[Bounty Notice]
Hunting down a [Star] will grant you one chance to transform your candle flame. If you fail to complete the bounty within 30 minutes, one of your transformed candle flames will revert to its original blue color.
Isn't this something like a task sheet? If you succeed, you'll get two candle flames to transform, since the person you killed can also provide one candle flame.
However, if you fail, one of the transformed candle flames will turn back to blue, and it's random!
If you're randomly assigned an identity you've already experienced, you'll be devastated!
The better bounty posters have long been torn up; what's left are mostly identities that are hard to find.
Take, for example, the [Star] card in front of Jiang Ran. Converted to a sequence number, it's seventeen. How could he possibly get to this point by following the normal process? He should have cleared the game long ago!
Other bounty posters are even more outrageous!
Hunt down a [Sun]!
Hunt down a [World]!
Heh, let whoever wants to hunt go ahead! Accepting this is clearly just asking for a loss of a candle flame!
Lin Zhi also shrugged: "All the bounty posters left here are high-sequence ones, the lowest being the seventeenth-sequence [Star]. How could there still be [Star] posters?"
Right, according to the rules of this game, how could there be a high sequence?
But Jiang Ran had already seen two higher-order positions before that.
The fourteenth in order is the [Prisoner], and the fifteenth in order is the [Drug Addict]!
Jiang Ran is currently only a second-order "mute" character, but he has already obtained a large amount of candlelight through other means. He might even be able to clear the game before reaching sequence five.
So, are these high-ranking people really hiding somewhere, quietly waiting for time to pass? No, judging from the actions of the octopus-headed man and the drug addict, they don't seem to be hiding at all.
Furthermore, they don't seem to have been playing the game for very long, as they still make many basic mistakes.
For example, the octopus head, being a drunkard, just collapsed in the corridor. Although it was on the second floor, it was still incredibly dangerous!
And then there's the "drug addict." Judging from his situation at the time, he clearly didn't understand the rules of the door at all! So how did he get to the "drug addict" position?
No! Jiang Ran looked at Lin Zhi again. Not everyone will necessarily exchange identities in order!
Imagine someone just enters the game with a starting position of zero. They happen to receive a card of a higher position. Regardless of how they obtained it—whether it was through a counterattack or by chance—they just got it!
Then, he swapped the two identity cards, and thus became the higher-ranking identity!
Because identity is cyclical, after experiencing the [World], one will become the [Fool] again, so there is no need to worry about not being able to obtain candlelight as normal.
Correspondingly, while they can obtain high-order candles in sequence, they can also use other methods to obtain low-order candles, since hunting low-order people is much simpler than hunting high-order people!
This is a perfectly feasible tactic! Therefore, the statement that there are no high-ranking individuals in the building is not only wrong, but utterly wrong! There are definitely quite a few high-ranking people!
They used a different method to pass through!
"Brother Jiang Ran?"
Seeing that Jiang Ran was still staring at the bounty poster, Lin Zhi quickly realized the flaw in her thinking.
In other words, they can definitely accept these bounties! There won't be a situation where they can't find a higher-order bounty!
【Star】......
Jiang Ran tore down the bounty poster for "Star"!
The star represents hope! But as the card literally means, this hope brought by the star is more distant and more dreamlike.
What is the corresponding identity? Jiang Ran couldn't help but think of that "philanthropist" from before!
Philanthropists bring hope to people, but they only bring hope; they won't directly propel you to success. Once you accept that hope, you still have to rely on your own efforts!
The philanthropist left the three-in-one floor, but did not come back the way he did, so he is most likely still on this floor, or on the floor above!
Jiang Ran waved his hand, signaling the two to go find that guy right now! Given his position as the seventeenth in rank, he couldn't possibly have arrived in order; he must have skipped a step!
Therefore, this person may not have many cards in hand, and considering the nature of his identity, he is not very dangerous!
Lin Zhi nodded, gripping the pistol in her hand, but it seemed to be of little use; a pistol is only useful against people with opposing identities.
Sigh, what exactly is the opposite of the "professor"?
The two searched for their target on the eighth floor, but there was no one else on this floor. Many people tore up the bounty and left immediately without lingering.
Let's go straight to the ninth floor then!
The "mute" effect prevented Jiang Ran from speaking, but it wasn't a particularly troublesome negative effect, so he didn't bother to expend his mental energy to suppress it.
The two climbed the stairs to the ninth floor, only to find the "philanthropist" sitting cross-legged in the corridor, seemingly waiting for their arrival.
Why is there always so much conflict in the world?
"There's really no way," he shook his head. "I can give you money, but I can't give you my life!"
Even philanthropists aren't willing to give up everything!
His right hand exploded instantly, transforming into five enormous tentacles. This was yet another [King of Monsters] level monster!
Jiang Ran used his armor to deflect the tentacles' attack and drew the knife from his waist, which he had previously stolen from the couple!
The blade sliced through the tentacle, and the [Philanthropist] coughed up blood. He had been affected by the special item's effect and had no chance of survival!
"you......"
He collapsed to the ground with a thud! His body turned into a pool of blood, leaving only the identity plaque that read "Philanthropist".
Jiang Ran used the extra opportunity to transform the candle flame at position eighteen. In this way, together with the [Star] at position seventeen, all of his candle flames from position 17 to 21 had been transformed into bright red!
"Time is running out!"
Lin Zhi still couldn't find the identity corresponding to "Professor," and with five minutes about to pass, she simply took out the "Couple" card and changed her identity!
Laughter broke out, and joy replaced sorrow.
Lin Zhi was clad in imposing general's armor; her status had changed to that of a seventh-rank [General]!
"Damn! This is so heavy!"
Lin Zhi felt that even walking was somewhat inconvenient. God, why doesn't this identity give her more strength?
With less than two minutes left, the second round's time limit is up!
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