The Easter Egg Game

There is a subway station near the cafe, and the intercity subway is connected to the Linshi subway.After walking out of the cafe, the two walked into the subway station. The air underground was colder than the ground above. Even a long-sleeved jacket couldn't block the chill. Lin Jue shivered and watched the next subway arrive. time.

"Are we going to Linshi by subway?" Lin Jue asked uneasily.

"Yeah." Song Hanzhang said thoughtfully, "Actually, I would like to fly to a farther place. The faster the speed, the better, but I can't wait."

The eager desire to explore everything burned his heart, making him unbearable for a second.He also considered leaving the city on foot or by car, but he couldn't help wondering, if the boundaries of this world would continue to expand with his actions, how would he prove that there was something beyond what he saw? Does the world really exist?

Thinking about it this way, it doesn’t matter which means of transportation you choose. If the world tries its best to deceive you, no matter how hard you struggle, you won’t be able to see the truth behind the curtain.

Whether it is the flaw or the truth, the reason why you can perceive it now is only because the will that controls the world is willing to let you see it.

Since it is willing to let you find out, it must have no plans.

Now he wondered what it was up to.

The subway stopped at the platform, and the waiting passengers walked into the subway one after another. Song Hanzhang had already walked in. Lin Jue's reaction was a bit slower. Seeing that the door closing warning light came on, he rushed into the subway.

There were not many people on this platform, and there were still seats in the carriage. Lin Jue sat down beside Song Hanzhang, silently watching the doors close, and the subway accelerated to the next platform.

Both of them were silent. No one knew where the subway would take them, nor whether they could leave the city, nor even predict where the boundary of this false world was.

The clear sound of the station announcement sounded, and the next platform arrived. The passengers in the carriage walked down one after another, and new passengers came up. The subway started and continued to move forward.

Silent Lin Jue looked at the name of the platform above the carriage wall, and the red dot representing the current platform jumped forward one by one. This subway can go straight to Linshi without changing trains. It only takes three more stations...

The subway pulled out of the subway station. In the dark corridor, the bright billboards passed by the window quickly. In the section without billboards, there was pure darkness outside the window, boundless.

Song Hanzhang moved, and Lin Jue immediately turned to look at him. He was pressing his temples, and his brows frowned slightly.

"Do you have a headache again?" Lin Jue asked softly.

Song Hanzhang did not speak, but glanced to the other side of the carriage.

After passing through a few platforms with a lot of traffic, there are now fewer passengers. There are only a dozen or so people in this carriage, and the seats are not yet full.

Lin Jue followed his line of sight, and saw seven or eight passengers sitting on seats not far away, looking at them blankly—this was an obviously weird look, stiff, numb, and cold, and it was impossible to say whether it was good intentions or malicious intent. , like looking at a dead object in unison.Lin Jue, who was stared directly at by a group of people, the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end!

This is too weird, too weird!

A group of people faced each other silently, whether it was the passengers or Lin Jue, the only sound in the quiet carriage was the sound of the subway moving forward. There were no lights or billboards outside the window. The subway was driving in darkness, as if heading to hell abyss.

Song Hanzhang glanced at the platform list on the carriage. This station has been traveling for too long, it seems... endless.

"Senior..." the creepy Lin Jue whispered.

Song Hanzhang's hand covered his hand, and Lin Jue immediately held his hand backhanded. The temperature from another person's skin made this eerie environment a little real. He could only hold it tightly. Only this hand can resist the urge to escape.

The subway drove farther and farther without stopping, no station announcement, and no light from the window. Even the surrounding sounds became quieter and softer. Cold sweat dripped from Lin Jue's forehead. He looked around nervously. The person in the car had disappeared at some point. Looking from his seat, the farthest carriage was shrouded in a layer of fog, and all the passengers and seats were blurred...

Song Hanzhang also saw that this strange layer of mist was spreading rapidly, approaching the carriage they were in from both ends of the subway, and everything it passed turned into nothingness.

"What should I do?" Lin Jue stood up from the chair anxiously, looking around, looking for a way to escape.

"Don't run around, jumping off the car will kill you now, let's see what it wants to do." Song Hanzhang said calmly.

If Lin Jue hadn't been familiar with him, I'm afraid he wouldn't have heard the slight trill in his calm tone.

White mist filled the carriage, pouring towards this carriage from both ends, and the carriage and passengers swallowed by the white mist seemed to have disappeared in the mist, never to be seen again.Finally, the fog covered the carriage, and it seemed that a layer of tulle was covered in front of his eyes. Lin Jue looked around nervously, but the clear scene around him became more and more blurred, even the person beside him. He couldn't help but die. He held Song Hanzhang's hand so hard that he felt pain.

Slow thinking, blurred consciousness, Lin Jue gradually began to feel everything around him, and in the vast white mist, the real and terrifying world no longer existed.

He vaguely heard some kind of mechanical sound in his ear, no, it shouldn't be said that he heard it, it should be said that he "consciously" felt it.

[...Failed to connect to the main world... Return to Xinshou Village No. 0708...Automatically check the data of Xinshou Village...Cancel the verification...Is there any abnormality reported...Anomaly report interrupted...Fix the abnormality of Xinshou Village...Repair aborted...Unable to Removing the abnormal state... Judging the task to continue... The data cannot be synchronized, and the countdown is automatically returned: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, return successfully. ] Lin Jue opened his eyes.

The corridor in front of him is familiar. Lin Jue looked at the dormitories on both sides. The house number on the iron door made his heart beat wildly. This is the corridor of the fourth-floor dormitory where he is, but a week ago, he was here. When he got the call from "hell", he was involved in endless nightmares ever since.

How could he appear here?What about Song Hanzhang?

Lin Jue didn't have time to think about it, so he rushed to the dormitory where Song Hanzhang was, shouted his name and knocked on it, the door of the dormitory opened, revealing the impatient face of Song Hanzhang's roommate: "He's not here!"

Only then did Lin Jue remember that he and Song Hanzhang had moved to the school's hostel, and immediately ran downstairs, knocking down the passing students before he had time to apologize, pretending to be Song Hanzhang.

In the subway engulfed in fog, he had never been so afraid, because he could hold Song Hanzhang's hand at that time, but at this moment, he didn't even know where Song Hanzhang was.

This kind of fear is actually more terrifying than the threat of death.

When Lin Jue ran to the hall on the first floor of the dormitory, he stopped suddenly.

Song Hanzhang was standing at the door, waiting for him with arms folded.

The sun was setting outside the building, and the golden-red afterglow shone into the dormitory building from the open glass door, elongating everyone's shadow.Song Hanzhang standing in the sunset seemed to have been waiting for a long time, the gentle golden light covered his white shirt, and he seemed to melt into the twilight at any time.

Before he could speak, Lin Jue rushed up to hug him at a speed of [-] meters.

Smelling the fresh and clean scent on Song Hanzhang's collar, Lin Jue felt his heart hanging in the air fall back to the ground.

Song Hanzhang, who was knocked back a step, was baffled, and even wondered if something happened to Lin Jue in the short few minutes. It should not happen in such a short period of time. Could it be that the two came back within a short time? error?

It was the end of get out of class time, and the boys who came and went in and out paid attention to the two standing at the door of the dormitory and hugged each other. Lin Jue didn't realize it: "I thought you disappeared..."

"I went back to the bedroom balcony, which is where I entered the game for the first time. I thought you should be similar, so I just came downstairs and waited for you." Song Hanzhang said.

Lin Jue let go of his arms. He was too excited just now, and now there are tears in his eyes: "That subway...what's going on?"

"Let's talk while walking." Song Hanzhang walked out of the dormitory building.

Lin Jue followed closely and walked side by side with him, only to hear Song Hanzhang say: "This adventure is rewarding, you should have 'heard' it, Xinshou Village No. 0708, this is where we are now, Yet it has developed serious problems."

Song Hanzhang continued: "Since there is Xinshou Village, there must be a place to go after leaving Xinshou Village, which is the 'connection to the main world', but this 'main world' has been disconnected from the Xinshou Village where we are. Checking data, reporting exceptions, and automatic repairs all failed, which made us continue to continue the mission and return to the Novice Village repeatedly. We could neither return to the real world nor go to the 'main world'. The cause of the abnormality is also unknown , Maybe it was an accident, maybe it was man-made, before I get more information, I can't make a judgment easily, so I can only take one step at a time."

"Then why did we encounter weird accidents in the subway?" Lin Jue asked.

"It should be a matter of the scope of Xinshou Village. In the game, our scope of activities is this campus. In normal times, the scope it demarcates for us is this city. Once we go too far, we will be deported and return to our original place. The landing location of the game—that is, the place where the game was first started.” Song Hanzhang analyzed, “Actually, I have always vaguely felt that there is something wrong with the setting of this game. It pays special attention to the 'selection' of players, and every time it emphasizes survival. , Use external pressure and internal conflicts to screen out players with unqualified psychological quality or combat ability. However, there is no further task for the screened players, but to start the second round of screening with other newcomers. Change, we will continue to be screened round after round, maybe the difficulty of screening will increase, but the essence of screening has not changed."

"So what is the nature and purpose of this game? Is it just a screening? Or do you want to get players' emotions like fear? But the latter doesn't make sense, because for experienced players like us, fear will only get worse. There are fewer and fewer, and the cost performance is far inferior to selecting more newcomers in each round. Is that just for screening? Or does it make no sense, screening is a means, it is not the end. Now it seems that we will enter this game, which should have been After being screened, we went to the main world, but for some reason, we couldn't go, but were trapped here."

"Wouldn't that mean we'll never be able to get out?" Lin Jue was in despair for a while, this horrible nightmare would go on and on again and again, even if the body could bear it, the spirit would collapse.

"...Try again, let's go to the subway to try again, no, this time change to driving." Song Hanzhang said decisively.

The phone rang, Song Hanzhang glanced at the screen, and picked up the phone.

Lu Ren's cheerful voice came from the other end of the phone: "Oh, I seem to be playing off."

"What did you do?" Song Hanzhang asked with an unhappy frown.

Lu Ren didn't answer but instead asked, "Where are you now?"

"Dormitory downstairs."

"Oh, then you'll find out soon."

After the phone hung up, Lin Jue couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with Lu Ren?"

In Song Hanzhang's flat tone, there was a faint taste of the rain coming: "Anyway, it's not a good thing."

One after another screams came from a distance, and the passing students suddenly panicked, some ran wildly, and some screamed loudly: "Killer, murderer!"

The two walked quickly to the place where the incident happened, against the flow of fleeing people, and soon saw Lu Yan.

The setting sun was like blood, and with his back to them, Lu Ren held a short knife in one hand and a human head in the other.The headless corpse fell at his feet, and the bright red blood was gurgling out from the brutally severed neck.In addition to this headless corpse, there were also several people who did not know whether to live or die lying here and there, blood flowing everywhere without exception.

And the sunset glow that filled the sky was actually more red than blood.

Lu Ren turned his head and smiled happily at the two: "I guess, the critical point of this order is here."