Chapter 1115 Summer Memories (Part 2)
The opening CG ended here. At that moment, six players appeared in the classroom.
There are nine pairs of desks and chairs in this classroom, divided into three rows and three columns.
At this time, all the players are sitting: from the perspective of facing the blackboard, the three girls Ruoyu, An Yueqin and Xiaoling are sitting in the first row from left to right; The seat was empty, with Feng Bujue and the sixth member of the team sitting in the middle and on the right side respectively; and Xiaotan... sat alone in the middle of the third row.
"Hey~ we are indeed acquaintances." Xiao Ling immediately turned around and looked at the sixth member of the team, and then blurted out these words.
The reason why I say "sure enough" is naturally because she has foreseen this situation.
After the new version was launched, everyone was busy leveling up, and the most important thing about leveling up is "efficiency"... There is no doubt that compared to arranging high-risk scripts such as "Team Nightmare", go and level up more Several common books with higher chances of passing the level will be more efficient.
Therefore, there are only two types of people who will come to the single-row nightmare team version. One is players without a studio background, and the other... is the top players.
Coupled with the condition that "the level is about the same as the entire Hell Front team", "meeting an acquaintance" is also foreseeable.
"Feng! No! Jue!" About two seconds later, [Tiantian Guixiao] shouted; he ignored everyone and shouted at Brother Jue, as if he had met an enemy.
"What are you shouting for..." Feng Bujue stared at the excited Gui Xiao and said feebly, "Are you going to take me in with the purple, gold and red gourd? Call me my name to see if I dare. Dare you agree?"
"Tch..." After being complained like this, Gui Xiao felt that he was a little too excited and curled his lips and continued, "You are so calm...you don't take me seriously at all..."
"My eyes can't fit your majestic figure of 1.6 meters." Feng Bujue's ability to ridicule is indeed innate and natural. "I have always respected you in my heart."
"I'm 1.69 meters tall! And I'm still growing!" Gui Xiao couldn't stand the topic of height. He shouted again, raising his voice.
"It's okay, I have a broad mind. I can still accommodate you if you grow 0.5 centimeters." Brother Jue waved his hand and replied with a half-smile.
"How long are you going to discuss this height issue?" At this time, Ruoyu on the side couldn't stand listening anymore and stopped the nonsense between these two guys.
Before he finished speaking, a system prompt also sounded.
[Your character's abilities have been limited, and you are now playing an ordinary person. 】
The six players heard the same prompt in their ears, and everyone just exchanged looks. Everyone knew this.
"Sigh... I hate this kind of limited edition." Gui Xiao immediately expressed his dissatisfaction, "Every time I encounter this type of script, I will fail."
"Then you are in luck today." Brother Jue continued with a smile, "Today my brothers and sisters will take you through the next level and experience the fun of limited editions."
"Hmph..." Gui Xiao crossed his hands on his chest, "Listen to you..."
"Anyway, let's confirm our identities first." At this time, An Yueqin turned to everyone and said, "If nothing else, the roles we play have been assigned..." As she spoke, she used He pointed to the upper left corner of his desk.
Just where she pointed, three words were engraved - Sanqianyuan.
This word... was carved on with something like a utility knife. The handwriting does not look like that of an adult; of course, carving is not writing after all, and it cannot be ruled out that the difficulty in carving causes the font to be out of shape, which is why the effect appears like this.
"This is the surname of the character we are playing." Xiao Ling had already noticed the words engraved on his desk. It's also the same kind of handwriting in the upper left corner, engraved with the word "Protruding Shou", "Speaking of which... I seem to have randomly picked up a particularly rare surname."
"Oh! I have some here too." Xiaotan apparently discovered the carvings on the table after being reminded by his teammates, "It's called Sawada."
"What I'm carving here is 'source'." Ruoyu continued.
"Ha~" Gui Xiao also saw the carvings on his desk at this moment, "'Yamada'... I always think it's a bad surname." He felt a little inexplicably disappointed.
"Well..." After everyone finished reporting the surnames engraved on their desks, Brother Jue slowly continued, "What I have engraved here is '娨樫'..."
silence.
A long silence.
For some reason, after Brother Jue said those two words, the other five people all cast strange looks at him. And they didn't speak anymore.
"What..." After nearly a minute, Feng Bujue broke the silence and changed the topic. "Speaking of which, at the end of the opening CG, someone shouted, why didn't I hear it..."
"Uh... maybe... we've already finished shouting when we loaded the characters." Xiaotan was also very interesting and casually picked up the sentence.
"Well..." Feng Bujue touched his chin and said, "The main mission has not been updated yet, which means... we need to trigger the FLAG point." As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the podium. "Let's look around first to see if there are any clues."
Hearing this, everyone didn't say much and started their own search.
According to habit, people usually check the things closest to them first, such as... the inside of the desk.
But they soon determined that the inside of the nine desks was empty, without even scraps of paper.
Then, everyone investigated the surrounding things one by one according to the "suspiciousness".
At the same time, Feng Bujue picked up an old newspaper on the podium. I don't know if it was a reading addiction, but he stood there and read it...
Five minutes passed in a blink of an eye.
The results of everyone's investigation are as follows...
The sliding door of the classroom was locked and could not be opened. When it was pulled forcibly, there was no prompt such as "key required".
The windows facing the playground and the corridor were all closed. When approaching, a prompt "sealed by some dark power" appeared. Looking out through the glass, it was pitch black and only my shadow could be seen.
The arrangement order of the lockers at the back of the classroom was the same as the overhead arrangement of the desks and chairs. When trying to open it, a prompt "key required" appeared.
There was a wooden bookcase on the right side of the podium, which also could not be opened.
There is a painting on the wall to the left of the podium. It has a huge human face. The painting style does not seem to be at the level of an elementary school student. To be more specific, it is abstract.
There is also storage space inside the podium. But it also "requires a key" to open it.
In summary, after a preliminary investigation, the clues are still concentrated on the old newspaper on the podium. If there is any clue... it should be on it.
"So... Captain, how is your side?" Xiao Ling briefly told Brother Jue the information they had collected, and asked.
"Well... first of all..." Feng Bujue put down the newspaper in his hand, "This is a newspaper in May, dated May 19."
"What does that mean?" Gui Xiao asked.
"Do you remember the first sentence of the narration - 'This is a summer evening'." Feng Bujue continued.
"Oh..." Gui Xiao nodded, "So?"
"From the layout of this classroom, the names on the desks, and the atmosphere of the script..." An Yueqin explained at this time, "This is undoubtedly a horror story that takes place in Japan. Japan and we are in the northern hemisphere, so its 'summer' should be June, July, and August every year."
"In other words..." Ruoyu also continued, "Is this newspaper one or two months old?"
"Not necessarily..." Feng Bujue responded, "The year on the newspaper is Showa 47, that is, 1972; it may be a newspaper from one or two months ago, or a newspaper from one or two years ago, or even a newspaper from 10 or 20 years ago..." He paused, "We have no way of guessing the era when this script took place, as well as the specific ages of these characters, graduation years, and other information... Because the narration did not mention the specific time of 'now', but only said 'I haven't seen you for many years', and this 'many years'... can be more than ten years, more than twenty years, or even thirty or forty years."
"But..." Xiao Tan heard this. With a suspicious look on his face, "Didn't he also say 'No one has changed much'? Doesn't that mean it hasn't been too long?"
"Not necessarily." Feng Bujue immediately replied with these two words, and then continued. "Most people will say that when they meet their childhood friends again after many years; because people's memories of childhood are the most profound. As long as you recognize the person in front of you, the memory of that time will be awakened, and then the face in the memory will overlap with the face in front of you... plus some 'emotional' factors, you will naturally say 'no change'."
"Yes, this is the most common line heard at class reunions." An Yueqin immediately continued.
"Hey hey... I say..." Gui Xiao seemed a little impatient at this time, "Why are you studying those? Is it necessary to be so meticulous about the background of the characters? Isn't the focus now to trigger the FLAG and receive the main task first?"
His words immediately attracted the attention of the entire team of the Hell Front.
"You... why are you looking at me like that..." Gui Xiao said, "It's creepy."
"I know why you can't pass the 'limited ability script'." Feng Bujue shrugged and shook his head. "You have too little patience."
"Tsk..." Gui Xiao said sideways after hearing it. "This line and tone seem familiar... I always feel that Brother Zen has said something similar to me."
The "Brother Zen" he mentioned is naturally the one who is smoking... oh no... Meng Jingchan.
"Eh? By the way, why don't you queue up with your teammates in the studio?" Speaking of Brother Zen, Xiao Tan also remembered something.
"Uh... this..." Gui Xiao hesitated.
"This may involve the confidentiality of the studio, so you'd better not ask." Xiao Ling's ability to read people's expressions is also very strong. After seeing this, he nudged Xiao Tan with his elbow to remind him.
"Oh oh! Sorry." Xiao Tan smiled embarrassedly, "Just pretend I didn't ask."
"Well... Actually, there's nothing wrong with it." Gui Xiao curled his lips, "Anyway, you're not professional players, so just don't talk about it everywhere. It's okay to tell you about this..." He paused for half a second and continued, "When leveling up, our studio will arrange complementary teams based on each person's characteristics; and I... am the kind of person who is more suitable for solo queue." Gui Xiao spread his hands and continued in a rather proud tone, "To put it bluntly... I will 100% become 'excess combat power' in the 'script of non-limited abilities'."
"On the other hand, I'm a burden in this kind of book." Feng Bujue poured a basin of cold water on the other party just after he boasted for two seconds.
"Stop talking nonsense!" Gui Xiao said, "You are so sure that you will lead me through the game! It's been ten minutes since the beginning of the script, and we haven't even found the main quest yet! Why are you so arrogant?"
"Don't worry, Yamada-kun." Feng Bujue said with a smile, "I'm just going to tell you something closely related to the main storyline."
Then, Jue Ge said with a smile and a very relaxed tone, saying something that made people's scalps numb: "According to what I read in the past few minutes... all the news in this newspaper is about a school. Of course, if nothing unexpected happens... it refers to the school we are in." As he spoke, he pointed to the seat in the corner of the last row of the classroom with his eyes, "The headline on the front page is-'The warehouse opposite the principal's office caught fire. Although the fire did not spread, a student still died in the fire'; and the name of the dead student... is Suzuki Takayuki."
When this sentence came out, his teammates... especially Xiao Tan and Gui Xiao, were shocked at the time.
Because they all remembered that the name engraved on the upper left corner of the seat was "Suzuki".
"You mean..." Ruoyu was the first to answer two seconds later, "That Suzuki is the class monitor who has not appeared for a long time?" She paused for a second and then said, "Isn't this illogical?"
"Yes..." Xiaoling also said, "Just treat him as the class monitor. This Suzuki was burned to death when he was a student, and the incident was reported in the newspaper. There is no reason for his classmates not to know about it; under this premise, the situation of 'receiving a letter from him' can scare people to death, who would keep the appointment?"
"Makes sense." An Yueqin thought for a while and added, "Judging from the tone of the narration... no matter who the real class monitor is , at least the classmates who came to the appointment all thought that he or she was still alive, so it couldn't be Suzuki. "
"Well, that's a good judgment." Feng Bujue listened to everyone's opinions and continued, "Therefore, the actual situation may be... Suzuki Takayuki was indeed a member of this class, but he was not the class monitor, and he was burned to death when he was a student, so he didn't appear at today's party. It is also possible that... the burned Suzuki was not a member of this class, but was also a member of this school. After all, Suzuki is also a relatively common surname in Japan. "
At this point, Jue Ge changed the subject: "But..." (To be continued ~^~)