Forces of Temptation

the other side.

Sun Guojing and the others managed to come up with some decent reasoning, and of course they were not willing to give up their guess easily.

That night, 07:30.

They followed the order again, and let Qi Tianyun, who heard the least number of rustling noises, enter classroom 403 first.

Then Luo Ge dragged Sun Guojing in together.

The three of them spent the whole night inside in fear, and none of them dared to close their eyes.

The results are still not satisfactory.

After a hard night, at eight o'clock on Sunday morning, the 65th hour after entering the dungeon, Sun Guojing ushered in the penultimate rustle of his life in the endless and terrifying imagination.

That power seems to like leaving time for people to ruminate constantly, to fully appreciate the fear before death.

But probably because he almost fell from a building and had a brush with death once, Sun Guojing calmed down a lot this time, and he didn't go crazy. After a short-term drop, his San value immediately recovered.

It's just that they are still full of confusion.

Where did their deduction go wrong?

How can I end this copy?

The 120-hour game is only halfway through, but Sun Guojing's life seems to be only today.

When they walked out of the only exit on the east fifth floor with three pairs of dark circles and wandering spirits, they saw Nanzhou head-on.

Nan Zhou was sitting under a maple tree directly opposite the gate of the building, with a set of sketching tools at his feet.

He must have been sitting here for a while, because a piece of protruding bone on the side of his right wrist was stained black with charcoal pencil, and together with the black sweater on the cuffs, his skin was exceptionally bright white .

... He seemed to be sleeping well, and even had the time to change into a new set of clothes.

Nan Zhou greeted the confused trio: "Morning."

He specifically reminded himself to pay attention to Sun Guojing.

After staring for a long time, he finally saw the person who was guarded by Qi Tianyun and Luo Ge.

Sun Guojing has now heard the rustling sound for the sixth time, and he is the most worthy of observation.

Nanzhou is summarizing the law of the influence of "rustling" sound on people.

After hearing three rustling sounds and seeing a supernatural phenomenon once, one's sense of existence will be weakened.

Just like Nan Zhou himself who went back to the dormitory to prepare for the exam that day.

But this change is very slight.

If you are not sensitive enough, you may not notice it.

The qualitative change occurs after hearing the sixth rustle.

People's own sense of existence will be sharply reduced, and the ability to communicate with the outside world will also be severely weakened.

This is true objectively, and it is also true in the eyes of others.

That morning, the reason why Sun Guojing was collectively forgotten in classroom 403 was because everyone's condition happened to be not very OK.

Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun just woke up from a hangover.

Jiang Fang only slept for half an hour, and the blood supply to the brain seriously affected his judgment.

Li Yinhang slept so badly that his back ached and he woke up several times during the night. When he woke up groggy, he simply acted as a little tail, tucked behind himself and Jiang Fang, and didn't use his brain much.

As for Nan Zhou, it was not easy for him to wake up for quite a while after he woke up.

Fortunately, after hearing six "rustling" sounds, he would not be sentenced to death.

Although after entering this stage, it is difficult to attract the attention of others without making physical contact with others or making some shocking movements.

However, at least everyone still has the concept of "Sun Guojing" in their minds.

All in all, they would subconsciously forget about the existence of Sun Guojing.

But this "subconsciousness" is not insurmountable.

In this dungeon, there will be three "rustling" sounds as a stage, and each stage will have a qualitative change.

After the ninth time, Sun Guojing would probably become the same existence as Hu Li and Zuo Jiaming. Because they did not exist at all, they were judged as "dead" by the system.

...and even more miserable.

Hu Li and Zuo Jiaming are important clue characters and part of the game's puzzle solving.

But once Sun Guojing "died", Nan Zhou was worried that everyone would completely forget everything about him.

Including him as a person, and the patterns and clues observed in him.

They even wanted to find out who Sun Guojing was from the beginning, just like Zuo Jiaming and Hu Li.

Once this happens, it will be too troublesome.

It also affects the score too much.

After all, for Nan Zhou, he didn't think he had more than 50 hours of game time at all.

As long as Sun Guojing is dead, his game will be largely lost.

The other two led Sun Guojing and approached Nan Zhou who was thinking: "... Teacher Nan, what are you doing?"

They learned this name from Jiang Fang.

Although the tone is awkward, but the attitude is sincere enough.

Nan Zhou raised the sketchbook and charcoal pencil in his hand: "Our architecture department has to hand in hand-painted homework every week."

The trio: "..."

Awesome.

convinced.

This role-playing is really useful for him to play.

Qi Tianyun asked again: "Where are your two friends?"

Nan Zhou paused for a moment, and continued to draw.

Nan Zhou: "I also have many friends."

Qi Tianyun was puzzled: "... huh?"

Qi Tianyun: "Ah... I'm talking about your two teammates, where are they going?"

"Brother Fang and Yinhang went to look for Xie Xiangyu." Nan Zhou lowered his head and said, "Brother Fang said that maybe because there is one person missing, we didn't succeed."

When the three of them heard the words, their spirits lifted together.

Yup!

The essence of this copy is PVE, maybe it requires a high degree of cooperation between players?

Find Xie Xiangyu, gather seven people together, and then enter 403, maybe you will succeed!

The three of them bid farewell to Nanzhou immediately after being pointed out the direction of their next move.

For them, even if there is only a glimmer of hope now, even if it is a spider thread hanging from hell, or a straw emerging from the whirlpool, they must firmly grasp it to death.

After the three left, Nan Zhou continued to finish his homework.

He has a strong sense of space, his brushwork is sure and precise, and his lines are quite crisp and neat.

But he is not like a professional art student who draws sketches, first draws a perspective composition with a pencil, and then enriches the details with a needle pen.

After setting a few basic points, he selected a window on the first floor, and using it as the starting point, he quickly flattened out the entire picture.

After finishing, Nan Zhou held up the sketchbook and compared it.

But his peripheral vision stayed behind.

He came here alone, not just to finish his homework.

He didn't believe that after Xie Xiangyu made up his mind to kill, one failure could make him give up.

This is the way he chooses to play.

Now that the path of cooperation has been cut off, Xie Xiangyu can only go to the end.

He still has the advantage now, so he must hurry up and act.

Otherwise, once Sun Guojing was killed by that force, it would be his turn next.

And his order was an opportunity specially created for Xie Xiangyu.

I just don't know if he will take the bait or not.

If Nan Zhou were to follow Xie Xiangyu's indiscriminate killing style, his first choice would be himself.

Solve the hardest one first, and the next ones will be much easier.

But he is not Xie Xiangyu, and he doesn't know him well, so he can only try a little.

The worst result was not being able to wait for him.

But even so, it was worthwhile for me to at least finish the original owner's weekly homework.

It can be said that Nanzhou guessed half of it right.

Xie Xiangyu's first choice to kill was indeed not him.

But his fishing moves worked.

Xie Xiangyu is now standing silently half a step away from him, playing with a homemade throat breaker with his hands behind his back, leaning over with a smile on his face to appreciate the masterpiece of sketch he just completed.

But looking at it, Xie Xiangyu's expression changed subtly.

He was thoughtful: "Oh..."

Almost at the same time, Nan Zhou also frowned.

He kept his gaze on Lou, and then on his homework.

After looking back and forth several times, he stood up and walked to the east fifth floor,

"Maybe..." Nan Zhou said to himself, "Maybe."

Xie Xiangyu suggested, "Why don't you give it a try?"

Nan Zhou couldn't hear it.But he took action as Xie Xiangyu said.

The east fifth floor is a four-story teaching building with red and black matte bricks, facing south.

Its appearance is not a square shape, and the four corners are somewhat blunt arc-shaped.

The entrance is the stairwell, straight up and down, and there are no special tricks inside. There is no back corridor, and the shape is rather simple. There is only a straight corridor, and rows of classrooms are scattered opposite each other.

There is nothing wrong with Nan Zhou's painting, and every detail corresponds to the East Fifth Building in front of him.

Nan Zhou walked to the side of the fifth east floor and closed his eyes.

He tried his best to block the interference of external senses on his perception, and walked forward step by step while holding on to the bricks on the outer wall.

One step, two steps, three steps.

And Xie Xiangyu was beside him, following his footsteps, doing the same thing as him.

Meditate, count your steps, and try to keep your stride constant.

Nan Zhou walked all the way from the east end of the building to the west end, and after jotting down a rough data, he entered the interior of the fifth east floor.

The empty corridor was silent.

The light source in the morning with a little flying dust, like a gentle net of light, spread all over Nan Zhou's body, forming a phantom that captured him in the palm.

On the first floor, Nan Zhou repeated the action just now.

From east to west, he used his steps to measure the past bit by bit.

After calculating the area of ​​the building itself, the length of the corridor on the first floor is about the same as that of the outside.

Then he went directly to the fourth floor.

Xie Xiangyu went upstairs with him with his hands behind his back, watching his profile from the side, admiring and jumping in his heart, and couldn't help but want to support his chin several times, and use the throat crusher to squeeze his beautiful Adam's apple one time.

But each time he got over it with willpower.

Nan Zhou still stood at one end of the corridor on the fourth floor, facing the large floor-to-ceiling windows at the other end.

403 is the only lecture theater in the whole building, located in the center of the corridor.

In addition, looking around, its layout and length are no different from the corridor on the first floor, and it also completely matches the layout of the classroom layout on the fifth floor on the east side of the stairs.

Nan Zhou closed his eyes.

The light from the other side of the corridor weaves a thin blood network on the capillaries of his eyes.

He leaned on the wall and walked forward slowly.

The reason why he wanted to try this was because when Nan Zhou was looking at his homework, he realized something that he hadn't noticed before.

His sense of space is pretty good.

Therefore, he found that the corridor on the fourth floor of the fifth floor in the east seemed to be a little longer than it looked from the outside in his memory.

At present, all their text messages and conversations only mentioned that the meeting place they met seven days before entering the copy was on the fifth floor of the east.

...But there was no text message, not even a single one, that mentioned that they went to classroom 403.

Even in Zuo Jiaming's death message before the start of the game instance, 403 was not mentioned.

In his confiding text messages, Hu Li also said that "everything has changed since we entered that classroom".

Before, why did they take it for granted that they went to 403?

Because classroom 403 is where the physical education department holds major classes.

The key to classroom 403 is in the hands of Sun Guojing.

The party was again organized by the quartet from the sports department.

In order, Hu Li was the first to enter the range of influence of that force, and Zuo Jiaming was the second.

Therefore, they naturally deduced that Hu Li got the key from his roommate Sun Guojing and went directly to classroom 403 at night.

But what if the key is with Sun Guojing from the beginning to the end?

Nan Zhou, who had been to the lecture theater once, found that the lecture theater was too wide, and what could be used was the not-so-large space between the tables, chairs and the podium.

Although there are projection screens that can be used to watch movies, judging from the large number of board games they brought that day, their main purpose was not movies.

In other words, it's not a good place for gatherings of people.

What if, after playing football, Hu Li, who arrived on the fifth floor ahead of time and was waiting for Sun Guojing to open the door, accidentally found a more suitable place for gatherings on the fourth floor?

It might be right next to 403.

Maybe it's not locked.

Maybe better for parties.

It doesn't exist on the structure diagram on the fifth floor of the east, and it doesn't exist before seven o'clock at night.

It is quietly dormant in a corner of the fifth floor on the east, breathing, living, and no one knows.

Only occasionally the tip of the iceberg was exposed, silently opening the door to the ignorant Hu Li.

That's why Zuo Jiaming said that they went to a "place that doesn't exist".

……

Nan Zhou touched the window lattice at the end of the corridor.

He held the window, opened his eyes, walked back to the original place again, and set off again.

Nan Zhou took the picture he had drawn and walked around the fourth floor several times according to the arrangement of the windows.

Obviously the corridors are the same length from the outside.

However, the fourth floor is 15 steps more than the outside.

...12 steps more than the first floor.

After repeated measurements, Nan Zhou determined that the extra 12 steps were right next to classroom 403.

It's just that there is no door there.

There are no windows outside.

The useless work of these two days has found the reason.

the reason is simple.

... They simply went to the wrong classroom.

After many trials, Nan Zhou exhaled, rubbed his eyes, and planned to call Jiang Fang.

He shifted his gaze to the side, and then paused slightly.

...He saw another shadow that was vaguely superimposed on his own reflection.

And the weird pen in his hand.

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