Lu Chenfei's discovery was so shocking that several people fell into confusion for a moment.
At this moment, all of them were in the copy and had no way to contact the outside world.
The holographic screen only had the function of communicating with each other within the dungeon. They had no way of confirming with their friends and family outside whether any unprecedented situation had occurred in the game lobby after they entered the "Isle of Eyes" dungeon.
They can only start analyzing based on the information they have.
Parallel world - In many science fiction works, the "magnetic field" itself can cause strange changes in space.
The missing helicopter fragments - most likely fell into a parallel world.
And the "eyes" -
Jiang Shuye frowned and asked, "Could it be that just like Lu Chenfei can see their world, they can also see our world, so the eyes we saw before were their eyes from a parallel world?"
Xi Nuanyang exclaimed, "Luo Jiu blinded a pair of eyes earlier. The victim must have been someone from another group of players, but he didn't mention that the system had deducted points at the time!"
Sun Qian's face darkened. "Since this dungeon has been opened to two groups, and the two groups of players can still interact with each other, then this has obviously become a player versus player dungeon! Our two groups of players are monsters to each other. Of course, killing monsters won't deduct player points!"
Everyone's face changed suddenly.
But killing monsters is not the same as killing human players!
Xia Jing turned around and asked Lu Chenfei: "Did you see a blind player in that parallel world?"
Lu Chenfei calmed down and took a deep breath. After thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "No."
Everyone was stunned.
No blind players?
But just now, Luo Jiu did injure a pair of eyes.
Xia Jing asked again: "Are there also ten players over there?"
Lu Chenfei nodded without hesitation: "Yes."
Xia Jing looked straight at him: "Did you hear them calling each other's names?"
Lu Chenfei frowned and recalled for a moment, then said, "I seemed to hear one of them calling the other's name, but the rain was so loud at the time that I couldn't hear clearly."
Song Yang listened to the question and answer calmly. His thoughts and Xia Jing's were in sync again, so he completely predicted Xia Jing's next question.
The others were still confused.
Xia Jing's voice was calm and gentle: "Are there any faces you recognize among them?"
When Xia Jing asked this question, the others were finally shocked and reacted.
That's right!
They are now in a four-star copy!
They were the first group of players to enter the Island of Eyes, and the rest of the players in Smiley City must have been paying attention to them.
Those people will see with their own eyes that the number of people logged into the "Isle of Eyes" dungeon page reaches ten, and the dungeon opens.
And if the "Isle of Eyes" dungeon is immediately opened to receive a second group of players, they will definitely be able to realize the nature of the game of this dungeon at the first time!
Four-star dungeon, player confrontation.
Under this kind of difficulty accumulation situation, the players who are willing to team up and enter the second set of dungeons must not be ordinary players, but another group of high-scoring players!
Smiley City is a place that is neither small nor big. There are always some high-level players who know each other, not to mention that Lu Chenfei's favorite thing is to make friends everywhere.
Is it possible that he doesn't know any of the ten players on the opposite side?
Lu Chenfei seemed to realize the problem and his expression became serious.
He shook his head and said, "No, there's no one I know. Those faces are all unfamiliar."
Song Yang sat up and finally spoke, "There's something strange. We logged into this dungeon together at 11:30 am, lobby time."
After logging into the dungeon, the time on the holographic screen began to follow the time inside the dungeon. At this time, a day and a night had passed.
"Assembling a team of four-star dungeon players isn't something that can be accomplished quickly. I'm sure everyone understands this."
Sun Qian and the others nodded heavily.
Song Yang said calmly, "Even if the other group of players really only took one minute to assemble in the game lobby, that would still take at least an hour to complete the dungeon. A player versus player dungeon should only start when both teams are fully assembled, right?"
"—But as soon as we logged into the dungeon, flying catkins floated out. The dungeon should have been officially opened at that time."
"——In other words, the dungeon didn't even wait for the arrival of another group of players."
Everyone froze in place, their expressions changing constantly.
Sun Qian stood up, his throat tightening: "So, what you mean is..."
Xia Jing took over Song Yang's words and said slowly: "The magnetic field, the missing helicopter debris, and the 'eye' that appeared and disappeared without a trace, these three clues have indeed been explained, but the answer is probably not 'another group of players'."
"Instead, it's an 'unknown creature' from another parallel world."
Xi Nuanyang screamed: "Unidentified creature?!"
Xia Jing adjusted his sitting position and said, "We call them unidentified creatures because, judging from various clues, the ten people in that world don't seem to be 'another group of human players.' But at the same time, we can't be sure they are monsters."
At this point, Xia Jing asked Lu Chenfei again: "Is the helicopter fragment from the parallel world that you saw the one we lost?"
Lu Chenfei quickly shook his head this time.
Obviously, he also paid close attention to this point at the time, and now he could determine the answer without having to think carefully about it.
He confirmed, "No, I initially thought the remaining helicopter fragments must be in their possession, and that they had taken ours. But the strange thing is, they only have one fragment that's about the same size as ours, and it doesn't look the same."
Xia Jing: "Then can you close your eyes and try to observe them again?"
Lu Chenfei was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly: "It should be possible."
Xia Jing reminded him: "Be careful. If you make eye contact with anyone, leave immediately."
Lu Chenfei said nonchalantly, "I was thinking, if you're blind, you can just spray some medical spray, right? I didn't find any blind players in that parallel world. Could it be that they've already been cured?"
Song Yang said speechlessly, "These are all uncertainties right now, and don't forget, if they aren't players at all, where would the medical spray come from? You'd better take it easy and don't take Xia Jing's warning lightly."
Lu Chenfei stuck out his tongue: "I know, I know."
As he said this, he closed his eyes.
All the others could no longer sit still. They came over, gathered together, and nervously watched the changes in his expression.
This time, there was no longer that stiff expression on Lu Chenfei's face.
He frowned slightly, and his frivolous face became very serious, and it was getting more and more serious...
Obviously, he made another discovery this time.
He opened his eyes.
Xia Jing looked at the time, ten seconds.
Lu Chenfei took a breath, jumped up, and said in shock: "Fuck, the scene I saw this time has changed again!"
Sun Qian and the others were all confused: "What kind of reform is this? What did you see this time?"
Lu Chenfei swallowed and said, "It's still in this place. This time it's sunny over there, just like ours, but there are already... the third group of players!"
Everyone was stunned.
Lu Chenfei himself seemed to feel a little creepy. He held his head and said, "Just like before, there is no one I know in this group. They are all unfamiliar faces. What the hell is going on?"
Three groups of people, three parallel worlds?!
Xia Jing turned sideways, exchanged glances with Song Yang, and said, "Based on the size of the helicopter fragment we obtained earlier, if it was originally a ten-seater helicopter, how many pieces of that size do you think it could be divided into?"
Song Yang frowned and said, "...Five servings, about right."
The conversation between the two made the expressions of the others change drastically.
Five servings.
So, does this instance have five parallel worlds in total?!
Xia Jing turned back and asked Lu Chenfei, "In the other two worlds you've seen so far, do they both have a can of adhesive and a key?"
Lu Chenfei was also a little uneasy at the moment. He hesitated and said, "I didn't notice that. Let me take a look."
He closed his eyes for the third time, and Xia Jing looked at the time.
This time, Lu Chenfei was halfway through his observation when he suddenly paused for breath and shouted quickly, "Found it!"
Xia Jing and Song Yang's eyes narrowed.
The others were stunned. Found it? What did they find?
The next second, Fei Shengxiao screamed!
She dodged to the side, and a piece of helicopter debris appeared out of nowhere and fell at her feet with a clang!
That was the piece they were missing!
Lu Chenfei opened his eyes and breathed rapidly, "This time I saw the fourth world. The group of people in the fourth world had two fragments, one of which was this one. I wiped it and was able to move it with my sight, so I snatched it away! Just now, when we were away, they killed Jin Yaya. The person who took the fragment must be from their world!"
He quickly said, "And regarding the question you just asked, Xia Jing, the only thing I can confirm is that the people in the fourth world do have adhesives and keys just like us!"
Sun Qian was completely anxious: "What on earth is going on?"
Xia Jing lowered his head and thought, "I think everyone in the five worlds should have adhesives and keys, but for the helicopter fragments, everyone in each world needs to collect them from the other four worlds."
The direction of the copy is very clear. They eventually need to collect five pieces of helicopter fragments into one world.
Any world will do, any world has the conditions to glue the fragments together and start the plane.
Sun Qian's face darkened as he said, "Isn't that clear now? We are ultimately competitors to them. If the people in the other four worlds aren't true human players, then they're humanoid monsters. If we kill them, we can leave the island, and naturally, this instance too!"
"Luo Jiu just poked out a pair of eyes and eliminated a five-pointed star, which is enough to prove this point!"
"In this dungeon, the tasks of collecting helicopter fragments and killing monsters are parallel!"
Fei Shengxiao thought for a moment and said in confusion, "But I always feel something is wrong. Do you remember that after Jin Yaya and Luo Jiu died, their five-pointed stars also disappeared..."
Sun Qian shook his head and said, "The pentagram disappeared because they died, not because all the pentagrams disappeared. You can't reverse the cause and effect. Since they're dead, they've automatically exited the 'game', so it's only natural that the pentagram will disappear."
That's true.
Fei Shengxiao paused, then said weakly, "But that's still not right. If the people in the other four worlds are all monsters, then we only have forty monsters in total—"
"But including the deceased Luo Jiu and Jin Yaya, our original five-pointed stars totaled fifty. This number doesn't add up!"
Sun Qian's tone darkened. "This means that some of us are destined to be inseparable from this instance. Ultimately, we're in competition with each other."
Fei Shengxiao froze and felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet.
The next second, Li Mian's expression changed. He pulled Fei Shengxiao closer and shouted at Xi Nuanyang, "Be careful!"
Xi Nuanyang was stunned for a moment, then quickly stepped aside as if facing a formidable enemy.
A pair of eyes silently hovered beside her shoulder, staring straight at the piece of helicopter debris that Lu Chenfei had taken back!
——These eyes are likely from that fourth world, and they found that the fragments of their helicopter were taken away!
At this moment, Sun Qian's eyes flashed and he quickly took out the knife.
But before he could do so, Xi Nuanyang came to her senses, a fierce look flashed across her eyes, and she pounced forward, waving the dagger at those eyes!
Blood spurted out, the eyes disappeared instantly, and one of the five-pointed stars on Xi Nuanyang's arm was immediately missing.
Xi Nuanyang stopped, took a breath, and looked at Sun Qian meaningfully.
Sun Qian paused and his face darkened.
Jiang Shuye took a step forward cautiously and stood in front of Xi Nuanyang.
——The silent competition begins.
The atmosphere in the open space suddenly became tense and stiff.
Fei Shengxiao swallowed his saliva, silently took out a dagger from his space bag, clenched his hands, and Lu Chenfei also became alert.
Xia Jing watched this scene without any expression.
Song Yang looked at the three people and spoke in a cold voice: "Let me remind you that we still cannot be completely sure that the 'people' in those four worlds are the monsters in this copy. There are still many questions we have not figured out. I do not recommend acting rashly."
Sun Qian took a step back and said coldly, "Song Yang, you're just saying this to make us stop so you can eliminate your five five-pointed stars before we do, right?"
"You're so smart, you should have figured it out. If we really couldn't kill the people in those worlds, then the system should have punished us when we stabbed their eyes. But no—neither Luo Jiu nor Xi Nuanyang were punished, were they?"
"This proves those people are neither players nor NPCs. In this dungeon world, besides these two, the only living creatures that might appear are monsters!"
Xi Nuanyang and Jiang Shuye pursed their lips.
Apparently, they thought so too.
The atmosphere dropped to freezing point, and Lu Chenfei, Li Mian and Fei Shengxiao moved closer to Song Yang and Xia Jing one after another.
Eight players formed a three-party situation.
"Team up?" Sun Qian's words became increasingly aggressive upon seeing this. "Before entering this dungeon, I had no idea this would be a game with your acquaintances. So now you're teaming up to snatch the Eye?"
Song Yang's voice grew colder and colder. "I've already said that we can't confirm the identities of the people in those four worlds yet. I won't act rashly, and I hope you won't act rashly either."
Xi Nuanyang's voice was tense. "But even if we really listen to you and don't take action, the people from those worlds will come to attack us and snatch the fragments of our helicopter, right? They were the ones who killed Jin Yaya!"
Song Yang was about to speak, but the situation suddenly changed drastically, cutting him off from his words.
Four pairs of eyes suddenly appeared in the open space at the same time, and everyone froze.
These four pairs of eyes of different shapes are located in four directions.
After suddenly opening their eyes, they rolled their eyes and coldly glanced at the eight people present, and also looked at each other.
There was inquiry and vigilance in those eyes - they didn't seem to be from the same world!
The air seemed to be sucked out in an instant.
The next second, Fei Shengxiao screamed. Li Mian pulled her, and together with Lu Chenfei, they held tightly onto the helicopter debris - if these eyes had the ability, they would capture them as well and take them to the other four parallel worlds!
Without waiting for Song Yang to stop them, Sun Qian, Xi Nuanyang and Jiang Shuye took out their weapons and rushed towards those eyes!
The "eyes" can use sight to pick up objects. This is a point that Lu Chenfei has already confirmed, and this is also the way the "eyes" attack them!
A knife that Xi Nuanyang had on her waist suddenly flew out, and the tip of the knife turned and pointed at her back.
Jiang Shuye's pupils constricted: "Nuan Yang!"
He rushed over and opened the knife, raised his head suddenly, and threw the sword out. However, the pair of eyes he was aiming at suddenly disappeared, and the sword missed and stabbed into the ground at an angle.
Immediately afterwards, another pair of eyes suddenly opened on the trunk of a nearby tree!
Two sharp arrows flew towards it at the same time, and a trace of fear flashed in the eyes!
It didn't have time to dodge and was pierced by one of the arrows, and blood spurted out!
Xi Nuanyang and Sun Qian looked at each other and gasped.
In the open space, pairs of eyes kept closing and appearing. The situation was extremely strange. Swords and knives were flying in the open space. They were caught in a melee. It seemed that people from the five worlds were fighting here!
Song Yang and the others did not intervene at all, but just watched the fight with frowns on their faces.
Xia Jing's eyes moved rapidly as he observed everything. Without even turning his head, he asked, "Lu Chenfei, can you still see those parallel worlds now?"
Lu Chenfei looked around vigilantly, fearing that more eyes would appear and attack them.
Hearing Xia Jing's words, he quickly closed his eyes.
This time, he opened his eyes quickly and shook his head: "No, I can't see anymore."
"Three times, ten seconds each time, this may be the limit of everyone's 'observation' ability every day. If there are not many people in the other four worlds who 'open their eyes', then this melee will end soon." Xia Jing quickly came to the conclusion.
Not long after he finished speaking, a machete flew towards a big tree!
The eyes attached to the tree trunk closed and disappeared in time, and the machete cut the tree in half.
The big tree fell down slowly with a loud bang, putting an end to this brief melee.
Right now.
All eyes disappeared.
They did not reappear.
The open space fell silent. Many weapons were scattered on the ground, fallen leaves and branches covered the ground, and dust was still flying in the air.
Xi Nuanyang, Jiang Shuye and Sun Qian stood on both sides, staring at each other breathlessly.
Xia Jing glanced at the arms of the three men.
A total of two five-pointed stars disappeared from Xi Nuanyang's arm, and one five-pointed star disappeared from Sun Qian's arm.
Before the melee began, Xi Nuanyang had already killed a pair of eyes.
So it is equivalent to that in this melee, they ended up killing two pairs of eyes.
After thinking quickly, Xia Jing looked diagonally across.
He took a step and walked towards a tree there.
The nerves of those three people became very sensitive.
As soon as Xia Jing made any movement, they turned their heads and stared at him.
Song Yang immediately followed and warned them with his eyes not to go crazy, as no one wanted to compete with them for the head.
Xia Jing stopped in front of the tree.
An arrow was deeply embedded in the tree trunk, and a few drops of bright red blood were splattered on the bark under the arrow.
Just now, a pair of eyes were killed here.
Xia Jing pulled out the arrow with all his strength, turned around and asked them, "Whose arrow is this?"
Sun Qian and Xi Nuanyang blurted out: "Mine!"
After saying that, the two looked at each other again.
Xi Nuanyang frowned and said, "Just now, you and I both shot arrows at those eyes, but it was my arrow that hit them in the end. I saw it clearly."
Sun Qian said coldly, "You're mistaken. That was my arrow. From beginning to end, I only killed this pair of eyes."
At this point, he seemed a little embarrassed and whispered, "These eyes appeared and disappeared too quickly!"
Xi Nuanyang's frown deepened. "I only shot this pair of eyes from beginning to end. The five-pointed star on my arm that disappeared later was this one!"
Sun Qian became impatient. "Then a five-pointed star just disappeared from my arm. If it wasn't these eyes, who else could it be? I told you, I only killed these eyes from beginning to end. The other eyes disappeared too quickly, I didn't even touch them!"
Xi Nuanyang wanted to argue: "I am the same as you..."
Xia Jing interrupted them.
He held up the arrow and said, "So, in the process just now, both of you were sure that you only killed these two eyes."
"But after all, we only have one pair of eyes, and both of you have lost a five-pointed star."
When he said this, the three men seemed to finally calm down and realized that something was wrong.
Especially Jiang Shuye, his expression became very strange.
Xia Jing's voice is like a clear spring, crisp and refreshing.
He said slowly, "One of you must have remembered it wrongly. This also means that the one who remembered it wrongly eliminated a five-pointed star without killing any pairs of eyes."
"Who killed the eye corresponding to the five-pointed star on his arm that disappeared?"
At this time, Jiang Shuye said hoarsely: "I feel... I should have killed a pair of eyes just now."
All eyes were focused on his right arm—
But the five five-pointed stars on his arms are still intact!
Xi Nuanyang and Sun Qian's expressions changed slightly.
Xi Nuanyang trembled and asked, "What's going on? Why do the people who killed the eyes and the people who eliminated the five-pointed star suddenly not match each other?"
Xia Jing looked down at the arrow in his hand and said calmly, "Song Yang has already reminded you that the rules of this instance may not be what you imagined."
Sun Qian had a bad feeling in his heart: "What on earth does the disappearing five-pointed star mean?!"