Lin You always thought that she was quite easy to support.
Cut some shredded lettuce, a few slices of tomato, half an egg and some salad dressing to make a small half bowl of vegetable salad, and dinner will be settled. When the sound of the key turning came from the door, she was already standing by the sink and washing the dishes.
"How's life for two?" she asked.
"It's good, it's good." Mother Lin narrowed her eyes with a smile, "Your father stopped the car, and I'll tell you, he invited me to watch that movie, which was very interesting, and the steak at noon—"
Lin You: "..."
She thought of her lunch.
My own, indeed my own.
Just as she was thinking, her phone vibrated by the pool. Mother Lin heard the bell, and while changing her shoes, she asked casually, "Who is it?"
"Xiaojia," Lin You shook the water droplets on her hand, picked up the phone, "I guess I have something to do."
"oh oh."
Lin's mother responded, and reminded her suddenly as if she remembered something: "Jian girl hasn't come over for a while, you ask someone to come to our house for a meal when they are free."
"OKOK—" Lin You gestured, "Then I'll answer the phone first."
She guessed what Jian Mingjia wanted to say, and sure enough, she closed the door and connected to the phone, and she heard the other party asking.
"Just now when Xiao Geng was here, I didn't say much. Do you really want to participate in that event?"
"Otherwise, you still have to participate?" Lin You replied leisurely, "The official organization has tried the A-level dungeon in advance. What a chance. How many people want to participate have not yet had the chance."
This is true, the forum has already fried the pot.
The homepage is full of discussions on this topic, and occasionally there are several previous "Come and talk about what interesting teammates you have encountered in the game", "Rational discussion, which is your most terrifying experience" Class floating "hot" tall buildings.
Lin You skipped these for the time being, she spotted a person who was seated right.
"Someone came out to claim the quota by themselves."
In any case, it is equivalent to the strength of some players being recognized as the best among the public, and some people will inevitably be inflated because of this.
"Don't talk too much about everything," Jian Mingjia said coolly, "It's fun when you can't handle yourself."
"Also, it's not that I don't believe you when I make this call. It's A-level anyway. You should pay more attention tomorrow."
"Okay, okay," Lin You agreed, "I will restrain myself."
Jian Mingjia: "..."
In fact, she doubted whether this person knew how to write the word "convergence".
But after being together for so many years, how can I not know the temperament of the other party, and I know in my heart that I can't be persuaded, so I have to give up.
"correct."
Lin You remembered, "Just now my mother saw you on the phone and asked me to ask you when you have time to have dinner."
"Okay, anyway, I have quit my internship and I still have time, please call my aunt for me." Jian Mingjia said, "If you want to participate in the event tomorrow morning, then I will sleep late and wake up."
The game official set the start time of the test as the morning of the next day.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin You went online on time.
In the friend list, the names of Jian Mingjia and Geng Qinghe are grayed out, presumably they are planning to wait until she comes out around noon.
[It is detected that the player has an invitation letter.]
The voice of the brain's inorganic nature sounded.
[Do you choose to enter the test copy?]
Lin You thought to herself that there was no need to ask, so of course she chose "Yes".
[Entering the A-level dungeon "Kisaragi Station". There are a total of twelve players participating in this dungeon. Since it is still in the public beta and debugging period, the difficulty balance cannot be guaranteed.]
After such a brief statement, the intellectual brain began to count down.
When it counted to the last second, Lin You suddenly felt her body tremble.
The shock was short, like waking up suddenly after dozing off in a car. When she opened her eyes again, she found that she was sitting in a tram car.
The night scene outside the window flew by quickly, and the tram was galloping steadily. At least Lin You couldn't feel any shaking while sitting on the thick and soft seat. She was still holding the invitation letter in her hand, and there was only the slight sound of the rails rubbing against her ears.
She was the only one in the whole car.
Not just this one car. Lin You got up and looked through the glass door between the carriages. The left and right sides were empty and there was no one at all, and she was really panicked.
No surprise.
Lin You thought.
After all, this dungeon is Kisaragi Station.
This is an urban legend from a Japanese forum. A girl took a tram late at night and got off at an unmanned station by mistake. While trying to get out of the station, she asked netizens for help on the forum.
But no one has heard the name of the "kisaragi station" where she is, and the parents who promised to pick her up on the phone could not find the location of this station.
The girl described the strange scene she saw, and finally said that she met a kind person who was willing to drive her away, but it never happened again.
It wasn't until seven years later that she finally went online, claiming that the seven years of her life had disappeared out of thin air, and her parents took her back home.
In short, regardless of whether this urban legend is true or not, this dungeon is based on a "station that does not exist in reality".
It was suddenly dark outside the window.
It was originally a night scene outside, but now it seems to be passing through a long tunnel without any lighting measures.
"Next stop."
In the empty compartment, a cold mechanical female voice suddenly sounded.
"The terminal station, Kisaragi Station."
-coming.
Lin You tensed up and didn't take it lightly, and then suddenly felt her palms burn.
She immediately realized the source of the temperature, and tore open the envelope in twos and twos.
That fleeting hotness seemed to remind her that the content on it had changed. Sure enough, when Lin You opened the folded letter paper again, what replaced the original lines of print was a row of crooked handwriting.
The handwriting is childish and clumsy, as if written by a child.
[Rendezvous with your companions within three minutes, or you will be at your own risk.]
It was brighter outside the glass window, and the tram finally passed through the tunnel, but its speed also slowed down.
Lin You still knew that it doesn't matter what must be obeyed, the tram stopped and the door opened, she rushed out immediately, looking around trying to find the so-called "companion".
Before entering the book, she was told that there were twelve players in total, that is to say, there were eleven other players besides her—
No.
Lin You took a deep breath.
The platform was equally empty.
The door of the carriage closed behind him, and in the next second, all the lights in the tram went out. The only lighting left is a light bulb less than half the size of a palm hanging from the ceiling of the station.
It may have been used for a long time, and the lights turned yellow, making the entire platform dim.
But with this light, Lin You could still see clearly the big dark red characters painted on the white wall.
[Go this way.]
The edge of the red was black, and she wasn't sure whether it was blood or paint. However, a few crooked corners subtly matched the handwriting on the letter paper.
Lin You held up the letter paper again and compared it. Judging from the writing habits, the two should be written by the same person.
There was also a big arrow drawn next to the words on the wall. Looking in the direction pointed by the arrow, it was a box-style straight elevator that looked like it had been around for a long time—the meaning was obvious, it was to let her take this elevator. But when she turned her head, she could also see that there was a staircase directly opposite the elevator leading directly to the top.
These words and the elevator are very suspicious, but the yellow seals pasted on both ends of the handrail of the stairs are also suspicious.
Lin You understood, this was the first choice given to her at the beginning.
—Do you want to believe the words on the wall
She snorted, raised her hand and pressed the elevator button.
It’s wiser to trust the other party now, and besides, even if something happens—
Isn't that better
She felt that her illustration book was already ready to move.
Facts have proved that if she always has this mentality, she is doomed to be disappointed—the road is safe, and the only weird thing about this elevator is that there is only one floor button leading to B1 next to the door.
Lin You still pressed it down, leaning against the inner wall of the elevator car, waiting boredly for it to go up.
With a "ding", the elevator arrived.
The door of the box opened, and Lin You saw a living person for the first time since entering this dungeon.
Her first reaction was to look down at the letter paper, the content on it had disappeared.
...meaning she fulfilled the request
Lin You breathed a sigh of relief, and began to look around with confidence.
The floor she came to seemed to be the waiting room of the underpass of Kisaragi Station, and it was very spacious—to be exact, it was too spacious.
The underground passage is very long, so long that there is no end in sight at first glance. There are support columns every four or five meters, and the columns are wrapped with old advertising posters at the corners.
There is also a sign marking the tram line, and the numbers on the sign correspond to the ticket gates at both ends of the passage.
A small group of people stood not far away, and when they heard the movement, they all looked at her.
Not including Lin You, there were seven men and three women present. Among them, one or two young men caught sight of Lin You's appearance and figure, but before they could strike up a conversation, there was another sound from the elevator behind her.
The elevator doors opened again.
Lin You was taken aback, and from the corner of her eye, she aimed at the person who passed her by from behind.
He was no more than twenty-five years old, and he was said to be average in appearance. Every feature of his facial features looked outstanding, but together they looked very dull for some reason. Seeing her looking at him, he smiled at her gently.
Nodding reflexively, Lin You turned her gaze back to the elevator.
She must have never seen this person on the floor below.
But it seems that there is only one elevator here, and those teammates are not surprised by the arrival of the two—maybe they all came out of the elevator.
The elevator is the only entrance to the underground passage, and it connects the different spaces where the players are initially dispersed in the form of nodes, allowing them to gather here.
It seemed that the twelve people present had made the right choice. Lin You was a little curious about what would happen if they took the stairs.
She was lost in thought there, and it would be deliberate and inappropriate to strike up a conversation now, and the two stood still in place resentfully.
"Hello-"
The sudden child's voice that resounded throughout the passage surprised everyone. When looking for the source of the sound, they found that it was coming from the speaker at the junction of the ceiling and the wall.
If the channel is too open, louder voices will cause echoes, and the speaking portrait is quite satisfied with this.
"Hello?" It sounded like a little girl with a crisp voice, and she patted the microphone vigorously with her hands, "Can you hear me?"
No one answered, but she didn't care.
"Everyone is here," she giggled, "then the game begins!"
Lin You: "Game?"
Her voice was not too low, and the teammates who heard it looked at each other and moved aside.
Only then did Lin You see what they were surrounding.
—It's a coffin.
The coffin was not big, about the size that a ten-year-old girl could lie in. The coffin lid was leaning sideways, and a note was pasted on the edge of the coffin. The crooked handwriting on the note was exactly the same as that on the underground wall.
[Find my body.]
"That's right, that's right!"
The little girl happily admitted as if she could see the situation here.
"Six hours from now," she said, "you have to find one part of my body every hour, and you can get out of here if you find all six!"
Someone's heart was hanging in his throat just because the difficulty of the request was not beyond imagination, and it almost jumped out the next second because of the other party's supplementary words.
"But, I said it was a game—"
"So we need to add some restrictions." The little girl's voice was full of cruel innocence, and she announced triumphantly and slyly, "For example, there will be a new 'guest' visiting every twenty minutes."
"This station brings together ten lines, so there are ten entrances and exits for ticket inspection."
She said: "The underground passage is divided into the east section and the west section, with five in each of the two sections. The 'guests' will randomly appear from these ten entrances. As for which one it is, I will kindly remind you when the time comes."
"The task of brothers and sisters is to survive the pursuit of the 'guests' and find my body."
"After all," the little girl giggled, "if you don't find the part I designated and put it in the coffin for preservation within an hour, all the staff will be GAME OVER."
Everyone: "... ... ... ..."
What kind of devil-level hell difficulty is this? !
Even if she didn't say it clearly, who could guess what the "guest" she was talking about was—aside from ghosts or ghosts. In six hours, there were at least 18 ghosts. Did they rush up together to make a hodgepodge of ghosts and ghosts? !
Now they really believe that the official has not adjusted the difficulty, A level? It's an S-level rhythm that destroys groups every minute, okay? !
Several of them have already begun to regret why they boasted to their relatives, friends, and on the forums how awesome they are before entering the game. If they die, they will slap themselves in the face.
"I… "
A girl with burgundy curly hair was frightened, "I was selected by lottery, I'm sure..."
It's hard to imagine that she was still showing off her good luck to her friends half an hour ago. It's only because she was not mentally prepared and misjudged the bottom line she had to bear.
"Then—" the little girl announced enthusiastically regardless of their reactions, "The game has begun!"
In the dead silence, everyone could vaguely feel the vibration coming from the ground under their feet.
That was the movement of the tram.
"What you are looking for this hour is my right hand."
"Ah!" She exclaimed in a fuss as if she was listening to something, "It seems that our first 'guest' got out of the car too."
"Please note."
The voice was still childish, and it was a bit funny for the little girl to suppress her immature voice and use a business-like tone—but no one could laugh.
"The guy codenamed 'SMILE' showed up at Port 5."
"'SMILE'…?" Someone repeated, muttering.
Smile
The sound of dragging footsteps approached from far away, and the moment the other party poked his head out, everyone understood the meaning of the code name.
The guy looks human at first glance, but when his face is exposed to the light—
He was smiling, but his smile was far different from that of normal people. A face that has lost all reason, the corners of the mouth are bluntly raised to the sides, almost showing the gums. There are bursting blue veins from the forehead to the cheeks, and the eyes are turned upwards, leaving only the whites of the eyes.
The man walked with his back bent, dragging an ax that was half the height of a man.
He walked faster and faster, and finally came running straight towards them.
It was obvious what he was going to do with that ax at a glance.
"This way—"
Someone in the crowd yelled, "I just saw that there is a way up the stairs!"
go upstairs? !
When everyone heard it, they immediately became energetic.
It is of course good to throw him as far as he can. Once a person starts to run forward desperately, someone will catch up in fear of falling behind.
But the wine-red curly-haired girl was frightened at the beginning, but now she faltered and stopped at the end. She hurriedly took a step, and the next second she suddenly felt that someone was grabbing her arm.
"Help..." She turned her head to face the grinning face, "Yeah!"
Blood splattered everywhere.
The girl lost her breath immediately, and the man swung an axe and slashed heavily on her back again and again. When he pulled out the axe from the bloody corpse, the blade was still dripping blood, and when he looked up again, the crowd had already left.
He chased after him without much hesitation.
Hearing the sound of footsteps leaving, Lin You, who was only one door away, leaned against the bathroom door and breathed slowly.
Before you know what the opponent's weakness is, it's better to avoid it first.
Based on various factors, she always felt that the little girl—who was almost certainly the BOSS—deliberately emphasized "No. 5" was a bit contrary to harmony, and wanted to go back after the other party left to see if there were any clues.
She didn't run a few steps, saw a place to hide not far away, and got in.
Now is the time to—
Just now Lin You was thinking this way, when she suddenly heard footsteps going back and forth.
... ? !
She froze for a moment, and quickly dodged into the last compartment when the other party approached.
This place is obviously used to put things, bottles and cans of cleaners and all kinds of tools are piled up with almost no place to go.
Lin You managed to find a place, and just stood in and locked the door, when she heard the sound of the bathroom door being opened.
"I... saw you hiding in..." A somewhat vague voice came out of the twisted mouth, "Don't hide, come out..."
Lin You: "..."
The eyes are rolled so that only the whites of the eyes are left, but the eyes are actually quite good.
Speaking of elder brother, she thought, this is the women's toilet, is it appropriate to come in so openly
The murderer obviously didn't care. She heard him knock on the door of the first compartment, and kicked it up again after getting no response. Seeing that there was no one inside, he quickly turned to the next room.
He seemed to enjoy the process of forcing the target's psychological defenses to collapse little by little. He smashed through one room after another, and finally stopped at the penultimate room.
— her next door.
There was another deafening knock on the door, but she waited for a long time, but she still didn't wait for the door in front of her to be knocked.
Lin You squeezed the card, thinking whether to use it or not.
Until she felt a shadow cast over her head.
Lin You slowly raised her head.
The procrastinating footsteps and the sound of kicking the door misled her, making her think that the other party's actions would inevitably bring huge movements.
But if you think about it carefully, you are not a human being. Who said there must be a sound.
The "man" squatted silently on top of the partition, facing her with a ferocious smile that burst out with veins. With his back against the dim light of the bathroom, his face became more and more eerie.
"turn up… "
Without saying the word "you", Lin You glanced at his feet squatting on the partition board, and with his backhand picked up the broom that was leaning against his back, and pointed it directly at the opponent's chest.
With a "plop", the stick made him fall back to the next door.