Chapter 434 Everyone begged him to stay alive!
In the castle where Wu Tong and his seven companions were, after dividing the supplies, they began to explore the map.
This castle looks like an ordinary castle, but the four ghost exorcists can feel that there is a strong ghost aura everywhere in the castle.
At this time, Zhou Yi found a piece of paper posted on the wall with some rules written on it.
Rule One: This is the castle of Lord Carter. Please keep quiet and don't speak loudly when you are a guest in the castle.
Rule 2: You cannot leave the castle without Duke Carter's permission.
Rule three: You must go to the restaurant to eat, and the chef will prepare the food for you.
Rule 4: After choosing a room, please do not enter the wrong room.
Rule 5: If you have any other needs, please ring the bell to summon the butler.
Rule Six: Please don’t go out when it’s dark, and be careful of the things in the streets.
Zhou Yi called other people over and everyone looked at the rules together.
Ye Tingting said: "According to the rules of the game, these rules cannot be violated, but you also have to judge the truth of the rules and be careful not to be misled by the rules. There are also six incomplete rules, and all important information is vague. If you violate the rules, it is likely to cause a crisis."
Wu Tong and other ghost hunters were not too afraid of the crisis that Ye Tingting mentioned. After all, they all had S-level combat power and were in the same game. Even if they encountered ghosts, they would be able to fight.
But the three ordinary people who were also chosen were all very scared. After all, no one knew what terrible things would happen if they broke the rules, but they could guess with their toes that it would definitely not be a good thing.
After all, the ones hostile to human players are weird NPCs, which means there are ghosts in the castle.
The three ordinary people remembered the rules firmly. Even those with poor memory had to recite them over and over again, for fear of making a mistake in remembering a word and accidentally violating the rules, leading to their own death.
At this time, Shao Tang glanced at the big clock hanging in the living room, then at the sky outside, and said, "It's getting dark. Let's find a room to stay in first. After all, Rule 4 mentions rooms, so it must require us to stay in a room. Although Rule 6 is not complete, it also mentions darkness. There may be some danger after dark, so we'd better not do anything else after dark."
They had dealt with rule-based ghosts before, so they were quite experienced in this kind of rule-based weird game.
Shao Tang's words made sense, so the other six people listened to him and went upstairs to find a room first.
The room was easy to find. There were seven rooms on the second floor, which was exactly the right number for the number of people. What allowed them to quickly confirm that this was the room assigned to them was the nameplate hanging on the door with their respective names on it.
So Wu Tong and the other seven people subconsciously chose a room according to the name on the door.
However, they did not rush into their room rashly. Instead, they pushed open the door and carefully observed the situation inside the room.
Shao Tang said, "I'll go into the room first and take a look. Once I'm sure everything is alright, you can go in."
After all, it was Shao Tang who suggested finding a room to live in first, so of course he had to be the first to step forward and explore the way.
After Shao Tang entered the room with his name on it, he found that the room was not very big, about the same size as a king-size bed room in a hotel. He did not move anything rashly, but took a quick look around first, and then found a piece of paper with the rules written on it on the bedside table.
Rule 1: You must turn off the lights and go to bed after 10 o'clock. If you hear some strange noises after falling asleep, please do not open your eyes, this is normal.
Rule 2: There is water and food in the room, both of which are safe to eat.
Rule three: Never let anyone find out that you have eaten the food and water in the room, especially the castle's butler.
Rule 4: Remember to draw the curtains before going to bed and do not let anyone into your room.
Rule 5: Make sure to wash up before going to bed.
Shao Tang walked out of the room with the paper with five rules written on it, handed it to the others to read, and said, "There are probably rules in your room as well. You can go in and take a look. As long as you don't violate these five rules, you should be safe in the room."
Wu Tong relied on the fact that he had several ghost kings in his body, was skilled and courageous, and was not afraid of breaking any rules. He entered his room and started searching, being much more reckless than Shao Tang.
However, after searching the room, I only found an identical rule paper on the bedside table, with the same content.
He glanced at the mineral water, instant noodles, fast bread and other food in the room and didn't pay much attention to them. The Special Office had already prepared food and water for them in the luggage, so there was no need to touch the food and water in the room.
Wu Tong left the room and joined others. After checking their rooms, others found that everyone's rooms were exactly the same, from the layout to the rules. It can be said that the only difference was the location of the room and the name hanging on the door.
At this time, a strange aura appeared in the corridor. Wu Tong and the other four ghost exorcists immediately looked over and saw a middle-aged man in a tuxedo walking towards them with a respectful smile on his face: "Dear guests, I am the butler of the castle. Hello, it's dinner time now, please go to the restaurant for dinner."
Among the three ordinary people, a young and thin man named Wang Li was particularly afraid of ghosts and monsters. He wanted to hide in his room immediately. When he heard the housekeeper asking them to go to the restaurant for dinner, Wang Li thought of the bag of supplies sent by Ye Tingting, which contained a lot of food and water, and immediately refused: "I'm not hungry, I don't want to eat dinner, so I won't go to the restaurant."
Does anyone know if the food in the restaurant in this weird game is normal food? What if you eat eyeballs or human heads? He would be scared to death.
When the butler heard Wang Li's words, he looked at him expressionlessly and asked grimly, "Oh? You're not hungry? Are you not hungry because you ate the food in the room?"
Wang Li's face suddenly changed. He remembered that the third rule in the room said that he must not let anyone know that he had eaten the food and water in the room. He obviously did not touch the food and water in the room, so of course he did not want to take the blame. He quickly explained: "No, I did not touch the water and food in the room! If you don't believe me, you..."
Shao Tang interrupted him and said, "We will go to the restaurant for dinner soon. It's not time for dinner yet, so he is not hungry. He will definitely be hungry when the time comes."
Seeing this, Wang Li chose to believe Shao Tang and nodded along with what Shao Tang said: "Yes, yes, I'm not hungry because it's not time for dinner yet."
The butler looked at Wang Li with a bit of regret and said, "Is that so? Then please go to the dining room, distinguished guests. The chef will prepare dinner for you."
After saying this, the butler disappeared.
Wang Li immediately breathed a sigh of relief and almost collapsed to the ground. He was really scared to death when he faced the weird butler just now.
Shao Tang said to Wang Li, "For this kind of rule-based game, it's best to follow the rules and don't try to get around it by taking shortcuts. You just said you weren't hungry, so Weirdos would conclude that you weren't hungry because you ate the water and food in the room. If you want to prove that you didn't eat the food in the room, Weirdos will definitely ask to enter your room to check. If you don't allow Weirdos to enter your room, you will violate room rule three. If you allow Weirdos to enter your room, you will violate room rule four."
Wang Li was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. In his panic, he almost asked the housekeeper to check the water and food in the room that had not been touched. He completely forgot the second half of the fourth room rule - no one could be allowed to enter his room.
Wang Li wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "This weird thing is too cunning. I almost fell for it."
Shao Tang said: "Let's go to the restaurant first. There should be rules in the restaurant. As long as you abide by the restaurant rules, nothing will happen."
Although the weird butler disappeared, the restaurant in the castle is still easy to find because there are maps and signposts. Obviously, the weird game does not want to make things difficult for players in this regard.
After the seven of them found the restaurant, they saw the restaurant rules posted at the door.
Rule 1: The restaurant is open from 7am to 10pm.
Rule 2: Please ask the chef to order your meal and he will prepare it for you.
Rule 3: Please eat safe food in restaurants. If you eat unsafe food, you will be eroded.
Rule 4: Please do not waste food, please do not take food out, and you must finish your food in the restaurant.
After reading these four restaurant rules, the seven people all turned their attention to rule three.
The other three rules are pretty self-explanatory, but what does rule three mean? Which foods are considered safe foods? Which foods are considered unsafe foods? How do you judge this?
Shao Tang pondered and said, "Let's go into the restaurant first."
Everyone nodded and went into the restaurant first.
A very long dining table was set up in the restaurant. A chef wearing a white chef uniform and a white chef hat was standing beside the table strangely, looking at them with a smile, as if he was looking at his own dishes.
This kind of gaze made the timid Wang Li unable to help but pull two other ordinary people like him to hide behind Shao Tang and the other four ghost exorcists to avoid the chef's gaze.
Wu Tong was not afraid of this weird chef at all, a chef at the level of a ghost general. Even if he broke the rules, this ghost chef could not do anything to him.
However, before figuring out what this weird game is all about, Wu Tong would not really violate the rules and try to challenge the rules of the weird game.
After the seven people sat at the table, the chef came forward and asked, "What would you like to eat, my dear guests?"
Ye Tingting asked back: "What do you have to eat here?"
The chef smiled and said, "We have everything you want to eat."
Ye Tingting said: "We want to eat safe food."
The chef still smiled and said, "The food here is all safe, please order whatever you like."
After hearing this, Ye Tingting and the others were certain that the chef had ill intentions towards them. The restaurant's rule three clearly stated that only safe food could be consumed, and eating unsafe food would cause erosion.
The chef's statement that all the food here is safe is definitely a lie. He obviously hopes that they will be spoiled by ordering unsafe food.
Wu Tong was just thinking of ordering some food to try. If he ordered unsafe food, he would feed it to the ghosts in his body. This way it wouldn't be considered a waste of food, and it wouldn't violate the restaurant's rules of not wasting food or taking away food.
At this time, the White-Faced Ghost King in his body quietly reminded him: [Master, do you still remember the second rule of the room? 】
Of course Wu Tong remembered that Rule 2 was that the water and food in the room were safe to eat.
But they couldn't not eat in the restaurant. If they didn't eat in the restaurant and went back to the room to eat, people would suspect that they had eaten the food in the room, and then they would fall into the same dilemma as Wang Li before.
The White-Faced Ghost King speculated: [Master, when you said Rule 2, could it be that you were referring to the types of water and food in the room? They are safe foods. If you order these foods in the restaurant, then it should be fine. 】
Wu Tong felt that the White-Faced Ghost King's speculation made sense, but he was not sure whether it was true, so he decided to give it a try. He still remembered the types of food in the room, which were all instant noodles with mineral water and instant bread.
So he said to the cook, "Then prepare some food and water for us, just like what we have in the room."
The chef's face suddenly turned ugly, and he asked gloomily, "Are you sure? Those are all instant foods, and they don't need to be cooked by a chef like me."
Wu Tong suddenly had an idea. Could it be that it was because those foods were instant foods that did not need to be cooked by this weird chef that they were safe foods? Any food that has been processed by a weird chef is unsafe food.
Wu Tong said affirmatively: "Yes, we will order these foods."
The others let Wu Tong order food on their behalf.
Seeing that Wu Tong had no intention of changing his request, the chef walked into the kitchen with a gloomy face.
After the chef left, Wu Tong told everyone about the White-Faced Ghost King's speculation and his own guess: "Doesn't the second rule of the room say that the food and water in the room are safe to eat? The chef just said strangely that these fast foods are not cooked with it. It is very likely that these fast foods are safe to eat without being cooked with it, and those dishes cooked with it are unsafe food."
Others thought Wu Tong's speculation made sense: "No wonder the rules require us to eat in restaurants. It turns out that it is to prevent us from eating those safe fast foods."
Shao Tang also nodded and agreed: "What the little boy said makes sense. These weird things will try their best to induce us to break the rules. The rules cannot be trusted completely, but the rules can generally help us avoid crises."
Moreover, the four ghost exorcists are actually not very afraid of unsafe foods. They can feed the food brought by the chef to the ghosts in their bodies, and then eat the food in their own supply bags after returning to the room.
If the housekeeper suspected that they had eaten the food and drank water in the room, they could actually put the food and water in the room at the door and let the housekeeper stand outside the door to check, thus clearing their suspicion.
In fact, with supplies brought in from the outside world, even if the hidden meaning in the rules is not seen, this trap is still easy for the exorcist to skip.
Wang Li and the other three ordinary people were relieved by Wu Tong's words. After all, there were no ghosts in their bodies that could help them eat unsafe food. This cheating method could only be used by exorcists.
The chef brought the fast food Wu Tong ordered with a gloomy face.
All the packages are intact and unopened, including instant noodles, which they need to open themselves and then get hot water to make the noodles.
There is a special hot drink machine next to the dining table, which can be used normally.
However, in order to prevent the hot drink machine from being a trap, none of the seven people went to get hot water. Instead, they ate the bread dry and drank unopened mineral water when they were thirsty.
Although they eat fast food, they feel more at ease knowing that it is safe food.
After all, eating unsafe food will cause erosion, and no one knows what this so-called erosion means.
Although you can cheat and let the ghosts in your body eat the food on your behalf, what if this so-called erosion is actually assimilation into the weird game space? Even ghost exorcists who coexist with ghosts may not be able to escape this assimilation and erosion.
In the weird game live broadcast room.
The audience who watched Wu Tong's seven-player game couldn't help but express their inner shock by leaving comments.
[This little brother named Wu Tong is really smart. He guessed the correct answer, but I was just busy licking the dirty screen of my phone. 】
[I also wrote down those rules, but I didn't connect Rule 2 in the room with Rule 3 in the restaurant at all. I didn't expect that there would be such a hint in the rules. 】
[The person above at least wrote down these rules. I couldn't even remember the content of the rules. There are too many of them. If I were chosen to participate in this weird game, I would definitely not be able to remember all the rules and then accidentally break them, and I would be out. 】
[The butler and chef in the castle are both weird NPCs. They all seem to want to deliberately lure human players into breaking the rules. 】
[It should be that only when players break the rules can the weird NPC attack them. The rules of the weird game are a protection for human players. 】
[Then why is Rule Six in the living room incomplete? I don’t know what Rule Six is about. Some key points have been omitted. What should I do if I accidentally break the rules? I’m really worried about the players. 】
[I hope everyone can pass the level safely and come out alive.] 】
[Wish you peace!] 】
After finishing their dinner, the seven people left the restaurant under the strange and gloomy gaze of the chef.
They wanted to go back to the room, but when they stood at the door, all seven of them were stunned.
Because all the names on their doors had changed.
For example, Wu Tong is in the second room, but at this moment he is standing in front of the door of the second room, and the name of Shao Tang is hung on the door.
It was almost the same with other people; the names hanging on their doors had all changed.
Zhou Yi subconsciously found the door with his name on it. When he was about to push the door, Ye Tingting stopped him: "Have you forgotten the fourth rule of the living room?"
——After choosing a room, don’t go into the wrong room.
In other words, after selecting a room for the first time, you cannot enter other people's rooms.
Now that the names on the doors are all messed up, it becomes a big problem whether they should judge who the room belongs to based on the name on the door or based on the room's location.
If you judge who the room belongs to based on the name of the room, then there is nothing wrong with Zhou Yi's actions.
But if we judge who a room belongs to based on its location, Zhou Yi's current room should be the one with the name "Shao Tang".
Wu Tong pushed open the door of the second room and stood at the door to look at the scene inside the room, but found that he couldn't tell whether this was his room.
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