Chapter 35 Un Entertainment Jiang Yang became even calmer, "Suppose,..."
Fearing the rabbits might return, the group didn't linger on the second floor.
Between going down to the security guards' dormitory and climbing nineteen floors back to the secretary's lounge, they chose going down to the first floor.
The security guard dormitory was deathly silent. Ji Yang led Jiang Yang and Nan Ke to find an empty bed to sit on.
Jiang Yang looked at the spot uncertainly and asked, "Is this where Hu Jin was lying before?"
"That's true."
After receiving Ji Yang's reply, Jiang Yang couldn't help but ask, "What about Hu Jinren?"
[It has been detected that more than half of the players' SAN values have reached zero in the current performance class. All mazes and secrets will be completed in fifteen minutes. Players whose SAN values have not yet reached zero should complete the class as soon as possible and proceed to the artist dormitory.]
Nan Ke read the system notification to Jiang Yang and Ji Yang.
Now that they want to leave, the problem they must overcome is the secret about Hu Jin.
The problem is, Hu Jin has disappeared.
"Did you see Hu Jin on the fifth floor?" Jiang Yang asked Nan Ke.
Nan Ke nodded. "It seems he has some personal grudges with other people?"
Jiang Yang recalled that someone had mentioned Hu Jin's trainee days.
"What are you going to do on the fifth floor?" Jiang Yang continued to ask.
Nan Ke was somewhat dissatisfied with Jiang Yang's question, and silently protested with her puffed-out cheeks.
Ji Yang calmly reminded him, "We only have ten minutes."
Nan Ke was so angry that his eyebrows shot up, and he said irritably, "Go find something."
Jiang Yang raised an eyebrow at him, and when she was noticed, she put her finger to her glasses, trying to hide the smile on her lips.
"So why did you leave only Hu Jin behind, senior?" Ji Yang asked.
Nan Ke rolled her eyes at Ji Yang, then suddenly her expression changed, her face full of confusion, "What senior?"
Ji Yang took out the red candle from his pocket, which had been on the second floor, and gestured for Nan Ke to light it.
Nan Ke reluctantly exchanged the props. By candlelight, Ji Yang stared intently at him, trying to find something unusual on his face.
Jiang Yang was equally confused. "It's on the fifth floor. There was a man sitting in the lobby, and everyone else was calling him 'senior'."
"Didn't you go to the fifth floor for him?!" Jiang Yang was greatly shocked, but Nan Ke's expression didn't seem to be faking it.
"No, I was just looking for something."
Jiang Yang tried to recall, but her vision quickly became blurry.
I shook my head to pull myself out of that state; the senior I remembered, who was fawned over by a group of people, seemed to have truly disappeared.
Jiang Yang vaguely described this feeling, and Ji Yang quickly shook his head as well, both of them experiencing the same thing.
Nan Ke stroked his lower lip with his thumb, then slammed his hand on the bed. "I remember now!"
“I found such a person in the information I checked before the trial.”
"He has no name, no information, everyone just calls him...senior."
"And after Un Entertainment was shut down, everyone insisted that he had disappeared, but no one could recall any memories related to him."
"In that case," Jiang Yang pursed her lips, "where did the signal you gave us come from?"
For example, registering at -2.
For example, leaving when on the fifth floor.
Nan Ke took a breath and said helplessly, "Because of my talent."
His goal from the beginning was to find the tarot card fragments related to "Judgment".
It can be said that all choices and decisions were made in order to push this outcome forward.
The calculations of the Star Line's precise logic even included Ji Yang taking action against Barry, and Roue entering 213 because of Barry.
[Star lines: They have predictive properties and can be used to guide you when you are lost.]
【Star Path - Max Level: After making a wish upon a star, the star path will guide you to fulfill your wish】
So they found it, but Ji Yang got his hands on it and snatched it away!
However, he also knew that this operation had almost depleted his talent, and obtaining another fragment would probably be even worse.
"No...that's not right!"
Nan Ke raised her voice, "Why would I go to the fifth floor!"
In fact, from a cause-and-effect perspective, even if he didn't go to the fifth floor, he would still have decided to go into room 213 after Hu Jin arrived at the security guard dormitory.
Nan Ke paced back and forth, scratching his head in frustration, muttering to himself.
After he went up to the fifth floor, everyone who saw him acted subserviently because of his status.
At the time, Hu Jin was being bullied by others, and he stepped in to stop it. After that... he didn't notice that Hu Jin had gone downstairs.
But why would he want to go to the fifth floor...? He remembered seeing a file in the secretariat that said several trainees without connections lived on the fifth floor...
“Wait a minute,” Ji Yang interrupted him, “If they don’t have any connections, why are they allowed to stay at Un Entertainment?”
After all, it's clear that there are very few normal NPCs in this building besides the players.
So how do trainees without connections survive here? Therefore, a "senior" who can protect them is inevitable.
“I have a question…” Jiang Yang hesitated before opening his mouth, “Is escaping this prison our mission, or Hu Jin’s mission?”
On the surface, it appears that the three of them were the last to leave Un Entertainment.
In reality, however, they completed a mission called "Escape from this prison" in Hu Jin's maze.
So...did Hu Jin escape?
"Have you seen Hu Yuan?" Ji Yang asked abruptly.
Nan Ke thought for a moment, "No."
The group fell silent for a moment; there were still five minutes left before the end of the performance class.
At the same time, Nan Ke was horrified to discover that "the threads are tangled."
On the panel, the white line between the direction indicated by the star line and the result has turned into a ball of yarn, clearly indicating that it has been interfered with.
Jiang Yang became even calmer. "Assuming Hu Jin escaped, did he escape the moment we completed our mission, or did he escape after we reached the security guard dormitory?"
"Hu Jin isn't in the dorm right now. Could he be running around inside?" Nan Ke wondered.
"But what's in it for him? And how can he escape? Where can he run to?"
Ji Yang asked a series of questions, pointing out the irrationality of option 2.
"If he escaped while we were completing our mission, then who came down from the fifth floor? Where is he now?"
"That might be why the star trails are guiding you to the fifth floor."
Because Hu Jin is no longer here.
Perhaps it wasn't just the starlight that propelled Nan Ke's wish; the elders also took advantage of Nan Ke.
The secretary went up to the fifth floor and rescued the bullied "Hu Jin," while the "senior" pretending to be Hu Jin used Hu Jin's identity to successfully go downstairs and pass on the news about 213 to them.
"But the question is, why did he do that?"
"I think it's because of that child."
There's nothing else in 213.
...
Nan Ke shrugged. "There's still one minute left, so do we have an answer?"
"When did you make your wish?" Jiang Yang asked.
"After entering Hu Jin's maze."
"So I think, without the interference of starlight, the answer should be quite simple."
The maze lies ahead, the secret lies behind.
But what's the point of pursuing secrets if there's no maze?
Everything was because of Nan Ke's wish.
But this has nothing to do with Hu Jin.
The answer was given to them from the very beginning.
A boy who owes the company a huge amount of breach of contract fees and is bullied by other trainees.
His secret is obvious.
"humiliation."
Congratulations to player Nan Ke for successfully exploring "Hu Jin's Secret"!
Nan Ke asked Ji Yang, "Do you think that senior was from the No Man's Land?"
"I have no idea."
Nan Ke slowly opened his eyes in the cage in the performance class.
Jiang Yang was still somewhat dazed when Ji Yang stood up and stared warily at the distance.
After Nan Ke stood up from the ground, a large group of eyeless people in Ji Yang's line of sight looked toward their location.
Empty yet straight.
Jiang Yang also saw clearly what those people locked in cages that Ji Yang and the others had mentioned earlier looked like.
"What are they doing here?" Nan Ke asked, puzzled.
After waking up, they would be taken to their dormitory in another three minutes; they could only wait.
Ji Yang circled the cage once. "I think it wasn't that their SAN value was reset to zero; it was these people who did it."
Most of the players in the cage had collapsed, their eyes closed. Only from two people with open eyelids but missing eyeballs could one vaguely discern what had happened.
Now, the murderers are all gathered around one of the cages, their intentions unknown.
"That looks like a cage made of Tianyu jade."
“Resonance?” Ji Yang frowned slightly. “You all stay here, I’ll go take a look.”
After saying that, Ji Yang opened the cage and went out.
The cage snapped back with a ding, and Jiang Yang's heart skipped a beat. "Be careful."
Ji Yang didn't speak, but pinched two playing cards with his fingertips. There were nearly twenty cards on the other side, and he needed to finish the game quickly.
With each step he took, he secretly observed their reactions, but no matter where he went, their empty gazes remained fixed on Nan Ke.
Finally, Ji Yang identified the "players" they had targeted in class, and their actions became more direct and bold.
Weaving through them, he finally spotted Tian Yu, who was surrounded by the crowd.
Tian Yu lay limp in the cage, large patches of blood seeping from the gaps in his wrists.
A woman wearing a huge gray cloak was squatting nearby. When she noticed Ji Yang, she quickly raised an old-fashioned camera, pointed it at Ji Yang's face, and pressed the shutter.
It has eyes, but its face is covered by a mask.
But after pressing it, his eyes widened and his movements froze.
"Aren't you a celebrity?"
Taking advantage of the moment, Ji Yang raised his sword and knocked off her hat, then threw out a playing card with his other hand, aiming it at the string hooked near her ear.
The ropes snapped cleanly, and the woman instinctively covered her face, but Ji Yang still saw it.
She glared at Ji Yang resentfully, then disappeared into the cave along with all the blind people.
Ji Yang walked into Tian Yu's cage, squatted down, and felt the pulse in the man's neck.
And breathing...
Jiang Yang and Nan Ke ran over after they all disappeared.
Nan Ke prepared the hemostatic spray with a pained expression.
"It's alright, it'll all be Huang Er's responsibility when we get back."
Nan Ke's inner monologue: Thank you, I feel comforted.
Huang Er, in the artists' dormitory, couldn't help but sneeze again. "This shouldn't be happening, I haven't caught a cold in years..."
Could someone be talking badly about me behind my back?
He glanced cautiously at Hoshino, who was sitting across from him grinning. Hoshino asked impatiently, "Why hasn't Jiang Yang come back yet!"
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