The opening sequence ended here, and at that moment, six players appeared in the classroom.
There are nine pairs of desks and chairs in this classroom, which are divided into three rows and three columns.
At this time, all the players are sitting: from the perspective of facing the blackboard, in the first row from left to right, three girls, Ruoyu, An Yueqin and Xiaoling, are sitting; in the second row, on the left
The seat was empty, with Feng Bujue and the sixth member of the team sitting in the middle and on the right side respectively; and Xiaotan... sat alone in the middle of the third row.
"Hey~ we are indeed acquaintances." Xiao Ling immediately turned around and looked at the sixth member of the team, and then blurted out these words.
The reason why I say "sure enough" is naturally because she has foreseen this situation.
After the new version was opened, everyone was busy leveling up, and the most important thing about leveling up is "efficiency"... There is no doubt that compared to arranging high-risk scenarios like "Team Nightmare", it is better to do more leveling up.
Several ordinary books with higher probability of passing the level will be more efficient.
Therefore, there are only two types of people who will come to the solo queue nightmare team version, one is players without a studio background, and the other... is those top players.
Coupled with the condition that "the level is about the same as the entire Hell Front team", "meeting an acquaintance" is also foreseeable.
"Feng! No! Jue!" About two seconds later, [Tiantian Guixiao] shouted; he ignored everyone and shouted at Brother Jue, as if he had met an enemy.
"What are you shouting for..." Feng Bujue glared at the excited Gui Xiao, and said feebly, "Are you going to accept me with the purple, gold and red gourd? Call me my name to see if I dare.
Do you dare to agree?"
"Tch..." After being complained about by the other party, Gui Xiao felt that he was a little too excited, and curled his lips and continued. "You are so calm...don't you take me seriously at all..."
"My eyes can't fit your majestic figure of 1.6 meters." Feng Bujue's ability to ridicule is indeed innate and natural. "I have always respected you in my heart."
"I'm 1.69 meters tall! And I'm still growing!" Hearing the topic of height, Gui Xiao couldn't bear it anymore, and he raised his voice again and shouted.
"It's okay, I have a very broad mind. I can still accommodate you if you grow another 0.5 centimeters." Brother Jue waved his hand and replied with a half-smile.
"How long are you going to discuss this height issue?" At this time, Ruoyu on the side couldn't stand it anymore and stopped the nonsense between these two people.
Before he finished speaking, a system prompt also sounded.
[Your character's abilities have been limited, and you are now playing an ordinary person.]
The six players heard the same prompt in their ears, and they all knew this just by exchanging glances.
"Sigh... I hate this kind of limited edition." Gui Xiao immediately expressed his dissatisfaction, "Every time I encounter this type of script, I will fail."
"Then you are in luck today." Brother Jue continued with a smile. "Today, my brothers and sisters will take you through the next level and experience the fun of limited editions."
"Hmph..." Gui Xiao crossed his hands on his chest, "Listen to you..."
"Anyway, let's confirm our identities first." At this time, An Yueqin turned to everyone and said, "If nothing else, the roles we play have been assigned..." She said.
He pointed to the upper left corner of his desk.
Right where she pointed, three words Sanqianyuan were engraved.
This word... was carved with a utility knife or something like that. It doesn't look like the handwriting was carved by an adult. Of course, carving is not writing after all. It cannot be ruled out that the difficulty in carving causes the font to be out of shape, which is why it has such an effect.
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"This is the surname of the character we are playing, right?" Xiao Ling had already noticed the words engraved on his desk. It was also the same kind of handwriting in the upper left corner, with the word "Protruding Shou" engraved on it, "
Speaking of which... I seem to have randomly picked up a particularly rare surname."
"Oh! I have some here too." Xiaotan apparently discovered the carvings on the table after being reminded by his teammates, "It's called Sawada."
"What I'm carving here is 'source'." Ruoyu continued.
"Ha~" Gui Xiao also saw the carvings on his desk at this moment. "'Yamada'... I always think it's a bad surname." He felt a little inexplicably disappointed.
"Well..." After everyone finished reporting the surnames engraved on their desks, Brother Jue slowly continued, "What I have engraved here is '娨樫'..."
silence.
A long silence.
For some reason, after Brother Jue said those two words, the other five people all looked at him strangely and stopped talking.
"Then what..." After nearly a minute, Feng Bujue finally broke the silence and changed the topic, "Speaking of which, at the end of the opening g, didn't it say someone was shouting? Why didn't I hear it..."
"Uh... maybe... we have already finished shouting when we load the characters." Xiaotan was also very interesting and casually picked up the sentence.
"Well..." Feng Bujue touched his chin and said, "The main mission has not been updated yet, which means... we need to trigger a lag." As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the podium.
"Let's look around first to see if there are any clues."
After hearing this, everyone didn't say much and started their own search.
According to custom, at this time, people will usually check the thing closest to them first, such as... the inside of the desk.
But they soon determined that the insides of the nine desks were empty, not even scraps of paper or anything.
Then, everyone started investigating the things around them one by one according to their "suspiciousness".
At the same moment, Feng Bujue picked up an old newspaper on the podium. He didn't know if he was suffering from reading addiction, so he stood there and started reading...
Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
The results of the public investigation are as follows...
The sliding door of the classroom was locked and could not be opened. When I pulled it forcefully, I did not hear any prompts such as "key required."
The windows facing the playground and corridor were all closed, and as I approached, a message "sealed by some dark force" appeared. Looking out through the glass was pitch black, and I could only see my own shadow.
The order of the lockers at the rear of the classroom is the same as the order of the desks and chairs when viewed from above. When trying to open them, a "key required" prompt appears.
There is a wooden bookcase on the right side of the podium. It cannot be opened either.
There is a painting hanging on the wall to the left of the podium, with a huge human face painted on it. The style of painting does not seem to be at the level of a primary school student. To be more specific, it is more abstract.
There is also a storage space inside the podium, but it also "requires a key" to open.
To sum up, after preliminary investigation, the clues have been concentrated on the old newspaper on the podium. If there are any hints... it should be there.
"So... Captain, how are you doing there?" Xiao Ling asked after briefly telling Brother Jue the information collected by everyone.
"Well... first of all..." Feng Bujue put down the newspaper in his hand, "This is a May newspaper, the date is May 19."
"What does that mean?" Gui Xiao asked.
"Do you remember that the first sentence of the narrator is 'It's a summer evening'." Feng Bujue continued.
"Oh..." Gui Xiao nodded, "So?"
"Judging from the layout of this classroom, the names on the desks, and the atmosphere of the script..." An Yueqin explained at this time, "This is undoubtedly a horror story that happened in Japan, and Japan and we are both in the northern hemisphere, so other
'Summer' should be June, July, and August every year."
"That is to say..." Ruoyu also added. "This newspaper was from a month or two ago?"
"Not necessarily..." Feng Bujue responded, "The year on the newspaper is Showa 47, that is, 1972; it may be a newspaper from one or two months ago, or it may be a newspaper from one or two years ago.
, maybe even newspapers from ten or twenty years ago..." He paused, "We have no way of guessing the era when this script took place, as well as the specific ages, graduation years and other information of these characters... because the narration did not mention it.
The specific time of 'now' is only 'not seen for many years', and this 'many years'... can be more than ten years, more than twenty years, or even thirty or forty years."
"But..." Xiaotan looked suspicious when he heard this. "Didn't he also say, 'No one has changed much'? This means it hasn't been too long, right?"
"Not necessarily." Feng Bujue immediately replied with these two words, and continued. "Most people will say that when they reunite with their childhood friends after many years; because the memory of a person's childhood is the most important.
Profoundly, as long as you recognize the person in front of you, the memory at that time will be awakened, and then the face in the memory will coincide with the face in front of you... plus some 'emotional' factors, you will naturally say
Say something like 'no change'."
"Yeah. This is the line I hear most often at class reunions." An Yueqin immediately answered.
"Hey, hey... I said..." Gui Xiao seemed a little impatient now, "Why are you studying those things? Is it necessary to draw out the characters and backgrounds in such detail? Isn't the focus now not to trigger the lag? First,
Shall we talk about it after we receive the main mission?”
His words immediately attracted the attention of the entire Hell Front team.
"You...why are you looking at me like that..." Gui Xiao thought, "It's so weird."
"I kind of know why you guy can't pass the 'script with limited abilities'." Feng Bujue shrugged and shook his head. "You have too little patience."
"Tch..." When Gui Xiao heard this, he glanced sideways and muttered, "This line and tone seem familiar... I always feel like Brother Chan has told me something similar."
The "Brother Zen" in his mouth, of course, means drinking... Oh no... Meng Jingchan.
"Eh? By the way, why don't you arrange the script with your teammates in the studio?" When mentioning Brother Chan, Xiao Tan also thought of something else.
"Uh... this..." Gui Xiao hesitated.
"This may involve the secrets of other people's studios, so don't ask." Xiao Ling also has a very strong ability to observe words and emotions. When he saw this, he nudged Xiao Tan with his elbow and reminded him.
"Oh! I'm sorry." Xiaotan smiled and said, "Just pretend I didn't say hello."
"Well... there's actually nothing bad to say." Gui Xiao curled his lips, "You are not professional players anyway, so as long as you don't talk nonsense, it's okay to tell you this..." He paused for half a second and continued.
, "When leveling up, our studio will arrange complementary teams based on each person's characteristics; and I... am the kind of person who is more suitable for solo queue." Gui Xiao spread his hands and used
He continued with a rather proud tone, "To put it bluntly... I will 100% become 'excess combat power' in the 'unlimited ability script'."
"On the other hand, in this kind of book, it is a burden." Feng Bujue poured a basin of cold water on the other party just two seconds after he said something.
"Stop blabbering!" Gui Xiao said, "Aren't you sure you want to take me through the level? It's been ten minutes since the script started, and you haven't even explored the main mission! What are you so arrogant about?"
"Don't be anxious, Yamada-kun." Feng Bujue said with a smile, "I am about to tell you something closely related to the main plot."
Immediately afterwards, Brother Jue smiled and spoke in a very relaxed tone, which made people feel numb: "Based on what I read in the past few minutes... everything in this newspaper
The news is all about one school. Of course, if nothing else happens... it refers to the school we are in." As he spoke, he gestured towards the seats in the corner of the last row of the classroom with his eyes.
, "The headline on the front page is 'There was a fire in the warehouse opposite the principal's office. Although the fire did not spread, one student still died in the fire'; and the name of the deceased student... was Suzuki Takayuki."
When these words came out, his teammates...especially Xiaotan and Guixiao were in a state of excitement.
Because they all remember the name engraved on the upper left corner of that seat, which is "Suzuki".
"You mean..." Two seconds later, Ruoyu was the first to answer, "That Suzuki is the squad leader who hasn't shown up yet?" She paused for a second, then continued, "Isn't this illogical?"
"Yeah..." Xiao Ling also said, "Just think of him as the class monitor. This Suzuki was burned to death when he was a student, and the matter was reported. There is no reason for his classmates not to know about it;
Under this premise, the situation of 'receiving a letter from him' can scare people half to death. Who will go to the appointment?"
"It makes sense." An Yueqin thought for a while and added, "Judging from the tone of the narrator... no matter who the real monitor is, at least the students who came for the appointment thought that he or she was still alive and well, so it is impossible
It's Suzuki."
"Well, that's a good judgment." Feng Bujue listened to everyone's opinions and continued, "Therefore, the actual situation may be... Suzuki Takayuki was indeed a member of this class, but he was not the class president, and he was
He was burned to death when he was a student, so he didn't show up at today's party. It's also possible... Suzuki who was burned to death was not a member of this class, but he was also from this school. After all, Suzuki is a relatively common surname in Japan.
"
At this point, Brother Jue changed the subject: "But..." (To be continued.)
