The Trial Game of Life

Li Shuangshuang was a little nervous at this moment.

She came to Eternal Night City for a month and a half, did several missions, and met many people, but she had never seen anyone like Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng.They are very strong, even if they just stand by and don't speak, people can't ignore their existence.

When she was hiding in the kitchen just now, she saw the scene of Jin Cheng pointing an arrow at Zhang Zhiyu through the window, which made her even more determined.

She was a little afraid of Jin Cheng, but with Tang Cuo around, she felt at ease.

"The waiter asked you to help prepare the lunch by name, right?" Tang Cuo asked.

"Yes." Li Shuangshuang carefully recalled the situation at that time, and said, "She said she couldn't do it alone, so she asked me to help, but, maybe it was because I was a girl, so she asked me. I went into the kitchen with her After that, I kept working here until she said she was not feeling well and wanted to go back to rest, and I was the only one left here."

Tang Cuo asked again: "Did she say anything to you when you were here?"

Li Shuangshuang got stuck for a while, "It's just some ordinary words..."

"This is very important, you think about it carefully."

"Uh...she just talked about the weather, complaining about the bad weather recently, the blizzard didn't come sooner or later, and she had to wait until she was about to go down the mountain. Other times she was talking about lunch, He also said that Li Yingjun likes to eat beef stew with potatoes, so I, I put poison in the beef stew with potatoes..."

Tang Cuo frowned slightly.

Li Shuangshuang thought he had made a mistake, looked at him nervously, and heard him ask, "Did she say anything else about her going down the mountain?"

"She... Oh, by the way, she also said something about the induction training for new employees, saying that it is not easy to bring new employees. I was too nervous at the time, so she just said that, so I can't remember the original words clearly."

Tang Cuo changed the question again, "Who gave you the poison?"

Li Shuangshuang said without hesitation, "Zhang Zhiqi."

"Okay, you go out first."

Tang Cuo watched the people go out, tapped the tongs with his fingers, and his thoughts flashed in the sound of ding ding.He remembered that when he first entered the dungeon, the waiter named Xiaoyuan said such a passage——

[Originally, my contract expired and I was going to resign and go down the mountain. I just waited for the new employees to come and hand over, but now I am stuck here and cannot leave. 】

Who is her so-called new employee?Already here?Could it be the non-player among them?

If so, as an NPC, why did this new employee mix with the players?What is his (her) purpose?Is it Qu Li?Or is it a duplicity of chapters?

"Need a reminder?" Jin Cheng asked.

"You have?" Tang Cuo looked up.

Jin Cheng got a tomato from somewhere and was peeling it. The silver folding knife was small and exquisite, and it was played with in his hand.But it was the first time Tang Cuo saw someone eating peeled tomatoes, what's wrong.

"You look at me so eagerly, why don't you cut one too?"

"Thank you."

Jin Cheng didn't expect Tang Cuo to really nod, the corners of his mouth twitched.But a real man, one spittle and one nail, never breaks his promise, just doing this is a bit boring, so he said while cutting: "I saved you twice back and forth, and now I give you a reminder, how should you thank you?" I?"

Tang Cuo was expressionless, "We are all players and we all have to clear the level. Why should I thank you?"

Jin Cheng felt that this sentence was really fucking reasonable, so he also said a very reasonable sentence: "I can wait until you are all dead, and then I will clear the level."

"What's in it for you?"

"My pleasure."

Tang Cuo didn't believe a word.

He simply turned his head to light the fire, and at the end he did not forget to remind Jin Cheng, "Don't forget my tomato."

Why are you so humorous?

Jin Cheng moved a small tree stump and sat down, looked at him carefully for a while, and said, "Mr. Crow is so fond of you, maybe it's because he likes your sense of humor."

Oh.

Tang Cuo ignored it.

"How much do you know about Eternal Night City?" Jin Cheng suddenly became serious.

"I don't know anything," Tang Cuo replied.

"That's right, you've just arrived, and you've been assigned to Zone F." Jin Cheng said, "There are certain rules in Eternal Night City that intelligence dealers won't sell to outsiders, and you'll only know if you've done too many missions or been promoted to a high-level zone. These are not secrets, but knowing them is useless."

Tang Cuo also became serious, "How to say?"

Jin Cheng: "When a person enters Eternal Night City after death, he is told that everything in life is a game. Completing this game and obtaining initial points is the first step to survival. The game mission of Eternal Night City is like a game. A huge screening system, excellent players go up level by level, and finally earn enough points to re-enter reincarnation, but what about those who died in game missions? Where do you think they went?"

"The soul flies away?"

"No, there are actually very few people who have lost their souls. Compared with the mission of Eternal Night City, it is a relief. Many players in low-level areas think they are dead, but they are not dead. They can be Madoka, or It could be Li Yingjun."

Tang Cuo suddenly thought of those people who were swallowed by the black hole in the lucky wheel. With Jin Cheng's explanation, the whereabouts of these people seemed to be clear.

"You mean, the player who failed the mission was trapped in the instance, and Madoka said she was about to go down the mountain. Is it time for this kind of punishment?"

"That's right, this is 'karma'. You can think of it as the karma of a profession, or the karma of karma. The 'karma' carried by each player is different, and the time of punishment is also different. Three years, five years or even After hundreds of years, when the 'karma' is cleared, they will be free."

"free?"

"reincarnation."

"Did they know what they were doing during the punishment?"

"No, they're just NPCs."

Tang Cuo understood.

Madoka's karma is about to be cleared, and she is about to leave here to reincarnate.And the newcomer who replaced her must be another player who died in the mission.

In other words, among the eight of them, there was one "dead".

Does he (she) know that he is dead?

"Gudu Gudu." The water boiled.

"Tuk-tuk." The knock on the door sounded almost simultaneously.

Before Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng could respond, Peng Mingfan opened the door and walked in with a Band-Aid on his face.He closed the door casually, walked up to the two of them, and said, "I suspect there is something wrong with Zhang Zhikui."

Tang Cuo also confronted him directly, "Why?"

"This is a dungeon of deduction. Li Yingjun came back from the dead. Even Qian Wei can guess that Li Yingjun is not that easy to kill, so he can't do it rashly. But Zhang Zhiqi not only encouraged Li Shuangshuang to poison him, but also the three of them just now. Twice, he tried to persuade us to kill him directly."

Jin Cheng smiled and said, "You're right, but Zhang Zhiqi's actions just prove that he is very smart? He hoped that Li Shuangshuang would poison Li Yingjun to death, but he hoped that I would shoot him to death with an arrow. He didn't need it." Take any risk."

Peng Mingfan took a deep breath, "I know. But what if he is an NPC? For example, killing Li Yingjun will trigger some kind of punishment, and we will step into the trap one by one under his instigation."

"So?" Tang Cuo looked straight into Peng Mingfan's eyes with a calm expression.Peng Mingfan's heart trembled inexplicably, but he still looked back fearlessly, and said——

"Let Zhang Zhiqi do it himself."

Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng looked at each other, and Jin Cheng handed him the chopped tomatoes in a bowl, then turned to look at Peng Mingfan, and asked, "What if it turns out that he is not an NPC?"

Peng Mingfan was silent for a few seconds, and replied: "Then I will do it next time. The mission requirement is to kill Yingjun, and someone has to do it anyway, either you or me."

"Very good, have the guts." Jin Cheng wiped his hands and stood up, "How do you plan to make him do it?"

Obviously, Peng Mingfan had already made up his mind, and immediately replied: "Vote. I and Qian Wei have two votes, and you have two votes. The number of votes is already half."

This is almost a union in disguise.

Tang Cuo looked at Peng Mingfan from the bottom of his heart again, this boy who looked like a student was probably the shrewdest.It is clear at a glance who is the strongest among the eight players. His move not only tested Zhang Zhiyu, but also won them over. It was a good plan.

But Peng Mingfan seemed to be a man with a bottom line, at least he had once prevented Li Shuangshuang from poisoning, so Tang Cuo had a good impression of him.

The three returned to the hall one after another, Peng Mingfan left first, Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng walked out slowly.While shaking out, Tang Cuo also found white sugar in the kitchen, and added a spoonful to the tomato bowl.

Jin Cheng saw it and disapproved.

Eating a tomato actually has to add sugar.

In the hall, the waiter Xiaoyuan was arguing in shock: "How could that be! There must be some misunderstanding here, you must have done something to let handsome brother do it, he has such a good personality, he does nothing but collect firewood every day. Gathering firewood won’t hurt even a small animal, so how could it hurt you?”

It was still An Ning who spoke to her, "But he just made a move."

Madoka still looked unbelievable, but Li Yingjun himself was not here.Everyone was discussing the correct way to kill him. In order not to be heard by him, he was locked in the linen room next to the toilet on the first floor.

Zhang Zhiqi sat in the rest area, quietly observing the interaction between Xiaoyuan and An Ning, and nodded when he saw Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo, but did not do anything special.

"Really, handsome brother won't hurt anyone, he can't even speak, don't treat him like this..." Xiaoyuan was still trying to argue.

Peng Mingfan went straight to her and said, "We're hungry, isn't lunch ready?"

Xiaoyuan was slightly startled, and then apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm going to prepare right now, who of you can..."

Peng Mingfan interrupted her, "Go by yourself."

"Okay, okay." Madoka left.

There were only eight players left in the hall. Peng Mingfan quickly told about the voting. Some looked thoughtful, some nodded, and some frowned.

Zhang Zhikui remembered Peng Mingfan's initiative to go to the kitchen to call Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng just now, if he still couldn't see what was wrong with it, he would have lived so many years in vain.

"I have an objection." He stood up, but looked at An Ning, "You are all a duo, and this little girl and I are both solo. This kind of voting seems unfair to us."

An Ning smiled brightly, "I have no objection, just vote and vote."

Zhang Zhikui clenched his fists secretly, but his face remained calm, and he said, "If you have no objection, then of course I have no objection either. Just for the sake of fairness, I propose blind casting."

Blind cast?

Peng Mingfan looked deeply at Zhang Zhikui, not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.But Zhang Zhiyu's request was reasonable, and they didn't tear themselves apart now, so it was hard to refuse.

Blind casting begins.

Peng Mingfan found a piece of white paper and cut it into eight equal parts. After each person wrote their names, folded them together and shuffled them together, and then issued tickets together.The person who sang the tickets was still Peng Mingfan. He picked up the first piece of paper, and it was no surprise that what was written on it——

"Chapter one, one vote."

"Li Shuangshuang, one vote."

Peng Mingfan glanced at Zhang Zhiyu, and continued to vote.

"Zhao Ping, one vote."

"Peng Mingfan, one vote."

"Li Shuangshuang, one vote."

The closer he sang to the end, the more solemn Peng Mingfan's tone became, almost losing his composure.There are already five votes, the number of votes is so even, and Zhang Zhiyu only has one vote, how is this possible!

He quickly opened up the rest of the votes, and saw two Li Shuangshuang and one Qian Wei.

Li Shuangshuang actually got three votes!

"Why don't you continue singing?" Zhang Zhiqi asked suspiciously.

Peng Mingfan tightly grasped the note in his hand, and did not answer right away.An Ning, Zhao Ping and the others also sensed that something was wrong, their eyes swept over Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng, and then turned back to Zhang Zhiyu, each of them frowned.

They could still guess a little bit of Peng Mingfan's plan, so almost all of them voted for Zhang Zhiyu.

An Ning was quick-witted, and immediately went forward to read all eight notes, and found the one she had written - it was indeed her handwriting, but the name changed from Zhang Zhiyu to Zhao Ping.

"There is a problem with this ticket." An Ning looked at Peng Mingfan.

Peng Mingfan looked at Zhang Zhiyu.

Zhang Zhiqi said: "Look at what I do, I have already cooperated with you to complete the voting, but I don't have that great ability to do things under the noses of all of you."

Zhao Ping hesitated, and said: "Could it be the system? This game has chosen the person who will do it by itself?"

After the words fell, Li Shuangshuang's face turned pale.

Zhang Zhiqi didn't say anything, and shook his head to express that he didn't know either.

Tang Cuo did not express his opinion from the beginning to the end, and only then whispered to Jin Cheng: "Is there any corresponding ability in the battle system of Eternal Night City?"

Jin Cheng smiled, "Yes."

Tang Cuo immediately said loudly: "Let's vote openly."

"It's not impossible to vote openly, but it's not the first time for everyone to play the game, and you should know what will happen if you go against the system." Zhang Zhiqi said in a low tone, "Have you forgotten? This mission is triggered by a newcomer Prioritized, it seems that this newcomer is Qu Li. It is very likely that she disappeared because she was doing the mission for the first time and acted rashly without knowing anything, otherwise how can we explain it?"

Hearing this, both Zhao Ping and Li Shuangshuang showed hesitation, and even An Ning was thoughtful.

Qu Li's matter is indeed hard to explain, but Zhang Zhiqi's words actually make some sense.

Qian Weideng was in a hurry, "How can you guarantee that what you said is right?"

"I can't guarantee it." Zhang Zhiyu looked very honest, "But how dare you guarantee that your actions are correct? This is the task of Eternal Night City, not a reasoning game or a play, just do it casually' Because, so' you can pass the test."

"You!" Qian Wei almost jumped up, it's okay to insult his IQ, but how can he insult Peng Peng, he is so bored, only his IQ can be seen!

Peng Mingfan stopped him, "Then what do you want?"

The two sides confronted each other, and the atmosphere was tense.

Jin Cheng watched the battle with his arms folded, and he still thought about commenting: "My kid is still not tough enough. When you opened your mouth just now, you should have used the momentum to directly suppress Zhang Zhiyu. Let his tongue shine like a flower, regardless of whether his system is true or not, let's talk about it later. "

Tang Cuo looked sideways, "You just got one?"

Jin Cheng smiled, and was about to speak, but Tang Cuo mercilessly averted his gaze, and stepped forward to stand in the center of the deadlock.He had already taken off his military coat, kept his hands in the pockets of the windbreaker, turned his head to look at Zhang Zhiyu, and said, "You are wrong about something. Qu Li is indeed a newcomer, but I am the one who triggers the priority." .”

After the words fell, astonishment climbed up everyone's face.

Qian Wei's face was full of question marks, you were so fucking fierce at killing a bear just now, you tell me you are a rookie? ? ?

"Let's vote with a show of hands, whoever gets the most votes will do it, and I will go with him." Tang Cuo caught a glimpse of Xiaoyuan coming out of the kitchen from the corner of his eye, and it seemed that lunch was finally ready, so he continued: "The time is set after lunch. "