Chapter 112 The old school storyline has changed!
Using only the edge of the wing in the camera's view, he followed the butterfly's flight path. When it was flying, it was perfect for quickly advancing the plot, because the plot was all outside its body, flowing at the same speed as its flight, and it was almost always in flight.
Upon rewatching Minmin's story, Xue Chao immediately grabbed the camera and observed the alternate world through it again. The butterfly's flight path had changed, but the rotation order of the other film reels obscuring the lens remained the same—the film reels all had fixed tracks, which meant a fixed plot progression.
Is it really impossible to shift?
Bai Bai said that she was also nourishment, just happened to be chosen as the most important body, and then silently shed tears, as if she and Sheng Hong were as helpless and miserable, but Xue Chao's heart was filled with inhuman indifference.
In his mind, Sheng Hong and she were fundamentally different.
Sheng Hong died and was assimilated into the instance, which is to be expected. However, as the boss of the opening instance, Bai Bai could not have been an assimilated player before. Since he is a native of the instance, whether he is an NPC, a ghost, or a boss, he has a kind of genetic remnant of a race that rejects "non-humans".
Although he may not necessarily offer much help to "our race," nor does he necessarily consider "those who are not of our race" as enemies, that line is still there. As for NPCs, he will never use human thinking to speculate about monsters.
He feared he would die without understanding why.
An unimportant NPC who hasn't appeared in several episodes, not to mention important NPCs like Minmin and Bed No. 3, has even less screen time than the "mastermind + background character," so how could he be the torso and fatal core of the boss?
Since he's already walked right into the trap and jumped into the cocoon, it's better to let him be the trunk; "Xue Chao" is much more suitable.
Therefore, she could not possibly exist only in Xue Chao's dream; she was more deeply hidden than "him" and had always been there.
In the third segment, the morgue is the heart of the corpses. When they collectively rise from the dead, making a thumping sound, their hearts are revived, and only then can Minmin's "blood vessels" be opened, revealing the world inside her corpse and exploring the "plot" of her life. The same applies to Deng Dayun, except that he is the protagonist, the film reel tube.
Now the heart is beating, the story is unfolding, but the film reel is a million miles away from the heart.
Because the heart and the plot don't match.
Inside her body was her heart, but the film reels that traveled through it were all other people's stories.
In Minmin's storyline, Xue Chao has no role. He can't influence people, but he can influence things. He hides the key to the art club, but the security guard downstairs has a spare key. When he goes to the broadcasting room, he steals the spare key as well, but another classmate still has a key. These two points are automatically corrected.
Unsurprisingly, he went to the video store early and stole Bai Bai's video store key.
The plot has changed!
When Minmin came to apply, Bai Bai couldn't find the key anywhere. She asked if it would be okay to give them the camera in advance, but Minmin apologized and said that they not only wanted to see the camera, but also that the part about sneaking into the video club at night was very important. After thinking about it, Bai Bai finally suggested that they not lock the door the next night. She would stay in the video club to organize the materials for the club month and wait for them to come.
"This isn't right, it's too much trouble for you..." Minmin felt even more guilty.
"It's okay. I haven't had time to deal with these things from Club Month lately. They've already piled up like a mountain. I haven't even taken photos of some of the club booths yet. I can also help my friends set up their booths. They're also overwhelmed with work. I can take some photos for you guys. Nighttime ghost stories are definitely more interesting than photos of people huddled together reading."
Minmin still hesitated: "But what if there are ghosts here all alone at night..."
"You mean those campus ghost stories? I don't really believe in them, but they've been bothering me a bit, and we've lost a lot of new recruits. Consider this a favor to help my club debunk those rumors," Bai Bai said with a smile. "But if it's too late, even if there are no ghosts, it'll still make people think all sorts of things. So please arrive early."
Don't believe in ghosts? Xue Chao had previously rummaged through Bai Bai's schoolbag and found a talisman in a hidden compartment to ward off ghosts.
...What a kind person.
"We're the ones troubling you, thank you so much, thank you so much, senior!" Minmin bowed.
Back in the world of flesh and blood, the film tube did indeed shift, moving towards the heart. However, it was blocked by other films. Although its shift was obvious, it was not enough to push away the other films, and it remained far away.
But it's already getting close.
Xue Chao had an idea... It was obvious whose film had the most energy; the greater the resistance from the plot, the stronger the energy that would explode. It must be the film of the five main characters.
He needs to find these.
The entanglement of film reels also has its logic; there is cause and effect for the entanglement. For example, if he can get into Minmin's film from Fang Tailai's film, he can naturally also find Deng Dayun's film from the film reels around Minmin.
Upon entering, he immediately went to the video store, confirmed that the door was unlocked and the lights were on, and that cause and effect could influence each other.
He didn't rush in, but went back to quickly follow the plot. Sure enough, the plot changed. The exploration order of the seven ghost stories was originally based on the order summarized by the students' forum, but because someone from the video club was waiting, the video club for Ghost Story 3 was moved to the first place.
But the story still had to go on. They accidentally experienced the first ghost story, and when their five-person team had a disagreement about who would be the "sixth person," Xue Chao chose to support the "six-person group" this time.
The scene froze instantly. As usual, everyone backed away, looking at each other in fear. This strange atmosphere lasted for a while before the club president, on behalf of Xue Chao, asked who the sixth person was.
However, before the boy could excitedly gesture, Xue Chao preemptively said, "It's the president of the video club. She stayed after school for our activity. We wasted some time in the library, and she probably didn't see anyone, so she came to check what was going on."
The scene fell silent again, as if the plot had paused for a second before automatically returning to normal. Minmin was the first to chime in: "Senior is known for her good temper. She was preparing the theme for the video club for this event and helped many clubs set up booths. She was the first to arrive and the last to leave... She even said she would take pictures for us! Maybe she just saw that we had arrived and didn't want to bother us, so she went back to the video club to wait."
The boy paused the longest because he had the clearest impression of the sixth man. Once the plot changed, he immediately said, "It seems to be a girl. Let's hurry up and not keep her waiting."
The remaining two were still a little skeptical, but this time they didn't split up, and the group arrived at the video store.
Bai Bai wasn't inside; she came from the other side of the stairs, carrying a tent for setting up a stall. While they were away, she helped other groups collect their things, working up a sweat.
She led the way through the door, smiling, "We've finally arrived."
This statement convinced them, and the plot was confirmed. No other team was screaming in the bathroom to attract attention, so Ghost Story 3 was temporarily disproven, and they got their photos taken for nothing.
As they parted ways to head to the next strange tale, Xue Chao invited them, "Come with us. We just experienced something strange, and it might be dangerous for you to be here alone."
The club president then remembered the horror of the first ghost story: "Right, right, the 13th step! ...Come with us, there's always someone to look out for you."
"this……"
Bai Bai hesitated, seemingly still not quite believing. Xue Chao, using the table as cover, picked out a lucky charm from her schoolbag and quietly slipped it into her hand. Bai Bai was taken aback, glanced at him, and then agreed.
She probably thought she was just there to make up the numbers, feeling like a marginal figure in the team. Xue Chao sneered inwardly, dragging her to the front lines. He replaced all the parts that Deng Dayun should have experienced with her, and if he couldn't replace her, he would force her to come along. Moreover, he remembered the plot points, giving her almost no time to react. It was practically a treadmill for grinding through the plot.
"Was that... an angel?" After escaping the ward, Bai Bai subconsciously glanced back again.
Xue Chao gave a perfunctory reply. Long wings did indeed have a great attraction for her. Even though they represented the danger of clinical angels and the butterfly that flew over death, her first emotion was one of envy and curiosity.
She muttered to herself, "It really doesn't look good."
He found it a bit strange, but he still followed the plot and returned to the flesh and blood world. Deng Dayun's film reel had shifted drastically, and if it hadn't been blocked by other reels of film, it would have been launched on the spot.
Very few could block Deng Dayun's film rolls; most were pulled off course by him. But a few were actually blocked—the film rolls of the other main characters!
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Fang Tailai and Deng Dayun hid in the basement, but coincidentally, it wasn't the basement of a school campus; it was the morgue of a hospital.
But they would be harmed sooner or later on the ground, and it seemed that the corpses had all come back to life and run away. To put his mind at ease, he hid in the coffin, and Deng Dayun spoke through the gap in the movable iron plate.
Returning to this familiar place stirred up unforgettable memories for Deng Dayun, who couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "...Do you know what's going on inside the boss's body?"
There was no sound below him, only slow breathing.
Fang Tailai was too dizzy. Half of the way down the road, Deng Dayun had to pull and support her. If it were Jiang Ming or Xue Chao, she would definitely have let them carry her. Xue Chao was a given, he gave her maximum sense of security. Jiang Ming had the appearance of a delicate, pale-faced man, but he was actually quite good in every way. He looked slim in clothes but had a muscular build when undressed, and he was even a little taller than Xue Chao. She could easily take advantage of him.
But with Deng Dayun's small frame, she was really afraid that if she climbed onto his back, they would both fall to the basement level, and she wouldn't have to walk.
The doll died in Xue Chao's place, and her body seemed to be collected into "Xue Chao's" film. She observed that when the film was transferred to the boss's body, the camera showed the doll lying dead on the bed in the ward. When the film was transferred into the body, the camera showed a world of flesh and blood, with countless film reels passing through it.
In the world of flesh and blood, a strange dark red light shone on the "Xue Chao" film, and something thumped and jumped right next to my ear, like an earthquake, causing the entire film tube to undulate violently.
...It should be the heart, and "Xue Chao" is the film roll closest to the heart.
The claw machine's location is so unpredictable that you can't find someone in a black and white semi-transparent tube in such an empty world. But Fang Tailai notices that the film in front of him has changed direction, facing the doll!
Xue Chao has found a solution!
Fang Tailai gave herself a moment to catch her breath, but this moment of relaxation plunged her into even deeper dizziness. She vaguely heard Deng Dayun's question and answered in a voice even softer than his: "...inside the body, the film tube...heart..."
Then he briefly fell into a coma.
Deng Dayun understood immediately: Xue Chao was going to use the same trick again, weaving through the pipes until he got close to the boss's heart and killed it!
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