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"To Miss Beth Fernley Yeager:

Maybe you're wondering what kind of prank the letter is for, but I must say that I know your secret—I don't want to say it, but you know what I'm referring to—(this sentence is blacked out).

Now you should know that I am not lying.You can suspect, speculate, investigate my identity, but it won't help.If you want to know what is going on, I sincerely invite you to visit Odiris Manor.

Signed: Mysterious Man

ps: Here, you will get the safe place you want. "

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"Thank you, Miss Yeager."

Seeing the manor in front of her eyes, Marta, who had been silent all the way, suddenly spoke.

I said, "You're welcome, Marta... can I call you that?"

She nodded: "Of course, you saved my life."

I smiled and said frankly: "Because Marta is always very enthusiastic about saving people, obviously the flare gun is also a very important self-protection tool, but Marta often uses it on other people. So If I just want to build a good relationship with you, maybe when we meet together, we can just take care of me?"

When Marta heard this, a smile appeared on her pale face: "I will."

"Actually, I'm not as good as you say... It's just within my ability and I don't want to make myself feel guilty. And my ability happens to be more suitable for saving people than yours. Protecting the weak is the bounden duty of a soldier. "

I sincerely admire such Marta.

"That's great. If you have a dedicated soldier like Marta as your teammate on the battlefield, you must be very relieved!" I couldn't help but think of another person: "Like Mr. Mercenary, you look a bit cold, In fact, they all protect the weak, and they have quite good qualities.”

Marta seemed embarrassed by what I said, she pursed her lips and smiled, and then said with some hesitation: "Actually, you are different from what we imagined."

"I originally thought that you... are noble, elegant, and...frail, and we thought you wouldn't survive." She thought about her choice of words: "Everyone doesn't dare to disturb you casually, and they are also afraid that you... Not easy to get along with."

"However, you adapted much faster than we imagined, and repaired the cipher machine very quickly. You worked very hard and didn't put on airs, and you saved me... I heard Tracy talk about the last game, listen Said that you took the risk to save Kurt," Marta said with a smile: "I think Yegel is also a good teammate."

"Call me Beth Fernley, Marta."

We looked at each other and smiled, and suddenly felt a lot closer to each other.

I helped Marta into the manor, and there were already people waiting in the hall.

"Miss Emily, please show Marta the injury."

Waiting in the hall was a girl wearing an apron and a straw hat, a girl dressed as a nurse, and a cool man leaning aside with a hood.A lady doctor in a nurse's uniform came over with a medical kit and took a rough look at Marta's injuries: "I need to check the injuries in detail, Emma, ​​help Marta back to the room with Miss Yeager." ?"

The gardener lady with a straw hat came over, and together we helped Marta to her room.

Emily carefully checked the injuries on Marta's body: "Several bones are broken, and there should be internal injuries. I can only help you deal with the external injuries. If you have internal injuries, please be careful."

"It's okay." Marta said: "Anyway, as long as you can return to the manor, no matter how serious the injury is, it will gradually heal on its own."

"Nevertheless, you can get better sooner if you are careful, can't you?" Emily persuaded.

But now that we're back at the manor, Marta and I don't worry too much.Manors have magical powers, we all know that.

After the doctor treated the wound, Marta's complexion improved a little.At this time, the man who had been leaning against the door said, "If it's okay, then I'll go first."

As he said that, without waiting for anyone to respond, he gave me a slight nod when passing me, and left.

Emily also smiled and said, "Have a good rest, Marta, and see you tonight."

So I took my leave with Miss Gardener.

I was also about to leave, but was stopped by Marta: "I have agreed with Tracy and the others to discuss the game at night, do you want to come?"

I stopped, turned around and looked at Marta who was leaning on the back of the bed, with a smile on my face: "Okay."

"Then I'll go back to rest first, see you in the evening."

"See you tonight."

I walked out of Marta's room, stepped up the wooden stairs covered with a thick red carpet, and walked towards my room with my back straight.

A whisper came from the stairwell in the distance: "Did you see that, she just escaped just now, and Miss Yeager is still so elegant and calm."

"He is a nobleman."

As if I didn't hear it, with neither warm nor rude arc on the corner of my mouth, I went to another floor, found my room, opened the door and walked in.

The room has classical and luxurious decoration and furniture, similar to those in the Air Force room—to be precise, the original furniture and furnishings in each room are the same, and the only difference is the survivor's own things.

I was invited by Marta and I was very happy.After listening to Marta's explanation today, I realized that other survivors have been relatively alienated from me because of my identity.Nobles and commoners are like people from two worlds, like the generation gap between the upper class and the lower class, which makes them subconsciously afraid to approach at will—or there are some who are not optimistic that I can survive in this manor.In short, in the Odiris Manor where there are all kinds of people, even among the upper class, I really stand out too much.

I shook my head, went to the bedside table and opened the drawer.Inside was a velvet brocade box and an envelope.I pulled out the envelope, opened it, and silently read the above statement word by word.

"...the safe place you want to get."

Slowly uttering the last few words, I slowly raised the corners of my mouth.

After dinner, I went to find Marta, to attend what was called a seminar.

In addition to the few people I saw in the afternoon, Tracy the mechanic was there, and there was a girl with a blind cane.It seems that Marta is quite popular among female survivors.

"Beth Fenley, you're here." Marta greeted me.I clearly saw the astonishment flashed in some people's eyes when they saw me, probably because they couldn't imagine when Marta and I had friendship.I greeted everyone one by one, found a seat and sat down.

The panel was definitely centered around survival games.Marta talked about the game during the day, summed up the experience and gains and losses with us, and then others also talked about their own experiences, and everyone discussed it together.

These summed up experiences are very valuable, and using them well can greatly increase the chances of survival in the game, so I recorded them carefully.After discussing the game, they gradually began to gossip.I couldn't help asking: "Do you know the news about the new supervisor?"

Someone really knows.

When I mentioned the overly beautiful new supervisor, I found that the eyes of several female survivors around me were shining.Things like looking at faces exist everywhere, and Odiris Manor is no exception.Beautiful things are always admired, and even the dangers that come with it can be easily overlooked.Everyone was silent for a moment, seeming to think of the regulator's beautiful face beyond the limit of the earthly world.

Photographer - Joseph.

The ability seems to be photography. A bold survivor has entered and exited the light curtain emitted by the camera in the field, and found another space that is exactly the same as the game field, and there are even survivors who participated in that game!

When I heard this, I couldn't help but look at other people, and I saw many people, like me, with blank eyes.

Tracy seemed to be remembering the last time she failed to save herself, and couldn't help asking: "Shouldn't his ability be teleportation? If he didn't appear suddenly in the last game, I would have already escaped! "

The ability to teleport is actually not uncommon among supervisors.For example, flash and teleportation are all types of teleportation, but they are not as irregular as the sudden appearance of the photographer.

No, maybe there is a pattern, it's just that the survivors haven't discovered it yet.

This ability gave Joseph a high winning rate, and after several games, many survivors fell into his hands.Emily sighed: "Unfortunately, we haven't fully understood how his power works until now. We can only pray that we don't meet him, especially those who have lost a lot recently."

The girl holding the blind stick beside her turned pale immediately.

If you get lost in an escape game, there is a chance that you will actually die.

This is not to say that it doesn't matter if there is no real death.Because as long as you are lost, you must pay the price. Physical injuries will heal, but mental weakening is irreparable.Lost souls will become more and more tired, and finally disappear completely.And so the man died.This method of death is actually much crueler than direct death.

"Helena, I remember you are on the next game list?"

Helena Adams is a blind girl.

Blind people are physically weak, and they can't see anything in the escape game. The chance of survival can be said to be very small.But now that she has lost her vision, her other senses will be more sensitive than Helena's ability to survive so many games. Apart from luck, it is thanks to her excellent sense of hearing and touch.

The sense of hearing can detect the wind and grass when the supervisor is approaching, and the sense of touch gives her one of the best deciphering speeds among the survivors-especially the latter, so the survivors in the same game can't help but take care of her.But in the game where everyone is in danger, it is unreliable to rely on others after all. Helena has been lost several times before, if this continues, she will soon be unable to hold on.

Everyone hurriedly comforted her: "It's not necessarily that unlucky? And you are always fast in deciphering, hide it better at the beginning, then decipher it quickly, and be more careful, you will definitely be able to escape!"

Helena smiled weakly.

This matter made everyone lose interest in talking about it.People who have lost a lot recently feel a lot of pressure, even those who are not in danger of completely disappearing for the time being can't help but feel hurt and sad.So I lost my interest, and I couldn't ask any more questions, so I went back to the room, thought about it, took out a pressed card from the bottom of the brocade box in the bedside table, found a pen and wrote on it:

"Is the supervisor of the next game the photographer?"

After finishing writing, I pressed the card under the box again, and then took a rest.When I took out the card the next day, I saw the answer I was curious about appeared below the line I wrote on it.

"Yes."

I stared at the word for a while, then put the card into the brocade box.There were already several cards of the same type in the box, and I put the card in my hand on top and closed the lid.

Just ask for the badge back next time we meet, I thought.