Chapter 118 Daily Life (XVIII)
After that day, everyone was depressed for a while.
Putting aside the increasing number of problems, the fact that Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian had died before made them feel a little depressed.
These two were the only ones among them who participated in every copy. It could even be said that these two were their backbone.
If there are levels in this world that even they can't get through, is there really anyone else who can solve them?
I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine.
Mu Yu recovered faster than them, and after a few days, he behaved as usual.
Time is slowly approaching the end of November.
Everyone tensed up and began waiting for the copy to appear.
Jiang Shuyue: "Does anyone have any sudden ideas today?"
Several "no"s popped up. Jiang Shuyue said, "OK, it looks safe today."
The next day there was a similar conversation.
They checked in for safety every day, and it wasn't until mid-December that they suddenly realized...wasn't this copy a little too long?
If this goes on, there will be a month between the last copy, right?
In the group, Huang Jiajia said: "Will the copy never appear again...?"
Fu Xiaoju: "That's impossible..."
Zhang Huawei: "It would be great if it really doesn't appear, but doesn't the reflection world still exist?"
Jiang Shuyue: "The reflection world has been spinning faster and faster recently. Maybe it has something to do with this."
No one could come to a conclusion after discussing it, but everyone had a vague feeling that something might be about to happen.
At 11:30 the next evening, Yan Shaowen suddenly sent a message in the group.
"Wenshan Club has all the information."
*
Qu Ge felt that a boy in the dormitory diagonally opposite was a little strange.
He discovered that something was wrong with the other party about half a month after meeting Mu Yu.
He and the boy belonged to different classes, and the other person was not a very prominent person. Qu Ge never knew his name, he only knew that he was tall and thin, and he couldn't even remember his face.
At first, when I was walking out of the dormitory, I overheard two boys in the dormitory across the street saying, "Don't you think Jiang He is a little strange recently?"
These words passed by Qu Ge's ears. He walked away without looking around while reciting words.
Later, we ran into each other head-on in the classroom.
The other person didn't seem to be paying attention to the road. After knocking his textbook over, he just glanced at him calmly, said "sorry", and left with no expression on his face.
Qu Ge frowned and looked at the other person's back. When he turned around, he noticed the subtle expressions of his two roommates.
Then, there was a lecture.
Qu Ge was sitting in the front row, listening to the professor's humorous speech. When the whole audience burst into laughter, he subconsciously turned his head while clapping.
Amidst the crowd that was clapping and laughing, there was a motionless person with an expressionless face.
No matter how lively the surroundings are, the other person just sits there quietly.
Like a human-shaped plastic toy, no matter how the environment changes, he will never fluctuate.
Full of sense of disobedience.
It was still the boy from the dormitory diagonally opposite.
Qu Ge felt a little strange, so he found the other person's two roommates and asked them what the man's name was.
"You mean the river?"
Qu Ge was a top student in the department, and the two seemed very surprised that he came to visit them. They were even more surprised when they heard him ask about Jiang He.
"He's always been like this."
Qu Ge pointed out bluntly: "I heard you guys say he's been acting weird lately."
So, it shouldn’t be “always like this”.
It turned out that the secret complaints were heard by someone. The two of them froze and looked a little embarrassed.
They scratched their cheeks, looked at each other, and said, "It did feel a bit strange at first, because when we first met he was quite fond of laughing, but then he suddenly became very cold, and we were a little uncomfortable."
"But at that time, after all, we had only known each other for a short time. Later we thought that this might be his true character. When he first started school, he might have been trying to be as friendly as possible... Anyway, we are used to it now."
Qu Ge asked: "When do you think he started to become abnormal?"
"National Day?" one person asked another uncertainly.
"It was almost the end of the National Day holiday. I remember it clearly. During that period, Yinghu Park was holding some couples' activities. One day he said he wanted to join in the fun, and when he came back that night, he became like this. I had always thought that he had secretly asked a girl out that day, and he was so unhappy because he was dumped."
After listening to this, Qu Ge's first reaction was to contact Mu Yu.
But he stopped.
Because it is obvious that if this boy named Jiang He is really related to what Mu Yu and the others are doing, then he must be involved in the most core mystery, and this is something that Mu Yu and the others cannot tell him.
But it doesn't matter.
Qu Ge likes to solve puzzles by himself.
He likes the feeling of unraveling the mystery.
If there really is some mysterious existence in this world that prevents some mysterious truth from appearing in the eyes of the world, then what if the world itself peels off that layer of paper?
What will happen to them?
…
He began to pay continuous attention to the rivers.
He found that there was indeed no expression on the boy's face.
That face grew on his face, like a shell that he had stolen and did not belong to him, and he had no control over it at all.
Just as Mu Yu said.
[The dead are not completely dead in this world. They retain their bodies, but their souls appear to be dead.]
This boy named Jiang He gave him exactly this feeling.
Jiang He's body movements are weird, and you may not notice it if you don't look closely, but if you observe carefully, you will find that he always walks at the same speed.
The sequence and amplitude of arm and hand movements when opening a textbook.
The speed of the pen when writing.
The angle when bending over to pick something up.
The way you chew your food.
Everything is always exactly the same.
Just like a robot with a set program, it will not behave outside the program control and will only repeat itself over and over again.
Qu Ge sat down in front of him, but he didn't look up.
Qu Ge asked him, "Where is your hometown?"
The boy paused and looked over. He didn't seem to be confused as to why Qu Ge, who had never talked to him before, would suddenly ask such an abrupt question.
Qu Ge asked and he answered.
An answer that seemed to have been prepared long ago and programmed.
"X City."
Qu Ge nodded and asked again: "Do you like this dish?"
Jiang He paused again, his eyes rolled and he looked at the plate in front of him.
There was a delay in his answer.
After two seconds, he looked at Qu Ge and said calmly, "I like it."
"So do you like spicy food?"
Jiang He looked at him quietly.
Qu Ge waited for ten seconds.
He stood up, took the plate and walked away.
When he sat down at the dining table ten meters away and turned around, Jiang He in the distance had lowered his head and continued eating.
——It is worse than the AI robots that humans can create at present.
This was the only thought in Qu Ge's mind.
…
This observation lasted for more than a month.
At the same time, Qu Ge also browsed the college forum every day, extracting countless fragmentary information from the chaotic posts.
A few things are certain.
1. Mu Yu and his team are working hard to expand Lu Zhongnian's influence. The Lu Zhongnian-themed Huajia fan store on Garbage Street should be their masterpiece.
Although Mu Yu did not say anything explicitly, once the number of people who know about Lu Zhongnian reaches a certain level, something big will probably happen.
Second, the locations where those "incidents" occurred were random, with no definite pattern. They had happened in Yinghu Park, in the University of Science and Technology, and seemingly in Garbage Street as well.
3. Unrelated personnel can also enter the "incident", but they will not know the truth. After the "incident" is over, only vague fragments will remain in their brains.
so--
It seems that the only way to enter the "event" is to wander around more.
At least, it wouldn't work if you just stayed in the dormitory.
Qu Ge: “…”
He glanced at the recent temperature and his face became very serious.
Hovering between 3 and 5 degrees.
You'll freeze to death if you go out.
...Forget it, just wear more clothes.
…
In this way, Qu Ge began to wrap himself up like a rice dumpling every day and walk east and west in the cold wind.
Apart from catching a severe cold, which made even his roommates wonder whether he could only have one or the other, his reward was a big 0.
Qu Ge was a little depressed.
...The body is the capital of revolution, so he decided to take a good rest for a day and make further efforts after he has recovered.
On this day, my roommates also went to bed early.
It was only nine o'clock, the lights in the dormitory were turned off, and snoring sounds gradually became louder and louder.
Qu Ge was sleeping soundly, but at some point, he was awakened by the not-so-loud sound of a door closing.
He opened his eyes sleepily in the darkness, staring blankly at the darkness in front of him, and heard footsteps coming from the opposite direction of the corridor.
The sound of footsteps at a steady pace, neither fast nor slow.
Qu Ge blinked, reached out for the phone next to the pillow, and turned on the screen.
Ten o'clock at night.
...At this time.
He sat up.
After hesitating for a moment, he got out of bed, put on his trousers and coat, hurried to the door and opened it.
Looking towards the end of the corridor, I saw Jiang He's back as he turned around and walked down the stairs.
...Qu Ge followed.
On weekends, the door downstairs is usually not closed and there is no auntie guarding it.
They left the dormitory building one after another. After Jiang He got into a taxi, Qu Ge quickly hailed another one and asked the driver to follow.
The driver's expression was very subtle. He kept glancing at them through the rearview mirror as if he suspected that they were doing something illegal.
While coughing, Qu Ge opened the map of Xinlian City and determined the direction they were heading.
...However, he never expected that Jiang He's car would eventually stop at the foot of a remote mountain.
He didn't expect that there were more than a dozen taxis parked at the foot of the mountain.
Some of these cars quickly turned around and left, while others stayed put. The drivers curiously leaned out of the windows to look in, probably thinking that some mysterious activity was going on here.
...Many students gather here.
There are boys and girls.
Some of them were wearing normal everyday clothes, some were wearing pajamas, and all of them were like Jiang He, with expressionless faces, walking up the mountain mechanically.
For a moment, Qu Ge's scalp felt tingling.
These are all...?!
He was stunned and shocked. He stood there for a long time before he reacted and hurriedly followed.
He followed the gang at a distance.
Late at night, it was very dark on the mountain and you could hardly see your hand in front of you.
Qu Ge had to turn on the flashlight, but those people seemed to be walking steadily as if it were daytime.
Qu Ge was a little nervous at first, but then he calmed down, because it was obvious that these people were not paying attention to whether anyone was following them - their eyes were only on the top, and what exactly was above?
Qu Ge was exhausted from his cold which had not yet healed and from having to do this kind of strenuous physical activity after sleeping for half an hour.
He deeply doubted whether he really needed to exercise, and by the time he stopped, he was already seeing stars.
What appeared before him was a luxurious building.
The door to the building was open. Several men in security uniforms with flashlights blocked the door and shouted in panic, "What are you doing?! Go away! Get out of here!"
"Don't gather here, we're closed, get off the mountain!"
"If you don't leave, we'll call the police!"
However, these men and women ignored them completely, just stared into the building and mechanically moved forward.
This scene is comparable to a zombie siege.
"Ignore them, close the door!" a man shouted as he stepped back, "Call the police!"
"But Master Yan didn't say..."
"It will be too late by the time Master Yan arrives!"
The next second, two beams of car lights swept over one after the other.
Two cars drove up, avoided the crowd, and carefully parked in an open space on the side.
"It's Young Master Yan's car!" a security guard said in surprise.
Qu Ge's heart moved and he looked over.
Young Master Yan?
Could it be Yan Shaowen?
In the leading luxury car, all four doors were opened, and the person who got out from the driver's seat was indeed Yan Shaowen.
Besides him, there were Mu Yu, Ye Sui, and a familiar-looking boy.
Qu Ge had seen the other person's photo in the forum. His name seemed to be Jiang Shuyue. Was he the school hunk of Lian University? He remembered that this person was also in the group that Mu Yu had invited him to join.
The two elders who got out of the second car were actually the presidents of Polytechnic University and Lianyungang University? !
Qu Ge was stunned again.
He didn't recognize the wrong people, even these two principals?
*
Mu Yu was shocked when he saw the scene in front of him.
The people in front were all familiar faces. He saw Hong Huanyu and Wang Lei who died in the welcome party copy, and Hao Jia and Qi Shan in the club recruitment copy.
There are also Li Mingke and Jiang He in the Yinghu Park dungeon, and Shen Leng in the Garbage Street dungeon...
All the players who died in the dungeon are now gathered here.
They headed straight into the Wenshan Club, as if something inside was attracting them.
He was even more shocked when he saw Qu Ge, and for a moment he thought there was something wrong with his memory.
——When did Qu Ge also die in the dungeon? !
Qu Ge said in a frown: "I'm still alive. I followed Jiang He here."
"Jiang He?" Mu Yu was stumped for a moment, then suddenly remembered, "Oh, yes, he is from the Medical University..."
...It turned out to be someone Qu Ge knew. What a coincidence.
But it seems that after that meeting, Qu Ge did not give up his exploration of the copy.
Qu Ge walked over, nodded to the two principals, and then asked Mu Yu in a low voice: "Even them?"
Mu Yu shook his head: "Principal Dou was indeed dragged into this, but it was just a coincidence that Principal Lian Dahe was here today..."
Coincidentally, when Yan Shaowen sent the message in the group, Principal Dou and Principal He had just got off the plane together.
After all, this was an incident involving so many students, and Principal Dou rushed over directly from the airport, and obviously failed to shake off Principal He on the way.
At this moment, Principal He looked at the scene in front of him, frowned and said to his friend: "Should you explain it to me?"
Principal Dou sighed: "It's a long story."
On the other side, the security guards were deadlocked at the entrance of the club, unable to advance or retreat.
They shouted at the top of their lungs: "Master Yan, these people won't leave. What should we do? Should we call the police?!"
"Don't report it yet," Yan Shaowen asked, "Is there nothing else going on in the club?"
"No, everything is normal. Lao Yu and I just did a patrol!"
Jiang Shuyue said, "There must be something inside that is attracting them. Why don't we ask the security guard to close the door first?"
But the security guards obviously didn't dare to move - they were extremely scared now, and closing the door would mean blocking their sense of security.
Yan Shaowen simply walked around the group of "ghosts" in front of him and walked towards the gate.
The others followed.
These "ghosts" did not show any aggression towards them, and did not even look over. It was obvious that they did not care about anything except the "thing" in the club at the moment.
When the security guards saw them coming, they all breathed a sigh of relief and finally dared to close the door, their faces looking a little embarrassed.
The door of the club was closed, and the people blocking the door did not change.
They still stared at the club door and kept pushing forward.
Two security guards who were a little braver kept waving their arms to drive them away.
"They don't look like they will leave on their own, but we can't leave them stuck here all night," Ye Sui adjusted his glasses and frowned, "something will definitely go wrong tomorrow."
But how to get these people to leave is a problem.
Principal He suddenly spoke up and asked a boy standing at the front: "What are you doing here?"
This boy was Lu Bin from the Yinghu Park dungeon. He mechanically replied, "Let's play."
"What are you playing? They're all closed."
“We have money.”
"It's closed down, so what if you have money? What fun things are there that attract you so much?"
Lu Bin did not answer.
Principal He said, "If you tell us, we will let you in at our discretion, but please note that you must tell us the full name of that 'thing'."
The others were startled, then focused and stared at Lu Bin.
Lu Bin's gaze moved from the club door to Principal He.
This kind of look is damp, cold and sticky, making people feel very uncomfortable.
Principal He remained expressionless, but Principal Dou frowned, took a step forward and stood in front of him.
"You can't express it? How can we give you something that you can't express it?" Principal He asked again.
Lu Bin opened his mouth.
The next second, a look of pain appeared on his face and he covered his throat.
"The mechanism of 'not telling the truth to the outside world' has been activated?" Jiang Shuyue asked in surprise.
Several old players were cheered up.
As outsiders, Qu Ge and Principal He frowned slightly - they didn't understand, but seemed to be able to guess what it meant.
Lu Bin covered his neck with his hands in a grim look, and struggled with his body. After a few seconds, his expression relaxed.
He panted quickly, put down his hands, raised his head, looked at Principal He dimly, and repeated what he had just said as if he was stuck: "We want to play."
Mu Yu immediately imitated Principal He and replied, "What do you want to play with? I told you, tell us the name of that thing, and then we can let you play with it."
There was resentment on Lu Bin's face, and this expression made him look as if he was still alive.
"If you can't tell it, go back," Mu Yu said slowly, "Something that you can't even name doesn't belong to you."
This conversation was repeated several times, and someone actually gave up and turned away.
But before leaving, these people looked at them with very cold eyes.
Several old players have a feeling——
This look didn't seem to come from these people themselves, but rather some creature was staring at them through their eyes.
This feeling sent a chill down their spines.
…However, even if they felt uncomfortable, they had to do what they had to do, and they acted together, using the same dialogue to drive away these "ghosts."
The "ghosts" left unwillingly one after another until the area was cleared and it was almost one o'clock.
Jiang Shuyue was so tired that he put his hands on his hips and said, "They won't come up again later, will they?"
"…Then call the police and forget about it." Young Master Yan's desperate attitude choked everyone.
Principal He said to Principal Dou in dissatisfaction: "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"
"What's the point of saying it?" Principal Dou said helplessly, "Are you really going to be dragged into this?"
"More heads mean more ideas. You understand this principle." Principal He said, turned around and pushed open the door of the club.
With a creak, the door opened again.
During the closure period, all lights in the club will not be turned on, whether it is day or night.
At this moment, most floors of the club were in darkness, with only a few lights on in the lobby on the first floor, emitting a dim yellow light.
The security captain wiped his sweat and said, "There is really nothing inside. The walls are normal. We have watched the surveillance video and did not see any walls being pulled apart or squeezed together."
Immediately, Principal He glared at Principal Dou, and Qu Ge glanced at Mu Yu.
There is one meaning in their eyes.
——What happens if the wall is pulled apart or squeezed?
Principal Dou and Mu Yu had a headache.
There are so many things to explain that it is hard to explain them all at once.
The most important thing is that they realized it the moment they saw the interior of the lobby clearly.
——Outsiders can’t see it.
There were clearly "things" floating everywhere in the lobby, but the security guards, Principal He and Qu Ge could not see any of them.
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