Day of Imprisonment

In a game, if you can accurately know the methods your opponent can use, you can develop targeted countermeasures. Most importantly, you won't be misled by them.

If Luo Xi believed that Wei Si could alter the rules of the level's victory or defeat by changing the order of collecting key items, then Luo Xi could directly admit defeat, and there would be no need to continue.

This was clearly the effect Wei Si wanted to achieve.

However, Luo Xi's mind was very clear. He wasn't affected by the 【Hallucinatory Incense】 or the 【Succubus】, and it wasn't just a matter of persevering through willpower.

In the mental realm, Luo Xi could crush his opponents.

【Absolute Rationality】, coupled with the ultimate madness and morbidity of a 【Psychopath】, had already accustomed Luo Xi to maintaining his best state of mind under the harshest negative emotions to think about problems.

Wei Si's actions had a very important goal: to mislead Luo Xi.

As long as he believed that the order of collecting items had become a necessary condition for clearing the level, then no one would continue trying to clear the level in a situation where it was impossible to win.

But Luo Xi ignored all the misdirection.

His thinking, under the control of absolute rationality, was always in the best state.

The most core gameplay of the scene, collecting items, clearing the level – Wei Si couldn't change this.

The opponent could only make some modifications outside the core gameplay.

For example, by limiting the 'Doctor's' mobility, adding three other 'characters' in the scene as guardians of the key items, or adding item numbers and restrictions on the order of acquisition.

But this could not affect the core gameplay, which meant that even if the items were not collected in numerical order, the level could still be cleared.

However, the numerical order of the items must be related to some kind of mechanism.

Luo Xi speculated that it should be a 'death penalty'.

That is, if the items were not collected in a fixed order, the player would suffer a near-fatal attack.

And the source of the attack would be the numbers on their chest.

In Luo Xi's view, this attack might directly attack the physical body; the numbers on the chest might explode, or cause piercing damage to the body.

Of course, this attack could also come from the mental realm. In short, Wei Si had reconstructed a set of gameplay without changing the core gameplay of the scene.

This could be described as a stroke of genius.

This made the current 'operating room' scene more complex and unpredictable, because, currently, it was impossible to know what would happen in the next two item contests.

All Luo Xi could do was prepare.

When leaving the room, Luo Xi had already materialized some food cards stored in his card album and started eating like crazy.

Number 078 【Gourmand】 could store the energy obtained from food in the body after constantly eating, which could not only greatly enhance physical fitness but also quickly repair and heal itself when severely injured.

In the past, Luo Xi had used 【Gourmand】 to escape death more than once.

In Luo Xi's view, although 【Gourmand】 was not as good as cards like 【Undying】, it was still comparable in terms of vitality. After all, one was a numbered card, and the other had not yet reached that level.

"Wei Si's numerical attack methods can't be 'guaranteed kills' like the scene mechanism, so, logically speaking, it should be resistible. Does the number on the chest mean they plan to attack the heart?"

Luo Xi muttered to himself.

Just relying on 【Gourmand】 to resist Wei Si's designed 'pseudo-mechanism' was a gamble.

In the child's drawing, the woman was just a line drawing with long hair and a vaguely female figure.

The other two figures, one wearing a clown hat and holding a large playing card; the last one looked like a cartoon ghost, looking quite cute.

And these two figures had the numbers 2 and 3 written on top of their heads respectively.

This was already a very obvious 'hint'.

"So that's how it is!"

After seeing this waste paper thrown in the trash can, Luo Xi finally understood the current situation of the level scene.

"Wei Si, this guy, actually nested another scene within the original operating room scene. The two scenes share the same location, and there are overlapping parts in the gameplay. How did this guy do it?"

Luo Xi had lost all his memories of scene creation and management.

What he currently knew was only learned from the mouths of a few administrators he knew.

But neither Bai Cai nor Teacher Han had ever mentioned this kind of 'nesting' situation.

"The remaining two, one is a clown, one is a ghost, representing the numbers 2 and 3."

Luo Xi continued to look for clues.

Then, in the ward area over there, Luo Xi heard someone whistling.

Very obvious, and without any concealment.

Most of the wards here were empty, except for one that was very special.

There were no lights, but candles were lit, and shadows were projected on the walls, swaying with the flickering candlelight.

The whistling sound came from inside. At first glance, you might think there were many people inside, either sitting or standing, densely packed, which, combined with the dim candlelight, could really give you a fright.

But a closer look revealed that most of the 'people' inside were made of cardboard, just cut into human silhouettes and placed in the room, plus the candles on a table in the middle, so it gave the illusion that there were many people here.

The one whistling was a person sitting behind a small table, dressed like a clown.

The kind with a double-pointed hat, face painted with greasepaint, like the joker in a deck of cards.

With some key information already obtained, Luo Xi knew that this was the clown representing the number 2.

"Please sit, please sit!"

Seeing Luo Xi, the clown stopped whistling and let out a strange laugh.

Luo Xi didn't move; he was still observing.

"What you want is in my hands. If you want to get it, you must abide by my rules." The clown laughed as he took out a card from his pocket.

It was 【Toy Bear Named TOM】, the key item to clear that scene.

No need to look for it, no need to grab it; this clown directly revealed it.

"Play a game of poker with me. If you win, I'll give you the thing; if you lose, you'll let me eat you." The clown chuckled, baring a mouthful of sharp teeth when he grinned.

"Of course, if you plan to snatch it by force, I'll kill you directly. That's in accordance with the game rules." The clown smiled, taking a large-caliber revolver from under the table, its chrome-plated exterior gleaming brightly.

Very beautiful.

The clown's role was not a cleaner in the traditional sense, so his strength was slightly inferior to a normal cleaner, but he should at least be at the Elite C-level standard.

Plus a handgun.

The success rate of snatching by force was too small.

Luo Xi walked over and sat down opposite him.

"Your stakes aren't enough."

Luo Xi pointed to the key item card in the other party's hand.

"That makes sense!" Unexpectedly, the clown agreed very much: "One card corresponds to one life; it's indeed not equal. In that case, I'll add another stake."

The clown smiled and shuffled the cards in his hand.

Like a magic trick, the other party had another card in his hand.

【Mad Gambler】, you can use this card to initiate a bet with a target. When you decide to bet your life, the other party must also wager their life and cannot refuse—your life is the biggest stake!

Luo Xi was slightly stunned.

He looked at the clown, who suppressed a smile, then laughed loudly: "You seem to have seen through it, haha, that's right. When you entered this room, you already triggered the rules here. I want to bet my life with you. You can only agree. I was just talking nonsense just now. So, you bet your life, and I'll bet my life too. That way, the stakes are enough, and I've added a bet. So, what about you?"

In the end, the clown's expression suddenly became sinister and terrifying.

Luo Xi took out the two item cards he had obtained earlier and placed them on the table: "Didn't Wei Si tell you? Any lies are useless in front of me, so your performance is actually very ridiculous and clumsy. But that's right; after all, you're just a clown."

The clown opposite him stopped laughing, his face gloomy.

He looked like a villain in some horror movie, insecure and sensitive, embarrassed and angry after being exposed in public.

"If you want to gamble, hurry up and don't waste my time."

Luo Xi was constantly calculating the scene time.

Obviously, the clown was stalling for time just now.

"Or is it because you know you can't win against me, so you're deliberately delaying?" Luo Xi began to mock, and the clown's face became even gloomier.

"Since that's the case, then let me briefly explain the rules. It's very simple: first, everyone bets, which is called the 'pot'. After you and I shuffle the cards, flip them over at random to check the number of points on the cards. Odd numbers give me the cards first, even numbers give you the cards first. After each having two 'hole cards', you can check them. Compare the points of the two hole cards. You can continue betting into the pot while calling the cards. If the number of the called card is between the numbers of the previous two hole cards, then you pass. If the number exceeds, then you lose, and all the bets in the pot go to the other party."