Return to the Mountains
Ding Can walked out of the room quickly and pushed the door open with a bang. Gao Wenwen, who happened to be walking to the door, paused and subconsciously took a small step to the side because of the sound.
"Why are you walking so fast? I thought something happened."
She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Shi Yan and Xia Jialian in the room opposite through the open door. She just shook her head and said, "Nothing. I was thinking of going downstairs to look for Yu Fu. You guys stay here first, I'll be upstairs later."
After saying this, she turned and left, without letting the guilt in her eyes show at all.
Gao Wenwen looked at her from behind and walked into Xia Jialian's room, then spoke slowly, "Sis Can and the dorm manager downstairs, when did they become so close? They've only met a few times..."
Ding Can walked into the transmission cabin and watched the elevator go down floor by floor.
After realizing that she might have some connection with the system, she felt that these students were brought into the training camp to experience life and death, which was inseparable from her.
That's why she was so nervous about going out just now. Gao Wenwen and she were in the same dungeon, so of course nothing would happen to him. But she was afraid that the other two roommates would encounter something unexpected during training on the day off.
After the portal opened, she saw Yu Fu standing outside: "Are you ready to go up?"
"I knew you were coming, so I was just waiting for you here."
There were hardly any people in the hall. If anyone noticed the movement here, they would just glance at it and then turn their heads away without paying much attention. It was already difficult to survive in the dungeon, so how could they pay special attention to every person they met?
Ding Can glanced at their faces one by one, trying to remember more clearly: "It's really hard to be happy when I think that I might be the instigator of all this."
"No matter what you were like in the past, just be sure of your true heart now."
Original intention... Ding Can pondered this sentence carefully, and then understood that, yes, the past is actually nothing, what is being experienced at the moment is the most important.
She wanted to stay with the other students until the day they could successfully leave the camp. No matter what happened then, that would be something she would need to consider on her own.
Yu Fu then continued, "But when I came back just now, I thought of a solution that might be able to help you with your current predicament."
"What?" Ding Can looked puzzled, then he understood why he was waiting here. He wanted to tell him the news earlier.
A few minutes later, the two returned to the dormitory management office.
Yu Fu turned off a device on the desktop and then operated on the computer: "The staff office system of the training camp requires identity verification to enter."
Since he took over the position of dormitory manager, he actually has some daily affairs to deal with every day. Even when he has nothing to do, he will not deliberately test the identity information of logged-in employees.
In addition, since I had never had any clear doubts about Ding Can's identity before, I had never thought of this method.
Of course, the students cannot open the staff office system, and they cannot even enter the dormitory management office.
If Ding Can is really not just a student, perhaps clues that have been overlooked can be discovered during the process of identifying his identity.
"Now we're going to verify your login identity. Please come to the computer screen."
Ding Can sat down on the chair and saw the fluorescent blue light circle on the screen flash a few times, followed by a frame of a certain shape. After a long horizontal line scanned from top to bottom, a character No. 0 appeared, which gradually grew larger and occupied the entire screen.
She moved her body twice, and 0 became a three-dimensional shape again, swaying left and right in her direction, but it was always facing her.
"What does this mean? Was this the same situation when you were identifying information before?"
"No," Yu Fu shook his head. "But a number did appear on my screen at that time, but it disappeared immediately and then entered the system. "It's number 82."
To prove it, after letting Ding Can stand up, he tried to log in again, and what he said was correct.
Ding Can watched the number 82 flash by on the screen, and then it turned into the dormitory management office interface that she was quite familiar with.
"So, I really am related to the system, or I am someone inside the system."
Yu Fu hesitated and said, "After all, the student mission is dangerous. If your guess is correct, I think you are more likely to be someone who has been punished by the system, which is why you were sent down to the trainees."
He shrugged and continued, "Like me, I've lost my memory of my past. Who knows, I might have made some mistakes."
The trainees survive in the training camp, or to put it another way, they are the ones being controlled.
The one who has control over them is the creator of the entire copy system.
The training camp instructors appeared only a handful of times during the entire training camp, while Yu Fu stayed in the building with the trainees every day and had no chance to leave at all. It was indeed not very normal when you think about it.
This statement was indeed credible. Ding Can pondered for a moment before speaking: "Punish me. What will be the consequences if I really fail to clear the dungeon?"
It is still uncertain whether ordinary students will actually have a chance to return to the real world after failure.
If she is really an insider of the system, where will she return to?
Yu Fu let out a faint smile. "Don't overthink it. Think positively. Your offense should be less severe than mine. At least you only have to go through one training camp."
And he might have to stay here for a long time, seeing groups of strangers appear and leave in front of him.
After Ding Can graduates from the camp, will he still meet other students who come into the office?
"If that's the case, after I get out, I will try my best to find an opportunity to get you out of here."
Although he didn't know what had happened before, Ding Can felt in his heart that the diary training camp should not exist and the students were not aware of anything before they were brought in.
She felt that before coming to the training camp, she must have held an attitude of disapproval, or perhaps hatred.
If you want to find the truth, you have to be more careful in the subsequent copies.
Yu Fu finally smiled sincerely: "Okay, I'll wait for that day. Go back and have a good rest. There won't be much time left."
*
After this rest day, there are only seven days left in the sprint stage. When choosing rewards, Ding Can chose the easter egg prop called "Rebirth" in the selection box. As the name suggests, it can give you more lives in the copy.
The strength of the dungeon in the next seven days will definitely be improved. This kind of really useful prop is much better than those fancy things.
But this time, there was no instructor to remind them of the things they needed to pay attention to in the new stage, so the students could only rely on their own experience and guesswork to deal with the unknown copy.
*
The sun was shining brightly. At a tea stall in the suburbs, Ding Can took a big sip of the tea brewed with broken tea leaves in the bowl, and then he could barely swallow the dry steamed bun in his mouth.
She wiped her mouth and looked towards the official road. There happened to be pedestrians walking by carrying loads on their shoulders. The vegetables in the two large baskets were all gone, with only some of poor quality left.
People from nearby villages get up early and go to the city to sell the vegetables they grow at home. At this time, the morning market has ended.
"Boss, how far is this place from Lancheng?"
A new pot of steamed buns had just been cooked in the steamer. The tea stall owner lifted the top lid and white steam floated up. He turned his head away to avoid being suffocated, picked up the buns with nimble hands and feet, and did not forget to reply to Ding Can.
"You're young and fast, so it'll only take you an incense stick of time to get there. I see you're alone, are you going to visit relatives in the city?"
Ding Can rummaged through his sleeves and pulled out a crumpled piece of paper. "I saw a notice from City Lord Zhu in the neighboring county seeking talented individuals, so I went to Lan City to exorcise the demon."
When the boss heard this, he put down the bowl in his hand and said, "Oh, you're still a little girl, but you're already a demon catcher?"
"Not really. I just left my master and came down the mountain to gain experience when I heard about this. It must be God's will that I have to come here."
Ding Can had just learned the whole story. He had been an orphan since childhood. When he was a few years old, he was picked up from the road by his current master and brought to the mountains to be raised there.
Over the years, he has taught her many immortal Taoist methods. She does not know the true identity of her master, but only knows that he is a very powerful person with unique skills but has lived in seclusion in the mountains.
The place where the master and disciple lived was called Fukong Mountain. The farthest place they had been to before was just the foot of the mountain, where they had only met a few families. This was the first time they had been to such a far place.
I have heard about the beauty of the outside world from my master since I was a child. Finally, some time ago, I was allowed to go down the mountain to gain experience. When I heard that there were monsters causing trouble, of course I couldn't miss it.
That's why he took down the notice immediately and prepared to come to Lancheng to find out what was going on. However, the content on the notice was very limited, and it was actually difficult to find out the specific situation.
The tea stall owner heard that she was a newcomer and might just be out for fun, and had never seen anything real before. But this city was really weird lately, and if she really went in, she might run into something serious and be scared away.
Running away is still okay, but the worst thing is that if you don't know the situation and try to rush forward, you may end up risking your life.
He is a kind-hearted man, and he couldn't help but remind him when he thought of this.
"There's been a lot of monster trouble in Lan City lately, and everyone's terrified. If you really want to go in, don't try to stand out. I'm sure there will be other immortals who will unveil the notice with you."
Ding Can swallowed the last bite of his steamed bun and said, "From what you said, you know what happened in Lan City. Tell me about it first, so I can have a better idea of what's going on."
"It's not a secret. The people in the city are all aware of the situation. Although there are demons at work, they don't kill many people all at once. It's just that every once in a while, someone will die mysteriously."
The boss put the towel on his shoulder. There were not many customers at the stall now, so he had time to sit down and chat with her.
Ding Can held his chin in his hand. "If it's a strange death, how can we be sure it's a demon and not some serial murder case?"
"Of course it's because when the monster appeared, some of the people in the city saw it."
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