Day of Imprisonment

Luo Xi decided to challenge the fire drill project.

However, because Wu Rui died, he had to go alone.

Although Wu Rui's death was sudden, it wasn't unexpected. Under those circumstances, even if Zhu Zifeng hadn't joined, it would still have been three against two. Luo Xi and Wu Rui were clearly at a disadvantage. Moreover, Wang Li and the other two were veterans and had excellent teamwork.

Wu Rui was an assassin, but definitely couldn't be used as a 'warrior'.

Before the fire drill, Luo Xi went to find Wang Shuting. The little girl was still focused on making her clay sculptures.

Luo Xi suddenly realized a problem.

After the Day of Confinement restarted, nothing would be retained except for the cards and the memories preserved by the power of the cards. That is to say, even if he took videos or obtained tokens, as long as he died and entered the next cycle, he wouldn't be able to prove to Old Wang that he had found his daughter.

If he just said it, the other party definitely wouldn't believe him.

"So this task can actually only be completed within the same Day of Confinement cycle. If I enter the next cycle, I need to come here and find her again."

If he wasn't injured, or didn't have the negative effect of [Unstoppable Bleeding], Luo Xi was fully confident that he could go and hand in the task to Old Wang, but now, he still needed to complete the challenge of this scenario, and to clear it, the time might not be enough.

There had to be a trade-off.

Luo Xi's choice was to continue challenging the scenario.

If it really didn't work, he could just come again next time.

But he still recorded a video for Wang Shuting, and after the little girl asked questions like 'What is my dad doing?' 'When will he get off work to pick me up?', he gave insincere answers.

"Don't worry, your dad will pick you up after work. He also bought you a lot of delicious food!"

"Really? That's great."

Luo Xi touched Wang Shuting's head and got up to leave.

The cloth he was holding around his neck was already mostly stained red with blood, but the amnesiacs here didn't seem to notice at all. Obviously, this scenario was different from the scenarios Luo Xi had experienced before. The Reminiscents and the amnesiacs were in the same space, but there was an invisible 'barrier' between them, or rather, a kind of filter.

It was like the 'barrier' that appeared during the challenge scenario.

Or, like the tranquil space that appeared when he was fighting Wang Li and the others before.

This was very strange and mysterious, and of course, also very interesting, and it had already aroused Luo Xi's curiosity.

"Dear teachers, students, and parents, today, we gather together to participate in the annual campus fire drill activity. First of all, I would like to express my warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to everyone for participating."

"Safety is the foundation of a harmonious and stable campus, and it is also the primary guarantee for our study and life. Through today's fire drill, we aim to raise everyone's fire safety awareness, enhance self-prevention and self-rescue capabilities, and ensure that we can evacuate quickly and orderly in emergency situations."

A person in uniform was announcing the rules over there.

Behind him was an area on the east side of the teaching building, connected to a temporary large tent, with a blower and equipment that could create smoke.

Obviously, it was to simulate a fire smoke environment for escape drills.

Over there on the ground, there was also a dummy lying down.

It was probably simulating a victim, or a dummy used to explain first aid earlier.

When Luo Xi approached, the dummy sat up directly and looked at him.

"Do you want to challenge the escape drill project?"

This kind of dummy that could move and speak in a gloomy voice, which could obviously trigger the uncanny valley effect in normal humans, didn't cause Luo Xi any discomfort. On the contrary, he thought the dummy was quite cute.

"Yes, are there any rules?"

"The rules are very simple. Enter from the entrance and come out alive from the exit, and you'll have succeeded in the challenge. But I have two modes here, normal mode and expert mode. Which one do you choose?"

"Can you tell me the difference?"

"Of course, normal mode is just going straight in. If you succeed in the challenge, you get a [Memory]. If you fail, hehe, you definitely won't be able to get out, which means death; Expert mode is that you need to pay a [Memory] as a ticket first. If you succeed in the challenge, the [Memory] will be returned, and at the same time, you can randomly draw a card from this scenario's card pool as a reward."

"What about the difficulty?"

"No change, you just need to pay a [Memory]."

"Then I'll choose expert mode."

Luo Xi wasn't short of [Memories] now.

When he came out of the Sega apartment building, even after deducting the [Memory] cards for Wu Rui and Brother Mao, he still had two left in his hand. And in the Tun Tun Primary School scenario, he had successively completed the 'Human Puzzle' and 'Making Mooncakes' challenges, and also killed Wang Li and another Reminiscent, which was four more.

Two plus four equals six.

He already had six [Memories] in his hand.

So having one more [Memory] didn't mean much to him, but if he could randomly draw a card, he might be able to get a higher-level card.

Last time, whether it was [Duck Prophet] or [Kurapika's Chains of Judgment], they were all drawn randomly.

He handed a [Memory] to the dummy, and the dummy nodded: "Then, you can start the challenge, I wish you ."

"What's your name?" Luo Xi asked at this time.

The dummy was stunned.

It stared at Luo Xi with its dead fish-like eyes in some surprise, as if it was thinking about this question, thinking about why the other party would ask this question, and also thinking that no other Reminiscent had asked it this question in the past.

So, should it answer?

Also, how should it answer?

Because the dummy had completely forgotten its own name.

"Do I have a name?"

The dummy was obviously a bit 'crashed', and it even fell into a short period of stiffness.

"Yes, I have a name, at least, I used to have... But I forgot, how could I forget my own name?"

The dummy seemed to be in great pain. It reached out and scratched its head, very hard, and as a result, tore off the rubber scalp.

"Completely forgotten?"

Luo Xi observed the dummy, thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Are you a teacher or a student? Do you know Teacher Liang Yunshi?"

"Ah?" The dummy was stunned.

"Or, Teacher Han, do you know her? What about student Yang Minghao?"

Suddenly, the dummy had a reaction, and a very big one.

"Yang Minghao, that's right, I remember, I'm a physical education teacher, he's my student..."

In an instant, the dummy's lifeless and lifeless eyes seemed to become fleshy, suddenly coming alive, but only with pain, endless pain.

"Ah, ah~ No, I remember, Teacher Liang, she tricked me, she tricked me..."

The dummy suddenly screamed like crazy.

But the next moment, a palm pressed on its head.

"You didn't remember anything, you're just a dummy, a dummy in charge of the escape drill project."

Luo Xi's pupils shrank.

What happened before his eyes surprised him, even shocked him.

He saw Teacher Liang, that is, that Liang Yunshi, suddenly appear beside the dummy like a ghost.

She really just appeared suddenly, like a short video editing technique, without any warning, out of thin air.

She seemed to be comforting the dummy.

Like comforting a pet dog.

Obviously, this kind of comfort worked, and the dummy quickly returned to calm, no, more like forcibly hypnotizing it from the initial state of awakening, turning it into a 'dead thing' without any vitality.

"I am a dummy!" the dummy said woodenly.

Then he looked up and saw Luo Xi and said: "Do you want to challenge the escape drill project?"

At this moment, Luo Xi felt a chill.