Chapter 105 Evening Study (Part 3)

A few minutes ago.

Lu Zhongnian and Jing Qiao bumped into each other on the 6th floor. When they heard the command that echoed throughout the building, it seemed to come from downstairs, so they ran straight downstairs.

When they went down to the 5th floor, they met Fu Xiaoju who was in a panic. The three of them rushed to the west staircase on the 4th floor. After the command "One, two, three, freeze", they all stood still.

...Lu Chongnian discovered that on the map of the "Polytechnic Campus Navigation" app, at a location that almost overlapped with their current location - in the middle of the west staircase leading to the 2nd floor from the 3rd floor, there appeared a landmark called "Performance Art Club Utility Room".

How could there be a storage room in the middle of the stairs?

Upon hearing this, Jing Qiao said, "Didn't Jiang Shuyue just post that thread in the group? It was about the four major campus ghost stories of the University of Science and Technology. The scarecrow in it was made by the performance art club! But many people don't know..."

Fu Xiaoju: "Oh my god, so the ghost story is really fake, right?"

The two tried their best not to move their lips when speaking, so their voices sounded strange and very unclear.

Jing Qiao was ashamed: "This is the case in reality, but now that this has appeared in the dungeon, it's hard to say..."

Fu Xiaoju was puzzled: "But aren't we playing "Statue" now? What does it have to do with the scarecrow..."

As Lu Chongnian was thinking, he suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from downstairs, accompanied by heavy footsteps, as if someone was running frantically.

At this moment, only Jing Qiao and Fu Xiaoju were shocked. They were whispering about who was so bold as to blatantly violate the rules of the game. It didn't sound like one of the friends who came here today...

When Mu Yu's voice was faintly heard downstairs, Lu Zhongnian could no longer maintain his calm.

He frowned and took a step forward, startling Jing Qiao and Fu Xiaoju.

However, nothing happened.

There was still only noise downstairs, and the monster seemed to have no intention of coming upstairs at all.

——Obviously, when two groups of players break the same rule, the monster will only attack the one that is closer to it.

With this in mind, Lu Zhongnian strode towards the middle of the corridor on the 4th floor - where there was a vending machine.

Jing Qiao and Fu Xiaoju no longer stood there stupidly, and quickly followed him.

They came to the vending machine, Lu Zhongnian exchanged a demon coin for a lighter, turned around and continued walking east.

——The noise downstairs mainly comes from the east.

However, just when he took the fifth step, something changed suddenly...

A slender black shadow suddenly appeared in front of them, blocking their way.

In an instant, Lu Chongnian showed a look of surprise, while Jing Qiao and Fu Xiaoju's hair stood on end.

...Is this the monster?

...Why did you come up suddenly?!

Lu Zhongnian lowered his eyes and lit the lighter without hesitation.

*

Right now.

The flames burned fiercely.

The two groups of people met each other across the firelight, and Fu Xiaoju subconsciously asked, "No one is dead over there?"

Hong Yang frowned: "Can you say something auspicious? We are all alive and well!"

Fu Xiaoju's mouth twitched: "No, the monster suddenly came up just now. I thought something happened to you..."

Before they could talk more, that cold voice that was indistinguishable between male and female sounded again.

"one two three--"

Everyone's nerves jumped.

"Why are you here again? Aren't all the monsters dead?" Fu Xiaoju was going crazy.

"Because we haven't caught the real 'ghost' yet!" Mu Yu ran towards them.

Lu Zhongnian stood still, and suddenly said, "The ghost should be in one of the two classrooms to my left and right."

Everyone was stunned.

Mu Yu reacted - this round of "ghost" sound did not seem to come from upstairs, the owner of this sound was on this floor!

Just now, both groups of people were violating the rules, but the monster suddenly rushed from the 3rd floor to the 4th floor. Why?

Could it be that the monster is protecting the "ghost"?

Lu Chongnian approached the location of the "ghost", which aroused the monster's vigilance, causing the monster to adjust its handling priority? !

At this moment, on Lu Zhongnian's left and right sides were classroom 405 and classroom 406 respectively.

Two new slender black shadows appeared at the east and west ends of the 4th floor. They floated up from downstairs, apparently intending to attack them from both sides.

Mu Yu shouted: "Go into the classroom!"

——Only by finding the "ghost" can the game end!

The tacit understanding came into play at this moment.

He, Lu Chongnian and Mu Chenxi turned around and rushed into 405, while Fu Xiaoju, Jing Qiao and Hong Yang rushed into 406.

A cold voice shouted: "Mu——"

The two groups searched frantically in the two classrooms.

"Damn, where is the ghost? I don't see anything!" Fu Xiaoju yelled as he ran.

"Is there one in 405?!" Hong Yang shouted.

"I didn't see it either. Go look under the podium!" Mu Yu shouted back.

"Should we leave the classroom and prepare to settle down first?!" Jing Qiao asked in panic.

Cold voice: "Head——"

There was a lot of noise in the two classrooms, and two dark shadows had arrived at... the door of classroom 405.

Mu Yu's eyes moved slightly.

The "ghost" is in their classroom!

...But now they can't identify the location by sound!

Where the hell is it?!

He bent down and looked under the podium - nothing!

Lu Zhongnian ran around the classroom, scanning the desks intently - no!

Mu Chenxi opened a storage cabinet in the corner of the classroom - nothing!

No, no, no!

Two dark shadows had bent over and entered the classroom. Their huge bodies occupied the entire space in front of the classroom, and a sense of oppression was approaching.

Huang Jiajia suddenly appeared at the back door of the classroom.

He was so frightened that he was trembling all the way here. At this moment, he held on to the door frame with weak legs, crying and shouting:

"——'Ghost', 'Ghost' might be behind this wall!"

Mu Yu, Lu Chongnian and Mu Chenxi suddenly raised their heads.

Huang Jiajia pointed at the wall at the back of the classroom!

"I, I, I was studying in this classroom just now. Woo, woo, woo, I'm not sure. When I left the classroom just now, I seemed to hear breathing sounds coming from this wall. I'm really not sure. I always thought I was hallucinating. Woo, woo, woo, woo..."

Mu Chenxi picked up a chair without hesitation, strode over and smashed it hard against the wall!

With a loud bang, the chair broke in an instant and spider-web-like cracks appeared on the wall!

——It can be smashed open!

Mu Yu immediately pulled a new chair and handed it over: "Brother!"

Lu Zhongnian stood in front of them, staring closely at the two black shadows flying towards them.

Hearing the word "brother", his brows twitched slightly.

Fu Xiaoju, Hong Yang and Jing Qiao all ran over from the next classroom and squeezed into the classroom through the back door. They stood in front of Mu Chenxi and Mu Yu as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Two slender black shadows approached them, and Lu Zhongnian calmly lit the lighter.

At the moment when the cold voice shouted "people", there was a loud bang, the wall completely shattered, and cement bricks fell down one after another.

There is a person hiding behind the wall!

Mu Chenxi reached out his hand expressionlessly and, according to the rules of the game, quickly patted the "ghost" on the shoulder.

Then he changed his gesture and pressed the "ghost"'s shoulder hard, with veins bulging on the back of his hand.

When he was about to pull this thing, who knew whether it was a human or a monster, out of the wall, Mu Yu rushed over and held him down!

Mu Yu shouted in astonishment: "Su Mingyun?!"

There is a girl in the wall.

She stood there with her body stiff and her eyes closed.

After hearing this cry, her eyelashes trembled...

In the corridor, the fire that was still burning fiercely slowly went out and the flames gradually weakened.

In the classroom, two slender black shadows had bent down deeply, but suddenly froze in place, paused for a second, and then dissipated like smoke.

Su Mingyun slowly opened her eyes.

The chaotic scene in the classroom was reflected in her eyes.

She blinked, and her eyes gradually became clear, revealing a hint of confusion.

"……Well."

"... Hello, everyone?"

*

Time, 6:40.

There are five minutes left before the second class starts.

They didn't have much time to wonder how the "ghost" could be Su Mingyun. After a quick discussion, they decided that it would be better to gather in one classroom from now on. So they dispersed and returned to their original classrooms as quickly as possible, taking all the personal belongings that they had not brought with them just now due to inconvenience, and returned to 405.

Soon, the time jumped to 6:45 and the second class began quietly.

"Damn, I'm so tired. I'm not going to have to run for my life like this in the second game!" Fu Xiaoju slumped in the chair.

Huang Jiajia sobbed, "Can't we go out?"

"That's definitely not possible. There's fog outside so how can we get out?" Fu Xiaoju stood up. "Oh, by the way, you're a newcomer and you don't know yet. Forget it, I'll tell you..."

Jing Qiao was carefully wiping Su Mingyun's face with a tissue.

Su Mingyun was forced to be trapped in the wall for a long time, and finally she got out by breaking the wall. She was covered with wall dust and cried like a little kitten.

Mu Yu was also explaining the dungeon to Mu Chenxi...

While he was sweating coldly under his brother's pressure-inducing gaze, he looked over his brother and exchanged glances with Lu Chongnian.

Lu Chongnian looked at him with burning eyes, then looked at the back of his brother's head.

Mu Chenxi turned his back to him and listened to Mu Yu calmly. Suddenly he asked, "Is your butt itchy?"

Mu Yu: “?”

Mu Chenxi looked at him strangely: "Why else are you fidgeting so restlessly?"

Mu Yu: “…”

Is he really capable of hiding nothing from his brother? !

"Brother Muyu."

Suddenly, a cold and deep voice came from the side.

Mu Chenxi paused slightly, his eyes turned and his gaze fell on the handsome boy who was walking over.

...He remembered that this was the boy who had just set fire to the first scarecrow.

Lu Zhongnian nodded and introduced himself politely: "Hello, I am Lu Zhongnian, Mu Yu's high school classmate."

"...Hello, I'm Mu Chenxi." Mu Chenxi responded and glanced at Mu Yu again.

Mu Yu coughed, came over and said with a red face: "Brother...he is my, um, very good...friend, you can just call him Chongnian!"

...rejuvenate?

A very good friend? Better than Hong Yang and Ye Sui? Then why didn’t I bring him home during the three years of high school?

Mu Chenxi raised his eyebrows slightly.

Mu Yu avoided his brother's sharp gaze awkwardly.

In order to prevent his brother from thinking too much, he quickly continued, "Well, let me introduce you to the guy over there who is a bit muscular. His name is Fu Xiaoju, and he is also my high school classmate. The two girls, the one with short hair is Jing Qiao, and the one with long hair is Su Mingyun. They are both veteran players who have participated in dungeons..."

Hong Yang stood among them, counting the number of people.

After counting, he said, "There are only eight people. Ye Sui, Li Ke, Chang Sen, Jiang Shuyue, Yan Shaowen and Zhu Zhu have all disappeared."

Fu Xiaoju raised his head and asked, "Are they all hidden in the dungeon like Su Mingyun, or are there people who were not selected in this dungeon?"

Hong Yang frowned and said, "If there is a hidden player for us to find after every class, then there can only be three more people hiding, right? There must be someone who was not selected for this dungeon."

But there are more veteran players, but a new player has entered the dungeon?

What kind of weird situation is this?

They looked towards Huang Jia's house——

There was a crack on his head bitten by the scarecrow, and a piece of flesh was missing from his shoulder. He was the worst-hit among them.

At this moment, he was crying and bandaging himself with torn clothes and cloth... and he bandaged himself very badly.

...It seems that there is nothing special about it.

After Mu Yu dealt with his brother, he calmed down and became serious.

He asked Su Mingyun: "Do you remember what happened when the game first started?"

Su Mingyun recalled: "Qiaoqiao and I were waiting for the dungeon to start in classroom 603. When we sat down, it was still half an hour before six o'clock, so we chatted for a while. I was a little nervous, so I drew on the notebook I brought..."

She said guiltily: "Because I think about scary things in my head, the things I draw are also scary..."

Lu Zhongnian asked: "What is it?"

Su Mingyun took out her notebook awkwardly.

When she appeared behind the wall, the canvas bag, books, pens and other things she brought were all on her.

The copy packed all these things up for her and took them away, but fortunately, they were not touched.

So, the "horrible" picture she drew remained in the notebook.

It was a little scarecrow made up of messy lines that looked neither cute nor ugly.

The scarecrow stretched out his "arms" and grinned at them foolishly.

Everyone:"…………"

Su Mingyun smiled awkwardly: "Then I fell asleep, and I vaguely felt like I was suffocating, but I couldn't wake up until you broke down the wall..."

Everyone was in deep thought.

The scarecrow in the first round of the game was obviously related to Su Mingyun.

Speaking of sleeping, at the beginning of the dungeon, many of them fell asleep because they were "thinking about things other than studying."

Only Su Mingyun, who drew a scarecrow, was chosen as the "ghost" in the break game...

Mu Yu asked: "Among those people who disappeared, did you notice what paintings they had drawn?"

Everyone looked at each other.

Hong Yang said uncertainly: "Ye Sui seems to have been reading a book..."

Fu Xiaoju: "Jiang Shuyue seems to be the same..."

Mu Yu touched his chin and said, "Zhuzhu was playing with his phone the whole time. Yan Shaowen was sitting behind me. I didn't see what he was doing, but he probably didn't bring any paper or pen with him."

Li Ke and Chang Sen were a group of two, with no one else with them, so naturally no one knew whether they had drawn anything before the copy started.

In other words, they had no idea who else might have been chosen as hidden players for this dungeon.

Fu Xiaoju scratched his head and said, "What can we do now? There are still more than forty minutes."

Mu Chenxi said calmly: "You can go find the monsters for the next round of the game in advance."

Everyone looked at him.

"The corner between the west staircases on the 2nd and 3rd floors is marked on the map as 'Performance Art Club Utility Room'. Last round, I stepped on a small scarecrow there. It looks exactly like..." Mu Chenxi quickly glanced at Su Mingyun's earth-shattering painting, "It's exactly the same as the one in this painting."

"So, the time in class should be the time when these monsters are active in their true form."

"By this time, the monsters for the next round of the game should have appeared."

Everybody got serious.

Mu Chenxi said casually: "As long as we can determine their true identity, we will know how to deal with them. There should be clues on the map about where they appear."

Su Mingyun whispered in Jing Qiao's ear: "Mu Yu's brother also has an offensive personality."

Jing Qiao nodded quietly.

"Well, let's look for other players while we're at it," Mu Yu thought for a moment and said, "We can split into three groups. One group will be responsible for floors 4, 5, and 6, one group will be responsible for floors 1, 2, and 3, and the remaining group will stay in the classroom."

It was finally decided that Hong Yang and Huang Jiajia would be the group that stayed behind, Su Mingyun, Jing Qiao, and Fu Xiaoju would go downstairs, and Mu Yu, Mu Chenxi, and Lu Chongnian would go upstairs.

Surprisingly, Mu Chenxi was very skeptical about this decision.

He looked his brother up and down: "Are you sure you can stay awake?"

"?" Mu Yu said as if it was a matter of course, "I can definitely hold on for a five-minute round trip, and I will pinch myself if I feel sleepy!"

Mu Chenxi and Lu Chongnian: “…” So just rely on pinching?

They left a note on the podium and slipped out of the classroom.

The corridor was still dark and the rain was still heavy.

After looking around and confirming that it was safe outside, Fu Xiaoju and the others made a gesture and went downstairs.

Mu Yu and his team first checked on the 4th floor.

Because Su Mingyun was hidden in the wall by the copy just now, this time they searched one classroom after another, approaching each wall and knocking on it to listen.

...Mu Chenxi discovered that this young man named Lu Chongnian was very respectful to him.

If the classroom door was closed, this guy would deliberately step forward and push the door open to let him go in first.

Mu Chenxi looked at him subtly, and this guy looked back at him with a cold and detached face and nodded to him.

Mu Chenxi: “…”

Diligence may be his illusion.

For example, every time he speaks, this guy will politely call you "Brother Mu Yu" first.

At first it was "Brother Mu Yu", then it became "Brother", and then it became "Brother".

...Over the years, I have met so many of Mu Yu's friends, but no one has ever been so polite.

Mu Chenxi is a little bit uncomfortable with it...

After checking a classroom, they returned to Room 405 to relax.

Then I went out and walked towards a classroom further away.

It is said that it takes 5 minutes to go back, but as the distance gets farther and farther, this time limit is actually difficult to abide by.

Mu Chenxi could hold on, and Lu Zhongnian seemed to be able to hold on, too, but Mu Yu...

Mu Chenxi turned sideways and looked at his younger brother who was checking the side wall of the classroom.

"Ayu, are you okay?"

"Sure!"

Mu Yu said this without changing his expression, but in fact he was pinching his face so hard that the flesh on his cheeks turned white.

Mu Chenxi: “…”

Lu Zhongnian was beside Mu Yu, frowning and saying, "Why don't we just go back to Room 405?"

"No, I can handle it," Mu Yu said calmly, "I was thinking, since the scarecrow has appeared in this instance, and the second floor of this building happens to have the lounge in that ghost story, could it be that this instance is based on the four major ghost stories of the University of Science and Technology? Oh, and you two may not have heard of them, so let me tell you about them."

Mu Chenxi and Lu Zhongnian listened attentively.

"The so-called four science and engineering ghost stories are -"

“…”

“…”

"……?"

They looked towards Mu Yu.

The guy fell backwards with his eyes closed.

Lu Zhongnian was startled and stepped forward to catch it.

Mu Yu fell into his arms, tilted her head, and leaned softly on his shoulder.

He opened his mouth slightly and breathed evenly, his face looking peaceful, as if he was fast asleep.

Lu Zhongnian's stiff body slowly relaxed.

He sighed softly, looking helpless.

He hooked Mu Yu's knees and picked her up by the waist. He lowered his eyes to look at her sleeping face, curled his lips, raised his head... and met Mu Chenxi's suspicious eyes, and his smile froze.

...Mu Chenxi turned around and looked at him with his arms folded across his chest.

What's going on.

It doesn't look like the way you hug your brothers.