Chapter 722: Dave’s World (17)
Translator: 549690339
Feng bujue spent half an hour to survey the entire room 204.
Then, he sat on the bed and fell into deep thought …
“The closet is empty, and there are no jackets or pants in the luggage. There are only a limited number of undergarments and socks … This means that he doesn’t plan to stay out for too long. Whether he succeeds or not, he will be home before tomorrow …” The information that he had gathered earlier flashed across brother Jue’s eyes.”Even though he went to the bar last night, considering that he has an interview this morning, he will not drink too much. He wouldn’t stay too late either … His complexion before he died can also prove this … At least a few seconds before his head was blown up, he looked quite energetic and didn’t look like he had a hangover or didn’t have enough sleep. ” He glanced at the bed sheet again.”Judging from the hair and smell left on the bed, he did spend the night in Room 204 … And this morning, he leisurely washed up and shaved before leaving …”
Thinking about that, Feng bujue frowned slightly and rubbed his chin.””Hmm … All the signs point to inoch being very confident even before she left the hotel room in the morning. She didn’t seem to be in a hurry at all.” He paused for a moment.”Then here comes the question … After he left the hotel and before he entered the post office … What exactly happened?”
At that moment, all the clues that he had gathered flashed across brother Jue’s eyes. His mind reacted instinctively, providing him with one conclusion after another. He expanded each of them one by one, weaving a web of reasoning …!!
“Speaking of which … Where’s his car?” After a while, Feng bujue touched something at the edge of the ‘spider web’. His eyes moved slightly as he mumbled,”I’ve been walking around the town for so long, but not only have I not seen any pedestrians, I haven’t even seen a single car …” He stood up and paced back and forth in the room.”This brother inoch … He couldn’t have carried his luggage and walked all the way to this remote town, right?”
As brother Jue thought about this, he walked toward the door. He was going to visit the other guests in the hotel with the grapeshot gun and ask them what they knew.
However, just as he picked up the gun and was about to touch the doorknob, he heard the sound of a key entering the lock …
Feng bujue reacted quickly. He took three steps back and raised his gun to aim.
The moment he stood still, the door was pushed open …
“If I were you, I wouldn’t waste my time in this hotel …” The person outside the door saw brother Jue with the gun, but he was still very calm.”Mr. Dave.”
Feng bujue focused his gaze and saw a balding, slightly fat black old man standing in the corridor. The man looked to be in his sixties. He was wearing a dark green administrator’s uniform and had a large bunch of keys on his waist.
“Who are you?” Feng bujue pointed his gun at the man and asked coldly,”how do you know my name?”
“I’m the manager here. You can call me Mr. M. ” Mr. M replied,”as for your name … I’ve known it for a long time. I’ve known you since you could remember.”
“Oh? You’re my relative?” Feng bujue replied.
“I know you better than your relatives, Dave.” Mr. M replied,”I know that you wet your bed when you were in third grade. I know that you’re allergic to lettuce. I know that your best friend died of a drug overdose. I also know the names of all your girlfriends.”
“What’s going on … A distant relative? Stalker? You’re talking nonsense?” Even though brother Jue had many conjectures, his own understanding of Dave was limited. Even if Dave was lying, he had no way of knowing.
“It looks like you know quite a lot …” Feng bujue did not show any emotion and asked a question to test the waters.”Then, can you please tell me … Inoch …”
“Actually, you don’t have to worry about the car.” Before brother Jue could finish, Mr. M cut in.”You’ll understand if you think about it …” He said in a low voice,”your own car … Does that count as entering the town?”
Hearing that, Feng bujue’s expression changed slightly.”I see …” He then realized that not only were there no cars or pedestrians in this small town, there were no tire tracks or footprints. After walking around the town for a day, all he could see were his own footprints and traces of bicycle tires.
“Thank you for your reminder, Mr. M.” Two seconds later, brother Jue continued,”if it’s convenient … Can you also explain why you already know what I want to ask you before I even say anything?”
“Hehehe …” Mr. M returned a meaningful smile and then ignored brother Jue’s question.”The ‘last dinner’ will start at eight. You have less than an hour to go.”
After that, he turned around and left in the direction of the corridor.
“Wait a minute!” Feng bujue walked forward quickly, wanting to stop the man to ask for an explanation.
However, when he reached the door, the corridor was already empty.
Mr. M had been out of his sight for less than a second, but it was in that one second that brother Jue had lost track of him …
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Due to Mr. M’s appearance, brother Jue had changed his original plan of ‘knocking on the door’ and used a more direct and faster method …
He went straight to the counter on the first floor and took out all the keys from the key cabinet. One by one … He opened all the doors in the hotel.
Although he was prepared to raise his gun to threaten her every time he entered the room, none of the rooms were occupied …
Just like that … Feng bujue stayed at the hotel for another ten minutes, but he found nothing.
At 7:22 P. M., He walked out of the hotel and got on his bicycle again.
“F * ck …” He cursed as he rode the bike.”You told me the time for dinner, but you didn’t tell me the location … What’s the use!”
That was not the only problem that bothered him. At that moment, he had another hidden worry, and that was “stamina points.”[ 692/4800] might be enough for a normal scenario, but in this scenario where physical strength was measured by physical sense, it was a state where his muscles were sore and he needed to rest.
Unfortunately … The situation before him did not allow Feng bujue to rest.
Brother Jue had also noticed that … At this stage of the scenario, they were already very close to a perfect completion.
Although he can’t be 100% sure, I can explain it in God Mode …
In fact, the most important hidden stat in the scenario was ‘time’, or rather,’efficiency’.
“Reach narson’s office before nine in the morning” was a good example. Inoch’s head was blown up, and the concept of “punctuality” repeatedly emphasized in the post office’s work manual were all hints.
The content of the main mission [obtain the recognition of the ghost postman and become the new postman of the town of otaku] was ambiguous and not clear instructions.
The factor that really determined the difficulty of clearing the game was time.
At the beginning of the scenario, if the players did not meet narson by 9 am, the difficulty of the scenario would increase, and the content of the side quest would also be different. The chain reaction that followed was …… The time taken for the side quest would increase, and the time taken to complete the side quest was precisely the benchmark for the hidden quest to be triggered.
If completed an hour earlier, they would receive [solve the scenario’s world setting before the main mission is completed]; If you complete the mission three hours in advance, you will receive [investigate and solve the reason why inoch was late]; If he wanted to receive the [try to participate in the ‘last dinner’] request … He would have to do it five hours in advance.
In short, the difficulty and ending of the scenario were closely related to the players ‘efficiency. The faster one completed this step, the easier the next step would be. On the contrary, if he was slow by one step, he would be slow by the next step. If he did not correct it as soon as possible, the difficulty of the later part of the script would snowball. Even if the players were lucky enough not to die, they would at most be able to complete the mission before midnight and barely clear the game.
Right now, Feng bujue had already used his outstanding performance to … Walk on the easiest and most profitable path to clear the stage.
But … He might still fail at the last step.
Thirty-eight minutes, less than 700 stamina points, a broken clue …
If he wanted to clear the stage perfectly, he had to overcome these disadvantages and attend the banquet within the time limit. (To be continued