"How could this happen?" Lin Huanhuan scratched her hair, a puzzled look on her face, "I remember clearly that this is the place, there are so many clones."
They had reached the place where the professor and his group had originally walked to, but now there was no one there.
Yu Qirong's eyes fell on the floor. It was a wooden floor and indeed there were some traces of wheelchair tracks, but neither the person nor the clone was there.
"Can you tell us more about your situation at that time?" Yu Qirong asked.
"We bumped into each other unexpectedly at that time. I thought there was no danger. I was still playing Candy Crush..."
Shiraishi couldn't understand: "Are you in the mood to play Candy Crush in this situation?"
Lin Huanhuan blushed and explained, "At that time... I was under a lot of pressure after seeing those things, so I just wanted to relieve the pressure." She was talking about Liu Ke and Xu Qianxing.
Yu Qirong nodded, motioning for her to continue.
"Then the incident happened suddenly, so we deliberately walked separately," Lin Huanhuan pointed to both sides, "I went this way, and they went that way."
The direction she pointed to did match the wheel tracks on the ground. Yu Qirong thought for a moment and asked, "Do you remember the time?"
"The time..." Lin Huanhuan recalled, and suddenly said, "I know! I was so scared that I turned off my phone, and the time was displayed on the lock screen. It was twelve o'clock in the evening!"
Then she turned on her phone, "It's ten o'clock in the afternoon...what's the use?"
Yu Qirong shook his head slightly, signaling everyone to continue following the direction the professor gave them.
Lin Huanhuan's cheeks turned slightly red. Unconsciously, she seemed to have become very dependent on this good-looking high school student.
Ah, a high school boy, it's hard to refuse.
She pondered the possibility of becoming a partner with Rong Qi, and then thought of the man who had silently followed the high school student, and felt that the probability was probably zero.
She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but this time they met, she seemed to feel more oppressive than before. Every time she stayed on Rong Qi for too long, she would be forced to look away by a gaze.
When she was stared at, it felt like there was a knife in the back of her heart, gloomy, violent, and cold, and the feeling was even more terrifying than being stared at by a clone.
I feel like an inexplicable possessiveness has increased, which didn't exist before.
Rong Qi didn't seem to feel it at all, as if he was used to it.
Could it be that they are old partners who have a tacit understanding? Lin Huanhuan secretly guessed.
Su Tang watched Yu Qirong walking in front of him, her hanging hair swaying, and he felt an indescribable calm in his heart.
When he first learned that Lu Zichu was looking for Yu Qirong, he was very confused. He knew that Yu Qirong's favor for him was due to luck, so he was very scared. He was afraid that Yu Qirong would fall in love with someone else, and he was even more afraid that Lu Zichu could prove that he would be replaced.
But the moment he saw Yu Qirong, the ripples in his heart were suddenly smoothed out.
Those scarlet eyes told him that even if it was the same face, Yu Qirong would be able to tell who he was at the first moment.
Palpitations, panic, uneasiness, and fear of loss.
All disappeared.
Return to peace.
mine.
The voice in his heart was greedy and secretly delighted. The beating of his heart was deafening and dizzying, and it was also accompanied by a piercing pain.
This is mine.
Yu Qirong turned around as if he sensed something and looked at Su Tang with a questioning look. In his opinion, Su Tang's eyes seemed to be darker than usual, revealing some gloomy night, which could surround him completely. He seemed to hear the beating of Su Tang's heart in his chest, and seemed to smell a bit of black fog.
"I'm fine." Su Tang looked at him with a steady voice.
Yu Qirong nodded, and thought of the punishment from the Lord God that Lu Zichu had mentioned. Although he didn't know the specific reason, he roughly guessed that this punishment was related to him.
After hesitating for a while, he finally said, "If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me and we'll take a rest for a while."
Yu Qirong was generous in her concern for Su Tang, who had given her several love letters.
"Yeah." Su Tang nodded.
Following the direction of the wheel tracks, I walked a few steps forward before suddenly seeing bloodstains on the ground. The bloodstains were almost dry, and it was obvious that some time had passed.
Yu Qirong couldn't help but frown. Clones were very sensitive to the smell of blood, and only humans could bleed... Whether the professor was injured or Fang Qian was injured, it was not a good sign.
Lin Huanhuan obviously realized this. Her nose felt sore and her voice was filled with tears: "If they get hurt, wouldn't it be even more..."
If only I had been with them at the time, Fang Qian would definitely not be able to run as fast as she did if she pushed the wheelchair by herself, so I could have helped her a little.
"Let's follow the blood trail." Yu Qirong paused. He no longer needed Lin Huanhuan and Bai Shi to lead the way, and walked in front of them.
If a person is really dead, maybe he can meet a greedy clone like "Xu Qianxing" and take revenge on him.
Lin Huanhuan held her high heels in her hand to encourage herself, while carefully following the large group, she tried to cover her face with her high heels.
The scene she saw at the entrance was too scary, and she didn't want to encounter such a bloody scene again.
In the end, I didn't see it when I walked to the end.
Lin Huanhuan breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing whether to be relieved or scared. The bloodstains were gone, but the person was not found. It was hard to tell whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
Yu Qirong squatted down and wiped the blood on the ground.
It's not too wet, not much different from the previous ones.
He turned his gaze to the area in front of the bloodstains. It was an empty ground with no bloodstains, as if someone had wiped it intentionally.
Yu Qirong took a few breaths of the air around him and didn't smell any blood.
Finally he stood up, tapped the wall in front of him with the tip of his umbrella, and raised an eyebrow that seemed hollow.
So he changed his hand to hold the umbrella, and knocked on the wall again with the other hand, making a second attempt.
The others watched his movements with bated breath, and seemed to realize that there might be something hidden in it.
"Professor...Professor, are you and Sister Fang in there?" Lin Huanhuan asked in a low voice.
Yu Qirong listened carefully, but didn't hear any unusual sounds from inside. It seemed that there was really no one inside.
He knocked again and said calmly, "Is anyone here? If not, I will demolish it."
Not long after, a cautious female voice came from inside: "Rong Qi, and Lin Huanhuan?"
Lin Huanhuan recognized Fang Qian's voice and breathed a sigh of relief. She quickly replied, "It's us, it's us. I've found Rong Qi to come back and save you two!"
The door was still closed, as if they were still questioning their identity.
Yu Qirong waited patiently for a while before she heard Fang Qian continue, "Please move aside. I'm going out now."
Yu Qirong took a step back to give Fang Qian some room, and saw that the white-painted wall actually opened from the inside out like a door.
Fang Qian glanced at the people outside cautiously, and her pupils shrank when she saw Lu Zichu. Just as she was about to close the door, she was stopped by Lin Huanhuan.
"Sister Fang, we are all human! We will all bleed!"
Lu Zichu curled his lips and repeated his old trick, scratching his wound and scolding himself again for giving himself such a stupid identity.
Fang Qian then stopped closing the door.
"Where is the professor?" Yu Qirong asked, glancing at Fang Qian.
A trace of sadness flashed across Fang Qian's eyes. She trembled slightly, then turned sideways, revealing the professor inside, and said in a trembling voice: "The professor..."
"He was injured too badly and was banned from the mall. I couldn't treat him in time. He bled too much. It's a shame that he can hold on until now..."
Yu Qirong had already sensed something. When he saw that Fang Qian was in good health, he almost guessed what was going on. However, when he saw the professor's pale face, he still frowned slightly.
The professor's face was grayish, and the blood on his left arm had completely soaked his clothes. Unlike the fake ones that Yu Qirong had made for Lu Zichu before, this one was completely soaked, and the originally dark clothes were stained with a darker color.
There was even a large pool of dried blood on the ground, and blood was dripping down from his sleeves.
It was not difficult to see that Fang Qian had given him a simple bandage, but the amount of bleeding was too great and a simple bandage could not stop the bleeding.
The professor was breathing very lightly, but he was still conscious. Seeing a faint smile on Yu Qirong's face, he waved for Yu Qirong to come over.
Yu Qirong paused, as if he had not expected the professor to let him pass. But after hesitating for a moment, he still walked over.
For some reason, he didn't seem to want to see the old man look disappointed.
He stood in front of the professor and let the professor's dry, bloodless right hand hold his hand.
Yu Qirong frowned deeply, as if he had encountered a difficult problem.
"I knew this day would come." The professor's eyes were calm, as if death was something he had expected. "Once you enter the game, you are at risk of death, let alone at my age. If Xiao Fang hadn't protected me, I might have died even earlier."
He spoke intermittently but clearly. Fang Qian bit her lip, her eyes misted with sadness.
"You are a good student. I originally told Fang Qian that maybe when I return to the real world, I might have a chance to recruit you as my student. But now it's probably not possible..." The professor held Yu Qirong's hand tightly, but the strength was still too light for Yu Qirong. It was like a feather falling down, with no weight at all.
Yu Qirong's expression changed. This was almost impossible. The professor didn't know that he was an NPC.
It seemed that the professor had taken a lot of effort to say these words, and his already very light breathing seemed even lighter.
"...a little tired." The professor closed his eyes, pursed his dry lips tightly together and never opened again.
Yu Qirong noticed that the hand holding his arm suddenly lost strength. He looked at Fang Qian in a daze and suddenly burst into tears and rushed towards the old man in the wheelchair.
It seemed as if a life disappeared from his sight and he could not keep it.
He realized it belatedly and thought that it seemed that being an NPC was better than being a player. At least his NPC friends could be resurrected after death, but if a player died, he would probably never see him again. Even if he saw him, he would not be the same person as before.
Lin Huanhuan couldn't help crying either. Her eyes were red and she bit her fingers while crying.
The professor's body in the wheelchair suddenly became empty and turned into a bug that was not very willing to move, and then disappeared in front of everyone.
Fang Qian was still crying over there. Yu Qirong just felt her eyes were dry, but she couldn't shed tears like Lin Huanhuan and Fang Qian.
It took him a while to realize that he was an NPC and probably wouldn't cry over such things.
I just feel a sour feeling in my heart, an indescribable discomfort.
Su Tang stared at Yu Qirong standing there in a daze. Although he was not quite clear about what had happened before, it was obvious that Yu Qirong was in a bad mood.
He took a step forward and silently took Yu Qirong's hand.
"It seems a bit sad." Yu Qirong said in a depressed tone. He lowered his head and held Su Tang's hand, as if he wanted to confirm his existence. He lowered his voice and said, "But I am obviously not the same as them."
Su Tang stretched out his other hand, wanting to touch Yu Qirong's head, and then stopped in mid-air, and finally fell down and gently touched his face, "Don't cry."
Yu Qirong was stunned, with confusion in his eyes. He reached out and touched his cheek, and there was moisture on his fingertips.
It turned out that he was crying, and he thought he wasn't.
Fang Qian took a deep breath, her eyes red, and took out a notebook from the warehouse. She said, "The information we have now is that when a clone is injured, bugs will emerge from the wound, and the mother will also drop bugs after... death. Do you have any other supplements?"
She sorted out her emotions at an extremely fast speed.
When Yu Qirong realized that he was crying, his tears stopped. He rubbed his tear-stained fingertips in his hands until he could no longer feel the dampness. Then he said, "According to Bai Shi's information, it seems that the rules of the selection room are related to clones."
Fang Qian's eyes fell on Bai Shi, and Bai Shi stammered, "I also discovered this when I was following Chen Bao. It seems that you have to kill your own clone to pass the level."
The basic routine of escape room, you can open the next level only after achieving the goal.
"What time is it?" Yu Qirong asked.
Lin Huanhuan was still crying, almost out of breath. She took out her cell phone, stretched it towards Fang Qian, and motioned for her to take it and have a look.
Fang Qian replied: "Eleven fifty-four."
"Almost." Yu Qirong lowered his eyes and clenched the umbrella handle in his hand. He glanced at Su Tang, and Su Tang nodded.
"What do you mean?" Fang Qian asked with a frown.
"The appearance of the clones may follow a time sequence," Yu Qirong explained to her, "You encountered the clones at 12 o'clock last night, and we encountered them this morning around 8 o'clock. The rest of the time was relatively scattered... I guess it has to do with the numbers 8 and 12."
"The verification method is also very simple. Just wait here for six minutes."
Six minutes is neither long nor short.
Lin Huanhuan finally controlled her emotions. She and Fang Qian leaned against the wall together, not saying anything but holding hands, comforting each other in this way.
Shiraishi, on the other hand, held his bag and chose a seat closer to the two of them, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.
Yu Qirong and Su Tang stood not far from the three people, silently waiting for the time to finally come.
When Lu Zi first saw the two people's shared hatred of a common enemy, he found it funny and sat leisurely at the table on the other side to watch the show.
Soon he couldn't laugh anymore.
As soon as twelve o'clock arrived, a large number of clones poured into the room, and the room that had seemed spacious at first immediately became cramped. There was obviously more than one familiar face inside.
There may be more than one clone corresponding to one mother body, and the selection room, just like the multiple-choice questions that Yu Qirong often does, will indeed give multiple alternative answers.
"It seems to be true." Yu Qirong turned to look at the three people leaning against the wall and instructed: "Go into this dark room and hide for a while. Come out when I call you."
Fang Qian and Lin Huanhuan expressed their concern about Yu Qirong's behavior and wanted to persuade him to add more people and more strength.
Bai Shi knew the identities of the remaining three people. He pulled the two people who wanted to talk into the dark room and said, "Let's go. We are inside, so they don't have to be distracted."
Although Lin Huanhuan was also worried, she had also seen Rong Qi's level along the way. She estimated her chances of success in hitting the clone with her high heels, and finally chose to pull Fang Qian together with Bai Shi.
The three people in the dark room were silent, as if they wanted to listen to the voices of people outside, but no matter how hard they listened, all they heard were the roars and wails of the clones.
Shiraishi's body kept shaking as if he was having an epileptic seizure.
Lin Huanhuan didn't smell any fishy smell, and thought to herself that luckily she wasn't scared to the point of peeing her pants, but Bai Shi was too timid, she didn't even tremble like this. But just in case, she still stayed away from Bai Shi.
"Can they do it?" Fang Qian asked, her tone mixed with concern.
Lin Huanhuan held Fang Qian's arm. Although she was not sure, they still encouraged each other: "If they can't do it, we can only go out and hit people with high heels."
She couldn't imagine what it would be like if Fang Qian, a person of her temperament, hit someone with her high heels.
"..." Fang Qian was silent for a while, then asked, "Do you smell a fishy smell?"
Lin Huanhuan sniffed and whispered, "It seems like there is, and it smells a bit... I guess the guy next to him peed himself out of fright."
She thought to herself that it was a good thing that she was far away, otherwise it might have gotten on her.
The two of them tacitly agreed not to mention the matter again to avoid embarrassing Bai Shi.
The two of them spent an unknown amount of time in silence before the noise outside suddenly stopped.
Through the door, there were three knocks, followed by Yu Qirong's voice: "You can come out now."
This was a secret code they had agreed upon earlier, to prevent anyone from mistaking it for the real thing.
Lin Huanhuan's eyes lit up, and she and Fang Qian looked at each other. They saw some joy of surviving the disaster in each other's eyes, and then they opened the door of the dark room.
Outside was a sea of corpses and insects. Yu Qirong frowned slightly and shook his umbrella, trying to shake off the insect fluid on it, but unfortunately he failed.
He didn't seem to have any external injuries, and Su Tang was fine too, but Lu Zichu looked a little disheveled.
Seeing the gazes from Lin Huanhuan and Fang Qian, Lu Zichu explained unhappily, "I didn't get this injury from fighting. This was caused by... Rong Qi in the morning and the wound opened again."
There was obvious dissatisfaction in his tone, but Yu Qirong had no intention of paying attention to him. Instead, he looked behind the two people and asked, "Where is Bai Shiren?"
"Isn't he right there...eh?" Lin Huanhuan pointed in a direction based on her memory, but didn't see anyone. She looked at the ground again, immediately screamed, and pulled Fang Qian out of the dark room.
There seemed to be a pool of blood on the ground, with a blood-red worm wriggling in it.
Yu Qirong and Lu Zichu's expressions both changed. This way of death seemed somewhat familiar.
"The notebook was indeed stolen by Chen Bao before his death." Lu Zichu said.
"What notebook?" Lin Huanhuan was stunned.
"...If a tool is not used properly, it will backfire. Chen Bao died because of this." Lu Zichu didn't expect that he would have to explain himself after saying one more word. He considered his words and said, "I don't know who he wants to harm by hiding in here."
Having said that, it’s easy to guess with your knee that it was aimed at Yu Qirong.
The 100,000 points for the side quest were too tempting, but with Su Tang watching him, he had no way of doing it, not to mention that Bai Shi himself could not beat Yu Qirong.
If he succeeds in using the notebook at this time, when all the clones are dead and the ground is full of bugs, no one will guess that he was the one who tampered with it.
This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Shiraishi.
Yu Qirong, the only one who knew the function of the notebook very well, narrowed his eyes. Why didn't the notebook work this time?
Bai Shi knew his name and what he looked like, so he should have fully met the conditions for taking effect. But it was still Bai Shi who died.
"It turns out that he himself has done evil and will eventually die." After listening to Lu Zichu's explanation, Lin Huanhuan finally let out the breath that had been raised when he was frightened just now. "I thought he had triggered some other death mechanism... That's good that it didn't happen. Then, we should have passed this test, right?"
Yu Qirong took out a hand-made map from the warehouse, stepped over the blood-sucking bloodworms on the ground, and poked the wall inside with the tip of the umbrella.
The huge force created a hole in the wall, which then shattered to the ground like broken glass.
"Why is it behind me..." Fang Qian said in confusion, and then she realized something, "That's right, there won't be any new rooms over there if we don't achieve our goal."
"Let's go. The next room is called... the greenhouse?" Lin Huanhuan glanced at the map to make sure she was reading it correctly. "Why are the names of these rooms getting weirder and weirder?"
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