After seeing the end, Su Er's face instantly darkened.
The game is about portraying him as a public enemy.
"Pu Liu made a suggestion." The loyal servant guarding the tomb reported happily.
Apart from going to the detention center to rescue someone, Suer did not remember offending the host this time.
"That guy likes to have everything under control. He's tried to identify a few rebellious players, but he's still worried about you, the variable."
If a fence-sitter wants to fall, the wind must blow. Sur is the type that can rotate 365 degrees on its own. It will go wherever there is benefit to dig.
"So, their escape route was cut off right from the start," the loyal tomb-guarding servant gloated. "Soon, he'll spread the news of last night's events."
Su Er sighed. He had been going smoothly for so long that he almost forgot the principle of getting his shoes wet by the river.
The loyal servant guarding the tomb felt quite regretful that he did not see any grief or anger on that hateful face.
He took back the mirror and disappeared without a trace in the same instant as when he came.
"He's not here just to provoke me?"
How much hatred and resentment?
Ji Heng: "Don't bother with boring people, but you should pay more attention to Mr. Pu Liu."
Unlike other hosts, Mr. Pu Liu has never openly targeted Suer, nor has he deliberately avoided him. This style of acting silently and in secret is what we should be most vigilant about.
Suer sat down, but his meal had already gone cold when he was interrupted by the tomb-guarding servant. He took a couple of quick bites and asked about the invitation: "You said it carries a curse?"
Ji Heng: "It will reduce one's luck."
The luck in the dungeon has been reduced, which means that your life is in danger at all times.
Su Er: "Should we go and inform Zhao Banjin?"
Ji Heng shook his head: "I have other arrangements for him."
Su Er said "Oh" and buried his head in eating. He kept feeling that a pair of eyes were lingering on him. He raised his head and met Ji Heng's eyes.
"The core of the Tianji City dungeon is also destiny."
Because the divine calculator's cheating failed, Su Er was deeply impressed and nodded, "It is similar to this world."
Ji Heng looked at him and suddenly said, "Perhaps your eyeballs will come in handy."
Sur put down his chopsticks and took out the mysterious eye from his body.
Compared to before, the turbidity on the surface has dissipated a lot, the vertical pupil is clearer, and it has completely transformed into a snake's eye.
As soon as Ji Heng mentioned it, he had some ideas. Zhu Yun seemed to be able to take greater initiative in the copy related to fate, and perhaps she could provide some help this time.
The moist and soft eyeballs suddenly twitched in the palm of my hand.
Sur's body shook slightly uncontrollably. It was definitely not a pleasant thing to look into a snake's eyes, so he insisted on not looking away.
hiss--
The sound of the snake spitting out its tongue lingered in his ears. At this moment, Sur seemed to have returned to Tianji City, with a disgusting human-faced flower snake following behind him.
"Dual identity, kill."
After a long time, Sur finally heard the vague and distorted voice.
As his eyes returned to his body, Su Er's expression became more serious.
If we understand it literally, there are several possibilities.
Ji Heng: "You'll know when you get to that point."
Without dwelling on this issue any longer, Sur turned to think of another thing. In order to obtain the method to summon eyeballs from his body, he owed the loyal tombkeeper a hundred tears.
Currently the progress is zero.
After rubbing his temples, he decided to put this matter on the agenda as soon as possible.
The past two days were uneventful.
During this time, Soul focused on the training course. Vampires' abilities were to protect others, but succubus's abilities could protect themselves. He seized every spare moment to train on the succubus's abilities.
It is difficult to take action against people with weak minds, so Ji Heng naturally became the target of practice.
So in Ji Heng's eyes, Su Er turned into a peacock with a screen on for 24 hours, almost pouncing on him directly. Fortunately, this situation only lasted for a day and a half. On the night before his birthday party, Su Er rationally stopped exuding his charm.
I slept very uneasily that night.
Sur was sleepy, but the eye in his body kept moving restlessly, and his chest felt hot.
Unable to bear it any longer, he suddenly opened his eyes and considered whether to let his eyeballs come out of his body first.
However, the scene before him made Soul forget about his noisy eyes temporarily.
On the bed opposite, Ji Heng was holding a silver iron ball with nine holes around it. At this moment, a small snake emerged from each hole, entangled together in a strange way.
The eyeballs moved even more frequently, as if they wanted to rush out and swallow the small ball.
Su Er's expression turned cold, and he threatened: "If you dare to rush around, you are welcome in the flushing toilet."
The eyes finally calmed down.
Ji Heng knew that Suer had woken up, but he did not stop what he was doing. The entangled little snakes formed a flower bud, and as the snakes squirmed, the flower bud began to bloom.
Heather.
Soul recognized the flower.
The little snake crawled back into the ball. Ji Heng pondered for a few seconds, then looked over.
"Did it wake you?"
Su Er shook his head: "It is this eye that has stimulated my appetite."
Ji Heng casually explained, "Monsters rely on cannibalism to strengthen themselves."
Suer was not afraid of what he would do to him. If the other party wanted to devour the mysterious eye, he could have done it in Tianji City as early as now.
After a long while, he asked the question that was in his heart: "Do you have the ability to predict the future?"
"It depends on how you define it. I don't have this ability myself, but I rely on some special props."
However, the role that props can play is far less than that of the prophet.
Ji Heng used the incident just now as an example: "A true prophet would see a fragment of the future, but I can't. Props can only bring people a small revelation."
Su Er was thoughtful and guessed the reason why he didn't often use this prop. If he was not careful, predicting the future moment might be the beginning of going astray.
As the focus of the game, Soul lay down on the bed after a long sigh.
The same person may have different fates, and it is all related to the prophecy. Some people will not be targeted at all.
As if seeing his frustration, Ji Heng smiled and said, "I never use this ability to skirt the rules."
Su Er glanced sideways: "It's hard to imagine."
Shouldn't a boss's style of doing things be based on dominance?
Ji Heng said calmly, "Using the power given by the game to fight the game, the success rate is basically zero."
Suer pondered this sentence over and over again. It sounded like he was acknowledging the authority of the game, but it also seemed like he was reminding himself that when he had to deal with the game one day, he should never think of relying on props.
At least you can't rely on the props given by the game.
The next day, before dawn, there was already movement in the corridor.
Suer got up early as usual and was stopped on the way to the cafeteria with Ji Heng.
"I can't believe it..." Zhao Banjin had a complicated expression.
Before Suer asked what was going on, Zhao Banjin showed him a video that was the same as the one playing on the water curtain.
"The host sent it in the early morning."
It's easy to imagine that all players received it, but since they were mentally prepared, Sur didn't show much surprise.
The banquet didn't start until the evening, and as dusk was falling, the three of them took a taxi to the address on the invitation.
It was a birthday party, not a grand one. No one from the Lin family was present, but Lin Qian's sister, Lin Su, was there. To make her sister happier, she invited a popular band.
Suer observed that almost all the players who received the invitations chose to attend the banquet. "The meaning of the heather flower seems to be..."
A burst of booing interrupted his speech.
A princess-shaped cake was wheeled to the center of the hall. Each fold of the dress represented a layer, for a total of ten. Lin Qian, wearing a red dress, stood next to the cream cake, creating a striking contrast in color.
"Thank you all for coming."
A boy suddenly shouted, "The most beautiful little princess," and the atmosphere instantly became lively.
Lin Qian cut the cake herself.
As she took the knife, Soul held his breath for a few seconds, and the scene of a corpse hidden in a cake in a horror movie appeared in his mind.
However, the cake remained pure and was perfectly cut into two parts. The maids helped cut the rest into pieces of similar sizes and distributed them to each person in turn.
Since there is no restriction on players killing each other, Sur is naturally worried about being poisoned.
Lin Qian seemed to have been staring at this place intentionally or unintentionally, and it would seem too out of place if she didn't eat a bite.
After thinking about it, Suer's gaze finally fixed on Ji Heng's face.
After two seconds of silence, Ji Heng said, "Don't get it on your clothes."
Su Er rubbed some cream on his face, just like a natural play between classmates, and then continued the words that had been interrupted just now: "Heather..."
"I know." Ji Heng applied some on his face as well.
The cake was just an opening, and the passionate drumbeats soon filled the entire villa.
The lights flickered, dancing between red, blue and purple, and the hall seemed to have turned into a dance floor.
Suddenly, the villa fell into darkness and the band's sound stopped abruptly.
"Let's play a little game of hide-and-seek. I'll be the ghost," a charming voice said. "Wan Baolin has collected a lot of goodies lately. Anyone who remains undiscovered within an hour will receive a prize."
There was a noisy chatter among the young people who loved the thrill and the prizes. They soon began to grope in the darkness, looking for a place to hide.
Of course, the mood is completely different for players.
They understand that if they don't hide well, this could be a deadly game.
Ji Heng whispered, "Killing is not the goal."
Suer nodded. Otherwise, it would be better to take action one by one. It would be disadvantageous to go to great lengths to gather them together.
However, the game has already begun, and since the other party's purpose is unclear, we can only cooperate and find a place to hide.
The closer to Lin Qian, the less safe it was. Suer went around from the side and prepared to go upstairs. There were many people who had the same idea as him.
Soul's awakened vampire identity gave him far superior vision in the dark. He clearly saw that no matter which direction he took, he would end up in a maze, but instead of returning to the starting point, everyone unknowingly walked into the backyard, and everything around them transformed into mirrors.
It was a familiar mirror maze, but unfortunately there was no loyal servant to show the way this time.
"What the hell?" A player accidentally stepped into the water and his shoes got wet immediately.
Soul scanned each face in turn, making sure those trapped were players.
A scream was heard.
Warm blood splattered from the player who had just spoken. First, his legs vanished, and soon half his body disappeared. Then came the sounds of some creature chewing food.
Several people who were close to the tragically dead player quickly moved away. But within two seconds, another person among those who retreated experienced the same fate.
"I advise everyone not to act rashly." A voice that sounded very familiar to Su Er said, "Everyone has arrived at the backyard of the villa. There are crocodiles, wolfhounds, and many other ferocious animals here."
"Zhao Banjin." Su'er's eyes moved and he looked in the direction of the voice.
Zhao Banjin smiled and said, "Sorry."
But there was no trace of apology in his tone.
Suer subconsciously looked at Ji Heng. The latter did not look surprised at all, as if he had noticed it a long time ago.
Zhao Banjin reiterated the danger, explaining that the environment they were in was superficially a large mirror maze, but in reality it was a dangerous backyard, and if they were not careful they could stray into a deadly animal lair.
"There's only one way to survive. Agree to join our team and fight Yugi together."
In the darkness, someone spoke: "Even if we catch you and interrogate you, you can still get out."
Zhao Banjin smiled and said, "Do you dare to come over?"
He was standing at a distance from everyone else. The two players who had died earlier made the remaining people dare not act rashly.
"So this is the purpose." Su Er narrowed his eyes: "Rather than killing people, what you want is to win over and gain submission."
The power of one person is limited. If you want to compete with the game, you must at least gather a group of capable players.
"But I don't understand why you do this?"
"You're not the only one who's awakened to a dual identity," Zhao Banjin responded calmly. "My other identity is a prophet, but the tester doesn't record it, so it's not displayed."
"So from that moment on, you started planning to cooperate with the people in the dungeon who had the ability to predict the future?"
Zhao Banjin nodded.
Ji Heng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "Who is the person you are working with?"
Zhao Banjin sighed: "Tell you, doesn't that mean I have completed the dungeon mission?"
Who would do such a stupid thing?
Ji Heng changed the question: "The future is changing rapidly. How can we ensure that the players who promised will keep their promises?"
Zhao Banjin gave a strange smile: "I have a way, but I can't tell you."
Su Er had a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, the next moment, Zhao Banjin looked at him with a fixed gaze: "The game seems to be taking special care of you, as can be seen from the achievement points."
What this means is that variables must be nipped in the bud early on.
"You are Zhao Sanliang's cousin, we could have been friends."
Zhao Banjin: "We may be friends, but I still want to kill you."
Having inexplicably become a sitting duck again, Soul calmed himself down and said sincerely, "Actually, I'm just being polite to the game. We can start a wonderful collaboration."
Zhao Banjin shook his head. "In the future I foresaw, you left the dungeon alive and received several achievement points. So, Suer..."
His tone gradually became cruel: "You are the key to breaking the deadlock. As long as you die, the predetermined future can be changed!"
"…Besides this, what else do you foresee?"
Zhao Banjin was quite frank: "That one image nearly killed me, but fortunately it was enough."
The mission of the copy is to find the real murderer. If Sur goes out, it means that his partner has failed, and the breaker dies early, so there is room for maneuver.
All was quiet.
None of the trapped players tried to be the first to step forward. They quietly watched the development of the situation and weighed what options to make.
After a long while, Su Er managed to utter a few words: "Actually... I was also sent by the prophet."
Zhao Banjin was stunned for a moment, then said after a while, "They'll make up any story just to stay alive."
After a pause, he couldn't help but pointed at Ji Heng sarcastically: "Why don't you say that he is actually a predictor?"
Soul was silent.
...He really is.