Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Clouds shrouded the post-collapse Linekong City 2301, and the air pressure in the city was exceptionally low. This kind of old villa where 27 people died was even more gloomy, making one feel a little breathless.

After determining the initial direction for the next step, Zhou Qian and his party were ready to leave.

After experiencing the copy of "Red God Banquet", Yindao's intuition-related skills have been further improved.

Before leaving, Yindao closed his eyes and could directly sense whether there were any potential dangerous factors within a radius of 500 meters.

After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and looked at the others: "I didn't feel negative energy. There should be no problem."

"Um. Let's go."

Zhou Qian turned around, walked through the door that was broken by Bai Zhou's kick first, and then left the villa.

Qi Liuxing checked again, and after confirming that there were no weapons or wristbands hidden on the furniture, he was the last one to leave.

And just as he stepped out of the room, everyone received a message from the system——

【腕带的颜色与数量已更新：橙-14个；黄-25个；绿-25个；蓝-25个；靛-23个；紫-25个】

Most of the wristbands did not show a noticeable change.

Except indigo and orange.

Among them, the number of indigo wristbands was reduced by two, but the number of orange wristbands was reduced by 6 again.

Not long after the game started, the number of orange wristbands suddenly changed from 25 to 14.

Not long ago Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou speculated that the reduction of 5 orange wristbands at that moment was because 5 people wearing orange wristbands were killed, and it was likely a vendetta.

But now there are 6 oranges missing all of a sudden, what's the situation?

"With regard to the reduction of wristbands, the system does not do a real-time notification with one wristband missing and a notification immediately, but the notification interval is so short, it is considered very timely.

"There are only two indigo wristbands missing, and I can't see the situation clearly. But what happened to the orange, why is it so strange?"

He Xiaowei scratched his head and said, "Oh my god, my heart is beating so hard..."

Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou didn't answer the conversation, the two walked in front side by side, He Xiaowei jumped over to take a look, and found that the eyes of the two people were quite strange, as if they were looking at the road ahead, but they seemed to cross the road ahead looked elsewhere.

After a long while, He Xiaowei realized that they were probably looking at Xiaolong at the moment, observing Xiaolong's investigation situation.

"How's it going?"

In He Xiaowei's eyes, Yindao wanted to put on airs as a master and kept silent.Qi Liuxing used to pretend to be deep, but now he seems to be really deep. After exploring all the way, He Xiaowei never saw him smile.

So, if He Xiaowei had any questions, he could only ask Zhou Qian himself.

After a while, he saw Zhou Qian pointing his finger at a house they were walking towards, and said, "Xiaolong finished searching this office building and went to another house far away."

He Xiaowei: "Then what about the office building that it searched?"

"After reading the system notification just now, I did have a guess. Now Xiaolong's search results undoubtedly confirmed my guess—" Zhou Qian concluded, "wristbands of different colors appeared in batches."

He Xiaowei quickly realized: "Could it be that there are all yellow wristbands in the house in front?"

"Yes. Xiaolong found seven at once." Zhou Qian said, "According to the rules of the system, Xiaolong belongs to my props, so all the wristbands it finds will be counted as mine. Therefore, you are not allowed to see the wristbands and must 3 Minutes to put it on. I'll just go in and get the wristband."

He Xiaowei: "Actually, it's not bad. The five of us must be in the yellow team together."

"Yes. But if you don't wear it for the time being, there is room for it. You can wait and see."

After saying this, Zhou Qian walked into the villa accompanied by Bai Zhou, took away the 7 yellow wristbands by himself, and let the rest in.

Now Zhou Qian, Bai Zhou and He Xiaowei all wore wristbands on their wrists.Yin Dao and Qi Liuxing's wrists were temporarily blank.

What they are entering now is not a villa, but an old office building.

The office building does not have an elevator, and it has seven floors in total, which is not too high.

The players are currently located in the office area on the first floor. There are no computers or other things in the office area. The only thing that looks modern is a very old typewriter.

It seems that this building is a product of almost the same era as the killer's residence just now.

The killer was released, and many undeserving people became victims, and history went to pieces.

As for these undestroyed buildings, they must have existed in the old time and space before the killer was released.History begins to crumble after them.

After the players came in one after another, Yindao immediately closed the door of the office area on the first floor of the office building, and temporarily stood guard nearby with a knife.

With his keen intuition, once he smells danger, he will immediately notify everyone.

Standing by an old desk, Zhou Qian saw Yindao's vigilant appearance at the moment, and touched He Xiaowei with his arm: "Hey, your master's skills are more like a dog with a keen sense of smell. How did you become a fox?"

Yindao obviously heard this, immediately frowned, and looked over with probing eyes.

Zhou Qian smiled into his gaze, and said seriously: "It's pure curiosity. The main reason is that you have subverted my impression of foxes too much. Foxes are usually linked to elements such as Su Daji, seductive, and good at seducing people. But you are a rare The... Fighting Fox, amazing!"

Hidden Knife: "..."

—I knew it would be so.

If it wasn't for being forced to do nothing in the copy of "Murder Exhibition", I wouldn't want to reveal my real body at all!Having said that, I still have to blame He Xiaowei, he can't recognize which one is the real me? !

He Xiaowei was originally waiting for Zhou Qian's analysis of the wristband, while thinking about looking around for clues, he suddenly felt something, and when he looked up, he saw his master's rather unkind eyes.

He Xiaowei's heart skipped a beat.

——Holy shit, it was Qian'er who spoke ill of him, why did he stare at me!

"Master. I am wronged." He Xiaowei said.

Hidden Knife: "..."

After a little smile, Zhou Qian spoke seriously and brought the topic back to the number of wristbands.

He Xiaowei never knew how Zhou Qian's brain switched seamlessly, he only heard him say: "I still tend to think that those 5 people died, and only 5 wristbands were missing. At that time, there was no other information, we I can only think that the five of them were murdered for vendetta.

"But in just two or three minutes, there are six more orange wristbands missing... Maybe the situation is not as simple as a vendetta. Especially in the case that the pink army wants to kill me and arranges in advance."

He Xiaowei frowned upon hearing this: "There must be a lot of people from the Pink Army."

Zhou Qian said: "We found so many yellow wristbands at once, and at the same time, the number of orange wristbands decreased so much at once... This is enough to show that in this instance, wristbands of the same color appeared together.

"This also means that people who enter the dungeon in a team will have a high probability of picking up wristbands of the same color first. Take us as an example. My white is an exception, but the rest of the wristbands we picked up are all yellow.

"From this, it can be speculated that those members of the Pink Legion also picked up wristbands of a certain color. Maybe it was purple, maybe it was blue, I don't know for the time being. At this time..."

Zhou Qian looked at He Xiaowei, "If you were a member of the Pink Army, what would you do?"

"I'm afraid I will snare people first!"

He Xiaowei wanted to understand the key point, and his spine felt cold all of a sudden, "Although the system said that our ultimate goal is to have as few people as possible, after 10 hours, once a certain number is exceeded, everyone will die together... But that After all, it was 10 hours later.

"During these 10 hours, there will be many other things happening in Baobuqi, such as those murderers. Maybe the player will trigger other tasks related to them. So... If I am a member of the Pink Army, I will definitely recruit a large number of teammates first , Let them be my helpers in exploring the dungeon! Wait until later...I will think of other ways to get rid of them!"

"Yes." Zhou Qian nodded with certainty, "Now it is enough to make such a conjecture—it was the people from the Pink Legion who opened this dungeon, causing Linegang City to collapse.

"Then, the Pink Legion must have obtained more information than us. For example, they knew some of the wristbands and even the hiding places of the weapons in advance, and they took them all in their hands as soon as they entered the copy. As for what happened next...

"I'll give you an example. The Rosés probably quickly found a lot of green and blue wristbands. They put on the green wristbands first, and then they ... met 11 people."

His eyes became deeper, and Zhou Qian said again: "These 11 people should also come to Langang City in a team. They found the orange wristband together and put it on. After Taohong met them, she forced them They refused to join their own green camp. Taohong didn't bother, and directly used the weapons she found to kill 5 of them, as a deterrent.

"It's not like Taohong. The new players in this dungeon have no weapons like us. After seeing Taohong's vicious actions, the remaining 6 people had to change into green wristbands one after another.

"In this way, they are forced to join the green camp of the pink army. In this case, even if they find weapons later, they will not be able to attack pink. Unless they also find a wristband of a new color and replace it. But I'm afraid Before they change their ribbons, Pink's people will kill them. Don't forget, Pink must have collected wristbands of other colors in advance, such as blue."

"In short, in this way, Taohong will let many people join their team, then send them to explore, and force them to share all the weapons and dungeon information they have collected with themselves.

"At the end, they don't need those people anymore, they can put on the blue wristbands they collected in advance, and after a collective 'betrayal', kill all the 'former teammates' with green wristbands.

"That's the wishful thinking of the Pink Legion, and why the 11 orange wristbands disappeared in two batches."

He Xiaowei: "Damn it, Taohong is too cruel! What should we do?"

"Let's do it the same way as before." At this point, Zhou Qian suddenly smiled.

Seeing Zhou Qian's determined smile, all the worries in He Xiaowei's heart seemed to disappear at once.

Sure enough, he heard Zhou Qian say: "Actually, from a certain point of view, the Pink Army is sending us the answer."

He Xiaowei rubbed his palms together and said expectantly, "How do you send the answer?"

Zhou Qian said: "For this dungeon, we don't know the specific hidden mission, and Taohong doesn't know either. Otherwise, why would he bother to find so many people to help him search? He probably only knows that this mission is difficult, so he needs to find a lot of it for himself. coolie.

"However, even though Taohong doesn't know the mission, they probably know the maximum number of survivors in the dungeon after 10 hours. After all, this trick they play is to accurately calculate the number of teammates in the same camp. If they don't know the maximum number, It would be easy to overturn."

"In a word, people of the same camp and the same color of the wristband cannot kill each other. Therefore, Tao Hong intends to use the method of changing the color of the wristband to first use the 'teammates' to search for information to complete the hidden mission, and then do the reverse. Kill the 'teammates' to achieve the 'maximum value'...

"Then, when we figure out how many Taohong people are in this dungeon, we can almost figure out what the 'maximum value' will be."

The matter of the wristband and the Pink Legion has been investigated for the time being, and what Zhou Qian and the others are looking for now is the murder information related to this office building.

Zhou Qian said: "Little Dragon's main goal is to search for wristbands and weapons. It just checked the seventh floor and used its skill points to perceive everything. There are only seven wristbands in this entire building, and there are no weapons. In addition... with it While watching, I didn't see any corpses."

Looking sideways at Bai Zhou beside him, Zhou Qian asked again, "Brother Zhou, didn't you see it?"

"No." Bai Zhou said, "Searching for corpses is not Xiaolong's forte. But the places it passed by, as far as the naked eye can see, there are indeed no corpses."

Yindao said at this moment: "But in my opinion, there are definitely corpses in this building. The negative energy here is very strong... much more serious than the situation in the previous villa."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian summoned his God's Rib to feel it.

Sure enough, as Yin Dao said, he could feel the powerful power of resentful spirits.At the same time, he could see the relevant values ​​on the panel soaring.

Restricted by the special restrictions of the copy, of course Zhou Qian couldn't use his skills, not to mention that he was full of blood and didn't have the conditions to activate the ultimate move.But it was more than enough for him to feel the resentment through his bones.

Since the power of resentment is indeed so powerful, where will the corpse be?

Zhou Qian looked around the office area, and his eyes swept over the old and peeling or even rotten desks and chairs, rusty printers, file storage cabinets... and finally put them on the wall.

Zhou Qian: "Will the corpse be chopped up and built into the wall?"

He Xiaowei: "What the hell?"

Zhou Qian said: "There have been such cases. I will talk about it casually. Where is the specific corpse, let's find it separately."

After a few simple discussions, everyone quickly made a division of labor, and immediately dispersed to take action.

Yin Dao is in charge of investigating the seventh floor, to see if he can climb up to the rooftop, and then wait and see the situation of the whole city.He Xiaowei and Qi Liuxing were in charge of the fourth to sixth floors, Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou were in charge of the first to third floors.

The rest of the teammates went upstairs, Zhou Qian stayed on the first floor for the time being.He walked to the tattered desk closest to him, opened a few drawers, and found a document.

The name of the company is written on the document: "Langang City Yuanhang Transportation Company."

It seems that this is a sea transportation company.

The document itself records only a simple personal work plan, and there is no other useful information for the time being.After continuing to rummage for a while, Zhou Qian found a few keys.

Thinking of the locked filing cabinet, Zhou Qian walked over with the key in hand.

When he tried to use the key to unlock the lock, he found that the lock was rusted and completely useless.

Staring at the cabinet, Zhou Qian was thinking about what props to use to unlock it, when Bai Zhou walked over beside him.

Reaching out to grab the iron lock on the cabinet, Bai Zhou said, "Let me try."

Zhou Qian glanced at him, nodded, and said with a slight smile, "Yes. Come and try."

Bai Zhou immediately stretched out his hands, grabbed the iron lock and yanked it hard.

After all, it was an iron lock, and the lock head itself was extremely strong, so it was really difficult to break it by hand.However, Bai Zhou didn't focus on destroying the lock itself. He just pulled the iron lock and pulled it out forcefully. After a while, the iron sheet on the entire cabinet deformed according to his actions, and he pulled out a huge lock. radian.

Afterwards, there was only a "bang", and the hinges on the side of the cabinet were directly pulled off the ground, and then the doors on both sides were locked together and separated from the main cabinet.

Zhou Qian opened his eyes wide, looked sideways at Bai Zhou, and asked in surprise, "Brother Zhou, have all your skills been blocked?"

"En." Bai Zhou looked back at Zhou Qian, "What?"

"It's nothing. Praise for your amazing arm strength." Zhou Qian smiled.

Bai Zhou's action just now caused a lot of documents to fall down, and now the two of them bent down and quickly picked them up one by one, and found that all the books stored here were ledgers.

This company has been in operation for many years, and the accounts are very cumbersome, and it is not easy to check it carefully.

Zhou Qian was too lazy to move to the second and third floors to investigate, and immediately sat on the desk casually holding the account book.

But he didn't say anything else, he just opened the first page of the account, and then raised his eyelids to look at his brother Zhou.

The meaning in Zhou Qian's eyes is incomprehensible to others, but it is self-evident to Bai Zhou——

When the two of them were still in school, Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou with this look many times when Zhou Qian had a whim and wanted to eat a popsicle lollipop or something.

Catching Zhou Qian's eyes, Bai Zhou quickly stepped forward and raised his hand to press his shoulder.

Zhou Qian stared at him and blinked. "Um?"

Bai Zhou leaned down and whispered in his ear: "I'll check the second and third floors. Be careful when you're alone on the first floor."

When talking to Zhou Qian, Bai Zhou always pronounced his words very lightly.

Zhou Qian's ears were stained with the breath brought by Bai Zhou when he spoke, and they were slightly hot and itchy.

He subconsciously raised his hand to touch his earlobe, and suddenly found that there was nothing there.

When he first came to Blue Harbor City, he dressed himself colorfully, and even put a few studs on his earlobes.But now with the collapse of the copy, the store disappeared out of thin air, and his earrings also disappeared.

The same goes for tattoo parlors.

After the two left "Murder Exhibition", they went to a tattoo parlor to get a "Z" tattooed on both of them.But now the letter has disappeared from the skin of the two of them, and there is no trace of it.

"Brother Zhou—" Zhou Qian glanced at him again.

"Huh?" Bai Zhou put his ear close to him, as if he wanted to hear what he had to say.

At this moment, his side face was facing Zhou Qian, and he blinked while waiting, Zhou Qian could even feel his eyelashes brushing his cheek lightly.

"It's nothing." Zhou Qian turned his face away, raised his chin slightly, and his lips touched Bai Zhou's profile.

Bai Zhou was stunned for a moment, and the sidelines of his bowed body suddenly tightened.

Seeing this, Zhou Qian smiled.

Then he said: "After we go out, how about we get a tattoo?"

As soon as he said this, Zhou Qian saw a slight frown between Bai Zhou's brows.

After a short pause, Zhou Qian said again, "Anyway, I'll go to District X to find you first."

Bai Zhou's hand was still on Zhou Qian's shoulder, he squeezed it hard before releasing it, and replied, "Okay."

Lowering his head, Bai Zhou gently kissed Zhou Qian's forehead, then got up and went to the second floor.

Zhou Qian watched him leave, jumped off his desk, searched the entire office area on the first floor, and then carefully looked at the accounts.

There are many accounts over the years, Zhou Qian found the earliest year's account books and looked at them from the beginning, which took him a lot of time.

After he quickly scanned several accounts, the rest of his teammates also finished exploring.

I saw He Xiaowei running over excitedly with a piece of paper in his arms. After unfolding the paper on the desk, he said, "This is the design drawing of this office building. Guess what? There is an elevator on this drawing!" Look at the floor plan again! But why can't I see any elevators in the office building?"

Qi Liuxing then added: "Brother Wei and I measured it just now, and the space here is a little smaller, so the building should have been repaired with an elevator, but it was sealed."

"That's right." Yindao said, "I went up to the roof from the seventh floor and saw a sealed building, like the courtyard of an office building was sealed. Now it seems that it is not a courtyard, but a very Probably an elevator shaft."

"Yeah." Zhou Qian raised his eyes from the account book and said, "I found the relevant accounting information when the building was built. The remarks above mentioned that this building did have an elevator. However, other office buildings in the city happened There was an accident that the elevator fell from the building. The boss felt that it was not safe, and the whole building only had the seventh floor, so he stopped the plan to repair the elevator. In addition——

"In the first five years of its establishment, this company has been losing money. Specifically, in terms of months, other months are profitable, but every July, there will be a huge loss.

"This situation has only improved since the sixth year. After that, the company has made profits every year, and there has been no huge financial loss."

"Wait..." He Xiaowei said, "Could it be that the elevator shaft has already been dug, but the elevator was not installed in it later... Then the elevator shaft is empty! So could all the dead bodies be in the elevator?! Is there a way to the elevator shaft on the roof? Shall we go and see now?"

"It's good that there must be something wrong with the hidden elevator shaft. But I'm afraid the situation is not that simple. I'll go down first in a while. You follow the situation carefully and follow down."

It was Bai Zhou who said this.

Zhou Qian glanced past several teammates, and met the eyes of Bai Zhou who was not far away. "Brother Zhou, what did you find on the second and third floors?"

Bai Zhoudao: The boss's office is on the second floor.He is more superstitious, and there are a lot of books related to the five elements and formations, as well as items for suppressing evil and avoiding disasters.Also, there are many models of ships there. "

"Well. This is a transportation company." Zhou Qian thought for a while, "Sea transportation... is usually accompanied by a lot of risks. This company has accidents in July every year, and it is likely to be related to things like heavy rain, wind and waves, and ship capsizing. Relevant. Ship capsizing will result in compensation for the cargo, compensation for the crew’s family members...this can constitute the reason for the company’s huge losses.”

"Yes. I suspect that the boss is the murderer. He killed people, possibly for sacrifice."

Bai Zhou said, "There may not be a direct corpse in the elevator shaft, but it must be related to the sacrificial ceremony. He wants to sacrifice part of people's lives to the sea, so as to appease the anger of the sea, so that he will not lose his property. This is his motive for killing.

"Whether supernatural power really exists in Linekong City is hard to say, so everyone should be careful.

"In addition, if the way of triggering the risk of death is the same as in the small instance where Ruan Mei is, we have to pay extra attention. Find out the motive and the way of death of the deceased, which is very important for the follow-up missions."

"Well. When visiting the exhibition hall, the players got limited information about the murderer. We only know how to hide Ruan Mei and the swastika killer. We don't know the rest. We have to investigate to find out."

Zhou Qian nodded and looked at Bai Zhou again, "Also, Brother Zhou, I want to remind you. Now you are an ordinary person like us, and you don't need to take the lead. Let's find a way together."

The brief discussion ended, and the players walked up the stairs to the rooftop together.

On the way, they received another system message——

【腕带的颜色与数量已更新：橙-12个；黄-24个；绿-25个；蓝-20个；靛-18个；紫-25个】

Wait until they get to the rooftop.The system message is sent again——

【腕带的颜色与数量已更新：橙-11个；黄-24个；绿-25个；蓝-20个；靛-14个；紫-25个】

Seeing this, He Xiaowei immediately said: "The yellow has hardly changed, it is mainly hidden in this area, and will be held in our hands... But other than that... the green and purple have not been reduced!"

"Well. Of these two, one is the Pink Legion. It can't be wrong."

On the rooftop, Zhou Qian saw the temporarily sealed elevator shaft at a glance.

He continued: "It seems that there are no weapons in our place for the time being, but it's not a big problem. After mastering the way the murderers kill and the way to trigger the risk of death, we will have another powerful weapon."