Chapter 113 Error
At this time, Zhang Lian and Wu Tian were left in Class D, and Muscle Man and Hat 5 were left in Class A.
The numbers on both sides were once again equal.
Lu Renjia, who had just been eliminated by Zhang Lian, lay flat on the sofa, unable to stop sighing.
The lawyer took a sip of the hot water and his thoughts returned to the confrontation with Li Ziyue.
Previously, when Hat 5 was on the 3rd floor trying to figure out who would organize 10 people to go to the 2nd floor office to get exercise books, the student with the 2nd floor class marked on his palm was Li Ziyue.
Following Hat 5, Li Ziyue learned about the Easter egg "Help me, teacher".
Li Ziyue was indeed not killed by Wu Tian, but this was not a collusion between him and Wu Tian. At that time, he really didn't know that the other party was Wu Tian. Li Ziyue just acted cautiously and found someone to replace his position when Wu Tian did not return to the class.
Who would have thought that Wu Tian would directly reply that Li Ziyue was dead. Li Ziyue thought about it again and again, and thought about Wu Tian's past deeds, but he still didn't show up.
Sometimes the identity of a "dead person" can bring a lot of convenience.
The lawyer had already thrown out two trump cards. Seeing that Li Ziyue's Chinese score was about to be zero, Li Ziyue said calmly: "[Help me, teacher]."
The lawyer laughed: "I didn't expect you to know this."
Li Ziyue ignored his teasing and said, "Teacher, please change the duel subject to comprehensive science."
[I have received your application. Since the total score of science is twice that of Chinese, your score has been weighted. In addition, the power to modify the Easter egg is limited, and the subject change is limited to this duel.]
The lawyer spread his hands: "At worst, I can trade with you. Currently, there is only Zhang Lian left on the field. His Chinese is okay, but the test paper he did is different from ours. I guess it must be very painful for him to learn, right?"
"Zhang Lian doesn't like to talk to people. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he never enters the top ten of the rankings," Li Ziyue rubbed his eyebrows and said in a softer voice, "He is so low-key that you all have forgotten that, in a way, he is more powerful than me and Zhang Xingzhi combined."
The strongest opponents in school days are those who are talented and hardworking, and Zhang Lian happens to be one of them. No matter when, as long as he sits in his seat, he is studying, and he is almost never seen relaxing.
Li Ziyue looked at the lawyer calmly for a while, then smiled for no reason.
"Do you know where you will lose?" he said calmly, "Your advantage is that you understand me and Zhang Xingzhi, but your disadvantage also lies here."
"No matter how you arrange it, you have to take into account the possible actions of Zhang Xingzhi and me, and think of ways to restrict us."
Li Ziyue's eyes were like a crescent moon emitting soft silver light: "To put it nicely, it's prediction. To put it bluntly, isn't it just being led by our actions?"
"You think I will definitely play a big role in this match. After all, even Zhang Xingzhi, who is ranked first in the standings, said that I am indispensable in this match."
"You remember that you watched my live broadcast. No matter how badly I was injured, I would try my best to complete the main quest of the dungeon."
Li Ziyue smiled lightly: "Do you think I will do the same as before this time? I will use various methods to improve my score, and then defeat all of you through a score duel."
"But you overestimate me. I've said it many times, I'm just an ordinary person," Li Ziyue said, "I'm not a genius, and you're not stupid either. Didn't you check for gaps when I was studying? I don't have the ability to improve my terrible Chinese and English scores to beat yours in just a few days."
"Besides," he sighed with relief, "it's really tiring to carry a heavy burden all by yourself, so let me be lazy once in a while, okay?"
"You..." The lawyer's face turned pale.
"In this situation, how do we break the impasse?" Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows slightly, "Zhang Xingzhi and I will be the 'abandoned pawns' and eliminate you from the beginning."
Li Ziyue sighed slowly: "In fact, you could have done very well. For you, this is only your first dungeon, and your performance has surpassed the vast majority of new infinite flow players. You are very good, really, much better than I was at the beginning."
…
The lawyer glanced sideways at Li Ziyue who was sitting on the other side of the sofa.
His expression was still calm, as if Wu Tian's sudden change of mind just now did not pose any threat to him. The lawyer remembered the last words Li Ziyue said to him.
[“You still have a lot of time left to make progress,” Li Ziyue looked at the lawyer seriously, “but I’m different. My life is coming to an end. If I don’t fulfill my wish before I die, I will not rest in peace. I will not let you win this time.”]
This person... No wonder he only cared about the result and didn't care how serious the injury to his body would be. It turns out he never thought about living long.
The lawyer pressed his lips into a white line.
Somehow, my heart felt a little cold, and in the end it was a bit bitter and sour.
…
The muscular man had just come out of the duel when he met Zhang Lian. He frowned slightly without leaving a trace, trying to search for information about the person in front of him in his mind.
When Zhang Lian was in Class D, apart from chatting with Li Ziyue, he buried his head in his homework. If it weren't for his outstanding appearance, the muscular man might not have remembered that there was such a person around him.
"You guys come at me together," Zhang Lian rubbed his wrist, his eyes cold, "I'll save some energy."
He yawned slightly and began to feel sleepy.
Hat 5 gave the muscular man a look.
"Wait," the muscular man said calmly, "How can you be so confident that you can beat both of us?"
Zhang Lian looked at the muscular man with a look that said "you are stupid".
"Don't you suspect what Wu Tian from your class is doing right now?" Hat 5 added in a panic, "He's colluding with the lawyer. You should know who the corresponding anchor is for the lawyer!"
In fact, Hat 5 didn't know what happened between the lawyer and Wu Tian. He just deduced this from what Wu Tian had said to the other two people in Class A. Who would have thought that he would hit the mark by accident.
He was betting that Zhang Lian knew nothing about it.
He also made the right bet.
Zhang Lian narrowed his eyes slightly, and his sleepiness was slightly relieved.
"What collusion?"
Hat 5 grinned and said, "You should ask him about this."
"That's right," Zhang Lian rubbed his wrist, "Then I have to deal with you quickly."
The muscular man was sweating profusely: "It's too late."
"What do you mean?" Zhang Lian seemed very patient.
In the observation room, Zhang Feiye was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot: "What is Zhang Lian still asking? The other party is obviously stalling for time! He is just talking nonsense."
Thinking about how he had been beaten by such a person in the past, Zhang Feiye became very angry and hated himself for not living up to his expectations.
"Wu Tian is a complete villain," Mao 5 gritted his teeth, "There's no way we can turn the tables, but if you don't go find him now, I'm afraid..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard the long-awaited "Ding-ling-ling" sound from the other side of the corridor.
The originally harsh reminder now sounded particularly pleasant to him. Looking at the blood gradually overflowing from the ground and the figure of the NPC lingering at the bathroom door, Mao 5 retreated deeper into the bathroom, waiting for the NPC outside the door to come in and trap Zhang Lian.
Zhang Lian still had a calm expression on his face, as if he hadn't noticed anything unusual.
Muscle Man and Hat 5 winked at each other quietly.
Who would have thought that in a flash, there was a surprising "bang" in front of his feet. Before Mao 5 could even react to what was thrown in front of him, he heard Zhang Lian asking him.
"so what?"
Zhang Lian walked naturally to the sink, turned off the faucet, and carefully cleaned the remaining liquid between his fingers.
He casually grabbed the NPC who was trying to approach him from behind, and threw him away seemingly lightly. The NPC's body flew in the air and hit Hat 5 hard, making him dizzy.
The NPC who was entangled with the muscular man before grabbed Zhang Lian's clothes, tilted his head, stared at him with black hole-like eyes, and said word by word: "Classmate, teacher..."
His words were choked in his throat. Zhang Lian looked at the blood on his face expressionlessly. He held up the NPC's drooping head with his hand, and then with a "click", he forced the NPC's head upwards.
Zhang Lian seemed to be appreciating a work of art: "You can only speak clearly if you keep your head straight."
There was already a hint of impatience on his face.
The NPC behind him instinctively sensed the danger and retreated back to the corridor like a tide.
"I heard you guys talking a lot of nonsense and thought there would be some surprises," Zhang Lian slowly squatted down and grabbed the strands of hair on Mao 5's forehead, "I think I was wrong. I should have broken your legs before the duel."
"Or," those human eyes, without a trace of life in them, "do you want to try having your head hit by a mast?"
He touched the top of Mao 5's head and said, "Don't worry, I will do better than Wu Tian."
Zhang Feiye, who was far away on the other side, kept breaking out in cold sweat, and dark memories of the past popped up in his mind one after another like bamboo shoots after an epidemic.
Zhang Lian usually either does his homework or stays on Li Ziyue pretending to be sleepy. He is as obedient as a little white rabbit that can't take care of itself, making Zhang Feiye forget Zhang Lian's original character for a moment.
The reason why Zhang Lian was feared by everyone in the beginning was not because of his strength, but because of his cruelty and cold-bloodedness with no empathy at all.
Zhang Feiye was shaking uncontrollably.
Zhang Xingzhi's mouth twitched: "Zhang Lian definitely doesn't know that there is a real-time broadcast in this room."
Li Ziyue held his forehead helplessly.
Mao 5 thought Wu Tian was already scary enough, but he didn't expect Zhang Lian to be even more cold-blooded and ruthless than Wu Tian.
He grew up in a sea of blood, killed countless monsters with his own hands, and never took problems that needed to be solved by force seriously.
[At this point, all members of Class A have been eliminated, and Class D wins this match]
Zhang Lian yawned slowly and rubbed his eyes, obviously very sleepy.
He called up the location of the observation room from the system and walked towards it.
The NPCs in the corridor instinctively made way for him.
However, before he reached the stairs, Zhang Lian suddenly stopped. He leaned his body to the side, perked up a little, and glanced at the NPC who was lowering his head behind him.
"you……"
…
[The "I came to school voluntarily" copy has been completed]
After hearing this notice, Wu Tian, who was in a corner of the teaching building, also stopped.
The original "betrayal" did not happen as expected. Wu Tian came out from the bottom of the stairs and looked up at the sun in the sky.
He was blinded by the sunlight and squinted his eyes, then stretched comfortably and waited for the system to teleport him to the player waiting area.
The stretch was extensive, revealing a small grey crow on his collarbone.
Zhang Xingzhi, who was in the observation room, frowned at the crow mark.
It turned out to be him.
The lawyer stood up from the sofa. At this point, he realized that he had been tricked by Wu Tian and just smiled awkwardly at Li Ziyue.
"I should have known earlier that the audience has no right to negotiate with the anchor." He wiped the frame of his glasses.
Sun Yuancheng had half of his face hidden in the shadows, with no expression on his face.
Wu Tian’s deceiving skills are very poor. The reason why he was able to deceive everyone is only because he acted nine-tenths truthfully and only hid one-tenth lie.
Sun Yuancheng's ability to lie was nurtured with life as the nourishment. In his long life, if he couldn't lie and act, he would only end up dead. Pretending in front of Sun Yuancheng was undoubtedly like showing off one's sword in front of Guan Gong.
People may be able to control their micro-expressions when they lie, but except for the head, the rest of the body is full of flaws.
Some of Wu Tian's performances were so perfect that even Sun Yuancheng couldn't tell anything was wrong. There was only one reason for this - Wu Tian spoke the truth.
Looking for Li Ziyue in the bathroom, saying that the dead person was Li Ziyue, choosing to expose Zhang Xingzhi's coordinates, forming an alliance with the lawyer in private, and turning against him and saying that he wanted to resurrect the lawyer...all of them were true.
He did so, but at the beginning Li Ziyue ran faster and was intercepted by Sun Yuancheng halfway.
Sun Yuancheng thought carefully about why Wu Tian finally revealed the mission of resurrecting the lawyer in front of him. If Wu Tian really wanted to successfully resurrect the lawyer, it would be normal for him to sneak away and complete the mission.
There are two possibilities behind this behavior.
One is that Wu Tian is still considering other options. In other words, there is a third-party force in the whole incident that they are not aware of that is preventing Wu Tian from resurrecting the lawyer. Wu Tian deliberately exposed his hand in order to let Sun Yuancheng come to stop it.
The second reason is Wu Tian's own abnormal psychology. Some animals will deliberately reveal all their skills when playing games with their opponents in order to make their opponents "stronger". When he steps on the "stronger opponent", he will feel a more satisfying sense of conquest.
Maybe both.
Sun Yuancheng ate a slice of orange and it was so sour that he grimaced. He said to Li Ziyue in frustration, "Brother, do you have any sugar? It's so sour that I'm dying. This orange must have been grown as a laborer when he was underage. Why is it so unpalatable?"
Li Ziyue handed him a bag of candy and said with a faint smile: "Thank you, you have worked hard."
Sun Yuancheng was startled, then burst into tears at Li Ziyue: "Brother, you don't know how I planned to stop Wu Tian's conspiracy..."
Before he could say anything, Zhang Lian came over and took him aside.
Zhang Lian looked at the large electronic screen in the observation room, which also displayed the real-time monitoring of the bathroom on the second floor, and he immediately understood.
He pursed his lips, his eyelashes drooped, and his voice was tinged with pity.
"Brother," he pulled Li Ziyue's shirt off, "Will you dislike me because of this?"
Li Ziyue looked up at him and said, "Stretch out your hand."
Zhang Lian froze for a moment, and his wrist hanging by his side was already grasped by Li Ziyue.
A bright red wound the size of a fingernail was located on the protruding bone of Zhang Lian's wrist.
Fortunately, the wound was not deep, the bleeding had stopped, and there was a little swelling around the edges.
Li Ziyue took out the disinfection tools from the system backpack and treated Zhang Lian's wound: "What happened?"
Who could hurt Zhang Lian?
Zhang Lian pursed his lips: "...In the end, I encountered a difficult NPC, but I solved it."
Li Ziyue sighed: "Does it still hurt?"
"…It hurts just thinking about it," Zhang Lian licked his lower lip, "If I could do something else to distract myself…"
Li Ziyue looked at him, slowly raised his hand upwards, and then placed it on the side of Zhang Lian's face. Zhang Lian was about to lean towards his hand, wanting to rub against it, but he didn't expect Li Ziyue to pinch his cheek.
Li Ziyue said helplessly: "Bow your head."
Zhang Lian blinked his eyes and lowered his head obediently.
Warmth attached to his lips, and Zhang Lian bit that spot. Li Ziyue patted the back of his head, then let go with grievance.
He leaned forward and kissed the tip of Li Ziyue's ear, which was turning redder, and before Li Ziyue could say anything, he completely embraced him in his arms.
"Brother," he rested his chin on the top of the plum, rubbing it, his voice hoarse, "I'm so sleepy."
Li Ziyue stopped talking and struggling, and let him hold him.
Li Ziyue has not slept much these days, and Zhang Lian has hardly closed his eyes either.
Zhang Lian used to have a very regular lifestyle. He would go to bed on time every day without fail. He didn’t even need to set an alarm the next day, he would just wake up on time. He hasn’t touched his pillow in the past few days because he’s been studying.
When Li Ziyue was in the dormitory, he would come over and sleep for a while, and when Li Ziyue was not around, he would not sleep.
Li Ziyue patted him on the back and stuffed a few candies into his pocket.
"Thank you for your hard work, too."
Zhang Lian gently held the tip of his ear.
Li Ziyue could no longer bear it and gave Zhang Lian a beating, and the people behind him quieted down.
At this time, Zhang Feiye hesitated and asked, "Have you found a problem?"
"The duel is over. Logically, the system should either give us points or teleport us back to our respective virtual worlds," he frowned. "Why hasn't the system responded at all so far? This shouldn't happen. We've been waiting for so long."
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