what's in the depths

Zhu Yuhan was slightly puzzled, took the notebook, and said to Xiao Liu:

"Can you briefly describe the details of the so-called game of kings?"

Xiao Liu thought about it, but he was not too sure:

"I also heard from my brother that this game is popular in many middle schools now. There are five levels in this game, namely king, duke, knight, commoner, and slave. Some schools even have a pope level. But most kings are the highest rank."

"I really don't understand, what's the fun in this."

"I didn't join in for fun." Xiao Liu shook his head with a serious expression.

"Maybe I joined with a fun mentality at the beginning, but later found that I couldn't get out."

"How to say?"

"This is a semi-mandatory level game. There is one king card, four duke cards, and eight knight cards. The rest of the cards will be distributed in a ratio of four to six for civilians and slaves."

Zhu Yuhan found it incredible: "It's fine if you don't participate, there's nothing to worry about."

Xiao Liu shook his head: "My cousin said that any student who refuses to participate in this game will be isolated from the participants. Do you know what this means in your student life? It means that when you are isolated from everyone , you become a freak in the eyes of others."

When Zhu Yuhan was in high school, there was indeed a child in his class who was isolated and bullied for no reason.

Once, the teacher dragged him to the office because he was sleeping in class. He happened to see the child who had been isolated for a long time standing in the office, his face was bruised and purple. Are too lazy to give.

After he sent the isolated student away, a young teacher who had just entered the school asked:

"Mr. Huang, the student in your class seems to be bullied a lot, don't you care?"

Zhu Yuhan still remembers the answer given by Teacher Huang at that time, and it is still fresh in his memory.

他 说:

"Every class has to have such a student who is isolated and bullied. You can't control it. If you control and reprimand those students who are bullying, they will only bully this student even worse. If you have to pick a student who is isolated Yes, then this honest, silent and submissive child is the most suitable."

Xiao Liu sighed:

"So, everyone joined the game in order to prevent themselves from becoming that isolated person."

"So, what is the king's power in this game?"

"Well, the game mechanism is different in different schools. For example, my brother's school is just playing around, handing in pocket money or being ordered to run errands, but I heard that some schools have very strict game mechanisms. King There is a special power, that is, a student can be randomly selected as a lowly slave, and this lowly slave is the one who is bullied by the whole school."

Because he was afraid of being isolated, he joined this ridiculous game, and gradually lost himself in the game, becoming a puppet under the mechanism of being obedient when he has no power, and intensified when he is in power.

"Then how is the position of king in the game calculated?"

"I don't know much about this. I only know that in this game, no one except the Duke knows who the king is, but once the Duke reveals the true identity of the king, he will reduce his status to a lowly slave and become the target of bullying by the whole school."

Zhu Yuhan looked at the letters "HOLYKING", pondered for a moment, and asked slowly:

"You said, is Chongwen Middle School also playing the game of kings, and the reason why the two deceased chose to commit suicide is because they were ordered by the king."

"It can't be!" Xiao Liu exclaimed: "This is a big grievance and hatred, and they are all children, can they be so cruel?"

"Aren't juvenile crimes rare? What matters is not how cruel he is, but why he became so cruel."

Zhu Yuhan stood up, stretched, sorted out the clues and handed them to Xiao Liu:

"You will work hard on duty tonight, and sort out these clues again."

"I wish the team, the boss said that we will have dinner tonight, and asked if you can go."

Zhu Yuhan spread his hands: "I'm not going, I have an appointment tonight."

Xiao Liu used his elbow to pestle them to wish the team with bad intentions, with a gossip on his face:

"Zhu team, there are a lot of dates recently, please tell me quickly, when can we have the wedding wine between you and sister-in-law."

Zhu Yuhan smiled: "This...the emperor is really not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry. What's the matter with you, brother Wuen—"

It’s not Zhu Yuhan’s excuse not to go to the dinner party because he has an appointment. He really has an appointment. He and Fu Huaiyu bought movie tickets for the recently released Thai horror movie. It is said that this movie received a high score of 8.3 points in the public review. .

The title of the film is "The Judge--No Survival", and the translation of the alias is also called "The Judge of the Dead".

I don't know if it is a translation problem or what. Although it is a bit embarrassing to collide with many films, it does not prevent the film from receiving rave reviews.

When Zhu Yuhan rushed to the entrance of the cinema, Fu Huaiyu was already waiting there.

He wore a cool brown coat today, with a chunky sweater, and a gray cashmere scarf, making him look very slender.

It was rare to see him in a formal suit, and Zhu Yuhan was not used to it for a while.

Outside the movie theater were all sweet couples holding hands, Zhu Yuhan felt that the atmosphere was not right when he went there.

When a young couple watches a horror movie, they sometimes drill into their boyfriend's arms to heat up their relationship. These two old men can only pretend to be calm, even if they are so scared that they pee their pants, they can't shout. How embarrassing it is! .

Zhu Yuhan bought caramel-flavored popcorn, holding a Coke in one hand and popcorn in the other, hunching his neck at the entrance and waiting for Fu Huaiyu to come back with the ticket.

"How do you buy caramel flavor? Isn't the original flavor bad? Caramel tastes like traditional Chinese medicine." Fu Huaiyu's first words were this when he came back.

Zhu Yuhan rolled his eyes: "I like to eat or not."

The two found a seat and sat down. Looking around, they found that there were all lovers in the front, back, left, and right sides. Before the movie started, they got tired of it.

Zhu Yuhan chewed the popcorn softly, sat for a while, feeling very uncomfortable, turned to Fu Huaiyu and said:

"If you are afraid for a while, don't shrink to my side. I put the Coke here, so don't knock it over."

Fu Huaiyu smiled: "Don't worry, I have read the high-energy warning, but you, if you are afraid, don't shrink to my side. I put Sprite here, so don't knock it over."

"Who would be afraid? It's okay to scare little girls with this kind of thing."

It's just that as soon as the lights dimmed and the title of the film was projected on the big screen, the "bold" team Zhu couldn't help but quietly grabbed Fu Huaiyu's scarf, leaning towards him as hard as he could:

"Why is it so dark?"

"It's not dark, that's called watching TV." Fu Huaiyu snickered.

Throughout the whole process, Team Zhu, who initially said that this kind of film can only scare little girls, covered his eyes with his hands and kept asking Fu Huaiyu:

"Have you come out yet?"

Fu Huaiyu: "No."

"now what?"

Fu Huaiyu: "Come out."

"Have you left yet?"

"gone."

Zhu Yuhan was relieved when he heard this, but as soon as he took his hand away, a huge grimace appeared on the screen along with the screams around him.

This time, Zhu Yuhan directly pretended to be dead, and ignored the rest of the plot, and kept pretending to be dead until the movie ended and the lights came on.

After the movie ended, he even shamelessly asked:

"What did you say? I didn't understand it. Please explain it to me."

Fu Huaiyu shook his head helplessly: "It's not that you didn't understand it, you didn't read it at all."

"A little sleepy, after all, this movie is too boring."

"Since it's boring, there's no need to listen to the plot again."

The two chatted and came to the underground parking lot.

"Let's listen to it, we can't waste this movie ticket for nothing." Zhu Yuhan scratched his cheek in embarrassment, and glanced at Fu Huaiyu without any trace.

Fu Huaiyu also looked at him sideways, then pointed to his cheek:

"I'll tell you with a kiss."

Zhu Yuhan felt goosebumps all over his body, and rubbed his hands: "You are too shameless."

It doesn't matter to Fu Huaiyu, if you don't kiss me, I will kiss you, there must always be someone who takes the initiative.

So he broke Xiao Zhu's face and pecked lightly: "Since you asked sincerely, then I will tell you mercifully——"

"Judger - No Survival" is a movie directed by a well-known horror film director in Thailand. It tells the story that under the existing campus hierarchy in Thailand, freshmen must unconditionally obey the orders of their seniors and sisters after entering school. During the wild tour in the deep mountains, the students refused to listen to the persuasion of the locals and forcibly entered the deep mountains and were forced to participate in a game. In the end, they died one by one.

There is a word involved here:

"absolute obedience"

What happens if you don't obey, it doesn't matter.

What is really embarrassing about the film is that there is only one person behind the scenes, and it is a 16-year-old high school girl who was once bullied, but she used psychological warfare to cause a whole class of students to kill each other, and the final winner also chose to commit suicide. In the end, no one survived.

But if these students would not be deceived by the mastermind behind the scenes if they were united, then the tragedy would not have happened.

The film review alludes to what is evident in many schools today—the relentless conformity with the collective in search of temporary reassurance.

In fact, speaking of it, it is somewhat similar to the game of kings.

No matter how powerful the "king" is, he is only a student after all, but for this short-term sense of security, everyone must absolutely obey orders instead of jumping up to resist.

From the beginning, it was a tragedy.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuhan felt that it was unbelievable, how strong the psychological quality is to control the whole class to kill each other.

"Probably." Fu Huaiyu smiled and started the car.

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Tong Si, who was going deep into Chongwen as an undercover agent, received a message from Team Zhu, saying that he was asked to investigate the "King's Game" and maybe he could extract some clues from it.

But now Tong Si is not in that mood at all.

That kid Fu Yuzhi came again, sat on his brother's bed with a stern face, and used the same excuse as last night.

His younger brother was afraid, so of course he wanted to accompany him as an older brother.

Tong Si gulped his saliva nervously, he took countless deep breaths, trying to comfort himself in his heart, just after he made all the preparations.

He found that Fu Yuzhi and Fu Yuxing had fallen asleep.

Tong Si looked at it for a while, heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that Fu Yuzhi was still a child after all, and didn't have much energy, so he planned to sleep by himself.

Half asleep and half awake, he vaguely heard someone talking in his ear, but due to his exhaustion, Tong Si couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.

The voice became louder and louder, Tong Si wanted to hear what was said, but he suddenly realized that although the voice was speaking Mandarin, he didn't understand a single word.

With an exclamation, Tong Si woke up suddenly and slapped the bed to get up.

He was panting heavily, and he could even feel his body was soaked in sweat.

However, he sat up, and the voice was still chattering.

He turned his head towards the source of the sound, and saw a person standing beside his bed, staring at him motionless.