Chapter 129 Mizuki Private High School (Part 1)
Twelve didn't understand why Nan Huan suddenly changed the subject.
"No..." She denied realistically, and then suddenly realized, "Miss, did you get the third piece of the faith totem fragment?"
Although he hasn't received the admission letter yet, Twelve is still very happy to hear that the eldest lady's third copy went smoothly.
However, she obviously did not understand what Nan Huan meant by this question. Instead, Liushen, who was standing beside her, seemed to understand something after hearing this affirmative answer, and his expression instantly darkened.
"So that's how it is. No wonder Twelve's skills don't work here."
Liu Shen came to an absurd conclusion, but everything in front of her still surprised her, "But how is this possible?"
"Although it is still unclear how the other party did it, this is the only explanation at the moment."
Nan Huan was very relieved to see that she understood.
But it was hard for Twelve, who was standing aside, as if she was listening to a mystery. She had no choice but to ask Bei Xi for help.
"President, why can't I understand a word they are saying? It seems that the young lady has been to a dungeon and her words are even harder to understand."
She stuck out her tongue mischievously and complained to Bei Xi.
"Have you been neglecting your studies recently?" Bei Xi asked back, as if she was about to check the homework immediately. Under the other party's begging and reassurance eyes, she kindly explained to the other party.
"Where were you the last two times when the young lady got the fragments of the Faith Totem?"
"Once in the rest area, and once when I entered the dungeon with you guys?"
Twelve was confused. Didn't they agree to explain it to her? Why did the question turn into a question-and-answer mode again? But she still answered obediently.
"Did you hear the system's announcements both times?"
"Yeah. I heard them all. I announced them three times each time, as if I was afraid that other players wouldn't hear them."
"Then why didn't I hear it this time? What's the problem?"
"The problem is..."
Twelve inertialy continued speaking along with Bei Xi's words, but got stuck halfway through, as if he finally understood where the problem lay.
"The problem is that where we are right now is not really a resting place, nor is it really a gaming hall."
This answer was indeed incredible. If the president and the young lady had not just come out of the copy and discovered this flaw, no one would have suspected this.
"But how is this possible? I didn't leave the game hall all night, and I saw Liushen come in with my own eyes. So many players watched all this happen. How could this be possible?"
"And President, didn't you and the young lady come out of the dungeon and end up here? If this place is fake, then when did you get tricked?"
Although an answer was obtained by the process of elimination, the process and purpose involved were still unclear, and Twelve still only had a partial understanding of it.
"It is still unclear who did all this and what methods they used, but one thing is certain?"
Nan Huan looked back at the huge countdown at the entrance of the amusement park, thoughtfully.
"Which one?"
Twelve also looked back like the other person, not knowing what the eldest lady was looking at.
"Whoever made these is very strong."
Liu Shen gave Nan Huan an answer, "Although the environment we are in is fake, the pre-tasks announced by the system and even the latest copy that will be launched soon are real."
"It's not completely true. There are still many cover-ups."
Bei Xi corrected.
Twelve became even more confused after hearing this. She originally thought that if the game lobby of Assassin's Depths did not exist in reality, then all these dungeons and pre-requisite games should be fake.
But now, listening to what my own president said, this game seems to be real. I really can't understand what the system is trying to do.
At this time, Nan Huan, who was standing aside, seemed to have seen enough of the huge countdown and finally withdrew his gaze.
As if she knew what Twelve was thinking, she pinched her fingers and calculated for a while before asking Twelve, "Didn't you notice that all time-calculating tools have been disabled since you came here?"
"Ah? Really?"
Twelve really had no idea. She only knew that the system was temporarily offline. Except for occasionally broadcasting that the admission letter had been found, other personal skills were not restricted at all.
Props like timers are not very useful in games. After all, in some games with time limits, the system will usually display the countdown directly on the control panel.
This time the system did not do so. In addition to the countdown in the game hall, a huge countdown was also placed at the entrance of the amusement park to ensure that you can see it when you look up no matter where you are in the amusement park.
So Twelve didn't notice any problem with the time at all. He only felt that today's countdown seemed to be a little slow when he asked Liushen about the time just now.
“Could it be…”
"Well, the countdown is twice as slow as the normal flow of time. That is, one minute here is equivalent to two minutes in the real world."
"That means someone has trapped us here on purpose, hoping that we will waste more time here."
Twelve finally grasped the point, "But why is this? And why do you think the upcoming copy and the previous game are real?"
"I've said it before, it's not all true, the other party still put some thought into it."
Nan Huan corrected, "Why do you think the other party did this?"
"Isn't it to trap us here?"
Twelve didn't understand why they were talking and coming back to the same topic.
"Then put it another way, why did they trap us and so many other players here? When the incident happened, there were tens of thousands of people in the game hall, including the president of a large guild and very capable players. The person behind this must have done this for something, otherwise it would be a waste to offend so many players and large guilds for no reason, right?"
"So they are most likely after the 'Faith Totem Fragment'. This is the only valid reason at the moment." Twelve finally caught up with Nan Huan's train of thought. "So the launch of the new dungeon and the dungeon's pre-game are real. Only real things can attract the attention of all players and make us focus on finding the admission letter instead of discovering this scam. After all, it is based on the 'Faith Totem Fragment' and there are system broadcast notifications, in conjunction with the situation in the game lobby. And they didn't choose this time by chance, but chose the time originally released by the system, two hours earlier, and used the time difference brought by the countdown to frame us all."
The incident happened in the game lobby. The moment the players were hit, a new environment was created for them that was exactly the same as before. With the help of the "Faith Totem Fragment", almost no player doubted the authenticity of what the system said.
This is a task that is equivalent to a treasure hunt. The countdown reminder will make everyone nervous. In addition, the system's occasional broadcast reminders make players even more anxious. Even if they feel that the time is wrong, as long as they don't find that timing props are disabled, they will only feel that the nervousness makes them have an illusion that time is passing too slowly.
No player would delve into it. Even if someone discovered that timing items were disabled, it would be difficult to find the problem without other references.
This is all linked together. If the eldest lady and the president hadn't come out of the copy, they really wouldn't be able to tell what was wrong for a while.
"If I were him, I would definitely drag the timeline directly to the next instance. In other words, even though the time has been deliberately extended, we still have to find the admission letter before the countdown ends."
Nan Huan was able to draw inferences about other situations by analogy and figure out the mentality of the person behind the scenes.
"But we still don't have any clues about the admission letter. How are we going to find it? According to this countdown, we have less than an hour left."
Having said that, Nan Huan seemed to suddenly become interested and moved closer to Twelve.
"The last time you were in the carriage in the "Perfect New World" copy, you reached out and touched it, but there was not a single uncontaminated ticket. Do you know what this means?"
Twelve now has experience. Every time the eldest lady seems to talk about irrelevant things, she always manages to get back to the current issue in the end.
Bei Xi and Liu Shen's eyes were already clear, and it was obvious that during the process just now, they had already figured out the key points.
"Does this mean my skill 'Lucky Star' is still somewhat useful?"
Twelve gave an answer cautiously, and she felt more and more guilty as she spoke. After all, it seemed as if her skills had failed today.
"No, it means that your skill 'Lucky Star' is always effective. It is impossible for it to fail in today's environment. If you have been looking for so long and still can't find the admission letter, it can only be..."
Nan Huan looked at the other person and guided him patiently.
Twelve finally realized, "It could only be that there is no admission letter here at all. Then what are those broadcasts from the system?"
Lan Shen stood beside her and gave her an answer, "If you are the person behind the scenes, and you used something that was bound to happen as a trap, would you be willing to hide your real trump card here for others to find? There are tens of thousands of people in this amusement park. No matter how secretly you hide, there is a possibility that you will be discovered. The best way is..."
Bei Xi took over the conversation, "The best way is to not hide any of them, and use a fake system to broadcast every once in a while to inform that several admission letters have been found."
This also explains why the system is inconsistent. On the one hand, it wants players to fight each other and compete for the admission letter, but on the other hand, it is unwilling to announce who found the admission letter.
It is worried that if it makes up a few random names, the players will find the loopholes when they meet.
But it would also be inappropriate if there was no announcement from the beginning to the end until the countdown was over. There was no reason why there were tens of thousands of people and not thirty admission letters. So after weighing the pros and cons, they had to wait for a while and use a fake broadcast to confuse the public.
Therefore, no matter who was sent out by a guild, they did not find any suspicion of other guilds and players finding the admission letters. Even the Six Gods did not gain anything by using their skills during the journey.
"So where should the actual acceptance letter be now?"
The twelve always had a feeling that they had worked in vain for half a day. After saying so much, they still had to find the admission letter before the countdown ended.
Except for her, the other three seemed to be less confident and gave the same answer in unison.
"In the real game lobby, at the entrance to the next instance."
The answer is not difficult to guess. Nan Huan put himself in the other person's shoes and thought about it. Regardless of the identity of the person behind the scenes, why could he know in advance the time when the next copy of the system would be launched, the specific content of the copy, and the preceding games? Just stand in the other person's position and put yourself in his shoes.
The other party is doing everything just to use the fake game hall and amusement park in front of them to distract other players so that they can get the admission letter and enter the "Mizuki Private High School" copy.
Since the notification is false, but the final end of the countdown is the same, it means that the admission letters have been distributed in the real game hall. The safest way is that the person behind the scenes has already obtained all the admission letters in the real game hall, and is just waiting for the countdown to end and log in directly to the copy.
On the way back, Nan Huan asked about the strange group of people that Twelve had seen in the game hall before.
"You mean you saw those dozen people standing in different places in the game hall, looking at our copy, and then started to act?"
Liu Shen had mentioned this a little bit during their previous phone call, but Nan Huan was not clear about the specific details.
Twelve nodded. "Yes, it was because they all took a look at the logout of your copy that I realized something was wrong. But they really didn't do anything else. They just lowered their heads for a few dozen seconds, and then the problem occurred in the game lobby."
"I think it was at that time that they had already made all the players in the game hall enter a virtual environment. By the way, did you smell anything or find anything strange at that time?"
Nan Huan always felt that if only one person could accomplish all this, then their opponent would be too powerful. Now after Twelve's explanation, it made sense. It was a gang that committed the crime, and they were well organized and had division of labor.
If the abilities of these dozen people were all able to allow people to enter an illusion without knowing it, combined with the use of props, the newly added dungeons in the game system, and the gimmick of "faith totem fragments" in the dungeons, it would be possible to achieve almost this level.
"Hmm... I didn't care much about the smell, but I found that the greenery in the amusement park was well done, and there was even the scent of flowers in some places," Twelve frowned and thought for a while before affirming, "The strange thing is that when they were moving, I felt the wind. You know that the game hall has a constant temperature and humidity throughout the day, so there can't be wind, so I was quite impressed."
Twelve was a little annoyed. She just felt that the wind was a little strange before, and she didn't realize that she was no longer in the real game hall at that time. If she had discovered it earlier, perhaps she would have known the result by now.
Bei Xi did not ask Nineteen to take the remaining people out of the amusement park.
Firstly, the matter has not been settled yet. If people from one guild suddenly take large-scale action, it may affect the attitudes of other guilds, and they may even be suspected that people from one guild have found the admission letter.
Secondly, the fighting power of the four of them is already far higher than that of many people. If they are no match for the other party, it would be useless for others to come out.
However, just as they reached the exit of the amusement park, they ran into another team, blocking their way out.
"What a coincidence, Mr. Chairman! I didn't expect you to come out of the dungeon so soon?"
The girl who was speaking was very short, wearing a lavender dress, with two dimples when she smiled, and her voice was very pleasant. "Well, while we were looking for the admission letter, we found something interesting. Are you interested in learning more about it?"
Nan Huan saw an unfamiliar face, and didn't sense any malice in the other party's words, so he simply stretched his neck and leaned forward from behind Bei Xi.
When the other person saw her, he smiled sweetly and looked very well-behaved.
"What's interesting?"
Bei Xi didn't beat around the bush, and seemed to be saying, if you want to say it, just say it. If you don't want to say it, don't record it.
The other party was not angry at her attitude. Instead, he came closer like two children who were about to whisper something. "So far, the system broadcast announced that 25 admission letters have been found. However, our players have used many props to increase their luck points, but they haven't found anything."
At this point, she revealed a rather annoyed look, "At first I just thought we were just unlucky, but this time we finally had a chance to get the Faith Totem Fragment, how could we give up so easily, so I used some extraordinary means."
She blinked her eyes, looking unusually playful. "I found a few players from big guilds and tested them with lie detectors. I found that they indeed had not found their admission letters either."
"Although there are tens of thousands of people in this amusement park, the majority are players from large guilds. Even if there is an element of luck involved, it's impossible for all large guilds to be so unlucky that they didn't get a single spot, right?"
"Of course, Guild One is currently the only guild that has not been subjected to a lie detector test..."
Nan Huan had seen enough of her appearance, so he moved his gaze to the team behind her and found that most of them were petite girls. Except for a girl standing next to her, who had one hand hidden in her cloak, nothing could be seen from the rest.
"So you came here to stop us and test us too?"
Nan Huan was a little curious. The woman in front of him didn't seem stupid. Although she didn't guess the correct answer, she had already discovered the clues.
It shouldn't be the case that the blame is directed at a single guild.
When the woman heard her speaking, she was stunned. She seemed to have not expected that she would be the first to speak, nor did she expect that someone would speak to her without any objection.
"Of course not. The president is not someone who would take more than 20 admission letters for himself."
She still maintained her smiling expression. "It's just that everyone else is looking for things in the amusement park at this time, but you are the only one walking outside. I think you must have a clue. I came to ask if you can cooperate?"
She spoke frankly without hiding anything.
His big eyes were filled with sincerity that made it hard to refuse.
It was not her turn to make the decision at this time, so Nan Huan didn't want to be the bad guy. After provoking him, she hid behind Bei Xi as if nothing had happened. Bei Xi pinched her wrist.
You better be honest.
Bei Xi did not answer immediately, but glanced at Liushen behind him, and confirmed from the other party's nod that the woman opposite was not lying, and then he spoke.
"President Barbie, I'm too modest. I just don't understand where this sudden cooperation comes from. If you get the admission letter with our help, we will be your rivals after entering the game. How can there be any cooperation?"
Bei Xi did not agree easily, and didn't quite understand why the other party wanted to cooperate at this time.
"I didn't say it accurately. What I meant was that even if we both received the admission letters and entered the game, we would still be in a cooperative relationship."
"I just ran into President Alice. Although she didn't say anything, I trust her judgment. I don't want to bring the Second Guild to fight against you and let others reap the benefits. Besides, you should have obtained the three pieces of the Faith Totem Fragments, right? It's much better to stand on the same front at this time than to stand on the opposite side."
When she said these words, the smile on her baby face disappeared and she became serious.
Nan Huan, who had been hiding behind Bei Xi, was a little surprised when he heard this. He whispered to Twelve to confirm, "Is she the president of the Second Guild? I remember their guild was called 'Mechanical Heart'. How come their president's title is so cute? Is it 'Barbie' from Barbie doll?"
Twelve was a little amused and helpless. He couldn't explain anything at such a close distance, so he could only nod with an expression as if he wanted to say something but stopped.
President Barbie here did meet President Alice not long ago. The relationship between their two guilds is pretty good, and they often communicate with each other on weekdays. During this conversation, they naturally talked about the "Wandering Travel Group" dungeon.
President Alice reveals too much information every day. She just said earnestly that if there is some kind of anti-iOnda force behind the game, the only one who can fight against it is the president.
President Barbie is a president who listens to advice, and she knows the strength of a president very well. Instead of both sides suffering losses, it is better to cooperate for mutual benefit.
"Then get the admission letter first."
Bei Xi's words were equivalent to agreeing to cooperate.
Originally, she planned to let Nan Huan have a good rest for a while after completing the dungeon, but she didn't expect such a problem to happen. Judging from the previous situation, Nan Huan still has to go on this trip.
Having an ally doesn't actually have much impact on Bei Xi. What she cares more about is that the other party will not stand on the opposite side.
When Barbie heard this, she was a little surprised. She didn't expect that they had already received the acceptance letter, so she followed them out.
Not until the two teams had walked a long distance away did a small group of players appear on the road in the distance.
The Six Gods were responsible for explaining the information they had obtained to President Barbie.
"Well, this guess is very reasonable. It seems that my cooperation is correct. Someone actually has such great ability. I don't think our two guilds can gather so many people who understand illusions at the same time. Even the president of Hongfen can't create such a big scene at one time. The person behind this is really not ordinary."
Barbie quickly realized that this was no longer just a copy or a pre-game issue.
"But how do we get out of this illusion now? How do we confirm which game login is for Mizuki Private High School?"
At this time, everyone had left the amusement park and was standing in the empty game hall.
"Since we have to make it real and convincing, the best way is to fake it based on the truth."
Nan Huan stood there, scanning the dark entrances under the different light screens around him. "In other words, we are actually in the same place as the real game hall, just in two different time and space. Although the method to break the illusion is still unclear, if we can find the login entrance of the game "Shuimu Private High School", maybe we will get some unexpected gains."
"How much time is left in the countdown?"
Nan Huan seemed to have thought of a solution and confirmed it with Twelve.
"It shows that there are ten minutes left, but the actual time is twenty minutes."
"It's getting close to the end. I think they should be ready."
Bei Xi pinched the air with his fingers. Besides feeling the wind that Twelve had mentioned, he seemed to feel something else.
Nan Huan took one look at the other person and knew what Bei Xi was trying to do, so he pulled Twelve to the side.
"Hurry, let that go. It's time for your guild leader to perform."
She crossed her arms and looked very excited, as if she was watching a cultural performance in kindergarten and showing off her own child in front of other parents.
Barbie was very surprised that the president could understand the young lady's meaning just by eye contact. She moved to her side, ready to watch the show.
Bei Xi was seen standing there, lazily observing the surroundings, then he casually waved his hand in a certain direction and an air arrow flew out.
Bei Xi did not use the arrow with explosives. The arrow flew in the air for a while and then fell to the ground without hitting anything.
"What's going on?"
Twelve didn't understand, "The president made a mistake... Ouch..."
Before she could finish her words, she was hit on the head.
Barbie on the side saw the clue, "She didn't miss, it's just that the arrow slowed down."
Both Twelve and Barbie's men looked at each other in bewilderment.
Is it slow? Where is it slow?
It was obviously very fast and had great lethality; you could even hear the murderous sound in the air.
However, Barbie's words still attracted Nan Huan's attention. "The person behind the scenes changed the speed of time here. It may be because the time difference between reality and virtual time is too big in the same place, so there will be problems. But it is obvious that it only made a slight difference. Ordinary people can't see it. But you are different. Can you see that the speed of the arrow has slowed down?"
Nan Huan herself could see it because of her familiarity and understanding of Bei Xi. She believed that Liu Shen could see it because of this too. However, the underlying feelings they had for Bei Xi were different. One was love, and the other was feelings for the president.
But Barbie was able to tell the difference at first glance, which really surprised her.
Barbie heard a sour taste in these words. She finally understood why the two of them could communicate with just a glance, and hurried to explain.
"Don't misunderstand me, young lady. I can see that the arrow has slowed down. I have always wanted to beat her, so I watched a lot of videos of her archery in the dungeon to learn and summarize my experience."
Nan Huan really didn't think of this. He coughed embarrassedly and retracted his questioning gaze.
But she didn't see the corner of Bei Xi's lips curled up, and Barbie's face immediately turned dark.
What is going on?
Am I part of your play?
Fortunately, the episode passed quickly and Bei Xi threw another arrow.
But this time the arrow did not fall to the ground, but just turned back and forth in the huge and empty game hall.
Until the arrow flew past a light screen, its speed increased a little, and there seemed to be some abnormal fluctuations in the air, as if someone was standing there and was frightened by the flying arrow.
Now not only Twelve, but many capable players have already noticed it.
But before they could act, Bei Xi had already picked up the arrow that he had brought back in one hand, and pulled it hard in the fluctuating air with the other hand.
The place where there was nothing originally was like a curtain was suddenly opened.
The scene in front of me began to gradually blur, and the countdown had reached the last five minutes.
The illusory scene soon disappeared, and the real game hall appeared before their eyes. However, before everyone could see clearly, the first corner that was revealed was where a dozen people suddenly started running in different directions.
Those players who were originally in the amusement park scene, before they could figure out why they suddenly appeared in the game hall, saw the group of people running desperately with white envelopes in their hands.
The scene was very chaotic for a while, but fortunately Bei Xi caught a man from the beginning and snatched four envelopes from him.
But she couldn't figure out why they held the envelope in their hands.
Even if it’s hidden on your body?
There is not much time left, we just need to play hide and seek and hold on for the last period of time, why should we give it up like this?
Soon Bei Xi figured out why.
Because the game hall was already in chaos, people started to fly out of the crowded crowd.
The person holding the admission letter is like holding a bomb, and everyone will come around to fight for it.
Someone instantly forgot the rules of the game and attacked without any restraint, resulting in someone's death.
[Warning, warning, player Jiao Daxian has violated the rules of the game, killed each other, and will be eliminated from the game. ]
A player disappears in front of everyone in an instant, and there is no way to restore the sanity of others.
[Warning, warning…]
Warnings sounded one after another, but were soon drowned out by the noisy noise at the scene.
However, no one noticed that, outside the noise, in a hidden corner, someone was watching the lively scene, holding the admission letter that everyone wanted.
After all, they were the first ones to uncover the illusion and had the advantage. Barbie also received four admission letters, but like Beixi, she did not give the letters to the players in her guild. Instead, she stood at the game login entrance with Beixi.
People around me reacted quickly. People from Guild One and Guild Two guarded the entire game entrance like an iron barrel. No player dared to break in alone for the time being.
【bite--
The countdown entered the last ten seconds, 10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1...
Players who have received the notice, please choose the players who want to enter the dungeon with you and select the ten-second countdown.
10, 9, …..2, 1 ….】
With the cold voice of the system back online.
The mechanical and cold voice, coupled with the passionate and noisy scene, is extremely ironic.
However, Beixi, Barbie, and the rest of the people who received admission letters had no time to care about these things.
Nan Huan was also surrounded to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity to harm her.
After a few seconds, a flash of light passed by, and the familiar feeling of entering a copy came.
[The copy "Mizuki Private High School" is loading...
Difficulty level: A+
Initial number of players: 30
Plot summary:
This is a high-end institution that provides a superior environment for special students. The students who have received admission letters and come here have all had this thought when they were too tired in life: If everything they are experiencing now is a dream, and after waking up, they find themselves still lying on the high school desk, still a carefree high school student, how great would that be?
Shuimu Private High School promises to help every exhausted middle-aged person find his/her full of energy!
You thought that after joining the tour group, you would be able to cleanse your soul and wash away the fatigue of working in the perfect company. However, you didn't expect that the Fengmenling tourist attraction actually hid unspeakable secrets that almost cost you your life.
Although the entire scenic area has been closed and unscrupulous tour groups can no longer develop it, you still experienced the hardships of being an adult throughout the journey and got a glimpse of some secrets that others didn't know and might be dangerous. In order to better investigate and maintain the best attitude to face the fear of the unknown, you got the admission letter at the last minute and prepared to come to Shuimu High School to cheer yourself up.
Tip: The moment you enter Shuimu High School, all players' health points will be reduced to half of their original value. 】
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