Chapter 43: Club Recruitment (End)
Time, 9:34.
Lu Chongnian, Fu Xiaoju, Ye Sui and Jiang Shuyue went downstairs.
The first three reorganized into the basketball club, and Jiang Shuyue changed his identity from a member of the literature club to the president, and got the key to classroom 205.
When these people ran upstairs again, Mu Yu asked them: "What is the final goal of the club?"
Ye Sui shook his head and said, "No matter what I change, it doesn't work. In the end, I just change it to the same as before!"
After saying this, he, Fu Xiaoju and Lu Chongnian went straight to the third floor.
Mu Yu quickly recalled the goal of the basketball club that Jin Sheng wrote on the application form at the beginning of the copy -
Win the championship in the city's college 3v3 basketball competition.
Mu Yu suspected that the basketball club's assessment would also be an illusion. The copy would let the three of them play a game in the illusion. As for whether the opponent would be an ordinary human or something else, it was hard to say.
The rest returned to their respective classrooms.
At this critical moment, everyone couldn't help but become anxious.
In classroom 205, Jiang Shuyue squatted in front of the small door on the floor, waiting for the second knock.
In classroom 204, Li Ke was fidgeting at the table, taking deep breaths.
Classrooms 203 and 202 are both empty.
In classroom 201, Niao Ge and Yu Hui were pacing back and forth. Mu Yu was sitting at the table, thinking about things and looking at the time.
9:40
Brother Bird was the first one who couldn't help it and ran upstairs. He planned to wait at the door of the community union office. If the door was not opened after five minutes, he would come back to get some fresh air.
9:47
Brother Bird had already returned to the classroom, while Mu Yu, Yu Hui, and Li Ke ran out of the two classrooms together.
As soon as they ran to the door of classroom 205, without even raising their hands, Jiang Shuyue opened the door and said to them, "The knock on the door hasn't sounded yet!"
If the sound hasn't been heard yet, it's likely that it has shifted to 9:52.
The answer is almost out, what they are looking for is the July school newspaper!
Mu Yu said clearly, "Then Jiang Shuyue, you continue to stay in the classroom. When you hear the knock on the door at 9:52, go up to the third floor."
"Seniors Yu Hui and Li Ke, if you two want to go up to the third floor, if the door of the club office is not open at 9:53, go to the corridor and call me."
"I'll go to the first floor and wait now. If something goes wrong, I'll immediately switch to the Literature Club!"
Jiang Shuyue stopped him and asked, "If it is really our turn to take the test, which poem should we recite?"
Mu Yu changed his mind and said, "If I have a mentor, it doesn't matter which poem I choose. I'll just recite "Quiet Night Thoughts"!"
A three-year-old child can recite this poem without making any mistakes.
Jiang Shuyue: “Okay!”
After saying that, Yu Hui, Li Ke and Bird Brother who had run out again went up to the third floor together.
Jiang Shuyue returned to Room 205, while Mu Yu went to the first floor.
He pulled out a blank club application form, leaned over the table, and quickly filled in the other information, leaving only two columns: "Do you need a mentor?" and "Where to sign your name?", and then began to wait.
The empty first-floor lobby was extremely silent. Outside the glass door, thick fog was silently surging.
Mu Yu looked at the time, 9:48.
He let out a long breath, looked up at the third floor, and began to think.
Although Lu Chongnian didn't want him to have to hire a mentor, the basketball club's assessment was still full of unknowns.
No matter how powerful Lu Chongnian is, Mu Yu will not treat him like a god like others do.
Lu Zhongnian will also get hurt and will fail.
Mu Yu would not think that Lu Chongnian should be omnipotent, and when he falls, Mu Yu will definitely catch him.
He bent his slender index finger and tapped it on the desk.
So, if he and Jiang Shuyue really invited a mentor, what would their literary club duo face then?
Mu Yu would not miss the message contained in the sentence Lu Chongnian said before he parted ways with him.
"If we want to hire a 'mentor', won't 9:53 be too late?"
"No, there's still time."
At that time, Lu Chongnian seemed to have guessed what the instructor's secret to passing the exam would be.
But what exactly could that be?
Mu Yu pondered.
In the literature club assessment, "death" is a stimulus that can make players wake up instantly.
In other words, maybe anything bloody and scary can wake the player up.
If one thinks this way, the guidance provided by the "instructor" would never have allowed him and Jiang Shuyue to escape unscathed, so...
Mu Yu's eyes turned.
Could it be that the “teacher’s” secret to passing the level is to inflict harm on both of them so as to keep them awake in the illusion?
No, it is impossible to stay awake all the way, then this test would not be difficult at all.
There is a high probability that players will still lose consciousness the moment they enter the assessment, but the injuries left on them by the "instructor" will most likely make them wake up at some point.
Moreover, since the "instructor" has to have its meaning of existence, he or she must not kill them both directly during the "instruction stage".
That kind of injury would definitely keep him and Jiang Shuyue on the verge of death. As for whether they could survive the test, it all depended on their lives.
"Quiet Night Thoughts"...
If he and Jiang Shuyue really wanted to recite this poem, how would the copy turn it into a murderous illusion?
The moonlight is bright in front of my bed, I thought it was frost on the ground.
Looking up at the bright moon, I think of my hometown.
frost.
Mu Yu put his fingers under his lips and continued to think.
There is no need to reason when killing people in the copy. Just one word can generate a killing knife.
Frost, cold, frozen.
Will he and Jiang Shuyue freeze to death in this fantasy?
So if it was an "instructor", how would it injure them?
How can we make them realize their injuries in the illusion and be stimulated to wake up?
As Mu Yu was thinking, suddenly a light flashed in his mind.
When people are severely hypothermic, they will experience hallucinations, feel hot, and sometimes even take off their clothes abnormally.
If he and Jiang Shuyue really developed to this point, would they also have this kind of hallucination? Once they took off their clothes and followed the saying "bow your head and think of your hometown", bow your head -
——If we just leave the wound on their abdomen, won’t they be able to see it naturally? !
Mu Yu's heart started beating rapidly.
Everything went smoothly.
At this moment, he was almost certain that if he and Jiang Shuyue were to take the test, the whole process would not be too different from what he had guessed.
He checked the time again: 9:51.
Almost there.
He turned his gaze to classroom 205 on the second floor.
Everything is fast.
9:52
When the time on the phone reached this moment, the door of classroom 205 was slammed open, and Jiang Shuyue rushed out and shouted to him: "It's ringing!"
He rushed up to the third floor.
Mu Yu took a deep breath.
What happens next?
Was it him who caught Lu Chongnian... or was it Lu Chongnian who caught him?
Mu Yu's heart was beating very fast.
Which one will be the answer?
9:53
Yu Hui suddenly rushed to the corridor on the third floor and threw herself at the railing.
Mu Yu instantly clenched the pen in his hand.
The next second, Yu Hui shouted to him ecstatically: "They, they passed the level!!"
Mu Yu opened his eyes wide.
He threw down his pen and rushed to the stairs!
9:54
Everyone gathered at the door of the community union office. Mu Yu ran over breathlessly, and Yu Hui, Niao Ge, Li Ke, and Jiang Shuyue made way for him.
The door of the office was open. Fu Xiaoju was lying on the ground in a "big" shape with his chest heaving violently. Ye Sui was leaning against the wall with his head down.
The former's left cheek was red and swollen, as if it had been hit hard.
The little finger of Ye Sui's right hand hung at a twisted angle, as if it had been broken.
Mu Yu's pupils constricted.
The remaining tall figure had his back to them, bending over and standing in front of a row of cabinets facing the entrance.
There are eight drawers in the lower row of the cabinet.
At this moment, the drawer on the left side of the bottom layer has been opened.
From Mu Yu and the others' perspective, they could only barely see a stack of school newspapers stacked together inside.
The school newspapers had been opened, and the figure stood up and turned around.
Mu Yu's breathing stagnated.
Blood soaked the fabric of his left shoulder, and the shoulder under the clothes was no longer in its normal shape.
But the boy only picked up the Devil's Moon that he found from the stack of school newspapers, looked up at him, his face calm, with a hint of warmth in his dark eyes, as if telling him:
I've already said I won't let you go that far.
The Devil's Moon was in his hand, the crescent emitting a bright white light and curved into a sinister arc.
Lu Zhongnian clenched his five fingers tightly.
The Devil's Moon was crushed by him in an instant.
*
7 o'clock in the evening sharp.
When everyone came to their senses, they had returned to the lobby on the first floor of the Student Activity Center.
The three strange desks, club application forms, lottery boxes, and two sets of rules in the hall all disappeared. Only the booth tables of a few clubs left by Bird Brother were still there, maintaining the same look as they were three hours ago.
The thick fog outside the gate has dissipated.
As night fell, people came and went on the main road of the campus, and laughter and joy came in through the gaps between the two closed doors of the activity center.
Everything seemed normal, peaceful and harmonious as if nothing had happened.
Niao Ge, Li Ke, Fu Xiaoju, Ye Sui and Yu Hui were all a little dazed, but Mu Yu and Jiang Shuyue already had experience.
After they came back to life, they immediately went to search for Lu Chongnian, but the latter had disappeared without a trace, just like at the end of the last copy.
Mu Yu pursed her lips.
"Shit!" Fu Xiaoju was still holding a basket of basketballs in his arms. He shuddered and stared at Jin Sheng and Zhao Jiayang who were walking in front of him, muttering to himself, "Shit, they're really back..."
He took a step forward, mustered up his courage, and called out tremblingly: "...Senior..."
Jin Sheng and Zhao Jiayang walked towards the stairs silently, as if they didn't hear his voice.
Fu Xiaoju raised his voice a little: "Jin Sheng, Zhao Jiayang!"
The two figures in front, one fat and one thin, suddenly stopped.
They turned around at the same time, and their faces were exactly the same, like two ghosts wearing the same mask.
"Are you calling us?" Jin Sheng asked calmly.
Fu Xiaoju's scalp suddenly felt numb.
This is not the tone that Jin Sheng would use at all!
On the other side, Ye Sui looked at Qi Shan and Hao Jia who were walking out from different directions, and Jiang Shuyue looked at Wang Haiyang. The two moved their lips but ultimately said nothing.
Because Qi Shan, Hao Jia and Wang Haiyang all had expressionless faces, as if they had forgotten everything, and just walked out of the student activity center.
They opened the door and quickly merged into the night. After a while, other students came in.
They are from another society.
They were laughing and seeing the remaining seven people standing in the huge hall with different expressions, they couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you doing? Why are you all in a daze? Aren't you going to get off work yet?"
Bird brother has become familiar with this buddy from the stalls he set up these past two days. He forced a smile and said, "Yes, I'm about to leave."
"You'll close the stall tomorrow after setting it up, right?"
"Their cosplay club must be able to finish work early, it's so popular every year!"
"They are sure..."
The students walked away.
Everyone exchanged glances secretly.
Fu Xiaoju put down the basketball hoop and they quickly gathered together.
No one around knew what they had just experienced. Even Fu Xiaoju and the others couldn't help but wonder whether everything that had happened in the past three hours was just a nightmare.
But a demon coin appeared in the pockets of all of them.
This thing reminded them that they had just completed a strange dungeon game.
Mu Yu asked Fu Xiaoju and Ye Sui: "What was the situation of your assessment just now?"
Fu Xiaoju said, "The ones competing with us are monsters, but their names are all the names of the three champions of the last college 3v3 basketball game!"
"Fuck, that's not playing basketball, that's clearly a murder. If Brother Lu hadn't blocked it for me, I would have been hit in the face with the ball twice! If they had hit me the second time, my whole head would have exploded!"
It’s similar to what Mu Yu guessed, so this is how Lu Chongnian got the injury on his shoulder?
He looked at Ye Sui's right hand again.
In the previous copy, Chang Sen was the most seriously injured, with both of his legs broken.
After leaving the copy, his legs returned and functioned normally, but when Chang Sen checked back in the dormitory, he found that there was a circle of faint scars on each of his thighs.
Chang Sen complained that the two circles of scars were just like the marks left by garter stockings. If someone accidentally saw them, they would probably think he had some strange fetish.
But Mu Yu and the others did not have such marks. Obviously, which injuries the players suffered in the dungeon would leave traces after they left the dungeon depends on the severity of the injuries.
At this moment, a circle of faint red marks appeared on the base of Ye Sui's right little finger.
The condition of Fu Xiaoju's left face was slightly better, with only some slight redness.
Fu Xiaoju was desperately taking a picture of his face with his phone, muttering to himself, "Can this mark go away? If it doesn't, won't I be disfigured?"
Ye Sui didn't care about this at all. He glanced around and asked, "Lu Chongnian has disappeared?"
"!" Fu Xiaoju reacted and jumped up suddenly, "Yes, where is Brother Lu? He really disappeared again? What's going on? Can I only see him in dungeons in the future?"
Ye Sui retracted his gaze, paused, turned his head and said to Mu Yu: "Actually, when the copy was about to end just now, I thought of him."
Mu Yu was stunned: "——Really?!"
Ye Sui's memory has also been restored? !
"Well, it's very different from the feeling I got just from looking at the photo," Ye Sui pondered. "After the basketball was in his hands, I suddenly remembered that you had secretly gone to watch him play basketball without telling Yangyang and me, and then I remembered everything."
Mu Yu: “…………”
While trying hard to ignore the strange looks from Fu Xiaoju and the others, he was thinking frantically... Were they seen all that time?!
Ye Sui asked him: "Didn't you ask me about the morning of August 21 before? Could his disappearance be related to that morning?"
Mu Yu said: "Lu Chongnian and I are not 100% sure. We both lost some of our memories of that morning, so we wanted to ask you."
Ye Sui frowned and tried to recall more carefully: "Before leaving that morning, Yangyang actually called you twice, but the call didn't go through. We thought you might still be asleep, so we sent you a WeChat message and left first... Didn't you receive that message at all?"
Only then did Mu Yu know about this matter.
He immediately checked his call logs and chat history - but no, not only was there no memory of such a thing, there was no such thing in his cell phone records either!
A lot of things were really wiped out that morning!
"What the hell is going on here?" Yu Hui touched her arm, getting goosebumps all over her body. "So the dungeon game is also related to what you said that morning?"
Jiang Shuyue sighed: "They have all lost their memories now, and these things can't be figured out all at once. Why don't we pack up what we need to pack and go out first."
"We created a WeChat group after the last round of dungeons. Please leave your contact information with each other. I will add you all to the group later."
Jiang Shuyue is right.
Fu Xiaoju picked up the basketball hoop again and ran to the upstairs classroom to put it away.
Brother Niao, Li Ke and others also put away the club’s recruitment booth.
When everyone gathered together again, the tension caused by the dungeon had relaxed a lot.
Fu Xiaoju is asking Mu Yu: "...If all those who have forgotten Brother Lu can remember him, can Brother Lu come back?"
They were walking out together.
Mu Yu pursed her lips and said, "...I don't know. I originally hoped so, but now the situation has become a little complicated."
Jiang Shuyue continued: "To discuss this issue now, we have to consider another question first - why did Lu Chongnian come back?"
"According to what he said, he is now in a parallel world that is exactly the same as ours. Then there must be us in that world, but there is no Mu Yu——"
He looked at Mu Yu hesitantly.
Mu Yu just told them about this.
"So far, there have been two instances of dungeons, and both times Lu Chongnian came to our world. But will there also be a dungeon game in the world he is in? If so, will Mu Yu go to their world at that time?"
"Then if someone really has to go back to whose world in the end, how can we be sure that it will be Lu Chongnian who will come to our world?"
Will it be the case that in the end Mu Yu will go to Lu Chongnian's world?
Yu Hui opened her mouth and said, "...What is the world that was left behind? I feel like I was abandoned."
"I think it's a bit too early for us to discuss these issues under the current circumstances," said Mu Yu.
He walked towards the stairs outside the activity center and said slowly as he walked down:
"Although the world where Lu Zhongnian is may look the same as ours, we actually don't know anything about that world."
Suppose the world they are in is A, and the world Lu Chongnian is in is B. The two worlds A and B are born from different developments of the same event.
So, are the appearance of copies in their world also related to the so-called "different development" event?
But since they are already parallel worlds, why can Lu Chongnian from World B come to their World A?
"What does it mean that Lu Zhongnian can come to our world?"
"If there is a passage between our two worlds, can we use it? What is the spatial relationship between our world and the world he is in now?"
Mu Yu stepped down the last step, stepped on the ground, turned around and said to them:
"I think we need to at least figure out these issues before we know what to do in the end—"
He noticed the suddenly shocked looks in Jiang Shuyue and the others' eyes, and felt a certain bright light spreading from bottom to top, which suddenly stopped.
He suddenly lowered his head.
The ground beneath my feet had turned into a boundless, clear lake at some point, with the stunning and magnificent scene clearly reflected on the lake.
That is the reflection of a city under the night sky.
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