What Zhang Daoan said is really hard to understand.
The players who heard his words frowned and looked at each other.
Jie Fangcheng was the first to react.
"Is this the second save? So Xiaoyang clearly entered the dungeon yesterday, but when he summoned us today, he said he had just entered the game half an hour ago?"
"What?" Several players were shocked.
Before this matter, Qi Chanyang had only mentioned the time when Jie Fangcheng came in. Jie Fangcheng knew as soon as he heard it that this was definitely something that required some thinking, so he never mentioned it again until Zhang Daoan came in.
After Zhang Daoan came in and understood the situation, he quickly came to a conclusion in his mind.
At this time, the surrounding players realized that this was not what they thought. It was not the second day of the national copy, but actually the third day. Everyone couldn't believe it.
Some people even came up with new ideas.
"Could it be that this is just a difference in the speed of time flowing inside and outside the copy?"
No one can accept that they have been "reset" once.
And everyone is used to NPCs being data and expendable cannon fodder.
But if in this copy, it is really as Zhang Daoan said, this copy is a game for those six NPCs that can be saved and restarted... then what are they in this copy
The identities were swapped? Did they become expendable cannon fodder NPCs
But after Zhang Daoan finished speaking, one player's expression became very solemn.
"I see… "
His companions couldn't help asking, "Liu Heqing, what do you mean by 'so that'?"
Liu Heqing smiled bitterly: "I have a personal skill that takes 24 hours to cool down after use. It now has one hour and forty-five minutes left to cool down successfully. I thought I accidentally triggered it yesterday and used it accidentally, so I didn't take it seriously..."
Everyone was stunned. Soon, someone looked dazed and said after searching his system backpack: "I have a disposable item with good lethality. I'm sure I haven't used it, and now it's gone."
After all, props are not skills. Some players will habitually check their skills after entering the dungeon, but almost no players will check their system backpacks after entering the dungeon.
The reason is very simple. The skills of a player are like the clothes they wear. They are clear at a glance when the list is opened. Moreover, for players who have completed less than 100 times, the drop rate of skills is much lower than that of props, so their skill list is very simple.
Props are different.
There are offensive props, wearable props, disposable props, commonly used props, and props that are useless but very interesting... Take players like Qiao Mai who have side jobs as an example. She also has a comb, hair dye, hair dryer, and beauty mirror in her prop grid... She is like a mobile hairdressing stall owner.
There is no such thing as a warehouse in the game, so players will carry all the props they have obtained, both frequently used and uncommonly used, useful and useless. Qi Chanyang has completed seven copies and has stored fifty or sixty props of various kinds. Basically, no one will go through the system backpack for fun whenever they have nothing to do.
It was only then that the player discovered that his one-time attack item was missing, and everyone thought about it and felt that what Zhang Daoan said was very likely true.
Someone added: "If this is a save game and we are in the second gear... then it can also explain why Brother Liu inexplicably crawled into the pot and died not long after entering the dungeon."
He triggered the NPC's death rule in the previous save, but he didn't know why, nor what the rule was... He died in this CD.
This guy named Zhang Daoan, has he been in the dungeon for ten minutes? His brain is so sharp, how did he deduce the information of this dungeon through these clues
At this time, Qi Chanyang and the five player representatives had finally finished copying the system messages they received.
Zhang Daoan put the two pieces of paper together.
Qi Chanyang entered the dungeon as a "wax museum staff member", while the system messages of the five players said that they were "tourists visiting the wax museum."
[Instance: Wax Museum of Memories (Level 2)]
[Introduction: After a wonderful college life, a classmate suggested that you visit a wax museum that many people say is a bit scary. You all agreed to it because you are very brave. Is it a good thing or a bad thing for eleven freshly-minted students to enter the wax museum?]
[Content: Does the wax museum look a little strange? Those wax figures seem too lifelike? What is the secret behind this? Find the truth about the wax museum! Burn all the sins! ]
[Clearance conditions: Perfect clearance. ]
[No one has ever cleared this instance, the system will give you a new hint.]
[Hint: What is the truth about the wax museum? Do you care? ]
He didn't notice it when he didn't look at it, but when the two pieces of paper were placed together, Qi Chanyang immediately realized why Zhang Daoan confirmed to him two or three times what their conditions for passing the level were.
"Our clearance condition is not to protect the wax figure... but to 'perfect clearance'!" Qi Chanyang blurted out and broke out in a cold sweat.
Fortunately, Zhang Daoan was really good. He discovered that there was something wrong with the conditions for passing the level provided by Qi Chanyang just through the players' descriptions and communication with NPCs. He also used the most original and effective method to let Qi Chanyang and another player copy them down directly.
If it was not copied word for word, but still relayed orally, then the same situation as Qi Chanyang's would definitely occur: he would have his own subjective analysis, reducing and refining the information he thought was important, and then tell Zhang Daoan this information that had been processed by him.
At this time, the unprocessed news was finally seen by Zhang Daoan, and he nodded slightly.
"That's right."
Qi Chanyang could follow his train of thought, but the other players around him were still confused.
"What do you mean? What does this clearance condition refer to?"
Zhang Daoan said: "Perfect clearance doesn't refer to us, but to the six NPCs who are playing the saveable game."
"You mean... we need to cooperate with the NPCs to help them complete the game perfectly?"
Zhang Daoan nodded.
Everyone looked at each other, and someone asked directly: "Boss, what are the conditions for the NPC's 'perfect clearance'?"
"I've already told you the hint. Discover the 'Truth in the Wax House.'"
the truth
What kind of "truth" could this wax museum have? Players like them had completed so many dungeons, and looking at these lifelike wax figures, they knew that there were probably corpses wrapped inside these wax figures, waiting to come alive and attack the players at the right time.
Qi Chanyang also spoke up at this time to confirm this.
"Brother Liu... is the player who just died. After he died, the old employee in charge of us at the wax museum said, 'The skin has melted. If a person dies like this, he can't be made into a wax figure.'"
Although everyone was mentally prepared for this, they still felt uncomfortable when they heard Qi Chanyang say this.
"But just because we know the 'truth' doesn't mean the NPCs know the truth. Our goal is to protect them and guide them to discover that the wax figures in the wax museum are all corpses? Is that right?"
A player asked, and then faces eager to learn turned to Zhang Daoan.
Zhang Daoan shook his head: "I am not the copy designer, and I don't know what the 'truth' is."
You are not a copy designer, but you are scarier than the designer!!
Everyone shouted in their hearts.
The player who idolized him and wanted to become a person with super brain power couldn't help but ask, "Boss, um... can I ask how you found out that this dungeon is not as simple as it looks?"
After entering the dungeon and listening to Qi Chanyang's words, most people would probably naturally think that this dungeon was just an ordinary confrontation dungeon, and the biggest difficulty was to protect the wax figure from being damaged.
But after listening to Qi Chanyang's conditions for passing the level, Zhang Daoan keenly sensed that something was wrong.
What difference did this person find? What was the gap between them and the big guys? Why didn't they find it
Zhang Daoan really couldn't figure it out. In his opinion, this was just like holding a loudspeaker and shouting in someone's ear, "There's something fishy about this dungeon." Why didn't these players discover it
"The name of the copy is 'Memories Wax Museum'." Zhang Daoan just said this.
Qi Chanyang was the first to react again: "But the name of this wax museum is 'Real Wax Museum'!"
The name of the replica doesn't match the name of the wax museum!
Because the copy is "fake", they are not "players" in this copy. Their identities are swapped and they become NPCs.
This was the most superficial reason why Zhang Daoan judged that there was something wrong with this copy, coupled with the different reactions of the six NPCs - to be honest, the reactions of these NPCs were very much like those of the players, they were all so arrogant, and they looked at the NPCs around them with a strong utilitarian attitude.
When it is useful, you can use props that can increase favorability to improve it. When it is useless, the life or death of the background cannon fodder has nothing to do with the players.
For example, in this copy, the first ones to realize that something was wrong with the copy should be the five tourist players.
The copy prompt they got told them that they were college classmates and had agreed to go on a graduation trip together.
But after entering the wax museum, there was a clear distinction between groups of five players and six NPCs.
How similar is this to when players used to play through dungeons? Players who entered a dungeon together rarely joined forces with NPCs, and definitely didn't make friends with them.
But in the eyes of friendly NPCs, the player's identity is the identity they receive after entering the dungeon.
Friends are friends, classmates are classmates, and NPCs treat players in a very natural way. They will treat players as people just like themselves.
Players won't, players will treat them as statistics.
The NPC in this book had such a strange attitude, but the five players didn't notice it at all.
This is not a confrontational dungeon. On the contrary, Zhang Daoan has an uncertain guess... It is very likely that there are six players on both sides when they enter the dungeon.
There are six tourist players and six wax museum employee players, which makes it more like a confrontational copy.
In the previous save file, both sides thought that this was a confrontation copy, and at some point they started fighting, and one of the tourist players died.
After the game was restarted, perhaps the six NPCs there - or you could say, the six players of this "wax house" game found that after they restarted the game, there was one less "NPC" in their camp.
But at the same time, in order to balance the rules of the game, they have the option to directly kill the enemy employee NPC.
So they chose the employees who they considered to be the most capable.
If it weren't for this method, it wouldn't be enough to explain why Brother Liu died so strangely.
This is not what a player thinks of as a confrontational book.
On the contrary, if one side dies, the other side will also pay a price. This is the most dangerous place in this copy.
Zhang Daoan quickly went over it in his mind and soon came up with an idea.
He looked at Jie Fangcheng first.
There were other players around. Although they were gathered together to discuss what he had just said, all ten players had gathered on the second floor. While they were discussing, they kept their eyes on the six tourist NPCs downstairs, fearing that something might happen to them.
No one paid attention to this, but Zhang Daoan still came close to Jie Fangcheng, lowered his head and spoke in a low voice: "Manager Jie, this instance may not be that simple, let's not act rashly, okay?"
His tone was so strange that Jie Fangcheng couldn't help but glance at him, but he responded, "Okay."
Zhang Daoan smiled: "Okay."
Jie Fangcheng asked: "Why do you keep your voice so low?"
And you're whispering so close to me
besides…
"What's with that tone of voice?" Jie Fangcheng asked.
Zhang Daoan looked at him.
Just like Qi Chanyang used a summoning prop without an agree or disagree option. Even if there was an agree or disagree option, given Fang Cheng's temper, he would have clicked agree after seeing it. But whether there was an option or not was important, and Zhang Daoan did mind it.
But Jie Fangcheng didn't seem to mind, so Zhang Daoan just made a few sarcastic remarks to Qi Chanyang and didn't say much else.
When Jie Fangcheng asked this, Zhang Daoan was thinking a hundred times and hadn't opened his mouth to answer, but Jie Fangcheng had already said the next sentence.
"Why do you sound like you're coaxing your grandson? Are you looking for a fight?"
Zhang Daoan: “…”
Zhang Daoan looked at Jie Fangcheng steadily.
At a certain moment, Jie Fangcheng felt as if he saw a deep helplessness in his eyes.
Then Jie Fangcheng heard him sigh softly, and his tone was still the same as when he was "coaxing his grandson".
"Okay, I won't tell you that next time."
Damn! Why is this guy getting weirder and weirder
Jie Fangcheng rubbed his ears.
.
The players gathered on the second floor to discuss, and the six NPCs on the first floor also gathered together.
From time to time, some of them looked up at the second floor.
"Hey, don't you think this save is a bit strange? Why are those NPCs gathered together? Didn't they fight each other in the last save? And those two newcomers... the one just now, why did he suddenly come down to chat for a few minutes?"
It was just small talk really.
Zhang Daoan didn't ask any questions related to the game. Instead, he walked up to them like an NPC passerby in the game, chatting with them about the weather and life, and everyone revealed a lot without realizing it.
"But the two new NPCs are both very good-looking. Are they key NPCs?"
Someone laughed: "How can you see his appearance when he is covered in green light?"
"The green light NPC... this looks unusual. I'll go ask them later. Maybe I can get a different answer from the last save." Someone complained, "But these NPCs are not enthusiastic at all. They are different from the games I played before."
At this point, everyone nodded.
"Yeah, yeah! The attitudes of these NPCs are so bad. They don't answer any questions and are cold to us. I feel like they are trying to get some words out of us. In the last save, those six pushed us to die! In the last save, I died at the hands of that NPC named Qi Chanyang. It's so annoying!"
"Hahaha, that's fine. If it doesn't work, just let these NPCs kill each other. If one NPC dies on our side, the system will restart, and one on the other side will have to die as well. We might as well just kill them all so they don't get in the way."
Someone hurriedly stopped them: "Hey, hey, hey, what will we do at night if they die? After these wax figures come to life, we still have to rely on them to attract fire. Let's find clues quickly, find the truth, pass the game, and play the next level. This level is not fun."
"True," someone sighed, "But this game is really smart. Look, the NPC's reactions were different each time I saved the game. It's really smart!"
As they spoke, everyone looked towards the second floor.
While they were looking for clues and chatting, the NPCs on the second floor seemed to have a brief meeting, and then five tourist "NPCs" walked down from the second floor again, looking very worried.
The six tourist "players" who were looking for clues looked at each other, and soon, a girl walked up to these "intelligent NPCs" and asked, "Liu Heqing, what's wrong?"
Liu Heqing looked a little flustered, not as cold as before, and seemed to speak more like an NPC.
"We went to the second floor just now and seemed to have seen something vaguely... But those NPCs said we were mistaken."
"What is it?" the girl asked hurriedly.
Liu Heqing pursed his lips.
"It looks like a corpse..."
Then he said the key sentence: "These wax figures... Could they be made of corpses? Otherwise, why are they so lifelike?"
The wax figures are all corpses.
There are too many such plots in horror stories. Not to mention the players on Jie Fangcheng's side, even these six "NPC players" have heard of them.
Besides... they have already gone through the archive once, so they naturally know what is inside these wax figures.
The six people did not react much at this time, as if they had expected it.
"Really?" the girl responded calmly, and then wanted to go back without much interest.
Liu Heqing hurriedly continued: "How about... we break a wax figure and see what's inside it?"
"Ah..." The girl frowned when she said this.
They also thought of this method in the previous save.
But those six employee NPCs, plus a shop owner and a Fu shop owner, a total of eight people are very strong. At least the six ordinary players without special powers are just serving dishes under these people.
When someone on their side finally pushed down a wax figure, dripped kerosene on it, burned off the layer of fat yellow wax coating on the outside, and saw what was inside, only one of the six was left.
After logging out of the game, the only person left took off his gaming helmet and started vomiting violently.
"Fuck... Is this game perverted? The wax coat contains human internal organs, blood vessels, muscles, etc... It's too damn realistic!"
We already know what's inside the wax figure, and obviously damaging the wax figure will cause the opposing NPC to go berserk and trigger the NPC's attack, so why is there any need to push down the wax figure
"We'll talk about it when the time comes."
After the girl said this, she quickly reunited with the other five NPCs. The six of them gathered together and started discussing something, as if no one was around, not worrying at all that the NPCs would notice anything wrong.
Liu Heqing looked at them and always felt a sense of discomfort and an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
It was as if I saw myself who had entered the game before, ignoring the NPCs and discussing how to pass the level with my companions.
Now that the roles have been reversed, he realizes that this behavior is really stupid and outrageous.
Zhang Daoan reminded them just now when they were upstairs.
"These NPCs treat you as NPCs. I hope everyone will act like NPCs." He looked at the players, "Our ultimate goal is to let the 'game players' pass the game perfectly. Just do what an NPC should do."
What should NPCs do
Although everyone agreed verbally, they were a little nervous in their hearts.
What should the NPC do? Give clues? Be a friendly NPC
It's so difficult! What if these people find out my flaws
At this time Liu Heqing finally understood... they wouldn't find any flaws.
Because in the eyes of these "players", clues are the most important.
If they are not key NPCs, they won't care about some flaws.
The "tourists" on the first floor are looking for clues about the wax museum, and the "employees" on the second floor are also busy.
"The manager just said that there wasn't enough wax, so he went to get more. Now there's only us and the assistant manager on the second floor. The assistant manager is deaf and has a weird temper. We've already asked him, but he doesn't give us any clues."
Qi Chanyang said, "By the way, Brother Jie, shouldn't you go find the deputy store manager first and explain that you are also here as part-timers... Don't worry, although the deputy store manager is deaf, he can tell what we are saying by looking at our lip shapes."
"No need." Zhang Daoan shook his head. "We can just say we are tourists here too."
"Ah?" Qi Chanyang was stunned. "Is this okay?"
After saying that, Qi Chanyang reacted.
What's wrong with that
In this copy, players can have two identities. It is more convenient to be a tourist, at least you don't have to guard the boiler room.
"At 7pm, we need to go into the boiler room to help out. We'll be out in about ten minutes."
This also gives the six tourist NPCs on the first floor the opportunity to explore the second floor.
At this point, Zhang Daoan asked again: "Why can't we give them a chance now? Ten minutes won't be enough for them to find clues, right?"
Qi Chanyang was stunned again.
"… yes."
He is still the player's mind, looking for clues and ways to pass the level.
However, Zhang Daoan proposed letting NPCs explore and pass the level on their own.
"The ending you created yourself is more perfect. What's the point of finding clues?"
The “players” in this copy are not them!
"So... shall we leave now?"
"Go ahead."
After Zhang Daoan finished speaking, Jie Fangcheng added, "Don't go too far, otherwise I won't be able to save you when I want to."
Qi Chanyang nodded.
The five employees left in a grand and majestic manner, and the six NPCs on the first floor quickly set their sights on the second floor.
However, Jie Fangcheng and the other man were still standing in the corridor, and the six people were deterred from approaching.
Zhang Daoan asked for advice: "Shall we go down too?"
"Walk!"
After the two came down, six NPCs rushed up to the second floor impatiently.
The players on the first floor looked at their backs, and one couldn't help but say, "Why do I feel so uncomfortable in this dungeon? Why do these six NPCs look so much like me in the dungeon?"
Everyone responded.
Background NPCs are generally not very strong, so naturally people don’t care what they think.
Key NPCs also have props that can be used to increase their favorability. As for whether the NPCs will find them a little strange... those are just some data. What's there to pay attention to
But looking at these NPCs at this moment, everyone seemed to see their own shadows in them.
Everyone was silent.
At this moment, Xie Fangcheng suddenly turned his head and looked straight at a wax figure.
"I just wanted to ask, why are you staring at me?"
(End of this chapter)