The room was very quiet at night, and there was an eerie silence.
Lin Huanhuan was dragged to a secluded corner and suddenly came to her senses. She scratched her face and asked cautiously, "What do you mean?"
Qin Dai pushed his glasses and pulled up his plaid shirt before calming down and saying, "Do you remember what excuse they used when they said Xu Qianxing? But it's clear that the two of them could move the chair. We are now under the influence of a negative state. Who could be able to move the chair?"
He had been keeping this matter in his mind for the whole night, and he hardly slept that night, fearing that Yu Qirong and Su Tang would go on a killing spree and kill them all.
Fortunately not.
Fang Qian and the professor seemed to trust the studious high school student. Liu Ke had just had an accident in the morning, and he was not sure what the current situation was. The only person he could still trust was the little girl in front of him.
Qin Dai stared at Lin Huanhuan, as if waiting for her to confirm his opinion.
"..." Lin Huanhuan swallowed hard. She had a natural fear of teachers and would trust his words more, but she also learned from Wubo that this boy named Rong Qi was indeed extraordinary.
I heard that all the other players were outside the fire scene and he was the only one trapped inside. Yu Chao suspected that he would definitely die in the fire, but suddenly a reminder of the copy collapse popped up.
It's hard to believe that he didn't do anything.
"Well, I think we can't be so arbitrary." Under Qin Dai's gaze, Lin Huanhuan felt as embarrassed as being called out by the teacher to chat during evening self-study in high school. She slowly expressed her thoughts: "It was only after comparing Xu Qianxing before and after that we realized he was not the real him. Rong Qi and the others were like this from the beginning. Maybe they are just born with great strength."
Qin Dai could hear the distrust in her tone and felt it was a pity: "Anyway, I can't continue to act with him. Can you copy a map for me?"
Lin Huanhuan returned to the gathering point by herself and headed towards the light source, but was startled by Su Tang who was next to the light source.
At that time, he was completely immersed in darkness. When she came closer, he sat up slightly and looked towards Lin Huanhuan.
Lin Huanhuan was like a frightened rabbit. It took her a long time to come back to her senses. She gestured and asked in a low voice, "Are you still awake?"
She originally thought that Su Tang would ask him where Qin Dai was, or why Liu Ke was not with him, but in fact he did not ask anything, just nodded, and then looked away to look at the person opposite him.
The person opposite him was sleeping peacefully, and the white skin on her face also looked warmer under the dim light, much softer than when she had a stern face during the day. Her eyelashes were long, and the shadows cast by the light were also long, extending to her cheeks. Her silver-white hair was shining with a little gold, and she lay obediently in front of him.
Lin Huanhuan looked for a while in the light and felt an unhappy gaze. She had to look away angrily and gestured to call Liu Ke.
Su Tang didn't respond.
She had long seen that this man named Su Tang had a special interest in Rong Qi, which did not seem like pure admiration or liking. Anyway, it had nothing to do with her, so she just pretended not to notice it.
Su Tang looked at Yu Qirong's face, and suddenly thought of what Yu Qirong said to him before going to bed.
When he heard that Tang Xingfei's mission had gone wrong for the first time in history, he vaguely guessed something. The Lord God asked him to take over Tang Xingfei's job. He had the information of "Rong Qi" and had completely confirmed Yu Qirong's identity.
That's why I chose this face specially.
Su Tang frowned, touched his face with his hand, and a trace of hatred and unwillingness flashed across his eyes.
He soon learned that this was torture.
Yu Qirong did believe his lies temporarily, but it was also because of his face.
He was proud of his own cleverness and wit, but at the same time he hated this face.
Facts have proven that Yu Qirong really likes to recognize faces, but the more this happens, the more unwilling he becomes. Originally, Su Tang's face was molded by Tang Xingfei based on his own temperament. Yu Qirong's liking for this face is no different from liking Tang Xingfei's face - in short, the one he likes is not his.
Thinking of this, he wanted to tear this face to pieces. But reason told him that if it wasn't for this face, Yu Qirong might not even let him follow her.
Su Tang clenched his fists, hiding his violent thoughts. He became distracted and found that the white-haired beauty who should have been asleep had woken up and was looking at him with a half-smile.
He let go, resisted the urge to vomit, pretended to be as calm and composed as Tang Xingfei usually was, and asked considerately, "Why did you wake up?"
Yu Qirong fiddled with the clothes in front of her, pushed aside the hair that was pressed under her body, yawned lazily, and then said under Su Tang's concerned gaze: "I dreamed that someone was staring at me. I felt a little uncomfortable with being stared at, and I couldn't sleep."
"..." Su Tang heard Yu Qirong pointing at him, his face was uncertain for a while, and then he whispered: "Go back to sleep, it should just be a dream, I'm here to watch, no one can keep watching you."
Yu Qirong nodded, closed his eyes again, pulled his clothes, and fell asleep again.
No one wants to get up in the morning, but this is a dungeon, so they have no choice. Although there is no time limit in the dungeon, no one wants to stay in this place forever.
After listening to what Lin Huanhuan said, no one questioned Qin Dai's choice.
Now that they knew there might be clones of them in this book, they could only trust themselves. Qin Dai's approach was not right, but it was certainly not wrong either.
"The next location is called the Selection Room." Lin Huanhuan drew the map several times last night and is now very familiar with it. She can roughly guess where it is without looking at the original map.
There was nothing to do during the night watch, so she drew a map for each person, to help her remember it better and to prevent the team from getting separated by any accident.
Yu Qirong was washing his face under the faucet, with the map that Lin Huanhuan had given him next to him.
There was a towel handed to him. Yu Qirong paused, but still took it and wiped the water drops off his face.
His skin was originally white and tender, and it was easily scratched by the dry and rough surface of the towel, leaving red marks. Combined with the hair wet by the glass of water, he looked pitiful and vivid.
Su Tang glanced away and then looked away, fearing that his disguise was too poor and he would be recognized and not allowed to follow him.
If he was using his own face now, he would definitely appreciate it, but the problem was that Tang Xingfei was old-fashioned and would probably avoid suspicion on purpose. And he had to pretend to be a gentleman.
Yu Qirong himself did not have this awareness. After using the towel, he threw it into Su Tang's arms, picked up the map, frowned slightly, looked at the words on it, and thought about its meaning.
Choice. Choice of what? Do they choose, or are they chosen?
There are a series of questions. If you don’t really encounter that situation, you will definitely not know the answer. You still have to find your own way.
Once everyone had packed up, eaten and drunk their fill, the remaining six continued on their way.
After walking for a while under Lin Huanhuan's guidance, they arrived at the end of the room, where a large iron door stood.
Liu Ke seemed a little excited. She threw her two pigtails back and said, "This room is so big. I finally reached the end."
Yu Qirong approached the iron gate and found a button on it with two simple words next to it: "Switch."
It was too easy, so he turned around and pressed the button under the professor's tacit gaze.
There was a sudden rumbling sound from the iron gate, and Yu Qirong frowned and took a step back.
Behind the iron gate, there is not the light from outside, but rather a deeper darkness, like a black hole, and no one knows what is inside.
Lin Huanhuan turned on the flashlight on her cell phone and tentatively shone it inside, but the light seemed to be sucked into the black hole and could not reveal what was inside at all.
She shrank back: "It's so dark in there, I don't know what's really going on."
It would have been fine if I didn't know about the existence of clones and mutant rats, but after knowing about them, it's inevitable that I'll be a little nervous. Walking in such a dark place, I might get lost, or the people around me might be replaced.
Whatever the case, it's pretty scary.
"Let's go," Fang Qian was still calm. She glanced at the big iron gate and then at the map. "We are heading in the right direction. We haven't seen Chen Bao and Qin Dai along the way. They must have passed through here as well."
"But in order to prevent ourselves from getting separated, we have to hold each other's hands," the professor said in a deep voice.
In order to distinguish between men and women, Fang Qian and Lin Huanhuan held hands, while the professor asked Yu Qirong to push the cart.
Su Tang was behind Yu Qirong, and his eyes swept across his hands on the wheelchair several times. He was finally noticed by Yu Qirong before he left. Or perhaps, Yu Qirong was too lazy to pay attention to him before, but now she had to pay attention to him.
Yu Qirong loosened his grip on the wheelchair handle, took off his coat, and followed the same method his high school classmates often used. He wrapped it around his waist and tied a knot, leaving two tail-like sleeves at the back. He glanced at Su Tang and said, "You're holding my coat."
Su Tang looked at his white and slender hands again with regret, wishing that he was the one sitting in the wheelchair, but now he could only nod and say okay.
It was indeed pitch black inside. As soon as Yu Qirong stepped in, he smelled an unusual and strong smell of blood, but he could not see anything and could not react.
After all of them went in, the big iron gate behind them suddenly closed, and the last bit of light suddenly disappeared. A woman not far away was frightened and uttered "Ah" softly.
In the darkness, the sound of gears and machinery turning slowly was heard. Yu Qirong clenched his fingers, his body tilted slightly, and then he felt as if he was rising.
Is it an elevator?
Yu Qirong raised his head slightly and looked upwards.
After rising for a while and then stabilizing, a light appeared in front of them. Without giving them time to adapt, the instantaneous light made Yu Qirong unable to help but raise his hand to block it.
The new room seemed to have air conditioning, and the wind blowing in carried a stronger smell of blood.
Before Yu Qirong understood the specific situation, she heard Lin Huanhuan shouting in fear: "Xu Qianxing! Qin Dai!"
When the eyes moved to the bright side, only a "person" wearing Xu Qianxing's clothes could be seen, lying on Qin Dai who was wearing a plaid shirt. Hearing Lin Huanhuan's voice, "Xu Qianxing" turned his head, his pupils were white, his mouth was covered with blood, and his hands and clothes were also covered with blood. It was obvious that he was eating raw human flesh.
His fingernails were long and pointed, like the mutant rats he had seen before.
Yu Qirong frowned, but she didn't expect Xu Qianxing to pounce towards Lin Huanhuan.
"Lin Huanhuan, be careful!" The professor was anxious, but he could only sit in a wheelchair and had to remind her.
The three girls had never seen such a scene before. Fang Qian, the only one who remained calm, only had time to take a step forward and try to pull Lin Huanhuan.
Yu Qirong's sleeve loosened from behind, and before he could look back, he heard a sound of wind passing behind his ears, and then "Xu Qianxing"'s movement towards Lin Huanhuan suddenly stopped.
An arrow pierced through Xu Qianxing's body and nailed it to the wall. Xu Qianxing's body shook and fell to the ground with a bang. A swarm of insects crawled out of his body and fled in all directions.
Fang Qian took a piece of clothing from the warehouse with a cold face, lit it with a lighter, and threw it on the ground to let the bugs stay away from them.
Seeing that they were no longer in danger, Yu Qirong turned around and looked at the person who shot the arrow.
Su Tang's eyes were filled with boasting that he couldn't hide at all. When he saw Yu Qirong looking back at him, he was even more impatient to hear the praise, "Is it very accurate?"
Yu Qirong glanced at the tip of his arrow that was shining with cold light, tilted his head, and thought of the dagger that Su Tang used in the Lunar Eclipse Book.
"Where is your dagger?" Yu Qirong asked.
"..." The boasting on Su Tang's face disappeared instantly. He felt something strange from Yu Qirong's seemingly unintentional question. How could he know what a dagger was? It was just that the incident happened suddenly and he casually touched his best weapon.
"…I didn't bring it." Su Tang replied.
Yu Qirong didn't seem to intend to keep asking this question. He nodded and turned away, as if he asked the question just on a whim.
"Rong Qi, what do you think?" the professor asked.
Yu Qirong glanced at Qin Dai, who had obviously been bitten beyond recognition, and then at the insects wriggling on the ground. He pushed the professor out of the elevator and said as he walked, "Clones have a characteristic."
He paused when he reached the arrow nailed to the wall, pulled it out, shook it, and then threw it backwards without looking back.
Liu Ke's cry of pain was heard behind him, followed by Fang Qian and Lin Huanhuan's screams as if they were frightened.
Soon a second group of bugs appeared on the ground.
"Bugs will only appear when the clones are injured. Liu Ke used that method from the beginning to make us afraid of getting wounds, thereby reducing the possibility of us discovering her identity." Yu Qirong looked back at the two girls who ran over with pale faces, and said calmly.
"Then Liu Ke..." Lin Huanhuan's eyes were instantly filled with tears. She didn't dare to think about where the real Liu Ke was now.
Yu Qirong shook his head. He was not omniscient and omnipotent and could not know everything.
"We each create a wound. It doesn't have to be big, but it must bleed, to prove our identity." Su Tang suggested impatiently. He realized that Yu Qirong had doubts about him and he really needed to use this method to prove that he was indeed the real person.
He was not a clone to begin with, and this result should confuse Yu Qirong for a while.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly wanted to cut his palm, but was stopped by Yu Qirong.
"You don't have to." Yu Qirong glanced at him, raised his hand and bit his fingertips, showing everyone the round blood bead on his round fingertips, "Su Tang just saved Lin Huanhuan, I don't think he has any need to murder his companions... Next, I will act alone with Su Tang."
Su Tang paused for a moment. He didn't expect Yu Qirong to speak up to defend him. Suddenly, a fire was burning in his heart, and his eyes were shining as he looked at Yu Qirong.
It seemed that he was overthinking it. Not only did Yu Qirong not notice it, she also wanted to be alone with him.
If that's the case, then it's not unacceptable for him to have to wear Tang Xingfei's disgusting skin for the rest of his life.
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