Screaming Cycle

February 4th, nine o'clock in the morning.

Ji Lu, Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen stood in front of the fourth building in "Peach Blossom Spring".

Now Ji Xiaoniao has finally figured out the basic structure of this place.

The so-called "Peach Blossom Spring" has nothing to do with Tao Gong's "Xanadu, a place where chickens and dogs can hear each other". It does not exist in any dimension. There is no entrance or exit. The entire space is like a steel. Participants can only live in it and cannot leave a step.

In the center of the "Peach Blossom Spring" is a huge suspended platform with an obelisk, and there is a main building in each of the four directions in the south, east, north and west.

To the east is the Colosseum with many small black houses, whose function is to settle and exchange points.

It is said that there is an additional space in the Colosseum, called the training ground, where participants can familiarize themselves with the items they exchanged in advance.

To the south is the apartment of the participants, where everyone’s room is located.

Directly to the north of the apartment, is the connecting house they visited last night.

There are hundreds of rooms, large and small, not only for gangs to use as meeting rooms and activity rooms, but also bars, restaurants, viewing areas, gyms and various indoor sports fields, which are used by participants for social activities. Main area.

As for the west side where they are now, it is a weird building called "Hourglass Cube"-where the participants will select the next "world" they are about to enter, and at the same time they enter the "world" "The channel.

At this moment, there are very few people in the hourglass cube.

Except for those newcomers who will not be able to return to the "Peach Blossom Spring" at the beginning of the next month, most of the experienced people will usually have selected the "world" in the second half of the month in order to gain sufficient preparation time. Drag to the present.

Ji Lu, Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen registered as a team in the Hourglass Hall.

[Do you want to conduct the "world" lottery now? 】

In front of the registration desk, a beautiful artificial intelligence dressed like an airport ground crew smiled and said to Ji Shu.

Ji Shu: "..."

He hesitated to look at Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen beside him, then looked back at the artificial intelligence: "This, must the captain come to draw lots?"

The artificial intelligence sister laughed and said: "Yes, the captain must draw lots."

Ji Yu hugged his head and let out a sigh.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

He collapsed and said: "I knew I would not be the captain!"

Mr. Dagen was very confused by his reaction: "What's the matter? Isn't it just a lottery!"

"No, no, you don't know!"

Ji Yu cried: "You don't understand a pure-blooded non-chief's fear of drawing cards!"

Xiaoniao has a full knowledge of his pedigree-after all three consecutive mobile games crashed in 100 draws, he vowed that he would never play any luck-gaming games in his life.

However, the beautiful artificial intelligence sister in front of him told him that not only did he draw cards in the card pool full of "world", but the result was directly related to the life and death of himself and his two teammates eleven days later.

"After all, Ji Xiaoniao, don't be so stressed."

Mr. Dagen kindly comforted the frustrated student bird.

"Anyway, Zhao Zhui also said that the type of'world' in F level difficulty is very fixed, and the left and right are the routines of physical attacks. It doesn't matter which one is the same!"

Ji Yu was encouraged, thinking about it, it was indeed the reason, so he cheered up and led the two attendants...No, the two team members walked into a door at the back of the hall proudly.

Inside the door is another hall.

However, the ceiling of the hall was higher than Ji Shu's imagination.

He raised his head and tried his best to see where the roof was, but even though he stretched his neck to sore, he could only see the night sky with no end in sight.

A huge glass hourglass stands in the hall.

But judging from the difference in size between the upper and lower parts, Ji Tuan thinks it looks more like a funnel.

The lower part of the hourglass is only the size of a football, and the inside is empty; the upper part is surprisingly big, with the top part extending into the invisible midair, filled with countless "sand".

Each "grain of sand" is a transparent cube, with a cluster of fireflies burning in the center, revealing a faint cold light.

Countless cubes are floating in mid-air ignoring gravity at this time, doing irregular Brownian motion.

"Okay, then I'll smoke!"

Ji Xuan took a deep breath, rubbed his paws vigorously, then reached out and touched the huge hourglass.

He thought he would touch a piece of glass, but what he came across was an air wall.

At a distance of ten centimeters from the hourglass, his palm was blocked by a "wall" that was invisible to the naked eye.

[Please select the difficulty of [World] you want to challenge. 】

Ji Lu heard a realistic magnetic male voice speaking to him, and his pronunciation and tone were very similar to the standard broadcasting voice of CCTV News Network.

At the same time, two options emerged in front of him, [F] and [B].

Ji Xiaoniao was not arrogant enough to think that he could challenge the B difficulty level in the second round, so he chose "F" without hesitation.

The luminous cube floating in the glass hourglass began to spin, and quickly converged into a huge vortex of light particles.

About thirty seconds later, one of the cubes separated from its companions, passed through the slender neck of the hourglass, fell to the lower part of it, and touched the transparent glass wall with a crisp sound. .

Immediately afterwards, the tangible but invisible air wall standing in front of Ji Shu suddenly lit up.

To the three of them, it was as if a huge holographic projection screen appeared out of thin air in front of them.

The screen was dark at first, and then a line of blood-colored text-"Separation of Flesh and Flesh" appeared slowly.

"Fuck!"

Ji Shu and Mo Tiangen exclaimed in unison.

At this moment, they realized that this is the legendary trailer!

The two dared not be distracted any more, and quickly concentrated, staring at the screen in front of them.

The trailer is only thirty seconds long.

From a bird's eye view, the camera passes over a dense mountain forest, then an old mine pit halfway up the mountain, and then stays above a small town almost full of wooden buildings.

Ji Tuan saw the residents of the town.

People have cheerful and carefree smiles on their faces.

Two fourteen-five-year-old children crossed the street carrying school bags and turned to say hello to an old man in a robe in front of the wooden house; the chubby housewife put away the dry sheets in the bright sun; a few dark The down-to-earth guys went to the bar to brag together, and the scene was enthusiastic and jubilant.

However, in the next second, the atmosphere of the screen suddenly changed.

The entire town, as well as the forests and mines behind it, are wrapped in a transparent film.

The residents of the town disappeared.

"Why do this set again!"

Teacher Dagen couldn't help but whispered: "Have you changed from an uninhabited city to a ghost village?"

But as soon as his words fell, wandering figures appeared in the dark mountain forest around the town.

The correct statement is that it looks a bit like a "human" thing.

Ji Lu felt that he could barely distinguish the positions of their head, body, and limbs, but based on the shadows hidden in the dark, he was really not sure whether those things could be regarded as "humans."

At this point, the trailer has come to an end.

They saw several special soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms.

The soldiers were shooting at the dark woods with their guns, and several people in white coats were evacuated to a cave under the protection of special forces.

In these few seconds, the camera seemed to have turned into a handheld mode, which was like a pseudo-documentary horror film made by DV in the early ages.

Between light and shadow, Ji Tuan could only hear the screams and howlings of people panicking, as well as the silhouettes of monsters that occasionally dangle the camera.

Immediately afterwards, the person holding the camera seemed to enter a corridor, and the background turned into a blood-stained white wall and floor.

Finally, the lens fell to the ground, and the picture shattered into a spider web shape, frozen on an empty syringe that had been used.

The trailer ends here.

The screen went dark, and the screen returned to a dark state.

A line of scarlet letters appeared in the center of the picture-[Bone and flesh separated, positive and negative phases are born, hold your breath. 】

Ji Lu and Mo Tiangen: "..."

——What does this mean in the end! ?

——Dare to stream more consciousness! ?

Ji Lu: "In fact, this is also pretty good."

He vomited with a serious expression, "At least from now on I will never dislike those junk movies where watching the trailer is equivalent to watching the full movie."

"Just admit it, it's a work of conscience that cuts all the essence into the trailer."

Mr. Dagen is dead fish-eyed: "At least people can tell you frankly that there are only those things in the whole story."

He shook his head irreverently.

"However, when I saw this trailer, I remembered. In fact, in the previous ‘world’, I seemed to have been exposed to similar things."

"Oh?"

Ji Shu came interested: "What's the matter?"

Before entering the City of Ashes, when he was going to a movie with his teammates, he saw a patch trailer that only he could see. It was very similar to the scene he experienced later. Now thinking about it, this is probably what he is about to enter. The harbinger of "Peach Blossom Spring".

"The night before the maglev rail car accident, I had a nightmare. In my dream, it was a gray and empty city."

Mo Tiangen replied: "I didn't take it seriously at the time. After washing my face, I almost forgot."

He shrugged and opened his hands helplessly:

"So, all of this is actually not accidental. I was unlucky enough to be targeted by'Peach Blossom Spring' a long time ago, right?"

"okay."

Ren Jianmo, who had been silent for a long time, interrupted the two men's innocuous conversation at this moment.

"Now there is no point in entanglement with the last'world'."

He lifted his chin towards the two of them.

"The top priority now is to quickly find a place to carefully analyze the trailer you just saw before your memory is blurred."