Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. Genius remembers the first in a second"

Xiang Nanxing secretly admonished himself, but he still couldn't help sweating on his forehead.

This time it wasn't the enemy approaching, but the opponent's turn was over, and he was back thirty seconds again. Xiang Nanxing stared at the faintly beating countdown in the corner, while distractedly controlling the speed at which his eyelids opened, opening them little by little, letting his eyes slowly adapt to the change in brightness. Compared to the previous two same switches, they are probably used to this situation of being bright and dark for a while, and the speed of going from white to seeing things clearly is much faster.

Before, as long as his eyes could see things a little, he would take a step impatiently. After all, he was still a few steps away from any door, and he would have to walk for two or three seconds at a normal pace, which would take up almost a tenth of the entire thirty-second round. If you can combine the time it takes to restore your vision with these two or three seconds, the time saved can be used for other things.

It's just that at this time, Xiang Nanxing was standing motionless. When his eyes were used to the light, he still didn't move his feet.

"Wrong. Wrong, I'm such a fool,! ”

He muttered, shook his head, and then clenched his fist hard, slamming it on his thigh.

Although he knew that he shouldn't make any noise now, he couldn't help but say what was thinking in his heart. If this frustration is held in his heart, I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to return to his normal mind for a long time in the future. On the contrary, after saying it, he felt a lot more comfortable.

"It's not that bad, at least the rules of the game are fair to both sides, I just think it's a little slower than him."

Xiang Nanxing took a deep breath and quickly deduced in his mind. This game was held at Nangong's house, and according to Shen Lingshuang, this place was there early on, and it was used as a training ground before that. So think about it, what kind of killer training can such an area of a bunch of identical houses connected on all sides like a beehive be used for killer training?

Perhaps, the training program here is similar to today's game. Nangong Huangqi's status in the family doesn't seem to be high, but that doesn't mean that he didn't have the opportunity to use this training ground before this, or that he has heard anyone talk about the situation here. Now it seems that this possibility is quite high. Judging from Nangong Huangqi's previous performance, it is unlikely that he could have come up with the strategy he had just come up with in just thirty seconds after the game started, and put it into practice immediately in his first action. That feeling of proficiency should at least be based on a certain understanding of the game.

is not like Xiang Nanxing, who got a most basic problem wrong as soon as he came up.

The game, called "Dark Forest", can indeed be seen as a game in which both sides take turns playing the role of hunter and prey. Xiang Nanxing previously thought that the players who were in the round and could freely observe the environment were "hunters", while the players outside the rounds who were blocked on the other side were "prey". Intuitively, this is not difficult to accept, after all, you can only aim at a target if you have vision, and if you can't see, you can only be beaten passively.

But in this game, it's the other way around.

Because of the barrier of the door and the setting of "the VR device turns on when the two players approach", the dominant side is the side that is originally passive, that is, the player who cannot see the round. Just like Xiang Nanxing did just now, as long as he occupies the middle of the room, no matter which direction the other party comes from, he will definitely be noticed before entering the door, and he will concentrate on guarding in advance.

And unlike Xiang Nanxing, who is standing still, if he is an old player, he can still do better at this point. When he senses that the device is turned on outside of the round, he should take a big step forward and backward and left and right at the first moment. If the enemy is coming from the front facing at this point, the VR device should be temporarily turned off when you take a step back. The same is true for other directions. Once you react quickly enough and the opposing player hesitates to open the door, there is a good chance that this approach will succeed, and at that time, the information you have will not only be "the other party is very close to you", but you can even determine "which door the other person is behind".

And the whole time, the player who was in the round was unaware. For him, the VR equipment is always bright, and it feels no different. Unless the opposing player makes too much noise in the process of the above and allows him to hear it from the other side of the door, he will not know if there is anyone behind the door until the moment before the door is opened, and there is no way to know whether the other party knows in advance that he will appear from here.

For them, every time the door is opened, it is a matter of resignation.

At this time, Xiang Nanxing finally understood that he was wrong. He thought it was a hunter, but it was actually a child wandering around in this dark forest with a lamp. They see the world around them, but they don't know that the lamp in their hands also exposes themselves to the eyes of others. And those who temporarily block their eyes and ears are the real hunters in the forest. They lurk in the shadows, motionless, waiting for their prey to approach and rush out and bite their throats.

Thinking of this, Xiang Nanxing suddenly felt difficult to act. Considering the interval between the lighting of the device and the switch of rounds, Nangong Huangqi, who had just passed next door to him, did not go far. At most, a few seconds would be enough for him to barely make it to the next room, or force him to simply stand guard in the middle of the next room, waiting for his prey to come to the door.

Pushing himself and others, Xiang Nanxing is more inclined to the latter possibility. Rather than barely rushing to the next room and perhaps not having time to get to your feet, staying where you are is is obviously a safer strategy. Then the problem comes, four doors, equal opportunities, no matter which way he goes, he may reveal his whereabouts within a few steps. Before he touched the doorknob, the condition that the two sides were within six meters of each other had already been satisfied, and the opponent on the other side of the door had enough time to prepare to meet him.

In that case, he who had just opened the door was the one who was in danger. Although this round of shooting will not directly determine the outcome of the game, even if this soft bullet hits his body, the pain is still within his tolerance. But if he loses, Xiang Nanxing will have to leave this room and be taken to another room where he doesn't know where. The first round of exploration allowed him to build a corner of the map in his mind, and it would become pointless at this point.

"In this way, I really made the wrong choice." Xiang Nanxing smiled helplessly. Only now did he understand Shen Lingshuang's sentence at the beginning of the game, "Ask for more blessings". At that time, she probably had already smelled bad signs, but she couldn't say it because of the limitations of her duties.

In the opinion of the host, who is familiar with the rules of the game, if you have the right to choose, the latter is the better answer. While the first round can start the first round without warning the opponent, the advantage is only two or three rooms, and the price is to start with something they don't know. What these players didn't know was that the rules required that the starting point of the first round must be connected on all sides, so although Shen Lingshuang intended to help, he could only take Xiang Nanxing to an open room in the end.

On the other hand, for those who start later, although they need to be distracted and pay attention to the opponent who has been ambushed in a certain room, the whole area is so large, and the opportunities to encounter it at the beginning of the game are limited after all, so there is no need to be too entangled. Their advantage is that they enter from the starting room outside the area, so that he will be at the edge of the whole area as soon as he enters, and behind him is the entrance that closes after entering, only the front and the left and right sides need to be guarded out. If he moves to the left or right, the next room he enters will be like this, and the room they can occupy will undoubtedly be easier to defend than the opponent who is stuck in the middle at the beginning.

Another point is that starting from a corner means that you have map boundaries, which makes it easier to know where you are. Combined with the fact that they were easy to defend before, they will undoubtedly be able to build a map of this area faster than their opponents.

"However, it is not without opportunities."

Xiang Nanxing, who gradually calmed down, rekindled new hope in his heart. He only passed through four gates and explored five rooms in the first round, and it stands to reason that Nangong Huangqi, who set off second, may not focus on exploring, so the number of rooms he arrives will not be more than his own. The two sides combined explored a total of ten rooms, which was equivalent to passing through nine doors, but when Shen Lingshuang took him away, he passed through a full fifteen doors!

He understood now that this was actually Shen Lingshuang secretly helping him. The setting of fifteen doors may have been written in the rules, hoping to take the first player far enough, but most of the rules do not limit the walking route, so Shen Lingshuang went around and took him to a place not far from the starting point. In this way, the two sides will meet very early, and Xiang Nanxing, who can explore to his heart's content in the first round, will probably have an advantage in ammunition, and if he can seize the opportunity to crush his opponent, he can rush him to another new room in the middle of nowhere before the opponent can grasp the terrain of one side.

In other words, it's the best chance to stop the other from growing before the gap opens.

What is needed is his courage to face difficulties and fight hard.

"Come on, then."

Xiang Nanxing took a deep breath, filled the magazine of the revolver with special bullets, and buckled the remaining four between his fingers, ready to quickly reload. He took two steps forward and stopped a meter away from the door.

He stared at the door, imagining a black hole in the back with the muzzle of a gun pointed at him.

"Fight!"

Xiang Nanxing took a deep breath again and rushed forward!

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