"Damn! Deliberately miscast?" Zheng Wanqing slapped the table angrily: "They want us to freeze to death? Are they still human?"
After she got angry, she found that the two roommates were silent. Tang Xinjue's eyes were quiet, as if he had expected it. Guo Guo's complexion was pale, and he didn't know whether he was frozen or frightened.
She gradually realized that something was wrong, "Where did I say something wrong?"
"Woooo, you're right." Guo Guo wanted to cry but had no tears, "Because it's obvious that they are really not human!"
Those who can vote here are either students who are breaking through the barrier, or NPCs. And the NPCs they encountered in the game were almost all malicious existences like Xiaohong, the supermarket owner, and the student union.
Thinking about it with the back of my head, I also know that they would definitely prefer to see the students freeze to death.
After realizing it later, Zheng Wanqing felt a chill down her spine: "Then do we still have hope?"
The only clue to the mission is to play them like monkeys under the control of a group of NPCs. Wouldn't it be possible to kill the students at any time
This time, Tang Xinjue's answer was also firm:
"have."
Even the current situation is one of the best situations in her judgment, second only to the fact that all voters are normal candidates.
roommate:"???"
Tang Xinjue said calmly, "The worst case scenario is that the votes for the four options are almost the same, so we can't get any news from the votes."
"As it is now, it can only mean that the majority of voters are NPCs, and NPCs are different from ordinary candidates in that they know information about the exam that many students do not know-for example, which answer is most likely to be correct and which answer must be wrong."
"Under this condition, in order to make us die faster, there will be a ratio of votes - the wrong option has the highest number of votes, and the correct option has the lowest number of votes."
Under Tang Xinjue's cocoon-like analysis, the roommate's eyes gradually lit up:
"That is to say, [School Swamp] must be the wrong answer, and the [lounge] with the lowest number of votes is the most likely to be correct!"
"That's right." Tang Xinjue nodded.
The NPC's malicious voting, on the one hand, is digging holes, and on the other hand, it also allows the correct answer to surface without any effort.
The student union will only investigate one location at a time, and there is a high probability that the investigation will fail the first time. What they need to wait for is a second chance to vote.
"But," Guo Guo suddenly thought of a question: "Even if there is a second vote, there are also these npcs among the voters, right? What if they deliberately voted for the wrong option?"
There is a huge disparity in the number of the two parties, wouldn't they have to be led by the nose all the time.
"At that time, it's time to fight for subjective initiative."
Tang Xinjue smiled. She wasn't overly worried about the voting. In contrast, the upcoming inspection of the swamp made the danger warning in her heart even stronger.
If the answer of "the birth of the wind and snow monster affects the heating" is derived from a specific location, it is likely to be related to the "monster".
They don't need to have direct contact in the dormitory, but Zhang You may face danger directly.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the indoor temperature was minus 54 degrees.
The radio creaked twice, and Lily appeared again: "Ding dong~Hello, students who are still alive, this is the site of the student union inspection."
You also know that the longer the time, the more casualties there will be for candidates. This is because we wish we could die sooner. The three looked indifferent.
"Wow, you can see from here that the entire swamp is covered by ice, like a huge black mirror. Hee hee, it's so beautiful..."
After being reminded by other reporters, Lily turned from nonsense to the main topic: "Ahem, then next. Please ask the student Sun who gave this answer to explore the swamp in person and report the results to us~"
"Wait, am I the only one going there?" Another boy panicked, "It's too dark inside, and there's only ice on it, in case the ice breaks..."
"Student Sun, this is the answer you gave yourself. Of course, you have to check it by yourself." Lily replied thoughtfully.
Seeing that the boy was still struggling, her voice suddenly turned cold: "Of course, if you insist on not cooperating, we will have to resort to coercion."
After finishing speaking, there was a few seconds of confusion and pain on the radio, and soon, Lily covered her mouth and laughed: "A small accident happened just now, but it's back on track now. Classmate Sun has entered the inspection site now. He is walking on the ice, we can hear his footsteps, oh, classmate Sun's legs are shaking slightly, it seems that he is not very confident in his answer..."
"Ah," she paused, with strange excitement: "The ice surface is cracked!"
In the dormitory, everyone's expression is not very good.
The student union probably tied the microphone to the boy. From outside the radio, they could clearly hear everything that happened on the ice of the swamp.
At first, only the boy's rapid panting and the slow creaking of the ice surface came over, and then, there was the sound of gurgling water and tumbling in the receiver.
But on the ice, why is there the sound of water
Tang Xinjue's eyes were gloomy: "Unless there is something swimming with people under the ice."
— and a behemoth big enough to pierce through frozen swamps.
"Crack-crack-"
As if several cracks suddenly appeared, the boy's footsteps froze.
"Yeah, the ice cracked."
Immediately afterwards, in Lili's schadenfreude commentary, the sound of footsteps suddenly became faster, as if the boy was running on the ice, and behind him, the sound of ice cracking continued to superimpose, and the grunting under the ice became louder and louder.
Suddenly, the boy let out a scream, and then fell heavily on the ice, his body still trying to move forward.
"Boom!"
It was the sound of another weight falling on the ice.
"Hiss—hiss—"
This is the sound of it sliding on the ice.
After four or five seconds, the boy's voice did not appear again, only the heavy friction and wriggling of a certain object, and finally sank into the swamp again.
Tang Xinjue closed her eyes and took two deep breaths to keep the nausea from coming up.
Immediately, she took out the toilet bowl and slammed it on the desk!
Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing, who had pained and bewildered expressions, trembled and came to their senses.
They just followed the voice on the radio and were surrounded by cold, sticky and immersive tension and pain. They almost couldn't breathe, and their stomachs were churning. If it wasn't for Tang Xinjue's sudden awakening, I don't know how long he would have been addicted.
Zheng Wanqing stretched out her hand, and the bloodstains on it solidified quickly under the low temperature. She had just scratched her own hand unconsciously.
Guo Guo tried to swallow twice, but still couldn't hold back, bent over and retched.
[Dormitory member status] interface, except for Tang Xinjue, everyone has added a different degree of negative status. The most serious one is Zhang You:
[Spirit damage: your health value -10, san value has decreased]
[Looking directly at the giant monster: Immunity -5 Stamina -3 Reaction -3. Your physique is greatly reduced, and the environment is more dangerous to you. ]
Even without direct contact with the monster, or even just receiving messages over the radio, it is possible to be harmed.
You must make a decision immediately, and you cannot follow the opponent's rhythm. Tang Xinjue made a decision in his heart.
The radio went on.
Lily's voice was very satisfied, with a sense of gluttony as if after a full meal: "It seems a pity that Student Sun's answer is not correct, and the heating process has not progressed. Student Zhang, what do you think?"
Without waiting for Zhang You to answer, she said to herself again: "But it's not important, let's see where the next place we are going to investigate is!"
"One, the power generation room; two, the water supply room; three, the rest room. The choice is in the hands of the students in front of the radio, then, the voting begins—"
The bell interrupted Lily's voice, and she froze, "Who called the radio connection?"
After a while of chattering, Lily answered the call, her voice revealing the reluctance visible to the naked eye: "Hehe, it seems that the students responded enthusiastically to the radio station, let's see who the caller is..."
"Hello."
In front of the radio, Tang Xinjue held the phone with a calm tone.
"..." Lily wanted to hang up immediately.
There was another flutter, but she finally endured it and asked with a smirk: "Hi, may I ask why you contacted us suddenly because..."
"The situation is urgent." Tang Xinjue interrupted her, "I just discovered that there is something abnormal in the heating personnel's lounge, and it is likely to be the truth to solve this heating problem."
"That's it—" Lili drew a long tone, "But the inspection site can only be selected through voting, so it's a pity..."
"But isn't the purpose of the student union today to solve the heating problem?" Tang Xinjue interrupted her again, but her tone was calm: "Logically speaking, the process should serve the result."
Lily: ... She is a reporter now, she is not angry, bear it!
"Hehe." There was a sneer on the phone, "But how can you prove that what you said must be correct? Where is your analysis basis?"
"Someone gave me a dream." Tang Xinjue didn't hesitate.
"I have a friend named Xiaohong, and we have a very good relationship. She just happened to know something about the heating, so she gave me a dream just now, telling me that the key to the solution lies in the lounge. As we all know, good friends can't lie Yes, so the answer must be correct."
Student Union: "..."
The roommate who watched her face the whole time without changing her expression finished editing: "..."
Lily resisted the urge to swear, "This reason doesn't seem very credible."
Wait, a student union reporter called Xiao Ming suddenly interjected: "I seem to remember that there is a classmate like Xiao Hong..."
Lily screamed, "You shut up!"
"Of course, I also firmly support fair decision-making. If anyone has other suggestions, they can also respond by calling. I don't mind a live debate. For students who don't know how to contact the radio station, you are also welcome to call 7543... "
Before she could stop it, Lili could only watch helplessly as Tang Xinjue reported the station number in one breath.
"After all, if I'm the only one on the phone, and everyone else just needs to text, it doesn't help to determine the identity of the voter. If someone steals dozens of mobile phones to vote, it's not fair, isn't it? After all—our [mission] Are the same."
The accent emphasized the last sentence, without giving the other party a chance to refute, Tang Xinjue hung up the phone directly.
She is betting that those NPCs can only fish in troubled waters by voting, and cannot directly interfere with the content of the exam-but real students can.
At the same time, it is also about the balance of the rules of the game—even the student union must be restricted and suppressed at certain levels. For example, unsolicited calls from students cannot be declined.
For another example, the completion of heating tasks cannot be hindered by refusing reasonable requests.
They deliberately blurred this point, but Tang Xinjue would not ignore it. The words just now were not addressed to the student union, but to test the rules of the game that might be covered in some way.
On the radio, the student council fell into a long silence.
After a while, Xiao Ming said: "We still need to discuss this issue to determine whether it is more conducive to finding the heating schedule. Please wait another hour, thank you."
Tang Xinjue knew that she had made the right bet.
Only when the pain point is caught and there is nothing they can do, the other party can only use the right to delay time to maximize their losses.
It would be best if they were all frozen to death during this period, so that the student council could follow the original process.
Seeing that the radio station was about to be suspended again, the connection bell suddenly rang again.
Finally, Lily's unbearable scream came from a distance: "There is no end! Hit you&*%$##@..."
Xiao Ming: "Sorry, the reporter's mood is a little out of control now, student Tang, is there anything else?"
In front of the radio, Tang Xinjue raised his eyebrows.
She is sitting here now, not calling at all.
The next second, a strange girl's voice sounded on the radio: "Hello. I'm not Tang, my surname is Liu. I called to support Tang's suggestion. I also think that the next inspection site should be the heating personnel. lounge."
Xiao Ming: "...Okay, we will remember your opinion, goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, without even half a second of interruption, the ringtone suddenly rang again.
"I also support their opinions." This time it was a simple and honest male voice: "By the way, can the student union provide us with some hot water bottles and warm equipment? It's really not possible. You can burn pots of wood to the door. After all, what are you, why? Student Services…”
Student Union: "..."
An hour passed quickly amidst the endless phone calls, before they even had time to finish a sentence, they were overwhelmed by new incoming calls.
Even Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing joined the phone call team. When they heard that the student union was deflated, they even temporarily forgot the pain of being cold, and breathed a sigh of relief.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the telephone connection was finally suspended. Xiao Ming couldn't wait to transfer the microphone to Lily, "After discussion, we decided to adopt Tang's suggestion, and this field trip will go directly to the heating staff lounge!"
"Fortunately, the lounge is near the school swamp, so we got here pretty quickly."
Lily tried her best to restore her professional smirk: "As you can see, there is no light in the lounge, and the windows are dark. It's strange, isn't the staff inside?"
"Next, invite Zhang You to enter it and find out the truth for us!"