The school bus drove through the endless streets all night, picking up 37 orphans (22 boys and 15 girls).
Yi Chen leaned against the window, looking at the similar buildings that kept flashing by without feeling sleepy at all. He was so excited at the thought of returning to the orphanage in this way that he couldn't sleep at all.
The night passed,
The postman's voice echoed in the school bus through the loudspeaker, as if a needle was pierced into the ears, and some orphans who had fallen asleep were forcibly awakened.
"First of all, congratulations on standing out from the crowd of "child-like" people. Some of you are almost ten years old. We have a rule here that if you have not escaped the shackles of your original family by the age of ten, you will be classified as a failure and digested by the family.
Next you will go to the important area, the orphanage. Due to the secrecy of the route, you will need to take a short nap."
The postman took out a gas mask from the top hat compartment, put it on himself, and then pressed a green button.
Hiss~ A strong green smell overflowed from various areas and quickly filled the entire carriage. All the orphans, including Yue Hen, fell asleep within seconds.
Everyone knows that this is a necessary process and is not dangerous, and that this hypnotic gas will assist individuals in reaching a deep sleep state and quickly recover from the fatigue of 'leaving home'.
A minute passed.
When the gas concentration reached an extremely high value, the postman checked the carriage through the rearview mirror and found that the boy sitting by the window in the last row was still looking out the window with his eyes open.
Even though his eyeballs became bloodshot and green due to inhaling the hypnotic scent, he still couldn't fall asleep.
"You seem to be unusually obsessed with the orphanage, but if you don't sleep, your condition will be worse than others, and the goals you want to achieve will also be affected."
Yi Chen responded calmly:
"I just couldn't sleep. If memorizing driving routes is not allowed here, you can just come and knock me out."
The postman waved his hand and continued driving, "No need~ Anyway, I'm just an employee, and I follow the rules. Since the hypnotic gas doesn't work on you, there's nothing I can do, right
Sit tight, I'm about to turn onto the main road."
Suddenly, the postman turned the steering wheel sharply, causing the car to turn 90 degrees and crash head-on into a residential building. With violent tremors and broken stones and tiles passing by the window...
A brand new road appeared before our eyes, as if driving into the no-man's land of the West.
After driving for two hours on the deserted road full of forks,
A huge building with high black hexagonal walls, like a prison, appeared in the field of vision. Although the specifications became more exaggerated, the external structure was exactly the same as in memory.
A larger sign was also erected on the roadside.
There are four types of signs printed on them - a biological hazard sign, a high voltage hazard sign, a beware of explosion sign, and a new type of sign of a skull being smashed by a stick.
Below these logos is a small string of inconspicuous letters.
Orphanage in Black Mountain
When he was sure that the orphanage was similar to his memory, Yi Chen smiled with satisfaction. The sleepiness that had been blocked by obsession instantly flooded into his brain, and he leaned against the car window and fell into a deep sleep.
…
Old World - Surface
The Duke, who had already eaten two bags of snacks, blew a whistle, and a mysterious arm from the dark of the castle handed over an oversized goblet filled with red soda and ice cubes the size of a human head.
Gurgle gurgle~
The Duke drank more than ten liters of soda in one gulp.
Burp! A huge burp came out of his mouth, and the fat all over his body trembled.
A columnar dent hundreds of meters long was blasted directly into the desert sand.
"It's really comfortable. I didn't expect to enter the core gambling game so soon. Let me see your luck and strength."
The Duke patted her belly, which was as big as a mountain, and the casino inside her body also changed accordingly.
The golden chess pieces representing Yi Chen and Yue Hen move to the center of the board, and the first dice roll is required.
…
As Yi Chen fell asleep in the school bus.
Its consciousness was led to a special dream area, where its companion Yuehen was also.
Dark space,
The two of them still maintained the figure of children in the gambling game.
As Yi Chen fell asleep and came here, it seemed as if something was falling vertically from the sky, aiming at the heads of the two men.
Upon closer inspection, they were actually two golden dice (six-sided) that were larger than a human body.
Yi Chen rolled backwards instinctively.
Yuehen used a superb displacement technique. Without any obvious movement, his body teleported backwards for a distance, just enough to avoid the dice.
Bang!
The heavy golden dice fell in front of the two people, and the Duke's voice came from the dream space.
However, this voice came from the gambling consciousness within the Duke's body. It was deep and cold, and not at all as "friendly" as when communicating with the outside world.
§ To start the gambling game, please throw the golden dice at least five meters in the air and rotate it at least three times. You are not allowed to use your abilities to intentionally pull the dice. If I regard this as cheating, the gambling will be deemed a failure and you will be fined 10 times.
The difficulty of your next opening will be determined by the size of the points. The larger the points, the higher the difficulty. If you throw a double 6, you will directly enter "disaster mode"
Let's get started!
"Is it really a gamble?"
Yi Chen tried to pick up the seemingly heavy golden dice, but when he held it in his hand he found that the dice had become as light as foam and could be easily thrown to a height of five meters.
"William, you vote first."
"OK!"
By squatting with his calves to mobilize the whole body's strength, Yi Chen directly threw the dice to a height of more than ten meters.
After the fall, it rebounded, followed by several rotations, and finally stopped...
A drop of cold sweat slid down Yi Chen's cheek, which meant that even if Yue Hen cast the minimum point 1, the overall difficulty would be above average.
He looked at Yue Hen not far away with some embarrassment, "My luck... depends on you."
Yue Hen didn't care at all, what he wanted was a high level of difficulty.
The winning or losing of this gambling game had no direct relationship with his own interests, he was just participating enthusiastically. If he could find out the difficulty fluctuations of the gambling game, especially the highest difficulty limit, it would be of great significance to Yuehen.
After all, the "Moonlight Greatsword" he had set his eyes on was priceless, and it would take who knows how long it would take to earn points just by trading it, so gambling was definitely the fastest way.
Yuehen raised his head slightly,
A layer of moonlight barrier dragged the dice up into the sky, exactly five meters high.
There was no violent collision when the dice fell, and after a slight rotation, it landed flat on -3.
A decent number,
Yi Chen also breathed a sigh of relief, at least he didn't come up with another one. Otherwise, he would have to face a catastrophic difficulty that exceeded the gambling itself right at the beginning, which would not be a good thing for the subsequent orphanage operations.
§Total score 9 corresponds to a difficult start, good luck to you§
Bang! The dealer slapped his huge flesh-and-blood palm.
The dream shattered in an instant like a mirror.
Consciousness returns to the body.
In a public bathroom that was constantly filled with cold air (-68℃), a total of 22 teenagers, with their clothes stripped off, were piled up in the middle of the bathroom like corpses.
When Yi Chen woke up, he immediately felt the extreme cold. Although the plants in his body helped to resist it, they could only delay the complete freezing of his flesh.
The other orphans woke up at the same time.
The piled up meat mountain quickly disintegrated into independent individual units. Everyone was quickly looking around, examining and analyzing the current situation in the bathroom, trying to snatch time to survive from the hands of the extreme cold death.
There are a total of ten "shower points" here.
In everyone's eyes, these shower points are their hope for survival. Without hot water, they will surely freeze to death here.
Urged by the extreme cold, many orphans rushed to the nearest shower point to seize the opportunity... However, Yi Chen and Lorian had no intention of competing and slowed down their movements.
As ten taps were turned on.
ah!
The screams that followed immediately filled the enclosed bathroom.
Not all of these showers are for life-saving purposes. Four of them spray cold water, which freezes immediately when it hits the body, accelerating the freezing of the flesh.
There were four more nozzles that dropped boiling concentrated acid with a huge flow rate, which instantly swallowed up the young man below. The screams lasted less than three seconds.
There were only two showers that released warm water properly.
The survivors all looked over there...
(End of this chapter)