Chapter 173
"Young man, could you tell me what the note says?"
The man in the white shirt narrowed his eyes slightly. Although his tone was inquiring, it carried an air of authority that brooked no refusal.
Yitu looked up at him, and there was no need to hide anything, so he said simply:
"Behind the stone door with the portrait hanging on it is the killer boss of this floor."
The man didn't expect Yitu to be so straightforward and actually told them the relevant information. He couldn't help but doubt the reliability of the news.
"Are you telling the truth?" The remaining three people were also hesitant to believe it. One of them demanded, "Bring the note over here so we can see it."
Yi Tu didn't say anything, so He Rui said:
"Isn't this a bad idea? After all, we were the ones who found the note. Can you just give it to me?"
The leader smiled, no longer pretending to be polite, and said:
"You found it first, but I just wanted to see it."
"Then you come and try it." Yi Tu's eyes were slightly cold.
Seeing that Yi Tu was not timid at all, the four people couldn't help but feel suspicious.
Although the four of them are not weak, they are also afraid of really hitting a hard wall.
What's more, the person in front of him is not simple. After all, he is the player who opened the most doors here.
The man in white shirt hesitated for a moment. It wasn't that he didn't have the courage to act, but the boss information for this level was unclear.
If you fight with other players right from the start, you will inevitably consume items and skill cards in advance, which will give others an opportunity to take advantage of you.
So the leader thought about it and decided to give in.
"There's no need to fight over such a small matter, right?" said the man in the white shirt.
"How about we swap?"
Seeing that this man was quite clever, Yitu put away the wind power gathered in his palm and said with a slightly relaxed expression:
"Okay, what do you want to exchange for it?"
Yitu thought that this person would definitely ask for the tower climbing reward points, or at least equal information in exchange.
However, no one expected this man to be so shameless. He pointed at the little girl next to him, Gu Ling, and said:
"I'll trade her with you."
"Give me the note, and she'll open the door for you. Otherwise, do you really believe in a probability pointer?"
Hearing this, Gu Ling's face suddenly turned ugly, and he almost gritted his teeth and said:
"How can anyone insult others like you?"
The man in the white shirt smiled and said, "Little sister, it's all about playing anyway, so why do you care who you play with?"
Gu Ling was so angry that her whole body was shaking, her lips quivering and she couldn't speak, she just looked at Yi Tu and He Rui nervously.
He Rui didn't say anything. He didn't have any thoughts, but he rolled his eyes and found the matter very interesting.
Yi Tu didn't notice He Rui's strange expression. Instead, he thought about it seriously and nodded in agreement.
"Okay, here's the note. You can change places."
The man in white shirt was quite straightforward. After taking the note, he led the remaining three people to retreat to a safe distance.
Gu Ling, who was unable to control her own destiny, was very nervous, and her eyes were full of anxiety when she looked at Yi Tu.
He Rui did not take any further action, but just kept his eyes on Yi Tu, wondering what he was thinking.
However, Yi Tu's thoughts were not as complicated and dark as they imagined. He simply asked Gu Ling:
"Can you open the door yourself?"
Gu Ling was stunned for a moment, then shook her head.
Yitu didn't find it strange. Even if this little girl really had a way to save her life, she would never reveal it to him.
"Since I've helped you out, and you can't open the door, why don't you try my lucky compass?"
After he said this, not only Gu Ling was stunned, but also He Rui.
"No, brother, didn't you lend me your compass?"
Yitu nodded, "Yeah, I didn't sell it to you."
He Rui choked, and Gu Ling finally understood what he meant and agreed immediately.
"Okay, how much tower climbing reward do you want?"
Yitu smiled. This little girl was very insightful and could understand what she meant without her having to explain it clearly.
"I'll lend it to you once, only ten."
Gu Ling nodded and gave the reward value to Yitu without saying a word.
He Rui was even more confused and could only watch Gu Ling take the pointer from his hand.
When Gu Ling turned the pointer, the four people who had received the note had not left yet and were watching from the side.
As long as they don't come to cause trouble, Yitu is too lazy to chase them away.
Gu Ling's pointer turned for a long time before it stopped. The pointer slowly passed the two doors and finally landed on Room 0228.
Gu Ling hesitated for a moment, but still handed the compass to He Rui and went to open the door alone.
Yu Hua and others watched from the side and always felt that there was something fishy going on.
Even a lucky pointer cannot point to the correct room 100%.
Just when they were guessing, Gu Ling had already pushed open the door in front of them.
There was no evil spirit rushing out, nor any fierce ghost rushing in the face, but there was actually another door to life.
"Oh my god? Is this a ghost?" someone next to Yu Hua screamed.
Gu Ling also looked happy. She didn't know that Yi Tu was manipulating all this behind the scenes, and she thought it was really just a matter of luck.
Gu Ling quickly took out the fragments in the room. There were only five pieces, and no extra notes.
Others cannot check either, after all, only the player who opened the door can enter the room.
Gu Ling handed the fragment to Yi Tu and asked softly, "Can I go now?"
Yi Tu nodded and really didn't force it anymore. The little girl immediately breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Yu Hua and the other three not far away with fear, and quickly left.
"What do you mean, should we continue driving?" He Rui asked, weighing the pointer in his hand.
Yi Tu was about to speak when he realized that Yu Hua and the other three had returned. He raised his eyebrows slightly and said:
"What's up?"
This time, Yu Hua went straight to the point and said:
"How much is your pointer's reward worth per use? We want to buy one."
Hearing this, Yitu smiled and actually gave a price.
"10 o'clock once, the probability is only 80%. I will not be responsible if anything goes wrong."
After all, as a businessman, the most important thing is to distance yourself from the goods so as to avoid being unable to resolve the situation.
Yitu didn't ask for more reward points from them, so Yu Hua was quite satisfied and swiped the card happily.
Before He Rui handed the compass to Yu Hua, Yi Tu kindly reminded him:
"Why don't you guys go somewhere else? We've already opened two life gates here. The probability of opening another one is very low, and it will affect the accuracy of the compass."
Yu Hua pondered for a moment, then turned around and took the three people up to the third floor.
Although Yitu lied about the pointer, his reminder was not wrong.
It is undoubtedly a good thing to trick those people into opening more doors. Otherwise, everyone would want to force the weak, but where would there be so many weak people on the 56th floor?
They are all players of equal strength who have climbed up from the bottom. Showing weakness for a while does not mean that he has no possibility of fighting back. He is just temporarily succumbing to the pressure of the environment.
Without the compass, Yitu had no reason to trick He Rui into opening the door.
The two began to walk around the second floor and look around.
Although there are also sixteen rooms on the second floor, the situation in the left corridor is more intense than that in the right corridor.
Four of the eight rooms in the left corridor have been opened, and all of them are dead doors. Blood is all over the floor, and it is very mottled due to the players who opened the doors.
Because they kept hitting dead ends, the remaining players were very unwilling to accept the result.
After all, the probability of the life gate and the death gate should be half and half, and at the very least, the probability of the life gate is still 40%.
They have opened so many dead ends, and if they continue to open them, they will eventually be able to open new ones.
So these people thought about it, gritted their teeth and continued driving.
Among these people, there were a few who looked familiar to Yitu, Xiaodao and the friendly-looking aunt were two of them.
They were more self-aware than other players. They did not threaten or force each other, but instead drew lots to decide who would open the door.
When Yitu and He Rui went over, they had just finished drawing lots.
The person who drew the short lot this time was Xiaodao, who opened the two doors of life at the beginning.
Xiaodao's hand holding the short stick couldn't stop shaking, and his face didn't look good.
The aunt standing next to him patted his shoulder and comforted him:
"It's okay, kid. We've already passed four death gates in a row. The further we go, the greater the chance of reaching a life gate."
"Yeah, and what's more, this is already your third door. Once you open it, you won't have to open it again." Others echoed.
Each player can only open the room in Randy's castle three times. After three times, the door cannot be opened again.
This rule is not difficult to understand. After a long time, there will naturally be players who can survive after opening it three times.
Yi Tu also just found out about this. No wonder these people gave up on threats and inducements and chose to open the door honestly.
But in this case, forty-eight doors are still too few for twenty-five players.
It is inevitable that some people cannot open more than two doors, while others are forced to open all three doors, and some even die in them.
Xiaodao forced a smile on his face. He casually put the short stick into his trouser pocket and walked into the corridor, stepping on the blood-spattered floor.
At this moment, there were only two doors in front of him, one behind him and the other on his left.
Even though four doors have been opened, it is still difficult to choose from the remaining four.
Xiaodao has already opened two doors safely. Can he really choose the right door for the last one?
This is not just a matter of probability and luck, but also a difficult psychological game.
Any normal person would doubt whether they would have such luck again after guessing the answers correctly continuously.
Because this matter has nothing to do with strength at all.
Psychological hesitation or tension will inevitably lead to bad outcomes.
Yitu and He Rui moved forward. When those people saw them coming, they didn't say anything. All their attention was on Xiaodao.
After a psychological struggle, Xiaodao chose the third door on the left.
Yi Tu was not very close, and his spiritual sense could not detect the faint spiritual body in the room at all, so he could not give any clues.
Although he had a liking for Xiaodao, he really couldn't help much more.
Xiaodao slowly placed his hand on the door handle, and the door automatically opened backwards without any ghost appearing.
Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a terrifying female ghost with a mouth cracked all the way to the back of her ears suddenly appeared from the left side of the door.
As soon as it appeared, it opened its mouth and bit Xiaodao's arm tightly, and countless black hairs entangled around the person who opened the door.
Xiaodao let out a scream, and his instinctive desire to survive made him turn his head and shout:
"Save me, save me! Save me—"
Just as he was about to be dragged into the room by the evil spirit, a green blade suddenly appeared in the air.
The moment the blade flew past, Xiaodao's right arm broke and fell to the ground without leaving any blood.
After a second or two, a large amount of blood spurted out from the neatly broken end of the rice stem, wetting the ground again.
"Xiaodao!"
At this time, someone reacted and hurried to help Xiaodao.
Although Xiaodao saved his life, he had lost all his fighting ability due to excessive blood loss.
Even so, Xiaodao's eyes were filled with tears as she looked over with gratitude.
"Thank you everyone, I want to say thank you to whoever saved me."
The aunt was stunned for a moment, scratched her head and said embarrassedly:
"Well, I really didn't see it clearly. It was just too fast."
"Yeah, I didn't notice. I was just looking at you."
No one could see who did it. Xiaodao was a little disappointed, but didn't force it.
At this moment, He Rui, who was standing next to Yitu, suddenly shouted:
"It was Hanshan! It was Hanshan who saved you!"
Yi Tu was stunned for a moment and was about to grab He Rui, but it was too late.
Xiaodao looked at him, tears of surviving the disaster still on her face, and thanked him with great gratitude.
"I should have guessed that who else could save me besides you? Thank you so much, I really can't repay you."
"What's your name, benefactor? I'm willing to give you all my tower climbing rewards!"
Yitu couldn't adapt to it for a while and refused without thinking.
"Just do it, not just for you."
Saving Xiaodao was something he had not expected. He had just had the idea and decided to give it a try.
Unexpectedly, breaking off an arm to save people really worked. As long as the speed of breaking off the arm was faster than the speed of the evil ghost dragging the person, the person could still be saved.
After doing a good deed, Yi Tu didn't intend to leave his name behind. Who knew that He Rui would suddenly speak up and expose him.
Xiaodao wanted to thank him, but Yitu couldn't take his tower climbing reward points.
Although he was a profiteer, his original intention of saving Xiaodao was just good intentions, not a business matter.
After what happened, Yitu couldn't stay any longer, so he said goodbye to Xiaodao and went somewhere else.
He Rui still followed him shamelessly. Even though he guessed that Yi Tu was probably angry, he apologized several times and said that he really didn't mean it. Yi Tu didn't bother to argue with him anymore.
What's more, the two of them had to go to the third floor to retrieve the compass, and Yi Tu had to rely on He Rui to continue opening the door.
When they reached the third floor, Yu Hua and his companions were walking downstairs with gloomy faces.
Yitu took a look and saw that there were only three left of the original four people.
"You'd better promise that you didn't lie to me, otherwise I'll make you pay for it." Yu Hua's voice was cold and his eyes were full of hostility.
Yitu smiled and said, "I've already said it before, what do you mean by this?"
Seeing that he was not afraid at all, Yu Hua gritted his teeth and swallowed his anger, then left with the remaining two people.
Time passed little by little, and there were only less than two hours left in the five hours. At this time, there were less than half of the players left in the hall.
Yitu and He Rui took advantage of the situation, with some successes and some failures. For a while, no one noticed that they were doing anything wrong.
When He Rui opened the last door, he took out a very unfriendly message note from inside.
[The souls of the unjustly killed have never left the castle. Every time midnight comes, listen, they are calling your name.]
By the time the note was discovered, it was too late. Half of the twenty-six players had died, leaving only twelve.
The note means that anyone who dies in the castle, whether NPC or player, will turn into a ghost at midnight and return to the castle to claim their life.
Because this is the 56th floor of the Spade Tower, no one expected that the rules of the game on this floor are to kill as few players as possible.
The more players who die, the higher the risk factor for them to pass the level in the end.
Yitu had never expected this, but he had subconsciously saved several players he liked before, which was a disguised way of reducing the difficulty.
The other players who risked their lives to force the door open felt extremely complicated for a moment.
With the hint from this note, Yitu had to step forward and guide others to open the correct door to life.
Finally, before the last hour, all the fragments were gathered.
There were too many fragments, and among the remaining eleven people, Xiaodao was a cripple and could not help much.
The ten people worked quickly and pieced the portrait together bit by bit. There was only half an hour left when the portrait was hung back on the wall.
No one dared to open the stone door themselves, because they knew that the final boss of this floor, Randy McDonald, would come out of the stone door.
In the end, it was Xue Chang who helped Yi Tu and pushed the stone door to the left.
At this moment, it was completely dark outside the castle, and the dim candles illuminated the extremely empty hall.
But the person lying in the stone gate was not Randy McDonald as they thought, but two young men who looked exactly the same with their eyes closed.
Everyone was caught off guard by this scene, even Yitu was unable to react.
Until someone exclaimed, "How could it be the Chen twins?!"
Chen Yan and Chen Miao opened their eyes at the same time, their gazes instantly locked on Yi Tu who was standing not far away.
At this moment, a voice full of laughter and very familiar sounded behind him.
"Come, let us pay tribute to the great Queen of Hearts!"
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