Forces of Temptation

    Nan Zhou stared at the patterns on the stair floor, and with the scent of apples left on her fingertips, she thought of a shadowy figure.

    He has no female friends.

    But there was a shadow in his heart.

    That shadow belongs to a tall woman wearing a black and white Lo skirt.

    There are rust red rosettes on her waist and chest. Because the skirt is too big, it is a little hard to squat down, so she knelt down on one knee, revealing a beautiful, snow-white Legs wrapped in socks.

    When Nan Zhou saw her for the first time, she was half-kneeling in her yard, in front of several handfuls of newly dug mud, as if she was planting something.

    He didn't know what she was doing.

    I don't seem to know that this place is owned.

    Nan Zhou lay by the window and watched the woman's back for a long time. He thought about everyone he had seen in the town, and found that he really didn't recognize her.

    After the girl was busy, Xu felt that she was staring at her, so she raised her head.

    The black veil blocked her eyes.

    Nan Zhou only saw her slightly pointed chin, faint smile, and fiery scorching lips.

    But he was sure that the woman saw him.

    Because that lip opened and closed slightly, the corners of the already slightly warped mouth raised a perfect arc.

    Nanzhou was stunned for a long time.

    When he turned to go downstairs to find her, the woman was gone.

    Nan Zhou thought that if he saw her again, he might be a little nervous.

    Although I haven't reached the point of being friends, I still want to get to know each other.

    But the first time he saw her, it was the last time.

    …

    Nan Zhou stubbornly grasped the topic he found and did not let go: "...Xie Xiangyu."

    Li Yinhang couldn't bear to look directly.

    Jiang Fang did not hold on to it and said softly, "Okay, tell me about Xie Xiangyu."

    Nan Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

    There are some things he doesn't want to say and can't say.

    Fortunately, Jiang Fang's character is very good, tolerant and generous, allowing him to have his own secrets.

    He said: "Xie Xiangyu may have known the existence of Zuo Jiaming from the beginning."

    Li Yinhang originally thought that Nan Zhou was trying to divert the topic on purpose, but he threw a heavy bomb as soon as he opened his mouth.

    Li Yinhang was down for a while before he spit out a doubtful particle: "...Ah?"

    Nan Zhou said: "When I went to dismantle the nameplate, I found that the surface of the nameplate was very clean. There was only a little dust deep in the grooves on the side."

    He added: "Sun Guojing's dormitory and Zuo Jiaming's dormitory are like this."

    "Also, I observed before taking the name tag. The gray lines are discontinuous on the sides of the transparent plastic slots used for the name tags in the two dormitories."

    Normally speaking, the dormitory arrangement is a big project for the school.

    Once the dormitory allocation list is determined, it is not easy to change the dormitory.

    The final approval may not be successful.

    Therefore, starting from the first year of the student's admission, if the dormitory relationship is not really incompatible, the name plate at the door will not change.

    After a long time, no one moved, and it naturally fell ashes.

    Now Nanzhou finds that the brand name is not only clean, but the original dust line also shows signs of being damaged…

    After some intense brainstorming, Li Yinhang suddenly came to the spirit and inspiration.

    She thinks she understands.

    So she was eager to speak.

    Nanzhou looked towards Jiang Fang.

    Jiang Fang nodded lightly.

    After confirming their eyes, they both looked at Li Yinhang.

    After Li Yinhang carefully sorted out his thoughts, he cleared his throat and spoke in a eloquent manner.

    "In this way, Xie Xiangyu should have checked the famous brand long ago. So he knows the information we know now, one step ahead of us."

    "But he didn't tell anyone, which is odd."

    "The reason he's like that, I think, is because there's something wrong with the character he's playing."

    "The original 'Xie Xiangyu' is likely to be the culprit of everything."

    "'Xie Xiangyu' is the only one in the entire network who has a clear hatred for the four boys in the sports dormitory."

    "He hated the people who caught him peeping and wanted to stay away from them, but he had the handle in their hands and had to be obedient."

    "In the end, he not only had to run errands for the four sports departments, be the younger brother before and after running, but also peeped at the girls' dormitory by himself. It is very likely that his roommate Zuo Jiaming knew about it - after all, Zuo Jiaming Jiaming is Hu Li's friend - so he's living in fear in the dorm..."

    "If he wants to kill someone, he has the best motivation."

    "...So, this 'rustling' sound is likely to be caused by him. For the purpose of revenge."

    Nan Zhou let out a "hmm" in a very light tone, not sure if he was expressing his approval.

    Encouraged, Li Yinhang immediately summoned more courage and continued to talk while sorting out his thoughts.

    "That night, after 'Xie Xiangyu' learned about the location of their meeting, he tried to attract that force and drag us and himself in."

    "...He did this, probably because he was world-weary. After all, he has been threatened and bullied like this all the time. I don't know when he will be the head, so we can all die together."

    "After player Xie Xiangyu used this body, he soon discovered the sense of incongruity in the dormitory."

    "...he found that there were 'supposed' four people in his dormitory, but his perception was 'only three'."

    "So, after he checked the nameplate in front of his dormitory, he found Sun Guojing and the others, checked their nameplate, and confirmed his thoughts."

    " He said he would cooperate with them, live with them, and at the same time hide the clues that he knew about it, in order to seek protection, and to ensure that he had the key clues and got the most points ."

    " Of course, he was also worried that once he revealed that he was the culprit, Sun Guojing and the others would be overheated for a while. If the operation is performed, he will lose more than the gain.”

    After Li Yinhang finished speaking, he secretly reviewed it.

    The logic is smooth and there is nothing wrong with it.

    She looked at Jiangnan and the two, waiting for a positive approval.

    As a result, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang looked at each other again.

    Nan Zhou: "You ask first?"

    Jiang Fang smiled: "Mr. Nan, please."

    Li Yinhang: "..." She had a feeling of confidently answering the question in class, but the teacher stared at her and sighed.

    Nanzhou ask first.

    He asked: "If you are Xie Xiangyu who wants revenge, how do you attract that power?"

    "This..."

    Li Yinhang was at a loss for words for a while: "Usually, I will use methods such as stroke pen fairy, dish fairy, etc..."

    Nan Zhou: "I didn't ask this."

    Nan Zhou: "I'm asking, how could Xie Xiangyu know that there is 'this power'?"

    This unknown force is a paradox.

    When you don't know it, it exists but no one knows it.

    When you know it, it's already there for you.

    A mere question made Li Yinhang's thought that was quite clear to a mess.

    …Yes.

    In the campus legends passed down by word of mouth, this power does not exist.

    If Xie Xiangyu hated the three, he should take the most classic measures like the curse of the pen fairy, which is available in the tutorial school post bar.

    Where did he come from to know the existence of that power in advance?

    Since you don't know, how can you use power?

    Seeing that the foundation of his reasoning was in jeopardy and the building was about to collapse, Li Yinhang tried to find a reason to explain this contradiction: "Then... he may have been exposed to that kind of power once, and guessed the power of this power, So I want to drag everyone else into the water..."

    Nan Zhou neatly shattered Li Yinhang's reluctance to establish the reason with a question: "Who organized the party?"

    …Ah, yes.

    The party was organized by the foursome of the sports department, and the location was determined by them.

    As a younger brother, Xie Xiangyu was completely pulled over to run errands and pay for it.

    He has no dominance at all.

    Unless that power can be driven by him at will, whenever he is called.

    Then Xie Xiangyu can be renamed Xie Banxian, and the balance of the game has become a joke.

    Li Yinhang: “…”

    After Nan Zhou's question, she understood one thing.

    …I understand loneliness.

    Noticing Li Yinhang's frustrated expression, Jiang Fang said gently: "Then why should I ask?"

    Li Yinhang was heartbroken: "Tell me. Let me be more thorough."

    Jiang Fang couldn't hold back, put his hand to his lips and coughed, covering the corner of his mouth with a smile: "According to your idea, what is the need for Xie Xiangyu to go to Sun Guojing and them to cooperate?"

    Li Yinhang: "..." is also correct.

    Sun Guojing's three muscles grow into his brain, what benefits can it bring to Xie Xiangyu, who already has the first-mover advantage?

    If you find the clue of Zuo Jiaming yourself, if you want to verify your judgment and find out who Hu Li is, but you don’t want to reveal the key clues to other players, you only need to secretly get points in the middle of the night Just touch it, why do you have to establish a cooperative relationship with these three people with developed limbs and a simple mind?

    …and so on.

    Midnight…

    Li Yinhang blinked.

    According to Sun Guojing and the others, Xie Xiangyu came to the door on the night when he hit a ghost for the first time.

    They only followed the clues brought by Xie Xiangyu, but completely forgot the most important question:

    In the middle of the night, what did he come to the sports department for?

    Dorms have to be locked after lights out at night.

    If someone from outside his department wants to come in, he can only hide in the public restroom before the lights are turned off.

    If you want to seek cooperation, or want to live together, why not come earlier?

    A relatively possible explanation is that Xie Xiangyu came to the sports department dormitory in the middle of the night to check the famous brand at the door.

    He also did a great job.

    The trio could not even hear the slight sound of the door being dismantled.

    But after he finished dismantling and confirmed what he thought, not only did he not leave, but he also knocked on the door of the three of them's dormitory and proposed cooperation.

    Not only proposed cooperation, but also withheld the most critical information.

    Not only concealed key information, but also used a trivial clue as a favor, tricking the three of them into obeying his words, and running together to check the situation in classroom 403, where there may be that power lurking. And he went to class with peace of mind like an ordinary student...

    Faced with these kinds of unnatural contradictory details, Li Yinhang sent out a soul torture: "...what is he trying to do?"

    Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang at the same time: "I don't know."

    Each team has different interests.

    Like the first copy, Li Yinhang also hid clues.

    At that time, her interests were very clear: to find more clues and give her team more points.

    But at that time, she didn't know whether her efforts were useful or not, so it could only be regarded as her personal attempt and speculation.

    If it really is such a solid clue that other players' lives and deaths must be shared, no one with a slightly normal thinking will hide it.

    Xie Xiangyu deliberately gave clues, what is it for?

    And…

    Until now, they have not been able to find the order and regularity in which everyone is affected by the "rustle" sound.

    So far, excluding Xie Xiangyu and Hu Li and Zuo Jiaming, who were no longer there, Sun Guojing heard the rustling the most frequently among the 9 people who have been to classroom 403, a total of five times.

    Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang tied for second place, and both heard it four times.

    Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun heard it twice and three times respectively.

    Jiang Fang only heard it once.

    Li Yinhang said without any hope: "Since that power is completely unknown, then the order in which we are selected should be unreasonable and have no likes and dislikes."

    In other words, it all depends on the mood of that power, and their luck.

    "Not necessarily." Nan Zhou said, "This is a copy, and the copy has its gameplay logic."

    He asked the two of them, "Remember the setting of the exploration system?"

    Li Yinhang certainly remembers.

    In the last world, their dungeon exploration score was S grade.

    After going back, Nan Zhou still remembered it for a long time.

    In that small hotel, when Li Yinhang was about to fall asleep, he heard Nan Zhou whispering and persistently asking Jiang Fang:

    —“Why 98.7%? What is 1.3%?”

    Jiang Fang's answer was to pull the quilt over his head: "Don't think about it first, let's sleep."

    Nan Zhou said: "The exploration system should be adjusted according to the different attributes of each instance."

    "The last dungeon, because the location and scope of exploration were fixed, tested the ability to gather and organize various scattered clues in Xiao Ming's family."

    "But the judging criteria for this copy are necessarily different from the first one."

    "If it is also evaluated according to the scope of exploration, the campus area is so large that it is impossible to complete the exploration at the physical level."

    "So, the exploration score must be focused on interpersonal relationships and copy puzzles."

    “The order and regularity of our selection should be one of the important indicators of exploration.”

    …Li Yinhang hesitated.

    She thought that Nan Zhou would say that if we find the law, we can find a way to get rid of the influence of power and go down smoothly.

    After all, once Sun Guojing is completely wiped out, it will be their turn soon, and the rustling can take them away at any time.

    It's seamless.

    As a result, people are focused on indicators.

    Attitude is as easy as the teacher's final bet.

    It was the fourth time that I heard the rustling sound that made my scalp numb, and Li Yinhang was very flustered.

    But looking at Nanzhou's steady as Taishan's appearance, she felt that if she acted too panicked, it was really unnecessary.

    She asked, "What are we going to do next?"

    Nan Zhou talked a little too much, and planned to stop to rest his throat and make a plate of Nanyang stars.

    He glanced at Jiang Fang.

    …means "Ask Fang to go".

    Jiang Fang followed suit and said, "Tonight, we will go to 403 at the time of last week's meeting."

    Nan Zhou stepped on the edge of the stairs with both feet and silently agreed to the proposal.

    At the same time, he plans to go to the supermarket later and buy a few more apples.

    The thought of apples made him feel better.

    But he couldn't help but think of that beautiful woman.

    —Because what the woman dug and planted downstairs in his house was an apple tree.

    After a while, the green treetops grew all the way to the window of his bedroom on the second floor, bringing him the fruity scent of a room.

    Nanzhou fell in love with eating apples at that time.

    Thinking about the past like this, Nan Zhou turned around casually, and the corner of his light happened to land on Jiang Fang who was holding a note with something written on it.

    He froze slightly.

    Just now, the smile on the corner of the woman's mouth in his memory, and Jiang Fang's natural smile, corresponded exactly.

    The professional habit developed by working in the casino for a long time makes Jiang Fang smile even in a relaxed state.

    Aware of Nan Zhou's sight, Jiang Fang turned the sticky note with the words "Nan Zhou's girlfriend" over, pressed it on his knees, and turned his face away.

    He asked, "What's wrong?"

    Nan Zhou looked away and held the Nanji star who was sniffing the fruity aroma with his fingers.

    “…nothing.”

    The author has something to say:

    Nanzhou: …nothing.

    Nanzhou: I'm thinking about how you look in women's clothes.