In the dark night, Dong Xue's eyes penetrated him like a bolt of lightning.
...He hasn't seen such a look in his eyes for a long time.
After the World Game started, it was rare for him to see such despair and such looking forward to something.
He seemed to believe that something would definitely come true, but knew in his heart that these were just fantasies. Such a combination of rationality and sensibility, such an extremely contradictory look, was once the goal he had always wanted to pursue.
And now, he saw such winter snow.
...Although it was an NPC, it touched him deeply.
He walked out of the laboratory and walked up to the fourth floor.
Xia Luoyang's office was still the same as it was during the day, with no changes. He simply turned this person's office upside down, took down all the books on the cabinet and read them one by one, and found that they were all psychology books.
He even dug through the potted plants in the corner and dug out all the soil, but he didn't find anything special.
He didn't see Xia Luoyang either.
Maybe the teachers' dormitories were on the upper floors and those floors weren't open on the first night.
He restored his things and headed to his last destination tonight.
monitoring room.
Generally in horror games, the control room is a key point. Although it is also a dangerous point, it allows players to obtain a lot of information.
He walked to the control room and suddenly saw a flash of white light beside the door.
A small mechanical ball that seemed to be made up of small squares flew outside the door. As he approached, he felt a blue light quickly sweep across his body.
……what?
The next moment, he saw the ball suddenly glow red and seemed about to burst.
"Shua——!"
The scalpel flashed a glimmer of edge, and he quickly stepped forward and cut through the mechanical ball like tofu.
Under that knife, the red light disappeared.
As if its function was instantly destroyed, the mechanical ball that broke into two pieces fell to the ground, and everything returned to silence.
Su Mingan was originally prepared for spatial displacement, but he was afraid that this thing would blow up his clues, so he tried it with a scalpel.
He walked forward and suddenly saw a figure sticking to the door.
It was a young man also wearing a white coat. As he approached, the young man's fingers were pointed at him like a pistol, and the blue electric light on his fingertips kept beating.
But when he saw him, who was also wearing a white coat, the vigilance on the young man's face slowly dissipated.
"I didn't expect that my fellow doctor would be you." The young man did not take his hand back, but turned sideways, meaning to accept him in.
Su Ming'an recalled that during the day, he wrote down the appearance of the other twenty-nine people. The young man was number 16. He didn't seem to have any outstanding performance during the day, and he was quite decent when copying the rules and precepts.
"Do you know me?" Su Mingan walked into the monitoring room, as if he was not afraid of the young man's gesture like a gun.
When he walked in, he saw that the young man's other hand was still lighting a cigarette.
"Number 30." The young man smiled, tapped the cigarette with his fingers, and the ashes fell: "...the number one player, Su Ming'an."
"The first player is downstairs." Su Mingan pointed in the direction of the impostor's room.
"No, there is no first player who is pushed against the wall and beaten."
"It's hard to say, what if someone is in shadow state?"
"call……"
The young man blew out a puff of white smoke.
Through the escaping smoke, Su Ming'an could see the extremely obvious dark circles under the other party's eyes, his face that was too pale under the dim light of the monitoring room... and the bloodshot eyes.
The opponent's sanity value may not be too high.
"So I noticed it." The young man smiled and took a puff of cigarette.
wisps of white smoke floated out of the bright orange cigarette butt. He drooped his eyelids and looked slightly tired: "...it doesn't feel right."
"Feel?"
"How you feel about the number one player." The young man pointed at him: "He is not, you are."
Su Mingan laughed and passed him to see the scene in the monitoring room.
He has discovered that there are three dangerous mechanical balls floating in the monitoring room. The previous one should be responsible for vigilance, and the three indoors are the player's attack methods.
The screen in the control room was bright, and there was a laptop next to it. There were codes and progress bars on the screen that he couldn't understand, and it seemed that automatic calculations were being performed.
The young man heard Su Mingan indirectly admitting his identity and followed him in.
"This is the control room of this crappy place, the only place where you can connect to the Internet." The young man tapped his fingers on the desktop: "I have to describe the internet speed of this crappy place - it's simply the shittiest place I've ever seen. .”
"This laptop is?"
"My props are also considered skills." The young man said: "My fellow doctor, you may not know yet. During the clearance process, in addition to absolute force, there are some auxiliary skills that tend to decrypt. In some cases, Extremely effective.”
Su Mingan glanced at the computer screen. It was full of dense white codes, and the cursor kept flashing like a wriggling ant.
"Computer skills?"
"No, in this regard, it's just personal wisdom." The young man smiled: "My previous career was not very visible, but it has worked wonders here - that wonderful laptop is my skill. Part of it.”
The young man leaned against the door, as if he was going to be completely trapped in the darkness, and sighed: "...although I think this game is similar to a kind of torture."
... Use the method of dividing the crowd, the method of calculating class with points, the method of driving him crazy.
And he didn't even have room to resist.
Although he has begun to gain strength in the game and is quite ambitious, he misses the original blue planet all the time, although in the end he can only be forced into a small corner by so many black shadows.
...just like now.
Facing the world-shaking figure in front of him, he understood the fact that he and the person in front of him had become "teammates", and lit another cigarette.
Only nicotine can briefly wake him up.
"It takes a while to decode... To be honest, sometimes, I am shocked by the unscientific skills provided by this world's games." The young man looked at the computer screen that kept tapping out white symbols: "The things it cracks , actually even I can’t understand it at all.”
"The skills provided only let you know what you can use, and will not give you room to learn and improve." Su Mingan said: "Don't think too much... Acting in accordance with the established rules is what players should do."
He walked to the screen and looked at the picture on the surveillance camera.
The surveillance is divided into six scenes, the corridor on the first floor, the corridor on the second floor, the large classroom on the third floor, the canteen and laboratory on the third floor, and an outdoor scene.
Su Mingan reasonably suspected that this person had seen him coming up a long time ago.
He deliberately placed a mechanical ball outside, probably just to test his skills.
His attention was attracted by the outdoor surveillance, and he saw a forest scene with a gurgling stream.
"Where is that?" he asked.
"I don't know, it's probably outdoors." The young man blew out smoke rings: "It's a mental hospital. It's a correctional institution. There should be some outdoor space. Maybe we can see it in a few days."
Su Mingan nodded, and after confirming that there was nothing special about this monitoring room, he was about to turn around and leave.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Seeing that he was about to leave without even the slightest intention of exchanging clues, the young man took a step forward.
"Go back to sleep." Su Mingan said.
"...Don't you have any students to be executed tonight?" The young man raised his eyebrows.
"He is not guilty, why should I punish him?"
"I'd rather kill the wrong person than let him go."
"Then I will be the first to report you, negligent doctor." Su Mingan stepped out.
"Wait."
Su Mingan heard shouting from behind.
The next moment, he saw three mechanical balls emitting blood-red light floating in the air. They rotated and joined together in a square pattern, and quickly stretched out a black muzzle, aiming at him.
Su Mingan laughed: "You want to do something to me?"
"No, I still have some self-awareness." The young man shook his head: "It's just that someone asked me to do something for you if I meet the number one player. I didn't expect that I was pretty lucky this time. I really met him. You...then I must entrust him to me to complete the matter."
"What to do?"
"Let me...tell you a story."
Su Mingan turned around and became interested: "Story?"
"He said [this story must be heard by the first player, and the first player must tell his thoughts after listening]." The young man raised his hand: "I was forced to this point by him, not because I personally want to tell you a story - —It is said that these are stories from his hometown that he carefully selected for you to listen to."
"……you say."
"[A long time ago, there was a boundless sea, and a family of mermaids lived in it...]" The young man took a breath and began to tell.
"[One day, the crew went to sea and the ship passed through that sea area.]"
"[The beautiful mermaid princess fell in love with the handsome captain. She confessed her love to him, but he rejected her.]"
"[The captain said that he will lead the crew to sail far away, to see further places, to more and bigger docks, and to bring gold, silver and jewelry back to his country. He cannot stop here.]"
"[But the mermaid princess said that she can give them the largest pearl on the seabed, the most beautiful coral, and precious treasures they have never seen before, so that they don't have to work hard anymore.]"
"[Tempted by the honor of promotion, the crew persuaded their captain: Stay, look at how beautiful the princess is.]"
Su Mingan laughed at this time.
He probably knew what kind of story it was.
The young man continued speaking, seemingly very seriously.
However, his tone was very dry, as if he was reciting the text word for word. It was more of a helplessness when he was forced to tell a story, without that kind of emotional involvement:
"[The captain hesitated.]"
"[At this time, the princess said that she could allow them to return safely, give them the treasures on the seabed, and let his crew enjoy all the glory and wealth.]"
"[She can even pray to the sea witch and ask the sea witch to cast spells to protect their country - from now on, ships passing here will have smooth sailing and will no longer suffer from wind and rain.]"
"[Looking at the eager eyes of the crew, the captain agreed for the sake of his country.]"
"[The ship was filled with precious treasures from the bottom of the sea, the crew sang and danced, their sails were raised, and they returned home with countless laughter and laughter.]"
"[From then on, their country gradually prospered, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and everything flourished.]"
"[And the crew members living there also enjoyed countless glory and wealth, and lived happily ever after.]"
"[They are called great pioneers.]"
"[Their king used the jewels in exchange to be kind to the people and became a wise king in the eyes of the people.]"
When the young man said this, his eyes were extremely calm.
The surveillance screen behind him lit up, and his cigarette was now burning to the end.
"My story is finished."
He exhaled, white smoke swirling in front of his eyes.
The mechanical ball suspended in the air retreated silently, and the entire corridor on the fourth floor fell silent.
Su Mingan moved slightly, and there was a harsh sound under his feet.
"Are you done?" He said, "No."
"No, the story ends here." The young man looked at him seriously. "The owner of the story, please ask me to tell it to you, Burris. I hope to hear your thoughts after listening to it."
"It's not easy for you to be asked to tell me such a story."
"Entrusted by others." The young man said, "Can you tell me your thoughts after listening to me, so that I can relay it to you? My fellow doctor."
Su Mingan was silent for a moment.
The barrage rolled into one in the upper right corner, and people held different opinions:
【...What does this mean? Tell a fairy tale specifically? 】
[This story is not good, it has no climax, no turning point, no beginning and no end, zero points for composition! 】
[The classic fairy tale love story of a mermaid and a crew member...but with some exchange of interests mixed in. 】
[I seem to have heard of Burris's name...in the World Forum. It is said that Zhai Xingshang was a famous Romanian sculptor before. 】
[(What are you doing?) Without sleeping well or exchanging clues, the two of them are discussing fairy tales. A gathering of Riddlers? 】
[What is this metaphor for? I seem to vaguely understand...]
"The story is not finished yet." Su Mingan said, "Maybe it's because the unfinished part of it seems less important."
The young man looked at him quietly, drawing a screen with his hand, as if recording his words.
"The captain in the story, his ending is no longer important." Su Mingan smiled, with a slight upward hook at the end of his words.
"...After all, everyone has been happy."
"Yes." The young man said, "Burris told me that if the first thing you pay attention to is [Captain], you can listen to the whole story."
He pulled the burned cigarette butt into the backpack compartment and told the unfinished story:
"[The handsome captain was left in that sea area, accompanying the mermaid princess.]"
"[But the young princess doesn't understand one thing.]"
"[The captain is a human being. Human beings need air, but humans cannot breathe in the sea.]"
"[The mermaid princess took the captain into the sea. The captain was struggling for life and wanted to surface.]"
"[But the mermaid princess doesn't want him to go.]"
"[She pressed his head and pushed him into the water, forcing him not to run away.]"
"[Soon, the captain stopped struggling.]"
"[The captain drowned.]"
"[In his last moment, he was thinking about the big ship that sailed away safely, and the jewels on board that could change a country.]"
"[His crew became great pioneers, and his king became a wise king who will be remembered throughout the ages.]"
"[But he was buried in the sea, and no one knew except the mermaid princess crying for him.]"
"[His crew buried their history of betraying the captain, disguised themselves as victors from the expedition, and became the objects of love among the people.]"
"[They are not ashamed of it.]"
…
"[Everyone is saying that this kind of story deserves to be recorded in history.]" The young man lit up his third cigarette, took a slow drag, and looked at him: "What do you think after hearing this? Player number one.”
