Chapter 1: "Misty City" In the end, the protagonist who destroyed the world was an old thief...
Li Ming felt that he might be mentally ill.
He closed his eyes again and pinched his red cheeks from the cold, but unfortunately, when he opened his eyes, he still did not see the familiar dormitory corridor.
These days... I can still encounter a ghost wall in my own school dormitory building...
Wearing thin pajamas, Li Ming went out to get hot water without any precautions and looked around blankly. At this time, the space he was in was surrounded by fog, and he could only see that it was a corridor.
The scenery in the distance is not clear, but the wall and floor tiles nearby are as old as those in a school dormitory.
This was also the reason why he didn't realize something was wrong right away.
Seeing this, Li Ming sighed deeply.
"To be honest, I can't find any reason why I deserve to be found..." He scratched his head while holding the thermos in one hand, and said in a distressed tone, "Uh, is there any life here besides me?"
However, the whole audience was silent.
So Li Ming put his hands down expressionlessly, thinking with regret in his heart: Very good, without a guide and narration, it seems that I can only rely on myself now.
How come it’s different from the anime novels he’s read!
Li Ming felt sad.
Could it be that even in a routine comic about saving the world, he is just an insignificant cannon fodder? No way, no way, it can't be that miserable...
A college student who was often criticized by his friends for having a "low sense of existence" became more and more unwilling the more he thought about it.
But the most important thing now is to get out, Li Ming.
Li Ming sighed deeply, and pulled his thoughts out of the vortex of random guesses as neatly as pulling a carrot out of it. Then he looked around again -
The dim, old walls, the gray fog lingering around, and the corridor that serves as the main subject.
The layout and look of the corridor are very similar to those of a dormitory building, except for the lack of the water heater placed outside by the school and the occasional umbrellas and garbage bags placed outside by students.
If it was just to torture him... it wouldn't have to go to this extent...
Li Ming frowned, lowered his head and thought:
Since it was a ghost wall, should I use the logic of ghost wall to rush forward? If I remembered correctly, he was quite close to his dormitory now.
Li Ming closed his eyes and gestured with one hand the distance between himself and the dormitory when he was caught in the maze. Then he closed his eyes and took a small step forward cautiously like a blind man feeling an elephant, then another small step, and then another small step...
The silent corridor seemed especially quiet.
Li Ming was also certain that the mysterious space he was walking in was definitely not a trick. If it was just a trick, he would have bumped into the sundries placed by his classmates at the door.
But that's not happening now.
This means that the situation is really developing in the direction of the supernatural. When Li Ming thought of this, he felt inexplicably uneasy: Could it be that the values he had held for more than 20 years would be shattered today...
Soon, his heartbeats dissipated.
At this moment, Li Ming finally stood at the door of the dormitory in his memory.
He took a deep breath, mustered up the courage and tried to push the door back to the real world he was familiar with, but the next second his right hand stopped abruptly.
Li Ming opened his eyes and looked at his left hand that was inserted into the concrete wall like a video game with a complicated look: I didn’t guess it right, but it seems to have succeeded by accident...
Should we say that he is a fool with good fortune?
Li Ming rolled his eyes helplessly, feeling inexplicably as three crows cackled as they flew over his head.
But it would be nice if things could change.
The black-haired, black-eyed boy groped for the invisible 'door' in his sight, and slowly put his head deeper into the old wall. His vision suddenly brightened up, and Li Ming's eyes were stimulated to shed physiological tears.
He uttered uncomfortably syllables that did not form a sentence.
After his eyes adjusted to the drastic changes in the light around him, Li Ming, who was holding on to the wall with one hand, finally saw the surrounding environment clearly. So a certain college student opened his mouth blankly -
"A computer?"
At the end of the pure white room, a turned-on desktop computer was flashing blue light, waiting for his arrival.
Li Ming couldn't help but turn his head and look behind him. A dark door like a whirlpool stood quietly in place. He frowned slightly, and for a moment he didn't know what was going on.
How on earth did he get here from the school corridor?
Li Ming's expression was full of doubt, but then he pretended to be calm and sighed deeply to comfort himself:
At least now the clues are in front of you.
However, despite being so relieved in his heart, Li Ming was still secretly dissatisfied. The sudden space transfer, the sudden appearance of the different space and computer, seemed like some mastermind deliberately led him to this point.
And the mastermind behind this didn't even dare to come out to see him.
It was unexpectedly irritating.
Li Ming puffed up his face and muttered, then hurried to the computer. The computer screen was turned on, and the boy who successfully sat on the chair only needed to wave the mouse to see something unexpected:
"Misty City? Comic forum?" Li Ming suddenly muttered in a strange tone: "Why does the comic appear here?"
[Analysis of the foreshadowing in the comic "Misty City" (personal)]
[Seriously, how many people agree that the protagonist destroys the world at the end of "The Mist" because the old villain's foreshadowing can't be recovered? 】
[Prediction of the plot of the sequel to "Misty City". Even if I predict it, it's almost the same as not predicting it (spreading my hands)]
[When will the sequel be released? I am already impatient! Now it’s either the old villain who destroys the world or I will destroy the world!]
[Ahhhh, damn Baishan Cola, damn old thief, hurry up and bring the sequel! ]
[A summary of the plot of the previous game of "The Mist", welcome all enthusiasts to join in~]
The posts on the comics forum were refreshing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Li Ming saw new posts constantly appearing on the small screen in front of him, and new hot posts were constantly being born.
Almost all of their posts are related to the comic "Misty City".
Is "Misty City" very popular?
Li Ming couldn't help but frown when he saw this. He turned his head and tried to recall the popular new comics in the second dimension that he had heard recently: Hmm... It's still the underworld and the other world as usual...
But most importantly:
There is no comic called "Misty City" among them.
What was going on? Was he trapped here just to read a comic book he had never heard of? Li Ming was immediately confused.
But if you just read the comics, it seems reasonable to find him...
Li Ming pretended to be mature and touched his non-existent beard, but he soon discovered with his sharp eyes that the website provided by the computer did not have the complete content of the comic "Misty City" at all.
What's going on?
Li Ming's doubts kept coming to his mind. He instinctively slid his mouse and clicked on the last comic plot analysis post. The scene before him shocked him:
"Isn't this my school? Wait, why is my roommate's name on it?"
But he understood what was going on very quickly, holding his head in his hands and yelling incoherently, "Ahhh, why am I the one who is embarrassed to read the comics starring my roommate? Ahhhh!"
*
Jiang Huai returned to the dormitory at 9 o'clock in the evening as usual.
Holding the postgraduate entrance examination materials in his left hand, he opened the door with his right hand and was teased by two roommates who were not afraid of trouble:
"Our Huai Shen is finally willing to come back to rest~"
"Not bad, today is half an hour earlier than yesterday."
He shrugged nonchalantly, and then his eyes fell on the only empty bed. He asked the two roommates present, "Where's Li Mingren? Didn't he say yesterday that he wouldn't be back to the dormitory today?"
"Come to think of it, Li Ming hasn't been back for a long time." Zhou Haoyu, the head of the four-person dormitory, frowned as if he realized something. He put down the game in his hand and shouted to his roommate on the opposite bed:
"Wei Zhehan, did Li Ming say anything to you?"
"Huh? No, he just went to get some hot water. Look, his phone is still on the table." A male college student who was still addicted to single-player games answered while controlling the controller, "Maybe there was no hot water in our building, so he went to another building to get some."
"These are all trivial matters. By the way, will Huai Shen be online as the king today?"
Jiang Huai frowned instinctively after hearing this. He picked up the coat he had taken off not long ago and put it on while responding, "No, I'll go find Li Ming first. He usually doesn't go to other buildings."
"It's unlikely that Li Ming got lost."
"If you go there, I won't go."
Two completely different voices appeared in the air at the same time. Wei Zhehan's hands holding the game controller paused for a moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched silently:
Tsk, these two buddies are now making me look problematic.
"Okay, okay, then let's wait for good news from Huai Shen." He changed the topic disapprovingly.
Jiang Huai glanced at him calmly, and then just as he was about to reach out to open the door, he heard the sound of the door handle swinging. So he instantly retracted his hand that was suspended in the air, but unfortunately he still met the eyes of the roommate who had just returned to the dormitory.
Both of them froze in place.
"Did you leave something in the library?" Li Ming asked first. On the way back, his black hair was messy due to the cold wind and swayed with his breathing.
Jiang Huai shook his head silently, then moved aside to make way for his roommate.
Li Ming scratched his head in confusion, but his thoughts were in a mess and he really didn't want to pay special attention to this. So he stole a glance at his roommate, the so-called comic protagonist with a face as sharp as a knife, and suddenly asked quietly:
"Jiang Huai, what do you think will be your reason for destroying the world?"
JAC:?
Jiang Huai slowly asked a question in his heart. However, before he could ask the question, he saw his roommate who was just playing the single player at will arrogantly declared his presence:
"Li Ming, you're back. I told them you must have gone to other buildings to get hot water, but they didn't believe me~ Hehe~"
Wei Zhehan put his feet on the desk and spread his hands proudly:
"If you ask me, I am still the best in the world—"
"Wei Zhehan, did your father ask you to take leave to go home recently?" Li Ming, who had long been accustomed to the other party's temperament, immediately chose to go straight to the point and interrupted the other party's speech quietly.
Wei Zhehan's body stiffened for no apparent reason after hearing this. He looked away with a guilty look as if he was being interrogated by his parents, "Uh... it seems to be true..."
"No, how do you know?"
After a naive rich second-generation kid finished answering the questions, he finally realized something was wrong.
But Li Ming chose to ignore his question. His face was extremely heavy, and he moved like a ghost floating to the long table in the dormitory, and asked lifelessly:
"Head of the dorm, did you have a successful online romance recently? Is your girlfriend from our city?"
After hearing this, Zhou Haoyu sat there in a daze, his whole face dumbfounded.
He looked at Li Ming in front of him with horror, and then he saw that the two bastards behind Li Ming were no longer confused or thinking after hearing these words, and they "crawled" in front of him almost at the same time in the posture of a ghost climbing a wall, which was even more terrifying than Li Ming.
The three 'evil spirits' stared straight at the weak and pitiful him.
At this time, the sound effects in Zhou Haoyu's headphones became inexplicably terrifying and weird, and everything made him shiver.
"So what..."
The weak and pitiful dormitory head responded helplessly.
"Fuck! I didn't expect that the first person to get out of being single in the dormitory would be the head of the dormitory!" Wei Zhehan shouted immediately after getting the exact answer, "Head of the dormitory, you didn't even tell us right away! Are we still good buddies? #￥%..."
"Congratulations." Jiang Huai, who finally stopped being so serious, sent his blessings in a calm tone.
With the noisy conversation between the two people in the background, Li Ming's heart sank even more. He silently shrank himself into an inconspicuous ball.
"Li Ming, how did you know that?" Zhou Haoyu reacted quickly, frowned and asked seriously.
"Yeah, brother, how did you know that?" The foolish and rich Wei Zhehan suddenly remembered his unanswered question, "I never told you that my dad asked me to go home."
At this time, even Jiang Huai, who was always quiet, couldn't help but look at Li Ming. He still remembered the inexplicable question Li Ming asked him at the beginning.
So the three of them looked down at Li Ming who was squatting on the ground and asked in unison:
"How do you know that?"
Li Ming, who was curled up in place, finally couldn't hold back the depression in his heart:
"I was wondering... why am I the only cannon fodder in a dormitory of four people... why am I the only one who died at the very beginning..."
"It's so unfair. It's so unfair."
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