And it wasn't until today, when I met Gu Xinghe again at St. George's University, that I finally understood.

Huang Sihui then realized that the man she had assumed was a native of the world was actually one of the players.

Noble, mysterious, and dangerous.

Gu Xinghe's past and present appearances have undoubtedly left a deep impression on Huang Sihui's heart.

Perhaps it was a kind of awe-inspiring envy, or perhaps it was a shadow that had once given her great fear.

Huang Sihui still doesn't have a good way of distinguishing between the two.

Or perhaps, she didn't even want to distinguish between them.

So perhaps it was a characteristic bestowed upon her by a great being.

Unconsciously, Huang Sihui focused more of her gaze on Gu Xinghe, hoping to get his attention back.

Even at the moment when she met Gu Xinghe again in front of St. George's University.

Huang Sihui felt a sense of destiny.

She had seen Gu Xinghe at the Golden Apple Theater before and after the play.

When she first met him, she was still a timid, insecure, and impulsive struggling individual.

But when Gu Xinghe was about to leave the theater and they met again, she had already been reborn.

Gu Xinghe was the witness to her transformation.

Even now, Huang Sihui has been called by a great being to St. George's University.

Just as she was preparing to dedicate herself to Him, she encountered Gu Xinghe again in this current instance.

It is both a beginning and an end.

Huang Sihui firmly believes that a great being has brought together all the miracles and coincidences in this instance.

She didn't want her roommate, who might suddenly return, to notice something was wrong with her.

At this moment, Huang Sihui hid under the covers, tears streaming down her face, tightly hugging her curled-up body.

...

In the afternoon, after parting ways with Luo Zhiye at the observatory, Gu Xinghe returned to the classroom to teach a class to the students.

At this moment, dressed in a black overcoat and holding textbooks, he walked through the campus, looking every bit like a professor with a truly special aura.

Back in his dormitory room, sitting at his desk, Gu Xinghe listened to the live broadcast "radio station" for a long time as a pastime.

After a while, the information was discussed by the audience through this "radio station"-like platform.

Gu Xinghe learned that Huang Sihui and Li Ruoshan, the two players, had joined the Mysterious Research Club as members.

Furthermore, many people discussed their strange behavior at the time.

Upon hearing this, Gu Xinghe half-reclined in his chair and squinted his eyes.

There is no doubt that it was the moment he saw his teammates in that instance.

Gu Xinghe then noticed the special nature of the other three players besides himself.

Concepts related to [gazing] and [eyes].

This is the commonality that Gu Xinghe observed among them when he saw them.

Before leaving the [Rose Manor] instance, Gu Xinghe noticed a strange change in Li Ruoshan—

Several eyeballs "grew" out of his arm.

Huang Sihui, on the other hand, was someone he met for the second time at the Golden Apple Theater.

Gu Xinghe noticed a strange change in the other person's eyes and that eerie inner voice.

Finally, Luo Zhiye was someone Gu Xinghe knew quite well, serving as Eris's "eyes" for observing the outside world.

Even more so, when the group met in front of St. George's University.

Gu Xinghe could also feel that these people's gazes would be fixed on him for a long time.

Even though he hadn't had much contact with these people, he instantly became the center of attention among them all.

The three of them seemed to be used to observing others and observing everything.

This strange similarity inevitably reminded Gu Xinghe of the "selection and admission system" in game instances—

That is, apart from unrestricted copies, some copies can only be entered after certain conditions are met.

For example, in dreams about past lives.

He then discovered that in the Nightmare Art Exhibition instance, his teammates from his previous life were completely different from his current teammates.

This stems from Mia's different choices when "recruiting" workers.

But now, as the "recruiting" party, why would St. George's University hire him as a mathematics professor?

And what about recruiting Luo Zhiye, Li Ruoshan, and Huang Sihui as students in the Astronomy Department?

Gu Xinghe then remembered that Field had told him about his past life, which did not include the "curse of the mathematics professor".

Unlike most previous instances where players entered randomly, this one is different.

It seems that their entry into St. George's University in this instance is not a coincidence.

Just like how Mia's different choices led to Gu Xinghe having different teammates—

In his previous life, because Mia wanted to hire exhibition hall security guards, Gu Xinghe's teammates at the time were all strong and robust.

Now, Mia wants "underground organization members" who are being discarded.

So apart from Gu Xinghe, everyone else looked pale and thin, and their survival was in dire straits.

Similarly, there seems to be a mysterious entity behind this instance, which is why the four of them were allowed to enter the university.

At this point, if we were to talk about people who have the ability to control such things—

Gu Xinghe was undoubtedly the first person he thought of was the school principal.

However, he had clearly been in contact with this principal, Holmes, and did not find anything particularly unusual about it.

Gu Xinghe was pondering again, considering the school's management power structure, excluding the principal...

Those seem to be the ten board members of St. George's University mentioned in the game's missions, and also mentioned by Field.

Gu Xinghe seemed to be deep in thought, as if he sensed some kind of danger approaching.

...

Meanwhile, in one of the trustees' offices in the administration building at St. George's University.

An elderly man dressed in serious black walked to his desk, sat down slowly, and opened the file folder on the desk.

Not all of the ten trustees at St. George's University want to get involved in managing the entire campus.

About three of them are wealthy individuals who only want to invest money in universities but rarely interfere in campus management and administration.

The elderly man in black in this office was clearly one of the three.

But regardless of whether the school board wants to exercise its share of management authority.

Out of respect, the school has reserved an office on campus for each board member.

At this moment, the old man in black made a rare appearance in his office.

He looked at the file that recorded the new mathematics professors at the school.

The file information clearly showed the words "Gu Xinghe".