Chapter 116 Daily Life (XVI)
Outside the teaching building.
Zhang Huawei watched the time jump to 6 o'clock and his heart skipped a beat.
He typed tremblingly: "@Muyu your brother came in..."
Several question marks popped up in the group, all of them were friends who were unable to participate in this action due to various reasons.
As for Mu Yu, he never showed up.
Zhang Huawei's hands were shaking, and he muttered, "Fuck, has the copy already started? Will he come out to kill me after it's over..."
Yu Ning's mouth twitched and he touched his back.
Not really, shouldn’t be…
He looked into the teaching building.
As soon as the man holding the umbrella folded his umbrella, his back paused, and after two or three seconds, he straightened up.
He paused quietly for a moment, turned sideways, glanced at them, then picked up his phone, as if planning to contact someone.
Yu Ning's heart moved.
The other person's eyes...are different from before.
...Has the copy ended?
Five minutes later.
In the group.
Mu Yu: “[Covering forehead]”
Mu Yu: “[Cat sighs]”
Zhang Huawei: [crying][question mark]
Zhang Huawei: "[Can I still live.jpg]"
Mu Yu: "It's over, don't say anything, I'm going to bring someone in..."
[“Mu Yu” invited “Mu Chenxi” to join the group chat]
[“Mu Yu” invited “Jin Qian” to join the group chat]
[“Mu Yu” invited “Huang Jiajia” to join the group chat]
The rest of the group members were surprised.
In addition to Mu Yu's brother, there are other newcomers entering the dungeon? Didn't they check the building in advance?
Mu Yu briefly explained the game mode of this copy, and everyone realized that only those who took the ginkgo leaves would be selected as players.
Gao Zhanyuan: "...If I had known, I would not have played with my phone. The desks in the classroom were covered with ginkgo leaves, but I didn't even take a single one [resentment]"
Li Ke: "So the players who wanted to stay in a certain classroom just now were the selected ones?"
Ye Sui: "That should be the case."
After a while, the large group slowly walked out of the teaching building.
Jiang Shuyue was scratching his head frantically - he participated in this instance and yet he didn't! He just drew a picture on his sketchbook out of itch, so how come it was hidden until the end of the instance? ?
Everyone is watching his masterpiece.
"Oh my god, how many Junji Ito did you eat?" Chang Sen exclaimed.
The painting is truly exquisite. The patterns on the ginkgo tree trunk and the small fans that intersect with each other are all so delicately drawn.
But the style of painting is really disappointing. The ginkgo tree doesn't look like a plant at all. It looks more like a monster. The patterns on the trunk look like a human face, seeming to be crying and laughing at the same time.
What kind of mental state can create such a horrifying picture?
"So he is the soul painter of our team," Hong Yang said, "By the way, Jiang Shuyue, we haven't had the chance to show the paintings you drew during your last retreat to the copy maker yet, right?"
Jiang Shuyue vomited blood: "I was busy with the previous copy, and I only appeared at the end of this copy..."
Everyone looked at him with pity and wanted to hold up a banner for him - Xiao Jiang, so pitiful!
Gao Zhanyuan hung his head, and Mu Yu rubbed his dog head: "Well, what's so fun about the dungeon? Are you so unhappy because you can't enter?"
Gao Zhanyuan said listlessly: "If something happens to you, brother..."
Mu Yu: "Don't set a flag. It's not easy for everyone to survive this time. Let's say something happy."
Huang Jiajia was stunned when he heard this: "Ah, didn't everyone survive before?"
Ye Sui turned around and said, "This is the only time."
Huang Jiajia's legs went limp.
Jin Qian, who was walking beside him, was startled and quickly reached out to support him: "Your legs are weak after coming out?"
Huang Jiajia's face was filled with shame: "Xixi, let me go. I, I can stand up..."
Jin Qian: "By the way, can you please stop calling me Qianqian? We're not that familiar..."
Huang Jiajia: "Wuwuwu, I'm sorry..."
He cried and hugged the door frame of Building 5, his legs limp as he kicked on the ground, but he couldn't straighten them no matter what he did.
Xu Dong, Wang Jia, Yu Ning and Zhang Huawei hurried over to meet them.
Zhang Huawei secretly felt lucky that Mu Yu didn't come after him. Seeing Huang Jiajia's expression, he laughed again: "Are you scared to death?"
Huang Jiajia cried softly.
Zhang Huawei consoled him: "It's normal, I was so scared in the last instance that I peed myself."
Mu Chenxi passed by them and said lightly, "He ate the monster generator."
Zhang Huawei continued to comfort him: "The monster generator looks disgusting, right? I think so too. Such a sanity-inducing thing... huh?"
He looked at Mu Chenxi's back blankly.
...What did he just say?
Mu Yu walked in front and sighed, "This is the only instance where the monster generator was chewed and swallowed by the players, which ended the game."
Hong Yang: "Yes, to be honest, that scene will shock me for a year."
Yu Ning didn't see their lip movements clearly, and looked at Yan Shaowen, who was walking at the end, with a puzzled look on his face.
Yan Shaowen raised his lips: "Don't ask, it's a very heavy topic."
Yu Ning: “…” Doesn’t this make people even more curious?
…
The large army marched away in a mighty procession, but Zhang Huawei remained standing where he was.
He lowered his head.
Huang Jiajia knelt by the door, looking at him with tearful eyes: "Wuwuwuwu, classmate, I really can't stand up, or give me a hand?"
He blinked and tears as big as beans fell.
Zhang Huawei: “…”
...Is this a new type of scam?!
*
Every time a copy ends, everyone has a lot to talk about.
Newcomers want to know what happened before, and veterans who haven't participated in the dungeon want to know the specific details.
Jiang Shuyue suggested that everyone go to the board game hall and sit for a while. Mu Yu coughed lightly and asked awkwardly, "Brother, do you want to go with us?"
"No, if I don't go back, your sister can come and kill me herself." Mu Chenxi said lazily while replying to WeChat.
Mu Yu froze: "...Sister knows about this too?!"
"Who can you hide this from?" Mu Chenxi sneered, "Don't worry, she just thinks you've been a little weird lately. I won't tell her that you're doing something so dangerous, but if she figures it out herself, it's none of my business."
Mu Yu: “…………” What kind of disclaimer is this!
After Mu Chenxi replied to Mu Chenxing's message, he asked again, "Then you will take the subway home by yourself tomorrow?"
"……Um."
Even though Mu Chenxi drove here today, it would be hard to explain to mom if the two brothers went home together now...
"Okay." Mu Chenxi put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked at him.
Mu Yu felt the look in his brother's eyes, and he was about to remind him to remember to explain the matter of the copy. He couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed. However, Mu Chenxi looked away and looked at the ground beneath their feet.
He was silent for a moment, then said, "Ayu, although movies about heroes saving the world are fun, no one wants their family to become the hero who sacrifices himself for the whole world."
Mu Yu paused.
"But then again, these kinds of movies always seem to have mostly happy endings?" Mu Chenxi smiled faintly, "It's cliché, but in reality, clichés are good."
He looked at Mu Yu.
"Ayu, live a more clichéd life."
A bitter feeling suddenly emerged in Mu Yu's throat.
"…Yeah. I will, bro."
…
The party didn't last very late.
At around nine o'clock, everyone dispersed.
Mu Yu lived in the farthest dormitory area. After saying goodbye to everyone else with a smile, he slowly walked into the night.
He put his hands in his trouser pockets, tightly holding something inside, and the smile on his face disappeared.
He returned to the dormitory in silence, took a shower, went to bed, and crawled into the quilt.
The eldest was a little surprised: "You went to bed so early?"
Mu Yu said vaguely: "Well, I'm a little sleepy."
"Then shall I turn off the lights?" the eldest asked the second and third brothers.
The two were playing games, and they were both very casual: "Turn it off."
With a snap, the dormitory became dark.
There were only three computers left, and the screens were still emitting dim light.
Mu Yu pulled the quilt over his head, turned over and closed his eyes.
Then he opened his eyes and looked at his right hand... He was holding a transparent waterproof bag, and inside the bag was a blood-stained mobile phone.
When I first got the phone, the bloodstains were bright red, but after some time, the liquid had coagulated and turned black.
This is not his phone.
The second half of the second round of recess games in the dungeon——
All of them were running down the corridor on the 6th floor.
The people behind him were looking for the safety line, and there was a hint of nervousness in their messy footsteps; his brother and Lu Chongnian rushed forward, and they agreed that one of them would go into 605, and the other would go to the toilet to get water.
He stopped in front of the vending machine and took out two devil coins while panting.
The first one, he exchanged for a bundle of ropes.
He held the bundle of ropes in his arms, while paying attention to the movements in the classroom in front of him, he raised his hand and put the second devil coin into the coin slot.
Suddenly, my sense of sight around me disappeared completely.
Mu Yu paused, and the coin on his fingertips had already rolled into the groove, making a crisp collision sound.
Then, with a thud, something fell from the access port.
…He felt it calmly, and the sense of sight was indeed gone.
The corridor behind him was still noisy and everyone was concentrating on dealing with the monster, but no one showed a subtle expression on their face, as if he was the only one who had quietly fallen into a small visual vacuum.
That’s a bit strange…
He bent down slowly.
They have gone through several copies, and the "sights" in the copies have been increasing and becoming more and more noticeable, with no trend of reverse change.
They are everywhere and can penetrate any hole, so how could they suddenly disappear at this moment?
It was as if an invisible hand had dispersed all those disturbing things in one fell swoop; the disappearance of those sights just now did not seem natural.
Did something unusual happen...?
He remained alert and reached into the access port.
Having said that.
The "sight" disappeared, which means that the copy maker couldn't see what he was doing at this moment...?
The idea came up naturally.
Mu Yu didn't know why he thought this way. Maybe it was just a subconscious thought.
However, the next second, his absent-minded expression suddenly froze on his face.
His hand was still inside the dark hole where he was supposed to retrieve something, but his arm was already stiff.
…He felt a hand inside.
A wet hand, slightly warm, but rapidly cooling down.
The moment the two hands touched in the dark, the other person shrank back.
A second later, it quickly reached over again and pinched his fingertips.
Mu Yu was aroused to shudder.
He could hardly control his expression, his pupils dilated, his hair stood on end, and his fingers trembled slightly.
He lowered his head in disbelief and felt the other person put something cold in his palm.
It was a cell phone, he could feel it.
But why...
How is it possible...
Why… ?
He suddenly shook the phone off his hand and chased after the hand, but the other party seemed to know what he was thinking. He gently squeezed his hand and quickly walked away from the darkness.
Mu Yu threw himself forward and put both hands into the access port, but he could not feel anything.
He bent down to look, but could not see clearly.
He turned on the flashlight on his cell phone and shone it. The cold metal of the access port stared back at him. Inside was a cell phone stained with bright red blood and a lucky wheel that he had just exchanged for the devil coins.
He spread out his trembling palms, which were also bright red.
Mu Yu's mind went blank and the oxygen seemed to evaporate from his lungs.
"Ayu!"
Not far away, Hong Yang called him and heard footsteps approaching.
Mu Yu breathed rapidly.
He hardly knew what he was thinking, his thoughts were extremely confused and running wild.
He froze for a few seconds, driving himself only by instinct.
He tried hard to control his trembling body, hid the phone in his trouser pocket, and then quietly wiped the blood on his palm on the ground.
He stood up quickly and adjusted his facial expression, but his body remained stiff.
He turned stiffly and faced Hong Yang.
My head is still filled with three words:
Why, why, why, why—
Why, that looks like Lu Zhongnian's hand? !
…
He didn't expect that the phone would eventually leave the copy with him.
At this moment, he was hiding in the quilt, silently turning on the screen.
The lock screen password has been canceled by its owner, and it can be unlocked by swiping up lightly.
What appeared in his field of vision was the memo page.
He had secretly read it when he was in the copy.
However, he could not read it at the time, and could not fully comprehend it. He knew every word in the memo, but when put together, they formed a strange and weird connection.
Just as he subconsciously hid the phone and wiped off the bloodstains at that time, his brain needed to recover from the shock before it could function normally.
He needs to digest it before he can accept it all.
【Mu Yu, I hope you don't think about what happened when you see this text, but remember this text. The Thief is not always strong, and the power of Him and the Guardian will keep changing. When He is suppressed, maybe you will be able to sit on both sides of the chessboard with Him again. At that time, you must remember that He is also one of the players, and is equal to you in the game. If He can write the rules, then you can too. Let Him enter the dungeon map, have an entity that can be killed, and cannot descend on any creature on Earth. Kill Him before He opens the next rule. 】
The last five words of the memo.
[Also, I’m sorry. ]
Mu Yu stared at the text in silence for a long time.
He pressed the lock button on the side of the phone, the screen went dark, and the bed was pitch black.
After one second, press again and the screen lights up.
The lock screen clearly shows:
10:34am
Wednesday, August 21
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