Chapter 491: What Actually Counts as a Team?

Upstairs, the two Five-Star players looked at each other in dismay. Just now, they had planned to use their skills to start the Whisperer's Escape Room decryption.

But without the nod from that big shot on the first floor, how would they dare to use their skills.

If they provoked him, nothing in this world could protect them.

…

Not knowing how much time had passed.

Another team entered the first floor. These five people were four men and one woman. The female team member had an ordinary-colored Liar-Slayer at her waist.

Another strong team?

The five people casually glanced at the five corpses on the ground and scanned the eight people present, but they seemed to have undergone training, not having a single eye contact with the eight people.

Finally, the youth captain wearing ripped jeans landed his gaze on the Id Tier player in Shang Yun's team.

"You're not leaving?" Perhaps the jeans youth sensed a trace of danger and didn't want to fight with the eight people, which was why he asked.

Shang Yun flicked away his Cigarette butt: "No need for all that trouble, let's just start now."

The Secret Room turned black without warning.

When the light was restored...

Chen Ran looked around, and his pupils shrank instantly, because the scene here...

He was all too familiar with it.

[This is the Counter-Strike warehouse map?]

Indeed, opposite was a factory building with a white roof, and on the right hand side was a low building with a straight ladder on its side that could be climbed to the roof. In front, there were several containers stacked together.

On the left, there was also a small bridge.

It was exactly identical to the Counter-Strike warehouse map in his memory, and moreover...

He also had a submachine gun in his hand.

Chen Ran looked at the others, only to see the others also solemnly sizing up the surrounding environment.

'This should be a virtual world.'

'No prompts.'

'My identity is the police.'

'This indicates that the method to clear this virtual world is the same as clearing the warehouse map.'

'Rescue the hostages!'

Chen Ran remembered that if one wanted to enter the interior of the white building, there were four plans.

One: The main entrance.

Two: The back door.

Three: The ventilation duct.

Four: The password door at the end of the small bridge.

Four could be excluded. After all, in Counter-Strike, it is the operated character who inputs the password themselves, whereas the players themselves do not know what the password is.

'Three can also be excluded.'

'Entering from the ventilation duct, it's inevitable that terrorists will be waiting for the rabbit to hit the tree.'

'Two can also be excluded.'

'The back door is too narrow!'

Therefore, the main entrance was the best choice.

'Two problems.'

'One: What happens if I am shot to death?'

'As everyone knows, skills cannot truly kill a player's True Form.'

'At most, it's a Psionic Attack!'

'In other words, if I am shot dead by the terrorists, my spirit might be damaged.'

'Moreover, in Counter-Strike, if the mission fails, the next round will be restarted.'

'Simply put, when all the police are dead and the hostages are not rescued, then the mission fails, and we might face a restart.'

'The more times we restart, the greater the damage our spirits will suffer.'

'The second problem is: We thirteen people are all here, so who are the terrorists inside?'

'It's highly likely to be the Five-Star players using the skill, which are the Five-Star players responsible for protecting the Decryption Card in this building.'

Having figured this out.

Chen Ran looked at everyone again. First, Distance-Free could be ruled out, after all, to reflect players in Distance-Free required a Superego Mental State.

Secondly, they should rule out if someone in Shang Yun's team or the jeans team used a Virtual Overlay skill?

This was very easy to confirm.

Chen Ran felt the submachine gun in his hand. Whether from its texture or shape, there was no doubt this was a submachine gun.

Thus, he aimed the muzzle at his palm and then pulled the trigger. Bang.

A piercing pain came from his palm, but strangely, his palm was not pierced through, and there wasn't even a Bullet shot out.

'This is a virtual world!'

'Not a Virtual Overlay!'

There was a big difference between the two; the former was the consciousness entering a virtual world, while the latter was the body being overlaid by a virtual scene.

Therefore, there were no Bullets, and Chen Ran's Liar-Slayer was still at his waist. With the Liar-Slayer's protection mechanism, a Virtual Overlay wouldn't cause him pain no matter what.

So, it was a virtual world.

The other twelve people were all here, which could only mean that it was the two Five-Star players upstairs who used a virtual world skill to pull the consciousnesses of all thirteen people into the virtual world.

They were responsible for creating a Secret Room for the decrypting players, thereby protecting the Decryption Card.

Then, Chen Ran's deduction just now didn't have a single flaw.

The Id Tier players in the two teams also checked and said to their respective captains and teammates: "There is no Virtual Overlay or virtual person skills here."

Hearing this, Chen Ran was startled. Their words indicated that there were indeed only players inside the white building.

But, it still had to be verified.

Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong looked at Lin Xuan. The next moment, a Chen Ran appeared beside Lin Xuan.

The two nodded.

Seeing that Chen Ran disappear, Lin Xuan walked over and said: "I can transfer a Chen Ran from another space, so you should be able to confirm our identities now."

Because Chen Ran's True Form was not together with their True Forms, the people in the six spaces had to be used sparingly, otherwise once they all died, when Lin Xuan created spaces again, there wouldn't be Chen Ran and Jiang Zhe in the other spaces.

"Everyone, tell us, how should we rescue the hostages?" the youth in jeans said, his meaning very obvious, which was who would take the vanguard when they rushed in from the main entrance later.

Shang Yun ignored him, leading his team to run towards the back door of the white building.

Seeing this, the jeans youth also led his team to run towards the main entrance of the white building.

Chen Ran: "Follow me!"

Saying that, he ran towards the front of the white building.

There were only two terrorists, and they would later have their fire drawn by the two teams at the back and front.

Then, the best choice for Chen Ran's trio was to crawl in from the ventilation duct.

Bang bang bang!

Soon, dense gunfire sounded from the front and back doors. Chen Ran immediately led the two, climbed up the white roof, smashed the glass of the ventilation duct with his rifle butt, and the three crawled in.

Arriving at the fork.

Chen Ran crawled to the left. This duct could lead to the front of the door holding the hostages, while Qiu Yinong and Lin Xuan continued crawling along the straight line, preventing being discovered by the two terrorists, so they could suppress them with fire in advance, buying time for Chen Ran to rescue the hostages.

Arriving at the ceiling ventilation duct opening in front of the door where the hostages were held, Chen Ran looked down and saw no terrorists guarding, so he smashed the glass and jumped down from above.

Looking at the Electronic Lock password display on the right side of the door, Chen Ran was startled.

He tried inputting: 213.

Unexpectedly, the password was correct, and the door actually opened automatically.

Chen Ran secretly thought things were bad. He hurriedly crouched down and did a roll, rolling to the right side of the door, his body pressing tightly against the wall, muzzle pointing at the doorway.

After a long time, he didn't see any terrorists walking out from inside the door, so he took a mirror out of his bag, then took out the Chewing Gum he stole from Qiu Yinong's bag, chewed it in his mouth, and stuck the small mirror onto a long stick with the Chewing Gum.

It was the 【Sword】 Chen Ran picked up at Granny Zhang's house yesterday.

He carefully extended the long stick inside the door, and through the mirror reflection, saw the scene inside clearly.

There were five hostages inside, and these hostages all had Liar-Slayers tucked at their waists, but no guns in their hands. Judging from their clothes, they didn't look like terrorists either. Only then did Chen Ran feel at ease.

'Before, I was still wondering, those two Id Tier players said there was no Virtual Overlay and no virtual people, so what did the hostages count as?'

'So it turns out these hostages should be players pulled into this world by the Five-Star players guarding the Decryption Card. It is indeed a good choice to have them play the hostages.'

Thus, no longer hesitating, just as he was about to walk inside the door, he suddenly heard...

It seemed someone was calling him.

The voice sounded like Lin Xuan's, but when he turned his head to look at Lin Xuan, he only saw Lin Xuan still in the corridor not far away, laying down suppressing fire on the terrorists hiding at the back doorway.

'No, no, something is twelve out of ten points wrong, but what exactly is wrong?'