Day of Imprisonment

Luo Xi was stunned.

He thought the other party was a pre-programmed 'NPC', a scene employee who could only say fixed lines, a pitiful withered one.

But what the other party just said was very strange.

That tone clearly indicated they recognized him.

Like Teacher Han?

Or perhaps it was one of the 'memory fragments' he had arranged before?

Luo Xi stopped and moved closer to the grid again.

"What should I call you?"

"Just call me Grid Man. Anyway, you'll fail this time, and you won't remember next time, so you'll have to ask me again."

This was chilling to hear.

Luo Xi almost immediately blurted out a question.

"How many times have I been here?"

This meant that he had failed before, and more than once.

"The number of times is meaningless to you, because you only remember this time, but I remember everything, damn it! Do you know what a torment this is for me, trapped in a grid in this dark place, my body torn apart, completely divided into these one hundred and fifty grids? Tell me, does that feel good?"

Hearing this, even Luo Xi felt his scalp tingle.

Could it be that these one hundred and fifty grids were all different body parts of one person?

And this person wasn't dead, not only wasn't dead, but remembered everything, possibly for hundreds, even thousands of cycle days.

This was simply torture.

The most terrifying, the most hopeless torture.

Luo Xi was curious as to why this person hadn't gone mad.

"You must be wondering why I haven't gone mad? Haha, because you keep lying to me, but I believe your lies every time. You say you will take us away, away from this hellish place, but you keep failing, you..."

Suddenly, Grid Man stopped speaking.

The other party seemed very agitated, at a breaking point between explosion and suppression.

Like water about to boil.

About to boil, violently churning.

In the end, all the emotions about to explode subsided into silence with a sigh, as if the fire had been turned off, and the water in the kettle could no longer boil.

"Go, it's coming!"

Grid Man said.

Luo Xi sensed the danger almost at the same time, but in the darkness, he couldn't react in time and correctly.

This resulted in a hand grabbing his wrist.

It was that hand again.

And this time, there were two more hands. Besides grabbing Luo Xi's wrist, one was choking Luo Xi's neck, and the other was grabbing his clothes.

It was clear that they wanted to drag Luo Xi away.

For these strange arms, other methods were useless. The only thing that worked was the [Soul-Seizing Bell].

So, at this moment, Luo Xi rang the bell without hesitation.

Ring, ring, ring!

The three hands immediately retracted. At the same time, something huge seemed to be crawling quickly not far away. The sound and movement made people think of some kind of giant insect.

It was a spider.

Grid Man had said that since the other party had been here for so long, it must know the true source of the strange hands hidden in the darkness.

However, human hands and spiders seemed completely unrelated. If they were forcibly merged, whatever the final product was would definitely be extremely bizarre.

The moment Luo Xi rang the bell, he felt a sharp pain.

It was as if someone had pressed a burning coal onto his back.

The excruciating pain of burning skin made Luo Xi's face change. He almost immediately reached out to touch his back.

But he touched nothing.

His back was intact, his clothes were normal, and his skin was fine, but the burning pain didn't lessen at all.

"It's a curse!"

The description of the [Soul-Seizing Bell] was very clear. Every time the bell was rung, while deterring demons and monsters, it would also add a curse to oneself.

Last time it was a strange whisper, disturbing the mind, this time it was a direct burning curse, the pain was unbearable.

Luo Xi endured the pain, but even so, his back was still burning hot. The realism of the pain and burning made him break out in a cold sweat, and he became a lot weaker as a result.

The rustling sounds around him approached again, and the sense of crisis, like a knife hanging over his head, made people shudder.

"Leave. Staying here will only waste time," Grid Man's voice sounded.

Leave?

The way to leave the Land of No Light was actually very simple.

Release a light source.

It seemed that leaving was the only option. The pillar hidden in the darkness must be very difficult to deal with, even an invincible existence at this stage. Even the [Soul-Seizing Bell] could only repel it for a moment, and judging by the sound, it was a giant spider with many arms.

If it weren't for the [Soul-Seizing Bell], Luo Xi wouldn't be able to get rid of it.

Luo Xi had a light source.

A lighter.

Brought out from home, the kind you can buy for a yuan at the store.

Luo Xi had already taken out the lighter.

But he didn't use it immediately. Instead, he rushed towards the wall full of grids, and said to it, "I can!"

After saying that, a huge gust of wind swept over from behind. The spider was probably already close at hand.

The next moment, Luo Xi used the lighter.

Click!

A faint flame flickered, and its weak light immediately illuminated the surroundings, allowing Luo Xi to see a huge and terrifying monster behind him in an instant. It was a spider with many half-human bodies growing on its back. The arms of those half-humans were unusually long, like hair, numbering in the hundreds, each tens of meters long, flying wildly in the air.

The surroundings were a gloomy Buddhist temple, with walls, houses, grand halls, and pagodas. In the distance, one could vaguely see what seemed to be three large bells, arranged in a triangular pattern, standing in the courtyard.

Bells?

So it's here!

This scene flashed by in an instant, and the next moment, all of it disappeared before his eyes.

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In its place was another different environment.

In the distance, there seemed to be another wall, also with the same grids. There was a light source there, and three people were standing there. Besides them, there was also a phantom-like ghost, eerie and terrifying, but after experiencing everything before, Luo Xi found it all rather childish.

Its level of terror was less than one-tenth of that giant spider.

Luo Xi's appearance naturally attracted the attention of the few people there.

Among them, the illusory ghost grinned eerily: "Another one? Do you want to join us for a game? It's a lot of fun, and if you win, you can get a lot of useful cards."

This ghost spoke with a glib tongue.

Luo Xi walked over.

Not because the ghost was recruiting him, but because he saw Lin Qiqi. The other two people were that Poison Scorpion and the Mysticism Master.

Seeing Luo Xi, Lin Qiqi, who was holding a flashlight, also breathed a sigh of relief.

Clearly, she had also encountered a difficult danger before and could only escape the land of darkness by turning on the flashlight.

Poison Scorpion and the Mysticism Master were also staring at Luo Xi. Their reactions were different. Poison Scorpion's eyes were filled with disdain and ferocity, his hostility and malice undisguised, while the Mysticism Master smiled faintly, with a strange playful look on his face.

Lin Qiqi didn't say anything, just smiled at Luo Xi.

Given the current situation, anyone could guess what was going on.

Poison Scorpion and the Mysticism Master had failed to plot against Lin Qiqi last time, and they were planning to make a comeback. However, it was possible that their target was no longer just Lin Qiqi, but also Luo Xi.

Coincidentally, Luo Xi and Lin Qiqi would not let these two people go either.

In other words, they both had the intention and plan to completely 'eliminate' each other.

At this time, it depended on who was stronger, which was the so-called 'the brave wins when enemies meet on a narrow road.'

However, limited by the rule that one could not directly attack in Youzuo Temple, they could only use the settings and rules here to plot against each other.

That ghost-like phantom should be the key, whether Lin Qiqi chose it or the other party chose it, this ghost must have special value.

"What's your name?" Luo Xi looked at the phantom-like ghost.

"I'm called Gambling Ghost. After I appear, all Memory Holders within my sight must participate in my gambling game. So, I was just teasing you when I asked if you wanted to join, because you have no choice," the terrifying ghost face smiled triumphantly.

It was actually pretending to be cute.

"What kind of gambling game?" Luo Xi knew why Lin Qiqi hadn't spoken, because whether she spoke or not, he couldn't stay out of it.

Moreover, Luo Xi didn't intend to stay out of it.

The future was full of despair and uncertainty, but that was precisely what fascinated Luo Xi.

If he wanted to go further, he had to make sure that every step he took was steady.

Focusing on the present was key.

"It's very simple. We just played a game, and everyone had a lot of fun, right?" The Gambling Ghost was good at creating an atmosphere, but no one responded to it.

It wasn't embarrassed and continued to explain.

"The rules are like this: I am the dealer, and you four are the players. I have one hundred number cards here, corresponding to the numbers 1 to 100. When the game starts, I will randomly draw 5 numbers from these one hundred number cards. Of course, these are hidden cards. Besides me, you won't know them. These five number cards will then be returned to the deck. Next, there will be a total of five rounds of betting. In each round, you can bet and choose 1 number card. Note that what you bet is [Memory]. Of course, if you don't have [Memory], you can exchange it with me. My exchange rate is very fair."

"In each round, I will compare the sum of your hand cards with the sum of my numbers. If someone exceeds my sum, then they bust, and that person is eliminated. This continues until the end of the five rounds of card selection. In the end, whoever's number is closest to my number is the winner. If everyone busts, then I am the winner!"

"In addition, there is another possibility: someone happens to choose the same number as me, or the sum of their 5 numbers is the same as my sum. Then, in the first case, that person can directly get 9 times the bet, and everyone else must pay 9 times the bet. In the second case, they can get 4 times the bet, and the other players must also pay."

The rules were indeed simple, but in practice, there was a lot of room for manipulation.

"When choosing a number card, if I like one, and someone else likes the same one, who does it belong to?" Luo Xi asked.

"Simple, the highest bidder gets it. At this time, you can raise the bet, which means that the person with the highest bet in each round can choose the number card first," the Gambling Ghost smiled.

"Understood!"

Luo Xi nodded. He then walked over and looked at Lin Qiqi.

"You've played a game already?"

Lin Qiqi nodded.

"Lost, right?"

"Yeah!" She continued to nod.

"It's normal. There were two of them and only one of you. The odds of winning were doubled for them. But don't worry, now that I'm here, you won't lose again!"