Chapter 25: Deduction of Rules
“The board game definitely needs to be played, but once it starts, it won’t stop easily.”
Bai Cha sighed with worry.
“A game has to have a winner and a loser. I wonder what the conditions for winning or losing the board game are.”
Her seemingly unintentional remark immediately made everyone think a lot.
“Then let’s go to 305 first and find out the death condition that Brother Cai triggered.”
Although Brother Cai was killed by Bai Cha, he had essentially violated a death rule, which was why he ran to eat the meat and turned into that state. Even if Bai Cha hadn’t killed him, he probably wouldn’t have lived much longer.
Bai Cha wasn’t deliberately trying to scare them. What she said was the truth.
The board game was used to speed up time and could also possibly trigger other rules. So far, they hadn’t seen the so-called fourth floor and the extra bathroom.
Therefore, before that, not finding out why these dead players violated the conditions would be detrimental to the upcoming game.
These players weren’t so clueless that they couldn’t think of this.
However, the current situation in the room was that Xiao Xiao now trusted Bai Cha very much, while the ponytail and the man with glasses were wary of Bai Cha after what happened with Brother Cai.
Wang Xuming probably saw through Bai Cha’s true identity and strength. But he might have a mentality similar to investment or appreciation towards her.
This allowed Bai Cha to control the situation.
People inherently had a herd mentality. Apart from Wang Xuming, the remaining three, more or less, had been inclined to listen to arrangements since the Brother Cai incident. Since Brother Cai was killed by Bai Cha, they naturally subconsciously shifted their obedience.
Especially since Bai Cha had never shown herself to be very strong. At most, she claimed to be C3. If she were truly strong, no one would listen to her.
And Wang Xuming was clearly hiding his identity; he had other purposes.
After all, since Wang Xuming could tell she was a newbie, Bai Cha could also guess his strength. He had to be at least S-rank.
Having this kind of strength but always disguising himself as very ordinary proved that this instance wasn’t as simple as it seemed and that there were other secrets.
In short, all of this made Wang Xuming outwardly obey others, although he might not listen inwardly.
But who would go to 305 was another question. Unexpectedly, everyone should go together.
But there was one more thing before that.
“But why did Zhong Man trigger a death condition?”
Bai Cha was pretending that she hadn’t seen the scene of the front desk staff killing Zhong Man. She had been pretending for so long, so of course, she couldn’t expose her lie at this time.
But when Zhong Man died, the front desk staff killed him at the door of 305.
Of course, saying it was at the door of 306 was also fine. But the front desk staff’s back was facing 305 at that time.
Combining this with the current statement that Brother Cai had been to 305 and his inexplicable death, 305 must have a secret.
But she couldn’t say it directly, so she had to guide these people.
“Yes, he was just blocking the end of the corridor, his neck was snapped. I don’t know who did it. It couldn’t have been Brother Cai, right?”
Everyone had seen Zhong Man’s body.
“If it was Brother Cai, then that proves that at least one of Brother Cai and Zhong Man was in an abnormal state at that time?” Bai Cha asked.
“Possibly,” everyone nodded.
“But that’s not right. I didn’t see the body when I came down,” Bai Cha asked again, puzzled.
The ponytail girl and the man with glasses were stunned. Only then did they remember that they had also asked Bai Cha when they came down, and at that time, Bai Cha indeed said she hadn’t seen Zhong Man’s body.
After that, they went to the kitchen and saw Brother Cai eating meat there, which means Zhong Man was definitely not killed by Brother Cai.
And the people who came out later all saw the body. Assuming everyone was telling the truth, then Zhong Man could only have been killed by a non-player.
“Looks like it’s the front desk.”
Everyone’s expressions became a bit more serious.
Bai Cha looked surprised and uneasy, and said, “Then why would the front desk kill Zhong Man at the door of room 305? Will it be dangerous for us to go?”
“No, if the death rule isn’t triggered, the front desk wouldn’t kill people.”
Wang Xuming glanced at Bai Cha and simply said it for him.
Bai Cha pretended not to see his gaze and looked even more uneasy.
“Then which rule did he violate? Did he go to the front desk without calling first?”
She seemed to be murmuring to herself, just saying it casually.
Xiao Xiao immediately said, “That’s very possible. Maybe he heard something or something. Didn’t Brother Cai tell us all to follow the rules on the front desk’s flyer?”
Zhong Man seemed timid to begin with, and coupled with his identity conflict with Bai Cha, he seemed very eager to prove himself useful so as not to be abandoned. Therefore, he was still very obedient to Brother Cai.
“Then which one could it be?” Ponytail girl asked.
“This…”
“Can we rule out the one we just deduced? Generally speaking, there’s only one death condition, and they wouldn’t stack many death conditions into one rule. If they did, this game wouldn’t be playable,” the glasses man said.
“Then did he see the stairs?” Bai Cha asked hesitantly.
In Bai Cha’s live stream:
[Seriously, this newbie keeps asking this and that, are they even competent?] [I came to see what kind of newbie is worth saving with an A-grade elixir, and this is it? Could it be infatuation?]
