Wish Rankings

The four quickly reunited and formed a team; two cleared the bombs, and two rested.

"Where's An Ying? Has no one seen him?"

"Not yet, let's go down and look for it," Tao Yuan said. "Bai Yang just came to see us and told us to go check the Archive Room. Do you know where the Archive Room are?"

"So this is where it is."

Lin Nieran looked up at the inconspicuous Archive Room sign. He had thought that such a place would be far away from the busy office area, but he didn't expect it to be next to the conference room.

"007, unlock."

[Received, host. Leave it to me.]

The 007 Little Ball gently touched the keyhole, and the lock cylinder clicked and sparks flew.

Lin Nieran looked helplessly at the dark keyhole. "Is this how you open a lock?"

007: [Yeah, there's no way to use high-tech lock picking on these old-fashioned things.]

Okay, okay.

After giving himself a couple of mental pep talks, Lin Nieran picked up the half-broken lock and hung it on the door.

Anyway, given the Protagonist Group's personalities, they wouldn't use the normal methods to unlock it. What if they just tried to pick the lock without realizing it was broken to begin with?

To comfort herself, Lin Nieran pushed open the door to the Archive Room.

The room was quiet; no bombs had spawned there. Perhaps the Little Dumpling subconsciously knew this wasn't a place where she could act recklessly.

[Host, what are you doing?]

007 Little Ball asked curiously, not understanding why its host had brought the Protagonist Group here.

Does the host intend to lure them to that Weird Instance later? That Instance is indeed where the Protagonist Group will go later, but it's still a long way off.

"I've helped them several times already. I'll use them to teach a lesson to some unruly guy and give him something to do." Lin Nieran looked at the dusty blue file boxes in front of him. "System, scan the files on Lin Yi here and find him."

[Receive]

The files here are stacked up so densely that even searching them one by one in chronological order wouldn't be able to be done quickly.

If he hadn't come, let alone wasting two hours of the game here, even if they had been given another two hours, given their luck, they would have had a hard time finding any useful information.

He knew Lin Yi's intentions all too well. If he were to actually give him the body, that would be terrible; even Worship God wouldn't be someone he could kill.

What good can a child raised in such a bizarre way possibly have in terms of personality?

Lin Nieran had a very clear understanding of himself; it was precisely because he was the most normal person that he was able to survive in this body.

[Host found, please see the arrow]

A glittering arrow appeared on 007, pointing to the third shelf of the fifth row of cabinets.

Many of the cabinet doors here are half-open, and the shelf that the system refers to is one of those that is open.

The shelf displays the graduate files from 2065.

Since the arrival of the Weird World, all time has been frozen in 2065. In fact, he graduated in 2066 and enrolled in school in 2060.

When he enrolled, this was still a normal primary school.

Opening the file box, I found familiar yet unfamiliar faces. The children were innocent and lovely when they entered school, but by graduation, they all had ashen faces.

By the time they graduated, they had become monsters, but they still lived according to their human habits.

The only exception here is Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's photos show him as an adorable little kid when he first enrolled, but by graduation he looked like this, with a face full of scars, frighteningly cold eyes, and tightly pursed lips.

Lin Nieran summoned the system and said with a smile, "Take a picture of him."

[Ah?]

"Keep this as a souvenir to show him later, and it'll make him furious."

007 didn't understand, but he did it anyway.

Lin Nieran flipped through the file, tore off the last page, put the file back, and considerately closed the door.

[Host, you're leaving already? Don't you need to leave any more clues?]

"It's already been saved."

Twenty minutes into the bombardment, when the school building was completely destroyed and mostly collapsed, the girl's voice reappeared, along with a red virtual screen.

[Ranking of Dumplings' Wish Fulfillment Rate Only Counts the Number of Detonations]

First place: Qin Rang 898 bombs

Second place: Tao Yuan, 897 bombs

Third place: Wen Keke, 712 bombs

Fourth place: Yao Mu with 700 bombs

Seventh place: Tang Pin 688 bombs)

10th place: Mi Chuchu, 675 bombs

15th Place: Sheng Qingqiao, 665 bombs

75th place: An Ying, 388 bombs

86th place: Lin Nieran, 267 bombs

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"Captain, I really don't know whether to say you're amazing or unlucky. How did you manage to encounter so many bombs? And Sister Tao too." Sheng Qingqiao exclaimed, staring at her ranking of fifteen.

"Wen Keke also caused such a stir," Mi Chuchu said. "There are many familiar faces on this ranking... How did An Ying fall to seventy-fifth? Where is she?"

"Perhaps we're looking in the wrong direction; he might not be in the teaching building area."

When the rankings were announced, the constant barrage of notifications finally stopped, and the entire campus fell silent for a moment.

Qin Rang scanned the list several times, then asked in confusion, "Why don't I see Bai Yang's name?"

Tao Yuan had already searched several times, and upon hearing this, he shook his head. "I didn't see his name either."

"This organization is really secretive from beginning to end," Mi Chuchu muttered. "While there are no bombs now, let's go find the Archive Room."

"The key question is, where is the Archive Room?"

"I have a map." Tao Yuan pulled a crumpled piece of paper from her school uniform pocket. She had found it when she was buried under the stone slab and had just taken it.

"Only a few school buildings are open to the public in this primary school area, along with the teachers' building and the laboratory building across the street. The Archive Room should be in the laboratory building." Qin Rang said, glancing at the map Tao Yuan had unfolded. The two confirmed the location in less than a minute.

"Fourth floor of the laboratory building, Archive Room."

Sheng Qingqiao gave a thumbs up.

[The first round of the game is over, the first place has been determined, everyone else needs to work harder!]

[You guys are useless for not destroying the school after all this time. If everyone were like the number one student, the school would be gone by now!]

The next round of bombs needs to be even more powerful!

The Little Dumpling's voice faded away, and the nearly one hundred surviving players were speechless after hearing her provocative words.

"Tang Pin, we don't know when the new round will start. Let's go downstairs, there's more space there." Somewhere on the second floor, Tang Pin and several of her temporary teammates were resting.

Tang Pin shook her head. "The first floor is temporarily under the control of that woman named Wen Keke. She has brought a team of thirty people. If we go down there, we might run into trouble."

"That woman is very strange; she must be some kind of Weird Object can influence people's minds. The first floor is more spacious, but there are more unexpected things that could happen. We'll stay on the second floor; even if something happens, we'll have time to go down."

"That's true, then we'll listen to you."