If something happens? It looks like breaking the piano also triggers a special event.
Mr. Deng was waiting outside the headmasterâs office. When he saw Xing Ye come out, he pulled him to a corner and asked in a low voice: âYou pulled all the responsibility to you. Is it really all right for me to just act like an ordinary teacher?â
âItâs fine,â Xing Ye said casually, âYou can just act like a teacher who caught a naughty student. Just try your best to not let others discover youâre a player, or⊠sigh, nevermind, it wonât matter even if they find out. Just saying you know what the pianoâs hiding and nobody will harm you.â
If Mr. Deng was really as innocent as he acted, he wouldnât be able to hide his player identity for long.
âBut you didnât tell me it?â Mr. Deng was astonished, âWhat will I do if they ask?â
âI can only keep the secret by not telling you. If they resort to emergency measures, just immediately have them find me. Weâll split up for now and stay in touch via text.â Xing Ye pushed Mr. Deng away, keeping far away from him.
Although they were cooperating from the surface and Mr. Deng seemed like a very trustworthy person, caution was Xing Yeâs rule to life.
Mr. Deng left, baffled. He still had a gym class in the afternoon and had to get the teaching material ready.
Xing Ye didnât leave the building, instead going to the floor directory to find the political education prep room. The prep room was on the fourth floor. None of the rooms on the fourth floor had room numbers, but according to the schoolâs general layout, the prep room should be room 404.
This was getting more and more interesting. Xing Ye walked to the fourth floor when he suddenly felt somebody pat his shoulder.
He didnât turn his head. Instead, he took out the mirror from his pocket and aimed it at his face. This time, the mirror was very obedient and worked hard as a responsible and diligent mirror.
For the first time in a long time, the mirror reflected his face. Xing Ye tilted the mirror a little, but there was nobody behind him. Yet, he kept feeling somebody pat his shoulder.
Interesting, so smashing the piano actually triggers the shoulder patting mystery. If he hadnât had done that impromptu, how long would it have taken the seven players to discover this?
Xing Ye still didnât turn his head. In fact, he didnât do anything, putting the mirror away as he walked back to the teaching building in an unhurried manner. Afternoon class had already started, so the halls were extremely quiet. He was the only one, leisurely walking along.
When he walked by the boys bathroom, a hand suddenly reached out and pulled him in. Xing Ye wasnât afraid as he cautiously looked and unexpectedly saw it was Cao Qian.
âClassmate, this is the boys bathroom.â Xing Ye reminded.
Cao Qianâs face was ashen as she pushed Xing Ye against the wall by his collar, her voice fierce: âWhat the hell are you doing? Yesterday, you randomly started haggling with that human head and today, you even destroyed the piano. Do you want to die? I donât mind starting another legend about corpses appearing in the boys bathroom!â
She was very strong, so much that Xing Ye couldnât rely on his own physical strength to shake her off.
Although his body was different in both the demonic mirror world and this campus world, his strength and moves were still the same as his original body. Otherwise, he wouldnât have been able to foul the Imperial Guard Captain in one blow.
Right now, Cao Qian, an average-looking 160cm girl, actually had the strength to push him against the wall helplessly with just a hand. Was she using a special prop, or was she just actually that strong?
Xing Ye understood her anger. She muddled through all the music scores for the whole day, not finding any leads, then hears that the piano is broken. If it was Xing Ye, he would also be furious.
âYouâre a player, right?â Cao Qian asked, âI still wasnât completely sure last night. Your acting was pretty good, so why arenât you trying to hide yourself today?â
âBecause Iâm confident Iâll be safe now,â Xing Ye said calmly, âLast night, I wasnât sure of everyone's identity and was worried Iâd be attacked, so all I could do was hide my identity. But today, I found clues about the piano, and right now, Iâm the only one who knows it. That way, players wouldnât rashly attack me, and instead prefer to form an alliance. Isnât that right?â
Cao Qian gnashed her teeth furiously, the look in her eyes sharp enough to kill.
âIf you kill me, youâd get half of my points, but may not be able to complete the mission.â Xing Ye asked her, âThis mission has no time restrictions, so what would happen if you canât find any clues? Weâre eleventh graders right now, so thereâs still another year before graduation.â
âWe can kill each other and the last one remaining can just commit suicide to leave the game world,â Cao Qian said, âOtherwise, weâd be trapped here.â
Suicide⊠in the previous game world, Xing Ye couldâve committed suicide and gotten an incomplete ending. However, in his caution, he decided otherwise since he didnât know what would happen.
Xing Ye: âIâve never killed myself in the many games Iâve done. Have you tried it before?â
âThe pain and despair donât matter. The most important thing is that if a player chooses suicide, they will go back to the start. Even a high level player can go back to being a newbie. All your hard work from before is destroyed and you have to start all over again. The black and white rubix cube once said that fate doesnât pity those who easily renounce their own life.â
Xing Ye acutely perceived the frustrated expression on Cao Qianâs face and asked, âYou killed yourself?â
âShut up!â Cao Qian took out a gun from nowhere and pressed it against Xing Yeâs head, âI wonât hide it. When I had 200,000 points, I ran into a situation where I was trapped in the game world and had no choice but to kill myself. This is my second world and the only thing Iâve pulled out from the system draw is this Hundred Shot Gun. A person who has nothing is never afraid of anything; even if I kill you and kill myself, itâs just another newbie world anyways.â
Cao Qianâs mental state wasnât great⊠itâs very difficult to have climbed up to 200,000 points, yet with just one blunder, got sent back right to the start. Furthermore, with her luckâŠ
âYouâre from the opposing fate camp?â Xing Ye asked.
âDo I look like a very lucky person?â A vicious aura emitted from Cao Qian.
âThen that Hundred Shot Gun you drew probably only has ten usable bullets. For an opposing fate player, probably just having a 50% accuracy rate would be satisfactory, right?â
Cao Qian grew even angrier: âOf course itâs useless! 50% for a following fate player would mean 100%, but 0 for an opposing fate player. I mustâve been crazy to have picked the opposing fate camp!â
âCalm down first and put your gun away. I did it to protect myself and also because I want to win. The bullets in your gun are precious, donât waste them on me.â Xing Ye tried to calm Cao Qian down.
Cao Qian also knew killing Xing Ye would be useless. Winning was more important for her so after venting for a while, put away her gun with a sullen face. However, her hand was still pressed on Xing Yeâs shoulder.
Xing Ye knew that making such a commotion by destroying the piano was a big risk. He wanted to draw the remaining two players' attention and provoke them into coming out.
This was because everybody knew that after the piano was destroyed, only Xing Ye would know the clues.
With the nature of this game, he had to strike first at the players still hiding behind the scenes.
This plan needed a team to work, so this whole time, Xing Ye had been looking for team members.
A group of three people was best.
âIs your great strength your starting skill?â Xing Ye asked a while after Cao Qianâs calmed down.
âWhat else would it be?â Cao Qian said, âMost peoplesâ starting skill have to do with raising their stamina or strength.â
Was that so? Xing Yeâs starting skill was different from hers. Furthermore, since itâs the word âstartingâ, it should have the ability to level up.
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