Chapter 21: The Spirit Game
The light in the hallway was a little oppressive, and it was impossible to see how far the end was in the pitch darkness. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Saza shook his head and looked around, wasn't this the corridor of the school building he was familiar with? He couldn't even remember how he stood here.
Oh no! It was so late, and all he could see through the window in the hallway was black. What time was it, what was he doing in the afternoon, and he could be so busy so late? He couldn't find the answer in his head.
Saza held his head as he walked up the stairs, and with his familiarity with the place, he wouldn't be able to find his way even with all the lights off. Probably in the middle of the corridor, he suddenly remembered something, his feet seemed to be imprisoned there, and he couldn't take a step for a long time.
He quietly turned his head slightly to the side until his gaze landed on a door, a tightly closed door. Yes, he was sure he was not mistaken, all the classrooms he had just passed were tightly closed. He didn't know what that meant or what was going to happen, but he was sure he wouldn't like it.
So he took courage and ran as fast as he could. One, one, another! all closed doors.
At last he ran to the top of the stairs, and it was only the staircase, and the stairs below were as if they had been eaten as dinner in the pitch black, and there was not a single step left.
At this moment, a voice rang out, "Knock, knock, knock..."
Saza didn't know what she was afraid of, but when she felt it, her feet instinctively ran.
At the end of the hallway was the toilet, the last place he could run, and of course, the one on the left as usual. He rushed in without much thought, and the first thing that caught his eye was a glass mirror. This mirror may have received less attention than the one next door, but this time it was so dazzling that it spilled the light of candles all over the toilet. Yes, a candle, a candle with tears.
It was indeed a little brighter around, but Sazar didn't feel the good thing about this event at all. He looked at himself in the mirror, looking panicked and helpless, and before he could laugh at himself, he saw a door in the mirror, the door to the toilet. It grinned as if it had caught its prey, and then there was another knock on the door, knock, knock.
He wanted to turn around, but found that he couldn't, he could only stand there, looking at the door in the mirror, a pale, sickly face slowly revealing behind it, and the most terrible thing was the eyes, there was only one emotion in the empty eyes, resentment.
Saza turned around in shock, only to find that there was no face at all behind the door, nothing. Knock, the knock was still ringing! What's even more terrifying! He finally heard the knock in the direction it came from... That's from the mirror?!He turned his head sharply, but met a pair of empty eyes!
"Ahh
Saza sat up in shock, just sat up. "It turned out to be a dream. He looked at the toilet under him and breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing when he fell asleep.
This may have been the most unlucky day in two years, he thought, after taking a lunch break, he went to the toilet, and even encountered a once-in-a-century failure, the energy lock on the door turned out to be broken!
"Is there anybody? Is anyone there? I need help!" At first he would try to shout a few words, but later he would save that effort, and if he shouted too much, he might even get a stinky mouth! The afternoon is free time, and the school has recently opened the shallow part of the Nykis Mountains to students, so in the afternoon, there are not many people on the fourth floor at all.
But it must have been too late, he thought, so he twisted the lock, and this time it opened. Yes, it's all at this point, the energy supply in the toilet is cut off, and the energy lock naturally can't work anymore.
"I can't believe I slept here all afternoon. Without the slightest hint of nostalgia, he walked out of the box where he had spent the afternoon. Then he saw a mirror, just like in a dream, and he quickly walked out, he didn't want to "make his dream come true"!
There were a few energy lamps in the hallway that lit sleepily, but it didn't look like a dream scene. Now thinking back to the dream just now, he can't help but have palpitations.
He didn't see the old servant on patrol today, it seems that it is indeed too late, it is estimated that it is at least eight o'clock in the night.
How could it be so late? Stuck in the toilet... Looking back, he suddenly felt that it was not a coincidence, but more like a way to keep him!
The more he thought about it, the faster he walked, walked to the top of the stairs, and went down one floor. He saw the closed classroom this morning, and it was still closed.
He made up his mind and walked slowly towards the door, feeling sweat rolling on his back, and his hand trembling towards the door, while his other hand was ready to be on the wind.
He slammed the door open, and a shrill scream rang out in the classroom.
The sound shook Saza's ears, so the anger in his heart grew, "What the hell are you guys up to?" he asked the five people in the classroom.
"It's you! When they heard his voice, the screaming stopped, and they all remembered that they had eyes on their faces except for one mouth, and they all looked at Saza with relief.
"Who do you think it should be?" replied Saza unceremoniously. He knew all five of them, after all, they were classmates in the same class. Of course, the most familiar is the eldest lady Qi Li'er who is patting her chest in front of him, and he usually doesn't interact with many others. "What are you doing here?"
"You can't even tell," said the only one of the five who hadn't spoken, Harvey, a very cheerful boy who always smiled at anyone, and Saza had always had a good impression of him. "We're making a wish to the spirits in the school!"
Standing next to Harvey was Vivien, Cheer's tablemate, who waved at Saza and said, "This is very good! Would you like to try it?"
"What the hell is that?" asked Saza, puzzled, not understanding what these five seemed paradoxical people were doing here.
"A wish is a wish!" said the third girl in the room, Luna, Harvey's tablemate, "You make a wish to the wishing spirit, and if the wish is successful, it will help you fulfill your wish!"
"Make a wish?"
"Oops! stupid!" explained Kiriel, dancing to Saza.
Saza also understands that the so-called wish spirit is nothing more than a game similar to the pen fairy in his original world. The game of the magic apprentices is indispensable to draw a circle, a regular pentagonal array, with a candle in the center of the array. Each of the five people chooses a vertex, and in the game they can only move straight on the line between their vertex and the center point, of course, in order to ensure that it will not be crooked, a red line with sufficient texture will be fixed on the line, even if you close your eyes, as long as you step on the line, you will not go crooked. All their wishes were written on paper and placed in their respective wooden boxes, which were then placed behind their vertices. At the beginning of the game, everyone stands at the apex facing the center point, holding hands around the candle. Then the game can begin, and everyone will put down their hands and close their eyes, and they must not open their eyes until the game is over, which is why they only screamed after Saza broke into the classroom before. Everyone in the game must take three steps on their red line, as long as they make sure they don't leave the formation, it doesn't matter if they move forward or backward, and there is no limit to the size of each step. After three steps, you should reopen your hand as you did at the beginning, and once you have held your hand, you should immediately retreat towards the apex until your foot touches the wooden box behind the vertex. The person who has only one hand can crouch down and open the box, which means that the wish is successful, and the wish spirit will read and grant the person's wish.
After Qilier carefully explained the rules of the game, Saza could finally say the four words he had been holding back for a long time: "Waste of time." In his opinion, except for the aggrieved girl in front of him, who is the daughter of a rich and noble family, the others are ordinary civilians, and some are even worse, with a gambler father, the most important thing these people should do is to cherish the opportunity given to them by Neville, instead of accompanying the eldest lady here to play the game invented by the person who has no worries about food and clothing.
"This is really not the place to play games, I advise you to hurry up. There are two meanings in his words, but he doesn't expect everyone to understand them.
"Saza... This is really smart...", and she tried hard to change his mind, and she felt it was necessary.
"Qi Li'er, what nonsense are you talking about with a magical genius like someone else, someone else has serious things to do, so let's not get in the way. "Sure enough, there are people who don't understand, Duke, and Qi Li'er's front table obviously belongs to this kind of person.
Anyway, after the warning, Saza felt that he had done his duty, and turned and walked out of the classroom, and Neville really didn't want to stay for a second at night.
When he left the classroom, he was hesitating whether to close the door or not, when suddenly there was another scream in the classroom. He immediately pushed the door open and rushed in, "What's going on?" he asked.
"We... We," the eldest lady who had been babbling at the time of introducing the game was now at a loss for a moment, and at last she leaned into his ear and whispered, "All five of us have opened their boxes." β
"Huh!" said Saza, who for a moment summed up his cry as surprise, and said with a smile, "Should I congratulate you on making your dream come true?"
Saza just wanted to turn around and leave, but he immediately realized that something was wrong, according to the rules of the game that Qilier had just told him, only those who took one hand should be able to open the box. So in this game, no matter how much you toss, only four people can open the box at most! All five people can open the box? Unless... Unless...
Unless one more hand comes out!
A crazy thought popped into his head, and he looked at the five of them, all of them with fear on their faces, maybe they had come for some supernatural game in the first place, but they were all scared when the mutation happened.
"Yes, that's right. Harvey said to Saza's surprised eyes, "If the five people participating in the game are divided into No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5, there are only two situations at most for the number of people who want to open the box. Situation 1, a person does not lead anyone, suppose this person is No. 1, he does not lead anyone, the remaining four people are divided into two pairs of holding hands, for example, No. 2 leads No. 3, No. 4 leads No. 5, in this way, the most people who can open the box will be enabled, that is, No. 2, 3, 4, 5 four people; β
"Well, it's really impossible for all five of them to hold hands at the same time. Saza said this, and if it didn't allow, he would have wanted to laugh out loud. "Are you sure you're only holding one hand, could it be that someone is deliberately messing with their box?"
"What do you mean? You think we're looking for something?" Duke said angrily, Saza's questioning made him feel insulted.
Saza looked at him, he didn't have much ability, and his self-esteem was quite strong. But at least what Chong can confirm with this face is that even if someone lies and deliberately makes trouble, then this person is definitely not this angry young man.
"That's weird. Is there a man who is holding the hand of the wishing spirit in your mouth?"
Qi Li'er let out a low snort, unconsciously leaned closer to Saza, and tugged at the corner of his clothes, "What are you talking nonsense!" Although she said this, she knew in her heart that the other party had not said anything wrong.
"Huh, what is this?" Harvey pulled out a piece of paper from his wooden box, apparently it wasn't there before.
"This isβ" Saza leaned over, what seemed to be a page cut from a notebook......