Guo Guo finally realized what it feels like to feel the cold from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet.
She wants to ask, if Xiaohong is her, then who is she? But when he opened his mouth, he was so trembling that he couldn't make a sound.
As if seeing her inner voice, Tang Xinjue replied softly: "When you have reason, consciousness, self-awareness and thinking ability, of course you are still Guo Guo."
Only when you lose your ego and sanity can you really become "Little Red", as the test suggests.
Guo Guo was taken aback, she thought of something, and suddenly pulled out her phone to check the body information interface—
[Sanity collapsed: your San value has dropped significantly, and the surrounding environment is no longer safe for you]
The words that had been read several times came into view again, but Guo Guo seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar. The tiny and vague clues were finally connected together with Tang Xinjue's display, presenting the cold and terrifying facts before her eyes.
Why always her
It turned out that from the very beginning, she was the chosen prey.
Tang Xinjue wrote again on the paper, but this time, next to Xiaohong was Guo Guo's name, and the two names were tied to a balance, precariously.
His own identity and the infiltrated "Little Red" identity are superimposed on Guo Guo at the same time, like two ends of a balance.
Every time the san value drops, every hallucination or even collapse, the balance will tilt more and more in the direction of "Little Red".
And when the balance tilted completely... Guo Guo bit his lower lip, "What will happen then?"
Will she become a real "Little Red"
Tang Xinjue shook his head: "I can't be sure, but if the above analysis is true, this should be the hidden condition of the task item and the implicit logic of the test."
"——Xiaohong's items need to be taken by herself."
That's why, their search the next day found nothing.
In fact, Ye Xiaohong's reaction had already made Tang Xinjue suspicious. The goblin's greed reveals that it doesn't really want people to help her find things at all, and at the same time has no fear that they will find them.
In this case, either the task items have pits, or the task itself has pits. Even more outrageous situations...
"...Zhang You is right, Xiaohong is not human, and ghosts have natural malice toward us." Tang Xinjue's eyes darkened: "Now that I think about it, if I were an NPC, I would do the same."
What, how to do it
Guo Guo went limp. At this moment, she even wished that she had no ability to think, so that she wouldn't be afraid of what was about to happen.
It is now approaching six o'clock in the afternoon, and in less than ten minutes, eight o'clock in the evening will fall again. If they can't get the mission items, they may die, but if they get the mission items, they may still die.
Left and right are a dead
No... Guo Guo suddenly realized from despair that since Tang Xinjue was able to analyze all of this, maybe he had already found a solution
She struggled and asked with the last ray of hope: "Then what can we do now?"
Tang Xinjue was as gentle as ever, but concealed a sharpness that she couldn't understand: "Wait, the time will come soon."
"Remember, even in the most painful time, don't forget your own name, don't forget who you are."
This was the experience Tang Xinjue had summed up from countless nightmares.
Not sure if she understood this sentence, Guo Guo stared blankly at the interface of the electronic clock that was passing by rapidly. She felt her brain began to swell, and the familiar auditory hallucinations sounded in her ears. She could only use her last bit of sobriety to catch Tang Heart formula,
"Xinjue, if something happens to me, when you clear the game and return to the real world, you must..."
"What do you want?" Tang Xinjue shook his roommate's hand back.
The roommate was so angry: "Be sure to delete the contents of my D drive... and the P station account... and Baidu Cloud..."
Tang Xinjue: "... don't worry, you will be fine."
Guo Guo obviously didn't believe it, she opened her mouth sadly and wanted to speak, but her voice stopped suddenly.
From Tang Xinjue's point of view, Guo Guo's eyes began to loosen, an ominous bluish-white color spread across his face, and his demeanor suddenly turned cold.
[Health value -70, get negative status: dying]
[Collapse of sanity (severe): The environment has become extremely dangerous for you, and some kind of force has eroded your will and self... Are you still yourself at this moment? ]
The phone fell to the ground, but Guo Guo didn't know it. She stood up stiffly, ignoring everything outside, and turned to look at her desk.
Guo Guo seemed to be attracted by a certain place on the desk, and became very interested. She rushed over and slowly opened the vertical cabinet door under the desk.
And when Guo Guo had hallucinations before, there was an object quietly displayed in the place where there was a ghost in the screaming cabinet.
The moment Tang Xinjue saw it, his pupils shrank.
That is a human head!
"Giggle..."
There was fear in Guo Guo's eyes, but a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he stretched out his hand involuntarily to touch the head.
"Guo Guo!"
It was too late when Tang Xinjue grabbed her, the head had already fallen into Guo Guo's hands, the long black hair was parted, revealing the face underneath - a blank.
This head has no face
"I found it, I found it."
Guo Guo laughed foolishly, at the same time, the coldness rushed from her arm to Tang Xinjue's body, the cold and sticky touch like ice made Tang Xinjue subconsciously stop.
She immediately realized that the coldness did not only come from Guo Guo, but from the whole room.
The temperature in the dormitory dropped sharply, as if a thin layer of cold mist rose from the ground and covered the sight. And under the mist, an indescribable sense of danger spewed out—
Tang Xinjue pulled Guo Guo violently, and the latter was staggered, the head in his hand fell to the ground, and the bones rolled two meters away.
The next second, she clearly saw the corner of a giggling mouth appearing on the blank face of the head, then the skin texture, and then down... a hand stretched out from the ground below the head, five fingers were blue and white open.
"Dear roommate, congratulations on finding what I lost..."
Tang Xinjue looked at it coldly: "You lost your head?"
That was really careless.
The corner of the mouth on the human head sank, it didn't expect that Tang Xinjue would dare to talk back at this time, under it, a gap opened silently on the bedroom floor, two blue and white hands groped out, behind the arms was a twisted and slender body .
—Exactly the same body as "Xiaohong" at night.
Tang Xinjue could feel that with the appearance of cracks in the ground, a certain boundary between the dormitory and the outside world, day and night was broken.
Since "Little Red" entered the dormitory during the day with the help of a human head, the rules and restrictions no longer have any effect on it.
This is the biggest danger and trap in the whole test.
Xiaohong crawled faster and faster, and in an instant more than half of her body had already appeared in the dormitory. At the same time, the head on the top of the body gradually began to grow a human face, but it was more and more similar to Guo Guo in terms of eyebrows, eyes and facial features.
As for Guo Guo, who was standing beside Tang Xinjue, his facial features seemed to be covered in mist and became more and more blurred.
"In order to thank you for helping me find the item, I decided to let you stay here with me forever, okay~"
Xiaohong raised her face, a pair of eyes had grown on it, and the next second, she giggled and opened her eyes.
"Caught you...?"
It was dark.
Xiaohong's smile froze, could it be that the chosen one is blind
Then it realized that it wasn't an eye problem, but something covered its face, causing darkness in front of its eyes.
Not only that, the thing seemed to hold all its five sense organs, and the five sense organs that had not yet been fully born were immediately blocked from growing and forced to stay in place.
Xiaohong: "?"
It shook its head subconsciously, but the adsorption force on the face was stronger than it imagined. When the two forces in opposite directions were frustrated, it immediately crushed the facial features and sank into the skull.
Xiaohong: "...AHHH!!! I'm going to kill you!!!"
Where it couldn't see, Tang Xinjue was holding the toilet bowl, the rubber stopper was tightly buttoned on Xiaohong's face, firmly resisting its forward crawling steps.
Feeling the weight in his hand, Tang Xinjue looked coldly and spoke softly.
"caught you."