Day of Imprisonment

"What are they doing?" Wu Rui asked, her eyes wide.

"Look at what that person is holding," Luo Xi said, not answering directly, but pointing to something else.

Wu Rui looked closely and realized that the thing the person was holding was actually a bloody heart.

"There are too many blood vessels on top, I don't know how to connect them. If I connect them wrong, I'm dead," Lao Ba, who was holding the heart, was almost crying.

"There are only ten seconds left, hurry up, there's no time," that person said.

Lao Ba turned his head and looked at a timer on the table, which was counting down: 9, 8, 7...

"Let's gamble on luck."

Lao Ba stared, stuffed the heart into the corpse's open chest, and then began to connect the blood vessels inside with his fingers.

3, 2, 1...

"Time's up! You messed it up, you'll have to accept the punishment!"

The corpse let out a strange laugh.

Lao Ba shuddered in fright, turned his head, and said to the other two, "Brother Wang, save me! Give me a memory card, I don't have any more memory cards. If I die, I'll become an amnesiac!"

But the other two avoided eye contact.

"Lao Ba, there's no way. Accept your fate. I only have one memory card left, I really can't give it to you."

"Damn it!"

Lao Ba was about to pounce over and snatch it, but just as he was about to move, suddenly his whole body seemed to be electrocuted. A thing could be clearly seen crawling out from behind his neck, drilling into his scalp like an electric drill, and entering his brain at an extremely fast speed.

Then Lao Ba twitched twice with wide eyes, followed by a blank expression. He mechanically got up and walked outside.

Soon, he disappeared at the door.

"Where... where is he going?" Wu Rui couldn't help but ask.

Brother Wang and the other person over there had obviously noticed Luo Xi and Wu Rui long ago. At this moment, they said with gloomy faces, "Where else could he be going? To die, of course."

"To die? Why?" Wu Rui still didn't understand.

"It's that bug," Luo Xi said at this moment.

Brother Wang got up and walked over at this time, sizing up Luo Xi and Wu Rui: "You two are newbies, right? Hehe, don't be nervous. We're all Memory Retrievers. Speaking of which, we're all miserable people... That bug just now is called the Suicide Bug. I have it on me, and you have it on you too. Or rather, all Memory Retrievers who enter this school have the Suicide Bug on them. I guess it's the mechanism of this checkpoint scene. I don't know when it crawled onto us."

Wu Rui's eyes lit up at this moment, and she thought of something. She glanced at Luo Xi.

Luo Xi didn't look at her.

"Don't they know that the administrator of this scene is standing at the school gate? Right, Luo Xi said that the administrator wouldn't do anything meaningless and boring, even if it just looks like they're standing at the school gate doing nothing. So, could it be that Teacher Liang's job is to identify Memory Retrievers and then use some method to let the Suicide Bug parasitize every Memory Retriever who enters this scene... Then, if we can interfere with Teacher Liang in advance, can we avoid the parasitism of the Suicide Bug?"

Wu Rui's mind was racing at this moment.

She realized that this was not impossible.

But it was useless to know now. If nothing unexpected happened, they should also be parasitized by that Suicide Bug.

She had seen it clearly just now. That bug that drilled into Lao Ba's head was too disgusting and too strange. Thinking that she was parasitized by this kind of bug at this moment, she immediately felt a chill and a terrible itch all over her body.

"When the Suicide Bug enters the brain, it will control people to commit suicide. Maybe they'll jump off a building, maybe they'll lie on the tracks, or maybe they'll drown themselves in a washbasin. In short, there are too many ways to die... Come, let's get to know each other. My name is Wang Li. I used to be a barbecue shop owner. The taciturn man over there is Zhu Zifeng. I don't know what he does, but he used to come to my shop for barbecue often."

"Luo Xi!"

"My name is Wu Rui!"

This could be considered getting to know each other. After all, one shouldn't hit a smiling face. Regardless of whether this Wang Li was sincerely making friends or harboring ulterior motives, it wasn't important at the moment. At least both sides knew that they should be friendly at this time and exchange information.

At this time, Wu Rui noticed that Wang Li was wearing a gold ring on his finger.

It might be a card ring.

A 'reward' that Memory Retrievers who have cleared the game three or more times can obtain.

Of course, it might just be a gold ring.

"Brother Wang, are you familiar with this place?" Luo Xi had already started his chatty mode at this time. He chatted with the other party with a smile, while observing the other party's expression and all micro-movements.

Wu Rui knew that Luo Xi was about to start again.

This guy's nature was actually very silent and taciturn. Most of the time, he didn't speak, and even had a blank and cold expression.

But when he needed to communicate, he seemed to be able to immediately transform into an emotional blogger and a master of making friends, as if every word he said could touch the hearts of others.

This was actually a very powerful ability, and Wu Rui admired it very much.

Anyway, Luo Xi was her hope for escaping the Day of Imprisonment in her eyes now.

She had tried it herself, and even what she had obtained through her 'Guide' was only endless despair towards the Day of Imprisonment.

Only Luo Xi had pulled her out of the abyss of near despair.

What's more, she had seen Luo Xi's ability. He had cleared two scenes in a row, and in the second scene, he had even forced the scene administrator to death by relying on the rules.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ is ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ book ⊥ ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ hair!

Of course, Wu Rui didn't know that Luo Xi had also taken all the puzzle-solving and mini-game mission rewards in that scene. If she knew, her evaluation of Luo Xi would have risen to another level.

"Human body structure clay sculpture, this is a 'challenge' within the scene. The rules are very simple. Within six minutes, install all the given human tissues in the correct positions to be considered a successful challenge. After a successful challenge, you will get a memory card as a reward."

Wang Li explained at this time.

"This scene and the challenges inside are relatively fixed. Therefore, you can enter here multiple times to challenge. Some people even regard this place as a place to farm cards... Of course, there are also dangers. You must have a very good understanding of the human body structure. Moreover, although they are all human organs, sometimes there will be more details. For example, this time Lao Ba was stuck on the heart. There are more blood vessels on it than before."

"If you want to challenge, you can also listen to the corpse explain the specific rules, but it must be almost the same as what I said."

The corpse that Wang Li was talking about was the 'monster' placed on the table over there, with only its upper body.

It clearly looked like a corpse, but it could move and talk. At this moment, it was looking at Luo Xi and the others with a playful look.

"How about it? Want to come and challenge? There's a memory card if you succeed!"

While saying that, the corpse tore open the skin and sternum of its chest, as if opening a leather pocket, and pulled out the heart, lungs, aorta like a rubber hose, diaphragm muscle, and esophagus all in one go. While pulling, it chuckled.

Below were the spleen, gallbladder, and stomach...

Wu Rui felt a little nauseous and wanted to vomit.

She saw that there were already many organs and human tissues scattered on the table. The main organs were okay, but those messy blood vessels and so on were much more troublesome. If you really wanted to put them back intact, six minutes might not be enough. The most important thing was that if you installed them wrong, you would directly be judged as a failed challenge, and the outcome would be the Suicide Bug entering your brain, and you would go out and seek death.

"Just these, put them all back, intact, and you'll be considered a successful challenge. How about it, who wants to try?" the half-bodied corpse on the table asked with a grin.

"Looks pretty simple," Luo Xi walked over and sat on the stool at this time: "Then I'll try."

Wu Rui was startled behind him.

This was a bit sudden and too casual.

It seemed like he would do it as soon as he thought of it, without any consideration.

She wanted to stop him, but the half-bodied corpse had already chuckled and pressed the timer next to him.

"Start timing!"

Luo Xi reached out and picked up a blood vessel, and directly stuffed it into the corpse's open chest cavity. It seemed that the bloody feel of those blood vessels and organs could not cause him the slightest impact.

And what made him different from others was that he seemed very casual, so casual that he started chatting with the half-bodied corpse.

"Brother, what's your name?"

"...Who, are you asking me?" This time, it was the half-bodied corpse who was a little stunned.