The daily life of non-human beings traveling through time and space

"The key will not be placed too far from the box," Ouyang Xue said, "Based on my previous experience of playing horror games, I guess it must be near here."

Chen Hao nodded, "I agree. It is impossible for the game to allow us to drag such a heavy box around the maze. In addition, if the key is placed too far away, the player has to leave the box for a certain distance in order to find the key. It will be difficult to go back, [-]% of the players will get lost in the maze..."

"Moreover, this game only requires players to survive here for twelve hours. In summary, if the key and the box are too far apart, it will take a long time for the player to just find the key. The game will not be arranged this way."

The five separated and searched for keys in several labyrinth passages near the treasure chest.

"I found it!" Ouyang Xue ran to the green treasure chest and inserted the green key into the lock.

The other players gathered around, excitedly watching Ouyang Xue open the treasure chest.

"Where did you find it?" Chen Hao asked.

Ouyang Xue pointed to a passage behind them, "It's stuck on the wall over there! I'll see it right away when I walk in!"

Taking out the contents of the box, Ouyang Xue was a little puzzled, "Is this a candy? Wait, let me listen to its function..."

Whenever the player gets a new item, the game will immediately tell him the function of the item.

And this sound can only be heard by the player holding the prop.

At this moment, Chen Hao's face turned pale suddenly, and he froze in place. Almost at the same time, Liang Xiaoming's lips trembled, and he rolled his eyes to look around.

"pat, pat..."

It was the sound of leather boots walking unhurriedly on the ground, and at the same time, a sharp sizzle sounded nearby——

This voice is a chainsaw!

No matter how much mental preparation they had made before, when the clearers really arrived, several players still had two seconds of blank minds and cold hands and feet.

Chen Hao and the other players looked at each other. They didn't dare to speak, and they didn't even dare to move immediately. Because of the echo, they certainly found the clearer who came nearby...

But also because of the influence of the echo, they couldn't determine the current direction and position of the clearer at all. If they ran rashly and crashed into the opponent's palm, they would definitely die.

Chen Hao looked around anxiously. They walked in the maze for almost an hour without encountering a clearer. Why now... By the way, is it because of the treasure chest?Because the player found the treasure chest, the scavengers came?

After listening to the function of the item candy she got from the treasure chest, Ouyang Xue shook her head at the other players, indicating that the candy would hardly help them in the current crisis.

Knowing that the situation is critical, she suddenly felt moved and gently took off the shoes on her feet, and stepped on the ground with only socks on. She tried to walk, and found that in this case, as long as she paid attention, there would be almost no sound.

The other players heard the sound of the chainsaw nearby, but couldn't confirm the position of the clearer due to the echo, so they didn't dare to run around and just froze in place.

Several people pricked up their ears, enduring the trembling and chill in their hearts, until the clearer got closer, and they finally determined that the other party came from the passage where Ouyang Xue had found the key to the treasure chest.

They hurriedly left in the opposite direction. First, they walked faster and faster, holding back their fear, and then ran fiercely.

Once you start running, you can't control the pace. In the nearby labyrinth passage, the clearer seems to have heard the sound of their running footsteps, and they stopped abruptly, and then -

The Scavengers let out a sharp, strange laugh, and chased after them.

"He, he's chasing you!" Liang Xiaoming said in a broken voice.

"Run!" Wu Gang wished he could grow two more pairs of legs.

The roads in the maze are intricate. Even if you have a map in your hand, it is difficult for you to know how many forks will appear in front of you, and you will not know which direction the next road will take a sudden sharp turn, and you may even run straight away. into a dead end...

Turning left and right, running at a high speed, even though they didn't see the scavengers at all, it was even possible that the scavengers were chasing after them in the passage parallel to their advancing direction.

In the next second, they will find that no matter how hard the opponent chases, they will still be unable to come over through a maze wall. It is also possible that they will bump into the clearer at the corner of the road ahead in the next second.

But no matter what the possibility is, they couldn't stop and think about the situation calmly. Fear was like a devil, bewitching them to move their legs like crazy.

Huatai is born with a slightly sloped foot, which can't be seen when he walks. Once he runs, it will become more obvious the longer he runs, and the pain will become more and more serious.

His expression became vicious.

He knew that he couldn't run like this any longer, and glanced at Liang Xiaoming who was two steps behind him, Hua Tai's heart skipped a beat, and he stopped suddenly.

Liang Xiaoming is short and thin, and his physical fitness is quite average. When he was a student, he was the last one to run in every physical education class. After work, he has an air-conditioned office all the year round. He often stays up late, never exercises, and his nutrition has not kept up. In addition, his legs are still short, so he has never run past Huatai.

He also didn't notice that Huatai's running posture became more and more awkward because of the sloping feet, and all he could think about was running!

When Huatai, who was running in front of him, suddenly stopped, Liang Xiaoming was only in a daze, and quickly accelerated his pace, wanting to pass Huatai, what subconsciously surged up in his heart was untimely ecstasy——

Yes, he doesn't need to run past the clearer, he just needs to surpass Huatai!

But in the next second, Liang Xiaoming stumbled and fell straight out.

Huatai tripped someone, and kicked Liang Xiaoming fiercely on the temple. He hoped that Liang Xiaoming would faint on the ground for a while, and give him more time, then turned around and ran quickly.

Soon, Huatai caught up with Chen Hao and the three in front.

When he tripped Liang Xiaoming, Chen Hao and the others had already turned a corner, so they wouldn't see what he did...

After running for a few more minutes, the players never heard the voice of the clearer again. Just when they were surprised, a serious female voice similar to a radio broadcast suddenly sounded in the entire maze——

"The countdown to the game is 11 hours."

"Notify the current game progress, the player number 9X443 has been cleared, has died, and failed to clear the level."

Only then did the players stop, panting for breath, wiping the cold sweat off their faces, and looking at the others.

"Where's Liang Xiaoming?" Ouyang Xue asked.

Chen Hao's face was ugly, "I'm afraid he couldn't run past the clearer...he died."

Wu Gang wiped his bald head, "Fuck..."

Huatai's expression was slightly unnatural, but he quickly covered it up.

Several players walked in fear in the center of the maze for a while, feeling a little depressed.

Along the way, Ouyang Xue took the initiative to tell them about the effect of the prop candy he got earlier, "This candy can quickly heal most injuries on a person's body, whether it is internal or external, and can even regenerate broken limbs. In short, eat it , people will instantly return to the full state. But this candy has only one chance to use, and it is just a common item, it is not used in this game, and it cannot be brought to the next game.”

And at this moment, a sound like an alarm suddenly sounded in the maze!

The serious female voice that just announced the death of the player sounded again——

“注意！注意！对编号9X700玩家发出警告一次，在游戏过程中(12小时…更正…剩余10小时51分钟内)不得做出危及清除者性命的危险行为，妨碍游戏进程……”

"Attention please……"

This announcement was repeated three times throughout the maze.

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Huatai was dumbfounded.

"How is it possible..." Ouyang Xue was dumbfounded.

"Let me recall. At the beginning of the game, the rules said that the clearer is very dangerous. Players should run away when they encounter him? Is that right?" Chen Hao couldn't believe it.

"How can there be a player who can threaten the life of the clearer?!"

But Wu Gang's face turned blue, thinking in his heart that it's impossible, right?Impossible!That 9X700 should not belong to Shiyue... What is the serial number of Shiyue?Damn he can't remember!

Wu Gang was scared to death by Shi Yue in the last game. He thought that after entering the new game, he could quickly forget what he saw in the previous game, and not see people he was afraid to meet again. But now... no, no, it’s not sure yet It's that evil spirit!Don't scare yourself.

Facing the scavengers, I'm afraid Wu Gang wouldn't be so mad.

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Over an hour ago——

When the other five players just entered the maze, Shiyue also walked into the maze, the prop Hei Die was leading the way, and Little A chased Hei Die trying to pounce on it.

The maze is huge, and Shi Yue walked all the way for almost an hour.

"The countdown to the game is 11 hours."

"Notify the current game progress, the player number 9X443 has been cleared, has died, and failed to clear the level."

After Shi Yue heard the notification, he only paused, and still walked slowly.

After walking for another minute, when he turned the next corner, he saw a blue treasure chest.

The black butterfly lightly landed on the treasure chest.

When Shi Yue didn't look for the key, the black mist got into the keyhole of the treasure chest and opened it easily.The unlocked treasure chest automatically pops open the lid, revealing the contents inside—this is a map.

On the densely packed maze route map, the current location of the blue treasure chest, the safe house in the center of the maze, and the location of other treasure chests are marked...

With this map, if Shi wanted to, he could use it to get more treasure chests before reaching the safe house.

At this moment, the sound of a chainsaw sounded nearby——

The chainsaw in the sweeper’s hand made a constant whirring sound. He was strong and strong, and he walked well. When he ran, his heavy leather boots made bang bang sounds on the ground. Can hear clearly.

Shi Yue still held the map and stood there until the clearer appeared in front of him.

The scavenger was dressed in black, with heavy leather boots on his feet. He was more than two meters tall, and his figure was huge. His body was almost muscular. He wore a white mask with a hood behind it. The entire head is covered, only the eyes, nostrils and mouth are exposed, which looks completely weird and frightening.

At this moment, the sizzling chainsaw in the hands of the scavengers was still stained with blood and minced meat.

If it was someone else, I'm afraid my limbs would be sore from fright.

The clearer smiled strangely, picked up the chainsaw and ran towards Shi Yue...

Shi Yue curled the corners of his mouth.

After beating the clearer to the ground, Shi Yue pressed his head into the floor under his feet without changing his face.

Ten seconds later, a serious female voice resounded throughout the maze.

“……对编号9X700玩家发出警告一次，在游戏过程中(12小时…更正…剩余10小时51分钟内)不得做出危及清除者性命的危险行为，妨碍游戏进程……”

Shi Yue paused, moved away the chainsaw that was about to cut off the clearer's neck, he threw the chainsaw away, stood up empty-handed, and looked around calmly.

The scavengers on the ground began to struggle hard, pulling their heads out of the punctured floor like pulling a carrot, and then couldn't wait to move away from Shi Yue.

Shi Yue looked at the back of the clearer leaving, and he patted Little A's head, "...not during the game? Then wait until the game is over."

Referring to the map, after half an hour, Shi Yue arrived at the safe house.

The safe house is not big, and it is located in the center of several maze passages extending and staggered. From the outside, you can see part of the furnishings in the safe house in the window. There is a door next to the window. The door is slightly opened, as if inviting the player to walk in. .

Shi Yue approached the safe house step by step. When his hand touched the door, melodious music echoed throughout the maze. The music played for about ten seconds. Then, the sweet girl who explained the rules at the beginning of the game sounded...

"The countdown to the game is 10 hours and 21 minutes, and the safe house is opening for the first time!"

"The safe house rules are as follows—

Safehouses are for players only.

After the player arrives at the safe house, he needs to complete the "entry test", and only after passing the test can he stay in the house.

Players are limited to one hour at a time in the safehouse.

The time when the player enters the safe house next time must be more than two hours away from the last entry time. "

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On the other hand, in the past half an hour, Chen Hao and the others discussed for a while what the player with the number 9X700 did to threaten the life of the clearer, and then hurriedly searched for the treasure chest.

They all want to find more useful props quickly, and it is best to go to the safe house as soon as possible.

"There should be more than one or two treasure chests. We can mark the passage we walked through..."

Chen Hao was discussing with several players.

They thought of a way.After that, every time the four of them passed a corner of the passage, they used the key used to open the green treasure chest as a tool, and drew a number at the corner close to the ground. Starting from 1, the number 2 was drawn at the next corner, and then The next one is 3.

While Chen Hao and the others were busy marking the maze passage and looking for the treasure chest.

When the announcement about the opening of the safe house sounded, they were taken aback again.

"You can only stay for one hour each time you enter?" Chen Hao thought, "The interval between the next entry and the last entry is two hours... That is to say, after the player enters the safe room for an hour, he has to leave until another hour. Only then can you enter the safe house again."

"...There is also the entrance test, I don't know what it is, if it fails, will I not be able to enter the safe house?" Ouyang Xue was a little worried.

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"Player 9X700, hello," a little girl in a white dress who looked about five or six years old walked out of the safe house, and she looked at Shi Yue with a smile, "May I ask if you decide to start the safe house entrance test?"

Shi Yue nodded, "Yeah."

The smile on the little girl's face deepened, she opened her mouth, and was about to continue to say something.

"What are you?" Shi Yue asked suddenly and abruptly.

The little girl's smile froze, "I am the owner of this safe house, without my permission, you players cannot enter..."

Shi Yue glanced at her indifferently.

The little girl was silent, stepped aside, and stepped into the room as a signal. She looked at his back with gloomy eyes, thinking secretly, but said sweetly, "Big brother, the safe house entrance test has started, don't worry, The content of the test is just a casual game..."

As soon as he stepped into the safe house, the scene in front of Shi Yue suddenly changed, and he came to a completely white space in an instant, and he was the only one standing alone in the middle of the huge space.

In the next second, two paintings of landscapes and beauties that looked identical at first glance suddenly appeared out of thin air, stopped in midair, and hung in front of Shi Yue.

The little girl’s voice seemed to come from the distant sky, and she could only hear her voice but not her person, “Please find out all the differences between the painting on the right and the painting on the left within 60 seconds, and the countdown is 60 seconds, now start!"

There are high mountains, green bamboos, flying birds, clear streams, wild flowers, and classical beauties standing by the water and covering their faces with fans.

Shi Yue only took one look, and knew that the beauty on the painting was where the "eye" of the painting was. He didn't bother to find any difference, just stood where he was, waiting for the countdown to reset to zero.

At the same time, a strange cyan gas began to emit from the beauty in the painting.

The 60 seconds passed quickly, and the little girl couldn't believe that Shi Yue dared to do nothing, just stood there and waited for the mini game to end, but this was exactly what she wanted, and she didn't intend to let Shi Yue pass the test, and sooner or later Just increased the difficulty of the test...

In the painting, the beauty puts down the fan in her hand, revealing her beautiful face. She lowers her head slightly, with a shy smile on her face——

In an instant, the beauty suddenly raised her head, the smile on her face widened, and the corners of her mouth opened wider and wider, almost touching her ears.

In the next second, the "beauty" crawled out of the painting with a strange cloud of smoke lingering all over her body. Following her movements, her slender hands turned into bones, and her face rotted rapidly, turning black and dark red. The blood flowed from her eyes, ears, mouth and nose, crawling out dirty traces on her body.

If it were another player, they might be so frightened that they would pass out.

The "beauty" was still crawling out, at this moment, a cloud of black mist swirled towards her, the black mist wrapped her whole, the female ghost screamed and turned into a thin puff of blue smoke.

Qingyan was chased by the black mist, desperately trying to hide in the painting, but no matter how hard it tried to hide, it could not escape the fate of being swallowed.

The more time, the more black mist was withdrawn.

In the next second, Shi Yue had returned to the position when he entered the safe house, and he looked at the little girl next to him, who was staring at him fiercely with a blue face.

"Player 9X700, you failed the test," the little girl gritted her teeth, "Please leave the safe house now, or you will be forcibly evicted."

Shi Yue nodded slightly, stepped back, looked at the little girl meaningfully, and said softly, "The ghost that appeared in the entrance test is part of your incarnation, right?"

The little girl was more and more unsuccessful when she tried to harm her, but her incarnation energy was swallowed up by the other party, and she was so angry that her head was smoking.

But even so, she also knew that Shi Yue was very dangerous. If she attacked him, not to mention that it was not in line with the rules of the game, she might be swallowed whole by him.

Whether it's the entry test or the female ghost in the previous painting, it was originally a loophole in her maze game, and she made something that justifiably took the opportunity to kill some players and strengthen herself.

In the end, however, Shi Yue gave her the "black and black" role. Once the female ghost died, she would have to cultivate for a long time.

If other players came to the safe house, she would no longer be able to harm them with the "spot the difference" mini-game... Fortunately, she set up more than one entrance test mini-game, and there were more than one ghost.

Look, didn't someone just die in the maze?

Shi Yue seemed to know what the little girl was thinking, but he smiled slightly, "I will come back in two hours."

Little girl: "..." This is addictive, right?

After leaving the safe house, Shi Yue took out the map and walked slowly in the maze. When he passed by the storage points of several treasure chests, he just glanced at them casually to confirm whether they were opened, and then continued to move forward.

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"The countdown to the game is 10 hours."

"Notify the current game progress, the number of treasure chests that have been opened - 2."

Players have to survive in the heart maze for 12 hours. When the player triggers certain announcements, the game will tell the time.For example, the player died before, the life of the scavengers was threatened, and the safe house was triggered for the first time.

In addition, the game will report the time every hour.

"We only opened one treasure chest, and the other one was opened by the player numbered 9X700..." Chen Hao pondered, "He must have opened a useful item, otherwise how could he go to the safe house so quickly."

The four of Chen Hao moved forward while making marks in the maze, and finally luckily found another red treasure chest.

They acted separately as they were looking for the key of the green treasure chest before, and searched within a distance of about ten meters around the treasure chest, and soon found the corresponding red key in the nearby passage.

After opening the treasure chest, the four were pleasantly surprised to find that it was a very useful defensive item.

The appearance of this prop is a watch, which can be used three times, and each time can be used for 15 minutes.

There will be a cooling time after the watch is used once, and it can be used again after 45 minutes.

The function is that when a player wears a watch and uses it, a red protective shield will appear on his body, and the attack of the clearer will be invalid for it.

And this is a prop that can be used by multiple people.Other players can also have the shield by making persistent skin-to-skin contact with the player wearing the watch, such as shaking hands.

After Chen Hao got the props, Ouyang Xue looked around worriedly. She still remembered that after opening the green treasure chest to get the prop candy, she was chased by the scavengers not long after.

"The player approaching the treasure chest is very likely to attract scavengers... It took us a few minutes to find the key to the treasure chest. Maybe the scavengers have already come here. Just in case, I suggest that we should leave here as soon as possible .”

Chen Hao also had the same worry, and his suggestion was immediately adopted, and the four of them took action, walking lightly and quickly leaving the area where the red treasure chest was located.

After walking for almost 10 minutes, the four of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as they still didn't meet any clearers who might be on the "path".

After that, every time the four of them passed a corner, they would pay attention to whether there were any marks on the wall that they had made, and if there were no marks, they would make up for it.

"You can't wear this watch alone, can you?" Huatai was looking at the defensive watch on Chen Hao's hand all the way, "I should also have the right to wear it."

"It doesn't matter who wears it. Anyway, we just need to make sure to stay with Chen Hao when we meet the scavengers." Ouyang Xue is not selfish, she also wants to wear a watch, this watch must be worn on her own Only then can you truly feel at ease.

But now seeing Huatai's greedy appearance, she thinks it's good to wear it on Chen Hao... She doesn't want to run to have skin-to-skin contact with Huatai when the danger comes.

Wu Gang also couldn't understand Huatai like that, he deliberately said, "I think it's better for Chen Hao to wear it."

Chen Hao smiled embarrassingly, and said to Ouyang Xue and Wu Gang, "Don't worry, just grab me if you have something to do."

Huatai's face was ugly, "Then it's okay to change the belt? Chen Hao, it's impossible to wear defensive items on you all the time?"

"Of course not...but if we switch back and forth, it's too dangerous to spend time remembering who has the defense watch when the clearer comes. I think it's better for someone to wear it all the time That's fine, of course, the four of us can vote with a show of hands." Chen Hao said slowly, "Whoever wants to wear it raises his hand, and if other people agree to wear it, whoever gets the most votes of approval will wear it."

Both Ouyang Xue and Wu Gang had said before that it was fine for Chen Hao to wear the watch, and it was naturally hard to change their words now, so this little debate didn't last long, and it ended with Chen Hao continuing to wear the watch.

Huatai was furious, but he couldn't fight with the other three players alone, so he strode to the front, looking aggressive and looking for trouble.

Chen Hao and the others were a little speechless, Ouyang Xue wanted to tell him to walk slowly, don't be so anxious, but after thinking about it, he shut up.

And just when Huatai turned a corner with big strides without knowing it, he suddenly found a tall figure appeared in front of him——

Scavengers wearing masks and holding chainsaws, stand here!

The scavengers are here to sit on the sidelines? !

Huatai was startled, his heart almost jumped out of his throat, he hurriedly wanted to retreat, but the scavengers had already approached him infinitely!

The shadow of the death chainsaw was about to hang over his head, Huatai was terrified, and his heart became ruthless. He thought of the broadcast he heard before warning players not to endanger the lives of the scavengers, and encouraged himself, maybe... maybe the scavengers didn't Not that scary!It's just a terrifying appearance, if you do it... maybe...

But soon, Huatai paid the price for his wrong judgment.

With his bare hands, he wanted to attack the scavenger to buy himself time to escape, but when he punched with all his strength and landed on the almost hard skin of the scavenger, the shock caused by the large individual gap made Hua Tai shudder. Sober up—players can't deal with clearers at all, this gap cannot be bridged by manpower and self-motivation!

The scavengers grabbed Huatai's shoulder and punched him in passing.

To the scavengers, this was nothing more than a small casual attack without seriousness, but it caused Huatai the pain in an instant, as if his internal organs had been displaced. He couldn't even scream, and immediately lost his ability to resist.

"help me……"

Huatai sent out a call for help to other players.

Chen Hao and the others did not expect that the scavengers would wait secretly at the corner of the passage in front of them, waiting for them to throw themselves into the trap.

As soon as he turned the corner, he was so frightened by the scene in front of him that his heart almost stopped beating.

Chen Hao quickly activated the watch's defense, while Ouyang Xue and Wu Gang also quickly grabbed his arm and made skin contact with him, a layer of light red transparent protective cover appeared on the three of them.

They are safe for the time being. It stands to reason that they should take advantage of the 15-minute defense time after the watch is turned on to leave this place quickly... But Huatai, are they really going to leave him alone?

At this time, the clearer grasped Huatai's shoulder and wrist with both hands, making a gesture to separate his hands——

Seeing that the scavengers were about to tear off Huatai's arm alive, Ouyang Xue's face turned pale with fright, and she couldn't help closing her eyes quickly.

The three knew that they couldn't save Huatai, and the scavengers would come after them after they solved Huatai.Once the 15 minutes of the chase are over, if you want to turn on the defensive watch, you have to wait for the 45-minute cooling time of the item to pass.

They knew the pros and cons, and it was actually best for them to leave as soon as possible while the Clearers were dealing with Huatai.

But at this moment, the clearer suddenly stopped its movements, and its masked face seemed to froze slightly, and it turned to look behind Chen Hao and the three of them. The voice of Huatai chanting for help...

And, the sound of someone's footsteps walking this way.

As the footsteps got closer, a young man with a slender figure, pale skin, and a handsome, sickly face came out from behind the corner of the maze.

Chen Hao and Ouyang Xue couldn't help being startled, this... is that player 9X700 who has never met?

Among them, Ouyang Xue was instantly overwhelmed by the other party's beauty. She swore that if she had known that the player who was singled out from the beginning of the game was so handsome, she would definitely go to him no matter what and act together with him.And based on the previous broadcasts, she also guessed that this male player is definitely not only handsome, but also very, very strong!

At the same time, Wu Gang's complexion turned completely green, is it really time? !

In the next second, the clearer suddenly dropped Huatai in his hand, and quickly moved away from several people with almost clumsy steps. This posture, which seemed to be running away, directly refreshed the three-dimensional relationship between Chen Hao and Ouyang Xue. view.

But in Wu Gang's view, this is normal.

In fact, ever since he saw how Shi Yue tortured the human and demon brothers in the last game, he felt that it was really right for the clearer to run away!He even thought it should run faster...