Chapter 246: Online Dating Scam (Part 9)
Of course, 606 is just talk. Even if the other party can really prove that he is not a spy, he can only lie on the outside.
It was impossible to let them go, so I could only watch them perform while eating in the dormitory.
I have to say, although the dormitory in this building looks cramped and narrow, the doors and windows are quite sturdy. The cold wind outside howled and rushed for most of the day, but it couldn't rush into the room.
After Tang Xinjue finished eating most of the food again, the noise outside finally gradually became smaller. The girl who was leaning against the window seemed to have no strength left. Her body bent down as if it had no bones, and her shattered eye sockets were still staring at the four people in the room.
Guo Guo was alert: "Don't look at me, there's no food. If you're hungry, go ask her for food. She has it all."
She pointed at Tang Xin Jue.
"Guo Guo, this is not the time to joke around." Zhang You stopped her hand and said, "You have the ability to see ghosts and spirits. Observe your surroundings carefully and be careful not to get ambushed."
After all, this is not their own dormitory 606. Even though it is the only "safe zone", it is still quite unfamiliar.
Tang Xinjue smiled and said, "It's okay. I did eat a little too much. I'll try to find more food tomorrow."
Since she'd spoken out, Tang Xinjue had spoken less frequently, spending most of her time eating or remaining silent. She explained that since she'd already discovered she had a problem, she shouldn't speak up anymore to avoid causing more trouble.
So most of the analysis and planning fell on Zhang You.
Guo Guo answered seriously, "There's nothing unusual in the dormitory right now. But if their activities continue all night, it's hard to say."
Zhang You pondered: "Guoguo and I will keep watch tonight. Don't use the automatically triggered defensive items for now... just keep 30%."
No one knows whether the dungeon mechanism will become stronger when facing stronger opponents and evolve with the strength shown by the players - before the threat actually appears, there is no need for them to step into the trap rashly.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the noise outside completely subsided.
Guo Guo was still pondering the suspected traitor while looking at the appeal form when his fingers suddenly shivered unconsciously.
Immediately following, she felt an inexplicable dampness as her wrist touched the desk surface. Almost at the same time, the blood-red pendant below her collarbone suddenly burned her.
Without thinking, she immediately pulled out the paper and stepped back: "Something is coming in!"
When the others arrived, they saw nothing unusual on her desk, and the aura around her hadn't changed, so they couldn't tell what the problem was.
Zhang You observed his surroundings cautiously. "Neither the sensing tools nor the mental force field of the Heart Sutra gave any indication. This indicates that the rules of the dungeon are at work. This situation is extremely difficult to prevent. We must be careful."
Guo Guo nodded heavily: "Fortunately, the pendant reminded me, and I picked up the complaint form."
A thick stack of papers rested on his arm, still trembling slightly due to inertia.
Glancing at the white paper edge in the air, Zhang You's heart suddenly beat: "Guo Guo..."
Before she could finish, Guo Guo also noticed it.
With a breath of air in her chest, she grabbed the complaint form and opened it completely!
When the last piece of paper was lifted to the top, the familiar sticky and wet feeling finally reappeared: the dense black handwriting seemed to be blurred by water. When Guo Guo pulled his fingers away from the paper, the small black words actually began to move along with it, as if they were sucking -
"Bang!"
The moment she completely pulled the paper away, Guo Guo immediately threw it to the ground. Even though she had seen many ghosts before, she was still disgusted and her eyebrows twitched wildly.
"What the hell is this!"
As it fell to the ground, the words on the paper suddenly merged into a human face, looking like it was both crying and laughing.
Zhang You recognized that the face belonged to the owner of the complaint form, a girl named Lian Rui.
When someone approaches the complaint form, their face smiles and the words on the paper turn into sticky insects gurgling; when they move away from the form, their face cries and their mouth opens and closes as if they want to say something.
They can't hear any sound and can only distinguish by lip shape:
"You said... someone wanted to hurt you?" Zhang You found the key words.
The girl nodded slightly, as if she wanted to say the name but was blocked by some force. She could only slowly roll her eyes and move her lips in another direction.
Everyone looked over there—the remaining complaint forms were quietly piled on the ground on the other side.
Guo Guo suddenly realized: "You mean, the traitor who caused you to be deceived is one of the people who wrote these complaint forms?"
"It's not necessarily one, it could be two or three." Zhang You carefully changed the subject and asked the girl, "Do you know how many traitors there are?"
The human face did not open her mouth again, but continued to cry. Gradually, bright red tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, wetting half of the paper.
"Three people." Zheng Wanqing said.
Guo Guo: "How did you know?"
"She shed three tears, two from her left eye and one from her right." Zhang You also noticed. But as soon as he finished speaking, a large amount of black liquid suddenly gushed out from the eye sockets of the face, swallowing the entire piece of paper.
The paper was quickly dissolved, leaving only a pool of black water.
Several people looked at each other, and then simultaneously turned their eyes to the remaining complaint forms.
As they searched, they found a second mutated piece of paper. This time, it was a freshman girl named Feng. The words on the paper formed into a girl's face, which hissed and laughed at the four of them.
They soon discovered that the girl's face would only transform into a look of terror and tears when she was pressed against the window. From the picture, it seemed that she was being forced to retreat, and black tears kept bursting from her eyes and melting into her screaming mouth.
This time it wasn't a conversation of information, but more like... Guo Guo hesitated, "A memory?"
Just as the four of them were staring intently, a sudden change occurred on the paper—
As the picture turned silent, Zheng Wanqing calmly blurted out a curse word, and Guo Guo closed his eyes.
Zhang You frowned, and Tang Xinjue sighed.
Looking at the horrific picture on the paper again, the thick black liquid had covered it again, obliterating it without a trace.
…
After a while, Zhang You wiped the stains on the window and said thoughtfully:
"If we assume that the image just now is real, what does it represent?"
Several people looked at each other and said in unison:
"Evening study!"
"...Don't look at it, I really wasn't slashed."
Under the three scrutinizing gazes, Tang Xinjue spoke helplessly.
Ever since they received the tragic scene from the girl in the previous appeal form, Guo Guo and the other two have paid close attention to Tang Xinjue, the only person in the dormitory who had experienced "evening self-study".
Zhang You: "It's also possible that you've experienced it, but you've forgotten it."
Tang Xin Jue: "With my strength, I shouldn't have gone through this kind of torture and had my mental memory erased, right?"
Zheng Wanqing's expression was serious. "The rules of the dungeon aren't rational to begin with. Also, I've heard of a symptom where people automatically forget overly painful memories. Could this be a self-protection mechanism?"
Tang Xinjue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You are my closest roommates, can't you expect a little more from me?"
Of course, since she had repeatedly claimed she had no memories and couldn't produce any evidence to prove she hadn't been abused, she could only shrug and say, "Never mind, just pretend I experienced it. Then I wish you revenge for me soon... Wait, what are you doing?"
She grabbed Guo Guo's hand and covered the back of her head with a slight pain. Guo Guo was still holding a small handful of hair in his hand and said seriously, "Let me check if there are any wounds on your scalp."
"……Then what?"
“I haven’t found any yet, but I’d like to take a look.”
“…”
Finally, Zhang You spoke up to stop them: "The third one has appeared."
Based on the experience of the previous two complaint form mutations, each girl's face will provide them with different information - of course, they have to get rid of their attack state first.
The third face that appeared had a much stronger attacking intent than the first two.
Even though the face was distorted, 606 immediately recognized its owner: "Gao Wanwan?"
Tang Xinjue raised his eyebrows: "Gao Wanwan is it?"
"The person who once teamed up with another girl and tried to steal our complaint form." Zhang You replied.
He is also one of the most suspected insiders.
"Oh, I remember now." Tang Xinjue nodded. "In this exam, she and Song Rong are similar types of people, and they both have a good relationship with Guoguo, right?"
The latter subconsciously shuddered when her name was suddenly called. When she turned around, she saw Tang Xinjue smiling at her: "Of course, I don't mean to say that you are a traitor. After all, if that were the case, the exam would be too difficult."
"A-level exams at a first-tier university can be anything."
Zhang You calmly changed the subject. She had successfully subdued Gao Wanwan, who was afraid of the faucet and the sink, and would shrink back at the touch of water.
The four of them looked down at it. "Do you have anything to say?"
The face on the complaint form looked up at the four people with hatred, then opened its mouth.
As everyone's eyes converged, it made a vomiting gesture with its mouth.
"It seems there's nothing more to be asked."
Zheng Wanqing stretched out her right hand, which had solidified into an iron fist, and prepared to slam it into the sewer with an expressionless face.
Gao Wanwan's face turned anxious, and she reluctantly turned her head on the paper. Only then did they see that there were two crossed black marks engraved on the back of her head.
Below the cross, there is a small skull symbol.
"There is no doubt that the identity of the first mole has now been determined."
Zhang You stuffed the paper oozing with black water into the sewer and said calmly, "There are two left now."
Could it be one of the girls I've met before?
Unfortunately, after Gao Wanwan, until almost 12 o'clock in the morning, there was no more change in the complaint form except for the occasional reappearance in the corridor and balcony.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
The shrill bell rang again, and it was unclear whether it announced the end of curfew or the beginning of another time period.
Guo Guo, already feeling somewhat sleepy, was startled awake. He subconsciously looked outside, only to find that the girl's body and the blood had vanished. The already thin moonlight seemed to be swallowed up by the final curtain, plunging into pure darkness.
"No, he hasn't run away yet."
Zhang You turned on the flashlight and shone it outside, and only then did he see the figure of the "girl next door". She was trying to climb to the balcony of another dormitory through the air-conditioner. However, her body was still limp, so she could only use all four limbs to arch against the wall, like an anxious giant mollusk.
"If I'm not mistaken, it looks scared now?"
Zheng Wanqing narrowed her eyes.
Since Xin Jue was not standing here, they could be sure that the other party's fear did not come from 606.
Why is that?
…Until the overwhelming drowsiness overwhelmed them, they were unable to come up with an answer. Only in the last moment of clarity did they hear the alarm from the sensor.
In the dim light, Tang Xinjue slowly opened his eyes.
Her brain was still a little groggy, but her mind started working quickly and she realized that she was lying in bed.
But the last moment in their memory, the four of them were standing on the balcony watching ghosts climbing the wall... Then, sleepiness seemed to suddenly come over them.
When I woke up again, the dormitory was already pitch black. Every bed was bulging, and the sound of even breathing could be heard.
The mental link was activated, and the voices of the other three people appeared one after another:
Guo Guo: [I'm lying in bed, unable to move. Is it the same for you?]
Zhang You: [Same. Judging from the position, I should be on the bunk above you.]
The structure of this dormitory, Room 404, was different from their original one. Instead of a bed on top and a desk below, it had four bunk beds on one side and four tables on the other. So from each person's perspective, they could only see the person on the bed opposite them, but not the upper or lower bunks.
Guo Guo currently occupied the lower bunk, number 1, near the dormitory door, while Zhang You occupied the upper bunk, number 2. Zheng Wanqing and Tang Xinjue occupied bunks 3 and 4, respectively.
Guo Guo: [The current situation reminds me of the first time I entered a dungeon, the one with Xiaohong. According to the flow of that dungeon, I don't think anyone will open the door and come in next...]
Before the chattering voice in my head ended, the dormitory door creaked and was slowly pushed open.
Guo Guo closed his eyes: "Thank you. Is it too late for me to withdraw my flag now?"
