Xie Fangcheng thinks that he has a pretty good temper and is not an unreasonable person.
But no matter how reasonable a person is, if he is sleeping soundly at midnight and hears the bell-like laughter of students at the door, accompanied by regular and loud knocks of "dong dong dong", he will get furious.
Xie Fangcheng got angry.
He got out of bed while rubbing his eyes and picked up the stick beside the bed.
—This is the third one.
He had one for the dormitory, one for the teaching building, and a spare one. He was really worried that he would have to fight these NPCs with his bare hands when he came back... After all, these people's faces were not very beautiful, and they were often covered in red and white.
Fortunately, this is a level 2 dungeon. If it was a level 1 dungeon that only newcomers could enter, someone with a timid streak like Lu Xiaoqin would be scared to death.
At this time, Jie Fangcheng stood up holding his spare stick, and the remaining three people in the dormitory sat up. Tong Xinxin and Liu Hui both looked expectant of the show.
The student NPCs at the door were laughing and joking without noticing. After knocking on the door "dong dong dong", someone pushed the door open with a smile.
"Teacher, don't pretend you're not here. We all know you're here! We just want you to answer some questions, so here we come!"
After saying that, the student at the door had a bright smile on his face—but his smile froze.
Xie Fangcheng yawned and raised the stick to his shoulder.
"What are you guys doing?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a terrified scream was heard from the door.
“Ahhhh!!”
"It's that guy! Run!!"
"Did the people in the next dorm hear this?! The guy with the stick is here! Run!"
“Woo woo woo—”
The corridor, which was originally extremely terrifying, suddenly became chaotic. The NPCs jumped when they came, were full of energy when they knocked on the door, and fled in a panic.
By the time Jie Fangcheng walked out the door, all the NPCs had already run away, and not even a shadow of them could be seen.
Jie Fangcheng chased after her for two steps and then calmly returned. Tong Xinxin was very tactless and asked, "Brother Jie, why didn't you chase after her?"
Jie Fangcheng was also very honest: "I can't catch up with her."
Tong Xinxin finally reacted.
The strength and speed of players in the game are basically proportional. After all, stronger players generally have more cleared levels. The more times they clear levels, the more times they are strengthened by the game system, the better their physical fitness is, and their speed will naturally not be slow.
But as for Brother Jie, we can tell from his two steps that, although he seems to run quite often, he doesn't look like he has been strengthened many times.
This is a paradox.
The more times you clear the game, the stronger your strength will be. After clearing the first level once or twice, your physical fitness will far exceed that of athletes in the modern world. Players who can clear the second level will not be beaten like grandsons by NPCs in the dungeon. If they were put into the real world, they would be as weak as rubbing mines with their hands.
Where is Jie Fangcheng
Tong Xinxin, who came from a big guild and had been in dungeons with the management, thought that he was really powerful. He was not like the old players who had many props and strong skills. Jie Fangcheng was just flying with his stick.
He is able to pull out rare items with just one stick, and this is what makes him so terrifying.
Tong Xinxin looked at him, and was stunned at this moment, feeling as if she had vaguely discovered a somewhat strange and scary problem.
Jie Fangcheng's strength doesn't seem to be gained from the game, but more like something he already has in this world.
With such terrifying strength in this world, he is definitely not an ordinary person. So who is he
A person with super powers? A cultivator of immortality? A time traveler
Just as Tong Xinxin's eyes gradually became deep in thought, her eyes blurred.
Zhang An stood between her and Fang Cheng, blocking her from looking at him.
"It's so late, shall we start looking for clues?"
The expression on Jie Fangcheng's face became extremely painful again.
Zhang An turned to look at him and smiled.
"We are responsible for finding clues. Can Mr. Jie help us disperse the NPCs?"
Everyone looked at him in horror.
It sounded as if Jie Fangcheng was some kind of mosquito repellent.
Such a powerful boss was assigned this kind of work, this guy is really...
Jie Fangcheng was delighted when he heard this: "Okay."
The change in his expression is very similar to that of the employee who is most likely to slack off in the department. He was very distressed when he first heard that the department had to work overtime. Then he heard that everyone else had to work overtime and he could continue his vacation, and he was instantly surprised x2.
Of course, no one had any objection to this arrangement.
After all, the stick in Jie Fangcheng's hand and the surprised expression on his face were equally eye-catching.
Everyone came out of the dormitory. For the first time, they were not being chased by NPCs. They were simply looking for clues.
But no one knows what this "clue" is. What's the point of Zhang An coming here to accept "punishment" when he doesn't live in the staff dormitory
Players can still think about what they can find in the student dormitory based on their previous experience of completing the game, but Yan Ran, the only teacher NPC following the players, really doesn’t understand what is going on.
"You can't just walk around in the student dormitory, something bad will happen!"
Yan Ran didn't want to leave the dormitory, but he saw everything that had just happened. It would obviously be safer to follow these new teachers. If he continued to stay in the room alone, what if those students came back? Yan Ran would really be in danger.
Hearing him say this, Yue Haiyang asked curiously, "What will happen?"
Yan Ran explained: "It is said that students who commit suicide by jumping off the building in school will return to the student dormitory. If they do not rest well after midnight and walk around in the corridor casually, then the students... students... uh..."
Yan Ran's expression was dull.
Yue Haiyang: "The students will run away?"
Yan Ran: “…”
Zhang An led the team and went up to the second floor first.
He seemed to have some idea and went to the study room on the second floor.
The study room is very large, with hundreds of sets of tables and chairs. The student's name is posted on the upper right corner of each table.
Zhang An looked around here, picked up the students' math books and notebooks on the table and flipped through them, then nodded.
"Okay."
He turned and left, and the other players continued to search in the study room as per their professional habits.
Zhang An didn't rush him, but just stood at the door and waited quietly.
After searching the house for a long time and finding nothing, the players left one after another.
Zhang An walked through all the study rooms from the second floor to the sixth floor. In each study room, he only looked through the materials that the students placed on the table and left everything else untouched.
After watching the six study rooms, Tong Xinxin couldn't help but ask: "Did you find anything?"
The other players who disagreed with them also pricked up their ears.
Zhang An just shook his head: "Nothing."
Everyone had different expressions.
In fact, after completing so many dungeons, there are many people like Zhang An who will never share any clues they find with other players. Especially in competitive dungeons, many people wish that all the clues are theirs and that no one else knows anything.
But after entering this dungeon, Tong Xinxin found back the feeling of living in the real world with friends like Tan Chen and Xu Xiuxiu who she got along well with as soon as they met, Liu Hui who is a typical player of Ronghua Guild, and Jie Fangcheng who is very powerful but easy to get along with.
At this moment, I felt particularly uncomfortable being hurt by these eight hundred thoughts.
Although this person is on the same side as me, it is really difficult for me to get along with him!
Tong Xinxin thought so.
"Are we going back to the staff dormitory now?" asked the man with eight hundred thoughts.
Jie Fangcheng was the first to express his agreement, but after that he did not fully agree.
"Just tell me what you found. You can't be the one who found nothing and is just taking me around for fun, right?"
After Jie Fangcheng finished speaking, he slammed the stick in his hand on the table and said, "Tell me, or I'll chop you off if you can't tell me well."
Everyone's expressions instantly felt better.
Since entering the dungeon, Zhang An has been mysterious, and no one has seen his true strength until now. However, this man's brain is too flexible, and even though he has a good temper, it is hard to believe that he has any kindness.
I hate this guy so much.
At this time, Jie Fangcheng slammed the table with his stick. Many people even hoped that Zhang An would not be able to answer anything. It would be better if the stick was hit directly on him!
But at this time, Zhang An just looked at Jie Fangcheng with a puzzled expression.
"There are indeed some discoveries, but they have nothing to do with everyone's clearance."
"Ah?" Everyone looked at each other.
Zhang An did not hide it: "Every time the students take an exam, their scores are very average. There won't be any students who score too high, and there won't be any students who score too low. But the Chinese scores in Teacher Xie's class dropped too quickly, directly to single digits. But even with such a rapid drop, everyone's scores are still average, so I wonder how these students can ensure that their scores are around the average."
Everyone looked at each other.
Zhang An picked up the math materials at hand, and then looked at the name posted on the table.
"There are also schools that don't allow students to talk casually. They don't seem to know each other, but soon after the teacher died, the poor students united to torture and kill the teacher they hated, and the good students also united to kill the teacher they disliked. There would not be such a coincidence. Therefore, students must have their own channels of communication."
One player asked: "So what if they communicated?"
Tong Xinxin has already reacted: "You mean, these students determine their own average scores for each subject, and then everyone works hard to adjust their scores to be close to the average score, so that their scores don't deviate too far from the average score?"
"That's not all." Zhang An looked at the names of the students on the table. "I don't know if you've noticed that if the student in the last row of each class ranks last in a certain subject, then his or her scores in other subjects will not be last."
Yue Haiyang was confused: "What does this mean?"
Over there, Liu Hui was the first to react: "This means... the students are trying hard to prevent a certain student from being humiliated by two teachers at the same time."
Each of these NPC teachers likes to insult the students who have the worst test scores in their subject. The insults are very unpleasant to hear, and those who are mentally fragile will be humiliated to the point of jumping off the building.
"How can it be… "
Xu Xiuxiu looked a little bewildered: "The student in our class who committed suicide by jumping off a building was forced to death by his classmates!"
Tan Chen had been standing silently by the side, and now he spoke up: "But there are good and bad people in a group. There are bad students, but there are also good ones."
Some people looked even more puzzled: "Is it really that complicated..."
Are there so many settings for these background NPCs
I haven't found it in previous copies!
At this time Zhang An spoke again.
"It is very difficult for students to establish such 'rules' in this environment. These students who establish rules to protect their peers are amazing."
Liu Hui's fingers trembled slightly.
When everyone came, they all intended to beat up the NPCs, but when they left, they had different thoughts in their minds.
Not to mention Liu Hui, a player who came from a wealthy family and was deeply touched by this scene, even Tong Xinxin, who had always insisted that NPCs were just strings of data, tossed and turned after returning to the dormitory.
Is this Zhang An just talking casually
How could these NPCs have such a spirit
But the more I watched, the more I felt that these students... were like players struggling in a dungeon
Some are good, some are bad, and all are oppressed by teachers and schools.
The same goes for players.
The survival rate in the dungeon is 20%, and you often encounter various horrific and terrible events, and live in fear...
Not only this copy, Tong Xinxin's mind has begun to recall the first copy she entered.
On the other side, Zhang An returned to the dormitory and saw Guo Siming sitting beside the bed.
Ever since Yu Hanfei chose to "offer" the girl in his class to the good student, Guo Siming's behavior has been strange.
He seemed to have discovered something. This big and strong man who looked innocent had become silent and often in a daze during this period.
At this time, Zhang An returned to the dormitory, and Guo Siming looked at him and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong?"
Guo Siming looked at the person in front of him, and after a while he whispered, "Do you feel that... these NPCs really look like living people?"
Zhang An paused for a moment.
Guo Siming covered his eyes.
"I originally thought that these NPCs were just some data... but this, this is too coincidental." He said with pain in his voice, "The first dungeon I entered was called 'Top Students'. In that dungeon, I played the role of a student. That school was completely different from High Performance Academy. The condition for us players to pass the level was to win the favor of the teachers. Some of those teachers liked students who were good at studying, while others liked students who were not good at studying but good at sports... In short, there was really no similarity with this dungeon."
"At that time, there was a kind female player who took care of us new players. She gave us her own props and shared her experience with us... Later..."
Guo Siming's hands, which were covering his eyes, were shaking slightly, and he could no longer speak.
"But how come they are so similar..." He muttered nervously, "That female player was also attacked by a new player... But she was not as lucky as the female student... It shouldn't be, but how come their expressions are so similar..."
Zhang Daoan asked: "Did you harm her?"
"Of course not!" Guo Siming immediately retorted anxiously, "How is that possible? I'm not a beast! That female player was very nice to us, she's a very good person..."
"But you didn't save her." Zhang Daoan said calmly.
“I…” Guo Siming opened his mouth, then collapsed like a balloon punctured by a needle. “I was a newcomer at that time, and there was really nothing I could do… Besides, the survival rate in the dungeon was not high. Even if I stood out that time, she would have been targeted by the NPC… Of course, if it was in the present world, if I was still alive, I would definitely save her!”
Zhang Daoan shook his head: "No."
"What?"
Zhang Daoan looked at him and said, "Cowardice and selfishness are human nature. You are a newcomer and an ordinary person. It is normal that you dare not save her, but don't make such assumptions. This is contempt for brave and sincere people. Bravery has a price to pay. If you don't pay, don't easily assume that you are brave."
Guo Siming opened his mouth with a pale face, as if he wanted to say something.
Zhang Daoan just stretched out his hand to stop him: "Guess, if it was... the president of Ronghua Guild, who had experienced the same thing when he was a rookie, would he stand up?"
After saying this, Zhang Daoan, who was about to take a rest, stood up again and seemed to be about to open the door to go out.
Guo Siming was stunned: "What are you going to do?"
Zhang Daoan turned his back to him and seemed to exhale very slowly.
Then he laughed.
"I'm going to find... another very 'brave' person."
(End of this chapter)