Neverland

Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou were the only ones present who actually fought against the NPC. If there were any clues hidden in the NPC, only they could find out.

When Xu Muzhou uttered this answer, he knew that this was an irrefutable matter, no matter whether the remaining players doubted it or not, they could only accept it temporarily.

"You have to personally give them the points to doubt you." Yan Cen, an old employee, said earnestly: "Since doubts cannot be eliminated, for you, it is more important for you to take the initiative of doubts than to let them have aimless suspicions." favorable."

Yan Cen seems to really regard this game as a work internship. He dutifully plays a taciturn and powerful man in front of the players, and hands over the initiative of the entire mission to Xu Muzhou.

But this does not mean that he will watch Xu Muzhou bump into the wall and watch from the sidelines. He has been choosing the right time to guide Xu Muzhou, allowing him to accept and integrate into the game in the shortest possible time.

The work experience of old employees should be accepted with humility, and Xu Muzhou's social animal mentality is very peaceful.

"Is that why you let me show my flaws?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Not only." Yan Cen took out half a pack of crumpled cigarettes from his pocket, lit one casually, and then said: "Among the players present, there is an 'old player' in the true sense. Players smell different from ordinary people who have experienced a few games, so you have to be extra careful."

Xu Muzhou thought carefully about the remaining players. Although everyone looked somewhat disliked, there seemed to be nothing particularly eye-catching among them.

"What's the smell?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"The smell of blood." Yan Cen took a deep breath of cigarettes before saying casually: "In the trial system, the so-called 'high-level players' are those who are judged by the trial system to be unable to leave."

Players who can be determined by the trial system to be unable to leave are no longer as simple as "have been guilty".

Although Yan Cen didn't tell Xu Muzhou who that terrifying high-level player was, Xu Muzhou tacitly didn't ask.

After all, it's one thing to do an internship, but quite another to be helped by someone else.

The huge vertical wall clock on the amble platform evenly emits the friction sound of the second hand moving. The pendulum clock is shaking back and forth in the wooden box one person tall. Hear the rustling of the bearings.

This undercurrent of confrontation was very short, Xu Muzhou only read it in his mind for a few seconds, but felt that it was already very long.

"As for the reason why I want to go to the second floor, it's also very simple." Xu Muzhou raised his chin at the two classrooms next to them: "Didn't you pay attention to the schedule, this one, including the classrooms on the other side of the corridor , the next class will be a self-study class without exception."

Du Qingqing glanced at him rather hesitantly, then scanned the blackboard in the room with the flashlight in her hand, and found that it was indeed what Xu Muzhou said, there was no specific arrangement for the third lesson in the timetable, only self-study two words.

"If you don't believe me, you can go to the opposite corridor to check." Xu Muzhou said this confidently, and he turned sideways to get out of the way and made a gesture of please.

Xu Muzhou was not at all afraid that someone would check it out. When he was avoiding Sun Qian in the first class, he had already read the timetable of Class Two, Year Two, and was convinced that Class Two Class Two, Year Two, was indeed a self-study class.As for the classrooms on the opposite side of the corridor, he had manually changed them into self-study classes along the way.

Film Emperor Yan's trick of fishing in troubled waters is very useful, Xu Muzhou learned it and sold it now, and learned a lot.

Xu Muzhou didn't care about how the rest of the class schedule for Class [-] of the second year was written, it would appear deliberate to be too strict, Yan Cen had already said it before, he would not commit such a foolishness.

"No need to waste time." The boy in school uniform slowed down his voice as much as possible, appearing to be full of trust: "You can directly say the conclusion."

"The self-study class is just a lottery for random subjects. I'm not sure whether the safety of the classroom can be guaranteed in the self-study class." Xu Muzhou said: "Besides, Lin Xiang just said that he found a class teacher's employment form...then Who knows which class the NPC is the head teacher of, and I don't want to take the risk."

"After all, it's all speculation." The middle-aged man was a little embarrassed by Xu Muzhou's scolding before, and he has been silent since then, until now he said angrily: "No matter how true the guess is, it's just a guess .”

"I'm not here to ask for your opinions, I'm just informing you." Xu Muzhou didn't have the same knowledge as him, he pulled the corners of his lips, and looked around at the people present: "Of course, you can stay on the first floor... I just hope that your minds are as pure as your guts, so don't add to the confusion."

When he said the second half of the sentence, he bit his back molars slightly, and the smile on the corner of his lips was half-held, like a provocation or a warning.

In fact, Xu Muzhou had to admit that Yan Cen's eyes on people were quite vicious. He didn't often give Xu Muzhou advice, but every word he said hit the point.

Perhaps because of his personality, Xu Muzhou understands that he is actually an extremely insecure person—just like when playing a reasoning game, no matter whether the clues he finds are useful or not, he must make sure that he has not missed any clues before he will find out. Proceed to the next step of the game.

For Xu Muzhou, "omissions" are the source of most of his uneasiness and anxiety.Regardless of whether this omission is meaningful, or whether it will really affect him, Xu Muzhou cannot resist this instinct of lack of security.

This habit has its advantages and disadvantages—the good is that his meticulousness is almost unmatched, but the bad is that he will lose a large part of his autonomy because of this, and even go astray due to messy clues.

In fact, this has already happened once.

However, when Xu Muzhou said that he still wanted to take all the players to the second floor, Yan Cen still agreed with his choice.

"I have no reason to disagree." Yan Cen bit his cigarette holder and said vaguely: "Before each choice, the left and right roads face a 50.00% ratio of good and bad, so it doesn't matter which road you choose."

When Yan Cen said this, he was wiping the blood on his T-shirt with draft paper. He held the cigarette holder slantly and narrowed his eyes slightly to avoid tears from being choked by the rising smoke.

Xu Muzhou found that he seemed to have some little cleanliness, and he had already wiped out two matte grids while speaking.

"However, if you want to control the remaining players within a safe range, you have to redouble your efforts." Yan Cen wiped for a long time, and the effect was barely satisfactory to him. He randomly rolled up the blood-stained paper A ball was thrown into the plastic bucket in the corner of the classroom.

"You have to make them suspect." Yan Yingdi continued: "It is impossible for a person to be flawless, and a person without flaws cannot win anyone's trust. You are too clean, and it is almost impossible to hide from the eyes of high-level players, so you You have to take the initiative to show your flaws and make him think that you are nothing more than that."

"But this will undoubtedly make him more unscrupulous." Xu Muzhou somewhat disagreed with his opinion: "Even you said that high-level players play games differently from ordinary people. Stabbed a knife.

"So you have to create an illusion that you are strong." Yan Cen waited patiently for him to finish before continuing: "In this world without morals and laws, truth and falsehood are neither scary, only half It’s the half-truth that makes people jealous.”

"You mean... the ability I've shown is far higher than the level of flaws I've shown." Xu Muzhou reacted quickly: "You mean to play two scenes. Let that high-level player Can't tell which side of me is fake?"

"That's right." Yan Cen showed a gratifying smile that can be taught by a child: "The way to avoid as many backstabbing as possible is to make the other party unable to distinguish your falsehood from reality, so that they dare not make a move at all."

In addition to this, Xu Muzhou really spent some brains on how to lure these players with different thoughts to the second floor.

No one would agree to go to the second floor where NPCs wandered back and forth for no reason, Xu Muzhou knew this very well.The desire to survive is a human instinct, even for veteran players. If they are really that indifferent to their own life and death, they will not struggle to survive in fear for so long.

Human thinking mode is a very complex context, but it is not without trace.The human subconscious will integrate two similar emotions and thinking frequencies to form an efficient thinking channel.

— The same is true for doubts.

Therefore, before they questioned this matter, Xu Muzhou automatically threw out another flaw that could be questioned.And when Xu Muzhou resolved the second layer of doubts by himself, the first layer of doubts had actually been resolved along with it.

Xu Muzhou didn't know whether other people still had considerations in their minds, but Du Qingqing had already believed it for seven or eight points. She lowered her hand, and the light source of the flashlight fell from Xu Muzhou's body back to the ground.

"I'll go with you." Du Qingqing took the lead.

Xu Muzhou glanced at her unsurprisingly, Du Qingqing had met him and Yan Cen at the high-speed rail station, even if it was at least for Yan Cen's ability, she would choose to take this risk.

"Then follow." After Xu Muzhou finished speaking, he turned around and pulled Yan Cen forward on his own.

He didn't stop this time, and he didn't seem to care about how the rest of the people chose.The boy in school uniform was the second to follow, he hardly hesitated, and followed Xu Muzhou the moment he turned around.

Two vs. four, everyone knows how to choose.Although the middle-aged man was not angry at Xu Muzhou's arbitrariness, he was also unwilling to be alone. He spat on the ground and reluctantly followed.

Immediately, the hands on the wall clock slowly pointed to [-]:[-], and the sound of Sun Qian's footsteps was still echoing on the second floor without stopping.

As the footsteps approached, the middle-aged man who was walking at the end was the first to lose his composure. He stood on the jogging platform, holding on to the handrail of the stairs, unwilling to take another step forward. He lowered his voice and directed at Xu Mu viciously. Zhou asked: "You said you want to go up to the second floor, so go up to the second floor. What will you do after you go up? Do you see NPCs coming?"

Xu Muzhou, who was walking in the front, had already turned up the side stairs to the second floor. Hearing this, he slightly lowered his eyes and glanced at the other party.

"It's not good." Xu Muzhou said calmly, "Try to live."

"You..." The middle-aged man seemed to have the idea of ​​retreating, he moved back slightly, glanced at the dark stairs quickly, and cursed harshly: "You fart——!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the vertical wall clock suddenly chimed the hour. Xu Muzhou looked back, only to find that the time on the clock was exactly pointing to ten o'clock.

The hourly chime sounded one after another, and the footsteps on the second floor suddenly stopped following the movement. Xu Muzhou's heart tightened suddenly, and cold sweat broke out in his hands.

"This staircase..."

Before Xu Muzhou could react, the middle-aged man behind him suddenly gasped: "Why can't I go down the stairs!"