Chapter 102 Daily Life (XV)
Mid-November.
In recent days, the discussion about Lu Zhongnian has aroused the popularity of the urban legend section of the college student forum. One day, a post popped up.
Main Building: "Do you have any scary real ghost stories? Tell us about them."
1L: "It's not that scary... I just feel like I'm sleepwalking lately. It's not the kind of sleepwalking that happens when you're asleep, but after I've been to a place I always feel like I just did something else in that place, but my memory clearly tells me I didn't do it (does anyone understand this feeling?"
2L replied to 1L: "I had the same experience recently. At the end of last month, when the Culinary Institute was celebrating its anniversary, I went to Garbage Street. I felt like I had eaten at a clay pot fish head restaurant before and even remembered the taste. However, after walking around twice, I couldn't find the restaurant on Garbage Street..."
3L replied to 2L: “Fuck, me too, I even remember that store had eight casseroles!”
4L replied to 3L: "!!! Yes, I remember it too. What the hell is going on? Is there really such a store or what??!"
5L: "There has never been a store selling clay pot fish heads on Garbage Street... What's going on with the two of you upstairs..."
6L: "...I suddenly remembered that on the day when our school (Science and Technology) held its welcome party, I suddenly had a bloody taste in my mouth for no apparent reason, and so did my roommate. From that day on, one of our common roommates became very strange...We even thought about going to the counselor, but we didn't know what to say. Anyway, the other three people in our dormitory are now very afraid of that person..."
7L replied to 6L: "How is it so strange?"
8L replied to 7L: "His personality suddenly changed. He used to be a fat tiger, but now he has become free of desires, like he has ascended to heaven..."
9L replied to 8L: "Are you sure you're not hurt by love? [laughing and crying]"
10L replied to 9L: “No, it was clearly after the welcome party that he became like this. We were chatting happily that day, but suddenly he became silent. By the time we noticed, he had already become like this. From that day until now, we haven’t even seen any expression on his face. Who understands…”
11L replied to 10L: “Fuck, now that you mention it, it seems like there’s someone like this in our class…”
12L: "Are you sure the people upstairs are not acting? You guys are making me a little scared [skeleton]"
13L: "I have to say that the whole university town has given me a weird feeling lately..."
14L: "Is there anything scarier? I can handle it."
15L: "Seeing 6L suddenly reminded me of the four major campus ghost stories in the University of Science and Technology [laughing and crying]"
16L: "What are the four major campus ghost stories? Freshmen are curious!"
17L: "The following is the transportation."
"Four major campus ghost stories of Polytechnic:
1. The land behind Building No. 6 of the University of Science and Technology that now belongs to the new building was originally barren. I don’t know who put up a scarecrow there. Someone once passed by there alone at night and saw the scarecrow waving at him (it was dark and he was not sure if it was an illusion). Later, a building was built on that land and the scarecrow disappeared. When I asked the construction team where they moved the scarecrow, they said they had never seen any scarecrow.
2. There is a student lounge on the second floor of Building 5 of the Polytechnic Institute. Coffee is served there, but it is only open at night and is located at the end of the corridor. The lights there are always broken and it is very dark. Students think it is very spooky, so not many people go there. Someone once said that they saw strange gibberish-like words on the floor of the lounge, which disappeared in the blink of an eye.
3. There was once a student who was studying in the classroom at night and stayed up until two or three in the middle of the night. After she walked out of the classroom, she heard a voice behind her saying, "Old Wolf, Old Wolf, what time is it?" She turned around and saw only a black shadow running away.
4. I don’t know which teaching building’s toilet it was, but someone was squatting in the innermost cubicle of the toilet and heard someone sobbing from the thick water pipe in the corner.
18L: “Fuck, is this all made up or is it real?”
19L: “You can always find the original post. The one above was compiled by someone.”
…
On Friday evening, before the last class of the afternoon was over, Jiang Shuyue suddenly forwarded this post to the group.
Jiang Shuyue: "Any clues?"
Su Mingyun: “…”
Jing Qiao: "I think there seems to be a difference between dungeon games and ghost stories..."
Mu Yu suddenly sent a message in.
Mu Yu: "Any clues?"
Su Mingyun: “…”
Jing Qiao: “…”
Jiang Shuyue: “…”
This post is very weird.
It originally seemed to be a campus gossip section, with the main building discussing the overall strength of the new crop of handsome boys from several universities, analyzing them from multiple aspects including appearance, major, and grades.
A netizen nicknamed "The Mountain That Can't Be Read" replied in the thread: "...I'm not the school hunk, don't take me with you."
Soon someone found out that this was Jiang Shuyue's account, and everyone teased him for being thin-skinned.
Jiang Shuyue replied: "It's not that I'm thin-skinned, I just don't deserve the title of school hunk, Lu Chongnian is the school hunk..."
…This reply ignited the entire thread.
"Lu Zhongnian???"
"Is my eyes blurry? How come I saw the name of that man who belongs to the urban legend [dizzy]"
"Is Jiang Shuyue joking or serious..."
"...Does he know Lu Zhongnian?"
"Fuck, who is Lu Chongnian? I wasn't curious at first, but now I am!"
"Could it be that Lu Zhongnian is from Lian University?"
"Impossible, if Lian University had a handsome guy of this level, everyone would have known it long ago!"
"That's right, those who love beauty will never let go of any handsome guy or beautiful girl..."
"I feel like I'm losing my mind right now. Can Jiang Xueba come out and talk about Lu Zhongnian's matter again..."
"Identification completed. The school hunk of Lian University has become insane from studying too much."
"No, no, no. Judging from Jiang Shuyue's tone, he definitely knows Lu Zhongnian. Lu Zhongnian definitely exists, but for some reason the rest of us can't find him..."
"Isn't this still an urban legend?!"
"Lu Men [puts his hands together]"
"Nian Men [Put your hands together]"
"@Moderator Qiankun has made a great move!"
...So this post was moved to the Urban Tales section.
At this moment, countless dots are floating in the group.
No one expected that Jiang Shuyue would actually do such a big thing in secret.
After this post, the popularity of "Lu Chongnian", which had been declining, rose again. The urban legend section was flooded with this name, and the most popular post had more than 2,000 replies.
Fu Xiaoju: "@蒋书阅 is awesome or you are awesome [thumbs up]"
Jiang Shuyue: "A flash of inspiration, a flash of inspiration [modest]"
Hong Yang: "By the way, who went to Wenshan Club today? Was there any progress?"
Recently, in order to observe abnormal situations in the Wenshan Club, they have been divided into groups to check in every day.
Usually they work in groups of two or three. They pick a time period to check the surveillance and every corner of the club.
Unfortunately, since that day, Wenshan Club has become quiet.
Yu Ning: "I went there today. I arrived at 10 o'clock in the afternoon and there was nothing unusual."
Jiang Shuyue: "Did you go alone?"
Yu Ning: "Yan Shaowen is here too, we went there together."
Jiang Shuyue: “Oh.”
Fu Xiaoju: "It's too hard to catch the tails of those ghosts..."
Jiang Shuyue: "Be patient [sigh]"
Jiang Shuyue: "So is there anything you suddenly want to do, or a place you suddenly want to go?"
Calculating the time, it’s almost time to generate a new copy.
When talking about this, everyone started talking about it.
Fu Xiaoju: "It's so cold recently, I don't want to leave the dormitory at all [drooping]"
Jiang Shuyue: "Leaving this category aside..."
Su Mingyun: "I don't have any particular place I want to go recently. I've fallen behind on my studies a lot, so I just want to go to school for evening self-study... [crying]"
Jing Qiao: "Me too, do you want to go together tonight?"
Su Mingyun: "Okay, okay!"
Zhang Huawei: "I also plan to go to school for evening self-study today. It's been very noisy in the dormitory recently and I can't concentrate on studying at all."
Chang Sen: "Me too, so shall we go together?"
Zhang Huawei: "Okay, okay!"
Gao Zhanyuan: "@Zhang Huawei, who are you imitating? It's disgusting."
Mu Yu: “…”
Jiang Shuyue: “…”
Zhang Huawei: “What?”
Su Mingyun: "...No way [horrified]"
Zhang Huawei: “What happened?!”
Mu Yu: "Which teaching building are you going to?"
Zhang Huawei: "Building 5, there are fewer people there, and there are usually no elective classes in the evening..."
Su Mingyun: "I thought so too..."
Zhang Huawei: “…”
Mu Yu: "Have you thought about what time to go? [Eating melon]"
Su Mingyun: “Five or six o’clock…? [crying][crying][crying]”
Zhang Huawei: “[Cracked]”
Mu Yu: "@Everyone, is there anyone else who wants to go to the evening study session?"
Mu Yu's tag caused a huge uproar.
You don’t know until you ask. You’ll be shocked when you ask.
It turned out that there were more than a dozen people in the group who suddenly wanted to go to evening self-study. These thoughts inexplicably came to their mind today, but because "evening self-study" was too normal for students, no one was alert.
This seems to be the first time that everyone is so united... The signs seem a bit obvious.
There was an eerie silence in the group for a few seconds.
Su Mingyun asked weakly: "So...if a copy really appears in Building 5 at 5 or 6 tonight...should we drive the other students away?
Zhang Huawei: "...Aren't the players selected for the dungeon random?"
Jiang Shuyue: "Based on current experience, if there are old players in the map, they will definitely be selected, and new players will be selected randomly..."
Mu Yu added: "The number of players selected for a dungeon is usually between eight and thirteen. If the number of veteran players exceeds the upper limit, there may be no place for new players. However, we cannot be sure, so it is best to persuade ordinary students to leave."
Zhang Huawei: "...No, I want to ask, if we can predict the location of the dungeon, and it's a place like a teaching building where not many people will stay, then can't we just drive all the students away and not go in ourselves? If there are no players to choose from, can the dungeon still be generated?"
Mu Yu: "In the Yinghu Park dungeon, the dungeon retreated through the fog to attract new players and expanded the map."
In other words, once a copy wants to be created, no one can stop it, and they'd better not think the copy maker is too stupid.
Zhang Huawei was depressed.
After a brief period of depression, most people in the group still actively participated in discussing this matter.
——No one wants to enter the dungeon again, but only if everyone works together can they prevent more casualties.
After intense discussion, they came up with a plan.
First of all, everyone expected the evening self-study time to be around six o'clock in the evening, so they gathered at the entrance of Building 5 at five o'clock, one hour earlier.
They sent four people to guard the door of Building 5, using the excuse that "there will be a power outage here tonight" to prevent other students from entering. The rest of them searched the building as quickly as possible and persuaded all the students who were already inside to leave.
Finally, the players who remain in the building use the remaining time to familiarize themselves with the structure of the entire building and prepare for the copy that may happen next.
This action is not mandatory and participation is entirely voluntary.
Fortunately, within just one or two minutes, more than a dozen people had already signed up.
Zhang Huawei hesitated for a long time and said, "...Can I help you guard outside? [kneel]"
Mu Yu: "Sure, but it's possible that we won't be enough. The dungeon will also include those guarding outside. We have to be mentally prepared."
Zhang Huawei: "That's fate... [kneel][kneel][kneel]"
Once the plan is finalized, everyone takes action.
*
Today is Friday, and Mu Yu had planned to go home for dinner, but now of course he can't go back.
He sent a message in his family group, and his mother immediately replied with a crying emoticon.
Just after I said a few words of comfort, Mu Chenxi called...
Mu Yu was embarrassed, it was so fast...
Mu Chenxi asked directly: "Why can't you come back?"
While packing the things he was going to bring, Mu Yu replied with a guilty conscience: "I've been a bit busy lately..."
Mu Chenxi said coldly: "What's the matter?"
"Study matters..."
"So what's it?"
“…”
“…”
Mu Yu decided to change the track: "Actually, my roommate has something important to do tonight so he can't attend the elective class, so I'm going to take his place!"
"Oh, I see." Mu Chenxi's voice was slow and it was hard to tell whether he believed it or not. "Does your school have elective classes on Friday night?"
"Yes, I have……"
"How late will it be?"
"It's quite late..."
"Later than subway time?"
"Not sure... I'll have to go home tomorrow. It's definitely too late tonight..."
"Isn't there a subway station at the north gate of your school?"
"The teaching building is at the west gate, quite far away..."
"Oh, so," Mu Chenxi said lightly, "Okay, then come back tomorrow. Bye."
Mu Yu was unable to react: "Ah? Oh..."
He stared at the darkened screen of his cell phone, lost in thought.
...There shouldn't be any flaws, right?
Well, probably not...
He lowered his head and continued to pack his "luggage"...
The other end.
When Mu Yu sent a message in the group, Mu Chenxi had just changed out of his white coat.
At this moment, he took the elevator to the parking lot on the basement floor of the hospital and made a phone call as he walked.
"Mom, I won't be back for dinner tonight. I have to work overtime."
"Yeah, it's okay, don't worry, it won't be too late. Okay, hanging up."
Two minutes later, he walked to the car door and his cell phone vibrated.
The caller ID showed the three words "Mu Chenxing".
Mu Chenxi smiled helplessly and picked up the phone.
"Aren't you calling too quickly?"
A deep and attractive female voice came from the other end of the phone.
"You and Ayu are not coming back tonight?"
"yes."
Mu Chenxi said this and reached out to open the car door.
The other end heard the voice, paused, and said in a serious tone: "Are you leaving the hospital now?"
Mu Chenxi sighed with a smile, sat in the driver's seat, closed the door, and answered again: "Yes."
And what he just told their mother was that he "had to work overtime tonight."
Mu Chenxi actually had no intention of hiding it from his fraternal sister.
His sister has always been the most perceptive in the family.
Mu Chenxing fell silent after hearing his straightforward answer.
When she spoke again, she asked, "...Did something happen to Ayu?"
"I'm not sure, but even if something does happen, I won't let anything happen to him," Mu Chenxi said, "Don't tell my parents."
"... Got it," Mu Chenxing said in a deep voice, "Call me back when you're done."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Mu Chenxi started the car.
Open the navigation and enter the destination - Xinlian University of Technology, West Gate.
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