It's already the second watch, and it's midnight after the next watch.
Qiu Xin listened to the shouts of the watchman and carefully determined the direction.
She hasn’t killed anyone yet, but it’s not too late to do so now.
Based on the experience of the first night, the identity of the watchman is most likely the old man who manages the residence, and is also the "living person" chosen by the townspeople to sacrifice. The shadow behind him takes on the shape of a human.
Although I don’t understand how the “living people” are selected when almost all the townspeople are ghosts;
I don’t understand how the person who was obviously killed by the player was counted in the agreement between the townspeople and the mountain god;
But this does not prevent Qiuxin from seizing the opportunity and completing the daily must-dos of the Demonic Camp. murder mission.
“Bang, bang——”
The sound of bangs is getting closer and closer, dragging the sounds of footsteps deep into the alley.
Chou Xin held a lantern in his mouth, turned over and jumped off the roof, landing gently on the haystacks behind the house, looking through the gaps between the haystacks in the direction of the sound of the alarm.
In the darkness, I couldn't see the shadow behind the person. I could only see through the dim light that fell from nowhere. It was a little old lady wearing a hat and a raincoat. She had a walking stick under her arm and a hand in her hand. The gong is being struck dutifully.
You only need to tap her on the shoulder to kill her. Today’s mission is completed...
Qiu Xin pushed aside the haystack, suppressed the sound of footsteps, step by step Go forward.
The vision widened, and she saw an orange halo on the ground behind the little old lady, splashing brightly and moving forward as she walked.
That is the light of the lantern.
Qiu Xin looked at the light source and saw a figure in red clothes holding a white paper lantern, silently following the little old lady, always two steps away from her.
The evening breeze blew up the sleeves and long train, and the blood-colored cloth floated silently in the air, lingering like blood dripping into clear water, and the edges blurred like a ghost walking at night.
It’s Lin Wen!
What is Lin Wen doing following the watchman? Did you discover something, or...do you want to take action against the watcher?
Yes, Lin Wen can come out at night without being attacked by ghosts, which proves that he is also a ghost.
If you are a ghost, you have to kill people, and the watchman who is clearly a living person is undoubtedly the best target.
There is only one watcher, whoever gets it first will get it.
Qiu Xin no longer hesitated, grabbed a handful of fine sand from the item list, and threw it towards the man in red behind the little old lady.
The man in red reacted very quickly and stepped back. Qiu Xin took the opportunity to step forward, ran behind the little old lady in a few steps, and slapped her hard on the right shoulder.
“Thump-thump——”
Geng Gong fell to the ground, and the little old lady threw herself forward.
[You have used your identity effect once today to kill one person]
[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]
Except for the deceased, someone has changed. Other than that, everything was exactly the same as the first night.
Qiu Xin succeeds with one blow and has no intention of entanglement. He turns around and runs along the way he came.
After running only a few steps, she felt a cold sensation on her right ankle, as if something had caught it.
Her legs could not move, and her upper body leaned forward under the influence of inertia. She staggered and fell into the soft haystack.
Then I heard a clear voice coming from behind: "I knew that following the caller would find you, Hatred. Now, as teammates in the same camp, let's have a good chat."
......
Not long after Qisi sat in the room, he guessed that the two people next door were asleep, so he pushed the door open and went down the stairs to the first floor of the residence.
The dungeon has been completed so far, and the clues and information are almost collected. He already has a general idea of how to clear the dungeon, but the details still need to be designed.
For example, how to tell other players information that only the ghost knows without arousing suspicion.
Another example is how to complete the task of "eliminating all humans among players" without losing any blood.
On the first night, Zis easily killed an unlucky player while other players were away. He thought that he would just have to identify who was a ghost and who was a human, and then do the same to humans.
Unexpectedly, after just one night of waiting, the identity camp figured it out, but completely missed the opportunity.
Players only think that Luo Haihua and his wife are Xiyi, who are used to collect clues in another space.
But Qiss knew clearly that it was a rope used to tie the players in the Demon camp.
Xi Yi is invisible and intangible, and cannot be killed directly by touching the shoulder; Luo Haihua and his wife are inseparable, and the clause of "being alone in the same room" does not apply; in theory, the ghost cannot kill them Yes, it can only be "eliminated" by a special means.
The basis for that special method is trust.
Once Luo Haihua and his wife witnessed him killing other players, it would be difficult to trick them into following his plan.
Therefore, he must use some more complicated means to mobilize more chess pieces to implement the plan.
Qiu Xin is one of the chess pieces to be used.
Qisi offered to go out to explore at night, with a hidden purpose of finding Hatred.
He believes that people have inertia of thinking. After the success of hatred on the first night, there is a high probability that they will continue to choose to attack more people on the second night.
On this basis, it is very simple for him to find his hatred.
Qisi carried a lantern and walked out of the gate of the residence, following the sound of the night watch that enveloped the entire Yanghua Town. Finally, after passing through three streets and alleys, he found the figure of the little old lady who was responsible for the night watch tonight.
He quietly followed the little old lady and walked for another quarter of an hour. Fortunately, he met the enemy who had been away from the team for a long time.
At this moment, the scarlet cursed pendulum was wrapped around Qiu Xin's ankle, and from a distance it looked like a hideous trace of blood.
Qisi stood in front of Qiu Xin, bending slightly and showing his white teeth: "First of all, I hope you won't act rashly. Although the prop wrapped around your foot is not fatal, if it cuts the wound , will randomly apply one of the three debuffs of amnesia, hallucination, and high fever.
"The other two are fine, but it will be troublesome if you lose your memory. You may suffer from Alzheimer's disease. He was drooling, couldn't recognize people, and might treat himself as an NPC and stay forever. ”
Qiu Xin suddenly raised his eyes with a gloomy look: "Are you threatening me?"
Qisi looked into her eyes and sighed: "This is the second point I want to make. A friendly and cooperative attitude. In my opinion, you don’t have to be so intimidated by the enemy.
“This is a team copy, and you and I are in the same camp, and our positions are completely consistent. Cooperation can achieve the greatest benefits. What's more, Article 4 of the identity effect says that after killing a player who is also a demon, I will also be wiped out.
"Although I am not a person who cherishes my life, if I exchange the value of your life for mine, with all due respect, I will feel that I have suffered a big loss."
That's not true. It sounds good, but the truth is correct.
Qiu Xin was silent for two seconds and asked quietly: "I don't think this is a team copy in the traditional sense. The number of living people you can meet every day is limited, and even within the camp, there is competition."
"This brings us to the third point." Qisi smiled and raised his index finger between his lips. "Today I followed them to the east and west of the town and found many key clues, pointing to completely different developments. , Do you want to hear it?"
"Will you tell me?"
"As long as you promise me that you will never expose my identity and it will not be detrimental to me, I will tell you."
"Okay." [The soul contract has been signed. This contract is guaranteed by the rules of the world and cannot be violated by any existence]
Silver-white writing was refreshed on the system interface of the two people at the same time. Qiu Xin looked up at the sky, then looked down at the pendulum hanging on his ankle, and a strange color flashed in his eyes: "Contract Similar skills? Red pendulum? "
Zi Stan nodded calmly: "Well, the 'Cheng An' who was posted on the forum not long ago is also me."
Qiu Xin: "..."
The contract is completed, and the clause of "never revealing identity" covers a wide range of things. It can be the identity of "Ghost", or the identity of "Cheng An", or even more.
Zeiss was not worried about his hatred hindering his plans after knowing certain information.
Looking at the expressionless hatred, he continued: "In the morning, we followed the mourners to the bamboo forest in the east of the town, and saw that they had inserted them vertically into the soil. The corpse turned into a scarecrow.
"Through some experiments, we determined that most of the townspeople were ghosts possessing the scarecrow, and their shadows were actually the scarecrow's shadow.
"In other words, the scarecrow they possess is in the shape of a tiger, and the shadow is in the shape of a tiger; the scarecrow they possess is in the shape of a human, and the shadow is in the shape of a human."
Qiu Xin understood the meaning in the words Meaning, asked: "There is no difference between living people and ghosts in the townspeople. They are all ghosts. We can just pat anyone on the shoulder and complete the daily tasks. Is that true?
"Why is the dungeon designed like this? How can I be sure that you are telling the truth?"
"Just find a town citizen and try it. You can try it yourself, or you can let me try it." Qi Si stepped back a few steps, bent down to pick up the watch gong that fell on the ground, and looked sideways at Qiu Xin's side.
It was a dilapidated wooden house, with constant crying sounds coming from inside, and it was obvious that someone lived there.
"I'll try it myself." Qiu Xin said.
She walked to the door of the wooden house, raised her hand and knocked on the door twice. After knocking, she remembered that Yanghua Town had repeatedly issued orders not to allow the townspeople to open the door at night...
She took out a medicine hammer from the toolbar and was about to break the door lock, but she heard the sound of "ta-ta-da" footsteps coming from the door.
"An'an, are you back?" The old lady who lost her grandson pushed open the wooden door blankly with red and swollen eyes and looked outside.
Qiu Xin reached out and patted her left shoulder.
"Plop——"
The old lady fell to the ground as if her soul had been sucked out.
[You have used your identity effect twice today, killing two people]
[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]
Qiu Xin heard the system announcement and was silent Speechless.
All the townspeople are targets for the ghost to kill, but why use a scarecrow to distinguish the shadow of a human from the shadow of a tiger among them?
Qisi lowered his eyes and looked at the photographic film in his hand, which reflected the scene of the moment when Qiu Xin made his move.
The scarecrow in tattered gray clothes was shrouded in a gray-black shadow. When his shoulder was touched, his attention suddenly disappeared in all directions, as if pebbles were thrown into a pond, as if he had been greatly frightened...
< br>Ghosts are afraid of demons and can easily be scared out of their wits; and the player who is a ghost ghost happens to be a demon.
On weekdays, the townspeople think that they are humans and are not afraid of the devil; but when they find out that they are ghosts, they are extremely afraid of the devil.
This is how the player's ghost can easily kill the townspeople by touching their shoulders.
Qisi put the imaged film into his sleeve and walked a little way towards the alley. He looked back at Qiu Xin who was stunned in place: "Are you interested in accompanying me to a place?"
Qiu Xin said nothing, holding the flickering light, and slowly followed Qisi.
After passing through a few streets, the sound of "bang bang" sounded again in my ears.
The hoarse shouts echoed in the silent night, chanting vague words:
"My wife died of a tiger, and my son died. Why not go? There is a military disaster in a foreign country... ..."
Qisi walked over following the shouts, and through the light and shadow of the lantern spreading around, he saw a scholar dressed in black with white beard and hair.
After changing his identity, the scholar who possesses the person's shadow also gains the responsibility of watching the clock, and may die at night like the little old lady in charge of the residence, as a sacrifice to provide for the tiger demon.
Qiu Xin murmured: "The villagers themselves are all spirits, and their identities are determined by the scarecrow they possess, which changes every day.
"It's like reincarnation. Some people are rich and powerful. Some people are as poor as dirt, and some people... are doomed to die at the hands of ghosts at night because they are possessed by human-shaped scarecrows. ”
“Smart. "Qisi smiled and said, "The current situation is that the scholar comrade who received us yesterday unfortunately possessed the human-shaped scarecrow.
“I just don’t know if this possession is random or if someone is controlling it. Is it a random ghost selected and offered to the tiger, or is this an opportunity to get rid of a specific individual.”
Qiu Xin thought for a while and asked: "Do you have a way to verify it?"
"I want to try if we don't kill him according to the rules, will he be able to see the sun tomorrow?"< br>
After Qisi finished speaking, he controlled the cursed pendulum to fly back to his hand, turned around and turned into an alley.
He held the lantern high and shined it through the windows one after another. It didn’t take long before he found a tattered, old and disrepaired paper window.
He did not knock on the door, but directly threw the cursed pendulum towards the paper window, breaking through the thin layer of obstruction.
A middle-aged couple lay on the kang in the room, huddled in each other's arms after the window was broken, and stared at Qis standing outside the window with pale faces.
Chiss was not in a hurry to enter the door. He controlled the cursed pendulum to fly into the house and picked off the door latch.
The door opened.
Qisi strolled in through the door and patted the couple on each shoulder.
【You have used your identity effect once today and killed one person】
[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]
[You have used identity effects twice today, killing two people]
[Please kill within twelve hours The next person dies]
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Three louder sounds were heard in the distance, and the gong in the hand resonated with grief.
Qisi took out [Ink Soul Scroll] and [Umbrella Full of Pain] from the item list, and activated their effects at the same time.
Ink evaporates from the long scroll of landscape, floating in the air like clouds and mist, and scattered golden light outlines the outline of the door.
Qisi stepped into the door, traced a freehand landscape with his fingers, and looked back at the ground gradually fading away.
But I heard someone shouting at the top of their lungs:
"It's three o'clock at midnight, everything is safe!" (End of this chapter)