Chapter 132 Dead
"Everyone's behavior this afternoon was a little bit abnormal. I couldn't tell if it was because they were fake or if they were hiding something."
"The high-level fake people themselves should not be able to directly judge the authenticity. Everyone has been testing it this afternoon. I don't believe them, and they don't believe me either."
"Three real people?" Sun Yuancheng was shocked. "Are we the only three? Damn it."
Li Ziyue nodded without hesitation: "Yes."
[Zhang Lian] lowered his eyes and looked over.
Li Ziyue's ears surprisingly didn't turn red, [Zhang Lian] pressed his lips into a straight line, unable to describe the feeling in his heart.
"This dungeon is so fierce?! To be honest, my mind is still a mess." Sun Yuancheng scratched his back impatiently, with a look of pain on his face, "This dungeon gives me a contradictory feeling of being clichéd and yet not clichéd. It's really strange."
Li Ziyue shrugged his shoulders: "Cliche? According to your cliche theory, who do you think will be the first to die among the nine people this afternoon?"
"No..." Sun Yuancheng was shocked. "You asked such a question right at the beginning."
He thought about it seriously: "...Well, if I have to name one, let's say Duan Yan. He was obviously uneasy this afternoon, and he had a conflict with Wu Tian. The most important thing is that he was unwilling to leave the restaurant in the end. Usually, people who stay because of fear will die miserably."
"Really?" Li Ziyue looked up at the sky. "If I were the dungeon designer, I would let him live until the later stages."
"Why?"
"There's no other reason," Li Ziyue smiled faintly, "I just think it's too boring if the plot is easily guessed."
He looked at the iron gate of the community. It was locked tightly, and there were surveillance cameras with no blind spots hung on the high walls on both sides.
It was late in the day, there was no light outside, and there was nothing outside the iron gate.
All the people looked like livestock being kept in a circular farm waiting to be slaughtered.
Unable to go out, afraid to go out.
Li Ziyue turned his eyes away and put his hand on the door handle: "I was just joking. No one can tell what will happen next. I might be the first one to die."
Sun Yuancheng: "Brother, when I said I was going to die, you patted me on the back and said that people like me usually live to the end."
Li Ziyue: “…”
The security room was in a mess, with obvious signs of items being rummaged through. The surveillance camera at the front door was on, showing a surveillance image with black and white snow.
Li Ziyue wiped the dust off the desk and then cleaned the spider webs in the corners of the bunk bed.
It was obvious that no one had lived here for a long time, and there was no communication equipment.
So where is the "gatekeeper" that is repeatedly mentioned in the rules? How can players contact the gatekeeper when they encounter emergencies? Is this all a scam?
or……
In common rule-based copies, rules are divided into two categories. One is area rules, such as restaurant rules, basement rules, etc., and the other is role-playing rules, such as maintenance worker rules, security rules, etc.
With the example of the landlord mentioned above, it is not ruled out that the "doorman" repeatedly emphasized in the rules is also played by the player.
If that's the case, it will be difficult to deal with.
It is now 11:48 p.m. The surveillance footage shows that among rooms 1-12, there is one person staying in rooms 3, 6, 7, and 11, and there are two people staying in rooms 2 and 4.
The numbers don't match again.
Previously in the restaurant on the first floor, there were a total of 10 people, including the player who played the landlord. However, based on the current occupancy rate, there are actually 11 people.
"Let's go," Li Ziyue said in a deep breath, "Sun Yuancheng, you and Zhang Lian go to room 8, I..."
He suddenly stopped talking.
[Zhang Lian] is the only one who knows that he is a fake, so it’s better not to take the risk.
"You go to room 8." Li Ziyue changed his mind, "Zhang Lian and I will go to room 11."
As night fell, the windows in the room could finally be opened. Thanks to the unique architecture of the house, Li Ziyue, who was in Room 11, could directly see the occupancy status of Room 5 opposite.
"Actually, you don't believe Sun Yuancheng."
[Zhang Lian] stood behind him and spoke softly.
Li Ziyue remained silent.
"I can't say I don't trust you at all, but... Sun Yuancheng's actions today do make sense."
It is too arbitrary to judge Sun Yuancheng as a fake person now. Perhaps Sun Yuancheng is hiding something in his heart.
Li Ziyue could only think optimistically.
Until the end, no one moved into Room 5, and Li Ziyue finally felt relieved.
The clock struck twelve and the windows closed again. The corridor outside was lit up with light. Through the frosted window, only the outline of the light could be vaguely seen, and nothing else could be seen clearly.
The room shook briefly and violently twice, as if there was a small earthquake. Li Ziyue felt weightless for a moment. Before he could come to his senses, it started to rain heavily outside.
[The current number of people in the room is 2/2, which meets the requirements]
[Congratulations on choosing the right room and surviving successfully. I wish you a pleasant second day in the Mirror Community~]
The rain was pouring down, and huge raindrops even passed through the corridor and fell on the glass window of his room, like people's fists hitting it densely, the black spots connected into a piece, and the window was shaking.
The rain was heavier than expected. Within a few minutes, the water in the corridor had overflowed through the door.
There was a sound of stumbling footsteps coming from upstairs, as if something heavy was being smashed to the ground, making a chaotic clatter. In the heavy rain, someone was screaming, crying and cursing uncontrollably.
The air became increasingly dull.
At this moment, the hissing sound of electric current came in from above the room, and the sound of water flowing backwards was heard in the corridor.
Someone was hiding in the corridor, moving slowly.
"Who are we?"
"We are twin murderers."
Strange screams rang out in all directions, as if countless people were talking, the voices overlapping and interrupted by the deafening thunder.
“What are we going to do?”
"We're going to kill you."
[Recently, residents living in the Mirror Community claimed that they often saw black shadows resembling people outside the window at night]
[We found that strange creatures often appear around you. These creatures have distorted human faces. We cannot explain their behavior. Experts believe that they should be a kind of "pseudo-human"]
The cold mechanical sound of the system automatically sounded in my brain.
The horror outside the door continued.
"We watch you at your bedside, as long as you close your eyes, we peek at you at your bedside, under your bed, and through the crack of the open door."
"You can't hide from us because we're twins and because you don't have eyes on your back."
[We cannot directly distinguish between fake people and real people, we can only remind you to be wary of people around you who look like you]
"What? You said you wanted to arrest us?"
"Haha! You want to lock us up in an endless prison?"
"Haha! You want to put us in an endless prison?!"
[Please rest assured that the community guard will ensure your safety. Please remember the correct color of the guard's clothes]
Countless voices echoed in his mind, and his brain was instantly unable to process so much complex information. Li Zi felt his head hurt more and more. There was more water in the room, and the cold liquid splashed on his ankles.
Then he felt a warmth in his ears and the sound of talking suddenly became less. Li Ziyue was startled and looked up. Zhang Lian was covering his ears with his hands and looking at him.
The moment he looked into his eyes, Zhang Lian lightly kissed him on the lips.
"Li Ziyue, are you scared?" Zhang Lian gently rubbed the tip of his ear which was cold.
Li Ziyue quickly turned his eyes away.
"……I don't."
[Zhang Lian] raised his eyebrows.
[The "Mouse Eats Cat" side quest is officially launched. Players are requested to choose whether to participate in the quest according to their own situation]
[Currently a player has left the room]
Li Ziyue raised his head suddenly.
The sound of electricity stopped abruptly at this moment, and then.
“Knock, knock.”
There was a strange knock on the door.
I don't know when countless human-shaped black shadows have appeared outside the window, overlapping and moving slightly.
The knocking on the door gradually became louder, as if forcing the person inside to come out. The whole room was shaking with fear.
[Room Rule 2: Please make sure that the knocks at night come from inside the door. If not, please do not answer]
[Room Rules Article 3: If any unknown object appears outside the window at any time, please call the security guard immediately]
The guard's phone number...
Just as Li Ziyue was walking towards the bed, his consciousness suddenly became fuzzy and the whole space seemed to be upside down. He reached out to touch the bed sheet, but no matter how forward he moved, he could not reach it.
[Room Rule 6: If you find that some parts of the room are different from your memory, please hide in the bathroom]
"Zhang Lian," he coughed twice, "go to the bathroom."
The water in the room could not spread into the bathroom, and there were only two wet footprints on the ground.
The mirror that was originally in the center of the bathroom wall has disappeared, replaced by shocking blood-red words all over the wall.
[Don’t trust people! Don’t trust people! Stay away from them! Stay away from them! Be careful! Be careful! Fake people are everywhere! ]
Li Ziyue had a splitting headache, felt nauseous, his heartbeat quickened, and the wound on his wrist was turning red and hot.
The wound tore open on its own, and bright red blood dripped onto the ground.
“Tick-tock.”
[Zhang Lian] lowered his eyes and treated his wound. When Li Ziyue wasn't paying attention, he stuffed a candy into his mouth.
At some point, the number of people in the room displayed at the door had changed from 2/2 to 3/2.
There is one more person.
At this moment, this person was looking at Li Ziyue in the bathroom with a sneer.
"We meet again."
[It is detected that the number of people in the room violates the rules. Please make adjustments within one minute. Please do not ignore this warning because you cannot bear the consequences.]
"I was just thinking about how to find you," Li Ziyue wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyebrows and eyes were cold, "but you fell into the trap yourself."
He looked towards the window without leaving a trace.
The shadow disappeared.
"I'm sorry," Li Ziyue smiled slightly, "My real body is not here, so you can't kill me for now."
"If we don't control the number of people in the room, you'll die here," he glanced at the bed that was beginning to collapse next to him, "but it's also interesting to be able to use the rules to kill you."
Chaos was like an arrow shot from a bow. Just when the house was in a mess, a gunshot rang out outside the corridor, enough to cover up all the loud noises.
There had apparently been a serious altercation outside.
[Li Ziyue] was not in a hurry, just smiled, with smug provocation in his eyes.
In fact, the question of "who goes and who stays" is not a difficult problem that requires too much consideration for the three people present.
Li Ziyue thought that he probably knew how to "call" the security guard.
The task of killing the twin murderers is not optional, it is a required course if you want to survive.
[Zhang Lian] Knowing that he couldn't stop Li Ziyue who was determined, he put a toy puppy with a tracking device behind him.
The number of people in the house returned to 2/2 again.
Outside the wide-open door, strong winds carrying cold rain blew onto Li Ziyue's face.
[Zhang Lian] seemed to be still in a trance, and suddenly asked [Li Ziyue]: "Are you 20 years old now?"
[Li Ziyue] replied indifferently: "...It's none of your business."
"Oh," [Zhang Lian] nodded, "Then I am two years older than you now."
【Li Ziyue】: “……?”
But then I listened to the system broadcast.
[Someone has died]
Both of them looked gloomy.
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