Let's play horror games

"Tolls."

Like an old machine, the cloaked man spoke again in his hoarse voice, slowly.

You glance at the rushing river, the water is surging, with a faint fishy smell, it is bottomless, and you don't know what is underneath.

There are only bones and stones around, and there is nothing that can be used.You try to throw a still moving bone into the water and it's immediately swallowed by the current.

It seems that if you want to cross to the other side, you have to take this boat.you think.

You ask the cloaked man, "Who are you? How much is the toll?"

The cloaked man slowly raised his sleeve, and the black mist condensed into a single finger.

one?

a what?

He tilted his wrist and pointed at you quietly, the corner of his mouth full of malice.

What do you mean, a finger, a piece of clothing, a... human life?

Your heart beats violently.

The back muscles against your body twitched, as if they were about to attack in the next second.You immediately covered Brother Hei's mouth to signal to stop, thought for a while, and gestured to the man in the cloak with a half-point.

Cloaked Man: "..."

I once heard my aunt say that bargaining starts at half price.

The man in the cloak looked at you silently, and after a few seconds, he moved out of the way and motioned for you to board the boat.

You were really shocked: "This is okay? Brother, let's go."

Brother Hei didn't speak, he paused for a while before putting you on the boat.

The weight of the two made the boat shake, and the water came in from the side of the broken ship, almost splashing on you, making you terrified.

The man in the cloak remained motionless, as if he was used to it.He deftly lifted the rusty anchor, and the boat broke free from the shackles, pushed forward by the scarlet water waves.

You look at the shadowy other bank, thinking about what will happen on the other bank.

This is a food-themed level on the surface, but what attracts your attention more is religion.The underground is Buddhism and wraiths, the paintings and decorations upstairs are all Christian, and this strange space is like the mythical river Styx.

Shaggy was right to complain when he was underground, the religion here is a bit of a mess.

You try to imagine the specific image that will dominate this space.A person who frequently changes religions, or widely believes in religions, has no confidence in himself.May have encountered huge and uncontrollable changes, and the mind is quite disordered.It is a completely different extreme from the guy who regards the truth as a belief in the previous level.

And they also accepted the theory of "sacrifice".

This idea is the characteristic of "game".

Then, it seems that it is not difficult to guess what the other side will face...

Thinking of this, you feel a gaze staring at you.

It's Brother Hei.

You turned your head and saw his cold expression, inexplicable and a little frightened.

"……elder brother?"

His dark eyes stared straight at you, as if he wanted to penetrate your bone marrow.

"You want to die?"

This is the first sentence you hear him say after being rescued from the slaughterhouse.

You didn't answer.

He remained silent for a while, and then said, "Do you know what the blood you smeared on the painting and the gesture you made just now mean?"

You thought about it, and then replied cowardly, "No way, someone has to do it."

He closed his eyes and his voice softened a bit.

"It's the same as the last level. Why do you give up on yourself so easily?"

"Didn't you say you want to break the rules of the game?"

Why, I have to be sacrificed, in line with the rules of the game?

You want to say that because I sacrifice myself for others, I am a living Lei Feng, but you can't tell the joke when it comes to your lips.

You sighed, and grabbed the hem of his clothes begging for mercy.

"I told you before, I'm afraid you will die."

You are really afraid of death, terribly afraid.But the first level is bloodletting to attract insects, the second level is implanted with memory, and now the body is sacrificed...

An unthinkable reason flashes through your mind, and reason quickly ignores it.

You force yourself to look at Brother Hei, and calmly say what you have speculated countless times.

"I think the reason why I live in this game world is because my parents gave birth to me in the game many years ago."

These are the things you've thought about many nights, but never said.

"I don't know why I am alive, but I guess my real parents either died, or lost their self and life, and became characters manipulated by the game."

You gritted your teeth: "Now, I know that my family, school and everything in front of me are controlled data, how can I not hate?!"

Hei looked at the other person's angry and trembling face, and suddenly realized that no matter how calm he looked before, the other person was still a student who had just turned 20 and was suddenly forced into another cruel world.

Unlike him.

"I want to end this ridiculous game, but I'm too weak, not only can't do it, but I might hold you back."

You took a deep breath, tightened your fingers, and said with difficulty: "If I die...then I'll leave it to you."

Your heart was pounding, and after you finished speaking, you were relieved like a collapse.

Although there may be some thoughts left unsaid, but forget it.

At this time, the boat was just in the middle of the river.Brother Hei was about to speak, but the boat shook violently!

There was a flash in front of your eyes, and the person in the cloak who hadn't opened his mouth moved, and you didn't have time to resist, and your body suddenly flew into the air.

He's going to throw you into the river!

Everything in front of you seems to be in slow motion, you see Brother Hei reaching out to pull you, and the man in the cloak is behind him, his figure moving slightly.

You want to tell him to stop, and you want to remind him of the situation behind.But before you could say a word, you fell into the thick water.

The foul-smelling liquid poured into your nose and mouth, poured into your limbs and bones.The bottom of the water seems to be able to absorb people, no matter how hard you struggle.

Soon, you pass out.

You wake up coughing.

Rather than waking up with a cough, it would be better to say being woken up with pain.Your lungs ache and your whole body aches, including your head.It hurts so much.

But compared to the pain in your body, you are more surprised that you are still alive.

what happened?

You propped up your broken body and slowly climbed up, and noticed a person sitting by the wall.

The two arms, which were always strong, hang down weakly, and the head hangs down, exposing the back of the neck.

It's Brother Hei!

Enduring the pain, you hurriedly crawled over, shaking your hands to test for breath, and pressed against his chest again, and you breathed a sigh of relief when you heard the faint heartbeat.

There were several wounds on his body, the old wound on his left hand was deeper than before, the gray bones were almost visible, and the flesh was soaked.Strangely, there was no blood from the wound, as if it had been sucked away by a monster.

After you briefly treated the wound, you half hugged the unconscious Brother Hei, and looked around vigilantly.

This place seems to be a naturally formed stone passage, some stone walls are dripping water, the ground is quite wet, and there are many glowing moss growing.The two sides are deep, leading to nowhere, there are no traces of people, and there are no monsters.

too weird.

You hugged the person in your arms tightly, your mind was in a mess.

where is this place?Didn't you fall into the river? What's going on now?

Also, why did Brother Hei pass out here?

The situation is completely beyond your expectations.You can:

A tried to wake up Brother Hei and asked him what was going on

B let Brother Hei rest first, and explore the surroundings alone to see if there is anything available

C is afraid that there will be changes after a long time, so he tries to carry Brother Hei on his back and walk to both sides, looking for a way out

D Shout out to see if anyone else can help

The author says:

Cloaked Man: If you say half, you will only cross half of the river.I am innocent!

Protagonist: I received two tolls, but none of them were sent to the other side, bad review!

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The answer to the quiz time in the previous chapter: Don’t hold back, just bite.

The protagonist obviously has not passed level [-] of Heige language.