bayonet and rose

After only one night after entering the checkpoint, this person was eliminated without even leaving a sound.

It's really useless to look at it this way.

Those who can reach the tenth checkpoint are not the most benevolent people. No one accused Zhen Cheng of being mean, but it is hard to say what is hidden under these unclear glances.

Xu Rushui sneered contemptuously, her eyes were filled with obvious dislike, "You'd better not put your hands and feet on top of my head."

甄橙若无其事地端起牛奶继续喝了一口,舔舔嘴角，“我怎么敢，上次差点被许姐揍死的事我可还没忘。”

boom--!

Kinsey, the oldest on the court, slammed the crutch in his hand.

Jin Xi's white hair was weather-stained, and his expression... If it sounds good, it's not angry, but if it sounds bad, it's anger in his body.

At first glance, he has a bad temper.

"No matter who you are, you can't do whatever you want," Jin Xi looked at Xu Rushui and Zhen Cheng meaningfully, "Don't forget that the rules require pairs to be paired, and it's not a good thing for us to eliminate the passers-by."

Jin Xi's words made the hearts of the people on the field feel cold again.

No one knows the brand name of the first eliminated person, and his elimination may cause the remaining person to fail to be paired successfully.

The elimination mechanism in the castle is still unclear, and now they have to be careful not to let themselves be eliminated, and they also have to pay attention to the safety of other passers-by.

·

Everyone was not restricted in their freedom. After breakfast, they got out of the castle to investigate outside.

It was still pouring rain outside, as if it would never stop, and the water on the ground was enough to cover people's ankles.

Facing the front of the castle is the King K gate they walked in. This gate does not distinguish between front and back, and the patterns on both sides are the same.

The king's appearance was obscured by the continuous rain and fog, and he held the sword in his hand facing them from a distance.

Behind the castle is an endless maze.

This maze is spliced ​​together by huge playing cards. After being washed by such a heavy rain, the playing cards are still safe and sound.

In the afternoon, several passers-by proposed to go into the maze, and Kinsey was the first to object, asking all passers-by not to act rashly, but to stay together.

Although the old man Jinxi was a little dignified, not everyone was willing to obey him, everyone had their own plans.

He failed to block it, and finally three people braved the rain to explore the maze.

Standing in front of the window, Lin Zijuan watched the three of them cautiously step into the maze, before disappearing among the white cards.

"Are you ok?"

Zhen Cheng came uninvited and greeted Lin Ziyu very familiarly.

Lin Zijuan looked back at him, "It's okay."

Zhen Cheng approached the window and tapped on the window with his fingers. No matter how hard he tried, the raindrops outside the window shook off.

"Guess why they refused to stay in the castle honestly, and insisted on taking care of this maze?" Zhen Cheng put his palm flat on the glass, making the whole maze disappear from his own sight.

"I'm afraid someone will do something wrong."

Lin Zijuan looked at Zhen Cheng and said.

There was a level breaker who was eliminated inexplicably, without any warning, and Xu Rushui's eccentric rhetoric in the morning, it is inevitable that some people would wonder if there was a level breaker deliberately making trouble.

Zhen Cheng froze for a moment, then came to her senses, and laughed a few times happily: "No...it's okay."

He thought for a while, and then said again: "It's not me that they are afraid of, but old man Jinxi."

"Ok?"

Zhen Cheng scratched the glass with her fingernails and made a piercing voice, "You're new so I don't know, Jin Xi's reputation is not very good, don't listen to what he said today as if he was thinking about the overall situation. In fact, he loves you the most. What I do is to play a black hand - kill other passers-by to ensure my own pass."

Lin Ziyu didn't comment, Zhen Cheng patted the glass, "Such a big maze is placed here, after all, it's not for the sake of looking good, and it's reasonable for someone to want to see what's going on."

Zhen Cheng stopped, didn't say much, and left consciously to talk to the next passer-by.

Hua Zhai touched it back at some point, and brushed past Zhen Cheng who was about to leave.

Zhen Cheng still greeted her enthusiastically, and Hua Zhai still kept her eyes fixed.

"How is it?" Hua Zhai walked to Lin Zi Prison and asked.

"Three people went to the maze." Lin Ziqian tapped the glass with his fingertips.

Standing next to Lin Zi Prison, Hua Zhai looked at the poker maze outside the window, "I have a lot of guts, going to the maze so quickly should be a bit of a fortune."

Lin Ziyu: "Zhen Cheng said they were frightened by old man Jin Xi's reputation."

Hua Zhai smiled inexplicably, "He said yes... I found something."

As Huazhai said, she spread her hands, and on it was a folded note.

·

None of the three passers-by who went to explore the maze returned until dinner time.

The butler greeted everyone to have dinner. This time, he only prepared tableware for thirteen people, and his attitude was clear. The three people who went to the maze had already been excluded by him.

"What do you mean, those three people were also eliminated?" A young girl secretly asked Xu Rushui.

Xu Rushui didn't make a sound, just nodded.

"I wanted to ask this morning," the armored man who had bumped into Linzi Prison once said in confusion, "Why do you know someone has been eliminated?"

The man in the armor couldn't fall down, and everyone else changed into the clothes prepared by the castle, but he was the only one still wearing this heavy armor.

Xu Rushui frowned and looked at him impatiently.

"She has props, doesn't she, Miss Xu?" Zhen Cheng answered with a smile.

Xu Rushui ignored Zhen Cheng, and scanned the others, "Maybe some people haven't seen me before, to be honest, I have a prop that can track the elimination in the same level, this time I set the track to start seventeen of them."

As she spoke, she took off the pocket watch around her neck, and opened the dial for everyone to see. There was no hour and minute hands inside, but only a conspicuous number 13.

"Oh, it's amazing." The armored man boasted, with something hot in his mouth, these few words were very vague.

"Sorry for disturbing all the guests." The butler clapped his hands again, attracting everyone's attention.

"You're not here to ask questions again..."

The butler smiled, looked around, and finally landed on Hua Zhai, "Guest, please answer the question today—who was the one who poured tea for you yesterday?"

The same question as yesterday, yesterday Zhen Cheng clearly pointed out the maid, but still answered wrongly, today it is Hua Zhai's turn.

As soon as the topic came out, the faces of the others also sank.

Not changing the topic means that the topic will be mentioned repeatedly and cannot be bypassed until someone answers it correctly.

Although it is not clear what the consequences of answering the wrong answer are, it will not be a good thing if you think about it.

When being called, Hua Zhai was pinching Lin Ziyu's fingers to play with. Hearing this, he raised his head slowly and looked at the housekeeper.

The butler repeated the question again.

Hua Zhai didn't rush to answer, he and the housekeeper looked at each other for a few seconds, "If you answer wrong, you will be eliminated, right?"

The butler didn't hesitate, and nodded very simply: "Yes."

Zhen Cheng also asked last night what the consequences would be if she answered wrongly. Who knew the butler's answer at that time, but tonight she was surprisingly generous to Hua Zhai, directly affirming Hua Zhai's conjecture.

Then there was another question—since she was going to be eliminated if she answered wrongly, why did Zhen Cheng sit in her original position?

A few glances fell on Zhen Cheng, he ignored it, and thought for a moment, "The butler only does judgment questions, not questions and answers?"

That's why Hua Zhai gave Hua Zhai the answer selectively.

Xu Rushui "tsk", "I knew it was you."

Zhen Cheng was supposed to be eliminated, but he found a "scapegoat" to save himself.

The butler didn't care what other people were arguing about. He just stared at Hua Zhai, waited for a long time but couldn't get an answer, and urged again: "What's your answer?"

The thoughts of the other people at the dinner table were a bit complicated, and they more or less hoped that Hua Zhai could answer this question and save themselves. On the one hand, it was to end the problem of death, and on the other hand, they were also worried that Hua Zhai’s brand name was their matching number.

"It's possible that what was poured wasn't really tea," a bald man said after hesitating for a moment, "Yesterday, there were seventeen of us, but only one maid poured the teapot around without adding water... I tested it later, It is impossible for a teapot to fill seventeen cups of tea."

"I also have a doubt. I sneaked out of the room last night to look around. The servant's room was empty and there was no one there."

Others contributed their discoveries in a hurry, and the butler didn't interrupt, maintaining a respectful standing posture, but only focused on Hua Zhai.

Hua Zhai waited for other people's voices to fall, and lazily said: "Xia Lingling."

Who is Xia Lingling?The passers-by looked at each other in blank dismay.

The butler bowed slightly, "The answer is correct."

"How do you know?" Someone was surprised, "I also asked her name, but she didn't answer."

And this answer is also a bit nonsensical, it is obviously the same person, Zhen Cheng's identification is wrong, Hua Zhai's name is correct.

This delicate standard is difficult to grasp.

"Her name is embroidered on the inside of her cuff."

The level cannot be set to a real dead end, and the answer to this question must be found. It is not difficult to check the cuffs, but yesterday no one knew that this problem would continue, and did not bother too much to find the answer.

Last night, it happened that the maid was guiding Lin Zijuan and Hua Zhai. Lin Zijuan helped the maid when she was about to put out the fire, and also saw her name through this.

Not long after the question and answer ended, the butler announced that the meal time was over, and all guests were invited to go back to their rooms to rest.

Zhen Cheng stuffed fruit into his mouth, complaining hastily that the meal time was too short and he was not full yet.

He was getting up, but the chair was kicked by Lin Zijuan, almost tripping him.

There was a bit of evil spirit around Zhen Cheng for a moment, but he quickly suppressed it, "What's wrong?"

With one hand resting on the back of the chair, Lin Zijuan slapped a note on the table with the other hand.

The note had been opened, and there were two large characters written on it - "Lin Yu".

It was the pseudonym given by Lin Ziyu.

"The person whose name you wrote down," Lin Ziqian said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his voice was sinister, "will he become your scapegoat?"

There are quite a few people who use pseudonyms in the checkpoints, and Lin Ziyu rarely hides this aspect, but this time when Zhen Cheng came to chat, he was a little weird. When he introduced himself, he first said his name, and then explained the specific words.

This is understandable, but not common.

He took the initiative to do this as if giving Lin Zijuan a psychological hint, asking Lin Zijuan to introduce himself according to this template, but Lin Zijuan deliberately ignored it, and only said his name, and Zhen Cheng asked a special question to confirm the word "Lin Yu".

Zhen Cheng took the note, still with a hippie smile, not embarrassed at all by being exposed, "You shouldn't be called Lin Yu, it's a good thing I wrote an extra name, otherwise I would be the one who was eliminated."