Chapter 172
When Yitu came out from the left corridor on the first floor, everyone had dispersed and was trying to find a way to open the door.
There were only a few people left in the hall. Among them, Xue Chang just glanced at him lightly, with a strange blue light flashing in his glasses, and it was unknown who he was controlling.
And He Rui, who had come in with him, didn't leave either, as if he was waiting for him.
Yi Tu frowned slightly and was about to pretend not to see it, but He Rui came up to him with a smile on his face, not at all shy.
"Hanshan, I'm here!"
"Are you sure the remaining rooms on the left corridor are all dead doors?" He Rui asked straight to the point.
He asked so frankly that Yi Tu couldn't give him a cold look, so he had to nod.
"My tools won't go wrong. The remaining unopened doors are all dead doors. If you don't believe me, go and try it yourself."
When He Rui heard him say this, he quickly explained:
"I'm just asking casually, I'm not really questioning you."
"Hanshan, besides the fragments of the portrait, did you find anything else in the room?"
Yitu paused and asked calmly:
"What's the meaning?"
He Rui pointed at a girl leaning on the railing on the second floor and said:
"Inside the door that the little girl just opened, there was not only a puzzle, but also a white note."
"Any clues?" Yi Tu's heart moved.
He Rui smiled. "What else could it be but a clue? It's a pity I don't know what was written on the note."
"Did you see those men around her? They all tried to grab the note, but none of them succeeded."
Yitu glanced at him. This guy was waiting here specifically to tell him detailed information. I wonder what he was planning.
"You want that note?"
He Rui was stunned for a moment, but asked without any concealment:
"What if the information on that note is about the final boss? Wouldn't you be tempted?"
Yi Tu did not answer his question, but went up the stairs to the second floor. He Rui didn't understand why, but followed him.
It was not until he reached the second floor that Yi Tu saw the full appearance of the girl that He Rui mentioned, a sweet-looking loli.
However, this little girl is not as well-behaved as she looks, and her eyes are particularly fierce.
Yi Tu just glanced at her, and she glared back at him fiercely, which was a bit unpleasant.
In front of her stood a red-skinned puppet doll over one meter tall, its body covered with scars of varying sizes.
Only then did Yitu know how this man opened the door.
Due to the rules of the game, it is difficult to distinguish between doors, and neither the door of life nor the door of death can be directly tested with props.
Unless there is a skill card that can sense the spirit in the room, or other methods that Yi Tu has not tried.
Under such harsh conditions, most players will inevitably sacrifice the lives of the weak in order to protect their own safety.
This is a very normal thing in the game world, and in a sense it is also the most correct way to play this level.
The same thing happened to that girl. Instead of checking in to the room herself, she used a human-shaped puppet to represent herself.
I don’t know the origin of the red-skinned puppet, but if you stare at it for a long time, you will indeed feel a mysterious chill.
The puppet in Yuanyuan only opened three doors, two of which were death doors and one was a life door.
The red-skinned puppet died twice in her place. When it was dragged into the room by the evil spirit for the first time, Yuan Yuan was frightened and almost thought that the Red Blood Princess would never come back.
The terrifying roar of the evil spirit came from the room, intertwined with the gurgling sound coming from the puppet's throat.
No blood flowed out from the crack in the door, only black hair and a flat red skin slowly seeped out.
Seeing that Red Blood Princess could come back, Yuan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, the Red Blood Princess is a divine item, and in essence, she is the incarnation of a resentful evil spirit, but with an extra layer of restraint.
Yuan Yuan didn't have the mind to worry about which side won, he just knew that the door in front of him could no longer be opened.
The Red Blood Princess looked seriously injured, but after all, she was just an emotionless prop, so Yuan Yuan continued to use it to open the door.
Who knew that the second door was also a dead end. Even if the Red Blood Princess had no sense of pain, the props would be severely damaged and unusable. With trepidation, Yuan Yuan still opened the third door.
Fortunately, her luck was bad, but not that bad. The third door was a life door, and there was also a note with a message.
The reason why she didn't open the door further down was very simple. Yuan Yuan was afraid that some players would rush up and snatch her note.
In this case, how could she dare to let the Red Blood Princess leave her side even a step, and the idea of opening the door was temporarily dismissed.
Yuan Yuan glared at the rather ugly man, thinking that he was also trying to snatch her note.
Who knew that the man just looked at her quietly, then turned around and ignored her.
Yuan Yuan thought that this person was just afraid of the Red Blood Princess in front of her and didn't dare to take action. She didn't know that Yi Tu had already known the contents of the note with just one glance.
Yuan Yuan was not the first person to get the clue. Before that, Yi Tu got the first note from the two remaining doors on the left corridor on the first floor.
The content of the note was simple, just a few sentences about David Howard's life and the room in the castle where he eventually disappeared.
The note that Yuan Yuan received was the same, briefly describing someone's life. They were either doctors or artists, both men and women.
But there is no doubt that they were all once friends of Randy MacDonald, and Randy is the Picture of Dorian Gray himself.
A few years ago, David and Lucy were invited by their good friend Randy to visit this exquisite castle.
But they didn't stay there for long before they discovered a horrifying fact.
Every night at twelve o'clock, there would always be a strange knock on the door in the castle, sometimes very close, sometimes very far away.
They were in trouble, and the owner of the castle could not explain the reason. He only revealed his true face when they asked to go back.
Like the previous residents, they were killed by their owners in their rooms in the castle, thus gaining their own numbers.
The note Yitu got contained a warning from David before his death.
Randy always likes to knock on our door at midnight. Don't answer or make a sound, he's there!
The note Yuan Yuan received also contained Lucy's reminder before her death.
[Don't help Randy put the portrait together, even though you can't resist the secrets in the portrait.]
Although the two notes did not say it explicitly, the simplest and most understandable clue was not the words, but the two strings of room numbers.
0117, 0226.
David died at 01:17 and Lucia died at 02:26.
Yitu was very familiar with Room 0117. It was located on the left corridor on the first floor and was one of the four rooms that contained evil spirits.
Lucyka's room 0226 is on the right corridor on the second floor, which is not unexpectedly a dead end.
Players who get the note can quickly eliminate rooms containing evil spirits, thereby increasing their survival rate.
But these two notes are far from enough. The information they provide is too fragmented, and there is no way to circumvent the final boss Randy.
The game is still going on. Yitu really wants to open the door to look for clues, but in order not to be a tool, he had previously said that he would only open five doors.
So, he could only remind He Ruidao out of kindness:
"If you don't open the door, those guys over there will come over and start fighting."
A few strong men were watching closely from a distance. They were used to using violence to force the weak to submit, or they would attack them directly and push the door open when no one was paying attention.
As long as your hand touches the door handle, the door will open automatically.
He Rui's face showed some fear, and he pleaded hesitantly:
"Hanshan, you must have a way to distinguish the gates of life and death, right? Can you help me? I really don't know how!"
Yi Tu thought about it and didn't say anything. He definitely couldn't help He Rui open the door directly.
In this way, not only will no one believe what he said before, but it may even have a negative and adverse effect.
However, just because he couldn't open the door didn't mean he had no other way to get others to open it. Yi Tu's ugly face showed a hint of difficulty.
"Brother, it's not that I don't want to help you, but my props really can only be used five times. I've already used up all the ones on the first floor corridor."
He Rui was very disappointed and helpless after hearing this, and then Yi Tu said:
"However, I just remembered that I have a prop here that might be able to help you a little."
He Rui was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise: "Really? Thank you so much, Hanshan, I knew you were a good person!"
"I've played so many games, but I've never met anyone as kind-hearted as you."
Although He Rui was praising him, Yi Tu always felt something was wrong. This guy was giving out good guy cards too smoothly.
He quickly interrupted and explained:
"Wait a minute, brother, and listen to me."
He Rui nodded happily, "You say."
"My tool can't actually help you tell whether there are evil spirits in the room, but!" Yitu continued, misleadingly.
"But guessing the room itself is a matter of probability, so..."
He Rui continued with a dull expression, "So your prop is just a dice, right?"
He was a smart man and figured it out immediately. Yitu smiled:
"It's not a dice, it's a lucky pointer."
He Rui didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "What difference does it make! You want me to risk my life on a needle?"
Yitu sighed, "It's not an ordinary lucky needle, don't you believe me?"
He Rui expressed doubt, "How accurate is your pointing needle?"
Yitu randomly made up a probability, "Eighty percent, is that high enough?"
He Rui still hesitated, "It's high, but what if I'm unlucky and I get that 20%?"
Yitu talked with him for a long time and felt a little tired, so he pointed to the strong men standing not far away and finally said:
"How about I call them over and you ask again?"
He Rui was startled and immediately grabbed his arm and shouted:
"No, no, no! Then I'll trust you this time and give it a try."
Yitu nodded and skillfully took out the card reader.
"Twenty points of tower climbing reward."
He Rui was confused, "You want money?"
Yitu winked at him, "What else?"
He Rui suddenly laughed out loud, then took out his ID card and swiped it.
"Honestly, you're kind of cute."
Yi Tu pretended not to hear his nonsensical words, accepted the reasonable price of 20 points for climbing the tower, and handed the so-called lucky needle to He Rui.
This item is actually just an ordinary cheating item and has no other functions at all.
It's so simple that wherever Yitu wants the needle to stop, it will stop there.
Yi Tu brought this little thing into the card room by chance. He found it very useful in solving metaphysical problems, so he kept it with him ever since.
I didn't expect it to come in handy again on the 56th floor of the Spade Tower.
He Rui took the compass with trepidation and walked towards the right corridor of the second floor with Yi Tu.
There were already five or six players standing in the corridor on the right side of the second floor, four of whom were forcing two younger girls.
Of the two girls, Yi Tu only had some impression of the one in the white dress. Although the girl was pretty, her voice was not very nice, so Yi Tu remembered her very clearly.
The other girl in jeans had an ordinary appearance and didn't say much, so there was nothing memorable about her.
At this time, four male players formed a temporary group, deliberately stopped the two people, and forced them to open the door.
Seeing that she couldn't resist, the ordinary-looking girl was quite calm. She said to the girl in the white dress:
"Why don't we play rock-paper-scissors? The loser gets to open the door first."
The girl in the white dress looked extremely ugly, but she couldn't resist the current situation and had to agree.
The two played scissors and paper respectively. The girl in the white dress lost and regretted without a second thought:
"No! We'll play best two out of three and start over again!"
How could the girl in jeans agree? She didn't argue with her, but looked up at the four male players, wanting them to make a decision.
However, the four of them just smiled and didn't express any opinion, just waiting to see them fight.
The girl's face changed with anger, and the white skirt was still tangled, so she had to step back and say:
"Then I'll go open the door first. The order doesn't matter anymore. Even if I'm the first one, it will be your turn soon."
The girl glanced at the white dress meaningfully, then turned and walked towards the corridor behind her.
The girl in the white dress didn't quite understand what she meant, but she felt an inexplicable chill on her back.
He Rui and Yi Tu, who happened to see this scene, looked at each other.
"The little girl is going to die." He Rui said.
Yitu thought he was talking nonsense. Both of them were little girls, so who knew which one he was talking about.
The girl wearing jeans was somewhat unusual. Even at this point, she still looked at the doors in front of her calmly, and 0226 was one of them.
Yitu suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. His intuition told him that the man would choose 0226, a real death door.
The girl looked at 0225 hesitantly, then looked at 0226, and finally chose 0226 after some hesitation.
But before she opened the door, she subconsciously looked up at the corridor outside, and the two new players who appeared quickly caught her attention.
The taller one among them looked at her gravely, his brows furrowed tightly.
The moment the two looked at each other from a distance, Gu Ling hesitated again.
This time, she did not choose 0226, but opened the door of 0225.
The moment his hand touched the door, it opened silently backwards, and a huge shadow covered in black suddenly appeared and pounced towards Gu Ling.
Gu Ling didn't even have time to scream before she was dragged in the next second.
Seeing this, Yitu also felt a little regretful.
Even though he reminded the girl, who would have thought that 0225 was also a dead end.
But the person who died was not Gu Ling, but the girl in the white dress.
Gu Ling stood in front of the door with a pale face, and soon the blood that flowed out from the crack of the door soaked her shoes.
"Fuck! This little bitch is cheating." One of the four shouted.
"Because you won the game of rock-paper-scissors, she died in your place, right?" Someone quickly guessed the answer.
Gu Ling did not deny it, but asked calmly:
"The end result is the same anyway, do you really care about the process?"
The man in the white shirt at the head smiled and said, "You're quite smart, dear boy. Go choose again."
Gu Ling's face darkened. This time, no one would play rock-paper-scissors with her. She could die for him.
At this moment, someone shouted from behind:
"Excuse me! We are here to open the door too."
Gu Ling looked back and saw that it was indeed the two players who had just been standing outside watching.
The four male players didn't say anything, but just made room a little and looked them up and down.
Yi Tu had a calm expression and was not afraid at all, and He Rui did not show the slightest fear either.
In this case, it was difficult for the four people to judge whether these two people were soft persimmons, so they urged Gu Ling again.
"Don't worry, big brother, can you please open a door for us first?" He Rui said with a smile:
"Thank you, thank you."
The man in the white shirt smiled and said, "Okay, go ahead and open it. How can I stop you from rushing to your death?"
He Rui suddenly stopped laughing, and Yitu supported him and said:
"Who knows, maybe we get really lucky."
Hearing this, He Rui regained his spirits and began to adjust the compass in his hand.
He clearly didn't use much force, but the pointer kept turning for almost half a minute, and there was no sign of it stopping.
He Rui was a little confused and subconsciously looked at Yi Tu, but Yi Tu was sensing the spiritual fluctuations inside the door.
To ensure everything was safe, he didn't hesitate to stop pointing the needle.
"This is normal. The harder the game, the harder it is for the pointer to point," Yitu explained.
He Rui was relieved, and Yitu pointed the compass at a door behind him.
He Rui looked up at Yi Tu, but Yi Tu didn't say anything, so he put away the compass and walked towards the door behind him.
Although Yi Tu had tried to persuade him repeatedly before, He Rui was still very hesitant. But now that he was at the door, he was overly calm.
He Rui walked over and pushed open the door naturally. Yi Tu was not surprised to find any evil spirits, but it was quite shocking to others.
He Rui smiled, walked in and took out the fragments, and also took out a small note.
Yi Tu's eyes fell on the note. He Rui had nothing to hide, so he handed the note to him directly.
This note was different from the previous ones. It was no longer a brief summary of Randy's friend's life, but a very clear warning.
[Don't complete the painting, and don't open the stone door easily, because Randy is sleeping soundly inside.]
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