Survivor's Guide to Survival

The purpose of Ning Xiao's mission is to find Professor Xu to complete the handover of the dice, but judging from the situation at the door, the formerly lively research institute is now empty.At this moment, only the footsteps of three people echoed in the corridor.

The research institute is very large, and every room is crowded with various high-precision instruments. The silver-gray look is extremely cold, and Guo Lu, who was curious to probe, couldn't help shivering: "There are too many things here, right?"

"The entire institute has 6 large laboratories and 15 observation rooms. In addition, Professor Xu and Professor Wu each have a dedicated office," Huo Yizhou said of the White Whistle Institute. predictive direction."

Knowing that his friend's dream is to enter a research institute and become a professional researcher, Guo Lu looked at Huo Yizhou very regretfully.

"Don't look at me like that," Huo Yizhou smiled, patted Guo Lu on the shoulder and turned his head to comfort him, "At least I visited the institute before graduation, didn't I?"

The three of them walked and looked all the way, and the doors of many rooms in the corridor were open. At a glance, the black sand in the room had piled up to a considerable amount. In a certain office, a huge clock was ticking, which added more weird feeling.

Thinking that these researchers turned into sand without knowing it in the process of tirelessly working hard for the future of mankind, the hearts of the three of them became heavy.Guo Lu carefully avoided the black sand at the door of another room, and saw several heavy fingerprints next to the siren button at the end of the corridor.He could almost imagine the panic and despair in the researcher who struggled to reach the siren and press the button, but this was destined to be a call for help that received no response, and the three of them arrived late.

The road has come to an end, and if we go on, we have to go upstairs.The piles of instruments here have turned into scrap copper and rotten iron because of the loss of electricity, Guo Lu felt that there was no need to continue going up.However, he still kindly asked the other two for their opinions: "Shall we go up again?"

Ning Xiao and Huo Yizhou nodded at the same time, and gave an affirmative answer: "Go up."

The road had come to an end, and Ning Xiao only felt that the dice in his chest, which had no temperature at all, began to feel faintly hot, and vibrated unconsciously, as if he was excited about something in this research institute.This abnormal situation strengthened his determination to go up.

"Then how do I get there?" Guo Lu looked at the long stairs, "It took me a long time to see each one."

Ning Xiao held the restless dice and said in a firm tone, "Follow me."

Therefore, Guo Lu and Huo Yizhou followed Ning Xiao all the way up the stairs, bypassed three flights of stairs, and finally stopped at the door of an office at the corner of the fourth floor.Guo Lu turned his head and glanced at the sign next to the office. It said "Xu Chengguo" on it.

Ning Xiao also noticed the sign next to the office, and had an inexplicable thought of "as expected".When he actually stood at the door of the office, the dice on his chest jumped more and more cheerfully, almost wanting to jump out of his collar without his control.

Huo Yizhou also looked at these three words. The business card he took from Professor Xu two weeks ago is still in his trouser pocket. He originally planned to come to this holy place of his dreams to check in last Tuesday, but it has been delayed until today, two weeks later.

Ning Xiao stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on the door twice. Before he could use any force, the door opened a crack from the inside, as if to welcome the three of them.

Open the door and walk in, the sunlight outside the window is divided by the blinds and sprinkled on the solid wood floor, half of which remains on the table, and at the same time divides the messy draft paper on the table.But this is not the most eye-catching thing. The three of them noticed the shocking pile of black quicksand under the office chair almost the second they walked into the office.

This is Professor Xu's office, and it goes without saying who the black sand under the office chair belongs to.

The three of them stood beside Heisha together for a long time without saying a word. Finally, Huo Yizhou moved first, and he bowed deeply facing Heisha.Then, Ning Xiao and Guo Lu silently bowed to Heisha.

Huo Yizhou straightened up, and his eyes fell on the pile of drafts on the table. On the top draft were written many messy numbers and formulas. Huo Yizhou only recognized a few of them, and most of them seemed so obscure that he could not understand them. Guess through messy and intermittent steps what the last derivation the professor was working on before he left.

Huo Yizhou gathered all the manuscript papers together, and stood by the table to check the content one by one. He found that almost all the manuscript papers were filled with a large number of numbers, and among them were the numbers that he wrote on the lecture ticket two weeks ago. The simple probability problem that was discovered.However, there is only one piece of manuscript paper without numbers written on it. On this piece, Professor Xu wrote a short line of poems in beautiful lines.Huo Yizhou read the poem while reading: "Mr. Fan is from Jiuzhou, and He Shouyao is from Yu."

The moment Huo Yizhou picked up the draft paper and read the sentence on it, a small box that had been tightly closed on the table suddenly opened, and a golden dice rolled out from the middle.

The dice rolled all the way to Huo Yizhou's hand, so Huo Yizhou had to stop thinking about the poem and picked it up.

After observing the dice at close range, Huo Yizhou found that it was almost exactly the same as the one held by Ning Xiao. The only difference was that only 5 was painted red on the six sides of Ning Xiao's golden dice, while Professor Xu The red one on the table is 1.

Is this the golden dice that Professor Xu wants to show himself?Huo Yizhou held the dice with a dazed expression.

"Wow, Xiao Zhou, you can actually hold the dice!" Guo Lu was observing the surroundings of the office just now, when he entered the door, he saw Huo Yizhou holding the golden dice that the two of them could not touch in the morning, in a daze, with a bit of a smile on his face. said joyfully.

Huo Yizhou came back to his senses, and tentatively handed the dice to Guo Lu: "Come and try?"

"Okay!" Guo Lu happily stretched out his hand to grab the dice, but before his hand touched the dice, he felt a familiar chill hit his forehead from afar, and he immediately retracted his hand vigilantly, shouting loudly Get up: "Wow, you are also a scheming man now! Why can you bear your coldness and use this method to deceive ignorant friends?"

"In fact," Huo Yizhou spread his backhand, and the red 1 suddenly appeared directly above, "This is another dice."

"What?" Guo Lu jumped up in surprise, and turned to look at Ning Xiao beside him.

Under Guo Lu's expectant eyes, Ning Xiao took off the golden dice hanging around his neck expressionlessly: "The red one in my hand is 5." So these are two different dice at all. .

The same gold, the same only one person can touch, there should be some connection between these two dice.However, dice experts have become the black sand under the office chair, and no one can answer this question.

"Click——" Just as the three of them fell silent, a strange sound suddenly sounded in the office, as if the play switch was pressed on an old tape.Ning Xiao immediately stood in front of Huo Yizhou vigilantly, putting on a defensive posture and ready to attack at any time.

After three clicks in a row, Professor Xu's familiar voice mixed with electricity slowly entered the ears of the three.

"Little classmate, if I didn't make a mistake in my calculation, you should be the one who successfully took away the golden dice," the elderly professor said with a slight smile in his voice, "If you increase the luck value a little more, Colonel Ning should be right next to you." around."

Huo Yizhou glanced at Ning Xiao's back subconsciously, and found that his back was also stiff, and then slowly relaxed.

"You once asked me if the future could be calculated, and I gave you an ambiguous answer. In fact, what I have been doing all these years is to use calculations to avoid possible disasters in the future," the voice of the old professor With a trace of melancholy in his heart, "It's a pity that disaster is inevitable."

"Fortunately, we have a group of young people who are still fighting for their lives. I firmly believe that as long as you are still survivors, we humans will never disappear."

"The golden dice on the table is the last gift I give you to solve the lecture puzzle. I hope you and Colonel Ning pass the game with the dice as soon as possible," the old professor's voice began to be covered by the sound of electricity, "I wish you all good luck .”

Before the word "luck" was finished, the sound of the electric current became louder and louder, covering up the words of exhortations that might appear next.The piercing electric sound continued for 5 minutes before it stopped.

Holding the golden dice in his hand, Huo Yizhou felt his heart was in a panic—at the last moment of his life, this old scientist still cared about the safety of all mankind. He expressed his encouragement to young people in a joking and gentle tone, and even put The precious golden dice were reserved for myself who had only seen one side.In the past, Huo Yizhou didn't believe in the so-called saying of having great love in his heart.But at this moment, he was convinced that he had touched the brilliance of humanity in the teachings of the old professor.

The three searched carefully in the office, but found nothing else.According to Professor Xu's recording, Ning Xiao took away the golden dice that he had brought from the Sky Base, while Huo Yizhou also hung the dice on Professor Xu's desk on his body.Before leaving, Huo Yizhou hesitated for a few seconds, but chose to put all the draft papers in his bag.

Leaving the White Whistle Institute with a heavy heart, the three returned to the car.After the car started, it drove towards the outskirts of the city, and the three of them officially embarked on the road to Pingcheng.

After setting off on the road, Huo Yizhou took out the manuscript paper he had brought back from his bag, staring at the only piece of paper on which the poem was written and stared blankly.

Huo Yizhou knew this poem, which came from one of the "Nine Songs" by Qu Yuan, a famous poet in the Spring and Autumn Period, "Da Si Ming".The general idea is "I will decide the length of life of the common people in this world."

In a sense, the clearing system in the game at this moment is indeed responsible for the so-called "big command". Who should survive and who will die depends on the will of the system, which can be called bad.

This is undoubtedly a cold and arrogant sentence. The person who left the message regards himself as the god who rules people's lifespan, and easily uses unnatural laws to sentence the survivors who are trying to live.

However, is this the original intention of Professor Xu's words?Huo Yizhou stared at the manuscript paper, lost in thought for a while.