(This chapter is the real 397. The title of the previous chapter is wrong and cannot be modified, but the content is fine. Please feel free to read it)
Threatened by No. 8's voice, the killer could only stop killing and quickly enter his room.
Sure enough, the shrill scream didn't sound again, and then the call came immediately, and the living room was as bright as day again.
Before Meng Fei opened the door, he heard the door creaking. Then there was a series of heavy footsteps.
No. 8's bass-like voice came out again.
"Don't be afraid, everyone, the lights in the living room are already on. I just walked out of my room. Did you all hear the footsteps?
"I made the footsteps deliberately to show you that I was not the murderer who stayed in the living room, but walked out of the room."
"Humph, this doesn't necessarily prove that you are not a killer, right? Why do you dare to run into the living room alone?"
There was another girl's voice that was different from No. 4, it was No. 3.
"Because I know the timing of the lights on and off in the living room. I know the lights will be on now.
"If a killer comes and kills me, I shout out his number and he's dead. So there's no way the killer would risk coming to my living room and attack me now."
No. 8 answered calmly.
But girl No. 3 continued to be emotionally unstable and asked in a trembling voice:
"You are not a killer, how do you know the rules of turning on and off the lights? I have never seen this in the system information!"
"The island where light and darkness intersect is fixed. Please pay attention to the word fixed.
"I used to think this was just a normal phenomenon of night and day recurring. But it's not.
“After the accident where the lights just went out, I thought light and dark meant the lights on and off in the living room.
"Fixed interleaving means that their time periods are fixed."
"There is an alarm clock in every room, including in the living room. It is definitely not a decoration. This shows that time is very important, so I always pay attention to the time.
"Our game starts at 7:45, and the lights in the living room go out at 8:00 sharp. The lights come back on 15 seconds later.
“That means every 15 minutes, the lights in the living room will be turned off for 15 seconds.
"So from now until 8:15, the lights in the living room will be on. We should take advantage of this time to find the killer.
"If everyone hides in the room and waits until the lights in the living room are turned off again at 8:15, the killer can enter your room while it is dark and kill you one by one."
"If the killer enters the room to kill, won't he expose himself? Even if the guest can't beat him, he still has time to call out his number, right?"
Another person in the room who didn't know what the date was asked.
"You are right. But he should have successfully killed someone just now, right?
"The opening remarks say that the killer can see through the darkness. So once it enters the dark time, none of us in the living room is his opponent.
"The door can't stop him. We can't enter other people's rooms and can't rescue them, but he can go in.
"A single killer is bound to die. So as long as he can kill three people within 15 seconds, he will win!"
"In 15 seconds, run through three rooms and kill three people. It seems like time is a bit tight."
Meng Fei went through this scene in his mind. It's not a big problem if you just run through three rooms. It mainly depends on how fast the killer kills.
Now he doesn't know the killer's method of killing, so it's hard to tell.
"What if he is willing to take a gamble?" No. 8 asked.
Everyone fell silent.
The killer only needs to kill four people to win. Within 15 seconds of turning off the lights for the first time, he might really have planned to kill four people in a row.
But everyone ran into the room at Meng Fei's reminder and No. 8's timely threat interrupted his plan.
If he had to enter every room and kill people, he would run out of time. So I can only give up the plan and wait for the next lights out.
But next time, he does have a chance to try to hit the "three consecutive kills" record.
The living room is invincible, and the guests cannot rescue without the keys to other people's rooms, so the fact is that there will be no rescue at all.
"Everyone clearly heard the screams just now, but I don't see any bodies in the living room now."
No. 8 continued to describe what he saw.
"It's possible that the setting of the game is that the body will disappear after being killed. It's also possible that the body was hidden by the killer.
"I suggested that everyone slowly come out of the room. I was in the living room and could see everyone coming out and then we searched everyone's rooms.
"If a person is not in his room, or if there is a body in his room, then he is a killer!"
Meng Fei couldn't help but admire No. 8's series of reasoning.
"What No. 8 said makes sense, let's go out."
Meng Fei was the first to open the door and walked out.
At the call of No. 8 and No. 5 Meng Fei, others who were still frightened also came out.
No. 8's tall body stood in the living room like a policeman on guard, his sharp eyes constantly scanning all the doors.
But Meng Fei's heart sank. Because the door of Room 4 was never opened and no one came out.
There is only one possibility, and that is that there is a high probability that Tang Wenwen's No. 4 player will be killed first.
It makes sense for the killer to choose to kill Tang Wenwen first. Tang Wenwen revealed her experience in playing killing games, and her positive attitude easily gained the trust of other guest players.
If he were a killer, he would also eliminate such opponents first. And of course there is number 8. But compared to No. 8, who is taller and taller, No. 4 is just a girl.
Judging from the hints in the opening remarks, the killer does not use magic to kill, but uses some physical means, and the person killed can resist. It is definitely safer to kill a weak woman than to kill a burly man like No. 8.
In this way, the killer achieved a quarter of his goal and also eliminated a powerful enemy, reducing the possibility of mutual trust and unity among the guests.
"All but No. 4 are due."
No. 8 looked around, then waved his hand and said, "Time is tight, after all, we only have 15 minutes. Let's search every room as soon as possible."
Although that is said, in fact, every room has an unobstructed view and nothing has changed.
Except for the door of Room No. 4 which could not be opened without the key because No. 4 was missing, all other rooms were searched once.
Countertop, wastebasket, alarm clock, sticky notes, chair, nothing else. There was no body, and no place where a body might be hidden.
"It seems that No. 4 must have been killed. Either No. 4's body disappeared due to system settings, or it was hidden in Room 4 by the murderer."
No. 8 concluded.
Theoretically, if No. 4 is still alive in the room, she will definitely come out. Since she doesn't come out, she can only be in a state of death.
The killer must be among the remaining people.
Meng Fei has not yet considered who the killer is. Because there are too few clues.
He thinks about what he sees.
Countertops, wastebaskets, alarm clocks, sticky notes, chairs. These objects swirled around in his mind. What are these items used for in the game?
