"Since it is a sticky note, it is naturally used to convey information to players." Player No. 7 replied.
“If the game conveys information to each player, then just a sticky note is enough.
“Everyone is given a stack, which seems to be used to pass information between players.
“Indeed, it is also a common plot in mystery dramas to pass small notes or use notes to leave clues.
"But I was given a sticky note but not a pen. Isn't it too inconvenient to convey information?"
Meng Fei said a series of unreasonable things, whetting everyone's appetite, and finally gave a reasonable explanation:
“I don’t think the game would be so unreasonable. So since the game provides sticky notes, it must also provide a pen.
"Don't forget, the hint in the opening line says: He has special props.
“Although we think of night vision goggles, master keys, or murder knives or guns, pens can also be props.
"So there is a pen in the game, but most of us don't have it, only the killers have it. So we can't see it and we don't know it.
“The killer arrives first in the scene and has a master key to enter every locked room.
“After entering, he will see the information left on the sticky notes on each player’s desk.
"So imagine if you were a killer, what would you do?"
"You mean..."
He had been reluctant to express his opinions since he was under suspicion. No. 7, who was short but strong and strong, spoke up.
He felt as if his head, which was stiff and solidified, was being violently stirred and began to rotate.
"Are you saying that the post-it message we saw was actually left by the killer?"
This quite shocking information shocked everyone's nerves, causing the atmosphere at the scene to become very strange.
"If that's the case, then the game is unplayable."
No. 1 showed an expression of disbelief.
"It means he can change the rules at will and let us die one by one."
"You're right. If that were the case, the game would be unbalanced again.
“For example, the killer can completely remind us on paper that we must stay in the living room when it is dark and cannot enter the room.
“In this way, during the first darkness, he might be able to kill four people at once and win.
“So I guess there’s a limit to the killer rewriting everyone’s message notes.
“He should be constrained to the point where he can hide the rules but not forge them.
"I guess the first thing he would think of is to remove the rules of 'the lights in the living room will go out regularly' and 'the lights in the room will stay on when it's dark' in the message.
“This way the first darkness catches all the players off guard, and he can take the opportunity to kill a few.
"Although he may not be able to achieve the four goals, he can kill people without exposing himself. He has successfully achieved the first step."
"Oh, then why didn't he delete all the information? Just make everyone confused?"
No. 1, whose head was shiny but had a stiff face, questioned again.
“Deleting all the information will not create more opportunities for him to kill, but will instead arouse suspicion.
“So what he left behind were rules that were irrelevant and easy for us to try out.
“For example, if a room cannot be used by three people at the same time, guests will almost certainly try to use a room with three or even four people.
“But as soon as we tried it, we knew that when there were two people in the room, the third person couldn’t get in at all.
“There are also obvious rules like needing a key to open the door.
"Leave these rules here and it will look seamless."
"Then, he specially wrote the killer's rules for No. 3." No. 6 wiped the sweat from his head and said with lingering fear, "In this way, he doesn't even have to kill himself."
"Yes, as long as you do it yourself, you may expose yourself.
"So his best way is to make another person think he is the killer. Then he can sit back and watch.
"Maybe it won't be his turn to make a move at all, and he can win easily!
"The only trouble is how to modify these rules. It's not possible to make changes on the sticky notes provided by the system. That's too fake.
"So he had to take the information that the system originally provided and rewrite it. So he had to rewrite it for everyone.
"It would take a few minutes to copy so much text just once, right? There are seven people in total who have to rewrite all the text.
“In addition to the fact that he reorganized the text and selected the remaining rules, it took nearly half an hour to let the guests in to start the game.
"That's why it was 7:15 when I entered the sleep pod, and it was 7:45 when I actually started playing."
"hehe."
No. 1, who had always looked nervous, scratched the top of his head that was about to go bald, and a disdainful smile suddenly appeared on his greasy face.
"The killer arrived here first and then rewritten everyone's information. This kind of thing is just your speculation.
"Even if the information has been rewritten, the original information has long been lost, and even the new sticky notes that were written are gone.
“I think you can’t even prove whether No. 3 is the killer, so how can you prove who the real killer is?
"After all, everyone of us knows about the murder of No. 3, but the real killer who changed the information you mentioned has no trace at all. It's all based on your nonsense!"
"Are there any traces?"
Having said this, Meng Fei curled his lips towards the pile of post-it notes on the table.
"Of course used sticky notes will leave traces. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find any reasonable explanation for my two strange feelings."
"oh?
"You mean the traces left when writing?
"If you write something on the first piece of paper, there will always be pen marks on the second piece of paper?"
No. 7, who originally had a poor sense of participation, but now has more and more interest, began to participate in the reasoning ambitiously.
"If so, just look carefully at the first post-it note in each stack, and you may be able to find traces of writing..."
He actually found a stack of sticky notes and looked at them. But judging from the first post-it note in each stack, it seems that no one has ever used it.
"I hope so too, but it's a pity that neither the system nor the killer left such traces.
“They just want to avoid leaving pen marks, so every time they use sticky notes, they tear them up from the bottom one.
"Just tear off the last one and copy the text on it. That way there won't be any pen marks on the remaining pile."
Meng Fei took those sticky notes in his hand.
“So it’s like these sticky note pads are new and have never been used.
"But because I had that suspicion, I counted the number of sticky notes left in each book..."
"Have you counted every one?"
No. 7 asked a little surprised.
