Infinite spooky game

Chapter 25 The First Round of the Game

"Dear Lady White Crow:

Following your order, I entered the copy of "Rose Manor" to explore, and completed the task you gave me.

I found the traces and remains of that existence, and his honorable name is:

'The Lord of the Gods, exiled outside the rules of the world,

The master of the soul who is in charge of the power of contract transactions,
A great existence older than history. '

The dungeon NPC Miss Anna once made a deal with Him, and I am willing to believe in the authenticity of this honorable name.Hopefully this time, our ceremony will be successful.

There were some twists and turns in the process, and I was killed in the dungeon by someone who broke the rules first.The man was discreet and I didn't get to see his face.

Not surprisingly, three players will survive, claiming to be Chang Xu, Qi Si, and Lin Chen respectively. The first two of them are suspicious, and I suggest the church focus on them.

I can no longer return to Xiangcheng to see you, but this is an inevitable fate. We should all have the consciousness of martyrdom, right?
You don't have to feel sad for me. Once I see His statue, I will die without regrets.

Yan"

In an elegantly decorated study room in a villa area far away from the bustling city, Zou Yan was sitting at the desk, typing out lines of text in an email.

After checking it to make sure there were no errors, she clicked "Send".

The automatic reply of "already known" appeared in the inbox. Zou Yan held down the edge of the desk, supported her body with her arms, stood up, and staggered towards the bedroom.

She didn't know whether it was because of the fear of death or the coldness of the loss of life force, but she began to tremble.

It was difficult for her to raise her strength, and her teeth could not help chattering, making a "gurgling" sound.

Fortunately, the distance from the study to the bedroom was not far, and she finally lay down on the bed before she was completely unable to move.

She no longer had the strength to cover herself with the quilt, so she lay on her back and stared at a spot on the ceiling, as if trying to carve something into her eyeballs.

Blood was overflowing from her nose and mouth, she licked it and found it a bit salty.

The weird game will allow the player to die in a reasonable way in reality, and Zou Yan can't guess what kind of terminal illness she is suffering from right now.

She twitched the corners of her mouth, trying to show a peaceful smile, but tears fell from the corners of her eyes.

There may be people in the world who can face death calmly, but it will definitely not be her.

She didn't want to die, but what could she do?

His consciousness gradually sank into darkness and confusion, and a fragment deep in his memory that should have been erased became vivid.

That was the first game of Rose Manor.

……

There were a total of nine players who initially entered the copy of "Rose Manor".

When the dungeon started, the nine people in the first round, like the remaining six in the second round, sat around a long table and introduced themselves.

Among them, two people claimed to be entering the dungeon for the third time; there was also a little girl, although it was the second time to enter the dungeon, she had a prop that could indicate clues.

In comparison, Chang Xu, Ye Zi and others appear less dazzling.

Zou Yan is taking the route of keeping a low profile. With so many players who may cause changes, she doesn't plan to show her face too early.

She uses her professionalism to observe each person and conduct psychological profiling.

At first glance, she noticed Qiss, who, like her, hid himself in the crowd.

The young man lowered his eyelids and kept silent, but his gaze behind the eyelashes always followed everyone who spoke, and the deep and bottomless eyes reflected the light of thought.

He was also thinking and observing.

When the rooms were divided later, there were three people to one room, and Zou Yan decisively invited Qisi.

"Nine" is too many people. In this complicated situation, she needs a rational and calm ally.

Qi Si agreed, and the two of them recruited a newcomer and chose Room 3 to live in.

On the first night, Miss Anna went downstairs and knocked on the doors of each room.

The newcomer in the room with them was yelling in fright, triggering the death point as expected.

The vines pierced through the cracks of the door and attacked overwhelmingly. In the darkness, Zou Yan saw Qi Si's slightly opened eyes, which were as terrifying as the pupils of a beast and as bright as fire on the ice field.

The indifferent young man didn't even get up, and took out the awl from the special bracelet in his right hand in just a second, knocking the newcomer who caused trouble unconscious.

The vines in the direction of the door are still growing and spreading, and there is no plan to calm down.

The young man sat up slowly, without any hesitation, picked up the collar of the fainted newcomer, and threw him towards the door.

The vines rolled up the newlyweds and dragged them out of the room. The young man stared at the scene in front of him without any unnecessary expression.

At that moment, Zou Yan realized that this player named "Qisi" was the same person as her, a similar person she had not seen for a long time.

"Let's work together," she said.

Qi Si tilted his head to look at her, smiled brightly after a while, and said, "Okay."

Zou Yan was amused by this sense of ambivalence, who was completely different from the previous indifferent face, who obviously couldn't feel any joy, yet smiled so happily.

The next three days, she thought, wouldn't be boring, and Keith would be a good one to watch.

Complicated situations are prone to change, and trying to crack the world view will only add trouble. The two finalized the plan to kill other players and trigger the "guaranteed death toll" mechanism without any objection.

Things went smoothly. After killing another person, they formed an alliance with Shen Ming and Ye Zi, forming a numerical advantage.

Chang Xu, Lin Chen, and the little girl named "Xu Xinyi" were no match for them and were quickly controlled by them.

Lin Chen and Xu Xinyi only knew how to cry, but Chang Xu, who had a bad temper and was as hard as a rock, found an opportunity to snatch Qi Si's special bracelet, and made a big gash in his heart.

The others subdued Chang Xu in time, intending to throw him outside the castle at night and kill him with the dungeon mechanism.

Qi Si covered the wound in his heart and stopped him with a smile: "Keep him, this guy is quite interesting."

The life and death of one person was harmless, but Chang Xu survived after his limbs were knocked off.

On the third day, the four of them chose Xu Xinyi to kill, and got the prop that could indicate the clue.

A lot of clues about the dungeon's world view surfaced, Zou Yan faintly realized that something was wrong, and confirmed the existence of the "time loop" after some investigation.

It turns out that killing three people does not mean that the level is cleared. The reincarnation will not stop. Those who survive will lose the corresponding memories and go back to the beginning to replay the same scene until everyone is buried in the Rose Manor.

She told this discovery to Zeiss, who looked at the sea of ​​roses outside the window and smiled nonchalantly: "The six-person game is much clearer than the nine-person game. At least if you want to collect clues in the second round of the game, it won't be as troublesome as now. . Besides, after all, we still have two chances, right?"

For a moment, Zou Yan suspected that the young man had known all this a long time ago, and that the number of people consumed by the first round of the game was also planned.Even staying with Chang Xu is to prepare for the second round of the game.

But she still gave up the idea. How could someone have laid such a trap before her?
The clock struck nine at night, and she looked at the erratic figure of the young man behind the candlelight, and asked in a strange way: "If interests conflict later, will you kill me?"

The young man smiled with crooked eyebrows: "Didn't you say that? We are the same people."

The answer is already clear, their choices have already been finalized in their hearts, so there is no need to say more.

Zou Yan's rationality told her that unstable factors that may cause changes should be eradicated as soon as possible.

But she hesitated.

Three people have already died, and the remaining six people just constitute two three-day reincarnations. She is not sure whether the death of one more person now will cause the game to end early, leaving her with insufficient time to decipher the world view.

Moreover, in the first round of the game, Qi Si seemed to have no threat except for his calm and indifferent qualities. He had no props and experience and could only cling to her. How much trouble could he cause?
After all, Zou Yan didn't dare to bet on the mechanism of the game with her groundless doubts.

She thought that it would not be too difficult to kill Qisi after the next round of the game started.

What's more, I haven't seen such an interesting person for a long time, so why not keep him for another game?

So, she watched Qi Si leave the room, walk out of the castle, and stand in the middle of the sea of ​​flowers, maintaining a guarded and distant distance from her.

There is no hindrance.

When the castle clock strikes twelve, a new cycle will begin. Players will forget about each other's grievances, and gather around the long table innocently like passers-by, getting acquainted again.

Zou Yan knew that she only had three hours to chew on the memories of these three days.

She stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, staring at the young man standing in the sea of ​​flowers.

The torrential rain had stopped for a long time, and the moon peeked out of the clouds, and the pale light cast a ghastly light on the blood-stained white shirt.

The young man stood motionless, silent and silent.

He was alone, with his back to the castle, as cold as a god and as lonely as a beast.

(End of this chapter)