The tension in the air was seriously beyond normal levels.
The players dared not look at Xue Wei’s expression for a second time after just a glance.
Pang Yang whispered, “Was she so happy just now because she thought she had found all the players?”
Fang Qi nodded. “It seems so.”
He looked at the two players’ bodies being carried away. “She must have been happy to find a corpse using one player and came out happily, not expecting there was another corpse that killed another player in the storage room.”
Thinking about Xue Wei’s happy appearance just now, Pang Yang said, “This is a bit awkward.”
He had opinions about Xue Wei, but he also truthfully said, “At first, I also thought that among the four players on bus 07, there was a corpse.”
All four of them wrote self-introductions. After Xue Wei finished reading them, apart from all four being from bus 07, she couldn’t find any other issues. Otherwise, she would have known who the corpse was just by reading the self-introductions.
There were no problems with the self-introductions.
There were just one extra person.
And they also confirmed that there should be only three players on one bus.
Therefore, everyone felt that there was a corpse among the four.
According to Ning Su’s meticulous nature, this idea was incorrect.
It wasn’t that there was one corpse.
There were corpses.
At this point, Pang Yang didn’t feel like making fun of Xue Wei. He looked at Hu Li, who was leaning against the storage room door. “She’s already a corpse, right? From now on, we should be completely unable to distinguish between players we don’t know and corpses.”
Fang Qi said, “The good news is, there’s only one player left to find. As the corpses become smarter, they should come to us voluntarily.”
Ning Su peeked down from the bed. “How do you know there’s only one?”
Fang Qi hesitated.
Yes, if Hu Li could be a corpse, how could they be certain that the other players confirmed today were all players?
Both of them were exhausted.
They had lost all hope for life.
Pang Yang said, “Seriously, let’s forget about finding any players. No matter who it is, we shouldn’t actively contact them.”
Fang Qi: “Yes, that’s how I think. It’s the most secure.”
He thought for a moment and said, “It seems like most of the dead players mistook corpses for other players. As long as we treat any uncertain players as ghosts, don’t respond or touch them, there shouldn’t be a problem.”
Pang Yang: “Yes, this way we won’t expose that we’re, right?”
They encouraged each other and looked up at Ning Su.
Ning Su: “...”
It’s not that he wanted to discourage them, but he always felt that this level 4 instance shouldn’t be so simple.
They couldn’t confirm which players were left, and which ones were still alive.
What was relatively certain was that there were thirteen players that they had confirmed as dead, not excluding any that they hadn’t found, but overall, roughly half of the players were still alive.
In the previous level 3 instance, out of twenty players, only seven or eight managed to clear it.
That was in the situation where Shi Tianzhu maintained overall control and stability.
In this level 4 instance, with the human pupa master taking the lead, and leading in a chaotic manner, a 50 percent survival rate was unlikely.
Ning Su said somewhat tactfully, “We’ve only passed through a small portion of time; it’s still early.”
Looking at the faces of the two, Ning Su relaxedly said, “It should get better in the later stages.”
In any case, they shouldn’t lose another thirteen or fourteen people.
The expressions on the faces of the two immediately brightened.
Ning Su: “...”
He glanced at Xue Wei again, thinking that this was under the circumstance where the human pupa master wasn’t angry or causing trouble.
Xue Wei returned to her bed, and Gu Xinghua stood nervously by her side, not daring to breathe loudly.
“I’m going to kill them.” After who knew how long, Xue Wei said coldly.
Her appearance belonged to the category of sexy and stunning. At this moment, her extremely sinister expression, under the dim light, distorted her face, making her look somewhat terrifying.
Gu Xinghua swallowed, “Who?”
Xue Wei: “Hu Li, that player who’s hiding and not coming out, everyone who fooled me.”
Gu Xinghua shivered again.
He comforted Xue Wei, “Tonight, we gained significant information. Che Yutian is dead, but didn’t we also see the process of his death?”
He recalled and said, “It’s almost certain that the key is players touching corpses. Everything else is insignificant.”
Xue Wei nodded, “It’s better than nothing. Whether to touch or not doesn’t matter much.”
She consistently favored violent solutions, evident here by swiftly dealing with corpses if they approached her, even before any physical contact occurred.
But there was still an unconfirmed player, so it should matter.
Gu Xinghua thought so, but he didn’t dare to say it when Xue Wei was so angry.
The death of two players in the storage room made everyone anxious and heavy-hearted.
Many players couldn’t sleep that night.
Ning Su lay on Ling Xiao’s bed and asked him, “You’re a player now, right?”
Ling Xiao made a sound of agreement.
Ning Su moved his arm up a bit. “Can I discuss the instance with you?”
Ling Xiao opened his eyes and looked at him. “You want to discuss the instance?”
Ning Su nodded, asking, “Do you think my reasoning earlier was correct?”
“...”
Fang Qi on the upper bunk seemed to understand why the lazy fish was so earnestly reasoning just now.
Ling Xiao remained silent for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed and said, “Yes.”
It was the first time Ning Su saw him laugh, a low laughter that quickly flashed across his face.
For Ning Su, it was like the statue of the Flower God suddenly smiling.
Ning Su scratched his ear, turned his head, giving Ling Xiao a side profile and half of the back of his head, then after a few tens of seconds, he silently climbed down himself.
It wasn’t until he lay on his own bed for who knew how long that Ning Su remembered he was supposed to seriously discuss the instance with Ling Xiao.
They hadn’t discussed anything; he just lay here.
He didn’t know what Ling Xiao thought of his inexplicable behavior.
Ning Su perked up his ears to listen to the movements above.
Quiet, no sound.
It’s rare, Ning Su didn’t fall asleep for a minute, and it took ten minutes for him to sleep this time.
No players died this night, which eased the tension of the players slightly.
The second day passed without any player deaths. Most players confirmed their identities and learned not to actively touch anyone else.
The players’ faces obviously relaxed a lot.
Pang Yang said, “It seems like we’re much safer now. If every day is like this, we can persevere and clear the level.”
Fang Qi also looked much more relaxed. “We guessed it right. The rule of this instance is that if players don’t actively touch the corpses, the corpses can’t confirm any difference, and they can’t kill players.”
Ning Su made a thoughtful sound.
After these two people learned how to survive, they had the energy to ponder the system’s prompt of [Do good deeds, don’t inquire about the future.]
Especially Pang Yang, who had done something wrong before, was very proactive. “I need to see if there’s any good deeds I can do.”
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