Chapter 275: Online Dating Scam Record (Thirty-Eight)
"Bai Zhi?"
Guo Guo was also surprised: "You are here too?"
But she hadn't seen Bai Zhi before.
Bai Zhi nodded: "I was the second group to be invited, so I came a little late - but fortunately not too late."
“…It’s you.”
Although Yue Qiong didn't know Bai Zhi's name, he still remembered the loss he suffered in the friendly league.
Not to mention Awan. The moment she saw 606 and Bai Zhi appear at the same time, she subconsciously wanted to escape, but was stopped by Yue Qiong's fierce glare .
Guo Guo noticed that Awan had a silver bracelet on her hand, which was exactly the same in shape as the one Yue Qiong used to control his roommate as a puppet in the Friendly League.
It seems that "resurrection" is not without cost.
Noticing Guo Guo's gaze, Awan subconsciously retracted her hands into her sleeves and sneered softly, "Do you think everyone has the same conditions as you do to be carefree students?"
"Everyone is equal in the face of life." Bai Zhi replied naturally, "Even if we are not on the same side, out of brotherhood, I will still provide you with free treatment."
Although his words were very warm, he stood motionless on the path that Yue Qiong and the other person had to take to go down the stairs, and it seemed that he had no intention of giving way.
Awan: “…”
Yue Qiong: “…”
If they were facing attacks from other candidates, they would have plenty of protective gear to fend them off. But the real headache was that Bai Zhi's attacks weren't "attacks" at all, but rather healing skills that could revive the dead.
Even if they could predict it, it would be difficult to stop it - but these treatments would interrupt their key moves.
"Is there anyone on the seventh floor?"
"——Brother Bai? Are you on the seventh floor?"
The voices of other candidates could be heard from downstairs, gradually approaching. It seemed that the others had basically dealt with the dungeon boss and the remaining disruptive "candidates".
After weighing the disparity in numbers between the two sides, Yue Qiong's face turned pale. Without further hesitation, he took out a capsule and crushed it in his hand:
"I didn't intend to stop you this time. I just came here to remind you, Tang Xin Jue, that the more you see, the more they see you. This is just the beginning. We will meet again."
A strange black smoke burst out of the capsule, and the figures of Yue Qiong and Awan disappeared in it.
At the same time, other candidates also caught up and saw this scene.
"Fuck, they really are from the Goblin gang!" The bald boy in the six-person dorm slapped his thigh fiercely. "I'm so angry! They lied to us at first and said they were here to help, but then they suddenly stabbed us in the back. If the Healer hadn't been here, the fourth and fifth kids would have been dead!"
"How come these guys, who are neither human nor ghost, each have an item that can help them escape the dungeon?" The boy who had called Bai Ge earlier was quite envious: "Why don't I have one?"
Bai Zhi restrained his smile and glanced at him coldly: "You can also get it if you cooperate with the ghosts to trick the candidates."
As soon as these words
Who doesn’t want more props and superpowers? However, the reason why I have been so frugal and tried my best to survive until now is not because I have always wanted to be a “human” in the true sense of the word?
In the momentary silence, the long-haired girl who had previously summoned the "magic mirror" suddenly spoke with a serious , "We've heard rumors in the dormitory about some students joining forces with ghosts, and about issues with their factions... Now it seems, is it true?"
Candidates spend most of their time in dormitories, confined in various copy spaces. Opportunities to exchange information with each other are extremely rare, let alone such a large scene with hundreds of people gathered together.
Many dormitories with slower exam progress have pricked up their ears, ready to write down all useful information.
"I don't know if you've already understood this, but I'm just telling you what I saw with my own eyes. Believe it or not, it's up to you." Time was running out, and a short-haired girl raised her hand first, speaking clearly and swiftly, "First things first, our dorm is ranked 511th, and we're in the final stages of getting into a second-tier university. Logically, our last exam should have been our entrance exam. But during that exam, the dungeon reported three consecutive errors, a bug, and in the end, even the game customer service refused to handle our case. Luckily, we painstakingly found a safe spot and were successfully teleported back to the dorm before the dungeon was completely destroyed."
The girl spoke at a rapid pace, her words exceptionally clear, and continued, "But after we got back, we noticed some strange things happening to us, too. For example, the dorm ranking system in the app started crashing from time to time. Once, it even displayed a message saying, 'Cannot be counted in the ranking because no losses have occurred yet.' Later, customer service told us that the rankings of other dorms had been accidentally uploaded to ours—what a joke! How could there be a dorm without a ranking?"
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
Guo Guo: “…”
Regarding this point, it seems that it will happen.
But they didn't respond, and the short-haired girl quickly revealed a more crucial piece of information: "The most inexplicable phenomenon occurs with my roommates. We have a four-person dorm, and we lost one roommate before. But after returning from that dungeon, the remaining two have been acting increasingly strangely. Many times, even though I'm facing the same faces, I don't dare to speak their names."
At this point, her voice began to choke, but she insisted on finishing, "Not long after, just before the exam started, I found out they weren't my roommates at all, but ghosts pretending to be them!"
"I didn't know where my real roommate had gone, nor did I know when the ghost would strike. I could only bide my time. But during this exam, I finally discovered the reason: we had been marked long ago. And the source of the mark was a candidate who, in a previous multi-dorm cooperative exam, had ostensibly cooperated with us but cursed us behind our backs!"
After saying that, the girl picked up a chair from somewhere, stood on it, pulled down her collar, revealing a large area of dense black patterns on her collarbone.
"Unfortunately, everyone in our dormitory has been affected. But because I happen to have a companion item that can restrain ghosts, the fake ghosts and other abnormalities have not found me yet. However, I also know that my time is running out. Before I die, I have only two wishes: to pass on the information I know to more normal people, and to kill the person who cursed us in the first place."
The girl calmly let go of his hand. "I don't know if this information is useful to you. I'm sorry to have wasted your time. I'll pass the photo of that bastard to anyone who's interested. If anyone can give me any clues, I'd be very grateful."
A single stone stirs up a thousand ripples. Tang Xinjue glanced around. There were about two hundred people in the room, and nearly 20% of them had thoughtful or strange expressions after hearing what he had said.
——Has that power already expanded its influence to this extent?
"So, does anyone know what they are?"
Finally someone couldn't help but interrupt and ask:
"Since they are candidates and they are collaborating with ghosts to eat people, then are they considered human or ghost? Can't the rules of the game control them?"
"Bad student."
Tang Xinjue suddenly spoke.
She searched her memory for some words she had captured when she sneaked into the backstage in the guise of a customer service representative.
"The camp they belong to is called: bad students."
Correspondingly, those who are their natural enemies and who bear the brunt of the targeting are naturally the "good students."
"From the game's perspective, candidates who pass the level according to the rules and do not affect the operation and order of the university city can be considered "good students." However, those who pass the level through abnormal means, or even affect the order of the university city, will gradually become "bad students" and move towards the ghost camp."
The confrontation between the two sides is more of a division of power within the university town than a confrontation between two types of candidates... However, this part needs to be reviewed later, as there is not enough time to explain it clearly now.
Tang Xinjue was thinking about how to share his information most quickly and effectively in the short time remaining in the dungeon. But when he looked up, he found that the space had become quiet again.
Everyone's eyes were on her, each with a strange look on their face.
"Well." The bald boy scratched his head. "I don't know who is speaking, but could you please show up?"
There are only sounds in the empty air, which does seem a bit scary.
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
I'm sorry, but if I come out, I'm afraid you'll be even more scared.
