Overlooked Details

Because of the casualties within the team, the overall mood of the team was somewhat somber.

After all, it's like someone who was chatting and joking with them during lunchtime suddenly discovers that the other person was already dead...

It's like you're having a great time playing Game and voice chatting with a friend at noon, and then suddenly you get a call from their family in the afternoon saying they passed away the day before... No one could accept that.

After obtaining the Key from the corpse of Heavenless Heretic, Bai Zhi and the others opened the door to room [501].

The layout inside was as usual, and due to Heavenless Heretic Tensei's slight obsession with cleanliness, the room was even cleaner and tidier than most of their rooms.

Unfortunately, they found no valuable clues in the room.

In this rather somber atmosphere, night fell silently.

[504]Room.

"... People are starting to Dead Person, why are you still able to act so relaxed?"

Looking at the person lounging leisurely in a recliner reading a book, the Night Owl felt rather puzzled.

"There are some things you won't understand if I tell you, but if I don't tell you, you'll never have a chance to understand... Well then, considering the Special of your Skill, I can tell you about them."

Bai Zhi creased the book he was reading and closed it.

"Start the timer now. At 55 seconds, you will use your initial Skill, understand?"

"Why... I understand."

After a slight pause, the Night Owl nodded.

"Theoretically, it's impossible to achieve a mission with everyone surviving and completing it. I knew that on the first day."

Bai Zhi tossed a timer to the Night Owl on the bed and began to speak.

"In the central Circular Hall where we first arrived, did you notice a small detail?"

"Details... are they really that important details?"

After carefully recalling the Circular Hall he had frequented in the past few days, the Night Owl shook his head in confusion.

"It's not particularly important, but it's easily overlooked."

Shrugging, Bai Zhi replied somewhat indifferently.

"There are only five of us living in this Apartment, but there are twelve chairs around the round conference table in that Circular Hall... Do you really think the five of us need that many chairs?"

"The number of extra chairs..."

After hearing Bai Zhi's words, Night Owl was slightly stunned.

"Similarly, in that Private Theater today, there were also 12 Sofa. Did you notice these details?"

Yawning, Bai Zhi rested his head on his hand and lay back down in the chair.

"These are all details, and details determine success or failure. You still have a long way to go."

"What does the extra number of chairs represent?"

Listening to Bai Zhi's narration as if it were gibberish, Night Owl seemed quite bewildered.

"See? I told you long ago, some things, if you don't tell them, you'll never have a chance to understand, but if you do tell them, you simply won't understand..."

Rolling his eyes, Bai Zhi let out a slight sigh.

"Although this Apartment is home to a large number of Inhuman Existence and Anomaly, Apartment also has its own rules that suppress these Anomaly... Rather than Apartment 'PrayerUnderDreams deduction that it is a form of human protection, I believe it is more of a form of protection. After all, no matter what, there is only hope if everyone is alive; if everyone dies, then there is truly nothing left."

"Uh... so what?"

After a brief pause, the Night Owl asked another question.

"What is the reason, based on your deduction, that it is simply impossible for any of us to achieve the feat of 100% survival?"

"... Actually, if it weren't for you saving Zither-Drum Harmony, we would have already lost one of our men. That's the reason I came to this conclusion."

Bai Zhi glanced at her and spoke softly.

"Physical abilities or basic attributes are secondary; the key to fighting the Anomaly lies in the unique Skill each Player possesses... So what if you can't even lift a 300-pound stone?"

"... I still don't understand."

The Night Owl shook his head quite Honest.

"Think carefully about what you said last night."

Pointing to his head, Bai Zhi reopened the book that had been creased with folds.

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact; everything we see is a perspective, not the truth... Okay, let's turn back time, and then you can think about it slowly."

"Oh..."

At the same time, in room [502].

Instead of playing Game, PrayerUnderDreams lay on the bed with her head resting on her hands and her legs crossed, her brows slightly furrowed as she looked up at the ceiling.

On the table to the side, there was an empty instant noodle box.

There are many things he can't understand.

He wasn't Intelligence type of Player; he knew his own limitations perfectly well. However, there were some things he couldn't understand, and that would cause him immense distress.

Was Heavenless Heretic's death related to the illustration book because he violated some taboo regarding death?

If not, what exactly was the taboo against death that the other party violated? Could I have unintentionally violated this taboo as well?

No one is immune to the fear of death, and he was no exception.

Although the presence of a highly intelligent strategist in the team made the mission seem much easier and simpler, he could clearly sense that the other party was definitely hiding something from him.

As he was lost in thought about these things, a charred arm slowly emerged from under the bed in the single room where he was lying, silently pulling a pair of slippers that were haphazardly placed beside the bed halfway under the bed.

After doing this, the charred arm slowly retracted.

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore, the more I think about it, the more my head hurts... I'm going to take a shower!!"

After thinking for a long time without coming up with a solution, PrayerUnderDreams suddenly sat up in bed.

Aside from the fact that they don't have to worry Anomaly being attacked by Zither-Drum Harmony, they have to be careful even when they go to the toilet, let alone take a bath.

In the first few days, the Night Owl would drag Zither-Drum Harmony along to the toilet, but later, because someone said that Anomaly were shameless and hiding in the toilet every day was the most embarrassing Anomaly in history, even surpassing the Anomaly story of picking up Dog Poop, it did slightly dispel the Young Girl's toilet phobia...

"Huh? How did my slippers end up under the bed?"