Neverland

When Xu Muzhou went upstairs, he took another look at the standing clock, and found that the time was already half an hour behind when they went upstairs.But the class bell that was supposed to ring was quiet, showing no tendency to ring.

It seems that as long as someone enters the area on the second floor, the security regulations in the school will be broken individually, and the original security guarantee will disappear.

This is harmless to Xu Muzhou, anyway, he was going to be next to the NPC.

Sun Qian had finished torturing and killing boys in school uniforms, and wandered in the corridor on the second floor again. The blood on her body was covered with fresh colors, and there was still warm flesh and blood between her fingers.

Xu Muzhou tried his best to close his eyes and force himself not to think about the death of the boy in school uniform.

Yan Cen, who came up from the stairs, pressed his shoulder and said in a low voice, "Sun Qian on the second floor is more difficult than the first floor, so you should be more careful."

"I know." Xu Muzhou said.

Xu Muzhou hid the dagger that might irritate Sun Qian in his coat, and took out the flashlight. He cautiously stood on the steps and looked into the corridor to make sure that Sun Qian had his back facing them. Then he turned around and waved at Yan Cen.

"I have an idea." Xu Muzhou shook the flashlight in his hand at him, and said in a low voice, "If this flashlight can make the task progress bar start moving, maybe it can control Sun Qian a little bit."

"I'm wondering if she still has a certain level of consciousness." Xu Muzhou pursed his lips: "After all, I've thought about it, 'obsession' doesn't have a definite answer like a case, it's too subjective, You can only ask the client... or try everything on the client."

"There is no precedent for this kind of mission." Yan Cen said: "But you can try it. If this trick doesn't work, you can go to the safe house to hide first."

Xu Muzhou also had the same idea, he nodded, bent over and leaned out from the stairs.

He touched the sweat of his palms on his trouser legs, clenched the iron handle of the flashlight, and put his thumb on the switch.

Sun Qian had already wandered to the end of the corridor, Xu Muzhou frowned slightly, and suddenly discovered something he had been ignoring since just now.

—The footsteps in the corridor disappeared.

He stretched out his hand to rub his eyes, and carefully followed Sun Qian's appearance, only to find that at some point, her feet had completely disappeared, and the bottom of her trousers was empty, and she was floating in mid-air.

The hairs all over Xu Muzhou's body almost exploded.

Yan Cen saw that he didn't go into the corridor for a long time, thought he was afraid, and pinched the back of his neck to comfort him: "What's wrong?"

"This is a time-limited mission." Xu Muzhou gritted his teeth and said, "The mention of living until dawn in the trial mission is probably for us to see."

As he spoke, he turned sideways to get out of the way, and motioned Yan Cen to look at Sun Qian's legs.

"Of course, it's also possible that it's because I've started to obtain the progress of the mission, so it's also reflected in the goal of the mission." Xu Muzhou said, "But this possibility is rare, and I'm more focused on the first one."

"The task objective will not disappear with the progress of the task, and there is generally no time limit for cleaning tasks." Yan Cen said: "But this time the task may be because it is mixed with the trial system, and the side of Neverland can't afford it for a long time. This kind of restriction was made... this time is a special case, and I can't judge it based on experience."

Yan Cen is used to leaving some room for his words, but since he has said so, it shows that he agrees with Xu Muzhou's guess.

"So it's still a time-limited mission." Xu Muzhou frowned in embarrassment.

"Forget it." Xu Muzhou said: "It's useless to think about it, let's take one step at a time."

After he finished speaking, he straightened up and walked out of the stairwell first. Sun Qian had already turned back from the other end of the corridor. Seeing him growl, she flew in front of Xu Muzhou in an instant, revealing her snow-white teeth.

Xu Muzhou immediately turned on the flashlight. The light source of the old flashlight was not enough, and it hit Sun Qian dimly, which would cover her in it.

Sun Qian seemed to have been scalded by the light, she screamed and raised her arms to cover her face.

it works!Xu Muzhou was overjoyed.Knowing to hide means that there is still a subconscious mind with positive emotions, and it may provide useful clues.

"Sun Qian!" Xu Muzhou chased after the victory. He took a step forward and asked anxiously, "Are you still conscious?"

Sun Qian flinched even more at his yelling, she folded her arms, covered her face in embarrassment, her shoulders shook up and down, and she whimpered like a beast.

Xu Muzhou was sure this time, she was really crying all the time.

Her long hair covered most of her face, and a small piece of fabric protruded from her shoulder blades, making her look a little too thin.If one ignores the continuous dripping blood on her body, Xu Muzhou even feels a little pitiful for her.

She was crying intermittently, probably because her throat had been rotten, so she couldn't make a crying sound, and could only make the threatening roar that Xu Muzhou heard before in vain.

This is a poor woman trapped by obsession. Xu Muzhou thought of this again. She lingered here because of pain and unwillingness. Day after day, she finally waited for him and Yan Cen to replace her. She addresses the source of her pain.

Looking at Sun Qian's back, Xu Muzhou suddenly had a strange sense of responsibility. He had always regarded these things as the necessary sacrifices for his second life, and this was the first time he had the kind of "I am doing something work” sense of belonging.

"Sun Qian." Xu Muzhou swallowed, and shouted again boldly: "Are you still conscious?"

Sun Qian seemed to be able to understand her own name. She trembled when Xu Muzhou called out. She seemed to finally be unable to bear the faint light. She floated backwards in an extremely distorted posture and ran out of the Bright range.

Xu Muzhou heard the sound of the door closing, and Sun Qian seemed to have entered a certain room.

"Sun—" Xu Muzhou wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Yan Cen.

"The usable time of a flashlight cannot be completely determined." Yan Cen was much calmer than him. He squinted his eyes slightly to observe the house Sun Qian entered, and then turned his head and said to Xu Muzhou: "While she is not within the attack range, you If you want to find any clues, look for it first."

Xu Muzhou is not an emotional person, he understood that what Yan Cen said made sense, so he nodded and walked over to the Academic Affairs Office in his memory.

The Academic Affairs Office is also in the corridor on the left, not far from the tea room. The direction Sun Qian fled just now is on the right side of the corridor. In theory, they have enough time to find clues.

I don't know what happened on the ground. Every time Xu Muzhou took a step, he felt that his feet were sticky and he couldn't pull his legs out. He swept the ground with a flashlight, only to find a layer of dark brown unknown substance on the floor. Xu Muzhou was puzzled. I bent down and touched it with my hand, and carefully identified it under the light, only to find that it was dried blood.

Xu Muzhou deliberately scanned back and forth with the flashlight, only to find that the floor of the corridor on the second floor was covered in blood, soaking the floor completely, and he didn't know how much blood it was.

The uniform boy died in the pantry, and his blood wouldn't have dried up so quickly.

Xu Muzhou straightened up, pushed open the door of the Academic Affairs Office and walked in, and asked casually, "Brother Yan, do you know how Sun Qian died?"

"Cut your wrists." Yan Cen followed Xu Muzhou. He deliberately paused at the door after Xu Muzhou entered the room, to confirm that Sun Qian was not angry because the Academic Affairs Office entered a stranger, and then he followed Xu Muzhou Zhou went in.

Yan Cen drew a stroke on his left wrist with his right index finger, and continued: "It should be the left hand."

"You even know such details?" Xu Muzhou asked strangely.

"Guess." Yan Cen said, "Her left hand is much weaker than her right hand."

Xu Muzhou nodded and didn't worry about it any more.There were two old-fashioned glass cabinets placed against the wall on the left side of the Academic Affairs Office. Xu Muzhou pulled it tentatively and found that there was no lock.

There are two desks side by side in the Office of Academic Affairs near the door, the one on the right is empty, only a bunch of documents are scattered on the desk on the left, and the ashtray is full of cigarette butts, which are used to extinguish The water in the cigarette butt has soaked yellow, and there is an unpleasant smell of smoke oil.

Xu Muzhou pushed the ashtray to the side of the table in disgust, and flipped through the documents on the table, and found that most of them were handwritten meeting minutes, without any substantive news.

He thought for a while, and temporarily turned off the flashlight just to be on the safe side. He put the handle down in his trouser pocket, and took out the small fluorescent ball from his coat pocket to illuminate it.

Yan Cen did not search for clues in the room with him, but stood in the room for a while, and after confirming that Sun Qian would not come out again in a short time, he said to Xu Muzhou: "Time is running out, let's split up , you look for clues here, I'll go out and have a look."

"Go out?" Xu Muzhou put down the things at hand, straightened up from behind the desk, and asked a little worriedly: "But Sun Qian is outside... Or you take this thing for self-defense, and I leave the dagger behind?"

"I can handle it." Yan Cen rejected his offer, and said, "Hold the flashlight, I'll be back in 10 minutes, don't worry about me."

After he finished speaking, he nodded slightly at Xu Muzhou, turned around and opened the door.

"Wait a minute." Xu Muzhou suddenly stopped him: "What's wrong with your feet?"

Yan Cen paused, and looked back at him suspiciously.

Xu Muzhou casually put the things in his hands on the table and squeezed them out from the gap between the two desks.Yan Cen had been walking behind him just now, and he seemed to move freely, so Xu Muzhou didn't notice this until he turned around just now.

Yan Cen looked down at his leg, he stretched his left leg, and said indifferently: "It's okay, it might have been twisted."

Xu Muzhou was with him all the time, relying on Yan Cen's hand, Xu Muzhou knew where he was twisted as long as he thought about it, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty for a while.Xu Muzhou walked up to Yan Cen, squatted down and lifted up his trouser legs.

Yan Cen was not used to someone being so close to him suddenly, so he took a step back subconsciously.

"Brother Yan." Xu Muzhou said helplessly, "Just looking at the injury doesn't count as hooliganism."

It would be hypocritical to retreat any further, Yan Cen stopped in his tracks and let Xu Muzhou take a step forward to follow, his whole body stretched like a rock.

Xu Muzhou reached out and touched his ankle, and found that it was just a little red and swollen, not serious, so he was relieved.

"Persist for a while." Xu Muzhou said, "We'll deal with it when we return to Neverland."

To Yan Cen, this level of bumping could not even be called "injured". He looked down at Xu Muzhou's bowed back, and the emotion in his eyes was dim. He was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "How did you find out?" .”

Yan Cen can be sure that he never sold any flaws just now.

"Didn't you notice?" Xu Muzhou said casually, "You are not limping, but your steps are half shorter than normal, and the time for your left foot to land is also very short, which seems obvious."