A ghost storyteller can lose his life but cannot lose his job

Chapter 7 Cheater

"She's looking for you?" Even Kuster noticed this and was extremely surprised. "Is she a neighbor?"

"Yes, and I have found it." Zhong Xie replied and began to think about it in his mind.

Assume that the "ghost" in the first round of the game is the neighbor. Judging from the footsteps, she has only entered Room 1, so she chooses to "kill" the character in Room .

After leaving Room 1, she searched all the rooms in turn, trying to find the "rat" that appeared in other rooms. After the "rat" left her room, it was not protected by the rules, and she could kill it directly with her ghost story ability.

The first target of the "ghost" neighbor must be the "widower", the strange story of the "widower" she wants to devour.

During the lights-out period, she stood for a long time at the door of Room 8, because Room 10 was the only empty room among the 8 rooms, and she did not find any scent of a "widower".

This is enough to prove that the "widower"'s room was Room 8 and he also escaped from the third floor.

Secondly, she was able to determine that Zhong Xie was on the second floor based on the situation in Room 8, which shows that she had some understanding of the abilities of "Rat".

The knocking sound on the floor is a malicious reminder, and the neighbor does not need any words to make this fact clear.

I found you.

She cannot directly take the doll from Room 8, and there is no point in using the game to kill the "widower". Her goal is to devour the ghost story, so the simplest and most direct way is to "eat" him during the lights-out phase.

Zhong Xie didn't expect that the first round of the game would be more dangerous than he imagined. No matter whether he, the mouse, chose to dig a hole to the left or the right, he would definitely die if he was caught by the ghost neighbor. He had nowhere to run on this closed third floor.

It would be fine for him to stay in his own room, but the ghost neighbor knew he was in Room 8 after finding him all the way there. He couldn't gather any information and was already at a disadvantage.

However, the situation is completely different now.

In the first round of the game, he was not caught by the "ghost" neighbor, and he clearly heard the whole process of her "murder".

The "ghost" neighbor was completely exposed in front of him, and she couldn't do anything to him.

The neighbor is definitely not a rat, otherwise he would have gone straight through the rat hole to find him on the second floor.

Before digging the rat hole, he heard the "ghost" moving from left to right, namely, Room 9, Room 10, and Room 11. Now he heard the "ghost" walk into Room 11 and there was no movement.

The rule is that if a "ghost" leaves a room, its footsteps will be revealed, and it must return to its own room before turning on the light, so it is useless to hide in a certain room.

In order to prevent the neighbors from being confused, Zhong Xie would wait here until the lights were turned off before leaving, to prevent the "ghost" neighbors from sneaking back to their rooms during the last minute.

Anyway, he is not a ghost, he can go back to the third floor after turning on the lights.

In the end, Zhong Xie didn't wait for the footsteps to leave Room 11, and the ghost neighbor just stayed in Room 11.

give up?
Zhong Xie couldn't understand.

If he was a "ghost" neighbor, he would definitely run quickly in the corridor before the lights were turned on to confuse the "rats" on the second floor, and then return to his room in the chaos.

After all, the "rat" did not directly see which room the ghost neighbor entered, and might not be able to accurately determine the exact room number in the presence of interference. It could only regain the advantage by dragging it until the next round of lights-out.

Does this mean you intend to defeat me using logical deductions during the voting phase?
It shouldn't be possible as long as the other participants are not fools, right?
Can it be that simple?
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Sure enough it's not that simple.

Zhong Xie sat in a corner of the large round table in the conference room, looking at the other nine creatures with a frown on his face, feeling confused and uncertain for a moment.

It wasn't because there were two weird looking creatures among the nine, but because there were only nine creatures besides him.

There are eleven participants in the game, but only ten of them are in the meeting room now.

When the light was turned on, Zhong Xie had already returned to his room. He immediately put the mask on the table and locked it, then ran to the corridor to see who came out of room 11.

Whoever it is, it is most likely a "ghost" neighbor.

However, the participant in Room 11 just disappeared, leaving only the mask intact on the table, and only one sentence appeared in the mind after touching it.

[The character's abilities are hidden during the current time period. Please go to the meeting room as soon as possible.]

He searched the entire Room 11 inside and out, but even now, when the discussion phase in the conference room had begun, the missing person was still missing.

All game participants must be present during the discussion phase. Failure to be present means "killed". The participants in Room 11 are presumably dead.

Where are the ghost neighbors?

However, this was not the only thing that gave Zhong Xie a headache.

At the conference table, Exploding Corpse from Room 4 was concentrating on gnawing on a small piece of charcoal-black crispy cat's paw in front of him, while Mouse Mom from Room 7 was standing next to Zhong Xie, staring at him intently.

That’s right, he knew both of the ghosts participating in the game, and they had a close relationship.

Zhong Xie tried his best to appear inconspicuous. It was not a good thing to have a good conversation with two weirdos at this time. He would definitely become the target of public criticism during the vote.

But the most special people in the conference room at this time are not them, but the participants in Room 1.

He was a middle-aged man with one eye. The scar across his eye made his face look ferocious, but his only remaining eye constantly revealed fear.

He was the "victim" of the first round of the game, and the ghost took away his doll.

If the "ghost" cannot be found in this round of voting, the one-eyed man will be "expelled" from the game.

"Brothers, I'm just a scavenger. I don't know how I was dragged into this game. Anyone who has clues about the 'ghost' must tell me. Let's try to finish the game in the first round." The one-eyed man said humbly, while taking out everything in his pocket, "I picked up these in this villa. They may have some ghost talk power. Whoever wants them can take them."

Zhong Xie glanced at the objects the one-eyed man took out, such as the dried eyeballs, the dusty spray, and the blood-stained keychain.

The weirdness mixed in with these fashionable little pieces of trash is very faint, and they are not fully-fledged weirdness.

This one-eyed man is a ghost story scavenger who roams around the ghost story area all year round in search of treasures. These ghost story items are deeply loved by some people, and some of the collections are of great benefit to the ghost story makers.

Today, the root ghost stories in Wangcheng have just been contained. It can be said that this is the time when the ghost stories are the weakest and the treasures are the richest. There are many people like this who sneak in.

"Why would you tell me if it can be resolved earlier? Do you really think anyone would want to stay here?" Room 2 looked like a monkey spirit and was quite thin. He turned his gaze to the man in Room 5 and asked with a smile, "Dude, you should be a ghost story master, right? In this situation, who do you think is the 'ghost'?"

The man in Room 5 was very young, about twenty years old, wearing simple casual clothes and a long and thin saber on his waist. Judging from the design of the handle, it should be a cavalry sword.

Zhong Xie didn't know much about military affairs, but he could still tell that the model of this knife was quite old, so it was very likely a parasitic ghost story. In terms of aura, the saber man was undoubtedly the strongest among the humans present, and his judgment would greatly affect the outcome of the vote.

"Indeed, we wasted some time looking for No. 11 just now. We need to discuss it now." The saber man said quickly, and gave a definition of the missing No. 11 that matched everyone's cognition. "The role of No. 11 should be a mouse, who was 'eaten' by a cat after passing through a mouse hole."

Then he picked up the paper and pen on the conference table, drew a simple layout of the corridor, and marked his room No. 5: "I heard footsteps from left to right at the door, which means the range of the 'ghost' is from room 6 to room 11. Later I heard footsteps from right to left, which should be the 'ghost' taking the doll from room No. 1 and returning to his room."

"Yes, the footsteps I heard were also from left to right." No. 6 quickly echoed, as if to provide additional information, or to clear himself of suspicion.

At this time, most people's eyes fell on the rat mother in Room 7. Her testimony would once again narrow the scope of the "ghost".

However, Mother Mouse said nothing. She just sat down by herself. Her fat body trembled again and again. Her huge buttocks fell on the chair. She sat down very slowly. The flesh on her buttocks flowed over the chair like a tide and hung down on the edge of the chair, as if she was putting a fleshy little skirt on the chair.

Zhong Xie watched this scene with great interest, and his mind automatically matched a scene description that was more accurate than "meat tide" - Omelet Rice.

Cut the egg on the top of the rice ball, and the semi-solid egg will slowly flow down the surface of the rice ball. This is exactly what happened to the mouse mother at this moment.

"I'm very dissatisfied." The mouse mother's voice rang out sharply, "There are six mice in total, but I didn't even have a bite to eat during the lights-out period. What on earth are you mice doing?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the conference table looked at each other. They probably understood what Rat Mom said, but they didn't understand why she said this at this time.

Mother Mouse swept her fierce eyes over everyone present, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "We are a family. Even if it is just a game, it is still a family. Everyone in the family must do their part well. Don't just think about finding that damn ghost, and don't lose your ambition because of playing with things."

Everyone present could naturally understand that Rat Mom's identity was "Rat Mom", the mother of the six rats, and she needed the rats to find food for her during the lights-out period. Zhong Xie frowned slightly when he heard this, and he read a different meaning from Rat Mom's words.

This is not a haughty way of begging for food, but a direct expression of one's true feelings after fully entering the game state.

Speaking of being hungry, Zha Shi, who was very good at reading the mood, kindly handed a fried cat's paw to Zhong Xie and signaled that it tasted good.

Zhong Xie declined and handed it to Mouse Mom.

"Hmph, it's so oily. If mom wasn't hungry..." the mouse mother said in a mysterious voice, swallowed it in one gulp, and casually waved a gray light to brush past Zhong Xie.

A familiar feeling of fullness came over Zhong Xie, and he felt his energy recovering rapidly, but he fell into deep thought.

There was a reward for bringing food to Mouse Mother during the Rat Cave period. This gray light that could strengthen the body was the reward. Unsurprisingly, he raised his physical fitness to the peak of human level during the Rat Large Stage.

The current gray light has no effect on him, but Rat Mom will still release it, for a simple reason -

This is the rule that Miss Black Goat set before, and it must be followed even if it is invalid.

"What was that just now?" Many people saw the gray light.

"My strength has recovered. Maybe it's her feedback to me?" Zhong Xie pretended to be puzzled, and then brought the topic back to the discussion. He looked at Mouse Mom, "The footsteps I heard were also from left to right. What about you?"

"If you mean the 'ghost', he did come from the left, and then returned to the room the same way." Mouse Mother looked at Zhong Xie, stroked her beard slowly, and her voice became much softer, as if to give a little face to her former sales champion.

The same is true for numbers 9 and 10, which also indicate that the sound comes from the left side of the room.

"Left? Are you kidding? The guy on your left is dead." Monkey Man No. 2 spotted the loophole and quickly targeted No. 10. "Did you let it slip?"

"I don't know, but the footsteps came from the left." No. 10 insisted on his own words and proposed a new hypothesis, "No. 11 must have thought of this a long time ago. If he became a 'ghost' in that position, he would be caught immediately, so he killed the character in a certain room and replaced him in another room."

After saying this, No. 10 glanced at everyone present and repeated with certainty: "It must be like this."

Room 10's words made the others start to ponder. At first glance, it seemed to make sense. Room 11 was in an awkward location and was being monitored almost the entire time. As a "ghost", he would probably want to change rooms.

After all, there is no restriction in the game rules on ghosts changing rooms.

"The second time, the ghost went from right to left." said Man with the saber No. 5, and looked at the others. They all nodded in agreement, and some even gave details.

"The ghost stopped in my room for a while before moving on."

"Is such that."

"It stopped at my door too."

This statement can basically prove that the "ghost" returns to the room from right to left, and it is the same until number 10, and it does not replace anyone's room.

At most, they would replace Room 10, but now it seems that they were planning to vote for Room 10 anyway, because Room 10’s assumptions were not true and he successfully gathered all the suspicions in the room.

No. 10 turned to look at Zhong Xie, as if wanting him to say something, but Zhong Xie didn't care, because he suddenly realized that everyone present had fallen into a misunderstanding.

Neighbors are not necessarily ghosts, and ghosts are not necessarily neighbors.

The goal of the game is not to catch ghosts, but to kill neighbors.

Looking back at the rules of the game, the difference between [Ghost Hunting] and normal Werewolf is that a new "ghost" will be selected in each round of the game. It is possible that the player who was a "ghost" in the previous round will become a "civilian" in the next round.

The roles of each participant in each round of the game are fixed, such as cat and mouse, but the identities are not fixed.

Normally, if the ghost is not caught in a round of the game, two people will be eliminated (the victim and the civilian who was wrongly accused in the vote). If the ghost is caught, only one ghost will be eliminated. The number of game participants keeps decreasing until there are no more people to continue the game.

Ghost hunting is meant to extend the game rounds and provide more opportunities to kill neighbors.

The neighbor's target is the "widower", so she will only kill Zhong Xie herself during lights-out time. If Zhong Xie is killed by the rules of the game, all her efforts will be in vain.

This was also the reason why she did not take away Zhong Xie's doll in the first round of the game. She did not dare to bet whether Zhong Xie would be killed by the rules.

During the game process, participants are protected most of the time. If a neighbor wants to kill someone, he must wait until the lights are turned off, and there are additional requirements.

There are only two known situations in which the neighbors can move freely during the lights-out period and kill other participants who leave the room.

Either the role is a "rat" or the identity is a "ghost".

Judging from the situation in the first round, the neighbor’s role cannot be a rat, otherwise she would definitely go through the rat hole and kill him on the second floor. Therefore, the neighbor’s identity in this round is a “ghost”.

In the first round of the game, the ghost neighbor did not find a chance to pass through the rat hole and kill him, but the neighbor was confident of winning because she already knew his room number.

So, she is very sure that she will still be able to move freely in the next round?

Because of……

Can she continue to be a ghost?
　The initial strange story event is finished in two chapters. Please read it. The competition will start next week. QAQ Every book is beaten by others. It's embarrassing.
　　
　
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