Zuo Cheng'an explained his guess to Li Yueqiu.
Li Yueqiu promptly changed her tune. "Then let's hurry to your room." But he still had one last concern. "Will this really work? Won't the game erase us?"
"Why would it keep erasing people? We spent most of last night in the hallway, and you're fine now, aren't you?"
"Ohhh!" Li Yueqiu suddenly understood. "Okay. You look so cold, but I never expected you to be so nice."
Ding! One more nice-person card. :D
"No, I'm a textbook egoist."
Zuo Cheng'an brought Li Yueqiu back to 204, then suddenly remembered something and returned to 203 to close the door.
Click. It was the sound of the door locking automatically.
Not long after he returned to 204, a game notification appeared.
[Hunters have appeared. Number deployed: 1]
Creeeak...
Through the peephole, Zuo Cheng'an saw an E-rank Hunter with full health appear in the hallway.
Although he had already deduced from the bullet comments' reactions that this would probably work, every muscle in his body remained taut, ready to fight at any moment.
As for Li Yueqiu, without needing a reminder from him, she covered her mouth tightly and curled up motionless in a corner.
In the end, the Hunter did indeed stop outside 203 and scratch at the door with a series of crunches.
But 203 was empty. Even if it tore the entire door down, it would gain nothing.
Another day passed, and the players who had survived the ordeal emerged from their rooms.
When they saw Li Yueqiu emerge from room 204 completely unharmed, their faces lit up with wild joy!
So they really could avoid the Hunters without fighting!!
So the dungeon game was this easy! They only had to hide in a room with a different number!
Caught up in everyone's excitement, Li Yueqiu eagerly invited Zuo Cheng'an, "My savior! Come hide in my room tonight!"
Zuo Cheng'an glanced at room 203's door and refused without a second thought. "No need."
"Huh?"
Li Yueqiu was a little puzzled, but the instant she saw the miserable state of her door, she understood.
Room 203's door had died an honorable death, reduced to wooden fragments scattered across the floor.
Thanks to the medicine, Zheng Ren had recovered enough to shuffle slowly along while supporting himself against the wall. He suggested, "Then how about coming to my room? The door to 202 is intact and undamaged."
"Sure, sure!" Li Yueqiu agreed cheerfully, without a trace of yesterday's wariness.
"That won't work either." Remembering the information he had seen in the bullet comments, Zuo Cheng'an refused again.
He shook the keys in his hand. They had appeared automatically in his pocket after he woke up in the dungeon, bore a room number, and could open the corresponding door.
"Look, there are only two keys on each of our key rings.
"I suspect that means the game allows one other person besides ourselves to enter and leave our room freely."
Zheng Ren let out a long "Ah!" as realization dawned. "So that's it! I thought the game was worried we'd lose our keys and deliberately gave us an extra spare!"
Then he looked at Zuo Cheng'an with admiration. "Bro! How are you so sharp?! You even spotted a tiny clue like that!"
The others remained dubious. Liu Shuang instinctively touched his own keys. "Seriously? Only two people can stay in one room?"
"It's just a guess," Zuo Cheng'an said mildly. "Believe it or not. That's up to you."
Those rules had all been tested by previous players at the cost of their lives anyway.
Besides, he was really just looking for evidence with the answer already in hand.
It was like a student making up some working just for show after copying the answer. The result was already correct anyway; the process didn't matter.
Given that a room could hold no more than two people, the next step was to find clues within the game. The keys that had appeared in everyone's pockets at the very beginning were precisely such a clue.
Zuo Cheng'an hadn't lowered his voice while explaining his analysis, so the other players heard it too.
Everyone had originally wanted to band together and hide in one person's room, but after learning of this restriction, his plan to stick together was forced to an early end.
After a pause, Zuo Cheng'an continued, "Besides, hiding forever isn't a solution. Sooner or later, there'll be a night when most of the rooms' doors have been destroyed by Hunters
", and all of us who remain won't fit into just one or two rooms. In the end, we'll still have to face the Hunters."
Zuo Cheng'an laid out the brutal reality.
The surviving residents' gazes shifted subtly, each harboring different thoughts.
Time ticked by, and the five minutes of daylight were almost over.
Zuo Cheng'an stayed in 202 with Zheng Ren, while Li Yueqiu was led away by the woman staying in 208.
Li Yueqiu was deeply moved. "You're so kind, sis! Thank you for taking me in! You're such a good person!"
Ding! One nice-person card dispenser.
The woman smiled gently. "It's all right. Having you keep me company will make things a little easier for me too."
The last sliver of white light vanished outside the window.
Barring any surprises, tonight the Hunter would target 204, the room Zuo Cheng'an occupied.
But Zuo Cheng'an still felt uneasy. Something seemed wrong.
Rules this simple shouldn't have caused so many teams of players attempting to clear the dungeon to be wiped out when it first opened, as the bullet comments had described.
Could there be some hidden rule that hadn't been discovered?
[Which night is it now? I've been cramming tons of Screaming Night dungeon recordings. Now that I know the inside scoop, my dick's hard again!]
[They're killing the resident of 204 tonight, so obviously it's the fourth night. Why?]
[Hehehe, you'll find out when it gets dark~ Now this is fun. Killing people in order is boring as hell!]
[Hunters have appeared. Number deployed: 2]
They had actually deployed two Hunters tonight!!?
At this notification, Zuo Cheng'an raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking that, sure enough, it wasn't that simple.
As for whether both Hunters would go to 204, or each would take a separate door...
The bullet comments had already provided the answer.
[Hahaha! Look at that guy in 205! He pissed his pants in fright!]
[Hahahahahahahahaha!!]
[Record it! Hurry up and record it! I've gotta show the boys!]
[Ooh, looks like he's crying in fright too.]
Inside 205, the bespectacled man stared in disbelief at the door the Hunter was pounding frantically.
What was going on? Why had two Hunters been deployed tonight!?
Wasn't it supposed to be one per day!??
Extreme terror nearly swallowed him whole. He knew he shouldn't just sit there waiting to die. He should pick up a weapon and fight for a chance to survive, like Zheng Ren in 202.
But his legs felt as though they were filled with lead. No matter what he did, he couldn't move them.
Meanwhile, the people hiding in the other rooms looked grim too.
Especially Liu Shuang in 207.
He had thought there would only be one Hunter each night, and that it would only choose one room to break into.
He could rest easy in 207.
But in fact, the dungeon had started deploying two Hunters at once!
Tonight it was 204 and 205, which meant tomorrow night it would be 206 and 207!!
No!!
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