After 15 minutes, the voting results of all surviving players were collected.
Sitting in the empty room, Ruan Bai heard the cold voice of the steward coming from outside the door.
"According to statistics, a total of 16 guests voted for Wang Qiang. Next, he will be directly eliminated as a murderer."
Wang Qiang was the 30-year-old male player who made the suggestion.
When Ruan Bai heard the result, he couldn't help biting his lips.
18 players, one died, leaving 17.
It is impossible for a male player to vote for himself, so excluding his own vote, the remaining 16 people all voted for him.
Sure enough... This result was not much different from what she had expected.
In the absence of a clue, it is easier to vote for the most outstanding and unusual player.
Even if they knew, this person was probably not the murderer.
This discovery undoubtedly severely suppressed Ruan Bai.
In the past, she was often the one who broke the rhythm of the game and found a way to break the game by relying on various unexpected means and moves.
But now, the rigid rules of the game and the potential crisis, like an invisible big hand, held her seven inches, making her completely at a loss.
The moment the steward finished speaking, Ruan Bai heard a loud crash not far away.
Someone broke into the room by force.
Immediately afterwards, the voice of the male player struggling and shouting came over.
"I don't, I'm not, it's really not me... I'm not a murderer!"
His voice was very loud, and when he spoke, his voice was unsteady, with some haste, louder and softer for a while, as if he was being dragged by someone.
But the despair in his tone can be felt by all players.
"I'm just making an opinion, I'm really not a murderer... ah!!!"
Finally, with a shrill scream, the man's voice completely disappeared.
In the whole world, there was only the sound of the wind outside and Ruan Bai's rapid breathing.
A few seconds later, Ruan Bai heard the muffled sound of a heavy object falling into the water from a distance.
This eliminated male player was thrown into the weird black sea water by the NPC.
He was eliminated.
"The murderer has been eliminated, the first round of the game is over."
The steward's calm voice sounded again: "Guests, please get ready, the second round of the game is about to begin."
After hearing the steward's voice, Ruan Bai closed his eyes.
The first 4 hours have passed, and next, is the second round.
Having experienced hundreds of battles, she can be regarded as a veteran player. After the round of the game just ended, she vaguely understood where the truly terrifying part of this S-level game was.
From the time the steward refused to abstain, Ruan Bai discovered that in this game, every player is expected to become a "murderer".
Even if they didn't kill the man with their own hands, from a certain point of view, whether it was Ruan Bai or someone else, they all contributed to the death of the male player.
Is that male player the real murderer? In fact, the possibility is not high, after all, there is no need for the murderer to do so much.
Including the male player's previous suggestion of "everyone stay in the lobby for 4 hours", Ruan Bai felt that it was not feasible at the time.
She would think that his suggestion was unreasonable, and she couldn't be the only one, but everyone didn't take the initiative to stand up against it, and they didn't dare to express their differences, because they didn't want to be voted.
Under this psychological influence, everyone's behavior will be greatly restricted.
They don't even dare to explore other things a little bit, because each of them is in danger of being killed, especially the real murderer cannot be killed in the next game, which will cause the murderer of the next round of the game to choose to kill When targeting, the range is reduced.
Naturally, subtly, the progress of the "discovering the secret of the cruise ship" that needs to be completed in customs clearance will be infinitely delayed.
This requirement can be easily achieved in previous games.
In comparison, how to survive the hands of ghosts is much more difficult than exploring the truth.
But even so, if this cannot be achieved, even if they survive to the end, they will not be able to pass the level!
And the 4-hour deadline for each round of the game is also very tricky.
On the one hand, it can be used to blatantly kill the player's time.
On the other hand, the faster this kind of game is generally played, the easier it is to find flaws, and 4 hours can not only obscure the murderer's methods, but also torture the player's mentality to a certain extent.
Yes, what this game wants is to make the player's bottom line lower and lower? !
In the face of death, the lower limit of a person is easily pushed down.
In the beginning, they were just forced to kill by the rules of the game, so they had no choice but to vote.
And after two rounds of the game, will the remaining players feel anxious and even start to look forward to becoming a "murderer" and take the initiative to kill people, so as to gain the protection of the rules
The bottom line is getting lower and lower, this kind of thing is like cheating, there are only 0 times and countless times.
After that, when it is safe, when they leave this game and start to go to the next game, and encounter danger again, but only need to "sacrifice" one life to survive, what will they do
Anyway, I have already killed someone before, so I don't care about this time... right
Before, these players were ordinary people, and they couldn't do harm to the world.
They may have an indifferent attitude towards other players, they don't save them, and they don't care, but to a certain extent, they are right to do so. Why force them to save others when it is difficult to protect themselves
But what will become of them since the bottom line is lowered
In Ruan Bai's eyes, once this situation spreads, it will be more terrifying than those previous worlds full of crises.
Because besides ghosts, there are also players who want to kill themselves.
Not to mention, Ruan Bai is still not sure what he will do after the so-called owner of the cruise ship appears.
Now in front of Ruan Bai, the only way to break the situation is only one way—
Catch the real murderer before the voting begins.
This is the hardest way, and the only way.
…
After 15 minutes, Ruan Bai's room was still quiet, and nothing happened.
Therefore, in this round of the game, Ruan Bai is still not the murderer.
Considering the result of the previous game, this time, no one dared to come up with any ideas.
Everyone consciously dispersed and went to form a team to find clues.
Ruan Bai made a special observation and found that the one who died was a rookie. Perhaps the murderer thought that rookies were easier to attack.
In addition, the lotus man looked very leisurely, sitting in the lobby and eating food casually.
As for the other players, they seem to be worried about being noticed by others, so they have properly trimmed their clothes.
For example, the short-haired girl with a cold expression and a slightly unorthodox dress took off the skull necklace around her neck.
In fact, it’s okay for them to dress up like this. In reality, there are many people like this. After entering the game, there are even people with strange shapes and wooden swords on their backs, but it’s useless.
In addition to the short-haired girl, the man in the hat and mask who had stared at Ruan Bai several times before also took off his hat.
Ruan Bai had a little impression of him, and after discovering his change, he took a special look at him.
The appearance looks very ordinary, but it is a little familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.
Perhaps, this is what the public face looks like
Ruan Bai was a little confused, but she didn't think too much about it.
She stood in the crowd, and after observing, she quietly gave Xiaoxue and the others a look.
They nodded cautiously, expressing their understanding.
Seeing this, Ruan Bai pretended to be uncomfortable, and hurried to the toilet.
She found the innermost compartment, made a small mark, and closed the door.
After waiting for a few minutes, She Xiaoxue and Ning Rou separately came to look for her.
After everyone arrived, Ruan Bai didn't hesitate anymore, and hurriedly revealed his identity and discovery.
"How?" Ruan Bai lowered his voice and asked, "Did you find anything else from just now and now?"
Both girls shook their heads.
"The identity given to me by the game is a student who once poisoned his roommate because of jealousy," Xiaoxue said softly, "and 'I' is like you, an old acquaintance with the owner here, and I have something to ask for .”
"It's the same with me. I killed my step-sister," Ning Rou said. "This should not be an exception. Our identities as players should all have killed people."
When Ruan Bai heard this, his mind was full of thoughts.
The owner of this cruise ship is deliberately collecting these "murderers".
What is his purpose
What does the name of the game Lost Cruises imply
Ruan Bai still has too little information, so he can't guess it at all.
"I think you've also noticed that we can't go on like this anymore, but I'm worried about Xiaoxue, you are too young, and the 'murderer' can easily target you."
After a while, Ruan Bai lowered his eyes and said softly.
It is very important for them to crack the progress of the game.
But now, the current game of catching the murderer, they couldn't ignore it.
"I think we need the right amount of division of labor right now."
Ruan Bai's voice gradually became firmer in the narrow compartment: "Xiaoxue, you are smarter than me, and you are much better than me in terms of exploration progress... Next, you two try to find out the secrets of the cruise ship, I will come alone to catch the murderer."
In this round, or in the next round of the game, she will try her best to catch the real murderer and end the game!
After hearing Ruan Bai's arrangement, She Xiaoxue and Ning Rou looked at each other.
Compared with the progress of the entire lost cruise ship game, the amount of information in the current game of catching the murderer is pitiful.
Lost Cruise has a vague direction, but the game of catching the murderer is confusing.
Under such circumstances, Ruan Bai decided to catch the murderer alone. On the one hand, he wanted them to check the progress of the game with peace of mind. On the other hand, he also put himself in a more dangerous situation.
Knowing this, there was worry in the eyes of the two girls.
But in the end, they nodded and did not express any objection.
Worried that others would find out that they were in the same group, they didn't speak for too long, and soon went out of the toilet one after another.
They all pretended not to know each other and started their respective tasks.
After Ruan Bai went out, without further ado, he went straight to the steward, asked for the location of the dead player in the first round of the game, and fumbled there.
First of all, she needs to understand how the victim died.
The steward responded quickly to her questions.
He not only told her the location of the body, but also told Ruan Bai how the newcomer died.
What shocked Ruan Bai was that the killed rookie player was killed in his room.
When she looked for it, the room was full of blood.
And that horrible corpse was lying on the ground.
What the steward said was right, he was hacked to death with random knives, and finally his head was cut off.
The murder weapon is the fruit knife in all the rooms.
During this period, he also struggled many times, and it can be seen that some rooms are obviously messy.
But that didn't stop him from being killed.
After discovering this, Ruan Bai was extremely confused.
If she remembered correctly, there were 18 of them at the time, and in the last 15 minutes, when the voting time began, they were still complete, and she also witnessed the victim enter her room.
After that, the steward announced the murderer's crime outside.
The murderer had to kill in those three and a half hours... So, where did he get the chance to kill
Also, this rookie is struggling like this, the chairs are down, and the other players must be able to hear the movement.
But after Ruan Bai entered the room, everything around was quiet, and there was no big movement at all.
She thought of what the steward said before, that the player who became the murderer would be given a "special ability".
What will that ability be? Mute? Through space? Stealth? Is it illusion or puppetry
And knowing this ability, how can we catch the murderer in the new round of games
Logically speaking, the game gave the murderer such a privilege, and it would inevitably give him a fatal limit point in some places.
Ruan Bai thought about it, but he couldn't figure it out, he just felt a loss in front of him.
When she came over, there were two other players in the room besides her.
One is the masked man from before, and the other is a strange male player.
Ruan Bai walked around the room cautiously, searched, but found nothing.
And after she finished flipping through, the strange male player had already finished looking at the room and left.
In the room, only Ruan Bai and the masked man were left.
The man in the mask came earlier than her, so he should have finished watching the room, but he never left.
When Ruan Bai searched the room, he was always on high alert because he was worried that he would be killed by the murderer.
She noticed the abnormality of the man in the mask, especially the man in the mask who had looked at her before, and now he is staring at her all the time.
After there was no one else in the room, Ruan Bai also prepared to leave.
With one hand behind her back, she quietly clenched the fruit knife hidden in her sleeve.
If this person tried to attack her in any way, she would fight back instantly.
What Ruan Bai didn't expect was that the moment she withdrew her hand, the masked man's eyes flickered slightly, obviously noticing her small movements.
A smile flashed in his eyes, and he said quickly, "Don't be nervous, Ruan Ruan, it's me."
After hearing his words, Ruan Bai paused slightly.
It was Gu Buchao's voice!