Chapter 80: Garbage Street (Part 2)
The situation is a little different from the previous four copies.
Mu Yu calmed down, quickly sorted out his thoughts, raised his head and said to the other three people: "I know what's going on now, calm down and listen to me."
Gao Zhanyuan had just dialed 110 when he found that he couldn't even hear the busy tone on the other end of the phone. He leaned closer to the screen and saw that the signal area was all gray - there was not even a single bar of signal.
He was a little frightened. When he heard Mu Yu speak, he looked over with Zhang Huawei and Shen Leng.
The four little kids were standing in the night. Mu Yu told them about the copy and everyone had different reactions.
Zhang Huawei jumped up and down: "A game that can kill people? Are you kidding me?"
Shen Leng wanted to cry but had no tears: "Why did you choose me among so many people here?"
Gao Zhanyuan murmured, "No wonder you guys have been acting weird lately, Brother Yu, it turns out you were dragged into this kind of thing..."
He clenched his fists, his eyes suddenly fierce: "So what should we do next, who should we go after?! Brother Yu, I will listen to you!"
Mu Yu covered his forehead with his hands: "We are going to crack the dungeon, not to fight in a group, stop it..."
He let out a breath and turned to look at the four strange long objects standing quietly not far behind them.
"…Let's go over there first."
Mu Yu had not been to Garbage Street many times, but he still remembered the general layout clearly.
They are now at the north entrance of Garbage Street, which is connected to the main road.
The other exit is the west exit, which is connected to the Xinlian Hotel and the night market street.
There is an open space at the north entrance, similar to a small square, with a lonely stone table and three stone benches on the space.
So many years have passed, and students of all generations cannot understand why this set of things is placed here, whether for practicality or artistry.
Anyway, usually no one would sit on the stone bench, but some children would occasionally come here to play, carve and draw on the stone table with stones, and leave words like "I was here".
The four strange long objects stood upright next to the stone table. They were taller than an adult and were lined up in a row. They were sparkling in the night and filled with an icy aura that made people feel creepy.
When they got closer, they could see with their poor eyesight that there were more things on the stone table.
First, on the table, there are four piles of items of the same size placed in four directions.
Gao Zhanyuan took the lead and stepped forward to open one of them - it was a small school uniform, a letter with the word "letter from home" written on the envelope, and a train ticket with the starting point as "Garbage Street" and the end point as "home".
Zhang Huawei muttered, "What are these... Oh my god, there's even a schoolbag?!"
He looked down and saw four small red schoolbags placed on the ground, lined up in a row like the four long giant objects.
What are these messy things used for?
Mu Yu suddenly moved everything on the stone table to the stone bench, bent over and approached the table: "——Come and see, here are the rules!"
"What?" The other three came over immediately.
The four little kids bent down together and observed the table in a very weird posture.
They found that all the original carvings on the stone table had disappeared, replaced by a few lines of text!
1. From now on, don’t let people around you notice your abnormality.
2. Please choose your school uniform and put it on.
3. Please find the monster generator as soon as possible and destroy it.
4. If you cannot complete the task within one hour, please be mentally prepared... to face death.
Zhang Huawei immediately shouted: "Only one hour?!"
Mu Yu was also a little surprised. After the first copy, they never encountered a situation with a time limit of only one hour again. Today's copy looked quite complicated, but the time limit was so short?
There is also a second rule. This seems to be the first time I have seen such an extra rule in this set of rules...
Mu Yu recalled that the dungeon just now started at about 6:30, which means that today's dungeon will end at 7:30 at the latest.
And the school uniform——
He shook out all four school uniforms and found that the style and color of each uniform were different, and the name of the school it belonged to was sewn on the left chest of each shirt.
The four sets of school uniforms belong to: Xinlian University of Science and Technology Attached Primary School, Xinlian University Attached Primary School, Xinlian Communication University Attached Primary School, and Future Chef Training Class for Primary School Students.
Gao Zhanyuan quickly found the flaws in it.
"--Why has our culinary academy become a 'training class for primary school students'?!" He jumped up and down.
Zhang Huawei was amused, and laughed twice, saying, "So, now we have all become elementary school students? Are you sure this isn't a trap set by Conan?"
Shen Leng looked at his short arms and legs and sighed: "...I feel that our current physical condition doesn't look like we're going to primary school, but more like we're going to kindergarten..."
Mu Yu agreed. He was not so fat and round when he was in primary school! The copy must have some misunderstanding about primary school students!
After mumbling inwardly, he asked, "So—you two are from Lian Dahe Media?"
He raised his head and looked at Zhang Huawei and Shen Leng.
The schools to which these four sets of school uniforms belong are all placed here, and they should correspond one-to-one to the schools they attend in real life.
He and Gao Zhanyuan are students of the Polytechnic and Culinary Colleges, so Zhang Huawei and Shen Leng should be from the remaining two universities, right?
Unexpectedly, Shen Leng nodded, but Zhang Huawei retorted: "No, I'm from science and engineering."
Mu Yu and Gao Zhanyuan stopped immediately.
Zhang Huawei asked suspiciously, "Why? You two should be from the Culinary Institute and Lian University, right?"
Mu Yu and Gao Zhanyuan looked at each other.
Gao Zhanyuan pointed at himself and said, "I am indeed from the Culinary Academy."
Then he pointed at Mu Yu: "But my eldest brother is a science and engineering major!"
Zhang Huawei and Shen Leng also paused.
The next second, they all frowned.
——That is to say, they now have two science and technology people here, but among these four sets of elementary school uniforms, there is one less science and technology set, and one more Lotus uniform?
Shen Leng was a little confused: "What's going on? Aren't these four sets of school uniforms given according to our university? Are they random?"
"No, these four schools must be related to us..." Mu Yu bent his fingers and placed them on his chin, falling into thought.
How could this happen?
Zhang Huawei picked up the uniform of the primary school affiliated to Lianhua University and looked at it repeatedly: "What does Lianhua University have to do with this? There is no one from Lianhua University here."
"Also, why did the copy divide us into different schools? Well, I want to ask, why did it allow these four schools to appear here?"
He obviously had a good brain and quickly found the key problem.
"——Are these four schools also involved in this dungeon? We will have to go through Garbage Street and rush back to our respective schools later? Is this dungeon map so big?"
There was fog five meters behind them. The thick fog obviously surrounded the entire garbage street. According to Mu Yu, there was no way they could get out of this range.
"Maybe the levels we will face later will be related to these schools?" Shen Leng asked uncertainly.
"The main location of the dungeon is right in Garbage Street," Zhang Huawei muttered. "Didn't Mu Yu say that dungeons are usually generated based on real-life situations, and they won't be changed too much? Then what could be in Garbage Street that is related to these four schools..."
As Mu Yu was thinking, a thought suddenly popped into his mind and his eyes changed.
As soon as Gao Zhanyuan saw his expression, he knew that he must have figured out something, so he came over and asked humbly, "Brother Yu, what did you think of?"
"I was thinking about the two questions Zhang Huawei just raised—"
Mu Yu suddenly walked forward.
He picked up one of the letters from home that was on the stone bench. Fortunately, even though they were not yet in their school uniforms, the envelope could still be opened and they could see what was inside.
There was only a thin piece of letter paper inside, with a few lines of black words printed in regular script on it.
“Dear baby,
Mom and Dad miss you very much and have cooked your favorite meals for you at home. You can come home anytime. This is your eternal harbor.
When you are living outside, if you don’t know what choice is right, you can enter the hotbed, which will help you choose, protect you, and lead you on the right path.”
When the other three people saw the word "go home", they immediately recalled the four strange train tickets and the word "home" displayed on the tickets' final destination.
However, this "home" is obviously not a harbor, but more like an unknown and mysterious place full of dangers and dangers.
Mu Yu opened another letter, which contained the same content.
Four letters, all identical, without the slightest difference.
He waved the letters around and said, “There’s nothing about the school in these letters.”
After saying this, he walked around the stone table and headed towards the four things standing there gleaming in the night. The other three people quickly followed behind him.
The four glittering objects were of exactly the same specifications, and were obviously produced from the assembly line of the same "factory".
They are all two meters high, one meter wide and one meter long, with a crystal-like texture. They are clear and shining in the night, and the internal structure is clearly visible.
The space inside is very narrow, but it has everything you need.
There is a reclining leather chair, and in front of the chair is a row of half-meter-high crystal cabinets, which are divided into several compartments. Different compartments contain tableware, biscuits and water, bandages, iodine, and other items.
——Obviously people can sit in it, or even "live in it", but each car can only accommodate one person.
They stood quietly in the night, like four cold crystal coffins, eerie.
And there is a small "hotbed usage instructions" on the right side of them.
1. Please feel free to use the hotbed, it is completely harmless to you.
2. Please close the door after entering the hotbed. No one except you can open this door.
3. The hotbed provides most of the basic necessities you need for life, provides purchasing and selling services on your behalf, provides disease and injury monitoring and nursing functions, provides the most suitable life guidance for you, and loyally protects your physical and mental health.
4. The trial period is one year after purchase. You can test all its functions in an all-round way. If you have any questions, you can call the customer service hotline 10244 for return or exchange.
Everyone was watching along with Mu Yu, and Gao Zhanyuan immediately cursed, "'Completely harmless'? You're kidding me, this is obviously not a good thing!"
Shen Leng and Zhang Huawei nodded and agreed with it.
Mu Yu quickly opened the side door of one of the hotbeds and leaned in.
Gao Zhanyuan asked nervously, "Brother Yu?"
"It's okay, I'll go in and take a look."
There is a pair of doors opening in front of the half-meter-high crystal cabinets opposite the leather seats.
Mu Yu tried, but couldn't open the doors, so he withdrew and said, "I suspect the things inside may have to wait until we sit in and close the doors before they can be opened."
However, if the player really goes in, it is hard to say what will happen.
And Mu Yu’s focus at this moment is——
"I looked carefully at the contents, and there were no items related to the four schools."
He squatted down again and opened one of the red schoolbags on the ground. It was empty.
Gao Zhanyuan, Shen Leng and Zhang Huawei helped to open the other three schoolbags - they were all empty!
There are no school-related signs or items.
They all stood up, and Mu Yu's tone was now very certain.
"Except for the four school uniforms, the rest have nothing to do with the school. There is no such thing as different sets for different schools. So the four schools on the school uniforms are definitely not related to the distribution of supplies."
"We haven't found the real general rules yet. The instruction manual for the hotbed is definitely not it. The general rules should be found after we enter the garbage street, and the garbage street may require us to put on our school uniforms before we can enter -"
The other three were stunned.
Gao Zhanyuan immediately ran towards the Garbage Street. He was usually strong and robust, but now he had shrunk into the size of a little kid. He was also the strongest one among them.
He rushed to the entrance of Garbage Street like a little leopard, but was blocked there.
He kicked the air twice, but nothing changed. He returned angrily and said to them, "I was blocked by something I couldn't see."
Mu Yu had experience in four copies, which he had expected.
He continued, "Anyway, just like Zhang Huawei said, the main location of our dungeon today should be there. Dungeons generally don't modify real locations. They generate environments and levels based on real situations. There really aren't any elements related to 'school' in Garbage Street, right?"
"That's right!" Zhang Huawei agreed.
Gao Zhanyuan said hesitantly: "Brother Yu, the Culinary Academy has occupied the entire street for the past three days. Does this count as...?"
Shen Leng whispered, "Also... there are students from various schools in Garbage Street every day?"
This should all be related to "school", right? ?
Mu Yu calmly pointed out: "First of all, 'the cooking school has contracted the entire street', then this is only related to the cooking school. But we are now facing four schools, and the reason why the copy chose these four schools obviously has nothing to do with who has contracted the street."
"The second is the tourists in Garbage Street. Indeed, most of the tourists here every day are students, and they are students from various schools in the university town. But in this case, isn't it still the same thing?"
"——The reason why the copy chose these four schools is because there are students from these four schools here today."
"To go further, isn't it most likely that it chose these four schools because today, students from these four schools were chosen to become players of this instance?"
Gao Zhanyuan and Shen Leng were completely confused. They couldn't keep up with Mu Yu's pace.
Only Zhang Huawei - although he had raised the question just now, he had no clue. When he heard what Mu Yu said, he followed Mu Yu's thoughts and thought about it a little. Suddenly, his face was filled with horror and he touched his arm hard.
"What on earth do you mean? My hair is standing on end!"
"What I mean is," Mu Yu said word by word, "it is very likely that there are more than just four of us players in this instance today."
Since just now, he has been wondering why there are only four players in this copy?
It is true that the number of players in each copy is different, but so far, there has never been a situation where the number of players is so small. According to common sense, each copy should also require a certain number of players to be promoted, right?
So what's going on with this copy?
And there is Lu Chongnian. According to Lu Chongnian's keenness, he would never miss the signs of the copy being generated, so he would not miss any copy. So why didn't he show up in this copy?
Until this moment, Mu Yu finally figured it out——
"In places we can't see, there are probably other players who have also been selected for this dungeon. Among them are students from Lotus University. This may be the reason why there is a set of Lotus University Affiliated Primary School uniforms among the four sets of school uniforms we are facing now!"
"If my guess is correct, then the purpose of these school uniforms is likely related to that group of players!"
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