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Chapter 17 The Pretender

After Judge A4498 finished asking questions, there was no more sound. The upper layer of the hourglass hanging in the middle of the space was lowering a little bit, and Cheng Mo's thoughts turned rapidly.

Liu Hui once said that after entering the game, everyone's appearance will change to prevent others from seeking revenge in the real world outside the game.Such a simple appearance camouflage should be the "system-allowed camouflage" mentioned by the judge for the first time, but it will not be the "special camouflage" he mentioned later.

Cheng Mo couldn't deduce any useful information from the "special camouflage" item. He knew too little about this game, and now he could only infer a rough idea from the few words of other people.

However, the judge also gave an important reminder - "This player directly caused the death of another player".

Besides him, the remaining four people are Qin Chuhe, Zou Qingqing, Guoguo and Xu Qing.If Qianqian's eternal sleep state is attributed to death, then the five people who died are He Kai, Qianqian (eternal sleep), Wei Guoqiang, Qianqian, and Liu Hui.

Let's start with the analysis of the causes of death of these five people.

He Kai died of the baby crawling out of his throat.At this stage, everyone's every move has nowhere to hide, and no one tampered with his tableware. This shows that He Kai's death is the result of the system's judgment and has nothing to do with others.

Qianqian's eternal sleep state was indeed caused by Sissy, and Sissy herself admitted this point.But Sissi had already died in the fifth level, so the remaining four people here had nothing to do with this matter.

The cause of Wei Guoqiang's death is rather bizarre.When they rushed to the main tree outside the house, Wei Guoqiang had already become a lump of meat under the axe, and they hadn't heard any struggle or cry for help before that.The weirdest thing in this level was the ax that was cut down by no one, and Xu Qing, who was in the same group as him, was obviously stunned at that time.Xu Qing is the oldest in this team, and he can almost be counted as a group of people whose seats are given up by young people when they go out, while Wei Guoqiang is a strong man in his prime.From an objective point of view, even if Xu Qing wanted to do something to Wei Guoqiang, it was absolutely impossible for Wei Guoqiang to die without even saying a word for help when his power was so different from Wei Guoqiang's.

Sissy died from the mark caused by the abnormal tree cutting.Zou Qingqing, who was in the same group as her, seemed to be the most suspicious, but Zou Qingqing was also marked as such in this level.Not to mention whether she would do such a high-risk thing according to her always cautious personality, assuming she really did it on purpose, she would definitely rush ahead of others when everyone rushed into the tunnel in the end, and with the greatest Make sure you don't get hurt.But the fact is that she and Sissy were the last two to enter the tunnel.

The only cause of death that is not clear is Liu Hui.If it is said that when Wei Guoqiang died, everyone else saw the ax that was still beating, then the cause of Liu Hui's death depends entirely on Guoguo's narration.He and Qin Chuhe only saw Liu Hui's body, but the cause of her death was all obtained from Guoguo alone.Why did Guoguo, who hated Liu Hui so much before, act so sad when she saw Liu Hui's body?Is it a true emotional outpouring, or a cover-up?

Among the four people, the most suspicious one was actually this innocent-looking little girl.

Both Xu Qing and Guoguo behaved a little abnormally, but here Cheng Mo was doomed to choose one of the two.He hesitated, and said before the hourglass was about to run out:

"I choose Guoguo."

The air was quiet for a few seconds.

"Unfortunately, you got the wrong answer." The icy voice of judge A4498 came from the speaker. At this moment, it seemed that the temperature in the whole space dropped by ten degrees because of his words, "Start the trial room No. 21460 Punishment procedure, 'Snowfall'."

A few gusts of cold air rushed in from all around the space, and at the same time, icy snowflakes suddenly began to fall from the top of the pure white space, making Cheng Mo feel a chill that almost froze the blood almost instantly.He thought coldly, so the punishment for this level was to freeze him to death in this airtight space.

Suddenly, a pale silver light floated up from his forehead, and the system notification sounded again:

"The system prompts that the player [Li Hua] has a one-time immunity right. May I ask if you want to use this right, or transfer this right to someone else?"

Is it a fool to not use immunity at this time?Cheng Mo took a breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Use immunity."

"[Immunity] is successfully used, offsetting a death operation, and the player [Li Hua] continues the game."

The air-conditioning and snowflakes rushed into the room as if the fast-forward button had been pressed, but Cheng Mo didn't feel the cold anymore.That ray of silver light seemed to put a protective layer around his body, allowing him to keep warm and breathe smoothly even under the cover of layers of ice and snow.

After the wind and snow filled the entire space, Judge A4498's voice sounded for the last time:

"The execution of the death procedure 'Snowfall' is completed, and the courtroom 21460 disintegrates."

The white space disappeared, and Cheng Mo saw the other four people standing outside the space.

"It's so slow." Zou Qingqing glanced at him complainingly with folded arms.

"Come out?" Qin Chuhe came over and brushed off a little snow from his shoulders without any impatience, "You used your immunity right?"

"En? How do you know?" Cheng Mo asked in surprise.

"Because the setting of this level is that if the other four guess the pretender, then the pretender will die, otherwise the person who guessed wrong will die." Xu Qing said, "And none of the five of us died. It is conceivable that only One person guessed wrong, and the person who guessed wrong used immunity."

"Why don't I know about this setting?" Cheng Mo looked at him in surprise, he clearly affirmed that Judge A4498 did not tell him this condition.

"Only the pretender himself can hear this setting. After all, he doesn't have to do anything, just wait quietly." Qin Chuhe looked at Xu Qing coldly, "I'm right, high-level player ?”

Xu Qing looked at Qin Chuhe silently, and suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.When he smiled, he was full of evil, not like an old man at all.

Xu Qing raised his hand and snapped his fingers crisply.

"Advanced props [Camouflage]—Release."

A red light enveloped him, and after the red light dissipated, an extremely feminine young man appeared in front of them.

"There are very few players in this game who know the existence of high-level props..." The completely new "Xu Qing" did not panic about being exposed, but looked at Qin Chuhe with interest, "Are you in the game?" How long has it been in total?"

Qin Chuhe turned his head, not intending to answer his words, and simply and directly regarded Xu Qing as air.

"Why haven't I heard that there are high-level items in this game? Aren't all the items obtained in the dungeon called ordinary items?" Zou Qingqing asked with a frown, apparently the development of the matter was beyond her comprehension.

"High-level props are different from ordinary props hidden in the game, and can be carried by players into different dungeons. Common props in dungeons can only be used in the dungeon, and most of them will become invalid after one use. However, high-level props are bound to players. The number of times is greater than or equal to one, and it can be used multiple times in different dungeons." Guoguo replied with a cold face, "Every time you clear a dungeon, in addition to obtaining the corresponding points, the system will also implicitly determine the player's achievement value. The achievement value reaches It will only be visible to the player to a certain extent, and at the same time unlock the 'mystery shop' function."

"'Mystery Shop' uses achievement points as a transaction currency, and high-level items will only flow out from here. Since the 'Mystery Shop' needs to accumulate very high achievement points to unlock, players with high-level items are rare in the game These people are collectively referred to as 'advanced players'."

"Knowing such details... You are not a simple little girl." Xu Qing glanced at Guoguo, narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Since the three of you have guessed that I am Hidden murderer, can I ask where I have revealed myself?"

"I'm pure." Zou Qingqing shook her head.The amount of information just received is obviously a bit too much for her, and she doesn't seem to want to participate in this topic.

"It's very simple to me." Guoguo shrugged, although his face was pale, but his expression was still calm, "The biggest suspects are you and me, and I know that I am not the murderer."

"Then what about you?" Xu Qing looked at Qin Chuhe who was standing aside with folded arms, "I deliberately avoided meeting with you. The number of exchanges between the two of us is infinitely close to the minimum theoretically. How did you find out?"

This is also a question Cheng Mo wanted to know. He looked at Qin Chuhe, and was a little curious about how Qin Chuhe found out.

Qin Chuhe still seemed unintentional to answer at first, but suddenly relaxed after he glanced at Cheng Mo, and then said in a deep voice:

"At first it was your image. We all know that although different images can be set in the copy, the player's physical fitness will also be limited by these images. If you set it as a child, you can get a smaller body size, in some scenes If it is more suitable for escape, then setting the image as an old man can only obtain relatively slow movement speed and disadvantaged power. I really can’t think of any player who sets his image as an old man in the copy, unless he intentionally Of."

"Wei Guoqiang died very strangely. Although we all saw the moving axe, even if it was the moving ax that killed Wei Guoqiang, it would not make him so big as a living person. During the process, he died without even calling for help. But in fact, we didn’t hear anything in the house.” Qin Chuhe said clearly, “At that time, I wondered if there was something wrong with you who was always beside him. problems, like stifling his shouts before killing him."

"Under normal circumstances, you with the image of an old man have no chance of winning against Wei Guoqiang. The only condition for the above conjecture to be true is that your image is actually a 'disguise'."

"When you jumped into the basement of the small wooden house, I watched you fall to the ground." Qin Chuhe was not in a hurry, "The image of the old man you used is tall and thin. It stands to reason that an old man with such a height and build would not fall to the ground so heavily. .But you're not, your landing is very heavy."

"I then helped you up again to confirm that you are indeed much heavier than an old man of the same size. The muscles under the clothes have a sense of strength, not the shriveled feeling we see with the naked eye."

"So I thought of that high-level prop. In the high-level prop 'camouflage', the user can keep the original body function unchanged under the premise of obtaining the appearance camouflage. The limitation of the image, to maintain their own physical conditions."

"With this precondition, all the previous assumptions will make sense." Qin Chuhe turned to Cheng Mo and slowed down his voice, "You don't know about high-level props, so I can't blame you if you didn't guess it."

"It turns out that's why you helped me back then. You were careless." Xu Qing laughed loudly, but there was no sign of regret, "Shouldn't people like Wei Guoqiang deserve to die? He is narrow-minded and simple-minded. Let him die by himself."

"What did you tell him?" Guoguo frowned.

"I told him that the master tree recognizes the master when it sees blood. As long as the first few drops of blood hit the tree trunk, the hive will fall, and the corpse bees inside will be at his disposal. He believed it, and cut his arm with the ax happily. Who would have thought that the ax would move by itself as soon as it saw blood, and cut him directly.” Xu Qing laughed mockingly, “I just covered his mouth when he was cut for the first time, other than that , what's wrong? Wei Guoqiang himself, if he didn't want to kill you, would he listen to me?"

"How do you know that something will happen if you see blood there?" Cheng Mo asked.

"I have encountered similar dungeons before, but this time I guessed." Xu Qing smiled maliciously, his dark pupils were bottomless, "It doesn't hurt me to guess wrong."

"Okay, since everyone's identities have been exposed..." Xu Qing raised the corners of his mouth, suddenly giving off a very strong sense of oppression for some reason, "Let's show our cards to each other."

The author has something to say: I am too busy at the end of the year to apply for this issue, and the update of [-] a week is still quite nervous for me.

The next week's update will be more Buddhist, and those who want to see the update can be more Buddhist.

This copy is expected to be completed in the near future.

There are so many comments that I can't reply one by one, but I will read them all.

Hope you all stay warm in winter.Chirp.

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