After replying this sentence, Lin Huai continued to hold the pencil and write and draw on the paper.

The room was very silent for a while. Lu Jin was observing the wind chime numbered "0000000", while Chu Tianshu on the other side of the earring was silent.

He could only hear the patter of rain.

After a long time, a voice finally came from the other end of the earring: "So... what do you think?"

Lin Huai was inexplicable: "What do you think?"

"A question about... 0s and 1s."

Chu Tianshu seemed to be mulling over his words. Lin Huai simply turned his face and lay on his back on the tatami, biting the pen and holding the paper: "I have no idea, what do you think?"

"Actually, I have no experience..." Chu Tianshu seemed to hesitate, "Uh, forget it."

He seemed to be resolute and made a firm voice: "Look at you!! But I have to explain in advance, in fact, I am quite..."

Lin Huai: "...Huh?"

After half a minute of silence, he finally made a broken voice: "Fuck! What are you thinking about! I'm talking about numbers! I'm talking about puzzles!"

Chu Tianshu: "Oh."

"..." Lin Huai decided to skip this topic, he held the paper and read out the number of the c area one by one, "Seven numbers, starting from the beginning, the seven in the c area are 0101010... The number in the d area is 0101010... One is 0101001…”

He read out the numbers on the drawing paper one by one, and Chu Tianshu thought for a while before he said, "Is this thing a binary code?"

"?"

Lin Huai suddenly raised his head: "What did you say?"

"Binary code, 7 digits, can represent all numbers from 0 to 127. Since you say that there are 120 women in the village, will the length of the wind chimes be their binary code? If every 20 people is an area, then …”

Chu Tianshu pondered for a while: "A district is No. 1-20, and its first code is 0000001; District B is No. 21-40, and its first code is 0010101; District C is No. 41-60, and its first code is 0010101. The first code is 0101001; the D area is No. 61-80, and the first code is 0111100; the E area is No. 81-100, and the first code is 1010001; …”

"Assume, using the first assumption, that each area is triangular, with 2 in the first row, 3 in the second, 4 in the third, 5 in the fourth, and 6 in the sixth , according to the number of each area from left to right, from the center to the back... Area A is 1 long column, area B is 3 long columns, area C is 3, area D is 4, and area E is 3 , there are 4 districts. It is known that the two districts are adjacent, so what you just proposed, the numbers of the first houses in each district are 3 and 3 respectively, and the only known is that there are two 3 long columns. The adjacent areas are Area B and Area C." Chu Tianshu thought, "That is to say, under this assumption, the area you are exploring is Area B and Area C."

"Then next, we have to rely on the second wind chime to prove it."

Lin Huai took out a pencil and marked a column of numbers: "As you said, the intervals of the first wind chimes in area c are indeed short and long, and the first wind chimes in area d are also short, short, long and short. The second wind chime in area c is short long short long long short, namely 0010110, corresponding to 22; the third wind chime in area c is short long short long long long long, namely 0010111, corresponding to 23..."

He moved the pen like a fly, and rotated and marked the silver columns of all the wind chimes in sequence. For a while, on both sides of the earrings, there was the sound of wind and rain on one side, and the rustling sound of pencils rubbing against the paper on the other.

This massive project continued until the next morning. The next morning, with two dark circles under his eyes, Lin Huai spit out a mouthful of soul: "I did it..."

Today is the fourth day of the game. This time, he finally found the cracking point of the game.

"1 to 120 is the number of each woman. That is to say, each wind chime represents a woman, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between them."

"But why does the system need to number each woman so much? What's the point of it? Obviously the focus of the game is on these women, not the wind chimes..."

Lu Jin squatted beside him, confused. He also participated in the calibration of the d area last night.

Lin Huai shook the paper and began to think.

"Enter the house without knocking the wind chimes, obliterate!"

"Enter the house without the woman's permission after knocking the wind chime, obliterate!"

"Change the selected target, obliterate!"

The voice of the witch when she introduced the rules reappeared in her mind.

She introduced so many rules, but only emphasized "killing" when she talked about these three. And two of these three are related to wind chimes.

And the name of this game, Evil Mermaid.

Speaking of mermaids, Lin Huai thought of the story of The Little Mermaid. The little mermaid exchanged her voice with the witch for the right to walk for her beloved prince, and thus became mute.

The little mermaid couldn't open her mouth to reveal the fact that she was the savior to the prince, and was finally mistaken, and she could only watch the prince and princess marry. She turned down the sisters' offer to kill the prince and turned into a bubble in the sun.

"What do you think of the story of The Little Mermaid?"

Lin Huai suddenly said.

Lu Jin, who had childhood, thought for a moment and said, "Uh, how miserable?"

Lin Huai:  …

"If the little mermaid could speak, the prince would not have mistaken the princess." Lu Jin finally gave a serious answer in Lin Huai's eyes, "So..."

'If the little mermaid could speak, the prince would not have mistaken the princess. ’

The Little Mermaid is mute, and the women in the White City are also mute, and they can't speak. Baicheng is quite silent, the only one that can make a sound...

It's a wind chime!

Wind chimes...sounds...Lin Huai thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Speaking of which, it seems that the beautiful laughter described in the novel is a sound like a silver bell..."

A voice suddenly came from the earphones: "Ding bell, ding bell, ding bell, is it like this?"

Lin Huai:  …

The voice of the Little Mermaid... the sound of the wind chimes... At that moment, two completely unrelated clues were suddenly connected together.

"Perhaps it was wrong to observe women too much from the beginning." Lin Huai suddenly said, "The key to this dungeon is the sound. Originally, I didn't understand why there was the word 'mermaid' in this dungeon. After all Neither the women on the beach nor the women here have fish tails. Now it seems like a hint to us, a hint of sound."

"We went in the wrong direction from the very beginning, we should not focus on women who can't talk. Mute, can't talk, means there's no right clue. All women are ghost faces, no expressions, and it also implies that we shouldn't talk to them Observing. Eyes can't see, mouth can't speak, the only clues they give are wind chimes that make sounds... We should not focus on women from the beginning, but wind chimes!"

Lu Jin was dumbfounded: "Lin, Lin Huai, slow down..."

"But what does the wind chimes have to do with whether they are evil spirits? Does the key come from the arrangement of numbers, or the difference in the sounds made by the wind chimes..."

Lin Huai grabbed the paper, but his expression became darker.

When they came to the living room, several other players left as usual. Du Zhongshan seems to be still sleeping in the room, and he seems to have made up his mind to carry out the free money eating and drinking activities to the end.

Lin Huai picked up the bowl, and Lu Jin sat beside him. Just as he was about to add vegetables, he screamed, "Fuck, what's in here!"

Lin Huai followed his realization and saw a shocking scene.

I saw that the place that belonged to an ordinary man, the bottom of the bowl he left behind, was actually full of dense black-brown particles!

The granules look smooth, almond-shaped or ellipsoid-like and lie quietly at the bottom of the bowl. Lu Jin was holding his job, and he was about to start Section D again.

"...This." He turned to Lin Huai with a pale face, "What exactly is in this?"

Lin Huai pondered for a while, and finally explained: "Don't be afraid. In fact, that ordinary man is already dead."

Lu Jin:  …

"Damn!!! It's dead!!" Lu Jin screamed violently, "Do you mean that we are living and eating with a dead person these days? Then why did he..."

"These things look like seeds, do you remember the witch with roots all over her face?" Lin Huai kindly comforted him, "He must have been attacked by a witch."

Lu Jin:  …

"It's alright, don't worry." Lin Huai took a bite of the apple, "As long as you know the cause of his death, it won't be a big deal..."

"...Have your requirements for the safety of the game been reduced to the point where you only need to know the cause of death..."

Lu Jin continued to complain, but still put down his chopsticks.

After finishing their meal, they went back to Section C again. This time Lin Huai stared at the wind chimes in one of the households and began to be in a daze.

wind chimes... wind chimes...

"Enter the house without knocking the wind chimes, obliterate!"

"Enter the house without the woman's permission after knocking the wind chime, obliterate!"

The two words of the witch reappeared in his mind.

"Since this is a hard rule, it's better not to violate it..." Thinking like this, he suddenly had a bold idea.

"What happens if you don't use a bamboo pole to knock the wind chimes?" He looked at his hand, "What happens when you knock the wind chimes with your hands?"

He called Lu Jin and asked the latter to carry him to the sky. Lin Huai sat on Lu Jin's shoulder, and rang the wind chime with his fingers in the posture of the big head son being carried by the small head father.

Before his fingers were close to the wind chimes, he felt extremely cold.

"Ting bell... ding bell ding bell..."

The door opened.

It was still a woman in white who came out of the house. On the fourth day, most of the mask on her face had fallen off, revealing an extremely frightening ghost face.

However, Lin Huai's heart is still in the water. In his eyes now, only the wind chimes are the protagonists, and these white clothes are all tool people.

"I'm sorry to bother you," he said calmly.

female:……

The woman closed the door. Lin Huai said again: "Take me to the second house."

"Fuck, Dad, are you serious?" Lu Jin complained, "I was about to break my neck from your crush."

Lin Huai: "...Huh?"

"No, no, I dare not dare." Lu Jin hurriedly explained.

The two maintained the postures of the big-headed son and the small-headed father, and went through the entire C and D areas. However, to their dismay, whether it was the sound, appearance, or size of the wind chimes, there was nothing worthy of attention.

It was already evening when they returned to the Dahonglou. Lu Jin was very frustrated: "Alas, if this continues, it will be the fifth day..."

Lin Huai: "Yes."

"A shelter person will be appointed on the night of the sixth day, damn, why is it so fast!" Lu Jin scratched his head, "It's only the night of the seventh day that you need to move in, why do you have to move in a day earlier? This setting is not only to shorten the time for answering questions Does it make any sense?"

"Maybe to let you spend the day in fear."

Du Chongshan said sarcastic words and leaned against the wall to eat potato chips. Lin Huai gave him a scornful look: "Public money thief who eats and drinks public money."

Du Chongshan:  …

"If you really can't find someone to protect you, you can also consider escaping from this White City." Du Chongshan shrugged, "Although this white wall is very smooth and high, if you have special abilities, you may not be able to escape. Don't go out."

Lu Jin:  …

The speaker has no intention, the listener has the heart. Although Lin Huai and Lu Jin obviously didn't take this sentence to heart, the muscular man on the other side took it to heart.

He had already noticed that something was wrong with Du Chongshan, so he felt that he was hiding something. And he also happened to have similar props on him.

"Would you like to try it?"

He thought so, and on the stairs, there was the sound of someone going upstairs again.

Da da da.

It was an ordinary man who went upstairs.

When he first appeared, Lin Huai couldn't believe his eyes. because……

The man's chest was soaring!

As he walked, he digged his arms. He didn't seem to notice the strangeness of his body at all, just grabbed his arm with his fingernails in vain.

"It's so itchy...it's so itchy..."

The man's fingernails were on his arms, and the skin exposed from the cuff was actually black. Yesterday, his arm was riddled with holes and blood was flowing, but now he is grabbing on his own arm, and there is a sound of "brushing" digging on some kind of hard surface!

"It's so itchy...it's so itchy..."

The man complained, his voice was extremely twisted and weird, like a crazy woman. He limped back to his room without saying hello to anyone.

"Lin Huai..." Lin Huai heard Lu Jin's trembling voice, "Did you see... on his arm..."

"I saw it." Lin Huai said softly.

They passed by, although it was only for a moment, Lin Huai still saw everything on his exposed neck and skin!

In those thick, stretched pores...

It was densely packed with brown-black seeds!

Lin Huai and Lu Jin returned to the room.

This time, Lu Jin couldn't even come out of the D area. He sat on the bed and suddenly started crying.

"I want to go home...I miss my mother..." He whimpered, "I will never mess around with money again, and I will never quarrel with her again..."

Du Chongshan stood at their door, looked at Lu Jin's miserable appearance, grabbed a bite of potato chips and said, "Don't be sad, or can I rely on my solid arm for you?"

It seems that after confirming that Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu are related, he especially likes to watch the liveliness of the two. Lu Jin whimpered twice and said again, "I don't want you, I want my mother..."

Du Chongshan:  …

Lin Huai slammed the door and gave him a warning look.

"No male mother." Lin Huai said coolly.

After shutting Du Chongshan, who finally choked on potato chips, out of the door, Lu Jin finally began to cry loudly: "What should we do, Lin Huai, what if we can't find a real human being?"

"I don't want to become Zhou Shuren!! Ahhhh!!" He hugged his head and collapsed.

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something.

"Lin Huai, you must have a way, right? You are a senior player, and you must have a way to escape." He looked at Lin Huai with hopeful eyes, "You leave me and run alone!! If two people can't run , you will go back in my place..."

He seemed to have made up his mind: "Go back, remember to tell my mother, I love her... Then, my computer password is xxxxx, remember to format the e drive before my mother comes to school, especially the hidden name The folder called 'Ma Zhe', and, don't tell my mom, my Weibo number..."

Lu Jin has already begun to explain the funeral. Lin Huai looked at him sadly and comforted him: "It's okay, I will protect you."

"You're not a woman! Protect your ass!" Lu Jin screamed, "Can't you still wear women's clothes!"

Lin Huai: "...I can't."

"That's it!" Lu Jin continued to cry, "By the way, remember to help me make up the balance of the figurine, it's an old shop, I'm sorry to default on the money..."

Lin Huai:  …

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