Forces of Temptation

Nanzhou and the others happened to make an appointment to go to 403 at 7:30 pm last week.

In the remaining hours, they began to compile what they had brought when they stepped into the dead end a week ago, based on the messages on their phones.

They are going to repeat what they did last Friday.

For this night visit, they called the Sun Guojing trio.

Sun Guojing decided to go with them without hitting one.

No other reason.

He has nowhere to go.

When Hu Li heard the sixth "rustle" sound, it was difficult for them to perceive his presence.

Sun Guojing is only one step away from fading out of their world.

After the six of them met again, they sat together and took the time to confirm the mobile phone records, so that they could collect all the things they brought that day, and try to reproduce the situation of that day.

Board games such as bridge, poker, flying chess, table curling are readily available.

There are also two small tickets in the cloth bag, which are for supermarket and milk tea takeaway.

The time of the receipt is the evening of that day.

To restore as much as possible what happened on the 21st, they ordered the same thing.

However, Jiang Fang deliberately added sugar to the milk tea in Nanzhou.

After writing down the skewers and beer on South Street, Nanzhou looked around: "Is there anything wrong?"

No response.

He hummed: "Then..."

Who would have thought, the next second, his wrist was suddenly grabbed.

Sun Guojing squeezed his wrist with all his strength, and the veins on his neck burst out.

Under the grip like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving straw, Nan Zhou's face was painless, just staring at his deformed and white fingers.

Sun Guojing stretched out the phone in his hand straight forward, almost poking Nan Zhou's face, under the two pale lips, his teeth were chattering, but he insisted on saying a word not come out.

Faced with such a rush of Sun Guojing, Nan Zhou said calmly: "Well, tell me, I'll write it down."

...It seems that he hadn't forgotten the existence of Sun Guojing just now.

He tried to treat Sun Guojing with a normal attitude so that he would not panic.

But it didn't help.

The five-year-old man squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying: "I...have been holding up my mobile phone...I want to give you something to bring..."

He looked around: "Actually... none of you noticed me just now, did you?"

Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun's eye circles also became red, but they still echoed Nan Zhou: "I didn't forget, I didn't forget. How can I forget."

Sun Guojing's face turned pale, the masseter muscles on his face bulged, and then shriveled.

Relieving the panic, he picked up the phone, hoarse his voice, and added: "...I want to buy another cake. I placed the order using the takeaway software, and I specially noted that I should add more Cream, for everyone to play with...and seven or eight cans of hand-sprayed color strips."

After he finished speaking, the cat was reluctant to move, his eyes were straight, but his eyes were still staring at the crowd.

Nan Zhou looked back at him for a while, but said nothing.

The two brothers Rozzi were on one side, with the heat squeezed beside him, chatting some gossip to offset the brothers' panic.

Sun Guojing couldn't say anything, he hung his head and was speechless for a while.

The brothers had to rack their brains to say something that would amuse him.

Luo Ge even recalled the barbecue stall opened by the three of them, saying that he didn't know if the facade was still there when they went back, and the tables, chairs and benches were still incomplete and could not be opened.

At this moment, Sun Guojing said thoughtlessly, "You two...don't go."

He said: "There is no one person in the barbecue stall, but there are still one. It can't be all three."

The "place that doesn't exist" mentioned by Zuo Jiaming in the message before his death is the source of all the fear they encountered.

Now at the same time, no one can say whether it is a desperate situation, or a sheep into a tiger's mouth.

Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun were both silent.

No way, no way.

The atmosphere in the bedroom was inexplicable.

Seeing that the task was almost completed, Jiang Fang got up first and made an appointment to meet them downstairs in the sports department at seven o'clock.

It always gets dark very early in the fall.

In the daytime, the Maple Leaf Avenue floats with light and gold, and the red shadows are dazzling, and the beauty is breathtaking.

The "rustling" sound made at the moment when the slightly brittle and dehydrated leaves shattered under the feet of a few people on the road at night, can make people shiver several times, suspecting that it is that force creeping approached them.

In the end, Sun Guojing was the only one who followed Nan Zhou to the fifth floor of the east.

The group of four crossed Maple Leaf Avenue, carrying the noisy campus behind their backs, and went further and further.

If the feeling during the day is not strong enough, visit here at night to know how desolate the fifth floor is.

When it was more than 200 meters away from the east fifth floor, the street lights were already broken.

Boom—

Boom—

There is a strange and clear sound in the flashing street light bulb.

Nanzhou unscrewed the flashlight in advance.

The flashlight sweeps a fan-shaped arc, and the warm yellow light illuminates part of the road ahead.

But this does not effectively alleviate the fear in people's hearts.

The place where the light hits is getting darker and darker, as if there are unnamed, ready to move giants dormant, waiting for an opportunity to swallow them.

It was easy to get to the fifth floor of the east.

The moment they stepped into the corridor and the voice-activated sensor light came on, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang felt that both of them behind them let out a sigh of relief.

Around 7:20.

They arrived at the door of classroom 403.

He put his hand on the doorknob and stopped for a long time.

As if that was his judgment seat.

It is his path of reincarnation.

He stood still, and Nanzhou and the others stood still with him.

Around 7:30.

Sun Guojing raised his wrist and looked at his watch. After confirming the time, he gritted his teeth and was about to take out the key—

The door was one step ahead of him, slowly opening inwards, bringing half of Sun Guojing's body into the darkness.

Sun Guojing had no time to panic when the lights in the classroom were turned on with a snap.

…He fell into a bright light.

Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun, who left the dormitory early, did not know when 403 came.

And apparently waiting inside for a long time.

"Didn't you say you're going to have a party?"

Luo Ge's smile was a little exaggerated. It was a strong smile, and it was obvious that he was afraid that if he relaxed his muscles, the whole expression would collapse.

When he turned his head, he showed Sun Guojing a room full of balloons and ribbons: "...Let's see the brothers make a big one for you."

Qi Tianyun picked up the key of Class 403, which was removed from Sun Guojing's key ring at some point, and shook it:

"Anyway, it's dangerous to stay anywhere now, it's better to carry it together with your brothers."

Classroom 403, which was originally simple, was decorated with garish decorations by the two of them, with a bright and lively rustic atmosphere.

Sun Guojing didn't say anything, hugged the two brothers one by one, and buried his face on their shoulders, his body trembling.

After the poor and tossing of the two of them, it was like a real friend gathering.

Six people sat on the floor in the space between the podium and the terrace seats.

Sun Guojing handed Nanzhou a can of beer.

Nan Zhou waved his hand, held his cup of milk tea with sugar and half a cup full of ingredients, and drank slowly.

No one could see that, more than twenty hours ago, three of the six people tried to rob the other three, but they were all robbed by the backhand.

The three of "Longtan" began to change the cups, and their faces soon became slightly drunk.

Sun Guojing scolded: "Xie Xiangyu, this king, just wants us to find his way!"

Nan Zhou peacefully tried to communicate with the drunk: "Does he still contact you again?"

No more.

The monitoring thing is exposed, Xie Xiangyu will come back to see them again.

Although Sun Guojing and the others don't know about surveillance, they have figured out the matter of being used by him as a pathfinder.

Sun Guojing said: "He didn't. But I contacted him."

He waved his big hand in the air and said: "I called and scolded him!"

Nan Zhou was holding the milk tea and waiting for the next.

In the end, Sun Guojing took a slap, spit, and said angrily: "...Damn, I spent a long time drooling, only to find that this kid turned on the phone and put it aside. I put it on hold, and burned my 15-minute phone bill. If I call again, he picks up, so I won't call. Grandma is such a jerk, he'd better tighten the ditch in which ditch, otherwise I bump into him and beat him once—”

Nanzhou chewed on the matcha-flavored taro **** without speaking.

What does Xie Xiangyu want to do?

He chose to act alone.

He clearly discovered the famous brand before everyone else, neither withholding and exclusive clues, nor did he communicate with them.

He hid in a corner of the huge campus, spying on their every move.

In such an overwhelming supernatural copy, he refused to cooperate, refused to contact, as if there was no fear at all.

What is he thinking about doing these perverse actions?

In other words, what does he gain by dormancy and waiting?

Jiang Fang held a can of hawthorn juice and asked him softly, "What are you thinking about?"

Nanzhou said the truth: "Xie Xiangyu."

Jiang Fang: "Ah, he. He is a very interesting person."

Nan Zhou was immediately attracted: "Why do you say that?"

Jiang Fang took a sip of hawthorn juice: "I can probably understand what he wants to do."

Nanzhou pricked up her ears.

Jiang Fang put the jar of hawthorn juice to his lips and said softly, "If I were a single player, I might play like this too."

Unfortunately, now I have a family and I can't do some things.

Nan Zhou stared at his side face thoughtfully.

...Jiang Fang's expression at that moment just now was the same as when he was calculating gold in the casino.

The corners of his mouth are always upturned, and his eyes are cold and sharp like a wolf.

Nan Zhou blinked and thought, a little cute.

Nan Zhou wanted to ask further questions, but since Jiang Fang knew what he knew, rounding up was a precaution.

The matter of Xie Xiangyu is not very important.

It is imperative to figure out how they got into the "non-existent" and how to get out of this force.

The 403 during the day is no different from the current 403.

The graffiti on the tables and chairs, the portraits of the great men watching them on the walls, the windows that look a little dark because of the anti-reflective film...

No exceptions.

Of course, if a week ago, the characters they played had really changed significantly when they were partying in classroom 403, they should have noticed.

It is not advisable to speculate from thin air, so this is not the way to go.

So, how about a different idea?

Nearly a day and a night of suffocation, horror and high pressure, the three brothers simply regarded this exploration as a hearty venting journey.

Drinking the beer one by one, Sun Guojing's courage rose one by one.

After a while, he was already arrogant, and he had the courage to fight freely with the initiator behind that mysterious force.

The noise they make is not small.

Nan Zhou had to sit closer to Jiang Fang, holding his milk tea and talking to him: "How do you feel?"

He was referring to the feeling of being affected by that force.

Jiang Fang shook his head: "Not yet."

403 also did not show any signs of ghosts in the movie, such as cooling down, light bulb flickering, etc. when approaching.

In order to confirm, Jiang Fang took out the "Sixth Sense Cross" hanging around his neck.

The cross is also intact.

In addition, when I went to the supermarket to buy apples at the fruit stand this afternoon, Jiang Fang only heard rustling twice.

The supernatural power is not aimed at him, so the cross is naturally useless.

Nanzhou: "This force is too irreversible. In front of it, we can do too little."

Jiang Fang smiled: "This is not what Teacher Nan should say."

Nan Zhou looked at Jiang Fang and nodded: "...Well. I haven't finished speaking yet."

As Nan Zhou said, this force is too overbearing.

It is powerful - it can obliterate the existence of people themselves.

It was well positioned—Zuo Jiaming used the elevator and the archives when he escaped, but he still failed to avoid its approach.

It's terrifying to the point of incomprehension.

But—

"It's already so powerful, it looks like it has almost no loopholes." Nan Zhou said, "If its other parts are as complicated, then the game can't be played. Players can only rely on luck It's worth it to decide who dies first."

Nan Zhou said: "So, it must have a weakness."

"Only for this power, we need to understand two things: first, how it quietly appeared around us; second, how it chose to obliterate in order."

"First, since it's 'quiet', it is still one of the characteristics of unsolvable horror. It is not suitable for current inferences."

"So, the weaknesses that it can crack are likely to be in the order of obliteration."

Jiang Fang: "..." is really a simple reverse idea.

Nanzhou has not completely cleared her mind.

So, he relied on his thoughts to clarify the current clues: "Our investigation this day has sorted out the relationship between the characters."

"The first person to die is Hu Li, a sports student. The second person to die is Zuo Jiaming. Next is Sun Guojing, and then Yinhang and I..."

"In the setting, Hu Li and Zuo Jiaming will play football together and have a good relationship."

“My relationship with Yinhang is also very good.”

"She was worried that it would be inconvenient to play with a group of boys, I'm here to keep her safe..."

As he chanted, Nan Zhou's eyes suddenly lit up.

He said to Jiang Fang: "...mobile phone."

In a blink of an eye, except for Li Yinhang's cell phone, which had no bones left, all five cell phones were placed in front of Nan Zhou.

According to the information left by Zuo Jiaming, after hearing the sixth rustling sound, their ability to convey information to the outside world with the help of material carriers will disappear.

The equivalent of being on an island.

This is also the reason why the message left by Zuo Jiaming cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Therefore, Nan Zhou needs to race against time to verify his ideas before Sun Guojing hears the sixth rustling.

Fortunately, that force did not interfere with them at this critical moment.

Soon, after intensive integration, Nan Zhou got the clue he wanted.

Under the hopeful gaze of Sun Guojing, Nan Zhou first came to a conclusion.

"What affects the order of obliteration may be the order in which we entered."

"The party that day officially started at 7:30. But the order in which we entered the classroom varied."

He pointed to Sun Guojing's mobile phone.

At 7:10, there was a message sent to Luo Ge: "I'm here, but Lao Hu's little lover hasn't arrived yet, haha, he's as anxious as a monkey in the sky. ."

Luo Ge replied: "Civilized monkey watch. Leave a watch spot for me and Lao Qi."

It can be seen that at 7:10, Sun Guojing arrived at the meeting place; Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun hadn't arrived yet, and "Lao Hu's little lover" Li Yinhang was not there either.

Hu Li and Zuo Jiaming are known to be the first and second victims.

If you follow the logic of "the order of entering the classroom is the order of being victimized", it makes sense.

Although Sun Guojing has always been in charge of the key to 403, of course he can hand over the key to his roommate Hu Li and let him unlock it first.

Hu Li was the first to open the door and enter the classroom.

His golfer Zuo Jiaming followed.

Sun Guojing arrived at 7:10.

As for Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang, they are just behind Sun Guojing.

Before, because the chat messages of Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang only mentioned the special relationship between Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou, and the agreement to go to Class 403 before 7:30, they once took it for granted I thought that Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang came together.

However, it is inferred from human nature that Jiang Fang, as Nan Zhou's object, did not fully disclose their relationship, and it was embarrassing to come together.

The reason why Li Yinhang asked Nanzhou to accompany him was because of his own safety.

So it makes more sense for her and Nan Zhou to come at the same time.

Xie Xiangyu arrived at about 7:20.

Because at 7:21, Sun Guojing sent another WeChat message to Luo Ge:

"It will be cold if you don't have butter."

Nan Zhou was not sure whether Xie Xiangyu came before or after him and Li Yinhang.

But he must come before Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun.

And Jiang Fang was the last to come.

Because according to reality, Jiang Fang was the last of them to hear the rustling.

That way, everything is right.

If Classroom 403 itself is a huge, silent, natural mouth that only opens to those who visit it in the middle of the night...

Then the order in which it obliterates people is the order in which they enter the door.

If this clue they come up with is true and reliable...

This time Qi Tianyun reacted very quickly, almost jumping with excitement: "We just need to disrupt the order. Entering the door again at the same time point, can't it be solved!"

Qi Tianyun felt that he had guessed correctly, so excited that he was circling in circles, speaking faster and faster: "That's right, that's right! It's right, it must be right!"

"If we enter the door again, the order in which that force obliterates us will be disrupted!"

In five days!"

"It's just right! It's just such a coincidence! Tonight, Lao Luo and I were afraid that you wouldn't let us come, so we came in early!"

Qi Tianyun pounced and grabbed the shoulder of Sun Guojing who was still in a daze: "Old Sun! We have been drinking for more than an hour, have you still heard the rustling? Huh? How long has it been since you heard it?"

Sun Guojing was dumbfounded: "Uh... plus the afternoon, it's seven or eight hours..."

Qi Tianyun hugged Sun Guojing's neck tightly, and roared incoherently: "Saved! Old Sun! You are saved! You are all right! The next person to hear the rustling will be my turn. It's with Lao Luo! It will also be against me and Lao Luo! It's a long time before we hear the sixth rustling! We're all saved!"

Nan Zhou: "...Is that so?"

But his voice was drowned in roars and cheers.

He looked at Jiang Fang.

Jiang Fang leaned close to his ear, and the warm air blew on his earlobe, itching: "Their reasoning is reasonable, why don't you try it first."

…

Slowly thinking about it, Sun Guojing, who found that he might have escaped the catastrophe, was in high spirits, drinking happily, and drinking more and more uncontrollably.

With every sip, the feeling of crawling from the edge of death became clearer.

He even came to toast Nanzhou.

After standing in front of Nan Zhou, Sun Guojing bowed deeply without saying a word.

"I thank you Sun Guojing, thank you very much." Sun Guojing said, "It's all in the wine."

He threw the beer can at Nanzhou and drank most of it in one gulp.

Nan Zhou took the straw in his mouth and gently blew bubbles into the milk tea.

Sun Guojing put down the beer can, wiped his mouth, and said, "Thank you for saving me twice. The first time was just now, and the second time was in the dormitory. If you hadn't explained it to me, Lao Tzu's sin value will be gone."

Nanzhou: "..." is the san value.

But Nan Zhou did not interrupt his high spirits: "Yeah."

"Your sin value is quite high, right?" Sun Guojing's tongue had already drank a lot, and his words were not very clear, "I don't think you are afraid. You are a man, before The thing is that my Sun Guojing is not authentic, I want to make you a friend..."

Nanzhou: “…”

He took a quick step back.

He frowned and thought, people are so frivolous now.

Is it possible to be a "friend"?

Sun Guojing was already drinking too much, of course he didn't notice Nan Zhou's evasion.

He squinted his eyes and found that Nanzhou was lost in the focal length.

He staggered for two steps, laughed loudly, squeezed the beer can, and continued to find his two good brothers.

The smell of alcohol is intoxicating.

In addition, Nanzhou and the others wanted to verify whether Qi Tianyun's inference was true, so they didn't leave.

After a while, Nan Zhou became sleepy.

The bright lights in front of me also turned into scattered, furry halos.

He held on to the last trace of consciousness and wanted to find two chairs together to lie down.

But as soon as he set off, his head was lightly pressed by a hand, leading him to lean to one side, and the pillow rested on a piece of warm skin.

Jiang Fang looked down at him and smiled: "Why did you lie on my lap?"

Nanzhou: “…”

I didn't lie down.

There seems to be something wrong.

Never mind.

In the middle of the night, three brothers who had a relationship with each other were drunk.

Li Yinhang sat on the ground with his upper body lying on the chair beside him, sleeping peacefully.

Nan Zhou rested on Jiang Fang's leg and breathed regularly.

Jiang Fang sat quietly, gently stroking the tear mole under Nan Zhou's eyes with his fingertips, and looked at everything around him soberly.

Sun Guojing fell drunk on the stairs.

He was lying on the cold hard floor, with seventeen or eight empty beer cans thrown beside him.

The smell of alcohol came out of his breath heavily.

And right now.

—sand—

—sand—

—sand—

The fine sound of "rustle" has undergone subtle variations and turned into long syllables.

It was like a fingernail pressing on the blackboard, slowly pulling it, making a long and thin sharp sound.

But Sun Guojing slept too soundly.

He didn't hear.

Jiang Fang naturally couldn't hear the subtle sound that sounded beside Sun Guojing's ear.

When the fish maw white appeared in the sky, he held his head and gave himself half an hour to rest.

One night, just like that.

Luo Ge was awakened by Qi Tianyun.

He looked blankly at the messy classroom after the carnival, obviously still not able to digest the current situation.

Luo Ge wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth: "Why did you sleep here..."

At this time, Nan Zhou just woke up.

He woke up and massaged Jiang Fang's legs that were said to be numb.

Qi Tianyun and Li Yinhang were busy cleaning up the remnants with empty plastic bags.

"Oh!" After a short memory, Luo Ge, who finally recovered the memory before the fragment, waved his fist excitedly, "Have we found a solution to the problem!"

Qi Tianyun was also beaming: "This is the best. Let's do it again tonight..."

Speaking, he looked at Jiang Fang: "Jiang Fang, right? You have the least number of times. You can come again tonight to share the burden for the two teammates in your team! "

Jiang Fang squeezed the bottom of his thigh and hummed, as if he should be down.

Qi Tianyun picked up the full garbage bag, grabbed the key on the table, and said to Luo Ge naturally, "Let's go!"

Seeing the two of them exit the door of 403, Li Yinhang also saw hope, turned back and said with a smile: "Let's go too!"

Nan Zhou supported Jiang Fang and stood up.

Jiang Fang jumped forward two steps, a faint light flashed from his neck.

…Who did he get this item from?

When Nan Zhou was thinking about this, he had already helped Jiang Fang out of 403.

Qi Tianyun locked the door, shook the key, leaned on Luo Ge's shoulder, and walked towards the abundant sunshine outside with a smile.

Sun Guojing, who was sleeping on the stairs, slept soundly in the dark and dull classroom 403 with the curtains closed.