Chapter 174 Guardian (Thirty-two)
Although this looked like a bathroom, there was no guarantee that the other party's shouting would not attract other people's attention. After all, this was a strange place for her, and Qiao Yuan didn't want to cause too much noise.
The school uniform the girl was wearing was the same color as Qiao Yuan's, except for the school name printed on the chest, which was hard to notice if you didn't look closely.
After Qiao Yuan covered his mouth, his reaction became more intense, and he even began to struggle desperately. Qiao Yuan realized something and said, "I am a human."
After hearing what Qiao Yuan said, the girl calmed down a lot and Qiao Yuan moved his hand away.
What she didn't expect was that the girl turned around quickly and looked surprised: "So you are really Qiao Yuan?"
Qiao Yuan was stunned: "Do you know me?"
She looked at the girl's face carefully and searched it in her mind, but she didn't find the corresponding person.
Joe was willing to make sure he had never come into contact with the other party before.
Seeing Qiao Yuan's reaction, the girl also breathed a sigh of relief: "Of course, I usually like to watch that "Reasons for Departure". Didn't you just participate in it?"
Although the audience in the live broadcast room noticed the problem when they saw time passing so quickly, most of them thought it was a setting of the copy, and they argued in the barrage whether it was a sudden act of mercy from the copy or a deeper conspiracy.
When Qiao Yuan proposed the dream theory, it really caused quite a stir, but everyone quickly realized that the chaotic things in front of them were indeed like a dream, and what happened afterwards was far beyond their expectations -
[But these characters are too real]
[Compared to the dream itself, I was more shocked that the owner of the dream was Su Zeyuan. Why did he always dream about being in high school? Was he so passionate about studying in his dreams?]
[I think it’s quite normal. When I was in my third year of high school, I would dream about continuing to attend classes at school. It felt like I had never missed a day of school.]
[Awakened my painful memories of my senior year in high school]
When Qiao Yuan and the others finally figured out a way to wake up Su Zeyuan and successfully implemented it, some viewers in the live broadcast room had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief. After hearing what the girl who suddenly appeared said, they couldn't help but be shocked:
[So this person is also a player? Why hasn't he appeared before? ]
[Maybe they are doing different tasks in the same world. It seems that she is in Changyao Middle School in this world, and Qiao Yuan is in middle school. They are in different places, so it is normal that they have not met before. This kind of thing has happened before.]
[“Reasons for Departure”, isn’t this the variety show that Sister Qiao has participated in in the real world?]
[“Reasons for Departure”, my go-to show for eating hahahaha]
[Now that you mention it, I have an impression of it. I remember that she was on the hot search because of this. I think it was because of the shooting competition. I also knew her name because of that hot search.]
[Yes, yes, I remember it too. I remember that she basically shot all her shots at her teammates, which stunned the other team. Then because both teams were required to protect a child, the child couldn't stand it anymore and took her gun and shot two opponents. I remember that I once rushed to the top of the heat.]
[At the time, I really thought she couldn't hit the target. Now that I think about it, I can only say that Sister Qiao disguised herself too well. If this wasn't a fixed part of the program and there wasn't a spy identity, I would have thought she was an undercover planted by another team.]
[There are also comments on the hot search saying that the five people from the other team cannot protect the rest of this team except Qiao Yuan]
[Wait, did you notice that she said the words 'just appeared'? But "Reasons for Departure" was a variety show that Qiao Yuan appeared on a few months ago, and she is not a regular on the show.]
【？ ？ ？】
【！ ！ ！】
[And she seems to know Zou Lu]
Qiao Yuan also realized the problem.
She nodded in agreement with the other party's words, and then quietly inquired about the news. The girl in front of her called herself Dou Yu, and she was also a player. What surprised Qiao Yuan was not only her identity as a player, but also the time when Dou Yu entered the dungeon. It was when she had just become a hot topic because of "The Reason for Departure", which was a few months ago.
Although he was shocked by Dou Yu's words, Qiao Yuan did not show it on the surface: "Then the name you just called... is she also a player?"
"Of course." Dou Yu didn't know that there was a time difference between her and Qiao Yuan. After realizing that Qiao Yuan in front of her was also a player, her tone became much more relaxed because she found a kindred spirit: "Her name is Zou Lu."
"She, I, and you... should be considered the surviving players. Fatty and Xiao Ning are all dead, but where were you hiding before?"
"You don't look... like a novice player."
When she mentioned the words "surviving players", her tone became noticeably lower. For a moment, she didn't notice that the name on the school uniform that Qiao Yuan was wearing was different from hers, and she just looked at Qiao Yuan in confusion.
The other party really knew Zou Lu.
Qiao Yuan noticed that Dou Yu had been deliberately lowering his voice, as if he was avoiding something, so he imitated the other person's voice and said, "I... I have been through a dungeon before and have some understanding of the game, but I really don't understand this dungeon..."
Judging from Dou Yu's expression, she probably thought Qiao Yuan was someone who either didn't understand the situation or was afraid of the game so he hid and wanted to reap the benefits. However, at the moment, she only wanted the three of them to survive, and what happened before made her no longer care about it, so she quickly told him everything that happened.
Not counting Qiao Yuan, there were a total of twelve players who entered the dungeon. Their mission was to investigate the recent frequent supernatural events at Changyao Middle School as students from different classes. Although there were ghosts attacking the players at first and several players were killed, the investigation progressed normally. However, they did not expect that after they found out the truth, they did not leave the dungeon. Instead, more strange things began to happen, and the players around them died one after another inexplicably.
The reason why she was hiding here was because she had just been attacked by a ghost and had gotten separated from another surviving player, Zou Lu.
Because Changyao Middle School should be in class at this time, she and Zou Lu were the only ones outside the corridor at first, so when she heard the voice coming from the cubicle, she naturally thought and expected it was Zou Lu. After all, the tense atmosphere was about to overwhelm her. The abnormal situation around her and the successive deaths of players made her often doubt that she was the one who was crazy. Only when she stood with Zou Lu did she feel that she was not crazy.
What she didn't expect was that the person next door would be Qiao Yuan.
When she first felt Qiao Yuan's cold body temperature, she thought he was a ghost and subconsciously wanted to struggle. But after hearing Qiao Yuan's words, she gradually calmed down. On the one hand, it was because of Qiao Yuan's words, and on the other hand, it was because Qiao Yuan was not her favorite star. Even if a ghost wants to deceive people, it has to deceive according to its preferences, and there is no need to become a star she doesn't like.
But it’s fine if Qiao Yuan wants to, as long as he’s a player.
However, because of Qiao Yuan's questioning, her memory was pulled back to the scene of her companions' death. The player who was still talking and laughing in the last second died in front of her in the next second, but she had no time to grieve because she didn't know whether such a fate would befall her in the next second.
I completed the mission but was unable to leave the dungeon...
Qiao Yuan, who had encountered a similar situation, felt the same way and blamed the system: "Your function of leaving the copy is too insensitive."
The system justifies the game: [There are only two possibilities for this situation, one is a special case, and the other is that you think you have completed the task, but you actually haven't. ]
Qiao Yuan: "Which situation do you think she is in?"
System: [I am not her system, so I have no idea why she cannot escape from the copy.]
Qiao Yuan failed to get any information out of the system, but she was not disappointed. After all, the most important thing at the moment was to figure out why she was here.
It sounds like Dou Yu and her mission are completely different. The only thing they have in common is a common teammate - Zou Lu.
Wait, there's another possible commonality...
Qiao Yuan realized something and turned to look at Dou Yu: "Do you know Su Zeyuan?"
Dou Yu's sad mood was suddenly interrupted. After a brief moment of confusion, she nodded: "Of course, that's a boy from our class."
"At first, we suspected that he might be related to this mission, so we had contact with him. He seemed quite normal, but we didn't pay much attention to him later..."
In order to prevent the possibility of having the same name, Qiao Yuan also described Su Zeyuan's appearance and matched them one by one with the person Dou Yu remembered.
Although Qiao Yuan got the answer, she still didn't feel relieved. She quickly asked another question: "What day is today in the dungeon?"
Although Dou Yu was puzzled as to why Qiao Yuan could even ask such a question, after thinking about the other party's image in the real world, he quickly responded.
Qiao Yuan's heart sank.
This is the time before Su Zeyuan transferred to another school in the copy.
She had vaguely pieced something together.
That is to say, Su Zeyuan was in Changyao Middle School before, and the place where Dou Yu and Zou Lu needed to complete the mission was also in Changyao Middle School. Later, Su Zeyuan transferred to Pinggu Middle School, which was the place where Qiao Yuan and her team were tasked, and became the person they needed to protect.
It is impossible for two Su Zeyuans to appear in the same world at the same time. In addition, Dou Yu's memory of the real world is still stuck in a few months ago. Qiao Yuan realized that everything happening before his eyes might be another dream of Su Zeyuan.
Dou Yu and the others may have accidentally entered Su Zeyuan's dream while completing their mission without realizing it. They are either trapped here or...
He is already dead without knowing it, and is still experiencing the fear of death in his dreams, so naturally he cannot escape from the copy.
Among Dou Yu's group of players, it is very likely that only Zou Lu successfully escaped from the dungeon, but later entered the dungeon again and met Su Zeyuan again.
