He repeated the information the stele had provided. It was truly very limited.
Bronya did not keep her gaze on the corpses at the scene, but examined the entire site instead. Unlike the villa, the furnishings here resembled those of a laboratory. The only target worth investigating was probably that knight.
She began searching on her own initiative.
Sure enough, amid a pile of blank sheets in the archives room, she found a slim tablet.
Bronya smoothly unlocked it.
Displayed on the tablet was a roster listing every detective present, each marked with some sort of notation. After carefully comparing it with the people who had just died, she realized it seemed to be an order-of-death list.
Bronya's expression grew somewhat grave. Rather than reveal this discovery to everyone, she called Zhao Bai over to discuss it.
"What is this?"
he asked doubtfully. He first spotted his own name at the very bottom of the list, with Bronya's above it. The first name was "Kirk."
"This seems to be a death list."
Bronya lowered her voice. "The kind of item that appears to reduce a game's difficulty. You can still clear it without using it, but it'll definitely be much harder than if you have this item."
A gaming master really was a gaming master, skilled at thinking about problems from a game's perspective.
Stigmata Space was a fully immersive game.
"So scary."
Theresa watched what was happening in Stigmata Space, her petite body trembling slightly. There was no one else here. Bronya and Zhao Bai had both uploaded their consciousnesses into Stigmata Space, so she did not need to worry about being overheard and could freely express her fear.
For some reason, Theresa was even more afraid when no one was with her.
Her perspective was entirely that