Infinite weird games

When the three of them returned to the ward, it was already half past six.

The floors and corridors we passed were empty, and things were dim in the thin morning light. We met no patients or nurses along the way.

Sun Dekuan put Lu Zimo on the hospital bed, returned to his own bed, and sat down heavily.

The two of them looked at the empty bed left by Huang Xiaofei against the wall, and they were in a trance for a moment.

Three days after entering the dungeon, the first death finally appeared, not from a ghost, but from strife between players...

Even though everyone is more or less involved in the conspiracy, the sadness of the rabbit's death and the fox's death still grows uncontrollably.

Qisi stayed up all night, and the moment he entered the room, he finally felt exhausted.

He yawned sadly and walked straight to the corner of the room.

A new blue frog was once again born in the corner where several blue frogs had died before, squatting down demurely and dignifiedly, with two palm-sized pools of blood under its body condensing into a strange black-purple color.

Chiss threw a towel to the frog's head and covered its eyes.

After waiting for two seconds and seeing that there was no unnecessary reaction from it, Qiss directly took the towel and stuffed it into the backpack in the toolbar. He held the destiny pocket watch and counted for a full minute before taking it out.

The frog's belly bulged and puffed, and its bulging eyes glared angrily at the black-haired young man holding its back.

Very good, very energetic, it seems that the backpack can store living things.

Satisfied, Zeiss threw the frog into his backpack again and stored it in the inventory.

"Cherish food and avoid waste. Breakfast must be eaten!"

In the corridor, the nurse's shouts became closer and clearer from a distance; followed closely by the "gurgling" sound of the dining car pushing forward and the messy footsteps.

It is clear that when the players first entered the door two minutes ago, the hospital was still deserted and silent, but now it is operating hurriedly and slowly like a behemoth that has come alive from a deep sleep.

The people and objects moving back and forth seemed to grow out of thin air.

Sun Dekuan patted his fat face: "I'm not telling you that the food delivery is not on time. It was delivered at 6:01 yesterday, and it's already 6:30 today..."

Qisi walked towards the door that had not yet been closed, and looked into the corridor with half-closed eyes.

White shadows were rushing back and forth among the steaming corridors, making people think of the neon lights flying in the sky in the city at night for no reason.

Zis suddenly remembered a theoretical hypothesis he had seen before: the state of certain things will collapse at the moment of observation, and the state of some things depends on the observation of the conscious body.

After the copy of "Double Happiness Town" ended, during the conversation in the game space, Qi mentioned something about quantum mechanics.

Although He used a joking tone, Chiss inevitably paid more attention to the relevant information, and then found... that he couldn't understand it at all, and couldn't understand it at all.

This kind of advanced knowledge is still too advanced for him who dropped out of high school.

However, this does not prevent Zis from classifying issues with similar characteristics from the mechanics of weird games and focusing on them.

For example, how to determine the dungeon time and live broadcast time without occupying the real time flow rate; another example is the timeline and event occurrence of dungeons that combine multiple times and spaces like Red Maple Leaf Boarding School and Frog Hospital. What is the node based on?

In the dream the night before, Cheng An used methods to help him establish a conscious connection with Lin Chen, and based on what principle...

"Brother Cheng, having said that, what if they find out that Huang Xiaofei is missing and ask us about the situation? Will our failure rate increase collectively if we don't answer well?" Sun Dekuan kept nagging.

The nurse pushing the dining cart had already arrived at the door. She stacked three bowls of tadpole soup in plastic cans and handed them to Qiss.

Qisi took it steadily, returned to the room, and placed the soups one by one on the bedside table.

"First of all, they didn't ask."

He picked up his bowl of soup, opened the window and poured it out.

"Then, they only prepared three bowls of soup for us, which is enough to show that they already knew that something happened to Huang Xiaofei. Finally, since the failure rate has not increased now, there is no reason to settle the score in the future."

The known failure rate is a mechanism imposed by the strange game, and is linked to whether the dean notices something is wrong with the player. However, the narration information provided can all be inferred from the player's perspective...

Ziss has reason to suspect that the role of this failure rate is not so much to punish players, but to provide incentives and warnings to players.

Prevent players from showing inappropriate behavior and affecting an existence's plan; give players a sense of urgency to encourage players to actively explore; give players hints to interfere with players' decisions to a certain extent...

It even cultivates players' hostility and fear towards the dean.

Cheng An said that in order to deal with the dean, he made a deal with a certain god, and then he pulled the players into the world of Frog Hospital.

As a community of interests, God and Weird Games must meet the requirements of the transaction partners under the constraints of rules, so it is inevitable to stand on the hostile side of the dean.

Instigating players to assume that he is a "malicious NPC" without seeing the dean is understandably in line with their interests.

Everything in the world is nothing but good things come and good things go. No matter how complicated the situation is, analyzing it from the perspective of interests can always clarify the numerous clues.

If the entire Frog Hospital is treated as an away game instead of a world controlled by Weird Game; if Weird Game and the director are regarded as two sides of the game, and the players are the pawns of Weird Game, then there is no need to worry about many things.

——How could any chess player take the initiative to brush his own pieces off the chessboard?

Of course, Ziss would not tell anyone else about these inferences.

"Huh? My failure rate really hasn't increased?" Sun Dekuan looked at his [45%] failure rate, counted the time on his fingers, and felt a little relieved.

He asked again: "Tell me, how did they know that Huang Xiaofei was dead? I think no one else has been to that area of ​​the pond except us..."

"This shows that the director has stronger control over the hospital than we thought." Chiss sat on the bedside table and put the empty bowl aside, "The worst-case scenario is that our every move is under his watch. "

"Then what's going on?" Sun Dekuan clapped his hands, "We're messing around in his territory, and he knows about it, so he suffered a lot..."

Qi Si stood up suddenly, walked to Lu Zimo's bed, and pulled the towel out of the latter's mouth.

Before Lu Zimo could say anything, he grabbed the soup bowl and poured all the tadpole soup inside into the young man's mouth: "It's already the third day, and there are still no difficult ghosts to come to the door. This just shows that the dean is very interested in the tadpole soup." We are happy to see results.”

Lu Zimo opened his eyes wide and struggled violently.

Qisi held him down with one hand and intuitively felt that his physical fitness had become more than a little stronger, and he couldn't help but frown.

Sun Dekuan couldn't bear to look directly at Qisi's inhumane behavior, and his eyes drifted to the gray-white sky outside the window: "Ah? He is happy to see the results? What should we do next? Are we still going to cause trouble?"

"Continue with the plan and try to enter the dean's office today. There is a high probability that there will be important clues."

Qisi let go of his hand, letting Lu Zimo bounce up, then pressed his arm down, pushed him back to the bed board, and then let go...

It's just... quite fun.

"Huh? How do we get in?" Sun Dekuan blinked twice, "I didn't see any office or anything along the way..."

"I haven't seen him, but there is a piece of information I forgot to tell you." Qisi turned his head to look at Sun Dekuan, with a low tone of memory, "Yesterday the nurse told me that the dean was in the office and he hadn't seen anyone for a long time. The system prompt also said that the dean will come to see me today..."

"I thought, instead of waiting for him to come to me, I should go to him."

When Zeiss said this, his thoughts inevitably touched on a question.

If Frog Hospital really does not fall under the jurisdiction of weird games, then predictive tips may not be reliable.

The content written in black and white is most likely a purposeful deception by the weird game, trying to induce players to make a certain choice.

The world is uncertain, and people can never know the absolute truth.

Any existence is unreliable, and any information may be false. Even if you see it with your own eyes, it may not be true...

Ziss is a skeptic and knows that his persecution paranoia is outrageous.

It was not wise to engage in infighting where he couldn't get the exact answer. He suppressed his disturbing thoughts, lowered his eyes, and continued: "As for how to find and enter the dean's office... I already demonstrated it yesterday and the day before yesterday - Cheng Xiaoyu Ting It’s easy to lie, isn’t it?”

Lu Zimo was tortured by Qisi for a long time, and lay motionless on the bed like a dead fish, looking sideways into the void.

He saw something, a flash of panic flashed in his eyes, and his pupils were staring in the direction of the door.

Qisi noticed it, let go of his hand on his neck, and followed his gaze towards the door.

At some point, a slender figure in black quietly appeared, embedded stiffly in the door frame. His pale face had deep-set eye sockets, and inside were two blank holes.

"sister?"

"Huang...Huang Xiaofei!"

Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan exclaimed at the same time.

Lu Zimo couldn't move and could only stare at the dead man not far away; Sun Dekuan, with a pale face, rolled out of bed and leaned against the window.

Qisi straightened up, his right hand quietly covering the destiny pocket watch, and the cursed pendulum slowly raised its head from the cuff of his sleeve.

The "Huang Xiaofei" at the door was obviously not a living person, with a slight chill exuding from his body and a substantial white mist.

She walked straight into the room, turned around and walked towards her bed. Her eyes were directed forward from beginning to end, not stopping at anyone.

She seemed to have no memory of death and no desire for revenge. She lay down on the bed without saying a word and stared at the ceiling.

Sun Dekuan asked with a trembling voice: "What...what is going on? She...why is she back?"

Qisi held the destiny pocket watch tightly, walked step by step to Huang Xiaofei, and looked down at her for a while, but he did not see the scar on her heart left by the pendulum passing through her chest.

Obviously, this Huang Xiaofei is not the body of the Huang Xiaofei he killed last night, but more similar to the projection of this world.

"If my guess is correct, it should be refreshed at six o'clock in the morning, which is similar to the reason why blue frogs appear. As for whether it is..."

Qisi said calmly, and the cursed pendulum passed through Huang Xiaofei's throat, and the blood splashed wet the sheets: "We will know tomorrow if she will refresh again."

In a sense, Huang Xiaofei killed the blue frog three times and five times in the past few days, and Qisi killed her twice in a row today. It really seemed like some kind of absurd fateful reincarnation.

The humor and drama behind it were impressive enough. Qiss smiled with a smile, but he couldn't help but think of the frog's curse, and his smile faded away.

Two players have died at the Green Frog Hospital. Why didn't Lin Chen mention the refresh?

The situation of the deceased returning to the world is strange and weird, and it cannot be ignored unconsciously. Is Lin Chen hiding something, or is the mechanism different?

Last night I went to the bottom of the pond to look for a passage, but came back in vain, which shows that there is still a key puzzle piece missing from the completion of the reasoning.

All inconsistencies can be part of the puzzle.

Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan didn't think so much at all.

They first saw Huang Xiaofei return to the world, then discovered that the latter was an unconscious ghost, and then witnessed Qisi killing a woman again. Their emotions were rising and falling uncontrollably, and they were almost numb.

Sun Dekuan stared helplessly at a certain place in front of him, watching Qisi put away the bloody pendulum, dusted off the blood beads on the pendulum, walked towards the door, turned around and waved to him.

He shuffled to keep up, his soul seemed to have flown to the sky, and only his body was dragged along by inertia.

The two of them made twists and turns in the corridors, walking quickly along the route they had already walked twice, and stopped at the flat floor where the morgue and kitchen were located.

Just like yesterday, Qisi took out a few candies from his backpack and held them up: "Cheng Xiaoyu, if you don't come over, uncle won't give you candies."

The bloated boy appeared from the shadows, tilted his head and asked, "Who are you? Why do you know my name?"

"My name is 'Cheng An', and I am a colleague of your father. He is busy with work and has no time to accompany you. I happened to take sick leave, and when I was free, he asked me to play some games with you."

"I have never heard my father talk about you. Your surname is Cheng, and my father and I are also surnamed Cheng..."

"Oh, it's quite a coincidence. Your father used to joke that we were the same family. Did he really never tell you about me? It seems that he doesn't bring home anything from work..."

"Hehe, I want to eat sweets now, uncle, can you give me these candies?"

"Uncle bought the candy himself, but it's okay to give it to you. How about playing a game with uncle first?"

"Okay! You said, as long as I play games with you, you will give me candy."

"This game may be difficult, but you must play it seriously and try your best until the end, okay?"

"Okay, okay! Tell me what game it is."

Things unfolded exactly as they had the day before, like a simple rehash of a bad script.

On the system interface, familiar prompt text pops up smoothly.

[Use the skill "Soul Contract" on Cheng Xiaoyu and urge him to participate in the next game seriously and diligently]

Two golden ten-sided dice were thrown from the void, spinning rapidly in the dark palace of thought.

Ten seconds later, the dice freeze, revealing "8" and "3".

83 points, greater than 74, exactly the same result.

[The contract has been signed. This contract is guaranteed by the rules of the world and cannot be violated by any existence]

Qi Si waved away the bright red contract scroll, and Cheng Xiaoyu showed a gentle smile: "The game I want to play with you is 'play the dean', and the first task is to take us to the dean's office." ( End of this chapter)