hotmtlnovel Chapter 123 Why are these rules becoming more and more incomprehensible?
Chapter 123 Why are these rules becoming more and more incomprehensible?
The conductor nodded with a smile, noting down each person's answer and quickly prioritizing them in his mind.
“Hello, Conductor!” a woman said, standing up enthusiastically to greet him.
The conductor nodded, marked the woman's location, and continued walking.
“Hello, Conductor!” someone else said, standing up to greet the conductor politely.
The conductor similarly nodded slightly, mentally placing those who disrupted the quiet atmosphere into the next sacrificial tier.
Some people were more cautious, simply making eye contact with the conductor as he passed.
A couple of individuals, perhaps due to mental issues or other reasons, didn't even glance at the conductor, showing no intention of greeting him.
The conductor was pleased and noted these people down one by one. He was very satisfied with their behavior. When traveling, especially in this world full of oddities, not easily trusting anyone is what makes a qualified person.
— “Wow, these rules are getting harder and harder to understand! Speaking up with a smile didn't cause any accidents, and a greeting with eye contact also didn't cause any accidents. If these two answers had mutually supporting rules, that would be one thing, but how is it that ignoring him is also correct?”
— “Is this still a Rule-Based Horror world? How can there be no wrong answer even with a binary choice?”
— “Forget about wrong, even leaving it blank didn't cause anything to happen. I'm starting to suspect that the Rule-Based Horror livestream room has run into some trouble.”
— “From entering the train until now, there hasn't been a single death caused by triggering a rule. If it weren't for the fact that the livestream room definitely exists, I would have thought this was just a regular horror livestream.”
— “What exactly is going on? Are the rules real or fake? Or is it that the train rules themselves don't exist?!”
— “Can someone please explain? I really don't understand anymore! (Crying and laughing JPG)”
The livestream audience was completely baffled, unable to understand what this Rule-Based Horror livestream room was doing.
The expert groups from various countries were also confused. Faced with the strange phenomenon of violating the rules without consequence, the experts couldn't come up with a reason.
According to the data from the mushroom-picking stage, the consequence of violating the rules in the Rule-Based Horror livestream room was death, with the eerie directly descending into reality.
But after entering the train, people repeatedly violated the rules without any consequences. Those people were still sitting on the train, lively and kicking.
“Do you think the punishment might be delayed?” An energetic old expert said.
“Delayed punishment?” Another expert thought for a moment and asked with a serious expression, “Lao Xu, why do you think so?”
Expert Lao Xu took a sip of tea and slowly asked everyone, “Have you noticed a problem?”
“What problem?”
“It's about those who died in the dark just now.” Expert Lao Xu sharply pointed to the core of the problem.
‘Those who died in the dark?’ The experts carefully recalled.
Although nothing could be seen in the livestream room during the darkness, the surviving livestreamers could indirectly observe some of the tragic situations in the surrounding seats.
Those people were the ones who had been most vicious in scolding the female food delivery worker.
“Lao Xu, are you saying that these people died because they gave the wrong answer?”
Expert Lao Xu nodded, “I think this is currently the most logical answer.”
“Then what about the woman to Chu Yanxi's left? If I remember correctly, that woman's choice was the same as Chu Yanxi's.
If your deduction is correct, then what was the reason for that woman's death?” Another expert, Lao Wang, questioned sharply.
“Um, excuse me, seniors, do you still remember that woman's name and appearance?” A young expert suddenly interrupted.
“Appearance? Name?” Hearing these two words, the experts were stunned.
That's right! What was that woman's name? What did she look like? They couldn't even remember.
“This... ...” Expert Lao Wang was speechless.
They didn't know the names of the chosen ones in the initial livestream room before they announced their names, but after the mushroom-picking stage, everyone's name appeared on the public screen.
They could become experts because their memory was exceptional. Remembering everything they saw was just commonplace for them.
Especially the people who appeared around Chu Yanxi, they were under close surveillance 24 hours a day, and their ancestors for three generations would be investigated thoroughly.
But they now forgot such a key figure. This was completely unscientific.
“Xiao Li, I really can't remember that woman's name and appearance. I only remember that the woman was very beautiful and very young.” Expert Lao Xu took the lead in stating the facts.
Other experts echoed in agreement…
One person forgetting might be a personal problem, but so many of them forgetting was not a personal problem.
In other words, that mysterious woman also had a problem!
Thinking of this, the experts quickly opened the character sketches in front of them. Without exception, they couldn't find anything, as if that person didn't exist in this world at all.
How terrifying!
“Lao Xu, nothing, I don't have that woman's portrait here.”
“Xu Lao, I don't have it here either.”
“Xu Lao, I couldn't find it here either!”
…
The expert team immediately became nervous!
They would have people draw several portraits of the people Chu Yanxi encountered, using the most primitive method to start checking their background, but now the paintings disappeared out of thin air. It was impossible not to panic.
“What to do, Lao Xu!” Expert Lao Xu looked at Lao Xu in a panic.
“What can we do? Have someone report the situation to Chu Lao. We will continue to deduce the rules of the death train.” Expert Lao Xu quickly gave the order.
“Alas!” Expert Lao Wang sighed, “We can only do this.”
The matter of the mysterious woman was as bizarre as the Rule-Based Horror livestream room. They didn't have any countermeasures either, so they could only report what they knew to the higher-ups… …
In another space, the purple ball Chen Zhou conjured a pair of hands, holding a similar phone, watching Chu Yanxi's livestream room, occasionally sending a few barrages:
(Just a passerby) — “This matter is actually very simple, it's just that the rule's punishment will be delayed.”
— “Delayed? Punishment can be delayed? (Confused JPG)”
(Just a passerby) — “Otherwise? Take a good look at the location of the skeletons and think about how the people in those positions answered the female food delivery worker before.”
— “Wasn't it telling the strange food delivery worker to get lost? That's very in line with the rules!”
— “No, that rule is wrong, you can't scold the food delivery worker!”
A quick-witted audience member immediately reacted.
Seeing this barrage, everyone quickly realized that the second half of Train Rule A No. 3 was wrong. You can't rudely scold the food delivery worker, otherwise you will be eaten by the monster.
Thinking of this, the audience immediately understood the consequences of the wrong answer. If the chosen ones made the wrong reaction during the conductor's inspection, they would end up like those skeletons.
— “So that's how it is. Being rude to that female food delivery worker is wrong, and vice versa is correct.”
— “This rule is too ruthless. It actually caught people off guard. The people in front scolded without any problem, and the people behind followed suit, resulting in all of them dying!”
— “Alas! Who would have thought that the rules would be so insidious and actually fish for people.”
— “Who says it isn't? With the rules being played like this, I would never have thought of it in the eerie world.”
— “Yes, in the real world, I would feel that ‘telling the food delivery worker to get lost’ is wrong, but in the eerie world, I actually think there is no problem with this rule.”
— “There's no way around it. The rules are playing mind games, who would have thought the pit would be so deep! (Helpless bitter smile JPG)”
Chen Zhou grinned, watching the after-the-fact comments from these entry-level people.
These people's thinking was limited, and they didn't realize that their speculation was only close to the correct answer, not the correct answer.
“Hello, Conductor!” A girl in the seat in front of Chu Yanxi stood up and greeted the conductor with a smile.
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