ATFBETIBM Chapter 661.1

Xia Chi’s vision blurred again, and the winding corridor turned into a clean white hallway.

On the white wooden double doors hung a long rectangular blue plaque, with a word written on it: “Infirmary”.

[Ding! Game transition complete. Important clues about Li Mi’s troubles are in the infirmary. Please search carefully. Progress for Li Mi’s troubles 1 is at 60%. Once all tasks are completed, the player will receive additional rewards.]

“60% already?”

Xia Chi had just opened the task bar and noticed that under [Li Mi’s Troubles 1], there was now an additional line.

[6. Li Mi’s body recovers extremely fast, and his wounds can heal at a rapid speed.]

Was this one of the clues?

It seemed this was the important clue he had missed in the bathroom.

He didn’t get the chance to investigate, but luckily, his brother had seen Li Mi’s recovery firsthand, so he hadn’t missed this crucial clue.

Xia Chi looked at the auxiliary description behind [Li Mi’s Troubles 1] and discovered that in the investigation scenes recommended by the system, the sculpture studio hadn’t been checked yet, and the infirmary hadn’t been mentioned at the beginning.

It was purely accidental that the Basketball Prince went to the infirmary. It was because he had been knocked out by Tan Yue. If Tan Yue hadn’t hit him with the ball, the Basketball Prince wouldn’t have ended up in the Infirmary.

So, the game’s plot isn’t fixed? It can change based on the player’s actions?

‘So awesome, truly awesome.

Sister Sun Ning, how did you do it ,so smart!’

With the change in the scene, Bai Lixin and Tan Yue didn’t disappear, which made Xia Chi even happier.

Even though both of them were slacking off, they still made him feel bolder!

Standing at the door of the infirmary and looking inside, the infirmary was a suite. The outer room was the reception area, followed by several rooms: one was the examination room, one was the storage room for medicines, one was the school doctor’s lounge, and the innermost area was the ward.

The students here seemed to have excellent physiques, as the reception area was empty, with only open windows and blue curtains swaying in the wind.

The plot jumped, leading to a passage of time.

Now the system showed that there were 43 hours left.

Not much time had passed, and it was still daylight outside the window.

Xia Chi took a deep breath, gently pushed the door of the medical room open and walked in.

All the room doors were tightly closed and faint sounds could be heard coming from the innermost ward area.

Xia Chi listened to the sounds and found them somewhat familiar. He tiptoed quietly, sneaking over and craning his neck to peek through the crack in the door.

The beds were lined up one after another, and the farthest bed had its curtain drawn. Through the hazy curtain, a few shadows could be seen pressing down on something.

The sounds from the bed shaking and the sticky unbearable low moans and low panting drilled into Xia Chi’s ears. He realized what was happening and his face flushed red.

‘He, he, he, they, they they, are they?’

‘What the hell?!’

Li Mi’s voice was intermittent, with a crying tone, constantly begging for mercy.

The mixed pants were rough and fierce, accompanied by spicy and wanton words that echoed without end.

“Isn’t it comfortable?”

“Look how happy you are crying.”

“Why can’t we always get satisfied? Does your body have some kind of magic?”

“Don’t hold back, cry out, be good, cry louder.”

“Don’t worry, there’s no one outside, no one will see.”

“Aren’t you the one who loves being watched the most? Every time it’s like this, you want to bite me off.”

“Hiss…damn it, relax, don’t bite.”

Xia Chi covered his ears, his cheeks burning.

‘Don’t look anything indecent, don’t listen anything indecent… Damn it, this is really indecent!’

‘This is a school! What are you doing?!’

‘In real life, this would already count as public indecency and rape! You three beasts in human form, do you know you could go to jail?!’

Xia Chi turned his flushed face away, and his eyes fell on Bai Lixin beside him.

Bai Lixin had his head down, his eyes filled with excitement and some absent-mindedness, as if he was remembering something.

Xia Chi nudged Bai Lixin, “Brother, what’s wrong with you?”

Bai Lixin came back to his senses and gave Xia Chi his usual charming smile, “Nothing, I just remembered something interesting.”

Xia Chi: “Now that you mention it, I just recalled—back when we were in that horror game, we once entered a copy with a campus background.”

Bai Lixin looked a little embarrassed, “Really?”

Xia Chi: “It’s been too long, I don’t remember the details of what happened in that copy. If I could remember, maybe I could get some inspiration.”

The embarrassment in Bai Lixin’s eyes faded a little. He asked tentatively, “You really don’t remember?”

Xia Chi frowned and shook his head, “No, I just remember the female student in red with the broken body in the art building.”

He shuddered, “Thinking back, it’s pretty terrifying, it’s better to forget it.”

The embarrassment in Bai Lixin’s eyes finally disappeared. He cleared his throat, “Do you want to keep listening?”

Xia Chi quickly waved his hand, “No, no, let’s get out of here.”

Suddenly, Li Mi screamed from the ward, then his scream abruptly stopped, and he could only make whimpering sounds.

“Shh, keep it down, the school doctor is still outside. Do you want to attract him to come and see you like this?”

“Hiss, why such a big reaction to the school doctor?”

“You slut, could it be you’ve set your sights on the school doctor?”

Li Mi sobbed and begged, “No, no I didn’t, I swear I didn’t.”

Xia Chi stared at the vague shadows cast on the bed curtains, and his mind was filled with the terrifying scene of Li Mi and three boys.

The next second, he shuddered and shook the scene from his head.

The scene was too disturbing, he didn’t even dare to think about it.

“Shua!”

In a daze, Xia Chi heard that strange sound again.

It sounded like the rustling of paper, but it was slightly different, with a bit of static mixed in. He couldn’t figure out what it was.

He looked left, then right, glanced at Tan Yue, and then at Bai Lixin.

Both of them were strangely calm, as if they hadn’t heard the sound at all.

“You really didn’t hear any strange sounds?” Xis Chi pointed above his head nervously. “The “shua” sound, did you hear it?”

Tan Yue and Bai Lixin looked at each other, then both shook their heads in denial.

Xia Chi: “…”

Strange, was he the only one that heard it?

Was it because he was the only one who received the task?

“Slurp!”

Xia Chi’s pupils suddenly shrank and he looked up at the ceiling. Above him, there was only a clean white ceiling and a hanging light, nothing else.

He exclaimed, “Did you hear it this time?!”

It was a different sound this time.

Tan Yue and Bai Lixin still had confused expressions.

Xia Chi: !

Was it really only him who could hear it? What kind of ghost sound was this?

Why did it sound like the slurping sound of eating noodles?

No way. Could it be that he was hallucinating?

“Slurp!”

The sound rang out again, distant and hollow, as if coming from the horizon.

This time, the sound was even clearer, and Xia Chi could nolonger dismiss it as an auditory hallucination.

Xia Chi widened his eyes and looked up at the sky, his mind flashing with the mysterious sounds that only he could hear.

Shua?

Slurp?

A strange thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

He looked up at the two again, “We… could it be that we are inside a book?”

And a spicy one at that.

Shua?

It really sounded like the rustling of paper.

Slurp?

Could it be the sound of the reader drooling?

Xia Chi suddenly remembered something, and quickly recalled the side task [Li Mi’s Troubles 1]. His eyes rapidly scanned through the clues he had already uncovered, finally stopping at the fifth point.

[5. Li Mi was punished. He seems to be very afraid of the three classmates and their punishments, but everyone seems to enjoy it.]

Everyone enjoyed it.

When Xia Chi unlocked this clue, he hadn’t thought much about it. At first, he assumed that it referred to those three people who liked Li Mi, and that the more they punished him, the happier they became.

But if this place was really a book, and Li Mi was the protagonist of the spicy novel, then the “everyone” who enjoyed it in the book might not necessarily be one of those three.

Instead it’s the…readers?

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for triggering the hidden task—The Truth of the World.

This is a school, an unreal school. It is filled with lies and falsehoods. Players must discover the inconsistencies in the school and uncover the truth of this world.]

[This is a hidden task. Upon completion, players will receive additional surprise rewards.

Current task progress: 20%.

1. The player suspects that this school is not the real world but a world within a book.]

Xia Chi was stunned, then suddenly realized something. He grabbed Tan Yue’s arm in excitement, “Tan Yue, I discovered the truth about this school! This school is fake. We’re inside a book!”

‘Sister Sun Ning, you are awesome.’

‘This is a beginner task?’

‘You call this a beginner task?’

‘Inconsistencies?’

‘What other inconsistencies are there in this school?’

Because of the exciting discovery of such an incredible truth, his brain was working at high speed, trying to recall everything since he entered the copy until now.

Li Mi’s dual state?

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for discovering an inconsistency. Progress: 40%.]

‘Ah, it really is!’

‘What else?’

It wasn’t obvious at first, but when he thought about it, he really found a few more inconsistencies.

Everyone’s reaction to Li Mi was too unified.

Blame, isolation, misunderstandings, and the attacks on Li Mi were too intense.

Even when the Basketball Prince publicly humiliated him, everyone else acted as though it was Li Mi’s fault.

It was as if they were isolating Li Mi just for the sake of isolating him.

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for discovering an inconsistency. Progress: 60%.]

Xia Chi thought for a while longer but didn’t find any more inconsistencies for the time being.

He opened the task panel and started reviewing.

[Hidden Task—The Truth of the World.

Progress: 60%.]

[1. The player suspects that this school is not the real world but a world within a book.

2. Li Mi’s state seems a bit strange.

3. Other student’s attitudes towards Li Mi are a little strange.]

There were now four tasks listed in his task panel.

[Main Task—Help Li Mi complete his graduation project, progress 0%.

Side Task—Help Li Mi gather materials for the graduation project, progress 0%.

Side Task—Find out about Li Mi’s troubles 1, progress 0%.

Hidden Task—Discover the truth of the world, progress 60%.]

Okay, so we’re back to divided chapters. It helps not to feel like am drowning in one chapter haha.