Doomsday Carnival

Chapter 8: Eight-player round table game and the target of criticism

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The six living people around the round table saw Lin Yining disappearing suddenly, they were silent.

"I... we can go now." The middle-aged man shouted: "The ghost has been caught, you let us out!"

"Stupid." The referee said: "You haven't noticed yet, did you choose the wrong one?"

Before he finished speaking, Lin Yining suddenly returned to his seat. With injuries on his body, he doesn't look in good condition.

"Now, please start your performance." The referee looked at them with great interest.

"Ghost!" The middle-aged man scrambled to the side and shouted: "Ghost, ghost, kill him, kill him!"

Lin Yining: "..."

He slowly turned his head, stared at the middle-aged man, and said, "Shut up."

No. 3's face was ugly, and of course, he should have contributed a lot to sending Lin Yining in.

"As you can see, I'm out." Lin Yining said lightly, "I'm not a ghost."

"So you want?" the referee asked.

"Let's go on with the game," he said.

"Okay." The referee pretended to be a well-behaved child and said, "Then continue. The next tip, don't ask others for things that can be found on Baidu. The next topic..." He elongated his tone and deliberately delayed it for a while , Said: "Just use the idea of this little survivor last time, please take out your mobile phones and introduce them."

"Who didn't bring it?" someone asked.

"Your explanation is enough to convince them." The referee said.

Number two timidly returned to the table, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, threw it forward, and retracted it again. The same is true for No. 3, and when it was No. 4's turn, she was silent for a while and said, "I forgot to bring it out at home."

Skipping the fifth and sixth numbers that explained the phone, on the seventh, she also said, "I lost my phone just now."

"What do you want to prove by asking for the phone?" The referee asked curiously, "I want to see it too."

Lin Yining looked at the Ferris wheel that was not listening to the rotation outside, and answered the wrong question: "That Ferris wheel was dismantled when I was in my third year of high school. I was eighteen years old at that time, and I remember that the Ferris wheel was already very old."

"That's why it's not 2093," he said. "Or think of it this way, this house isn't in 2093. What's the one thing we all probably have but ghosts don't? Cell phones. Maybe you might think ghosts Inheriting all the relics of the original owner, it can take out the original owner's mobile phone, but he didn't even take out the certificate."

It couldn't be more obvious who this is being targeted at.

"But now three of you don't have your mobile phones with you, how do you judge?" Number three was aggressive: "Do you want to rely on your intuition?"

"Pay attention to the hint just now." Lin Yining said: "Don't ask others what you can find out—and, even if there is no hint just now, I can almost be sure."

"Because you were too anxious just now." Lin Yining said: "When you get the answer, think about the previous questions again, and some things are not difficult to explain. Now think about it, were you too anxious just now?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," said Three.

"I'm not talking about you, but her." Lin Yining looked at No. 4 and said, "Please explain, why do you say this house is unlucky? I have lived in this building for more than 20 years. Never heard of such a thing.”

The other players also realized that the No. 4 girl hadn't proved her identity from the beginning to the end, and she didn't answer the referee's questions at all in the second round of questions.

Girl No. 4 avoided Lin Yining's eyes, and murmured, "I... I heard about it."

"What have you heard?" Lin Yining didn't budge.

"The abandoned building in front is haunted," she said.

There is another residential area across the street from Lin Yining's house. There is an abandoned building with a height of nearly 40 floors. Ten years ago, when Lin Yining was young, a very serious incident happened there. The accident killed more than thirty people.

"Why did you suddenly recall and tell me what happened more than ten years ago?" Lin Yining said, "You might as well say that someone committed suicide by jumping off a building four years ago. Do you know about this?"

Girl No. 4 was silent, No. 3 said: "At all..."

"Because there is no such thing at all." Lin Yining continued: "He was persuaded to come down."

He picked up the tablet computer on the table and exited the dialogue interface, which clearly showed that the time was May 9, 2079.

He called up his browser and searched for the Jingcheng explosion accident.

The most famous fire in Jingcheng, plus the keyword 33 floors, the point is already very obvious. When he knew the answer, he went back to the process and realized that he had neglected so many clues.

"On May 4th, a young couple living in 3302, Unit 4, Building 9, XX Community accidentally started a fire during a quarrel. It happened that the gas leaked in the house at that time, which caused an explosion. It's okay if the accident ends here , but what is even more frightening is that upstairs in their house lived a small workshop that used hydrogen to make hydrogen balloons without authorization. The explosion detonated the remaining hydrogen in the small workshop, and the entire accident killed 63 people.”

Lin Yining looked at her: "Indeed, after this incident, the housing prices in the surrounding area plummeted. Even if someone couldn't bear the loss and forced to live here, after a while, they couldn't help but move out because of the haunting. You Is this giving us a hint?"

"Enough." Three said, "It's just your guess."

He looked at the others and asked, "Do you want to believe his nonsense?"

Lin Yining ignored him and went on to say, "Do you know what happened next? The family members of the other deceased besieged your home and demanded that your parents pay you money. Your mother just lost her daughter and was besieged by others and hanged herself .”

"alright."

The room suddenly became hot.

Little girl No. 4 had burnt scars on her fair and clean face, and said, "You guys won."

"Then let's go through the last procedure." The referee watched with relish, and said, "Now let's vote—who is the ghost you selected in this round?"

This time, almost everyone wrote down the final answer on the tablet without hesitation.

Thirty seconds later, the statistics came out, and the referee said: "Five votes for number four, the player wins." After that, the door quietly opened.

A little flame was lit in the corner of this warm and beautiful room. Seeing this scene, middle-aged man No. 2 ran out hastily, but there was a scream from below. Lin Yining walked out and looked down from the window in the stairwell. He could see that there were fire trucks all around below, and some people were shouting hysterically.

He was thinking about how to go down, but he saw a black shadow flashing by the window in front of him. Ghost No. 4 had turned back into a scorched body, and stood in front of the window, holding No. 3 and saying hello to him.

"Do you know why?" The child's voice jokingly appeared next to his ear: "Because he signed an agreement with the ghost of this copy."

Lin Yining suddenly wondered, why did this person keep targeting him, because he was the ghost's trust

"Now you also have a chance to sign an agreement." Tong Sheng said: "As the first player to clear the 3302 copy, you are eligible to sign an agreement to buy or rent this copy. If other players want to come in in the future, they have to give your money."

"Why should I buy such a thing?" Lin Yining frowned: "Will there be players coming in the short term?"

"You can tell by looking at your backpack." The referee said persuasively, "I use my personality to guarantee that you will never suffer a loss if you buy this dungeon."

Hearing his words, Lin Yining opened the mobile app.

[Dungeon Name: 3302 Fire Scene

List of available rewards: exploding hydrogen balloons

Current valuation: 500 silver coins

Rental price: 10% off (50 silver coins) (reason: the first to clear the customs)

Estimated income: 10 silver coins per week]

There is also an example picture of the hydrogen balloon at the back, which is the two-layer style. The takeaway is a transparent balloon with a colorful clown inside, with bright colors and very beautiful. Immediately afterwards, the hydrogen balloon on the picture exploded, blowing up a surrounding tree in half.

"During the closed beta period, many people would come to brush hydrogen balloons." The referee said: "I will remind you because I like you, and I will not care about others."

One silver coin is equal to 100 coins, and one gold coin is 100 silver coins. 50 silver coins happened to be the amount of money reward he got for this mission. The referee may lie to him, the app will not. After thinking about it, Lin Yining decided to click Confirm.

After he clicked to confirm, a prompt sounded in his ear:

"Player 'Lin Yining' successfully marked the first dungeon, and the leaderboard of the Yongye area started. Challenge the top ten players in the overall ranking, replace their position, and get rich rewards, dear, are you sure you want to play? "

After the prompt was finished, the app automatically started updating, and Lin Yining saw that he was ranked ninth on the leaderboard.

There is a line below: The player leaderboard cannot hide the ranking.

The entire list contains wealth, power, level and many other contents. After the comprehensive ranking, the overall list appears, which is much more complete than the one he saw at the subway station.

But it's not a good thing for him at all.

"A surprise? An accident?" The referee rang in his ear with a gloating voice.

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In the distance, among the 28 Liberty Cities and the 12 Central Cities, the changes in the list also attracted the attention of many people.

The closest central city to Jingcheng, Pisces.

"Who is this Lin Yining?" A young man looked at the updated list on the app and suddenly asked.

"The champion of Jingcheng's rookie mission? I heard that he has no background, so he's not an internal beta player." The people around him replied.

"no."

"It's another shit luck, he got the control of 3302." The young man said.

"Amazing." The person next to him clicked his tongue.

"Aren't you guys going to Jingcheng to collect pearls?" He said, "If you come across one, grab it."

The author has something to say: Changed a small setting