Chapter 29 48h (12)

The fire engulfed the entire broadcasting room. In the thick smoke, Gu Qiufeng took out the protective shield that he had purchased in the Phoenix God copy but had never had time to use, to protect him and Yu Chiang.

During this negotiation, some players chose to trade with him, but more players were skeptical about Gu Qiufeng. They did not agree, and some even started cursing at Gu Qiufeng.

Some people want to gamble their lives, while others think it’s best to be cautious.

But no matter what, Gu Qiufeng's behavior of holding the NPC hostage to threaten them really offended all the players.

Gu Qiufeng said: "Anyway, there are already many people who want to take my life by accepting the bounty order. There is no difference between one person hating me and ten people hating me."

Yu Chiang had a complicated expression on his face: "After I leave the dungeon, I will find a way to help you get rid of the bounty."

"The Changyu Tavern is also looking forward to your arrival." Yu Chi'ang paused and said, "Shen Yubo must have told you something before he died, right?"

Gu Qiufeng said helplessly: "If you keep saying this, I will suspect that you two have colluded in advance to trick me into going to your guild to investigate."

"No." Yu Chi'ang said in a panic. He seemed to be afraid that Gu Qiufeng would suspect him. Then, the young man said expectantly, "But Changyu Tavern has a lot of information, about what Shen Yubo wants to know, about what you are looking for, and about some deep core truths of this game. Senior..."

"I really hope you can come to the Changyu Tavern."

Yu Chiang stared at him intently.

Gu Qiufeng was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help but ask: "Did we really only meet in college?"

Yu Chiang seemed to have a deep emotional connection with him, which didn't seem like something that could be developed in just one year in college.

But the short-term memory that Gu Qiufeng lost was only related to the time in college. If he had been with Yu Chi'ang at other times, Gu Qiufeng should not have no impression of him.

Hearing Gu Qiufeng's question, Yu Chiang lowered his eyes and said, "Senior, I don't know why you forgot me. Obviously..."

Before he could finish his words, the protective shield suddenly shook violently, and the crisp sound of shattering blocked Yu Chiang's voice.

Gu Qiufeng frowned: "The protection shield has expired."

The fire in the sky suddenly stopped like a fake dancer and went out in the broadcasting room filled with black smoke.

Without the protective shields, Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang covered their mouths and noses to prevent the thick smoke from entering their lungs.

The players in the surveillance video had long disappeared, which meant good news - they had entered the other world in the loop, and at least Shao Qiu Shui could be saved.

Yu Chiang walked over a few steps and opened the window of the broadcasting room. The thick smoke poured out through the window, revealing a conspicuous girl in uniform standing at the door.

Gu Qiufeng asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"

This girl was the NPC who had helped him and Yu Chiang in the archives room. After she was out of the loop, she had more free time.

The girl took a look and found that the other NPCs were still unconscious. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I saw flames all over the sky and was worried that something had happened, so I came to take a look."

"Also..." the girl said, "We seem to have entered another other world. I seem to feel that there is something extra in my memory."

Another inner world...?

Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang looked at each other, not quite understanding the words the girl used.

At this time, except for the unconscious NPC who had just been burned to death in the broadcasting room and reappeared intact, all other creatures on the campus had disappeared, as if they had been swallowed by some blank monster.

After a while, Gu Qiufeng said, "You mean, when we fell into a cycle and entered the inner world to confront the mummies, the NPCs in the outer world also experienced a cycle. This is their 'inner world'."

"I'm sorry, I just remembered this now. Every time I cycle, my memory is forcibly cleansed." The girl said, "I feel like there's something wrong with my brain because of this. I've forgotten a lot of things I should have remembered, and a lot of insignificant things are filling my brain."

She was mumbling and her face was pale.

"When I was alive, I was a student at Yucheng University." The girl said, "After I died, I came to the dungeon you mentioned for some reason. It is full of all kinds of supernatural phenomena, including myself who occasionally loses control. But in fact, before I became a ghost in the game dungeon, when I was still living in the real Yucheng University, Yucheng University had already begun to change."

"And the third level space we are in now is actually a portrayal of Yucheng University half a year ago."

Gu Qiufeng's pupils shrank slightly.

Yu Chiang immediately asked, "According to observations, the 48-hour dungeon login has only occurred in the past few months. Not many people have entered the dungeon. Based on the clearance rate and mortality rate, has anyone ever entered the third dimension?"

The girl said, "Yes. It was a female player who was in charge of me. She was very smart, and I don't know how she got herself into the third world. Anyway, when I was in this space, my self-awareness and memory were restored, and I found that this was the scene on the day of the fire at Yucheng University."

Gu Qiufeng: "Oh? This is too coincidental."

"No." The girl said, "The player asked me to remember this. She was afraid that another player would come in later, so she asked me to copy her method to get them out."

Gu Qiufeng: “?”

Gu Qiufeng turned his head and looked at Yu Chiang: "Do you think there are such kind people in the game?"

Yu Chiang: “.”

Yu Chiang: "Your description reminds me of someone."

The girl said: "She didn't tell me her name, but said that if any players don't believe her, she can tell you her title."

Gu Qiufeng was curious: "What?"

As far as he knew, only A-level players who successfully cleared a B-level copy would be awarded the title.

"Prophet." said the girl.

Yu Chiang didn't look surprised. He sighed quietly, "It's her, the prophet Duan Chouyu."

Gu Qiufeng asked: "Does this title mean that her skill is prophecy?"

"Yes, but she is a rare dual-skill player." Yu Chi'ang said with a wry smile, "She must have predicted that we would be the next players to enter, so she gave the NPC instructions. Even the fact that the girl in uniform was able to retain the memory of the previous instance might have been her doing."

Gu Qiufeng laughed and said, "A-level players seem to be a bunch of monsters."

At the same time, he pondered in his mind. According to what Yu Chiang said, dual skills might not be uncommon. At present, the puppeteer seems to have only one skill of "puppet thread". The output of puppet thread and auxiliary puppets should be the subsequent ability derived and strengthened. Shen Yubo also has only one whip. Although Yu Chiang has hidden his strength very well at present, from his tone, Yu Chiang should also have only one skill.

Both of Gu Qiufeng's skills are embodied on the cards, and the system prompt sound can only be heard by him. Therefore, even if he is broadcasting live, the audience can only see that he is absorbing the ghosts in the copy into cards and turning them into his own abilities.

But in fact, he can both store and draw cards.

The stored skills are more subtle and have more restrictions. One can only store the things in the copy that the game determines to belong to him into a blank card at a time. The things stored in the card are like being put into his backpack. He can only take them out of the copy and summon them at any time, but they cannot be used as skills by him, such as the wooden man he brought out of the first copy.

In a sense, the card drawing skill is a way to seize and devour the characteristics and skills of the copy NPC. Gu Qiufeng pays a certain amount of points to make the copy ghosts and monsters become his own, such as Feng He. At the same time, there is an essential difference between the character card and the skill card. The character card Feng He can move freely and has self-awareness. The card will only be taken back when Gu Qiufeng uses the character card skills. But the skill card is a pure skill. After the NPC is collected into the card, it no longer has a self.

He was careless and did not expect that dual skills were rare. Gu Qiufeng could only be thankful that the distinction between his two skills was not high, otherwise he would be charged with another crime of possessing a treasure.

"Senior...Senior, what's wrong?" Yu Chi'ang asked, "You seem to be in a daze."

Gu Qiufeng suppressed his expression and said with a smile: "Nothing, I'm just a little surprised by this lady's behavior. Why would she help us in the future?"

"Duan Chouyu, maybe you will understand when you meet her in the future. She is just like that." Yu Chi'ang said, "If it is any other player, we can doubt their intentions, but if it is Duan Chouyu, senior, we should be able to achieve the conditions for a perfect clearance if we do as she tells us."

Gu Qiufeng: "You know Duan Chouyu so well, is she from your guild?"

"No, we've only dealt with each other a few times." Yu Chi'ang said, "We're not very familiar with each other. I don't understand why she did this, maybe I can ask her after the dungeon is out."

Gu Qiufeng said: "Since you said so, let's listen to what message this prophet has left for us."

The girl in uniform finally spoke, saying, "When I enter this other world, I briefly recall some memories related to reality."

"Yucheng University, all the abnormalities started seven days before the fire. The higher-ups in our school found a crawling, bloody baby in the toilet. No, that's not a baby. A normal baby wouldn't be purple all over and have capillaries bursting out of its face." The girl in uniform shuddered, then said, "I don't know why the higher-ups didn't call the police. They concealed the whole thing and made up an excuse, saying that a girl had deliberately given birth in the toilet."

"That's simply impossible."

"No one can give birth to a monster!"

*

Yucheng University strictly guarded against this news.

However, the rumor about the ghost baby appearing in the toilet still spread among students.

At first, no one dared to disobey the school's order, and no one took the rumor as a real thing. Rather than the bizarre ghost baby, they believed the school's official statement to the outside world - "a female college student gave birth naturally in the toilet."

Two days later, the female college student fell from a building, further strengthening the students' belief.

"As expected, if it wasn't for violating school rules and being too scared, how could he have jumped off the building?"

Such remarks are everywhere.

Although the parents insisted that their daughter would not jump off the building, no one believed them and no one cared.

"I'm from the school student union's security department," the girl said. "We are responsible for the students' safety information. So after learning about the ghost baby incident, a lady asked me to check the surveillance."

When she said this, the muscles on her face twitched violently: "Sorry, I can't remember who that lady is."

Gu Qiufeng answered this question in his heart.

The person checking the surveillance was Shen Yubo.

"I, I felt so sorry for the elderly couple squatting at the university gate every day, and I really wanted to help them." The girl said, "So I got excited and used the name of the student union to get the surveillance camera of the floor where the incident happened. There happened to be a surveillance camera next to the women's restroom at the staircase entrance that could record people entering and leaving the restroom."

"But I found that there was a section missing from the monitoring."

The girl in uniform walked around anxiously, then gritted her teeth and called her boyfriend who was on the CTF competition team of the School of Information.

"Can it be repaired?" the girl asked, "This surveillance camera was obviously damaged by someone."

Her boyfriend said, "It should work. I'll copy it and try it when I get home."

The girl breathed a sigh of relief, then said nervously, "Whatever you see on the surveillance camera, don't spread it, or we will both be punished."

"How dare I?" the boy said, "But I'm better at cryptography and the like. I may have to ask my senior for help with data repair. Can I just not reveal the details?"

The girl nodded.

Then, the first mysterious death case occurred at Yucheng University.

"My boyfriend died suddenly the next night," the girl said in tears, "His stomach was completely dissected open, and his intestines all fell out."

When the girl arrived at the scene, she wanted to find the USB flash drive containing the surveillance video.

Her intuition told her that her boyfriend's death was related to the missing surveillance. In order to prevent someone from accidentally opening the USB drive, the girl planned to find it and destroy it.

"His roommates all knew about our relationship," the girl said. "I don't know if he had a premonition, so he asked his roommates to notify me first. I arrived earlier than the school, so the USB drive was not discovered by the school."

This death seemed to be the beginning of a series of strange events. The truth that the school had tried so hard to hide could no longer be concealed, and panic spread among the students.

"Before the school was closed, I put the USB drive into a courier and sent it to the lady. In the letter, I reminded her that it would be best not to watch the surveillance video on her own. If possible, please help us call the police for help."

That night, the girl was stuffed into the washing machine by her "friends".

Yucheng University is completely out of control.

Countless students either died or turned into monsters in human skin.

A long night enveloped the entire campus and lasted for seven whole days before it was completely burned out by a huge fire.

Later, in the game "Fatal Fall", a copy game called "48h" appeared, which was based on Yucheng University.