Compared with a world where a certain Kaitan Loli and the others have completely "died", this world at least still has hope... even if this hope seems extremely small.
"Human beings are too fragile."
Sitting back on the bed, the night owl sighed softly in his mouth.
"Where do these endless strange rumors come from? Why is it that not only our world has encountered this kind of thing, but other worlds have also encountered this kind of thing? And what is the nature of the system and players... "
"Are you one of the 100,000 whys? There are so many whys in this world. No one will be kind enough to tell you the answer. You have to find the answer yourself."
Putting his feet on the edge of the bed, Bai Zhi answered casually.
"Only fools will keep worrying about this kind of thing, but smart people have already started to formulate plans to improve themselves in the future. Your initial skills are pretty good, but if you don't get your timid character, If you correct it, I don't think you can get very far."
“…it’s natural to be afraid of the dark.”
After a moment of silence, Night Owl spoke quietly.
"Everyone has something they're afraid of. Don't you have something you're afraid of?"
"Something to be afraid of? Of course I have it."
Bai Zhi turned to a new page in the book in his hand and curled his lips.
"But this is the biggest secret in my heart. It is impossible for me to let others know this weakness of mine... But is fear useful? You will still have to face it one day."
"...Is there any good way for me to overcome this problem?"
After a moment of silence, Night Owl took the initiative and asked.
"I have been doing exercises in this area, but the exercise methods I found online were not reliable at all. Originally, I wanted to look for some equipment at the auction house to see if there was any equipment that could improve my situation. props or skills, but I couldn’t find them.”
"Methods? There are naturally many ways. The simplest ones are psychological hypnosis and autosuggestion. But forget about hypnosis. This thing is actually very unreliable, and it is difficult to be hypnotized due to the player's attributes. You can try self-suggestion. one time"
Bai Zhi raised his eyes and glanced at the other party before snapping his fingers.
"I have read several books on psychology before, and there are clear instructions in psychology. As long as you remember to say words like "You are great" to the mirror after getting up every day, soon after, You will find..."
"I'm not afraid of the dark anymore?"
The night owl couldn't help but answer.
"No, you're going to find that that mirror is going to be a great mirror, and you're going to have a great mirror."
Bai Zhi answered with a proud look on his face.
"How about it? It's a good deal, right? This is my wealth code that I will never let anyone know. Do you know that you've made a lot of money?"
Night Owl: "..."
- This is crazy! ! !
… … … … … … … … … … …
Just when the night owl fell into speechless silence, there was a heavy knock on the door.
At the same time, the knock on the door sounded together with a voice that was quite familiar to them.
"Take my..."
"Hello, my family lives in Room 1001, Building 2, Fandou Garden, Fandou Street. My father's name is Hu Yingjun, my mother's name is Zhang Xiaoli, and my name is Hu Tutu. Are you a cow? Grandpa?"
Before the other party could finish speaking, Bai Zhi interrupted the other party seriously and turned to look in the direction of the door.
“…Give me my body back.”
After a few seconds of silence, a cold voice sounded from outside the door.
"Uh... who are you!? Where is Grandpa Niu!? Where did you hide Grandpa Niu!?"
Bai Zhi's face turned pale with shock.
“…Give me my body back!!”
As the voice suddenly rose in pitch, the cold atmosphere in the words became thicker and thicker. However, someone did not accept this trick at all. Instead, he took out a loudspeaker from nowhere with a sneer on his face. In front of the mouth.
"Can you compete with my louder voice!? Let's see who has the louder voice!? Do you know what politeness is!? Remember to lower your attitude when asking for help. Do you think I will be spoiled? You!? So you have to tell me who you are first. If you don’t tell me, how can I return your body to you, right? So, if you want your body back , you have to tell me who you are first, otherwise I won’t be able to do anything... "
"... Shenwu Tianxie."
Perhaps feeling a hint of frustration, he coldly interrupted his words, and a cold, familiar voice sounded faintly.
"Okay, I've put your body in my room. If you want it, just go in and get it yourself."
Bai Zhi curled his lips and put down the loudspeaker, with a still unfinished expression on his face.
"Room [503] is next to room [504]. I put your body in my room and the door key is at the door. Do you have any questions? ?”
"..."
After a brief silence, the sound outside the door disappeared.
"Wait, when did you put that..."
The night owl who watched all this on the side looked at it in a daze.
"Test you to observe the small details above."
Before the confused night owl could finish his sentence, Bai Zhi turned his head and looked at him.
"There is a very obvious loophole in what the other party just said. Can you find out what that loophole is? This is not a difficult question, because the loopholes in this language should be able to be heard at once. "
"Uh... But the other party only said two sentences in total..."
After tilting his head slightly and thinking for a while, the night owl who really couldn't find any loopholes spoke weakly.
"This is just a small test, about the details."
Without interest, Bai Zhi threw the loudspeaker in his hand on the desk aside for later use, and Bai Zhi picked up the book again.
"If you have such a small problem... just tell me when you think of it."
Volume 1 The Gap between Virtual and Real: Chapter 191 Chapter 188 The Sixth Day, the Chef
Apart from the initial knock on the door, the night seemed eerily quiet.
—There was nothing unusual, no strange stories to disturb me, and no disturbing knocks on the door.
Soon, as the lights in the room turned on, dawn arrived, and Bai Zhi opened his eyes from his chair on time.
Frowning slightly, Bai Zhi reached out and pressed his slightly sore shoulder, then got up and walked to the bathroom to wash his face.
After doing this, Bai Zhi went to the kitchen and started boiling hot water with an electric kettle, and then skillfully took out two packs of instant noodles from the refrigerator.
By the time the night owl sat up from the bed, rubbing his eyes, a steaming bowl of instant noodles had been placed on the table.
“It’s instant noodles again…”
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and after a slightly helpless glance at someone who was sitting at the table eating instant noodles, the night owl got out of bed and followed him to the bathroom to wash up.
Since the pain in her left arm and shoulder was still severe, it took her a little longer.
It wasn't until about 7:45 that the two of them walked out of the door together.
—Today is their sixth day in this apartment.
But for some unknown reason, Zhenggu Heming, who always came out the earliest in the past, was the last to leave today, and after coming out, he still stared at him with a very resentful look. Bai Zhi…
"... You didn't really clean the cesspool last night, did you?"
Looking at Zheng Gu and Ming's washed white and red arms, Meng Qi's eyes couldn't help but become very subtle.
"How many times have you taken a shower since you came back?"
"I can't remember clearly... but what I experienced last night will probably be a lifelong nightmare for me."
After giving Bai Zhi a weak look, he collapsed on the table, looking as if he had suffered severe physical and mental damage, Zhenggu and Mingyou spoke quietly.
"By the way, I also recorded the video. It's a scene of all the floor managers working together to swim in the dung mountain and dung sea. Do you want to see it?"
"Ahem... let's turn the topic to business."
After coughing a few times, Meng Qixia spoke seriously.
"But before we talk about the business, there are some things I have to clarify first... Are you hiding something from us?"
While saying this, Meng Qixia turned her head and looked at Bai Zhi.
"Yesterday, there was a video on my computer, and what was played in that video was the scene of you walking out of the bathroom in Room [501] alone. I think I need an explanation for this."
"Did you get the hint that I was the murderer who killed Shen Wu Tian Xie?"
Raising his eyebrows, Bai Zhi instantly understood the meaning of Meng Qi's words.
"In that case, shouldn't you choose someone to investigate me quietly behind my back?"
"Because the guy who knocked on the door yesterday was so stupid. A few words revealed the fact that he wanted to sow discord... I am not an idiot."
Meng Qi had a look of disdain on his face.
"Shen Wu Tianxie, who died because he lost his body, wants to get his body back. This makes sense in theory, but in fact it is completely wrong. In the role-playing mode, Our bodies are not in this world, is that guy kidding?"
"Well… "
Secretly turning his head to look at someone next to him, the night owl, who had been thinking about this all night but couldn't figure it out, couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly, and there was an inexplicable feeling of frustration in his heart.
"But even though it's the lowest level of sowing discord, you also have something to hide from us, right?"
Staring at Bai Zhi in front of him, Meng Qi's eyes burned brightly.
"I just discovered this morning that the mission goal ② of this mission has been completed without knowing it... Aren't you going to share these things with us?"
"I originally planned to tell you today, but now that you ask..."
Shrugging, except for the necessary secrets such as the skill information about night owl, Bai Zhi told all the other things quite nonchalantly.
For example, the night owl had a location tracker secretly left behind, the non-existent tuxedo reflected on the head in the mirror, the previous speculations about the evil God of God... and Bai Zhi's scattered pieces of information that he had combined with him last night. The puzzle pieces you have to collect will piece together the real secrets about this apartment.
Bai Zhi said all these things in one breath.
"Harvest players..."
After listening to Bai Zhi's words, Meng Qi frowned fiercely as he glanced at the extra chairs placed next to the round table.
"The five of us... no four, are going to fight twelve completely unknown monsters? What's the difference between doing this and committing suicide?"
Players usually risk their lives when fighting against a completely unknown monster, let alone 12 unknown monsters
"Today is the sixth day, and tomorrow is the seventh day. When we came on the first day, the time was around 7:30 in the evening."
Bai Zhi shrugged indifferently.
"And this apartment has a certain suppression effect on ghost stories during the day. The harvesting time is after nine or eleven o'clock in the evening, so we will not deal with those high-ranking eaters."
"So what you mean is..."
As if he had thought of something, Zheng Gu and Ming looked slightly pale.
"That's right. Don't you think that apartments similar to ours will only have this floor?"
Bai Zhi snapped his fingers.
"Let's not talk about how many special floors there are for breeding players in a whole apartment. Do you know how many apartments like this have been built in this world? I don't know, all of this is a big deal for us. It’s unknown. But we don’t need to know this, because all we have to do is wait until the last moment and return safely.”
"Since the danger we face is not those [superior eaters], then what danger will we face?"
Meng Qi frowned slightly.
"Of course they are the "chefs" who prepare ingredients for those [high-level eaters]. They are the guys who attacked Zhenggu Heming and Night Owl a few days ago. In the past few days, these existences have been ready to come. On."
Bai Zhi had a sneer on his face.
"Deliberately provoking disputes and suspicions between us, and also has the ability to control these strange conversations in the apartment to a certain extent. The computers in each room are their tools to monitor us, but they have always been hiding in the dark. Look at our jokes. They were once humans, but now they have completely turned to the side of ghost stories... "
"They are the fallen players that exist in this world."
Volume One: The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 192 Chapter 189: The Existence of Betrayal of Humanity
Wherever there is light, there is shadow. Where there is justice, there is naturally evil.
When the lights are on during the day, this apartment has a certain inhibitory effect on ghost stories, but just a few days ago, Zheng Gu and Ming, the floor manager who should not be attacked, were attacked during the day. Arrived in ambush.
After removing the option of being attacked by Kaitan, and then removing the option of a traitor appearing in the player's team, there are only a few options left to choose from.
"Fallen Player... Chef?"