Chapter 5 No luck today
As Yue Yiyue unfolded the thick A4 paper in his hand, he realized that he was only in the position of an observer; the thickness was merely a deceptive tactic.
The content on the paper was also very simple.
You are just a passerby in this school, spending your days reading and studying. In your opinion, getting into a good university is more important than many other things, so your goal is very clear.
Until a serious bullying incident occurred at school, you, who had always remained aloof, received two letters one day.
Now you can choose your side: the bully or the bullied.
Those who help the bullies stand by and watch indifferently.
To help those who are being bullied, please take them to safety as soon as possible.
(P.S. Aside from the restrooms, everywhere seems like a good place, especially the Student Affairs Office, where you might find even better things.)
To ensure fairness, your ability is to fan the flames—please develop its own uses for survival.
Please abide by school rules, and wearing blue shirts and black pants is strictly prohibited on campus.
You can only choose one faction, but you can switch factions once you find a card (hidden in a corner of the school).
Please do not violate the original school rules, what would that mean?
She's inside too... Don't...
The words that followed were obscured by ink and were not clearly visible.
Yue Yiyue quietly observed her surroundings; they were all looking down at the papers in their hands.
She lowered her head again, pretending that she hadn't finished reading, and stared blankly at the thin piece of paper.
In the original story, once the game officially begins, everyone enters another world and experiences everything.
But the game hasn't started yet.
Yue Yiyue looked around and made sure there was nothing unusual about the classroom.
Except for the chair that seemed out of place in the classroom.
Only when the sound of scripts being laid out could be heard from all around did Yue Yiyue close the script.
When Yue Yiyue looked up, he squinted. He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the lights had dimmed a bit.
"Hmm, the script says we can go out first, only the people from scripts four and six can stay." Wang Yong stood in the shadows, looking at Yue Yiyue with resentment, and finally went out with the other three people with some reluctance.
"We're nearby. We'll knock on each door three times in a row, and then the game will officially begin."
Just as the door was about to close, Wang Yong suddenly turned around and said something.
"We'll go to Room 317 on the third floor together. Zhang Yang has set up a scene there. Remember, you can only open the door after knocking three times."
"Knock three times before opening the door," Wang Yong emphasized again.
He then slammed the door shut.
In a secluded corner, unnoticed, a dark wisp quietly hooked onto Wang Yong's trouser leg...
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Now only two people were left in the room.
Yue Yiyue looked at Gu Nanqiu sitting to the side; she was just as beautiful as described in the original novel.
Sitting there, head slightly tilted, her long, black hair cascading over her shoulders, she looked intently at the script.
She looked so relaxed, as if she were just playing an ordinary game with her classmates.
I had no idea what would happen next, or what disgusting scenes I would experience.
I recalled the bloody scenes described in the book.
That's not right.
Yue Yiyue finally mustered up the courage to ask, "Are we just going to sneak back like this?"
"It's just the two of us. Let's abandon this boring game and go back to get some rest."
Upon hearing this, Gu Nanqiu looked up in surprise, her eyes filled with confusion as she gazed at Yue Yiyue sitting beside her.
A long silence followed, so long that Yue Yiyue became uneasy and occasionally said extremely offensive things.
She waited quietly.
He was waiting for Gu Nanqiu to give him instructions.
Or...
They accused her of deserting her post and standing others up.
Before an answer could be heard, a banging sound came from the doorway.
Yue Yiyue subconsciously stood up, looking warily at the thin wooden door.
The impact was brief, followed by three rhythmic knocks.
Da-da-da-da
The knocking on the door came in three-beat groups, a rhythmic pattern.
"It's starting so soon?" Yue Yiyue was a little confused. She thought about it and decided that it was fine, this way the awkwardness wouldn't continue to spread in the classroom.
She casually followed Zhang Yang's instructions and walked to the door, pulling the handle: "Then let's go to the arts and sports room first, or we can go back—"
The sound stopped abruptly.
The person knocking on the door... was... Wang Yong.
Yes, Wang Yong, his skin peeled off, his eyes bulging out, something wrapped around his neck, hung at the door, a bloody mess.
Due to gravity, his blood kept dripping down, splashing small droplets on the ground, while his intestines had already flowed out of his abdominal cavity, a long strip hanging there.
His body swayed slightly in the wind, the movement not too large.
At this distance, it should be just enough to knock on the door.
Yue Yiyue, frozen in place in fright, even felt for a moment that Wang Yong was still alive.
For a fleeting moment, she saw those bulging eyes seem to shift slightly, staring intently at Yue Yiyue's back.
Yue Yiyue's pupils constricted, he bit his lip tightly, forcing back a scream from his throat, and took a difficult step back, his limbs going weak and he almost fell to the ground.
The person behind him caught it in time.
Gu Nanqiu's expression wasn't much better.
Her face was frighteningly pale, and the hand supporting Yue Yiyue was frighteningly cold, with her fingertips trembling unconsciously.
Neither of them screamed, afraid that screaming would attract something inappropriate.
Yue Yiyue turned his head away, refusing to look at the blood-stained mess at the doorway.
She leaned against Gu Nanqiu, trying to take deep breaths to calm herself down.
My muddled brain struggled to function, flashing through countless scenes from the original manga.
But none of these are included.
Wang Yong shouldn't have died here.
In the original story, he was clearly exposed after the game officially started... He hid by the door to eavesdrop on the conversation, which violated the rules, so he was skinned alive as a warning.
Instead of being peeled and then hung there as a warning to oneself.
It was as if something had gone off track. In that instant, Yue Yiyue's mind went blank, and his desire to escape before the game had fully begun turned icy cold.
But this scene overlaps with a seemingly casual remark in the original work.
It arrived just a little earlier than expected.
Gu Nanqiu seemed to have just recovered from the shock. Noticing that the person next to her was weak and unsteady, she reached out her slightly trembling hand and picked up Yue Yiyue.
“Don’t look… I’ll carry you out from the other side. Don’t be afraid, I’m here… Let’s go back now. Something’s not right, something’s not right here…” Gu Nanqiu’s voice trembled slightly. In the instant that this happened, Yue Yiyue’s unease along the way flashed through her mind.
Her gaze fell on the somewhat thin back of the person in her arms, and she used her other free hand to soothe and pat him.
Did you know this would happen?
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Gu Nanqiu carried Yue Yiyue and climbed out of the window. After climbing out, she ran towards the Political Education Office without hesitation.
All he could hear was the whistling wind and the pounding of Yue Yiyue's heart.
She looked down at the person in her arms, trying to control her voice and feigning composure: "It's okay. Once we leave here, there should be a teacher on duty. If not, we'll go to the gate and find the security guard."
"We'll split up later. I'll go gather the rest of the students, and then we'll go to the security room together."
Still recovering, Yue Yiyue leaned on Gu Nanqiu and apologized somewhat awkwardly, "I'm sorry, I'll come to help as soon as I recover. I actually don't know anything."
"I had a nightmare before I came here, and it was somewhat similar to this dream, so I was very uneasy the whole way."
Yue Yiyue kept her head down, so Gu Nanqiu couldn't see her uneasy expression because of lying.
She twisted all of this into a dream, speaking vaguely and indistinctly.
Gu Nanqiu deduced from Yue Yiyue's fragmented and chaotic information that if one did not follow the plot to the end, it would be impossible to get out.
Gu Nanqiu was somewhat puzzled by Yue Yiyue's words. Following the plot...?
But there's nothing here, and Wang Yong...
Something white seemed to flash by in the distance, interrupting Gu Nanqiu's thoughts. Just as she was about to take a closer look to see if it was Zhang Yang and the others making a sound, three regular bell rings suddenly sounded in the empty teaching building. When she looked up again and saw the corridor, her steps slowed down until she stopped.
Yue Yiyue sensed something and crawled out of her arms.
"Three bell rings signal the official opening of the inner world and the school area. The pollution level is 100%. At this moment, students are playing in the corridors, but some of them are very different from ordinary people."
A simple sentence in the original work, when applied to reality, had such a shock to Yue Yiyue that she almost fainted from fright.
The corridor was filled with many, many more people.
They were wearing school uniforms, and some of them were carrying thermos cups, probably going to the water room to get water.
Some of them walked downstairs hand in hand with their girlfriends, chatting intimately.
He looks just like any other student.
But they also have one thing in common.
They all had pale, bloodless faces, and those faces were smooth, without any undulations.
It has no facial features.
They mingled among the normal students, and apart from that, everything here was so ordinary, just like going back to an ordinary high school.
When Yue Yiyue saw this thing, he pinched his hand so hard that it turned blue before he could stop himself from crying out.
She looked at Gu Nanqiu beside her, who had a serious expression, and was about to ask a question when she saw Gu Nanqiu's face turn pale instantly.
She exuded a sense of vulnerability, with redness at the corners of her eyes, and upon closer inspection, one could see tears welling up in her eyes.
This change left Yue Yiyue somewhat at a loss, and she instinctively put her arm around the person.
"It's nothing, don't worry, it's just that something just pricked me, and it hurts a lot." Gu Nanqiu's voice was a little weak, as if she hadn't recovered from the pain yet.
But she still managed a reassuring smile: "Don't be afraid, I will try my best to protect you. I'm sorry, I should have just gone with you."
At this point, she looked around and pulled Yue Yiyue to a secluded corner, instructing him, "Then I'll listen to you. Let's go back to the classroom first, follow the script, find Zhang Yang and the others, and figure out a way to go back together. The card I got is 'Observer,' I don't know what it's for."
The plot has now returned to a familiar scene for Yue Yiyue.
In the original work, this murder mystery game is a pollutant of resentment.
The contaminant, stained with blood, is activated, thus transporting students playing murder mystery games on campus to the "Otherworld - Campus," a place teeming with evil spirits, thus beginning the prologue to the entire story.
Blood?
How did this murder mystery game get stained with blood?
Just as Yue Yiyue was trying to recall if there was any way to avoid this accident, a sharp ringing in his ears forcefully stopped him from thinking.
"Okay, whatever you say." Yue Yiyue closed her eyes uncomfortably, forcibly clearing her mind. There was no need to be curious about things that couldn't be explored. She touched her pocket and found that her phone was gone.
The original work also mentioned this, but I forgot the specific reason. Anyway, it was about not being able to ask the outside world for help.
“I can choose my own side, and I am also an observer.” Yue Yiyue licked his dry lips, trying to find the important content on his simple A4 paper in his memory: “Then, living in the same dormitory as you, I initially thought that there was no information in this, and I just glanced at it.”
Although I was hoping to escape before the game officially started, I still carefully memorized the contents of the A4 paper.
Yue Yiyue recalled the bold red words in her script. She tiptoed and whispered in Gu Nanqiu's ear, "There are a few rules in that piece of paper. The first is that you can't wear a blue shirt and black pants, and the second is that you can't violate school rules."
"I will do everything in my power to escape with you."
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