Chapter 95: The Old School Days - All Players Are Protagonists.
[The gift packs are divided into in-game gift packs and out-of-game gift packs. Out-of-game gift packs will be distributed after the dungeon ends.]
[You have opened the in-game gift pack. Congratulations! You have received 1 item and 1 corresponding card.]
【Item Name: The Third Eye】
[Item Description: A thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their hearts, and a thousand people see a thousand worlds in their eyes.]
[Rank: S]
[Instructions for use: The user draws a line on the forehead with their own blood to open their eyes and see the world beyond the world.]
(Special Note) Because this item is bound to a specific card, it is a universal item and can be used both inside and outside dungeons.
[Buff 1 "X-ray Vision": You can see other players' stats.]
[The rest are yet to be unlocked]
[Debuff 1 "No Madness, No Life": This debuff grants access to worlds beyond our own, posing a significant risk of sanity loss. Use with extreme caution.]
[The rest are yet to be unlocked]
The university's radio station is the most minimalist and serious; apart from the "professional" equipment, you can hardly notice anything else.
Xue Chao sat at the table, perfunctorily searching for his identity. He felt in his heart that he probably didn't have one, because his identity was not as insignificant as a name on the schedule.
The three cameras in the room are already turned on, and the rankings from top to bottom are Jiang Ming, Sheng Hong, and Fang Tailai.
The storylines of several characters are all exciting, and their current popularity is inseparable from these supporting characters. Therefore, those who participate in the dungeons for longer and have more interesting and unconventional actions have an advantage. Jiang Ming and Sheng Hong are relatively stable in first and second place, while the remaining three have very close contribution levels and can rotate at any time.
Before long, Pu Fengchun had moved to the third position. Everyone was curious about her current condition. Xue Chao was also curious because, apart from Jiang Ming, no one else was sharing their camera positions.
Xue Chao only felt sorry that others didn't open their doors, but Jiang Ming did. He would have to worry about what kind of scheme Jiang Ming was plotting, so it was better not to open his door.
However, there are clues. Jiang Ming has turned back into a human head. He seems to have remembered Xue Chao's words, "A face is fine too." The first thing he did when the camera was turned on was to smile at the camera and show off his charm.
If this idle person hadn't gotten tired of the sunflower head and switched back, then all the players would have turned back into human heads.
The pronoun "you" that fits the final mission details—in the last unit, all players are the protagonists.
1v1 is no longer viable. Apart from the lack of predictable positions, the process seems no different from a normal dungeon. He is simply the host who coordinates all the players.
However, it is still different. From the perspective of the instance, the radio station is used as the refresh point, and the host is the thread that connects the unit stories.
From the character's perspective, he has an identity, and this identity is related to each of the main characters, like a key figure.
Now that everyone is gathered together, his storyline is bound to be brought to the forefront. He needs to understand what kind of character "Xue Chao" is before players fully understand him.
Xue Chao checked the mission again. The first five units were "preliminary plot". The system counted the number of people and checked the completion rate. It explained that the final mission would only be started if all five units were successfully completed. Otherwise, if any character was missing, the final plot could not proceed and the dungeon might fail directly.
So, I have to thank a few people; despite all this trouble, no one actually died.
However, the final mission did not start as a separate mission, but continued in the main mission 2. In other words, the sixth unit still belongs to the "campus memoir" and is not the end of the story. So when exactly is the "present tense" of the story?
Moreover, all units share a common element: the butterfly. This butterfly always appears at the junction of units, acting as a thread that connects them, similar to its function, and serving as a symbol.
Perhaps the so-called "memoir" is related to "Xue Chao".
Student council, hospital wards, butterflies, biology competitions...
Xue Chao changed into his Qing Tong University uniform and knocked on the door of the student union office.
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Jiang Ming took off the clumsy mascot costume, folded it neatly, and stuffed it into the closet. Despite the sweltering heat, he had been handing out flyers all afternoon in the mascot costume without breaking a sweat. He remained fair and clean, like a piece of jade frozen in an ice coffin.
The guy in bed number 3 put his arm around his shoulder like a best friend, brought the phone close to his face, and between flirting with his girlfriend, took a moment to say, "Let's go play pool!"
"With my skills, even if I were your caddie, I'd easily mistake the cue ball for the number 8. Aren't you afraid I'd spoil the fun?" Jiang Ming replied with a smile. "Since you brothers are thinking of me, I need to hurry up and get a job. Once I've saved enough money to treat you guys to a fancy spicy hot pot, then I'll go gamble!"
The man in bed number 3 was completely absorbed in his girlfriend on the other end of the phone, trying to coax her to come over and stay with him that night. He didn't hear what Jiang Ming was saying. He figured the guy was just flattering him, and after hearing a few words and a couple of satisfied laughs, he let it go and turned to go to his appointment. But then he heard Jiang Ming suddenly ask, "How long have you known your girlfriend?"
"Honey, that one's really hot, I... what?"
Jiang Ming's curiosity was like that of a heartless ghost, curious about people's joys and sorrows: "Have you known each other for a long time?"
This statement was too blunt, without any flattery or embellishment, and it didn't quite capture Jiang Ming's essence, so the person in bed number 3 didn't react immediately. After thinking he understood, he raised a lewd smile, as if he were someone who had been through it all, and mocked those who had been promiscuous for their superiority over virgins, saying they were fools who had resources but didn't enjoy them. "Not the previous one, your new sister-in-law, three days, love at first sight! What, does our thrifty and hardworking little Jiang also want someone to warm his bed?"
"Three days is enough?" Jiang thought for a moment and then said regretfully, "The third day is not suitable. We've only known each other for two days."
Bed number 3 could tell he had someone in his heart: "There's no such thing as suitable or unsuitable, if you think it's suitable, then it is! You haven't even started dating yet, and you're already henpecked, haha! Look at your brother, as long as you have charm, you can succeed on the first day!"
Jiang Ming ignored him and smiled as he saw him out of the dormitory. The man in bed number 3 was openly and secretly admiring him, saying, "Your conditions are indeed poor, but don't you have me? I can solve it for you with just one sentence. Tell me, let's see who's so pretentious and why they're not suitable?"
“I killed him on the first day.” Jiang Ming slowly closed the dormitory door, hiding the light behind him, leaving only bed number 3 in darkness. “I kissed him on the second day, but before the third day… I wanted to kill him again.”
The door slammed shut.
Jiang Ming packed up all the evidence, including the photo of the girl in bed number 3 feeding her with cooking wine, and hid the brown paper bag and letter in his clothes. When he opened the door, his roommate had already left. He avoided all the campus surveillance cameras, buried the evidence under a tree, and then mailed a letter explaining the cause and effect of the situation.
His phone rang, and the bar owner asked him why he hadn't come to work.
Jiang Ming threw his phone directly into the scenic lake. Several piranhas suddenly emerged from the murky water, chewed up the screen with their sharp teeth, and dragged the electronic device's corpse to the bottom of the lake.
The university campus at night has a unique tranquility, like an empty stage confiscated at night. After hiding the evidence and sending the letter, "Jiang Ming's" storyline should be a miserable escape, but he leisurely enjoys the campus. When he walks to the pavilion, he hears his phone beeping again. The phone is intact on the wooden chair. No one replies to the message. Then the bar owner calls again.
He removed the phone card and left, but then he heard the phone ringing again on the school's stone paths, among the statues, on students' electric bikes, and in the bushes. Each ring was more urgent than the last, like a countdown bomb getting closer and closer to zero, its repeated rings urging him to die.
Jiang Ming listened to see when the bomb would explode. As he turned back to the dormitory building, the phone rang incessantly before suddenly going silent. A sack was placed over his head.
After the security team, armed with knives, guns, clubs, and heads, dragged away the sack, Fang Tailai cautiously peeked out. She found many of Minmin's belongings in the dormitory, which hadn't been touched in a long time. She suspected they had become her relics and decided to go to the classroom for her major courses to take another look.
I had just finished dealing with a kidnapping incident when I heard a loud, sinister laugh, accompanied by the sound of punches and kicks.
She immediately recalled the noise she heard when she went upstairs to get her pen in Unit 5. At that time, she was still caught up in the fear that Unit 5 had tailored for her based on her trauma. Startled by the loud noise, she ran away quietly.
But instead, the resonance level rose to 90 points.
In other words, this is a storyline where "Fang Tailai" witnessed someone being bullied, but chose to run away quickly and remain a cowardly bystander.
This prevented her from staying behind to eavesdrop, even if she wanted to gather clues, and Fang Tailai slipped away regretfully.
In the grove behind the dormitory building, Deng Dayun, who had been pushed into the ditch, struggled to lift his head and looked towards the small door of the dormitory building, his mind hazy. It seemed that someone had just passed by, but after only a couple of glances, his head was pushed back into the dirty water. The more he struggled, the more excited the perpetrator became, so he stopped struggling. His lower body went limp on the grass, and the arm that had been pressing down on his back lost its support, causing him to slide directly into the ditch.
The small group caught him in time; they only wanted to torture him. You can't torture a dead person. Bed number 3 pulled on the key chain at his waist, patted Deng Dayun's cheek, and Deng Dayun coughed up water. They grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up.
"Are you rich now, you bedbug?"
Deng Dayun remained silent, while the group kicked him in the stomach again, claiming it was to help him drain excess water. He seemed subdued by the beating and finally said, "You took it all last week...it's really gone..."
"You won't want it again if it's gone? You only care about your father, but not about your grandfather not having enough money?" The beating didn't stop.
"I want more, I'll give you more... cough cough, stop hitting me..."
"It's not for us, it's for us to be filial! You've been really out of control lately, hiding whenever you see Grandpa, acting like you're dead when I ask you questions, and not uttering a sound even when I hit you. Do you have a problem with me? I can't control you anymore, huh? Hurry up and get it!"
Deng Dayun lay on the ground, struggling to catch his breath, his hands gripping the ground tightly: "The money disappeared too quickly, my family has become suspicious, they've been keeping a close eye on me lately... Tomorrow night after evening self-study, after everyone has left, I'll wait for you on the rooftop of the teaching building."
His voice was still trembling, as if he had been terrified, but his eyes, which were level with the ground, were empty and sinister.
With the money secured and the fight over, the small group gave him one last blow and left. He lay on the grass, panting, and after a while, he got up again and glanced at the rooftop of the teaching building in the distance.
He had just come down from there and loosened the screws on the wire mesh.
He walked slowly forward and saw the members of the small group who were panicking and running away. When he reached the main entrance of the dormitory building, the keychain of bed number 3 was lying on the steps, and there were two drag marks on the ground.
The small group scattered when disaster struck, and two of them were arrested.
He wasn't surprised. Inside the bar, after he dodged bed number 3, he saw the bar's bodyguards viciously kidnap bed number 3.
Bed number 3 is one of their own. Being treated like this by one of their own means they must have committed a serious crime and will not have a good ending. As for the money to buy their lives on the rooftop, it depends on who among the remaining people is "lucky" enough to take it.
But after walking only a few steps, the bar's security team, armed with knives, guns, clubs, and heads, turned back. Instead of carrying a sack, they politely invited him to get in their car.
"Our boss is treating you to drinks and games...you'll definitely enjoy it."
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