The Trial Game of Life

The college is not big, it is said that it is a junior ghost college, there are only two dormitory buildings, one dormitory for male ghosts, one dormitory for female ghosts, and a barn at the back, which specializes in raising some animal ghosts, and the distribution is very reasonable.

Tang Cuo joined a patrol team as a matter of course, and became the captain, and entered the dormitory to search openly.

With the order from the security office, most of the ghost students spontaneously opened the closets for the patrol to inspect, and a few of them didn't cooperate very well, and they could be resolved with a little effort.

Tang Cuo tricked them into opening the wardrobe, mainly to find the phylactery.It was Jiang He who hid the phylactery. He was so smart that Tang Cuo couldn't deduce where he would hide the phylactery, so he could only find it slowly.

In fact, I should have asked Jiang He before coming in, but unfortunately time did not allow it.

They searched the male ghost's dormitory first, from the first floor up to the fourth floor.The dormitory of suicide ghost Li Haoshuai is on the fourth floor. When Tang Cuo entered, his ghost friends were doing exorcism.

This is a rather eerie picture.

The hair-combing ghost sat cross-legged on the ground, with his hair pulled forward to cover his face, with a will-o'-the-wisp on his head, surrounded by white candles, giving him a ghostly look.With his eyes closed, he held a prayer beads made of bones in his hand and muttered something, while the two sick and dead ghosts knelt down in front of him and kowtowed.What's more interesting is the hanged ghost and the drowned ghost. They stood behind as if they were humming two generals, waving white flags, and wrote four big bloody characters - community animals retreat.

Tang Cuo was speechless for a moment.

The other members of the patrol team praised them again and again, praising them for doing a good job in the ceremony.The hair-comb ghost couldn't help but feel a little proud. He pushed back his hair and said, "You can search, but don't hinder our practice."

Tang Cuo was originally a member of this dormitory, so he ignored him and opened the cabinet for inspection.But unfortunately, there is nothing to be gained here, but the stinky socks hidden under the bed by the sick and dead ghosts, and the new-style pullover ropes of the hanged ghosts, the punk ones with rivets.

After searching again, Tang Cuo found the portrait of "himself" hidden in the crack of the bed.

"Hiss, so handsome, you like our school belle."

"The school belle is so beautiful, brother, we understand you."

"Isn't this the out-of-print set of photos? Give me a look too!"

"..."

In the midst of howling ghosts and howling wolves, Tang Cuo kept his face paralyzed, and didn't want to take another look at the gorgeous ghost in the photo.It's not that his family is strict, but that it really doesn't conform to his aesthetics.

Tang Cuo was about to leave, but at this moment, a scream came from the female ghost dormitory opposite.The cry was exceptionally sharp, like a needle piercing straight into Tang Cuo's mind, with a rhyme like fingernails passing through glass, which made goose bumps on people's arms.

All the ghosts were startled, and Tang Cuo strode to the window and saw ghosts moving in the opposite dormitory building illuminated by will-o'-the-wisps.Two ghosts were so frightened that they crawled out of the window and hung on the wall like geckos.

"Let's go." Tang Cuo turned around and rushed to the opposite side. When he got downstairs, he happened to collide with another patrol team.

The two sides met each other, didn't talk much, rushed to the third floor together, and found that all the ghosts had gathered in front of a dormitory door.The door of the dormitory was knocked open, and the seven female ghosts inside fell to the ground, in exactly the same death condition as the chief of security, with twisted limbs, a peaceful face, and a peach blossom sticking out of their chests.

On the slender flower branch, there is only one pink and tender flower, which is delicate and cute.

"There are also traces under the bed and under the bed!" After the news spread that there was a murderer hidden under the bed, some daring ghosts had already checked it out, and when they saw the patrol team coming, they hurried to speak.

The rest of the ghosts also talked about the situation, "There was a sudden scream just now, we heard the ghost inside begging for help, but the door couldn't be opened at all!"

"That's right, it's too scary. You can only hear the voices inside but you can't see anyone. When we finally opened the door, there was a lot of dead inside!"

"I'm sure going to have a nightmare today!"

Tang Cuo frowned.

This place is full of ghosts, and it is a dormitory where ghosts gather. It is too difficult for a living person to hide here, and he has to escape without a trace after committing a crime.

But the dungeon of Eternal Night City is full of strange things, Tang Cuo couldn't figure out whether this is the cheating setting of this dungeon, or the part that needs reasoning.

If it is a setting, then there is no need to think about how the murderer hid and disappeared, but if it is not a setting, is there any mystery under the bed?

Tang Cuo didn't know if it was because he was on the blacklist and entered the city with negative points, the dungeon of Eternal Night City was not always friendly to him.He asked Chi Yan, the dungeons he encountered were not so cheating, and even the rules of the level were not explained clearly to you, which made people feel irritable.

"You are all ghosts, can't you go through walls?" He asked suddenly.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The patrol captain gave him a strange look and said, "This is the underworld, and the walls of the underworld cannot be pierced. It's not the kind of rubbish cement wall in the underworld, which is worse than tofu."

"Oh." Tang Cuo nodded calmly, and asked again: "There are eight beds, seven died, and one more?"

"I, I'm here." A petite female ghost came out of the ghost crowd with her head in her arms, looked up at Tang Cuo tremblingly, and said, "I just went to the laundry room, and I didn't see it. .”

Fine.

Tang Cuo now has a good acceptance of the daily life of ghosts in the new era, so he inspected the room and put away the peach blossom branches.

There are seven peach blossom branches here, and with Tangcuo's original one, there will be eight.The combined lethality of the eight roots is a bit too much for a ghost like Tang Cuo. Even if it is wrapped in layers, it can still burn Tang Cuo's palm.

But Tang Cuo didn't want to let go, because his intuition told him that there must be something wrong with this peach blossom branch.

Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked out of the window, and the large characters of "Meng Gui Academy" stood out in his eyes.

A patrol team suddenly ran past downstairs, which caught Tang Cuo's attention.They ran in a hurry and looked anxious, and they should be going to the office building in the direction they were going.

"What are they doing in such a hurry?" Tang Cuo asked pretending to be puzzled.

The patrol captain came over, glanced at it, and quickly shouted: "Hey! What happened! Did any ghosts die on your side?"

One of the ghosts stopped and replied loudly: "No, the flowers are blooming! The flowers in the garden are blooming!"

After finishing speaking, the ghost left in a hurry.

The patrol captain scratched his head, not understanding what he was talking about for a moment, turned around, and saw Tang Cuo suddenly turned serious, and asked, "Where is the garden?"

The patrol captain pointed in a direction, and Tang Cuo immediately chased after him—he jumped directly from the third floor.

"So handsome!!!" The patrol captain exclaimed lying on the window sill, and couldn't tell whether he was calling Tang Cuo's name or complimenting him.Because the road downstairs happened to be in the middle of the male and female dormitory building, such a big commotion attracted all the female ghosts and male ghosts to poke their heads out.

I saw the night wind whistling, making the will-o'-the-wisps on both sides of the road flutter slightly.The vigorous figure, like a cheetah, jumped down from the third floor, and landed calmly in his clothes.

Both male and female ghosts exclaimed, only Tang Cuo himself, who was stirring the will-o'-the-wisp, was as stern as ever, with a heart like iron.

He ran very fast, not because the scene of the ghosts screaming was too scary, but because the peach blossom branches could not stay on his body for long.Following the direction pointed by the patrol captain, he quickly found a small garden in a corner of the campus.

The garden is easy to find, because this is a converted cemetery, which is more eerie than any other place.And in the middle of the garden, there is a peach tree.

The peach tree is about three meters high and not big. The branches are covered with flower buds, and some of them are blooming. The pink petals emit a faint fluorescence in the dark night, making the whole peach tree seem to be covered with a veil of light. Clothes.

Looking up, the moon here is bloody.

One, two, three, four... seven, eight, exactly eight peach blossoms bloomed on the tree.

Tang Cuo looked at the eight peach blossom branches in his hand, and couldn't help wondering if there was any connection between the two.Just now the person on the patrol team said "the flowers are blooming", which shows that the flowers were not blooming originally.

After a little thought, Tang Cuo summoned the Judgment Sword and tried to cut off the flowering branches on the tree.But the fluorescent light emitted from the peach tree seemed to be a protective film, and when the sword of judgment cut it, it made a crisp "ding" sound as if it was cutting on some metal.

Can't move at all.

Just then, another flower bloomed.

Tang Cuo was instantly alert, frowning and staring at the flower, when a familiar scream came from behind him.The voice probably came from the dormitory, but Tang Cuo didn't look back.

There are 99 flowers on the tree, and now nine are blooming.

Is this dungeon asking him to catch the murderer before all 99 flowers bloom?Like a countdown?Tang Cuo walked around the tree again, but found no other clues.

The other ghosts of the patrol came belatedly, and were all amazed to see the peach tree, which had obviously never been seen before.

The patrol captain took a look at the sky and looked embarrassed, "It's almost time for Yin and Yang to meet. Usually, classes are over at this time, and we should go back to the dormitory to rest."

Tang Cuo: "Do you have to go back and rest?"

Patrol Captain: "Of course, don't living people have to rest? Although there is no sun in the underworld, the sun is still too strong during the day, and it will burn us."

That should be a system setting.

But if everyone goes back to rest, how many flowers will bloom on the peach tree in one day?Tang Cuo pondered for a while, without raising any doubts, he said, "Just now another one died, right? Is there anything special about these dead ghosts?"

Patrol Captain: "A special place?"

Tang Cuo: "For example, the birth date."

A dungeon, even if the most basic customs clearance conditions are not given, still have to follow the basic law of customs clearance.If it is an indiscriminate killing of ghosts, and the murderer comes and goes without a trace, there are 99 places, and killing is a daytime thing, and there is no solution at all.

The more you engage in metaphysics, the more you engage in superstition, the more you pay attention to the sense of ritual.The sense of ritual represents the law.

As long as he mastered the rules and replaced himself with one of the rules, Tang Cuo could directly face the murderer and seek a chance to pass the level directly.

Of course, before that, he had to find the phylactery.

Tang Cuo turned his head to look at the signboard of "Menggui Academy", it was very strange, as if he could see the signboard from the same angle no matter where he stood.

Big and bright.