Welcome to Nightmare Game III

"Passengers, please check your tickets and board the ship in order. The spaceship will take off in 5 minutes." A mechanical female voice came from the cabin of the aircraft.

Around the founding day is the busiest flight time in Twilight Land, and a large number of overseas players and even aborigines came from all over the nightmare world to participate in the annual event.

Xiaoxiao stood in line, clutching the tickets she had just bought, feeling a little bit of joy in her heart.The spaceship tickets for this class have already been sold out, so it stands to reason that she can only consider going to the pier to take a boat to Sunset Island, which is not a safe way of transportation.

Although the Trial Office clears the water monsters and mutated sea beasts in the offshore routes every month, the sea area is too big after all, and the monsters who come and go freely will always have a way to hide, and suddenly come out of the water under the cover of night or wind and rain, Swallow the entire passing ship, and by the time the executive officers of the court arrived, there were often few survivors.

But Xiaoxiao, who has always been lucky, was lucky enough to buy a boat ticket from a player who had a temporary refund, and the other party gave her a preferential discount.

When it was her turn to check the ticket, Xiaoxiao took out the boat ticket and her Twilight Township household registration card. The ticket inspector swiped the ticket and the card in front of a metal-shining machine, and the machine issued a crisp "Didi" ", the ticket inspector glanced at the name on the black and white screen: Xin Xiaoxiao.

The photos on the screen are also black and white. Because of the resolution, the recognition is not high. I can only see that it is a dull girl wearing glasses. She looks bookish. The ticket inspector compares the photos with the clothes in front of her. A fashionable young girl brimming with confidence, with suspicion in her eyes.

Not quite like it.

Xiao Xiao said depressedly: "It's really me in the photo. When I took the photo, I just came to Twilight Township and I was still studying in the newcomer training school, so it doesn't look like me."

In order to increase her persuasiveness, she took out a pair of black-rimmed glasses from the props bar and placed them on the bridge of her nose. She also used her acting skills a little bit, and put on a serious expression when answering the teacher's questions in class: "Now Does it look like it?"

As soon as her expression changed, her temperament immediately changed, and she really looked like that nerdy girl.

The corner of the ticket inspector's mouth twitched, and he handed back the household registration card and the cut ferry ticket to her: "Go in."

Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly took the things, and got into the spaceship in a hurry. She complained about her procrastination in her heart. Every time she went back to Twilight, she wanted to retake the photos on the household registration card , but I was stunned and procrastinated until now, the evil procrastination!

However, it shouldn't be necessary after today.

Because she was hired by the court!

After joining the court, she will get a work card from a certain department. With this work card, not only will public transport fees be free in the future, but she will also be given priority boarding. Of course, no one will stare at her old photos and suspect that she is a fraud. A dangerous fanatic who infiltrated the Twilight Land with someone else's identity.

Best of all, she gets paid!The "hourly salary" of the court is very high.

"Time is money." Xiao Xiao said to herself, the corners of her mouth curled up.

This sentence is not just a proverb in the nightmare world, but a real world law.In this dangerous world, these players from the real world need to complete various tasks to earn survival time. The survival time is consumed every minute. Once the accumulated survival time is cleared, the player will die.

Stepping on the red carpet laid on the iron stairs of the spaceship, Xiaoxiao came all the way to the inner cabin.

The cabin is not full yet, but there are already people in front of most of the tables and chairs. Xiaoxiao smartly scans every empty seat and chooses his own seat carefully: the scenery by the window is beautiful, but it is best not to sit by the window.According to statistics from "Twilight Daily", the aircraft in Twilight Land has an average of one accident per month, and the fatality rate of passengers sitting by the window is much higher than those sitting in the middle.In case of hijacking, if the hijacker detonates the bomb, the bulkhead will often be ruptured, and the players by the window are more likely to be swept out of the cabin by the wind pressure and fall into the sea to die.

So it's best to sit in the middle and think carefully, but the next second, her footsteps stopped.

Sitting next to a short table by the window in the cabin was a handsome young man, who immediately caught Xiao Xiao's attention.

He was wearing simple casual attire, but a uniform of the Holy See was draped over his shoulders. The uniform was washed very old, and there were already some raw edges on the cuffs.Xiao Xiao had seen it in the fashion section of "Evening Daily", and was deeply impressed by this handsome uniform.

The man, suspected to be a member of the Holy See, sat silently in the corner of the cabin, looking through the round glass window on the bulkhead to the sunset outside the window, as if lost in thought.

He looks a lot like a person. After a short amazement, his little brain started to work quickly, quickly searched the information database in his brain, and finally came to a conclusion - he looks a lot like her in the real world One of my favorite actresses, her acting skills are well-known, she is her idol.

The face shape and facial features are very similar, but the eyes are a little different, and his brown eyes are extra gentle because of the slightly drooping eye ends.These are a pair of eyes that look too soft, not aggressive, but with a deep tired look.

He must be very tired, but he would never miss this sunset.

Xiao Xiao sat down in front of him, completely forgetting her original intention of wanting to sit in the middle.Exuberantly curious, she observed this man calmly, boldly guessing his origin.

It should be a player who joined the Holy See. Think carefully, I don’t know which parish stronghold he is resident in. Has he been to Neverland in the Holy See headquarters?It's the cold and long polar night there now, and when you look up, you can see the overwhelming green aurora, which flows magnificently in the dark night. People who go to Neverland can easily get lost in the snowy wasteland and be frozen silently. To die in the eternal night—this is what her friend, an aurora hunter, said.

The spaceship took off, and the aircraft, which smelled of fresh paint and engine oil, took off slowly and flew towards Sunset Island across the sea.

The setting sun is shining in the west, and the setting sun is like blood. Xiao Xiao feels that this is the most veritable moment in Twilight Township.I heard that the once-twilight land was forever fixed at the moment of setting sun, there is no alternation of day and night, only the eternal setting sun slowly moves around the horizon.

That must be beautiful, I thought carefully, the never-falling sunset always gives young girls a romantic fantasy.She had imagined that in the old twilight land, she would meet her destined lover on the steel bridge in the sacred place of love. They walked hand in hand from one end of the steel bridge to the other. The setting sun would not fall, so they Won't get lost in the long dark night.

Ah, thinking too far again, Xiao Xiao pulled back her thoughts in annoyance, and once again cast her gaze on the man sitting opposite her.

The aircraft was turning in the air. Amidst the roar of the steam engine, the setting sun outside the window was refracted into the window, and fell on his face. In the sunset, his eyes were filled with stories for a moment——he seemed to be missing someone.

He must be missing someone, Xiaoxiao thought firmly, she even had an urge to insert the mind-reading skill card into the card slot, and secretly read his thoughts at this moment, but she was worried that she would be disappointed.

[Troublesome mind-reading girl] is a binding skill card she brought out from Novice Village. After equipped, she can read the other party's mental activities at that time, sometimes it is a picture, sometimes it is a text, sometimes it is simply a feeling, or a long time. Or short and very unstable.

When she first used this skill card, Xiaoxiao still felt a little guilty, and felt that she shouldn't peep into other people's hearts, but after being saved by her own curiosity many times, her moral sense was overwhelmed by this cruel The world is smooth.

Once she felt something was wrong, she immediately read her mind. She used this skill to discover many times in advance of people who were hostile to her, and also discovered a lot of other people's secrets. Later, she enjoyed it and would observe her from time to time. people.

This skill card also opened the door to a new world for Xiaoxiao, because after many experiments, she found that most people in a daze only have one thing on their minds, and this thing is yellow.

The teacher who is proctoring the exam in a daze is thinking about pornography, her classmate is thinking about pornography, the aboriginal aunty eating in the cafeteria is thinking about pornography, and the alumni who are distracted while reading in the library are also thinking about pornography.

Anyway, humans are always thinking about yellow, which makes Xiaoxiao very desperate, can't they think about something else?For example, cute kittens eat hands and so on.Or is it the nature of human beings to think about yellow whenever they have time?

What if the mysterious and melancholy handsome man in front of him is also thinking about yellow?Xiao Xiao got tangled up.

No, no, he must be thinking about something serious!

Even if it's not a serious matter, it's at least thinking about the kitten eating hands and hands.

Never mind, read it!

Xiaoxiao activated [Troublesome Mind-Reading Girl] calmly, and aimed her gaze at the target.

This time, what she read was the picture, Xiao Xiao's spirit was shaken, a deep and strange jungle appeared in front of her eyes, and a burning bonfire was burning, illuminating this dark world.And in this wilderness, there are two women wearing white sacrificial attire. They are leaning together, whispering something, their faces are blurred, and only the outline can be seen vaguely.

The brown-haired and petite girl suddenly raised her face, and gently pecked the lips of the black-haired and blue-eyed glamorous woman. The brunette blushed, and the petite brown-haired girl smiled and hugged her Sticky, she rubbed her face up to her neck and buried it in the hollow of her neck.The cold black-haired beauty stroked her back, kissed her brows and eyes again and again, and those blue eyes were full of deep tenderness.

In the silence, they hugged each other, and Xiao Xiao heard a suppressed sob and a sigh that was so low that it was almost inaudible.

The picture gradually sank into the darkness, in this slightly sad gentle tranquility, the girls clinging to each other disappeared, Xiaoxiao woke up suddenly, and looked at the man whose mind was read in horror - it was the first time she saw this kind of Scenario, she has read that many girls are thinking about pornographic pictures of men and boys when they are in a daze, but this is the first time that a male player is thinking of Lily when he is in a daze!

In the next second, Xiaoxiao seemed to be poured from head to toe by a bucket of ice water. The man who had been concentrating on watching the sunset had turned his face away at some point, and the sharp eyes hidden in his tenderness met the panicked Xiaoxiao. .

Without that slight tiredness, there is only an overly calm sobriety.

He found out!Xiao Xiao's back felt cold, and his whole body froze.

How can this be?She has tried countless times, and even used this skill on a master who has a half domain, and the mind reading ability has never been discovered by anyone!

"Hello," he said.

"Hello." Xiaoxiao resisted her panic, without showing any strangeness on her face, she answered calmly with a smile, and just rightly expressed how flattered she was to be accosted by a handsome man.

But deep down, she was experiencing the feeling of the dying cat killed by curiosity.

"You look familiar, have you been to the Twilight Land before?" he asked.

"Well, well, I've been here for a year." Xiaoxiao replied obediently, she smiled shyly, as if she was nervous because of being approached by the opposite sex.

The man also smiled gently at her: "Don't be nervous, I just think you are very kind. By the way, my surname is Qi, how about you?"

"I...my name is Xiaoxiao." Xiaoxiao cautiously said her nickname, but did not say her last name.This is what she learned in the rookie training school. Try not to announce your full name in front of strangers. Who knows if the other party has any special skill cards that are activated against their real names. Before she has a half-domain, she will not casually Say your real name.

This Mr. Qi obviously also knows this unspoken rule.

"Little?" Mr. Qi pondered for a while, as if trying to figure out the name, then he nodded knowingly, and looked out of the window again, "The sunset in Twilight Township is beautiful."

He didn't mean to pursue it?Or did he not notice it?

Xiao Xiao couldn't figure out what he was thinking, so she cooperated with him and changed the subject in trepidation: "Yes, it's beautiful. There will be fireworks tonight, so it must be beautiful too."

Tomorrow is Establishment Day, a festival established to celebrate the establishment of Twilight Land.After nightfall tonight, fireworks will start to be set off until midnight. It has been less than a year since Xiaoxiao came to Twilight Land. She has never experienced this legendary festival, and she is full of expectations for it.

"Fireworks?" Mr. Qi murmured, and suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yes, there will be grand fireworks. Have you made an appointment with your friends to watch it?"

Xiao Xiao nodded, she had already asked the classmates she met in the newcomer training school to go to the steel bridge to reserve a seat early, and she didn't want to miss the most lively firework show at zero o'clock.

Seeing that the atmosphere of the conversation gradually became more relaxed, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that Mr. Qi really didn't discover her little secret, otherwise he would never have chatted with her so peacefully.

He is very gentle and talkative. When chatting with him, Xiaoxiao felt refreshed, and soon exchanged contact information with him - through a recently produced communication device, similar to the ancient BB machine, which can only send text messages to each other, no The call function, not to mention the lack of various APPs, can’t be used after leaving the Twilight Township. Compared with the real world, technology has regressed by 30 years, but it’s better than nothing.

The aircraft has already flown to the flight altitude, and Xiaoxiao is talking about what she has seen and heard in the underground ant city with the newly met Mr. Qi with great interest, with a hint of showing off: "Last month, I had the honor to participate in the third anniversary of the Dragon Ant Queen's succession." Evening party, seeing the queen in person."

Mr. Qi nodded in surprise, and asked with concern: "How is she?"

"I heard it's very good. I just saw her from a distance. She was wearing a big skirt. I couldn't see if it was the body of the legendary dragon ant under her skirt. The demon tide has weakened in the past two years. , it is said that it is because the queen's original power of order is increasing."

Mr. Qi smiled: "She worked very hard."

There was a little weird feeling in Xiaoxiao's heart, Mr. Qi's tone seemed to be encouraging the younger generation, but Xiaoxiao immediately attributed this to his overthinking.

"However, the law and order in the underground ant city is still bad." Xiaoxiao couldn't help complaining, "I encountered several waves of demons who escaped from the gap between the two worlds. In the past three years, he has flattened half of the demon world, killing blood into rivers. The severed demon heads can pile up a doomsday mountain range, and the demon crystals dug out are enough to boil the entire Twilight Sea. Those who fled to the underground ant city The demon rebels are spreading rumors that the Destroyer Demon King should be crazy, just as crazy as the old Demon King 25 years ago."

The atmosphere turned cold all of a sudden, because Mr. Qi was silent.

After a long time, he said softly, "He's not crazy."

Xiao Xiao looked at him suspiciously.

"It's getting dark." Mr. Qi said suddenly.

Xiaoxiao looked at the sky, it was dusk, but the setting sun had not yet set on the horizon.

"People will not be able to see the road ahead." Mr. Qi whispered, "So turn on the lights..."

As if in response to his words, the wall lamp on the top of the cabin was turned on, brightening the gradually dim interior.

"In this way, people will not get lost in the dark." Mr. Qi said softly, "As long as there is light, people will always come out of the darkness and return to a place with light."

Xiao Xiao listened dazedly, and she suddenly wanted to read Mr. Qi's heart again. What was he thinking behind these words that seemed to be proverbs?

"Little." Mr. Qi's eyes suddenly changed.

Xiao Xiao immediately straightened his back and looked at him nervously.

Mr. Qi glanced at her a few meters away: "The blond man with short hair is at your four o'clock direction."

The little nerves were tense, and she glanced at it calmly. It was a blond short-haired man with two bandages on his face. The muscles in his face were slightly convulsed, as if he was chewing hard bone.

Mr. Qi said coldly: "Read his heart, now."

There was a "bang" in Xiaoxiao's brain - he really found out that she can read minds!