Judgment Game Survival Guide

Shi Qi noticed that the person beside him was staring at him with burning eyes, turned his head to look over, raised his hand to check the temperature on Xuanmu's forehead, "Is it still burning?"

Xuan Mu's eyelashes trembled unconsciously, sat up, his voice hoarse, "It's much better."

Shi Qi frowned, seeing that Xuan Mu's mood was not right, he hesitated for a while, "What's wrong with you?"

Xuan Mu looked over innocently, "...what?"

"..." Shi Qi looked at Xuan Mu thoughtfully, and Xuan Mu immediately covered his expression and looked away.

"It's nothing." Shi Qi looked away clearly, lifted the quilt and got up, "I'm going to wash up."

Xuan Mu let out a soft "hmm".

The subtle sound of water came from the bathroom, and he unconsciously shifted his gaze to the frosted glass, glanced at Shi Qi's silhouette, looked at it for a while, and then withdrew his gaze.

After washing up one after another, the two of them went to the first floor to have breakfast, and without wasting time, they took out the map and started discussing today's itinerary.

"looks like it's going to rain."

Shi Qi looked up at the sky, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and he seemed to smell a unique smell before it rained.

Xuan Mu gave an absent-minded "hmm", as if he was thinking about something.

"A lot of time was wasted just walking in the past two days," Shi Qi continued, "Let's break through one by one today, and go to the aquarium first."

"it is good."

Shi Qi put away the map, and the two walked towards the aquarium.

He looked at Xuan Mu's expression calmly, keenly aware of the subtle emotions of the other party, and asked directly, "Did you remember something?"

"Ah?" Xuan Mu was startled by the sudden sound, and immediately replied, "No."

"Oh." Shi Qi nodded and continued walking forward.

The surroundings were silent, and the atmosphere became a little awkward. Xuan Mu turned his head to look at Shi Qi, only to see that the other party was staring straight at him.

He turned around quickly, and after a while he whispered, "I remembered... a little bit."

Shi Qi said "Oh" and continued to ask, "What do you remember?"

In the past, if Xuan Mu didn't want to talk about it, he wouldn't pursue it like this.But he noticed that Xuan Mu's performance this time was a little subtle, he said he was absent-minded, more like he hesitated to speak.

Xuan Mu was silent for a long while, then tentatively opened his mouth, "Do you remember...the time I got into a fight and got suspended from school?"

Shi Qi gave a soft "hmm".

"Then...did I tell you the reason?" Xuan Mu glanced at the gate of the aquarium ahead, and said as he walked.

"No." Shi Qi shook his head, and led Xuan Mu into the stadium.

Xuan Mu raised his eyes to recall, and considered his words.

As for the reason for the fight...it's actually nothing, in other people's eyes, it might not be such a hand.

It's just because the man was gossiping behind his back, saying things like "he's stuck with Shi Qi from the second class of psychology every day", "I heard him called Brother Shi Qi once", "it's disgusting" and so on.

At that time, he didn't know that Shi Qi was crooked, and he hadn't been with Shi Qi yet. The inferiority complex hidden in his bones made him feel panic, uneasy, and even imagined a lot of Shi Qi's reactions.

He was afraid that when Shi Qi heard such rumors, he would mind and resist, so he stayed away from him.

Now that he knows that he and Shi Qi have been together before, and that Shi Qi is not straight, naturally he no longer feels anxious and afraid, and he can open up and talk about it.

"At that time, he was spreading rumors outside, saying... that my relationship with you was not normal," Xuan Mu took a deep breath, and whispered the reason why he didn't say it at the beginning, "I am afraid every day, afraid that you will hear such rumors , afraid that you will keep a distance from me."

"..." Shi Qi glanced at Xuan Mu with a vague expression, but didn't speak.

"I also said a lot of dirty and ugly things. If you don't say it, it will upset you." Xuan Mu chuckled, and continued, "Actually, I'm too sensitive... I don't know if I told you, I Ago."

"……No."

Xuan Mu: "When I was in junior high school, I became friends with another classmate who was isolated...for a short time."

Shi Qi immediately caught the word "other" in Xuan Mu's words.

Xuan Mu glanced at Shi Qi's expression, and immediately understood, Qiang Zuo casually said, "I was isolated because of fighting...Some people say that my father is dead and my mother is crazy."

Shi Qi stopped in his tracks and looked at Xuan Mu without saying a word, feeling as if his heart had been pulled.

"My mother, she... She just lived too hard before, but now she is a bit indulgent and depraved... The bad girl speaks dirty words, drinks, dances and hangs out in nightclubs, trying to live her youth again."

"I beat the guy up, threw him into the trash can, and said to him, 'My dad is dead, but my mom isn't crazy... If you dare to spread any nonsense to me, I'll make you go crazy first. '."

"I thought I was very handsome at the time," Xuan Mu felt a little more relaxed after telling these past events, "Since then, no one dared to provoke me again."

Shi Qi's eyes couldn't help turning sour, and he stared at him for a while.

"If I didn't..." Shi Qi's voice stopped, and he continued after a long while, "...Will you never tell me?"

Xuan Mu was startled, "Nothing?"

"...It's nothing." Shi Qi's throat tightened a little, as if he had realized something.

"Going off topic," Xuan Mu coughed lightly, and cleared up his words, "He and I, two isolated people hugged each other to keep warm, and became friends... plus I just realized my sexual orientation during that time, so it's more Confused, I told him."

"He was very conflicted and deliberately alienated me... Later, after he made new friends, he said that I was disgusting everywhere." Xuan Mu's voice became lower and lower, "He said, he actually didn't want to be friends with me at all... I was fighting. horrible."

"I really... don't fight casually..." His voice trembled, "I only moved my hands twice in junior high school, one time because I was talking about my mother, and the other time was because I was tearing up my textbooks."

...But in high school, I let myself go more freely, and gossip began to get out of control.

Shi Qi closed his eyelids slightly, and listened without saying a word.

Although Xuanmu didn't communicate much with others in high school, it can't be regarded as "isolated", it can only be said that the two sides ignored each other.

What kind of mental journey did he go through to change from 'isolated by everyone' to 'isolated by everyone', and into the thorny appearance that Shi Qi saw at first sight.

"I'm afraid you also think I'm disgusting." Xuan Mu took a deep breath, raised his eyes to look at Shi Qi, there seemed to be something sparkling in his eyes, "Fortunately... you are not such a person."

Shi Qi was silent for a while, "Ah Xuan."

"Huh?" Xuan Mu calmed down.

Shi Qi raised his eyes to meet Xuan Mu's, and said seriously, "You are in front of me... you can always say what you want and do what you want without any scruples."

"It is now, and it will be in the future... This is your prerogative."

Xuan Mu glanced at Shi Qi flickeringly, his emotions seemed a little complicated, and after a long while, he said softly, "You too."

Shi Qi continued, "This is our agreement."

Xuan Mu nodded, did not reply, and continued to walk forward, as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, he suddenly came back to his senses. The two of them were chatting, but they had already walked a certain distance in the aquarium.

Xuan Mu coughed lightly, and quickly said, "...let's do business, let's do business."

"En." Shi Qi nodded, put away his ups and downs, and took out the card machine from his pocket.

Xuan Mu took out the card machine and took a look. The task label said '5 points will be deducted for scanning illegal animals'. This time, the card machine had the 5 basic points that other players got out of the game. Chance.

Xuan Mu took out his notebook and paper, observed carefully along the road, and wrote down the characteristics.

The two explored along the road to the second basement floor. After walking forward for a while, Xuan Mu seemed to have seen something, and grabbed Shi Qi's sleeve, motioning him to look forward.

Shi Qi followed Xuanmu's finger to look over, and saw that number one in front was holding the shoulder of the woman beside him, talking and laughing as she walked forward - the woman had the Roman numeral thirteen tattooed on her neck .

Shi Qi frowned, "...it's him again?"

"Is it really a courtesan?" Xuan Mu muttered, suddenly remembering No. [-] who had been out of the game due to violation of the rules yesterday, "No. [-]'s dismissal...could it have something to do with him?"

Shi Qi pondered for a while, "Maybe."

"Then..." Xuan Mu raised his eyes to recall, and then asked, "What do you think, the way he said that day...?"

What No. [-] said at the time was that it is possible to find the correct answer only after scanning all the hundred or so species of creatures. The precondition of the task is to deceive people.

"There is no basis," Shi Qi thought for a while, "but he said that this kind of topic should be clever, and I think it makes sense."

Xuan Mu nodded, and some guesses came up in his heart, and he also observed the NPC tourists around him by the way-according to this, the breakthrough might be on the NPC.

He quietly approached No. [-], squinted his eyes, and said to Shi Qi in a low voice, "I think No. [-] is weird... I can't tell what's wrong."

"He seems to need his teammates very much." Shi Qi also took two steps forward, trying to hear the conversation between the two clearly, but the surroundings were noisy, and he couldn't hear clearly, "Seamless connection... The teammates just got out yesterday, today And hooked up with a new one."

"Yeah, he has a problem."

Just as Xuan Mu was about to speak, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him, interrupting his words, which made him tremble with fright.

Shi Qi beside him gave a "tsk" at the same time, pulling him to go elsewhere.

Xuan Mu glanced at the source of the voice, as expected.

"Fate, we meet again." Behind him, Ling Luo was grabbing his sleeve excitedly.

"...Fate is fate, can you not suddenly make a scary sound..." Xuan Mu heaved a sigh of relief in shock, "When did you come behind?"

"It's been a while," Ling Luo glanced at Shi Qi next to her, and then said, "Seeing that you guys were chatting so happily, I didn't get together... But your analysis just now is correct, there are ghosts among the players."

Shi Qi glanced at Ling Luo, his expression no longer fluctuated, and returned to the calm and steady appearance at the beginning.

Forget it, it's more important to solve the puzzle first.

Xuan Mu was stunned, "The ghost? What kind of ghost?... What kind of game is this..."

It started to develop in a strange direction... This is no longer a puzzle game...

"It's not accurate," Ling Luo thought about her words, "Some people rely on players to get out of the game to score points."