Linji No.3 Middle School 8
"Want to try taking off his mask? Many people in our group have tried it."
Ji Changsheng pointed at Ji Liuxing, as if he was just looking for trouble.
"The main reason why we didn't allow other groups to try is because they have a hard time completing even the basic tasks, so we don't have much time to waste on them."
Ji Yunding observed that Ji Liuxing secretly moved a seat far away and adjusted his sitting posture so that he could get up at any time.
I'm secretly listening...
"No need, let's wait until the strange story comes out." Ji Yunding shook his head, "Besides, does the team leader mind?"
From the beginning, Ji Yunding noticed that Ji Liuxing deliberately turned his head to the side, intentionally or unintentionally covering his face.
The people in Group 1 don’t know much about interpersonal communication, and Ji Liuxing always has an attitude of not caring about anything towards the people in the group, so it is easy for people to overlook this point.
"It doesn't matter."
The sudden strange voice startled several people. They turned around and saw a mask with a simple smile turning towards them.
The sound seemed to be transmitted through a cold and hard matrix, with a distorted feeling, which was definitely not what the human body should produce.
"Boss, it turns out you can speak normally in this state."
“…”
Ji Liuxing looked over here for a while - to be precise, he looked at the rotten corpse for a while, and finally turned his head away without answering.
Ji Yunding thought about it, walked up to him and stood still, staring at the empty expression painted on the mask for a while.
How should I put it... It's very simple, just like someone casually took a pen and put two dots on the white mask, drew two circles with the dots as the center, and casually drew an arc of a smile at the position of the mouth.
Why is it moving? And I feel like I can see some subtle emotions.
After dozens of seconds, Ji Liuxing leaned back uncomfortably, not knowing whether to run or not.
The dots on the mask that represented the eyes kept changing shape, as if they were looking around to divert attention, but when at a certain moment he accidentally met Ji Yunding's eyes, Ji Liuxing suddenly became quiet.
He seemed to have seen something and just stared at Ji Yunding.
Maybe it’s because he can’t tell a bunch of lies like he usually does, I always feel that Ji Liuxing in this state seems easier to understand.
Ji Yunding felt that Ji Liuxing was probably the person farthest away from the concept of "bad guy".
Even if he becomes a monster, he should be able to avoid hurting others. However, Ji Liuxing himself absolutely cannot accept the fact of "becoming a monster", let alone letting him live in a weird form.
Ji Yunding shook his head in his heart, rejecting this idea. Just as he was about to take two steps back, he heard Ji Liuxing's strange voice again.
"That thing, the rules..."
Ji Liuxing had just opened her mouth to say half a sentence when Ji Yunding saw a flash before her eyes - the rotten corpse that had been following her floated next to her, emitting a vortex of negative energy around it, as silent as the abyss itself.
It seemed to be looking at Ji Liuxing. Ji Yunding had an absurd feeling for no reason - it seemed to be... warning him?
The cafeteria, which was not crowded but a little noisy just now, suddenly became quiet. Everyone seemed to be still, and turned their heads stiffly to look over here. Someone was still chewing raw meat, and the half that had just been bitten off fell to the ground, along with a small half of the tongue and scarlet blood.
There were also a few people looking around nervously and blankly, probably from other groups.
One of the rules here is that food cannot be wasted.
Thinking of this, Ji Yunding took the time to glance at the rule paper and was stunned.
The original rules completely disappeared, and in their place were dark, oil-like flowing words that seemed to carry some resentment.
You saw it
"I'm quite scared of bugs." Ji Liuxing said, his neck seemed to be broken, almost bent 90 degrees to the right and pressed against his shoulder, his voice was intermittent, "Bugs, they don't follow the rules, give it back to her, give it back to her..."
Ji Yunding accidentally glanced at the glass and saw that her neck was covered with fine red line-like scratches. However, the other people who had traveled with her, including Ji Liuxing, seemed to be unaware of it at first.
The rotten corpse and Ji Liuxing confronted each other for a long time. Finally, it took something out of its eyes, handed it to Ji Liuxing, then turned around and floated back behind Ji Yunding.
Before it passed by Ji Yunding, there were only two bloody holes on its face where its eyeballs were missing.
Ji Liuxing straightened his head, stood up, walked in front of Ji Yunding, and gently spread out his palms.
On the palms of his hands were a pair of rare pure black eyes, with the whites of his eyes clear and full of vitality.
Ji Yunding instinctively raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, but found that his hand was stained with dirty liquid from somewhere, like secretions squeezed out from the turbid vitreous eyeball.
In an instant, Ji Yunding suddenly understood the strange laughter before it was killed...
Who is trapped inside it? The investigators? Or just a normal person?
What on earth is this...
"I'll explain later." Ji Liuxing continued to speak intermittently. He paused for a moment, thinking of his inhuman performance just now and his current condition. He became a little anxious and uneasy. "Trust me, don't move. Open your eyes."
Do not move?
To be honest, Ji Yunding hadn't fully understood the situation yet. He only saw Ji Liuxing take off his gloves and put his hands towards her eyes.
Ji Yunding only felt that something cold seemed to touch his brow bone. It didn't hurt, but he felt that a large piece of his eye socket was dug out, and then his eyes fell into darkness.
Then, it seemed that a slightly elastic spherical object slid in through the hole, bringing an itchy feeling where nerves and tissues were growing inside the eye socket.
At this time, there was a slight tingling sensation, and occasional cramping pain. It was not very comfortable, but not unbearable.
"alright."
Hearing Ji Liuxing's voice, Ji Yunding blinked - he could barely feel the light, but his vision was blurry, as if he was nearsighted.
After a while, the scene in front of my eyes basically returned to normal, but as I blinked, my eyeballs seemed not to be so compatible and it was still unclear for a moment.
Ji Liuxing withdrew his hand, put on gloves, turned around and walked back to his seat and sat down. He looked listless and not in a very good spirit.
"Team Leader, what on earth is this..."
"It violated the rules first."
Ji Liuxing pointed at the thing and kept looking up at Ji Yunding. It seemed that he could only say this much, but he seemed to expect Ji Yunding to guess something.
First...
"Your helping me is considered a violation, so it's okay?"
Ji Yunding took two steps back, sat down on his seat, looked straight at Ji Liuxing, and sorted out his thoughts bit by bit.
"It can follow me around the entire large-scale strange story and move around at will. It can affect the rules of the regional strange story and use the regional strange story to affect me...
Judging from its sudden rush over just now, it followed me voluntarily and could leave me if necessary. In other words, it did not need me to complete the above action.
If you want to find an individual with the same or similar function in the ghost story, it's you.
First, then last... Do you mean to say that it and you are on the same level in this weird story?"
Ji Liuxing tilted his head and pretended to be confused: "I didn't say anything."
"The second half of this sentence is usually what you guessed. In other words, I guessed it right?"
Only then did Ji Yunding realize that he seemed to be inexplicably targeted by the big boss, and that it had obvious malice in its heart.
Thinking deeply, it is still subject to the rules in the ghost story. If it goes out rashly, will it be able to move freely like Ji Liuxing...
Ji Yunding suddenly stood up, startling everyone.
"Newbie, don't be afraid..."
Lin Shugang said a few words loudly and immediately started coughing violently - her throat was not well yet, so she quickly pulled Wei Qianqiu's sleeve.
Wei Qianqiu also looked a little serious, and walked to Ji Yunding: "It's okay, don't be nervous."
"Sister Chiaki, I can't help but be nervous... How much credit can I get if I kill someone like the team leader?"
Ji Yunding paced back and forth nervously, seeming a little excited. Then she realized that although other students couldn't hear her clearly at this distance, such behavior didn't seem to fit her "bad" personality, so she sat down and waited for others' responses.
Today, Ji Yunding's mental state also stood out among a group of mental hospitals because of his "normality" regardless of the occasion.
Seeing that the other three were stunned and didn't answer her, Ji Yunding looked for help at Ji Liuxing, who was laughing so hard that he pounded the table.
Things like this that have nothing to do with ghost stories should be something you can talk about casually.
Ji Liuxing laughed enough and took the time to raise a finger to her, waiting expectantly for her guess.
"Ten million?"
The expression on the mask conveyed his strong dissatisfaction with Ji Yunding's low evaluation of him.
"...One hundred million?"
The mask was crooked, as if still asking, "Am I worth just this little money?"
"Team leader, I don't mean to look down on you, but I have no idea. I have never seen so many game coins when I was helping A-Qing play mobile games on a daily basis."
Ji Yunding gestured, but he didn't know what he was gesturing.
"After I received Xueyu's performance report, I checked it out. It said that 10 million weighs 300 kilograms, and 100 million weighs more than a ton."
"Why do we have to check the weight..." Lin Shu complained in a hoarse voice.
"In the novel that Ah Qing showed me, the character used a stack of 10,000 yuan to beat someone up. One hundred million yuan can be used to beat someone up 10,000 times. Ten years is just over 3,000 days. If you beat someone up once a day, you can beat someone up for nearly 30 years. If you beat someone up more, you can beat someone up for 300 years."
"The quantitative standards in the civilized world are so strange." Ji Changsheng stood aside and couldn't help feeling a little confused.
But looking at this, they were not worried at all that Ji Yunding was scared. In fact, the few people who were a little cautious just now were now completely distracted and were brought into Ji Yunding's thinking atmosphere of "that's a lot of money".
"I always feel that I can't say whether my mental state during this mission is good or bad."
Lin Shu thought for a long time and found that his thoughts were led to a strange place. He rubbed his head and tried to bring the topic back.
"Let's get back to the point, newbie. Can you handle this thing?"
“You could say there is, but not right now.”
Ji Yunding sighed in distress.
“It’s really a lot, but I don’t think I want it to that extent yet.”
Thinking about it carefully, this thing doesn't seem to have self-awareness, but it seems to have intelligence. It has always avoided provoking Ji Yunding too much and avoided direct conflict.
...as if he knew something.
This thought flashed through Ji Yunding's mind and he immediately shook his head.
Impossible, her oath was only known to Ji Liuxing. As for the possibility that Ji Liuxing would collude with Guaiyi in private... Ji Yunding felt that the probability was even smaller than that she would let it slip in her sleep.
It should just be the restrictions of the rules, plus the intimidation from Ji Liuxing.
The lunch break ended without anyone getting a rest, but that didn't matter.
After entering Room 1101, Ji Liuxing slammed the door shut without any hesitation, locking the corpse outside. He then let out a long sigh and turned around to find that the mask on his face had disappeared.
"The mission has been changed. All non-essential tasks have been abandoned, and all efforts have been devoted to studying the special individual." Wei Qianqiu glanced outside the door and made a decision. "Considering that it may be the core of a large-scale strange story that has never been observed before."
"Ask a question." Lin Shu raised his hand and frowned. "Whether it's Xueyu or that guy, why are all the recent events targeting Ji Yunding?"
"I can't rule out the possibility of coincidence, but I looked at Ji Yunding's luck before, and it's so extreme that it can be said to be 'dangerous'."
Wei Qianqiu also looked a little solemn.
"Either very good or very fierce. And it's a little strange. She should have reached adulthood and passed the fierce stage, but for some reason there has been no change."
"So, it is Ji Yunding's fate that can naturally attract these big fish?"
"I can't say." Wei Qianqiu shook his head, and his usually calm tone actually showed some fear. "I only know that if I look at it for a little longer, I probably won't be able to get out of this weird story."
Ji Yunding stared at the guy outside the door for a long time, and he felt a creepy feeling crawling up his heels and all over his body.
Unlike weirdness, its malice has no reason, just like water flows to the lowest place, apples fall to the ground when they ripen, and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
"There is a question that only you can answer." Wei Qianqiu looked at Ji Liuxing, who was lying listlessly on the table, and seemed to be in low spirits for some reason. "Why did you suddenly go to watch the freshman entrance examination last year?"
Yes, generally speaking, a group does not recruit from the freshmen at all. And there are many more important things in Jilixing than the freshman entrance examination.
Just like what Xie Yian said sarcastically - "It's just an entrance test, why bother you to come?"
Ji Liuxing raised his head and pointed upwards.
"Apocalypse."
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