9x9÷9＝9

Although Rui Hang has never set a so-called "class motto", there has always been a set of common standards in the hearts of the students in Class 9 of Grade 2.

——Classmates should share happiness and difficulties.

The key point is "sharing the difficulties together".

When Class 9 of Grade 2 gathers together, they are like a ball of fire. When they disperse, their own fire is extinguished, and they also want to blow out the fires of their classmates as well. Their main purpose is to hold each other back.

Therefore, when the vengeful spirit couldn't help but ask Bai Luo again whether he was going to make such a decision, Bai Luo still spoke righteously, his tone full of determination: "I am sure, certain, and certain!"

Ghost: ...6

"...Candidate Bai Luo, who do you want to choose?"

"Of course it's my good brother Lin Yuan!" Bai Luo said without hesitation.

Lin Yuan, who was in the room diagonally opposite, sneezed loudly at this moment. Before he could put down the test paper in his hand and go to Bai Luo's room to ask what happened, he heard the broadcast above his head sound again.

"Candidate Bai Luo failed the exam. Candidate Lin Yuan is requested to accept the punishment together and pass the exam."

Lin Yuan: “???”

"Bai Luo, are you sick?" Lin Yuan threw down the test paper and ran towards Bai Luo. But before he could reach the door, a lightning bolt containing the full force of a vengeful spirit fell from the sky, penetrating the castle created by magic and illusion, and directly struck Lin Yuan and Bai Luo.

In an instant, the "sky" covered by dark clouds seemed to be torn apart by two flashes of lightning, revealing a false curtain.

——At the same time, outside the library, all the light bulbs in No. 2 Middle School flashed twice and fell into darkness at the same time.

The lightning strike that was powerful enough to turn any living being into charcoal was about to fall on Bai Luo and Lin Yuan, and the two of them moved at the same time.

A long sword made of magic appeared in Lin Yuan's hand. Facing the lightning that fell from the sky, he did not show any fear, but waved the sword in his hand and pointed the tip of the sword directly in the direction of the lightning.

This seemingly self-destructive action did not cause Lin Yuan to be attacked by lightning. The moment the lightning touched the tip of the sword, he suddenly turned his right wrist, pointed the sword tip with electricity downward, and stabbed it into the floor with force.

Compared to Lin Yuan's complicated movements, Bai Luo's way of dealing with thunder and lightning is just like his daily behavior, simple, casual, full of fun and "accidents".

A golden light flashed across his palm and turned into a twenty-sided dice created by magic power.

Bai Luo activated his magic power, and the dice spun in his palm, finally stopping at "1".

Bai Luo whistled excitedly: "I'm lucky today, it's a 'big success'!"

The lightning that was about to strike Bai Luo was suddenly turned in mid-air by Lin Yuan's sword and struck directly towards Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan: “???”

But the incident happened suddenly, and he had no time to dodge the lightning strike. He could only divert Bai Luo's lightning along with it to his feet.

A huge electric current flowed into the building along the long sword, and under the deliberate guidance of Lin Yuan's magic, most of the current was directed to the ground. However, the remaining electricity still caused considerable damage to this magical building and the "NPCs" inside.

In an instant, the maids and servants who were preparing the "ingredients" and setting up the banquet hall all froze. The magic power that they had finally used to condense the entity was completely dispersed, becoming vague.

After doing all this, the sword in Lin Yuan's hand also shattered, revealing the light green wind element magic covering his palm.

"Bai Luo, you scared me!" Lin Yuan was not angry because of the sudden drainage of lightning. He just brushed off the magic power in his palm like brushing off dust, as if relieved: "I almost didn't control the output of magic power, and accidentally destroyed this barrier. What if it hurts the library outside? Shen Qiting will fight me to the death!"

"I didn't expect it to be a 'great success'." Bai Luo poked his head out of the door, his eyes curved into crescents, and he smiled very cutely: "The more capable, the more work. The more capable, the more work."

Lin Yuan felt the veins on his head throbbing. "What are you doing? Filling in the test paper randomly is fine, but why are you dragging me here?"

"Ah? Didn't the vengeful spirit say before that we should become teammates?" Bai Luo pretended to be dumbfounded: "Aren't you my good brother and teammate? And I am just eliminating a wrong answer for you."

Lin Yuan: "...You are quite proud."

Bai Luo nodded: "That's right?" Then he glanced at Lin Yuan: "Besides, you are so stupid. Can't you fill in the test paper randomly before being punished to see the score? You were beaten for nothing, right?"

Lin Yuan: "That seems to make sense... No, don't change the subject. The three of us are here. Why did you choose me?"

Bai Luo was horrified: "Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan, I never thought you were such a person. How could you bear to let two beautiful female classmates suffer from the torture of evil spirits?"

He paused and said confidently: "Except for you, I can't beat any of them!"

Lin Yuan: "...You have only practiced for a hundred years longer than me. Just wait! Give me another ten years, and I will definitely beat you into submission."

Bai Luo is obviously quite proficient in lying flat: "It seems that I still have ten years of peaceful days ahead of me. That's a good thing."

Lin Yuan: "Tell me you need to practice hard, you lazy idiot!"

The vengeful spirit in the dark had been standing there in a daze after two lightning strikes had no effect. Although it vaguely felt that these four people were not of the level it could afford to offend with its limited intelligence, it never expected that an attack with all its strength would not be able to cause any harm to Lin Yuan at all.

The vengeful spirit vaguely sensed that something seemed to be wrong, but unfortunately its rigid brain prevented it from thinking more deeply, so it had to continue running the program that was on the verge of going out of control.

...

Just as Lin Yuan and Bai Luo were arguing, Shen Qiting and Su Mingya, who had finished reading the test papers in the room and took a walk around the second floor, returned to the outside of the room one after another, with their arms folded as they watched the two resentful brothers, Bai Luo and Lin Yuan, quarreling with each other.

"Both of you should save your breath." Su Mingya tried to persuade them: "Bai Luo, don't you want to have some fun? Time is running out, so let's restrain ourselves and try to pass the test in the normal way."

Bai Luo said awkwardly, "Okay. By the way, I have already eliminated one wrong option for you in the multiple-choice questions, so don't make the wrong choice next time."

Shen Qiting nodded and shared the information he had obtained from his investigation: "We counted on the second floor and there are six rooms in total. The maid blocked the way to the third floor and prevented us from going up. It is said that this is the floor where the Duchess lives alone. We haven't checked the number of rooms on the first floor yet."

"Logically speaking, the first and second floors have similar overall areas, so the number of rooms should be similar." Bai Luo recalled his own answer on the card he filled in: "I chose C, fifteen rooms, but the answer was wrong. It seems that there should be a lot of hidden rooms here."

"What other topics did you choose?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

"C." Bai Luo said, "If there are three long and one short, choose the long one; if there are three short and one long, choose the short one; if there are two long and two short, choose B; if they are uneven, choose C. Isn't this the standard answer?"

Lin Yuan said: "And you didn't answer any of them correctly? You, the 'Son of Destiny', are quite lucky."

"It's OK as long as we can achieve 'great success' when it's time to achieve 'great success'." Bai Luo waved his hand: "I don't mind."

Lin Yuan: "...but I mind!"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Shen Qiting and Su Mingya pulled one of them and said bluntly: "Bai Luo and I will go to the first floor, Tingting, you and Lin Yuan find a way to go to the third floor. If they continue to perform crosstalk here, I think we should not play today."

Bai Luo/Lin Yuan: “…”

Be well behaved and don't dare to move.

...

Compared to the quietness of the second floor, the first floor was obviously much more lively. Maids in black and white dresses shuttled through the magnificent restaurant, with stiff smiles on their faces and their bodies looming, obviously not yet recovered from the lightning strike.

Noticing Bai Luo and Su Mingya approaching, the head maid who was in charge of directing the entire scene walked towards them with a smile.

Compared to other mechanized maids, she is obviously an important character and her expressions and body movements are much more vivid.

"Master Bai, Miss Su, why are you two here at the restaurant now? The dinner hasn't officially started yet."

"You don't have to worry about us." Bai Luo waved his hand: "We are just strolling around."

"That's not possible. You two are the most important guests of our castle. How can we let you see such a chaotic scene? It's really rude." The head maid's attitude was firm.

Bai Luo raised his eyebrows, revealing a very interested expression: "We two are important? What about the two upstairs? Are they our maids and attendants?"

Su Mingya: “…”

The head maid laughed and said, "Master Bai, you are really humorous. The four of you are detectives specially invited by our lady. How could you be maids and attendants?"

Su Mingya followed the head maid's words and asked calmly, "Besides the four of us, are there any other people investigating together?"

"There are only four of you." The head maid answered every question: "If you two are really bored, you can go to the living room and sit for a while. I will come to inform you when the dinner starts."

Seeing that they were not allowed to enter the restaurant no matter what, Bai Luo and Su Mingya could only say with regret that they understood and turned around and left.

It was not until they were far away from the restaurant and no one could hear their conversation that Su Mingya asked in confusion, "Why didn't she let us go to the restaurant? Is there any important information hidden in there?"

As a newcomer who has never experienced an escape room or related games, any abnormality will arouse Su Mingya's suspicion.

In contrast, Bai Luo understood a lot: "It should be that the thunder just now made the vengeful spirit lack magic power. It is temporarily unable to complete the modeling. It can only rob Peter to repair Paul. I just glanced at the plates in the restaurant - the dishes on them are all stickers, and they are not edible at all!"

Su Mingya: "...Why do you sound so regretful?"

"I just think that if you're making a game, you have to make it complete." Bai Luo said, "Since I'm playing it, of course I hope its modeling, plot, and NPCs can be well done. If the design is so crude, I won't pay for it."

Su Mingya asked in confusion: "But it's not a game at all. It's just a collection of mutated resentments. It's a punishment exam for us for violating the library's rules and regulations."

Bai Luo: “…”

Almost forgot!

The two chatted intermittently as they walked through the corridor and came to the living room located in the center of the first floor of the castle.

I don’t know if it’s because of Bai Luo’s complaints, but the decoration in the living room is obviously more gorgeous than that in the dining room. Every modeling is so detailed that you can see every line on it, as if it is trying hard to compete with Bai Luo.

Bai Luo's mouth twitched, and he looked around the living room. His attention was soon attracted by the huge oil painting hanging in the center.

Su Mingya also noticed this huge oil painting. They both walked to the front of the painting, looked up, and carefully observed the details on the painting.

A girl wearing a European-style court dress and holding a small parasol was sitting in the courtyard with a sweet smile. Behind her was the "Blue Castle" where Bai Luo and the others were. The setting sun fell on the castle, reflecting a golden glow.

"Who is this?" Bai Luo asked.

"Didn't the head maid mention the Duchess? She should be the mistress of this castle? Or her daughter?" Su Mingya tried to guess, and saw Bai Luo with his hand on his chin, as if he noticed something and fell into deep thought.

"Did you see anything?" Su Mingya asked curiously.

Bai Luo hummed, his expression a little serious: "I just feel that this design and this theme look familiar no matter how I look at them."

"How do you look familiar?"

"The world that this vengeful spirit can create is all extended from the books in the library, right?"

Su Mingya nodded: "Yes."

Bai Luo swore solemnly: "I seriously suspect that this book copied Conan's "The Blue Castle Incident"! Our principal's level of book selection needs to be improved!"

Su Mingya: “???”

...

Compared to the unfocused Bai Luo and Su Mingya who knew nothing about escape rooms, the atmosphere of Lin Yuan and Shen Qiting's investigation was completely different.

Just like before, when they stepped into the third floor, they were once again stopped by the maid.

"Master Lin, Miss Shen, our wife is resting on the third floor and is temporarily unable to see guests." The maid stopped the two of them dutifully and said respectfully, "Please go back. When the banquet starts, the wife will meet you."

"Could it be that Madam is not seeing guests because she is not feeling well?" Lin Yuan asked tentatively.

The maid nodded: "Please forgive me, both of you."

Two of the last three questions on the test paper are related to my wife. There is no doubt that the third floor contains crucial clues.

Lin Yuan gave Shen Qiting a look.

"I'll pester her later, you rush straight to the third floor."

"clear. "

As good friends who have known each other for more than 300 years, the two have a tacit understanding.

It happened in a flash. Lin Yuan grabbed the maid's arms with his backhand, and Shen Qiting immediately rushed to the third floor.

The maid - or rather the vengeful spirit who planned everything behind the scenes, obviously did not expect Lin Yuan's attack to be so sudden. She did not even plan to continue the negotiation, so that she was ready to use it to delay the two of them, and all the conversations from the lady were in vain.

There was no other way, the vengeful spirit could only try another way to stop the two.

Lin Yuan only heard the maid screaming, and then the flesh and blood on her body began to wriggle, and the long spider-like legs directly pierced through the maid's uniform. The sharp spider legs were covered with uncensored pieces of flesh and blood, and the strong smell of blood hit him in the face, which was very embarrassing.

“Oh my god!” Lin Yuan blurted out: “Eight Spider Lance!”

He raised his hand and neatly draped it over the neck of the maid who was halfway through her transformation. The maid's body stiffened and she fell softly into Lin Yuan's arms.

"As expected, no matter how good your kung fu is, you still have to use a knife to kill someone!" Lin Yuan sighed, "No matter what the setting is, a knife can always solve everything."

On the other side, Shen Qiting also rushed up the stairs.

She took three steps at a time and walked very quickly.

Just as I was about to step onto the third floor, my feet suddenly felt empty - the stairs were forcibly taken away as if they were playing tricks.

Shen Qiting: "..."

You can still play like this, right?

In an instant, Shen Qiting's eyes seemed to fall into a sea of ​​stars - compared to Lin Yuan's light green wind element magic, Shen Qiting's magic with the element of "ether" was as brilliant as a nebula.

As she imagined the space magic in her mind, Shen Qiting's figure flashed and disappeared directly in mid-air, appearing at the door of the only room on the third floor.

Wraith: “!!!”

"Fight with me?" Shen Qiting snorted softly, listening to the rustling sounds coming from the room. It seemed that the Duchess noticed the movement outside the door and was about to walk out of the house.

But Shen Qiting didn't want to waste time waiting to negotiate with his wife, so she pushed open the door of the room.

——The room was completely empty, with only a rough outline of the room left.

Shen Qiting: "???"

Where did my model of such a large room go?