Accompanied by a rustling, abnormal sound, lines of scarlet text spread across the surrounding walls, resembling countless wronged spirits dipping their hands in blood to write down their hatred.
The seven people present were all startled.
That fragile female student was even scared pale, letting out a startled scream.
After a few seconds, those bloody characters gradually faded away.
It's a Game Prompt!
Lin Yu knew this in his heart.
Then, he looked around and saw that the square-faced man had also quickly calmed down.
This guy was truly a professionally trained soldier.
As Lin Yu thought this, the square-faced man spoke in a cold voice, "Everyone, calm down. This is nothing major—the words appearing on the wall right now are very likely prompts about this game."
After speaking, he looked at the spectacled Little fatty from earlier and asked, "You said you've watched similar animations and novels, do you have any clues?"
"Expel the two outsiders hidden among us... it feels like some kind of game for finding moles," the spectacled chubby male student gave a light cough, "but this game description is way too rudimentary... just now, the bloody words before our eyes and the bloody words on the wall were both vague."
At this time, Lin Yu also spoke up at the appropriate moment, "I think there should be clues and prompts for this game inside the envelopes on the table. I feel we should look together at what is written."
Lin Yu chose not to speak earlier because he didn't want to become the focus of everyone's attention.
But if he continued to remain silent at this moment, it would instead seem a bit suspicious—Lin Yu had already noticed that several people's gazes were starting to secretly size him up, along with the short young man who still hadn't spoken.
Following Lin Yu's prompt, everyone present also came to a sudden realization one after another.
"Indeed, almost forgot about these envelopes!"
The tall square-faced man said, reaching out to open the envelope in front of him.
Seeing this, the others followed suit. That scarred face hesitated for a moment, but still opened the envelope in front of him.
Lin Yu slowly unwrapped the envelope, yet didn't rush to take out the contents inside. Instead, he first observed the state of these people while reading their letters.
He discovered that when these people checked the letters inside the envelopes, some furrowed their brows tightly, some wore nervous expressions, and some... were uncertain in mood. Moreover, the speed at which they checked the letters wasn't as fast as he had imagined.
It looks like the game isn't that simple.
Subsequently, Lin Yu opened the envelope.
The contents of the letter presented themselves before Lin Yu's eyes:
"Hello, my fellow human. No matter why you came here, I want to tell you some things about the ancient castle."
"We left many boxes in this castle, and inside are some things you can make use of. Encounter a box and open them."
"But pay attention to all except the red boxes, because those boxes belong to the werewolf and hold the werewolf's weapons—humans cannot open them, so be careful of those who can open them."
"To maintain the normal operation of the ancient castle, remember to do the things on the schedule every day, otherwise the ancient castle's mechanisms, poisonous fog, and bitter cold might kill everyone!"
"At 7 o'clock every night, it's time to hold a meeting. You can banish anyone to the outside of the castle through voting—the meeting room is sacred, and at the meeting no one can commit violence—so it's best to use the meeting to banish them. Of course, if two people get the same number of votes, then no one will be banished."
"If you discover a corpse, at this time, you can choose to immediately convene that day's meeting in advance. Once triggered, the time will come to 7 o'clock at night, and everyone is forbidden from free movement and must immediately head to the meeting room for the meeting."
"During the resting time at night, you must gather inside the meeting room until 7 o'clock the next morning—of course, during this time, violence is also impossible in the meeting room."
"Be careful, werewolves are cunning and skilled at disguise. On ordinary days they look completely indistinguishable from humans, only that they are filled with hatred and murderous intent toward us."
"Even among the werewolves themselves, there is no way to directly confirm that the other party is a werewolf."
"My fellow human, hope you eliminate all the hidden werewolves and successfully survive!"
"As long as a human survives until after seven days, even if the werewolf hasn't been found out, you can also leave this place!"
The handwriting of the letter was quite hasty, looking like it was written by someone under urgent circumstances.
Aside from this letter, there was also an Identity card inside the envelope.
Lin Yu took out the card.
"Your identity is: Human."
Lin Yu looked at the card in his hand and silently raised his head.
Before he even had time to clearly see the expressions of the rest of the surroundings while reading the letters and cards, a "crack" sound suddenly burst forth from his hand.
Crimson flames surged upward. Though they were not scalding to the touch, they startled Lin Yu into reflexively releasing the card.
And after he let go, the burning identity card, envelope, and letter paper all burned to ashes before they even had time to fall to the ground.
Not even leaving behind ashes!
Clustered flames plummeted and extinguished.
Yet this time, not a single person let out a cry of surprise.
Because everyone, after reading the letter, inevitably felt somewhat silent.
Combined with the bloody characters on the wall just now, everyone had already realized...
They truly weren't grasshoppers tied to the same rope.
This was a game of confrontation between players and players!
Finally, that middle-aged woman wearing glasses took the lead to break the silence:
"This letter... what do you all think?"
And among the crowd, the spectacled Little fatty pushed his glasses up and spoke in a low voice, "I've pretty much figured it out. This is a game similar to Werewolf!"
The people present all nodded slightly.
The oldest person here was the middle-aged woman wearing glasses, looking to be in her thirties or forties.
Clearly, although many of them might not understand virtual works like "Death game" and the like.
Yet they weren't old fogies who completely stayed off the internet either; at the very least, they had all heard of Werewolf, a game that had swept across the entire nation.
Seeing that everyone understood, the spectacled Little fatty continued speaking, "We've been divided into two factions: humans and werewolves, with five humans and two werewolves."
"Humans need to do tasks and open boxes on the side to ensure they survive for seven full days, while simultaneously finding the so-called outsiders, which are the players who got 'werewolf'; whereas werewolves need to hide themselves well, and at the same time find the werewolf boxes, get the weapons—and use the weapons to kill humans! Let the humans die out within seven days!"
After the Little fatty finished speaking, no one refuted him.
Clearly, his explanation also coincided with what most people were thinking.
Scarred face scratched his head, speaking with some displeasure, "Damn it, the game rules are made all roundabout, and they even write some fucking letter for people to translate; put a game like this outside and surely nobody would play it!"
The short youth on the side finally spoke for the first time: "That's why that fucking god abducted us dead people instead! Otherwise, nobody would actually play this kind of unlucky game!"
The short youth spoke in a joking tone.
Although now wasn't a good occasion for jokes, hearing this, everyone still smiled and couldn't help feeling the atmosphere lighten a bit.
Lin Yu looked at the short young man.
This guy is a bit suspicious...
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