Infinite spooky game

Chapter 94 Hopeless Sea (25) Yesterday-Yesterday
After the prompt "Soul contract has been signed" appeared, Qisi put away the blade in his hand and reached out to pull Chang Xu lying on the ground.

Without pulling up, he naturally let go of his hand, stood aside with his arms folded, and briefly stated the cause and effect of the incident.

"The three puppets were Hans, Ye Linsheng and Lu Li. After Hans died unexpectedly, I guessed that Lu Li was one of the puppets, so I went to confront him. In order not to be exposed by me in public, he removed the puppet silk from Ye Linsheng's body. Transfer it to me and mislead other players into doubting you."

Chang Xu climbed up with his elbows on the ground and questioned: "Why would Lu Li let others doubt me? What good will this do to him?"

"Not bad, he can analyze motives." Qiss applauded and said nonsensically, "The advantages of what he did are, firstly, he gathered three puppets and completely got rid of his own suspicion; secondly, it probably brought you and me together Stay on the island together so that you don’t have to compete with him for a survival spot.”

Chang Xu felt that this reason was far-fetched and unspeakably weird.He retorted: "With Lu Li's ability, there is no need to use such complicated means to exclude me."

"So I guess he has a plot against you - he also admitted this yesterday. But for some reason, he changed his mind later and chose the NE customs clearance route to leave by boat." As Qisi spoke, he bent down and pulled Liu Yuhan away from him. He pulled up from the ground, and finally pulled it this time, regaining some of his confidence in his own strength.

Chang Xu realized this later and went to help Liu Yuhan and asked, "What plans does Lu Li have for me?"

Qisi snorted lightly: "I have to ask you. I only know that he has studied you thoroughly and has a clear and accurate understanding of your behavioral choices and thinking patterns. He even took it into consideration when he decided to attack me. Your factor.”

Chang Xu's pupils narrowed slightly, and the doubt in his eyes became more intense.

Then I heard the young man say sarcastically: "So, what I hate most in my life are idiots who start live broadcasts. They not only harm themselves, but also deceive others."

Is that the case?

Chang Xu suddenly understood why Qisi put a knife on his neck and forced him to turn off the live broadcast.

The live broadcast function of Weird Game is a double-edged sword. Although it can make the massacre players throw a trap to a certain extent, it can also expose the trump cards of themselves and those around them.

He and many seniors held live broadcasts just to record as many of the mechanisms of each copy as possible and to assist the Bureau of Investigation in integrating intelligence and theories; but he didn't expect that he had only held two live broadcasts before he was targeted by Xila.

As expected, Xila was making big moves after being silent for so long...

Qisi didn't know what Chang Xu had in mind, but looking at his expression, he knew that this man believed that story.

He walked a few steps quickly, led the way in front, and said with a smile: "Let's go into the altar and have a look. If nothing else happens, we will pass the TE level soon."

Liu Yuhan followed quietly, following Qisi back to the white stone platform surrounded by huge fish bones.

Chang Xu was at the end and asked persistently: "Why do those ghosts listen to your orders? Why can they hurt me when I have enough money?"

"Didn't I already tell you that I have cracked the worldview? This is probably the special treatment given to the first person to crack the worldview." Qisi's lies came out of his mouth. He paused for a moment and continued, "Of course those ghosts can hurt They can't help you, they just control you. If you are mentally strong enough, you can lie on the ground for a night and sleep."

Then you will kill me, right?Chang Xu complained in his mind, and then asked: "There is a problem with time. You have known this for a long time, right?"

"It's not too early, I just found out last night." Qisi answered patiently, "I didn't sleep all night last night, so I just counted the bells and found that the clock tower was really cutting corners, and I slept longer than we thought. Twelve hours is shorter.”

A picture flashed in Chang Xu's mind. It was the morning after entering the dungeon. He asked the young man the specific time.The young man moved the hands of his watch and told him with a smile that the time was "eight o'clock in the morning"... Now that he thought about it, that move of moving the hands was really suspicious.

"You lied to me." Chang Xu's breathing became rapid, "You induced me to think that the clock tower chimes the time twelve times a day, corresponding to the 24 hours in real time..."

"No, I just made a mistake in my judgment at the beginning." Qisi raised his left wrist and pointed the watch towards Chang Xu. The second hand on it did not move at all. "The function of the Destiny Pocket Watch is to 'mark objective time'. The time on the island is probably subjective. The scope of time, so the moment I was on the island, the pocket watch failed.”

He put his left hand back into his shirt pocket and continued: "My initial judgment was the same as yours. I thought that since it was stated that 'the bell in the bell tower rings every two hours,' four times would naturally correspond to eight o'clock in the morning. So I told you the conclusion directly. It turns out that I was wrong."

Chang Xu looked suspicious: "With your level, it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake."

Qisi smiled: "Brother Chang, you think highly of me. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I am a human being, not a god."

He said this sincerely, but Chang Xu still felt that the other party was deceiving him as a fool.

Zeiss is a man who has the ability to tell lies as if they are true, and insist that the truth is the case with an innocent face.You look at his expression and listen to his tone, and you have no idea which of what he said is true and which is false.

Chang Xu knew that he couldn't get the answer, so he had to return to the key point: "So, what is the correct time?"

"During the stipulated sleeping time, the bell tower missed a total of three time chimes, namely eleven, one and three. When converted to a 24-hour clock, six hours were lost every day." After Qisi finished speaking, he was afraid that Chang Xu wouldn't understand. , and added, "In other words, what you think is a whole day is actually only eighteen hours."

Chang Xu quickly made calculations in his mind.

The second diary stated, "Starting from the time I landed on the island, I had a chance to leave the island every three days."

Lu Li proposed leaving the island tonight because he thought it was already the third day.

But based on the fact that there are only eighteen hours in a day, now it only reaches four hours, which is six more hours in two days.

We have to wait another day until 72 hours, the third day of the 24-hour clock...

His mind was in chaos, and Chang Xu asked in a seductive voice: "What will happen if we don't go to sea at the stipulated time?"

"Who knows? Maybe he will die." Qisi didn't know when he had pulled Liu Yuhan back behind Chang Xu.

He asked nonchalantly: "Brother Chang, what are you worried about? Who can be 24% sure that days are calculated according to the [-]-hour system? Maybe I'm just overthinking it, and counting it as one day when I open and close my eyes."

Chang Xu raised his eyebrows and said: "But if the days are calculated according to the 24-hour system, then all of them who go to sea early will die."

Qisi narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Ah, then they are really unlucky. They chose the wrong answer."

"You knew there was a time problem, why didn't you say it?"

Hearing Chang Xu's question, Qi Si said with regret: "I originally planned to talk about it at dinner, but it's a pity that Lu Li didn't give me this opportunity."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I've already given you a hint, but you didn't think of it yourself." Qisi lowered his eyes and sighed, "I don't want to die, and I don't have the consciousness to sacrifice myself for others. At this time, I have to leave a way out for myself."

"Brother Chang, do you think that after realizing that there are two possible timing methods, they will choose randomly and risk their own lives to try and make mistakes; or will they pick a few unlucky people and try all the options first?" Answer Naturally it is the latter.Chang Xu knew that if the players knew this information, they would most likely act more safely and choose four people to go to sea first to check the situation.

And Zis, who was under control, and who was under suspicion, must be among the experimental subjects.

"Don't say that you are a pragmatist and think that the lives of those four people are more important than the three of us." Qiss joked and stopped in front of a stone tablet.

The altar is not as flat as you think when you look in from the outside. Only when you walk into the stone platform can you find that its interior is divided into two layers. A deep groove half a step wide encloses a circular area, which should be the core of the altar. .

The stone tablet stood crookedly on the edge of the deep ditch, with a sentence engraved in strange characters in the middle:
[The dead stop here]

This sentence is like a precept and motto, with a natural simplicity and weight that makes people involuntarily stop in front of it and bow their heads piously and solemnly.

Chang Xu raised his eyes and saw a tall, white statue standing in the center of the altar: three fish heads crowded together, revealing sharp and fine teeth; below the joint of the fish head was a human upper body covered with fish scales, extending from the waist There are countless tentacles extending in all directions, giving it a strange symmetrical beauty.

"Brother Chang, there should be a stone tablet in front of the statue with the method of clearance written on it. You should act in accordance with its requirements in the past, and remember to find a white scepter and bring it out." Chang Xu heard the young man coming from behind. the sound of.

A sense of dissonance woven into his heart, Chang Xu asked: "Why don't you go?"

"Those who know more information should have some privileges, right?" It was still a familiar tone, but the weird feeling was getting stronger.

Catching some clues, Chang Xu suddenly turned around and looked directly into the young man's eyes: "You can't get over, can you? 'The dead stop here', you are the 'dead'..."

The answer was about to come out, and his voice turned cold: "You are not Qiss."

"It seems that before the deep parasitism, my performance is still easy to reveal." The young man sighed, his dull pupils did not reflect the shadow of anyone.

He turned to face Chang Xu, but put his right hand on Liu Yuhan's shoulder beside him, and strangled the girl's neck with his pale fingers: "Then let me put it another way. Chang Xu, bring out the Poseidon Scepter to me, and I will release it." This little girl and your friend."

Chang Xu narrowed his eyes slightly, and then he saw the young man's eyes clear for a moment, and he changed his tone: "I understand, it turns out that you control me because you want to force Chang Xu to help you get that thing."

"I guess the so-called 'Poseidon Scepter' is a powerful prop that can be used immediately. That's why you don't dare to trick anyone into entering the altar, but you have to carry out such a plan... Then have you ever thought that you made a mistake? Chang Xu and I have only met twice, so we are not familiar with each other at all?"

"Even so, it has no impact on the outcome." The light in the young man's eyes disappeared, and a strategizing smile appeared on his face again, "Chang Xu, for you, human life is more important than props. A teammate who shares the same difficulties with you, With an ignorant innocent person, you can never give them up with peace of mind."

The next second, the young man himself retorted: "Based on the principle of pragmatism, giving powerful props to people like you may lead to more casualties. It is a big loss."

What Chang Xu saw in front of him was an extremely strange scene. The originally handsome young man's expression changed, and his smiling face suddenly looked ferocious and terrifying. He was muttering something quickly and quietly, just like in a mental hospital. The madman was immersed in his own world and talking to himself, but his right hand was stuck on the girl's neck from beginning to end, strangling him tighter and tighter.

Danger, madness, insanity...all kinds of strange feelings combined with Liu Yuhan's face, which was as pale as a zombie due to suffocation, brewed an absurd feeling of being very close to death.

Are you being coerced by evil people and exchanging props for human lives, which may lead to greater consequences? Or are you giving up the lives of the two people in front of you in exchange for the safety of more people?

'The so-called saving people is just to save the relevant people in front of you and let the irrelevant people far away die. '

Qisi's past words echoed in his memory, and Chang Xu found that he still couldn't escape the shackles of "formalistic justice."

After a long silence, he made a decision: "You let her go, and I'll go in and get the Poseidon Scepter."

After Chang Xu's back disappeared into the altar, Qisi took control of his body again, smiled and sighed: "You released a smoke screen with the key clue at the 'altar', and at the same time gave up the puppet Lu Li, passing on the influence of the 'puppet master' The wrong hint that I have left the copy; and then induced me to take Chang Xu here on my own initiative and fall into your trap."

In the dark red hall of thought, two figures, one black and one white, stood facing each other in the surging mist.

The puppet master, who appeared in black robes, smiled and said: "It seems that I overestimated your wisdom. Even when I reminded you that you 'guessed half right', you still believed in your wrong judgment, and you didn't understand it until now. My plan - you are just a willful and self-righteous fool after all."

"Hehe, hehe." Chiss, who was wearing a white shirt, sneered three times in a standard manner, "It seems that you consider yourself a wise man."

"Make intelligence preparations in advance and thoroughly study the mechanism of this copy; then let three puppets enter the game to form a numerical advantage while turning the camp information into a bright card; the layout established based on such a huge amount of information is only You have calculated against me, a new player who has just become an official player, do you still think you are smart?"

The puppet master was not angry. Instead, he smiled gently and said in an instructive tone: "A true wise man knows how to use all the resources at hand to amplify his advantages. Tigers and rabbits also try their best. The amount of information is also a parameter for calculating intelligence. "【Note】

Zeiss said with a smile in the same tone: "A true wise man never despises his enemy. Do you really think that I have not thought of what you said until now? Or do you think that I will be reckless enough to ignore the risk of being parasitized?" , came to see you specifically after knowing the truth, just to mock you a few words?"

The puppet master asked with great interest: "You want to say that you were deliberately controlled by me and fell into this situation just to learn my true goal in this copy?"

"You rely too much on the amount of information, which means that once there is an information gap, your layout will be full of loopholes and collapse at the first touch." Qisi loosened his fingers from Liu Yuhan's throat, moved his right hand from the side of the girl's neck, and casually hang down.

"I will return to you the words you said: smart people never boast about their wisdom, too many words will only expose your frivolity and shallowness."

"Are you sure your puppet silk is wrapped around my little finger?"

The fog-filled palace of thought shook violently. The fog sometimes gathered and sometimes dispersed, making it uneven, just like the rough sea surface.

The young man in white seemed to have thought of some novel joke. He arched his back and laughed so loudly that he was out of breath, as if he was going to laugh himself to death.

Amid the maniacal laughter, the black figure flickered like a holographic image with poor contact. In a few seconds, it turned into countless small color blocks, scattered and disappeared.

On the little finger of Qisi's right hand, the white and crystal-clear bones flashed away.

[Name: Cthulhu Fingerbone]

【Type: Prop】

【Effect:……】

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[Note] Intelligence formula: Intelligence (Z) = number of participants (Y) * accumulated information (L) * wisdom (H)

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