Neverland

Anyone who is not deaf can probably hear the fighting on the other side of the corridor.

The boy in the school uniform was sitting lazily in the corner of the classroom, holding a small and exquisite bronze pocket watch in his hand. The watch chain was hanging from between his fingers, swaying lightly in mid-air.

"Five minutes and seven seconds." The boy in the school uniform said suddenly.

His voice was deliberately elongated by him, and it seemed a bit ethereal, but coupled with that gloomy face, it sounded really yin and yang.

The middle-aged man got goosebumps all over his body when he read it in such a nagging tone, rubbed his arms, and asked angrily, "What did you say?"

"I said, the fighting sound outside lasted for five minutes and seven seconds, and now the sound outside has completely disappeared." The boy in the school uniform pulled one corner of his mouth, showing a back-chilling smile: "... Tell me, in the end Were those two people eaten by the NPC, or the NPC was killed by them."

"Nonsense." The middle-aged man glanced at him and said angrily, "If the NPC dies, we should now receive the system notification that the mission is over. Why, did you receive it?"

"I didn't receive it." The boy in the school uniform spread his hands: "So, there is a high probability that those two people have been killed, right?"

"I didn't say that." The middle-aged man didn't fall for his tricks, he snorted contemptuously, and sat down on the concrete steps of the podium, half a classroom away from the boy in school uniform.

"What's more, who can get here, who doesn't have a way to save their lives, you don't have to beat around the bush here." The middle-aged man raised his eyelids: "Little brat who hasn't even grown hair, don't tell me here." It's getting deep."

The boy in the school uniform seemed to have been stabbed in a sore spot by him, his expression suddenly twisted for a moment, but then he stretched out on purpose. He closed the pocket watch in his hand, gathered his school uniform jacket, and changed into a comfortable position.

"Obviously it was you who met the NPC for the first time." The boy in the school uniform changed his tone, as if he was convincing: "Shouldn't you know the value of the NPC the best?"

"Number?" The middle-aged man sneered, then stood up and stroked his left sleeve. There was a hideous wound on it that was bloody and fleshy. Dark brown blood clotted around the wound, which seemed to have not healed.

The middle-aged man straightened up, stretched his arm in front of the boy in the school uniform arrogantly, and said, "Let's talk about the value of the fart, everyone is an old player, why don't you open the skylight and tell the truth, when did you see that you can't heal after using an escape tool?" What's more, since the game started, have you seen that the game system has continuously increased the difficulty of the game like before. Also, the game has already started two classes, have we suffered any casualties?"

"This is not a regular game at all." The middle-aged man gave the final definition of this conversation. He folded down his sleeves to cover the hideous wound on his hand, and said, "So I advise you, little brother, those heretics You have a lot of time to play slowly, but now you'd better not act rashly, the most important thing is to find a way to get out of this evil game as soon as possible."

The boy in school uniform curled his lips sarcastically in the dark, but his tone suddenly became very peaceful.

"Got it," he said.

The school bell rang on time at six and a half minutes later. The boy in school uniform put his pocket watch in his pocket, stood up along the wall, and walked cautiously to the door.

The door of the classroom next to them opened almost simultaneously with them. Du Qingqing, who went out first, and the boy in school uniform looked at each other for a moment, and at the same time turned their heads to look at the other side of the corridor.

The footsteps that had been echoing in the corridor disappeared as usual with the ringing of the bell, and a small fluorescent light appeared across the corridor.

It was Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou.

Du Qingqing was still holding the flashlight covered by her coat in her hand, and it wasn't until the two of them walked in that she looked at their situation calmly.

Xu Muzhou's body was clean and fresh, except for some blood spots on his back, there were almost no traces of fighting.

Yan Cen looked much more embarrassed, half of his body was splashed with blood when he was fighting with Sun Qian in close quarters, the top of the leather jacket was fine, but the blood stain on the T-shirt couldn't be cleaned no matter what.

"...What happened?" Du Qingqing asked in a low voice, "Did you encounter the NPC head-on?"

"Yes." Xu Muzhou nodded to Du Qingqing: "I think we have to go up to the second floor."

"Second floor?" Du Qingqing immediately disagreed.

Whether it is class time or get out of class time, NPC's footsteps will stay on the second floor for a long time.In other words, if you rush up to the second floor, even the safe time for class may disappear.

"Why do you want to go to the second floor?" Lin Xiang walked out of the classroom. The red and swollen wound on her foot seemed to be better, and her walking was not as crooked as before.

"The mission goal given to us by the system is to allow us to live until dawn." Lin Xiang said again.

Standing behind Du Qingqing, she was clearly talking to Xu Muzhou, but her eyes fell on Yan Cen.

Xu Muzhou was a little disgusted with her undisguised exploration, and moved his footsteps slightly, blocking half of Yan Cen's body behind him.

"But the objective of the mission also said that the NPC must be killed." Xu Muzhou refused to budge: "Besides, you just mentioned living until dawn... This is what I want to say."

Xu Muzhou's eyes paused on the people in front of him one by one, and then he said again: "You should have heard just now that the NPC entered the classroom and had a conflict with us."

This is a slightly flattering negotiating technique. Although Xu Muzhou's original boss, Huang Shiren, forced them to work overtime all day long, he was not the kind of idiot who had no ability at all and only knew how to point fingers.

This kind of negotiation skills is what Xu Muzhou learned from him - when negotiating, in addition to negotiating parties, try to give marginal people a certain sense of identity.Even if you are at a disadvantage, try your best to use your first impression to win the favor of most people.

"Just now we had a conflict with the NPC in the classroom of Class Three." Xu Muzhou said succinctly: "We didn't notice it when we entered the room. There was a line of class schedule written on the right corner of the blackboard. The second class happened to be It's an English class...and as Lin Xiang guessed before, NPCs can enter the classroom during certain class periods."

This statement was discussed by Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou. As early as when the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Yan Cen had already walked into the classroom of Class Three and turned off the lights that had just been lit, to ensure that their words would not There are loopholes.

"The advantage of veteran players is that they cherish their lives, and so do their disadvantages." At that time, there were 5 minutes before the end of class, Yan Cen leaned on the blackboard of the second class of the third year, and said seriously to Xu Muzhou: "For them, survival is the most important thing." Most importantly, so you can only achieve what you want by following their psychology."

Xu Muzhou has already seen how Yan Yingdi used a small note to trick a group of old players around, so he humbly asked, "How do I go along?"

"Verify their conjecture." Yan Cen said.

The flashlight in Du Qingqing's hand flickered twice due to unstable voltage. After Xu Muzhou described the situation calmly, he stopped, waiting for the other players' reactions.

—When you tell a lie, don't explain it, and don't try to convince others.You have to convince yourself that this lie is true and it should be taken for granted, so that you can truly deceive others.

Xu Muzhou couldn't control his pounding heart, so he simply repeated the same trick, and started to recite the nine-nine multiplication table madly in his heart, trying to make his expression look normal.

It's just that after he finished speaking, the scene suddenly became silent again, and an unbearable subtle atmosphere filled the air. Du Qingqing and Lin Xiang looked at each other, and when they looked at Xu Muzhou again, the inquiry in their eyes could no longer be hidden. .

Xu Muzhou understood the root cause of this atmosphere - because he left a slight loophole in his words.

Xu Muzhou had expected this kind of scene, but he didn't explain it immediately, and even waited for others to doubt him and question him.

"Wait a minute." The boy in school uniform said suddenly.

Xu Muzhou's eyes moved slightly, his eyes skipped over Du Qingqing's shoulders, and he looked at Du Qingqing calmly.

"How do you know that the NPC is an English teacher?" The man in school uniform said slowly, "Maybe she just randomly picked classrooms from now on, and happened to pick your one."

The boy in school uniform bit an obvious accent on the coincidence, which made the sentence sound more meaningful.

It is impossible to have friendship between players, Xu Muzhou knows this clearly.The trial system judges the guilty. What teamwork and concerted efforts are all bullshit in this environment.There is no trust between people, killing each other in the game is as common as eating and sleeping, and everyone who sees it is like killing an enemy.

But this is the best, Xu Muzhou thought, what he wanted to take advantage of was their selfishness and conceit.

Xu Muzhou was quite a calm person, he clenched and loosened his fists behind his back, and then smiled mockingly.

"So in these two classes, you just stood there and waited for the time to pass, didn't you do anything?" Xu Muzhou's footsteps moved slightly, and he raised his chin subconsciously when changing positions, "I'm very Curious, how did you survive to this day."

"The information here is too much and too complicated. It's normal to find no clues in a short period of time." Lin Xiang smiled: "We did find clues in the classroom...we found a class teacher's employment form, but it's a pity , the photo above is so blurry that I can’t see it clearly.”

"It seems that I'm here to call you." Xu Muzhou frowned slightly, as if he was annoyed that he had wasted time and energy. He turned around in a bad mood and grabbed Yan Cen's cuff, and said to him, "Let's go."

Yan Cen was very cooperative, followed him and turned around without saying a word.

"Wait a minute." The boy in school uniform suddenly stopped them both: "Everyone is trapped here, right?"

Xu Muzhou paused.

"People are of the same kind living in the same world." The boy in the school uniform said: "Besides, our goal is to complete the task alive. The principle of having one more person and one more force, you can live to this day in this game , I don’t understand.”

"NPC's breastplate." Xu Muzhou seemed to be convinced by him, he turned sideways impatiently, and tapped his left chest with his hand: "On the sideline under the pocket of the suit, there is a piece of yellowed hair An old label with her title written in English."