At this time, Lu Chu realized that all the so-called "breath" theory he had been thinking about just now was also applicable to himself.
Lu Chu's mind was in a mess.
He hurriedly pulled 7 steps, and walked all the way back to the captain's lounge.
7 Knowing that Lu Chu had a deeper thought about the truth of this "game" at this time, he remained silent and did not disturb his thoughts, but let him drag him all the way back.
Back in the lounge belonging to the two of them, Lu Chu sat beside the bed with a dazed expression. He lowered his head, let the broken hair on his forehead cover his eyes, and connected and integrated everything he had deduced in his mind, and then extracted these evidences one by one, and applied them to himself.
It turns out that this is the most correct answer.
Lu Chu maintained the posture of sitting by the bed, raised his head, looked at 7 with clear eyes, and said slowly, "I'm the 'big cat', right?"
The moment he said these words, Lu Chu felt a chill all over his body, and felt a chill that pierced his bones and reached the bottom of his heart.
It turned out that the victims he wanted to find out the real culprit for them were all killed by..."Lu Chu".
7 Hearing this, he took two steps forward to approach Lu Chu, knelt down on one knee, touched his cheek lightly, and then gently wrapped his arms around him, with unconcealable pity in his eyes: "You will find out sooner or later."
Yeah, sooner or later you'll find out.
Lu Chu recalled that when he just entered this round, the dead man whose legs had been cut off had glared at him in pain and resentment, and kept repeating "you killed me" and "Lu Chu, kill me".
At that time, Lu Chu thought that the man wanted to kill him so that he would not have to suffer from the pain.
Thinking about it now, that person was not begging Lu Chu to give him a happy time, but was stating an established fact, that is - it was you who killed me.
It's Lu Chu, kill him.
7 hugged Lu Chu, and said in a soft and deep voice, "The rules of this game are that the "tiger" can only know his identity when all the passengers and crew members on the cruise ship except for the 'ghost' are successfully killed. At the same time, the player as a 'tiger' successfully cleared the instance."
After the chill all over his body just now, Lu Chu has calmed down a little. He continued to speculate after 7's explanation: "So, the 'rules' will overturn the behavior that hindered players from finding answers in the past, so that everyone in this game They used their respective strengths to advance the development of the incident step by step, and finally successfully deduced who the real culprit is."
Once those people investigate the clues, have a target, or the ghost plans to leak the secret, then the player as a "tiger" will fall into a dangerous situation unknowingly.
Lu Chu sighed: "The player's opponent in this game is not a ghost or a murderer, but the player himself."
The most difficult part of this game is actually that the player is wholeheartedly hunting down the murderer, collecting key evidence bit by bit, and then racking his brains to piece together the details, and finally suddenly discovers that the evidence that has been collected through untold hardships points to the murderer. It turned out to be me.
As a murderer, I dedicated so many new calendars to find myself, and finally ended up being killed by other surviving people on the ship who learned the truth—the failure of the mission was caused by the player himself.
It really is a bad taste of "rules".
What could be more fun than finding out that you are the murderer after spending your time with the other victims.
No wonder every time Lu Chu went to sleep, someone would die when he woke up the next day. It must be the characteristics of this body set by the "rules".
"I already understand," Lu Chu said with a calm and sober expression, "In this round, either the player 'Big Cat' killed everyone on the cruise ship unknowingly, and no one found out the real culprit during the process." , the player successfully cleared the level; or the person who investigated the case with him discovered the truth of the matter, and finally the player was killed by the survivors in anger."
When there are so many survivors on the cruise ship, the death of the player becomes an inevitable event due to being outnumbered and outnumbered.
Lu Chu had no memory of the fact that he had killed someone in his sleep.
So, he looked at 7 and questioned: "The 'rules' set additional settings for players who enter this game to become 'big cats' as soon as they fall asleep, and then subdue the 'ghosts' as their servants and kill them." Corresponding player, am I sleepwalking in the process?"
7 nodded and explained: "It's similar to sleepwalking, but it looks sober. It can be understood as the player's second personality, but this personality has nothing to do with the player itself, it is controlled by 'rules'."
I see.
The "rules" really play a big game of chess for the players, which makes Lu Chu have a deeper understanding of the evil taste of the "rules". It always has a way to make you confused, and you don't know when you will die in the game in one of the traps.
There are more than 2,000 passengers and more than 500 crew members on a cruise ship. It seems not difficult to find the "big cat" among them, especially when people on the cruise ship die one after another and more and more clues are available. But under normal circumstances, human beings always have absolute trust in themselves, and subconsciously exclude themselves from all bad events, and it must be other people who will be suspicious. At this time, just admitting the truth of "I killed someone" requires a lot of mental activities and takes a lot of time-death will not give you this time.
Fortunately, 7 is by my side.
"That detective seems to have discovered the truth," Lu Chu asked 7, "Did you kill him?"
7 stroked the soft hair on top of Lu Chu's head: "I gave the chef an order."
Hearing this, Lu Chu asked suspiciously, "Those people are either prey or ghosts, what about 7?"
7 hooked her lips, pinched Lu Chu's soft earlobe, and said softly, "Ghost."
"Ghost?"
"Well, ghost."
Lu Chu suddenly said, "I didn't think of this."
"Remember what I said," 7 stared at Lu Chu's eyes, the eyes were deep and filled with infinite affection, "I said, I will not let that 'big cat' have a second 'ghost'. Using others to help me lure prey, I want a sharp blade that can be used for many purposes, and that sharp blade can only be mine.”
Therefore, there is no need for Ms. He, the woman in room 136, the doctor... and even Ellie.
7 took Lu Chu's left hand and kissed the back of his hand lightly: "Lu Chu, I will be the sharp and only knife in your hand."
"You don't have to be afraid of anything, you don't have to worry about anything, just let go and do it."
———
After a conversation with 7, Lu Chu knew the true identity of "himself". Fortunately, only he and 7 knew who the real "big cat" was.
Constantly thinking about the details of the various things that happened on the previous cruise ship, Lu Chu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have never been to his own room, and as a "ghost", Ellie had asked him more than once, why not Go back to your room and have a look.
This made Lu Chu a little concerned—I always felt that Ellie wanted to tell him something.
So, he and 7 went to the room where he was supposed to live. Walking to the room, Lu Chu opened the door with the key on his body, pushed the door and walked in.
The moment the door was pushed open, a pungent smell of blood rushed over, impacting Lu Chu's sense of smell, which was already much sharper than ordinary people. Because of the extremely pungent smell of blood, Lu Chu originally thought that he would see a corpse in the room, but he didn't expect that there was only blood all over the floor and bed. The blood had completely dried up and turned into a dark red solid coagulation, which could no longer restore its original crimson color, and the gloomy tone made the whole room look dark and terrifying.
Lu Chu was used to this kind of scene, and now he looked calm and walked into the house without changing his expression.
After checking the room inside and out, Lu Chu realized Ai Li's motive: "It seems that she really regarded me as a patient with split personality, and after she found out that I was getting closer to you, she planned to tell me The truth."
Of course, in Ellie's view, the truth is somewhat different from reality.
I saw that the bed in the room was densely packed with notes of various lengths, with words written on them——
"Chu, you are as gentle and charming in the daytime as you are in the middle of the night. I am willing to dedicate my ignorant soul to you."
"Chu, if you don't come back to live in this room, I will fill your room with my own blood and tell you the secret."
"Chu, if you really don't come back, then Ai Li will tell you, we listened to your words and went to kill those people who died."
"..."
"Chu, I am also your ghost, but why do you only believe him?"
"..."
Lu Chu sighed, wrongly paying for Ai Li's true feelings - the second personality is really not him, it's just a "rule".
7 reached out and covered Lu Chu's eyes from behind: "I don't like her."
Lu Chu went out of the room with him following 7's movements, and locked the room again, then turned to 7 and said: "You can enter my room without a key and leave these things, it seems that Ellie will pry them Lock."
After that, Lu Chuwu chuckled to himself: "What am I talking about, it's a useless discovery."
If these things in their own room are discovered, the people on board will immediately realize that they are the real culprit behind the scenes.
"When the 'big cat' kills all the passengers and crew members except the ghost, it is the victory of this round and the successful end," Lu Chu said in a low voice, "that is to say, I have to wait until I am asleep Did the 'rule' take control of my body and kill two thousand more people?"
When making this kind of assumption, Lu Chu's hands were slightly cold when he thought that those thousands of lives were buried in his own hands.
Instead, Lu Chu remembered that 7 was the one who had experienced all the single-player dungeons, so he asked him with some doubts: "How did 7 win in the first place, and was anyone discovering and revealing his true identity?"
"When the survivors on board were 1932 passengers and 378 crew members, I found out that the murderer was myself, and then—" 7 spoke in a calm and indifferent tone, "I killed all these people in one night. "
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