In the first lounge.
Compared to Zhan Xiaoming who caught a ghost when he was a ghost, and Liu Feiyao who encountered a ghost when she was a civilian, Zhou Yian who was hiding on the bookcase was very lucky.
His choice was not wrong. The children had short arms and legs, so they couldn't even climb up, and even if they looked up they couldn't see that there was a person on the cabinet.
After the bell rang, Zhou Yian even had time to think about how to pass this copy.
There was a clue he didn't tell the other players: the teacher would grade the students based on their performance in school and would call the parents of the five students with the lowest scores.
There are a total of thirty students in the senior class (4), five of whom he has discovered to be ghosts.
There are 25 students left, and it is quite stressful not to be in the last five. After all, they can see the ghost child, so their behavior may be different from that of other children, and they may be deducted points by the teacher because of this.
There may even be competition between players.
Zhou Yian was cautious and did not tell anyone about this clue.
He had his own plans in mind.
Do you always perform well, gain favor with the teacher, and then smoothly pass the dungeon? This is not realistic.
The first-level copy is indeed the simplest and safest copy, but according to the statistics of the six major guilds, the mortality rate of the first-level copy is about 50%, and the higher the difficulty of the copy, the higher the mortality rate.
In the highest level five copies, the mortality rate is over 90 percent.
Although it was also Zhou Yian’s first time to go into a dungeon, the world he had previously lived in was a magical world. Although he was the only one who survived in the entire continent due to resource depletion, he still had a lot of “props” brought from that world.
These props can still be used in the infinite game of "Three Thousand Worlds", and he himself still remembers quite a few magic spells. After entering "Three Thousand Worlds", Zhou Yian went to the trial field to evaluate his own strength.
D-class hunter.
After players pass the third-level copy, they will be eligible to enter the hunting ground. It is said that the hunting ground is actually countless small worlds that are about to collapse. Players can enter these small worlds and plunder the resources in them.
Copies are by-products of the small world. Generally, when the small world shows signs of collapse, copies will be produced first due to drastic fluctuations in energy.
The small world seems to have its own thoughts. Before disappearing, it will reward players who come to explore it. Therefore, players will receive rewards after completing the copy.
Of course, the reason for the demise of most small worlds is not collapse, but because the time has come.
Just like people will grow old and die, a planet will also disintegrate if it rotates for too long. This is the law of nature.
Even though this period of time may be trillions of years, the small world has a lifespan, and only the "Three Thousand Worlds" is eternal. This is a well-known fact.
Only a few small worlds will collapse, and even fewer small worlds can produce copies and become hunting grounds.
This means that the world has at least S-level guardians and can produce good item resources. Therefore, hunting grounds are very precious, and tickets to hunting grounds are not affordable for ordinary people.
As for a D-class hunter, this assessment represents a great affirmation.
A dungeon is a place with rules and tasks. Many players with outstanding brainpower can pass the dungeon without relying on their strength, but only on their own intelligence.
But hunters face the guardians of every hunting ground that is about to collapse. Those guardians are more powerful than each other. Many B-level players cannot get any benefits from D-level hunting grounds, but the evaluation done by Zhou Yian positioned him as a D-level hunter.
This is certainly partly because Zhou Yian has the blood of dark magic. After all, blood is an important indicator for judging strength in "Three Thousand Worlds". The higher the blood sequence, the greater the player's development potential.
Bloodline, like skills, can be bought and sold, but the prices are different.
The dark magic bloodline in Zhou Yian ranks among the top three hundred in the bloodline sequence of tens of thousands, which is a very advanced ranking.
After he entered the dungeon, other players were still worried about encountering a ghost child, but Zhou Yian was not that scared.
No matter how strong the ghost kid is, he is confident that he can escape.
Lying on the top of the bookcase at this time, Zhou Yian couldn't think of any other clues, so he simply raised his fingers lightly and chanted a string of spells in a low voice.
A wisp of black smoke emerged from his fingertips and quickly turned into the black shadow of a paper skull.
The skeleton slid down the bookcase, moved to the corner, and became Zhou Yian's "eyes".
It saw how the child NPCs hid, saw five NPCs turned into "ghosts", and also saw... uh, what was that kid's name
Jie Fangcheng
Really just lying there and sleeping without moving?
Zhou Yian felt that he was so powerful that he was already quite arrogant, so he didn't dare to just lie there and sleep so soundly!
Not only that, this kid was caught and became a scapegoat. He turned over and soon fell asleep again.
Really, really...
The terrifying-looking skeleton looked a little dazed at this moment.
Jie Fangcheng was so righteous in his display of badness that soon the four "ghosts" completely lost interest in him and went to find their own scapegoats.
The skeleton thought about it in the corner, and finally followed Zhan Xiaoming.
Zhan Xiaoming walked to the wardrobe, and the moment he opened it, the skeleton's eyes suddenly widened.
There are changes in the wardrobe!
The moment Zhan Xiaoming opened the wardrobe, the entire space inside the wardrobe teleported as if by space magic.
The originally chubby, ordinary civilian NPC turned into a ghost child.
Is it random
Zhou Yian frowned. Over there, Zhan Xiaoming let go of the ghost child as soon as he realized he had caught him.
His heart was pounding and he immediately took two steps back.
The naughty kid with pigtails was slowly trying to crawl out of the closet. Zhan Xiaoming gritted his teeth and thought, it has to be like this anyway!
A talisman appeared in his hand, and he clasped his hands together. The talisman in his hand grew in the wind and soon turned into a flaming shadow.
The phantom closed the closet door and blocked the door tightly.
While the flame phantom was blocking the ghost child, Zhan Xiaoming rushed to the door of the second lounge. The moment he opened the door, Zhan Xiaoming seemed to vaguely feel that something was wrong.
He had never experienced it, but Zhou Yian had learned a little space magic and could tell it instantly.
The space changed again.
As soon as Zhan Xiaoming entered the second lounge, his heart skipped a beat.
Even though he didn't know what was going on, he could sense that it was very dangerous here.
Zhan Xiaoming couldn't help but take a step back, but behind him, the door to the first lounge was closed.
And if he goes back, he will have to face that child ghost...
Zhan Xiaoming suppressed his panic, and the instinctive belief of a player who was "looking for clues" supported him, allowing him to walk carefully into the lounge step by step.
There are many lockers in the second lounge. Some of the lockers have their doors open, so you can see the clothes hanging inside the lockers at a glance.
The surroundings were as quiet as a cemetery, and no sound could be heard.
Just as he passed by the mirror in the locker room, Zhan Xiaoming caught sight of the mirror out of the corner of his eye.
In the mirror, in the locker behind him, there were originally white hangers with clothes hanging on them, but in the mirror, those were not clothes at all, they were clearly skinny, as if the body of a child with only the skin left.
The "child" spread his arms in the closet, holding up clothes like a hanger, and the clothesline passed through his temple.
"Fuck!!!" Zhan Xiaoming couldn't help but swear, and retreated in a panic, knocking over the kettle placed beside him.
The kettle hit the ground with a bang, and in an instant, what burst out was not water, but thick blood plasma.
A pair of eyeballs rolled out of the plasma. They looked like the ghost child he had just caught. In the middle of the pale eyeballs, the pupils were made up of dense black dots.
Zhan Xiaoming took out his weapon with trembling fingers, but the next second, in the blink of an eye, the horrifying scene before his eyes disappeared instantly.
There was no blood plasma or eyeballs on the ground, only a broken pot and clean water.
Everything that just happened seemed to be his illusion.
Damn... what kind of a dungeon is this!
Zhan Xiaoming's legs were shaking, and he had forgotten what "don't shout after the bell" meant. At this moment, his only thought was to get out of this damn place as soon as possible!
The lounge has two doors, one leading to the other lounges and the other to the corridor.
Zhan Xiaoming didn't have time to care which door could be opened and which door could not be opened.
He fled madly to the nearest door and turned the handle.
The door opened easily.
The warm sunshine poured in from the corridor, and outside was the blue sky... and the teacher waiting in the corridor.
Teacher Liu was very angry when he saw him.
"Zhan Xiaoming! What did the teacher say? Don't you remember it?" Teacher Liu seemed to be a little excited amidst her anger. "How could you yell and swear? And the teacher has emphasized that you can't leave the lounge! How can you be a good kid with this kind of behavior? Parents don't like bad kids!"
After that, Teacher Liu issued the final verdict: "I will tell your parents after school tonight! Ask your parents to take good care of you!"
In the past, players would feel scared when hearing such "punitive" remarks from NPCs.
But after the terrifying atmosphere in the lounge just now, Zhan Xiaoming just stared at her blankly. After a while, his legs completely went weak and he fell to the ground.
Anyway...it can't be scarier than being in the lounge, right
Just as he pushed open the door and came to the corridor, in the first lounge.
Zhou Yian's skeleton did not follow Zhan Xiaoming into the second lounge where the space had changed.
He sensed the danger in the second lounge and stopped at the door of the lounge.
It was quiet all around, with only the faint sounds from the lounge coming out.
The other four NPCs who are also "ghosts" are really playing hide-and-seek. They are looking for the civilian NPCs in the first lounge. Soon, the team of "scapegoats" grows.
Seeing that the search in the first lounge was almost complete, the NPCs opened the door to the second lounge.
Zhou Yian clearly felt that the space did not change this time.
That is to say, an ordinary "ghost" opening the doors of the lounge and wardrobe will not change the space inside.
However, if the player accidentally draws the "ghost" sign and opens the door, changes will occur inside.
This seems to be a clue as well.
Zhou Yian was thinking about this absentmindedly.
All his energy is focused on the skeleton, which is his eyes.
Just when he was concentrating on what was happening with the skeleton, Zhou Yian suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
On top of the bookcase, Zhou Yian's real body suddenly opened his eyes.
A pair of pitch-black eyes stared at him. The ghost child, who was only two fists away from him, was crawling on the ceiling like a spider, with his neck twisted 180 degrees.
Seeing Zhou Yian open his eyes, the ghost child smiled with his scarlet mouth.
"Ah! I found it!" He said with a smile, "Since it's hide-and-seek, then I'm also a 'ghost'!"
The next second, the ghost child suddenly stretched out his hand.
Zhou Yian dodged in panic, but forgot that he was on top of the bookcase.
With a "bang", he fell in a parabolic trajectory onto the bed below, smashing the bed into pieces and sending wood chips flying everywhere.
Zhou Yian rolled over and immediately stood up.
too fast!
The ghost kid rushed over quickly, excitement shining in his eyes.
As a mage, Zhou Yian possesses all the advantages and disadvantages of a mage.
For example, many of his attacks have tracking effects and are generally quite powerful, which is an advantage.
The disadvantage is... he needs some time to mobilize his magic power, and often he needs to chant spells.
Seeing the ghost kid rushing over, Zhou Yian could even smell the blood coming from him.
At this moment, a wooden stick picked up from somewhere appeared in front of him.
"Bang!"
The ghost kid rushed over as fast as he flew backwards.
Zhou Yian opened his mouth wide.
He turned his head.
Next to him, the player named Jie Fangcheng was holding a wooden stick he had just picked up from the ground - thanks to Zhou Yian, he smashed the bed to pieces and provided four wooden sticks.
At this time, Jie Fangcheng was covered in dust and there were sawdust in his hair, but his body was relatively clean because he was covered with a quilt.
He hit the ghost with a stick and sent it flying. He had no expression on his face, but his tone was dissatisfied, and it seemed that he was even more resentful than the ghost: "What are you doing? Are you going to let me sleep???"
(End of this chapter)