Chapter 246 The Third Player

Saikai Haruto took Dazai Osamu all the way to another villa.

The structure of the villa is similar to the one he visited with Dazai Osamu and Furuya Rei before. It is located in a semi-residential area with fewer people coming and going and is relatively secluded. He has not brought anyone else here yet - no, that's not entirely right. He doesn't know if Dazai Osamu's family knows about this place.

...Forget it, let's just take it one step at a time. Thinking too much now will only cause trouble for myself.

Xihai Qingdou put aside his thoughts.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened along the way... But think about it, he and Dazai Osamu are both experts in tracking and detecting as well as counter-tracking and counter-detection, so it is not easy for anyone to discover anything unusual.

The "Dazai Osamu" in front of him has the same supernatural powers as the Dazai Osamu in this world - he couldn't use his supernatural powers at all when he touched him from the side, which means that the option of "a knockoff with only the same appearance" can be ruled out - at least it has to be a high-quality imitation.

Xi Haiqingdou urgently called the system and asked it to communicate with the world consciousness.

Although it is likely that "Dazai Osamu" is a player, given the previous incident of "Dazai Osamu suddenly picking up a "book"" in this world, Saikai Haruto cannot be completely reassured - although there is a blank space above his head and nothing is shown, what if he is actually the real "Dazai Osamu" who accidentally ran here from another world?

A player with a shell that looks exactly like the original character... Saikai Haruto has never encountered such a situation before. In addition, the situation in Yokohama was originally unstable, which made him even more undecided.

After all, judging from what he has seen so far... the "Dazai Osamu" in front of him is indeed very similar to the Dazai he knows.

[…Wait, in this situation, ask both sides.] Saikai Haruto added.

He finally understood that the fusion world was unreliable, so even though the set he was on was not under the control of another world, he still had to find a reliable one to ask again. Otherwise, he would not be able to rest assured.

Fortunately, there is not much else to say, but the system is still relatively reliable in terms of passing messages. After a few rounds of communication, he quickly received the message:

[Not sure, still need to be expelled.] The system said, [This is what the consciousness of the two worlds said, let me tell the host, just expel him as you treated the player before.]

[Hmm... Hmm? Not sure what that means? ]

[Not sure if this is what the world consciousness of the if world said.] System answer: [He said that he was like this when he entered this world, so He subconsciously let him in directly. As for whether he is the leader or the player, He cannot detect it now, and you need to make your own judgment.]

What a "subconscious"... Saikai Haruto remained silent. It turned out that the consciousness of this world favors Dazai Osamu!

[However, the consciousness of another world says that no matter he is the leader or the player, they are all "smuggled" from other worlds and will have a bad destructive impact on this world, so both are treated the same and need to be cleared out of this world, which means that you, the host, need to "kill" him. ]

The system babbled: [He asked me to tell you that if you, the host, find it troublesome and don't want to judge whether he is the real "Dazai Osamu" or a "player", you can let other people in this world kill him - if he is the "Dazai Osamu" from another world, being killed by other people in this world can also send him back to his original world.]

All other "players" so far are from higher-dimensional worlds, so they must be "killed" by Saikai Haruto, who is also from a higher-dimensional world, in order to be sent back to their original world. But if he is the real "Dazai Osamu", he can be sent back directly by being killed by others - because they and he originally share the same dimensional world.

If that's the case, there's no need for Haruto Nishimi to worry so much - Dazai Osamu, who has read the "book", and this guy are most likely in "enemy camps". Haruto Nishimi even guessed that he was injured by Dazai Osamu.

It has to be said that the consciousness of the other world does have a preference for Saikai Haruto - compared to continuing to let Saikai Haruto "kill" him with his own hands, this method is no different from letting him simply die, and it can also be counted as his "performance".

But... although the world here is evolving towards the "real world", it is still a "semi-fictional" world and is still very different from the real "real world".

If he is not "Dazai Osamu" but a "player", if he is really killed by Dazai Osamu or other people in this world, then he can only stay in the world of this dimension, and no matter whether he is alive or dead in the future, he can never return to the original world - because the dimensions of the two worlds are completely not on the same level.

Xi Haiqing Dou was silent for a while.

[What's wrong? You don't have to work overtime. Host, are you unhappy? ] Without waiting for the host's usual happy response, the system asked in confusion.

[Yeah, there's nothing to be happy about.] Xi Hai Qing Dou paused for two seconds and stopped answering. Instead, he said: [Don't worry, I will throw him back to the world where he belongs.]

"Hey, is this the place?" "Dazai Osamu" stood aside and watched Saikai Haruto directly pry open the lock of the villa with wire, and couldn't help but reveal a strange expression.

"Oh, so we are breaking into a private house now?"

...It's really similar, even this question is the same.

I can't see any flaws at the moment... it's a little bit troublesome.

"Not really. This is of course one of my houses... Just like the place I took you to before, it's just a temporary residence. It can only be called returning to your own home, how can it be considered an intrusion?"

Xi Haiqingdou's tone was a bit lazy and he answered frankly: "I've said that I'm not used to carrying so many keys and wires on me... Well, although you are not yet an adult, you should be used to me doing this anyway."

He pushed open the door of the villa.

"Let's go to the study first and have your wound treated simply - do you want to do it yourself or do you want me to help you?"

"Ahem, ahem. There's so much dust." "Dazai Osamu" waved his hand in front of him to brush away some of the fine dust floating in the air. His brows wrinkled slightly, but quickly returned to their original state with a smile on his lips: "Hey, can I handle it myself?"

——I don’t believe it.

"Dazai Osamu" chuckled in his heart.

He didn't believe anything about the "temporary residence" the young man mentioned or anything else.

Who would need to pry the wire when returning home - ah, except himself - "Dazai Osamu" quickly and completely put himself into the role of "Leader Zai" and naturally changed the title. Although he also entered the password, it is not difficult to forge or remember the password.

Moreover, it was obvious that this villa had not been lived in for at least one or two months. We were supposed to bring him home, but instead we brought him to this place where there was obviously no sign of anyone having lived there before... Did he think he looked easy to fool?

Dazai Osamu never let anyone he doubted get too close to him. It was more reliable for him to do the medicine himself.

Saikai Haruto raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, with a hint of surprise in his eyes - under normal circumstances, Dazai Osamu would ask "Mochizuki Kaoru" for help if he could treat his wounds, and he was very dishonest. Although this was normal for "Dazai Osamu" who met him for the first time, for the current "Mochizuki Kaoru", it could be considered a little "abnormal".

Regardless, he didn't say anything, but just took him into the study, threw him a clean towel, and then turned and left the study: "Then you take care of it yourself, the medical box is in the usual place. I'll go clean the room first and change my clothes by the way."

——was suspected.

Very interesting... Is he doubting that he is not Dazai Osamu?

Because of the rescue, the young man's clothes, hair and even glasses were all wet like "Dazai Osamu". He really needed to clean himself up first. Dazai Osamu nodded at him, walked into the study calmly, and began to explore the study naturally. There was no sign of unfamiliarity or guilt in his movements.

The new map opens and the "investigation" begins - "Dazai Osamu" he silently recites in his heart.

Then I started to search everywhere with my own hands, searching almost every corner, a passing ant, and even a pot of cactus on the table.

Although this game currently has no plug-ins and does not have various systems like other non-holographic and semi-holographic games, but in view of the fact that it is a fully holographic simulation game, he feels that he cannot ignore those other inconveniences - after all, the selling points of fully holographic simulation games are "equivalent to another game", "99% realism", "almost exactly the same as the real world", etc. If there are really those messy systems and functions, it will lack the sense of reality and immersion.

The medical kit was found quickly—or rather, the place where it was originally placed was not a particularly hidden place, so it took Dazai Osamu almost no effort to find it.

However, even after he found the medical box, he did not stop, but continued to explore the study. It was not until five minutes later when he found almost nothing that he finally stopped.

As for the new map, the NPC himself asked the player to find it himself, so it would be a shame for the player not to explore it thoroughly.

But surprisingly, he didn't find any traps. Was that true? Dazai Osamu was a little surprised. He thought there was a bug in the game and that the whole world was full of traps for him.

There was no problem even with the various medicines that were fully stocked in the medicine cabinet.

"Dazai Osamu" opened the bottles and jars inside and pretended to be careful and cautious and blew air through the bottle caps - he didn't smell anything unusual.

It was normal, because he didn't study medicine or chemistry, so he couldn't smell poison even if it was inside. That's not right either, "Chief Zai" had been the leader of the Hong Kong underworld for so many years and had encountered so many assassinations, but he didn't smell anything unusual now. So, is this medical kit really fine?

Moreover, with Dazai Osamu's physique, he wouldn't die so easily even if he was poisoned... Thinking of this, the player began to use the things in the medicine box to apply medicine to himself with confidence.

The pain is really painful... "Dazai Osamu" thought silently in his heart. He was sure that his pain tolerance was not that low. He had turned the pain level up to 50% in other games before and almost died from serious injuries in the game, but it didn't hurt this much. So this is all the boss's fault!

As expected, everything has its pros and cons. The advantage of really putting on the shell of Leader Zai is that it is easy to empathize with "Dazai Osamu". Whether it is his way of thinking, personality, behavior, or his own skills, they will be closer to "Dazai Osamu" to a certain extent, reducing the possibility of character ooc, but the disadvantage is this extremely real and terrible pain.

He forced himself to suppress the urge to grin. Hold it back. Even if the leader is afraid of pain, he won't make a shaky face like him! He will definitely be judged as an ooc character role-playing!

In order to divert his attention and not focus too much on the wounds and pain, Dazai Osamu began to think endlessly.

For example, he could now make a rough guess about... the young man's identity.