Mother and Daughter
“Oh my god!” Lu Zibing was so scared that he almost flew off the ground. He raised his legs and ran out, “There is a monster!——”
The commentators didn't know what was going on at first, but after seeing clearly, they didn't even bother to laugh at him.
[I was shocked. How could the portrait move?! ]
[Will they crawl out of the photo?!]
[You are really amazing, Dog Planner. How can I face the gallery and school history museum in the future? ]
As Lu Zibing started running, the pairs of eyes in the photos moved more obviously, as if he was exerting too much effort, and lines of blood and tears flowed from his eye sockets.
The men and women all had warm smiles on their faces as they took photos, but their eyes were stretched to the limit, revealing the whites of their eyes, which, combined with the bright red blood, looked absurd and weird.
“Hehe…”
“Hahahahaha…”
“Hehehe…”
Outside, there was heavy rain and thunder, and from all directions in the corridor, there were giggling sounds, overlapping and echoing.
Just as the comments had guessed, the people in the photo really started to shake. They leaned out, and their upper bodies looked like the alumni in the photo, but their lower bodies outside the photo looked all kinds of things, some like snakes, some like mice, and some like centipedes.
"What kind of monsters are these guys?!" Lu Zibing was so scared that he burst into tears and ran even faster. He had fought for three hundred rounds against a rat man in difficult mode before. Wouldn't he be killed in a cycle of fighting now?
"Don't run..."
"Hehe, stay in Building 18..."
"Come with us hahahaha..."
[Others are at least teacher simulators, and the anchor is an athlete simulator! ]
[Why is the anchor so attractive to small animals? ! ]
[Ahhh, you call this a small animal? ]
Lu Zibing walked all the way to the stairs and ran down in two steps at a time.
The stairs were filled with thick darkness, and he couldn't see the road clearly, and he almost fell down several times. The crawling of insects behind him was always following him, driving him downstairs.
In addition to the screaming people in the barrage, there were also some brave people who analyzed the situation as if no one was around.
[Everyone, the monsters that have appeared in school so far are either mice or bugs. There must be a reason for this, right? ]
[I guess, is it related to the type of monster Lin Huailu is? He is most likely a building monster, so besides the building itself, the only thing he can control is the small creatures in the building, right? ]
[That makes sense! Moreover, his name ten years ago was "Lou Huailin", so his surname is Lou! However, in addition to small animals, there should be plants in Building 18...]
Lu Zibing ran down three floors in a row and was a little tired. He panted like a cow and looked at the analysis absent-mindedly.
However, as if responding to the speculations of the barrage, there were a few crisp sounds of windows shattering, and twisted and tangled branches stretched out from the window and rushed straight towards Lu Zibing!
Lu Zibing: “???”
Lu Zibing: "You crow mouths, stop analyzing!"
There is only one kind of plant he is in the mood for right now: grass!
Lu Zibing was forced to speed up again, breathing heavily like a bellows, and went downstairs in pain.
This is the eighteenth floor. He has never walked up such a high staircase in his life!
When we reached the eighth floor, a figure suddenly walked out from the stairs.
It’s the student ghost who is suspected to be Lang Tingyao.
Lu Zibing braked suddenly: "Hiss! You scared me."
As soon as the student ghost appeared, the plants and monsters chasing behind him paused for a moment.
The student ghost pointed silently downstairs.
Is this helping him?
"Thank you, thank you, my dear daughter!" Lu Zibing clasped his fist in an awkward manner and staggered downstairs.
The student ghost stood above him, looking down at him.
As a result, just as I reached the platform at the corner and was about to go down, a shadow suddenly appeared at the end of the stairs below.
"Oh my god! You scared me!"
Lu Zibing looked closely and was stunned.
The figure below, wearing a blue and white school uniform, with his head and body reversed and carrying a red schoolbag... is also a student ghost!
And the direction she pointed was upstairs.
Lu Zibing held onto the stair handrail without moving, feeling a chill running down his back.
【? ? Why are there two Lang Tingyao? 】
[Ahhh, I understand this setting! ! Is one of them a fake monster? ]
[…But which one is true? ]
The lightning was so bright that it revealed the faces of two people - both were Lang Tingyao's faces, with no difference in appearance.
But they were pointing in completely opposite directions.
The game prompt box pops up at this time:
[You have encountered the most difficult situation in history. What should you choose? Which one is the real daughter? There is only one way to survive. If you make the wrong choice, you will be doomed. Please use your wisdom and feelings to make an analysis. ]
[Note: Once you die in this level, the game will automatically end, all data will be reset, and you will be reborn at the beginning of the first act. (It's already the third act, there is no shortcut. Come on!)]
Lu Zibing couldn't help but curse in his heart: Director Shang, you are really a dog.
[I knew it! Hey, this is actually a common practice among the bad planners. The key options in the last scene of the love game will also be done this way.]
[I'm so nervous, the first one must be true, right? ? Why would my daughter let me go back to such a dangerous place! ]
[How do you know there isn't something more dangerous downstairs? Don't forget how cunning that dog Lin Huailu is! ]
Now there is no movement upstairs and downstairs, as if it was suppressed by the real Lang Tingyao. The only sound in the corridor is the sound of wind and rain outside.
Lu Zibing called out tentatively: "Xiaoyao?"
As a result, the two Lang Tingyaos upstairs and downstairs spoke at the same time: "Mom...Mom..."
Lu Zibing got goose bumps all over his body.
There was an army of monsters upstairs. He had come from there, and it seemed that was the place they should escape from.
However, is what you see necessarily true?
So, go upstairs?
Lu Zibing thought about those monsters and felt exhausted. If he went back, would he really be able to survive?
"Ahhh, I can't choose!" Lu Zibing said in frustration, grabbing his hair.
He reviewed the prompt. "It says, 'Use your wisdom and your emotions'... I don't count on wisdom, but what about emotions?"
What does it mean to “use emotion” to make a choice?
[Host, please give it a try. Do you feel more familiar with the ghosts on which side? ]
[I am dying of laughter. Is this reliable? ]
[Why is the anchor's live broadcast room always like this? The horror style suddenly becomes funny. 】
Lu Zibing: "...Not at all. Thank you!"
He struggled for a while, then suddenly an idea came to him, and he tapped his palm hard: "I figured it out!"
Barrage: [Tell me what you thought of... Wait, what are you doing, anchor? ]
Lu Zibing opened the small window on the side of the staircase platform and climbed up using his hands and feet.
"The real Lang Tingyao would definitely not want me to die. I'm going to jump off the building and see if the one who comes to save me is real. This is called using emotional weapons!"
Barrage question mark storm: [? ? ? ]
You are such a genius!
"If I guess wrong, I'll die anyway, so why not just go for it. Come on, Xiaoyao!"
Lu Zibing sat by the small window, the raindrops hitting him, his clothes quickly soaked. He stared at the two Lang Tingyao, opened his hands and leaned back into the wind and rain behind him——
Cyan Snow Live Room.
Ao Qingxue encountered the same situation.
Despite being stabbed in the face by the faceless ghost, she finally chose to go up. The reason was simple: she intuitively felt that she would be closer to the truth if she got closer to the floor where Lang Tingyao had the accident.
After finally getting rid of the faceless ghost, Ao Qingxue ran so fast that she didn't even bother to look around until the barrage reminded her: [Anchor, do you want to check the floor number? ]
“…Huh, huh…why haven’t we reached the end yet?”
Even in follow mode, players still have to walk the path they should walk. Ao Qingxue's legs were so weak that she could hardly walk anymore. Upon hearing this, she turned around with difficulty and looked up, then froze.
The floor number marked with fluorescent paint is clearly "3F"!
She must have climbed at least ten floors, why is she only on the third floor? !
Ao Qingxue couldn't help but hold Lin Xiaomei's cursed doll tightly, and at this moment, she encountered the similar Lang Tingyao upstairs and downstairs.
[…Please use your wisdom and emotions to make an analysis.]
Lang Tingyao above her pointed upstairs, while the one below motioned for her to go back.
Like Lu Zibing, Ao Qingxue was also thinking about the meaning of "using emotions".
"Is it that... they have some symbol of love on them?"
Ao Qingxue's thinking was relatively rational and calm, and she speculated like this.
For this kind of "life and death" option, the game will not be too straightforward, but it will not be too hidden either, and there will definitely be clear clues.
She began to observe the two Lang Tingyao carefully and discovered a detail - a red scarf was dragged out of their schoolbags.
This scarf has existed before, and players said it looks like a piece of intestine that has fallen out, which adds to the horror.
In fact, from the heroine's dream fragments, it can be seen that when Lang Tingyao and Lang Zhu had a quarrel and ran away, it was winter, and she was wearing such a scarf around her neck.
This scarf was knitted by the heroine herself for her daughter and it appeared repeatedly many times.
Ao Qingxue has a good image memory. She remembers that the little rabbit on the scarf was light blue and the green windmill was clockwise. Players also complained that the colors were ugly.
But the little bunny on Lang Tingyao’s scarf below is light pink, and the little windmill is counterclockwise.
She is fake!
Ao Qingxue made her choice without hesitation and continued to run upwards, while Lang Tingyao reached out to Langzhu. The imposter below had a resentful look on his face, tears of blood flowing from his eyes, and was filled with hatred: "Mom!! You will regret this!"
"Mom, why did you leave me again?"
Her voice still echoed behind her.
"You only have career in your eyes. If I die, will you be satisfied?"
“You’re going to regret this!!”
【Did you choose the right one? 】
[This scene is so weird, because Lang Tingyao's head and body are reversed, so when she runs forward, her head is still looking at Langzhu...]
[There is a bit of humor mixed in with the weirdness. I am tired of scolding the idiot planner! ]
Even though Ao Qingxue firmly believed that her choice was correct, she couldn't help but waver for a moment after hearing those tearful words.
Guided by Lang Tingyao, she ran upwards. Her steps became light and she quickly crossed one floor after another, finally reaching the top floor.
The open-air rooftop terrace would normally get people soaked, but for some reason, Ao Qingxue walked through the rain without getting wet at all.
Lang Tingyao stopped and gently squeezed Langzhu's hand.
Immediately afterwards, all the scenes around began to collapse like a shattered mirror. Ao Qingxue's eyes blurred, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that he had returned to the correct time and space.
There were no crazy teachers and students, no repetitive slogans. Langzhu stood at the elevator door of Building No. 3. Everything seemed like a dream to her.
In reality, it was already dusk. Before she knew it, she had been trapped in Building 18 for most of the day.
Luckily she made the right choice! ...How would she have died if she had made the wrong choice?
Ao Qingxue was very scared.
At the turning not far away, Lin Huailu walked out with a gloomy look in his eyes.
——After running out of cards, he finally revealed his true identity and faced the players.
The moment Lu Zibing turned over and fell, Lang Tingyao who was pointing above him moved instantly.
He didn't fall down, but was held tightly by the girl. The ghost's long black hair brushed against his face, bringing a bloody smell.
Lu Zibing immediately climbed down the windowsill and walked back. Even though he was very happy to have guessed the option, the fact still made him look bitter: "Should I actually go back the way I came? Then my previous walk was in vain!"
The monsters were still roaring at him. Lu Zibing tensed up, wanting to see how Lang Tingyao would deal with him. However, he saw that the monsters turned into a ball of black mist when they hit him: "...Huh?"
So, they are actually all fake, illusions?
Next, in a similar process to Ao Qingxue, Lu Zibing also returned to reality.
Lin Huailu stood in front of him, his face and neck stretched and deformed little by little, his skin turned grayish white, his eyes became sunken, and his facial features gradually melted away, turning him into a faceless ghost.
His body was hunched, covered with a pitch-black substance, and his forearms had turned into long sickle shapes.
A vortex appeared in the faceless ghost's mouth, and an angry roar came from it.
The barrage came with a chilling sentence: [Host, why don’t you continue to flirt with your favorite male guest? ]
Lu Zibing: “…………”
He looked around and saw that the only weapon in his hand was a teaching triangle ruler, and he couldn't help but curse.
It's either toilet cleaning tools or teaching aids. Isn't this game too difficult for players? !
"roar--!"
The faceless ghost rushed forward, and a fishy wind blew in his face.
After all, this is a game of reasoning rather than a game of fighting monsters. Although Lu Zibing set the difficulty to hell, the actual operating difficulty is not enough to discourage clumsy players from playing.
All you have to do is overcome your fear and every shot will hit the target.
Moreover, Lin Huailu's combat power in the real world is actually not very high, otherwise he would not have gone through roundabout ways to intimidate the players. Wouldn't it be faster to just go straight up?
Lu Zibing was hit midway through the fight, and his health bar dropped by more than half. He was so heartbroken that his fighting power soared: "I've already reached the boss battle, how can I let you kill me?!"
He became more and more courageous as the battle went on, and finally he killed the monster with a triangle ruler, and a big green word "Pass" appeared in the prompt box.
[You have resolved the shadow that has been lingering in Baishui No. 2 Middle School for ten years and made the right choice. Now, all the truth will be revealed before your eyes.]
Lu Zibing was exhausted like a cow, panting, but he still jumped up excitedly when he saw this: "Cleared the level! Am I the first one in the whole network... Oh no, okay, second place is also good."
He scratched his chin and watched the final closing scene.
On Ao Qingxue's side, Langzhu was not fatally injured.
Because of Lin Xiaomei's favorability, when the faceless ghost attacked, the cursed rag doll flew out of her clothes and blocked the sickle's attack.
After being hit, it completely fell apart, torn into pieces, revealing the cotton wool inside. The stitches on the face were half open, making it look even weirder.
But this time no one found it scary.
【Ah, my doll! 】
[Can it be repaired? I feel a little sad... After all, it has been with the anchor for so long. ]
[I actually want to get some cursed doll peripherals, what's wrong with me? ]
Ao Qingxue became the first player on the entire network to complete the game. After the faceless ghost fell, the black substance on its body faded away, revealing the unconscious Lin Huailu - however, his face had changed, revealing a young man with an ordinary and unremarkable appearance.
"Hmm? So he was in a possessed state before?" Ao Qingxue touched his chin inquiringly, "This face is the real one... Is his real name Lin Huailu?"
She leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, it wasn't him - the teacher's name tag had changed, and his real name was Lin Xiaozhuang.
Ao Qingxue: "..."
This is exactly the same perfunctory name!
She connected the clues in her mind:
It is known that Lin Xiaomei and Lin Xiaozhuang both have the surname Lin, and Lin Xiaomei knows some metaphysical knowledge.
So can we infer that Lin Xiaozhuang and Lin Xiaomei are relatives, and that he also has a metaphysical physique, and that the building monster saw this and possessed him to get close to the player?
Building No. 18 in the distance suddenly shook like an earthquake and emitted a white light.
This is the ending animation. Ao Qingxue sees Lang Tingyao’s soul walking towards Langzhu.
Langzhu lost her composure almost instantly: "Xiaoyao!"
There was no blood on Lang Tingyao's body, and his limbs were not twisted at all. He was no longer wearing the blue and white school uniform, but the white summer uniform.
——If Lang Tingyao had successfully passed the college entrance examination that year, she should have worn a dress like this during the graduation season in June.
Langzhu had already burst into tears and ran over to hug her daughter tightly.
The audience learned the whole truth from Lang Tingyao.
The secret of Baishui No. 2 Middle School is actually quite simple. Lang Tingyao died unexpectedly ten years ago. Players need to correctly infer the cause of her death, eliminate interference options such as school bullying and ghosts, and kill the building monster to get a happy ending.
Lou Huailin, who later became Lin Huailu, was indeed related to resentment. More than ten years earlier, there were students in the school who jumped off the building and died due to campus bullying. Their resentment was used and devoured by the newly formed building monster to strengthen itself.
But he was still not satisfied, and he set his eyes on Lang Tingyao, who had a special physique, and wanted to encourage her to jump off the building on her own initiative so that he could use her as nourishment.
At first, bullying failed, but Lang Tingyao fought back successfully, so he took the fight himself and transformed himself into Lou Huailin. This time, he succeeded.
But after Lang Tingyao's death, he was also restrained, causing him to only appear in a leaning position ten years later, and his strength was greatly weakened.
When there is no one on campus, the building monster's minions will create strange phenomena everywhere, and insects and mice are his tentacles and eyes.
After Langzhu appeared, Lang Tingyao actually appeared from time to time to help her. During the inquiry process, all the player has to do is to believe in his daughter.
"...Mom, you are not a good parent."
The girl stood in the sun, her long black hair draped behind her, revealing a somewhat sad smile.
"But I love you, Mom. I didn't know if you loved me, but now I know."
"I hope it's not too late, Mom."
Langzhu hugged her tightly. Lang Tingyao raised her head in her arms and gently wiped away Langzhu's tears: "Goodbye, mother. We will meet again, but don't come to see me too early."
Her figure gradually became transparent, and finally shattered into foam in her mother's arms. Langzhu knelt down, but only glowing sand was left in her hands, which drifted away with the wind.
The interstellar people are love-brained, and their hearts are softer and more sentimental. The barrage of comments has turned into tears.
[I came here to play a horror game, why was I given a big knife?! I feel so desperate!]
【QAQ Xiaoyao, don’t go! 】
[Wuwuwu, many people have written in blood to beg the dog to plan a sequel! I want to see the mother and daughter truly reconcile side by side! 】
In the two live broadcast rooms, Lu Zibing was crying like a shower, and Ao Qingxue's eyes were also red.
Lang Tingyao was not the source of the haunting at Baishui No. 2 Middle School. Instead, he served as the guardian of the school for ten years. After his death, his soul fought against Lin Huailu for ten years.
If it weren't for her, Baishui No. 2 Middle School would be like in [Bad Ending10], with one student dying every month.
Even as Lin Huailu's strength increases, this frequency will rise sharply.
Just like the cursed doll is not meant to curse, but will instead block an attack for the player.
"After watching it to the end, I am not afraid anymore..." Ao Qingxue concluded, scratching her cheek, "Next, I might watch it again to find out more details."
There should be many hidden plots and easter eggs in "Teaching Building No. 18", such as the present-day plot of Lin Xiaomei and Lin Xiaozhuang, and the students who jumped off the building many years ago because of school bullying.
However, this time, when she was playing the game, she felt more disappointed than fear, right?
That night, the two terms #Building 18 Clearance##Lang Family Mother and Daughter# became hot searches.
[So sad... I was afraid of ghosts so I played with my mom. We were almost at the same level, but we ended up crying after we left the game room.]
[I kind of hope there are more works about family relationships. Well, there were a lot of them before, because they were family-friendly. But before, they always had to add some love lines. Building 18 and Star Ship have shown us more possibilities.]
【Speaking of which, Master Yan and Master Hua have similar family backgrounds in a certain sense. Are they also expressing their own inner voices when they write about the theme of mother and daughter?】
Because of the similar themes, Hua Feitian's "Star Ship Falling from the Sky" is inevitably mentioned together.
One is a comedy with a happy ending, the other is a tragedy with a sad ending. Each has its own merits and it is hard to tell which is better.
Besides bursting into tears, the most common thing players said was to curse Lin Huailu as a bastard: If it weren't for him, how could such a tragedy have happened!
It is also mixed with the resentment of players who did not complete the level - Ao Qingxue and Lu Zibing made the right choices, but many players did not make the right choices and were directly beaten to the beginning.
They answered Ao Qingxue's previous doubts:
[Do you know why we can't choose to go down? Because in fact, in the building No. 18 where our players were pulled in, all the floors are upside down, and the first floor is the real top floor! So when Qingxue and Lu Zibing reached the top floor, they were not hit by the rain at all. ]
[In order to make us die faster, Lin Huailu made all players who entered the game through normal procedures start on the top floor, so that they would fall down if they were not careful.]
[That's what happened to me. I wasn't as brave as Ao Qingxue, so I didn't dare to go to the second floor and tried to go out directly. As you can guess, I ended up with nothing under my feet - Bad ending.]
“Pfft…cough cough!”
Shang Jingyan saw two players completing the level one after another, and curiously watched the process again. He was really shocked by Lu Zibing's operation.
Players are indeed the most unpredictable existence in the world. Who could have thought of forcing their daughter's ghost to die?
Fortunately, her built-in AI was quite expensive, and Zhen Lang Tingyao made the judgment to save Lu Zibing, otherwise he would have really fallen to his death.
The discussions on Starnet were very enthusiastic, and Shang Jingyan felt a little melancholy watching them, especially since he had just learned a little about Shang Song's past not long ago.
When she first found the time to play this game, she relied entirely on her intuition. Thinking about it now, she realized that she had indeed unconsciously incorporated her original body's feelings for her mother into it.
Shang Jingyan subconsciously wanted to seek perfection——
Lang Tingyao in the game got a positive answer, but "Shang Jingyan" in reality has not yet.
[Was my time travel really an accident?] Shang Jingyan's thoughts wandered, […Is there really such a parallel world, and a parallel world "me" that is so similar to me that I can travel through?]
X71 made a scratching head expression: [This part is not written in my manual. Maybe, every host is like this? ]
Shang Jingyan didn't say anything.
She was now on her way to Pei Yi's location to get her own cookies.
Sister Cui really wanted to watch the fun. Before she left, she kept muttering something about "Ashura Field", which made Noel's ears perk up.
But Shang Jingyan ruthlessly rejected her, and Noel was unhappy and didn't find any chance to strike up a conversation.
Pei Yi came to accompany his family, who lived in a villa area. When Shang Jingyan arrived, Pei Yi was sitting at the door holding his rabbit in a daze, and both the man and the rabbit looked melancholy.
"What's wrong with Manager Pei?" Shang Jingyan stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him.
"Because I watched the live broadcast of 'Teaching Building No. 18'." Pei Yi said with a bit of resentment, "The aftereffects of the family relationship were too strong, and I still haven't recovered from it."
Shang Jingyan folded his hands and teased him seriously: "If you continue to read my works in the future, you will feel melancholy many more times."
Pei Yi: “…”
Listen, is this human language?
"In that case..." He stood up and took the cookie box, half-jokingly asking, "For a box of small desserts, can Director Shang tell us what your next project will be? Movies, games, variety shows..."
While the two were talking, at the Exile Galaxy, the Rose Heart starship port.
Most of the starships from other star systems that were exiled to the galaxy would first arrive at the Rose Heart. At this moment, a starship from the capital star of the main star system was disembarking passengers.
The guests on the ship are often "main galaxy drifters", that is, local people from the exiled star who go to the main galaxy to work, and very few of them actually come from the main galaxy to travel.
When the strange guest in the first row wearing a white coat, a white mask and a white hat swiped his card and typed out [Place of Residence: Capital Star], the robot asked him, "Do you need to make an appointment for a tour guide in advance?"
"No need." The guest replied coldly.
His agent beside him looked around, waiting for the aircraft that had been ordered earlier.
The white guest stood aside and played with his laptop. Someone in his comment section was surprised and asked:
[Eh? How did Yun Yongxue's IP address end up in the Exile Galaxy? ]
Forgot to say, Happy Women's Day everyone!
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