Chapter 136 Where is the Devil
"If one is fatally wounded, it will revive infinitely," Zhang Xingzhi said seriously, "We have to kill both of them at the same time."
Li Ziyue seemed to be thinking: "Find a way to make the snake and the bear look at each other."
The bear man's previous stiffness indirectly proved that eyes can also be considered a kind of mirror. Combined with the information given by Zhang Xingzhi, it is easy to think of this solution.
"Do you think we don't know our weaknesses?"
The snake man with his body wrapped around the window giggled, then covered his eyes with his fallen snake scales.
"The sounds you make, the smell you smell..." Snake Tail drew circles on the floor, "We have many ways to find your location."
Liu Yuche chuckled.
"Okay." She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and pointed the gun at the snake man again, "Then let's go look for him."
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It was already 4:30 in the morning, only an hour and a half before dawn.
Sun Yuancheng stared at the smoke-filled area on the third floor for a long time. It was pitch black there, and people standing downstairs could not hear even a single sound.
I can faintly smell blood, the situation up there might be very bad.
The water washed over his calves again and again. Sun Yuancheng retracted his gaze and then pulled Fang Yuan, who was on the verge of drowning, out from the center of the pool.
Fang Yuan spat out several clumps of pitch-black hair from his mouth, and fell to the ground, rolling and groaning.
"My brother... my brother..." His eyes were bloodshot, and his brain seemed to have been severely damaged. He could not speak clearly. "My brother was killed, my brother was killed... He was fake... He was fake..."
Sun Yuancheng frowned, and slashed at the back of Fang Yuan's neck with his hand, forcing Fang Yuan to spit out several unidentified objects.
There were even pieces of koi carp in there.
Before going down to the first floor, Sun Yuancheng had thoroughly checked all the rooms on the second floor and indeed found Fang Chi's body in Room 4.
He pinched Fang Yuan's chin, thought for a moment, and without hesitation slapped Fang Yuan, who was on the verge of a mental breakdown and couldn't help screaming.
This slap completely stunned Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan couldn't stop crying: "I know clearly who is the fake one and who is my real brother. My real brother is dead... I want to avenge my brother."
“…”
Sun Yuancheng was silent for a while: "Your brother would rather you complete the dungeon, instead of being so sad and angry that you didn't even notice that you were grabbed by the hair and dragged into the pool."
"Who killed your brother? A fake person?" Sun Yuancheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "Or did you encounter the twin murderers?"
At this moment, Fang Yuan did not have the arrogance he had in the afternoon when he confronted Wu Tian: "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know..."
After a kick, the man became obedient again.
Sun Yuancheng looked at him coldly.
"I'm not sure..." Fang Yuan said in despair, "By the time I reacted, my brother had already fallen to the ground... Before he died, my brother told me that he felt we had all been misled..."
"The copy lied to us that the murderers were twins, but in fact they were triplets... If the three people didn't die at the same time..."
Sun Yuancheng didn't say anything, he just dragged Fang Yuan by the collar and took him upstairs.
“Triplets, huh?” He snorted coldly, “Either find the third one for me, or you’ll die on the third floor tonight.”
Fang Yuan covered his face in pain and groaned, "I can't... I don't dare -"
His words stopped abruptly.
There were several sounds of heavy objects rolling down at the stairs, colliding with each other and then quickly separating, with the wet hems of clothes sticking tightly to people's skin.
Sun Yuancheng had a gloomy face.
He was playing with a small piece of glass in his hand. It was the tool that Fang Yuan had hidden behind him and intended to use to attack him.
Sun Yuancheng stepped on his shoulders condescendingly.
"You've been acting like a grandson for so long, you really think I'm an idiot," he curled his lips slightly, and the glass shards pressed against Fang Yuan's neck, "I have an even worse temper than Wu Tian. I'm neither in the mood nor have the time to argue with you. If you want to continue soaking in the pool, I have a way to get you out, and I also have a way to fulfill your wish."
Fang Yuan glared at him angrily.
"Whether he is a fake person or a real person, why do we have to distinguish their identities?" Sun Yuancheng pinched his jaw and gradually increased his strength.
"If I say you are a fake, then you are a fake. If I say you are a real person, then you must pretend to be a real person."
Sun Yuancheng smiled.
"What do you think?"
"Now we must stand on the side of humanity...Fangyuan players."
…
Liu Yuche leaned against the wall and gasped. Her right arm, which was used to hold the gun, had completely disappeared. The blood hanging on her torn sleeve still showed the struggle she had made when she lost her right hand.
What's worse is that she is now in the best condition among the three.
Li Ziyue fell in the corner with his head drooping, and hadn't moved for a long time.
An ice pick as thick as an adult man's arm was stuck in Zhang Xingzhi's left chest, less than a finger's distance away from his heart. Zhang Xingzhi was hung in the middle of the mast, unable to move for a while.
The side effects of massive blood loss and rapid treatment caused her to start having a fever. Countless double images seemed to flash before her eyes. Her left hand was shaking. She raised the gun, but she couldn't even see where the target was.
Li Ziyue in the corner moved his fingers.
Liu Yuche shared Yu Shui's line of sight in an instant, and she pulled the trigger without hesitation. However, after the gunshot, the speed at which the thing approached them did not slow down.
What exactly went wrong?
The scales on the twins' eyes had been damaged, but even so, the three of them tried their best to force the twins to look at each other.
What he got was a mocking laugh.
After the snake man and the bear man look at each other, their movements will only be temporarily restricted. Within two minutes, the murderous pair will resume normal movements.
At the same time, beheading the murderer would not help. No matter how many times the snake people and bear people fell, they would get up again.
Got fooled.
I was fooled again.
The NPC kept using false information to induce Li Ziyue and the others to think in the wrong direction. By the time they realized it, half of their bodies had already sunk into the swamp, and they could do nothing but watch themselves being swallowed up.
But the twins must be dealt with. If players want to have a chance of survival, they must get the reward for this side quest.
Only in this way can you call the "gatekeeper" in the rules.
Fortunately, after the melee, the bear people and snake people were also injured to some extent. At this moment, the third floor was quiet and everyone was waiting to recover.
Li Ziyue finally had time to think about what was wrong with the whole thing.
Now no matter what they do, the twin murderers cannot be completely eliminated. There must be something important missing in the whole process.
A few minutes ago, when they forced the twin murderers to look at each other, a system prompt immediately popped up in Li Ziyue's mind: "Congratulations, you have successfully made the twin murderers 'see' each other. The progress of the 'mouse eats the cat' task is 70%. Please take more measures to increase your exploration degree."
Generally speaking, as the task progresses, the copy will give corresponding prompts or give players props to help them complete the task.
However, just like the last time when the mission progressed to 50%, the copy still did not provide any help to the players.
Either the copy simply didn't want them to clear the level, or they didn't find the key point and simply had a better understanding of the task.
Li Ziyue swallowed a mouthful of blood and heard the weak heartbeat in his chest.
Obviously, the reason for this is that they did not take advantage of all the known conditions.
Li Ziyue slowly recalled the [Basic Survival Rules] that Zhang Lian had taken out from the edge of the pool on the first floor.
Pave it today, there are 0 people hiding inside
Fold it in half tomorrow, and there will be a person hidden inside
Fold it in half the day after tomorrow, and there will be 729 people hidden inside
The room is empty in the morning, where is the devil?
The pool is empty at noon, where is my brother?
The corridor is empty at night, where is my brother?
The first three sentences have been verified and are the rules for room selection. What are the last three sentences?
Why do these six paragraphs constitute the "Survival Code"?
So far, players' lives are threatened in only two places: one is room selection. If the room number is chosen incorrectly or the key is not found in time, the player will die.
The second is the twin murderers.
If the last three sentences correspond to the twin murderer incident...
The older and younger brothers can still understand it, but what is the "devil" mentioned additionally?
Could it be that there is a third party involved in the whole incident that they have not discovered?
Li Ziyue's palms felt cold.
The last three sentences correspond to three times, places and characters.
They had just survived the late night, and in just over an hour it would be early morning. By noon, the twin murderers had long disappeared.
The rooms and corridors were the ones they could go to at the moment. The pool was in the center of the area, some distance away from them.
"Noon" and "Pool" are both "out of reach" for them at the moment. If the so-called "third person" is really hiding near the pool...
wrong.
It was already afternoon when they were teleported here. As far as the first day was concerned, noon did not exist at all. If the third person only appeared in the pool at noon, he must also be present when the murderer of the twins was killed.
Then the side quest 'The mouse eats the cat' on the first night will be impossible to complete.
Could this really be a dead end?
Li Ziyue gritted his teeth: "Zhang... Zhang Xingzhi..."
After a long time, Zhang Xingzhi raised his head in pain.
Li Ziyue looked at him for two seconds.
Zhang Xingzhi's bloodless lips moved - I agree with your guess, no matter what, we have to send someone to go to the pool.
Liu Yuche moved towards Li Ziyue calmly.
"You go," her voice was so hoarse that it was impossible to tell the gender of the person. "I still have the strength to protect... protect Zhang Xingzhi here..."
At critical moments, one must have absolute trust in the decision of his companions. Li Ziyue nodded with difficulty and moved towards the stairs under the cover of darkness.
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"The third person is hiding over there by the pool?" Fang Yuan sneered, "If you really think so, you're wrong again."
"This mission provides very few clues, and they are all vague," deliberately suppressed footsteps sounded in the corridor on the second floor, "What can we do? We can only make up stories for ourselves. If we can make it self-consistent, we will try it. If it doesn't work, we will make it up again. The most painful thing is to find out that it is a trap after making it up."
Fang Yuan said with anger in his tone: "By that time, most of the companions were dead, and they found themselves being fooled by the dungeon. The players even wanted to find a rope to hang themselves."
Sun Yuancheng stopped his complaints and asked, "Where is the third person?"
"I have no idea."
"I really don't know. The last time I saw the kid was on the second floor."
"Child?" Sun Yuancheng pondered, "Is it the child who was hated by his mother and said to have eaten his brother's child?"
Fang Yuan was surprised: "How did you know?"
"How do you know?"
The two said in unison.
"My brother told me," Fang Yuan's voice choked with sobs, "He is much better than me...but..."
Sun Yuancheng's expression suddenly changed and he quickly covered Fang Yuan's mouth.
"Someone."
As soon as he finished speaking, a half figure appeared at the corner of the second floor.
His face was as pale as a paper man, but his eyes were very dark. The corridor was dimly lit at the moment, and for a moment it was unclear whether he was a fake or a real person.
Fang Yuan stared at that person motionlessly.
"elder brother!"
Fang Yuan's palms were covered in cold sweat and his entire body was covered in goosebumps.
The person coming before him was Fang Chi, who had already died.
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