Chapter 7 Rose Manor (6) Review of the Night Before
In room No. 2, the curtains were blown open by the wind and never closed again.
Through the translucent windows, you can have a panoramic view of the garden outside the castle.
Under the starless night, purple condensation spreads under the tangled plants. The boundaries between branches, stems and leaves are no longer clear, forming clusters of ghostly shadows.
Miss Anna in black stood in the middle of the sea of roses, like a tombstone in the pale and lonely moonlight.
The light was so dim that Ziss couldn't tell which way she was facing and whether she was looking at him.
But what is certain is that once she finds out that he is still awake, the player will definitely end up miserable.
Knowing that the guest is pretending to be asleep and deceiving himself, it is very reasonable for the host to feel angry; combined with the description of the key's characteristics, it can be inferred that the door will not be able to stop Miss Anna by then.
As for what she will do after entering the house...
With a sense of humor that only he can understand, Chis thought silently: "It can't be a matter of communicating emotions. ”
He was suddenly a little curious. The rules said that "only ghosts can kill humans." As a living person, what could Miss Anna do to him and how would she treat him.
However, Weird Game has many dungeons to choose from. It would be a huge loss to die in the first dungeon. You have to survive until the second dungeon to get your money back.
As for the method of death, it is better to try it with other players.
On the bed sheet in front of me, a few rose petals fell from nowhere.
Qisi blew lightly and watched the petals tremblingly fall to the ground under the blow of the air current.
Lin Chen was sleeping soundly on the other side of the bed, mumbling in his sleep, unaware of what had just happened.
At this moment, he turned over, rolled up most of the quilt, and pressed it under him. After a few seconds, he snored evenly again.
The corners of Qisi’s eyes twitched slightly, but he also relaxed.
He remained motionless lying on the bed, his physiological heartbeat and pulse becoming gentler over time. Along with Lin Chen's regular snoring nearby, sleepiness quickly invaded his brain.
Qisi yawned and fell into a deep sleep. When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn.
In the garden facing the floor-to-ceiling windows, Miss Anna's ghostly figure has disappeared, leaving only a field of blazing roses.
The mechanical clock outside the door struck solemnly five times.
It’s five o’clock in the morning.
A short sleep didn't help. Qisi yawned several times sleepily, sat up with his arms supporting his body and looked in the direction of the door.
The dry petals fell to the ground and accumulated a small patch on the ground in front of the door, indicating everything that happened last night.
"Qi...Brother Qi, why did the stool turn over?" Lin Chen finally woke up, and at a glance he saw the wide open curtains, the stool lying on the ground, and the scattered red skirt.
His face turned pale: "Did something happen last night?"
"Yes." Qisi got out of bed calmly, closed the curtains, lifted the stool, and pressed it on him again on the curtain, then picked up the red skirt and threw it into the corner, "Miss Anna is here."
Lin Chen jumped up from the bed with a "scratch": "What is she here for?"
"You should ask her about this. I'm not a god. How can I know so clearly?"
Zeiss sat on a stool and recounted everything that happened last night from beginning to end, including some speculations about the point of death.
Lin Chen digested the information in a daze, and said thankfully: "Fortunately, I went to bed early last night."
...To be precise, he was knocked unconscious early.
After going over Qisi’s words in his mind, he didn’t understand and asked: “Brother Qi, how do you know that as long as you are still awake without being discovered by Miss Anna, nothing will happen?”
"Guess." Qisi chuckled, "Since being awake and sleeping depends on the mechanics of the game, I must not be the only one who wakes up at night."
"A sustainable game will not live forever. Miss Anna knocks on the door from room to room, and it is impossible to kill all the players who wake up. So I speculate that Miss Anna has her own conditions for killing people."
"Combined with the fact that she asked me over and over again if I had slept, I guess her condition for killing was 'finding the player awake at night'."
Lin Chen didn't know what he was saying: "As expected of Brother Qi, if it were me , when she lied to me that she knew I was awake, I must have opened the door in fright."
"This is just a logic problem," Zis said, "You need to be clear, through the door panel. , Miss Anna cannot be 100% sure whether the players in the room are awake, otherwise she would not have to ask so many times and just break in. By the same token, I speculate that she is also bound by the rules and must not disturb the sleeping players. "
“After she breaks in, she will face two situations. Either she bets right and there is a player awake in the room and she successfully harvests a life; or she bets wrong and there are no players in the room. When she wakes up, she breaks the rules and is punished. The risks and benefits are weighed, and she must make a more prudent decision."
Lin Chenxu said with eyes: "But no matter what, she can't guarantee that the people in the room are 100% awake, right? As long as she doesn't open the door for her, even if she makes any noise, it can be said that she is not sleeping well, or talking in her sleep. "
Qisi nodded: "So, she either gives up killing; or she tries to compare the probabilities of people in each room being awake and takes a gamble with the highest probability. "
He paused for a moment. , the conversation changed: "Lin Chen, have you ever opened a blind box?"
"...Huh?"
"There are three blind boxes in total, and I don't know if they are dead. They are living cats, some are dead, some are dying, but there is a specially made box that will release poisonous gas when opened, and the cats inside will die whether they are dead or alive."
"If you open a live cat, you can get the same weight of gold; if you open a dead cat, you will be killed. But you can guess whether the box is specially made and whether the cat inside is dead or alive by knocking, weighing, etc." . ”
“You have studied the first two blind boxes and feel that the cat in the second blind box may be alive. Should you consider the third blind box first, or open it directly? Where is the blind box in your hand?"
Lin Chen understood and continued: "You must try them all, otherwise you can't be sure whether the second blind box is specially made and whether it will poison the cat. "Zis shook his head and sighed: "Then you found that the third box was made of different materials than the other two boxes. You were very happy and thought that as long as you opened the second box, you would get the same weight of gold. But you realize that you don’t know if the cat in the second box is still alive after all this time."
Lin Chen scratched his hair in distress and asked. : "Can I not open a single box?"
"Of course." Qisi put his index finger on his knee and tapped it repeatedly, "Similarly, Miss Anna went to Brother Shen's room and then came back. She couldn't be sure whether I was there during that time. She fell asleep, so her safest decision was not to choose any room."
"That is, as long as everyone is smart enough, last night was Christmas Eve."
< br>Lin Chen listened to Qisi’s logical analysis with blank eyes, feeling that he seemed to understand something, but also seemed not to understand anything at all.
Qisi had no intention of explaining further.
If it weren’t for keeping the tools useful, even if Lin Chen was immediately dragged out and buried in a pit by Miss Anna, he would not have any objection, and maybe he would just watch and shout "come on".
It was still early, so Zis walked to the desk, tore out a page of papyrus, picked up a pen and wrote and drew on it.
Lin Chen cautiously approached and lowered his head to see what he had written on the paper:
[2. The exact time can be known by counting the seconds silently]
[ 3. There is some doubt as to who is Miss Anna who “likes guests”]
[4. You can pretend not to know, etc., not to carry out Miss Anna’s request, but you cannot be discovered by her]
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[5. There may be two Miss Anna]
This is undoubtedly an explanation of the rules on the system interface, which is the "cracking rule" required by the main mission.
After reading the whole article, Lin Chen blinked: "Brother Qi, what's going on with the two Miss Annas?"
Qis put down his pen and raised his eyelids to look at him: "I As I told you, Miss Anna in black was looking at me outside the window, and at the same time there was a knock on the door from Shen Ming's side."
"As far as the current situation is concerned, Miss Anna is still in the category of physical attack. Otherwise, she would not be blocked by the door and could not judge the player's status through the door. Since she cannot clone, there can only be two of her, or in other words, there is another main NPC on the same level as her in this dungeon. .”
"In this way, many contradictions can be explained. Why can Miss Anna be both the main NPC of the dungeon and 'not malicious to the guests'? Sometimes she can be trusted, sometimes she is dangerous; sometimes she wears black clothes, sometimes she wears red clothes. . ”
“I didn’t understand before that in a dungeon where only ghosts can kill humans, what’s there to be afraid of as a living person, Miss Anna, if the main NPCs can’t kill the players? Are you trying to kill yourself?"
"I originally thought that the danger would come from the steward, but that was too far-fetched. It seems that the steward has no ability to act independently. Now the answer is clear, there is one of us in this copy. The main ghost NPC that I haven’t seen yet, or in other words, another Miss Anna.”
Listening to Qisi’s analysis, Lin Chen only felt his scalp itching: “Then can we try to join forces next? Miss Anna, how about dealing with that ghost NPC?"
After he finished speaking, he saw Qiss looking at him with caring eyes.
"Who told you that living people must be good and ghosts must be evil? Yesterday you were so afraid of Miss Anna, a living person."
Chis picked up the pen again and drew three words on the paper On the circles, write "Miss Anna", "Ghost NPC" and "Player" respectively, and use double arrows to connect the three circles in pairs.
"There are three situations. One is as you think, Miss Anna is kind, that is, she is close to the player, and the ghost NPC is evil; the other is just the opposite. Of course, there is the worst case, which is two The NPCs are working together to kill the player. "
"So, we need to first figure out what kind of existence the ghost NPC is. It depends on the next exploration of the third floor."
Lin Chen nodded solemnly, once again intuitively feeling the power of the "old player".
Qisi walked to the wall and picked up the red dress again: "But I have some new ideas about the background story of this copy."
He changed into an emotional first-person voice : "The girl and I were in love, but unfortunately we encountered a lot of resistance. She couldn't meet me openly and could only knock on my door at night..."
Lin Chen: "... "Boss, although you are powerful, why don't you have such a bad taste?
He swallowed and objected in a low voice: "Qi...Brother Qi, why are you so sure that the theme of this copy is love? Could it be that Miss Anna wants to maintain her beauty, so she doesn't Stop killing people? I heard that there was a Queen Mary in history who wanted to take a bath with the blood of a young girl..."
Qisi asked: "Do you remember what fruit was on the table yesterday?"
fruit?
Lin Chen was stunned, and then heard Ziss continue: "Since Albrecht Dürer painted the forbidden fruit as an apple in "Adam and Eve" in 1507, 'the forbidden fruit is an apple. 'The misunderstanding caused by this translation error has become widespread and has gradually become a common practice."
"Looking at Miss Anna's clothing, this copy should be from after the seventeenth century, at this point in time. The image is the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve, which means love.”
“Apples do not often appear in the dinner recipes of European aristocrats. Even if they do appear, they are in the form of desserts such as apples mixed with syrup. , and cannot be complete and need to be grasped and gnawed by the guests."
"All factors combined, it can be basically concluded that the apples that appear at dinner contain metaphors. As for why Miss Anna made it so obvious. The metaphor is placed on the table, which is probably similar to the mentality of a perverted murderer who always likes to hang around the scene after killing someone.”
Lin Chen listened with distracted eyes, only feeling ridiculous.
Logical reasoning alone is not enough. You also need to know such unpopular knowledge. Do students with partial subjects not deserve to live?
This is his first dungeon...
Qisi has always liked to make up lies to scare people. After making up some far-fetched reasoning, he smiled when he saw that the tool man was calmed down. Comfort: "If you just want to survive, it's not that troublesome. You can hide in the room and refer to Article 4 when encountering special circumstances, which is to pretend you don't know anything."
"Theoretically. Tell me, as long as you are brave enough to sleep for three days, you might be able to survive this dungeon peacefully.”
Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he almost offered to ask Qisi to give him another try.
Chis lowered his eyes and sighed: "Of course, what I said above are just speculations based on the situation on the first night, and they may be all wrong. After all, the rules may not mislead us..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a shrill scream was heard coming from outside the door, as if it was about to turn into a sharp sword and penetrate the room.
——Something happened.
I have something to announce, and the next chapter will be one chapter a day. I didn’t do any shortlisting today. Obviously, the 6,000-word first-pass mark is too low, and I can only wait for the public pool in ten days to get people. I heard that too many words is not good, so I will reduce the number of words. Of course, if no one catches it after ten days, I will resume two updates and treat it as love power generation.
(End of this chapter)