Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

Xiduo was a little surprised: "Huh? Can Wu compose music?"

A thin beam of light answered for Shizi.

The beam of light enveloped Shizi, but it was much dimmer than before, flickering, and gave a feeling of "you barely passed".

After the beam of light dissipated, several people saw Shizi buried his head deeply in his hands.

This is the idol otaku fan Wu Shizi!

"Average." The extremely calm voice brought tears to people's eyes.

Wu Shizi

……

Shine: 160 (150+10)

Mental power: 110 (100+10)

Well, the buff was cut in half, and the other values remained unchanged.

"Click", the power was restored. Light returned to the hall. Shizi curled up half of his body, with the desolate desert behind him. Five people surrounded Shizi, and except for one person who was trying not to laugh, the others all felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.

Hong Xia couldn't bear to watch this: "Why don't you learn the keyboard and join the band, Xiao Shizi? Xiduo just started learning the guitar!"

The calm Shizi showed a slight wavering.

"Thank you for your kindness. But..." Shizi still shook his head.

Several people were deeply moved by the stubbornness in the voice.

"Actually, I learned piano when I was a child. At that time, I had a close friend who was the only one who could understand the sound of my piano. After she died in a car accident, I gave up the piano and never played it again in my life..." Shizi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and seemed to be really immersed in sad memories.

"Isn't that the story of Boya breaking his string?" Hong Xia's eyes narrowed into cat's eyes.

"Is that so?" Shizi's expression changed instantly, "Actually, I joined the light music club in junior high school..."

"Stop!" Hongxia stopped Shizi from talking nonsense in time. She felt a little uncomfortable. Little Shizi was joking with them naturally. I always felt that... Little Shizi was completely different now than when I saw her before, even a few hours ago.

"Huh? I really want to hear it." Kita blinked, not yet realizing that Shizi was lying.

"It must have been made up on the spur of the moment~" Hong Xia temporarily suppressed the feeling of disobedience.

"Not necessarily. According to the routines in comics, what is said at such times is usually the truth." Liang had a different opinion.

Seeing that they were about to start a big discussion about trust, Marina interrupted the conversation at the right time: "It's getting late, let me show you the room first."

Since it was a livehouse, there was no presidential suite. The few people just slept on the floor on the underground stage. Since there was no shortage of water and electricity, there was nothing to complain about.

At night, Shizi was walking alone in the corridor. A few people who had just finished their band came from the hall.

"It feels like the recording studio here is much bigger than Starry's..." They were talking. As band members, they would confirm the situation of the recording studio as soon as possible. It seems that even if they traveled through time, they would not give up the band activities. That's good. Shizi felt a little relieved.

Shizi quietly hid in a corner so that he wouldn't have to meet them.

Yili followed at the end of the group. She sensed a familiar breath in the corner and stopped unconsciously.

"Little Pochi?" Hongxia turned her head.

The muscles on Yili's face stiffened: "Well... well... I seem to have forgotten something..."

"Oh. See you later." Hong Xia could tell at a glance that she was making an excuse. But since she had something to do, she would just obey her.

After the three of them left, Yili felt her body return to normal. She sighed, wiped the sweat off her face, and walked to the corner.

"Oh, Yili." In the corner, Shizi greeted her without surprise.

"Why... are you hiding here?"

Didn’t Shizi get along well with everyone before?

Shizi spread his hands: "It's instinct, right?"

Yili felt a little disappointed when he heard this. "So... we were so happy together before... because..."

"Part of it is acting." Shizi admitted frankly, "If there was another socially anxious person besides Yili, wouldn't the characters be duplicated?" She deliberately made some jokes, but Yili didn't smile.

"Could it be that... making friends with me is also..." She suddenly felt that the Shizi in front of her was a little strange.

The smile on Shizi's face froze for a moment. She felt an impulse in her heart, and her right hand touched the top of Yili's head and ruffled her long hair: "I have always been 100% sincere to Yili, I swear."

"Then... for them..."

"That's just 'part' of the performance. When I get familiar with it, I won't have to perform anymore. On that day, maybe I will be able to change." Shizi vowed.

The bright starlight covers the wilderness, covers the CiRCLE, and covers the sea of strange things that suddenly increase at night.

This is the only trace of human beings within a radius of ten miles.

"There are indeed more monsters." Marina climbed down from the roof and returned to the room.

During the day, you can only occasionally see one on the roof; at night, you can basically see two or three at a glance, and their sizes vary.

Fortunately, they still haven't discovered CiRCLE's capabilities.

Marina was about to go back to wash up when she saw another figure in the corridor.

"Student Wu? Aren't you going to sleep yet?"

"Ah, Miss Marina. I couldn't sleep very well, so I came out for a walk." The man turned around and it was Shizi.

"Is that so? Then go back early." Marina nodded and left.

Shizi stayed there for a while and walked towards the roof. On his way back, he passed by the bathroom and heard some noise inside.

When I opened the door, it was cool.

"Yudai said she wanted to have a pillow fight." Liang suddenly said something out of the blue.

"How long have you been in the toilet?" Shizi asked without thinking.

"20 minutes."

"After all, if you look closely, it's quite easy to get lost in this CiRCLE." Shizi had an "I understand" expression on his face.

The bathroom was filled with an inexplicable tacit understanding.

"Wait." Shizi suddenly stopped smiling, "Is Yili still trapped in there?"

After receiving a positive answer, Shizi turned around and rushed to the underground stage. It took less than half a minute to get from the bathroom to the stage.

"Namo." Liang offered his sincere blessings to the heroes who sacrificed their lives.

Yili hides quietly in the corner.

Pillow fights are too juvenile, so she can't participate at all. Once she gets hit by a pillow, she will definitely ruin the cheerful atmosphere and be found guilty when she hesitates whether to throw it back. If she runs away like Liang when the fight has already started, it will attract attention...

So when Shizi suddenly pushed open the door, she saw salvation.

Light shone in from the door. It was the holy light of heaven!

A pillow hit the gatekeeper of heaven in the face.

Shi Zi joined the battlefield.

The group of three became a group of four.

The mile shrank deeper.

"(By the way, why is Ms. Marina having so much fun?)"

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

ps: The rearranged version has been completed, and there will be another update in the afternoon~

Chapter 6: Strange Costumes

When I woke up the next day, the clock was already pointing to eight or nine o'clock.

Kita was the first to get up. She quietly climbed out of the bed, careful not to disturb the others, stepped over the scattered arms and legs, and tiptoed to the bathroom.

"(Come to think of it, Liang-senpai didn't come back last night...)"

The bathroom is here, open the door...

Ah, it’s The Thinker.

"Senior Liang died in the bathroom—" The rest of the people were awakened by Kita's crying. Everyone was pulled out of bed and squeezed into the bathroom in a half-awake state.

Opening the bathroom door, Liang was sitting on the toilet, sound asleep. She woke up slowly when she heard the noise.

"Who wakes up first from the dream? I know it myself. I have had enough sleep in the thatched cottage in spring, and the sun is setting outside the window."

Liang opened his eyes and faced everyone: "I fell asleep after sitting for too long."

"After all... I was really tired last night." Marina laughed.

After breakfast, we started the first day of hunting.

"Ms. Marina, you said you want to provide energy for CiRCLE, but how do you do it specifically?" Hong Xia asked at the dinner table.

Marina nodded her chin and rolled her eyes once or twice, unable to think of anything: "Well, you guys tried hard?"

Hong Xia suddenly felt a little regretful for taking on the task so hastily.

"So casual..."

After eating, Marina started to clean up the table. Hongxia came out of the dressing room early and checked the final preparations before going out. She changed into light clothes and carried a small backpack with a few compressed biscuits and water in it.

Kita and Ryo came out together. Hongxia heard the voice, looked up, and her eyes instantly widened into cat eyes: "Are you going on a school trip?" The two of them were wearing fancy and fashionable dresses, straw hats, sunglasses, bags, everything! Even necklaces!

"Where did these things come from?" Hong Xia pointed at the various pendants on them.

"I asked Shizi for it." Liang replied.

"Shizi-san is really..." Marina covered her mouth and chuckled.

Another person's footsteps were heard in the corridor. The four of them looked over. When the person showed up, they all widened their eyes in unison: Yili was wearing a camouflage uniform, a helmet, a submachine gun on her back, and night vision goggles on her head, looking like a Marine from somewhere. Unfortunately, looking at her skin that lacks light, if she really joins the army, she will probably be the first to be rejected.

Without Hongxia asking, Yili told the source of this set of equipment: "I... asked Shizi for it..." Yili saw that other people's clothes were different from his, and hesitated whether to go back and change into another set.

"Ahahaha..." Marina didn't know what to say.

Hongxia began to look forward to it. How will Shizi, the culprit, appear?

Everyone looked further into the corridor.

After a long time, footsteps were heard in the corridor again.

"Here it comes!" Kita's face was full of anticipation.

An icy girl with long black hair and wearing a lavender Gothic skirt walked out from the shadows.

"Let's go." Her voice was very cold, but it was definitely not Shi Zi's usual voice.

"No, who are you?" everyone asked at the same time.

In response to this question, the girl's expression did not change, she just moved her lips and said: "Homura Akemi."

"Is it... Shizi?" Yili recognized her from her egg yolk pupils and facial outline.

"...That should be it?" The others gradually recognized the girl.

Seeing that he couldn't pretend anymore, Shizi reluctantly took off the wig, revealing the gray hair underneath, and his voice recovered: "It's cosplay."

"cos..." Kita didn't quite understand.

"It's just dressing up as another character." Ryo explained, "This is Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. But I didn't expect Shiko to be able to reproduce even her voice."

"So, why do you dress like this?" Hong Xia asked.

"Maybe if you pretend to be a character of high enough level, you can become stronger." Shizi said as a matter of course.

"Where does your logic come from..."

So, a team of people in strange costumes set out from CiRCLE. Hongxia strode in front, ignoring the costume party behind. There was a lot of chatter from behind. Xiduo came with a completely playful attitude, and was the most noisy. He also held a camera and stopped from time to time to take pictures.

"(By the way, where did the camera come from? Could it be that Xiao Shizi did this too?)"

Ichiri tried her best to reduce her presence. Because she didn't dare to speak, she didn't find a chance to go back and change her clothes. She could only endure this dressing style that didn't fit in with everyone else, and stay with Ryo who also unconsciously left the crowd. Another person who didn't fit in... She looked at Shiko. Shiko was still wearing the cosplay costume, but she didn't pinch her voice anymore, nor did she deliberately imitate the behavior pattern of Homura Akemi. She was chatting and laughing with Kita naturally. In fact, Ichiri knew that Shiko today was just wearing another mask. She couldn't help but envy Shiko's acting ability. If she could be like this, she wouldn't have to worry about socializing.

Most of the monsters they encountered were very weak, and one person was enough to deal with them, but five people together would crush them. After each monster was killed, a colorful gem similar to a bowling ball was left at the spot, which was probably what Ms. Marina mentioned as "fuel". Hongxia carried an extra cloth bag to carry them.

It was not until noon that they encountered the first opponent that could be called strong.

The first thing I smelled was the stench of decay, and then I saw the body—a bloated pile of minced meat piled on the ground. It was hard to tell that it was a living thing, because it was impossible to see how it survived: the broken brains were buried between the minced meat with maggots, and bright red plasma and thick yellow pus were constantly oozing out from the brain grooves. There were several large holes in the minced meat that could fit a person, leading to the depths of darkness. There were also a few pieces of blue nylon cloth covering the meat mountain. Was that the remains of the victims?