Chapter 83 - Little White Mice

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There was an elevator in the classroom building, but for the sake of safety, they did not take the elevator and chose to climb the stairs instead.

Ta ta ta—

After that sound passed, an elegant female voice sounded from the phone receiver. NMvO2C

“The number you dialled is not valid, please verify before…”

Wu Jia issued a short “huh” before he said: “We clearly managed to get through when we dialled the number prior to this, and it was a man who picked up the call.”

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Why were they failing to get through when they were inside in the game copy instead?

Zhou Wenyan concentrated his gaze on the name card as if he was thinking. f4LUIR

The Short-haired Woman proceeded to ask: “What did he say after the call went through?”

Wu Jia: “I don’t remember. It feels like we immediately entered the game copy once the call went through.”

Shen Dongqing mulled over it, “I can’t recall it either.”

Zhou Wenyan flipped the card in his hands. After inspecting both faces of the card, he determined that it was exactly the same as the previous game token. 2Jcldg

“It seems like…”

Before he could finish his words, the Bespectacled Lady who was shrinking in the corner screamed: “AH—”

That skeletal specimen started moving. Even ghosts knew the principle of picking the softest persimmon; it latched onto the Bespectacled Lady’s arms, its belly made out of rib bones opening like a gaping maw that was threatening to devour the Bespectacled Lady whole.

Panicked, the Bespectacled Lady yelled out: “Save me, save me!” OG7yM5

Half of her body had already entered the skeletal stomach.

Being the closest to her, Shen Dongqing raised his foot and kicked the skeletal specimen into pieces, thus toppleing to the ground.

The skeletal specimen was extremely fragile to begin with; with a single collision, it broke into countless pieces and only its empty skull rolled around on the ground.

The Short-haired Lady said: “It seems like the ghosts in this game copy can’t even withstand a single blow.” LNeok7

Judging from the two ghosts that were easily dealt with, the difficulty of this game copy did not seem like it belonged to the S-level at all.

The skeletal head rolled one round, stopping at Zhou Wenyan’s feet.

Zhou Wenyan bent over to pick up the sign that dropped from the skull. He uttered, “It’s the exact opposite.”

Unable to comprehend his words, the Short-haired Woman looked over doubtfully. GSJ7Ow

Shen Dongqing sat on the table and swung his legs. In an unexpected feat, he commented: “I get it. Up until now, that foolish game voice hasn’t appeared once.”

After saying that, he peered at Zhou Wenyan as if he was asking for praise.

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In response, Zhou Wenyan leaned over to kiss Shen Dongqing’s cheek to reward him, as if there was no one in their vicinity.

Wu Jia had become accustomed to their endless and sporadic displays of affection a long time ago, and his expression conveyed that he was blind and he did not see anything. 2 MvJu

On the other hand, the Short-haired Woman shifted her gaze away with some awkwardness.

Zhou Wenyan: “There is no clearance criteria.”

In most of the copies, the game would always spout a passage of nonsense in the beginning.

The game employed a ridiculous number of styles to convey said nonsense, but the content was virtually the same; it was nothing more than the fixed duration that the players had to survive through in the game, or the riddle they had to solve. Rj0KI8

But in this copy, there was nothing.

This was the biggest riddle.

Wu Jia came to a sudden realisation: “We didn’t even encounter a task-issuing NPC!”

The students, teachers, vendors, and passers-by could not even count as NPC. They lived their lives in this word peacefully like ordinary people and they were not in touch with the world’s core at all. TUwYAG

Wu Jia started fretting, “What should we do right now then?”

The Short-haired Woman also sank into deep contemplation.

Not having a criteria was the most troublesome thing to encounter because they did not even know where they should begin tackling the problem.

Zhou Wenyan fiddled with the newly obtained sign, clipping the ice-cold sign that had the letters “A-5” engraved between his slender and long fingers. Underneath the illumination of his phone’s flashlight, the sign had a moving gloss. Ax8o 9

Would ghosts starting with the letter “B” appear later? The reason why there were no ghosts in the city, was it because they were being reared in an enclosure by the Life Science Research Company?

Shen Dongqing opened his mouth to say, “Maybe…”

In the silence, his voice attracted all the players’ eyes. He pursed his lips into a smile as he uttered: “Since we can’t think of anything right now, maybe we should go and eat supper first!”

Shen Dongqing’s masterstroke— If you meet something you cannot resolve, eat first. TflcFW