Infinite spooky game

Chapter 19 Rose Manor ([-]) Subjective Time and Inference

"Assuming my deduction is correct, the time loop has already occurred, and the first players who entered this instance were nine..." Qi Si crumpled up the photo in his hand and threw it on the ground, looking at the rain outside the window.

"Based on what I know about myself, facing a one-third death rate, I should wait for three random unlucky ghosts to die in violation of the rules while ensuring that I do not violate the rules, and then pass the level easily."

In fact, he only said half of what he said, and the real situation was even worse.

Entering the game for the first time, but forcibly pretending to be an old player. If he wants to survive in the cracks, he must be more cautious and step by step than others.

After learning about the "guaranteed death toll" mechanism of the weird game, in order not to become the target of sacrifice by others, he will definitely act first and find every opportunity to reduce the number of players; the three corpses in the garden, One of them may be his handwriting.

Of course, this situation only exists in inference, after all, he has no memory of the so-called "first round" of the game.

Qi Si suddenly thought that he opened his eyes and appeared in the garden outside the castle, while the other players were sitting in the castle.

In this way, because he arrived late, he could only sit in the position closest to the main seat, which was the most dangerous position.

Because of this, out of the mentality of "everyone is here", he casually tried Miss Anna, never wanting to attract the latter's attention.

Then, he had to make the decision to explore the third floor and crack the world view, in order to survive under the NPC's focus.

All of this is as if arranged by someone.And that person has an extremely accurate grasp of his psychology...

He has always been the only one who knows himself best.

In an instant, the clues were connected together, and Qi Si felt that he understood something, all the fog suddenly cleared away, and the eyes suddenly became clear.

He restrained his thoughts and smiled brightly: "Now it seems that the method of 'dead friends will never die poor' has probably failed, otherwise a new round of cycle will not start. To pass the level, the only way is to crack the world view. "

Chang Xu was silent for a moment, and said: "In any case, my first choice will be to crack the worldview and minimize the death rate."

When Qi Si heard this, he smiled in his heart, but he had no intention of refuting.

He also often said nice things about righteousness and dignity. In reality, when facing police investigations, he could make a lot of random passages, which perfectly reflected his personality label of "five law-abiding citizens".

"It seems that it is quite difficult to decipher the world view. Brother Chang, you have failed in two consecutive rounds." Qi Si chuckled, ignored Chang Xu who had a question mark on his face, and went straight to the innermost room on the third floor.

That was the last room that was not explored. Compared with the other two rooms, the appearance was much neater.The door was spotless and the keyhole was polished. It was obvious that someone lived inside.

Qi Si pushed aside the windless vines in the corridor, stepped on the branches and leaves all over the ground, walked to the door and stood still, looking at the dry petals scattered between the cracks of the door, squinting his eyes.

"There are people inside." Chang Xu looked at the carvings on the door and said, "Maybe we will meet Miss Anna."

In this context, the "Miss Anna" he mentioned naturally refers to the one the players saw at the dining table, that is, the younger sister in the dog blood story.

Even in the context of the dungeon, the elder sister and the younger sister are both "Miss Anna", and bumping into each other on the third floor means a violation of the ninth rule, but in comparison, the younger sister in black is more dangerous.

"Normally we don't meet them. We are unlucky if we do." Qi Si said with a smile, "I suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you some information. In the garden, Miss Anna and I had some nutritious chats. on topic."

……

Nine o'clock in the morning, the garden.

After Qisi asked the housekeeper to see Miss Anna, Miss Anna, who was wearing a black dress, arrived late.

After a short exchange of pleasantries, at the end, Qi Si asked casually: "Miss Anna, where are you usually? Where can I find you?"

Miss Anna said: "I like to stand in the garden, you can find me in the garden after the rain."

"But Mr. Steward said, you live on the third floor."

"I don't like the third floor, there's no light there."

"It sounds like you live like a rose."

……

Qisi omitted some central air-conditioning quotations that would make people call him a "scumbag", and directly concluded: "So I speculate that Miss Anna should still be in the garden at this moment."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and knocked on the door twice.

The ghost knocked on his door last night, and he knocked on the ghost's door this morning. Thinking about it, there was a sense of drama and humor, which made him curl his lips.

Chang Xu saw that Qi Si did not choose to pick the lock with a wire, but knocked on the door in a polite manner, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and he was noncommittal.Although this is easy to scare the snake, but because it is polite enough, it may be able to effectively reduce the hostility of the NPC.

If there were no accidents, the one in the room was the real "Anna", that is, the "Miss Anna" in the red dress mentioned in the rules. She could be trusted, and she was barely considered a relatively safe NPC.

When Qis knocked on the door for the third time, with a long stringed sound of "squeak", the closed door slowly swung open from the inside out.

The rotten smell mixed with the rich fragrance of flowers hit your face. Intricate vines and leaves like dragons were knotted in the room. Almost all the space was filled with black and green, and only faintly could be seen through the gaps between the stems and leaves. I saw a red shadow.

It was an old woman with wrinkled skin, half of her face was rotten, and she could not be associated with beauty anyway.She was moaning, unconscious, as if she would die at any moment, but her cloudy eyes were staring straight at Qis's direction.

"What time is it?" she asked.

Qi Si glanced at Chang Xu, who picked up his pocket watch and replied, "It's two past two in the afternoon."

The old woman tilted her head, struggling to understand the information she received.

After a long while, she smiled "hehe": "One o'clock in the afternoon today is longer than yesterday."

After saying this, she lowered her head and fell asleep, as if she didn't want to talk to the two uninvited guests anymore.

Qi Si watched quietly for a while, and suddenly a soft smile appeared on his face.

He pushed aside the vines in the room, walked towards the old woman step by step, squatted down halfway in front of her, and asked word by word: "Do you want to see him?"

The old woman was woken up, raised her head, and stared straight ahead in a daze, without seeing anyone in her eyes.

Qi Si smiled and said slowly in a tone of recounting memories: "After that day, he left the manor and returned to his fief, but he never forgot you. It took him many years to convince his father before he came back I was looking for you, but unfortunately you are no longer alive."

As Qi Si narrated, the old woman's eyes, which were originally like a pool of stagnant water, gradually became turbulent. She raised her hand and grabbed the young man's sleeve, and murmured: "I want to see him... I want to see him... Where is he?" ?”

"I don't know." Qis lowered his eyelashes to hide the growing malice in his eyes, "But I have two companions who should know his whereabouts. Do you want to see my two companions?"

The old woman looked at him steadily.

Qi Si was persuasive and articulate, "You just need to say that you want Zou Yan and Ye Zi to come to see you on the third floor."

Old woman: "I want Zou Yan and Ye Zi to come to see me on the third floor..."

The moment her words fell, Qi Si pulled back his sleeves mercilessly, and gestured to Chang Xu: "It's done, let's go."

Chang Xu understood Qi Si's operation almost immediately, and he frowned slightly: "You want Zou Yan and Ye Zi to also violate the rules?"

The old woman was also Miss Anna, so she ordered her to meet Zou Yan and Ye Zi on the third floor, which put the two girls in a dilemma.

When they come, they violate Rule Nine:

[Please try not to go to the third floor, if you go, don't be discovered by Miss Anna]

If they do not come, the fourth rule is violated:

[Don't refuse Miss Anna's request, try to satisfy everything she asks, Miss Anna hates disobedient guests]

Either way, they're breaking at least one rule.

Asked by Chang Xu, Qi Si did not deny it, but showed a malicious smile: "The law does not blame the public. I have chosen the thankless path of deciphering the world view. I don't want to die alone .”

"Why did you let Lin Chen go alone?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I lied to you before, Lin Chen came up before us. So the number of rules violated by everyone is theoretically the same..." Qi Si's eyes drifted to the top of his head, with an innocent expression, "Hey, it's really not easy for me to balance."

Chang Xu: 6.

At this point, he finally realized that this seemingly harmless guy didn't have a single word of truth in his mouth!
Qi Si looked at Chang Xu's wary eyes, and just smiled indifferently.

He has never had the awe-inspiring righteousness to undertake everything alone. Since he decided to explore the third floor, he has formulated a set of risk-sharing plans, determined to bring all players into the water.

It can be said that starting from letting Lin Chen go to the third floor to investigate, and setting traps in words to induce him to violate the rules, all subsequent behavior choices and event trends were within his plan.

Now, he has undoubtedly succeeded.

Qi Si stepped out of the room, closed the door behind his back, took out a napkin from his pocket, and wiped his right hand from wrist to finger.

After wiping, he threw the napkin on the floor and reviewed the situation in his mind.

The old woman can perceive the abnormality of time, and said "today's one o'clock in the afternoon is longer than yesterday", it seems that ghosts can maintain their mobility when going back in time.

But she was able to remain semi-corrupted in the endless time loop.

Does this mean that the action and state of the individual in this dungeon are separate?
So far, everything has become clear.

Qisi looked at the seventh rule of the system interface.

[7. Only ghosts can kill humans, please believe that you are human]

Originally, he thought that this was a restrictive rule to prevent players from killing each other.He also wondered why the weird game full of gu-cultivation would be so kind.

Now it seems that the standard answer for customs clearance is actually written in this rule.

The main NPC, Ms. Anna, who is malicious to the player, is set as a human being, and it is specially stated that "ghosts can kill humans". The hint could not be more obvious.

(End of this chapter)