betting convention

"How could this happen?" Chen Zhifei murmured standing on the spot. This situation was really unexpected. After all, he and Ding Bai never thought that they would return to the original point when they reached the last step.

If it is said that they are back to the original point now, it means that it is very likely that they will go through the previous ones again.

But the good thing is that at least this time they are sober.

I just don't know how Ding Bai is doing now.

Chen Zhifei waited quietly, waiting for the moment when night fell, to meet Ding Bai again in his dream.

Waiting is tormenting, but fortunately, I can persevere. The night swallows the day, and Chen Zhifei falls asleep again.

Ding Bai was waiting at the door of the first game, when a figure slowly approached under the thick fog, and he was relieved when he saw the face of the person coming.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to see you in my dream again this time, but it's okay." Ding Bai said, "It's back to the first scene."

"Yeah." Chen Zhifei glanced at the lantern at the door, "Go ahead and have a look, if we can speed up, we'll go straight to the last game tonight."

After all, their goal is very simple now. The bets they have experienced before seem to be of little use in this game. The most important part is to increase the speed until the last problem occurs.

The two directly found the breaking point as if they were watching flowers on a horse, and solved the puzzle of the game to get the golden flower card, and successfully reached the last level of the ghost game.

And I met that weird old lady again. Similar to before, the old lady still invited them to compete.The two of them began to pay attention to this request. They seemed to be wasting time thinking about it. In fact, when Chen Zhifei was communicating with him, Ding Bai had already started to observe secretly.

The movements of the old lady's gestures, the movements of picking up the dice, and even the expression of the old lady when she rolled the dice.

The opponent's every move fell into Ding Bai's eyes carefully, and he thought he didn't miss any details.

So when Chen Zhifei gestured to him with his eyes, he nodded without hesitation.Having received the affirmation, Chen Zhifei also picked up the two small dice neatly, shook them twice and threw them on the lid of the box.

The two Lingling clear dice spun and rolled down on the lid of the box. Ding Bai kept staring at the two dice with nervous eyes. Just as the dice were about to stop spinning, a burst of white light flashed, and he jumped out of the bed again. wake up.

"Fuck?" This time, Ding Bai was even more confused, "Is this back to the original point?"

Unexpected things happened again, and they returned to the original point again.

But why?Why is this happening?He could clearly see that every move of the old lady did not escape Ding Bai's sight.

why?

Doubt is like a group of unclear wool intertwined in my heart. What important information has been missed?

At this moment, Ding Bai was stunned in place, he couldn't help wondering if this gambling game was just to play him.

However, the answer still has to be found in the dream.

One day passed again, and he and Chen Zhifei met again in a dream. The two of them made all preparations, but when they faced the old lady, the same thing happened again.

Then it happens again.

It happened again.

No matter how many times they saw the old lady in their dreams, the end result was the same.

back to the start.

As time passed day by day, when the water in the warehouse of the commissary downstairs started to disappear, Ding Bai knew that this gambling game might really be over soon.

And they are still returning to the original point again and again, maybe this time they will really fall into this gamble.

Chen Zhifei walked out of the thick fog again. How many times has he appeared in this game?Fifteen or twenty?

They have experienced more than 20 repetitions since they found out that rolling the dice with the old lady will return to the original point.What's worse is that the living supplies around Ding Bai, who is in the game of gambling, begin to run out.

This may be a signal, foretelling that the remaining time for this gamble is running out.

And Chen Zhifei doesn't seem to need to worry about this problem. In the world he lives in, there is a steady stream of food, which means that even if he fails again and again, he can still come back again and again.

But Ding Bai...

"You've lost weight." Chen Zhifei looked at the gradually thinning cheeks of the person in front of him, obviously in a dream, but he could clearly feel Ding Bai's changes.

"Really?" Ding Bai stretched out his hand to touch his face, and said, "Probably because I've been too tired recently."

He concealed his current situation. What Chen Zhifei didn't know was that Ding Bai had already started to reduce food consumption at this time.As for the big fart canteen in their community, there are very few things in it.

It may have been more than a month since he entered the game.

This is the first time he has stayed in the game for such a long time, and he can even feel that he has gradually gotten used to this kind of life, if the rations are not exhausted.

The two looked at each other and smiled, knowing clearly in their hearts that the time for them to appear at the same time again is already dwindling.

Perhaps one day, Chen Zhifei is the only one who can appear in the dream again.

Chen Zhifei even naively thought about bringing food to Ding Bai from the world he lived in, but the place where he and Ding Bai met was in their common dream, and this idea was ruthlessly extinguished as soon as it started.

They quickly went through many previous gambling games, and they both came to the old lady's gambling game again. They met this old lady several times, and they even began to feel very familiar with this old lady.

Like a neighbor who lives next door, seeing each other every day has become familiar.

Still familiar movements, familiar routines, this situation that has been repeated more than 20 times has gradually become dull.

When the old lady spoke, Chen Zhifei suddenly changed his mind. He stopped reaching for the pair of dice and pulled Ding Bai lazily to sit down next to him.

Ding Bai also didn't understand what he did when he suddenly appeared, and sat down with a dazed expression and stared at the old lady who was also dazed.

"What's wrong?" Ding Bai frowned and asked Chen Zhifei.

"I'm tired, take a break." Chen Zhifei said, "Anyway, it's not bad this time."

This was the truth, but in fact Chen Zhifei wanted Ding Bai to rest for a while.Although everything they did was in a dream, the intertwined dreams every night did not make the two of them relax, and they would only become more and more tired after waking up.

The two of them lazily leaned on the sofa beside them, no longer anxious to compete with the old lady, no longer anxious to find a way to escape from this gambling game.

Some are just rare relaxation and rare laziness.

Seeing the two of them sitting on the side sofa without talking, the old lady unexpectedly made them a cup of tea.

This is a treatment that has never been enjoyed before, and it is also a change that has never happened before.

The two of them looked at this unsmiling old lady in surprise, as if it was hard to imagine such a change.

Perhaps it is because they are no longer obsessed with finding the answer quickly, and want to escape from this repeated gambling game quickly.Such a change also made them realize that they didn't need to worry about what the result of the dice would be. Stop and take a look, maybe there is a difference.

A cup of tea seemed to change the attitude of the unsmiling old lady. She stared at the beating TV screen, silently watching as before.

Ding Bai took a sip of the tea that looked good, and he asked the old lady in a strange way: "Do you know how to get out?"

The cloudy eyes staring at the TV finally moved away from the TV. She took a sip of the teacup in her hand and said slowly: "After so many times, you are finally willing to ask me."

This answer made both of them a little shocked. After so many dreams, they always thought that when the dream returned to the original point, the people or NPCs that appeared in the dream would also return to the original point. It's all like this, those dealers or NPCs that I have met before are like meeting them for the first time.

But the old lady said they had come so many times.

This important change made both Ding and Bai feel that something was quietly breaking out of their shells.

"You..." Ding Bai said again after speaking for a long time, "You have always known us?"

The old lady smiled and said nothing, playing with the warm teacup in her hand, and said: "You have come so many times, of course I remember."

"Then can you tell us how to get out of this gamble?" Chen Zhifei said.

The old lady moved her cloudy eyes to the TV again, and she murmured to herself, "I've watched it so many times, but I don't remember anything..."

This incomprehensible remark made the two of them confused, and after asking the old lady again, she ignored them.

Chen Zhifei followed the old lady and landed on the TV set. She has been staring at the TV set since the first time she entered the game. Could it be...

A conjecture appeared in Chen Zhifei's mind. He looked at Ding Bai, hesitated for a long time, and slowly expressed his conjecture.

"Have you ever paid attention to the picture on this TV?"

"Ah? This?" How do you remember this?Whether it's the first time or repeated so many times, his attention is not on the TV at all, let alone paying attention to the pictures on the TV.

"I'm guessing, the old lady has been watching the TV, maybe there are clues in it." Chen Zhifei said.

"But it's all over." Ding Bai said, and his eyes fell on the TV. The game has come to an end. The picture of the old lady has changed from silent to sound, and the content has probably changed.

"Let's do it again." Chen Zhifei suddenly said to Ding Bai.

"Let's do it again to see what the silent picture was before." Chen Zhifei said, he had a hunch that they were very close to the final answer.

"Okay." Ding Bai nodded.

This time, Chen Zhifei took the initiative to ask for a game with the old lady. He skillfully took out the two dice from the box, and rolled the dice before the old lady.

Afterwards, the old lady rolled the dice, and the dice seemed to be spinning endlessly. At the moment when the dice was about to stop, he woke up from the bed again.

And twelve hours later, he entered the dream again, but this time the Ding Bai who had been waiting at the end of the thick fog disappeared.

But in Ding Bai's world, on that not-so-big bed, a thin body curled up, shaking slowly.He stared, his eyes were bloodshot, his fingers curled up and pinched together.

The most unacceptable thing happened and he couldn't sleep.

An indescribable feeling, drowsiness, but the nerves are like a tight bowstring, and the slightest touch can arouse a desire to move.

He tossed and turned, trying to make himself fall asleep. In this environment where he desperately wanted to fall asleep, the more he wanted to fall asleep, the more he couldn't fall asleep.

Time passed by every minute and every second, but Ding Bai's consciousness was still awake.

He was sober, waiting soberly until it gradually became brighter outside the window.

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