The Explorer's Medal led Bai Ye to a charred black iron cabinet leaning against the corner.

"The treasure clue is hidden in here?"

The iron cabinet looked inconspicuous, and if it weren't for the guidance of the medal, Bai Ye might have ignored it even if he passed in front of it.

Squeak!

He stepped forward and opened the cabinet door, revealing a mass of leather-wrapped objects inside.

And when he lifted the leather and saw what was underneath it, the look on his face was immediately replaced by horror.

Under the leather, there is a boy holding his hands and feet and curled up in a ball!

He looked to be only five or six years old, with no signs of fire on his body, his eyelids were tightly closed, and his lips were blue and purple, and there was no breath of life.

"There was a fire outside, I hid in the cabinet and covered my body with leather, although I was not burned to death, but I also died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen."

Whether this is in an imaginary game world or in reality, the misfortunes of the little boy are always sympathetic......

Bai Ye examined the boy's corpse and noticed that there was a key-shaped pendant hanging from his neck, and his left hand was still clutching a piece of cloth.

He took the piece of cloth out first, and found that it was actually a mask sewn together from the pieces of cloth.

The patterns on the mask are not as interesting as children's toys, but are stained with bloodstains, hideous and terrifying, showing a strange and evil atmosphere.

【Evil Voodoo Mask】

【Type: Rare ornament】

[Load: 10]

[Introduction: A visor tainted with an evil aura that someone seems to want to use to accomplish some kind of ritual.] (If you successfully scare a Survivor while wearing this ornament, the chance of them falling into 'True Fear' is increased by 30%).

[Effect: Contaminating the evil aura on the mask will cause you to fall into a brief mania.] 】

"The function is actually to enhance the scary effect? Doesn't look like an ornament used by survivors? ”

Bai Ye then remembered the 'Jaw Ripper' he had stored in the storage box, and its conditions mentioned the 'Dark Personality'.

"Could it be that this cosmetic is also for the Dark Personality player?"

So if we use the effect on this ornament to reverse the deduction......

"Do players with dark personalities need to scare other survivors in the game?"

Isn't this the antithesis of those normal personality players?

"Wait......"

From this point, Bai Ye suddenly thought of the scorched grimace monster he had just encountered.

Looking at what the other party is doing, it seems that the purpose is to scare people!

"Could it be...... That guy is the 'dark personality'?

He's actually a gamer, not an NPC in the game setting?! ”

Thinking of this, a look of surprise appeared on Bai Ye's face.

After all, his first two games were played on a single player, and he didn't meet other gamers.

Although he encountered this game, these players appeared to be teammates from the same camp on the surface, so he defined them all as "survivors" like himself out of inertia.

And now, judging from all kinds of suspicious signs, the identity of the player who enters the game is not fixed.

They may be teammates or rivals......

Next, he removed the key pendant from the boy's neck.

【Basement Key】

[Type: Common scene props]

[Load: 5]

[Description: It can open a locked door in the basement.] 】

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ID: O Ding Ri K

This is a studio player.

Because of his unique game ID, he is often 'affectionately' called 'Ding Ri' by his studio colleagues.

Ding Ri is a persistent player, once in a game, because he suspected that the NPC had clues to the hidden mission, he persistently accompanied the frustrated and poor novelist 'Orpheus' to pour more than a dozen glasses of whiskey spirits.

His sincerity impressed the already drunken novelist, and he succeeded in getting a 'regulator' character from the other party.

When Orpheus sobers up, he feels that as a gentleman, he should keep his promise, even if it's just a drunken joke.

He told Ding Ri that he would start writing the text when he had finished deducing the specific storyline, and that he would change the original 'Regulator' role to Ding Ri's ID name.

At the end of that game, Ding Ri received a letter from Orpheus.

The novelist wrote that he had completed the plot deduction and sent the backup manuscript along with the letter to Ding Ri for review.

After receiving the attachment, Ding Ri was given a special identity called 'Overseer', and the backup manuscript was used as an identifier.

He couldn't be happier, it was his first special status, and he became the first player in their studio to have a special status.

However, when Ding Ri combined the identity of 'regulator' with his own 'personality' to generate personality.

However, he was told by the system that this personality was a different kind of 'dark personality', and that in order to synthesize it, he had to complete the trial of the dark personality first.

Then, everything seemed to be set in advance, and his next game was positioned by the system.

He arrives at the scene portrayed in Orpheus's novel, 'the munitions factory after the fire'.

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After entering the game, Ding Ri found that he had become a character named 'Leo Baker', and his special identity, props and items on his body were sealed by the system.

He can only use Leo Baker's abilities next.

"Isn't that the 'regulator' role I'm going to replace?"

Ding Ri immediately discovered the problem.

"Obviously, in the backup manuscript, its name has been changed to my ID name, but why ......?"

Ding Ri was a clever man, and he quickly figured out why.

The gentleman novelist Orpheus apparently did not fulfill his promise.

He deceived Ding Ri by only changing the 'Regulator' to Ding Ri's ID name in the backup manuscript.

In the official works, the supervisor still uses the name 'Leo Baker'.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, this dark personality is already in hand."

Even if Ding Ri wanted to think about it, he couldn't help it, and now he couldn't return to the plane where the novelist Orpheus was.

Next, Ding Ri checked himself first.

After being incarnated as 'Leo Baker', he became a severely burned man by fire...... An image that has been completely charred and burned.

"yes, it seems that in that novel, Leo Baker was killed in that fire at the munitions factory."

He no-clipped out his attribute interface and found that the three postures of the survivor were all locked, and a strange state appeared next to him - a spirit.

[Spirit: You have become a spirit, which is not visible to players who have not mastered the relevant skills, and cannot deal damage to any target.] -80% vision radius, +50% movement speed, and can pierce through objects. 】

Then, in the skill bar below, Ding Ri noticed that he had two more skills.

[Manifestation: You in spirit form can temporarily manifest in any environment to frighten the target. 】

[Raven Servant: The spirit enters the body of the crow raised by Leo Baker during his lifetime, and uses the crow's vision to find the target victim. 】

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