deadly round table

I still remember that it was a cold winter night, Chen Mian called and asked Jiang Wenyuan to come out to meet.

At that time, there were only a few days left before New Year’s Eve, and many stores put up closure signs. Chen Mian and Jiang Wenyuan went to the night market near the community, and every food store was full of people. Find a vacancy for the shop, or place it on the street.

That night, Jiang Wenyuan vaguely felt that Chen Mian's mood was not right, but he didn't think about it.The two ordered Malatang, and while waiting for the meal, the two chatted about graduation and internship.

Jiang Wenyuan has already made plans, "We basically don't have any classes next semester. I have already selected several game companies in this city, and I will hand in my resume in a few years. What about you, how are you thinking about going abroad?"

Chen Mian took Jiang Wenyuan's hand and interlocked his fingers, "Are you willing to let me go abroad?"

"Of course I'm willing." Jiang Wenyuan blurted out without thinking.

Chen Mian looked at him aggrieved.

Jiang Wenyuan continued flatly, "In China, we don't know when we will have to wait until we can legally obtain the certificate. You..."

His words disappeared in Chen Mian's kiss.Chen Mian touched his forehead, her voice hoarse, "You can't blame me, if you want to blame it, you are too foul."

Jiang Wenyuan's heart was hot, he gently pushed Chen Mian away with a serious expression, "This place is not far from home, you should pay attention to your image!"

Chen Mian fell in love with Jiang Wenyuan and tried his best to hide his shyness. He wanted to continue to play tricks on Jiang Wenyuan, but he turned his hand to cover his stomach, "...Hiss, it hurts."

Jiang Wenyuan frowned, "Didn't you promise that I would take good care of myself? Why did you have a stomach problem again, and you still have the guts to take me to eat Malatang! I'll go to the nearby pharmacy to buy some medicine for you, and you ask the boss Get some warm water to drink first, I'll be right back."

Jiang Wenyuan was running to the pharmacy. He took Chen Mian's usual stomach medicine and ran back the same way. Before he arrived at the Malatang stall, he saw Chen Mian picking up a bunch of duck offal wrapped in red pepper oil from a distance. , exhale and blow cool——

Seeing Jiang Wenyuan come back, Chen Mian smiled and waved at him, and took a bite of duck offal with a bamboo stick.

At this moment, a motorcycle speeding head-on into the alley of the night market in the direction of Jiang Wenyuan.Chen Mian was sitting on the road, and the helmeted man was riding a motorcycle with a big crossbody bag on his back. In Jiang Wenyuan's eyes, the next few seconds were like a slowed-down movie scene. He will never forget it for the rest of his life. .The motorcycle roared past Chen Mian, and the messenger bag slammed into the back of his head fiercely. The huge potential energy pressed his head and hit the bamboo stick with more than half of it left.

The sharp bamboo stick penetrated the throat, punctured the pituitary gland, and came out from the skin of the back of the head.

At that moment, Jiang Wenyuan felt as if he had been given a body-holding spell, his whole body froze and couldn't move, the motorcycle that bumped into Chen Mian didn't show any intention of stopping, and passed him by whistling.Fine black particles floated out from the helmeted man's body. These particles rolled with teeth and claws, and disappeared into the air like soot before Jiang Wenyuan's eyes.

Jiang Wenyuan only had a few fragments of what happened afterwards.

Chen Mian did not die immediately, nor could he speak. He lay in Jiang Wenyuan's arms, holding Jiang Wenyuan's hand, with reluctance on his face, but no fear of death.Jiang Wenyuan hugged Chen Mian vigorously, but he couldn't snatch Chen Mian's gradually losing body temperature from the hand of death. When the ambulance and Aunt Chen and Uncle Chen came to the scene, Chen Mian swallowed his last breath in his arms.

The ambulance arrived long after, Aunt Chen and Uncle Chen rushed over anxiously, took away Chen Mian in Jiang Wenyuan's arms, and also took away his heart.

This Spring Festival, Aunt Chen and Uncle Chen fell ill one after another, and Jiang Wenyuan was busy taking care of them. Everyone said that Chen Mian made a good brother.Uncle Chen couldn't accept his son's death. He blamed Jiang Wenyuan for his son's death, and never gave Jiang Wenyuan any good looks.Aunt Chen was stronger than Uncle Chen, and she quickly cheered up and organized her son's funeral.

Chen Mian's death is an established fact, and time can slowly heal people's hearts, but what the three of them cannot accept is that the police have not been able to catch the murderer who killed Chen Mian.

As an eyewitness, Jiang Wenyuan went to the police station to record a statement.

The string of duck offal that pierced Chen Mian's throat was put into his mouth by Chen Mian himself.The police didn't care about this, but Jiang Wenyuan felt full of disobedience.Chen Mian is a person without common sense. He was still suffering from stomach pain just now. Even if the stomach pain relieved by itself, he shouldn't eat Malatang immediately to stimulate it.

There were also black particles floating out of the helmeted man, which Jiang Wenyuan clearly emphasized to the police several times.The police also attached great importance to this clue. They checked the surveillance video near the Malatang pavement, and used technical means to restore the high-definition picture. However, the man in the helmet was clean, and there was no dirty thing Jiang Wenyuan said.In the end, the police attributed the black particles to Jiang Wenyuan's delusion caused by witnessing the death of his friend.Jiang Wenyuan also watched the video, but is that really an illusion?

Aunt Chen and Uncle Chen gradually accepted the fact that their son had died and regained their strength.After Chen Mian's death, Jiang Wenyuan continued to live, study, and practice at the original pace mechanically. No one noticed that he was the one who couldn't accept Chen Mian's death the most.Perhaps it was this unwillingness that made Jiang Wenyuan a player on the round table...

Jiang Wenyuan got the key to the bank's private safe box left by Chen Mian. At nine o'clock in the morning, when the bank was open for business, he went to the bank address written on the note.After some formalities, Jiang Wenyuan, led by the bank staff, came to the safe that Chen Mian had rented.After the staff left, Jiang Wenyuan took a few deep breaths and opened the safe with trembling hands.

A palm-sized black box was placed on the edge of the safe by the door, and a card was pressed under the box.

Jiang Wenyuan took out the box, opened the lid, and a simple and elegant platinum ring came into view.On the inside of the ring, the initials CM of Chen Mian's name are engraved.Jiang Wenyuan opened the card, which read: Jiang Wenyuan, may we spend the rest of our lives together, and we will never leave each other.

If Jiang Wenyuan didn't enter the round table game, he would be sad and moved.

But now, Jiang Wenyuan looked at the thing stuffed deep in the safe, and reached out to take it out.It was a pure white bone-carved faceless doll. The moment he picked up the doll, the special ability of the doll was engraved into Jiang Wenyuan's mind. Its ability may be the most special among all the dolls——

Bone carved faceless puppet, its ability can only be used outside the game, ability content: exit the round table game.

At this moment, there was no sadness, no emotion, and a burst of unknown fire made Jiang Wenyuan's heart ache.

What kind of wish is it that makes Chen Mian risk his life to gamble, even if he gets a doll that can quit the game midway, he would rather leave the doll to Jiang Wenyuan, who is almost impossible to become a round table game player, and stick to it in the round table game ?Chen Mian never revealed this wish to Jiang Wenyuan, which is more important than staying with his lover.

Jiang Wenyuan returned to the dormitory with the bone carving doll and the ring.

He took out the high-precision industrial electronic scale he bought before the second round of the game, and put the bone carving doll on it, weighing 56.70g.

Clown Puppet, 12.60g.Princess Doll, 16.80g.

Before getting the bone carving doll, Jiang Wenyuan felt that these two weights were a little inconsistent. With the addition of the bone carving doll, he clearly discovered that the weight of the doll in reality is a multiple of 2.1.Clown puppets 6×2.1g, princess dolls 8×2.1g, bone carving puppets… 27×2.1g.According to Jiang Wenyuan's memory, six players died in the round of the clown puppet, and eight players died in the round of the princess doll, and the weight of the human soul is 21g.

Regardless of whether Jiang Wenyuan's guess is correct or not, the round table game is not a harmless universal wishing machine.

Jiang Wenyuan put the three dolls together, and opened the game forum with his spare phone.In the system information column, he received two friend requests, from "I am a good citizen" and "The rookie player still has a long way to go". According to the naming style, it is not difficult to find out who the owner of the account is.After Jiang Wenyuan passed their application, he clicked on Buxiao's chat box: Zhang Chen, I want to accept the commission to bring people into the game, do you have any suggestions?

Zhang Chen's reply was extremely fast, and he sent several consecutive messages:? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Don't laugh: account hacking?

Don't laugh: who the fuck are you?

Don't laugh: Or is the forum convulsed and the information is sent out indiscriminately?

Jiang Wenyuan had a cold face, Mianmian: The forum is not convulsed, it is me.You remember the next day, the leek leaves on your front teeth.

Don't laugh: stop stop!I believe you are me!Didn't you just enter the game yesterday, and you want to accept the commission now?

Mianmian: Well, do you have any introduction?

Don’t laugh: You can’t take orders randomly. Some orders are purely traps. If you are not careful, you will lose your life.If you want to accept commissions, it is best to join a reliable organization.At least you don't have to worry about being a trap for the list approved by the organization, and the follow-up remuneration is also guaranteed.However, reliable organizations are hard to find, and the entry threshold is also high.For example, our organization Maple Leaf, even if I recommend it to you, it has to go through three rounds of game assessment.

Mianmian: It's too slow, I want to enter the game within a day or two.

Don't laugh: What's wrong with you, why are you in a hurry to enter the game?

Mianmian: Does it matter?

Don't laugh: If you tell me the reason, I can consider finding a commission for you.

Mianmian: I want to enter the game to do an experiment. I can't tell you the specific content of the experiment.

Do not laugh:……

After a while, Zhang Chen replied: Our organization has a commission, but no one has been willing to accept it. She will enter the game tomorrow. She has used dolls to divination the content of the game. It is an epidemic game that players recognize as very difficult.The source of infection is unknown. Once infected, teeth will grow in all openings of the infected person's body. Rows of teeth will grow in places such as between the fingers and eyes, and teeth will grow in wounds cut by sharp tools to keep the mouth open. open state.Not only that, these weird teeth will regenerate after being knocked out, and the wound will not heal.Even if it is this kind of commission, do you want to accept it?

Jiang Wenyuan's pupils were thick and dark as night, and he slowly typed two words in the dialog box: I will answer.

Far away in another city, in a third-year classroom in high school, Zhang Chen blocked the teacher's view with stacked reference books, stared at the phone and sighed silently, what kind of experiment was it that allowed him to enter the game even at the risk of great danger? ?