Chapter 24 School for the Blind

Dark clouds obscured the moon, making the already dimly lit corridor even darker.

"Ten years ago, I lied to you. I shouldn't have lied to you..."

"You actually love me, and you disappeared only because I lied to you, so you want to punish me, right?"

"I already know I was wrong. I have waited for you for too long, twenty years..."

"Please, don't leave again..."

Xu Zhiyan had his back to the door and heard the voice of the adult Bai Jin coming from inside. The other party seemed to be very annoyed and self-blaming, and was anxious to explain, fearing that he would leave.

But his few remaining consciences were only touched for a moment.

Not only did he not respond, Xu Zhiyan didn't even turn around.

He lowered his head slightly, listening to Bai Jin's words behind him, wondering what he was thinking.

But Bai Jin inside the door was still urging him, apologizing constantly, saying that he already knew he was wrong and hoped Xu Zhiyan could come in. He would never do anything to make the other party unhappy again.

"Please, don't leave me again."

The pleading in Bai Jin's voice almost overflowed out the door.

"I don't want to be alone anymore, I want to be with you forever..."

These desperate expressions of love did not make Xu Zhiyan feel loved. Instead, they were like death warrants, making his scalp tingle.

Why does Bai Jin appear here?

Did this guy really wait for him for another ten years... No, that's not right. The time in the copy is fluid. As long as Bai Jin lives here, he has to wait.

Whether it is waiting for the copy to be reconstructed or waiting for the players to arrive.

The barrage was now divided into multiple factions.

Some empathetic and kind-hearted viewers shed tears of sympathy for Bai Jin's miserable situation.

[Wow, is this a little boss inside? What a pitiful child.]

[Tsk tsk tsk, Xiao Baiwan is so irresponsible like a scumbag! ]

[Yes, isn’t Xiao Baiwan a bit too bad? Come in and hug him! This little BOSS is so miserable, he’s almost turned into a wild vegetable spirit! ]

[Ahh, this is the first time I feel sympathy for the boss in an escape game! !]

[+1 to the above, this BOSS is too miserable! ]

There are also a large number of people who have been tortured by the dungeon boss or are very dissatisfied with the game itself and have expressed their opinions.

[Have you never seen a boss kill someone? ]

[There are still people in this world who sympathize with the boss? What are you thinking! When the boss crushes your head, you don’t feel sorry for him anymore! ]

[Well done! We should make the boss suffer a fate worse than death! ]

However, most people consider the issue from the perspective of copies, and some big guys with rich gaming experience have expressed their views.

[…This dungeon has been upgraded, but the boss hasn’t changed? Oh no! Some of you have seen this, hahahahahahaha]

[After defeating this BOSS for the second round, he turned black and became ten times stronger. I advise you to sympathize with Xiao Baiwan instead of the BOSS. ]

[Hey, little goldfish in the barrage, use your little brains, how could a boss who could hide in Xiao Baiwan’s dormitory as soon as he came back be a good person? ]

[Has Xiao Baiwan already noticed something is wrong? ]

Xu Zhiyan in the corridor didn't dare to enter the door, he didn't even dare to look back.

After hesitating for a moment, as if he had figured out a plan in his mind, he took a deep breath and slowly turned his head.

"Who are you? I have never heard your voice before."

Try playing dumb first!

The bedroom was quiet for a moment, and then the voice of young Bai Jin was heard: "It's me, you, don't you remember me? You asked me to get the car keys and leave."

After failing to play dumb, Xu Zhiyan did not relax after hearing the familiar voice, but became even more nervous.

Being able to modify sound at any time is no longer within the scope of normal humans.

When a dungeon boss starts showing off his power without any disguise, it means there is not much room for negotiation.

Sure enough, the dead end I had set up before was only a temporary problem? Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise, if I had waited in there for ten years, the flowers would have gone cold and other players would have found his urn!

Xu Zhiyan was frantically thinking about what to do.

Should he yell at Bai Jin, 'Even if you get my body, you can't get my heart?'

Damn it! How shameful!

Moreover, it is difficult to use the same method twice on the same person. Similarly, if he plays the same emotional card twice, it will only anger the other party.

What's more, Bai Jin's current state seems to be mentally unstable. Let alone getting his body, I'm afraid getting a corpse would be fine!

The course of events became strange, and the audience in front of the barrage suddenly realized what was going on.

[Oh——Yandere Boss fell in love with me~]

[Xiao Baiwan is really miserable. In order to let him make another choice, the boss reconstructed the copy from ten years ago and arranged all the characters in the plot again. When the boss did all this, didn't he know that he would have to wait another ten years if he went back?]

[A warm reminder here, although the yandere is sweet, don’t drink too much! If you encounter this in real life, please call the police immediately!!!]

[These two have eight hundred tricks in total... (Run fast.jpg)

[The boss is taking advantage of Xiao Baiwan's soft heart. Fortunately, our Xiao Baiwan seems to be heartless! (Proud.jpg]

[I am dying of laughter, hahahaha]

[Little Millionaire: You want to take advantage of my conscience? :) Sorry, I don’t have this thing! ]

The two exchanged two rounds of verbal exchanges.

Bai Jin in the room found that Xu Zhiyan seemed to have noticed his intentions. He remained silent and didn't say anything more.

Xu Zhiyan simply gave up the idea of using words to fool... and influence the boss Bai Jin.

Suddenly, all the dormitory doors along the entire corridor opened at once.

Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but move a few steps to the side, fearing that these doors, like the abyss of Room 603, would drag him in.

Bai Jin's voice sounded again.

"I know what you're looking for, you just have to choose the right door..."

He seemed to be trying his best to show his abilities, and still longed for Xu Zhiyan to love him and be with him.

Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat.

Bai Jin once used his eyes that could see the future to lead him to find a safe house in the past, so what the other party is talking about now should be the safe house in the current copy!

Turning his head to look at the rows of almost identical doors, Xu Zhiyan retracted his gaze and called up the task panel.

[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]

[Progress: 80%]

Sure enough, the task progress increased!

This means that the copy safe house is nearby.

Correspondingly, the higher the progress, the more dangerous it is. Unlocked safe houses cannot choose the initial landing point and will automatically be placed in or near the most dangerous scene.

The entire sixth floor was too large to see at a glance. There were at least twenty or thirty doors within his sight.

Perhaps because he didn't want to give Xu Zhiyan more time to think, Bai Jin's voice was hoarse and low, and it was somewhat different from before. It was full of temptation and seemed to be able to cause some mental attack on people, making Xu Zhiyan a little dazed.

"I have waited for you for too long. If you are willing to love me, I will tell you which is the right door..."

"If you are willing to love me, then I will give you everything I have..."

Xu Zhiyan seemed to be bewitched by the voice and staggered two steps towards the door. Just as he was about to reach the door of 603, the white bones on the back of his right hand suddenly felt hot, and the slight pain made him sober up instantly.

Looking at the door which was only one step away, Xu Zhiyan felt his heart beating wildly and cold sweat was running down his back.

Stroking the back of his right hand, he took a few steps back, breathing heavily, and felt a little more at ease.

First of all, Bai Jin cannot leave this door.

Although I don't understand why, it is probably related to the game system's previous mention that 'BOSS also needs to follow rules'.

The rules set in the game, if used properly, will not only not cost you your life, but will also become a protective umbrella for players!

The back of my right hand felt cold.

He touched the hard white bones that did not belong to him, pursed his lips and thought about what to do next.

The strength of his hand bones is limited. If Bai Jin speaks again, he may not be able to resist.

However, through this test, he guessed that Bai Jin's language bewitching mental skill should have an interval between uses, or it should require a reading bar to prepare, otherwise he could just keep saying it instead of intermittently.

He felt that he still underestimated the 2.0 version of Bai Jin. If the Bai Jin ten years ago just wanted to pursue another answer, then the Bai Jin now has completely become a madman.

While Bai Jin didn't speak, Xu Zhiyan no longer hesitated and quickly walked towards the stairs.

As for the safe house, he will come to find it when he is sure.

A faint chuckle came from behind me.

But he walked so fast that he couldn't tell whether it was Bai Jin's voice or an illusion created by his own trance.

After leaving the sixth floor, Xu Zhiyan quickly opened the game panel and tried to ask the game if he could tell the BOSS more information, such as the fact that he had already tied with the other party in the first round.

[No matter what the player says to the NPC or BOSS, it will not change the current situation. Please take care of yourself. ]

"What?" Xu Zhiyan frowned.

Looking at this line of hint, he thought of a more terrifying possibility... Could it be that Bai Jin knew everything about the first round from the very beginning?

If he really died, then why was he still alive to play the second round after the first round?

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Xu Zhiyan was extremely upset.

The game system probably doesn't want players to indulge in the aspects related to love with the BOSS, so it actively gives prompts.

[Tip: Low-level/intermediate-level dungeons do not require players to kill the BOSS. Players are advised to complete the game tasks as soon as possible to avoid delaying the new game progress. ]

After seeing the prompt, Xu Zhiyan's heart finally calmed down a little.

He has not received any BOSS-related tasks yet, and he has already finished the dormitory game that requires entering Room 603, so he doesn't have to go back to the dormitory.

If Bai Jin doesn't chase out, other tasks can proceed smoothly.

At that time, as long as the task is completed, he can escape from the game.

Just as he went down to the third floor, Xu Zhiyan looked at everything in front of him and realized why Bai Jin was laughing.

The other party had clearly predicted that he would not enter the room honestly, so they had already set up traps. The entire hall on the third floor was filled with monsters.

Those monsters looked just like the monsters in the previous dormitory game, rotten and gray, with the smell of death.

In a corner nearby, sticky red flesh sand was constantly breathing in and out, and as if it had life, it grew several soft, finger-thick trunks, which were connected to eyelid tissue, blood vessels and scraps of flesh. At the end was a huge black and white eyeball, blinking quietly.

The audience in the barrage probably didn’t expect the game between the two to be so complicated. They analyzed wave after wave, and finally started to give up.

[No, no, my CPU is going to burn out, someone come save me, I need a class representative to calculate the relationship between the two. ]

【I’m here! 】

[At the beginning, the boss pretended to be a weakling and deceived Xiao Baiwan, then Xiao Baiwan deceived the boss with his own yo-yo. Now the boss has waited for ten years to deceive Xiao Baiwan again. Did Xiao Baiwan see through the boss's trick? ]

[What the above person said is right. The boss predicted that Xiao Baiwan would see through his plan, so he used a room that looked like a branch line as a lure and arranged monsters to block the road in advance...]

[Got it, I predicted that you predicted my prediction? ]

[Is there a blockage upstairs? What the hell?]

[Okay, okay, so who can tell me why these two, who were in a pure love relationship in the first round, started to change to a love-hate relationship in the second round? 】

[…Because after regaining memories, one of them has no conscience, and the other is in love.]

[I don’t know who to feed the wild vegetables in my hand]

Just when Xu Zhiyan was at his wits' end and was planning to find another way out, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in the corner of the monster pile.

Strangely twisted limbs grew out of the cracked back, pressing the body carrying the limbs deeply to the ground, making it kneel down.

It’s the season of music.

And just as Xu Zhiyan looked over, the monster-like Qu Ji also raised his head.

There were no pupils in those originally gentle eyes. Only the whites of Qu Ji's eyes were left. He was in a daze, and his whole body seemed like a pile of unconscious rotten meat, piled up with the other monsters like a blocking wall of flesh.

Xu Zhiyan finally understood why Qu Ji was so timid and said that it would be better not to meet in the future when they parted.

So the other party already knew that after completing the set task, he would turn into an unconscious monster again?

Shaking off the thought of rushing over to take Qu Ji away, Xu Zhiyan did not dare to act rashly.

This dormitory building is already Bai Jin's territory. If the other party knew that he wanted to rescue people at this time, it might bring even greater trouble to Qu Ji.

After taking one last look at Qu Ji, Xu Zhiyan turned and left.

Damn, I still have to argue with a psychopath.

Back on the sixth floor again, Xu Zhiyan simply sat cross-legged in front of the door of Room 603.

As a person with weak physical strength, climbing up and down the stairs is too tiring. He would be exhausted if he had to go back and forth to find the exit!

"Bai Jin, let's make a deal."

"I think our relationship can be eased and adjusted. There's no need to fight to the death, right?"

Xu Zhiyan spoke frankly and lured the other party into taking the bait.

"Compared to a cold corpse or a box of ashes, I think I am better as a living person. To be frank, I am actually very interested in you."

“…”

There was no answer from inside the dark door.

Bai Jin, who has been waiting for Xu Zhiyan for twenty years, knows clearly that the person in front of him is full of nonsense and heresy.

But...but what the other party said now was indeed very tempting to him.

Does Xu Zhiyan really want to understand him?

Seeing that the other party did not respond, Xu Zhiyan was not annoyed.

He wrapped his clothes tightly, changed his position, leaned against the wall, revealed a trace of fragile fatigue, and spoke with a sigh.

"To be honest, everyone is very tired after doing this."

"But feelings are not something that can be expressed with words. You keep saying that you like me and want me to love you."

He lifted his hair, revealing the teardrop mole under his eye, half-closed his eyes, glanced inside the door, and continued.

"Then do you know what I like to eat? What books do I like to read? What music do I like to listen to?"

Although Xu Zhiyan didn't want to be an emotional cheater in his heart, he suddenly felt justified when he thought that the other party was not a good person either.

All should be done to eliminate harm for the people.

If I don’t go to hell, who will?

After a brief silence, the prey finally took the bait.

"You...what kind of food do you like?"

Bai Jin's slightly doubtful voice came from inside the door.

It was so tempting for him to be able to understand the real Xu Zhiyan!

Ah, I'm shaking with excitement just thinking about it!

Xu Zhiyan raised the corners of his mouth, put on his signature smile, and suggested: "Well, let's exchange questions."

"I'll ask you a question first, and then you ask me another one." He lowered his head and said shyly, "I also want to know more about you!"

"Okay." Bai Jin answered quickly this time.

Seeing that the other party agreed, Xu Zhiyan did not waste any time and immediately started asking questions.

"Since you are a dungeon boss, are there many rules and restrictions? Speaking of restrictions, do they apply to all monsters in this building? What are the specific restrictions?"

After saying that, Xu Zhiyan added: "If you can't answer it, you don't have to answer it! By the way, that just now counts as a question."

Bai Jin is now eager to know about Xu Zhiyan. Although the other party has said so much, he feels like he has been fooled.

But he changed his mind.

Anyway, Xu Zhiyan is so smart that even if he doesn't tell the other party this information, the other party will know it sooner or later. But if the other party doesn't tell him about those preferences, he will never know them in his life.

"...As the player's mission progresses, my restrictions will be gradually lifted. If too many unauthorized things happen, the system will take compulsory measures. The same goes for other monsters."

After answering, Bai Jin couldn't wait to ask: "What kind of food do you like to eat?"

"Sweets." Xu Zhiyan answered crisply and immediately moved on to the next question, like a cold and ruthless questioning machine.

"I told other players that I was a dungeon NPC. This disguise was quite interesting."

"But you know, I'm a very honest person, and I'm afraid I can't pretend well. Can you tell me where the side quests are triggered, or where there are rare items that drop? Then I can try to use these clues to issue tasks to the players."

As soon as this question was asked, the word "shameless" was used too frequently in the comments in the live broadcast room.

[666666, Xiao Baiwan's expression changed when he saw the snails, and he rushed back immediately. I thought he was going to save the snails at the cost of himself! Woo woo]

[Are you dreaming? If Xiao Baiwan does something that does not benefit you, I will cut off his head and let you kick it like a ball! ]

[Please lock it up! This is so shameless, I am dying of laughter!!]

[I give this heartless and love-brained couple a hundred stuns! ]

[I am dying of laughter! So Xiao Baiwan is not running away and is here to collect materials? ]

[Amen, I can already imagine how much more he will cheat when he goes to the player community with important information early tomorrow morning! ]

[Xiao Baiwan: Nonsense, I have been honest since I was a child and never lied to anyone.]

[He's coming, he's coming, he's coming with branch clues! ]

[From a certain perspective, these players are really unlucky. This is indeed a double-BOSS instance.]

[Wifey kiss! Kiss me! I want Yanyan's wife □□ too! 】

【Get out of here, don’t make me say it again. 】

The two chatted for about twenty minutes.

Due to the complicated rhetoric, Xu Zhiyan was able to get out two A-level hidden item drop points and a hidden side quest.

Suddenly, the whole building flickered.

The lights in the dim corridor suddenly came on, and Xu Zhiyan discovered that the lights in dormitory 603 opposite also lit up. Everything here returned to normal in the blink of an eye, as if Bai Jin had never existed.

As if he had thought of something, he opened the game panel.

[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]

[Progress: 50%]

"So this is how movement works?" Xu Zhiyan curled his lips, somewhat dissatisfied.

But he actually knew it well. He probably had put in too many things, which were noticed by the game system, and the BOSS was taken away along with it.

"I thought I could ask a few more questions before breaking the rules. This game is pretty stingy."

His plan was to go through more side quests, and then ask some restricted questions, using the rules to block Bai Jin, because in the previous conversation, Bai Jin was accustomed to being blocked by the system.

Perhaps his complaints and greed were too obvious, and the game system panel could no longer tolerate it and displayed a warning again.

[Players are requested to use their own abilities to complete the task, and not to always think of crooked ways to avoid violating the rules. ]

"I didn't do anything crooked. I just made a deal with the boss. One question for another. How can this be considered a violation?"

Xu Zhiyan shrugged, looking innocent.

Back in the room, he lay down on the not very soft bed and let out a contented sigh.

"That's great. I can rest now. I don't have to worry about anyone snatching my room."

Bai Jin was shielded, which had both advantages and disadvantages for him.

Calling up the game panel, Xu Zhiyan flipped through the task list while planning where to go tomorrow, muttering: "I live alone in the dormitory, I should be able to call Jin Sheng over. Bai Jin is not here anyway..."

The game system was afraid that he would do something outrageous again, which would not only deceive the information but also cause the BOSS to crash the game, and the warning panel would pop up in the face.

[The BOSS will only be blocked for three days. I hope players won't always try to exploit system loopholes.] The implication is, live alone and be honest.

After reading it, Xu Zhiyan nodded with satisfaction and thanked him, his expression couldn't be more sincere.

"Thank you. Then I can have a good sleep for the next three days."

【? ? 】

Two question marks popped up on the panel and disappeared quickly.

The next day, Monday.

Ten twenty-six am.

Although he said yesterday that he would go to class today, Xu Zhiyan slept until noon before slowly getting up and washing up.

He changed into his school uniform, glanced at the schedule, and walked out the door yawning without taking any books.

He planned to pay the compensation for breaking the glass first, and then apply for a new student ID.

[Task 2: Players are requested to actively integrate into their own class]

[Progress: 0%]

But before that, Xu Zhiyan planned to sell the hidden side quest of the game that he had obtained yesterday.

However, before he reached the teaching building, a new prompt appeared for Task 2.

[Ding! Task 2 updated to Task 4]

[Task 4: Players are requested to follow their classmates to participate in the afternoon physical examination]

[Progress: 0%]

[Player class integration: 0%]

[Tip: The higher the class integration, the higher the physical examination survival rate]

[Reward: Main quest (enter the blind school)]

Xu Zhiyan, who hadn't even started Task 2, felt a black screen before his eyes and he almost fainted.