Chapter 738 Unexplained Death


    ?This time Xu Huo went to the door without waiting for the song to finish. However, when he approached the entrance, his vision went dark. When he opened his eyes a second later, he was sitting on the sofa again.


    ?Hold the doll in his hand, he briefly checked and found no control buckle, so he unscrewed its head directly.


    There is no mechanical interface inside the doll, just like its head and body are originally separated. The neck and lower jaw are so smooth that they rolled away after being thrown away.


    Xu Huo didn’t really want to break the things in the hallucination. After throwing them away, he wanted to go up to the second floor to check.


    ?But when he got to the stairs, he found that he couldn''t go up. It was like the map hadn''t been opened yet. He stepped on the stairs many times, but after taking only a few steps, the stairs would flip down, and finally he returned to the living room.


    “Ding dong! Ding dong!” The doorbell rang again.


    ? Xu Huo stood in front of the stairs and did not move, but after the doorbell stopped for a few seconds, he returned to the sofa.


    ?After trying three times, he had already figured out a little bit of information.


    ?First, no matter whether the doll is touched or destroyed, it will sing by itself when the time is up, and the doorbell will ring after the song is finished.


    Second, he will die regardless of whether he approaches the door, whether he walks from the sofa or the kitchen, or does not approach it at all.


    Thirdly, he cannot go to the second floor.


    ? There are very few clues that can be obtained in the house. The more pointed ones are the songs sung by the doll.


    The content is also very simple. The child is playing in the living room, the mother is cooking in the kitchen, the father has got off work but has not yet arrived home, the doorbell rings, the child and the mother who go to open the door are killed, but it is not certain whether the father who comes back later is killed.


    It was obviously a murder. The person outside the door killed the child and the mother directly. In addition, the mother may have come to the door with a knife, or she may have died under the knife she brought. There was a knife missing in the kitchen.


    ??If this was a game where you would be killed no matter where you were in the room, the way to crack it might be to save yourself.


    You have to survive this "murder case" first.


    Xu Huo first blocked the doors and windows before the song started, but he failed two minutes later. After trying again, he not only blocked the doors and windows, but also hid himself under the cupboard, but it didn''t help.


    Since the second floor cannot be climbed, it cannot be blocked. Failure to block represents a gap. Perhaps this is the key to "death".


    But if this is the case, it means that this is an endless loop with no solution, so there are other ways to break through.


    He started experimenting with props.


    The power of props can appear in this illusion and have a certain degree of materialization. For example, when he uses "concentrated air", the originally nearly transparent barrier becomes a physical shield, which can even be placed separately from his hand. .


    So he simply used a condensed air barrier to seal all the space outside the floor-to-ceiling windows and the stairs on the second floor. Other props that could be used to make traps, such as "hurt others but not yourself", were also arranged, half-sealing the door and corridor. .


    So fully prepared, but after the doorbell rang, he still "died".


    Since sealing all the entrances and exits was useless, he took out Shelter 101 and hid in with the doll. After the song was finished, he sat on the sofa again.


    Xu Huo sat on the sofa and faced the doll. He had used all the defensive methods at his disposal. This could not change the ending of death. If the game maker was not joking with him, then it was the setting of this game. The murderer has special items and abilities just like the player, or is the player directly.


    ?Using the short time of singing the ballad, he tried to attack the room. He could only wait for death in the room, and maybe he could get out.


    ?However, the result was unexpected for him. He still "died" the moment he broke the window. Until now, Xu Huo felt that his direction was wrong. No matter what method he used, "death" could not be skipped. That is to say, the mother and child in the house were mortal. It was a fact. So what was the significance of reappearing this scene? What is it?


    “The doll is playing in the living room.”


    “Mom is cooking in the kitchen.”


    “Dad is on his way home.”


    “Ding dong! Ding dong! The doorbell is ringing!”


    “Dad forgot to bring the key!”


    “The baby went to open the door and hit his head on the cabinet.”


    “Mom went to open the door, but her belly hit the knife.”


    “Dad came home and opened the door, and he was lying next to the baby and mother!”


    The ballad started singing again. Xu Huo came to the door in an instant and turned the door handle. Of course, as expected, he returned to the sofa.


    The mother and child of the protagonist in the ballad are both dead, but the father who came back from the outside is not certain. Is this an imaginary reincarnation or a regret for the past?


    "Da!" At this time, a glass bead suddenly fell to the floor and slowly rolled to his feet. Looking in the direction in which the bead rolled, he found that the top of the stairs on the second floor was no longer dark, but lighted up. light.


    It is unclear where the trigger point is, but Xu Huo chose to walk up to it.


    The second floor is a study room. There is no desk. The only chair faces the stairs. The back of the chair covers the person sitting on it. Only the palm of a middle-aged man is placed on the armrest slightly to the right.


    “They are all dead.” The middle-aged man spoke before he entered the study.


    After waiting for two seconds, Xu Huo said, "I also wanted to save them, but I failed."


    “How I wish I could turn back time.” The middle-aged man continued: “If I hadn’t lost my temper because the young team members did something wrong that day, I wouldn’t have held a short meeting before get off work.”


    “If I hadn’t held that short meeting, I wouldn’t have met the leader who came to check, and I wouldn’t have been dragged out to drink.”


    “If I hadn’t been drinking, I wouldn’t have taken public transport because I couldn’t drive, and wouldn’t have gotten into an unexpected argument.”


    “Had I not been involved in this quarrel, I would not have been dragged to testify, and I would not have repeated my testimony because of my unclear speech.”


    “If I hadn’t wasted my time giving my testimony, I wouldn’t have arrived home five minutes late.”


    “If it hadn’t been five minutes late, they might still have survived.”


    It couldn’t be a simpler narrative, but every word is filled with regret. The calmness hides the pain like a knife cutting day after day, so that every detail, every choice, and even every step is filled with regret.


    In this case, the existence of this illusion is still because the person who created it wants to save his wife and children, but it is a pity that time cannot be turned back...


    When this thought flashed across his mind, Xu Huo suddenly stopped. He looked at the hand and said, "You cannot change the facts when the tragedy happened. Maybe you can save them before then, as long as time can be turned back."


    The middle-aged man stopped repeating himself and then disappeared from the chair.


    Xu Huo quickly walked over and turned the chair around. There was a tube of medicine on the cushion!


    (End of this chapter)