Returning from the abyss

Chapter 686
In a crazy circus, those normal thoughts are like dreams, but what is really intoxicating is the sleepy words uttered by the clown on the stage.

The lights are on.In the center of the colorful circus, the clown raised his arms to greet the audience.No one was surprised by this, and there were deafening cheers all around.The faces of those people were full of emotional smiles, as if they were really cheering for an unparalleled performance.

is it?

The flesh and blood dripping from the lion's mouth was still fresh, and half of the palm was still outside its teeth.

The human skin dress on the monkey was brand new, so new that two holes for eyes could be seen on the collar.

The tiger is lying on the side, with five right arms stretched out from its spine, holding a music ball in its hand, constantly pressing out cheerful tunes.

Three-headed dogs and six-tailed cats rolled into a ball, leaving a shallow crater in the ground with every slap of their paws.

"What is this!" Tang Haiyao held her head in disbelief, "Can't those audiences see? We, we have to get out! Get out of here—"

"Inseparable." The man said with a serious expression, "This is not an ordinary ghost haunting, this is a ghost domain... the reality shown through strong obsession, be careful, any harm we suffer here is real Yes, death is the same!"

With the man's expression like this, it is obvious that the situation is beyond his control, and he just stands still now.

The audience around had already fallen into the frenzy of the opening of the circus. The clown thanked loudly, and then the members of the circus began to walk out of the door behind him—a girl in tights and on a unicycle; she was less than one meter tall, Surrounded by dwarves with wooden barrels full of daggers; a tin man in iron skin, who makes the sound of rusty gears rubbing every step he takes; a fat gentleman in a suit and a top hat; Handsome man with whip and noose.

"Let me introduce all the members of our circus! Miss High Toss! Barrel Dwarf! Rust Knight! Mr. Top Hat! Handsome Cowboy!" The clown shouted, and the audience cheered even louder.

"Tell me what you like! What you like is a show! A show that is out of this world! Forget about the troubles of life! Laugh and dance to your heart's content! Let's party until the dawn comes! With the people around you Share your joy and smiles! Come on! Don't say no!"

The clown waved his arm heavily, and the circus music came from nowhere. The audience cheered and looked towards the stage. The beasts also got up one after another, and began to walk to the circus that had been arranged in advance. Next to props.

"The first program, Miss High Throwing, will bring you a flying sword show! The adrenaline-pumping excitement! Let's see which lucky viewer has the opportunity to experience it! Come on! Big turntable!"

A huge turntable dropped from the ceiling with a bang, with up to four digits on it. With the snap of the clown's fingers, the turntable rotated rapidly and finally stopped.

"Audience No. 0239! Congratulations!"

With a sound of a spring, Li Wenyue saw a seat in the row of auditoriums in the front left suddenly pop up, ejecting an audience member directly onto the stage.The spectator fell hard after landing, and it took more than ten seconds to wake up. He was obviously shouting crazily before, but at this moment he returned to normal in an instant.

"This... what is this place? What... ah!!! Lions! Tigers, what are they, then, are they people? Hey, hey..."

Before he could get up, the Rust Knight set him up and tied him to an erected plank.The girl who had been riding around on a unicycle took an iron box from Mr. Top Hat and opened it, which was full of shiny sharp knives.

Li Wenyue already knew what would happen to this person, but she didn't have the heart to save him—nor did she have the ability.She tried, and she was still able to get up from her seat.The male Taoist priest was still observing, but Li Wenyue couldn't wait. She knew that she was just an ordinary person. If she didn't try her best to survive, she would end up like the chosen one sooner or later.

Pulling Tang Haiyao through the crazy crowd, she finally reached the aisle area. At this time, the flying sword performance on the stage had already begun, and the sharp blade, which was radiating cold light, perfectly nailed a human figure slowly along the outline of the person.If this is just an ordinary circus performance, it can be called superb skills.

"Li Wenyue, where are we going?"

"Being able to move freely here means that there are not so many restrictions in the ghost domain. Our chance is to find a way out at this time!"

A scream came from the stage, the last sharp knife pierced the man's throat, blood gushed out like a fountain, several wild beasts rushed forward and began to bite, the cowboy angrily flicked his whip to drive away...

As they moved away from the crazy atmosphere, the two felt that their brains were gradually cooling down.

The tent had two layers, and after stepping out of the inner layer, the two of them could smell a rancid smell.Enduring the smell, Li Wenyue began to grope in that direction, and soon found a corner where iron cages were placed. These cages were obviously used to lock up the beasts before.Li Wenyue took photos with her mobile phone, and found that the feeding troughs of these cages were filled with human flesh and blood.

"Wen Yue! This place is too scary! Let's go quickly! Just leave this tent, right?" Tang Haiyao said in horror.

Li Wenyue originally planned to do so, but with a flick of her finger, she saw something flickering among the flesh and blood.

After a moment of hesitation, Li Wenyue reached out and grabbed inside. Of course, she didn't know what it was, but her intuition also told her that it would not be so easy to leave the tent, so it was better to take the risk.

The moment her fingers touched that thing, Li Wenyue heard an old-fashioned laughter in her ears. She grabbed the thing out of the dirty flesh and found it was a ring, wiping off the flesh and blood on it. , you can see the "JOKER" pattern of a playing card engraved on a cube-shaped gemstone.

She froze for a moment, and at that moment, a cold feeling climbed up her spine.

"Congratulations, Mr. New Captain."

【Uploader, spend a lot of money】

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"I don't quite understand what this story means."

After Lu Ning uploaded her paragraph, Lu Ping asked a little seriously, "First of all, this story is somewhat different from the ghost story, and it is different from the previous ghost stories. Why did it pass the review? Second... What did Ms. Li mean by writing that? I don’t see how it can help us in our current situation.”

"There are many ways to write ghost stories, Lu Daochang, I believe that what you have come into contact with is basically the victim's perspective, this is the most common one, highlighting the horror of ghosts and the helplessness of human beings...but it is not the only one. "Lu Ning smiled, "Some ghost stories depicted from the perpetrator's perspective are also wonderful. There is a saying that people's hearts are like ghosts. When a person starts to have evil intentions, he is more evil than a ghost. And I provided it in this story. an opportunity..."

"This story itself is about ghosts, why add villains to it?"

"It's not to add villains, villains already exist. Our story has decided the two roles of detective and murderer from the very beginning, that is to say, the emergence of villains is natural. What this story opens up is...we can start from this Clues to get the villain's perspective. I think that helps with the reality of the situation."

"Aren't you worried about yourself?"

"If the Taoist priest thinks that I have fallen into evil one day, he might as well kill me with his own hands." Lu Ning said nonchalantly.

Of course, Lu Ning didn't say everything.She arranged some tentative means outside of the article. The first is that she didn't name the ring in the article, but the name she thought of was "Human Remains"—so will this name be recognized? What about the solitaires behind?What is this judgment?If a result can be obtained, she can also confirm whether the conception part outside the article is also included in the scope of Solitaire.

Another goal is the context of the entire article-so far there has been no blockage for many people to branch out, and the reason is not clear.It's just that this is a solitaire after all, if everyone writes their own, they will definitely not meet the requirements in the end, even if it can be reflected in reality.The biggest ones may be to increase the requirements after everyone has passed the round, or at a certain point in time Zheng Yunting personally writes a paragraph to close all the stories. Both of these are better results, because the story will continue.

The worst possibility is that the story doesn't need to end at all.

Late stage?What is late? The longest time for all 24 people to go through is twelve days, and this time limit may be the deadline for avoiding death in the article, but according to the time spent by each person, this time will only be shorter, and the level-up scene is free and flexible.

In comparison, the relatively safe time is about to pass, and this has just passed a little over three days.

While refueling the car, Lu Ning received another video request, but this time it was from Chen Hangla's group.

"Yanzidan... Let's find a quieter place, behind the gas station."

Lu Ning glanced at the name on it.

After the video was connected, everyone was a little puzzled, the part of Yanzidan was still dark, but soon there was light shining over, and Yanzidan's voice came from inside.

"Sorry guys, I just made a phone call."

"Call? Where are you?" Zhang Xinqing asked.

"Home."

The home Yan Zidan mentioned was a rental house near her school, and she could see the scenery outside the window according to the shaky camera.

"To make a long story short." Yan Zidan paused, seeming to organize his thoughts, "I checked the president's situation yesterday. I found the phone number of the head teacher according to the president's class, and found out about the president's situation. About The president also left the school two days after our holiday, and there is no one in his dormitory, that is, a day or two later than us."

"Normal, the school doesn't plan to keep the dormitory open during the holidays." Chen Hang snorted.

"I asked the head teacher for the emergency contact number of the president. The reason is that I can't reach the president because of some club affairs. The teacher gave me the phone and promised to help me get in touch together. I parted ways last night and this morning. I called the president, but no one answered, then I called his home and sent some messages in the group by the way."

Information in the group?Lu Ning quickly cut out the group chat, and sure enough, there were a few words from Yan Zidan in many chat texts in the morning.

[Tingyu Bridge Station]: The first round of Solitaire is almost halfway through, right?President, if everyone is opening their own branches, how can they be closed?

[President squatting at home]: Of course the story must be brought to an end, but this is still the beginning, so it would be better to let everyone play freely?
[Tingyuqiaoyi]: Got it, that means you can write whatever you want now, right?
[President squatting at home]: Just deduct the questions.

The problem is not with these few words.

"Yan Zidan, you were calling his home at that time?" Lu Ning asked.

"Yes... yes. It was his father who answered the call. He said that the president didn't come home, and told his family that he wanted to look for another opportunity before the year. The contact in the past few days was also through text messages and chat software."

After a moment of silence, Qian Yipeng spoke: "That is to say, there is no president on either side? His whereabouts are unknown? I absolutely don't believe that he found an Internet cafe for a monthly subscription and squatted in front of the computer to play with us." this game."

"As expected." Tang Haiyao said nervously, "I already feel something is wrong...Since the start of the game, whenever we mentioned him in the group, he would respond within seconds. Those we uploaded It only takes two to three minutes to review the text, although the number of words is not much, but he doesn't know when we upload it, it's too strange to keep staring at it all the time. It's like, like he is a robot."

"You can just say that he lives in the group." Chen Hang gritted his teeth, "What happened to Zheng Yunting? Even if he died and turned into a ghost, why would he be so busy doing such things? By the way, Dandan sister, don't do it anymore. Continue to investigate, I have already found a private investigator, it is too dangerous for you, a person without any professional skills, to investigate such obviously wrong things."

"I know, I'm also a little scared." Yan Zidan finally turned the camera to herself, and she could see that she didn't sleep well, "What should I do if the person in the group is not the president? Do all the ghost stories we write happen to me? Body? Then if we write more and more terrifying, will we also be like in the story—”

"Let's stop thinking about it for now." Zhang Xinqing interrupted Yan Zidan's slightly restless words, "Those of us who have encountered things have not panicked yet. What are you afraid of now? Calm down and contact us at any time. If you have any questions In any case, we will try our best to save you."

"But you are all outside..."

"If danger happens to us, don't you have to be afraid? By the way, Li Wenyue, did you continue to write Shilan's circus story?"

"Well, what happened?"

Zhang Xinqing's camera turned around, and a flyer came into view. There were a few eye-catching characters on the fancy flyer: [Poker Circus, the show starts today! 】

"I'm in Secret City, you guys remember."

(End of this chapter)