Forces of Temptation

The time when Hu Li sent this message was late at night on the 23rd.

Hu Li hid under the quilt, sweating profusely, and repeatedly sent WeChat messages to remind Sun Guojing that danger was standing by his bedside.

However, Sun Guojing's mobile phone seemed to be muted, and there was no sound.

He tensed all his muscles, mustered up great courage, and poked out one eye from under the quilt sweating profusely.

The shadow is still there.

Moreover, he is staring at himself closely.

Hu Li saw that it was his own face.

At that time, Hu Li yelled like Sun Guojing who felt something under the bed for the first time.

It is said that this is the sixth time he heard the sound of "rustling".

It is also said that when he screamed, the entire dormitory was silent.

There was no hostess to knock on the door.

Everyone slept soundly, leaving him alone in endless terror.

Hu Li jumped up, turned on the headlights, and frantically shook all the roommates awake.

They all woke up at last.

However, the answers they gave made Hu Li even more horrified.

"Have you had a nightmare?"

"Turn off the lights, it's already 03:30, I have to train tomorrow!"

Hu Li wept bitterly, the more excited he became, the more he couldn't speak clearly, and he bit his tongue anxiously.

He cried vaguely to Sun Guojing: "I can't be dreaming! I sent you a WeChat message! I told you that there is someone next to your bed!!"

Sun Guojing squinted his eyes, reached for the phone, flipped through the records, and threw the phone directly into Hu Li's arms: "Where the fuck did you send it to me? What did you send it to? Are you hysterical?"

The sluggish Hu Li was pushed back into bed by the three brothers.

He curled up in the blanket with sweat and body temperature still there, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

……

The above content is all from Sun Guojing's mobile phone.

Later, Hu Li stayed up all night, recorded everything he had experienced since hearing the "rustling" sound, and sent it to everyone he knew.

He struggled to maintain his last ties with the world.

As for the result, they all know.

AI slowly recited the long essay written by Hu Li.

"Everything has changed since we got in that classroom."

"You can't hear me less and less, and you can't see me less and less."

"Why am I still in the dormitory, and you ask, where did Hu Li go?"

"Why is it just me? Did I do something wrong?"

"When playing football, Jia Ming told me that he heard that sound."

"I told my story but he didn't believe it. Because he only heard it once."

"Let's get together and have a good talk, shall we?"

"I haven't confessed my love to Yinhang yet, but she won't be able to hear my confession now."

"Will my parents forget me too? I don't know if this is good or bad. The good thing is that they won't be sad. The bad thing is...the bad thing is..."

The desperation between the words, and the AI's cold tone, which maintains perfect spacing between each character, form a strong and uncoordinated sense of dislocation.

After listening to this sob, the chill on everyone's body lasted for a long time.

Hu Li's message proves that they have provoked a kind of power.

This power is secretly deceiving their "feelings".

It changed and distorted their cognition, so that when Jiang Fang posted the scary post for fishing, everyone, even Hu Li's classmates, were discussing "Who is Hu Li" with great interest.

Because everyone forgets.

Because of this, no campus legend can accommodate it.

It has always existed in this campus.

After roughly understanding their current situation, Sun Guojing's fear grew stronger, but his mental instability was gradually lifted.

Because confusion is the main factor affecting the san value.

The impact of despair and fear, relatively speaking, is much smaller.

Before Sun Guojing's san value fell to 1, its downward momentum faltered to an end.

Seeing that the trio was so dizzy from the shock of the facts, that they couldn't listen no matter what they said, they decided to leave temporarily.

Before leaving, Jiang Fang left a message, "Contact me if there is something to do."

I don't know if they heard it or not.

……

Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang walked down the stairs slowly.

Nan Zhou said: "In this way, the relationship chain also makes sense."

A total of nine people participated in the party that day.

It goes without saying that Sun Guojing, Luo Ge, Qi Tianyun, and Hu Li are four.

Qi Tianyun took advantage of Xie Xiangyu's weakness in the Department of Mathematics, and threatened him to be his errand boy.

Xie Xiangyu's friend Zuo Jiaming in the same dormitory is also Hu Li's friend.

They often play football together.

...The football they often kicked was the football that was parked against the radiator when they entered the dormitory.

And Hu Li obviously knew and secretly fell in love with Li Yinhang, a girl from the Department of Statistics, so he asked her to play with her.

Because all the people attending the party were boys, Li Yinhang called his high school friend Nanzhou for safety.

Nan Zhou brought his boyfriend Jiang Fang with him.

The missing two links are made up, and the relationship between the characters is completely smooth.

Li Yinhang's complexion was very bad.

Although she is just the player "Li Yinhang" and does not involve in the interpersonal relationship before the dungeon, any person with normal emotions will be shocked when he hears that the person who has a secret love for him disappears into the world without a sound like air. Inevitably sad.

She reluctantly asked: "...why is Hu Li the first?"

As he kept asking, why him?

This was originally an unimportant issue, and it can be summed up in the word "unlucky".

But Nanzhou started to analyze seriously.

Nan Zhou said: "Because he is the most important thing."

Nan Zhou said: "The role of 'Hu Li' is the most important link in the relationship between characters in the copy, connecting Yinhang and the second disappeared Zuo Jiaming. If one of us played the role when we came in, The original character of 'Hu Li', his cell phone would provide too many clues. This would make the copy less interesting."

Nanzhou said: "This is determined by the game settings."

Nanzhou’s logic and way of thinking are as unique as the last World Review’s analysis ghost “can’t give people a bright memory”.

Li Yinhang was already unable to say anything.

For the first time, she had the real feeling that she was being played by the goddamn game of "Gravity".

And just when her spirit was tense, there was an echo-like faint rustling sound in the silent stairway.

No, the source of the sound is not in the stairway.

in her ear canal.

sand……

sand……

"It's coming again..." She whispered in a groaning tone, "Here it is again..."

She covered her ears, sat down on the stairs, and held her head tightly.

With the last bit of strength she said, "I'll sit down."

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang, who had already walked a few steps, stopped.

Noticing that Li Yinhang's shoulders were trembling slightly, Nan Zhou was a little confused.

He wanted to step forward to pat her, but Jiang Fang gently tapped her waist from behind, signaling him not to move yet.

Next, Jiang Fang sat beside Li Yinhang silently.

Nanzhou intends to do the same.

But since Li Yinhang was sitting by the railing, Nan Zhou could only sit next to Jiang Fang, looking at Li Yinhang's condition through him.

Jiang Fang understood Li Yinhang's collapse very well.

Or, to be more precise, she just broke down now, which is already quite bearable.

Looking back at the road they have traveled, in the trial level, although the development was hasty, but fortunately the space is closed, the number of people is limited, and there are traces to follow.

In the first dungeon, the space has been opened up a bit, and the difficulty has also increased, but it is still within a reasonable range.

Although the three teams have occasional disputes, temptations and concealments among each other, they still trust each other in the general direction.

After the end without any risk, in the Douzhuan Casino during the break, he completely defeated the boss Qu Jinsha.

He didn't win a lot, but he was quite cheered up.

Then, just when morale was at its highest, they randomly got this confusing dungeon.

The map is too big at once, but there are too few clues.

Not to mention relying on each other among the three teams, it is good to not count each other or coax each other to die.

Not to mention that there is still a powerful force that they can't fight against at all.

Every minute they live is like opening a blind box.

No one knows who will be erased next.

If their emotions were a raging fire of hope before, the second hurdle was the basin of cold water poured from a high altitude.

In front of them, the clues they found with great difficulty proved their powerlessness even more.

Facing that force, they don't seem to have any initiative at all.

As the dungeon requirements say, "alive" and "not crazy", it is already very difficult to do these two things.

Jiang Fang was thinking, Nan Zhou was thinking, and of course Li Yinhang was thinking too.

After carefully counting his emotional trend, Li Yinhang cheered up a little.

Because she has worked as a customer service, her ability to withstand stress is quite OK.

She rubbed her face and raised her head: "I'm fine..."

...Then she saw the apple that Nan Zhou raised in front of her and shrank back.

Nan Zhou hugged the apple, a little bit reluctantly said: "...It's fine when it's done."

But in the end, the apple was broken into three pieces by Nan Zhou, and they were divided among three people.

After consuming a little sugar, Li Yinhang's pale complexion finally got better.

She said: "I didn't like to eat apples before. Now I think it's a good thing to be able to eat them."

"I love apples." Nan Zhou said, "I never ate apples when I was young. When I grow up, I like them."

Li Yinhang let out an ah, and his mind couldn't help but move.

She has always had a marginal feeling with the two big guys.

Even during the days when they lived together, they were just talking about which snack bar was cheaper.

This was the first time she heard Nan Zhou mention his past.

Li Yinhang suddenly wanted to confide in him.

She lowered her head, her expression could not conceal her frustration: "I miss my parents."

Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou looked calm.

Although according to common sense, the parents of 24-year-old Li Yinhang should also be in the game.

But according to how Li Yinhang was more concerned about the safety of her roommate after being brought into the dungeon, her parents should at least be safe.

Li Yinhang said softly: "They are all in the 'cocoon room' in the next city,"

"I was born when my mother was 39 years old."

"I have a sister who had an accident when she was 17. My mother only wanted me."

"Her name is Li Yinhang, so I am also called Li Yinhang. But they all love me and treat me very well."

"She will always be 17 years old. I don't want my parents to think of me when they are 24 years old, and they can only think of me at the age of [-]."

After pouring out the greatest fear in his heart, Li Yinhang buried his face in his palms, calmed down his emotions, and then changed his tense, weeping tone to normal: "What about you?"

"It is true that both my parents died and I came back from Ukraine."

Jiang Fang has long hands and legs, and when stretched out on the stairs, the scale is amazing, and it looks good no matter how you manipulate it.

He put his elbows on his knees casually, and said: "My mother used to be from City C. When I came back, I wanted to live here, take a walk, and see if the places she mentioned to me before are still there. .”

Li Yinhang asked: "Brother Fang, what exactly do you do?"

Jiang Fang laughed and said, "I'm not lying, I'm really a vagrant."

It's Nanzhou's turn.

Nan Zhou said: "I have parents and a younger sister."

He thought for a while, and added: "I don't know where they are now."

There was no emotion in his face or heart.

After getting along these days, Li Yinhang could see that although Nan Zhou was not good at expressing his heart, he was cold on the outside and hot on the inside.

A person who can say "you must have the ability to protect yourself" will not be an indifferent person.

...But he didn't want to mention his relatives more.

After finally having such an opportunity to communicate with each other, they can shorten the distance and upgrade their thighs to friendship thighs. Li Yinhang asked with a very positive attitude: "Mr. Nan, where did you go to university?"

Nan Zhou replied concisely: "Xinhua."

Xinhua College?

The art and design department of that school is indeed well-known throughout the country.

"And then you took the teaching qualification test after graduation?"

Nan Zhou: "Yes."

"Is the child easy to teach?"

"It's hard."

"Do you mainly teach watercolor, drawing or oil painting?"

"Teach them all."

Li Yinhang felt that he was clenching his molars and chatting forcefully.

Facts have proved that Nan Zhou only talks a lot when he wants to talk.

Seeing that this heart-to-heart trip was going to end here in Nanzhou, Li Yinhang casually asked without hope: "Have you ever talked about a girlfriend?"

... Nan Zhou stopped talking.

Li Yinhang: "..."

Li Yinhang: "?"

Li Yinhang: "???"

You are not right.

Aware of the silence beside him, Jiang Fang also turned his head.

"Mr. Nan, do you have any?" He said with a light smile, "I don't seem to know this part either."

Nan Zhou looked up at the two of them.

After a long silence, he opened his mouth.

"Don't you think that Xie Xiangyu is strange?"

Li Yinhang: "..."

How can a smart person like Nanzhou be so blunt in breaking the topic?