Those years when I was taken away by the boss

There are three people gathered in Room 1 of the Four Palaces, one sitting on the edge of the bed, and the other two standing side by side. The two sides face each other, and a delicate atmosphere of confrontation gradually spreads in the air.

"Don't make the atmosphere so tense, we will cooperate in the future." The man held the ring with his usual smile.

"It's not up to you whether to cooperate or not." The person opposite laughed.

"It's true that I don't have the final say, but since I can exchange the number, it is enough to prove that our side intends to continue to cooperate with you." The man said without haste, with a calm demeanor.

"If I remember correctly, there are almost half of the people there, why do you still want to cooperate with us?" Another person on the opposite side asked quietly, in stark contrast to the companions around him, "I don't think our strength is so strong. "

There are so many masters in high-level tasks, and there are countless ones with excellent skills.

The companion glanced at him, hesitant to speak, biting his molars before swallowing the words.

The man was noncommittal to these words, raised his eyebrows and said: "What we need is a partner, not a thug, and strength is not within the scope of consideration."

"That's what makes it look like you have bad intentions."

"The previous cooperation was to grab numbers, and now all NPCs are under your control. It is impossible for us to cooperate again with this as an excuse."

"Of course not." The man laughed in a deep voice, "The last time we cooperated was to avoid being eliminated, this time we cooperated to escape from the space."

He twirled the ring on his finger, and said slowly: "No one wants to see blood. Everyone can benefit from this matter, so we don't force you to join, as long as you don't interfere and don't get in the way. "

"..." The conditions are indeed exciting.

"We will fix the number in the next few days. You have 1, and tomorrow I will bring a higher one, with the provided position." The man smiled brightly and tilted his head, "Would you like to cooperate?"

"The possibility of being a ghost is [-]%. After all, there is no sound of footsteps, but what I am more concerned about is, can a ghost possess an NPC?" Shu Shi said while biting a piece of potato chips.

Zhong Ruji glanced at the half-empty snack bag, and said concisely: "No."

He answered with such certainty that Shu Shi couldn't help but began to recall the materials he had read, trying to check if he had missed any common sense.

"There is another word for possession." Zhong Ruji squeezed the snack bag and sealed it.

Shu Shi stared at the bag of potato chips for a full two seconds before asking bluntly, "Another way of saying... a parasitic soul?"

Zhong Ruji slowly folded the bag of potato chips: "The person to be possessed must have a soul. Whether No. 1 has a soul or the ghost has No. 1's face, you choose one."

Shu Shi twisted his expression in confusion, and asked with a strange expression: "Is there a third choice?"

"Yes," Zhong Ruji smiled lightly, "The third situation is that No. 1 is a vicious NPC, with ghosts, or can be manipulated by ghosts."

Shu Shi: "...It's not a good thing."

The originally reassuring NPC suddenly became a gangster, and anyone would feel complicated.

Zhong Ruji had never been pleasing to the eye of No. 1, so these three speculations had no effect on him.

Although Shu Shi didn't trust No. 1 very much, he always felt that staying with No. 1 could gossip freely, and now he found that No. 1 might be a humanoid monitor placed by a ghost...

This taste has an indescribable sourness.

Living under voyeurism is scary for everyone.

"His body is indeed made of data, so the first case should be ruled out." Shu Shi folded the squared draft paper in his palm, "The second... I don't know how to divide it. If he is a ghost If not, I can't find a reason for him to do so, so I am more inclined to the third."

The straw paper was crumpled, and the numbers on the paper were twisted so hard that they could not be recognized. Shu Shi quickly glanced at a certain door, and after withdrawing his gaze, his voice became softer: "But I don't think it looks like it."

He didn't know what caused him to have a sense of disobedience, and he was partial to it while denying it.

Hearing this, Zhong Ruji also turned his eyes elsewhere, the wall in his line of sight was extremely clean, not stained with dust.

Shu Shi felt that his eyes seemed to be looking through the wall, looking at invisible things through a real barrier.

Afterwards, he noticed that Zhong Ruji frowned lightly, and that flashing expression did not seem to be upset or confused, but was more sympathetic.

The color is a bit shallow, so light that Shu Shi thought it was an illusion, and looked a few more times curiously, trying to explore.

Before he could see why, he was tapped on the forehead by someone who withdrew his attention.

"Too much to take for granted." Zhong Ruji said, his tone was flat, not reprimanding.

Take it for granted?Which sentence?

Shu Shi was going to ask.

Zhong Ruji looked at him and paused for a while, then suddenly said softly: "The body and the soul are not absolutely one, they can be separated."

They enter the space with their souls, and their bodies are all suitable shells arranged by ghosts or task systems to facilitate tasks.Shu Shi's soul does not belong to this world, this is a living example - the body does not have to match the soul.

Zhong Ruji basically doesn't make guesses out of thin air, and the conclusions he says are either well-founded or based on personal experience.

But if No. 1 has a soul, the nature of this space will be much more complicated, and it even means that other NPCs may also have souls. The act of eliminating NPCs is, in a sense, murder.

Shu Shi's eyes froze and he calmed down silently, asking: "Is it its own ability?"

"It's impossible to inject the soul, maybe it's trapping the soul." Zhong Ruji said.

Shu Shi: "Is there any chance for them to go back?"

Zhong Ruji: "No."

Shu Shi: "Oh, well..."

The soul that exists in space does not think about anything other than the tasker. Most of the NPCs are controlled by ghosts or task systems. They have no thoughts, no sorrow, and are beautiful, decent and obedient puppets. They look like ordinary people on the outside, but they are actually empty inside. They are just advanced simulation robots filled with data.

No. 1 has thoughts and personality. If these are ghosts' handwriting, then its ability is presumably related to Nuwa.

Once the idea is extended, the diffuse thinking becomes more and more out of control.

Shu Shi didn't intend to delve into it, but he expected Zhong Ruji to be the same.

Assuming that the NPCs are taskers from the past, no matter how they are left here, they will not be able to return to the real world.At the end of the task, the soul has not returned to the body, and the imprisoned life will be obliterated by the world mechanism.

They have no entity, cannot return to reality, and the surviving soul is only a continuation in the fictional space.

Even if these people were once alive, they are now dead.

"There are vacancies at 5, let's go as soon as possible." Zhong Ruji lifted the bag and said.

Shu Shi glanced, uncertain: "Shall we go together?"

Zhong Ruji let out a "hmm".

Shu Shi moved his legs off the bed, thought for a few seconds and then took off the 5 on his shoulder, and tore off Zhong Ruji's 6.

He exchanged 5 to the other party, and flattened the raised corner, "Okay, we can go."

Zhong Ruji understood the meaning of this move, just like Shu Shi also guessed his intention after asking the phrase "Let's go together".

"To test my thoughts, of course I have to fight in person," Shu Shi said with a smile while looking at the 5 with his eyes half down.

The 6 was temporarily useless, so Shu Shi folded it and put it together with the 7.They went around Room 1 to find Room 5, and then listened to human voices from far and near to explain the rules of the NPC.

Some of the laws are simple and can be calculated within 5 minutes, while others require a bit of effort. There are also a few laws that have no trace to follow, and various algorithms have flaws.

Shu Shi put down his pen and pinched his fingers, staring at the intricate calculations and twisted lines with twists and turns.

He leaned over to watch Zhong Ruji's progress, and saw that the formulas on the paper were listed in an orderly manner.

Zhong Ruji held the pen, and added calculation formulas at the end of the black words. Someone in the corner of his eye was holding the draft and holding it by his hand without saying a word.

He listed the last calculation, paused to look over, and saw a large piece of his own handwriting.

Shu Shi was still looking at his draft, and it took him a long time to prop up his chin and comment: "It's good to be unrestrained, unrestrained and unrestrained. It's just a bit wasteful."

"..." Zhong Ruji looked away silently, turned over the draft, and wrote a text description after the number representing the NPC.

After he finished writing a line, the people around him bumped the barrel of his pen with the pen he was carrying.

"Look at the countdown." Shu Shi said.

10 minutes to zero.

Zhong Ruji turned the tip of the pen, and the cap of the pen was pressed down on the paper to make a light sound. He checked the time again, and his eyes swept across the empty shoulder of the other party.

Shu Shi took away the drafts and stacked them, regretfully said: "It's a pity that there are three doors, otherwise I would definitely block them out."

Zhong Ruji said: "If there is no traffic jam, nothing will happen, just 10 minutes."

There were more than a dozen people coming and going today, some of them were just passing by, and some had ulterior motives. Thanks to the posture and aura of the two of them, few of them actually did anything.

As Zhong Ruji said, there are only 10 minutes left.It is not easy to find a target that can be hit well, and no one will do a self-defeating thing like [-]v[-].

"It's not that I think something will happen, it's just that it's a little in the way." Shu Shi added, "The focus of attention is not on them now." It's on myself.

Whether other people can grab the room or not will directly determine their future life and death, so those who survived the catastrophe feel joy, and those who will be eliminated feel fear.

Shu Shi's emotional components are a bit complicated and difficult to describe, because his success or failure is unknown, he is neither happy nor afraid.

He just felt that success was the right bet, but not bad luck.

Zhong Ruji pampered him, so he was sure that nothing would happen. If it failed, then the reason could be attributed to his boldness and Zhong Ruji's miscalculation.Both good and bad, blessings and misfortunes are shared by two people, and the result is not so important.

"There is still time, you can find another room."

Zhong Ruji found that he was not so calm, maybe because he took the risk and changed people.

"No, isn't it killing others to find a room now?" Shu Shi said relaxedly, "There are people in every room, so why don't you fight to the death if you go in?"

Quests depend on strength and luck, and the death conditions and rules that can exploit loopholes are all tested.

Zhong Ruji stepped on a thunder in the senior level, once or twice.This is nothing in his mission history, but it matters a lot now.He can't control the accident, the probability of making a mistake is only [-]%, and all previous efforts may be wasted.

In the past, I was used to being alone, and I never thought that there would be a day of looking forward and backward.

Zhong Ruji raised the corners of his lips amusedly, hooked his boyfriend's little finger provocatively and said, "If you fail, points will be deducted, why don't you think about it?"

Shu Shi pondered for a while, and asked tentatively, "How much is deducted? Can it be remedied?"

Zhong Ruji said: "Everything depends on how you remedy it."

Shu Shi was instantly numb, but after a while, he laughed uncontrollably as if thinking of something.

Zhong Ruji raised his eyebrows slightly, waiting for him to finish with great interest.

"I think it's okay to make amends, but your point deduction is too harsh and unreasonable." Shu Shi smiled enough and rubbed his face, "We are half and half responsible for the failure, you can't deduct all the points."

"Oh, really?" Zhong Ruji said slowly.

Hearing this, Shu Shi suddenly felt a familiar feeling of being cheated. He froze for a while, and suddenly recalled: "Are you deliberately lying to me?"

He has an idea, and the other party lets him do it. This is called reaching a consensus. They have mixed responsibilities, but if the other party proposes to give up and he still insists, the responsibility for this matter will be entirely on him.

"It wasn't intentional," Zhong Ruji explained, "If you have to say it, it can probably be classified as reasonable use."

Shu Shi gritted his teeth, angry and funny for a while, but he couldn't refute.

Zhong Ruji felt that he was about to smoke, so he asked again: "Continue?"

Shu Shi glared at him angrily, "Why not? If you make a mistake, you will make a mistake, and if you buckle it, you will buckle it. Who can't afford to bet?"

Zhong Ruji sighed in his heart, pinched the opponent's finger bones with his hand, wanted to say something, but felt it was too early.

The two exchanged a few words left and right, the time was not rushed, and there were 3 minutes of golden time left, and the movement from all directions could be heard without stepping out of the door.

The number of people eliminated every day is decreasing, but the battle situation is becoming more and more fierce. When the battle situation stabilizes, the rest will be strong.

Shu Shi hovered in front of a certain door, pinching his watch for a few seconds, feeling a little nervous; Zhong Ruji leaned against the wall watching him pace back and forth, occasionally glancing at the time.

Two points thirty, two points 29...

Twenty for two, twenty for one, twenty...

Sharp objects colliding, roaring, door slamming, these sounds are painted in the mind as a scene of chaos.

Six, five, four...

Shu Shi stopped and waited for the time to return to zero, but he heard a "bang" that seemed to be close to his ears.

After the door slammed, the running sound didn't stop, but got closer and closer. The two of them realized something at the same time, and rushed to the farthest door together!

three two……

Before they even touched the door, the handle turned suddenly, and a strange man stepped in, with conditioned reflex protecting the handle behind him.

Shu Shi and Zhong Ruji grasped his arm, the light in the room suddenly disappeared, and the three of them fell into the darkness together.

The hour has come and the judgment begins.