A Judge in Escape Game Chapter 2

Ethan Qi is a very lazy person and rarely takes the initiative to do anything to change the situation around him.

Things in front of us are a little different. According to the explanation of the veteran just now, the scope of the ghost space is not large and is generally confined to this place.

For example, Ethan Qi’s game should be played within the scope of a university campus, a place without internet, takeout and Taobao, Ethan Qi cannot stay there.

He sorted out the clues at hand: the university campus, the former girls' dormitory, and roommates who went out to travel. These were some key information.

The theme of the game is not yet clear, and the conditions for escape are not clear.

All Ethan Qi could do was go out for a walk.

He looked at the time. It was now past five in the afternoon. According to the movements of college students, they should be going to the cafeteria to have dinner.

Just now in the novice class, Ethan Qi seemed absent-minded, but he remembered the key information in his mind.

In this escape game, it is very important that each character has certain settings. Before finding the conditions for escape, it is best not to deviate from the character settings, otherwise it may cause the plot boss to appear early.

To use game terms, when your level is low, you should just collect information and upgrade. If you encounter a boss during this period, you will be killed instantly.

Thinking of this, Ethan Qi went out and walked towards the cafeteria.

Most people in the school had left. Even at dinner time, the cafeteria was empty with only a few people.

Only two or three windows in the cafeteria were open, and there weren't many choices.

Ethan Qi randomly picked a window to get his meal.

The cafeteria uncle in the window was dark and strong. He looked very honest and a nice person. He didn't shake the spoon when he was slicing meat for Ethan Qi.

But something seemed wrong, so Ethan Qi took a step forward and got closer to take a look.

The hand holding the spoon was white and slender, well-maintained, and painted with bright red nail polish.

Ethan Qi looked up and saw the simple-minded uncle whose forehead wrinkles looked like they were dug out with a rake. He looked like a man who worked hard all year round. Whether it was his white and slender hands or the nail polish on his fingertips, they seemed to be out of harmony with him.

"Classmate, what's wrong? Are you not full? I'll give you some more."

The deep voice of the uncle working in the cafeteria sounded, and Ethan Qi came back to his senses.

Looking at the hand again, it was different again. The skin was dark and rough, and covered with calluses.

Ethan Qi smiled and said, "No, that's enough."

He swiped his card and left with his plate. After walking a few steps, Ethan Qi looked back and saw the cafeteria uncle lowering his head to serve food to other students.

The uncle seemed to feel an itch on the side of his face and raised his hand to scratch it.

Ethan Qi vaguely saw that it seemed to be a strand of black hair falling down.

In this game, physiological functions still work normally. Unless you are killed by evil spirits, you will starve to death if you don't eat.

Ethan Qi felt hungry, so he temporarily put aside his doubts about the uncle in the cafeteria and found a seat to sit down and eat.

He was sitting opposite a TV which was showing the evening news.

Since there was no network on his cell phone, Ethan Qi could only watch the news while eating out of boredom.

"...Flight TD2485 to country F suffered a mechanical failure five minutes after takeoff and exploded over the airport..."

"...A chain accident occurred on the Gui'an Expressway. The expressway has been closed. Please take a detour..."

Two consecutive pieces of news, both of which are not good.

Ethan Qi didn't think too much about it at first, but the conversation between the two girls behind him caught his attention.

"I heard that Liam Duan from the Software Engineering Department is going to Country F during the summer vacation. I don't think so..."

"What are you talking about? There are so many flights to country F, how can I be so unlucky..."

Ethan Qi lowered his eyes and seemed to be eating seriously, but in fact he kept the two pieces of news and the discussion of the girls behind him in mind.

This is not the real world. In this strange game world, perhaps an inadvertent sentence is key information.

The plane crash, the car accident, Liam Duan going abroad, Noah Zheng and Jake Wu going on a self-driving tour, all these seemed to be linked with the previous information to form a logical chain.

Could it be that the theme of this game is related to roommates? Ethan Qi thought of this and looked back at the direction of the uncle in the cafeteria. What were those strange things just now? A side quest?

Ethan Qi's chopsticks stopped, not because he was thinking too deeply, but because he saw something strange on the plate.

Today's dishes are a spicy fried chicken feet and a stir-fried vegetable.

Thanks to the uncle in the cafeteria who didn't shake the spoon just now, the spicy fried chicken feet were very generous. After eating the top few pieces, the chicken feet hidden underneath were revealed.

The piece in front of me doesn't look like chicken feet at all. The chicken feet were fried in oil before frying, the skin is wrinkled, and because they were marinated with dark soy sauce, they are brown in color.

If you don't pay too much attention to it, most people will just eat it and won't notice anything strange.

Ethan Qi is an illustrator who is very sensitive to human and animal structures.

Even the spicy fried chicken feet are fried at high temperature, causing them to become dehydrated and shrunk into a ball. If you look closely, you can still see that the structure is not that of chicken feet.

He picked up the chicken claw and exposed the part underneath, revealing the familiar red nails in front of Ethan Qi.

Ethan Qi looked at it for a while, then threw the chicken feet and chopsticks into the plate.

"This nail polish is really good quality..."

After saying that, he picked up the plate and walked towards the trash can.

When Ethan Qi walked out of the cafeteria, he didn't feel too nauseous.

Seeing is not necessarily believing.

Ethan Qi has been particularly interested in supernatural stories since he was able to read. He has read a large number of related books over the years, and most of the illustrations he drew are related to gods, ghosts and monsters.

Perhaps it was some strange talent that allowed him to distinguish between those strange stories that made sense and those that were complete nonsense, as if he had once worked in a related profession.

After seeing the human hand on the plate, Ethan Qi felt nauseous for a moment, and then he remembered some books he had read before.

Evil spirits cannot directly contact humans who are full of vitality. They can only affect people's five senses and make them feel fear. When fear or other emotions accumulate to a certain level, the three fires on the shoulders that protect the human soul become weak, and then the evil spirits can do whatever they want.

Ethan Qi has always acted on his intuition. He did not dwell too much on where his understanding of these things came from and just accepted it as a matter of course.

The human hand that just appeared on the plate may not be real.

Although the sudden discovery made Ethan Qi lose his appetite, it did not make him feel creepy or nauseous to the point of vomiting out the food he had eaten the previous night.

July was the height of summer, and the tall trees on both sides of the walking path could not resist the rolling heat. The evening sun unscrupulously penetrated the heavy protection of the leaves and fell on the pedestrians.

Ethan Qi walked listlessly towards the dormitory. The fact that the shabby dormitory was not equipped with air conditioning made him even more depressed.

There is no internet and no air conditioning, so it is best to leave as soon as possible.

Ethan Qi entered the dormitory with this mentality, but when he stepped into the dormitory building, he was greeted with a small surprise.

His whole body cooled down.

The lighting in the dormitory building is not very good, it is pitch black and it seems like an extra-powerful air conditioner is installed inside.

Very comfortable.

Ethan Qi narrowed his eyes in satisfaction and then walked towards the stairwell.

There was almost no sound in the entire dormitory building except for Ethan Qi's footsteps.

He suddenly stopped and turned to look.

The sunlight outside seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall, leaving a clear boundary in front of the dormitory building.

Ethan Qi turned around not to lament the high temperature outside, but because he heard footsteps.

The footsteps were not his.

That was the sound of high heels. Where did the sound of high heels come from in this boys' dormitory?

Ethan Qi turned around and looked at the dormitory manager's room again, but there was no one inside.

The boys' dormitory is not managed strictly and there are few people there now, so it is common to see the dormitory manager not on duty.

"It affects the five senses. In the cafeteria, it was vision. Now it's hearing?"

Ethan Qi shrugged, dropped his shoulders and dragged his feet up the stairs. A dormitory building without an elevator was an anti-human design.

He returned to the dormitory and sat at his desk for a while before he stood up and began to look through the things belonging to his character.

A few minutes later, he found a diary in the most secret place of the drawer. A diary is definitely the best way to understand the character.

The gaming veteran who had spoken in the novice class previously said that the game modes are divided into single-player mode and multiplayer mode.

The theme of the single-player mode game revolves around the character played by the player, while the multiplayer mode is a story in which all players enter a certain location.

To put it simply, the single-player mode is similar to a role-playing game, while the multiplayer mode is an online game played in a team.

In this case, the theme of this escape game must revolve around oneself.

What Ethan Qi is not sure about now is whether the same theme is related to several roommates or the strange events surrounding the cafeteria uncle, or both.

After reading the diary, Ethan Qi fell into a long period of silence.

The contents of the diary were beyond his expectations.

The character he played was a young man who came from a remote mountain village, so the first half of the diary was mostly about his uneasiness about the unfamiliar environment and his anxiety about finding it difficult to integrate into the surrounding environment.

The content of the second half, however, is of a completely different style, completely turning into a secret love diary.

The object of his secret crush is his roommate, Liam Duan.

In fact, in Ethan Qi's view, this secret love is more like a longing.

In the description of the diary, even with the filter of secret love, Liam Duan is still a cold and mysterious person. He is not very sociable and rarely interacts with classmates and even roommates in the dormitory.

Liam Duan is a somewhat arrogant person.

This kind of personality and the diary owner who has some inferiority complex in his bones should not be compatible. So what happened in the middle that made his admiration gradually turn into love?

Ethan Qi's fingers slid across the middle of the diary, leaving rough, jagged paper there, probably because a few pages had been torn off.

What is torn off is crucial.

"What are you looking at? You look so lost in thought."

A deep and magnetic voice sounded behind him.

Ethan Qi's hand trembled and he closed the diary subconsciously.

The reason is simple. The voice comes from the person who frequently appears in the diary, Liam Duan.

Liam Duan was carrying the suitcase he had brought with him when he left in the morning, without changing his clothes.

He stood in the dilapidated dormitory, and the already narrow space somehow felt even more cramped.

It's too oppressive. I don't know why this self-deprecating person would have a crush on someone who is so aggressive. Ethan Qi thought so in his heart, but put on a polite smile on his face.

"Why are you back to school? Aren't you going abroad to play?"

"I don't want to go."

Liam Duan's answer was very much in his style, concise yet full of the willfulness of a nouveau riche.

After he finished speaking, he turned back to his desk, opened his suitcase and packed his things.