Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

When Zhou Qian came to the hotel before, he had already chosen a luxurious suite in advance. It was located on the top floor of the hotel and could see the entire Blue Harbor City. It was very suitable for him and Bai Zhou to sit down, drink some wine, and then Let's talk about the past seven years.

But now that stupid receptionist completely disrupted his plan.

Although the suite contains two bedrooms...but it's too crowded for six people.

What's more, judging by the foolishness of the front desk, Zhou Qian didn't want to be the one who asked everyone to leave the hotel, otherwise the front desk had slipped his mouth, wouldn't his fame be...?

It was too late and then too soon, the front desk has quickly picked up a tablet, and introduced the characteristics of the suite to everyone. He Xiaowei, Yin Dao, and Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao who just arrived were quite curious. He stepped forward and watched.

This introduction is indeed quite novel, and it is very close to the AR mode. The 3D image of the suite is directly erected on the tablet, which can make people 360 ​​degrees without any dead ends.

When he saw the house, He Xiaowei was amazed.

But the price is obviously not good, he couldn't help but said: "Hey, it's so expensive. If you convert blue Hong Kong dollars into gold coins, let me see...it's really expensive! Unless the six of us share it equally, I think it's barely worth it acceptable!"

Amidst the lively discussion, Bai Zhou didn't say a word, his gaze fell directly on Zhou Qian through three or two people.

Zhou Qian probably sensed something, and raised his eyes to meet Bai Zhou's.

It seems that no matter how noisy the world is, the eyes of the two of them can always find a way to get entangled.

After a while, Bai Zhou walked up to Zhou Qian and said in a low voice, "Let the four of them live."

Zhou Qian was thoughtful. "Oh, what about the two of us?"

Bai Zhou: "Eat first. After eating, I'll take you to a place."

Staring at Bai Zhou for a while, Zhou Qian smiled: "Brother Zhou, you have quite a lot of little secrets."

·

After 20 minutes, six people sat in the Hong Kong-style Doulao shop.

After chatting with He Xiaowei for a few words, Zhou Qian finally knew why they came here so quickly—this Doulao shop was actually 800 meters diagonally opposite the hotel.

He Xiaowei said to him with a smile: "We just found this store, so we said to go to you to see if you are satisfied and if you can do it. It's a bad coincidence, when we just left that store and had to cross the road, I ran into you and Bai Zhou going to the hotel to drive..."

Before He Xiaowei finished speaking, he was poked by Yindao's elbow.

"Master?"

Yin Dao gritted his teeth: "I remind you to pay attention to the words you use."

He Xiaowei: "?"

Zhou Qian: "..."

He Xiaowei continued to laugh.According to his personality, he can quickly warm up to anyone.But these few steps, he was quite familiar with Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao.

"Then let's adjust the ingredients!" After He Xiaowei suggested, several people stood up one after another and walked towards the sauce area.

After finding that Zhou Qian was sitting still on the chair, He Xiaowei asked him, "Hey Qianer? Are you not going? Shall I adjust it for you?"

Zhou Qian didn't answer, but just looked at Bai Zhou who was standing behind He Xiaowei.He didn't speak, just stared at people with crooked eyes and smiled, as if playing charades.

He Xiaowei was in a daze when he heard Bai Zhou ask Zhou Qian, "Is it just sand tea sauce?"

"Yeah." Zhou Qian nodded, raised his cheeks and stared at him, "Look how nostalgic I am. The taste hasn't changed for so many years."

He Xiaowei scratched his head, looked back and forth at the two of them several times. "Eh, that...?"

Yin Dao couldn't help but held his forehead, and then quickly dragged him away.

When the meal officially started, it was mainly four ordinary players who were talking and chatting.

Hidden knife pretends to be cold and doesn't speak, while Bai Zhou, who is really cold, silently helps Zhou Qian catch shrimp slips, fish slips, abalone, etc. Zhou Qian only needs to move his chopsticks and mouth during the whole process.

Qi Liuxing was educated since he was a child that he had to rely on himself for everything he could do, so sometimes he could not understand Zhou Qian's behavior.

This dislike reached its apex when he noticed that Bai Zhou fished out the crab legs, peeled off the shells with gloves on, picked out the crab meat bit by bit, and put them into Zhou Qian's bowl. Qi Liuxing shook his head : "Zhou Qian, you are not without hands."

Zhou Qian immediately put his hands behind his back, and made a big speech. "I do not have to die."

Qi Liuxing: "..."

Zhou Qian smiled: "Hiss, brother Xiao Qi, you are a minor and you still don't understand this kind of fun.

"Besides, you are just too serious. However, thanks to your traits, I was able to successfully ask you to help me pull hatred as a cover when we first met. In the future, if others play that kind of routine, you can't be fooled oh."

Qi Liuxing: "..."

"By the way." Zhou Qian asked him again, "I understand why Brother Xiaowei and Yindao went to the hotel. How about you two?"

"The two of us have been upgraded to S-level, so we came here quickly. I am very curious about Linekong City, and I want to join you...to see what the copy looks like after S-level."

Qi Liuxing said, "After we came in, it was already very late. We hadn't rested since we came out of the last dungeon, so we found a nearby hotel and said that we wanted to stay for a night and try to contact you at the same time. The hotel hit it off."

"So... why do you upgrade so quickly?" Zhou Qian asked.

Qi Liuxing said: "We picked up a double experience card."

"Isn't this a rare thing?" Zhou Qian frowned.

"Yeah, yeah." He Xiaowei couldn't help being surprised, "I thought I had shit luck at the time...ah this..."

"Picking something cheap usually means conspiracy."

At this point, Zhou Qian picked up a piece of crab leg meat, dipped it in the sauce, and turned the chopsticks, but it didn't reach his own mouth, but sent it to Bai Zhou next to him.

Bai Zhou glanced at him, opened his mouth to eat.

Zhou Qian smiled: "That's right. You want to eat some too."

Seeing this, Qi Liuxing, who was sitting across from the two of them, asked He Xiaowei next to him in a low voice: "I didn't come for just one copy. Are they dating?"

He Xiaowei: "What? In love? Who are you in love with?"

Zhou Qian has good ears, and immediately looked at Qi Liuxing with deep meaning and warning eyes.

Qi Liuxing met his gaze without fear: "At that time you told me yourself that you were 'Watching husband stone.'"

Zhou Qian: "..."

Qi Liuxing: "And in "Flowers of Evil"—"

"and many more!"

Zhou Qian stopped Qi Liuxing from talking, put down his chopsticks and picked up Bai Zhou's collar to make him look sideways at him, his movements were done in one go.

"Brother Zhou, continue the topic just now. Why did my teammates pick up such experience cards? Is there some conspiracy behind this? How much do you know about this?"

"Manual guidance, this is only one possibility." Bai Zhou said, "There is another possibility."

Zhou Qian: "What is possible?"

Bai Zhou: "The system will comprehensively evaluate all aspects of the data of the players, and target them with dungeons. You already know this. Choosing the dungeons recommended by the system will help players improve their special skills. Then, have you noticed that? , you can get a copy related to the hidden achievement every time?"

Zhou Qian thought for a while: "You mean... the system drops this kind of card for my teammates, to some extent, it is also helping me choose team members?

"No, more precisely, it's helping a lot of people pick teams. Does it want to make a... real legion? What does it want to do in the end?"

"I'll tell you some guesses about it later." Bai Zhou said, "You eat first."

"Okay." Zhou Qian let go of his hand and slid away, "The exhibition hall is really tiring. Let's not talk about that for now."

At this moment, Ke Yuxiao, who spoke relatively little, spoke again: "I'm getting familiar with the interface after the S level... There is a public information panel here, and some information will be released regularly on it, such as what dungeons are newly opened and so on , and you can also see your related comments. I just saw..."

Ke Yuxiao's tone became more serious: "Peach Red Army will double the reward for Zhou Qian."

Zhou Qian smiled: "No one in the Peach Red Army can do it, so you send someone else to be cannon fodder?"

On the way, Qi Liuxing listened to He Xiaowei's narration, and already understood what they had encountered this time. Now he thought about it for a while, and said, "I feel something is wrong. What is the plot of the Pink Army?"

"The Pink Legion has dealt with you a lot, and you should know that you are not so easy to deal with. Although they said that they used the method of offering a reward... But in fact, this kind of reward is only tempting to some members of the small army.

"A powerful legion, don't bother asking for this little money. As for the solo master, there will be more or less channels to learn about you. After all, your previous customs clearance video is open to the public. Then, in a special dungeon where you don't know what you will encounter In fact, no one dares to mess around easily. Then why..."

Qi Liuxing's meaning is very simple, this kind of reward, only those who are similar to the Invincible Legion dare to accept it.

Then, it can be said that the Pink Legion issued this kind of reward, it can be said to be completely meaningless, it seems to be just attracting cannon fodder to die in front of Zhou Qian.

"First, it may still want to test me. Second, there are so many young people who want to kill me, so things are still somewhat troublesome. It may just want to make me unhappy."

Zhou Qian asked Ke Yuxiao, "Then, does anyone still dare to accept this bounty?"

"No one has answered yet. There is a special message from a person who said—"

Ke Yuxiao stared at the panel and read, "He asked his god-level player friend, and said [137] this god-level player is usually too low-key, he does not accept apprentices, and has never taken anyone to the special achievement book Because of this, he never showed his strength to ordinary players.

"This person said that almost no one knows [137], but he is the real master. This person advises everyone not to accept this reward."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian laughed again. He looked at Bai Zhou and said, "Let me just say, Brother Zhou is my mascot. Besides, we have two god-level players here!"

·

In a box in the virtual game hall.

The door opened, and the senior gamblers who had bet on Zhou Qian were leaving contentedly.

Based on the protection of the player's privacy, some content in the game dungeon is of course not broadcast in real time, such as when the player is taking a shower.

For such a semi-open large dungeon venue in Linekong City, the system does not provide the broadcast function.

As a result, Zhou Qian did not enter the dungeon for the time being, and the high-level gamblers also got a chance to relax.

In the corner of the box, the pastor smoked a cigarette slowly, and when the cigarette was exhausted, the surrounding area was already empty.

He got up and left the box, and saw the same sparsely populated hall.

After wandering his eyes for a week, he looked at the most corner position——

There was a person sitting there motionless, looking carefully, his body was trembling a little.

He sat here for a long time, unable to get up because he had lost all strength.

At this time he heard a voice.

"Do you think it's unfair? You've already paid a lot. You've spent a lot of money, energy, and research, and obtained countless off-site information, trying to help Wen Bin win...

"But he lost, and you also lost, completely lost. On the other hand, Zhou Qian's high-level gamblers...they just followed the right people and won money easily without doing anything?"

This is exactly the voice of the priest.

While looking at the man's expression, he continued: "The money they won happened to come from you losers. It's even more unfair to think about it this way. Isn't it?"

"You...you are from the Pink Legion?" The man looked up at the pastor, "What do you want me to do?"

The pastor said: "Through your performance, I think you are a malleable talent, nothing more.

"Actually, this game is like this. It's too illusory to pin the victory on other people. Come on, join the pink army, and I will train you myself."

"In order to pay off the debt... it seems that this is the only way I can go. But I still have questions to ask you." He said.

"You ask." The pastor's expression was very kind.

The man asked: "Could it be that Zhou Qian's gamblers can always win?"

The pastor smiled: "There is no permanent winner in this world. The difference is that you fall earlier or later. But experience usually tells us that the higher a person climbs, the harder he falls.

"Zhou Qian will be like this. His gamblers will be like this too."

"But what if there is a contingency? If Zhou Qian keeps winning, will his gamblers win without breaking a sweat?" The man clenched his fists, "As you said, it's not fair!"

"If you think like this, then you are underestimating people's hearts." The pastor said, "Human greed is endless."

"what do you mean……"

"Before the S level, the player only had one gambler. At that time, all the bonuses belonged to the gambler alone. But after reaching the S level, the total bonus will decrease, but more and more people who want to become Zhou Qian's gambler There are too many. If you are one of them, are you willing to divide up what belongs to you... "

Seeing the man's reaction, the pastor smiled: "Just wait and see how they perish together."

·

Blue Harbor City 2301.

He Xiaowei and his party went to the hotel.

Zhou Qian ignored Qi Liuxing's suspicious eyes, and just followed Bai Zhou to the beach.

After the two walked around the deep blue sea for more than ten minutes, Zhou Qian asked Bai Zhou: "So, where are you taking me?"

Bai Zhou looked straight ahead, and his tone of reply seemed quite gentle. "I told you that I came to Blue Harbor City before and went to the auction house to buy things."

"Yeah." Zhou Qian looked at him, "So what did you buy?"

"Here we are." Bai Zhou lifted his chin forward.

Zhou Qian looked up and saw a small two-story bungalow by the sea.

"You have a house?"

Zhou Qian strode forward, stopped in front of the weird door, turned his head and asked Bai Zhou with a smile, "How do you open this door?"

Bai Zhou came over and said, "I'll take you to record your fingerprints first."

Afterwards, Bai Zhou pressed Zhou Qian's index finger on the system panel of the door lock, and after repeating it three times, the fingerprint entry was considered complete.

Walking into the living room, the two changed their shoes. Bai Zhou showed Zhou Qian around the whole house, and finally led him into the master bedroom, and brought him a set of clean clothes and bath towels.

"You sleep here at night. I sleep in the next room. Before going to bed, do you want to take a shower? Shall I make you a glass of milk?"

Zhou Qian was not in a hurry to take a shower, he pointed to the clothes in Bai Zhou's hand, and asked, "These are all my size? How long ago did you get them ready?"

Bai Zhou said: "Thought that you might use it one day. But I'm not sure if it's the right size. I prepared it on guesswork. You try it first. If it doesn't fit, I'll buy it for you."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian looked thoughtfully at the clothes in front of him, and finally took them all over and held them in his hands.

After that, his expression was a little serious. "Brother Zhou, I want to drink after I take a shower."

Bai Zhou nodded: "Okay. Drink less. Red wine?"

Zhou Qian said: "Yes. Let's have some wine and chat?"

"Okay." Bai Zhou nodded again.

In this way, Zhou Qian took a shower upstairs, and Bai Zhou went downstairs to take a shower, and then the two of them climbed the small stairs together and went up to the roof through the skylight.

The view from the roof is very good, and you can see the neon-covered sea unique to Blue Harbor City and the colorful sky.

Zhou Qian likes this noisy color, it makes him feel happy.

Taking a sip of his wine, Zhou Qian turned his head, and Bai Zhou was putting a small coat on him.

Zhou Qian narrowed his eyes and said, "Brother Zhou, sometimes I think you are quite romantic, such as now. Sometimes I think you don't understand anything."

Bai Zhou smiled faintly, didn't say anything, just helped him to tighten his clothes, and then took a sip from his wine glass.

Zhou Qian turned his head and looked at the sea not far away.

The sea breeze blew over his cheeks, and it seemed that his tone was a little salty.

"A lot of times I don't know what you're thinking."

Zhou Qian pulled the white shirt he was wearing, and said, "Like this dress. You prepared them in advance because you knew I would come to this game?

"In reality, when I was poisoned by gas, you saved me? I was sure I saw a dragon that night. In fact, I became more and more suspicious of one thing..."

Picking up the red wine glass and taking another sip, Zhou Qian said, "Did I die at that time? Did you, as a god...resurrect me? But what price will you pay?"

Putting down the wine glass, Zhou Qian turned his head to the side, tilted his head slightly, and asked Bai Zhou: "Who is the god in this game?"

Bai Zhou was silent for a moment, and said to Zhou Qian, "Your father is a gambler in this game."

Zhou Qian nodded: "Well, I guessed it."

Bai Zhou said: "He lost a bet in the game, and he wanted to make money back through gambling in the real world, but he lost even more. When I learned about this, I found out that someone asked your father to kill you. If he kills you You were given money to pay all your debts. Your father failed, so he himself was executed."

"So, who is trying to kill me all this time?"

Zhou Qian frowned, "I still don't know the motive of the Pink Army."

"I think in a sense, this game has chosen you. Or... chosen you and me. It's like some kind of inescapable fate for you and me.

"But some people don't want us to have this kind of 'fate'. Anyway, I have some guesses. We can verify it together in the future. Speaking of that night——"

Bai Zhou said, "My level of apotheosis is already very high. At that time, I already had the ability to transform into a dragon in reality. So I rushed over after receiving the news in time. It was indeed me you saw that night.

"But I just took you out of the room in time. I don't have the ability to bring people back from the dead, at least not now and then, so you never died."

"Because I forcibly transformed into a dragon form in reality, I consumed a lot of mental power. After that, you stayed in a mental hospital for eight months, and I lay there for almost eight months, and I couldn't enter any instance. Unlike you, We do not have a time limit for dungeons.

"I'm just sorry, after I took you out of the room, I was unable to maintain the dragon form, so I had to leave, and I didn't have time to save your mother."

Zhou Qian shook his head, and asked again: "You lay down for eight months...so the dragon I saw later wasn't you?"

Bai Zhou asked instead: "You mean, you saw a dragon in Chunshan Mental Hospital?"

"Yes. I've seen it many times." Zhou Qian said, "It's what led me into the game."

"That's not me." Bai Zhou said, "If possible, I certainly don't want you to come in. It's just from the incident with your father, I have a feeling that the game has chosen you. So..."

Zhou Qian smiled.

Probably because he got the answer he wanted, at this moment his smile seemed a little relieved.

Looking sideways at Bai Zhou, he said, "So you bought this house and prepared clothes for me? Brother Zhou..."

"Ok?"

Zhou Qian was rarely serious. "When I was young, I said some naive and hurtful things. Don't take it seriously, don't take it to your heart. What about buying a house... At that time, I just deliberately provoke you. I didn't expect..."

"Bai Zhou, so what if your grades are good? You will never be able to afford a house like mine."

"Brother Zhou, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that that day. You will buy many, many big houses like that."

……

Thinking about it now, no matter which of these two sentences it is, maybe it is the same burden for Bai Zhou, right?

——He was locked up and couldn't buy a house in the real world, but in the spiritual home, he still remembered it and did it, as if he wanted to prove it to someone.

Before he knew it, Zhou Qian put down his wine glass, lay down directly, and looked at the colorful clouds and stars in the night sky.

After a while, Zhou Qian spoke in a low voice, and finally asked the thing he cared about the most. "Brother Zhou, why... seven years ago, you left without saying goodbye and transferred to another school?"

When asking this question, Zhou Qian didn't look at Bai Zhou, but just stared at the night sky.

But his ears were pricked up, clearly paying attention to every breath of Bai Zhou's side.

Bai Zhou said: "On the day I got the diagnosis result, I sat alone in the park behind the hospital for a long time. A person appeared and asked me to participate in an experiment related to the gene reversion plan. Promised me to recover in a few months. I said yes and signed a non-disclosure agreement."

"I see. You think that after a few months, you will be able to pretend that nothing happened and appear in front of me alive and kicking."

While Zhou Qian spoke in a low voice, he suddenly realized something.

He always said in front of Bai Zhou - Bai Zhou is a perfect person.

But it turns out that such words are actually a burden for Bai Zhou.

Especially at that time, Ming Bai Zhou was also very young.In fact, he is also at an age where he needs to be guided.

But probably at that time, he seemed to be too dependent on him, causing him to think that he could only be a dependent character, and he should not rely on others in turn—

At that time, Bai Zhou didn't dare to show his fragility and embarrassment to himself.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhou Qian finally confirmed one thing - Bai Zhou agreed to sign the confidentiality agreement and participate in the experiment, not because he was not afraid of death, nor because he was young and ignorant.

Even if he knew that his hope of survival was slim, even if he knew how absurd the so-called "genetic atavism experiment" sounded, he would still go there resolutely.

It's just because even if he dies, he doesn't want to be seen by him with shrunken limbs, unable to move, become a cripple, and finally die unbearably.

Of course, maybe not entirely because of myself.

Bai Zhou's parents also have big problems.

His mother had missed out on promotions because she was pregnant with him, so she kept complaining about him.Because of his busy schedule, his father didn't seem to pay enough attention to him.

In short, maybe Bai Zhou at that time felt that his parents could not accept him who was not perfect.

They couldn't accept that their son, whom they had placed high hopes on, would become a patient with gradual frostbite, and they would have to rely on them to support him for the rest of his life, becoming their eternal burden.

Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou, they are both children who are not loved by their parents.They all have psychological trauma brought about by their families of origin.It's just that their personalities have been pushed to two completely different extremes by the trauma.

At this moment, Zhou Qian couldn't help but think that Bai Zhou had his paranoia, and he put layers of shackles on himself.But he has no idea what the real him is in my heart.

There are some things... Maybe he really doesn't understand.

He has been fulfilling his supposed responsibility and protection in a clumsy and stubborn way.But he didn't understand anything at all.

Zhou Qian's hands were tightly clenched, and it took a long time before he let go.

The starry sky suddenly became blurred, and then he closed his eyes as a cover-up.

Bai Zhou seemed to have noticed something.He said, "Zhou Qian, when I chose to participate in this experiment, I never thought of dying. I was always fighting for my own life. I never thought that I would abandon you. At that time, I—"

"It's okay. Brother Zhou, I understand." Zhou Qian closed his eyes and said, "Through the past few days of getting along, and the conversation tonight... I completely understand, and I won't be angry with you anymore. "

"Zhou Qian..."

"I'm tired and want to sleep here for a while."

"Okay. Then you go to sleep."

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Qian's breathing became longer, and Bai Zhou knew that he had fallen asleep.

The night was getting darker, and the sea was windy.

Fearing that Zhou Qian would catch a cold, Bai Zhou finally carried him downstairs, carried him into the master bedroom, and put him gently on the bed.

After covering Zhou Qian with the quilt and covering his body tightly, Bai Zhou got up and went to the door of the master bedroom to turn off the light, and then went to the corridor.

Bai Zhou didn't know that Zhou Qian, who was pretending to be sleeping, clenched and then loosened his hands under the quilt.

After standing quietly in the corridor for a while, Bai Zhou walked into the room again, and then sat on the chair beside the bed.

The white light coming in from the corridor lightly illuminated half of Zhou Qian's face, and at the same time made Bai Zhou's silhouette sitting on the sofa very long.

It took a long time for this silhouette to finally move——

Bai Zhou leaned forward, raised his palm and stroked Zhou Qian's forehead slightly, brushing away the broken hair there.Afterwards, he lowered his head cautiously, and gently kissed that smooth forehead.

After a shallow kiss, Bai Zhou got up to leave, but the moment he turned around, a hand reached out from under the quilt and grabbed his wrist.

Bai Zhou stood still, and after a while, he heard Zhou Qian asking himself: "Did you do the same thing as before when you transformed into a dragon in "The Bucket List"?"

The night was dark.

Zhou Qian's tone was almost provocative.

Immediately afterwards, he asked again: "Brother Zhou, in what name should I live in your house? Brother, friend, old classmate, or...something else?"