deadly round table

The next morning, Jiang Wenyuan woke up just before dawn. He put the carry-on bag next to his pillow in the closet and put away the Swiss Army knife in his trouser pocket. door.

Presented in front of Jiang Wenyuan's eyes was a circular area surrounded by high stone walls.Jiang Wenyuan's room is No. 22, which has the same serial number as the prison uniform. The rooms No. 01 to No. 50 are lined up against the wall in sequence, occupying about one-fifth of the arc area of ​​the stone wall.At both ends of the long room are the canteen and the public health area.The remaining four-fifths of the arc of the high wall are respectively occupied by virtual scenes from No. 01 to No. 50.

Jiang Wenyuan put aside the washing and breakfast, and walked straight towards the virtual scene No. 22.Before looking for prey, you must first hide yourself.There are many people who have the same idea as Jiang Wenyuan, and there are many people who went out earlier than Jiang Wenyuan.Jiang Wenyuan deliberately procrastinated until now before going out. In this round of dangerous games, rather than acting high-profile, he would rather hide himself in the crowd in a moderate manner, otherwise, after he got rid of those burning people last night, You can directly check your own virtual scene.

The virtual scenes are separated by walls, and the scene number and the room number pasted on the inside of the wall are slightly different, and there is a five-inch headshot below the number without a name attached. The headshot of the virtual scene on the 22nd is exactly Jiang Wenyuan's current face, a slightly gloomy fat man with no distinctive features.Jiang Wenyuan took out a Swiss Army Knife and pried it towards the edge of the photo. The photo was not printed on a piece of photographic paper, but was printed directly on the tiles and firmly fixed on the wall with cement so that it could not fall off easily. Pry off the photo tiles, that leaves quite a mark too.

Kill a criminal, snatch his prison uniform to replace his number, even if he is sacrificed, he will be unscathed.With pictures of ceramics, such a bad idea is just a daydream that can only be thought about casually.

Jiang Wenyuan walked into the virtual scene No. 22, which was a two-story villa with a small garden.The villa and the small garden cover an area of ​​about [-] square meters, with a ratio of two to one.

Jiang Wenyuan walked a little around the small garden to observe the exterior wall of the villa. The exterior wall of the villa was painted off-white, and the wall was full of traces of sun and rain, without leaving any traces of flames.The old beige of the wall paint is naturally connected together, and the wall paint has not been changed locally.Jiang Wenyuan smashed a small piece of wall paint with a Swiss Army knife and crushed it into powder. After the villa was built, the wall paint was only painted once, and there was no second change of wall paint.

Jiang Wenyuan hadn't entered the villa yet, and the existing clues were enough for him to confirm the crime of his character.

The five Burning Man wraiths that appeared out of thin air yesterday were enough proof that his character was guilty of arson.When Jiang Wenyuan dealt with them with a baton, he found that without exception, their whole bodies were fully burned.

Most of the victims of building fires died from inhaling too much poisonous substance or suffocation. Most of them were unconscious or died after their bodies were burned. It won't catch fire.To set a building on fire to burn a victim like that would have to imprison the victim in an environment filled with combustibles, and there is no guarantee that this method will work for every victim.

Jiang Wenyuan observed the exterior walls of the villa. All the walls near the windows showed no signs of burnt, and the villa had never been on fire.It is very unlikely that the character set fire to the building, and it is more likely that he set fire directly to the victim's body.With this idea in mind, Jiang Wenyuan went all over the first and second floors of the villa. The kitchen uses a piped gas stove, the hot water is provided by geothermal heat, and the living room has no fireplace. Everything is clean and there are no traces of large-scale burns.

There are no clues on the first and second floors, so it can only be a hidden space.The interior space on the first and second floors is basically the same as what Jiang Wenyuan observed outside the villa. The hidden space is not on the first and second floors, so it can only be the basement on the first floor.But Jiang Wenyuan didn't look for the hidden basement, because once he found and opened the basement, it would leave obvious traces, and it was easy for people who entered the virtual scene of No. 22 to find his flaws.Jiang Wenyuan has already passed the level where Burning Man sealed off Room 22, so there is no need for him to send out his weak points.

When Jiang Wenyuan left the virtual scene on the 22nd, all the criminals on the open space of the altar looked over, their sharp eyes seemed to pierce several big holes in his body.A female criminal No. 34 pointed to his bulging trouser pocket and said in a commanding tone: "What is in your pocket!"

Jiang Wenyuan ignored her at all, and walked straight to the dormitory area. He ran to watch his virtual scene early in the morning without brushing his teeth. Now he needs to wash up and have breakfast instead of breaking up with a passerby.

Female perpetrator No. 34 shouted to several men beside her: "Stop that fat pig! Hurry up!"

She yelled several times in a row before the big male criminals started to move slowly. Male offender No. 09 spit on the ground and said frivolously, "Dude, take it easy. We just want to see what's in your pocket. If that thing is taken out from the virtual scene, you'd better Let us put it back. This is also for the sake of all of us, if any sacrifice takes away the key evidence in his virtual scene, so that the charges fail, we will all die."

"Since you are all wearing numbered prison uniforms, our status is the same. Why should I abide by the rules you set?" Jiang Wenyuan had in his pocket the Swiss Army Knife he brought into the game. In fact, he didn't mind this. This thing was seen by them, but since there is an opportunity, if they don’t make a misunderstanding and let them misunderstand the origin of the Swiss Army Knife, I am really sorry for the dedication of the few people in front of me.

"Shame on you, brothers, let's go!" The male offender No. 09 gave an order, and he, No. 28 and No. 41 rushed towards Jiang Wenyuan in unison.During Jiang Wenyuan's defensive action of releasing water, they successfully shook out the Swiss Army Knife from Jiang Wenyuan's pocket.

Female criminal No. 34 picked up the Swiss Army Knife on the ground when the three male criminals set Jiang Wenyuan up. With all the strength, the sleeve immediately cracked a hole, showing the sharpness of this Swiss Army Knife. Female criminal No. 34 is probably the master who likes bloody storms. She was not afraid at all, and licked the edge of the knife, "Let him go."

Jiang Wenyuan pushed away the male criminals who restrained him, and looked at female criminal No. 34 with disgust, "Give me back the knife."

Female criminal No. 34 turned back the blade, and with a bright smile on her face, she threw the Swiss Army Knife back into Jiang Wenyuan's hand, "This is a good knife that has drunk blood, you should cherish it." It seems that she has already doubted the Swiss Army Knife. It was Jiang Wenyuan's murder weapon.

Jiang Wenyuan stuffed the Swiss Army Knife back into his pocket, shook his head and left without giving them a good face.After letting Jiang Wenyuan go, the four ran to the virtual scene of No. 11 and joined two other people who were besieging the perpetrator of No. 11.Less than 22 minutes after Jiang Wenyuan entered the virtual scene on the 30nd, these people quickly formed a group, purposefully targeting those criminals who walked into his virtual scene.At the same time, they can also monitor those criminals who walk into their numbered virtual scenes, and then attack those criminals first and send them to the altar.

This burgeoning small group is a threat not to be underestimated to ordinary criminals.But the players have another set of survival rules. For the players, this small group is not a threat, but an object that must be eradicated.The object of the sacrifice can only be decided by the players, and it is impossible to allow NPCs to influence them.Yes, the boss of this small group, female criminal No. 34, has zero possibility of being a player.Players who can make it to the end will never be so stupid as to put themselves in a dangerous position where other players will jointly eradicate them.

After Jiang Wenyuan washed up and ate a dry breakfast, he began to think about how to give this small group a hard blow.

The first person to stand up to confront the female criminal No. 34 has a very high probability of being regarded as a player.Fortunately, Jiang Wenyuan and female perpetrator No. 34 had already become enemies, so it would be unnatural for Jiang Wenyuan not to deal with her.

The No. 34 virtual scene adjacent to the No. 35 virtual scene is a lush forest.Next to the wall separating the virtual scene No. 34, there are several trees taller than the wall.Jiang Wenyuan avoided the numbers of the members of the small group, walked through several virtual scenes at random, and waited patiently until 05:30 in the afternoon. The small group of female criminals No. Burnout, and there is still half an hour until today's sacrifice time, this is the best time to investigate the virtual scene of No. 34.

Jiang Wenyuan quietly sneaked into virtual scene No. 35, and nimbly climbed up the treetops near the wall. Just as he was about to enter virtual scene No. 34, he saw a noise coming from the entrance of virtual scene No. 34.

Female perpetrator No. 34 screamed, "Stop this damn bull!"

What responded to her was the muffled sound of No. 09 and No. 28 falling to the ground and painful moans from their mouths.The one who knocked them down at once was a muscular Caucasian man, number 21.He put one hand in his trouser pocket, and hooked his fingers at them with his right hand, "Come again."

There are three male criminals beside the female criminal No. 34, but no one dares to go up, and the female criminal No. 34 dare not call the rest of her companions to attack the male criminal No. 21. The action he made just now is really serious. It was so fast that before female criminal No. 34 saw his movements clearly, No. 09 and No. 28 fell to the ground. Female criminal No. 34 refused to show weakness until the end, "Is the number 21, I remember you. Just wait and see, the person who will sacrifice on the altar tomorrow is your number 21!"

The male criminal No. 21 glanced at the female criminal No. 34 coldly, turned around and walked into the virtual scene No. 34 without saying anything. The male criminal No. 09 stood up clutching his aching abdomen, "Boss, are we really not going to stop No. 21? If we let him go today, the prestige we have established will collapse, and so will everyone else." Enter our virtual scene. And, what if the 21st will find your criminal evidence..."

The female criminal No. 34 gritted her teeth and gave the male criminal No. 09 a hard look, "What are you panicking about? My virtual scene is twice as large as that of other people. What can he find out in 20 minutes?" Criminal evidence. Tomorrow we will send half of the people to investigate the virtual scene of No. 21, and we must dig out his criminal evidence! As long as No. 21 is sent to the altar, our prestige will be preserved."

After the male criminal on the 21st went deep into the virtual scene on the 34th, he glanced at the treetop where Jiang Wenyuan was located, "Number 22, neighbor, you are also here to investigate the criminal evidence on the 34th? Do you want to come down and look for it together?"

Now the group of female criminal No. 34 is standing at the entrance and staring at male criminal No. 21. Jiang Wenyuan will be exposed immediately when he goes down, and will be regarded as an enemy by female criminal No. 34.Although this is not a problem for Jiang Wenyuan himself, he did not resist the current female criminal No. 34 in the open space of the altar, and he also sneaked around from the virtual scene of No. 35. These two things have already established Jiang Wenyuan's fear of getting into trouble. Character design, in this round of games, the most taboo is the collapse of the character design.

Jiang Wenyuan shook his head, lowered his voice and said, "I'll come again next time."

The No. 21 male criminal shrugged and did not force Jiang Wenyuan to search for clues in the abandoned factory scene by himself.Jiang Wenyuan slid down from the treetops, and while everyone's attention was focused on the virtual scene No. 34, he quietly touched the open space of the altar from the virtual scene No. 35.

At six o'clock in the evening.

On the altar in the center of the altar, there were bursts of buzzing bells, but there was no sign of a huge bell anywhere.The sound of the bell spread throughout the altar, and all the criminals wearing orange long-sleeved trousers and prison uniforms gathered in front of the altar following the sound of the bell.

Female criminal No. 26 stood in the crowd, raised her right hand high, "I propose to sacrifice No. 23. I saw him escape from the room last night being chased by a dozen children's ghosts. No. 23 was charged with murder. Dead children."

"Naive!" The female criminal No. 29 sneered, "No. 23 is usually not smart, but there are many crooked ways. He killed children, but the way to kill them is really to kill them?"

The female criminal No. 26 retorted: "I saw the ghosts of children chasing No. 23 with my own eyes, and I also investigated the virtual scene of No. 23. There is a child slaughterhouse, which is extremely cruel. There is no need for me to lie , Falsely report the charges on the 23rd, the disaster will be passed on to my own head."

"Do you think you are the only one who has investigated the virtual scene of No. 23?" The female criminal No. 29 glanced at the male criminal No. 23 who was slumped on the ground, "But I am indeed different from you. I have not only been to In the virtual scene on the 23rd, I also found that there have been hands and feet there, and if I am not careful, I will be hypnotized by the scene, thinking that it is a slaughterhouse. It will take me five hours to get in touch with the hypnotic layout of the virtual scene on the 23rd. Don’t know what’s going on inside. But I’m pretty sure the 23rd’s crime wasn’t killing a child.”

The female criminal No. 26 was so angry that her face turned red, "You are irrational, there is no such thing as scene hypnosis, you just want to protect No. 23!"

"If you don't know enough, beep less. It's ridiculous to think that something you haven't seen doesn't exist." Female criminal No. 29 spoke very viciously.

The male criminal No. 17 intervened in the dispute between the two, "Okay, stop the quarrel. For the sake of our lives, criminals whose crimes are controversial cannot be sent to the altar."

The words of male criminal No. 17 were echoed by many people.

Jiang Wenyuan silently took everyone's performance into his eyes. Where are the other eleven players hiding? Did they deliberately propose to sacrifice No. 23 who is not No. 26, or No. 23 who tried to protect No. 29? Among the people on the 17th who are resting in the personnel affairs, are they more silent like him?It's all possible.

The only thing Jiang Wenyuan can be sure of is that the other players hidden among the 49 players, like him, are quietly looking for the existence of the same kind through their own methods.Jiang Wenyuan thought that today's player game would be a confrontation like playing Tai Chi. He never expected that there would be such a player who unscrupulously pushed the game to the abyss difficulty——

The male criminal No. 21 yawned, "You guys have been discussing and discussing, the action is too slow."

As he spoke, he walked towards the female criminal No. 34, covering her in his own shadow, "I want to sacrifice No. 34." It was not a proposed sacrifice, but a definite sacrifice.

Female criminal No. 34 wanted to escape, but her body's reaction speed couldn't keep up with her brain. When her brain went blank for a moment, all those who wanted to protect her were knocked down by male criminal No. 21.She suddenly felt a pain in the scalp, and the No. 21 male criminal took her beautiful big wavy red hair in his hands, and dragged her up the stairs leading to the altar.

The male criminal No. 09 knelt on one knee and coughed out a mouthful of blood from his throat, "Are you all stupid? Why don't you stop that lunatic? The virtual scene on No. 34 is so big, and it took less than 21 minutes to get in on No. 20. Can you check?" Something came out. He is crazy, he wants to drag everyone to die together!"

Male offender No. 21 walked until he was only two steps away from the top of the altar, then stopped and turned around, "No. 34, a criminal with pica, likes to eat human internal organs. She usually cuts the victim's abdomen open." , when the victim is still alive, cut off the internal organs of the victim one by one except for the digestive system, and force the victim to swallow his own organs alive. After the victim is dead, she will take out the victim's entire digestive system, Use it to make food. No. 34 has an insatiable pica, with more than 50 victims, and she also tattooed her insatiable appetite on her abdomen."

As he spoke, male criminal No. 21 lifted the head of female criminal No. 34, and lifted her skirt, revealing a letter H covering the entire abdomen, Hungry Hungry.

"No, no, no-!!! I didn't eat people, he was a liar! Stop him!" The struggle of female criminal No. 34 became more intense. She was crying bitterly, and she was extremely embarrassed.If male criminal No. 21 was not convicted of the charges, she would not be so excited at all, which also proves that the crime of female criminal No. 34 is pica.

No. 34 female criminal was allowed to cry, but no one came to save her.

Ordinary criminals, as long as someone can fill a day's sacrifice, that's great, how can they stop it.

The players frantically wanted to prevent the death of number 34, because that person was not a player, and if they failed to sacrifice the player on the first day of the ceremony, there would be no chance of mistakes in the next eleven days.But who dares to stop male criminal No. 21? Once he gets ahead, he will admit his identity as a player and become the target of public criticism.

In the silence of the crowd, male criminal No. 21 sent female criminal No. 34 to the altar, handcuffed her to the pillar of shame, and announced her crime to heaven.

A huge black sphere that can cover the entire altar breaks through the clouds and descends towards the altar. When it descends to a height of only one meter from the altar, the people below can clearly see that this pitch-black sphere is made of twisted human figures. Formed together, they squeeze against each other, making painful sounds.A drop of ink dripped from the sphere onto the altar, and several ghosts with an empty stomach covered the body of female criminal No. 34. They cut open her chest and abdomen with their fingers, and stuffed all the heart, lungs, liver, gallbladder, spleen, and kidneys. into her mouth, and ripped out her entire digestive system, eating each other.

After eating No. 34's internal organs contentedly, the wraiths took her body and melted back into the sphere above. The sphere rose slowly and disappeared into the clouds again.

The sacrifice of the first day is over.

During the entire process of offering sacrifices, male criminal No. 21 stood only one step away from the altar, with his back facing the altar, and inspected the people below the altar like a king. Male criminal No. 21 boarded the altar with bloodstains, and said to the 48 people in the audience: "For me, this ceremony is just a game. I will sacrifice the prey I choose to my heart's content, and you will do the same." You can try to sacrifice me, so the game will be interesting!"

In the eyes of ordinary criminals, the words of No. 21 are just the speech of a person with a mental disorder, but in the ears of Jiang Wenyuan and other players, No. 21 is announcing his identity as a player to everyone.

Jiang Wenyuan cursed frantically in his heart: No. 21 is a lunatic!

While he was still observing and looking for the players hiding in the NPC in a meek way, No. 21 had already started looking for other players in an aggressive way.Those who looked strange when they died on the 34th just now, and those who will go to the virtual scene on the 21st to find evidence of crimes, will be targeted by the 21st without exception.