PNB Chapter 14 Exchange
Chapter 14 Exchange
Su Yumin didn't say anything more this time.
The four of them were already sitting on the sofa in the living room of room 908. Yan Xun looked around the house and found that it was larger than his and Gui Yuchong's house, with two bedrooms.
"What is your relationship?" Yan Xun asked.
"In the dungeon."
“We’re classmates.” Shen Rui spoke up for Su Yumin, who was standing next to him. Like Gui Yuchong, he didn’t seem to understand the current situation either, but he understood one thing—
Perhaps there's a fake player among them, whose goal is completely opposite to theirs, deceiving them so that they can successfully leave the instance without being discovered in the end.
"I rented a room here after graduation."
Shen Rui spoke quickly.
Su Yumin leaned back on the sofa, sitting on a single armchair, looking Yan Xun up and down. "I remember we got back very early. Why are you and him still outside with shopping bags at this hour?"
Yan Xun glanced at their shopping bags. During their escape, only a bag of instant noodles and a palm-sized breakfast bread remained inside.
His stomach was protesting from not eating for so long. He knew Su Yumin suspected him, but there was no point in hiding it.
“I went to 508, and Li Wu was there too.”
Su Yumin didn't care why Li Wu was there; instead, she grabbed Yan Xun and wouldn't let go, asking, "What were you doing in room 508? Destroying evidence?"
“Our initial room was 508, so maybe there are some clues hidden there,” Yan Xun said, sharing his previous analysis. “As residents of the building, where do you think we should have started?”
Upon seeing this, Gui Yuchong immediately asked, "At home?"
Yan Xun nodded.
Shen Rui, who was standing to the side, probably understood what Yan Xun meant.
They play the roles of residents in the Meimei Building. Their initial appearances, besides in their own rooms, should also take place in the management office.
They appeared in their own room because they were playing the roles of residents in the Mei Mei Building.
The reason they appear at the management office is because players might need to meet there, and the management office is where they collect their supplies.
It was indeed a bit strange that it first appeared in room 508.
"What clues have you found?" Shen Rui asked, but he quickly realized something was wrong... He glanced at the bread he had been given and then at the food that Yan Xun had temporarily lost. "I can trade you food."
"Need not."
"Because I didn't find anything."
Yan Xun propped his head up and looked at the people in the room. Gui Yuchong seemed to be deep in thought, Shen Rui looked eager to know the truth, and Su Yumin sat in the farthest seat from him, his thoughts unreadable.
—The person he suspects most right now is actually Su Yumin.
"I had just entered room 508 and was about to take a look into the bedroom when Li Wu arrived."
"Then the security guard..." Yan Xun didn't mention Chi Yuan's name, "He said that residents in the building can't just enter these rooms, otherwise they'll be considered fake people."
“He sent our roommate to ransom us.”
Gui Yuchong nodded immediately upon hearing this, seemingly wanting to prove to the two people in room 908 that what Yan Xun said was true.
"It seems something unexpected happened to Li Wu," Su Yumin asked.
“They all say the other is a fake,” Yan Xun began, “but…”
"That must have been planned by them from the beginning."
Even if Pei Xingyan were a fake, he wouldn't have made such an obvious move to eliminate players on the first day.
The most likely scenario is that Li Wu had already discussed it with Pei Xingyan when he notified him.
“When those security guards took the puppets away, they didn’t kill them on the spot,” Yan Xun said, offering his guess. “I suspect that Li Wu and Pei Xingyan wanted to take the opportunity to see where the puppets were being held.”
"And what those security guards will do next."
"There's one more thing..."
Yan Xun looked at Su Yumin, "Is there anything to eat?"
"Didn't you get food?" Su Yumin smiled, glancing at the shopping bag—everyone in the room knew that the shopping bag was almost empty—so Su Yumin was doing it on purpose.
“We don’t have much food, so we need to be even more frugal.” Yan Xun leaned back on the sofa. “You two can pool your money to make some food for Gui Yu and me.”
"This is information I learned from that fake man before."
“You can discuss it.” Yan Xun said, glancing at the clock in the room. He noticed that almost every room here had a clock hanging in it, perhaps to let the players know when they could go out and when they couldn’t.
"But in five minutes, I will raise the price."
[Wow! Host! Will they agree?!]
The system asked in a low voice inside Yan Xun's head.
"If they disagree, they can go and find a fake person and ask them themselves," Yan Xun said nonchalantly.
It's the first day now, and supplies are relatively plentiful. In order to get intelligence early and seize the initiative, these two people from 908 will definitely agree.
Besides, they can also make money off the two people in room 1101.
Not everyone is so lucky as to encounter a pseudo-person who likes to chat.
“Actually, I really hate it when people threaten me.” Su Yumin leaned back on the single sofa and looked at his teammate. “What do you think?”
“I have bread,” Shen Rui said directly. “I’ll trade with you.”
He originally intended to exchange food for some information with Yan Xun, which was not difficult for him to accept.
Upon hearing this, Yan Xun beckoned to him with his finger.
Shen Rui immediately walked to the other side of the sofa and then leaned closer to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun whispered in Shen Rui's ear—
"That fake man said that the security guards would beat the fake man to death in front of the residents, so occasionally there would be unlucky residents who were mistakenly killed."
"But the fake Su Yumin I just met, and the one I encountered before, were both taken away by security guards."
He stopped there and then spread his hands towards Shen Rui.
Shen Rui handed his bread to Yan Xun, then returned to his seat.
"What did he understand? I don't understand anything!" the system wondered.
“A terrible guess,” Yan Xun explained to the system in his mind. “If that fake person wasn’t lying, the building’s security guards would beat him to death in front of the residents.”
"Then why did the security guards choose to take him away directly both times, instead of killing him on the spot?"
The system fell silent, seemingly pondering why.
"This does not mean they have become cautious."
"What's worse might be that there are imposters among the security guards." Yan Xun looked at the bread in his hand and put it into a plastic bag.
"Or perhaps, all the security guards have been replaced with fakes."