deadly round table

Aunt Chen was sitting next to Jiang Wenyuan, but she turned a blind eye to the weird doll in his arms.This kind of dialogue scene as usual made Jiang Wenyuan feel very unreal. He hugged the heavy clown puppet and absent-mindedly responded to Aunt Chen's words.

Auntie Chen watched Jiang Wenyuan grow up when she was a child, and she immediately noticed that he was not in the right condition, "Are you not feeling well? Sigh... You just came out for an internship, so the pressure must be very high, and you still run to our house every week, The body can't take it. Today you go back to rest early, I'm fine, I'll be with you, Uncle Chen."

Jiang Wenyuan didn't force himself, "Then I'll go back first. Aunt Chen, you have lost weight recently, remember to eat well."

"I don't have much appetite after summer. I lose a few pounds every summer. It's okay. The meat will grow back in winter." Aunt Chen sent Jiang Wenyuan to the door. He is so tall and not much fatter than me, no matter how busy he is at work, he can't neglect his body, you know."

Jiang Wenyuan majored in animation and is currently working as an intern at a game company.Due to the special nature of the work, their company needs to work overtime frequently, so other aspects provide adequate employee benefits.The staff dormitory has a uniform standard, and they are all two-person rooms. The person Jiang Wenyuan sleeps with has just resigned, and temporarily enjoys a luxurious single-occupancy noble room.

Aunt Chen's house was a bit far from Jiang Wenyuan's company dormitory. It took nearly two hours to transfer from subway to bus and walk before Jiang Wenyuan returned to the dormitory.Along the way, Jiang Wenyuan didn't stay in a daze, he discovered two things.First, others cannot identify the clown puppet in his arms with the naked eye, and the clown puppet cannot leave traces in mirrors and photos; second, the clown puppet that he feels heavy when he holds it is only 12.6g on a fair scale weight.

The 12.6g of the clown puppet is real, enough to prove that the round table game is not a dream.

After Jiang Wenyuan returned to the dormitory, he turned on the computer immediately.

Chen Mian has a wide range of hobbies, and he is still a small hacker. He used Jiang Wenyuan's computer several times in emergencies.Jiang Wenyuan was not interested in hacking techniques, but he was worried that Chen Mian's dirty cleaning would leave traces, which would cause damage to important works stored in the computer. He had to learn to use a proxy server for multi-layer springboards and hide IP addresses.

Now, Jiang Wenyuan hides his IP with ease, and enters the forum address given to him by Zhang Chen in the most primitive IE browser.

The registration of the forum is very simple, there are only two required items, the game number and the type of doll.

Jiang Wenyuan remembered these two items clearly, 85955 and the clown puppet.

After clicking confirm, the mouse turned into a chrysanthemum for a long time before popping up a verification dialog box. Jiang Wenyuan nicknamed himself "Mianmian", and used a cute Q-version blue whale as his avatar, and posted on the player forum.

The forum is divided into four sections: popular science area, trading area, information exchange area and irrigation area.

Jiang Wenyuan first clicked on the science popularization area, just browsing the titles was full of dry goods, about the application of dolls, game strategy skills, NPC analysis, etc., there were many posts that Jiang Wenyuan wanted to know urgently.However, what made Jiang Wenyuan hesitant was that these posts were all charged in forum currency, which ranged from 5000 to [-] yuan in RMB.The fees for these postings are a bit exaggerated, and Jiang Wenyuan can still afford them, but if he pays the fee, someone with a heart can easily find out his real identity through the payment account.

After hesitating again and again, Jiang Wenyuan didn't click on any fee stickers.

Among the paid posts full of screens, there was a free post at the top, with the title: How to use the ring.

The content of the post is very long. Three years ago, a certain player posted a very long confession in the information exchange area. He announced to all players a secret that was enough to cause panic: there are betrayers in the round table game.

Ordinary players will sit around the round table, while the player chosen by the game as a traitor will sit alone in another isolated standing armchair.In order to conceal the identity of the betrayer, the round table game will generate a virtual image in the round table that is consistent with the shape of the betrayer.Not only will the doll not charge the betrayer, but it will also give the betrayer some convenience.There is only one victory condition for the Betrayer to clear the game. Before the other players find the dolls, kill them all by any means.

The player who released the confession also said that once he has been a traitor in the game and survived, there is a high probability of being selected as a traitor in the next game.He has experienced the identity of a betrayer twice, and indirectly killed his lover in the game. He could no longer bear the guilt, and committed suicide by jumping off the building after announcing the existence of the betrayer to all players.

Prior to this, the players had no idea that there was such a setting as the Betrayer.

After a period of panic, a player code-named AJWY used some means to blur the boundary between the game and reality, led the player to use doll skills to eliminate all surviving betrayers in reality, and researched a physical cheat to deal with the betrayers—— ring.

Betrayers are limited by their location, and their observation range is only above the round table. Old players who enter the game wear a ring on each hand, and determine the position of the ring by touching each other's hands under the round table. If there is a newcomer among the old players, then You can skip the ring confirmation between the newcomer and the adjacent old player. Once the position of each other's ring is confirmed, take off the ring immediately.In order to prevent the round table game from being aware of physical cheating, veteran players only talk about the ring in the game, not the purpose of the ring.

There is only one traitor in each round of the game, and the traitors played by newcomers are usually nothing to fear, and the traitors played by veteran players can use rings to confirm each other.The threat of traitors to ordinary players has been greatly reduced.

The event of the Scarlet Betrayer came to an end, and the ring became a regular accessory for players.

Jiang Wenyuan let go of the mouse and took out a black box from the drawer of the computer desk.

Inside the box were several important gifts from Chen Mian, as well as some of Chen Mian's personal belongings.Jiang Wenyuan picked out the rings from the box one by one. There were many styles of rings, but none belonged to Jiang Wenyuan.These rings are Chen Mian's hobby. His fingers are slender and beautiful, and his attractiveness becomes even more deadly after wearing the rings. Later, most of Chen Mian's rings were bought by Jiang Wenyuan.

Thinking back now, Chen Mian's performance was too abnormal, whether it was going to a deaf school as a volunteer, studying a documentary about [-] ways to die, suddenly becoming interested in rings, and many other things...

Jiang Wenyuan opened WeChat and sent a message to Chen Mian: Are you a round table game player?

He held his phone in a daze for a while, but Chen Mian didn't reply.

Jiang Wenyuan didn't continue to indulge in the forum, he turned off the computer and went to the company canteen for dinner.Two hours after dinner, he changed into his sportswear and went for a fifteen-kilometer jog as usual.After running fifteen kilometers, Jiang Wenyuan walked slowly for a while, and then ran another five kilometers.According to Zhang Chen and Zuo Zhixing, the round table game was more than one round, and Jiang Wenyuan felt that he needed to strengthen his physical strength.

Early the next morning, Jiang Wenyuan was awakened by the biological clock. After washing up, he put on a black shirt with white trim and black trousers, and went to work on time with breakfast.At the morning meeting, the manager announced that the company has just won a big project, and all colleagues need to work together to create value for the company.From that day on, the hell-like overtime mode of eight in the morning and eleven in the evening lasted for a full 20 days.Amidst the protests of all the code farmers, they finally ushered in their long-lost rest day. Although there was only one day, it was enough for them who were tortured by work to shake M. They wept with joy.

Jiang Wenyuan couldn't feel happy about the long-lost holiday, because he had a premonition in his heart that his second round of round table games would be tomorrow.

Before going to bed, Jiang Wenyuan lay under the blanket and opened the player forum with a new mobile phone with an unregistered mobile card.The money in the anonymous email payment account was prepared a few days ago. As long as he is willing, the money in the account is enough for him to click on any interest post.

However, what Jiang Wenyuan clicked on tonight was not the popular science area, but the trading area with the largest traffic in the forum.

In the trading area, there are many organizations that provide old and new services, and the single service fee starts at [-] yuan.Although there are uncertain factors of the traitor, there are still many players flocking to it.

Jiang Wenyuan rubbed his temples to seal up the weakness in his heart. He exited the trading area and prepared to go to the popular science area to buy a few concerned posts.At this moment, a private message popped up in his personal account. When he clicked on it, it was a message from a player named Buxiao: Chen Mian, is that you?How come your forum contribution is zero, are you a little nervous?How about I lend you some forum coins, some posts in the science popularization area are still worth reading.What are you doing these days, is the second game over yet?

Looking at the tone of the other party, the identity of Buxiao is ready to be revealed.

Jiang Wenyuan replied to him: I have been working overtime recently, and the second round of the game will be tomorrow.Zhang Chen, how did you find me?

Zhang Chen's reply was quick: I entered the verification data of session 85955 into the forum database, and there are only two new players registered with this number, which is easy to find.But that's not the point. The point is that you're still at work?I am not wrong, right……

It's no wonder that Zhang Chen was surprised. Usually, players have experienced the bloody days in the game, and it is difficult for them to return to normal life.Jiang Wenyuan said that he maintained his original daily activities as if nothing happened.

Jiang Wenyuan: A stable life can better protect my real identity, and I also need to work to maintain my current basic necessities.

Zhang Chen: It seems that my worries are unnecessary. I will wait for your safety letter tomorrow.

Jiang Wenyuan: Okay, take care of your injuries.

Zhang Chen: ...How did you know I was injured? ! !

Jiang Wenyuan: I was just saying something casually, I didn't expect you to be really hurt.In fact, it is not difficult to guess, you said that it is not difficult to find my ID in the forum, but it took me 20 days to find me.I guess you should have been in a coma for several days due to an accident during this period, and it is most likely that you have received an old order with a new one.

Zhang Chen: Bye bye.Can a person be less routine and more sincere?This is my first order, and it would be nice to be able to bring the client back alive.

Chatting with Zhang Chen, Jiang Wenyuan's heavy mood lightened a lot. He declined Zhang Chen's proposal to join the game, read through a few paid science popularization posts that he focused on, and went to sleep early to recharge his batteries.

The next day, while Jiang Wenyuan was eating lunch, he felt weightless again.

Standing under the lamp of the round table is a princess doll wearing royal costumes. Her sweet voice clearly fell into the ears of everyone on the round table: "Welcome players to Round Table Games-86415."

The scythe of death rests on the necks of all players again, terror——

Second coming.