Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 748 - 746 Complete
"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH."
Wanli Fengdao, who was sitting against the wall, began to cough, his eyes gradually clearing.
What's this...
Wanli Fengdao quickly recalled everything that had happened before he was hit by the Soul Splitting Nail. As he replayed the conversation between Li Ang and the red-clothed old woman in his mind, he stood up. Shaking his head, he looked at his newly regrown right arm. My sword...
"The sword is in her hands."
Li Ang gestured with his chin toward the red-clothed old woman and said indifferently, "You stand here for a while. I just grew a new right arm for you in haste and haven't properly tuned it. There might be an issue where your fingers are connected to your bladder, causing you to expel water through your fingernails, as if you were practicing the Six Meridian Divine Sword. It's best to let it air out for a while, give it some ventilation."
What?!
Wanli Fengdao's eyes widened. He instinctively looked at his palm, hesitating on whether to drink a Healing Potion.
Li Ang turned his head and continued to look at the red-clothed old woman.
He recalled for a moment and slowly said, "To be precise, there are two possibilities for Bob's situation.
First, Bob's body stayed in Room 0908, and his spirit entered the dream world. At 3:30 AM, his body had not died.
Second, both his body and spirit entered Room 0908. At 3:30 AM, he had not yet emerged from the dream world. He only left the dream world when the tall Bamboo Hats climbed to the eighth floor. Because his body had suffered extremely severe injuries in the Pitch Black Space, he might have died as soon as he came out. Alternatively, he emerged and returned to Room 0908, only to be killed and consumed by you—this would explain the absence of Bob's body in the room."
"On the fifth night, at 12:09 AM, 13MARK in Room 0808 detected a hostile target. The red-clothed old woman walked out from the staircase on the right side of the eighth-floor corridor. She then encountered the Mercury Puppet in the hallway and attacked it with the Naginata of the Ghost of Hidden Eye.
13MARK narrowly escaped, receiving aid from Bai Haozheng.
The two later took the elevator to support the Plague Doctor, who had been attacked by a terrifying old man.
Only they moved through the various floors that night, and no tall Bamboo Hats appeared. Judging by the players' discovery of Ω's disappearance in the morning, it seems that after failing to kill 13MARK, the red-clothed old woman turned her attention to Ω and successfully killed him.
Before the fifth night, the Ghost of Hidden Eye on the twelfth floor, Danfei on the eleventh floor, Kafei on the tenth floor, and Bob on the ninth floor had all died. And you climbed from the staircase to the eighth floor, where 13MARK was staying.
Initially, we just thought the red-clothed old woman was a hotel aberration who had been staying on the tenth floor from the very beginning, so we didn't suspect anything. We believed her appearance before curfew might have been because our actions violated hotel rules, leading to a mutation in her as one of the hotel's aberrations.
But now, knowing that the red-clothed old woman who appeared on the third and subsequent occasions was actually a player, things have changed.
You were not wandering on the tenth floor but were staying on a floor where no one had genuinely died.
To trigger the tall Bamboo Hats, two conditions must be met: first, the hotel floors must not be fully occupied before curfew, and second, the vacant floors must not have had any deaths. If these conditions are met and no one dies before 3:30 AM, the tall Bamboo Hats appear. Otherwise, they do not.
The Ghost of Hidden Eye and the others all died on their own floors. In other words, if you had stayed on your own floor—the floor where you feigned death—then the hotel could still have been considered fully occupied. But you didn't do that. Instead, you took the initiative to attack and began hunting other players. This brings me to one of my doubts: your motive for killing."
Li Ang rubbed the beard of the Dragon Head Mask and said lightly, "Back to the main topic.
Knowing you didn't stay on the floor where you faked your death, we can deduce a couple of possibilities. Either, like 13MARK later, you stayed on a floor where someone had already died.
Or, you were on a floor where people had already been staying, thus creating vacancies.
The former is still okay.
But the latter...
Players' skills and methods are diverse. Considering your previous extremely self-serving and seemingly paranoid behavior, it's hard to imagine you'd stay on a floor with unfamiliar players, risking discovery by lurking. If you were indeed staying on a floor that had been occupied, then that person likely knew of your existence and was one of your accomplices—an insider among us."
Li Ang paused for a moment and slowly continued, "Of course, this range is still too broad; it hasn't narrowed much.
On the fifth night, you crept down the stairwell before curfew, preparing to seize an opportunity to kill a player. However, 13MARK's detection range was unexpectedly extensive, and he discovered you in the corridor near the right stairwell. Thus, you wanted to kill him to silence him.
After that failed attempt, to prevent the appearance of the Bamboo Hat figure—which might have randomly selected and killed both you and your companion—you continued your actions. You went down to the first floor and killed Ω.
Ω must have truly died; otherwise, the Bamboo Hat figure wouldn't have failed to appear."
"..." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
The red-clothed old woman remained silent for a long time, her voice hoarse as she said, "You are right. It was indeed I who killed him.
Ω was much stronger than you all imagined. Unfortunately, that night he drew the paper tag, and after great difficulty, he barely managed to fend off the aberration that attacked him.
When I arrived, he was just removing his Fish Tank Hood to heal his wounds. All his brain cells, in a separated state, were contained within the blue liquid inside the Fish Tank Hood.
That blue liquid acted like neurons, capable of receiving stimuli, generating excitement, and conducting that excitement. Its response efficiency was faster than the human nervous system, giving Ω a sense of time much faster than that of ordinary people.
Even though he was ambushed and severely injured, he still inflicted significant damage on me with his brimstone fire. Though in the end, he was killed by me and my Shikigami, he tried to preserve clues before he died, including the paper tag, to give you hints."
"So that's what happened."
Li Ang nodded. "That night, the main users of the elevator were Bai Haozheng, 13MARK, and the Plague Doctor. Everyone else claimed they stayed in their rooms. Nobody went to check on Ω again, so you had ample time to heal your injuries, clean up the scene, and take Ω's paper tag."
"As for the sixth night..."
The red-clothed old woman chuckled ominously. "Thanks to my previous efforts, someone finally couldn't restrain themselves. Believing there was a traitor among the players, they suggested the idea that the two groups should live separately.
13MARK even secretly moved to Room 1108, trying to shift the risk onto others, which conveniently allowed me to kill him."
"This is another point I found strange," Li Ang nodded. "If you were already on the tenth floor, why didn't you go directly up to the eleventh floor and kill 13MARK? If you were worried about exposing your identity and wanted to maintain your aberration persona, you should have killed 13MARK as quickly as possible. Instead, you leisurely consumed his Mercury Blood Amber on the tenth floor before using it to go up to Room 1108."
"I find it quite strange too," Bai Haozheng spoke up from the end of the corridor. "The reason Li Rising believed you were Danfei is because tonight you chose to kill Wanli Fengdao on the eleventh floor.
Through previous deductions, we know you are one of the players who faked death to escape. This is evidenced by Li Rising's ability to detect identity and your arbitrary use of the elevator during safe periods on the third night.
From this, we can see that as a player, you are also bound by the hotel rules. You're fearful of breaking them at whim and afraid of the random killings by the tall, thin Bamboo Hat figures. You wanted to placate them ahead of time—killing on different floors was precisely for this purpose.
Your attempt to kill Wanli Fengdao on the eleventh floor just now proves that no one actually died on that floor. The one pretending to be dead was Danfei, who originally stayed in Room 1108."
Bai Haozheng paused for a moment before continuing, "However, on the sixth night, you did not directly kill 13MARK, but instead waited until Li Rising came to assist. Why is that?"
"..."
The red-clothed old woman was silent for quite a while before she narrowed her eyes and spoke hoarsely, "Because your answers are incomplete.
I am not just Danfei.
I am Kafei. I am the Ghost of Hidden Eye. I am Bob. I am Ω.
I am the red-clothed old woman. I am part of the hotel.
I am human, yet also an aberration."
