Magic!

Hundreds of vampires who were attacking were stunned.

The next moment, silver-white flames burned on their bodies.

Vampires screamed and fell from the sky, like hundreds of silver meteors.

The dozen vampire nobles had the strength of the third-grade realm. They were not directly ignited by the sunlight, but they were also much weaker under the sunlight. The shadows and scarlet light surrounding them were much weaker than before.

Clara’s dozens of pupils suddenly widened: “Is this okay?”

"It shouldn't work in the real world. But this dream is constructed by extracting scenes from my subconscious, and will be slightly optimized based on my logic." Russell deduced the cause of the mutation.

With hundreds of vampires losing their fighting power, only a dozen vampire nobles weakened by the sun and the vampire duke who were obviously in a weakened state were left on the battlefield.

Although Clara was injured by the vampire duke before, this level of injury was not serious for the old rulers with special physiques. Moreover, after disappearing for the first time, Russell had already taken out the healing potion and gave it to Clara. , has basically recovered now.

——The extraordinary items you refine can be used in competitions!

In the next few minutes, Russell and Clara circled the enemy in the air, sometimes jumping into the foggy space parallel to the real world, and sometimes appearing behind the vampire duke.

Clara created a large number of illusions to confuse her opponents, causing the blood nobles to look at the illusions in the sky and not know which one was the real Clara or Russell; she also imposed abnormal memes on herself and Russell, making them see themselves and Russell. Russell's vampire nobles recognized the two as allies from time to time, but it took them a while to react after being reminded by the vampire duke.

Russell took out his mobile phone magic weapon and summoned one hazy wind chime ghost soul after another to disturb the enemy. The main body imposed curse after curse on the vampire duke, continuing to weaken the prey.

Under the interference of a large number of illusions and memetics abilities, and under the shining of the silver sunlight above their heads, although these blood nobles had an advantage in numbers, they could hardly pose a substantial threat to Russell and Clara, forcing the weak blood Duke to have no choice but to You don't have to face two powerful enemies on your own.

As the battle continued, Russell and Clara's side gradually gained the upper hand.

Suddenly, a countdown with blood-red words appeared in front of Russell and Clara.

[Countdown to clearance: 3 minutes]

[The team that fails to clear the level within the time limit will be eliminated! 】

No, there’s still a time limit!

After killing the vampire duke, there is still a challenge to the secret room!

Clara and Russell quickly stepped up their attack on the Blood Duke.

…

Real world academy of higher education.

The two investigators, a man and a woman, have not forgotten their mission of "making noise to disturb the contestants' sleep" and have arrived behind Hui Yao's mansion.

It was quiet all the way to the Higher Institute now. Everyone was probably watching the live broadcast of the competition in the corresponding villa. There were no pedestrians on the road at all, which was very convenient for the two investigators.

"This is right here, the villa of player Hui Yao!"

The two disguised investigators took out the radio, leaned against the window, and slowly turned up the volume of the radio.

"This time shouldn't be as unlucky as last time, right? At Arctic Wolf's villa before, I suspected that Mr. Arctic Wolf slept late, and that's when he discovered something unusual about us." The male investigator muttered.

"Yes, yes, it has been so long since the competition started, and all the contestants must be sleeping deeply. There will definitely be no more accidents." The female investigator also agreed.

As they were talking, the two investigators squatting by the wall suddenly noticed that a tall figure covered them.

They saw an evil and cold man wearing sunglasses, white hair, and leather boots walking up to them.

Arctic wolf!

The two of them were shocked.

Shouldn't Mr. Arctic Wolf be sleeping in his mansion right now, participating in a dream competition? Why did you come to the other contestants' mansions?

Has it been following us quietly since the beginning?

"Did you hide here?"

Arctic Wolf looked at the two of them and chuckled, then took out his right hand from his pocket, looking like he was about to unleash his extraordinary abilities.

The two investigators were frightened. They hurriedly put away the radio, turned around and ran away:

"Sorry, Mr. Arctic Wolf, we were just passing by!"

"Please spare us, Mr. Arctic Wolf!"

In just a blink of an eye, the two fleeing men disappeared.

The Arctic Wolf, who was in a sleepwalking state, shouted loudly, pushed his right hand forward, and held it into the air:

"You, the mighty Duke of the Vampire Race, are actually hiding here. We have caught you now! You must die!"

…

In the dreamland of the Arctic Wolf team.

"Finally, we have killed this vampire duke. As long as you complete the final intellectual challenge of the secret room, you will be able to pass the level."

The Arctic Wolf smiled with relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

His luck was surprisingly good today. There was an unknown glitch in the dreamland. Most of the vampires that were originally going to attack him and Duncan were stuck in the air or inside entities due to bugs, and were unable to move at all.

They chased the vampire Duke all the way through the High Court in the dream, and came to Hui Yao's mansion, easily solving the opponent whose actions were lagging due to a glitch in the dream.

With the death of the vampire duke, a bright red door to space slowly opened.

Arctic Wolf and Duncan stepped into the crimson door one after another.

…

In the dreamland of the clown team.

The clown, who had already killed the vampire duke and arrived at the challenge room, rubbed the black and white clown mask on half of his face, looking thoughtfully at the three girls with different hair colors in front of him and the questions floating in the air.

“I see, this last challenge is not a test of strength, but of thinking ability.

"In this way, the answer will come out."

The smiling clown stretched out his finger and pointed at one of the girls.

"My answer is..."

…

In the dream of Clara's team.

As Clara swung her tentacles forward again, the vampire Duke's soul was finally torn apart completely, his eyes lost focus, and he fell from the air.

[Target dies. 】

[Challenge secret room opens, complete the final intellectual challenge, solve the puzzle and pass the level! 】

[Countdown: 46 seconds]

A clear female voice like an announcer sounded in my ears.

A dozen vampire nobles flying in the air suddenly disappeared, and the corpse of the vampire Duke on the ground was broken into little scarlet light spots.

The red light spots gathered into a crimson space door.

Looking at the countdown that passed by one minute and one second, Russell and Clara, knowing that time was running out, hurriedly rushed into the crimson door.

When the bright red light dissipated, the two came to a small closed secret room.

At one end of the secret room, three girls with different appearances were sitting against the wall and on the floor. The girl on the left had black hair and blue eyes, the girl in the middle had blond hair and blue eyes, and the girl on the right had red hair and brown eyes.

On the other side, there is the real Subway that has been waiting here for a long time.

"Haha, you two are finally here." The two of Subway greeted:

"I appeared here at the beginning of the dream. I was told to wait patiently for the other two teammates to clear the level and enter this secret room.

"There is a puzzle to be solved here. Only by solving it can you pass the challenge. During the waiting period, I can study the question first and tell you the answer directly when you come in. But this question is so difficult, I thought about it. For a long time, I didn’t have any clue!”

Russell immediately understood the design mechanism of this dream game.

This is a level that tests both intelligence and strength.

Among the trio, two are fighting vampires outside, while one is studying puzzles in the secret room.

After the Blood Duke was defeated, the trio were able to reunite.

If the two people outside are stronger, they can solve the Vampire Duke faster and have more time to think about the puzzle.

If the person in the secret room has strong logical ability and has researched the answer to the puzzle before the three of them meet, he can pass the level quickly!

Russell looked in the direction Subway pointed and saw a puzzle floating in the air:

[Problem: Fickle Alice]

[The three girls in the secret room are Anna, Vivian and Alice, but you don’t know who they are and you can’t touch them. 】

[Anna is an honest child and always gives only true answers to questions raised. 】

[Vivian is a child who loves to lie and will always give answers to questions that are contrary to the truth. 】

[Alice is a fickle child and may give true answers to questions, or she may give opposite answers. 】

[You can ask a total of three questions to determine who Alice is, and each question can only be asked to one of the girls. 】

[The three girls are all mute and can only answer your questions by raising their left hand or right hand. 】

[In the language of the three girls, there are two actions: raising the left hand and raising the right hand, one representing "yes" and the other representing "no". But you don't know the specific correspondence - that is, you don't know which one of raising your left hand or your right hand means "yes". 】

[Find Alice among the three to complete the level! 】

"Is this... a three-god problem?"

Russell immediately recognized this classic puzzle, and knowing that time was running out, he thought quickly:

“The difficulty of this question is that we neither know whether the answers given by the three people are true or false, nor do we know whether the two actions of raising the left hand and raising the right hand represent yes and which one represents no?

"So the key to this puzzle is to find a question that allows us to obtain information based on the answer even if we don't know what the two actions mean... Well, we have three opportunities to ask questions, right? Let me think about it, first The first question is: If I ask you the one on the left..."

Subway interrupted Russell's thinking:

"Wait a minute Russell, I have asked the question twice. But both opportunities were wasted and no useful information was obtained at all!"

"Subway, what are you doing?" Clara waved her tentacles angrily.

Although Clara had no clue about solving the puzzle, she also guessed that this kind of puzzle should be designed to require three questioning opportunities to get the answer. Even if the question has a mistake rate, it still requires at least two questions. Second-rate.

"What, you have already asked the question twice? Now there is only one chance to ask the question?"

Russell's thoughts were interrupted, his brain was in chaos, and he was stunned.

There is only one chance to ask questions. In this case, how should we design the questions to maximize the probability of finding Alice?

"Clara, can you use telepathic communication with them? In this case, even the mute can answer the questions!" Russell planned to find another way and no longer follow the normal logic puzzle rules.

Clara shook the top tentacle:

"No, these three girls are probably just phantoms. They are not real people at all."

hateful!

Russell lowered his head and frowned.

Before he could come up with an answer, a bloody countdown enlarged in front of the three of them.

[Countdown: 5 seconds]

【4 seconds】

【 3 seconds】

"It's over now." Clara and Subway wailed.

…

The giant crystal screen showed that two teams had completed the intellectual challenge in the secret room, found the real Alice, and passed the first level.

After thinking for a period of time, the clown asked the right question and determined which girl was Alice. He became the leader of the team that cleared the level first and would gain the greatest advantage in the second round of the game.

The Arctic Wolf entered the challenge room even later, but Duncan almost didn't think twice before he thought of the right way to ask the question.

The first question asks the girl in the middle: "If I asked you if the girl on the left is Alice, would you raise your left hand?"

The girl raised her left hand.

Duncan explained in the confused eyes of Bai and Arctic Wolf:

"It follows that the girl on the right is not Alice."

The other two were even more confused.

Next, he asked the girl on the right the second question:

"If I asked you if you were Vivian, would you raise your left hand?"

After seeing the girl on the right raise her right hand, Duncan asked the third question:

"If I asked you if the girl in the middle was Alice, would you raise your left hand?"

In this way, Duncan successfully found the real Alice.

Although Bai next to him didn't understand it at all, he was shocked and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the teammate his brother had found was indeed quite capable.

…

After the Clown and Arctic Wolf teams cleared the level, with 10 seconds left in the countdown, Huiyao's team also successfully cleared the level and became the third team to pass the level.

Although Huiyao himself was unable to solve the problem, his cousin Xinyue, who stayed in the secret room of the puzzle in advance, was also completely clueless. But as a teammate, Xinghuo immediately calmed down, took out a pen and paper and drew on the paper, sorted out his thoughts, and finally designed three suitable questions, and completed the level at the last moment.

Seeing that the countdown is about to end, excluding the eliminated Travelers team, only Clara's team is left in the dream!

…

In the dream of Clara's team.

[Countdown: 2 seconds]

Russell almost didn't think, and pointed his finger resolutely at the blond girl in the middle:

"She's Alice!"

With a crisp ding, the countdown stopped.

[Congratulations, Clara, Subway and Russell, you successfully passed the level! 】

A clear female voice sounded in my ears.

"Okay, the level is cleared."

Subway's palms and Clara's tentacles high-fived.

"Russell Russell, how on earth did you find out the real Alice without even asking a question?"

Clara shot Russell dozens of blank looks.

At the same time, in the playground of the junior high school in the real world, the students watching the crystal screen also expressed their own doubts.

Although most students failed to understand and were too lazy to understand the questions asked by the previous three teams, the questions asked by the first three teams did seem to be rigorous and logical, and they were able to identify the fickle person who spoke both truth and falsehood. Alice.

And Russell looks like he was picked at random!

"I should choose one at random, because I don't have enough time. If I choose one randomly, I might still bump into it."

"That must be it. He didn't even ask."

"That's not bad luck."

I saw a close-up of Russell Qingjun's face on the crystal screen. The young man nodded gently and said seriously:

"Because generally speaking, Alice is blonde."

ah?

Black Feather, who was watching the game, was stunned and was shocked by Russell's idea of ​​​​passing the level.

Immediately afterwards, cheers rang out one after another on the playground.

That was the cheers that broke out from the students supporting Clara’s team!

Kuroyu also clapped, and at the same time couldn't help but look at the reactions of the audience behind him.

What shocked Kuroyu was that the audience behind him who had been mocking Clara's team just now seemed to have changed their faces at this moment, and they were full of admiration:

"That's so smart!"

"What a team that Clara, Russell and Subway deserve!"

"There is actually this kind of problem-solving method, which is much better than the clowns."

One of the spectators raised his fist in the air and shouted:

"Long live Clara, long live Russell, long live Subway! You guys are awesome!"

Influenced by these spectators, other students also cheered.

Kuroyu narrowed his eyes.

What's going on with you guys? Are you here specifically to set the pace?

…

After successfully clearing the level, the Arctic Wolf opened his eyes after escaping from the dream.

The night has gone, and it is still daytime now, with the sun hanging in the blue sky and white clouds floating in the sky.

etc!

Arctic Wolf suddenly discovered something was wrong.

Why are you outdoors?

Arctic Wolf looked around and found that he was near the mansion of another contestant, Hui Yao.

"Could it be that you were sleepwalking just now?"

Arctic Wolf scratched his head and walked towards his villa.

"I hope it didn't affect anyone else just now."

…

Russell and the other three woke up from their dreams.

The misty fog in the room has dispersed.

"Although it was not completely smooth, although we were the last team to pass the level. But at least we passed the first level and were not eliminated like the Traveler team."

Russell took out his mobile phone, checked the progress of the competition, and learned about the current situation of the competition.

In the subsequent second round of the competition, the four participating teams, Clown Team, Arctic Wolf Team, Brilliance Team, and Clara Team, will receive varying degrees of gains based on the order of clearance in the first round.

"Our team is the last to clear the customs, and may face some unfavorable factors in the second round." Russell reminded the two teammates.

At this moment, the official website of the college updated the event information again.

Round 2 is about:

Jungle adventure!