"Guo Guo? Guo Guo!"

A second before he lost consciousness, Guo Guo heard a familiar voice.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself sitting in a bright and spacious office.

The layout of the office is very similar to the two she has seen before, but the difference is that this office has two large and transparent windows, and the shadows of green trees and sunlight penetrate into the glass, leaving mottled shadows in the house.

Such an ordinary sight made Guo Guo stunned for several seconds.

Since she entered the game, she has seen all the windows, basically accompanied by the vast fog outside. There are only a few sights and sunlight, and it feels fake and cold.

But this office makes people feel real...even warm?

To put it simply, she was a little uncomfortable in the sun.

The second subconscious reaction when she came back to her senses was to look for the shadow of the stickman.

Because the three stickman classmates existed in the first two offices, she was accustomed to thinking that she had broken into each other's territory again. But after looking around, there was no one in the room except her.

...Then the scene she saw before she fell into a coma was also fake?

Where is this place?

With a ding, the phone prompted to recall Guo Guo's thoughts. However, this time, instead of a message, a call interface popped up:

[Your contact [Tang Xinjue] applied for a call, do you accept it? 】

! ! !

Guo Guo connected on the spot at a speed of 001 seconds, and a familiar female voice sounded on the phone:

"Don't look around, I'm right here."

Guo Guo: ? ? ? ! ! !

She immediately asked, "Then why can't I see you? You, you are the secret, right?"

Tang Xinjue: "It's me. Is it time for the familiar history of exposure? The first time you were hung on the campus lost and found wall was because a schoolbag was left in the classroom, and unfortunately, the schoolbag was full of □Familiar..."

Guo Guo: "Yes, yes, yes! I believe you are the God of Jue!"

She patted her forehead with a guilty conscience, and quickly asked, "Then what's your situation now? Is there something wrong? Do you need my help?"

Tang Xinjue: "No problem, but I'm afraid that showing up will scare you, so I might as well contact you by phone."

"Showing your face will scare me?" Guo Guo repeated this sentence, her heart sank, and countless terrifying images flashed, her eyes reddened: "It doesn't matter, Xinjue, no matter what you become, I will not be afraid. Yes. Woohoo, I also brought a lot of medicines, Zhang You said that there are all kinds of medicines in it! Are you in pain now? I'm sorry I'm late..."

Tang Xinjue: "...I'm not injured, don't worry, at least there are definitely no wounds that you are fantasizing about in your head now."

She explained: "The main reason is that the state is a bit strange, and you may not be able to accept it for a while. If you have to describe it, um, you can imagine a person who is as tall as me and can move normally in three-dimensional space, but the body is two-dimensional. ……Matchstick Men?"

Matchstick Men?

Guo Guo was silent for a few seconds, and then said sincerely: "No, I think I should be used to it."

After all, is there anything more normal in the world than seeing a stickman in the third dimension?

Of course, there may be a little difference between seeing an unfamiliar stickman and seeing the person you are most familiar with become a stickman.

"I'm only half free now, and my body is still trapped here. I can only move in a limited room and can't go out to find you, so I sent a message to ask you to come to me."

"You are really good, Guoguo. Your will is stronger than I expected, and you were not affected by the illusion until you came in. Take a good rest first, at least temporarily here is absolutely safe."

Guo Guo smiled: "I'm actually fine! The main thing is that I think, Wan Qing and Zhang You are both lying in the dormitory, and I am the only one, so I must persevere to the end, even if it rains of knives, I have to find it. you, uh..."

As she spoke, she couldn't help swallowing even more.

When faced with danger and the unknown alone, she can stay strong and calm. However, once he returned to his trusted teammates, all the softness and grievances came uncontrollably. Guo Guo held back a few times, but still couldn't hold back, tears streaming out frantically:

"You don't know the secret of the heart. There is a particularly disgusting monster pretending to be you and staying with us. We were afraid and pretended not to know. Later we drove it away, but Wan Qing and Sister You were both injured. , I used props to keep their breath, but I am so afraid that this breath will be broken, I am afraid that there will be no chance of resurrection in the future, and I will never see you again."

"I know, you did a great job, really. Trust me, we'll never be apart again."

Tang Xinjue's voice also softened. Although he couldn't see the other person's figure, Guo Guo could feel that she was right in front of him.

Guo Guo cried bitterly, and then sniffed and wiped away her tears: "Hmm! I'll be better in the future, eh? What's the sound?"

She was suddenly alert: "I just heard the shutter sound, you won't take a picture of me crying, will you?"

Tang Xinjue said innocently, "No, I'm on the phone with you, how can I take a photo."

"Huh, that's fine..."

"I made a video."

"???"

Seeing that Guo Guo was about to explode, Tang Xinjue promptly changed the subject: "Have you seen the new candidates?"

"Yes! How did you do it?" Guo Guo was successfully distracted, and his expression instantly changed to admiration: "Did you use those experience cards?"

Tang Xinjue smiled and said, "I couldn't use it originally. But who knows, they have arranged a customer service position for me impartially."

...

From Tang Xinjue's words, Guo Guocai finally understood what happened in the places where the candidates could not see.

Although they had already imagined many pits that the dungeons would dig before entering this exam, what they actually encountered was the most vicious one—Tang Xinjue, who disappeared at the beginning, was not attacked or injured, and is "changed".

"Remember that before I went to college, I worked as a part-time customer service worker in a non-existent [university town]?" Tang Xinjue said calmly: "I was pulled into that state again, but this time the customer service staff The object becomes you."

She still retains some habits and thinking, but no specific consciousness and memory. Both body and soul were compressed into an inhuman and strange state, and at the same time, her position changed from the candidate's side to a ghost.

For the 606, this is undoubtedly a double-edged sword. Whether it was Guo Guo and the three who won, or whether the ghost "represented" by Tang Xinjue won, it all represented the demise of the other party. But again, no matter how hard they try, they are destined to not be judged to be successful in customs clearance.

"This is a trap. The people behind it are very clever. Even if you find out later, there is no way to save me from leaving."

Even in order to ensure that they had no chance of life, the other party specially arranged for ghouls to come in and pretend to be Tang Xinjue. One was to delay the progress of 606, and the other was to backstab at any time.

Of course, the operation to erase their last hope of survival falls on customer service.

From this point of view, the other party at least knows a little about their habit of being diligent in reporting, and I don't know how to make all the reports and complaints in this copy be delayed. By the time the 606 report was really passed on, it would have already been wiped out in the dungeon.

Even though most of the crisis had passed, when he went back to the game with Tang Xinjue's description, Guo Guo still felt a little hard to breathe: "What a cruel game, how did Xinjue escape?"

"That's why I said that they only knew a little about us." Tang Xinjue: "There is no necessary connection between the two things that I was replaced and [606 could not clear the customs]. Similarly, using the rules to temporarily trap me , and the successful erasure of my consciousness, there is no necessary connection."

She left herself three prohibitions ahead of time.

The first is to prevent the identity from being impersonated, so that the other party cannot take action on Guo Guo and the others.

The second way prevents consciousness from being manipulated, and seals up some abilities to delay unlocking, which happens to break the confinement of the rules.

Of course, when she was speaking, she only said the first two to Guo Guo, and concealed the third prohibition.

She would not tell Guo Guo that the third prohibition was a self-destruction program to prevent her from completely losing herself.

The "key" to start this process is divided into three parts, one is in Zheng Wanqing's right arm, the other is in Zhang You's glasses, and the last is in Guo Guo's mind. When the other two lose consciousness and receive danger from her in Guo Guo's cognition, this judgment will automatically take effect.

But it doesn't matter, this ban is no longer necessary in the future, so naturally there is no need to tell Guo Guo.

"So, from the beginning, the customer service of the fraud gang was actually you?" Guo Guo recalled while recovering her strength: "You still cheated me for 128 yuan and 8!"

"I didn't wake up at that time." Tang Xinjue said helplessly: "I can't help it, I'll do my duty. But thanks to you guys, I was able to wake up earlier."

The most useful thing for her happened to be the fire that Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You set before they left on the night of self-study. Although it did little damage to the teaching building, it succeeded in loosening the control of the rules for a while, speeding up her "wake up".

But even if she regained consciousness, she could not contact her roommate immediately. One is that it is still under supervision, and the other is that the situation of the copy has been determined, and it is difficult to find the possibility of breaking the situation from the inside.

However, the forces that arranged all this should never have imagined. They just gave her the most easy tool to break the game-the customer service identity.

Being able to "benefit the public for personal gain" on the side of the copy system in a reasonable, legal and compliant manner, even Tang Xinjue couldn't think of any more convenient way to do things.

Is it appropriate not to make a big wave?

Guo Guo's eyes widened: "Then you brought in more than 100 candidates?"

"I didn't pull more than a hundred."

Tang Xinjue corrected: "I pulled more than 300."

After testing it again, she found that the various experience cards of the study committee members were the best ones to use. As long as you do a little operation in the background of the system and spend a little time, you can combine the effects of the props, delete the points that need to be spent, and transfer the cost to the copy, successfully realizing a free "large-scale door-to-door event".

"Be considerate of the limited energy of the dungeon. Pulling too many people in one breath may get stuck. The second and third waves may take a while."

In a place where Guo Guo couldn't see, Tang Xinjue shrugged and glanced at his phone: "However, it's almost here."

Guo Guo: "The candidates are coming soon?"

"No, not a candidate." Tang Xinjue denied it with a smile, "It's another person—if you can still call him a person."

Guo Guo was stunned for a moment, and then she looked at the door with a feeling. saw that the door handle was gently pressed down, and the door opened.

A thin man in a black suit and a black top hat walked in.

The man's hat is so low that he can barely see his face, but it's not surprising. Because if you look closely, you'll find that you can't really see anywhere on his body.

But when he spoke, Guo Guo immediately knew who he was:

"Long time no see, two classmates. Your behavior is really respectful and surprising to me - especially this classmate Tang, the loss you have caused me in a short period of time has exceeded all the accidents in the university town in the past year combined. The sum of the losses, hello again."

The man in the black hat, or Mr. Boo, symbolically raised his hat, revealing a little pale chin in respect.

Tang Xinjue's clear voice came from the phone: "Then you should get used to it sooner, Mr. Bu. After all, you also know that with the number of students in the game, sooner or later there will be countless people who are similar to me, or even better than me. Imaginative road, system collapse is only a matter of time. Can your university town control a gang of ghosts, and can control hundreds of thousands of living people?"

"Borrow your auspicious words." Mr. Bu nodded lightly and asked at the same time: "But before that, can I ask if I can see you in the room? It seems like I'm talking to the air, making people feel Terrible."

"No." Tang Xinjue ruthlessly refused: "Because I'm just a stickman."

Mr. Bu: "..."

"Okay." He compromised: "But before we get to the point, there is one more thing to correct, and that is: the university town is not mine. Whether it is the original version or the current version, the university town does not belong to me."

Guo Guo asked subconsciously, "Then who does it belong to?"

Mr. Bu's hat turned to Guo Guo: "Why does it have to belong to someone? I thought it was a situation that everyone could easily understand: a university town is an objective existence."

"You can think of it as a city, a school, a world or a stinking ditch, but no matter what you think about it, like it or not, how you speculate on history or deconstruct it, it's just a running objective existence, that's all ."

He turned the direction slightly again: "Then now, let's return to a more interesting topic. Classmate Tang Xinjue, what do you want?"

The man spread his hands: "In view of some equally objective rules, even if you have made such a serious disturbance of the order, we cannot arbitrarily erase or dispose of you. Because this proves that even in such a harsh examination, you are still It is full of the most vigorous vitality that a human being can have. According to the rules, the next instance will collapse on its own, and you will receive even higher and richer rewards. Many freshmen will take advantage of this residual heat and go further on the road of studying in a university town— But that's not what you want, is it?"

"From the point of view that I only have very little left, and I can really feel your sincere emotions, I believe that these rewards are not what you really want, otherwise your destruction of the system will not contain so much anger. Let's be Let's make a deal, and spare me, an aging and lonely laborer."

Mr. Bo repeated word by word:

"Classmate Tang, what do you want?"

Tang Xinjue listened to him quietly, and then replied:

"We have only one appeal from beginning to end, and you should be very clear."

"Get out of here and come back to reality."

"That's what we want."