Chapter 27: Club Recruitment (Part 4)
There were sudden knocks on the doors, and the entire classroom fell silent.
Fu Xiaoju and the two seniors looked at each other, and Senior Zhuang ordered him, "You, you go open the door!"
...Fu Xiaoju really began to regret it.
Why did he impulsively agree to this grouping just for the sake of face? If he doesn't want to join the basketball club, then he won't be able to find friends to play basketball with in the future? !
He was holding his temper, went to the door, opened it with trepidation... and then breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no monster, just a note at the door.
I picked up the note and opened it. The handwriting inside was clearly Mu Yu's.
"What's the matter? What's written on it?" Seeing that there was no danger, the two seniors immediately gathered around.
Fu Xiaoju closed the door, glanced through it roughly, and when he saw the fifth item written by Mu Yu, his expression changed slightly.
The thin senior's name is Zhao Jiayang. He clicked his tongue and broke out in a cold sweat: "There are so many tricks in the rules? Isn't it easy to step into a trap if you are not careful?"
Senior Zhuang’s name is Jin Sheng. He stared at the five points of attention written by Mu Yu with a tense expression on his face.
There was nothing special about their classroom 202. There were sports equipment all over the place, such as table tennis, baseball, tennis and basketball - the basketballs were not the ones they brought back themselves, as the basketball frames had long been thrown into the hall of the activity center.
As soon as he came in, Fu Xiaoju searched the entire classroom, but he didn't see any new rules, nor did he find the moon-shaped monster generator. After that, he and Jin Sheng and Zhao Jiayang have been doing nothing until now.
——As for whether there is a problem with the equipment, they played basketball from time to time just now, and nothing seemed to have happened.
At this moment, Jin Sheng and Zhao Jiayang sat back on their stools.
Perhaps because he felt cold, Zhao Jiayang hugged the basketball he had been playing with and asked without any idea, "What should we do now?"
Fu Xiaoju hesitated and said, "Our group really doesn't have anything to prepare. As for the club review, it should be the fastest..."
Jin Sheng interrupted him: "We're not going, you go if you want to go!"
Fu Xiaoju: "Ah? But the rules say that the whole group must review it together."
"So, we won't go." Jin Sheng had dark skin and was very fat, with fat on his face. He looked fierce when he turned cold. "Are you stupid? Why do you want us to be the pioneers? Do you know what you will encounter in the club union office? Can you handle it? Should we punish this hero?"
"I think so too," Zhao Jiayang said with a wry smile, "Let the other groups go first. Doesn't your old classmate have experience? Let them go first."
Fu Xiaoju felt angry again.
It's not that he's not afraid of death. He came to the activity center to put down the equipment, but he ended up encountering this kind of dungeon game. He felt very unlucky! But he just didn't like the way of hiding everything and letting others do it. It would make him look particularly cowardly...
Mu Yu is different. He never knows what it means to hide and always faces things head-on.
Fu Xiaoju sometimes envied that guy for being bold and consistent, but more often than not, he looked at Mu Yu with displeasure, as if he was a dark person who was jealous of others for having qualities that he didn't have.
At this moment, he began to hate himself again.
After being told this by the two seniors, he instantly lost the courage to persist. He moved his lips and sat down on his stool in a somewhat cowardly manner.
After a pause, he asked again: "Should we go outside to search for the monster generator? Mu Yu's note says that it can last for about five minutes..." We can't just sit here and do nothing...
Before he could finish his words, Jin Sheng threw a ball to Zhao Jiayang and rolled his eyes, "I say the same thing. Go ahead if you want to. Why do you like to be in the limelight so much? Your old classmate said he could last five minutes, so can he really last five minutes? If you can't make it halfway, who will be responsible for you? Him? And who knows if a monster will suddenly appear!"
Zhao Jiayang put down his basketball, caught the one thrown by Jin Sheng, and advised: "Yeah, I think Xiaoju, you should stop thinking too much. We are just sitting here in the classroom. The three experienced old men haven't taken any action. Why should we be the first to take action?"
He threw the ball back to Jin Sheng, scratched his back and said, "We just stay here until they need our cooperation. If there is no danger to our lives, we will cooperate. That's the most we can do, right?"
Jin Sheng: “That’s it.”
Fu Xiaoju was almost speechless.
Did the best they could? They said it as if it was none of their business!
If other people can't crack this copy, won't the three of them be trapped in it too? Who can escape?
*
Classroom 203, Small Animal Protection Club.
After four knocks on the door, for safety reasons, Ye Sui waited for a while to make sure there was no knock again before opening the door.
The corridor was empty, no one was seen, and there was a note in front of the door.
He picked up the note, opened it and knew it was written by Mu Yu. The note ended with a sentence: "Is there anything unusual in your classroom?"
He walked back and placed the note on the table.
Qi Shan and the sophomore girl immediately asked, "What do you mean?"
"It's pretty much the same as what we just speculated."
Just now, they searched the classroom as soon as they entered it, but found no new rules, nor anything that looked like a monster generator.
There wasn't much clutter in their classroom. The most eye-catching items were a telephone placed in the middle of the table, a laptop, and three blank tickets stacked together.
The ticket wrote the starting point "Xinlian University of Technology Student Activity Center", but there was no information such as destination, time, etc.
To be cautious, they did not touch these things immediately, but sat together to analyze the rules.
Ye Sui felt that there was something wrong between Article 1 and Article 7 of the "Activity Center Usage Rules", and Mu Yu had the same idea as him.
A sophomore girl named Hao Jia said with a look of worry and relief: "At least there is no clear clue that there is a problem with these props. So what should we do next? Can this phone be dialed through? If it can be dialed through..."
Who will answer the phone?
It can't be someone outside the copy, right? In that case, they can just call the police directly. Could such a good thing be possible?
Ye Sui picked up the receiver and actually dialed 110, but quickly shook his head to confirm the answer - there was no way to call the police, there was no signal at all.
Although they had expected it, Hao Jia and Qi Shan were still a little disappointed.
So, who exactly did the copy want them to call?
They are a small animal protection club, and their goal is to organize a social practice, so the purpose of placing the computer here is very obvious - there is only an untitled Word document on the entire desktop, which means that they are asked to write a plan.
The meaning of the blank ticket seems to be quite obvious. It should be that they have to make sufficient preparations before the complete information will be displayed. Only when the information of the entire ticket is displayed can they be considered fully prepared and be able to go for the assessment - but does the assessment really require them to take a bus to a stray animal protection base?
There is no way to know.
With only the prop of the telephone, they were really confused.
They searched the entire room but couldn't find any suspicious phone numbers.
Ye Sui lowered his head and thought for a moment, then slowly analyzed: "The telephone is placed here for us to dial a number, and it must be for us to contact someone who can help us achieve the goals of the society."
"The transcript didn't give us a direct phone number, so the only numbers we could call were the ones we had, either memorized in our heads or in our phone's address book."
Hao Jia was confused and said, "But the numbers we have are all from people outside the dungeon. Isn't this phone incapable of making calls?"
Ye Sui: "Just because we can't get through to 110 doesn't mean we can't get through to other phone numbers."
Qi Shan and Hao Jia were stunned and became a little excited.
Ye Sui's next words instantly extinguished their hopes: "But similarly, just because we called that number doesn't mean that the person who answered the phone will necessarily be the person in real life."
Qi Shan and Hao Jia froze: "What do you mean..."
"It could be a monster, or it could be a fake person created by the copy. We don't know yet," Ye Sui looked at Qi Shan, "Senior, the phone number the copy wants is probably in your phone."
In real life, Qi Shan is the president of the Small Animal Protection Association. Since he wrote down the club's goal of "cooperating with the largest stray animal protection base in the province", it probably means that he knows that base and may even have its contact information.
Sure enough, Qi Shan took a deep breath, picked up the receiver and said, "Okay, I'll try it."
He didn't even need to open his phone to check the address book, he just dialed a private phone number. Ye Sui gestured for him to press the speakerphone, and he quickly did so.
A beep sounded and the three of them looked at each other - there was a signal this time!
Beep-beep-beep-
After three gentle rings, the phone was picked up.
The three people felt nervous.
A middle-aged male voice came from the other end: "Hello? Xiao Qi?"
Hao Jia suddenly raised his head and looked at Qi Shan and Ye Sui - this voice sounded very much like a real person, could it really be a monster?
Ye Sui immediately hung up the phone and calmly asked Qi Shan: "Do you recognize this voice?"
Qi Shan looked confused and said, "I know him. This is Uncle Zhang, the person in charge of the stray animal protection base. I have contacted him several times. I will never mistake his voice!"
Hao Jia: "Then——"
Ye Sui shook his head: "The voice can be imitated, but it doesn't mean that the person on the other side is the uncle you know."
Hao Jia and Qi Shan's words were strangled in their throats again.
Ye Sui sat down and said, "Since we can get through the call, it means we are on the right track. What we need to do now is to discuss what we will communicate with 'Uncle Zhang' after we make this call again."
*
Classroom 204, Handicraft Club.
There were only Lu Chongnian and the president of the handicraft club in the classroom, which was neither too big nor too small.
This senior was a junior student of science and engineering named Li Ke. After he and Lu Chongnian came in, they also checked the classroom first. There were many materials in it that could be used for them to make handicrafts, but they didn't find the rules and monster generators.
Li Ke saw Lu Zhongnian coming in with a note and asked nervously, "Who brought it? What's written on it?"
Lu Zhongnian's gaze lingered for a moment on the last line of the note, "Are you all right here?", and then handed the note to Li Ke.
Li Ke quickly glanced through it and frowned, "He asked us to be careful with props and materials, but there seems to be no problem on our side? The first and seventh rules of the activity center are contradictory...ah, the rules are so deep? How can we find it..."
Lu Chongnian was already looking at the pile of materials around him.
He is not good at handicrafts - it's not that he can't do even the simplest paper cutting or wood sawing, but he has never learned how to design things. Therefore, he can only assist at best. How to make a "toy plane" depends on the ideas of handicraft master Li Ke.
He spoke, and his cold voice instantly woke Li Ke from his nervousness and anxiety.
"Senior, I have to go out in a few minutes. Let's first confirm what kind of plane we want to make."
"Ah? You want to go out? Why?"
Li Ke became even more nervous.
He had the courage to set up a two-person club because he was used to taking on heavier burdens when the group faced difficulties. This was an innate sense of responsibility and an obligation.
He is often laughed at as a fool because of this, but Li Ke feels that some things need to be done by someone. If everyone backs down, some problems will never be solved.
Of course, just because he took over the problem doesn't mean he has the ability to solve it, but he will try his best to find a solution...
So now that his only friend Lu Chongnian suddenly said he wanted to go out, he was a little panicked.
Lu Zhongnian said, "I want to check the rest of the second floor and the third floor. I should be back soon."
Li Ke understood: "Oh, we still have to make sure the monster generator is placed where it can be easily found, right? Okay, um, for the toy airplane, do you think we can just make a paper airplane?"
Lu Zhongnian shook his head and rejected this plan: "Generally, 'paper airplanes' are not called 'toy airplanes'. 'Toy airplanes' should have a more complex structure than 'paper airplanes', or be made of more refined materials."
"The focus of the dungeon's assessment of our team should be on the completion of this toy plane. Failing the assessment may put our lives in danger, so it's best not to rely on luck."
Li Ke was a little embarrassed. He thought carefully and said, "How about making a wooden plane? Just make the simplest structure. This way, it is not easy to make mistakes and it saves time. I will draw the blueprint first!"
*
Classroom 205, Literature Society.
Jiang Shuyue also waited cautiously for a while before opening the door to get the note. Mu Yu thought of almost the same thing as he did. He showed the note to Wang Haiyang, then looked at the classroom full of popular science books and calculation drawings with worry.
——There is not even a single poetry book in this entire classroom!
What he didn't consider when he came up with the goal of the club was that if they couldn't get the poetry collection, how would they recite the poems?
Wang Haiyang can recite quite a few complex modern poems, and he has a burning literary soul.
But if the test they have to face is to recite poetry in front of a monster, then he can't guarantee that he will have the mentality to recite the poem well by then. If he accidentally gets stuck or recites it wrong, will he be killed on the spot?
Jiang Shuyue thought about it and suggested, "Why don't we recite ancient poems? The most familiar ones, the ones that you can recite with your eyes closed, and you won't make any mistakes!"
Wang Haiyang's mouth twitched: "You mean..."
Jiang Shuyue: "For example, who knows that every grain of rice on the plate is the result of hard work..."
*
7:35
The entire building of the Student Activity Center was shrouded in thick fog.
The pale light illuminated the entire space. Ever since the thirteen people rushed into their respective activity classrooms, the first, second and third floors had all fallen into silence.
Suddenly, the doors of classrooms 201, 203, and 204 were opened.
As soon as Mu Yu stuck his head out, he met eyes with Ye Sui and Lu Chongnian.
Three people: "..."
Lu Chongnian looked at Mu Yu, then looked at Ye Sui with a subtle look.
Mu Yu looked at Ye Sui, then looked at Lu Chongnian awkwardly.
Ye Sui glanced at Lu Chongnian, and then glanced at Mu Yu.
“…………”
Close the door and rush towards the stairs together!
Mu Yu coughed lightly and whispered, "Let's go to the third floor first."
The feeling of impending death slowly approached them, and they hurried up the stairs. During the process, Mu Yu asked them, "How are things over there?"
Ye Sui said: "It's okay for now."
Lu Zhongnian: "Yeah, the same."
Mu Yu: “…” He seemed to want to say something but stopped, and finally shut up.
Ye Sui glanced at Lu Chongnian.
It was really hard for him not to pay attention to this so-called person who was once their classmate but now disappeared from their memory.
So I took the initiative to ask: "Have you ever been my deskmate?"
"Um."
"Do you have any idea why it turned out like this?"
Mu Yu turned his face to the side.
Lu Zhongnian said calmly: "No, I am also looking for the answer."
Ye Suibian didn't ask any further questions.
They rushed to the third floor and stopped.
There is also a rectangular patio-style corridor on the third floor, but this patio corridor is completely empty, with not even a painting hanging on the wall.
The focus is on a straight corridor in the other direction coming up the stairs.
The corridor is very deep, with several offices with closed doors scattered on both sides.
There was a photo frame hung every one or two meters on the snow-white wall. Mu Yu used his limited vision to look at the photo frame closest to them and found that there was a school newspaper in the frame.
"The community union office is the one at the end." Ye Sui reminded in a low voice, he said this with a frown.
Because at this moment, right opposite the club office, against the wall, there was a... strange red vending machine? ?
Ye Sui: "...There is no such thing in reality."
Mu Yu immediately thought of the devil coin and took the coin out of his trouser pocket.
It was also at this moment that he suddenly felt someone standing behind them. His scalp exploded and he turned around abruptly!
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