Forest of the Dead: Civilization Ruins

[Hints so far:]

[One-eyed: Upper player: A woman among the 6 veteran players; Next player: The man with the scar on his hand]

[J: Upper player: A man who has a heart; Lower Player: Killing Machine]

[Caesar: Upper player: Black-haired rookie player; Lower player: The man who used to be wrapped in gauze]

[Arthur: Upper player: The little girl with red eyes; Lower Player: Male in the Big Three of the Upper Circle]

[Icarus: Upper player: A man under the age of thirty-five; Lower Player: Man in Gas Mask]

[Black Blade: Upper player: Player with different pupils; Lower Player: Player with glasses]

[Colin: Upper Player: Male in the Big Three of the Upper Circle; Lower player: Little girl with blonde hair]

[Ogar: Upper player: a person who is no more than 1.7m tall; a lower player: a person whose appearance is the least commensurate with the codename]

[Duke: Upper player: Blonde-haired player; Lower player: The man with the scar on his face]

[Mars: Upper Player: Proud Female Killer; Next player: Woman with short silver hair]

[Lorraine: Upper player: A man with a scar on his face; Player next: A man who cherishes his hair]

The heavy stone door cut off the king cobra outside the door, and the beauty and Lorraine leaned against the stone door, panting.

Lorraine's heart was beating fast, she could still hear the screams of the king cobra in her ears, her face was still stained with the mucus spewing out of the king cobra, the scene of life and death seemed to be right in front of her, she could still feel the suffocation of the king cobra tightly entangled around her, the suffocation that spread from her chest to the throat, and the helplessness of clutching the scales of the king cobra's tail around her.

"Huhu...... Your life is really ......" The beauty glanced at Lorraine and chuckled, "I was entangled in such a cobra just now, and someone actually saved you and blinded the snake's eyes." ”

"Someone save me?" Lorraine raised her hand to wipe the king cobra's mucus off her cheek, "Didn't you shoot just now?" ”

"Me? I don't have that much ability, and I can move a king cobra from a distance. The beauty leaned against the slate and straightened her long silky hair.

Lorraine frowned slightly: "I remember, there were three gunshots just now, and when I heard the first gunshot, I found out that there was a king cobra in the ruins, and then two gunshots rang out, which sounded when I was entangled by the snake, at that time I was tied up by the king cobra, and I only knew that someone blinded the snake's eyes and stopped the king cobra that was going to bite me in time......"

The beauty raised her head, pointed her chin with her fingers, blinked her eyes and recalled: "Yes, I hid behind the pillar, and I didn't see who fired the gun, but I only saw you running over, and the snake behind you was still chasing you and biting." ”

The beauty stood up and walked over to the idol in the room, looking at the dusty idol.

It was a black idol with a human body and a dog's head, painted black, and with a decoration similar to that of an Egyptian pharaoh, it was naked, with a golden cloth around its lower body, a golden bracelet on its wrist, and a slender staff in both hands, and a golden balance carved on the stone wall behind it, and this idol stood in the center of the scale, with a pair of dark eyes looking ahead, as if looking at the person being judged, and about to make a just verdict.

This is Anubis.

Anubis, the god of death in Egyptian mythology, is in charge of hell, mainly responsible for the weighing of the scale of judgment, that is, to place a just feather on one side of the scale, and the heart of the deceased on the other side, if the heart is equal to the weight of the feather, then the person can ascend to heaven and live forever with the gods, if the feather is heavier than the heart, the person is guilty, will be sent to hell, will be eaten by the devil.

The Minghe River System fuses the Egyptian pyramids with the ruins of the Mayan civilization to create the ruins of another non-existent prehistoric civilization as a virtual scene for this game, but in terms of specific details, it still follows the ancient civilization symbols found in real archaeology.

This Anubis is one of them.

The temple of Nuoda, it is alone in its sacrificial house, and time seems to have stopped passing here, and the secret will be hidden forever.

"What, you just met another player?" The beauty looked at her, a little curious.

“…… No. Lorraine looked away and didn't look at her. I was wandering around the cemetery just now, and I was chased by a mountain ghost, but I didn't expect to encounter a king cobra here. ”

Lorraine's eyes wandered a little, deliberately concealing the encounter with the Duke and Mars in the cemetery.

She admits that lying is not good, but she doesn't want these things to be known to too many people.

First, she was mostly skeptical about what the Duke said, especially about her mother, she admitted that she saw the true hatred in the Duke's eyes, but she didn't want to believe that her mother would be a third party, and she was actually a junior who used the bargaining chips after cheating.

Second, she has confirmed that she is an undercover police agent, so if it is not necessary, she should not reveal too much information about herself in the game, she does not know if anyone is monitoring their players' every move while the game is playing, but for the sake of caution, she should still disguise herself as a player who knows nothing about herself and the past, so this is the best way to protect herself.

After all, if the manipulator behind the [Minghe System] knows that he is not a real criminal, I am afraid that he will quietly solve himself.

Therefore, the best way is to be a "dumb".

Thinking so, Lorraine raised her head and looked at the beauty: "What about you?" Beauty, you've been hiding here? ”

"It's not like I've been hiding, but I just happened to be chased here by those mountain ghosts." The beauty played with the ends of her silky hair, "After the third alarm sounded, that forest was already a Shura field, but it was safer to hide in this ruin." ”

She's right, the NPCs have all turned into mountain ghosts, and no matter how many they kill, they will still keep coming out of the ground.

This forest grows on the body of the deceased.

Forest of the Revenant.

Forest of the Dead.

Everywhere in the forest, there are resentful spirits, and there are mountain ghosts who ask for their lives. They are looking for a substitute, a warm and fragile prey, and they want to drag that prey into the abyss of death as well.

"Who are your next players?" Lorraine looked at her curiously.

The beauty smiled faintly: "You look so unhurried now, it seems that you should not be my neighbor player." ”

"Well, the hints on the two cards I got don't feel like you."

"Oh? What does it say on your card? ”

The beauty raised her eyebrows in interest, Lorraine took out two cards from her pocket, and the beauty took the two bloodstained cards from her hand-

One card is the [Upper Player in the Food Chain]: a man with a scar on his face.

The other card is [Lower Player in the Food Chain]: a man who cherishes his hair.

"It seems that your neighbors are all men, Lorraine, and your peach blossom luck is pretty good." The beauty smiled slightly.

Lorraine was speechless for a moment, and looked away a little sneeringly.

She's not like a beauty, she likes to joke all the time.

"A man with a scar on his face...... It's Mars, it's too obvious, this hint. ”

"yes, that's why I was chased by him just now."

Lorraine lowered his eyes, and the helplessness in his eyes couldn't help but increase a little.

Someone she trusted just a few minutes ago was now hunting her down.

this game.

It's really a game that tests human nature.

The friendship between people, in the face of egoism, is not worth mentioning at all.

Here, only interests come first.

"But if he wants to kill you, why did he shoot you when the king cobra attacked you?" The beauty was slightly puzzled.

Lorraine shook his head: "I don't know. Maybe he thinks I saved him at the cemetery before, so he saved me this time, and now that we're even, he can justifiably attack me. ”

"Silly girl......" the beauty chuckled.

Her gaze fell on the second card.

The card says that Lorraine's next player is "A Man Who Cherishes His Hair".

It is really rare to use the words "cherish hair" to describe men, and there is even a strange sense of incongruity.

The beauty looked up at Lorraine and saw that she was also tilting her head to think.

"You say...... Who will be the man who cherishes hair? ”

Lorraine bit her lower lip in thought, and her mind flashed to the faces of all the male players.

"Male players include Blackblade, Icarus, One-Eyed, Arthur, Mars, J, Colin...... But I don't think they value their hair so much. ”

Lorraine's soft voice fell in the stilled air.

The king cobra outside the door seems to have stopped attacking.

The sound of the door banging has also died down.

It seems to have given up on the two uneaten prey in front of it.

Merely.

Now Lorraine and Beauty's attention is on reasoning about the next player, and they don't have time to care if the king cobra is still outside the door.

"Could it be J?" The beauty played with her hair and pulled out a split end, "You see, he has pigtails, the longest hair of all the men, and it seems to make some sense to say that he cherishes his hair." ”

"Is that so......" Lorraine was still skeptical.

After all, she didn't know what other players were holding, so she couldn't make up her mind right away.

Immediately, Lorraine looked up at the beauty, "By the way, what is written on your card?" We can exchange information, maybe we can roll out the entire food chain, and we can turn reactive into proactive! ”

(Turning reactive into proactive?) ）

(This is really a ...... "one word becomes a prophecy" saying.) ）

The beauty raised her eyebrows, and also took out her two cards, along with her original two cards, and handed them to Lorraine.

Lorraine took the two cards and saw the blood letters on them.

[Upper-Food-Chain Player]: A female player among rookie players.

[Lower Player in the Food Chain]: A man who is blind in one eye.

Sure enough, the hints that the beauty got were also bright and dark.

"[A man who is blind in one eye]? It's clearly one-eyed. Lorraine couldn't help but chuckle, and the one-eyed madness sounded in his head, and the way he once scolded himself for being a silver-white rookie.

And, of course, he has been scolded as a "dead blind man".

"yes."

The beauty looked at Lorraine's face, and the smile on the corner of her mouth deepened a little.

But her smile didn't seem to be because of what Lorraine said.

"Your superior player...... Women among rookie players? Lorraine lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, "There are 6 newcomers, namely Arthur, Ogar, Mars, Colin, J, and me, and among the women in the rookie players, only me and Ogar. That means I'm or O'Gar your top player? ”

The beauty didn't answer, just looked at her in silence.

"But...... My subordinate player has been clearly indicated that he is a 'man who cherishes hair', and my neighbor players are all men, so you and I can't be neighbors......" Lorraine raised her eyes to look at the beauty, "Your superior player is Ogar. ”

“…… Perhaps. The beauty muttered.

"It's a good thing, Ogar has almost no attack power, and you don't have to worry about her going after you."

Lorraine looked at the beauty with a little envy in her eyes.

That expression, that look, as if several people drew lots together, but only the beauty won the lottery, the luckiest lottery.

But the beauty's expression did not relax in the slightest, but still had a serious expression: "No, if Ogar's superior player kills her, then I will be the next target." After all, the food chain is not set in stone. ”

"Indeed, the food chain will be shortened until there is only one player left......" Thinking of this, Lorraine couldn't help frowning, "I don't know if there is a player out, will the system prompt...... If we don't know that our superior player is dead, and we run into someone who wants to kill us, won't we fall into a trap? ”

(Trap?) ）

(That's a good term.) ）

(With an irresistible temptation, it attracts its prey into the trap step by step...... ）

The beauty thought so, and opened her lips and whispered-

"Well, it's a trap indeed."

The beauty looked at Lorraine, and her eyes were dyed with a little deep meaning.

"Dear Lorraine, do you know that this system is very fair."

"Fair?" Lorraine looked at the beauty, a little confused, "What do you mean?" ”

"There are two implicit rules in the [Minghe system], one is the most favorable rule and the other is the most unfavorable rule. These two rules can affect the design of each game at any time. ”

The beauty played with the ends of her hair and explained softly—

"The so-called 'most advantageous rule' means that the player of the previous game may be prompted by the system in the next game and have more information, so as to gain an advantageous game position...... Just like the triumvirate who won in the Upper Circle Hunt, in Pandora's Secret, they learned at the beginning of the game that the key to Pandora's box was actually hidden in Arthur's stomach - this is what Icarus told me later. ”

The beauty paused, looked away from the ends of her hair, looked at Lorraine a little lazily, and continued—

"The so-called most disadvantageous rule is that the player who was in the most disadvantageous position in the previous game may be compensated to a certain extent in the next game, so that he can obtain more information or abilities than other players, and is in an advantageous position."

Lorraine listened to the beauty in a daze, and a sense of foreboding crossed her heart.

The beauty's words didn't seem to be said casually.

She had a hunch.

The beauty seemed to tell her something very important.

This is a woman's sixth sense.

It's just that she is now a little puzzled by this sixth sense, and she is puzzled by the sudden prompting of the beauty.

Beauty, naturally, also saw the suspicion in her eyes.

And this suspicion is just right for her appetite.

"You know, dear, in the last game [Mirror Connection], I was the only lamb in the mirror reverse group, and I was the most disadvantaged player in the game. So, as compensation, in this game, I got a hint, a hint that would help me win. ”

Hearing this, Lorraine's heart tightened.

"What do you mean?"

The beauty was not in a hurry to answer Lorraine, she looked at the idol beside her lightly, and her slender fingers lightly touched the idol of Anubis.

This is the idol of Anubis, a symbol of the Egyptian god of death in the real world, who would weigh the heart and determine whether the deceased was eligible to enter the afterlife by comparing the heart of the deceased with the feathers of the goddess of truth, Marth. If the heart is heavier than a feather, then the heart will be devoured by Amit, a monster with a crocodile's head, a lion's upper body, and a hippopotamus's lower body. There are just laws in everything, even the mythical omnipotent judges must follow the laws, just like in real nature, the food chain is irreversible, and killing and being killed can only be done in a direction. ”

The beauty withdrew her gaze and looked at Lorraine.

"But here, it's not."

Lorraine was stunned: "...... You mean, the predatory relationship in this game can be reversed? ”

"Yes. After the start of this game, Judge told me through the headset that the food chain in this game can be reversed, and as soon as I send a signal, the system will receive my signal and will reverse the order of the food chain in the game - yes, this is the most unfavorable player in the previous game...... Compensate. ”

This sentence exploded in his ears like a thunderclap, and Lorraine lowered his head, his face ugly.

If the food chain can be reversed, that is, the identities of the pursuer and the chased may change at any time due to the change of the rules of the game.

This is likely to cause the player in the game who is chasing someone else to be killed by their prey in an instant.

This will undoubtedly cause a bloody storm......

Greatly improve the "watchability" of the game......

Lorraine couldn't help but clench her fists.

"This bunch of crazy people ......"

They enjoy chasing each other, not only that, but also the panic and madness that arises when players swap identities for killing.

"Little Lorraine, do you know why I saved you?" The beauty interrupted Lorraine's thoughts.

Lorraine looked up and saw that the beauty was looking at her, those eyes, like those of Anubis, the god of death.

Lorraine couldn't help but have a sense of foreboding.

Instinctively, she shrank back, and found that the only stone door in the room had been blocked by herself.

“…… Could it be that you mean that we have a subordinate relationship in the food chain?! ”

The beauty raised her eyebrows and gave affirmation.

"Uh-huh."

"But...... But my next player prompt is 'The Man Who Cherishes Hair'......" Lorraine looked up a little confused, and suddenly, looking at the beauty's black and bright curly hair, it seemed to understand something for a moment.

"Go on, why don't you go on?" The beauty's smile deepened a little.

"Could it be...... Are you actually ......?"