Chapter 12 Another player died
At some point, the content written in black pen on the wall was quietly replaced.
Zhang Lian consciously took out a flashlight, and Li Ziyue whispered the new content on the wall.
[There are 2 people entering]
[One person came out]
[I hid my mother]
[I gave birth to my mother]
[I am 5 years older than my mother]
[Mom, mom, good mom]
As soon as he finished speaking, the system prompt sounded again: [Congratulations on obtaining the key clue: 3/3], please complete the final task and find "me".
This is another statement that is obviously illogical. My mother cannot be only five years older than me, and I cannot have given birth to her.
Li Ziyue suddenly remembered the two circles Zhang Lian had drawn on "I" and "old dog".
hiss--
If you want to restore everything to normal logic.
Just swap the positions of "I" and "Mom".
The following text will become:
[It was my mother who hid me]
[It was my mother who gave birth to me]
[My mother is 5 years older than me]
Apart from the fact that he is 5 years older, which cannot be reasonably explained, there are no other major problems.
Li Ziyue supported his forehead with one hand. Since the roles can be swapped in this section, can the previous section "Me and the Old Dog" be done in the same way?
He recited: "The old dog has imprisoned me. I have been crying all day long, wanting to get out, wanting to get out. I begged the old dog to let me go."
"The old dog beat me and left me skin and bones. Everyone said I was as thin as a 'puppy'."
"I don't listen to discipline, the old dog is calling..."
Li Ziyue paused for two seconds and read out the following words in a calm voice: "The old dog called the human traffickers."
"I was in tears before I was sold."
"Old dog, old dog, hate old dog."
He looked up at the door and saw several tall, ferocious and terrifying dogs painted on the door. The "hate for old dogs" in the previous text received a more reasonable explanation after the roles of the text were swapped.
The old dog is obviously not a real dog, but a substitute for the "human trafficker" guarding the door. After the human traffickers kidnapped people, they locked them in the room and sent a few dogs to guard outside the door?
So, in this case, logically speaking, since the dog is at the door, "I" should be in the house.
but--
Li Ziyue looked around the room.
There was nothing in the room except the words on the wall and the mural of a dog at the door.
This surprised him, but it wasn't surprising.
Generally, a question will not give any redundant conditions, and the correct answer can only be obtained by combining all the known conditions together and making inferences.
Of the three key clues, only two and a half have been utilized at best.
Who is the "mother" in the third line? Why is it that "two people went in" and "one person came out"? Was there a dispute and someone was killed?
But if it was murder, why would one say “I hid my mother” or “I gave birth to my mother”?
In fact, in this whole incident, there is also a hidden condition in the minds of players who frequently play dungeons.
This copy is a pseudo-human copy, and this task is the main task. Just as the ocean world copy will not ask you to solve a murder case in the field, there must be a certain connection between the copy and the main task.
Based on the entire main plot up to now, we can speculate that it is a case of human trafficking, but what does it have to do with fake people?
Taking a step back, what does this have to do with “people”? Is it just because of “human trafficking”?
However, if we only consider human trafficking, the previous questions cannot be reasonably answered.
There must be some key point that he hasn't figured out or noticed.
"Brother," Sun Yuancheng poked him, "Why don't we go first? The room seems to be collapsing."
"Go?" Li Ziyue paused and asked subconsciously, "Where to go?"
"Uh..." This stumped Sun Yuancheng. "Run wherever you can, just get away from here first."
Li Ziyue was silent for two seconds, then nodded: "Let's go."
He clicked on the virtual structure map of the entire underground space.
At the top was the fruit and vegetable storage room where he and Sun Yuancheng had stayed. Below that were two unnamed rooms that covered a large area. The hall was to the right of the two rooms. Below that was a wide corridor that led to the restaurant, followed by their area of empty rooms. At the end of the space was a circle of public toilets.
Some of the vacant positions were randomly filled with empty rooms.
The room they were in was located near the end of the underground space, and they could occasionally hear the sound of flushing from the automatic drainage system in the public toilet.
At first glance, there doesn't seem to be any big problem, but upon closer analysis, it seems that there is something about the structure of the house that doesn't quite conform to normal logic.
Generally, restaurants and fruit and vegetable storage rooms are not too far apart, otherwise it will be inconvenient to transport supplies. Considering the inconvenience of underground ventilation, it is no problem to build the fruit and vegetable storage room along a well-ventilated place. But why is the restaurant not close to the storage room, but choose a place so far away from the storage room?
And the two unnamed rooms near the lobby...
Li Ziyue had an impression of one of the rooms.
He had just run out of the hall when a strange gust of wind blew towards him...What was the reason for this gust of wind?
He raised his eyes and looked at the other three people: "Go to the side of the hall."
"Ah?" Sun Yuancheng didn't understand. "Why don't you just go into the hall?"
"We have to go to the hall sooner or later, but the most urgent thing is to complete the main task. Maybe the room with wind next to the hall can provide some clues."
Sun Yuancheng nodded obediently. As soon as he turned around, he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. Instantly, he felt as if someone had hit him on the back of his head with a stick. His brain made a buzzing sound, and countless streams of water collided in his mind...
The black dog on the wall, whose face was originally blurred, actually grew a human face.
Several pairs of scarlet triangular eyes appeared in the middle of those human faces. The eyeballs were extremely shrunk, and the whites of the eyes filled with red bloodshot almost occupied the entire eye sockets.
The cracked lips rose strangely, and the corners of the lips automatically tore apart, gradually moving upwards, and finally turning at the forehead. The crack lines on both sides formed a closed loop, as if someone had cut out another face along the lips from the face on the wall.
The scarlet blood rolled down the gray walls, lurking in every darkness where the lights could not illuminate.
The liquid gradually accumulated and spread towards them little by little...
Sun Yuancheng was so frightened that he moved crazily and couldn't control himself and fell to one side. With a "bang", he hit the wall with black words written on it.
Li Ziyue frowned slightly.
This collision sound...
As he thought, the next moment, the wall that Sun Yuancheng collided with suddenly cracked, raising a cloud of dust that made people cough.
Sun Yuancheng collapsed on the ground between the two rooms, his face filled with shock.
"What...what...what kind of shoddy construction..."
The kind-hearted Yu Yu hurried over to help the tearful Sun Yuancheng up.
Li Ziyue turned sideways and saw the wall that Sun Yuancheng had crashed through... Or perhaps it couldn't be called a wall. It was so thin that it was only as wide as a human finger. The entire wall was made almost entirely of lime, with no other support at all. It was natural for it to collapse when Sun Yuancheng crashed into it.
But last night, Sun Yuancheng was shouting and rolling on the wall, but such a phenomenon did not occur.
It seems that not only the words on the wall and the sudden wind, but also the internal structure of the room is quietly changing according to their inference.
The rooms in this area are highly similar... perhaps the same is true for the other walls.
Li Ziyue was rubbing a ball of lime between his fingers. The wall was so brittle, was he going to guide them to break through it?
uncertain.
It is not impossible that punching through the wall is a hidden point that triggers the death of everyone.
But now, the more Li Zi looked towards the door, the more the dogs on the mural kept changing. The black hair on their bodies faded away and was gradually replaced by flesh color. They not only grew human faces, but also human limbs, and the newly grown human hands were reaching towards them at an extremely slow speed.
It seems like he wants to catch them.
At the same time, the smell of blood in the whole room became stronger and stronger. There was a pool of dirty blood mixed with unknown hair on the other side of the door, and the blood soaked half of the door.
I don't know when, the door was quietly closed.
Li Ziyue stretched out his hand towards Zhang Lian: "Is there any hard object like stone?"
Zhang Lian placed a goose-warming stone in his palm.
At the same time, a small piece of instructions for use popped into Li Ziyue's mind.
"A piece of riverside goose-warm stone, its greatest advantage: its beauty."
Li Ziyue: “…” You really have everything in your backpack.
He held the goose-warming stone and threw it hard at the door handle. The stone bounced back quickly, but the door handle, which could have been easily moved down, remained motionless.
Sure enough, the door couldn't be opened.
Li Ziyue had also tried other walls. Except for the wall connecting the two houses, the others were extremely hard and could not be broken. Now, whether he lived or died, he had no choice but to take this only way.
He held the scimitar in one hand, and with the other hand dragged Sun Yuancheng, who was still crying and describing how terrifying it was, and ran to another room.
They broke down countless walls along the way. Every time they broke a wall, the humanoid dog on the wall moved a step closer to them. Until the last wall, the humanoid dog's hand was about to reach out to Li Ziyue, but he ruthlessly chopped it off with a scimitar.
Blood instantly exploded from the wall like flowers. Li Ziyue wiped away the blood that splashed on his eyebrow with his fingertips, then turned around and looked behind him.
The broken walls connected the originally separate houses in this area into an unusually long train that looked like it had countless carriages.
You can't see it when you stand inside the house, but now standing on the outermost side, through all the broken walls, you can clearly see that the direction of the house is not straight, but curved.
Li Ziyue opened the virtual structure map of the underground space and found that as the wall was broken, the house also underwent obvious changes.
All the identical houses are connected into a complete long strip, which suddenly folds and reverses on both sides of the space, forming a huge "Z" shape as a whole.
Considering the structure of the entire space and the theme of the copy, an unbelievable hypothesis suddenly emerged in Li Ziyue's mind.
This assumption is unconventional, but it can explain the weirdness of the fruit and vegetable storage room and the restaurant in front...
He frowned imperceptibly and rubbed the wound on his waist with his hand hidden in the shadows.
He had been running for a while and had used his strength to wield the scimitar, so the wound might have opened again.
Li Ziyue calmed down and said to the other three people, "Go to the hall."
At this moment, a system announcement suddenly sounded in the corridor.
[Player confirmed dead, data updating, pseudo-person to be resurrected soon]
Another player died.
The balance of victory has tilted towards the hypocrites.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
