When the bell rang at noon, five hours had passed since the police were called in the morning. The name of the student who fell from the building, or the player, spread all over the school. Even the outside of the school gate was filled with media outlets, waiting to interview the students who left school as soon as the gate opened.
Wu Qianchuan was the only roommate in a dormitory who were all gamers. Within two days, three of his roommates died tragically. He was shaking for the whole morning and his textbooks were almost torn to pieces.
It was not until the last group of students left that Yi Shengsheng came back with the girl who was knocked down by the dictionary during break.
Xue Chengyu's entire forehead was swollen, with a palm-sized plaster on it. He shouted to Wu Qianchuan, "Come back to your senses."
Wu Qianchuan had not yet recovered from the noise he had heard last night. His mind was filled with panic as he had once brushed shoulders with the ghost of death, and his eyes were fixed on a blank screen.
Because the corner of the table almost rubbed his eyes when he fell, Xue Chengyu was very angry now, and there was anger in the corners of his eyes: "What did you hear yesterday?"
Wu Qianchuan's lips trembled. The noise he heard in a half-asleep state last night filled his mind for the whole morning, enough to push his spirit to the critical point.
There were still people in the classroom who hadn't left. To be more precise, there were still players who hadn't left. All the players who had survived the game stayed in the classroom. Xue Chengyu didn't deliberately lower her voice, so others could hear it: "The people in your dormitory are really the chosen ones. Someone wins the prize every day. You should be the next one, right?"
Wu Qianchuan: “No…”
"It must be you." Xue Chengyu sneered, "Only you."
"You are the only one left."
The man in front of him turned completely pale.
coward.
Xue Chengyu sneered in his heart: "What on earth did you hear yesterday?"
Wu Qianchuan finally stammered as he talked about the noise of someone getting up in the middle of the night yesterday.
What the deceased in the girls' dormitory did the night before was basically the same as what the man with the arms crossed did. Xue Chengyu learned this yesterday when she asked Liu Yipei who fell from the building this morning. As for the difference, apart from the most obvious way of death, it was probably the attitude of the God Realm system towards the corpses of players - the corpses of players who were strangled to death had long been wiped out by the system, while the man who fell from the building this morning was actually on the news, and the popularity was soaring.
There must be something different.
Otherwise, why would one be strangled to death and the other fell to death?
Why was that dormitory so unlucky that three people died in succession?
Xue Chengyu questioned repeatedly, but in the end, he only got such meaningless information. He frowned impatiently, but a voice came from the side: "You won't get any results if you ask like this."
She raised her eyelids and said, "You can do it if you can."
Shang Xia came over at some point and asked, "Does anyone remember that this game has two tasks?"
Wu Qianchuan had a look of lost soul on his face.
Yi Shengsheng glanced at her roommate, slightly confused.
Only Xue Chengyu's face darkened, his eyes as sharp as a knife.
These contents were mentioned by Shi Yu long before the relationship between Su Lingque and Cen Biexi was revealed. Lin Chenghuan listened and subconsciously glanced down.
Shi Yu had taken a piece of white paper at some point and was drawing quietly.
The only time a high school student could use a pencil was to fill in answer sheets during exams, and the refills were rectangular, which made it inconvenient to write normally. So he used a gel pen, and even though he had no regrets when he wrote, it was hard for him to draw smoothly and naturally.
Lin Chenghuan has always been curious about him, from the time he first noticed that he was more dominant in the way he and Shang Xia got along, to now, his curiosity has been growing step by step.
Let's not talk about Shang Xia's attitude for now, and just talk about Shi Yu himself. He goes back and forth between the classroom and the dormitory every day, and never misses any class or homework. He gets news based on the geographical location when classmates gossip about him, and the intelligence is found by his other two teammates running around. From his behavior to his attitude, there is no sign of any ambition to complete the game.
But the amazing thing is that his occasional sensitivity to information and speed in solving puzzles always make people doubt that he is actually very, very interested in the games in God's Domain.
The contradiction is torn apart.
The pattern drawn by Shi Yu began to take shape. Shang Xia's voice in the classroom continued: "In normal games, players cannot kill each other directly, but in this game, they can."
Xue Chengyu sneered: "Aren't you just trying to say that the man fell to his death because of a player's murder?"
"This is the most reasonable explanation." Shang Xia put his hands on the edge of the table. "Since you have guessed it, why are you deceiving yourself?"
Otherwise, why would he interrogate Wu Qianchuan in public and try so hard to find the differences between the two people who died in two different ways?
It's obvious that players are not good teammates who can advance and retreat together. If you really want to interrogate them, is it difficult to call them to a secluded place where no one is around and then ask them?
Xue Chengyu kicked the desk in front of him hard, and the pens on the desk fell to the ground with a clatter.
"The side quest is to find the ghost hiding among us." Shang Xia laughed, "After being delayed for two days, it's time to get back to the task."
A few seconds later.
Yi Shengsheng, who had remained silent the whole time, spoke up: "If, if according to what you said, someone really pushed that person down the stairs and caused him to die, then...besides the person who lived with the deceased, could anyone else have done it?"
Wu Qianchuan's brain, which had been in a mess, miraculously became clear at this moment. He understood what she meant. He stood up with a panicked look on his face, leaned forward and knocked the desk in front of him to an angle, then quickly stabilized it: "No, it wasn't me! I didn't kill him!"
Yi Shengsheng spoke softly, without any tone: "If it wasn't you, is there someone who ran to your dormitory in the middle of the night to drag you off the bed and push you downstairs? If it really happened, how did he get into your dormitory? How could he not alert others? Don't you sleep without closing the door at night?"
Wu Qianchuan's tongue seemed to be tied and he could only shake his head desperately, with blood oozing from his eyes.
Perhaps because he felt so sorry for him, Lin Chenghuan shifted his attention from the painting to the players' discussion and pushed his glasses up: "Our mission is to find ghosts, not undercover agents."
The first two nouns in the sentence are bitten hard.
Since they are all "ghosts", who knows if they will have any special methods.
"There's already a ghost in this game." Shang Xia questioned his temporary teammate mercilessly, leaning lazily against the wall, "I'm more inclined to believe that the ghost mentioned in this mission is just a ghost in name only, and its role is similar to that of an undercover agent. Otherwise, the difficulty would be unbalanced."
Lin Chenghuan gave him an expressionless look.
Yi Shengsheng raised her hand cautiously: "I think no matter what, we girls should be cleared of suspicion, right?"
Shang Xia: “Not necessarily.”
Yi Shengsheng exclaimed, "The dead person clearly appeared on the balcony of their dormitory, which means he was pushed down from the window. Men and women dormitories are separated, and they don't even live in the same building. Once the door of the student dormitory is locked at night, there is no way to get in."
Shang Xia looked over with a smile: "You know so much."
Yi Shengsheng was inexplicably a little scared and was about to say something when the other party said again: "It should be like this."
Shang Xia had narrow eyes, and the corners of his eyes seemed to contain a hook. He said jokingly, "But how do you know that the dead person must have fallen from the balcony of their dormitory?"
"Because the body appeared right outside their French windows, many of them saw it..." Yi Shengsheng's voice became smaller and smaller, "Everyone thinks so."
"The location is that location," Shang Xia laughed, "but the floor may not be that."
"As long as it's on the balcony of that dormitory, one floor up, one floor down, two, three, four, five, six floors down, won't it all fall in the same place if you fall?"
Yi Shengsheng suddenly shivered.
"There are connecting passages on the rooftops of different dormitory buildings. As long as they are on the rooftop, girls can come over and kill people." Shang Xia said, "I'm sorry, your suspicion cannot be cleared."
Xue Chengyu listened to his sarcastic words and kicked the table again: "Are you here to cause trouble?"
Shang Xia just smiled and said nothing.
This copy does not have the rule that you have to go to bed when the time comes and you can only wake up when specific conditions are triggered. Once night falls, the human eye's visibility is indistinguishable within ten meters, and no one can provide proof of their alibi for the whole night.
The series of player deaths had caused people to forget about everything else, but now a fall from a building has brought out the side quest that was announced at the beginning but never gave people a sense of crisis, and anxiety has arisen.
The first collective discussion after entering the dungeon ended in an unpleasant manner, and Lin Chenghuan left first.
Shang Xia returned to the back row and pushed the wheelchair out of the classroom. "Xue Chengyu realized very quickly that there was a traitor among the players. She has a bad temper and is easily angered. It's not like she can hide it when acting. Of course, it's not ruled out that she is too good at acting out such a character. Yi Shengsheng doesn't seem to have a strong opinion, but she has been directing suspicion onto Wu Qianchuan and clearing herself of it. Wu Qianchuan has the geographical advantage of sleeping in the same bed with the deceased. At present, he seems to be the most likely suspect of the murder, but it is precisely because he is so suspicious that it is difficult to confirm."
"Besides that, there is also Lin Chenghuan. Judging from the discussion just now, he is just a fence-sitter."
Shang Xia sneered: "You agreed quickly and hid it well."
This tone and attitude don't show any sign of treating teammates the same way.
Shi Yu was silent for a while: "You seem to have never liked him."
Shang Xia: "Are you unhappy?"
"No."
"That's enough." Shang Xia looked at him, "The undercover has started killing people, and I'm afraid he will do more later. You should stay away from those people."
Shi Yu listened: "Why those people and not others?"
"Those people don't include me." Shang Xia looked forward again, "I told you at the beginning of the game that I am an ordinary student."
He laughed: "Others might think this is something they can make up, but you know that at the beginning, if you don't know the cards of others, you will make up something. Any player who knows that he is a ghost will not do this."
It's like playing who's undercover.
"You didn't even ask me about my identity card."
Shang Xia was stunned.
Shi Yu: "You can't guarantee that it wasn't me who did it."
"No." Shang Xia smiled and said jokingly: "But it doesn't matter. If you are really a ghost, you are welcome to kill me. I will never resist."
“…”
"Just kidding, my life is very precious." Shang Xia pushed him down the stairs and looked at the lawn that was blinded by the direct sunlight. "Because you didn't meet other players after the game started, but when I asked you where you were going, you knew you were a student in Class 414. Your identity card is exactly the same as mine."
So no matter whether it is him or him, it is impossible for him to be the ghost player.
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