"Guo Guo? Guo Guo!"
One second before losing consciousness, Guo Guo heard a familiar voice.
When she opened her eyes, she found that she was sitting in a spacious and bright office.
The layout of the office was very similar to the ones she had seen two times before, but the difference was that this office had two large and transparent windows, and the shadows of green trees and sunlight penetrated into the glass, leaving mottled shadows inside the room.
Such an incomparably ordinary scene made Guo Guo startled for several seconds.
Since she entered the game, all the windows she has seen are basically accompanied by the fog outside. There are only a few scenery and sunlight, which also makes people feel false and cold.
But this office makes people feel the long-lost reality...or even warmth
To put it simply, it is Yang Jian that made her a little uncomfortable.
Her second subconscious reaction when she came back to her senses was to look for the shadow of the stick figure.
Because the three stickman classmates existed in the first two offices, she habitually thought that she had broken into the other party's territory again. But looking around, there was no one in the room except her.
... Then the scene she saw before she fell into a coma was also fake
Where is this again
With a ding, the phone prompts to recall Guo Guo's thoughts. However, this time, what popped up was not a message, but a call interface:
[Your contact [Tang Xinjue] applied for a call, do you accept it?]
! ! !
Guo Guo connected on the spot at a speed of 0.01 second, and a familiar female voice sounded on the phone:
"Don't look around, I'm right here."
Guo Guo:? ? ? ! ! !
She immediately asked: "Then why can't I see you? You, you are the heart formula, right?"
Tang Xinjue: "It's me. Is it the familiar historical time of black exposure again? The first time you were hung on the campus lost and found wall was because you left a schoolbag in the classroom. Unfortunately, the schoolbag was full of □A fanbook…”
Guo Guo: "Yes, yes, yes! I believe you are the God of Jue!"
She rubbed her forehead guilty, and asked quickly: "Then what's your situation now? Is there something wrong, do you need my help?"
Tang Xinjue: "No problem, it's just that I'm afraid that showing up will scare you. Why don't I contact you by phone."
"Showing up will scare me?" Guo Guo repeated this sentence, his heart sank immediately, and countless scary scenes flashed, his eyes turned red: "It's okay, Xin Jue, no matter what you become, I won't be afraid Yes. Woohoo, I also brought a lot of medicine, Zhang You said that there are all kinds of medicine in it! Are you in pain now? I’m sorry I’m late... "
Tang Xinjue: "...I'm not injured, don't worry, at least I don't have those wounds you're imagining in your head now."
She explained: "The main reason is that the state is a bit strange, and you may not be able to accept it for a while. If you have to describe it, well, you can imagine a person who is as tall as me and can move normally in three-dimensional space, but the body is two-dimensional. … Matchstick Men?"
Matchstick Men
Guo Guo was silent for a few seconds, and then said sincerely: "No, I think I should be used to it."
After all, is there anything more normal in the world than meeting a stickman in three dimensions
Of course, there may still be a little difference between seeing a strange stickman and seeing a person you are most familiar with become a stickman.
Although she vowed to express her adaptability here, Tang Xinjue still insisted on not seeing each other for the time being, but she took the initiative to answer Guo Guo's doubts:
"I'm only half free now, my body is still trapped here, I can only move in a limited room, I can't go out to find you, so I sent a message to ask you to come to me."
"You are really great, Guoguo. Your will is stronger than I expected, and you were not affected by the illusion until you came in. Let's take a good rest, at least temporarily here is absolutely safe."
Guo Guo smiled: "I'm actually fine! The main reason is that I think Wan Qing and Zhang You are lying in the dormitory, and I'm the only one, so I must persevere to the end. Even if it rains knives, I will find You, uh..."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but choked up again.
When facing danger and the unknown alone, she can remain strong and calm. However, once he returned to his trusted teammates, all the softness and grievances came up uncontrollably. Guo Guo held back a few times but still couldn't hold back, tears burst out like crazy:
"You don't even know Xin Jue. There was a disgusting monster pretending to be you and stay with us. We were scared and pretended not to know. We beat it away, but both Wan Qing and You Jie were injured. , I used props to hold their breath, but I was so afraid that this breath would be broken, I was afraid that there would be no chance of resurrection in the future, and I would never see you again."
"I know, you're doing great, really good. Believe me, we'll never be apart again."
Tang Xinjue's voice also softened. Although he couldn't see the figure of the other party, Guo Guo could feel that she was right in front of him.
Guo Guo cried bitterly, and quickly wiped away his tears by sniffing his nose: "Yeah! I must be stronger in the future, huh? What's the sound?"
She was suddenly alert: "I seem to have heard the shutter sound just now, you won't take a picture of me crying, will you?"
Tang Xinjue said innocently: "No, I'm talking to you now, how can I take a photo."
"Huh, that's good..."
"I made a video."
"???"
Seeing that Guo Guo was about to explode, Tang Xinjue changed the subject in time: "Did you see the new candidates?"
"That's right! Jue God, how did you do it?" Sure enough, Guo Guo's attention was successfully diverted, and his expression instantly turned into admiration: "Did you use those experience cards?"
Tang Xinjue smiled: "I didn't need it at first. But who knows, they arranged a customer service position for me impartially."
…
From Tang Xin's mouth, Guo Guo finally understood what happened in the place where the examinee couldn't see.
Even though they had imagined many pits the dungeon would dig before entering this exam, what they actually encountered was still the most vicious one—Tang Xinjue, who disappeared at the beginning, was not attacked or injured, but was "changed".
"Do you still remember that before I went to college, I used to work as a part-time customer service in a non-existent [university city]?" Tang Xinjue said calmly, "I was pulled into that state again, but this time the customer service The target becomes you."
She still retains some habits and thinking, but has no specific consciousness and memory. Both body and soul were compressed into an inhuman and weird state, and at the same time, her position changed from that of candidates to that of a ghost.
For 606, this is undoubtedly a double-edged sword. Whether Guo Guo and the others won, or Tang Xinjue's "represented" ghost side won, it meant the other side's demise. But again, no matter how hard they try, they are destined to be unable to be judged as successfully clearing the customs.
"This is a trap. The people behind it are very clever. Even if you find out later, there is no way to save me from leaving."
Even in order to ensure that they escaped death, the other party specially arranged for a ghoul to come in and impersonate Tang Xinjue, firstly to delay the progress of 606, and secondly to backstab at any time.
Of course, the operation to wipe out their last hope of survival fell on the customer service.
From this point of view, the other party at least knows a little about their habit of being diligent in reporting. Somehow, all the reports and complaints in this dungeon have been transferred to delayed processing. By the time the 606 report was actually uploaded, it would have already been wiped out in the dungeon.
Even though most of the crisis has passed, Guo Guo still felt a little hard to breathe when he went back to follow Tang Xinjue's narration: "It's such a cruel game, how did you break away from Xinjue?"
"That's why I said that they only know a little about us." Tang Xinjue: "There is no necessary connection between the two things of changing me and [606 can't pass the level]. Similarly, using the rules to temporarily trap me , and the successful erasure of my consciousness are not necessarily related."
She left three restrictions for herself in advance.
The first way is to prevent their identities from being impersonated, so that the other party cannot take action against Guo Guo and the three of them.
The second way is to prevent the consciousness from being manipulated, to seal up a part of the ability and delay the unlocking, which happened to break the confinement of the rules.
Of course, when speaking, she only said the first two things to Guo Guo, and concealed the third restriction.
She would not tell Guo Guo that the third restriction was to prevent herself from completely losing herself, thus leaving behind a self-destructive procedure.
The "key" to open this procedure is divided into three parts, one in Zheng Wanqing's right arm, one in Zhang You's glasses, and the last one in Guo Guo's mind. When the other two lose consciousness and receive danger from her in Guo Guo's cognition, this judgment will automatically take effect.
But it doesn't matter, this restriction will no longer be needed in the future, so naturally there is no need to tell Guo Guo.
"So, from the very beginning, the customer service of the scam gang was actually you?" Guo Guo snapped his fingers while recovering his strength and recalled: "You also cheated me of 128 yuan!"
"I hadn't awakened at that time." Tang Xinjue said helplessly, "I can't help it. I'll be dedicated to my duty. But thanks to you, I can wake up earlier."
The most useful thing for her happened to be the fire that Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You set off before they left on the day of evening self-study. Although it didn't do much damage to the teaching building, it managed to loosen the rule control for a short while, speeding up her "waking up".
But even if she regained consciousness, she could not immediately contact her roommate. One is that it is still under supervision, and the other is that the situation of the dungeon has been fixed, and it is difficult to find the possibility of breaking the situation from the inside.
However, the forces who arranged all of this should never have imagined that they just sent her the easiest tool to break the situation - customer service identity.
Even Tang Xinjue himself couldn't think of a more convenient way to do things in a reasonable, legal and compliant manner on the side of the dungeon system.
Is it appropriate not to engage in a big wave
Guo Guo opened his eyes wide: "Then you pulled more than a hundred candidates in?"
"I didn't pull more than a hundred."
Tang Xinjue corrected: "I pulled more than three hundred."
After testing it out, she found that the best ones were the study committee's various experience cards. As long as a little operation in the background of the system and a little time are spent, the effects of the props can be combined together, and then the points that need to be spent can be deleted, and the cost can be passed on to the copy, successfully realizing a free "large-scale visiting event".
"Be considerate of the limited energy of the dungeon. If you pull too many people at once, you may get stuck. The second and third waves may take some time."
Where Guo Guo couldn't see, Tang Xinjue shrugged, and glanced at the phone by the way: "However, it's almost there."
Guo Guo: "Candidates are coming soon?"
"No, not an examinee." Tang Xinjue denied it with a smile, "It's another person—if he can be called a human being."
Guo Guo was startled, and then looked towards the door with a feeling. I saw the doorknob gently buckled down, and the door opened.
A thin man in a black suit and a black top hat walked in.
The man's hat was pushed down so low that his face could hardly be seen, but it didn't make people feel strange. Because if you look closely, you will find that you can't see anything on him clearly.
But when he spoke, Guo Guo immediately knew who he was:
"Long time no see, two classmates. Your behavior really respects and surprises me—especially this student Tang. The damage you caused me in a short period of time has exceeded the combined losses of all accidents in the university city in the past year. The sum of my greetings to you again."
The man in black hat, or Mr. Bu, raised his hat symbolically, showing a little pale chin in respect.
Tang Xinjue's clear voice came from the phone: "Then you should get used to it sooner, Mr. Bu. After all, you also know that with the current number of students in the game, sooner or later there will be countless people who are similar to me, or even better than me." There is an imaginative path, and the system collapse is only a matter of time. Can your university city control a group of ghosts, and can it control hundreds of times the number of living people?"
"Excuse me." Mr. Bu nodded slightly, and asked at the same time: "But before that, can I ask if I can see you in the room? It seems that I am talking to the air, making people It's scary."
"No." Tang Xinjue ruthlessly refused, "Because I'm just a stickman."
Mr. Bu: "..."
"Okay." He compromised: "But before we get to the point, there is one more point to be corrected, that is: University City does not belong to me. Whether it is the original version or the current version, University City does not belong to me."
Guo Guo subconsciously asked: "Then who does it belong to?"
Mr. Bu's hat turned to Guo Guo: "Why does it have to belong to someone? I think this is a situation that everyone can easily understand: the university city is an objective existence."
"You can think of it as a city, a school, a world or a stinky sewer, but no matter what you think, whether you like it or not, how you speculate on history or deconstruct it, it is just an objective existence that is running, nothing more .”
He turned slightly again: "Now, let's return to a more interesting topic. Student Tang Xinjue, what do you want?"
The man spread his hands: "In view of certain rules that also exist objectively, even if you do something that seriously disturbs the order, we cannot erase or punish you at will. Because this proves that even in such a rigorous examination, you still It is full of the most vigorous vitality that a human being can have. According to the rules, the next dungeon will collapse on its own, and you will get more expensive and rich rewards. Many freshmen will take this waste heat and go further on the road to study in the university city—but That's not what you want, is it?"
"From the few thoughts I have left that can accurately feel your sincere emotions, I believe that these rewards are not what you really want, otherwise you wouldn't have so much anger for the destruction of the system. Let's be a Make a deal, let me go, an old and lonely worker."
Mr. Bu repeated word for word:
"Student Tang, what do you want?"
Tang Xinjue listened to him quietly, and then replied:
"We have only one appeal from beginning to end, and you should be very clear."
"Get out of here, back to reality."
"That's what we want."