[Infinite] End Game

Ido not live in the world dalone, but in thousands and worlds.

——Keats

(I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds.

— Keats)

When Tang Yu woke up, he found himself in a narrow alley.

There are tall and solid walls behind and on both sides, and the gray pressure obscures the sight.

His memory still stays at the time when he bumped into the invisible boundary between the Iron Forest and the human village. He has no idea why he is here. His arms are no longer bleeding, and only the wounds on his shoulder and abdomen hurt when he moves. The senses told him that everything had happened in reality.

The faces of Gao Liang, Sister Fang, Old Man Wang, Liu Bin, Fatty Wu, and Cun Tou are all vivid in my memory, but I don’t know if Qi Xiao, Cimicifuga, and that little girl Yunyun survived, and whether I will see them again in the future ...

Tang Yu sat on the ground in a daze, and it took a long time for him to be brought back to his senses by the cold wind. He stood up and staggered out with his exhausted legs.

This path is very narrow and long, the surrounding is very quiet, and there are no street lights.The bright full moon hangs above the head, and the cold silver light illuminates the road in front of me.

Suddenly, Tang Yu stopped abruptly.

Two pairs of feet were inserted into his face, and when he raised his gaze, two men appeared in front of him at some point.

Tang Yu was taken aback. He noticed that the two men were carrying a baseball bat on their shoulders, and quickly stepped back.At the same time, a baseball bat wiped Tang Yu's face and hit the wall beside him.

The bat should be all metal, and it would make a dull echo when it hit the wall. If it hit someone, it would probably break bones.

Tang Yu's feet were unsteady and he fell to the ground, his whole face curled up in pain, and the next second he was pointed at his nose by another club.

"Robbery." The person pointing at him said, "Hand over half of your points."

Robbery?

Things that have never been encountered in reality have been encountered in the world at the end.

Tang Yu froze for a moment, then looked up at the two of them and at the baseball bats in their hands.

The two of them couldn't see their faces clearly against the light, but their voices sounded very young and their bodies could be called strong.Tang Yu silently weighed his body and the strength of these two people, and said calmly, "I'll give half of the points, can you tell me what kind of place this is?"

"Hey? Talk about conditions..."

The man who pointed the stick at him and the buddy who just hit the wall with the stick looked at each other, and they were immediately amused.

The man who smashed the wall lazily put his stick back on his shoulder, and the man who pointed at his nose squatted down, looked at Tang Yu carefully, then nodded, and said with emotion: "Okay, we have been robbing for so long. It’s the first time I meet someone who can talk about conditions. You take out the points, we are in a good mood today, and we will also be a guide to feel the feelings.”

This was the second time Tang Yu heard this term.

From the looks of it, a guide is really an important existence for novices.

Tang Yu moved his lips, and just as he was about to speak, a hand suddenly appeared on the top of the head of the one carrying the stick, and then, a clear and displeased voice came out: "Guide?"

"—Are you also worthy of being guides?!"

As the voice said, the squatting man was grabbed by the back of the neck by the hand that was holding him, and he was pulled up abruptly.

The next moment, the two big men who were shouting for robbery just now were picked up one by one, and they were still dazed when they fell to the ground with their heads down.

Tang Yu also saw the appearance of the visitor clearly at this time, and blinked in surprise.

It was a young boy who didn't look very old.

Sixteen Seven, wearing a peaked cap backwards, dressed trendy and cool, with a clean face, but eyes full of menace.

"……what?"

The boy turned his face sideways, his eyes reflected Yuehui.He looked away contemptuously from the two robbers, saw Tang Yu's shoulders and arms, paused for a second, then turned back to look at the two on the ground, furious: "The robbery is fine. , you still dare to hurt people?!"

"...No no no! We didn't!!"

The two men were supporting each other to stand up. When they heard the boy's words, they quickly waved their hands in denial, and hurriedly said: "We really didn't hurt him! We just robbed him, sorry! Sorry!"

In the next second, the two men who were still arrogant just now acted like grandsons in front of the young man. After bowing deeply to him and the young man, they fought each other with their tails crossed without waiting for the young man to speak again. ran away.

The young man frowned and watched them run away, until the backs of the two disappeared at the end of the road, then he sighed softly.

Tang Yu: ... What's going on?

Just as he was thinking, the young man had already walked up a few steps, stretched out his hand to him, and said, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Tang Yu stood up with his strength and said, "Thank you."

"No need." The young man looked at him, hesitantly: "...Are you a newcomer?"

Tang Yu smiled: "Ah, yes."

The young man raised his eyebrows when he heard the words. He always felt that the young man had a special temperament, so he couldn't help but take a second look.After a while, I asked: "You look like this... is the novice copy failed?"

Tang Yu didn't know whether what he experienced was a novice dungeon, so he could only answer uncertainly: "...ah, yes, right."

"You don't know?" The young man pointed at Tang Yu's wrist in surprise, and said to him, "This is the terminal, you can check your points on it, just press it and meditate on 'points query'."

Tang Yu lowered his head when he heard the words, and found that the bracelet that existed in the iron forest was also firmly on his wrist at this time.

The boy also has one on his hand, but it is different from the simple style on his hand, the boy's bracelet is the same as his style, it is a very dazzling color.

He always felt that this bracelet must have a special meaning, and he had studied it several times before, but there was no result.Later, as the dungeon deepened, this thing was gradually forgotten, and it was only regarded as something similar to the player's identity certificate.

Until the boy told him, this was still a personal terminal.

It sounds like a common plot in some anime or sci-fi movie, but as a half-developer, he knows that there is no such technology in reality.

Tang Yu felt a little surprised. According to the young man, he raised his right hand and pressed the bracelet, and silently read the four words "Inquiry Points". Immediately, a transparent screen floated above the bracelet, displaying his identity in gold letters. information.

[Player ID: Tang Yu]

【Points: 100】

【Props: None】

"...You really are a newcomer." The young man leaned over to take a look, and clicked his tongue.

"You are a newcomer now, so it is not a big problem for others to see the information, but the props and points held by the players are the most important privacy. You can set it to encrypted mode, and don't take the initiative to snoop on other people's points and props. It's an unwritten rule."

The young man poked the last two lines of gold letters on the transparent screen with his finger, and said, "There is no clearance reward, so your novice dungeon must have failed, but it's not a big problem... Your name is Tang Yu, right?"

The young man leaned in front of the screen, and was a head shorter than Tang Yu. He had to raise his head to see Tang Yu's eyes clearly.

He pursed his lips and looked at Tang Yu again with a serious expression for a while, then suddenly straightened up, scratched his hair irritably, and finally said, "Okay, if you happen to encounter it, consider yourself lucky."

"My name is Si Yan, I can be regarded as... um, a guide." The young man paused for a while before looking up into Tang Yu's eyes.

The boy smiled at him and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to your safe house now."