Chapter 72 Let’s take a bath together! (Part 9)
...all gone?!
Everyone's face turned serious in an instant.
Mu Yu went to look at the electronic screen at the front desk first.
The small electronic screen went black for a moment, and then a number popped up - "2"!
One less vacancy!
Mu Yu's thoughts turned, and he immediately asked Liu Yu: "Did Brother Bird go into the wall?"
Liu Yu was stunned and said, "Yes, it should be, he, he was pushed in by a black shadow..."
"Dark Shadow???"
Everyone was even more confused after hearing this. How come there was another "black shadow"? What kind of monster was this? !
Lu Zhongnian lowered his eyelashes, thought for a moment, raised his eyes and asked Liu Yu: "A human-shaped black shadow?"
"Yes... yes, it's in human form! I, I don't know what happened," Liu Yu's eyes turned red and he stuttered, "I went to Area 2, and I heard Principal Dou's voice telling me not to go into the wall, so I immediately told Brother Bird. As a result, when I arrived at Area 1, I saw the black shadow break into his cubicle. When I rushed over, the black shadow and he had disappeared."
"Wang Shiye disappeared. There was a puddle of dirty water on the floor of his cubicle. Lao Li took away his towel and soap!"
Fu Xiaoju and Zhao Anyi were stunned and confused.
Obviously, everyone has communicated the clues and is well prepared before entering the bathhouse, but every time the players who have entered come out, their experiences always exceed their expectations!
Mu Yu frowned and asked Liu Yu: "Is it the sewage on the ground?"
"yes!"
Fu Xiaoju asked Mu Yu in confusion: "What you saw at that time was dirty water on the wall?"
Mu Yu lowered his head and murmured: "...Yes."
Fu Xiaoju didn't understand: "Why is one sewage on the wall and the other sewage on the ground? Also, Brother Lu encountered a humanoid monster in Area 1 before, and now Senior Liu encountered a humanoid shadow. Are these two the same thing?"
Lu Chongnian shook his head.
He was sure that the thing he saw was not a "black shadow", but a monster with skin color and appearance.
Fu Xiaoju: "Fuck, what's going on? Is there any connection between that black shadow and the monster you saw, Brother Lu?"
No one could answer his question.
Lu Zhongnian thought quietly for a moment, then asked Liu Yu: "Did you encounter any octopus monsters when you went in this time?"
"No, not from beginning to end!"
Zhao Anyi became anxious after hearing this: "Why do I feel that the clues are all messed up? Now there is one less vacancy, so it should be because Brother Bird entered the world inside the wall, right? Then are Mu Yu's previous guesses correct?"
"——The number of vacancies we see now is not the number of vacancies in the bathhouse, but the number of vacancies in the 'special space'?!"
This is a very clear signal, confirming the clear connection between the two, but——
Mu Yu said slowly: "But the problem that Maer mentioned before does exist."
In the last round, two monsters entered the wall. Why didn't the number of empty spaces decrease by 2?
And Principal Dou——
If Principal Dou was the first player to enter the "special space", then after he entered, why did the number of empty spaces remain 1 and not become 0?
Mu Yu himself proposed the idea of "special space = real bathhouse", but he really didn't think through the two questions above.
Fu Xiaoju grabbed his head and said, "Principal Dou's voice said sometimes we can go in and sometimes we can't. The octopus monster also appeared sometimes and didn't appear sometimes. And there's Area 3. Senior Zhao took a shower in Area 3 before, right? Why was he fine, but Senior Wang Shi got into trouble?!"
“Why does each group of people encounter different situations? Why do I feel like there is no pattern at all?”
Shouldn't it be the easiest to find patterns in a dungeon like this that is refreshed in rounds? !
Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian were both concentrating on thinking.
law……
There must be some pattern in the copies. At least judging from the first three copies, the One who created the copies would never throw out a completely messed up copy.
And where does the rule of this copy exist?
What determines what players will face when they enter the bathhouse each round?
Is it related to the color of soap the player chooses? Or is it because the speed at which the player swipes the card to take a bath after entering the bathhouse is different?
No, it shouldn’t be these factors… None of these factors are clear enough…
The rules of the dungeon must be a clearer benchmark that can help them categorize all the situations they have encountered so far...
Besides the above two points, what else can be used...
Mu Yu and Lu Zhongnian were thinking, and at a certain moment, they both raised their heads and looked at each other.
"——Odd or even number?"
The other three were discussing frantically, and when they heard these three words come out of the mouths of these two people, they were all stunned.
“…What the hell?”
"——It's an odd or even number!" Mu Yu's eyes lit up. "The situation in the bathhouse changes according to the odd or even number of the players in each round!"
He figured everything out in an instant, and immediately explained to the other three confused people:
"Octopus monsters are obviously the main monsters in this instance, but so far only Lu Zhongnian and Senior Zhao have encountered them. What's the difference between their round and the other four rounds?"
"——It's an even number! There were only two of them in that round, and in the other four rounds, the number of players was all odd!"
Fu Xiaoju, Zhao Anyi and Liu Yu all widened their eyes.
"Not only that, think about how the content of the whispers in Area 2 changed? The version that Senior Liu Yu and I heard told us not to enter the wall, but Lu Zhongnian heard that it asked us to enter the wall - when Senior Liu Yu and I entered, the number of players was odd, while Lu Zhongnian and his team had an even number!"
Fu Xiaoju and the others were gradually stunned.
They immediately began to recall that in the first three rounds, the number of players was 1. In the fourth round, when Lu Zhongnian and Zhao Anyi entered the bathhouse, the number of players became 2. In the fifth round, the number of players became 3...
Fu Xiaoju was the first one to enter the bathhouse. He kept the curtain drawn during the bath, so naturally he didn't encounter anything.
The second time Principal Dou entered the bathhouse, he disappeared out of thin air. They had no idea what happened to him in there.
All the confusing information so far started from when Mu Yu entered the third round.
Thinking carefully, the situation in the bathhouse did change greatly during the last three rounds. If we look at the situation in those three rounds again from the perspective of the odd or even number of players, everything seems to become clear...
"Ah!" Zhao Anyi said in shock, "The situation in Area 3 seems to be the same! When I entered the bathhouse during the even-numbered rounds, Area 3 was still safe. Later, when Wang Shi entered Area 3 during the odd-numbered rounds, something went wrong..."
Liu Yu followed up with, "Does the black shadow in Area 1 only appear in odd-numbered rounds? In even-numbered rounds, the humanoid black shadow turns into a humanoid monster?"
"Not only that," Lu Zhongnian said to them only at this moment, "If I'm not mistaken, the humanoid monster I encountered at that time did not want to push me into the wall."
"It held my shoulders and seemed to be trying to pull me out of the cubicle."
Everyone:"???"
Fu Xiaoju immediately turned around and asked Liu Yu: "Are you sure that the black shadow you saw at that time pushed Bird Brother?"
Liu Yu was confused and said: "At that time, the black shadow stretched out both hands forward, and the movement was like this——"
He imitated it, stretching his arms forward with his palms facing outward.
——This is the pushing action!
Muyu Summary:
"So, when the player enters the bathhouse in an odd-numbered round, they may encounter a shadow in Area 1, which will push the player into the wall. When the player enters the bathhouse in an even-numbered round, a monster will appear in Area 1, which will pull the player out of the cubicle. In other words, it wants the player to stay away from the wall."
"On odd rounds, there is no octopus monster in the bathhouse; on even rounds, the octopus monster appears."
"During odd rounds, Principal Dou's voice tells us not to enter the wall; during even rounds, we are asked to enter the wall."
"In odd rounds, Area 3 is in danger. In even rounds, apart from the octopus monster, Area 3 is not in danger."
——The bathhouse has been using two sets of rules in rotation!
Fu Xiaoju, Liu Yu and Zhao Anyi were all shocked.
"But, but what do the two sets of rules mean?" Liu Yu's mind quickly became tangled again. "We should now figure out what that special space is about, right? Is there any connection between the difference between the two sets of rules and that special space?"
"Of course."
Lu Zhongnian said in a cold voice: "When a 'person' enters the wall, the number of empty spaces decreases by 1 only in odd rounds. In even rounds, when a monster enters the wall, the number of empty spaces does not decrease."
"——So, will the 'special space' connected to Area 1 also change according to the odd or even number of players in each round?"
The other three were stunned again.
"Change? You mean...?"
Mu Yu continued, "That is to say, in one case, Area 1 is connected to the correct special space; in another case, it is connected to an incorrect special space."
"If players enter the correct special space, they fill the empty space and find a way out, and the number of empty spaces we see in the lobby decreases; if they enter the wrong special space, the players will die, and the number of empty spaces we see in the lobby will remain the same."
"Based on the current situation," Mu Yu's eyes turned slightly, "the special space connected by the odd-numbered wheels may be the answer we are really looking for."
Liu Yu and Zhao Anyi were dumbfounded.
How did these two guys come up with this idea so quickly? It's too good, what kind of brains do they have? !
Only Fu Xiaoju has gotten used to the feeling of having his IQ hit hard...
He was in a trance for a moment, then shuddered.
"Ha! The whispering voice from Area 2 told us not to enter the wall during odd rounds, but urged us to go in during even rounds. They really wanted to trick us! Those two voices were not Principal Dou, right?"
"But..." Fu Xiaoju was confused again, "Principal Dou also went in an odd round. If he had entered the correct special space at that time, wouldn't he have filled a vacancy? Why was the vacancy still 1 and not 0?"
Back to the old problem again.
"I just thought about this question again. It's actually very simple. We were all confused just now," Mu Yu explained in an orderly manner, "If the number of vacancies becomes 0, then do we not need anyone to enter the bathhouse anymore? Then should we still play this dungeon?"
"Principal Dou's time in that round was exceptionally long, 16 minutes. I actually doubt whether Principal Dou did something after entering the special space to make the empty space return to 1," Mu Yu glanced at the small electronic screen on the front desk, "At that time, maybe even the copy was waiting for him..."
Zhao Anyi and Liu Yu felt a little dizzy after receiving so much information at once.
My brain seemed to be shattered into pieces, and it was a blur.
Zhao Anyi said, "The next round will be for you and Fu Xiaoju to go in, right? If the special space connected to the even-numbered rounds is fake and we can't go in, then you and Fu Xiaoju just need to take a shower and come out quickly, right?"
"Yes, but we also need to find out what happened to Senior Wang Shi in Area 3." Mu Yu frowned.
And that humanoid shadow and the humanoid monster—is there any connection between the two?
Judging from the conclusions they have drawn so far, these two things seem to be helping them, the players, but there are actually monsters in the dungeon helping the players?
This is very strange.
10:40, only twenty minutes left.
Mu Yu exhaled, turned his head and said to Fu Xiaoju, "Ma'er, let's go."
"Okay!"
They must seize the last bit of time to figure out all the remaining puzzles!
*
After entering the locker room, Fu Xiaoju quickly stripped himself naked with very skillful movements.
He turned around and happened to meet Mu Yu. Both of them were immediately blinded by each other.
Fu Xiaoju: "——You are still wearing underwear when taking a shower?!"
Mu Yu: "——Can you please stop walking your bird?!"
Fu Xiaoju: “…”
Mu Yu: “…”
The two of them stared at each other.
Fu Xiaoju pointed and said, "No, you just went in this way? Do you have any clean underwear to change into later?"
Mu Yu said confidently: "I brought five pairs of disposable underwear. But you, have you forgotten what happened to Senior Zhao? Aren't you afraid that you will be rolled up by the octopus and dangled in the air?"
Think about that scene, people are shaking, and everything is shaking too.
Is it spicy for the eyes?
Fu Xiaoju's face suddenly turned red and green. He said angrily, "...I already know how to deal with that monster, how could I still be swept up and shaken!"
Mu Yu: "It's up to you then."
He shook his head and walked towards the bathhouse entrance.
After drawing aside the curtain, he listened with a solemn expression.
There was no sound of water in the entire bathhouse at this moment.
The octopus monster hasn't appeared yet?
After so much analysis just now, Mu Yu actually has a rough guess about how the octopus monster appeared and how it increased.
He was originally thinking that while they were reasoning outside, maybe a few more octopus monsters would appear in the bathhouse...
With a whoosh, the curtain behind him was lifted again.
Mu Yu glanced to the side and back.
...Fu Xiaoju put on his underwear again.
"Why, have you figured it out again?"
Fu Xiaoju said calmly, "I'm afraid that Brother Lu will know that I was playing with my bird in front of you and beat me up."
Mu Yu: “…”
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