Chapter 20: Tactical Exchange He felt that he would die in this group of people sooner or later...
But why was the senior so sure that she could understand the meaning of her words?
Li Ming was skeptical about this: Even though he had acted convincingly when they met, this still couldn't explain why...
So is this a case of 'picking out the tallest among the short ones'?
Or was there something about me that touched her, causing her to mistakenly believe that I could solve her 'deadly' puzzle?
Why didn't she say it more bluntly?
Is it impossible, or is it too late?
Countless questions were like dense bubbles gushing out of a soda bottle when it was opened for the first time, slowly strangling his thoughts and making it impossible for him to think further.
Even though Li Ming knew that the answer to the puzzle was crucial and might even affect his roommate's life or death, at this moment -
There was nothing he could do about it.
This profound mystery is missing the most crucial clue.
The clues may exist in the past experiences of several people in the dormitory, or in a brief conversation of just a few minutes with the senior schoolmate, but they are more likely to exist in their future experiences.
His topics were so broad and grand that everyone present was confused.
Neither Jiang Huai, who explored the teaching building ahead of everyone else, nor Li Ming, who was expected by his roommates and senior schoolmates, could give a clear answer to this question.
final--
The four-person intelligence gathering meeting was hastily concluded due to the lack of key clues.
The class period has come to an end.
It was time for them to set out on the road to the next class, and the leader of the transfer team was still the very reliable and calm 'Huai Shen' in their dormitory.
"Jiang Huai——"
Wei Zhehan's deliberately prolonged voice suddenly sounded from in front of Li Ming. Li Ming looked up in the direction of the voice, only to see Wei Zhehan pulling the corner of Jiang Huai's clothes with one hand, and asked curiously:
"Li Ming said he didn't know how he awakened his talent. What about you? Do you know?"
You can tell he's really curious...
Li Ming felt helpless after hearing this: because their classmate Xiao Wei even asked twice in one breath, and in the current urgent situation.
"Stop saying those nonsense like 'If I don't awaken my talent, I'm going to die.'"
Wei Zhehan seemed to recall something terrible, and complained with a puffy face: "I want other opinions, not opinions about whether you want to die or not."
He deliberately lowered his voice, but it was just loud enough for everyone present to hear.
Li Ming was therefore able to keenly hear the sudden change in the friction of clothes coming from behind him. The person behind him was Zhou Haoyu, so it was not difficult for him to guess Zhou Haoyu's thoughts.
It seems that the dormitory head is also very curious.
Li Ming found this very funny: The dormitory head didn't ask before, it must be because of face reasons, or because he thought Jiang Huai didn't want to say it...
He understood Zhou Haoyu's thoughts.
Jiang Huai's sight was still outside the window. The scenery he saw through the glass window was very different from the scenery he saw through the crack in the door.
It's sunny outside the window, but dark and silent outside the door.
This strange and absurd phenomenon was not the first time he had witnessed it. Before he tried his best to escape from the siege of the long-necked teacher, when he desperately escaped from the library, he had seen such a sky.
A clear, peaceful blue sky.
It was like a dream bubble from the distant past that he could not forget, fragile but beautiful. The dream bubble floated up and swayed slowly, carrying their prayers and expectations away.
Finally, with a bang, reality suddenly pierced it.
So Jiang Huai looked at all this, recalled the past memories, and secretly told himself: He couldn't die. He and his family had already lost a lot more than they could lose and could make up for it.
He was willing to live for an illusory vision, but that didn't mean he wanted his precious friends and beloved family to repeat the same fate.
He must not die.
If T died here, his friends and family would never be able to blow up another fragile and beautiful dream bubble. Because he knew that beauty was fragile and momentary, and only grief was solid and long-lasting.
A moment of beauty and long-lasting sorrow.
Even if he is destined to fall into hell, he will still try his best to push his loved ones to the front before falling.
He should be the wall.
He should be a wall to keep out the wind and rain,
Countless times or forever, it remains unchanged, blocking all the storms in front of you.
But who said——
Can't the permanent and solid walls dream of the momentary but brilliant fireworks?
Then on that day, on that dark day—
Stuck in a swamp with an uncertain future ahead, he experienced brief, flickering golden lightning.
"Um……"
In reality, Jiang Huai showed a very distressed expression after hearing Wei Zhehan's question. After thinking for a moment, he finally gave a perfect answer:
“Maybe it’s a vision for the future.”
"Huh? You've thought about this?" Wei Zhehan's surprised voice sounded as expected. Then he asked incessantly: "So what did you think of? Can you be more specific?"
"Come to think of it, we've known each other for such a long time. But Jiang Huai, you seem to have never revealed your family situation, right? What's your family situation?"
His inquiry was so presumptuous that Li Ming heard a heavy cough coming from behind him.
Zhou Haoyu said quietly:
"Xiao Wei, you should at least pay attention to whether the other person is willing to answer."
"Does this require my attention? Jiang Huai and I have been friends for many years. We have become as close as brothers." Wei Zhehan looked complacent and waved his hand nonchalantly in response.
Li Ming smiled at this.
Because Xiao Wei had just said these words to him not long ago.
"We are not yet close enough to be brothers, are we?"
Jiang Huai's doubtful voice suddenly sounded. He turned his head to look at Wei Zhehan who had not yet reacted, and corrected him word by word: "We are not yet close enough to be like brothers."
It's over.
After hearing this, Li Ming covered his eyes with his hands.
He and the dormitory head knew that Jiang Huai was not good at speaking, and they also knew that Wei Zhehan would easily get carried away when talking, but they just didn't expect that such a problem would arise at this time.
Can you guys...can you guys do this at another time...
Wei Zhehan's cheeks suddenly turned red.
He opened and closed his mouth several times, his expression was hard to tell whether it was anger or shame, he just pointed at Jiang Huai with a trembling finger, a look of disbelief.
Zhou Haoyu quickly pressed down his raised hand and shouted at Jiang Huai in a feigned anger: "Xiao Wei, is this a metaphor? It's a metaphor! Could it be that when he said 'Love can break gold', you really went to break it?"
"Jiang Huai, reflect on why everyone says you can't speak!"
He turned around the next second, slapped Wei Zhehan on the head a few times, and complained: "Xiao Wei, you too, don't talk nonsense at this critical moment."
“Hmm…”
Wei Zhehan held his head in grievance.
Jiang Huai scratched his head awkwardly after hearing the reprimand from the dormitory head.
Very good, he once again successfully eased the major conflict in the dormitory.
Zhou Haoyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Having relaxed, he finally had time to pay attention to the last person in the dormitory. Li Ming, who was still standing there at a loss, blinked after noticing his gaze and uttered a few meaningless syllables:
"Ababa."
“…”
He felt that he would die at the hands of this group of people sooner or later.
Zhou Haoyu rubbed his brows weakly, pointed out the other party's current situation and said: "If you don't know what to say, you don't have to speak."
"Uh-huh."
Li Ming responded obediently.
Judging from his reaction, it was still unknown whether he had thought about this sentence or not... Zhou Haoyu raised his eyebrows silently after hearing this. But the current situation did not allow him to continue wasting time on this.
"Everyone, please pay attention to the time."
Zhou Haoyu suppressed his annoyance and pointed out their current situation: "If something unforeseen happens later, our lives will be in jeopardy."
After hearing this, Li Ming withdrew his gaze in dismay.
But what can he do?
He and the dorm head looked at each other twice today. He couldn't just say nothing both times, right?
"Aba Aba" was really the most effective way he could think of to ease the atmosphere. The sensible dormitory heads had already laughed out loud, but the ignorant ones were still raising their eyebrows at him.
Li Ming reflected on the situation with a feeling of righteous indignation.
"Forehead……"
In the end, it was Jiang Huai who spoke first.
His heavy gaze fell on everyone present, making people feel puzzled and terrified. Jiang Huai said solemnly:
"I guess we might lose contact after this."
After he finished speaking, his tone suddenly quickened: "Although I know it's not a good idea to say this at this time, but when this really happens, everyone won't panic. So we still need to talk about it."
The content of the speech is well-reasoned and there is really no reason to refute it.
That’s it. That’s it…
After hearing this, Li Ming was deeply surprised and thought randomly: Jiang Huai's imitation is really obvious. It can be seen that Jiang Huai is deliberately imitating someone's speaking tone, but the imitation is not very similar...
So who is being imitated?
Someone from their dormitory? Someone from their school speech team? Or someone from outside their school? But no matter who it was, he must be someone Jiang Huai felt was very reliable and suitable for mobilization before a crisis.
Li Ming's thoughts slowly wandered off track.
Then he heard Wei Zhehan beside him suddenly complain softly: "You sound like my dad. They always talk a lot of nonsense before talking about important things..."
Li Ming suddenly understood.
Who is Wei Zhehan's father? His father is a public official who can be specially invited by TV stations for interviews!
Li Ming's expression turned resentful. He whispered to Wei Zhehan, "I'm really surprised that Jiang Huai didn't learn from others, but chose to imitate the speeches at press conferences in TV dramas."
"Yes, yes."
Wei Zhehan nodded frantically like a chicken pecking at rice.
“…”
“…”
The whispers of two people, the silence of four people.
"Well, I'll just use the same tone as before." Jiang Huai scratched his head a little embarrassedly. He coughed lightly and explained in a deep voice:
"The monster teacher in the teaching building has the ability to move around. Specifically, when we close the door, we will find that the things in the room change instantly."
When he first explored the teaching building, he let down his guard because the surrounding environment was almost the same as usual, which led to his failure to break out later.
“So don’t easily believe that the exit they show you is the real exit.”
This is why he ended up hitting his head against the wall in an awkward position. If the exit shown in the open is not the real 'way out', then the way out must be on the 'dead end'.
Jiang Huai deliberately guided the monster teacher's route of action for this purpose.
"But this is a little hard to understand... maybe the warning given by senior sister is easier to understand..." Jiang Huai murmured in deep distress.
Senior Liu Mei once said to them: "You guys should be careful. The monsters in the teaching building have the same ability to disguise reality and distort space as the monsters in the dormitory building. The more normal the environment seems to you, the more you should be careful of them."
“…”
After hearing this, Li Ming fell into deep thought for some reason.
Jiang Huai and Liu Mei's descriptions of the monsters were all based on their own experience. Although there was no obvious connection between the words at first glance, when the two paragraphs were placed in front of everyone -
But they are surprisingly similar.
What about him?
Li Ming recalled the hint given by the Eye of Truth when they first met the Long Neck Teacher. It did show the Disaster Sequence of the Long Neck Teacher.
Disaster sequence, talent sequence.
He whispered two words between his teeth. One of them belonged to humans, and the other belonged to disaster. They seemed to be two completely different species in nature, but they had the same short genetic sequence.
The sequence of the talent sequence is not determined by humans, so is the disaster sequence not determined by disasters either?
An inspiration suddenly flashed in Li Ming's mind.
But the moment the question formed in his mind, he already knew that there would be no answer to this question. At least at this point in time, no one or disaster could give him an answer.
What he should be most concerned about at this moment is——
Long Neck Teacher's Disaster Sequence.
C-56 calls for action, C-226 blocks space, D-122 is strong, F-129 is distracted, E-112 is deformed...
Li Ming frowned subconsciously as he recalled the sequence of his memories at that time.
Because in these disaster sequences, the only one that may be related to descriptions such as disguising reality, distorting space, and moving space is [C-226 Space Blockade].
But shouldn’t the literal translation of the name [Space Blockade] correspond to the talent that can block space?
He felt strange about this.
Li Ming thought silently for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.
"If, I mean if."
Jiang Huai's voice once again appeared in Li Ming's ears. He spoke solemnly, as if he was mobilizing the soldiers of the death squad, "If we really lose contact at that time, everyone remember to save your own lives first."
"There is no clear means of escape yet, but they will not attack people who have not violated school rules. This may be difficult to abide by..."
Jiang Huai's voice suddenly weakened.
Li Ming looked up and saw Jiang Huai standing there with a frown on his face. He immediately realized that Jiang Huai might still be unsure about the hunting rules of the long-necked teacher.
He immediately spoke softly:
"They will attack those who 'break the rules' and 'test the bottom line'."
Under the surprised gazes of the three people, Li Ming spoke clearly about his previous discovery: "The IQ of the monster teachers is not high. They don't remember the faces they encounter."
"If there are two types of people on the scene at the same time, one is 'breaking the rules' and the other is 'testing the bottom line', they will prioritize attacking the one who is closer to them, until someone who violates both conditions appears."
Li Ming took a deep breath, and then concluded seriously: "In other words--"
"As long as there are two people cooperating with each other, we can use this rule to achieve the same goal as in the game where we attack a dungeon boss and pull each other's hatred."
"Hiss..." Wei Zhehan suddenly took a breath of cold air.
He seemed to be meeting Li Ming for the first time, and his mouth opened in shock subconsciously. But before he could utter the first word, Jiang Huai's calm voice sounded first:
"But we cannot judge what level of probing will reach the level of 'testing the bottom line', and what can be done to lift this condition or both conditions at the same time."
“This will pose a great threat to personal safety.”
He hesitated for a second, then added fluently: "The condition of 'breaking the rules' is easy to remove. At that time, I violated the 'testing the bottom line' because I broke the rules first. But when I returned to the classroom, the monsters hesitated about who to attack, so--"
"As long as you can return to the designated location, you can lift this condition."
After listening to this, Li Ming thought for a moment and then quickly pointed out: "The seniors managed to escape by violating these two conditions. At the last moment, the monster teacher lost track of them and also lost the direction of pursuit."
"That is -"
"As long as you run fast enough and disappear from their sight, all the conditions will be lifted."
After hearing this, Jiang Huai unconsciously made a "thinking" gesture.
His tense body gradually relaxed as he continued to think. Finally, the boy, who had been tense all day, couldn't help but smile at the person in front of him:
"You're right, Li Ming."
"We didn't find a way to remove the 'testing the bottom line', but we found a way to remove both conditions at the same time. Even though this method seems difficult to achieve at the moment, it is a way out."
"……ah."
Wei Zhehan, who was quietly listening to the conversation between the two people, finally couldn't help but tug at Zhou Haoyu's sleeve. He looked around in disbelief and whispered to Zhou Haoyu:
"Oh my god, dorm leader. Why do I feel like I've wasted my three years in college? It turns out that Li Ming's observation and analytical abilities are so strong, but why didn't I know this before?"
He was as bewildered as a husband whose wife suddenly revealed that she was a spy.
Zhou Haoyu felt helpless about this. He pretended to be calm and pulled away Wei Zhehan's hand that was holding his shirt, and said with a fake smile: "I only found out about this yesterday."
So don't expect him to explain!
After sharing their respective intelligence, they both had a deeper understanding of their current situation. Li Ming bit his finger unconsciously while secretly integrating all the known information. When he finally came back to his senses,
He found that Wei Zhehan, who was supposed to be beside him, suddenly ran behind Zhou Haoyu and was looking at him quietly.
Li Ming looked in the direction Wei Zhehan's gesture indicated.
He saw Zhou Haoyu with his arms folded in front of his chest with a serious expression as if to say "Let me see if you have anything else to say".
"I, I didn't do anything wrong, right?"
Li Ming subconsciously gave an awkward but polite smile.
The last time he was looked at in such a strange way was when his three roommates were collectively worried about whether he had a fever... But the situation now seemed even stranger...
Zhou Haoyu couldn't help but sigh deeply when he saw this. He said lightly, avoiding the main point:
"Li Ming, I remember you didn't play games."
"Oh um, I don't play games."
Li Ming nodded blankly and repeated what Zhou Haoyu said. But after he repeated it, he suddenly realized the hidden meaning in Zhou Haoyu's words.
The dormitory head is asking: 'Why haven't I seen you so sharp before?'
"……Um."
This question is a bit difficult to answer.
Li Ming scratched his head feeling awkward.
Although he may have been confused often in the past, it doesn't mean that he will always be confused... The more Li Ming thought about it, the more he felt that he was right. He was about to question back with confidence, but someone next to him suddenly spoke up.
“Not playing games doesn’t mean you can’t find out, right?”
Jiang Huai looked at Zhou Haoyu with a confused look on his face, and stubbornly repeated his point of view: "Not playing games doesn't mean that you have poor observation skills."
“…”No, Jiang Huai.
This is not what the dormitory head is referring to.
Li Ming was so embarrassed that he dug his toenails into the ground. He quietly raised his head and looked at Zhou Haoyu, who waved his hands in a helpless response:
"Okay, okay, I was wrong."
After saying this, Zhou Haoyu couldn't help but smile helplessly at Li Ming:
Very good, now instead of wondering why Li Ming suddenly became so perceptive, it would be better to wonder why Jiang Huai, who is a "god" in the game, can't understand human language at all in real life.
Li Ming understood his thoughts immediately:...Pfft.
The best way to resolve conflicts is to divert them.
"Aren't we delayed too long now?" Li Ming suddenly asked. He looked at the time and found that several minutes had passed.
“There’s still time.”
Jiang Huai replied calmly: "We are very close to the next class. Everyone please pay attention to your schedules, and don't forget what I just said."
He said as he walked out the door.
"good--"
Wei Zhehan answered loudly and yawned sleepily. He patted his cheek and murmured in a daze: "Can I go to sleep later... I didn't adjust my sleep schedule successfully..."
"Who told you to stay up late all the time?"
Zhou Haoyu shook his head in amusement. He pushed the sleepy Wei Zhehan out the door and said to Li Ming behind him, "Li Ming, remember not to fall behind."
"I know. I know."
After hearing this, Li Ming curled his eyes helplessly.
He reached out to pull the door handle, ready to close the door gently after he left the classroom. The corridor seemed a little cold at this time, but because his roommates were there, he was not too scared.
Li Ming turned the door handle with peace of mind.
“Crack—”
With the sound of a door closing, the surroundings suddenly became bright.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the glass window into the room where Li Ming was. He saw the outline of his own figure being copied by the setting sun on the door in front of him.
Li Ming blinked blankly.
His fingers slowly loosened their grip on the doorknob. It was a doorknob that was completely different from the one he remembered, because he remembered that the doorknob was made of wood, while the one in front of him was made of metal.
Li Ming raised his head slowly.
He saw another corridor through the hollow skylight of the door, a corridor dyed with color by the setting sun. There was no roommate there, just as there was no roommate behind him at this moment.
strangeness.
Li Ming stood there in a trance:
He should obviously be in the corridor outside the door, not in the classroom inside the door.
“Crack—”
There was another click, and the door opened again, but this time it opened from the corridor into the classroom.
A student who came to class opened the door.
The first time the classmate saw Li Ming, he tilted his head in confusion. It was obvious that he had not expected that there would be someone standing at the door in a daze, instead of finding a seat to sit down and stare blankly.
The classmate took a step forward and wanted to enter the classroom.
Seeing this, Li Ming quickly made way for his classmates. While he was making way, more students walked into the classroom in twos and threes. He watched the scene in silence, and then instinctively turned his head to look at the seat behind him facing the podium.
There were many students sitting scattered on the seats.
But without exception, they all lost their human appearance out of thin air.
Where was his roommate?
Why did I suddenly end up in that other classroom?
Li Ming was confused by this. His memory was still at the end of the first class, when the four of them were heading to the next class together, but now the venue and the people were completely different in an instant.
He looked uneasily towards the clock.
The clock hand at the back of the classroom points to [3:23], which means the current time is [15:23] in the afternoon.
Seeing this, Li Ming suddenly recalled——
They had an elective class this afternoon, an elective class that no one in the dormitory could attend.
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