The first thing Ruan Bai noticed was the timing of the murder.
According to the requirements of the rules, the murderer can only kill during the three and a half hours of free time, but twice, for two full games, the time for the dead is 15 minutes for the final vote.
This is obviously unreasonable, but the steward actually said that there was nothing wrong.
This should be a hint to the player.
In the first round of the game, in such a situation, it can be said that the murderer chose to kill at that time because he had "a last resort" and borrowed game props.
But this was still the case in the second round of the game, which meant that the time was wrong. It should have nothing to do with the props, but with the "special abilities" given by the game.
What are the abilities related to time
Ruan Bai thought of "traveling through time" without even thinking about it.
If what the murderer possesses is the ability to span a certain period of time, then how he killed the person is very clear.
Assuming that the murderer can cross the world, it is five minutes.
Well, first of all, at the moment after everyone entered the room, he would activate his ability to go back to five minutes ago.
Five minutes ago, none of the players had time to go back to their rooms.
In this case, the murderer can take the opportunity to enter the room of the player he wants to kill and kill those unsuspecting players.
In this way, he can successfully get rid of suspicion.
Ruan Bai thought that when the murderer entered the torrent of time, there should be two different ta in the same timeline.
One is the murderer in the normal timeline, and the other is the murderer five minutes ago.
What is time and how is it defined? This concept is very complicated.
However, one thing can be confirmed, that is, time, which can be compared with each other based on a certain point in time.
If the time point in the real timeline, when the 15-minute voting time starts, is taken as the time base point of this story, then when the murderer has moved forward by 5 minutes, he will enter another timeline.
That timeline is 5 minutes slower than the real timeline.
In that timeline, the murderer entered the victim's room ahead of time, waited patiently for five minutes, and killed the victim.
Because during the 15-minute voting period, all players must stay in their rooms, even if they hear movement, they are not allowed to come out.
Therefore, no one will know who the murderer is except the victim.
Although when the murderer attacked the player, there was still a 15-minute voting period in the timeline he was in after time travel.
But for the timeline in reality, he is a murderer "five minutes ago".
As long as the murderer strikes fast enough to kill the player within 5 minutes, then the moment when the murderer kills the player, even in the timeline five minutes ago, belongs to the 15-minute voting period, but compared to the actual timeline, it belongs to the Those three and a half hours.
In this way, the murderer's behavior can naturally meet the game requirements of "killing people within three and a half hours".
Gu Buchao has two memories, it should be because he has experienced two full timelines.
However, he couldn't remember the murderer's face, probably because the murderer used some kind of props, and this shouldn't be a sequela caused by time travel.
The murderer was afraid that he would not be able to kill Gu Buchao within the fixed time limit, so he ran away in a hurry after fighting Gu Buchao for two minutes.
As for the murderer in the second round of the game, he actually didn't need to copy the murderer's method in the first round of the game.
The murderer in the first round of the game would do that because someone proposed that everyone sit in the lobby for four hours. There is no way, he can only kill after 15 minutes.
This copying by the murderer in the second round completely exposed what the murderer's real "special ability" was.
But he was not voted out, so it's not a loss.
In fact, Ruan Bai could almost guess it at the end of the second round of the game.
It's just that it's guesswork after all, it all depends on her wild thinking, and there is not much information that can really support this idea.
However, the second round of the game was over, and she knew what was going on.
The next thing she has to solve is how to catch the murderer in the third round.
As for the murderer in the second round, there are two possibilities as to why he imitated the murderer in the first round of the game.
The first one is that he probably felt that the murderer's method in the first round of the game was very good, so he copied it.
The second is that under the constraints of the rules of the game, this special ability can only be used at that moment.
Ruan Bai felt that nine out of ten it was the second type.
Therefore, if she wants to make a plan, she has to stick to that point in time and do something.
After the other players had asked about the steward's dead player's room and left one after another, Ruan Bai came to the hall alone while there was no one around.
The steward stood at the edge of the hall, standing there straight, lifeless, like a programmed machine.
"Hello, Manager," Ruan Bai walked in front of him and smiled slightly at him, "Excuse me, may I ask, is the duration of each round of the game really a complete four hours? It cannot be shortened or increased ?"
From the moment Ruan Bai walked over, the steward looked at her.
After hearing her words, a strange look finally appeared on the steward's expressionless face.
"It has to be the full four hours," he said.
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Time passed quickly, and in just a moment, a few hours passed.
At around four o'clock in the morning, the whole cruise ship was quiet.
The third round of the game started at 12 o'clock in the morning. Many players felt tired and powerless after the initial tension.
Some people form a team in twos and threes, and take turns to take over the vigil, in case someone accidentally raids.
Afraid of being caught by the murderer, everyone came to the hall at the same time after doing some activities outside.
On the table, on the floor stand, in the corner of the wall, inside the curtain... In the silence, countless people sat silently and hid there.
Some people fell asleep, some people were still awake, their faces were tired, but their eyes were full of vigilance.
Since three o'clock in the morning, there has been a faint white light on the far horizon outside the window, reflecting the entire black ocean into a bleak white.
In the dim house, the candle lamps swayed with the sea breeze blowing outside, pulling their black shadows very long.
In the room where even the sound of breathing is clear, in the huge lamp in the hall, the pointer is still moving slowly.
Tick tock... tick tock... tick tock...
In the end, it stopped at the 4:00 AM spot.
"Bang bang bang!—"
At the moment when the pointer pointed to four o'clock, the big clock made a sharp and piercing bang!
After hearing the deafening bell, the players in the hall trembled and opened their eyes suddenly.
They know that the deadline is approaching again, and a new round of voting is about to begin.
This time, the players who were used to the rules consciously stood up without waiting for the steward to appear, and hurried back into the room.
There is despair, fatigue, and fear on their faces, but more, they are deeply numb.
However, among them, there is one person who is different.
He lowered his head, lowered his eyes, and walked towards the room with the large army.
His appearance is no different from other players, they all have a sad face.
But his hands were clenched tightly, and the excitement almost made him unable to control the expression on his face.
Yes, he is the murderer of this round.
After learning from the steward that he was the murderer in this round, he knew that he could survive.
As long as he can kill a man.
For killing, the murderer has no feeling.
disturbed? hesitate? regret? timid
None of these complicated emotions will appear on him.
For the murderer, his thinking is very simple, and his purpose is also very single.
He knows that if he kills someone, he can live.
As long as he can survive, he can do anything.
"The ability that the game gives you is the ability to transcend time and space."
He remembered that the steward had said this to him when he came to him.
"When the voting begins in the last 15 minutes and all players return to their respective rooms, your special ability can be used."
"Please remember, the way to trigger the ability is to knock on the door of your own room three times."
"After knocking, as long as you walk out of the room, you can travel back in time and go back to a certain period of time."
"Your ability can only be used once, so I hope you can kill your target as soon as possible during the time span!"
Keeping in mind the steward's words, the murderer returned to the room and the moment he closed the door, he turned around and knocked on his own door three times.
Then, he pushed open the door and walked out.
Since he knew that he was the murderer, he naturally had to plan who would be better to kill.
And in the free time in the past, he had already chosen his favorite target - the rookie male player who had had friction with him.
It's not that he didn't think about attacking a few female players, especially the twelve or thirteen-year-old one.
But later he thought, for such a young child to survive the escape game, he must have a bit of extraordinary ability.
In escape games, never underestimate any old player.
Therefore, the murderer naturally set his sights on the remaining two new players.
Holding the fruit knife in his hand tightly, the murderer's eyes flickered.
He walked straight out of the male player's room, and without hesitation, he pushed open the door of the male player's room!
"Ah!?—"
However, what he never expected was that the room was not empty!
The moment the door was opened, the newlyweds screamed in panic.
The male player, who was supposed to be sleeping in the lobby, actually appeared in the room at this moment, looking at the murderer with a look of panic on his face!
what happened
Seeing this, the murderer was stunned.
Didn't the steward say that he has the ability to travel through time
And according to the normal situation, the newcomer was clearly sleeping in the lobby a few minutes ago.
How did he appear in the room? !
It's just that his thinking is fast, but other people's actions are faster.
The moment the newcomer called out, the three female players immediately opened the door and walked towards the source of the sound!
Now, the murderer finally understood.
Not only this newcomer player is staying in the room, but all the players are currently in their own rooms!
The ability to travel through time given to him by the steward did not succeed at all!
But why is this so
Obviously in the first two rounds of the game, those murderers succeeded
The murderer couldn't figure it out, but no matter what, the matter had come to this point, and the few women who ran out had already seen his face clearly.
He was caught.
Everything that followed went smoothly.
Ruan Bai and others caught the murderer, tied him up, and put him outside the corridor.
The other players passed through the crack of the door, saw their movements clearly, and recognized who the murderer was.
Now, they just need to wait for the steward to appear and vote.
Seeing the perplexed murderer lying on the floor, Ruan Bai secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
The murderer doesn't know why the special ability fails, but she does.
Because the failure of his ability was caused by her hands and feet.
After realizing that the murderer's special ability is to "travel through time and space", Ruan Bai began to plan how to catch the murderer before the 15-minute voting period.
When she first entered the game, she discovered that there was no clock in her room.
This is very unreasonable, because in other games, in order to allow players to grasp the time, clocks are hung in many places.
She was still confused for a long time at that time, not knowing what to rely on in this game to remind players of the time.
Only later did she know that when the time was up, the big clock in the lobby would ring to remind players.
At this point, is the game hinting at the player
Ruan Bai didn't know the answer before, but now, she can give a positive answer.
—Because she set the clock in the hall forward by half an hour!
After guessing the murderer's special ability, Ruan Bai searched every corner of the cruise ship, and confirmed that only the lobby had a clock.
After learning from the steward that the game time is a complete "4 hours", Ruan Bai knew that the end time of the game would not change with the clock time.
In order to invalidate the murderer's special ability, she took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and everyone went to the scene of the crime to look at the dead body, and then she walked over and set the clock in the hall forward by half an hour.
During this period, most of the players were searching for information outside, and it was late at night, so everyone was very tired, working while feeling sleepy.
So when they returned to the hall to rest one after another, few of them realized that the time was wrong.
On the other hand, this is also the convenience brought to Ruan Bai by the 4 hours of game time.
If the game is only 1 hour long, then even the dullest person will notice it.
Putting these words aside for the time being, all in all, when the bell rang, there was still half an hour before the actual voting time began.
In fact, as long as you pay attention, the murderer will find that Guan Shi did not appear, but he may be too excited and ignore this detail, causing him to miss the opportunity.
As time passed, the murderer gradually understood something after the manager never appeared.
Everyone waited silently for half an hour, and when the steward finally appeared, the voting time began.
With the real murderer cast out, the game of catching the murderer is finally over.
One wave after another was pounding towards the cruise ship, and the salty, wet and slightly cold sea breeze was mixed with the white light from the sky, seeping into the room from the window.
The steward turned and went upstairs. After talking to someone, his footsteps slowly descended the stairs.
"Master is very satisfied with your performance," the steward said lightly, "From now on, you can move around freely."
Free activities... They can finally rest!
After hearing the steward's order, many players showed slack expressions on their faces.
Logically speaking, the steward's words should be what many players are waiting for.
This not only means that the game of catching the murderer is over, but also means that soon, a new plot turning point will be ushered in the cruise ship.
Of course, the most important thing is that players no longer have to guard against each other.
They can team up to explore the game progress!
Just looking at the pale and gloomy face of the steward, for some reason, Ruan Bai felt an inexplicable unease in his heart.
She took a deep breath, suppressed the strange emotions in her heart, turned to Xiaoxue and the others, and asked them about the progress.
The author has something to say:
I don’t know if there are any little angels who remember that in the first chapter of this dungeon, I mentioned that there is no clock in the room ＿(:з」∠)＿