Chapter 7
Chapter 6:
“Tsk, it’s been nearly twenty minutes, and you haven’t found the sentinel of your team?” The short-haired girl’s eyes showed pity, “You should find it when you line up one by one. right?”
“Who’s to blame?” Cen Zhen deliberately said these three words to the ponytail guide, who wanted to laugh but dared not laugh too clearly, and said with humanitarian concern: “I’m sorry , I won’t lie to you this time, okay, we really met Sentinel No. 10 just now, in this direction, about five rooms?”
The short-haired girl sighed for a moment, looked at the ponytail girl, and resolutely chose to echo, “Yes, yes.”
Cen Zhen ignored them and walked to the next room. There was another team in the next room. It was Team No. 8, a combination of female sentinels and male guides. The sentinels just finished picking their badges and saw someone appearing , immediately put on a warning stance.
“Tsk.” Cen Zhen thought to himself that he really shouldn’t waste time talking to Team No. 2. Sentinel No. 8 found that Cen Zhen was still in an unattackable state, and immediately relaxed his guard, she raised her eyebrows , and defiantly tossed the badge in his hand, “I remember you were the 60.19% compatibility team? It’s been all this time and you haven’t reunited. You guys are basically cold.”
Cen Zhen learned his lesson and pushed the door into the next room without waiting for the sentinel to finish speaking. As a result, several rooms were emptied in a row. It must have been swept away by other teams.
In order to find the sentinel of the same team as soon as possible, the guide will generally try to walk towards the center of the maze so that there are more directions to choose from. Cen Zhen knew that there was not much time left for him, so he immediately chose the direction , go straight to the same route to open the door, and want to go to the edge of the maze to see if there are any slip-through badges. However, just as he was facing a certain door, Cen Zhen suddenly stopped, hesitantly put his hand on the touch button, but did not push it open.
Outside the arena, hundreds of spectators at the scene, as well as more students who were called by friends to watch the game from a distance, all held their breaths, watching Cen Zhen intently, expecting him to push the door and enter.
“Open the door!”
“What are you struggling with this number 10?? Push the door!”
“Sentry No. 10 and Sentinel No. 6 are almost idle, and the personal terminal signal is blocked in the maze, and it is impossible to play cards online to kill time.”
“Sentinel six was freed just five seconds ago Well, this is the only sentinel ten left… Is he asleep? I think he’s been there since the second minute This posture of sitting against the wall…”
“I didn’t fall asleep, my eyes were open, and I didn’t blink a few times.”
“Is it so hard to push a door?”
“…he, he returned?? I’m blind???”
“???”
“…”
“I know, I know!! He must have done it on purpose, he just doesn’t want to rendezvous with the Sentinel, yes! He doesn’t have to rendezvous at all! Being immune to attack… wonderful!”
“What the hell?? Yes!”
…
At the moment when his finger touched the door, an extremely indescribable premonition rushed into Cen Zhen’s mind like an electric current from his fingertips, and the numb shudder made him move. Cen Zhen retracted his trembling fingertips, as if he could see the scene in the room through the wall. A hazy and illusory figure appeared in front of him, with long pale golden hair falling on the ground. He was obviously an adult sentinel. He tucked his knees into a defensive posture like a child, burying his head in his knees, as if that was all he could do to protect himself.
He also felt the emotions of the man inside—pain…and fear.
Why fear? What is he afraid of? Cen Zhen couldn’t help immersing himself in this emotion, and wanted to grab something ethereal, but when he was about to ponder, the empathy immediately faded away like a tide, and he was alone standing in the empty pure white in the room.
After three seconds of hesitation, Cen Zhen decided to withdraw his hand, then turned around and walked quickly to another door, and ran out without looking back.
“…”
In a place he couldn’t see, Lian Yu gritted his teeth angrily towards the door that he thought would be opened, he suddenly sat upright from leaning against the wall the moment Cen Zhen approached Physically, twenty minutes is almost his limit.
The disguised smiles are all ready, but…the other party actually left…
Left? ? ?
Lian Yu sat back in the corner and snorted, “I won’t win!”
Outside the field, the live broadcast of Team No. 10 was already full of ‘distressed sentinel’ barrage by the audience watching on the terminal, followed by another wave of ‘No, you’re sure to win’ screen.
In the thirtieth minute of the game, just over half of the total time, all players heard a reminder from the host at the same time: “All badges have been collected, and the team currently ranked first in points is… No. 10 .”
The timing of this reminder was very unfortunate. It happened that Cen Zhen was in the same room with the No. 3 team. The sentinel and guide of No. 3 team were originally questioning how Cen Zhen could not meet the sentinel. Hearing this prompt, Sentinel No. 3 rushed in front of Cen Zhen in a rage, and ripped off his number plate impulsively.
“Are you **** cheating!! I want to report you for changing the number plate without permission—”
Before he finished speaking, the dean’s voice came from the number plate: “The three teams of sentinels violated the rules of the game and were banned for ten minutes. The two badges held by the three teams were transferred to the tenth team.”
Sentry Three: “…”
Sentry Three: “???”
The two confused faces looked at each other, Cen Zhen took the two badges and his number plate from the third guide indifferently, and there was even a little disgust in his eyes.
“How is this possible…” When Cen Zhen walked to the door, Sentinel No. 3 suddenly muttered: “Did you bribe the referee…”
“The third team is warned once by a yellow card, please pay attention to your words and deeds.” The ruthless voice of the dean came again, and the No. 3 guide hurriedly covered the mouth of the sentinel, for fear that he would say anything more.
Cen Zhen pushed open the door and bumped into the No. 1 team head-on. The other party saw the white No. 10 card like a big bad wolf with fat flying to his mouth. He rushed up, and in just a split second, Cen Zhen was tortured again after he put on his number plate for less than a second.
“A team of Sentinels violated the rules of the game and were banned for ten minutes. The three badges held by the first team were transferred to the tenth team.”
Not far away, the No. 3 guide and the sentinel both showed expressions that could not bear to look directly, as if they saw the foolish self a minute ago.
After handing in the badges, a group of guides reacted with hindsight, “You haven’t reunited with the sentry yet? How can your ten teams be ranked first? The system prompts an error?”
Three big question marks expressed the wishes of the four present, but unfortunately, Cen Zhen did not have the will to answer them. Silently and purposefully pushed the door forward.
Because there was too much noise here, the sentries became more sensitive one by one, and soon Cen Zhen was surrounded by a circle, they were wary of each other, but more of them were against Cen Zhen was staring at him.
I don’t know who started, the two guides blocked Cen Zhen’s way, not attacking or giving way, but silently forcing Cen Zhen to compromise with them, because in the past In a maze game, the scores between the teams are still very close. The most likely situation for the ten teams is only one or two points higher than the second-place team. If you get stuck here, you will undoubtedly be overtaken soon. .
But Cen Zhen just looked at them calmly, stopped slowly, and said calmly: “It’s useless for you to block the road, I have 18 badges in my hand now. , also has the first score of 13 badges, even if I stand here and do nothing, it is a must-win situation.”
This data made everyone stunned, 13×2=26 fixed points, plus 18×1, which is 44 points, Cen Zhen is currently unable to attack, a total of 25 badges, even if the rest The points are all obtained by the same team, and that is only 12*2+7*1=31 points, which is far lower than the total score of the ten teams. What he said is absolutely correct. Now the two players of the ten teams only need to find a different room. Just sleep and wait for the game time to end to win.
The rest of the team secretly observed each other’s expressions. It was terrifying that none of them could be sure that Cen Zhen was lying. After all, they knew how many badges they had.
Just as the two guides retreated slightly, Cen Zhen raised a faint smile. This was his first smile today, and many people did not realize that this rare smile represented What… just like this girl with a ponytail who lied many times in front of Cen Zhen.
“But…wouldn’t that be too boring?”
The ponytail girl and her sentinel stood by the unobtrusive wall, trying to reduce their sense of existence. They looked harmless to people and animals. I was here for sightseeing, but the desire to win or lose in their eyes is still strong , apparently waiting for the right moment to turn around. At this time, she suddenly found that the focal person in the center of the crowd looked over and walked directly in front of them.
“Hi.” Ponytail’s face was not blushing or her heart was beating, she greeted generously, “I didn’t expect you to be so powerful, how did you do it… eh?”
Cen Zhen opened his jacket pocket and let the badges fall to the ground one by one. The metal badges collided with each other and made a crisp and messy sound. Then, Cen Zhen took it off again After picking up the number plate on her chest, the ponytail girl pretended to be panicked and shouted, “Wow, don’t come here, you are touching porcelain! The dean of the school is in charge of him!”, she pushed open the door behind her with her backhand. .
The red font on the white number plate instantly turned green, from unattackable to active, Cen Zhen took the opportunity of the ponytail girl to be stunned and pressed it on her chest, her voice soft and low , as the devil whispered in his ear: “Have a good game.”
After speaking, Cen Zhen turned around and entered the room and closed the door. At the last moment when there was only a gap between the door and the wall, the dean’s voice also came from the number plate: “The second team After winning the guide number plate of the tenth team, the eighteen badges held by the tenth team were transferred to the second team.”
“…”
There was a long silence outside the wall, and it was the same inside the wall, but Cen Zhen knew that soon, a fierce conflict would break out between the two sides. He doesn’t care what the outside world is like, but inside… Cen Zhen raised his head and met Lian Yu’s gaze directly.
To his surprise, Lian Yu’s eyes were very quiet, and it has always been quiet… The expected madness and pretentiousness did not appear, whether it was directly jumping on him and saying incoherent words, It’s still soft-spoken and humbling to hate why you came here, Cen Zhen is immune, and he can stay where he is cool.
But Lian Yu just looked at him calmly, without sadness or joy, which made Cen Zhen suddenly feel a strange feeling in his heart, as if he really did something very outrageous just now, As a result, Lian Yu has been saddened to the limit, from grief and anger to indifference.
The author has something to say: Lian Yu: eye attack
Sen Zhen: … (conscience condemned)
Lian Yu: Do you have a conscience?
Cen Zhen: Yes, I have no conscience!