Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Across the street not far away, the traffic lights changed again.

Zhou Qian lowered his head and saw that the color of the flyer in front of him also changed.

He took the leaflet casually, and looked up again, only to see that the person who distributed the leaflet was very short in stature. He was wearing a loose colorful dress and a skull mask, and he could not distinguish between men and women.

Seeing Zhou Qian accepting the leaflet, he raised his hand and bowed, as if to express his gratitude.Then he turned and left, disappearing into the colorful Blue Harbor City.

Zhou Qian lowered his head, glanced at the bloody flyer again, and put it away casually.

Then he opened the system panel and sent [137] his location.

After that, Zhou Qian quickly left the crossroads and followed the previously optimistic route to "My Most Beautiful Clothing Styling Store".

The store that runs here is not an NPC, but a player, and expressed a warm welcome to Zhou Qian's arrival.

Under his warm hospitality, Zhou Qian bought a "one-click hair color change" prop in the store and successfully dyed his hair silver.Of course, this is not pure silver, but also has some pink, purple, blue highlights.

This is a very exaggerated hair color, but when it is placed on Zhou Qian, it makes him feel a little "tearing man".

Being in such a colorful city, this hair is even more unobtrusive, it just makes Zhou Qian look good.

This is not over yet, Zhou Qian also changed his clothes.He put on a large white Japanese-style robe, and then the store used "colorful" props, as if the robe had been splashed with paint of many different colors, and the colors were dazzling.

In the end, under the strong recommendation of the shopkeeper, Zhou Qian put two studs and an earring on his left ear.

None of these three nails were placed on the earlobe, but a row of nails along his ear bones, which shone silver under the light, which seemed to complement his hair quite a bit.

In this way, after dressing up and buying a mask that can cover half of his face and putting it on, Zhou Qian left the store very satisfied.

When he returned to the street, he naturally blended into this city with a special style.

Zhou Qian did not go back to the intersection he agreed with [137], but wore a mask and went to a tea restaurant diagonally opposite the intersection.

The signboard of the tea restaurant is composed of strange green and pink, together with other kinds of shiny signs, it constitutes the colorfulness of the city.

Zhou Qian went directly to the second floor of the tea restaurant, ordered a cup of the same colorful and weird drink, and found a seat by the window to sit down.

After that, he took off his mask, took out his binoculars, and looked at the intersection.

——Since the first year of high school, Zhou Qian hasn't seen him for 7 years.what does he look like now

——Is that him with the peaked cap?Hiss, it seems not.

The traffic lights changed alternately, and pedestrians came and went. What remained unchanged during this period was Zhou Qian holding up his binoculars.

While looking for Bai Zhou with the help of a telescope, Zhou Qian remembered the call he received three days ago.

It was Situ Qing calling.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Qian asked her at the time.

"I have Mu Sheng's whereabouts." Situ Qing said.

At that moment, Zhou Qian subconsciously glanced in the direction of the X area of ​​the hospital, and asked again: "How to say?"

Situ Qing said: "He is dead."

According to Situ Qing, after she left "Flower of Evil", she began to look for a house again.

She planned to return the rental house that she lived with Mu Sheng in the past, as a complete farewell to that terrible past.

Just when she found the house and was about to move, she accidentally saw Situ Xue and Mu Sheng's father in front of the apartment building where the rental house was located.

The moment she saw Situ Qing, Situ Xue's eyes immediately turned red, and she wiped away her tears as she walked towards her daughter.

Mu Sheng's father didn't move, he just stood beside the car smoking a cigarette, looking gloomy.

Situ Qing didn't know if it was because she hadn't seen these two for so long, they seemed to have aged several decades.

Situ Qing's state of mind has completely changed since experiencing the fantasy dream that Zhou Qian let her see.

At that moment, she couldn't tell what she felt, but she didn't seem sad, as if everything in front of her had nothing to do with her.

Situ Xue walked up to Situ Qing and hugged her, and said sorry several times.

After that, Situ Qing heard her mother speak indifferently, and explained incoherently: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It's not that I don't want to come to see you after all these years. It was Mu Sheng who threatened me. He said that if I saw you, he would definitely kill me. You. I'm sorry. I—”

Hearing the word "Mu Sheng", Situ Qing instinctively frowned.

Immediately she thought of one thing - if my mother really wanted to take me away, it would be simple, she would leave Mu Sheng's father and take herself to live in another city.After all, she was reluctant to part with her life.

Suddenly realizing that she had become smarter, Situ Qing took a few steps back to avoid her mother's embrace. "Make room, please. I'm moving."

Faced with his daughter's alienation, Situ Xue was stunned.

Seeing this, Mu Sheng's father sighed deeply, and walked over with a tired face. "We came here to inform you that we have received news of Mu Sheng's death. He is already dead. I have been preparing for his funeral recently..."

Afterwards, Situ Qing felt that Mu Sheng's death was very strange, so she called Zhou Qian.

After Zhou Qian finished talking with her, he immediately went to Li Xuehai and asked him if there were any new recruits in District X recently.

Li Xuehai went to inquire, and told Zhou Qian yesterday: "Yes. Indeed, there is a new one. It is said that his surname is Mu. I can see his basic information in the hospital system, but I don't know more specifics. But -"

"But what?" Zhou Qian asked.

"A familiar nurse saw him over there, and said that he had no legs. His legs were sawed off." Li Xuehai said.

Now about Mu Sheng, there is an obvious fact - Mu Sheng "deceived his death".

Who did it and how it was done is unknown.

But the fact that is now on the surface is that Mu Sheng's relatives and friends all thought he was dead, and they could see the so-called "corpse" of him.But he actually went to Block X of Spring Hill Mental Hospital.

In addition, regarding Mu Sheng's previous situation, Zhou Qian heard from Situ Qing that he did not have his limb amputated, but he injured a nerve on his spine, so he couldn't stand up and walk.

But now according to the information provided by Li Xuehai, when he entered Area X, Mu Sheng was completely legless.

What's going on here?

So……

Will Bai Zhou's situation be the same as his?

Parts of his body remained in reality, burned to a white powder in the urn.

But what about the other part of his torso, in Area X?

What exactly is wrapped in the bondage garment?

If Bai Zhou is like this...

The him in the game may not be exactly the same as him in reality?

If Bai Zhou is complete in reality, he will always stay at the age of 16 or 7.

What about him in the game?

While thinking this way, Zhou Qian looked at the intersection through the binoculars, and saw a person appearing in the colorful neon lights.

He was wearing the simplest off-white casual long shirt, with clean short hair, and a tall, thin but strong body.

Dressed up like this, he should have looked simple and refreshing, but he became a different kind in this world, so that he immediately attracted Zhou Qian's attention.

Pulling the binoculars in and aiming at his facial features, Zhou Qian immediately saw familiar but unfamiliar facial features.

The distance between his eyes is slightly wider than Zhou Qian's impression, the contours of his eyes are sharper, the roots of the mountains are taller and straighter, the bridge of his nose has become more erect, and his lips... um, the lips seem to be thinner?

In any case, at this moment, Zhou Qian has thoroughly confirmed one thing——

He is Bai Zhou.

After carefully staring at the person's facial features for a long time, Zhou Qian zoomed out the binoculars again, moved his gaze down little by little, and looked at him carefully from head to toe, and then zoomed out the camera even further, looking To the situation of the whole intersection.

The traffic lights at the intersection are still changing and flashing, the streets are noisy, and the crowds are colorful.

In that noisy dynamic picture, the only quiet one is Bai Zhou.

Zhou Qian stared at people non-stop, and noticed that Bai Zhou was looking around from time to time, as if he was looking for someone.

But he didn't seem to be in a hurry, and he didn't leave the intersection.

He just waited for a while, then raised his left wrist, as if opening the system panel to operate something.

During this period, when countless people passed the intersection, they raised their wrist watches to point at him, and then couldn't help but stop, stare at him and whisper to each other, probably because they didn't expect to meet a god-level player here.

Zhou Qian's wrist soon felt a vibration, but he did not enter the system to watch.

He just continued to hold up his binoculars, staring at Bai Zhou at the intersection.

After a while, Zhou Qian saw a prickly man in a sweatshirt approaching Bai Zhou.

The two were obviously quite familiar with each other, and immediately exchanged a few words.

Then the thorny man looked around, as if he was looking for someone.

Zhou Qian frowned, wondering who the thorn was, when he felt someone pat on the shoulder.

Then a familiar voice came over——

"Oh Qian'er! You are here, Qian'er! We meet again!"

Zhou Qian turned his head in surprise, and he saw He Xiaowei.

"you……"

Zhou Qian realized something, and before he could stop him, he saw He Xiaowei stepping forward and pushing open the window, facing the intersection not far away, shouting at a super high decibel: "Hello! Master! I am! Ah!! I'm here! Hahaha, guess who I found?! Qianer?! Qianer is also there!"

Zhou Qian: "..."

—Do you dare to shout any louder?

Then, before the people at the intersection looked towards the tea restaurant, Zhou Qian quickly did two things - first, put the binoculars in his bag; second, put his mask back on.

Seeing Zhou Qian's movements, He Xiaowei asked in surprise, "What are you doing? Playing cosplay?"

Glancing at the food in his hand, Zhou Qian gritted his teeth: "Go eat your food!"

After saying this, Zhou Qian under the mask glanced at the intersection not far away, and saw Bai Zhou looking over.

Seven years later, in a world of strange dreams, separated by a mask, flickering neon lights, and colorful lights, the two finally met each other in a real sense.

Looking at Bai Zhou in front of him, Zhou Qian's memory instantly returned to the evening after school seven years ago.

Bai Zhou said "goodbye" to him, and then left without looking back.

The tall and straight figure of the young man disappeared into the dim sycamore path, which was Zhou Qian's last memory of him.

In the dim alleyway, every yellow and fallen leaf on the ground and in the sky represents parting. They swayed with time and sent Bai Zhou to a place that Zhou Qian could never reach.

Since then, life and death have been separated between them, separated by an unattainable distance.

Until this moment, the dim yellow hue in the memory has finally turned into the dreamlike colorful colors in front of my eyes.

And Bai Zhou was passing through this colorful area... walking towards Zhou Qian step by step.

It was as if they had experienced parting from life and death in reality, and finally reunited in some unknown world at this moment.

·

5 minute later.

Zhou Qian, Bai Zhou, He Xiaowei, and Yindao sat together at a dining table on the second floor of the tea restaurant.

Zhou Qian and He Xiaowei sat side by side in a row, opposite him was Yindao, and diagonally opposite was Bai Zhou.

When the four of them ate at the same table, all three of them were silent, only He Xiaowei was left chattering.

"I'm really lucky. I got the double experience card that I don't see in a century! Hahahaha, otherwise, how could I come to the legendary Blue Harbor City so quickly!"

"Hey Qian'er, what's the matter with your hair? You still wear a mask, who are you cosplaying?"

"You are so silent today, unlike you!"

Probably because Zhou Qian ignored him, He Xiaowei cleared his throat, and carefully looked at the two god-level players opposite.

He blinked, looked at Yindao first, and said in a flattering tone: "Well, master... hehe, thank you for taking me to brush the book yourself! The one next to you is..."

Yindao frowned, pretending to be serious, put on airs of a master and scolded: "Don't ask me!"

"Yes yes yes." He Xiaowei nodded quickly, and secretly looked at the god-level player directly opposite him.

He doesn't know his name yet, only his code name [137].

Hiss... This person is better than others, really maddening, why does this person look better than idol stars?

He Xiaowei sighed secretly, and found that [137] seemed very cold.He didn't show any expression or speak, but just stared at Zhou Qian next to him.

Huh?Why does he always look at Zhou Qian?

Okay, I get it now.He also thinks Zhou Qian's dress is strange!

right.This must be the reason.definitely!

Let me just say, there is definitely something wrong with Zhou Qian's aesthetics.

If he hadn't had such a face, he would have been Sha Matt who danced awkwardly at the entrance of the village all the year round.

But He Xiaowei never dared to say these words.

He just followed Bai Zhou's gaze and looked at Zhou Qian who was beside him.

He couldn't help but sigh again, Zhou Qian is really weird today.

——He stared down at the colorful drinks in front of him without saying a word, and his only movement was to stir the ice cubes with the straw.

What's the fun with ice cubes?

For some reason, He Xiaowei felt that the atmosphere at the dinner table was extremely weird.

He had no choice but to find something to say: "Oh, haha, this pan-fried bun is delicious! Qian'er, do you want to eat it?"

Zhou Qian still just stared at the ice cubes in the drink. "I don't eat fried food."

"Ah? This is not fried, right? But you are too particular. By the way, haha——"

He Xiaowei coughed a few times in embarrassment, then looked at Yin Daodao again, "I came here to order food at the restaurant on the second floor, and saw a familiar figure from the back. I thought to myself, no, no, it can't be Qian'er Right? Haha, how did the two of us meet by chance in such a vast sea of ​​people?

"Hey, I went up and patted him, I didn't expect it! I didn't expect it to be Qian'er!"

"Qian'er and I are not only destined, but also brotherly! He is dressed like this, and I recognized him at a glance!

"Speaking of which, he didn't know why at the time, he was holding a telescope by the window—ah, it hurts——!"

He Xiaowei's shouts immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the restaurant.

He hurriedly put his hands together and apologized to the others with a smile and said sorry, then looked at Zhou Qian aggrievedly: "Why are you pinching me?"

"Because you talk too much." Zhou Qian picked up a fried bun and stuffed it into his mouth, "Eat your bun!"

He Xiaowei complained in a low voice: "Qian'er, your temper is really getting weirder."

"How can there be?" Zhou Qian hooked his neck, narrowed his eyes, and said in a threatening tone, "My dear little Viagra, I was concerned about your lack of food—"

Before Zhou Qian finished speaking, he heard Bai Zhou's voice diagonally opposite. "Zhou Qian?"

Zhou Qian blinked his eyes, didn't look over, just stared at He Xiaowei's face, and said "huh?" to Bai Zhou.

"Go somewhere with me?" Bai Zhou asked again.

Zhou Qian let go of He Xiaowei's neck, and finally turned his head to look diagonally opposite.

This was the second time he met Bai Zhou's eyes after such a long time.

Zhou Qian asked him, "Where are you going?"

"Follow me." Bai Zhou stood up straight away.

Zhou Qian looked at him for a while, and finally lifted his chin in the direction of the stairs. "Then you lead the way."

Blinking his eyes a few times, He Xiaowei watched Bai Zhou and Zhou Qian leave one after another, and then he looked at Yin Dao in a daze. "Master, what's the matter?"

Yin Daoxin said you ask me, who am I asking, on the surface, he continued to put on a serious look. "Don't ask if you shouldn't!"

He Xiaowei: "..."

·

Zhou Qian followed Bai Zhou downstairs, walked out of the tea restaurant, walked into an alley, and walked to the end of the alley.

The light in the alley gradually faded, and when it reached the end, it was bright again—not far away was a deep blue sea.

Along the sandy beach, Zhou Qian followed Bai Zhou all the way to the beach.

The sky was still colorful and full of noise.But this beach is deserted, and there is a rare tranquility.

Zhou Qian followed Bai Zhou for a long way here, and his complicated mood finally calmed down slowly.

It was as if all his impetuousness had dissipated in this place.

During the whole process, Zhou Qian did not stand side by side with Bai Zhou.

In a way of always being half a step behind Bai Zhou, he followed him back and forth along the road to the beach twice, and then saw Bai Zhou stop, turned his head, and looked at himself.

Zhou Qian raised his head and met Bai Zhou's gaze for the third time.

He saw that Bai Zhou's dark eyes seemed to be stained with the blue of the sea, making them look particularly deep.

At the same time, his eyes were gentle, as gentle as ever.It was as if they had never been apart for seven years.

Immediately Zhou Qian heard Bai Zhou asking himself: "Why are you wearing a mask?"

Zhou Qian smiled and asked, "You are only allowed to wear a vest? Don't let me dress up?"

Hearing this, Bai Zhou also laughed.He glanced over Zhou Qian's hair, earrings, and earrings one by one, and then turned to face the deep blue sea, without speaking for a moment.

Instead, Zhou Qian stepped forward, sat down on a rock on the shore, and asked, "It seems that you are familiar with this place?"

"It's okay. I've been here a few times." Bai Zhou said.

"Oh?" Zhou Qian asked him, "Who are you going to test with?"

Bai Zhou: "I haven't been to the trial edition, I just go to the auction house occasionally. Sometimes I can find good items there."

Zhou Qian nodded: "Oh."

Afterwards, both of them watched the sea silently for a long time, and no one made a sound for a while.

"Swish..."

Wave after wave swept in and patted the beach gently.

There is no star and no moon in this world, and the blue sea water is covered with hazy multicolored colors. The waves slap the water on the beach, and then return to the sea with the sand, and then flow into the distance.

After a long time, Bai Zhou looked sideways at Zhou Qian and said softly, "I thought you would have a lot of questions to ask me."

"There are quite a lot." Zhou Qian said, "It's just that after seeing you, I suddenly don't know where to ask."

"Ask anywhere."

"Whatever... Well, let me think about it..."

Where would he ask?

Why leave without saying goodbye?Why did you suddenly disappear?Why "dead" in reality?Why hide your identity in the game?When did I come to this game?What exactly is a god-level player?

……

Unknowingly, Bai Zhou's expression became a little serious.

Immediately, he saw Zhou Qian get up suddenly and walk in front of him.

From a very close distance, Zhou Qian looked into Bai Zhou's eyes again through a mask.

Then he smiled and asked, "I want to ask - how does it feel to wear a small skirt? Is it fun?"

It seemed that he was slightly taken aback, and then Bai Zhou's tense expression relaxed, and he smiled lightly.

Staring at Zhou Qian's clear eyes close at hand, Bai Zhou raised his hand, and the tip of his slender index finger lightly touched the mask on Zhou Qian's face.

"Can I pick it?"

After a while, Bai Zhou asked him softly.

Zhou Qian didn't answer, but took half a step back with a smile, sideways avoiding Bai Zhou's fingers.

Staring at Bai Zhou, when Zhou Qian was about to say something, he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, and his expression suddenly changed.

Because Zhou Qian was wearing a mask, Bai Zhou couldn't see his expression, but he could immediately see something from his sharp eyes.

Bai Zhou quickly turned his head and looked behind him.

Where Zhou Qian couldn't see, his eyes suddenly showed extreme indifference and coldness.

Quickly holding the God's Rib in his hand, Zhou Qian frowned and took two steps forward, seeing dozens of people in strange costumes walking towards him, each with a powerful murderous aura.

"What's the situation?" Zhou Qian asked Bai Zhou in a low voice, "Do you know?"

Before Bai Zhou could answer, a bald man at the head of the crowd raised his voice: "The secret order of rewards in Jianghu was issued by the Taohong Army. Hey...you are Zhou Qian? Why are you so valuable with your small body?"

Next to the bald man is a man with long hair.His hair is long and thick, and it is wrapped around his waist. It is greasy and looks very annoying.

I just heard him say: "Dare to come to the semi-open dungeon after getting the reward order hahaha, you are so brave! Hey, I was bumped into by people from Blue Harbor City! We are lucky!"

The bald man and the hairy man seemed to be the leaders of this small gang, and their followers were behind them.

At this moment, one of the attendants said: "The one next to Zhou Qian is a god-level player. However, it seems that this god-level player was blocked by the Pink Army, so why didn't you see the reward order issued by his family? "

Another follower said: "Hey, this god-level player is called 137? Hey, I have never heard of this person. He should be a very low-key god-level player? I will ask the god-level player I know to find out what he is like. origin?!"

"Don't waste your time! Who cares where he came from?!" The bald headed man said, "Here, their abilities will be greatly weakened, which is the level of ordinary S-level, so, what are you afraid of? Brothers, let's go together!" Go! Take Zhou Qian's life and go to the Taohong Army to receive the reward!"

"Brother Zhou—"

Seeing a group of people with malicious intentions approaching him, Zhou Qian was not afraid at all.

Thinking of something funny, he glanced sideways at Bai Zhou, narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile, "Is it all right?"

Afterwards, a simple and unremarkable Tang knife appeared from the void, and Bai Zhou quickly held it in his palm.

Bai Zhou glanced at the mob indifferently, and when he turned his head to Zhou Qian, his eyes became gentle again. "Get behind me."

As soon as Bai Zhou finished speaking, there was a rustling sound, and the sand grains in the beach in front of him rose up one after another, glowing strangely under the refraction of the colorful sky, it was actually countless snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling over!

This must be the skill of someone in the group.I'm afraid these things are all highly poisonous.

Suddenly, the Tang Dao, which was as frosty as the moonlight, was raised upwards, which was Bai Zhou's move.

Suddenly, his wrist holding the knife was held down.

Turning his head sideways, Bai Zhou looked at Zhou Qian.

Zhou Qian smiled and shook his head at him: "We don't fight."

Bai Zhouren Zhouqian took his wrist and led him back a step. "What do you want?"

"Go play them to death in the dungeon." Zhou Qian blinked at Bai Zhou, and immediately took out a mirror with his right hand, "Let's go."

·

On the beach, the frost-cold and sharp Tang Dao had just been sacrificed, and the bald man and Fa Duo Nan were about to concentrate on dealing with it, when a mirror slipped by, and the two figures standing side by side on the beach disappeared.

Behind the two, the followers immediately mocked the two of them one after another.

"Damn it, the god-level players actually ran away, hahaha! Fuck you in your lifetime! Sure enough, you don't need to be afraid of them!"

"Why did the Pink Legion go to such lengths to offer rewards for killing people? Zhou Qian is such a coward!"

"Where did they escape? The mirror can make them run 500 meters!"

"Let me take a look at the dungeons that are open today... Ah, the one that is closest to here and can be opened to new S-level players like him is "Murder Exhibition"!"

"Fuck, he won't go there, right? I heard that countless people have died in this book recently!"

"Hahahaha, that's a good show!"

"That's it... shall we still chase? Or wait for them to come out?"

"Ahem, Boss—" A follower looked at the bald head, "Are we going to "Murder Exhibition" to continue hunting?"

"What? Are you scared?" The bald man looked at them with a sneer.

A follower reminded: "But... this, this book, we heard that it is very evil."

The long-haired man said: "Our 'Invincible Legion' has just been established, and we have received a bounty in front of everyone. If we can't win this battle, how embarrassing? Let's go! Let's enter the "Murder Exhibition" together! I still don't believe it!"

The bald man echoed: "That's right! Let's go! Afraid of a hammer! Don't go in and kill them, wait until they finish brushing the dungeon and upgrade? Let's go, go now!"

·

the other side.After Zhou Qian pulled Bai Zhou to leave the beach by borrowing the [Great Shifting Mirror of the Universe], he immediately pulled him to run, and went straight to the homicide exhibition hall.

There is a large yard outside the exhibition hall. The yard is very large. There are a few cars parked sporadically inside. The cars are parked irregularly and crookedly.

When Zhou Qian took Bai Zhou to the gate of the courtyard, he met an old man guarding the gate.

The old man was gray-haired and dressed in a gray cloth, it was rare that he wasn't dressed in colorful clothes.

He had a very gloomy air about him.After glancing at Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou, his wrinkled face suddenly showed an extremely weird expression.

"Do you really want to go in?" The old man asked with a strange smile. "If you want to go in, you need to spend 50 gold coins to buy a ticket. Swiping the ticket to enter the exhibition hall means officially entering the sub-dungeon."

"Go in." Zhou Qian said decisively.

"Okay." The old man handed over two tickets, and the moment Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou reached out to take them, their systems automatically deducted 50 gold coins.

Zhou Qian checked the system, exchanged a glance with Bai Zhou, then entered the courtyard gate with him, and walked towards the gate of the exhibition hall.

When approaching the entrance of the exhibition hall, Zhou Qian suddenly heard a scream, and immediately saw three girls running out.

Zhou Qian read the news through the system panel and found that they were all NPCs.

The three girls were wearing red, purple, and yellow exaggerated skirts, and they all looked pale and frightened.

The moment they saw Bai Zhou and Zhou Qian, they all spoke words of persuasion.

"Don't go in!"

"Yeah! It's terrible!"

"This exhibition is so realistic... woohoo is horrible."

"Yeah, yeah, it's like someone is really killing people—"

"I'm going to have nightmares for a month!"

"I won't eat meat for three months!!"