Chapter 129 There is a fake person among us
Li Ziyue looked at the person in the mirror for a long time, and finally withdrew his hand. He said in a cold tone: "You should know that it's useless to play the emotional card with me."
"Then do you want to play rock-paper-scissors with me?" Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes into a line, challenging me.
Li Ziyue pursed his lips and said, "I thought rock-paper-scissors was mandatory, but I didn't expect that I could choose."
He looked at the first rule of the Mirror Rules: Please remember the warning of the Markov chain and don't lose the rock-paper-scissors game. You cannot afford the consequences.
He only said that if he lost, he would be doomed, but did not mention what would happen if he won. Before he was sure whether there was a reward for "winning", he tried to avoid rock-paper-scissors as much as possible.
[Li Ziyue] folded his arms across his chest and said comfortably, "Normally it will be a forced duel, but you are lucky that you are facing me."
"I'm lucky?" Li Ziyue raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically, "If I lose the rock-paper-scissors game now, you'll find it boring, right?"
"Ah." [Li Ziyue]'s eyes darkened and his face darkened. "Yes."
Before Li Ziyue could say anything, there was a loud noise that seemed to come from another dimension. Li Ziyue's fist smashed hard on the top of the mirror, and the mirror quickly cracked into several spider-web-like cracks from the inside.
His bloody hand stretched out from the mirror, his body leaned down, and grabbed Li Ziyue's wrist.
Some of the glass shards on his hand pierced into the skin below Li Ziyue's forearm as he moved. The sharp thorns pushed downward, causing Li Ziyue's skin to turn red and painful.
The bloody red flowed down the wound.
The crack in the mirror grew bigger, as if Li Ziyue would emerge from it in the next moment.
[Li Ziyue] stopped moving forward.
With his other hand, he wiped some blood from his arm which was covered with glass shards and filled the crack in the glass with it, slowing down the trend of the crack expanding.
[Li Ziyue] had a smile on his face, but his eyes were staring at the hand that was holding Li Ziyue with an extremely sinister look.
There, the blood from the two people's wounds gradually merged together.
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"What's the point of playing rock-paper-scissors? You'll only get a little punishment if you lose," Li Ziyue smiled, his eyes curved into crescents, "If we're going to bet, let's bet big, otherwise it would be a shame for you to hate me for the past six years."
"Find my real self on the 'opposite side' within 24 hours."
The mixed blood dripped onto the ground.
"If I find it, I will die," the man in the mirror stared at him, "If you can't find it, you will die."
Li Ziyue had a cold look on his face and said nothing.
[Li Ziyue] let him go, used the remaining blood to completely fill the gap in the mirror, and then he retreated back into the mirror.
The part that was scratched by Li Ziyue with the glass recovered quickly, and now there was only a dark red wound left, which was no longer bleeding.
There are many disadvantages when negotiating with [Li Ziyue], the only advantage is that Li Ziyue never needs to doubt whether [Li Ziyue] is cheating him.
To him, Li Ziyue's thoughts were as clear as a mirror and he could tell at a glance.
Li Ziyue lowered his head, looked at the wound and smiled.
"good."
[Li Ziyue] was indeed as eager as he was to end the dispute between the two.
"So don't die too early," Li Ziyue looked him straight in the face, "I will regret it for the rest of my life if I don't see you kneeling and crying in front of me."
Li Ziyue bent down and groped under the sink: "Kneel and cry?"
He curled his lips without a smile.
"Didn't you see it six years ago?"
"I've never forgotten the feeling of dragging you down from your high, high spirits to the bottom of the valley," Li Ziyue lowered his eyes, "So, before you find me, before I experience this feeling again, don't die."
"My dear brother."
When Li Ziyue looked up again, [Li Ziyue] was no longer in the mirror.
His eyes gradually darkened.
elder brother.
[Li Ziyue] knows best how to disgust him.
…
Ever since he saw [Li Ziyue] in the bathroom, no one was allowed to enter the bathroom from the outside. When Li Ziyue just went out, he saw [Zhang Lian] standing by the door of the room, his eyes fell on the door handle.
"What's wrong?"
"..." [Zhang Lian] was silent for two seconds, "There was a quarrel on this floor just now. From the sound, it was a man. There was also someone running, and the footsteps were a bit chaotic. There were at least four people present."
"Did your system give you a task reminder?" Li Ziyue was stunned. "No, do you have a system?"
[Zhang Lian] nodded: "There is a system, but no task reminder."
“If not, players can check their identities directly through the system,” he added.
That makes sense.
Li Ziyue no longer had any doubts.
Generally, if anything unexpected happens in a dungeon, there will be a corresponding task reminder. If not, it is most likely a dispute between players, which is beyond the jurisdiction of the dungeon.
But it's almost time to leave.
After leaving the room, Li Ziyue discovered that this area was a cylindrical residential building. The rooms looked flat, but were actually slightly curved and connected to each other to form the edge of a circle.
The windows and doors of every household were closed, and there was no one in the corridor.
The residential building has three floors, with 12 rooms on each floor. Electronic lights are hung on the top of the room doors. The green light indicates that there was someone in the room but that person has left.
If there are unusual building designs in the dungeon, these designs are usually related to the main quest or the dungeon's story background. If you combine the two elements of "circle" and "12", it's easy to think of "clocks", "twelve constellations", "twelve zodiac signs", "twelve months", and "round table meetings", etc. From these elements, it's easy to deduce the third hidden element - time.
This is somewhat related to the two rule instructions he got before, so he can make a temporary mark.
He and Zhang Lian were the last to come out, and at that time there were already 5 green lights on around them.
However, when Li Ziyue really arrived at the restaurant on the first floor, he found something was wrong.
Because of the fusion of the worlds after coming out of the mechanical world, Liu Yuche and the others also entered the "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy". The people present were as follows: Liu Yuche, Zhang Xingzhi, Sun Yuancheng, Zhang Lian, Li Ziyue, an unfamiliar pair of twins, a man with glasses huddled in the corner, and Wu Tian who was leaning against the edge.
There are nine people in total.
There are either 0 or 2 people in the room. There are a total of 6 green lights on the door, which means there must be at least 12 people. How could there be only 9 people?
Can different rooms accommodate different number of people?
Li Ziyue frowned imperceptibly.
in addition.
The person in the corner...
The man with the glasses stared at the wooden tabletop, his legs pressed together tensely and trembling constantly, his hands on both sides of the chair gripping the corners, his fingertips turned white from excessive force.
"I'm glad you all gathered on time," the burly landlord stood in front of the long dining table and looked at everyone happily, "Very good, very good, all fourteen are here."
The answer could be 12, 13 or 9, but why 14? [Note 1]
As soon as the landlord finished speaking, everyone's expressions became serious.
"Welcome to the Mirror Apartment. I'm your landlord," the landlord took out a piece of paper from his pocket. "You don't need to pay any accommodation fees for this apartment, but in order to keep the apartment clean, we have to allow for the flow of people."
"Every day, residents of the community have to choose a new room to live in the next day. The room numbers range from 1 to 12. You need to find the key by yourselves. If you don't find the key before midnight, you can only sleep in the corridor that night. You will bear the consequences at your own risk." The landlord narrowed his eyes like a cunning fox, "You are not stupid. You should know that the corridor outside the apartment at night is a 'high-risk area for accidents', right?"
Sun Yuancheng forced a smile on his face and whispered, "Who said there are no idiots? I am an idiot. What should I do? I feel like I will die tonight. Brother, I can sneak into your room and sleep next to you..."
"Ouch."
Sun Yuancheng held his head with tears in his eyes and glanced at Zhang Lian with complaint: "I know there is a limit on the number of people in the room, I was just joking."
Li Ziyue held his forehead and patted him on the back: "People who talk like you usually survive to the end."
The copy will ask you to "select a room". There is a high probability that there will be a distinction between "dangerous rooms" and "safe rooms". If you don't choose the right room, you won't know how you died.
The landlord coughed twice and continued, "Second point, if anything happens, remember to call the doorman. It's useless to call me. Don't waste your energy."
There are two points in this sentence, one is "doorman" and the other is "call". The previous rules also said that you should call the doorman, but Li Ziyue searched the room and didn't find anything that might be a phone.
Does “making a phone call” refer to something?
"Third," the landlord's eyes turned cold, "there has been a murder recently. You must be careful of the twin murderers. They will kill at least one person every night. Before the twin murderers are arrested, you must come to the restaurant on time every day to participate in the 'trial'."
"Trial?" Zhang Xingzhi seemed to be thinking, "Do we have to vote among ourselves to choose the murderer?"
"That's right." The landlord said cheerfully, "You are very smart, young man."
"But didn't you say that there was a murder recently? We just came to the apartment today. No matter what, the murderer would not be one of us. Isn't voting an injustice to a good person?" Liu Yuche raised an objection.
"Dear little girl, do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?" The landlord spread his hands indifferently, "Twin murderers are a general term for a certain type of murderer. As long as you have 'another you', you can be listed as a suspect. Moreover, your other party has the same DNA as you. How can you defend yourself that the real murderer is her?"
His gaze fell on the other side of the silent twin players, and his face was smiling again.
Sun Yuancheng hummed softly: "Before the deaths stopped, the players suspected each other and voted to find the traitor. I have seen this kind of plot in too many novels."
He looked the landlord up and down: "This NPC is easy to talk to, he looks chubby and kind. I thought the Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon would be very thrilling and different, so it seems okay."
Li Ziyue thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think is thrilling?"
"I thought I wouldn't survive more than half a minute," Sun Yuancheng winked, "like I'd be hacked to death by a crazy NPC as soon as I opened the door, or there would be traps everywhere, and I'd be shot to death by arrows if I sneezed."
Li Ziyue curled his lips and said, "In a dungeon, dying quickly is a kind of happiness."
Sun Yuancheng touched his head in confusion.
The thrilling copy is like the water drop torture. It does not need fancy "torture instruments" to show its horror. The most common transparent liquid is enough to torture people to the point of mental breakdown.
You looked up at the bean-sized crystal and saw it grow from a small point to completely blocking your vision. Then the biting cold flowed down your forehead, and the liquid slid into your hair. You heard it quietly gnawing at your scalp and the skin around it.
You can't struggle, and you have no power to break free. You can only listen to your heavy breathing, your heartbeat like a meteorite, and the dripping of water mixed together in the silent and dim room.
You don’t know how much time has passed. You just feel tired, hungry, and cold. You are about to lose the ability to hear your heartbeat and breathing. You are about to lose consciousness.
“Tick-tock.”
The cold water drops hit your seemingly sunken head again.
“Tick-tock.”
You wake up suddenly as if you were slapped viciously in the face, your body twitching constantly, and your ears, which are infested with worms, can only hear the sound of water.
“Tick-tock.”
The water beads crawl on you.
While you are awake, you see with your own eyes that you are being eaten away by the water droplets bit by bit.
Later your friends rescued you, but you sadly knew that you would forever be parasitized by the fear that water brought you.
The "tick-tock" of the kitchen faucet at night, the "tick-tock" of excess liquid seeping out when watering the flowers upstairs, the "tick-tock" of dewdrops rolling down the dead leaves to the ground in the early morning, and even the "tick-tock" of the gears turning behind the clock.
The most perfect fear will always parasitize on you. From the moment you encounter it, you are trapped in its spider web designed to prey on you. Everything after that is just a pathetic and false fantasy of escape before you die.
Sun Yuancheng got goosebumps all over his body. He said painfully, "God bless this dungeon so that nothing unexpected happens in the later stages. I will never complain about its simplicity again."
As it stands, everything is progressing in a too stereotypical way. Residential buildings, restaurant gatherings, NPC killing notices... these are all very common factors. If this continues, the so-called "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy" will not even be more difficult than the Weather Copy.
The twins didn't look well.
"This is too much targeting us." Fang Chi said irritably, "If we don't catch the murderer tonight, won't my brother and I be voted out during the trial tomorrow?"
Moreover, Li Ziyue and the others seemed to know each other, and no matter what, they would not vote for their own people first.
Fang Yuan said calmly: "Not necessarily."
He swept his cold eyes around the people around him and said, "You just heard the landlord talk about the number of people present. It doesn't match the actual number of people present. There must be fake people among us. When the time comes, vote them out first."
These words were like a huge rock thrown into a lake that was trying hard to pretend to be calm, immediately causing huge waves.
"What do you mean?" Liu Yuche stared at him, "Who are you implying?"
Fang Yuan mocked: "Whoever is impatient will be implicated."
His cold eyes fell on Liu Yuche.
"You're not a fake person, are you?"
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