dramatic death

Dong Tiantian was shocked by the crying sound from behind.

In the 20 years since he was born, he has never doubted the resilience of the little girl. After all, the older sisters in their family are all very powerful.

But Ke Xinyan is different. From a distance, this girl is a finely carved jade flower in the circle of ladies in Central City. Her every frown and smile are measured by her grandmother with a ruler. It is impossible to make a little bit out of line. To put it more closely, Ke Xinyan has always been an elegant lady during the three years she lived in this crappy school. She speaks softly and never blushes with others, nor does she complain because of trivial matters.

Dong Tiantian's impression of her was still "gentle and gentle", and he hadn't seen how to update the information package in the past few years, but at this very moment, he suddenly saw this little girl like "Yamato Nadeko" standing behind him. With an aura that can be called a sumo wrestling battle, he swung the blood-stained fire axe in his hand, shouted and chopped off his sister's head.

— Fuck.

Dong Tiantian's neck felt cold when he saw it, and he felt a cold current rushing through his body.

In fact, a few minutes ago, he once had the idea of ​​killing Ke Xinyan. After all, according to the urine nature of the game Hakoniwa Online, nine of the ten NPCs will mutate in the future, and leaving one Ke Xinyan probably won’t grow. Why? Good "things", it is better to eliminate potential safety hazards in advance.

But the anti-social behavior of "killing people" is not practiced just by practice. The degree of fidelity of Hakoniwa Online has reached 70%, and the NPC before the mutation is no different from ordinary people.Dong Tiantian thought that he didn't have any eccentricities to be satisfied by killing people. If Ke Xinyan were to be chopped off with an axe, it would be a nightmare for ten or eight years.

——Speaking of which, at the end of the third Hakoniwa Project three years ago, what happened to Miss Ke?

He vaguely remembered that the records archived by the Academy of Sciences at that time were "five survivors", and it was certain that only An Qi and Yin Tong were among the personnel, and the remaining three were almost all "missing".Those who can enter this school are not the "wild boys" who struggled in the abandoned city, or the rich and powerful "young masters" in Central City. It is normal to leave any one, and it is not surprising how many people survived.

——but five is still a bit short.

Dong Tiantian thought.

——What happened in the third Hakoniwa project, did the GM drive the bulldozers and bury the students?

While thinking about it, he listened to Yintong's live broadcast on the light screen. Before he had time to think about whether to send Ke Xinyan back to the resurrection point, he caught a glimpse of the quiet and well-behaved little girl in the past raising the fire ax in her hand. , let's do it first.

She probably didn't know that she would have to wait six hours for the corpse to be picked up. She was full of eyes that her sister might grow into a zombie who was neither human nor ghost. The moment she escaped from danger, she screamed and cried to see her off The younger sister was crowned with bliss, and chopped the opponent into pieces with an axe.

Dong Tiantian looked shocked, and even reflexively wanted to stop her, but the words he wanted to say slurped in his mouth and swallowed back - he couldn't speak, so maybe he wanted to sign with Ke Xinyan explain?

——Stop making trouble, what if Ms. Ke treats me like a zombie with uncoordinated limbs?

——What's more, Ke Xinyu here is just an NPC, even if she wasn't an NPC, she would be dead.

——First he was hacked with an ax in the middle, and then his neck was bitten off by Cheng Mingque. This is considered a dead body, and he is probably a poor little wobbler.

Dong Tiantian was shocked by the executioner who was full of "Yamato Nadeshiko" in his imagination, and turned his feet to retreat directly. Anyway, he still has to go downstairs to get the key. If he can't, he will wait until he comes up.

However, Ke Xinyan didn't seem to think so. Holding the fire ax in both hands, she called out to Dong Tiantian.

"Student Dong," she probably cried hard just now, her voice was a little hoarse, but still soft, "If I don't trouble you, can you please take me with you? You are going to leave now Lou took the key, right? I also learned fencing and horsemanship when I was at home, so I won’t cause you any trouble.”

Dong Tiantian twitched the corner of his mouth, Xindao fencing and horsemanship are not the same type of weapon as the fire ax in your hand, girl, you can wield different weapons so vigorously, presumably your martial arts attainments are not ordinary.

But you can't say that in the answer on the surface. In fact, Dong Tiantian can't say anything.Restricted by the rules of the game, he couldn't even utter a single word, he could only look at Ke Xinyan, and waved his hand as a gesture of rejection.

——No, I can't take you.

He tried to express such a meaning, and Miss Ke understood it, but she shook her head and stretched out her hand, tapping a few times in mid-air.

—she seemed to be tapping a screen of light.

Dong Tiantian thought.

——But why does she have a light screen?

Dong Tiantian took two steps back in an instant, and even clenched the fire ax in his hand, intending to preemptively strike if the situation was wrong, and give Ke Xinyan a firm opening ceremony first.However, Miss Ke seemed to be much calmer than him—at least in terms of actions. With her tear-stained face on her face, the little girl took out her handkerchief and wiped the bloody ax handle, and looked at Dong Tiantian. She bent her lips and smiled, as comfortable as arranging flowers at home.

She said, "Why don't you take me? At least I know more than you."

"At least I can talk, you can't."

Dong Tiantian was taken aback for a moment.

Ke Xinyan's words made him doubt his IQ in an instant, and even questioned whether Dr. Chen's source of information was correct.If the rules of this dungeon are "hide and seek" of "cannot speak", then why did Ke Xinyan get the privilege of "can speak"?If this dungeon is a "talking" game, then why is Dr. Chen lying to them?

——How did this dungeon work?Does Chen Yan want something else?

Holding the fire ax, Dong Tiantian took two steps towards Ke Xinyan, facing the little girl's smiling face, he was about to ask something, but he heard Yin Tong gasped from the opposite side of the light screen, and said softly.

"I'm out of the classroom and I'm standing in the hallway outside the front door."

"Then just now, I wrote the number '4' on the wall opposite the front door, next to the '3' written by Xia Zexing."

……

What do the numbers on the wall really mean?

In dormitory 335 about a day ago, Yin Tong also thought of this strange question.His clues at that time came from a previous nightmare. The classroom that kept appearing gradually overlapped with the dungeon scene following Chen Yan’s words, leaving only the dark sunset in the corridor and a string of numbers written outside the front door of the classroom. .

"5, 4, 3, 2"

- "That's the countdown."

At that time, Chen Yan also wrote down such a series of numbers on the white paper on the wall, and then turned around and gave such an explanation.

——"If any of you are unlucky enough to return to the classroom on the third floor, such as Yin Tong; or unfortunately experienced a chase on the third floor, such as Xia Zexing who is struggling at the front line, you should be able to face the front door of the classroom On that wall, I saw such a bloody countdown."

——"Unfortunately, this is not a decoration," Chen Yan pulled off the cap of the marker pen, and wrote the names of all the people present under the numbers in turn, "There are 5 people in our group, which means The number of players participating in the game after the dungeon starts is 5, so in the first game of hide-and-seek, Christie, who is a ghost, will write on the wall the 'number' she wants to catch - 5."

——"That is to say," Dong Tiantian raised his hand and asked, "The so-called countdown is the number of players that the 'ghost' will kill."

——Chen Yan smiled, and he said: "It can be said that. But it can also be understood from another angle. For example, this countdown is actually the number of our remaining companions."

Currently only companions left: 3 people.

Yin Tong knew this number. After all, the management authority of the chat room was in his hands. When An Qi went offline, he opened the system prompt box, and naturally he could also see Xia Zexing's suddenly darkened profile picture.

However, when Classmate Xia left, no logout notification popped up, probably because of his character——as "Xia Zexing", he had already become a "dead person" in the system's judgment.

But just because Yintong knew it, it didn't mean that Dong Tiantian also knew it.In the first three rounds of the game, Dong has been on the move, and being able to occasionally pay attention to the group news is considered conscientious, and it is impossible to stop and analyze the current situation carefully.

He agreed to Ke Xinyan's request to form a team half a minute ago, and now he is running downstairs with Miss Ke in front of him.

While paying attention to the stairs under his feet while checking the light screen in front of him, he didn't even realize the strangeness of this number until after a while.

With trembling fingers, he asked in the team chat room: 【Three people left? 】

Who is offline?Why offline?Why didn't he even say hello when he went offline?

--wrong.

Dong Tiantian's thoughts stopped suddenly, something flashed through his mind, before he could sort out his thoughts, the sudden incident in front of him intercepted his remaining consciousness.He was almost dazzled, he didn't have time to see what happened in front of him, he only felt a stagger under his feet, and Ke Xinyan had already run up the steps back by pulling his sleeves.

The empty corridor was filled with the sound of chaotic footsteps, and the biting winter wind blew into the dim sunset.The long and narrow stairwell suddenly felt cold, and before he knew it, Dong Tiantian's hands and feet trembled and his back felt cold.

He could feel his breathing getting heavier and heavier, he could feel something slowly approaching, and the sound of heavy footsteps came from the steps behind him, once and for all, it was as if a small ice pick was hitting him on the heart.

"Clap."

"Clap."

It was like there was a giant stuffed toy wobbling up the stairs behind him.

"Clap."

"Clap."

Ke Xinyan yanked open the back door of a classroom on the second floor, and dragged Dong Tiantian straight in.Leaning against the solid door panel, she kept panting heavily, and her whole body was trembling with fear. From the corner of her eye, she saw that Dong Tiantian was still in a daze, and she stretched out her hands to cover his eyes involuntarily.

--what is that?

Through his blurred vision, Dong Tiantian saw something flash past the light-transmitting window of the back door.

That thing looked like a huge doll, as if it was drunk, it swayed past the back door of the classroom, its footsteps were dull and heavy, as if it would pout its buttocks and hand over the activity day balloons in a second.

It seemed to glance into the door, and it seemed that it didn't turn its head at all. Before Dong Tiantian could see clearly, Ke Xinyan covered his eyes, and he could only freeze in place like a puppet that lost its pulling string.

--what is that?

He heard Ke Xinyan sigh softly.The little girl seemed to be still shaking, her palms were as cold as ice soaked in cold water.

"Don't look," she said, "that's the Watcher."

——What is "monitor"?

"Under normal circumstances, these monitors live in the mirror at the save point, and they don't wander around in the copy like they are now." Ke Xinyan said, "There are only two conditions for them to come out, either someone violates the rules, or Someone set them out on purpose."

Ke Xinyan put down her hands, turned her head and glanced out of the light-transmitting window.

"In all copies of this game, the closed environment can be equivalent to a safe house, such as the classroom we are in now, such as the dormitory at the beginning. So when hiding, you must pay attention to whether the room is in a 'closed' state, monitor Generally, you will not enter the closed 'safe house' unless you meet him."

Ke Xinyan looked at Dong Tiantian, and said emphatically, "Don't look at him unless you want to invite him in."

——Same as ghost legend?

"Well, it's the same as ghost legends."

Ke Xinyan seemed to have guessed what he wanted to ask, and gave the answer neatly.The soft-spoken little girl didn't seem to notice that she had revealed too many things that shouldn't be revealed, or she didn't care too much when she noticed. She just listened for a while, and pulled Dong Tiantian's sleeve to open the closed back door.

She took a few steps outside, calculating something while walking.Dong Tiantian watched her back and let go of the recording button in the chat room dialog box, and watched four voice messages of different lengths appear in the team chat room, and then exhaled slowly.

He thought that if Ke Xinyan's statement was correct, the guy who went offline in advance must have said hello.

—He said hello in the first round of the game.That brat Xia Zexing said that that guy let the rabbit out.

However, in a small group, there should be only one person who can do this kind of thing.

Dong Tiantian heard Yintong on the opposite side of the light screen sigh, and he said: "The person who released the rabbit is An Qi."

The author has something to say

Forgot to mention, there are many sayings about "invitation to enter the house". It is generally accepted that there are town house spirits and patron saints in the house. If you don't "invite", those ghosts and spirits will Can't get in.

There is also talk about making a wish somewhere in the room, and there will be elves or something in that place (so there is often something next to the tablet).

I hope I didn't scare you OTZ by saying this tonight