Chapter 27 Un Entertainment He hates this kind of rule-bound world...
Nan Ke disliked attending acting classes.
During class that morning, when Roue uttered the last sentence, all he could think was, "Heh, you idiot."
But after passing through the long corridor, the so-called maze that Roue spoke of was just one path to him, with an impenetrable fog on both sides and a raging fire at the end.
For the first time, he had the thought of escaping. He gently tossed a tangled ball of white thread into the air, muttering something under his breath.
Then he was struck hard in the chest. The boy clutched his collar in pain, his hands clenched, and he let out a muffled gasp.
The distant flames seemed to sense his resistance and quickly spread toward his location.
Within his sight, the firelight flickered, the white lines shattered, and finally the scene shifted. When he came to his senses, he found that everyone, including himself, had been locked in cages, while on the other side, Ji Yang had also opened his eyes, just like him.
The cage that Nan Ke had so desperately wanted to escape seemed to be something he would eventually have to face, and he ended up circling back to it.
He threw various props at his feet, and every time he resisted, the flames responded with an even fiercer counterattack.
Several large holes were burned into his white shirt, and the skin on the back of his hand peeled off under the prolonged high temperature, revealing a bloody mess. He was left in a very sorry state after only a few rounds.
However, after several struggles, he vaguely felt that the flames seemed to be making fun of him.
Each time, she could precisely time it at the moment he was about to exhaust himself, and she repeated this process over and over again.
"If you can't do it, just burn me alive, damn it!"
The boy broke down, collapsing to the ground, panting heavily, but still defiant, cursing and giving the flames the middle finger.
As I braced my arm behind me, I felt a hard sensation in my palm.
Nan Ke turned around and his eyes widened in surprise. What was on the ground was Ji Yang's playing cards.
As he ran his fingers over the character "I" in the center of the card, he became surprisingly calm, and the parts that had been hidden were gradually revealed as he regained his composure.
For example, his SAN value was bitten off quite a bit at some point.
Flames leaped, signaling a new round of attacks. Nan Ke staggered to his feet, bracing himself on the ground, and walked straight into the flames.
[Current maze exploration progress is 50%. You can choose to go to other artists' mazes. Do you want to go?]
Nan Ke was enveloped in flames, yet he was no longer harmed by them.
In the firelight, half of his face was clean and white, while the other half was stained with blood from the corner of his eye downwards.
Since it is his labyrinth, he has the ability to control everything within it.
He pressed the button, yes.
[An anomaly was detected in the artist's login location. Currently, the available artist mazes are:]
A row of names was displayed on the panel. Nan Ke became impatient and was about to randomly select one when the panel suddenly popped up, saying that the morning classes had ended and that he could continue to select during the afternoon classes if he needed to go.
That noon, thanks to Jiang Yang and Ji Yang's actions, he also identified his target for the afternoon class from the message Jiang Yang sent him.
He had seen this name on the panel when he was making that difficult decision.
[Un Entertainment Observation Room - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"I'm so nervous, help!"
"Will this even work?!!"
As Mengjiang and Hoshino approached, Jiang Yang's observation room froze for a moment, as if he had stopped breathing.
Some people sneered, "I want to see how Hoshino will play him to death."
But the land without a master ultimately favors the fool.
Before the two sides arrived, many huge boxes fell from the sky above the forest, each roughly the size of a person.
[Ghost Animals/Hunter has returned]
[Task issued: Players are requested to bind to a ghost as soon as possible. After the first ghost is bound, a 30-minute countdown will begin. After the countdown ends, the number of ghosts bound to a player will affect their score in this physical education class.]
[Note: Once a player opens the box, the ghost is immediately released. Opening the box automatically indicates a willingness to cooperate. Whether or not to cooperate is up to the ghost, but players who are rejected by the ghost will be unable to cooperate with other ghosts.]
The initial probability of opening an empty box is 30%. After opening an empty box, a ghost is randomly released. This ghost can forcibly bind to the player, but the player's health will be reduced by 50% after binding to the ghost. Please open boxes with caution.
Total number of ghosts in the forest: 11
Elephant: 0, Lion: 3, Tiger: 0, Leopard: 1, Wolf: 0, Dog: 3, Cat: 1, Mouse: 2, Hunter: 1
The box landed and ignited orange smoke. Soon, the countdown gradually decreased from 1800 seconds, and the smoke extinguished in two clumps.
A box landed around Jiang Yang and the others. Jiang Yang began to suspect that the pattern of the boxes' distribution was related to their current location.
As expected, Meng Jiangpang also dropped a blind box. He hesitated, but after thinking about the rules, he decided to find Jiang Yang first. However, he was a step slower than Xingye because of this.
Huang Er moved closer to the box and vaguely heard human voices coming from inside. He tentatively asked, "Hey, who's in there?" He was met with malicious curses, which made him stomp his feet in anger.
Jiang Yang looked up and raised his hand, making a grasping motion in the air. He blinked in Huang Er's direction, but Huang Er was no longer visible in his view.
Huang Er, looking helpless, spoke in a muffled voice, "Are you sure?"
"Don't get yourself into trouble, or that person will start nagging me."
"You'll know once you try it," Jiang Yang said nonchalantly.
Knowing he couldn't persuade Jiang Yang, Huang Er moved to a position more than ten meters away from him, his gaze fixed on the man without moving.
The young man, who was at the center of the storm, nonchalantly found a tree to lean against and sat down, yawning lazily. Usually, he would have gone back to catch up on sleep long ago after making his rounds of the wards at this time.
He hated the feeling of being bound by rules, which reminded him of the rigid dogma in the sanatorium.
"Is he pretending to be asleep? Or is he playing dead? Maybe he should just die already." As the number of observers increased, the level of malice among them also rose sharply.
The young man slid his finger across the panel, switching the interface to the talent page.
In his and Huang Er's original plan, he intended for Huang Er to hide behind a rat mask and go to find Meng Jiang.
But right after the blind boxes appeared, Ako, whose icon had turned gray in Hoshino's memory, suddenly lit up again.
Now, he not only wants to cooperate with Meng Jiang, but also wants to add some leverage to his cooperation with Meng Jiang.
[Will it replace player Azi?]
He pressed the button without hesitation: Yes.
Ghost mode is not yet unlocked.
The box hasn't been opened, so Azi isn't considered a ghost yet.
"You stingy guy," Jiang Yang muttered, chirping softly in the cramped box.
But his hands didn't stop. He brought up the chat box between Azi and Mengjiang on the control panel. As he expected, even in ghost form, it didn't hinder the team's communication function. After all, his substitute had worked smoothly.
"I am Jiang Yang," he said to Meng Jiang, not intending to beat around the bush.
Seeing the young man's body go limp, Huang Er felt a sudden, inexplicable panic and couldn't help but want to rush over.
But Hoshino and Tsukie's figures had already come into view, and he knew that if he went forward now and ruined their plan, the young man would really be doomed.
He smoked even more frequently. Hoshino nudged Jiang Yang's shin with the tip of his shoe, then turned around and said something to Yuejiang. Yuejiang squatted down, placed two fingers on Jiang Yang's carotid artery, and slowly shook his head at Hoshino.
Having confirmed Jiang Yang's condition, the two walked over to the box next to them.
On the other side, Meng Jiang also arrived at the scene. Just as he was about to come into Hoshino's sight, Huang Er quickly threw down the cigarette that still had a long smoke left and rushed to him, saying, "Put on the rat mask."
Recognizing Huang Er's voice, Meng Jiang, though confused, did as he was told, and the two slowly came into each other's view.
"What happened?" Meng Jiang also saw everything and asked in a low voice.
Before Huang Er could answer, a "ding" sounded on his panel.
In the chat box with Azi, there was a message from Jiang Yang, who had already collapsed: "I am Jiang Yang."
"I need the information about the ghost that A-Zi shared..."
"Let's work together..."
"I will help you find Ah Zi..."
"If I could, I would help you save him."
The series of news left Meng Jiang somewhat overwhelmed.
Hoshino took out an empty box, his face gloomy, and left with Yuejiang. Huang Er breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that things had turned out as Jiang Yang had predicted.
Jiang Yang's plan really shocked him. Who would have thought that Jiang Yang would actually think of faking his death to deceive Xingye?
Jiang Yang felt that after using his talent, he would fall into a state similar to a coma. Xingye would definitely not waste his energy on a "dead person". Therefore, he could use the time difference to successfully let Huang Er and Meng Jiang take him away.
Meanwhile, there is a B-grade item in the shop called "Soul Lock".
[Soul Lock: Using this item will bind the target for fifteen minutes. The binding effect is affected by the user's status.]
The two little figures on the prop icon are connected by a transparent white line, which Jiang Yang and Huang Er confirmed to be the connection between the user and the user.
Huang Er took off his mask and walked up to Jiang Yang, then turned around and urged, "Don't just stand there, time is running out, we only have fifteen minutes."
Meng Jiang compromised, taking the initiative to accept the task of resisting Jiang Yang, based on the strong mental power of the user who was bound to him.
"Then I'll get started," Huang Er muttered to himself. He used the prop, and sure enough, a white line appeared around his waist, stretching endlessly in mid-air.
But... two?
[Un Entertainment Observation Room - Huang Er's Perspective]
"What's going on? Is it a bug?"
"Speaking of which, it seems like there are more and more bugs lately."
Huang Er remained expressionless and led Meng Jiang toward the line that was fluctuating, while diverting a small portion of his attention to the other line.
He quietly spent a lot of money to shift the observation perspective to the first person, and the pain in his heart made him secretly grimace.
He restrained himself from looking to the side, his hands in his pockets as he angrily pounded on the panel.
"Found it! Send the money!"
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