Bai Buzhi was sitting in the car of the police uncle who came to escort him back to school.

He politely rejected the other party's sincere suggestion of "do you want to take you to the city's mental health center by the way", honestly and unceremoniously instructed the other party to drive straight downstairs to his dormitory, and then got out of the car expressionlessly in the strange eyes of everyone.

The results of the examination were not unusual in the slightest, which is not surprising at all. The Foundation shouldn't leave anything behind, how could he have any DNA or formalin left on his body? That's the professionals.

But he still said that sentence about the rotting corpse in the hospital.

He knew it would attract the police, and he did it on purpose.

It's just been over, and there's no way the Foundation won't be without follow-up observers. After calling the police, the police car drove back, and the matter was so big that it was impossible not to attract their attention.

If you investigate, you will find that this person named Bai Buzhi has not forgotten at all like the others, so they need to come over and deal with this matter.

They were haunted and wanted to withdraw from his life, but they used this trick to make the Foundation have to contact him, and revealed a message - he should forget everything the most, and remember everything.

As long as they show up again, he has a way.

By the time I got back to the dormitory, it was almost noon, and the three roommates had gone out to eat. Bai Buzhi thought about it and decided to take a shower first.

He went into the shower and took off his clothes, and when he took off his pants, he suddenly felt something in his pocket.

He pinched it out with his wet hands.

It was a small note folded a few folds. There are words written on it, and the font is delicate with a bit of childishness.

[1. You are no longer pursuing any information related to the Foundation.] 】

[2.You forgot the events related to the flower pot.] 】

[3. From today onwards, you will follow all the rules. 】

[4. You will not be able to log in to the game before 12 noon.] 】

Bai Buzhi read the note several times, and he felt a familiar dizziness, as if a voice was singing a lullaby in his head.

The memories of the incident that had faded away because of his mother's accident were as light as a feather that blew away.

The incident was already ridiculous, like a dream, and there was nothing else to prove it, right?

Maybe it's a dream, and humans sometimes can't tell the difference between reality and dreams, and this kind of thing doesn't happen before.

Shiro looked away from the note with all his might.

The time was 11:52 p.m.

It's not far from twelve o'clock.

The inexplicable note had a strange hint of it, like the three hits on the head of a monkey. If he had taken the hint and done what the note said, then there was no doubt that the incident would have ended here.

Bai Buzhi only wore a pair of pants, took a towel and wiped the water off his body casually before jumping back to the room. Opening the game pod, he lay in without saying a word.

Login, Choose, Rules Strange Tales 2023 interface unfolds in front of him.

"Welcome to the world of rules quirks."

"Due to your previous performance, you have been granted a limited-time qualification for the H difficulty dungeon. There are 5 minutes left until the cut-off time.

"Do you want to get into the H difficulty dungeon? Please note that H-difficulty dungeons are currently only available for solo play. ”

Bai Buzhi glanced at the time in the upper right corner. Five minutes later it was 12 o'clock, which means ......

He hesitated for a moment, but did not immediately choose to confirm, but first used the built-in function in the game to open the chat software on the terminal, ready to talk to Lin Lan Clockwork message.

I couldn't find any reason for a while, Bai Buzhi knew that he was rude but he didn't have the heart to explain, and he was about to issue the words "Something happened tonight", but he saw the message that Lin Lan gave him a few minutes ago.

"I'm sorry, there is some emergency at home tonight, can I make an appointment next time?"

Bai Buzhi's heart was relieved, and he quickly replied: "It's okay." Then I closed the chat and went back to that page with four minutes left in the countdown.

He chose "OK".

The next second, from the position of the tab he pressed, the blood ...... Begin to spread in your personal space.

The first thing to be affected was the overhead light, which was no longer white, but turned an unsettling blood-red. The matte gray tiles underfoot have also been transformed into a sticky black floor. The distant walls looked extremely dark in the light, like rusty iron walls.

The new floating window unfolded in front of him.

"In Hell difficulty dungeons, all the boosts that the game gives to players will no longer exist. Players will play with real-life mental intensity and physical qualities.

"The force quit feature will no longer be available, and at the same time, the damage taken by the player in the quest may be reflected in reality in some form."

There is only one tab below: "I know", Bai Buzhi stared at these four words twice, sneered, and reached out to click on it.

The sticky, dirty ground beneath his feet seemed to soften, and he watched as he sank into a black swamp in ten seconds.

“Welcome to the Hell.”

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"There's a pervert in the dormitory building opposite, running naked on the balcony!" The girl in the same dormitory covered her mouth and exclaimed.

At that time, Lin Lan had just finished typing the sentence "Can you make an appointment next time", and smiled copingly when she heard the words.

Not wanting to disturb the other sisters in the dormitory, she walked into the hallway and dialed a phone call.

"Auntie, I've got some time."

"Okay, what's for dinner at night? You pick? Kaiseki or French? How about going to my house and singing K after eating? It's been a long time since I've played it! ”

Lin Lan interrupted her: "Do you have something to hide from me?" ”

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, obviously knowing that the defense was useless, and chose to confess: "You found out all this?" ”

"A few days ago, I had to work overtime until midnight, and I suddenly came out to play with me at this time, remember to make an appointment in advance?" Lin Lan pointed out, "I also designated that I should go to your house for a whole night...... The last time I did this was before my college entrance examination, right? ”

The other side laughed. Lin Lan frowned, and said with some annoyance, "Did you still go to adjust the data?" Are you going to start caring who I play with? ”

Obviously, she took the initiative to make an appointment with Bai Bu, but because of her aunt's words, she was in the soup, if she hadn't been close to her aunt since she was a child, Lin Lan would have turned her face.

"Not all right, half and half," said the aunt, "you are right, I did it on purpose, but it was really not me who deliberately transferred his information, but someone else sent it to me." ”

"Who's so boring?" Lin Lan frowned.

"That's exactly what I was going to tell you tonight," Auntie said, "and why this game got a version number and official support, do you remember?" ”

"It is to screen out some potential people in the population and strengthen them in a targeted manner...... But what does this have to do with white ignorance? Was he chosen? Isn't that great? ”

"It's not that he was chosen," Auntie sighed, "it's he who was screened out." ”

"What the hell do you mean? The more you talk about me, the more confused I become. ”

"Meaning...... Do you remember the first copy you played with him? ”

"You mean, Compassion House? You still say you didn't call up the data? ”

"Don't be in such a hurry, you girl. Do you remember the 'big brother' in it? Have you ever wondered how that guy got to that point when he was obviously sick, the orphanage was still scattered, and no one adopted him? ”

"......" Lin Lan was silent for a moment.

Something else had taken up her mind at the time, and she didn't think much of the logic of the copy.

"The game has to screen not only people with potential like you, but also people with anomalies. Judging by the list I saw, that new friend of yours, not the former, but the latter.

"You know that every quest will have something written in the background but not available to the player, usually sealed in an unreadable file - and the truth of that quest is that the kid called Big Brother was parasitized by the shards of the evil god from the beginning. He is sick but not dead, abnormal and unaware.

"In the process of that fragment awakening, the people around him were polluted to some extent. In the pain, he also lost himself, lost his love forever, and could not die well. ”

"Are you trying to say ......?"

"Yes, according to the available information, that new friend of yours, who doesn't know each other, is probably the same kind as that thing. He had shown anomalous properties in the dungeon before, but it was not without players with strong mental power, and it was rare for someone like you to be able to resist Bai Shi in the end, but at that time we thought that he might just be the strongest of them. But now think about it, no matter how strong the spiritual power is, can it achieve immunity and rebound? What's more, he can even fight back.

"Unless, he's originally co-gourged with that power."

"Is that all for sure?" Lin Lan asked rhetorically, "Sounds too subjective." ”

"Naturally not, there are others. However, the detailed data is not something you can read, and it has to be reviewed at your father's level. ”

"So what will happen to him in the end, will he become a monster like that big brother? And then contained by your partners and become the new weird talk? Only...... There's not much you can do? ”

"Xiaolan, you know that some diseases can't be cured. Don't waste time and feelings. Now the best result for him is that all the people he has a good impression of, his relatives and friends will leave him by himself, otherwise he will suffer in the end. ”

Lin Lan thought for a while: "I shouldn't be counted as his relatives and friends who have a good impression." ”

"You know I didn't mean that, did you!? Don't approach the white ignorance! It's going to get unfortunate! Didn't I make this clear! ”

"It's very clear. I just don't think it's right, it's like discriminating against a contagious person. You feel like it's for my safety, but it's actually discrimination. I don't like that. ”

"I know, we don't like that. But you are what I watched grow up - we are only a few years apart, and I see you like a sister. You tell me, if I'm the one who is facing this problem now, won't you stop it? Will you watch me moths to the fire?

"And the Fragment Parasites are anomalous, and they generally have a special attraction to everyone else. Because the fragment needs to absorb spiritual power to sprout, whether it is fear or infatuation. Haven't you thought you've only met him a few times? Do you really know him? Maybe even your current affection for him is only because of the influence of that power! ”

Lin Lan shook her head, but then nodded again: "What you said may be right." ”

“…… You unpersuaded idiot. If someone were in front of me, I would really hit you. Auntie gritted her teeth.

"Don't worry," Lin Lan laughed instead, "I didn't say you were a liar. ”

"So you're going to put this and this?!"

"So I'm saying, you're saying he's also capable of polluting, right? But can a mentally strong person resist this? I remember reading the PPT of the new blood.,There's a hidden difficulty that can really make people face that thing to improve their mental power threshold.,Anyway, you've tested the talent.,Open that permission for me.。 ”

"Hey, wait! It's not fun to be talented! Your dad will kill me if he knows! ”

"Why not?" Lin Lan said quietly, "I didn't say I was going to contact him. But if I become strong and can be sure that I am not influenced by anyone, can I make a more objective judgment? ”

"You, you, you! Sure enough, girls are outgoing! The female university is not staying! Elbow out! ”

Lin Lan sighed: "I said that this has nothing to do with what you think, I just think it's unfair to him." ”

"If it's not a relationship, don't even think I'll open it to you through the back door! The difficulty of that thing is higher than that of the S-rank, and you don't even dare to fight an ordinary single-player dungeon, and you will be shut up if you enter! ”

"But I'm going to get stronger." Lin Lan said.

Confirmation is one thing, and the other is that she doesn't want to be left behind by Bai Buzhi's strength.

For this, it is necessary to overcome fear.

Before the aunt said the next sentence, Lin Lan quickly added: "You don't want others to know that you told me the company's secrets to a passerby, right?" ”

“…… I shouldn't have called you!! Auntie complained.

Lin Lan smiled softly.

"I won't eat dinner tonight. I promise you you'll do it. In exchange, turn on permissions. ”