Chapter 112: New Rules
Wei Lu's scream was particularly shrill, harmonized by Guan Haifeng.
And it wasn't enough for them to scream just once—after half a gasp, they continued screaming, one after another, incessantly, sounding exactly like roosters crowing.
The others: "..." Although this part wasn't notified in advance by the program team, did they have to scream so exaggeratedly?
Liu Qingling and Yang Ji couldn't help but start to reflect on themselves: should they have cooperated with a scream earlier? Otherwise, would the variety show effect be not good enough?
But when they looked around and saw that apart from Wei Lu and Guan Haifeng, everyone else showed no expression upon seeing the skull that rolled out of the refrigerator, even frowning because Guan Haifeng and Wei Lu were screaming too loudly, they believed they had done the right thing.
Hmm, this group just has this style.
Even the usually noisy Lei Miao and Wei Shu showed no reaction, proving that this thing really wasn't very scary.
Wei Shu was even the first to step forward, lifting his foot to kick the fake skull, then bending down to hook it through the eye socket and pick it up.
Guan Haifeng and Wei Lu immediately let out even more terrified screams, backing away to distance themselves from Wei Shu.
"Ding ling ling ling!" The phone not far away suddenly rang, attracting everyone's attention.
Rong Yu was standing closest to the phone, so he casually picked it up and pressed the speakerphone button.
"Congratulations on discovering the corpse, triggering our storyline mission! I will now announce the game rules. Please be sure to listen carefully to the rules."
"From now on, in addition to holding your original identities, each of you will also have a different identity. Only you yourself will know this identity. You can choose to keep it secret, or you can choose to find others who share the same identity. But please note, if you publicly announce this identity card in front of everyone, we will default that you have self-exposed. The identity card will become void, and you will simultaneously be taken away by our staff and leave this round of the game."
The six people who had recorded this show before exchanged glances—the game rules had changed!
The voice on the phone continued: "You now have three mission routes: the Detective route, the Escape route, and the Treasure Hunt route. Each mission route has three people. The three people in the Detective route are: Inspector, Search Hound, and Investigator. The three in the Escape route are: Leader, Lockpick, and Member. The three in the Treasure Hunt route are: Captain, Thousand-Mile Eye, and Team Member."
"The people from the three mission routes are in a competitive relationship because only one mission route's people can leave this place safely. So, you need to prepare your strategies."
"The Inspector, Leader, and Captain all have two lives. The Search Hound can choose to investigate one person's evidence and motive during the day to determine if they are the real murderer. The Lockpick can open one lock without a key during the day, or an electronic lock without a card, to speed up your group's escape. The Thousand-Mile Eye can choose to search one room at night, and we will directly tell you if the room contains the secret treasure your team is looking for. The Investigator, Member, and Team Member have no special skills."
"When the players of one mission route complete their main mission, the other players default to mission failure, and the game ends."
"Warm reminder: while completing your mission routes, never forget the three instructions left by the villa owner! Once you violate the three instructions and are asked to leave this place, it also counts as mission failure."
"Now, take the cake box from the top shelf of the refrigerator. Inside, there are nine pre-cut cake slices. Each slice of cake contains an identity card. Please choose the flavor of cake you want to eat and take your respective identity card."
"Special note: Identity cards can be hidden but cannot be destroyed. Once an identity card is destroyed, the person who initially held that identity card will be considered as having failed the game, and staff will take them away from the game."
"The game rules announcement is complete."
After speaking, the other side hung up, and the receiver emitted a busy signal.
Rong Yu also put down the receiver and said, "So, shall we start distributing the cake now?"
Lei Miao took the cake box out of the refrigerator and placed it on the table.
The box opened, revealing nine neatly square slices of cake: cheese flavor, strawberry flavor, chocolate flavor, fruit cream... nine different flavors.
"How about the ladies choose first?" Wei Shu suggested.
Weilu and Ling Ting politely stepped forward to select their cakes. The others also selected their slices one by one, then went to places without others to take out their identity cards and keep them safe.
Yin Chengjue got a matcha-flavored cake. His spoon dipped into the cake and scooped out a small card. On the card were engraved three characters—Thousand-Mile Eye.
According to the rules, Thousand-Mile Eye was the special skill card for the Treasure Hunt route, allowing the holder to choose a room to search at night and learn whether the room contained the secret treasure their team was looking for.
At the same time, this was the only special skill card that acted at night; the other mission routes' special skill cards (Search Hound and Lockpick) acted during the day.
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