Chapter 32 "University Students" The Five Great Sacrifices were for the worship of metal, wood, water...

When Jian Dieda got up, he didn't forget to pull out the books from under his bottom and take them with him. Yang Xiaohong noticed that the clothes Jian wore with his sleeves rolled up when he ate with them were not his own. The sunny yellow jacket was a little too big, and there were two little bear pockets stuck to his chest.

The junior wore it close to his skin, not finding it childish, which shows that he did care about the senior who gave him the clothes on their first night.

Jian Zijin, have you fallen for Zhong Yun?

A system beeping sound, similar to a 'doo doo', rang out in the cafeteria. The students froze, each holding their chopsticks and eating, unable to stop Jian Dieda from leaving.

Until the person is gone.

They thought, "A new mission has arrived?"

Could it be that the players' mission tonight includes not only escaping but also rescuing Jian Zijin?

In a moment of panic, they discovered that the evidence left behind by Jian Zijin after she left was five old blue meal cards.

Yang Xiaohong picked it up, took out her handkerchief to wipe it clean, and helped put it on the table for everyone to examine. Five pairs of eyes then discovered that the meal card around the tray did not belong to a freshman, but to a senior student from the school.

This also signifies the start of the most classic memory-based plot device in murder mystery games.

To find out what happens next, they need to play the roles on the meal cards themselves in order to recreate the whole story!?

This is truly a death version of "Actors, Please Take Your Seats"!

Meanwhile, Jane Dieda learned that his task of issuing meal cards in a relatively reasonable manner that morning had been completed.

The host personally announced the start of the players' second act of evidence gathering.

[System Prompt]

[Clues successfully submitted!]

[2-3, Reconstructing the Roommate Relationships Before the Five Elements Murder Case in Dorm 404, "Five Men, One Show"]

Characters: Rural boy (Li Jinjun), Rural boy's girlfriend (Yang Sihong), Rural boy's girlfriend's roommate (Xie Tianmei), City boy (Zhang Shuijun), Top student (Jiang Yanrui), Underachiever (Wang Muming)

[Next level to be unlocked: "110 Police Hotline in 2000" (locked)]

Testimony in male contexts

[Li Xiaojun and Wang Xiaoming are discussing 'Jian Zijin' while washing their lunchboxes, while Zhang Xiaojun is keeping watch.]

(Number One, Li Xiaojun: "What do you think about the death broadcast?")

(Number 2, Wang Xiaoming: "What else can I say? That senior Zhong who reported it is definitely the murderer! And all gay men in the world, get out of here!")

(Number 3 is currently silent. Zhang Xiaojun, who seems to want to say something, looks thoughtful: "...")

(Li Xiaojun sighed: "But we need to gather evidence... Let's take it one step at a time and meet at the mission point tonight.")

Click on the other side.

Testimony in female contexts

Yang Xiaohong and Xie Xiaomei are by the flower bed.

(Yang Xiaohong, No. 1: "According to the rulebook, Jian Zijin may become the first victim.")

(Xie Xiaomei, No. 2: "Nightmare, this is absolutely a nightmare for him. Senior Zhong is too cruel. It's better to kill someone than to deceive them.")

Seeing everyone's conclusion, Jian Dieda was stunned. He had never realized that his acting skills were so good. He had only imitated a little bit of the campus idol drama that his junior, Fatty Ding, often watched.

The systems inside the brain are invoked.

Jian Dieda touched his face: "Do I have to play a miserable junior who's in a homosexual relationship with a senior in order to get them into character?"

【。】

The system has started to slack off again.

He replied with a '.', and Jian Dieda lowered his head, thinking he should take it one step at a time. It seemed that the second act was all his own show, and Zhong Jun was unaware of what had happened, which was truly fortunate.

It would be good if all five players could successfully intervene in the investigation.

Jian Dieda continued walking; the night was still far off, and the sign at the main gate, number 444 of the Chongli University of Technology Tianxin Campus, looked so conspicuous.

Crows flew overhead, cawing. The triangular maple leaves had turned red. A junior student, dressed in yellow and carrying a set of mechanical and electrical engineering textbooks, walked out of the cafeteria and past the tree-lined public teaching building.

A shadow stood behind a yellow curtain on the fourth floor, looking at the junior's back.

Only upon closer inspection can one recognize that this is Zhong Yun.

The light inside the art department divided his face in two, one half black facing inwards, the other white facing the sunlight.

His hand was resting on the rope, fiddling with it.

Zhong Yun's bright red eyes were watching Jian Zijin's back.

The senior student with half-up hair and an alluring air was smoking. His long hair, which was rare for a man, was half-tied into a small bun, with some stray hairs falling over his shoulders. He had a high, straight nose and wore gold-rimmed glasses. His well-defined knuckles held a thin cigarette between his fingers, and he would occasionally casually bring it to his lips for a puff.

The six freshmen must have heard the announcement in the cafeteria.

Whether or not Zhong Yun went to inform on him, he should have been curious about Jian Zijin's reaction, but he did not try to stop her for a face-to-face confrontation.

However, because of this incident, the students are going to rebel, and the school needs to take measures.

The student council was going to be busy again, and so was Zhong Jun. He turned and left.

He has to keep playing the role of luring the sacrificial offerings into his trap.

From south to north, the sky gradually sank.

“①The Great Five Sacrifices are sacrifices to the gods of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. For these five sacrifices, human sacrifices are the best offerings.” In the dead of night, the dormitory head, who was starving at this hour, sat under the lamp and flipped through the “Rites of Zhou” that he had borrowed from the library.

The students betrayed each other, and the five elements' mutual generation turned into mutual slaughter. This was the beginning of the strange phenomenon mentioned in the rulebook, which he had already studied.

And for sacrificial offerings, the best outcome is always the same.

That's demonization, going into the cadre ranks of the student council.

"..." Junior Jian put down his pen. "Who's at the door?"

No one spoke from outside the door.

The Nokia on the table, however, started to vibrate.

Jian Zijin is trapped at school, and no one in his family has inquired about his safety so far.

But when he looked at the screen, the dark green inbox displayed unbelievable content to the college student.

Unread text messages

dad:

"Your mom gave you an extra two hundred yuan for living expenses, why didn't you call back, you brat? My rheumatism flared up again as soon as you left. Are you coming back for National Day?"

Mother:

"Son, have you been missing home these past few days while studying? I heard it's raining. How's your military training going? I have some good news for you: the buckwheat flowers in our yard are blooming."

Jian Dieda immediately recalled his conversation with Zhong Jun last night about his parents; he had only told Zhong Jun that he had no relatives.

The orphaned junior schoolmate, who seems indifferent, actually has a scar in his heart. Is the male imposter pretending to care about the junior schoolmate just to create this scene to harm the next victim?

The junior student who hunches his back and hugs his legs, clearly afraid of the cold, is no child.

Jane opened the door.

The power went out, and he headed towards the power room. The abyss below, the departed dead, and the cawing of flocks of crows seemed to envelop him in darkness. It looked like an unnatural death trap was approaching. He started climbing the stairs.

Meanwhile, the other five students were waiting in another cramped and damp place when they heard a loud bang. The terrifying sound, which sent chills down their spines, came from the power distribution room upstairs.

"Here it comes, damn it!"

Wang Xiaoming felt the room suddenly go dark.

The chair fell over.

The washbasin tipped over.

Wang Xiaoming, Li Xiaojun, and Zhang Xiaojun knocked on the door as planned, but they were too cowardly to do anything but ask the girls to come out and do the task.

Hearing the noise, Yang Xiaohong's face turned strangely pale. Dressed in her running clothes, she and her female roommate sat up alertly. "The power went out."

[What time is it, Mr. Wolf?]

They finished answering.

This morning, three new maps appeared on the panel released by the Jian Dieda Gang system, and several case-related clues with blood-red handprints left by minor characters appeared in the expanded clues section.

(*Scene 1, September 3, 2000, Baijimi Burger Shop in the University City Food Court. Trigger condition: A third-year female student is stabbed in the kidney by her boyfriend from the same department. The female student is suspected of having an affair with her boyfriend's wealthy roommate. Please confirm the identities of the people in the love triangle.)

(Scene 2, September 9, 2000, in a dormitory with five people. The five roommates have an argument while trying to mediate this love triangle. Please clarify all the conflicts that have arisen over the past three years.)

(Scene 3: The power distribution room in the old campus in 2002. Freshmen who submit the correct clues to the two locations mentioned above before 3 PM can save their dormitory head from death once.)

The five people clicked to confirm and then received the props that the host shared with them from behind the scenes.

This time, the system distributed the funds on behalf of the recipients.

(The cat-faced old lady's embroidered shoes, the Chengdu zombie cosplay costume, and the ghost bride story card)

Everyone fell silent.

It seems... these escape tools are more like the host's private collection, filled with signs saying they're completely useless.

Five players who weren't in the mood for jokes immediately decided to enter the game.

Suddenly, Yang Xiaohong paused for a moment.

She gestured for everyone to remain calm and looked at Yin Mian.

She said she discovered that the dormitory check game was a way to interrupt freshmen's sleep at fixed times.

The security guards and aunties who have been roaming the dormitories for two nights are now ready to stop us from exploring the campus at night.

Because it is only at midnight, under the shifting shadows, that the campus reveals its true nature.

There are only twelve hours in a day.

There are only six months in a year.

why is that.

Because... the time stored in the crown of Chongli University does not include summer vacation, winter vacation, and all public holidays. It's a school, so only a school would have such a time curse, right? The mystery of the missing time can be solved.

The answer is time folding.

Once they enter the past timeline, the ghosts will no longer appear.

This reasoning has once again led everyone astray.

They are committing a foul.

Each person's credits were collectively deducted by 2 points.

But their chances of leaving Chongli University have increased.

Observing everything from behind the scenes, the dormitory head, Jian, also used her Nokia phone to make a distress call that demonstrated supernatural power.

All that could be heard was a crackling sound of electricity.

"I'm in 404... Are the other freshmen here? Please help me find Senior Zhong Jun. The power is out here, and why is there a painting on the wall?... No, something's not right. There are five people arguing and fighting around me! Hey! Stop arguing! We're all brothers in the same dorm! No! Don't pull out that knife!"

The rest gradually became blurry and indistinct.

But everyone heard the message about Zhong Yun being called in the paranormal communication.

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The author's note: I suddenly realized that the two of them haven't kissed yet this time.

Playing a gay guy who's hopelessly in love with his senior, why don't we go for something real? Jianzi, sweetie, Mom's got you and your senior all set!

Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 13:14:39 on September 19, 2023 and 00:21:16 on September 22, 2023!

Thank you to the little angels who watered the nutrient solution: 20 bottles for finding and returning fish; 15 bottles for tea white; 10 bottles for pillow crane; and 1 bottle for just passing by.

Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!