"What's the situation?! The fucking gun I'm holding is a real gun, not a water gun, right? Why can't I handle it personally?" Gao Qi was roaring.
"Hold on! I'll send another message." 922 found a space and got into the hood.
Gao Qi was about to vomit blood: "Fafafa, hurry up!"
The invigilators next to him were also wondering, and they retreated while fighting. Once there is doubt, the attack is mixed with hesitation.
In just a few minutes, the momentum of the two sides was reversed, and many people were lucky.
Gray-yellow smoke and dust rolled down from the top of the mountain like a tide, covering a large forest.
021 The stray bullet rubbed a long mouth on his shoulder. She wiped off the blood neatly, tied the bandages, changed the bullets skillfully, and got out of the car again.
"It's not completely useless." She looked through the sight glass and said to Gao Qi, "At least I can see a little blood now."
"Yeah, after half an hour of bombing, they finally broke. I'm so happy." Gao Qi smirked twice, and raised the cannon barrel with an unhappy face.
"This skin is too thick." Yu Wen couldn't help but say.
"Probably the method is wrong." Di Li thought for a while, "Speaking of which, let's talk about the poem in the title, raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and make three people to Yingying. Will it be useless to blow up people, only to blow up Yingying? Row?"
While talking, Yu Wen took another shot at a certain car and said, "Xueba... We bombed for half an hour, you know? Half an hour! It took nearly half of the ammunition, how could it only be bombed until People don't get shadows? It's useful to blow shadows, and they should be blooming now, okay?"
"I know." Di Li frowned and was still thinking, "I'm not talking about the shadows on the ground. There are three people in the shadows... three people... Where is the other person?"
Yu Wen: "Moon, I remember the analysis of this poem, won't you forget it?"
Di Li pointed to the sky: "You blow up the moon and I'll take a look."
Yu Wen: "… "
"Of course I remember the original meaning, but it's obviously not the original meaning used here!" Di Li was pondering, "One real person, one shadow on the ground, where is the other one? Where else could someone..."
He covered his ears, thinking hard under the fire. He suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, Hai!"
"Hi?" Yu Wen asked while reloading.
"..." Di Li pointed to the distance: "The sea! I said the sea surface! The sea surface can also reflect human figures."
Gao Qi and 021 looked at each other, and immediately rushed into the hood and shouted, "922! Send a message and let them try the fried sea!"
922 was still contacting 154, trying to start with the system program to see if it could break the deadlock. He heard the words and switched the interface, and quickly sent the news to Qin Research.
"Boss, try the fried sea! 』
The time was urgent, and the news was a bit unfinished, but Qin Jiu understood what they meant the moment he saw it. He fired the last shot and climbed over the low wall with the barrel in hand. Putting the phone back in his pocket, he didn't mean to go to the beach.
You Huo turned around from the corner.
He squinted his left eye, still scanning people through the scope. He turned his back to Qin Qiu and asked, "What news have you received?"
"922." Qin Jiu took a long bullet out of the wooden box and put it in skillfully and neatly, "Who are the three people in the research topic, let's try to lead people to the sea, facing the sea The reflection exploded."
call out-
The bullets went through the building and hit a bullet-proof car on the opposite side.
You Huo clicked the switch, and then said, "Do you want to try? I think it's useless."
"It can't be a reflection on the sea. The sea is on the edge, and the only thing that can be reflected on it is the surrounding buildings, and at most a twin tower that is tall enough. Those NPCs can be led to the sea, what about the others? The buildings don't have long legs. ." Qin Qiu said.
This went with You Huoxiang.
If the so-called "third person" is a reflection on the sea, only some people and buildings have it, and more things are too far from the sea to be reflected at all.
The real "third person" must be where everything can be compared.
Soon, Qin Qiu's phone vibrated again. 922 added a message:
"Boss, don't try first, it's still not right. 』
"Look, everything has come to pass." Qin Qiu said.
Youhuo looked out from the sight glass.
The bulletproof car was shrouded in smoke, and next to it were NPCs who looked exactly like the invigilators. They were holding weapons and had more or less blood on their bodies, but they didn't care about the wounds, as if the blood was not from them.
These wounds were made in just a few minutes.
You Huo frowned and stared at that place, and suddenly whispered, "Is it a real person?"
"what?"
The gunshots roared past, and they rolled on the spot to avoid Qin Jiu's words.
Youhuo said: "The third person of Yingcheng's three people, is it a real person?"
Qin Qiu turned to look at him.
At that moment, artillery fire flew in the distance.
Qin Qiu lifted his eyelids and glanced over there. The pirate 001 who looked exactly like him was standing on a certain roof platform and looked up from the sight glass.
The moment the stray bullet swept across, Qin Jiu suddenly stretched out his hand to the side.
"What are you doing?" You Huoyan quickly grabbed his fingers, only to catch a slippery patch.
People's fingertips are always full of blood, and Qin Qiu's three fingers are full of red.
"Don't worry, I have the numbers." He wiped the blood off the wall and showed You Huo his fingers for the first time. The bullet skin that flew at high speed cut a long slit on his finger, spanning three fingers. Although there was a lot of blood, it was not a serious injury.
He held onto the barrel of the gun without paying much attention, tilted his head and glanced at it again with the scope.
Seeing on the roof platform, the pirated 001 looked down at his fingers, and the bright red blood also filled his palms. He brushed off the bloodstain nonchalantly and continued to reload the barrel.
Qin Qiu raised his head and said to You Huo, "You were right."
Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and form three people against each other.
Di Li and the others always subconsciously felt that the "three people" were all in the examination room, the NPC was the body, and the other two were their shadows. Either on earth or at sea.
But wrong.
The shadows on the ground are illusory, and those NPCs are also illusory. The examination room itself is a double shadow.
To Yingcheng three people, the real "person" is outside the examination room, the whole invigilation area.
Those NPCs were bombarded for half an hour unscathed, but in these few minutes they were successively smashed. This is not because their copper skin and iron bones can't stand it anymore. It was because Qin Zhuo and the others, the real invigilators, were injured.
To hurt NPCs, they must first hurt themselves.
Similarly, in order to blow up the white sentry tower at the core, the real one outside the examination room must be blown up first.
At that moment, You Huo almost sneered out loud.
The system made a good calculation - if he and Qin Jiao still came in like lone wolves as before, then this exam would be their biggest nemesis.
No matter how many weapons and how many preparations, it is impossible to penetrate this place.
They would run out of ammo and exhaust themselves under the swarm of undead NPCs, until they gave in or were trapped here.
It's not just them, anyone who tries to stealthily destroy the system comes in and that's the end.
The reason why it is set like this is because it is very sure that those who are willing to take risks will always be in the minority and will always be alone.
But unfortunately, its calculation has a fallacy.
You Huo and Qin Jiu are no longer entangled in the center of the city. They drove their equipment vehicles through the artillery fire and went straight to the side of the mountain to join the crowd.
There, they made contact with 154 using the 922's specially made machine.
After understanding the whole situation, 154 asked: "Can you maintain the firepower and distract the attention of the system? Only in this way can we take advantage of the loopholes for a short time."
Youyou asked, "How long?"
154 said, "Give me 15 minutes."
"it is good."
The next second, the sky-high artillery fire enveloped the entire forest again.
At the same time, the real invigilation area is in daylight, 14:37.
This is the most concentrated time of the day. The examiners who remain in the invigilation area are gathering in the conference center for daily meetings. Most of the others are in the city center, in shops, bars or on the streets. A small number of people are still guarding the Twin Towers.
Three minutes later, the entire invigilation area suddenly sounded a long siren.
The invigilator, life staff, and those on duty were shocked at that moment.
Immediately afterwards, thousands of buildings and street broadcasts in the proctoring area rustled at the same time.
Just when people thought that the system was going to send a notification again, a calm and calm voice rang.
[I am the invigilator 154. The 67,000 broadcasters in the entire district are temporarily hosted by me, and I will broadcast an instruction. 】
In every corner of the proctoring area, everyone was stunned because they had never encountered such a situation before.
There was a sound of tables and chairs overturning in the conference room, and everyone stood up in an uproar, looking at the broadcast port in surprise.
[We're doing something a little crazy, and since I'm communicating with you in this way, you should all understand what it is. Now we run into a little trouble and stop at the last door. There are 708 people who are trapped in the special obstacles of the system, including 37 current proctors, including chief proctor 001, and former chief proctor A. 】
[Since I called a colleague, I think you should not mind doing a little favor at this juncture. 】
[There are 12,300 boxes of movable weapons in the invigilation area, 3,700 boxes and 400 bulletproof vehicles that the invigilators can use on their own initiative. These weapons vehicles are concentrated in the conference center and the underground warehouse of the Twin Towers. Please grab your weapon and go to the Northeast Forest Tower within 5 minutes and help us blow it up. 】
[The matter is very important and the time is urgent. So sorry to have to take a little extreme. 】
[I have the team list in my hand, and some people may not understand the meaning of team formation. That is, as long as I write the name of any person on this list, whether it is a candidate, an invigilator, or other personnel, as long as you are in the system, you will be pulled into the team. Now the captain is A. 】
[Please choose one of the two, either blow up the tower or join the team. 】
The broadcast was quiet for a moment, and when 154's voice fell, all corners of the invigilation area fell silent.
Then it was like boiling water into the oil, humming and frying.
Discussions and exclamations filled the high-rise buildings and streets and alleys. Before they could digest it, the broadcast sounded again, and the voice of 154 echoed throughout the invigilation area:
[Oh yes, I forgot to introduce myself. My existence is rather special, and it can probably be regarded as a part of the system, because emotional thinking has been influenced by people too much, and it was cleared out a few years ago. 】
[To a certain extent, what the system can do, I can do too. So those words just now are not a threat, but they are not a joke. 】
[I know this is a very dangerous thing. The system has many algorithms, and it is always using those predictions to predict your behavior, and only trusting those predictions. So it can never understand why someone is always willing to do something that is doomed to be dangerous. 】
[But I can understand that this is the reason I was cleared. 】
[Since I can understand it, I think you can too. This is why I came to you. 】
The sound of 154 is actually a bit like Youhuo, more like the system. But when he was speaking, no one felt that the man behind the broadcast was not a flesh and blood man.
He said: [In the proctoring area, it always snows and rains on a fixed date, and it gets dark at a fixed time. You have watched the same landscape for several years, and you should be tired of seeing it. 】
[Give you 1 minute to think about whether to stay trapped here or help us blow it up together. 】
***
In the examination room, under the leadership of the two chief invigilators, a grand fire enveloped the white sentry tower that symbolized the core, and the roar of the shells never stopped.
Gun smoke filled the air, stray bullets traversed.
The night sky was lit up with snow.
15 minutes was long and short, and finally came to an end in the explosion.
At the moment when it was about to end, another piece of grand artillery fire shrouded down.
It came from nowhere, like a phantom that suddenly fell, but the white sentry tower took off the protective layer of copper skin and iron bones, and was finally marked with mottled marks.
The two firelights were intertwined under the night sky.
Half a minute later, the tower collapsed.
Chapter 159 The Last Punishment ┃ He has seen a bright and fiery person, relying on this, he can walk through the whole winter.
It was obviously just a suburban sentry tower, and when it collapsed, the entire examination room trembled.
The scene at the top of the mountain was split in an instant, as if the familiar metal mesh and warehouse-type buildings could be seen through the dust mist. The top of the building was mottled white paint with the words NA 7232.
That's the hidden master control center.
Others don't know, You Huo and Qin Jiu can recognize it at a glance.
The splashing dust carries a scorching temperature, which can scald the skin when rubbed against it.
You Huo raised his hand to block it, he could feel the stinging pain through the tactical gloves, but his feet moved forward without hesitation.
Just as he was about to approach, the scene of the main control center flickered a few times with tremors, like a video with poor signal.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of the system resounded throughout the examination room:
[The examinee deliberately damaged the core building of the examination room, which has caused serious violations. Since there is no invigilation office for this examination, according to the rules of the examination room, punishment should be imposed on the spot. 】
[Punishment time: three hours. 】
[The timer officially begins. 】
As soon as the voice fell, the crowd continued to make "hiss" gasps.
You Huo felt a tingling pain in his left arm. He looked down and saw that there was an additional wound in there instantly, which was stacked on top of the old wound, and the red blood flowed out, and soon the cuff that was rolled up on the elbow was wet.
The injury was the same as before, as if it had been cut by flying shrapnel.
He raised his eyes and saw that Qin Qiu's arm also had a hole. Looking around again, the left arm of everyone present was bloody.
Yu Wen grabbed his arms and jumped his feet beside him, screaming fiercely. Di Li wanted to face, grinned and said nothing.
Zhao Jiatong reacted the fastest and got into the car to get bandages for everyone. Gao Qi, 922, and 021's expressions are similar to those of Youyou Qin, and they are not very good...
Not because of pain. These people have seen all kinds of scenes, and few are afraid of pain.
The reason why their faces are not good-looking is because they can't find the source of the injury.
"Did something fly over just now?" Gao Qi tore off his sleeve and wiped the blood indiscriminately.
021 maintained a high degree of vigilance, her dark and beautiful eyes were extremely bright in the night, she glanced around and said, "No."
"I didn't see it either." 922 turned around and asked, "Boss, have you seen it?"
Qin Qiu shook off the blood and shook his head: "Nothing."
You Huo frowned, his face getting colder.
There was no attack, no stray bullets, and no warning, and more than 700 people were injured at the same time. This is far more terrifying than the dangers that you can see and touch.
Youhuo took the bandage handed by Zhao Jiatong and was about to wrap it, but saw that the wound was slowly closing up again, the blood coagulated, and the scar was formed in the blink of an eye, and it fell off again.
If it wasn't for the bloodstains on his sleeves, and the pain hadn't gone away, he would have suspected that the wound just now was an illusion.
There was another burst of exclamations from the crowd. Obviously, he was not alone in the wound healing.
"What kind of punishment is this?" someone asked in a gasping voice.
This question has not been answered, because everyone has not had time to think about it, and new injuries have appeared on their bodies.
This time on the side of the neck.
The neck is the most vulnerable and most critical place, and the timid candidates will turn pale when they cover their necks.
Some people were desperately pressing the wound, their faces were terrified, and they were afraid that they would lie directly on the artery next time, then they would really be buried here.
Fortunately, the injury did not last long, and disappeared again after a few seconds, leaving only the pain.
Arms hurt, neck hurts too. Many candidates can't take care of the head and the tail, and simply don't know where to cover first.
In just a few minutes, small wounds continued to appear on their bodies, and they continued to heal. There were more and more uncomfortable places, and everyone's face became worse and worse.
Soon after, a girl burst into a scream.
At that moment, everyone felt a burst of pain in the left chest, piercing the wrist bone. The sudden sharp pain caught people off guard, and they bent down while clutching their collars and groaning in pain. What's more, he knelt down directly, his forehead pressed against the ground, and he was gasping for breath.
How can I describe the pain...
It's like someone is holding an invisible knife, the sharp blade pierces the skin and pierces the heart inch by inch.
Even You Huo took a step back, put his back on the tree trunk, lowered his head and closed his eyes.
He opened his eyes slowly for a while, and his vision became blurred due to the pain, making it difficult to focus. All he could see was blood gushing out from his heart, dissolving on his shirt, and covering half of his body in the blink of an eye.
This feeling is not unfamiliar to him. When he tried to kill the Duke in the old castle, he did something like this - holding Qin Qiu's hand and pressing the short knife into his chest.
He could even recall the feeling of his heart beating around the blade, exactly the same as it is now.
Those minutes seemed like a century, and it was hard to tell if the blood was continuing to flow because there was no room left for the shirts.
It should be stopped, Youhuo thought.
Because of the new injury.
Large wounds appeared on his arms, shoulders, and waist, and they spread and deepened at a speed visible to the naked eye until the bones were exposed. It slowly gathered back, and all healed.
And then the eyes...
When the world plunged into darkness in a sharp sting, that moment still felt familiar.
Then, there were long and short cuts on his shoulder bones, back, and arms. The most dangerous one slashed across his thin jawbone and fell along his neck to his collarbone.
Every opening is covered with a layer of frost, as if in some extremely cold environment.
This is the most painful injury and the cleanest. Because the blood has not yet flowed out, it has already coagulated.
…
You Huo suddenly understood what the punishment was.
Someone started to cry, and he vaguely heard crying. The wound appeared and disappeared, but the pain was always there, layer by layer, and finally someone couldn't support it.
The moaning and whimpering spread like a rising tide.
Suddenly, everyone seemed to be collapsing.
Cold sweat fell from his temples, You Huo blinked his temporarily blind eyes, and his pale lips pursed into a straight line.
He suddenly felt a little sorry...
At that moment, whose finger touched his face, it was very light.
Then the arms, the shoulders...
Someone groped over in the dark, bowed his head in a hug, and asked him in a hoarse voice, "Are you backtracking, big examiner?"
"Is this punishment looking back at the injuries you have suffered?"
Youyou's lips moved.
Qin Qiu's fingers landed on his closed eyes, so light that he didn't dare to touch them. His voice was hoarse, low and dry: "Did your eyes hurt like this before..."
After a while, You Huo said in a hoarse voice, "It's okay."
"And these frostbites." Qin Jiu touched his chin with his finger, "When did this happen, why are there so many... and I don't know at all?"
The sense of blindness slowly subsided, and the confusion was adjusting to the reappearing world.
He vaguely saw light, a tiny point, like a star far away. When everything was finally clear, he realized that it was from Qin Qiu's eyes.
You Huo eased the pain, and suddenly leaned in and kissed Qin Qiu.
He stepped aside slightly and said, "I was injured a long time ago. Before you entered the system, you forgot the reason. You were not careful in training."
Qin Qiu had the same injury on his body, and what he experienced, Qin Qiu also experienced it.
When the wound appeared on himself, he could turn a blind eye. But appearing on the other side makes people uncomfortable.
He wanted to end this quickly.
You Huo rested against Qin Qiu's shoulder for a while, and then stood up again: "The punishment will last for three hours, and it's only half way now."
He turned his head and looked around, most people couldn't bear it anymore, they were kneeling or curled up, almost in shock from the pain. Only the invigilators could remain sober.
"It can't go on like this, we have to go in." His eyes turned to the collapsed sentry tower again, and the image of the main control center came and went, appearing more and more unstable.
Qin Qiu pinched the bridge of his nose heavily, and the repeated injuries made them both look tired.
He looked up at the top of the mountain and said, "Remember the mirror man scene? 154 tried to move us to the additional exam room, and the street scene was like this. That time was because of program interference and was not stable enough. This time it was just the opposite..."
He frowned, and another new injury appeared, and the pain intensified. He exhaled lightly and continued: "The system is trying to stabilize the test room and hide the main control center again."
The two tried to get closer to the place as they spoke.
The main control center is like poor contact, it is always fleeting, and the time to appear is never more than one second.
Qin Qiu took out his mobile phone, only to realize that 154 had been trying to contact them during the period just now.
"Boss, 922 has never heard back, I tried to establish contact with your mobile phone, can I receive it? 』
"Boss, how are you? 』
"Have you entered the main control center? 』
"I'm trying to find a way to break into the exam room, give me some time. 』
For 154, all competition with the system ontology is an adventure.
Qin Qiu immediately replied:
"Invasion is too dangerous, don't use it for the time being, just help create a little chaos, we try to enter the main control center. 』
Soon, the opposite side replied with a message, in a single word:
"it is good. 』
In the abandoned apartment in the rest area, Chu Yue moved her fingers and said to 154, "Make a little mess and make the exam room unstable, right?"
154 nodded: "Yes, do you have an idea?"
"You don't need to touch the core of the system. As long as you occupy the broadcasting system as before," Chu Yue said.
"What are you doing?"
"The ticket is big." Chu Yue sat up straight, picked up the team book and said, "A left the registration book for me, just want me to use it at a critical moment. It's almost time."
"Who will broadcast this time?" 154 asked.
Chu Yue shook the notebook and said, "The whole system, everyone."
154's expression was like a dead machine. After a while, he slowly gave a thumbs up and said, "You guys are really crazy."
5 minutes later, a team invitation resounded throughout the system. Everyone in the proctoring area, rest area, and tens of thousands of examination rooms heard this invitation.
As soon as the invitation was issued, 154 and Chu Yue watched the screen in front of them and waited for an echo.
At a moment like this, every minute and every second seems particularly long.
They waited for a long time, and just when they thought they were going to find another way, a message suddenly appeared on the screen.
The sender of the information is Invigilator 061, and the content is:
"4 candidates in the 9213 examination room volunteered to join the team, together with the invigilators 061 and 279, a total of 6 people, the list is as follows-"
It was followed by six unfamiliar names.
This piece of information was like flipping a switch, more information poured in one after another, and the screen rolled into pieces.
"There are 11 people in the 0812 examination room. 』
"A total of 8 people in the 0227 examination room. 』
"There are 28 people in the 1139 examination room. 』
…
In the examination room, You Huo and Qin Yu stood under the fragments of the white sentry tower.
The scene of the main control center has not appeared for several minutes, as if the system has forcibly stabilized the examination room, trying to sew up the gap.
At this moment, the entire examination room suddenly trembled again, like a rumbling earthquake.
You Huo wiped off the blood on his lips and looked at Qin Qiu.
This movement was unexpected, and they were curious about what method 154 used.
Suddenly, Qin Zhou caught a glimpse of a dark shadow in the corner of his light, and turned his head back again.
He squinted for a moment, then raised the sight on his weapon to confirm it again, and then touched Youyou's face, pointed to the distance and said, "Dear, look over there."
You Huo was stunned after only one glance.
Seeing the edge of the forest, a mighty figure appeared out of thin air, and it was roughly counted... Forget it, it was impossible to count.
Qin Jiu's cell phone was shocked again, he looked down and saw the message of 154:
"All of them volunteered to join the team. Up to now, there are a total of 3642 people. It's been a long wait, boss. 』
Wandering's first reaction was actually the sentence that the system said [This exam room is a single person, and other candidates are not allowed to enter the exam room. 】
But he understood in an instant that since all of them had joined the team, then these 3642 people were all him, and there were no other candidates at all.
At first glance, this move seems excessive, but on closer inspection, it does not violate the rules.
The examination room that can only accommodate one candidate is crowded with more than 4,000 people. If it is stable, there will be ghosts.
As new team members continue to join, more and more people, the ground tremors become more and more severe.
After more than ten seconds, the scene of the main control center finally reappeared at the place where the white sentry tower collapsed. It was still flashing continuously, but the stay time was finally extended.
Qin Qiu put away his phone and tilted his head, and the two walked there side by side.
One of them, they were stuck at the entrance of the main control center, like two bridges, forcibly and firmly connecting the main control center and the examination room together.
The large army of candidates can finally follow up with peace of mind and pour into the center along the entrance.
For You Huo and Qin Research, the process of guarding the entrance is actually very difficult. Different spaces hold your left and right hands and tear them in two directions. Every joint hurts, like countless blades being carried by the wind and flying over,
The junction is also cold, as if the blood in the body has been drained, and there is no trace of heat.
Cold and pain go hand in hand, like those frostbites that have occurred on the body before.
In fact, You Huo lied, those injuries were not before Qin Research entered the system, but after Qin Research left the system.
That was the first time the system had punished him, in the core area of the Twin Towers, on the grounds that he had been in close contact with candidates. The punishment was to fix a badly broken attack program that was locked in an abandoned exam room.
Blizzard kept going in the exam room. What was even more ferocious than Blizzard was the indiscriminate attack of the program.
It was probably the coldest place he had ever been in his life.
With a whole body injury, he abolished 12 attack ports of the program. The moment he was able to breathe, maybe the world was too quiet. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the first time he saw Qin Qiu—
The man stood on the edge of the red tile roof and looked down, with light in his eyes, like a blazing sun.
Examiner A that day stood alone in the blizzard, pulling the bandages wrapped around his fingers, tired and straight.
He thought that he had seen a bright and fiery man, with which he could walk through all the cold winters.