Chapter 314: I Lose Just Because I Farmed a Minion?

Simply put.

The Four-Star player's plan had a major premise: among the mice, the five people aside from Lin Xuan were all hiding on the first floor.

Simplified version:

Leave one cat on the first floor to confine the five mice to the first floor.

Meanwhile, the rest of the cats would use the two hours to repeatedly search the entire building, clearly memorizing the scene in every room.

This way, when the two hours were almost up, five cats would touch the five mice. Five cats would clear the stage, and the five mice would have to hide again.

But since the cats had memorized the scenes of every room, no matter what cat a mouse transformed into, they could be easily spotted.

This was the simplified version.

Enhanced version:

The remaining cats would search the entire building once every 24 minutes. The focus wasn't on searching, but on memorizing the scene of each room.

Every time a sweep of the building was completed, one cat would go down to the first floor, and the cat stationed on the first floor would touch a mouse to clear the Secret Room. The cat that came down would take over its position and continue restricting the mice.

The advantage of doing this was:

After the first mouse was touched by a cat and turned into a ghost, it could only hide on the second floor or higher. But the remaining cats would just happen to start searching from the second floor, so this mouse would be caught again.

Repeat this five times.

After the five mice on the first floor had all been touched, the hiding range of these five mice should be like this:

One mouse cannot hide on the first floor.

One mouse cannot hide on the first two floors.

One mouse cannot hide on the first three floors.

One mouse cannot hide on the first four floors.

One mouse cannot hide on the first five floors.

The sixth mouse, which was Lin Xuan, could not hide on the first six floors.

This made things easy to handle. One person guards the elevator doors, keeping the elevator parked on that floor, and keeps their eyes on the stairwell to prevent any mice from going up or down.

The rest of the people search upwards. Because their scene memory had been reinforced five times, they could basically see through what items were added or missing in a room at a glance. As for...

What if they couldn't remember?

Tough luck!

You have to remember even if you can't. Not remembering meant you couldn't catch mice, and for players who could survive to Three-Star in Hell, their intelligence was the least questionable aspect.

Furthermore, many players had already constructed Distance-Free Technique. If their Ego couldn't remember, they still had four Ids to help remember.

Therefore, as for which five cats would touch the five mice first, the answer went without saying.

Gao Lan's three Three-Star teammates and Lin Xuan's two Three-Star teammates. As for...

The Fitness Blogger?

Who cared about him?

Now that the two teams were broken up, everyone had to unite to deal with the Five-Star Youth. The Fitness Blogger was the Youth's teammate, and God knew what kind of coordination they had, so it was best to kill him off first.

…

After reviewing the entire train of thought, the rest of the people looked at the ordinary Four-Star youth with shock and uncertainty.

'Too strong!'

'Although there's deduction in the plan, looking at the overall train of thought, it's all radiating from a point to an area. Just like a divine doctor seeing you sneeze and telling you you're going to die.'

'Similarly, if the mice are hiding on the first floor right now, the mice will definitely die. It sounds completely illogical, but upon careful analysis, it's the inevitable result generated by the collision of the two mindsets of 【contemplating fleeing and contemplating pursuit】.'

The ordinary Four-Star youth looked at his Watch and said to the crowd, "Let's go, we don't have time to stall here, let's go reveal the answer."

After saying that, he was the first to walk to the door of the first apartment on the left side of the first floor. Perhaps to make it easier for the cats to search, or perhaps to prevent the mice from locking the doors, none of the apartments or bedrooms had doors. As soon as the ordinary Four-Star youth appeared at the doorway, he looked inside...

Chen Ran was sitting in the middle of the living room, casually taking drags from a Cigarette.

The corners of the ordinary youth's mouth curled up. "Chen Ran tracking Lin Xuan means he has a plan to kill me. But I don't understand, where does he get so much confidence?"

"Upgrading from Three-Star to Four-Star requires a massive amount of Points. Therefore, the biggest gap between Three-Star and Four-Star is experience."

"This gap is even bigger than the gap between One-Star and Three-Star players."

"Lin Xuan did this very well; he already has the prototype of a Lie-Judgment tactic."

Chen Ran was startled. "The Ice Room?"

"Correct."

The ordinary youth said no more. Since Chen Ran was on the first floor, the other four mice should also be on the first floor, and they had likely heard the plan he just proposed. Seeing that Chen Ran didn't transform, he figured Chen Ran must have given up resisting.

Sure enough.

The other cats successively found the other four mice in other rooms, but one of the mice had transformed into Qiu Yinong's appearance.

Judging from the headcount, it should be Short and Fat transformed into Qiu Yinong.

The fourteen people speechlessly looked at the fake Qiu Yinong.

This was exactly the reason why a fake cat could appear in front of seven, eight, or nine real cats, but couldn't appear in front of ten real cats.

It would be seen through at a glance.

"Change back, our tactics are countered by theirs. There's no point in pulling this kind of trick anymore," the Youth said while lighting a Cigarette.

Soon, the five mice cooperatively arrived at the lobby of the first floor.

This level of cooperation made the ordinary Four-Star youth frown, secretly thinking: 'It's too smooth.'

Chen Ran lit a Cigarette and asked Qiu Yinong, "Do you agree with his plan?"

Qiu Yinong didn't speak, and the rest of the players also had varying expressions. The ordinary youth's plan probably only outlined a general framework.

After all, among the mice were these cats' teammates. Then, Infighting was bound to occur among the cat group—for instance, while clearing the stage myself, I would solve the predicament for my mouse teammates.

In short, the process was definitely more complex than what the ordinary youth had said.

So, in the current situation, were the cats catching mice who had no intention to resist, or had the mice intentionally removed themselves from the equation to laugh and watch the Infighting among the cats?

The ordinary youth retracted his thoughts. "Everyone can establish Future Lies."

Future Lies were naturally indispensable. For example, the cat stationed on the first floor could not prematurely touch the controlled mice; they must only touch the mice when another cat took over for them, or when 24 minutes were up.

For another example, players going downstairs could not touch mice midway (a one-time occurrence).

In short, for the plan to operate normally, Future Lies were absolutely necessary.

Soon.

Lin Xuan's Three-Star teammate, Zhou Zhan, was left behind to guard the five mice, while the remaining nine cats started searching upwards from the second floor.

Zhou Zhan wore Sunglasses, standing opposite the five mice. Chen Ran kindly suggested, "You should stand at the stairwell, otherwise if the Youth uses his skill and the Secret Room goes dark, we might run up from the stairwell."

Zhou Zhan thought about it briefly. That seemed to make sense, so he retreated to the stairwell.

However...

Chen Ran, the Youth, Gao Lan, Short and Fat, and Big Gold Tooth—the sum of their moral integrity was a negative number.

There was a certain distance between the stairs and the elevators. As Zhou Zhan retreated to the stairwell, these five people shamelessly charged toward the elevator doors. Chen Ran ran the fastest, reaching the middle of the elevator doors first and pressing the button.

The other four people blocked behind him to prevent Zhou Zhan from coming over to cause trouble.

However...

Zhou Zhan didn't come, and the elevator didn't come down either.

Second floor.

The ordinary youth had blocked the elevator doors with a table, keeping the elevator parked on the second floor.

'Ignorance, Distance-Free Technique, No-Self.'

'Players who know 【No-Self】, every single one of them without exception, is a Shameless bastard. With the elevator doors blocked and a Three-Star player guarding the stairwell, I don't believe they can still come up!'