Chapter 27
After a long time, Bai Yan regained his vision. His surroundings were gray, and only the phone in front of him was still emitting a faint light.
He looked down at his phone, but found that this game was a new mode.
[Matching Success]
[Number of Players: 3]
[Game Difficulty: Normal]
[Level Description: This round of the game is a "text adventure". Players use their phones to select activities. The results of the selection will determine the player's actions. Completing the game plot and surviving to the end is considered a game success. Before starting the game, please complete a multiple-choice question. ]
What is your gender?
Male.
Female.
Faced with this strange choice, Bai Yan fell into deep thought.
In the previous game, Su Xiaoqian was assigned the identity of a maid, which shows that the App can distinguish the gender of the player. So now such a choice suddenly appears, obviously not to identify the player's identity, but for another purpose.
This gender choice may determine the so-called game plot.
If the player's real gender is selected, Bai Yan should undoubtedly choose A.
However, Bai Yan wanted to try how the game would handle it if he chose B, so he chose B without hesitation.
[Choose B, arranging the player's identity——]
[Identity background import completed. ]
[Background import: Your name is Bai Yan, you are a pretty newlywed young woman, you and your husband Wu Jingang live in an old residential building, currently you are on annual leave, you have nothing to do for the time being, and you take care of housework at home every day. ]
[Game rules: ]
[1. In this round of the game, players will get five resurrection coins. Each time a player dies, a resurrection coin will be consumed, and the time will automatically return to before the choice. After the five resurrection coins are used up, the sixth death is the real death. ]
[2. The player's actions must follow the character logic. ]
[3. After the player makes a choice, the player will be forced to complete the plot of the 'option corresponding', and the player must choose carefully. ]
After watching the background import, Bai Yan didn't feel much.
App has always been honest in doing things. He chose B, and the game arranged for him to be a newlywed young woman. This arrangement is reasonable. It's not that she doesn't know whether her 'husband' is a human NPC in the game or a ghost who has forgotten his own death memory.
...
When Bai Yan made his choice, the scene around him changed.
Now, he is sitting in front of a dining table filled with delicious food, including braised spareribs, soy sauce eggplant, tomato and egg soup, and a dish of smashed cucumber. They are all steaming hot, a table of home-cooked dishes with both meat and vegetables.
"The name of the game is 'Text Adventure'. It seems that the key to this round of the game is 'making choices'."
Bai Yan picked up a piece of soy sauce eggplant with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and found that the taste was so-so: "The second rule requires 'player actions must follow character logic'. When my 'husband' comes back, I need to undertake daily housework activities like Bai Yan, at least I can't let the NPC husband feel something is wrong."
After tasting the soy sauce eggplant, Bai Yan ate another piece of ribs: "These dishes taste average, and can only be barely considered delicious, but it is already good for home cooking. If it is a dish of this level, I can also do it. Fortunately, her cooking skills are not very good."
The food was steaming hot, but there was no rice on the table.
Sure enough, he found a rice cooker next to the dining table, which was filled with hot rice.
Since Bai Yan had the habit of waiting for her husband to eat together, Bai Yan was not going to make changes. So, he put down his chopsticks, destroyed the bones, wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue, and planned to explore the environment and find out the room before the NPC husband came back.
Bai Yan left the dining table and began to rummage around the house.
This is a very narrow house, about 30 square meters in total, with a kitchen and a separate bathroom, but the area is not large.
There is no living room in the house, only a master bedroom and a small second bedroom.
The master bedroom is the room where the dining table is placed. Next to the dining table, there is a large double bed, and a huge wedding photo is posted on the head of the bed.
In the wedding photo, the groom hugs the bride happily, and the bride smiles shyly.
Bai Yan carefully observed the bride and found that the bride is very beautiful, as beautiful as some top stars, and is not at all "slightly pretty" as the App said. In this regard, Bai Yan blamed the photo editor, saying that they must have edited the photo too much to make a woman with a little beauty look like this.
After looking at the wedding photo, Bai Yan remembered the appearance of the bride and groom firmly in his mind and began to observe other things in the room.
"The newlyweds' room should have been renovated. The walls and floors are very clean, and the color matching of the bedding is quite warm. It seems that Bai Yan is a woman with a good taste in life."
Bai Yan walked to the end of the bed. There was a small table at the end of the bed, and a simple and cute teddy bear sat on the table.
Bai Yan lifted up the teddy bear and found that the bear was as tall as a person. He held the teddy bear in his arms and felt soft and had a good touch.
According to the experience of old players, there is a high probability that something is hidden in the doll.
So, Bai Yan lifted up the teddy bear and touched it everywhere, rubbing the teddy bear's belly with his palm, but he couldn't find a zipper that could be opened, and he didn't feel that there was something hidden inside. Because he couldn't let the NPC husband suspect, he couldn't take the teddy bear apart with a knife.
Bai Yan touched it for a while, ready to let the bear go first and then dismantle it, but when he put it down, he found that there was a patch of hair near the teddy bear's tail that was the wrong color.
"Dark brown, is this blood?" Bai Yan sniffed it and smelled an unpleasant fishy smell: "Why is there blood on the teddy bear?"
"A period? Or blood from a dead person?"
Although the wedding room of the young couple was very warm and the air seemed to be filled with the sweetness of their love, this blood-stained teddy bear clearly told Bai Yan that everything was not simple.
"What can a newlywed couple have to do with ghosts? There is blood on the teddy bear. Did they kill someone?" Bai Yan touched his chin and thought: "And where are my two teammates? This young couple has no children. Will they be relatives of 'me', or are they related in another way?"
There were few clues in the house, and there was food on the dining table, obviously waiting for her husband who was away from home. Even if Bai Yan wanted to find other players to exchange clues, he couldn't go out and find where they were.
Unable to find any other information on the teddy bear, Bai Yan put the bear down, walked to the second bedroom, and began to search for the decorations in the second bedroom.
There was a wardrobe and a table in the second bedroom, and some odds and ends were also stored.
Bai Yan found an album in a drawer, which was full of photos of the male owner when he was a child. Some of the photos were taken in the house where he is now.
"It seems that this Wu Jingang grew up in this house since he was a child. This should be his parents' house. In order for him to get married, his parents gave this house to him so that he could have a wedding house." Bai Yan put down the album and said to himself: "Since the house belongs to Wu Jingang and his wife, where do Wu Jingang's parents live now? A new house...? No, this house is very small. If they can afford a new house, the couple will not live here. Wu Jingang's parents should have rented a house to live in."
Putting the album away as it was, Bai Yan left the table and prepared to look at something else.
But just as he walked to the closet, he heard a heavy sound of footsteps in the corridor, which became louder and louder, and then there was a hurried knock on the security door--
"Dong Dong Dong!"
"Dong Dong Dong!"
Bai Yan walked quickly to the door, wanting to find out what was going on.
At this moment, his mobile phone vibrated violently, the knock on the door suddenly disappeared, and the ticking in the room also stopped suddenly.
Bai Yan turned his head to look at the wall clock and found that the hands on the wall clock had stopped. He immediately realized that the game had paused the time of this world, so he looked down at his phone and found a few lines of words printed on it.
[You are a newly married young woman who has just been married for a short time. On this day, you prepared a meal and waited for your husband to return as usual. At 8:25 in the evening, there was a sudden knock on the door. You calculated the time, it should be your husband who came back, so you stood up and prepared to open the door for him.
But when you stood at the door, you suddenly hesitated. What happened a few days ago made you shudder, and you are still scared until now. As a weak woman who is powerless, it is necessary to be cautious.
So, you decide -
Ask loudly who is outside the door, and open the door if it is Wu Jingang.
Look at the person outside the door through the cat's eye, and make sure it is Wu Jingang before opening the door.
Don't open the door, pretend not to hear the knock. My husband brought the key, if he wants to come in, he will open the door himself. 】
Seeing these three options, Bai Yan knew that this is the so-called "text adventure".
Below the three options, there is a countdown, and he has a total of five minutes for thinking time, and now thirty seconds have passed.
In the description given in the question, Bai Yan encountered a bad thing a few days ago, so she is now very vigilant.
Bai Yan really wants to know what happened a few days ago, but now is not the time to think. Within five minutes, he must make a choice, otherwise the App will randomly help him choose an option, and then life and death will depend on fate.
After reading the three options, Bai Yan felt that C looked the safest.
However, from a table full of sincere meals, he knew that this was a loving newlywed couple. If it was really the husband, it would be unreasonable for the wife to pretend not to hear the husband knocking on the door.
So, Bai Yan ruled out option C first and began to hesitate between A and B.
"According to the routine of the game, choosing B is likely to meet another eye on the cat's eye, but choosing A will expose the fact that I am at home. If it is not Wu Jingang standing outside the door, but a ghost..."
Bai Yan's fingertips moved between A and B, and finally decided to choose B.
"Forget it, let's be a little scary, and be safe first. Five resurrection coins are not many. The game dares to let me revive five times, which means it will definitely kill me five times in the next choice."
So Bai pressed B, and when he pressed his thumb on the screen, his body was dominated by a mysterious force.
Under the control of the App, he tiptoed to the door silently and quietly put his eyes to the cat's eye——