The two people in the car also heard the movement outside.
Li Yinhang probed from the carriage: "Xiao Chen?"
Chen Sufeng was still undecided, trying to stabilize his voice: "...I'm back."
He opened his mouth and inhaled a sufficient amount of moist water vapor, his throat shrank, and he coughed violently.
"Cough-cough-cough!!"
Li Yinhang took out two soft handkerchiefs, one covered his mouth and nose, bowed his head and got out of the carriage, followed by a low cough, and handed the other to Chen Sufeng.
She was sure that the outside environment was no longer suitable for human beings.
Because of a few breaths, she clearly felt that the handkerchief covering her mouth and nose became wet.
She dragged Chen Sufeng with one hand, twisting her body and shouting at the mist, "Mr. Nan, get in the car! This mist—"
Nan Zhou's voice came from the fog: "I'm not going up."
Li Yinhang: "???"
She didn't think too much, holding Chen Sufeng's hand, groping the outer wall of the carriage, found the nearest door, and led him up.
This is the fourth carriage.
Chen Sufeng's body and mind were obviously not completely separated from the copy, and his eyes looking at the surrounding environment were momentarily confused, and his feet were not very stable.
When he walked to a window, he tripped because the rubber on the floor of the train lifted a corner. He grabbed the blue curtain of the train and tried to keep his balance. Two or three torn off.
The curtains hung down.
Li Yinhang gave him a hand: "Be careful."
Chen Sufeng nodded gratefully to her.
Finally, they successfully reached the third carriage.
He was helped to sit down and stared at the thick fog outside the window for a long time, looking worried and alert, as if he was worried about what monsters were hiding behind the fog.
Li Yinhang didn't understand at first why Chen Sufeng's reaction after leaving the copy was so strange.
Until Yuan Mingqing next to her made a gesture of "opening the panel" to her.
Inspired, Li Yinhang checked the real-time san value of his teammate Chen Sufeng.
She's sensitive to numbers, so remembers basic panel stats for all her teammates.
In her memory, Chen Sufeng's san score has always been 5, the level of ordinary level.
And now, his san value is "1".
Li Yinhang returned to Car No. 1 and found that the water temperature of the mineral water leaning against the iron water tank was basically 7 or 80 degrees, so he unscrewed both bottles of water, poured one into the paper bowl containing fans, and poured the other into the In a cup taken out of the warehouse.
The hot temperature penetrated from the cup, with a little reassuring power.
Because the hot water was not hot enough, it took a certain amount of time to soak the fans, so Li Yinhang didn't bring it over immediately.
She put two empty bottles on the table of No. 1 carriage, returned to No. 3 carriage, and first handed the water cup to Chen Sufeng.
Drink some hot water to at least soothe some tension.
It was not until five minutes passed and his san value jumped to "2" that Chen Sufeng slowly exhaled.
The breath was unusually long, as if it had been stagnated in his chest for a long time.
After he let out this breath, Nan Zhou's voice sounded outside at the right time: "How long is the completion time for your copy?"
Chen Sufeng took a hot sip of water: "Me? I... 16 hours."
Hearing this answer, Li Yinhang couldn't hide his surprise, and looked at Yuan Mingqing.
… She thought that everyone except Nan Zhou had 24 hours to complete the dungeon.
She also pondered secretly, what is the mystery of the two time points "12 hours" and "24 hours", and now it seems that 80% of them think too much.
Li Yinhang glanced at the simple timeline he drew on his notebook, and calculated the time: "Then did you escape before the time limit for the copy is approaching?"
Chen Sufeng smiled bitterly: "I was lucky."
Nan Zhou asked outside, "What is your game?"
Chen Sufeng stood up and looked out: "It's so foggy outside, come in and talk."
Nan Zhou did not answer.
Chen Sufeng: ...
He looked back at Li Yinhang and Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Yuan Mingqing shrugged at him.
Neither of them knew where Nan Zhou's inexplicable persistence came from.
In order for Nan Zhou to hear more clearly, Chen Sufeng sat at the door of the train.
"I went to an a.vg game with a Cthulhu world view. In the setting, I was the captain of a research team. I was going to enter an ancient tomb to investigate mysterious phenomena. The general mission description is... 'Humans are in front of gods. They are all ants, but the ants also have a heart that wants to pay their respects to the gods' . . . and so on."
… Li Yinhang understood.
No wonder his san value dropped like this.
Chen Sufeng's game is relatively special, it is a text adventure game.
Once the key node of the plot is reached, the game will enter a time-stop state, and several multiple-choice questions will pop up in front of Chen Sufeng.
Different choices will lead him to different branches of destiny.
And unlike ordinary text adventure games, Chen Sufeng has no save points.
This also means that if you choose the wrong one, you will lose the whole game.
As the captain, he even had to choose whether to go east or west in the tomb passage with many organs.
Every time you reach a fork in the road, three or even five floating options pop up in front of you. All the people stop together. The robots are all staring at him from behind, waiting for his choice. If you don’t choose, you can’t move forward or move. , this invisible pressure, coupled with the suffocating underground air, is enough to drive people crazy.
After hearing his description, Li Yinhang was stunned for a long time, and said sincerely: "... That's really difficult."
Chen Sufeng scratched the back of his head: "This is actually not bad. My mission is to survive within 16 hours, as long as I can survive, things like 'exploration failure' don't matter. My birthplace is in the tomb passage, and I can only live according to This way, the drawn map is going backwards, trying to take the team out and stay away from danger.”
"But later, the way out was destroyed, and the purpose I wanted to leave was discovered."
"My team members suddenly started chasing and killing me..." Chen Sufeng shook his head helplessly, "I... I was tricked by them. Only two or three of them are still loyal to me as the 'captain', and the others have become slaves of God. and fanatics."
"They were originally loyal believers in science, but when their beliefs deepened to a certain level, their thinking has undergone a 180-degree reversal. - The setting is like this, as long as his belief in science is pure to a certain extent. If it breaks through a certain critical value, the spirit will be infiltrated by that indescribable thing under the influence of the evil god.”
"It can be seen from my notes that I, the captain, probably because there are too many mundane things to consider and scruples, but I don't study as deeply as these team members, so I gradually become one of them. 'Outlier'."
When this cruel fact was exposed, and faced with the team members whose eyes were scarlet and muttered indescribable words, the system popped up in front of Chen Sufeng "Escape!", "Talk about it, try it out", "What a coincidence, I Also a believer of God" three options.
Chen Sufeng made a decisive decision and chose to "escape".
He didn't dare to lie to these people, and he didn't have much confidence in his ability to disguise.
"I escaped for a long time, hiding and hiding. The tomb is very long and the tomb is very large. I thought I could escape, but at the 14th hour, I was still caught."
When he was pressed against the wall by a mad believer and stabbed in the waist with a dagger, Chen Sufeng reluctantly opened his eyes in severe pain and dizziness, but saw a string of fingernails on a tomb not far away. Written in blood on the wall: "You can't escape."
At the center point of the word "de", there is an index finger nail embedded in it.
Chen Sufeng lowered his head and found that the nail of his right index finger had fallen off at some point.
He was creepy.
Li Yinhang made his palms sweat just listening to it.
Nan Zhou outside also nodded slightly.
Li Yinhang was right.
The puzzles that Gaowei people gave to Chen Sufeng were very difficult.
... The point of the detachment copy is clearly "willingly choose to die".
However, on the one hand, the game form of "multiple choice" is extremely easy to solidify people's judgment, and induce Chen Sufeng to focus more on the question of "how to choose".
On the other hand, as soon as he came up, he was faced with a dead end. Naturally, he thought "I can't die, I can't be caught, and I can't be sacrificed" from beginning to end.
This kind of psychological suggestion he accepts will make him have no time to think about "I want to die voluntarily".
Inside the train, Li Yinhang couldn't think of how Chen Sufeng would break the game even if he tried to break his head: "Then how did you—"
Chen Sufeng said: "They escorted me and a few people all the way down and deep."
"Later, we entered a huge stone gate."
"There's a space in there that makes me dizzy. . . . It's so big, so big."
Chen Sufeng obviously didn't want to recall, but he clenched his fists masochistically, forcing himself to restore the details.
"...it was pitch black ahead, and the lights didn't seem to illuminate the road, it was like being swallowed by the darkness a little bit.... We were walking in the esophagus."
"They pushed me to kneel in front of a magic circle. ... I know that they want to execute aliens. Because I am their captain, they can't tolerate aliens like me even more."
"They began to chant and sing fanatically about the greatness of the evil gods."
Because of the gradual excitement, Chen Sufeng's tone became faster and faster, hanging Li Yinhang's heart higher and higher.
"I've been waiting for options - I've been waiting, I've been waiting all the way."
"But no option came."
"It wasn't until I was pushed down on the altar and kneeled down that I realized that the game might end the moment I get caught."
"My mind was empty. I knew I was going to die. But I couldn't figure out what went wrong. I chose to escape, no problem. I don't know this Cthulhu civilization, even if I wanted to. Disguised believers can’t pretend at all, and if you miss the chance to escape, it’s really over.”
"Moreover, there are too many of them, and they are more familiar with the terrain here than me who only took a map. Even if they run, I can't run for 16 hours."
Speaking of this, Chen Sufeng's tone began to be fierce.
"I know I'm going to die. But I can't just die alone."
"When they started dancing around me, I yelled out-"
"—Honorable god, all believers here will be your sacrifices!"
Li Yinhang was suddenly enlightened.
Since he called the evil god a "dignified god" and made sacrifices, then Chen Sufeng himself would also become a believer of the evil god and voluntarily became the object of sacrifice.
… This disguised the condition of "voluntary sacrifice".
Chen Sufeng closed his eyes.
In the darkness, dazzling and even endless colors shone.
He knew from the notes that he couldn't look directly at the image of "God" in the depths of the color, otherwise his san value would inevitably return to zero, and even if he returned alive, he would be insane.
There were indescribable excited cries and murmurs from the fanatics.
I don't know if it was because of fear, or the excitement of the ants finally seeing the gods.
The god's feet stepped down and crushed the ants into powder.
… When he opened his eyes again, Chen Sufeng arrived at this foggy station.
After roughly speaking, he calmed down and took two sips of hot water to regain his composure.
After looking around, Chen Sufeng confirmed the current situation: "Apart from me, only Brother Jiang Fang has not come back, right?"
Yuan Mingqing gave a "um" and looked out the window thoughtfully.
Knowing his customs clearance process, although it was thrilling, Li Yinhang's heart was also stable.
There are still about two hours.
If Chen Sufeng can come back, then Brother Fang will definitely be able to return—
As if everything had come true, a series of footsteps suddenly came from outside the platform.
Li Yinhang was overjoyed, opened his mouth and said, "Fang—"
Nan Zhou's voice came from the depths of the thick fog: "...It's me."
Li Yinhang thought that Jiang Fang was back, and his heart tightened slightly.
However, Nan Zhou is willing to get in the car and come...
The next second, there was the muffled sound of glass breaking from the depths of the dense fog, followed by the sound of a tin trash can rolling to the ground.
Li Yinhang was startled, suddenly stood up, and just about to go out, Yuan Mingqing held her shoulders: "You and Chen Sufeng stay here, I'll go down and have a look."
Yuan Mingqing stepped into the thick fog, traced the source of the sound, and went all the way.
click.
He stepped on a piece of broken glass.
Yuan, Ming and Qing looked down and found that the broken glass stretched forward all the way to the newsstand in the station.
… Nan Zhou smashed the glass of the locked newsstand.
Because the newsstand had not been soaked by the fog, Yuan Mingqing found that Nan Zhou was standing beside the dusty beverage rack, looking down at the beverages on the rack, wondering what he was thinking.
Yuan Mingqing picked up a magazine and put it in front of his nose to block the uncomfortable over-moist air: "Why do you have to stay outside? Is there anything in this car that you are afraid of? ?"
Nan Zhou glanced at him, not wanting to answer: "I want to wait for someone."
Yuan Mingqing took a step forward and grabbed his arm: "What on earth are you trying to do?"
"Do you want us to be afraid of the train?" He stared at Nan Zhou, every word he said, "You want us all to stay and wait for Jiang Fang, don't you?"