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Chapter 539 Chapter 530 Seven · "At this moment, Su Rin is still on his way here on horseback."

"clang--!"

A bell rang, and the originally bright hall suddenly darkened.

Xiao Ai withdrew her legs, and several players watching the fun also fell silent.

Nine golden candlesticks were placed in front of people, and the flames fluttered like ghosts.

The final nine-man lineup really surprised people, and many gamblers collapsed and went bankrupt.

Not to mention the elimination of Aini, Flora, Lu Shu, Yamada Machiichi, Luna and others from the second echelon, even Edward, Alander, and Alger from the first echelon who were endowed with high expectations were not there.

"Tap, tap."

The sound of steady footsteps suddenly came from above. This ancient castle has four or five floors and occupies a very large area. The sound came from the stone stairs.

Since the oil lamps were all extinguished, only the fireplace and the faint light from the nine candlesticks were left. They couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, but he should be the person who issued the rules.

"...Looking at the vague figure, isn't it Boss Rabbit?" Shirley said softly.

It was Boss Rabbit who issued the rules for them before, but now it seems that they have changed people.

The man walked all the way, not in a hurry, like the last distinguished guest at a ball, with a very high posture and a very dignified appearance.

The nine players in the arena, the four guides... and the hundreds of millions of spectators outside the arena are all waiting for the person hiding in the darkness to walk under the light.

Suddenly, a blinding halo shot out from Su Mingan's wrist, and hit the man's face suddenly, causing the man's body to shrink back suddenly.

"——Good morning, dear An Jiang! The Aduke Evolution III artificial intelligence watch will tell you the time on time. It is now January 2024, 1, at twelve o'clock in the morning! Today, I loaded the hometown song "Good Luck" for you Come"--"

"Boom!" Su Mingan flipped his wrist, knocked the watch on the table, and it immediately became quiet.

"You were asked to turn on the light but not to speak," he said.

He just wanted to shine a light on it, and the watch was called "An Jiang"... It is obviously an intelligent AI that can learn, but it has learned all kinds of nonsense.

Dr. Xu, who made the watch, originally wanted the watch to follow him and let the AI ​​grow and evolve gradually. As a result, the watch learned "An Jiang".

Su Mingan raised his hand, and the strong light hit the man again, fully capturing the man's appearance.

The other players were dumbfounded - the rule issuer appeared in this way, obviously to show his high style, but Su Ming'an hit the light and instantly ruined the style of walking with darkness.

They looked towards the man enveloped in the light, and saw that the man was dressed in a solid black robe.

The man seemed to be dazzled by the strong light, with a pair of pale and slender hands covering his face, looking a little afraid of light.Like a mouse dug out of the ground by force.

"——It's you!" After seeing the appearance of the man in black, Joey's eye slits rarely widened.

He recognized the man in black—isn't this the guy who deliberately abducted the man who lost his sanity and drove the cursed black beast to kill people in the vault?
Su Mingan also recognized the man in black.

He and the man in black had fought against each other in the cave a few days ago. The man in black captured those guides just to use them as energy sources to drive dangerous monsters.

For unknown reasons, the initial favorability of the man in black for him was 95 points.

After being illuminated by Su Mingan, the man in black immediately quickened his pace and walked to the fireplace.

He was wearing a pitch black mask, no one could see his face clearly.

The warm firelight danced on his pitch-black mask, giving off a sharp metallic luster.

"You can put away your light, outsider, before I get angry." He said to Su Mingan.

Su Mingan turned off his watch.

This watch has no other function, the brightness is really high, he is almost blind from a distance.

He looked at the man in black in front of the fireplace, thinking to himself.

He can now be sure of two things.

First, this npc black-robed man may not be able to attack the player at present.

Second, the black-robed man's favorability for his role is indeed very high, so high that he won't lose his favor even if he is teased like this...

"—Welcome to my castle, everyone."

The man in black suddenly opened his arms, and his voice rumbled in the empty hall.

He stood in front of the fireplace, with his back to the light, people could only see his slightly reflective metal mask, and saw the pattern of beasts with a silver layer on the mask, the pattern seemed to affect people's spirit, making them seem to see The original picture scroll of people and hunting in the ancient times, saw the knife and fire in the Artemisia grassland forest.

He is welcoming guests from afar with a calm and confident attitude of the host.The flames danced behind him, and he opened his arms like an upright, black cross before the fire.

...However, the wave of follow-through lighting just now made his forceful style disappear instantly.

The players looked at him with some embarrassment, and even the sleepy Bei Wang was awakened by the strong light.

"What was it just now?" He rubbed his eyes: "It's so bright..."

"—Your age! How can you sleep!" Lu said.

Bei Wang looked at him blankly, his eyes seemed to be hazy with mist, as if he hadn't woken up yet.

"—Guests from afar, welcome to my banquet." The man in black ignored the whispers of the players and continued:
"——You are all contestants in the sacrificial field, and you have overcome obstacles all the way to come here, so I have prepared a grand banquet for you..."

It was the first time for Su Mingan to meet such a shameless rule introducer.

Players Lu and Beiwang talked about theirs at the bottom, and the man in black said his at the top. The two lines seemed to have no connection at all, which reminded him of the open class of the university.

"...But before participating in the banquet, you need to know some rules..." The black-robed man said this, and the players finally reacted and raised their heads.

A blue panel appeared in front of everyone.

……

[Final Silver Star Copy]

[Dungeon Name: Castle Quest]

[Difficulty: 5 silver stars (the winner will get 5 silver stars)]

【Number of participants: 9 people】

[It is recommended that players are good at directions: intelligence, luck, and acumen. 】

[In the old castle, there are clean and tidy corridors and warmly furnished rooms.

As foreigners who came from afar, you will spend three warm and healing nights here...]

……

With a soft "swish", a black feather suddenly appeared in everyone's hands.

Su Mingan glanced at it, and there was a bright red 1 written on his feathers.

"Now, all of you should have a feather on your hand." The man in black said:
"Your task is to search the castle, get more feathers, and accumulate the numbers in your hands to 100 points.

At noon on the third day, you can gather in the lobby and hand in the feathers in your hands.Only when the total number of all players reaches 100 point can you win.

But among you, there is an inner ghost who wants to deliberately destroy feathers.They've replaced the original guy, not the guy you know, and they're going to intentionally destroy the feathers scattered around so you don't get to 100 points at the end.

Please be vigilant against them and kill them early!
Friendly reminder, when someone dies, the feathers in his/her hands will be automatically destroyed, so please don't accidentally injure innocent people, lest the feathers fail to reach 100 points in the end. "

After the rules of the man in black were finished, they digested it for a while.

They really didn't expect that the last dungeon was actually a faction cooperation system, and they thought it would be fighting each other.

"Excuse me, what is the number of the initial feathers in our hands based on?" Mizushima Kawasora asked.

The feather on her hand has a distinct number 3.

The numbers of the people next to them are not big. Among them, the number of Lu and Bei Wang is 12, the number of Noel is 18, the number of Herbert and Joey is 3 and 4, and the number of Shirley is the highest. At 24 o'clock, Angor's feathers were protected by him, and they were not exposed.

"According to your kindness." The man in black said, "The purer and kinder you are, the higher the number."

Su Mingan stared at the bright red number 1 on his hand, and took a look.

...Hmph, trick him again.

He turned his head to look at Xiao Ai's feathers, his eyes froze suddenly.

Xiao Ai's hands are protecting the feathers so that no one else can see them, but he has already seen - on her feathers, the number is 99.

1+99=100, his calculation should not be wrong.

...Have you already won?
What is this dungeon playing?
"Ask, does the inner ghost know that he is an inner ghost?" Lu raised his hand and said.

"I know." The man in black said.

"You just said that someone between us was replaced by an insider, so where did the original player go?" Noel asked.

"They naturally have their customs clearance methods." The man in black said.

"Does the ghost know the personal information of the replaced players and their past?" Shirley asked very critically, and this will become their method of identifying the ghost.

"This... you guess for yourself." The black-robed man spoke vaguely.

Others still want to ask questions, but the man in black has stopped answering.

He took a step back, and his figure melted into the light.

"There are all kinds of interesting things in the castle, which are related to 'perfect customs clearance', and I look forward to your exploration." The man in black lowered his head slightly: "Then——I wish everyone a happy holiday."

The fireplace flickered, the fire was extinguished, and the hall was plunged into darkness.

Su Mingan immediately turned on his watch, and accurately shot the light on the man in black.

This person still wanted to play the trick of escaping into the shadows, but he scored twice and was completely illuminated by this light.

"Don't go yet, you have something to do with Chief Feng? Why are you the rule issuer of the dungeon?" Su Mingan asked.

When he mentioned Su Rin in the cave a few days ago, the black-robed man's favorability dropped by 5 points, which meant that the black-robed man must know Su Lin, and most likely he was from Chief Feng's side.

However, the man in black didn't respond to his words, and ran extremely fast, like a mouse with greased feet.

"Ding dong!"

The system notification suddenly sounded.

[The game has started, all participants have started to randomly scatter teleport——]

……

Su Mingan held Xiao Ai, his 1 point plus her 99 points was already a victory, as long as he waited until the submission session at noon on the third day, he could win directly.

However, this was a scattered teleportation, and when he opened his eyes again, there was no one around him.

He looked up, and it was pitch black.

Once the castle lights were turned off, everything in sight was pitch black.

There was a sudden "chacha" sound, as if something twisted was approaching. Due to the law of the dark forest, he didn't rush to turn on the light, but stood quietly in place.

But the next moment, his shadowy sixth sense suddenly began to call the police, as if something life-threatening was rapidly approaching—!
[You must find the light source as soon as possible, otherwise you will be swallowed by darkness! ! ! 】

A bright red reminder lit up, and the handwriting seemed to be dripping with blood, which was extremely terrifying in the dark vision.

Su Mingan no longer hesitated, and turned on the light directly.

"Click!"

The next moment, the tingling feeling of deadly threat faded away immediately, as if some huge shadow flickered at the edge of his field of vision and dissipated.

He turned his head, but he could only catch a faint black shadow, and a few low-pitched chewing sounds came from the darkness.

He glanced around, and found that he was in a large room, and there was a bamboo candle basket in the corner, which contained three bright red candles and a match.

...this should be the initial bonus, if someone doesn't have a flashlight, these candles are their poor tiny light source.

If they failed to touch these candles before the threat came, they would have died just now.

[The self-contained light source is only valid for the first hour, please collect more light sources as soon as possible! 】

The bright red prompt popped up again.

Su Mingan put three candles and matches in his pocket - these things cannot be put into the backpack.

He took a step, but paused.

At the feet—a purple-black corpse appeared at some point, with rotting flesh and dense spots. Its hands and feet were long and shriveled like spider legs.

His dropped foot happened to step on the back of the corpse's hand, and with a "click", thick black blood stained the sole of his shoe.

"..."

He stared at the hideous corpse.

... This is the [Warm and Healing] castle vacation.

Sure enough, it is still a familiar world game style.

"—Su Ming'an?"

He turned his head and saw Lu with sea-blue hair, holding a red candle dripping with wax oil, coming in through the small door.

……

[SAN value: 50 points]

[Number of Survivors: 13]

[Su Rin's status: Passionately playing wild. 】

……

(End of this chapter)