Many days later, every time Du Ruoying picked up her phone, she would recall that night that made her regret it so much.

At three o'clock in the morning that night, the homework exhibition hall of Jianyuan was completely empty.Du Ruoying knelt and sat in front of her handmade model alone, concentrating on repair work.Tomorrow morning, the teachers will come to grade everyone.In order to maintain her usual image of a top student, she wants to use this last night to perfect her homework.

Huh, it's finally done——

Du Ruoying looked at the miniature villa model in front of her with satisfaction, and let out a long sigh of relief.She stretched a little tiredly, then took out her phone, ready to relax a little.

A strange unread message appeared in WeChat.

The sender's name was Riamorty, and his profile picture was pure black.

The message was sent three hours ago, and it is a sentence in English, which translates to "It's an honor to meet you, my dear lady."

...? ? ?

When did she add such an old British accent as a foreign friend?

Although it is estimated that the other party must have fallen asleep at this moment, but out of curiosity, Du Ruoying replied in English: "Who are you? Do we know each other?"

At the same time, on the other side, a boy with blond hair and red eyes was lying bored in the endless darkness, wondering what the thing called "system" in front of him was.

At this time, a line of fluorescent blue words appeared in the sky above him - "Who are you? Do we know each other?"

The boy sat up immediately.He stretched out his hand and hovered in mid-air, and a keyboard outlined by fluorescent blue light appeared under his fingertips.He pondered for a moment, and then showed a clear expression.His fingers moved quickly on the floating keyboard glowing with dim light, as if playing a silent piano piece.

He replied in English: "My name is Ryan Morty."

Ryan Morty?There is such a name in English?

"Forgive me for interrupting so rashly, Miss Du Ruoying, but I need your help now." Ryan Morty continued.

Du Ruoying pondered slowly, twirling her fingers silently through the ends of her hair a few times. She watched the strange plot unfold, and then showed a meaningful smile.

Heh, can this level of word play stump her, a seasoned Sherlock Holmes fan?

Riamorty (Riamorty) in another order is Moriarty (Moriarty)-the famous criminal genius of the nineteenth century and the old enemy of Sherlock Holmes.

Hey, who the hell is so boring, come to play this kind of bad role-playing game in the middle of the night.

However, since the other party knew her name, it could be seen that she was either an acquaintance or a scammer.But no matter what, it made her feel very unhappy.

The anxiety caused by staying up late made her no longer want to pretend to be polite.As if to vent her anger, she typed a long string of texts in one breath: "Ryan Morty? Why don't you just say you are Moriarty? Are you trapped in the Sahara Desert? Or is your property account blocked? Is it maliciously frozen? Are you short of manpower? Do you need me to help you contact Jack the Ripper and drive to pick you up?" Then he decisively closed WeChat.

"Sleep time is so precious, how can it be wasted on something like this..." she thought to herself.

Seeing the long paragraph of text sent by Du Ruoying, surprise flashed across the red pupils of the blond boy, and then he smiled slightly and replied: "Since you have already guessed it, then I will not hide it. That's right, my His real name is Moriarty."

However, Du Ruoying ignored him.

He waited for 2 minutes and couldn't help being a little confused.Then he continued: "You guessed half right before. I am indeed trapped, and now only you can save me."

Still no reply...

Moriarty looked at the interface called "System" next to him. The countdown in the lower right corner of the screen was only 7 minutes away, and he had to start seriously thinking about countermeasures.

At the same time, Du Ruoying had just finished packing her schoolbag and was about to leave the exhibition hall when the phone in her pocket suddenly rang for a video call, which startled her.She took out her mobile phone and saw that it was the brother from the imitation Moriarty.

Du Ruoying felt sullen for a while, she pressed the hang up button, and then cut into Moriarty's WeChat profile card, ready to delete him.However, the delete key is uncharacteristically, and the red text becomes gray and cannot be used.

Another phone call came...

She hummed irritably, continued to hang up, and then went to find the black button with ease—this time it was even more outrageous, and she couldn't even find it.

Strange, who the hell is this Moriarty, could it be that her phone has been hacked?

At this time, the third video phone rang again.Du Ruoying felt a headache and finally decided to press the answer button.

A handsome young man's face appeared on the screen, so she couldn't help swallowing the vicious curses on her lips.In the boundless darkness the boy was in, his short blond hair shone like the afternoon sun.

Really a foreigner?And also looks a little handsome?Could it really be James Moriarty himself?And it's the juvenile version?

His soft eyes fell on the architectural model beside Du Ruoying, and then he smiled admiringly at her: "Oh, is that the architectural model you designed? It's very spiritual." His voice was also very pleasant .

Knowing that this kind of appreciation is just a hypocritical compliment, Du Ruoying still finds it very useful - who told him to be so good-looking when he is hypocritical?

Good-looking is equal to reasonable, which is a generally accepted law in the School of Architecture.

She nodded, indicating that she accepted his compliment, and then turned her thoughts back to the business: "Mr. James Moriarty, what are you looking for me for? You are on my friend list, delete all I can’t delete it, it makes me feel a little hairy.”

"I'm really honored that you know my full name." Moriarty smiled at her and said, "It's actually like this. Ever since I was pushed off the Reichenbach Falls by Sherlock Holmes, I have been trapped In an endless darkness, to this day..."

Looking at the handsome young man in front of her, Du Ruoying couldn't help but feel black lines all over her head.Did he really think of himself as that criminal genius Moriarty?And even made up a sequel indiscriminately? !

It's a pity that this handsome young man turned out to be a crazy beauty.

Moriarty noticed her contemptuous mood, but still had to finish the sentence: "I just met a thing called 'system', it said that as long as you are willing to help me, I can escape from the prison of this virtual world. escaped from the middle of nowhere. All you have to do is very simple—send me a message on WeChat, saying that you are willing, and that’s it.”

Looking at the lunatic boy who was too deep into the drama on the screen, Du Ruoying showed sympathy.However, since it's just a simple matter of asking her to say "I do", it's not impossible for her to cooperate a little bit.So she said, "All right, I can help you. But let's make an agreement that after I finish helping you, you are not allowed to bother me anymore."

"Well, after you finish this favor, I'll go back to London, and we shouldn't have any more interactions." Moriarty smiled politely at her and said.

Then, according to Moriarty's instructions, Du Ruoying clicked on a PDF file he sent, and quickly slid the dense English content to the bottom.Then he returned to the WeChat chat interface and sent him a sentence of "I do" in English.

After a short silence for a second, rows of densely packed small gray characters suddenly began to pour out on the screen.

[System Message] 2021.3.103:17 The contract takes effect, the player ID is locked, Du Ruoying.

[System News] Game content: Moriarty guides the player Du Ruoying to complete ten sinful things, and she can be resurrected after completing the game.

[System Message] Assistance: During each mission, Moriarty can temporarily appear, directly participate in the mission and provide necessary assistance, and return to the system after the mission is completed.

[System Message] Punishment: All tasks are required to be completed within a time limit, and overtime is considered a failure.As punishment, Moriarty will kill the player.

【System Message】Task 5: Activation is successful.The difficulty factor is one star.Task content, please choose any building model present and break it on the spot.The duration of the task is [-] minutes, and the timer starts.

【system information】……

Seeing the new messages constantly appearing in the dialogue interface, Du Ruoying suddenly felt a little panicked: "Could it be that today's mobile phone viruses are so advanced that they are poisoned?" She immediately forced the WeChat app to exit the background.

Seeing the screen return to darkness and silence, a bad premonition gradually surfaced in my heart.She walked quickly towards the exit of the exhibition hall, intending to return to the dormitory immediately.

However, a familiar figure at the door blocked her way - it was the blond boy.

"You...why are you here?" Du Ruoying looked at the abnormal-minded young man in front of her, feeling inexplicable fear.

She grabbed a half-meter-long white PVC pipe and put on a defensive posture, waiting for an opportunity to snatch the door from his side and escape.However, in the blink of an eye, the boy was already behind her.

A cold utility knife was lightly pressed against the side of her neck, and the blade reflected cold silver light.

So fast, no match at all!

She immediately questioned him: "We agreed, after you finish helping, you will go back to London. Do you think this is London?"

Moriarty's chuckle came from his ear, and he said unhurriedly: "Isn't this help not finished yet? You have seen the system message just now, and I still need your cooperation to complete ten Task."

So she vaguely remembered that she just saw a system message saying that task one was to break a model.Her eyes scanned the many booths in front of her, where there were architectural models of all grades.Some of them are exquisite, some are simple, and some are very rough. They have been put together by students for a whole semester - and tomorrow is the end of the semester, and the teachers will grade everyone's models.

"If I refuse, will you kill me?"

"Correct solution," Moriarty said, "I hope we don't get to this point. Failure in the game is not good for you or me. I don't want to be locked back into the system to wait for the next player."

"However, when I promised to help you before, you didn't say that at all!" Du Ruoying said angrily, "I rescued you out of good intentions, so you just treat me like this?"

"Didn't the contract be sent to you to read?" Moriarty seemed to have a clear conscience, "Besides, it is the 'system' that formulates the content of the contract, not me."

contract? !What contract?

That PDF in English? ?

Only ghosts will take a serious look at that kind of thing!

Not to mention the English version, even if she was given a full Chinese version, she wouldn't be able to read it carefully.

But it's too late to regret now.

At this moment, she is like the fisherman who opened the brass magic bottle in "Arabian Nights", and has to face the devil's revenge.

The fisherman unleashed the devil, and she unleashed Moriarty.

She is obviously a diehard Sherlock Holmes fan!He has been excellent in character and learning for 20 years, never kills, never sets fire, and often takes the risk of ruining his family to help his grandmother cross the street.

Why did she meet Moriarty? ! !

"You don't have much time, classmate Xiaoying." Moriarty whispered in her ear, "It's not difficult, or let me help you choose—you see, we can drop that one, that one The model is so rough, even if it is saved until tomorrow, it will definitely fail." He was referring to the model of her good friend Yeats.

Seeing that she was silent, he pointed to the other one: "Or let's drop that one—it's the only model that is better than yours, drop it, and you can take the first place. There is no one here, No one will know you did it, I promise."

The unhurried whispers were like the devil's hypnosis, mixed with bursts of hot breath, making her ears feel soft.

It is true that Moriarty's persuasion had an irresistible appeal, but Du Ruoying remained motionless.

"You still have 3 minutes to make a decision." Moriarty reminded her with a smile, slowly pressed the blade tightly, and a drop of blood slid down Du Ruoying's neck, "Student Xiaoying, you won't keep going for a mere model." Do you want to lose your life?"

"Of course not." Du Ruoying said slowly, "I was just thinking—since the 'system' said that I should break any of the models present, is it okay to break my own?" She looked at own booth.

In the center of the booth is a white and delicate miniature villa, which adopts the Zaha-style flowing curved surface modeling technique.The model parts are all made of expensive 3D printing materials, which cost her a full thousand, and the whole stitching process took her countless sleepless nights.

"Oh?" Moriarty sneered. "Break your own? Sounds like fun—does it do you any good?" There was a false concern in his voice. "I think You shouldn't take that kind of risk, after all the 'system' asked me to guide you to do evil things, would it count as throwing your own things? I don't know, do you want to try?"

After finishing speaking, Moriarty loosened the restraint on her, and then made a gesture of please.

Du Ruoying walked straight to her booth, and every slow step reverberated in the exhibition hall.

The utility knife twirled leisurely between Moriarty's fingers, like a silent threat.

Du Ruoying bent down, stretched out her hands and touched the white roof of her model, as if saying her last goodbye.Then, she held the model up high.

Moriarty looked at her with a smile, as if watching a pleasant farce: "You still have 30 seconds. I still suggest you change your target."

The model landed with a crisp sound, and a long echo echoed in the exhibition hall.Du Ruoying's feet were immediately splashed with white debris.She stood numbly, her face was pale, and her lower lip trembled slightly.It was as if what had just fallen was not the model, but her heart.A heart-wrenching pain quickly spread to the whole body along the blood, and almost took away all her strength.

At the same time, the phone in his pocket rang softly.She took out her phone and looked at it. It was a system message.

[System Message] Congratulations, the first mission has been successfully completed!The total time is 4 minutes and 59 seconds.

[System Message] Task [-] has been unlocked successfully, waiting for players to open it.

She immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

One model is exchanged for one life, no loss.Her eyes were slightly red, comforting herself silently, and then she looked at Moriarty viciously: "It seems that I just made the right bet, Mo."

"Well, you made the right bet, congratulations." Moriarty smiled and applauded her, his body becoming more and more transparent.It appears that once the mission is complete, he is locked back into the virtual world and cannot reappear until the next mission is activated.

Du Ruoying made a provocative gesture of wiping his neck at him, and said with a sneer: "You will be locked up in the WeChat system until you die, Mo! The ghost will help you start task two again! And I will also send your Post the matter on the Internet, let everyone know, and no one will be fooled by you again."

"Oh?" Moriarty narrowed his eyes nonchalantly, "I'm quite confident."

"Of course." A gust of night wind blew the girl's long hair, but her eyes became more determined, "I'm a veteran Sherlock Holmes fan, how could I bow my head to a guy like you."

"Hahahaha, classmate Xiaoying is so cute." Moriarty couldn't help but burst into tears from laughter at her secondary appearance, "Actually, I have always believed that 'evil' is like gravity to human beings." , is an irresistible instinct, and the thin rope that maintains human hypocrisy, as long as it loses the supervision of others for a while, it will break instantly." He smiled slightly, "However—your rope seems to be stronger than I imagined. Be strong, classmate Xiaoying."

His words are like a lingering night wind, lingering in the exhibition hall for a long time: "But in my opinion, you just wear the mask of hypocrisy tighter than anyone else. This also shows that The malice you want to hide is actually deeper than anyone else. So——let me help you release the real malice in your heart..."

Finally, his figure completely disappeared, like a dream that has been drifted away.

However, the model fragments all over the floor reminded Du Ruoying that all this was true.

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