her saliva, she pointed around the room and whispered what she saw: "Here, here, and here, they are all floating people with their eyes closed. They seem to have wires on their bodies, all connected to... In the freezer.”
Guo Guo's face turned pale and blue, and she didn't dare to look at what was in the freezer. Her intuition told her that it was better not to look.
Zhang You sighed: "What you see are the souls of people who died at the hands of ghost NPCs. We are also trapped here now and need to find a way to escape."
The house was not big, and Grandma Mayas would find them sooner or later. Besides, even if they could escape for a while, if Tang Xinjue failed to cycle and fell into the hands of an NPC, she would not even be able to save them.
Guo Guo held onto her water drop pendant with a desperate look on her face: "I don't know why, but I feel that Xinjue would not necessarily fail, but that we are more in danger."
Before she finished speaking, her pupils suddenly shrank: "Wait a minute, I saw a person, no, his soul raised his head... He seems to be able to talk to me?"
Zhang You also had an idea: "Ask him if there is a way to escape from here!"
Several people raised their hearts, and within a few seconds they saw a look of ecstasy on Guo Guo's face: "He said yes! He just needs us..."
The sound of rapid footsteps made Guo Guo swallow back the second half of her sentence.
Those were the footsteps of Grandma Mayas. She had already searched other rooms and was rushing towards this room!
"When I find you, I will skin you and bleed you..."
"Dong dong dong!"
Just when the wrinkled arm was about to touch the small brown door, a clearer knocking sound came from outside the living room.
"Anyone there?"
Tang Xinjue's voice sounded outside.
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