「Cold Star Project」Instance A·Nuoyan No.1 High School Rule Weird Tale
System ID: HS-07-44 Instance Name: Nuoyan No.1 High School Rule Weird Tale Danger Level: 7 Party Size: 6 Entry Requirement: Must have passed Level 5 or above tests [I. Public Rulebook (Student Handbook)] Rule 1: Daily class hours are 7:00-21:00. Please be sure to enter the corresponding classroom on time. Do not remain in the hallway for more than 3 minutes outside of break times. Rule 2: If you encounter a student wearing a red school uniform, do not make eye contact with them, and do not answer any questions. Rule 3: The library is open from 15:00-17:00. If you see the library lights on at any other time, stay far away immediately. If you have already entered, find the "School History (2003 Edition)", hold it against your chest, and leave. Rule 4: After 12:00 midnight, the dormitory gate locks. No matter what sounds you hear, absolutely do not open the door. If you hear your own name called three times while indoors, cover your ears and recite pi. Rule 5: The mannequin in the art room occasionally changes position. This is normal. But if you find it standing by the window looking at the playground, report to the Academic Affairs Office immediately. Rule 6: Under the plane tree at the southeast corner of the playground, a girl sometimes cries. Hand her a tissue, but do not ask her class or name. She will give you an item — be sure to keep it safe. Rule 7: The third row of cabinets in the chemistry laboratory is always locked. Do not try to open it. If you find the cabinet door open by itself, put the blue reagent bottle inside it into the waste liquid drum at the northwest corner. Rule 8: If you see yourself in the mirror making a movement different from yours, close your eyes and count down for ten seconds. The mirror will not harm those who follow the rules. Rule 9: You must talk to at least three students wearing blue school uniforms every day. They are safe recorders. Rule 10: The graduation condition is: find the "original regret" and burn it in front of the flag-raising platform. You only have one chance. [II. Hidden Clue Layer] A. Fragments of the murder case from that year (2003) Old newspaper scrap (library secret room): "On May 17, 2003, Wen Zhang (female, 17), a sophomore at Nuoyan No.1 High School, died accidentally in the chemistry laboratory... A suicide note was found at the scene, mentioning long-term school bullying... The three students involved transferred away..." Graffiti wall (behind the old teaching building): "They all said I stole the exam questions — I didn't — Teacher Zhou, you know very well" "The her in the mirror is crying — the me outside the mirror is smiling" "What is buried under the plane tree is not a seed" Tape recording fragment (under the piano in the music classroom): (noisy background, someone sobbing)"...If all the rules are wrong, what is the point of following them... I will write everything into the school history..." (sound of impact, the tape ends) B. Current Anomalies New student list anomaly: on the Academic Affairs Office list, 12 names are marked with red circles. These students have never appeared during the day. Time: the flow of time differs in certain areas. The clock in the art room is always 23 minutes slower than standard time. Shadows: at specific locations (flag-raising platform, chemistry laboratory, under the plane tree), shadows detach from the body and point in a certain direction. C. Rule Loopholes Rule 3: the "School History (2003 Edition)" truly exists in the library, but only the 2004 edition records the complete truth. It can only be obtained by entering the library at the wrong time. Rule 6: the item given by the crying girl is half a key. Fitted together with the item in the art room mannequin's hand, it can open the entrance to the secret passage. Rule 9: the blue-uniformed students are the "bystanders" of the incident back then. The names of the three perpetrators are hidden in their conversations. [III. Hidden Mission Guide] Mission 1: Find out the identity of the mysterious person ·Key NPC: The "principal" who appears at night (wearing a red school uniform, but with a golden school badge) ·Clue chain: At the bottom of the file cabinet in the Academic Affairs Office, find the 2003 group photo of the teachers; one young teacher in it bears an extremely high resemblance to the "principal". The teacher-only drawer in the chemistry laboratory has a lock that can only be opened with tears (after the crying girl's tissue is soaked wet). Inside it are diary page fragments: "...Xiaowan, the teacher failed to protect you..." Truth: the mysterious person is Zhou Yuan, the chemistry teacher from back then. After Wen Zhang died, he resigned and left. Twenty years later, he bought the school, attempting to use supernatural forces to "revive" or "recreate" the incident from that year, seeking a chance for redemption. By day he is the normal principal; after midnight he becomes the rule maintainer (the red-clad principal). Mission 2: Find the secret passage and the secret room ·Entrance: the mannequin in the art room (after midnight, when it moves to the window, it is the wall crack that its shadow points to) ·Unlocking: requires the complete key (the crying girl's metal bookmark + the chalk stub in the mannequin's hand, fused together after being corroded by an acidic reagent in the chemistry laboratory) ·Secret room location: the "Memory Archive" converted from an underground air-raid shelter ·Secret room contents: Wen Zhang's complete diary (revealing the full process of the bullying and the truth of the teachers' cover-up) Real photos of the 2003 accident scene (showing traces that it was not an accident) Zhou Yuan's confession video: "I modified the rules... I thought I could trap the sin, but I ended up trapping the souls" Mission 3: Counter-kill the Boss ·Boss: not Zhou Yuan, but the embodiment of the rules themselves — appearing in the form of a "collective of red-clad students", an aggregation of all the resentment trapped here for 20 years ·Weakness: it reacts to "real names". You need to gather: Wen Zhang's full name (in the diary) The names of the three main perpetrators (extracted from the blue-uniformed students) Zhou Yuan's full name (teacher archive) ·Counter-kill steps: Burn the "original regret" in front of the flag-raising platform (Wen Zhang's suicide note fragment + Zhou Yuan's apology letter) At this point, the Boss will appear in a rage and begin attacking indiscriminately Use a megaphone (obtained from the Academic Affairs Office) to shout out the five real names one by one; with each name shouted, part of the Boss dissipates In the final stage, enter the chemistry laboratory and splash the blue reagent bottle (Rule 7) onto the Boss's core — the reagent is actually the chemistry assignment Wen Zhang never finished that year, symbolizing "unfinished youth" System verdict: all the red uniforms turn back into blue school uniforms, and the school returns to normal