Chapter 131 Mouse
"Who are you?"
"Woo--"
"Stop crying, who are you?"
"Bai Ming asked again patiently, his golden cat eyes scanning the dim room.
“I am Jiulu.”
The little girl answered quietly, with a cry in her voice.
"Are you a human?"
Bai Ming continued to ask, while carefully avoiding the blood stains spreading on the ground.
"Huh? What are human beings?"
Jiulu's big eyes, which were red from crying, were full of confusion.
“You don’t know what a human being is?”
Bai Ming walked back and forth in the room with an elegant cat walk, his sharp eyes not missing any corner.
The corpses of men in black lay scattered on the floor. Dark red blood flowed from their wounds and formed pools of sticky blood on the floor. The smell of blood was so strong that it was almost suffocating.
"Where is this?"
Bai Ming continued to ask, while jumping up to a cabinet and carefully checking whether there were any rules on it.
"This is my home."
Jiulu whispered, looking at the corpse on the ground in fear, and then quickly looking away.
“No, I mean where is your home?”
“In the apartment.”
"Apartment? What is an apartment?"
"An apartment is an apartment."
Probably because he was too young, and he had just been greatly frightened, Jiulu's brain was very unclear, and his thinking logic was not as clear as that of adults. Bai Ming needed to ask many times to figure out some basic information.
Shouldn’t you?
Where are the rules?
Isn’t there another God of Destiny and Fortune appearing?
Bai Ming's heart moved, and he hurried towards the broken door frame.
He carefully pushed open the crooked wooden door with his paws, and saw a piece of light yellow paper stuck behind the door, with a few lines of red writing written on it.
【Apartment Management Rules and System】
【To ensure harmony and order in the apartment, all residents are requested to strictly abide by the following rules. The administrator is committed to providing you with a safe and clean living environment. Please trust and cooperate with the administrator's work]
【1. There are no "cats|" in the apartment. If you find yourself licking fur or having an appetite for cat food, please go to Room 404 immediately for cognitive correction】
[2. All residents must wear a silver collar. When the collar turns black, you have passed the "Adaptability Test|, and you can remove the collar to receive the "Free Resident Certificate|]
【3. The administrator's uniform is pure black. If you find blood on his sleeves/fish-shaped brooch on his collar, please feed him a "red can" immediately】
However, this is only a superficial rule. Under Bai Ming's 26-point perception, another picture gradually emerged, quietly overlapping the original text like a reflection in the water.
The text is blurry and twisted, and the handwriting is winding and crawling.
【Apartment Survival Guide】
【If you still remember who you are and can still sense danger, please remember the following truths. Don't believe in silver promises, don't look into black eyes]
【1. There is no room 404 in this apartment. If you see this door number, please whip it with your tail until it disappears】
【2. Free residents will be cleaned up first by black administrators】
[3. "Red cans" are stored on the third floor of the refrigerator, but there is no third floor in the refrigerator]
Bai Ming had only one thought after reading it, confused. These rules are too confusing.
Not only contradictory, but even absurd.
Especially the "Apartment Management Rules and System" and the "Apartment Survival Guide", the first two simply conflict with each other and deny each other.
Perhaps it is not necessarily conflicting, but different identities need to adapt to different rules.
Bai Ming recalled the internal information of the relevant departments and guessed in his mind.
Different identities follow different rules, which is already a very common thing in more advanced copies. The level of [Apartment] is C-, which happens to have reached this threshold.
"Are you a free resident?"
Bai Ming stared at Jiulu and asked, his tail wagging slightly unconsciously.
"I am." Jiulu sobbed as he replied, wiping his eyes that were red from crying with the back of his hand.
"What about your free residence permit? Take it out and show it to me."
Bai Ming thought, does Jingran really have a free residence permit? Does that mean Jiulu is a resident of the apartment? Those rules are not just rules for players.
He lowered his head and glanced at the black collar around his neck, lost in thought.
"Won't you kill me if you give me Mimi?"
Jiulu asked in fear, shrinking back slightly.
"No killing, and I don't want to be called Mimi, call me [Wutian]."
"Okay, Mimi won't kill me anymore."
Jiulu burst into tears and smiled. He seemed not to care about the name change at all and hurried to a corner of the living room.
Bai Ming sighed and turned towards the destroyed room.
The door lock has been damaged in the previous conflict, and the door frame is also somewhat loose.
He looked around and found that a chair that had fallen to the ground was still intact.
Use your paws to push the chair and tilt it under the door handle to form a simple barrier.
Then he found a few thick books and dragged them to the crack of the door to increase the stability of the obstacle.
While this is not a perfect lockdown, it can at least provide some warning and buffering time.
In the process, Bai Ming has confirmed his own status.
The [Backpack] function cannot be opened at all, and the [Player Interface] also has no response.
Except for feeling the presence of willpower and the power slightly adapted to expertise and skills, all props and equipment cannot be used.
But what confused him the most was that he seemed to be unusually adapted to the cat's body.
Even though I have never been a cat, I seem to be born knowing how to walk, how to maintain balance, and even how to express emotions with my tail.
As if I was born a cat.
Bah!
It is impossible for me to be a cat.
I am a human being!
Bai Ming emphasized this point in his heart.
After realizing that this copy was at risk of cognitive tampering, he knew that he must always remember his true identity.
Especially the sentence "If you still remember who you are" in the [Apartment Survival Guide], this is obviously not without purpose.
This is a small room, with a simple layout of one bedroom, one living room, one bathroom and one kitchen.
Jiulu was rummaging around in a drawer in the living room, making the sound of scraping paper from time to time.
"Found it, Mimi! Look, this is my "Free Resident Certificate". "Jiulu excitedly raised a card.
Bai Ming looked closer.
The "Residency Certificate" has a Jiulu's head printed on it, with the name "Jiulu" and the number "SWR20345" written below it.
The address column is clearly marked as apartment 3, unit 303, building 3.
Very good, a very good address.
Then the question is, besides myself, what about the other players?
Bai Ming knew that there were almost no single-player missions in the Dusk game, and there would inevitably be other players in a copy.
If he had predicted correctly, other players should also have turned into cats.
No! No! No!
It's too arbitrary. Maybe other players have other identities.
But now assuming that everyone is a cat, then a cat will inevitably be captured by a man in black.
If this twilight game remains fair, then—.
Bai Ming quietly moved to the edge of the door and listened. He remembered that cats' hearing is about three times that of humans.
Given the sound insulation of this apartment, it should be possible to capture the movements of other players dealing with the man in black.
However, there was dead silence outside the door.
It is indeed so.
Bai Ming was not surprised at all. Since it was three times, the difference between being at the door and not being there was not big.
When I searched the room, I didn't hear any abnormal noise, so the possibility of not hearing it now is very high C
Damn it!
If "Hearth Fire" hadn't sent him to this C-level mission, he might not have been able to escape.
D grade and C- may seem to be only two grades apart, but in fact they are far different, and D+ is far inferior to C-.
Because in C- there will be ghosts at the initial level of evil spirits.
How powerful is the ghost?
【Mountain Village】When Su Yeye fought against Village Chief Li who was using formations, he was at the level of the early stage of Li Gui.
Converted into Bai Ming's counting unit, Mr. Wang, that is 30.
Even if Bai Ming still has a human body, under the post-[Mountain Village] normality, he is only as strong as 24 Teacher Wang.
This level of strength has already gone a long way in the S-level field among level 10 players. It has not yet reached S+, but it is not far away.
But just like this, there is still 6 Teacher Wang differences compared to the early stage of Li Gui.
What about level 11 players?
20 Teacher Wangs of A+.
B+’s 13 and 14 Teacher Wang.
It is possible for S level to be close to 26 or 27.
Only S+ can surpass 30 at level 11 and reach the level of early ghosts.
But even level 11 S+ cannot crush the C- copy.
Because there is more than one subordinate in the early stage of Li Gui, He Quan sometimes has more than one subordinate in the early stage of Li Gui.
Hunting on Wushuang directly, he was besieged and died before he was even halfway through the charge.
This seems a little wrong?
Obviously, when Bai Ming was at level 5, he could crush the D-level dungeon [Midnight Picture Collection Hall] where level 8 and 9 players participated with the strength of 15 Teacher Wangs.
Of course, this was the late stage of elimination, when he hid in a safe house and eliminated the love circle of the night watchman.
said that even so, facing hundreds of prowlers, Bai Ming was still able to fight his way in and out.
There is no denying the durability provided by [Blood·Tenacity], an A-level commander.
But it can still be seen that the difficulty of C-level dungeon is far more than that of D-level, which obviously breaks through the normal growth curve of players' strength.
This is the twilight game!
The so-called player level evaluations such as S, A, B, C, etc. are only the evaluations of those who have successfully completed the level under the difficulty level of the novice mission copy.
However, as the level of the dungeon increases, the difficulty coefficient of the dungeon also increases.
Especially from D+ to C-, you have directly entered a threshold, and the difficulty coefficient has soared.
I used to be an A-level player, but I was already a B-level player. When I passed the game with a C-level evaluation, I was extremely happy.
Want to get another A-level evaluation?
That is the domain of S-level players.
A-level evaluation represents 120% of the mission reward. In terms of clearance rate, A-level dungeons below level 11 are actually the same as S-level dungeons.
They are the kind of people who can stay alive as long as they can maintain their A-level strength without any accidents.
The occasional A-level evaluation does not count, such as "One Knife Conquers Mountains and Rivers" and "Marshmallow and Cat" are actually "Ink Stained in Dust".
There is no level A or B in terms of strength.
In short, to put it bluntly, for players above level A, twilight games below level C- are games.
If you don’t seek death, you won’t die.
However, when it reaches C- or above, this death-free gold medal is upgraded to S level.
For A-level players, Dusk Games is no longer a worry-free game.
That's why Bai Ming was distressed, thinking it was a damned "stove fire".
Otherwise, he would have killed everyone in the D-level dungeon.
I hope that the “future road” mentioned by Shiya Dingfu Shenjun is of sufficient value.
Otherwise, Nakui's harvest in this C-level dungeon is the same as maxing out the D-level dungeon.
Bai Ming feels that from the perspective of risk-benefit ratio, it is also a loss.
"By the way, you are nothing if not human."
Bai Ming said to Shoulu.
The reason why he raised this question at this time was because he remembered a general rule from the internal information of the relevant department. Many ghosts are relatively safe when their true identity is not revealed, but once their identities are exposed, they become extremely dangerous.
Hence, Bai Ming would not ask Shoulu this question immediately before exploring other clues.
"Ah? I'm a cat!" Shoulu answered innocently, tilting his head and looking at Bai Ming, "Mimi, you can talk, how come you don't even understand this?"
Generally speaking, ordinary children will never recover quickly after experiencing the bloody scene just now, saying that Shoulu Bijing is a C-level dungeon, after all, he is not an ordinary child.
"What, you are a cat! Then what am I?"
A ridiculous feeling appeared in Bai Ming's mind.
Him Naturally, he would not be surprised that a human thought of himself as a cat.
This is just a normal operation in a copy.
Bai Ming thinks that Shoulu knows the identity of the free residents, so he shouldn't think that cats exist.
But she considers herself a cat?
This is too outrageous, which means that what she is eating now is the so-called "cat food". Then does she have a necklace around her neck and a free resident certificate? This rule has seriously conflicted.
No! No! No!
There was no conflict. The unlucky Shoulu was killed by the men in black immediately, which is consistent with the fact that free residents are the priority for cleanup.
"Well - let me think about it," Shoulu blinked seriously and suddenly clapped his hands, "Yes! You are a mouse! Yes, you are a big mouse!"
Bai Ming: "——"
Bai Ming did not give up and pointed with his cat paw at the food that Shouluzhi was feeding him on the ground: "But what you gave me was obviously cat food. You see, there are patterns of dried fish on it, just like the pattern of a cat."
Shoulu came over, looked at it carefully, and corrected it with a serious face: "It's the pattern of dried fish, that's right. It's not the pattern of a cat, but the pattern of a big mouse."
She stretched out her little finger to point to a round animal outline on the packaging bag, and said in an innocent tone: "Look, Mimi, does it look a lot like you?"
Bai Ming suddenly felt weak.
It looks a bit like it. It is clearly a cat.
However, at this moment he also realized that the cognitive differences between "cats", "rats" and "humans" may be one of the secrets hidden in this apartment.
Once Ren solves this puzzle, he will be able to complete this C-mission.
Just when Bai Ming was hesitating about what to do next, whether to continue questioning Shoulu or risk exploring the outside world C
Dong, dong, dong!
A heavy and regular knock on the door suddenly sounded outside the door.
But Bai Mingzai was not happy to see any footsteps.