"Then it will be up to me to assign tasks."
Bai Zhi turned his head and glanced out the window to roughly estimate the time, and then spoke.
"The first floor has been roughly explored. The current clue is two body fragments. According to the concept of dismemberment by five horses, we still need to find the remaining four fragments on the second floor and the top floor. The second floor is owned by me. You and Night Owl will be in charge, and you two will be in charge of the top floor, okay?"
Before anyone else could answer, the night owl, who was holding a stereo and wearing headphones next to him, which was incompatible with the surrounding atmosphere, started to mutter to himself.
"Ah... looking for corpses in an abandoned mountain villa on such a rainy night, I feel like we are perverts..."
Turning to look at the other person, Bai Zhi reached out and took off the headphones on the other person's head, and then spoke to her with a serious face.
"No, be more confident and remove the word "like". We are just perverts."
"..."
Volume 1 The Gap between Virtual and Real: Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Semi-Crippled Physique
This dilapidated villa located in the mountains is divided into three floors.
Under the premise of understanding certain prerequisites, their exploration speed will undoubtedly be greatly accelerated.
It took more than two hours in total, including the rooftop on the top floor, and all corners of the villa were finally fully explored.
After the dead head in the refrigerator in the kitchen on the first floor and the arms under the bed in the master bedroom, Bai Zhi and the bearded man found the remaining corpse puzzle pieces one after another on the second and third floors.
However, when everyone gathered again on the sofa in the living room on the first floor, they found that the corpse puzzle pieces they found were still missing one piece from being assembled into a complete corpse.
Head, torso, left hand, right foot, left foot, this is a total of five corpse puzzles they found, but the remaining right hand was never found.
After two minutes of silent silence, looking at each other, the night owl raised his hand and weakly proposed a hypothesis.
"Uh... is it possible that the deceased was disabled during his lifetime? For example, a hand was broken due to a sudden car accident, or maybe he lost a hand when he was born with a disability...?"
"No, if you want to summon the dark mage, the sealed right hand is an indispensable part."
Bai Zhi had a serious look on his face as he carefully closed the instant noodle box.
"Dark Master? What is that... wait, where did you get the instant noodles from?"
Turning his head to look at Bai Zhi, who was peeling a sausage and adding it to the instant noodle box, Xinrou smiled and showed the same expression as when the night owl found the other person eating popcorn.
"Thinking consumes a lot of brainpower. My physical fitness is very low, less than 15 points. I need to replenish energy all the time."
Bai Zhi tapped his forehead with his finger and looked calm.
"As for the Dark Mage, that is a super card that can directly win the game as long as you collect five cards."
"Even if you want to replenish energy, obviously high-calorie foods like chocolate are the most suitable. Junk food can replenish your brain power!!"
Xiaoxiao Xinrou, who was slightly depressed, complained loudly.
When she and the bearded man went to explore the roof of the rooftop, an inappropriate lightning illuminated the night sky, and she clearly saw her own reflection in the accumulated water.
Although the bearded man consumed a body in time to save her, there was a very conspicuous black finger mark on her left calf, which made her look a little panicked.
At the same time, those black finger marks that could not be wiped off also had an additional negative impact on her physical strength. For example, her physical constitution, which was originally "10" in her attribute column, had changed in just over two hours. The time has become "10 (-2)", and it is falling at an average rate of one point per hour.
If this continues, when the value in the brackets reaches "-5", she will lose the ability to move. The consequences of losing the ability to move in such an environment can be guessed without thinking too much.
—And there are still about four hours until dawn.
In other words, in the last hour, she will completely lose the ability to move. As we all know, survival-type tasks generally become more dangerous the further they go, so her mood now can be said to be quite good. Oops.
"I hate sweets."
Bai Zhi put the sausage in his hand into the instant noodle box with a look of disgust on his face.
"Getting back to the subject, obviously, the difficulty of this task lies in how to find the missing sealed right hand. I have taught myself some anatomy on the Internet. Based on the cross-section of the wound and the degree of bone contusion, I can judge that the deceased is He was dismembered by a weak axe, and the sealed right hand that disappeared is real."
"Uh... no normal person would think of going online to learn anatomy on their own, right?"
The night owl, who was huddled on the sofa holding the radio, looking pitiful, weak and helpless, weakly raised his hand.
"Of course it's because I'm bored!!"
Bai Zhi looked confident.
"..."
"The two black finger marks on Qianxiao Xinrou's neck and calf are from her right hand."
After coughing slightly, the bearded man opened his mouth to declare his presence.
"There should be some places in the villa that we haven't searched, so I suggest searching again. Since Qianxiao Xinrou's current situation has reached a dangerous level, it will be very dangerous if she is attacked again, so I I think you and Night Owl will stay here in the hall, while I and..."
When talking about Bai Zhi, the bearded man paused slightly.
"... Black and white will go together to conduct a detailed search of this villa. Currently, there are only two sub-bodies left that can be used in my body. My constitution is 11 points. Even if I am attacked, there will be no problem."
"11 points of physique? I only have 8 points."
Sitting on the sofa, the night owl looked envious.
"Well… "
After looking at his 6-point physique and then at the night owl's petite body, Bai Zhi decided not to speak and buried himself in eating his own instant noodles.
"It's very simple to grow your basic attributes. In fact, you don't need to envy anything."
After glancing at someone who was engrossed in eating instant noodles without making any comment, the bearded man simply sat down and did some popular science.
"There are two types of attribute values, basic attributes and growth attributes. Basic attributes can be quickly improved through daily exercise. Growth attributes refer to the addition of attribute points obtained during upgrades."
"Ah... Even if that's the case, I can only gain a few attribute points after upgrading. Isn't it because I'm congenitally just a few levels behind you?"
The night owl seemed very depressed.
"I know that daily exercise can improve basic attributes, but it takes a lot of time to achieve results. And you said before that it has been less than three months since the first player appeared, right? Three months is enough. Even if I train hard, I can't reach the limit of human beings... My attributes may be the lowest among us."
—Bai Zhi lowered his head and ate the noodles silently.
"Official players don't need to worry about this kind of thing."
The bearded man smiled.
"After reaching level two, becoming an official player, and opening the system mall, the chance to refresh items ten times a month will be fixed. That is, you can increase your strength and agility within a limited time by consuming game currency. The three attributes of physique are at the limit of human beings. Let alone a physique of 8 points, even a semi-disabled physique of 6 points can reach the full value of 15 points within a limited time."
"..."
- Bai Zhi, who was eating noodles with his head down, turned his head silently and glanced at the bearded man.
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Volume 1 The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 32 Chapter 32 The Unsolved Mystery
In fact, what the bearded man said is the kind of information that is released for free in the player forum, or it is not too important information. After all, as long as you become an official player, you can quickly get it. Be clear about this.
It is precisely because of this that the gap between novice players and formal players is not the slightest.
"By the way, how did you obtain player qualifications?"
Bai Zhi pushed the finished instant noodle box aside and asked the people in front of him.
"Uh... I had a strange dream."
Night Owl was the first to raise his hand in response.
"I can't remember the content of the dream clearly. Anyway, after I woke up, I was inexplicably and vaguely reminded that I had obtained the player qualification."
"My word... I probably got it by grabbing red envelopes in the group."
Looking at the rather unsightly black finger mark on his calf, Qianxiao Xinrou, who felt his body becoming increasingly tired, sighed helplessly.
"I grabbed a red envelope worth a few yuan in the class group, and then a panel popped up saying that I had obtained the player qualification... If I had known better, I wouldn't have been greedy for those few cents."
"Actually, there is no conclusion about how to obtain player qualifications. The relevant departments have made relevant statistics in this regard. However, after continuously investigating hundreds of players, the results remain the same. We haven’t found anything in common, otherwise the number of players wouldn’t be so rare.”
The bearded man shook his head.
"The only controllable method currently known is that during the monthly refresh in each player's personal exclusive system mall, there is a very small probability that a player qualification acquisition card will appear. Cards like this can be sold in the black market. The price is quite high, it’s the kind that has a price but no market… I obtained the player qualification when I was playing basketball.”
"Me? I was surfing the Internet, and suddenly a prompt popped up on the web page."
Seeing that the other three people were all looking towards him, Bai Zhi answered calmly.
"[Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Want to... really live?], this is probably such an inexplicable reminder."
“Is this a new way to obtain player qualifications?”
After listening to someone's words, the bearded man's eyes suddenly lit up slightly.
"Yes, yes, and the two options below are yes and yes. There is no negative option at all. Forced buying and selling."
Pouting his lips, Bai Zhi stood up.
"Although players are said to be the only main force that can fight against those monsters, the casualty rate of players is still high, right? When the player dies, the original ID will be discarded. This is why the simple ID [Black and White] will be used once The reason for passing?”
"The user ID is the code that represents the identity of a player. The player ID is just a code name. However, the casualties among players are indeed very heavy, but compared with the powerlessness and the power to resist when facing strange stories, Compared to that, there are quite a lot of people who want to become players..."
After being stunned for a moment, the bearded man quickly stood up.
"Shall we conduct another detailed investigation now?"
Unknowingly, due to Bai Zhi's always calm and collected attitude, he had quietly become the leader of this temporary team.
"Of course, but you'd better be mentally prepared, because the remaining sealed right hand is probably not in this villa..."
Waving his hand, Bai Zhi took his flashlight and walked upstairs.
"For the sake of efficiency, I will search the third floor and the top floor, and you will be responsible for the first and second floors."
"Well… "
The facts seemed to be just as Bai Zhi said. After spending more than an hour searching the entire villa in detail, they still could not find the missing right hand.
All the wardrobe drawers were rummaged through, the sofa was cut open with a knife, and even the trash can in the kitchen that was full of flies was poured out with nausea and rummaged through carefully... But in the end, nothing was found.
Even in the end, the bearded guy angrily demolished the toilet, broke the underground water pipe, and went to check around the villa in the rain, but he still only got disappointment.
But that's not the point. The point is that as time goes by slowly, the four of them can clearly feel that the temperature around them is constantly decreasing. Even if a fire is lit in the hall on the first floor, they feel as if they are attached to each other. The coldness that entered his bones still lingered.
Qianxiao Xinrou was in the worst condition. She was attacked twice in succession, and she still had weird black finger marks on her body. Even though her physical attributes ranked second among the players present, she was already at this moment. His face was pale, and he was extremely weak leaning against the fire.
As far as the current situation is concerned, Night Owl is the one in the best condition among the people present. Although the bearded man is said to have the strongest physique, his almost non-stop search operations and tense nerves have consumed a lot of his energy. In terms of physical strength, Bai Zhi's constitution is even half-disabled at six points. If he hadn't regularly taken out food to replenish his own strength, he would have been lying down by now.
"...Are you still in the mood for barbecue now?"
Sitting huddled next to the fire, Bai Zhi looked at Bai Zhi who had taken out a lot of seasonings and prepared skewers in front of him and planned to grill the meat. His smiling face looked extremely complicated.
"People are like iron, and rice is like steel. If you don't eat one meal, you'll feel hungry. Do you want one?"
While using a brush to brush the seasoning on the meat skewers, Bai Zhi looked towards Qianxiao Xinrou.
"This is the best beef I ordered online. It's definitely chewy."
"Please, you are the only one who is still in the mood to eat right now, right?"
The night owl, who rolled his eyes and sat far away from the puzzle pieces of corpses that were brought to the lobby on the first floor, spoke very feebly.
"If this continues, if we don't find a way to break the situation, all of us will die here, you know? Barbecuing..."
"Then just be a dead ghost before you die."
Bai Zhi put the skewers on the fire with a casual look on his face.
"..."
"If you continue to stay here, you will be waiting for death. Let's escape from this villa!!"
Once again, he came down from the stairs without finding anything, and walked around the rooftop in the pouring rain again. The bearded man, who was soaked all over, sounded extremely bad.
"This is simply an impossible puzzle to solve. It is impossible to find the missing right hand!!"
After running around for a long time and getting nothing, coupled with the coldness that seemed to be secreting more and more into his body, he felt a little self-defeating.
"Come here and make a fire, and then eat some barbecue to replenish your strength. If you go out now, you are looking for death."
While concentrating on brushing seasonings on the skewers from time to time, Bai Zhi spoke quite calmly.
"you… !? "
"I have solved the mystery, and I already know where the sealed right hand is."