Perhaps the key point was not what they had been focusing on all along—whether body temperature, sweat, and touching could really expose their identities as humans.
The key to exposing the identity of anomalies was ‘two-way’.
The corpses suspected the players and then checked them out. When players voluntarily touched the corpses, accidentally providing evidence of being alive, such as body temperature and sweat, to the corpses, confirmation of exposure was achieved, or rather, the condition of death was fulfilled.
The two reacted and realized that their foreheads were sweating again at this moment.
But it’s not cold sweat.
If they confirmed this point, as long as they didn’t touch the corpses, they wouldn’t die. Holding on would allow them to successfully clear this instance.
This eerie path suddenly became particularly stable.
They could already see the exit of the instance ahead, waiting for them.
Was this the feeling of being guided to success?
Ning Su gave them another reassurance, “One corpse should only kill one player to be ‘satisfied.’”
“That corpse that killed players in the river during the day can’t help but suspect us. But it never made a move again, just like the other corpses that had killed players. They didn’t act again afterwards.”
The two look at Ning Su with shining eyes.
Ning Su: “...”
Who was the subject of ridicule in this situation?
Ridiculing the one who didn’t have a thigh to hug.
“I envy you guys so much,” he looked frustrated, “When will you become thighs for me to hug?”
“?”
“No, wait!” Pang Yang said, “Hold on! I’ve found a blind spot!”
He looked at Ning Su with suspicion. “Your presence proves the error of your reasoning.”
He looked like he had discovered the truth. “If players actively touch the corpses, they will be exposed. So, how come you weren’t exposed when you actively get into a fight with a corpse that day, and also when you pressed the old man onto the bed? The corpse you beat even seemed to consider you one of its kind.”
Ning Su: “...”
He didn’t expect that.
Pang Yang grabbed his hair in agony. “So, your speculation was wrong. All for nothing.”
Ning Su said softly, “Have you ever considered another possibility?”
“Another, another possibility?” Pang Yang looked at Ning Su and muttered.
To be honest, Ning Su’s facial features were truly exceptional, a true gift from the creator. The more Pang Yang looked at him, the more familiar and fond he became of the other.
Yet, there was something off about his skin tone, and the faint blood vessels on his slender neck were a bit peculiar.
Especially when two mysterious children peeked out from both sides of him, exuding a powerful eerie aura.
Pang Yang recalled when he first saw Ning Su; both he and Zhao Kehan coincidentally mistook Ning Su for a corpse and speculated that he died from gas poisoning.
While others saw someone who looked good, they would first think of how they looked like as a child.
But Pang Yang, at his first glance at Ning Su, thought about the way he died.
A drop of cold sweat dripped from Pang Yang’s forehead.
Fang Qi smacked him, saying, “You look like you’re about to be scared to death. What are you thinking?”
“I entered this horror game with him on the same bus. We even cleared the previous instance together. I was the one who invited him to this instance in the game lobby.”
Pang Yang: “...”
Fang Qi asked Ning Su, “Is this related to your skills?”
Ning Su glanced at Fang Qi, then turned over and got into bed.
The bed that belonged to Ling Xiao.
“...”
Pang Yang patted his chest. “So as long as we don’t actively touch the corpses, we can easily pass this instance, right?”
Ning Su’s voice drifted down from the upper bunk. “Only the two of us can do it easily.”
“...”
Which two was he talking about?
This remark could provoke someone, but for some reason, Pang Yang just found it amusing.
He remembered something else; he killed a rooster, but Ning Su also fought with a corpse.
So, doing good deeds ≠ could not do bad things, right?
He didn’t realize that he had already regarded Ning Su as the standard.
He only thought that the human pupa master must not know this point, or who knew what she would do to the players.
Upon thinking about this, he asked Fang Qi, “Shouldn’t we inform others about the speculation that players must not actively touch corpses? As long as they don’t initiate contact, we don’t need to rush to confirm each player and corpse, right?”
Fang Qi replied, “Will they believe it?”
Pang Yang said, “Whether they believe it or not is their business; whether we remind them is ours.”
Fang Qi agreed, “You’re right; let’s write notes now.”
They were almost ready to tell the players as soon as they reached this conclusion.
However, it was a bit too late.
When confirming the players earlier, someone asked the human pupa master about the four in bus 07 who claimed to be players.
Xue Wei said she would go and investigate.
Other players didn’t bother much, unsure if she would really probe and how she would do it.
Not only did Xue Wei investigate, but she was also efficient.
Several players supplemented information about the players in the same bus. After dispersing into small groups, Xue Wei circled the cabin, stood in a newly discovered spot, glanced at the four players, and smirked with purple-red lips.
There was a storage room door slightly ajar in the cabin.
Xue Wei and Gu Xinghua quietly called the four players here.
Standing in the middle of the storage room, Xue Wei personally walked to the door, twisted the latch, and locked the door from the inside.
The “click” of the latch, accompanied by Xue Wei’s pleased smile, sent a chill down everyone’s spine for an inexplicable reason.
Xue Wei crossed her arms, standing in front of the four, smiling unabashedly. “Since you all claim to be players from bus 07, then please prove it yourselves.”
The four players hadn’t fully understood Xue Wei’s meaning yet, but Gu Xinghua understood her smile and the act of locking the door from the inside.
She locked the door, making this a space entirely under her control.
In this closed space, she had no fear of the corpses inside. If any corpse dared to challenge her, she would handle it right there.
She wasn’t afraid of “doing something wrong” and accidentally killing a player because she didn’t plan to do it herself.
Licking her lips, she joyfully said, “This is what you said. You must prove it; you have to point out which one is the corpse and deal with that corpse yourselves.”
She thought for a moment and said kindly, “I’m not completely clueless about human emotions. If you can really confirm the corpse and convince me, I can help you deal with it.”
There was silence in the room.
After a while, Mi Xinjia still didn’t understand what Xue Wei meant, perhaps because she couldn’t believe it. “What?”
Her appearance could be described as average at best. Today was the second gathering, and she chose to walk over on her own initiative. However, she was coldly pushed back by some players.
Previously, not revealing herself to either side, actively hiding among the corpses and the crowd, and not participating in the players’ discussions were one thing.
But being ostracized by other players after coming out in the open was another.
At that time, they desperately wanted player groups to include them, especially in a horror instance with factional divisions.
Especially Mi Xinjia, she was particularly afraid of being ostracized.
It wasn’t just her being ostracized, but all four of them together.
Xue Wei’s pleasure slowly seeped into excitement as she said, “You can gradually confirm step by step, starting with the basics. For example, we all know the difference between living people and corpses is body temperature. Try touching each other to see if the people around you have body temperature.”
With her nails painted purple, she pointed at them one by one, “Start from here, clockwise, you touch him, you touch her, you touch him, you touch her.” (T/N: Not really sure about the right order, since the Chinese language didn’t typically have gender specific pronouns. And the way this sentence was written didn’t really specify if the person Xue Wei was pointing at was male or female. So, I just made it like this. I’ll just correct it later if I’m wrong. ><)
She leaned over this way and smiled, the excitement in her smile already apparent, tinged with a hint of bloodiness. “If you’re lucky, with just one round like this, you can find the corpse.”
“Of course, you have to tell the truth, or else you’ll have to go through another round in reverse.”
Perhaps the key point was not what they had been focusing on all along—whether body temperature, sweat, and touching could really expose their identities as humans.
The key to exposing the identity of anomalies was ‘two-way’.
The corpses suspected the players and then checked them out. When players voluntarily touched the corpses, accidentally providing evidence of being alive, such as body temperature and sweat, to the corpses, confirmation of exposure was achieved, or rather, the condition of death was fulfilled.
The two reacted and realized that their foreheads were sweating again at this moment.
But it’s not cold sweat.
If they confirmed this point, as long as they didn’t touch the corpses, they wouldn’t die. Holding on would allow them to successfully clear this instance.
This eerie path suddenly became particularly stable.
They could already see the exit of the instance ahead, waiting for them.
Was this the feeling of being guided to success?
Ning Su gave them another reassurance, “One corpse should only kill one player to be ‘satisfied.’”
“That corpse that killed players in the river during the day can’t help but suspect us. But it never made a move again, just like the other corpses that had killed players. They didn’t act again afterwards.”
The two look at Ning Su with shining eyes.
Ning Su: “...”
Who was the subject of ridicule in this situation?
Ridiculing the one who didn’t have a thigh to hug.
“I envy you guys so much,” he looked frustrated, “When will you become thighs for me to hug?”
“?”
“No, wait!” Pang Yang said, “Hold on! I’ve found a blind spot!”
He looked at Ning Su with suspicion. “Your presence proves the error of your reasoning.”
He looked like he had discovered the truth. “If players actively touch the corpses, they will be exposed. So, how come you weren’t exposed when you actively get into a fight with a corpse that day, and also when you pressed the old man onto the bed? The corpse you beat even seemed to consider you one of its kind.”
Ning Su: “...”
He didn’t expect that.
Pang Yang grabbed his hair in agony. “So, your speculation was wrong. All for nothing.”
Ning Su said softly, “Have you ever considered another possibility?”
“Another, another possibility?” Pang Yang looked at Ning Su and muttered.
To be honest, Ning Su’s facial features were truly exceptional, a true gift from the creator. The more Pang Yang looked at him, the more familiar and fond he became of the other.
Yet, there was something off about his skin tone, and the faint blood vessels on his slender neck were a bit peculiar.
Especially when two mysterious children peeked out from both sides of him, exuding a powerful eerie aura.
Pang Yang recalled when he first saw Ning Su; both he and Zhao Kehan coincidentally mistook Ning Su for a corpse and speculated that he died from gas poisoning.
While others saw someone who looked good, they would first think of how they looked like as a child.
But Pang Yang, at his first glance at Ning Su, thought about the way he died.
A drop of cold sweat dripped from Pang Yang’s forehead.
Fang Qi smacked him, saying, “You look like you’re about to be scared to death. What are you thinking?”
“I entered this horror game with him on the same bus. We even cleared the previous instance together. I was the one who invited him to this instance in the game lobby.”
Pang Yang: “...”
Fang Qi asked Ning Su, “Is this related to your skills?”
Ning Su glanced at Fang Qi, then turned over and got into bed.
The bed that belonged to Ling Xiao.
“...”
Pang Yang patted his chest. “So as long as we don’t actively touch the corpses, we can easily pass this instance, right?”
Ning Su’s voice drifted down from the upper bunk. “Only the two of us can do it easily.”
“...”
Which two was he talking about?
This remark could provoke someone, but for some reason, Pang Yang just found it amusing.
He remembered something else; he killed a rooster, but Ning Su also fought with a corpse.
So, doing good deeds ≠ could not do bad things, right?
He didn’t realize that he had already regarded Ning Su as the standard.
He only thought that the human pupa master must not know this point, or who knew what she would do to the players.
Upon thinking about this, he asked Fang Qi, “Shouldn’t we inform others about the speculation that players must not actively touch corpses? As long as they don’t initiate contact, we don’t need to rush to confirm each player and corpse, right?”
Fang Qi replied, “Will they believe it?”
Pang Yang said, “Whether they believe it or not is their business; whether we remind them is ours.”
Fang Qi agreed, “You’re right; let’s write notes now.”
They were almost ready to tell the players as soon as they reached this conclusion.
However, it was a bit too late.
When confirming the players earlier, someone asked the human pupa master about the four in bus 07 who claimed to be players.
Xue Wei said she would go and investigate.
Other players didn’t bother much, unsure if she would really probe and how she would do it.
Not only did Xue Wei investigate, but she was also efficient.
Several players supplemented information about the players in the same bus. After dispersing into small groups, Xue Wei circled the cabin, stood in a newly discovered spot, glanced at the four players, and smirked with purple-red lips.
There was a storage room door slightly ajar in the cabin.
Xue Wei and Gu Xinghua quietly called the four players here.
Standing in the middle of the storage room, Xue Wei personally walked to the door, twisted the latch, and locked the door from the inside.
The “click” of the latch, accompanied by Xue Wei’s pleased smile, sent a chill down everyone’s spine for an inexplicable reason.
Xue Wei crossed her arms, standing in front of the four, smiling unabashedly. “Since you all claim to be players from bus 07, then please prove it yourselves.”
The four players hadn’t fully understood Xue Wei’s meaning yet, but Gu Xinghua understood her smile and the act of locking the door from the inside.
She locked the door, making this a space entirely under her control.
In this closed space, she had no fear of the corpses inside. If any corpse dared to challenge her, she would handle it right there.
She wasn’t afraid of “doing something wrong” and accidentally killing a player because she didn’t plan to do it herself.
Licking her lips, she joyfully said, “This is what you said. You must prove it; you have to point out which one is the corpse and deal with that corpse yourselves.”
She thought for a moment and said kindly, “I’m not completely clueless about human emotions. If you can really confirm the corpse and convince me, I can help you deal with it.”
There was silence in the room.
After a while, Mi Xinjia still didn’t understand what Xue Wei meant, perhaps because she couldn’t believe it. “What?”
Her appearance could be described as average at best. Today was the second gathering, and she chose to walk over on her own initiative. However, she was coldly pushed back by some players.
Previously, not revealing herself to either side, actively hiding among the corpses and the crowd, and not participating in the players’ discussions were one thing.
But being ostracized by other players after coming out in the open was another.
At that time, they desperately wanted player groups to include them, especially in a horror instance with factional divisions.
Especially Mi Xinjia, she was particularly afraid of being ostracized.
It wasn’t just her being ostracized, but all four of them together.
Xue Wei’s pleasure slowly seeped into excitement as she said, “You can gradually confirm step by step, starting with the basics. For example, we all know the difference between living people and corpses is body temperature. Try touching each other to see if the people around you have body temperature.”
With her nails painted purple, she pointed at them one by one, “Start from here, clockwise, you touch him, you touch her, you touch him, you touch her.” (T/N: Not really sure about the right order, since the Chinese language didn’t typically have gender specific pronouns. And the way this sentence was written didn’t really specify if the person Xue Wei was pointing at was male or female. So, I just made it like this. I’ll just correct it later if I’m wrong. ><)
She leaned over this way and smiled, the excitement in her smile already apparent, tinged with a hint of bloodiness. “If you’re lucky, with just one round like this, you can find the corpse.”
“Of course, you have to tell the truth, or else you’ll have to go through another round in reverse.”
