Chapter 247 Escape Room (11) - Searching for the Principal
Si Zhong seemed to accept this explanation and did not continue to make things difficult for the NPC.
He took out a rope from his spatial storage, had the NPC sit on a chair, and tied him up.
He started studying the split-screen surveillance footage, searching for Ning Shu's image on it, and soon he found it.
Ning Shu and Cheng Chuan were in the ghost corridor at that time, but the female ghost could not be seen in the surveillance footage. Ning Shu was seen huddled against the wall, motionless.
Cheng Chuan crawled on the ground, seemingly holding something in his arms.
Si Zhong thought of the female ghost he had seen there, the one he had beaten up back then.
Ning Shu and Cheng Chuan's behavior suggests they've encountered similar situations.
The surveillance cameras didn't capture it, so the person monitoring them just thought their behavior was strange.
Si Zhong squinted as he observed Ning Shu's every move, feeling that her body language revealed her fear of the female ghost.
Ah, so she's afraid of the supernatural.
Si Zhong's lips curled slightly, revealing a barely perceptible smile, and he made a mental note of it.
The scene of Cheng Chuan carrying Ning Shu away next naturally did not escape his eyes.
Si Zhong was initially enjoying watching it; he liked seeing Little Potato's panicked expression.
But her smile froze the next moment when she saw Cheng Chuan hug Ning Shu.
His gaze was fixed on Cheng Chuan's hands that were holding Ning Shu's bottom, as if he wanted to burn holes through them.
His eyes suddenly turned fierce, and the color of his heterochromatic eyes became even darker.
The most obvious change is that the grayish-blue pupil has now turned indigo.
The smile on his face had vanished, replaced by a blank expression.
The bound NPC was confused, only feeling that the atmosphere around him had changed, and an inexplicable sense of oppression swept over him.
He was so frightened that he thought the other party was about to kill him. He stammered and blurted out, using a phrase he didn't know he had learned from somewhere: "Great, great hero, spare my life."
Si Zhong suddenly turned his head and stared at him, and the NPC couldn't help but get goosebumps all over.
He heard a cold voice that seemed to come from afar: "Where is the principal?"
The NPC swallowed hard; answering the next question poorly could be fatal.
He wanted to lie, but ultimately chose to answer truthfully: "No, I don't know."
Si Zhong reached out his hand to him, watching that slender, well-defined hand reach towards him, like a devil's scythe approaching him.
The NPC couldn't help but shout, "Sir, I really don't know! I can name a few places, but they might not be accurate. Please don't kill me!"
Si Zhong suddenly snapped back to reality, and the color of his pupils began to return to normal.
He knew that what the NPC said was probably true. Since the other party couldn't see the female ghost, it was normal that he didn't know where the principal was.
Since the principal is an important NPC character, he shouldn't just sit quietly in one place waiting for players to find him.
If even someone like him, who is tasked with protecting the murderer, doesn't know who the murderer is, then the principal probably doesn't know either.
Because he was just completing the tasks assigned to him by the instance.
So finding the murderer isn't the key; getting the key and leaving this place is.
The principal might know where the key is; of course, this is just his own guess, but he believes the principal is the NPC who currently has the most clues.
The principal may not be hard to find, but you have to go to a special room and trigger the corresponding plot to see him.
After analyzing the situation, Si Zhong decided to leave and go find someone.
He saw a walkie-talkie on the monitoring console and asked the NPC, "If you find out that someone is trying to find the murderer, how do you help them escape?"
The NPC explained: "The principal gave me a code, instructing me to broadcast a message pretending that the principal was looking for a teacher and asking a certain teacher to go to a certain place."
He said that if he broadcast these words, the killer would know someone was looking for him and would have to hide.
Si Zhong pointed to the walkie-talkie and asked, "Don't you have another walkie-talkie? These are all two-way, right?"
The NPC seemed a little guilty and hesitated whether to speak.
Si Zhong asked, displeased, "Hmm?"
That word is so intimidating. The NPC explained, "Yes, yes, but the other one is with the principal."
Si Zhong suddenly realized something: "So he knows everything that happened here?"
The NPC nodded. Actually, the walkie-talkie wasn't always off; you had to press a button to turn it on when you wanted to speak.
When Si Zhong broke through the wall to enter, the NPC was frightened by the noise and immediately pressed the intercom button to let the principal know that something had happened.
Si Zhong smiled and praised the other person: "Very dedicated."
That forced smile looked terrifying to the NPCs; they'd rather not have complimented them at all.
The other party thought he was going to die there, but Si Zhong didn't seem to care much.
He approached the monitor screen, pointed to a girl on it, and said to the NPC, "Remember her. When I get the other walkie-talkie, tell me where she is."
After saying that, he smiled again: "If you do well, I'll let you live; if you don't, I'll come back and take care of you."
Oh God, please don't let him come back! The NPC was somewhat devastated.
After Si Zhong finished speaking, he turned around and left, using the key to open the hole in the wall and leaving smoothly.
After Li Mengqi, Wu Yi, and Ning Shu separated, they carried out a simple and brutal plan—to beat up every NPC they encountered.
They didn't want to waste time and effort looking for the murderer; it would be much easier to just talk to the principal.
In the hours after they separated, they beat up countless NPCs, and now they had an old man with half-gray hair in their hands.
To be precise, he looks older than middle-aged, since half of his hair is white, but his skin still looks quite young.
At first, Wu Yi was a little reluctant to make a move and even advised Li Mengqi, "Sister Meng, he seems so pitiful."
Li Mengqi rolled her eyes at him: "He's just data. He can be reborn after he dies. We're just dead. Who will pity us?"
Besides, he really does resemble the principal; better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free.
Li Mengqi's logic was based on the fact that the other person's age and demeanor seemed to resemble that of a "principal".
There's no other reason than that it carries the connotation of "high moral character and prestige".
The NPC in front of him never imagined that one day he would be beaten up because he "looks like" the principal.
When Si Zhong appeared, Li Mengqi was standing to the side with his arms crossed, watching Wu Yi beat someone up.
They were still suspicious when they saw Si Zhong appear. He was rough and clumsy in martial arts and didn't have much of a mind.
Li Mengqi remembered Cheng Chuan's instructions and knew that the opponent was not easy to deal with. She subconsciously pulled Wu Yi, who was still fighting, to the side and waited for the opponent to make a move.
Although Si Zhong didn't beat up any NPCs along the way, his methods of dealing with them were even more ruthless than Li Mengqi's martial arts.
For a time, the NPCs would flee at the sight of any unfamiliar face, afraid of being too slow.
Si Zhong did not take action against the NPCs, but only asked them to "check" whether they were carrying walkie-talkies.
Under severe torture, many NPC candidates were eliminated, and then they encountered Li Mengqi and his group.
Si Zhong recognized the two people in front of him, knew they were players, and knew they were related to Little Potato, especially the tall one.
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