The down-and-out sentinels are raised, and the strong couple is on the list

"I think I bumped into you."

Yu Yan pinched the thing her hand touched. It felt warm, with a layer of tight skin wrapping around the hard bones.

It was Yan Wenqi's hand.

But she clearly saw her men at the marble edge of the fountain.

"I feel you too."

Yan Wenqi held Yu Yan's hand in his backhand and squeezed it in his palm.

Even though he couldn't see anything, the familiar touch allowed him to tell that this was Yu Yan's hand.

"Is this place weird, or are there limits on our contact?"

"Just try and you will find out."

Yu Yan said this, pulling Yan Wenqi's hand and walking out.

From her perspective, she couldn't see Yan Wenqi, she could only see her own hands, which were stretched out into the void behind her, as if pulling something in the air. It was strange and weird.

A few minutes later, the two men left the central fountain area.

"I can see you."

Yan Wenqi, who was following behind Yu Yan, was the first to discover that he could see Yu Yan.

Yu Yan turned her head and saw Yan Wenqi behind her, and their hands held together.

“Is this door the boundary?”

Yu Yan tilted her head to look at a decorative archway behind the two people. They had just come out from here.

She pulled Yan Wenqi back a few steps, and sure enough, she could no longer see him.

When I came back, he appeared again.

This was repeated several times, and even several other doors were tried. Finally, it was proved that the area where this strange phenomenon occurred was the central fountain area separated by several doors.

The two found a small pavilion outside the fountain and sat down.

"What's going on? I just saw other people in here, but why can't I see you?"

“I just saw someone too.”

As the two people were talking, they suddenly realized that they seemed to have met the same person.

"A boy with a buzz cut."

"Wear the uniform issued to you."

"With an unnatural smile on his face."

"Offered to help me take out the trash."

"Take the initiative to help me show the way."

Yu Yan and Yan Wenqi looked at each other and saw the speculation in each other's eyes.

Maybe, it’s not them who are strange, but that boy.

"Will it have anything to do with him?"

According to their previous speculation, people wearing the contestant's uniform are not necessarily real contestants.

So, could the person they just met be a hidden plot in the Sky City?

"It feels like I'm playing a large, immersive game, with all kinds of plots and NPCs that can be triggered anytime and anywhere. I feel like my brain is not enough."

"What did you say?"

"I said I didn't have enough brains."

"Isn't this the sentence you said that triggers the plot and NPC?"

“…I guess so.”

Yan Wenqi looked at Yu Yan in surprise: "Is it possible that this is really just a game?"

Yu Yan took out a bag of biscuits, tore it open, put a piece in her mouth, and did not forget to give one piece to Yan Wenqi.

"What game? A horror game with ghosts knocking on your door at midnight?"

Yan Wenqi was amused by her, "Of course I'm not saying that what we're going through is a game.

What I mean is, can we use the kind of game thinking you mentioned to compare the environment we are in now and the things we are going to experience?

In that way, everything we experience is actually a hint for completing the game."

Yu Yan stopped chewing and just as she put half a biscuit to her mouth, she took it down again.

"For example, the knock on the door might not be a knock, but a hint of something else?"

“Like you said, the guy with the buzz cut helped us not because he was helping us, but because he wanted the so-called points.

Perhaps each of us has a set of rules and experiences tailored for us.”

The crackling sound of mahjong in the room suddenly stopped.

The three of them looked at the fourth person, "Did you reveal the question?"

The person being stared at by three people replied without even looking up, "Do you have any clues about the test? Even now, does anyone know the content of the test?"

The three people thought about it and agreed.

"What a fool."

"Hey, why are you so stupid?"

"Did you change the cards while we weren't paying attention?"

"Cheating?"

"I don't want to play anymore. After a whole morning, you're the only one who won. It's not a good experience at all. I don't want to play anymore."

"That's right, I'd better go out and play with those players."

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Now that they had a guess, Yu Yan and the others began to carefully observe everything they saw.

The Sky City is too large, and people have all kinds of activities in different areas, so Yu Yan and the others meet very few people in public.

But even so, at the end of the day, they did find some clues.

Especially Yu Yan, who, with the convenience of her undetectable mental power, can get close to every person they meet and observe them closely.

I found that several players here seem to have "opportunities"

Most people who encounter "opportunities" are like the boy with a crew cut she met at the beginning. They carefully keep their secrets and at the same time make various efforts to try to maximize the value of this "opportunity".

But there are also a few people who are skeptical about their "luck" and do not take advantage of that "opportunity" to do something extra.

At night, Yu Yan and Yan Wenqi separated again.

Before Yu Yan returned to District 12, she received a system prompt.

"Attention contestant No. 12-12, please board the train at Station A in District at the same time tomorrow and take the train to the assessment. Please confirm the message received."

Just when Yu Yan was about to ask Yan Wenqi if he had received the message, she received a screenshot from him.

Xiaowu also came with them.

The reminders the two people received were the same as Yu Yan's except for a slight difference in the boarding location.

Yu Yan felt relieved and clicked "Confirm"

"Please confirm the boarding information."

"confirm."

It is now seven o'clock in the evening on the Federal Capital Star time.

It is the time when people end a busy day's work and enjoy life.

And Yu Yan was already standing at her boarding gate.

The time of the Sky City coincides with that of the Capital Planet.

The sunset simulated by the central control system is almost identical to that seen on the planets outside.

If Yu Yan didn't know that she was in a huge starship, she would only think that she was still living on an ordinary habitable planet from a visual perspective.

A breeze blew by, and she withdrew her gaze, returning it to the screen on the door in front of her.

"confirm."

She finished speaking, and the screen flashed, "Passed."

Then, the door opened to both sides, and the blocked view was instantly opened up.

Yu Yan looked through the door and saw the train not far away.

Just suspended outside the outer fence of the public area.

The train had no end in sight, and seemed to circle the huge circular living area.

In fact, if everyone boarded the train according to the code of their living area like Yu Yan, then this train might really be that long.

Yu Yan took a deep breath, walked through the door, and entered carriage number 12 of the train.

She wasn't the first to arrive.

There were already several people in the carriage.

They seemed to know each other and were sitting in a group of chairs facing each other, chatting animatedly. When they saw Yu Yan, they all stopped and looked at her curiously and pryingly.

It's like watching a rustic break in.