Hunger. Intense hunger.

There seemed to be a small flame in the abdomen that began to burn, and then there was the tiredness that Ji Fenghua said. With each step, the strength seems to flow to the earth with the feet, and it is lost bit by bit. He felt as if his body had been gradually hollowed out, and the energy transmitted from his torso to his limbs was severely insufficient.

I don't know if it's because of the psychological effect after the mystery just been solved, or if the effect of the drug has really passed, and the suppressed senses are ready to move again. In short, in the midst of running at full speed, Xiang Nanxing felt the taste of hunger for the first time tonight. He gritted his teeth and urged his feet, but the soles of his feet remained as if they were stepping on cotton, and he couldn't exert his strength.

"Move me!"

He slammed his knees at the trembling ones, then gritted his teeth and jumped up the steps, shaking a few times before he could barely stand still. You don't need to use your brain to run wildly just now, you just need to do your best, but when you get here, he has to choose a direction.

In front of him, the two corridors, one on the left and one on the right, were stretching in their respective directions, and there was no end in sight at a glance, and nothing unusual could be seen. Xiang Nanxing suddenly felt a violent pain in his head, this choice was too deadly, once he chose the wrong one, he would not only waste a few steps of time, but also miss the deadline to save Ji Fenghua.

What's worse is that even hesitation is a crime. He stopped here for a second, and Ji Fenghua over there was even more dangerous. Generally speaking, in the absence of other clues, the most correct thing to do is to take one at random, even if it is to bet on a 50% success rate, it is better than wasting time in vain.

However, Xiang Nanxing made another choice.

He suddenly took a step to the left, crouched down and stretched out his palm to wipe it vigorously on the floor, taking a closer look at it by the moonlight behind him, and then retreated to his original position, and wiped it on the floor in the right direction again.

This time, I finally felt a little foreign object in my palm. Some have a rustling feeling, while others have a subtle stickiness, as if they have been wet. Xiang Nanxing raised his palm and saw a small gray-white mark on the palm.

"Lime."

He glanced at it, and Huo Di stood up, and rushed out at full speed to the right without looking back.

Just as he had judged before, the other party took advantage of the extra day to carry out the work during the period between after school and before they woke up in the evening, presumably by filling in the original staircase and making a new one on it, so as to create the effect of "one more step". This kind of project is not too complicated, it can be completed in a few hours, but after all, it is night, and the finishing work after the completion of the project is always not as careful as during the day.

On the other hand, maybe the organizers deliberately left a little clue for players who are patient enough.

It's just that Xiang Nanxing has no time to think about things other than these goals now. He dragged his legs, which had begun to weigh a little, and ran as fast as he could down the dimly lit hallway. The vague impression of the building quickly formed in his mind, and he began to think back to the pattern at the end of the road. I had the impression that there should be a corner platform at the place where I turned the stairs, and then up to the second floor, there was a large classroom with 80 people, and the teacher's lounge opposite—if the end of the stairs really hid the "eye in the array", what would it be?

Immediately, however, he realized that he didn't need to think about it. Looking at the figure in front of the corridor, Xiang Nanxing sighed and slowed down until he finally stood still, confronting the other party from a distance of more than ten meters.

Pure black top hat and dark red cloak, this outfit is all too familiar to Xiang Nanxing tonight. That's exactly what the person standing on the other end of the corridor is at this point. He suddenly appeared here and directly blocked Xiang Nanxing and the ladder, and the meaning couldn't be clearer.

"Won't you let me go easily......

Xiang Nanxing adjusted his breathing and approached the other party step by step. This is both a move forward and a temptation. The strange thing is that as long as he is eliminated, the victory can be guaranteed, but "Magician A" did not rush to meet him at this time, but stayed in place and looked like he was not afraid of his prey at all.

This strange move may be because he was injured in the battle with Ji Fenghua just now, although he was standing there decently on the surface, he might actually be in a state of unspeakable suffering. This is also an opportunity for the player, and if the enemy is really not in good health, there are actually two options in front of them.

The positive approach is to take advantage of the weakness of the opponent to concentrate his strength, knock him down from the front, and finish the battle in one battle; If you are more negative, you can give up the opportunity to take the "Eye of the Battle", turn around and flee, and then hide all the way, pinning your hopes of victory on the time limit of "before dawn".

If you are an ordinary person, no matter how you think about it, your thinking will not be able to run out of these two options.

However, Xiang Nanxing continued to walk forward. His gaze was always looking diagonally upwards during this process, and when he confirmed the detail with his own eyes in the faint light, the last piece of the puzzle was filled in, and he found the real answer to the question.

"Can you get out of the way?" He asked politely and suddenly.

"Huh?"

The man on the other end of the corridor froze, visibly slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect him to say such a thing in such a situation. But soon, Xiang Nanxing heard a chuckle.

"That's amazing." He replied, leaning over slightly, and even making a 'please' gesture, "I didn't expect you to come up with this sentence, very polite." ”

"It's better to be polite, after all, if you come up, you don't need to come up and look like you're going to do your best." Xiang Nanxing suddenly stood up and met the eyes behind the man's mask, "There were still a lot of speculations before, and I have been wondering if I am mistaken." But after seeing you here, I've finally confirmed what I just guessed. ”

"You're a fake." He said.

This was originally a conjecture he planned to say to Ji Fenghua when he was on the road, but he interrupted it because he found the enemy's traces, but he didn't expect it to be verified here. And after hearing his words, the other party just smiled and didn't make a defense. This is almost a tacit acquiescence.

"Actually, this question came up when I was in the chemistry building." Xiang Nanxing said lightly, "The enemy who originally thought that he had been led in other directions ended up almost coming to the Chemistry Building with us, which is completely inconsistent with the speed I expected. Most likely, he saw through my plan and followed us all the way back, but in that case, he should have done it before we entered the building, and he wouldn't have missed the opportunity to enter the enclosed space of the laboratory at the latest. So when you think about it this way, this situation can only be ruled out. ”

Then I was puzzled, and a new question occurred to me: What happened to this previous encounter? He was badly injured by us in the sports warehouse, and he was obviously still bandaging his wounds when we fled, but he arrived at the art building almost at the same time as us, which can only be described as elusive. Then it occurred to me that maybe there were two people in this room, and then the problem could be explained. ”

"You didn't think about it, maybe it's because I'm so fast?" The other party spoke, and the voice under the mask was still mixed with the sound of metal rubbing, but the tone with some banter was very different from before.

"You're really fast." Xiang Nanxing sighed, "But it's you who is fast, not him." More on that later. I'm guessing you don't know that the genuine 'Magician A' once said something to himself while searching the lab, and it was this sentence that confirmed my guess. ”

"He said, 'I can't find it the first time.'"

"Cut, if you don't speak, you can suffocate him." The other shook his head.

"But it's not just him who has the flaws here, your own attire is also an important hint." Xiang Nanxing said, "But I guess this is a deliberate reminder set by the organizers." You are dressed almost identically to the genuine 'Magician A', but the genuine one has a dark red 'A' on the hat, and the fake hat is completely black. ”

He pointed to the other party's pure black top hat: "That's what you are now." ”

This should have been a detail that could have been discovered when facing the fake outside the art building, but because of fear, whether it was Xiang Nanxing or Ji Fenghua at that time, the first reaction was to turn around and flee immediately, and did not notice the hint on the hat. It's just that this memory was preserved after all, and when they hid under the windowsill of the chemistry laboratory, Xiang Nanxing, who had calmed down a little, raised his head and happened to see the other party's hat showing out of the windowsill.

At that moment, he finally remembered the difference between the two.

"As long as you are brave enough to dare to look directly at the enemy, it is probably not difficult to find this detail." He said lightly, "Of course, this is an important hint, but in the end, the conclusive clue is the one I said earlier." That's when I knew, whether he was looking for the 'Eye in the Array' or us as prey, the Chemistry Building was the target of his first search. ”

"In retrospect, the injuries caused by that moment were actually not light, and if he was an ordinary person, even if he didn't hit the vital point, the blood loss would have made him unable to move. Even though this 'Magician A' has the physical fitness of a berserker, in order to prevent a lot of blood loss, he has to deal with it at that time. Because of this, he lost us, and then he could only try his luck and find a random target to start looking for, that is, the Chemistry Building. ”

"But the question arises again, who was the fake that appeared in the art building at that time? He knew where we were fleeing and chased after us shortly after we left. That's why it suddenly appears in the direction behind us at that time. Although I can't rule out the possibility that it was ambushed near the art building in the first place, at that time, I suddenly remembered a possibility. ”

He looked at the other party's eyes under the mask, and said slowly: "Yue Ming, the speed at which you slipped out of the warehouse and then caught up was really fast. ”

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