Chapter 41: This is an opportunity
Zhang Yuan blinked his small eyes and glanced at Yue Ran. Originally, Zhang Yuan wanted to take a look at the simple clock standing on the terrace leading from the first floor to the second floor, but when he thought of Yue Ran In the current situation, Zhang Yuan gave up this idea.
Zhang Yuan had just confirmed Yue Ran's outsider status through the system. Especially seeing Yue Ran's state just now, he probably guessed that these were some untouchable rules of this world. Well, in Sunan University It's called a taboo.
Because of information asymmetry, Yue Ran guessed the process wrong, but Zhang Yuan guessed the process correctly. However, the results of both people were the same, and they both had a tacit understanding not to look at the people standing on the first floor. The ancient clock on the terrace on the second floor.
The huge pendulum on the ancient clock made a rhythmic "click-click" sound, and two black hands, one long and one short, slowly rotated on the yellowish copper dial.
"what time is it now?"
After the system updated the task, Yue Ran was required to arrive on the fifth floor before 9:10 pm. Although the system did not say whether there would be any penalties for not completing the task, just in case, Yue Ran decided to be careful and try his best. Get to the fifth floor before nine ten.
However, because of what he had experienced before, Yue Ran no longer dared to look directly at the simple clock standing on the terrace from the first to the second floor, so that now Yue Ran could not grasp the exact time at all.
Originally, Yue Ran had no hope that Zhang Yuan could know the time. He just picked a random topic when he asked, but who would have thought that Zhang Yuan would give an inaccurate answer.
"Eight fifty-two."
Part of Zhang Yuan's tasks had been completed the moment Yue Ran woke up. At the same time, he also received a task update reminder from the system. It was also at that time that he subconsciously glanced at the two-meter-tall clock, which was slightly brass. quality dial time.
"There is one last task, to find the true identity of the party organizer. It seems that if you want to find clues to get out of this school, you still need to go to the fifth floor as soon as possible. By the way, see if you can pass through the fifth floor of the junior high school. The covered bridge leads to the fifth floor of the high school.”
The teaching building of the high school and the junior high school of Southern Jiangsu University are connected by a covered bridge, so Zhang Yuan's idea is theoretically feasible.
Although Yue Ran was a little surprised when he heard Zhang Yuan's straightforward answer, he did not question it, because regardless of whether Zhang Yuan's answer was true or false, it didn't matter to Yue Ran. What was important now was It's to the fifth floor.
At this time, Zhang Yuan had already led Yue Ran towards the second floor. At first, because of the existence of the ancient clock on the terrace leading to the second floor from the first floor, Zhang Yuan wanted to go from the end of the corridor on both sides of the first floor. He walked up the stairs, but this idea was firmly rejected by Yue Ran. Now he had a shadow of the dark and long corridors on both sides of the first floor of the junior high school. If he really wanted to walk through there, Yue Ran believed that , it is difficult for me to guarantee that I will not become crazy because of my previous hallucination experience.
So under Yue Ran's repeated insistence, Zhang Yuan finally compromised and chose to take the stairs facing the lobby on the first floor.
When Yue Ran and Zhang Yuan passed the gentle platform from the first floor to the second floor, because they were afraid of being disturbed by the simple clock standing there, they just turned their backs to it and moved to the second floor bit by bit.
"Why do teaching buildings also have fixed lights-out times?"
After Yue Ran went through countless difficulties and reached the second floor, he couldn't help but complain to Zhang Yuan.
Because most of the task has been completed and there is no time limit, Zhang Yuan seemed relatively relaxed at this time.
"Lights out? The lights in the teaching building are never turned off, whether it's the high school or junior high school."
"Huh?" Yue Ran glanced at the darkness surrounding him, seeming to ask Zhang Yuan, if the lights were not turned off, why was it so dark here?
Zhang Yuan understood Yue Ran's thoughts and added: "This is a power outage. This is the second time today."
As if to verify Zhang Yuan's words, as soon as he finished speaking, the incandescent light on the ceiling of the second floor hall suddenly flickered, and then the dim light illuminated the entire second floor hall.
Yue Ran looked at everything that happened with his eyes wide open and sighed with emotion.
"Damn it! There's really a power outage."
The incandescent lamp emits a dim yellow light, swaying unsteadily on the ceiling of the second floor hall, and the halo projected on the ground ripples regularly as the incandescent lamp sways.
At this moment, in the corridor on the right side of the hall on the first floor, a figure slowly emerged from the darkness. The figure looked at Yue Ran and Zhang Yuan with a pair of small triangular eyes wrapped in crimson mist. In the direction of leaving, he looked at the clock on the platform leading from the first floor to the second floor, and looked at the black hands slowly rotating on the slightly yellow copper dial. Then he smiled, with a mouth that could reach the base of his ears. Sharp teeth were exposed, and a large scarlet bump could be vaguely seen on the back of his neck. If Yue Ran were here, he would definitely recognize the other person immediately, and that was Mashan.
"Hey hey, hey hey, hey hey," Ma Shan's small triangular eyes narrowed into a slit, and his mouth that reached to his ears let out a proud and deep laugh, "it turned out to be a spiritual pupil, hehe, it It's mine, as long as it's here, I can break through the fog here and get out of this damn place."
Ma Shan's voice became deeper and deeper, as if the resentment that had been accumulated in his heart for many years was about to burst out at this moment.
"It's been five years. I've been trapped here for five years. I've been wandering around this school for five years. I finally have a chance to escape." Mashan, who narrowed his triangular eyes, whispered, and then he seemed to think of something again. The scarlet tongue stretched out from the mouth that could reach the base of the ears, and then licked the saliva flowing from the corner of his mouth, "If you go out from here, you will really miss the delicious food in the cafeteria."
After the words fell, Ma Shan, who squinted his triangular eyes and licked the corner of his mouth, took out a handful of white, nut-like things from the pocket of his blue and white school uniform, and then threw it in without looking at it. in the mouth.
There were quite a few nut-like things in the handful, which kept Mashan's mouth busy. Occasionally, some crumbs collapsed from the corners of his mouth and fell to the ground, falling into the dim corridor.
Through the dim incandescent light in the corridor, I could see clearly what the nut-like thing that was immediately thrown into my mouth was. It was one finger bone after another, white and slightly bloody. The pieces are still hanging on it.
On the other hand, Zhang Yuan put the micro flashlight back in his pocket, but he was not in a hurry to continue walking upstairs. Instead, he asked Yue Ran: "The teaching building of the junior high school is connected to the fifth floor of the high school. If you want If we go over there, there might be an opportunity there.”
