Chapter 4: Who Is the Big Gray Wolf? (Slightly Revised)

Dark lighthouse…

Guiding the lost torch……

Let the scattered crowd gather, let the dark thorns be enacted…

So bright, yet only left for the silhouette…

(Hard to fathom, do players hope to become the savior of myth, or hope to become the expected savior?)

—————Observer (recorded in Blue Star Era: 2545, Lu Ming's supporter)

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【Main storyline:

Besides, can you still have a conscience?!

Think you're holy?! Don't forget, you're also an accomplice, don't think you can wash your hands of it!

... Surrender! Demon! Expose!

Then die!

Scared…

The dean is bad, keeps hitting Aunt Chen Ling, Yuanyuan can't stop pulling.

Want to see Sister Min again… right, Sister Min is already...

Treating illness, was kindly adopted, all those were deceived…

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"Lu Ming?"

"Lu Ming!"

Shoulders pushed repeatedly, Lu Ming gradually regained consciousness.

"What's wrong?" Qiu Qi Liuli's delicate face came into view, hair loosely scattered over shoulders.

Up close, Lu Ming saw the girl's eyes were very clear.

"It's fine."

Could be an illusion, but Lu Ming indeed heard a sickly laugh from the stairwell, distant like a wind chime.

Lu Ming transmitted the main storyline's team-up method he received to the two of them.

"That female corpse in the infirmary was definitely killed, likely by the dean..." Mo Yan leaned by the window, warily staring at the hallway.

After leaving the cafeteria, to avoid the dean as much as possible, they took a path farther from the cafeteria, and also looked at the infirmary where the female corpse was.

"Did you hear that?" Lu Ming looked up at the stairwell.

The two behind looked at each other, expressions puzzled.

Suddenly, a head poked out from the stairwell, a childish face, long hair scattered on the ground, both eyes blood-red, pallid seeing no vitality.

Lu Ming almost raised his gun, the action startled the two behind.

The childish face, corners of mouth slightly raised, hooked a strange smile.

"Click—"

The sound of a bullet chamber.

That face instantly vanished, leaving only a faint echoing laugh:

"One friend, two friends…"

"Three friends, four friends."

"Five, six beloved friends."

"One friend has no heart."

"Two friends have no brain."

"Three friends brawl."

"One lacks ears."

"One lacks hands."

"One lacks eyes and tongue."

"La la la, gray wolf!"

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"Wait!"

Mo Yan wanted to grab Lu Ming, but only touched his collar, gazing at the distant back, clicked his tongue, told Qiu Qi Liuli to follow.

The building echoed with heavy footsteps, Lu Ming followed the extending bloody footprints, re-entering the third-floor corridor.

Only just left from there.

The corridor's chandelier still flickered, dim then bright, bloody footprints stretched to the corridor's end, gradually visible.

"... Indeed still over there?"

Lu Ming gripped his gun tightly, walking from the swaying chandelier, the blood on the ground formed drag marks, all the way to the corridor's end, like crawling.

At the corridor's end appeared a door; Lu Ming gently pushed it open, met with a pungent smell.

Formaldehyde again, and specimens inside?

Lu Ming walked a few steps, relying on the faint moonlight to barely see the room's furnishings.

Saw something like a bed.

Again heard that laugh, lingering around the ears.

"Brother..." the moonlight by the window grew brighter, "Do you also like fairy tales?"

Lu Ming lowered his gaze, saw a girl standing facing him, her white dress stained red with blood, making it hard to tell its original color.

Lu Ming to the blood-red eyes: "Interested in ethereal things?"

"Ethereal?" the girl's forefinger touched her lips, "A bit hard to understand… Forget it, Yuanyuan wants to hear the gray wolf's story, but Sister Min hasn't finished yet…"

"Min, she's already dead." Lu Ming said, recalling the main plot he had just encountered.

"No, no!" the girl showed a weird smile: "Sister Min's home, we made an appointment, from now on we'll watch the sea together."

【Clue: Promise (dependence, able to make a lonely soul appear that lonely)】

【Main plot progress: 20%】

【Exploration: 2 points】

"Sister Min is in there, home is in there, but not completely..." Girl puts her hands behind her back, tiptoeing and lightly turning, "Home is missing something."

The girl stepped back a few steps, half her body hiding into the shadow illuminated by moonlight.

"Gray wolf... gray wolf... brother, tell me what will happen to that gray wolf hiding among the sheep flock in the end?"

【Final clue: The flock hides a gray wolf (that wolf hides among the flock, can you find it?)】

"If it's you, brother, you'll definitely be able to find it, right?"

The shadow made clear the girl's face, only those eyes narrowed into crescents, red.

"Right?"

"Right?"

"Right?"

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Lu Ming felt the sound coming from all directions, he looked around, darkness, pairs of blood-red eyes staring at him.

These are all children from the orphanage.

"Brother, the headmaster from letting enter the room..."

Lu Ming didn't hesitate, immediately pressed the wall-side light switch, the room lit up instantly, the girl disappeared, everything returned to calm.

Lu Ming found the room full of cabinets, facing them were jars filled with soaked meat chunks, and an operating table.

"Lu Ming!" Mo Yan's voice came from behind.

Qiu Qiuliang grabbed Lu Ming's arm: "How impulsive!"

"I'll explain, that... can you let go first?" Lu Ming's voice slightly trembling.

Only then did Qiu Qiuliang realize she was gripping Lu Ming's injured spot.

Immediately she let go: "Sorry..."

Mo Yan also noticed the operating table, went over and approached to examine.

"Do you still remember the healing room in the plot? I guess it's here." Mo Yan's gaze turned to the rows of cabinets, expression solemn: "Since it's for healing... why..."

In those neat rows of jars, brains, hearts, spleens, all soaked in green liquid.

Lu Ming's gaze fell on one jar, inside soaked a skull.

The pale eyes seemed to stare fixedly, very eerie.

After a long while.

"Let's turn off the light first." Qiu Qiuliang, at least having a medical background, spoke first, breaking the silence.

Lu Ming grabbed her: "It's useless."

"Why? Would think..." Qiu Qiuliang somewhat surprised: "To be frank, guns really can definitely deal with that thing."

"." Lu Ming looked, "Inside this place originally prohibited entry, although just speculation, but now the ability has already become the target."

Mo Yan nodded: "Indeed, from the headmaster's office, the clues found relate to that room; the headmaster will severely punish anyone approaching that room."

"... Right?" Qiu Qiuliang gave a bitter smile: "Also, somehow still able to stay calm..."

"Let's share the clues, also take a look." Lu Ming, while sharing the main plot he just received, walked toward the cabinets.

Facing them, he discovered a bottle of medicine.

【Obtained: Specific Effect Medicine X1 (after injection, supposedly can prevent infectious disease?)】

"Qiu Qiuliang... still Liu Lu?" Lu Ming looked at the medicine bottle, raised his hand and waved.

Someone studying medicine might be able to understand.

"Just call me Liu Lu, don't mind..." Qiu Qiuliang walked away.

In J country, people who are close usually address each other by surname; since we're on the same team, in this situation the distance is still not good.

Qiu Qiuliang, thinking that, took the medicine bottle from Lu Ming's hand, opened the cap, the light swayed.

"... Looks like growth hormone?" Qiu Qiuliang brought the bottle opening near her nose, sniffed, "Definitely, also knows growth hormone can prevent infectious disease."

【Clue: So-called healing medicine growth hormone?】

【Main plot progress: 35% (2 points)】