Alvia opened her eyes and found herself leaning on the bed, with a cold wall behind her and darkness in front of her.
After getting used to the darkness, the surrounding environment was extremely familiar. It was the dormitory of the Love Academy. There was also a person sitting on each of the other three beds in the dormitory. At this time, those people seemed to be dead, and there was no movement of their chests.
He lowered his eyes and his gaze fell on a strange white creature on his leg. The furry white creature had a pair of red eyes and a pair of white wings on its back. When it met Elvia's gaze, the little guy's eyes lit up and he smiled ingratiatingly.
This is a pet that has become popular in Nightmare City recently. It is expensive and can block damage for the player at a critical moment. In addition, it looks cute and is very popular among female players.
Reaching out and scratching the little guy's chin, the fiery red eyes immediately narrowed comfortably. Alvia tentatively called out, "Zhou Zhou?"
Sure enough, the little guy in snow-white nodded immediately.
Considering that he might be recognized in the dungeon, Zhou Zhou simply turned into a pet and let the player Elvia carry him with him.
"How did it become like this?" Although Elvia asked this, his men kept moving, stroking their fur and scratching their chins.
The furry little guy spread out like a pancake on Elvia's legs and said, "I'm afraid of being recognized. Besides, this way you can go on the mission and don't have to worry about me. Anyway, I will follow you wherever you go."
Alvia chuckled and touched Zhou Zhou's furry ears with a tender look on her face.
Suddenly, his smile disappeared and he looked at the bed on the other side with a cold gaze.
The man who hadn't even breathed a breath just now suddenly sat up, waved his hands in front of him, and whispered, "Where is this place? Why is it so dark?"
Then he fumbled out a flashlight and turned it on.
The moment the light came on, it was facing Elvia. She suddenly saw a cold face in the darkness. Even if the face was pretty, she couldn't help but be frightened.
At the same time, the people in the other two beds also woke up.
The lights in the room were turned on, and the other three squinted uncomfortably.
"So, we are all players, and we were assigned to the same room after entering the dungeon." Another player asked, his eyes lingering on the pet in Elvia's hand.
The other two people couldn't help but look at the little white-haired boy.
Seeing Alvia give him a cold look, the other party asked directly in a generous manner: "Is this a nightmare? I heard that one costs 200,000 points."
"Two hundred thousand! So expensive." another player exclaimed.
The way several people looked at Elvia changed instantly. Anyone who could afford such an expensive pet must be a powerful person.
The player who first took out the flashlight wanted to play with the pet, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, Elvia dodged it.
The player awkwardly withdrew his hand and asked, "Well, since we are assigned to the same room, we may have to do the next task together. Why don't we exchange names? I'll go first. My name is Jiandan."
"This name is really simple. My name is Ayu."
"Just call me Afeng."
After the three people said their names, they all looked at Alvia.
"My name is Al." He looked down at the little guy in his arms, "This is Zhou Zhou."
Zhou Zhou also cooperated by raising his little paw and waving it.
The three of them stared at the raised little paw in unison, their expressions indescribable.
"Al, right? You named your pet Zhou Zhou?"
"It must be intentional."
"Isn't it a bit bad? After all, this is..." A Yu didn't say the rest of the words, but the other two nodded in agreement.
This is the copy designed by Zhou Zhou. He even named his pet Zhou Zhou. Does he hate him deeply? There is no need to worry that the other party will get angry after knowing it and retaliate against you in the copy.
Elvia understood what they meant and touched Zhou Zhou's head: "It's okay." After all, she was here.
Since the great god said it was okay, they wouldn't meddle in it.
There is currently no movement on the task panel, and someone suggested going outside to take a look, after all, there is nothing to do by staying here.
Alvia said nothing and quietly followed the three people out.
A few people came out of the dormitory and found that there were still a lot of people outside. People were coming and going in the corridor, all being equally cautious.
“Could everyone here be players?” Afeng stopped a few people and asked them, and it turned out that they were all players.
Without giving any hints, the players present had no idea what to do.
"I guess we won't get the task prompt until the corresponding event is triggered. Let's go outside and take a look."
Among the four, Elvia does not look like an ordinary person in terms of temperament or appearance, but he is a man of few words, so Afeng gradually became the leader of the four-member team.
It was easy to get out of the building. The campus was breeze-like and brightly lit at night. There were many players coming and going around, and noise came from all directions. Everything seemed very normal.
"Where are we going?" Jiandan looked around and asked.
"The map here is quite large, and I don't know which place or event will trigger the mission. Let's look around first and scout out the area. If anything happens later, it will be convenient for us to escape." Afeng looked very experienced.
So they wandered around the campus, and when they came across some hidden corners, they kept saying that they could hide there in case of danger.
Among them, Ayu also met his companions. They entered the copy together, but woke up in different places. The man looked a bit fierce, but had a very good personality. Because his head was shiny and hairless, everyone could just call him Bald Man. He woke up in the office in the teaching building.
Another person joins the team, and they discuss whether waking up in different places has any special meaning, but the situation is unclear and cannot be confirmed.
Elvia did not participate in the discussion. He followed the others holding Zhou Zhou. He seemed to be surrounded by an aura that kept strangers away, and others did not dare to chat with him.
Zhou Zhou, who had become a little pet, was very interested and stood up straight to listen to the person in front of him talking.
"Here! Come here quickly!" The people who were discussing heard someone shouting loudly and immediately walked towards the source of the sound.
After passing the woods, there was a lake. There were already quite a few people standing by the lake. A Yu and others had to work very hard to squeeze to the front.
Two bodies that had been salvaged were lying on the ground by the lake, one male and one female, who looked to be just adults. Their skin had been swollen and their entire bodies looked swollen.
"I woke up nearby and saw something floating on the lake, so I took a small boat over to take a look. I found two bodies. I guessed they must be related to the mission, so I quickly fished them out." A young, dark-skinned guy said excitedly.
"Are you a player too?" someone asked.
The young man grinned and said, "Yeah, if you're not a player, how can you fish out a corpse?"
The players looked at the two corpses on the ground, which looked extremely scary under the light, and then looked at the young man’s bright smile. Did he fish this out by himself? You are too careless.
"Aren't you afraid?" A Yu couldn't help but ask.
"Well, there's nothing to be afraid of. I majored in forensics and have seen many corpses. These two are already very neat. You don't know, when I was interning with my senior, many of the corpses I saw were already rotten and covered with..."
"Okay, okay, we believe you." Afeng quickly interrupted the other party.
"Since you are studying forensic medicine, can you figure out how these two people died?" someone asked.
"I did a quick check before I called you over. There are no obvious external injuries, and the fingers, mouth and nose are clean. It's likely that he drowned. If you want to know more specifics, you have to do an autopsy."
"Dissection? You dissect corpses in the game?"
The young man was stunned: "It doesn't seem good, but forget it, this is a game anyway, and these two people are not really dead."
The young man walked away from the body, wiped his hands and prepared to go somewhere else.
At this moment, all players' task panels received the message.
[Main mission: Play your role well and find the murderer who killed two students by the lake. 】
The players all reached out and grabbed the back of the boy's collar, pulling him back in a friendly but forceful manner.
"Anatomy, right? This is your specialty. You come and do it."
The young man looked at these people speechlessly and spread his hands: "It's mainly because I don't have any tools."
After all, who would use an anatomical knife to play games?
"I have a knife! It's for you."
"How do you use a machete? Are you really doing dissection, not dismemberment?"
"How about a sword? I have a sword."
The young man looked at the players handing him a bunch of weapons speechlessly, but none of them could be used.
A female player standing in the crowd suddenly spoke up: "No need to dissect them. These two drowned, and the quest panel said someone killed them, so what we need to do is to look for clues from their identities and the people they knew, rather than dissecting NPCs in the game. Ordinary games don't do that."
"How did you know?" someone asked.
The female player said expressionlessly: "I am a forensic doctor."
The other party's serious look seems much more convincing than the silly-looking guy.
And it would be too difficult for them to watch the entire process of autopsy in the game.
Several players found the student IDs of the two dead players.
One of these two students is named Ding Yi and the other is named Lu Er. Players are complaining that these two names are too perfunctory.
Both of them are students majoring in fine arts, and are in the same class. This is the only information on their student ID cards. Some players have already left and are preparing to go to the fine arts classroom to look for clues.
There were dozens of players present. The player who found the student ID first wanted to leave with it, but was stopped by others. After all, the student ID that could represent one's identity was also an important clue. If it was taken away by them, wouldn't the others lose a clue?
"I told you the above information out of kindness. I was the first one to find it, so why can't I take it?" the player said unhappily. If he had known this, he would have secretly taken the student ID and not told these people any information.
"Come to think of it, the first person to discover it should be the player who salvaged the body."
The dark-skinned guy raised his head belatedly and asked: "What did you say?" He looked stupid.
At the same time, all the players in the school received the task prompt, so people started rushing to the lake. More and more people gathered, and it was even more impossible for the players with student ID cards to leave so easily.
"Then what do you say we should do? Who should we give our student ID to?" the player asked deliberately.
Everyone actually wanted to take it themselves, but there were too many people and it was difficult to say they could take it themselves.
The scene was deadlocked for a moment. Elvia stood in the crowd, staring at the two bodies. Suddenly, she took a few steps forward, bent down, and used two fingers to take out a student ID from the dead boy's pocket.
"Why is there another one?" The player who had held the student ID before looked at the two documents in his hands and asked in surprise.
"It should be to prevent this from happening, so it is set up so that the items can be taken out multiple times." Elvia said, holding her student ID.
After that, the players tried it out and found that each player could only take it once. If they formed a team, each team would take one. This avoided conflicts. Many players took the things and left in a hurry.
"Al, let's go too." Jiandan looked at Alvia who had been standing there with no intention of leaving, and reminded him.
Alvia stroked Zhou Zhou's long hair, and his eyes stayed on a certain player for a moment: "You go first."
After a brief hesitation, he remembered that they just woke up in a dormitory and had not agreed to form a team, so it was normal for someone to want to leave and act alone now.
After exchanging glances with the others, Jiandan said to Alvia, "Well, be careful. We'll leave first."
Players came and went one after another. Elvia chose a place that was far away from the lake but within easy sight and sat down. She stroked Zhou Zhou's fur carefully, and occasionally cast her eyes towards a certain place in the lake.
It was also the first time that Zhou Zhou knew how comfortable it was to be stroked by someone. He lay flat on Alvia's lap, squinting his eyes in enjoyment, and asked lazily, "Why didn't you go with them to look for clues?"
Alvia: "It's inconvenient, and there's no rush to find clues."
Zhou Zhou swung his tail and said "oh". Now that Elvia was a player, he would not give her any hints, otherwise it would break the rules of the game.
"Speaking of which." Alvia suddenly asked, "Where did Zeus go?"
Zeus?
The lazy white pancake-shaped creature suddenly puffed up into a ball and bounced up.
"Zeus! Zeus is still waiting for us."
"Where is he?"
Zhou Zhou lowered his head in distress. "I don't know. When we were preparing to change the copy, Zeus said he didn't want to be invisible anymore. I suggested that he could become a pet like me, so that he could follow you openly. Then Zeus left happily, saying that he wanted to make preparations. I don't know what he has become now."
"Let's go find him right away."
Alvia picked up Zhou Zhou who had bounced to the ground again and said, "Since he didn't come to us on his own initiative, maybe he found something more interesting. Don't worry, just look for it slowly."
After saying that, he sat back in his original seat.
Zhou Zhou didn't understand what was going on, and was worried about Zeus who was somewhere unknown. He stretched his neck to look around from time to time, looking uneasy.
Alvia sighed: "Okay, let's go find him. In fact, Zeus definitely knows where we are."
"Of course I know that, but Zeus would definitely prefer us to go find him."
Zhou Zhou wagged his tail. The long, fluffy tail looked very nice to be rubbed. Elvia also touched it several times as she wished.
After holding Zhou Zhou and standing up, Elvia looked at the lake again. After a deep look, she carried Zhou Zhou away.
"I'll get down and walk by myself." Zhou Zhou suggested. Although his weight and size would become smaller after becoming a nightmare, it was tiring to be carried like this all the time.
Alvia was not prepared to let go: "No, the ground is dirty."
Zhou Zhou:? ? ? In the game, except for scenes with special requirements, how could there be dust in other places?
After walking a short distance, a female player appeared towards us. She seemed to be lost and was looking at the surrounding scenery with a confused look on her face.
After seeing Elvia, the female player's eyes lit up and she immediately trotted towards Elvia.
"Wait, where is the art gallery?"
Just now the distance between the two was quite far, and the female player could only see someone coming. Now when she got closer she saw the Nightmare in the other person's arms, and immediately rushed over in surprise, ready to touch him.
“So cute!”
Before the female player's hand reached Zhou Zhou, it was avoided by Elvia.
Because his movements were too fast, the female player didn't even realize that the other party was deliberately avoiding her. She took another step forward and wanted to touch the little pet's head. This time, Elvia moved slower, but still didn't let the other party touch a single hair of Zhou Zhou.
Female player: “…”
"It's so cute, just touch it, why are you so stingy?"
The other party did not react at all and even used his arm to block Nightmare's red eyes that were watching the fun.
"You...I will soon be able to save up enough points to buy one." The player was furious.
Alvia: "Then go buy it yourself."
Don't worry about others.
Zhou Zhou would not speak when there were players around. After all, he was a pet now and all he could do was watch the show silently.
"Don't you want to ask for directions? Over there."
Upon hearing this, the female player paused for a moment. After all, the other person was giving her directions, and she felt embarrassed to continue getting angry at others.
"Where is the art gallery?"
"No, there's a sign over there, go and see for yourself."
After saying that, he took Zhou Zhou and walked around the other party.
The female player's fists stiffened, and she gestured towards Elvia's back a few times.
Don’t let me meet you again next time!
And it was as if Elvia had eyes on her back. When the female player was gesturing, she suddenly turned around and gave her a cold look.
Female player: “…”
So scary!
Zhou Zhou was held firmly, he looked up at Elvia's jaw, his behavior just now was obviously very straight manly, but Zhou Zhou felt a little happy for some reason.
Alvia noticed Zhou Zhou's mood change and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Zhou Zhou said as he leaned his head against Elvia's chest and wagged his tail happily.
The players swarmed towards the art gallery and the building where the art major was located, causing many people to be blocked at the door and the corridor and unable to get in. The people in the front were cursing and swearing, while those behind were trying their best to squeeze forward. It was even more chaotic than a vegetable market.
Alvia passed by here when she was looking for Zeus, but she didn't think of going in to take a look. Besides, there were so many people crowded together that she couldn't see anything.
He also saw Afeng and others being squeezed in the corridor, their faces deformed.
Just when everyone was huddled together, suddenly a jingling sound was heard in the campus.
Alvia stopped and listened to the ringing thoughtfully.
"Is this... the school bell?"
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