There is a "little villa" not far from the cemetery, and now it has become a place for wandering them to rest. According to the rumors of the gangsters, this is the old nest.
This house is actually the exhibition hall of the small town cemetery. There are simple cafes and dining seats on the second floor, surrounded by windows on all sides, and the view is very wide, suitable for this group of people to observe the dynamic outside.
The first floor is very strange, and the four walls are covered with large and small photos. There was a sign beside the door that said: You can commemorate anyone here.
The frames are all black, and the photos are all leftovers. There are tens of thousands of deceased people in Brandon Town, and they should all hang here. Everyone was expressionless, like coming down an assembly line.
When they stepped in here for the first time, several students almost turned their heads and ran away.
But they finally settled on the "Old Nest" here, because there is a storage room underground, which is enough to hold a mirror person in a town. The ones they caught were tied up inside.
Ordinary townspeople don't come near here at all, and candidates don't dare to come in.
Even the mirror people are here to be honest and quiet, because their own pictures are pinned to the wall, like a proof, stark reminder that you can no longer be called living.
You Huo tied the newly caught two people to the pillar in the center of the first floor, and tens of thousands of faces looked at them blankly.
The person who was still stubborn five minutes ago recruited on the spot: "I, my name is Natt, this description is indeed... It is indeed the first one I found, because I happened to be in the test room from this area."
"This conversion condition looks a bit difficult. I didn't dare to try it myself, so I invited a few people over." Natt's English accent was very heavy, and he spoke intermittently and very slowly.
"How many people?" Qin Qiu asked.
"Four."
Natt glanced at Yves next to him and said, "The other three were hesitant, I think they were scared, only he quickly transformed himself into a mirror person. So I quietly followed him to see how he progressed. It went well or not. By the way... By the way, I cut the half of the description."
Youyou asked: "Why?"
Natt: "Hide."
You Huo didn't speak, but the words "Are you an idiot?" brightly written on his face.
This kind of fucking condition, is there really someone who is a baby? Just opened my eyes.
Natt's lips twitched.
He seemed to want to refute something, but he swallowed the words again.
Obviously, this person still wants to save a little bit, and doesn't want to shake everything out so quickly.
After asking several times and still no result, Qin Jiu nodded: "Okay."
He straightened up and said to You Huo, "Wait for me." Then he turned around and went upstairs.
Natt looked at Qin Jiu's unhurried back, inexplicably nervous.
After a while, Qin Jiu came down again, carrying a mass of things in his hand.
Before Natt could see clearly, Yves next to him reacted violently. He was gasping for breath, trying to break free from the rope, and his whole body became agitated.
Natt's face changed, and he finally knew.
is blood!
Qin Qiu held a mass of blood-soaked gauze hanging directly in front of Yves' nose. The smell of blood irritated Yves' nerves, causing him to lose control.
Wandering grabbed Yves' shoulders and twisted the direction.
Candidate Natt faced the hungry Yves, Yves opened his mouth at him—
"I said!" Natt rolled to the ground, twisted like a big white worm: "You pull him away! Pull him away!"
When Di Li heard the movement, he trotted down and took the gauze from Qin Jiu's hand. Toss far away, so as not to cause an internal uproar among teammates.
Qin Qiu said thanks, and wiped a bit of blood from his fingertips around Natt's collar.
Yves stared straight at the piece, baring his teeth as he tried to lean in, Natt was going crazy.
"You guys, you're just—" Natt held back for a long time before saying, "Rogue! Bandit!"
You confused "Oh".
Qin Qiu laughed: "Thank you for the compliment. But you can't run away. Instead of scolding people, why don't you say something useful?"
Natt was exhausted from being tortured by them. He slumped on the post and said, "Before I entered this exam room, I actually tried to ask for some information. You know, in some rest areas, as long as you have something in your hand, you can In exchange for a little information. I asked some people who came over, and luckily, someone happened to mention this scene in the joint examination room. "
Qin Qiu said: "The content of the examination in this joint examination room is different every time."
Natt: "But the background is the same, the main core is always similar, right? Besides, I asked for peace of mind. It is better to know more than nothing."
"Then what did you ask?" You Huo asked.
Natt said: "The most important thing in this exam is to survive. Didn't you find out? The previous questions only talked about how to kill the mirror man and how to kill the townspeople. It didn't say how many days we had to take the test and how to do it. The calculation is over. It is said that this test room is triggered by the system, and when a certain condition is met, the system will say the final requirement."
"The trigger condition is different every time, so I can't guess. But no matter what, candidates are completely passive. No one knows when that condition will be triggered. Until then, I have to keep myself alive. Well, as a mirror image person, as long as you live."
"Obviously, it's easier to survive being a mirror person." Natt, "Otherwise, the longer you spend in this exam room, the more dangerous the townspeople will be. Because the balance of power is so disparate. I know you think it's too difficult to gather 100 townspeople. Now, a mirror person can only convert a townsman every three days, and if there are 100, it will take a year here. Right?"
He clicked his tongue, shook his head and said, "Not really, I checked it out. For example, if I transform you, then you count as my child—"
He was proud of what he said, and when he raised his head to meet the icy gaze of the upper reaches, he swallowed again, and changed his words: "You transformed me, I count as your child... No, subordinate. In short, wait three more days, I will You and I can convert one townsman each. The one I convert will also be added to your number, understand? Then in three days, each of the four of us will be able to convert another one, and these will still be accumulated in your number. inside."
"Like a tree. I am a branch, and the fruit of all the twigs on this branch is mine. And you are the trunk, including me, and all the fruit of the branches are yours. This way After all, 100 townspeople won't take long for you."
"You know, the examination time in the joint examination room is always very long, and I guess at least this number is required." He stretched out three fingers and said, "Because there are many people, the situation is complicated, and the questions are tricky, it will be over within 30 days. Not bad. So before the exam is over, you must be able to meet the requirements and transfer back to the townspeople."
Natt raised his eyes as he spoke, the two men's expressions remained the same, and they couldn't see their inner thoughts at all.
But it doesn't matter, he firmly believes that these words are enough to let the other party understand the situation.
"I know, you want to convert back to ordinary townspeople," Natt said. "And I also want to live more safely. How about we work together? I can use the identity of ordinary people to help you attract townspeople and candidates. , make sure you have enough blood to drink, and make sure that there are enough people for you to convert... The premise is to ensure my safety."
The corner of Qin Qiu's mouth was about to draw a sarcastic arc again, and Natt quickly added: "There is another! I voluntarily let you convert, you turn me into a mirror person, and then I go to catch other townspeople and candidates, one becomes two , Two becomes four, four becomes eight. As long as people and time are calculated well, you can get twice the result with half the effort and save time and effort.”
Natt cautiously waited for the two to speak: "What do you think?"
You Huo looked at him for a while, then bent down and asked, "What do you think?"
Natt: "What a bargain."
Two minutes later, Natt rolled down the ground with his deal, tied face-to-face with a hungry Yves, surrounded by a hundred equally hungry mirrored people.
Natt passed out with a groan.
It is impossible to confuse them by exchanging others for themselves.
Either 100 for 1 or 1 for 1.
The three walls on the first floor were covered with photos, and only the fourth was left blank, reserved for the remaining townspeople and candidates.
Qin Qiu stood in front of the wall, looking at a black photo frame with a confused face.
Like other mirrored people, he was expelled from the ranks of the living and hung in this showroom.
The photo is the default of the system, which is similar to the one on the admission ticket, except that the shoulders and chest are exposed, and the edge of the back of the sofa on which You Huo is sitting can be seen.
He wanted to ask You Huo whether this photo was his own or was it captured by the system. But before the words came out, he suddenly fell into a trance.
Because when he looked at this photo, a scene suddenly appeared in his mind...
It was a night when he was in a colleague's room discussing things, or just chatting? Can not remember.
Judging from a few vague names, he should have just become an invigilator at that time, not 001.
They were in the living room, and there were two huge floor-to-ceiling windows beside the sofa, forming a transparent angle. If you don't draw the curtains, you can see everything outside the window clearly.
There were voices beside him, and he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a glass in his hand, looking towards the opposite side.
Through the dark night, he could see another house, and the living room also had large floor-to-ceiling windows, facing the direction he was standing.
He even remembered a simple floor lamp in that corner, next to a grey-blue sofa.
He pointed his finger with the cup, and asked someone beside him, "Whose house is opposite?"
"Examiner A." The colleague replied.
The ice cube hit the wall of the cup, and Qin Jiu gave a soft "Ah" with a clear understanding.
"What?" the colleague asked.
"Nothing, just ask." Qin Qiu said.
"Don't stand here, he has always disliked this kind of open design, it's time to close the curtains in a while." The colleague said again.
Qin Jiu responded lazily, but didn't want to move.
The floor lamps and wall lamps in examiner A's living room are intertwined, shining brightly on the window glass.
The tall figure wandering down the stairs, he walked to the coffee table, bent down and picked up a remote control, as if planning to close the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
He suddenly paused before pressing the button, and turned his head to look this way.
After a long time, he turned around.
He threw the remote back into place and sat down on the sofa, unbuttoning his cufflinks and looking down at the documents on the coffee table.
…
"What's wrong?" A confused voice sounded.
Qin Qiu turned to look at him.
For a moment, he couldn't even react. He was stunned for two seconds before he came back to his senses - the person in the scene was by his side, there was no window glass or night between them, and they were within reach.
Qin Qiu smiled suddenly, he turned his head and pointed to the photo and said, "No, blame someone's photo for being too good-looking."
You Huo looked at the black and white face on the grave, and for a while he didn't know if his boyfriend's aesthetics died, or if he was just teasing him.
***
The cost of switching from a mirror person to an ordinary person is too high, and everyone ignores it and no longer considers it.
Things went around in a circle, and finally fell back to Qin Qiu's proposal - to end the exam quickly, use the travel card to create bugs, and ensure that the confusion will not be eliminated.
To fight fast, it means that the conditions must be triggered as soon as possible, leading to the final requirements of the problem. After all, with the requirements, they can find a way to end it.
The crowd debated for a while about "what's the trigger?"
In the end, the confusion ended with one sentence: "Just tie up all the mirror people."
Jonny their faces WTF.
But with a little explanation, they understood the connection.
If the mirror people are all tied up, there will be no existential threat to all candidates. If there are no new requirements, what is the need for this examination room
Since the system doesn't let them live a good life, then don't let it go.
It only took three days for this group of devils to empty most of the examination room. The life of the mirror image person is precarious and dire, and the original dominant position is gone.
Worst of all, the perpetrators are of the same kind.
Speed, strength, and acuity are comparable, and the other party has more brains.
How to fight this
In this downwind environment, the candidates suddenly rose up, and their archery became more accurate. They even had a feeling that if they persisted for another day or two, they could pass the exam directly.
On the fourth night, the system that had been silent for a long time finally came online, marking the triggering of the conditions.
The streets of Brandon Town resounded with stereotyped broadcasts:
[There are two trigger conditions for the final question in this exam. 】
[1. The number of mirror people with signs of life activity is less than 20% of the number of ordinary townspeople. 】
[2. The number of ordinary townspeople with signs of life activity is less than 40% of the number of mirrored people. 】
[The current test room triggers condition 1, which determines that the mirror person has no chance of turning over again. Clear all the mirror people in the town of Brandon, and this test is over. 】
【I wish you good luck. 】
When the broadcast sounded, Yu Hao and the others were standing on the rooftop of a dilapidated merchant.
The houses in Brandon Town generally have only two or three stories. This commercial building is the tallest building in the town center, with a total of four and a half stories.
The three-day crushing victory made them the backbone of the candidates, and a large number of candidates gathered on the roof with them. The crowd effect caused all the mirror people within a mile radius to rush over.
They set up a circle of crossbows along the roof, intending to do the final cleanup.
As a result, the broadcast stopped everyone from attacking.
They were also stunned for a while.
Their original plan was to end the exam as soon as possible, and then use the walk-through card to offset the elimination of wandering.
The current condition for ending the exam is to "clear all mirror people", including a few of them.
This becomes a dead end.
The bottom of the building was piled high with the shriveled skin of the mirror image person, and several candidates running at an extraordinary speed were trying to retrieve the arrow from the bottom of the building.
As soon as they straightened up, they heard a sudden "whoosh" of wind breaking in the air.
No matter the location or the direction, it is not the same as before.
They were stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly realized that the arrow was shot from somewhere else on the rooftop.
"What's the situation?" They looked at each other and ran to the top of the building three steps at a time.
Seeing that Yang Shu and Lao Yu were each shot with an arrow, blood was pouring out. Although it was not a vital part, it had a surprisingly great impact on them.
Everyone's faces were extremely gray, as if most of their popularity had been taken away.
Wu Li knelt down beside her to deal with her, while Yu Huo and the others circled around the two of them, looking coldly at a certain roof opposite.
There was a dead silence on the rooftop, and the candidates were all stunned by this momentary change.
On the roof of the opposite building, several figures came out cautiously with crossbow arrows, one of them had a burr-shaved head. He turned his head towards this side and said, "Didn't you hear what the system said just now? Clear all the mirror people, do you understand? These are the ones you are surrounded by."
"We've been following for several days. They used the team card, and they are considered one person. Do you know what it means to be alone?" Xiaopingtou said: "Another arrow, no matter who hits them, this group It's all gone and cleaned up, and it's easier to deal with than other mirrors."
There was still no one on the rooftop, and some candidates looked at them hesitantly.
Xiaopingtou said again: "What are you doing?! Fight! You don't want to end the exam?"
He suddenly increased the volume, and several candidates were so excited that they shifted their steps, and the crossbow arrows in their hands were hesitant to lift.
You Huo frowned, his shoulders slowly straightened.
Just when two of them finally raised their crossbow bolts, several figures suddenly crossed over and blocked the front.
It's Di Li and Jonny and their students.
"Come, if you have the face, shoot the arrow here." Di Li said, pointing to his head.