[Comprehensive British and American] Welcome to Arkham's Infinite Journey

first night 07

How to quickly understand, what are the rules in a place that has never been touched?

Sephiroth's answer: Foul.

The moment the NPC Jack exploded, an invisible energy swept across the entire space.

It was as if it had never appeared before, as the ashes fell from the sky and finally dissipated completely.

The players were dumbfounded, and the waiters looked overly frightened.

At this time, these NPC waiters looked at Sephiroth with fear in their eyes.

It seems that Sephiroth is not a player, but a more terrifying existence than Jack who turned into a mantis tentacle monster.

Sephiroth stood still for a while, observing the gradually disappearing ashes.

Since these NPCs appeared, he has been consciously guiding NPCs to make mistakes.

From the first two days of probing to the deliberate stimulation just now, everything went very smoothly.

The only unexpected thing is that Sephiroth did not expect that Jack would foul in this way and be punished.

but……

"why?"

Why did everyone fall to the next level, even if Jack fouled?

A total of twelve chairs were put back in place by the players, and even Hannibal, who had "recovered his sanity", was freed from under the chair legs.

If it weren't for the bright hole above the head, the appearance of the second floor would almost make everyone think that the fall not long ago was an illusion.

The quality of the dining table, chairs and dinner plate has obviously withstood the test, without any cracks, and even the food stayed in the dinner plate obediently without splashing around.

The beautiful crystal chandelier that was originally hung above the dining table fell to the next level after the dining table fell to the next level, and it was still hung at the same position above the dining table, providing light for the entire room.

Even the position of the only door leading to the corridor has not changed in the slightest.

The NPC waiters who seemed to want to escape were all blocked in front of the door by Sephiroth, and at Sephiroth's request, they sat on the chairs by the dining table one by one.

Just sitting on it, the expressions of the waiters looked as if Sephiroth was going to kill them.

After all the waiters were "forced" to sit on the chairs, some players counted and said with surprise: "Oh, it's just right! I didn't notice it before."

"Maybe these chairs are actually for these NPCs?"

The waiters were about to cry, "...that's not the case."

These chairs are really for gamers!

If we follow the normal procedure, we should deduct the two special guests Sephiroth and Hannibal, and there should be 13 people this time.

After all the players sat on the chairs, the extra player should be punished, which would definitely not be any less than the scene where Jack exploded.

As a result, among this wave of players, some actually carried weapons, and some players lost their lives because of excessive curiosity and fear, so the number was directly reduced by four.

It doesn't really matter if there are fewer people, but in the end...

As a result, who knew that the players in this year did not follow the routine at all?

Jack, the most powerful NPC among them, is also the most important NPC in this level. He was killed because of a foul. This...

This……

This is simply horrible!

The players glanced again, confirmed the number, nodded and said: "After one NPC dies, your number is really just right."

The waiters sat on the chairs "without resistance", without any chance to escape.

Some waiters tried to struggle.

But no matter what reasons they gave, no player paid any attention to them.

Instead, Sephiroth tapped on the table lightly.

It wasn't loud, but the whole room fell silent.

"Can anyone tell me why Jack fouled when he fell to the next level?"

The waiters looked at each other, but they all chose to remain silent.

Sephiroth glanced over these silent waiters, and immediately understood that for the waiters, answering this question was roughly equivalent to a foul.

As he guessed, the rules of the infinite world are stricter for NPCs than for players.

Players suddenly come to this seemingly "desperate" world, seemingly struggling to survive.

But during this process, players can do many "free" things, and will not be killed by the rules of the infinite world immediately because they violate certain settings.

——Of course, things like "violating the settings" are also very dangerous for the players themselves, and I don't know what kind of situation will be triggered.

Since these waiters couldn't answer, Sephiroth didn't force it either.

Anyway, what should be known, he will always know in the end.

"This question can't be answered, but it's still okay to eat, right?"

Under the signal of Sephiroth, the players immediately assumed the duties of the original waiters, found food tongs, drinks, etc. from the dining car that fell down, filled the plates in front of these waiters, and returned them to the waiters. They filled their wine glasses.

At the same time, some players took the small brushes brought by the waiters to clean up the fine dust that fell on the table.

After a while, the dining table looked clean, even the dust on the waiters was swept away by the players.

The waiters faced the piles of food in front of them, and their faces, which were as pale as paper, became even paler.

Sephiroth stood aside and urged them, "Eat quickly, eating is not against the rules for you."

The waiter continued to remain silent with a pale face.

I want to make Sephiroth misunderstand or give up through this silent resistance.

But Sephiroth is not as easy to talk as he seems.

He raised the corners of his lips, and the smile on his face made the already delicate and gorgeous face look like a masterpiece of God under the light.

He said, "Eat it, or die at my hands."

Although reluctant, the waiters succumbed when they thought of Jack's tragic death.

They began to eat the food in front of them.

For a group of hungry people, watching others eat is tantamount to torture.

Especially Hannibal, staring at the table of food and the waiter, his eyes were red, and his reason was frantically testing on the verge of disappearing.

But every time before he wanted to do something, he felt his ribs hurt when he saw those players who were still rational even though they were very hungry.

Not long ago, the scene of being called brotherhood by the player, but ruthlessly "suppressed" left him with a lot of psychological shadow.

And here is Dean Sephiroth watching...

Hannibal: "..." But I'm really hungry.

One of the waiters started to eat, and the others soon followed.

They eat very hesitantly at first, but soon become smoother and eat faster and faster.

The hungry players saw that these waiters quickly ate up the huge amount of food on the table with an extraordinary speed.

And as the amount of food decreased, the waiters became more and more anxious about eating.

It seems that he is afraid that others will eat more than himself, and the rest of the food on the table will be taken away by others.

Seeing this, the player took the initiative to put away the empty dinner plate, then turned around and took out plate after plate of fresh food from the dining car.

Yes, the dining carts pushed by these waiters seem to be connected to a different dimension, and they can always take out new food from it, and each one is not the same.

Seeing that there was new food replenishment on the table, the waiters who were fighting for food finally regained some sanity, stopped fighting and became "sane" again.

Just when the waiter had almost finished eating the entire table and the new food hadn't moved much, Sephiroth heard a very familiar voice.

"Crack——squeak—"

Sephiroth raised his hand, signaling the players standing at the table to step back.

Under the gaze of the players, there were extremely obvious cracks on the wooden floor around the dining table.

Soon, the entire table and the waiters who had been sitting there for a week all fell down with a click.

A large hole appeared in the ground.

The crystal chandelier that was originally hung in a fixed position above the dining table also fell to the next floor.

Sephiroth: "..."

Sephiroth walked to the edge of the hole, looked down, and saw the waiters sitting on the chairs intact.

Those tables, chairs, dinner plates, and food, just like when they fell from the first floor to the second floor, were not damaged in any way, and even their positions had not changed.

This scene is not strange.

The players gathered around one by one, and when they saw the situation on the next floor, they all widened their eyes and felt a strange feeling in their hearts.

If they were sitting on this chair, would they behave like these NPCs?

Or even fall to the next level with the dining table?

The light on the second floor without the crystal lamp was dim, but the door in the direction of the aisle suddenly opened by itself.

The aisle, which should have been without any light, looked extremely bright at this moment.The stairs extending from the first floor are not completely dark.

It's like a very normal staircase instead of a monster that eats two players.

Sephiroth stared at the direction of the aisle for a while, then glanced at the waiters below who continued to eat after a moment of daze, and said to the players: "Take the dining car, let's go."

As soon as Sephiroth spoke, the players immediately followed Sephiroth as if they had found their backbone.

They walked into the aisle on the second floor, and carried the light dining cart along the stairs to the third floor.

The man-eating stairs did not respond when they passed by, and there were no traces of the two players who were eaten by the stairs.

On the third floor, Sephiroth directly asked the players to continue with the previous work, replacing the empty plates and serving fresh food for the waiters.

At this time, the waiters seemed to have forgotten the initial fear. They only had food in their eyes and their hearts, and the way they ate became more and more terrifying.

This time they ate more food than they had been on the second floor, and the wooden floor cracked again, taking the waiters down to the fourth floor.

Like reincarnation, the waiters who fell into the fourth floor started to compete for food again after a short period of dizziness.

Sephiroth: "...So that's how it is."

The doubts in Sephiroth's heart were gradually answered.