"Do you know the reason why aliens have not invaded the earth?"
This is a bathroom, the water from the shower sprays on the floor making a "crash" sound, and the white water vapor lingers. Because it is the brightest moment of the day, the sun shines through the transom on the left wall, so the interior is very bright. Tang Zhi changed his standing posture, propped his hands on the smooth tiled walls on both sides of the water pipe, and tilted his head to one side in a relaxed manner. The water droplets rolled around his stretched white neck, reflecting crystal light in the sunlight , Lining the skin with a kind of translucent texture, it is easy to remind people of the lotus petals with pink tips in the summer pond.
"Why?" Bo Ye answered absently, standing behind and rubbing Tang Zhi's back. The rough towel slid along the back of Tang Zhi's ears all the way to his slender neck, leaving a faint red mark.
Tang Zhi lowered his voice a little and said, "Because of secondary illness."
Bo Ye stopped the movement in his hand, and smiled after realizing it, wrapped the towel from his hand, flung it casually to the side panel and hung it.
"You mean Enjin?" Bo Ye casually chatted with him.
"Don't you think he's a middle schooler? He claimed to be under the care of ghosts, but he did it for... um... wait... Bo Ye, you..." Tang Zhi said halfway, holding Bo Ye's hand and moving away, turning his face looked at him dissatisfied.
Bo Ye looked at him, and saw Tang Zhi's cheeks were white and rosy amidst the mist of white water, probably because of the hot steam in the bathhouse, or maybe because of his own embarrassment. The black eyes looked very angry when he glanced at him, the red tear mole under the corner of the left eye was like a grain of cinnabar dropped in milk, and the facial features were bright and delicate, really beautiful.
Bo Ye's heart trembled, he raised his hand, and scraped the red mole under his left eye with his fingertips, with an intimate attitude, after that he pretended nothing happened.
Continuing Tang Zhi's unfinished words, Bo Ye said: "Enjin imagines that she has a special identity, and subconsciously hopes that she is different from others. Sure enough, the second stage of middle school often comes with the rebellious stage."
Tang Zhi had a back to rely on, so he no longer supported the cold tiles on the wall in front of him, but leaned back unconsciously, enjoying the service of his lover with peace of mind.
"If Enjin really knows all the ghosts in the game as he said..." Tang Zhi wiped the water from his face and asked on a whim, "Is it possible that he is also an NPC in the game?"
Bo Ye was stunned for a moment, took the soap on the shelf, and said under his throat, "You mean, we took the NPC out of the campus dungeon?"
At first Tang Zhi just guessed without basis, but after Bo Ye said so, recalling all kinds of things in the campus dungeon, the more he thought about it, the more it seemed like it. He turned to face Bo Ye, opened his eyes slightly, and said seriously: "Enjin may really not be human! That's why his behavior is so incomprehensible!"
Bo Ye stared at him, but didn't respond, with an elusive expression, as if he was lost in thought.
Tang Zhi continued to speak in a serious manner: "I used to think that Enjin seemed to be something outside the rules, not afraid of any supernatural phenomena, and took everything for granted. If he is a product of the game, it is reasonable for other NPCs not to hurt him. .”
Bo Ye looked at him, but still didn't speak.
Tang Zhi almost convinced himself, looked at Bo Ye expectantly, and said impatiently, "Huh? What do you think?"
As if he couldn't hold back any longer, Bo Ye let out a "puchi" laugh, leaned over and hugged Tang Zhi, and sighed, "Little baby is so cute."
He obviously said something whimsical, but his expression was so serious, and he hoped that the people around him would also agree with him.
Tang Zhi's face instantly collapsed, and he said a bunch of jokes, and muttered unhappily: "I hate you."
Bo Ye poured the "哗哗" water on Tang Zhi's body, and said earnestly, "Although Enjin often does not do human affairs or talk about human beings, she has never been malicious to her friends around her. It's still a person, it won't be an NPC... "
Before he finished speaking, the left baffle vibrated with a "bang". Someone from the shower next door whacked the plastic plate in the middle.
"You guys like to talk about others behind their backs so much?" Through the board, a soft and gorgeous voice came from the left, which sounded very ironic.
After silently listening to the conversation for such a long time, Enjin chose to break out in silence.
"..." Bo Ye and Tang Zhi looked at each other, and then remembered that the person who was taking a shower next door was the object of their discussion. In this case, things are more embarrassing.
Before the husband and wife stopped talking completely, Bo Ye looked to the left, raised his voice, and said sincerely: "Sorry. I will discuss it in front of you next time."
In the left compartment, Enjin stared at the white tiles, brushed back her wet hair, and said, "... I really thank you all."
Gu Meng and the other five people walked out of the bathhouse one after another, sweeping away the tiredness of the night.
When returning to the second floor of the dormitory building, Gu Meng glanced at the room next door. Next door was the room of Xiaopingtou and Qi Liuhai's sister. Later, the sister died tragically, and Xiaopingtou moved out. He said: "No one has had an accident so far today, does it mean that everyone is safe?"
"I spent a whole night with us last night, Mr. 07 also needs to rest." Bo Ye replied casually while walking to wipe his wet hair with a towel.
"Does it mean that people will die before midnight?" Peter Pan couldn't help asking nervously, "It seems that there will be one or two accidents every day."
Gu Meng wiped the water from his chin on his shoulder, expressing that he had no clue: "This dungeon is more willful. I don't know the number of deaths per day or the death penalty zone."
"But the method of death can be determined." Enjin said lightly, "In the mural, Saint Blaise, one of the disciples, was brushed to death by a wool brush, which explains why the girl from the day before yesterday had her skin scratched by the brush. Bastian died under random arrows, so yesterday the two men were full of iron marks."
Tang Zhi frowned, and said thoughtfully: "I used to think it was a coincidence, but now it seems that the player's death method is really related to the mural..."
Pan Peter quickly turned his face upwards, drew a cross on his chest, and whispered: "May the Lord bless..."
"Brother, did you see the ghost numbered 07 last night?" Peter Pan simply finished his superstition, then turned to look at Gu Meng and asked.
"Yeah." Gu Meng recalled the scene at that time, and he couldn't remember the details clearly, so he just said vaguely, "It's the one I saw last time, green face, cataract. When I went back to find Enjin, I happened to be with The thing collided head-on, and it seemed to catch up before it was completely unconscious, and then..."
Speaking of this, Gu Meng felt a dull pain in the left shoulder, which seemed to be strained, so she raised her right hand and rubbed it, and said: "I don't remember anything after that. When I woke up, I was already in the room. Even Enjin doesn't know how to get me back."
"How did you get it back..." Peter Pan glanced at Enjin secretly, and whispered, "Maybe it was brought back by the princess."
"..."
With a blank expression on her face, Gu Meng patted the idiot child on the head.
Enjin glanced at Gu Meng, and snorted arrogantly: "A princess hug? It's a beautiful idea. I dragged it back along the way."
"..."
Gu Meng blinked, speechless.
"A Chinese Ghost Story just let you go like that?" At this moment, Bo Ye couldn't help being suspicious, looked at Gu Meng and said, "It doesn't feel like him."
Gu Meng shook her head and said, "Maybe there is really a time limit. If it happens to be stuck at that time point, number 07 will not be able to do anything."
Enjin suffocated in the back without speaking, lowered her head, and was a little anxious when she wiped her hair with a towel, thinking: "It's because of my face!"
But he didn't say that, because those people didn't believe him and thought he was joking.
In an instant, the image of the iron gate melting under his palm flashed through his mind, and Enjin stopped wiping her hair with a thoughtful expression.
The five of them were about to go back to their rooms to take a rest when a group of people squeezed in from downstairs. Gu Meng supported the guardrail and leaned over to look. Six players walked in with solemn expressions.
Sister Yu was at the front, pursing her lips with a reticent look. The man with glasses paled slightly, with a hint of anger. There are two girls behind, with red eyes, and they support each other timidly. It seems that they have been frightened.
People on the second floor walked to the railing one after another, looking at the people coming in downstairs.
"Did Mr. 07 do it?" Bo Ye put his arms around Tang Zhi from behind, pressed his lips against the top of his hair, and guessed intuitively.
In the crowd downstairs, someone sighed heavily, and that sound was like a fuse, igniting the silent and tense atmosphere.
"You also saw it at the time, the iron plate was cut directly, I can dodge it myself, what do you think of me!" Xiao Pingtou was the first to explode, young and vigorous, his face flushed red , looking hostilely at the people around.
"Do you want me to retell the scene at that time?" Yujie suddenly stopped, turned her head and glanced at him coldly, "You hide as long as you want, what does it mean to push Xiaoling out?"
Xiao Pingtou was obviously speechless for a while, and then a guilty conscience flashed across his face, but he still looked angry and didn't reply.
"Xiaoling wouldn't have died..." a teary-eyed girl complained tremblingly, "It was you who pushed her in the end, and she just...she just..." The girl trembled as if recalling a terrible memory He covered his face and cried, "You murderer!"
"Don't go too far! Now you are condemning me one by one. Why didn't you take action when you were capable?" Xiaopingtou spun around in a circle anxiously, squatted down by the steps, and wiped his eyes dejectedly.
He paused for a while before frustratedly saying: "I'm just an ordinary person. When there is a danger, I don't care about other people at all... I completely missed it."
The man with glasses pushed down his glasses, pursed his lips, and said in a calm tone: "But it is true that she died for you. The girl was not on patrol last night. It wasn't her turn to do anything. The game is aimed at you." …”
"Please don't say it." Xiaoping buried his face in his arms. He was not as tough and indifferent as he appeared on the surface. The girl's screams were still echoing in his ears at the last moment, which was enough for him. Guilt languishes for a long time.
The six people downstairs were in a stalemate when someone upstairs snapped their fingers, making them look up.
"Do you want to come up and talk about it?" Gu Meng asked while leaning on the guardrail of the corridor.
Sister Yu looked towards the direction of the second floor. Beside the guardrail, a row of beautiful men who just got out of the bath were standing or leaning. The scenery was refreshing and eye-catching. She relaxed a little, teased the big waves, and said to the people behind: "Go up first, everything has happened, there is no point in pursuing it."
Gu Meng looked in the direction of the dormitory gate again, and no one came in again, so she asked, "Why are you alone? Where are the others?"
"Dead." The short man made a movement of wiping his neck, and said with his lips curled up, "Four. The heads are gone."
It is understood that other players went to the prison factory together in the afternoon. When they came out, a piece of iron sheet was swept down from the roof of the factory. Blood splattered on the spot. Three of the dead players were on guard in the middle of the night last night, and Xiaopingtou was also one of the patrolling personnel last night, but he reacted quickly and escaped unharmed, but accidentally entrapped another girl in the process of avoiding.
"Saint Catherine." Enjin stood with her hands in her pockets and stood at the door of the open cell, her soft voice did not attract too many people's attention. His hair was half-dried by the blowing wind, and at the same time slightly disheveled, embellished with some sharp breath.
"What do you mean?" Gu Meng looked at him and asked.
Enjin glanced at him and explained indifferently: "One of Jesus' disciples was beheaded in the end."
Gu Meng understood that he was referring to the method of death, and thought about it: "The vigilantes last night were not spared either... But there were four people at one time, and the death toll is increasing every day?"
"Probably not." The man with glasses had paid attention to the number of people, and counted them with his fingers, "When we came to the prison on the first day, everyone was safe."
"The first and only death came the next day."
"On the third day the death toll was three."
"On the fourth day, yesterday, two people died. Today... four people so far."
As soon as the report came down, there seemed to be no pattern to follow in terms of the number of deaths.
Peter Pan bit his fingernails in confusion, and said, "Maybe... How many people will be killed every day depends on 07's mood."
"07?" Sister Yu glanced at him and said coldly, "Little friend, what do you know?"
"I..." Pan Peter just said casually, not wanting to attract the attention of the girls in the same team, a little shy and cramped, and would not be able to speak on the spot if he was worthless.
"The man who manipulated all this may be a prisoner numbered 07." Gu Meng helped to explain, "But I don't know what he has experienced, he has become a ghost."
"07 is the final boss?" the man with glasses asked.
Gu Meng wiped her wet temples with a towel, and replied, "It should be."
"That 07 is the god of death incarnate." Xiao Pingtou squatted in a white corner by himself, cursing.
There was a moment of silence in the corridor, and the clue seemed to be broken here.
Bo Ye suddenly asked: "Did you find anything else this morning?"
"Oh, I made such a fuss, I almost forgot." The man with glasses said to himself, took out a card from his pants pocket, walked over and handed it to him, "I found it in the prison factory, today everyone I just went to this one place, and searched almost all the buildings except the office building. So now we have a total of six cards."
"No, it's seven." Bo Ye took the cards, flipped them over in his hand, and said, "We found another card in the felony area last night."
Tang Zhi glanced at the card and asked the man in glasses, "Did you find the blank card today?"
"There should be." The man with glasses scratched the back of his head, looked back at the others, and said, "Do you have any blank cards?"
The crying girl whimpered and said, "Yes, we found a blank one and brought it out."
Enjin has been standing quietly outside the crowd, looking up and pondering for a while, and said in a low voice: "On the first day, the player found one card, on the second day they found three cards, on the third day they found two cards. , A total of six cards were found yesterday... including blank cards."
"So that's it!" Almost at the same time as Enjin made a point, Tang Zhi came to his senses, his clear eyes widened unconsciously, and he thought clearly about the problem that had troubled him for a long time, "I collected it the day before." The number of cards is the number of deaths the next day."
Gu Meng then suddenly realized, and said: "So the more cards you turn out, the more players No. 07 can attack in a day."
The crying girl almost didn't come up, she looked at the blank card in her hand in a daze: "I found this blank card... Is it... Is there an extra death quota tomorrow?"
But the man with glasses thought of another more urgent question, and said with a solemn face: "Yesterday, we found a total of six cards including blank cards, which means that two more people will die today."
Tang Zhi said: "Theoretically so."
The Xiaopingtou who was squatting in the corner was already paler than the wall, and his back was sweating hot and cold: "Then...then what should I do..."
He had just escaped a catastrophe, but he still couldn't be confirmed as safe.
Enjin raised her chin at Bo Ye, Tang Zhi, Gu Meng, Peter Pan and the others, then glanced at the frightened Xiaopingtou who was crouching in the corner, and said very calmly: "Will the two people who will die next come?" Choose from among the five of you. Because the hunting target of No. 07 is the night watch player every morning."
"..."
Hearing this, the others felt awkward for some reason. This tone was as calm as saying "there are only these two dishes for dinner", without any worry about his companions.
Peter Pan hung the towel around his neck, hid behind Gu Meng and whispered, "Brother has no feelings."
Bo Ye looked at Enjin and smiled lightly, "This VIP player, can you provide some solutions? I don't want to die today."
"There is a way." Enjin said, "It can ward off evil spirits."
"What?" Everyone looked at him hopefully.
Enjin shrugged and said it very relaxedly: "Isn't it enough to escape before today?"
Everyone: "..."
Yes, if you can escape before today, not only can you ward off evil spirits, but you can also ensure your life is safe.
But some bigwigs talk, and if they say it, they don't say it.
If they knew how to escape, why would they still stand here and worry
The author has something to say:
This chapter leaves a message to send a red envelope, because the delay is a bit too much, and the update will resume tomorrow.
Thank you Lan Dengjun, CS.B's mine~