Ethan Qi went upstairs and took a bucket of cold water from the washroom to wash himself. When he returned to the dormitory, he saw Liam Duan sitting at the desk looking at his phone.
Ethan Qi thought for a moment and asked, "What happened to the highway accident? Maybe Noah Zheng and the others are okay."
Liam Duan handed over the phone and said, "We are still in the process of rescuing them. There are too many cars involved in the accident, so the specific information is not very clear."
Ethan Qi glanced at his phone and was surprised to find that Liam Duan's phone had network. The treatment of NPCs and players was really different, and he couldn't help feeling a little unbalanced.
Liam Duan misunderstood Ethan Qi's meaning and said, "Maybe they are really fine, don't worry too much."
Ethan Qi looked up at Liam Duan and felt that his attitude was a little strange. His gentleness did not match his appearance at all.
Ethan Qi didn't sleep very well that night, not because today's experience was too strange, but because he was not used to it.
Ethan Qi is a hedonistic person. Even if he has no fixed place to live, he will choose an extremely comfortable place to live in the city where he is temporarily staying.
In short, he had not slept on a wooden bed since graduation. Now lying on the hard wooden bed again made Ethan Qi feel a little difficult to fall asleep.
Liam Duan, who was lying on the bed opposite, was very quiet, so quiet that there was no sound at all.
In this pitch-black environment, human hearing is infinitely amplified.
Ethan Qi recalled that when he was in college, he felt the same way when he couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night and could hear the chirping of insects in the grass.
In comparison, the situation in front of him was very different. There was no sound between heaven and earth, including the sound of insects. This sense of disharmony that existed everywhere reminded Ethan Qi at any time that he was not in a real world.
Ethan Qi felt that this silence was too unreal when a sound suddenly appeared in his ears.
Tick-tick-tick-tick
The sound of water dripping. It is not raining outside. Where does the sound of water dripping come from?
Maybe it was the sewer leaking from the balcony, which is understandable in such a shabby dormitory.
Ethan Qi turned over and fell asleep counting the regular sound of water drops.
When he woke up the next day, Liam Duan's bed had been made tidy, without a single wrinkle, as if no one had slept in it.
Ethan Qi scratched his hair, climbed out of bed, and glanced at the time.
Ten thirty in the morning.
Liam Duan pushed the door open and saw Ethan Qi got up. He just nodded and went back to his desk.
When Ethan Qi came back from washing up, Liam Duan was reading a book.
"Let's have lunch."
The two of them went into the cafeteria together, which was still deserted.
There were still only two windows open. Ethan Qi thought of the "chicken feet" he had yesterday and decided to go to another window to get his meal.
Ethan Qi saw Liam Duan carrying the food tray to the window he had seen yesterday and pulled him.
"Over here."
Liam Duan was a little confused. He didn't understand why two people had to squeeze into one window when there were clearly two windows.
Ethan Qi lowered his voice and said: "The cafeteria uncle at that window is not very hygienic..."
Liam Duan said, "Uncle? There are always only aunties serving food in the cafeteria, where did the uncle come from?"
...
Ethan Qi was stunned and walked to the side to take a look.
Sure enough, the person getting food at the window was a fat middle-aged lady.
"Maybe he's here to help temporarily?"
The TV in the cafeteria was still broadcasting the lunchtime news, with reports of plane crashes and a series of car accidents on the highway continuing to unfold.
The injured in the series of car accidents on the highway have been sent to the hospital, and the death toll is about twenty people.
However, the list would not be published in the news. Ethan Qi took a few glances at it and did not continue.
Liam Duan suddenly patted him: "That car..."
Ethan Qi looked up and saw a white business car appear in the camera.
"That car seems to belong to Noah Zheng and his team."
Ethan Qi was stunned for a moment and said, "They should have been injured and sent to the hospital. The voice on the phone yesterday was indeed Noah Zheng's."
Liam Duan nodded, not dwelling on the strange unknown caller, nor did he mention that he had not been able to get through to Noah Zheng and the others yet.
This time, the auntie who served the food was shaking with her spoon. Ethan Qi had no experience, so he ordered the dishes according to the amount given by the uncle yesterday. As a result, the only things left on the plate were side dishes like green peppers. He was a person who loved vegetables, but he was in a situation where he had no vegetables to eat.
Ethan Qi stood up and wanted to order more food, but found that one of the windows over there was closed. Through the glass of the only open window, he vaguely saw the honest face of the uncle from yesterday.
Just because Ethan Qi didn't vomit yesterday doesn't mean he is willing to find stir-fried human hands on his plate again. Even if it was just an illusion, it was still very disgusting.
"What's wrong?"
Ethan Qi saw Liam Duan looking at him suspiciously and replied, "I want to add a dish..."
Perhaps it was his personality and the awkward expression on his face that made Liam Duan misunderstand something. He stood up and said as he walked towards the window: "I don't like the food in the cafeteria. I guess I won't be able to use up all the money in my meal card by the time I graduate."
Ethan Qi looked at his back and was stunned for a moment before he realized that Liam Duan misunderstood that he was so poor that he didn't dare to order another dish.
After thinking about the balance he had just seen, Ethan Qi had to admit that Liam Duan's inference was very logical.
After he sat down, he saw Liam Duan's mobile phone on the table, the screen was on, and a search interface was open.
Liam Duan’s mobile phone can access the Internet, and Ethan Qi remembered this.
He looked back at Liam Duan, estimated the time he would return, then took the phone and entered the keywords.
The boarding list provided by the airline has been released in full, and Liam Duan's name is not on it.
Not long after Ethan Qi closed the page and put his phone back, Liam Duan came over with a plate of food.
Liam Duan had almost finished eating, and he just watched Ethan Qi eat quietly.
This kind of atmosphere made Ethan Qi feel a little awkward, so he just found a topic at random.
"Before Jake Wu left, he said that the place we live in now was originally a girls' dormitory, and there was an incident there?"
Liam Duan nodded and said, "Yes, there was indeed a girl who was murdered during the holiday, and then there were several cases of people jumping off buildings. Some people linked these things together, saying that Dormitory No. 4 was too gloomy and full of resentment."
Ethan Qi saw that Liam Duan frowned slightly, as if he was somewhat disdainful of these statements, so he did not ask any more questions.
He just thought it was a bit strange that the theme of this game had not been made clear yet. According to the veterans in the previous novice class, all the strange events in the game were related.
These supernatural events will be connected into a main line, from which the conditions for escape can be found.
However, it is already the second day, and the information Ethan Qi has obtained can still only be sorted into two unrelated main lines.
One is a murder case in the No. 4 girls' dormitory, and the other is a roommate whose life or death is unknown.
Ethan Qi raised his head and glanced at Liam Duan, always feeling that this man's appearance was no accident.
His intuition has always been accurate. Liam Duan's presence is too strong. Even though his name was not on the list of people who had just crashed, Ethan Qi never let go of his doubts.
"Finished?"
Ethan Qi came back to his senses and realized that he had been staring at Liam Duan for a long time in a very rude manner.
The other party only raised the question at this time, which showed his patience.
Ethan Qi couldn't help but have a thought in his mind. After getting to know Liam Duan, he didn't seem to be as aloof and unapproachable as described in the diary. He seemed inexplicably considerate.
***
After coming out of the cafeteria, Liam Duan said he wanted to buy some things, so the two went to the supermarket near the cafeteria together.
This supermarket is quite large and has everything from snacks, daily necessities to stationery and books, taking the needs of college students into full consideration.
The name is also very campus-specific, it is called "Education Supermarket".
Ethan Qi was not used to following others around the supermarket, so he wandered to the stationery section alone, and then he saw something he liked and was determined to buy it even if it cost him all his money.
When paying the bill, Liam Duan looked at Ethan Qi with some surprise.
"Can you draw?"
Ethan Qi smiled and said, "I learned a little bit before, and it's just a good way to kill time during the holidays."
"It's good to be able to draw." Liam Duan paused and said, "I admire people who can draw."
Ethan Qi was not the one who had a crush on Liam Duan, and his heartbeat did not speed up because of this ambiguous sentence. The reason why he bought the sketchbook and colored pencils was simple: he was bored.
Ethan Qi has two hobbies in his life, Internet and painting. Now that he has no Internet, he can only kill some boring time by painting.
He is not a proactive person, and he has no intention of actively looking for clues, quickly clearing the level and killing everyone to reach the top of the game.
There will always be a way when you reach the mountain. If the car hasn’t arrived yet, just enjoy the moment.
Even in a supernatural escape game full of dangers, Ethan Qi's philosophy of life will not change at all.
As the two walked out of the supermarket, Ethan Qi's cell phone rang. The name on the screen was Teacher Zhao from the Work-Study Center.
Ethan Qi then remembered that he was a poor student and was almost unable to afford food.
"Hello, Mr. Zhao."
The tone on the other end of the phone was a little bad: "Student Qi, what's wrong with you? I've already notified you to go to the cafeteria to wash dishes today, why haven't you gone there yet?"
Ethan Qi was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "Sorry, I'll be right there."
Sure enough, in this escape game, even if you don’t do anything, clues will come to you.
Ethan Qi felt more and more that his way of playing the game was absolutely correct, so he said something to Liam Duan and returned to the cafeteria alone.
Half an hour later, Ethan Qi was squatting in the cafeteria kitchen washing dishes.
He was not a lazy person, as his experiences in his youth had made him very skillful in washing dishes. After washing the dishes, Ethan Qi was also responsible for cleaning the kitchen and pushing the trash can to the designated place outside.
Suddenly, a foreign object in the sink attracted Ethan Qi's attention.
It's shiny and doesn't look like food residue or anything like that.
Ethan Qi thought about it, and relying on the rubber gloves he was wearing, he went straight to fish out the unknown object in the sink. If he didn't collect clues, he probably wouldn't be able to make any progress.
The unknown object in the sink was a nail, and the sparkling thing was the rhinestones stuck on the nail.
The edge of the broken nail is jagged and very uneven. From this shape, you can imagine how painful the owner of the nail was when it broke.
Ethan Qi pinched the nail, but he didn't feel creepy. Instead, he just remembered the things Jake Wu had sent him before.
The perpetrator of the R@p3 and murder case that took place in the girls' dormitory that year was never caught, but from the various rumors that had leaked out, everyone believed that it was an extremely vicious and perverted killer.
Not only did he brutally kill the girl, he also cut off her hands.
Until the end, the whereabouts of the girl's hands were never found.
The red nails, the strange hands of the uncle in the cafeteria, and the human hands that appear in the spicy fried chicken feet, the plot line of the girls' dormitory No. 4 has become very clear.
If the victim is the main plot of this escape game, then the condition for escape should be to avenge her?
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