"Assuming that my inference is correct, the time loop has occurred, and the first players to enter this dungeon were nine people..." Qisi crumpled the photo in his hand and threw it to the ground, looking at the rain outside the window.
"Based on what I know about myself, facing a one-third mortality rate, I should make sure that I don't break the rules, wait for three unlucky guys to break the rules and die, and then pass the level easily."
What he said was actually only half of what he said. The real situation was even worse.
Entering the game for the first time, he was forced to pretend to be an experienced player. If he wanted to survive in the cracks, he had to be more cautious and careful than others.
After learning about the "guaranteed number of deaths" mechanism of the weird game, in order not to become a victim of others, he would definitely strike first and find every opportunity to reduce the number of players; the three corpses in the garden, There may be something of his handiwork among them.
Of course, this situation only exists in inference. After all, he has no memory of the so-called "first round" game.
Qis suddenly thought that when he opened his eyes, he appeared in the garden outside the castle, while other players were sitting in the castle.
As a result, because he arrived late, he could only sit closest to the main seat, which was the most dangerous position.
Because of this, out of some interest in the same kind, he casually tested Miss Anna, and seemed to have attracted the latter's attention.
Under this premise, he then made the decision to explore the third floor and decipher the world view, in order to seek a chance of survival under the focus of the NPC.
It's all like someone arranged it. And that person had an extremely accurate grasp of his psychology...
The only one who knows him best is himself.
In an instant, the clues were connected, and Qisi felt that he understood something. All the fog suddenly cleared away, and his eyes suddenly became clear.
He gathered his thoughts and smiled brightly: "Now it seems that the method of 'dead Taoist friends but not poor Taoists' has most likely failed, otherwise it would not start a new cycle. If you want to pass the level, the only way is to crack the world view. "
Chang Xu was silent for a moment and said: "According to my intuition, my first choice should be to decipher the world view and reduce the mortality rate as much as possible."
Hearing this, Qisi chuckled inwardly, but had no intention of refuting.
He also often says beautiful words that are upright and upright. In real life, when facing a police investigation, he can come up with a long paragraph, which perfectly reflects his personal label of "five good citizens who abide by the law and obey the law".
"It seems that it is relatively difficult to crack the world view. Brother Chang, you have failed in two consecutive rounds." After Qisi finished speaking, he ignored Chang Xu who had a question mark on his face and went straight to the innermost room on the third floor.
That was the last room that was not explored. Compared with the other two rooms, the appearance was much neater. The door was spotless and the keyhole was polished. It was obvious that someone lived inside.
Qisi pushed aside the windless vines in the corridor, stepped on the branches and leaves on the ground, walked to the door and stood there, looking at the dried petals scattered between the cracks in the door, he squinted his eyes.
"There is someone inside." Chang Xu looked at the carvings on the door and said, "He may meet Miss Anna."
In this context, the "Miss Anna" he refers to naturally refers to the one the players saw at the dinner table, that is, the sister in the bloody story.
Even in the context of the dungeon, the older sister and the younger sister are both "Miss Anna", and bumping into each other on the third floor means a violation of the ninth rule. However, in comparison, the younger sister in black is more dangerous.
"Normally we won't encounter it. If we encounter it, we will be unlucky." Qisi said with a smile, "I suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you some information. In the garden before, Miss Anna and I had some nutritious chats. topical."
…
9 a.m., garden.
After Qisi asked the housekeeper to see Miss Anna, Miss Anna, who was wearing a black dress, arrived late.
After a moment of greetings, Qiss asked casually, "Miss Anna, where are you usually? Where can I find you?"
Miss Anna said: "I like to stand in the garden. You can find me in the garden after the rain."
"But Mr. Butler said you live on the third floor."
"I don't like the third floor, there's no light there."
"It sounds like you are living like a rose."
…
Ziss omitted a number of central air-conditioning-style quotes that would make people call him a "scumbag" and directly concluded: "So I speculate that Miss Anna should still be in the garden at this moment."
After he said that, he raised his hand and knocked on the door twice.
The ghost knocked on his door last night, and this morning he came to knock on the ghost's door. When he thought about it carefully, there was a sense of drama and humor, which made him couldn't help but curl his lips.
Chang Xu saw that Qisi did not choose to use wire to pick the lock, but knocked on the door in a formal manner, squinting slightly and making no comment.
Although it is easy to alert someone, but being polite enough, it may be able to effectively reduce the hostility of the NPC.
If there are no accidents, the person in the room is the real "Anna", the "Miss Anna" in red dress mentioned in the rules. She can be trusted and can be regarded as a relatively safe NPC.
When Qisi knocked on the door for the third time, with the elongated sound of "squeak", the closed door slowly opened from the inside out.
The rotten smell mixed with the rich fragrance of flowers hit your face. Intricate vines and leaves like dragons were knotted in the room. Almost all the space was filled with black and green, and only faintly could be seen through the gaps between the stems and leaves. I saw a red shadow.
It was an old woman with wrinkled skin, half of her face had rotted away, and she could not be associated with beauty in any way. She groaned, unconscious, as if she would die at any time, but her cloudy eyes stared directly in the direction of Qiss.
She asked, "What time is it now?"
Qisi glanced at Chang Xu, who picked up his pocket watch and replied: "Two:02 in the afternoon."
The old woman tilted her head, struggling to understand the information she was receiving.
After a while, she smiled: "Today's afternoon is longer than yesterday."
After saying this, she lowered her head and fell asleep, apparently unwilling to deal with the two uninvited guests.
Qisi watched quietly for a while, and suddenly a soft smile appeared on his face.
He pushed aside the vines in the room, walked towards the old woman step by step, squatted down in front of her, and asked in one word: "Do you want to see him?"
The old woman was awakened, raised her head, and stared straight ahead blankly, with no shadow of anyone reflected in her eyes.
Qiss smiled and spoke slowly in a reminiscing tone: "After that day, he left the manor and returned to his fiefdom, but he never forgot you. It took him many years to convince his father before he came back. Looking for you, but it’s a pity that you are no longer alive.”
As Qisi narrated, the old woman's originally stagnant eyes gradually became disturbed. She raised her hand and grabbed Qisi's sleeve and murmured: "I want to see him... I want to see him... He is here where?"
"I don't know." Qisi lowered his eyelashes to cover up the darkness growing in his eyes, "But I have two companions who should know his whereabouts. Do you want to see my two companions?"
The old woman looked at him steadily.
Qisi was good at tempting and spoke clearly: "You only need to say that you want Zou Yan and Liu Qingye to come to the third floor to see you."
Old woman: "I want Zou Yan and Liu Qingye to come to the third floor to see me..."
The moment she finished speaking, Qisi pulled back his sleeves without mercy and made a gesture to Chang Xu: "It's done, let's go."
Chang Xu thought for a moment and understood Qisi's operation, frowning slightly: "You want Zou Yan and Ye Zi to also violate the rules?"
The old woman was also Miss Anna. She asked her to give an order to meet Zou Yan and Ye Zi on the third floor, which directly put the two of them in a dilemma.
When they come, they violate the ninth rule:
[Please try not to go to the third floor. If you go, be sure not to be discovered by Miss Anna]
If they don't come, they violate rule number four:
[Don’t refuse Miss Anna’s request and try to satisfy everything she asks. Miss Anna hates disobedient guests]
No matter what, they break at least one rule.
When asked by Chang Xu, Qisi did not deny it. Instead, he showed a malicious smile: "The law does not blame everyone. We have chosen the thankless path of deciphering the world view. I don't want to die alone." .”
"Why did you let Lin Chen go alone?"
"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you before. Lin Chen came up before us. So now everyone has theoretically broken the same number of rules..." Qisi's eyes drifted to the top of his head, his expression Innocent, "Oh, it's really not easy for me to balance the situation."
Chang Xu:......6.
At this point, he finally realized that this seemingly harmless guy next to him didn't say a word of truth!
What is the purpose of this person asking him to cooperate? Could he have been tricked?
Qisi looked at Chang Xu's wary eyes and just smiled casually.
He has never had the righteousness to bear everything on his own. From the moment he decided to explore the third floor, he formulated a risk-sharing plan, determined to drag all players into the water.
It can be said that from the moment he asked Lin Chen to go to the third floor to investigate and set a trap in his words to induce him to violate the rules, all subsequent behavioral choices and events were part of his plan.
Now, he has undoubtedly succeeded.
Qisi walked out of the room in a few steps, closed the door with his backhand, and reviewed the situation in his mind.
The old woman can detect the abnormality of time and concludes that "today's one o'clock in the afternoon is longer than yesterday." It seems that the ghost can maintain mobility while going back in time.
But she was able to remain semi-corrupted in the endless time loop.
Does this mean that the action and status of individuals in this copy are separate?
At this point, everything is clear.
Qisi looked at the seventh rule of the system interface.
[7. Only ghosts can kill humans, please believe that you are human]
Originally, he thought that this was a restrictive rule to prevent players from killing each other. He also wondered why a weird game full of the color of cultivating gu could be so kind.
Now it seems that the standard answer to customs clearance is actually written in this rule.
The main NPC, Miss Anna, who is malicious to the player, is set as a human, and specifically states that "ghosts can kill humans", the prompt is obvious.
