On February 17th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen arrived in front of the Hourglass Cube on the west side of the "Peach Blossom Spring".
It's not yet the peak period for the lottery, but there are already many participants in the Hourglass Cube. They are either alone or in a team. Naturally, the purpose is the same as Ji Thrush and others, they are here to draw lots.
Ji Xiaoniao and the others didn't meet any acquaintances among these people.
In front of the registration desk, there is still the beautiful artificial intelligence sister, but this month she changed into a new outfit, from the airport ground staff suit to a pure white knee-length nurse uniform.
The three completed the team registration, walked through the foyer, and came to the glass hourglass filled with "worlds".
Just like what they saw half a month ago, countless transparent cubes of "sand grains" are suspended on the upper part of the hourglass that leads directly into the endless dark night, drifting and moving slowly and irregularly, occasionally colliding with each other, and being changed by each other. , and quietly separated.
Ji Thrush looked up at the huge hourglass in front of him, and swallowed nervously.
He sincerely hoped that his luck would be better than last time, at least to get an F-rank dungeon that wasn't that difficult.
"Okay, then I smoke it!"
Ji Thrush stretched out his hand and touched the huge hourglass whose top could not be seen.
Just like the previous time, he touched an air wall ten centimeters away from the hourglass.
[Please select the [World] difficulty you want to challenge.]
A male voice sounded in the void, still resembling the standard voice in the CCTV news broadcast.
Only this time, there was only one option, [B], that appeared in front of Ji Thrush.
Ji Thrush: "???"
He cautiously withdrew his hand, blinked hard twice, trying to make sure whether he was blinded or not.
However, no matter how much he stared at the options in front of him, he still could only see a huge "B".
—Is this a bug in the system
Ji Xiaoniao could only think of this only explanation.
So he raised his head and yelled at the artificial intelligence of the male anchor floating in the void:
"System, what's going on here? Why is there only one B-level 'world' option?"
Ji Thrush protested confidently:
"Doesn't every participant who just entered the 'Peach Blossom Land' have three chances to enter the F-level 'world'?"
[I have learned about the question of participant number C0919, the system is confirming, please wait a moment.]
An answer came from the void.
Ji Thrush turned his head and smiled at Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen behind him, "It must be a mistake..."
The artificial intelligence did not keep them waiting for long. Before Ji Xiaoniao finished speaking, they heard the answer.
[It has been confirmed that the difficulty selection is correct.]
The voice of the male anchor in the night sky replied:
[Because the three participants of your team have all activated their abilities, and their strength has fully met the requirements of the B-level difficulty 'World', the difficulty level of the 'World' draw for next month is limited to B-level.]
"wait!"
Ji Thrush was stunned, how could it be like this!
In the dark night where the dome cannot be seen, the voice of artificial intelligence continued:
[For this difficulty adjustment, 〖Peach Blossom Spring〗 reserves the right of final interpretation.]
— This is too rascal! !
Ji Thrush was dumbfounded at the level of shamelessness of "Peach Blossom Spring".
Of course, Mo Tiangen was both surprised and angry, and immediately rolled up his sleeves and joined the ranks of reasoning, using his Mandarin mixed with the mountain dialect and the invisible artificial intelligence voice to make a theory. But the other party only used his voice full of texture like a news anchor, and explained in an orderly manner, because you have reached the level of ability, so you must upgrade the difficulty of "World".
When the two were so angry that they were almost jumping, Ren Jianmo's expression was always very cold. When he heard the sentence "'Taohuayuan' reserves the right of final interpretation", a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Although he really couldn't remember his previous experience in "Peach Blossom Spring" and various "worlds", but the tone of playing with the participants in his hands was inexplicably familiar to Ren Damei.
I must have been tricked by this so-called "final interpretation right" back then!
Although they knew that they were deliberately made things difficult by the system, they still had to draw next month's "world".
After tossing for more than ten minutes to no avail, Ji Xiaoniao and Teacher Dagen could only accept their fate.
Ji Thrush stretched out his hand again and touched the air wall in front of the hourglass. The artificial intelligence acted as if nothing had happened, while saying [Please choose the difficulty of [World] you want to challenge in a gentle and magnetic tone. ], while popping up an option box for him again.
Classmate Xiaoniao reluctantly tapped the option [B].
The countless transparent cubes that were originally floating in the glass hourglass began to slowly rotate clockwise, as if being stirred by an invisible hand in the middle, the speed gradually increased, and finally converged into a huge vortex of light flow.
Then a cube broke away from the vortex and fell below the hourglass.
That would suggest that the non-Chiefs long-season birdie draw is done.
"Gudong."
Both Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen swallowed nervously.
Because the most important trailer is about to start.
Sure enough, the air wall erected in front of the hourglass lit up immediately, as if a huge holographic projection screen appeared out of thin air.
Different from the eerie horror of blood characters emerging from the darkness in the last "Bone and Flesh Separation", this time the trailer, the opening scene is surprisingly lively and clear, and the color saturation seems to be comparable to the festiveness of the Lunar New Year file at first glance. Big production.
And more importantly, this is such an ancient world!
In the picture is a large house with carved beams and painted buildings. A group of charming maidservants wearing embroidered skirts and hair combs and emerald clouds, holding various fruits, snacks, wine and delicacies in their hands, lined up through the corridor and walked into the garden. In a banquet hall.
The hall was brightly lit, and there were twenty or thirty tables, as if some kind of banquet was being held.
At this time, the picture suddenly became hazy, as if covered with a layer of translucent gauze, and then four cursive ink characters flying around appeared.
"Fuck!"
Teacher Dagen almost burst out with a national curse: "This word is too fucking scribbled! Who knows what it is written in!"
Ji Thrush didn't know anything about calligraphy, so he wasn't sure if he had admitted his mistake, so he could only make guesses, thinking that it was about the words "Painting Walls and Changing Souls".
Just as he was still trying to figure out the title of the next "world", the screen of the trailer had switched again.
The handwriting quickly fades and dissipates like ink marks entering water, and the tulle covering the front of the picture is also lifted off. The original picture of a banquet with a full house is gone, replaced by a mansion that looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.
At this moment, the camera is slowly passing over the house from a bird's-eye view.
Season thrushes can see the overgrown weeds in the garden, the yellow and withered flowers and trees, the collapsed courtyard walls, the broken tiles and ruins that have not been repaired for a long time...
In the end, the picture stayed for two seconds in front of a huge screen wall in the dilapidated house, and then suddenly went black again.
Immediately afterwards, Ji Thrush heard a young man's rapid panting and panicked sobbing.
At the moment when the trailer lights up again, the trailer switches to the first perspective of someone, and the owner of the voice is running—more precisely, he should be running for his life.
While he was crying, he stumbled and ran, and the camera swayed, shook and changed angles rapidly following his staggering steps.
"Jile!"
Teacher Dagen really wanted to scold people this time.
What a god trailer, shaking like this, replaced by a dizzy 3D one, I'm afraid I can't help but feel my throat getting stuck, how can I see clearly what's going on in the screen.
However, Season Thrush still kept his eyes wide open, trying to identify the messy and broken elements in his field of vision.
Ji Xiaoniao saw with the eyes of a running man that he seemed to have returned to the big mansion where the banquet was being held. There were busy beautiful maids and handsome servants everywhere, as well as enchanting dancers and musicians holding silk and bamboo. From time to time, there were a few little children with snacks in their hands, playing and running past him...
During the escape process, people often laughed and tried to hold the young man's hand, as if they wanted to invite him to go with them, and some people simply brought up cups full of fine wine to persuade them to drink, or stuffed delicate and beautiful food into their mouths. In his hands, all these were blocked by the young man in panic and fear.
Immediately afterwards, the owner of the perspective seemed to run into the banquet hall that had appeared at the beginning of the trailer, and Ji Thumper saw that the banquet hall was already full of guests and accompanying girls.
Although the picture shakes badly, the distance is close enough for Ji Thrush and others watching the trailer to see the appearance of the guests clearly with the eyes of young people.
Surrounded by a group of beautiful maids and maids, the guests were dressed in coarse linen shirts, their faces were disheveled, and some colors were scattered here and there on their bodies. They looked like a group of grass bandits, and their demeanor did not match this extravagant banquet at all!
And in this short three or four seconds of first-person perspective, Ji Thrush quickly noticed something unusual.
The more the young man ran forward, the weirder he would look whether he was a guest or a servant girl.
The ragged guests began to grab the food on the table with their hands, and stuffed it into their mouths rudely, while the girls who accompanied the wine stretched out their hands with bony knuckles, and some? Black hair wrinkled...
After running two tables forward, when I looked again, the figure on the left was as fat as an inflated beach ball, while the one on the right simply lay down on the table, arching his head against the delicacies on the plate , the tall and tall back is like a mountain of meat made of rubber, and the human shape is almost invisible...
At this time, a woman in a yellow skirt with a ponytail stood up holding a wine cup and tried to grab the sleeves of the running young man. The young man was crying while trying to shake her off. The girl in the yellow skirt smiled and turned around. Yujing, at a very close distance from the viewing angle, suddenly revealed a long fur-fox face!
"I, I, Rile!!"
Mo Tiangen was taken aback, and let out an exclamation that got stuck in two, and Ji Thrush couldn't help but gasped.
- Feelings This turned out to be a monster banquet!
At the same time when the young man who was fleeing for his life and everyone watching outside the screen were frightened by the suddenly enlarged fox face, a hand suddenly appeared on the screen—more precisely, it should be a hand. Prominently, it stretched out from behind the young man, and then he was about to cover the man's eyes.
Ji Thrush and the others heard the man's sobs that were almost broken, full of panic and despair.
"I caught you."
A hoarse and dry voice sounded, but there was an obvious smile in the words:
"Next, it's your turn to be a ghost."
The young man's eyes were tightly covered, and the screen immediately fell into complete darkness. The trailer came to an abrupt end, leaving only the last two lines of messages for Ji Thrush and the others:
[Don't get caught, don't get caught.]
[Be careful, that ghost is hiding by your side.]
The author has something to say:
Peach Blossom Spring (Laipilian): If you want to raise the difficulty, you have to raise the difficulty, if you refuse to accept it, you will commit suicide!