Pastor's Tantra

Mr. Reporter—or rather, what Merlin told Aiwass when they first met was not wrong.

This ceremony originally had two lines.

The closer you get to the top, the more you are removed from reality, and the easier it is to investigate the story... and get higher scores.

But the closer you get to the bottom, the greater your winning rate.

Because in this case, the advantage of dying quickly is the greatest.

This ritual created by Weizhe is actually not difficult. The main difficulty is that you start immediately after reading the rules, without giving any time for discussion and thinking.

At your own level, there is no need to conduct any investigation.

Just kill everyone at once and then commit suicide... and then start investigating again on the next level. As long as there are corpses on the next floor, he will immediately commit suicide and chase the promoted people on the same floor. In this way, you have the initiative on the "first floor".

Then just make sure you are the first to die, and make sure after committing suicide that there will be no promotions on this level for the first time. Then we found the zeroth floor.

Therefore, the lower the person is, the more say they have.

With this strategy, whoever reaches the zero level first will win - not only will they win, but they can also eliminate anyone they want.

"Because as long as the person who killed everyone in his birth layer successfully reaches and identifies the zero layer, then only he will know whether this is the zero layer, and everyone else's intelligence must be problematic. He only needs to find someone who is not there If anyone in your team is killed by suspecting that he is Merlin, or by negotiating with them to descend together...then regardless of whether this person is Merlin or not, he will be directly judged as a loser."

Aiwass spoke word by word, the muzzle of the gun slowly pressed against the pure white temple.

Jacaranda's eyes became nervous, while Huo Yin closed his eyes and rested at the side, too lazy to speak.

Junbai sighed: "Whether you believe it or not...I didn't do such a thing."

"I didn't say you did such a thing, I'm sorry. But you did have the opportunity to do such a thing."

Seeing that Chunbai was not angry at all and could remain calm even in this situation, Aiwass's tone also became gentler: "After all, among all the people here, you are the lowest level."

"What about Merlin?"

Jacaranda couldn't help but ask: "Has this reporter already admitted that he is Merlin?"

Although she had just given evidence to reporters, she was quickly convinced by Fox and Pure White's logic.

The fox and pure white belong to two camps, and Merlin cannot play two people at the same time. Therefore, the logic they agree with at the same time is more reliable than that given by reporters.

"In short, we can't kill him."

Aiwass said calmly: "Three situations. One is that this is the zero level, so you can't kill reporters under any circumstances - if you do, I will kill Pure White.

"One is that this is not the zero floor, but the first floor. Excluding the lying reporters, the living silver comes from at least the fourth floor and above. Then Sherlock is on a certain floor in 567. He came down Time will bring a lot of information, and Merlin will be squeezed away.

"And the worst possibility is that this is not the first or zero floor, but the second or third floor. Then there is at least one of my companions on the top and bottom, and the other is Topa. We might as well start Wait here for the person from the top to bring in information before making a decision - he will be able to obtain the most information and pass through the most layers by investigating and collecting evidence alone.

"Daya, reporter, dancer - he must be one of these three. We might as well wait for him."

"——No need to wait."

At this moment, the reporter suddenly spoke.

His expression suddenly turned cold.

Cross your fingers vigorously and lean back naturally.

In a cold, arrogant and calm voice, he said slowly: "If you want to ask anything, just ask, I'm here."

There is no doubt that reporters at this time have become "detectives."

"How many levels did you descend?"

Aiwass asked.

"Third floor. On the first floor, I met Mr. Topa. He was playing the role of a dancer, very stupidly, and he was still investigating at a very fast pace... But I didn't think he could find anything in his investigation. On the second floor, I saw When we get to the corpses of the couple and the supervisor...the third floor is here."

The detective said calmly: "However, I only descended three floors, but there are five people here...so I judge that I may have descended more than three floors.

"Looking at your current actions and the atmosphere at the table... I speculate that Merlin may have been using my body just now. Then he should have accompanied one of you, or multiple people have descended several levels.

"But since there were three bodies on my second descent, and they were all present - why not let him tell me, am I right about the number?"

"Yes."

Living Silver slowly opened his eyes and replied: "These are the people I killed."

After a brief silence, Pure White put away her sword. Aiwass thought for a while and slowly put away his gun.

"I'm a fox."

He looked at the detective and confirmed: "If you are really a detective... tell me, what do you want to do most now?"

"...Of course we need to find Miss Lulu first."

The detective showed a slightly disgusted expression: "My floor, then Mr. Topa's floor, then Mr. Living Silver's. Then there are the three of you."

As he spoke, he named Aiwass, Jacaranda, and Pure White: "You three cannot be Merlin, because this body has just been occupied by Merlin. That means that I am at least from the sixth level. down.

"In other words, if Miss Lulu is not on the seventh floor, she is on the first floor. I'm worried that if she is on the first floor, she will kill herself twice and be eliminated... So we'd better go down as soon as possible."

He said as if he realized something.

The detective glanced around and glanced at the cups on the table. He looked at the gun in Aiwass's hand again.

As if he thought of something, he paused slightly and looked at Aiwass calmly: "If they don't want to, then why don't we go down and take a look first."

Looking at the detective's gaze, Aiwass was silent for a while and then suddenly laughed.

His eyes slowly became brighter.

"Interesting... it's getting interesting."

He murmured under his breath.

Seeing the detective like this, Aiwass realized that there were still some omissions in his previous speculation - the "sure-win method" presupposed that Merlin was not present.

Merlin can disguise the NPC as a promoted person, making the zero level look like it is not the zero level, thereby tricking the opponent into continuing to dive. From this point of view, if this ceremony does not include Merlin, then it is simply unfair.

Because as long as the person on the first level chooses this strategy, his winning rate is extremely high. And how other people operate has no impact on his winning rate.

Just like in the game of Jenga, removing the bottom bricks affects all the bricks above; but removing the top bricks has no effect on the bricks below.

Would Weizhe make a ritual with such big loopholes?

Moreover, these seven people are almost all related to each other. And although there are nine seats on the first floor, the room is only up to room 206. If there were two more people, where would they live?

If the number of rooms has been changed, why hasn’t the seats been changed?

Considering the above, Aiwass boldly came up with a possibility——

——From the very beginning, this was a seven-person ceremony. This is a ceremonial space dedicated to absent ceremonies.

Nine seats, then, is not an overkill, but a hint. In addition to the front desk, there should be another "presence" in this hotel.

In other words, Merlin must be involved in this ceremony.

This ritual was originally performed with Merlin in the room!

So, who induced Aiwass to come up with this winning method?

——It’s still Merlin.

In this way, Aiwass understood why Merlin's acting skills were so poor before.

It's not so much that he's letting off steam, it's more that he's not performing well at all. Because that simply doesn't matter.

It turns out it was waiting for me here.

"I'm thinking about a question now," Aiwass said slowly, "Are you...really a detective?"

"...What, you stupid fox? What kind of monster do you want to be?"

The detective frowned: "Do you think it's me or Merlin?"

"I don't know. I really can't tell."

Aiwass replied sincerely: "I don't know if this is the second test question Merlin gave me."

Even if the "must-win method" only "exists", it is entirely possible that they are on the zero level now. As long as this layer is removed from the first layer of pure white, they are now on the zero layer.

And as long as this is the zeroth floor, Aiwass can't do anything to the detective.

Otherwise Sherlock will be eliminated directly by him.

But if this is not the zero level, and Aiwass thinks it is the zero level, and therefore chooses to kill other people or not commit suicide himself, he will stop at this level and be eliminated.

This is the first level of the game.

And the reporter who didn't look like Sherlock at all before suddenly looked like Sherlock. If he had followed his ideas, Aiwass should have committed suicide with him right now. In other words, the current "reporters" are urging Aiwass to take action again.

But here comes the problem...

——Is this really the Sherlock who befell the "reporter", rather than the Merlin who changed his tone and started playing the role seriously?

Are his words credible or not?

This is the second level of the game.

Now Aiwass had nowhere to escape. He had no place to collect evidence, and Pure White would not provide him with any more information.

Is or is not layer zero.

To be or not to be Sherlock.

There are four possibilities in pairwise combinations.

——All of them are difficult questions directed at Aiwass. If you answer one of the two questions incorrectly, you will lose. Answer all correctly to win.

"It's more like gambling than reasoning...a one-quarter probability."

Aiwass chuckled: "But I took it."

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