lcionline Chapter 47 Purely Shady Dealer Operation
Chapter 47 Purely Shady Dealer Operation
[The live stream room you mentioned could not be found!]
[...Impossible? Let me see... Oh, she changed her name now, to 'Sexy Little Yan, Online Husband Killer'.]
Is this livestream room you mentioned legitimate?
Whether it's serious or not, I think their thinking is very clear.
Immediately afterwards, people from the post flocked to Yan Xun's live stream to watch the replay. After watching it all, they finally figured out what was going on.
[Actually, the streamer's idea is correct. For players, the Meimei Building is just a dungeon, a game world, but for the NPCs within the dungeon, it is their real world.]
You can think of the Meimei Mansion instance as a 'surface world' and an 'inner world'. The inner world is the player's current instance's storyline, while the surface world is the timeline experienced by the NPCs.
In the Otherworld, for reasons unknown, numerous doppelgangers suddenly appeared. These doppelgangers gradually replaced and killed the original inhabitants. To escape, they came to the Meimei Building… Just like in science fiction movies, you can think of it as a series of sleep pods, but in reality, they are just rooms. They fall asleep in the Meimei Building (the surface world), and after entering a dream state, they arrive at the Meimei Building (the Otherworld) where the players are located.
Therefore, these NPCs are actually traveling between two worlds. When they are conscious, they are in the real world. If they see their doppelganger in the mirror at this time, they will be killed and become monsters in the other world.
[For example, Yan Xun, that person with 404 status, was probably killed and turned into a monster, so he no longer needed to eat or drink until players entered the other world, wore them as suits, and started doing quests.]
[Players who visited the Meimei Building instance before also experienced this issue. Using the player's original name is a misleading option. If you replace the person in room 404 with Zhang San, and you, as the player, play a beautician named Zhang San living in room 404, you can see the whole story from a god-like perspective.]
[However, the previous Meimei Building instance was a survival challenge, so no one paid attention to this aspect, and it didn't involve the plot of the surface world. The players who died in the previous instance became the 'pseudo-humans' who attacked players during the day. In this Meimei Building instance, Yan Xun and Li Wu prepared two identities for them: the living who were dreaming, and the dead. The answer to the mystery of Mission 1 was also an interference with the truth of Mission 2, Meimei Building.]
Yan Xun sat on the sofa in his unfinished villa (80 square meters version), looking at the analysis of this "know-it-all" in the post - it wasn't that he was deliberately mocking people, it's just that this person's ID is "know-it-all"!
The system watched for a while, then asked Yan Xun, "Is that really true?"
"More or less," Yan Xun said, though at the time he hadn't thought about the inner world and the outer world; he just felt there were two parallel storylines.
Players can only find the answer to the mystery of their own identity by following clues in the room.
Just like what the expert said, letting players enter the game using their own names is also a kind of interference option.
If you had told Yan Xun from the beginning that you were playing the role of Zhang San, the beautician and resident of apartment 404, you probably would have discovered the clues and the truth much faster.
"I've wondered before why there are newspapers in Green Hair's room. In Su Yumin's diary, he can freely enter and leave the Meimei Building, yet he doesn't know the secret of the doppelganger."
But after thinking about it, Yan Xun understood what was going on.
Dreams are an extension of reality.
Whether it's a diary or a newspaper, it contains information that has already happened in the past, information that Green Hair and the people of 908 have already seen, know, and memorized.
Only the things in the management office and security room are changing in real time, not things that have already happened in the past.
"It's probably just like Su Yumin wrote in his diary, that Shen Rui invited him to share an apartment," Yan Xun said, clicking his tongue.
The player's own name is a really confusing option. If you replace these two names with Wang Er and Li Si, the puzzle-solving speed might be faster.
After July, 909 stopped making records, perhaps because he also discovered the secret of the doppelganger and had to hide in the dream version of the Meimei Building.
However, there were too few clues, and Yan Xun was not sure.
Just like playing a mystery game or an escape room, sometimes there are too few clues and time is of the essence, so you have to take a gamble.
Fortunately, the key information and direction were correct, and Yan Xun made the right bet.
"...Did I just get an ability blind box?" Yan Xun asked after closing the forum.
Soon, under the system's guidance, he entered the space where he could draw ability-based blind boxes—
It was a pure white room. Upon entering the space, Yan Xun was greeted by a gift box tied with a bow.
According to the system, you can get it simply by opening the gift box.
He had just untied the bow when he discovered he had gained another ability.
After you understand the name of the ability—
Yan Xun: "..."
"Wait, can't your system have some normal abilities?" Yan Xun asked, looking at the slip of paper he had drawn.
The note slowly disappeared from his palm, and Yan Xun looked at the new ability that had appeared in his status bar.
[Skill: There's no one better than Mom in the world]
Skill Level: A
Ah! You! You are their mother! There's nothing like a mother's love in this world; a child without a mother is like a blade of grass!
[After the skill is activated, the level difference between the monster and the player will be negated, and the monster will immediately turn into a blade of grass! (lasts one minute), and will develop an attachment to the player (lasts 15 minutes). Once the monster regains its senses, it will become twice as ferocious. Please be aware of the skill's duration!]
[Note: There may be some rebellious and disobedient children!]
"Can you give me some cooler abilities?" Yan Xun started asking the system questions after leaving the white space.
"Is it so hard to just want a combat-related ability?"
Why do both of his abilities have time limits?
And if he wasn't mistaken, this ability only works against monsters... If he encounters a player, there's still nothing he can do.
Yan Xun thought it wouldn't work, so he opened the system's points shop and immediately spotted an axe that could be redeemed for 2000 points.
[Item: Wood-chopping axe (C-rank item???)]
This is Aunt Zhang's axe for chopping wood. It's cheap, durable, and good for both chopping wood and killing people... Legend has it that Aunt Zhang once used it to kill a ghost!
"What does the question mark after this item mean?" he asked the system.
[This means even the store isn't certain.] The system said, [The appraisal result is C-grade, but the axe itself has some legends surrounding it, hence the question mark.]
Seeing Yan Xun's expression of having struck gold, the system still gave a reminder—
Don't try to find a bargain.
"This is just a trick by the mall to raise prices!" the system told Yan Xun. "Anything with a bit of a story will have a question mark added to it before the price goes up. Pure profiteers!"