Chapter 178 Guardian (Thirty-six)
As for whether Zou Lu said anything afterwards, Dou Yu could no longer hear it.
She is dead.
And if you round it off, he was still killed by Zou Lu.
After realizing this, Dou Yu's expression instantly became ferocious. At this moment, her face showed a bit of ghostliness, her limbs seemed to be twisted by an invisible hand, blood gushed out from her eyes, nose, ears, etc. like a fountain, her hair fell off in clumps, and soon her bloody scalp was exposed.
Even so, she still rushed directly to Zou Lu: "It's you!"
"You killed me!"
Although Qiao Yuan had already figured out that Dou Yu was a ghost, because he had lost his memory, she did not realize that Zou Lu seemed to be behind Dou Yu's death.
So Zou Lu's purpose of pretending to have just woken up is very obvious.
Perhaps the other party heard her calling Su Zeyuan's name at first and thought that she was the only one or that there were other players following her, so it is very likely that they wanted to lure her in first and kill her like they killed Dou Yu.
What the other party didn't expect was that there was a ghost following her, and it was Dou Yu.
Just as Qiao Yuan was thinking, she felt the corner of her clothes being gently pulled. Following the force of the pulling, she found that it was Xu Yunchuan.
After discovering that the person present was not Su Zeyuan, Xu Yunchuan seemed to have no interest in this revenge drama. After all, in his own playground, this kind of behavior was common, and he did like it in the past, but now he always felt it was boring, and it would be better for him to stay with Qiao Yuan.
However, in front of Qiao Yuan, he still acted anxious: "I didn't expect that the one following us was actually a ghost."
" It looks like her target is Zou Lu. Let's leave now. It's more important to find Su Zeyuan..."
When he saw Dou Yu rushing towards him, Zou Lu dodged nimbly.
She also heard Xu Yunchuan's words, but now she had no time to think about why he was here. She could only shout at Qiao Yuan and Xu Yunchuan in panic: "Wait, don't leave me!"
"Aren't you curious about why she knows me? I can tell you..."
Qiao Yuan knew that the other party was obviously anxious, but she had already roughly guessed the grudges between Zou Lu and Dou Yu. What she was interested in was why Zou Lu was able to escape from the copy and whether the other party knew other things about Su Zeyuan.
Zou Lu also noticed that Qiao Yuan's expression was not very touched after hearing what he said, and his face suddenly became anxious.
At this time, she had been caught by Dou Yu, and the other party's pale hands had already pinched her neck.
But Qiao Yuan finally took action. She turned to look at Xu Yunchuan and said, "We have to save her."
At least Zou Lu can't die now.
After hearing what Qiao Yuan said, Xu Yunchuan also stopped and wanted to leave.
Qiao Yuan and Xu Yunchuan quickly stepped forward.
Although Dou Yu wanted revenge, she was not oblivious to what was going on. When she heard footsteps behind her, she turned around and met the gazes of Qiao Yuan and Xu Yunchuan. "I heard what you were talking about with Zou Lu. I must kill her."
"Don't stop me."
She originally wanted to kill Qiao Yuan and Xu Yunchuan who were close to her. After all, she had two hands, and it would be easy to kill Zou Lu and the other two at the same time. But for some reason, when she noticed Xu Yunchuan's sudden cold gaze, her body trembled subconsciously, and she finally chose to negotiate peacefully.
Qiao Yuan asked, "Don't you want to know what happened?"
"Why didn't you escape from that copy ? Maybe Zou Lu can give us the answer."
Of course Dou Yu wanted to.
After all, part of the reason why she became a ghost was because she was unable to escape from the copy.
Qiao Yuan accurately captured the subtle hesitation in Dou Yu's face and hurriedly gave him a few words of advice, which finally cooled Dou Yu's desire for revenge temporarily.
Qiao Yuan was right. Since Zou Lu was here, it meant that revenge could be taken at any time, but this might be the only chance to know the truth.
Dou Yu finally let go of her hand.
There was a circle of red marks on Zou Lu's neck, and as the fresh air rushed in, he was coughing violently with the rise and fall of his chest. It is conceivable that if Qiao Yuan did not speak out in time, the other party would definitely have his neck broken.
After coughing for a while, she finally came to her senses.
Zou Lu wanted to stand up and run away, but Dou Yu was right next to him, so he could only stay there and accept the questioning of Dou Yu and Qiao Yuan.
Zou Lu: "I...I really didn't mean it..."
Qiao Yuan interrupted her argument: "You have met Su Zeyuan before."
"So when you first met each other at Pinggu Middle School, you already realized the problem, right?"
Realizing that Qiao Yuan had already guessed something, Zou Lu finally gave up the urge to change the subject.
Although he quickly realized that this was Changyao Middle School after opening his eyes, and was prepared to see a familiar ghost, Zou Lu still felt a little complicated when he saw Dou Yu.
At that time, she and Dou Yu became close quickly in the dungeon because they were of similar age and had experienced a similar number of dungeons. They even agreed to meet after leaving the dungeon.
At that time, Zou Lu was indeed sincere in keeping her promise to Dou Yu, but she did not expect that she would encounter the copy of Changyao Middle School, a memory that now belongs to her alone.
Zou Lu still remembers that the mission progressed very quickly at the beginning under the leadership of an old player who had experienced double-digit dungeons. Not long after entering the dungeon, they locked on the target of this mission. They were excited at that time, until they found that there was no way to get out after the mission was completed, and they couldn't even contact the system. Their companions around them died one after another, but they couldn't find the pattern of death like in the previous dungeon, which made the things before their eyes even more weird.
The first person to realize that Su Zeyuan might have a problem was not her, but the veteran player who had experienced double-digit dungeons. It happened that they formed a team separately to continue looking for clues to escape the dungeon, and she happened to be drawn to be in a team with the veteran player.
She lied to Ren Shirui that she was her schoolmate. In fact, she was old enough for Ren Shirui to call her sister in the real world. After all, Zou Lu had already graduated from college and worked for several years.
Because they are now almost guided by the orders of the old players, she has been paying attention to the expressions of the old players.
The veteran player suddenly said, "I think we may have found the wrong mission target before."
Zou Lu was a little shocked by the other party's words, and she also understood why the old player had been hesitant to speak. After all, the other party's words were tantamount to overturning all their previous efforts, and now everyone was already anxious because they couldn't get out of the dungeon, and some people were on the verge of mental collapse . She could already imagine how much of a reaction it would cause if the other party said this.
Even though she thought she had a high tolerance, it took her a while to realize something and she turned to look at the old player next to her, asking if he had any suspected targets.
Seeing Zou Lu calm down, the old player breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "I suspect it was Su Zeyuan."
"I know we have suspected him once before, but I found new clues. I found that he has not slept since the day we completed the mission..."
Changyao Middle School is also a boarding high school. The old player happened to be assigned to the same dormitory as Su Zeyuan. He accidentally discovered these days that the other party had never fallen asleep. He also secretly asked people in the same class as Su Zeyuan and learned that no one had seen the other party fall asleep in the classroom.
You know, ordinary people simply can't stay up all night. Plus, considering that Su Zeyuan was often involved in supernatural events before, this old player couldn't help but think too much.
However, all this is just his speculation at the moment. In addition, the players are under a lot of pressure now, so he wants to wait until he finds solid evidence before telling everyone.
"I think there's a high probability that he's not human, but I don't think he's like the other ghosts we've encountered."
"I even feel like we may no longer be in this mission world, so we can't contact the system..."
Zou Lu was secretly frightened while listening. She had been with Su Zeyuan before and hadn't noticed any problems. Now after hearing what the old player said, she felt very scared.
Of course, what the other party said also seemed very strange to her.
What does it mean to be no longer in this mission world?
If they are not in the mission world, where else can they be?
But before she could ask, the old player's voice suddenly stopped.
Zou Lu looked over in confusion, and when she saw the old player's current appearance, her pupils shrank suddenly.
The opponent's head was like being hit hard by an invisible hammer, and the position of the skull was actually sunken. His facial features were also deformed to varying degrees due to the compression of the head. His eyeballs protruded as if they could not bear the pressure, and one of them was hanging out of the eye socket, and a light yellow liquid was flowing out of his nose.
However, Zou Lu didn't hear any noise just now, which means that everything that happened to the old player was done silently.
The other person was still walking beside her unaware, with his mouth open as if he wanted to speak, but no sound came out.
This old player is also dead.
Zou Lu had only experienced a few dungeons, and she was afraid of ghosts when she entered this dungeon. However, there were too many strange things about this dungeon, so she was not as scared as she was at the beginning. After realizing that the old player had died, she just swallowed her doubts, moved away from him, and found other players to tell them the news of the old player's death.
However, out of the same concerns as the old players, she also concealed the other party's guess, but she also secretly observed Su Zeyuan.
She and Su Zeyuan were in the same class, so it was easier for her to observe him. She also found that it was just as the old player said, Su Zeyuan had never slept in any place in the dormitory or classroom, but when she asked him about it, he would always smile and say whether he had a good or bad rest, without any sign of lying.
Zou Lu was sure that Su Zeyuan was not a human, but a well-disguised ghost, the real target of their mission. However, because she could not contact the system, she could not retry to submit and modify the answer.
But how can they escape...
She suddenly remembered that when Su Zeyuan was involved in a supernatural incident, he suddenly said that only one of them could survive. However, because the other party immediately said that it was just a dream he had said casually, not many players heard it at the time, and most people did not take it seriously. After all, Su Zeyuan at that time was just an ordinary student in their eyes.
But now Zou Lu felt a little chilly.
As if to verify the other party's words, the players died one after another, and in the end only she and Dou Yu were left.
Because of the secret thoughts in her heart, she finally didn't tell Dou Yu about it. Until she and Dou Yu were separated by the ghost, she was caught by the ghost first.
In the fear of being on the verge of death, Zou Lu tried to make a deal with the ghost who captured her in a voice that was trembling to the point of being inaudible.
Fortunately, the ghost had tried to capture Dou Yu before but failed, and had been brooding over it, so he quickly agreed with her words.
Zou Lu also knew the places where Dou Yu usually hid. Before the ghost became impatient, he finally found the person hiding in the toilet cubicle and lured him to open the door.
Dou Yu looked at her with a mixture of fear and confusion in her eyes, but she only had time to ask a question before the ghost twisted her limbs and broke them, and then grabbed her into the cubicle with a force that seemed to tear her entire scalp off.
Although she had been allowed to leave by the ghost, she was so nervous after traveling with the ghost for such a long time that her legs were so weak that she could hardly walk.
Soon, Dou Yu's shrill screams and the sound of flesh being torn apart were heard in the cubicle. However, after a few sounds, there was no sound at all in the cubicle, only the "crunching" sound of chewing and the sound of gnawing on hard bones.
Zou Lu then felt a black screen in front of her eyes, as if an irresistible force was forcing her to close her eyes. This familiar feeling made her quickly realize that she had left the copy.
But she soon didn't have time to think so much. When she opened her eyes again, she was lying in the hospital. Her roommate looked nervous and asked her how she was after seeing her wake up.
That's right, she entered the dungeon during the break time. She didn't remember how long she had been in the dungeon, but she knew her roommate said that two full days had passed since they found her unconscious.
She told Zou Lu not to worry and to have a good rest first. After all, according to the doctor, Zou Lu's current condition was most likely due to excessive fatigue.
Zou Lu really wanted to rest now. After saying goodbye to her roommate, she lay back on the hospital bed alone.
Sure enough, what Su Zeyuan said at that time was true. It was true that only when one person was alive could one escape from the dungeon...
Besides her, all other players also died in the dungeon, which made her feel a little depressed even though she was grateful for being alive.
Fortunately, she finally left the copy. The only strange thing was that there was no voice prompt when she left the copy this time, which made her think that she was abandoned by the system.
After realizing this, Zou Lu subconsciously called out to the system in his heart, wanting to ask what the reason was this time.
However, what Zou Lu did not expect was that the system said that she had not entered the dungeon recently, and there was still a long time before the deadline for the other party to enter the dungeon.
Zou Lu was stunned: "How is it possible? I have clearly entered the dungeon..."
The system repeated its answer once again. Judging from the other party's voice, it didn't sound like a joke. Zou Lu also knew that there was no need for it to joke about this.
Could it be that such a real experience that happened in the copy was actually just a dream of hers?
But there are still those dead companions...
Oh, and there’s Dou Yu!
Zou Lu realized something. Because of the previous agreement with Dou Yu, the other party had told her his home address, which was not far from the hospital where she was currently staying, so Zou Lu drove there quickly.
