betting convention

"Ding Bai? Is Ding Bai you?"

Through the door, Ding Bai could hear Du Qi's voice, which seemed to be coming from the opposite side. When he just came in, he only noticed that the opposite side was also a room, but he didn't expect Du Qi to be in that room.

"Du Qi?" Ding Bai responded.

"It's me, it's me!" Du Qi's tone was a little more excited, and Ding Bai could hear him knocking on the door across the door.

"Are you here to save us?" Du Qi didn't know that Ding Bai was in almost the same situation with him at the moment, and kept talking about the past two days on the opposite side, "You don't know, these two days I am How did you come here, by the way, do you have anything to eat?"

"Something to eat? No." Ding Bai wondered why Du Qi asked such a sentence, and asked with some doubts.

Du Qi on the opposite side didn't care too much, but continued to say: "It doesn't matter if there is no food, you let us out quickly."

This is a bit embarrassing, at this moment Ding Bai is still counting on someone to save him.

"I, I can't let you out..." Ding Bai said helplessly, "We have also been locked up. If there is no accident, we should be locked in the room opposite you."

"..." The atmosphere suddenly stagnated.

Ding Bai seemed to feel the helpless sigh of Du Qi on the opposite side, and it took a long time for Ding Bai to hear the sigh on the other side.

"It's over, even you are imprisoned here, so is it possible that we will really die here?"

Ding Bai leaned against the door and sighed, even he himself didn't expect to overturn the car this time, now it's all right, a bunch of people are locked up here, the only one outside is Chen Zhifei, but Chen Zhifei's current situation It's really hard to say.

After all, Chen Zhifei somehow separated from them when he entered this building twice.It was as if a line had been drawn between Chen Zhifei and them, causing Chen Zhifei to be separated from everyone even though he was inside.

Ding Bai scratched his head in frustration, really not understanding how this bet was played.

Chen Zhifei was standing in the corridor on the first floor, the sensor light in front of him suddenly turned on, but there was nothing in front of him.It was as if there was someone walking by in front of him, but he couldn't perceive the other person's existence.

He turned his head and glanced at the corridor on the right. After a while, the sensor lights in the corridor over there lit up again, as if the invisible person had walked over there.

Chen Zhifei walked towards the place where the light was on, and looked at the surrounding rooms. Every room here was marked with a name, such as archive room, observation room, meeting room, lounge, etc.

The light stopped outside the door of the observation room. He walked over and held his hand on the doorknob, unable to open it.

Soon the lights went out, but never came back on.

The doorknob in his hand felt the unique cold feeling of metal, he let go of his hand, and stood firmly in the darkness.

He couldn't explain what he was feeling now, and he didn't even know where the inexplicable sense of unease and familiarity in his heart came from.

After standing in the dark for a long time, Chen Zhifei turned and walked towards the gate, but stood still when he saw the archive room.Ding Bai said that he had entered the file room last night.

With the mentality of giving it a try, Chen Zhifei held his hand on the doorknob, and with a slight push, the door in front of him opened a crack.

After hesitating for a while, Chen Zhifei pushed the door open and walked in. The moment he stepped in, something seemed to shatter in the darkness, and a low sob seemed inaudible.

The child curled up in the dark looked like a skinny kitten.

Two people walked in behind them, dragging the child who had fallen to the ground towards the door, and shut the door behind them, murmuring something.

Chen Zhifei stood there in a daze for a moment, and then immediately followed out, but there was no one outside, and there were only lights that quickly dimmed.

In a flash, my palms felt cold.

The door of the archives room was closed behind Chen Zhifei. He tried to open the door again but found that he was in the predicament again, and he could no longer open the door in front of him.

Chen Zhifei, who was standing there, suddenly had an idea in his heart, which made him unable to wait any longer, so he ran out quickly, went back to the previous room and found the few file bags that Ding Bai had hidden under the bed board.

"No food for you?" Ding Bai lay on the door panel and talked to Du Qi, who was separated by two door panels, "I haven't given you any food for these two days?"

"Not just no food, no water." Du Qi said weakly over there. In addition to him and another banker, there are several children locked up in his room. These children Crying and starving for two days, now I can’t even lift up my energy, I’m huddled in the corner like a lost puppy, “I’m beginning to suspect that he doesn’t want us to starve to death in this game gone."

"However, I'm very surprised. If it's just targeting our banker, it's okay, why even the children here are locked up with me." Du Qi seemed to remember something and shouted to the opposite side, " Didn’t I keep telling you that there is something wrong with this orphanage? You said that if it was a regular orphanage, how could it be possible to lock up children who are about to be adopted here and starve them for two days?”

Du Qi was right, and Ding Bai always thought that the so-called elimination in this game was just what he and Chen Zhifei guessed before, sending the dealer away in the form of 'adoption', which made them unable to find the golden flower card within the stipulated time.

But being locked up like this, and Du Qi said that there were other children locked up with them, he began to feel that things were not that simple.

What is the purpose of all this effort?

"You said, they are not doing some inhuman experiments, right? Those so-called adopted children were actually starved to death, and their bodies were thrown into the woods behind the mountain to cover up the truth?" Du Qi said He guessed wildly, but when he said this, several children shut up in the room began to cry loudly, which reached Ding Bai's ears through the door panel.

Ding Bai listened to Du Qi explaining that he was talking nonsense, but his heart began to beat.Needless to say, there is really such a possibility.

Ding Bai remembered that when he and Chen Zhifei were in the dark air-raid shelter when he first entered the game, he felt someone touch him, maybe it was a child who had escaped asking him for help.

Also, when he talked to that child before, he seemed to have mentioned that his brother disappeared in the orphanage.

And the conversation between the director of the orphanage and the middle-aged man.

Could it be that this is really the reason?

"Don't cry, don't cry!" Du Qi on the opposite side shouted again, "Ding Bai, when can we go out!"

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Zhifei stood on the playground and looked at the child who was leaning over to sweep up fallen leaves with a broom. Because of his thin body, every time the child swung the broom, the raised bones on his back were abnormally obvious.

He stood aside and watched the child clean up the fallen leaves on the playground, and then consciously carried a bucket of water to the dormitory building, holding a rag in his hand as if planning to wipe the handrails of the stairs.

The child's hands were dry and cracked due to long-term soaking in cold water, and the frozen red fingers formed a sharp contrast with the dirty dishcloth.

He lowered his head and didn't notice the person behind him approaching him, then turned around and saw that person.

"Your name is Chen Zhifei?" Chen Zhifei stared at the child in front of him. This was the first time he had a conversation with this child.

"..." The child looked at him timidly, and asked in a low voice, "Who are you?"

"My name is also Chen Zhifei." Chen Zhifei said.

The child's eyes were full of strangeness and scrutiny. He was probably surprised that the elder brother in front of him had the same name as himself.

Chen Zhifei pointed to the building opposite, and said to the child, "Have you been to the building opposite?"

The child's eyes dodged, as if he wanted to escape Chen Zhifei's question.I saw Chen Zhifei squatting down and speaking from the perspective of a child: "My friends are locked in that building, I want to rescue them, but I can't do it alone, can you take me with you? "

When the child heard Chen Zhifei's words, his dodging eyes finally fell on Chen Zhifei's face: "Is it a very important friend?"

"It's very important, just like your brother, I love him very much." Chen Zhifei looked at the child in front of him sincerely and said.

Last night, outside the file room door, he had a flash of a thought, which made him look through the file bag all night.At first he thought that Chen Zhifei, who had the same name as him, might be himself, a self he had never thought of.But he overturned this idea after looking through the portfolio several times.

Although a lot of information in the game led him to think in this direction, Chen Zhifei still felt something was wrong.What was wrong was himself.

He doesn't have an older brother, and this kid named Chen Zhifei, who has the same name as him, doesn't look like him at all.As for why an NPC with the same name as him appeared, Chen Zhifei thought it was probably a game of gambling.

After the concept changes, many unexplainable phenomena can be explained. Why is Chen Zhifei the only one among the dealers who has not changed his age?Why did the NPC in the game act as if he didn't see him when he saw him?And why couldn't he open any of the doors in the building opposite?

All this is because there is already a 'Chen Zhifei' in this game.

So the real Chen Zhifei is indeed a bug.

Of course, all these conjectures have to be verified, and the only way to verify it is for Chen Zhifei to take the child with the same name as himself to the opposite building.

Therefore, Chen Zhifei could only ask for help from the other party. Although he had deceived the child to a certain extent, it was true that he wanted to save someone, and it was true that the other party was important.

Of course, it's true that he loves him very much.

When Chen Zhifei took little Chen Zhifei into the building, he could still see the child in front of him, so he felt that he had guessed right.

This time, he could see the back of the child in front and hear the footsteps of the child in front.

He could even hear voices talking in this corridor.

"Ding Bai, I'm starving to death." Du Qi leaned against the door almost without any strength.

"Stop barking, I'm hungry too." Ding Bai said a little irritably. For him, being hungry is not the main thing, but the group of bankers in front of him is the main thing.

Ever since they were imprisoned, the quarrels had hardly stopped. While complaining about Ding Bai's blind idea, the bankers made sarcastic remarks.Ding Bai felt that he was wrong, but he didn't refute it, but he really felt uncomfortable.

Who told him to swear that as long as he made trouble, he would have a chance to find the golden flower card.

It is simply self-inflicted.

Leaning against the door panel, Ding Bai listened weakly to Du Qi's voice opposite him.A sudden sound of footsteps made Ding Bai instantly refreshed.

Hearing the footsteps getting closer, he thought it was Chen Zhifei who had found them, but he didn't hear two strange voices coming from outside the door.

"Just drag them out when the door opens." The person outside said.

"Are you not afraid of them running away?" Another person said.

"Don't worry, I've been hungry for several days, and I can't run even if I want to."