Jiang Su was worthy of being the president of the Student Union. His speech moved Wen Xing and Shi Xin who were present. Although his words were a mixture of truth and lies, the mobilization effect was quite good - when Jiang Su was halfway through his speech, they could already hear a lot of commotion coming from downstairs.
Shi Xin, who was standing guard behind the door of the broadcasting room, had been staring at the movements in the corridor, but until Jiang Su finished his speech, no NPC came here to find them, and there was no movement even in the principal's office at the other end of the corridor.
"It doesn't feel right." Shi Xin said a little uncomfortably, "You guys wait here, I'll go to the principal's office over there to check."
Wen Xing and Jiang Su also realized that something was wrong and asked worriedly, "Can you do it alone?"
"Yes." Shi Xin said carefully, "I have more experience than you two, and if the two of you stay here together, we will have a refuge if any riot occurs."
"Okay, then be careful." Jiang Su instructed.
Shi Xin first carefully opened the door of the broadcasting room and poked his head out to look.
There was no one in the corridor outside. No matter how noisy it was downstairs, it was still quiet here. There was an inexplicable weirdness. This "empty city plan" made Shi Xin feel scared. He walked out slowly and carefully and closed the door behind him.
The corridor was still filled with damp mist, but it was obviously much lighter than before and had reached a negligible level.
The sky outside was still dark, and the invisible pressure made people's breathing tense.
Shi Xin carefully observed his surroundings with every step he took, intending to return to the broadcasting room immediately if he saw any unusual movement. He moved forward with tense nerves, and it took him several minutes to reach the door of the principal's office.
Although this distance is not long, it is very energy-consuming and physically demanding.
Shi Xin stood against the wall at the entrance of the principal's office, but before he could catch his breath, he heard the door next to him being quickly opened.
The incident happened in an instant. Shi Xin was fully prepared for either returning the same way or counterattacking immediately. But he never expected that when he opened the door, he would see Ming Qiao's face.
Mingqiao's bangs were combed up, revealing her fair and smooth forehead. Her delicate eyebrows were as usual, and her obsidian eyes were looking at him.
Mingqiao's hand was still in the position of pulling the door. When he saw Shi Xin, he smiled slightly, as if he had expected him to come.
"Shi Xin." Ming Qiao called him softly, his voice couldn't be gentler.
"Ming Qiao?" Shi Xin stood there in disbelief. He looked from Ming Qiao's hair to his feet, back and forth several times, before he said in disbelief, "Is it really you?"
"Um."
After getting Mingqiao's affirmative answer, Shi Xin could no longer restrain himself and immediately hugged him. He had wanted to do this since the moment their eyes met. Shi Xin greedily tightened his arms and frantically felt Mingqiao's breath.
He has been worried to death about Mingqiao these past two days.
"What on earth is going on?"
What Lao Jiang said at the stairs deeply stimulated Mingqiao. He was right. If Mingqiao didn't follow him, he would have missed an opportunity to know the truth.
So Mingqiao gritted his teeth and followed Lao Jiang downstairs again.
The Mingqiao of the past had already met Shi Xin, and the two of them walked together to the restaurant deep in the school. Mingqiao and Lao Jiang also followed behind them, keeping a distance of ten meters.
Soon, the group was standing outside the restaurant.
When Mingqiao saw the red sign at the entrance of the restaurant again, he couldn't help but think of blood and death. This was the aftereffect of the "Pavlov's dog" experiment in the teaching building in the past few days.
"The experiment didn't just start in the teaching building, did it?" Ming Qiao asked with a headache, "In fact, this hint has already started."
"Yes." said Lao Jiang.
They did not follow Ming Qiao and Shi Xin into the restaurant through the main entrance, but went around to the back of the restaurant. There was a row of stairs made of bent iron pipes nailed to the wall here. The two climbed up and went directly to the third floor of the restaurant.
Lao Jiang took him to the lounge in the back kitchen, changed him into employee clothes, and quietly blended in with the many NPCs.
Mingqiao began to recall what he did after entering the restaurant.
"Don't think about it," Lao Jiang interrupted him as if he had guessed his intention: "Just use your eyes to see and your mouth to speak, don't use your brain, I will remind you when it's time to do it."
So Mingqiao didn't ask why and just focused on following Chiang.
There was a beeping sound from downstairs. It was particularly obvious in the quiet restaurant. Even Mingqiao could hear it on the third floor. Then, he heard a mechanical prompt: "Employee card. It was detected that your identity does not match the card information. Warning once."
After a few seconds, the prompt tone was repeated again. Mingqiao realized that he had inexplicably become a student when he was verifying his identity on the card machine.
"Did you do this too?" Mingqiao asked Lao Jiang.
"No." Lao Jiang shook his head: "Why do you think it was me?"
"I guessed at the time that I became a student because I made a mistake while solving a problem in the office and followed the instructions in the student handbook. But now I know that the door was not opened because of my problem solving, so no matter whether I solved the problem correctly or what method I used, it should not cause a change in identity."
"No." Lao Jiang shook his head again: "It is true that the door was not opened because of your homework, but you did do the homework and executed the contents of the student handbook. The principal's system is very strange and can automatically identify some things. You executed the change of direction operation, which caused the track to change."
"So the same thing happened when I later changed from a student to an employee?"
"yes."
Mingqiao wanted to ask him about how he finally changed his identity in the library, but Lao Jiang had already left, so he didn't continue.
After verifying their identities, the other Mingqiao and Shixin went to the third floor window to apply for a card. Mingqiao and Lao Jiang hid under the window next to them.
After they knocked on the window glass, Mingqiao saw with his own eyes that Lao Jiang took out his old cell phone and fabricated a strange old man to deal with the two men.
Mingqiao was stunned by Lao Jiang's actions. When the two returned to the first floor, Mingqiao asked, "Why is the NPC so scary?"
"Isn't this in line with the character of those two principals? In the words of you young people, it can't be ooc." Lao Jiang put his old cell phone into his pocket and pulled Mingqiao back to the kitchen lounge.
After Lao Jiang finished drinking a mouthful of water from the thermos cup, Ming Qiao exclaimed: "Your cell phone is amazing."
"Actually, their system is very simple." Lao Jiang glanced at Ming Qiao and motioned him to sit next to him. After Ming Qiao sat down, Lao Jiang began to show Ming Qiao his old phone: "They are playing a stand-alone game. As long as they think of a way, they can connect any electronic device to their system and invade silently."
Lao Jiang pressed the button on his phone and slid the interface to the bottom, where a blue box called "Good Student" appeared.
"Is this it?"
"Yes." said Lao Jiang.
Mingqiao pondered for a moment: "According to what you said, all the communication devices in the school should only be able to connect to each other but not to the outside world. This is why I couldn't make calls in the office before, and the calls I received were from them contacting me directly through this stand-alone system."
Thinking of this, Mingqiao thought a lot more.
Mingqiao and Shixin, who were downstairs, had just finished their meal and tried to escape from the copy to no avail.
Precisely because this game is a completely stand-alone game, as long as the exit of a copy is cut off, the people in the copy will not be able to get out no matter what.
"The office door?" Mingqiao suddenly asked Lao Jiang.
"It should be what you think." said Lao Jiang.
"All copies are open to people who can only enter but not exit because the entrance is one-way and has not been cut off. This is so that people can enter the copy at any time. And I already know that the principal and his men designed these copies after they failed to trick me in the office." Ming Qiao said hesitantly, "Were the ones I encountered here forced in by the principal to test me?"
"Yes." Lao Jiang pointed out mercilessly: "It can be said that the people you saved were the ones you harmed."
"I..." Mingqiao felt like a huge stone was pressing on his heart.
If he was a cold-blooded person who only thought about escaping, then these people would all die. No, if he was really such a person, he would have passed the assessment in the office and become an NPC, and none of these things would have happened afterwards.
"Don't even think about it," Lao Jiang knocked on Mingqiao's head. "If you become an NPC, more people will die than now, and they will be killed by your own hands."
"Director Jiang." Mingqiao sighed and said with difficulty: "Thank you for comforting me, but I really feel guilty and sad."
"Mingqiao, you are not an absolutely rational person. As long as you are still you, you will never be rational. You are not even remotely close to the cold, mean, ruthless and heartless people who are weighing things." Lao Jiang patted Mingqiao on the shoulder and continued to comfort him, "So don't think too much, and don't force yourself. It will be better to vent your emotions."
"Forget it, the person who allows me to vent is not here." Ming Qiao wiped his face and said in a muffled voice: "I miss him a little. We haven't seen each other for a long time."
"Didn't we just see the guy downstairs?"
"It's him and it's not him." Ming Qiao said, "I'm very worried. I dragged him into this from the beginning."
"He is also very smart." Lao Jiang said, implying that Mingqiao's worries were unnecessary.
Ming Qiao was silent for a moment, calming down. He didn't want to talk about his crush with his "direct superior" anymore, so he changed the subject and asked, "How do you know all this? You seem to know a lot more about things than the two principals. Also, whose side are you on?"
"Don't you sometimes feel like you're being watched?"
"Are you spying on me?" Mingqiao frowned.
Lao Jiang did not comment on this question. He rolled his eyes and hesitated, "If I say I'm an undercover agent, do you believe me?"
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