"Are you guys going to quarrel with us here?" Lu Tao said, very calmly, completely out of the usual green tea temperament, "During my live broadcast? Charge us with unwarranted charges in front of the whole world? No matter It is not an appropriate approach in any way? If we really have something inside, shouldn't we flatter us? Rather, what kind of thoughts did the first person who questioned us have? First What is the purpose of a person who calls out our identities?" She looked at the foreigner in Northeast China, "You have been inciting others, and you suggested climbing the wall, but why didn't you think of jumping off at all? Here When there is no way, jumping over the wall and jumping to the other side is a natural idea, right? You went up the wall, pretended to see some secret, and jumped down again, why is that?"

These words successfully diverted attention, and many people showed thoughtful expressions, and the eyes they looked at the foreigners in Northeast China changed.

"I just didn't expect it." The Northeast foreigner spread his hands, his face innocent, "What's so strange about this?"

"Of course it's strange, because your actions are not in line with ordinary people." Xiao Yang joined in, "It's as if you are deliberately leading others to the wall."

The Shanghai foreigner didn't know whether he was numb from the pain or he was used to it. His wailing turned into anger: "I knew you had bad intentions! You did it on purpose!"

The foreigner from Northeast China took a step back and stayed away from the foreigner from Shanghai. This move naturally felt guilty in the eyes of others.

Suspicious neighbor stealing an ax is not just an idiom, but also a microcosm of reality. Once there is doubt, people's cognition will involuntarily find a reason for the conclusion drawn by the brain.

"She was right. He was the one who started the action. He said that going to the wall is the only way."

"No, no, no, it was mentioned by another person at the beginning...Where is the person? It looks like a local, I remember the dark one."

"But he followed suit, and he jumped the wall too!"

"I still think these two Chinese are more suspicious..."

"What's the benefit of fighting the Chinese here? Especially these two people know the chief examiner."

Amidst the discussion, Xiao Yang and Lu Tao looked at each other and fell silent in unison. Sometimes people are so strange, some people are born confidants, and tacit understanding can be formed without words.

"Did you hear the sound?" An abrupt Chinese voice with a strange accent sounded. People looked at a middle-aged white male with an astonishing tonnage. He was wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots, and he looked like a A cowboy in the American West, his weathered face makes him look older than his actual age, and his voice is hoarse and deep because he has been smoking for many years, and the words he said are even more disturbing, "very muffled voice."

"There are voices everywhere!" Chongqing waimeier mocked, "Everyone is talking!"

"No, it's not... It's a bit like talking through something." The middle-aged cowboy showed his attention, tilted his head and listened, "It seems to be... help. That's right, help, HELP!"

The voice of the middle-aged cowboy's speech was not loud, only the people around heard it. People quieted down, trying to distinguish the truth from the words. This quietness spread like an infection. Slowly, in this square space It became dead silent.

My sister from Chongqing frowned and listened for a long time, then said, "No."

Before the words fell, a dull "HELP" came to everyone's ears. In the silent environment, this life-saving sentence was extremely successful in arousing goosebumps of everyone.

"Help... Allah... HELP... Help..."

After listening carefully for a while with the feeling of horror, someone first raised a question: "I seem to hear an 'Allah'? Muslim?"

"No." The Northeast foreigner's nonchalant expression changed. He frowned and looked at the Shanghai foreigner lying against the wall, "Is that 'I' in Shanghai dialect?"

The Shanghai foreigner, whose ankles were twisted and folded, no longer wailed at this moment, and lowered his head, silent as if dead.

"Is he dead?" a voice asked.

"No." Xiao Yang also felt that something was wrong, "Look at his chest, he is breathing."

"Is that what he was talking about?"

As if to refute this sentence, a dull "HELP" sounded again, and people were sure that this was definitely not what the lying Shanghai foreigner said.

The fact is a bit strange, the person lying down did not make a sound, but the voice was the person lying down?

The Northeast foreigner snorted, and instead of cowering, he leaned over and grabbed the Shanghai foreigner's arm, and said loudly, "It's no use playing tricks... drink!"

There was no pain on the raised face of the Shanghai foreigner, and there was even a pure smile on his face. His feet were still distorted but his expression was completely opposite.

"Who are you?" Lu Tao immediately launched an attack, and it is indeed effective to strike first, "You are not the original person!"

"I am." The Shanghai foreigner waved his hand indifferently, and even moved his reflexed ankle. The dangling feet looked horrifying, as if they would fall off at any time. right."

"If you say that, it proves that you are not!" Xiao Yang said sternly, "Who are you? Or, what are you?!"

This sentence got to the point, the Shanghai foreigner grinned and showed eight pale teeth, leaned back against the wall leisurely, and said: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm a wounded patient, I don't want to have more disputes, What can I do if you say that? You don't know me, and I don't know you, even if I want to prove something? You are just trying to draw people's attention away from yourself. , I understand that no one wants to be the focus at this time."

After a short silence, Lu Tao whispered, "It's the misfortune that was diverted from the east, not from the south."

Everyone: "..."

Is it time to say this?

However, such a topic has attracted the attention of others, and the Northeast foreigner said: "Why don't you speak Shanghainese?"

The Shanghai foreigner raised his eyelids and rolled his eyes. He seemed too lazy to pay attention and said nothing.

"You have always liked to speak Shanghainese." The foreigner from Northeast China insisted, "Why don't you speak it?"

The Shanghai foreigner seemed to have made up his mind to ignore it, and looked away without saying a word. When the situation was at a stalemate, another "Help" sounded. This time someone paid attention, and soon discovered the source of the sound-inside the wall.

The wall that the Shanghai laowai leaned on was also the wall that the Shanghai laowai and the Northeast laowai climbed up, and there were intermittent dull cries for help.

After people discovered this, soon, more situations attracted attention.

"The relief on this wall... has changed?"

The reliefs are some uneven lines, very round and not that kind of sharp shape. Some people have studied it when they came in, and they have seen it from far and near, but they didn't find any information or objects.At this time, those round lines changed, and when everyone was staring at them, a certain line clearly "moved". For example, it was like someone moving under a layer of extremely tight plastic skin. The lifting part is constantly moving, very penetrating.

The participants took a step back unconsciously, staying away from the wall and the Shanghai laowai, for fear that something would suddenly come out.

At this time, a question was being discussed in the barrage in the live broadcast room.

"The market has opened, the market has opened, how long will it take for them to find out that the Shanghai foreigners were transferred when they jumped off?"

"I bet you never find out."

That's right, when the foreigner in Shanghai was jumping, the screen in the live broadcast room turned to face the falling side.

It was a very ordinary maze passage, different from the square space in that there were no lines on the walls, it was bare and flat.

The scream of the Shanghai foreigner when his ankle was broken covered up the movement of the wall, but his eyes quickly caught the sudden appearance of raised lines on the wall. Then, these lines expanded into a human form, and countless strands "grow" out of the human form. The yellow sand, coiled into strands of rope-like tentacles, stabbed directly at his upper body!

At this time, the upper body of the Shanghai foreigner is hidden on the other side of the wall, and the yellow sand tentacles appear from the part of the wall covered by him. In addition to the cleverly switched angles of the live broadcast camera, no matter who is in the square, Even Xiao Yang on the wall didn't see the mystery.

So, right under Xiao Yang's nose, the yellow sand tentacles unscrupulously burrowed into the upper body of the Shanghai foreigner!

He screamed with all his might, forgetting the pain of his broken ankle, those yellow sand tentacles penetrated into his clothes, penetrated into his skin with severe pain, spread up under the skin, and then drilled out mischievously , Drilling back from the mouth, nostrils, eyes and ears, after a while, blood vessel-like things protruded under his skin, his pupils were covered with a layer of yellow sand, the entire eyeballs were yellow, his voice was still making, his body Still active, but his expression suddenly calmed down.

The moment Xiao Yang pulled Shanghai up, the weird skin condition and calm expression quickly disappeared, and he was anxious and in pain, screaming like an ordinary person who just broke his ankle.

"I'm a little strange, this person, probably don't tell me what got into his body, why would he admit it? If he refuses to admit it, no one will be able to tell that he is not him!"

"Indeed, so it's actually a trap?"

"I don't think so. The arrangements made by Chinese chief examiners generally have some meaning."

"I think it should be to shake the participants. If this product is replaced, will I be replaced too?"

"Speaking of which, the inside of this square is actually the safe zone, isn't it? It was possessed from the outside."

"Hey, if that's the case, what happened to those who chose to turn around earlier?"

"There was also a podcaster in that group. I saw that more than a dozen people had died."

"Damn, what an exaggeration!?"

"Don't listen to the nonsense, just three or four people were replaced, and then this group of people fought on their own."

Humans sometimes have strong identification of the same kind. Methods such as dental molds, fingerprints, blood types, and even DNA can guarantee 100% identification, even if it is deliberately concealed, it is useless. From another perspective, it is very weak. Without technological means , Memory, appearance, dress or language are all meaningless, and the closest people will also admit mistakes, and even confuse two completely unrelated or even completely different looks.

The same is true for choices, no one knows whether to go to the left or to the right, even if there is a difference for a while, it may not be reversed in the future.

Those who were lucky not to be locked in a square space regretted it not long ago: there are things in those plain walls!

At first a few people thought it was dizziness, then the movement in the wall became more and more loud, and finally, in front of many people, a yellow sand man came out of the wall, grabbed the head closest to him, and opened his mouth wide. Swallow it!

The crowd immediately exploded, and countless people screamed and ran away from the wall, but so what?The maze is all composed of yellow sand walls, and even the feet are yellow sand.

The crowd fled in the maze with ghosts and wolves. From time to time, something came out of the wall, grabbed someone and dragged him into the wall. He grabbed the clothes of the people around him tightly, and begged for help with a grim expression-the result of doing so was usually that the two of them were pulled into the wall together.

The people in the square space heard these chaotic cries, sometimes near and sometimes far away, and once they kept quiet, the sounds sounded even more thrilling.

At this moment, the Shanghai foreigner said, "Do you want to go out?"

The participants looked at each other.

The Northeast foreigner snorted: "I don't want to, it's good to stay inside. Hearing the voices outside, I guess there are people doing trouble outside. At least it's safe inside."

"Then you are going to stay here forever? Although it is safe, you will definitely fail in the end." The Shanghai foreigner said calmly, "The chief examiner said that the awakening ceremony will end in nine days, and those who have not passed the customs by then will be considered failures. You can guarantee that your lives will be safe, but you will definitely not be able to become awakened ones. What is the purpose of coming? Isn’t it just to become awakened ones?”

These words hit the minds of the participants, and people's expressions changed. Some people avoided the eyes of Shanghai foreigners, trying to cover up their inner turmoil.

A Shanghai foreigner speaks out the blow of decision: "Only I know how to get out of here."

"You're lying!" the Northeast foreigner said hurriedly, "We don't even know what you are! You may not even be human! Why do you want to help us?"

"I'm not helping you, I'm helping myself." The Shanghai foreigner seemed to be tired of playing the substitution game, and stood up staggeringly leaning on the wall. Ankle, forming a new ankle joint part—it is quite ergonomic—he moved his foot and said with a satisfied expression, "I am a participant just like you."

"how is this possible!"

"what are you?"

"fraud……"

Whispers sounded, but no one said it in person. People looked at the Shanghai laowai with fear and anticipation.

"I came in from another entrance. It was a straight road. After walking for a long time, the walls began to grab people, like sinking into quicksand." The expression of the Shanghai foreigner turned cold, and he said gloomyly, "You must not I would like to experience it, like being digested by something, no, maybe assimilation, I can’t say. The strange thing is that my consciousness has not disappeared, I can move freely in the wall, and gradually find that the people in the wall are getting more and more There are more and more... just as you think, these, these lines, are part of the shape of the human body, we want to come up with it, but it is impossible, we can only struggle in the wall."

Following the description of the Shanghai foreigner, the participants became more and more frightened. They gathered in the center of the square space and kept as far away from the walls as possible, as if they could ignore those raised lines.As if sensing the fear of these people, the lines of the wall suddenly squirmed violently, and the things inside showed their crazy intentions.

"Don't worry, people inside the wall can't get out of this safe point." The Shanghai foreigner expressed disdain for everyone's timidity, "You are so lucky, the first place you encounter after entering is the safe point, Bad luck, so to speak, because there is no exit from a safe point."

"But you said that you know how to get out!" Chongqing's waimeier said eagerly, "If you were a participant, how would you know?!"

"You will know once you enter the wall, including how to replace the people outside and how to leave the safe point. These will be known naturally." The Shanghai foreigner told the facts coldly. He looked at Xiao Yang and said very annoyed, " It's a pity that I can't leave here alone, if it wasn't for some idiot who insisted on pulling me up, I would have already run away."

Xiao Yang smiled: "You can run when I pull you up, and I won't stop you."

The Shanghai foreigner probably didn't expect to be so choked up, he was stunned for a while, and said: "If it wasn't for my needing time to repair my leg..."

"So you can't run away at all, so don't talk big." Lu Tao immediately picked out the thorn, "The key point! How do we get out!"

The expression of the Shanghai foreigner was very unhappy, and he probably wanted to choke. He and Xiao Yang looked at each other stubbornly for a few seconds, then gave up losing their temper, and said straight to the point: "It's very simple, just cast a vote."

"What vote?" Someone asked in disbelief, "It's so simple?"

"Yes, it's that simple." The Shanghai foreigner said mockingly, "The content of the vote is also very simple, whether to abandon this person and leave here."

Lu Tao frowned: "Which person?"

The Shanghai foreigner pointed to himself: "This person, the original person, the person inside the wall."

Probably after hearing this sentence, a large piece of the wall behind the Shanghai foreigner bulged violently, exposing human arms and sternum, as well as the blurred face and wide open mouth, vividly depicting a person who is screaming and screaming. shouting people.

Some women screamed in horror, and reflexively hid towards the tall man beside them, but Lu Tao walked over calmly, facing the figure on the wall and asked, "Are you with us? Talk about Shanghai The Mandarin one?"

"...Yes...I...Save me...Nong..." Intermittent voices came from inside the wall, as if a force was suppressing the people inside the wall, those protruding figures were pulled back, and the wall gradually recovered Into a calm appearance.

"Is he still alive?" someone asked.

"Alive." The standing Shanghai foreigner said, "Otherwise, what am I?"

"But... what about your body?" Another person asked doubtfully.

"Of course not!" The Shanghai foreigner glared, "Now is not the time to talk about this, you need to make a decision as soon as possible!"

"Why?" Xiao Yang asked, "This is a safe zone, and we are not in danger."

"How can you guarantee that you will have enough time to get out of the maze in the end?" the Shanghai foreigner said disdainfully, dissatisfied with the leisurely attitude of these people, "If you stay here all the time, you can only get out safely, which is meaningless."

"But it's a loss for you, right?" Lu Tao and Xiao Yang sang together, pressing on the Shanghai laowai step by step, "You need victory more urgently than us."

"Me? At least I still have my body." The Shanghai foreigner said bitterly, "And I have the information you want to know. How do you get through this maze? What's outside? What does the safe zone mean? If you don't want to know, I won't tell you." Already!"

The arrogance of the crowd was suppressed, and they surrendered without saying a word.

The Shanghai foreigner raised his chin and said proudly: "The simplest vote, as long as everyone gives up this product, we can leave. I will definitely leave, who else?" He raised his hand.

At first, no one responded.

"Is there no other way?" Facing the screaming and struggling figure on the wall, it is natural to ask such a question.

"No!" The Shanghai foreigner said categorically, "Unless you are willing to go out and act as a substitute for him, oh, not necessarily, maybe someone else snatched your body, are you willing to go?"

"Can we break the wall?" Xiao Yang tried to punch the wall a few times, leaving shallow marks, and recovered quickly.

"That's a human being." The Shanghai foreigner sneered, "You can try to see what came out of the wall."

Lu Tao was a little unhappy: "Will they die in the end?"

The answer of the Shanghai foreigner became more and more concise: "I will die, there is no other way, vote."

In the quiet crowd, two raised hands appeared again.

"This is so strange!" Xiao Yang said angrily, "There is nothing here, the only way to get out is to sacrifice our companions?"

"What if I add a setting to this person who wants to abandon you?" The Shanghai foreigner immediately said, "Besides, he really wants to leave you alone."

"That's right." Some people echoed this at first, "Isn't it because of selfishness that he will be replaced?"

Gradually new arms were raised.

"I mean here, this way of leaving!" Xiao Yang explained, "What if no one is replaced?"

"Then no one can get out." The Shanghai foreigner said, "There are no exceptions."

"Is there no other test or method?" Xiao Yang asked.

"No." The Shanghai foreigner said, "Here, abandoning your companions is the only option."

This is a simple test. It does not require skills, courage, or even responsibility and conscience alone. Among the crowd, the last few can say "I was forced by others. I must consider the welfare of the majority." ", the first few can say "hypocrisy, I agree, I have no other choice".

It's easy and hard at the same time.

"Are they bound to die?" It's not that Lu Tao has never seen dead people, but is it right to give up a life that is not worthy of death so easily?

"They will definitely die." The Shanghai foreigner seemed a little impatient, "What are you hesitating about? Is it because he is guilty and it will be easier to raise your hand? You don't know him, just like you don't know me. If I Is he a good person? I have done a lot of good things, why should I be dragged into the wall to die? I have a daughter with leukemia in my family, and I can’t get a place in the Whitsunday Island, so I come here to work hard. If I say this, can you Raise your hand faster?" He raised his voice, "Don't make any more drama, this is just a choice! No matter what kind of background, you can't hide the fact that you have abandoned him!"

Xiao Yang looked around, more and more hands were raised, the skin color was different, some were black, some were brown, some were white and some were yellow, and there were more and more determinations on the faces with different expressions.

"I understand." Xiao Yang muttered to himself, "In this whole maze, there is only choice."

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