Is that gentle and decent person who is surrounded by stars in the classroom and this awkward chatterer really the same person?Hoshino wanted to smile, but only moved one lip and trembled.

Bai Mo seemed to really want to hear the joke, so he waited quietly.The setting sun casts a shadow on her face, and the angled shadows against her body make her look like a painter's figure.

Hoshino swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "... where Brother Cheng fought?"

"Ok?"

"Well, do you want Bilibili?"

Bai Mo's expression told Hoshino that she didn't understand a single word.

For some unknown reason, Hoshino looked at her face and said, "It's all a meme in the game, and it's normal if you don't know about it. Actually, I don't think it's funny at all, after all... I'm a gamer."

"It's a lonely thing to tell a joke that no one can understand."

"what?"

Bai Mo looked up at the front obliquely, as if recalling someone, showing a nostalgic smile: "A former classmate of mine was also a guy who was addicted to games, and his way of thinking was completely different from others. Because he knew this, he I wouldn't be surprised by anything. Because it would be cruel to let him know he was alone."

The sunlight leaking in through the door coated Bai Mo's side face with a layer of gold.

In such an atmosphere, Hoshino walked up the steps two steps ahead, leaving Bai Mo behind, covering his slightly moist eye sockets.

This kind of loneliness, so someone can understand.

I don't know what Bai Mo thinks of her, nor why Bai Mo asked her to come out.However, she had an urge to become friends with each other.

Two embarrassing jokes really seemed to do the trick.If Bai Mo is such a person, maybe he can really become her friend.

When the sun was setting, the laughter of boys playing basketball on the playground came from the other side of the teaching building.Looking down from the roof, there is a lake, the stone bridge on the lake and the green bamboos by the lake stand on the amber water.

"Four or five in the afternoon, here you can see the most beautiful scenery of the school." Bai Mo took out the camera and folding tripod from his schoolbag, "I want you to take a photo for me."

"Just a photo?"

"One is an imaginary number. Of course we need to take a few more."

Hoshino felt that she was right in claiming that she was not good at expressing herself, and besides that, she was not good at receiving other people's thoughts: "I mean, this is just because you want me to take a picture?" She touched it and started to coagulate the wound.

Bai Mo explained: "I am very impatient, and I will be very anxious if others don't do what I say."

"That's why you threatened me with a knife?"

Bai silently flashed the blade between his fingers: "Take a picture."

"..." Well, not only is she impatient, but also straightforward.

The two adjusted their positions. Bai Mo stood in front of the railing, staring at the sky intently. Hoshino held the camera and asked, "Is this position okay?"

"Wait a minute." Bai Mo thought for a while, then turned around and supported the railing, facing the camera with his back, "It's ok."

"Huh? Are you going to shoot with your back to me?"

"If you don't shoot again, I will treat you to eat the blade."

Hoshino continuously pressed the shutter button with the speed of a whack-a-mole nightmare, and the camera made a series of "click, click, click" sounds.

"Enough." Bai Mo turned around.

Hoshino let out a breath, and beckoned her to come over: "Your fingers are numb, you can see for yourself."

Bai Mo clasped the knob with his fingers, and quickly flipped through the photos one by one.Dozens of photos were like animations, completely recording Bai Mo's movement of turning his head.

"Too many shots?"

Bai Mo shook his head, and looked at it from the beginning again: "I will develop the photos for you."

"Did I hear you right? What are you doing for me?"

"Give it to you."

"why?"

"..." Bai Mo was silent for a while, as if he deliberately avoided the topic, "Let's take it as a gift for my former classmates."

Hoshino laughed twice: "Is it because the country is different, I think I think differently from you."

"It may also be because you play too many games."

"...Okay. Keep it for your old classmates." Hoshino patted his schoolbag, "If there is nothing else, let's go."

Let's go... together.

I didn't say the word "together", but this sentence should have this meaning, right?

Hoshino's heart beat nervously.Is it possible to have a real friend?Even a casual word, she has to be so careful.

Bai Mo, who was staring intently at the students passing by under the roof, turned his head: "You go first, I will stay for a while."

"Well, okay." Hoshino pursed his lips, turned and left.

Do you want to wave to her?If he left without any sign, Bai Mo might not feel her kindness.

Hoshino looked back at the stairs, Bai Mo stood alone in the same place, maintaining a farewell posture, his shadow was stretched very long by the setting sun.

……

From an angle that Hoshino could not see, she said something softly.

"The polar night... is coming soon."

polar night track

In the towering dense forest, the ragged girl fled towards the unknown front with her hands and feet on the ground.Sharp stones and barbs on short plant stems were stained with blood.Her panting became louder and her hands and feet became heavier and heavier. In the end, she was almost prostrate on the ground and kept crawling forward.Through the gaps in the leaves, you can see the gradually dimming sky, as if a big hand is pressing down, robbing all the light.After nightfall, it becomes unpredictable and dangerous.Death may be waiting for her ahead, but she must not stop moving forward, absolutely not, because...she can sense that "they" are chasing after her crazily.

"They" are terrifying existences that are even more unknown than the unknown ahead.

In an instant, "they", who were still far apart, suddenly approached her!

Is it useless?The imaginary enemy has a faster speed than oneself, a body that will never tire and a nature of killing.I am sure to die, and soon, this girl named "Hoshino" will fall forever in the dark forest.

What is on the minds of men at the moment when they are certain that they are about to face destruction?

What is going on in people's minds at a time when all the notions on which they live have been overthrown?

The game character operated by Hoshino is called "Hoshino".Now, "Hoshino" was falling in front of her eyes, and the computer screen turned dark red.

She closed her eyes, staring at the screen for a long time, her eyeballs were sore.

……

A strange idea slowly rose in her heart.

"If there is a game like this, where the player who controls the game dies, the player himself will also die, what will the game world look like?"

Will everyone be as cautious and abide by the rules as in the real world, or will gunpowder and war be everywhere, with "kill! killkill!" in your mind, and dead bodies everywhere?

The room was pitch-black, only the street lamps outside the window shone in faintly through the drawn curtains.Fold thousands of angles on the mirror opposite Hoshino.

There is a mirror beside Hoshino's bed.

In many novels and plays, the mirror is regarded as a channel to another world.Placing a mirror at the head of the bed is more terrifying than placing a mirror opposite the head of the bed, giving the person who wakes up in the middle of the night a sense of terror.

The combination of the unknown brought by the mirror itself and the sense of unknown brought by the blind spot is enough to lead the ignorant people astray.

Tonight... no, last night.Hoshino glanced at the time display on the lower right corner of the computer, it was 2:34.Before going to bed last night, she closed the door as usual and lay on the bed, with Bai Mo's words echoing in her mind: "It's too cruel to let him know that he is alone."

For some reason, Hoshino felt a sympathy from it.

I get happiness in the game, but my heart feels empty after quitting.

The game changed a lot of things about itself.Vision, way of thinking, hobbies, and also made myself a transparent person who is no longer noticed.

"Is it because playing games leads to loneliness, and then becomes more dependent on games, creating a vicious circle?"

If so, then it's all her own fault for being addicted to the game.

However, Bai Mo said that.

"It would be cruel to let him know he was alone."

Let her know that she is alone, it is her parents and her former good friends.In other words, for her as a student, these people are all she can get in touch with.

Parents seem to accept her grades, but behind this acceptance is actually their indifference to her.

The silence that her friend responded to her made her realize day by day that she was an incomprehensible alien.

If loneliness wasn't just her fault...

Bai Mo's words are equivalent to telling her: "The reason why you are lonely is the fault of this world."

"So, is it the world's fault?"

"My grades are so poor. I have always had friends who I can talk to, but I feel that no one can really understand me. I worked hard before high school, and I have been pretending to be hard after high school. Every morning I wake up thinking about it. I want to change, but I am unwilling to take even a little action... To sum up, my life is really messed up."

It seems to be set by this world, no matter how hard you struggle, you can't get rid of your established personality.

"Life offline is simply the most trashy game in the world!"

Hoshino simply sat in front of the computer, moved the mouse to brighten the sleeping screen, and created a text file on the desktop, named it "personal design".

"Name: Hoshino, Appearance: An ordinary-looking high school girl with flat chest and ears

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