1223.
The year shown on the calendar is five years ago.
It seems that there were no living people here five years ago, so no one would change the calendar.
Next to him, Lu was taking a closer look at a body in the corner.
"Look, do these corpses look like those who died due to the curse?" Lu said.
There is tarry sludge on these corpses, which is exactly the same as the sludge in the dome.
"Preliminary judgment... this should be the laboratory of outsiders, who are conducting experiments on the Curse-ridden Qiongdi people." Lu said: "There are two speculations now - one is that outsiders are extracting viruses from the Bendi people.
The second is that the Curse of the Bendians is caused by a virus from the outside world. "
"Exclude the second conjecture." Su Mingan said.
The curse of the Earthbenders comes from belief in gods and communication with the void. This is a fact that has been finalized.
"Then let's consider the first guess." Lu said: "The ambitions of the outsiders are not small. They are conducting some kind of biochemical experiment... But there is no way in or out of the black wall. They entered the bend and extracted the virus from the people in the sky. So what? How about taking this virus weapon out?"
"What if the black wall collapses one day?" Su Mingan said.
When he said this, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
...Yeah, what if the black wall collapses one day?
Then these extracted, lethal viruses will be taken to the outside world like Pandora's Box. …
But it is obvious that the experimenter here is no longer there. Perhaps there was a mistake in the operation. They did not wait until the day when the black wall collapsed, and all of them were dead or missing.
"Boom-boom-boom-!"
At this time, a violent noise suddenly sounded, as if something was approaching.
"Go this way!" Lu rushed to the small door.
The environment here is too cramped. Once the cursed black beast comes after them, its size can fill the room, leaving them no room to escape.
Su Ming'an followed the road, and after twists and turns, they accidentally broke into the kitchen again.
In the kitchen, there was the smell of fried chicken wings, and Noel and Bei Wang were actually eating chicken wings here. One of them sat directly on the stove with his legs crossed, and the other leaned against the cupboard and gnawed on the chicken legs.
The body of Mocha who died of poisoning was still lying on the ground.
Su Mingan didn't expect that Nuo'er and Bei Wang had a good relationship. It was clear that the two had not had much contact with each other before.
"There is a black beast behind." Su Mingan said.
"Ah, it's okay. This is considered a safe zone. I've tried it, but the black beast can't get in." Noel's hands were greasy after eating:
"By the way, are you both real people?"
Su Mingan took out 29 feathers, which were the results of his collection along the way, and 24 collected on the side road.
Noel flipped his wrist and his feathers collected 30, and looking north was 21.
"In this way, we are not moles." Noel said: "The moles will not collect feathers so diligently, they will want to kill the players.
He said, patting the earthen pot next to him.
"Come and eat. I feel hungry for no reason. You should be hungry too." Noel said, "This is the crock pot soup I just found. It's hot. The kitchen of this castle is quite modern. There is even a microwave oven." Su Mingan and Lu remained motionless, and he smiled knowingly.
"Ah, okay." Noel scooped up a spoonful: "I'll drink it first and see if it's okay. I've tried it. The food in the backpack can't satisfy your hunger, only the food here will do. Drink it quickly."
"Some poisons will take a minute to take effect." Su Mingan said calmly.
"You still think I'm a mole?" Noel asked.
"Noel, he's not a mole." Bei Wang shook his head at the side: "He won't take action against me, all the time."
Bei Wang's way of speaking has always been concise and to the point. This is not because he is disrespectful, but because he was mute before the start of the World Game. After being cured, he is still not used to speaking.
"We only said a few words. We can't tell whether you are the mole, right?" Noel jumped down from the stove: "In that case, why not introduce yourself to each other and see if there is any discrepancy with the real information? ?
I believe that there must be a way to crack this kind of decryption game, so that we will not let the blind cat catch the mouse. "
"We don't understand each other. Who can tell if you lie?" The kitchen door suddenly opened.
A brown-haired, somewhat unruly Herbert walked in.
He was probably hungry, so he ran to the kitchen.
"Since we are all together, it doesn't hurt to communicate for a while!" Noel said with a smile: "Our feathers add up to more than 100. We can just hand them in at noon on the third day."
"I agree, it's best to communicate." Lu affirmed gently.
Herbert fell silent.
"You can talk about your identity, wishes, and dreams. It would be great if we all express our true feelings together!" Noel said happily: "We are a family that loves each other, how can we give up understanding each other just because of a game?
"..." After he finished speaking, no one spoke for a while, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
"Then let's start with me." Noel said: "I am from the New World Guild, an adventurer who longs for adventure. My wish... is to play more interesting games and have interesting adventures...
Several people listened quietly, and Su Mingan suddenly said.
"Is that all?" he said.
"Ah, Su Mingan, we signed a contract at the amusement park, right? I want to create a brave new world with you, so that everyone can play happily together..." Noel said.
Su Mingan didn't speak anymore.
The next turn is Lu.
"The Peak Alliance." Lu turned to look at him: "This is something only the two of us know, Su Mingan, please remember."
"Um."
"My analysis just now...you should have initially agreed that I am the way to go, right?"
"Reluctantly approved."
"Okay." Lu said, "I'm from Australia, a very ordinary arms dealer. I think everyone knows who I am, so I won't say much about it. My wish is to create a good future environment. , so that the world's post-game pattern can be peaceful and stable."
Next came Bei Wang, who didn't say much. After all, apart from the road, they didn't know much about him.
Herbert even briefly mentioned his background and name, then remained silent.
"In this case, you two are very suspicious." Noel said.
"It's boring, you can continue to play house." Herbert turned around: "I'm going to see if the cursed black beast outside is gone..."
"Hiss, hiss" a slight thread sounded.
Before Herbert had time to go out, his body suddenly stagnated!
The next moment, his body suddenly fell apart and was cut open by silk threads. A large amount of blood burst out, startling Beiwang.
Noel, who suddenly kills someone, has a cold look in his eyes
"It seems that Herbert is the mole." Noel said: "He is a smart man. He should know that such an act of turning around and leaving will be suspected, but he still does it."
"In this way, the criterion for judging moles is whether they have a guilty conscience." Lu said: "After all, moles know that they are moles - even if they simulate exactly the same as the players, they must also know that they are moles. That’s the only difference between the two.”
That's the question he asked before the game.
[Does the mole know that he is a mole? 】At this moment, when judging identity, this simple question plays an extremely important role.
"That's it." Su Mingan said.
At this time, Yuan Shuangshuang's walkie-talkie suddenly started to move:
[Yuan Shuangshuang: I really want to eat chicken wings. 】【Yuan Shuangshuang: Before you come to rescue me, can you bring me a chicken wing? 】【Su Mingan: OK. 】Su Mingan took a chicken wing that was poisonous or not and stuffed it into the inventory. Yuan Shuangshuang looked very happy.
[Yuan Shuangshuang: Thank you. 】【Yuan Shuangshuang: But I'm still so sleepy and my body is so soft】[Su Ming'an: Do you know any other information? 】【Yuan Shuangshuang: I'm not far underground. Come to the laboratory to find me. 】【Su Mingan: OK. 】It seems that chicken wings are not poisonous.
Su Ming'an gave her some earthen pot soup to drink, but it was still not poisonous.
"Who are you giving something to?" Noel asked doubtfully, "Aren't you going to eat it?"
"Eat it." Su Ming'an ate half of the chicken leg - Yuan Shuangshuang had tried the other half. Her poison testing machine was very useful.
"By the way, have you noticed that all the windows in this castle have been nailed shut, and even the mirrors have been broken?" Su Mingan said suddenly.
"Does this mean," Noel said, "that the black beast is afraid of mirrors?"
"..." Su Mingmin: "This means there is something wrong with the glass."
"Ah, is that so..." Noel said.
They entered a room.
In the room, there was an unlit display screen.
After staring at the screen for a second, Su Mingan suddenly struck back with a knife!
The chaos of the black python's authority covered the blade, and Noel was stabbed into the abdomen, instantly opening a huge hole.
"What are you doing!" Noel was shocked.
"Shouldn't your first reaction be that I am a mole?" Su Mingan said.
"How is that possible? You don't look like that." Noel said.
"No, I am the traitor." Su Mingan said, "I will kill you."
The silver light flashed in Noel's hand, and he stabbed Su Mingan's throat with his sword while shouting:
"Did anyone hear this? Su Mingan is the traitor! He wants to kill me!"
The sound echoed in the empty castle, echoing in the silent space like a ghost building.
Beiwang and Lu were shocked when they saw this, and they immediately stepped forward to help Noel - a
"boom-!"
Su Mingan directly collapsed the ceiling of the corridor, huge rocks fell in front of him, and Noel lost his voice.
Su Mingan looked at his sanity level and saw that it had not improved. Maybe Noel was not dead.
Of course he's not a mole.
He just wanted to see Noel's reaction.
It seems that Noel, whose first reaction after being attacked was to kill him, is really a mole.
"Yisu Mingan is the traitor! He is attacking Noel!" Lu Hebeiwang's voice came from the other side of the boulder,
Su Ming'an did not pursue it. He heard the footsteps of the cursed black beast.
The door was blocked by huge rocks. He stepped inside and observed the room.
This is a conference room, with chairs tilted here and there, and several black corpses with vague faces on the floor.
When he saw no one behind him through the reflection of the display screen, he knew that these people were behind him.
He must not be a player.
…No wonder the castle has all its windows and mirrors covered.
Because they have one thing in common.
Will reflect light.
Once it reflects the light, you can see the real scene.
He walked into the room and suddenly found a black-haired girl sitting at the opposite table, her calves swaying.
"Who are you?" Su Mingan asked.
"You didn't recognize me right away this time," the girl said.
"Are you Yueyue?" Su Mingan said.
"Yeah." The girl smiled.
Su Mingan directly raised his hand, and Wu Lang gave him a knife.
In the severe pain, he saw the smiling black-haired girl slowly disappear.
Seeing Yueyue's hallucination made him understand that he was indeed in a low sanity state, and the person he just killed couldn't be a real player.
His hand touched the display screen in the room, as if he pressed some switch, and the screen began to play automatically.
[On April 13, 1223, recorded in the eastern castle of Dome, the speaker is Dr. Sasse. 】On the screen, there is a bald middle-aged man in protective clothing, and the background is a relatively tidy conference room.
This is a screen recording taken here five years ago.
The middle-aged man faced the camera with a smile and spoke loudly:
"So far, our team has found a solution to extract the virus through experiments on the bodies of the people in the sky at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon."
"The natural disaster in the dome is about to erupt. We have observed that there is a risk of volcanic eruption here. We are about to evacuate here and go to the edge of the black wall to wait."
"We have used the launcher to trigger the curse of the sky. When a crisis that is enough to destroy the world comes, people's faith will greatly increase. The Bai God we have shaped for a long time will definitely appear."
"At the same time, we have created a "faith extraction instrument" - 'faith' is not that mysterious. It is just a kind of energy, similar to electric energy and wind energy. As long as it is used properly, it can also be shared and used on a large scale.
When the Baishen appears, we can absorb the energy of Sleeve's faith and use it to overthrow the black wall, and we will return to the outside world with virus weapons. "
"We believe that war is not a despised act of killing lives, but a necessary means to maintain peace. We are using the virus war method to eliminate heresy and tyranny and ensure peace. Please support President Calcha's vote."
"Oh, wait, what's that noise outside?"
The screen suddenly began to shake and became bloody.
The researcher responsible for recording at the back suddenly started vomiting blood.
"Why did you start vomiting blood? Protective measures are in place, how could you be infected with the curse?" the middle-aged man said, and he also started vomiting blood.
He stared at an angle, as if staring at someone who suddenly broke in.
"Experimental Subject No. 1? Isn't she locked up? How did she break in? Where are the security guards?" He screamed in horror.
"Duo!"
Blood flowers suddenly bloomed in large swaths, dyeing the scene a translucent red.
The people in the picture fell one after another, and soon rotted, melted, and turned into black mud. Various tissues exploded in front of the camera, and drops of black blood slid down the screen.
A girl with purple hair walked into the camera. Her clothes were marked "No. 1".
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