Chapter 77
The next morning, Yitu was woken up by the crying of children upstairs.
He was not sleeping soundly and woke up quickly when he heard a little noise.
It was not until Yitu went upstairs that he found out what had happened last night.
The corridor on one side of the middle-class dormitory was crowded with frightened students. Many of them did not have time to put on their shoes and stood on the floor with bare feet, shivering and huddled behind the teachers.
Behind the opened dormitory doors were the terrified and desperate faces of the children who had not been able to escape.
They were only four or five years old, so young and tender that they had no ability to protect themselves. The murderer killed them as if he were playing with dolls that could not struggle.
When Yitu thought about the fact that the dead students had no guard at all because the murderer was also a teacher, he couldn't help but feel chilled.
That night, five students died in the twelve dormitories, all of them were from the middle class.
And a teacher in the middle class area also died, Tiantian.
Like the students, Tiantian was also killed in his dormitory.
His body was still half lying on the bed, with a hole the size of a bowl in his chest, where a knife had pierced his heart.
Tiantian was killed while he was sleeping, so he didn't even have time to react. As soon as he opened his eyes, the murderer stabbed him.
After killing the person, the man stabbed the alarm in the teacher's dormitory with a knife, opened the door and left in a swagger.
Ding Rong and Xu Heng were still comforting the children when Da Zhang came in with a gloomy look on his face.
"Of the five students who died, two were in my class, two were in Teacher Gu's class, and one was in Teacher Tiantian's class."
Yitu looked up at him. The four teachers assigned to the middle class area included Da Zhang, Tian Tian, Xu Heng and Ding Rong.
Ding Rong filled in the name Gu, half of the Chinese character Rong, on his work badge, while Xu Heng simply filled in his surname.
"What do you want to say?" Yitu said calmly.
Da Zhang glanced at the door and lowered his voice deliberately:
"Don't you find it strange that only the student named Xu survived?"
Yitu couldn't help but frown after hearing this. "Maybe you just don't have the ability. He saved his students, so should we doubt him?"
Da Zhang sneered, "We don't have the ability. After all, the alarm didn't sound last night. I didn't even know anyone was coming."
Yitu remained silent, and after Da Zhang finished speaking, he turned around and went back to comfort the students.
After a while, the remaining teachers and the head teacher Shi Min came to the third floor together.
Shi Min's face turned pale after seeing the five students who died tragically.
She didn't feel much about the teacher's death, she only cared about the safety of her students.
Shi Min looked at the remaining three teachers in the middle class area, her face full of disappointment:
"You are so irresponsible. I entrusted my students to your care because I trusted you."
"Now, among the four classes, only Teacher Xu's Class A has no casualties. Teacher Gu, Teacher Da Zhang, please don't let me down again."
Shi Min looked at the two of them with a serious look, "I can't accept the death of students in your two classes anymore, otherwise..."
"I can't explain this to your parents, and I'm afraid you won't pass your internship assessment."
As soon as the headmaster finished speaking, Ding Rong and Da Zhang's expressions suddenly changed.
The players knew early on that the number of surviving students in their class would affect the teachers' internship assessments.
But what they didn't expect was that the principal's requirements for the number of surviving students in the players' class would be so high.
There are sixteen students in each class, and the minimum number of surviving students is fourteen.
In other words, as long as there is any more death in Da Zhang and Ding Rong's class, they will fail the internship assessment.
Even if the door number of this card field is found, the player cannot pass through the door as long as the mandatory task is not completed.
They will be kept in the card room forever. If they are lucky, they will become statistics in the game. If they are unlucky, they will disappear here directly.
When the head teacher Shi Min left, she took away the group of little kids who were difficult to comfort and kept crying.
By the time they sat in the lounge again, there were only ten players left.
"How could so many people die at once?" Xiaoman asked in confusion:
"Isn't there an alarm in your room? Why didn't you give any warning when the murderer entered?"
Da Zhang scratched his hair irritably, "Are you pretending to be stupid or do you really not understand?"
"Our alarm never went off! I had no idea a murderer had entered my student's dorm!"
Xiaoman was startled by his loud voice, a trace of timidity appeared on her face, and she didn't dare to say anything more.
"Honey, you seem to have scared her." Xue'er held Da Zhang's hand and reminded him in a low voice.
Da Zhang was stunned for a moment, then frowned.
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."
Xiaoman quickly waved her hands to show that she didn't mind.
"Your alarm didn't go off. What about Teacher Tian's alarm the other day?" Xiaopang said, "The alarm in his room was broken, right..."
"No."
At this time, Yitu shook his head and said affirmatively:
"None of the three of them had their alarms go off. The alarm in Tiantian's dormitory was also deactivated by the murderer after he killed someone."
Hu Zao Zao heard this and immediately understood what he meant.
"You mean, the murderer's act of destroying Tiantian's alarm was just a disguise?"
Yitu nodded, "Yes."
"The alarms on Da Zhang and Gu didn't go off, which means he had a way to circumvent them and get into the dormitory. Only after killing Tian Tian did he realize the existence of the alarm, so his attempts to cover it up only made it more obvious."
"If that's true...then how did the murderer get into the dormitory?" Taozi frowned.
"When we discovered the situation, all the doors and windows of the student dormitories were closed," Ding Rong added. "He didn't get in through any of the doors or windows."
"Moreover, the dormitories of the murdered students were not adjacent to each other."
"Teleport."
Yitu calmly uttered two words, giving a surprising answer.
"The card field grants the murderer player certain skills, such as teleportation."
Although this card game does not give any clues about the murderer's skills, teleportation is the only answer that can explain the strangeness of these two cases.
If it is not a skill card brought by the murderer player himself, then it must be given by the card field.
After Yitu finished speaking, no one spoke for a long time.
A hint of disapproval flashed across Ah Cheng's face. "Your guess is too exaggerated, isn't it? Although it seems to be the same, the card game didn't give us any relevant clues."
"Then how do you explain the two murders that happened yesterday and today?" Xu Heng raised his eyelids and said coldly.
Ah Cheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said excitedly:
"How could I forget you!"
"Xu, you are the murderer, right? Why did all three of the middle class students die, but your class was safe and sound?"
"You're the murderer! That's why you subconsciously avoided your own class, right?"
"And the little girl from yesterday, you were the only one with her, and you were the only one who saw her first crime scene!"
Ah Cheng spoke more and more pretentiously, "I know you will deny it, because the murderer doesn't even know he is a murderer. You are simply killing unconsciously."
Hearing this, Xu Heng's face darkened and his brows furrowed.
"It's just a coincidence. I'm not allowed to defend myself for something I didn't do."
"coincide?"
Da Zhang, standing beside him, also looked at him suspiciously. "If you said Benzi's death was a coincidence and had nothing to do with you, I could still barely believe you, but what about this time?"
"Is this also a coincidence? Two accidents happened, and both murders happened to pass by you by chance."
"Not only did he not kill you, he didn't even touch your students."
Da Zhang sneered, "That's right, why would I kill myself?"
Xiaoman also murmured quietly: "Yeah, why wouldn't the murderer hurt Teacher Xu?"
"Maybe he just has some powerful skills to save his life?" Hu Zao Zao hesitated and spoke up for Xu Heng, "We can't wrongly accuse a good guy..."
The characteristics of the skill card on Xu Heng meant that he would not be attacked by ghost NPCs after entering the card field.
But at the same time, Xu Heng, who is regarded as a fellow ghost by the NPC, cannot avoid being suspected by the players.
Hu fell silent after saying this, and Ding Rong had already cast a warning look at him.
They couldn't say too much on Xu Heng's behalf, so as not to arouse suspicion from other players and get implicated.
After all, Xu Heng's identity is like a time bomb, which will hurt himself and them at the same time.
Xu Heng, naturally stupid, saw the interesting interaction between the two and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
"We're just raising suspicions." Da Zhang looked at Hu Zaozao. "No one wants to be the next person killed. Teacher Xiao Shi, don't be fooled by his appearance."
"Since everyone doubts Mr. Xu's identity, why don't we isolate him first?"
Seeing that the only person who helped to speak was silent, he continued:
"I have a tool that can restrict the player's movement, as long as..."
However, before Da Zhang could finish his words, Xu Heng, who was sitting opposite him, sighed softly and interrupted him:
"What? You're going to arrest me without giving me any chance to explain myself? Are you planning to beat me to death?"
"The murderer didn't hurt me because he couldn't hurt me."
Hearing this, Da Zhang was stunned, "What do you mean?"
But Ah Cheng, who was sitting next to him, suddenly remembered something and his face changed instantly.
"You are Xu Heng? The traitor Xu Heng!"
Xu Heng raised his eyebrows slightly, looking a little surprised:
"Huh? Is my fame so great that even low-level players have heard of me?"
"Traitor?" Xiaoman was stunned, then asked in a puzzled voice:
"Who is the betrayer? A powerful high-level player?"
Taozi beside her shook her head. She had only been in the card room for a short time and didn't know the names of the players in the game.
Seeing that no one else reacted, Ah Cheng hurriedly said:
"He's a well-known traitor in the card game. No Goblin NPC will harm him, and he can even order Goblin NPCs to kill people!"
"You have no idea how many players have been killed by that skill card in his hand!"
Ah Cheng stared at Xu Heng, who had a cold expression, and said in a deep voice:
"Does your skill card's usage limit refresh every time you help the ghost NPC kill a player?"
Xu Heng didn't say anything, but Da Zhang, who was sitting opposite him, changed his expression instantly.
Because he remembered what Xu Heng said to him yesterday, that if he was a murderer, the first person he would kill would be him.
Originally, Da Zhang didn't take this sentence seriously at all. Everyone can talk a little.
A few threatening words are not harmful at all, but if the threats come true, who can remain calm?
If this person has such a powerful skill card in his hand, he is more terrifying than if he were a murderer.
After all, the murderer is just a piece of data without emotions that kills people according to a program, but the betrayer is a real human being with intelligence and desires.
He is an accomplice to the evil and is in cahoots with him. Since he has become an enemy of this person, there is no room for redemption.
"You are helping the murderer hide his tracks!" Da Zhang suddenly stood up and shouted to the remaining people:
"What are you still standing there for? This man is a traitor among us. Sooner or later, he will kill us all!"
"Tie him up!"
Xiaoman and the others were stunned for a moment and didn't react.
Ah Cheng was the first one to stand up without hesitation and walk towards Xu Heng.
He and Da Zhang held Xu Heng's shoulders tightly. Two adult men were enough to suppress him.
When Da Zhang's girlfriend Xue'er also stood up, Xiaoman beside her also stood up.
Then came Xiaopang, Taozi, Ding Rong...
They hurriedly pinned the man down and tied him up, shouting orders as if they were dealing with some kind of ferocious beast.
During this process, Xu Heng did not struggle at all, and even had a smile on his face.
If there was a Xingtai here, the prisoner Xu Heng would undoubtedly have been sentenced to death.
The card game gives players the power to kill people. Once the seeds of doubt and fear sprout in their hearts, any slight disturbance will become a reason for them to exercise their power.
Because they have more people and they are the advantaged party.
Yitu watched as Ah Cheng and his men tied up Xu Heng and dragged him to the tool room on the first floor, and then Da Zhang took out his props.
It was a tiger-head chain with a ferocious-looking tiger head tied to one end. Da Zhang held the tiger head and stretched it to Xu Heng's feet.
The next second, the tiger's head bit Xu Heng's white ankle fiercely, and soon bright red blood seeped out from the tiger's mouth.
The other end of the chain was placed by Da Zhang on the wall outside the door. Unless someone took it off, Xu Heng would not be able to untie it by himself.
The tool room was small and dark. After Xu Heng was locked in, he did not make any noise.
The people who tied him up were busy looking for something to block the exit.
Acheng brought in a table, Xueer dragged in a chair, and Xiaoman noticed the copper lock hanging on the counter with her sharp eyes.
"Hey! There's a lock over there." Xiaoman looked at the few people standing by who didn't come to help, and shouted to Ding Rong:
"Teacher Gu, please help me get the lock."
Ding Rong's expression froze. He looked back at the copper lock and didn't move for a long time.
"Aren't you guys going a bit too far..." Hu Zao Zao couldn't help but speak.
At this moment, everyone else turned to look at them.
Da Zhang walked up to her with a gloomy face and sweat on his forehead. It was unclear whether it was due to fatigue or nervousness and guilt.
"We didn't lock him up in there to trap him to death. He's an accomplice of the murderer. He won't die in there..."
In the end, he couldn't get over the hurdle of conscience, and Da Zhang's words were a little incoherent.
His girlfriend Xueer came over and rescued him.
"He can command the ghost NPCs. We just need to wait for the murderer to rescue him, and then we can easily catch the murderer player."
Xue'er deliberately softened her tone, "He is willing to cooperate with us. After all, he is also a player and stands on our teacher's side."
Hu Zaozao couldn't help but frowning, and was about to say something when Ding Rong suddenly came over and handed the copper lock to Da Zhang.
"Take it." His face was cold.
But Da Zhang didn't care about his attitude. Although this man didn't agree with their approach, he didn't stop them after all, right?
Not stopping it means acquiescence.
Da Zhang took the copper lock and locked the door of the tool room completely.
After a burst of noise, the corridor finally returned to silence.
Da Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and Ah Cheng also felt relieved, as if everyone felt that they could escape death.
"We just have to wait for the murderer to come."
Xiaopang smiled and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Taozi stared at the door of the tool room in a daze, Xiaoman had no expression on his face, and Xueer and Da Zhang held hands tightly.
They accomplished this achievement together, and even if it turns out to be bad later, there is no turning back.
"Whoever...whoever comes to save him will be the murderer."
Ah Cheng glanced at the various expressions on everyone's faces and said, "We will kill the murderer immediately."
After he said this, he turned and left.
Xueer placed a small prop in the tool room. The seal was pasted on the door. As long as someone opened the door, Xueer would sense it immediately.
After they arranged the situation, they left one by one with peace of mind.
Only Yi Tu, Hu Zaozao and Ding Rong were left standing in the corridor.
"A good show." Yitu raised the corners of his lips slightly.
Hu Zao Zao heard this and a trace of unnaturalness flashed across his face.
"Xiao Heng's used to it a long time ago. In the dungeons we've played with him before...there have been even more outrageous things."
Yitu nodded. "Yeah, this is just a low-level card game. You're just standing here watching...are you afraid of them?"
Perhaps he asked too seriously, so Ding Rong heard a hint of humiliation in his tone.
"We're watching from the sidelines, what about you?"
"What's the difference between you and us?"
After Ding Rong said this, he instantly regretted it.
He is too impulsive. Gu Yongnian said that his personality is not pleasing and he should talk less, but he just can't control his temper.
Even though he knew that he couldn't offend the Queen of Hearts, because the team still relied on Yi Tu for development.
But once the words are out, how can they be taken back?
Yitu saw the regret that flashed across Ding Rong's eyes. His expression changed, and then his lips trembled:
"S-Sorry, that's not what I meant..."
Yitu ignored his apology and interrupted coldly:
"Even a friend I've known for a long time can stand by and watch, so how can you expect me, someone you've only known for a few days, to help you?"
"Ding Rong, I don't think you are very used to this game."
"You don't fit in this team at all."
After hearing the last sentence, Ding Rong's face turned pale instantly.
He managed to say, "You can't make a decision..."
Yitu smiled, "I just can't make a decision right now."
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