February 4th, nine o'clock in the morning.
Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen stood in front of the fourth building of "Peach Blossom Spring".
Now Ji Xiaoniao finally figured out the basic structure of this place.
The so-called "Peach Blossom Spring" has nothing to do with Tao Gong's "traffic on the rice paddies, chickens and dogs hear each other" Xanadu. It does not know which dimension it exists in. There is no entrance and exit. Battlestar, the participants can only live in it, unable to leave a step.
In the center of the "Peach Blossom Spring" is a huge suspended platform with an obelisk, and there is a main building in each of the four directions of the southeast, north and south.
To the east is the Colosseum with many small black houses, the function is settlement and exchange of points.
It is said that the Colosseum also has an additional space called the training ground, where the participants can familiarize themselves with the props they exchanged in advance.
To the south is the apartment of the participants, where each room is located.
Facing the north side of the apartment is the Lian Pavilion they visited last night.
There are hundreds of rooms in Liange, which can not only be used by gangs as meeting rooms and event rooms, but also bars, restaurants, viewing areas, gyms and various indoor sports fields, which are used by participants for social activities. main area.
As for the west side where they are now, there is a strange building called "Hourglass Cube" - where the participants will choose the next "world" they are about to enter, and it is also the time when they enter the "world". channel.
At the moment, there are very few people in the Hourglass Cube.
Except for newcomers like Ji Thrush and the others who will not be able to return to the "Peach Blossom Land" until the beginning of the next month, in order to gain sufficient preparation time, most of the experiencers usually have already selected the "World" in the second half of the month, and few dragged until now.
Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen registered as a team in the hourglass hall.
[Would you like to start the 'world' draw now?]
In front of the registration desk, a beautiful artificial intelligence dressed like an airport ground staff smiled and said to Ji Thrush.
Ji Thrush: "..."
He looked hesitantly at Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen beside him, and then looked back at the artificial intelligence: "Here, must the captain come to draw lots?"
The artificial intelligence sister said with a smile: "Yes, the captain must draw lots."
Ji Thrush hugged his head and let out a sigh.
"Ahhh!"
He broke down and said: "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't be the captain!!"
Teacher Dagen was very confused by his reaction: "What's wrong? Isn't it just a lottery!"
"No, no, you don't know!"
Ji Thrush cried: "You won't understand a pure-blood non-chief's fear of drawing cards!"
Xiaoniao has a full understanding of his bloodline - after three consecutive mobile games with 100 draws all crashed, he vowed never to play any games that rely on luck in his life.
However, the beautiful artificial intelligence sister in front of him told him that not only did he have to draw cards from the card pool full of "worlds", but the result was directly related to the life and death of himself and two teammates in eleven days.
"Okay, Ji Xiaoniao, don't be so stressed."
Mr. Dagen comforted Xiaoniao who was depressed.
"Anyway, Zhao Zhui also said that the types of 'worlds' with F-level difficulty are all fixed, and the left and right are physical attack routines. It doesn't matter which one you choose!"
Ji Thrush was encouraged, and after thinking about it, this was indeed the reason, so he cheered up and led two followers... No, the two team members walked into a door at the back of the hall with arrogance.
Inside the door is another hall.
However, the ceiling of the hall was higher than Ji Thrush's imagination.
He raised his head and tried his best to see where the roof was, but it was a pity that even though he stretched his neck sorely, he could only see an endless night sky.
In the lobby stands a giant glass hourglass.
But judging from the size difference between the upper part and the lower part, the thrush thinks it looks more like a funnel.
The lower part of the hourglass is only the size of a football, and it is empty inside; the upper part is surprisingly large, with the top extending into the mid-air invisible to the naked eye, and it is filled with countless "sand grains".
Each "grain of sand" is a transparent cube, with a cluster of fireflies burning in the center, revealing a faint cool light.
Countless cubes are all floating in mid-air ignoring the gravity of the earth at this time, doing irregular Brownian motion.
"Okay, then I smoke it!"
Ji Thrush took a deep breath, rubbed his paws vigorously, then stretched out his hand, and touched the huge hourglass.
He thought he would touch a piece of glass, but what he encountered was a wall of air.
Ten centimeters away from the hourglass, his palm was blocked by a "wall" invisible to the naked eye.
[Please select the [World] difficulty you want to challenge.]
Ji Thrush heard a realistic magnetic male voice speaking to him, the pronunciation and tone were very similar to the standard broadcast accent in the CCTV news broadcast.
At the same time, two options appeared in front of him, [F] and [B].
Ji Xiaoniao was not so arrogant that he thought he could challenge the B-level difficulty in the second round, so he chose "F" without hesitation.
The luminous cube floating in the glass hourglass began to spin, and soon converged into a huge vortex of light particles.
After about thirty seconds, one of the cubes broke away from its companions, passed through the slender neck of the hourglass, fell to its lower half, and touched the transparent glass wall, making a crisp "ding" sound .
Immediately afterwards, the tangible but invisible wall of air standing in front of Ji Thrush suddenly lit up.
From the perspective of the three of them, it was as if a huge holographic projection screen appeared out of thin air in front of them.
The screen was dark at first, and then a line of blood-colored words slowly appeared - "Flesh and Bone Separation".
"Fuck!"
Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen exclaimed in unison.
At this moment, they realized that this was the legendary trailer!
The two of them didn't dare to be distracted any more, they quickly focused and stared at the screen in front of them.
The trailer is only thirty seconds long.
From a bird's-eye view, the camera passes over a dense mountain forest, followed by an old mine on the mountainside, and then stops above a small town that is almost entirely made of wooden buildings.
Ji thrush saw the residents of the town.
People have cheerful and carefree smiles on their faces.
Two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children crossed the street with schoolbags on their backs, turned their heads and greeted an old man in a robe in front of the wooden house; the chubby housewife put away the sheets to dry in the bright sun; The stocky men were drinking and bragging together in the bar, and the scene was warm and jubilant.
However, in the next second, the atmosphere on the screen suddenly changed.
The whole town, as well as the mountains and mines behind it, are all wrapped in a transparent film.
The townspeople disappeared.
"Why are you doing this again!"
Teacher Dagen couldn't help complaining in a low voice: "Has it changed from an uninhabited city to a ghost village?"
But as soon as he finished his words, wandering figures appeared in the dark forest surrounding the town.
The correct way to say it is that it looks a bit like a "human" thing.
Ji Thrush felt that he could barely distinguish the positions of their heads, bodies, and limbs, but just based on the shadows hidden in the dark, he really wasn't sure whether those things could be considered "people".
At this point, the trailer has come to an end.
They saw several special forces in camouflage uniforms.
The soldiers were raising their guns and shooting towards the dark woods, and several people in white coats were evacuated to a cave under the protection of special forces.
During these few seconds, the camera seems to have become a handheld mode, like the pseudo-documentary horror films of the DV real shooting in ancient times, shaking and crashing.
In the intertwined light and shadow, Ji Thrush could only hear the screams and howls of panicked people, as well as the silhouettes of monsters that occasionally moved past the camera.
Immediately afterwards, the person holding the camera seemed to enter a corridor, and the background turned into blood-stained snow-white walls and floors.
In the end, the camera fell to the ground, and the picture shattered into a spider web, and it was fixed on an empty syringe that had been used by someone.
The forecast ends here.
The picture dimmed, and the screen returned to a pitch black state.
A line of scarlet letters appeared in the center of the screen—[Flesh and flesh are separated, pros and cons come together, wait with bated breath.]
Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen: "..."
—What the hell does that mean!
—Do you dare to be more stream-of-consciousness!
Ji Thrush: "Actually, this is pretty good."
He complained with a serious expression, "At least from now on, I will never dislike those garbage movies that watching the trailer is equivalent to watching the whole movie."
"Just admit it, the one that cuts all the essence into the trailer is a work of conscience."
Teacher Dagen said with dead fish eyes: "At least I will tell you frankly that there are only those things in the whole story."
He shook his head helplessly.
"However, after seeing this trailer, I remembered that in the previous 'world', I seemed to have been exposed to similar things."
"Oh?"
Ji Thrush became interested: "What's going on?"
Before he entered the city of ashes, when he went to a movie with his teammates, he saw a trailer that only he could see. The harbinger of "Peach Blossom Spring".
"The night before the maglev rail car accident, I had a nightmare. In the dream was a gray and empty city."
Mo Tiangen replied: "At that time, I didn't take it seriously at all. I almost forgot about it after washing my face."
He shrugged and spread his hands helplessly:
"So, all of this is actually not accidental. I just got caught by 'Peach Blossom Spring' by unlucky luck, right?"
"okay."
Ren Jianmo, who had been silent all this time, interrupted the uninspiring conversation between the two at this moment.
"It doesn't make sense to dwell on the last 'world' now."
He lifted his chin towards the two of them.
"The most urgent task now is to find a place and carefully analyze the trailer you just saw before your memories are blurred."