Chapter 11 Dormitory Civility Rules (VII)
Guo Guo finally experienced what it felt like to feel cold from the top of the head to the soles of the feet.
She wanted to ask, if Xiaohong was her, then who was she? But when she opened her mouth, she was so trembling that no sound came out.
As if he could read her mind, Tang Xinjue replied softly, "When you have reason, consciousness, self-awareness, and the ability to think, you are still Guo Guo."
Only when you lose yourself and your reason will you truly become "Little Red" as the test suggests.
Guo Guo was stunned. She thought of something and suddenly took out her phone to check her body information interface.
[Sanity collapse: Your sanity value has dropped significantly, and the surrounding environment is no longer safe for you]
The words that she had seen several times before came into her sight again, and Guo Guo felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. The fragmented and vague clues were finally connected together with Tang Xin Jue's presentation, presenting the cold and terrifying facts before her eyes.
Why is it always her?
It turns out that she was the chosen prey from the very beginning .
Tang Xinjue started writing on the paper again, but this time, next to Xiaohong was Guo Guo's name. The two names were tied on a scale, teetering on the edge of a cliff.
His own identity and the infiltrated identity of "Xiao Hong" are superimposed on Guo Guo at the same time, like the two ends of a scale.
Every time the sanity value drops, every time a hallucination or even a breakdown occurs, the balance will tilt more and more towards "Xiao Hong".
And when the balance is completely tilted... Guo Guo bit his lower lip, "What will happen then?"
Will she become the real "Xiaohong"?
Tang Xin Jue shook his head: "I can't be completely sure, but if the above analysis is correct, this should be the hidden condition of the task item, and also the implicit logic of the test."
"——Xiaohong's belongings need to be picked up by herself."
That's why their search the next day yielded nothing.
In fact, Xiaohong's reaction at night had already made Tang Xinjue suspicious. The ghost's greed revealed that it didn't really want people to help it find things, but at the same time, it didn't worry that they would find it.
In this case, either the quest item is a scam, or the quest itself is a scam. Or even worse...
"... Zhang You is right. Xiao Hong is not a human. Ghosts have natural malice towards us." Tang Xin Jue's eyes were heavy: "Now that I think about it, if I were an NPC, I would do the same."
How, how to do it?
Guo Guo collapsed. At this moment, she even wished she had no ability to think, so that she would not be afraid of what was about to happen.
It was almost six in the afternoon, and in less than ten minutes, eight in the evening would come again. If they didn't get the quest item, they might die, and if they got the quest item, they might still die.
It's a death either way?
No... Guo Guo suddenly realized from despair that since Tang Xin Jue could analyze all of this, then perhaps he had found a solution?
She struggled to her feet, holding on to the last glimmer of hope and asked, "So, what can we do now?"
Tang Xin Jue was as gentle as ever, but there was a hidden sharpness in his words that she couldn't understand: "Wait, the time will be up soon."
“Remember, even in the most painful times, don’t forget your own name, don’t forget who you are.”
This is the experience Tang Xinjue summed up from countless nightmares.
Not sure if she understood what he said, Guo Guo's eyes fell blankly on the electronic clock interface that was rapidly passing by. She felt her brain begin to swell and ache, and a familiar auditory hallucination rang in her ears. She could only use the last bit of clarity to grasp Tang Xin Jue.
"Heart Sutra, if anything happens to me, when you finish the game and return to the real world, you must..."
"What do you want?" Tang Xinjue shook his roommate's hand.
The roommate was almost exhausted: "You must delete the contents of my D drive... and my P station account... and Baidu Cloud..."
Tang Xin Jue: "...Don't worry, you will be fine."
Guo Guo obviously didn't believe it. She opened her mouth sadly and wanted to speak, but her voice suddenly stopped.
From Tang Xinjue's perspective, Guo Guo's eyes began to become unfocused, and an ominous bluish-white color spread across his face, and his entire temperament suddenly became gloomy.
[Health value 70, negative status obtained: critically ill]
[Sanity collapse (severe): The environment has become extremely dangerous to you, and some force has eroded your will and self... Are you still yourself at this moment?]
The cell phone fell to the ground, but Guo Guo was completely unaware of it. She stood up stiffly, ignoring everything outside and turned to look at her desk.
Guo Guo seemed to be attracted by a certain part of the desk and became very interested in it. She rushed over and slowly opened the vertical cabinet door under the desk.
Just when Guo Guo had the hallucination before, there was an object quietly displayed in the place where the ghost was in the screaming cabinet.
The moment he saw it, Tang Xinjue's pupils shrank.
That's a human head!
“Hehe…”
There was fear in Guo Guo's eyes, but a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He couldn't help but reach out to touch the head.
"Guo Guo!"
When Tang Xinjue grabbed her, it was too late. Her head had already fallen into Guo Guo's hands. Her long black hair was parted, revealing the face underneath - a blank face.
This head has no face?
"Found it. I found it."
Guo Guo smiled foolishly. At the same time, a chill ran from her arm to Tang Xinjue's body. The cold and sticky touch like ice made Tang Xinjue subconsciously withdraw his hand.
She then realized that the chill came not only from Guo Guo, but from the entire house.
The temperature in the dormitory dropped sharply, as if a thin layer of cold fog rose from the ground, covering the sight. And below the fog, an indescribable sense of danger gushed out -
Tang Xinjue pulled Guo Guo hard, causing the latter to stagger. The head in his hand fell to the ground and rolled two meters away.
The next second, she clearly saw a giggling mouth appear on the blank face of the skull, followed by the texture of the skin, and then downwards... a hand stretched out from the ground under the head, with five pale fingers spread out.
"Dear roommates, congratulations on finding what I lost..."
Tang Xin Jue looked at it coldly: "Did you lose your head?"
That was really careless.
The corners of the head's mouth drooped. It didn't expect that Tang Xinjue would dare to talk back at this time. Below it, a crack silently opened up on the dormitory floor, and two pale hands groped out, with a twisted and thin body behind the arms.
——Exactly the same as “Xiaohong’s” body at night.
Tang Xinjue could feel that with the appearance of cracks in the ground , a certain boundary between the dormitory and the outside world, day and night was broken.
From the moment "Xiaohong" used human heads to enter the dormitory during the day, the rules and restrictions no longer applied .
This is the biggest danger and trap in the entire test.
Xiaohong crawled faster and faster, and in a blink of an eye, most of her body had appeared in the dormitory. At the same time, the head on top of her body began to grow a human face, but her eyebrows, eyes, and facial features were more and more like Guo Guo.
However, Guo Guo, who was standing next to Tang Xinjue, had facial features that seemed to be covered by mist, becoming increasingly blurred.
"To thank you for helping me find the items, I decided to let you stay here with me forever, okay~"
Xiaohong raised her face, and a pair of eyes had already appeared on it. The next second, she giggled and opened her eyes.
"We caught you...?"
Everything was dark before my eyes.
Xiaohong's smile froze. Could it be that the person chosen was blind?
Then it realized that it was not a problem with its eyes, but something covering its face, causing darkness in front of its eyes.
Not only that, that thing seemed to hold all of its facial features, and the facial features that had not yet fully grown were suddenly blocked from growing and forced to stay fixed in place.
Xiaohong: “?”
It shook its head subconsciously, but the suction force on its face was stronger than it had imagined. The two forces in opposite directions pressed its facial features flat and sank into its skull.
Xiao Hong: "...Ahhhhhhhhh!!! I'm going to kill you all!!"
Where it couldn't see, Tang Xinjue held the toilet plunger, and the rubber stopper was buckled tightly on Xiaohong's face, firmly blocking its forward steps.
Feeling the weight in his hand, Tang Xinjue looked cold and spoke softly.
"I got you."
