The zombie-like students looked at Ji Le.
For a moment, as if some rule had been triggered, Ji Le felt like his whole body was being sucked and he couldn't breathe.
His heart was beating violently, and the blood vessels in his temples almost burst out. Ji Le held his chest, opened his mouth, and breathed heavily.
Waves of chills rose up from my spine and gradually penetrated my whole body. My vision began to blur, and my brain turned into a ball of mush.
Air……
cold……
Faced with this sudden situation, Ji Le only had these two thoughts in his mind.
Click——
Something cracked and fell to the ground.
Ji Le felt better. His lungs had air again and he was alive again. My vision begins to clear and my brain begins to function.
The whole body feels comfortable. Perhaps only by experiencing the pain of death can you understand how comfortable life is.
Ji Le found himself kneeling on the ground, leaning on the ground with his hands. Broken virtual glasses were scattered on the ground.
The thing that just broke was his virtual glasses.
He stared at the fragments of glasses, a little scared.
This place should not allow the Utopia system to intervene. If those who have installed brain terminals come in, their chances of survival are very small.
Glasses can be broken or not worn. But once the brain chip that has been installed in the brain is broken, it is not as simple as being injured. The chip in the brain is connected to the nerves of the human body and affects the whole body. Once it is forcibly destroyed by external forces, it is a trivial matter to escape the supervision of the Utopia system, and the main nerves in the brain may also be damaged.
Ji Le stood up slowly, very slowly and carefully.
He picked up the broken virtual glasses. These are quite expensive. I wonder if they can be repaired if they are taken back? Or the Sheriff's Department could get him a new pair.
Taking a peek around, the zombie-like students also noticed his gaze and looked towards him.
My heart beat suddenly and violently, and the feeling of suffocation returned.
Has the death rule been triggered again? Isn’t the rule triggering condition because of the Utopia system?
Suffocating, Ji Le tried his best to recall the situation just now.
That student just glanced at him and triggered the death rule? No, not because the students looked at him, but because they looked at each other.
So the triggering condition is not to look at these students?
But now he is not looking at the student, and the feeling of suffocation has not subsided. Does it mean that he needs to break something like last time to recover?
The virtual glasses saved him from disaster last time, but nothing could resist this time.
"Hold your breath, hold your breath!" Just when Ji Le was unconscious, he heard a voice reminding him.
He was already out of breath, but Ji Le still held it in.
"Hold it, I can't breathe until I say it's okay."
Then Ji Le felt a hand grab his arm and roughly pull him in one direction.
He was led by the man and ran a certain distance. Ji Le didn't know how far he ran. All his energy was focused on holding his breath, and his vision and consciousness were blurred.
Finally, he spoke: "Okay, that's it."
Ji Le took a big breath of air to calm down, and at the same time gradually observed the surrounding environment.
In front of him, stood a young man wearing a shirt, with dyed orange hair and a gloomy face.
And they were standing in a blind spot behind the experimental building. There was no one else here.
"Next time you meet them, pretend to be dead." the young man reminded. "No living people are allowed here."
"Playing dead? So you need to hold your breath when facing those people?" Ji Le understood a little bit.
"You have to hold your breath when they look at you, that's the rule of survival here."
"Thank you, you are..."
Only then did Ji Le look at this person carefully.
The orange-haired young man's whole body was dirty, and his arms under his sleeves were also very slender, almost skin and bones. His eye sockets were sunken, his face was sallow, and his eyes looked tired.
"I'm just an unlucky guy!" he laughed at himself. "You can call me K."
Well, this is a kind person who doesn’t want to be named.
In the box scene, the Utopia network cannot be connected, and the virtual glasses are broken, so Ji Le cannot connect to the information network of the Ministry of Public Security to find out the identity of this person.
After there was no danger for the time being, K took Ji Le to the toilet in the mathematics and physics building.
"No, do you want to go to the women's room?"
K waved his hand to let Ji Le in: "The women's restroom is relatively safer and has a better location."
There is a mirror in the toilet, but they are not visible in the mirror.
Ji Le noticed that K glanced in the mirror and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that no one was there.
Follow K to the last locked compartment.
"The innermost compartment of the women's restroom is usually a utility room. Aunts usually fill it with cleaning tools, and it has a keyhole for locking." K took out a key and opened the door.
"You're so awesome." Ji Le was a little surprised.
The cleaning tools in this small cubicle have been removed. There are a few paper boxes placed on the side as beds. Some clothes and daily necessities are hung on the wall of the cubicle. There was also a very small folding table in the corner with some water bottles and leftover cookies.
"It's a little crowded, but it's certainly relatively safe here."
Ji Le and K squeezed into the cubicle together.
K poured a glass of water for Ji Le and then took out a pack of biscuits.
"Eat something?"
Ji Le took the water and found a fiber floating in it.
"Don't eat."
K began to wolf down the remaining biscuits into his mouth. The biscuit crumbs fell on his clothes. He also stuck them up with his hands and put them back into his mouth.
"Have you been living here alone?"
"I'm not alone. There are other survivors here, but we live very scattered. Living people gathering together will attract their attention, which is more dangerous."
Ji Le glanced at his personal belongings. There was a broken backpack in the corner with some analysis reports piled on it.
"Have you been here for half a year?"
"How do you know? I haven't said anything yet." K was a little surprised. "Half a year ago, my classmates and I went on a field trip to the countryside and came here after returning to school."
"You are the group of people who disappeared half a year ago!"
"Missing? I don't know. Anyway, except for us, everyone else on this campus has the same dead look you saw. As soon as we returned to school, most of the people in the class were dead, and there were only a few of us. I'm lucky enough to have survived."
With that said, K rummaged through his pocket and showed Ji Le his broken brain chip.
"After exploration, we learned that as long as we pretend to be dead here and don't look at the dead people, we can survive. However, the terminals in the brain will still make it easier for those guys to notice us, so we privately removed these chips .”
"Several people also died while removing the chips."
