0119 Chapter 3: The Unbelievable Kidnapping Case (Section 29)
"So you are a player of this 'Lamarck Game'? Because you are busy fighting monsters and leveling up every day, you have killed more people than a professional killer like me?"
After hearing the short-haired woman's statement, the masked girl interjected with interest.
She seems to be yearning for this kind of life on the verge of death and never having peace: "If I clear this game, can I become a player like you?"
The short-haired woman nodded, with a helpless smile: "There is no way out of being involved in the Lamarckian game. You will be forced to fight until your death comes.
Considering the sublimation of life levels in the game, if you are unlucky enough to survive, the process of sinking into hell, suffering torture, and dying may last for a hundred or a thousand years...
Generally speaking, people who join the same game will automatically default to one realm and be managed uniformly, but each person will get a chance to refuse to leave and randomly transfer to another realm. They will be randomly matched again to join another team or compete with another group of opponents.
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I am a special existence among players, and I am not from your world. So if nothing else happens, the two of you will be bound together for a long time, but you will never see me again without special opportunities."
After that, she saw that Zhen Cheng seemed to be concerned and wanted to ask something, so she shook her head first to stop the topic from continuing in this direction:
"Anyone who has ever been stuck in a Lamarckian game has never heard of anyone who can figure everything out.
If you are interested in the nature and truth of this world, then you might as well investigate it yourself slowly. I think Miss Detective will be able to get more information than me soon.
Rather than worrying about these, the primary question now is that the 'shortcut' you found has been blocked by the rules, so how can we escape from here now?
We have rummaged through almost the entire laboratory and found nothing useful except gibberish and incomprehensible scientific materials. The only part that seemed to be related to the prompts was covered up.
Theoretically, this should be our last chance, right?"
When the short-haired woman said this, Zhen Cheng once again judged through the micro-expressions on her face that she seemed to be hiding something, but she didn't seem to be lying.
Of course, she wasn't sure about this. The light here itself was too dim, and Zhen Cheng was not an expert in observing body language.
Thinking of this, Zhen Cheng did not continue to ask questions stubbornly. Instead, he opened his phone and clicked on a program, pointing the camera lens at the information in his hand:
"What you call 'rules' cannot erase the marks left by this world, but can only distort or cover them up.
This leaves us with the possibility of using bugs to skip tedious steps and dangers and pass the level directly, doesn’t it?
Of course, maybe there really are no more clues here.
But as far as I know, the first type of hidden space, the Lamarckian game you call, always hides a chain of clues that guides the intruders to escape, at least this is what all the records left by those who have successfully survived said.
If this is not survivor bias, it means that this level of concealment may have been the clue left to us..."
Zhen Cheng said that the part of the book that was completely covered by blood stains was reflected on the mobile phone software. She drew out the function menu and checked the handwriting recognition and blood stain restoration functions.
"There is no fatal situation in Lamarck's game..." The short-haired woman looked at Zhen Cheng's wonderful mobile phone software in surprise and murmured.
The faint marks on the notebook that were once scratched by the pen tip are recognized and enlarged, and are marked with thick black lines. The dark red color gradually fades away, returning to the original light yellow color of the paper.
The first thing that appeared was two lines of scrawled writing. It was not simply scratched out with a few horizontal lines, but it was scratched over and over again until the entire sentence was completely covered, making it impossible to distinguish it at all.
But then Zhen Cheng opened an assistant called "Restore Smudge" in the software function. Those long lines that were obviously not text strokes were identified one by one and hidden, revealing the most original and short two lines at the bottom.
notes.
"From this point of view, these superfluous bloodstains are not so much a cover-up, but rather a hint that must be provided to us in the rules of the secret space;
Or according to the owner of the note, '[They] can't control the clues they leave behind', right?" Zhen Cheng looked at the last two lines of text that appeared clearly on the screen and smiled with satisfaction.
"The blood and soul of the enemy will open the way to escape...the sacrifice of the guardian will reveal the dark truth?" the masked girl watching silently from behind read out in confusion.
"Look, it is indeed a shortcut to the exit," Zhen Cheng said with a smile, turning his waiting eyes to the short-haired woman with a questioning tone:
"Blood and darkness, the two 'false doors' on both sides of the corridor must be the exits of this twisted closed world.
The 'safety exit' indicator light above seems to be more than just decoration. From the moment we stepped out of the room, the way out was always in front of us.
The last remaining question is...the identities of the 'enemy' and the 'guardian'?"
Realizing that her previous concealment had been exposed, the short-haired woman shrugged and replied calmly:
"As you have probably guessed, the files in the office seem to be like the prompts on the weapons arsenal door that can only be triggered by specific people. Except for the part directed at you, everything else you see is garbled.
So although I have searched, it is clear that the only target of my enemy is the firefighter. As for my guardian... Unfortunately, I did not see clear guidance in the document."
In fact, Zhen Cheng has been making speculations about the enemy's target, and the information about the short-haired woman is actually relatively clear. The known target of the junior high school student among the seven is obviously herself, and it is extremely possible that the martial arts coach and the doctor are each other's targets.
big.
The two of them, one a life-loving thief and the other a cunning one, would not have been able to risk their own lives and seize the opportunity to trick the other party unless they had fundamental interests. Then the goal of the fourth short-haired woman is as stated in her confession.
Firemen.
In this way, the only participants who have not yet determined their targets are the red-haired girl, the firefighter, and herself; and the only targets of hatred are the red-haired girl, junior high school students, and short-haired girls.
According to the rule that has been confirmed by the insider, the short-haired woman, that the rules of the secret space are not unsolvable, the possibility that the red-haired lady was forced to commit suicide to escape is close to zero.
The rest of the situation... can be said to be so bad that it is despairing.
There is a one-third chance that the death of the junior high school student is enough for Zhen Cheng to meet the conditions for escaping from the red door. And the remaining two-thirds chance... regardless of whether the person she must kill is a red-haired girl or a short-haired lady,
For Zhen Cheng, it is almost an impossible task.
This damn luck... really wasn't unexpected at all.