Chapter 192 Mizuki Private High School (Sixty-four)
The peace that the game hall had just maintained with great difficulty collapsed in an instant.
The sudden appearance of a player who wanted to take both the head and the totem fragment of faith from the young lady, as well as the tentacles that appeared silently like monsters, distracted the players' attack targets for a while.
The scene was in chaos. Except for Morpheus and the tentacles, no one noticed that the figure that the eldest lady was originally afraid of and was retreating step by step suddenly disappeared into the shadow of the crowd in an instant.
Of course, no one noticed that the players from the several guilds that were originally guarding the northeast corner did not want to fight after being easily breached by the enemy. The small group of people originally scattered among all the players and quietly moved towards the direction of the human wall.
In an inconspicuous corner, the real Nan Huan and Bei Xi, as well as famous presidents and players of various guilds, had already temporarily bought some disguise props from the mall, and were now watching the fun with the faces of A, B, C, and D.
Twelve was a little excited at first, looking at the young lady in the center, whose face was exactly the same as Nan Huan's. Not only that, but even their expressions and movements were exactly the same. "Young lady, how long can this shadow stand card last? If I didn't know that it was you and the president standing next to me, I would have thought that you were drowned in the crowd."
I have to say that the mission rewards that the eldest lady got when she was in Fengmenling can really be put to use. The masks on their faces can at most change their appearance, but a person's behavior is difficult to imitate. However, shadows are different. They are part of the player's body. It is better to say that they were originally like this, but they suddenly stood under the spotlight and had a clear face.
"The system didn't give any prompts," Nan Huan noticed Twelve's problem when she was using the 'Shadow Substitute Card', but the system hadn't given any prompts about the time before, only saying that it could replace them once. Now the system couldn't be online for a while, so she could only use it by trial and error.
Fortunately, the usage process is not complicated. They are old acquaintances in Fengmenling, so they have a tacit understanding. Two shadow substitute cards, one for Beixi and one for herself, are just right.
Morpheus obviously did not have this ability to distinguish, so when he saw the young lady suddenly move so quickly and a player was about to get there first the next second, he did not even bother to think whether it was a trap and rushed forward directly.
But before everyone had time to be surprised, they saw another person blocking the road.
"Then, then, then... Is that Yanqi?" The 12th Company began to stutter, "Isn't she a student? How could she be a tentacle? Is she here to help us, or to cause trouble?"
She had not forgotten the aroma of roasting protein in the dormitory not long ago. As for now, when she saw the tentacles with suction cups, she couldn't help but feel nauseous.
Bei Xi knocked her on the head in frustration, "Didn't you see that she stopped Morpheus's actions? She should be here to help, but her identity should also be a problem."
"Okay, don't think too much about it, just follow the original plan and help the other party get out first."
The snake has already come out, so things will be easy afterwards. Whether she is a student or has some other identity, these can be discussed later. The first thing to do is to end the situation in front of us.
At Bei Xi's command, everyone started to move. After receiving the signal, the two shadows in the crowd quickly merged into the crowd and disappeared.
In fact, until this point, Morpheus had not realized that this was a conspiracy between Nan Huan and Bei Xi. In Nan Huan's words, Morpheus had not been a player for long and was not familiar with the presidents' thinking.
After all, her mind was full of thoughts about how to take Nan Huan's life and how to get the fragments of the faith totem, so her first reaction was that the young lady might have used some props, so she wanted to shake off the tentacles and chase after her.
Unexpectedly, the tentacles that had been dangling due to the black air seemed to have made some kind of decision. They stretched out another tentacle and directly wrapped around Morpheus' waist, trying to drag her in the opposite direction.
"You are such a traitor, have you forgotten your true nature after being a human for only a few days?"
Morpheus sneered, and his two hands filled with black energy poked directly at the end of the tentacles on his waist.
With almost no effort, the tail end of the tentacle separated from the body. The front end of the tentacle fell heavily to the ground, while the back end was still wrapped around Morpheus' waist because the nerves had not reacted yet.
The latter didn't care and hurriedly followed the place where the young lady disappeared just now.
When other players saw that the monster was injured, they naturally carried forward the international practice of bullying the weak and fearing the strong.
It can be seen that the tentacle did not intend to show off, nor did it want to confront the player head-on. If it had not seen that something had suddenly happened to the young lady, it would definitely not have taken action.
Now seeing the player preparing to attack him, he quickly ran away dragging his broken tail.
Beixi's movements were not slow, but there were too many players in the game hall. They did not want to reveal their identities too early and let Morpheus notice them, otherwise all their efforts would be in vain, so their mobility was a bit limited.
So the group could only watch the direction of the tentacles' movement from afar, and shuttle through the crowd, looking for the other party's hiding place.
Until Beixi brought Nanhuan, followed by Chaka, and gradually stopped in a hidden place in the game hall.
Now everyone is concerned about the young lady's hiding place, and the busy northeast corner has to be blocked for a while, so no one has noticed the abnormality here for the time being.
Nan Huan stood there and looked around, but didn't see the other person. He wanted to move forward, but was stopped by Bei Xi and Cha Ka on the left and right.
Bei Xi took Nan Huan's hand without hiding from others and whispered to her, "She is behind the pillar. Although she is injured, she is still capable of hurting others. Besides, she may also think we are a threat?"
Nan Huan immediately stopped walking, "Um... you are Yanqi, right?"
She spoke tentatively. After all, she was now in front of someone else, so the first thing she had to do was to explain her identity and then see if the other party could cooperate.
After all, she didn't expect Yanqi to appear in the form of tentacles, or maybe this name was not really her.
Although Nan Huan basically judged that the other party had no ill will towards them based on her behavior just now, Bei Xi insisted on keeping this distance.
"We are the players trapped here by Morpheus. The one you saved just now was my shadow. I know the system should have used some kind of protection mechanism here to reset the system cap. Can you help me?"
Nan Huan was anxious. After all, she didn't know how long the Shadow Substitute Card could be hidden. If Morpheus found out, it might be too late. So the time difference was very important now. But she didn't look too anxious.
But behind the pillar, after she finished speaking, there was a long silence.
No tentacles came out to attack, and nothing came out to confirm their identity.
Just as Nan Huan was considering that she was also an NPC, deeply immersed in the game copy, and whether it would be a bit difficult for the other party to understand if she directly brought it up in the system, she hesitated whether to change the explanation or statement.
Twelve's somewhat labored voice could be heard in the communication channel, "President, Miss, Morpheus has discovered something is wrong and has broken through our first line of defense. We need to hurry."
Sure enough, the Shadow Stand Card did not last too long, and Morpheus had already started attacking Twelve and the others.
Before Nan Huan spoke, President Chaka seemed to have been unable to bear it any longer. She might not be very clear about everything, but she knew that the hope of the young lady and the others now lay on the tentacle monster behind the pillar. She took two steps forward and said, "It's too late. Just do it. I'll handle it. No matter what you ask her to hand over or how she cooperates, I'll take care of it."
She seemed to be asking questions, but she had no intention of listening to the choices of the remaining two people. She was communicating directly with the monster behind the pillar, "I have no ill will towards you, but the premise is that you have to help us. Since you just took action, you should be able to predict..."
But before President Chaka could finish his words, the tentacles behind the pillar actually moved. Not only did they move, but they also seemed extremely impatient. Or to be more precise, they seemed to have heard what Chaka said and showed some excitement, but because of their appearance and body shape, they could not speak and did not fully show it in front of everyone.
She just shyly hid her body tighter, and stretched out a tentacle, spreading it in front of Chaka with a very respectful movement.
I saw that her tentacles were holding a pink, hard object like crystal, as big as the tip of a thumb, and looked crystal clear.
Are you so easy to talk to?
Nan Huan looked at the scene in front of him and felt that he seemed to have been ignored just now, but the result was not particularly bad after all.
"Thank you." Chaka reached out and took out the pink crystal.
However, the tentacle did not retract immediately. It seemed to hesitate for a moment, then rubbed Chaka's face gently and separated immediately, as lightly as a feather falling on it.
Then, without waiting for Chaka to react, he shrank back behind the pillar.
Although he shouldn't think about these messy things at this time, Nan Huan keenly noticed that there seemed to be some unknown emotion hidden in the other party's touch.
Chaka was also stunned. He didn't know what he was thinking about. His brows frowned unconsciously, but he quickly performed it without showing any emotion towards the movement of the tentacles.
Instead, he handed the thing in his hand to the eldest lady, "I can't see what's in it..."
Before she could finish her words, just when Nan Huan's hand touched the pink crystal, the long-lost system prompt sound finally rang.
At the same time, a violent light burst out from the corner of the game hall, quickly covering a certain range centered on Nanhuan, including Beixi, Chaka, and even the tentacles.
【bite--
Congratulations to the player for triggering the multiplayer side quest - treasure hunt game. 】
Twelve swore that she had never felt that the system's voice was so beautiful, so that she felt inexplicably moved, as if she had suddenly met a very familiar relative.
But the next words in the prompt left other players, including her, confused.
[As you can see, Yanqi may never have existed in this school.
She just stayed there briefly as a shadow of a person, but for some reason, the traces she left behind refused to disappear from the campus.
Her favorite thing is the treasure hunt game, but she can't find her favorite thing. 】
Ah? Isn't this a protection mechanism left by the system?
Why the content of the task is not some high-end repair procedure, but rather a triggered task.
The task itself doesn't seem to have much to do with the system, but rather with the tentacle monster?
[Please help Yanqi find her favorite things and eliminate these traces.
Tip: If the task is successful, the system's protection mechanism will be activated.
If the task fails, the system fails to restart and will go offline again. 】
Wait, what does this last hint mean?
Just when everyone was delighted to think that they could finally leave this dream and return to the copy, they were suddenly brought back to reality by these last two sentences.
What does it mean that the task failed, the restart failed, and the system went offline again?
Is this something glorious?
Can't you fight for yourselves? How can you bet on them for such an important matter? They really don't want to take this responsibility.
But unfortunately, the system probably couldn't hear their inner thoughts, or even if it heard them, it pretended not to hear them. Everyone just felt that the light in front of them seemed to have reached its extreme, and then there was a familiar dizziness.
When they were blinded by the sunlight and opened their eyes again, there was no game hall and there were so many players.
In the past, she was too shallow and always felt that the copy was extremely dangerous, but now she finds the danger so pleasing to the eye that her mood improves a lot when she looks at the school in front of her.
Twelve took a deep breath, and before he could exhale slowly, he saw that the eldest lady and Beixi had opened their eyes at some point, and at this moment, both of them were looking up and down at President Chaka who was standing not far away with great confusion.
Twelve didn't understand at first what was wrong, but after thinking about it again, he didn't care about breathing and hurried to the two of them.
After all, it was the first time she saw an NPC accompany them on a mission, and the world suddenly became magical.
"Are you real?"
Nan Huan stroked his chin, looking very interested. "What did we do in the game hall just now?"
It’s not that she has any doubts about President Chaka, but she has entered several dungeons. Even Hull doesn’t seem to have the ability to enter the game dungeon with them. Usually they are generated during the mission.
After all, only players can trigger tasks, and NPCs do not have this kind of penetration. But now Chaka has done it, or in other words, the system has let her in.
"We designed a plan to make Morpheus think that you were at the end of the road, and we also got the pink crystal. Just now, a voice mentioned some mission."
Chaka was somewhat speechless, but still answered Nanhuan's question seriously. At the end, he raised his hand half-jokingly, "Do you want me to shoot another arrow, and you can judge whether it's real or fake?"
She seemed to have never seen such a vivid expression on the other person's face, and she found it somewhat amusing.
"That's not necessary. After all, we are here to complete the mission, not to cause trouble."
The moment the other party opened her mouth, Nan Huan was basically certain of her identity.
Nan Huan then put away his curious gaze and looked around, "Are there only eight of us coming in?"
This was a bit unexpected. She originally thought that a multiplayer mission was triggered, which should include players who survived the original copy and entered the game lobby, but now it seems that only players from Guild One and Guild Two have entered the mission.
President Hongfen and President Alice were not players in this copy, so they naturally did not come in.
Twelve nodded after hearing what she said. "Yes, there are only eight of us. Morpheus didn't come in. It seems that the system is set up so that we can leisurely hunt for treasures. Although there is no time limit, this campus is not small. Besides, we don't know what the other party likes. Isn't the system's task description a bit too broad?"
“Although there is no time limit, the system said the favorite thing, which means we only have one chance to submit the correct answer. If we get it wrong, it’s over.”
Nan Huan shook his head, indicating his disagreement with what Twelve said.
"One more thing, I probably, possibly, maybe know what the other person likes most?"
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