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Chapter 334 When it gets dark, please close your eyes; when you goo goo, please open your eyes.

In an instant, 007 felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and in a daze, he felt that a murderer would come out and stab him to death at any moment.

At this moment, Gu Mian's words pulled 007 back up: "Of course, that's not realistic. I've been with him the whole time since we entered the dungeon, and he hasn't had time to hire someone."

007 chuckled, increasingly feeling that the three people in front of him were unreliable.

"With them around, can this game really proceed smoothly to the end?" 007 couldn't help but have doubts.

The school bell had already rung, and several teachers passed by them with strange expressions, as if wondering why these students weren't going to class.

Even within the dungeon, everyone upheld the fine human virtue of "minding one's own business."

Seeing that the students weren't from their classes, the teachers hurried past.

At this moment, Gu Mian and the others had moved to a secluded pavilion in the nearby woods. There were no lights in the woods, and 007 was still a little scared, but seeing that there were three other people next to him, he couldn't help but become bolder: "What are you doing hiding here?"

Gu Mian spoke in the darkness: "We plan to wait until we've basically finished patrolling before searching for the other players, classroom by classroom."

Upon hearing this, 007 suddenly became puzzled: "Didn't you encounter Yue Nu on the teaching building?"

Gu Mian remembered that 007 and Yue Nu were both players assigned to Class 23 of Senior High School, but why did they have to run into Yue Nu?

Seemingly sensing Gu Mian's thoughts, 007 continued, "After the last class this afternoon, we split up to try and find the other players. I searched at the cafeteria entrance, while she searched in the nearly deserted teaching building. You just came out of the teaching building; she should have run into you after all this time. How could she not have?"

Gu Mian shook her head. "Sorry, I really haven't seen it before."

007 was confused.

At this moment, the fat man next to him suddenly spoke up: "Brother Chu analyzed that one of our six players might be playing the ghost. Do you think that Yue Nu's mysterious disappearance might be because she went to kill someone alone?"

007's face stiffened: "You're saying there might be a ghost among us?"

Chu Changge nodded: "I suspect that one of the six players is playing the role of 'Ghost,' but in order to protect their identity, everyone's task panel is the same at the beginning. Once 'Ghost' understands the rules of the game, the task panel will change to 'Kill all civilians,' which means that the task of one of us four may have changed."

The fat man suddenly felt a chill run down his spine: "Anyway, my mission hasn't changed... and ours shouldn't have changed either, right..."

I can't bring up the quest panel to prove my innocence right now, because the game protects against this type of dungeon from being seen by others.

Gu Mian chuckled: "My mission has become killing all the civilians."

The fat man also gave an awkward yet polite smile.

Chu Changge raised his arm, revealing a digital watch: "But it's 7 p.m. now, and the ghost can only start killing people in an hour."

The ghost's murders occurred between 8 PM and 3 AM the following morning.

The fat man shifted his attention to Chu Changge's wrist: "Where did you get your watch?"

"It was stolen from Xu Xingcheng."

"..."

Speaking of Xu Xingcheng, Gu Mian remembered Zhang Pingfan, whom he had asked about.

As Gu Mian pondered, she looked at 007 in front of her: "Do you know Zhang Pingfan? He's one of the twelve people who participated in the game."

Just after Gu Mian spoke, 007 suddenly made a strange expression.

She looked at Gu Mian with a strange expression, and lowered her voice to say, "I was just about to tell you this. Come with me..."

After saying that, 007 quickly left the pavilion, and Gu Mian followed.

This Zhang Pingfan is indeed something, you can tell just by looking at 007 and Xu Xingcheng.

Chu Changge and the fat man followed.

There weren't many people on campus at night, and 007 didn't take them too far. Instead, they came to the roadside, where a sign stood under a streetlamp. By the light of the streetlamp, Gu Mian could see the notice posted on the sign.

【notice】

Zhang Pingfan, a student from Class 9 of Grade 11, went missing on September 24. Students who have seen Zhang Pingfan, please report to the teacher immediately.

disappeared?
One of the twelve players has gone missing?
Gu Mian frowned. 007 spoke up: "I learned from Li Wentao and Pan Yue that Zhang Pingfan usually likes to skip classes and climb over the school wall to leave the school. He is often nowhere to be found, and his parents are used to it, so they don't care... But this time he has been missing for a bit longer. In the past, he would only skip one or two classes and then come back."

Chu Changge's voice came from behind Gu Mian's head: "Today is September 25th, and Zhang Pingfan has been missing for a day."

“Hmm,” 007 nodded slightly, “Normally, I wouldn’t care if Zhang Pingfan disappeared for a few days, but isn’t this too much of a coincidence? He just played that game last week, and he’s disappeared this week. Could he have been killed by a ghost?”

The fat man spoke up: "That's not necessarily true. We suspect that a real ghost has infiltrated this game. Zhang Pingfan may have died before playing the game last week and participated in the game with the identity of a real ghost."

007 also said that the game only ended after everyone's identity was confirmed, at which point the ghost's role had already been assigned.

The mysterious disappearance of Zhang Pingfan, the elusive Yue Nu...

Of these twelve people... who is the ghost?

Gu Mian stared at the list in her hand.

Just then, he suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him.

The sound was like the gentle rubbing of a foot on the ground, which Chu Changge and the other two nearby also heard at the same time.

The group quickly turned around and saw a female student who looked frightened standing behind them in the dim light.

At this moment, Gu Mian was unable to describe her current feelings.

He didn't know why he kept running into familiar faces in this dungeon. Was it because the difficulty increased as the dungeon progressed, and there were fewer and fewer suitable teammates?
However, the girl in front of him didn't seem to be a good match for him...

Upon seeing the unfamiliar girl in front of him, 007 instinctively tried to open her player profile, and surprisingly, it actually opened.

The girl's game nickname was "Coco".

Before 007 could react, she saw Coco, who was not far from them, wearing a somewhat happy expression: "So it's you guys."

"So it's you guys?" 007 subconsciously took a step back, only to realize that Coco wasn't talking to him, but to the three men next to her.

Gu Mian still remembered that Coco was a player in that hide-and-seek instance. Speaking of hide-and-seek instance, Gu Mian thought of Ji Bieli, who was mysteriously killed. Who killed Ji Bieli is still a mystery.

Seemingly knowing that now was not the time for reminiscing, Coco got down to business after being happy for a while: "I am a student in Class 9 of Grade 11. Four people in my class also played the game 'When Darkness Falls' with me. I even managed to get the other people who played the game out of them... Since I only knew their names but not what they looked like, I was afraid of giving myself away, so I wanted to look for their photos on the honor roll downstairs. I didn't expect to see you guys as soon as I came down."

The honor roll, as the name suggests, is only for students who are outstanding in three aspects.

Displaying the photos of outstanding students in the glass enclosure, along with their names and classes, is also a form of honor.

I never expected Coco would come up with the idea of ​​finding out what other people's parents look like from the honor roll.

Gu Mian frowned, not thinking much about the honor roll, but focusing her attention on "Class 9, Grade 11".

"Are you in the same class as Zhang Pingfan?" Gu Mian asked. The mysteriously missing Zhang Pingfan was in Class 9 of the second year of high school.

Coco paused for a moment, then said, "Yes, the other people in our class who participated in this game are Zhang Pingfan, Li Yibai, Yuan Qinghua, and Guo Jimei."

Gu Mian, Chu Changge, and Fatty from Class 5, Grade 11;
Coco, Zhang Pingfan, Li Yibai, Guo Jimei, and Yuan Qinghua from Class 9, Grade 11;

007, Yue Nu, Li Wentao, and Pan Yue from Class 23 of Senior High School.

All twelve people are here.

These people are distributed across three classes. Could there be any pattern regarding their identities?

As the group remained silent, Coco, standing in the dim light, suddenly spoke up in a low voice: "I've played this type of game before. Aren't the ghosts always played by the players? So, among us now... there should be a ghost, right?"

It was a seemingly innocent and harmless voice, but the words sent a chill down one's spine.

Are there really ghosts among us?

Chu Changge silently raised his wristwatch: "It's 7:40 now."

The real game will begin in twenty minutes.

Ah Gugu wants to be a good child who updates on time!
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