Forces of Temptation

The sunshine outside the window is just right.

Tree shadows, halos, and pure golden light sifting through the leaves.

On the surface, this is an ordinary afternoon journey.

But upon closer inspection, the direction, distribution, and brightness of the light outside are too monotonous.

The rapidly receding light spots on the ground repeated the same shape at intervals of ten meters.

Like a game scene that isn't fully rendered.

Jiang Fang leaned against the bus window, observing the monotonous exterior scene.

And Nan Zhou concentrated on studying the bracelets that fastened the two of them.

Jiang Fang: "Relax. At the end, it might open itself."

Nan Zhou: "No."

Jiang Fang: "Why?"

Nan Zhou affirmed: "That mushroom doesn't like me, it won't unlock me."

Jiang Fang couldn't help laughing: "Then what are you going to do?"

Nan Zhou stretched out his hand to hold the junction of the two silver rings.

"This is very simple..."

Jiang Fang stared at him.

Nan Zhou maintained a still movement, thought for a moment, and asked a somewhat strange question: "This should not be opened."

"Yes." Jiang Fang replied with a smile, "The workmanship is quite solid."

Nan Zhou immediately sat back to his original position: "Forget it. Let's talk about it at the end."

Jiang Fang laughed, relaxed his body, and lay down on his back.

At this time, Nan Zhou was in the mood to take a closer look at Jiang Fang.

His eyelashes and skin are light in color and are easily colored by the sun.

The choker was pressed against the skin of his neck, just above his Adam's apple.

The slight movement of the Adam's apple, the soft black leather also rises and falls, it looks very...

Very tempting to poke.

other people:"……"

They huddled in the middle of the carriage, looked at the handcuffed couple, and dared not speak.

So Li Yinhang sat closer to them.

When Nan Zhou's fingers on the side of the seat were about to move, he heard Li Yinhang say: "Thank you. If it weren't for you, we might really hang up here. The best result...I'm afraid a few people will die."

Nanzhou's index finger scratched twice on the textile car seat cover, and reluctantly withdrew from touching his Adam's apple.

He turned his head, nodded silently at Li Yinhang, and accepted the thank you frankly.

"Actually, Miss Li is not bad." Jiang Fang rolled his eyes with a smile, "Didn't you also judge that the fat man might be a ghost?"

Nan Zhou looked at Li Yinhang curiously.

Li Yinhang squeezed his ears embarrassedly, and explained: "I have been paying attention to the reports of disappearances for the past few days. At least for now, there is no record of children under the age of 18 disappearing."

After Li Yinhang's little call, the others showed signs of awakening.

——According to the age at which the fat man blew himself up, even if he got married at the legal age of 22, it was unlikely that he would raise children over 18.

So he should... have no daughter at all.

"He may be a player who entered the game earlier, so he doesn't know about it." Li Yinhang continued to explain, "But I can't make random judgments. In case someone plays wildly, he has a girlfriend in college... right?"

Nan Zhou nodded: "Great."

I have to say that when Nan Zhou is indifferent and flattering others, his charm value is quite max.

"I just got lucky." Li Yinhang rubbed his ears red, "I never thought of using the environment and making up fake names to dig holes for 'ghosts'."

Nan Zhou said: "This is not what I observed."

Nan Zhou said: "Because I wasn't in this car before, I was teleported here."

He paused, and added: "And I'm really not very good at making up names."

Li Yinhang: "..."

other people:"……"

Everyone expressed indigestion to Nan Zhou's answer.

Li Yinhang felt that his CPU was running too fast, and he might explode: "Wait a minute...then how can you be sure that you are not a 'ghost'?"

"Because no one told me that teleportation is a 'ghost'." Nan Zhou was very calm and confident, "Since there are no rules in the game, of course I am not."

Li Yinhang and others: "..." There seems to be nothing wrong with this logic.

Jiang Fang supported his hand with one hand and looked at him: "Then where did you teleport it from?"

Nan Zhou looked back at him: "Same problem."

Jiang Fang: "Huh?"

Nan Zhou: "Where did you teleport it from?"

Everyone:"……"

Many people almost had cerebral infarction on the spot.

Jiang Fang stared at Nan Zhou for a long while, then smiled and said, "I thought I was well disguised."

"It's really good. I'm just skeptical." Nan Zhou looked back at him, "It's just that it's confirmed now."

Jiang Fang: "Why do you doubt me?"

Nan Zhou: "When you guys spoke in the first round, I kept listening."

As he said that, he glanced at the stunned Li Yinhang: "If you were really sitting in front of her, then from the time she spoke to the time you rescued her, it took you too long."

"It's just a matter of one sentence to resolve her predicament. But you didn't do it."

"Besides that you don't want to stand in line, there is another reasonable explanation: At that time, you needed information and a teammate who could testify for you."

"So, you may be sent here just like me, and like the 'ghost'."

Nan Zhou's voice was purely declarative, without any waves.

"The order of self-introduction is from the back to the front. Mr. Zhao provided too little information. If Ms. Li can't provide enough information, it will be difficult for you to speak next."

"Without information, you will be suspected."

"If you can't be sure that she is alone and has no one to testify for her, she will not be your teammate as a logical one."

"Of course, because Ms. Li gave enough information, as long as you are someone who is as familiar with City C as Fatty, it's not difficult to deduce the driving route of this car and make an identity for yourself."

After finishing speaking, Nanzhou turned to look at Li Yinhang: "This is a reasonable way to play the game. You don't need to be nervous."

Li Yinhang: "..." Although there were not many of them, they were still somewhat comforted.

After all, Jiang Fang's smile to her was too warm and natural, even though she herself had doubts about Jiang Fang before, she still couldn't bear to tell her all of this was false now.

Moreover, once he knew that Jiang Fang was also a teleporter, his reaction speed to many doubts at that time was terrifying.

What Nan Zhou discovered was actually more than what he said.

For example, the driving recorder was always there, why did Jiang Fang wait until everyone was arguing, and then suddenly proposed to check the driving recorder, so as to catch the first "ghost"?

Nanzhou didn't believe that it was Jiang Fang's sudden idea.

Because that time, that atmosphere, was too accurate.

It's as ingenious as a card.

…It was as ingenious as capturing Li Yinhang's most desperate moment of isolation and testifying for her again.

There is only one reasonable explanation: he is waiting for everyone to have a dispute.

Only when the group's emotions are in a state of indignation, when everyone's emotions are mobilized and turned around again, is the true emotion hardest to conceal, and his deceit is the easiest to succeed.

Nan Zhou thought, Jiang Fang is really special.

Nan Zhou turned around, only to find that Jiang Fang looked at him with something in his eyes that he couldn't understand.

Nan Zhou: "...?"

Jiang Fang quickly asked again: "Then why don't you suspect that I am a ghost?"

"I had doubts." Nan Zhou nodded happily, "When you took the dash cam, I suspected that you were trying to gain the initiative by selling your teammates."

"...Later, you became convinced that the fat man was a 'ghost' and brought out Qin Yadong, so I was not the first suspect."

Jiang Fang narrowed his eyes a little, and said to himself softly with a laugh: "So that's the case.... So you're not just pretending."

Nan Zhou didn't hear clearly: "...what?"

"Just because of this?"

Not only did Jiang Fang not answer his question, but he began to ask: "Is there no other reason to judge that I am not a 'ghost'?"

Nan Zhou was a little confused: "Have you revealed any flaws yet?"

After a brief silence, Jiang Fang replied, "No."

His expression management is really top-notch, and in the blink of an eye, Nan Zhou discovered that all the small details that were out of control on his face had been dealt with cleanly.

...still that beautiful and gentlemanly smile.

"Good job," he said.

The other people in the car were all silent, shut up in amazement.

Is this the big brother's riddle routine?

wonderful.

farewell.

Can't understand.

Nan Zhou was also incomprehensible.

However, he is used to pondering slowly on his own if he doesn't understand.

"My name is Nan Zhou, 23 years old. Art teacher." Nan Zhou introduced himself, "What about you?"

Jiang Fang looked down at his outstretched hand.

On the inside of his wrist was a black butterfly flapping its wings.

Very beautiful.

He quickly held that hand, and said gently, "Jiang Fang, 25 years old. Unemployed."

Others: Believe in your ghosts.

They haven't seen an art teacher who can break a human tooth and a vagrant who doesn't look like a vagrant.

"Just sit like this for a while." Jiang Fang didn't seem to expect others to believe his words, "The end is coming soon."

Nan Zhou let out an "um" and obediently remained silent.

The vehicle was driving smoothly, and was about to lead a car of people to an unknown place.

A small bump moved from Nan Zhou's shoulder to the cuff of his left hand.

Nan Jixing grabbed the silver ring on his left wrist with his tiny paws, and pushed his butt out from the cuff.

It squatted among the overlapping silver rings, looked left and right, then put its whole chin to Nan Zhou's gaping tiger's mouth, opened its round eyes, and looked at Jiang Fang.

Jiang Fang smiled at it, raised his right index finger, and stroked its soft forehead.

...Knead it so that it can't stop humming.

Nan Zhou thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't know what flaws Jiang Fang had exposed that he didn't know about.

Just as he was about to ask, the vehicle broke into the last tunnel of their short journey without warning.

In the complete darkness, he heard Jiang Fang laugh very lightly.

"That's good too," he said, "how about we...start from scratch."

Before Nanzhou could react in time, the dark night suddenly dissipated, and it suddenly became clear.

In front of you is...an ordinary parking lot.

The bus stopped slowly in a parking space, obeying the rules very well.

Before the door could be opened, a muscular steel rabbit about two and a half meters high jumped out of the air and landed in front of the car, shaking the whole car with a bang.

Amidst the "fuck me" and screams in the car, Nan Zhou thought, the original DM really ran away in anger.

Mushrooms are really fragile creatures.

Rabbit obviously didn't know why he was called to take over by his colleagues.

With a joyful flick of its ears, it declared—

"There are 9 people in the human camp, and 8 people survived."

"Winner's rating: A+!"

"Congratulations, everyone, this is a rare high score in the trial level."

"Every human player will be rewarded with 300 base points."

"Additional contribution points total 1000 points. Players Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang each contribute 450 points; player Li Yinhang contributes 100 points."

"The trial level is over, I am your guide, Pika!"

"Welcome to the players - officially come to the world of "Gravity"!"