Chapter 5 Acting Together
"Mission: Destroy the 'Tainted Statue' 0/5"
"Quest Tips: The locations of the five statues are located in the northeast corner of the restaurant on the first floor of the villa, at the end of the corridor on the west side of the first floor of the villa, in the study on the second floor of the villa, in the utility room on the third floor of the villa, and next to the fountain pool in the backyard garden of the villa."
"Current Total Surviving Players: 9"
"Current Human Camp Player Survival: 7"
After leaving the conference room, the nine of them entered the hallway, moving slowly, and the light source in the corridor was still a bronze candlestick standing on the wall, illuminating the seemingly endless deep corridor.
The gray-white walls are covered with cracked, broken cobwebs; The animal fur carpet under his feet is also dirty, and the clumped hair is a little uneven when stepped on; Occasionally, passing by a door similar to the structure of a conference room will smell a similar musty smell.
Everyone seemed to be preoccupied, and in such an environment, although everyone was still walking together, almost no one spoke out to each other.
Shen Chan who was mixed in the crowd was the same, he looked at the blood-colored text that appeared in the upper right corner of his vision, and he was also thinking and analyzing the current situation.
"Should I say it's a newbie dungeon, the quest prompt of this human camp is no different from that kind of page game to pass the time...... It's almost auto-pathfinding. ”
"Coupled with the number of survivors of players in the human camp, if someone is killed, everyone will immediately know the 'time' of the killing."
"These mechanics seem to be very unfriendly to werewolf players......"
But Shen Chan was not optimistic.
He vaguely felt ...... If humans have this hidden help mechanism, then there is a high probability that werewolves will have it too.
"You'll have to be careful."
Just as Shen Chan was thinking, the first "fork" appeared.
A spiraling staircase appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the simple aunt, the programmer, the tin foil iron, and the old man thought for a moment, and did not choose to continue forward, but walked down the stairs.
Looking down from the edge of the handrail of this staircase, it was not difficult for Shen Chan and the rest of the people to tell the ...... This is probably the third floor of the villa.
The rest of the group continued to walk forward, and after a few steps, the high school girl seemed to remember something, and turned back, not knowing which room to return to or to go downstairs.
Then, among the remaining four people, the fat house and the male college student also chose two rooms and opened the door and walked in.
Shen Chan silently noted down everyone's whereabouts, and then ......
He looked at the last guy who was still with him in the hallway on the third floor of the villa.
The strong man No. 1 who got the pistol.
The other party also turned to look at Shen Chan - originally he was at the front of the line, so he was five or six meters away from Shen Chan.
And he looked at Shen Chan for a while, and then began to step on a firm step and gradually approach Shen Chan!
In the end, the strong man stopped three steps away from Shen Chan.
Before, he couldn't see his specific figure clearly in the low-light environment, but now that he got closer, Shen Chan found out......
The brawny man was sturdier than he had imagined—standing in front of him like a huge freezer with double doors.
The thick chest muscles almost burst the white T-shirt on his body, the two solid arms and muscles were knotted like old trees, and the bronzed skin seemed to have some metallic texture.
Even if he understood that everyone hadn't gone far yet, and even if the other party was a werewolf, it would be impossible for him to rise up and kill himself now, Shen Chan still felt that the vigilance in his instinct was activated.
Only the square, righteous and even stupid face with thick eyebrows and big eyes can make Shen Chan feel that the other party is not so terrible.
He also grinned at Shen Chan, revealing his neat white teeth.
"Brother No. 7, it's just the two of us now...... I have a proposal. ”
"Let's continue to act together!"
Hearing the other party's kind words, Shen Chan was not very surprised.
However, he still made a somewhat "surprised" expression and asked.
"Let's do it together...... Why? ”
As he said this, the strong man also lowered his voice.
"Eh, Brother No. 7, because you're in a dangerous situation! You're holding that glasses that can identify the real thing! You're a much bigger threat to werewolves than I am! ”
"Think about it from another perspective, if I were a werewolf, I would definitely choose to kill you for the first time."
"So, with this pistol, I feel like I have to follow you to protect you!"
The strong man said to Shen Chan with an analysis.
Shen Chan listened to these analyses, and after bowing slightly, a playful smile appeared on his face.
"But what if you're a werewolf?"
He asked rhetorically, and when the strong man heard this, he also seemed a little anxious.
"Brother No. 7, I'm definitely not from the werewolf camp!"
"If I'm a werewolf, I'm going to have my hemorrhoids exploding, baldness, and rotten teeth!"
He swore so hurriedly that although Shen Chan felt a little funny, he didn't immediately believe the other party's words.
In such a game, in order to survive, what nonsense and poisonous oaths are not allowed?
Even if the other person doesn't seem to be in a clear mind, it may not be credible!
In case of...... What about what he did from the beginning?
"'The Righteous Eye Sets the Truth.'"
He thought silently in his mind, and the monocle in front of him flashed with a glimmer of light.
The words that everyone has spoken recently appear in the form of bubbles in their heads.
All the textual messages, including the bubbles formed by these words, shimmered slightly, as if they could be selected.
Shen Chan concentrated on the top of the strong man's head and chose the line of "I'm definitely not from the werewolf camp" he had just said.
Then, with a thought, the image of the monocle on his eyes changed again.
This line of text was plated with a faint green light, and a line of small characters appeared above it.
"The prosthetic eye is true, and the identification is true!"
Seeing the prompt of the props, Shen Chan could also temporarily confirm that the other party was indeed a "human camp".
Moreover, the other party's strange brain circuit, nine times out of ten, is not disguised.
"I'm sure you're not a werewolf, but...... How can you be sure I'm not a werewolf? ”
Shen Chan asked the other party rhetorically, and the strong man scratched his head.
"Oh yes......"
Soon, however, he regained his strength.
"But I don't think you're, I have a gut feeling you're a good person!"
"So, I believe in you!"
He said firmly, and then his gaze drifted to his upper right corner.
"The first step in my mission is to find the lost key in the backyard, I'll accompany you through the mission first......"
He said this, and Shen Chan was not polite to the other party.
"No problem, my mission is scattered...... The third floor has one in the utility room. ”
The No. 1 strong man nodded, and also spoke heartily.
"Then let's go to the utility room first!"
It is not clear exactly where the utility room is, but the rooms that have passed through the hallway have metal signs with their names on the wooden doors.
"Guest room", "bedroom", "piano room", "medical room", "sunroom", ......
Then, at the end of this corridor that was finally revealed, in front of a low door, Shen Chan stopped.
The metal nameplate on the door reads "Utility Room".
"This is it."
Shen Chan gently pushed the door, and the door creaked open.
The strong man grabbed him.
"I'm going to explore the way first! Little brother No. 7, you are waiting here! ”
"If there's any danger, I should be able to deal with it better."
The strong man said this, and Shen Chan did not refuse.
From the point of view of physique and weaponry, what the strong man said was not wrong.
This Shen Chan felt that the door was a little low, and the strong man naturally bent down to get in.
Then, Shen Chan, who was standing at the door, watched the strong man walk into the dark room.
A moment later, the strong man in the room suddenly jumped up and let out a scream.
"Ah——! Ah——!!!h ”
The strong man shouted miserably, and there were three gunshots and a succession of fires from inside.
Then, the figure of the strong man froze in place, not moving!
Shen Chan's pupils constricted.
Could it be that the enemies of the players in this villa...... It's not just players from opposing factions!
"Sure enough, these tasks are not as simple as imagined!"
However, as a strong man who has shown kindness to himself and is in the same camp, whether from the perspective of "interests" or "emotions", he cannot give up the other party.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Chan reached out to the candlestick on the side.
The white candle was easily broken, and he walked slowly into the room with the half-candle in his hand.
Subsequently......
With the help of the light of the candle, Shen Chan saw clearly everything that was happening in the utility room.
The tall and muscular man did not die or have suffered any accidents.
He just stood there with a blank face, holding the pistol in his hand tightly, not daring to move.
Not far in front of him, a fat rat the size of an ordinary house cat lay in a pool of blood, its tail and short hind limbs twitching, and there were three huge bloody holes in its back.
Shen Chan looked at the contrasting picture in front of him, and almost couldn't hold back his laughter.
"It's a little bigger...... As for it? ”
The other side even fired three shots in a row...... In other words, this strong man has put in the balance of nine days of life time for the sake of this mouse!
"It's because it's a rat that's terrifying," said the strong man, with a trembling voice, "I almost had my ears bitten off by a rat when I was a child......
"Are you the muscular version of Tinker Bell," Shen Chan couldn't help but complain, "Why don't you go out and wait first, I'm afraid there will be rats - my task is to find something." ”
"No, I'm going to protect you! Rats are dangerous! ”
The strong man said very stubbornly, and Shen Chan was also helpless.
"Okay...... I don't think the rats will do anything to me, though......"
Compared with the huge mouse, Shen Chan was indeed more worried that this strong man would shoot himself directly to death in a hurry.
Shen Chan placed the candle on a box beside him, and then rummaged through the utility room for the statue he was looking for.
In the utility room, old wooden boxes and various sizes of shabby and dirty cloth bags are piled up to the roof of the utility room, and it seems that there are indeed many rats.
Therefore, when Shen Chan flipped these miscellaneous items, the strong man also looked frightened all the time, holding his pistol tightly.
And in the hallway outside the door......
Not long after the strong man's screams dissipated, that is, while Shen Chan was rummaging for something......
In the hallway, a closed door opened.
The person who came out of it walked straight to the end of the corridor without any hesitation, and the direction from which the screams came!