The howling wind was left behind.
Under the pale moonlight, the entire villa area was as quiet as a cemetery - and it was indeed a cemetery.
After Dou Siqi and the other person escaped from the garage, they took many detours and sneaked into an unlit villa in the upper left corner of the villa area, and quietly sneaked into an uninhabited room.
Zhao Zhe glanced out secretly from the window.
The NPCs in the basement have returned to the ground again and are spreading out to look for the two people.
"Damn... why are there so many?" Zhao Zhe cursed in a low voice, then turned around and asked, "What's wrong with you? You just came to live in the villa area, why did you attract so many NPCs?"
Dou Siqi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not me who provokes these NPCs, it's the students."
When those students came to him just now, Dou Siqi was actually not very afraid at first.
These students had indeed grown in strength, but they were still not as strong as him, and he could easily deal with them.
At that time, Dou Siqi was still thinking about making up another lie. As long as he could survive the fourth major test, it would be fine.
But after being cheated once, these students never believed him again.
Dou Siqi was still thinking about how to fool these students. As time passed, the clock struck twelve and the first hand reached out from under the blooming roses in the garden.
"These good students can boss security guards and dead NPCs around."
It is normal for the security guards to listen to these good students. After all, in this school, good students are at the top of the pyramid. Director Wei listens to them, so it is not surprising that the security guards would listen to them.
As for the dead teacher NPCs...
Dou Siqi frowned.
"When these NPC teachers were alive, they were divided into different levels based on their teaching performance. The same is true after they die. Teachers with poor teaching performance can only be buried in the woods in the east. As you can see, their bodies are incomplete. Teachers with good performance can be buried in the garden of the villa. Those good students have the right to decide where they are buried."
Zhao Zhe couldn't help but curse.
This damn school.
"What should we do now?" Zhao Zhe asked.
Dou Siqi hesitated for a moment: "Did you tell Jie Fangcheng when you came out?"
Zhao Zhe was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "Brother, do you think I'm crazy? If no one was willing to come to save you after I told them, how could I have come here?"
Zhao Zhe also hesitated for a long time.
He has completed the level more than ten times and has made "friends" in the dungeon before. He has seen many selfish people like Dou Siqi. In the past, Zhao Zhe would not care about him.
But this copy is really different.
For a long time, in this game, most of the time he experienced the intrigues between players.
The weak cling to the strong, and the strong use the weak as pawns and props. This has become the norm in the dungeon.
But that day in the student dormitory, Tong Xinxin was being chased, Liu Hui and Tan Chen went out to help her, and rescued Yue Haiyang and Guo Siming. Zhao Zhe didn't say it, but he was so envious in his heart.
These people are really...
He also wants to have friends and companions so that they can support each other and survive in this horrible copy!
At that time, Zhao Zhe thought he did have it. Dou Siqi was of similar age to him and had similar interests. Zhao Zhe had no idea how long it had been since he had talked to anyone about his interests and hobbies when he was alive. This made him feel for a while that he had found a companion he could trust.
Of course, he soon realized that his idea was ridiculous.
This kind of selfish villain should be buried on the spot!
That’s what Zhao Zhe thought.
But when he lay on the bed, he couldn't close his eyes.
As twelve o'clock approached, Zhao Zhe finally sat up from the bed.
Forget it, just give this kid a message.
It's just a message, it's not a difficult thing to do. After saying it, he came back to sleep and did whatever he wanted.
Anyway, Jie Fangcheng should also go to help him, right
After all, that person is so powerful and seems to be quite kind.
But what he didn't expect was that when he knocked on Jie Fangcheng's door, Jie Fangcheng was not in the room, only Zhang An and Wang Xi were there.
"Um... Is Teacher Jie not here?"
"Is there something wrong?" Zhang An asked.
Zhao Zhe thought about it.
Although I can't tell Jie Fangcheng directly, Zhang An and the others are all in the same group, so it should be the same if I tell them.
Thinking of this, Zhao Zhe opened his mouth and told Zhang An about Dou Siqi's situation and his willingness to pay points and props. After he finished speaking, Zhang An just nodded.
"oh."
Zhao Zhe turned around hesitantly, and when he reached the door, he couldn't help but look back: "You will go to save him, right?"
Zhang An just glanced at him calmly from behind his glasses.
"Why do you think so?"
"Ah?" Zhao Zhe's expression changed, "Teacher Jie is so strong..."
"In the past, when we were in the dungeon, did the strongest player take care of every other player?" Zhang An asked, "Did you do the same when you were the strongest player?"
of course not.
When Zhao Zhe was at his strongest, at most he would not sacrifice others at will like some "big guys", but caring for other players? That was impossible.
Zhao Zhe opened his mouth: "But..."
But he didn't come out.
Zhang An glanced at him and added what he wanted to say but didn't.
"But Mr. Jie has taken care of other players, why can't he take care of you? Mr. Zhao," Zhang An smiled, "It's not about helping anyone or not, it's his freedom, but you guys... you can't provide him with anything. Points, props? Do you think he needs these with his strength? Emotional value? He defeated so many NPCs to protect you from the threats of NPCs, but you complained that he was reckless, thinking that with your own experience in clearing the level, you could have chosen a better way to clear the level."
"You have never respected his efforts, nor appreciated his protection, and yet you still expect him to continue to work tirelessly to help you escape from danger. There is no such thing in the world."
"Since you think you can get through it on your own, go ahead and give it a try."
After saying that, Zhang An extended his hand towards him.
"Goodbye, I won't see you off."
Zhao Zhe's face turned blue and white, and he turned and left after a while.
yes.
When Jie Fangcheng beat up all the teacher NPCs, Zhao Zhe also felt that he was reckless.
It's fun to beat NPCs, but other than that it doesn't bring any substantial benefits.
Later on, Jie Fangcheng even forbade everyone to treat students in the same way as the teacher NPC, which made many players feel unhappy.
But looking back now, regardless of whether this method is useful or not, it is really very dangerous.
If the poor students are really forced to death, if the class average score drops and they are thrown into the student dormitory, they will have no chance of survival.
But at that time everyone ignored this danger.
Although what I thought in my mind was "the average score of the class will not drop", in fact... everyone feels that if we really get to the student dormitory, even if we face those students, we still have the last step to go.
—Go and ask Fang Cheng for help.
That person is so powerful that it is just a piece of cake for him to scare away those student NPCs.
But Zhang An is right. Why should others help them
Zhao Zhe returned to his dormitory with mixed feelings.
Soon, the clock struck twelve.
Brother, it’s not that I won’t help you.
Thinking this, he forced himself to close his eyes.
"Fuck... I am an idiot."
He cursed while grabbing his weapon and rushed out of the staff dormitory.
At this time, Dou Siqi was silent for a while after knowing that Jie Fangcheng would not come.
"You... shouldn't have come here." Dou Siqi whispered.
Zhao Zhe nodded in agreement: "I think so too, next time you go and die by yourself!"
Dou Siqi said nothing more.
The two looked out the window quietly.
Because they were on the second floor, they could see the actions of the NPCs on that half from a high vantage point.
These NPCs seemed to have no idea what to do and were searching around like headless flies.
Dou Siqi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned his head and said, "It seems that the danger tonight is over. We can have a good rest."
After he finished speaking, Zhao Zhe also turned his head: "Yes. Tomorrow... Dou Siqi."
Dou Siqi looked at him in confusion: "Huh?"
Zhao Zhe's pupils dilated, he suddenly stretched out his hand, slapped Dou Siqi, and took off the thing on his right shoulder.
It was an eyeball.
The eyeball was turning in Zhao Zhe's hand, staring straight at him.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Teacher Dou, and there is another... Teacher Zhao, can you give my eyeballs back to me?"
After saying this at the door, Zhao Zhe turned his head suddenly.
Outside the window, the NPCs who originally seemed to be wandering aimlessly raised their heads, and their miserable dead faces faced them.
"… They knew it from the beginning," Zhao Zhe looked at the eyeball in his hand, "They knew we were in this house. The NPC outside the window was here to confuse us. The rest of the NPCs are probably blocking the door now! Run!!"
After that, the sound of a door opening and a window breaking was heard.
.
ten minutes later.
In the pitch-black room, Dou Siqi breathed silently, and temporarily placed Zhao Zhe next to him with his right hand.
He took out a bandage from his system backpack and wrapped it around his leg.
But it doesn't help.
Dou Siqi was blind in one eye, his left arm was twisted at an angle, and his body had countless wounds of varying sizes.
His personal skills could no longer be used and his body had reached its limit, making it difficult for him to carry Zhao Zhe through a second round of life-and-death escape.
And now, there was one last bottle of medicine between the two of them.
Did you drink it yourself
Dou Siqi thought.
Zhao Zhe's personal skills are quite special and consume his mental energy.
Just now, in order to confuse a group of NPCs rushing over, Zhao Zhe fell into a coma after overusing it.
This kind of coma cannot be restored by systemic medicine.
If I drink it myself... at least I can still run away with him.
but…
Dou Siqi looked down at Zhao Zhe.
The man had a long wound on his abdomen and was bleeding profusely. If he didn't take the medicine, the bleeding alone would kill him.
If I drink the medicine myself, maybe I can carry him on my back... No, if I don't carry him, I still have a chance to escape.
But if he were to drink the medicine, they would both die together.
Dou Siqi held the medicine in his hand, sighed, and fed the medicine to Zhao Zhe.
Soon, the wounds on Zhao Zhe's body healed.
This was the second time Dou Siqi made a choice that was not in his own interest.
The first time he paid the price of his life and came to the infinite game.
The second time, it happened again.
It seems that his philosophy has always been correct. Once people damage their own interests, they will pay a price they cannot bear.
But at this moment, he seemed to understand the feelings of the junior schoolmate that day.
"Really..." Dou Siqi laughed bitterly, "It's really impossible to escape alone."
Even if interests and experience tell him what is the best choice.
But even a selfish person like him sometimes chooses to make the stupidest decisions.
Just then, footsteps were faintly heard from somewhere.
"Teacher Dou, stop hiding, I've already seen you!"
"Teacher Dou, please come out quickly! It's already past one o'clock. This is too much. I have been hiding for so long. It's already past my usual bedtime!"
"That's right! If you don't come out, I'll catch you and cut you into pieces!"
“Hehe—I found it!”
Said a voice that was so close that it was almost next to my ear.
Dou Siqi looked over with his only intact eye, only to see a knife stabbing towards him.
Dou Siqi dodged reflexively, and the knife stabbed into Zhao Zhe's body.
"Oh shit!!"
Dou Siqi used up the last bit of his strength. Although he had no way to use his personal skills and props again, he relied on his own strength and knocked the NPC to the ground with his bare hands.
But that's all there is to it.
“Ahhh!”
"Kill him! Kill him!"
Countless voices came from all directions, and faces appeared in the darkness with distorted expressions of excitement.
Dou Siqi collapsed on the ground tiredly, using up his last bit of strength to lie on Zhao Zhe.
It’s like many years ago, there was a fragile and soft eggshell that once protected itself without knowing its own limitations.
Even the eggshell knows that this is useless.
At this moment, he made the same decision.
Because sometimes, humans choose options that have no benefit.
That's it...
Thinking of this, Dou Siqi closed his eyes.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a huge sound, as if something exploded.
Then came Tong Xinxin's comforting words.
"Oh! They are here! Go and inform Brother Jie!"
(End of this chapter)