"Looping Flight" Itanu: How Could He Be Discreet?
"Footage cart passing by, please be careful."
The exact same notification sound rang out from the other end of the aisle as the roller moved.
The three were startled and instinctively turned around.
I initially thought it was that strange Flight Attendant again.
However, when they saw the person's face clearly, they were all stunned.
They were still wearing the same dark blue uniform, but this time the person pushing the cart was completely different from the previous one.
The same makeup, the same hairstyle, but the difference was that the newcomer's skin was no longer pale and bluish, but instead had a warm glow like that of an ordinary person.
Even the food cart gleamed with a cold, silvery light under the lamplight, without a trace of rust.
The Flight Attendant diligently reminded passengers in both rows of aisle to watch their step and asked if they needed drinks, but still no one responded.
"Is time and space intersecting...?" Aleksye suddenly murmured.
Inside the rusty cabin, among a group of pale-skinned passengers, this "normal" Flight Attendant stood out as the most conspicuous presence.
It is the exact opposite of the previous cycle.
"It shouldn't be the same person," Itanu added. "Their appearances are different."
"Let's go back to our seats first." Yansheng slowly backed away. "Or... does anyone want to go and test the waters first?"
Just then, they suddenly heard a cold reminder.
"Watch out for the corpse."
The three of them were startled at the same time.
When they instinctively turned their heads in the direction of the sound, they only saw the tall, straight back of the black-haired youth.
Aleksye was the first to react. He immediately bent down, put his hands under Manya's armpits, lifted her up, and swiftly pushed her into the shadows under a nearby seat.
*
Xu Xi could clearly feel that the difficulty of the Dungeon was increasing as his Floor Count improved.
... and perhaps the leaps in this regard were a bit too large.
At least he could piece together the information from the previous Dungeon, but in this Dungeon, let alone piece it together, there were hardly any fragmented clues at all.
He couldn't find a starting point and was completely baffled.
So when he heard that his teammates were planning to change their strategy, he thought it made perfect sense.
Instead of frantically searching for a way to escape before the plane crashes, we should find out the cause of the crash and see if we can prevent it from happening again.
Most importantly, he doesn't believe that the "loop" mechanism of this Dungeon is without reason.
If all that's needed is for them to evacuate before the plane crashes, wouldn't it be more logical to teleport them directly to the point where the plane has just taken off?
Instead of letting players repeatedly relive the moment before the plane crashes.
Fortunately, my teammates were reliable this time, and they quickly came up with a new direction.
He was listening intently when, a second later, a question from Bangs Man with bangs and a small mole on the corner of his mouth caught him off guard and left him speechless.
His opinion?
What could he possibly think?
There weren't even any conditions to trigger Rollback.
... And don't think he didn't catch the subtext of "I noticed you seemed to be thinking a lot," which was basically asking why he wasn't talking.
On the surface, they were soliciting opinions, but in reality, they suspected him of slacking off!
The arrival of the Flight Attendant eased Xu Xi's embarrassment.
Seeing that the attention of the other three teammates had been drawn to the corpse lying on the ground, seemingly unnoticed, they realized that no one was paying attention to the body that was stuck in the middle of the aisle.
To avoid being seen as slacking off, he made a point of reminding himself.
As for why he didn't handle it himself...
The reason is simple: he was the furthest away.
After giving a brief reminder, he turned and returned to his seat without waiting for anyone else's response.
The strange Flight Attendant from the previous cycle appeared in the latter half of the episode, but this time she appeared almost twenty minutes earlier.
He felt there was something very wrong.
*
Aleksye's feelings at that moment were extremely complex.
She glanced at her seat, and the same choice was presented to her once again.
Should she walk straight past the seemingly ordinary Flight Attendant, or go to the Restroom again to avoid her?
Without much hesitation, she turned around and strode towards the Restroom.
The aircraft was clearly in a malfunctioning state, and in such a state, any conventional response could potentially lead to a trap.
But the prerequisite is that she needs to determine in which time and space the player is in.
Itanu and Yansheng had already returned to their seats while Aleksye was dealing with Manya's body.
The only thing that made them feel fortunate was that, although these mutated passengers looked terrifying, they had not yet shown any signs of going out of control.
Itanu was unaware that viewers in his Livestream Room were urging him to latch onto their coattails; he was contemplating how to subtly become a tool that the Huaguo man could easily use.
His intuition told him that the other party was hiding something significant.
In the previous international Dungeon, he was also matched with a player from Huaguo.
That person was like an onion, seemingly unassuming, but there were layers upon layers to peel away, and he kept holding back his secrets, leaving a very deep impression on him.
Compared to that person, the black-haired youth appeared much more aloof, taciturn, and mysterious.
Especially that composed demeanor; one absolutely could not be so calm without a certain level of confidence.
So he decided to take a gamble.
He doesn't expect the other person to take good care of him; he just wants them to lend a hand in crucial moments.
Yansheng then fastened the seatbelt around his waist as if it were buckled, while secretly keeping watch for any unusual movements from his side.
The thought that his previous probing attempt had been interrupted again made him sigh inwardly.
His Item suffered a disastrous defeat in this Dungeon, and his usual expert information gathering methods were severely disrupted.
But at the same time, his deep-seated wariness of the others was also quietly increasing.
The brown-skinned woman died too easily. At this stage, most players have some survival Items, so he suspected that she was probably ambushed by the Blonde Woman and didn't have time to use her Items.
The Tattooed Man was very perceptive and immediately realized the purpose of his Item.
As for that black-haired youth... he couldn't quite describe how he felt about him.
The other person isn't the type that immediately seems dangerous, but that's precisely why they're worth paying attention to.
The three of them were each brainstorming their own ideas.
On the other side, Xu Xi fastened her seatbelt and leaned back in her seat, waiting for the food truck to arrive.
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Outside world.
Ji Yang Livestream Room.
[What a sight! A flash of silver light, a glint of cold steel, and a chilling aura of killing intent!]
[Xu Xi: (Immovable as a mountain) (Heart as still as water) (As steadfast as a rock)]
Are you guys having a word-for-word contest here?
[No wonder 248 remained perfectly seated when the cabin and passengers were all agitated; it turns out the real killer move was yet to come.]
[Let the knives and forks surge like a tide, I will remain unmoved.]
[Actually, the announcement already warned that the airflow was unstable and that everyone should remain seated and fasten their seatbelts.]