Lu Yao went back to the door with "Exit" written on it and pulled the door handle again, but still did not return to the original small room.
What appeared before her was a long, dark corridor with doors on both sides.
The door she came out of was numbered "zero". As she walked forward, the house numbers were arranged from small to large.
When I reached room 50, the number on the door suddenly returned to zero, the door opened, and NPCs of various forms poured out.
"It's time to get off work! It's time to get off work tomorrow. I'm going to queue up at the snack bar!"
"I want to go too! I want to eat cream coffee pudding. I heard it's sweet and bitter and super delicious!"
"Braised pork noodles, braised pork noodles, I want three bowls!"
An NPC suddenly exclaimed, "Hey!!! Shopkeeper, why are you here?"
The NPCs who had not left heard the voice and discovered Lu Yao. They were all very curious about why the owner of the snack bar was here
This is supposed to be in paradise
Lu Yao guessed.
Wow, it turns out they are usually at work.
Lu Yao smiled, pointed behind him, and said vaguely: "I just came out from inside."
The NPCs were very shocked: "You entered the game? Which door did you come out from?"
Lu Yao didn't understand why they were so excited. After thinking for a while, he said, "The innermost door, the one with house number zero."
When the NPCs heard this, they all came over and carefully pulled Lu Yao up and down to check him.
"Oh my god, how did you get in there? Are you not hurt?"
"That door is the scariest. Are you scared?"
"Ouch, my hand is scratched. Who did it? Check the surveillance and deduct his salary! Does it hurt?"
Lu Yao: …My hands must have been rubbed by Zhao Yuqing when she pushed me to the ground in the square.
These NPCs had no idea how terrifying they looked at the moment. Some had their eyeballs on their faces, connected by pink flesh. Some had their mouths split to the back of their ears, with three tongues moving back and forth in their mouths when they spoke. Some even had two faces in front and back to ask Lu Yao about his well-being.
If Lu Yao didn't have some experience and didn't faint in the game, he would have been scared half to death by these little monsters.
And... these guys all seem to know that she is alive...
Lu Yao was in a complicated mood. All the customers knew it, and the shop assistants must have known it a long time ago, and they kept playing the role of "Master of Illusion" with her.
A dark purple eggplant pony squeezed out of the crowd with great effort. Seeing Lu Yao surrounded by NPCs, he was very surprised. "Shopkeeper? Why are you here? Don't surround her and don't bully her!"
The NPCs raised their hands and dispersed, indicating that they did not bully Lu Yao.
Lu Yao: "... Xiao Qie?"
The eggplant pony came closer and gradually turned into the appearance of a small eggplant.
All the banknotes in his arms were scattered on the ground. Xiao Qie didn't want to pick them up, so he squatted in front of Lu Yao and said, "Shopkeeper, are you okay
Lu Yao picked up a RMB that had fallen beside him and thought of the pile of banknotes on the shelf in the store.
She didn't believe what Qi Chen said, so she never used the money. It turned out that it all came from here.
Xiao Qie didn't care about the RMB that fell on the ground. She helped Lu Yao up and wanted to take her back to the store.
Lu Yao pulled him and bent down to pick up the banknotes on the ground.
Xiao Qie was a little puzzled: "Don't pick it up, you don't even need it, let's go back to the store first."
They collect the money every day after get off work, and except for some low-level copies, few challengers bring in money.
Moreover, the only banknotes that can be taken out of the game are RMB 100 in denomination. Collecting such a small stack requires going through multiple copies.
But they sent the money back to the snack bar, and Lu Yao never used it. It was always kept together with the ingredients.
Xiaoqie actually felt a little aggrieved.
Lu Yao collected the scattered RMB on the ground and patted Xiao Qie's head, "Who said I don't need it? I will use these to buy snacks for you guys in the future."
Xiaoqie raised her head, "Really?"
Lu Yao: "Yeah. Summer is coming soon. I'll buy ice cream, milk tea, and watermelon then."
They met the captain of the guard at the entrance of the paradise. Lu Yao let go of Xiao Qie, walked to Bai Jian, took off the ring and handed it to him, "I have seen the Lord Demon, thank you."
Bai Jian suppressed his excitement. He actually just wanted to test it out and was not sure that Lu Yao would be able to meet the Demon Lord.
It seemed that the Demon Lord was heartbroken about something and had been sleeping somewhere in the paradise. He hadn't seen him for many years.
He handed Lu Yao's things to her, but did not take the ring. He said calmly, "Sign the contract, and the ring will be yours."
Although this ring is special, if it is given to Lu Yao, it can be put to good use.
Bai Jian brought Lu Yao's cell phone, keys, and change. He didn't want the ring, and Lu Yao didn't refuse. He just said, "I'll thank the guard captain when I have the chance."
Bai Jian didn't care about these. He watched Lu Yao walk out of the paradise and couldn't help asking, "Did the Demon Lord say anything?"
Lu Yao turned around and said, "He said he would come to the snack bar to eat in three days."
Not only Bai Jian, but even Xiao Qie was surprised.
The Demon Lord actually agreed.
Lu Yao and Xiao Qie returned to the snack bar and saw many people standing at the door.
"It's out, it's out. I told you it's okay."
"The Blood Demon was quite sensible and sent her to the door."
"But what took her so long to come out? Was she scared?"
These people were the audience who had just watched the live broadcast in the cinema. They saw the Blood Demon send Lu Yao to the exit, so they followed him out and waited for her here.
Seeing that Lu Yao was fine, they dispersed again.
Qi Chen was the only one in the store; Bai Ming, Xingzi and Quan Shengju were not there.
Xiaoqie said they were all in the game.
Lu Yao briefly told Qi Chen about his experience on this trip. He said that he didn’t buy the matcha mille-feuille and would bring it to him tomorrow.
Qi Chen sat on the stool, his face serious: "You entered the game? Did you enter with the black ring?"
Lu Yao nodded.
Qi Chen: "Are you scared?"
Xiaoqie sat aside, feeling a little nervous, as if the final secret was known by Lu Yao.
The space she entered was one of the scariest and most realistic games in the park. She would be afraid, resist, and maybe even feel disgusted.
Lu Yao nodded: "There was blood and body parts everywhere, and internal organs were spilling on the ground. The floor was sticky with blood and it was very easy to slip. It was very painful to fall down."
Qi Chen: “…That’s it?”
Falling in a horror game hurts? Who wants to hear about that
Don't you have any other experiences
Lu Yao continued, "The floor was really slippery and the blood was thick. I fell and couldn't get up. Qing, who played the NPC, couldn't stand it anymore and came over to help me up. Even though he turned into a monster, I was very familiar with his dense shark teeth. And his voice, although it was disguised as a little hoarse, was still easy to identify."
Qi Chen: “…”
We are different, we never have been.
Xiao Qie looked closely at Lu Yao's expression, making sure that she showed no disgust and was simply telling him about her experiences. She felt a little relieved.
Lu Yao thought for a moment and said, "I met Qi Jue. He was looking for you."
Before this, she actually didn't want to tell Qi Chen what happened in the real world. After entering the game, her thoughts changed a little bit, and it shouldn't be a problem to reveal a little.
Qi Chen's eyes flashed: "He's my cousin."
Lu Yao: "He also has a ring, a black one."
Qi Chen had a bitter face. Both brothers were short-lived. After a while, he calmed down again: "Sometimes knowing the fate in advance is not a good thing, but the ring only gives the living one more choice, silently waiting for the fate to come, or struggling to death, both paths are not easy. But my brother is smarter and better than me, and his ending will definitely be different from mine."
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City center, tea house.
Zhuang Liang and Qi Jue were still waiting for Lu Yao. Nearly two hours had passed since she entered the game.
The flow of time in the game is different from that outside. It means Lu Yao has been in the game for eight hours.
According to past rules, the park does not allow players to bring food, and there is no food in the game. Eight hours is already the physical limit of the players, so it is time for her to get out.
But after nearly an hour, Lu Yao still hadn't come back.
The rules of the park are that players will definitely return from the place where they entered the game.
Experienced players will prepare the props they want to bring into the game, and then enter the game at home or in a safe place, instead of being reckless like Lu Yao and just entering the game casually from outside.
Zhuang Liang was a little anxious. She should have died quickly the first time she went in, but why hadn't she come out after such a long time
Was he sent to the place of death
But this was clearly her first time entering the game.
Those who failed the last game will not return to the place where they entered the game, but will be directly teleported to the vicinity of the place of death.
Qi Chen was like that at the beginning. He came out of the game and arrived in a strange place.
He had a premonition of his fate and tried desperately to escape, but he still failed.
Zhuang Liang felt that there were too many mysteries about Lu Yao and he could not see through them at all.
"What are you looking at?" Zhuang Liang kicked Qi Jue next to him.
Qi Jue lay on the table, holding up his phone, "Browsing the forum, a hot post just appeared."
Zhuang Liang became impatient waiting and took out his cell phone to start browsing the forum.
Only players can enter the paradise forum, and after getting the ring, they will naturally know the address of the forum.
When I entered the forum, there was indeed a hot post on the front page, which had reached over 500 floors. The title of the post looked very clickbaity - it was about how I met an NPC in the world of Black Ring who cared for novice players and helped me escape successfully.
Zhuang Liang felt it was fake after just one look at the title. How could NPCs in this game care about novice players
Not to mention the most terrifying Black Ring world, the Grey Ring and White Ring worlds are impossible.
Those NPCs will only try to kill you in the most painful way possible within the rules.
They only like blood and killing, and are monsters that act completely on instinct.
But the post became more and more popular, and in just a few minutes it gained more than a hundred comments.
Zhuang Liang clicked on the post with the intention of picking out logical loopholes and exposing the author's sensationalism - Ahhhh!!! Let me howl first, I have escaped from the world of black rings! For the third time! I have used up all my rings!
Before talking about today's incident, let me first explain the background.
My ring is a black ring. I came out of the game for the second time three months ago and was anesthetized by a shark in the game.
After I came out, I was afraid to sleep at night. I was tense and nervous, afraid that I would be dragged into the game again in the next second. This state seriously affected my normal life. After consulting several psychologists, I decided to enter the game again to solve this problem.
If I can't get out, it's my fate. If I can survive by chance, it will be worth it to spend the remaining 30 years of my life.
Unfortunately, I was not lucky. As soon as I entered the game, I encountered a swamp monster. It chased me all the way and one of my arms was torn off. At least I managed to escape.
But in the blink of an eye, I entered the blood demon's territory again. Players who have entered the Black Ring world know how perverted the blood demon is, and the one I met was particularly terrifying.
It was two times larger than the blood demons I encountered the previous two times. It looked terrifying, with its body covered with hard armor and its fingers were thick, hard and sharp.
It spotted me, but wasn't in a hurry to kill me.
It kept chasing me from behind, not too far away, until I was too tired to run anymore, and then it forced me into a dead end.
Its palm could cover my entire head, and I smelled the stench of blood and decay. I felt its fingertips digging into my scalp, and the blood turned cold as it flowed out, flowing down my scalp and soaking my hair and clothes.
My hands and feet were weak and I couldn't make any sound. I felt like I was going to die, and no miracle happened to me.
Now comes the point. It was so bizarre that I still can’t figure out what happened, but I swear it really happened, right in front of me.
I gave up struggling and didn't want to move.
Suddenly, there was a strange sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and I heard a very irritated female voice. She said, "I'm covered in blood, I'm so annoyed." Something like that.
The blood demon was also attracted by the sound. It seemed a little hesitant, then put me down and turned to walk towards the source of the sound.
There was a girl lying there, who looked like a novice player who knew nothing. She actually fell down and couldn't get up because the ground was too slippery.
I felt relieved at that time, thinking that I could survive.
The really interesting thing happened -
The post content ends here, and there are many layers of player replies below.
"Come on, what's the fun thing?"
"Is the OP still making it up? It doesn't matter, just make it up as you like. I have already put myself in the OP's perspective, and it is very real."
"Oh my god! Why is it stuck here? Please hurry up, I'm waiting for your update!!!"
"Wow, I've never seen such a green sticker before. It's quite detailed. I'm really attracted to it. I want to know what happened next..."
Zhuang Liang frowned and scrolled down. He also wanted to know what happened next, but there was no reply from the poster for dozens of posts, which really whetted everyone's appetite.
There was no choice but to click “only view the original poster”.
Author: [I thought the novice player would die in the next second, guess what happened? You can't imagine, that scene was really too weird.
Another round of nonsense. The wrinkles between Zhuang Liang's brows deepened a little and continued to slide down.
OP: The Blood Demon walked up to the girl, shook his head helplessly, and then stretched out his hand to her.
The player didn't seem to understand what it meant and ignored it.
The blood demon waited for a long time and slowly opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of teeth that were so thin and dense, it looked terrifying.
I thought it was angry and was going to eat the girl.
As a result, the blood demon gritted his teeth and spit out a strange syllable, it spoke!
But I couldn't understand what it was saying, but the girl seemed to understand. She actually reached out and touched the blood demon's huge claws, and was pulled up from the ground.
Not only did the Blood Demon not kill her, he also carefully helped her walk, as if he was going to send her somewhere.
No one noticed me. I hid in the blood demon's territory and actually survived until the end of the game.
Either way, this day was surreal.
I still can’t figure out who that girl is…]
The main content of the post ended here. Zhuang Liang cancelled the "only view the original poster's comments" option and looked through the players' comments. Sure enough, most people only viewed this post as a green post.
"66666 It's a pity that the OP doesn't use his imagination to write novels."
"This joke is quite new. I have never seen this type of thing before."
"XS, is this person paralyzed by the shark in the game and is he hallucinating?"
"If you make up a story about an NPC in the White Ring World showing kindness to players, I'm willing to pretend to be fooled. But if you say the Black Ring World, even a pig knows it's impossible, right? The NPCs in the Black Ring World are all perverted shark-slayer monsters. If they catch a new player and don't use different methods to shark you eight or ten times, they're lucky."
"I have to say the author put a lot of thought into this story. I was really drawn into it in the first half."
"That last part is too ridiculous. If it continues, won't it be like a story about a game player and an NPC falling in love?"
…
There were a lot of mocking comments in the thread, but the original poster was very calm and only replied to the first poster: [Whether you believe it or not, I really did meet her and got out of the game alive. I have landed, and you may meet her again in the future, so don't be too surprised.]
Qi Jue had finished reading the post and looked up at Zhuang Liang: "How credible do you think this post is?"
In the past, Zhuang Liang would have said with absolute certainty that this post was as green as it could be, but now he had an uncertain guess in his mind.
He didn't answer immediately, picked up the phone and stood up: "Let's go find her."