Infinity Game: I want to live

After Li Tan'er's "cheer up", the three decided to go downstairs and search the cabin first.

The second floor is where several players live. Apart from the corresponding rooms, there are also a few empty rooms, but no matter what method they use, they can't get in, even if they smash the door, it doesn't help. Find such a "stubble" again.

Other than that, there is only a conference room for playing games.

The long table, chairs, and potted plants beside the stairs... There is nothing unusual except that three meals will appear on the long table on time.

Lin Dong was very interested in this long table that could make food by himself, and asked Li Tan'er: "Is this table also a foreign object?"

Li Tan'er shook his head: "I don't know, I have never seen such a magical table. But even if it is a foreign object, it will not be too precious. Although its ability is impressive, but in the death game The effect that can be played in it is very small.”

Lin Dong nodded in approval.

Such a table that can emerge food by itself is really magical, but in death games, the system usually does not allow players to die from such an uncreative death method as "starving to death", and food is generally never lacking (except for some wild animals). island survival game).

But no matter what, the long table can be regarded as an unusual item, and Lin Dong secretly remembered it in his heart.

The cabin has two floors. The first floor is the waiting room for the previous people, and a good number of players have been eliminated there.The second floor is where they are now.

Ling Sha looked at the ceiling and said, "When we looked at this small wooden house in the forest, it seems that the top is raised?"

"Yes, but the slope of the eaves is generally used to prevent water from accumulating on the roof in rainy days, so there shouldn't be any abnormality." Lin Dong said, "If you guess there is a small compartment above this, let's wait a while. You can try to knock on the ceiling. But it’s a bit risky to do so, why don’t you let it go and wait for us to search until the end.”

Li Tan'er had already walked down the stairs, and looked up at the two of them on the first floor.Lin Dong walked up the stairs and explained to Ling Sha.Ling Sha looked at the ceiling suspiciously, and went downstairs under Lin Dong's persuasion.

When a person is in a state of tension, it is common for all trees and trees to become soldiers.However, Lin Dong thinks that this is not necessarily a bad thing, because once people become sensitive, they can discover many things that are normally overlooked.

The first floor is still the same as it was before, with clocks all over the wall, spider plants everywhere, the breeze blowing through the windows, and the sunlight covering the window sills... If it wasn't for the death game, Lin Dong would really like to stay in this cabin Live for a while.

At this moment, Lin Dong suddenly remembered the command issued by the system when he first entered the wooden house.

It seems like each player got a clock as instructed.Lin Dong remembered that his own was a small silver clock...but where is the clock?It seems that since the second game started, he completely forgot about Xiao Zhong's existence, and he didn't know anything about Xiao Zhong's disappearance.

No, every morning, it seemed that he was woken up by a bell.

bell?Where's the bell?Lin Dong suddenly became confused.The small silver-white clock he was carrying had long since disappeared, and the sound of the bell when he got up in the morning entered his ears again, and it definitely did not seem to be transmitted from the first floor to the second floor.

If so, where did the bell he heard come from?

Thinking of this, Lin Dong opened his mouth and asked, "Do you still remember the clock that the system asked you to take when you entered the wooden house?"

Hearing Lin Dong's words, both of them changed their expressions.Obviously, they also found something unusual.

"That clock, no, I remember I put it in my pocket, why..." Li Tan'er rummaged through his trouser pockets, but found nothing.

Lin Dong remembered that Li Tan'er was holding a small hourglass.Because the hourglass was too conspicuous among the crowd of clocks, and before Li Tan'er picked up the hourglass, Lin Dong noticed this small thing.

As for the command to set the alarm to ring after 2 minutes, the hourglass will also ring, but the sound is much smaller, and it is only a soft "ding ding ding" sound.

Li Tan'er rummaged through his pockets but couldn't find the small hourglass, so he thought for a while and asked, "What kind of alarm clock sound did you hear in the morning? Is it the same as your own clock?"

Hearing what she said, Lin Dong realized that the morning bell sounded very similar to the alarm bell of the small silver clock.Ling Sha on the side also nodded as if he had seen a ghost.

"I remember that the instruction at that time said that we 'own' the clocks, but now those clocks have disappeared inexplicably, why is that?" Ling Sha expressed his doubts, "And, why did we still have clocks in the morning? Can you hear the bell ringing?"

With a sullen face, Li Tan'er walked over with a "thump thump" and arrived at the place where she had taken the hourglass before.

Lin Dong and Ling Sha saw her standing there motionless with a dignified look, so they also followed, looked at where she was looking, and held their breath in shock after just one glance.

A small hourglass is quietly placed on the wall cabinet, and the light yellow fine sand inside is slowly pouring down, full of soft beauty.

Lin Dong froze for a moment, then immediately walked to the place where he got the small silver clock based on his memory.Sure enough, his little clock was quietly staying where it was originally at this time, and the second hand was "tick-tick-tick" moving forward.

Looking at Lingsha again, she also found her own clock, but judging from her appearance, it was obvious that she received a greater shock.

"Look," Ling Sha took her wine-red alarm clock to play with, and turned it over, "These clocks are not imitations or phantoms. I engraved an L on the back of it, so this is what we got at the time. the clock!"

There was a crooked "L"-shaped notch on the body of the wine-red clock. As Ling Sha said, this was indeed the clock they got earlier.

Everyone was silent.Ling Sha's discovery meant that they did lose their clocks at some point in time without knowing it, and the clocks were put back as they were.

Is it human?Is it because there are other creatures in the wooden house or the system is messed up?

Lin Dong frowned, but didn't have a clue.

Didn't the system's instructions say, "After the bell rings, the player is deemed to have the bell"?So what is the situation now?

After thinking about it, Lin Dong picked up his small silver clock, walked to the door of the wooden house, opened the door and threw it out under the surprised eyes of Li Tan'er and Ling Sha.

"It's okay, since it is confirmed that this is our clock, as the owner, we should have the right to do so." Lin Dong explained, "This is an experiment to see if it will be thrown away, will it ..."

Lin Dong's voice stopped abruptly, it was obvious that he saw something, his eyes opened in disbelief, and he forgot to close his mouth.Following his gaze, Li Tan'er and Ling Sha also looked over, and they couldn't help but feel the creeps—in the place where the small silver clock was originally placed, with a burst of space distortion, the person who was thrown out of the wooden house by Lin Dong Xiao Zhong slowly appeared under the eyes of everyone.

"Tick tock", the second hand moved forward happily without being affected at all.

……

All kinds of weird situations in the death game are not uncommon for everyone, and they quickly calmed down from the shock at the beginning.

"The clock will automatically return to its original position, so what about the spider plant?" Ling Sha asked suddenly, walking to the spider plant next to the stairs, reaching out to pick its leaves.

"Don't touch it!" Lin Dong shouted.

"What's wrong?" Ling Sha barely stopped in mid-air, his pretty eyebrows slightly frowned.

"The reason why Lin Dong dared to experiment with Xiao Zhong is because we are the 'owners' of Xiao Zhong," Li Tan'er said slowly from the side, "but Chlorophytum is different. Do you still remember the players who failed the game here earlier? How did you die?"

Ling Sha thought for a while, his face changed, and he immediately let go of his hands, and stepped back a few steps like a conditioned reflex: "I was reckless. Lin Dong, thank you!"

Because he has experienced too many deaths, Ling Sha has already felt numb to the things that take people's lives around him, and he was almost deceived by those spider plants with the appearance of "time is quiet".She almost forgot that those who failed the game were swallowed alive by these spider plants and died without even bones left?

"It's okay," Lin Dong said, "it should."

Ling Sha nodded, feeling a little embarrassed.

"What do these phenomena explain?" Li Tan'er asked, "The name of our third game should be called 'Toxic Lunch'. Is there any connection with this phenomenon?"

Lin Dong thought for a while and said, "The three meals we had in the past few days seemed to be the same? Although breakfast, lunch, and dinner were different, they were all the same dishes in the past two days."

Li Tan'er nodded: "Although this is the case, I can't see anything for the time being."

Ling Sha said: "Then, do you want to go out now? It's already dark outside, and I don't think it would be a good choice to go out now."

"That's it for today," Lin Dong said. "It's just a matter of time to go back and sort out our thoughts, and see what effect our discovery has."

Li Tan'er agreed.

……

After arriving in his room, Lin Dong didn't directly think about the connection between what he just discovered and the "poisonous lunch", but went into the bathroom to take a shower.

Although it is a log cabin, the first and second floors do not look like they are in a house at all.The first floor gives people a sense of seclusion away from the world, while the second floor has a strong modern social atmosphere.

It's like the washroom in each person's room has the function of bathing, even towels, slippers, shower gel, and shampoo.

Lin Dong expressed his satisfaction and happily took a hot bath.After putting on her underwear, she sat on the bed naked and began to think about what she had just discovered.

A clock that doesn't change its position, and three meals that repeat every day...

Lin Dong suddenly remembered what Ge Yu said earlier - "The game has already begun".

started?Although the system broadcasted "game start" before, didn't it broadcast "game loading failed" again afterwards?

If the game has already started, the way to leave the game world is to win the game, but what if the game has not started?

Their current state is equivalent to an interval, between the second game and the third game, and for some reason the system has gone abnormal, causing them to be trapped in this interval and unable to escape.

Generally speaking, if you win the game, you can leave the game world, but how can they save themselves in this situation?

The best situation is of course to leave the game world directly after the game is over, but obviously they will not be so lucky, the system of the death game is not so easy to fool, even if there is an abnormality, they will never let people leave in vain.

Lin Dong thought, why does the game of death exist?To kill?If not, then why are the systems and Sombra in every game pursuing the maximum number of deaths?Isn't their system anomaly this time caused by the fact that all members survived?

Does it have to be dead?

Lin Dong thought silently and shook his head.No one wants to die, and no one wants to sacrifice themselves.

what can we do about it?

Lin Dong closed his eyes, gave up thinking, and the sound of breathing gradually became steady...he fell asleep.

……

On the third day into the game, Lin Dong was still woken up by his own small silver clock.Because of yesterday's discovery, Lin Dong immediately opened his eyes and searched for the small silver clock, but found nothing.It was as if the bell rang out of nowhere.

Lin Dong didn't even think about it, and didn't care about washing up. He hurriedly put on his shoes, opened the door, and rushed down the stairs to find the small silver clock.

The bell is indeed made by the small bell, but its bell is very special.Just like the voice of the sixth sister at that time, the voice of the silver-white little bell seemed to appear directly in Lin Dong's mind, and because he was standing in front of the little bell at this time, Lin Dong could hear bursts of bells ringing in his ears. The voice, singing in harmony with the voice in my head, is like a duet of alarm bells.

The morning noise was already harsh, but this was a double whammy.Lin Dong hurriedly pressed the alarm button of Xiaozhong, and finally got quiet.

Anyway, the little silver clock couldn't be taken away, so Lin Dong didn't take it away, but turned around and went upstairs, and went back to his room to wash up.When I came out, the long table was already full of breakfast.

Ge Yu recorded that breakfast and dinner appeared at eight o'clock in the morning and evening respectively, and lunch appeared at twelve o'clock in the noon.Lin Dong recalled the time he saw on the small silver clock just now, and found that it was indeed breakfast at around [-]:[-] in the morning.

As for the breakfast... bread, chicken, bacon, milk, cream of mushroom soup...

Nothing has changed, not even the plates on which the food is served.

Lin Dong suddenly had a bold guess, and he couldn't make it in time for dinner, so he went downstairs in a hurry and walked to the side of the small silver clock.

Holding the small silver clock in his hand, Lin Dong silently recited "Foreign Object Observation".

Nothing happens.

In other words, Xiao Zhong is not a foreign object, so the abnormality is not the problem of Xiao Zhong itself.If it is other items, Lin Dong still dare not make such a judgment, but because he is the owner of Xiao Zhong, if Xiao Zhong has any special abilities, he will definitely be classified as foreign objects, and Lin Dong must be able to find out.But now Lin Dong's silent recitation of "Foreign Object Observation" has no effect, which shows that the little clock is indeed just an ordinary little clock.

That being the case, where did all the abnormalities come from?

cabin?Lin Dong's eyes sank, and he walked to the wall to make some imprints.

If the wooden house itself has the ability to restore, will the mark he made disappear automatically after a period of time?

Outside the wooden house, the sunlight was just right, and the window sills were flooded through the windows.Some sunlight also shone on the Chlorophytum next to the window, making the green vine leaves more verdant.

It is exactly the same as when I saw it yesterday, it is still the same, giving people a false impression of peace and comfort.

Wait!

Lin Dong suddenly thought of something, turned around and ran upstairs, ignoring that everyone was eating breakfast, and said loudly: "Everyone, please listen to me!"

"The time on the second floor of this wooden house should be different from that on the first floor!"

Because he also came to the first floor at night, Lin Dong recalled the scene on the first floor at that time - the sun shines through the windows and fills the window sills.

It's night, how can there be sunshine?

……

Facts have proved that Lin Dong's conjecture is correct.The time on the first floor and the second floor of the log cabin is indeed different.Moreover, there is something similar to a psychological suggestion in the wooden house.When he came to the first floor to look at the small silver clock again, Lin Dong found that the time on the small clock was around 30:[-] p.m.After thinking about it carefully, Lin Dong noticed that when he got up and went downstairs to look for the little clock, the time on the clock was actually more than [-]:[-], but he told himself after going upstairs to see the breakfast that he saw The time is seven fifty.

Also, the three of them knew that it was night last night, but they turned a blind eye to the sunlight on the first floor. They knew that Lin Dong noticed something strange this morning because he recalled the scene last night.

Psychological suggestion is really a scary thing.

……

Knowing the pitfalls of the game, all that remains is to try various methods to win the game.Although the system has been reporting "game loading failed", it seems that this game called "Toxic Lunch" started secretly.

Players are still lucky.Everyone followed Li Tan'er's advice and stayed on the second floor until twelve noon, then brought all the lunch on the long table to the first floor, and then everyone stayed on the first floor.

Because the time on the first floor was after five o'clock in the afternoon, the players waited until noon the next day.

At noon the next day, the food that had been bright overnight suddenly began to rot and smell, producing poisonous green fluff, which made people want to vomit.

After dumping all of these lunches outside the cabin, it's game over.

……

"Ding Dong, congratulations to the trainee player 'Lin Dong' for successfully clearing the B-level game 'Oh, I've been discovered'."

"Player 'Lin Dong' scored 'A-', the reward will be issued after exiting the game.

……

After a whirlwind, Lin Dong finally left that unlucky B-level game world and returned to the system space.

Lin Dong didn't know what was going on, he seemed to have passed the last "poisonous lunch" inexplicably.Even the strange thing that Li Tan'er didn't notice was discovered by him, a rookie player... Lin Dong always felt that something was wrong.

And with that "A-" rating, Lin Dong knew how much he played in this game. Although he didn't pass the test, he definitely didn't have a very outstanding performance.

In the last "Ghost Groom", Lin Dong won the game entirely by himself, but only got a "B" evaluation.

Why is this?

At this moment, the system broadcast sounded again: "Ding Dong, all players in the second and third games escaped, and the evaluation level jumped three times."

"Ding dong ding dong world broadcast: Congratulations to a ninth-level player who successfully reached the S-level evaluation and received a special reward."

"Ding dong ding dong world broadcast: This player will join the S-level game 'Devil's Curse', please learn from him/her."

Lin Dong heard this broadcast from the system that was not usually used, and suddenly realized—is this the world broadcast?

So the S rating he got when he first entered the game was broadcast by this thing?

Moreover, this world broadcast will block the parties involved!

Lin Dong collapsed on the bed in the system space and sighed.When will the game of death really end?

He thought again of the woman he had met in the forest.She was the one who told Lin Dong about the world broadcast... and Yu Shuri in "Ghost Groom". Although people are unpredictable, there are always warm-hearted and kind people.

It's a pity that Yu Shuri died; that woman is probably dead too.

The woman I met in the forest was very domineering, and she walked much faster than Lin Dong.But she died without even entering the cabin.

Although Lin Dong didn't know what she looked like, he could distinguish her voice.Among the seven surviving players were three women, Tan Li, Ling Sha, and Li Tan'er, but it was obvious that none of them were her.

Even veteran players die at some point or another.

Lin Dong understood, there is no distinction between new players and old players in this game, everyone is just surviving in the cracks, just like in this vast world.

Besides, what excited and worried Lin Dong the most was the painting of Qu He.

Why, why, Qu He's paintings appear here?

Could it be that the reason for his disappearance was that he was involved in a death game?