"My fear and panic made me lose my calm judgment. Looking back, when the shadowy figure dragged Jerry, it was struggling. A powerful demon wouldn't be so clumsy. I believe he was human, someone from the town."
Xia Linyin recited the passage from the letter and asked Wu Yuan, "Brother Wu, if the big guy chasing us is an cannibal, do you think he wouldn't be able to drag even one person?"
“This…” Wu Yuan hesitated. Given the size of the big guy, it was impossible for him not to be able to drag a person. However, compared to the old man, he was more willing to believe that the chainsaw maniac chasing them was a cannibal, and that the shotgun was a special tool that could kill cannibals.
Otherwise, if you give players an unkillable enemy NPC, the game will be completely lifeless.
Wu Yuan could only guess: "It's possible that five years ago, he wasn't as powerful as he is now."
"The tombstone says Chad died at the age of fifty. Chad is now fifty-five. Who do you think looks more like fifty-five, Big Guy or Mr. Smith?"
Xia Linyin asked, "Unless the big guy isn't a real human, he doesn't look fifty-five years old in any way."
However, it's a bit hard to understand why the big guy is completely immune to player weapons, but it's also possible that, as she guessed before, it's a deliberate design by the game, just a decoy to make players mistakenly believe that he is the real cannibal.
After a moment of contemplation, Wu Yuan said, "Actually, there is another possibility. Mr. Smith is indeed Chad, as mentioned in the letter, and is not a good person. However, he is not a cannibal. He is just a servant of the cannibal, capturing prey to offer as tribute to his master, waiting for his master to enjoy it."
"The big guy chasing us is an ogre, and a real one at that. He's immune to player weapons, but the game has limited him. He can't kill players indiscriminately, so while he seems to be constantly chasing us, he's not actually going to kill us."
As Wu Yuan spoke, he felt increasingly enlightened, and things that he hadn't understood before gradually became clear.
“Mr. Smith, that is, Chad, has gathered us here to wait for his master, the ogre, to arrive!”
Wu Yuan suddenly stood up and walked towards the iron gate, pulling hard several times, but it wouldn't budge.
“We’re trapped here. You’re right. That old man must have gone down to get the spiked wine, or he might not have come back up at all.”
"No way? Then... then what should we do?" Bai Xiaolin also stood up, cold sweat breaking out on his back, and asked in a panic.
While he was still wondering if the old man was the cannibal Chad, things had turned out that the old man was Chad, but not a cannibal, which was different from what he had expected.
"Brother Wu, if the big guy is an cannibal, or even a real demon, then where is the chance of survival, and how do we kill him?" Xia Linyin asked.
The invisible pressure emanating from the big guy, along with his previous frantic chase with a chainsaw, left a deep and chilling impression on the players. Compared to the old man, he was indeed more like a cannibalistic monster.
But for some reason, Xia Linyin always felt that the chainsaw maniac was not a cannibal. Perhaps subconsciously she didn't want the chainsaw maniac to be a cannibal, didn't want to be his enemy, and didn't want to fight him to the death. This feeling was indeed somewhat inexplicable.
"It's important to figure out who the cannibal is, otherwise we might spend a lot of effort only to find out that we've got the wrong person the game is asking us to kill."
Hearing Xia Linyin's words, Bai Xiaolin quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, yes! It's very important to figure out who the game wants us to kill!"
He was a hundred times unwilling to believe that the chainsaw maniac was a cannibal. Every time he saw the chainsaw maniac, he couldn't even run away in time, let alone think about how to kill him. That was harder than climbing to heaven.
"The key to survival is that shotgun. As I said before, the game's design for ogres is that they can only be killed with special items, and the shotgun is that item."
As he spoke, Wu Yuan picked up the hunting rifle that its owner had just cleaned. "Now everything makes sense. As long as we kill the cannibal with the hunting rifle, the game is over."
Seeing that Xia Linyin was still frowning and seemed to have doubts, Wu Yuan said, "The big guy can't just be an accomplice of the cannibal. According to your thinking, that's a bug. The game can't give us an NPC that can't be killed."
Xia Linyin frowned even more deeply. "But if, as you say, the shotgun is a special item, then it makes sense that the big guy is an accomplice of the cannibal. The cannibal Chad controlled him with the shotgun, so he's afraid of the shotgun, and the shotgun can kill him. That wouldn't be a bug."
Despite saying that, Xia Linyin felt in her heart that the chainsaw maniac who was chasing them was not afraid of shotguns at all.
It was simply impossible for Wu Yuan to kill him with a shotgun.
She added, "Even if you can't kill the big guy, it's not a bug. The game can still be completed. If the cannibal is Chad, the game's vitality lies in discovering that the real cannibal is Chad, not the big guy."
"May I interrupt your conversation?"
Sakura Miho scraped the last bit of mashed potato clean and put it in her mouth. She put down her spoon. "No matter who the real cannibal is, let's kill Chad first. If the fog hasn't cleared yet, we'll take our shotguns and kill the big guy. Wouldn't that solve the problem?"
Upon hearing Sakura Miho's words, Xia Linyin and Wu Yuan were both stunned for a moment. After exchanging a glance, they silently shut their mouths.
At that moment, light shone from the wooden door, and Mr. Smith, or rather, Chad, carrying an old oil lamp in one hand and two bottles of red wine in the other, slowly bent down and walked out of the wooden door.
"Oh! I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. I hid these two treasures too well, and they were covered in dust."
Chad's gaze fell on Wu Yuan, who was holding a hunting rifle, and his smile froze. "Oh! Wu, what are you doing with my old buddy? That's not very polite!"
Wu Yuan responded by raising his gun and firing a shot at Chad. The high-speed, hot bullet pierced Chad's shoulder. Just as he was about to fire a second shot, Chad clutched his shoulder and crawled back to the other side of the wooden door, slamming the door shut with a "bang".
Wu Yuan quickly chased after him, smashing the wooden door hard with the butt of his gun. The wooden door, which already smelled of decay, could not withstand such strong damage and opened after only a few blows.
Just as he was about to bend down and crawl into the stone steps, his foot suddenly slipped and he fell down.
Xia Linyin, Bai Xiaolin, Ying Meihui, and Chen Zhi, who was awakened by various loud noises and rolled off the bed, were all affected. The wooden board under their feet suddenly flipped over, and they fell down before they could react.
The ground below was covered with several layers of weeds. The people didn't feel any pain when they fell, but just as they were about to get up, a smell that was neither pleasant nor unpleasant rushed into their noses, and then their heads lolled to the side and they lost consciousness.
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