"What's the matter? Did you lose a few pieces when you put the puzzle pieces on the ground and sort them?" Everyone began to lie on the ground and carefully search for the lost puzzle pieces, but fourteen people rummaged through the corners of the entire classroom. Not even the shadow of the puzzle was found.
After looking for the classroom, everyone started to look on themselves again, for fear that the puzzle piece would fall into their clothes and not find it, but they searched and found nothing.
"What to do? Twenty minutes left..."
"We haven't been to any other place except this room. We've looked for everything we should be looking for. Could it be that this puzzle is set to be missing?"
"No, the teacher has clearly stated that the iron box needs to be completed before the iron box can be opened."
Tang Yu counted and said calmly, "There are still nineteen pieces of the puzzle to complete."
A boy was dejected: "Don't say nineteen yuan, we haven't turned over a single one."
Just when everyone was at a loss, Chi Nan looked at the female teacher who had been silently observing them, and asked, "If there are missing pieces of the puzzle, where can we find them?"
He believes that as a student, it is much more reliable to actively ask questions to the teacher when there is something you don’t understand.
Moreover, the female teacher has been observing their every move in the classroom, which should also be useful.
As if triggered by the conditions, the female teacher looked at her with a stiff gaze and her voice did not fluctuate: "When the snow melts in the south, the truth of the totem will be revealed."
"What? Repeat it again." Guo Xian pricked up his ears and intuitively told him that this sentence was an important clue.
So the female teacher repeated the words word by word, and reminded: "The weather forecast says there may be a blizzard, please hurry up, students."
"What the hell, this broken school is three feet thick with snow, and the snow won't melt for three days and three nights..." A boy rubbed his face with his hands in despair.
The crowd fell into a tense silence.
Nanfang, Huaxue, totems, nineteen puzzle pieces... Chi Nan quickly went through these information in his mind.
The number nineteen is very familiar. The number of sleepwalkers they have just arrived at the boarding school is this number, but according to the admission manual, he should not be part of the planned enrollment, so the connection between nineteen and the number of students can be ruled out...
If it has something to do with the nineteenth... Chi Nan's expression condensed slightly, and he suddenly looked at the location of the classroom door: "This side should be the south, right?"
His sense of direction has never been very good.
Classroom doors face the hallway, which leads to the school playground.
Guo Xian: "Yes, the door of this classroom is facing the south. What's wrong? Do you have any ideas?"
He also took out a compass to confirm that the corridor was straight and the compass was correct.
Chi Nan nodded: "The number of snowmen on the playground is exactly nineteen, and the remaining nineteen puzzle pieces may be hidden in the snowman."
Guo Xian's eyes lit up: "Yes, Nanfang and Huaxue are both right, and the number nineteen is just right."
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and dig." Tong Yu was full of energy, and went directly to the sanitary corner to get a broom, and also distributed mops and garbage shovels to the boys around him.
The rest of the sleepwalkers rushed to other classrooms to get brooms, mops and other things to push the snowman.
"But... just now the teacher said that there may be a snowstorm coming. Is it alright for us to go to the playground now?" A girl questioned. After all, the first taboo discovered was that walking on the playground in the snow at night is to endure the lingering punished.
The group had already rushed to the playground, Guo Xian said, "If you're worried, let's take the red umbrella at the door..."
He choked back in the middle of his words, because at this time the umbrella stand was empty, and half of the umbrella could not be found.
"This..." The sleepwalkers who were about to follow with brooms stopped and hesitated.
If the blizzard that the weather forecast says suddenly falls, they will die if they rush out.
Chi Nan: "According to yesterday's observation, the snow should come after dark. The dark time here is 5:30, and there are still 17 minutes."
From the previous dungeon Lao Yu, Chi Nan learned to observe the changing time points of morning and evening in each dungeon.
"You also said that it should be, in case... in case your inference is not accurate, will the snow fall ahead of time?" Some people expressed doubts. In fact, after knowing the school rules of 'wind and snow like a knife', no one dared to go rashly. playground.
Tong Yu was unmoved, biting the lollipop and walking towards the playground: "How can the nightmare world be 100% safe? If you can't find the puzzle piece, you will die, and if the snow falls on your body, you will die. Why don't you take a gamble? , the chances of surviving are a little higher.”
That's true, but everyone also understands in their hearts that the death of not finding a puzzle piece is random, not necessarily its own turn, but not necessarily if you venture to the playground.
Once the snow falls, there is no doubt of death.
Guo Xian glanced at the wandering crowd: "Whoever wants to demolish the snowman will follow. Although it is dangerous, time is running out. This may be our only way to break the game."
Chi Nan, Tang Yu, Guo Xian, and his roommate Jiang Liang picked up their brooms and walked towards the snowman. The remaining nine sleepwalkers stood by the corridor. Look at me, I look at you, and the last two boys from 208 Also followed out to sweep the snow.
The snowmen on the playground are all wearing red scarves, and under their noses, they are painted with smiles and red lips by something unknown whether they are paint or blood.
The arc of the smile has a cold sense of terror.
The crowd didn't care about admiring the snowmen, they quickly picked up their brooms and swept them towards their heads. As the snow rustled down, nineteen skeletons came to light.
Supporting the snowman under the white snow is the skeleton of the student who triggered the school rules and was delayed by snow flakes. It seems that it is not only their current class, but also the previous seniors and sisters.
Although they had already known about it through the death punishment video before, but when they saw with their own eyes that they had been beaten to death and had a complete white skeleton, the overwhelming sense of impact still brought psychological and physical discomfort to everyone.
208 A rookie boy immediately turned his head and vomited in the snow.
"It's all the 'relics' of the seniors..." Guo Xian sighed.
Chi Nan said politely and reverently, "Excuse me."
He carefully observed the cleanly tickled skeleton rack, and finally his eyes stopped at the skeleton's teeth, which seemed to be biting something in the skeleton's mouth.
"excuse me."
Chi Nan used his frozen hands to break apart the skeleton's teeth that were not too tight, and finally found a puzzle piece in his mouth.
"Puzzle in your mouth."
Almost at the same time, everyone discovered the place where the puzzle was hidden. At this moment, the disgust turned into disgust, but the will to survive had the upper hand. .
In less than ten minutes, everyone gathered nineteen pieces in the snow to complete the puzzle.
Tang Yu rushed back to classroom 103 with the puzzle, but unfortunately his hands were frozen in the snow, and he couldn't accurately press the puzzle pieces into the vacant positions.
"Quick, let me come let me come."
A few sleepwalkers who had been in the classroom gathered together, hurriedly scrambled, and finally completed the jigsaw puzzle when there were five minutes left in get out of class.
As the last piece of the puzzle fit together, everyone held their breath nervously, the iron box suddenly made a 'ding' sound under the stare of the sleepwalker, and an iron drawer popped out from the originally flawless box wall.
In the drawer was a neatly rolled painting.
Guo Xian raised his eyebrows: "This dream maker has a sense of ritual, and he has made such an exquisite mechanism."
Tang Yu breathed lightly, picked up the scroll and unfolded it.
This painting maintains the quirky original totem style of the puzzle, like an extension of the subsequent story of the puzzle.
The empty totem pole in the center of the picture was tied to a man. He was fixed on a roaring bonfire. The jumping flames licked every inch of his skin greedily, magnifying and spreading the distorted and crazy pain on their faces. Devour and enjoy.
The reproductive characteristics of the sacrificed male were specially highlighted and enlarged by the painter, just as the teacher marked the students with important points before the exam.
The overly exaggerated masculinity appears eerie and incongruous in the sacrificial-themed paintings.
Experienced sleepwalkers know very well that the more incompatible the place, the easier it is to dig out clues.
"What does that mean? Does it mean someone's going to be burned to death tonight?"
Guo Xian frowned more and more tightly: "If I guessed correctly, tonight's unfortunate school rules have something to do with men."
"Huh?" The boy in Dormitory 208 turned pale.
"The name of this class is Physiology Class, and the fertility worship totem in the puzzle and the exaggerated sexuality in this painting all point to the point of men," Guo Xian explained.
Tang Yu covered his mouth: "So the meaning in the painting is that a certain male among the sleepwalkers will be chosen to sacrifice tonight?"
Being transgender, he is emotionally confused.
Guo Xian nodded solemnly: "I think this is very likely."
"This... have we run into some female dream-makers who hate men?"
"It may also be a male dream maker who hates the same kind of man, and only wants female sleepwalkers to appear in the copy..."
"There is no more information in the picture. I don't know if there are any useful clues other than men..."
"But, but... no matter what, we boys are very dangerous, don't forget that once the school rules are triggered, it will continue until the end of the semester, even if the lucky boys don't come randomly tonight... but there will be tomorrow night, the evening after, the day after tomorrow... the rest There are only 6 boys, there will always be a day... it's just killing them all!"
Just when the boys were in a panic, Chi Nan looked at the painting seriously and found that there was a full moon in the night sky where the bonfire sacrificed.
"It's not every night, only sunny and full moon nights." Chi Nan said.
Guo Xian's expression was slightly condensed, and he quickly took out his mobile phone to check the calendar: "If the moon is full, it is the fifteenth and sixteenth of each month, and today just corresponds to the fifteenth of the lunar calendar, so this physiology class has been arranged for us..."
Although he is an interrogative language, the words he speaks are affirmative sentences.
The meaning of "physiology class" and the explanation in the painting are already obvious. On a sunny night with a full moon, an unlucky boy in a boarding school would be tied to a totem pole and sacrificed and burned to death.
"Excuse me, how many men are there in this school now?" Chi Nan turned to the female teacher.
The female teacher glanced at everyone: "There are 7 left now."
She was referring to the boys in the dormitories of Chi Nan, Guo Xian, Jiang Liang, 206 and 208. Chi Nan keenly discovered that Tang Yu was not classified as a boy by the female teacher because of her transgender status.
Tang Yu thought about it and asked, "What about the driver who brought us in that day? Is he a man too?"
The female teacher shook her head: "The driver is a temporary worker and will leave the school after work."
Everyone: "..." This is forcing one of the boys to die, right? Even the routine of temporary workers has been moved out.
Chi Nan: "Isn't that the one from the school doctor's office?"
The female teacher's eyes froze, and she stopped talking at all. It seemed that there was no answer to this complicated question in her program.
The bell for the end of the get out of class had already rang, and the female teacher stood on the podium and looked down at everyone: "Today's physiology class is over. Although the students have completed the exercises in the class well and accurately found the knowledge points, can they? It will depend on your performance tonight to apply the knowledge points flexibly to your future campus study and life, I wish you good luck."
Everyone was helpless and silent. Chi Nan watched the female teacher pack the lesson plan and was about to leave, and suddenly stopped: "Can we borrow seven more girls' school uniforms?"
The female teacher looked over in confusion: "Why? You need to give me a reasonable reason."
At this moment, Tang Yu reacted faster than all the girls: "Teacher, several of us girls have to change and wash clothes every day, and a set of school uniforms are always worried that they will not dry the next day. It's so cold this day, it's easy to catch a cold... So I think every time People should apply for another set of school uniforms as a spare."
The female teacher stopped for half a second and nodded unexpectedly: "No problem, the dormitory teacher will send it to the girls later."
"Thank you!" Tang Yu nodded obediently.
"Seven sets, just enough." Chi Nan said.
Guo Xian also understood, but this time he couldn't be happy, he twitched the corner of his lips and said, "Chi Nan, do you really think that this method of women's clothing...does it work?"
Chi Nan thought for a moment seriously: "I'm not very sure."
Guo Xian: "..."
Tang Yu: "Well, I think I can really give it a try. After all, the teacher didn't count me among the boys, so... all the women's clothes might be able to avoid the danger."
"Now that's the only way..."
The corners of Guo Xian's lips twitched when he thought of the words "all women's clothing", but compared to losing face and saving his life, it was really not worth mentioning.
"What kind of fun is this dream maker..." In the end, he rubbed his face helplessly, but he never thought that he would live in his forties and have a day when he wanted women's clothes.
"Ghost knows." Chi Nan replied, his face still very calm.