Welcome to the Nightmare Live

Chapter 271

In front of the courtyard, the light of two lanterns, one white and one red, gradually went out, and the decayed and old gate slowly closed in front of the four people, and finally closed with a "click". At the moment of closing, the boundless darkness behind him suddenly surrounded him.

The familiar mechanical sound echoed in everyone's ears:

[Prosperity Building...Zizzi...Dungeon main task has been completed, dungeon——guanguanguanguan——]

The broadcast sound of the system seemed to be disturbed by some invisible existence, repeated unnaturally, and finally broke suddenly.

In the next second, the four of them saw a flower in front of their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, the courtyard surrounded by strange red light had completely disappeared, and what appeared in front of them was a familiar, gray floor.

"This is?"

Qi Qian withdrew his subconscious defensive action, straightened his waist, and looked around in amazement.

The air is covered with gray haze, like a layer of cigarette ash and confetti floating, and a square patio is overhead. Looking up, you can see a layer of tall buildings, no matter how you look at it. to the end.

The most central, theoretically non-existent "Fifth Floor", after the [Ultimate Main Quest] is completed, it will automatically close and disappear.

And these anchors, who didn't belong there, were sent back to the place where they started, that is, in the Prosperity Building, strictly speaking, the first floor.

"What's the matter?" Su Cheng frowned.

He cooperated with Wen Jianyan the most times, and played the ultimate main quest many times, so he immediately found something wrong, "Why is there no countdown for the dungeon to close?"

It stands to reason that after completing the ultimate main quest, the countdown to close the dungeon will sound in the dungeon, usually one minute.

But this time is different. After the mission just ended and the broadcast started to freeze, the sound of the system disappeared completely as if the mute button had been pressed.

And they were not sent back to the white space, but directly returned to the first floor of the copy.

This...not quite right.

Wen Jianyan lowered her head and glanced at herself.

Well, the appearance has not recovered, and he is still in the state of his original body wearing a wedding dress.

This is nothing, after all, he has already dropped his horse in front of the captains of both sides, and there is no need to continue pretending.

His focus is on...

Since his current appearance has not been restored, for whatever reason, it symbolizes that Nightmare's control over this instance is weakening, or, in other words, has been weakened?

"Well."

This is, Tangerine Candy, who was standing on the side, swayed, and an indistinct groan overflowed from his nose. It only took a short moment and disappeared into the air in an instant. If you don't pay attention, you can hardly catch it. .

Wen Jianyan was startled, then turned to look subconsciously.

The little girl lowered her head halfway. Because of her short stature, he couldn't see the expression on the other's face, but he could see her face that seemed to be too pale. With almost no need to think deeply, Wen Jianyan immediately understood the reason.

Back in time.

Even among the nightmares with so many categories of talents, it is really too heaven-defying and terrifying. Even the most rare offensive talents can't match it. Then, its activation must cost a lot. Jian Yan even had to think that Orange Candy's low teeth that were too out of tune with other anchors might also have something to do with her talent.

Every man is innocent of his guilt.

What's more, such a terrifying, and even subversive, talent will naturally be hidden tightly and tightly.

Wen Jianyan has no doubt that if they weren't on the fifth floor before, they would have been pushed to the limit, and Tangerine Tang probably wouldn't have used their talents.

For everyone other than Wen Jianyan, the three minutes that were suddenly added would most likely be regarded as a system failure, or other more reasonable reasons. Few people regard it as the role of orange candy talent.

Obviously, Tangerine is not prepared to expose the specific form of his talent to others.

Unless it really reaches the limit.... Otherwise, the other party will not show any clues.

Wen Jianyan withdrew his gaze without saying a word.

He quietly approached Tangerine Candy, and secretly let the other party lean on him with the cover of the overly wide cuffs of the wedding dress.

"?!"

Tangerine Candy's pupils shrank, and her body froze suddenly, as tight as a bowstring that would break in the next second.

She raised her head suddenly and looked at Wen Jianyan in astonishment.

The young man didn't look at her. From the angle of Tangerine Candy, he could only see the sharp jawline of the opponent. The face that was three or four similar to "Wen Wen" didn't show any superfluous expression, as if that Being overly considerate is not something he does. ""

I don't know if it was because I thought of coming to the other party and put on the whole copy, deceiving them all the way, or because I realized that my secret was exposed, or, even now, even if I have been carefully separated by a layer of sleeves, I still can't ignore it. The physical contact... Tangerine Candy gritted her teeth, her brows furrowed tightly, her pale and blue face became even more ugly at this moment.

She stared at Wen Jianyan's profile without saying a word, as if to chop him up with her own eyes.

Suddenly, at this moment, a series of messy footsteps sounded, and everyone raised their eyes and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

are their teammates.

Zhang Yu, An Xin, Acropolis and others strode in this direction with expressions of tension and surprise on their faces.

"team leader!"

"team leader! !"

It seems that on the path that entered the fifth floor before, the anchors who did not give out the gift money in exchange for the invitation letter were indeed sent back to the original place. After Wen Jianyan and the others were also sent back here, the scattered teams finally reunited.

"Captain! Are you okay!" Nursery Rhymes greeted her with a concerned expression.

Zhang Yu followed closely, obviously full of questions: "After you enter the fifth floor? What's inside, what happened? And the sound just now... You really completed the ultimate main quest. ?"

An Xin blinked, looked around, and suddenly turned pale in shock:

"Wait, where's Wenwen? Shouldn't she—"

When Qi Qian's team communicated information with each other, Wen Jianyan turned slightly sideways and handed the orange candy to the members of their team.

It seemed that the members of the opposing team also immediately realized that something was wrong with their own captain, and quickly surrounded them, and quickly picked up Tangerine Candy and returned to their own team. Tangerine Candy gave Wen Jianyan a fixed look.

The other party subtly controlled the angle, blocking other people's sight, so that no one could notice her strangeness.

""

She withdrew her gaze expressionlessly and gave a low "cut".

the other side.

"You guys are too noisy," Qi Qian was a little brain pained by the trouble with his teammates, "I have to ask questions one by one..."

"anyway,"

At this moment, a strange young man interjected at the right time: "It doesn't matter what happened on the fifth floor before, the most important thing is why we haven't returned to the anchor hall now."

Everyone was stunned, and all eyes subconsciously fell on Wen Jianyan.

They seemed to realize that there was a strangely dressed strange man in the team, and they suddenly became vigilant.

"Hey, are you—_

An Xin narrowed his eyes, a slightly hostile look on his face.

"Ah, don't you know me?"

The young man looked at An Xin, tilted his head, his amber eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly smiled.

On his face, the calm and rational expression of a bystander disappeared, and the corners of his mouth and eyes were slightly curved, and the originally sharp and rigid lines were softened because of this. The festival is controlled and adjusted, but the temperament seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The masculine qualities were completely erased, and his smile appeared gentle and embarrassed. The face that was only three to four in appearance similar to "Wen Wen" now turned out to be seven or eight similar.

The air was eerily quiet.

Wen Jianyan blinked: "isn't it? I thought we had a good relationship."

""

""

For a moment, the audience was dead silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the young man in the red wedding dress in front of him. Their faces were frozen by Qi Qi, and they froze on some kind of weird expression, as if they could not accept the facts in front of them.

Qi Qian looked at his teammates and the expressions on their faces that were the same as before, and slowly revealed an indescribable expression. how to say.……

At once.…

This kind of thing is really hard to accept! Right!

""

An Xin stared blankly at Wen Jianyan, his eyes didn't move, and the expression on his face was completely frozen.

He opened his mouth and said dryly:

"Wen, warm?"

"Eh." Wen Jianyan replied with a smile.

""

An Xin cracked.

Before he recovered from the shadow of his lovelorn, a gloomy voice suddenly came from behind: "Ah, it really is you.

"Wen Jianyan raised her eyes and looked in the direction from which the voice came.

In a very inconspicuous place behind everyone, stood a very familiar figure.

Dry, lanky face, gloomy eyes, and half-empty sleeves.

It's Mison.

His clothes were covered in blood, and he looked much more haggard than the last time he parted. Although he was standing, his posture was very strange, as if he was bound by some invisible rope, and he could only follow the crowd. .

Wen Jianyan quickly realized the reason for this scene.

Apparently, the red-clothed female household did not succeed in killing Mu Sen - this is normal, Mu Sen is a senior anchor, and Mu Sen is the key protection target of Shenxun, there are definitely a lot of trump cards, plus the red-clothed female household The spell on his body has a time limit. As long as the spell disappears, it will return to the fifth floor again. Mu Sen is unscrupulous when he does things. He has teammates on the same team who can be pushed out by him. Mu Sen naturally There is a high probability of surviving.

However, the existence of the corpse of the woman in red obviously caused a great threat to them.

Therefore, although Mu Sen survived, his vitality was severely damaged.

He left the fourth floor and entered the fifth floor. At this moment, he happened to collide with a few people from Zhang Yuwei who was sent back from the courtyard, and was naturally caught without any accident.

Mu Sen raised his dead gray eyes, his teeth were clenched, his withered face was slightly distorted, and the strong hatred almost overflowed his eyes.

"Alright, you remember me."

Wen Jianyan put on a smile on his face, he walked over, leaned over a little, and looked at each other's face carefully.

"...you shouldn't have entered the dungeon." Mu Sen's expression became uncontrollable, "They—"

"If I don't enter this copy, how can I see your beautiful expression.

Wen Jianyan leaned closer with a smile.

"as well as…."

He tilted his head: "they?"

"..." Mu Sen's face was even more ugly, as if he would smash Wen Jianyan into ten thousand pieces with his eyes, he gritted his teeth, as if he was not going to say a word.

"Captain asked me to give this to you."

Acropolis stared at Wen Jianyan with complicated eyes, and suddenly raised his hand and threw something over.

Wen Jianyan raised her hand to catch it and looked down.

It was a small dusty cloth bag, and something inside collided with each other, making a crisp clanging sound.

It was Mu Sen's set of wooden cards.

"Thank you." Under Mu Sen's increasingly hostile gaze, Wen Jianyan smiled even more.

He shook the bag in his hand and said, "It's a pleasure to do business with you."

"Next, he handed it over to us, are you okay?"

Acropolis said.

Hearing the previous conversation, he quickly understood that Wen Jianyan spent a huge amount of points and chose to enter the dungeon with an appearance that was so different from his true face. I am afraid it was related to this Mu Lin. However, in Mu Lin Sen left their team and tried to strike first, leading customers to their store, and the war between them had nothing to do with Wen Jianyan.

"Of course."

Wen Jianyan has already got what he wants, so he naturally wants others to take the trouble of Mu Sen from himself.

Acropolis nodded at him.

Immediately afterwards, the group turned around and walked towards the distance.

Mu Sen's legs were forced to move away, and he followed behind them crookedly, but those hateful eyes always fell on Wen Jianyan's body.

However, this is not what Wen Jianyan cares about anymore.

Qi Qian on the side said, "You just said, the important thing is, why haven't we returned to the anchor hall now, what do you mean?" "Literally."

Wen Jianyan put the cloth bag in her pocket and looked at Qi Qian, "Don't you think something is wrong with the sound broadcast by the system just now?"

Qi Qian frowned: "Indeed."

"If I guessed correctly, Dream Demon's control over this dungeon has weakened. If you open your live broadcast interface, you will find that although the live broadcast has not been disconnected, the items in the system mall are no longer available."

The nursery rhyme on the side was startled, and opened his own live broadcast interface.

Everything is as Wen Jianyan said.

"Although Nightmare's control over the instance has weakened, it still keeps the streamers under firm control."

Wen Jianyan looked at Su Cheng:

"How long until the deadline for this instance ends?"

Su Cheng looked down at his watch: "It's less than ten minutes."

"That's right.

There is a reason for this dungeon being a limited-time dungeon, not only because [Prosperity Mansion] is an endless cycle, it should also be to impose a double insurance on the anchors who are in it to prevent this from happening now.

Wen Jianyan paused, then continued:

"Although we can't end the dungeon ahead of time, we should be able to return to the anchor lobby when the time limit expires."

Qi Qian narrowed his eyes, showing a thoughtful look.

Wen Jianyan added:

"Don't worry, after the final main quest is completed, this dungeon will not cause any harm to us for the time being. You can take a good rest for the rest of the time."

"After speaking, he turned around, walked towards the distance, and left a sentence lightly:

"I'll go and see somewhere else."

Su Cheng nodded at Qi Qian and the others, then turned around and hurriedly followed Wen Jianyan's back.

"Where are you going?" Su Cheng accelerated a few steps, walked side by side with Wen Jianyan, and asked curiously, "Don't you mean, just wait for the time to end?"

"I have a guess I want to verify.

"Wen Jianyan said without looking back.

He walked straight to the nearest store to him.

Soon, the store with the closed door appeared in front of the two of them.

Staring at the tightly closed glass door, Su Cheng's heart was still a little confused: "Wait, wait, don't you want to go in?"

"Can't get in."

Wen Jianyan took the time to glance at Su Cheng and said.

"We are not the ''customers'' here, nor the ''employees'' here, so even if we want to enter, we may not be able to enter."

"Then you are..."

Su Cheng frowned in confusion.

Wen Jianyan didn't answer, just took out her mobile phone from her pocket, turned on the flashlight, stuck it on the glass door of the store, and looked in.

Something weird happened.

The darkness that once could not be dispelled by light has now become extremely common.

Under the swaying light of the flashlight, the dim shop became slightly brighter, and rows of shelves could be vaguely seen.

really.

Wen Jianyan narrowed her eyes.

The most terrifying "darkness" in [Prosperity Building] actually does not belong here, but belongs to the fragments of the witch candle that was sealed here. In fact, before entering the fifth floor, he had already made some relevant guesses.

Although Wu Zhu often uses the "darkness" he controls as strange tentacles, but... As a human who has been in close contact with those tentacles, Wen Jianyan can feel that the seemingly invisible existence is not ordinary. It was only because of the witch candle that it seemed harmless.

Once out of the master's control, they will become as terrifying as the darkness in the [Prosperity Building].

This also proved his guess.

[Prosperity Building] This copy is very special.

Whether it is a nightmare or a witch candle, it is special.

Wen Jianyan didn't know the specific reason, but he felt that he was very close to the truth.

Thinking from what he already knew.

First of all, [Prosperity Building] existed independently, not a copy "made" by Nightmare.

Nightmare divided the lady in red, who was the core power source of the entire dungeon, into pieces, sealed them in other places, and then placed a fragment of the witch candle as a substitute on the fifth floor, and only then took the [Prosperity Building] as his own. Yes, let it become a copy of himself, and the terrifying darkness should be the "important part" that Wu Zhukou said.

Therefore, the Prosperity Building has become so terrifying.

Now, the fragments have been recovered by Wu Zhu, and the Prosperity Building has naturally returned to its original state.

Wen Jianyan stood outside the glass door and moved slowly.

The light of the flashlight moved with his movements, and finally fell on the counter, illuminating the motionless figure behind the counter.

Su Cheng on the side sucked in a sharp breath:

"That is--

Wen Jianyan moved her wrist and illuminated the figure's face with the light of the flashlight.

Pale face, scarlet cheekbones and lips, a high smile.

It sat motionless behind the counter as if it belonged here.

"It's a paper man."

Wen Jianyan said slowly.

He stared at the paper figurines that looked more and more terrifying in the dim light, and said, "It seems that they are the real shop assistants here."

[Changsheng Building] is a complete precision closed loop.

Although those "customers" do not have the ability to think, they are all terrifying ghosts without exception. [Changsheng Building] is responsible for guiding them through the four floors and sending them into the graveyard to sleep and live.

The "red-clothed female corpse" in the fifth floor is the core driving force of the entire machine, and it is the most powerful ghost that has been artificially created.

The "paper man" is an employee, and it is a necessary part responsible for guiding Li Gui to continue to improve.

And they are all human beings who swore death with their blood and stayed here with their lives.

Just like the gatekeeper of hell.

However, with the invasion of Nightmare, the red-clothed female households were divided and sealed, and the machine in Changsheng Building was damaged, so it could be sent into it by "anchor" and replaced the paper man as an employee.

Otherwise, the whole mechanism would be able to function on its own without any innocent sacrifice.

And the anchors, naturally, can't complete the task as qualified as the paper man.

They will be afraid and will die, so, naturally, there will be countless ghosts who cannot complete the fourth-layer reincarnation and stay for a long time.

So... where do they go?

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, turned off the flashlight of her mobile phone, and put it back in her pocket.

The answer came to the fore.

--world.