Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

The study suddenly fell silent.

When no one is talking, the sound of "cracking" firewood burning under the fireplace is particularly obvious.

Walking casually to the fireplace, Zhou Qian, half of his face flushed by the fire, gave Qi Liu a wink.

After Qi Liuxing received it, he quickly took out something similar to a bluetooth headset from his luggage.

This pair of earphones is called [Secret Call], it was one of the small props [137] gave Zhou Qian to him in the last dungeon, it allows two people to chat privately in the crowd without being heard.

At this moment, Qiliu walked to the bookshelf, pretending to be reading the contents of the book, but turned his back to the crowd and said, "Huh? What's the situation? I think what you said about 'the third' just now is very correct and important. .

"There are many hidden plots in the dungeon. By triggering the plot, we can increase or decrease the life points, so the ranking just now is not important at all, at least not now."

After thinking for a while, Qi Liuxing added: "I think it's like this. In the early stage, exploration is the main thing. At the last moment...the places that can be explored have been explored. Everyone's life point ranking is fixed. Some people will According to the situation at that time, start killing."

But Zhou Qian said decisively: "You are wrong."

Qi Liuxing looked back and found that Zhou Qian was standing in front of the fireplace. He was facing the flames and his back was facing the crowd. It would not make people feel that he was discussing something with others.

As for the rest of the teammates, they began to explore in this room one after another, and it seemed that no one paid attention to Zhou Qian's actions for the time being.

Turning around to look at the bookshelf again, Qi Liuxing's eyes flicked over the titles of one book after another, and then asked Zhou Qian: "What do you mean?"

"Now I am ranked first, Li Buhui is second... Wu Ren is last." Zhou Qian asked him, "Have you found out that from another perspective, there is some kind of mystery hidden in this ranking?"

Qi Liuxing went through the rankings of the seven people and found something. "Hey, I found out... If you look at the output ability, or the ranking of killing ability... Wu Ren is number one instead!"

Regardless of the player's skillful use of skills, or the use of rare props to counter-kill or escape, purely from the perspective of output ability, it is not difficult to find that the player's output ranking is exactly inversely proportional to the life points they draw.

Zhou Qian has the highest number of life points drawn, but under normal circumstances, his output ability is also the lowest.

Zhou Qian said: "In addition, what the system says is that if a person with a high point kills a person with a low point, he cannot get the corresponding card and points, but this does not mean that a person with a high point cannot kill a person with a low point.

"Therefore, in this game, players can completely kill each other randomly. Whether the points are high or low is only related to whether they can get cards after killing people.

"Then what really matters is the player's combat power."

Qi Liuxing was startled when he heard this, and his hands couldn't help shaking when he realized something.

Immediately he heard Zhou Qian say again in a deep voice: "The so-called ranking of life points is just a trick played by the system. As you said just now, as you explore the plot, this ranking will change dramatically at any time.

"But our combat power ranking remains unchanged. This is actually the most critical factor affecting whether everyone will kill in this game, and it is also what we need to pay attention to the most."

按战力来看，玩家的排名如下——1、吴仁；2、司徒晴；3、柯宇箫；4、殷酒酒；5、齐留行；6、李不悔；7、周谦。

People with relatively low combat power are actually people with more points now.

Wu Ren, who is ranked number one, can attack everyone behind him.

For Situ Qing, she would not attack Wu Ren, and she tended to attack people ranked 3 to 7 when she needed to kill people to gain points.

Others can follow suit.

Zhou Qian said: "People with high combat power will attack those with low combat power. Then what will people with low combat power do?"

Qi Liuxing immediately said: "If it were me, of course I would be on guard against those who rank ahead of me in terms of combat power. Even...be the first to act first."

Zhou Qian nodded: "Yes. Assuming that in the extreme situation of 'you die and live', you don't consider team formation, morality, personal friendship, etc., and just start from the perspective of maximizing personal interests and preventing personal risks...

"When you see that Yin Jiujiu in front of you is out of mana, and considering that she will recover her mana in an hour, it is very likely that she will come to kill you, so you will act first and take the opportunity to kill her."

"From the perspective of my own survival, I want to analyze other people's choices. Then, according to the above analysis, temporarily excluding all kinds of special circumstances, I can abstract the dilemma I am facing into a very simple topic——

"Number one, everyone wants to kill me, I'm the 'lamb to the slaughter' and the rest of you six are hunters.

"Secondly, if the number one hunter kills me, he will definitely be killed by the second-ranked hunter for the purpose of 'strike first' while losing mana for an hour. The others behind And so on."

Qi Liuxing frowned. "Then I have to analyze everyone's choices one by one? Hmm... If I think about it from the front to the back, I don't seem to be able to analyze it."

Zhou Qian said: "Yes, so we should push from the back to the front."

"The number six is ​​Li Buhui. First of all, he can kill me.

"The top five of you, if you want to kill him, you can kill him at any time. If he has no mana, it doesn't have much impact on you. Then, even if he kills me and the mana is empty, he doesn't care, because if you I really want to kill him, but even if he is full of blue, he can't do you.

"Secondly, according to our analysis just now, if you lose your blue bar for killing me, Li Buhui will definitely kill you. He is still not afraid of emptying his blue bar, because he may be the first to attack him 'I, have been killed by you.

"So... what will you do at this time?"

Qi Liuxing immediately said: "Li Buhui can kill people without any scruples. I guessed his choice, so in order to avoid being killed by him, of course I will not kill you."

"Then we can make predictions about the two people - Li Buhui may kill me, but you won't kill me."

At this point, Zhou Qian said again, "We will continue to push from the back to the front. The person ahead of you in combat power is Yin Jiujiu, who is ranked fourth. Let's assume that she is very smart. Everything we just said, she can be analyzed...

"That is to say, she knows that you take Li Buhui into account and will not kill me, her, or anyone else. In other words, she has predicted your prediction. In this case, she dares to Others are doing it!"

With a low voice, Zhou Qian said again: "By analogy, Ke Yuxiao, who is ranked third, can't do it; but Situ Qing, who is ranked second, can do it.

"So to simplify everything, in extreme cases, people with an even number of people are most likely to attack me."

After being silent for 30 seconds, Qi Liuxing finally straightened out everything and couldn't help sighing in a low voice: "That's amazing..."

"I think my doctor is even better. He actually sent me a message tens of seconds before I got the result." Zhou Qian raised his head, smiled silently in a certain direction in the void, and then Looking back at the flames in the fireplace.

"Of course, this is a simplified analysis that excludes many special circumstances. Of course, the actual situation will be different. However, the three people with even numbers...for the time being, Situ Qing, Yin Jiujiu and Li Buhui are still my focus. on guard."

Qi Liuxing was silent for three seconds, and said: "Then now we have predicted their prediction in reverse. You explained to me so much... In fact, you want me to help you guard against them. Speaking of which——"

At this point, Qi Liuxing walked directly to the fireplace without using the private chat headset. "You've been staring at this place for so long, what exactly is there?"

There happened to be a crutch next to the hanger next to it.

I saw Zhou Qian took out the crutch, fiddled with the firewood a few times, and then pulled out a black thing from it.

—It turned out to be a scorched human head.

"My god... what is this?" Qi Liuxing couldn't help frowning.

"When Li Buhui went to open the door, a little girl's soul appeared and refused him to open the door, and then asked him to find out who killed her." Zhou Qian said, "Then maybe this little girl was killed in this room."

After a pause, Zhou Qian added, "Not only was she killed, she was probably also dismembered. Now there are fingers, some hair, a head... other bodies should be found."

Qi Liuxing was not afraid of ghosts, but when he heard the words of murder or "dismemberment", he instinctively felt uncomfortable.He said to Zhou Qian: "Then... let's search together first. Anyway, it has been discovered that exploration itself is not dangerous, and at most we will lose some points. But we can survive for so many hours by passing through, so it is better to go out of the study room early .”

When talking about the situation related to the little girl's corpse, the two talked openly and loudly. After the rest of the people heard it, they consciously or unconsciously began to focus on finding things related to the corpse.

They boldly opened all the cabinets and took down the books from the shelves one by one to check.

The nearest thing Qi Liuxing opened was a large cabinet near the fireplace.

The cabinet was empty, with almost nothing in it.

But the weird thing is that there is a box inside.

Raising his hand to take out the frame, Qi Liuxing noticed that there were some glass residues on the inside of the wooden frame.

"This, this is..."

Just as Qi Liuxing opened his mouth, Zhou Qian continued what he didn't finish. "It's a picture frame. Look over there—"

Looking in the direction of Zhou Qian's finger, Qi Liuxing saw a trash can.

Temporarily put one end of the wooden frame on the ground, let it lean against the side of the cabinet, and then walk towards the trash can.Soon he could see clearly what was inside, it was fragments of many mirrors.

Going back to the wooden frame and holding it up to look, Qi Liuxing found a brown rope on one side of the wooden frame.

He couldn't help turning his head to look at the surrounding walls, and finally found that Zhou Qian was walking towards a certain place.

Following Zhou Qian, Qi Liuxing saw two nails on the wall.

The reason why Zhou Qian was able to find here, it seems that he thought the same thing as himself.

——There used to be a mirror in this study, and it hung on the wall.It's just that for some unknown reason, someone smashed the mirror.The debris was thrown into the trash can, and the wooden frame that was originally used to hold the mirror was put into the cabinet.

For what reason does the mirror get smashed?

Zhou Qian didn't think of the reason for the time being.

He then went to the desk to look for clues.

I don't care about many details on the desktop for the time being.He opened a drawer and looked.

There are several hair ties and several hairpins in the drawer. In addition, there is actually a mirror.

No bigger than the mirror just now, this mirror is very small, about the size of a person's palm, and has an oval shape.

This mirror is also very strange. It has been blackened with some kind of paint, so that it cannot function as a mirror at all.

A large mirror was smashed, and a small mirror was blackened.

—someone seems to be avoiding looking in the mirror?

What happened next confirmed Zhou Qian's guess.

It was Yin Jiujiu who somehow found something similar to a powder compact box for girls.

There was also a mirror in the compact, but it was also broken.

The shattered lenses fell directly into the box, piercing the foundation with holes, and then mixed together, making it look extremely messy.

At this time, several people gathered together and had a brief discussion.

"Why is she afraid to look in the mirror? Is she a vampire?"

"Until you find something new, there's no need to guess randomly."

"Agreed. We only know that she may be an evil spirit. But what the hell is this evil spirit? Whether she is afraid of mirrors is still unclear."

"Wait, you guys take a look at this."

At this moment, Yin Jiujiu's voice suddenly came from the desk.

I saw her holding up a photo, which was the one that Zhou Qian had glimpsed on the desk before, but he hadn't directly picked it up to take a closer look.

On the front of the photo is a picture of a suspected witch being executed.

What Yin Jiujiu read at this moment was the text on the back of the photo——

"The evil witches... are the evil flowers in this town like an infectious disease! They are constantly growing and killing good people. They will be punished!

"My mother is also a terrible witch! She actually said that I was an evil spirit... She said she would kill me and seal me!

"Damn it, I'm obviously just a pure living person. I'm not an evil spirit!

"My mother is crazy...she's crazy!

"I will report her to the mayor! Before I am killed... I will report her! Then she will be burned to death like the woman in this photo! Then I will not die!"

After reading this passage, Yin Jiujiu frowned and said: "I feel... the one who killed the little girl seems to be her mother. There should be nothing wrong. It seems that her mother has not been taken away. At least in her Before death, no."

Li Buhui, who had the second most points, immediately said: "Then what are you waiting for? I'll try to open the door. Maybe tell her about it, and she will let us go out! Then we hurried to explore other places.

"Maybe the action of opening the door will still cause me to lose life points, but it is also possible that if I solve the little girl's problem, she will reward me with life points? Or go out to explore from this study in advance, and I can find a lot of points.

"Anyway, I have quite a lot of points, so I can try it. I think it's a good deal!"

This time, it was Ke Yuxiao who stopped Li Buhui.

"No. Stop."

Ke Yuxiao is a very gentle person. Zhou Qian's impression of him is that he is very suitable for watering flowers and amusing birds, and spending his life peacefully and leisurely.However, his tone at this time was quite serious, almost a bit of scolding.

It can be seen that he thinks the situation is very serious.

Li Buhui was taken aback by his yelling, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ke Yuxiao said: "Assuming this inference is true, the owner of this house is a witch. She thought her daughter was an evil spirit, so she killed her daughter and hid different parts of her body in different places in the house to This seals this 'evil spirit'.

"According to this inference, what is trapping us now is the soul of this 'daughter'. But do we really want to help her?

"She just claims that she is not an evil spirit, but what if she is really an evil spirit...

"What will happen if we let her out so rashly?"