When waking up from the illusion, Tang Xinjue noticed that there was an extra person nearby.
If it was just that, it would be fine, but this person also tried to sneak away while they were attacking, and things became intriguing.
"I… "
A Wan opened his mouth and forced a smile out of his sight.
Not only did she want to run now, in fact, when Guo Guo howled into the illusion, her brain was buzzing with regret, and she immediately calculated the escape route.
Because it wasn't until this moment that she realized which dormitory the two candidates in front of her belonged to—and she never took it seriously, who the hell was the roommate who was imprisoned in the illusion and unconscious.
Tang Xin Jue, 606...
What a hit.
After a brief absence, the girl adjusted her state and repeated the exact same words she said to Zheng Wanqing.
... It doesn't matter, at least the current Tang Xinjue doesn't know who she is, and may even know nothing about everything. As long as she uses the information gap, she can escape safely.
Just as she expected, Tang Xinjue only thought for two seconds before calmly saying:
"The teammate you want to save at the same time is called Bai Zhi. He was trapped here to save you, right?"
A Wan breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded with tears: "Yes, I can't be an ungrateful person, so no matter how dangerous it is, I will come down, as long as I can..."
"What about the others?"
"… Um?"
A Wan was startled, and Tang Xinjue continued to ask: "Your batch has multiple dormitory dungeons, how many dormitories are there in total, and how many people come in? Where are the others besides the two of you now?"
In the darkness, Awan was silent for a long time before speaking:
"They're all dead."
She seemed unwilling to recall too much, and only briefly described the number of people and the outline of the copy. The general idea is that they entered such a dungeon that was far more difficult than imagined. All teammates died under the attack of ghosts, and only she became the only survivor by relying on life-saving props—
If Bai Zhi also fails to survive.
"Of course, I know there are many dangers here, and it's normal for you to have doubts about me. I just mistakenly thought that Bai was here, but I didn't expect to meet new classmates. I am very happy to help you .”
Awan's voice is sincere: "Now that the illusion monster is dead, I think it's a good opportunity to save Bai. I should go too. I wish you all success in clearing the level!"
After talking about all aspects without leaking water, the air was really quiet for a while. The girl silently raised the corner of her mouth, seized this opportunity and immediately went to push the door—
The door still doesn't move
Tang Xinjue kept his arm on it, and didn't intend to let it go at all:
"Since we met, it is fate, besides, you have helped me. The kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring, and we will save people together with you."
Awan: "..."
Forced to walk on the road with the three of 606, A Wan walked stiffly, still trying to persuade them to give up on herself:
"You must have your own tasks. Walking with me will only delay the business. I have nothing to think about living, and you have a bright future. Why waste your precious time on a stranger?"
"It's a coincidence."
Tang Xinjue smiled: "The mission we have received this time is to rescue the trapped candidates in this dungeon."
Awan: "?"
"How is it possible? You are healers??"
Guo Guo pricked up his ears to grasp the key words: "Hey, do you know this kind of mission?"
Before Tang Xinjue improvised it just now, she had never heard of such a dungeon mission.
Zheng Wanqing frowned: "How can you be sure that we won't be the healers?"
"No, I mean..."
A Wan was about to explain, but Tang Xinjue interrupted her:
"Yes, I am the healer."
"..."
In this underground house, everyone has been deprived of their abilities. Even if A Wan is dubious, he has no reason to verify, so he can only reluctantly follow her train of thought:
"It turned out to be like this. It's really unexpected. Can you reveal the content of the mission?"
Tang Xinjue answered naturally: "Yeah, I was also very surprised that I would receive this kind of task suddenly. But dungeons are inherently fluid, and it is very common for candidates to be trapped in dungeons for various reasons. Probably The game doesn’t want us to die too many people, it’s quite humane.”
A Wan's eyes widened: "Humanization? This game??"
For a moment, her face became extremely ferocious, and she suppressed it quickly, took a deep breath and said, "You actually think... I don't mean anything else, I just want to remind you that the game is not kind to the candidates, it is the one that caused everything. The culprit of the tragedy. To hope for it is to betray the pain of our past!"
Contrary to the meek and cautious tone before, she stopped talking coldly, "...Forget it, maybe you have roommates and abilities, so you don't understand what ordinary candidates like us are going through."
After finishing speaking, she strode forward without turning her head, leaving Tang Xinjue and the others behind—
Then it was pulled back again.
Tang Xinjue was still very gentle: "Thank you for the reminder, but even if you are in a bad mood now, you can't leave alone."
Awan: "..."
Failed again.
The other party didn't take hard or soft, A Wan had no choice but to accept his fate for the time being.
Under the guidance of Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo, the four of them quickly left the cubicle that needed to block their eyesight, and took off their blindfolds at a safe place. The long-lost light finally returned to their vision.
The three looked at Awan at the same time.
An extremely thin and pale figure came into their eyes.
The other party didn't even look like an adult—even the shortest Guo Guo had to lower his head when looking at her. If they didn't already know the identity of the other party, they might believe it even if it was a primary school student.
Is this A Wan among the first batch of candidates mentioned by the surviving boy named Zhou Ao
It was supposed to have blew itself up and died, but it was proved by the office that he was still alive, and strangely got together with the second batch of candidates, and it seemed to be related to the difficulty upgrade of the dungeon, and it might even be similar to Tang Xinjue's "nightmare" The people who lived together—by some kind of coincidence, they met them here.
No wonder Zhou Ao never doubted it, even from their current perspective, A Wan's appearance is not at all dangerous: the girl's bloodless face is embedded with a pair of habitually drooping and evasive eyes, she looks submissive and very weak .
She and Tang Xinjue looked at each other, and immediately lowered their eyes, subconsciously twisting the corners of the clothes with both hands: "Next, where should we go?"
"You should have come in earlier than us. You even know the rule of not opening your eyes in the corridor just now, and you don't know the terrain?"
After Tang Xinjue suddenly became a healing person, Zheng Wanqing also possessed her body like a barb spirit.
Awan didn't have any special reaction, as if she was used to accepting such a sharp attitude, she explained obediently:
"I came in by mistake following a big ghost. I have been hiding near the cubicle, and my knowledge of the outside world is very limited."
This time there was no objection.
Judging from A Wan's previous answers, what she said was mixed with truth and falsehood. If the candidate named Bai Zhi was really the one who saved her, then according to the information they got, Bai Zhi should be the second batch of candidates to come in. But A Wan directly erased the existence of the second batch, so her other parts of the story are also no longer credible.
If she was determined not to give any information, the three of them would not have so much time to deal with her.
Tang Xinjue glanced at her, did not speak, but took out a piece of worn paper from his pocket.
This is a crude version of the map that they bought at Granny Wang, who set up a stall, in exchange for 20 catties. It can only be marked in units of buildings, and it is useless once they enter the casino.
But now, Tang Xinjue directly found the location of the casino on the map, and circled all the buildings within the straight line to the west.
Guo Guo didn't understand: "Aren't we in the casino?"
More precisely, their current location should be in an unknown house underground in [Food Street]. From the perspective of geographical location, they may not be in the same parallel world dimension as the changing community.
"That's right, but the casino is connected to all parts of the University City, and to some extent it is also equivalent to a passage with countless exits. Who said we can't be inside and outside at the same time?"
Tang Xinjue threw out a purely speculative argument, but had no intention of continuing to explain.
Her real explanation was in the eye contact with Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing. The two immediately understood what she meant.
— and it is true. When Mr. Bu's identity was exposed in the food street, in order to reach a settlement, Mr. Bu provided Tang Xinjue with a piece of information: the person they were looking for was on the west side of the food street and went all the way to the west end.
A Wan is the person they are looking for, but when they meet, they are in the "sewer" of the food street. This is obviously very different from the prompt.
If Mr. Bu is not lying, and the A Wan in front of him is not fake, then it means that these two completely different directions just coincide in the weird house they are in at the moment.
It's quite possible that this is right outside the food court, or even right outside the casino!
Taking the food street as the starting point of "going west", naturally there is no way to find the answer from the map. But combined with some special features of the casino, Tang Xinjue simply expanded the hypothesis further:
What if we start from the casino and go west
Then when this direction comes to an end on the map, the building shown on it is...
"Resident villa?"
Several people looked at each other in blank dismay. Looking at the location marked on the map, Guo Guo suddenly felt very familiar:
"Wait a minute, when we entered No. 1 Street, didn't it seem like we passed by there?"
The reason why Guo Guo was impressed was because there was a strange movement from that villa area at that time, which fell in the ears of the four people in 606, but they synthesized different voices respectively.
... And what she heard at that time were screams of despair, which seemed to be endless.