The Game Show of Death: Demons of Reason

When Weiji walked towards Wei Zixu with a hot lunch, Wei Zixu had been holding on to the railing of the birdcage and watching for a long time.

"Where did you go, why did it take you so long!" Wei Zixu was very dissatisfied with the endless delay.

Nian Weiji quickly replied: "I met Marquis Jin in the entertainment room on the second floor, and I wasted a little time. I went out and found that I forgot to bring you food, so I went back to get it. I made Director Wei wait for a long time, sorry."

"The time was wasted by the Marquis of Jin... Tell me about it in detail later." Wei Zixu frowned, turned around and pointed to the arrangement in the birdcage, and asked him, "You also made these?"

"Oh, yes, I met Qin Guican just now." Nian Weiji smiled triumphantly: "Although she still refuses to let you go, I begged her to install a bathroom and hanging rings for you. You go to the toilet inside, and you can swing on the rings when you’re bored.”

A simple toilet is surrounded on one side of the golden birdcage. A steel wire hangs from the top of the birdcage, and a metal ring with a diameter of about one meter is tied to it, much like a ring in a pet birdcage.The hanging ring was swaying from side to side in the wind just behind Wei Zixu. It may be that the way the old man walks the birds in the park inspired Nian Weiyi, and asked Qin Guican to make this hanging ring to relieve Wei Zixu's boredom.

Wei Zixu lowered his head and pinched the center of his brows, suppressed his anger, and reprimanded Nian Weiji, "You're making fun of birds... Didn't I just say that when I'm not around, I don't have any contact with other people, just stay here honestly." In my own room. Our points are already in danger, and if you are tricked again, I can't save you at all, can you make less trouble?"

"Okay, okay." Nian Weiji said perfunctorily, while squatting down to spread out the picnic cloth.

Considering that this lunch was a picnic, Nian Weiji specially brought out a picnic basket.He was in a good mood now, sitting on the ground and passing another tablecloth into the cage, and stretched his hands into the gap of the birdcage to help Wei Zixu spread out the picnic cloth.After packing up the table, Nian Weiji held the picnic basket and magically pulled out salad, fish soup, garlic bread and cheese, mesh steak for Wei Zixu and a bunch of desserts for himself.

"Didn't you say that Chen Luyao has been guarding Qin Guican all the time? Didn't Chen Luyao make trouble for you when you went to find her? And Marquis Jin, his twin brother was killed by him, so don't go to him. Do you know?" Wei Zixu thought of all kinds of possibilities, none of which would be good for them, and started chattering more and more.

"Director Wei, let's eat first, the soup is getting cold." Nian Weiji was holding the fish soup, sitting in front of Wei Zixu, blowing the soup cold.His prominent wrists were exposed from the cuffs of his black shirt, and they were tainted with the smell of grass and food, making him more popular than when he was inside the building.He changed the topic with ease, like an honest man without a city.

Wei Zixu was locked in a birdcage for several hours, and he was very tormented while waiting for the end of the year to return, and he had accumulated a lot of temper.But now that he was spitting on the soup at the end of the year, and smacking his lips in enjoyment, Wei Zixu felt that his temper had no place to vent, and most of it disappeared for no reason.Getting angry at the end of the year is the most time-wasting behavior, like punching a cotton candy, neither refreshing yourself nor hurting him.It's the end of the year and now he's too busy eating, so Wei Zixu can only eat a mouthful of steak in boredom.Wei Zixu has never pursued food, but when he ate with Nian Weiyi, the food seemed delicious.

"I think Xiaodai is really a very contradictory person."

Nian Weiji said such a sentence suddenly, Wei Zixu looked up at him and asked, "Why?"

At the end of the year, it seemed that he was just talking casually, chewing and saying: "One can understand a person best through his works. Jinhou just told me that the GPS location here is in a nuclear-contaminated area, and Xiaodai is very The facility needs to be run with nuclear energy. Xiaodai uses the killing theater to promote what he thinks is truth, goodness and beauty, and then puts such delicious food on the corpse. It can be said that DEATHSHOW itself projects the world in his eyes—the anxiety that players will feel , Anxiety, suspicion and fear, I think these are all things he has experienced, otherwise it would be difficult to express it so authentically and infect others."

Wei Zixu: "It's just that you think so, who is not contradictory?"

"Yes, everyone is contradictory, it's normal." Nian Weiji nodded and said, "But getting caught up in this kind of contradiction, and even starting to question yourself and the society, is a bit extreme, and it looks like crazy to outsiders. Same. I didn’t know that DEATHSHOW really existed before, but I heard about Umbrella by accident. He seems to be the designer of this kind of killing game. The game designed by Umbrella is to kill for the sake of killing. Not as twisted as Xiao Dai, Xiao Dai tries to enforce the nihilistic justice that he doesn't even believe in, and through even more nihilistic murder stage plays, all this will only make him more contradictory."

At the end of the year, he drank the last sip of fish soup and smiled slightly: "If Umbrella is a lunatic that people hate, then Xiaodai is a lunatic that makes people pitiful."

The movements of Wei Zixu's hands paused, but he did not continue the topic. Instead, he said, "Instead of pondering these things, it is better to think about how to win tomorrow's game. You said that Marquis Jin told you the location of this place? He never Maybe he gave you information for no reason, what did you tell him?"

Since Wei Zixu asked about it, at the end of the year, he told the truth about finding drugs for the Marquis of Jin and forming a temporary alliance to protect the Marquis of Jin.

"Hmm..." Wei Zixu pondered, "It seems that the 'judgement' skill Jinjue used for the Marquis of Jin had very strong side effects, and it made the Marquis of Jin afraid like this. But before he died, Jinjue said , this skill has the possibility of making Marquis Jin win the game, the effect should be amazing... You can bring him to our side, try to use the 'judgment' skill in tomorrow's game to create for us advantage."

"Well, that's what I thought too."

In the middle of Wei Zixu's speech, Nian Weiyi took over the conversation, and Nian Weiji's voice sounded lazy and sleepy.Wei Zixu looked up at him, and saw that Nian Weiji was lying on the lawn with his arms pillowed on his head, with a hat covering his face.

That was Jinjue's black jazz hat.

"Tsk, why did you steal Jinjue's hat again?"

"Jinjue is dead." Nian Weiji said this, his face was completely covered by the hat, and he couldn't see his expression: "How can it be considered as stealing something that has no owner? Jinjue is suspicious because he is wearing this hat. His parents favored his brother, but it's just a nice hat for someone else to wear."

It may be because of the barrier, the afternoon sunlight is evenly scattered, and it shines very gently on the lawn around Nianwei.This soft, sunny color paired with leftovers of delicate food on a picnic cloth creates an atmosphere that's too cozy to be swoony.Wei Zixu stretched, turned around and leaned sideways on the railing of the bird cage.The brief tranquility at this moment is rare in the death game, and Wei Zixu is a sensitive person, but the sense of disobedience brought by the comfortable environment makes him uneasy.Now Nian Weiyi's unusual behavior and language seem to be mourning for the Jinjue who is hostile to them, but whether it is mourning or pity, it doesn't seem to be the emotion that will appear on Nian Weiji.

A gust of wind blew by, Nian Wei raised his right hand and pulled down the brim of his hat, revealing a pair of eyes to look at Wei Zixu.

"Director Wei, do you have any brothers?"

Wei Zixu looked up at him, and replied, "There is an older brother. What's the matter?"

At the end of the year: "I'm an only child, and I don't know what it's like to have brothers and sisters. But the brothers I've met, no matter whether the relationship is good or not, there is a wonderful connection between them, as if they are indispensable in each other's life. The missing part. Director Wei, you never mentioned your brother, I thought you were the only child. How is your relationship with your brother, is it worse than the twins?"

"There are very few brothers whose relationship is as distorted as the twins." Wei Zixu teased, "Jin Hou and Jin Jue are both too selfish, and they were born in very strict big families. This kind of brotherly struggle brought about by utilitarianism , I’m tired of seeing it. As for me and my brother, it’s just a very ordinary relationship. My brother is much older than me. When I was born, he went to a boarding middle school outside. We don’t see each other often, so I don’t have a relationship with him. Not close. Later, he became a lawyer in the procuratorate and helped me with my studies. Now he is married and has children, and his life is going smoothly, and he doesn’t contact me often.”

"Not close..." Nian Weiji narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Director Wei, aren't you close to your family?"

"What, is your theory shattered and makes you unhappy? There is no one who is indispensable in the life of the other party, even family members." Wei Zixu said: "I always feel that there are hidden dangers in intimacy. It is difficult to grasp it just right within the range. In other words, as long as it is not a prop at the mercy of others, it is always unsatisfactory."

"It's not like that." Nian Weiji disagreed: "The connection in the subconscious mind is not up to you. Although your statement is cool, we all know it's fake. It's amazing that people have individual consciousness. Strong animals, but after living together, they will inevitably influence each other, as if there is really a kind of group consciousness, which integrates and transforms everyone, and finally gradually forms a similar appearance, sharing similar emotions."

"Pfft——" Wei Zixu laughed in the birdcage: "I'm faking it, why should I pretend it in front of you? I believe anyone who says group consciousness, but it just doesn't look like a young man. What the doctor would say."

Nian Weihe breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression showed no discomfort: "You don't think you're pretending, which means it's your unconscious behavior. It's not surprising that I said the same thing as everyone else, because I'm also very ordinary—maybe A little more numb than ordinary people, um, a little more handsome - but generally speaking, there is nothing special, I can do what ordinary people can do, and I can't change what ordinary people can't change, the fact is, so I There was never any psychological pressure."

Wei Zixu moved his eyes away, turned around and leaned against the railing, his eyelids began to become heavy, and said slowly, "Comparing yourself with ordinary people is already arrogant enough."

"You misunderstood me...but it's okay, I'll explain it to you slowly. It's the fourth day now, and the game will end in three days. I didn't expect a week to be so long..."

Wei Zixu's reply was getting slower and slower, the wind was sunny around him, and he gradually felt tired at the end of the year, and the darkness in front of him weighed down heavily.

Time should be still in sleep, but at the end of the year, I felt abnormally trapped in the darkness, waiting for a long time in the invisible darkness.When his eyes began to adjust, he looked around and walked towards a direction where the darkness was thinner.Talking about walking, Nian Weiji is actually not sure that he is moving, because he can't feel his limbs, maybe he is still standing still.

This passive feeling made Nian Weiji suffer a little, but fortunately, it wasn't long before the darkness in front of him receded slightly, revealing some outlines.Looking carefully at the end of the year, he was blocked by a wall in front of him, and those looming silhouettes were the blue bricks of the wall.

At the end of the year, I came to the bottom of the wall, and found that it was already very bright, and the light cast the shadow of the end of the year on the wall.At the end of the year, he looked at his body. He didn't wear the black shirt and white coat that he usually wears. His whole body was exposed, but he didn't look like a human body.

This body is about the height of a human being, and has four limbs, but the knees are bent inward, and there are huge hooves at the end of the calf. The whole body is hairless, and there is no skin. Numerous blood vessels and tendons lie across the surface of the brown flesh.Nian Weiji touched his body, both his sense of touch and pain were vague, and at the same time there was a faint smell of blood in the air, and Nian Weiji couldn't smell whether it was his own body or a corpse from elsewhere.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, Nian Wei had raised his head, and the light above his head hurt his eyes.He is in a completely dark environment, and the light source comes from a perfectly circular sky above his head.But the sky was too far away from Nianwei, and there was no way for him to climb up. Nianwei could only grope for something nearby.

This masonry wall formed a circle with a large diameter. At the end of the year, a circle was touched, and a total of thirteen doors were touched on the wall.Nian Weiji suddenly felt familiar. Isn't this the candlestick maze he encountered in the rabbit hole?At the end of the year, I looked at the center of this space again, and I saw a branch-shaped copper candlestick with thirteen candles on it.At the end of the year, I had some confidence, so I pushed open the door at hand and walked in.

Behind the door is a short corridor, through which it returns to the original space.

But this time it wasn't like a maze in a rabbit hole, with thirteen doors lined up in a straight line.The doors here are in a circle, and there is no sequence of markers to record. Nian Weihe can only continue to push the remaining doors according to his sense of direction.

The end of the year has gone through this cycle over and over again, and there is still no candle lit on the candlestick.At the end of the year, no matter which direction you go, the result is the same.Unknowingly, Nian Wei was out of breath, but still numbly repeated the movement of pushing and closing the door.His body was so exhausted that he lost consciousness, and there was only one belief driving him to act—he believed that there must be a solution to this maze, and there must be a solution to any problem, as long as he keeps trying.

But when he walked hundreds of times, he gradually began to doubt himself.Maybe his sense of direction was simply wrong and he kept going through the same door.Maybe this maze has no way out at all and is just meant to drive people crazy.He fell down beside the candlestick, feeling the icy light shining on his body.He even thought of the sunny world above his head, the bustling commercial districts and stores, and the vulgar happiness on the faces of the people in the market, but his world is always bleak, all directions are dead ends, and all efforts are in vain.

Despair penetrated into his chest with the breath.He still has the ability to act, but Nian Wei knows that every action of his will fail in the end, and it will only bring greater despair.

"Is there anyone? Can someone come and save me!"

A hoarse voice was calling for help, and it turned out that it was Nian Weiji himself.To his surprise, another voice came from above his head soon:

"Huh? Why do you live in a well?"

"Save me! Please help me up!" Nian Weiji shouted excitedly.

"Okay—oh, you can't do this." The voice said: "Wait, I'll get you a human skin."