Neverland

Xu Muzhou was thinking about how he got here.

He clearly remembered that he had just finished working overtime for a week in the dark, swayed out of the office building like a dead dog, climbed on the last bus home, passed through the scattered crowds in the front row, and found a person in the penultimate row. The window seat took a seat.

There is still 13.00% battery left on the phone, and the pop-up window on the screen issued a silent but sharp warning. He was so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting, and he didn't bother to dig out the power bank from his bag. He mechanically flipped through Weibo and Moments, and didn't even remember himself. Did you press the phone screen to turn off, and leaned against the window in the next second and lost consciousness.

But now, he is in a very modern high-speed rail station consciously. The high-power spotlights hanging high on the side of the platform illuminate most of the platform as bright as day, and the LED screen in mid-air scrolls bright red. big characters.

There seemed to be some data error on the LED screen, the platform name became a bunch of garbled characters, and only one line of vehicle number and boarding time survived.

[D3769, 45 minutes before the departure time. 】

Xu Muzhou had a splitting headache, he clenched the backpack straps on his body, covered his forehead and leaned against the cold pillar to relax for a while.His whole person seemed to be divided into two halves, one half was the original self, and the other half was forced into an inexplicable memory by external force.

In his inexplicable memory, this is a brand new game field, and he has participated in this type of game countless times. The content of these games is different, but only by finding a way to achieve the goal of the game mission can he escape from this scene .And how to survive while completing the goal is the only way to complete the game goal in each game.

But this memory was crudely made to the point where it could be called perfunctory, not to mention the cause and effect, even when Xu Muzhou thought about it seriously, he didn't even have the corresponding memories of the various games he had "experienced" in his cognition.

This memory is like the set dialogues in those inferior CG games. It just stuffed the cognition of the game into his mind, and he didn't even hope to win his trust.

It was like an absurd dream that couldn't be logically consistent, but Xu Muzhou pinched his arm and found that he could still feel the pain.In addition, his mind is still considered calm, and his thoughts are still clear when recalling his original memories and thinking.

This feeling is very strange—everything around Xu Muzhou is telling Xu Muzhou that this is a virtual, unrealistic and strange environment, but the feedback instructions from his brain are telling him that his consciousness and thinking are clear .

Xu Muzhou closed his eyes and rubbed his temples with his thumbs, making the headache go away quickly.

The headache gradually subsided over time, Xu Muzhou breathed a sigh of relief before taking the time to observe the situation around him.

He opened his eyes, only to find a long train parked under the platform not far in front of him, with mud spots splashed on the car body, and the LED screen beside the door of each car scrolled the weather and temperature information of the car number. It is no different from ordinary trains.

The high-speed rail uses eight carriages as a standard, but the one in front of me seems to be a long-distance high-speed rail. The two trains are connected together and do not communicate with each other.

Xu Muzhou stood up from behind the pillar. He was not alone here. There were scattered crowds scattered on the long platform. Most of these people stood near the doors of the carriages, not much different from ordinary passengers.Xu Muzhou made a rough count based on the crowd standing in front of the carriage, only to find that there were at least a hundred or eighty people here.Most of the people stood alone in the same place, only a few sporadic piles gathered together in twos and threes.

From this scene alone, it looks no different from the usual platform.Perhaps because of this, Xu Muzhou didn't feel very panicked or uneasy.

The familiar scene and the unharmonious memory in his mind together soothed the anxiety he should have. Xu Muzhou observed the crowd calmly, only to find that there seemed to be something different about him from others.

About two carriages away from him, there was a middle-aged man in a suit who was yelling at him. The man spoke with a thick foreign accent. Xu Muzhou couldn't hear it very carefully. He could only make out a general idea. Shouting to let him go quickly, otherwise the police will be dealt with.

He was very emotional, and the two little girls beside him who tried to quarrel were thrown away by him regardless, and almost fell into the platform.

This is very strange, Xu Muzhou thought.It was clearly the first time for him to encounter such a situation, but although the hard-pressed memories in his mind were not very useful, at least they could barely piece together the current situation for him, so that he would not be at a loss like a fool.

But obviously, not everyone has this treatment.

——There are differences among the people present.

This realization made Xu Muzhou suddenly cautious.

The place where he was awake was behind the pillar near the front of the train, and the shadow cast by the light could well hide him in the darkness.About ten meters to his right is the exit of the high-speed rail station. It is dark outside, with only a few lights that can only serve as embellishments.

He was very close to the front of the car, Xu Muzhou thought for a while, and then walked out from behind the pillar where he was hiding.

Only when the pillars blocked more than half of his line of sight did Xu Muzhou realize that there were at least ten people outside each car far away from him, but there were only a few people standing around where he was. people.

Standing at the door of the carriage in front of him was a tall man with his back turned to him, wearing a black leather jacket, with short hair, and carrying a shoulder bag that didn't match his outfit.

If the compartment is counted as the classification standard, then this man should be the only one in the same group as Xu Muzhou.

Xu Muzhou's gaze moved down and landed on a line of small blue characters under the car door.

First-class seat.

Xu Muzhou was startled, and then subconsciously looked at the several carriages that he could see sideways. His gaze swept across the bottom cracks of the carriages one by one, only to realize that the place where he was standing seemed to be the only first-class seat in the first eight carriages. .

This seems to prove from the side that there are indeed differences among the people present.

From the moment Xu Muzhou woke up, this scene seemed to remind him that this is a world where reality and contradiction are intertwined, and details that can withstand scrutiny usually hide information.

It's hard for Xu Muzhou to describe his feelings. If he takes his weird cognitive memory as a comparison standard and defines everything as a "game", then those obvious senses of disobedience should be those in ordinary games. Those self-limiting frameworks, in order to limit the player to a relatively correct main line, guide the player to reach the final ending without detours as much as possible.

But this again became part of the "violation".In Xu Muzhou's limited understanding of the game, this game is very dangerous, at least there is a danger of harming his life.Then if the ultimate goal of this game is to obliterate the player, this kind of subconsciousness that can make him obviously avoid danger will essentially be contrary to the ultimate goal of the game.

Xu Muzhou frowned.He doesn't know whether this special is good or bad, he seems to be playing the game with a crude internal test guide, whether this is a kind of preferential treatment, or a bug that will be fixed at any time, Xu Muzhou doesn't know .

But after he watched the hysterical man not far away from anger to panic, he no longer felt how unacceptable the current situation was. At least his thinking was still calm, and he didn't have to spend time like those people to accept a new situation. concept.

If it was a dream, then sooner or later he would wake up.

But if this is indeed an absurd and bizarre game, it is too late for him to start panicking now.

Xu Muzhou pursed his lips, made up his mind and walked towards the car door.Judging from the current situation, the man standing in front of the same train compartment as him should be the person most similar to him. If he wants to obtain more information, he must take a gamble.

But before he could get close, he suddenly felt a force behind him that was contrary to him. Xu Muzhou turned around unexpectedly, only to find a very young girl holding his backpack strap, with a pale face. Looking at him, the other party's lips moved, and he looked at him humbly.

The girl was originally standing in front of the carriage next to him, she was carrying a little yellow duck messenger bag, Xu Muzhou glanced at it hastily, and still had an impression.

He looked at the other party calmly, and asked coldly: "What's the matter?"

The girl's eyes quickly scanned the back of the man not far away, and asked him hesitantly, "How did you get here?"

Xu Muzhou frowned slightly, and chose the safest answer: "...I don't know."

"Don't get me wrong." The girl obviously had a delicate and sensitive mind, she quickly waved her hand at Xu Muzhou: "I'm not here to trick you, I just... I was originally at home, but I was here when I woke up There is no signal on the mobile phone, only this strange bag is left."

Regardless of the girl, Xu Muzhou has not yet realized that everyone here is wearing backpacks of different shapes.

Seeing that Xu Muzhou didn't speak, the girl shrank her neck and said bravely, "At first I thought I was dreaming, but then I realized it wasn't... I was wondering if this was a random reality show, or that Kind of, inexplicably making a scene to deceive people, to test people's on-the-spot reactions..."

The more she spoke, the less confident she became.

Xu Muzhou looked at her calmly. These people don't have the early stage cognition of the environment like himself, and it's normal for them to subconsciously use their familiar worldviews to deduce.

The headlights above his head suddenly flickered twice, and there was a sound of mic testing on the radio. Xu Muzhou looked up when he heard the sound, and found a transparent light green screen suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Dear passengers, the train has entered the platform. Passengers on train D3769, please enter the station and take the train."

Xu Muzhou glanced at the information on the screen above his head, and found that 15 minutes had passed since the last time he looked up, and there were still 10 minutes before leaving the car—this was the ticket inspection time at the large departure station.

As if to confirm his conjecture, as the sound of the broadcast fell, the LED screen that had been hanging over everyone's heads flickered twice, the bright red vehicle number turned green, and the original garbled suffix became checking tickets.

At the same time, a line of small characters slowly appeared on the light green screen in front of Xu Muzhou.

[Game goal: Please take the high-speed rail to reach the destination. 】