Chapter 054: Two Groups
"We are, of course, companions!"
Chen Xiao'er immediately understood the current situation: since the main characters in the script are the master's children and wives and concubines, there must be an alliance segment on the first day of the game.
Players must choose a side to become allies so that they can work together over the next few days to eliminate other competitors.
Although I don't know what kind of story this brother has, but since he came to my door, it's best to be perfunctory first.
Anyway, he is a staff member here, not a classmate who had military training with me, so he will "betray" me sooner or later.
"very good."
The man was satisfied with her answer and put the fan back into his sleeve.
He casually pulled over a stool and sat opposite Chen Xiao'er.
"Fifth sister, it's not that second brother doesn't trust you, it's just that here..." The man nodded his ear and pointed at the wall with his finger.
"clear!"
Chen Xiao'er nodded in agreement. Walls have ears, after all. The game itself is very decryption-heavy, and it's tied to the students' academic credits. It would be strange if there weren't surveillance.
"You are indeed my smart sister."
The second brother whispered, "You should know that thieves have set their sights on Dad's belongings. They've already entered the house."
Chen Xiao'er was shocked, and her first reaction was that he was talking about herself.
But as the decryptor, students shouldn't be given any extra roles like "bandits," "pirates," or "kidnappers with altered identities," right? The role-playing is too difficult.
Fortunately, my second brother was very sensible and didn't play dumb.
He picked up a makeup box and passed it around on the table. "With so many boxes piled together, won't one or two break? And then there's only one to hold the powder."
I understand!
Xiao'er nodded vigorously. Isn't it the classic scene of "someone dies the next day, and everyone is called together to hold a meeting to try the murderer"?
It wasn’t explicitly stated in the script, the teachers only emphasized that “getting the treasure will give you extra credits.”
But the actors in the script-killing show are professionals. Since they have arranged such a play, there must be an official routine to obtain the master's treasure.
Logically speaking, if you want to inherit the estate quickly, you must either convince all the heirs or kill all the heirs.
There's only one copy of this script's treasure, destined to have only one winner. To maintain the persuasiveness of the game and not give up the treasure, you must divide the work among your classmates and complete the tasks assigned by the successor.
As for the competition line - in the real world, you can't kill people, so you must use various methods to prove that other heirs "don't deserve the treasure."
Find the murderer, frame him, explore intelligence... there are so many things that can be done.
Seeing that the "Fifth Sister" understood, the second brother smiled and patiently instructed, "I heard you brought a lot of people in with you? Leave the most difficult one to me, and do your best with the rest."
He wrote the number "one" on the table with his finger, then slashed downward with his fan, making a chopping motion.
Chen Xiao'er suddenly realized that this second brother and eldest brother were enemies, and he wanted me to restrain the remaining heirs?
Although Chaoyou’s idea was not very good, in order to help her classmates get credits, Xiao’er stepped out of the script and began to think about the matter from the creator’s perspective.
My second brother was the first one to seek an alliance with me. He said that my eldest brother was the strongest, so neither my eldest brother nor my second brother looked like "victims", and there was a high possibility that there was a "murderer" among them.
If the fifth sister I play wants to take the inheritance for herself, the best case scenario is that the eldest brother kills the second brother and pushes the other heirs out to take the blame when they fight.
And from what my second brother said, there are quite a few "thieves" among the servants, and many of them have been bribed by him. So the staff playing the servants can't be trusted either. We students must stick together to win!
She thought for a moment, then noticed her second brother staring at her. She quickly waved her handkerchief and made a promise. "Okay, don't worry. I brought so many talented people with me just to make this place lively."
"Good, good! You have courage."
The second brother got the answer he wanted and stood up from the stool. He took two steps outside, hands behind his back*, then turned back to warn, "There are three places you absolutely must not go to; they're very dangerous. First, the basement. Second, the ancestral hall..."
The handsome man raised his third finger and said in a long voice: "Third, do not open the well in the garden. Do you hear me?"
Good brother!
Sure enough, the staff were also worried that we wouldn’t be able to solve the mystery, so they gave us a hint!
Chen Xiao'er was inexplicably moved, like watching the teacher quietly kick the long jump ruler inward during a physical education exam. The older brother in front of her was about to pick up a red pen and draw three circles on the map, indicating, "There's a problem here, go investigate!"
If you don't swallow the food you're fed, you deserve to die. Xiao Ai smiled brightly: "I know, thank you very much!"
She deliberately clasped her fists together and made a fist-holding salute.
The second brother sneered and walked out quickly. When he turned his back, a piece of thin rope suddenly appeared from the back of his neck.
Chen Xiao'er looked closely and found that at the end of the rope was a rag doll slightly larger than a thumb, swaying as her second brother walked.
"Wait," she was about to remind him but quickly withdrew her hand and let the actor disappear out the door.
That doll is probably some kind of game prop, likely used later in the show. Pointing it out now would be disrespectful and impolite.
Chen Xiao'er sat on the bed and rested for a while. No one else came to disturb her. It seemed that there was no other plot in the room during this period of time.
She thought that she couldn't continue to act badly, so she stood quietly at the door and looked out: the extras had run off to who knows where, and the yard was empty, with only a few jujube trees and willow trees swaying in the wind.
The students should investigate and complete tasks in different rooms, so where should they go first? Hey, who is that?
Xiao Ai raised her head in the wind and looked at the young man who was meditating quietly under the giant willow tree in the courtyard: he closed his eyes and sat cross-legged under the tree like a Taoist priest, and no one knew what he was waiting for.
Hmm.
She narrowed her eyes: this young man also had a rag doll hanging behind his neck.
This doll is dressed like him, what kind of rules are there?
Chen Xiao'er looked around and didn't see anyone else, so she gently stepped out with her left foot.
…
Ding-a-ling.
Wind chimes? No, it's the radiation vibrating against my eardrums.
Xing Shuyao slowly opened his eyes in the mist. He had just been blocked by two tall classmates behind him and was close enough to classmate Chen, so he retained a lot of memories for the time being.
I remember that I was a student at the school and came here to carry out a mission to obtain energy stones for the church, but——
Xing Shuyao closed her eyes and could feel her memory fading quickly.
Because Chen Xiao'er is not here, the rules and radiation will quickly consume our consciousness, leaving us completely covered by the character, with only a little special inspiration left.
My character is a [Slave] and can move freely in most areas [within the manor].
Xing Shuyao reopened his eyes and observed the colors around him: a relatively safe mix of gray and white. He could now walk on his own two legs, but the price of his superpowered vision had become extremely narrow.
He still had seven or eight companions left, the others having been taken away by the characters in the anomaly. Everyone had their own tasks, and it was impossible for them to explore freely at the same time.
bite--
They changed into cloth shorts and naturally lost their Pasteurizers, but fortunately their intuition as super-powered people was still there!
The piercing pain spread from the flesh to the skin, and everyone, including Xing Shuyao, stepped back.
huff!
A whip shadow and Zhao Zhengyi's shadow crossed each other, instantly cutting off a strand of hair.
"Ugh!" Zhao Zhengyi was pulled back a long way by Qian Xiaomei, and everyone could see clearly what was "waving the whip".
It was a massive willow tree, with a hideous human head embedded in the center of its trunk. The whip shadow just now was an attack formed by the intertwining of willow branches and crimson hair!
"Justice, Xiaomei, back off!"
As soon as Xing Shuyao finished speaking, his two companions, a man and a woman, zigzag in opposite directions and successfully retreated to the outside of the courtyard.
Rustle, rustle, rustle.
The hair on the human head was covered with an unknown liquid, and it was bulging slowly like the blood vessels of an earthworm.
Everyone's expression became more serious.
After all, this is an abnormal area that will constantly reset the [time within the area]. As long as the [script] is not broken, those who die inside will be trapped in reincarnation forever under the drive of the core.
No one knows whether after being killed by this monster and turned into nutrients for the willow tree, the spirit body will still be imprisoned in the trunk and continue to suffer torture.
The only thing they knew was that the monster was lurking on the only way to the main hall. If they didn't break through from this road, they would have to take a greater risk and step over the wall!
Tsk.
Zhao Zhengyi tensed his muscles and whispered, "How about Xiaomei and I try again? We're pretty quick. If we don't succeed, we can just focus our fire on burning the tree trunk."
Xing Shuyao was unable to answer for the time being. Such a choice was too risky.
But their memories are constantly fading. If they cannot make as much progress as possible on the first day, when the sun rises the next day, everyone may become the characters in the script and it will be difficult to escape.
What to do—He looked at the big tree in the courtyard, his thoughts racing.
Taking into account the abilities of our companions, even in the most optimistic scenario, we will have to sacrifice 1-2 lives to eliminate this monster.
Judging from its attire, it should be the "master" character. Killing it may directly obtain important clues, but it may also anger the thing behind the script.
After much deliberation, Xing Shuyao finally made up his mind.
"Justice, you first..."
Before he could finish his words, someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder. Zheng Lu, standing behind him, pointed forward, signaling everyone to hold back.
Rustle, rustle.
A pair of embroidered shoes walked out of the mist, making a slight crackling sound as they stepped on the falling willow leaves.
She was a beautiful woman wearing a moon-white long dress, with a shy and gentle smile.
Everyone was stunned by her tranquil demeanor, and it took them a few seconds to see the clues from her glowing light makeup.
"Classmate Chen...?"
The classmates held their breath and watched Chen Xiao'er slowly walk towards the willow tree.
She swayed her lotus steps, stopped in front of the head for a few seconds, then turned her body and walked towards the side of the tree.
The girl's feet stepped on roots and hair more than once, but the red and dark filth could not stain her skirt at all, and it collapsed as soon as it touched her.
Rustle—the wind grew stronger, blowing up the willow branches all over the sky, as if to pierce through her tender skin.
However, Xiao'e had already walked behind it. She squatted down gently and touched the back of the head with one hand.
crackle
No one saw clearly what she did. Only Xing Shuyao and Zheng Lu saw her pull out a thread from the "back" of the monster and break it crisply.
Rumble... A series of collapsing sounds echoed on the spiritual level, and then returned to calm in just a second.
Chen Xiao'er smiled brightly and shyly. She put the thread end into her sleeve and stood on tiptoe to look around.
Everyone hid outside the courtyard and didn't say a word.
By the time they reacted, Chen Xiao'er had already finished looking out and drifted to another yard, leaving even her shadow out of sight.
Xing Shuyao narrowed his eyes and looked at his hand: Classmate Chen's move seemed to have seen through the monster's weakness and directly cut off its connection with the abnormal core.
If this is true, this ability to get to the essence of things is simply too powerful to describe in words within the abnormal area.
“…Everyone.”
After a long silence, Xing Shuyao turned to her companions, her eyes gleaming with hope. "Student Chen has gone to the main hall. Lin Lang and Zheng Lu, you go and help as well. If nothing goes wrong, just watch from the sidelines. The rest of us will explore to the right and help her find the servant group!"
"good."
"OK."
Everyone split into two groups, and the previous depression was swept away.
That’s great, no need to fear eternal torture anymore.
Even if I sacrifice myself here, you will definitely be able to destroy the script and free our souls!
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