Chapter 68: 72Hot spring hotel rules strange talk (8) blue-clothed waiter:
Danger level is not enough to see".
Xie Jiang's expression became very complicated because of these words. Ye Xi looked at his expression and also realized that these words seemed too pretentious.
——in this kind of weird place where the rules are weird, how could anyone hate the difficulty?
It was based on logical analysis that she felt that this was a real problem they were facing.
A seven-day long dungeon, would make them understand the rules on the first day, then copy and paste them day after day? She felt that this was clearly inappropriate.
Based on previous experience, this kind of situation usually means the so-called time limit is fake, the players actually have other revealed tasks to do, the rules of the Star Moon apartment and the rules of the Yu Liang middle school are both like that.
But the problem is, the current situation of this dungeon is clearly different from the previous two times.
No matter Tinh Nguyet apartment or Duc Luong first high school, both are not simple "rules and regulations". They also have a complete background story in addition to the rules. Players only need to analyze this story to quickly discover that the dungeon actually has a "main quest", then naturally start running the plot line.
This dungeon also doesn't have that kind of background story, at least for now, there isn't a single clue laid out. This makes Ye Xi feel that there is something else hidden, but at the same time, she doesn't think that there is another "main quest" in it. The feeling of not being able to grasp the situation makes her feel uncomfortable.
She explained this simple idea to Xie Jiang once. Although Xie Jiang had never experienced the type of copy she was talking about, he understood what she meant.
He pondered for a moment: "Perhaps every day there will be a new danger? For example, last night there was a fire, today there might be another danger? Then perhaps each type of danger has a different solution, requiring the player to find the corresponding countermeasure through observation? In this way, waiting for seven days will be very exciting."
"Yes..." Diep Tich hesitantly nodded, on one hand feeling that what he said made some sense, on the other hand feeling that it was still not very appropriate.
Such stimulation is really stimulating, but the meaning of the following few days of danger is completely outside the rules. Besides, the level of danger of a fire at night is also very easy to deal with, as long as the player is brave and careful, it is easy to discover the loopholes, and if it is not done well, one can still deduce one thing from three later.
Bring a large number of players to besiege this place for seven days, and then this?
Diep Tich found it difficult to convince himself with this thought, instinctively raising his hand, through the clothes he pinched the thing hanging around his neck.
Currently, there are two types of things hanging on her shirt's inner side. One is placed in a waterproof pocket, and the other is the jewelry Mr. Mao Zi gave her.
The strange feeling in her heart made her ponder whether or not to start using jewelry to follow the staff to investigate to the end. In her opinion, this precious tool should be used on the blade, and she had been in this strange conversation for a day now, and had not even understood the situation, so it should be considered a very dangerous situation.
If you can borrow this pendant to hear a little of what you don't know, even if it's not all, it's still better than knowing nothing.
Later, during the entire meal, Diep Tich was thinking about this matter. After they had eaten their fill, she and Ta Giang packed some food for lunch and dinner, then left the cafeteria together.
Xie Jiang asked her if she wanted to go to the hot springs right away. She thought for a moment and said, "I didn't sleep well last night. Go back to your room and rest for a while. Go to the hot springs again in the afternoon. I'll call you then."
"... Okay." Xie Jiang agreed with some hesitation, because separating their thighs made him feel a bit unsafe, but he also knew that it was unreasonable for him to always be stuck together with this person's thighs, so he still agreed.
The two of them returned to the 15th floor together. Xie Jiang went straight back to his room. Ye Xi did not return to his room. He looked around and finally found a blue-clothed waiter who was sweeping the hallway.
"Hello." She smiled and walked forward, taking out the other party's rank-down to look at it, "I want to ask, besides the three rules of this dungeon, are there any other clues?"
The blue-clothed waiter was stunned, looking at her warily: "Why do you ask that, madam?"
"?" Ye Xi paused for a moment, thought for a moment, opened the pendant, revealing a black and white photo of Mr. Mao Zi inside, "Please tell me some clues without affecting your work, Mr. Mao Zi will bless you."
Blue-clothed waiter: "?"
What kind of nonsense is this?
Sick?
Could it be that the guest tower will also trigger something additional to the quest?
... I don't know if this kind of mission is dangerous for the blue-clothed waiters.
The blue-clothed waitress, who was not clear about the situation, was on guard. Although she tried to maintain her politeness because she did not want to be complained about, her intention to avoid it could not have been more obvious: "Excuse me, madam, I don't quite understand what you are talking about. You also want to clean up the room... If not, please go to the front desk and ask!" After saying that, she pushed the cart filled with beds and other small items and hurriedly left.
Diep Tich frowned for a long time, not wanting to complain to her, but did not give up his original plan.
She therefore followed the waiter's suggestion and went to the first floor, came to the front of the stage and repeated the same words to the waiter in red.
The red-robed waiter hurriedly escorted the new guest in. Hearing this, he raised his head and looked at her: "Madam?"
Diep Tich pinched the pendant, his face filled with anticipation.
The cardinal servant looked at the pendant, his face confused: "What are you talking about?"
"...?" Diep Tich was also confused.
At the same time, she also caught a trace of alertness from the red-clothed waiter's eyes. That alertness was exactly the same as the blue-clothed waiter's just now. It was as if answering her question would not bring them "blessings", but would instead bring trouble.
"... No, thank you." Diep Tich shook his head, gave up on continuing to ask, entered the elevator, and returned to room 1502.
That's weird.
She lay on the bed that she had just cleaned up not long ago, thinking back and forth, not understanding why the first time she used Mr. Mao Zi's pendant, she couldn't ask for the thing she wanted.
From the front of the situation, Mr. Mao Zi should not only be in the amusement park, but also in the entire monster world, his status is very high, even with that behind the scenes boss "He" also exists thousands of connections, the monster world NPC group all admire Mr. Mao Zi very much. Therefore, this pendant as a gift, is equivalent to Mr. Mao Zi giving her a powerful external loop, in order to help her clear the pass, in order to save her life.
But how come I can't get up today?
Obviously this is also a strange talk, clearly the waiter is also an NPC, why can't he wake up???
Is this dungeon setting another limitation, or is it that Mr. Mao Zi's status in the Strange Talk World suddenly changed? Or is it...
Wait a minute!
A sudden thought came to mind, causing Ye Xi to be terrified —— those servants, shouldn't they also not be NPCs?!
... That being said, it seems like no one has ever clearly said that they are NPCs. Even in shopping malls and amusement parks, no one has ever clearly said that they are NPCs.
Random judgment will put herself in danger, she requires other evidence to prove this conjecture.
Diep Tich sat up from the bed, concentrating on recalling every detail of these two days.
The first thing that was obvious was that this hotel seemed to have an unusually large number of waiters, especially the blue-clothed waiters. There were many of them on every floor. Outside the hot springs, they could also be seen walking around at any time. This could barely be considered an unusual place, but at the same time, it could also be explained as "Although it is not necessary, it is not impossible."
This hammer is not hard enough.
Diep Tich took a deep breath, starting from today's breakfast and started to go forward a little bit. When recalling yesterday's breakfast, her spirit was shaken.
—— Yesterday at breakfast there was a small storm, the waiter fried eggs wrongly, gave the fried eggs to the next customer, so received a complaint.
The complaint was successful and the guest was awarded 6 hours of overtime, which was in accordance with the rules. But at the same time, the complained worker was deducted 2 points by the board, which was lost.
At that time, this matter did not cause too much panic, because in the eyes of everyone, it was just a copy of an NPC that disappeared. The current rules of the strange world undoubtedly belonged to the enemy faction of humanity. In this kind of strange place, if an NPC died, not to mention making people miserable, no one on the spot opened a champagne bottle to celebrate, all because everyone had high qualities.
But now that Ye Xi carefully recalled, the punishment of the complained worker was in line with common sense, but the deduction of 2 points, leading to his disappearance, was actually very strange.
The rules of the game are strange and bizarre, but these are all aimed at the players. In terms of NPCs, the majority of the assumptions are actually "common", and are similar to reality, such as the lines and uniforms, making the players feel like they are lost in the scene.
So if we base on common sense in reality, making this kind of worker complain will likely be blamed, will likely have money deducted, even consecutive mistakes will be fired is not strange, but should not include "disappearance".
Ye Xi took a long breath, gradually agreeing with his own guess in his heart——the workers here were most likely also players, they should have to complete some tasks to be able to leave the strange pool, and in the process of completing the tasks they would gain points, but being complained about would lead to their points being deducted, and if the deduction reached a certain level it would lead to death.
——If that's true, then Ye Xi had an explanation for the inappropriate place he felt at breakfast today.
On the one hand, if workers are also players, then workers should also have corresponding rules, this is something she is not very clear about at the moment; on the other hand, from the guest room rules one can clearly see the "Worker Complaints" category aimed at the waiter, so it is not difficult to imagine that the rules for workers should also have a reverse rule aimed at the customer.
It is even possible that the two sides have the same goal. The nature of this dungeon is to kill each other between players.
Just like that, even though the customer wants to directly face that three-part rule, the difficulties and variables also increase widely...
They want to try their best to survive, but the workers' camp will do their best to obstruct them, and with the presence of the natives and some ill-intentioned players, the whole situation will become extremely complicated.
This kind of guess made Ye Xi suddenly waver —— if the situation was really that complicated, shouldn't she try her best to avoid going out, stay in the guest room and spend her life wandering around outside?
... But this seems to be just a kind of idea.
According to common sense, hotel guest rooms are relatively private spaces, so they should be safe for guests staying there.
But in the rules of weird talk no one has ever made this kind of promise.
No one has ever said that the guest room is safer than the outside, no one has ever said that the small door can block all kinds of strange and dangerous things. Blindly believing in "common sense" the result is not necessarily more beneficial than harmful.
The feeling of insecurity that filled all around suddenly made Ye Xi's thoughts really chaotic, the feeling of being flustered made her even more frustrated.
Even when it comes to weird rules, she rarely sees someone flustered. Especially after gaining more experience, her confidence increases, and she feels more and more proficient when facing rules. Although she sometimes encounters difficult situations, she rarely feels like she can't handle them.
The current situation makes her not have that kind of confidence.
This was a situation she had never encountered before, the complex formation, the thoughtful participants, the many unpredictable dangers in the dungeon. Just relying on analyzing the rules and raising awareness did not necessarily guarantee passing.
But...
After a long period of uneasiness, Diep Tich forcefully cleared away all his worries.
When she was in college, her roommate called the worry about whether something would happen "loan anxiety". This kind of anxiety actually cannot solve any practical problems, but instead will occupy a lot of people's energy, causing a lot of harm and no benefit.
So, don't think about those things first.
Diep Tich took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and tried to think positively.
——in fact, although the situation is complicated, her advantage is still very clear.
First, she brought the props in. Although the three times of active verification of the [Distinguishing Dog] opportunity had been used up, she still had two times of passive verification that could be used. Furthermore, because she had just been at the waiter's place, she had not been able to truly start using Mr. Mao Zi's pendant. This large external hanging tool had not yet lost its effectiveness. Compared to many players who did not have props or only had low-level props, her survival rate was much higher.
Next, she will discover that the waiter is not an NPC by accident, the vast majority of players probably have not discovered this point. This means that when danger appears, she is more clear about the situation than others, and also has faster reaction ability... It is like having a pair of invisible [high speed shoes], she does not need to run to overcome danger, as long as she runs to overcome others, she can survive.
This thought made Diep Tich feel a little ashamed. As a member of the 17th, although she was only covering the outside, she should still forget herself for the sake of others and try her best to protect as many talents as possible in the Strange Pool.
So she could only admit, she was not great enough.
She has a bit of a chuunibyou hot-blooded idea, she wants to be a hero, but it depends on whether she can keep her life. This kind of feeling in normal conversations may not be too clear, but when the situation is unclear, there are too many variables, she will very clearly put her own life in the first place.
Diep Tich quietly lay back on the bed, digesting this kind of idea, truly accepting the fact that he was not carefree enough.
After calming down, Diep Tich took a serious nap. When she woke up at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, she had some breakfast from the buffet and packed her things, then called Ta Giang and went to the hot spring area like yesterday.
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Outside the men's hot spring changing room, Li Shenxu was holding a towel, rubbing the chair as if nothing had happened. If one looked carefully, he had actually been standing near the chair for a long time, but tourists usually wouldn't stay in the changing room for long, coming and going in and out, no one noticed his abnormality.
When it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, the changing room was quiet for a moment——this was a rare occasion, the tourists had either entered the hot spring or returned to their rooms, the changing room except for Li Shenxu was the only one middle-aged man left.
This middle-aged man himself was also Li Shenxu's target. When he started using the [Equipment Selection Tool] in the morning, the middle-aged man had a "5" above his head, meaning that even if he didn't have a level 3 tool, he would at least have a level 2 tool. At the same time, through his secret observation, the probability of the middle-aged man being a native was extremely low.
Li Shenxu seized the opportunity and silently began using the special equipment provided by the blue-clothed waiter, the [Death God's Blade], and silently followed behind the middle-aged man as he headed towards the shower room.
Two minutes later, the shower head's clear stream of water scratched the itch and covered the shocked □□ sound, fresh blood splattered on the frosted glass of the separator, then more blood flowed down with the water, some of it trickled into the drain pipe, some of it entered the side separator from the gap below.
The opponent was a "lucky person". As expected, Li Shenxu had obtained a prop, and it was a level 3 prop. He decisively gave up on himself and had just drawn a level 1 prop in the previous round of the strange discussion. After confirming that the recruitment score had been entered, he hurriedly walked out of the changing room.
"Who is it ——" was about to walk over to Xie Jiang and bumped into him, Li Shenxu glanced at him and quickly said: "Sorry, sorry."
"It's nothing..." Xie Jiang frowned, Li Shenxu's footsteps were already far away, causing Xie Jiang to mumble in his heart: What level?
... Maybe because of touching people, afraid of being complained?
Depending on, he just completely forgot to complain, tired!
Realizing that he had made a mistake in entering the contract, Ta Giang suddenly felt heartache and angrily went into the dressing room to change clothes.
Before he could finish changing, the body was discovered in the next room. A shrill scream came from the shower area: "Dead man!"
—— but it was just a symbolic scream. The majority of the audience who were talking about the dead man had already accepted this matter very well. The person who saw the corpse face to face only felt that the visual stimulation was too much, and calmed down with a scream.
Five or six famous medical attendants rushed in upon hearing the scream and carried the body away with all their might. Then someone came to clean the shower area contaminated with plasma.
Ta Giang has seen this kind of situation many times and cannot blame him.
Strange talk, if it doesn't kill people, it's even scarier to hear it?
But as he absentmindedly walked out of the dressing room, his thoughts suddenly stopped for a second.
Because he smelled a fishy smell.
... As a normal person, he was not too sensitive to this kind of fishy smell, but because he had just heard the word "deadly", he still immediately detected the smell of blood.
Then he suddenly remembered that the blue-clothed waiter he had just bumped into also had this kind of power.
This kind of situation would probably make anyone think of it, Xie Jiang couldn't help but shiver, he quickly left the dressing room.
The changing room was brightly lit by the sunlight. He waited for about ten minutes before Ye Xi came out. Xie Jiang's complexion was a little pale and he searched around for a while. When he entered the hot spring, he found that there were only two of them in the pool. He carefully asked, "Little sister, you entered the strange pool earlier. Can NPCs actively kill people?"
"Huh?" Diep Tich was startled, "Why do you ask that?"
"It's just that..." Xie Jiang was silent, telling the story he had just encountered.
Diep Tich hesitated a bit, then said with a serious face: "I have a guess, after you hear it, don't make a fuss, and don't say anything about going out… There are too many people in this strange place, everyone has different ideas, there's no need to cause chaos."
Although he hadn't heard the main text yet, this kind of word search had already made Xie Jiang nervous. He kept nodding his head: "Yes, you said..."
"I suspect that the waiter is also a player, and not an NPC." Ye Xi spoke his analysis in a few words but meant a lot, "It's just that our camps are different, and the way they clear the border is different. But they should have many special fake identities like us, and also have props. So if they want to scheme against us then…"
Ta Giang pupil earthquake.
Diep Tich slowed down his tone: "I also accidentally realized this point this afternoon. So from now on, we need to be extra careful."
Ta Giang: "... How careful is this?"
"To be honest, I don't know either." Diep Tich shook his head, "Let's take one step at a time and see."
She paused for a moment: "Right now all I can think of is to draw lots of prizes and save up to reduce the contract, quickly let you leave the dungeon."
Ta Giang was dumbfounded: "Then what do you do now?!"
Although yesterday she also gave him all the discount, but first she clearly said that she wanted to accumulate points, they considered it a fair exchange, secondly the situation at that time did not seem as dangerous as it is now, so he felt that following the request was not a bad thing.
This kind of situation now makes him feel that the discount and the important points are completely unequal, yet he himself takes away all the discount that belongs to her to take advantage.
Diep Tich smiled faintly: "I still want to accumulate points."
Ta Giang: "?"
Ye Xi: "I have carefully considered it, if I don't know what I can do specifically, I will use the unchanging to deal with the changing. So I will use my own ideas to deal with the dungeon, as for you——" she looked at Xie Jiang with an urgent expression, "Get to know him for a while, I will consider it as providing some possible help."
"..." Xie Jiang didn't know what to say. Although she found the words to be gentle, in this kind of situation where someone was willing to help him, saying thank you seemed too light.
He seriously thought for a long while, then hesitantly said: "That... If you believe me, I will go to your bedroom downstairs tonight."
Diep Tich: "Ah?"
Xie Jiang gave himself an objective assessment: "Although my brain isn't very good, my physical strength is still good. I can block you when you're in danger or drag you away, so let me give you some support, okay?"
"Okay." Diep Tich nodded happily.
She was very clear that she was not good at physical strength, and having someone assist her was quite good. As for the safety issue - although she was "not used to having a single man and a single woman sharing a room", but in this current situation, she really wasn't afraid of Xie Jiang plotting to cause trouble for her.
Like he said himself, his brain is not enough.
So want to survive from the strange talk go out to rely on her.
As for Xie Jiang, if he were to do something else that would "cause trouble", such as saying that he wanted to steal her props or kill her for points, then with the current state of the team, there was no need to make such a big fuss. Just the moment they were taking the elevator together was enough for him to make a move.
On the other hand, for now we can only do as she said, take one step at a time.
But if there was a chance, she wanted to first clarify one question——what was it like to serve in a camp?
Is it because of the random division when entering the dungeon, or what is the reason that causes the faction to change?
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At around 6 o'clock in the evening, the hot spring area suddenly fell into chaos.
The matter itself was not complicated, simply put, it was a group of guests who entered the strange chat room about the same time as Ye Xi, spent two days slowly probing the situation, and after they stabilized their mentality, they realized what the "Lucky Spinning Wheel Prize" meant, and directly started a round of looting.
They took advantage of the opportunity at 6 o'clock when a large number of guests would leave the hot springs for dinner. Among them, two or three people had attack props in their hands. The others took out materials on the spot and used their belongings as weapons to force those guests who had just praised them into submission.
The waiters were indifferent to this group, so in just over ten minutes, not only were many people robbed, but several were also injured and died.
Outside the hot spring and the first floor main hall were in a mess, the pale yellow smooth ground was covered with blood stains everywhere, the sound of injured guests kept ringing in the ears, and quite a few people were shocked, sniffling everywhere.
At that time, Diep Tich and Ta Giang were still in the hot spring area and did not go out, just in time to avoid a disaster.
The two people left the hot spring area at 11:00 pm. They calculated that they had been there for seven hours, and each person could draw 14 lucky draws.
At this time, they drew a lucky draw that brought out a kind of "suddenly quick-witted" flavor, the savings were reduced when the contract was accumulated and could be reduced when the hour came, and counting the previous draw, Xie Jiang was able to leave the dungeon almost a day early.
In addition, Diep Tich also won a total of 70 points and two first prizes.
The first prize spinning wheel has a total of two options, respectively [Props Store Shopping Opportunity] and [Props Store 100 Big Gold Coins]. Ye Xi chose Big Gold Coins last time, so this time he decided to want one, so he could go to the props store to take the 200 Big Gold Coins he lost and exchange them for some small props.
Xie Jiang later also transferred to the first prize again, Ye Xi's intention was to let him choose the Great Golden Prize, then she would go buy buy buy, come back and divide the things with him.
But Ta Giang asked hesitantly: "...Can we act together?"
"Then let's choose the shopping opportunity." Ye Xi did not force it. In this kind of situation, acting together was safer for her.
The two of them carefully collected all kinds of lottery tickets. Ye Xi asked the waiter beside him, "How do we go to the props store?"
The waiter chuckled and explained: "The props store is automatically activated, as long as you have the opportunity to shop, you will soon be able to see the props store."
"Okay." Diep Tich faced this kind of god mumbling assumption with no change in expression, politely thanked the waiter, then went to the elevator with Ta Giang.
When entering the elevator, Xie Jiang thought that he could immediately see the props shop, and began to wonder: "What is a props shop? Can we buy those [Distinguishing Dogs] miscellaneous props directly from the props shop?"
Ye Xi pressed the 15-minute button and nodded: "That's right, it's just using points to buy things, and the prices are very high, we probably… can't afford anything. But using Big Gold Coins we can buy some small props, like anti-pollution water bottles and such, 5-60 points can be obtained, but they are all disposable, and disappear after use."
"That's not bad!" Xie Jiang laughed out loud, "I'm in a pinch and need this kind of item. If it weren't for the lack of points, I'd sell a box wholesale. At least it would let me collect three or four more copies, right?"
Just as he finished speaking, the elevator stopped with a crisp "Clang".
They stayed at the 15th floor, this stop time is too fast. The two people were stunned at the same time, looking at the number above the interface, the number displayed is: 4L.
At the same time, the elevator door slowly opened.:,,.
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