Mingqiao's mind is indeed in a mess.
Compared with Shi Xin's everlasting positivity and energy, he always feels physically and mentally exhausted, and can hardly keep up with Shi Xin. Perhaps being three or four years older really makes him look older.
Mingqiao realized that his condition was not right and he took a break as asked, but he still didn't dare to slack off.
"Okay, I won't persuade you anymore. Just calm down first, Teacher Ming." Shi Xin's voice entered Ming Qiao's ears, like an invisible hand slowly massaging his nerves: "Where do we start?"
Mingqiao closed his eyes and tried to breathe deeply and evenly to achieve a peaceful state of mind. They hadn't reviewed their experiences so seriously for a long time. Perhaps they thought they had more experience so they skipped this step. In fact, regular review helped them a lot when they were in the restaurant.
"Anywhere is fine. You come this time. I'll listen."
After he finished speaking, Cao Haibo next to him also sat down obediently and listened attentively.
"Okay. I'll do it." Shi Xin said without thinking, "First of all, the biggest difference from before is that the library's clearance mode has changed from us taking the initiative to the game taking the initiative. Whether it's the restaurant or the playground, we have always taken the initiative and can keep searching by following a clue. Although it is time-consuming and laborious, our train of thought has never been interrupted. The library is different."
Mingqiao straightened his back when he heard this, and a glimmer of light finally appeared in his extremely dark pupils.
"After entering the library, we have been actively or forced to 'complete tasks'. Instead, we were led by the game. Although we got some rewards related to clues, I think the efficiency is not as good as before."
"Do we have to give up the mission?" asked Cao Haibo.
"No." Mingqiao said, "We want to use the completion of the mission to achieve our own goals."
"That's what I mean." Shi Xin said, "You can only get rewards after completing the mission. Now it seems that the rewards are tasteless, but they should not be completely useless. So completing the mission, finding clues in the mission, and returning to the original rhythm are what we have to do next."
Mingqiao's thinking became much clearer after being led by Shi Xin, and he nodded seriously.
"Secondly, the rules are different. According to what we have deduced before, there are two forces in this escape game. The ones we encountered before should all be the 'bad guys'. From a style perspective, the rules set by the 'good guys' this time are as gentle as his game, at least for you."
"That's right." Ming Qiao also added: "The previous games were full of blood, violence and horror elements, but in the library, the first violation we encountered was that everything we saw was made of building blocks. The style is indeed completely opposite. Including the punishments for the past few violations, they don't seem to hurt at all."
"Unlike the previously speculated rules that were maturing and perfecting, the sudden change in the rules that were everywhere from beginning to end must be one of the clues." Shi Xin concluded: "Finally, Mr. Ming, I have to mention the mentor you mentioned."
Mingqiao felt nervous for a moment, he pursed his lips and waited for Shi Xin to continue.
"It's not clear whether he is a good guy or a bad guy. I hope you won't let your guard down for now."
Mingqiao subconsciously wanted to refute, but still kept his mouth shut.
In his heart, he really believed in Sun Guiping, because in Mingqiao's impression, he was not only a good teacher, but also a good friend.
When he went to study for his master's degree alone, he suffered from acclimatization for a long time. It was Sun Guiping who cared for him every day, asked for leave for him, and asked his wife to take him to the hospital for examination when she was free. After he recovered from his illness, he often invited him to his home for dinner and took him everywhere to integrate into the local culture.
It can be said that the three years when Sun Guiping taught him as a graduate student were the three years when Mingqiao felt the most love from his teacher. This also indirectly influenced Mingqiao to finally firmly choose the teaching profession.
However, when he first linked the maze, the casino and those pages of the paper with Sun Guiping, he was also skeptical, but he rationally placed Sun Guiping in the center of the scale.
He didn't even understand why he had such wavering thoughts.
"You're right." Mingqiao knew that Shi Xin could see his general expression, so he was serious for a rare time and reassured Shi Xin: "Now many things can no longer be judged subjectively. Clues and evidence should be our most powerful tools for reasoning."
Shi Xin breathed a sigh of relief. He knew Ming Qiao was a reasonable man and would not blindly believe a suspect in such an important situation. "Just figure it out."
After they finished, they both felt that the road was already under their feet. They did not rush to act, but waited for Mingqiao to adjust and rest, because sharpening the knife does not delay the work of chopping wood.
We were not idle during this period, communicating and analyzing some other small details.
Since Mingqiao and Shixin have helped Cao Haibo find his complete book list, employee task 2 has been completed, unlocking two new rules. The task reward is 1,300 yuan, which will be distributed after the game ends.
Unlocking rules:
5. Take care of the books in the library consciously.
6. The loan period is 7 days. Please return the books before the due date. If you want to renew the loan, please go through the renewal procedure. The renewal period is 7 days.
There is currently no available information on the two unlocked rules. If we have to say that Mingqiao violated the fifth rule, he should have violated it as early as last night when the earthquake occurred, and the punishment for violating the rules was also implemented at that time. However, the situation was too chaotic at the time, and he got away with it in a daze.
But the fact that the mission reward is money is a bit subtle and intriguing.
These 1,300 yuan do not seem to be employees' wages, because the minimum wage in Xingchuan City is 1,500 yuan. A school is not the type of place that would deduct 200 yuan, and the library does not have any employees.
But when it comes to bonuses, if it's for perfect attendance at work it seems a bit too much, but if it's a scientific research bonus it seems a bit too little.
"The reward for employee task one is a paper." Mingqiao sat on the bench with his chin in his hand, thinking carefully, "If all the task rewards are connected together, then the bonus is likely to be a bonus for publishing a paper."
Shi Xin admitted: "I have never published a paper, so I don't know much about it."
"Then I have no idea." Cao Haibo also said.
"I did publish a few articles when I was a graduate student. Although I didn't get paid for them, the school gave different bonuses for general and core journals. One hundred for a general journal article and three hundred for a core journal article."
"If my supervisor publishes a paper, he will get more bonus, right?" Shi Xin asked.
"I don't know. Sun Guiping has never revealed it." Ming Qiao said, "But Sun Guiping is at that level. It's unlikely that he would only get a little over a thousand for a paper he published in his field. Shi Xin, take out the half of the paper that was awarded as a reward for Task 1 and have a look."
"Okay." Shi Xin controlled the game controller and brought out the half-written paper as a reward for Task 1. The first thing he said was the title on the page header, and then he picked out the key points of the article and read them to Ming Qiao.
"History and secondary education?" Shi Xin was confused after reading it. He suddenly thought of something: "Wasn't there a summary page yesterday? The author is also Sun Guiping. But when I was looking for the book just now, the game gave me instructions for where each book was. But now I have to find a piece of waste paper that the game system thinks is useless. There is no hint at all." Shi Xin said dejectedly: "And maybe the thin building blocks have been crushed by the earthquake."
Mingqiao did not respond to Shi Xin's words, but was lost in thought about the paper.
Although it is missing half, and seems to be related to both history and education, but based on his understanding of Sun Guiping, one can find out after reading it that the core issue is still education.
Sun Guiping is a history professor, and his knowledge has nothing to do with education. His publication of this paper is just like his sudden recommendation to Mingqiao to teach at Xingchuan No. 1 Middle School when Mingqiao graduated. Mingqiao is even more suspicious.
"I remember the thesis reward comes with a side quest." Ming Qiao interrupted Shi Xin's thoughts: "Let's finish this while it's still early."
"Teacher Ming, are you okay?" Shi Xin asked worriedly.
"Okay." Mingqiao said, "I must see what Sun Guiping has to do with this matter. If he..."
"You have to think carefully." Shi Xin reminded: "If it is confirmed that your most respected mentor is a 'bad guy', can you accept it, and how will you deal with it?"
"If he is really 'it'." Ming Qiao did not call them "the good guys" or "the bad guys", but directly used the word "it" that they used to refer to the mastermind at the beginning. He paused for a long time and said: "I will destroy everything he has."
"It" has brought unimaginable disasters to everyone who has entered the game of this school's rules, and no matter what the purpose is, they should pay the price they deserve.
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