When Gu Buchao was talking about serious matters, he quickly returned to the appearance Ruan Bai was used to—cold, rational, careful yet bold.
When he talked about the murderer, he didn't directly say how he was attacked, but let Ruan Bai prepare himself first.
"The murderer's method of assassination is very strange," he said. "If you can, you'd better have something outside your room that can warn you."
When Ruan Bai heard this, he nodded, indicating that he had already made preparations.
In the first few worlds, she learned to spend 10 points to exchange some lipsticks and other things in the system mall, and put them on the doorknob and the corner of the door. If someone enters her room, they will On carpets, on doorknobs.
With this skill, she avoided ghosts, found rooms that were not right, and countered many players who had malicious intentions towards her.
Seeing this, Gu Buchao paused and continued.
It’s just that when he mentioned the following content, his voice was erratic, as if he was not very sure: “… when I was attacked, it was very weird. I don’t remember who he was. I just remember that we all entered the room when the voting time started. Then he showed up."
Gu Buchao didn't know when that person entered the room, and he didn't know how that person left his room. The only thing he could be sure of was that the other party had been waiting for him for a long time.
The moment Gu Buchao closed the door, the other party swung a fruit knife and attacked him fiercely at the deadly spot.
As for how Gu Buchao escaped himself, in fact, Gu Buchao can't remember clearly.
What happened in those few breaths was like a dream, vague and vague.
"I feel like I've been hypnotized," he said softly. "My consciousness, my memory has been completely divided into two different mes—one who has never been attacked, and who has been sitting in the seat since entering the room. I didn’t move until the time was up; while the other me fought that person for nearly two minutes, and in the end, he failed to beat me and ran away in a hurry.”
He remembered that his arm had been cut, but he didn't care to look at his arm after the fact, only to find that his arm was intact.
He obviously fought with that person for a long time, but he couldn't even remember the face of the person who attacked him.
He seemed to have been forcibly implanted with a memory, but those two memories were so real that he couldn't tell which one was fake.
The only thing Gu Buchao was sure of was that just after that person left him, the voice of the NPC in charge came from outside the door.
The steward told everyone that the murderer had successfully committed the murder.
But the murderer ran away from him in embarrassment in the last second.
After hearing what Gu Buchao said, Ruan Bai frowned deeply.
There is no other reason, but because of Buchao's experience... It is too indescribable.
If the person who told her this was not Gu Buchao but someone else, she would definitely suspect that the other party was lying to her.
But now, Gu Buchao will definitely not lie to her, so this experience is 100% true!
After thinking for a while, Ruan Bai raised his head to look at Gu Buchao, and asked tentatively, "Brother Gu, are you sure to find out who the real murderer was in the last round?"
Gu Buchao nodded.
He pointed to the corpse in this room, and said calmly: "If nothing else happens, the murderer from the previous round lives next to him on the right."
After Gu Buchao found out who the dead person was, he realized that there was only one room between him and the dead player's room.
The murderer will choose him or this newcomer, probably because they live close to the murderer, they are his left and right neighbors.
Of course, this was just a guess at the beginning.
But when Gu Buchao saw the secretly delighted expression of the player next door, he realized that his guess was indistinguishable.
As for the male player who was voted out at the beginning, it really wasn't the murderer.
Ruan Bai didn't say anything after hearing what he said, but nodded to show that he understood.
Hearing the footsteps of other players coming over to find out, Ruan Bai and Gu Buchao looked at each other and left immediately.
In the following time, Ruan Bai hurriedly found an opportunity to transfer Gu Buchao's information to Xiaoxue and the others, reminding them to pay attention to themselves, especially Xiaoxue.
After that, she began to think about the loopholes in the game of finding the murderer.
At the beginning, Ruan Bai thought about whether to pretend to be weak, to seduce the murderer to attack him, so as to catch him out.
But Gu Buchao's words made her completely dismiss this idea.
Even those who have been attacked by the murderer can't remember the face of the murderer, so Ruan Bai thinks that this method probably won't work either.
The choice of victim, in particular, turned out to be random. The murderer chose Gu Buchao and the newcomer, obviously for convenience.
Therefore, she can only start from another way.
What she wanted to determine was what the killer's special abilities were.
Ruan Bai looked at the corpse carefully, and he was indeed injured to death, which shows that the murderer's special ability will not enhance his skills.
Otherwise, he wouldn't turn to others because he couldn't beat Gu Buchao.
In addition, Gu Buchao's experience made her quite hesitant.
It's not that she doesn't believe in Gu Chao, but she is not sure how much of it is brought about by "special abilities" and how much is the player's own means.
After she, She Xiaoxue and the others became the hosts of the White Lotus System, Ruan Bai used them to thoroughly understand the things in the escape game system mall.
Although most of the items in the system mall can only be used against ghosts, this does not mean that they cannot be used to confuse players.
Just like her system shopping mall, although most of it is useless, it can have wonderful special effects when used occasionally.
Also, in the first round of the game, Gu Buchao clearly told her that the time when he was attacked was during voting and when everyone returned to their respective rooms.
But that's unreasonable and against the rules.
"... After choosing the murderer, everyone can come out of the room and move freely for three and a half hours. You use various clues to find out who the murderer is, and the murderer must kill someone during this time..."
This is the rule of the game announced by the steward at the time, it is impossible for Ruan Bai to remember it wrong.
While walking, Ruan Bai tapped his fingers slowly on the railing.
A vague guess, through these tiny clues, kept rolling in her mind, and finally slowly gathered into a clear line.
After a while, she suddenly withdrew her hand.
…
For the rest of the time, Ruan Bai went to the hall to eat, and for the rest of the time, she acted alone.
She went to every place on the cruise ship, except for the lobby, there are toilets, infirmary, study, staff dormitories, bars... as long as she can go, she has gone there.
After searching these places carefully, Ruan Bai stepped on the bell and came to the hall before the voting time started in the last 15 minutes.
At this time, other players also gathered here in unison.
They wanted to see who was killed.
It's just the same as last time, this round of the game, until the voting time started in the last 15 minutes, no one died.
All 16 players appeared in the lobby intact, looking at each other in panic.
I don't know if he wanted to imitate the killing methods of the last round of murderers. In order not to expose himself in advance, this round of murderers still chose to move the killing time to the end, to the time when everyone entered the room.
If there is no accident, after entering the room for a few minutes, someone will still die.
Ruan Bai looked at them calmly, and then, like last time, went back to the room, ready to vote.
Two or three minutes later, the voice of the steward outside the door came in again.
"The murderer has successfully committed a murder," said the steward, "Please fill in the name of the suspected target."
So Ruan Bai wrote his name on the note and handed it out through the crack of the door.
During this time, her room was still quiet and harmless.
After 15 minutes, the bell in the hall outside the door rang, and a female player was voted out.
When Ruan Bai searched in every corner, he vaguely knew that the female player seemed to have some conflicts with a team.
Her death was not so much misunderstood as being deliberately framed by someone.
Regarding this result, Ruan Bai himself didn't know what to say.
What she was afraid of happened faster than she expected.
Human nature is indeed something that cannot be waited for.
In just the second round of the game, some players have learned how to use the rules of the game to kill people with a borrowed knife without a teacher.
Later, as the players gradually become anxious and there are more and more frictions and quarrels between each other, this situation will only increase.
She is not the Virgin Mary, she just thinks it is a pity and pathetic.
In addition, she was not sure whether the person who was voted maliciously later would become her, Xiao Xue Ningrou, whether she would care about them.
The female player was quickly executed.
Ruan Bai listened carefully and found that she was thrown into the sea just like the male players in the first round of the game.
I don't know what this execution means to the master.
After the female player was eliminated, the third round of the game began with the steward's voice.
This time the murderer is still not Ruan Bai, nor is Xiao Xue Ningrou not caring about them.
According to the past, Ruan Bai might still be disappointed. After all, no matter what she thinks in her heart, at least having the identity of a murderer is equivalent to having the right to avoid death.
But this time, Ruan Bai breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ruan Ruan, what should we do?" Ning Rou also asked Ruan Bai in private, worried about Ruan Bai's progress, "Now it's the third round of the game... I'm very worried about you."
Although Ruan Bai is not the smartest one, nor the most sociable one, in the hearts of these girls, Ruan Bai is their backbone.
It's the third round of the game, and no one knows who the real murderer is or how the murderer killed the person.
They are not stupid. They understand that the best way to break the situation is to catch the murderer before the voting begins.
However, the murderer knew this too!
They are very cunning. Before the voting starts, they will not kill people at all, and they will not leave a chance for other players.
Ning Rou was very disturbed.
She thought, is it really good to let Ruan Bai crack the game alone, while the two of them search the background of the game
But what Ning Rou didn't expect was that Ruan Bai slowly shook his head at her after listening to her words.
There was a smile on Ruan Bai's face, and his voice was calm and cheerful: "You don't have to worry, you and Xiaoxue can go and check it at ease."
Because, she had already guessed what the murderer's special ability was.