The people in the classroom suddenly looked frightened and looked around nervously, as if something should not have appeared in the classroom.

Ruan Qing also pinched the corners of his clothes tightly, no longer calm.

However, there seemed to be nothing in the classroom but them.

The flame of the white candle flickered, and the shadows of everyone shrank slightly, and everyone's hearts seemed to be clenched by a hand.

Fear and insecurity are spreading.

After his white candle was extinguished, the classmate immediately ran back to his seat with a frightened expression, trying to huddle with the other classmates.

However, unlike just now, this time the other students subconsciously shrank when he came over, as if he was some kind of virus.

But in the next second, the classmates immediately reacted, and did not avoid the classmate again, one of the classmates held the classmate's hand and comforted him gently, "It's okay, this is a legend that the classmates made up in order to be admitted to the university, even if the white candle is extinguished, it doesn't mean anything." ”

"Maybe it's just a coincidence that the white candle went out because of the wind you brought with you when you closed the door." The others also spoke out, not knowing whether they were comforting the classmate or themselves, but in short, many of them were comforting, trying to dispel the atmosphere of fear.

"We have to believe in science, there are so many in the world...... Hell, don't scare yourself. ”

The classmate next to him immediately agreed, "Yes, yes, this legend has been circulating in the first high school for a long time, and there must be other students to try, but I have never heard of any classmates having an accident." ”

"Yes, I've never heard of anyone having an accident, and if someone had had an accident, it would have spread long ago."

"It's definitely going to be fine, don't be too scared, wait until you go back tonight and have a good rest, maybe it can become a beautiful and exciting memory."

Probably because the comfort had an effect, the student's emotions were barely calmed, his expression relaxed a little, and the other students were not so nervous.

Only the players were not so optimistic, looking around vigilantly, and they also had runes and props in their hands to deal with the supernatural existence.

After all, this is a supernatural dungeon, and it is also a side quest specified in the dungeon, so it is absolutely impossible to be like what those students said just now.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night and the white candle, it is clear that it is summoning ghosts, and this blessing from the gods is not a good thing at all.

God? I'm afraid it's a ghost, right?

They may have guessed the wrong direction from the start, and it was a very wrong one.

They have always thought that the ghosts are still alive and have not yet become ghosts, but in fact, the ghosts may have always existed, and they may have been eyeing them for a long time.

And they naively think that as long as they protect their classmates, or see who died, they can do it.

They should not look at the living at all, but on the already ...... on the dead man.

If it weren't for this side quest, they'd probably still be looking for it in confusion, and they wouldn't know how they would die when the time came.

The players almost all thought of this, silently fixing their gaze somewhere on the wall at the back of the classroom.

It is full of the names of the students of the first (first) class of high school, as well as the names of the students of the first (first) class of the previous generations.

Maybe the right answer is there.

Everyone sat in the front, and the light of the white candles was not enough to illuminate the wall at the back of the classroom, so it was impossible to see the names written on it, but they could vaguely see the pictures painted on it.

If it is very sunny and positive during the day, it seems to have changed at night, and the lines and colors look a little distorted and weird, as if the paintings are like monsters.

And when the candle shakes, the lines and colors of the drawing become flickering and darkening, as if they are ...... It's like it's alive, giving people the feeling that it's about to break through the wall with its teeth and claws in the next second.

Everyone knows that it's just a visual effect brought by the shaking of the candlelight, but it will give people a particularly uncomfortable feeling after watching it for a long time, so players don't rashly hold up the white candle to check it.

Now the first task is to protect your own white candle, after all, there is time to check the name, and there is no need to rush this time.

I'd better get out of this classroom alive tonight.

Ruan Qing also felt very uncomfortable, he was so depressed that he couldn't calm down at all.

And as time went on, his brain became more and more uncontrollable and blindly thought about something, and he couldn't stop himself from being moderately hypnotized.

But deep hypnosis is too dangerous, it will affect his thinking and judgment, and even his cognition will be confused at that time.

Ruan Qing knew very well that he was in a bad state now, he looked at the white candle in his hand, poured it slightly, dripped a few drops of wax oil on the table, and then pressed the white candle on it.

The wax dried, solidified, and it was still quite strong, so that he would not be too scared to extinguish the candle after a while.

After Ruan Qing fixed the white candle, he wanted to divert his attention, he took out his mobile phone and wanted to press it, but he was held down by Xiao Shiyi, who had been paying attention to him.

Ruan Qing didn't move, but looked sideways at him.

Xiao Shiyi saw Ruan Qing looking over, and explained with a calm face, "Brother Su, you may not know, this legend has several rules, one of which is that between twelve and one o'clock at midnight, there can be no other light except the light of the white candle. ”

The character of the school bully may not be so obedient, and when he hears this kind of words, he may become rebellious, and then he has to turn on his mobile phone.

But Ruan Qing is different, he knows the rule that if you die, you will definitely die, and put down the phone very obediently.

"Are there any other rules?"

Xiao Shiyi was relieved to see that Ruan Qing didn't have to open his phone, and he nodded after listening to Ruan Qing's question, "Yes, there are a total of ten rules for the legend of 'getting a blessing at twelve o'clock at midnight'. ”

This time, there was no need for Ruan Qing to ask which ten they were, Xiao Shiyi began to slowly say the content of the ten rules.

"Rule 1: If you begin to pray for blessings, you must ensure that there is only white candle light in the classroom."

"Rule 2: When praying for blessings, you must ensure that you are in the light of your own white candle, and it is best not to leave the light of your white candle."

"Rule 3: If you hear something, or if someone touches a place where the white candle can't shine, don't look back."

"Rule 4: In the process of praying for blessings, it is best not to doze off or lose consciousness, and you must always ensure that your white candle is not extinguished and that it shines on yourself at all times."

"Rule 5: If someone enters the classroom while praying for blessings, do not pay attention, do not talk to them, and do not look at them for more than three seconds."

"Rule 6: White candles are not allowed to be taken out of the classroom after they have been lit unless they have been extinguished."

"Rule 7: As long as you are under the light of your own white candle, you are absolutely safe and do not need to be afraid of anything."

"Rule 8: Please don't believe what you see, it must be an illusion that you are too tired, please don't care."

"Rule 9: If your candle is not extinguished after one o'clock at midnight, then it means that you pray for a blessing to be successful, please leave the classroom within five minutes, leave the white candle in the classroom, and let it burn out."

"Rule 10: If your white candle is accidentally extinguished, destroy it immediately and leave the school within three minutes and return to the school after three days."

Xiao Shiyi spoke unhurriedly, without the slightest stuck, as if he was memorizing the rules, and he didn't have any own language, obviously he remembered it very well.

Although his voice was calm and calm, such an official tone of reading the rules gave people a strange feeling at twelve o'clock in the night.

The players' faces changed directly when they heard this, which was not at all the same as the rules they had heard about in the afternoon!

They didn't sleep like the other students did in the afternoon, and when they decided to come and ask for blessings, they went to other students or sources to investigate the legend of this 'blessing at 12 o'clock at midnight'.

There were only three rules they could ask about.

First, it is best not to turn on the lights while praying for blessings, second: it is best not to leave the classroom, and third: it is best not to leave your own white candles.

None of the rules are mandatory, not to mention that all light sources are not allowed.

And you don't need to think much about it at all to know that the estimation that Xiao Shiyi just said is the most complete version.

They were deceived.

If it weren't for the school bully Su Qing who asked Xiao Shiyi, they wouldn't know how many rules they would have to violate.

And the cost of breaking the rules is most likely death.

After Xiao Shiyi finished speaking, the player who had just glanced at his mobile phone turned pale, lowered his head, and clenched the props and white candles in his hand.

After listening to Xiao Shiyi's words, Ruan Qing frowned slightly, "Three minutes is not enough to leave the school." ”

This school building is located close to the center of the school, and it is impossible to leave the school in three minutes, no matter which school gate you go to, or go directly over the wall.

After all, No. 1 High School is big, and you want to leave school in three minutes or something, unless it's by car.

However, it is forbidden to drive on the campus of Daiichi High School, and even if it is a teacher's car, the parking lot is more than three minutes away from here.

So three minutes is not enough to leave the school, and the only way to extinguish a white candle is to be a complete decoration.

In other words, there is no way to deal with the extinguishing of the white candle, and once the white candle is extinguished, it may already be marked as death.

No, rather, participating in this blessing prayer may have been marked with death.

Ruan Qing remembers that during the day, 'Xia Baiyi' said that if you get a blessing, you will become very smart, and you can get a perfect score in almost every exam.

Do people suddenly become very smart overnight?

Ruan Qing felt that it was impossible.

Whether the human brain is smart or not is determined by genes and brain development, and the environment may affect the IQ, but it is never possible to become smart all of a sudden.

At most, it is the accumulation of daily life, the subtle influence, and the ability to comprehend suddenly becomes stronger, so I feel that I have become smarter, which is actually the result of my own efforts.

However, this is not the case at all in the legend of praying for blessings, which does not matter what the previous IQ was, and regardless of the level of study effort, receiving the blessing is directly smart enough to win the provincial champion.

This can't be, unless......

Unless...... There has been a change of person.

Just like 'Xia Baiyi'.

It's not right, Ruan Qing didn't notice that 'Xia Baiyi' was much smarter than Xia Baiyi in his memory.

And 'Xia Baiyi' was replaced by a monster after going to the toilet, or in broad daylight, which obviously has nothing to do with this midnight twelve o'clock blessing.

One is a monster in the mirror, and the body is not human, and the other is very likely to be just possessed, and the body is still human, so it should not be the same situation.

But...... Why did she want him to pray for blessings?

Ruan Qing didn't think that she was just curious about the legend of twelve o'clock in the middle of the night when she asked him to accompany him, obviously she just wanted him to come with a clear goal.

If you want to kill him, you don't need to fool him here at all, you just need to find him when he is alone, it's completely redundant.

But she wanted him anyway.

Something strange.

Don't...... Is there some connection between the monster in the mirror and the 12 o'clock at midnight prayer for blessings?

Mirror......

Ruan Qing looked around, there was no such thing as a mirror in the first (first) class of high school, and they were sitting far away from the window, and the light of the white candles was not strong enough, so their appearance could not be reflected on the window.

Ruan Qing's gaze stayed on his shadow reflected on the wall.

Shadows aren't reflective, are they......

Xiao Shiyi didn't know what Ruan Qing was thinking, he nodded after listening to Ruan Qing's words, "Yes, it's too late to leave the school in three minutes." ”

"So it's best to protect your white candle and not let it go out."

Ruan Qing didn't speak anymore, retracted his gaze, and quietly looked at his white candle.

The white candle burns very slowly, but the size is the regular size, and it is estimated that it will only burn for about two hours.

Mo Ran didn't speak beside him, with a bit of nonchalant on his face, and even began to play with his white candle, which was not afraid of the white candle going out, as if he didn't care about this unscientific legend at all.

The white candle in Mo Ran's hand was quite strong, and it was not extinguished even if it was turned like a pen by him.

However, if someone looked closely, although Mo Ran didn't care about his white candle, he always paid attention to Ruan Qing's white candle with his residual vision.

Even Xiao Shiyi was the same, while casually looking at Xia Baiyi and Li Shuyang in the front seat, he glanced at Ruan Qing's white candle from time to time.

Xia Baiyi, who was usually quite lively, didn't know if it was because she was scared or nervous, and she didn't talk to Ruan Qing, but lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

As for Li Shuyang, he kept looking at Ruan Qing, and when Ruan Qing looked over, he would show him a shy smile.

It was pitch black outside the window, and the darkness was a little abnormal, and the candlelight could not shine out at all, as if the whole classroom was an island, isolated from the world.

For a moment, many people felt as if the classroom had been distorted, and their shadows on the wall flickered with the candlelight, as if they were something terrible.

As the best high school in the province, the first high school is also equipped with time in the classroom, so that the people in the classroom will not even lose the concept of time.

And the time was not an electronic clock, but a mechanical watch with a minute hand and a second hand that clicked every time it went a few stops.

The sound was very small, but at this moment you could clearly hear the 'click' sound, which pinched everyone's hearts, and the rhythm was too frequent, making the people in the classroom even more uneasy.

Even the previous self-soothing effect began to fade, and the horror, darkness, and fear of all negative emotions slowly grew and spread.

Probably it was too quiet, and some classmates began to chat with other students in a low voice, although the voice was very low, but it also diluted a little nervousness.

Before I knew it, half an hour had passed, and nothing had happened in the meantime, and no candle had been extinguished again.

Everyone was slightly relieved, it seems that this blessed legend is indeed made up by some classmates for the sake of doing well in the exam.

After all, high school students focus on studying, and the pressure is definitely not small, so even if everyone doesn't believe in some feudal superstitions, they also want to ask for an auspicious one.

The ordinary students in the classroom relaxed a lot, chatted a lot more briskly, and were no longer scared just now.

"Smack." A loud sound interrupted the classmates who were chatting in a low voice.

Several people looked at the white candle that had fallen to the ground and had been extinguished, and looked at each other, "Who's?" ”

"Mine, my, I just put it on the table, I guess I didn't stabilize myself and fell." One of the students raised his hand, not as nervous as when the first white candle had just been extinguished, and even very cheerful.

After he finished speaking, he picked up the white candle on the floor and put it on the table.

The second white candle went out, and the other students were not as nervous as before, but laughed loudly, "Alas, you are too careless, it's no fun for you to become smart now, let's work hard, don't be kicked out of the first (first) class of high school, after all, we will become smarter." ”

The classmate rolled his eyes, "It's so easy to take the first place, if it is really useful to get a blessing, then the whole school will be the first, and in the end, someone will not be at the bottom." ”

Another classmate laughed, "Hahahaha, there's nothing wrong with it at all, you see that we estimate that the white candles of the two of you will be extinguished tonight, won't everyone else be blessed?" But there is only one first place, so it won't be the same score for all of us. ”

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than his white candle suddenly went out.

The other students looked inexplicably uneasy and flustered.

"Well, now it's three." The classmate shrugged his shoulders without paying attention and put the extinguished white candle on the table.

It's a pity that no one accosted him after speaking, he looked at the few people who suddenly stopped talking, thinking that they were frightened, he showed a smile to a few people and waved his hand, "Oh, why do you have such an expression, don't be too nervous, I guess I just laughed too loudly and accidentally blew out the white candle." ”

The other students did not relax because of his words, because when the white candle was extinguished just now, the flame seemed to fall to the ...... Left.

They were face to face with the classmate, and if he had accidentally blown out the candle by laughing, the flame should have fallen on them.

Instead of turning to the left, it's as if someone was standing on the right and blowing out a candle.

But their right side ...... No one at all.

When the third white candle went out, the other two teams looked over.

The classroom is mainly divided into three groups to sit, one is the group dominated by the school bully Su Qing, the other is the group dominated by players, and the other is dominated by ordinary students.

And the group of ordinary classmates has already extinguished three candles, and now there are still ...... Two sticks.

The light in their place was noticeably dimmer than the light in the other two.

I was relieved, but as the third candle went out, I began to feel uneasy again.

The classmate who had just fallen to the ground and extinguished looked at the candle on his desk, as if he had thought of something, and stammered, "Did anyone touch the table just now?" ”

The others immediately shook their heads, indicating that they had not touched the table.

The classmate was about to cry, "I just remembered that I put a few drops of wax oil on the white candle when I put it on, and I shook it after putting it on to make sure the candle didn't fall over." ”

After all, he was still very scared before, so everyone tried to protect their candles, how could he have put it on the table casually.

So how could it be that it fell to the ground because of instability.

After the classmate's voice fell, the classroom fell silent, so quiet that I heard the second hand of the time 'click' again.

Just when everyone was nervous, the candles in the hands of the other two went out again.

This time, without warning, it was extinguished in an instant in full view of everyone.

This time, the five classmates couldn't calm down anymore, and directly screamed in horror, and some classmates stood up suddenly, and even threw the white candle in their hands to the ground.

It was as if the white candle was something ominous.

"I'm not playing anymore! I'm going back to the dorm! The classmate's expression was full of horror and fear, and after saying that, he rushed directly to the door, opened the door and rushed out.

The remaining four classmates glanced at each other in fear, swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, said something to Xiao Shiyi, and finally left the classroom.

The extinguishing of the five candles made the atmosphere in the classroom even more eerie, but this time it was not ordinary students who remained.

Only Ruan Qing felt that he was no different from that group of ordinary classmates.

What remains in the classroom now is either a player or a special NPC like Mo Ran and Xiao Shiyi, or an existence like 'Xia Baiyi'.

He's the only one who can't do it.

Ruan Qing held the phone tightly, his heart was full of uneasiness, and he kept comforting himself that it was okay.

However, the next second something happened, Xia Baiyi's candle ...... Extinguished.

She screamed in fear, stood up sharply, and because she sat too close, she hit the desk in front of her.

The desk was hit and tilted directly towards Ruan Qing, and Xia Baiyi also reacted, for fear that the desk would hit Ruan Qing, so he pulled the desk and dragged her violently.

And the white candle that belonged to Ruan Qing on the desk fell directly because of her movements in class.

And because it fell towards Xia Baiyi, the people on the side of the desk couldn't catch the white candle at all.

Ruan Qing's pupils shrank, his eyes widened, and his heart was directly pinched.

The white candle fell slowly, and at this moment it seemed as if time had slowed down.

Ruan Qing could only watch the white candle fall, and at this moment he realized one thing very clearly.

His white candles...... will extinguish......

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