The castle was deathly still...
The sky wasn't completely bright yet, and the entire hall was pitch black.
The faint blue light emitted by the virtual projection illuminated the faces of the ten players present. Some were terrified, some relieved, some expressionless.
The harmonious atmosphere that had developed among the players in the evening was completely shattered at this moment.
Everyone looked grave, silently gazing at each other. No one knew if the person sitting next to them was a werewolf.
Soon, the remaining ten players cast their votes...
The faint blue phantom looked around and spoke in a bland tone: <..Voting is over. Player No. 8 is eliminated!..>
The voting results were: No. 1 abstained, everyone else voted for No. 8.
The young man sitting in the No. 8 seat, who used to smile so brightly, couldn't smile anymore. His expression was extremely grim.
He opened his mouth and said, "You're all wrong–"
Before he could finish, his figure vanished from the spot, eliminated from the game.
The first day's public vote was over. The virtual projection automatically disappeared, leaving only the remaining nine players sitting at the long table, unmoving for a long time.
No one spoke. The atmosphere in the hall was even quieter than before.
"Sigh..." A drawn-out voice sounded.
The old man in seat No. 1 sighed, stood up from his chair, and walked towards the second floor with his Ninetales.
The other players got up one after another. The No. 7 girl who had spouted that analysis earlier, along with the two female players, No. 11 and No. 12, got up together, arm in arm, and left the area.
No. 4, the muscular man, hesitated for a moment. As No. 7 stepped onto the stairs, he called out to them and said, "Thank you for earlier."
No. 7 grinned, revealing a pair of small canine teeth, and gave a shallow smile, "No need to thank me."
After saying that, the group left.
The hall was now left with only Dmitri (No. 2), the suited corporate man (No. 6), Caleb (No. 9), and Clara (No. 10)...
Perhaps because they were all newcomers, Dmitri came over quite familiarly to greet them, "Hey, you're a newbie too, right?"
Caleb glanced at him, his expression unchanged as he nodded, "This is my second Instance, so..."
As soon as he finished, a light laugh came from beside him. It came from No. 10.
Dmitri asked somewhat puzzledly, "Is there something funny?"
"Nothing, you continue, newbies." Clara deliberately emphasized the word 'newbies'. After saying that, she left a confused Dmitri behind, stood up, and left with her Zoroark.
Dmitri watched her retreating figure and said seriously, "I think there's something seriously wrong with this young lady."
Caleb silently watched the other person's retreating figure. There was indeed something amiss. He had felt it from the beginning.
'Could it be that she recognized my identity?'
Caleb thought back to his memories in the Infinite World, but he had no recollection of this girl's figure appearing. The Infinite World didn't have a photo function, so he wasn't worried about his image being widely known.
Just as Caleb was thinking, Dmitri beside him said, "What do you think, could she be a werewolf? Zoroark has the ability to create illusions. I feel like if it were her, she could completely manage to kill someone silently in front of so many people."
"I think so too," the suited man agreed. After a moment's thought, he turned his gaze to Caleb and said, "Let me introduce myself, I'm Wang."
Caleb understood. The two newbies in front of him thought he was also a newcomer and wanted to team up with him.
Dmitri nodded, then pointed out, "We still don't know your name."
Caleb acted as if he had just remembered, somewhat embarrassed, and said, "I forgot to mention it. I'm Yasuo Chase. You can just call me Yasuo."
Dmitri was stunned for a moment, "Yasuo? Like the Yasuo from League of Legends?"
Caleb forced an awkward smile, "My dad gave me that name. He really liked playing that character..."
Dmitri laughed heartily and said, "Your dad sounds pretty fun!"
Caleb glanced at the second floor and said, "How about we go upstairs first? This isn't really a place to chat. By the way, you just entered the Instance, you probably don't have food, right? I happen to have a lot in my inventory."
Dmitri was overjoyed, "Thank you!"
Wang was also somewhat happy, but compared to the outgoing Dmitri, his happiness was much more restrained, "Thank you."
Caleb waved his hand dismissively, "It's nothing. We're all noobs here, so we should help each other out. If others hadn't helped me in the last Instance, I probably wouldn't have made it here."
After saying that, the three of them walked towards the second floor under the dim night sky.
Although the sky wasn't bright yet, after the incident earlier, the previous peace among the players had been broken.
There were many empty rooms in this castle. Even if each person took two rooms, there would be enough.
After returning to the room, Caleb took out a few cheap sandwiches and bottled water from his inventory and shared them with Wang and Dmitri.
He himself lay on the bed, holding Mimikyu and pretending to sleep, but in reality, he was using Night Vision to look at the map of the castle, memorizing the specific locations of the four electrical switches.
Ordinary people could repair the electrical switches.
Similarly, werewolves could sabotage them. A dark environment was more conducive for werewolves to hunt.
In this Instance, players couldn't return their Pokémon to their Poké Balls; they had to keep them by their side at all times.
Once a Pokémon lost the ability to battle, the player would be eliminated.
As for the identity of the other werewolf...
Caleb glanced at the two little newbies sitting by the window, munching on sandwiches and drinking water in the dim moonlight.
He didn't think either of them were the werewolf.
Because with those two Pokémon, a Pidgeotto and a Gloom, whose levels combined didn't even reach 50... they simply couldn't defeat any other player present.
In that case, that only left No. 1, No. 4, Clara, and the trio of sisters (No. 7, No. 11, and No. 12)...
'So who's the second werewolf?'
Caleb's mind flashed with the expressions and reactions of everyone during tonight's public vote.
However, who the other werewolf was wasn't his biggest concern at the moment. What worried him was whether there were players among the ordinary people with special abilities.
Werewolves could Duel, use Night Vision, and check the map anytime.
What about the ordinary people?
Would they have abilities similar to the 'Witch', 'Seer', or 'Hunter' in ordinary Werewolf?
The Witch could use potions to save or poison people.
The Hunter could randomly shoot and take out another player when dying.
As for the Seer; they could check the identity cards of other players to determine their specific roles.
The Witch was the first ability Caleb ruled out. This Werewolf game didn't have settings like 'When night falls, please close your eyes'.
The werewolf's killing method was also through Pokémon battles. This meant that the person being killed would definitely see the werewolf's face during the battle, unless their Pokémon was instantly KO'd by the werewolf.
Caleb didn't think the other players wouldn't realize this.
Saving someone and then confirming the identity of one werewolf through the saved person was a very simple matter. But, no one used a potion to save the two eliminated players tonight.
So the Witch ability was out. That left only the Hunter and the Seer...