Unconsciously, Fan Shu and Ding Yiming came to the end of the corridor, and they saw an upward staircase, the corridor was dark, and they didn't know where it led.

"Is this the first floor?" Fan Shu turned his head and asked Ding Yiming.

"I don't know, maybe." Ding Yiming waved his hand, "There is no way to go next to it, so let's go upstairs." So saying, he walked upward.

Fan Shu followed Ding Yiming's steps and walked upward, and suddenly, he felt a cold gaze looking down at him from above, containing a terrifying malice. Due to his experience in the second year of junior high school, Fan Shu was particularly sensitive to this kind of sight, so he hurriedly lowered his head and pulled Ding Yiming to the corner.

"Hey!" Ding Yiming was a little strange, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Fan Shu stretched out his trembling hand and pointed to the stairs and said, "That...... That, someone. ”

Ding Yiming didn't believe in evil, stretched out his head and glanced back and forth, and after a few seconds, he turned his head and asked strangely, "What?" Nobody. ”

"Definitely...... Yes...... Someone! He watched from above and wanted to kill me! "Fan refuses to come out.

Ding Yiming scratched his head and said a little angrily: "I don't care about you anymore!" I'll go up first! You can do whatever you like! With that, he tore away Fan Shu's hand that was tugging at his sleeve and walked upstairs.

Ding Yiming left, Fan Shu nested in the corner and thought, he knew very well that he didn't have any ability to protect himself, I have been staying here, will [the enemy] come and kill me? What happened to Ding Yiming? What am I going to do? A few minutes, but he felt like hours.

Forget it, turn back and go to find Wu Hao and Qiu Yue. Fan thought to himself. He crept out of the corner, trying to go back. At this time, in the corner of Fan Shu's eyes, on the top of the stairs, a shadow wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and a red tie appeared.

Norm froze.

He recognized the dress. That style of white shirt and red tie is what he usually wears - Fan can't be mistaken. Is he here? Is he also involved in this cruel killing game?

Paradigm wants to ask what it is.

He ran upstairs.

An incident happened when Fan Shu was in the second year of junior high school.

It was a math midterm exam, and he didn't have a pen with him, so he borrowed one from his tablemate. During the exam, he put aside the cap of the gel pen, which unfortunately happened to roll up to the paper where Fan was blowing his nose and happened to get a little viscous liquid.

When his tablemate found out, he was furious and told the whole class about it. From that day on, Fan Shu became the laughing stock of the class, and his classmates called him "slug", "stupid", and "smelly of feces and urine", and these nicknames soon spread to other classes, and classmates from other classes followed suit.

The head teacher knew about this, in order to take care of the emotions of other students, she arranged the model in the last row, not at the same table, let alone in the same row, the classmates discussed the model in private, but when they saw the model, they hid, for fear that they would become dirty.

Fan began to have low self-esteem, he spoke less, walked with his head down, and locked himself in his room when he got home.

At that time, only the fat teacher was the usual one.

Teacher Fat is a math teacher who only took office in the third year of Norm Mathematics. Fan doesn't know his name, only calls him fat. Usually the teacher introduces himself in the first lesson, but he is not. In the first class, he said to the students below with a big belly, "You don't need to know my name, you and I have only been together for a year." You just need to know that listening carefully will improve your math scores, and that's enough. “

He is the kind of teacher who only cares about grades, and it just so happens that the mathematical foundation of norm is very solid. He favored norms, not only often praised them in class, but also tried his best to let them be the representative of the mathematics class in Class 1. Fan also has a kind of fatherly and brotherly respect for him. Fan Shu poured bitter water with him, confided in him about his misfortune and injustice in the class, and the fat teacher immediately called the classmates who often mocked him to the office to talk—Fan Shu understood that it was mainly because of their poor math scores, but he was still happy.

Fan ran up the stairs all the way to the roof, panting. He found himself in what appeared to be on a rooftop. The white walls and blocked windows are gone, replaced by a fence about two meters high. He saw the sky of this game world, it was leaden gray, there were no clouds, no sun, and it was lifeless.

Paradigm searched back and forth, but did not see a single figure.

What about people? How come there is no one?

Fan Shu was a little frustrated, and he turned around to go downstairs. Suddenly, he saw a figure emerge from the thick fog, with a white shirt and a red tie, which was the costume that the fat teacher often wears.

"Fat teacher!"

Fan Shu greeted him with joy on his face, he had too many questions to ask this elder who is also a father and brother, why are you here? Where the hell is this? What am I going to do?

At the end of the day, he still couldn't stand on his own feet.

Fan Shu ran towards the "fat man", but the "fat man" did not catch him, but turned sideways, and Fan Shu pounced.

"What's wrong, Fat Sensei?" Fan Shu asked, suddenly he felt that something was wrong, he couldn't breathe, there was a cramping pain in his abdomen, and he looked down to see a dark red metal object protruding from his chest.

A blood-stained tip of a knife.

Driven by pain, Fan fell to his knees. The sharp blade was drawn out, and blood splattered.

Not a fat teacher, definitely not a fat teacher! Fan Shu propped his elbows on the ground and turned his head to see who the other person was, but only saw a blurry black shadow.

Wu Hao looked at this black cat that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and felt a little wonderful.

He didn't know what to say, but he wasn't surprised, he had a vague feeling that the cat should be a sperm before he came here. He just wanted to complain, but as soon as the complaint [we just met not long ago, and I wanted to hit you with a stone at that time] came out, he suppressed it, so he had to laugh out loud and say, "Hello." ”

"Your name is Soybean?" Wu Hao had nothing to say.

He regretted it as soon as he asked, soybeans are obviously a pet name, okay? Look at this demon cat's mouth, there is obviously a more humane name-

"It's okay to call me soybeans." Black Cat said.

"Huh?"

"Soybeans is the name given to me by the people at [First Base], my real name is not this, but I like it very much, so, before the deep contract, you can call me Soybean." Black Cat said.

[First Base], [Formal Contract]? What the heck?

Although Wu Hao didn't quite understand it, he still remembered it in his mind.

"Okay, Soybean," Wu Hao took a breath and said, "I have a lot of questions for you." ”

"Just ask."

Since coming to this strange place, countless puzzles have been accumulating in Wu Hao's brain, and at this time he finally found a release point, "When you were in the community, you were talking in my head, right," it was obviously a question, but Wu Hao said in an affirmative tone, "What does it mean to come to the bell tower?" Why are you saying the same thing as [Quest Prompt]? Qiu Yue said that you are a teacher in the student community, but I have never heard of you as a spitting black cat in the student community, why did you find me? How did you get me to this paper classroom?

Wu Hao crackled and asked all the questions in his head.

Huang Dou thought for a moment and said, "Because you are my contractor, I am here to help you clear the [game]. Literally, it was like a joke for a child with a second secondary disease, but she was serious.

Wu Hao was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Contractor? Where did I make a contract with you? ”

"Dream World." Soybean said.

What the? Dreamland? I made a contract with her and it came true? It's not an ancient monster novel!

Wu Hao felt that this joke was getting more and more outrageous, he wanted to laugh, but a trace of thought stopped him. Maybe it's true? Look, the other party is a demon cat who can talk, and there's no reason to lie to him, and they're all involved in such a messy world, quests, black and white bears, games...... What else can't be believed?

"Can ...... break the contract?" Wu Hao followed the black cat's train of thought, "You see, I'm just an ordinary junior high school student, I don't have a golden finger against the sky, and I don't have the corresponding life experience," Wu Hao organized the language, "Why don't you find someone with stronger ability to be your contractor?" It's more appropriate that way. ”

In Wu Hao's eyes, the soybean's cat face gradually solidified,

"Are you going to break the contract?"

"...... uh...... Yes. ”

"Are you really going to break the contract?" Huang Dou's originally firm female voice softened instantly, she rubbed at Wu Hao's feet, and there was a little cry in her voice, "Can you not lift it?" I've been waiting for years, really for years, just waiting for you alone! Don't break the contract, please—"

Wu Hao grabbed his hair, a little helpless.

He didn't want that.

Although Wu Hao knew that what the other party said had become a stalk that countless light novels had played, and although Wu Hao knew that the other party was just a demon cat who could only speak human words, he really didn't want to do this.

What happened in kindergarten flashed through his mind.

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to break the contract with you." Wu Hao comforted the black cat, as if comforting a child.

"Really?"

"Really."

"That's good." Soybean smiled, his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"Say," Wu Hao opened the topic, "You said you were here to help me clear this [game], how to help"

"Hmm......" Huang Dou thought for a while and said to Wu Hao, "You can tell me everything that happened in this [game]." ”

Wu Hao told everything from coming to the paper classroom to returning to this classroom to meet Huang Dou. After speaking, he felt a little thirsty, took out water from the side pocket, gurgled and poured it, licked his lips and asked, "You told me before to let me come to the bell tower...... So this paper classroom is the bell tower, right? ”

"No," said Doudou, shaking his head, "I was going to meet you at the Clock Tower, but things have changed, and the Tower has become a little dangerous...... I'll just come to you. ”

"Has the situation changed? What do you mean? Wu Hao asked.

"[Adventurers] have snuck in." Soybean said.

"[Adventurer]?" Wu Hao frowned, "What is [Adventurer]?" ”

"Whoever has traveled through [the world] is called an adventurer." Soybean said.

World? What is [world]? One person's inner turmoil, the interpersonal relationships of several people, the social hierarchy of hundreds of millions of people, can all be called [the world]. But Wu Hao faintly felt that what Huang Dou said was not these things.

"What is the difference between the [world] you are talking about and the [game] that we are experiencing now?" Wu Hao asked.

"[The game] is a copy of [the world] and a test of [adventurer's] qualification. Only those who have cleared the game are eligible to travel through the world and explore in a wider space. Soybean said.

"What about those who don't beat the game, what will happen to them?" Wu Hao asked.

After being silent for a while, Huang Dou shook his head, "Dead, people who can't even clear the game, in the eyes of the game's creators, are just rotten wood that can't come in handy." ”

Wu Hao almost didn't stand firm, but Huang Dou's straightforward words were more direct to people's hearts than the black and white bear's yin and yang weird tone.

He took a deep breath and tried to keep himself thinking, "What about [adventurers], if they don't clear [the game], will they also die?" ”

"No," said Soybean, "every [adventurer] is a valuable talent, and there is no reason for [the game] to decide the life of an adventurer." ”

Wu Hao stood in place, silent.

"Rest assured, I'll let you [clear], that's why I'm here." Huang Dou comforted Wu Hao, and his eyes contained a strong will.

"I'll make you [an adventurer]."