High Energy QR Code: 5. The so-called ending
Anyway, it's nice to have a hot shower.
The room is not big, so Xing Ye checked every corner to make sure no one was peeping, and then took off his clothes and entered the bathtub.
The mirror was still stuck in front of his chest, and sank to the bottom of the tub as soon as he entered the water. Xing Ye ignored the mirror and quickly washed his face and hair.
On weekdays, it only takes Xing Ye five minutes to take a shower from **** to walking out of the bathroom, but now his hair is too long, and he hasn't washed it for a long time. Ye took a shower for three minutes, but rubbed his hair for half an hour.
He washes his body first, and then washes his hair after putting on his clothes, so as not to wash his hair for nothing because it is too dirty.
Finally washed my hair, the water in the tub has turned gray, and a mirror is struggling to float on the water in a posture that violates the principles of classical physics. The mirror surface is gray and can no longer reflect anything.
Looking coldly at the mirror and struggling, Xing Ye picked up the small basin next to the bathtub and asked, "There is clear water here, do you want to wash?"
"Yes!" The exclamation mark on the mirror is bigger than the handwriting.
Xing Ye smiled slightly: "Then what are you?"
Mirror: "..."
On the way, Xing Ye confirmed two things.
First, the constantly updated background of the story is artificially changed at any time, and it is precisely to confirm this that Xing Ye kicked the mirror into the river. In the initial game introduction, the system specifically reminded the manipulator that they could not modify the pre-set ending, which easily gave people the illusion that they could not intervene in the game, but the ending is not equal to the process, and the manipulator can modify the narration according to his choice.
Second, the narrator cannot control the mirror. This is very important. According to the setting of the narration, this should be a magic mirror. It is alive and has its own preferences. It is because it likes Claire that it follows Claire with a stern face. But the mirror showed extremely obvious dislike and reluctance, and sometimes even didn't want to perform the duties of the mirror, and the narrator didn't seem to notice its resistance.
Even if Xing Ye doesn't play games, from a business point of view, he can easily think that no game developer will prepare an artifact for players in Xinshou Village, which will break the balance.
This mirror is either a bug or has another identity.
After Xing Ye asked the question, the mirror stopped moving and slowly sank into the bottom of the bathtub, as if he would rather drown to death than tell Xing Ye the answer.
This is even more interesting.
Xing Ye scooped up the mirror before it completely sank, washed it with clean water, looked at the mirror that still couldn't see a face and said, "Can you tell who is the player?"
The mirror is silent and does not respond. According to its performance during this period of time, it should be positive if it is not negative.
If it is willing to cooperate, it is indeed an artifact.
"Even if I know, I don't need it," Xing Ye patted the mirror, "Anyway, it's not too difficult to guess."
After speaking, he stuffed the mirror into his chest.
Mirror: "NO!!!"
Xing Ye, who glimpsed the word from the corner of his eye, completely ignored its resistance, put on a black and white maid outfit, and walked out of the room with his hair loose.
The older maid waiting outside the door frowned slightly: "What's the matter with your hair?"
"It's not done yet." Xing Ye casually tossed his messy hair.
"Follow me." The older maid took Xing Ye to another room, combed his wet hair and put on a headscarf like other maids.
After finishing her hair, she brought Xing Ye to the earl's room, and when she arrived at the door, a maid was thrown out.
She was barely clothed, was covered in bruises, and had almost all her teeth pulled out. Xing Ye knelt down and checked her pulse, she was already dead.
"Change another maid." A man's voice came from the room.
The older maid said calmly to Xing Ye without even shaking her eyelashes: "Claire, Earl Luca is calling you."
Xing Ye stood up, took a deep look at her, and strode into Earl Luca's room.
Narrator: "Clare is so horrified by the maid's death that she clutches her skirt, fearing she will be the next victim."
It's already night, the room is full of candles, and a half-naked man is lying on the gorgeous bed. When he saw Xing Ye, he said, "Close the door and come here."
Xing Ye not only closed the door, but also locked it.
There were a lot of instruments of torture tied to the bed, Xing Ye looked at them one by one while walking, and his steps were not chaotic, and finally stood still in front of Count Luca.
This is an extremely skinny man with a whip in his hand. Xing Ye's height put tremendous pressure on him, Earl Luca couldn't help standing up from the bed, and found that he was still half a head shorter than Xing Ye.
"I hate people looking down on me." Earl Luca said gloomily, he raised his whip and lashed at Xing Ye.
Xing Ye had sharp eyes and quick hands. The moment he raised his hand, he grabbed his arm with one hand and covered Earl Luca's mouth with the other to prevent him from making a sound.
Count Luca's eyes widened, his pupils shrank, and he struggled desperately, but Xing Ye's height and strength were all his own, and the system did not change his original physical condition except for his gender.
How could the strength of Earl Luca, who was overindulgent, be comparable to Xing Ye, who paid great attention to physical exercise and often asked his bodyguards about self-defense techniques.
Xing Ye quickly grabbed the whip from Earl Luca, tied him up with the tools in the room, and gagged him. There was a loud noise in the room when the two were fighting, and Xing Ye yelled "Ah! It hurts" and "Lord Earl, please let me go" at the top of his voice while subduing him.
After tying up the count, he picked him up with one hand, dragged the thin Count Luca to the door, opened the door a crack, and slightly opened the cloth blocking the count's mouth.
Sure enough, Earl Luca immediately shouted: "Come here, this..."
Xing Ye only asked him to shout this sentence, and immediately knocked him out.
He dragged the earl to hide behind the door, and when he saw the elderly maid guarding the door cautiously walking in, he immediately closed and locked the door.
The old maid turned her head when she heard the door closing, and saw that Xing Ye threw the fainted Earl on the ground like a rag.
"Before calling someone, think about whether the manipulator can be discovered." Xing Ye stopped the screaming of the elderly maid with one sentence.
"You, what are you talking about?" The older maid asked with a pale face as she looked at the lifeless Earl Luca.
Xing Ye felt flustered by the mirror, and took it out of his chest while talking: "It's very easy to guess who is the manipulator. The narration can only control the NPC's actions, but it can't control my thoughts. Manipulator I hope that the plot will continue according to my own setting, and I will definitely correct it myself. In order to ensure that I can be selected as the maid of Count Luca, one of the three people who choose the maid must be the manipulator."
Xing Ye picked up the whip that fell on the ground and said: "Count Luca is a nobleman with a special habit. He is keen on hurting maids who can't resist. If I am taken by him, there are only two endings. One is to be recognized as a man, and the mission fails; the other is to be tortured to death by Earl Luca, achieving the ending you set, right?"
As he approached step by step, the older maid kept backing away until her back was pressed against the wall and there was no way to retreat, then she said in a trembling voice: "You, why did you guess it was me?"
"It's too simple. Before I entered the bathroom, the old housekeeper was guarding the door. When I came out, it became you. As a manipulator, you should hope to see my end with your own eyes."
The older maid who had no reason to argue anymore sat down on the ground and said weakly: "You are right, I am one of the manipulators, you won this game, but there are two of us, and Now you still have to think about how to escape from the Earl's manor."
"Oh?" Xing Ye looked down at the older maid, waiting for her next words.
"There are many guards in the earl's mansion. Even if you can defeat one earl, it is impossible to defeat so many guards. If you hurt the earl, you will definitely not be able to escape. I can help you." The old maid said, "my The identity is set to be the nanny who brought the earl up since childhood, he respects me very much, and I have a great say in the manor."
Xing Ye looked the older maid up and down: "What a good proposal, if you help me escape, what will happen to you?"
"Probably will be executed by the angry earl." The old maid smiled wryly and shook her head, "But I have already lost, the player will not die in the game, so I can return to the system earlier In the space, there is no need to stay here and do hard work. After all, I am a modern person, and of course I hope to get rid of the status of a servant as soon as possible.”
"Thank you so much." Xing Ye smiled kindly.
"Thank you for telling me another rule of this game." Xing Ye said, "I have been thinking about the meaning of the word 'end' before. The so-called ending of the story, whose ending is it? After all, Claire is the protagonist in the story, but this is actually another misunderstanding, because it is viewed from the perspective of the executor. If you stand on the standpoint of the manipulator, there should be two protagonists, One is Claire, and the other is the manipulation itself, which is the ending of the older maid you played.
When a manipulator has two endings, he must do double insurance. The apparent ending is that Claire failed to be found as a player and was abused to death by the earl. When neither of these can be achieved, the manipulator can choose another ending. From the perspective of the older maid, the older maid Conscience found out that she couldn't bear to be hurt by Claire and assisted her in escaping.
As long as I believe what you just said and escape from the manor, then I will lose. "
This time, the older maid showed a truly desperate expression: "You, how did you guess so much? The system clearly told us that this rule is hidden from the executor!"
"If the opponent is a manipulator, I probably wouldn't have thought of this." Xing Ye looked down at the manipulator who had completely surrendered, "But this is a game of challenging fate. Only when the system is the opponent can we discover the crisis hidden in the rules, right?"
Hearing these words, the mirror held in the palm of Xing Ye slightly lit up.