Infinite spooky game

Chapter 142 Grand Performance () "Resurrection"

Room 6 is Dong Xiwen's room. The players also found no new clues after tearing off the wallpaper.

Dong Xiwen explained: "I found the fragmentary page of the first act of the script on my desk and just left it there. I almost suspected that this copy was insulting my IQ."

Qisi nodded in approval, looked at the desk in the corner of the room, and casually mentioned: "The form of the ghost corresponding to your room is probably related to writing, be careful with that desk."

Dong Xiwen honestly didn't expect Qisi to have such a kind intention. In his opinion, if there was a way to clear the level by killing other people, this murderous comrade would definitely implement it without hesitation.

What are you doing? Unleash kindness? Pretend to be a good person?

Seeing Dong Xiwen's expression as if facing a formidable enemy, Qisi just smiled casually, said "Let's go first", then walked out the door and returned to his room.

After standing in the room for a while, he became sleepy unconsciously and yawned one after another.

It was the same thing last night. He fell asleep inexplicably. Even though the lights in the room were always on and the four walls were painted in bright and lively colors, he still couldn't wake up.

Normally, he would never fall asleep so quickly in such an environment; the rapid fall asleep last night could only be the mechanism of the copy itself.

This couldn't help but remind him of the copy of "Hopeless Sea". He couldn't wait to get the players to sleep at night. Is there any secret that he didn't want others to know?

Qisi leaned against the door and listened to the footsteps of the players scattering. He expected that everyone had gone back to their respective rooms, so he turned the door handle again and pushed the door open.

There was no one on the stage. Only the neon light and shadow shone on the shiny and reflective floor from all angles, making the whole scene a bright light and blurring the line of sight.

At a certain moment, you can see the dark shadow hidden by the light spot, but it also just flashes by and then disappears, making it difficult to distinguish.

Being illuminated by the lights on the stage, Zis sobered up a little and immediately walked straight to Room 6.

From the end of the first act, he had a vague hunch that this copy was not simple.

Facing complex copies, you will either kill other players or mess up the situation...

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In Room 6, after everyone left, Dong Xiwen took out a black card from his pocket.

[Character Card-Audience]

[Description: He is an uninvited guest, breaking into the stage where the actors perform the story from outside the door; he makes no sound, peeks in from the side, comments, and gives rich feedback and emotions. He seems to have more opportunities to know the whole story, and he seems to be in the game, troubled by the playwright's narrative tricks. 】

[Effects: 1. "Progress bar" - you can see the progress of the script;

2. "Alternate World" - You and the actors are not in the same dimension and cannot take physical damage from them. 】

This is the card Dong Xiwen picked up after entering Room 5.

At that time, the moment he crossed the threshold, he seemed to have entered a parallel time and space. The surrounding scenes were very familiar, but different from what he remembered.

He attended his younger brother's school at the same time as a senior.

Pictures fly before your eyes, accompanied by narration explaining the background, as if you are playing a text simulation game. But in Dong Xiwen's eyes, every scene was so real. When he saw his brother's smiling face, he couldn't help but feel a sore nose.

A voice whispered in his ear:

"Those bullies haven't attacked Xiao Wen yet, but you know their appearance clearly. Kill them so that Xiao Wen won't die."

"They are all guilty. Trying them for future crimes in advance can save the victims before they happen. This is a just move. Why do you have any hesitation?"

Dong Xiwen raised his head and saw his sin.

It was a huge black scale suspended above the head, casting a shadow that could almost cover the entire city. There were ghostly shadows underneath, which did not appear solemn and sacred, but instead eerie and terrifying.

[Ghost name: Judgment Scale]

[Corresponding player: Dong Xiwen]

[Description: A giant scale that is keen to force humans to make choices between justice and evil. It will set up difficult-to-choose situations to test human nature and kill those who answer wrongly. What is the correct answer? No one knows, maybe it doesn't know, ha, ha, ha. 】

【…】

Dong Xiwen was held up by a force and flew into the sky.

The character card was placed safely in the center of the scale. After he landed, he bent down and picked it up. Then he learned from the system prompt that he was the fourth character to "know his fate."

"So I am actually an audience member? No, Charlie said that all of us are both actors and audiences. How come this identity is only mentioned? Hey! The playwright couldn't think of words when he designed the character card, right? ?" Dong Xiwen said in a complaining tone, and couldn't help but think of the opening of the copy.

He was the only one who entered the dungeon scene from outside the door, and he was always out of focus, playing no positive or negative role, as if he was just a spectator from beginning to end.

He seems... really special.

Dong Xiwen remembered that he was in almost the same state after joining "that organization". As a latecomer, I silently observe the various personnel arrangements and action plans of the organization, never participate, and just wait to die...

"Knock, knock, knock."

There were three unhurried knocks on the door, and most of Dong Xiwen's sleepiness that had just been born had dissipated.

what's the situation? Emergencies? Ghost knocking on the door?

The next second, a familiar voice sounded gently: "Dong Xiwen, it's me, Zhou Ke."

"Zhou Ke"? What is he here for? Are you trying to kill me alone?

I'm not afraid of a solo kill, after all, there is the effect of the character card, but who knows if the person coming is a ghost in disguise?

Instead of relaxing, Dong Xiwen became even more nervous.

Just as he was hesitating how to respond, the voice outside the door sighed and said, "I know you won't let me in. I just came here to give you a warning, be careful with Hehui."

"Ah?" Dong Xiwen opened his mouth wide, but moved closer to the door, "Brother, please elaborate."

"I have studied psychology, and I can see that she lied about her identity." Zisi told lies through the door panel without changing his face, "She is not a supporting role, so she must be one of the protagonist and the villain. If she is the protagonist, even if we are to perfectly interpret the script, we will let her live until the end. There is no need for her to hide her identity; then, she can only be the villain."

"Villain?" Dong Xiwen didn't quite believe it. "If she was a villain, she would have hidden it well all the way, right? They are all veteran players, so they wouldn't treat others as fools, right?"

Ziss lowered his eyes and said: "There is another possibility, that is, this copy has different definitions of the villain and the protagonist. When Mr. Charlie or the puppet wrote this script, they wrote it with a twisted and unwilling mentality. Naturally, the story will not be a traditional story. The fragmentary pages of the script also said that this story is full of violence and blood. How can a simple and weak character like Hehui be the protagonist? "

Dong Xiwen thought about it carefully and felt that what Qisi said seemed to make sense.

He maintained his rationality and argued: "But the logic of your reasoning was not valid from the beginning. She is the protagonist, and she may have concealed her identity, for example, for fear of being targeted by the villain or something."

This is undoubtedly the truth. Qisi frowned, but his voice remained calm: "Then do you think it is possible to have two protagonists in a drama?"

Dong Xiwen looked serious: "What do you mean?"

"I am the protagonist." Zis said, "If you don't believe it, I can show you my character card." "You? The protagonist?"

Qisi didn't wait for Dong Xiwen to react before he continued: "You should also have gotten your character card. You have probably guessed how to get the character card, right?"

"Enter the room where your corresponding evil is entrenched?"

Qisi said "Yes" and said: "Hehui was the first to get the character card. It can be basically determined that her sin lies in the room No. 3 she chose. How many evil things do you think she has done? , to have such a big sin?"

This is an indisputable fact, and you can see it with just a few turns of your mind.

Details that had been subconsciously ignored before were regurgitated in his mind, and Dong Xiwen's breathing became rapid.

Hehui had shown a weak, victim-like face from the beginning, which naturally aroused his sympathy and protective desire, but now he was told that it was all disguise and deception...

Dong Xiwen thought for a while and asked: "Your sin is in Room 1, right? Cynthia targeted you like that, she must have encountered your sin, right?"

"Yes." Zi admitted frankly, "But I have never hidden my so-called 'sin', right?"

Dong Xiwen said with vacant eyes: "No matter what, you are more dangerous...you can still describe killing and eating people without changing your expression. Your three views have long been out of the scope of normal people, right?"

Zeiss asked nonchalantly: "So, are you bragging about your sense of justice?"

Dong Xiwen said "Huh" through the door panel and put a question mark at the end to express his confusion.

Qisi raised the corners of his lips and continued: "This is a perfectly normal thing. Prostitutes boast about their debauchery, murderers boast about their ferocity, rich men boast about their plunder and plunder, and rulers boast about their tyranny. You need to seek rationality for your actions, but some rationalities are accepted by most people, while others are not understood.”

"In my world view, anyone who hurts me at all deserves a miserable death; in your view, this unfair world needs a change; obviously, in a short period of time, both my rationality and your It cannot be universally recognized - based on that set of agreed-upon rules, what is the difference between you and me?"

"It's impossible for your worldview to be recognized at any time, right?" Although Dong Xiwen felt that it was silly to discuss issues of good and evil with a perverted murderer, he still continued, "Although universal values ​​sometimes survive, they cannot. Deny it, it is indeed conducive to the survival of the human species..."

"'Beneficial'." Qisi chewed on the three words Dong Xiwen said word by word and laughed out loud, "So in the final analysis, benefit is the eternal thing. Then I also hope that you will do it out of benefit." For consideration, don’t be so hostile to me, because I can’t kill people randomly for no profit. At least in my opinion, Cynthia and Hehui deserve to die better than you.”

Dong Xiwen finally understood Qisi's logic and raised his eyebrows: "So you want me to join forces with you to deal with Cynthia and Hehui? What? The logic you said does make some sense, but how do I know you don't? Are you lying to me?"

[Danger is coming, please return to your room and seek shelter in it]

The cold system tone interrupted the conversation at the right time.

After two seconds of silence, Dong Xiwen said: "Why don't you go back to the room first? I'll think about it..."

"It's easy to verify my words." Zeis continued the previous topic, "Either I show you my character card, or I die once and show up tomorrow with all my body and tail to verify it." The law of immortality of the protagonist'."

Dong Xiwen was shocked. He really didn't expect Qisi to be so willing.

He quickly opened the door: "Brother, you are my eldest brother, okay? Let me open the door and take a look at your character card..."

He was basically sure that the "Zhou Ke" outside the door was a player and not a ghost. So with the "Alien World" effect of the character card, there wouldn't be much risk for him to open the door.

Of course, Chis had no ill intentions at all.

He never had any hope of killing other players head-on, so naturally he wouldn't think of giving Dong Xiwen a try.

After Dong Xiwen opened the door, he neatly took out the character card from his pocket, turned it over and showed it to the former.

[Players are not allowed to show their character cards to others, and card-peeping is not allowed]

System prompts appeared on the two people's panels at the same time. The black card in Qisi's hand was instantly submerged in white light, and the writing on it could no longer be seen clearly.

Qisi was obviously stunned for a long time, and then he shook his head regretfully: "It seems that I can only die once."

Dong Xiwen believed him eight or nine times as early as the moment Qisi showed the character card.

If he really had a ghost in his heart, his movements wouldn't be so neat.

At this moment, he quickly stopped Qisi: "Brother Zhou, why don't I believe you? Well, why don't you find a place to sit down first and discuss what to do tomorrow?"

His movements suddenly froze, and he saw that the Zisi in front of him suddenly became flat, as if he had been reduced from a three-dimensional creature to a two-dimensional one, and the colors on his body also turned into a mass of red, yellow and blue.

He fell straight forward and stuck to the ground like a poster. In a few seconds, he turned into a thin gray shadow and disappeared.

Before the end of the first act, Charlie said: "A room only protects the first person who enters it."

Yes, the danger has come. "Zhou Ke" will not be protected if he is not in his room.

This information was asked personally by "Zhou Ke". He knew the danger, but insisted on coming to Room 6. He even risked his own death to prove his identity...

Dong Xiwen stared blankly at the gray shadow on the ground, stunned for a long time.

He suddenly remembered that it was Qiss who reminded him of the existence of the "Novice Pool" in the first scene.

Then, in the "Black Jack" game that just ended, in the last round, the card Zis handed to Charlie was [10], and his remaining card was [A]. He actually took the initiative to dismantle his own blackjack, instead of letting everyone else fail together.

This person doesn't seem to be as heinous as he originally thought?

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In Room 3, Hehui didn't realize at all that he had become a "villain" full of lies in Qis's arrangement.

She allowed herself to be overwhelmed by sleep, and had the dream from yesterday again.

Her figure is reflected in the maze made of glass. Countless pairs of eyes are watching her from all angles, and she is completely naked.

Trembling, she began to run, stumbling.

At the end of the road, a few pieces of yellowed papyrus were pasted on the smooth mirror surface, like bruises or scars.

[Guard (sneering): We are ordered by the king to burn those forbidden scripts. Whoever dares to stop us, we have no choice but to destroy them together! 】

[Charlie (pledging): I swear I will never let those plays be staged again. Please let me save the few remaining manuscripts! I have nothing but those things. 】

[Guard: I see that this old man like you is not well-intentioned and wants to poison the minds of the people with your lies! We will destroy you together, destroy you! 】

[The guard shouted loudly and rushed into the study with torches raised. Soon, flames soaring into the sky ignited from the study and gradually engulfed the entire theater. 】

[End of Act 2]

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[Note] "Resurrection" is a novel written by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, which exposes the hypocrisy of the feudal ruling class and reactionary officials.

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