Chapter 209: Transforming Community Experience (XVIII)
"That's a really serious accusation."
The guide's smile seemed to be welded to his face, and every inch of his muscles seemed to be strangely fixed at the starting point.
"You seem to be very confident in your judgment. But are you truly certain you will never make a mistake?" The man stared at Tang Xin Jue. "Can you bear the consequences of making a mistake, even just once?"
Tang Xin Jue remained unmoved by this threatening warning. She met his gaze calmly, skipping over the trap he had set, and continuing with her own topic:
"Assuming the casino's rules are real, then the existence of the explainers should also be real... or at least the early explainers are real. Of course, it's also possible that they were fake from the beginning."
"But rather than all of this being a lie, I'm more inclined to the former possibility: you replaced the tour guide midway, so even as a tour guide, you could interfere with us, set traps, and deceive us..."
Having successfully sensed the subtle changes in the other party's aura, Tang Xin Jue concluded his review and revealed a hint of a smile:
"What should I call you, some unknown casino executive, or Mr. Bu?"
Tang Xinjue never doubted her own judgment - from the moment she entered the food court, she was certain that something was wrong with her roommate.
Guo Guo was most sensitive and resistant to the scent of ghosts. He was still doubting and worried at first, but then he took the initiative to encourage Zheng Wanqing to try it.
Zhang You was the most cautious, but he was staring blankly at the snack stand without any precautions.
But with Zheng Wanqing's personality, she never subconsciously clenched her fists when she saw these foods baked from human tissues.
If behavioral abnormalities can be explained by environmental influences, then the changes in another data will be more intuitive and clear.
She took out her cell phone and opened the [Dormitory Member Status] interface in the [Dormitory Survival App].
She saw that the status bars of the four people, including her, were covered with dense negative buffs, and their health values had dropped by more than half!
Among them, Guo Guo's injuries were the most serious, and the yellow warning light on his health bar even lit up.
Tang Xin Jue turned the screen around: "You could have blocked my mental detection in advance, making all the props on us ineffective, but you seem to have forgotten this most basic tool."
This time, the tour guide didn't say anything.
"Wait," she raised her eyebrows, as if realizing something. "Could it be that you don't have enough permissions to block it?"
guide:"……"
After all, tracing back to the source, what bound the four of them together in the beginning was not mental power or supernatural props, but this APP, the source of all evil.
The APP makes them closely connected with each other. If the roommate in front of her is really injured so seriously, she will definitely feel it at the first time, instead of feeling nothing.
There is only one reason.
Those were the three familiar figures in front of her, not her roommates.
…at least, not entirely.
So, who could separate and switch them silently and pull her into the illusion of the ghost's perspective?
As Tang Xinjue finished speaking, the scene in his field of vision suddenly changed through a thin layer of air.
The handsome face under the blond hair was like a piece of paper soaked in water, leaving a blurry mark and instantly blurring all the impressions of this face in her mind.
When she looked more closely, she felt a sharp pain in her eyes. She immediately gave up looking and used her supernatural power to protect her vision.
“Is this dealing with evidence of a violation?”
As long as the casino does not have the rule that "the boss can do whatever he wants", no matter how high the other party's level is, it is undoubtedly a violation of the rules.
The "tour guide" shook his head slightly in the blurry light and shadow, and his voice became that of an unfamiliar young man:
"No, no. This is called 'not knowing the true face of Mount Lu, because you are within it.' When you uncover the truth here, in principle, whether you know my true identity or not, you will see my true form. But if you do see it, you will probably be doomed, and the blame will be on me."
After finishing this long string of words, he paused for a second, very ritualistically, before continuing, "But you also know that there's a core rule in casinos: guests can't attack each other, and naturally, I can't take the initiative to attack a guest. So, in order to avoid violating the rules, I can only design a small threshold to protect the eyes of students who are not yet strong enough. I wonder if this explanation is easy to understand?"
Although he couldn't see anything clearly in the blurry figure, Tang Xinjue could still feel a gaze that could not be ignored. Just a light gaze falling on his body made him feel an instinctive sense of suffocation.
However! Compared to the information content of the other party's words, her attention was focused on another angle:
This voice...why does it sound so familiar?
The valve of memory turned rapidly, and finally a time node popped up.
If she remembered correctly, in the previous [Dormitory Friendship League] instance, there was a man with a sotto voce voice who often appeared from the sky from unknown directions, pointing fingers at the competition situation and the test takers' props and talking loudly, attracting countless hatred...
How come the sound coming from this mosaic is exactly the same as it is now?
Seeing that Tang Xin Jue remained silent for several seconds, the young man asked gently, "Hmm? Is it because I haven't explained it simply enough? That shouldn't be the case. I've already made a lot of improvements to keep up with the times..."
"Mr. Bu."
Tang Xinjue suddenly spoke.
The young man still didn't answer, but he keenly noticed a difference.
This time, the girl used an affirmative tone.
Tang Xin Jue: "I used to think you were just some creative tech geek from the university town, but I didn't expect you'd be so interested in the students' lives. During the last friendly league, you were also eating melons the whole time, right?"
Another scene that she remembered very clearly was when the competition was completely over, the system prompted "Mr. Bu" to appear and send a fireworks show to bless all the candidates.
Individual pieces of information cannot yield anything, but when pieced together, a conclusion becomes apparent.
Tang Xinjue understood, and the other party also understood.
Without even saying the four words "It 's you", the other party responded immediately.
The mosaic turned 180 degrees and began to move quickly in the direction they came from. If it could be personified, Tang Xinjue felt that he could vaguely see a stick figure moving its legs quickly.
No, the problem isn't the stickman, it's his behavior—
Tang Xinjue reacted right after and realized that that was the real exit of the food street!
She subconsciously ran after him, and said speechlessly from the bottom of her heart:
"You're running away now???"
Before she completely pointed out the other party's identity, she simulated countless possibilities in her mind, made different preparations for fighting, fleeing and defending, and imagined different attitudes of the other party, but she had never thought of this result.
The other party turned around and ran without hesitation?
Disguised as a small NPC dog, he lurked behind them, dug so many traps, and even went to so much trouble to create a bunch of illusions. Was this just a performance art?
"Mr. Bu, you don't want your image to be ruined here, do you?"
In a desperate situation, Tang Xinjue could only use his dignity-killing move.
According to her observations over such a long time, although most are inhumane, they basically still have some dignity.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Bu's sprinting figure slowed down for a second. But the next second, he continued running at double the speed!
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
Okay, this guy is shameless.
