betting convention

"What do you mean?" Ding Bai didn't know why, but looking at Chen Zhifei's expression, he knew that this matter might be true as he said.

"Do you still remember that I told you last night that I met the ghost face on the window, right?" Chen Zhifei said, "At that time, I always thought that his motive for knocking on the window was to come in, but I just figured it out. That gesture was not an expression that he wanted to come in, but a reminder."

Ding Bai glanced at the window: "Reminder? Did you just talk to him?"

"It's not a conversation, but he said something to me." Chen Zhifei said, "He told me to go quickly."

go?

At this time, Ding Bai couldn't figure out what this inexplicable and ingenious sentence of walking quickly meant, and this gambling game should not have anything to do with Chen Zhifei.

"Have you ever wondered why everyone's age and appearance have changed but I haven't?" Chen Zhifei looked at Ding Bai, "And why the NPC can see me but doesn't care about my existence even though I'm in a gambling game?"

Ding Bai was about to say that maybe it was because of the state of your golden flower card.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Zhifei said again: "And I seem to have heard that sentence you said to me during the day."

Ding Bai's brows frowned even tighter. If this is the case, then there is a lot of deviation in the information between them.

"I feel that they don't care about my existence, but deliberately pretend that I don't exist." Chen Zhifei said.

Ding Bai fell into silence, he couldn't find a breakthrough point from so many twists and turns for a while.

"Go to bed first." Chen Zhifei turned his head and comforted, "Since I feel this way, I will always find some clues."

Ding Bai leaned against Chen Zhifei with one shoulder and the wall with the other, hearing Chen Zhifei's breathing gradually getting heavier, and then he also fell asleep in a daze.

When everyone got up the next day, Du Qi said that he slept soundly all night, and he didn't hear the sound of knocking on the window again.

Chen Zhifei and Ding Bai looked at each other without speaking.

The process of the orphanage is almost the same every day. All the children in the noisy restaurant are divided into two groups. The incident seems to have spread among the children yesterday, so since they woke up today, these children began to hide With Ding Bai and his party.

The child who was eating on the opposite side glanced at Ding Bai timidly, but Ding Bai hesitated to speak and finally did not speak.

When they followed the group of children to clean up again, there was a group of children on the playground, and Du Qi was among the dozen or so people.

Ding Bai watched them follow the teacher into the opposite building. He wanted to follow, but he saw that Chen Zhifei followed the team and entered the building.

The people in front clearly saw Chen Zhifei, but they still ignored him as before.

Chen Zhifei followed Du Qi into the building, and the moment he stepped through the door, he sensed that something was wrong. Du Qi, who was walking in front of him just now, had disappeared, and he was the only one left on this floor. people.

In the corridor, only a small piece of window at the end let out some light, and the seemingly invisible figures on the floor made the surroundings very strange and strange.

He took two steps forward, and the sound of footsteps came from this side to the opposite side.

Chen Zhifei walked around this floor, and he found that he could not enter any of the rooms inside.The only thing you can touch is the door you just walked in.

He had no choice but to retreat from the building.

Ding Bai leaned on the window and saw Chen Zhifei coming out of the opposite building, but strangely, only Chen Zhifei came out alone.

"Where's Du Qi?" Ding Bai first asked Chen Zhifei when they met, and found that the other party's expression was not very good, then asked, "Is something wrong?"

Chen Zhifei shook his head and said, "No, it's just that I followed them in but couldn't find anyone."

He told Ding Bai about his feelings, and finally he was convinced that although he secretly felt that this gamble had an indescribable relationship with him, he was indeed a bug as they judged before.

That is to say, he can't solve the puzzles by himself, at most he can just be a bystander.

That's why the NPCs in the game ignored him.

"If I want to know the reason, I still need to rely on your strength." Chen Zhifei looked at Ding Bai and said.

Ding Bai understood what he meant, he seemed to help Chen Zhifei figure out the puzzles, but they really knew too little now.

In addition, when they came out yesterday, those children simply avoided them, and their only hope might be pinned on Du Qi who had already entered the building.

It's just that they didn't expect that Du Qi would never come back after this trip.

Ding Bai sat on the stairs and watched a few children carrying rags to clean from upstairs to downstairs. Even though no one was watching them, they were still diligently doing what they were doing.

Although he understands that these children are doing this because they want to retain a certain value here, but what is the so-called value?And why don't the kids in the classroom need to be as valuable as doing this?

Ding Bai wanted to understand, but the attitude of these children towards him made him unable to bear to bother him any more.He had no choice but to watch from the sidelines.

After a few people came out from the opposite building, the group of children suddenly put down their work and lay down on the window in unison.

"How many did you choose?"

"It seems to be seven people." A child stretched out his hand and counted on the window, looking very serious.

Ding Bai and the others watched from the side, and saw some inexplicable expressions on the children's faces, like envy and regret.

He seized the opportunity to ask, "What did you get chosen to do?"

"Adopt, you can leave the orphanage after being adopted." The child said subconsciously, but was patted by the person next to him to stop him from continuing.

But this sentence made Ding Bai understand what the value they said meant.

Or what is their value in the orphanage.

The children lying on the window rushed away, Ding Bai stood still and looked at the few people who came out of the opposite building, but there was no Du Qi.

Until the light-off signal at night was remembered again, Du Qi's bed was empty, and even with Du Qi, one of the dealers in their line of dealers did not come back.

Ding Bai and Chen Zhifei kept their eyes open in the dark, they talked about what happened during the day, whether this inexplicable disappearance in the gambling game was something they had never seen before.

Adoption may be a good thing for children in orphanages, but it may not be a good thing for Du Qi, who is a dealer.

"I want to go to the opposite building to have a look." Ding Bai said, "I always feel that adoption is a strange thing for dealers."

Chen Zhifei had already been to the opposite building during the day, but he couldn't find anything.If Ding Bai wants to go, he can't do it during the day, only at night.

So the two took advantage of the time to go out, and stepped into the door of the opposite building in the dark.

But after entering the gate, Chen Zhifei beside Ding Bai disappeared, leaving the sound of footsteps in the empty floor.

At this time, Ding Bai also disappeared in front of Chen Zhifei, and he looked around calmly. The scene was exactly the same as when he entered the building in the morning.

Ding Bai remembered that Chen Zhifei had told him that it was the same when he went in after Du Qi in the morning. The door was still open when he came, so he gritted his teeth and decided to go in and have a look.

The first floor is quiet and dark.There was only a sensor light at the stairway, which lit up when Ding Bai walked by.

He fumbled to the first room in a panic, pushed the door and walked in without thinking.

The inside was darker than the outside, and Ding Bai stretched out his hand as if he touched something, like a shelf.Then he touched it again, and there were many things that looked like books on the shelf.Just as he was about to take out a book to have a look, the sensor light outside came on again, and a ray of light came through the crack in the door.

Ding Bai held his breath, and saw the things on the shelf under the short light. This should be the archive room, and there were rows of file bags on the shelf.

Soon, the sensor light went off, and it seemed that someone was in the corridor. He fumbled and took out a few portfolios from the shelf.

"Dean." There was a conversation outside.

"Those children are all arranged?" the dean's voice came in.

"They're all in the observation room." Another voice said, "Someone will pick them up in two days."

"Yes." The woman replied, "But there are more and more overage children in the courtyard. Let's choose a few people and find a way to send them away."

"However, there are a lot of them, and there may not be a few over there."

"Then pick a few who are not very obedient." The woman said, "Let's talk about the rules before sending them over."

The voices gradually faded away, Ding Bai carefully stuffed the file bag into his clothes, and ran out while no one opened the door.

As soon as he went out of the gate, he ran into Chen Zhifei standing outside the door. Before he could speak, he dragged Chen Zhifei back to the dormitory.

Chen Zhifei took out a lighter from his pocket and held it in the air, and Ding Bai also took out a few portfolios from his clothes and opened them to read.There is not much information in it, and it records the basic information of several children, such as name, health status, medical history and so on.

At the end of these child files, there is an adoption form, which records the information of the adopted object.

"It doesn't seem to be a problem." Ding Bai said, and opened the next file.

This happened two or three times in a row. Judging from the information in the file bag, there was nothing wrong with it.

"It's very strange." Ding Baifan looked at the files and said, "There is nothing wrong with these files, but it is because of this that it is even more strange."

"The game is set in an orphanage, what does it mean if the banker is adopted?" Ding Bai asked with some confusion.

"Elimination." Chen Zhifei, who was holding a lighter, gave the answer, "There is no indication in the game that death must be considered an elimination."

"Besides, when we first came in, the rules said that the banker who did not find the golden flower card within the specified time will be eliminated. If the banker is adopted, then they will not be able to find the golden flower card within the specified time, and they will naturally be eliminated Lost."

After Chen Zhifei said this, the elimination rules of this game became clear.However, Ding Bai remembered the dean's conversation he had just heard in the opposite building.

Obviously, there is more than one way of elimination. Picking a few older children and sending them away should also be regarded as a way of elimination.

And three-quarters of the people who participated in the gamble this time belong to the category of 'older children'.

After all, this is still to eliminate them all.

The rules of this gamble are as insidious as ever.

Ding Bai turned to the last file and found a difference: "Hey, the last adoption certificate of this file has a seal of resignation."

He dug out the information recorded in the file, and found that Chen Zhifei was written in the column of the name of the owner of this file.

Ding Bai's eyes froze on the words Chen Zhifei, he raised his head and glanced at Chen Zhifei beside him, who frowned.

At this time, the window of the dormitory was knocked, and a hazy face appeared on the window. He was beating the glass with a small stone in his hand, and said, "Chen Zhifei, go quickly."