95. No.1 Middle School
Zong Jiu's response to the devil's cordial invitation was concise, with only one word.
"Get lost."
Faced with this ruthless rejection, No.1's deep dark golden eyes slowly narrowed.
After a moment, he seemed to have thought of something and curled his lips again.
"It's okay, you don't have to give me an answer so early."
Although he said that, the man's gloved fingers continued to press mercilessly at the end of his eyes, outlining the magician's narrow and long eyes. The other hand tightly locked a slender and pale wrist of the white-haired young man, pressing the other party against the back of the iron gate, imprisoning him in a narrow space.
The devil's breath was as cold as his body temperature, so cold that there was no temperature at all.
He took back his fingers lovingly, accidentally brushing the young man's rolling Adam's apple.
Zong Jiu's unhappiness became more intense.
No.1 was stepping on his minefield and jumping hard, and he was still cooperating. Now it's almost like a dream to go back.
But the devil, in order to show his generosity, slowly loosened the hand that was shackled on the other party.
The next second, Zong Jiu immediately turned his back, bent his knees and kicked forward.
The white edge of the poker card between his fingers shone coldly in the dim stairwell, like the footsteps of the approaching god of death, wrapped in the cold air, sweeping across with great force.
No.1 had anticipated this wave of attacks in advance, so he took a particularly large step back, retreating directly to the outside of the three stairs, and dodged Zong Jiu's attack distance like a ghost.
"I'm waiting for the final answer in the trainee dormitory, you can change your mind at any time."
After flexibly dodging three poker cards that were close to his scalp, the man in a suit and leather shoes smiled and performed a gentleman's salute on the spot, and his figure melted like a ghost, melting into the shadow behind him.
This was the second time that Zong Jiu saw the demon use this ability to shuttle through shadows. This time, just like the last time, he didn't see any other conditions that restricted this ability.
The white-haired young man didn't move. He stood there for a long time holding the poker cards in his hand. Then he slowly put down his right hand, rubbed his wrist that had just been held by the man and turned red, and squeezed out a sneer from his throat.
If it were an ordinary person, he would probably agree without hesitation when he heard the cooperation request from No.1, after all, that was No.1.
The person whose name no one knew, because of too much fear and admiration, everyone only referred to him as "demon".
Such absolute strength undoubtedly stood at the top of the entire infinite cycle. That's why the demon was still careless even if he knew the prophecy, never took it to heart, and always had a condescending arrogance.
It is undoubtedly a very stupid thing to be an enemy of such an existence.
Zong Jiu had a hunch that the previous ones were just small fights. The devil had never been serious, and had never really wanted to kill him. Of course, this brief tenderness might just be a way for him to kill time and he just felt it was fun.
If a madman like the devil really had murderous intentions, he would never waste too much words. He only needed a few puppet strings to quietly manipulate anyone to his own death. Even the rules and regulations specified by the main system could not stop him.
That's why Zong Jiu laughed.
No.1 Among so many sentences, there was only one sentence that Zong Jiu gave a clear affirmation.
The devil played with the world in an infinite loop, manipulated the puppets to stir up trouble, watched the show behind the scenes, and admired the ugly appearance of the survivors in desperate situations, easily evoking the deepest dark side of people's hearts.
The magician regarded this place as his most grand performance stage in history, and loved fraud and disguise, using words to play everyone in the palm of his hand. It's not just the fraud of using the insider identity in the deserted village copy, or the use of disguise to seize greater benefits in Las Vegas. Zong Jiu has already mastered this set of tricks when he was a great magician in the real world.
This world full of despair and terror just gives him more room to play.
They are indeed the same kind of people.
Many times, other people can't understand the behavior of No. 1, but it's easy for Zong Jiu.
He can even stand in the other's perspective and simulate the deep meaning behind the other's actions.
The logical relationship of the madman is very simple, just divided into interesting and boring, fun and not fun. Unlike ordinary people, they don't start from the perspective of self-interest, through moral concepts, or through other motivations.
They are not bound by anything.
That's why Zong Jiu laughed so sarcastically.
For the two of them, the word "cooperation" itself constitutes a paradox.
They will never let another person share the glory of each other's throne, and it is even more impossible for them to need cooperation to win like the weak.
Imagine if Zong Jiu is a devil, and he says the word "cooperation" to someone, there are probably only two situations.
One is that the other party has something worth using, and he needs to use this word to fool them, and then throw it away like garbage when it is no longer useful.
The second is to find the other party very interesting, use cooperation to confuse the other party, and then take the opportunity to stab the other party in the back, and leisurely enjoy the other party's stunned expression.
If the object is changed to one of his own kind, the word "cooperation" will be more interesting.
Zong Jiu is 100% sure that if he agrees to the devil's proposal to cooperate, he will most likely not survive this copy.
Because in that case, the degree of interest attached to the person "Zong Jiu" will be greatly discounted in the eyes of No. 1.
Of course, boring people have no need to exist.
Not to mention, they will never be able to entrust their trust to an existence other than themselves.
Therefore, Zong Jiu must not only reject the devil fiercely, but also give the other party a big gift.
As for the consequences of declaring war on No. 1?
Who cares, it's not the first time he has done this.
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Zong Jiu didn't rush back to class. He first went to a blind spot in the bathroom where the surveillance camera was located and opened the clues given to him by Fan Zhuo.
This is a letter that is a bit old, just like the worn-out diary, and it is hard to tell which one is more antique.
The school organized a general cleaning last week, otherwise it would not be so easy to find so many clues. In contrast, Zong Jiu is more inclined to believe that this is arranged by the main system, because the plot is about to reach the midterm exam, and after adapting to the cruel rhythm of this collective copy, it is time to start digging for deep-level information, so as not to leave no way out.
This letter is not long.
Unexpectedly, this is actually a suicide note.
[Written to all who read this letter: I should be dead by the time I see this letter]
[One month before the midterm exam, the first "outlier" appeared in the grade and suddenly became the first in the grade... The following exams were more and more demanding, until this time, under the high score requirements and cruel competition, the whole class made a choice]
[People in the class have been isolating me, trying to make me become that kind of "outlier" so that they can survive]
[A classmate falsely accused me of premature love. Because his academic performance was better than mine, I was punished. Perhaps this was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Looking at those selfish faces, I felt sick... In order to survive and improve the class average, these people have forced the person on my upper bunk to become an "outlier". Only I carved words on my wrist with a knife every night, telling myself over and over again that I must not become that kind of person who has lost his personality]
[Finally, I decided to commit suicide. Haha, because I am such an incompetent coward]
[I don’t have any last words I want to leave. My parents repeat their mediocre lives, but always ignore my wishes and try to control my life, making me the successful person in their minds, as if I have lived again]
[Everyone is like a ghost in human skin, with cold blood. No one cares whether I am really alive, no one asks my opinion, and no one asks if I want to be a so-called "person who is useful to society." In their eyes, poor students don’t deserve to live]
[I can only complete my revenge on this world by destroying myself. Because I can’t control anything except my life, haha]
After the two words haha, the letter also came to an end, and there was no follow-up.
Zong Jiu knew that this letter might really have come to the end of the book. The person who wrote this letter committed suicide, using the most extreme way to express his wish not to become a faceless man, and also made his parents lose the child they had raised for many years, completing his "revenge on the whole world".
The appearance of the faceless man has made Zong Jiu clear what the "aliens" in the diary and the letter are.
Although the situations of the two classes are completely different, they have all come to the same end without exception.
The class recorded in the diary has a good atmosphere, and the classmates are harmonious and friendly, and will cheer each other up.
In the end, the scores required for the first middle school exams became higher and higher, and the students in the class even voluntarily became faceless people one by one to raise the average score and grades of the whole class.
So in the end, the girl who wrote the diary wrote on July 4: "If the three of us don't make changes, the whole class will die."
But when it was time to take graduation photos on July 5, the remaining three students all chose to become faceless people, including the girl who only had half of her face left. Everyone was working hard for the class.
Finally, at the end of the diary, she said, they saved the class and saved me with themselves. Now, it's my turn.
This sentence also foreshadows the ending that all the students in the class will become faceless people.
At first glance, these two clues don't have much in common, but if you study them carefully, you can at least draw a conclusion.
The next two exams must be very demanding and difficult, and the required scores are unimaginably high.
Especially the final exam. The girl's academic performance was very good. Although she couldn't get as close to full marks as the faceless man, she was definitely not bad. In this case, it was impossible for a non-faceless student to survive, which meant that the exam itself was a dead end.
This meant that if they couldn't find out the way to break the deadlock before the final exam, they would either die under the whipping or turn into faceless people without self-consciousness.
Zong Jiu folded the letter again and put it back in his pocket.
Recalling a precious clue in the diary, he thought that he had some clues about the way to break the deadlock.
But the headache was that this method could only be used during the final exam.
Before that, they had to at least survive the midterm exam and the second monthly exam.
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Soon, in the process of studying so nervously and hurriedly, the midterm exam soon arrived.
In the exam room this time, the nervousness on the faces of the trainees could not be concealed.
Last time, at least only the last one was eliminated, and the top few classes could still rest easy. This time, a line was drawn directly. It was common for the exam hall to fluctuate, and several classes passed close to the 600-point line. If they made a mistake this time, the whole class would be doomed.
During the exam, the palms of the last few students in Class 9 were sweating, and they were very panicked.
Before the midterm exam, they spent two evening self-study sessions to do a set of mock papers, and the final total score barely exceeded 600.
So, if they made a mistake this time, they would be greeted with a tragic ending.
On the other hand, Zong Jiu was not panicked at all.
Because before the exam, he used tarot cards to test and predicted the future in advance, so he was calm and composed when writing the papers, and he was not afraid at all.
# On the wonderful use of Tarot cards #
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