Chapter 27 Lost
But this was still within Li Ziyue's expectations.
"Don't think too highly of the players," he lowered his voice. "For this question, let's analyze the first point first - whether the players have guessed that the bride looks different in everyone's eyes. In other words, do the players know that the bride is not someone close to them, but just a dungeon NPC?"
“That divides players into two categories.”
"I guess the most likely person would choose to complete this mission. After all, the reward is generous, and the bride eaten by the evil god will turn into a zombie. Not killing the bride will only cause more trouble."
"What about those you didn't guess? Keep sorting now."
Li Ziyue suddenly stopped talking and looked at Sun Yuancheng: "You divide it."
Sun Yuancheng thought for a while: "When faced with the bride and profit, those who choose profit will kill the bride. And those who truly love the bride will choose the third way, that is, to protect the bride, not letting her be eaten by the evil spirit, and not letting her be killed by the players."
Li Ziyue nodded with some satisfaction: "Not stupid."
“When positions differ, conflicts arise.”
"Kill or protect? Players will fight over this."
"But this conflict is easy to resolve," Sun Yuancheng frowned in confusion, "As long as a player stands up and tells everyone the truth about the bride's appearance, everyone will choose to kill the bride."
"Not really stupid, but very naive," Li Ziyue said, "Even if it's raining, don't forget that there is potential competition among players in this instance - water resources."
"30% of the players are poor. They obviously don't have enough water, so they have to live by plundering others. And how to plunder better - creating chaos."
"The more players fight, the easier it is for them to fish in troubled waters and grab water."
Li Ziyue raised a mocking smile and said, "The trust between players in the dungeon is very weak. You are the only one who will immediately believe what I say. If I explain the bride's appearance to other players, their first reaction will actually be that I have bad intentions."
Sun Yuancheng didn't know whether he was being praised or scolded, so he just hummed slowly.
"I am smart."
"Okay," Li Ziyue raised his eyelids and said lazily, "Let's see how to arrange it next."
In fact, there is one point he didn't make clear.
In the whole incident, there are characters, motives, and rewards, but there is a catalyst hidden under all the links, which makes the incident develop even worse - the live broadcast room.
He looked at the few comments from passers-by that occasionally floated through the live broadcast room.
[Host, come on, you really killed someone. I will reward you 10,000 points when the settlement is settled.]
[Oh, what an exciting competition system. I want to see something bloodier.]
[It would be boring if we don’t fight. Forget it, let’s go.]
…
For some players who are in urgent need of points (such as Liu Fengfeng), these tempting words are the most irrational poison.
Some of the players in the house began to make a commotion. Several near the doors and windows were already looking out. Only a small number of players were still sticking to the wall, with solemn expressions and not saying a word.
The old woman urged: "Time waits for no one... Wait until the bride marries the evil god... Everything will be over... Please, everyone..."
"But the rain!"
Key questions were raised.
The old woman kept shaking her head and called out the young man who had been staying at the back of the house - her youngest son, a strong young man. Li Ziyue remembered that his name was Qian Wanlong.
Qian Wanlong came out with a sullen face, holding a few large woven bags filled with fertilizers. The bags were bulging and no one knew what was in them.
He glanced at the old woman impatiently, then threw the bag hard to the ground.
Li Ziyue watched all this silently without saying a word.
The relationship between this mother and son does not seem to be very good.
The bag was not sealed, and the edge of the things inside was exposed.
The light in the house was dim, and I couldn't see clearly. I could only see a gray-brown color.
Li Ziyue's temples twitched twice, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
Qian Wanlong shook out those things. They were long and thin, with a rusty iron pipe fixed in the middle and a point at the top - a simple and broken umbrella.
I don't know what the umbrella surface is made of, it's gray, and the edges of several umbrellas are black, curled up, and feel uncomfortably greasy to the touch.
Li Ziyue felt that the material was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't tell what it was for a moment. He only heard the old woman speak in a hoarse voice.
"These umbrellas can protect us from the rain... Please help the bride to be free..."
The players opened their umbrellas and walked out one after another. The old woman stood at the door, watching everyone go away with a respectful attitude.
Sun Yuancheng took an umbrella and was about to walk out, but he saw Li Ziyue leaning against the wall with a bored look on his face, with no intention of taking any action.
"elder brother?"
Li Ziyue waved his hand: "I'm not going."
It is known that the scene where he is about to "kill" is in a temple in the distance.
Q: How to avoid it?
Answer: No, I won’t go.
How can we talk about murder if the other person was not at the scene?
There were several other people who also had no intention of leaving the house. They all huddled in a corner with gloomy faces, staring at the players who were leaving the door, silent.
However, the system does not seem to allow people to lie flat.
[Hello, player Li Ziyue, we have detected that your mission progress is stuck, and we are now opening a new mission branch for you]
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the hidden mission "At first, he thought it was just a puzzle"]
[Task difficulty: one star (a certain test author spent five days and five nights trying to solve it but still couldn’t figure it out)]
[Task requirements: Three wolves and three sheep are crossing a river. There is only one boat, and only two animals can sit on the boat at a time. After reaching the shore, the animals on the boat must get off the boat. There cannot be more wolves than sheep on both sides of the river. If there are more wolves than sheep, the wolves will eat the sheep. Question: How to cross the river? ]
[Task Reward: 200 points (Friendly reminder: If the player cannot give a quick answer, please immediately terminate this task and continue with the previous task, otherwise the consequences will be at your own risk)]
In other words, if you can't solve this task, you must go out and complete the task of killing the bride.
This question was not difficult. Li Ziyue took out a draft paper from his backpack and sorted out his thoughts. Seeing that Sun Yuancheng was still biting the tip of his pen and thinking hard, he passed the draft paper with the answer to him.
A few players who originally had no intention of leaving thought about this question for a long time, but found that their minds were still in a mess, so they took their umbrellas and went out with an annoyed look on their faces.
Fewer and fewer players remain in the house.
Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly and sensed something was wrong.
The name of the task is "At first, he thought it was just a puzzle." The content of the question is to consider wolves and sheep crossing a river. If there are more wolves than sheep, the sheep will be eaten by the wolves.
He glanced at the smiling old woman standing at the door.
If the player cannot solve the problem, he will choose to leave... The number of players will decrease... The number of villagers in the house will remain the same... If the problem cannot be solved in a short time, the consequences will be at your own risk...
Li Ziyue's heart sank, and a not-so-good guess emerged in his mind.
He suddenly grabbed Sun Yuancheng's wrist and led Sun Yuancheng to the door.
"What's wrong, brother?" Sun Yuancheng looked confused, "I'll come out soon."
"Let's go." Li Ziyue lowered his voice and glanced into the house.
There are seven players and six villagers left.
He recalled how Liu Fengfeng died. When Liu Fengfeng took out water to put out the fire, the villagers had already become malicious, but they did not kill Liu Fengfeng on the spot, but chose to lure him to a corner...
The core point of this task is not to solve the problem at all.
Timing and quantity are key.
There may be a hidden constraint - in a certain scene, when the number of villagers is greater than the player, the villagers can "eat" the player.
When Li Ziyue walked to the door, the old woman suddenly came closer and stood behind Li Ziyue.
The nauseating feeling of coldness, dampness and a strong smell of blood came over her again. The old woman had a smile in her eyes, and there was still dried blood and meat residue on the edges of her mouth where she had just eaten meat.
With every word she spoke, the taste of rotten meat in her mouth was forced into Li Zi's increasingly uncomfortable throat.
"You're going to kill her."
She lowered her voice, and a strange look could be seen in her narrowed eyes.
Li Ziyue's face became more gloomy, as if he didn't hear the old woman's whisper. He opened his umbrella silently and walked out.
It happens again.
This was the case with Ji Mingyun before, and it was the same with the old woman now. Could it be that some people here had seen the scene where he was about to "kill" someone?
This possibility cannot be ruled out.
That would be troublesome.
Where he didn't see.
The villagers who had previously lined up in a row and huddled in the corner were still sitting there. Their movements seemed stiff, and their empty bowls were still pressed against their faces, making it impossible to see their expressions. Only a strange light was glowing at the edges.
That was the last tear squeezed out of the withered body.
Why are they crying, who are they crying for.
No one saw it, no one knew it.
The rain was a little lighter than before, but because the village's drainage system was extremely poor, the rain could only be absorbed by the soil underfoot. But the soil was extremely hard at this moment, and the rain could not melt into it, so it could only accumulate outside.
The depth has already reached the soles of everyone's shoes.
That’s not even the worst of it.
Sun Yuancheng followed Li Ziyue with a nervous look on his face, wishing he could just hide underground and sneak away.
Everywhere you look, you see zombies running down the mountain.
Parts of them had been eaten into zombie fragments by the plants planted around them. Broken trunks, rotten green human flesh, and moldy and yellowed half teeth were all mixed in the already yellow-brown rain water.
It hits people's calves as they walk.
Some people even vomited while walking, so the water under their feet was mixed with other indescribable things.
Sun Yuancheng looked so haggard that he seemed about to faint, and his hands, which were tightly gripping the umbrella handle, were pale and trembling.
Although Li Ziyue's expression did not change much, he felt nauseous inside. He tried not to look at his feet, but instead looked at the temple in front of him and walked in silence.
As the pace quickened, a flash of red appeared in front of us. It should be the sedan chair for the bride.
In fact, this main mission is a good thing for him.
His mission included two requirements: 1. Find the real murderer 2. Clear himself of suspicion.
If he really "killed" the bride, not to mention how to find the real murderer, the second task would be easy to accomplish.
All players have received a mission to kill the bride. As long as someone premeditated the knife attack, it would be much easier to clear him of suspicion.
But is it really a purely good thing?
Li Ziyue is still not sure.
No matter what the matter is, as long as there are people involved, it will become very complicated. There are too many possible situations. Li Ziyue still cannot say that he is at ease at this moment.
Moreover, he felt a vague sense of uneasiness in his heart.
This feeling of uneasiness arose when he saw the zombies running down the mountain in the house. Until now, he not only did not feel at ease, but felt even heavier.
The zombie with half of its face eaten floated down the current to Li Ziyue.
Its rotten skin, which had turned gray and black, was sunk into the turbid water. Its one remaining eye was wide open unwillingly, its pure black eyeball shrunk into a small dot, with the white of the eye filling up around it, and the remaining half of its mouth was slightly raised.
Seems to be laughing.
Li Ziyue's uneasiness deepened again.
It is known that the system has additional notes in the task of planting plants. This is a group task. If someone fails to complete it, the entire team may face the disaster of destruction.
Why do we need to complete this task? If we fail to complete it, what kind of disaster will we encounter?
As night falls, the answer to the first question is revealed - the purpose of planting plants is to resist the zombies running down the mountain.
Based on the previous text, the answer to the second question also emerges.
Plants are not indestructible. Li Ziyue took a rough look and found that one plant can usually only stop a dozen zombies, while the number of zombies that ran down before was simply countless. If a player did not plant plants, there would definitely be a line of defense that would be broken through by the zombies.
However, is it really enough?
You don't have to think too much to understand that it's impossible.
Planting plants requires strength and water. Let’s not talk about the strength for now, but water… Where do the poor people, who make up 30% of the total number of players, get so much water?
The first poor player has proved with his life that poor people not only have a little water, but the cup used to hold the water is also disposable, and there will be no more after it is used up.
Even if someone stole Liu Fengfeng's blood, how much blood could be extracted from Liu Fengfeng? Would it be enough for everyone to suck blood?
The mission has been stated to be a collective mission, but will the rich really sympathize with the poor and give them water for free to help them complete the mission?
Who could have guessed at that time that these plants were used to ward off zombies.
As long as there is one person, one person who has not planted -
“Puff!”
Li Ziyue's pupils shrank slightly and his pace slowed down unconsciously. Sun Yuancheng's face was pale and his legs were limp. If Li Ziyue hadn't helped him, his whole body would have sunk into the rain under his feet.
The thing with its bent body was standing in front of Li Ziyue. Its head, with only a few thick black hairs left, was buried in a blood-red place. A tingling sound came from there.
Its eyes, which occasionally showed, had turned deep red, and its dry hands were tightly gripping the body of the still-struggling living person. The neck of the living person was fixed by it, and its sharp teeth were only a few centimeters away from the soft and tender human flesh.
From the back, Li Ziyue recognized the man. It was the man with a crew cut who was worried about his wife.
When other people's eyes fell on it, it seemed very excited, and then its blood-stained mouth opened.
A mouthful of terrifying fangs was exposed in the dim night, the tips of the teeth pierced through the human skin, and bloody red liquid splashed out.
There is a violent storm tonight and no moon.
blood.
rainwater.
Dismemberment.
Mix together.
It smells cruel.
Behind it, on a dark rainy night, there were no plants under the loess, only a group of strange objects lurking in the darkness like vicious wolves.
Their limbs were twisted, and the zombies that still had legs half-fallen and half-crawled towards the group of players. The zombies with only hands left hid in the ground, huddled in the rain, their fingers gripping the ground, crawling silently.
Lost.
These three words popped up in Li Ziyue's mind.
He should have thought of it earlier.
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