Chapter 257
Shen Yijing's gaze was still fixed on Jiang Yunu's face, looking at her very carefully.
"Are you really okay?" he whispered to confirm.
Shen Yijing looked concerned.
Captain Shen's idea was probably simple: he thought that because he was caught off guard by seeing such a "hundred-man pit", those bodies piled together like discarded parts were very visually impactful, and even Jiang Yunu would stare at it in a daze for a moment.
Jiang Yunu shook her head, wanting to say that she was not stunned by the scene in the big pit. She stared at it in a trance simply because she was reminded of other things and it brought back important memories.
But when the words of explanation came to her lips, she swallowed them back quietly.
Not everything can be shared with others.
Even if the other party has proven in actual combat that they have good coordination and the same thinking, it won't work.
"Don't look." Shen Yijing gently touched Jiang Yunu's arm with the back of his hand.
Jiang Yunu shifted her gaze and let Shen Yijing lead her back a step, slightly creating some distance between herself and the inner edge of the pit.
"It seems that there are no new 'battle levels' waiting for us here." Shen Yijing calmly analyzed the environment. He had just scanned the entire area with his eyes.
There is only a large pit like this here, which occupies almost the entire ground area, with narrow trails on both sides of the wall, which are roughly enough for one person to walk sideways.
At the other end of the pit, looking straight ahead, you can see there is another door on the opposite side.
Go around this pit and walk along the narrow path to reach the door opposite, and go through that door to the next area.
"Maybe this is the 'showroom' on the way to challenging the boss." Jiang Yunu quickly adjusted herself, regaining her normal demeanor and tone. "Captain Shen, have you ever played a game? Especially one with a large dungeon where you have to fight through many levels before you can defeat the final boss, and there are also plot points and displays of important props in between."
The pit in front of us may be like the "display session" in the middle of a large-scale game copy.
As for the purpose of this link and what it is specifically showing, we will have to wait until we continue forward and meet the final boss to find out.
Most of the time, the dungeon boss is an object with a strong desire to express himself, and is particularly happy to tell the brave man his evil intentions, ambitions, shattered ideals, life regrets, lifelong pursuits, etc. at the end of the challenge.
After listening to Jiang Yunu's analogy, Shen Yijing felt that her analogy was appropriate.
But as for the question the white-haired girl asked about whether he played games...
"Fight," Captain Shen said as the two men reached the edge of the pit and began to move forward against the wall. "Haven't you seen me in the game before?"
"...Hmm?" Jiang Yunu walked in front of Shen Yijing. She was used to taking the lead in everything she did, so Captain Shen automatically followed behind her.
Her questioning voice floated over from the front: "Have we met in the game?"
Shen Yijing's voice came from the back: "Did you say that my black hair looks like dandruff after snow falls on it?"
Jiang Yunu stopped in his tracks.
Shen Yijing's reaction speed should be very fast. He could easily stop as soon as Jiang Yunu stopped, keeping the distance between them unchanged.
But for some reason, he didn't seem to react this time.
He took another half step forward, and the warmth unique to the human body approached Jiang Yunu's back.
Jiang Yunu turned sideways and said, "The one in the game before—the one I saw in the snowy map a long time ago, so it turned out to be you?"
Her shoulder almost directly hit Shen Yijing's chest, forcing Shen Yijing to lean his upper body back.
"Yes, it's me." Shen Yijing half-raised his head and admitted his identity with a subtle tone.
When he was able to stand up again, he looked at Jiang Yunu, as if he wanted to carefully compare the white-haired girl's face with the person in his memory. Then, his eyes and tone were as complicated as before, and he said again: "So that person at that time was indeed you."
……Um?
Jiang Yunu suddenly realized that she had been tricked by Shen Yijing.
In fact, Captain Shen was not sure who it was who told him that “black hair falling on snow looks like dandruff”.
He asked this question in an affirmative tone at first, and when Jiang Yunu asked him in return, "Is that person you?", he knew in his heart and could say with complete certainty, "That person is you."
Jiang Yunu turned around and continued walking forward: "That's amazing, Captain Shen, you tricked me."
Shen Yijing said from behind: “Can I tell you that the snow falling on my hair looks like dandruff to offset it?”
As soon as Jiang Yunu heard it, she knew that Captain Shen, who paid more attention to exquisite appearance under the premise of conditions, minded the strange words she said at the time.
"It will offset it," she said generously.
Shen Yijing almost blurted out "thank you", but then he thought it would be strange for him to thank Jiang Yunu suddenly, so he pursed his lips and changed the subject.
The two of them had already walked along the edge of the pit to the middle of the arc. Shen Yijing was still thinking about the fact that Jiang Yunu had been "shocked" by the scene at the bottom of the pit. He just happened to use some random conversation to divert the other party's attention.
"Why didn't you come online later?" Shen Yijing asked.
There was something else he wasn't saying - of course he went online many times later, and even tried his luck at the place where the white-haired girl had appeared, but he never met Jiang Yunu again.
After hearing this question, Jiang Yunu sighed.
Shen Yijing immediately proposed another speculation: "Is it because we always stagger our online times? In fact, you were online many times later?"
"No." Jiang Yunu said, "I almost never went online after that."
Shen Yijing: “Why?”
"Because I'm busy." Jiang Yunu answered briefly and firmly, "And I'm poor."
Not long after that meeting in the game world, Jiang Yunu was busy taking skip-level exams, busy with further studies, and busy transferring from the seventh district to the second district.
She couldn't afford a separate virtual warehouse for home use, so she used the school's public equipment to play games.
When she was promoted to a higher school and came to Golden Uriel Academy, she found that Golden Uriel had far more and more advanced equipment than Engel's Primary School for Supernatural Powers - but she had no time to play.
"From studying to playing in the Challenge Cup, then playing in the intramural tournament and then the district tournament," Jiang Yunu said. "My schedule is completely packed with studying and playing. I really don't have time to play games."
Shen Yijing was quiet behind her for a while, and the two of them had already walked two-thirds of the narrow path along the pit.
"...What about the holidays?" Captain Shen asked again.
He sounded quite upset about not being online with Jiang Yunu again.
"I'll go home during the holidays," Jiang Yunu said sincerely. "Going home means being away from all the fancy gadgets. Please don't forget that I'm poor. My family really doesn't have expensive things like virtual warehouses."
“…”
Shen Yijingwan had never expected that the ultimate reason why the two of them no longer met online was so plain and simple, which made people silent for a moment.
Fortunately, the silence didn't last long. They walked along the curved edge of the pit and arrived at the door on the opposite side.
"Do you want to rest for a while?" Jiang Yunu asked.
She was referring to the fact that Shen Yijing was in poor fighting condition before and had already suffered from mental fatigue.
This "pit area" was very quiet, just like the pit she had been in at the isolated island base.
Although there was a pit of corpses, there was no odor, no blood, and no sudden resurrection of the dead, achieving a twisted peace.
If Shen Yijing still needs some time to adjust, in Jiang Yunu's opinion, this place is very suitable for continuing to take a temporary rest.
It was difficult for Shen Yijing not to look at the white-haired girl strangely.
"No thanks," he said politely and restrainedly. "I'm doing OK now. I'm afraid staying here will affect my mental health."
He felt that Jiang Yunu's definition of "peace" was truly extraordinary.
As fierce as her definition of "welcome" is.
The two continued to push open the door on the inside of the pit area and entered deeper into this underground "copy".
At the same time, there is a space transfer station closest to the league camp.
"Have you relocated to the campsite coordinates?!"
A handsome blond man stumbled into a room that was temporarily serving as a meeting room. His usually well-groomed hair was now disheveled, and it was obvious that he had just gotten off a carrier plane.
This person is none other than Bi Huaishu, the current unlucky principal of Golden Uriel Academy.
In the temporary meeting room, President Shen of the Snow Wolf headquarters, the branch president of the Golden Horse branch, the branch president of the Spirit Deer branch, and other heavyweights have gathered here to discuss the rescue strategy for the senior league camp.
Bi Huaishu rushed into the room and saw that in addition to those who were present in person, there were also several floating screens in the room.
There are also people who participate in the rescue operation remotely.
Su Xiuchun on one of the screens simply nodded to Principal Bi as a polite greeting.
President Shen, who was seated at the head of the conference table, raised his head and answered the main point first: "We have some clues. According to preliminary estimates, the energy that completely enveloped the camp has dissipated by 10%. We can once again slightly sense the camp's existence."
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