Chapter 87 Old Campus This is Xue Chao's voice.
Fang Tailai left 624, a red pen clutched in her hand. She had only taken two steps when the rooftop door creaked open a crack. Her melancholy vanished instantly. Looking up, she saw that the rooftop was indeed unlocked.
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The female ghost on the phone has retreated, and the two dangers above and below are now averted.
Xue Chao carried his desk upstairs. He was more concerned about the sounds coming from the third floor. Fang Tailai didn't dare to listen too much, but he recognized it—Deng Dayun was on the third floor.
Sure enough, there were sounds of punches and kicks coming from the corridor inside the third-floor door. The person being beaten was quiet, with only their breathing heavy as they lay on the ground.
The bullying group consisted of four people. They probably had never heard themselves bully others before, otherwise they would be surprised that such a shrill and eerie scream existed in the world. One of the boys was the student in bed number 3 who had disguised himself as a human.
The student in bed number 3 is the core figure of the small group. He doesn't need to lift a finger; he just needs to stand leisurely to the side and say some sarcastic remarks, and the others will rush to curry favor with him.
At this moment, while the other three were hitting and cursing, the student in bed number 3 was having a long phone conversation with his girlfriend. Even the most touching words sounded rotten and sour as they rolled down his throat. It seemed like the other person was urging him to come over, so the student in bed number 3 coaxed her, "The bar isn't far from here, it's only a ten-minute taxi ride. Wait for my darling," and hung up the phone, seamlessly returning to the bullying.
Is the student in bed number 3 a regular at the bar, or is he one of the accomplices in the organ trafficking case?
Although Jiang Ming's background made him vulnerable to bullying, his parents died early, and his grandmother had to shoulder the medical expenses. He was precocious, tactful, and even got along with dogs. On the surface, he might have a good relationship with the student in bed number 3, but he just flattered him.
The bar job was introduced to Jiang Ming by his classmate in bed number 3. Jiang Ming was attracted by the high salary, but he also didn't want to offend his classmate in bed number 3.
All three of them in the dorm had connections to the bar. "Jiang Ming" was the ingrate, and the fates of the other two were uncertain. However, as the executioner of the bar, the murderer didn't know who did it, so he preferred to kill the innocent rather than let the guilty go free. The student in bed number 2 was already dead, and the fates of "Jiang Ming" and the student in bed number 3 were probably not much better.
Fang Tailai's scream came from the top floor. Xue Chao looked up and saw that the sound from the third-floor corridor had disappeared, leaving only a slightly limping figure standing in front of him. The door opened and the disheveled Deng Dayun almost bumped into him. He lifted his head, which was deformed from being punched, and was stunned to see him.
His can had been opened, revealing cigarette butts and empty water bottles inside—trash thrown away by the bullying group.
Deng Dayun didn't mention the plot of his departure. He didn't seem surprised that he and Xue Chao were in such a disheveled state. He also looked at the rooftop and asked, "Who are they calling? Do you know them?"
Xue Chao scrutinized Deng Dayun, not forgetting the charlatan in the building whose fate was unknown: "Don't you have any clues to share with me?"
Deng Dayun sensed Xue Chao's wariness. He didn't understand the situation, but that didn't stop him from being infected by it and becoming wary as well. He felt like he was being questioned by an elder with a stern face, "Don't you know what you did?" He quickly recalled every possible detail: "...At the end of the unit, a line of words appeared on the painting, which read 'The Visitor's Wish,' and the content was 'I am still whole, I am not a defective piece of trash'..."
Xue Chao suddenly silenced him, grabbed him, and ran downstairs.
Because Fang Tailai's shared computer space suddenly reopened, she wasn't on the top floor; she was at the side entrance on the east side of the dormitory building, petting a black cat with her eyes looking upwards.
Deng Dayun is not a fake; the one screaming in Fang Tailai's voice from the top floor is the fake.
Fang Tailai also heard her own shout. The head was still in Xue Chao's hands. After searching everywhere and not being able to find him, she simply restarted the camera and asked the other party to find her.
She had initially doubted the part about her character falling off the rooftop, but the enticing opening of the door to the rooftop made her believe it more. Just then, the black cat reappeared and guided her down the stairs on the other side.
The east side gate is where Lao Deng appeared on the first floor. It leads diagonally into the central garden, and through the garden, you can reach the back gate of the teaching building.
The smell of alcohol still lingered, like a secondary fermentation, brewing an even more disgusting odor. She could see Xue Chao carrying a desk in the distance, followed closely by a male classmate with a can-shaped head.
At first glance, she thought the latter was a fake, but both of them looked like survivors running away from a zombie movie, so she felt that they should know each other.
She leaned against the small door, ready to run away immediately if she sensed anything amiss between the two.
Then he saw something climbing down the stairs and chasing into the corridor behind them. Fang Tailai was startled. When Xue Chao ran up to him and handed him the desk, he grabbed the desk and turned to leave through the side door.
She turned around, and Xue Chao and the canned head also ran out. As soon as the three of them left the dormitory, the fake person disappeared. She touched her head and found that her nose was a nose and her eyes were glasses. She was almost crying with joy—she had turned back!
Main Quest 2 "Campus Memories" has been updated.
[Main Quest 2-5 "Qingtong Affiliated High School of Beijing Normal University": Silence is the law of happiness.]
[Task Details: Please experience your senior year of high school and complete your own storyline!]
The desk was smashed, and Xue Chao picked up the books.
Without stopping, the three of them slipped into a small park full of flowering trees, on guard against the red laser sniper fire.
It was the season when peach blossoms were in full bloom, and the fragrance was so strong that it made one's nose go numb. Xue Chao used the trees for cover and opened this extracurricular book.
It was difficult to see without light. Fang Tailai wanted to take out his phone to light it, but then he gave up because he thought it wouldn't attract attention. Then he realized that her phone wasn't with him. He glanced at Xue Chao's pockets but didn't see the shape of a phone... Could it be like a crowbar in a horror game, which could be used multiple times but could only be used to pry open the nails sealing the door? Once the puzzle was solved, it would disappear?
Then she saw Xue Chao take out his phone from inside his clothes, close the unmarked book, and dial a number on the spine.
Fang Tailai pieced together the information; the number was quite old, and it was stamped on a sticker with the word "gift," so it must have been the person who donated the book.
A pre-recorded message came through the phone: "Hello, I don't use the phone often and may not receive messages promptly. If it's urgent, please call me or leave a message..."
Xue Chao and Fang Tailai were stunned.
The content isn't important; the important thing is that it's Xue Chao's voice.
This is Xue Chao's number.
Xue Chao was the owner of the book, and he donated it to the school library, where it eventually ended up in the hands of Fang Tailai.
Another connection between "Xue Chao" and a player character.
Xue Chao peeled off the sticker, and there was a butterfly drawn on the back of the sticker.
I wanted to find the secret of the timeline through this book, but it ended up coming full circle back to him. Does a time machine really exist?
He wanted to ask Fang Tailai what impression she had, but when he looked up, he noticed that the girl's face was still blank and she seemed to be questioning her existence. Xue Chao asked in a strange voice that he couldn't recognize, "Do you know him?"
This time, Deng Dayun, who was at the very back, couldn't help but move his head, wondering in his heart, isn't this the voice of Xue Chao, then who else is "he"?
The atmosphere was strange. It was as if the three people had discovered three secrets about the same thing, and they were testing each other but were not on the same wavelength.
"That sounds familiar," Fang Tailai said, changing the subject. "Shall we enter the teaching building through the back door?"
Xue Chao: "The small door of the dormitory building leads to the back door of the teaching building. In the middle is a hidden garden path. If you can think of it, the 'sniper' can think of it too."
Fang Tailai: "Then climb over into the classroom on the first floor?"
Xue Chao distanced himself from the peach trees: "There's another scent beneath the fragrance of the blossoms."
Fang Tailai sniffed carefully and realized it wasn't just a simple floral scent. Deng Dayun noticed: "Sweet wine?"
Xue Chao: "We think the same way."
Fang Tailai looked left and right and said, "I was just about to ask, is this aluminum can the same as mine?"
Before Xue Chao could make his own decision, Deng Dayun had no choice but to awkwardly greet him, "You're a player too."
Fang Tailai nodded; those were the players from the previous unit.
They painstakingly searched for the scent of wine amidst the fragrance of flowers, as if navigating a labyrinth of aromas, traversing bushes and skirting trees. Xue Chao briefly explained the organ incident, parted the last patch of overgrown grass, and arrived at the cafeteria in the corner of the campus.
The cafeteria was closed, dark and empty. Rows of chairs, like eerie conjoined twins, were neatly arranged in the hall, creating a somewhat shadowy atmosphere.
Upon reaching the entrance, the aroma of wine finally overpowered the fragrance of flowers; this was the source.
Xue Chao: "Was there a canteen here before?"
Deng Dayun: "I'm getting beaten up." So he doesn't know.
Fang Tailai: "I was using a Ouija board, and it was behind the teaching building, so the dormitory building couldn't see it."
Xue Chao: "I didn't see it when I was in the teaching building."
Fang Tailai: "You said that the dormitory building also appeared out of nowhere, and that the newcomers were up to no good."
Xue Chao: "Even if you're not good at it, you still have to go in."
After prying open the lock, Fang Tailai took heavy steps toward the kitchen, but Xue Chao pulled him around a corner and downstairs.
There are even two underground floors, and they're bars!
Fang Tailai's lifeless, dead fish eyes were unusually larger than her dark circles. She patted the fluorescent bar sign like a buddy, not understanding the cool foreign words, but that didn't stop her from thinking quickly: "Shop!"
The bar's two floors are connected in the center, and you can see the large dance floor on the second basement floor from the first basement floor. The booths on both floors radiate outwards from the dance floor like flower petals, and countless wine glasses of different heights hang upside down from the ceiling. The huge disco ball changes light twice a second, illuminating people with a "colorful" glow.
The school was quiet late at night, but the bars were bustling with activity. People swayed and huddled together, clinking glasses and exchanging glances under the lights, their behavior unpredictable, like a group of boiling underground ghosts.
Due to the nature of the dungeons, players are divided into batches and multiple units, so the shop appears multiple times.
But players should have already visited the shop, so there's no need for it to reappear.
But Fang Tailai is only the fifth player. He was newly matched into the dungeon and hasn't entered the shop yet.
The store did indeed reappear.
The bar was too big; the shop must be hidden inside. Once Fang Tai was sure Xue Chao was alright, she shoved the red pen and book at him and immediately ran off to find the shop. As soon as she was out of Xue Chao's sight, she turned off her camera sharing.
Deng Dayun also suddenly tensed up, whispered a greeting, and disappeared into the crowd.
Following the direction he had just been in, Xue Chao saw the familiar bullying group.
His players are very "thoughtful," handling their own affairs so as not to cause him any trouble.
"I'm more afraid of trouble like you." The wine glass, glistening with water droplets, was pressed against the back of Xue Chao's neck, making him shiver from the cold. The sunflower's head leaned affectionately against his shoulder, and a beautiful yet strong hand traced the rugged scars on his back with perfect precision. Jiang Ming asked with a smile, "Handsome, why are you alone? Want to have a drink?"
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