Early in the morning of the third day at the manor.
Li Yang yawned and went to the living room, only to find that other players were always one step ahead of her and most of them were already sitting there.
"Another one fell to his death."
Xiaobai said this to Li Yang because she arrived late.
Li Yang was still a little sleepy, rubbing his eyes and nodded: "I know, I heard the noise last night."
"The owner of the manor will be back tomorrow. Have you found the right props?" someone asked.
To this, everyone's answer was unanimous.
"What props? I didn't find any clues."
"The butler only said that the owner of the manor can take the props to the fifth floor after returning. He didn't say that tomorrow is the deadline, right?"
"No, how could the copy only last for a few days?"
"Then there's no need to rush. Maybe when the master comes back, we can get some information out of him."
The remaining players were all responding perfunctorily. In fact, everyone knew clearly that some people must have found something, but just didn't want to tell others.
After all, when it comes to life and death, no one wants to sacrifice themselves for others.
Boss Xu was very upset when he saw the players gathered together for a discussion and ignored him. He frowned and glanced at the henchman beside him: "Where's Old You? Why hasn't he come down yet? He's so proud that he made me wait for him?"
Not knowing why the young master suddenly lost his temper, the attendant put on a fawning smile and said, "Maybe he stayed up late last night and hasn't woken up yet. I'll go call him now."
"Hurry up! Don't waste my time."
"Okay, okay."
Although none of the players were willing to share the clues they knew, they were still enthusiastically discussing everything in the dungeon, as if if they didn't say anything, they must have important information hidden in their hearts.
When Mo Qing arrived, he saw Li Yang sitting obediently on the sofa, listening attentively to other people's discussion.
He walked straight over to her and sat down next to her. "What are you listening to so seriously?"
"You'll know if you listen." Li Yang continued to stare at the players who were chatting animatedly.
Seeing this, Mo Qing also pricked up his ears and began to listen.
Five minutes later, he was already frowning.
It feels like these people are just repeating information that everyone already knows and then making up a story around it.
In short, the content is devoid of nutrition.
"Isn't this all nonsense?" Mo Qing was puzzled. "Is there some codeword mixed in?"
Li Yang turned her head to look at him, raised her lips and smiled, "If you spend five minutes listening to their conversation, you will find that you have wasted five minutes."
"…"
Mo Qing's expression gradually became complicated. "So you've wasted half a day here, and you decided to let me waste five minutes too? You really are hurting the enemy by a thousand and then hurting yourself by five thousand."
"You're overthinking it. I'm just sitting here trying to wake myself up from a nap."
"…Alright."
[Ruoruo's wife plays me! Every morning when I'm still half asleep, I sit and stare blankly for a while to get rid of the remaining sleepiness. Although there's a certain chance I'll fall asleep while sitting (whispering)]
[It seems like none of them in this instance are easy to trick. After chatting for quite some time, no one revealed any useful information. They're all pretty cunning.]
[Of course, the unskilled ones among them are already dead.]
I went to other livestreaming rooms and guess what?
[Don't keep us in suspense, just tell us when you have something to say. ]
[These people are more pretentious than the other. Almost every one of them has found useful information. Yu Chong seems to have even clues about the props, but he just didn't reveal it in the live broadcast room.]
[The main reason is that live streaming only shows the screen, so there's no way to see what players are thinking. Therefore, those in Yu Chong's live streaming room don't know what the clearance items are.]
"Mr. Xu! Old You is dead!"
The follower who had gone upstairs to call his companions appeared at the stairs. He was still panting because he ran so fast.
His shouting also attracted everyone's attention.
"Dead? Go up and take a look."
Apart from the two people who fell to their death, this was the first person to die at the hands of other weird people.
It is not always bad news if a player dies in the dungeon. The cause of death may be found at the scene, which can help others avoid the rules of killing. Therefore, even if people are afraid, they will choose to go to the scene to take a look.
In a room on the sixth floor.
A miserable corpse lay in the middle of the room. The room was neatly furnished, with no signs of escape or struggle.
The brave players would go in and search directly, while the timid ones would wait and watch at the door. In any case, they could not leave, otherwise if they missed the clues, they might be the next to die.
Blood seeped into the cracks in the wooden floor, and because of the large amount of bleeding, it hasn't dried up yet.
"I guess he died just a few hours ago." Yu Chong glanced at Mr. Xu and the people behind him, "Did you hear any noise in the early morning?"
"No, I was asleep at that time."
They were not lying. They went to the fifth floor in the middle of the night and were so sleepy when they came back that they just dropped their pillows and fell asleep without hearing any sound at all.
There was no sound, no signs of a struggle, but the body was in a terrible state, as if the flesh had been torn by something.
"Perhaps he was killed by a blow first."
"Kill first and then whip the corpse? This is too cruel."
"Isn't this a weirdly basic operation?"
Li Yang noticed the candlestick on the window and confirmed that this thing was indeed in every room.
The candlestick showed no signs of having been used, but she noticed a black mass in the pool of blood.
"What is that?"
After Li Yang's reminder, the others also discovered the little gadget hidden in the crimson blood.
Old Wu wrapped his hand with a plastic bag and then tried to dig at it. The black block shattered at the touch, and the more broken parts melted directly into the blood.
"Not sure what it is."
The players had different expressions on their faces, and soon they began a thrilling reasoning performance, which was all just their own nonsensical guesses.
In order to hide the information they know and to confuse others.
The owner of the manor is coming back soon. Some people who have found the props may pass the level quietly. It becomes urgent to eliminate the competitors, and everyone's minds naturally become more active.
Li Yang stared at the black debris for a while. In fact, she was quite familiar with this kind of stuff - it was burnt paper.
She remembered that two people had bought coal and lighters in a shop in the town before. In addition, Mo Qing said last night that fires could not be lit here. The cause of Lao You's death was obvious. He died because he lit a fire.
Li Yang subconsciously observed the appearance of other people and confirmed that Lao You was one of the people who bought the lighter. The other one was staring at the corpse with a sly look, looking at others from time to time.
"Let's go. It's not a good idea to keep staring at the corpse here." Li Yang took the initiative to suggest.
Some people agreed and left the room directly, while others were more hesitant, and finally saw that the main group was preparing to leave, so they had to follow reluctantly.
Li Yang raised her eyebrows. She believed that most of the people who left first had noticed something. Those who hesitated and refused to leave probably didn't understand it yet and didn't dare to stay here alone.
Mo Qing was an exception. He stared at the corpse for a long time, and it was unclear whether he was studying the cause of death or something else.
"Leave."
Hearing the urging, Mo Qing looked up and found Li Yang standing at the door, obviously waiting for someone.
"Wow, Ruoruo, you are waiting for me?"
"Um."
"I'm so flattered."
Mo Qing muttered to himself as he left with Li Yang.
The only person left in the room was the henchman who had discovered the body.
Seeing that everyone had left, he was a little anxious to go out, but he stopped as soon as he reached the door.
The man hesitated, turned around, walked to the corpse, carefully searched the other's pockets, and quickly took out a lighter.
"I gave my lighter to Mr. Xu. I'll borrow yours. Rest in peace."