The day I was forced to be a detective pendant

"So, let's not waste any more time, and let's start the fun game time." After the keeper in the top hat finished speaking, the light above his head suddenly magnified dozens of times, and the light became extremely dazzling. I had to close my eyes.When I opened it again, I was already sitting in a classroom.

Now that I have officially entered the game, I thought to myself, this is the "Seventh People's Middle School" mentioned in the background introduction, and I am already Zhang Qiaozhi, a high school student.I looked around curiously, and it was quite similar to the middle school classroom I used to stay in - the blackboard that could never be wiped clean, the red slogan above the blackboard, the large gray electric fan spinning slowly above my head, and the piles of exercise books on the desk... …

But here is very different from the real world in my memory - almost all the students around me are in a state of blurred faces. They are not without facial features, but with dull eyes and stiff movements, staring at themselves position in front of you.I know that they are all NPCs who have not been awakened. For a while, I just feel that this classroom feels chilly, and the reality of VR games makes people really not want to thank the advancement of technology at this moment.I noticed that several seats in the classroom were empty, presumably one of them belonged to the subject of our investigation - the missing student "Steve".

I stood up from my seat, none of the NPC students around me expressed curiosity about my movements, and they still sat stiffly like a robot.I went to the corridor of the classroom and saw Jack, the pretty boy from the next class, also came out—it was no secret to SIP that we met offline, so Jack asked naturally: "Go to someone else first? "

I nodded and counted with my fingers: "Among the other players, one is a teacher, one is a librarian, one is a security guard, and one is from the canteen at the school gate."

Jack said, "First to the teacher's office, then to the library, and finally out of school."

"Wait, should we ask our classmates first to see if they know anything about Steve?" I said, "KP must have a reason for recommending the student as a career."

"Okay." Jack said briskly.

Jack Li and I walked back into the class. I was not sure where KP was, so I could only yell loudly: "Does Steve have any good friends in the class before?"

Inorganic electronic sounds came from above my head—I looked up, and it was the radio in the classroom talking: "You are Steve's classmate, so you know that Steve has a few good boy friends in the class , they are Student A, Student B and Student C respectively."

I was speechless: "I just wanted to praise him for his hard work in this communication system, and the name of this NPC should not be distracted."

The next moment, I saw the heads of three NPCs in the class light up, with the words "A, B, and C" marked on them.Jack and I walked up and saw the three of them gathering together, each with a mobile phone in their hand, discussing something with great interest.

Me: "Hello."

The three raised their heads, their expressions were very surprised, at this time KP's comment came in very timely: "Since you are usually alone and tinkering with your favorite computer, they are very surprised that you took the initiative to say hello. "

Well, my character is still a social terror.

Jack said again, "Hello."

The three Yangou immediately showed a blunt expression of joy: "What's the matter?"

I:"……"

Jack: "What are you talking about?"

"We're talking about the new iPhone that Apple will launch soon." A glanced at Jack's cell phone and said, "What iPhone do you use?"

Jack said, "I use Huawei."

A's expression was blank for a moment, but he soon regained his enthusiasm, saying: "Apple is about to launch a new phone, and it will also do a major system update. Look, you can download and experience a demo version first."

B also said happily: "I heard that it is very useful, and it is very personal."

At the same time, they erected the screen of the mobile phone, which displayed the "IOS 20.0 Version Terms of Use". I cleared my throat and signaled Jack to stop liking him, and quickly ask about Steve.

Jack nodded, and read without emotion: "Ah, I'm so envious. I want an iPhone too. By the way, do you know where Steve is?"

A, B, and C shook their heads: "I haven't seen him for a few days, will I go buy an iPhone?"

Me: "...Don't mention the iPhone anymore! Who built this module? Is the understanding of contemporary middle school students so superficial!"

KP: "Ahem, please consciously refrain from making remarks beyond the cognition of the game characters."

I said, "This isn't super-game talk, it's observational reasoning."

KP fell silent.

Jack continued to ask: "Why do you think so? He has been missing for several days... for a few days? Does it take so long to buy a mobile phone?"

I said, "Background says Steve disappeared on March 3th, and today is March 25th."

Student B said: "Could it be to ensure that you can buy it when it's on sale, so from now on, you'll be waiting in line at the door of the store."

Before I had time to complain, student C said: "No, Steve doesn't have enough money to change his mobile phone, so he started working part-time to make money a while ago."

This message caught my attention: "Where do you work?"

"I heard that it is a chip factory, and they are working overtime recently." Classmate A said, "It seems that Xiao Ding and Xiao Wu also went there. The wages are calculated by the hour, and the settlement is made on the day. If you stay overnight, you can get hundreds of dollars."

"I want to go too." B said.

"Wait, who are Xiao Ding and Xiao Wu?" Jack asked.

The three of them looked around the classroom and said, "Ah, Xiao Ding didn't come to school today, probably because he worked all night and couldn't get up during the day."

I looked back at the other empty seat with a bad feeling in my heart.

"Jack Lee was inspired." KP's voice sounded again.

Jack stretched out his hand, and a dice rolling machine appeared in front of him out of nowhere, similar to the lottery lottery equipment on TV.He reached down and pulled the wrench, and a whole bunch of numbers rolled out, and the sum of the dice appeared in the air.

"28/65, over."

I nodded - the rules of the running group game, in order to complete a specific action or achieve a certain purpose, the player needs to roll the dice to determine whether the "event" is successful, and if the value of the dice is less than the player's corresponding basic value, then the judgment for "success".

KP: "When you think about it, Xiaowu is a senior in your senior year, because you have met him a few times because of the work of the student union."

"As expected of a courtesan." I sighed, "Even this kind of passer-by remembers."

Jack said decisively: "Let's go to this Xiaowu and ask him where the chip factory is."

The two of us walked less than five meters away, the surrounding scene retreated rapidly, and KP's voice sounded: "Xiao Wu's class is here."

Jack went in for a while, then came out and said, "I shared the location of the chip factory with George, and told him that apart from Steve and Xiao Ding, other students who had been working in the chip factory disappeared one after another. Clear, but still in the single digits."

When he said this, a row of addresses immediately appeared in front of my eyes—like the picture seen by the Terminator. I asked, "Shall we go to the chip factory now? Do you want to call other players?"

"Row."

We gathered all the players from the office, the library, the school gate and the canteen all the way. Jack said: "It seems that not only Steve is missing, but also many other students. They went to work in a chip factory to make money, and then died gone."

After sharing information about the plant, Jack asked, "Where does this Steve live?"

"I checked just now, he lives on campus, and... I have a navigation." Teacher Tie Zhu said: "The location of the factory you sent is not far from the school, less than two kilometers away, and you can walk or drive there. "

Jack: "In this way, the students may have disappeared in the factory, or they may have left the factory in the middle of the night and had an accident on the way home."

The giant man Xiao Hei suddenly raised his head to the sky and screamed, which startled all of us. Zhao Yingjun, the owner of the commissary, was the closest to him, and was almost beaten by him.

"It's all my fault that I didn't do a good job of security and failed to protect the safety of the students!" Xiao Hei said sadly, his chest muscles were about to burst out of the security uniform when he exerted all his strength.

...Brother, enough is enough.

"Then let's go to that factory to see next? Nothing will happen if we go together." The library aunt Xiaohong said.

"Okay, I'll drive." Tie Zhu said, "I have a car."

KP's voice suddenly came in: "There are six of you, you can't fit in one car, you can only sit in any four other than Xiao Hei."

Xiao Hei: "What's wrong with me?"

KP said mercilessly: "Or three people including Xiao Hei, Xiao Hei's physique is too big, and it will occupy the space of two ordinary people in the vehicle."

Xiao Hei: "??? Am I going to lie down in the back seat alone?"

"Then let's go by car, you can walk." Zhao Yingjun immediately said to Xiao Hei and Xiao Hong, "You see that your names match very well, you should act together."

You clearly disliked her because of her low value, I slandered, but I followed Tie Zhu into the car.After I got in the car, KP suddenly said again: "Cast for observation."

Four people rolled the dice, and only Tie Zhu passed - Xiao Hei, who had the highest scouting, was still walking behind.Then KP said again: "Tie Zhu wait and listen."

After waiting for a while, we asked, "What's wrong?"

Tie Zhu said helplessly: "I observed a group of people demonstrating on the street, but I didn't hear what their demonstration was about."

I said, "Oh, it's okay, maybe the walking group can see it."

After a while, we were prompted to come to the gate of the chip factory. Jack the socialite went up to talk to the security guard, and was told that the chip factory only opened at night and no one was allowed to enter during the day.

"What should I do?" I said, "Why don't you put on a disguise and sneak in as a staff member?"

Jack shook his head: "That's not what he meant. He said that the assembly is fully automatic during the day, and manpower is only needed at night."

Tie Zhu said: "Then come back at night? Maybe you two can mix up as students who want to work, go in and check." Zhao Yingjun said: "That's the only way, go back and talk to those two people first, I suggest a little Assign tasks, you two students continue to visit informants, the aunt in the library and I will check the information about this factory, and the teacher can contact the parents of the lost students to see if there is any extra information."

"It makes sense. After all, this is not an ordinary running game. You must get the treasure chest within a limited time." Tie Zhu nodded.

This Zhao Yingjun doesn't look like it's his first time playing, the process is very familiar, I thought to myself, I nodded and was about to go back, when I suddenly saw a huge figure that was hard to ignore standing at the end of the street—— The strong man Xiao Hei.

"What is that security guard doing?" I still couldn't accept the appearance of my senior brother, and suddenly thought that if the girl in school who regarded him as a male god saw this muscular man in front of me, I didn't know how she would feel.

Jack narrowed his eyes and looked: "The two of them seem to be looking at something on the ground, there may be clues."

The four of us ran back to where Xiao Hei and Xiao Hong were. When they saw us coming, they said, "We were heading in your direction. I had a brainstorm on the way, and I found this Sewer manhole covers were removed."

"Oh?" I wondered - all the settings and unusualness in this kind of game can't be for no reason, I said, "This is the only way for students to go back to school from the factory, the manhole cover can be opened Do you want to try?"

Xiao Hei dug into the drain of the manhole cover with two fingers, and lifted the 40-kilogram iron plate with ease. The bottom of the circular maintenance well was deep and dark, and there was an ominous smell. A pungent and stale smell.Fortunately, it was daytime, and an iron ladder fixed to the side wall could be seen on the side of the sewer, with many rust spots on the ladder.

"Is it going to go down?" I said, "Is it going to be so fierce at the beginning of the game?"

Jack looked up and said, "This iron ladder is only so long, but there seems to be a foldable climbing ladder further down."

Tie Zhu was also a little apprehensive: "Go down and have a look?"

Xiaohong said decisively: "Come on, come here."

"Wait," I said, "I'll listen first."

KP: "You lie down and listen. In addition to the sound of cars rolling across the road, there are also some thin sounds of running water. You think it may be sewage from the sewer."

Me: "Go down."

Xiao Hong started to climb down the iron ladder, followed by Jack, me, Zhao Yingjun, Tie Zhu, and the last one was Xiao Hei. At this time, KP reminded: "Xiao Hei's body is too big, he might not be able to get down."

I was blinded by the news - the sewer is so ominous, if there is a battle, what if Xiao Hei is not there.

Xiao Hei immediately said: "The manhole cover of the sewer is 800mm! I can definitely pass it!"

KP thought for a while: "Just be lucky and see if you can pass the size of this manhole cover."

Xiao Hei passed his luck smoothly, and climbed down happily. Unexpectedly, when he stepped on the rusty ladder, the folded part of the ladder was crushed by his weight, and it broke completely with a "bang", and Xiao Hei also sat down into the sewage.

Holding half of the ladder in his hand, he raised his head and looked up at the far mouth of the well, speechless.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※

Double update later

The running group module is based on TheLeaf's "Dazasim" (Dazasim) 1.0.2 public version. It is a spoiler, and the reference part will be listed at the end of the copy.