Day of Imprisonment

Inside a large shopping mall, Wu Rui looked at the content on her phone and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Luo Xi is fine. He entered a level scene earlier, and the signal was blocked there, which is why we couldn't contact him," she said, stretching. The tension she felt was gone.

Mao Ge was sitting opposite her.

"Where did Guo Zening and those two go?" Mao Ge looked around, appearing anxious.

He had already experienced several cycle days, but to be honest, it was still difficult to reach Luo Xi's calm and collected state.

Sometimes, Mao Ge wondered what kind of mental state Luo Xi usually maintained to remain so calm most of the time.

He couldn't even sense any emotional fluctuations from Luo Xi.

It was like, no passion, but also no despair.

Like a calm but bottomless pool.

This composure and calmness didn't give people a sense of negativity, but rather a sense of stability like a divine needle steadying the sea, a sense of reliance when encountering any difficulties.

It could be said that Luo Xi was the backbone of their group.

And the hope for survival.

"I don't know. They said they went to the game console store over there to take a look," Wu Rui said, pointing to a game console store in the distance.

"It's already this late, and they're still so playful," Mao Ge said helplessly.

"They're not like you. You're a middle-aged man who's married with kids. They're still young," Wu Rui said with a smile.

"Don't say that. Haven't you heard that a man is always a boy at heart? It's not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't have the time or the mood. Who doesn't want to have fun playing games? I used to be a gaming expert," Mao Ge said, rarely smiling.

After speaking, he stood up.

"I'll go take a look."

"I'll go too!" Wu Rui also jumped up.

When they went to the game console store, there were indeed many people, mostly young people, and some who looked like office workers. There were many trial devices in the store, and various game screens were displayed on the large screens.

After asking a store employee, the two were quickly led to a room in the back, but there were very few people here, making it seem very empty.

The two immediately saw Qian Pangzi and Ke Lan.

The two of them were looking at the big screen with anxious expressions, as excited as if they were watching a live sports broadcast.

On the screen was the image of a game. Wu Rui wasn't a gaming expert and didn't usually play much, so she couldn't tell what it was. However, Mao Ge recognized it as a classic game.

"Inside."

There was a glass room over there, and they could see Guo Zening wearing headphones, operating a computer with a serious expression and sweat on his forehead.

"Why is he so engrossed in playing?" Mao Ge was stunned.

He noticed that there was another room with someone inside operating a computer as well.

Looking at the screens, it was clear that two people were battling.

It was a battle game.

It was a real-time strategy game.

At this time, Wu Rui spoke with Qian Pangzi and Ke Lan, and then her face became serious. She waved to Mao Ge.

"What's wrong?"

"This is a scene."

"What?" Mao Ge was stunned.

They came here for safety, but they didn't expect to encounter another level scene so easily.

"It's not that dangerous. This place is similar to Dou Dou's game room!" Ke Lan said, then pointed to the screen: "Two Memory Retrievers duel. Participation requires some cards as tickets. If the participants win, they can get rewards. If they lose, the tickets are lost. But you can bet on it."

"That is, other Memory Retrievers, like us, including the participants, can bet before the match, betting on who will win or lose."

"Did you guys bet?" Mao Ge felt that these two were so excited watching the game just now, it couldn't be that simple.

Seeing the two nod, Mao Ge was helpless.

There were also some other customers here, but obviously, they were also Memory Retrievers.

Luo Xi didn't prohibit participating in other level scenes. His advice was to think more, try to grasp information and rules, and then adapt accordingly.

Mao Ge and the others knew that they couldn't rely on Luo Xi for everything.

He wasn't a nanny or a bodyguard.

To survive the Day of Imprisonment and strengthen themselves, it wasn't enough to just rely on others.

So, in private, they had all discussed that if they encountered a level scene, they would challenge it if they could.

Only by constantly challenging scenes and accumulating experience and cards could they preserve their memories and survive better.

In this regard, everyone's sense of crisis was different.

The one with the strongest sense of crisis was undoubtedly Guo Zening.

"Xiao Guo insisted on challenging this scene. We couldn't stop him," Qian Pangzi said at this time. He thought for a moment and added: "Actually, I understand Xiao Guo's feelings. He wants to prove himself, not only to us, to Luo Ju, but also to himself."

Mao Ge's lips moved. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and sat down.

"How is it? Who has the advantage?"

On the screen, it should be a relatively old-fashioned real-time strategy game. On a large map, two colored forces were fighting for control.

There were resource points such as gold mines and lumber, and various functional buildings needed to be built, such as lumber mills, barracks, and various buildings for developing technology.

Whether building or producing units, resources were needed.

Each unit on one's own side needed to be controlled one by one by the player, collecting, scouting, fighting, healing, etc., all needed to be released manually.

In addition to building, production, combat probing and micro-management, skill release, and treasure contention, all of this combined was definitely a game that required concentrated attention and even long-term practice to reach a certain level.

It could be said that the threshold was relatively high.

Mao Ge remembered that when he was young, he not only played it, but also had a good level. So just looking at these pictures made him immediately recall some past memories, but this memory quickly brought a strange sense of tearing, and some hidden memories were awakened.

"Xiao Guo is very powerful. He has a big advantage!" Qian Pangzi replied.

"Oh, that's good."

The next moment, some bizarre scenes suddenly flashed through Mao Ge's mind. These scenes were like sharp blades, cutting across his nerves, followed by severe pain and dizziness.

Mao Ge covered his head, gritting his teeth to persevere.

Wu Rui, who was next to him, noticed something was wrong and immediately stepped forward to check on him.

"I'm fine," Mao Ge said, waving his hand while keeping his head down. He found that as long as he didn't delve into those strange memory fragments, the discomfort and pain would subside.

"So what exactly are those memories?" Mao Ge could only guess at the answer from a few fleeting images.

In one of these images, he was standing in front of a screen, watching a news report that seemed to be talking about a series of terrible disasters that were happening.

Then, he remembered a scene of queuing. The line was very long, with no end in sight in front and no end in sight behind.

The next scene was of a huge object. He and many other people were looking up at this huge aircraft.

They were filled with shock and barely concealed excitement.

These were all the strange images.

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Each time he tried to recall them, he couldn't remember more details, but the pain became unbearable.

Mao Ge gritted his teeth. He felt that these memories must be very important, so even though he felt great pain in exploring the past, he still persisted, trying to access them bit by bit.

The feeling was like wanting to pick up something. You don't know what it is, only that it might be important, and that it's placed deep within a place full of sharp thorns and brambles.

To get it, you can only enter these thorns and brambles, enduring the pain of sharp needles piercing your body and tearing your flesh, and this pain is almost endless, constantly accumulating, especially as you go deeper, the closer you get to the thing, the more needles there are around you.

That feeling is simply maddening.

It's as if every inch of your flesh and blood is warning and reminding you to retreat immediately and not continue forward.

You yourself know that retreating will alleviate the pain, but it also means that you won't get what you want.

At this moment, Mao Ge was sitting on the sofa, covering his head with his hands and constantly exploring the memory fragments that he wanted to figure out, just like a brave warrior who had already entered the forest of thorns, even though he was covered in blood, even though the pain had tortured him beyond recognition.

"Almost there, just a little bit more, just a little bit more," Mao Ge was completely unable to hear the outside world at this moment, and didn't even know the passage of time or where he was.

He felt that he was getting closer and closer to the truth of that memory.

Even to the point where it was within reach.

But at this crucial moment, it seemed that someone suddenly grabbed his leg.

Preventing him from continuing forward.

"Who?"

Mao Ge turned his head angrily, only to find that it was Luo Xi who was grabbing him.

"Mao Ge, come back!"

Luo Xi shouted.

That voice was like a thunderclap, exploding loudly.

The shock made Mao Ge feel dizzy for a while. The next moment, the terrifying thorns and needles disappeared. His vision was recovering, and when he looked again, it really was Luo Xi standing in front of him.

Next to him were Wu Rui, Guo Zening, and others, all with concerned expressions.

"I, I..." Mao Ge was very confused. He didn't know what had happened. He only remembered that he seemed to be exploring something extremely important.

But strangely, he couldn't remember what it was.

This feeling was very uncomfortable, like a fishbone stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down.

"Mao Ge, don't think wildly, relax," Luo Xi's voice rang out, and Mao Ge refocused his eyes, then nodded.

Immediately afterwards, he found that there was a lot of blood on his body.

"Where did the blood come from?" he asked.

But soon he realized that the blood seemed to be flowing out of his own body. Reaching out and touching it, there was blood on his nose, mouth, and even his eyes.

Luo Xi wiped the blood with a towel, while the people next to him, Wu Rui, Qian Pangzi, and Guo Zening, all seemed very flustered.

Luo Xi's hands were very steady. While wiping the blood, he also used a card on Liu Mao.

[Anesthetic Toxin].

This was a card that Lin Qiqi had given him when they were dividing the spoils. There were many similar ones, all obtained from the Poison Scorpion Card Book.

Similar to the effect of an anesthetic, it can be used to attack enemies, and also to help one's own people relieve pain, so as not to collapse in the face of great pain.

After using the card, Mao Ge's condition stabilized a lot. He closed his eyes and seemed to fall asleep.

"What exactly is going on?" Luo Xi asked as he stood up, with a lot of blood on his body as well.

"I don't know. Before, Xiao Guo participated in a game-like level scene. During the process, Mao Ge suddenly became like this. No matter how we called him, it was no use. His expression was just painful, and later, he started bleeding from all seven orifices..." Wu Rui said, her voice trembling.

She had never seen this kind of situation before.

"How long has it been?"

"It's been an hour. If you hadn't come over and woken up Mao Ge, I'm afraid..." Everyone knew that Mao Ge's condition was very dangerous at the time.

Most importantly, no one knew what had happened.

How could a person suddenly fall into a coma and bleed from all seven orifices?

It was too exaggerated.

Luo Xi looked at the time. It was 10:11 AM now.

It seemed that there was a period of time when Mao Ge became a cleaner during this time period, and his appearance just now was very similar.

But it wasn't exactly the same.

Mao Ge didn't activate [Resentful Qi Soaring to the Sky]. He was like that for another reason.

"We can only wait for him to wake up and then talk," Luo Xi sighed.

Before, he was at the hotel dividing the spoils with Lin Qiqi.

Lin Qiqi had her own plans, so she didn't choose to act with Luo Xi, but she said that she would come to help whenever Luo Xi needed her.

She also said that if he wanted to sleep with her, he could call her anytime.

She was indeed very fierce.

But there was no time at the time, because Wu Rui called to tell Luo Xi that something had happened to Mao Ge, so he rushed over in a hurry.