Everyone's crying suddenly stopped.
Everyone held their breath in perfect agreement.
As soon as the three monsters left, the space fell into darkness again.
When the eyes cannot see, the hearing becomes more sensitive.
The breathing sounds of other children in the room became more and more obvious.
They are restraining, forbearing, adapting themselves to the darkness and the monsters that may suddenly appear at any time.
If Cheng Ye now has the memory of previous games.
He could quickly deduce that these monsters were mutated from the rag dolls in the dean's office.
Those viscous liquids are more like nutrient solutions.
They kept growing and growing and their heads got bigger and bigger.
In the final stage, they turned into a four-meter ball, rolling to crush everyone.
But the dead person will come back after a few hours and lose all memory.
It's a pity that Cheng Ye didn't remember. He couldn't remember anything and could only start over, peeling off the cocoons bit by bit.
"Will you die if you are caught?" Cheng Ye thought about the reaction of the person who had just been arrested.
I feel a little too desperate.
Unless he is found, he will only die.
Tang Huan hesitated for a moment and hesitated: "No, the person who is caught will just be different from before."
He answered exactly the same as last time.
In the darkness, it was impossible to see the expression on Cheng Ye's face clearly.
Only each other's breathing could be heard.
Tang Huan's fingertips were trembling slightly, his expression was tense, and the expression on his face changed again and again.
He was afraid that Cheng Ye would find out something was wrong, and he also hoped that Cheng Ye would believe what he said.
Cheng Ye nodded slightly, as if to say that he understood, and then said softly: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"
His voice was so calm.
But like thunder in the dark night.
Tang Huan shook violently: "I, I saw it with my own eyes."
"Well..." Cheng Ye said nothing more.
The children next to them also gradually recovered from the fear just now, and they started chatting with each other.
The sound is not very clear, but those who are close can still hear it clearly.
"It's too scary. No. 033 is too stupid. He knows he can't move..."
"Yeah, as long as you don't move, it's fine. It's not the first time I've experienced something like this..."
"How long will it take to reach the target number? I can hardly stand still."
"If you can't stand still, squat down. If you want to be arrested, you can..."
…
Target number?
Cheng Ye quickly grasped the key points.
Is this game divided into stages?
Does each stage have its own target number?
"What's the target number?" Cheng Ye cleared his throat and asked.
Tang Huan looked at him in surprise.
I didn't expect that he would actually participate in the conversation between other people.
Children are not so wary: "Normally, when there are 100 people, it will enter the next stage."
After receiving the answer, Shirono showed no expression on his face.
His deep eyes were like the endless sea, with no depth visible.
Don't know what he was thinking.
The children continued to chirp.
Cheng Ye listened silently and summarized many clues.
One, this game basically draws once a week.
Second, this game is divided into stages. There are three stages in total, which are designed to test different things.
Two, this game can kill people.
Although Tang Huan just said no.
Cheng Ye thought for a while and glanced at Tang Huan from the corner of his eye.
It's just a little thought, but I don't see any harm in it.
However, the game can kill people...
This is so strange.
People will die, but the total number remains the same.
Is there someone to fill in the place again every time he dies?
…
Cheng Ye said nothing.
Tang Huan opened his mouth to say something, then closed his mouth again.
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They are in sharp contrast to their surroundings.
It was lifeless here, not a word was said.
The children next to me were chatting happily.
Tang Huan hesitated for a long time, then opened his mouth again. This time, he made up his mind: "If you have any questions, you can ask me!"
Cheng Ye turned his head slightly, glanced at Tang Huan, and said with a half-smile, "Can I ask you?"
Tang Huan's eyes were complicated: "Yes, we are best friends."
"We are not best friends." Cheng Ye denied.
Then he said softly and indifferently: "This is what you think, not what I did."
"How can you say that? We have classes together, wash together, chat together, and play games together. We are best friends. How can you say that now!?" Tang Huan's eyes were red, and he was very shocked by Cheng Ye's denial. .
He felt hurt and his emotions were fluctuating violently.
But actually he didn't know what he was feeling sad about.
"Do you really think you know me well?" Cheng Ye said with a smile.
He had a guess and wanted to verify it.
Tang Huan nodded.
Although he could not clearly see the scene in front of him, he still stared stubbornly in the direction of Cheng Yezai.
It was as if he was trying to find evidence of Cheng Ye's lies in this mysterious black fog.
Cheng Ye smiled and snorted: "But you just lied."
Tang Huan's face suddenly turned ugly.
Yes, he lied.
Anyone who is captured will die. He did not tell the truth for his own selfish reasons.
but……
He indeed saw with his own eyes that Shang Jie survived well the next day after being taken away.
This is also the reason why he is so panicked.
If Cheng Ye was captured, he might be able to come back alive.
Although he has selfish motives, he is not bad.
Tang Huan was thinking tangledly, and suddenly he realized a paradox.
why?
Tang Huan was a little confused and didn't speak for a while.
He suddenly felt that his mind was very confused. Why didn't people who should die die? But he had clearly seen a large number of people die.
why is that?
What went wrong?
Tang Huan fell into deep thought.
But at this moment, Cheng Ye raised his voice and asked loudly: "Are we always 169 people?"
It was as if to remind Tang Huan that something was wrong here.
The room suddenly became quiet.
The children were confused.
After a while, the kid next to him replied: "It seems... yes? 118?"
He bumped into 118 beside him.
118 also thought of something strange and hesitated: "Well... yes, it seems so..."
"It should be." A child interrupted: "I remember that there were 169 people in the last game."
"The beds in the dormitory have never been short of people, and the beds have never been moved out. There must have always been one hundred and sixty-nine people!"
…
With this affirmative answer.
Everyone suddenly fell into silence.
Suddenly, someone sighed:
"That would be so weird."
Yeah, that would be weird.
Cheng Ye relaxed and leaned against the wall behind him.
He listened to the discussion of the children next to him and silently repeated that sentence in his heart:
That would be so weird.
Yeah, that would be weird.
People die every time in the game, but they come back again.
"Do you remember anyone else besides me?" Cheng Ye suddenly asked Tang Huan.
Tang Huan thought for a while and told Cheng Ye about Shang Jie.
Cheng Ye pondered for a moment, then raised his voice and asked the others around him: "Do you remember anyone else besides your partners?"
The children were stunned.
Then, there was even greater panic.
In addition to the strange thing just now about why the number of people dead remains unchanged, now there is (this chapter is not finished!)
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A greater fear.
Why? After they racked their brains, the only memories they had from the past were their own partners, and at most they could remember one familiar friend. Then one hundred and sixty-nine people could not remember anyone else?
Why?
Facing the sudden silence, Cheng Ye had his own calculations in his heart.
He suddenly said: "Tell me everything you know, good friend."
His voice focused on the words "good friends".
The environment is very, very dark.
Tang Huan looked at the source of the sound. He thought about it again and again, then he stopped hiding and told Cheng Ye everything he knew.
As time goes by, Cheng Ye has more and more information.
The kids next to me were also discussing their weirdness.
For a moment, the whole room was having a heated discussion.
They forget that they are still playing a game.
Forget that this is a game of life and death.
Compared with the panic caused by the game, this helpless feeling of stepping on the void and feeling empty in the heart made them even more at a loss.
Why does this world seem different from what they remember?
The more they talked, the more intense they became.
Try to find your own sense of belonging from a sense of similarity.
Unfortunately, it's all in vain.
Cheng Ye hid himself in the darkness and listened to their conversation.
Filter out useless information and summarize useful clues.
He wants to control himself more.
Because of his peaceful mind.
A lot of useful information was sifted out from these children's conversations.
Finally, when time passed and reached a certain moment.
All the information he learned already exceeded what he got from the previous game.
At this time, the girl's ethereal voice sounded in the darkness.
"Congratulations to the third group for catching the second kid, Zhang Zizhuo from the tenth group."
"Congratulations to the third group for catching the third kid, Yue Mingde from the first group."
"Congratulations to the third group for catching the fourth kid, Zhen Haoqiong from the eleventh group."
…
"Congratulations to the third group for catching the twenty-fourth child, Ning Hongfang from the first group."
"Please hold your breath and hide carefully to avoid being discovered."
…
This broadcast is very long.
It didn't stop until 24th place.
The number of people in the first stage is 50 people.
This has been summarized from the conversation between the children just now.
Now, there are more than half of them.
Cheng Ye raised his eyebrows. Those big-headed dolls never appeared again.
This classroom was so noisy, but they never came in.
Is he really blind? Can you only rely on the vibration of the ground?
For some reason, a sentence suddenly popped into Cheng Ye's mind:
The real fog is when you misjudge your direction.
You thought you were trying to solve a math problem, but it was actually a Chinese language problem.
Just like when you are doing a physics question, the first thing you need to confirm is what exactly does it want people to ask for?
What exactly are variables?
If you judge the wrong direction from the beginning, you will go in the opposite direction and you will never find the real answer.
…
Cheng Ye suddenly approached Tang Huan, and under the weak light, the two people looked at each other.
Tang Huan was so frightened that he almost jumped up, but he still tried hard to control his body.
Cheng Ye raised his eyebrows.
This is very wrong.
A child who can obey all the rules of the orphanage, line up to wash in order, not fight or play, participate in such a terrifying game, and never move his feet even if he is scared.
This is definitely not something a child can do.
Except for the person in front of him, he just scratched the skin of a child.
No, not just the one in front of me, but also the children around me.
They are all the same, they are trapped in this orphanage for a reason.
The qualities they display are more like those who have been trained for many years to be strong (this chapter is not over yet!)
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An obsessive-compulsive soldier.
Although they have returned to the time when they were children, their ability to obey orders, observe discipline, endure, and endure harsh environments is engraved in their bones far beyond that of ordinary people.
what is it?
Cheng Ye smiled, with an innocent expression on his face: "I see that you haven't spoken a word, for fear that you would be scared and want to see what you were doing."
Tang Huan was doubtful and nodded without saying anything.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Finally, the radio station's voice sounded again.
That ethereal girl's voice seemed to come from Henggu, and it made people's scalp numb:
"Congratulations to the third group for catching the fiftieth kid, Hong Junzhi from the sixth group."
"The first number target has been achieved."
"Unlocked: Violent Witch Watch."
"Children, from now on, no one can make any noise."
"It would be very tragic to be discovered."
…
The woman in the monitoring room looked at the monitor happily.
The arrests were a little faster today.
Her doll has also grown rapidly and is now three meters tall.
But too many cubs hid in the cabinets in the teaching building.
This makes it impossible for the children to enter the teaching building, let alone open the cabinet.
but……
In the second stage, conditions have been added. As long as someone violates the rules, even if they hide in the closet, they won't be able to do it!
The fat woman was so happy that she narrowed her eyes and smiled.
She ate the potato chips in big gulps, her fingers and mouth were greasy, and there were potato chip residues in the gaps between her fingernails.
Just wait, cubs.
None of you can escape!
…
The air around him seemed to have suddenly become colder, and Cheng Ye felt his hairs standing on end, as if a sinister wind was blowing from his back.
He raised his eyebrows, something was different again.
It seems darker, and the outlines of objects become softer.
Looking at Tang Huan at this moment, he couldn't even see the general shape clearly.
The gaze of the violent witch...
Is it now that something is staring at me from all directions?
Cheng Ye smiled.
He began to think about the meaning of this game.
There is no point in letting children play this kind of game other than to scare them.
There must be a deeper reason behind this.
And I want to dig out the real secret.
Cheng Ye felt that the fog had dissipated a little, and he became clearer.
He connected the clues one by one and seriously thought about the reason for his existence.
... Could it be that in the entire orphanage, I am the only one who is an outlier?
Is this your own hide and seek?
…
Cheng Ye raised his head, with a faint smile on his lips.
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