Chapter 42 What if I wasn't sacrificed tonight?
Seeing that Yin Xiu didn't answer, the little girl pulled his sleeve again and said, "Brother, give me a knife."
Her unexpected move caught Yin Xiu and the barrage of comments by surprise, and even the players who were watching the live broadcast outside the screen were dumbfounded.
"What do you call this? Giving you a fatal blow when you're least prepared? This sister really knows how to ask for things."
"Yin Xiu has found himself in this dilemma again."
"The little girl wants a knife. I don't think even Yin Xiu can handle this situation. No player can do it."
"But I think Yin Xiu can make it. Can Yin Xiu be an ordinary player?"
"Just tell me whether you will give her the knife or not!"
"Giving it is against the rules, not giving it is also against the rules!"
The comments were filled with anxiety, almost causing a quarrel, but Yin Xiu on the screen looked very calm. He asked in a low voice, "You want a knife?"
"Yeah." The little girl nodded.
"Okay, wait for me to go to the kitchen and find one for you." As he said that, he pulled the little girl back to the living room. After leaving the little girl to Li Mo's care, he turned and went straight into the kitchen.
Seeing Yin Xiu start to choose a knife in the kitchen, the barrage was full of astonishment.
"He really needs to find a knife! He can't give a knife to a little girl! Did Yin Xiu forget?"
"It's so annoying. Will Yin Xiu forget the rules one day?"
"That's it! I remember him reading the rules and stuffing them into his roommate's mouth. He definitely didn't remember them! How could he possibly remember the rules after such a short time?"
"I hope someone will remind him later."
"Everyone watched him go into the kitchen. No one knew he was going to give the little girl a knife. It might not have been possible to stop him even if they wanted to."
"Outrageous! What kind of sudden incident is this? I was so optimistic about Yin Xiu, but he has fallen flat on his face."
"Shut up, don't say anything! Yin Xiu hasn't even given me the knife yet, and you're already making a final judgment. Be quiet!"
Everyone felt awkward and could only continue to watch Yin Xiu choose a sword.
After he picked out a small fruit knife, he did not give it to the little girl directly. Instead, he walked around the kitchen, picked out a bowl, and began to sharpen the knife on the bottom of the bowl.
"I know this. When I was a kid, my family would use the bottom of a bowl to sharpen knives."
"What? Yin Xiu wants to sharpen the knife before giving it to her?"
The players were confused for a moment, and then they saw Yin Xiu start sharpening his knife.
Normally, the knife would be sharpened by rubbing it flat on the bottom of the bowl, but Yin Xiu did the opposite. He rubbed the blade vertically against the bottom of the bowl to make it blunt.
After Yin Xiu sharpened the small fruit knife so hard, the blade was no longer sharp and was almost bent.
After torturing this knife, he collected the other knives and hid them on top of the cabinet, then left the kitchen with the knives.
"Here, the knife you wanted." As soon as he left the kitchen, Yin Xiu handed the knife to the little girl.
Zhong Mu, who was standing next to her, was shocked when he saw it and wanted to snatch it away before the little girl got it, but was stopped by Li Mo.
"Yin Xiu! You can't give her a weapon!" Zhong Mu's face turned pale with shock, and he watched the little girl take the knife.
The other players in the room were so frightened when they noticed this that their faces turned pale. Anyone who remembered the rules of survival knew that they couldn't give her a knife. How could this person break the rules even though he knew them?
"Thank you, brother." The little girl happily took the knife, but as soon as she got it in her hand, her brows frowned.
The knife...it is indeed a knife, but it is very small and the blade is bent. The blade can't even cut fruit, let alone people.
It’s a knife, so why doesn’t it count?
Is this a weapon? You can't even cut your finger with it, and it wouldn't even hurt if you poked someone with it.
The rules clearly state that weapons cannot be given to little girls. This knife can no longer be considered a weapon; it's more like a toy.
"Brother, I don't like this knife. I want to change it." The little girl muttered, not very satisfied with the knife in her hand.
Yin Xiu calmly turned his head and pointed towards the kitchen, "But I only found this one knife in there, there are no other knives."
The little girl looked into the kitchen in disbelief and searched through all the drawers and cabinets, but she really couldn't find the knife. She could only pout and reluctantly accept the knife and put it in her pocket.
Those who had just been certain that Yin Xiu was dead in the comments were now afraid to speak.
Who could have guessed where this was headed?
"What do you want the knife for?" Yin Xiu stared at her and asked softly.
The little girl hesitantly hid the knife, "Um... well, for self-defense..."
Her bewildered look made it clear she was lying, but Yin Xiu didn't expose her. He just nodded and let it go.
Now that I have found the diary, understood the background of the town, and obtained the medicine for the little girl, I have completed the first three items on the mother's note. The last item is left, which is to let the little girl leave the town. In addition, the night happens to coincide with the time period before and after Yin Xiu becomes a sacrifice, so this will probably be the most difficult time in the entire copy.
"Go back first?" Zhang Si knew that Yin Xiu had already obtained the medicine mentioned in the rules, so he stared at him and asked.
Now the important medicine is in Yin Xiu's hands, and the little girl is also in his hands. This group of people have to follow him even if they don't want to.
"Well, let's go back there first." Yin Xiu thought of the basement in that house and he had to find a chance to go and take a look.
"Okay! Let's all go back!" Zhang Si shouted, and a group of people reluctantly followed Yin Xiu and went back with him.
The four people on Yin Xiu's side always stayed together, and the players over there also gathered together, huddled in groups of two or three, whispering something.
As the copy was about to end, they still hadn't figured out who the corpse in the clearance rules referred to. In addition, the dominant power was in Yin Xiu's hands, which made them a little unhappy.
Back in the lobby of the house, the players sat down and began the final deduction phase of the dungeon. At this time, whoever had the most information would have the most say. However, Yin Xiu, who had the most information, was squeezed into the corner.
He glanced at the time on the wall, then at the basement door in the corner. He felt it was not the right time to go in, so he sat in the corner and dozed off, listening to the group of players analyzing.
"After reading the diary just now, I think the monster corpse required for this clearance must be the sealed woman in the square."
"A monster corpse must be a monster first, and that woman is the origin of the monsters in this town."
Another immediately retorted, "But the little girl is also a monster, and a special monster different from the townspeople. Remember the last sentence in the foreground prompt when you entered the dungeon?"
"ah?"
"You must follow the note your mother left behind to help her survive, and always be careful of the monsters around you."
"I noticed at the time that this monster clearly refers to the little girl. Okay, at that time, the player was separated from the people in the town, and the most dangerous monster around was the little girl. This was clearly a clue."
The others seemed to be thinking about something. The key point was that they had never really noticed this point, so it was not impossible.
"But I still think the woman in town is more likely. There's so much information in the diary pointing to her."
Zhang Si also spoke slowly, "It's either a little girl or a woman, it must be these two, but I still think it's a woman. After all, the diary said that the woman was dead and her body was sealed in the statue.
"As long as we go to the statue
"Wow, that actually makes some sense."
A group of people began to nod in agreement.
Yin Xiu, who was in the corner, suddenly asked quietly, "Could it be the mayor?"
"This... shouldn't be possible, right? The mayor looks strange."
In the dungeon, monsters and monsters mentioned in the rules are obviously two different things. Monsters are the identities given by the dungeon on the surface, while monsters belong to a type of monster in the dungeon. The ones who kill people in the rules are monsters, and the townspeople are essentially monsters, but the dungeon gives them the identity of monsters and requires players to find monsters. Then they must be looking for monsters that have been given the identity of monsters by the dungeon.
So far, the players' logic is like this, or rather, the logic of most dungeons is like this as well.
If we want to classify the mayor as a monster, we must first find proof that the mayor is also a monster.
Yin Xiu touched his chin and thought, this was the information he had been looking for.
And no matter how you think about it, the proof is in the basement, but the rules do not allow players to enter the basement of the current house.
He is still waiting for the right time.
Whenever he had the chance, he would go to the basement. He didn't care whether there was a sacrifice or not, or whether there was not enough time.
"Speaking of which..." Yin Xiu suddenly thought of a new question, "What would happen to the town if the townspeople failed to make me a sacrifice tonight?"
There is no information mentioning this so far.
When he asked this question, the players immediately fell silent.
This... is really hard to imagine.
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