Infinite Weird Game

Chapter 115 Double Happiness Town () False clues
"Ring ring ring... ring ring... ring..."

The bell swayed, and it sounded like it was getting closer and closer to the temple door. There was only a thin door panel between them, and someone could break in at any time.

Following the gentle noise, the crashing sound inside the coffin gradually became fainter, gradually returning to a silent nothingness.

Zeiss stood up from the coffin and looked to the right side of the auricle.The maggots and carrion that were originally scattered on the ground disappeared, and the ground was as clean as usual, as if nothing had ever existed.

The Temple of Joy seems to be just an ordinary temple, with nothing unusual except for the statue of the God of Joy stepping down from the shrine.The only thing that could prove what had just happened was the soul-suppressing nail in his hand and Du Xiaoyu lying on the ground.

'In fact, there is another theory that Wang Sheng's wife has been pestering Wang Sheng, and the soul-calling bell has the effect of warding off evil spirits, so Wang Sheng lived for another seven years before he died. '

Li Yao's words in the morning echoed in his ears, and Qisi narrowed his eyes slightly.

To ward off evil spirits?There is no such statement in the entry provided by the mobile phone, but the current scene is indeed consistent with what Li Yao said.

Didn’t the original entry provide incomplete clues?

The bell outside the door stopped. It must be that the owner of the bell stopped.

The next second, there were three knocks on the temple door, neither light nor heavy.

Mrs. Xu's hoarse voice came faintly: "Dear guests, are you in there? Open the door."

Shang Qingbei cast a questioning look at Qisi.

The situation outside was unknown, and the timing of Mrs. Xu's appearance was indeed a bit subtle. Judging from her tone, she seemed to know what was found in the temple, which seemed strange.

"Come on, you can't sit in the temple for seven days." Qisi walked towards Du Xiaoyu, who was still lying on the body, reached out and took out his cell phone from his trouser pocket and put it into his own pocket.

As if some switch had been touched, Du Xiaoyu's legs twitched, his eyelids rolled, and he opened them anxiously.

He sat up in a daze, with a confused look on his face, as if he couldn't figure out the situation at all.

This guy is still alive... Qisi's expression became strange.

From the moment he closed the temple door and dealt with the two statues in the temple, he stopped paying attention to Du Xiaoyu's movements.When the crisis was over and Du Xiaoyu was seen motionless on the ground, both he and Shang Qingbei agreed that the latter was already dead.

How did this guy survive being incapacitated in front of ghosts and monsters?

Du Xiaoyu asked confusedly: "Brother Qi, why am I lying here?"

"Have you forgotten? We came to the temple to explore before, triggered the death point, and were trapped in the temple." Qisi regained his calm expression and pointed at the temple door sideways, "We should have survived the prescribed time now. Aunt Xu came to take us out."

Du Xiaoyu finally remembered the whole story, stood up unsteadily, and looked around cautiously.

After seeing the two statues kneeling under the shrine, his expression changed and he took a few steps back with lingering fear.When he noticed that the statue was motionless, he breathed a sigh of relief, swore harshly, and spat on the ground.

Mrs. Xu knocked on the door twice more at the right time and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Something happened in the morning, and it was because we didn't entertain you well. Now that the matter is almost settled, you guys can go back with me."

Du Xiaoyu didn't want to stay in the temple any longer. Seeing the approval and encouragement in Monk Qisi's eyes, he rushed towards the temple door and pulled the bolt.

Losing the restraint of the door latch, the temple door slowly swung open, revealing Mrs. Xu's wrinkled face covered with white powder.

Perhaps because she had dealt with the trouble, her complexion improved a lot, and there was a smile on her lips: "If the three of you want to come to the Temple of Happiness, you should tell the old lady, otherwise what will happen if something happens?"

Qisi's eyes fell on the bell on Mrs. Xu's waist, and he asked knowingly: "What will happen? I heard from Mrs. Xu that the Goddess of Joy is the goddess who protects you, so she won't be disadvantageous to us, right?"

Sister-in-law Xu said "Ouch", slapped her thigh and said, "Although the Goddess of Joy was a good deity, she was still young when she died. She was still a little girl, and her temperament was good and bad. Every 49 years, her temperament changed. If she has a bad temper, we will hold a grand banquet to make her happy."

Unable to tell whether this was true or not, Qisi lowered his eyes and pretended to be worried: "Then Miss Xi'er passed away and the banquet was ruined. Isn't something going to happen?"

Sister-in-law Xu smiled: "The people in our town will take care of it. Just have fun and look good, so you don't have to worry."

She lowered her voice to a sinister tone, turned her back unsteadily, and swung her inverted tapered legs dexterously on the stone road, and soon walked five meters away.

Du Xiaoyu had just woken up from a coma, and his consciousness was obviously not clear yet.Without thinking much, he quickly followed.

Shang Qingbei had already retreated to Qisi when he let Du Xiaoyu open the door. At this time, he was walking side by side with Qisi, falling far behind.

The white fog in the alleyway has dissipated, and the pale and cold sun hangs high above the head, giving the white walls and black tiles on both sides a layer of photo exposure color.

There was not a shadow in the bright house, nor the presence of ghosts. The previous encounter seemed to be just an illusion.

Shang Qingbei said in a low voice: "Is there something wrong with Du Xiaoyu? He is lying there, and the two statue ghosts don't go to him, but to us. Does he have the kind of props that can divert the attention of ghosts? ?”

"No. If he really had that kind of prop, he wouldn't be so scared." Qis pretended not to hear the intention of provoking discord, shook his head and smiled, "I suspect that the ghosts in this copy have unique attack rules, such as not Attacking people in their sleep – who knew?”

Shang Qingbei complained "bullshit" in his heart, but didn't say much.

Ziss's judgment does make some sense.Although this is not a dungeon with rules and ghost stories, the weird game is under the control of world rules, and all weird effects must follow the inherent rules. The rules may be very simple, or they may be bizarre, no one can say for sure.

As he was thinking about it, he heard the young man say in a joking tone: "Do you think there is a possibility that what we encountered just now was not a point of death, but a special plot? Those ghosts just wanted to scare us, not Want our lives?"

Shang Qingbei subconsciously retorted: "How is that possible? Do you think this is playing house?"

"How is it impossible?" Qiss chuckled, "Do you still remember how quickly those two statues returned to their original positions from the ear chamber?"

Shang Qingbei was startled.

Yes, those two statues can obviously run a distance of ten meters in two seconds. Why do they still play a chase and escape game with them like a cat playing with a mouse?
He raised his eyes to look at the young man beside him, but the latter was looking forward, his black pupils spread out like ink marks, as if he was distracted.

Just now, Qiss thought of a very inconsistent detail.

At that time in the temple, he had already pulled out the soul-suppressing nail and blocked it in front of him, but the statue of the bride still reached out to grab him, even directly facing the nail, as if she wanted to be pricked deliberately.

Then, he naturally thought of the entry about [Soul Coffin] provided by the mobile phone, and subconsciously deepened his impression of the conclusion that "the clues provided by the mobile phone are effective."

Not long ago, he had doubts about the direction of reasoning because he discovered that many NPCs in Double Happiness Town were human beings; Weird Games immediately used facts to prove the authenticity of some of the information in the entry...

What a coincidence, the resemblance is so overwhelming that it’s hard to hide it.In the silence, Qisi suddenly asked: "Sister-in-law Xu, how did you know we were in the temple?"

Mrs. Xu paused in her steps and looked like she was staggering.

Two seconds later, she said with a smile: "This is the only place in town. I guess you are here too, old lady."

The tone of these words was so fake, but Qisi said no more.

He has already made a judgment.

Xu Wen knew that the players had arrived at Shuangxi Town, and Mrs. Xu knew that the three of them were at the Temple of Happiness. If these two NPCs were excluded from the option of opening the Sky Eye, then there was only one possibility left: there was something on the players that could be located.

The only item that is carried by the player and belongs to this copy is the mobile phone.

Shang Qingbei listened silently to the questions and answers between Qisi and Xu Ao, and soon thought of something, and murmured: "Even if Xu Wen and Xu Ao are not in the same group, they should both be ghosts and can sense something." The location. There is something wrong with that prop phone..."

Qisi said nothing, took out his cell phone from his pocket and held it in his hand. The phone case was as cold as ice, reminiscent of the temperature of a corpse.

He pressed the power button, entered the browser, and searched according to memory.

[Soul-suppressing coffin: There are soul-suppressing nails on the four corners, which can ward off evil spirits and suppress ghosts.There is a vicious corpse in the coffin town, and the resentment will not dissipate for a long time. Once the coffin is opened, there will be a catastrophe...]

[Soul-Calling Bell: Lead the yang soul out of the body, and bring the yin ghost back to yang.Yin and Yang have no boundaries, and the ringing of the bell returns to black and yellow...]

[Man in the Well: Water belongs to Yin, and the well gathers wealth.The heavier the Yin Qi in the well, the more prosperous the owner's wealth will be; the more Yin Qi accumulates, the greater the blessings...]

Clues outline a seemingly logical and self-consistent worldview:

For the sake of wealth and happiness, people in Shuangxi Town will kill a girl to death on her wedding day every 49 years, throw her into a well, and use her yin energy to nourish the well water;
The used corpse was nailed into a soul-suppressing coffin because of too much resentment, and was sent to the Temple of Joy to be suppressed by the Goddess of Joy;

Such perverse actions have turned Shuangxi Town into a ghost town. Only Mrs. Xu can wear a soul-calling bell to prevent the players from noticing anything strange.

But what if...the clues provided in the phone are all false?

After eliminating the messy information, many details that were previously ignored emerged one by one:
Let the guests stay at Xi'er's house, saying that it is the only place with vacancies...

There was blood on the windowsill... There were thick calluses on Xi'er's fingers from holding the pen...

The coffin that makes a cry...the lyrics accompanied by the suona...

The old man in the temple said that the people in the town who have been suspended for seven days...

Zeiss grinned silently.

Because he has one more piece of information than other players, he uses the information gap and words to mislead others in the direction of their reasoning in order to gain more advantages.

And what about the existence behind this copy?
Putting the mobile phone on Liu Bingding, and then Qisi led the players to search it out, making people preconceptionally believe that it was a key prop.

The novelty of electronic devices appearing in the game prompts players to immediately explore their mobile phones and see the photos and entries of [Soul Coffin].

The scene of blood seeping from the coffin in the photo matched the strange atmosphere of the dungeon and was convincing; the phone call from Xu Wen interrupted the players' thinking, and even Qiss ignored it: the information of the entry was not in the system interface Refresh on.

NPC Xu Wen, who was involved in the main mission, provided half-truth and half-false information on the phone. While Qisi noticed that Xu Wen was hiding something, he failed to think that there was a bigger lie hidden under the superficial illusion. .

The weirdness in the photo is reflected in the copy, which gives psychological hints about the authenticity of the clues; and the subsequent process of taking pictures, reading pictures, and obtaining clues gives people the illusion of initiative.

A big net has been woven silently from the moment the players entered the instance, and it tightened slowly and gently until everyone was caught in it.

In fact, the moment the clue "Man in the Well" appeared, Qisi vaguely realized that something was wrong, so he took a series of measures such as deleting photos, deceiving Xu Wen, and inducing Xi'er to commit suicide.

He felt that he was being induced and manipulated, and he wanted to break the layout that existed behind the scenes through random actions.

But after all, he was still trapped in his fixed thinking, preconceptions that the mobile phone props were real, and he didn't realize it was wrong until this moment.

"So that's what Qi means... Did you make this special trip just to hint me at this?" Qisi raised his hand to cover his eyes, laughing so hard that his shoulders trembled.

Because it is a false clue, Qi can change the power of the phone at will, and he can also delete the photos on the phone at will...

If it was a real clue, how could Weird Games allow him to delete it at will and use such a simple and crude method to create information gaps?

"I took it too much for granted and lacked respect for the mechanism of the copy itself, so I fell into a trap without even realizing it."

"My thinking is still not rigorous enough. I will believe some things based on experience and ignore some details. This is extremely undesirable in reasoning and solving puzzles."

Qisi summed up the experience and lessons in his mind, and laughed from beginning to end.

The situation was so bad that he fell into a strange kind of excitement.

The novel methods of setting up the trap, the lies that almost deceived him, seemed to be thinking traps specially designed to deal with him. Every single one he picked out could be savored by him for a long time, let alone stacked in one place.

Qisi stretched out his index finger to wipe his lips, and rubbed his chin with his thumb. His mind gradually settled down, and he was able to think calmly: "The clues provided by the mobile phone are false, and other details are too scattered. There are all kinds of weirdness in this copy. Certain knowledge is necessary. Regardless of mobile phones, there should be other ways to obtain supernatural knowledge..."

Li Yao's words reappeared in his ears one by one.

'Li Yao, the fifth time.I mainly write supernatural novels and know a lot about folklore. '

'Seven in Taoism is the child of the yang number and the intersection of yin and yang.The first seven souls return to the world to pay off the debt of gratitude and end the fate of the world. '

'The Feng Shui pattern of the Xi Temple is very strange. When I passed by the temple gate, I took a look inside. The yin energy inside was very strong, feeding ghosts and eating themselves, as if they were trying to fight poison with poison to suppress something. '

There are no props to provide supernatural knowledge, so the players are directly responsible for popularizing science?If Li Yao lies, wouldn't it be unfair to other players?
Qisi narrowed his eyes and asked, "Sister-in-law Xu, did you see Li Yao on the road? She is the girl who came with us."

Mrs. Xu stopped and turned to look at him. She slowly opened her toothless mouth and revealed a dark smile: "Where are the girls? There are only four of you here, all young men."

　Wow hahahaha, can’t you guess?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)