Absurd deduction game

“Welcome next time.”

With Yu Xing's voice, the door of the grocery store was closed, and the figure of the female customer wearing a wide hat disappeared from their sight.

Yu Xing held a small stack of strange banknotes in his hand. The main body of the banknotes was light gray with red lines printed on them. The font was the one they couldn't understand. Fortunately, the expressions of the numbers were still Arabic numerals. This was still his The first time I got the so-called ghost man, I suddenly felt the joy of holding money in my hand.

The bandage costs 10 ghosts per roll, and the fabric torn from the skirt is rolled into eight rolls, which is 80 ghosts.

The last female ghost guest didn't have any large bills, so she paid sixteen five-ghost bills, took all the bandages, and left happily.

She was happy, Yu Xing was also happy, but Croun's mood was much more complicated. On the one hand, he finally made money after many years, but on the other hand, he couldn't let these outsiders be eaten by the pollutants. Instead, it allowed them to successfully avoid their own punishment, which meant they passed the level.

The clown lay on the backs of the three deducers, constantly screaming with anger or joy. Yu Xing knew what the clown was thinking, but he was still troubled by the mentally polluted voice. After a while, it was Zhao again. Yijiu was the first to feel annoyed: "Crown, it's over."

His cold tone was like the ice in February, which caused the temperature in the room to drop solidly. After all, he was not a pure human being. There was still a ghostly aura in his soul that most ghosts on the Dead Island did not dare to provoke.

"Yes, you have fulfilled Croun's instructions and helped Croun make money." Under Zhao Yijiao's threat, the clown reluctantly spoke, "You can leave now."

Zhao Yijiu: "Where are the rewards for completing the level?"

Yu Xing understood instantly: "Is that so? After completing an independent copy in a building, as the rule maker, the plague body that controls the building will be responsible for giving outsiders adequate compensation, that is, rewards?"

After all, this was their first time entering a building. No one knew about this rule except Zhao Yijiu, who had run around once before, so it was not impossible for the clown to hide it.

Unfortunately, Crown met the wrong person.

"...Yes, I will reward you." The clown seemed to be very angry, "But you have already obtained special information, which you should not get as an outsider as soon as you arrive on the island! Don't you think this is already a piece of information? Did you plant any extra gifts?"

Qu Xianqing chuckled as if he had heard some funny joke.

Yu Xing also smiled and said: "Yes, I should have figured this out by myself after going through several independent copies, but the lady just now was very generous and told us such an important rule. This is indeed hers. A gift, if given the chance, I will repay her.”

Instead of fooling him, he heard from Yu Xingli that he regarded the existence of his enemy as a gift. The clown became even more angry, but he had no choice. He could make the rule that outsiders would be used as his shield by applying paint. Naturally, there are more advanced rules hanging over his building, that is, if the person who clears the level needs it, he must give a reward.

Therefore, if you want to refuse the reward, you can only use concealment and deception, but not force. Now it seems that these living people are obviously familiar with certain rules, and it is impossible for him to refuse the reward.

The clown could only look at the sixteen Five Ghosts bills placed on the counter after Yu Xing finished counting, and then he felt relieved and reluctantly asked: "What reward do you want?"

"What reward can you give?" Qu Xianqing reached out and took down a mirror from the shelf next to her. She raised the mirror in front of her. This time she could clearly see the clown's soul in the mirror. She looked coldly. The corners of his lips curled up on his face, giving him a more intimidating look that made people dare not look directly at him, "Stop playing tricks, I'm very experienced."

"Anything except money is fine. My goods are the same as any of you." Crown smiled in the mirror, but this smile was due to the corners of his mouth that were cut open and could not be put down.

"Do you have weapons?" Qu Xianqing asked, "We don't want those scissors and fruit knives in your store, but weapons that are really used for fighting. Don't deny it in a hurry. We can buy clothes and other equipment in the hotel, but at the moment the hotel Only weapons are not provided, and the ones picked up on the street are too fragile, so there must be weapons in an independent building like yours."

The basic room they can live in is completely impossible to provide anything related to weapons. At this stage, the first priority of the gamers who have just arrived on the island is to get a weapon that can be used in combat, and then search the map and slowly find it. Return your own items scattered across the map.

There are physical ghosts on the island, such as female ghost guests, and incorporeal ghosts such as clown souls. The latter are very difficult to deal with. After all, they are generally based on rules. As long as you don't know the rules and step on the trap, you will basically not be able to resist. , it must be a certain death situation, but physical ghosts are different. With a weapon, the survival rate will be greatly increased when facing physical ghosts.

Not to mention there are twenty players from the experience master's side who don't know when they will meet them.

"Hmph, do you really want weapons? Hehe, the weapons on Dead Island are not as simple as you think. There is a price to pay for using them!"

The red color in Zhao Yijiu's eyes has been in a semi-retreating state. His impatient eyes almost looked into the mirror: "Stop talking nonsense."

"Then you can only get one weapon!" The clown's soul danced a funny dance in the mirror. He was called a clown by outsiders like Yu Xing only because his face was painted and the corners of his mouth were cut. In fact, he was called a clown by outsiders like Yu Xing. He has not received professional training in the circus, and this dance is really eye-catching.

But all three deducers could see that this unknown dance was summoning something, so they tolerated it.

Not long after, the mirror surface suddenly shattered, and the cracks were densely covered. Each fragment reflected the appearance of the grocery store, but the clown inside suddenly disappeared.

A half-rusty iron rod fell out of the cracked mirror and hit the ground with a clanking sound.

This iron rod looks about the same length as a baseball bat, with the same thickness at the front and back. The rusty part is concentrated on one side. For now, let’s call the rusty side the front end. There is a slight depression at the rear end corresponding to the front end. Grip, suitable for use by primates.

The first reaction of the three of them was to pick it up, but in the end only Qu Nianqing bent down, because Yu Xing instinctively curled up the moment he stretched out his hand to resist the endless coldness from the iron rod. Zhao Yijiu also said directly: "There is something up there."

He originally wanted to remind the other two people to stay away temporarily and let him pick it up, but Qu Xianqing had already held the iron rod in his hand before him.

Zhao Yijiu was silent, and then he remembered that Qu Xianqing's body felt no pain at all, just like an insulator. As long as it didn't hurt the invisible soul behind her, even the thing on this iron rod would do no harm to her.

But Qu Nianqing could also feel that there was something very dangerous contained in this iron rod. Holding it in his hand was like holding a ghost in his hand, a ghost that could bite back at any time.

"Mr. Crown, since this is our reward for clearing the level, please tell us how to use it." Qu Xianqing looked at the broken mirror. The clown inside had already gone to nowhere. The next second, she had a flash of inspiration, and she caught a glimpse of the garbage basket.

Inside, the clown doll, which had been safe and sound for so long, was trying to crawl out of the trash can.

"Come here."

Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu also followed Qu Nianqing's line of sight and saw the puppet escaping. Yu Xing stepped forward and grabbed the puppet, holding it in his hand and shaking it: "Can you still talk?"

The black glass eyes of the clown doll swayed, and then finally settled on Yu Xing's face: "Of course, Croun is tired now and wants to rest here!"

"Of course, none of your plots have succeeded, so you should be really tired, but before that, tell us the function of this stick, or we won't let you sleep."

Do you hear this is human speech? Too bad, too bad!

Kroun kept scolding in his heart, but seeing the half-smiling expression on Yu Xing's face, he felt for no reason that these living people might be more terrifying than dead people like him.

But the question they asked also made Croun realize one thing: "You didn't even find the notebook, why on earth did you come to my store so early to cause trouble!"

notebook?

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows. Isn't this the ghost notice? Could it be that the ghost notice also has the responsibility of introducing weapons?

"Listen up, this is the most common stick weapon in Dead Silence Island. It contains very powerful resentment. If you touch it directly with your hand, the resentment will follow your hand and penetrate into your heart until you let it go. You become what it was before it was made into a stick - it was made from the spine of a rusted man!"

The clown puppet yelled: "Of course, this takes time. It doesn't mean that if you hold it for a minute, it will turn into a rusty person. Whenever it hits the polluted body, its resentment will cause a lot of damage to the polluted body." Although it can cause great damage, this is already a weapon with very little harm to you!"

"It seems that we have to ask Daisy's daughter to send some pairs of gloves." After Yu Xing got the answer, he immediately thought of a solution, and he almost understood that the "weapons" on the Dead Island may all originate from pollution. The material of the body itself, which is why Daisy asked them to bring back the materials of the contaminated body to her - because it is useful.

After the ghost dies, its own characteristics are made into the raw materials of weapons, and then living people use such weapons to fight against pollutants - maybe they can also fight against plagues, or, as long as they can withstand the side effects, whether they are pollutants or plagues Both human beings and living people can use various weapons, which means that the high-level contaminants and plague bodies they encounter later may not only have different abilities, but also carry weapons.

After all, Crown can bring out weapons.

"Okay, I've given you the reward, get out of my store! I know that cunning outsiders like you will exchange information. During the next period of time, my store will be closed to all customers, and you can't even think of entering me again." Buy anything from the grocery store!" Croun shouted in his high-pitched voice.

At the same time, Yu Xing felt a repulsive force from the surroundings. He knew that the grocery store was really trying to push them out of the door.

There must be gains and losses. Crown's grocery store was originally supposed to sell groceries to gamers, such as bread, cold medicine, wrenches, masks, etc. If a few wealthy gamers entered the store, maybe they would It is a simple relationship between the customer and the grocery store owner. The grocery store can be used as a half supply station.

Fortunately, Yu and the others had no money, which triggered the plot of becoming employees, so although they survived, they also made Kroon angry and permanently closed the use of the grocery store, leaving half of the supply station gone.

But Yu Xing did not regret it. After all, the grocery store was too close to the hotel. The hotel itself was a large supply station, which overlapped with the grocery store in function. Even if the grocery store was gone, it would not be a big deal. Instead, they gained more Intelligence, at this stage, the value of new information is far more precious than an unnecessary supply depot.

"Okay~Okay~" Yu Xing happily allowed the repulsive force to push him out. The same was true for Qu Xianqing and Zhao Yijiu. This grocery store had no value to them anymore and it was really time to leave. .

The door of the grocery store has been pushed open in advance by a mysterious force. The street outside is very desolate, welcoming these "tourists" who have returned. Qu Nianqing is still responsible for holding the iron rod... no, the spine rod, She looked at the store, then at Yu Xing who was smiling strangely, and was the first to step out of the store.

When the rewarded "weapon" was successfully delivered to the door, Yu Xing's eyes lit up. Before Zhao Yijiu could even react, he saw Yu Xing move the small piece of paper placed on the edge of the counter with lightning speed. The stack of money was held in his hand.

Then, he ran out of the door like a crazy rabbit, leaving only the clown puppet standing there with a handsome back.

Zhao Yijiu saw this behavior that seemed to have been simulated countless times, and he already knew why the stack of banknotes was placed on the edge. An uncontrollable smile appeared on his face, and then he looked at Croun's While roaring, he dodged the suddenly closed door with his vigorous movements.

"My money! My money!"

The door of the grocery store failed to leave Zhao Yijiu behind. It closed behind Zhao Yijiu with a slight difference, and then was suddenly opened again. The clown doll stood at the door and could not come out. Its roar was also low and suppressed: " Give me my money back!"

"Your money?" Yu Xing waved the banknotes in his hand at it, "It's mine after you leave this store."

Then he laughed like a clown: "You're not going to get anything, hee hee."