Chapter 49 Escape Drill
Chapter 49 Escape Drill
Luo Xi decided to challenge the fire drill project.
But because Wu Rui died, he had to go alone.
Although Wu Rui's death came suddenly, it was not unexpected. Under the circumstances at that time, even if Zhu Zifeng had not joined, it would have been three against two. Luo Xi and Wu Rui were clearly at a disadvantage. What's more, Wang Li's three men were all veterans and well coordinated.
It can be said that Wu Rui was able to hold back one of them at a critical moment, and even kill the other person after being severely injured, which was already quite remarkable. Otherwise, if that person joined Wang Li and another person to besiege him, the outcome would be hard to say.
Most likely to lose.
So Luo Xi had to consider a problem.
There are too few fighting forces around him.
Wu Rui is considered an assassin, but she can never be used as a 'warrior'.
Before conducting the fire drill, Luo Xi went to find Wang Shuting specifically. The little girl was still concentrating on making her clay sculpture.
Luo Xi suddenly discovered a problem.
After the Day of Imprisonment is restarted, nothing will be retained except the cards and the memories preserved by the power of the cards. In other words, even if you take a video or take some token, as long as you die and enter the next cycle, you will not be able to find Lao Wang to prove that you have found his daughter.
If you just say it, the other party will definitely not believe it.
"So this mission can actually only be completed within the same cycle of imprisonment. If I enter the next cycle, I need to come here to find her again."
If he hadn't been injured, or hadn't suffered the negative effects of [Bleeding Profusely], Luo Xi would have been fully confident that he could go to Lao Wang to hand in the task, but now, he still needed to complete the challenge of this scene, and if he wanted to pass it, he might not have enough time.
You have to make choices.
Luo Xi’s choice was to continue challenging the scene.
If it really doesn't work, just try again next time.
But he still recorded the video of Wang Shuting, and then gave false answers to the little girl's questions, such as "What is my dad doing?" and "When will he pick me up after get off work?"
"Don't worry, your dad will come pick you up after work, and he's bought you a lot of delicious food!"
"That's great."
Luo Xi touched Wang Shuting's head, then got up and left.
The cloth covering his neck had been stained mostly with blood, but the amnesiacs here didn't seem to notice it at all. Obviously, this scene was different from the one Luo Xi had experienced before. Although the amnesiac and the amnesiac were in the same space, there was an invisible "barrier" between them, or a filter.
It's like the 'barrier' that appears during the challenge scene.
Or maybe it was the same quiet space that appeared when he was fighting with Wang Li and his men before.
This is weird and mysterious, of course, but also very interesting, and has aroused Luo Xi's curiosity.
"Dear teachers, students, parents and friends, today we gather together to participate in the annual campus fire drill. First of all, I would like to express my warm welcome and sincere gratitude to everyone for participating."
"Safety is the foundation of campus harmony and stability, and it is also the primary guarantee for our study and life. Through today's fire drill, we aim to raise everyone's awareness of fire safety, enhance their self-defense and self-rescue capabilities, and ensure that they can evacuate quickly and orderly in an emergency."
Over there a man in uniform is reading out the rules.
Behind me was an area on the east side of the teaching building, connected to a large temporary tent with a blower and equipment that could create smoke.
It is obviously to simulate the fire smoke environment for escape drills.
There was a dummy lying on the ground over there.
It was probably a simulation of a victim, or a dummy prop used to explain first aid.
When Luo Xi approached, the dummy sat up and looked at him.
"Do you want to challenge the escape drill?"
This kind of mannequin that can move and speak in a eerie voice, which can obviously evoke the uncanny valley effect in normal humans, did not cause Luo Xi any discomfort. On the contrary, he thought this mannequin was quite cute.
"Yes, are there any rules?"
"The rules are simple. If you enter from the entrance and come out from the exit alive, you will succeed. However, I have two modes here, normal mode and expert mode. Which one do you choose?"
“Can you tell me the difference?”
"Of course, in normal mode, you just go in directly. If you succeed in the challenge, you will get a [Memory]. If you fail, haha, you will definitely not be able to get out, which means death. In expert mode, you need to pay a [Memory] as a ticket first. If you succeed in the challenge, you can return the [Memory], and at the same time, you will randomly draw a card from the card library of this scene as a reward."
"What about the difficulty?"
"No changes, just pay one [Memory]." "Then I'll choose Expert Mode."
Luo Xi has no shortage of [memory] now.
When he came out of the Sega apartment building, even after removing the [Memory] cards given to Wu Rui and Mao Ge, he still had two cards left. In the scene of Tuntun Primary School, he completed the two challenges of "Human Body Jigsaw Puzzle" and "Making Mooncakes", and killed Wang Li and another memory collector, which made four cards.
Two plus four equals six.
He already has six [Memories] in his hand.
So having one more memory doesn't mean much to him, but if he can randomly draw cards, maybe he can get a higher level card.
Last time, whether it was [Duck Prophet] or [Kurapika's Sword of Control], they were all drawn randomly.
Handing the dummy a [Memory], the dummy nodded: "Then you can start the challenge, I wish you."
"What's your name?" Luo Xi asked at this time.
The dummy was stunned.
It stared at Luo Xi with its dead fish eyes in surprise, as if it was thinking about this question, wondering why the other party asked this question, and then thinking again, it seems that no other memory collector has asked it this question in the past.
So, do you want to answer?
Also, how to answer?
Because the dummy completely forgot his own name.
"Do I have a name?"
The dummy was obviously a bit "down", and it even fell into a short period of stiffness.
"Yes, I have a name. At least, I used to have one. But I forgot it. How could I forget my own name?"
The dummy seemed to be in pain. It reached out and scratched its head so hard that it ended up pulling off the rubber scalp.
"Have you completely forgotten?"
Luo Xi observed the dummy, thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Are you a teacher or a student? Do you know teacher Liang Yunshi?"
"Ah?" The dummy was stunned.
"Or, Mr. Han, do you know him? Where is Yang Minghao?"
Suddenly, the dummy reacted, and it was very big.
"Yang Minghao, by the way, I remember now, I am a physical education teacher and he is my student."
In an instant, the lifeless eyes of the mannequin seemed to become flesh and blood, suddenly alive, but there was only pain, endless pain.
"Ah, ah~ No, I remember, Teacher Liang, she lied to me, she lied to me"
The dummy suddenly screamed like crazy.
But the next moment, a hand pressed on its head.
"You don't remember anything. You are just a dummy, a dummy for the escape drill project."
Luo Xi's pupils shrank.
What happened before his eyes surprised and even shocked him.
He saw Teacher Liang, also known as Liang Yunshi, suddenly appear next to the dummy like a ghost.
She really appeared suddenly, just like the editing technique of a short video, without any sign, she appeared out of thin air.
She seemed to be comforting the dummy.
It's like soothing a pet dog.
Apparently this soothing worked, and the dummy quickly regained its composure. No, it was more like it was forcibly hypnotized from its initial awake state, turning into a "dead object" without any vitality.
"I am a dummy!" said the dummy woodenly.
Then he looked up and saw Luo Xi and asked, "Do you want to challenge the escape drill?"
At this moment, Luo Xi felt a sense of horror.
(End of this chapter)