Judging from the layout and facilities, this is undoubtedly a very ordinary university. If Su Qingxing hadn't seen the fog outside the school gate and the wall, maybe he would have thought that he had accidentally crossed over to the human world.
Although the sun is shining brightly here, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the architectural style gives people a very comfortable feeling, but this is undoubtedly the world of trials created by cinnabar, and the school is the whole world.
The layout of a university campus is larger than that of a hotel, villa or hospital. In addition to the teaching buildings and playground that Su Qingxing noticed at the beginning, this school also has community buildings and complex buildings, libraries and canteens and other common configurations, and the dormitory area at the end.
A school is a small world.
In addition, some details of the school are also very normal. For example, the class bell rings at regular intervals, for example, the teachers in front of each classroom will give lectures seriously, for example, on the basketball court next to the playground, the cheerleaders of the victorious side are cheering...
But Su Qingxing always felt that there was something missing in this school, and that thing should be the key for Su Qingxing to see the true face of this school.
"I always feel that something is missing here." The only person Su Qingxing could discuss with was His Highness the God of Death who was walking beside him at this moment.
In Su Qingxing's impression, the first time he saw Death, he was wearing a black uniform and a gray scarf standing on the street of the ghost town, with a serious expression and a serious expression, as if saying one more word would be troublesome for him.
When he saw Death for the second time, he didn't know why he was lying in the rain, his face was covered with mud, but he was still frowning, as if he still had things that he couldn't let go of even in a coma.
Leaving aside the Grim Reaper who looked like a snow wolf and a puppy, this was actually only the third time that Su Qingxing stood face to face with the fiancé, and it was the first time that Su Qingxing took a good look at the face that appeared in front of him.
Because the god of death is much taller than Su Qingxing, he needs to raise his head slightly to see clearly the face softened by the sunlight. This His Royal Highness the God of Death from the depths of the underworld has an extremely outstanding appearance in Su Qingxing's eyes, but unlike Su Qingxing who inherited his mother's appearance, the God of Death's facial features are more prominent, um... There is another kind that even if you wear women's clothing, you will not be recognized by others. The edge of misunderstood gender.
There was obviously no expression on the face of the god of death, but when Su Qingxing saw those eyes, he felt that it was not the first time he had encountered such focused black eyes that were almost addictive.
"Did we meet somewhere?" Su Qingxing forgot the question he wanted to ask before, but suddenly asked this question a little abruptly.
"After all, we are the fiancée." Death looked at Su Qingxing's eyes more and more focused, as if he wanted to use his eyes to express many things that he could not express in words, "Last time you chose to escape, why don't you try to understand this time? After all, I don't want to It's always just...someone you've met."
Under the sun, the man in a casual shirt and jeans stood there, making Su Qingxing feel that he seemed a little sad.
"Why?" Su Qingxing couldn't help asking, "Why did you choose me? I'm just a prisoner, am I not?"
In view of the identity of the god of death in the underworld, Su Qingxing always felt that he could freely choose his fiancée, and he could choose his spouse from all the noble people in the underworld. So Su Qingxing never understood why the god of death stepped into the wasteland, and finally chose himself who had been imprisoned in the stone tower for a hundred years.
"Because in this world, no one can compare with you." The god of death lowered his head, and the bridge of his nose almost touched Su Qingxing who raised his head. "There is no second Su Qingxing in this world."
Su Qingxing suddenly felt that his cheeks were getting hot, and he quickly took a step back.
It was at this time that Su Qingxing noticed... many people around him stopped and looked at them blankly.
"Students over there! Don't flirt at the library door!" A familiar voice sounded, and the hot-tempered male teacher appeared in front of Su Qingxing and the others at some point.
Does this teacher have a special scanning radar for "flirting"
This idea just appeared in Su Qingxing's mind, and he immediately shook his head and forgot it.
They are not flirting!
"Hahahaha." There was another burst of laughter around, without any malice, just being amused by the fiery male teacher.
"Sorry." Su Qingxing subconsciously dragged Death and ran in another direction. Even if he knew that this was a trial world, even if he knew that the people staying here were not quite right, but this feeling of being surrounded by inexplicable crowds was really the first for Su Qingxing. encounter.
But the God of Reaper, who followed Su Qingxing all the way, was staring at his left hand which was grabbed by Su Qingxing.
I... shook hands with Qingxing.
The two finally took their seats in the auditorium of the playground. There were not many people around, only couples sitting here in twos and threes whispering, and they were far away from each other.
Su Qingxing, who was sitting at a high place in the auditorium, could see clearly the entire playground, basketball court, and even the school avenue outside, that is, he could see most of the students walking around the campus.
"So what is missing?" Su Qingxing was still worrying about this question, while His Highness Death God was still looking at his left hand.
The two of them sat on a high place like this, because there was an awning above, so the bottom looked a little cool, and the wind blew from the side from time to time, which was cool and comfortable.
After sitting for a long time, God of Death looked up at the playground and track below, and then said with some uncertainty: "Aren't there too many people here?"
"A lot of people?" Su Qingxing always felt that there were a lot of people on the playground. It seemed to be a very normal thing. In the human video videos he had seen before, those places like sports games were always overcrowded, and there were many parents who came from afar to cheer.
"The ratio of students to non-students is a bit strange." Death made a simple calculation. "It is obviously impossible for the elderly and middle-aged people to be students in the school. Even if they are teachers in the school, there shouldn't be so many of them."
After hearing what the god of death said, Su Qingxing looked towards the playground ahead.
Someone is playing football on the green field, and some students around are shouting for cheer. However, most of the people sitting around the green field and walking slowly on the track do not look like students, they just talk and laugh with each other and seem to be completely integrated into the whole campus.
Even if it is an open university campus, there won't be so many outsiders, right
"Let's go ask." Su Qingxing got up from the auditorium and walked down, and the god of death followed closely behind his fiancé.
"Old man, are you the teacher of this school?" Su Qingxing saw a few old people chatting and joking, and walked straight over.
"No, no, we are the dormitory supervisors in Building No. 4." The old man smiled and shook his head, "You look a bit unfamiliar, aren't you students in our building?"
"Are you all the dormitory supervisors in Building No. 4?" Su Qingxing had visited the dormitory buildings behind before. Each dormitory building has not many floors and the area is not too large, which is similar to ordinary residential quarters. Such a building actually needs five gray-haired old people to be dormitory managers together
After saying goodbye to those dorm supervisors, Su Qingxing and Death God saw a few apparently middle-aged men and women again, so they asked if they were the teachers of this school.
"No, no, we are the cooks in the school cafeteria." Being mistaken for a teacher seemed to make the few people in front of me a little happy, so they happily answered Su Qingxing's question, "I've done everything I need to do, so I went out for a walk .”
This answer is not unacceptable.
"Are you the only ones working in the whole cafeteria?" Su Qingxing asked again as if chatting, but the answer he got was a bit surprising.
"How is it possible? There are a total of 108 cooks in our cafeteria, so everyone's work is not too much, and it's very easy." The uncle who took the lead said with a smile, as if he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what he said.
but…
One hundred and eight cooks? This number of people can be gathered in Liangshan Park. With the size of the kitchen behind the school cafeteria, can it really hold so many people? After Su Qingxing and Reaper looked at each other, they knew that there seemed to be few weird places in this school, but they were actually everywhere.
Although Zhu Sha's memory is not particularly good, Su Qingxing believes that as long as Zhu Sha remembers things, he will not remember them wrong.
Since Zhu Sha said that there is no one in this trial world except MA2222 and his servants, then everyone who appears in this school is abnormal!
After circling the football field and basketball field, and strolling through the main roads of the school, Su Qingxing and the others found that in addition to sixty gray-haired dormitory supervisors and one hundred and eight cooks, there were There are more than 20 couriers, more than 30 school supermarket employees, more than 100 cleaning staff, more than 300 teaching staff...
But according to Su Qingxing's visual inspection, the number of students in the whole school is only five or six hundred, and there are some students who don't look like college students, but walk happily with other students.
After almost confirming the quantity, Su Qingxing and Reaper sat down on a bench under the shade of a tree, leaning close together without thinking too much, thinking that it would be more convenient for them to talk quietly.
"The ability of this MA2222 is not to create human beings?" Su Qingxing couldn't help guessing.
"If I want to create human beings in the school, I will try to make the distribution of personnel more balanced." Reaper is a little skeptical, "The number of students here is obviously not enough, and there is no need to create so many dormitory cooks and other staff."
"The reasoning novel I read before said that sometimes we need to think differently." Su Qingxing turned around and looked at the god of death face to face, "If you are MA2222, you ask the architect to create a place that is nothing but yourself. How would you feel on a one-person university campus?"
"I will feel too empty." When the god of death found that his fiancé was working hard, his whole body seemed to be shining, "Since I hope to have a school, it means that I want to live in this environment. But in Sitting in a classroom as a student or standing on a podium as a teacher without other people is tedious."
"If it were me, I would want companions." Su Qingxing felt that he had gradually found his way of thinking, "One servant is definitely not enough, I need more and more companions."
"If number MA2222 is a student, then he needs classmates who take classes with him and teachers who take classes for them."
"If MA2222 is a teacher, then he needs to listen carefully to the students he is lecturing, preferably with a variety of students."
Su Qingxing and Reaper made guesses one by one, and there seemed to be less strangeness between the two of them. Su Qingxing was reasoning vigorously, while Reaper was happy to see the fiancée's radiant face.
"But MA2222 refused to let Zhu Sha create script characters from the very beginning, not because he didn't want it, but because he didn't need it." Death looked around, "He has other ways to increase the number of people in the school."
"There are only two possibilities." Su Qingxing saw the female student exactly like Xu Yun again in front of him, "Either these people were created by MA2222, or these people entered the trial world from outside."
"Which one do you think it is?" Death also noticed that Su Qingxing had always cared about that girl.
"The second type." Su Qingxing and Death God gave the answer in unison.
Ever since Su Qingxing and Death God entered this world, they haven't seen half of the trainees!
This is the world of trials, isn't it the strangest thing that there are no testers
Therefore, Su Qingxing felt that it wasn't that they didn't see the trainees, but that all the trainees were around them from the beginning, but they didn't realize it at all.
"These people..." Reaper got up from the bench and looked at the people coming and going in front of him, "These are all testers. The students, chefs, dormitory managers, teachers and other staff here are all permanently reserved by MA2222. The testers here."
Every tester who enters here is trapped!
"I can't see the serial numbers and death information of these people." Su Qingxing also got up, "But Zhu Sha said that he created some kind of information shielding method in this trial world, so that the guides can't distinguish the identity of the testers. Identity. Cinnabar thought that MA2222 came from some reason, so she wanted to lurk among the testers."
"That's right." Reaper looked at the very ordinary campus in front of him, "It's just that the builder might not be able to guess how many trainees there are in this school."
Everyone who walks in front of them may be MA2222.
"Generally speaking, only after all the trainees die or clear the customs, a new batch of trainees will enter the trial world." Su Qingxing's expression is no longer as relaxed as before, "But if this is the case, there is absolutely no Will 'hoard' so many testers."
"This should be related to the information shielding method created by your friend." Death thought for a moment, "The information of the trainees here is completely shielded, so they are mistaken for leaving this world. As the guide of the underworld, you should know The mode of operation of the Trial World is very similar to that of human computers, they are all brains that rely on information to judge."
"So they were left here just like that." Although he still didn't know how to solve this matter, Su Qingxing was relieved to see the answer.
"It's not that simple." Death shook his head, "This is a university campus, but the ages of the trainees have always been uneven, so some of them can play the role of students in front of them, while others can only become teachers and support staff , This is something that MA2222 can’t change. But MA2222 assigns roles to everyone, even if there are 108 chefs in a school cafeteria, they never seem to doubt their identity.”
"Qingxing, do you know what this means?"
"MA2222 can't create humans, but he can definitely control humans! Control their thoughts, control their memories, control them to stay in this school, control them to make them feel that they are a part of this school!" After thinking about it, Su Qingxing unexpectedly Feeling a bit cold, "This is the special ability of MA2222!"
MA2222 has the ability to control other people's thoughts, behaviors and even memory.
But judging from the situations of Su Qingxing and Reaper, this ability may not be able to affect opponents who are too powerful.
"He used his ability to create an 'ordinary' university campus." Death couldn't help frowning, "but why did he do this? With the terrifying ability to easily manipulate thousands of people, he chose to entertain himself in the trial world Happy?"
At this time, Su Qingxing suddenly showed a clear expression, and said to the God of Death: "Zhu Sha said before that MA2222 does not touch any ghosts except the servants, and hides in a mysterious corner of the ghost town all day long, and no one can approach it. "
"Uncontrollable power, the best way is to keep no one close."
But when the god of death almost murmured these words, a picture that he wanted to forget suddenly appeared in Su Qingxing's mind—
The stone tower that he couldn't leave, the stone lock that was cold and impossible to break free, he was just trapped in the stone tower day after day, looking up at the only window, trying to find other traces of life in the hazy sky, but what? nothing.
uncontrollable force...
Don't let anyone get close, and don't get close to anyone.
"Qing Xing."
The voice of the god of death awakened Su Qingxing from his memories, reminding him that he had already left that stone tower, and he would never allow himself to go back there anyway!
"Perhaps Zhu Sha's information is correct. The danger level of MA2222 is indeed safe." Reaper has already learned some information about MA2222 from Su Qingxing, "Even in a ghost town where no one is blocking, MA2222 did not use this to anyone. Instead, he hides himself, doesn’t get close to anyone, and doesn’t let anyone get close to him.”
"When Zhu Sha arrived at the ghost city as a builder, he voluntarily stationed in the trial world." Su Qingxing held his forehead with some headaches, and the past images still appeared in his mind, "He has strong abilities and the same strong self-control, but Deep in my heart, I am also afraid of loneliness and longing for crowds, so I let Zhu Sha create this school."
"That servant is probably the only one controlled by MA2222 in the ghost town."
Through the deduction and guessing of the two people, Su Qingxing felt that MA2222 was standing in front of them.
His abilities, his character, his desire...
But these are just the guesses of Su Qingxing and Shinigami. From other aspects, they still don't know anything about MA2222.
"In any case, the most important thing is to find the number MA2222 from the thousands of trainees 'hoarded' in this school." Su Qingxing finally clarified their most important task in this trial world.
Moreover, he really wanted to meet MA2222.