Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Chapter 374 Flesh and Concrete

Voting has ended.

[Game Continues]

After Wu Wang replaced the contents of the note with the name of Wang Xianzhi's guide, the piece of meat finally swallowed it as he wished and began to chew it.

Ultimately, the meatball ballot box provided feedback indicating whether the game should continue.

Clearly, the person they voted out was not the real culprit.

Wu Wang, who was not surprised at all, shrugged and prepared to go out to meet up with the others.

After all, the voting process had led him to some other conclusions.

This is something that can be mentioned to Wang Xianzhi and the others.

However, when Wu Wang arrived at the door and was about to open it...

His hand remained hovering over the doorknob, making no progress.

The next second, he withdrew his hand and frowned as he carefully examined his surroundings.

As the images in his field of vision kept changing, he subconsciously reached out and rubbed the wall, just like a woman would rub her favorite precious jewelry.

"The room... has gotten smaller?" Wu Wang was always aware of his own sense of space.

He always felt that the distance from his desk to the door seemed much shorter than it had been at the beginning.

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Just then, he suddenly realized that for a moment when he touched the wall, it wasn't a solid concrete structure.

Rather, it was something soft, like skin and flesh, and it even wriggled slightly unintentionally.

But when I came to my senses, that feeling disappeared.

The walls of the room appear normal no matter how you look at them, and the same is true in other environments.

After a brief standoff, Wu Wang finally opened the door and went out.

After all, time is tight now, and we can't keep it in the room forever.

However, the moment he left and closed the door...

The entire room became eerie, with some kind of viscous liquid seemingly secreting from the walls. The space visibly expanded and shrank, much like the rise and fall of a creature's chest as it breathed.

Strangely, despite such drastic changes in space, the decorations in the room remained completely still, showing no signs of falling or changing position.

It's like a lurking predator, its jaws wide open, waiting for its prey to fall into its mouth.

When Wu Wang arrived at the lobby on the first floor...

The other contestants have already arrived.

He also saw a corpse lying in the very center of the hall.

There was no indication from the outside that the body had any fatal wounds.

She lay quietly on the ground as if asleep, but her chest no longer rose and fell.

This is the "real culprit" they just voted for.

As the nightmare says—those chosen will be eliminated and die.

Panda asked in confusion, "Why did it take you so long to come down?"

Wu Wang did not directly express his feeling that something was wrong with the room.

After all, it's best not to be so blunt about things that lack evidence and are based solely on intuition and speculation.

He simply mentioned the answers given during the vote regarding the buildings not yet having life, and that the hidden butler NPC had died.

The latter was something everyone heard during the voting process.

However, the former was somewhat unexpected.

"You mean, this building might come back to life?" Shadow asked, his expression incredulous.

After making this connection, everyone looked around warily.

They were very worried that some limbs or organs would suddenly appear on the wall and attack them.

After pondering for a moment, Wang Xianzhi said, "Since the widow said that the building does not yet have life, it means that it will only truly come to life when certain conditions are met. I estimate that by then, the difficulty will be far beyond our ability to win."

"As for the conditions, I suspect it's the number of deaths or some kind of summoning by the real culprit using a specific corpse."

"Because the body in the basement is gone."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately became serious.

The witch casually waved her hand and summoned the [Starry Screen].

It includes footage of a murder scene in a basement.

The "flesh-and-blood angel" that had been suspended had vanished into thin air, leaving only a few wires fixed to the ceiling, swaying slightly.

She added, "But the headless corpse in the attic is still there, and it seems the real killer isn't very interested in it."

Upon closer examination, everyone realized that the difference in treatment between the two groups was indeed quite significant.

The murder scene in the basement was meticulously arranged, with details such as the body's movements and even expressions resembling some kind of eerie artistic presentation; in contrast, the body in the attic was thrown on the ground like a stray dog ​​on the roadside, with even the body's face smashed up, the brutality of which seemed completely out of place for the same person.

Hmm? Wait a minute... doesn't seem like the same person?

Thinking of this, the Mongolian top laner timidly spoke up: "Nightmare only said there was one real culprit, but it didn't say that only the real culprit could kill, right? Is it possible that the real culprit actually had accomplices?"

This entirely new approach has everyone pondering.

Yes, what if there's more than one murderer?

Just then, Wu Wang stepped forward, patted the Mongolian top laner on the shoulder, and said, "A very good idea, it's making my brain work."

"But unfortunately, the only one who killed him from beginning to end was the real culprit; he had no other accomplices."

His decisive judgment puzzled everyone.

How can you prove that the real culprit didn't have anyone else helping him?
Wu Wang closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

A moment later, when he opened his eyes, the slightly crazed murderous intent in his gaze, and the subconscious licking of his chapped lips, made everyone's hearts skip a beat, as if a murderer were admiring his perfect masterpiece.

He seemed a little off at that moment.

Before anyone else could speak...

Wu Wang strolled leisurely to the [Starry Screen].

He gestured with his hand at the spot where the body had been hung, then looked at the floor of the room and muttered to himself, "Angels symbolize redemption. There are two heavy friction marks on the floor in front of the body, which proves that the real killer knelt here and prayed for something after the murder."

After saying this, Wu Wang slowly knelt down and placed his hands on his chest in a prayer-like gesture.

He continued, "If it were just to scare us, he wouldn't need to kneel and pray like a ghost when he's alone. So, this proves it's some kind of ritual. Combining that with the previous reasoning, it's clear he's infusing the building with life through flesh-and-blood angels."

As he spoke, he casually took out the head of the corpse from the attic from his backpack.

He gently stroked the face that had been bruised and mangled by the blows.

He squinted and continued, "Both corpses had a diamond-shaped wound on the back of their heads that destroyed their skulls. It is clear that the real killer stuffed something into their skulls when he killed them, and that thing completely devoured their brain tissue."

"The former had ample time to set up the prayer site, while the latter's mistake caused the bell in the corpse's hand to fall to the ground, making a sound that attracted our attention."

“We went upstairs very quickly. He didn’t have time to set up the scene, but he couldn’t let that diamond-shaped thing fall into our hands.”

"So, he picked up the bell and smashed it against the victim's face, quickly breaking the bones in his face, and then reached in and forcibly took out the diamond-shaped object."

As he spoke, Wu Wang kept making pounding motions with his hands.

The madness in his eyes was chilling.

The next second, he slowly stood up.

He said in a serious tone, "Since that rhombus-shaped object is so important, if the real culprit doesn't want it to fall into our hands, he would never hand it over to the so-called accomplice."

"Therefore, this was done by the same person."

Suddenly, the madness and murderous intent in Wu Wang's eyes vanished.

In an instant, he seemed like an innocent, kind, sunny, and cheerful young man, grinning broadly with a radiant smile.

He added with absolute certainty: "Now we know the necessary conditions for the summoning ritual—"

"【Flesh and Blood Angel】, 【Rhombus-shaped Prop】, and 【Prayer】."

"Of course, the most important point is—time."

“He needs time to arrange all this, after all, a corpse won’t turn into a flesh angel on its own.”

This series of reasoning processes left everyone dumbfounded.

The Mongolian top laner stared blankly and said, "Criminal psychological profiling..."

He had seen this kind of reasoning, which involved putting himself in the killer's shoes, before in the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs.

Wu Wang's performance just now was no less than that of the best psychological profiler in the bureau.

For a moment, everyone even thought he was the real culprit.

Who exactly is this guy in real life?
However, Wu Wang actually had some other deductions he didn't elaborate on, because it wasn't appropriate for the contestants to know about them at this time.

After listening to his analysis, Panda pondered for a moment.

He then said in a serious tone, "If this human's analysis is correct, then what we need to do now is to try to prevent NPCs from dying quietly in places we don't know about, so as not to give the real culprit a lot of time to set up the ritual of the flesh angel."

“I suggest we gather all the guides together and then send two people to guard them.”

"In that case, no matter who the real culprit is, we can't possibly take down so many people at the same time, can we?"

This suggestion makes Fellow Daoist, please stay a little puzzled.

He stepped forward and questioned, "Then why don't we all stand guard? Make it impossible for the real culprit to make a move?"

Wang Xianzhi sighed and said, "Because the production team isn't stupid, they definitely won't let us take such a shortcut. Besides, Nightmare said that the real culprit needs to be chosen through voting, so it's very likely that it will only be effective if we go through the voting process. Therefore, we also have to give the real culprit the opportunity to kill."

"If you don't believe me, we can try it out first."

The group exchanged glances and decided to begin the experiment.

After all, it's impossible to convince everyone based on mere inference.

Therefore, the group located the guide based on the Shadow's [Death Sense].

Before long, they gathered them all together in the hall.

Everyone just sat there, chatting intermittently and trying to deduce the truth.

Until fifty minutes later.

A system notification suddenly sounded in everyone's mind—

[WARNING! Groups of three or more NPCs or players must not meet for more than one hour.]

Otherwise, all participants will be eliminated and die after the time limit expires.

Everyone sighed at this.

Sure enough, Nightmare and the production team had already considered this.

They had to be scattered across different areas to give the real culprit the opportunity to act.

Just then, Wang Xianzhi seemed to suddenly remember something.

Somewhat uncertainly, he said, "If we're forced to separate, we should at least be given something to do, right? This game can't be so boring that we'll just sit and chat after we're separated, can it?"

"Given the current situation, does that mean that the real culprit can find a way to awaken the building's life, and we can also find a way to seal the building?"

Once this conclusion is reached...

It immediately gained everyone's approval.

Indeed, since the game deliberately sets up different environments and clues for everyone, it proves that some of these clues must have some effect that is advantageous to the players.

Unfortunately, they have now lost a companion.

Without being able to see the business environment of the gummy bears, it's as if we've naturally lost some clues.

"Now the situation seems clearer. We need to combine the clues in our respective environments to find a way to seal the building before the real culprit awakens it."

"So, whether to achieve his goal or to stop our actions, he will find a way to kill."

The Mongolian top laner summarized the situation.

Everyone immediately felt a surge of motivation.

It seems they are not entirely passive, forced to wait for the real culprit to commit the murder before they can deduce and accuse him.

You can also force the real culprit to show themselves by actively sealing off the building's awakening.

Clearly, there are many hidden mechanics in this game.

Just like the system notification I just received, they are only informed of this mechanism after certain conditions are met.

So, everyone followed the rendezvous mechanism.

The decision was made to split the team into three-person squads consisting of two players and one guide.

There are now six guides and eight contestants remaining.

If we divide them up like this, there will be two guides left.

The crowd ordered the two of them to stay in the hall together.

If one of them encounters an accident, the other must do everything possible to send a signal to nearby players.

This is already the most extreme allocation method.

The real culprit might target this most vulnerable team, but isn't their location itself a trap?

After all, the lobby of this building is really big, and there are no obstacles in the middle, so it is basically unobstructed.

If there's any commotion here, the other contestants will arrive quickly, and they might just catch a glimpse of the real culprit.

With only a few minutes left to rendezvous.

After assigning teammates, everyone went their separate ways to search for clues.

However, what was unexpected was...

Wu Wang, the strongest player among those assigned, was paired with the Witch.

And it was Wu Wang who made this suggestion.

His point of view was that if the witch was the real culprit, only he could resist her and hold out until others arrived.

Everyone thought it made a lot of sense and told them to make sure they kept a close eye on each other.

Only Wu himself knew the truth.

If the witch were truly the culprit, how could he possibly rebel against the market?

The president of the Tarot Club could probably kill anyone here one-on-one with ease.

It was precisely for this reason that Wu Wang firmly believed she couldn't be the real culprit.

To reiterate—the production team and Nightmare aren't fools.

If the true culprit is identified as an overly powerful witch, the game will lose all suspense and entertainment value.

However, Wu Wang's choice to team up with the witch was not to protect himself.

Instead, he had something he wanted to tell her.

And you can only talk to her about it.

After everyone dispersed, Wu Wang spoke up, saying, "Queen Witch, I have a deduction I'd like you to know."

"Oh? You say it," the witch said with a smile, toying with the crystal ball in her hand.

She doesn't seem worried about winning or losing the game.

After taking a deep breath, Wu Wang said seriously, "The real culprit is a player, not an NPC."

The witch did not answer, seemingly anticipating Wu Wang's further explanation.

He didn't mince words and said it directly:

"Only the players know how strong you and I have been before, and they can't predict whether we are capable of catching him quickly."

"If the condition that the contestants can only win if the remaining two real culprits are met, then the real culprit must kill one of us."

"However, he can't guarantee that he will actually be able to beat the two of us after gaining the extra ability."

"Therefore, he could only choose another way to win—to bring the building to life."

"Perhaps the real culprit has clues that prove the building's power after being awakened is enough to defeat the two of us."

"Awakening it might unleash a massacre, quickly killing all the players and securing victory."

"In this case, there is no need to consider whether the NPC is the real culprit."

"The real culprit must be one of the contestants!"

After hearing Wu Wang's words, the witch nodded to herself.

What he said makes a lot of sense.

It was evident from the very beginning of the Civilization Competition that the strength of this Desire Saint's personal abilities lay not solely in combat prowess.

Most importantly, he has a brain.

That kind of strong logical thinking and associative ability is extremely rare.

"If you think we're the contestants, what should we do next?" the witch asked with a smile.

Wu Wang pondered for a moment, looking at the constantly changing environment around him.

He said calmly, "Just because the other side doesn't dare to attack us doesn't mean we don't dare to attack them."

"I've decided—to hunt for competitors in the opposite direction!"

(End of this chapter)