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She just didn't know who was plotting against her, or why they were plotting against her.
But it must be an absolutely brilliant game... right?
Newbie Fin: ...Lin.(...Eight.~I haven't even started thinking about it yet, #and suddenly I inexplicably felt a sense of disappointment.
Seven-Colored Leopard Jumping Jade: fuli, do you have a problem?
Everyone here is my wife: a major event involving a direct clash between two powerful forces, no way!
Everyone here is my wife: We're all being schemed against, a game of cat and mouse that forges a thrilling adventure.
Fallen Saint Black Cat: Does this refer to a contradiction? This shameful elf has already made quite a few embarrassing mistakes, hasn't it?
Celine Kaslana: Not really. What Mom resisted was being forced to take sides. In that big incident, once you got involved, you'd be forced to take sides no matter what you did, except run away.
Qiong: So, you mean that stupid fox wants to be a savage, right?
Silver Hair Supreme: emmmmmm... Although Miss Fox often jinxes things, it seems like everyone assumes that Miss Fox's premonitions will come true?
Noelle: Don't Japanese light novels have this kind of plot?
Noelle: It's when the protagonist becomes powerful enough that premonitions become prophecies.
『 』 (empty): (Thinking) Not much, right?
Newbie just there to fill a spot: Looks like someone's got their eye on my creation. Are they trying to keep me in this world? (scratching head)
Qiong: It's obvious. I went in with you, and I didn't see myself get injured too.
They even "thoughtfully" sent Qiong to the world after she fell out of the border.
Qiong suspected that she was very unlucky with the spatial gates, as she had only gone through them once or twice without any problems, and the rest of the time she had all encountered accidents.
Now she's too afraid to use the group travel function to return to the broken group space, who knows what kind of accident might happen again.
Newbie just there to fill a spot: Anyway, let's find the person who plotted against me first.
Qi Pu Guiyue: Need any help?
Elena is the best in the world, no arguments allowed: What help is Qipu going to provide?
Noelle: Let's fight!
As the scene shifted before her eyes, Noelle felt a blur before her eyes and was transported from the city in the broken space to two backward, desolate, and deserted towns.
Turning my head, sure enough, Miss Fox's cheeky grin came into view.
Noelle was speechless.
If I'm not mistaken, she's a robot from the technology side, and this is a supernatural world of metaphysics.
Did you bring her over here to make her a cute mascot?
"Why are you pulling me! Didn't Qipu offer to help?"
Besides, Kiyohime, who is a counter-type character, is also very suitable for this type of world!
"Shh, don't talk, look at this town."
Noelle: ?
Is it still the same town...?
Upon closer inspection, the eyeball-shaped camera oscillates, recording how the wooden planks of an old house are flipped inside out, eventually transforming into another house with a different shape, area, and decoration style.
And it's not just one house that's like this; all the houses in the town are changing, and even the locations of the houses are changing.
The transformation from a relatively empty town to a bustling street in a major city has been earth-shattering.
"What's going on? What kind of ghost story is this?"
"It's not some kind of ghost story; it's just that the location where the original ghost stories in the town happened has been changed to the location of another ghost story. You could call it making use of waste?"
Miss Fox explained.
"Just like the sets built in film studios, reuse is a common occurrence."
In a ghost story setting, it would be that the land was reused.
Since the participants are all teleported here or there, as long as they can evade human detection methods, basically no one will discover that they have been playing the ghost story game in the same place all along.
"Did you record the changes that just happened?"
Upon hearing this, Noelle instinctively pulled up the video recording, but the result caused her expression to change slightly.
"The video recording is corrupted..."
Without her knowledge, the video data was corrupted at the most basic code level, making it completely unrecoverable.
"That's right, I know I didn't see it wrong."
Noelle: ?
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Chapter 1364 Time and Space Administration Bureau? When did they arrive?
"Stupid fox, what do you mean?!"
Noelle asked loudly!
What kind of teammates are these? They watched others change her stats and didn't say a word. Is this on purpose?
"Yes, it was intentional."
Miss Fox nodded and admitted it without batting an eye.
"I did watch as they reached into your head and destroyed the video recordings you had stored, but I didn't do anything else."
So all they did was corrupt Noelle's video files; they didn't do anything else.
Miss Fox's inaction was taken by the other party as a friendly declaration of compromise.
"Intelligence is still at an average level."
Noelle realized that this fool was using her as bait to probe for information.
Doesn't your conscience hurt?!
Looking up, I saw a blank and confused expression on Miss Fox's face.
Fine, you have no conscience.
"So, what's the use of this information?"
"That won't work, which is why I said that TA took my action as a friendly compromise."
Miss Fox shrugged, her attitude indifferent.
She hadn't intended to test anything; she simply wanted to see if Noelle could figure it out on her own.
But in hindsight, she was overthinking it.
Noelle, the mechanical life form, was unaware that she had been tampered with.
"That spirit just now clearly had a magnetic field."
magnetic field?
"Are you sure you haven't gone crazy from studying electromagnetism and now see a magnetic field in everything?"
"It's true that everything seems to have a magnetic field, but I'm not exactly obsessed..."
Because Miss Fox was given the task of researching electromagnetism as a bonus to Colonel Chu, she neither worked nor contributed, so how could she be obsessed?
It would be a waste not to use professionals who have the expertise.
"To be honest, Noel, electromagnetic things are so important to robots, you should consider this direction."
Clapping her hands, Miss Fox opened the door to a large villa, where a group of people were lying haphazardly in the hall.
These are all players who were brought in to participate in the ghost story game.
The villa has a total of eight separate rooms, and there are seven people participating.
"Are the 'eight' and 'seven' also clues?"
“The number of rooms and the number of people are not clues.” Shrugging, Miss Fox suddenly reached into Noelle’s pocket and pulled out a set of keys.
"Because the empty room is ours."
Noelle's expression changed slightly. When?
He quickly checked where he could put his things and found an extra pen and a brand new notebook.
"The master will be away for seven days, returning only at 7:07 AM on the seventh day. The inheritance will be distributed according to his performance during these seven days..."
I remember writing in my diary every morning, which the master would check when he came back.
Food will be delivered to your room by a maid; please do not buy snacks indiscriminately.
Good children shouldn't stay in their bedrooms after 9 p.m.; it's best if they're sleeping. Nobody is active after 9 p.m.
If guests come to visit, inform them that the master is not home and do not bring them into the house.
If you have any material needs, you can ask the housekeeper at noon to arrange them; the housekeeper will try their best to meet them. (The housekeeper is quite old, so please remember to bring him a gift.)
Don't wander around outside or inside the house on ordinary days.
If you see any maids slacking off, remember to urge them to get back to work. (The maids are beautiful, but please do not touch them.)
The police are your old friends, but don't ask them for help if you need anything.
We do not have a male servant.
"above."
"That's the surface rule of this ghost story game."
Miss Fox smiled as she waved the note in her hand.
Although it involves some wordplay, it doesn't explicitly state any true or false rules.
"...According to the rules on this note, this villa should be enough for the scene, right?"
Noelle was puzzled.
Just like in the game when Miss Fox was first created, every house is useful and increases the player's margin for error.
But in this game, from the perspective of the rules alone, a large villa setting is perfectly sufficient; there's no need to create a setting in a bustling urban area.
"It's just used to hide clues and completion conditions, right? Could it be to increase replayability?"
Noelle: ......
I feel that it's not impossible.
"Well, more than that, I'd like to know how long that guy from the Time and Space Administration is going to keep pretending to be asleep?"
"Hey?"
Noelle quickly turned back to observe carefully and immediately discovered a young man in his twenties lying on the ground pretending to be asleep.
He was still pretending even after Miss Fox exposed him, but the change in his heartbeat betrayed him...
No, his heart rate is a bit off!
Noelle discovered that this person's heart rate was never normal; it fluctuated wildly, sometimes high and sometimes low. It seemed to contain some kind of melody, but upon closer listening, it was utter nonsense, like a child who didn't understand music playing the piano.
Is this the development of some kind of capability?
"No~"
Noelle glanced at Miss Fox and understood.
So this stupid fox was playing the piano with his heart. No wonder it sounded so awful; he was always doing such pointless things.
"Are you sure you won't ruin their lives?"
"That person was indeed about to die."
With his heart used as a toy, this member of the Time and Space Administration was already pale and bloodless, almost as white as a sheet of paper.
If Miss Fox continues to play this game, it won't be long before she tortures him to death.
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