[Infinite] End Game

One half of the world must sweat and groan

That the other half may dream.

——Longfellow

(Half the world must sweat and groan|groan

So that the other half can sleep peacefully.

—Longfellow)

After the "Day of Sleep" came, more and more people began to think whether it was the arrogance and greed of human beings, or the insignificance and weakness of human beings that caused everything.

But compared to reflection, what is more important is always how to deal with the problem and how to continue the future.

No one wants to live under unknown surveillance and constant fear.

But also, no one person can stop this erosion.

The cause of the disaster originated from a mysterious radio wave from the depths of the universe.

For the things they don’t know, most people are happily eating melons on various media while continuing to live a mediocre but comfortable life... But in the end, there are still human beings who have the desire for mystery and the desire for the vast universe. A thirst for knowledge breaks taboos.

In the following year, there was a grand meteor shower all over the world.

Another year, nearly half of the world's population suddenly fell to the ground at the same time, falling into a long and unknown sleep.

Then the remaining half of the people, regardless of nationality, skin color, or race, inexplicably had a voice in everyone's mind.

It was a cold and mechanical voice like cold iron.

It does not communicate with human beings, but proclaims its name aloofly, and, when the sun is at its strongest every day, indifferently proclaims everyone's life and death.

Its name is End World.

The sound of birds chirping and the midday sun passed through the window together, and the sound of fingertips typing on the keyboard, sipping coffee and footsteps in the office mixed together, but they all stopped at this moment.

The sound, breathing, and even the air stopped, only time continued tenaciously, and after a few "ticks, ticks", it was accurately pressed on 12 o'clock.

The cold voice in my mind rang right on time under such circumstances.

【…】

[The 489th draw of the end game is completed]

[Your lottery result is: black lottery, please prepare within 12 hours...]

[Player Tang Yu, welcome to "End Game". 】

Tang Yu's fingers stopped in mid-air.

After about a long minute, he continued typing the unfinished string of codes in his hand.

When the last character was typed on the screen, Tang Yu opened the drawer, took out a piece of letter paper, and calmly wrote a letter of resignation.

Then, he drank the cold black coffee in one gulp, stood up and walked into the boss's office.

When passing by the third empty desk next to the aisle, Tang Yu stopped for a moment, but quickly looked away and started walking again.

There once sat a senior of his.

One day, that senior fell into a deep sleep without warning, and was pronounced dead two months later... Then, today, it was his turn.

In the past year, Tang Yu has seen many people crying, completely out of control and even rebelling against the society. With the mentality of "I'm not good, no one should think about it" and rioting. To this day, the country has to invest a lot Police force to maintain law and order.

Tang Yu always believed that this was human nature, but when those cruel and terrifying things actually happened to him, Tang Yu discovered that he was probably the first type of person to become numb.

On the day of "Sleeping Day", half of the world's population fell into a coma. Various instruments showed that their brain waves were in an active state, but their consciousness seemed to be deprived, and they could not wake up through external stimulation at all.

Losing half of the population would throw any country or ethnic group into chaos, not to mention the large numbers of brain-dead people appearing among the comatose people.

And it seems that in order to supplement these death quotas, the surviving people will face a lottery every day. Those who get a black lottery will fall into a coma at midnight, and those who get a white lottery will live an extra day, waiting tremblingly. The next sunny afternoon, and the cold sentence that sounded in my mind on time.

Human beings cannot control their own destiny, just like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, waiting for the voice as cold as cast iron in their minds to tell them whether they are dead or alive today in a mocking gesture.

In the more than 400 days after Sleeping Day, almost all of them lost their relatives and friends, and lived in constant fear of losing themselves.

The whole world is in chaos, not to mention progress, even the most peaceful countries have spent a lot of effort to maintain the normal functioning of society, and few people have the experience to take care of the next person who gets a black lottery.

In this case, the only companies and stores that sell nutrition machines and nutrition capsules are the ones whose performance soars.

I don't know if it's because I stared at the computer and turned on the air conditioner for a long time, but the excessively strong midday sun made my eyes swell and hurt, and I didn't feel warm when I was exposed to the sun.

Tang Yu walked out of the office, stared blankly at the empty street for a while, and then drove to the largest shopping mall nearby.

He didn't like the feeling of being completely enclosed in the nutrition cabin, and he didn't want to go to the shelter established by the state for people to observe, so he only ordered a nutrition machine and a brand new, comfortable big bed for himself.

When it was almost evening, Tang Yu went downstairs to eat pancakes at the uncle who set up a stall, and when he got home, he put on comfortable pajamas and lay down on the bed to let himself go.

The clock tower built after the "Day of Sleep" was right outside his window, and when the clock struck midnight, he felt countless hands grabbing his body and dragging him into the boundless darkness like a quagmire.

At the end of his consciousness is the familiar white ceiling of his home, and the nutrition machine that glows with a faint blue light in the night.

Then, maybe it was just a moment, maybe it was a second or a breath, or maybe it was an eternity of time.

There was a sharp, low wind with a heavy rust smell blowing over his nostrils and shoulders.

When Tang Yu opened his eyes, he saw a bare forest and a log cabin with a pointed roof standing in the middle of the forest.

He didn't know when to put a black bracelet on his left wrist. It was so light that if he didn't look at it specially, he could hardly feel the existence of the bracelet.

He tapped it lightly twice, but there was no response, and he couldn't tell what material it was.But he found that the nine people around him were also wearing the same bracelets, and at this moment, they were standing together in front of this huge wooden house, looking at each other silently.