Escape from the Thriller World – Chapter 16
by Little PandaVolume One: The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village
Jigsaw Puzzle Game
【The game system is now filtering a rule for you】
【Game System Prompt】
【Task: Clues about Tong Lau are hidden in several book sections.】
The library staff handed out a set of rules to everyone with a black face (angry face). They had just entered the library when, with a “creak,” the main door slammed shut.
While Shen Qingyou was still thinking about how to get back the triangular talisman, Xie Wu showed up. Xie Wu saw through Shen Qingyou’s intentions and avoided her, heading straight to the astronomy section to read books.
Shen Qingyou hesitantly gripped her gun, but Ning Lan held her hand and said: “Now is not the time to make a move, the library prohibits noise.”
The black-faced manager wearing a plaid shirt came over to remind them: “Please quickly find your books, sit down, and stay quiet, friends.”
X card, staff trustworthiness 85%.
Shen Qingyou had no choice but to give up the fight. The two split up and searched for clues in different areas according to the game’s task.
They had to look for clues in this vast sea of books. Isn’t this like looking for a needle in a haystack?
Ning Lan wandered to the romance novel section and saw 5 layers of bookshelves. She followed the shelf numbers and flipped through the books one by one from bottom to top.
The bookshelf was too high to reach, so Ning Lan decided to find a staff member to ask for a ladder.
She walked to the library service desk, where a staff member wearing black clothes grinned and said: “Hello, what help do you need?”
Key words for filtering the seven library rules.
【Staff members not wearing x cards cannot be trusted】
So people wearing other colored clothes can’t be trusted!
Ning Lan shook her head and said: “It’s nothing, I don’t need anything for now, thank you.”
She breathed a sigh of relief and turned around. The staff member wearing black behind her disappeared in the blink of an eye.
【Successfully avoided “it”】
【The game system is now filtering a rule for you】
【The third rule is incorrect】
Ning Lan lowered her head and glanced at the library rules.
Could staff members wearing red clothes be trusted?
Unable to borrow a ladder, she could only browse through the novels on the lower shelves for now.
Ning Lan prepared a piece of paper and a pen. She wrote down the numbers of the bookshelves she had browsed to avoid repeating.
When she reached the third bookshelf, her finger paused for a moment.
A copy of 《Jane Eyre》 on the third shelf had an envelope embedded in it, with a few words written on the envelope: To the player.
Ning Lan opened the envelope and felt a puzzle piece inside?
Now she understood the game task. The shallow rule was to require them to complete the entire puzzle in the library.
Gathering more puzzle pieces would unlock clues about the Tong Lau.
Ning Lan sent a text message to inform Shen Qingyou. Shen Qingyou had also found several scattered puzzle pieces in the astronomy section.
Xie Wu in the mystery novel section up front exclaimed as he got a novel called 《Thriller World》. He secretly put it back on the shelf, and a scary scene appeared.
【Player violates the rules】
A pair of bloody hands reached out from the second-floor shelf and grabbed his hand.
Xie Wu, terrified, tried to run away, but these bloody hands were like a monster with endless strength.
Xie Wu was dragged into the second-floor shelf despite his struggles. He shouted: “Is ‘Thriller World’ against the rules too?”
【Game Rule Explanation】
【”Thriller World” includes the words “escape from the thriller world” in its sixth rule, which also violates the rules.】
Xie Wu’s voice was swallowed up in the mystery novel section, and he was pulled into the isolation room by that “it”.
Violating rules in the library isn’t a loop, but rather 30 minutes of reflection in the isolation room, doubling each time, so the next time would be 60 minutes, then 120 minutes.
The game system’s announcement broadcast sounded throughout the library.
The player with the least puzzle pieces collected will be disqualified from the game and immediately executed by the devil!
“Devil’s execution” made them all shudder, and the remaining three sped up their search for puzzle pieces.
Ning Lan had found five pieces here, but there was also a second floor that she couldn’t reach.
Ning Lan gritted her teeth and went to the library service desk again. This time, a staff member wearing red clothes with an X badge appeared.
The previous time it was someone in a plaid shirt, this time in red clothes. One rule has been eliminated, but can this staff member be trusted?
Ning Lan gritted her teeth and asked: “Hello, do you have a ladder? I want to get the books up there, but I can’t reach them.”
The staff member in red clothes smiled and said: “Sure, I’ll go to the storage room and get one right away.”
Ning Lan thought she had guessed correctly, but when the red-clothed staff member came out of the storage room in an instant, their face had changed to that of a ghost. Ning Lan ran away as fast as she could!
The red-clothed staff member couldn’t be trusted either!
Successfully eliminated one option.
Ning Lan spotted some low stools in the library. She moved one to the romance novel section shelf and, standing on the stool, could barely reach the books on top.
There were too many books up there. Ning Lan took them down one by one in order and counted them according to their numbers.
She flipped through more than a dozen books and found a few more puzzle pieces in several of them. Just as Ning Lan, treasuring her find, put them in her bag, Watanabe Keiko rushed over from the mystery novel section to snatch her puzzle pieces!
The two of them started wrestling and fighting. Ning Lan shouted: “Watanabe Keiko, you really have no scruples!”
Watanabe Keiko, after all, had learned judo and was a Japanese spy. In a few moves, she pushed Ning Lan to the ground.
She smiled and said: “I, Watanabe Keiko, have never gotten along with you Chinese people!”
Ning Lan put down her backpack and chased after Watanabe Keiko. Watanabe Keiko was confident, holding more than a dozen puzzle pieces in her hand. Unexpectedly, Shen Qingyu appeared in front of them.
Shen Qingyu stood with her hands on her hips and said: “Miss Watanabe Keiko, you won’t be leaving today.”
Watanabe Keiko stepped forward with a hook punch, but Shen Qingyu countered by restraining both her arms and kicking her in the stomach with her right foot. Watanabe Keiko fell to the floor, crying out in pain.
Ning Lan stood behind and said: “Hand them over quickly! You’re despicable.”
Watanabe Keiko, caught between the two, threw away the puzzle pieces and prepared to burn them, saying: “If I can’t leave, you won’t be able to leave either.”
As she spoke, Watanabe Keiko took out a lighter from her jacket pocket and set fire to the puzzle pieces.
【Three players have violated the second rule of the library】
【Talking in the library is prohibited for more than three minutes】
At this moment, a staff member wearing a plaid shirt walked over and shouted: “You three have broken the rules, drag them into the isolation room!”
Library isolation room.
The three of them were unexpectedly dragged into the isolation room at the same time, and to their surprise, there were also rules on the door of the isolation room.
Xie Wu said with an annoyed face that this library has such crappy rules.
Isolation room rules:
1. Do not speak loudly in the isolation room, and do not trust staff members wearing red, black, or blue.
2. The maximum penalty in the isolation room is 360 minutes. If you feel uncomfortable anywhere in the isolation room, please immediately take the call button on the table and seek help from staff members.
3. If a stranger comes into the isolation room, he has a beard and wears a hat, do not believe what he says.
Now analyzing the situation, if they don’t work together to gather 60 puzzle pieces when they get out, they won’t be able to pass this game level.
If the 60 puzzle pieces are evenly distributed among everyone’s hands, then no one will die.
Each person gets 20 pieces, and they can all live.
The devil’s punishment rules will no longer exist.
The premise is that they need to work together to gather 60 puzzle pieces when they get out.
Ning Lan told them her thoughts, and they all nodded.
Ning Lan said quietly: “We’ll go out separately in 30 minutes, otherwise none of us will be able to get out.”
Now is not the time to rush to eliminate each other, so Watanabe Keiko had to agree: “Don’t play any tricks, or we’ll all be finished in the library.”
25 minutes later.
Ning Lan smelled the scent permeating the air and felt nauseous.
Shen Qingyou’s reaction was the same, she covered her nose and fainted.
She quickly grabbed the call button on the table to call for staff, and the green staff member saw Ning Lan’s condition and said: “Quick, quick, you need to get out immediately.”
Only Xie Wu and Watanabe Keiko were left in the isolation room.
At this moment, a staff member wearing purple walked in from outside. He had a beard and was wearing a black hat.
He giggled stupidly twice and said: “Do you want to go out now? Let me tell you, there’s a door to get out here.”
【Purple, beard, black hat】
He claimed to be a staff member but violated rule number 3, should they believe him?
No, can’t trust him!
Ning Lan chanted in her heart, this person is too suspicious.
Xie Wu suddenly pulled off his hat, he’s impatient and said: “Let me out quickly, if I can’t get out I’ll kill you.”
The man under the hat actually had wriggling tentacles growing on his head, he’s a monster!
Xie Wu retreated in shock, the tentacle monster wrapped around Xie Wu and said: “I’ll take you out now, to eat you!”
The tentacle monster devoured Xie Wu, only then did he realize this wasn’t a proper library at all, but a disguised library for researching infections!
【Player Xie Wu violated the rules, game restart.】
Watanabe Keiko trembled as she hugged her knees. She also tried calling with her pager several times, but no staff responded to her.
10 minutes later, Watanabe Keiko passed out.
When she woke up again, she was already being held down in the library’s purification room, with the light above so bright she couldn’t open her eyes.
She kicked her legs as she saw a staff member on her right holding a scalpel and lifting her arm. The stinging sensation on her skin followed immediately.
The scalpel scraped off layers of fish scales from her arm skin into a plate. Watanabe Keiko fainted from fear!
“This stupid Japanese woman ate fish. The nuclear pollution crisis has arrived, yet their country is still dumping nuclear wastewater recklessly. Biological mutations have already occurred.” The staff member shook his head.
【Player Watanabe Keiko recently ate Hokkaido tuna, her body was affected by the mutant virus, and fish scales in her body are being removed.】
【Game restart】
The game system’s broadcast played again:
Players Watanabe Keiko and Xie Wu violated the game rules. Restarting to the storyline of the day before the game.
They were safely brought out and reappeared in the library. This time, there were no signs of the other two people, and the library suddenly became quiet.
The two of them hadn’t yet realized the differences in this library.
The staff member held disinfectant spray in their hand, sprayed it towards them and said: “The library just had a small problem. Friends, please continue reading quietly.”
Ning Lan smelled the pungent odor, waved her hand and said: “Okay, may I ask where the library restroom is?”
The staff member pointed to the rightmost area on the first floor and said: “It’s right over there.”
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