There is a very important game item that you don’t need to find, which is the confinement lock mentioned in the prompt.
This is an iron lock that looks quite classical in shape, about the size of a palm, and very heavy. It locks with a firm push and pops open with a slight push of the button, no key required.
The seemingly useless lock plays an irreplaceable role here.
Because there are two door bolts outside each room door. As long as the lock is passed through the hole in the door latch, the door can be locked without a lock.
Although it is easy to open from the outside, it is absolutely impossible to open it from the inside of the room. Especially as mentioned in the prompt, even the killer cannot open it.
If the killer is known to be in a certain room and they fasten the confinement lock outside, the room becomes a confinement room and the killer can never come out.
But the lock is useless when you don't know where the killer is. Even if the guest lets others lock him inside, the killer can easily enter from the outside and kill him.
Except for the group No. 4, some other people have already sat down around the table. No. 8 is a tall man who speaks in a low and magnetic voice:
"Miss No. 4, did you find anything?"
No. 4 said a little disappointedly: "There is almost no place to hide anything in this room. So it is impossible for the killer to hide here."
“How could the killer be hiding?
"Apparently among us."
Man No. 8 smiled.
"The killer laid an evil trap waiting for seven guests to come to the appointment. So there are seven guests in total.
"But there are clearly eight people here. The extra one is the murderer."
Girl No. 4 agreed with his assertion, but added:
“Although we know the murderer is among us, we still have to rule out some unexpected factors.
"For example, is there more than one killer? One among us and one hiding somewhere in this house?
"The prompt never said there are only eight players, right? What if there are nine players or there are hidden NPCs?"
But this living room is super simple. Apart from the living room itself, there was no bathroom, no kitchen, no stairs, not even a window.
Except for the doors leading to the eight surrounding rooms, there is no passage leading to anywhere else.
This is not the living room of a real villa. But that's the way it is with design. In order to allow everyone to focus on reasoning, all unnecessary elements have been eliminated.
"I have already searched the living room, and I suggest that we continue to search every room and don't let go of anything suspicious.
"In addition to checking whether there are hidden areas in the room where you can hide things or people, you should also check whether the items in each room are special. Maybe the items in the killer room are different from ours."
It seems that No. 4 is quite outgoing and almost becomes the leader of this group of players. This is exactly the same as Tang Wenwen's character in reality.
But Meng Fei is different. He is relatively low-key and likes to observe in secret.
What's more, he now feels that what No. 4 said makes sense, so he remains silent and just follows everyone's actions.
No. 4’s proposal was responded to by everyone. Everyone took it upon himself to open his or her door and let everyone else visit.
The doors all open inwards. There is no need to insert a key into a keyhole to open the door. As long as you hold the key in your hand, the door will open when you push it.
Meng Fei also took the opportunity to sneak in and take a closer look. On the surface at least, every room looked like his, nothing different.
The clean white desk, the alarm clock in the upper right corner, and a stack of brand new blank sticky notes are exactly the same. There is nothing superfluous on the table.
As for the one with the message originally written on it, everyone probably ate it just like him.
No. 4 took everyone and knocked it all over, but found no hidden items or places to hide people.
She found nothing, and she was obviously a little frustrated, and then she was at a loss.
No one wanted to be alone in the room, so everyone gathered around the big table in the living room and started thinking of solutions like a meeting.
The situation is too simple to start. Because everyone is sure that there are only eight people here, and one of them is the killer.
But the killer will never admit it himself, and there are no other clues. So how to find the killer?
At this time, the tall man with a loud voice, No. 8, laughed.
"why are you laughing?"
Girl No. 4, who was very frustrated, felt dissatisfied because it seemed like he was laughing at her.
"I laugh at how easy this game is."
"Simple?"
"Well, do you remember the prompt?"
He stood up, knocked on the table, and fluently recited the prompts in the opening remarks:
"Facing the killer alone, you will die without hesitation.
“Working together, you may be able to survive an encounter.
“The three of us must work together to beat him back to hell.
"Isn't it obvious?
“If we were one-on-one with a killer, we would definitely not be able to defeat him.
"But if there are two of us, we can barely compete with the killer, and we will probably have a slight disadvantage.
"If three people work together, they can beat him back to hell.
"Is this why the killer dares not take action even though he is among us now?"
"But we don't know who the killer is now, so how can we deal with him even if there are more people?" asked No. 4.
"Haha, easy."
No. 8 smiled gently.
“As long as four guests hear the whisper of the morning waves, we can leave the death zone.
"In other words, we don't have to find the killer. As long as we don't die ourselves, we will win.
"As long as we all stay in this living room, keep each other in check, and stay until the end of the game, we will win.
"Of course before that, the killer will be forced to act hastily or use some trick to separate us.
“There were so many of us at that time, and we would rush in and kill anyone who caused trouble, it was that simple.
"So I suggest that we all sit in our seats now and wait for the game to end. Whoever leaves the seat first will be the killer!"
"This big brother."
Girl No. 4 frowned and said with a grimace:
"Your method is so boring! Although you can win, it's also a shameless win, okay?"
"Oh? You object?"
The tall man No. 8 shot his sharp gaze over.
Not only that, several other people's eyes also stared over, staring at No. 4's expression, as if you were the killer.
In this situation, anyone who opposes it is suspicious and may be a killer.
No. 4 realized that he was wrong and quickly shook his hand and said:
"Come on, you guys, don't make blind suspicions and wrongfully accuse good people. As long as you can outlast the murderer, I don't object to this!"
