Ruan Bai's heart skipped a beat when he heard Du's father say "what's the difference between me and you".
She thought of what Second Uncle Shen had said to her half a year ago before he died—
"...But, if the ghosts can be replaced by other things in reality, and I haven't checked wrong... I should, I found the prototype of the DSAS company."
Ghosts can be replaced by other things in reality.
What could it be
Prior to this, Ruan Bai had never thought of ghosts as substitutes for humans. After all, the ghosts she encountered before were all mentally retarded. Although they could speak, their logical thinking ability was extremely poor, and some even resembled humanoid animals. no difference.
But the existence of Father Du, a ghost, seriously shakes Ruan Bai's conception.
Ghosts, could they be people
Say no, but Du's father is so human-like, it also has a prototype in the real world, that is Du Wenshu's father, the founder of DSAS company.
It can be said that it is, but no one is like that, muddleheaded, and doesn't care about other things except "obsession".
Ruan Bai thought about it, but couldn't think of a reason.
She finally sighed, and decided to put this question to the back, and wait until the game is out and get in touch with a few more ghosts before making a conclusion.
Right now, the most important thing is to rescue Xue Se, and pass the game with Xue Se.
Father Du acted quickly, and immediately brought Ruan Bai in front of Xuese, after all, it couldn't attack Ruan Bai, and Ruan Bai could expose its identity at any time.
And the place where Xue Se was hidden was actually in the study.
Father Du went in, took out one of the books, then closed the gap inside, and pulled the bookcase aside.
After a while, a secret room built behind the bookcase was revealed.
This secret room is not big, only about half the size of the study room, and it's so dark inside that you can't see anything clearly.
When the bookcase was pulled open, Ruan Bai could only feel a strong smell of blood coming towards him.
Through the light seeping in from the outside, she could vaguely see some strange symbols written on the floor and walls of this secret room, densely packed, only the corners could be seen, which made Ruan Bai feel dizzy.
At this moment, Xue Se was being tied inside with a rope.
Her eyes were open, and her wrists were red from struggling.
After seeing Ruan Bai, her eyes moved, revealing a look of relief.
Seeing this, Ruan Bai immediately walked over and untied the rope on her body.
Father Du stood aside, looking at them expressionlessly.
After it didn't have to act as a human being, its face no longer showed a human-like expression, but instead returned to the appearance that a ghost should have-a cold and gloomy face, and almost numb eyes.
"Your request, I have already fulfilled it," it said coldly, "Before the next round of songs is played, I hope you can do everything you promised."
It seems that in the next round of singing, Father Du's name will appear in the lyrics.
Ruan Bai nodded, and pulled Xue Se up from the ground.
And the ghost didn't stay to do anything, closed the bookcase, locked the secret room, and left soon.
Ruan Bai didn't hesitate, and when there was no one around, he told Xue Se the agreement he had made with Du's father.
"It is the survivor, and it wants your identity," Ruan Bai finally said, "but the chair you are sitting on belongs to it. We must find a way to return the identity before the next round of singing, otherwise you Alone, I am worried that you will die in his hands."
In order to achieve its own obsession, the ghost will do everything possible, and if the snow falls into its hands, it is impossible to survive.
Thinking of something, Ruan Bai's complexion changed a lot.
She looked at Xuese, paused, and continued: "... But in this case, do you still need the identity of another child? How are we going to find it? Is it possible to snatch it?"
14 players, 14 children, each player corresponds to a child, there will be no more.
Xuese returned Father Du's, so what should she do
Will they be in danger if they take away the identities of other players
However, what Ruan Bai didn't expect was that after hearing her words, Xue Se raised her eyebrows and asked, "The identity of the other child? Why do I need it?"
Hearing this, Ruan Bai was slightly taken aback.
"But, otherwise, would you survive..."
"I can."
Snowy shook her head.
Her face was very calm, even with a trace of confidence, without the slightest panic of approaching death: "You don't have to worry, I might occupy the ghost's chair, I have already considered how to solve it."
When the first round of singing sounded, neither Ruan Bai nor the player who died on the chair took their seats.
Especially "Big Brother", he didn't take his seat until Ruan Bai finished the meal, and the song had already finished playing by then.
They were judged as "big sister" and "big brother" by the game at that time because they did things that fit the behavior of these two characters.
Sitting down on the corresponding chair is naturally an act, but for a group of five or six-year-old children, it is normal to make the wrong chair.
Therefore, the chair should only be the initial condition.
There are definitely other potential conditions that can determine their identities.
The fact that Ruan Bai was pestered by the "Second Brother" ghost to confirm his identity before has given Xue Se enough inspiration.
"I guess, this game may be such a set of operations," Xuese said, "It is trying to 'press' the identity of the once-dead child on us, through both the perpetrator and the victim."
When Ruan Bai faced the attack of the "big brother" ghost, in order to survive, she had to hack her big brother to death with a kitchen knife like the old big sister did in accordance with the content of the lyrics.
This is a process of forced identity recognition.
"But out of the fourteen children here, thirteen of them all ended up dead. If the player admits his identity, it is equivalent to admitting death," Xuese continued, "So, if you want to survive the song, What we have to do is try to avoid the game from assigning us identities!"
Just like Ruan Bai when confronted by the "Second Brother" ghost, as long as he denies that he is not the "big sister", "Second Brother" can't hurt her and can only leave.
Ghosts can only harm objects with specific identities. Ruan Bai's denial is a process of getting rid of the identity of the eldest sister.
In this world, the game obviously wants to use the player's body to reproduce everything that happened in the castle decades ago.
Thirteen of the fourteen children died, and the identity of the only child who survived was watched by ghosts.
It can be seen from this that acknowledging identity will not do any good.
"I'm not a child here," Xue Se looked at Ruan Bai firmly, and said word by word, "I'm a player, an outsider, a living person, Ruan Ruan, and you too, don't be The ghost is confused, it needs to grab the identity, but we don't need the identity at all."
When Ruan Bai heard this, he was suddenly awakened.
It was true that her thinking was completely limited by the game before, and her mind was full of identities. In addition, Father Du was a ghost who snatched the player's identity, so she was used to thinking this way.
What these players need is to get rid of their children's identity.
Ruan Bai discovered before that the appearance of the song is "triggered" by the player's certain activities.
As long as they can get rid of it completely, and don't even do the most basic triggering behavior, how can the game pull them into the "different space"
... Speaking of which, is she really the one who brings the snowy color to this game
Knowledge is indeed the primary productive force. This little girl is just inexperienced. After she understands a lot of unspoken rules from Ruan Bai, she grows faster than anyone else.
After the crisis was gone, Ruan Bai secretly sighed and asked, "Then what should we do to get rid of our identity?"
Xue Se rubbed her sore wrist, and said lightly: "Go and clean up everything that hints at my identity as much as possible."
Fearing that the plot would be triggered again at some point, Ruan Bai and Xue Se's next actions could be described as very fast.
They first chopped down the snow-colored chair in the kitchen, burned the wooden sign with the name on it, and then went to some places like women's toilets and women's changing rooms, which obviously wouldn't let boys in. Sitting for a long time.
Afraid that something belonging to Du's father would appear in the room, Ruan Bai almost turned her and Xue Se's guest room upside down, and finally found some toys that appeared at an unknown time.
After cleaning up all these things, Ruan Bai sat in the women's bathroom with Xue Se, and decided not to go out until 8 o'clock in the evening.
And maybe because they didn't want to waste time on the two players, after more than four hours, the next round of singing finally came from the third floor—
“… The third sister who overrates herself puts the needle into the pillow of the little sister, but she quietly changes it back; Seeing her sister turn pale, the little sister hummed happily; Dear father, young mother; Your only choice will be me …”
This time, the children's singing was still the same as before, without any waves and uniform.
It's just that I don't know if it's Ruan Bai's illusion, their voices seem to carry a trace of imperceptible resentment...
[The third sister, who was overwhelmed, put the needle into the younger sister's pillow, but she quietly changed it back; seeing her elder sister's face turned pale, the younger sister hummed happily; dear father, Qingai's mother ;
Your only choice must be me. ]
After hearing the meaning of this song clearly, Ruan Bai and Xue Se looked at each other excitedly.
They did it!
According to the habit of the lyrics, it generally turns the perpetrator of the last round of lyrics into the victim of the next round of lyrics, and tells how the victim died.
But one time, it directly skipped the section of "Second Sister Was Hanged by Du's Father" and went directly to the next section, skipping Du's Father and starting to talk about how the younger sister killed the third sister!
Ruan Bai knew that this was a game compromise.
From now on, Xue Se should be like her, no longer entering the "different space", and no longer being attacked by ghosts.
After confirming this point, Ruan Bai immediately relaxed.
Until now, she didn't feel that her back was soaked.
Although Xue Se's face was calm all the time, Ruan Bai could guess through her twisted white fingers that her mood was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.
After all, she was still a girl in her teens, no matter how smart and calm she was, she would inevitably feel nervous in the face of death.
"Let's go," Ruan Bai smiled at her and said, "After dinner, we will continue to search for information. I still don't understand the meaning of the inverted cross you showed me before. Woolen cloth."
After listening to her words, Xueshi nodded.
"I was afraid that something would happen to me, so I left you the mark. In fact, I'm not sure myself," she said softly, "I have a guess, but I haven't had time to confirm it... Ruan Ruan, you want to go to the third floor to see see?"
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