When Irin discovered that Saya had disappeared, the first thing that came to his mind was … as expected, this was a horror plot.
Saya … was gone.
Although Irin and Oda Wu were more focused on the eggs in front of them, they did not completely relax their vigilance of their surroundings.
However, Saya had still mysteriously disappeared.
Right under their noses.
"There's no one else here."
Irin concluded.
Oda Wu was still frowning, and it was unknown what she had noticed.
Irin simply ignored her and let Oda Wu continue to keep watch. He re-observed the eggs around him and the life in the eggs.
"Is this the truth hidden in the beginning of the River Styx?
"All the students are born from these eggs?"
"But what does this mean?"
Artificial humans? Clones? Not humans? "
Irin recalled the way the naive student died on the rooftop of the teaching building.
"It's very likely that the danger of this escape trial lies in this group of harmless looking students.
But is it really that simple? "
As long as one was not blind, from the magic theory class, the food in the cafeteria, and Saya's strange reaction, one could tell that these students were not ordinary on the surface.
Irin was already on his guard.
Then, the eggs in front of him had no other purpose other than to prove Irin's thoughts.
"Hmm, what is this?"
Irin turned and observed for a while.
He found that the back of these eggs was connected to a strangely shaped fleshy tentacle of varying thickness, which also looked like a blood vessel.
From time to time, there was a pulse in the fleshy tentacle, just like a human blood vessel, and some kind of liquid flowed in it.
Following all the fleshy tentacles, Irin walked a few more steps and found that almost all the fleshy tentacles had gathered in one place and disappeared behind the wall.
On the wall, there was a huge sarcoma with countless pseudo-legs extending out and disappearing into the wall, forming cracks on the wall.
Irin approached the wall and reached out his hand to touch the surface of the wall that was not covered by the fleshy tentacles. He seemed to be deep in thought.
"Here, come here."
Irin hooked his finger at Oda Wu.
Oda Wu came forward with her sword in hand. She didn't waste any words.
When she saw the sarcoma on the wall, there was no longer any ripples in her eyes.
"It's your turn. Chop."
Oda Wu quickly grasped the hilt of her sword and assumed a fighting stance.
Irin pointed at a spot on the wall and added, "Wait, I'm talking about this wall, not that tumor."
A hint of doubt appeared in Oda Mai's eyes, as if she was curious about Irin's suggestion.
Why didn't they kill the obvious "monsters" on the wall? Why did they want her to cut down a wall?
Irin did not explain. Instead, he smiled and said, "I have my own plans. You can give it a try."
Oda Wu nodded slightly.
The next second.
She pulled her left leg back and gathered her essence, qi, and spirit at her waist.
Hence …
Unsheathe!
A bright white light flashed before Irin's eyes. Irin's eyes narrowed. He thought to himself, Oda Wu's blade seems to be a bit faster than the last time they met.
From the looks of it, when Oda Wu had slashed at the back of his head, she had indeed been merciful.
Thinking of this, Irin was not so angry anymore.
"Ding!"
Chi!
"Ding" and "Chi", two completely different sounds, almost converged at the same place.
Before the blade had completely dissipated, Oda Wu had already sheathed it.
Irin had no time to sigh at how fast Oda Wu's blade was. The two of them simultaneously looked at the wall that Oda Wu had cut.
In an instant.
Irin and Oda Wu stared at the "blade mark" on the wall. Once again, they felt a chill run down their spines.
The wall near the tumor was cut open by Oda Wu's blade.
But the moment the blade came into contact with the wall, there was a "chi" sound. It was clearly not the sound of the blade coming into contact with a hard object.
Yi Lin and Oda Wu both took a few steps back at the same time, and stood far away from him.
In the depths of the crack in the wall, there was a meat color that was similar to the surrounding oval-colored wall. But the meat of the wall seemed to be more solid.
After being cut open by Oda Wu, a light red liquid slowly flowed down along the blade mark. After a few breaths, it had already gathered into a small pool by the wall.
And the flesh in the wall, while "bleeding", seemed to be crawling with strange little insects. Oda Wu's blade seemed to have broken the hibernation of the insects. Countless tiny tentacles wriggled crazily in the gap.
Five minutes later.
Irin and Oda Wu both did not say a word.
They watched helplessly as the wall that had been split open 'healed' and became a complete wall once again.
As for the pool of light red liquid on the ground, it was unknown where it had been absorbed, leaving only a faint red mark on the ground. If one didn't pay close attention, it would seem as if nothing had happened.
Oda Wu lowered her head, her small hand rubbing the blade, as if she had the urge to cut again.
The situation now was very clear.
The egg was a "monster".
The tumor was a "monster".
Even the wall was a "monster".
Maybe even the ceiling and floor were all "monsters".
Everything in front of her was a "monster" that could be stabbed with the blade. Oda Wu really could not think of any reason to stop herself from pulling out the blade.
Irin saw Oda Wu's murderous expression and had already guessed the girl's thoughts. He suddenly did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Are you stupid? Have you forgotten our purpose? "
“？”
"We came here to escape, not to kill these things. Even if you cut them all, what's the use of us staying here?"
"…"
Wait.
After saying this sentence.
Irin was slightly stunned.
Somehow, he felt that he seemed to have missed something important. That feeling flashed by. Just as he said this sentence.
Perhaps this was called inspiration.
But when Irin wanted to grasp that inspiration, he became clueless.
He always felt that he had overlooked a very important, very crucial hint.
After thinking for a while, Irin still could not think of the key point, so he could only give up for the time being.
"Forget it, let's go back first. Today's harvest is already a lot. There's no need to rush."
Oda Wu nodded.
Just as the two of them were about to leave.
Irin's footsteps paused and suddenly said: "Well, you go first. I'll go later."
Oda Wu slowly typed a question mark.
"Don't worry, when there's a time to kill monsters, I promise to call you."
Oda Wu was satisfied and left with the blade.
Two hours later.
Irin finally walked out of the pile of eggs.
"I don't know if it will work?"
Irin shook his head. Some simple arrangements, although he did not know if it would work, but it was always right to set it up in advance.
Before leaving.
Irin noticed that near the spiral staircase, there was a pool of blood that had not yet dried up. It was almost completely absorbed into the floor.
And on the surface of the blood, there was a small tentacle that had not yet been completely digested.
The next day.
After dawn.
Irin yawned and came to the third year class two.
Walking into the classroom, he saw that the students were smiling, in groups of two or three, happily chatting.
At first glance, it seemed to be a very peaceful scene.
Oda Wu was already sitting in her seat. She lowered her head and did not know what she was doing. Her expression did not change at all.
And LiuLiu and Tiantian were already in their seats.
They were still alive?
Heh.
From the surface of the two, it seemed like he could not see anything.
Irin was very curious. What was the so called "Yan Luo's training"?
"Hi, morning."
Irin happily greeted Cao Tiantian who was sitting at the same table.
"Yes."
Cao Tiantian forced a smile. She did not know when she had shaved her long hair. She had a boy's buzz cut. The scar on her head that had just healed was like a sheepskin covering Cao Tiantian's head. It was very eye-catching.
Of course, as long as she could return to the real world, everything could be restored. He believed that Cao Tiantian would not care about the change in her appearance. Otherwise, she would not have shaved her hair.
Irin thought for a bit and asked: "We are still considered teammates, right?"
Cao Tiantian's smile was not so forced: "Of course."
"Then, what happened last night?"
When Cao Tiantian heard this, she immediately turned her head to prevent Irin from seeing her expression.
She was trembling all over, as if she had suffered some kind of inhuman abuse.
After a moment, her trembling calmed down. She lowered her voice and said in a tone that was difficult to guess her mood: "Don't ask. It has nothing to do with you."
"Is that so?"
Irin smiled slightly to show that he understood.
But in his heart, there was a question.
This class was still the homeroom teacher, Ambersha.
Seeing Ambersha walk into the classroom, Irin immediately straightened his back to avoid being looked down upon by Ambersha again and being asked some stupid class questions.
Ambersha seemed to have forgotten what happened in class yesterday and smiled kindly.
"Class begins now."
"What we need to review today is the self-cultivation of students."
"Everyone, please take out your textbooks."
"'As a member of the beginning of the River Styx, if you don't have a qualified self-cultivation, you might as well die!'"
"I believe that after this period of study, all of you have deeply remembered the name of the textbook."
"Everyone is a good child."
Irin: "…"
Cao Tiantian: "…"
Liu Ruyan: "…"
Oda Wu: "…"
The homeroom teacher began to read aloud.
Yi Lin also opened the legendary textbook whose name was listed in four lines of text.
No surprise.
He could not understand it.
It seemed that his language skills were not good enough.
"First of all, River Styx Junior High School is your everything."
"You must remember, no matter the situation, you must adhere to discipline and school rules."
"In your hearts, the principal is first, the vice principal is second."
"School rules number three."
"Oh, right, not long ago, the vice principal added a rule. When the principal is not around, the vice principal's words are equivalent to the principal's."
"Now, please turn to page eight, rule six, fifth line, everyone begin to read …"
This class was almost equivalent to brainwashing.
Irin ended the class with the bombardment of reading the school rules over and over again. Until the end of the class, he could still feel his ears buzzing.
What was strange was that the students' expressions became more serious and more fervent during the chanting of the school rules. If not for the fact that Irin used a textbook the size of a 4A paper to cover his face, he might have given himself away.
When the class ended and Ambersha hurriedly left, Irin finally let out a sigh of relief.
When the apostles stepped out of the classroom door, the mandatory option appeared again.
The four of them froze in the hallway, like statues.
It was almost exactly the same as last time.
… Almost.
The difference was that the content was slightly different.
[Class finally ended.]
[You're hungry.]
[You seem to be really hungry.]
[But you're also a bit lonely.]
[The lunch break is very long, you've decided to find a place to spend your free lunch break.]
[You will go to —]
[Please choose.]
[A, I heard that classmate Marisa always likes to look at the sky on the rooftop during lunch break. Maybe this will be a romantic encounter.]
[B, as a young transfer student, it shouldn't be too much for me to get lost in front of the school gate on the second day, right?]
[C, if you're hungry, you have to eat, there's no doubt about it. Maybe there will be a new menu today!]
"…"
The options were still the same three.
Rooftop.
Cafeteria.
Main door.
But the content was slightly different.
The order of the options was also adjusted.
Why?
Irin was a bit confused.
But this time, he had experience, so he didn't choose the three options. When his limbs and fingers couldn't move, he madly chanted in his heart.
"D, D, D, D …"
Two seconds later.
Irin found that he could suddenly move.
[…]
[You've made your choice.]
[You've defeated your hunger, defeated your inner desire to meet on the rooftop. You've given up on the idea of getting lost, you've chosen to move freely.]
"…"
It actually worked!
Irin vaguely guessed the truth behind these [Choices].
When Irin made the strange choice.
The others also quickly made their own choices.
Irin suddenly remembered the contents of the three options. His expression slightly froze, and he quickly sent a message to Oda Wu.
Irin: You've chosen C?
Oda Wu: Yes.
Irin: …
Oda Wu: Is there a problem?
Irin: No, as long as you like it.
The call ended.
As expected, he shouldn't have had high hopes for this girl's thinking ability.
He hoped that she was fine.
Yes, he hoped that the others in the cafeteria were fine.
Under the guidance of [Pathfinding Mode], Oda Wu, Rowena, and Cao Tiantian had already involuntarily walked down the stairs towards the cafeteria. It was too late to say anything now.
Irin suddenly felt that something was strange.
Oda Wufeng had chosen C for all the multiple choice questions. This was within his expectations and within reason.
But he saw Cao Tiantian and Rowena walking in unison, almost at the same time, towards the same place. It was obvious that when they were doing the multiple choice questions, they didn't hesitate too much.
The two of them had already done something useless at the main gate yesterday.
Going down the stairs, there were only two possibilities.
The main gate, the cafeteria.
Then the cafeteria?
Irin simply guessed their destination.
Irin first pretended to walk towards the rooftop, and then when Oda Wu and the other two disappeared around the corner of the stairs, he immediately turned back and quietly followed.
"I suddenly changed my mind and wanted to sneak into the cafeteria. This is also a choice, right?"
Irin smiled and whispered to herself.
It was as if she was whispering to some existence in the dark.
[…]
Irin activated [Shadow Following Shadow] to reduce her presence to the greatest extent.
Although there were many people who could see Irin, Irin was now dressed like a pink student. Even if she was seen, it wouldn't be too eye-catching.
Three people in front, one behind, the four of them arrived at the cafeteria one after another.
Different from Oda Wu and the other two, Irin now seemed to be free from the constraints of the multiple choice questions and was in independent mode.
In fact, Irin had already told Oda Wu about the hidden trick in the multiple choice questions, but for some reason, Oda Wu still chose C, which made Irin really speechless.
Forget it.
Let her be.
For now, it was fine as long as nothing happened.
Irin hid in the dark.
Oda Wu and the other two didn't notice Irin's presence.
In any case, Irin was still very confident about the effect of [Shadow Following Shadow].
After all, he was destined to be a man like a shadow.
Even Oda Wu, in the Huating City incident, when Irin pressed the knife against Oda Wu's neck, she still didn't notice Irin's presence. It could be seen how effective the ability to make one's presence disappear was.
In the cafeteria.
Cao Tiantian and Liu Ruyan quickly ordered a dish.
It was similar to Irin's experience yesterday.
Oda Wu frowned and subconsciously put her hand on her waist, but there was no knife there.
Her subconscious action showed that she was very vigilant about the menu in the options, so vigilant that she wanted to pull out the knife to seek a sense of security.
Irin secretly observed.
Let's not talk about Oda Wu for now.
Cao Tiantian and Rowena gave Irin a strange feeling that Irin couldn't describe.
When Cao Tiantian and Liu Ruyan picked up their plates and sat down, the expression on their faces wasn't one of disgust, disgust, nausea, or early pregnancy, or any of the other reactions that people would think they were expecting. Instead, it was … restlessness and a beast-like desire.
A desire for the "food" on the plate!
Cao Tiantian and Rowena sat face to face.
Suddenly.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
At the same time, they started to eat the dark cuisine on the plate, wolfing down the unknown meat, eyeballs, and insect carcasses.
The way the two ate, if one didn't know what was going on, would have thought that they were eating some delicacies. Their cheeks were bulging, and various colored sticky juices flowed out from the corners of Cao Tiantian and Rowena's mouth, dripping onto the plate, and then were quickly licked back by the two.
"Choice?"
Irin watched this scene expressionlessly. Although the scene of the two beautiful girls greedily eating a plate of … made Irin feel very creepy, Irin was now thinking more about why this strange scene happened.
"No, no matter how forced the choice is, it can't change their minds. What's in their eyes is a kind of naked desire, which can't be faked, unless … they are both movie queens. But in this case, they don't have to act at all, because there is no audience. "
"Could it be …"
Irin suddenly thought of a possibility.
When the other students saw the way Cao Tiantian and Rowena ate, they were all drooling with envy.
While the two were wolfing down the food.
Oda Wu finally made a choice and sat in the corner with a simple braised pork shoulder.
Braised pork shoulder?
Irin stretched his neck to take a look.
Yes.
Braised pork shoulder was a very normal dish.
The premise was that the five fingers at the front of the pork shoulder didn't look like human fingers.
Oda Wu opened her eyes wide and silently stared at the braised pork shoulder in front of her.
"…"
"…"
"…"
A full thirty seconds.
The cute students around once again drooled with envy at the braised pork shoulder on Oda Wu's plate.
Whoosh!
The knife flashed.
She pulled out the knife and sheathed it.
In the blink of an eye, Oda Wu had completed the four movements of drawing the sword, swinging the sword, chopping, and sheathing the sword. Her movements were as smooth as moving clouds and flowing water. She had completed everything in one breath. Even the elbow, the plate, and the table were all cut into two halves.
Oda Wu stood up expressionlessly and silently walked towards the entrance of the cafeteria.
It wasn't until Oda Wu took two steps that the split table couldn't bear the weight and fell to the ground.
The cafeteria auntie angrily walked out from behind the door, pointed at Oda Wu's back and shouted, "The student who is wasting food, stop right there!"
"Yes?"
Oda Wu slowly turned around and pulled out half of the knife that she had just sheathed. A question mark appeared on her face.
The cafeteria auntie's expression didn't change, but she quickly retracted her fingers and educated Oda Wu, "Wasting food is not a good habit! Didn't you read the school rules? Oh, you're a new transfer student? Then it's fine, just be careful next time. "
After that, the cafeteria auntie quickly walked backstage and slammed the door shut.
Ah?
Irin witnessed this scene from beginning to end.
How could it be like this?
Was this the legendary 'persuasion by reason'?
Oda Wu acted as if nothing had happened and walked out of the cafeteria. She just happened to see Irin peeping at her.
At this time, Irin also turned off his "Shadow Pursuit" skill and smiled at Oda Wu.
"To be honest, I'm very surprised."
Oda Wu slightly lowered her head to avoid Irin's gaze and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry."
Irin: "?"
Oda Wu: "I couldn't help it."
Oh?
She actually learned how to say sorry?
"You misunderstood, the accident I was talking about was not this."
“？”
"I was surprised that you were able to hold back for 30 seconds before pulling out the knife. This is beyond my expectations."
"…"
The two gradually walked away as they talked.
What they didn't see was that after Oda Wu left, a group of students who didn't belong to Class 3-2 rushed towards the "braised pork shoulder" that had been cut into two on the ground. They didn't care about their image and started to fight for it. The scene was like a group of hungry dogs fighting for food.
Liu Ruyan and Cao Tiantian were both full and satisfied with the meal, and they burped in satisfaction.
The corners of their mouths were stained with unknown mucus.
After sticking out their tongues and licking the mucus off their mouths, Liu Ruyan and Cao Tiantian both looked at the chaotic situation that was not far away from them because of a braised pork shoulder. Their eyes showed a hint of complex emotions.
At the same time.
On the campus path.
Oda Wu and Irin once again moved together.
Irin recalled what happened in the cafeteria not long ago.
"About the true face of this school, I have a rough idea of what is going on. But, there are still a few key pieces missing. Well, of course, the true face isn't important, what's important is the path to survival. "
Oda Wu listened silently.
She didn't express her opinion.
Irin was originally just saying, he didn't expect Oda Wu to provide too much useful advice.
However, her way of convincing people through reason had broadened Yi Lin's horizons in a certain aspect.
Irin continued.
"Logically speaking, even if it's an escape trial, there's definitely more than one way to pass. In other words, there's definitely more than one way to escape. Even if there's only one way, there's definitely more than one way to find this way. Otherwise, the trial evaluation has no meaning. "
"Or, other than simply escaping, there's another important branch in the trial that can be discovered … Wait, choice?"
Irin analyzed while talking to himself, and then he remembered the initial mission prompt.
"Choice … Choice … Choice …? The beginning of the River Styx, identity, egg, escape, wall, permit … "
"All of these are … choices?"
Since entering the trial, all kinds of clues, all kinds of strange scenes, hovered in Irin's mind.
"Don't tell me … I can even choose that?"
When Irin suddenly came up with a whimsical conclusion, he couldn't help but be stunned, and his face showed a shocked expression.
If that was really the case, then it was too much of a trap.
Who would have thought of that?
Although there was no evidence and no method, Irin felt that it was very possible.
"If that's the case, then time is a bit tight."
Irin nodded, turned around, and walked in the direction of the school building.
"Mantis Shrimp, let's go!"
Oda Wu: "?"
"I mean, follow me."
Oda Wu put away her sword. "Where?"
Irin smiled mysteriously. "To the rooftop. Isn't there a 'romantic' encounter?"
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