Infinite spooky game

It’s the second watch of the night, and the next one will be midnight.

Qiu Xin listened to the night watchman's shouting and carefully determined the direction.

She hasn't killed anyone today, but it's not too late to do so now.

Based on the experience of the first night, the identity of the night watchman is most likely the old man who manages the mansion and is also the "living person" chosen by the townspeople to be sacrificed. The shadow behind him is in human form.

Although I don’t understand how the “living people” were chosen when almost all the townspeople are ghosts;

I also don't understand how the players could be held responsible for the killing according to the agreement between the townspeople and the mountain god.
But this did not prevent Qiu Xin from seizing the opportunity and completing the daily killing mission that the ghost camp had to do.

"Bang, bang—"

The sound of the clappers was getting closer and closer, dragging the sound of noisy footsteps deeper into the alley.

Qiu Xin held the lantern in his mouth, turned over and jumped down from the roof, landing lightly in the haystack behind the house. He peered through the gap between the haystacks and looked in the direction where the night watchman's call came from.

The shadow behind the person could not be seen in the darkness. Only with the faint light coming from somewhere could I make out that it was a hunchbacked old woman wearing a bamboo hat and a straw raincoat. She had a walking stick under her arm and a gong in her hand, which she was beating diligently.

Just tap her shoulder to kill her, and today's mission is complete...

Qiu Xin pushed aside the haystack, suppressed the sound of his footsteps, and walked forward step by step.

Her vision widened, and she saw an orange-yellow halo on the ground behind the old woman, splashing brightly and moving forward as she walked.

That is the light of the lantern.

But how can an NPC have a lantern?
Qiu Xin looked towards the light source, and saw a figure in red holding a white paper lantern, following silently behind the old lady, always two steps away from her.

The evening breeze blew up her sleeves and long skirts, and the blood-colored cloth fluttered silently in the air, like blood dripping into clear water, and the edges were blurred like a ghost walking in the night.

It’s Lin Wen!
Why was Lin Wen following the night watchman? Did he discover something, or... did he want to attack the night watchman as well?
Yes, the fact that Lin Wen can come out at night without being attacked by ghosts is enough to prove that he is also a ghost.

If they are accomplices of the ghost, they must be killed, and the night watchman who is clearly a living person is undoubtedly the best target.

There is only one night watchman, and whoever grabs it first gets it.

Qiu Xin no longer hesitated. He grabbed a handful of sand from the prop bar and threw it at the man in red behind the old lady.

The man in red reacted very quickly and stepped back. Qiu Xin took the opportunity to step forward, rushed behind the old lady, and slapped her hard on her right shoulder.

"Bang--thump--"

The gong fell to the ground and the old woman fell forward.

[You have used the identity effect once today and killed one person]

[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]

Everything was exactly the same as the first night, except that the deceased was a different person.

Qiu Xin succeeded in his attack and had no intention of continuing the fight. He turned around and ran back the way he came.

After running a few steps, she felt a chill on her right ankle, as if something was holding it.

Her feet could not move and her upper body leaned forward due to inertia. She staggered and fell into the soft haystack.

Then a clear voice sounded from behind: "I knew I could find you by following the night watchman, Qiu Xin.

"Now, as teammates in the same camp, let's have a good chat."

……

Half an hour ago, Qis sat in the room for a while. Guessing that the two people next door were asleep, he pushed the door open and went down the stairs to the first floor of the mansion.

At this point in the dungeon, most of the clues and information have been collected, and he 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 minions know without arousing suspicion.

For example, how to complete the task of "eliminating all humans among players" without bloodshed.

On the first night, Qis easily killed an unlucky player while the other players were away. He thought that he only had to identify who was a ghost and who was a human, and then do the same to the human.

Unexpectedly, after just one night of waiting, I figured out my identity and camp, but I completely missed the opportunity.

Players only thought that Luo Haihua and his wife became Xiyi to go to another space to collect clues.

But Qis knew clearly that it was a rope that tied up the players in the ghost camp.

Xiyi is invisible and intangible, so he cannot be killed by just touching his shoulder; Luo Haihua and his wife are inseparable, so the "being alone in the same room" clause does not apply to them; theoretically, the minions cannot kill them, so they can only be "eliminated" by some special means.

And the foundation of that special measure is trust.

Once Luo Haihua and his wife witnessed him killing other players, it would be difficult for him to deceive them into following his plan.

Therefore, he had to use some more complicated means to mobilize more chess pieces to interpret the plan.

Hatred is one of the chess pieces to be used.

Qi Si took the initiative to go out and explore at night, with a hidden purpose of finding the enemy.

As for how to do it...

He believed that people have inertia in their thinking, and after the success of the first night, the grudge would most likely continue to target the night watchman on the second night.

On this basis, it is not difficult to lock her down.

Qi Si carried a lantern, walked out of the mansion gate, and followed the sound of the night watchman that enveloped the entire Yanghua Town. Finally, after crossing three streets and alleys, he found the figure of the little old lady who was in charge of the night watch.

He quietly followed the little old lady and walked for another quarter of an hour, when he luckily ran into Qiu Xin who had left the team for a long time.

At this moment, the scarlet curse pendulum was wrapped around Qiu Xin's ankle, and from a distance it looked like a hideous bloodstain.

Qi Si stood in front of Qiu Xin, bent down slightly, and showed his white teeth: "First of all, I hope you don't act rashly. Although the prop wrapped around your foot is not fatal, if it is cut, it will randomly inflict one of the three debuffs of amnesia, hallucination, and high fever.

"The other two are fine, but if you lose your memory, it will be troublesome. You might drool like an Alzheimer's patient, unable to recognize people, and you might even treat yourself as an NPC and stay here forever."

Qiu Xin suddenly raised his eyes, his gaze gloomy: "Are you threatening me?"

Qi Si looked into her eyes and sighed, "This is the second point I want to make. I have a friendly and cooperative attitude towards you. In my opinion, you don't need to be so hostile.

"In this instance, you and I are in the same camp, and our positions are completely consistent. Only by cooperating can we achieve the greatest benefit. Moreover, the fourth item of the identity effect says that if I kill a player who is also a ghost, I will also be wiped out.

"Although I am not a person who values ​​life, but if you use the value of your life to exchange for my life, I will feel that I am at a great loss, if I may be frank."

It may sound unpleasant, but the logic is correct.

Qiu Xin was silent for two seconds, then spoke faintly, "The number of living people we can meet every day is limited, and the minions also need to compete with each other; even within the camp, there is competition. I don't think the traditional principles of cooperation apply to this instance."

"This brings us to the third point." Qi Si smiled and raised his index finger to his lips. "Today I followed them to the east and west of the town and found many key clues that point to completely different developments. Do you want to hear about it?"

"You'll tell me?"

"You just have to promise me that you will never reveal my identity and never do anything bad to me, and 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 words refreshed on the system interface of both people at the same time. Qiu Xin looked up at the sky, then looked down at the pendulum hanging on his ankle, with a strange look in his eyes: "Contract skills? Red pendulum?"

Qistan nodded frankly: "Yes, the 'Cheng An' who appeared in the forum not long ago was also me."

Hatred:? ! !
The contract was signed, and the clause of "never revealing one's identity" covered a wide range of things. It could be the identity of "accomplice", the identity of "Cheng An", or even more.

Qis was not worried that Qiu Xin would hinder his plans after knowing certain information.

He looked at Qiu Xin, whose expression was about to crack, and continued to talk to himself: "In the morning, we followed the funeral procession to the bamboo forest in the east of the town and saw the corpses that they had stuck vertically into the soil turned into scarecrows.

"Through some experiments, we determined that most of the townspeople are ghosts possessed by the scarecrow. Their shadows are actually the scarecrow's shadows. Do you understand?"

"I understand. In other words, if the scarecrow possessed by the townspeople is in tiger shape, the shadow will be in tiger shape; if the scarecrow possessed by the townspeople is in human shape, the shadow will be in human shape."

Qiu Xin calmed down and quickly began to review the clues: "There is no distinction between living people and ghosts in the townspeople, they are all ghosts. We can complete the daily task by tapping anyone on the shoulder, is that right?

"Why is the copy designed like this? How can I be sure that you are telling the truth?"

"Just find a townsman to try it and you'll know. You can try it yourself, or you can let me try it." Qis stepped back a few steps, bent down to pick up the gong that fell on the ground, and turned his head to look at Qiu Xin's side.

It was a shabby wooden house. There was constant crying sound coming from inside, and it was obvious that someone was living there.

"I'll try it myself." Qiu Xin said.

She walked to the wooden house and knocked on the door twice. After knocking, she remembered that Yanghua Town had repeatedly ordered its residents not to open their doors at night...

She took out a pestle from the prop bar and was about to break the door lock, but she heard the sound of footsteps from inside the door.

"An An, are you back?" The old lady who lost her grandson pushed open the wooden door with red and swollen eyes, looking outside, as if she had completely forgotten the existence of danger.

Qiu Xin reached out his hand very quickly and patted her left shoulder gently.

"thump--"

The old lady fell to the ground as if her soul had been taken away.

[You have used the identity effect twice today and killed two people]

[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]

Qiu Xin heard the system broadcast and remained silent.

All townspeople can be killed by the ghost, so why use scarecrows of different shapes to distinguish between human and tiger shadows among them?
Two meters away, Qi Si lowered his eyes and looked at the photographic film in his hand.

The rapid imaging image showed the moment Qiu Xin took action.

The scarecrow in ragged gray clothes was covered with a gray-black shadow. When the shoulder was touched, it suddenly dissipated in all directions like a stone thrown into a pond, as if it had been greatly frightened...

Ghosts are afraid of 魙 and can be easily frightened to death; and the player who is a ghost happens to be a 魙.

Normally, the townspeople thought they were human and were not afraid of the monster; but when they discovered they were ghosts, they became extremely afraid of the monster.

This is how the player's minions can easily kill townspeople by just touching their shoulders.

Qi Si put the imaged film into his sleeve, walked a distance towards the alley entrance, turned back to look at Qiu Xin who was standing there in a daze: "Are you interested in going somewhere with me?"

Qiu Xin said nothing, holding a flickering lamp, and slowly followed Qi Si.

After crossing a few more streets, the "bang bang" sound of the night watchmen rang in my ears again.

The hoarse shouts echoed in the silent night, chanting the vague words:

"My wife died of a tiger, and my son also died there. Why don't you leave? There is war in another place..."

Qi Si walked over in the direction of the shouting, and with the help of the light from the lantern spreading all around, he saw a scholar dressed in black with white hair and beard.

After changing his identity, the scholar with a human shadow also obtained the responsibility of night watch. He might die at night like the old lady who manages the mansion, as a sacrifice for the tiger demon.

Qiu Xin murmured, “The villagers themselves are spirits, and their identities are determined by the scarecrows they possess, which change every day.

"Just like reincarnation, some people become rich and powerful, some become poor and humble, and some people... are destined to die at the hands of evil spirits at night because they are possessed by a scarecrow in the shape of a human."

"Smart." Qi Si smiled and said, "The current situation is that the scholar comrade who received us yesterday has unfortunately possessed a human-shaped scarecrow.

"I just don't know if this possession is random or controlled by someone. Is it to randomly select a ghost to offer to the tiger, or to take this opportunity to get rid of a specific individual."

Qiu Xin thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have a way to verify it?"

Qi Si nodded and said, "I want to try and see if he can see tomorrow's sunrise if we don't kill him according to the rules."

After he finished speaking, he controlled the cursed spirit to fly back to his hand, turned around and entered a street.

He held the lantern high and shone it through each window. Soon he found a tattered, dilapidated paper window.

Without even knocking on the door, he swung the curse pendulum directly towards the paper window, breaking through the thin layer of obstruction.

A middle-aged couple was lying on the kang in the room. After the window was broken, they huddled together and stared at the uninvited guest standing outside the window with pale faces.

Qi Si was not in a hurry to enter the house. Instead, he slowly controlled the cursed pendulum to fly into the house and removed the bolt on the door.

The door opened.

Qi Si walked in leisurely and patted the couple on the shoulder.

[You have used the identity effect once today and killed one person]

[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]

[You have used the identity effect twice today and killed two people]

[Please kill the next person within twelve hours]

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Three gongs sounded in the distance, causing the gong in his hand to resonate with a mournful cry.

Qi Si took out [Ink Soul Scroll] and [Umbrella Filled with Pain] from the item bar and activated their effects at the same time.

Ink rises from the long scroll of landscape, lingering and floating in the air like clouds, with scattered golden light outlining the outline of the door.

Qi Si stepped into the door, sketched a freehand landscape with his fingers, and looked back at the ground gradually disappearing into the distance.

But then I heard someone shouting at the top of his voice:

"It's midnight, everything is fine!" (End of this chapter)