Infinite spooky game

Chapter 91 Hopeless Sea (22) Vice-Sin
Chang Xu walked through the coconut grove, repeating over and over again in his mind the words Qisi said when he parted with him.

A few words were chewed over and over again, but he could no longer taste anything new. He began to recall all the events he had encountered since entering the dungeon, and he only felt that they were in the clouds.

All the clues, worldview, rules, and layout seemed to be separated from him by a thick layer of fog. He was obviously very close, but he couldn't see anything clearly.

He was kept in the dark from beginning to end, and the plans and collusions slipped past him like running water, unable to establish any connection with him.

——He is alienated and out of tune with the other players in this instance.

Chang Xu is not good at calculating people's hearts, but he is very good at keeping calm.His thinking was extremely clear. At this moment, he automatically classified events into categories and analyzed the details.

'Xila's configuration of the official copy is usually a group of three people, which means there are two puppets left. '

'When I die, I will have plenty of time to catch up on my sleep. '

'I've been targeted. Whether I can survive this dungeon is up for grabs. '

Scenes reappeared in front of his eyes, and an unknown premonition arose spontaneously in Chang Xu's heart.

He had an intuition that something difficult to solve would happen. He and Qiss were on the edge of a cliff, pulled by a dead branch, and would fall into the abyss at any time.

It's getting late.Chang Xu shook his head, drove the messy thoughts out of his mind, and walked towards the hotel.

The coconut groves on both sides changed from dense to sparse, and the scenery in front of me became wider. A two-story wooden building stood quietly in the open space.

Under the dim sky, the hotel building was eerily silent, and the air felt suspiciously stagnant and depressing, just like the few minutes before it rained on a cloudy day.

Chang Xu stared at the low wooden building, and suddenly had the illusion that he was being targeted by a monster, as if the wooden building was the biggest ghost, waiting for him to crash into it with its bloody mouth open.

He collected his thoughts and strode over.Just as his hand was about to touch the door handle, the door was pulled open from the inside.

The person who opened the door was a small man. After seeing him, he seemed to have encountered some dangerous person. He took a step back and looked at him with eyes full of disgust and fear.

Chang Xu looked past this man and looked around the entire hall on the first floor.

There were only eight people including him in the hall, and there was no sign of Qiss.Everyone's face was extremely solemn, staring directly at him, conveying a message of caution.

Chang Xu immediately realized that something might have happened during his absence, something related to Qisi.

"Ye Lin is dead, do you know?" A man sneered and said, "Siqi killed him."

Chang Xu remembered that "Ye Linsheng" was the long-haired young man who always followed Lu Li.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and when he was about to speak, he heard the little man shout: "What nonsense are you talking to him about? He and that Si Qi stuck together as soon as they entered the dungeon. They are probably the same group! Including him, there are not exactly three Have you found all the puppets?"

puppet?
Chang Xu understood the subtext in the words, but the combination of information made it impossible for him to understand.

Is Zeiss a puppet controlled by a puppet master?How can it be?

He is obviously not from Xiela. In the copy of "Rose Manor", when he heard the name "Xila", the shock on his face was so real...

Could it be that he was acting from the very beginning and deceived everyone?

Chang Xu's mind was in chaos, and the words Qisi said in the past were once again revived in his memory.

'In the collective decision-making of irrational individuals, the probability of accidentally killing a good person is more than half. '

'You may encounter many incomprehensible things next, and I don't expect you to trust me without reservation. '

'Brother Chang, if everyone believes that I am the mastermind behind the scenes, will you believe it? '

Trust...should he trust Zeiss and believe that he was misunderstood?

But in the end, the two of them only had a mutual relationship, and they didn't really know each other; and in his intuition, Qiss had never been a good person, and he was someone who needed to find a way to sneak into the investigation bureau and put him under surveillance...

No, calm down!After rational analysis, Qisi has never done anything truly evil. Instead, he has all kinds of misunderstandings for no reason...

But what now?The identification of a puppet cannot be just empty talk, there must be actual evidence...

Chang Xu was silent, his deep pupils as sinking as a pool of water, unable to tell the details or thoughts.

The players shouted fiercely, but they didn't dare to take the lead.No one knew if Chang Xu had any trump cards, and no one was willing to rush forward and become cannon fodder that risked his life.

In the frozen stalemate, Lu Li forced a smile and said in a weak voice: "We can't jump to conclusions. Maybe Chang Xu was deceived by Si Qi and was a victim like us. Maybe this situation is happening to Si Qi now." In order to make us suspicious of each other and consume the number of people."

As soon as he said this, the little man asked hesitantly: "It is possible, but how do we judge whether a living person is a puppet?"

Lu Li stroked his fingers and said calmly: "The puppet silk is usually tied to the little finger of the puppet's right hand. Just cut off the little finger and see if it turns into wood. It will be clear at a glance."

His voice was unhurried and unhurried, and he did provide a feasible solution. Compared with the lives of his family, a little finger seemed like a dispensable sacrifice.

The other players looked at Chang Xu and waited quietly for the latter's choice.Some people even urged in a low voice:
"Cut it quickly, don't waste time." "If you haven't done it yet, are you feeling guilty?"

The pressure exerted by the group acts on one person, requiring the innocent person to prove his innocence in the name of justice.

Chang Xu felt for a moment as if he was being put on a trial bench. Just by appearing here, he was bearing the karma of his innate sins.

'Justice based on the presumption of guilt is nothing but crowd violence. '

Qisi's words echoed in his ears. Chang Xu lowered his eyes and stared at his right hand. A blue light shimmered on the fingertips of his left hand, and a black card slowly condensed.

[Name: Destiny Poker]

[Type: Skill]

[Effect: You can use it as an ordinary cutting weapon, or you can use it to predict or even rewrite the fate of others (to be evolved, the specific operation method to be explored)]

[Note: Your destiny is not included in the compilation of the world line, so you will naturally not be favored by the God of Destiny.Luck is nowhere to be found, misfortune follows like a shadow; the gods are absent and the throne is vacant, who can the belated believers pray to? 】

Blue light flashed past and blood splattered.

The bell rang without warning, overlapping vibrations intertwined with each other, covering the entire island from high in the sky, and it struck nine times unhurriedly.

Chang Xu heard the sound of his little finger falling to the ground for a moment.

He lowered his gaze and saw his pale little finger rolling to the ground, its edges reddening, and the whole finger taking on a fleshy color.

He wordlessly pulled off a corner of his sleeve and simply bandaged the break, but blood still seeped through the fabric and dripped onto the ground, covering the dried blood stains left by Lu Li last night.

The little man bent down and looked at the fingers on the ground, and smiled sarcastically: "Chang Xu, I'm sorry, we misunderstood you."

Lu Li also smiled bitterly and said: "The puppet master is still so good at playing with people's hearts. If I hadn't dealt with him before, I might have accidentally injured our companions again this time."

The players pretended to express their apologies and condolences, but there was not much real feeling.Decisions made by the group are spread out to each individual, leaving very little responsibility.

Chang Xu was noncommittal. The pain in his fingers was not unbearable, and it was not that he had never suffered more serious injuries.

He walked to where the players were gathering and asked calmly: "Can you tell me what happened?"

Lu Li did not hide anything, sighed and said: "Si Qi killed Ye Linsheng, and when I realized it, it was already too late. He almost killed me too, but fortunately a prop on Xiao Ye's body worked and controlled him... Only then did I realize that he turned out to be Xiela’s puppet.”

As Lu Li spoke, he placed a piece of papyrus-like prop on the table. Chang Xu picked up the page with two fingers and scanned the system prompt text that appeared on the surface.

[Name: Law of Hammurabi (lost)]

【Type: Prop】

[Effect: After suffering a fatal attack and losing life, there is a 10% probability of returning the attack to the source]

[Note: Tooth for tooth, eye for eye]

Is it probability again?
Chang Xu felt a flash of inspiration in his mind. He seemed to have found some doubts, but he couldn't connect them logically.

He raised his eyes and looked at Lu Li in front of him. The latter's eyes were full of exhaustion, mixed with the sorrow of his companion's death and strong sorrow.

Chang Xu's heart skipped a beat, and a kind of unfounded fear arose spontaneously, just like the feeling he had when facing Qi Si or Fu Jue, whom he had only met once.

This thought was fleeting, and he frowned and asked, "Where is Si Qi's body? I want to take a look."

Lu Li took a deep breath and exhaled it, "On the second floor, Ye Linsheng's room."

Chang Xu got the information he wanted and quickly climbed up the stairs.

He was walking alone in the corridor on the second floor. He could only hear his footsteps and breathing from left and right, and the same journey seemed longer than before.

Following his memory, he walked into the room that Lu Li mentioned and saw the pale corpse of a long-haired young man named "Ye Linsheng" lying on the big bed, like a dead fish with its belly turned up.

Chang Xu crossed the bed and walked straight to the corner of the room.

The young man in a white shirt was lying in the corner, with countless bloody threads wrapped around his body, pulling his limbs into a strange posture.

His eyes were dull, and his skin had the texture of wood. From top to bottom, there was no trace of human emotion. He looked like a puppet that had been dead for a long time.

Seeing is believing, and all the previous doubts and entanglements were now settled. Chang Xu looked down at the corpse on the ground, feeling calmer than ever before.

——He was cheated, and the person who cheated him died.

(End of this chapter)