First Player

Chapter 540: five hundred and thirty seven

   Chapter 540 Chapter 537 "Su Rin is still on his way here on horseback at this time."

   "Clang-!"

   A bell rang, and the originally bright hall suddenly darkened.

  Xiao Ai withdrew her legs, and several players watching the fun also fell silent.

   Nine golden candlesticks were placed in front of the people, and the flames swayed like ghosts.

  This final nine-man lineup really surprised people, and many gambling markets collapsed and went bankrupt.

   Aini, Flora, Lu Shu, Yamada Choichi, Luna and others in the second tier were eliminated, not even Edward, Aland, and Alger, who were given the prestigious first tier, were not there.

   "Dah, dah."

  The sound of steady footsteps suddenly came from above. This ancient castle has four or five floors and covers a very large area. The sound came from the stone stairs.

  Because the oil lamps were all extinguished, only the faint light source of the fireplace and nine candlesticks remained. They could not see the appearance of the man, but he should be the person who issued the rules.

   "...Look at the vague body shape, isn't it the boss rabbit?" Shirley said softly.

  Before, Boss Rabbit issued the rules to them, but now it seems to be replaced.

  The man walked all the way, not in a hurry, like the last guest of honor at the ball, looking very high-profile and very impressive.

   The nine players in the arena, the four guides... and the hundreds of millions of spectators outside the arena are all waiting for the person hiding in the darkness to walk under the light source.

  Suddenly, a blinding halo shot from Su Ming'an's wrist and hit the man's face, causing the stabbed man to shrink back suddenly.

"—Good morning dear An Jiang! The Aduke Evolution 3 artificial intelligence watch will tell you the time on time. It is now January 11, 2022, twelve o'clock in the morning! Today, I have loaded the hometown song "Good Luck" for you. "—"

   "Boom!" Su Mingan flipped his wrist and knocked the watch on the table, it suddenly became quiet.

   "Let you turn on the light but not let you talk," he said.

   He just wanted to shine, this watch even called "An sauce"... Obviously it is an intelligent AI that can learn, but he has learned everything in the past.

   Dr. Xu, who made the watch, originally wanted the watch to follow him and let the AI ​​gradually grow and evolve. As a result, the watch learned an "An sauce".

  Su Ming'an raised his hand, and the strong light hit the man again, taking a complete picture of the man's appearance.

  Other players were stunned - the rule issuer appeared like this, obviously to show high style, but Su Mingan hit the light and instantly ruined the style of walking with the dark.

   They looked towards the man shrouded in light and saw that he was wearing a solid black robe.

   The man seemed to be a little distracted by the strong light, and a pair of pale and slender hands blocked his face, looking a little photophobic. Like a mouse that was forcibly dug out of the ground.

   "—It's you!" After seeing the appearance of the man in black robe, Joey's eyes were rarely widened.

   He recognized this black-robed man—isn't this the guy who deliberately abducted and lost his sanity guide, and also drove the cursed black beast to kill in the sky?

  Su Mingan also recognized the man in black robe.

   He and the man in black robe fought in the cave a few days ago. The man in black robe captured those guides just because he wanted them to be used as energy to drive dangerous monsters.

   For some unknown reason, the initial favorability of the man in black robes towards him was 95 points.

   Being illuminated by Su Ming'an, the man in black robe immediately quickened his pace and quickly walked to the fireplace.

   He wore a dark mask, and no one could see his face.

  The warm firelight beat on his dark mask, glowing with a sharp metallic color.

   "You can put away your light, outsider, before I get angry." He said to Su Ming'an.

  Su Mingan closed the watch.

  This watch has no other function, the brightness is really high, and he is almost blind from a distance.

   He looked at the man in black robe in front of the fireplace and thought to himself.

   He can now be sure of two things.

   First, this npc black-robed man may not be able to shoot the player at the moment.

  Second, the man in black robe has a really high degree of favorability for his role, so high that he won't lose favor if he is teased like this...

   "—Welcome to my castle."

   The man in black robe suddenly opened his arms, and his voice rumbled in the empty hall.

He stood in front of the fireplace, with his back lighted, people could only see his slightly reflective metal mask, and saw the silver beast pattern on the mask. The pattern seemed to affect people's spirits, making them seem to see The original picture of people and hunting in the ancient times, saw the knife and fire in the wormwood grassland forest.

   He is welcoming their guests from afar with a calm and confident attitude of the host. The light of the fire danced behind him, and he opened his arms like an upright, dark cross standing in front of the fire.

  ...However, the wave of follow-up lighting just now made his force fade away in an instant.

   The players looked at him a little embarrassedly, and even the sleepy Beiwang was awakened by the strong light.

   "What was it just now." He rubbed his eyes: "It's so bright..."

   "—Your age! How can you sleep!" Lu said.

   Beiwang looked at him blankly, there seemed to be a hazy mist in his eyes, and he didn't seem to wake up.

   "—All guests from afar, welcome to my banquet." The man in black robe ignored the whispers of the players and continued:

   "—You are all contestants in the sacrificial field, and you have overcome difficulties all the way to come here, so I have prepared a grand feast for you..."

   This is the first time that Su Mingan has seen such a shameless rules introducer.

Players such as   Lu and Beiwang said theirs below, and the man in black robes said his above. The two lines seemed to not meet at all, reminding him of the open class in the university.

   "...But before you participate in the banquet, you need to know some rules..." The black-robed man said this, and the players finally reacted a little and raised their heads.

  A blue panel appeared in front of everyone.

  …

  【Final Silver Star Copy】

  [Dungeon Name: Castle Quest]

  【Difficulty: 5 Silver Stars (The winner will get 5 Silver Stars)】

  【Number of participants: 9 people】

  [It is recommended that players are good at directions: intelligence, luck, and keenness. 】

  【In the old castle, there are clean and tidy corridors and warmly furnished rooms.

  As foreigners from afar, you will spend three warm and healing nights here...]

  …

   "Shh" with a soft sound, and suddenly a black feather appeared in everyone's hands.

  Su Mingan glanced at it. On his feathers, a bright red 1 was written.

   "Now, all of you, there should be a feather on your hand." The man in black robe said:

   "Your mission is to search the castle, get more feathers, and add up the number in your hands to 100.

   At noon on the third day, you can come to the hall to gather and hand in the feathers in your hands. You won't be considered a victory until everyone's total reaches 100 points.

   But among you, there are inner ghosts who want to destroy feathers on purpose. They have replaced the original person, no longer the person you know, they will deliberately destroy the feathers scattered all over the place, so that you can't reach 100 points in the end.

  Please watch out for them and kill them as soon as possible!

   Friendly reminder, when someone dies, the feathers in his/her hands will be automatically destroyed, so please do not accidentally hurt innocent people, so as not to fail to reach 100 feathers at the end. "

   After the rules of the black-robed man were finished, several people digested it for a while.

   They really didn't expect that the last dungeon was actually a faction cooperative system, and they thought it would be a fight against each other.

   "Excuse me, what is the number of the initial feathers on our hands based on?" Mizushima Chuankong asked.

   The feather on her hand has a distinct number 3.

The numbers of the people next to them are not big. Among them, Lu and Beiwang’s numbers are 12, Noel’s numbers are 18, Herbert and Joey’s numbers are 3 and 4, and Shirley’s numbers are the highest. At 24 o'clock, Angel's feathers happened to be protected by him and were not exposed.

   "According to your kindness." The black-robed man said: "The purer the kinder, the higher the number."

  Su Mingan stared at the bright red number 1 in his hand and glanced.

  …Hmph, pit him again.

   He turned his head to look at Xiao Ai's feathers, his eyes suddenly stagnant.

  Xiao Ai's hand is guarding the feathers, so no one can see it, but he has seen it—the number on her feathers is 99.

  1+99=100, his calculation should not be wrong.

  …Have you already won?

   What is this copy playing?

   "Ask, does the inner ghost know that he is an inner ghost?" Lu raised his hand and said.

   "I know." The man in black robe said.

   "You just said that someone between us was replaced by a ghost. Where did the original player go?" Noel asked.

   "They naturally have their own way of customs clearance." said the man in black robe.

   "Do the inner ghosts know the personal information of the replaced players, and do they know their past?" Shirley asked very critically, and this will become their way of identifying the inner ghosts.

   "This...you can guess for yourself." The man in black robe said vaguely.

   Others wanted to ask questions, but the man in black robe no longer answered.

   He took a step back, and his figure melted into the light.

   "There are all kinds of interesting things in the castle, which are related to 'perfect customs clearance'. I look forward to everyone exploring." The man in black robe bowed his head slightly: "Then - I wish you a happy vacation."

   The fireplace flickered, the flames went out, and the hall fell into darkness.

  Su Mingan immediately turned on the watch and accurately lit the man in black robe.

   This man still wanted to play into the shadows, but he scored twice and was completely illuminated by this light.

   "Don't go now, you have something to do with Feng Chang? Why are you the one who issued the rules for the copy?" Su Mingan asked.

   When he talked about Su Rin in the cave a few days ago, the favor of the man in black robe dropped by 5 points, indicating that the man in black robe must know Su Rin, and most likely he was from Feng Chang's side.

   However, the man in black robe did not respond to his words and ran extremely fast, like a mouse with oil on the soles of his feet.

   "Ding dong!"

   The system prompt suddenly sounded.

  [The game has started, and all the contestants start to randomly disperse teleportation—]

  …

  Su Ming'an holds Xiao Ai, his 1 point plus her 99 points has already won, as long as you wait for the submission link at noon on the third day, you can win directly.

   However, this was a scattered teleportation, and when he opened his eyes again, there was no one around.

  He looked up, it was pitch black.

   Once the lights of the ancient castle were turned off, everything in the field of vision was pitch black.

   A sound of "chacha" sounded suddenly, as if something twisted was approaching. Due to the laws of the dark forest, he did not rush to turn on the lights, but stood silently in place.

   But the next moment, his sixth sense of shadow state suddenly started to call the police, and it seemed that something life-threatening was rapidly approaching—!

  【You must find the light source as soon as possible, otherwise you will be swallowed by darkness! ! 】

   A bright red as blood prompt lit up, and the handwriting looked like dripping blood, extremely terrifying in the dark vision.

  Su Mingan no longer hesitated and turned on the light directly.

   "Click!"

   The next moment, the deadly threat that made the scalp tingling faded immediately, as if a huge shadow flickered at the edge of his field of vision and disappeared.

   He turned his head, but could only capture a faint shadow, and there were a few low chewing sounds in the darkness.

   He glanced around and found himself in a large room. In the corner was a bamboo candle basket with three bright red candles and a match.

  …this should be the initial perk, if someone doesn't have a flashlight, these candles are their poor tiny light source.

  If they didn't touch the candles before the threat came, they were dead.

  【The built-in light source is only valid for the first hour, please collect more light sources as soon as possible! 】

   The bright red prompt popped up again.

  Su Ming'an put three candles and matches in his pocket - these things can't be put in the backpack.

   He took a step, but stopped.

  At the feet - I don't know when a purple-black corpse appeared, with rotting flesh and dense spots. Its hands and feet were slender and shriveled like spider legs.

   He landed his foot on the back of the corpse's hand, and with a "click" sound, dark and thick blood stained the soles of his shoes.

  “…”

   He stared at the ghastly corpse.

  …This is the castle vacation of 【Warm and Healing】.

   Sure enough, it’s still a familiar world game style.

   "—Su Ming'an?"

   He turned his head and saw a road with sea-blue hair, holding a red candle dripping with wax, and walked in through the small door.

  …

  【SAN value: 50 points】

  【Number of survivors: 13】

   [Su Rin's state: Passionately playing in the wild. 】

  …

   (end of this chapter)