A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"I don't usually play games much, maybe not as experienced as you, but I understand how it works."

Gu Jinhong looked at him and said.

"The so-called 'game' is a program designed by the developer and run according to certain rules. Under this premise, the player is destined to be guided and controlled by the developer, so the road blocked by the game itself is absolutely impossible. Yes. And now the game has specified that we should split again—do you understand?"

Fang Shiqing's hand was still on the wall.Hearing the other party's unhurried words, for some reason, he felt a very uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

The feeling of tinnitus has passed, and his mind is clear enough to make a correct judgment; there is no doubt that Gu Jinhong is right.

However, this feeling is not aimed at Gu Jinhong's words, but just...simple, unwilling to admit the phenomenon of "being forced to separate from his teammates again".

"Not necessarily," urged by this feeling, he said impulsively, "Since this program is artificially designed, we can always find bugs, right? If we can find loopholes and exploit loopholes, isn't it better to push forward passively?" Are there more high-end games? I think we still need to find out—"

Gu Jinhong made a helpless gesture: "Forget it, you should know that loopholes are not so easy to find. Usually only those game masters and Gaowan will delve into this. Do you think me and you can be regarded as Gaowan?"

"..." Fang Shiqing was speechless.

He has always been very self-aware, and has never dared to call himself a "skilled game player", not a high-level player.

"I'm sorry," he finally let go of his hand and wiped his face forcefully, "Sorry, you're right...it's because I'm not clear enough."

He gradually realized that the near-death experience on the second floor had a more profound impact on him than he thought before.After being forced to separate from the person who was capable of saving his life, the anxiety that had been deliberately ignored before resurfaced again, and even made him lose his normal judgment for a while.

——To put it simply, the sudden separation from Xiao Fengdi... made him feel very insecure.

Gu Jinhong nodded, didn't say anything, just stared at him silently.

After this subtle silence lasted for a while, Fang Shiqing realized that the other party was probably waiting for him to speak.

He scratched the back of his head in embarrassment: "Then, that... Let's walk along the road now? Maybe there will be a chance to meet everyone up ahead."

He lit the passage ahead with the flashlight, and the dark stairwell was still quiet.

"Ok."

Gu Jinhong immediately stood up, obviously prepared for it long ago, and could leave just waiting for him to ask.

"..."

Fang Shiqing felt a little uncomfortable again.

He didn't know where this strange feeling came from.Is it because I don't know Gu Jinhong well, or is it because the other party's attitude towards people is too subtle?

But after the official advance, there is no room for pondering such details.

The two of them walked forward carefully along the steps, for fear that if they stepped on the wrong foot, it would cause an explosion or something.

The vertical height of this staircase is ten meters, which is far higher than the height of normal shopping mall staircases. From this point of view, there is likely to be a very high mezzanine between the third and fourth floors.

The two walked in fear all the way, but fortunately they did not encounter any accidents.When he reached the dark doorway at the end of the stairs, Fang Shiqing finally let out a long sigh of relief, and turned to his teammates, "Shall we go in now?"

"Hmm..." Gu Jinhong responded, but did not move. "By the way, do you think there will be any monsters on this floor? For example, the armor you have encountered before."

"Armor?" Fang Shiqing thought about it, and felt that it might be true.Although no one was seen on the entire third floor, this kind of thing is likely to be the basic defense force in the abandoned building, and there may be another one on the upper level.

"Maybe, alas, this is really difficult."

To deal with that kind of armored robot, it is easy to say, just unplug the battery; but with their reaction speed, it is often difficult for ordinary people to get close.Neither he nor Gu Jinhong has superhuman combat power, and now that Xiao Fengdi is away, there is really no other way to think of it.

After thinking about it, he had no choice but to say: "Well, after we enter the fourth floor, we will first look for escape routes, and then explore others."

Gu Jinhong said nothing else, just nodded: "Okay."

Fang Shiqing: "..."

He seemed to understand a little bit what was wrong.

With the other party's appearance, it was obvious that he had already considered this problem and how to deal with it.But he never makes suggestions directly, but throws out a question to guide others to think and let others decide——

Usually a bunch of people hang out together, but when he occasionally said such a sentence, it was not obvious.But now it's just the two of them, it seems a little too deliberate.

Fang Shiqing suddenly felt a headache again.

He himself is not very good at making decisions, and it's okay to discuss with his teammates at ordinary times, but for this... I don't know how to describe it, but I can't handle it well.

*

With the experience of the first few floors, both of them had predicted the situation of the fourth floor in their hearts, but when they actually stepped into the scene, they were still taken aback.

——The entire fourth floor turned out to be an...indoor ice rink.

The entrance to the stairwell is next to the barbed wire fence on the outer edge of the ice rink.The height of the barbed wire fence was about two meters, and the infield fell into a section, forming a height difference.

As soon as the two came out, they were facing the white and shiny ice surface; the lights above their heads were very sufficient, reflecting the ice rink like a fairyland.

In the middle of the ice rink, a square metal object was poked abruptly.Its width is about several meters, and the double doors with a height of about two meters on the front are wide open, and the back is empty——

Another elevator shaft.

Any normal designer would never come up with such a weird design as "put an elevator in the middle of the ice rink".Because of this, it is so eye-catching that it can be called a black tower in a world of ice and snow.

"This... is a bit too powerful," Gu Jinhong grabbed the barbed wire and glanced inside, "It does look like a real ice surface, and God knows how it survives in such a place."

Fang Shiqing didn't answer the call, nor could he.It's embarrassing to say, he has only seen this kind of thing in "Model Life", and he was already dumbfounded at this moment, and his full attention was attracted by the shiny ice surface.

The site is very open and unobstructed.There is only barbed wire around the ice rink, other than that, there are no supporting facilities.The four walls are still rough walls plastered with cement, and there is no rest area or anything, which is very disproportionate to the scale of this ice rink.

——Of course, there were no walls embedded with dead bodies or armored robots wandering around.

Gu Jinhong found that he was in a daze and didn't make a sound, so he just stood quietly by the side and waited.

After Fang Shiqing came to his senses, he was immediately embarrassed.

"That..." He rubbed his hands together, "Anyway, let's take a look around first?"

This is what Gu Jinhong was waiting for.The two walked around the entire ice rink, and soon found the stairwell to the next level. The process went so smoothly that it was a bit scary.

Fang Shiqing was a little interested in the ice rink, so he raised his head to take a look from time to time.In reality, he didn't leave the gate or step out, and he was completely insulated from sports. After watching for a long time, he couldn't even find the entrance to the ice rink, so he had to turn around and ask Gu Jinhong.

"Sorry, I don't know," Gu Jinhong spread his hands, "This ice rink is very strange. It looks like 'only ice surface'."

This strange statement caught Fang Shiqing's attention.

He came to the front of the barbed wire fence, peered through the mesh for a long time, and then suddenly started to climb up.

This kind of barbed wire fence is very easy to climb. He reached the top in two or three strokes and turned over in one fell swoop.

"Do you want to go in?" Gu Jinhong was a little surprised, but he didn't hesitate too much. He moved his arm a little, and then turned up.

Getting down from above is much more difficult than climbing up.Because of the height difference between the inner field and the outer field, the distance from the top of the iron netting to the ice rink is more than three meters. In addition, the friction on the ice surface is very small and unstable. If you just jump like this, you may fall hurt.There was no other way, Fang Shiqing had no choice but to turn his back and move down slowly.

Gu Jinhong moved much faster than him, landed on the ice firmly, and reached out to help him.

"No, no need."

Fang Shiqing frantically freed up a hand, and waved at him: "I can - okay..."

The sound stopped suddenly.He maintained this posture of turning his head, desperately gesturing at the other party.

In the middle of the ice rink, behind the elevator, a person walked out.

——It was the worker surnamed Liu from before.

He moved quickly and steadily on the ice, not much worse than on flat ground, and strode towards this side all the way.

Fang Shiqing hurriedly adjusted his posture, wanting to get down to the ground quickly, but accidentally missed his grip, and fell directly from above, hitting a solid buttock, grinning in pain.

When he raised his head again, he suddenly took a deep breath——

The worker surnamed Liu stopped a few meters away.

On his face, the simple and honest look that he had pretended before had disappeared, replaced by an...indescribable expression.

It is difficult to use a specific noun to describe.If I have to say it, it's the kind of - "When taking a group photo, you can be recognized as a murderer even if you blend in the crowd", which is extremely weird.

"Hello, both of you, we meet again." He bared his teeth and smiled.

——However, the moment the NPC grinned, his face... was suddenly covered with a large mosaic.

"..."

Maybe this smile is so scary that even the game system thinks it's too much, so special treatment was done in order not to leave any psychological shadow on them?

Anyway, as soon as this group of mosaics appeared, the original horror picture was immediately distorted, at least it could make people immediately distinguish it from reality.

"Who the hell are you?" Fang Shi asked, clearing his throat.

Gu Jinhong glanced at him, as if he thought his question was too stupid.

"I?"

The worker surnamed Liu stretched his arms, and the two immediately noticed that he was holding a small knife in his right hand—it was the same knife that was used to hold You Qingyu hostage.

"Didn't I tell you? I work on the construction site. My surname is Liu. You can just call me Lao Liu. I am just like you. I was locked up in this building for some reason. These are all real things." , I didn’t lie to you.”

He spoke unhurriedly.As he spoke, the mosaic on his face kept erratic, which seemed a little funny.

...This NPC, what does he want to do?

Gu Jinhong stretched out his hand to hold Fang Shiqing, which made him get up with some difficulty, and stood firm on the ice.

"However, there is one thing I forgot to say."

The NPC let out a hey laugh. If it wasn't for the mosaic covering his face, his expression now can definitely be taken directly to a thriller scene.

"That is--I came here much earlier than you. I have walked in this building for an indefinitely long time, and I do not know how many times I have gone back and forth."

"Wait, don't you—"

This sentence is too much information.Fang Shiqing immediately wanted to ask questions, but there was no need to ask anything, the worker surnamed Liu continued talking leisurely by himself.

"I've seen a lot of people like you," he said, "this building will keep dragging people in from all directions and eating them; its appetite is very large, like a bottomless pit, and the people it swallows , There are seventy or eighty if there are no two hundred, the corpses you have seen are only a part of it. And maybe a few of you will soon become another part of it. "

Fang Shiqing calculated in his heart that there were more than a dozen or twenty dry corpses on the third floor alone. There are seven floors in this building. Calculated according to the average, this number is really not an exaggeration.

——Of course, in the final analysis, this is just the background setting of the dungeon.In reality, if so many people disappeared in the same unfinished building, I am afraid that the broken building would have been leveled by bulldozers long ago.

"I've seen so many dead people back and forth, but I've lived until now. Do you understand what I want to do now?" The worker surnamed Liu laughed again.

Even though the mosaic was tightly pasted, he still found that this guy was looking at the two of them, as if he was looking at a pig waiting to be slaughtered or meat on a cutting board.

... Who knows what this pervert wants to do?Murder?

He glanced at Gu Jinhong from the corner of his eye. The latter looked very calm and seemed to have fully understood what the other party meant.

It's a pity that it is too unrealistic to expect his teammates to speak up, so Fang Shiqing had no choice but to ask tentatively: "What... do you want to do? Turn us into dead people too?"

The worker surnamed Liu snorted, as if disgusted, Fang Shiqing suddenly became depressed.

"...He probably wants to cooperate with us, otherwise there is no need to say so much." Gu Jinhong had no choice but to say, "Listen, he has been here many times and has seen countless examples of failed escapes. , can provide us with a reference. However," he was also a little confused, "it is cooperation...but I don't think we have anything to offer him."

This time, the worker surnamed Liu nodded.

"Finally there is a smart man, and I haven't lost sight of it. What I want is very simple. I hope, you can take me out and take me outside this building."

This time he didn't even use "you", he probably regarded Fang Shiqing as air, and was just talking to Gu Jinhong.

"Why don't you go out by yourself?"

Worker surnamed Liu chuckled.

"I can't get out. This building doesn't want me to go out. I've been here for an unknown amount of time. I've walked with countless people and tried countless methods, but none of them succeeded.

"I once killed all my colleagues and fed them to this building as road money; I also used to protect a group of people to the top without killing any of them, but this building swallowed them all in the end , it does not allow those who come in to leave without cost."

Fuck? !Fang Shiqing screamed in his heart.When he mentioned "killing", his attitude was so light, as natural as eating and drinking. This guy is really a perverted murderer. I am afraid that he contributed a considerable part of the corpses in this building, right?

The worker surnamed Liu made no secret of this.

"I experimented several times, and slowly found the necessary conditions for leaving." The "experiment several times" here is undoubtedly at the cost of the lives of several groups of people, "If you want to leave, you have to give this building Leave something for it to feed on; and if I want to leave, I'll have to take on a completely different identity. It must hate me and never let me go unless I fool it by pretending to be someone else Eye."

Fang Shiqing was a little confused.

The worker surnamed Liu laughed maliciously again: "I still don't understand? This building won't let me go, so I can only find someone to stay for me. Of course, I can only go out for that person." .”

"Just like a water ghost looking for a substitute?"

"Correct."

The mosaic on the face of the worker surnamed Liu suddenly disappeared, revealing that face again.Fang Shiqing was almost horrified to find that he was looking at his side with his chin propped up.

"Young man, what do you do out there?" He asked, "I think you're good, so it's settled, you stay for me, and I'll go out for you."

——No.

Fang Shiqing trembled all over.

The attitude of the worker surnamed Liu was very serious, and there was a hint of madness in his calm eyes; he could see that everything the other party said was true.

"No...no need," he opened his mouth stiffly, "I don't like this building very much, and I don't really want to stay."

The worker surnamed Liu ignored him and turned to look at Gu Jinhong.

"How? Cooperate with me and I can bail you out. You can only find a way to leave this building when you reach the rooftop. I know the hidden path to the top floor. You can bypass the upper two floors and climb directly to the top. If you If you agree," he pouted, "then show your sincerity now."

What the hell!

What the hell, what the fuck? ! !

Having said that, no matter how stupid Fang Shiqing is, he can still understand that the "sincerity" this NPC is talking about is to let Gu Jinhong help him kill himself, and stay here forever as his so-called "stand-in"!

Using "leave this building" as a bait and using "cooperation" as an excuse, the purpose turned out to be to attract players to kill each other...

"Oh..." Gu Jinhong said, "Excuse me, have you finished?"

Unexpectedly, he would react like this, and the worker surnamed Liu looked at him in surprise.

"If you finish speaking, please leave." He smiled slightly and said politely, "None of us are interested in cooperating with murderers."

"..."

"..." The face of the worker surnamed Liu suddenly became ugly.He laughed loudly, "Yes, I am a murderer, and I have killed too many people. You know who I am, but you still dare to talk to me like that? Now that you know my secret, you won't cooperate with me." , do you think that a word of 'please leave' can send me away?"

"You don't have to leave, or you can try to kill us, killing one or two people is not a big deal to you," Gu Jinhong's expression did not change, "but if you do this, you will never be able to leave again." went."

He and the NPC looked at each other in the air, and the smile on the NPC's face gradually disappeared, and his appearance became very gloomy, revealing an unusual sense of oppression.That was the look in the eyes of a real murderer. Even though Fang Shiqing was not facing him, he still had the urge to turn his head and run away.

After watching for a while, seeing that Gu Jinhong had no intention of giving in, he suddenly smiled again.

"Forget it, anyway, this building will not let you go, it doesn't matter if I do it or not. And I don't have to find you, don't you have seven people? Do you think the other five people are the same as you, Will you never cooperate with a murderer?"

After speaking, he turned around and left, but instead of walking towards the elevator, he ran near the barbed wire, jumped up, rolled over nimbly, and quickly disappeared behind the doorway leading to the upper floor.

It seemed that he had arrived earlier, but he had been using the elevator as a cover, hiding behind and observing quietly, until he just showed up.

It wasn't until the figure was completely out of sight that Fang Shiqing heaved a sigh of relief, and belated cold sweat dripped down his forehead.

"You're amazing," he wiped off his sweat, turned his head and said to Gu Jinhong, "You don't hesitate in front of this kind of murderer... Eh?"

Gu Jinhong had already sat on the ice, his face was pale, and he looked seriously exhausted.

"what happened to you?"

"It's okay," the other party waved his hand weakly at him, with the other hand covering his heart, "let me slow down... this is a bit too exciting. I thought I was going to die, but just now he was about to throw the knife Come here, but fortunately, the final result is not bad. I hope that I will never encounter such a murderer again, it is really bad for the heart. I was scared to death."

"... I think you were quite calm just now? And you seem to know a lot of incredible things, what's like 'If you do this, you can't get out again...'"

"It's all pretend, and the words are just casual. If you don't behave calmly, how can you scare him away."

Gu Jinhong beat his chest several times in succession before recovering a little, his face still terribly pale.

"I used to act in a drama. I think my skills are not bad. I can act a little bit at critical moments." He took a few breaths, took off his coat and put it under his body. It was too cold on the ice, and it was very uncomfortable to sit on. "However, I still overestimated myself a little too much, and I almost couldn't stand it."

"No, no, not at all, it's already top-notch, super powerful, thanks to your ability, otherwise we would be dead right now." Fang Shiqing said from the bottom of his heart.

Although I don't understand how this sea turtle model developed a hobby of "acting in drama" after singing, but this is not important.Compared with such a major event as surviving from the hands of a murderer, the actual identities of teammates are of course not important at all.

The longer we get along in the dungeon, the more Fang Shiqing realizes that the "ordinary" teammates around him are not as ordinary as they appear on the surface.Everyone seems to have a lot of stories and a lot of abilities behind them; of course, except for himself.He himself is a good-for-nothing gamer, with nothing to dig.

But after going through this, Fang Shiqing felt that his relationship with Gu Jinhong was a little closer - after all, he had faced a murderer together, and if he rounded it up, he would have lived and died together.

When his teammates were resting, he took the initiative to walk around and check.

It was difficult to move on the ice, so he simply lay down and crawled forward with his elbows.Crawling like this is harder than walking, but at least you don't have to worry about falling, and it's easy to check the ice; the only problem is that it doesn't look good, but that's okay.

The lights here are too bright. Looking at it from a little distance, the ice surface is very flat like a mirror.

Fang Shiqing lay on the ground and soon discovered the problem.

"This layer of ice doesn't feel right."

As he spoke, he took out the pickaxe and knocked it down hard, causing ice chips to splash everywhere.

In general indoor skating rinks, the ice surface is very thin, usually only a few centimeters.However, he went down with a few pickaxes, and quickly knocked out a palm-deep gap, but the ice layer was still underneath.

"It's too thick," Gu Jinhong was still sitting there, stretched his head to look and said, "It's like a frozen lake in winter."

Fang Shiqing crawled forward for a short distance, turned on the flashlight and looked down at the ice. Suddenly, his scalp went numb, and he saw something unexpected.

—Below the ice...

Indistinct, there are human-shaped objects.