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Xu Zian looked up and saw He Lizhou, and smiled, "Are you coming to the garden too?"
He Lizhou's eyes fell on the wet mud on the soles of his shoes, and he was a little surprised, "Did you dig a hole?"
Xu Zi'an responded vaguely and stamped his feet, "I just dug it randomly, I still have no clue."
After saying that, Xu Zian turned and left. Soon He Lizhou was the only one left in the garden. He Lizhou stood in front of the gap that Xu Zian had come out of and followed him in.
The small wooden sculpture in his pocket was getting hot. The further He Lizhou walked in, the hotter it became. Soon, he could feel the scorching temperature through the fabric of his clothes. He Lizhou took it out.
This small wooden sculpture originally had a big head and a small body, similar to a Q-version doll. Its eyes and nose were made of wood and were not painted, but now its eyes have turned a bright red.
He Lizhou gently brushed his thumb over the eyes of the small wooden sculpture, thinking, "Are you warning me of something?"
The wooden sculpture naturally would not respond to He Lizhou. He turned on the flashlight and found a pit not far ahead. The pit was surrounded by fresh soil. He Lizhou even saw a broken earthworm still wriggling in it. It was probably the pit that Xu Zian had just dug.
He Lizhou walked in again, squatted down and carefully turned over the soil with a branch. The color was normal and there was no trace of blood.
So what did Xu Zian discover when he ran out in panic, and what was the wooden sculpture warning him about?
Before He Lizhou could think of a result, the voice urging him to do something bad to his companions rang out again, "Oh, yes, tonight it's the one just now, and tomorrow night it's him."
Time of death?
He Lizhou pretended not to know, turned around and left, went around the other side of the garden and returned to the gate.
This was also the door they came in through. I don’t know whether the door was closed when the last group of people came in, but now this door can no longer be opened.
After He Lizhou tried many times, he felt resistance on his hands, which was preventing him from getting out.
Trapped in this castle.
He leaned his head out from between the bars of the iron gate. The door was not locked, but he still couldn't push it open. So it must be a limitation of the copy. At least it wasn't someone outside who locked them in.
He Lizhou could only comfort himself in this way. The only downside was that he had no way to go to the hotel for shelter. Forcibly summoning the hotel was feasible, but the cost was too high. It was better to be careful unless it was an emergency.
However, looking at the castle from the outside, it had four floors, and when he went to hide Chen Ling's bedding, he did not see the stairs leading to the fourth floor.
In short, he had no clue now. He Lizhou returned to the castle and went up to the third floor.
Chen Ling seemed to have noticed that the bedding was missing and was shouting in despair. Uncle Zhao didn't know where he came from, and suppressed his anger and scolded him for being stupid.
"What are you trying to say by shouting so loudly?"
Chen Ling stopped talking immediately, covering his mouth with his hands, his tears still lingering, "Someone is deliberately trying to harm me. I don't even have a place to sleep..."
Uncle Zhao: "It's such a big castle, you can sleep anywhere else. You must stick to your room, right?"
Chen Ling said weakly: "I, I don't dare to sleep in other rooms, only this one..."
Before he could finish his words, Uncle Zhao interrupted him again, "Stop talking, sleep on the floor. Who dares to sleep on a bed that an NPC has slept on after entering a dungeon?"
Chen Ling's face turned pale immediately, as if he just realized what he had done. If the bedding had not been lost, he would really sleep in that bed during the day tomorrow. Then it would be easy for him to be possessed or killed by the NPC. He would be simply asking for trouble.
He Lizhou paid attention to the sentence that Chen Ling had not finished saying. Chen Ling had just entered the dungeon and was timid. He hesitated for a long time in choosing a room before finally choosing that one. When he said "only this one", did he find any difference between that room and the other rooms?
As he thought about it, he continued to search for the passage to the fourth floor in the corridor on the third floor. He opened every room and checked, but found no secret passage or anything like that.
But the castle does have four floors. If the extra floor is not on the top, then is it on the bottom? Is there a basement underneath?
He Lizhou returned to the hall. In the center of the first floor was a large banquet hall with several bedrooms on both sides. The second floor was all bedrooms, and the third floor was a study, dance room, piano room, etc. The kitchen was at the back.
The hall is in plain view. Unless there is a tunnel under the floor, the stairs to the basement are not in the hall. Moreover, with people coming and going, the risk of being discovered is very high. He Lizhou does not think that someone who would deliberately hide the basement stairs would do so just because it does not look good.
He Lizhou opened the rooms one by one. Except for the rooms that were occupied by players and he could not enter, he checked all the other rooms. During this time, he also paid attention to the differences between these rooms and the one chosen by Chen Ling, but he could not see any difference.
Maybe it was Chen Ling's psychological problem. He Lizhou could only think so since he hadn't found anything yet.
*
The night passed quickly. According to the agreement before dispersing, everyone needed to gather in the lobby again at seven in the morning to report their findings, and finally go back to their rooms to rest.
Xiang Qian didn't come.
She is dead.
When everyone rushed to her room, Xiang Qian was still lying on the gorgeous bed. She was wearing an intricate European-style dress with a large skirt that she had gotten from somewhere. Her belly was bulging so big that blood had stained the hem of her skirt and the mattress red.
He Lizhou stepped forward, felt the carotid artery, and shook his head.
Uncle Zhao squinted his eyes, his face expressionless, and his tone was calm. In the infinite flow game, people were used to seeing death, and they gradually became indifferent. "With this amount of blood loss, it's obvious that the person is dying. Who is that? Dongping, aren't you two a couple? Didn't you know that your girlfriend died?"
Dong Ping's face was filled with horror. He didn't care to think about how Uncle Zhao knew about their relationship. He shook his head repeatedly, "I really don't know. We were afraid that we couldn't live together, so we lived separately. At three o'clock, she suddenly said she was sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep. As a result, the result was..."
He Lizhou retracted his gaze. The shock and fear in his eyes were not fake. It shouldn't be his situation where he would be asked to harm others.
Xu Zian came closer to He Lizhou and asked, "What do you think?"
He Lizhou smiled back. This copy was really an accumulation of elements and he still had no clue what to do.
There was not much trust between players to begin with, and they were not clear about each other's character settings. There was also a person who asked players to trip him up, so he didn't intend to get involved too much, so he played dumb, "I don't know either, I haven't figured it out yet."
Xu Zian snorted and laughed, "You're lying."
Fortunately, he spoke in a low voice and the two of them were far away from the center, so his words were not heard by others.
He Lizhou was surprised at the other party's observation skills. He was obviously not very conspicuous before, so how did Xu Zian feel that he could form an alliance and even kept showing goodwill to him?
Xu Zian noticed He Lizhou's gaze and turned back with a smile.
Uncle Zhao on the other side had already checked Xiang Qian's injuries. "She must have been lying on the bed and experienced the cause of death of the NPC - this was an NPC who died of a difficult birth."
As soon as Uncle Zhao finished speaking, there was an announcement, "Congratulations on finding the first cause of death."
This sound seemed very similar to the sound of the Infinite Flow System, but there were some subtle differences if one listened carefully. He Lizhou had had close contact and chatted with System 09 before, and he immediately noticed the abnormality, but no one else noticed.
Uncle Zhao couldn't help but reveal surprise on his serious face, as if he hadn't expected that Xiang Qian's death would bring them the truth about death.
He Lizhou didn't say it.
Chen Ling's face was still not good. He thought of something, "Well, if we want to find out all the truth, all the players must die."
Baili Yi: "Can't you avoid death and find clues and figure it out yourself?"
Although Jiang Jiang didn't say anything, it was obvious from her expression that she disagreed with both sides.
He Lizhou also disagreed with the statements of both parties. He originally thought it was just a simple copy, but he didn't expect there would be such a big pit.
Xiang Qian's death undoubtedly told all the players that the truth behind death can be clearly seen after death. This was a secret message to the players: Go kill each other, kill all the players, and you will know all the truth, and you can leave the dungeon.
The difficulty of the infinite flow game seems to have increased, and at the same time it seems to have a better understanding of human nature.
This is a very bad signal. It is hard to imagine that the current system has learned to set dangers for players outside of dungeons. If the effect is very good, what will happen next.
I don’t know when Xu Zian put on sunglasses, maybe he didn’t want people to see his expression, but even so, He Lizhou could still see that he looked ugly.
Sun Hanqi saw the ferocious look that flashed across Uncle Zhao's face and felt that something was wrong, but she didn't understand why, so she gave up and laughed with Uncle Zhao, showing an expression of relief.
When Uncle Zhao announced the disbandment, Chen Ling was the first to leave, followed by He Lizhou. Chen Ling's room was closer to the front than He Lizhou's. When he was about to hold the doorknob and enter, He Lizhou whispered, "Be careful."
Chen Ling looked back blankly, seemed to react for a while, and smiled back, "Okay, thank you, you too!"
There was sincerity in his eyes.
But he also died.
He died at the hands of a player. Yesterday, Chen Ling had already understood that he should not sleep in bed, but when he died, half of his body was hanging on the bed, and the other half was on the ground, as if he was trying to crawl out.
Uncle Zhao raised his big hand and carried Chen Ling back to the bed, revealing his face. His face was bruised and purple, and there was carbon foam deposited between his mouth and nose. "He was killed by the fire."
He Lizhou was standing on the periphery and heard the system's broadcast.
Some players have already started to attack other players, and they took the lead in choosing a "softie", the new player Chen Ling.
He Lizhou's words in the early morning were not only to remind him to pay attention to the NPCs, but also to remind him to pay attention to the players. But now it seems that he did not understand and still opened the door for a certain player.
He Lizhou's gaze swept across everyone's faces calmly. Everyone's reactions were different, but all very indifferent. It seemed that some had guessed the truth, while others were still panicked. He Lizhou turned around and left Chen Ling's room.
Xu Zian and Jiang Jiang followed him out and stopped in front of He Lizhou, "Want to chat?"
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