Chapter 21: The Mysterious Death Threshold (1)
Sliding the mouse, An Yi quietly browsed through the found materials.
The first two times, due to various reasons, An Yi didn't care about this matter at all, but now...
Staring at the computer screen with both eyes, An Yi's eyebrows occasionally furrowed slightly.
In the few days after his return, An Yi spent all his time investigating the existence of that strange world, except for eating and sleeping. For example...
This sixteen-player game, in the real world, as early as the 1970s and 1980s, evolved into a simple game using small pieces of paper as media.
Even in the following decades, with the development of technology, various game paths based on forums emerged one after another, and eventually evolved into client-based game modes.
But compared to that strange world, there is a vastly different existence. For example...
There was no life-threatening danger; it was just a game of entertainment among friends.
Of course... The things I've found out are still of great help to An Yi.
For example, some experiences can be borrowed into the strange world. After all, the two have a high degree of similarity in rules.
Shut down the computer, An Wei rubbed her eyebrows and thought about what she had learned in recent days.
Whether it's entertainment based on reality or that eerie world, the most essential things in games are only two - analysis and language.
Analysis. Without a clear logic, it is impossible to distinguish other people's identities.
No matter whether they are civilians, government officials, or thieves, all need strong analytical skills.
In addition to analytical skills, language skills are also crucial.
Whether it's a lie or the truth, in normal circumstances, with poor language expression ability, it's hard to gain others' trust.
Even...
The official may be considered a thief by the people due to poor language expression skills.
Thieves may also be mistaken for government officials due to their strong language skills.
Of course... Compared to telling lies, it's undoubtedly much more difficult.
Language expression ability must be established on a strong logic basis. The two are complementary to each other.
But wanting to deceive others with false words ultimately involves a difficult point - what is true cannot be false; what is false cannot be true.
He took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, then composed himself and walked back into the living room.
The curtains blocked out the light, making the living room slightly dark. An Yi sat quietly on the sofa.
A black hole appeared beside An Yi. Dark chains emerged and began to drag An Yi's body away.
An Yi calmly watched everything happen, allowing himself to be swallowed up by the black hole.
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The moon still hangs high above, the ancient temple stands as before by its side, the bonfire burns...... The surroundings are quiet, just like several times before.
An Yi looked quietly at everything around her, her face subtly changing color.
The scene is still the same, just...
Is this a professional field?
An Yi took out his mobile phone and glanced at it.
The scene hinted at in the information was indeed professional. An Yi's gaze swept slightly over the others beside the bonfire.
Except for a few people, most of them showed some curiosity on their faces.
This tiny situation caused Anyi's eyebrows to furrow.
The night fell, and the surroundings sank into darkness, no longer able to see the figures of others.
On the ground in front of An Yi, the static number '14' slowly changed into a 'min' character.
The character stopped for a moment and then changed into the number 14 again.
The night was brief, three minutes of time quickly passed, An Yi's gaze swept around, waiting for the dawn to arrive.
The bonfire suddenly flared up, and An Yi's gaze condensed as he looked to his left.
Next to An Wei's 15th, a figure emerged from the darkness.
No. 15 is a young man with golden-rimmed glasses, wearing a dark brown jacket, with slightly long hair covering his ears.
A slightly stunned expression hung on his face, probably because he didn't expect to be stabbed on his first night.
A monster head with a horse-like and sheep-like appearance stretched out in the darkness and bit down on the 15-year-old youth wearing glasses.
The monster's huge mouth swallowed down the lower body of the young man in jacket No. 15 at once.
As it chewed on the lower half of Youth 15's jacket, the monster slowly retreated back into the darkness.
Fresh blood gurgled out of the mouth of the young man with glasses and jacket No. 15, unable to be suppressed.
The corpse of a young man with jacket and glasses, only the upper half of his body remaining, signals the official start of the game.
But... The number 15 in front of the young man with glasses and a jacket still hasn't changed at all.
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"Number 15, Last Will and Testament." A low, muffled voice spoke up at the same time as a candle flickered to life.
After a dull sound appeared, what greeted them was silence, and they did not hear the voice of the young man with glasses in jacket No. 15.
After a brief silence, beside the corpse of the 15-year-old boy in glasses and jacket, a voice suddenly appeared, astonishingly saying: "How can you still talk after 'dying'?"
It was a brief silence, and the candles went out one by one.
"What's going on? Why hasn't my identity been revealed yet?" The voice appeared again beside the corpse of the young man in the jacket and glasses, this time filled with intense surprise.
After this sentence appeared, it once again entered a brief silence.
When the candle had burned halfway down, the voice of young man No. 15 with glasses appeared again: "It seems that professional scenes are indeed different from primary scenes! Ah! I'm Min! This..."
"Alright, I'll drop a water bag. 16 and 1, you two go fetch the water. If there aren't any constables waiting in ambush behind us, then you two will be promoted to PK."
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The figure of No. 16, with the candle going out and then reigniting again, reveals the darkness.
No. 16 was a young man wearing a black vest and sporting a pompadour, seemingly chewing gum, with the muscles on his cheeks subtly bulging with each chew.
"What's with the 'water bag'?" Number 16, a young punk with a Mohawk, sneered: "Where did you learn that stinky slang? Still talking about water bags? You must be a rookie who just arrived at the beginner's arena. And another thing..."
"Let me show you my ID? What's your identity, what's mine! You want a cop to show his ID, is that even possible? Ridiculous!" The young man with the 'Mao' haircut and sleeveless vest spat out the words while chewing on his gum.
"In a professional setting, the first-placed official must take control of the scene. There's nothing to say! I'm an official, and last night there was a search and kill operation, searching for number 6. All votes were for number 6." Number 16 'Mao' a young man with a small vest on his back licked his lips: "Welcome thieves to jump wildly."
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No. 16 'Mao' inch vest young man hid back in the darkness, and No. 1's figure appeared closely behind him.
Number 1 is a young, slightly chubby boy wearing a red and white school uniform.
It can be seen that No. 1 school uniform Xiao Pangzi Shen 'color' is a bit nervous, and his words are also hesitant: "I, I am the official."
"Could No. 16 have reported the search and kill? Is he a thief or something?" The little fatty in school uniform No. 1 hesitated, his face pale: "Or...or let him out, let him out."
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No. 2 is a twenty-year-old girl who looks like a college student.
The girl's cheeks are slightly rounded, with a bit of baby fat. The girl has a slightly upturned nose bridge, wearing a pair of frameless glasses, and her face still has an inexplicable sense of superiority.
The No. 2 glasses girl with a pimple on her nose appeared in the dark, but she didn't speak up at first, and instead pondered for a moment.
"I and No. 1 are both bailiffs, we investigated No. 4 last night, and No. 4 is a civilian." The bespectacled girl with the button nose paused for a moment: "No. 16 jumped out of line, I and No. 1, two bailiffs came out, and the civilian certificate was also issued, isn't that sunny enough?"
"Also..." The girl with glasses and a pimple on her nose emphasized: "As for the 6th vote in the 16th report, we don't know who the 6th is, but in this circle, there should be 6 votes cast against the 16th."
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"Did 6 votes go to No. 16?"
Number 3 is a young man in his early twenties, wearing a long-sleeved undershirt on top and a pair of shorts below.
No. 3 shorts youth appeared, first shook his head with a smile: "Didn't you say there would be 6 votes on No. 16? Didn't you say sunny?"
"Yamen, it must be sunny. But is this what you call sunny?" The young man in shorts No. 3 sneered and curled the corner of his mouth: "I'm one of the four yamen with Nos. 16, 7, and 13. Let's take out four yamen cards and deal two cards to Nos. 1 and 2. Isn't this what you call sunny?"
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No. 4 is a young man in his twenties with a suit and tie, giving off a somewhat elegant impression, but at this moment his face was full of bitter smiles.
"Sorry, my fellow officer lied! In fact, I'm also an officer card, and 6 is also an officer card! We can't afford to pay for six tickets, and... yesterday night we checked the 15th one, who was a civilian, but ended up being killed by mistake." The young man in suit No. 4 sighed.
The young man in suit No. 4 said, looking in the direction of An Yi's No. 14 in the dark: "Actually, we came to investigate No. 14. As for why we're investigating him, you should also understand. But... after investigating him, he was blocked and could only change to investigate No. 15."
"When we encountered the same experience and the same killing, plus the two thieves flew away, it was also an unavoidable thing." The young man in suit No. 4 sighed again: "But we are really constables!"
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No. 5 was a gaunt-faced boy of seventeen or eighteen, with an oversized jacket that almost completely hid his already somewhat short stature.
No. 5 Big Brother's silhouette appeared, and he shrugged: "I'm a commoner, I can't see the situation clearly! In this case, let's listen to what the people in the back have to say first."
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No. 6 is a twenty-year-old 'girl', gentle and quiet, wearing a white long skirt.
After the darkness that shrouded the No. 6 long skirt 'girl' retreated, she first furrowed her delicate eyebrows and thought for a while.
"I'm indeed a yamen runner. We did investigate No. 15 last night. The same verification and the same killing, we don't want to either, but that's just how it is. Think about it, if we were thieves, would we need to jump out without any civilian ID?" said the gentle-voiced girl in a long dress, No. 6.
The No. 6 long skirt girl's face was calm and quiet, without any anxiety due to the current situation.
It's just... I feel like there's a kind of calmness on her face that always seems to convey a sense of indifference.
Even looking at the color between her cheeks, I always feel that it is similar to An Yi's expression of having no desires or demands.
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No. 7 is also a 'girl', wearing a pink suspender vest, unlike the No. 6 long skirt 'girl', her face is filled with youthful and lively smile.
No. 7 Powder Slingshot 'Girl' pouted and looked around the dark surroundings: "I, No. 16, No. 3, and No. 13 are all four constable cards! Isn't this already very sunny? Only constables would be so sunny! And..."
"Also, take a look at what this team's spokesperson said!" The 7th fan girl puckered her lips and thought for a moment: "In the case of our 16th fellow officer rising to report and kill, what did No. 1 say? He didn't even issue a people's certificate, he just set up a dry and barren official post and wanted to get rid of our 16th!"
"There are also the speeches of No. 2 and No. 4, which completely contradict each other. No. 2 said that No. 4 was a civilian, while No. 4 claimed that he himself was an official who had interrogated and executed people last night." The 'girl' with the No. 7 powder puff paused for a moment: "Would an official do such a thing? They are the thieves! So in this circle, let's start with No. 6 first. No. 6 is our killer from last night."
