The Colosseum...
This word puzzled Ringo a little.
He didn't know the earth very well in the first place, and his past memories were blank.
The only thing he knows about the earth and mankind comes from the few words of other taskers and the books he read in Xu Beijin's bookstore.
Therefore, he was completely unaware of the bloody and murderous breath behind the word Colosseum.
He just asked inexplicably, "Isn't this a playground?"
The man chuckled imperceptibly, and said in a tone of implied arrogance: "Sir, the playground is just appearance. For human beings, it is playground for them to play, but it is for others to play. Yes, it is the Colosseum."
Ringo tilted his head, thought about it in confusion, and finally came to a conclusion: "Making a mystery."
The man looked at him, inevitably showing a little displeased expression.
For this waiter at the Colosseum, he is proud of the Colosseum. Generally speaking, the "beasts" and "beaches" who come to the Colosseum will be dying after being destroyed by the jumping machine.
They were frightened by such a terrible feeling, so they had to do their best in the fight that followed.
They don't want to die, and if blood and killing mean their hope of survival, then they will desperately seize this hope.
Unfortunately, they will never leave the Colosseum. The so-called "hope" is nothing more than spectacle.
But the Colosseum never made it clear. They hide these clauses in various hidden corners, or in various complicated and confusing clauses.
When those people really despair and want to resist, they said lightly, "But, you really agreed to this clause."
The price of resistance is death.
The Colosseum is a deformed product derived from the spread of madness among humans.
Everyone knows a certain real battle royale, that place is big enough to rob humans from all over the world, so everyone is in danger.
But no one knew the existence of the Colosseum, or they didn't want to mention it.
Therefore, the person who appeared in front of Ringo thought that perhaps this rude fellow didn't understand what happened, he might not understand the prestige of the Colosseum, and he hadn't realized what doom waiting for him would look like.
Therefore, this person's attitude immediately eased, and he smiled and said, "Perhaps you still don't understand. Come with me, you can understand all of this."
Ringo nodded casually.
They walked through the various facilities of the playground, and finally came to the theater. There will always be places like this in large amusement parks, where some funny dramas will be staged, if humans are not crazy.
Now that people are crazy, what's going on here is different.
As soon as he approached, Ringo heard deafening cheers. He looked over in amazement and thought to himself, is the playground of the earth actually like this
"Oh! This is our No. 3 player! As soon as he came on the field, he made a provocative gesture to the "Beastmaster" who had won consecutive battles!
"Is he sure? He is so contemptuous and disdainful of our "Beastmaster", is he so powerful? !
OMG, this is the first time a player has played, the young people nowadays are really amazing!
"Okay, the game begins! The third player, like he has always been, approached the "Beastmaster" very actively, but what about the "Beastmaster"? The Beastmaster is waiting at ease!
"In the eyes of the Beastmaster, this is just a little brat who can't help himself! That's right, this is our Beastmaster! Our ultimate king! The eternal Beastmaster!
"Okay, the first round of trial failed, and the number three player chose another method to try. Oh, oh...
Audiences, this is not my intentional voice, I'm really so excited! The number three player actually chose to attack!
"Injury for injury! Now the third player's left hand is in a distorted posture, and where is the Beastmaster? The Beastmaster's right foot is actually crippled!
Is the Beastmaster underestimating the enemy? ! Now he has an injury in his leg, which is not a good sign!
"My God, the number three player is too crazy! The first time I met such a fierce, savage, and cruel player in the arena!
Even the Beastmaster was retreating under his attack! No, the right foot of the Beastmaster is really a big drag!
"Are we actually going to see the Beastmaster defeated by the victorious Beastmaster?! Audiences, this is an absolutely rare scene!"
"Oh, okay. This, perhaps, is the inexperience of player number three? Uh, our Beastmaster is an experienced player. He can see the flaws of player number three, maybe it's quite normal
"Well, viewers, this is a hastily ended confrontation. The number three player is so aggressive, but unfortunately he still loses to the veteran Beastmaster's experience. Let us congratulate the Beastmaster for his 100th victory!
"As for the number three player, I believe this painful experience will make him soberly aware of the strength of the Beastmaster and his own weakness. Uh, if he can survive."
Ringo listened with interest, and was startled when he heard the end.
He walked into the theater with the waiter beside him.
Oncoming heat waves, noisy human voices, mixed with stench of blood. A strangely fanatical, blazing atmosphere burned as if boiling in the arena. Countless people cheered for joy because of the death of one person.
Ringo glanced at a figure falling down on the stage and a figure showing muscles with his teeth and claws beside him, and then turned away with interest.
The waiter beside him said softly: "Are you interested in participating in such a grand event?"
Ringo glanced at him, and said concisely: "No..."
"If you want to participate..." the waiter instinctively continued as usual, and then reacted, "Uh? You are not... not interested?"
Ringo said blankly, "Yes..."
If the tasker in the narrow building is here, perhaps the uncrowned king at the bottom of the narrow building is already a bit irritable. The signs before he ran away are really easy to see.
It's a pity that the waiter doesn't know the reputation of the man in front of him.
The waiter was only surprised for a moment, and said with a smile: "Oh, it's a pity that you have passed the audit. I'm afraid..."
He pointed to the stage lightly, "That is your eternal home. Otherwise, you won't be able to leave the Colosseum."
Ringo sighed deeply.
The waiter thought he was going to give in.
Ringo moved his wrists and said to himself: "That's right, I don't choose to use violence to solve problems now. After all, Beijin doesn't like me like this."
The waiter listened blankly, thinking strangely, who is Beijin
And Ringo said, "But this ghost place... Beijin isn't here." He gave the waiter an unhappy smile, "So, I'm sorry."
He said: "It's easier to do it."
Within ten minutes, Ringo's figure was like a phantom and circled around the court, wherever he went, everyone was like a softened, soulless reed.
The mad Beastmaster didn't have any chance to backhand in front of him, so he kicked him to the side.
He didn't kill anyone. Everyone was just in a coma, maybe they would wake up after a while.
But it was this incredible mastery of strength that allowed Ringo's unfathomable force value to be perfectly displayed once again.
Then he returned to the waiter, still expressionless, just asking: "I need to find a door."
The waiter shivered: "You... I will take you to find it."
Ringo nodded in satisfaction.
The problem was solved without being discovered by Xu Beijin... The plan passed.
Lin Ozhi triumphantly followed the waiter to the backstage of the theater.
Xu Beijin: "..."
Good guy, is this the little apple that is well-behaved and obedient in front of him
He was so angry and funny, he couldn't help thinking, if the audience in the live broadcast room saw this scene.
Maybe you have to make fun of Ringo’s sneaky little action, just like the misfortune that your partner happened to see when he was hiding private money...
But Xu Beijin also felt that Ringo's approach was also quite good. There is no point in communicating and competing with such a lunatic, and you can solve it directly.
At this point, Xu Beijin and Ringo reached an unprecedented unity.
In addition, this Colosseum was actually more afraid of Ringo's extraordinary force value than other scenes.
Ringo didn't even find the owner of this cellular nightmare, nor did he understand the more specific details and experiences of this scene.
When he stepped across the stage to the backstage curtain, a thick gray mist emerged, and a door appeared at the same time.
So Ringo left this nightmare scene so quickly... Although it was indeed a "nightmare."
Xu Bei quietly watched Ringo's actions. Compared with other taskers, Ringo's experience in these cellular nightmares was very relaxing and comfortable.
He only needs to follow the direction indicated by his instinct, or use unreasonable force value to solve all problems.
Although this is a crushing game, Xu Beijin still inevitably thinks, what does Ringo's characteristic mean
As he got closer to the moment he met with NE, Xu Beijin felt a thicker cloud covering his heart.
Why will NE change? Can they really leave the narrow building? And Ringo
Xu Beijin felt an indescribable depression, he thought, maybe it was the almost fainting experience before, which made him a little tired.
He unconsciously distracted himself to think about some other things. When he returned to his mind, he found that more and more people were regaining self-consciousness.
First, Mu Jiashi and Wu Jian, and then He Shujun.
Xu Beijin discovered that NE seemed to be deliberately controlling, so that at least one of these taskers in the team regained self-awareness.
He Shujun and the goddess came to a classroom in a certain school. This is probably the classroom for senior high school students, plastered with slogans and slogans, as well as textbooks and test papers.
But these are all things in the past. Half of the slogan has fallen off, and the textbooks are also full of dust.
From an unclosed window, there was even creeper creeping in with its vigorous branches.
So this is just a trace of the past. A screenshot, although the scene in the picture is always frozen at that moment, time is still going on outside the picture.
When He Shujun came to this place, she immediately fell into trance silence.
The goddess looked at her, then looked at this place, and if she seemed to realize something, she stood there quietly, looking at her gently.
But after a long time, He Shujun reluctantly pulled out a smile and said: "Sorry... I remembered some past events."
"It's okay..." the goddess said, "The important thing is not to let the past become a cage that binds us. We have made up for the regrets of the past throughout our lives, but now is really in our hands."
He Shujun took a deep look at the goddess.
She thought, what does she know? She probably didn't know anything. The goddess just habitually use these babbled words of the gods and gods.
But she thought again, what the goddess said was really right.
She took a breath and felt her emotions slowly calm down. It is not so much that she feels such a deep shake to restore her self-awareness, but rather it is this place.
So she said, "Let's go. I know where the "door" of this scene is. "
The goddess followed in her footsteps and said hesitantly: "You don't seem to want to go there."
He Shujun laughed ironically. Coming to this place completely wiped out her exposed and pretentious optimism.
She couldn't control her writhing emotions, but in fact that emotion, even she herself didn't even know where it came from.
She thought, she had been here before. At a farther and farther point in time, it comes from a longer and irreversible past. From outside the narrow building. From the earth.
She said: "Let me tell you a story." She looked around again, and muttered, "I really hate... NE, why did you let me come here again?"
She just complained, and then fell silent for a moment.
They walked out of this classroom, and then walked down the stairs.
"Where are we going?" the goddess asked.
He Shujun thought for a while, and then said: "Dormitory..."
The goddess asked curiously: "Does the dormitory have anything to do with the classroom just now?"
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He Shujun thought for a while, and then asked: "What do you think will be the attitude of people towards the college entrance examination after madness has spread among all human beings?"
The goddess hesitated and said: "I have a daughter... I can't say the mentality of being a mother. Maybe I will value the college entrance examination results more paranoidly?"
He Shujun discovered that when the goddess mentioned her daughter, her attitude and tone were unexpectedly normal. This means that the goddess is still a normal person after all
She was only curious for a moment, and then she said, "Yes. Crazy can lead to extremes."
She said, "Not only to the children, but also to the parents. Of course, there are some people who are more indifferent.
"However, it is more common to value college entrance examination results like crazy. No, this is crazy."
When he said this, He Shujun thought of the scene he had seen before in the nightmare when the sky fire came to the world. In educational institutions, the blood of parents becomes the ink of children.
Thinking about it, there was a trace of disgust in her eyes.
He Shujun thought, her parents were not like this. Her parents are tolerant, considerate, and understanding, at least in the exam.
Her parents were not like this, and she was not like that... However, the experiences of the people around her, her classmates, her friends, and her relatives were completely different from those of He Shujun.
When many taskers see He Shujun, they will ignore her age.
Others think she is just a young woman, even if she always has a lively jumping vigor and a relaxed tone. However, no one would think that she was a girl.
But there have never been any girls in the narrow building. Even a little girl has already been polished by the life of the narrow house to be mature and sophisticated that does not match her appearance. So of course He Shujun is the same.
At the age of seventeen or eighteen, if she is more mature in her dress and more sophisticated in her temperament, then of course people just think she is young, not that she is a minor.
Therefore, no one knew that He Shujun had just grown up when he entered the narrow building.
She has just finished the college entrance examination for a few months... Maybe so, after all, she only has a very vague memory of the college entrance examination.
She vaguely knew that she only entered the narrow building after the college entrance examination was over. She had this impression. In her self-recognition, she remembered that she was a high school graduate.
But how did she spend her senior year in high school? She didn't remember at all.
When other taskers talked about their memory problems, He Shujun always listened quietly, as if she didn't care at all, and as if she was so lively and optimistic by nature, so she didn't care about the past things at all.
She doesn't really want to mention her memory problems, at least she doesn't really want to mention... the subject of the college entrance examination.
Only she knows why.
Because of... this nightmare. This nightmare seemed to reveal to a certain extent why she resisted the memory of the past. It is really better not to know than to know.
In the nightmare that skyfire came to the world, she had already seen the abnormal parenting relationship between parents and children in some crazy times;
In this scene, they may be able to see something more terrifying and extreme.
And this is not just a... nightmare.
Now everyone knows that the end has really happened. And they, those who have entered Xu Bei’s nightmare, even know that the end is divided into two stages.
So they all thought to themselves, what if those nightmares really happened to them, or even to them, what would happen
But many of them do not have this kind of real feeling;
For example, A1 and A2, they participate in this nightmare with a relaxed attitude, like a paid tour.
And of course there are several people. When they discuss all kinds of news about the doomsday, their eye contact can convey a special message that can only be understood by each other.
They have all entered a certain nightmare, and that nightmare may be related to the past they have forgotten.
But none of them took the initiative to speak, and frankly explained what the nightmare was.
But... Xu Beijin's nightmare allowed them to return to that scene and situation, allowing them to revisit their old places.
And these nightmares have all come to the garbage dump in the narrow building, as if their memories have been thrown into this unconcerned place together, and they are worthless.
Thinking of this, He Shujun inevitably showed a weird expression.
They slowly approached their destination—the dormitory. But along the way, the goddess couldn't help feeling strange: "Is it... too quiet here?"
This can never be a school with only a third year of high school, and there must be students of other ages.
Even if students in the third year of high school want to study hard, why do students of other ages have no voice at all
He Shujun smiled subtly. She said: "That's it. This is a school... specially for senior high school students."
The goddess was a little surprised: "Specially gather together?"
"Yes. To create an atmosphere?" He Shujun shrugged, "No way, the whole society is crazy. Parents, teachers, and students are crazy. The Ministry of Education is also crazy."
The goddess shook her head and murmured: "An uneasy atmosphere permeates the whole society."
"I don't know if it should be described as uneasy. Maybe it's better to use crazy." He Shujun was a little bit euphemistic.
But in fact, she didn't think it was uneasy. Or, madness amplifies any kind of extreme emotions
They walked through empty classrooms and playgrounds, as well as canteens, canteens, infirmaries, water fetching rooms... There was no one everywhere.
The goddess thought for a while, and felt that something was wrong: "Since the purpose of bringing these senior high school students together is to study, then why is there already a layer of dust in the classroom, and the students are missing?"
He Shujun said: "We are going to find them."
"Dormitory?" the goddess muttered with a weird expression, "but don't they go to the classroom... They study in the dormitory?"
"To save time."
The goddess hesitated to speak but stopped.
Looking at the thick layer of ash accumulated in the classroom, you know that the students have not been to the classroom for a long time. It may take several months. It’s the turn of spring and summer, even if it’s more than half a month of winter vacation...
In other words, starting from the second half of the third semester of high school, these students no longer go to the classroom to teach, but directly stay in the dormitory to teach
The goddess murmured: "It's really crazy."
"It's really crazy." He Shujun said, "If it's not crazy, how can you do such a thing?"
The goddess hesitated for a moment, but nodded quietly. She felt that the "thing" He Shujun said was not just about studying in the dormitory, but probably something else.
What would it be
The goddess has a curiosity and resistance that wants to know but does not want to know.
If these things were put on her daughter, she would never accept it.
But the madness spreading among humans seems to have become a certain... unwritten rule. Crazy has become a kind of excuse.
Just like the current goddess, it is impossible for her to accept that her daughter has experienced such an experience, but she is vaguely surprised when she thinks that this is caused by madness.
That's unreasonable madness, right
Who knows what those lunatics will do? What they do is not surprising.
But... But this is not right.
The goddess tried to correct her point of view.
However, at this time, she faintly realized that when madness really swept the world. Then, people are really used to it.
They came to the front of the dormitory in silence.
There are a total of five dormitory buildings in this school, two for boys and two for girls.
The first floor of each building of the student dormitory is now the place where the teachers live, and further up is arranged for the students.
He Shujun said: "Because the number of students is not particularly large, they are now one person and one room. The layout of the entire dormitory has also been re-planned, and it is more comfortable."
The goddess nodded and asked, "Which one is left?"
"It's where the parents live."
The goddess was stunned, but thought that in order not to waste a little time, she chose to let the students study in the dormitory, so it is normal for parents to study with them.
He Shujun added: "Each floor of the dormitory has an activity room. Now there is the classroom in the real sense of the students. When they study on their own, they will return to their respective dormitories.
"Each dormitory is monitored, and the teachers will constantly check the bed to ensure that the students are studying well."
The goddess couldn't help asking: "If you are not studying... what will happen?"
He Shujun almost subconsciously paused. She felt like her throat was blocked, a certain long-standing emotion was fermenting in her heart, until she couldn't bear it anymore.
But when she was looking for it, she could hardly remember what it meant.
She knew what they would see when they walked into the dormitory. However, she didn't know what happened outside the narrow building.
Knowing the truth, or not knowing, which one is more pathetic and desperate
He Shujun now prefers to know it by himself.
Those who know hope they don’t know;
People who don't know will always chase the truth.
Human beings are really contradictory and ridiculous creatures.
With the same almost ridiculous emotion, He Shujun twitched the corner of his mouth without a smile: "Go in and you'll know."