Lost City [Unlimited]

An hour and a half passed, before the players were ready to discuss the next step, they were interrupted by someone.

"Lessa...Lessa!"

Phil Ballend stumbled in, exaggerating his manner and expression as if he were in a stage play.

He knelt down on one knee and held the girl's cold hand tremblingly.

"Lesa, open your eyes and look at brother, look at me..."

Earl Barend was lying beside the bed, his voice was crying, and he spoke intermittently, as if after losing a loved one, he was unwilling to believe the cruel truth, but still knowingly made a futile call.

The NPC's performance seemed to be genuine, but the onlookers were really indifferent.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this Earl of Ballend is really too hypocritical.

After a while, the Earl ended his layered performance, stood up abruptly, glanced at the players with red eyes, as ferocious as an executioner about to swing a butcher's knife.

"You, the criminal is hiding among you."

He raised his hand and pointed at the player, straight and cold like a knife smelling of rust, "After the dance on March 3 is over, identify him, otherwise—"

Phil Balendra drew a long, terribly hoarse voice: "—you'll never leave!"

He pursed the corners of his mouth, looking like a cold-blooded animal hiding in the shadows.

Hu Ling suddenly remembered the second dungeon mission and the reminder after entering the manor, and made an instant judgment.

Only by finding the real culprit can Earl Barend agree to leave the manor, otherwise he will be imprisoned here...and become a prey.

The corner of his mouth twitched for a moment, as if suppressing an inappropriate laugh.

Because his extremely black eyes were so bright that they seemed to be glowing.

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Phil Barend dropped the mission and frightened some timid players into tears, then put on an aristocratic smirk, hummed a light tune and left.

The changes are so fast and the contrast is so great that some players unknowingly complain: "Actor!"

It can be said that it is very realistic.

There are no outsiders, and the corpse has already been removed by the servants. Someone suggested that we should discuss it here first and hold a small meeting.

Because obviously, there is no special place and time for players to discuss this dungeon, and the power of the collective is always more reassuring, and they have to organize themselves.

So under the coordination of that player, everyone began to speak in an orderly manner by raising their hands.

The scene looks childish, but it works.

But just like speaking in class, there are children who actively want to show themselves, and there are children who obviously have a lot of ideas in their minds but are unwilling to raise their hands.

Of course, we can't force students who have nothing in their minds.

Because it's useless to force it.

In everyone's tacit stalemate, the first to raise her hand was a petite girl. She raised her hand tremblingly and hesitantly, but she showed no hesitation.

She encountered something that frightened her. It was very important. Since then, she has been uneasy, and she had to speak out and ask others to help solve it...

Hu Ling glanced, thought a lot, and came to a conclusion almost at the end of a second while his thoughts were racing.

—she meets a living Dana or Arbor.

"I opened the door before." The girl tried her best to be calm, her face was a little stiff, "I happened to see... Aibo coming down the stairs."

really.

Hu Ling's expression remained unchanged, he was not happy or proud, more like feeling a little bored.

But other people are not as calm as him, especially the player who heard the news for the first time: "What? Isn't he, that player named Aibo... death penalty? His head is gone!"

They couldn't believe it, and started to let their imaginations run wild.

"Did he become a ghost? Then will he attack us?"

"No way, is the NPC wearing his skin... like in ghost movies, to deceive other people, and then take advantage of people's unpreparedness..." The speaking player made a gesture of chopping his neck.

"Are you a pig? Knowing that they have problems and still being cheated?" Some players immediately refuted him in a mocking tone.

Discussed for a long time, no conclusion.

I don't know if I don't know, or if someone is holding back.

At this moment, Hu Ling suddenly asked, "When did you see him?"

The girl was startled, hesitated for a while, and said, "Yes, not long after him. I didn't check the time."

She pointed at Yu Songyuan.

Obviously, she was silently observing the other players' lines of action.

But no one pointed this out.After all, everyone has the same evil intentions.

The eyes of the players were all turned to Yu Songyuan.

"At that time, did you see Aibo?" Someone asked.

Yu Songyuan shook his head, "No."

Strange, how did Aibo appear?Appear out of thin air?Really a ghost?

The scene suddenly quieted down, and after a while, Zhou Zhengwen suddenly said: "Now that we're talking about this, let's talk about our line of action."

The players are actually not very happy, but it has to be said, so as not to give the real murderer a chance to take advantage of the loopholes.

It's okay if others point it out wrong, but it's a big problem if you point it out yourself.

"I'll come first."

Zhou Zhengwen was very proactive: "Shortly after choosing the room, around 10 o'clock, I went to give Leisa a diamond. It was poisonous."

"After that, except for eating, stay in the room."

After finishing speaking, he looked at a group of female players, that is, Sun Meng: "Go on, let's talk in groups, it is better to distinguish the authenticity from the false."

Hu Ling took another look at him.

Sun Meng nodded. It should have been discussed before, so he did it easily: "Except for eating, I never left the room."

The players cast suspicious glances at her, but Sun Meng was calm and composed, not panicking at all.

No one questioned.

Zhou Zhengwen said again at this time: "Who's time is close to me? That group will continue."

"Let's go on like this, be clear."

The players nodded while typing.

"Me, 10:20."

The one who raised his hand was a young man, and no one robbed him.

He continued: "I went to the kitchen and poisoned the rim of the teacup Reza was going to use. Here, here it is."

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and it was the teacup on the small table with red carvings on it.

His same group was also a male player who had drawn a female character card, but his appearance was not as good as Hu Ling's, with broad bones, regular facial features, and a bit hot eyes.

But the skirt on him was very beautiful, dark blue with golden patterns stitched on it.

So far, most players still believe that only one gay man is so unfortunate.

In other words, they believed that the actor who played Manlinya was a woman of all kinds...

The male player who was sympathized felt a little embarrassed all the time. He pinched the hem of his skirt, but his voice was very thin, like a female voice: "At 13:[-], while everyone is taking a lunch break, I quietly went to the third floor to check the situation. She was still alive and was about to make up for the knife, but a maid suddenly went upstairs to find her, so I had to go back and find another time."

"Knife?" Sun Meng asked.

Fang Zhengnan took out a blade from his wide belt, "It's not a real knife, but it's sharp enough."

Some players couldn't hold back, and asked out of pure curiosity: "Brother, is your voice born... a legendary false voice?"

Fang Zhengnan's expression became a little strange, as if he was a little angry but not entirely, "Naturally."

The player who asked the question thought he had offended someone, and happened to poke at someone's sad point, so he apologized quickly, and Fang Zhengnan accepted it.

Next is the group of couples. The man often calls the girl Yuanyuan, and the girl calls the boy Sange.

It was the third brother who asked the question just now.

Yuanyuan said, "At 10:35, I went downstairs to the kitchen and poisoned the pot of soup."

The player who drank the soup suddenly looked ugly.

Yuanyuan, who had been given several eye knives, hurried to make amends and said, "Don't be afraid, that poison... Anyway, you are all fine."

"I kept secretly watching Reisa while eating, and she didn't touch the soup."

Sun Meng asked: "Then do you remember that she touched those foods?"

Yuanyuan thought about it seriously, and said, "Dessert. My attention is on whether she has eaten the soup, and that's the only thing I can be sure of."

"What kind of dessert?" Sun Meng asked.

Yuanyuan: "Matcha tea cake."

The third brother went on to say: "I went with her, to distract other people's attention, so that she can do it easily."

After they finished speaking, no one spoke for a while.

Hu Ling understood that it was their turn.

"At 10:50, I went downstairs to the kitchen to poison, on Leisa's exclusive tableware." Hu Ling said.

"Exclusive tableware?" The third brother asked doubtfully.

Hu Ling: "Yes, this is her habit."

The third brother nodded and repeated it again, biting the word "exclusive" very hard.

It's a pity that no one picked up on him.

He curled his lips, and didn't ask the root cause at this time.

"After the lunch break, around 14 o'clock, I went to see if Leisa was dead." Yu Songyuan continued: "She was still alive, so I poisoned her tea."

He pointed at the safflower teacup, "That's the one."

The last group is Yang Xuehua's group.

Yang Xuehua went to the kitchen at 11:40 and poisoned Leisha's favorite dish. According to her, Leisha ate that dish today.

After eating, Li An went upstairs and put a poisonous mist into Leisa's room.

At this point, the brief narration of the ten players is over.

"As far as the timeline is concerned, Leisa was still alive until 14 o'clock, that is to say, her death time was after 14 o'clock." Sun Meng concluded.

Yuanyuan, the girl who saw Aibo, spoke at the right time: "It just so happened that Aibo went downstairs after Recante, and the knife hit her heart again. The death time should be very short, could it be..."

"But isn't Aibo dead?" The young man asked without understanding.

Sun Meng's eyes rolled, and a smile appeared on her face: "It's because he died."

The young man raised a question mark: "???"

Sun Meng said to herself: "If the player dies, the plot of the character has not been completed yet, so the plot of this copy is incomplete. What if the person who died happens to be the real murderer? Will the game allow such a thing to happen?"

"So, I guess, if the player dies early, the NPC, who should have borrowed the same appearance, will replace the player to complete the character plot."

When the young man heard it, he suddenly realized: "So they only exist during the plot."

Sun Meng nodded: "It should be like this."

Hu Ling glanced at her calmly, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"In other words, we should not only pay attention to the ten people present, but also the two who died, right?" Yuanyuan said.

No one answered her, but the sudden heavy atmosphere explained everything.

The living players can still intrigue and cheat, what should the dead people who have disappeared long ago do?

Can only rely on clues and elimination.

And will the character plot with system manipulation be rigid?

Hard to say.

Sun Meng stood up, waved her hand and said, "Okay, there's still some time for dinner, now let's separate and look for clues, or try to figure it out by yourself, tomorrow is March 3th, we will gather in the hall after lunch break, Discuss it again."

"The dance will be at 13 o'clock on the 20th. Before that, we must find out the real culprit."

The author has something to say:

small theater:

One day, Yu Songyuan learned that someone coveted his sweetheart...

Gui (pass the knife): Do you have any ideas?

Yu Songyuan (rejecting, righteous): No, I am a three-good citizen.

(Back to the back) Yu Songyuan: Wrong, yes, I’m here to introduce someone to mine again.

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Yu Songyuan: ^_^