Chapter 137 Dormitory Friendship League (Twenty-nine)
When the blood-red eyeball just appeared, Tang Xinjue withdrew all the mental power scattered outside without thinking, leaving no room for direct contact with the opponent.
How to determine who is the most hated candidate in the "Elf House"? The first thing Tang Xinjue could think of was the number of elves he had captured.
...And if she guessed correctly, the number of Pokémon captured by Room 606 should be the highest among all dormitories.
As expected.
The speed of the black air rushing over was so fast that there was no time to react. The glass window was already stained with a bottomless black. As the vision disappeared, the bone-piercing coldness also rushed over, as if falling into an extremely cold underwater.
It took only a moment for the blood-red eyeball to lock onto them and attack them. The sense of danger was fierce, proclaiming the monster's power and irresistibility.
Unable to resist and unavoidable, is this a dead end?
His thoughts raced like lightning, but Tang Xinjue remained calm and held the toilet plunger in the dark.
No... now is not the time.
The worst hasn't happened yet.
If she calculated correctly.
In the deathly dark silence, Tang Xinjue slowly regained his five senses. The outline of the glass window reappeared in his field of vision. Outside the outline were layers of surging black air, and a blood-red eyeball floating in the black air but motionless.
After a long while, Guo Guo beside him finally found his voice and said hesitantly: "Why... doesn't it come in?"
The moment the black air surged up, she had already thought about fighting to the death and the process of reincarnation in the next life, but she never expected that even after her eyesight was restored, the surroundings were still quiet.
She clearly remembered that it took less than three seconds for the last dormitory that was chosen to be locked by the black gas and be wiped out. But when she looked out at this moment, the balcony window of the dormitory was intact and solid in front of her, without any sign of cracking.
“……!!!”
Guo Guo realized the key point later:
“Our balcony is complete!”
In the previous level, the huge human face that did not attack the candidates was focused on eroding their balcony railings, but unfortunately, it met Zhang You holding a storage bag at 606.
If it bit off a piece, Zhang You would use repair fluid and various miscellaneous tools to repair two pieces. As a result, until they caught 13 Pokémons and even when the capturing activity was completely over, the human face was unable to damage the guardrail.
So compared to the miserable state of other dormitories, they now have to put up one or even two more layers of barriers when facing the attack of the blood-red eyeballs!
"Game tips: All candidates should hide in their dormitories and avoid the wrath of the Elf House under the protection of the dormitories." Tang Xin Jue suddenly said:
"We are now in a state of absolute shelter."
The blood-red eyeball that was firmly blocked outside by the railing: "..."
So funny, I can't even get in.
Seen from the balcony, the horrifying scene that frightened everyone did not repeat itself, but instead stayed there strangely, as if some kind of bug was stuck in their eyeballs.
But even so, the eyeball did not move away. It stared gloomily at the window of dormitory 606, as if thinking about something.
Tang Xinjue did not loosen her grip on the toilet plunger. From her expression, Zhang You and the other two could tell that the matter was probably not over yet.
Under normal circumstances, if a death trap appears in the game, candidates can survive safely if they find a way to escape it in advance. The ghosts are blocked by the rules of the game and will not continue to harass them.
But now…
The sense of danger has not dissipated and is even tending to become stronger.
Tang Xinjue could feel that the atmosphere outside had undergone subtle changes.
To be precise, the malice towards the entire dormitory 606 was subtly condensed into malice directed against one person.
——Herself.
In a split second, Tang Xin Jue found the source of the lingering sense of disharmony:
When Blood-Red Eyeball said “the most annoying students”, the word he used was “students” instead of “dormitory”.
What if this sentence is really referring to an individual student?
The so-called dislike can be because a student catches the most Pokémons, or it can be because of... the student himself.
" So, why?"
Tang Xin Jue pressed the tip of the toilet plunger with his finger and spoke softly as if he was talking to himself.
"Unreasonable punishment, unreasonable challenge, unreasonable monster."
If they had not defended the balcony like all the other candidates when the mutant faces invaded, they would have been killed at this moment, just like the previous dormitory, by this dark force that far exceeded the candidates' ability to resist and was almost like an annihilation mechanism.
But why?
This punishment could fall on any candidate eliminated from the competition, but it should not fall on her, should not fall on 606, and should not fall on the final winner after the cruel screening throughout the competition.
This survival game is both tricky and perverted, but what it shows in its various copies is definitely not the pure and simple anti-human logic of "selecting the most powerful students and then killing them".
——When all options are eliminated, the remaining one, no matter how outrageous, is the most likely truth.
Tang Xinjue suddenly raised his eyes.
Now here, the problem is not her, but the blood-red eyeball.
Its punishment logic should not appear at all!
At the same moment, the blood-red eyeball also moved.
In the thick black air, the eyeball did not retreat, but instead squeezed further inwards——
The red tissue on the surface of the eyeball stuck to the railing and turned into thick blood, which flowed down along the eroded areas of the railing. The deeper it squeezed, the larger the area of purulent and missing eyeball tissue.
Guo Guo was stunned: "What is it doing?"
Tang Xinjue's expression was stern: "It is being punished by the rules."
From the first time the black energy was blocked outside the balcony, they had already completely won. The blood-red eyeball should not have continued to stay here, let alone try to use the eyeball itself to break through the balcony barrier and force its way in to attack them.
But even though it was punished by the rules, the eyeball had no intention of giving up. The guardrail broke and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The rotten eyeball, which was enough to cover a window, slammed into the glass, and its dim pupils stared at Tang Xinjue in the room.
Its purpose is already extremely clear.
Rather than following the procedure to punish the examinee, it wanted to kill Tang Xinjue more!
606 was no stranger to eyeballs of this size. In the road trip dungeon, the counselor who suddenly visited him in the middle of the night had a red eyeball of similar size. But if the counselor's "eyeball" brought a sense of majesty and oppression, then this red eyeball at this moment was more dangerous and disgusting.
For Tang Xin Jue, she knew about this existence earlier than everyone else - not in endless nightmares, but on the day when the game was first released, she saw a giant yellow eyeball outside the glass window that she would never forget.
If she remembered correctly and did not see it wrongly, the yellow eyeball that flashed by that day and the red eyeball with clear murderous intent now, the two were extremely similar in their coldness and stickiness.
And there was also the thick malice directed at her for no reason.
"So this is your purpose."
Tang Xinjue's fingertips slid across the screen of the mobile phone. The never-changing power level made the screen emit a faint glow, breaking the darkness brought by the blood-red eyeballs.
The dormitory window had cracks, and the rule shelter was crumbling . Zhang You reacted and grabbed her arm. Tang Xinjue smiled and even thought a little inappropriately: if time permits, she might harass the customer service again and report the violation live, maybe she can light up a new achievement point.
Unfortunately it's too late.
The glass shattered with a final loud bang, and boundless malice poured out, completely drowning her.
Cold, suffocating, torn...
It was like falling into a nightmare all over again.
It is said that when consciousness sinks into the bottom of the sea of consciousness, the perceived flow of time will slow to almost no flow.
When Tang Xinjue returned to this dark, misty, bottle-shaped cave, he felt the familiar resistance again.
However, her current mental strength is no longer comparable to the first time she sank into the sea of consciousness.
This time, she easily dispersed the fog and reached the end, where she saw four familiar markers floating in the air.
Glass bottle, silver ring, yellow eyeballs, tape.
These four materialized marks neither grew larger nor shrunk, but seemed to be faintly covered with a layer of gauze on the outside. They could not be seen clearly no matter how hard one looked at them. If she did not try to feel them deliberately, even she herself would have ignored the existence of these things.
When passing by the yellow eyeball, Tang Xinjue's gaze paused for a moment.
"To be honest, this day came a little later than I thought."
There was no one around her who cared, and there was no expression on her face. She just watched the scene quietly, then raised her hand and covered the center of her forehead.
On this skin, there is a mark, or a seal, that is only visible in the sea of consciousness.
The being who left this seal claimed to be the counselor in the game and gave her the switch that could control the dark aura.
When the switch is on, the marks left by the ghosts in her sea of consciousness, including the dark part of herself, will be covered up. When the switch is off, all the covering will be invalid.
Since then, she has been driving this thing for so long that she has become accustomed to it, as if nothing existed.
...But it turned out that even if she didn't go looking for the mountain, the mountain would stretch out its claws from the surface and try to drag her down.
With a tap of his fingertips, the barriers surrounding the four markers disappeared immediately, and their presence instantly exploded a hundred times stronger.
No, this kind of presence is not enough.
Tang Xinjue rubbed his eyebrows again, and then pressed down hard again!
This time, all her mental strength was silenced in exile and suppression.
The blood-red eyeball suddenly stopped moving again.
It should have devoured the human directly and melted her body into blood with its breath. It wouldn't even take a second... The blood vessels in its eyeballs bulged, and it stared at the human girl with her eyes closed.
But it can't move now.
To be more precise, they were suppressed by the irresistible hierarchy and could not make any progress.
If the candidates outside could see what was happening inside Dormitory 606 at this moment, they would find that it wasn’t just the bloodshot eyes that had a huge reaction, but also Tang Xinjue’s three roommates.
They almost retreated subconsciously, because just at that moment, a strong sense of strangeness erupted from the person they were most familiar with and trusted.
Then the girl opened her eyes, her cloudy and dim pupils slowly moved, cold and indifferent.
