Chapter 326 - 120 [The Monster in Human Skin] (7800 words)
Chen Yan and the other two became curious, "Rules-based?"
"Yes!
There will be a ghost appearing in my room, attacking in a way of betting with the guest in a game.
At the beginning, it will ask you a question, and you answer. Then, it will make a request that you must fulfill—if you fail, the game is over."
"What happens if you lose?"
"It will open your door," the long-haired girl said coldly.
Chu Keqing frowned, "What kind of game is this? Are there any limits to its requests? Otherwise, if it asks the guest to commit suicide, would the guest have to comply?"
"No, the tasks must be reasonable. That means they must be things that can be done, even in an extreme state—otherwise, if it asked the guest to change gender on the spot, that would be impossible.
The second limit is no physical harm to the guest, such as self-mutilation.
The third limit is that the game must be confined to within the room, it cannot require you to go beyond the room’s boundary—so it can’t ask the guest to open the door by themselves either."
Chen Yan didn’t speak, but he carefully pondered. Ouyang, on the other hand, confusedly said, "It doesn’t sound very hard..."
The long-haired girl took a deep breath, "Although I’d like to switch rooms with you, I must be honest—it’s not as simple as you think.
Because the requests it might submit can be bizarre and break your limits...
"Break limits?" Ouyang suddenly thought of something, shouting, "Damn! If it asks me to take a shit on the spot and then eat it, do I have to obey?"
The long-haired girl said nothing.
Beside them, Chu Keqing suddenly shuddered, her face changed.
The long-haired girl continued, "The game consists of three rounds. In the first round, it asks a question and makes a request.
In the second round, it reverses, you ask the ghost a question and make a request.
The same rules apply, you can’t ask it to die, can’t ask it to leave the room, can’t make impossible requests.
The third round reverts back to it asking questions and making requests.
After three rounds, the best two out of three decides the win.
If you win, it will spare you and not appear again.
If you lose, it will open the door!"
The long-haired girl shook her head, saying, "I am very sincere, but I must admit, the uncertainty of this room is very high, so there’s no guarantee to pass.
From my experience, the second round where the guest makes the questions and requests is crucial! Because out of three rounds, having the opponent ask questions twice puts you at a big disadvantage.
The key is to secure your point in the round you control! Then try to score at least one point in the two rounds initiated by it to pass."
Hearing this, Chen Yan finally asked, "Can you tell me how you cleared it?"
"I didn’t clear it, I lost." The long-haired girl shook her head.
"Then how did you survive?" Ouyang asked.
The long-haired girl shook her head, "I don’t know... After the door opened, the ghost in the room disappeared. I waited for a while, but no monsters attacked me, so I closed the door and nothing happened until morning."
Chen Yan’s expression briefly flickered with strangeness.
Opening the door, but no monster came to kill you?
Then... probably because...
The killing zombie in the corridor was thrown into the Mirror World by the Secret Realm Master to fight with me?
Chen Yan’s eyes shifted, looking at Kudai—the first night, Kudai was in this room! He made it through safely!
"Then what about you? How did you make it through the room?" Chen Yan asked.
Kudai’s face stiffened, the long-haired girl snorted coldly, "I know how he made it! He used a Substitute Doll!"
She paused, then explained, "The Substitute Doll is an ancestral treasure from our Xisang Family, made by drawing a drop of blood and a strand of soul essence every year starting from childhood. Over time, it forms into a Life Substitution Magical Artifact. One Substitute Doll can trade for one life!
During the last trial, my father and he participated together, he stole my father’s Substitute Doll, leading to my father’s death here!"
A Substitute Doll? Sounds like a valuable treasure!
Chen Yan felt a bit curious.
Facing such an accusation, Kudai took a deep breath, "Xisang girl! I’ve said before, that Substitute Doll wasn’t stolen by me!"
"Ridiculous! That’s our Xisang Family’s secret treasure, how else could it have ended up in your hands!"
"I told you, it wasn’t me who stole it, I...!#@￥#...%￥...&%...%#￥%..."
Kudai seemed enraged, he began arguing with the long-haired girl in Japanese instead of Dragon Country Language in his agitation.
After a few lines of argument, Chen Yan clapped his hands and shouted, "Enough!!"
He stared at the two, "We have limited time, do you want to waste it on this argument?"
Kudai and the long-haired girl finally quieted down. Chen Yan turned away from them to look at Ouyang and Chu Keqing.
Chu Keqing immediately shook her head, "I won’t switch with her!"
Her tone was firm and resolute!
Ouyang looked at Chu Keqing, whose face turned red, but she said coldly, "Our group has two people! If the ghost proposes a request that we do some... intimate things on the spot, are we supposed to comply?"