Day of Imprisonment

The operating room scene is actually in the Second Ward.

Or rather, it's an independent level scene derived from a portion of the Second Ward.

So, it looks very similar to the hallways of the First Hospital before.

The difference is that the light is relatively dim, and the air is filled with a strong smell of blood.

This stuff might scare some people, but for Luo Xi, it's just like a chocolate decoration on a pastry, unnecessary.

The gameplay in the scene can be seen as 'escape' and 'item collection'.

To put it bluntly, it's about finding the four items: [Daughter's Photo], [Toy Bear named TOM], [Doctor's Glasses], and [Surgery Order] before the 'doctor' catches the player to clear the level.

The reward is to obtain the operating room's enhancement.

The difficulty lies in how to escape the doctor's pursuit and find the location of the items.

But Zhou Di has already solved one of these two difficulties, he has already told Luo Xi the location of the four items.

However, Luo Xi's bottom-line thinking is already assuming that the locations of the four items have been changed.

Of course, the worst-case scenario is more than that.

If the locations of the items can be changed, then logically, other things can too. It's even possible that this scene is completely different from what Zhou Di described.

The corridor is very quiet, and Luo Xi quickly observes the surrounding situation.

There are flower pots in front, but the flowers and plants in the flower pots have withered. Next to them are the men's and women's restrooms. According to the strategy given by Zhou Di, among the four items, the [Doctor's Glasses] can be found in the third stall in the men's restroom.

There is a paper bag hanging inside, and the glasses are in the paper bag.

Now that he's here, whether the scene elements have been modified or not, Luo Xi has to go in and take a look.

He walks over.

There is no door outside the restroom. From the entrance, both the men's and women's restrooms are pitch black.

In this position, you can smell a very strong, peculiar odor of the restroom, a stench, mixed with cleaning agent and the original smell of blood.

The sink is not big, and the glass on the wall is stained with a lot of dirt, but you can still see the reflection.

Inside, the gaunt Old Third shakes his head at Luo Xi.

Luo Xi stops his footsteps.

Obviously, Old Third sensed the danger.

Among Luo Xi's many personalities, Old Third stands on his side, and some things have to rely on him.

Old Third won't lie, there must be great danger in the restroom, but according to the strategy for this scene given by Zhou Di, the [Doctor's Glasses] are hidden in the men's restroom.

Not one of the four key items can be missing.

Otherwise, he won't be able to clear the level normally, and when the time is up, he will definitely be caught by the doctor.

"Speaking of time!" Luo Xi didn't find any clues about time in the scene. The most obvious clock has not been seen yet, but there is a faucet dripping next to the restroom, very slowly. Below it is a red bucket used to clean mops, and the turbid water inside is almost full.

Dripping water gathers, which is also a method of timing.

In ancient times, people invented the water clock using the principle of dripping water timing, also known as clepsydra.

So, this is most likely a time prompt.

Hidden, difficult to detect.

Currently, it seems that it may only be ten minutes or so before it is full and overflows.

"Then what if I pour the water out, or poke a hole in the bottom of the bucket?" Luo Xi walked over, took a closer look, and then he found that there was a human head soaking in the red bucket, face up. When Luo Xi looked down, this dead man's face was also looking up.

Their eyes met.

Danger.

A pure sense of danger permeated his whole body.

But Luo Xi didn't lose his composure in fright. Don't say it's just a human head soaking in the water staring at him, even if this thing flew out and pounced on him, Luo Xi wouldn't find it strange.

And only the sense of danger, the human head in the bucket didn't move, which can only mean it's a warning.

He can't touch the water bucket or the dripping water.

That is, this special 'timer' is not allowed to be interfered with.

Luo Xi could only give up this idea, and from this thing, the 'operating room' scene has been 100% altered by Wei Si.

Because Zhou Di never mentioned the dead man's head in the bucket.

"The four items to be collected should not change, and even the locations may not change. Wei Si's goal is to kill me to the greatest extent. As long as I am killed in this scene, I can only appear on the next cycle day. This is what it hopes to see."

"Then, the best thing to do is to add fatal mechanisms and traps in the places where the items are placed. Relatively speaking, the most effective way is to set up a must-die trap at each location, or place a killer. Or a cleaner, but obviously, this violates the principle of 'fairness' when creating the scene. So, creating a false impression and delaying time is also a way, but Old Third did sense the danger."

Luo Xi thought of this, took off his coat, wrapped it around his fist, and then punched the mirror on the wall.

Bang~!

Crack~

The sound of the mirror breaking rang out.

The mirror was broken, and Luo Xi picked up a piece of mirror shard the size of a palm. He didn't enter the men's restroom, but immediately stepped away and walked towards the next item hiding location.

"The distribution of the scene should not be changed, it's like a building that has already been built, the structure is fixed. Zhou Di is the builder, and Wei Si... can only change the decoration style and add some things. If we infer according to this situation, Wei Si cannot arrange killing moves at all the item hiding points. In fact, it doesn't have many 'cards'. As long as you crack its thinking, you can easily clear the level."

This is easy to say, but the actual execution is much more difficult.

It's like guessing cards.

Only one card is hidden in the four boxes. Even if Luo Xi understands the other party's thoughts, he still needs to face the possibility of choosing the wrong one.

So strictly speaking, in this level scene game, the designer still has an absolute advantage.

Luo Xi is very fast. The previous speculation is actually more like a guess. Luo Xi still needs evidence to confirm it.

In Wei Si's hand, the biggest 'card' is the 'doctor' in the scene.

This is absolute force and a killer. Even if Luo Xi were placed in Wei Si's position, he would focus on the 'doctor' element.

For example, changing the doctor's starting point.

To put it more bluntly, it is deliberately placing the 'doctor' at a certain item pick-up point.

For example, the men's restroom just now.

Luo Xi felt the danger, and Old Third also felt it. This shows that the doctor may be hiding in the men's restroom. If he chooses to investigate, whether he enters rashly or throws something in to test the waters first, it may immediately activate the 'doctor's' killing mode.

So before that, Luo Xi needs to determine the placement points of the other items.

Bringing the mirror shard is to let Old Third also investigate.

Because Luo Xi's own perception may be affected by the environment, adding Old Third will be safer.

In addition, it is also good to familiarize himself with the venue first, understand the layout and the hiding places, and more importantly, if he doesn't see the 'doctor' after strolling around, this further proves what Luo Xi thought when he put himself in the role.

That is, the guess that the 'doctor' was arranged to be at the item pick-up point.

"Changing room!"

Luo Xi saw a room in front of him at this time.

This is where Zhou Di said the [Daughter's Photo] item pick-up point is.

At the door, Luo Xi started looking in the mirror.

"Everyone else get out of the way, let Old Third come over." Luo Xi said to the palm-sized mirror, inside, the shadows swayed, a little crowded.

Soon, Old Third, the gaunt ghost, appeared in the mirror.

"How is it?" Luo Xi asked.

Old Third squinted at the entrance of the changing room and shook his head: "There's something inside!"

This result surprised Luo Xi.

"What about the restroom?"

"Also!"

"...Understood!"

Luo Xi suddenly realized a possibility.

"Did Wei Si increase the number of doctors?"

What Wei Si pursues is the most efficient and safest way to win, and if it only hides the doctor in one of the four pick-up points, it can only increase the chance of winning, but this chance does not reach an absolutely safe level.

It's only a relatively large chance of winning.

But as Luo Xi analyzed before, this is a game that absolutely cannot be lost.

It's the same for Luo Xi and Wei Si.

So the other party will also try everything possible to stop Luo Xi.

If four doctors are arranged at the four item pick-up points, then the other party's chance of winning will directly increase dramatically, and it can even be said to be 100% sure to win.

But Luo Xi knows that the rules set by the scene absolutely do not allow this to happen.

"To demand, there must be concessions, so that balance can be maintained..." Luo Xi can be sure that if Wei Si really creates four doctors, it must have made huge concessions in other aspects.

According to this line of reasoning, then as long as you find the point where the other party concedes and attack its weaknesses, the chance of winning for yourself is also 100%.

In this way, the originally complicated problem is simplified.

"Zhou Di said that within the specified time, avoiding the doctor's pursuit and collecting four items can clear the level. That is to say, the doctor and the four items are in a corresponding state. If Wei Si increases the number of doctors, in order to maintain balance, it will increase the corresponding balance mechanism for the players participating in the scene, either increasing the number of items, making the items easier to collect, or... reducing the intensity of the doctors, for example, limiting the doctors who could originally chase and kill players everywhere to a fixed area, so that they cannot move freely."