Chapter 5

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“Have you searched everywhere? No. 6 is definitely not in his room?” Li Xuesong asked.

“I knocked on the door for a long time. Indeed, no one opened it.” Shen Mu thought for a while before saying, “There seems to be another small room next to the swimming pool on the third floor. At that time, I had just saved No. 8, so I temporarily did not take it into consideration.”

Zhang Ji looked at Sun Jieqing: “Don’t tell me they are also sleeping like the dead…”

“How about I send No. 8 back, and then go to the third floor again to make sure.” Shen Mu said.

“No need.” At this moment, a crisp female voice came from the door, and immediately after that a young woman with short hair came in, “Sorry, I was absorbed in reading a book, and a while passed. I also didn’t expect that in this kind of game, you guys would all meet together.” No. 6’s voice contained a trace of meaningfulness.

As soon as the short-haired woman, No. 6 finished speaking, everyone’s faces became a little unsightly.

Are you not afraid of offending the killers by being so flamboyant? If No. 6 was not absolutely confident in herself, then her character was relatively more simple and straightforward. While thinking, Shen Mu said to No. 6: “Hello, I am No. 3, Shen Mu. The reading that you were talking about now, was there actually a library in this house?”

“There isn’t a library. At the end of the third floor there is a small study with some collector’s edition books inside.” No. 6 pushed up the exquisite metallic purple fringed glasses, “Song Yue.”

All the players have met, and there are only slightly over half an hour left before the game starts. Everyone no longer delayed, returning to the room in twos and threes to prepare in advance.

No. 8’s room is on the third floor, and the other girls on the third floor, needless to say, Lin Huiru, had long been escorted by Yang Ge upstairs. Song Yue also left immediately after they had disbanded. Jiang Shuyi was still sitting on the sofa, seeming a little dazed as she saw fewer and fewer people remaining in the lounge, each leaving separately.

At this moment, Jiang Shuyi’s gaze met with Shen Mu who was about to leave with No. 8, immediately standing up in a panic. She swept with the corner of her eyes, seeing Shen Mu holding No. 8’s hand, and then swept pass No. 8’s beautiful face. Not waiting for Shen Mu to speak, she ran out of the lounge.

This young lady was a bit dangerous. Shen Mu looked at her back as she hurriedly exited and thought, the biggest taboo in this kind of game was losing one’s head in panic. However, there were still advantages. Generally, the killers will not choose to make a move against her on the first night, rather, treating her as the target that will take the blame and be voted out during the day.

“Okay, let’s go too.”

After sending No. 8 to his room, Shen Mu pursed his brows as he looked at the door.

No. 8 did not know how to open the door, yet the game stipulates that you must stay in your own room at night. If the door was closed, then how would No.8 come out?

Shen Mu turned on the phone again, opened the rules of the game, and carefully stared at the line: ‘After 8:00 pm, players cannot go out. From thereafter, the sky darkens at 9:00 every night.After entering the night, except for special characters, they can go out and discuss actions every day, other players cannot go out. ‘

“Cannot go out……” Shen Mu softly read aloud and pondered. Cannot go out, certainly cannot leave the interior of the room, but was it necessary to close the door?

Judging from the rules, the system of the Suspended Life Game should be very focused on the fairness of the game itself, not allowing off-site communications, violent injury to other players, etc. Therefore, the essence of not being able to go out is also to ensure the absolute fairness and atmosphere of the game. Since the game did not say that the door must be closed, perhaps…

Then Shen Mu’s brow creased again: Still don’t know the specific rules of the game, don’t know how the killers are supposed to operate? Even though not closing the door does not count as violating the rules, will there be other dangers?

Time passed by minutes and seconds, it was almost 8: 00. Shen Mu took a deep breath. As matters stand, he could only not close the door first, and there may not be too big of a problem if he does not close the door. No. 8 will definitely not be able to come out after the door is closed.

Before Shen Mu took No. 8 to the bed, he covered him with a quilt, warning him repeatedly, “At night, no matter what happens, do not ever come out, understand?”

No. 8：“……”

“Well.” Shen Mu couldn’t help sighing. This child, perhaps there is no way to even know his own identity, only hoping that he had teammates.

Shen Mu concealed room No. 8’s door, leaving a slight gap. It was already 7:55 when he returned back to his own room.

Soon, the time on the silver mobile phone became 8:00, and in a split second, the page on the mobile phone also changed. The original three icons have been changed to four, with “identity check” added.

Shen Mu’s highly tense spirit suffocated him for a moment, taking two deep breaths, Shen Mu clicked on the “identity check” icon.

‘The identity of player No. 3 is the killer’

‘The members of the killer team are: No. 3, No. 8 and No. 10’

Shen Mu stared blankly at the two lines on the screen. Momentarily, he could not hold the mobile phone steadily, looking at it for two minutes, before finally exhaling. He closed his eyes for two seconds, and then immediately opened the “rules of the game” once again.

Sure enough, the rules of the game have also been updated in detail.

‘Altogether there are 12 players, 3 policemen, 3 killers, while the rest are civilians. The killers side chooses a player to kill every night, and lures the town people to vote out civilians to win during the day. The killers side requires the number of killers to exceed the number of town people in order to win. Every night, the killers must reach a unanimous decision on who to kill, otherwise the choice is invalid. The police on the town side can jointly check the identity of a player every night. The police are also required to reach a unanimous agreement when checking identity, otherwise it is invalid. The town side can use the referendum during the day to vote out a player and reduce the number of killers. The referendum gives both the killers and the town people a chance to achieve victory.’

‘Every night from 10:00 to 12:00 is the time for police activities, and from 12:00 to 2:00 am is the time for killers to discuss their next course of action together. Every night, all surviving policemen or killers must vote unanimously to exercise their power, otherwise it is invalid.’

‘Any votes that were not operated in the given timeframe are considered to be waived.’

And on the last page of the regulations, there was also a special rule written in a blue font——

‘Due to the difficulty of the killer role in the “primary version of the killing game, if the killer side wins, then all players on the killer team will pass the preliminaries, including players who were eliminated. If the town side wins, all the surviving players on the town team will pass through the preliminary round, the eliminated players will need to carry out a turntable game to determine the different degrees of punishment (0-3 degrees).’

‘In this round, if the killer side is defeated, all the players of the killer side will be judged to have failed the Suspended Life Game. If the town side is defeated, the surviving players will receive punishment via the turntable game (0-5 degrees), and players who have been eliminated will be judged to have failed the Suspended Life Game.’

‘Everyday after the voting process is completed, the restaurant on the second floor will refresh the food according to the number of people on that day.’

The newly supplemented rules were just these. There was no introduction regarding the Suspended Life Game itself, nor did they know whether it was possible to return to the real world after obtaining victory, what punishments will they face after losing? Could they never return to the real world, or will they immediately die?

Shen Mu looked at the rules, looking at it again and again, before finally recovering his spirit.

“Pu-.”

“They really put the amnesiac person, the demented person, and the child into a team!”

Although he was just ridiculing this, boulder in Shen Mu’s heart finally fell, and he couldn’t help laughing out loud.

Shen Mu clicked on the identity implementation icon again, and this time he could open it. Inside were the numbers of 12 players, but currently they were all gray. It seemed that they can be clicked only at a specified time.

And on the second page of identity execution, was unexpectedly the alarm clock function. Shen Mu thought of the sleeping contestant Sun Jieqing, and once again had an urge to laugh, as he set an 11:45 alarm clock in the passing.

Had it not been for this feature, and Sun Jieqing drew a skill identity card and overslept, it would really be a pitted-to-death teammate. Then Shen Mu remembered that even after knocking on the door for so long, Sun Jieqing did not have any reaction…

It was no use even with an alarm clock… if he obtained the police role then this would be interesting, Shen Mu was unable to restrain a smile.

Shen Mu finally clicked on the player’s status, and there were still 12 numbers. Every number was lit up with the word “survive” written above.

Shen Mu exhaled, limply sitting on the bed, as he tossed his phone aside.

It could now be determined that the rules of the game are basically the same as that of normal killing games, and it is a very simple version. Without the role of doctor, the game should progress relatively faster. This version is indeed very difficult for the killer side, on account of the regulation of “massacre all”, in which it is compulsory to kill almost all the players on the opposing team——compared to “massacre side”, which was only killing either the police or civilians in the opposing side, this was much harder.

However, Shen Mu did not feel that this was an adversity, because if there was the “massacre side” rule, perhaps there won’t be a killer’s privilege——as long as they achieve victory, even the players who were previously eliminated can successfully pass this level. With No. 8’s current state, even if he was not voted out at the very beginning, it will still be impossible for him to last to the end. Now this rule, was his reprieve from death instead.

Shen Mu laid on the bed indulging in flights of fancy, as gradually, his eyelids began to droop.

10 o’clock, it was time for the police to gather.

Very quickly, three figures appeared in the gaming lounge one after another, as they came to the gaming lounge on the 1st floor with tacit understanding.

One voice said: “Tonight I want to check…because…”

The second voice also stated very firmly. “I also have people that I want to check.”

“You can do as you please.” The third voice was instead indifferent.

The second voice went on: “You want to check No. X, but it’s really not necessary to check them. I want to check No. Y, not just because of…but because of…”

The first voice seemed to have been persuaded.

……

The dreamscape was white, but it also seemed to be golden.

The youth in his dream curved his eyes into a smile, glowing with health and vigor. Shen Mu was somewhat unable to see his appearance, but it also seemed to be incomparably clear. White bed sheets overturned wrinkled scars, in the dream, everything became increasingly blurred, but also increasingly clear…

“Ding ling ling ling ling…”

A burst of crisp ringing that was indistinct gradually became clear, Shen Mu opened his eyes in a trance, and his soul only returned after a few minutes.

I was…dreaming?

As the afterglow of the dream gradually faded away, Shen Mu was dazed for a while, the teenager in the dream and that pair of ignorant eyes from reality gradually merged. Shen Mu did not know for a moment whether to laugh or cry, and finally sighed: “At least, I can now be sure that amnesia hasn’t changed my sexual orientation, and that Liu Bo didn’t lie to me. I really do like men.”

The time soon reached twelve o’clock. Shen Mu got up, taking a deep breath, as though he had made a resolution, before opening the door. He passed through the dim corridor, walked down the lonesome staircase, step by step towards the other protagonist in his dream.

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