Chapter 53:

Ruan Bai's heart moved slightly when he heard the phrase "What is the difference between me and you" from Father Du.
She thought of the words that Uncle Shen had said to her half a year ago before he died--
"...But, if the ghost can be replaced by other things in reality, and I have not checked it wrong...I should, found the prototype of DSAS."
Ghosts can be replaced by other things in reality.
What can it be?
Before that, Ruan Bai had never thought about the substitutes for ghosts and monsters. After all, the ghosts she encountered before were all like mentally retarded. Although they could speak, their logical thinking ability was extremely poor. Some were even similar to humanoid animals. It makes no difference.
But the existence of Father Du, a ghost, severely shaken Ruan Bai's concept.
Ghosts, could they be human?
Say no, but Du's father is so human-like. In the real world, it also has a prototype. That is Du Wenxue's father and the founder of DSAS.
It can be said that it is, but no one is in that way, confused, and cares nothing about other things except "obsession".
Ruan Bai thought about it, not wanting to say why.
She finally sighed and decided to put this question behind. After the game came out, she had more contact with a few ghosts before she could make a conclusion.
The most important thing for now is to rescue Xue Se and pass the game with Xue Se.
Father Du's actions were quick, and he immediately brought Ruan Bai to Xue Se. After all, he couldn't attack Ruan Bai, and Ruan Bai could reveal his identity at any time.
And the place where Xue Se was hidden was actually in the study.
Father Du walked in and pulled out one of the books, then buckled the gap inside and pulled the bookcase aside.
After a while, a secret room built behind the bookcase was exposed.
This secret room is not big, only about half the area of ​​the study, it's dark inside, and you can't see anything.
When the bookcase was opened, Ruan Bai could only feel a strong smell of blood coming on him.
Through the light that penetrated from the outside, she could vaguely see the ground of the secret room, and the walls were filled with dark paint with some strange symbols, densely packed, only seeing the corners, also let Ruan Bai Feel dizzy.
At this moment, Xue Se was tied inside with a rope.
Her eyes were open, and her wrists were strangled red from the struggle.
After seeing Ruan Bai, her eyes moved, revealing a look that was obviously relieved.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Bai immediately walked over and untied the rope on her.
Father Du stood aside, looking at them blankly.
After not playing the role of a human, its face no longer showed a human-like look. Instead, it restored the appearance that a ghost should have-a cold and gloomy face, and almost numb eyes.
"I have done your request," it said coldly, "I hope you can do everything you promised before the next round of songs starts."
It seems that in the next round of singing, Father Du's name will appear in the lyrics.
Ruan Bai nodded and pulled Xue Se from the ground.
The ghost didn't stay for anything, closed the bookcase, closed the secret room, and left soon.
Ruan Bai didn't hesitate, and when there was no one around, he told Xue Se of the agreement he had made with Father Du.
"It is the survivor, and it wants your identity," Ruan Bai said at last, "but the chair you sit on belongs to it. We must find a way to return the identity before the next round of singing, otherwise you Alone, I am worried that you will die in his hands."
In order to achieve its own obsession, the ghost will do everything possible, and if the snow falls into its hands, there is no way to survive.
Ruan Bai's face changed a lot, not knowing what he thought of.
She looked at Xue Se, paused, and continued: "... But in this case, do you still need the identity of another child? How are we going to find it, is it possible to grab it?"
14 players, 14 children, each player corresponds to a child, there will be no more.
Xue Se returned Father Du's, what should she do?
If they take the identities of other players, will they be in danger?
However, what Ruan Bai didn't expect was that Xue Se raised her eyebrows when she heard what she said, and asked, "The identity of another child? Why do I need it?"
Upon hearing this, Ruan Bai was slightly taken aback.
"But, otherwise, can you survive..."
"I can."
Xue Se shook her head.
Her face was very calm, even with a trace of self-confidence, without the slightest panic of death approaching: "Don't worry, I might occupy the ghost's chair. I have long considered how to solve it."
When the first round of singing sounded, neither Ruan Bai nor the player who died in the chair took a seat.
Especially for "Big Brother", Ruan Bai took the seat after he finished cooking, and the song was already over at that time.
They would be judged by the game as "Big Sister" and "Big Brother" because they did something in line with the behavior of these two characters.
Sitting down on the corresponding chair is naturally a behavior, but for a group of five or six-year-old children, it is normal to make the wrong chair.
Therefore, the chair should only be the initial condition.
There are definitely other potential conditions that can determine their identity.
The fact that Ruan Bai was entangled by the "Second Brother" ghost to confirm his identity had already given Xue Se enough inspiration.
"I guess, this game may be such a set of operations," Xue Se said, "it is trying to'press' the identity of the once dead child on us, through both the perpetrator and the victim."
When Ruan Bai faced the attack of the "big brother" ghost, in order to survive, she had to hack her big brother to death with a chopper like the old sister in accordance with the content of the lyrics.
This is a process of forced recognition of identity.
"But of the 14 children here, 13 of them all ended up dead. If the player admits his identity, it is equivalent to admitting death," Xue Se continued, "So, if you want to survive the song, What we have to do is to try to avoid the game giving us an identity!"
Just like Ruan Bai when facing the "Second Brother" ghost questioning, as long as he denies that he is not the "Big Sister", the "Second Brother" can't hurt her and can only leave.
Ghosts can only harm objects with specific identities. Ruan Bai's denial is a process of getting rid of the identity of the older sister.
In this world, the game obviously wants to borrow the player's body to reproduce everything that happened in the castle decades ago.
Fourteen children, thirteen died, and the only child who could survive was looked at by ghosts.
It can be seen that there is no benefit in recognizing one's identity.
"I was not a child here," Xue Se looked at Ruan Bai calmly, saying every word, "I am a player, an outsider, a living person, soft and soft, so are you, don’t be The ghost is confused. It needs to grab the identity, but we don’t need the identity at all."
When Ruan Bai heard this, he was suddenly awakened.
It was true that her thoughts were completely limited by the game before, and her mind was all about identity, and Du Fu was a ghost who snatched the player's identity, so that she was also used to thinking like this.
What they need as players is to get rid of the identity of children.
Ruan Bai discovered before that the appearance of the song is "triggered" by the player's certain activities.
As long as they can get rid of them thoroughly, without even the most basic triggering behavior, how can the game pull them into the "different space"?
...By the way, is she really the one who brought snow in this game?
Knowledge really is the primary productive force. This little girl just lacks experience. After she understands a lot of unspoken rules from Ruan Bai, she grows faster than anyone else.
After the crisis was gone, Ruan Bai sighed to himself and asked: "Then what should we do to get rid of our identity?"
Xue Se rubbed her sore wrist and said lightly, "Go and clean up everything that suggests my identity as much as possible."
Afraid of triggering the plot again, Ruan Bai and Xue Se's next actions can be described as very fast.
They first chopped down the snow-colored chair in the kitchen, burned the wooden sign with the name, and went to some places like women’s toilets and women’s changing rooms, which obviously wouldn’t let boys in. Sit for a long time.
Fearing that something belonging to Du's father would appear in the room, Ruan Bai almost turned her and Xue-colored guest room upside down, and finally found some toys that did not know when they appeared.
After all these things were cleaned up, Ruan Bai sat in the women's toilet with Xue Se and decided that they would not go out before 8pm.
Perhaps it was because I didn’t want to waste time on these two players. After more than four hours, the next round of singing finally came from the third floor
"...The thirdsisterwhooverratesherselfputstheneedleintothepillowofthelittlesister, butshequietlychangesitback; Seeinghersisterturnpale,thelittlesisterhummedhappily;Dearfather, youngmother;Youronlychoicewillbeme..."
This time, the children's singing is still the same as before, unwavering and uniform.
It’s just that I don’t know if it’s Ruan Bai’s illusion, their voices seem to have a hint of resentment that is not easily detectable...
[The irresponsible third sister put the needle into the little sister’s pillow, but she quietly changed it back; Seeing her sister’s face turned pale, the little sister hummed happily; Dear father, Qing Ai’s mother ；
Your only choice will be me. ]
After hearing the meaning of this singing, Ruan Bai looked at Xue Se excitedly.
They succeeded!
According to the habit of lyrics, it will generally turn the perpetrator of the previous round of lyrics into the victim of the next round of lyrics, and tell us how this victim died.
But once, it skipped the section of "Second Sister was Hanged by Du Fu" directly, and went directly to the next section, past Du Fu and began to talk about how the younger sister killed the third sister!
Ruan Bai knew that this was a game compromise.
Next, Xue Se should be like her, no longer entering the "different space" and no longer being attacked by ghosts.
After confirming this, Ruan Bai suddenly relaxed.
Only now did she feel that her back was soaked.
Although Xue Lu had always been calm, Ruan Bai could guess through her white fingers that her mood was not as calm as the surface.
After all, she is still a teenage girl, no matter how smart and calm, she will inevitably feel nervous in the face of death.
"Let's go," Ruan Bai smiled at her and said, "When we finish eating, we will continue to search for information. The inverted cross that you showed me before, I still don't understand what it means. It."
After hearing her words, Xue Se nodded.
"I left you a mark because I was afraid that I might have an accident. In fact, I am not sure about it myself," she said softly. Take a look?"
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