Chapter 16: The Extra Sacrifice

An evaluation game takes just over an hour.

It was the brightest time of the day outside, and Yu Xing woke up from bed, saw the familiar bedroom scene, and sat up with his arms folded.

He was sitting on the edge of the bed before he fell, his legs still bent on the ground, and the brief game experience was like a dream, and he was in a trance for a while.

After a while, he shook his head, hiding the feelings he couldn't tell outsiders, stretched out his hand, and with a movement of his mind, an illusory outline of the mask gradually solidified at his fingertips, and finally turned into a physical mask as light as a feather, which he pinched.

The mask is white throughout, with an elegant hollow leaf shape left in the eyes, sparse corners and treacherous patterns, delicate and soft shapes, and a little reddish on the lip contour.

The expression of the mask is like joy and sadness, like resentment and anger, which makes people dare not look at it for a long time, otherwise it will produce a fear in their hearts.

This is the embodiment of the personality mask, that is, the embodiment of the system, and the deducer will have a special effect if he wears it on the face in some kind of deduction game.

It's the same whether you look at the mask template directly in your head or look at the template after you materialize the mask.

Yu Xing stared at the mask, the irrepressible fear that rose up as soon as he suppressed it, and he studied the few officially displayed attributes and the last option that had been added.

There is a progress bar behind the junior deducer, presumably if the points are enough, he can be upgraded, what is the specific use Yu Xing doesn't know for the time being, he then looked down.

"Mask specific gravity...... Is this what my personality is like? He narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression seemed to be smiling, and he muttered to himself, "Madness accounts for the best, but calmness comes second, aren't these two contradictory things?" Chaos Third ......"

His voice lowered, as if he had thought for a moment, before letting out a meaningless sigh.

The unmenacing suspicion of the system in the owner's description was of little importance to him, and he skipped this column and focused his serious gaze on the personality sacrifice.

[Sacrifice], which is the knife-like thing in Zhao Yijiu's hand, has the power of some ghost things, and can play different roles in deduction, the form of the sacrifice is not only a weapon, but also an oil painting, a lantern, or even a cat.

A deducer can wear six sacrifices at the same time, and the sacrifices are usually on the mask, which can be taken out at any time if necessary, and if the mask is manifested, you can see that the mask has a pattern on the mask that symbolizes the sacrifice that is "worn".

It was precisely because he knew these things that he felt that the wrong place in the string of data made people care.

He had no sacrifice on him, he had never touched it, but the mask told him that he was already wearing one, and in the center of the brow of the embodied mask, there was also a small gray openwork mutilated compass pattern.

"The sacrifice I already have on my body, is it ......" His expression changed for a while, and then he subconsciously reached out and covered his face, even if there was no one else here, he didn't want people to see his current expression.

"Sure enough, I was not wrong in the right direction." He muttered in a mosquito-like voice, the corners of his mouth trying to control, but he still couldn't help but bend up.

This [Unknown Sacrifice], whose name is not even displayed, occupies a sacrifice column, and Yu Xing is not annoyed at all, on the contrary, it is definitely good news for him.

Soon, he adjusted his mood, put down his hand, and continued to read.

"Alienation of personality...... Unimportant. ”

"Deduction Mall...... This one needs to be seen. ”

Yu Xing chose to enter, and suddenly, a commodity column with not too many items was listed.

It shows the items that beginner and intermediate deducers can buy, and is divided into three sections.

First, the system redemption page.

There are two kinds of products on this page, the first is that concepts such as wealth and health that ordinary people can't control are clearly marked and within reach.

The cheapest is wealth, take RMB as an example, 1 point can be exchanged for 50 yuan.

This ratio is not an exaggeration, Yu Xing is now worth 233 points, and he can only exchange more than 10,000 yuan.

What caught his attention was that the back of the exchange column reads: "After the exchange is confirmed, the currency will be handed over to the deducer in a reasonable, safe, no worries, no violation of morality, and no harm to the legitimate interests of any innocent person."

This is interesting, although Yu Xing really wants to see how the money will come from, he didn't waste points on it.

After looking at it for a while, he glanced at the [Health] column.

This...... It's something he desperately needs at the moment, his physical condition is still getting worse, he's been delaying it for a long time, and finally it's weak enough to be put in by the deduction system, and now there's no need to drag it out when the goal is achieved.

But when he wanted to redeem all the points and think about how much better he could get, he only got a cold hint.

[Your physical problems are not naturally formed, which is an absurd comprehension and cannot be cured by this mall. It is recommended to enter the wishlist to make a wish】

"Wishlist?" Yu Xing repeated in a low voice, not in a hurry to exit the mall, just remembered and continued to browse.

Another section of the system redemption page is called [Interpreter's Case Video Viewing Rights].

Deduction players can search for any other deduction player whose name they know, and spend points to buy deduction game videos that the other party has opened up to watch, so as to understand the deduction habits of the other party, or learn deduction skills.

Yu Xing can only buy videos of the same level of deducers now, and he casually watched some "system recommendations" and "latest recordings", and the prices are between 10 and 30 points. The price of the video evaluated by S is high, and the price of A to D is decreasing.

His evaluation game is S-class, but only official games can be included, that is to say, from the next game, after the deduction is over, Yu Xing can choose whether to open the video of the deduction game with him as the main perspective.

"It's a great way to earn points." He was in a good mood and looked at the remaining two sections of the mall.

The second section is called [Sacrifice Trading Center], where the deducer trades freely, which is equivalent to a game auction house, and can be purchased by bartering or spending points.

The third section is the [Intelligence Trading Center], Yu Xing's heart moved, and he clicked in anticipation.

"The 123rd episode of the horror tour program resident MC and guest strength analysis. The 124th Guest Prediction...... What is it? The content in it was a bit unexpected, and he hadn't heard of this horror tour program.

"The weird detective agency recruits a new one, and requires, in the investigator analogy game, there is a character who has experienced more than three deductions?"

The things in "......" were full of bells and whistles, and Yu Xing sincerely showed a confused look for the first time.

Hey, people are still a little budding, and they don't know anything!

All this information needs points, and death is expensive, he rubbed his eyes aggrievedly, and closed the mall with a blank face.

These...... Let's wait for him to learn more about the absurd world.

Then next, Wishlist!

[The wish can be entered here, and the system will give the price of realizing the wish according to the size of the wish, and once the wish is determined to be irrevocable, it can be replaced after completion. Current Wish 0/3]

"So there's still such a thing." Yu Xing tentatively entered——

"Let the negative state of my body disappear and my physical strength will return to the level of a normal person."

Are you sure of this desire?] 】

"Aang."

【Evaluation】

【Confirmed】

[Let the negative state of the deducer Yu Xing disappear and return to the level of a normal person, there is a price: reach the status of a senior deducer, 3000 points, and complete seven deduction tasks in two months. 】

"Ah, it's okay, it's not particularly difficult." Yu Xing breathed a sigh of relief, if there was a way to solve it, although the price seemed a bit big, but in fact, he only had to pay 3000 points, and that identity and time limit could only be regarded as additional conditions, and there was no harm to him.

It's nothing more than that he has to enter the game at a high frequency next.

Of course, Yu Xing also knows that only he can say so, and others may have cried for their father and mother when they saw the time limit of seven deductions in two months.

Solving the urgent task, Yu Xing held a relaxed attitude and clicked on [Deduction Game Direction Selection Market].

This is a new option, and after clicking on it, the content of the mall information trading center seems to be explained.

【Deduction of game direction selection market】

[Introduction: In addition to the single-player random, team up and then deduction game, the deduction player can choose "work" here to get different benefits]

【Job List】

[Newcomer Shura Show: Held once a month, the five most potential newcomer players of the month are selected as guests of the program to cooperate/compete in the deduction game (voluntary), the deduction is broadcast live throughout the whole process, the audience pays to enter, and the reward is divided by the guests and the system. 】

[Anomaly Research Project Team: This project team aims to study a recently discovered "large-scale continuous absurd world", which naturally forms another game system, in which human players are called experiencers, and now solicit information about the world, and submit them to receive corresponding remuneration and accept negotiations. 】

……

The list is more than a dozen pages long, and there are many options, and Yu Xing has even found some jobs that are suitable for newcomers like him.

When he wants to find out, he is told that he needs to complete the main quest first.

The main line is the last content on the personality mask, Yu Xing muttered, "This whole thing really looks like a game", and then clicked on it and looked at it.

There are several categories of deduction games lined up on the main line, marked as "Help newcomers familiarize themselves with each type of game content".

In fact, each game is tried once, and the difficulty is the difficulty of the official game, but each deducer must complete the content on the main line first according to the process and then choose freely.

Finally finished reading it all, Yu Xing discarded the embodied mask, stretched his waist, and stood up carefully and slowly.

He just came out of the game, and he was not in a hurry to carry out the main story, on the contrary, he still had some things to confirm in the evaluation game he had experienced.

For example, in Zheng Song's last phone call, who was the person named Ning Feng on the other end of the phone?

It seems that Ning Feng also knows something about some unexplainable things, so what is his identity?

The absurd world is also connected to each other, as he has identified from the job list in the Market.

Therefore, people in the absurd world, in addition to being the reflection of criminals in reality, must have other existences.

However, his current question is that through the game, Yu Xing can't confirm whether the killer personality has occupied Zheng Song's body and whether he has really committed a crime.

He thought about it, went out of the bedroom, walked into the study, and pulled out a stack of A4 papers in the desk drawer.

There are a few books that Yu Xing has been reading recently on the desk, and the bookshelves on the side are densely packed, with books from almost all aspects, and there is also an easel near the window, where an unfinished painting is dried, and the brush is placed on a plate.

Yu Xing sat down at the desk, pushed the book on the table to the side, vacated the space, laid out the A4 paper, took out a charcoal pen from the pen holder, and sketched it in a professional way.

The general method of drawing is to draw the whole first and then the parts, sketch the proportions of the shape, and then deal with the local details and the light and dark parts in detail.

But Yu Xing's painting does not need to follow the steps, he has a strong control over the brush, so he is also very freewheeling, where to paint first depends on the mood, and soon, a portrait gradually becomes clear under his brush.