Chapter 31 Selfish Human Nature
Later, due to work reasons, Li Yuan returned to her city in a state of uncertainty. During this period, she also apologized to Xiao Hanqi in tears. If it weren't for her, she wouldn't have been implicated and pulled into this game.
Although she felt extremely desperate, Xiao Hanqi still cheered up and kept comforting the other party not to feel too guilty: "It's okay, as long as we have hope, we will definitely survive."
Since then, she has teamed up with Li Yuan to play. The two passed two tasks without any danger. Every time, Xiao Hanqi can always rely on her own judgment and calm mind to analyze her birth path and successfully return with Li Yuan. Li Yuan's dependence on her is getting deeper and deeper, and she wishes she can stick to each other and act with her all the time.
Xiao Hanqi didn't care about this. She regarded Li Yuan as her most important friend and naturally tried her best to protect her. She always firmly thought that the two were close friends who lived and died together. Until this mission, what Li Yuan did to her completely made Xiao Hanqi realize the reality.
Li Yuan chose an escape puzzle game called "Vacation". The game takes place in a night university, lasting 8 hours, and there are two missions: the player personally experienced four supernatural events, and inferred the truth of the tragedy that happened on campus ten years ago; or found six fragments hidden in different scenes, successfully pieced together a clue picture, and found the key to the door according to the prompts before passing through.
The game prompts that the first life path has a hidden world view, and the players bear a lot of risks, but relatively speaking, if you pass the level, you will get a high return on points.
After some measurement, Xiao Hanqi decisively chose the former. However, the other five players believed that finding the key was the key to leaving. If the seven people united, their progress would be much faster.
"Han Qi, they are right. They have experienced supernatural events in person... This looks very dangerous at first glance, so why not forget it. Besides, it's safer to have more people." After Li Yuan's persuasion, Xiao Hanqi agreed to her opinion in helplessness and teamed up with other players to enter the school to find the task fragments.
A man in black, led by the group, was named Gu Ao Shadow. After entering the mission, he took the initiative to serve as the captain. He pointed at everyone and gave orders, and was full of confidence in his whole body.
He insisted that finding fragments is the simplest and most rude way, and it can also avoid risks. Although the points you pass the level may not be high, it is relatively safe.
This person's proposal was recognized by the vast majority of people, except Xiao Hanqi. However, due to Li Yuan's insistence, her persuasion was fruitless and she could only search with the large army.
Gu Ying suggested that every time they arrived at the first floor, everyone would search the classroom separately. At first, they found two fragments without any danger. Although there were strange noises and strange crying in the room, everyone did not encounter any danger. Therefore, they felt relieved, and even Li Yuan whispered to Xiao Hanqi that it was safer to choose the second road.
However, when they arrived at a gymnasium, the situation finally changed.
A player who found the fragment was directly killed by a vengeful spirit lurking in the physical academy. Although the vengeful spirit disappeared immediately, everyone understood that it was still in the gymnasium!
Xiao Hanqi risked her life to recapture the fragments from the corpse. While running away, Li Yuan unfortunately fell down. At the same time, the basketball frame behind her suddenly made a harsh sound and fell toward her shakingly.
In order to save Li Yuan, Xiao Hanqi injured her ankle by the broken basketball frame. She gritted her teeth, her face was bloodless, and her back was soaked in cold sweat.
"Han Qi, is it okay? Hurry up, I will help you up!" Li Yuan looked at her in panic and stretched out her hand.
"Be careful, that evil ghost is behind you!"
I don’t know who called this, but when he heard this, Li Yuan, who had reached out to Xiao Hanqi, suddenly shrank.
"Why are you standing there? Run! By the way, fragments!" Gu Ying stood at the door and shouted loudly at Li Yuan.
"Han Qi... I'm sorry..." Li Yuan looked at her with tears in her eyes, then picked up the piece of fragments scattered beside her, and ran towards the door without looking back.
"Bang"
Gu Ying seemed to want to use Xiao Hanqi to buy more time, so when he left, he actually locked the door, completely ruining Xiao Hanqi's hope of leaving.
However, Xiao Hanqi is not a person who easily admits defeat. Although she was betrayed by her best friend and abandoned by her "companion", she did not fall into a despair, nor was she affected by despair and panic.
As the gate of the gymnasium was closed, the figure of the resentful spirit disappeared again. However, in the darkness, she could still clearly hear the "tick" and "tick" sound of water. Xiao Hanqi knew that it was the blood left on the broken neck of the resentful spirit. It was quietly staring at itself in the darkness, but did not take action immediately.
Xiao Hanqi calmed down and carefully analyzed it and found that the reason why the deceased was killed seemed to trigger some opportunity when looking for clues. Therefore, the evil ghost just killed him, but did not do anything to others or himself.
She limped back to the corpse, and sure enough, a new clue was found under the corpse. Immediately afterwards, Xiao Hanqi triggered a supernatural incident in the gymnasium. Only then did she understand the experience and the whole story of the female ghost in the gymnasium before her death, and she accidentally completed one-quarter of the task progress.
After getting the clue prompt, she used the teleportation props in her hand to leave the gymnasium and completed the next three tasks alone. Finally, she sorted out the clues, inferred the truth of the case, completed the task and left.
As for Li Yuan, she also completed the puzzle mission with Gu Ying and others, but in the end she suffered heavy casualties. Except for them, several other players have been killed.
Xiao Hanqi also discovered in the subsequent mission that finding fragments is the most dangerous choice. The player was deceived by the previous two shocking experiences. However, in the later stage of the mission, the evil ghosts would only gather fire to hold the fragments.
The player named Gu Ying probably noticed the danger of fragments from the third mission. He used the other three scapegoats to successfully complete the mission, took Li Yuan to collect the fragments and pass the game.
After awakening from the memories, Xiao Hanqi pulled off the cartoon sticker from the refrigerator and threw it into the trash can.
Sure enough, in this game, no one is trustworthy. Selfishness is the essence of human nature, and in places without moral or legal constraints, facing dangers that may come at any time, the ugliest side of human beings is fully revealed.
This time the mission also sounded a wake-up call for Xiao Hanqi. From then on, she will never trust others as easily as before.
Chapter completed!