Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

Be a kind person;

If everyone around you disappears, be aware that you may be being watched.

"Previously, while staying in the villa in the surface world, there was no opportunity to interact with anyone other than the player."

"Now that we have students everywhere, perhaps we should start paying attention to the reminder to be a kind person from now on."

With this in mind, he made himself obedient and embraced the identity of a model student.

It wasn't until get out of class ended that Fan Xiao approached the girl at the next desk and stared intently at her face for a long time.

When the girl blushed and dared not look directly at his handsome face, he smiled and said, "You are very beautiful."

"Uh... thank you, but I'm not pretty. You, um, you... you're very handsome."

The girl replied awkwardly, almost as if it were just a casual remark.

Fan Xiao pulled his chair forward and sat down next to the girl's desk, resting his elbow on the edge of the desk and propping his cheek up with one hand. He said leisurely, "Can I ask you a few questions?"

"Um……"

The girl felt strange, but still nodded slightly.

“The first one,” Van Shaw asked, “what’s my name?”

"...Huh?" The girl was taken aback. "Seal, what's wrong with you?"

"You know my game nickname? Is it because I wrote it down on a piece of paper before...?" Fan Xiao pondered as he felt the scraps of paper in his pocket.

Yes, the piece of paper is still there.

It's called "Seal"... That's a really awkward name.

"Nothing much, I was just curious if you remembered my name," Fan Xiao said with a smile. "Turns out you did. It seems... I hold a significant place in your heart."

"No, no..."

The girl blushed and quickly waved her hand, saying, "We're all classmates, isn't it normal to remember each other's names?"

"It would be a miracle if it were normal..." Fan Xiao thought to himself.

"It seems the students here aren't normal humans. I just finished writing my nickname, and they already knew... They can passively receive information from the copy?"

"From this perspective, these students, teachers, and other school staff may all be pure copies."

It is a copy.

Instead of duplicate creatures.

They may look like a living person, but they might not actually be alive...

"This is Qingshan Academy, right?" Fan Xiao continued to ask.

"Seal, are you... alright?" The girl's eyes were slightly strange as she asked, "Of course this is Qingshan Academy, why do you ask?"

"Sigh, you probably don't know, but when I got out of bed this morning, I accidentally bumped my head and developed amnesia. I can't remember some parts of my memory."

Fan Xiao began to spout nonsense with a straight face: "That's why I wanted to ask you some common sense questions."

"Uh... really?"

The girl looked clearly suspicious.

“Of course it’s fake,” Fan Xiao laughed, “but just pretend it’s real and play a quiz game with me. After all, breaks between classes are boring, aren’t they?”

"Ok."

"Now I have my third question—what's your name? You don't mind telling me, do you?"

"Himuro Ryui".

The girl reluctantly cooperated with the act.

“Very good, Himuro-kun.” Fan Xiao nodded. “Fourth question: Besides me, are there any other people with strange names at this school?”

"Is the name strange?"

"Don't you think it's strange to call it 'Seal'?"

"Hmm... a little."

Himuro Rui thought for a moment, then replied, "There are nine other people with strange names besides you, Seal-kun."

"Nine? Are you sure it's not thirteen?"

"There should only be 9, right? I've only heard of 9."

"Okay, which classes are the other nine people in?"

"They are..."

Himuro Rui named the corresponding classes of the other nine players who had voluntarily entered the Otherworld.

Fan Xiao noted down this information and began to ponder it in his mind.

"Just as I guessed, the teachers and students in Qingshan Academy were given information by the dungeon, which is equivalent to having extra memories related to us."

"However... there are only 9 people besides me. The 4 players who disappeared in the villa in the surface world, aren't they at the school? Were they teleported to another location?"

Soon, Fan Xiao came to a conclusion—the space of the inner world should have more than one layer.

Alternatively, Kashima City outside Aoyama Academy is also a playable location, as other players have been teleported outside the school.

The exact situation remains to be verified.

"Is there anything I should be aware of at Qingshan Academy?" Fan Xiao continued to ask.

"Anything I need to be aware of?"

Himuro Rui thought for a moment, her expression turning somewhat grim, and said, "There are a lot of bullying students here. If you encounter them, Seal-kun, you must not get into a conflict with them. They... are very fierce."

"A delinquent?" Fan Xiao asked.

“I suppose so,” Himuro Rui nodded. “These people are all from wealthy families, and they like to…reckless behavior.”

“I understand,” Fan Xiao said with a smile. “Thank you for playing this quiz game with me.”

"No, you're welcome."

Himuro Rui's tone was still somewhat timid and shy: "Um... thank you for talking to me too."

"What's there to thank me for saying something?"

Upon hearing this, Fan Xiao carefully observed the girl for a few moments and began to form some guesses in his mind.

Just then, a shout came from the back door of the classroom: "Brother, over here."

Fan Xiao turned his head and saw that his "teammates" had arrived.

He smiled at Himuro Ryui and said, "My friend, I'll go take a look."

After saying that, he casually tossed a shard of mirror onto the ground and walked towards the door.

Upon arriving in the corridor, Fan Xiao discovered that it wasn't just the bald man and the tattooed man who had arrived.

The female player with the katana and her two subordinates, Guan Yao, Tu Shang, Mercury, and Luo Hao, also arrived.

The 10 players who voluntarily entered the inner world gathered in the corridor.

As players who prey on others, Fan Xiao and his two companions were naturally hated by everyone and were kept at a distance by the other seven.

"You guys gathered really quickly," Fan Xiao exclaimed.

"While you were flirting with the girl, we searched each classroom one by one."

The bald man said, "So, did you manage to get any information from your conversations with the people here?"

"Are the people here real or fake?" the tattooed man asked.

"What, getting a craving?" Fan Xiao said, "Don't do anything rash yet. I'll let you know after I've tried it and it's fine."

"You're incredibly reckless! You actually dared to try this?" the bald man warned. "Even if you're hungry now, you have to endure it. Who knows what will happen after you mess with the students and teachers at the school?"

"Don't worry, I already have some guesses about the background of this instance." Fan Xiao said mysteriously, "I know better than you how to act safely."

He paused, then added, "However, some parts still need to be verified. I'll let you know once the verification is complete."

First, lay the foundation.

It will be easier to deceive people when the time comes.

"Also keeping us in suspense... Never mind."

The bald man said, "We tried to leave the school just now, but we failed. It seems that Qingshan Academy, like the villas in the real world, also has a spatial barrier blocking the way."

"Can't leave?" Fan Xiao said thoughtfully, "It might not be a barrier. Maybe this inner world space is only the size of a school."

"We had that guess in mind too."

The person who said this was not the bald man, but Guan Yao, who was standing not far away.

She continued, "If the inner world is only this big, we suspect that the four people who disappeared in the villa were also teleported here."

"Of course, the inner world may have more than one layer, and they may have been transported to other spaces."

"But this is just speculation, and we have to verify it."

"The school is very big."

The female player with the katana then chimed in, "We need to split up and search to see if we can find the four missing players."

"can."

Fan Xiao nodded without refuting.

He had already found out in the classroom that the four missing people were not at school.

But he wasn't going to say it.

It's not that he wants to see others do useless work or satisfy some kind of perverse pleasure.

Schools are the safest places, and this "safest" is relative to other places—players can move around the school and try to detect any hidden dangers in advance.

With this in mind, Fan Xiao pretended to be stupid.

There was another matter he didn't hide: "Let's find someone to save it for later during free time. There are only 4 minutes left before class starts, and it's too late. Also, I have some information I want to share with you, it's free and it's related to the background of the dungeon."

"What information?"

The female player with the katana perked up her ears.

Although the guy in front of her was a cannibalistic player, she had to admit that he was very powerful!

"The background information for the dungeon mentions that Aoyama Academy is a prestigious private high school with a strong faculty, attracting many high-achieving students from Kashima City every year. However..."

Changing the subject, Fan Xiao said, "The learning atmosphere inside Aoyama Academy can't be said to be the best in Kagasaki City."

"The background introduction ends with the question 'why,' clearly encouraging us to actively seek the answer."

"Have you found the answer?" Guan Yao asked.

"The answer isn't hard to guess."

Fan Xiao said, "The school has a strong background and a powerful faculty, which is simply because it has a lot of capital backing it."

"In other words, there are many wealthy people behind it."

"This school admits a large number of outstanding students, but at the same time, many spoiled brats also get in through back channels."

"This school is like their backyard. Compared to those well-behaved students, these guys are much more unruly. With them around, how can the learning atmosphere be good?"

"That's just your guess," the female player with the katana reminded her.

“I confirmed this with the students here.”

Fan Xiao responded.

"This answer... seems meaningless to us?" Guan Yao asked.

Whether it has any meaning or not depends on how you interpret it.

Fan Xiao revealed a slightly mysterious smile.

With this background, he had almost determined what the "hatred" was—those who had participated in the gathering in the outer courtyard of the surface world had gone to hell because of someone's hatred, and this hatred, unsurprisingly, should have come from school violence.

School violence... This guess fits perfectly with the strange atmosphere at the school.

"The background is probably something like this: someone who had been victimized by school violence sent everyone to hell during a class dinner."