1/2 Nightmare [Unlimited]

Qi Lu looked at the time——

【00:21:47】

That's too late!

Qi Lu didn't continue wasting time in the library lobby, he rushed out and rushed down the steps——

He has to meet up with 076 to explain the situation!

Under the steps, the old couple and 076 were in place.

"I found the person who wrote to you in the past few years." Qi Lu told the old couple directly.

Hearing Qi Lu's words, the two old men couldn't hide their surprise on their faces.

The old woman hurriedly asked, "Is it our Liu Zheng?"

Qi Lu didn't answer accurately: "I'm afraid you need to confirm this by yourself."

The two old men looked anxious.

Qi Lu only continued to look at 076.

"What about you?" Qi Lu asked.

The essence of 076 is still himself. He is very clear about his character, and he will never do useless work. 076 chose to stay, there must be other reasons.

076 pointed to the foundation: "There is something under the foundation, these two old people can't go up on foot."

"What should I do?"

076 raised his right hand and looked at the time: "There are still 15 minutes, the only way is, the two of us carry them up."

"Can you recite it? Will there be any accidents?" Qi Lu asked.

After all, this is not an ordinary materialist scientific worldview. People here will become ghosts after death, and will be "incorporated" into the game and expropriated. All in all, everything here must be very careful.

"I just tried it." 076 looked upwards, gradually measuring the distance of the steps.

"The old man's initial weight is zero, but every ten seconds, the old man on the back will gain one kilogram, two kilograms, four kilograms, eight kilograms... until we can't carry it anymore."

"This... why is there still a problem with the sum of geometric sequences?"

"This may also be one of the problems? After all, according to the known information, the foundation of the library was built at the beginning, and the two old people were not allowed to go up."

076 never cared about how difficult it was. He only talked about his own solution: "The weight should be controlled within 100 kilograms. Both of us should be able to move on our backs. However, our movements must be very fast. It is best to Keep it within 65 seconds."

"it is good."

The two of them carried an old man on their backs, Qi Lu looked at the time [00:15:23].

There really isn't much time left.

"You go ahead, and I'll watch from behind, in case they play tricks." 076's reminding voice came.

Qi Lu didn't dare to delay, he immediately took a step, carried the old woman on his back, and walked up the steps.

Then, as 076 said, the old man on his back became heavier and heavier, like a pallet that was constantly being overweighted, gradually increasing the weight, making it more and more difficult for him to bear.

Qi Lu's leg speed is usually very fast. Under normal circumstances, he can take 2-3 steps at a time, step by step, step up, and walk like flying.

But now it is not normal after all, as the weight of the old man on his back is getting heavier and heavier, Qi Lu feels like his legs are tied with heavy sandbags, and every step he takes is very heavy and difficult.

He raised his head, and in front of him was about a quarter of the remaining stairs. It was very far and long, and every step under his feet seemed to be filled with lead. He was a little tired, and he wondered why he couldn't think of using this method?

"Qi Lu, we're almost there." 076's voice sounded from behind.

This brought Qi Lu back to his senses, and he became a little more energetic.He began to walk forward with his head down, no longer looking away from the stairs.

Don't look, don't care how much is left.

Like a revolving lantern in my mind, I began to think about other things.He still has 076 to help him now, and all the levels are not difficult.But in the past, when 076 first entered the game, if he encountered difficulties, no one would help him at all.I don't know how 076 survived...

The thoughts in my mind were one after another. Although the pace of my feet didn't speed up, I didn't slow down or give up.

In the end, Qi Lu didn't know how he walked up the stairs.

"We have arrived."

076's voice sounded, Qi Lu exhaled, as if relieved.He bent down so that the old man behind him could get down.

Then the legs went limp and fell straight down, the calf became sore and swollen, which was uncomfortable.

076 quickly helped him up, frowning: "Your physical fitness is too average."

"Thank you!" Qi Lu laughed at himself: "The maximum amount of exercise we male college students do is just a 1000-meter run during the physical test. How can we be so tired?"

"Remember to exercise more."

After finishing speaking, 076 added: "I will accompany you."

Qi Lu didn't continue this topic with him, but only looked at the time: "It's less than 15 minutes, let the old man go in first?"

Then, Qi Lu took out the note and the old man's envelope from his pocket, and handed it to 076: "Look at this, I asked the librarian to write it by hand, and the handwriting is exactly the same as the letter from home received by Liu Zheng's parents. "

076 took the note, and he also read the family letter received by Liu Zheng's parents, the handwriting was indeed exactly the same.

076: "And then?"

"Then, in the archives of the library, I found a personal interview with Yang Huaqing, an outstanding civil engineering graduate in 2017. Someone used paper to pad the excerpts on the page of the interview, and the content of the interview was almost the same as a letter from home."

076 asked again: "Who do you think copied who?"

"I don't know, I have to let two old people in to confirm this."

After a few words, Qi Lu's fatigue has almost dissipated.

He stood up straight and looked at the two old men: "How are you? Is there any difference from you down there?"

The old man replied: "There is no difference."

The old woman asked eagerly, "Where is the person who wrote us a letter to send us living expenses?"

"Follow me, I'll take you there." Qi Lu said, taking the initiative to walk into the library gate.

The library hall was very quiet. The librarian at the front desk heard the movement at the door and immediately raised his head. Sure enough, he saw Qi Lu again: "Why are you—"

The librarian's words were interrupted abruptly, and behind Qi Lu were two other elderly people.

The old people's hair is gray, their clothes are shabby, and their faces are covered with intricate and old wrinkles, old and old.

The identity of the old man is unknown, but the person who can find the library should not be an idler.

boom--

The glass door of the hall was closed again, Qi Lu turned his head and looked at the two old people: "The person who sent you living expenses and family letters for so many years is the librarian."

The cloudy eyeballs of the old people followed Qi Lu's guidance, looked at the librarian at the front desk, and then they were full of disappointment.

This librarian was not their son Liu Zheng.

076 reminded lightly from the side: "Aren't you going to thank me?"

The faces of the two old people were stunned, and they didn't react: "Why do you want to thank..."

"Shouldn't they be thankful for raising you for your son for so many years?" 076 rolled his eyelids.

"Yes! That's right!" After 076 reminded them, they realized the problem.

The old man told the old woman: "Damn it, let's go there quickly."

The old woman hurriedly followed suit and nodded.

After finishing speaking, the old man helped the old lady and walked to the front desk together.

The librarian's face was very ugly: "Irrelevant personnel leave the library quickly!"

"We are Liu Zheng's parents, thank you... Teacher, you have been supporting us for Liu Zheng for so many years!"

"What's none of my business? I don't know Liu Zheng."

The librarian's tone was still not very good, which embarrassed the two old people.

"Since you don't know each other, why did you support Liu Zheng's parents for so many years?" Qi Lu's voice came calmly, and he took out the note.

"You wrote this for me just now, and the handwriting is exactly the same as the handwritten letter that 'Liu Zheng' wrote to his parents."

Qi Lu's tone was light but serious, he took the envelope from the old man, and compared it with the note written by the librarian for him earlier.

"The handwriting is exactly the same. And most of the content in the family letter comes from a personal interview with Yang Huaqing, a civil engineering graduate in 2017. Right?"

The librarian sneered, "So what?"

Yes, so what?

Qi Lu didn't know how to continue asking questions.Obviously, it has been infinitely close to the truth, but it is always close to the door.

What is the reason why Liu Zheng's parents can't set foot on the steps of the library?Why did Yang Huaqing specifically mention Liu Zheng's name in his exclusive interview, but did not explain why?And the librarian, why did he use Liu Zheng's name to support his parents?

And, the name of this side mission - the secret of the foundation.

What is the connection between Liu Zheng and the foundation?

"I have a question."

076's deep voice came, he raised his eyes, his eyes were as sharp as a falcon, stared at the librarian, and said a few words expressionlessly: "Where is Liu now?"

The librarian looked flustered, but only for a brief moment, and soon he returned to his original sluggishness: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" 076 sneered, then lowered his head and looked at the ground.

"I guess, is he underground? Was he welded into the concrete by the engineering team?"

The librarian remained silent.The two old men were already panicked, trembling and at a loss because of 076's words.

Qi Lu looked at 076.Just now their actions, they have been separated, so Qi Lu didn't know what happened to 076 below.

"What happened?" Qi Lu asked.

076 didn't answer Qi Lu, just continued his words: "Let me guess, Liu Zheng and Yang Huaqing are students of the same major in the same class, but due to some competitive reasons, only one can stay. Among them, Yang Huaqing is more sophisticated and tactful. People like it, so he is the one who stays, right?"

"What about Liu Zheng?"

"Of course they threw Liu Zheng into the cement-sand mixer, and together with the cement and sand, they built the foundation of the four-meter-high library."

076's tone was flat, but what he said made people shudder.

The two old men couldn't bear it directly, and collapsed on the ground, holding each other's heads, retching and crying bitterly.

Qi Lu also endured his nausea, and continued to ask: "How do you know this?"

"Liu Zheng's parents are in shabby clothes, unable to go up the steps, and unable to enter the library gate. If it happened in your daily life, what would you think of?" 076 asked in a flat tone.

Qi Lu replied: "It's very unreasonable. How can someone not go up the stairs?"

"But this is a game." 076 continued: "The way games are used to is to turn unreasonable into reasonable."

"Stairs have been a symbol of status since ancient times. The two old men are dressed in rags and cannot climb the steps. This is a metaphor for some platforms that the poor cannot reach."

At this point in what 076 said, Qi Lu somewhat understood.

Ragged old people can't climb the steps, and the poor can't climb the steps.

Liu Zheng is just a college student, so his parents may not be so old.The robust couple seen in the vision was more in line with the image of Liu Zheng's parents.

But the game exaggerates all of this.

Originally, the parents of ordinary people represented a lower level of "poor" class, so they naturally had to be ragged old people with ditches and vicissitudes on their faces.

The library is a high-end building unique to colleges and universities, and the steps are naturally exaggerated to more than four meters high, and Liu Zheng's parents, who symbolize "poverty", have never been able to climb up.

Thinking of this, Qi Lu asked again: "Then why can we bring the old people up?"

"Because we are 'students'." 076 said, biting down the word "student".

Students are the most humble group of people.Even in the real life that Qi Lu lived before, students can ignore the distress of the poor and become a bridge for the poor to cross classes.

Wanting to understand this point, Qi Lu continued to ask: "Then how are you sure that Liu Zheng was smashed by the mixer and then built into a foundation?"

"Guess. The book that Tang Miaomiao brought back, Han Xiangsong's arm, and the foundation of this library, let's make a little association and guess." 076 put it simply.

"What about this librarian? Why did he send home letters and living expenses to Liu Zheng's parents?"

Right after Qi Lu finished speaking, the librarian said first, "Because Liu Zheng is my student."

Qi Lu turned his head, with some surprise in his eyes.

The librarian himself first explained: "You guessed pretty much, Liu Zheng was murdered by Yang Huaqing. At that time, Yang Huaqing and Liu Zheng were roommates in the same dormitory, and they had a good relationship, but because of an offer from a company, Yang Huaqing found an opportunity to take Liu Zheng Push it straight into the mixer and make the foundation."

"I am their teacher and I have seen all this with my own eyes. I just want to make a simple atonement."

"I applied to the school to work as a librarian here, and I found Liu Zheng's family situation on the school's official website. I wanted to make up for it, so I simply sent him living expenses every month."

Hearing these words, 076 narrowed his eyes slightly.

"You transcribed Yang Huaqing's interview because you don't know what life is like for civil engineering students, so you used Yang Huaqing's interview as a source of material?"

"That's right." The librarian replied again.

Qi Lu breathed a sigh of relief, and concluded: "In this way, the secret of the foundation of the side mission should be revealed."

"One is a symbol of the class that the poor cannot cross, and the other is where the body of Liu Zheng, a civil engineering student, is buried."

As soon as Qi Lu's voice fell, the system prompt sounded quickly——

[Congratulations to player Qi Lu, successfully completed the side mission - the secret of the foundation! 】