Wu Qianchuan's eyelids kept twitching, and he tried to break free: "What the hell do you want to do..."
There was a loud "bang".
Shang Xia kicked the man between his legs, and while he was screaming, he pinned him to his knees, pressing his knuckles against the Fengchi point on the back of his neck: "Can you speak now?"
Wu Qianchuan almost burst into tears: "Fuck you..."
Shang Xia's men exerted force suddenly.
The man fell silent in the middle of his words, trembling with pain, and begged for mercy: "No, spare my life! Spare my life!! Please let me go..."
"You still know how to talk nicely." Shang Xia smiled and walked out holding his collar.
Wu Qianchuan felt pain when he moved, and his legs were shaking so much that he couldn't even stand steadily: "Wait, where are you going?"
Shang Xia turned around and raised his eyebrows with a smile: "Don't want to go?"
Wu Qianchuan felt cold all over and shook his head desperately.
Arriving all the way downstairs of the girls' dormitory, Shang Xia threw the two people to the door like trash. He rubbed the bracelet with his fingertips, and a palm-sized black box appeared in his palm.
"Call the remaining two people down for me."
Lin Chenghuan had been dragged along by him like a prisoner. Now that he was finally free, his hands were numb. "What on earth do you want to do? The dormitory door is closed!"
Shang Xia pressed something on the small box, and the box fell apart like a machine model, then spontaneously reassembled in the air.
Bodleian SG96 type.
Lin Chenghuan's pupils suddenly shrank.
Wu Qianchuan's face turned pale.
Shang Xia hooked the trigger guard with his fingertips and turned it twice. The black muzzle of the gun stopped right under the eyes of the two men. He smiled with his eyes curved: "Does that have anything to do with me asking you to call someone?"
In the end, the two of them made some noise, which led the two female players to sneak out, thinking that they might have clues. When they met the gazes of the three people below and the aiming lines of their hot weapons, they angrily realized that they had attended a Hongmen Banquet.
Compared to the two girls' frustration, Lin Chenghuan's heart instantly tightened the moment he saw the two of them appear at the same time.
——There are five players left in the mission.
——There are five people standing here, so it goes without saying who the person who was judged dead by the system is.
He had personally witnessed Shang Xia's attitude and style along the way, and he immediately became extremely alert and vigilant against the sudden outburst of this unpredictable person around him.
But the fact is, Shang Xia's gaze only lingered for a moment after he saw the last two people appear, and then he immediately withdrew: "Are you all here? Come with me to find someone now."
Wu Qianchuan's lips trembled: "Looking for, who?"
"The one who died tonight?" Xue Chengyu reacted quickly, but he felt fooled and had a bad tone. He looked annoyed and disgusted, "The Divine Domain System said that the person was dead. The body must have disappeared long ago. Why are you still looking for..."
When the safety bolt is pulled down, it makes a very slight sound when it hits the barrel.
Shang Xia smiled softly: "What are you looking for? Say it again?"
Xue Chengyu's voice disappeared into the air. She stared at the gun in his hand. She tried to look strong on her face, but fear was inevitably revealed in her eyes.
"System judgment?" Shang Xia curled his lips, his eyes showing undisguised sarcasm and contempt, "What does that have to do with me?"
"If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body."
"If you don't have any, there's no need for you to stay here."
He is capricious, arrogant and willful to the extreme.
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This night is destined to be sleepless.
It's not just because the five players disappeared collectively, but also because they just disappeared but did not die, and their existence was not erased from the minds of the natives in the copy world by the system.
The dormitory teachers of the two buildings reported the incident to the school separately, and as roommates of the missing players in the two buildings, Lin Zhi and Cen Biexi were also questioned.
When Cen Biexi received the news of the disappearance, he stood alone in the dormitory for a long time. In the end, he was still worried and sneaked out the door.
He walked all the way to the first floor and stood in a place where there were no surveillance cameras nearby. With his head lowered and his eyes closed, he stood in one place like a sculpture for a long time. Then he suddenly opened his eyes, ran quickly to the end of the corridor, jumped down the stairs, and ran all the way to the gymnasium.
The door of the gymnasium is very high, but it is not locked and can be pushed open with a little force.
Cenbiesi walked into the indoor court.
Like most schools, the school's indoor stadium is connected to the stage used for various school anniversary and festival performances, with a curtain on one side and audience seats on three sides.
A row of glass windows was chiseled on the wall. The rain stopped, and the bright and clear moonlight flowed across the empty auditorium.
And there was a figure sitting in one of the seats.
Cen Biexi subconsciously walked closer: "Why are you here? The teacher came to check on us just now and you didn't..."
The people in the audience raised their eyes, their gazes calm and indifferent.
"You really found it first."
Cen Biesi was stunned.
Shi Yu put his cane aside and closed the book in his arms. "It wasn't long before the lights were turned off. Even if the teacher wanted to check on us, it would only take ten minutes at most for us to find our dormitory. In that short time, you not only found out that I was missing, but you also found me here. You had to rush here directly from the dormitory building without taking any wrong detours. I don't believe you relied on luck."
"Is it because there was some way you could have known I was here in the first place?"
Cen Biesi vaguely realized what he was going to say, and his hands hanging by his side gradually became wet with sweat.
"It is written in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that there is a divine beast in Mount Jiuhua that can hear sounds, distinguish things well, and drive away evil spirits with auspicious signs. Its ears can read people's hearts, and its nature is extremely kind." Shi Yu looked into his eyes, "Can I ask you to listen carefully?"
Cen Biesi's gaze remained still for a long time, and when he spoke again, his voice was slightly hoarse: "Just call me by my name."
Shi Yu looked at him silently for a moment: "I just want to confirm your identity, I have no other plans. You don't have to be so afraid of me."
Cen Biexi was stunned and looked up in surprise.
"Or are you afraid of something else or someone else?" Shi Yu asked, "Do you want to talk about it?"
Their relationship was far from the point where they could talk to each other face to face in the middle of the night, not to mention that one of them had just revealed the other's true identity that had been hidden for more than ten years.
Shi Yu confirmed his expression before speaking, "Then let me guess, is it related to Su Lingque?"
Cen Biexi pursed his lips, didn't nod, but didn't shake his head either, and didn't turn around and leave.
"Su Lingque died, but it wasn't an accidental death, right?"
yes.
"She used to be very popular. Was that because she had a cheerful personality that was completely opposite to Lin Zhi's?"
yes.
"She approached you first. Did you have a good relationship?"
yes.
"Her death has something to do with you?"
The other person's breathing suddenly stagnated for a long time, and then he suddenly closed his eyes: "It's my fault."
"One last question," Shi Yu listened to this, his tone still calm, but when he reached into his pocket, he felt nothing. He paused for a few seconds, then raised his eyelashes again, "Is it a coincidence that you returned from your leave of absence three years later and were in the same class with Lin Zhi?"
Cen Biexi subconsciously grabbed the hem of his clothes, his palms full of cold sweat.
He is a divine beast after all. Even if he entered human society ignorantly at first, his cold and aloof aura is enough to scare people. He rarely feels so uncomfortable.
When was the last time this happened?
It was the end of winter and the beginning of spring three years ago. After the winter vacation, the students cleaned the classroom which had been covered with dust for a month at the request of the school.
The entire corridor was sprinkled with ice-cold tap water, and white foam was washed out of the detergent and floated on the water, swaying in the cold wind as it moved to another location.
It was raining and the weather was even colder. Cen Biexi put on three sweaters under his coat, wrapped himself up like a ball, and walked from the bathroom at the end of the corridor to the classroom carrying a bucket of water.
The classmate standing at the door of the next classroom suddenly swung the wet mop with his back turned. He subconsciously stepped on the foam to avoid it, and his waist hit the railing, and the bucket in his hand splashed.
"Hey - you don't have eyes!"
The girl's shocked and angry voice rang in his ears. He ignored the pain and quickly stood up and apologized: "I'm sorry."
The girl was about to curse, but when she saw the boy's handsome features, her voice suddenly stopped and softened by eight degrees: "Are you okay? Did you fall anywhere?"
Cen Biesi: “……?”
The girl changed her disgusted expression and pulled his sleeve to check: "The skin on your palm is broken. The water on the ground is too dirty. It's easy to get infected. I'll take you to the infirmary."
Cen Biesi: “……???”
The student who caused all this, Mop, twitched his lips: "Su Lingque, that's enough, stop destroying our class's treasure."
Su Lingque didn't even bother to respond and continued to talk to Cen Biexi: "Classmate, were you going to fetch water just now? It's just right, he went to fetch it, and you come with me to bandage it, okay?"
Mop classmate: “?”
Cen Biexi was slightly stunned: "But he..."
"No buts." Su Lingque gave Mop a look, "What do you think?"
Mop: “… tsk.”
Cen Biexi didn't know whether it was because he was in so much pain from the fall, or because he was afraid of infection in his injured hand as the other party said, but he was inexplicably pulled away by a strange girl.
Su Lingque was as her name suggested. She chattered non-stop along the way. Thanks to her initiative, he finally figured out that she was the beauty in the upstairs class that classmates often talked about - the one with the Overlord variety.
"Cenbiexi."
"Cenbiexi!"
He suddenly came back to his senses and let out an "ah" in confusion.
The girl put a hand on his shoulder: "What are you thinking about? Did you hear what I just said?"
Cen Biesi swallowed his saliva.
To be honest, he didn't hear it clearly.
Su Lingque curled her lips: "I know you think I'm noisy, I'll be quiet."
It is indeed impolite to be distracted when others are talking. A subtle sense of guilt flashed through his mind, and he subconsciously wanted to apologize again.
The girl lowered her head and took out an umbrella from her bag pocket.
The winter rain was cold and wet, and even though we reached the end of the corridor, there was still some open air distance to the infirmary.
The umbrella was too small, so Su Lingque held it over their heads and quickly pulled him to the opposite corridor: "You didn't get wet, did you?"
"No."
Su Lingque seemed to have been granted amnesty. With a smile on her face, she folded the umbrella, pulled him along, and when they reached the infirmary, she knocked on the door in a familiar voice, "Teacher Gao, I am here to bother you again."
When the school doctor heard this, he rolled his eyes half speechlessly and half helplessly: "When can you stop causing trouble and not come to punch in at me?"
Su Lingque just smiled and pushed the door open.
While Cen Biesi was treating the abrasion on his hand, the girl was sitting on a chair opposite him, wiping the dirty water splashed on her school uniform pants with a pack of tissues. The coat she had just taken off and was draped over the back of the chair was hanging loosely, half wet.
It was clearly her who was so delicate that she subconsciously cursed when splashed with dirty water in the corridor.
But she was also the one who just held the umbrella and leaned towards him even though she would get wet.
How can you change your face so quickly?
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"Cenbiexi?"
Suddenly pulled away from the memories.
Cen Biesi was still standing below the audience seats in the gymnasium, looking up at the person at the highest point.
Shi Yu looked at his expression and was about to speak, but paused.
The bracelet suddenly lit up, and a message popped up:
[The progress of the side quest has been updated, and the total number of players remaining is currently four. ]
[Side quest continues]
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