The footsteps outside the door lingered for a few times before finally leaving. Xu Huo looked at the people in the room and thanked the female player in the peaked hat who pulled him in.
The female player waved her hands indifferently, "Maris asked me to do this."
There were six people in the room. In addition to Maris, the female player in the peaked cap and their other partner wearing a scarf, there was also the woman they rescued during the day, and two male players who were seriously injured.
Maris greeted Xu Huo and invited him to join his discussion.
"We are studying the layout of the restaurant," the female player in the peaked hat said: "Where did you come from?"
Xu Huo glanced at the paper placed on the bed. On it was drawn a partial layout from the dining room to the guest room area, the direction of the corridor, the location of the rooms, and the house number.
"Entering the corridor area from the restaurant, go to the right and there are about six rooms to where we are," Maris said. "These two friends came from the other side, and they counted about six rooms."
He meant the left.
Xu Huo picked up a pen and made some corrections on it, "Room 55 is past Room 172, and Room 172 is facing the warehouse."
"Isn't that closed?" said the female player in the peaked hat: "This corridor is a circle."
"It should be a hexagon," the woman who had just started to evolve said, holding back her discomfort: "There are two rooms in the corridor directly opposite the restaurant. Turning to the left is Room 172, which has only one room. Turning further is Room 55, and the other three rooms. There are two rooms in each corridor, and the corridors with two rooms are almost as long as the single-room corridors. Except for the corridor directly opposite the restaurant, there is an open space outside the other rooms."
"Outside No. 172 is a warehouse, which is at least three times larger than outside other rooms." Xu Huo added.
"It's a hexagon on the inside and an arc on the outside. It looks a bit like a flower when it's drawn." The peaked cap looked over and said, "But this place shouldn't be able to hide dozens of people. Where is the place opposite the warehouse?"
Xu Huo shook his head, "The restaurant has two roads. Maybe the other side is the same as ours."
After a pause, he added: "When I came here just now, I found that the road from the restaurant has disappeared."
Maris and others were startled, "Can't you find the restaurant?"
"Did you see it wrong?" asked the female player in the peaked hat: "How could the restaurant disappear? It should be open at night."
"The restaurant will be open at night?" Xu Huo asked, "Is the news accurate?"
"Ci Huamao is the restaurant we arrived at yesterday." Maris pointed at an injured player and said, "Ci Huamao is his player nickname."
The player nicknamed Li Huamao was not in a good state of mind. He hesitated and said: "I couldn't enter the room last night. I hid on the beam all night and saw a player coming back from the restaurant."
Now that Xu Huo said that the road to the restaurant had disappeared, other players inevitably doubted the authenticity of this statement. The player Li Huomao sat up and explained the process carefully, "There are props on the roof, and there is a restaurant underground. The employees were moving around, so I would change places every once in a while. When it was almost dawn, I saw a player coming from the direction of the restaurant... Although I didn't see him walking out directly, he had the smell of food on him, which I smelled in the restaurant during the day. The smell."
"The restaurant didn't publish any voting details, so I think the difficulty with this copy was getting the voting rules," Maris said. "A restaurant at night was the most likely place. I thought anyone could just avoid the restaurant staff." Restaurant accessible.”
In this process, the highest risk is for the staff. Now Xu Huo said that the road leading to the restaurant has disappeared, which undoubtedly increases the risk - you have to find a way to the restaurant first.
"I thought the restaurant staff had regular activity times, but I didn't expect..."
The female player in the peaked hat explained to Xu Huo the rules that Maris had summarized before, which was a relatively safe time of more than two hours.
"But he just met the staff. Maybe those people made noises on purpose to mislead us." The female player in the peaked cap said.
Xu Huo didn't think so. The lame butcher was very fast. If he was linked to "knock knocking", it would be reasonable for this person to appear anywhere in the restaurant at any time. There was no inducement by sound, and other activities were in The props on the ceiling also belong to him. On the contrary, the raincoat cleaner and the person who may be the third staff member rummaging through the cargo boxes have not appeared for a long time, which just proves that their activities have a certain pattern.
The key lies in the conditions that elicit him.
But he was more concerned about another thing now. He asked the player Li Huamao, "Did you see that player today?"
Player Li Huamao shook his head, "There were not many players who showed up at the restaurant when the store opened this morning compared to yesterday, but when I entered the restaurant there were already a lot of people, so I don't know if these people stayed here yesterday or just arrived. .”
"Do you know how many people ate deer antler soup yesterday and voted for it?" Xu Huo asked again.
"I asked about this just now," Maris answered on his behalf, "He can't remember clearly."
That's right, I just can't remember clearly, because players are on a first-come, first-served basis, and because the first three days are free, except for three meals a day, you can order food at any time as long as you are hungry, so don't mention the first-come, first-served players. Menus, menus made up by later players, and players who move around to temporarily win over allies or change places as the restaurant changes. Some people even change their faces after entering the restaurant... This is no longer a hundred players, but hundreds of dishes. Just a simple arithmetic problem.
Moreover, most people won’t shout out when ordering. You can only know what you are eating when you see the actual food, which also slightly increases the difficulty.
What’s even more troublesome is that players should not rely on the reduction in the number of people to reduce the difficulty of voting, because the people who died yesterday will be replaced today. It seems that there are dozens and hundreds of people on any day, and if you want to count these hundreds of people It is probably more difficult for people to vote uniformly than to train a hundred ducks to salute.
"Actually, there is a simple way, which is to seal the ballot box and interfere with the voting process." Maris looked at Xu Huo, "But this requires the cooperation of enough players."
"I have no problem," Xu Huo responded readily, "But one thing is, why do you ask everyone to order the same dish?"
According to his inference, the possibility of "today's best" appearing in meat dishes is very high. In a special place like Bauhinia Restaurant, ordinary players do not dare to challenge meat dishes. Even if they can use props to check, subsequent players will also come in because of this. Not knowing the rules will prevent you from being confused and refusing to cooperate.
"Since we have to vote, I'm afraid it won't work if too many people abstain."
In other words, the shortcut of banning others from voting is also unworkable.
(End of chapter)
