The Trial Game of Life

Tang Cuo had a lengthy dream. When he woke up, he was in a daze, and the lights in the room were not turned on, so he couldn't tell the difference between day and night.After two seconds, he remembered again that there was no daylight in Evernight City.

Blurred light slipped in through the broken window, casting a vague shadow on the ground.Tang Cuo lay still and stared at the shadow for a long time before realizing that it looked like a person.

Looking at the broken window, Jin Cheng was sitting sideways on the window sill, with one leg cocked up. The luminous sphere on the spire of the tall tower in the distance was like the moon, hanging just above his head, and there was no scar on that side s face.

He is peeling apples.Long apple peels fell from his fingers, like Rapunzel's hair, already dragging to the ground.

Tang Cuo remembered that he had locked the door before going to bed, and now that there was no sign of the door being pried open, then Jin Cheng must have come through the window again.

"You were talking in your sleep just now." Seeing him waking up, Jin Cheng teased.

Tang Cuo sat up from the bed, he wasn't too angry to wake up today, but he still didn't want to pay attention to Jin Cheng's silly joke.He has to get up and eat something, and then sit quietly for a while, so that he can calm down and welcome a new day.

But Jin Cheng told him, "You look so bad early in the morning, you must have eaten less fruit. Before, I told you to eat at least one apple a day, and you threw it in the trash again?"

I look so bad early in the morning because you are bothering me in my room.

Tang Cuo didn't believe the nonsense of "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", because this person in front of him preached health preservation for the elderly every day, but he never did it himself.

For example, if he peels an apple himself but he refuses to eat it, he wants to force Tang Cuo to eat it.

Tang Cuo doesn't like apples.

"I haven't fucking brushed my teeth yet." He even started swearing.

"Then go brush it." Jin Cheng took it for granted, put the apple into the glass bowl, and stared at him as he walked into the bathroom.When Tang Cuo really started brushing his teeth, Jin Cheng had already soaked the oatmeal.

He has an electric kettle and a toaster, which are hidden under Tangcuo's bed together with his red wine, a must for a single lazy man.The toasters sold in the Evernight City supermarket are not the same as those in the real world. The toast baked by others has a smiley face on it, and it burns a skull.

After the two of them had breakfast, Tang Cuo looked at the alarm clock he just bought yesterday, and the time showed that it was past nine o'clock in the morning.

Jin Cheng said: "That kid who was in the same class as you came to Eternal Night City is really a talent. If he doesn't die, he will be able to make a living even if he is a magic stick."

Tang Cuo said indifferently, "What's he doing again?"

"Oh." Jin Cheng smiled, "He was holding a mobilization meeting early in the morning, swearing in his blood, and bravely entering the City of Eternal Night. The East Cross Street is almost full of newcomers who come within a week, and they are not in a hurry to do the task for the time being. Go to class."

Tang Cuo walked to the window and looked down. East Cross Street is not just a street, but a collective name for two long black stone streets intertwined into a cross, with a population of about [-].As a well-known garbage dump in Area F, the people gathered here are either newcomers who are too new, or the weakest people at the bottom of the food chain. Now that these people are in a group, they don't know what reaction it will cause.

Chi Yan.

Tang Cuo chewed the name in his heart, and he could tell that Chi Yan really wanted to help, just like pulling off his hat and putting it on the little girl's bald head in the square.

In that case, kindness cannot be faked.

But does he really understand how much danger this will bring him?

Thinking of this, he turned around and asked, "What was it like here when you first came here?"

Uncle Jin Cheng cocked his legs, "You are asking the wrong person. I was assigned to Area A from the beginning, and when I was punished and returned to Area F, I was already number one on the blacklist. Area F For me, it's the same no matter what time it is."

You sound pretty smug?

Tang Cuo didn't want to pick up his words, so Jin Cheng asked, "So I'm curious how did you die? Your rating can't be bad, it's not A or B, why did you appear on East Cross Street?"

Jin Cheng's eyes were serious, and he had an intuition that there was a secret hidden in Tang Cuo's death.But Tang Cuo didn't want to answer this question, he turned his head and continued to look out the window, "I'm all dead, why is it important?"

Of course it matters.

Apart from life and death, there are no big things in life. If death is not important, then what is more important?In fact, Jin Cheng wanted to ask him a lot, such as whether he passed the team entrance examination in the end, such as what he had been doing in the past few years, he hesitated for a moment, and then there was a knock on the door.

The two turned their heads together and heard Chi Yan shouting outside the door: "Brother, Brother Cheng!"

Jin Cheng went to open the door, and Chi Yan hurried in, and before he could catch his breath, he said, "There is news about that little girl! Just now a player came and told me that I saw her on Sanhe Street in the north two days ago." , because she has a bald head, so it is easy to recognize, I think it is [-]% unmistakable, it is her!"

After Chi Yan joined the Kitchen Knife Gang, he asked other players to keep an eye on the little girl's news for him. Now that a few days have passed, it can be regarded as a little gain.

Jin Cheng asked, "Are you going to look for her?"

Chi Yan nodded as a matter of course, "Yes, I found it, of course I will go if I find it."

Jin Cheng asked again: "You have no relationship or reason with her, you found her, then what?"

Chi Yan choked suddenly.

Found it, then what?

Chi Yan really didn't think about this issue carefully, he just happened to meet her in the square behind his death, felt that the little girl was very pitiful, and instinctively wanted to help her.

Jin Cheng smiled suddenly, and turned his head to wink at Tang Cuo.Tang Cuo thought he was boring, so he ignored him, put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, and walked out the door coolly.

"Hey, brother, where are you going?" Chi Yan asked hurriedly.

"Didn't you want to find someone?" Jin Cheng patted him on the shoulder and walked out meanderingly.Only then did Chi Yan react, with a big smile on his face, and hurriedly followed.

Sanhe Street is not too far away from Santiao Street, East Cross Street, a 15-minute walk away.The players here are better than East Cross Street, and the living conditions are better, but that's all.

Chi Yan walked quickly, and the player who gave him clues was standing at the intersection waiting for them.

The two sides met, and the player said: "I saw her about three days ago, and I forgot the exact time. But if I guessed correctly, she should live in that building. I saw her on the fourth floor." , I just don’t know which room she lives in. Even, I can’t guarantee that she’s still there, so I can only show you there, really.”

With Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng around, the players seemed very reserved and a little scared.He had witnessed the scuffle last night with his own eyes. If it wasn't like this, he didn't want to tell the story, for fear of getting into trouble.

Chi Yan quickly comforted him a few words, and the four of them came to the residential building that the player mentioned.It was still a house facing the street, with a total of five floors. When I met several players from the stairs, they all avoided talking.

Indifference, alienation, and vigilance, this is the normal state of F area.

"It's here." The player probably stood somewhere in the corridor on the fourth floor, and said, "She seemed to be standing here that day, and there was no one else in the corridor. I live on the fifth floor, and I happened to see it when I went downstairs. When I saw her, I took a second look because there are very few girls with bald heads. She seemed to be frightened by me, so she didn't move much, and she was still standing when I left."

Chi Yan asked: "Have you talked?"

The player shook his head, "I stopped for a few seconds and left, I really just took a look at the time."

Seeing that he couldn't find anything else, Chi Yan decided to find someone directly.The method is also very simple, you can always find it by searching room by room.

It's just that this task finally fell on Chi Yan's head, because Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo are two uncles, and they have always been able to do it without doing it.

The result is not ideal.

Chi Yan knocked on all the doors, eight in total, and three opened, but none.The two didn't open, and said a few words through the door, which didn't sound right.

There were still three unanswered.

Chi Yan went to look for the three who opened the door again, and successfully ruled out two more doors by virtue of his communication talent.These people don't seem to know the little girl, but they have a little impression of who lives on the same floor and how many people come and go.

"This is it?" Chi Yan looked suspiciously at the room at the end of the corridor, and knocked on the door again, but still no one answered.He didn't know what the little girl's name was, so he couldn't say it.

At this time Jin Cheng finally stepped forward, took out a card and swiped it on the door, click, the door opened.

Chi Yan opened his mouth wide, "Is this door electronic? Universal room card?"

Jin Cheng smiled and said nothing, but Tang Cuo saw the logo on the card - poweredby10086.

Really ubiquitous 10086.

Tang Cuo didn't look sideways, he was the first to enter the door, and he was a good hand in breaking into private houses.Jin Cheng followed closely behind, also swaggering.Chi Yan and the player were at the end. When they went in to take a look, they found that the two big men were standing in the room, facing each other - a pool of dark red blood on the ground.

"Blood?!" Chi Yan exclaimed, "Where is she?"

There was no one in the room, and no dead body.

Jin Cheng knelt down and touched the blood, it was half dry and still a little sticky.Turning his head and scanning every corner of the room, he keenly saw something under the bed, took it out and saw that it was the missing dinosaur head on Chi Yan's pajamas.

"How could this be?" Chi Yan took the hat and found that the hat was also stained with blood. He couldn't help but gasp, not daring to imagine what happened to the little girl.

He subconsciously wanted to turn around and ask the player if he had any clues, but seeing that the player's face was uglier than his, as soon as he caught Chi Yan's sight, he immediately argued: "It's not me, I really just showed you guys!"

Originally, he just wanted to impress the big boss, but he got into trouble, and the player wanted to die.It's not that Chi Yan doubted him, seeing him like this, he had no choice but to give up.

In that room, Jin Cheng had already made his judgment, "There was no blood in other places, and there was no trace of struggle in the room. Most likely he died on the spot and was sent directly to the prison."

Chi Yan had a flash of inspiration, "Could it be the same as my brother's situation, she didn't want to exchange points, so she was killed?"

Tang Cuo didn't think so.

Zhang Xing played Tarot cards against him, in the final analysis, because Tang Cuo made a move on him first.That little girl is not very old, she is soft and weak, will she be so tough that she will fight those old players to death?

This is not reasonable.

"Brother, what should we do now?" Chi Yan couldn't make up his mind for a moment, only feeling that the dinosaur hat in his hand weighed a thousand catties.

"There is only one way to go to prison. Find a way to reduce the sentence yourself, or wait until the sentence is over. It is very difficult to redeem someone, so don't think about it in the early stage." Jin Cheng slowly turned on the faucet to wash off the blood on his hands, and took out another The handkerchief came to wipe it, and continued: "If you feel overwhelmed, you can also kill the murderer and send her in to accompany her."

Hearing his light words, Chi Yan felt inexplicably cold, "But we don't even know who the murderer is."

Jin Cheng spread his hands.

Tang Cuo suddenly said: "The dead know."

"Huh?" Chi Yan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Yes, she is in prison, she didn't really die, so as long as we see her, we will know who killed her?!"

But as soon as the words fell, Chi Yan remembered Jin Cheng's words yesterday - the warden in District G was a pervert that even he dared not provoke easily.

"If I just went to visit the prison, there shouldn't be any problem, right? Besides, he is a majestic warden, with so many people in the prison, he wouldn't notice me?" He tried, his big eyes full of hope.

"You're overthinking." Jin Cheng threw the handkerchief he had wiped on the ground casually, "There are no jailers in the prison of Eternal Night City, there is only one warden. If you want to enter, you must pass in front of him, and the game will be triggered." .”

Chi Yan's expression immediately seemed to have eaten bitter melon, and his facial features were almost wrinkled together.

Tang Cuo also frowned slightly, and then asked, "Is this warden a player, or someone from Eternal Night City?"

Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows, look, his apprentice is so smart.

"Player." He replied affirmatively, "Except for Mr. Crow, everyone in Eternal Night City is essentially a player."

Chi Yan and the man blinked and blinked, not understanding what this meant for a moment.Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo didn't have the kindness to explain to them, they exchanged glances and walked out.

Tang Cuo glanced across the closed doors, but didn't take the time to inquire.The player who brought them here also left quickly. Chi Yan looked at his fleeing back, then looked at the dinosaur hat in his hand, and suddenly felt a burst of frustration.

On the way back to East Cross Street, he was still thinking about it, "She is so small, there is no threat, why kill her, it doesn't make sense, and it's unnecessary..."

Jin Cheng said quickly, "There are thousands of ways to die in the world, and there are also thousands of malicious intentions. Who says there must be a reason for killing someone?"

Chi Yan pursed her mouth, she didn't want to agree, but she couldn't say anything to refute.He used to only see those unbelievable things on the social news, even if it was brought to him by the wheel of fortune, he was more afraid than puzzled.

Tang Cuo watched, but didn't speak.

After a while, the three returned to East Cross Street, and saw a group of people gathering on the street from a distance, and there was an increasing trend.Someone looked up and saw them, and hurried forward, "Brother Chi!"

Chi Yan's eyelids twitched, "What's wrong?"

"Someone has been killed!" The man looked terrified, with a little anger, "I just found out that there are two new players who I know and live not far away. Just now one of them went to find someone, but I didn't expect that there was someone in the room. There is only a pool of blood, and the person is gone!"

The rest of the people also came up one after another. They didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng, so they all hugged Chi Yan.

"Yes, yes, we have all looked for it, but we haven't found anyone!"

"It must have been done by those old players, this is revenge for us!"

"It must be them!"

"What do we do now?"

Everyone was chattering, and some of the most annoyed ones immediately clamored to confront the old players.As soon as the words came out, although the rest of the people looked nervous, they didn't refute, because no one knew whether they would be the next to be killed, and their lips were dead and their teeth were cold.

But Chi Yan was categorical, "No way!"

The young man's face was full of determination, "Extorting points and killing people are completely different things. If there is a wrongdoer, there is a debtor. If you figure it out, go fight them to your death?! Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?!"

Chi Yan's appearance is quite capable of bluffing people. A group of men and women were stunned by his little kid. Even Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng looked at him with admiration.

But when Chi Yan calmed down the group of people temporarily, and then turned around to look for Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng, his little face immediately collapsed, "Brother, what should my brother do now?"

Jin Cheng: "Don't you seem to have a good idea? Little brother Chi."

"It's dead again! Don't you think this is a bit similar to that little girl's situation? How could it be such a coincidence? It can't be that there are some murderers wandering around in the city, I can't hold it!"

"Check." Tang Cuo said concisely, "How many people died?"

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The ultimate transformation of the famous detective Tang Cuo - the pupil of the god of death!