Puzzle games

The fourth floor is a video store.

This kind of shop was very popular with young people in the 90th/[-]s. At that time, people had too few entertainment activities, and most of the TV shows were Qiong Yao dramas.

So in order to be able to hear popular songs and movies that are currently showing, they will go to the video store to rent or buy DVDs, and then play them on DVD players at home.

The video store on the fourth floor is very large. A few warm yellow high-power incandescent lamps hang from the high ceiling to illuminate the entire store, but for no reason it gives people a hazy feeling on the stage.

And the protagonists on the stage are the dozens of rows of tall cabinets reaching to the ceiling.

The cabinets are all made of wood, painted with black paint, and the middle is divided into hundreds of large grids with wooden boards of the same material. Probably for the convenience of customers, there is no door, but a bottom is placed on each cabinet. Movable escalators.

In the big compartment of the cabinet are neatly placed transparent plastic boxes containing DVDs. After a rough estimate during the day, one such cabinet contains at least several thousand DVDs, and there are thirteen cabinets here, which means that the entire There are tens of thousands of DVDs on the fourth floor.

"Damn, there are so many DVDs, the system just stuffs the key card in any corner, even if we give us another three days, it won't be enough to find it!"

Looking at the countless DVD boxes in front of him, Ruan Xiaoshui suddenly felt dizzy.

During the day, he also frowned, and Ruan Xiaoshui's speculation was not unreasonable. As the saying goes, when you want to hide a tree, the best way is to hide it in a forest.

The system puts so many DVDs here, no doubt it wants to play this trick and find a needle in a haystack.

In addition to these huge cabinets, there is also a conspicuous presence in the store—about three meters away from the northernmost cabinet, there is a half-person-high L-shaped low table counter.

There are a few DVD boxes randomly placed on the counter, as well as office supplies such as fountain pens, scotch tape, and telephones.

When they saw the phone during the day, they couldn't help being stunned. The system didn't even allow them to bring their mobile phones into the dungeon. They actually put a phone here. Where can this call go?Or is there someone calling here?

During the day, I tentatively picked up the handset and put it to my ear, but there was no sound, as if the phone was broken, or it was just a useless decoration.

There are three drawers installed under the counter, the first two are not locked, and they are opened one by one during the day, they are all empty, and the third drawer is locked.

Ruan Xiaoshui once again showed everyone his superb lockpicking skills, and then silently retreated behind the big man Feili, hiding his achievements and fame.

In the third drawer lay an old biscuit box quietly. The pattern on it was a young boy wearing a red scarf, with a flushed face, which was very old-fashioned.

It was bumpy during the day, and it was quite heavy. Open the lid of the box, revealing a box full of fifty-cent coins and some larger denomination banknotes.

"This should be the place where the store owner collects money and settles the bill."

A young train worker poked his head out from behind the conductor - he had already known his name as Dai Bin during the day, and he was also the driver of their high-speed train.

Frowning during the day, he always felt that there seemed to be something missing here, but he couldn't say it.

There was a small corner door on the wall behind the counter, the door was ajar, and was about to go in during the daytime, when Ye Zhao grabbed his wrist, and the latter shook his head slightly at him.

Others didn't notice the interaction between the two, only Ruan Xiaoshui, who had been focusing on Tiantian, smiled, dragged the big man with great effort, and whispered something in his ear.

Fei Li glanced at him contemptuously, then put on a pair of black gloves, and then pulled the door open.

It seemed that no one had stayed in the room for a long time. With strenuous movements, thick dust rushed towards the face. After everyone saw the furnishings inside, they couldn't help feeling creepy.

I saw a 14-inch black and white TV set on the double-layered old-fashioned TV cabinet facing them. The metal-colored DVD player connected to it was on the second floor closer to the ground, and the place about two meters away from the TV cabinet was the whole place. There are three rows of small benches neatly arranged.

"You, look, there are nine stools here, and there are exactly nine of us..." Xi Rong bit her pale lips, and there was no trace of blood on her face.

"Don't scare yourself, it's just a coincidence."

Ruan Xiaoshui interrupted her seemingly casually, but everyone present knew that this was definitely not a coincidence, and their every move was under the control of the system.

Dai Bin looked simple and honest, but he was courageous. He stepped forward and patted the top of the TV lightly: "This TV has been modified. The black and white TV has no audio and video input ports. How can I connect it to a DVD player?"

After speaking, he squatted down/body up to check the DVD player, pressed the outlet, and the groove for placing the DVD popped up. Seeing that it was empty, he pushed it back again.

"Let's go out."

There was no light in the projection room, and nothing else was seen. In such an environment, even if there was no obvious danger, people would feel faintly uncomfortable. The train conductor changed the position of holding the child so that she could sleep more comfortably said softly.

Judging by his proficient movements, he should have experience in raising children. During the day, he worried that the child would not find his mother after waking up, and he would have a headache.

The nine people returned to the thirteen large cabinets, and were at a loss for what to do in the face of the vast sea of ​​DVDs.

"Let's look for it first, maybe there will be clues, and you won't have a clue if you stand like this." The little curly haired Qi Zhou pushed his glasses, and everyone had no better way, so there was no objection.

The sides of the thirteen cabinets were numbered 1-13, and the nine people quickly assigned jobs according to the order of the numbers.

During the day, I worked with Ye Zhao and was in charge of checking cabinets 1-4.

Ruan Xiaoshui and Fei Li are in a group, responsible for checking the cabinets No. 5-7.

Qi Zhou and Xi Rong are in a group, responsible for checking the cabinets No. 8-10.

The train conductor carried the little girl and Dai Bin was in charge of the cabinets No. 11-13.

The purpose of forming a team of two is to prevent omissions. Although it slows down the progress of the inspection, everyone agrees that this is safer.

During the day, he didn't immediately look through those DVDs. He first walked back and forth between the four large cabinets, and then stopped in front of No. [-] cabinet.

"Did you find anything?" Ye Zhao didn't urge him, he followed him half a step away, and asked when he saw him stop.

"Three places." Bai Tian nodded and straightened his thoughts.

"First, there are numbers written on these DVD boxes. Although I don't know how these numbers are written according to the rules, and I don't know what they are used for, but I believe it must be related to our finding the key card."

During the day, he randomly pulled out a DVD case and showed Ye Zhao a string of codes handwritten with black pen on the side of the box: /25/24/12.

"Secondly, the placement of these DVDs is not random. Just like the books in the library, they are also arranged in a certain category and order." Tiantian put his hands on a row of boxes and walked slowly from one end of the cabinet to the other. one end.

"I just took a quick look. Some of these tens of thousands of DVDs have recorded songs and some have recorded movies. These two different DVDs are not placed in the same cabinet. Cabinet No. 1 is full of movies. .”

"And..." Bai Tian paused, and opened the original box with the number /25/24/12 written on it, "I found that there are no DVDs in some boxes."

Sure enough, it was empty.

"Maybe rented or bought?"

Ye Zhao said casually, and then glanced at the cover attached to the box. It showed a female ghost in white clothes with long hair covering her face. The name of the video disc was the familiar Japanese horror movie in reality—Midnight Ring.

Seeing the name of such a DVD in such a strange environment, although the two of them are not timid, they also feel a chill down their spines.

Ye Zhao took the box in Tiantian's hand and put it back to its original place as if nothing had happened.

During the day, he rubbed his eyes habitually, feeling innocent, he just picked up an empty box, who knew it would be this.

"daytime."

Ye Zhao's voice suddenly sounded behind him. During the day, he thought he was trying to tease him, his ears were slightly red, and soon he heard that his voice was wrong, and he immediately asked vigilantly, "What's wrong?"

"Did you hear anything?"

Accompanied by Ye Zhao's words, there was a faint, buzzing sound, and the sound of electric current came into Tiantian's ears, and the alarm bell immediately sounded in Baitian's heart: "Go, go and meet other people first."

In this deadly game, any abnormal noise may lead to the destruction of the group, and they have lost four players in the past two floors, so they dare not take it lightly during the day.

The more you walk towards the No. 13 cabinet, the clearer the sound of the electric current is, and obviously the other six people have heard it too. They met by the No. 8 cabinet. Everyone's eyes were filled with anxiety, and they couldn't help shouting after a long while: "What the hell is pretending to be a ghost!"

As a result, the shouting did not bring out the troublesome thing, but woke up the little girl in the conductor's arms. The child burst into tears, and hurriedly covered her mouth during the day, and everyone looked for the source of the sound together.

Finally they stopped at the corner door behind the cash register.

The door was still ajar. During the day, I remembered that when they left the screening room, he and Ye Zhao were the last to walk. The door was still wide open. Could it be that someone went in later?

During the day, the frown became tighter and tighter.

The whistling sound of electricity came from behind the door, this time even Fei Li didn't dare to step forward, he glanced at Ye Zhao, motioned for the two to open the door together, the latter nodded in agreement.

The projection room was still the same, except that the old-fashioned black and white TV was turned on at some point, and the screen that could not receive the signal was covered with snowflakes, and the sound of electricity was coming from it.

"Who turned on this TV?" Ruan Xiaoshui's mung bean-sized eyes widened instantly, scanning the remaining eight players one by one, "Is it fun to be scary?"

"We were all looking for the key card at the big cabinet just now. How could someone come over and turn on the TV? And what good will it do us?" Xi Rong said coldly, the tired look on her face became heavier, as if the wind If you blow it, it will fall down.

"Then what's going on?!"

Ruan Xiaoshui felt that he was going to collapse. In fact, almost everyone present was similar to him. Even the child in the conductor's arms seemed to be too frightened by the strange atmosphere to even cry.

Suddenly, her eyes widened, and her eyes were full of horror. No one noticed the change in this child until she bit the hand covering her mouth during the day.

During the day, he let go of the pain and saw the child's expression. He was startled, and suddenly realized that the whistling sound had disappeared at some point. He immediately turned back to look at the old-fashioned TV.

A picture appeared on the TV. It was an old hotel room. A large oval mirror was hung on the mottled wall. The wooden frame of the mirror was carved, which looked very exquisite.

During the day, he felt that this scene was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but before he remembered it, "Dinglingling..." The loud and rapid phone ringing rang in everyone's ears.