Chapter 69 Haunted High School (3)
"Nice to meet you, too." Su Yue didn't notice the hidden meaning in Cang Zhi's words. He just thought it was an ordinary love talk and replied with a smile.
Then I focused on the game itself.
"How are you doing?" Su Yue asked. "I woke up in the dorm. I have a roommate, but I don't know if it's you. I didn't see that person's student ID."
"I do have a dormitory card here." Cangzhi handed Suyue a plastic-wrapped card holder.
The front is a student ID card, also without a name, and the back is an entry pass to the boys' dormitory.
After looking at the dormitory building and the house number, I found that it was indeed Su Yue's dormitory.
Cang Zhi said, "I've been stuck in the classroom studying since I arrived. I wanted to run off to find you early, but the dean punished me by writing a 1,500-word self-examination."
Su Yue: "..."
One world, one check.
"It's okay, we'll talk about that later." Su Yue said, "You are also participating in A101's club activities, right?"
Cang Zhi nodded.
This is consistent with Su Yue's inference.
Although the players are not in the same dormitory and most likely not in the same major or grade, there is a great possibility that all players will participate in the same club activities.
This is the "Summoning Fairy Society" that the main NPC Wei Wan participates in, which takes it as its mission to summon the Pen Fairy, the Ou Die Fairy, and to cause great deaths.
Cang Zhi looked at Wei Wan behind Su Yue, "Who is this?"
"A very important main storyline NPC." Su Yue thought for a moment and said, "You can also be considered my friend."
Wei Wan didn't seem to have much interest in Cang Zhi. Su Yue, having a simple excuse to exchange information with Wei Wan, pulled his "old friend" aside to chat. Wei Wan had no objection and nodded before entering the classroom. Su Yue then whispered to Cang Zhi about the current known information:
There are still two weeks of vacation left, which means two weeks of gaming time.
There is a school anniversary before the holiday, and the school anniversary is usually a key gaming node.
The dean of studies will ask people to write self-criticisms. Those who fail to finish will be "expelled from school", which means they have failed the game. This is a hidden killing point.
As for this student, Wei Wan, and the harmful incidents that happened around Wei Wan, they are the key background of the game.
Originally, Wei Wan might be completely innocent, but he joined this spirit-summoning society. No matter in which story, "summoning the spirit of the pen" is a symbol of evil, which makes the things about him suddenly become confusing.
Cang Zhi was stuck in the classroom studying and had no chance to talk, so naturally he couldn't find out any news. He just wrote down everything Su Yue said.
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Su Yue and his group were the first group to enter classroom A101. The tables and chairs had already been arranged, with the tables stacked in the outer circle and the chairs in the inner circle. All the chairs were pulled into a big U shape.
The curtains were drawn and the lights were off.
The thick, opaque curtains, coupled with the fact that it was almost night, made the entire classroom very dark.
The projection screen in front of the classroom was on, but it was worse than being off, because there was a burning white candle on the screen, and the halo of the candle reflected a translucent screaming ghost face commonly seen in horror movies.
The slideshow automatically played eerie background music, like the kind of music that plays when the protagonist is walking alone on the street before something happens in a horror movie.
In the middle of the slide, a few large, pale words were suspended:
Welcome new students
The slides are very simple, just a base image with floating artistic text, but precisely because of their simplicity, the effect is very impactful.
The five words "Welcome new students" look like "Come and die."
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Wei Wan sat down on the side with no expression, neither too close to the slides nor too far away.
Su Yue thought for a moment and asked him, "Do you mind if I sit next to you?"
Wei Wan looked at him, raised the corner of her mouth to smile, and shook her head.
So Su Yue sat down next to Wei Wan. Cang Zhi thought about it and did not sit on the other side of Wei Wan, but sat down next to Su Yue.
Soon, other students arrived.
The first person to come in was a young man wearing black-framed glasses. He wasn't that young, but looked to be around 27 or 28 years old, which was a little old at least in this school, but he could barely be considered a college student.
Su Yue immediately felt that he was a player, not because of his age, but because after entering the classroom, he looked around, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he became extremely alert in an instant.
This is certainly not the state a student should be in.
Su Yue felt that he should go and recognize his kinship with him, but the God's reserve made him not want to go alone, so he gently kicked Cangzhi's calf.
Su Yue did not realize that this action contained a kind of implicit intimacy, especially in such a dim environment.
Cang Zhi startled and turned his head to look at him. Su Yue gave him a wink, "Go and say hello to that newcomer, Azhi."
Cang Zhi: “…”
Cang Zhi looked at Su Yue, then at the young man who was somewhat at a loss and extremely alert, sighed resignedly, stood up and walked over.
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The young man had looked at him warily the moment Cang Zhi stood up. Cang Zhi walked over and asked, "Are you a new student too?"
The young man looked at him and asked cautiously, "Yes, you too?"
Cang Zhi took out his student ID card and pointed to the blank space next to his name. "Cang Zhi, what's your name?"
When the young man saw the blank name column, he was stunned at first, and then he realized that the blank name column meant that they were all players.
A look of sudden enlightenment crossed his face. "My name is Wu Huanyu. I finally found my organization. I'm so touched."
Cangzhi turned around and pointed at Suyue: "This is my friend, Suyue."
The man with black-framed glasses was still immersed in the joy of finding the organization. He looked at Wei Wan again and said, "What about this person?"
"This is the old student," Cang Zhi introduced. "His name is Wei Wan."
"Old student" was Cang Zhi hinting to Black Framed Glasses that Wei Wan was an NPC. Black Framed Glasses was also a seasoned player, so he immediately got the hint, nodded, and asked Cang Zhi, "What's your age in this game?"
Su Yue and Cang Zhi really didn't know the answer to this question. Su Yue asked, "How do we know this?"
"The number on your student ID." The man with black-framed glasses glanced at Wei Wan cautiously and lowered his voice. "The third and fourth digits, 0 represents undergraduate, 1 represents graduate school, and the numbers after that represent your grade. My grade is 13, which means I'm in my third year of graduate school."
Su Yue looked at himself and saw that he was 02, which meant he was a sophomore. Cang Zhi was 04, and his character in this game was a senior.
Although I don’t know what the age setting is for yet, it’s always good to know more.
After the man with black-framed glasses provided them with a piece of information, they finally felt confident enough to ask what they wanted to know: "Do you know what this club does? This looks a bit weird, doesn't it?"
"Invite the Immortal Society." Su Yue said, "I don't know how to invite them yet."
"Please ask the spirit?" The man with black-framed glasses was so shocked that his eyebrows almost raised to the top of his head. "Please ask the spirit of the pen?"
"It seems so." Su Yue confirmed.
"Fuck, you're crazy." The man with black-framed glasses frowned and complained, "There's such a club?"
He carefully tapped Wei Wan with his chin: "Then he...?"
"He's an important NPC, and I don't know much about him." Su Yue said, "You can make the final decision yourself."
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In a game with over 3,000 points, only veteran players enter the dungeon. Although the current gaming world is randomly recruiting players, at least the players with black-framed glasses are indeed experienced.
Players of this level not only have to consider the NPC's position in the game, but also have to guard against other players, because many of these players have their own fighting systems, and many of them take the route of harming others for their own benefit.
So even if Su Yue really said that Wei Wan was a "good person", the man with black-framed glasses might not believe it.
Besides, Su Yue didn’t know whether Wei Wan was a good person or not, but his first impression and intuition told him that Wei Wan was not a bad person.
As they were talking, a few more players came in and quickly confirmed their identities with each other. Su Yue counted and found that there were 23 chairs in the room. There were quite a lot of players in this game.
At 18:55, most of the people had arrived, and the remaining few came in one after another. At 59 minutes and 50 seconds, there were still two empty chairs.
The players looked at each other, wondering if someone had been killed so soon. Just as they were thinking this, the door was pushed open again with a clang.
The person who came in this time was a boy who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old. He had short hair that stuck to his scalp and wore thick-framed glasses. He had a strange aura that was a mixture of a super academic master and a cool and awesome person.
"Hello!" the boy waved at everyone. "My name is Tang Li. I'm a straight-A student in real life. Although I'm young here, I've already had a lot of experience. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation this time!"
It's quite rare to see a player who proactively says he has "high experience", but this boy is indeed young and should be quite outstanding, so it's normal for him to be a little bit immature.
Everyone exchanged polite greetings. The only remaining seats were at the two ends closest to the big screen, so the boy randomly chose a chair and sat down.
The boy had just sat down when the door was pushed open again. This time, a boy with shoulder-length hair came in. He looked a little fierce, probably because he had a stern face.
He was wearing a black robe-like garment, carrying a large black bag, and his eyes were a little dazed, giving people a mysterious feeling.
Because this boy was the last one to come in, and the bell rang at 7 o'clock, he immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the classroom. More than 20 people looked at him in unison.
"Hello, everyone." The boy did not walk to his seat, but stood in the middle of the classroom, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled. It was normal for his face not to smile, but when he smiled, he looked like a villain with a fake smile on his face.
Then the boy showed his student ID to everyone.
Everyone could clearly see the cursive characters in the name column: Yu Jue.
The last person to come in was an NPC.
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"I'm the president of the Urban Legend Club, Yu Jue. You can call me Xiao Jue or President." said the NPC boy.
Although he had a stern face, his tone was quite gentle and he was not as difficult to get along with as he looked.
It turns out that the real name of this club is "Urban Legend Club", not "Inviting the Immortals" as Wei Wan said, which sounds a little better.
But if you think about it carefully, it's the same idea, and Wei Wan's words are more direct.
"This is our vice president." The president pointed in Wei Wan's direction, "Student Wei Wan."
Wei Wan had been sitting quietly in the crowd since he had just gotten up. He was very handsome, and apart from Su Yue and Cang Zhi, he was the most conspicuous person here. Logically, he was the type that would be easily approached.
However, since everyone here is a player, everyone is thinking about how to survive in the game, and no one is studying the matter of love, so Wei Wan sits there quietly and does not actively speak. Some of the people who come later just regard him as a quiet player and do not take the initiative to approach him to greet him.
When Wei Wan stood up, several players made surprised noises.
I never expected that he was also an NPC.
Wei Wan's temper was not as gentle as the president's. He glanced at the players in the room calmly, looked around, nodded, lowered his eyes and sat back in his seat.
"Wei Wan, why don't you introduce yourself to everyone?" The president looked at him complainingly.
Wei Wan turned a deaf ear to it.
The president hit a snag, but perhaps because he was used to it, he didn't feel much. He sighed and continued, "Xiao Wei doesn't like to talk much, but he has a wealth of professional knowledge. You can ask him if you have any questions."
The man with black-framed glasses pursed his lips nervously.
What expertise?
Could you please share your professional knowledge?
No one wants to know this, okay!
There was a clock at the back of the classroom. The minute hand moved to the number "1" on the dial. It was already 7:05 in the evening. The president clapped his hands and said, "Without further ado, let's get straight to today's activities."
Only then did I notice that the president was holding a remote controller for turning the pages of the PPT.
The president pressed the page-turning button, and the slide made a "swish" sound like the pages of an old book being turned.
The next page still had that extremely eerie, burning white candle, and it looked like a slide template.
This time the burning pale words became:
Activity 1: Learn about the knowledge of summoning the pen fairy
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"Is this really the Immortal Summoning Society?!" The man with black-framed glasses was stunned.
When he entered the classroom just now, he chose to sit next to Su Yue and Cang Zhi, because Wei Wan was next to Su Yue. He was afraid of NPCs, so he sat next to Cang Zhi.
Now seeing the large words on the screen, the man with black-framed glasses whispered, "Promoting feudal superstition, is this really allowed in a university?"
Cang Zhi pursed his lips.
Although he is just a puppet, his personality is similar to Cang Zhi's real body. It seems that he has already reached his limit by taking the initiative to speak as requested by Su Yue. Now he doesn't want to respond to the other party's complaints at all.
Su Yue said across Cang Zhi, "This isn't a real university, so it's normal to be a little weird."
"That's true." The man with black-framed glasses nodded thoughtfully.
At this time, the president had already started distributing printed booklets to everyone. The cover of the booklet was still that very eerie white candle. Su Yue opened it and saw that the first item in the catalogue was: the historical evolution of the Pen Fairy, the second item in the catalogue was: the current development of the Pen Fairy activities in various places, and the third item in the catalogue was: the optimal solution for summoning the Pen Fairy.
Su Yue: "..."
Are you writing a paper here?
But the president was very enthusiastic about the booklet and kept urging everyone to read it carefully. It seemed that he planned to use the entire three-hour club activity to do this. Su Yue had no choice but to cooperate and read the booklet.
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Asking the Pen Fairy is a spirit-summoning game, which is generally believed to have evolved from the traditional "Fuji". The specific method of asking the Pen Fairy varies from place to place. According to this booklet, a group of people sit in a circle around the table, and everyone holds the same pen.
After lighting the candles, everyone calls on the Pen Fairy silently in their hearts, and everyone holds the pen and draws circles on the fortune paper on the table. Until a certain moment, the pen starts to move on its own, which means that the Pen Fairy has been invited.
At that time, you can ask the immortal questions, and the Pen Fairy will answer you by circling or writing the answers on the fortune paper.
There are also many taboos when asking the Pen Fairy.
For example, when the game is over, you must send the Pen Fairy away respectfully, otherwise it will always follow you.
For example, don't ask how the pen fairy died, because generally the pen fairy is a ground-bound spirit trapped in a certain place, and the way it dies will not be pretty. Asking such questions will anger them and will not have a good result.
Also, don’t make friends with the Pen Fairy.
Su Yue was stunned when he saw this. Why would anyone want to be friends with the Pen Fairy?
But when I thought about it again, it seemed that young humans in their middle school years could indeed do such things, so I understood this rule.
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While everyone was reading, the president walked around the classroom and placed snacks in front of everyone's desks.
"If you have any questions, you can ask me. If you don't understand something, feel free to tell me. If you need anything, you can also tell me. If you want something to eat or drink, you can ask for it."
Apart from the serious problems with the content, this club is actually quite interesting.
Su Yue tore open a bag of shrimp crackers, threw one into his mouth, and whispered to Cang Zhi, "This president's service attitude is really super good."
Cang Zhi:!
A huge check mark in front of "very dissatisfied" on the questionnaire instantly appeared in Cangzhi's mind. Cangzhi stood up quickly and went to the water dispenser to pour a glass of warm water for Su Yue.
Su Yue looked confused.
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