Infinite spooky game

Chapter 111 Double Happiness Town ([-]) Weeping Coffin
Xi'er is dead?

Newly arrived news is like a boulder dropped into stagnant water, splashing out a pool of miscellaneous duckweeds.Shang Qingbei understood in an instant what was going on with his inexplicably completed side mission.

In order to ruin Xi'er's happy event, there is nothing wrong with the logic of letting one of the groom and the bride die, but normal people wouldn't think about it this way, right?
What's more, the voice in the dream said that the reason for ruining the happy event was because Xi'er would die after getting married.From what he heard, it was obvious that he wanted to save Xi'er's life...

Shang Qingbei felt as if he was being drenched from head to toe by the icy lake water in the deep winter. The side mission was completed, but Xi'er was dead. Would the existence in the dream be satisfied?

If you fall asleep again at night, will you never wake up again?

Thinking of the strange multiple dreams, Shang Qingbei shuddered and subconsciously looked at Qisi, who was walking towards a place with few people.

The young man was facing the pale sunlight, his white shirt was illuminated brightly, and the edges were blurred by the faint light like the outline of a ghost. The whole person gave off a leisurely and relaxed feeling.

Shang Qingbei felt a hairy feeling in his heart, but he couldn't bear to break up, so he could only purse his lips and follow silently.

Mrs. Xu had just returned from Xi'er's home, and the news of Xi'er's death also came with her.

The townspeople moved out of the way, and she walked tremblingly among them. There was no smile on her wrinkled face, and it was as gloomy as the dark clouds before the rain.

The groom's family members swarmed up to him, wiping their eyes pretendingly, and started talking to each other.

"Why did such a good girl die? Sister-in-law Xu, didn't you promise us that nothing would happen if we couldn't tell you?"

"We, Alin, are not lucky. We have a good wife, and then we lose it..."

They complained, not feeling sad, but more like they were using the topic to make some comments about Mrs. Xu.

Sister-in-law Xu obviously saw this and sneered: "Old lady, I have been working for so many years. How many times have I not made proper arrangements? This time I am not being reasonable. I will definitely give you an explanation, but don't be ridiculous, you guys." My nose is on my face, if I’m an old woman, I’m easy to bully!”

After all, thanks to the prestige she had accumulated over the years, Mrs. Xu calmed down the noisy townspeople with just one sentence.She turned her head sideways again, hunched her back, and whispered something to the people around her.

Her voice was so low that you couldn't hear it from two steps away.Du Xiaoyu, who was standing nearby and joining in the fun, was intrigued. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he lowered his body and squeezed into the crowd, hoping to have a listen.

He came closer and as soon as he raised his eyes, he came into contact with Mrs. Xu's warning eyes.

The eyes were as cold and sinister as a poisonous snake, leaving him with no doubt that if he took another step forward, his fangs would pierce his throat.

Du Xiaoyu was not stupid, he figured it out in a few seconds. Nothing happened in the past decades, but the bride died as soon as the players came. Mrs. Xu was [-]% sure that it was the players.

Thinking along this line of thought, he suddenly remembered that in the early morning, Qisi seemed to have gone out alone and said a few words to Xi'er...

The sudden change attracted the attention of all the townspeople. While they were gathering together to discuss countermeasures, the players gathered in an uninhabited alley.

They are all official players, and combined with the process of backward reasoning, it is easy to guess the beginning and end of the matter.The four of them looked at Qiss in unison, waiting for him to give an explanation.

"A red thing has turned into a white matter, can we consider it as a meal in advance?" Qisi made a joke out of some sense of humor that only he could understand.

Faced with the fearful looks of the players, he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to explain the fun behind the topic, suppressed the smile on his lips, and said calmly: "You should also know, the time I went out in the morning, I gave Xi'er had a blade, and I think she committed suicide with that blade."

Of course he can continue to deceive people. He can come up with countless reasonable explanations to clear himself up, and he is confident that with his acting skills, everything from his expression to his behavior will be flawless - but it is not necessary.

The loopholes in one lie need to be filled with countless lies, which is too tiring.Now that something has been done and there is a follow-up, we cannot naively hope that others will be unaware of it.

"As for why she was so decisive, it's probably because I said something to her to help her figure it out." Qiss said, recounting the morning's scene in detail.

After listening to this, the players' faces showed a look of surprise.Then they remembered the sincere and lonely look on the young man's face when he came back from Xi'er in the morning, as if he had really just asked a few questions but received no answer.

At that time, they didn't even realize that something was wrong, and they were all deceived.If there are one, there are two, there are three, and so on. How much of "Qi Wen's" words are true and how false?

Everyone can make associations, and the players quickly thought that this time "Qi Wen" just deceived them in the details. What about the future?
There is no omission in his expression, no flaw in his behavior, and he can persuade an NPC to commit suicide with just a few words. At that time, perhaps only "Qi Wen" himself will know what he has done...

"Why did you lie to us?" Liu Bingding asked.

Not long ago, he was moved by Qisi's heartfelt apology, but now he told him that everything might be a show to deceive him...

His emotions were ups and downs, and his voice was trembling: "You can tell the truth."

"Why should I tell the truth?" Qisi asked with a smile, and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Whether to cheat or not is just a choice, and in my opinion at the time, telling you the truth not only has no benefit, but may lead to trouble. .”

He sighed softly, with an innocent look on his face: "It would not look good if one of you has a Holy Mother heart and causes some trouble."

Of course, among the five people present, there was no Virgin who was unwilling to hurt even NPCs, but Qiss's behavior was still too deviant.

Shang Qingbei frowned and asked, "Why did you want to kill Xi'er? She obviously didn't hurt us."

Zeiss heard that this was a sneaky change of concept, using the word "killing" instead of "inducing suicide", throwing a bigger basin of dirty water.

He had no intention of defending, and patiently explained as if he was unaware: "Haven't you noticed? We have been passive from the time we entered the dungeon to now. The places we went were all arranged by Mrs. Xu, and the clues we knew were told to us by our mobile phones. We Everything we do, see and hear is within the arrangement and plan of the dungeon. If nothing else happens, we will encounter several death points, kill a few people, and then smoothly take the NE route to pass the level."

"——But I don't want this. Therefore, I will do my best to disrupt the original plot line of this dungeon. Letting Xi'er die is just one method. As long as the situation is chaotic enough, the information gap will no longer exist, and players and NPCs will The amount of information obtained will be brought to an equal position, so that the game will be fair and there will be room for gaming.”

He paused for a moment, lowered his eyes and said: "Of course, I am not sure that Xi'er will die as I planned. After all, I am also gambling. If I win the bet, I will make a lot of money; if I lose the bet, I will not lose anything. "

The young man's voice was calm and clear. The focus of the discussion shifted from "deception" to "the reasons for killing NPCs" at some point. The degree seemed to have become serious, but in fact, it was avoiding the important and taking the easy.

The players were thoughtful.Most people follow the rules, habitually following the guidance of strange games and surviving in crises. However, Ziss undoubtedly broke away from the perspective of being in the game and looked at the entire game from a high-level perspective.

——I cannot say whether the method is right or wrong, good or bad, but it does have its rationality.

"If you want to disrupt the situation, you can use other methods. You kill others so naturally, and now it's Xi'er. Who knows if you will harm us in the future?" Shang Qingbei asked persistently, A classic slippery slope fallacy, but very convincing.

Ziss did not answer directly, but looked around the players and asked: "Are any of you vegetarians?"

The answer is of course no. There was meat in the food for last night’s dinner, and no one ate less of it.

Chiss continued on by himself: "In the short term, we are a community of interests. If I hurt you, it will be harmful but not beneficial. And when there are enough interests, it is human nature to benefit yourself at the expense of others; there is no difference between you and me."

"For food or nutritional balance, we kill animals; for a limited number of opportunities, we compete to squeeze out our opponents; in order to survive, we do our best to do anything that can increase our probability of survival." Before something happens, no matter how upright you say it, it is a kind of hypocrisy. Survival and profit-seeking are things engraved in biological genes. For most people, the instinct cannot be overcome, right?"

The players looked at each other, feeling a faint chill on their backs.

Ziss's judgment and cognition are undoubtedly very consistent with the group portrait of massacre players, and his actions are indeed too careless.But if he really massacred popular players, why did he tell the truth?
Uncertain about the situation for a moment, the players silently put Qiss into the ranks of dangerous people, but they didn't intend to break up with him at this moment.No matter what, clearing the dungeon is the most important, and doing whatever it takes to survive is an unspoken rule.

Li Yao thought of something and murmured to herself: "But we are humans after all, not beasts."

Ziss was amused, tilted his head to look at her, and asked, "Why can't humans be beasts?"

The young man's dark pupils spread into a dark patch, devoid of light, and the smile failed to penetrate his eyes, leaving them with a hollow without any fluctuations.

Li Yao felt frightened for no reason. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something else.

However, Qisi had already looked away and said calmly: "There is no point in discussing these at the moment. There are only two things we can do: first, explore the entire Shuangxi Town; second, wait for Xu Wen's call and message."

"I suggest that we split up and go back to Xi'er's house to see if we can find anything from Xi'er's room; the others go to the Temple of Happiness together."

No one had any objections to Chiss's arrangement. The Temple of Joy was obviously more dangerous, so there was nothing wrong with gathering more manpower.

"I'll go to Xi'er's house. I happen to have the skills in the stealth field, so I can avoid the townspeople and explore." Li Yao suggested according to the plan she had agreed with Qis before.

Liu Bingding then said: "I will also go to Xi'er's house."

There was no particular reason, it was just that I didn’t want to go to the Temple of Happiness.

Qisi nodded in agreement and said, "Let's go first. You can follow Mrs. Xu later and act according to the situation."

"it is good."

"no problem."

The players parted ways at this point.

On the alleyway paved with bluestone slabs, Qisi silently led the way, while Du Xiaoyu and Shang Qingbei followed closely.

After walking for a while, Du Xiaoyu said in a hesitant voice: "Brother Qi, those words you said..."

"I do think so." Qisi interrupted, saying in a joking tone, "After all, you and I are not familiar with each other. Don't you think it's too false to promise in advance that you will sacrifice your life to save others? Just lend a hand when it's easy to do. Not bad.”

He didn't say the second half of the sentence.There is a high probability that he is not a helper, but a stumbling block or a culprit.

"Didn't you say on the first day that you want us to unite?" Du Xiaoyu asked.

Ziss said: "There is no conflict between unity and self-interest. This is a team dungeon. Unity can achieve the greatest benefits. What reason do I have to harm you?"

"In the prisoner's dilemma, as long as neither prisoner confesses, the best benefits will be achieved. However, unfortunately, when there is a chain of suspicion, individuals making rational choices often lead to collective irrationality. Based on this, I I hope that by opening up the conversation and dispelling the doubts among us, we can collectively make the most rational choice."

Looking at the same thing from different angles, it is possible to reach completely opposite conclusions. Even recognized facts and reasonable derivation processes may lead to completely false results under the deliberate guidance of thoughtful people. This is the essence of rhetoric.

In the copy of "Rose Manor", Qiss used the Prisoner's Dilemma to persuade Lin Chen to doubt, but here, what he has to do is to convince the players to trust.

He lowered his eyes at the right time and sighed helplessly: "I thought I made my words clear enough, but I didn't expect that it backfired in the end."

Du Xiaoyu had already been led by Qisi's logic. He was stunned for a while. At this moment, he quickly continued: "Brother Qi, I believe you! After all, an NPC died. If it weren't for some people's nonsense. Rhythm, what’s the big deal?”

After he finished speaking, he glared at the "rhythmic" Shang Qingbei next to him.

Shang Qingbei was speechless all the way, chewing Qisi's words with furrowed brows, trying to find loopholes in the logic.

Being called out for no reason, he had to withdraw from his thoughts and argued: "Qi Wen didn't say anything, how do I know what he thinks? The things he did, it's hard not to make people suspicious, right?"

As he said this, he couldn't help but mentally go through all the events after entering the dungeon, and found that Qiss did not seem to have done anything too extreme. Taking a closer look, his words and deeds were consistent.

That being said, why did he find this young man suspicious and annoying?
Shang Qingbei rubbed his nose and couldn't understand, but decided to continue to hate it.

The roads in the town twist and turn, and the houses with white walls and black tiles are arranged high and low on both sides. The uniform buildings give people the illusion of going in circles.

Ziss had been deliberately memorizing the route, so he knew the direction back.Having just finished fooling his temporary teammates with words, he was in a good mood and his pace was a little brisk.

White mist curled up from both sides unconsciously, connecting into a vast expanse of white, blurring the scenery and objects in front so that it was difficult to see clearly.Soon the whole person felt like he was sailing in a sea of ​​fog, his whole body was soaked in wet vapor, and even his breath became moist.

The sound of "ding bells" came from the distance, clear and quiet, from far to near, and reached my ears in a few breaths, ringing the bells tirelessly.

Zeiss saw a huge black shadow moving slowly in the fog ahead, approaching and then moving away.

It was a coffin.

The scene in the dream reappeared in reality. Qisi's breathing became rapid as he thought of the complicated patterns that amazed him last night and the blood leaking from under the coffin.

He took a few quick steps to get closer to the coffin, standing half a step behind the coffin, and followed unhurriedly.

Some sounds came from the coffin, as light as a gnat, but one after another. They seemed to be small sobs, mixed with insubstantial calls for help.

The moment he heard the sound, Qiss felt like he was split in half.

Half of him couldn't help coveting the coffin, wanting to touch it, knock it, open the lid, or even lie down in it...

The other half of him was trembling, whether out of fear or physiological chills.The danger warning pulsed wildly, forcing him to look back.

He saw that there was no one behind him.

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