Chapter 68: Lost cruise ship (6)

The first thing Ruan Bai noticed was the timing of the murderer's killing.
According to the requirements of the rules, the murderer can only kill during the three and a half hours of free activity, but twice, the entire two games, the dead time is the last 15 minutes of voting.
This is obviously unreasonable, but the steward said there was nothing wrong.
This should be a hint to the player.
In the first round of the game, in that situation, it can be reluctantly said that the murderer chose to kill at that time, which was "a last resort" and borrowed game props.
But this is still the case in the second round of the game, which shows that the time is not right. It should not be related to the props, but to the "special ability" given by the game.
What are the abilities related to time?
Ruan Bai thought of "traveling through time" without even thinking about it.
If the murderer possesses the ability to span a certain period of time, then it is clear how he kills.
Assuming that the world that the murderer can cross is five minutes.
So first of all, he will urge his abilities to return to five minutes before everyone has entered the room.
Five minutes ago, none of the players had time to go back to their rooms.
In this case, the murderer can take the opportunity to enter the room of the player he wants to kill and kill those unsuspecting players.
In this way, he can successfully get rid of suspicion.
Ruan Bai thought that when the murderer entered the torrent of time, there should be two different ta in the same timeline.
One is the murderer under the normal timeline, and the other is the murderer five minutes ago.
What exactly is time and how is it defined? This concept is very complicated.
But one thing can be confirmed, and that is time, which can be compared with each other based on a certain point in time.
If the 15-minute voting time in the real timeline is taken as the time base point for this story, then when the murderer has moved forward for 5 minutes, he will enter another timeline.
That timeline is 5 minutes slower than the real timeline.
In that timeline, the murderer entered the victim's room early, and then waited patiently for five minutes to kill the other party.
Because within 15 minutes of voting, all players must stay in their own rooms, and even if they hear something, they are not allowed to come out.
Therefore, no one knows who the murderer is except the victim.
Although the murderer attacked the player, there was still a 15-minute voting period in the timeline he was in after crossing time.
But for the real timeline, he was a murderer "five minutes ago".
As long as the killer starts fast enough to solve the player within 5 minutes, the moment when the killer kills the player, even in the timeline five minutes ago, belongs to the 15-minute voting period, but it belongs to the real timeline. Those three and a half hours.
In this way, the murderer's behavior can naturally meet the game requirements of "killing in three and a half hours".
Gu Chao has two memories, it should be because he has experienced two time lines.
But he couldn't remember the murderer's face, and 80% of it was because the murderer used some kind of props. This should not be a sequelae caused by time travel.
The murderer was afraid that Gu Buchao would not be killed within a fixed time limit, so he hurried away after fighting with Gu Buchao for two minutes.
As for the murderer of the second round of the game, he actually didn't need to copy the murderer's methods of the first round of the game.
The murderer in the first round of the game would do that because someone asked everyone to sit in the hall for four hours. There is no way, they can only kill after 15 minutes.
This copying of the murderer in the second round thoroughly exposed what the murderer's real "special ability" was.
However, he was not eliminated by the vote, and he did not lose out.
Ruan Bai could almost guess it at the end of the second round of the game.
It's just that it's just speculation after all, and it all depends on her mind to think about it. There is not much information that can really support this idea.
However, the second round of the game was over, and she also knew what was going on.
The next thing she has to solve is how to catch the murderer in the third round.
For the murderer in the second round, there are two possibilities for why he should imitate the murderer in the first round of the game.
The first is that he thinks that the murderer's method in the first round of the game is very good, so he copied it.
The second is that this special ability can only be used at that moment under the constraints of the rules of the game.
Ruan Bai felt that the second type was almost always.
Therefore, if she wants to make a layout, she has to stop at that point in time and do something.
After other players had asked about the player's room where the steward had died, and after leaving one after another, Ruan Bai took advantage of no one around and came to the lobby alone.
The steward was standing on the edge of the hall, standing straight there, without the slightest anger, like a machine with a fixed program.
"Hello, my business," Ruan Bai walked to him and smiled at him, "Excuse me, can I ask, is the duration of each round of the game really four hours? It cannot be shortened or increased. ?"
The steward looked at her from the moment Ruan Bai walked over.
After listening to her, the manager's expressionless face finally showed a strange look.
"It must be four full hours." He said.
...
Time flies quickly, just a few hours later.
Around four in the morning, the entire cruise ship was quiet.
The third round of the game started at 12 o'clock in the morning. After the initial tension, many players already felt tired and weak.
Some people formed a team in twos and threes, taking turns to take over the vigil, to guard against unexpected surprises.
Fearing to be caught by the murderer, everyone came to the hall in unison after some activities outside.
On the table, on the floor, in the corner of the wall, in the curtains... in the silence, countless people sat silently and hid there.
Some people are asleep, some are still awake, their faces are tired, but their eyes are full of sober vigilance.
Since three o'clock in the morning, there has been a faint white light on the sea horizon far outside the window, reflecting the entire black ocean into a bleak white.
In the dim room, the candle lights swayed with the sea breeze coming from outside, pulling their black shadows very long.
In the room where even the sound of breathing was clear, the pointer was still moving slowly in the huge seed in the hall.
Tick...tick...tick...
Finally, it stopped at 4 o'clock in the morning.
"Clang! Clang!"
At the moment when the pointer was pointing to four o'clock, the big clock made a sharp and piercing noise!
After hearing the deafening bell, the players in the hall trembled and suddenly opened their eyes.
They know that the time limit is coming again, and a new round of voting is about to begin.
This time, the players who were accustomed to the rules didn't wait for the supervisor to appear, so they consciously stood up and hurried back into the room.
There is despair, fatigue, and fear on their faces, but more, they are deeply numb.
However, in this one, there is a different person.
He lowered his head, lowered his eyes, and walked towards the room with the large group.
His appearance is no different from that of other players, all with a frowning face.
But his hands were tightly squeezed, and his excitement almost made him unable to control the expression on his face.
Yes, he is the murderer in this round.
After learning from the steward that he was the murderer in this round, he knew that he could survive.
As long as he can kill a person.
The murderer has no feelings for killing.
disturbed? Hesitate? regret? timid?
None of these complex emotions will appear on him.
For the murderer, his thinking is very simple, and his purpose is very single.
He knew that by killing someone, he could live.
As long as he can survive, he can do anything.
"The ability the game gives you is the ability to span time and space."
He remembered that the manager had said to him when he was approached.
"When voting starts in the last 15 minutes and all players return to their rooms, your special abilities can be used."
"Please remember that the way to trigger your ability is to knock on the door of your own room three times."
"After typing, as long as you walk out of the room, you can span time and go back a while."
"Your ability can only be used once, so I hope you can kill your target as soon as possible during the span of time!"
Keeping in mind the words of stewardship, the murderer returned to the room and closed the door, then turned around and knocked on his door three times.
Then he opened the door and walked out.
Since he knew he was the murderer, he naturally had to plan who would be better to kill.
In the past free time, he had chosen his favorite target long ago-the new male player who had friction with him.
It is not that he did not want to attack a few female players in the past, especially the twelve or thirteen-year-old.
But he later thought that for such a small child to survive the escape game, he must have a bit of extraordinary ability.
In the escape game, never despise any old player.
Therefore, the murderer naturally turned his attention to the remaining two newcomer players.
Holding the fruit knife in his hand tightly, the murderer's eyes flickered.
He walked to the outside of the male player's room, and then without hesitation, he pushed open the opponent's door!
"Ah!?"
However, what he never expected was that the room was not empty!
The moment the door was opened, the newcomer screamed in panic from the room.
The male player who was supposed to sleep in the lobby unexpectedly appeared in the room at this moment, looking at the murderer with horror!
what happened?
When the murderer saw this, the whole person was dumbfounded.
Doesn't it mean that he has the ability to travel through time?
And according to normal circumstances, this newcomer was still sleeping in the hall a few minutes ago.
How did he appear in the room? !
It's just that his thinking is fast, but the actions of others are faster.
At the moment when the newcomer called out, the three female players immediately opened the door and walked towards the sound source!
Now, the murderer finally understood.
Not only this rookie player stays in the room, all the players are currently in their own room!
The ability to travel through time given him by Guan Shi did not succeed at all!
But why is it so?
Obviously, those murderers were successful in the first two rounds of the game?
The murderer couldn't understand, but no matter what, the matter was over, the women who ran out had already seen his face clearly.
He was caught out.
The next thing went smoothly.
Ruan Bai and others caught the murderer, tied him up, and placed him outside the corridor.
Through the cracks in the door, other players can see their movements clearly and recognize who the murderer is.
Now, they just have to wait for the supervisor to show up and vote.
Seeing the murderer lying on the floor with a confused look, Ruan Bai secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The murderer didn't know why the special ability would fail, but she knew it.
Because of the failure of his ability, it was her hands and feet.
After realizing that the murderer's special ability was "traveling through time and space", Ruan Bai began to plan how to catch the murderer before the 15-minute voting period.
She found out when she first entered the game that there was no clock in her room.
This is very unreasonable, because in other games, there are clocks hanging in many places in order to let the players catch the time.
She was confused for a long time, and she didn't know what to rely on in this game to remind players of time.
Later, she learned that when the time was up, the big clock in the lobby would sound a bell to remind the player.
At this point, is the game hinting at the player?
Ruan Bai didn't know the answer before, but now she can give a positive reply.
Because she dialed the clock in the hall fast for half an hour!
After guessing the murderer's special ability, Ruan Bai went to every corner of the cruise ship to search and made sure that only the hall had a bell.
After learning from the steward that the game time was a complete "4 hours", Ruan Bai knew that the time when the game ended would not change with the time of the clock.
In order to invalidate the murderer's special abilities, she took advantage of the fact that no one was around, and everyone went to the crime scene to see the corpse, then walked directly over and set the clock in the hall forward by half an hour.
During this period, most of the players were searching for information outside, and it was late at night, everyone was very tired, working while being sleepy.
So after they returned to the hall to rest one after another, few people realized that there was something wrong with the time.
On the other hand, this is also the convenience brought to Ruan Bai by the 4 hours of game time.
If the duration of the game is only one hour, then even the dull people will be aware of it.
These words will not be mentioned for the time being. In short, when the bell rings, there is actually half an hour before the real voting time begins.
In fact, as long as you pay attention, the murderer will find that the steward has not appeared, but he may be too excited to ignore this detail, which caused him to miss the opportunity.
After the murderer got longer and the steward did not show up, he gradually understood something.
Everyone waited in silence for half an hour, and when the last manager appeared, the voting time began.
With the real murderer being cast out, the game of catching the murderer is finally over.
Waves flopped toward the cruise ship, and the salty, wet, slightly cold sea breeze mixed with the white light from the sky, and penetrated into the room from the window.
The steward turned upstairs. After a few words with someone, his footsteps slowly descended the stairs.
"Master is very satisfied with your performance," Guan Shi said lightly, "From now on, you can move around freely."
Free activities... They can finally rest!
After hearing the steward's instructions, many players showed a relaxed look on their faces.
It stands to reason that this sentence in charge should be what many players are waiting for.
This not only means that the game of catching the murderer is over, but also shows that soon, a new turning point in the plot will be ushered in on the cruise ship.
Of course, the most important thing is that players no longer have to guard against each other.
They can team up to explore the progress of the game!
Just looking at the steward's pale and gloomy face, Ruan Bai didn't know why, but a hint of anxiety flashed in his heart.
She took a deep breath, suppressed the strange emotions in her heart, and went to find Xiaoxue and others to ask them about the progress.
The author has something to say:
I don’t know if there is still a little angel who remembers that in the first chapter of my copy, I mentioned that there is no clock in the room ＿ (：з」∠) ＿