Under the leadership of Wang Teddy and Qi Ning, the four walked to the only hotel in the town.

The hotel is about as broken as the rest of the town, the old neon signs are completely unlit and so thick with dust that if you don't look carefully you can't tell what's written on them.

Entering the hotel, it was dark inside.

The wattage of the electric lights is very low, and many of them have already gone on strike. The ground is full of dust, and there is no cleaning staff at all.

There is also an exclusive smell of old houses in the air, and the overall atmosphere makes people feel very uncomfortable.

The telephones in the hotel are still the old dial-dial type.

In view of the closed level of the information and the town information that I read before, it doesn't seem like there is any contact with the outside world at all, Xiao Lan suspects that the call may not be able to get out at all.

The four Xiao Lan were about to go upstairs, but a very rude voice came from beside them.

"Hey, you strangers here to register." The voice sounded rude and unserviceable.

They looked towards the source of the sound and saw that it was coming from the dark front desk.

There was a chubby old man sitting at the front desk of the hotel.

His hair was sparse, his face was speckled, and like the rest of the town, he was handicapped.

One of the old man's eyes was gouged out, leaving only an empty hole. His left hand was also twisted, and his palm was bent in a strange direction.

"This person is the owner of the hotel." Wang Taidi explained to Xiao Lan and Luo softly.

The innkeeper stared at them with the same eyes as the rest of the town, as if he could come and bite at any time.

It seems that even the people who open the door to do business in the small town of Mona are still unfriendly to outsiders.

He slapped the table heavily: "Register! Every stranger must register! The two new arrivals, you are no exception."

Luo stepped forward and started registering the two.

This registration is very perfunctory. It is to write down who you are and what you are doing. You can completely make up your own.

So Luo also pushed the boat to show his own random fabrication skills.

When registering in Luo, Xiao Lan took the opportunity to ask, "Do all the foreign tourists live here?"

The boss glanced at him: "Hmph, it's all with me. The stench you bring on my site is all about you. You don't have any sign of faith in you, why can Sarah always pay attention to you hypocritical strangers? ."

Xiao Lan caught the key words: "Signs of faith?"

The boss pointed to his empty eyes: "This is a gift for Sarah."

He pointed to his twisted arm again: "This is a symbol of piety. But you strangers, you talk about yearning for Sarah, but you always do nothing, a bunch of liars full of lies."

Xiao Lan asked, "Are all strangers here to find Sarah?"

The boss's expression was distorted: "Hehe, who knows what purpose you foreigners have."

Xiao Lan wanted to ask again, but the boss rudely interrupted him: "Go away, don't try to get Sara's news from me! Sara will not accept you! He will only merge with us! !!"

Xiao Lan frowned slightly.

It seems that the reason people here reject outsiders is for fear that they will compete for Sarah's attention?

How does it feel to have a subtle atmosphere of competition for favor?

In fact, he didn't want to merge with this unknown thing at all.

You are overthinking.

At this time, Luo wrote the registration information and interrupted the boss.

The boss took over what Luo wrote, and after reading it for a long time, he didn't understand what it meant by "a journey of spiritual redemption in search of artistic inspiration" and "people always have to strive for lofty ideals".

The boss scratched the top of his sparse head, not wanting to show his ignorance in front of strangers.

He didn't ask too much, put away the register and said, "Okay, you can get out of here, don't bother me. The hotel will provide you with meals, and it will be delivered directly to the door of your room."

Xiao Lan asked, "May I ask what time the meal will be delivered?"

The boss's tone was irritable: "When will it be ready and when will it be served to you, there is no restaurant here for you to enjoy, we don't like to gather like you strangers."

——

The four came upstairs.

The corridors were full of closed doors, and no movement came out of them.

Qi Ning and Wang Taidi booked a room for Xiao Lan, and they each had a room. The rooms of several people were connected together, and it was very easy to support each other if something happened.

Xiao Lan and Luo walked into their room.

The room was still shabby and hopeless, and the street scene next to it could be seen through the cracks in the walls.

A totem in the shape of an eye was drawn on one side of the wall. The totem seemed to be staring at the room, and next to it was written "Here is watched by Sarah".

Xiao Lan looked into that eye: "It's really uncomfortable."

Luo approached the totem on the wall, stretched out his hand and touched it: "I didn't feel the energy fluctuations, this is just an ordinary graffiti. If I feel uncomfortable, I can change the pattern."

Xiao Lan looked at her boyfriend's smiling face.

I thought about his boldness and boldness, and his wildness revealed an uninhibited style of painting.

If you open your eyes and look at Luo's painting, you might as well look at this thing, anyway, it's all hot eyes, and this thing can at least tell what the painting is.

Xiao Lan shook his head: "No need."

He stepped forward directly and pulled over a cabinet with his bare hands to block the totem.

Luo sighed a little regretfully, when will the gentleman appreciate his art.

Suddenly, their eyes turned to the window at the same time.

At this time, the sky was already a little dark, but the surrounding wildfires still illuminated the sky red.

It was against this backdrop that a head hung down on their room window, looking at them with a malicious smile.

Aware of the sight of the two, the peeping heads were not in a hurry.

He made a mouth gesture towards the two of them: Hehe... Stranger...

Then try to leave.

Xiao Lan rushed to the window in one step, just in time to see a long neck connected to the back of the head.

The neck was stretched out from the building next to it, and it was growing on a body. Judging from the clothes on the body, this should also be a resident of a small town.

The man over there retracted his neck, twisted his head, and walked into the room humming a weird song.

He doesn't seem to be worried about the beatings of the people in society at all, or to say that monitoring these foreigners is the most important thing for him.

Luo moved his fingers: "Do you want to deal with it? Sir."

Xiao Lan shook his head: "Their surveillance seems to be everywhere, it doesn't make much sense to deal with one or two. Besides, looking at the mental state of the town residents, I suspect that if we make any movement, they will attack us directly. , it's better not to stimulate them for the time being."

Of course, that's another story when it's time to stimulate.

Xiao Lan frowned slightly: "But...they don't really look like people anymore. Maybe after staying here for a long time, we might become like this too."

Luo said: "The people who are qualified to enter here are top advanced players. According to your physique, the speed of change should be very slow."

Xiao Lan nodded, temporarily suppressing the uneasiness in her heart.

Wang Ke is one of the most powerful players among the advanced players. He is also a melee player with strong physique. Although he is restrained due to his skills, he should not be assimilated so easily.

It's better not to speculate too much before actually seeing him.

This just adds to the trouble.

——

After that, several people came to Wang Teddy's room to discuss the future.

So far, they haven't found the main line of Sara's Song, and the game prompts are very vague. It is not easy to find Wang Ke's trace.

Xiao Lan compared the information in the hands of the next few people: "The information in our hands is almost the same, and it doesn't point to any exact location. What about you, Teddy?"

Wang Teddy shook his head: "Brother Tao can't tell where my brother disappeared because of his unstable mental condition. I tried many times, but he couldn't give a complete description, only that there were many monsters there. And I I suspect that my brother may not have stayed in the place where he was attacked."

It seems that they still have to find clues on their own.

Wang Teddy said: "Since Brother Tao mentioned the altar before, why don't we go to find the news of this altar first, find the [Stone of Forgiveness] first, and leave a way out for ourselves."

Qi Ning turned to face Wang Teddy: "You are so calm, you have grown so much that I am surprised."

Wang Teddy smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly: "I also realized later that emotions will not bring any help. The calmer I am, the closer I will be to my goal."

He is the most urgent among the few people to find Wang Ke, and even he has suppressed such emotions for a long time.

But Wang Teddy is also very clear that the more critical it is, the less he can make mistakes.

He didn't want to be the one who made all his efforts fall short in the end.

At this time, there was a "bang" sound of heavy objects falling to the ground outside the door.

It was followed by a shout from a man, which consisted of incoherent gibberish that made it difficult to hear.

Several people looked at each other and opened the door.

In the corridor, a closed door to the room opened.

A bearded man half-length walked out of the door and was rolling on the ground.

He didn't despise the dirt on the floor in the slightest, and rolled while crying. His clothes can no longer be seen in their original color. I don't know if it's because they haven't been washed for too long, or because they rolled too much.

But this man has no disabilities, and he can't see the same physical alienation as other residents of the town.

Following the man's movements, Xiao Lan saw clearly why he was rolling.

A knife pierced into his thigh, the wound was gurgling blood, and it seemed to be deeply pierced.

But the man's reaction was weird. He looked at his wound, his hands trembling, as if he wanted to pull the knife out, and he seemed to want to stab it deeper.

"He...he...Sarah...will see my devotion..." He stopped rolling and reached for the handle of the knife.

But he seemed very hesitant again, his arm trembled more and more, but he couldn't continue the action after that.

It seemed that such hesitation made him feel very ashamed, and the man abruptly covered his face and burst into tears: "Uh... ah ah ah ah... woo woo..."

The howling sound echoed in the corridor, a bit harsh, and the person listening was very irritable.

But the other rooms in the corridor were still quiet. Except for Xiao Lan and a few others, no one was interested in coming out to take a look.

The man cried for a while, and then tried to reach for the knife again.

His movements were repeated, and his emotions were also suppressed and elevated with the movements, and he looked crazy.

like a neuropathy.

But this person was the most different person they saw after they entered the town.

He doesn't seem to be as fanatical about Sarah's beliefs as others, at least he will hesitate when he mutilates himself, instead of being addicted and excited like others.

Xiao Lan tried to talk to him: "Hello..."

The man didn't respond to his words, just immersed in his own world crying and laughing.

But in the end, he still did not continue to stab the knife.

When he finally got tired of crying, he moved his body and crawled back to his room with the blood stains.

During the whole process, he didn't give any look to the onlookers, as if they were all pillars on the wall.

"Dad won't talk to you." At this time, Ruanuo's childish voice sounded.

A pale little girl came out of the shadows behind the door.

She looks normal, her limbs are intact, there is no disability, and there is no alienated part, and even her mental state is better than the man just now.

Xiao Lan asked, "Why do you say that?"

The little girl said, "Dad only has Sarah in his eyes. He came after Sarah's singing."

Xiao Lan looked at her: "Pursue? Did you come from other places?"

The little girl was still expressionless: "We used to live in other towns, and one day Dad said that he heard Sarah's singing, and he wanted to chase the most beautiful singing in the world, so he brought me here, but what am I? Can't hear it either."

Xiao Lan confirmed it again: "Everyone living here is a stranger?"

The girl nodded.

"Dad thinks about Sarah all day and doesn't play with me. He is more and more like the people in this town." The girl's tone was a little indifferent. "He will become a lunatic sooner or later."

Xiao Lan met the little girl's gloomy eyes: "Don't you want to leave here?"

The girl shook her head: "Dad won't leave."

Xiao Lan suddenly pointed at Wang Teddy and asked, "Have you ever seen another brother who looks a bit like this brother? He has short hair."

The little girl looked at Wang Teddy carefully, and then nodded in the other's nervous eyes.

Wang Teddy quickly asked, "Then do you know where he went?"

The little girl pointed to Xiao Lan's room and said softly, "The strangers who live in your rooms will disappear, and so will he."

After speaking, the little girl reached out and closed the door.

Several people stood in the corridor and fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Xiao Lan said, "She should mean that the players who enter will be arranged in these rooms. Whether they succeed in the contract or fail, they will naturally not live here again."

"Well." Wang Teddy nodded, he smiled to liven up the atmosphere, "At least it means that we have come to the wrong place."

At this moment, the heavy figure of the hotel owner appeared in the corridor.

Carrying a basket, he rudely threw the lunch box in his hand at the door of various rooms, which were clearly occupied.

While walking, the boss scolded and expressed his dissatisfaction with these foreigners.

When he saw Xiao Lan standing in the corridor, his face sank even more.

He threw the four lunch boxes directly at the feet of several people: "Hmph, restless stranger, what are you planning?"

Without waiting for a few answers, he kept walking away.

It's like staying with them for a moment will be polluted: "You can see that you are the most restless... The more restless, the faster you die..."

When the boss's figure disappeared at the other end of the corridor, Wang Teddy reached out and picked up a lunch box, opened it and looked at it.

"..." He fell into a strange silence.

Qi Ning next to him also glanced at him: "..."

Attracted by their reaction, Xiao Lan leaned over to take a look: "..."

Seeing that Xiao Lan, who was proud of the dark cooking world, was silent, Luo couldn't help but look over: "..."

The language system of the four fell into a state of temporary stagnation.

Because the contents of this box are beyond the scope of dark cooking to be honest.

Dark cooking is still cooking, but what are these things?

Dried rats, googly eyes of unknown creatures, and sashimi of toads with their skins, a side dish of a mushy tawny bean.

Face-to-face with the toad, Wang Teddy looked unlovable: "...This is too exciting, isn't it?"

Qi Ning laughed softly: "Haha, I really want to dissect their biological structure..."

Xiao Lan asked a tricky question: "Will they not be constipated by eating like this?"

Wang Teddy closed the devil's box and suggested, "Let's go to the kitchen and do it ourselves. It's okay to not eat for a few days, but the game has just started, so there's no need to treat yourself like this."

Xiao Lan nodded: "Okay, fortunately I can cook."

Luo slightly looked at his husband in disbelief, where did the confidence come from?!

Wang Teddy's eyes turned terrified, and he said quickly, "No no no...that...let me come and let you see the results of my practice during this period of time."

The fear of being dominated by Xiao Lan's cooking skills resurfaced in his heart again, and he didn't want to recall the experience of jumping up and down in hell.

Qi Ning, who had not been attacked by Xiao Lan, turned to Wang Teddy for unknown reasons—

Why are his eyes full of lust for life?