Anyway, it's nice to have a hot bath.
The room was not big. Xing Ye looked at every corner and confirmed that no one was peeking. Then he took off his clothes and entered the bathtub.
The mirror was still stuck on his chest, and it sank to the lower end of the tub as soon as it entered the water. Xing Ye ignored the mirror and quickly washed his face and hair.
On weekdays, Xing Ye takes only five minutes from undressing to going out of the bathroom, but now his hair is too long and he hasn't washed it for a long time. The shampoo provided by the game background is not of the age. The decontamination ability is not good. Xing Ye is three minutes. After taking a shower, rubbed hair for half an hour.
He washes his body first, and then washes his hair after putting on his clothes, so that his hair will not be too dirty and whitewashed.
After finally washed hair, the water in the tub had become gray and abrupt. A mirror was struggling to float on the water in a posture that violated the principles of classic physics. The mirror was gray and abrupt, and nothing could be reflected.
Xing Ye looked at the mirror coldly, struggling, picked up the small basin next to the tub and asked, "There is clean water here, do you want to wash it?"
"Yes!" The exclamation mark on the mirror is bigger than the writing.
Xing Ye smiled slightly: "Then what are you?"
mirror:"..."
On the way, Xing Ye determined two things.
First, the constantly updated story background is artificially changed at any time, and it is precisely to confirm this that Xing Ye kicks the mirror into the river. In the initial game introduction, the system specifically reminded the operator that he could not modify the pre-set ending, which easily caused the illusion that they could not intervene in the game, but the ending is not equal to the process. The operator can modify the narration according to his choice.
Second, the narrator cannot control this mirror. This is very important. According to the setting of the narration, this should be a magical mirror with magic power. It is alive and has its own preferences. It is because it likes Claire that it will follow him with a face. But this mirror showed extremely obvious disgust and reluctance, and sometimes even the mirror did not want to perform its duties, and the narrator seemed to be unaware of its resistance.
Even if Xing Ye doesn't play games, from a commercial point of view, it is easy to think that no game developer will prepare an artifact for players in Novice Village, which will break the balance.
This mirror is either a bug or another identity.
After Xing Ye's questioning, the mirror stopped moving, and slowly sank to the bottom of the tub, as if drowning to death rather than telling Xing Ye the answer.
This is even more interesting.
Xing Ye picked up the mirror before it sank completely, washed it with clean water, looked at the mirror that still couldn't show the face, and said, "Can you see who is the player?"
The mirror is silent and does not respond. According to its performance during this period, not to say that denial should be affirmation.
If it is willing to cooperate, it is indeed an artifact.
"Even if you know I don't need it," Xing Ye patted the mirror. "It's not hard to guess anyway."
After speaking, he put the mirror into his chest.
Mirror: "No!!!"
Yu Guang caught the word Xing Ye completely ignored its resistance, dressed in a black and white maid costume, and walked out of the room with loose hair.
The elderly maid waiting outside the door frowned slightly: "What's the matter with your hair?"
"It's not done yet." Xing Ye tossed his messy hair at random.
"Come with me." The older maid took Xing Ye to another room, combed his wet hair, and put on a headscarf like other maids.
After taking care of her hair, she took Xing Ye to the earl's room. As soon as she arrived at the door, a maid was thrown out.
She was barely clothed, her body was covered with scars, and her teeth were almost pulled out. Xing Ye knelt down and took her pulse, she was dead.
"Change the maid." A man's voice came from the room.
The older maid's eyelashes did not shake, and she calmly said to Xing Ye: "Claire, Count Luca is calling you."
Xing Ye stood up, took a deep look at her, and strode into Count Luca's room.
Narrator: "Claire was terrified by the maid's death. She clung to her clothes tightly, worried that she would be the next victim."
It was night now, the room was full of candles, and a half-naked man was lying on the gorgeous bed. He saw Xing Ye and said, "Close the door and come here."
Xing Ye not only closed the door, but also locked it.
There were a lot of torture instruments tied to the bed. Xing Ye looked at them one by one while walking. His steps were not messy, and he finally stood still in front of Count Luca.
This is a very thin man with a whip in his hand. Xing Ye's height put him under tremendous pressure. Count Luca couldn't help but stand up from the bed and found that he was half a head short of Xing Ye.
"I hate someone looking down on me." Count Luca said gloomily, and he raised his whip and drew it towards Xing Ye.
Xing Ye's eyes were sharp and sharp, and at the moment he raised his hand, he grabbed his arm with one hand and covered Count Luca's mouth with one hand to prevent him from making a sound.
Count Luca's eyes widened and his pupils narrowed. He struggled desperately, but Xing Ye's height and strength were his own, and the system did not change his original physical condition except for his gender.
How could the over-indulgence Count Luca's strength be comparable to Xing Ye, who paid great attention to exercise and often asked bodyguards for self-defense skills.
Xing Ye quickly grabbed the whip in Count Luca's hand, tied him up with the tools in the room, and blocked his mouth. There was a loud noise in the room when the two were fighting. Xing Ye shouted "Ah! It hurts" and "Lord Earl, let me go" while subduing him.
After tying the earl, he picked up the person with one hand, dragged the thin Count Luca to the door, opened the door a gap, and slightly opened the cloth blocking the earl's mouth.
Sure enough, Count Luca immediately shouted: "Come here, this..."
Xing Ye only asked him to shout this sentence and immediately knocked him out.
He dragged the earl to hide behind the door, and when he saw the elderly maid guarding the door walk in cautiously, he immediately closed the door and locked it.
The older maid turned her head when she heard the door closing, and saw that Xing Ye threw the fainted count on the ground like a rag.
"Before calling someone, consider whether the manipulator can be found out." Xing Ye blocked the scream of the elderly maid.
"You, what are you talking about?" The old maid asked with a pale face looking at the reckless Count Luca.
Xing Ye was flustered by the mirror, and while talking, he took the mirror out of his chest: "It's easy to guess who the manipulator is. The narration can only control the actions of the NPC, but it cannot influence my thoughts. The manipulator hopes that the plot follows If my settings go on, I will definitely make corrections myself. In order to ensure that I can be selected as the maid of Count Luca, one of the three selected maid must be a manipulator."
Xing Ye picked up the whip that fell on the ground and said: "Earl Luca is a nobleman with special fetishes. He is keen on hurting maids who have no resistance. If I am taken by him, there will only be two endings. Recognizing the identity of a man, the mission failed; the other is being abused to death by Count Luca, and achieving the ending you set, right?"
He approached step by step, and the elderly maid kept backing up until his back was against the wall, unable to back up, and then said in a trembling voice: "Why do you guess it is me?"
"It's too simple. Before I entered the bathroom, the old housekeeper was guarding the door, and he became you when he came out. As a manipulator, you should want to see my ending with your own eyes."
The elderly maid, who had no more quibble reason, sat on the ground and said weakly: "You are right, I am one of the manipulators. You won this game, but we still have two people, and you are still One must consider how to escape the earl's manor."
"Oh?" Xing Ye looked down at the elderly maid, waiting for her next words.
"Earl's Mansion has many guards. Even if you can defeat an earl, it is impossible to defeat so many guards. If you hurt the earl, you will not escape. I can help you." The elderly maid said, "My identity is set. It was the nanny who brought the earl from a young age to a big nanny. He respected me very much, and I also had a great say in the manor."
Xing Ye looked up and down at the elderly maid: "It's really a good proposal. If you help me escape, what will happen to you?"
"Probably I will be executed by the angry earl." The elderly maid smiled bitterly and shook her head. "But I have already lost, and the player will not die in the game, so I can return to the system space in advance. There is no need to stay here to do hard work. I am a modern person after all, and of course I hope to get rid of my servant status as soon as possible."
"Thank you so much." Xing Ye smiled kindly.
"Thank you for telling me another rule of this game." Xing Ye said, "I have been thinking about the meaning of the word'end' before. The so-called story ending, whose ending is it? Most people think it is the ending of the executor. , After all, Claire is the protagonist in the story, but this is actually another misunderstanding, because this is from the perspective of the executor. If from the perspective of the manipulator, there should be two protagonists, one is Claire , The other is manipulation itself, which is the ending of the older maid you play.
When a manipulator has two endings, what he has to do is double insurance. The apparent ending is that Claire is found to have failed as a player and failed to die by being abused by the earl. When neither of these is achieved, the manipulator can choose another ending. From the perspective of the elderly maid, the elderly maid Conscience found that she couldn't bear Claire being hurt and helped her escape.
As long as I believe what you just said to escape the manor, then I will lose. "
This time, the elderly maid showed a truly desperate expression: "You, how can you guess so much? The system clearly tells us that this rule is hidden from the enforcer!"
"If your opponent is a manipulator, you probably wouldn't think of this." Xing Ye looked down at the manipulator who completely surrendered, "but this is a game that challenges fate. As a fate, of course you must always use the system as your opponent. To discover the hidden crisis in the rules, right?"
Hearing these words, the mirror Xing Ye held in his palm brightened slightly.
The author has something to say:
The translation of Xing Ye's final words is: I have never regarded your weak chickens as opponents!