Xu Huo stopped washing dishes and pointed to the window, "I just saw a figure walking by. I didn't hear a knock on the door for a while."

Seeing his actions, the woman's expression changed, and she quickly lowered her voice and said, "Don't talk!"

The other two people in the room also became nervous, rushed into the room with wary faces, took the two children out, and covered their ears.

With Xu Huo and the painting girl looking confused, there was a knock on the door:

"Knock, knock, knock."

The even rhythm of knocking sounded twice in a row. Xu Huo patted the woman's sleeves, pointed to the door, and asked her with his eyes if she wanted to open the door.

The woman closed her mouth tightly, looked at him sharply, and then shook her head vigorously.

Xu Huo stood there honestly, the knock on the door rang again, and then he fell into endless silence.

After these people relaxed, he asked: "Who knocked on the door just now? Are there some... bad people living here?"

He deliberately said it cryptically, but the old man understood what he meant, "It's not anyone else. We don't have bad people here. Even if there were, bad people wouldn't dare to come out at night."

Xu Huo sat down at the table, as if he was willing to hear the details.

The painting girl over there shared two fructose candies with the children, and the two children also pulled her to sit down and begged the old man to tell a story.

The old man drank the tea, chewed all the tea leaves in the cup, and then began to tell this story passed down from generation to generation.

"Hidden friends."

As mentioned in the background of the game, figures began to appear in the fog here a few generations ago. At first, everyone thought it was a mistake. After all, there were many trees in the fog, so it was not surprising to see anything weird.

But gradually, as more and more people saw the figures, some of them suddenly disappeared, one today and one tomorrow. At first, no one suspected the figures, thinking they were just lost in the forest or eaten by wild beasts.

Lost - before the forest mutated and evolved, there were a lot of people living here, and the woods were not so dense and wide, and there were almost no large beasts like now.

Until later, one person saw with his own eyes that another person was called away by "himself".

What happened was like this. Two people went hunting in the woods one after another. They knew each other. The person behind caught up with the person in front and wanted to ask him to go with him. Unexpectedly, before he opened his mouth, the person in front suddenly raised his hand.

He waved his hand further away, responded and called out the name of the person behind him, and asked him to wait and leave together.

At that time, the distance between the two of them was only more than ten meters. Although the person behind was not sure whether there was really no one in front, he was sure that the person was definitely not him.

Under normal circumstances, the people behind just thought that the people in front were confused and recognized the wrong person, or that someone who knew them in front was joking, so the people behind speeded up and followed. Originally, they wanted to call out the people in front, but they were

There was a thick fog, and the people in front disappeared before walking very far. The people behind shouted for a while and then gave up without any response.

On the second and third days, none of the people who walked in front came back. The person behind went back and asked a friend who was familiar with the two of them, and learned about their whereabouts that day. He was convinced that it was not a joke among his friends, so he put his

Speak out what you have seen.

At that time, many people had already seen the figures calling and greeting them in the woods. There were so many people that they couldn't dazzle them, so they made a response strategy.

People who see people are usually alone, so you must go with someone when you go into the woods. Say hello to people you meet, and don’t answer until you see their faces clearly. After a period of peace and quiet, people began to be not satisfied with protecting themselves, but also wanted to protect themselves.

Find out what happened to the missing person.

So some people began to go into the mountains alone with their equipment. No "human figure" was actually photographed among these people, but some of them disappeared together with their equipment.

This matter gradually spread, and authoritative organizations came to detect and search, and finally came to the conclusion that magnetic field chaos caused visual and auditory hallucinations. As for the human figure, no one was seen at all.

After a few times, some experts dubbed this figure the "hidden friend."

At that time, this place was still a relatively large town. Although there were legends, most people did not live in the woods and it was difficult to go there, so they did not consider the issue of relocation until a sudden change in the plants caused a sudden change in the woods.

A large number of mutated plants spewed out, submerging the town and two nearby large cities.

At that time, except for those who went out to work, all the original residents of these cities died, and not even a body was found.

I don’t know if it was because of this tragic accident that many residents in other places had hallucinations. They always saw figures calling for them in the fog. In fact, the fog that started in this strange forest was indeed moving toward them.

Spreading around.

Originally, this incident would eventually end with some people entering a mental hospital, but then changes occurred in other areas. Human settlements were repeatedly shrunk, new rules were formulated in the safety zone, and some people who were unable to protect themselves were abandoned—

—Not directly driving them out, but giving them a good name to go out and explore.

Some of these abandoned people survived in undeveloped areas and built cities here.

However, there are so many mutated plants. After being destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, the people who live here can only use local materials. They lack resources and talents. There are very few players in the descendants, so they live with such difficulty.

"We are extremely lucky to be able to live in this forest." The old man said: "At least there are no mutated beasts or hidden friends... friends we don't need."

Judging from the experience of people living nearby, their coping methods are enough to protect themselves. However, the old man's story mentioned that the "hidden friend" method of finding friends sometimes changes. In the past, it was always in

In the mountains and forests, people don't know when they will start to appear outside the house, and sometimes they will even imitate outsiders. For example, when Xu Huo and the others knocked on the door just now, the "hidden friend" might imitate him and knock on the door.

The knock on the door just now was just a teaser created by Xu Huo, but someone actually knocked on the door, most likely players making copies.

However, "Hidden Friends" has been around for such a long time, and no one mentioned it in the dungeon materials near the Better Tomorrow Station. They simply classified it as an anecdote.

You can't let all the players who come in to make copies come out alive, right?

"It's getting late, you should go to bed early. The two children's rooms have been tidied up." After the story was told, the two children slept contentedly in their parents' arms. The old man was also a little tired, but she still asked: "If
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