Their tacit understanding meant that there was no need for them to say much, nor was there any need to refuse at this juncture; complete trust was the answer.
Therefore, Zhang You just nodded, then pulled up his cloak and covered it down very neatly, and dealt with the second to last elf.
Almost at the same moment, the elf under Tang Xinjue's feet suddenly let out an extremely high-pitched strange cry, and its entire body struggled frantically with unprecedented strength, almost knocking Tang Xinjue off!
Zhang You quickly threw the cloak over, and when Tang Xinjue reached out to catch it, the elf had already completed its mutation.
Two deformed long wings made of white bones opened from the elf's body and flapped downwards heavily and quickly. Tang Xinjue didn't hesitate for a moment and jumped down directly.
Having wings means that you are no longer restricted to the original jumping and climbing methods of movement, so all tactics and plans must be overturned and started over again immediately.
Sure enough, the moment Tang Xin Jue jumped down, the monster with wings suddenly flew upwards, and the bones on its back arched and rotated, as if to throw the person on it off -
Then it realized belatedly that Tang Xin Jue was no longer on its back.
Tang Xin Jue hung on the guardrail of 606 with one hand. Under the horrified gaze of candidate 506, he looked in the direction of the elf and nodded, "Fortunately, my IQ hasn't been enhanced in this round."
Compared to the previous round of mutations where the elves' bodies expanded, this time the bodies seemed to shrink in order to accommodate the wings. The glands containing venom all degenerated into hard scales, the limbs shortened and the claws became larger, and the blade-like black nails were half an arm long, making people wonder whether the dormitory railings could withstand a claw attack.
The mutated elf screamed and flew to the roof. Just when everyone thought that this round was completely over, a deformed figure with flapping wings suddenly rushed out from the edge of the roof and swooped down towards Tang Xinjue's dormitory like lightning!
"You really hold a grudge."
Tang Xinjue sighed, then shook the cloak in his hand and hung it on the clothesline at lightning speed. The black cloth spread out and just covered the space facing the balcony for the four people.
The next second, the elf rushed straight into the cloak.
"squeak!!!"
Form a ball on the ground.
…
"That's awesome...Brother Bai, how many are there? Are there six or seven?"
On the balcony of Room 303, Building A, several boys were squatting and busy fiddling with something. One of them was secretly observing the situation on the opposite side. When he saw 606's five-kill operation, his eyes widened and he kept saying "Wow".
The fair-skinned boy known as "Brother Bai" subconsciously smoothed down a strand of curled hair on his forehead and said calmly, "Eight."
The boy questioning: "...Forgive my lack of education, I can only say 'f*ck'."
He counted the number of captures in his own dormitory and immediately put on a mask of pain: "No way, we only have four, and they already have eight. Is it still not enough to meet the reward standard? How long will it take us to catch them!"
Fair-skinned boy: "The reward standards for each dormitory are different. The stronger the dormitory, the higher the standard."
As he said this, he finally found what he wanted on the bottom edge of the guardrail. With a light tap of his slender fingers, a piece of the concrete edge was removed, revealing a crumpled piece of paper.
Unfolding the mottled paper, the blood-stained numbers appeared:
11.
The roommates all stood up and gasped: "This is..."
“That’s our reward criteria.”
The fair-skinned boy's voice was soft, yet it held a quiet power: "We must capture at least 11 Pokémon to get the final reward."
“Oh my god!”
"Shhh, keep it down."
When the exclamation sounded, a roommate standing opposite the fair-skinned boy immediately slapped the nagging boy farthest away and said, "Guo Liang, shut up."
The person being scolded was completely bewildered: "Zhang Chi, are you sick? I didn't say anything!"
“……?”
The four of them looked at each other.
If Guo Liang didn't say anything, then who shouted just now?
"Damn it, damn it!"
The four of them turned their heads at the same time and saw a boy's head popping out from the next dormitory at some point, and the exclamation came from his throat.
The boy opened his mouth into a circle and stared at them with a horrified expression:
"You, you are not dead?"
The candidates in Class 304 were hiding in the dormitory peacefully when they suddenly heard many people talking next door. They thought it was haunted.
When I came out, I found out that it was really haunted.
The muscular boy with a crew cut named Guo was standing there chattering non-stop. He clearly remembered that his opponent was killed by a hidden arrow when he came out to surrender at the beginning of the game!
And that tall and thin guy named Zhang at the back, wasn’t he bitten to death by the informer’s poisonous spider in the second stage of the mission?
Why are they all faking death?!
The fair-skinned boy pressed down the frizzy hair on his forehead and smiled gently: "Classmate, this is a misunderstanding..."
"What misunderstanding? I saw you die with my own eyes, and the game even notified us!"
The shock made people speak without thinking. The shout from 304 spread, and many nearby dormitories noticed the abnormality here.
What’s going on? Can the dead be resurrected in the game?
Even the shield girl took a moment out of her constant state of preparation, raised her eyebrows in surprise, and looked at the dormitory that still had the inherent impression of "unlucky".
Yue Qiong sneered: "Fool."
Including Yue Qiong, only a few people had no reaction to this.
Some were fully preparing for the next round of elves to appear, while others had already guessed the truth and were not surprised by the situation in dormitory 303.
There was even a girl with a short haircut on the top floor who cheered a little, but when she was discovered, she immediately shrank her neck and stood behind Tang Xinjue.
Pulling Tang Xinjue's sleeve slightly, Guo Guo couldn't hide his excitement and shared, "I guessed right!"
Just as she had guessed before, no one had died in dormitory 303!
It is true that two boys in this dormitory were knocked down in succession by an informer, but those who were attacked were quickly carried into the dormitory, and no one saw them die and their bodies dissipate. The only evidence is the sound of the game prompting the candidate's death.
But what if this "death reminder" is not actually a reminder of the death of the candidate in 303, but a reminder of the death of the informer?
Guo Guo became more and more excited as she spoke. She finally understood Tang Xinjue's train of thought when he made his speculation: once the most core clue is found, all the logical points will naturally correspond to each other.
The first death hint in the whole place could be said to be the unlucky boy in 303 who was attacked by surprise, or it could be said to be the snitch roommate of the sinister boy - and the reason why he was the only one in the sinister boy's dormitory was because his roommate was killed by 303 in some way.
The same logic can be applied to the second "dead" candidate in 303. The informer who died silently at that time should be the person who hid in the big guy's dormitory and controlled the poisonous insects!
Now, the two boys who were supposed to have "died" in 303 are standing on the balcony unharmed, which further verifies this fact.
Guo Guo was so excited that he didn't forget to ask Tang Xin Jue, "Jue Shen, how did you first discover this?"
Tang Xin Jue looked up at the rooftop, his eyes fixed on the ground as he spoke, "When they fell, from my mental perspective, the soul fireballs didn't disappear, they just dimmed for a moment. Their vitality was restored after they returned to the dormitory."
When the death notice sounded, the direction where the real vitality fluctuations came from was from other dormitories.
Guo Guo: “…”
She once again intuitively realized what a perverted and powerful weapon mental power was. No wonder the student mall had such sky-high prices, no wonder Gao Ying's entire dormitory had to support one person, no wonder... even the games had to be so difficult for them.
Huh?
Guo Guo was startled by the last thought that suddenly popped up in his mind.
Before she could figure out how this thought came to her, Tang Xinjue suddenly pushed her backwards, and Zheng Wanqing quickly grabbed her waist and walked her into the dormitory door. After this series of extremely fast movements, she finally had time to look up, and then she heard a loud explosion like thunder, and countless black shadows flew down from the sixth floor.
The third wave of capture begins!
This time they were so fast that Tang Xinjue didn't even have time to count how many there were before they appeared in front of him in an instant.
Dark blue scales, bone-white wings, huge claws, and a body of about one meter, exactly the same as the elf in the previous round of mutation.
"Protective shield!"
All the candidates who were still standing on the balcony on the sixth floor made the same judgment after seeing this scene.
——It would be fine if there were only one or two of them facing each other head-on, but there are at least dozens or even hundreds of them swooping down at the same time and they have no time to react at all!
These mutant elves quickly flew to the next floor, and only Tang Xinjue used a toilet plunger to suck up two of them. When they were all knocked unconscious and stuffed into the cloak, she and Zheng Wanqing each had a bloody mark on their shoulders.
"Don't move, wait for me to get the medicine."
Zhang You and Guo Guo immediately held the two people down. Guo Guo first hurriedly tried exorcism. When she found that there were no traces of magic on the wounds left by the elf, she relaxed a lot.
But when Zhang You finished spraying the hemostatic agent and recovery medicine, the two men's relaxed brows wrinkled again.
The medicine didn't work.
The two deep wounds showed only very slight improvement, and the bleeding continued. Tang Xinjue shook his head: "It's the poison."
"Elves have poison glands hidden in their claws, and the poison will remain in our wounds."
Tang Xinjue tore off a bandage and wrapped it tightly around the wound several times, and the bleeding subsided. Her cheeks, which had originally been cold and pale, were now as white as paper. Her tone was still very gentle:
"After the game, we'll buy some antidote from the mall and use it with the hemostatic medicine."
Zhang You didn't hesitate: "Buy it now."
Tang Xin Jue was even more straightforward: "No money."
If you buy in the mall now, you will have to spend at least double the points.
Zheng Wanqing's wound was less serious than Tang Xinjue's. When she heard about the price, she almost threw away the half-wound bandage. "I don't have any money! A little bleeding is nothing. It just matches my left arm, so I'll consider it a free tattoo."
She was obsessed with upgrading her fists to the highest level and accessorizing them with a set of cool steel armor. She watched her score more closely than the meat in a can. If she lost a lot of money in a match, even a tough girl would cry in her blanket in the middle of the night.
Zhang You frowned, refusing to budge in a rare display of reluctance: "If Guo Guo was injured, you two would also buy triple the points."
Guo Guo, who was suddenly called, said: "?"
Tang Xinjue nodded: "Then let's talk about it after Guo Guo gets injured."
Guo Guo: “???”
They didn't have much time to discuss this topic, quickly turning their attention back to the game. The mutant elves were much faster this time than the previous wave. By the time they had bandaged their wounds, the elves had already swept up from the first floor again, bringing with them a chorus of ghostly howls.
With his keen dynamic vision, he could see that a dozen or so elves had grabbed the examinees under their wings. The examinees struggled frantically, but the higher the elves flew, the slower they struggled, until they were practically waiting for death.
How could there be any chance of survival after falling from the sixth floor into the blood mist on the first floor?
However, the next second, a hoarse voice suddenly rang out from the third floor:
"Jump into the other dormitories! Jump in!"
The students who were caught high up in the air looked down in shock and saw a yellow-haired boy who looked out of place in the surrounding atmosphere in front of the balcony of dormitory 307. He was waving his hands vigorously and gesturing at them from the railing: "Jump!"
Everyone understood instantly.
They would surely die if they fell to the first floor, but if they could jump to other dormitories on the upper floors on both sides, they would still have a chance of survival!
The elves would throw people away as soon as they flew above the sixth floor. They no longer had any choice. As long as they could grasp a glimmer of hope, they would do it without hesitation.
As long as... these candidates in unfamiliar dormitories are willing to take them in.
With a sharp howl overhead, dozens of elves released their sharp claws at the same time.
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