What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

[Event: You and your group have accepted a challenge from the owner of the homestay. Now you can designate any player on the field who has not been eliminated. The designated player needs to complete the following challenge: stand with legs spread apart, bend down and look back from the middle of the legs. And during the viewing process, no sound, no movement, no eyes closed. After ten seconds of persistence, the challenge is considered complete. 】

[Within the limited time, if the challenge cannot be completed, the challenger will be eliminated. 】

[For a limited time, if you do not designate a challenger, you will be eliminated. Designees cannot refuse to execute the challenge. 】

【Friendly Reminder 1: The prying sight will definitely attract the prying eyes of others. If a challenger sees something weird, it's best not to share it with other players. If you share, please ensure that you can leave the current room faster than others. 】

[Friendly Reminder 2: Here, no one does not favor children with the lowest grades. 】

...Looks like the same content as what the squad leader drew before, just a few more lines.

In fact, I don't know how many times more vicious.

Xu Tueran looked at the card in his hand, snorted in his heart, noticed the curious eyes of others, put the card in his hand on the table, spread his legs, and bent down directly.

Although the squad leader hadn't looked at the card carefully, he reacted when he saw Xu Tueran's posture, and was about to speak to stop him, but Xu Tueran lowered his head.

"It's okay, count the time for me." She said, looking forward.

The field of view suddenly turned upside down, which inevitably made people feel a little uncomfortable. It took Xu Turan a little time to get used to it, but soon he realized something was wrong.

In front of her eyes was the stairs leading to the second floor. Based on Xu Tuoran's position and posture, she should only be able to see the side of the stairs, but the fact is that she is facing the stairs right now.

The stairs are empty, but the creaking sound of the wooden steps can be clearly heard when they are stepped on.

The voice was getting closer and closer, Xu Turan stared at the front without blinking, counting the time silently in his heart, and when he counted to the eighth second, a flash flashed in front of his eyes—

On the steps in front of her, a dark shadow appeared.

The black figure had a human-shaped outline, standing quietly in the upper middle of the stairs, and its limbs, which had grown so strangely, showed a stiff state, which reminded Xu Furan of the "slender ghost" in Western horror legends.

Accompanied by the black shadow, there was also the sound of "The death value increased by ten points". It was rare for Xu Turan not to be happy about it.

... can't beat it.

She stared at the figure for a moment, realizing it all too clearly and with all regret.

Unlike the blurry shadow she saw on the squad leader before, the black shadow in front of her gave her a stronger sense of oppression. A severe coldness rushed towards her face, like a wind mixed with blades, which made the back of her neck sore.

Xu Tuoran didn't know that this was the strengthening effect brought by the "domain", but instinctively realized that this black shadow was not of the same order as the things she encountered before...at least not of the order she can single out now.

I don't know how much the skill that can be strengthened can improve myself. But as far as the current situation is concerned, the strength gap between the two sides is quite wide.

Xu Tuoran silently dispelled the idea of ​​making a deliberate mistake to kill himself. I feel a little bit uncomfortable in my heart.

That kind of feeling, how should I put it, is like rushing to draw cards after accumulating dozens of companies, but only get the SSR that I already have, or like fishing for a long time, but only catch small crabs...

It can't be said that there is no gain, but it is inexplicably uncomfortable.

The squad leader's arrival reminder sounded next to him, but Xu Tuoran didn't straighten up immediately. She stared at the black figure for a few more seconds, then suddenly raised her right hand and gestured a **** to it tentatively.

Sombra: "..."

The voice of the death value rising again sounded in my mind.

Xu Tuoran finally felt at ease.

When Xu Tuoran straightened up, the others had almost finished reading the text on the card.

The squad leader has been watching her with trepidation, and he is relieved until he confirms that she is safe and sound; the rest of the people are also tense.

Because of the constraints of the card content, they did not dare to ask Xu Tueran what he saw, and the hall was eerily quiet for a while.

After a while, I heard the school committee whisper: "So, the former class leader became like that... It's not because of epilepsy at all, right?"

Xu Tuoran and the squad leader looked at each other, and the latter nodded solemnly. The face of the school committee turned even paler, and continued to speculate: "The monitor at the time was supposed to be 'punished' for violating the rules. And you saved him..."

"I was able to see some dirty things." Xu Tuoran moved out this set of rhetoric again, paused, and added, "But it's the first thing to say, don't count on me later. I was just lucky at the time , I can’t do a similar thing a second time.”

As soon as she said this, she thought that the crowd who hugged her thighs suddenly went limp again. Gu Xiaoya keenly captured a few key words: "'Behind'? 'Similar things'? Are you referring to..."

"The squad leader's card also has a clock pattern on it, showing twelve o'clock. And this one is eleven o'clock." Xu Tuoran clicked the card on the table, "This design cannot be meaningless."

"You mean, maybe there will be another ten or eight o'clock later... how many times will it have to be repeated?" Xiaomi showed a scared look.

"More than that." Xu Tuoran took out the card that the squad leader had drawn before from the discard pile, and put them together for comparison.

Comparing the two, the difference is more obvious. The school committee pursed its lips: "The rules of your card are even more unfriendly."

"What is unfriendly, to put it bluntly, is vicious." Xu Tuoran said bluntly, "Can't you understand? This is forcing everyone to split up and kill each other."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed again. After careful consideration, they found that Xu Turan was not wrong.

The person who draws the card can transfer the risk by designating a challenger. And those who take the risk will be eliminated once they fail, and become the "reciprocal" who are more likely to be targeted by those things-this kind of behavior of obviously selling teammates, once it occurs, will definitely lead to their friendship. The team broke down on the spot.

Not only that, challengers who are forced to take risks can also take the initiative to "share what they see" to deceive others. Anyway, the rules have already implied that only those who fail to escape from the room in time will suffer-this is the same as killing people with one hand. What difference does it make if you hand them your knife?

Xu Turan was right. Behind this advanced rule is full of malice.

A group of students who had been with each other for six years stood at the table, looking at each other, their hands and feet were cold.

"Then, what should we do?" After thinking for a moment, Xiaomi timidly said, "What if someone really gets this kind of event card again..."

"It's not an assumption, it's a certainty." The squad leader said in a heavy tone, "There won't be only one card of this kind used to divide us."

Xu Tuoran nodded in agreement and raised his finger: "I have a suggestion for this."

"Appoint a person who is more able to carry and take the role of 'challenger'. Take all risks in exchange for everyone's safety. In case he is eliminated, in the next hunt, everyone needs to give priority to protecting him—how? Yes Isn't it fairer?"

It seems to make a little sense. But anyone with a discerning eye can tell right away who she refers to as a "relatively stable" person.

"Are you asking us to leave this matter to you?" Gu Xiaoya said worriedly, "Is this not good?"

"I said, I can see this kind of thing since I was a child." Xu Tuoran said seriously, "Comparatively speaking, it is more tolerant."

"And you have also seen that I can successfully carry out this kind of task, and hand it over to me directly, which can reduce your trial and error costs, isn't it good?"

Xu Tuoran spoke sincerely. The school committee frowned slightly:

"Sorry, maybe I'm a little offended by asking this. But what good will it do you?"

Others actually have similar concerns. In the same way, if it were for other people present, they would definitely believe it under the foreshadowing of the friendship of six years of classmates; but for Xu Tuoran...

It's not that I don't believe it, but it's a little hard to be convinced.

Not everyone is as good at self-brainwashing as Gu Xiaoya, and most people still have doubts about Xu Tuoran's motive for running away alone. Now she proposes such a cooperation that is obviously not good for her... What is her purpose?

Even if it is to protect Gu Chenfeng, there is no need to do this, right? Under this condition, she can designate the object of protection, there is no need to bring them all.

Seeming to see their hesitation, Xu Turan spoke again, with a much calmer tone: "It really doesn't benefit me directly. But in the long run, it can guarantee a greater survival rate—don't you understand? Since this game wants to For us to divide, it means that this outcome is beneficial to it. The other way around, it means that it does not want us to unite."

"But the more this happens, the more we should be united, right?"

...unity.

The appearance of this word seems to be a stabilizing agent, slightly stabilizing the floating hearts. The school committee took a deep look at Xu Tuoran, his tense face finally relaxed.

"If you are really eliminated, then in the next round of hunting, I will definitely try my best to keep you." She said seriously, accepting Xu Tuoran's proposal.

It is much easier for others to nod when someone takes the lead. Only Gu Chenfeng was left, struggling to look at Xu Tuoran, as if he wanted to say something, but held back, and finally said: "Okay, it's still uncertain who will get the next one. Don't rush to make a decision. And other people may not really be able to bear it..."

He looked at the table and changed the subject unnaturally: "Whose turn is it next?"

Xu Turan didn't expect to succeed once, so he just smiled and quietly stepped aside. The squad leader who also has the priority of resurrection stepped forward and rolled the dice - luckily, he didn't draw an event card this time.

Then it returned to the normal order of the game, the school committee and the sports committee rolled dice one after another. The bad news is that they also need to draw event cards this round; the good news is that none of the cards they draw have a clock pattern on them.

The Sports Committee was asked to finish a glass of prickly pear juice. It is true that they brought the prickly pear juice themselves, but at this moment, something is obviously not right. The sports commissioner turned blue after drinking half of it, and immediately ran to the flowerpot in the corner of the hall to scratch his throat after drinking, and vomited out a puddle of water plants that were still wriggling.

As soon as the aquatic plants touched the soil in the flower pot, they immediately burrowed in like living things. The sports committee stared blankly, then suddenly became furious, rushed to the table and tried to tear up the event card, but tore it for a long time, the card was fine, his But the arm lost a piece of skin inexplicably, and the blood spurted.

The academic committee is better. She was asked to go to the bathroom at the end of the corridor on the first floor and be alone for five minutes. In order to give her courage, Xu Tuoran has been standing at the door of the bathroom, talking to her from time to time. Accompanied until the end of the five minutes, the school committee came out with a pale face.

"It's a good thing you're outside." She said with fear, "I always heard someone calling my name just now."

From the beginning of the party to now, Xu Tuoran has never called her by her name. If she hadn't realized this at a critical moment, she would have almost complied.

After the response, what happens again?

The school committee couldn't think of it, and didn't dare to think about it.

After actually experiencing two more terrorist incidents, everyone became more and more turbulent. The morale that was originally boosted by Xu Tuoran's word "unity" has already dropped again.

unity? How to unite? Not all event cards can be designated for transfer, and more are single-player tasks, which can only be carried and faced by themselves. If you die, you just die yourself.

At the beginning, they all thought that the clock event card was extremely vicious. Looking at it now, that card is simply kindness.

At this time of panic, Gu Xiaoya finished her turn.

She drew out an event card with a clock pattern on it. The pointer on the pattern is exactly pointing to ten o'clock.

— Just as they guessed, the event card that almost killed the squad leader reappeared.

The author has something to say:

Xu Tuoran: A qualified killer should have the courage to challenge, and if he can, he should do it.