Chapter 65: Lost cruise ship (3)

After 15 minutes, the voting results of all alive players have been collected.
Sitting in the empty room, Ruan Bai heard the steward's cold voice coming from outside the door.
"According to statistics, a total of 16 guests voted for Wang Qiang. Next, he will be directly eliminated as a murderer."
Wang Qiang is the male player around 30 who made the suggestion.
When Ruan Bai heard the result, he couldn't help biting his lip.
Of the 18 players, one died, leaving 17 players.
It is impossible for a male player to vote for himself, so except for his own vote, the remaining 16 people voted for him.
Sure enough... this result was not much different from what she had previously expected.
Without a clue, it is easier for people to vote for the most outstanding and unusual player.
Even if they know, this person is probably not the murderer.
This discovery undoubtedly suppressed Ruan Bai severely.
In the past, she often relied on various unexpected means and moves to break the rhythm of the game and find the way to break the game.
But now, the rigid rules of the game and the potential crisis, as if an invisible big hand, held her seven inches, making her completely at a loss.
At the moment the steward finished speaking, Ruan Bai heard a loud crash not far away.
Someone forcibly broke into the room.
Then, the voice of the male player struggling and shouting came over.
"I don't, I am not, it's really not me... I am not a murderer!"
His voice is very loud, and his voice is unstable when he speaks, with a little rush, as if being dragged by someone.
But the despair in his tone is something all players can experience.
"I just made a comment, I'm really not a murderer...Ah!!!"
Finally, in a screaming scream, the man's voice completely disappeared.
The whole world suddenly left only the faint wind outside and the sound of Ruan Bai's urgent breathing.
A few seconds later, Ruan Bai heard a muffled sound of heavy objects falling into the water from a distance.
The eliminated male player was thrown into the weird black water by the NPC.
He was eliminated.
"The murderer has been eliminated and the first round of the game is over."
The steward’s unwavering reminder sounded again: "Please be prepared, the second round of the game is about to begin."
After hearing the manager's voice, Ruan Bai closed his eyes.
The first 4 hours have passed, and then the second round.
After all the battles, she can be regarded as a veteran and veteran player. After the game just ended, she vaguely understood the real scary part of this S-level game.
From the time the steward refused to abstain from voting, Ruan Bai discovered that this game hopes that every player will become a "murderer."
Even if they didn't kill people with their own hands, from a certain perspective, whether it was Ruan Bai or others, they promoted the death of the male player.
Is that male player the real murderer? In fact, the possibility is not high, after all, the murderer does not need to do so much.
Including the male player's previous suggestion that "everyone stay in the lobby for 4 hours", Ruan Bai felt that it was not good at the time.
She would think that his proposal was unreasonable, and she could not be the only one, but everyone did not take the initiative to stand up and did not dare to express the difference, because they did not want to be voted.
Under this psychological influence, everyone's behavior will be greatly restricted.
They don’t even dare to explore a little bit of other things, because each of them is in danger of being killed, especially the real murderer cannot be killed in the next game, which will cause the murderer in the next round of the game to choose to start. When aiming, the range will be reduced.
Naturally, imperceptibly, the progress of "discovering the secret of the cruise ship" that needs to be achieved for customs clearance will be delayed indefinitely.
This requirement can be easily achieved in previous games.
In comparison, how to survive in the hands of ghosts is much more difficult than exploring the truth.
But even so, if this rule cannot be achieved, even if they survive to the end, they will not be able to pass the level!
And the four-hour period stipulated in each round of the game is also very cunning.
On the one hand, it can be used to blatantly kill the player's time.
On the other hand, this kind of game generally progresses faster, the easier it is to find flaws, and 4 hours of time can not only obscure the murderer's methods, but to some extent, torture the player's mentality.
Yes, what this game wants is to make the player's bottom line lower and lower? !
In the face of death, the lower limit of man is easily pushed down.
In the beginning, they were forced to kill people because of the rules of the game, but they had no choice but to vote.
After two rounds of the game, will the remaining players feel anxious, and even start to expect that they can become "murderers" and take the initiative to kill people, thus gaining the protection of the rules?
The bottom line is getting lower and lower, this kind of thing is like derailment, only 0 times and countless times.
After that, when they are safe, when they leave this game and start to the next game, they encounter danger again, but they only need to "sacrifice" one life to survive, what will they do?
Anyway, I have killed someone before, so I don’t care this time...Is it?
Before, these players were ordinary people and couldn't do harm to the world.
They may have an indifferent attitude towards other players, neither saving nor caring, but to a certain extent, they are right to do so. When self-protection is difficult, why force them to save others?
But since the bottom line is lowered, what will they become?
In Ruan Bai's eyes, once this situation spreads, it will be more terrifying than the crisis-ridden world before.
Because in addition to ghosts, there are players who want their own lives.
Not to mention, Ruan Bai is still not sure what he will do after the so-called owner of this cruise ship appears.
The only way to break the game now before Ruan Bai is—
Before the voting starts, catch the real murderer.
This is the hardest way and the only way.
...
After 15 minutes, Ruan Bai's room was still quiet, and nothing happened.
Therefore, in this round of the game, Ruan Bai is still not the murderer.
Considering the result of the previous game, no one dared to put forward any more ideas this time.
Everyone consciously dispersed and went to team up to find clues.
Ruan Bai observed it specially and found that it was a newcomer who had died. Maybe the murderer thought it was easier for the newcomer to start.
In addition, the lotus man looked very leisurely, sitting in the hall casually holding food to eat.
As for other players, they seem to be worried about being noticed by others, and they have properly adjusted their clothes.
For example, the girl with short hair and a cold look and a slightly non-mainstream dress took off the skull necklace from her neck.
In fact, they dress up like this, in fact, it is good. In reality, many people are like this. After entering the game, there are strange shapes and even wooden swords in robes and backs, but they are useless.
In addition to the short-haired girl, the man in the hat and mask who had stared at Ruan Bai for a few times before also took off his hat.
Ruan Bai had an impression of him, and after seeing his changes, he gave him a special look.
It looks very ordinary, but a little familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.
Maybe the public face is like this?
Ruan Bai was a little confused, but she didn't think too much.
She stood in the crowd, and after observing, she quietly gave Xiaoxue and the others a look.
They nodded cautiously, indicating that they understood.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Bai pretended to be uncomfortable and hurried to the toilet.
She found the innermost compartment, made a small mark, and closed the door.
After waiting for about a few minutes, She Xiaoxue and Ning Rou also came to her separately.
When the people arrived, Ruan Bai stopped hesitating, and hurriedly explained his identity and findings.
"How is it?" Ruan Bai lowered his voice and asked, "From just now and now, do you have any other findings?"
Both girls shook their heads.
"The identity given to me by the game is a student who poisoned his roommate because of jealousy," Xiaoxue said softly, "and'I' is the same as you, and the owner here is an old acquaintance, and asks for him. ."
"I'm almost the same, killing my stepsister," Ning Rou said, "This should not be an exception. Our players' identities should all have killed people."
When Ruan Bai heard this, his mind was full of thoughts.
The owner of this cruise ship is deliberately collecting these "murderers."
What is his purpose?
What do you want to imply when you lose the name of the game?
Ruan Bai still had too little information to guess at all.
"I think you should have noticed it too. We can no longer consume it like this. It's just that I am worried that Xiaoxue, you are too young, and the'murderer' can easily regard you as a target."
After a while, Ruan Bai lowered his eyes and said softly.
Cracking the game progress is very important for them.
But now, they can't ignore the current game of catching the murderer.
"I think we need an appropriate division of labor now."
Ruan Bai's voice gradually became more determined in the narrow compartment: "Xiaoxue, you are smarter than me, and you are much better than me in terms of exploration progress... Next, you two try to find out the secrets of the cruise ship. , I will come alone to catch the murderer."
In this round or the next round of the game, she will try her best to catch the real murderer and end this game!
After listening to Ruan Bai's arrangement, She Xiaoxue and Ning Rou looked at each other.
Today's game of catching the murderer, compared to the progress of the entire lost cruise ship game, has a pitiful amount of information.
Lost cruise ship has a vague direction anyway, but the game of catching the murderer is confusing.
In this situation, Ruan Bai decided to catch the murderer alone. On the one hand, he wanted to make them feel at ease to check the progress of the game. On the other hand, he put himself in a more dangerous situation.
Knowing this, both girls have concerns in their eyes.
But in the end, they nodded and did not express any objection.
Worried about being discovered by others that they were in the same group, a few people didn't say a long time, and they soon went out of the toilet.
They all pretended not to know each other and started their respective tasks.
After Ruan Bai went out, without saying anything, he went directly to the steward, asked the position of the dead player in the first round of the game, and fumbled for the past.
First of all, she needs to understand how the victim died.
Guan Shi answered her questions quickly.
He not only told her the location of the body, but also told Ruan Bai how the newcomer died.
What shocked Ruan Bai was that the rookie player who was killed was killed in his room.
When she found it, the room was full of blood.
And the horrible corpse was lying on the ground.
As the steward said, he was hacked to death by a random knife, and finally his head was cut off.
The murder weapon is the fruit knife in all rooms.
During this period, he also struggled many times, and he could see that some rooms were obviously messy.
But this did not prevent him from being killed.
After discovering this, Ruan Bai was extremely confused.
If she remembered it correctly, at that time, 18 of their players, in the last 15 minutes, when the voting time began, were still complete. She also witnessed the victim enter her room.
After that, the steward announced the murderer's crime outside.
The murderer must kill in those three and a half hours... So, where did he get the chance to kill?
Also, this newcomer is struggling like this, the chair is down, and their other players must be able to hear the movement.
But after Ruan Bai entered the room, everything around him was quiet, and there was no big movement at all.
She thought of the previous steward saying that she would give players who become murderers a "special ability".
What would that ability be? Mute? Through space? Invisible? Or is it illusion or puppet?
And knowing this ability, how can you catch the murderer in the new round of games?
It stands to reason that the game gives the murderer such a privilege, and it will inevitably give him a fatal restriction in some places.
Ruan Bai thought about it. He couldn't figure it out. He just felt at a loss.
When she came, besides her, there were two players in the room.
One is the mask man before, and the other is a strange male player.
Ruan Bai cautiously walked around the room, searched it, and found nothing.
After she finished flipping, the strange male player had already seen the room and left here.
In the room, only Ruan Bai and the mask man were left.
The man with the mask came earlier than her, and he should have finished looking at the room, but he never left.
When Ruan Bai searched the room, because he was worried that he would be killed by the murderer, he always kept extremely vigilant.
She saw the abnormality of the mask man, especially the mask man who had looked at her before, and now he has been staring at her.
After there was no one else in the room, Ruan Bai was also ready to leave.
With one hand behind her, she quietly clenched the fruit knife hidden in her sleeve.
If this person wants to attack her, she will fight back instantly.
What Ruan Bai didn't expect was that at the moment when she retracted his hand, the masked man's eyes flickered and he clearly noticed her small movements.
A smile flashed in his eyes, and he said quickly: "Don't be nervous, soft, it's me."
After hearing what he said, Ruan Bai paused slightly.
It's the voice of Gu Buchao! ?