For the rest of the day, Nao and Higashino searched up and down the hotel, but found nothing.

"This door is really the same as described in the instructions, absolutely blocked!" Higashino said breathlessly.

He'd used all his powerful attack skills and weapons, but there wasn't a trace left on the door. It seems that this is not a matter of strength, but the game is set to be "invincible" in the setting of all doors in the hotel.

"The meaning of 'absolute barrier' should include 'not even the flow of gas'." "The hotel should have a good ventilation system, and if we go in through the vents, we might be able to get outside." ”

"Yes, the exit of the vent really can't be this kind of 'door', I should be able to break it." Higashino smiled bitterly, "But what if it's designed to be narrower and narrower, or it's just a big labyrinth, if we spend too much time in it, we'll be the first victims of poison gas." ”

"Then I'll have to stay in my room." Nao pursed her lips.

Her hesitation was not unfounded. Just now, they went to see the room together that might be spent the night. Unlike the five-star exterior, the interior of the rooms in this hotel is quite modest. A bed, a chair, a bedside table, a TV cabinet plus a TV, then a small ensuite with a bath and toilet, it's as simple as that.

And the most striking of these is the black mask on the bedside table. Underneath the mask is what looks like a scale. Nao had just picked up the mask when she heard a "bang" and the door to the suite slammed shut.

Higashino pulled the door violently, not moving, as if it were made of iron. As soon as Nao put the mask back, she heard what seemed to be a "pop" from somewhere, and the door to the suite moved again.

"It's a very simple mechanism." Higashino said, "That thing should only be weight-sensitive, so I guess putting a prop that weighs about the same weight as a mask will work." ”

There was also a piece of paper pressed next to the pillow, and the serial number on it was attached to the back of the introduction page in the lobby, which seemed to be part of the rules.

However, this part of the rules is specific to the interior of the room.

"5, only once, the room will release colorless poison gas at a certain time, which lasts for three minutes, and will automatically decompose when it expires."

"6. Once a player enters the suite and closes the suite door, the independent air circulation system will automatically turn on in the suite within 30 seconds until the end of the game."

"7. The gas contained in the air circulation system of the suite is uncertain, either clean air or poisonous gas consistent with the outside of the room."

"8. There is a 2-hour oxygen component in each mask, which can be switched on and off with a button on the left side of the mask."

Four more rules! The two glanced at each other and tacitly continued to search the room. Unfortunately, they couldn't find any hints other than this piece of paper. From the room all the way to the corridor, until now they have searched the entire hotel, they have not found any new clues.

"Let's stop and analyze." "First of all, the game requires us to stay in our own room for a total of six hours from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. Then, at some point, poison gas will be released in the room for three minutes. If we wore the mask for those three minutes, we would be fine, if not, I guess it would be useless to sense that something is wrong, after all, the description emphasizes 'colorless', which should be a hint of 'undetectable, and there is no help after it works'. Another way to avoid poison gas is to leave the mask on the bedside table and then hide in the suite until eight o'clock. In that case, you may inhale poisonous gas and die, or you may encounter clean air, and you can sleep peacefully. ”

"Wait." "I can also use other props instead of masks on the bedside table and bring them into the suite, wouldn't that be double insurance!" ”

Nao shook her head.

"Pointless. You think, even if you bring a mask into the suite, you still don't know what's going on in the air. It doesn't matter if you use a mask or not, but if you run out of oxygen in two hours, you will still die. ”

"A game of pure chance...... It's boring" Higashino scratched his head in annoyance, "Alas, six hours is two hours, this is a one-in-one probability, what is the chance of the two of us surviving......"

"One in nine, a little more than a tenth. If you use up the mask and enter the suite immediately, you should have a lot of chances. Nao smiled and touched Higashino's head, like a gentle mother soothing the child, "I will try to hold my breath, although it will definitely not last for three minutes, but if I hold it for a second, there will always be a little more hope." ”

Higashino looked at her in a daze, and suddenly pulled her towards him as if he had made up his mind.

"Why are you ......?"

Before Nao could finish her words, her lips were sealed by another fiery lip. Higashino hugged Nao tightly, as if he wanted to rub her into his body. Nao's whole body suddenly stiffened, and then gradually relaxed, only to see her hands that had been hanging on both sides of her body slowly move up and caress Higashino's broad back.

She knows, she understands perfectly. Maybe in a few hours, they will never see each other again.

Higashino's lips finally slowly left, but the male breath with a little smoke seemed to stay on the tip of Nao's tongue, and it couldn't be dispersed for a long time. Higashino whispered softly in her ear, babbling as if he was going to finish the rest of the story. Nao only remembered the last sentence.

He said, "After tonight, we'll see you tomorrow in reality."

As soon as Higashino finished saying this, Nao pushed him away violently, laughed and said, "Don't say such unlucky words!" Put it in the animation, you call yourself a flag! Her face was flushed, and although she tried to pretend to be joking, she couldn't hide the strange emotions that welled up in her heart.

Higashino Han smiled and took a few steps back, coughed lightly, and changed his face slightly to his usual somewhat cool expression.

"See you tomorrow, then." Nao waved her hand.

"See you tomorrow." Higashino waved.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

A beam of lasers the thickness of a small arm suddenly shot out from Higashino's shoulder and grazed Nao's ear!

Nao felt only a strong burning sensation in the skin around her ears, and then she saw her hair fluttering.

Higashino's right hand was slashed off by the laser starting from the shoulder, and he flew high.

What's going on!

Higashino turned around suddenly, half-crouched, and immediately conjured a desert eagle in his left hand. He had a more powerful weapon in his backpack, but now that his right hand was broken, he had to choose a pistol suitable for one-handed combat.

People like him who have been through many games know very well that even if the body is damaged in the game, it is only a matter of "this game", whether it is a complete level or failure, it will recover in the next game.

But it's one thing to be clear, it's another to be able to adapt psychologically. For the average player, a sudden severed limb is enough to send him into a panic, even if not fatal. For Higashino, in addition to having to quickly use a hemostatic bandage to stop the bleeding, it also means that his next combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

That's all, he still has the confidence to defeat all enemies.

But even if he is as strong as his mind, he is stunned for a moment when he sees the enemy clearly.

"Old Horse ......"

At this time, the enemy standing opposite the two of them, with a rifle in hand, approaching quickly from the other end of the corridor, was the old horse who had taken the first step two hours ago!

Lao Ma just used the ranged skill "Laser Instantaneous", which is very powerful but can only be used once. He originally wanted to snipe and kill two people at once from a distance, but his own shooting ability was not strong enough to affect the hit, and as a result, only one of Higashino's hands was abolished.

But that's enough!

In terms of frontal combat, he really can't beat Higashino, but that's a normal thing! At this time, Higashino had already lost a hand, and it was a good time to kill him.

"Why ......," Higashino muttered. He didn't understand why the old horse, who had been a good friend a few hours ago, would suddenly attack him.

"Why......" Nao said, but what she couldn't figure out was something else.

At this moment, a system prompt that suddenly sounded in the ears of the three answered her question.

"The hidden setting has been triggered."

"In this game, players can fight each other."

I see!

A faint doubt in Nao's heart suddenly unraveled, and an epiphany of the situation in front of her ensued. The oxygen mask is designed to have a two-hour stock, while the player needs to stay in the room for six hours. That's what happened to all of this!

Higashino is right, the game is not designed to be impossible for people to play. And the game in front of you also has an absolutely safe way to clear the customs. That was to take the oxygen mask from the other two players' rooms and use it alone.

The three oxygen masks provide a total of six hours of pure air, ensuring that the player clears the level, but such an act is tantamount to killing the other two, and neither of them will agree to it. In order for players to clear the level, the system must open the battle restrictions between players to give players a chance to grab.

In the martial arts-type content, in order to take care of the intellectual players, the system will only give a prompt after the first attack to remove the restrictions, which will give the intellectual players the advantage of being the first to move.

It's a pity that all this was understood too late, and by the time Nao finally thought of this layer, it was already after the attack of the old horse.

"Let's go! Go to your room! Seth yelled.

He's not stupid either, and his brain is speeding up in a critical moment. Nao thought of all of this, and he thought of it at the same time. But at the same time, as a warrior, he also made a comprehensive assessment of the battlefield in front of him.

If he can't win against the old horse, he will definitely die, even if he adds Nao, it is just an extra life.

"Let's go! Don't drag me down! Higashino was hoarse, and the desert eagle in his hand fired continuously.

Amid the deafening sound of gunfire, Nao shed two lines of tears and fled with her back to the battlefield.