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Postman Fang got up and went to get some water. He took a sip and saw:
[Ding! System report: Player Su Xinniang from the same group was the first to successfully track down the murderer! The current exploration rate is 95%! ]
…? !
The postman choked on a mouthful of lemonade, which made him cough. ...95%?! The weak-looking bride? ?
He didn't believe it, and quickly clicked on the list of top 100 newcomers, and saw that the three words "Su Xinniang" were clearly at the top of the list:
[This player has set the highest record in the history of script-killing games in this instance, and has now been recorded in the history hall, and is now No. 1 on the list of top 100 newcomers. Other players please work harder! ]
The dazzling golden NO.1 crown was worn on Bride Su's head, crowning his glory.
Postman Fang fell into a daze. He could not even taste the sourness of the lemonade in his mouth. Thousands of words surged in his chest and merged into one word:
…Fuck!!
Damn? Is this guy really that scary!
She had been pretending to be so weak since the beginning of the copy, and he thought the other party was a newcomer like him!
…No, the other party is indeed a newcomer like him, but the difference between people is as big as heaven and earth! Postman Fang felt as if he had just woken up in the morning and opened his eyes to see the academic master in the lower bunk taking a calculus test and accidentally getting a perfect score.
How can this be called a newcomer? This... this is obviously a hidden one? Big boss!
At this time, Planner Peng and Maid Lin were strolling in the garden. They noticed that there was something wrong with the soil here. They were discussing whether to dig it up and take a look when they received a report from Bride Su about the public exploration level.
As veteran players, they witnessed with their own eyes this terrifying newcomer striving for the top spot, and had a deep feeling that the newcomers were pushing the old ones out, and the old ones were dying on the beach.
Lin, the maid: "I thought he was smart, but I didn't expect..."
I didn't expect it to be so smart!
Breaking the historical record and reaching 100% exploration is something that many three-digit top players cannot do, let alone high-level players like them.
People will only be jealous of those who are slightly better than themselves, and they can't even envy those who are much better. If they see Su Yi, a newcomer, surpassing themselves little by little in terms of exploration, and finally pulling away from them, they may still feel very unbalanced.
But now that an unprecedented "high" record of 95% has suddenly been broken out at one time, they can only sigh: How awesome!
"There's a truth to the old saying that newcomers are monsters." Planner Peng laughed twice. She felt terrified that the dungeon might be dominated by this new monster in the future.
On the newcomer rankings, the number of viewers of Su Yixiao TV continues to rise, almost ten times that of the No. 2 machine gun guy.
Su Yi was a little bit overwhelmed when he saw the sudden burst of comments. The comments were so dense and thick that they gushed out in piles, even hotter than when Bai Shen started broadcasting.
The gold coins from the reward flowed into his wallet in waves like a river of gold coins, and the barrage of comments filled the screen neatly:
[Witness history, witness the new God!]
Seeing so many people at once, Su Yi's social anxiety started to flare up:
"Well, thank...thank you everyone. I...still have the last 5%..."
His meaning is that there is still some progress to be explored, and he has to continue to be busy and has no time to pay attention to everyone.
What about the comments on the barrage? No one cares at all:
[Oh my god, I am about to stop breathing, just the last 5%! This is the first time in all these years that I am about to witness 100% exploration]
[My perfect wife! My destined wife!]
Bai Ye also saw Su Yi's amazing degree of exploration. He was not as surprised as those inexperienced audiences. In his opinion, it was natural for Su Yi to achieve such results.
"…call……"
Suddenly, the unconscious murderer made a sound. Bai Ye immediately pulled Su Yi to the side, fearing that the murderer would hurt him.
The murderer opened his eyes and found that his hands and feet were tied tightly with ropes. The handcuffs and leg shackles were also reinforced, making it impossible for him to escape.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, she seemed to have given up struggling and laughed at herself:
"Okay, you win."
Young Master Bai spoke from his wheelchair: "We have something else to ask you. You are Lin Xiu, right? Didn't you die in the fire that year?"
Lin Xiuhua, who changed her name to Linda, became Mr. Bai's second wife with the intention of revenge, but she got caught up in the turmoil of a wealthy family and both she and her son were killed in a fire.
Lin Xiu didn't say anything, her green eyes stared at Su Yi, she said:
"I don't want to talk to you. If you want me to speak, please keep him here and talk to me alone."
Bai Ye immediately became alert: "What do you mean!"
"It's meaningless." Lin Xiu said indifferently, "Why don't you stop asking, we all know who the murderer is, just pass it directly."
"It's okay." Su Yi said, "Move her to the bedroom. I want to talk to her alone."
The bedroom door was closed tightly.
Bai Ye stood guard at the door, ready to rush in if the murderer did anything bad to Su Yi. He listened carefully to the noise inside:
...Strange, what were Su Yi and the murderer talking about? They spoke so softly that I couldn't hear anything.
Swish, swish.
Bai Ye heard a noise beside him, turned around, and saw an old man in a wheelchair calmly taking out a cigarette.
He didn't like the smell of cigarettes, and was about to scold the man not to smoke, when he saw Mr. Bai put the cigarette in his mouth...
I didn't smoke it, I just held it in my mouth.
...Pretending to be cool? Bai Ye thought, he saw this old man holding a cigarette, wearing a platinum mask on his face, and his whole body was full of pretentiousness? Weird, the more he looked at it, the more annoying it was?:
"The instance is almost over, why are you still wearing a crappy mask?"
Young Master Bai didn't want to pay attention to him and sneered, "I'm afraid I'll scare you when I reveal it."
Bai Ye cursed: "Ugly."
In the bedroom.
As soon as Su Yi came in, he opened the wardrobe and turned off the small TV so that no one could see or hear it.
He sat down on the floor of the bedroom, face to face with the murderer whose hands and feet were tied.
There are still some questions in this copy about how the character Lin Xiu became Jennifer and what the hexagram is, but there are more pressing issues at the moment.
"Doctor Lina."
Su Yi switched to English and tried to remain calm and said:
"Chief cardiac surgeon at Plum City Royal Hospital, is that you?"
He went to Meicheng, USA when he was studying abroad, and underwent a heart transplant operation in this hospital, where he eventually died.
Lina sneered, leaned her head back on the bed, and asked:
"Did you see that bitch?"
Su Yi was stunned. Most people wouldn't use this word to scold themselves...right?
"So, is that you?"
Lina's beautiful green eyes flashed with a cunning light. She did not answer, but only said:
"It's me, and it's not me."
She turned her head to the side, revealing the bright red burn on her neck.
Su Yi thought that when her name was called, Lin Na's reaction was very intense and she probably thought of the illegal content instantly, and was bombed with a collar by the system. If it weren't for her extremely quick reaction due to her physical fitness, she would have been blown to death by now.
Lin Na was subtly reminding him that she couldn't say anything and would be punished if she thought about it any more.
"If you really want to know, why don't you go explore it yourself?" Lin Na whispered to him, "You should understand, right? This bride dungeon is very special."
Su Yi paused for a moment. He remembered that Mr. Bai had told him before that the settings of this copy had been deleted and modified, and might contain some clues to escape from the script-killing game.
During the actual investigation, Su Yi also found that there were indeed many things wrong with the bride copy.
"Okay, then let's talk about the plot of the dungeon. You are playing the role of Lin Xiu..."
Su Yi opened the wardrobe and let the audience on the small TV listen to his question:
"You weren't actually burned to death in the fire that year, right?"
Lin Xiu smiled and said, "Yes. The one who was burned to death was my poor son."
——The second young master, the magician.
"Who is the maidservant Lin?" Su Yi asked, and suddenly remembered that the magician had said that she was saved by the housekeeper. Could it be that:
"Is it... the housekeeper?"
Lin Xiu laughed twice: "Not bad, very perceptive."
Su Yi: "The magician survived by transferring the hexagram to other people?, so the source of this hexagram...was brought by the butler??"
Unfortunately, the role of butler no longer exists in this copy. It is probably deleted during the system modification.
Lin Xiu: "Yes, but later, Bai Sanshao's mother found his whereabouts and was afraid that he would expose the evidence of her previous arson and murder, so she killed him to silence him. This stupid woman found the hexagram technique, but she didn't know how powerful it was, so she brought it back to the Bai family."
Su Yi guessed the result later. Mr. Bai saw the power of the Hexagram Technique. Later, Mr. Bai's mother "accidentally" drowned on a cruise ship at sea. It was probably Mr. Bai's doing.
"After the stupid woman died, the old man was found to be ill, and he married a fourth wife." Lin Xiu said mockingly:
"What an unlucky guy, he was sacrificed to let the damn old man survive."
Su Yi thought of the two skeletons dug out in the garden. One of them was a woman in her thirties, who should be Mr. Bai’s fourth wife. There was a hexagram engraved in her skull.
After tasting the sweetness for the first time, Mr. Bai would definitely not stop there. Whenever he had a wish he wanted to fulfill, he would think of the evil six-pointed star method. However, he had no bride to sacrifice. If he married another wife and killed her in a short period of time, it would be easy to arouse suspicion. As a result, it became a disabled young master who wanted to get married...
Then came the first bride, Jennifer.
But Jennifer ended up being Lin Xiu's shell, and...
Su Yi thought that Mr. Bai's sacrifice must have been carried out in secret, but later everyone knew that Jennifer died in the basement, stabbed to death with a knife.
Does such a big fanfare mean that... Su Yi asked Lin Xiu:
"Did you come to disturb Mr. Bai at that time?"
Lin Xiu laughed twice: "That stupid old man wanted to live a few more years, and he actually wished for longevity when he offered sacrifice? What a waste!"
Su Yi: "So you did something? The fire in the early years left you with serious injuries. You wanted to get a healthy body, so you took this opportunity to transfer your soul to the sacrifice Jennifer. In the end, Mr. Bai worked in vain and helped you get married."
Lin Xiu smiled and agreed.
Su Yi summarized the functions of the hexagram. By using the hexagram array for sacrifice, one can obtain what he wants, such as getting well sooner, living longer, and being richer, but these effects are very limited, so Lin Xiu said it was a waste. The most useful function of the hexagram is to transfer souls.
Compared to making a wish for longevity to the hexagram, it is obviously more feasible to abandon the original aging body and directly replace it with a young and healthy new body. If you keep replacing it like this, you can directly achieve immortality.
But Mr. Bai failed to figure out this idea. He might not even know who interfered with his sacrifice. He just thought that the sacrifice failed. After losing the sacrifice Jennifer, in order to live longer, he had to look for the next sacrifice.
So, two years later, Mr. Bai held his wedding in this church again and had his second bride.
After the death of the first bride Jennifer, Lin Xiu left a bloody message of revenge for Mr. Bai at the scene:
I'm back.
This line of bloody words gave him inspiration, even though Mr. Bai might not have understood it at all, and he could not even imagine that Lin Xiu, who was burned to death that year, would come back. He just thought that Jennifer's case had been classified as an unsolved case, so he might as well make it into a cruel serial killer.
The second bride was hanged on a stained glass window in a strange way. After killing her, Mr. Bai left a bloody message at the scene: Once again.
At this time, Su Yi finally understood the sentence: [A big, wide mirror...put the fourth body on it...]
He had always wondered why Grace's silver skull could represent the concept of "fourth". Now he knew it was because she was the fourth sacrifice prepared by Mr. Bai.
Su Yi quickly sorted out the six-pointed star human sacrifice that had appeared in his mind:
Sacrifice 1: Mr. Bai’s fourth wife, died and turned into bones. There was a hexagram in her skull. The sacrifice was successful.
Sacrifice 2: Jennifer, the first bride of Mr. Bai, died. The sacrifice was successful and she became Lin Xiu's body.
Sacrifice 3: Mr. Bai’s second bride, died and turned into bones, with a hexagram in her skull.
Sacrifice 4: Mr. Bai’s fifth wife, Grace, died, killed by the murderer Lin Xiu.
Su Yi remembered that when he was searching the murderer's belongings in the basement, he saw his own photo. The murderer put a red cross on his photo and wrote a number on the back: five.
Sacrifice 5: Bride Su.
They were all specially selected as sacrifices, so when he first entered the dungeon, he received the bloody message:
Your turn
now you.
After sorting out all the brides killed by the hexagram, Su Yi had a question:
"You should also have a six-pointed star on your body, right?"
Jennifer is a person whose soul has been transferred, and she should have a hexagram on her body like a magician.
Boom, boom.
Lin Xiu leaned his head back and knocked twice on the bedside: "Didn't you see it in the garden? After it turns into bones, you will find it in the skull."
Su Yi: "..."
His progress was still 5% short. Su Yi intuitively felt that this level of exploration should allow him to collect hexagrams.
So far he has found four hexagrams: ① on the lid of Grace's silver skull box; ② behind the old pastor's Bible; ③ inside the skull of the garden bones; ④ the mark on the magician's chest.
Now we only need the last one: the hexagram from Lin Xiu-Jennifer. After collecting them all, we should be able to achieve hexagram 5/5 and get a 100% full score to clear the level.
According to the life-saving system, after the exploration degree reaches 100%, one can participate in the roulette lottery, and the finest prize? The special prize can allow him to return to the real world for 15 minutes.
He had to go back once to find out what was going on.
But Lin Xiu is a living person, it is impossible to open her skull and see it. In addition to the skull, is it possible that there are other hexagrams left...
Suddenly, Su Yi remembered that Jennifer was stabbed to death in the basement.
How come Mr. Bai was secretly performing a sacrifice in the basement at that time and was spotted by Lin Xiu who sneaked into the wedding?
...Unless Lin Xiu is very familiar with that place, and when a person becomes a murderer, he will subconsciously choose a place he is familiar with. Su Yi immediately said:
"Is the basement where Jennifer was sacrificed that year the basement area C where you are hiding now?"
Lin Xiu laughed: "A bit smart."
Su Yi immediately stood up and prepared to leave to collect the last hexagram. When he sacrificed Jennifer, he must have drawn a hexagram array there. There should be some left in the storage room of Area C...
"Don't you think, don't you think this hexagram is very metaphorical?"
When Su Yi walked to the door, he heard Dr. Lin Na say behind him.
The main function of the hexagram is to transfer souls. Su Yi imagined in his mind that if he used this as the key to create a script-killing book, a terrifying thing would happen. After half of the plot, everyone would deduce: He is not him, and she is not her! Then all the players began to get goose bumps.
This kind of plot is called "script within script" in script-killing games, which means that players will get two scripts. The first half of the plot is [I am A], and the second half is [I am actually B in A's body].
Also in the book within a book is the time-space script-killing game. Suddenly, a meteor streaks across the sky one night, and the A in front of you actually becomes an A in another time and space. Players will also get two scripts. The first half is about [the current A], and the second half is about [the A in a different time and space].
Su Yi had seen such script-killing performances on TV before. When he first saw it, he thought it was a bit novel, but after watching it many times, he began to take it for granted.
There was someone who particularly disliked this? Ben Zhongben, the person sitting next to him frowned:
"Why is the plot like this again? It's too confusing and I can't understand it!"
Su Yi vaguely remembered that she said with a smile:
"You can't understand because you are stupid."
...Who did he tell this to?
Who has ever sat next to him watching TV?
His mind was suddenly in a mess and Su Yi couldn't remember.
He shook his head, not daring to think about it any more, and focused back on the current copy. He guessed that the original Bride copy should have such a copy-in-copy structure, and through the hexagram seal, he found that the soul in each person's shell was not the original soul.
The original Bride copy should also have a key character called the Butler. The Hexagram Technique was brought from him, and it can help people find evidence of its origin.
That's why Mr. Bai said that the original "Bride Copy" was very popular among players, but later it was heavily deleted and modified and downgraded to a second-rate "Newcomer Copy".
In the current evidence collection process, even if you don't find the hexagram at all, and don't know why the previous bride died, and how Mr. Bai's wives died, it actually doesn't affect the clearance at all.
Only after he has explored to nearly 100% today, can he half-guess and half-piece his way through to restore the original appearance of the story. The original highest historical record was 62% exploration, which only considered that he half understood the game. As for the machine gun guy with 25% exploration, that means he didn't understand the game at all and just foolishly finished it.
There are still some small details that I don't understand, such as why there is a six-pointed star on Grace's box? Is it a prelude to sacrifice? Why is there a six-pointed star on the old pastor's Bible? Did he find any clues about his daughter's murder?
It is impossible to find answers to these questions in this deleted and modified copy.
The "copy within copy" of the Bride copy is just a common script-killing construction method. Players were very satisfied with the Bride copy before. Why did the system delete and modify this copy so much?
Is it...the hexagram symbolizing something unspeakable? Someone or something?
Su Yi still didn't know. He could only find out the answers to these questions after he passed the level. He opened the bedroom door and walked out:
"I'm done talking to her."
Su Yi was just about to ask Bai Ye to go back with him to the murderer's basement. He had one last thing he wanted to find and needed help. He just opened his mouth and called out, "Bai Ye..."
He heard two beeps beside his ear - the light screen received a text message:
[From Anonymous]
Su Yi paused, unable to finish the words, "Ask Bai Ye for help?"
Bai Ye, whose name was called, looked at Su Yi, a little puzzled: "What's wrong?"
“…It’s okay.” Su Yi seemed to be seized by a mysterious feeling. He thought, let’s take a look at the text message first.
When I opened the private screen, a large high-definition photo suddenly popped up in front of me:
The magician smiled provocatively, standing in a dark basement and taking a selfie. He also turned on the beauty camera with a heart filter and captioned:
[Honey?, I found a big treasure, do you want to see it?]
[PS: Please come alone. If you bring your dog, I will hide your big baby~]
Su Yi: "..."
The magician is a pervert!
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