Chapter 709: Outside the Rules
Hearing the other party's brainless question, Ye Shuo was slightly stunned, and responded: "No, what?"
The middle-aged man lowered his voice mysteriously: "That's it...... You should have noticed that every time the 'game' starts, there will be a hint of the number of people remaining?"
Ye Shuo nodded: "Well, it's 27 people, right?" Saying this, he suddenly realized something: "Ah, you said 'every time', so you also recovered your memory?"
The middle-aged man's voice was lowered: "Don't worry about so many ...... The two people who died, I know were in our room. But there's another ......" glancing at the man next to him, "I asked this one, he's from the fifth room, and he said they hadn't killed anyone before. As for the first two rooms that can be ruled out, then now we are left with the third room. ”
"We really haven't killed anyone!" Ye Shuo was also a little impatient, "You...... What do you want to illustrate?"
Since the second reincarnation, Ye Shuo has not paid much attention to the remaining number of people reported each time. Since there is reincarnation, that is, no matter how many people die, they will be resurrected, and this number is meaningless. In contrast, he chooses to spend his time "exploring" and "changing".
The middle-aged man finally began to lose his breath: "But, no matter how you think about it, it's strange, right? Since everyone has been teleported at the beginning of the game, even if you want to do it, it can't happen so quickly, so the only possibility is to die last night!"
"So...... So what?" Ye Shuo was confused by him.
Seeing that the other party was still confused, the middle-aged man was full of helplessness, and could only make his words clear: "Don't you understand? Now there are only two dead people who can be determined, who is the remaining one? Could it be that he was excluded from the competitors in the first place? Why can he get such preferential treatment? Is he the organizer, or is he an undercover agent sent to us by the organizer?!"
After saying so many words in a row, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but glare at Ye Shuo fiercely. I don't know if he really has such a low IQ, or if he deliberately pretended to be stupid to deceive his own information. When he talked to the people in the fifth room just now, it quickly resonated!
"Anyway, the people who died last night, I just went back to the room to confirm that their bodies are gone. In this reincarnation, let's try our best to confirm the identities of other people, we must see people in life, and we must see corpses in death, and we must not leave a transparent person among us!
Glancing at his companion beside him, the middle-aged man continued to conclude: "We are in three rooms, now let's make an agreement, in the next reincarnation, don't kill anyone in any way the night before, and pay attention to the report of the remaining number of people the next day!
This short-lived temporary alliance was thus formed. After the two left, Ye Shuo and the others discussed again, and they all subconsciously thought of one person.
If someone was excluded from the rules from the beginning, it was probably Duanmuzhi! So every time he "played", he never participated in it.
No...... But if this is the case, after everyone fights each other and determines the final winner, they are guaranteed by [the remaining 1 person], and they must relax their vigilance, and Duanmu Zhi will secretly attack as a transparent person...... Then there can be no winner in this game from the start......
But what's the point of waiting? Even if the organizers really want to kill them all here, why do they have to leave this infinite reincarnation? If that Duanmu Zhi is really the organizer's side, he will accompany them to be trapped here endlessly, so what is the difference between that and an ordinary "contestant"? Or maybe the middle-aged man just now was too nervous, causing them to be suspicious and suspicious?
"By the way, Xi Hanjun, when you were reincarnated last time, you said that you had something to show me, what was that?" Duanmu Zhi's question, even if he thought about it now, there would be no answer, Ye Shuo thought of another thing.
Last time, Xi Hanjun took him back to the room because he found a clue to crack reincarnation, but unfortunately Zhong Yanyan laid a trap in the room early, making the exploration give up halfway. Instead of continuing to cling to those groundless things, it is better to take a look at Xi Hanjun's discovery first, maybe that is the real key to solving the mystery!
For Xi Hanjun, if Ye Shuo was a little resistant because of his identity as a demon at first, but after he sacrificed his life to save him in the last reincarnation, Ye Shuo really regarded him as a good brother who could live and die. He is really different from Zhong Yanyan's kind of person!
Hearing Ye Shuo's question, Xi Hanjun quickly nodded: "Everyone come with me." ”
Coming to the third room again, Ye Shuo ate a trench, grew wise, first used the expertise of the formation mage, and carefully checked that there was no mechanism in the room before signaling everyone to enter.
Xi Hanjun didn't delay too much, walked straight to the windowsill, and turned the potted plant slightly: "This is it." Let's take a closer look at this bonsai. ”
There are five leaves hanging on the bare branches, and three of them lie quietly in the soil at the bottom of the pot. Other than that, nothing is out of the ordinary.
"Is there something wrong?" Ye Shuo looked at the potted plant over and over again, and finally shrugged his shoulders. He is a layman to plants, and he doesn't even know anything about the flower language that girls like to pay attention to. simply stopped wasting brain cells, just waiting for Xi Hanjun to explain.
Next, Xi Hanjun completely retold the explanation he had made to Zhong Yanyan. It's just that the number of total reincarnations has been changed from seven to eight.
The branch of the potted plant was supposed to have four leaves hanging from it. Zhong Yanyan cast a spell on it, and sprinkled the basin with the demon's special "Phantom Fragrance Konjac".
This object emits a special fragrance that wafts into the air and is not easily noticeable when inhaled, but it causes special hallucinations. The illusion depends entirely on the caster's spell, as if four leaves were seen as five. Sometimes the tiniest trick is, the easier it is to leave people defenseless.
In each room, Zhong Yanyan left the same arrangement in the potted plants, but the number of leaves varied. This is to confuse the number of reincarnations, so that even if some people are lucky enough to regain their consciousness and notice the secrets in the bonsai, it will be difficult to get a glimpse of the real mysteries.
After Xi Hanjun's explanation came to an end, Feng Qiu pondered for a long time and nodded: "It is indeed possible." Didn't that piece of paper come out of a potted plant during the first reincarnation? If there were leaves in the pot at that time, you would definitely notice it!"
Holding down Ye Shuo's habitually grasping hand to the scalp, he continued: "Besides, everything will return to its original state after reincarnation, including the injuries we have suffered, but this potted plant will change, this alone is very revealing!"
Xi Hanjun said curiously: "What piece of paper?"
After Feng Qiu's explanation, he learned that the paper was originally recorded with the name of the person who could not find the room, and whether or not he ticked the box or not, he still had to insert the paper back into the potted plant, and this back and forth, at that time, there was only a bare piece of dirt in the pot, which anyone could see. It's just that when you don't know it, no one will necessarily pay much attention.
I see, that's another hint. Xi Hanjun nodded secretly. Draw attention to this bonsai and the fact that there are no leaves in the pot. But if this prompt is repeated again and again, it becomes very obvious for those who already have memories to add more leaves...... That's why this program is only available once.
But how could the organizers have known that the names were recorded on pieces of paper because a few of us didn't find the room, and it served as a hint to the people in the room? In other words, what if everyone had already found the room?
I'm afraid it's just one or more differences...... After thinking about it for a while, Xi Hanjun's eyes suddenly lit up. If Duanmuzhi is really a person who is "outside the rules", he is meant to be used as a reminder from the beginning, that is, no matter how many of us are, the pieces of paper will definitely appear...... This inference should not be wrong, and sure enough, he is getting more and more suspicious......
"Although we don't know what to do yet, we must work hard in the direction of allowing everyone to recover their memories!" After learning the win-win method of "everyone is awake and it can be over", Ye Shuo clenched his fists, raised his arms, and shouted to everyone.
Sure enough, all he could think of was something of this level...... Xi Hanjun shook his head secretly. But it's okay, it's precisely because you have such a mind that you have perfectly stepped into Zhong Yanyan's trap, or rather...... My trap.
"That'...... What should Pang Zuo do?" After several people reached a consensus, Feng Qiu brought up another troublesome character.
"Pang Zuo, ......" Ye Shuo heard this name again, and felt his temples swell. This fat man is like an unbroken curse, he has been entangled with himself since the first round, he is not left, nor is he killed, and the three deaths are all caused by him. Speaking of him now, it really makes me helpless.
"Then let's make peace with him!" Bai Yun proposed after a long silence.
"I believe that no one is born a bad person, even Pang Zuo, he just wants to live. If you discuss it with him, you might be able to make him a companion!"
Even Bai Yun, who was the kindest, had a faint hesitation in her voice at this time, obviously she didn't dare to make a full guarantee about whether she could persuade Pang Zuo.
Ye Shuo raised his forehead: "For this ...... I have reservations. He always felt that the consequences of doing so would lead to Pang Zuo pretending to repent, but at the last moment he turned his face again and achieved a death ending 4: the country is easy to change, and his nature is difficult to change.
"But next, let's use Duanmuzhi's method first to test which people have recovered their memories!"
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In front of a utility room at the end of the corridor on the second floor, the closed door panel was slowly pushed open. Yu Ning, who was huddled in the corner, raised her head tremblingly, and shrank behind the wooden boxes piled up on the side.
A ray of light shot through the crack in the door, and was immediately obscured by the figure that entered with it.
"Great...... So the first person I met was you!" Then there was a call of surprise.
"I'm so scared alone, can you come with me?" the girl looked at her pitifully, her hands clasped lightly on her chest, and made a pleading gesture.
“…… Sorry, no!"
As soon as the words fell, a dagger appeared in Yu Ning's hand and stabbed into the girl's heart.
"I'm sorry, I always feel that if I don't kill you, I will die myself......" Looking at the corpse of the girl who fell to the ground, Yu Ning clasped her hands in front of her chest and made a final confession to her.
Although I don't know why I have such a premonition, it is so real, and when she faces the girl again, she also has a disgust for no reason, even murder...... The first time she killed someone, she didn't feel much guilt.
silently despised such a cold-blooded self in his heart, and then Yu Ning hurriedly stood up, bowed deeply to the girl's corpse, and then ran out of the utility room quickly.
Standing at the entrance of the corridor divided into two columns, Yu quietly stared at the deep corridor. That direction was the direction where she and the girl were worshiped by the Divine Fire Hall and killed three times. Although she doesn't have any memories of the past, there is still a kind of subconscious resistance in her heart.
"Over there...... There's always a bad feeling. Let's go in a different direction. ”
Yu Ning bit her lip and resolutely ran to another corridor.
In the darkness, she saw a figure in the distance ahead. Leaning against the wall, he was richly dressed, his shoulders were adorned with shaggy fur, and his long aqua blue hair was draped down. When he heard the footsteps, he slowly straightened up, turned his head slightly, and showed a deep smile at her, full of enchantment.
"You're coming later than I thought. ”
Yu Ning's hands clenched in his sleeves and took two steps back in fear. She recognized this man...... It was in the room last night that accused Ye Shuo's Duanmu Zhi. Although he did not show hostility towards himself last night...... But in such an environment, who is not a potential enemy?
"Are you ready?" Duanmu Zhi still had that bewitching smile on his face, and he moved forward step by step, as if he didn't notice her panic at all, "Do you want to be a predator, or do you want to remain weak and still be a predator?"
Yu Ning mustered up his courage and shook his head vigorously: "I don't understand this, I just want to live well, I want to get out of here!"
Duanmu Zhi's smile flashed a little gloomy in an instant, "Even if you live by stepping on other people's corpses, do you still have this awareness?"
Yu Ning hesitated, but under Duanmu Zhi's gaze, somehow, her gaze became firm, and then she nodded heavily: "Hmm!"
It was like a nightmare, as if I had died many times. Although I can't remember the specific details, the feeling of death is really painful and sad...... Never want to experience it again. If I have to die, or someone else die...... Then let the others die!
Duanmu Zhi was already standing in front of her at this time, and Yu Ning's decision was only expected: "Very good, then let me help you-"
In his hands, a cloud of black gas ignited, cold and evil, like the flames of hell. The next moment, in Yu Ning's frightened but still firm gaze, Duanmu Zhi's arm was sent and the black qi was pushed straight into her chest!
At this moment, Yu Ning's whole body was wrapped in black mist, and the originally weak and thin demonic qi was also rising in the increase of black mist. The slender ten fingers turned into sharp claws, strange blood lines spread out between their foreheads, and their long hair flew up at the back of their heads, floating without wind. A black gas crossed his eyes, and then a trace of blood quietly appeared, and soon his clear eyes turned into a hideous blood red.
(End of chapter)