Chapter 19: Peek-a-boo

It's a long story to say what a companion is. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the girl's brief narration, Shi Qinghuai finally understood the concept of companion spirit. To put it simply, this is an auxiliary system given by the mysterious organization to newcomer trialists, in order to prevent newcomers from dying in vain without knowing the situation, the organization will specially select companions suitable for the trialist's personality, and let the two find a way to establish a contract. Once the contract is established, the companion acts as an assistant to the trialist, teaching him the knowledge and abilities accordingly, and follows the lead of the trialist who follows him.

Because companions are disposable "supplies" and the trialists are the objects that the organization wants to experiment, the trialists have great administrative authority over their companions.

First of all, the companion spirit is connected to the life of the trialist who signed the contract, and this connection is one-sided. In other words, if a trialist dies in a trial, the companion with whom he made a contract will die at the same time; However, if a companion dies, it will have no real effect on the trialist he or she is following.

Secondly, the companion spirit is born with a mission to guide the corresponding trialist, and if a companion spirit is unable to sign a contract with the designated trialist, then the companion spirit will be automatically cancelled by the organization.

Finally, with the permission of the corresponding trialist, the companion can borrow less than 40% of the original energy from the trialist to use, but in this case, the trialist must pay the corresponding point price. In other words, the greater the proportion of power lent, the more points will be paid!

And when the Trialist does not agree to lend abilities, the companion will always only have the maximum ability of ordinary humans.

"Hey, what kind of overlord clause is this, this organization is too unfriendly to your companions, right?" After listening to Yao Yiyao's story, Shi Qinghuai became more and more disgusted with this so-called mysterious organization, "What kind of auxiliary nature, this is simply to let your companion spirit be a slave of the trialist...... One-way life connection, not allowed to escape, let alone what number, what to log off...... It's, it's just treating you like outdated computer software......"

Shi Qinghuai didn't find an accurate adjective for a long time.

"You're right." Yao Yiyao looked at him expressionlessly, "To the trialist, the companion spirit is computer software, or a kind of program assistant. Isn't it normal for people to uninstall or log out of a software program as soon as they don't need it? ”

Her pupils were calm and indifferent, "What's wrong?" ”

But you're not a program, you're human......

Shi Qinghuai wanted to touch the little face of the girl in front of him and say this word of encouragement, but the darkness of the night made him give up this move. Maybe for a huge organization that can freely manipulate the life and death of the trialists, a cheap companion like Yao Yiyao is a dispensable program, right?

However, how can such a lovely girl, with such pure eyes, be just a program?

Shi Qinghuai was never able to understand.

The two fell into silence at the same time, only the faint sound of breathing remained, Shen Sanwan next to him began to snore, and Guo Mengtao, who was asleep, also subconsciously hugged the rolled up linen, as if hugging the doll pillow in his bedroom.

"So, if I don't sign a contract with you, you'll be deregistered by the organization...... Is it? Shi Qinghuai muttered to himself.

"Well, probably." Yao Yiyao responded indifferently.

I couldn't see her expression clearly in the night, but Shi Qinghuai faintly felt her body trembling.

"Don't worry, we'll leave here tomorrow, and if we can get home safely, I'll sign the contract with you immediately." Shi Qinghuai said in a firm tone, and almost patted his chest with his hand, "I promise you!" ”

In the darkness, there was a slight sound of the girl drowsing.

Shi Qinghuai waited for a while, making sure that the girl had really fallen asleep, and then he turned his body to face the sky, staring thoughtfully at the pitch-black ceiling above.

After listening to the girl's words, he really couldn't sleep, so he simply opened his eyes naturally, wanting to close them when sleepiness hit.

This is nearly an hour.

The moon departed from the treetops and hung high in the middle of the canopy, gilding the earth with a silvery coat, and a warm jade-like light streamed in through the windows of the factory, reflecting the frosty dust on the clutter of goods.

Shi Qinghuai, who had not yet fallen asleep, subconsciously set his eyes on the gate.

Following his line of sight, he could see that the semi-circular land in front of the door was illuminated with white flowers, like a pool of water frozen by the cold winter. The crystal water is all covered with a layer of pure white ice, or a mirror made of silverware.

Suddenly, the pure white "pool water" was immersed in a pitch-black ghost. This shadow was so tall and terrifying that Shi Qinghuai was completely sleepy for a moment, and his eyes widened hard.

"Smack...... Click......" The familiar footsteps came, making Shi Qinghuai's entire heart beat up and down, he didn't have time to think about it, turned over and slapped Shen Sanwan awake, and tightly covered his mouth before the other party made a questioning sound.

Only a few seconds later, Shen Sanwan, who woke up in shock, also recognized the owner of the footsteps, he glanced at Shi Qinghuai in disbelief, hurriedly stood up quietly, and cautiously hid in the shadows in the corner.

Shi Qinghuai quietly woke up Guo Mengtao and Yao Yiyao in the same way, and the four sleepy-eyed people forced themselves to cheer up, huddled in the corner and didn't dare to come out, just listened to the footsteps solemnly, so as to identify the location of "Mr. Sai".

"Smack...... Syllable...... The footsteps of ...... were a little faster, and through the black shadow illuminated by the moonlight, several people could probably see the movement of "Mr. Sai", and at this time his shadow had already appeared in the corner of the stairs!

- What to do, he's going upstairs!

Shen Sanwan said in an almost inaudible voice in Shi Qinghuai's ear.

Shi Qinghuai pointed to the crooked corridor next to him, and leaned on the light source of his mobile phone, he made a "careful" action.

A few people had a good heart, and they moved lightly towards the corridor on the other side, and by the cover of the darkness, their migration was quite smooth. By the time Mr. Sai had figured out where they had been, they had moved to the staircase at the corner of the second floor and began to sneak towards the third floor.

Mr. Sai turned around on the second floor and found nothing, and then walked up to the third floor with his characteristic steps, but at this time, Shi Qinghuai and the others went back to the corridor on the second floor, found a remote studio and hid in.

This is a silent game of peek-a-boo, and the success or failure of the game is related to the life and death of several people!

Shi Qinghuai and the others shrank in the corner next to the machine, their hearts pounding, forcing their breathing to be so weak that they could barely detect it.

Fortunately, in the movies and TV series, those hidden people accidentally knocked over vases, iron cans and other things did not happen here, and several people held their breath and hid for more than ten minutes, but they never let "Mr. Sai" find him. After a while, the pace became more and more hurried, and finally he walked unabashedly towards the door on the first floor.

He's leaving?

There was a surprise in the hearts of several people, but they heard the footsteps suddenly stop, and they stopped making a sound for a while.

People looked at each other, doubtful and unwilling to move their bodies, for fear that this moment of calm would be a trap laid by the other party.

After a long time, Shi Qinghuai finally couldn't bear the strange silence, stood up first, and tiptoed to the door of the room. He quietly opened the wooden door a little crack, and probed the movement outside by the brighter and brighter moonlight.

(ps: I'm going out tomorrow, I'm expected to get home very late, so there shouldn't be an update)