Chapter 4659: Desperate Escape (38)

Since it was not announced who was eaten and who was not in each level, everyone only knew their own situation, and could roughly infer the situation of their predecessor and successor, but they couldn't infer further.

Since the one to be eliminated was the one preyed upon the most times, besides trying to avoid being preyed upon as much as possible, one could also find ways to increase the number of times others were preyed upon.

And now, with other animals falling into their hands, some people would feel that staying at home, waiting for another clockwise rotation, might be eaten by the predecessor who rotated over, which increased the number of times others were preyed upon, and would also make their own chances of winning a bit higher.

So, this time three groups decided to stay, and the remaining three groups still chose to go out. After they finished voting, it was the Agent who went down to get the votes, but this time the Agent opened the box.

He took a look and found it was three to three. In this situation, someone would definitely be eaten. So, the Agent directly took out a dagger from his waist, cut his palm, and then used the tip of the dagger to dip in blood and started to change the votes.

Logically speaking, English words are very difficult to change, and it's not that adding or subtracting a stroke can change the meaning. To change the meaning, one has to erase and rewrite, but the coincidence was that the words on it were not written with a professional pen, but with blood.

The coagulation speed of blood is not that fast, and it can be covered by other blood. The Agent wiped with his injured hand, and the words couldn't be seen at all, and then he turned it over and rewrote it on the side where no words were written.

However, there was another problem, that was, he wasn't very sure about the writing habits of these people, because the organizer didn't give a standard format. "Go out" might be written as "Goout", and some people would directly write "Go" or "out".

The Agent hadn't seen the slips of the first round, and didn't know which word each group would specifically write, but others had seen them. In case they wrote something different from the previous round, it would easily arouse suspicion.

But soon, the Agent had a flash of inspiration. It was difficult to change the word for going out, but it was very simple to change the word for not going out, because for not going out, there was basically only one way to express it: "Stay".

Of course, some people might write "Stayhere" or "Stayput", which meant "stay". But this phrase was a bit long, and there was no fine pen, everyone wrote with their hands or iron rods, generally speaking, it was impossible to write it down, and the probability of writing only "Stay" was very high.

So the Agent simply erased all the words for going out and changed them all to not going out. It was very strange that there were bloodstains on the paper, but the Agent had glanced at it before, and there were many bloodstains on the slips.

After all, everyone wouldn't add new wounds to write, mostly getting some blood from old wounds. Old wounds were on the collarbone, and that place wasn't suitable for taking blood, very easy to get everywhere.

Some groups had another uninjured person write, which was fine; but some groups had one person shouldering the burden, which was the injured person writing, and some got blood all over their hands, and the whole slip was almost soaked. Although this was the effect the organizer wanted, it also left a certain loophole—tampering with the slips was hard to be detected.

However, the planner also found it hard to imagine that someone would tamper with the slips. After all, in the original plan, no one would come into contact with the slips in advance, and everything was completed by the mechanism. Who knew that the players in front were too fierce, scaring Stark so much that he didn't dare to put the mechanical hand down, giving the Agent a chance to succeed.

As for his purpose, it wasn't how much he sympathized with the players, or hated the organizer, some people just wanted to watch the world burn.

After the slips were sent up, they were left unread first, which was more conducive to the Agent's disguise, because when they looked at them, the blood on them would be completely dry, and it wouldn't be possible to tell who was first and who was last.

This time the direction of rotation was clockwise again, and the result of the organizer's vote was another square. However, the Joker was already rubbing his hands and giggling, "Someone will definitely choose to stay. I wonder who will be eaten?"

He opened the box excitedly. Opened one, stay; opened one, stay again; opened one, still stay. Everyone was squatting at home, and this round was wasted again.

Joker threw the box on the ground angrily, yelling. He also wanted Batman to cut off his ears or fingers for him, how could these people not move?!

Actually, this was also a shortcoming of their planning team. If this were changed to Pride, he should be able to judge from the traces of blood that the blood had been covered once. But these few were really not playing serial murder cases.

Greed and Stark didn't need to be mentioned, they weren't Gothamites, and wouldn't be idle to study these perverts. Joker and Scarecrow should have been able to see it, but Joker usually did bombing cases, and Scarecrow was poisoning, neither of them conducted research on blood writing. Although Mephisto was a devil and occasionally used human blood to paint or something, he didn't have good control over the coagulation time and form of human blood, leading to no one seeing it.

If this were changed to Pride, he would definitely be able to see at a glance that the blood was covered with a layer, and the state of infiltration was wrong. But because he didn't see it, the Agent's vote-changing behavior was not discovered, and this level was mixed through like this again.

However, the players below were all human-refined experts, and having not been arrested for two consecutive rounds, they all sensed that something seemed a bit wrong.

Not to mention anything else, they could see the rotation direction and number of spaces of the mechanism. Two consecutive rounds were one space, this was a bit too coincidental, right?

Actually, one space was the best state, because it was easier to deduce, only needing to consider one's predecessor and successor. If the number of spaces jumped was large, it would be difficult to calculate. But for such a favorable voting pattern for players, this mole really exerted a lot of effort.

The mole was already so dedicated, they naturally couldn't fall behind. Since it was Christmas Eve again, they could free up their hands to study how to completely end this level.

Of course, maintaining peace like this was also fine, anyway, it was only six rounds, just endure it. However, no one knew how long this mole could exert effort, in case the situation changed, they might still be unlucky. There was no way out without finding ways to take shortcuts.

Pamela looked up first, looking at the small opening above. She estimated that she should be able to reach her hand out, because she was very thin, her frame wasn't big, and her palms and forearms were very flat. Although that opening was very small, she could at least reach out half a forearm.

Estimating the length, maybe she could grab the mechanical hand. But if this thing was lifted up violently, her arm would inevitably be stuck, and it was even possible that the skin and muscles would be peeled off, but at least it could jam the mechanical arm for a while.

But what was the use of just jamming the mechanical arm? Pamela looked at the seam of the compartment ceiling, which should be welded very tightly. It wasn't realistic to want to lift the ceiling, so she could only think of a way to pull the mechanical hand down. But their weight wasn't enough, and it was estimated they couldn't beat the power of the mechanical hand.

If one team's weight wasn't enough, what if another team came? If two teams pulled together, could they pull it down completely?

No, just pulling it down in balance was actually useless. Because the mechanism was broken, they could repair it, or even force them to let go. They must use the moment when the mechanical arm stopped working or was pulled down to do something. But what could they do?

Harley also recalled the structure of the entire mechanism. The entire mechanism was a large ring, with a diameter slightly smaller than the compartment below, but much larger than the lantern above. If one side of the ring was pulled down, the other side should lift up, just like a balance, and the lifted height should be enough to reach the lantern.

But the problem now was that all of them couldn't go out, so naturally, it was impossible to have an Alpha assault, jump directly into the lantern, and kill everyone. So using the ring as a seesaw was unlikely.

But someone calculated more accurately than her, and that was Anatoli. Before coming in, he had already visually measured the diameter of the ring, and the diameter of the bottom of the lantern and the ceiling above. He was sure that the ring tilting up wouldn't hit the bottom of the lantern, because the diameter of the bottom of the lantern was smaller, and the ring couldn't touch it.

However, the ring couldn't be completely flipped over either, but would get stuck on the upper part of the lantern. Because the reason why it was called a lantern was that the top was larger than the bottom, presenting a top-heavy posture.

Pushing the bottom of the lantern to want to push the lantern over was unlikely, because that was a force-multiplying lever. But pushing from the top of the lantern made it very easy to push over. As long as the pulled-down ring applied a lateral force to the lid of the lantern, there were only two results: either the ceiling was blown away, or the lantern fell over as a whole. This depended on how firmly the bottom was connected.

If it was the former, they had an escape passage after all. Even if the ceiling was suddenly gone, it would take time for the players to climb up, and they would likely run away; but if it was overturned as a whole, the distance between them and the escape passage would be a bit far. Not to mention anything else, just that fall would be enough to make them dizzy, and it was estimated they wouldn't be able to climb up for a while.

However, now the players couldn't go out, which meant this plan couldn't be carried out now. Otherwise, if you overturned the lantern, they could still run from other doors. To carry it out, it must be in the last level.

Anatoli had already checked, this compartment was seamless, except for the door they came in, there was no passage, which meant it was impossible to enter from the side or walk from below. When the time came, they would definitely be let out, even if they were let out one by one, there must be a moment when the door opened.

Thoughts turned back and forth, Anatoli already had a clear plan, but he had to communicate with his neighbor next door first. Taking advantage of the voting gap, he started knocking on the wall again.

Coincidentally, Harley was his neighbor next door. Harley chose the tiger, and when he came in, the wolf and weasel were chosen, and Anatoli's group chose the wolf. The tiger was just next to the wolf, and their rooms and thoughts were close. ===== CHAPTER 4660 =====