Chapter 42: The Seventh Floor (1st Update)
"I don't know what the scene of the labyrinth secret realm on the seventh layer will be. Mr. Fool...... No, this kind of luck has to be favored by the god of knowledge, and I hope it is still the ...... I am more familiar with," said Abner, praying secretly as he waited for Mr. Gaston to read his reward.
Don't look at his previous two levels, as if Zhizhu was in his hands, he suddenly found the key to passing the level. But that's just cheating, and it's actually very difficult to objectively talk about the first two layers!
The ninth level is okay, patiently searching in the house, after all, you can find all the passwords. But the heating device is also a hidden danger, if you are not careful, you are afraid that you will be dehydrated from the heat, and then lose your mobility.
And the eighth layer, not to mention how complicated the case itself is, it is extremely difficult to find the murderer before Conan, if Abner didn't know the plot, with his current logical ability and observation ability, he wouldn't dare to say that he is stronger than Conan.
It's no wonder that Mr. Gaston rarely clears the eighth floor.
"Alright, let's move on." Just as Abner was thinking outside of his mind, Mr. Gaston had already gotten back to his feet.
The three of them did not delay any longer, and resolutely stepped onto the passage of the seventh floor.
As the scene changed, Abner found himself in a dimly lit wooden room, but the 'ground' beneath his feet was unusually bumpy, a feeling he was familiar with, and he had often felt unstable on the deck of the Hundred Thousand Cities in the past few days.
"So, this is a scene on a sea ship?"
Before he could think about it, a vicious wind came from behind, and Abner, who already had the 'Keeper of Knowledge' martial arts master, was not alarmed, he dodged the attack slightly to the side of his body, and then naturally stretched out his leg and tripped the sneak attacker's foot, and the man immediately fell to the ground due to the unsteady center of gravity.
Abner seized the opportunity to step forward, pressing his knee against the back of his opponent's neck and snatching the sword from his hand.
After doing this, he looked around and saw that Hugh had also cut a man who looked like a sailor by this time. And Mr. Gaston was even more decisive, taking out the revolver and killing the thugs who rushed at him.
Although there were still faint sounds of fighting outside the cabin, the cabin was already quiet, and Abner cautiously opened the pure white eye to 'retrace the scene', and after making sure that there was no danger for the time being, he pointed his sword against the attacker and asked, "What is this place?" Why are you attacking me? ”
But the man who fell to the ground did not answer, but there was a sound of 'ho' and 'ho' in his throat that was not like that of a human being, and his eyes were bloodshot and turned red.
Abner frowned at this, and looked at Hugh's captive again, only to find that the man was in the same state as he was pressing.
"Are they crazy? Or is it a mental stimulus? Hugh saw that he couldn't ask anything, and after knocking the captives unconscious, he guessed,
"Is a boatload of people crazy? So what are our passing conditions? Abner was also full of questions.
At this time, Mr. Gaston pointed to a note on the table in the cabin and said, "The conditions for customs clearance should be there." ”
Abner also followed Hugh's example and knocked the captives unconscious, walked to the table and picked up the note and glanced at it:
"Find out the real cause of the infighting on board."
"Most of the time the conditions for passing the level are words that appear directly in front of our eyes, but sometimes they are displayed in other forms, such as this note, such as when I encountered Conan before, the condition was that it appeared on a banner hanging from an airship......" Mr. Gaston walked over at this time and shot the unconscious captives of Abner and the others twice, before he continued, "I can see that you are not very used to killing, but whether it is in the dream labyrinth or in the real mysterious world, You should all abandon that naivety as soon as possible. Hehe, in my opinion, while there is no real death in the dream scene, it doesn't hurt to practice more to get used to it. What's more, most of these attackers are scum and scum, and they are not real 'people'. ”
Abner and Hugh looked at each other, knowing that Mr. Gaston had a point, and that it was for their own good. So he humbly learned and decided not to leave his hands behind when there was a battle for a while. Of course, this is not contrary to their own principles, and they will not kill innocents indiscriminately for those who are not evil.
After gradually realizing their hearts, the three of them walked out of the cabin in turn and came to a remote side deck under cover.
It was night, the clouds in the sky were thick enough to obscure the crimson, and the deck was pitch black and visibility was low.
Seeing that no enemy appeared, Abner habitually found a loophole in the clearance condition and asked, "Is there no time limit for this clearance condition?" If we wait for the ship to come to shore, can we let the night watchman or the penalizer find out the truth? ”
"Impossible, although it is not explicitly written, the vast majority of scenes have a time limit! For example, the Conan scene encountered on the eighth floor must be identified before he deduces the murderer, otherwise it will be judged that he has failed. It should be similar here. Mr. Gaston shook his head in disapproval. This hidden rule has tricked him several times.
As they were talking, there was a man's unwilling roar and the woman's intermittent sobbing around the corner, followed by the sound of a man's panting and tearing clothes......
Hugh, who had been hanging out in the East End tavern for so long, quickly realized what was happening, and she and Abner looked at each other, and both of them took out their revolvers, and hurried to the corner. Mr. Gaston walked behind, guarding against attacks from the other direction.
The scene is a scene that makes Hugh angry, a man nailed to the outer wall of the cabin with a long sword, while two well-dressed men are tearing at the dress of a lady on the ground with a hideous expression.
This time, Hugh did not hesitate, and did not even want to waste bullets on these two scumbags, but bullied the two villains with an arrow, and pierced their necks with a three-edged thorn hidden in his sleeve before the other party could react.
The lady who had been torn off most of her clothes was stunned for a moment, then pounced on the man who was nailed to the wall, and cried loudly: "Honey! Please! Wake up...... Don't leave me behind. ”
Looking at such a scene, Hugh felt very uncomfortable, her eyes were already covered with a layer of mist, she retreated to Abner's side, and deliberately changed the topic: "The suppression of extraordinary abilities on the seventh layer is not as great as before, and I can use most of the abilities of the 'arbiter'." However, the 'Ring of Prediction' given by Mr. Stanton is not yet available. ”
To this, Abner only nodded slightly, and did not respond. Because it makes no difference to him, what if the combat power of the 'reader' is restored? The premise is that the 'reader' has such a thing as combat effectiveness! And he's always been able to use extraordinary abilities when the Pure White Eye is opened.
After crying for a while, the lady picked up a dagger that had fallen to the ground, and pointed it at her abdomen, her face struggling, as if she wanted to commit suicide like that, but she was afraid of the pain.
However, Hugh did not give her a chance to choose, and directly shot the dagger, and comforted: "You have to be strong to live!" It is precisely because he fought with his life to protect you before that you can't live up to his sacrifice and must live! ”
Although she knew that this lady was not a real 'person', and probably guessed that this scene might have been reset I don't know how many times, she still couldn't bear to see the other party die in despair and grief.
The lady listened to Hugh's words and looked at the man nailed to the wall and was silent for a long time before gritting her teeth and saying, "Miss, you are right! I have to live! I want to avenge my dear! I'm going to send all the brutes on this ship to be shot! ”
Seeing that her mood was gradually stabilizing, Abner stepped forward and asked, "What happened on this ship?" How can there be so many villains? ”
"Don't you even know?" The lady asked in surprise.
The characters in this dream labyrinth are so intelligent that they will even question it, it is much stronger than Conan's scene. Abner thought to himself, but on the surface he said vaguely: "We have been sleeping in the cabin above, and when we woke up, we found that people were crazy......"
The woman nodded, not sure if she believed the claim, but she answered Abner's previous question: "It all started with the terrible pirate Nast five days after the Alfalfa left Caesars Harbor on our ......."
"'King of the Five Seas' Naster?!" Both Hugh and Abner exclaimed, and the latter felt that the name 'Alfalfa' was also familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
"Yes, Nast, the 'King of the Five Seas', claims to be a descendant of Solomon's empire, and adheres to the virtue of not killing captives, and because of this, we were only robbed of our money, but did not lose our lives, and his men even left us enough food......" Speaking of this, the lady looked at the two in front of her in confusion, no matter how well she slept soundly, she would not know about the pirate attack, right? Nast's men had searched every cabin.
Abner also knew that he was suspicious, but what he cared about was that the scene was actually derived from reality, and it was a real thing.
"Everybody lost a lot of money...... I thought the doom was over, but the rest of the voyage broke out in a fierce infighting between the passengers and crew of the Alfalfa, from arguments, to brawls, to pulling out revolvers, raising straight swords, and killing each other...... They soon went completely insane, not only killing people on sight, but also wantonly violating ladies and abusing the weak...... There are even some real perverts who splash limbs, hearts, and intestines all over the floor! The lady bit her lip as she described it, as if to drive away her weakness and fear with anger.
However, at this time, Abner no longer paid attention to these details, he already understood what was going on, so he only asked inexplicably at the end: "Do you know what day it is?" ”
"Huh?" The lady almost didn't turn the corner when asked the question, and only replied after a while, "It should be July 1." ”
Hearing this answer, Abner looked at the dark clouds in the sky, exhaled, and said to himself:
"Perhaps...... It's happening! ”