Neverland

Xu Muzhou subconsciously searched for Yan Cen first.

Yan Cen was standing on the left side of the crowd, about five or six steps away from him. Seeing him looking over, he nodded slightly at him.

In an unfamiliar environment, acquaintances can effectively relieve anxiety, Xu Muzhou calmed down a little, and walked towards him.

There seems to be a subtle time difference between the transmission mechanisms of the two systems. Three to five minutes after Xu Muzhou woke up, the eyes of the remaining people gradually began to focus, and their minds were slowly recovering.

These three to five minutes were enough for Xu Muzhou to see the situation of the few of them. To Xu Muzhou's surprise, there were also his acquaintances in this group of people.

The girl I met on the high-speed rail who was carried by the little yellow duck and chose the seven-color flower is impressively listed.The difference from the last time we met was that half of the girl's original long hair was cut short, and the remaining half was tied tightly with a rubber band. There was a shallow wound on her forehead that had not healed. There is a world of difference in appearance.

"The timeline of Neverland is different from the outside. All of them have already experienced at least one escape game." Yan Cen waited until he came to his side before reminding him in a low voice: "Be careful."

Yan Cen himself has never been to the trial system. This system does not require staff, it only needs a specific presupposition, and then just let them have fear, resentment and hatred.Except for the remote operators stationed in Neverland who need to pay a little attention to the number of people lost, almost no one will care about this system.

It is obviously the system with the largest number of people in this network, but in Neverland, the trial system is almost placed at the bottom.

Life and death will stimulate people's survival instincts, and can also transform people in the shortest period of time, but correspondingly, the life and death situation without legal constraints will also seduce the most secret malice in people's hearts-in society, people must abide by morality. Whether you like it or not, you must tightly wrap a layer of human skin on your body, at least to make yourself look like a dog.

But in the escape game, the two mountains of life and death are placed in front of you, and people will become less and less personal. At first, they are numb to death, even indifferent.Until the end, the crowd will go to two completely different extreme forks. Some people maintain their human nature in the face of repeated choices, redeem the sins they committed when they entered the system and leave, while the other part drifts with the crowd and lets the new ones Crimes ate away at one's own skin, and finally became the eternal nourishment of the judicial system in the superposition of crimes again and again, until death.

"Yes." Xu Muzhou agreed briefly.Then he walked to a place one meter away from Yan Cen and stopped. After looking at each other, he looked away tacitly at the same time.

Xu Muzhou did not forget that this is the site of the trial system. Among all the people present, except for him and Yan Cen, the two staff members who stepped in to make trouble, the rest of them all committed crimes. irreparable crime.

This kind of cognition caused his whole person's position to change subtly. He looked at the few people standing sporadically on the playground, and the first impression in his mind was already covered with a fog of vigilance.

Just like on the high-speed rail, he didn't want to show his specialness at the beginning. The reason why people tend to be mediocre by nature is because specialness is often linked to danger.

He wasn't sure when the crowd would wake up, so naturally he didn't dare to leave these people to search for clues in the school.

In addition to him and Yan Cen, there were two women and two men in this escape game. Except for the girl Xu Muzhou had seen, the remaining three were all familiar faces.Standing next to Xu Muzhou was a middle-aged man who looked in his 40s, wearing a loose suit that didn't fit well, with a slight beer belly, and a valuable watch on his hand. Unfortunately, the watch case A few pitiful lines have been cracked, and the watch hands inside have already stopped. I don’t know why, but I still carry it on my hand.

In front of the right hand of the middle-aged man is a boy who looks much younger than Xu Muzhou. He is wearing a school uniform and a pair of black-rimmed glasses. Photogenic orbit.His standing posture is a bit stooped, with a small arc on his back, and his shoulders are buckled inward, which is an obvious defensive action.

The remaining strange girl looked 24 or [-] years old. She was wearing a light pink casual outfit and a pair of sandals. Her beautiful round toes were exposed in the air, and they were already a little purple from the cold.

- They all seem to be normal people.

Xu Muzhou looked at the efforts of the crowd, most of them had regained their senses, their bodies were shaking, and their eyes had changed from unconscious blankness to focus.

This is waking up, Xu Muzhou thought.He lowered his eyes very naturally, and turned to look at the school not far away.

Veteran players who have participated in the escape game seem to be used to this kind of opening, Xu Muzhou heard the rustling of cloth beside him, but no one spoke.

The originally hazy sky gradually darkened, and the water vapor in the air gradually thickened. Xu Muzhou rubbed the back of his hands keenly, feeling that the air humidity seemed to increase instantly.

The players in the trial system were awake for a long time, and the girl obviously saw Xu Muzhou, she was slightly taken aback, then raised her foot and walked towards him.

"I didn't see you in the last game, so I thought you were dead." The girl said the word death very naturally now, she even smiled at Xu Muzhou and said: "The last meeting was too hasty, My name is Du Qingqing, sunny day."

"Xu Muzhou." Xu Muzhou said.

Du Qingqing's kindness will set up a good shield for Xu Muzhou to a certain extent, so he will not let it go.After Du Qingqing finished speaking, she looked at Yan Cen at the side.Her eyes were extremely complicated, and there was also a little imperceptible fear.Yan Cen's indifference on the high-speed rail probably also left a deep impression on Du Qingqing, she weighed it in her heart, did not talk to him, but smiled politely at Yan Cen.

Yan Cen stood where he was, faithfully playing the role of a taciturn and mysterious man.

"Also introduce." The middle-aged man snorted disdainfully: "I don't know if I can save my life, but I am still in the mood to introduce myself."

He kicked the gravel on the ground cursingly, not knowing who he was venting his anger on.

Du Qingqing sneered, too lazy to argue with him.

"You can't say that." The girl came up to smooth things over in a soft voice: "Everyone is here, they are all unfortunate people. It is the business to work together to survive. Why did you get into a fight first?"

The middle-aged man snorted, patted the moisture on his body, and turned around, as if he didn't bother to pay attention to them.

The girl smiled gently at Xu Muzhou: "My surname is Lin, Lin Xiang."

Except for the middle-aged man, the boy who had been standing on the periphery of the crowd also kept silent. He bent his body and stared at Xu Muzhou.Xu Muzhou glanced at him from the corner of his eye, only feeling a gloomy smell on him.

"I saw him in the last game." Du Qingqing said, "I heard that he is a high school student, but he doesn't talk much."

While talking, the sky was completely dark, and the small wind lamp hanging on the first floor of the school trembled and lit up at some point, and the cluster of small flames swayed left and right in the wind.The lamp must have been hung for a long time, and the casing was covered with a layer of dust, so that most of the light was shrouded in the gray casing.

"Ding--"

Suddenly, there was a clear and clear notification sound without warning in the empty playground, and Xu Muzhou's expression sank.I saw a huge transparent reminder net slowly spreading out in the air in front of the crowd, exactly the same as the one Xu Muzhou saw at the high-speed rail station.

The cursor flickered twice on the transparent task panel, and slowly typed out a line of words.

【Mission Objective: Live until dawn and kill the NPC. 】

This is probably the necessary condition for the escape of the interrogation system. Xu Muzhou only glanced twice before withdrawing his eyes—this mission objective has nothing to do with him. What he needs to do is to find his own work objective and eliminate her. obsession.

But the problem is, apart from the players, there is not even a living person here.Looking at the dark school hall, Xu Muzhou always felt conflicted from the bottom of his heart.

"The target of the mission is most likely in the school, but I suggest observing for a while before going in." Du Qingqing said: "After all, it's just dark now, and no one knows what traps are in the school."

Not making decisions lightly is probably a common problem of veteran players, and the others don't have any opinions, especially Xu Muzhou, who is conscientiously playing the role of an ordinary player, certainly won't.

But the strange thing is that the humidity in the air seems to have reached the extreme at this time, and Xu Muzhou already has a strong sense of discomfort.He took a deep breath, almost feeling like he was inhaling a cloud of water vapor in his lungs.

For the few of them, the only light source they could see now was the wind lamp at the school gate.

After a while, a thin layer of fog slowly climbed up the steps, covering the small light source, and the sky was completely dark.

Xu Muzhou's vision blurred, and he felt that something was falling in front of him, and he couldn't see clearly in the dark night.The thing seemed very, very light, spinning in mid-air, and falling very slowly.

Before Xu Muzhou could speak, Lin Xiangxian exclaimed in surprise: "What is this—?"

Not only Lin Xiang, but even Du Qingqing let out an extremely uncomfortable gasp.

With a click, a straight and narrow beam of light suddenly lit up around Xu Muzhou. Xu Muzhou looked sideways, only to find that Du Qingqing had pulled out a flashlight from nowhere.

"Props." Du Qingqing said, "It can only be illuminated for eight hours in total."

With the help of the light, Xu Muzhou discovered that what was falling in front of them was a catkin-like substance, which was swirling down one after another, almost covering the entire playground.

The most frightening thing is that this kind of catkins will slowly corrode the material of the clothes. Xu Muzhou's hand brushed by the catkins instantly developed a large rash, and a heart-rending itching spread from the rash. Mu Zhou couldn't help stretching out his hand to scratch, and when he scratched, several bloodstains appeared.

Lin Xiang was even more miserable. Her feet were almost exposed to the air, and there was no room to cover them with clothes. After only standing for a few seconds, her feet were already swollen. , I could only crouch down and scratch frantically, wishing I could roll on the ground.

"This can't be done!" The middle-aged man suddenly shouted violently. He was also very tossed, and the brows were flushed red. He covered his face with his arms and hurriedly said: "If you want to die on the playground, you will die on the playground." Here, I'm going in."