If you want to observe the other two NPCs, the two of them can just split up. But the second brother was not very happy to separate from Ye Xu, and Ye Xu was also worried that the second brother would be frightened if he encountered something alone.
So the two didn't plan to split up, but each threw out a clone, making them follow the two NPCs invisibly. And Ye Xu and his second brother wandered around the campus.
The second brother believes that their current situation is equivalent to the kind where everyone has a debuff, which will explode after a certain period of time. So things that affect the player's debuff explosion order, in other words, things that can shorten the debuff time, this thing is likely to be something that can increase the power of the curse.
Generally speaking, a curse will break out early, most likely because the curse has become stronger. And the thing that can enhance the power of the curse itself is also an existence with a curse effect.
Maybe the curse on it is not powerful, but it just makes people feel a little bit unlucky. But when mixed with the curse of the game, it forms a chemical reaction and becomes something more powerful.
Of course, all this is just his guess. But it is undeniable that this direction is relatively reliable. So Ye Xu and the others planned to search the campus to see if there were other things with a cursed aura.
In fact, logically speaking, general curses must have a carrier. Being cursed while playing games is the most rogue form of curse. There is no carrier at all, and there is no way to eliminate the curse by destroying the carrier. You can only cast a spell to purify the curse on the players one by one.
It's a pity that Ye Xu doesn't know this. This is the exclusive proud skill of the Temple of Blessing, and Fang Yu of the Temple of Blessing is living a happy life in the ocean of delicious food at the moment. He never thought that at the other end of the dungeon, he has an unlucky little partner who is doing advanced tasks.
But after lunch, the weather is hot and I don't want to run around at all. So Ye Xu simply went to the campus forum first to find out where that weird game came from.
This game is also too simple, although the question is very vicious. Generally speaking, even if they know it's a game, people won't play it, because this question is too unlucky. Except for those with a big heart, even if ordinary people don't believe that there are ghosts in the world, they won't easily say such deadly things.
But unfortunately, the nine gamers in this mission are big-hearted fools.
Ye Xu searched the forum for a while, but found no information. Either the school thought this game was too bad and deleted the relevant posts, or the people who played this game had accidents, and their posts disappeared strangely.
Ye Xu has inquired that this campus is very peaceful, there are almost no deaths, and there are not even any strange campus legends.
As far as he knew, the last known student death was a student who got drunk outside the school at night. On the way back to school, we walked through the side gate which was closer, but the side path of the side gate was on the side of the river, and there was no guardrail. The drunk student accidentally fell and drowned.
Other than that, all is well. Afterwards, guardrails were erected along the river to prevent further deaths.
"If all the people who played the game are dead, and their posts also disappear strangely, I think it is more likely." The second brother thought for a while and said, "In this case, it can explain why there are people on campus who are obviously affected. Curse of death, but no rumors about it."
Ye Xu and the others are definitely not the first batch of people to play this game. Since they will definitely die after playing this game, it means that there must be dead people ahead. These dead people did not attract attention, and no one even cited their deaths in supernatural legends, which only shows that not many people knew about them playing this game.
"It is estimated that everyone thought that this person's game was just an ordinary question and answer game, and those people really died very normally, all of them died of accidents." The second brother took the laptop and operated it, and quickly found the news of the death of these students. Discussion posts, without exception, are accidental deaths.
And because there were relatively few people who played this game before, they all played together in three or four, and there were rarely large groups of nine of them. They died on the way out to play, or after they returned to the city where their home was located, accidents happened.
Because accidents do not all happen near the campus, they are considered to be ordinary accidents.
Even if some of them post that they played the game, after the post disappears, no one remembers it. So no one connected this matter, and even because the people who knew about this game were in the same circle, people outside the circle were even less clear.
"A lot of people in the circle have died, right?" Ye Xu rubbed his chin, "The rest of the people probably realized something was wrong. You can see that the number of accidental deaths has decreased a lot in the past two years."
The second brother pondered for a while: "Then the person who introduced this game to 'us' is very problematic."
It's fine if the outsiders don't know the situation, but it's impossible for the insiders not to know. No one dared to play this game anymore, but he still tricked nine of them into playing, which was very vicious.
Ye Xu and his second brother looked at each other and said, "I'll call and ask."
As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and found Mu Ling's number. He didn't know which NPC was the one who proposed to play the game, so he could only pick one at random and ask.
"Hello?" Mu Ling quickly connected the phone, "Ye Jiu, do you have anything to do with me?"
Her voice was rather noisy, as if she was in a KTV.
Ye Xu was a little surprised: "Did you go to KTV?"
Mu Ling hummed: "My roommate invited me to sing K, I'm not at school now, I'm in town."
Their school is in the suburbs, not strictly speaking, in the mountains. Their school was originally located in the suburbs of a second-tier municipality, but it was in the suburbs of this suburb, and there was a bamboo mountain scenic spot next door. So although the surrounding food streets are very developed, everyone still teases that this is a mountainous area.
And when they usually enter the "district center" commercial street in the suburbs, they have to take a 20-minute bus ride. They jokingly called going to the center of the district for shopping and shopping as "going into the city", while going to the main urban area of the municipality directly said "go to xx city", as if their suburbs were not within the scope of xx city.
When Ye Xu heard that Mu Ling was not at school, he immediately had a bad feeling. Those who died unexpectedly after playing the game all died after leaving the school, and Mu Ling, as the first NPC to die, happened to be not at the school now.
However, it is impossible for him to tell the NPC that you hurry back to school, because they only stay here for five days, and nine people will die, which means that at least one or two will die a day. Even if he asked people to come back, Mu Ling would probably die in a car accident on the way back, which is meaningless.
So he took the time to ask, "Do you remember who among us was the first to bring up that game?"
Mu Ling was stunned when she heard this question: "It's Xiaoqin, but why do you ask this?"
"It's nothing." Ye Xu didn't bother to explain, he just said he had something to do and hung up the phone.
Over there, Mu Ling looked at the phone strangely, feeling a little puzzled. Fortunately, it was her turn to sing soon, so she didn't care, put down her phone, took the microphone, and sang happily.
Ye Xu quickly looked for the "Xiaoqin".
There are not many people in his address book, but the NPCs who play games are all in it. Ye Xu guessed that the Xiaoqin Mu Ling was talking about should be an NPC named Su Qin, so he called Su Qin.
Su Qin was in the dormitory, about to take a nap. Ye Xu didn't think much about it after receiving the call, and Ye Xu used extremely poor excuses to ask from her side who she knew about the game from.
He said he wanted to ask the man if he knew of any other fun games he'd like to play. Su Qin probably was too sleepy, so she didn't think much about it, and believed this nonsense.
After asking about the news he wanted, the second brother called the man instead of Ye Xu. He was afraid that Ye Xu was too kind and would be tricked by the other party, so he decided to fight by himself.
The high-speed Suqin gamer really didn't admit at first that he told Suqin about the game on purpose in order to harm others. He didn't get emotional until the second brother said that all the people who died unexpectedly before died because of playing games.
"Have you read too many ghost stories? How could such a thing happen? It's so boring!" He cursed sternly, and then quickly hung up the phone.
The second brother looked indifferent and didn't care about his excitement. Ye Xu took the opportunity to lock on the location of the caller with his second brother, and his perception skills were extremely useful at this time.
"He is in the dormitory, but he is packing his things now and seems to be planning to leave. I saw him quickly booked a high-speed train."
"Block people at the door." The second brother got up immediately.
This person definitely did it on purpose, so he might know something.
The point is that people in the circle are just guessing that the game will curse people to death, and there is no evidence. Now Ye Xu and the others didn't die, so it stands to reason that even if the other party had evil intentions and wanted to use games to harm them, they wouldn't be so flustered.
Thinking in another way, if Ye Xu was an insider who only had guesses about this matter and took action, how would he react when he was asked? There will definitely be a little panic, but more often it will be death and denial.
After all, there is no evidence, no one knows if it will really kill him, even if it really kills him, what else can they do with him? This kind of supernatural event will not be used as legal evidence, and he cannot be charged with murder.
However, this person not only panicked, but also immediately bought a ticket to leave, obviously something was wrong. He didn't seem to act based on guesswork, but rather, he knew that he would die if he played this game.
Who will know about this? One is that he played it by himself, and then he was the only one left when all his companions died; the other was that he watched others play it, but Ye Xu felt that it was impossible. When they played this game in the morning, all the NPCs around ignored them, and it was very difficult. It is possible that other people can't watch this event at all, or even remember who played this game at all.
"If he really played but didn't die, how did he survive?" Ye Xu asked.
The second brother looked slightly cold: "Either the time hasn't come yet, or he transferred the curse."