Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

In the afternoon, there are a few thin clouds in the sky, and the strong sunlight rises and falls with the mountains of different heights.

The air conditioner in the living room was turned on very high, so it wasn't too hot, but after Zhou Qian answered Ruan Mei's words, Ke Shi's back sweated layer after layer, and it didn't take long for the clothes on his back to be completely wet , as if washed with water.

Ke Shi was waiting, not only for Ruan Mei's response, but also for any reminder from the system.

The scythe of the god of death has fallen on his neck, and it depends on whether Zhou Qian's guess is right or not, and whether he has won the bet.

In fact, it wasn't until last night, after Zhou Qian explained the rules to him, that he realized how terrifying this dungeon really is.

That was, after he and Ke Si went to the front and back yards to check around according to Zhou Qian's request, Zhou Qian came out to walk around with them before returning to the living room.

Zhou Qian sat down on the sofa rather leisurely.

Ke Si and Ke Shi both looked at him, asking questions that had been held back for a long time. "What's the matter with the death judgment of this dungeon? Why did you ask us to check it so many times?"

"Ruan Mei's murder has a prerequisite, that is, she will not be regarded as a murderer by her husband and others.

"Then correspondingly, she needs certain objective factors to kill people, and she must be able to disguise everything as an 'accident'. You all know this. But you only know one, not the other."

Zhou Qian said, "Looking at it from another angle, this dungeon actually has an important key word - 'killing intent'.

"As long as the objective conditions or factors can meet Ruan Mei's request for killing the child, she will have the intention to kill. Once she has the intention to kill, she will definitely succeed. The system will also judge us to die."

"The system's judgment follows Ruan Mei's subjective will. This is the biggest difficulty in this dungeon."

Hearing this, Ke Si couldn't help but said: "Then this is too domineering! This is unreasonable!"

"Overbearing is indeed overbearing. But it's reasonable." Zhou Qian said, "From Ruan Mei's point of view, we are not 'players', but children. You have to figure it out—real children don't know in advance who Ruan Mei is. Murderer."

Glancing at the expressions of Ke Shi and Ke Si, Zhou Qian explained again: "Let me give you an example. If Ruan Mei took out a knife in front of the children and wanted to kill them directly, it would be too much Obviously. The child is not stupid, and will definitely hide. In this case, whether the child lives or dies, and the outcome is unknown, this is one of them.

"Secondly, even if the child is killed by her with a knife, it will be much more difficult for her to escape the crime afterwards. If she wants to disguise the knife killing as an accident, she has to use something similar to 'a gangster broke into my house and killed me with a knife. The child's reason is to cover up, so that she has too many flaws."

"Combining these two reasons, Ruan Mei will not choose to kill in this way. Things like 'knife' will not satisfy her killing requirements, and will not constitute a factor that stimulates her killing intent.

"In this case, of course the system will not directly make a death judgment."

"But on the contrary, if Ruan Mei had made a plan in advance, it would be fine to smother the children to death while they were asleep, or to trick the children into the car and use carbon monoxide to kill people...

"As long as the objective elements are gathered and meet Ruan Mei's request that she thinks she can kill, her killing intent will be aroused, and then the system will directly judge us to be dead.

"That's why I said that the system's judgment actually depends on Ruan Mei's subjective wishes."

Ke Si and Ke Shi pondered for a while before they came to their senses.

After discussing in a low voice, they looked at Zhou Qian with bright eyes.

"We know what to do!"

"According to what you mean, things like knives won't arouse her killing intent, so why don't we use knives to fight her hard?"

"Although we have no skills, can't use offensive props, and our strength has become like a child, but the four of us can't beat her alone?"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qian said again: "No. You can't do this directly."

"why?!"

"Once Ruan Mei is made aware of our intentions, the situation will be even more unfavorable to us. Because we will be directly judged dead."

"Why? Why??!"

"It seems that you haven't really understood what I just said. Think about the logic inside."

After a long while, seeing Ke Si and Ke Shi's expressions, they obviously still couldn't understand, Zhou Qian said again: "You have forgotten the most important sentence I said - Ruan Mei's subjective will determines how the system works. determination.

"The example I just gave about the 'knife' is a routine situation. Once the situation changes, causing Ruan Mei's subjective will to change, the 'knife' may be able to arouse her killing intent."

"For example, if Ruan Mei sees us killing her with a knife, the alarm will go off in her mind——

"'Are the kids finding out what I do? Are they going to kill me? Then I can't design that much, I'll just kill them fast'!"

At this point, looking at Ke Si and Ke Shi, Zhou Qian solemnly said: "Under this situation, Ruan Mei's subjective will and mentality have changed, and the objective factors that stimulate the killing intent have also changed.

"This situation is the most unfavorable for us. Not only the 'knife', something that would not arouse her killing intent, can also be used by her to kill people. She doesn't even need to use props at all. can kill us."

"Let me give you the most extreme example. Ruan Mei directly picked up the child and threw it on the ground, and then manipulated it afterwards. In theory, can everything be disguised as an accident?

"She didn't do any of the so-called traps and designs. When she wanted to kill the child, she directly threw the child to death. Afterwards, she took whatever she wanted... For example, she could pick up a toy gun and put a toy in the child's eyes. bullet.

"Later she claimed that the children were playing guns with each other and shot each other in the eye, and then the blind one accidentally fell down the stairs and fell to his death... This is actually an 'accident', right wrong?"

"Therefore, once we confront Ruan Mei, she will immediately have a killing intent.

"In this case, 'killing us' is the highest priority, and she can remedy the illusion of 'accident' afterwards. Then, in her subjective will, as a mother, she can completely kill her child Pick it up and fall directly down the mountain...

"Once she has such an idea, the system will immediately make a judgment without any additional props, and we will die directly."

When Ke Si and Ke Shi heard this, their faces turned pale.

They understood what Zhou Qian meant——

Under normal circumstances, Ruan Mei would not choose to directly kill the child with a knife, or directly throw the child to death, because the success rate is small, the risk is relatively high, and there will be more flaws left, which is not conducive to her exoneration.

Ruan Mei will choose the easiest way for her to kill people first. On this basis, if she can bring herself less suspicion, that is of course better.

But if the situation becomes "unconventional", Ruan Mei can't care so much.Her primary purpose is to kill people, and as for the issue of exoneration afterwards, she can only leave it to think about it later.

When Ruan Mei has the thought "I can kill now", the system will determine that the player is dead.

On the surface, it seems that the player can directly fight Ruan Mei with a knife.But actually not.In this dungeon, the player really has no advantage at all.

No wonder... so many players are in this copy.

Ke Si and Ke Shi almost felt that they had no way to pass the level.

They finally understood why Ke Er and Ke San had to run away.The two of them thought of this level and felt that the real solution was to stay away from Ruan Mei completely.

It's a pity that they missed one point—they didn't think that the corpses in the last two exhibition halls in the exhibition hall were killed by "cars". They didn't think that Ruan Mei didn't stay in the villa to kill other children, but drove after them.

It wasn't until a long time later that Ke Si thought of something and asked Zhou Qian again: "Then can we hide? The four of us restrain each other and play hide-and-seek with Ruan Mei. This one leads Ruan Mei to the east, and the other leads her to the west... Then Shall we spend the rest of the time?"

Ke Shi then asked: "Or, more simply, let's avoid all the traps, why not? Go to the lake? No, play on the swing? No. Anyway, we don't do any of her suggestions!"

Zhou Qian replied decisively: "I'm afraid neither of your suggestions will work."

Ke Si and Ke Shi: "Why???"

Zhou Qian said: "Actually, the truth is the same as what I said just now. If we avoid all of Ruan Mei's traps and designs, it is also an 'unconventional state'. She can't use the murder methods she designed, then she We can only do the most simple and rude ones. She will think that it is better to just drop us to death. Once she has this idea, the system will directly judge us to be dead.

"It's the same for hide-and-seek. If she can't find anyone, her mentality will change. For example, she may feel—'Then it's better to just burn down the whole villa'."

"To sum up, once Ruan Mei's mentality changes, the requirements for killing conditions will also change accordingly.

"Once the objective factors and conditions related to her ideal homicide are relaxed, it will be easier for us to be directly judged as dead."

Both Ke Si and Ke Shi's temples couldn't help throbbing, they really felt the creeps.

Well, the more Zhou Qian said, the more they felt that everything was dead.

Where is this dungeon?Basically let the player die directly.

In the afternoon, at the suggestion of Ke Er and Ke San, they carefully inspected the toys, imagined all the traps and scenarios that might be related to the murder, and tried to avoid it...but it turned out that they could only hide for a while.

Hide and hide, wait until all Ruan Mei's trap designs are destroyed, and she will come straight to her!

Ke Si couldn't help but said, "I might as well commit suicide. Who knows what Ruan Mei will do to me? If you let me be suffocated to death in the car, wouldn't that be torture?"

Ke Shi couldn't help looking at Zhou Qian very sincerely, and said from the bottom of his heart: "Brother Qian, tell me, what should we do? We're counting on you! Without you, I, we might really die here .”

Zhou Qian said: "After seeing through the method of judging death in the dungeon, it's easy to handle. Ruan Mei's mentality is divided into two stages.

"First, under normal conditions, she will choose a more secure method, and make everything into an 'accident' in advance, harming others without leaving a trace, which will help her get rid of the crime;

"Second, in an unconventional extreme state, she will simply and brutally kill people. Once this state is triggered, we are likely to be directly judged as dead."

"Then what we have to do is very simple, just prevent her from appearing in the second state.

"To achieve this goal, we can do three things, first, don't confront her directly, and don't let her find out that we are going to kill her.

"Second, don't play hide-and-seek and make her angry because she can't find us.

"Third, don't blindly reject all her proposals, even if you know that the proposal will lead us to death."

Ke Si couldn't help asking: "I understand the first and second. What does the third mean? How to judge this?"

Ke Shi pursued and asked: "Yes, actually, I can understand all the above. Take the first night as an example. There are children in the room, no other adults, and there are pillows. These can constitute the three criteria for the system to make a judgment. factor.

"Last night, Ruan Mei was able to drive the child to the supermarket by herself, and objective factors also made her feel that she could kill someone.

"But the situation in this villa is more complicated! Now there are no adults present, and the factor of no witnesses already exists naturally! Those toys, swings, etc. also exist naturally. The reason why the system did not make a judgment is because, because ..."

Ke Shi suddenly couldn't sum it up.

Hearing this, Zhou Qian smiled: "Indeed, in the villa, all kinds of factors that can arouse Ruan Mei's murderous intent actually exist objectively.

"There is only one reason why the system didn't make a judgment—there are too many factors that constitute the killing intent, and correspondingly, there are too many ways to die."

"There are too many ways to die, and the system doesn't know what to judge. Then, when we choose the only 'method of death', we will be judged dead immediately.

"For example, Ruan Mei proposed to go on a swing. Once we agree, the system may immediately judge us to die."

Ke Shi: "Oh my god... I can't see it at all. How should we live?"

Zhou Qian said: "If Ruan Mei makes other suggestions related to the facilities and toys in the villa, we will deny them all, otherwise we will be judged dead directly.

"But if she suggested going to the lake, we wouldn't die."

Ke Si: "Why?!!"

Zhou Qian said: "Promising to go to the lake will not make us immediately judged to be dead. Because there are many ways to go to the lake, by car or on foot. If we choose to take a car, we may be suffocated to death; if we walk, we may be on the way down the mountain Pushed down by her.

"Understood? 'Promise to go to the lake' is not fatal. The reason is the same as the reason why we are not judged dead by the system in the villa now, because it corresponds to multiple ways of death, and the system cannot judge it for the time being."

Zhou Qian concluded: "Staying in this villa means that we may encounter fires, gas explosions, gas poisoning, all kinds of deadly toys... This is impossible to prevent. But if we go to the lake, there are many ways to die, but we can expected.

"In addition, there are drowned children in the exhibition hall. Going to the lake must be one of Ruan Mei's proposals. As long as we agree to her proposal, we won't deny all her proposals, let her have nowhere to go, and even want to directly rough us up. to kill.

"In general, going to the lake is the best way."

Ke Si and Ke Shi were finally persuaded: "Promise to 'go to the lake', and then?"

Zhou Qian said: "Then, on the way out of the villa and on the way to the lake, before Ruan Mei felt that 'all the factors to intentionally create the illusion of an accident are in place, I can kill someone now', we should kill the girl quietly first." her."

After that, not only Ke Si and Ke Shi started brainstorming ways to assassinate Ruan Mei, Zhou Qian also brainstormed.

First, put oil, wine and inflammables on the road in advance, and then set fire to Ruan Mei to death.

But there are big risks in doing so.

No one could predict what the other adults and Ruan Mei would do next day.

Once the trap is discovered in advance, it is likely to lead to Ruan Mei's simple and brutal killing intent.

The fire didn't surround Ruan Mei, and she couldn't kill her all at once; she walked nearby and smelled the smell... All of this may lead to a change of her mentality, and she decides to kill directly, and then remedial it afterwards to disguise it as an "accident" .

Then the system will directly determine that everyone is dead.

Second, make a bow and arrow overnight, find someone to ambush on the way down the mountain to the lake, and shoot him.

This is also not safe.

Not to mention that players cannot leave the restricted area of ​​the villa without interacting with NPCs. The tools in their villas are very limited. It is not easy to create such a tool that kills with one blow.

Now they are all pure children, if the arrow is not aimed properly, or due to technical problems, the arrow is not sharp enough to kill immediately... As long as Ruan Mei takes a breath and has a "killing intent", the system may still judge Player dies.

……

After excluding all the methods one by one, there is actually only one method left.

Zhou Qian opened his mouth, told Ke Si and Ke Shi Jiang his thoughts, and then said: "Actually, this method is difficult to say, and simple to say."

"The knife is a double-edged sword. I still mean it just now. Under normal conditions, it will not cause Ruan Mei's killing intent. Before she finds out everything, stab her to death with the knife. This is the most effective way of customs clearance.”

As soon as Zhou Qian said this, Ke Si and Ke Shi fell silent.

With the current physical condition of the players, they are almost the same as real children.

It is very difficult for them to kill an adult with a knife at once.

Besides, it’s still the same principle, even if you stab Ruan Mei in the heart, if you don’t stab her to death immediately, if she is stabbed, she will react, and a killing intent will be born in her mind, and the judgment system will be made according to her subjective wishes. It is possible to directly determine the player's death.

Therefore, the person who stabbed Ruan Mei with a knife had to be sure to hit.

Otherwise, not only will he be judged dead immediately, but all players will also die.

Without any skill points to use...

Who can guarantee that he can successfully do this in the state of a child?

After Ke Si and Ke Shi both raised this question, they heard a voice——

"I come."

This time it was Bai Zhou who answered them.

Both Ke Si and Ke Shi turned their heads, and saw Bai Zhou coming out of the kitchen with a bowl of shrimp soup in both hands.

With a gentle and caring attitude, he brought the bowl to the table in front of Zhou Qian and put it down. Bai Zhou didn't look at Ke Si and Ke Shi, but only looked at Zhou Qian: "You can arrange it in front. I'll do the last one." step."

Zhou Qian scooped up a piece of shrimp slip with a spoon, and looked at Bai Zhou with a smile: "Are you following my orders?"

Bai Zhou looked into his eyes. "It's not to listen to you, but to see if you believe me or not."

According to the method proposed by Zhou Qian, if there is a slight error, everyone will die.

Of course, he needs to arrange for a foolproof person to execute this move.

Therefore, Bai Zhou's words were actually asking Zhou Qian if he was willing to put his life in his hands.

"I heard that god-level players have stepped into the realm of the gods with half of their feet. If I were your trainer, you would be my god, right?"

Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou, handed him the spoon with shrimp slippery, smiled half-truthfully and said, "Then this is my test for you, my god, let me see, can you Can't pass."

When Zhou Qian talked with Ke Si and the others, the people in the virtual hall felt like shit.

"It's over, if it's me, he must be dead."

"Yes, yes, the death of drowning is clearly there. Anyone would think that agreeing to 'go to the water' will make people die! Who would have thought that this is almost the only chance of survival?"

"Game designers really have bad taste."

"Do you think this 137 is getting weirder and weirder?"

"He's especially weird to Brother Qian."

"Brother Qian is also a little strange to him. What does he mean by that? Is it usually God who tests people? He's the other way around?"

"So that 137 and our brother Qian...?"

·

Time goes back to this moment.

After Zhou Qian agreed to go to the lake, he looked at Ruan Mei and said, "We really want to go to the lake, but we don't want to take a car. We want to walk down the mountain. There seem to be many butterflies on the road out of the backyard." , we want to go from there."

Ruan Mei looked at Zhou Qian with a smile, and said after a while, "Okay. I'll get you some short T-shirts."

Hearing this, Ke Shi and Ke Si both let out a sigh of relief, and they were completely relaxed.

In this way, 10 minutes later, Ruan Mei really changed into short T-shirts for the four "children".

This also almost completely cut off the possibility of hiding something on the player.

"Then let's go now!" Ruan Mei said.

Zhou Qian pointed in the direction of the kitchen. "Can you get some fruit and a knife? We can have some fruit on the way later. I want Mommy to help me peel apples!"

When he heard the word "knife", Ke Shi just let go of his heart and hung up again, so nervous that his hairs stood on end.

When he anxiously asked Zhou Qian if he was really okay last night, Zhou Qian emphasized it again: "I said, as long as you don't force her into an unconventional state, the 'knife' is fine. Because she used a knife Kill us, and the risk of being identified as the murderer after the fact is too great.

"Things like knives seem dangerous and obvious, but they won't be a factor that stimulates her killing intent, so they can be used by us. This is the key to our victory."

While waiting for Ruan Mei's response and the system's prompt, Ke Shi could only reassure himself by repeating Zhou Qian's words in his heart.

Fortunately, Ruan Mei smiled quickly and said, "Okay, I'll get the knife and fruit."

A moment later, Ruan Mei carried fruit and a knife in one hand, and a blanket suitable for picnics in the other, and took the four children to the backyard, intending to go down the mountain in the direction of the backyard.

When passing by the swing, she also asked: "Do you want to sit on the swing for a while?"

After the four of them resolutely refused, her smile froze, but she also led them forward.

Zhou Qian chose the backyard for a reason.

Going out of the front yard is directly down the mountain road. If Ruan Mei wants to push someone, the moment the player steps out of the front yard, the player will be directly judged to trigger the death condition.

But there is a large flat open space in the backyard.

It is estimated that Ke Yun wanted to build an orchard or a garden on her own later on, but she hadn't had time to start construction, so she temporarily left it unused.

This open space is very large, and it is quite a distance from the steep and accident-prone downhill road, which has become a buffer space for players.

There is no fire here, no swings that can kill people, and no toys that can be used. The only way to kill people is to pick up children and forcefully throw them on the ground, or stab people with fruit knives.

But these two methods are too flawed, and Ruan Mei, who is in a normal state of mind, will not use this method to kill people.

Her killing intent will only be truly aroused when she is on a steep slope or when she reaches the water's edge, but this location is not enough.

So this place became the best place for Zhou Qian to choose to kill her.

Zhou Qian, who was walking in the forefront, turned his head and first winked at Ke Si and Ke Shi.

The two suppressed their fear and sat down on the ground.

Ruan Mei looked at them. "What's the matter? You won't be tired after just a few steps?"

Ke Shiting was afraid that their actions would anger Ruan Mei and make Ruan Mei suddenly murderous.

But Zhou Qian walked up to him in time and pressed his shoulder, and whispered in his ear: "We have promised her to 'go to the water', and she can safely carry out her original plan and design, so her Killing thoughts will never appear in this place. Calm down."

Ke Shi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, held back, and then smiled at Ruan Mei: "Mom, we are suddenly tired and want to eat some fruit."

"Yes." Zhou Qian walked over and took Ruan Mei's hand, leading her to sit on the ground. "Mom, let's take a break too. You must be busy these days. We are all distressed.

"Sit down and help us peel apples, okay?"

Ruan Mei smiled and sat down, and as expected she peeled the apple with a knife.

Zhou Qian glanced at her, and winked at Bai Zhou who was not far behind her. Bai Zhou nodded, Zhou Qian turned around, and walked towards Ke Si and Ke Shi who were sitting on the ground pretending to be lazy and unable to walk. Like wanting to mess with them.

"Unexpectedly", Zhou Qian suddenly fell to the ground, crying with a "wow". "Mom, come and help me look! Woohoo, it hurts so much!"

Ruan Mei, who has always maintained her personality and kept the children from getting suspicious, immediately put down the apple and knife in her hand, walked up to Zhou Qian, and hugged him in her arms.

Her first move was to subconsciously hold Zhou Qian and stand up.

But when she moved, Zhou Qian cried, and in the end she could only sit on the ground, holding Zhou Qian in her arms.

Zhou Qian consciously guided Ruan Mei to sit down with her back facing the fruits, knives and Bai Zhou, of course for the convenience of Bai Zhou.Bai Zhou is the height of a child now, if Ruan Mei was standing, it would be very difficult for him to hit him with one blow.

While crying in Ruan Mei's arms, Zhou Qian looked over her shoulders and looked at Bai Zhou behind her.

After a while, Bai Zhou picked up the knife, put his hands behind his back, and moved it over silently, like a ghost walking in the sun.

He quietly walked behind Ruan Mei and quietly raised his arm.

Seeing this, Ke Si and Ke Shi punched each other, and immediately scuffled, attracting all Ruan Mei's attention.

Ruan Mei raised her head, looked away from Zhou Qian, turned to look straight ahead, looked at Ke Si and Ke Shi, and immediately scolded: "Hey, how old are you, why are you still fighting?"

In the next moment, a hand holding a knife quickly slid across her throat.

Cut the throat with one knife.

Ruan Mei breathed her last and died instantly.

At the moment when blood gushed out, Ruan Mei was pushed down sideways by one hand.

A figure rushed over quickly, grabbed Zhou Qian's shoulder with one hand, led him to sideways, and raised the other hand to cover his eyes.

After a while, Zhou Qian felt the palm in front of him move away.

He looked down, not a drop of blood on his body.

·

Sunlight, mountain scenery, villas... all the scenery suddenly disappeared.

Opening their eyes, the players returned to their adult appearance and returned to Hall 1 of Exhibition Hall A.

What is unknown is that at the location of Hall 7, a figure flashed and appeared out of thin air.