Target Mouse

A new round of the game began. When the first ray of morning sunlight came in, the old players were automatically matched into the game.

They no longer have to look for task cards like before. With the injection of fresh blood, they will step into a different arena.

"Welcome to the most beautiful school. I am your tour guide for this trip."

A cold voice filled the entire venue: "Congratulations to everyone for making it to the starting point of the game. Now, please separate and form a formation."

Dada looks very similar to Xiaoxiao, but she looks older than Xiaoxiao and her facial expression is always cold. She doesn't smile like Xiaoxiao.

"The game is about to begin. You only have two minutes to get on the bus and five minutes to read the instruction card on the bus. In seven minutes, you will arrive at the destination of this game - the most beautiful school."

Qi Jing and the others followed the group on board in a daze. It was a large bus with a school logo printed on each seat. On it was a card that read, "Survival Rules of the Most Beautiful School!"

Some people on the bus complained, "What the hell? How can this school be called the most beautiful school? I think it's more like a prison!"

"Yeah, shitty school rules."

Despite their complaints, they still try hard to remember these rules.

There were 42 people in each car, and there were seven cars in total. Everyone here was a survivor from the previous rounds, and everyone had experienced death.

Five minutes passed quickly. Qi Jing tried to take a photo of the card and send it to the group, but after sending the photo, the page displayed was blank when he clicked it.

"There are three minutes left before the game begins. Please remember the rules of survival. The cards will automatically disappear after three minutes. Good luck everyone, and I look forward to seeing you on the return bus!"

A loud voice came from the car's speakers, and as his voice faded, the road in front of them gradually became clear.

The vehicle was driving through a large school. The students on the roadside were all dressed in uniform, with strange smiles on their faces and dark, lifeless eyes.

The vehicle slowly stopped in the middle of the school. After getting off, they found that the students who were just walking on the side of the road were all moving closer. As if they had rehearsed, they lined up in their own formations, with boys and girls on each side, surrounding their group.

Then, as the vehicle left, the students automatically stepped back, leaving them enough space to line up.

While they were stunned, a group of people wearing black suits and with teacher tags hanging around their necks walked out of the crowd.

Each of them looks the same, just like clones, and it's quite scary when they stand next to people.

They had the same smile on their faces as the students, but their eyes were not empty.

The man in the lead took a step forward and looked at them with a smile on his face.

"Welcome to the most beautiful school, I am Chen Ming, the school director!"

"Everyone, please abide by our rules of the game and stand in line consciously."

The man's voice was cold, but his smile remained unchanged. His eyes were as cold as a snake, staring at them.

They belatedly remembered the rules of survival and quickly lined up as if they had just woken up.

The formations were six people in a group, which was exactly the number of people in their own team. There were 294 people in total, 49 teams, standing in seven colors respectively.

Qi Jing and his car were standing in the red area. Chen Ming smiled happily when he saw them standing in line consciously. After he walked around them, his smile deepened: "Classmates, let us warmly welcome them!"

The man was the first to applaud. He looked at them and laughed happily. He laughed loudly and followed the students' orderly applause, stepping back step by step, exactly seven steps.

Zhang Heqian muttered quietly, "You must be sick."

After the applause lasted for a minute, several teachers following the man, holding cards of different colors in their hands, stepped forward and stood in front of the team with unified colors.

Chen Ming: "Follow them and go find your responsible work!"

They followed the leader, walked through the line of students, and went to different places facing their strange smiles.

Qi Jing, who was standing at the back, saw Liu Chao standing at the first team, and Gao Tian and others behind them when he passed by the seventh team. The people in front of them were holding purple cards.

Qi Jing looked back at the cards in those people's hands. "Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple" meant seven colors and seven different jobs. This reminded him of the one plus six hint.

An expired OnePlus 6 reminder card, seven cars, seven colors, why all seven? He began to wonder if there really was someone here from the previous cycle?

Qi Jing and the others were assigned to a group of students. Their leader stood in front of the teaching building and put the card in his pocket. He said, "Your job is to patrol this teaching building and find that disgusting, smelly rat."

"Rat? You want so many of us to go find a rat?" Someone in the crowd was dissatisfied.

The leader didn't look at him, but smiled and continued, "In seven days, we will gather at the same place we just met. Be careful."

The leader left alone after he finished speaking, and they stood there, confused.

"What? It's like catching a mouse and looking for a cat. We can't dig a hole." Zhang Heqian shouted angrily in the direction the man left.

42 people stood in front of the teaching building, and they didn't know what to do. Some of them kept muttering, while others just sat down where they were.

No one went up, and they stayed where they were until some students came back upstairs.

"What should we do?" Ma Liangchen asked the group of students with strange expressions.

Wang Shitou watched the group of students go upstairs. They lined up and went up in an orderly manner, and entered the classroom just before the bell rang.

When the ringing stopped, each of them received a message on their watch: "First day, please familiarize yourself with the campus." Attached to the message was a map. Although the watch was small, the map could be clicked and appeared in the hand, just like the things they had drawn before could be bound to the watch.

Everyone who saw the message followed their team. They didn't have to work today, and according to the rules, they would not receive any punishment today.

Shuyan opened his watch, took the map in his hand, and looked at the general content of the school.

The teaching building is in the lower left corner of the school, with a library in the middle, dormitories in the upper left corner, a cafeteria in the upper right corner, and a playground in the lower right corner. Next to the teaching building is an experimental building, and next to the experimental building is a dormitory, which is a dormitory for teachers and is right next to the student dormitory.

After walking around the school, they returned to the dormitory. There was an elevator in the staff dormitory, but they lived on the first floor and could not use it.

Tired after walking around, Zhang Heqian returned to his room and slumped down on a chair, muttering to himself:

"First, consciously stand in line,"

"Second, uniform clothing."

"Third, obey the school rules."

"Four, don't be late."

"Five, be polite to others."

"Six, you are not allowed to take food out of the cafeteria."

"Seven, you are not allowed to return to the dormitory outside of the designated time."

I turned my chair around boredly, looked up at the ceiling, and asked curiously, "Hey, what do you think? Is this law of survival for us or for everyone here?"

Shi Yuncheng lay on the table, his eyes fixed on Wang Shitou: "Doesn't this look like school rules?"

The door was closed and they were all sitting on chairs. The room was not big, a standard six-person dormitory with a bed and a desk underneath. It had a separate bathroom and balcony, just like the rooms in the service hall.

"But we are not students?" Zhang Heqian was puzzled.

"And that stinking rat? How are we supposed to find it? I just walked around the school and realized there aren't any other living things here except people and plants. Not to mention rats, there aren't even mosquitoes."

Qi Jing checked his watch and found that the group he had created in the mud house was still there. Thinking of Liu Chao, Gao Tian and the others, he sent a period to the group.

"Who says a mouse must be a mouse?" Qi Jing raised his hand and motioned them to look at the group.

Qi Jing had just talked to Liu Chao and the others. Liu Chao and the others had already pulled everyone into this group, and they were all complaining about the work that the leader asked them to do.

It is understood that each floor of this teachers' dormitory building represents a color, with a total of seven floors, corresponding exactly to their seven large teams.

Qi Jing took the banknotes from the table and began to write, saying as he wrote: "Our seven teams are seven colors, corresponding to red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. We are on the first floor. The studio is in the classroom building. The orange team on the second floor works on the playground. The yellow team on the third floor is in the laboratory building. The green team on the fourth floor is in the library. The cyan team on the fifth floor is in the cafeteria. The blue team on the sixth floor is responsible for campus sanitation work every morning and afternoon. The purple team on the seventh floor is responsible for the student dormitories."

"Even though our jobs are different, apparently every place here has a rat that they hate."

"Actually, the most important thing here isn't the rats; the most important thing is what makes them annoying."

Wang Shitou seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly realized: "You mean to say that rat is just a pronoun, only what they hate is rat!"

Qi Jing: "Yes, from the beginning the leader didn't tell us clearly whether we were going to catch real rats or people they called rats."

Zhang Heqian scratched his head and looked at them, questioning, "But what kind of people would be hated by them?"

Shu Yan stood behind Qi Jing, remained silent, and kept scrolling through the messages in the group with his head down.

Instead, Ma Liangchen stood up and circled "they" on the paper Qi Jing had just written.

Ma Liangchen poked the circled area with a pen and said, "What roles do they play here?"

Zhang Heqian: "Teacher."

Ma Liangchen: "If you were a teacher, what would you hate most in school?"

Zhang Heqian blurted out without thinking: "Disobedient student."

Ma Liangchen looked into Zhang Heqian's eyes and asked, "What does it mean to be disobedient?"

Zhang Heqian: "He doesn't follow the school rules and always goes against the teacher."

Zhang Heqian was very happy because they had found a clue: "Yes, this way, we just need to find students who are annoying within the scope of their work."

Zhang Heqian talked happily to himself while collecting information in the group and writing something on the piece of paper that Qi Jing had written.

After discussing what to do, they went to the cafeteria together. It was already past lunch time. However, since it was the first day and they didn't have to follow the rules, the cafeteria would provide them with food 24 hours a day.

There were not many people along the way, except that they met Chen Ming at the cafeteria door.

Why Chen Ming? Because there is no evidence of any color associated with this person.

Chen Ming stood at the door, holding a chicken leg in his hand, gnawing on it while looking at them. Qi Jing looked over and saw that he was smiling at them politely.

There was a student squatting next to him, his hands covered in oil, as if he had handled something greasy.

He stood beside Chen Ming silently with his head lowered, his body twitching as if he was crying.

Finally, after Chen Ming finished eating the whole chicken leg, he asked the student next to him to go back.

When escaping from this place, the student accidentally bumped into the inkstone, and then smeared all the oil on his hands on him.

Shu Yan remained expressionless until they entered the cafeteria and took their seats. Then, with a frown on his face, he took off his coat and set it aside. Wang Shitou, standing nearby, sniffed the grease stain on Shu Yan's clothes, then picked up his own chicken drumstick and said, "This tastes exactly like what Chen Ming ate."

Zhang Heqian chewed his rice and looked at Shu Yan, laughing: "Boss, you smell so good now!"

Shu Yan, who was peeling an orange with his head down, didn't want to see his expression, so he just put the peeled orange next to Qi Jing's hand, then without even raising his head, he took the orange that Qi Jing hadn't peeled and continued to peel it, and put it next to Qi Jing's hand after peeling it.

Shu Yan: "Did you see the student's appearance clearly?"