Day of Imprisonment

Inside the bedroom, Zhou Ya's corpse lay on the bed, but her hair had already begun to grow wildly, extending along the ceiling and walls, reaching out from the edges of the door frame.

It was like a rushing black river.

However, these hairs did not attack the people in the room, but the noises outside the door were extremely harsh, as if some behemoth was moving, or as if countless snakes were slithering along the walls, and soon, various exclamations and screams were heard.

The hair had begun to kill.

This scene made Zhang the Butcher, a burly man, tremble. In fact, he was now the only survivor among the Memory Retrievers who originally existed in Sega Apartments.

The others, Fan Yong, Song Yan, Wang Tao, and others, were all dead.

Even those who hadn't died before would die in the current killing spree.

Everyone also noticed that although the ceiling and walls were covered with hair, these hairs did not attack the people in the room. But outside was different. The massacre continued, and the entire building was plunged into a hellish slaughter.

Anyway, at this time, the Liu Mao family of four was speechless. The two children were trembling with fear, closing their eyes and daring not to open them. Zhang the Butcher was in a daze, as if his soul had left his body, staring blankly at the constantly wriggling hair on the wall, as nervous as a young girl going to work at a nightclub for the first time.

Among them, Wu Rui's condition was relatively stable.

She walked to Luo Xi's side and pulled up a stool to sit down.

"So, Zhou Ya's trigger condition is... death?"

Luo Xi nodded, agreeing with this judgment.

"You knew it all along?"

"Yes, but before, it was just a guess. I guessed many conclusions, and only a few could be confirmed in the end."

"Just now, what did Zhou Xinpeng call you to talk about?"

"He wanted to make a deal with me, only letting me pass the level alone. As for you, you were the bargaining chips, but I refused," Luo Xi waved his hand.

Wu Rui was stunned.

Was that really the case?

Luo Xi was actually able to force a scene administrator to privately negotiate with him?

But was that possible?

She didn't know, and couldn't make a judgment.

Or, it was true, but there was another question, did Luo Xi really refuse?

What if he lied? What if he agreed?

"What am I thinking? How could I doubt Luo Xi?" Wu Rui was startled, and quickly shook her head.

Her mind was a little messed up. After a pause, she took a deep breath and asked, "What should we do next?"

"There's nothing to do. According to the setting of this level scene, the only place in the entire apartment building that can remain relatively safe during Zhou Ya's killing time is Room 809. As long as we wait for the killing time to pass and reach one o'clock at noon, we can pass the level."

Listening to Luo Xi's explanation, Wu Rui suddenly reacted.

"So, you said to Zhou Xinpeng before that we had already passed the level... because as long as we stay in Room 809, it's safe."

Wu Rui carefully recalled, and it was obvious that the situation was like this.

"The settings of the level scene obviously need to follow some kind of rules. I guess it's relatively fair, that is, since there is killing time, there must be a place to avoid the killing time. It may be a safe zone, or it may be a tool to avoid being killed, or other things... In short, the rules do not allow setting up a 'certain death' situation."

Hearing this, Wu Rui suddenly understood.

But she quickly remembered something.

"That's not right, Luo Xi, then in the scene in our company, there is no safe zone setting."

"It's not that there isn't, it's just that you didn't find it. But I don't blame you. I didn't find it at the time either. Old Wang was very cunning. Later, I carefully reviewed it. He did design a 'safe zone', but he set the safe zone in a very dangerous place in the eyes of the Memory Retrievers."

"Where?" Wu Rui looked curious, she eagerly wanted to know the answer.

"In the elevator," Luo Xi sighed: "Mao Ge's killing time almost covered all areas of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors, including the corridors and safety passages. These all belong to 'areas within the scene', and according to the rules, leaving the areas of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors is considered a violation for the Memory Retrievers, and their memories will be erased. But in fact, the space in the elevator is not considered a scene area, but it is not out of bounds either. Unless the elevator goes up and down, leaving the range of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors, if you hide in the elevator as soon as the killing time starts, and then temporarily lock the elevator after the elevator door closes, so that people on other floors cannot make the elevator go up and down, you can avoid Mao Ge's attack..."

"This, is this possible?"

"It should be correct, at least the possibility is over eighty percent," Luo Xi pointed to the room at this time: "Just like this place, it is the safe zone in the Sega Apartment building scene, and all the Memory Retrievers who have been killed by hair will be implanted with a mental imprint. This mental imprint is bound to fear. They know they were killed by Zhou Ya, and they also know that Zhou Ya is extremely dangerous, and this is exactly the setting that Zhou Xinpeng deliberately made. He just wants to ensure that the Memory Retrievers will not enter Room 809..."

"Why did he do this?" Wu Rui raised the second question: "He could have just not opened the door. Moreover, he is very powerful and has a physique far exceeding that of normal humans. If he disagrees, no one can come in."

"This is the key. In the Day of Confinement, there are existences similar to 'referees', or rather, a role close to the dominator. They should have given the scene administrator privileges, but at the same time, there are also restrictions. It seems that the concept of equivalent exchange is highly valued here. If there is gain, there must be loss... The administrators are like this. They have obtained the right to manage the scene, and at the same time, they should have the privilege of saving memories without memory cards, but similarly, there will be very strong constraints, such as not being able to leave specific areas, not being able to actively attack or harm the Memory Retrievers in the scene, and even not being able to stop them when they are about to come..."

Wu Rui looked at the minced meat all over the bedroom over there and swallowed: "Then just now, did Zhou Xinpeng break the rules? So he was punished by... the referee?"

"It should be like this!" Luo Xi nodded.

Wu Rui's expression was a little strange at this time, hesitant to speak, and when she was finally about to muster the courage to say something, she was interrupted by Luo Xi: "Don't ask, I'm not the kind of person you think I am."

"You know what I'm going to ask?" Wu Rui was shocked.

Luo Xi glanced at her, and this glance directly scared Wu Rui into a cold sweat.

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In fact, what she wanted to ask was whether all of this was your plan.

That is, by hinting and luring Wang Tao to kill Zhou Ya, in order to force Zhou Xinpeng to break the rules.

Because Wang Tao attacked Zhou Ya, not Zhou Xinpeng, so this cannot be classified as the administrator's 'legitimate defense'.

In other words, from the beginning, this guy Luo Xi came with the purpose of trying to kill the scene administrator.

But thinking about it carefully, this is also wrong. Who can calculate without omission and set up such a situation in advance?

Luo Xi is not a god, and many details here cannot be controlled in advance.

Because Wu Rui analyzed it from Luo Xi's perspective, she would find that Luo Xi at the time actually did not know Zhou Ya's state, nor did he know how deep Zhou Xinpeng's feelings were for his daughter. Also, how could Luo Xi be sure that this guy Wang Tao would definitely take action?

If any detail here is wrong, the plan will collapse.

Wu Rui kept pondering this matter, lowered her head and said nothing, while Luo Xi got up and began to wander around the room, looking around, accompanied by the screams that were constantly coming from inside the entire apartment building.

Luo Xi found a desk.

There were many things like files on it, pens, and thick notebooks.

It's just that there were obviously many words on the files, but when Luo Xi looked over, he found that the words on them were actually garbled.

Yes, it was the kind of unresolvable and unrecognizable characters that can often be seen online, similar to '琀 硔 砐 硔 砐'.

Luo Xi checked these files one by one and found that they were all the same. He opened the notebook and found that the words recorded inside were also garbled.

At this moment, Luo Xi frowned.

"Is there someone who doesn't want me to see the content above?"

At this moment, a piece of white paper appeared out of thin air on the table.

Luo Xi could be sure that it appeared out of thin air, and on the white paper, words actually began to appear on their own, as if an invisible person was holding an invisible pen and writing quickly.

The words on this paper were no longer garbled, and Luo Xi could recognize them.

After seeing it clearly, Luo Xi was stunned.

It said 'Administrator Contract'