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It can be said that except for De Lian, the two parties successfully merged. Although they were injured, their lives were saved.
When they realized that it was Ka Xiu who appeared behind Liang Qi, everyone inside and outside the field breathed a sigh of relief.
"I was wondering why I only saw Kaxiu looking for Delian to fight. It turns out that Liang Qi was gathering clues with others downstairs."
"Ford has also gained their trust. With Austin, who has already turned against us, and both butchers have rebelled, this strange area should be solved quickly!"
"I'm a little worried that the strange will use shady tactics."
"Mr. Sainz hasn't made a move yet. Has he returned to the academy?"
"Other ordinary people have also saved their lives. Tsk, if there are people from the academy every time we encounter strange in the future..." "
But there are not no casualties. According to the number of survivors allocated at the beginning of the game, at least two people died, right?" An official said sarcastically.
The person sitting next to him who was about to speak quickly shut up, and the group looked at the official with strange eyes.
...Is this the reincarnation of a nitpicker or the Holy Mother becoming a spirit?
"What are you looking at me for?" The official was a little flustered, but still said stubbornly, "I just respect the facts."
"Nothing." The Shuguang people looked away and looked at Miwu calmly.
They always remembered what Yinzhu said, that the teacher in charge of the academy's diplomacy was very vindictive. Could the words of these officials rise to the level of condemning the academy members for not being good at saving people...?
Free judgment.
Don't forget that there is also Director Sainz who doesn't give the country any face and will never bullshit when he can take action. Let him know that the fountain at the door of the church has not been repaired yet.
"A-choo! A-choo!" The official sat, covered his nose and sneezed wildly, and then shivered involuntarily.
He looked around and saw that his colleagues didn't turn their heads, and he was a little confused.
Strange... Why do I feel like someone is looking at me coldly?
Thinking of the words that just came out of his mouth, the official's face looked a little bad. He forced himself to comfort himself, forget it, don't scare yourself, how can the people in the academy be so idle...
At this moment, the dean of teaching, who was banned for being too strong, sat on the wall, staring at the official through the mist.
After taking a look, he felt a little tired. The white-haired man took out a swinging eyeball (with optic nerve) from the prop bag and inserted it aside, letting it stare fiercely on his behalf.
[The Peeper]
[From the bug personality. I kill people without blinking, you ask me if my eyes hurt? ]
[Put it in a corner that is difficult to notice and spy on everything. ]
Well, the people in the academy are not so idle, and props are not considered people!
However, just when everyone was rejoicing that this field would end soon, Kaxiu's ugly face made them feel nervous. As
the day approached, the lightning gradually slowed down, only the heavy rain continued, and from time to time a streak of light flashed by, adding a touch of bright color to the thick black clouds.
"Open."
The imperative sentence without any hesitation made Liang Qi's already forced smile freeze.
However, the moment he distinguished the voice and color, the tension all over his body faded like a tide, and his shoulders stretched out.
Liang Qi turned around and met Kaxiu's eyes, without dodging or avoiding, but when the black-haired young man stretched out his hand to break his fist, he raised his hand and pinched his cheek.
"What's the matter, you are so enthusiastic as soon as we meet, my friend!" The
black-haired young man stood there expressionlessly, with a piece of cheek flesh forcibly pulled up, and his sharp temperament disappeared instantly, making the whole person look silly and cute.
The graduate student standing next to him staggered and nearly fell into the glass after seeing his action.
"As for fighting as soon as we meet?" He muttered subconsciously because his brain was distracted by Ford's loud confession below.
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly widened his eyes and covered his mouth.
But he was still heard.
Liang Qi replied in a floating voice: "Just confirm whether this is an illusion."
He looked at Kaxiu with a smile and pinched: "Is this an illusion?"
"Giao something out." Kaxiu's voice was a little unclear because his face was pinched. He did not struggle, and his eyes were always staring at Liang Qi's other hand.
"Okay, okay, I really can't do anything with you." Liang Qi shrugged and spread out his hand, which was a bright red rose petal.
"Here you go."
Rose petals fell into Kaxiu's palm. The graduate student looked at the harmonious atmosphere between the two and was a little confused for a moment... Just like that? You two just recognized each other so naturally?
He looked around and felt that he should not be here, but underground.
Why are these big guys so sticky...
But it doesn't matter, looking at it this way, his guess of killing people and silencing them doesn't seem to be particularly accurate.
However, the next moment, Kaxiu crushed the rose petals, grabbed Liang Qi's shoulders with his backhand
and threw him to the ground. Liang Qi's reaction was not slow either. He pried Kaxiu's hand open, and his agile figure flew through the air. He stepped on the balcony with his feet and stood up quickly.
A flash of lightning struck, reflecting a fleeting cold light - the scalpel was on his neck.
All this happened so fast that the graduate student was covered in sweat. He screamed in fear, and the words "kill and silence" kept flashing in his mind.
"Hand it over." Kaxiu said coldly, "I'm very sensitive to the aura of those things."
Liang Qi made a faint sound: "Huh."
He shook his sleeves, and something in his sleeves rolled into his palm.
It looked like a gray leaf, but it was obvious that Liang Qi couldn't crush it at first.
The graduate student covered his dirty face and had not yet recovered from this bizarre reversal.
Just a little bit, he had already finished thinking about the series of processes of him shouting for help and then rushing over to Liang Qi and being stabbed to death.
The leaf moved suddenly, and a crack appeared. A streak of blood red appeared from it, and then the crack grew larger and larger.
Soon, a butterfly half the size of a palm appeared in front of everyone.
Its strange blood-red wings were also covered with black lines. As it flapped its wings, it changed its shape, making it hard not to think of a beating heart.
Liang Qi's fingers trembled slightly, and the butterfly suddenly flew up, along the pale wall, and flew very purposefully towards the ward at the end.
"What is this?" The graduate student asked subconsciously, following the movement of the butterfly.
He looked back at Liang Qi, but found that the young man seemed to have lost all his strength, half leaning on Kaxiu, with a trance of fear in his eyes.
No - should it be guilty?
Feeling that the word "afraid" was completely unrelated to the big boss, the graduate student changed his mind.
"Did you just cough it out?" He calmed himself down, trying to ease the suddenly cold atmosphere, and asked, "How about I go and call Guan Tou back? No one said that this flower vomiting disease can be cured..."
"Could it be that this butterfly lays eggs on flowers, and this disease has its own ecosystem, haha?"
"The larvae of normal butterflies are also caterpillars." Liang Qi said weakly.
Since Kaxiu appeared, his energy seemed to be withdrawn, and he became depressed.
The graduate student didn't understand what caterpillars were: "What?"
Kaxiu tilted his head and asked, "Flower vomiting disease?"
"It's not flower vomiting disease, it's paranoia." Liang Qi didn't reply to the graduate student, but looked at the floor and answered Kaxiu, "It's not hypochondria."
He quickly calmed down, but his expression looked much colder.
Graduate student: "No? Then what were the petals you spit out before? I was discussing with the nurse whether you really..."
Liang Qi interrupted him: "That's pet food."
Graduate student: "Oh!"
For some reason, he was a little disappointed.
"Then where did this butterfly come from?" Kaxiu frowned.
"Bugs." Liang Qi pursed his lips, "You just talked about iron nematodes."
The graduate student was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"
Liang Qi said calmly: "We are the mantises that are parasitized."
...
These words seemed to have some kind of magic power, suddenly exploding in the graduate student's mind, and the creepy electric current instantly swept through his body.
The graduate student's mind was in a mess, his heart was pounding, and the word parasitism echoed in his ears.
The mental illness that was forcibly given to them... The monsters that flew towards them along the way... The bugs that fell from the monsters...
"Come here quickly!" Someone shouted from a distance, "There is a new discovery in this room!"
The thoughts were briefly interrupted.
The black-haired young man glanced at the graduate student standing there stupidly, and said to Liang Qi with a bit of disdain: "Your teammates are not very good either."
Graduate student: "?"
Liang Qi smiled gently: "No one can compare with you."
Kaxiu didn't say anything, but just helped Liang Qi move more slowly.
Graduate student: "..." He was wrong, he was really redundant.
But brother! Did you really lose your memory?
What the graduate student didn't know was that Liang Qi's words were much more emotionally intelligent than Delian's at the time.
At least he only felt choked after hearing it, instead of wanting to die on the spot like Austin.
The three ran in the direction of the teammate's call.
On the way.
Liang Qi analyzed: "Those monsters can follow us sensitively in the dark, which means they are not relying on light sources."
"When we hid in the room, there were knocks outside, which means the judgment point is not the sound source."
"Although the smell can be considered, it can't explain why the monsters attacked so evenly."
In the room on the second floor, the graduate student was scratched by the monster at the beginning, and the smell of blood was very strong.
But in the battle when they tried to go to the pharmacy, the monster did not target the graduate student, but attacked the police and others more times.
If it wasn't for the even-handed fighting style, Liang Qi alone could not protect everyone, and there would be real casualties.
"What is that based on?" the graduate student asked.
Liang Qi answered without a doubt: "Life force."
The graduate student's heart shuddered.
The blood butterfly was not flying very fast, but its target was also the special ward. Liang Qi's eyes fell on it.
"Rather than saying that those monsters attacked us, it's better to say that the bugs on the monsters drove them to approach us."
"Because we have more vivid vitality." He repeated again.
This can perfectly explain why the injured members are not liked by monsters-of course, this does not mean that monsters will not attack them.
After all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
Ella's eyes for help flashed in the player's mind. She was not irrational, but she was helpless.
"This is not right!" The graduate student's lips trembled, and he said in panic, "How can the bugs sense our vitality? Thermal imaging?"
This is not a game. How can something like vitality be defined and sensed from a distance?
He thought of something and suddenly his breathing stagnated: "Could it be--"
"Yes, the bugs in our bodies."
Liang Qi couldn't help but lower his head and coughed a few times. He avoided Kaxiu's gaze and said to the graduate student: "Do you understand?"
"That's it." The graduate student murmured, "So we are patients. When we entered this game realm, we were parasitized."
"Daytime is the dormant period of the bugs, so we wandered around on the first floor for a long time, and no monsters attacked."
"When night falls, the bugs become active. Our mutation and the monsters are progressing at the same time. The more we fight, the more likely we are to get hurt. The more we get hurt, the longer we will be entangled with the monsters.
As our mental state becomes hazy and we get hurt, the bugs in our bodies are constantly drawing strength—"
Every word the graduate student said made him tremble with fear.
He was horrified to find that this was exactly the same process as what he said, "The mantis kept eating after being parasitized by the iron nematode"!
The bugs were already in their bodies from the beginning, so why can taking medicine relieve the symptoms?
"Then the medicine...how can the medicine be useful?" He said in confusion.
"Did you get the medicine? Did you take it?" The room was close, and the taciturn Kaxiu suddenly said.
Graduate student: "Yes."
"There is a situation." Kaxiu stopped and stood at the door and said, "When new competitors appear inside and the structure is disrupted, competitors will often solve the internal chaos first, and then divide the cake."
This answer is simply too scary.
The graduate student slipped and slid into the special ward with a squeak.
The room was full of people. The one closest to the door turned around and was startled: "There's no need for such a big ceremony."
"Let's go down from here, right?"
Ms. Laura's voice was heard from afar: "Everyone, take your medicine in advance, otherwise if there's a fight down there, it might be too late."
The others didn't have any opinions, and then they heard the graduate student who hadn't gotten up from the ground scream like a pig being slaughtered:
"You can't eat it!!!"
Everyone turned around and looked at the big ceremony of the institute with tears in their eyes. For a moment, they all wanted to learn from those TV dramas in the East and stand up without any ceremony.
"What's wrong?" the nurse asked.
Ms. Laura - Clara shuddered in her heart, thinking that something was going to go wrong again.
As expected, the graduate student quickly told everyone about his analysis on the way, and everyone looked at the pills in their hands with a dark expression.
The nurse took out the disinfectant alcohol she carried with her and sprinkled it on the pills.
With a hiss, the sugar coating of the pills slowly melted, and a worm the size of a rice grain rolled in the alcohol, trying to crawl out.
Ford took a paper pad and stepped forward to press the worm to death.
But everyone's faces were no longer black, but began to turn blue. Habit secretly covered his throat and gulped a few times in pain.
"Oh my god, I'm really going to have PTSD from bugs." He hugged himself in despair, "I'm dirty, I'm really dirty!"
The nurse punched him in the chest and said coldly: "Be normal! Go out and watch less weird TV series!"
"This is super popular..." Habito covered his chest, feeling very aggrieved.
The police breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Fortunately you arrived in time, otherwise, with Ms. Laura's reminder, we might have taken medicine in advance-" "
Of course, Ms. Laura, I don't mean to blame you." He slapped his forehead and suddenly reacted.
Clara: "………………"
The undercover's face was distorted.
While the graduate student was explaining, Kaxiu and Liang Qi walked around the crowd to see their "significant discovery."
This was the special ward where Delian stayed at the beginning, but for various reasons, he did not stay here for long, and the inspection was only a surface inspection.
At this moment, the player discovered that half of the wall next to the bathroom was smashed.
After pushing aside the debris of the washbasin, a longitudinal hole with a diameter of about 70 centimeters was exposed underneath. The hole was dark and no one knew where it led to, but a strong fragrance could be smelled.
The butterfly just now flew in from here.
In general buildings, except for drainage pipes, it is difficult to have such a wide straight hole, because the load-bearing walls do not allow it in all aspects.
This mental hospital miraculously did it.
But why is it on the third floor?
Recalling the overall structure of this mental hospital, the player remembered the patient who fell from the building when Delian entered the game.
The patient's location on the top floor seemed to be not far from the cave entrance.
He looked at the wall again and keenly discovered that there were faint stains on it.
This was the convenience of using a vest, otherwise it would be difficult to remember the entire composition in such a short time.
Through Liang Qi, the player asked Ford: "Did you dismantle it correctly?"
"Yeah." Ford rubbed his hands nervously, "My wings have not been completely retracted. When I checked the room just now, I rubbed against the wall. I found that the wall here is very loose."
"Then did you see any other traces on the sink?" "
What?"
"Like footprints, or dust and water marks from being rubbed by someone."
Ford was stunned: "Ah - it seems that there are, the sink is dry, but there are wet water stains on the table. Judging from the splash position, it is not where the hands were washed. I thought someone rubbed it."
As an artist specializing in painting, his ability to observe details is still good.
"Did you find anything?" The blond man looked at his partner in front of him with a thoughtful expression, and said eagerly.
Speaking of which, the two of them looked so familiar, did they recover their memories? Did Delian also...
"You." Kaxiu raised his head and said to Liang Qi, "Help me."
"Liang Qi." The latter corrected.
Kaxiu naturally changed his name: "Liang Qi, help me."
Ford: "............?"
So you have been standing together for so long, just short of analyzing the monster's underwear, and you haven't even exchanged names? ?
The next moment, he saw the two of them looking at each other tacitly.
Liang Qi squatted slightly, folded his hands and sank down, and the black-haired young man jumped up lightly and touched the overlapping position of his palms.
Liang Qi stood up straight, lifted his hands upward, and Kaxiu instantly rose up a bit, reaching the ceiling.
The sound of tiles rubbing against each other could be heard. The originally intact ceiling was pushed by Kaxiu, and the square tiles moved away instantly, revealing the dim sky. Raindrops leaked in from here, soaking the wet Kaxiu again.
He wiped the water on his cheeks and jumped down easily.
Ford looked left and right: "No, how did you communicate? How did you just--" He made a gesture of folding his hands and raising his hands, "Just go up like this?" He pushed himself again.
The two people in front of him looked at each other again.
Kaxiu was too lazy to argue with him, and said bluntly: "I just know."
Liang Qi paused and added: "--That's it."
Ford: "..."
The truth about the pills scared them half to death, but they had no other choice for the time being when facing the bugs in their bodies.
They surrounded the leaking hole.
Because Kaxiu and Liang Qi had not seen the "patient" die at the door, they could not say it directly.
Fortunately, although the graduate student was stupid, he was not completely stupid. With many positive hints such as "someone climbed to the top floor" and "the bugs controlled the mantis to drown",
as well as Ford's negative interference of "I went up there too" and "beat people until they bled"
, he successfully said the correct option with his years of experience in answering multiple-choice questions.
He connected the last link of the bug's alienation.
Liang Qi glanced at Ford and said in an ambiguous way: "You are quite suitable to be a teacher."
It is specially designed to make things difficult for people.
Ford: "Ah?"
Now the pit of this copy is very obvious.
Excluding the players who were strangely forced to implant worms when entering the dungeon, the NPC's event line is very clear.
Sent to a mental hospital, taking medicine, implanting larvae → larvae gradually grow up, becoming more and more insane, providing sufficient nutrients → larvae mature, controlling patients to commit suicide, breaking out of the cocoon and becoming butterflies.
Maybe there will be earlier butterflies, because there is more than one worm in a person's body, and they will fight with each other and divide up the last nutrients.
But no matter what the result of the worms is, as a parasitic object, people will definitely not survive.
The place where Ford is is only crawling larvae, which may be just a "nursery", and the place where this passage leads to may be where the adult worms-butterflies live.
That is the real place of the experiment.
Everyone's heart is heavy.
"And..." The graduate student pursed his lips, "I don't think the patient who committed suicide was completely sucked out by the bugs."
"That was during the day, and they were able to move around on their own." "
Day" and "night" are just divisions of the dungeon stage, not the weather outside. This mental hospital has always been shrouded in bitter wind and rain.
The police nodded and said, "Even if they turned into butterflies, those bugs still need food. This pipe may be the transportation port. He escaped from here."
Many patients who disappeared during the day were directly arrested in the room and used as feed.
The reason they determined that the patient climbed to the top floor from the pipe was because of the water stains on the washbasin on the third floor.
The water stains were not dry, indicating that rain had leaked in not long ago.
The nurse said, "... maybe he wanted to die with more dignity." He
didn't want to be eaten by bugs, so he chose a more painful way.
She looked at the endless black tunnel, with tiny bumps on the wall.
She imagined a patient, enduring the pain of being eaten by bugs, climbing up the pipe little by little, and finally climbing to the top floor.
He didn't even want to take a few more steps to the side, and had to jump down and end his life.
Everyone closed their eyes slightly, and for those who lost their lives, those with faith habitually secretly recited a few eulogies in their mouths.
"Go in." Ford knocked on the pipe mouth, listened to the unclear echo, and said, "I'll lead the way. If there's air below, remember to hold onto my wings."
Kashu said concisely, "I'll be the last."
Ford looked at him deeply, "Okay."
After everyone lined up, the blond man slowly supported the pipe wall without saying a word and stuffed himself in.
The others followed his movements carefully, fearing that the uneven pipe wall would cause bigger scratches.
Police, habitual thieves...
Kashu was at the end of the line, Liang Qi stood in front of him, and the graduate students were in front of him.
Everyone was silent.
The graduate students waited boredly, their eyes darting around, trying to ease their increasingly fast beating hearts.
It was impossible to say that he was not nervous, as he had not yet finished writing his thesis...
Perhaps he could switch to biological research after he got out. He seemed to be calmly daydreaming, studying why the adult worm could become a butterfly, or whether the worm did not originally have hair.
Suddenly, he heard a slight noise coming from behind him.
He turned around.
There was no light in the bathroom, only the dim light coming in from the room.
Kaxiu stood in the dark, his eyes looked even deeper, like a green will-o'-the-wisp, slowly burning with a cold light in the air.
Liang Qi in front of him bent his long legs, folded his hands over his chest, lowered his eyes, and said nothing.
"You haven't finished yet." Kaxiu lowered his voice, "It's not flower vomiting disease, nor is it hypochondria, what is it?"
"What exactly has been stimulating you to worsen your condition, even to the extent of stimulating the larvae to become butterflies?"
Liang Qi pursed his lips slightly, as if he didn't know what to say. After a while, he said like a young wife, "Kaxiu..."
The graduate student was shocked by the description he had imagined.
Turning around, he saw Kaxiu snorting like a domineering president, and said expressionlessly: "I am now suffering from severe mental weakness, sensitive and suspicious - and very anxious."
The implication is that men, don't make you angry.
Graduate student: "..."
Okay, okay, these two people are the same.
"I don't know how to say it." Liang Qi sighed.
"You have never dared to look me in the eye." Kaxiu stretched out his hand and straightened the young man's face.
Liang Qi has the temperament of a passionate playboy. Once he lowers his eyebrows, he will appear gentle and melancholy, making people want to ask him what he is sad about.
Under the difference in lighting, the two pairs of green eyes with color difference leveled out looked at each other.
"What are you afraid of?" Kaxiu asked in a low voice.
As soon as this sentence came out, the room seemed to be quieter, and the graduate student's breathing disappeared.
He saw the young man who punched strangely in front of them, solved the mystery in a few seconds, and acted freely and calmly, but now he lowered his eyes, said nothing, and his hair was wilted.
It was like a dog that was taken out for a walk by its owner for the first time, but mistakenly thought it was going to be thrown away.
He smiled slowly, and stretched out his hand as if pretending to be calm, clasping his index finger and thumb together, and gestured: "Actually, it's only a little bit."
"Afraid that I'm so useless, my friends don't want me anymore."
Here it comes! This copy is almost over (squirm) (squirm)
The prize was drawn yesterday, let me see how everyone is doing? (rubbing hands)
[How Much Smoke and Rain in Jiangnan] I won more than 100 Jinjiang coins, I will take the lead in sucking the emperor!
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