Zhao Xi, who lives in 2507, and the middle-aged male lead in The Only Family have completely different personalities; one is naive and hardworking, the other is brooding and lazy, yet the circumstances they find themselves in are almost identical.
Seemingly having loved ones and families, in actuality, when they close the door to their homes, only they know how bad that home is.
"Apart from Zhao Xi's body, I didn't meet any of my neighbours, I just heard all sorts of sounds.The images shown in the mobile phone video were most likely the phone owner's own imagination, and those neighbours who were killed were people who usually looked down on Zhao Xi."Gao Life had known something about the second building from the neighbourhood committee's amah.
Wang Guisheng on the ground floor was a small business owner who temporarily rented the Laijing Apartments to avoid debts; Xiaoqiu on the first floor was unemployed, and it seemed that she was the one who spread the rumours about Zhao Xi and his sister-in-law: Fang Shuqi on the third floor was a technician in the port area, and Zhao Xi's leg disability seemed to have been an attempt to save him.
Scattered negative emotions can hardly overwhelm a person, but when the pressures of every aspect converge and are unavoidable, self-will may be completely overwhelmed by negativity, ultimately leading Zhao Xi to step into the night sky.
"The Only Family has three endings, and in order to trigger the good ending, you have to make Zhao Xi destroy his mobile phone with his own hands in order to do so."
The mobile phone would play those horrifying videos because Zhao Xi wanted to see images like that, and Gao Life decided to face his fears head on and get rid of the effects from the dead man's mobile phone himself first.
"With my strength alone it might not be enough."Gao Life stepped on the shards of window glass on the ground and stopped at the doorway of room 2707: "If Teacher Yao is not in the room, and the scene in room 2707 is different from the one in the group's video, then it means that Teacher Yao is a ghost fictionalised by the mobile phone, and my previous guess is fine; if Teacher Yao is in the room, then there are two possibilities; my guess is in error, or Teacher Yao is alsoa living person who entered the game."
Knocking on the door of room 2707, before Gao Life could wait for Teacher Yao to open the door, the security door of 2706 next to him slowly opened a crack.
The sound of door panels rubbing together made Gao Life immediately shield his body, ready to leave at any time.
"Don't be nervous, it's me."A terrifying yet familiar disfigured face appeared behind the door of 2706, and that investigator beckoned towards Gao Ming, "Don't stay in the corridor, quickly enter the house!"
How could High Life trust the investigator who appeared out of nowhere under these bizarre circumstances, he was incredibly cautious.
"I know you're scared, terrified, and helpless right now!But only I can help you!"The investigator was also in a hurry, "We've been caught in the middle of an unusual event, and I arrived in Hanhai from Xinhu to investigate a similar event!I know you have a lot of doubts, but the corridor is really very dangerous, a single mistake could kill you!"
The investigator didn't seem to have any malicious intent as he dragged Gao Fate inside and waited for the door to close before he sighed in relief.
Scanning 2706, High Life slowly grabbed a chair leg, "Why are you here?"
"I told you guys a long time ago to move out quickly, you didn't listen, now you regret it, right?"The investigator wiped away the sweat on his forehead, "After leaving from 2507, I went upstairs to talk to the tenants here, and further on, unusual events suddenly happened, and I was unfortunately caught up in them."
He pointed to the black ring on his wrist that lit up with a red light, "After being caught up in an abnormal event, communications would be twisted and interrupted, we couldn't contact the outside world, it was as if we had entered another world."
"Communication will be completely interrupted?"After Gao Life thought carefully, his face suddenly became extremely poor.
He clearly remembered that he had received a call from his mother in the last game!
If what the investigator said was true, then all the calls he received in the last game were actually from "ghosts"!
Gao Life's heart panicked a little, his parents live in Xinhu, I wonder if they have been affected.
"It's really hard for ordinary people to accept these things."Seeing Gao's violent reaction, the investigator whispered reassuringly, "It's normal to be scared, but there's still hope that we can leave alive."
Gao Life was too lazy to explain to the investigator and casually asked, "What exactly do you mean by abnormal events?"
"Strange, mysterious, weird, all kinds of unexplainable things and phenomena suddenly appeared in Xinhu six months ago and then suddenly disappeared."The investigator decided to share the information with High Life.
"Half a year ago?"Gao Fate was surprised.
"The information was blocked to avoid causing panic, and then the Joint Investigation Bureau of Abnormal Disasters was established to investigate this sudden and bizarre event."Touching the black ring on his wrist, the disfigured investigator disclosed his identity information in front of Gao Fate: "The Joint Investigation Bureau of Abnormal Disasters consists of three parts, investigation, fan narrative, and security, and the meaning of our existence is to figure out why the disaster happened."
"So have you investigated anything?"High Life remembered Knightlin's attitude towards the investigators, the lowest ranked investigators in the Bureau seemed to have great power.
"All the anomalies follow a certain trajectory and occur within a certain range, other than that, everything remains unknown."The investigator tried to squeeze out a creepy smile, he was probably trying to encourage High Life, "The probability of an ordinary person being caught up in an abnormal event is very low, and this kind of experience where you can see the truth doesn't come along very often."
"You're quite good at comforting people."Gao Man digested all the information, the tunnel he passed through on the night of the Mid-Yuan Festival happened to be located at the junction of the three cities, he guessed if it could be something that ran from Xinhu and entered his body.
"The abnormality has already happened, so don't complain, face it with all your might, as long as we're cautious, we'll make it until dawn and we'll be able to leave alive."The investigator stroked the black ring so that Gao Life could see the text displayed on the ring, "Many investigators in Xinhu have exchanged their lives for some information that can help you stay alive, please make sure you remember and follow every rule.""Trying to save themselves when caught up in an unusual event that occurs in an apartment building be aware of the following."
"Firstly, find all the residents as soon as possible and discuss a contact code, as the residents of the building may be replaced some time after the unusual events begin."
"Second, don't trust the clocks you see, the time is inaccurate."
"Third, after zero hour, do not open the door under any circumstances, unless something that does not belong to you, has appeared in your home."
"Fourth, don't turn on any lights suddenly, and fifth don't listen to any audio ..."
"So is it possible to do nothing and live peacefully until morning?"Following the rules would keep you from making mistakes, but what High Life wanted was to get to the root of the problem: "According to the rules, could we avoid all misfortune by going back to sleep?"
The investigator slid the black ring and shook his head very seriously after a moment, "It is written in the eleventh rule that you must not sleep, and you must stay awake at all times."
"Thank you for providing me with so many precautions, but I still have things to do."Gao Life used Zhao Xi's mobile phone to send a message to Teacher Yao in 2707, he needed to find Teacher Yao to make sure of something.
"All the information you're seeing right now is what the investigators paid a bloody price for, you can doubt their accuracy, but don't gamble with your life!"
"Rules are dead, people are alive ..." Gao Life opened the door to room 2706, looking at the hallway engulfed in shadows, there were still half a sentence in his heart that he hadn't said.
As the game designer, in a way, he was the rules in Weird Tales.