Gu Mian stared at Chu Changge's mobile screen for a while, then turned his head to look at his own screen.
The big treasure box was still lying horizontally in front of him, clearly ant to be opened.
Gu Mian had noted the ti while searching the classroom earlier. It was now past ten after twelve, and Fatty and Zi Liang had left quite so ti ago. Musing on this, Gu Mian glanced at Willow not supporting wind beside him. "Do you want to open this invincible treasure box?"
Clearly, it was a creepy, broken box in a supernatural ga, but Gu Mian's tone made it sound like a treasure box that could contain the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
The temperature on the stairs was very high, yet Willow not supporting wind felt chilly standing next to the Doctor; it was almost more effective than standing under an air conditioner.
She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and shook her head. "No, no. Whenever I play gas and open equipnt, I never get anything good. I'm unlucky…"
Upon hearing this, Gu Mian opened his mouth but eventually suppressed the desire to tell her about his tragic life.
He didn't say much, took a step down, and moved his character closer to the treasure box.
As expected, an option appeared on the screen.
[You have found a treasure box. Do you want to open it?]
[Yes][No]
Of course, Gu Mian chose [Yes].
Imdiately after, the lid of the treasure box in the ga suddenly flipped open with a BANG, as if a corpse inside had suddenly pushed open its coffin lid.
Although the way the treasure box opened was identical to a coffin lid being pushed open, there was no corpse inside that might jump out and reanimate.
[Gu Gu: Ah, it's a good thing. It might change when the ga is cleared.]
[Gu Gu: It seems there is also jam on it?]
[Received item - 'Waterlon Knife Covered in Cream', placed in the backpack.]
A waterlon knife covered in cream, and jam too?
One could easily guess the item's description would be sothing like: "A waterlon knife covered in cream, with sothing red mixed in. It seems soone used this waterlon knife instead of a cake knife."
Unfortunately, when this item appeared, there was only an icon and the item na below it; the description couldn't be accessed.
Gu Mian closed his backpack. At this point, the box blocking the way in the ga had disappeared, so he quickly descended the stairs to the building's entrance.
With the teaching building no longer obstructing them, the nearly boiling heat finally swallowed the three of them whole. Just standing for a few seconds made them sweat profusely, making one wish to imdiately find a cool place to crawl into.
"Do you know which way the laboratory building is?" Gu Mian asked the two beside him.
A few beads of sweat trickled down Willow not supporting wind's forehead. She shook her head; apparently, she didn't know.
But Chu Changge nodded. "I noticed the surroundings when I ca downstairs. A building over there looks sowhat like the laboratory building."
Gu Mian looked in the direction Chu Changge indicated. He saw a slightly shorter building faintly visible there, which didn't resemble a teaching building, nor a dormitory, dining hall, or the like.
Since it wasn't very far, they decided to head over and take a look first.
Gu Mian started walking in that direction. Chu Changge kept his eyes on the ga screen, seeing that both [Chu Changge] and [Willow not supporting wind] were moving towards the laboratory building in the ga; only [Gu Gu] remained in place.
[Gu Gu: They've all left. Well then, I'll go to the cafeteria to eat. Still, I'm a bit uneasy… Never mind, I'll follow them and see.]
Gu Mian saw that the character he had created was following them; it hadn't given up on going to the laboratory building despite its previous choice.
However, the [Gu Gu] character always maintained a certain distance from the two characters ahead, as if it couldn't catch up…
「anwhile, Fatty and Zi Liang had already slipped into the sowhat spooky laboratory building.」
"What the hell!" Fatty muttered, staring at his screen. "This thing can automatically recognize other players and even et up with characters created by other players!"
Zi Liang tried to hide the two large iron bracelets he still wore on his wrists. "Actually, I didn't want to et up with you here either…"
Fatty glanced at the bracelets on Zi Liang's hands. "Stop hiding them; I saw. Say, kid, are you so kind of outlaw? Why do you have handcuffs on?"
Zi Liang stamred, a little flustered, "I'm no outlaw."
Fatty continued to mutter to himself, "Don't tell you were cuffed by the anti-vice squad?"
Zi Liang's face began to flush slightly. "For scholarly matters, how can you call it lewd? Besides, I wasn't…"
Before he could finish, Fatty interrupted him, "Wait, don't make a sound."
Zi Liang looked sowhat frightened. "What's wrong?"
Fatty was frowning, staring at his ga screen. Both of them had followed their in-ga characters, which had suddenly started moving on their own, to this location.
Their characters had run to the middle of the first-floor corridor before stopping, and Fatty and Zi Liang had followed them there.
The lighting in the laboratory building wasn't good. Since no students were in class, not a single light was on. The two now stood in a dim, very long first-floor corridor, lined with laboratories on both sides.
The poor light made it difficult for them to see the end of the corridor. They could only vaguely perceive sothing there, though it also seed like nothing was there at all.
The two in-ga characters who had run into the laboratory building now began to converse in the dim environnt.
[Wang Panzi: Did you hear? Two upperclassn disappeared right here before. I heard from an older female student from a previous year that soone saw them co in here in the middle of the night, and the next day, news of their disappearance broke.]
[Liang'er: Then we must be careful.]
[Wang Panzi: I heard there might be so clues about the upperclassn in this laboratory building. Why don't we look for them?]
[Liang'er: Okay.]
The dialogue ended there.
Then, a line of text appeared at the bottom of the screen:
[Side quest triggered: 'The Mysteriously Missing Upperclassn'. Please explore this map.]
Fatty stared at the screen. "Can I run out of this damn laboratory building right now?"
"I'm afraid not," Zi Liang said, rubbing his handcuffs as he looked at the main door not far behind them. "That door… it closed on its own. Not only did it close, but it also locked!"
Fatty imdiately turned to look at the main door.
A sowhat rusty chain had, at so point, been tightly wound around the main door, binding it shut. The atmosphere here was already very eerie; now that the door was closed and locked, it beca even more unsettling.
But then, Zi Liang noticed sothing even more terrifying.
"Hey—" he suddenly grabbed Fatty, who was about to go and check the door. "Don't you think sothing's off?"
Fatty froze.
Sothing off?
This whole place seems off.
But then, he understood what Zi Liang ant…
It really is… far too off…
The door… was locked from the inside.
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