Chapter 1378: Misleading Information
"Don't you think there's a big problem with the restaurant at night?" The long-haired woman beside them swallowed and said, "Player 172 said the road to the restaurant disappeared, and the Calico Cat said someone came out of the restaurant at night. Doesn't that mean some people can enter the restaurant during the night?"
"Could the daytime vote be a decoy, and the real voting time is at night?"
Xu Huo's mind flashed to Player 42, Zhou Donghe, who had secretly left his room. He paused before saying, "Then there must be a condition for entering the nighttime voting session."
"The restaurant can change at any time. Maybe it randomly selects people," the baseball cap female player said. "Isn't the road to the restaurant sometimes there and sometimes gone? Find a chance to go out and check—maybe it'll appear again."
Maris had no choice but to ask the Calico Cat player again, but the latter couldn't even remember who was who, let alone what that person had done during the day. After thinking for a moment, he had a sudden idea, "Maybe there's something in the rooms?"
"That's also a possibility." Maris pondered for a moment before adding, "This misleading information about 'three days free' has too much impact on the players. Anyone entering the restaurant would think that at least the first three days are a relatively stable period, so there's no rush to clear it on the first day."
"We need to find a way to convince the later players to vote during the day." The baseball cap female player glanced at the long-haired woman. "Although the chance to clear might be at night, the daytime is relatively safe, so the risk of trying is low."
The long-haired woman, having been helped by her and Maris, naturally had no objections, but she emphasized, "We still don't know the voting rules."
They wanted to go to the restaurant at night, and their purpose was also to figure out the voting rules.
"We can wait and see tomorrow," Xu Huo said at this point. "A lot of people voted for vegetables today. Tomorrow's announced 'Best of the Day,' whether meat or vegetable, can narrow down the dish range."
"If no 'Best of the Day' is selected, it means the number of votes is insufficient."
Unfortunately, too many people died tonight. If the nighttime risk weren't so high, a 'Best of the Day' would definitely have been produced during the period after the 8 PM closing. If the voting rules were met, there would definitely be a clearing player... But judging by tonight's situation, the 'Best of the Day' probably won't be chosen from the vegetables.
Additionally, Maris said that 'three days free' was misleading information. That wasn't entirely accurate—it might have some impact on new players, but if someone really survived three days in the instance, no one could say what the situation would be by then.
And the possibility of nighttime voting that the long-haired woman mentioned also existed. If true, the danger level of the restaurant opening at night would definitely be far higher than the areas where the staff roamed.
"The one I just fought was a limping butcher. The knocking sound should attract him, and the other staff appear at intervals," Xu Huo said. "I'll go out and check if the restaurant passage has reappeared."
The baseball cap female player was a bit surprised, then turned her gaze to Maris.
"Let's work on both fronts," Maris said. "One person goes in one direction. If you run into the limping butcher you mentioned, contact Xiao Wan immediately and have her create a knocking sound."
Xiao Wan was the baseball cap female player.
He smiled as he spoke, "If we're lucky, maybe the limping butcher will prioritize dealing with the knocker."
"I'll leave this place to you."
This last sentence was directed at the scarf-wearing companion who hadn't spoken, and the scarf player nodded.
The nearby Calico Cat player and another player looked shaken, completely unable to understand why they still dared to go out.
From this room, going right was closer to the original passage to the restaurant. For fairness, the two agreed to meet at the large warehouse in the middle.
After leaving the room, Xu Huo headed right.
Although the Invisibility Cloak wasn't very effective, as long as he didn't directly encounter the staff or pick up items, it should be fine.
But his luck was a bit poor. As soon as he turned onto the passage directly opposite the restaurant passage, he saw a tall figure holding an iron rod appear at the other end of the corridor. However, he hadn't yet left the warehouse, just arriving at the door of the room that was originally 42 but now 63.
Xu Huo silently retreated behind the wall, but the next second, this figure appeared at the end of the corridor on this side, leaning around the corner to peek inside!
The place where someone should have been standing was empty. The tall figure twisted his chef's hat askew, then continued walking unhurriedly forward, ignoring the warehouse that had been destroyed by the limping butcher, and walked straight into the next corridor.
After he had gone far, Xu Huo descended from the ceiling and returned to the previous passage. Confirming that the restaurant passage hadn't appeared, he went straight back to the door of room 172.
His modified room number had now changed to 111, meaning someone had seen it while he was away, just like room 63.
Turning to look at the large warehouse ahead, he hesitated briefly before stepping into the shadow of a cargo container.
Most of the players who could still be hiding here steadily weren't relying on luck alone. Besides masking sounds, they also had to disguise their presence to be completely unnoticeable. But this wasn't too difficult. Before Xu Huo released the Cube Space, he couldn't rely solely on player senses to lock onto their positions either.
After using Space Power and Spiritual Power without attracting special attention, he slightly expanded his range. When he reached the other end of the warehouse, he found that beyond it were several more corridors similar to the other side.
Following one of them, he reached the end, only to find another identical large warehouse, a complete copy of the previous one. And when he got here, he could hear the sound of rubber barrels being moved.
The raincoat cleaner was here.
Rising to a high position, Xu Huo hid behind a cargo container and glanced sideways at the woman picking up items below, then slipped into a nearby overturned container.
There was someone hiding inside.
Seeing him suddenly appear, the person was startled and was about to use an item when Xu Huo promptly locked their movements and pointed downward.
But at that moment, the raincoat cleaner suddenly jumped onto the containers above, reaching the same height as them. However, because the containers in between were stacked in a four-sided pyramid shape, the other party couldn't see them for now.
Cold sweat broke out on the person hiding in the container, repeatedly signaling Xu Huo with their eyes to leave immediately.
Xu Huo didn't move, and the next second, the raincoat cleaner pulled someone out from the opposite side.
It was an injured player. After being dragged out, he immediately jumped to the ground and tried to flee, but the limping butcher suddenly appeared in front of him. With one slash, he pierced through the player's head, the blade getting stuck at the cervical spine, then cut straight down. The contents of the player's abdomen spilled all over the ground—not only did it smell bad, but it looked terrible too.
But the limping butcher didn't care about that. Grabbing both feet, he dragged the corpse away, and the raincoat cleaner followed up to clean.
(Chapter End)