(Who is it?)
Edited by Silver Wind
As Zhou Wenyan was sitting back down, he turned his head back to scan his surroundings and noticed that the airplane cabin was mostly emptied out except for four passengers.
The young girl with braided pigtails had just woken up and she was licking her cracked lips as she stopped the stewardess: "Could you bring
sothing to eat?"
The stewardess smiled, "Of course."
At the side, there was a refined and cultured-looking man wearing golden-rimd glasses clutching onto his neck, and he was vocalising his pain in a series of groans. Then, he said: "Do I have a stiff neck or sothing?"
A lady with an oval face that was similar to the standards of an Internet celebrity clamoured, "Why is it so cold on the plane? Make the temperature a little higher!"
A middle-aged man with a potbelly said with a fierce tone: "I'm going to die of hunger! Hurry up!"
In a mont's work, the tranquillity of the plane cabin shattered with the din the various passengers made.
However, the stewardess maintained her smile and satisfied the passengers' request one by one. As she was walking past Zhou Wenyan's seat, she even specifically stopped down and made an inquiry to the two quiet passengers.
"Excuse , would you like to read any newspapers or magazines?"
Zhou Wenyan raised his head.
He did not know if it was because she had been thoroughly trained but the stewardess' smile was unfaltering and unchanging, so perfect that it seed like she was not a living person.
"Give
a copy of the newspaper," Zhou Wenyan replied.
Stewardess: "Okay."
Very quickly, she brought two copies of the newspaper over and handed them one each.
Shen Dongqing pinched the newspaper open, causing it to issue rustling noises. The first article that greeted him was a bolded and black title.
"…… An airplane crashed into a snow-capped mountain in the middle of its flight, the number of dead and injured passengers are unclear." Shen Dongqing read the title out loud.
The stewardess had not gone far and she overheard Shen Dongqing's words as a result. She said smilingly, "Rest assured, the airplane we are flying on is absolutely safe, such a thing will not happen……"
Before she could finish speaking, the entire plane jolted abruptly.
The stewardess said calmly: "It is just a common collision with the air currents, there is nothing wrong……"
Another enormous jolt occurred, and even the passengers who had put on their safety belts were thrown forward, to say nothing of the standing stewardess because she tumbled to the ground heavily, head rolling off her neck and tumbling far away. However, she did not bleed a single drop of blood and she was akin to a Barbie doll.
Before the other players could react in shock, they felt the airplane falling rapidly.
The last loud collision reverberated, the resulting seismic impact causing the snow to fly everywhere, far-reaching, and high.
The passengers in the plane cabin only felt a period of shaking before the scenery outside their window changed from clear blue skies and white clouds to a wide expanse of white snow.
Following that, the cold wind carrying snowflakes smashed in.
The group of players gaped, stupefied, unable to take in the fact that such an operation was possible.
Zhou Wenyan rose to his full height: "Let's go down and take a look."
Fortunately, they had prepared so clothing to fend against the cold weather before they set off. Zhou Wenyan brought down the small suitcase and wore his outer coat before he wrapped a furry scarf around Shen Dongqing.
Shen Dongqing tugged at his scarf to expose his mouth and nose.
The airplane was broken in half from the middle and they could no longer exit the cabin through normal ans. When Zhou Wenyan stood at the opening of the severed half, he felt the cold wind slap his face.
Shen Dongqing ducked behind him and lowered his head to look.
There were three people sitting on the snowy ground and they were surrounding a fire pit that had a soup pot hanging on top. A soup was in the process of cooking and the steam curled upwards which happened to float over to them.
Shen Dongqing took a deep breath in, "The sll is so strange."
Zhou Wenyan observed from afar. The mouth of the soup pot was obscured by the steam, making its contents indistinct apart from a pitch-black thing that was churning inside.
"Go down."
Once his voice landed, Zhou Wenyan directly pulled him into his arms and jumped down from their elevated position, thus landing on the snowy ground.
Soft snowflakes floated up as a result and a particle of it landed on the tip of Shen Dongqing's nose.
He stuck his tongue out in an attempt to lick it off but there was still so distance so he could not touch that sparking and crystal-clear snowflake.
Zhou Wenyan grabbed a handful of snow and held it in front of him.
Leaning closer, Shen Dongqing licked at it, only to be t with disappointnt. "It's not sweet." After realising that he could not eat it, he lost all interest in the snow and he followed Zhou Wenyan to head towards the firepit.
Seeing that people were approaching them, the three people greeted them with extre enthusiasm: "You guys are awake."
Zhou Wenyan did not speak.
Instead, it was Shen Dongqing who spoke doubtfully: "We didn't sleep at all."
They seed to be deaf to his words as the blond-haired beauty said: "You don't need to be afraid, the other attendants have already gone out to find a place with a signal."
The bespectacled man patted the seat next to him: "Sit here and warm yourselves up."
Zhou Wenyan brought Shen Dongqing to sit down.
The trio introduced themselves.
The blond-haired beauty was Lisa, aquiline nose was Leo, and the bespectacled man was Borg. They were a group of backpackers who liked camping outside but they did not expect that the airplane would crash into the snow-capped mountain halfway into the flight and the things that they prepared happened to be of use.
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The three NPCs appeared to be friendly and kind.
All the players arrived at such a conclusion as they surrounded the firepit and sat down. After they finished their self-introductions, they quietly waited for the ga's announcent.
【 All of you have experienced an aviation accident and you are awaiting rescue on the snow-capped mountain. If you mutually help each other, you will definitely be able to endure through the next fifteen days 】
【 But the aviation accident is not as rciful as it seems, for soone amongst you have already t with their death. It might be a player and it might be a NPC too, the deceased is in your midst, please find "them" 】
【 Be careful, the deceased is in the dark spying 】
【 Please conduct an identification during every dinnerti 】
【 Identifying the 'deceased' is equivalent to an imdiate clearance, if the wrong choice is made, the ga cannot guarantee that the deceased will not act drastically 】
After the player listened to the system's broadcast, they gazed at each other in blank dismay.
Lisa did not notice the grave atmosphere surrounding the players as she chuckled and said: "The soup is done. Co and drink so soup to warm your bodies."
Braided Pigtails was in a miserable state after her freezing ordeal and she took it imdiately, holding it in her hands, allowing it to warm her up.
However, she did not drink it instantly. Instead, she stared at the soup that was emitting steam hesitantly.
Lisa urged her: "You should drink it, if you don't drink it now, it'll go cold."
It was apparent that they had just got off the plane but Braided Pigtails felt cold and hungry, her entire body weakened to the extent where it was unbearable. Hence, even though she was cognizant that the soup in her hands was emitting an odd sll, she could not help but swallow her saliva.
In the end, Braided Pigtail did not manage to resist the temptation as she brought the soup bowl to her mouth.
However, before she could touch the bowl's brim, an icy-cold thing knocked into the back of her hand, causing her grip to destabilise and the bowl fell to the ground.
Fortunately, they were on a snowy ground and the bowl did not break. The soup, however, had spilled all over the ground and it had beco a layer of thin ice very quickly.
"You!" Braided Pigtails looked over.
Zhou Wenyan was holding a packed snowball in his hand, tossing it up and down intermittently.
Quite evidently, he was the one who smashed sothing into her hand.
Originally, he had no intention of stopping these people from seeking their deaths. However, for reasons unknown to him, he had intervened out of subconscious reflex.
It was as if he had a faint premonition that sothing terrible would happen if the soup was consud.
Lisa stooped over to pick up the soup bowl, encouraging. "It's fine, I can ladle you another bowl."
After going through those twists and turns, Braided Pigtails lost the will to drink the soup. "Forget it, I'm not drinking it anymore."
No one drank the soup that Lisa made.
Lisa kept the bowl, an almost imperceptible gloominess flashing across her face.
As Leo and Lisa brushed shoulders, the pair exchanged a look: "Let's find a place that fends off the wind to settle down first while waiting for the rescue team to arrive."
The Businessman nodded, agreeing with their suggestion: "Then we'll go and search to see if there's anything edible."
The players returned to the plane cabin first.
Braided Pigtails rubbed her abdon, only feeling the terrible pain in her stomach. "Why do I hunger so quickly?"
The other players had the sa feeling.
The person who gave the largest reaction was the doctor. He pressed on his undamaged and intact neck and he would sporadically suck in cold breaths.
Tolerating the hunger, they searched the entire plane cabin once but they did not find any food.. Thus, they could only bring their suitcases and return to the snowy ground.
Businessman said: "If there is a deceased in our midst, the ones with the most suspicions are the NPCs. We didn't see them on the plane at all, and yet they inexplicably appear on the snowy ground."
Internet Celebrity nodded: "I think the sa."
The Doctor could not even think through the troubling pain and he could only agree.
Braided Pigtails nodded casually.
In their hearts, they were thinking, either way, they had fifteen days' worth of ti and it was of no consequence if they wasted three days on the NPCs.
The Businessman was probably a small leader in reality as he occupied the guiding position and started to instruct: "We'll vote for Lisa tonight."
As he was saying that, Borg walked over in the distance and waved at them: "We found a place to avoid the wind."
Pursing his lips, the Businessman remarked, "They're already here."
Soon after, he turned towards the rest of the players and said: "Be careful, it's best that we don't instigate any conflicts with the NPCs first."
While Shen Dongqing was pulling his suitcase and lingering at the back with Zhou Wenyan, he stared at the back figures of the people in front pensively before he abruptly comnted: "Why do I find this very familiar?"
Zhou Wenyan took the suitcase in his hand: "What?"
Shen Dongqing could not explain it, and after stewing about it for a long ti, he could only give a single conjecture: "It seems like I've seen this in a dream before."
The group of people followed Borg to the camping ground and Lisa happened to be setting up the tents.
Despite only travelling a short distance, all the players were panting hard from the walk.
Braided Pigtails collapsed to the ground, butt first, and her complexion was pallid: "I'm so hungry, is there anything to eat?"
The other players shook their heads.
Whenever they were entering copies, they mostly bought items that were
good for defensive use, why would they buy sothing to eat?
Lisa grinned as she said: "I'll cook so soup for you guys once I'm done setting up these tents, you'll be fine once you drink it."
Generally speaking, players were all exceedingly vigilant and they touched the NPC's items infrequently.
However, the circumstances were special now; their stomachs burned from the hunger and they did not bring any food, so they had no better alternative apart from the NPCs' food.
Businessman gritted his teeth: "I'm not drinking it, the ga is unlikely to starve us to death like this."
Once those words were laid down, Braided Pigtails could only forcibly squash down her hunger.
When the Businessman saw Lisa, who appeared overly eager to cook her soup, he seed to grasp onto sothing but because of the emptiness in his stomach, he could not analyse anything properly.
"Forget it, let's go out and find sothing to eat before we speak again."
Shen Dongqing was famished too.
Owing to the fact that he had a suitcase of snacks, he did not join the other players in their search for food and sat down with Zhou Wenyan instead.
However, when he opened the suitcase, the half suitcase worth of snacks was unexpectedly empty; the small portion that remained were all snacks that were Shen Dongqing's second favourites.
"What is going on?" Shen Dongqing was dumbfounded.
He only ate one packet of snacks on the plane, why did they all disappear now?
"Did I eat them in my dreams?"
That isn't really possible ah.
Shen Dongqing counted with his fingers. After taking everything into account, they had stayed on the plane for two hours at most, it was not plausible for him to sleepwalk and eat all his snacks.
Zhou Wenyan felt like sothing was amiss too.
As Shen Dongqing blanked out while staring at the mostly empty suitcase, particles of snowflakes drifted in from outside and it seed to remind him of sothing as he said: "I saw a snowflake in my clothes."
Zhou Wenyan glanced at him.
Shen Dongqing tacked on the location: "On the airplane."
Grabbing so popcorn, Shen Dongqing stuffed it into his mouth, causing his cheeks to puff up and it took him a while to swallow everything.
However, even though he ate a substantial number of snacks, the hunger in his stomach did not recede in the least.
Zhou Wenyan was feeling hungry as well.
He was considered a person who had higher tolerance capabilities but his stomach was feeling terribly hot and it was uncontrollable, signifying that this was definitely not a hunger that accumulated in only a day.
Snowflake, an empty suitcase, undue hunger, a familiar scene……
All these broken bits of clues strung together and gave him an impossible conclusion.
They might have experienced everything once before.
After playing so many gas, Zhou Wenyan had long familiarised himself with the various routines the ga had, and he only had to ruminate about it briefly before he snapped back to his reverie. "It's a type of cycle."
Shen Dongqing's first reaction was: "So we've been starved for several days?" He clenched his fist, "This is too terrible!"
The thing he disliked the most was going on an empty stomach.
If ghosts and monsters wanted to assault him, he could use his fists to punch and legs to kick, but this was evidently a test for their decrypting abilities. He stared at Zhou Wenyan with pitiful eyes: "Let's leave here earlier."
Zhou Wenyan caressed his head comfortingly, "Let
think……"
Starting a cycle necessitated a trigger point, and they had to et certain conditions to trigger it.
In this copy, the most likely condition was that inability to find the "deceased
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