Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Qu Lang on horseback was wearing a knight’s outfit, and the silver-white light armor and the snow-white horse under him complemented each other. Not only were the staff of Haiyin Castle taking pictures diligently, but many tourists watching nearby also held up their mobile phones to take pictures.
After all, Captain Qu had a good figure, and this kind of dress made his overall appearance seem much higher.
Bai Ju and Xiao Yao walked to the edge of the crowd. Xiao Yao waved and was seen by Qu Lang. So Qu Lang nodded to them, said a few words to the staff next to him, and took two sets of photos according to the instructions, then turned over and got off the horse, leaving the venue to other tourists waiting to take pictures.
“Are you guys at the horse farm too? “Qu Lang casually pulled Shao Simiao next to him, squeezed out of the crowd, and said to Xiao Yao and Bai Ju.
Xiao Yao nodded: “Brother Bai wanted to come and see the horses.”
After saying that, Xiao Yao raised his chin slightly and said, “Speaking of which, why are you here? The horror game time shouldn’t be over yet, don’t you want to broadcast it live?”
Qu Lang showed a trace of embarrassment when he heard this and coughed lightly: “…Well, we were kicked out.”
Xiao Yao: “…”
Xiao Yao pressed his temple with a headache and gestured to Shao Simiao: “Tell me, what’s going on?”
Shao Simiao sighed: “It’s a long story.”
Bai Ju watched the two people with a look that was hard to describe and noticed that the crowd’s eyes were beginning to gather around them, so he gently pulled Xiao Yao and said, “Let’s go find a pavilion to talk.”
Xiao Yao also took a look and knew that this was indeed not a place to talk, so he followed Bai Ju’s instructions and walked towards the garden. Halfway through, the tourists were almost gone, so Shao Simiao sorted out his thoughts and explained what had happened before to the two bosses in front.
As mentioned before, the horror games on Turtle Island were not very scary. Their selling points were more on the scenery and “staff”. The five game rooms opened today had their own projects, namely the Witch Guesthouse, the Devil’s Board Game, the Lost Treasure Box, the Horror Train, and the Chamber Game Escape from the Vampire Castle.
Among them, the Witch’s Guesthouse was a recording game, which was also the least participatory. Tourists would be arranged to sit down in a dark room, and then the high-quality speakers in the room would play a plot, recreating the sound of the witch walking on the dilapidated floor, with hoarse and strange breathing, and a voice that seemed to be speaking in your ear, etc.; during the process, the lights would light up at the right time. For example, when the witch gave you a cup of tea, the table in front of the tourist would be illuminated, and there would be a teacup on it. The teacup was filled with a strange-colored drink, and it would be delivered to the tourist’s mouth by a skinny hand hanging in the air.
If a game like this was broadcast live, the horror level would be reduced a lot. So Shao Simiao and Qu Lang participated without any enthusiasm; of course, if Shao Simiao hadn’t seen that the things controlling the prop hands were not machines, but real flying things with a witch robe, there would be even less excitement.
When doing a horror game live broadcast, Shao Simiao naturally couldn’t broadcast everything. It was okay for something like the witch’s guesthouse that didn’t involve too much creativity, but the traditional haunted house sightseeing game “Horror Train” and the escape room game “Escape from the Vampire Castle” involving a lot of layout settings were not allowed to be filmed; therefore, according to Shao Simiao’s original plan, it was just to show his former friends.
The devil’s board game was relatively more terrifying. Haiyin Castle seemed to have used holographic projection technology, combined with ghost illusions, to create an aerial board game. Visitors would be asked to sit in the control chair, and the projection generated by each of them would appear on the projection round table in mid-air, then they would follow their instructions to participate in the board game.
At the beginning, Shao Simiao didn’t know what the difference was between this and their own participation. After all, in a game like Werewolf, if the projection closed its eyes, the players had to close their eyes too, until he knew what the punishment of the game was – players who made mistakes or were deducted points in any link, their projections would have their arms or legs torn off by the claws of the devil that appeared in mid-air. The display was extremely realistic, and the indoor sound equipment would make creepy sounds at the right time. Even after the devil’s claws disappeared, there would be sporadic chewing sounds hidden in the dark.
The four limbs represented four chances. When the fifth damage occurred to the same player, the player would lose his head and be confirmed dead, and the board game would end.
The trouble was that in order to terminate the game, one player must be confirmed dead; and with more than a dozen tourists plus a few Haiyin Castle NPCs, the scene of players’ limbs being torn apart would be repeated at least twenty times unless someone made deliberate mistakes. And after each “punishment”, the chewing sounds in the game room would become more obvious, almost directly showing where those broken limbs had gone.
In addition, even if everyone wanted to end the game early, no one wanted to see “their” body torn into pieces.
In the end, Shao Simiao still wanted to take care of his own live broadcast audience. After some consideration, he turned on a medium mosaic on the display in front of him and then put the camera against the screen to start the live broadcast. That’s right, in addition to the projection, considering the different acceptance of bloody images by different tourists, players could choose to watch the projection directly, or watch the projection through the screen that could be automatically mosaiced.
In this way, the setting of this game was actually not excessive; but Qu Lang frowned while playing.
It was not that Qu Lang couldn’t accept those pictures, but he could feel the fear waves emanating from the players constantly disappearing in the room; it was likely that they were swallowed by the ghosts and other things in Haiyin Castle that fed on fear.
In view of the fact that there were still several inheritance formations in Haiyin Castle, Qu Lang was not sure whether the power emitted by tourists in Haiyin Castle due to fear and other reasons over the years had been swallowed by those formations; if so, then the result may be quite bad.
After all, the guys who left the relics here were all Western monsters from long ago. Their concepts were different from those of modern Western monsters. The law of the jungle and being enemies were basically instincts engraved in their bones. If these things were awakened accidentally, it wouldn’t be a lot of fun.
So after playing this game for a while, Qu Lang saw that the faces of the tourists around him were gradually becoming unnatural, so he made mistakes decisively, watched himself being “dismembered” with an expressionless face, and quickly ended the game; of course, this action was unsurprisingly distorted in the live broadcast room of “Straight Male Anchor Barbecued Pork Bun” as a heroic sacrifice due to love for someone.
However, if that were all, the two people would not be driven out by the staff of Haiyin Castle. The problem was that shortly after the third game started, Captain Qu, who was suspicious, opened his yin-yang eyes and saw a ray of fearful black air gathering on the “staff” surrounded by a group of reptiles.
In a flash, Captain Qu, who completely relied on his instinct to capture the black air, pulled out the sword of the headless knight ghost, slashed it through the air, and stabbed the black air – in the middle, he flipped over the hat of the bald earl and tore the skirt of Mrs. Mayin.
Shao Simiao, who witnessed Captain Qu snatching the knight’s sword, hooking the lady’s skirt, and flipping the hat of the bald earl, said: “…”
To be honest, he felt that he should die after witnessing everything.
As for the ghosts who had suffered unexpected disasters, having their food taken away and their things rudely snatched (overturned), apart from vaguely feeling that Qu Lang was not someone to be trifled with, they still restrained themselves and just kicked Qu Lang out of the game room. Although Shao Simiao, who witnessed everything, did not film Qu Lang in the camera, he only held on for a little while longer, and soon quit the game on the grounds that he was afraid of snakes and it was inconvenient to take the treasure chest key out from under the belly of a reptile. According to the silly netizens, he escaped to seek comfort from his lover.
Xiao Yao and Bai Ju, who knew the whole process: “…”
It was hard for Qu Lang to condescend to accompany Shao Simiao to play these unchallenging “horror games”.
Qu Lang lazily leaned against the pillar of the pavilion. Facing his brother Xiao’s eyes that asked “Are there any problems?”, he was very frank: “I originally wanted to take this opportunity to see if Haiyin Castle was causing any trouble using the horror game project… but now it seems that there are indeed hidden dangers, but I’m not sure to what extent.”
Bai Ju was originally very curious about these Western monsters, so he asked again: “What is your judgment?”
Upon hearing this, Qu Lang closed his legs, supported his knees with his elbows, leaned forward slightly and said: “Bai Wang, you’re right, I was planning to share my findings with you after the event today.”
Clearing his throat, Qu Lang didn’t keep them in suspense. He rubbed the head of Shao Simiao who was confused next to him and then told them: “The ghosts in Haiyin Castle are not a big problem. The horror games here are quite user-friendly. For people who often play horror games and haunted houses, there is almost no excitement. Of course, we can’t make a conclusion for the last two games that we didn’t participate in for the time being.”
“In these games, tourists’ overly obvious fear emotions are mostly not spontaneous, but emotional hallucinations enhanced by ghosts. This level will not cause tourists’ consciousness to be damaged. At most, it will consume some of their adrenaline and burn some energy and physical strength. This part of the loss is not large. It dissipates along with the fear and becomes the ghosts’ daily rations.”
“We don’t know how much of this power was absorbed by the ghosts, and how much entered the ancient monsters’ heritage. The only thing we can be sure of is that once part of the inheritance of Haiyin Castle is opened, the power contained in it will be much stronger than we expected. For the same reason, the person who approached Jing Xia before might have a bigger appetite than we initially expected.”
Qu Lang said, raising his hand and pinching a seal, taking out the wisp of black air that he had nailed before, and throwing it to Xiao Yao: “The emotion is very thin, but I don’t know how much the total amount is.”
Bai Ju came to Xiao Yao’s hand, stretched out his finger and touched the little snake-like thing, pondered and said: “Then we’d better investigate in the next two days… Some tourists will stay here temporarily today, and we can guarantee that they will all be dismissed tomorrow morning. If we have any doubts, we can come to find out the situation tomorrow.”
Qu Lang retracted his hand, scratched his hair, and was a little embarrassed: “But Haiyin Castle will not be open tomorrow. If we directly use the power of the Special Service Bureau and the Monster Management Bureau to apply for an investigation, I’m afraid those ghosts and vampires will not cooperate.”
Bai Ju raised his eyebrows and reached out to touch Xiao Yao’s trouser pocket: “It’s okay, I was drawn for the Haiyin Castle invitation card today.”
Qu Lang: “…”
Qu Lang admired: “Awesome.”
The author has something to say:
The invitation card of Old Dog Bai was not drawn for nothing hhhh
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