"The school's intentions are already obvious, which is to do everything possible to kill us." One of the students scratched his hair very pessimistically and seemed to be a little impatient.

"But what do they want us to die for?"

"The NPC's role in this quest is to create obstacles for us, for example, our death is a KPI for their faculty and staff?"

“… Even KPIs must have a logic behind them, right? And we didn't get a time limit to live. ”

"I think the school is using our deaths as a sacrifice." Qi Xiaonian opened his mouth and said.

The black long straight girl looked at him fixedly, and then smiled: "I agree with this point of view. ”

"Speaking of which, I've always had a question," the black long-straight girl narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at Qi Xiaonian with an unclear look, "When you were eating in the cafeteria just now, how did you know that you could escape the meal by pretending to behave abnormally?" ”

Qi Xiaonian didn't have a flustered look on his face, he said with a calm expression: "My behavior at that time was imitating the evil. ”

He paused deliberately, his gaze swept over the crowd and continued, "Because Article 4 of the Admission Guide clearly states that 'the school prohibits any feudal superstitious activities and cannot play supernatural games without authorization', I guess the school included it in the code because the faculty and staff were afraid of the consequences of us playing supernatural games. ”

"So you think that evil is the so-called consequence, and once there is a reaction to evil, the teacher will take measures to quickly isolate it?" The black girl answered him.

Qi Xiaonian nodded: "The reason why they banned it was because they were afraid, so I followed their fears to perform, and as a result, the school's reaction was completely in line with my prediction, and the priority of the evil detection was higher than the dining hall rules." ”

"Of course, these are my speculations and experiment......s," Qi Xiaonian imitated the tone of that Teacher Qi and analyzed with everyone.

When he was in the school doctor's office, he considered that his behavior of pretending to be evil to evade the rules of the meal would sooner or later be questioned by other student players, so he had already thought of a rhetoric.

His acting skills allow him to handle it all with ease.

Even if that Teacher Qi stood on opposite sides, for some reason, Qi Xiaonian was willing to believe in each other.

The black long straight girl was silent for a moment, and then showed an admiring smile: "It's a wonderful inference, although it's too risky, but it not only avoids the rules of the canteen, but also tests the logic behind the rules, and unlocks the infirmary map along the way, it's worth it." ”

"So...... What do you see in the infirmary? Someone suddenly asked.

Qi Xiaonian told the truth about the hanging mirrors in the infirmary, the scarlet iron frame bed, and the extremely strange rituals.

Under the guidance of Qi Xiaonian, the students can basically determine three information points:

1. The school is afraid that students will react to evil; 2. The school uses the death of a new student to make some kind of sacrifice; 3. Student players are likely to have their own patron gods, and the clues of the patron gods need to be mined;

"With that out of the way, we can start making plans." The black long straight girl seemed to be very satisfied with the information brought by Qi Xiaonian.

"Now it seems that tonight is a very critical time, and you may be able to gain important information from a night tour of the campus." The black long straight girl proposed.

But other players immediately questioned: "The "Freshman Code" prohibits students from leaving the school dormitory after dark, isn't it a blatant violation of the school rules if they tour the campus at night?" ”

"yes... The player who was shot in the head before was because he violated the school rules. ”

The black straight girl glanced at the two of them with disgust: "Violating the school rules will be shot in the head, that is under the supervision of the teacher, you change the way of thinking, if no teacher finds out, is the fact of violating the school rules equal to non-existence?" ”

The crowd was dumbfounded.

Truly... As long as the violation is not discovered by the overseers, you may be able to escape "punishment"!

Although it is now a copy world, a lot of logic and the real-world campus are connected.

In reality, schools have various rules, but as long as the teacher does not find out, students who violate the rules will not be punished.

When you think about it, these suffocating rules don't seem so scary.

"But I just heard the principal say that there will be a teacher to keep vigil in the dormitory tonight." Some players reminded.

Qi Xiaonian's expression changed slightly, he also heard it just now, the teacher who came to the dormitory to keep vigil was that Teacher Qi.

The black straight girl pondered for a moment and said, "Then it would be good to find a way to avoid his surveillance, after all, he only has one pair of eyes." ”

*

After returning to the faculty dormitory, Qi Yan simply took a cold shower and couldn't wait to sleep.

In the dream, he came to the priest's confessional as he wished.

A hollowed-out wooden wall sits between the two men, and daylight shines into the room from the stained glass on the west side, and the colored light is cut into countless mottled points of light, as fine as dust and noisy.

This confessional seems to exist forever at dusk, and the burning sunset outside the window stains the entire building red, and in it one can feel a divinity that is about to end, distant, grandiose, and pathetic.

"Will you tell me about your sins?" The priest sat in the hustle and bustle, staring at Qi Ji with a judgmental gaze.

The same lines, the same intonation, and those gray-green eyes looked equally devoid of emotion.

But Qi Zhen knew that peace was not in the priest's nature.

After all, camouflage is what prey does best.

Qi Jiu's Adam's apple slipped, and he also stared at the other party, and was silent for a while before speaking: "I do have something to repent of to you, but before I pray for atonement, I have a question for you. ”

"Father, what does it mean that the true God is dead?"

Qi Zhen deliberately paused, then raised the corners of his lips and continued to ask, "Also, is it a sin for the priest to bewitch the confessor to choose death?" ”

Chapter 79: Exile (16)

"The first question, I can tell you, because the true God is perfect."

After a brief silence, the priest's cold, flat voice came from the other side of the wall.

Qi Zhen heard a bit of regret from his cold tone.

This seemingly non-answering answer made Qi Yan frown.

Since the true God is perfect......

Isn't that understandable: because the headless god itself symbolizes the mutilation of limbs, so he is not perfect, and if he is imperfect, he cannot be a true god, so the headless god is just a false god who occupies the magpie's nest?

This can also explain that when the old woman in the school doctor's office saw Qi Ji, she exclaimed in panic: "Why did you come back?!" and repeatedly, "The true God is dead."

At that moment, she mistook Qi Zhen for the priest played by 079, and when she saw the priest, she thought that the true God had come to the world again.

It is likely that this old woman was a traitor who had betrayed the faith of the true god and converted to an evil god.

This copy invites 11 student players and 2 staff players to participate in the game each time, and the students and staff together form the number 13, and 13 itself has the meaning of "betrayal", so is it a metaphor for this school to be a gathering place for betrayers?

And the meaning of "exile" may not be the exile of so-called problem students, but the exile of teachers and staff who believe in false gods?

Qi Ji continued to ask: "Can a false god become a true god?" ”

He needed to determine whether the headless god who was nourishing the death of his students and regrowing his head could be transformed into a true god.

The priest's tone was calm: "What is false can never become true. ”

"I see, thank you, Father."

Qi Zhen got the answer he wanted, and he confirmed the guess in his heart even more - the pseudo-god can't really protect the safety of the faculty and staff, it is just using the faculty and staff to sacrifice students to gain power.

"The idol on the stairs has no facial features, so it can't be called "perfect", and is he also a false god?" Qi Zhen asked again.

Priest: "That's the true God of death, and death has made Him forgotten, so he has no facial features." ”

Qi Zhen: "Can the dead true God be resurrected?" ”

The priest stared at him silently, silently.

In the end, the priest did not answer his question, but said, "Your second question, I can swear to the true God, I have never deceived anyone into choosing death. ”

He accentuated the word "death" in his voice.

In an instant, Qi Zhen understood the meaning of the other party's words: "Thank you for Father Priest's guidance." ”

"Can you tell me about your sins?" The priest asked in a calm tone, but there was a demagogy in his eyes that he refused to admit.

This seemingly upright and ascetic priest is tricking believers into confessing "sin" to words and "truth" in this light-lit confessional chamber.

"I want to invite the priest to participate in a dangerous and interesting game, is it a sin?" Qi Yan smiled slightly defiantly.

The clergyman's collar was so tightly tied that the movement of the priest's Adam's apple sliding was particularly noticeable, and he said: "I accept your invitation. ”

*

Qi Ji woke up to the noise of the alarm clock, and the daylight shone in through the west corridor, just like the confessional in his dream, and it was dusk.

It's just that now he is in the damp and stuffy staff dormitory, and there is neither a glittering church, nor the priest who seems to be cold and calm, but in fact has been demagogic to appeal to sin.

Qi Yan washed his face with cold water, and heard the sound of the mobile phone "ding".

It was the "Precautions for Dormitory Night Duty" sent by the director of teaching——

"In order to ensure a healthy living environment and a good group living atmosphere for new students, and to ensure the personal safety of all staff and staff, the teachers who are responsible for night duty in the student dormitory are requested to follow the following rules:

1. Please complete the roll call of all surviving students before dark, ensure that every student appears in the dormitory, and notify all staff and staff to search for any student if you find any student missing, and make the student disappear by any means;

2. It is forbidden for any student to leave the dormitory building without permission after dark, please keep the teacher on duty vigilant at all times, once a student leaves the dormitory building without authorization, it will be regarded as a serious dereliction of duty, and the teacher on duty will be given a serious punishment;

3. Please inspect the dormitory every half an hour, and if you find that a student is playing supernatural games without authorization, or if you receive a report from a student in the dormitory, please go to the dormitory immediately to stop it;

4. Once it is found that the red candle light of the shrine in the dormitory is extinguished, please immediately escort all students in the dormitory into the small black room of the security room for reflection, and if necessary, the dormitory students can be searched and extorted confessions and other violent means to prevent the spread of this phenomenon among students;

5. Please be sure to keep the key to the dormitory door, once the key falls into the hands of the student, it will be counted as a serious dereliction of duty by the teacher on duty that night, and he will be given a serious punishment;

Please strictly follow the above requirements to carry out the night duty work in the dormitory area, and I wish you a happy duty."

In the attachment to the email, there is also a map of the school's dormitory area.

Qi Ji wrote down each rule and quickly analyzed it.

Soon, he discovered that the second rule was contradictory to the third.

So Qi Yan immediately dialed the number of the teaching director: "Good afternoon, I have received the "Precautions for Dormitory Night Duty", but I am a little uncertain and need to consult you, I hope it will not disturb you too much." ”

"What?" The dean on the other end of the line was obviously impatient, but he was forced to answer the other person's question because of his work, "What are you not sure about, you say." ”

Qi Jiu: "I see rule 3 that the teacher on duty must conduct a dormitory inspection every half an hour, but tonight I am a teacher on duty at night, and the guard room is unattended during the inspection, what if there are naughty students who take the opportunity to sneak out of the dormitory building?" ”

The director of teaching gave a faint "oh", and then said firmly: "If this is what you are worried about, then rest assured, I can tell you this, when you inspect the dormitory building, students will not be able to leave the dormitory building without a key anyway, so please be sure to keep the key to the dormitory gate, otherwise the consequences of the punishment will be very serious." ”

I see.

The dean's words can be understood to mean that there are no special props that can open the door to the dormitory, and the only way for students to leave is to steal the key to the dormitory door of the night teacher.

If the student knew about this rule, he would have tried to steal the key, but stealing the key would be regarded as a serious dereliction of duty on the part of the night teacher......

If students can't leave the dormitory, they won't be able to dig up clues about the patron gods in the student camp, and this copy will remain frozen in the existing plot line, how can this be good?

It seems tricky and passive......