In room No. 3, the curtains were blown open by the wind and never closed again. Qisi did not want to get out of bed and close the curtains.
Through the translucent windows, you can have a panoramic view of the gardens outside the castle.
Under the starless night, the tangled plants showed black and purple condensation. The boundaries between branches, stems and leaves were no longer clear. Dark shadows were piled up in clusters, and ghosts were everywhere.
Miss Anna in black stood in the middle of the sea of roses, like a tombstone in the pale and lonely moonlight.
She stood there, motionless and silent, but conveying a sense of sadness for no apparent reason.
The light was too dim, and Ziss couldn't determine which way Miss Anna was facing and whether she was looking at him.
But what is certain is that once she discovers that he is still awake, the player's end will be tragic.
Knowing that the guest pretended to be asleep and deceiving her, it is quite reasonable for the host to feel angry; combined with the description of the key's characteristics, it can be inferred that the door will not be able to stop Miss Anna by then.
As for what she will do when she enters the house...
With a sense of humor that only he could understand, Ziss thought silently: "It can't be a matter of communicating emotions."
He was suddenly a little curious. The rules said that "only ghosts can kill humans." As a living person, what could Miss Anna do to him and how would she treat him.
Maybe you can have an interesting death experience, at least more interesting than dying from illness.
Miss Anna's aesthetics suits him well and she seems to be quite interested in him. She should dispose of his body properly...
Thinking of this, Qiss was a little ready to make a move.
But he quickly thought that there were many dungeons of Weird Game for him to choose from. It would be a huge loss to die in the first dungeon. He would have to survive until the second dungeon to get his money back.
Forget it, if I have to endure it any longer... it would be better to try it on other players as to how to die.
On the bed sheet in front of me, a few rose petals fell from nowhere.
Qisi blew a gentle breath and watched the petals flutter down tremblingly under the airflow and fall to the ground.
Lin Chen was sleeping soundly on the other side of the bed, mumbling in his sleep, unaware of what had just happened.
At this moment, he turned over, rolled up most of the quilt, and pressed it under him. After a few seconds, he snored evenly again.
Qisi twitched the corners of his eyes speechlessly, but then relaxed.
He still maintained his motionless posture lying on the bed. His physiological heartbeat and pulse became slower over time. Along with Lin Chen's regular snoring nearby, sleepiness quickly invaded his brain.
Qisi yawned and fell into a deep sleep. When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn.
In the garden facing the floor-to-ceiling windows, Miss Anna's ghostly figure has disappeared, leaving only a field of roses in full bloom.
The faint sound of the bell pierced the dark and calm air, ringing five times with deep and solemn tones. It swayed in circles in the cold morning, and the lingering sound was ethereal.
It's five o'clock in the morning.
The short sleep was of no avail, and Chiss felt like he was being filled with a sleepiness that was like filling his soul with stagnant water.
He sat up with a bleak look on his arms, brushed off the rose petals that fell on his body, and looked in the direction of the door.
The dry petals fell to the ground and accumulated a small patch on the ground in front of the door, indicating what happened last night.
"Qi...Brother Qi, why did the stool turn over?" Lin Chen finally woke up, and at a glance he saw the wide open curtains, the stool lying on the ground, and the scattered red skirt.
His face turned pale: "Did something happen last night?"
"Yes." Qisi calmly got out of bed, closed the curtains, raised the stool, pressed it against the curtains again, then picked up the red skirt and threw it into the corner.
He said calmly: "Miss Anna is here."
Lin Chen jumped up from the bed and exclaimed: "What is she doing here?"
"You should ask her about this. How would I know?"
Sis sat on a stool and recounted everything that happened last night from beginning to end, including some speculations about the point of death.
He deliberately omitted the encounters in the other rooms. For example, there was the sound of rustling vines and screams coming from Room 2. It was most likely that someone was dead.
Ziss was afraid that he would laugh while describing this incident—he had always had trouble controlling his emotions when faced with death.
Lin Chen digested the information in a daze and said thankfully: "Fortunately, I went to bed early last night." To be precise, he was knocked unconscious early.
After going over Qisi's words in his mind, he didn't understand and asked: "Brother Qi, how do you know that as long as you are still awake without being discovered by Miss Anna, nothing will happen?"
"You guessed it." Qisi chuckled and said, "Since being awake and sleeping depends on the mechanics of the game, I must not be the only one who wakes up at night."
"A sustainable game will inevitably have a way out. Miss Anna knocks on the door from room to room, and it is impossible to kill all the players who wake up. So I speculate that Miss Anna has her own conditions for killing people."
"Combined with the fact that she asked me over and over again if I had slept, I guess her murder condition was 'finding the player awake at night'."
Lin Chen didn't realize it, and praised from the bottom of his heart: "As expected of Brother Qi, if it were me, when she lied to me and said she knew I was awake, I would have been so scared that I would have opened the door."
"This is just a logical question." Ziss said, "You need to be clear. Through the door panel, Miss Anna cannot be 100% sure whether the player in the room is awake. Otherwise, she would not have to ask so many times and just break the door and enter. By the same token, I speculate that she is also bound by rules and must not disturb players in their sleep."
"After she breaks in, she will face two situations. Either she bets right and there is a player awake in the room, and she successfully harvests a life; or she bets wrong, and no player wakes up in the room, and she breaks the rules. , I don’t know what kind of punishment she will receive. Weighing the risks and benefits, she is bound to make a more prudent decision."
Lin Chenxu said with eyes: "But no matter what, she can't guarantee that the people in the room are 100% awake, right? As long as she doesn't open the door, even if she makes a noise, it can be said that she is not sleeping well, or talking in her sleep. "
Qisi nodded: "So she can either give up killing people; or she can compare the probabilities of people in each room being awake through trial and error, and choose the highest probability to take a gamble."
He paused for a moment, changed the subject, and asked, "Lin Chen, have you ever opened a blind box?"
"……ah?"
"There are three blind boxes, each containing a cat that is either dead or alive. Some of them are already dead, some are dying, and are about to die. But one box is specially made and will release poisonous gas when opened. , the cat inside will die whether alive or dead.”
"If you open a live cat, you can get the same weight of gold; if you open a dead cat, you will be killed. But you can guess whether the box is specially made and whether the cat inside is dead or alive by knocking and weighing it. .”
"You have studied the first two blind boxes and feel that the cat in the second blind box may be alive. Should you weigh the third blind box first, or should you just open the blind box in your hand?"
Lin Chen understood and continued: "You must try them all, otherwise you will not be sure whether the second blind box is specially made and whether it will poison the cat."
Qiss sighed with pretense of regret: "Then you discovered that the third box was made of different materials than the other two boxes, and was obviously specially made. You were very happy, thinking that as long as you opened the second box, you would get the same weight. Gold. But you realize that you don’t know if the cat in the second box is still alive after all this time.”
Lin Chen scratched his hair in distress and asked, "Can I not open a single box?"
"Of course." Qisi put his index finger on his knee and tapped it repeatedly, "For the same reason, Miss Anna went to Brother Shen's room and then came back. She couldn't be sure whether I was there during that time. She was asleep, so her safest decision was not to choose any room."
"——In other words, as long as everyone is smart enough, last night was Christmas Eve."
Lin Chen listened to Qisi's logical analysis with blank eyes, feeling that he seemed to understand something, but also seemed not to understand anything at all.
Zeiss had no intention of explaining further. In his opinion, saying so much is the best thing to do.
If it weren't for keeping the tools useful, even if Lin Chen was immediately dragged out and buried in a pit by Miss Anna, he wouldn't have any objection, and maybe he would just watch and shout "Come on."
It was still early, so Zis walked to the desk, tore out a page of papyrus, picked up a pen and wrote and drew on it.
Lin Chen carefully approached and looked down to see what he had written on the paper:
[2. The exact time can be known by counting the seconds silently]
[3. There is some doubt as to who is Miss Anna who “likes guests”]
[4. You can not implement Miss Anna’s request by pretending not to know, but you cannot be discovered by her]
[5. There may be two Miss Annas]
This is undoubtedly an explanation of the rules on the system interface. To be precise, it is the "breaking rule" required by the main mission.
After reading the entire article, Lin Chen was confused: "Brother Qi, what's going on with the two Miss Annas?"
Zis put down his pen and said without raising his head: "I told you, Miss Anna in black was looking at me outside the window, and at the same time there was a knock on the door from Shen Ming's side."
"As far as the current situation is concerned, Miss Anna is still in the category of physical attacks. Otherwise, she would not be stopped by the door and cannot judge the player's status through the door. Since she cannot clone, there can only be two of her, or in other words , in this dungeon, there is another main NPC on the same level as her."
"In this way, many contradictions can be explained. Why can Miss Anna serve as the main NPC of the dungeon, but also 'have no ill will towards the guests'; sometimes she can be trusted, sometimes very dangerous; sometimes she wears black clothes, sometimes she wears red clothes .”
"I didn't understand before that in a dungeon where only ghosts can kill humans, Miss Anna, who is a living person, has nothing to be afraid of. The main NPCs can't kill the players. Do you expect the players to fight among themselves and kill themselves?"
"I originally thought that the danger would come from the butler, but that was too far-fetched. It seems that the butler has no ability to act independently. Now the answer is clear. There is a main ghost NPC in this dungeon that we have not seen yet, or in other words, another Anna Miss."
Listening to Qisi's analysis, Lin Chen only felt his scalp itching: "Then can we try to unite with Miss Anna as a living person to deal with the ghost NPC?"
After he finished speaking, he saw Qiss looking at him with eyes that cared about children.
"Who told you that living people must be good and ghosts must be evil? Obviously yesterday you were scared to death of Miss Anna, a living person."
Zis picked up the pen again, drew three circles on the paper, and wrote "Miss Anna", "Ghost NPC" and "Player" respectively, and connected the three circles with double arrows.
"There are three situations, one is as you think, Miss Anna is kind, that is, she is close to the player, and the ghost NPC is evil; the other situation is just the opposite. Of course, there is the worst situation, that is, the two NPCs work together, both want to Put the player to death."
"So, we need to first figure out what kind of existence the ghostly NPC that we can only hear but not see is. This depends on the subsequent exploration of the third floor."
Lin Chen nodded solemnly, feeling even more convinced of Chiss in his heart.
Qisi stood up and walked to the wall, picking up the red dress again: "But I have some new ideas about the background story of this copy."
He looked down at the long skirt and changed to the first person: "The girl and I were in love, but unfortunately we encountered a lot of resistance. She couldn't date me openly and could only knock on my door at night. And the shady By mistake, there were a lot of misunderstandings between her and me. She thought I didn't see her on purpose and no longer loved her..."
Lin Chen listened to Qisi's emotional recitation, and the admiration he had just felt was quickly replaced by goosebumps.
He couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Qi...Brother Qi, why are you so sure that the theme of this copy is love? Could it be that Miss Anna wants to maintain her beauty, so she keeps killing people..."
He subconsciously combined the horror stories he had heard before: "I heard that there was a Queen Mary in history who wanted to take a bath with the blood of a young girl..."
Zeiss asked, "Do you remember what fruits were on the table yesterday?"
fruit? Does it have anything to do with this?
Lin Chen was stunned, and then listened to Ziss's next words: "Since Albrecht Dürer painted the forbidden fruit as an apple in Adam and Eve in 1507, the translation of 'the forbidden fruit is an apple' has been incorrectly translated. The misunderstanding caused spread widely and gradually became a common practice."
"Looking at Miss Anna's costume, this copy should be from after the 17th century. At this point in time, the image of 'apple' is the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve, which means love."
“Apples don’t often appear in the recipes of European aristocratic dinners. Even if they do appear, they are in the form of desserts such as apples mixed with syrup, and cannot be complete and need to be grasped and gnawed by the guests.”
"All factors combined, it can be basically concluded that the apples that appeared at dinner contained metaphors. As for why Miss Anna put such an obvious metaphor on the table, it is probably similar to the perverted murderer who always likes to hang around the scene after killing someone. Psychologically.”
Lin Chen listened with distracted eyes, only feeling ridiculous.
Logical reasoning alone is not enough, but you also need to know such unpopular knowledge. Do students with partial subjects not deserve to live?
This is his first copy...
Chiss always likes to make up lies and scare people. He made some far-fetched reasoning, and when he saw that the tool man was frightened, he smiled and comforted him: "If you just want to survive, it's not that troublesome. You can hide in the room. If you encounter special circumstances, refer to Article 4. That’s just pretending you don’t know anything.”
"Theoretically, as long as you are brave enough to sleep for three days in a row, you might be able to survive this dungeon peacefully."
Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he almost offered to ask Qisi to give him another try.
Ziss didn't give him a chance to speak, lowered his eyes and added: "Of course, what I said above are just speculations based on the situation on the first night, and they may be all wrong. After all, the rules may not mislead us..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a shrill scream was heard coming from outside the door, as if it was about to turn into a sharp sword and penetrate the room.
--problem occurs.
