Lake didn't want to pay attention to him and silently took the towel in front of the seat to wipe the water.
Fortunately, both the salted fish man and the panda man have no hair, so they can be dried with just a wipe.
"Why don't you speak? Are you too embarrassed to speak? I just want to say..." Mei He kept chattering.
Xu Piao used the car lights to identify the road signs, turned the steering wheel and drove towards the city. While driving, the wheels often shook as if they were running over something.
And thick fog gradually rose outside the car window.
"Okay, now there are at least three ghosts chasing us." Xu Piao said helplessly. "I remember that the water ghost's skills don't include fog, right?"
"The water ghosts in this copy have tentacles, you know," said Lake.
——Okay, she understands.
How come this hybrid battle royale copy also mixed up the personalities of the ghosts in "The Hell's Distance"? She originally set the water ghost's skills to be related to hair and water. Doesn't this mixture immediately lose its flavor?
Really.
"Wait, does that mean that the kid and the other one are catching up as well?" Mei He felt something was wrong when he heard that. He turned his head and looked back. From the rear window he saw something waving in the darkness behind him. A slender object was following closely behind. He did not see the kid and the girl.
[I'm sure they'll catch up if I chase them. The bus just now couldn't even shake the kid off.]
[I think the main reason for catching up is still CH. Did you notice that CH took something from both schools?]
The coin in the sandpit, and Jiang Zhirong's diary? I'm not sure about the first one, but the second one is one of the five clues in the book "Kwaidan School." It's normal for the ghost to chase after you take it, right?
[That's not what I meant. What I meant was that ghosts seem to be able to use clues related to themselves to have a certain induction on the person holding the props. This setting has always existed in "The Distance Between the Dead", but it's just an unspoken rule that hasn't been stated directly. Players who often play ghosts should be more aware of it.]
[It's true! After the clue is taken, a location hint will appear after a few minutes!]
[That guy deliberately took those two things... I always feel like there's a conspiracy]
People in the game are not aware of the discussions on the barrage.
While driving towards the city, Xu Piao encountered several players, all of whom were being chased by various ghosts. The car of the vice-principal of the ghost story school was finally scrapped after stumbling along the way and hitting a ghost.
Up to now, the game has been going on for 45 minutes, and the system prompts that there are only 40 surviving players left.
After returning to the city, Xu Piao and his group met several other players, one of whom was a player named Snow Mountain Mushroom. When Snow Mountain Mushroom was chased by ghosts, cried for help, and successfully joined the team, everyone in the barrage showed a tacit understanding, and they all posted barrages of "We must give CH and Lake a good trick."
Only Hewlett paused as he recorded his analysis on the notebook page of the optical computer.
From the beginning to here, he finally felt what was wrong with this battle royale copy.
He had previously felt that he couldn't understand the purpose of CH's actions, but at the beginning, he told himself that CH and Lake were the people who were most familiar with these copies. They knew all the loopholes in the game, and it was normal for them to do some things that he couldn't understand.
But just now, when the snow mountain mushrooms led the ghosts towards where CH and the others were, Hewlett suddenly noticed something he had overlooked.
At the beginning of the game, almost everyone randomly lands near an area with ghosts, then encounters the ghosts, and then starts to run away.
But what about ch?
Hewlett had the impression that CH seemed to have walked out of a house and then wandered around without encountering any ghosts along the way, until he climbed over the wall and ran into the second elementary school, where he provoked the first ghost.
This is very strange. When everyone encountered ghosts at the beginning, was it possible that he was the only one who didn't encounter ghosts?
[Did anyone see what CH did when the game started?] Hewlett asked in the comments.
However, the comments were so chaotic that his question was quickly drowned out by countless other comments, and perhaps no one even noticed it.
Hewlett had no choice but to smash the gift and ask again with his own name added using special effects.
Only then did someone pay attention to what he said.
[At first... I didn't seem to do anything. I just wandered around the shabby house and then walked out, I think.]
Hewlett: Any more specific information about what you did while walking around the house?
Does lighting a candle count? When ch walked past the mirror after lighting the candle, I almost got startled by the reflection of a panda in the shadow. Combined with the pitch-black environment, it was really scary.
[However, after leaving the house, CH didn't seem to be holding the candle. Perhaps he left it in the house?]
Hewlett immediately caught the key words in these words.
[Candle][Mirror]
Although due to the unique style of "The Hell's Distance" and the fact that some of the background stories are directly presented to players without the need to dig deep, Hewlett didn't play this game much... well, it's not because he was afraid.
But he also paid attention to some content and live broadcasts related to "The Hell's Distance", so he didn't miss much information.
When he heard about walking past a mirror with a candle in hand, Hewlett immediately thought of the information in some copies that candles and mirrors attract ghosts.
Such information was usually just mentioned casually in the dungeon plot or by an NPC, and probably few people would notice it, but Hewlett noticed it.
[Is there a possibility that ch is not a human?] He thought for a long time and carefully typed this line in the barrage.
...which resulted in a burst of laughter.
[I also think CH is not human. Do you think these games can be made by humans?]
[Pooh, it’s definitely not a human, it’s a pandaman]
[The CH who can come up with so many horrible things to scare us is definitely not human]
【Ha ha ha ha】
Hewlett: ...
He wasn't kidding.
However, because Hewlett himself was not particularly sure, he stopped talking on the barrage, remained quiet and continued watching.
I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but when he had this idea and then looked at everything that happened in the Battle Royale copy from a God’s perspective, he felt that many things were different.
For example, Snow Mountain Mushroom broke into the CH team. He wanted to trap CH and joined forces with other players to lure ghosts to chase CH.
Most people would definitely become suspicious after encountering this situation once or twice, but CH acted as if he hadn't noticed anything. He still ran around with the snow mountain mushrooms, and from time to time arranged for other people in the team to go out and have some fun. He arranged the others very clearly, especially Lake and Meihe, who were given the most arrangements.
Hewlett watched Mei He, who probably had never played "Hell's Distance" before, gradually become proficient and adept at it after so many times of practicing escaping from ghosts, and he could even show off by repeatedly climbing through the window.
It was in such a situation that players on the Snow Mountain Mushroom side would occasionally be caught by ghosts and eliminated because they could not run away in time. By the time the dungeon lasted for one hour and ten minutes, there were only 25 players left in the dungeon.
The number of ghosts chasing Xu Piao and his team has increased to more than ten, which means that almost half of the ghosts in the entire copy have been lured here.
The snow mountain mushroom finally discovered something was wrong.
Why? They clearly wanted to cheat CH, but CH didn't look like being cheated at all. Instead, they were losing more and more people?
——Because as time goes by, ghosts have become stronger and faster.
The Snow Mountain Mushroom, who was undercover on Xu Piao's side, looked around with difficulty. In order to maintain his newbie image, he had to ask tentatively, "There are so many ghosts surrounding us now. How can we escape?"
The panda man stood in front without looking back.
At this time, Lekmehe and the other two players were sent out to hide, and only Snow Mountain Mushroom stayed here and tried hard to track CH's whereabouts.
"ch?"
"Don't worry about that. As long as there's only one player left, the Battle Royale will be over." Snow Mountain Mushroom and all the viewers watching the screen heard the Panda Man calmly say, "Thank you for your hard work."
Snow Mountain Mushroom's heart skipped a beat.
No, no way? It can't really be what he thinks, right?
Did ch already know that they had teamed up to trick him?
This was the first thought that flashed through Snow Mountain Mushroom's mind, but what he didn't expect was that not long after CH said "thank you for your hard work", the number of survivors suddenly jumped to 15, a full ten fewer.
Hewlett immediately switched to the screen of other players and saw that the player who was gradually becoming proficient in sneaking around Jiang Zhirong of the Ghost Story School was caught by Jiang Zhirong, whose speed suddenly increased, before he could climb over the window, and was then eliminated.
When Mei He heard the player's scream, his body shuddered and he squatted down instantly, avoiding the child ghost that suddenly bounced over from the other side of two windows.
While escaping, he saw Lake, the insignificant man, appear not far away. He forgot about their past grudges and quickly called for help. Lake stood there and seemed to think for a while before slowly walking towards the Mei River.
——Then he slowly stood in front of the window he was about to climb through.
Mei He couldn't believe it. "You're trying to trip me up at a time like this, are you really that serious?"
Lake nodded slightly, and a strange light flashed in his salty eyes.
…
After a while, the system prompts, [Remaining number of survivors: 9]
"Wait, there are so many people watching the live broadcast now. Ch, do you really want to do this?" Snow Mountain Mushroom felt a little flustered when he saw the system prompt, and subconsciously moved away from Ch.
Xu Piao realized that Snow Mountain Mushroom seemed to have some misunderstanding, but she did not explain. Instead, when there were only two players left, she gave Snow Mountain Mushroom a friendly smile and said, "Run away."
Originally, such an expression on the Panda Man's face should be very silly and funny, but Snow Mountain Mushroom managed to see a hint of sinisterness in it.
At least he hadn't given up struggling yet, so he immediately turned around and ran.
But when he turned around, Jiang Zhirong, the female ghost from the ghost story school, had quietly appeared behind him at some point.
Xu Piao didn't look at the snow mountain mushrooms. He took out Jiang Zhirong's diary and put it on the ground. He then took out various other things from his pocket, which he didn't know where they came from, and put them on the ground.
However, none of the ghosts caused by those things appeared, only Jiang Zhirong appeared.
…
[Number of survivors remaining: 0]
Everyone's screen turned black, and finally a line of words popped up: [Game Over, No Survivors].
The dazed audience stared blankly at the words that popped up on the screen and immediately realized that something was wrong.
"Wait, why is there no one left?"
"Aren't CH and Lake here?"
At this time, everyone had come out of the copy. The producers of other companies didn't say much, while Xu Piao and Lake ignored the questions in the barrage and looked at each other after they came out.
"Actually, I was the first one to be eliminated." The panda man spread his hands. "But I was eliminated on my own initiative. Lake should have been eliminated too. I was originally thinking of raising a Gu to make Jiang Zhirong even more powerful, eliminating everyone else and letting Lake win, but I didn't expect him to have the same idea as me."
Lake: “…”
Lake responded nonchalantly, "...yes."
——No, he didn’t expect that his luck was so bad. He encountered a water ghost at the beginning and was killed and turned into a secondary ghost.
Water ghosts, ghosts in the mirror, these types of ghosts have the ability to possess and control players, but because this is a human-computer game, after being possessed, the player himself is transformed into the ghost camp and can retain his own consciousness.
In other words, from the perspective of the snow mountain mushroom, it is a sad story of "I thought I was an undercover among you", but I didn't expect that "you are the undercover among all mankind".
There was silence in the barrage.
It took a long time before someone posted the first comment.
[Snow Mountain Mushroom: This mode is really fun]
Other viewers could actually read the tone of gnashing teeth from this barrage.
The author has something to say:
ch: I don’t want to be a human being anymore!
Mei He: I was wrong after all, right?
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