Qi Jiu: "Okay, I understand, hard work." ”

It's 11:35 p.m.

After hanging up the phone, Qi Yan immediately got up from the bathtub, and while changing into his work uniform, he began to sort out the clues at hand-

1. My identity in this dungeon is a trainee teacher, but what about other players? Is it the new student mentioned by the dean of students on the phone? So did you enter the dungeon one step ahead of other players?

2. In this copy of the theme of a boarding school for "problem students", are the positions of the students and teachers opposite?

3. What happened to the headless idol enshrined in the shrine next to the dormitory door? What is the connection between its existence and this "problematic university"?

4. What is the connection between the "appalling anecdotes" mentioned in the background introduction and the "problem universities" themselves?

Although there are few known clues now, Qi Yan is used to sorting out and summarizing his doubts, which is more conducive to systematic thinking and more conducive to finding the connection between clues and clues.

The rope that often strings together the clues is the core plot line of the dungeon.

Soon, a new email notification flashes on the phone screen:

"Hello Mr. Qi, in order to welcome the new students in the morning, you will be arranged to go to the teaching building for a night patrol from 0 to 4 o'clock tonight, please pay attention to the following matters during the night patrol:

1. Please keep quiet at all times, do not wear high heels for night patrols, and try to wear sponge-soled soft shoes with less movement;

2. There will be no students wandering in the teaching building after dark, if you see it during the night patrol, please keep quiet and leave immediately, and inform the security personnel of what you see;

3. All doors and windows of the teaching building have been closed and locked, and teachers should not open the doors and windows of any classroom without authorization;

4. Once the door of the classroom is found to be automatically open, the night patrol teacher should immediately stop and stand in place and wait, do not blindly escape, do not make a loud noise, if the door is not closed, please ask for more blessings, if you are still alive, please inform the security personnel afterwards;

5. If there is a ghost hitting the wall in the teaching building, please immediately self-harm and bloodletting to protect yourself;

6. If you encounter any suspicious situation during the night patrol, please make a report after completing the night patrol;

7. The equipment (knives, flashlights) of the night patrol teacher should be placed at the security window on the first floor of the faculty dormitory, please pick it up by yourself;

Please strictly abide by the above rules and start the night patrol on time, hard work."

Qi Jiu: "......"

This is a very unfriendly night patrol code for faculty and staff, and the rules even use words such as "self-seeking blessings" and "self-mutilation and bloodletting", which shows that the working environment of the school's faculty and staff is worrying, and it can even be said that the school has completely disregarded the life and death of the faculty and staff.

That's why there is a background introduction, the disappearance and death of teachers in the school are frequent......

Qi Ji studied these rules with great engrossion, and there is no doubt that the most dangerous of them is the fourth one, because the description of "self-seeking and blessing" is tantamount to incomprehension.

So, if the door that is forced to open is not closed for a long time, then wouldn't it be better to find a way to close the door by itself?

And these rules seem to be aimed at the night watchman, if you change your identity, can you crack it?

In addition, the solution given in the seventh rule is "self-mutilation and bloodletting in order to protect oneself", so the purpose of self-harm is probably to obtain "blood", but on the other hand, self-harm is not the only way to obtain "blood".

Qi Yan suddenly had a "dangerous" plan......

"Hello, I have received the email of the precautions for night patrol," Qi Yan pressed his mobile phone to call back, and took the initiative to call the teaching director, "I have no problem on night duty, but I have a reluctant request." ”

The dean's tone was not very impatient: "Is there any problem?" You said. ”

Qi Yan smiled apologetically: "I have a habit of eating supper on the night shift, can you provide me with a meal on duty?" Otherwise, I might not be able to work properly if I go hungry. ”

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a full ten seconds: "Okay, the lunch box will be placed at the security window with other night patrol equipment, and you can pick it up yourself when the time comes." ”

Qi Jiu: "Thank you very much, sorry for your trouble." ”

"Beep-" After negotiating the conditions, the dean of academic affairs hung up the phone directly.

Before going out, Qi Yan changed out of the school uniform he was wearing and found a casual dress in the closet to put on, after all, the "Night Patrol Code" did not say that teachers must wear uniforms to inspect the teaching building.

For one, this uniform is too hot to wear; Second, since the rules are directed at the faculty and staff, and the students and teachers at this school seem to be on opposite sides from the setting, it seems unwise to wear a uniform that identifies the identity of the teacher on a dangerous night on duty.

Qi Yan carried the briefcase containing the charm with him, and he also took out several empty glass bottles and stuffed them into the briefcase.

At 11:50, Qi Zhen went out on time, and he estimated that the distance from the dormitory to the teaching building would be about ten minutes.

The corridor of the faculty dormitory was quiet, there was no light, and although Qi Yan had tried to lighten his steps, he could still hear his footsteps and breathing.

The dormitory building is a little old, and its mottled and dilapidated walls are plastered with small advertisements for unlocking and unclogging sewers, and the hallway exudes a damp smell of rot, like dead rats in the sewers fermenting for days in the hot and humid season, and the disgusting smell of rotting meat persists.

Qi Yan quickened his pace and walked through the dark corridor, the lobby of the dormitory building was lit with an incandescent lamp with a very low wattage, there was no wind in the hot and humid night, but the lamp hanging on the roof swayed rhythmically from side to side, as if there was a pair of invisible hands constantly playing with the lamp.

The pale light also flickered, illuminating the mildew on the walls flickering and dimming, and Qi Jiu's shadow also appeared and disappeared from time to time.

The security duty room was empty, but the window had already placed knives and flashlights for the night patrol personnel, as well as the lunch box on duty that Qi Zhen had taken the initiative to request.

But if there is no one in the security room at all, is the rule emphasizing the notification of security personnel equivalent to invalidity? Or even more dangerous situations?

The knife placed in the window for the staff of the night patrol is so sharp that it can easily cut through a person's skin.

The knife was not so much used to deal with dangerous situations as it was for the night watchmen to bleed from self-mutilation.

Qi Ji put away the knife and flashlight, and touched the lunch box with his hand, but he didn't expect the food to be hot, which made him very satisfied.

The rancid smell in the lobby on the first floor is more pronounced than at the entrance of the stairs.

Where did this disgusting smell come from? Qi Yan even had a hunch that the smell of rancid was everywhere, and the night in this school had been pickled in rancidity.

Before leaving the faculty dormitory building, Qi Yan also noticed that there was also a shrine on the wall of the security duty room.

Illuminated by eerie red candles, the shrine also enshrines the headless statue of the god.

Chapter 67: Exile (4)

There was not a single light on the road, and the surrounding buildings were lifeless, and not a single window was lit.

The security rooms on both sides of the main road of the campus were also unmanned, and Qi noticed that each security room had shrines, and the shrines also enshrined sculptures of headless gods.

The eerie red candle light of the shrine seems to be the only source of light in this school.

The air was hot and humid, there was not a hint of wind, only a thick rancid smell flowing.

Qi Jiu, who walked in it, even had the illusion that this lifeless school was like a long-dead monster, its corpse had been forgotten in time, rotting, fermenting, decomposing, and finally turning into a pool of thick black water in the hot and humid night.

Walking alone on a night like this can easily drive people crazy.

Qi Yan put the flashlight and dagger into his bag and replaced them with his own ghost fire bamboo lantern.

The blue firelight flickered and danced in the night, and Qi Jiu's pleasure value was slowly rising.

It seems that the spirits in the vicinity are dense and active.

But Qi Yan didn't care at all, he checked the map in the email, and walked towards the teaching building with a boxed lunch.

About eight minutes later, Qi Yan, who came to the area of the teaching building, frowned slightly.

The layout of the teaching building area is very strange, the four teaching buildings with an external ladder structure are facing each other in pairs, and the playground is sealed by the four teaching buildings like a well.

What makes Qi Yan feel strange is that this school located in the suburbs obviously covers a large area and is very open all around, why does the teaching building area use such a cramped and depressing layout style?

What's even more bizarre is that the design of these exterior staircases seems to be haphazard, and the buildings are intricately connected from each other, and at night without adequate lighting, being in such a complex not only feels oppressive and aggrieved, but even easily disoriented.

It seems that it is difficult not to hit the wall......

Qi Yan, who was carrying a ghost fire bamboo lamp, walked along the inner playground, and after a scribbled tour on the first floor of the teaching building, he found a relatively clean position and sat on the outer ladder to open his overtime lunch.

The weather in the dungeon is hot and humid, and the lunch box is not easy to cool down, and the residual temperature is still there at the moment.

After opening the bag, Qi Zhen was a little surprised, the lunch box contained fried shrimp cakes, spring rolls and pineapple fried rice that had not yet been spodied, and the fresh oil aroma came to his face, in addition to a refreshing green papaya salad.

The style of the meal is very tropical, and when I took a bite, the sweet and sour taste was perfect for a sultry night.

It would be better if we had another glass of chilled blood brew at this moment.

The "Night Patrol Rules" did not emphasize that the teachers on duty could not touch the fish, so Qi Zheng simply sat on the ladder outside the teaching building and slowly enjoyed his dinner.

The ghost fire bamboo lamp placed on his side burned more cheerfully at the moment, and the rancid smell became thicker and thicker, and even more fishy.

Qi found that the stronger the rancid smell, the more vigorous the ghost fire burned, which indicated that the rancid smell was related to resentful spirits.

And against this humid and muggy tropical background, the putrid smell is easily reminiscent of a corpse......

Could it be that there are bodies buried under the playground of the school building? So to build the teaching building into such a strange pattern, the purpose is to lock the evil spirits?

If this is the case, judging by the level of this rancid smell, there are not many corpses.

And the director of education specially arranged for him to come over for a night patrol before the new students entered the school, perhaps the real purpose was to use him, a trainee teacher, to feed the evil spirits.

While eating a delicious overtime meal, Qi Zhen combed through known clues and his own guesses.

The weather was really hot, and even though he sat still like this, Qi Jiu still sweated.

After the meal, Qi Zhen looked around for a place where he could wash the dishes, and he planned to wash the lunch box for later use, after all, this was the real reason why he and the dean applied for overtime meals.

The sink is located outside the bathroom on each floor of the school building, and the white tiles in the sink area are old and mottled, with some dark red suspicious stains faintly visible, and the faucets are also covered with rust stains, which looks like no one has used it for a long time.

The door of the men's bathroom on the side was ajar, and Qi Yan looked in slightly, and it was vaguely seen that the wall of the bathroom was covered with red mottled traces, and I don't know if it was blood stains or red paint left.

Obviously there is no wind, but the shadow of the rope swaying is reflected on the glass of the bathroom window, like the reflection of the swing on the playground, and like the rope hanging from the ceiling of the bathroom is spontaneously shaking, it is difficult not to think of what is tied to this invisible rope at this moment.

But there was a sign on the door of the bathroom that said "No one is allowed to enter", so Qi Yan didn't rush to open the door to check.

Qi Yan tried to twist the faucet, and the sound of rushing water immediately broke the dead silence.

It's good to be able to use it.

He rolled up his sleeves and carefully cleaned the lunch box, and the ghost fire bamboo lamp placed on the edge of the pool made a crackling sound, and Qi Zhen rarely saw it burn so much.

There is a large mirror above the sink, and the mirror surface of the disrepair is crawling with cracks, and mottled black and red marks can be faintly visible on the cracks, as if someone's fist or head was once smashed on the glass, and the blood stains left behind by no one cleaned up.

Qi Jiu, who was busy cleaning the lunch box in his hand, looked at the mirror with his spare eyes, and the broken mirror reflected the broken night of the unmanned campus, and from various traces, it can be inferred that this place was once shrouded in violence, blood, and fear.

The bloody qi became thicker and thicker, and Qi Zhen already had a premonition in his heart, and sure enough, when he looked at the broken mirror again, a viscous red liquid was flowing down from the crack in the mirror.

The red liquid gurgled and kept bubbling out, and soon it covered the entire mirror, and the strong smell of blood filled the nose, and Qi Jiu in the mirror image was also covered in blood.

Affected by the active aura of the resentful spirit at this time, Qi Jiu's pleasure value began to fluctuate, and even faintly had a downward trend, but because the ghost fire bamboo lamp diligently converted the ghost energy into light energy, and continuously replenished his pleasure value, the pleasure value that had just had a downward trend quickly returned to the highest level.

Soon, the liquid that flowed from the faucet also turned blood red.

It's the most common tactic used in horror movies, with scarlet blood flowing from the bathroom sink on eerie campus nights.

It is difficult for normal people to stay calm in such a situation, but Qi Zhen is different, after all, he is a player with the status of "Beginner Blood".

Qi Yan stared at the scarlet that was constantly pouring out for a moment, and his Adam's apple slipped unconsciously.