Chapter 73 Let’s take a bath together! (Ten)
Mu Yu was speechless and said to Fu Xiaoju, "Let's go to Area 3 to check first. After the inspection, I will go to Area 2. You stay in Area 1. If there are monsters coming to find you, just let them go into the wall. If you encounter that humanoid monster, remember to pay attention to its shape."
"Why are you going to District 2?" Fu Xiaoju asked puzzledly.
The whispers over there are fake, and the water temperature is still so hot. It’s better to go to area 3, at least the water temperature is normal.
"I just want to listen to that whisper again," Mu Yu glanced at the soap table beside him and suddenly asked, "Are you feeling fine now?"
Fu Xiaoju was stunned, and said nervously: "Well, it seems a little bit? Oh, I can't explain it clearly! What do you think will happen if my body really becomes lighter?"
Mu Yu looked at him and said nothing. He patted his shoulder to signal him not to think too much about it, then raised his chin in the direction of Area 3.
As soon as they took a step, the sound of water began to sound from deep inside the bathhouse.
A meal for two.
It seems that the octopus monster has finally appeared.
…
They tiptoed around Area 3 and confirmed that the sound of water came from a shower room far inside.
Before entering the bathhouse, they confirmed with Liu Yu the location of the cubicle that Wang Shi had used. Unfortunately, it was right next to the octopus monster.
The two of them quietly lifted the curtain and walked in.
Through a thin plastic sheet, the sound of water dripping could be heard nearby, so close.
They quickly checked the entire small compartment but couldn't find any traces of Wang Shi left behind - the compartment was cleaned thoroughly without any stains left.
Mu Yu was in deep thought.
Since Wang Shi’s soap and towel were taken away by Lao Li, the man was most likely dead too.
But here’s the weird thing – are there no clues in Area 3, only danger?
Area 1 is connected to a special space, whispers can be heard in Area 2, and what is the function of Area 3?
Zhao Anyi escaped safely from Area 3, and it seemed that he didn't gain anything.
But if there is only danger but no reward, and the points required for a shower are the highest among the three shower areas, then which player would be willing to come here?
Mu Yu always felt it was a bit strange, but at the moment he wanted to confirm whether the whispering sound in Area 2 had changed.
The two of them exchanged silent glances, quickly slipped out of Area 3, and acted separately.
Mu Yu randomly chose a shower room in Area 2.
Fu Xiaoju entered a shower room in Area 1.
Both of them swiped their cards at the same time, and the payment went through with a beep.
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After the boiling water poured down, Mu Yu leaned out to take a look.
Purple-red tentacles soon appeared in the passage, waving in the air like snakes - the octopus monster came out.
He stepped back into the boiling water, thinking that Fu Xiaoju would shout if something happened, and closed his eyes.
Soon, whispers began to be heard.
...This time, there were two whispering voices!
"Muyu? Muyu-san!"
"Ayu, is that you?"
The voices of Principal Dou and Brother Bird rang out one after another.
Mu Yu's heart moved slightly.
Bird brother said to him anxiously: "Ayu, the way to leave the dungeon is really in the wall, go to area 1 and meet us!"
Principal Dou was also urging: "Time is running out, come here quickly, Mu Yu!"
...To be honest, the tone of these two people's speech is indeed not like themselves.
In both the even-numbered and odd-numbered rounds, these two versions of the whispering sounds were probably actually fabricated by the copies.
But Mu Yu has also been thinking, can they only hear fake voices in Area 2, and don’t they have any way to communicate with the players in the world inside the wall?
The copy has such a setting for Zone 2, just to make it a one-way repeater?
Thinking about this, Mu Yu said, "Brother Bird, Principal Dou, have you found the monster generator in the world over there?"
"Of course, the monster generator is right here!"
"Ayu, you'll know if you come and see for yourself!"
Obviously still fake.
Mu Yu asked again: "If you have found the monster generator, why don't you destroy it?"
Bird brother sighed: "Ayu, we can't touch it for now. We have to let everyone else go inside the wall before we can get it."
Mu Yu asked again: "Why must everyone go in?"
Principal Dou said: "Student Mu Yu, you will know when you come in."
Mu Yu was silent.
It's no use asking this question, you'll only get false answers.
His thoughts turned slightly, and he suddenly asked, "Brother Bird, what is your favorite color of underwear?"
This time, the whispering disappeared.
Mu Yu raised his eyebrows.
...can't answer?
He immediately asked, "Principal Dou, what is your favorite catchphrase?"
Still no answer to the whisper.
——The copy does not set the answers to these two questions!
It might not even have found the answer in those two people's brains!
Because as far as Mu Yu knows, Brother Bird has no particular favorite color, and Principal Dou has no catchphrase at all. These two questions are beyond the copy's understanding!
Mu Yu finally found the flaw and breathed a sigh of relief.
He continued to work hard.
"Brother Bird, what is your favorite dessert?"
"President Dou, who is the physicist you hate the most?"
"Brother Bird, which of your performances do you hate the most?"
"Principal Dou, what type of, uh, man do you like best?"
…
The whispering continued to be silent, as if it could no longer be done.
Mu Yu used this method to block out the "falsehoods" in the copy, and at the same time quickly thought about how to go further and communicate with the real two people...
At this moment, a "sizzle" sound suddenly rang in his ears.
It's like the interference sound made by the radio when the signal is bad, which is a bit harsh.
Mu Yu's heart skipped a beat.
Then, he heard a slightly distorted, intermittent voice.
"Mr. Mu... Area 3..."
——This is Principal Dou’s voice!
Principal Dou himself finally showed up?!
Mu Yu immediately asked, "Principal Dou? What happened to Area 3? What's there?"
"Sizzle... sizzle... let's get the monster... sizzle... the monster out of the wall of Area 3..."
"Area 3... there are still clues... ziz... only you can see it... ziz..."
"Odd rounds... go in..."
...Principal Dou wants them to enter Zone 3 in the odd rounds?!
Mu Yu was a little surprised and asked again: "Do we all have to enter the world inside the wall?"
“Sizzle…Sizzle…”
"Principal Dou? Brother Bird? Are you still there?"
"Sizzle... sizzle... yes... sizzle... shashasha..."
The "channel" seems to be completely lost.
Mu Yu suddenly opened his eyes.
The next second, he heard Fu Xiaoju's tragic pig-slaughtering scream coming from Area 1.
"ah--"
Mu Yu tensed up. Did something happen to Fu Xiaoju?
As soon as he stepped out of the compartment, Fu Xiaoju was already crawling towards him from the passage.
“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! That humanoid monster, it it it has my face, it actually has my face!!”
Mu Yu was stunned.
At this moment, a ray of light flashed through my mind.
Recalling the message that Principal Dou had just conveyed to him with difficulty, he seemed to have connected some clues!
He supported Fu Xiaoju, who rushed to him with a pale face, and murmured: "...The shadow and the humanoid monster are the same thing in different forms in odd and even rounds...?"
"Ah?" Fu Xiaoju was horrified and panting, "What are you talking about?"
Mu Yu tightened his hands and said, "The sewage and the octopus monster flowing out of the wall of Area 3 are also different forms of the same thing!"
He figured it out, he figured it out completely!
"W-What on earth are you talking about?!"
Mu Yu said to Fu Xiaoju with shining eyes: "Ma'er, why does the number of vacancies increase when an octopus monster is added?"
Fu Xiaoju was confused, but Mu Yu didn't wait for him to answer and said, "Haven't we figured out the answer a long time ago? Because the world inside the wall is the real bathhouse, and it's full of octopus monsters, and the octopus monsters occupy those positions!"
And Principal Dou just said, "We get the monster" - what happened to them "getting the monster"?
——They drove the octopus monster out!
Why did it take 16 minutes for Principal Dou to go in for that round? Why did the electronic screen in the lobby never turn to 0? After waiting for a long time, it turned black and then jumped out the number "1" again?
Because the copy is waiting, it is waiting for Principal Dou to drive the first monster out of the world inside the wall!
Only by driving out the octopus monster will there be more empty spaces in the world inside the wall, and players can enter the world inside the wall from Area 1 and occupy the positions that originally belonged to them!
And what does it mean that “monsters come out of the wall of Zone 3”?
The first thing that came to Mu Yu’s mind was that the octopus monster only appeared in even-numbered rounds, so what happened in Zone 3 in odd-numbered rounds?
—What else, exactly, happened to the shower wall in Area 3 during the odd rounds?
The answer was clear: he had seen sewage seeping out of the shower walls there!
At that time, while wiping the dirty water, Lao Li said, "Why is it dirty here again?"
The word "again" means that this form of "sewage" has appeared more than once!
Everything is connected.
If the octopus monster is only an octopus monster in even-numbered rounds and is just ordinary sewage in odd-numbered rounds, everything can be explained!
At the beginning of the copy, there is only one real empty space in the world inside the wall.
After Principal Dou went in, the only empty space was filled, but the copy could not stop there, so it waited until Principal Dou drove the first monster out of the world inside the wall before re-updating the empty space number to 1.
The first monster came to the bathhouse in the odd-numbered rounds, and its manifestation was sewage seeping out from the cracks in the wall.
This happened before Mu Yu entered the bathhouse, and it was probably also the first time that Lao Li wiped the dirty water.
While Mu Yu was staying in the bathhouse, Principal Dou drove the second monster out of the world inside the wall. The latter was still in the form of sewage, and this time it was seen by Mu Yu!
Lao Li wiped the dirty water for the second time, but his "wiping" should have been just a formal action from beginning to end, and the monster was not really wiped out.
When Lu Chongnian and Zhao Anyi entered the bathhouse in the fourth round, the sewage that had earlier entered the bathhouse suddenly transformed into an octopus monster.
But what’s strange is that, if this is the case, Lu Chongnian and Zhao Anyi should have encountered two octopus monsters at the beginning. Why did they only see one?
Mu Yu's mind turned, and he immediately thought of -
Could it be that the monster can only exist for two rounds at most, and if it exists for one more round it will automatically disappear in the bathhouse?
The first monster appeared before Mu Yu entered the bathhouse. It experienced Mu Yu's round and disappeared automatically when Lu Chongnian and the others entered the bathhouse.
The second monster appeared in Mu Yu's round, so it was successfully passed to Lu Zhongnian and his team's round?
He explained to Fu Xiaoju quickly while thinking, and Fu Xiaoju was stunned.
"So, what you mean by saying that the shadow and the humanoid monster are two sides of the same coin is..."
Mu Yu turned around and looked at him.
"You are the only one among us who accepted Lao Li's scrubbing."
"The humanoid monsters prevent players from entering the world inside the wall in even-numbered rounds, and the shadow monsters help players enter the world inside the wall in odd-numbered rounds. They are obviously on the side of the players... They are not 'monsters'."
Fu Xiaoju froze.
"They... may all be your clones. Their true form may be that black shadow, your shadow. It was peeled off from you when Lao Li was giving you a bath."
"In the even-numbered rounds, the dungeon changed it from a shadow form to a monster form, probably to lure the players," Mu Yu said word by word, "...kill it."
The rules for getting soap say:
[If you feel your body is light, choose red soap, which can calm you down; if you feel your body is heavy, or everything is normal, choose green soap, which is the most versatile.]
Red soap can make players who feel very light feel "steadier", which obviously means that the player can merge with his or her stripped shadow.
Only by merging the two into one can the player possibly leave the dungeon alive.
Once his shadow is killed, he may be doomed.
Fu Xiaoju was stunned.
“…Then, what should I do if I’m holding a green soap?!”
Mu Yu took a deep breath, turned around and walked into the shower room.
He picked up the phone from the soap box and said quickly, "We have six minutes left in this round. Hurry up and finish rubbing your green soap and get a new red soap!"
Each of them has few points left, and there are not many opportunities left. Fu Xiaoju must seize the opportunity of this round!
After hearing what he said, Fu Xiaoju walked into the compartment in a daze.
"?" Mu Yu was puzzled. "Go back to your own cubicle quickly. Your soap is there."
Fu Xiaoju's breathing became rapid.
He pushed him away, grabbed the red soap that belonged to Mu Yu from the soap box, and began to devour it voraciously.
Mu Yu was stunned.
He reached out and pulled Fu Xiaoju over: "Ma'er, what are you doing?!"
"I, I don't know, I'm suddenly very hungry," Fu Xiaoju refused to let go, holding the soap while chewing and rubbing his face, "I've been very hungry since just now, I've been holding it in for a long time, this soap smells so good!"
Mu Yu was cursing in his heart. What the hell is this? !
The next second, a purple-red tentacle stretched out from outside, instantly wrapped around Fu Xiaoju's waist and lifted him out!
The soap fell to the ground, and Fu Xiaoju screamed, "F-f--!"
Mu Yu was also shocked.
A second octopus monster appeared?
At the same time, he felt a dull pain in his waist, as if something was tightening around his waist, so tight that it was almost squeezing out his internal organs!
He looked down and found that his waist was deformed!
——The waist area became sunken and became abnormally thin!
Mu Yu clenched his teeth in pain, almost unable to breathe, and looked up at Fu Xiaoju again.
Fu Xiaoju screamed in pain, but his waist was safe and sound. The place where he was tied by the octopus monster's tentacles was not deformed at all!
The first rule for getting soap: Please keep your own soap well and do not exchange it with others.
Mu Yu cursed inwardly... He didn't even exchange soap with Fu Xiaoju!
It was clearly Fu Xiaoju who unilaterally took advantage of his soap, but in the end he became Fu Xiaoju's substitute?
What kind of unfair rule is this! !
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