Weirdness is coming: Chen Mu Nugui started with trillions of ghost coins

Chapter 1460 must not be opened!

As Chen Mu said this, Xiao Ye and Hong Wenli had already thought of the rule Chen Mu mentioned.

Rule 2: It is forbidden to pry into customer privacy or view [letters] without authorization. If a [letter] is opened without permission, the person associated with it will die.

Looking at it this way, the reason for Lin Shanshan's death is quite obvious.

Someone opened the letter without permission, and Lin Shanshan's name was written on the seal of the letter.

Therefore, the "corresponding person" naturally refers to Lin Shanshan.

Someone secretly viewed the letter, which led to the death of the person in question, Lin Shanshan.

Xiaoye scratched her head. "But I remember very clearly that none of the four of us opened this letter."

During the bizarre mission, Xiaoye remained in an "invisible" mode, always following behind Chen Mu and rarely offering her opinions.

However, Xiao Ye wasn't slacking off. He was acting as an observer, silently watching the situation and monitoring the actions of other players for Chen Mu.

According to Xiaoye's observation, Hongwenli never touched the letters again after the initial contact.

And then there's Lin Shanshan herself; the letters were always in Lin Shanshan's possession.

Lin Shanshan was even less likely to open the letter. After all, if something really happened, she would be the most likely to die, and she wasn't about to commit suicide.

Xiaoye also followed Lin Shanshan, but she really didn't have a chance to open the letter.

Moreover, Chen Mu was present when it was finally handed over, and he noticed that the letter was indeed sealed intact.

Therefore, all things considered, from beginning to end, from the moment the letter left the mailbox until it was delivered to the recipient, no one opened the letter.

So why did Lin Shanshan still die?

Hong Wenli suddenly realized something, and slapped his forehead. "I remember now! We overlooked the rules!"

Chen Mu and Xiao Ye both turned their heads to look curiously.

Hong Wenli wasn't a complete novice either. Having survived in the bizarre apocalypse for a while, although he hadn't seen as many big scenes as Chen Mu, he was still considered a mid-level player.

At this moment, Hong Wenli also regained his composure. Following Chen Mu's line of thought, he carefully studied the rules and actually discovered a detail!

Hong Wenli said, "You two, look at what Rule 2 says—it's forbidden to pry into customer privacy, and it's forbidden to view [letters] without permission. If a [letter] is opened without permission, the person in question will die."

"You two read this carefully, do you notice anything unusual? There's one word that's been repeated over and over!"

Chen Mu pondered for a moment, "You mean...without permission?"

“Mr. Chen, you’re really clever. I thought you were going to say ‘letter’,” Hong Wenli said.

"That's right, we have been paying attention to the letters, but we overlooked the word 'privately'."

Opening a recipient's email without their consent is unauthorized.

Chen Mu frowned slightly. "You mean, that bald guy?"

“That’s right! That’s exactly it!” Hong Wenli said, “After you two handed the letter to the recipient, did the recipient not open it?”

Chen Mu nodded. After Lin Shanshan handed the letter to the recipient, the bald man appeared behind them with a boning knife.

It was at that moment that Xiaoye arrived just in time.

Chen Mu and Lin Shanshan seized the opportunity to escape and quickly fled the cellar.

Chen Mu said, "You mean we only delivered the letter to the recipient, but the recipient didn't open it, so we violated the second rule?"

Hong Wenli nodded, "Yes, this is the real cause of Lin Shanshan's death!"

After we left, the bald man killed the recipient. At that time, I had good reason to believe that the recipient hadn't even had a chance to open the letter.

When the bald man killed the recipient, he saw that the recipient was holding a letter.

From a normal person's perspective, the bald man would definitely be unable to resist opening the letter to see its contents.

You two think about the timing. The time it takes for the bald man to kill the recipient is just the right time for us to run out of the yard and run along the mountain road to the village entrance.

After the bald man killed the recipient, he reached for the letter and opened it.

This time difference matches perfectly!

This perfectly explains why Lin Shanshan only died when they reached the village entrance. The time difference was the time it took for the bald man to open the letter without permission.

Chen Mu frowned in thought, and Xiao Ye couldn't help but ask, "The boss just said that the delivery failure and Lin Shanshan's death are two separate things. That does explain Lin Shanshan's death, but why did the delivery fail...?"

Hong Wenli said, "Isn't this even more obvious? The bald man opened the letters we delivered without the recipients even reading them, which made us violate a postman's code of conduct."

Delivery failure is not to be expected.

I knew it! This delivery mission was so uneventful, without any real difficulties.

So we were lazy! We actually bypassed that toughest bald guy, the cannibal and psychopath, without even engaging him!

They even delegated the task of dealing with him directly to the recipient.

I've done two or three weird missions, and I've never encountered one where I could bypass the boss.

I've heard that in such situations, it's usually a trap. We fell into a trap, saving ourselves some trouble in the short term, but the delivery failed as a result.

Hong Wenli's analysis made sense. After listening, Xiao Ye didn't say anything, but looked at Chen Mu.

Xiao Ye was waiting for Chen Mu's instructions, and he trusted Chen Mu's judgment more.

Chen Mu nodded slightly and said, "From what we can see, this explanation is indeed quite reasonable. We must not let anyone else open the letter; this was indeed our oversight."

In short, the same mistake must not be made again on the next delivery.

As they were discussing, a countdown timer appeared in front of each of them:

Please send the next letter as soon as possible.

Countdown: 00:00:60

Sixty seconds left!

The design of the eerie scene was surprisingly compact. Only three or four minutes had passed since Chen Mu and his companions returned.

From this perspective, the player was only given five minutes to catch their breath during the two delivery trips.

Within five minutes, players not only need to receive the letter and affix the stamp, but also need to complete other tasks such as reviewing the game and making plans.

Chen Mu had rarely seen such a tight schedule.

Judging from the timing, the difficulty of this bizarre scene is clearly not low!

Perhaps, as Hong Wenli said, in this highly challenging and bizarre scenario, players shouldn't try to save time by skipping the steps of dealing with the bald man.

This seemingly skippable mini-boss is actually a trap deliberately set.

Once players try to take an easy shortcut, they unknowingly fall into a trap.

This eerie scene seems rather sinister and sinister...

"Let's not delay, let's go get the second letter," Chen Mu said.