Kaleidoscope of Death

It was always best to see the people around you live, no matter what methods they used - at least for Lin Qiushi.

That night, the crowd was doomed to sleeplessness, the number of Box Men in the house increased once again, and the path they took to get out of there was still unclear. The easiest way to put the Box Girl to rest was to use the Mary doll on the remains of the Box Girl's former favorite doll. Last night, on the other hand, the item that Xiaomei opened was the Box Girl's skill card, called "My Miss Mary". Even though it has the word "Miss Mary" in its name, the two items have far different functions.

The function of the "My Mary" skill card is to prevent the player with the Mary doll from moving the doll, and the doll will keep crying and making noises, so the player must stack it twice. So the player has to stack the noise piece twice, and when the noise piece collapses and makes a noise, the box girl can move, thus increasing her speed and frequency.

If the player with the Miss Mary doll is killed by the Box Girl, her items will also be buried, and the player will lose a way to leave the house, making the game more difficult again.

Lin Qiushi vaguely understood why Nguyen Nam Candle said something like that to Sun Yuan Chau, Nguyen Nam Candle seemed to be using false information to confirm something.

The next morning, it was clear that everyone's faces were tired, clearly affected by what had happened last night.

Early in the morning, Lin Qiushi chose two boxes in their room, listening to them to make sure that there was no noise inside them before letting Ruan Nanzhu open them.

The chests were empty, with neither skill cards nor items, so it could be said that they were useless.

The second chest Lin Qiushi let Liang Mi Ye, today by him not to eat and starve for a day, tomorrow again Liang Mi Ye.

For two days and three nights, Ruan Nam Candle just ate a bucket of instant noodles, and although he didn't say anything, he was definitely hungry. When he arrived at the restaurant, he didn't really greet the people around him, so he was alone and quietly stuffing food into his mouth.

Today was the third day of not being able to eat without unpacking, and most people were no longer able to continue to carry that pervasive hunger, choosing to sit at the table after unpacking and munching away.

Ruan Nan Candle had almost finished eating, put down what he was holding and said, "Yesterday, Xiao Mae opened a skill card."

His eyes looked around the table and didn't see Xiaomei's figure. Thinking that the incident of her lover's accident had hit her quite hard, she didn't even want to eat breakfast.

"What card?" Huanzihui asked.

"My Miss Mary." Nguyen Nam Candle said, "A very important skill card, before I say anything, I would like to ask if anyone here has ever opened a rag doll?"

The crowd shook their heads at the news, indicating that they had not seen the rag doll.

"Okay, then I'll continue." Ruan Nan Candle, "After opening the rag doll, if the box girl uses this skill, the person who has the doll may need to open two boxes the next day to eat, of course, this is just my guess, and there may be other interpretations of this skill, but it's definitely not good." The inside of the door would only increase the difficulty, never making the whole game easier.

"So what's the point of this doll?" Another question was asked.

"You can override the box girl," Ruan Nan Candle said, "It's a very important escape prop."

As soon as this was said, everyone quieted down, their expressions very complicated, clearly gauging the danger factor of this matter. Reward and risk never coexisted, and trying to leave this place was doomed to risk.

"Is there anyone else opening another prop today?" Ruan Nan Candle asked, "I can decipher it for you."

Everyone, however, shook their heads, except for one little girl who carefully indicated that she had opened up one password.

"What? Then we can guess what the rest of the codes are if we open just one more." Ruan Nan Candle.

"And you dare to guess the password?" Xuan Zihui looked very dissatisfied with Ruan Nan Candle, if Ruan Nan Candle didn't know the information she might have disowned Ruan Nan Candle on the spot, but now her attitude wasn't too good and her voice was cold, "You still don't know what happened to those people who guessed the password?"

"Guessing the password also depends on the situation." Ruan Nan Candle faintly said, "Naturally, there's no good result if you do it the hard way." At least in the rules of the table game, the act of guessing the password is allowed, but only if you get at least a few digits, of course, if the luck is so great that you don't need any information to directly guess it all in one breath, then please treat the rules as farting.

Breakfast time was over, as the results of today's unpacking had come in and it seemed like a very quiet day.

Nguyen Nan Candle walked around the house, finally stopping at the entrance and saying, "There were already a lot of people here when I arrived."

"Huh?" Lin Qiushi looked puzzled.

"There are at least eight of them." Ruan Nan Candle said, "If we're going to play a game, the rulebook must be placed in the most prominent place, and that person who can get the rulebook must be the one who entered the door in front..." he continued, "It's not Wei Xiu De, he's with several New people coming in together would have a hard time hiding the rulebook from that many people if they saw it, so the person who hid the rulebook would have been a loner, or a duo." He straightened up, "So the question is, why would he hide the rulebook."

"Maybe he wants us dead?" Liang Mi Ye, "If we don't know the rules and open the box indiscriminately..."

"No, even if we were to open the chests haphazardly, only one person would die at most, no one would be stupid enough to continue opening the chests haphazardly after an accident." Ruan Nan Candle, "But it's going to be difficult after that because we don't know how to use the props and skills."

While he was analyzing, he heard a howl from upstairs, and the howl actually belonged to Wei Xiu De, a man who should have never had an accident.

"What's happened? Did he open the wrong box?" Liang Miye was startled.

"I don't know." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's go, go up and have a look."

They hurried upstairs, but they saw that there was already a circle of people upstairs, and the shouting was coming from a box - Wei Xiu De had actually been caught in the box!

If the box was opened the day before, then not only would you be able to eat three meals a day that day, but you could also eat breakfast the next day, so the situation in front of Wei Xiu De should have been an accident for the lunch opening.

But Wei Xiu De clearly had Artichoke's stethoscope, so why would something like this happen?

Lin Qiushi looked up and actually saw Little Thistle and Little Mae standing together, Little Mae's expression was still gloomy, but Little Thistle still looked like he was hip-hopping.

"What's going on with you guys?" Sun Yuanzhou also came.

"I heard wrong," Artichoke said, "The prop made a mistake!" He still had that stethoscope around his neck.

No one believed him in that, props can't go wrong, it's only people who go wrong.

Mae, however, giggled and she said, "Isn't that a good thing? When someone like Wei Xiu De dies... everyone should be happy ah."

"Right." Little Thistle said lazily, "After luring us in and getting so many people killed, shouldn't he deserve to die."

Lin Qiushi didn't know exactly what Mae had used to convince Artichoke, but her persuasion had apparently worked, and Artichoke had chosen Mae and abandoned Wei Xiu De.

The bad guys getting their due punishment should have been a delightful thing, but along with Wei Xiu De's miserable screams, Lin Qiushi couldn't stop laughing - the number of boxers had increased once again.

Sun Yuanzhou was clearly thinking much the same thing as Lin Qiushi, his eyes were so dark that Lin Qiushi had expected him to say something, but he didn't say anything and planned to turn around and leave.

"Right." Ruan Nanzhu suddenly said, "Is there a box man or a box woman in this box?"

"It's Box Girl." Xiao Mae had a good impression of Ruan Nan Candle, and she answered Ruan Nan Candle's question, "I saw her."

If it had been before, Mae might have been frightened by the box girl's appearance, but after experiencing the death of her lover, she was much calmer and could even face the scene she once feared the most with a straight face.

"Oh." Ruan Nan Candle, "Then everyone come to the restaurant, I have something I want to tell you all."

Everyone's faces showed suspicion at the news and went towards the restaurant.

When everyone had arrived, Ruan Nam Candle sat down next to the table and the first thing he said was, "I've got Miss Mary."

"What? Miss Mary?" Someone asked a surprised question.

"Yes, it's Miss Mary," Ruan Nam Candle said, "Now I've hidden it in my house, once everyone finds the bones, we'll be able to get out." His expression was excited as he spoke, looking like he was about to play a game to clear the level, "Although the bones are hard to find, this is already the easiest way."

"Great, we can finally get out..." the crowd made similar noisy discussions.

"But this doll is very dangerous, and it's already opened the skill card of Miss Mary, so I was wondering if I should put it back..." said Nguyen Nan Candle.

"Don't do it, what if the box girl destroys it?" Someone in the crowd spoke up, "If you don't want it you can give it to me, I'm not afraid."

Lin Qiushi heard this and looked at the person who spoke, this person was a little girl who didn't have much of an existence, although she was a veteran, she usually barely spoke, and even Lin Qiushi didn't even remember her name.

"Alright." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Then I'll take it with me, everyone must actively open the box, and find the bones early so we can get out."

He spoke lightly, more than two hundred boxes, there were still more than a hundred left, a hundred and ten percent chance, it wasn't such a good bet.

After saying this crucial information, Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi left the restaurant.

Liang Mi Ye now also tasted what Ruan Nan Candle was trying to do as she said, "You suspect..."

"Shh." Ruan Nan Candle put his finger up to his mouth, signaling Liang Mi Ye to be quiet.

Liang Mi Ye nodded, indicating that she knew.

The three of them left the restaurant and went back to their room, where they waited.

About two or three hours later, what they were waiting for finally came, and the box girl let out another miserable cry, this time from a bedroom on the second floor, where the person inside was frightened and crawled out of the bedroom.

After the howl the box girl would use her skills, but no one was diminished until dinner time, and everyone in the foreign room was alive.

"She used her skills?" People were discussing around the table, "Why didn't anything happen?"

Currently Box Girl only had three skills, False Response, So Good I Want to Open It, and My Lady Mary, the first two of which had already been used, Lin Qiushi asked everyone present if they had encountered any false responses before coming.

Everyone gave a negative answer.

So after eliminating the incorrect options, the only answer left was the only one left - the box girl used the skill, My Lady Mary.

Just because the Miss Mary item is currently undiscovered, the skill simply fails and goes back into the pile of cards.

While the crowd was discussing, Ruan Nanzhu kept his head down and played with the spoon in his hand, Sun Yuanzhou's eyes frequently looked towards him, but although he was holding back, someone in the crowd still couldn't help it and questioned, "Zhu Meng, didn't you say you had Miss Mary? Why didn't your Lady Mary work after Box Girl used her skill?"

"Because I lied to you guys ah." Ruan Nan Candle was laughing lowly at first, then louder and louder, his hand on his chin, his eyes sweeping over the crowd with indifference, "If I didn't lie to you guys, how could Box Girl use her skills?"

The crowd froze at his expression.

"What do you mean?" In the end, there were still smart people, and Sun Yuanzhou's words illuminated the hidden meaning of Ruan Nan Candle's words in a single sentence, "You mean the box girl is among us?"

"I don't know." Nguyen Nam Candle said, "I don't know if it was the Box Woman herself, or someone working with the Box Woman." He said coldly, "All I know is that someone inside of us tipped off Box Woman - Box People are not allowed to communicate with Box Woman, I announced this in the kitchen when I was sure Box Woman was on the second floor, and two hours later, Box Woman activated her skills, so why do you think she was in such a hurry? Is it because you're afraid I'm going to hand over Miss Mary?"

"How can this be good for that man?!" Someone stood up and slapped the table heavily, "We're all dead, to him there's..." he stopped in mid-sentence because the benefits were so obvious.

It was just as well that the man was Box Girl, but if he worked with Box Girl, when the benefits were so great.

Since everyone else was dead, the rules of the door would work and it would be easy for him to get out of here any way he wanted.

How to get a teammate to die without him noticing was almost an art in the door. And the man who was hiding among them was clearly addicted to it.

The old hands figured the whole thing out and looked around a bit more viciously, the newcomers either understood or were dazed, clearly not up to speed on the sudden drama.

"If I'm not mistaken, that person should be the first one to arrive here," Ruan Nan Candle said, "He even hid the rule cards, so if I hadn't actually played the game, we'd all be waiting to die together."

"You're right, but there's a huge loophole here." Xuan Zihui spoke up again, still saying something unfavorable to Ruan Nam Candle, "The premise of all of this existing is that the information you provided is correct, if either Miss Mary or the effects of the skill cards were made up by you, then none of this would exist."

Ruan Nan Candle seemed to be smiling, "What's the benefit of creating difficulty for myself by making it up like this?"

"Just like you said, leave here alone ah." Xuan Zihui stood up and said sternly, "We've been here since we came in, you're the one who's been giving us information, you said you've played board games, what kind of coincidence is that - you're the only one who's played such a niche game?!"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "If there's anything else you want to say, let's say it together." Faced with Xuan Zihui's aggressiveness, Ruan Nam Candle acted indifferently, as if looking at an unreasonable child.

"If anyone hides the rules, I think that person is you." Xuan Tzu Hue said, "Eighty percent of the truth, plus twenty percent of lies, is enough to make everyone be deceived, don't you think, Miss Zhu Meng?"

If it was purely from Xuan Zihui's point of view, what she said did make sense. Ruan Nam Candle had taken the leadership position from the moment he entered the door, and it made sense for others to suspect that he was the one hiding the rule card.

Unfortunately, Ruan Nam Candle had been prepared.

He slowly pulled out a note from his pocket and placed it on the table, tapping his fingertips: "Answer."

Xuan Zihui took the note and changed color after just one glance.

It was a note that belonged to the door, and on it were written the words Box Girl, thus, the reason why Ruan Nam Candle knew the rules inside the door was completely explained, he was the one who had the clue, the most powerful big brother inside them.

Xuan Zihui, who read the note, was like a burst balloon, her whole body deflated, she sighed, sat down, and did not try to doubt Ruan Nan Candle.

Instead, a little girl next to her asked in a fine voice, "Can't this note be forged?"

"Forgery?" Xuan Zihui looked at her in confusion, "How do you fake it? This note is a special texture, and even if you were to forge it, it would have to be done outside the door, so how would you know what was going on inside the door before you came in?"

The little girl accosted and smiled: "I'm just asking."

Ruan Nan Candle spread his hands: "What other questions are there?"

The crowd shook their heads and looked at him with changed eyes.

"Since there are no more questions, let's do it." Ruan Nan Candle, "Be careful yourselves, after all, there is a traitor in the crowd, if you have any questions, you can just come and ask me in private, I promise not to tell Box Girl." He said here, seemingly smiling, and looked at Xuan Zihui, Xuan Zihui's face went blue and white, and she was unable to speak for a long, nerdy moment.

"Is the information still public after that?" Sun Yuanzhou asked the most worrying question of the crowd. Since there might even be Box Maiden inside among them, wouldn't all the information they released be a graft for Box Maiden.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Let's put it this way, as long as it involves information that can get out of here, we'll all exchange information privately, but if we discover skills and information about killing the Box Girl, we'll make it public."

"How to communicate privately?" Sun Yuanzhou frowned, "We don't know who that person is yet."

"If you guys believe me, you can tell me and I'll make the delivery, if you don't believe me..." said Ruan Nan Candle, "If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

Sun Yuanzhou said, "I believe you." The moment Ruan Nan Candle took out the note, it meant that he would definitely dominate the crowd, after all, he was the only one who knew the rules, oh, and maybe his two companions who didn't talk much.

Once anything happened to Ruan Nan Candle, they would truly be a turtle in a jar, and the box girl would be powerless to torment them however she wanted.

The crowd discussed for a while longer before dispersing.

When Ruan Nan Candle and Lin Qiushi reached the door, Xiao Mae, who was passing by him, suddenly thanked him in a low voice.

Ruan Nan Candle said, "You're welcome."

"What exactly did you say to her?" Liang Mi Ye was really curious about what Ruan Nan Candle had said that could suddenly revitalize that deadly little Mae from last night.

"I just told her that it's actually possible to kill someone inside the door." Ruan Nan Candle said, "As long as it's used in the right way."

Lin Qiushi blinked, but something came to mind, "Has Wei Xiu De been telling newcomers that they can't kill inside the door?" It's true that you can't kill people inside the door, but you have to add two words directly before you kill them.

Having someone die within the rules was a skill.

"Thistle is not a fool." Ruan Nan Candle said, "Although reckless, his intelligence is fine." As he walked forward, he said, "There should be a reason why he didn't do anything to Wei Xiu De."

"What reason?" Liang Miye asked.

"I don't know about that." Ruan Nan Candle Dao, "Maybe it's some restrictions outside the door, since Xiaomei was able to take up with Little Thistle, she must have helped Little Thistle solve the problem."

Little Thistle who had solved the problem mercilessly made his move on Wei Xiu De, the way he did it couldn't have been simpler, all he had to do was lie about a piece of information.

Wei Xiu De mistakenly thought that the box was safe and happily opened it, but the result... spoke for itself.

"This kind of can't take revenge either?" Lin Qiushi knitted his brows.

"Hmm." Ruan Nan Candle, "It's not like Little Thistle moved."

But although Wei Xiu De, the man, had suffered his retribution, their situation was getting more and more difficult, the number of boxers was four, and the insiders had yet to be found, currently it was entirely the box girl's side that had the big advantage.

The game couldn't be rushed, though, and at least at the moment they hadn't opened up the skills that would give the boxgirls dominance.

Such thoughts were shattered in the night. A hungry newcomer opened a box, from which a skill card named "I am by your side" was opened.

When the newcomer came to Ruan Nan Candle, Ruan Nan Candle squeezed the card and fell silent, this skill is the strongest skill of the box girl, once activated, all the humans in the same room with the box girl, will all die.