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Chapter 30 Tips for Playing Horror Games
Manipulate the character to walk to the three foreign explorers who are unconscious, and press the interaction button.

【Would you like to wake up three fellow explorers? 】

[Task reminder: Find a way out within half an hour and escape from the ghost castle. 】

[Friendly reminder: Each adventurer partner dies once during the game will cause the score to permanently drop by 1 point, and the number of deaths during the customs clearance will greatly affect the score limit, and all three explorer partners die as a game failure. (Permanent decline cannot be eliminated after loading files.)]

...Is it another drop in rating that can't be made up for by reading the file?

But in other words, as long as you take all three explorers and escape from the castle alive, you will definitely get a high score!
"Before waking them up, let's explore first, so as not to find any moths."

Zhou Ze couldn't be sure whether these fellow explorers would cause trouble for him.

If they were disobedient and ran out without authorization and died, it would be his precious score.

During the game exploration, the lives of these people are more precious than his.

If he dies, he can load the file and start over again, and there will be no real loss. A high-quality tool man with MAX durability...

"Since it's an escape game, there must be dangerous monsters in the castle that can kill people. You can't confront monsters head-on. Most escape games are played by avoiding monsters and finding a way out."

Zhou Ze is a seasoned player after all, so he knows how to play escape games naturally.

Before leaving the utility room to explore your way out.

He turned up the volume of the TV and listened carefully to the sound of rain in the background of the game.

His five senses were also much stronger than ordinary people after being washed by the Book of Changes, and he could easily hear other sounds mixed with the pattering rain somewhere in the castle... like the dragging sound of heavy objects rubbing against the ground.

"Is it the sound made by a monster?"

Before acting, Zhou Ze cautiously tried to identify the source of the sound.

Efforts to no avail.

Not to mention the speakers, it is difficult to distinguish the position of the earphones with a slightly inferior sound quality.

Taking off the 500-pack of low-quality headphones from the computer in the bedroom, and plugging them into the ps5 controller worth more than [-], Zhou Ze continued to try unremittingly to distinguish the specific location of the monster according to the sound before leaving the "initial safe zone".

But his pair of rubbish headphones can only be used to identify directions by listening to sounds, but don’t dream about specific distances.

"I have to find time to buy a pair of more expensive headphones, and the budget is tentatively set within 1000 yuan."

He spent all the money on the TV handle game console, and naturally other peripherals must be high-end.

Although the specific location of the intermittent dragging sound cannot be heard from the cheap earphones, it can be barely judged that the distance is not close, and there should be no opening the door...

Push open the dilapidated wooden door.

The light outside is also very dim, but with the bright moonlight shining in from the windows and cracks in the roof of the castle, it is not completely dark, and the outline of the environment can barely be seen with the flashlight turned off.

"This ancient castle is broken enough. There are holes and cracks everywhere that leak wind and rain. It is a miracle to the world that it can survive until now."

Zhou Ze manipulated the character to look out from the window of the castle.

Outside the window, you can see a misty and gloomy forest. The visual distance is not far away, and it is completely covered by the fog within less than a few tens of meters.

As depicted on the cover, this ancient castle was really built on the shore of the lake. Looking down, you can see a small lake with an area of ​​only two to three hundred square meters. I don't know if it was formed naturally or dug out by humans.

"It's more than ten meters above the ground. Is it on the top of the building?"

Zhou Ze remembered that the castle on the cover of the game had only three floors.

Unlike ordinary buildings, the top of the first floor hall of a medieval castle is generally very high, about six or seven meters high, while the second and third floors are slightly shorter, but the ceiling is also as high as three or four meters.

"What would happen if you jumped straight out of the window into the lake?"

You can't die if you jump into the lake at a height of more than ten meters, right?Unless the lake is less than two meters deep.

The main task of "Escape from the Castle" only needs to escape from the castle. Logically speaking, jumping out of the window and throwing into the lake is the fastest way to escape from the castle... But considering that customs clearance cannot be so easy, there will probably be Other factors contributed to the inability to escape.

But what is the most important thing about playing games?
O adventurous spirit!

Anyway, it doesn't cost money, and those who can read files, don't try it for nothing, what if it succeeds?
Control the character to climb up the window and take a leap of faith with a graceful 360-degree turn in the air.

poof...

There was a muffled sound of entering the water, and the screen fell into darkness.

[Your soul is lost in the netherworld, the game fails. 】

"The failure of the game is expected. What does it mean that the soul is lost in the nether world?"

Seeing the bloody failure prompt box that popped up on the screen, Zhou Ze was stunned.

That lake leads to the netherworld?Or something else?
It seems that his jump is not completely fruitless, at least he got an unknown reason for failure... and failure is a stepping stone to success, as long as there are enough stepping stones, it will be close enough to success.

Restart the game without hesitation.

This time he pushed open the wooden door of the utility room and headed straight for the stairs, intending to take a look at the monster that made dragging sounds from time to time. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be in danger.

After turning off the flashlight, the game character switched to a stealth stance, moving lightly along the base of the wall towards the downstairs.

The second floor of the castle is as dilapidated and barren as the top floor, and the monsters making noises are not here.
Could it be guarding on the first floor?

Continue walking down the stairs, lie on the edge of the spiral staircase and look towards the lobby on the first floor.

Sure enough, there was a monster wandering around the gate of the castle.

It dragged its body entwined with pitch-black roots and wandered back and forth. Under the roots was a scorched and withered humanoid creature, slowly dragging the large number of entangled roots moving step by step like a walking corpse.

The monster's humanoid body was as skinny as charcoal, but the roots wrapped around its body were extremely strong.

In sharp contrast, it looks extraordinarily weird and terrifying.

Those pitch-black roots squirmed like living things, emitting a red-hot coal-like luster in the darkness to illuminate its whole body, like a dangerous boss warning sign hanging around, telling players not to approach easily.

Every time the monster takes a step, the black roots will rub against the ground and make a sound, just like fur rubbing against the ground...

That was where the dragging sound he heard upstairs came from.

"Looks scarier than the Thousand-Faced Devil."

Across the screen, Zhou Ze felt chills for a while, the scene was too real.

If you are caught by this monster, it is hard to imagine what kind of terrible death you will face...

It’s okay if it’s a frontal battle, but this game is an escape type. Once caught, you will definitely die, and the sense of powerlessness that you can’t resist is more likely to heighten the pressure and fear in the player’s heart.

Sure enough, playing this kind of game still needs some BGM blessing.

After pausing the game and unplugging the earphones, Zhou Ze silently opened the music software on his phone and played the single 'Good Luck' on repeat.

The cheerful music instantly broke away all the depressing atmosphere.

Hmph, sure enough, no matter what kind of horror game, it is a paper tiger that is vulnerable to this cheerful BGM.

(End of this chapter)