The Trial Game of Life

"Crack!" A silver table knife suddenly plunged into the floor in front of Li Yingjun, the blade trembled and hummed, blocking his footsteps.

The familiar scene made everyone turn their heads to look at Jin Cheng. The gentleman was sitting lazily in the armchair, with his face propped on the side as if he had just woken up.Tang Cuo stood up opposite him, his lips were still pale, but his expression was stern, "Everyone stand still and don't move."

I was woken up at five or six in the morning for two consecutive days, and the taste was not very good.

"Ah, ah." Li Yingjun pointed to the firewood on his back, as if he didn't understand why this person stopped him, and smiled honestly.

The rest are also puzzled.

Tang Cuo looked at Jin Cheng, and Jin Cheng sat up a little bit, and stomped his foot.With a bang, the floor trembled slightly, and countless dust was shaken up and fell down again, emitting light blue fluorescence on the ground.

Qian Wei's eyes widened, "What is this?"

Jin Cheng smiled, "Have you ever played online games? This is called the dust of development."

Qian Wei looked at Peng Mingfan, but Peng Mingfan was also shaking his head.

Zhang Zhiqi's eyes widened suddenly, because he thought of another thing - the ashes of the witch.Jin Cheng was obviously joking. The dust of development he mentioned might be bone ashes, but this is not something that can be obtained in the low-end dungeons of Area F. What is the origin of this person?

"Look, there are footprints on the ground!" An Ning's surprised voice interrupted all associations, and everyone looked at the ground one after another, only to see one footprint after another embedded in the light blue fluorescent powder.

Strictly speaking, there are three strings of footprints.One string extends from where Li Shuangshuang sat last night to the corridor, and the other string goes out from the corridor to the back door.The last string followed Madoka all the time, obviously it was stepped on when she just came down from the stairs.

"It was sprinkled after everyone had a rest yesterday," Tang Cuo said.

Peng Mingfan instantly understood what he meant, and said, "This footprint belongs to Li Shuangshuang?!"

Qian Wei was speechless, "Impossible? She walked out by herself?"

"The size of the two sets of footprints is the same, and they should be the same person." An Ning stood there without moving, but she squatted down to observe the footprints carefully, and said, "After nightfall, we fell asleep automatically just like last night. Except for two similar footprints, there is nothing left here. Is there any other explanation besides Li Shuangshuang walking out by himself?"

Zhao Ping's face was ugly, "Then yesterday's Qu Li was also like this?"

Peng Mingfan nodded, "It should be."

"Zhao Ping, Zhang Zhiyu, Qian Wei, you stay and watch Li Yingjun and Xiaoyuan, and the rest follow me to the linen room." Tang Cuo quickly made a decision, "Be careful not to damage the footprints."

The rest of the people nodded one after another, and they didn't think there was any problem with Tang Cuo's right to speak.As for Jin Cheng, this is a wandering old man, so let him alone.

A few people followed their footprints against the wall, and soon came to the door of the linen room.Unsurprisingly, the corpse in the linen room disappeared, and after Li Shuangshuang's footprints arrived here, they quickly turned back and led to the back door.

Peng Mingfan squatted down and checked carefully, "Although the footprints are the same size, the footprints going out are deeper than those coming in, so Li Shuangshuang took the initiative to carry the body out of the hotel? Why? She left as soon as she left. Why did she take the body with her?"

Tang Cuo didn't answer, and walked thoughtfully along the footprints to the back door.When I opened the door, there were still footprints on the steps at the door, but the wind and snow in the backyard had covered layer after layer, and I couldn't see anything anymore.

He turned his head and asked Jin Cheng, "Is there a restricted range for this powder?"

Jin Cheng: "No."

Without a range, it means that as long as Li Shuangshuang's feet are still covered with powder, and as long as there is a place where she walks that is not covered by heavy snow, there is still a possibility of being found.

Tang Cuo thought about it in his heart, but he was not in a hurry to find it. He returned to the hall and scanned for a week, and finally fixed his gaze on Qian Wei, "Please go and take off Li Yingjun's shoes."

Qian Wei: "Take off your shoes???"

Peng Mingfan: "Do you want to check whether there is powder on the sole of his shoe?"

Everyone could clearly see that there was no powder sprinkled on the small area at the main entrance, and Jin Cheng's knife blocked Li Yingjun in the area where there was no powder.

Qian Wei understood, and immediately rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do it.Zhao Ping also stepped forward to help. The two of them hugged Li Yingjun and took off his shoes.

At this time, Li Yingjun was weak, pitiful, and helpless, standing there with bare feet "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhss.Xiaoyuan couldn't stop her in time, and looked on in a daze, neither advancing nor retreating.

"Look, Brother Tang!" Qian Wei held up his shoes and asked Tang Cuo for credit, as happy as holding up an Olympic trophy.

Tang Cuo took it and turned the sole of the shoe upwards, and the rest of the people came to look at it.These shoes are rubber-soled, because Li Yingjun walked all the way on the snow, so the soles of the shoes are relatively clean, even if there was any mud on it, it was wiped clean by the heavy snow along the way.

"There is nothing." Qian Wei's voice was slightly disappointed.

"Do you think it's that simple?" An Ning spread her hands, and simply walked over to talk to Xiaoyuan again, "Do you remember what happened yesterday?"

Madoka scratched her head, "What happened yesterday?"

An Ning: "Li Shuangshuang killed someone."

"My God!" Madoka covered her mouth in surprise.

"We tied her up yesterday, but today she disappeared again. Did you see her?" An Ning continued to ask.

"No, I saw you all there just as I went downstairs, won't she run away? It's terrible."

"Yes."

Xiaoyuan's behavior was still the same as yesterday, she completely forgot about Li Yingjun's death, and she didn't know Li Shuangshuang's whereabouts.An Ning didn't cheat anything, curled her lips, and turned to look at Tang Cuo again.

Tang Cuo was still looking at the pair of shoes. While watching, he suddenly walked up to Li Yingjun and pulled out the table knife stuck in the floor.Li Yingjun seemed to be frightened by him, gesticulating "ahhhhh", but Tang Cuo didn't even look at him, he just pierced the sole of the shoe with the tip of a knife, fiddled with it a few times, and he actually pried out a pea from it Smaller stones.

An Ning has sharp eyes, "There is something glowing on the stone!"

Qian Wei also exclaimed: "Isn't this the dust of development!"

A small stone was embedded in the rubber-soled shoe, because it was too small and embedded deeply, leaving only a very inconspicuous small hole outside.Tang Cuo then cut the sole of the shoe, and there was still a little black soil inside the small hole.

Jin Cheng smiled and said, "You really discovered it."

Tang Cuo turned his head, "How do you think this stone got embedded?"

"This rubber sole is very hard, and it's embedded so deeply..." Jin Cheng leaned on the tea table, crossing his arms, "When chopping down a tree, swinging the ax will inevitably exert force on the soles of your feet."

Tang Cuo thought the same way. There were no footprints of Li Yingjun's corpse on the ground, so the powder must have been brought out by Li Shuangshuang.She walked all the way, leaving powder all the way, and the powder stuck to the pebbles, which happened to be stepped on by Li Yingjun.He took the stone to cut firewood, and in the process of constant exertion, the stone was squeezed into the rubber sole.

After returning the shoes to Li Yingjun, Tang Cuo dismissed them by making breakfast.

Looking at the back of the two leaving, Qian Wei was still a little dizzy, "What about Li Shuangshuang? Even if we figure this out, what will Li Shuangshuang say?"

No one answered, Peng Mingfan, An Ning and Zhao Ping were all thinking.He stared at Zhang Zhiyu, who had been silent since just now, and he didn't know what the hell was going on, "Hey, uncle, do you have any comments today?"

His tone was a little aggressive, and he felt a little provocative after he said it, but Zhang Zhiqi didn't care, and even looked at Qian Wei with a little contempt.

Qian Wei became angry immediately, isn't he just not as smart as others?As for looking at people like this?He was about to speak, but suddenly he thought of what Zhang Zhiqi said yesterday, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration——

"Maybe we're all wrong!"

Peng Mingfan was taken aback by him, "What's wrong?"

Qian Wei: "The condition for clearing the game is to kill Yingjun, right? Li Shuangshuang killed Yingjun, left with Yingjun's body, and then Yingjun came back!"

"and then???"

Peng Mingfan was not the only one who was puzzled, everyone looked at him.

Qian Wei took a deep breath and said: "She passed the level, that's why she didn't come back. Killing Yingjun, she did it, so she passed the level. We were all forced to sleep, only she can move freely. And Li Yingjun Resurrecting from the dead is equivalent to resetting, because we haven't cleared the level yet, the boss will be refreshed again! We thought it was too complicated before, maybe this game is just playing a word game with us, the real clearance condition is that simple! "

Using the simplest logic to restore the original story is indeed very Qian Wei's style.

Peng Mingfan was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Zhiqi was also thoughtful.An Ning hurriedly waved her hand, "Wait, let me take care of it—what about Qu Li?"

Zhao Ping also said: "That's right, what's going on with Qu Li?"

"Didn't you say it yesterday? Qu Li is also a newcomer, so she must be reckless." Qian Weiyue said more and more excitedly, "Li Yingjun was knocked to death by a bronze statue for the first time, maybe she did it, killing Yingjun. That's why she disappeared too. Whoever kills Li Yingjun will disappear, and if she disappears, she may pass the customs, right?"

Everyone looked at each other, and had to admit that Qian Wei's reasoning was very attractive and not unreasonable.But the risk is too great, no one can prove the correctness of this inference.

His gaze was focused on Tang Cuo again.

Tang Cuo was a little irritable and his face was gloomy, because his hypoglycemia was a problem.And because those eyes are too black and white, when he stares at others, he often gives people an infinite sense of oppression.

Everyone subconsciously fell silent, only Jin Cheng frowned as he stared at his pale face.

Just at this moment, Madoka came out early with a bag in her hand.Today's breakfast is milk oatmeal, boiled eggs and toast. Although simple, it smells delicious.

Tang Cuo's gaze was instantly attracted, and he said firmly, "Eat breakfast first."

After finishing speaking, Tang Cuo sat down to eat, and looked focused, as if there was no one else around.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and then sat down - people are like iron and steel, and there is nothing wrong with eating first.

After eating a bowl of oatmeal, Tang Cuo felt much more comfortable. Just as he was about to reach out to peel an egg to eat, he found that none of the eggs in the bowl had shells, and all were smooth and tender.

The eggs were divided into three bowls and placed in three different positions. Tang Cuo looked at the other two bowls. Those eggs obviously had shells.

The instigator is Jin Cheng.

"Do you like skinning so much?" Tang Cuo couldn't help asking.

"That's right." Jin Cheng was still peeling one in his hand, and he didn't eat it after peeling it, so he put it back in the bowl, and spread jam on toast.Tang Cuo really couldn't understand what was wrong with him. He needed to peel tomatoes and eggs, and he was in a hurry.

Tang Cuo himself would not do such troublesome things.

How nice someone peeled it off.

Tang Cuo moved the bowl of eggs in front of him without any psychological burden, poured himself a cup of hot milk, and ate the eggs with the milk, and the taste was—okay.

"What are you going to do?" Jin Cheng asked.

"Let's take another look in the woods." Tang Cuo swallowed the egg and asked again, "Are you going?"

"you invited me?"

"There are bears in the woods."

Very nice and honest.

Jin Cheng kept smiling, and took back the remaining eggs.

Tang Cuo didn't care, he peeled it in the first place, and he ate it whenever he wanted, which was only right and proper.So not only did he have no objection, but he was able to speak to Jin Cheng with an upright face.

"Let's take Li Yingjun with us and go through the back door."

"Reproduce the path Li Shuangshuang walked?"

Tang Cuo nodded, "At least part of what Qian Wei said is correct. The first killing of Li Yingjun should be done by Qu Li. She arrived at Eternal Night City on the same day as me, but I'm not sure if she entered it alive." From Evernight City."

Jin Cheng: "What do you mean?"

"We triggered the easter egg game."

The lucky turntable is divided into four rounds, and the third round is the soul pendulum, which almost disrupts everyone's position.Tang Cuo can be sure that Qu Li is still alive in the first and second rounds, but not in this round.

Combined with the "karma" mentioned by Jin Cheng, it is very likely that Qu Li died in the egg game, so she was assigned to the copy of "Returning on a Snowy Night" to replace Xiaoyuan.

In other words, she arrived earlier than anyone else.The Qu Li that Tang Cuo met was already an NPC, and her actions were all systematically arranged.

Tang Cuo said: "If she is a confusing item, then the object of the confusing is me. I know her, and I will recognize her as a real player, and then doubt others."

In fact, Tang Cuo hesitated between Qu Li and Zhang Zhiqi.But Zhang Zhiyu's various behaviors are actually in line with the appearance of a player, selfish, shrewd, and accustomed to using words to guide others to achieve his goals.

At this time, there was a sudden exclamation, "Where is Zhang Zhiqi?!"

Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng raised their heads together, and saw Qian Wei looking around, muttering that Zhang Zhibu had disappeared.

Zhao Ping said hastily: "I just saw him go to ask Xiaoyuan for milk, so I didn't pay attention, and he seemed to disappear in a blink of an eye."

Zhang Zhiyu was the main suspect of non-players, and everyone hurriedly separated to find someone.Jin Cheng propped his chin and looked at it for a while, then turned his head and looked at Tang Cuo with a half-smile, "Aren't you going to explain to them?"

Tang Cuo asked back, "Do I look like a good person?"

Although Zhang Zhiqi is not a non-player, his actions are like a shit stick. Why did Tang Cuo help him clarify? It's not because he is full.

Within 2 minutes, Zhang Zhiyu came back.Facing everyone's questioning, he only said that he went to find Xiaoyuan to get some food, and went to the bathroom along the way.

Peng Mingfan: "I went to the toilet to look for it, but you weren't there at all."

Zhang Zhiqi: "I'll go to the toilet first, and then to the kitchen."

The two sides confronted each other again, and Peng Mingfan's eyes became more suspicious.

Tang Cuo was not interested in watching the battle, so he stood up and said lightly, "I'll go to the woods to have a look again", then got up and walked to the back door.

Peng Mingfan, Qian Wei and others didn't bother to confront Zhang Zhikui anymore, and followed immediately.Qian Wei was still bluffing, "Brother Tang, why are you going again, there are bears in the woods!"

Tang Cuo kept walking and went to find Li Yingjun alone.But when he saw Li Yingjun's back, he frowned—Li Yingjun fell asleep, lying on the small round table in the kitchen, with a bowl of half-eaten noodles in his hand.

Madoka didn't know where she ran to.

"Wake up." Tang Cuo kicked his stool.

Li Yingjun woke up suddenly, his confused eyes scanned the surroundings, and when he saw Tang Cuo, he opened his mouth and said "ah".He was stunned, and quickly said "ah" a few more times, and then clutched his neck in disbelief, showing horror on his face.

"What's wrong with him? Was he poisoned again?" Qian Wei's eyes widened, and he subconsciously looked at Zhang Zhiyu. Can he use the same move twice?

After the words fell, Li Yingjun broke out into a shocking cough and vomited blood again and again.

"Fuck!" Qian Wei backed away in a hurry, and Peng Mingfan and others also quickly sacrificed their weapons, fearing that Li Yingjun would run away on the spot.And in the next second, Li Yingjun rushed towards them madly with red eyes.

The narrow kitchen entrance was not conducive to evasion, and everyone was crowded into a group. An Ning and Zhao Ping, who were left at the end, might not know what was going on inside.Qian Wei became impatient and shouted, "Stay away!"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhiqi rushed out suddenly, stabbing Li Yingjun's waist with a fruit knife, so fast that Qian Wei didn't even have time to blink.

He stabbed once, and then stabbed again, the blood gradually stained his clothes red, as if Li Shuangshuang was a replica of yesterday.When Li Yingjun was completely out of breath and fell limply on the ground, he seemed to come back to his senses, and suddenly dropped the knife in his hand.

"What did you do?! Why did you do it all of a sudden!" Peng Mingfan rushed in, wanting to kill him on the spot.

Zhang Zhiqi was panting, but he didn't lose his composure like Li Shuangshuang. He just stared at Peng Mingfan and said word by word: "Because, because, I, thought, pass, pass."

Peng Mingfan's breathing was stagnant.

Zhang Zhiqi continued: "It is possible to pass the customs by killing Li Yingjun, isn't it? How can a dungeon like this be so kind that everyone can pass the customs smoothly? There must be a quota limit. Qu Li and Li Shuangshuang have already occupied two, and I It's the third."

"You're crazy! That's just an inference!" Rao Qian Wei, who proposed the inference, thought that Zhang Zhiyu was crazy.Could this be his true face?A cold-blooded lunatic hiding under the mask of a selfish villain?

Zhang Zhiyu smiled, as if laughing at the stupidity of all of them.

"Don't pay attention to him! No one will stop you if you want to die!" Qian Wei was so angry again, he caught a glimpse of Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng from the corner of his eye, but saw these two big men standing by the kitchen window, forming a group of their own.

Of course, the appearance is also in its own class.

"The door is spattered with blood, shall we go out through the window?" Jin Cheng sincerely suggested.

Tang Cuo was speechless, why does this person have so many eccentricities, either like skinning or climbing windows.But the door was covered in blood, and it was really not easy to leave, so he nodded without hesitation.

The two began to look through the window.

Even a girl like An Ning didn't care about the blood all over the floor, and ran forward stepping on the blood, but she still couldn't stop her, so she poked her head out of the window and shouted, "He just died, where are you going!"

Soon another Qian Wei came out, "Two big brothers! Someone is dead! Come back! What will we do when you leave!"

The eldest brother waved his hand, but the eldest brother didn't look back.

An Ning quickly patted Qian Wei, "Hurry up, let's follow!"

Qian Wei: "But there are bears in that forest!"

An Ning cast a sideways glance at Zhang Zhiyu, "There are still murderers here."

Qian Wei: "That's true."

Qian Wei pulled Peng Mingfan, An Ning pulled Zhao Ping, and ran away.