Escape from the movie theater (3)
No one understood why.
But one thing is certain: this time, neither row 6, seat 3 nor row 6, seat 4 can be occupied.
That way, nothing should go wrong.
Both seats are now empty, giving the players a good opportunity to inspect them.
So, Jian Tanxi and the others stepped forward and asked to switch seats with the girl in seat 3 of row 6 and Huo Shuangshuang in seat 4 of row 6.
Jian Tanxi explained, "Hello, my friend and I are a bit timid, and the noise in the front row is too loud for us. Could we switch seats with you?"
Huo Shuangshuang was still hesitating, but her friend readily agreed: "Okay, the closer you are to the movie screen, the clearer you can see."
So the two of them went to the front and sat down.
This time, Jian Tanxi and Qin Man will inspect the two seats.
Previously, it was Mo Xiaoduo and Gao Shu who performed the examination. This time, two different people will be performing the examination, focusing on different aspects, which may lead to the discovery of different things.
Jian Tanxi and Qin Man squatted in front of the chair, carefully examining it. However, after quite a while, they still didn't find anything.
At this moment, the fat man sitting in seat 5 of row 6 said, "Why aren't you two sitting?"
Jian Tanxi said, "We lost our things and we're looking for them."
The fat man then fell silent.
The two seats looked unremarkable from the outside, and there was no knife to be found.
There's a cup holder in the armrest between the two seats. The cup holder is filled with water, probably from a drink that was placed there recently and leaked out.
Jian Tanxi and Qin Man used a knife to cut open the seat and inspect the inside.
The fat man noticed and shouted, "Hey, you two, why are you vandalizing public facilities?"
Qin Man said softly, "I'm sorry, my hand slipped and I cut myself. We'll pay for it later."
The fat man yelled, "I clearly saw you deliberately slash the seats! You two have no sense of public decency, you've gone too far!"
Others looked over, some pointing and whispering about Jian Tanxi and Qin Man, others telling the fat man to keep his voice down.
Most people remained engrossed in the movie and did nothing. A small minority, however, wanted Qin Man and Jian Tanxi to leave, saying that instead of enjoying the movie, they were damaging public facilities and inconveniencing others.
Jian Tanxi was somewhat embarrassed and didn't know how to explain. She absolutely loathed this fat man.
Suddenly, Qin Man's expression froze. Then, her eyes widened, and her expression became terrifying.
Jian Tanxi asked in confusion, "Sister Qin Man, what's wrong?"
Qin Man didn't say anything, but a knife appeared in her hand, and she slashed at Jian Tanxi...
The player has been reborn for the fifth time and has 50% health remaining.
Jian Tanxi came to her senses and gasped for breath.
The screen was displaying advertisements, and they were ones I hadn't seen before. It seems my rebirth time has been brought forward again.
Qin Man sat next to Jian Tanxi, staring blankly at her hands, seemingly unable to believe it.
Jian Tanxi trembled instinctively and moved to the side.
After a while, she asked Qin Man, still shaken, "Sister Qin Man, did you... kill me just now?"
Qin Man said, puzzled, "I guess so... I don't know what happened..."
"Where did you get that knife?"
"I don't know, it just suddenly appeared in my hands..."
"So how did you go berserk?"
"I don't know either, it seems like it just happened in an instant..."
"Do you remember what happened after you went berserk?"
"I don't remember... After going berserk, I only had one thought in my mind, which was to kill... I felt like I had lost consciousness and was just a killing machine."
"So, there must be something wrong with those two seats... but we don't know what the problem is..."
At this point, Professor Pan said, "Let's go to the corridor to discuss this first."
The group stood in the aisle.
This time, the rebirth time was brought forward again. So some audience members were still walking around in the aisle before they even sat down.
In order to discuss things discreetly, the players could only try to stand to the side.
Fortunately, the ads were so loud that no one paid attention to what the players were saying.
Professor Pan asked Jian Tanxi, "Tanxi, was anything unusual before Qin Man went berserk? You were closest to her at the time, so none of us noticed."
Jian Tanxi tried to overcome her fear, recalled for a while, and shook her head, saying, "I don't know... Neither Qin Man nor I sat in those two seats, so how could we be affected? In my memory, Qin Man seemed to suddenly become abnormal, and it happened in an instant."
Gao Shudao said, "What we can confirm now is that the problem definitely lies with the two seats in row 6, seat 3 and row 6, seat 4, but we don't know where the problem is. Mo Xiaoduo, Qin Man, Jian Tanxi, and I have all examined those two seats very carefully, and even disassembled the contents, but we haven't found anything wrong. What exactly is going on? Did that knife that was used to kill people just appear out of thin air?"
Mo Xiaoduo asked, "So, are we going to those two seats again this time?"
Gao Shu: "Of course, those two seats are key. But this time, we can change our strategy. We'll have the girls in those two seats move to the front, but we won't get close to them. Instead, we'll stand to the side and observe. Last time, Sister Qin Man got caught because she got too close to the seats, right?"
Qin Man nodded: "Yes. It's a pity I still don't understand what happened."
Jian Tanxi comforted her, "Sister Qin Man, don't blame yourself. In that situation, no one could react in time."
Qin Man nodded, but her face still looked worried.
After a few seconds, Qin Man said, "Actually, it's not that I have no memory at all, it's just that the incident was too minor... Before I went crazy, I think a drop of water fell on my hand."
Jian Tanxi asked, "A drop of water? What kind of water is it? Where did it fall from?"
"I'm not sure... It was probably just ordinary water, it didn't have any smell. After a drop of water splashed on my hand, I suddenly lost consciousness. After that, you guys said I went berserk and attacked people, but I have no memory of it at all."
Although this drop of water may not be related to the whole matter, it is still worth noting.
Next, Gao Shu asked everyone who hadn't been killed in the previous round.
Everyone recalled that Qu Chen and Mo Xiaoduo had survived the attack. Professor Pan was killed while protecting Qu Chen.
The respawn time was brought forward again this time, which was indeed because one more player escaped the pursuit.
The players reached a consensus: in this round, they needed to clearly observe how the crazed attacker went berserk and try their best to stay alive to buy more time for the next round.
They quickly moved to the sixth row.
Just like last time, Jian Tanxi let the two girls in row 6, seat 3 and row 6, seat 4 sit in the front.
Next, the players hid in the corridor to observe.
Gao Shu possesses the superpower "super vision," meaning that even the slightest light appears as bright as sunlight to him.
With a tall tree watching over those two seats, there shouldn't be any major problems.
However, just to be on the safe side, Jian Tanxi took out a lighting prop—the Eye of the Full Moon.
The light from the Eye of the Full Moon wasn't very strong, but it was still quite noticeable in the movie theater.
Jian Tanxi wrapped the Eye of the Full Moon in her coat and placed it between the two seats.
However, this still somewhat affects the people around.
The fat man next to me said, "Could you turn off this light? This is a movie theater."
Jian Tanxi said, "Sorry, I need to look for something. I'll be right back in a bit."
"Looking for something? Why don't you come in?"
"I can just use my eyes to see."
"You look with your eyes? You don't even pick it up? How can you do that?"
At this moment, Gao Shu took out a few chocolates from his pocket and distributed them to the people around him, saying, "Sorry, we're looking for something, we'll be right back. Here, have these."
These chocolates looked expensive just by looking at the packaging, and the surrounding audience took the chocolates without any objection.
The fat man also focused on eating chocolate.
The moment when someone goes berserk and starts hacking at others is fast approaching, and the players are all nervously watching the sixth row.
This time, seats 3 and 4 in row 6 were empty, and the players weren't crowding around those two seats. Let's see if anyone goes berserk and attacks again.
After a while, the seat began to shake.
Players saw a drop of water suddenly splash out from the groove in the middle armrest of row 6, seats 3 and 4.
The drop of water splashed onto the fat man in seat 5 of row 6.
Then, the fat man's eyes widened, and he suddenly stood up.
Players who had played the game multiple times sensed that this time the fat guy was about to go berserk and start hacking people to pieces.
However, it's unclear where he got his knife.
At this moment, the players' eyes were still glued to the seats in rows 6, seats 3 and 4.
In that instant, a knife flew out from the armrest recesses of the two seats and landed in the fat man's hand.
Then, the fat man began his indiscriminate attack.
The players were overjoyed to finally discover why the audience had gone berserk and started attacking. But then they had to run for their lives, and their hearts pounded.
Everyone else jumped up, screaming and running around in a panic.
Players try their best to protect themselves, but it's still very difficult to do so.
Jian Tanxi was pushed against the wall by several spectators, and her head hit the wall hard. Everything went black, and she knew nothing more.
When she woke up again, it was her sixth rebirth, and the player's health was down to 40%.
By this time, the players were exhausted and timid. This was partly due to fear, and partly because the decreasing health naturally weakened their courage. It wasn't that they were mentally cowardly, but rather a physical reaction.
Just like a computer screen dims to save power when it's running low on battery.
Qu Chen was the first to stand up. His understanding of this world was still very shallow, and he could not comprehend the meaning of death, so the impact of multiple deaths on him was minimal.
He didn't want to watch the movie, so he pulled Qin Man outside. He was quite strong, and Qin Man used his strength to pull Jian Tanxi up from beside her.
They pulled each other and came to the aisle.
This time, everyone could only discuss it sitting down; they couldn't stand up anymore.
Jian Tanxi said, "Now we can confirm that the problem is on the armrest between seats 3 and 4 in row 6. There is a groove on the armrest for putting cups. In the previous rounds, we noticed water in that groove, but we didn't pay attention to it and thought that some audience member's water cup had spilled water."
But now it seems the problem lies in that puddle of water. A single drop of liquid splashing from it will drive anyone who lands on it mad. A knife might even fly out of the water and land precisely in the madman's hand.
Previously, Sister Qin Man said that a drop of water splashed on her hand, and then she lost consciousness. We initially thought that drop of water was unimportant, but it turns out that drop of water was the key. But why? How could a knife be stored in such a small puddle of water?
We checked carefully, and there was no knife on the seat or armrests.
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