The Trial Game of Life

Warden Xiao Tong's swinging stick is called "Wu Jie".

Xiao Tong has been the warden in Eternal Night City for so many years, this black stick is his symbol, it is either hung on his waist or held in his hand, and never leaves his body.

The applicable length of the throwing stick is related to the height and the length of the arms. Xiao Tong is 1.9 meters tall, so his swinging stick is naturally longer.The whole body of Wujie is made of the special material of Eternal Night City similar to black steel. It is divided into three sections. When it is not in use, it is only as long as a fan, and when it is thrown at the longest, it is 26 inches, or 65cm.The blow range is wide, the strength is strong, and the electric shock is attached.

Of course, Wujie's skill is far more than just electric shock. One of its most important effects comes from its mental suppression.

Coercion.

This is an old-fashioned vocabulary in various novels, invisible and intangible, but it is manifested here as an automatic trigger skill without precepts, and it is suppressed indiscriminately.Everyone is suppressed differently. The weaker players are suppressed more severely, and they even kneel down and surrender.

In the hands of Xiao Tong, Wujie is the most supreme scepter in the G area.Now in the hands of monsters, although the effect is greatly reduced, it should not be underestimated.

After all, this is the third-ranked equipment on the White List, one of the three lists in Eternal Night City.

"Don't be nervous, Your Excellency the warden won't do it yourself." Jin Cheng is well versed in the dungeon routines of Eternal Night City, it is impossible for Xiao Tong to act as the boss of the dungeon himself, Mr. Crow brought his weapon in, and he has already gone through the back door.

As he spoke, he reassembled the two scimitars into a mechanical bow with another click. He raised his hand and pulled out a metal arrow from the void. He fully pulled the bowstring, and said, "No precepts, no melee combat."

After the voice fell, "咻——" the long arrow left the string, kicking off the prelude to the battle.

Coercion is also divided into regions, the closer to the unarmed, the stronger the suppression, so it is natural to choose long-range attacks as the best.Everyone didn't dare to doubt Jin Cheng's words, and they distanced themselves from the unarmed monster. Those who were more cautious simply avoided it and picked other monsters to attack.

Jin Cheng didn't care at all, and with a few arrows, he aimed at the monster, and took it away from the army by himself like flying a kite.

Leng Miao cooperated with him in a rare way, and an air cage blocked the path between the monster and others, minimizing the influence of Wujie's coercion.

Of course, it wasn't that he suddenly liked Jin Cheng, but that he also hated the feeling of being suppressed.

Now, Mr. Crow is not happy about it.But he couldn't directly attack the players, and if he cheated again, he would be sanctioned by the system, so he could only jump on the road signs angrily, yelling that he was going to sue Tang Cuo, saying that Jin Cheng was messing around outside.

Jin Cheng retracted his bow, turned around neatly, and took the time to reply, "You go, if he gets jealous, please tell me."

Today's Mr. Crow will also be pissed off by Jin Cheng.

Tang Cuo on the other side finally recovered from the shock of his soul.He found that if the shock is too strong, the health will also decrease, and the rate of decline will increase by a percentage.

Counting the four healing potions left on his body, he had to use them sparingly.

At this time, there were still 87 undamaged tombstones left in the cemetery. Tang Cuo focused on checking those with low battery, and was familiar with all the contents.

What matters is the concatenation of clues.

There are still message notifications beeping on each mobile phone, which shows that some clues have not yet surfaced, and we need to wait.

What happened after the rain boots man fled from Xishan Road?

At this time, a push hidden in the chaotic information attracted Tang Cuo's attention-a guy from XX Province rushed thousands of miles away to meet his girlfriend who was dating online, but found out that his girlfriend was a man!

Clicking on the link is an emotional story full of strong Wechat soft text style. It took [-] words to describe the entanglement and pain in the heart of the boy in XX province. It seems fake at first glance.

There is also the picture of the guy in this article, the eyes are mosaiced, but the face is still clear.But Tang Cuo had never seen this face before, so he felt unfamiliar.

Immediately afterwards, the two accidents on Xishan Road were spread online.One is a murder case with a knife, and the other is a corpse dismemberment case. As soon as the two cases came out, they immediately attracted widespread attention on the Internet. atmosphere.

Tang Cuo shuttled between the tombstones and saw no less than three versions of the story.Some are a little closer to the facts, some confuse the two things, and there are a large number of "live audiences" who magnify the story with embellishments and almost become urban ghost stories.

Especially on WeChat, under the word of mouth of everyone, the story is even more crooked.

Someone then posted the screenshot of the circle of friends they saw to Weibo, and spread it again, and the more it spread, the more confusing it became.Not long after, it was said that the WeChat account of the person involved was picked up.

The photos and personal information she posted in Moments were all exposed to the public eye.

But Tang Cuo felt a bit of disobedience from it.The girl who was picked up looks like she is in her twenties. She wears make-up and has a red face. She loves taking selfies and posting luxury goods. Her words in Moments often show a sense of superiority. She is one of the types most likely to be attacked by netizens. one.

She was thin and petite, with big wavy hair.And in a recent selfie, she dyed her hair a tawny.

The sense of disobedience comes from the girl herself.

In the murder case on Xishan Road, Tang Cuo did not see the face of the murdered girl, nor did he find her mobile phone tombstone, but he vaguely saw her figure lying in a pool of blood through the gaps in the crowd from other videos .

She is much taller than the girl picked up online, and has long black hair.Because of the heavy rain and the unclear video quality, Tang Cuo couldn't tell more details, but his intuition told him—these were two people.

For further confirmation, he searched the previous video again, and the result was as expected.

It is normal for information to go wrong as it travels.Regardless of who the girl who was innocently pulled out for public display was, Tang Cuo now wanted to know the identity of the victim even more.

He even found the tombstone of the murderer's mobile phone, but he never found the victim's, which is unreasonable.

Could it be one of those tombstones that have exploded?

Tang Cuo searched tirelessly for about a quarter of an hour, but found nothing, but found another thing.This comes from someone's WeChat group chat——

Listener: I posted her WeChat, let her also experience the feeling of being greeted, hehe.

Greedy little fox: This is not very good...

Poetry and distance: She just made a mistake last time, and she didn't mean to mock you.This matter has nothing to do with her at all. If you explode her WeChat account like this, you will curse her to be stabbed to death?

Listener: Then you will replace her?

Listener: That stinky bitch is not clean at first glance, who knows if she has done something disgusting behind her back, if there is no accident today, there will be an accident tomorrow, I just made her have a sense of crisis in advance, not really harm her.Besides, the ones that really spread are those yxh who like bloggers' attention the most, what does it matter to me?

Listener: Aren't you good friends with her? You have the ability to sue her.

Listener: Hee hee.

Listener: You also said a lot of bad things about her behind her back, don't think I don't know, who is more noble.

Pao Pao Qi: Well, don’t talk about it, I believe that everyone is not really malicious, we are all friends, aren’t we?

……

Tang Cuo frowned slightly.

Pao Paoqi is friends with these people, and the girl who was exposed also knows them, so the probability that these people have been to Xishan Road is very high.The plastic sisters can always magically maintain their friendship on the surface and go out to play together.Then each posted to Moments, blocked each other, and then stabbed in the back.

Don't ask Tang Cuo why he knows so well. When he was a detective, he took over a small case. In order to investigate, he pretended to be the client and chatted on WeChat for a month.

Proficient in vocabulary such as "hee hee", "um ah", "don't do it", "love you", etc., shuttled through seven different WeChat groups, and these were faithfully recorded in his survival assessment report.

Worse than being bitten by a dog every day.

My thoughts returned to the incident itself, and there were the behind-the-scenes drivers and motives for the false information, and it seemed that it had nothing to do with the Xishan Road accident itself.But the story presented by the entire cemetery of souls is not so much like a chain reaction of dominoes, but rather like a spider web.

Every seemingly insignificant and unconnected thing is a node on the Internet, and no one knows whether it will be connected to other threads.

Perhaps this spider web should be called the Internet.

Thinking of this, Tang Cuo decisively overturned the previous judgment on the standard of life and death.Everyone is a node on the Internet, and the selected fragments are presented in this story. It is not rigorous to judge the life and death of this person's soul only by these.

Just like that Pao Qi who appeared a few times, her words are very fake, her selfie is very fake, and she speaks beautiful scene words, revealing a selfishness and indifference to other people's lives.But it's still not appropriate to rely on these alone to judge whether she has become a soulless shell.

Moreover, Tang Cuo has always maintained basic doubts about the information displayed on the tombstone of the mobile phone.Bold doubts and reasonable assumptions are the necessary qualities for a detective.

If the standard of judging life and death is not as mysterious as Tang Cuo thought before, then the problem will become simpler instead.There are 99 tombstones in the Soul Cemetery, representing 99 people related to the Xishan Road incident. But unless there are meteorites or oil tank truck explosions, how can mass death happen in modern society?

The dungeon asks to find three souls that are still alive, which means that 96 souls are dead.

What about looking at it the other way around?

Tang Cuo remembered what he heard when he first entered Eternal Night City——welcome back to Eternal Night City.

He was very concerned at the time, why did he "return" to Eternal Night City, and what did the word "return" represent?

A good guess still needs evidence. The most direct way is to find the tombstones of the mobile phones of the two murdered girls and open the coffin for verification.But the identity of the one stabbed to death on Xishan Road is still unknown, and the tombstone of the game anchor has not been found yet.

Tang Cuo saw her live broadcast interface on other people's mobile phone screens, not her own.

So far, Tang Cuo has checked these tombstones more than once, but now he can't find any of them. The harder it is to find, the more likely he is heading in the right direction.

The Human Trials game is just a pre-plot, returning to Eternal Night City is the real life, so - death is the beginning of life.

But there are three living souls in the mission requirements, that is to say, there is a third victim.It's impossible for a dog to own a cell phone, so let's rule that out for now.

The most urgent task is to find the third victim first, and then use the method of elimination to determine their respective tombstones.Tang Cuo confirmed his train of thought, and his eyes couldn't help but become much firmer.

Looking at his changes, Xiao Tong guessed that he might have understood the way to clear the level, so he smiled and looked away a little.If it was said that Tang Cuo had brought him surprises, then it was a further examination of Zheng Yingying.

At this time, Zheng Yingying was facing a choice.

Prior to this, Zheng Yingying had successfully infiltrated into the monster doctor's team again by relying on Vientiane, got a few bottles of medicine, and secretly handed Chen Cang to Meng Yufei.The monster doctors here can spit out people's words and follow certain behavioral routines, but their intelligence is still low. When they find that the medicine is missing, they will only look for it and go crazy, but they will not attack their companions.

Every time Zheng Yingying pretended to be the weakest and least sane one, she would do whatever they did, slipping past them dangerously.

Meng Yufei cooperated well with her, although it wasn't a tacit understanding, but at least they didn't mess with each other.But just when Zheng Yingying was going to continue doing this, an accident happened.

The front door marked Ward 304 was suddenly knocked open, and a staggering figure fell out of it, obviously hitting the ground heavily, but the young man in his early twenties was still laughing.

He curled up on the ground in pain, trying to crawl but couldn't get up, because all his strength seemed to be exhausted, and he was all used to laughing.

"Hahahahaha——" He seemed to have been tapped on the laughing point, laughing non-stop, and the expression on his face seemed to be fixed by a clip, the corners of his mouth were raised, and all the muscles were lifted up to maintain a smiling face.

But he was in such pain, the collapse and powerlessness were hidden in his laughter, and he seemed to be crying while laughing, so his expression looked particularly distorted.

"Hahahaha kill, kill me hahahaha..." When he saw the monster doctor approaching, there was no fear in his eyes, instead he leaned over, stretched out his hand to them, and begged humbly: "Kill me hahahahahahahahaha... ..."

The monster doctors made a "ho ho" sound and surrounded him curiously.Zheng Yingying also followed, but she was disguised by Vientiane, and the players couldn't recognize her.

But no matter how much he prayed, the monster doctors didn't do anything.The instructions they received seemed to be just to give the player an injection and subdue all the patients who resisted. The one in front of them was obviously not among them.

If they didn't do anything, the man collapsed more and more.He was already laughing so hard that tears came out of his eyes, his appearance was funny and embarrassing.

Zheng Yingying could kill him, but she was very curious, if he wanted to die, why didn't he commit suicide?

Evernight City no longer has a suicide ban.

Suddenly, the man's fluttering hands grabbed Zheng Yingying's ankles, and his begging eyes turned to this monster that looked most like a human, and repeated those words again.

The familiar scene reminded Zheng Yingying of her and Jiang He.Back then, she grabbed Jiang He's ankle because she wanted Jiang He to save her and keep her alive, but now this man wanted to die.

"Dang—" The wall clock in the hospital building announced the hour.

The monster doctors make rounds every hour, which means that the new round time is up again, and it's time for the patients to take their medicine.The monster doctors surrounding the man immediately showed joy, hurriedly dragged the man back to the ward, pinned him on the bed, and all turned their heads to look at Zheng Yingying.

The potion is in Zheng Yingying's hands.

The leading monster doctor took out the case report and read out his verdict like Zheng Yingying did, "Autistic, withdrawn, and out of gregariousness, it is recommended to inject the smile gene, and it is forbidden to be alone."

After the words fell, Zheng Yingying, who was the last to enter the ward, realized that this was a multi-person ward.Most of the wards in this mental hospital are single-occupied, and it is rare to have multiple people.

There are three beds in the ward. The one next to the door is a man laughing wildly; the one next to the window is also a man, but younger than him, with wires all over his body; in the middle is a woman with a swollen abdomen, as if she is pregnant.

Are there any pregnant women in this dungeon?

Rao Zheng Yingying couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but in order not to expose herself, she immediately regained her senses and approached the man with a syringe and medicine.

how should I do it?

"Do you want to die?" she asked suddenly.

The other monster doctors looked up at her, blinking their cloudy eyes, as if they didn't quite understand why this companion asked something other than instructions.

"Think!" The man finally uttered a single syllable, and forced himself to hold back his laughter.

Zheng Yingying nodded, but still pushed the needle towards him.The man was shocked when he saw this, and the laughter came out of his mouth again, but with a different tone, he was afraid and angry, he questioned amidst the laughter, and began to struggle.

"There is only one way to live, but there are thousands of ways to die." Zheng Yingying tilted her head, raised the syringe and smiled, "Don't you want to die?"

I fulfill you.

"No! No!!!" The man struggled thoroughly, he just wanted to die because he couldn't stand the smiling gene, how dare he take the second injection.

But the needle that glowed with cold light was already in his hand, he was desperate, but there was a trace of madness in his despair.That is the final madness of a person who has fallen into a desperate situation and cannot break free no matter what.

He gritted his teeth, the root of his teeth even oozing blood, his whole body bounced off the bed, and hit the nearest monster heavily.The monster accidentally bumped into Zheng Yingying's arm again, so Zheng Yingying's needle made an exaggerated 180-degree turn and inserted into the arm of the monster beside her.

"My hand slipped." She groaned, and pushed the medicine into it forcefully.

Everything happened in an instant.

The syringe was too big, and before all the medicine was pushed in, Zheng Yingying immediately discarded the needle, squatted down, rolled forward, and fled to the bottom of the bed next door in a very unskilled and awkward posture.

The monster doctors were all dumbfounded by her operation, they were stunned for two seconds to react, and rushed over angrily to grab her, but they didn't even grab the hem of her clothes.And the bottom of the bed is so narrow, they can't get in at all with their huge bodies.

They started howling, and the monster who had been stabbed by the injection laughed uncontrollably.A grotesque monster was forced to keep smiling and let out a creepy laugh. What a dazzling picture, the players in the ward can be regarded as having seen it.

The whole ward was in chaos.

The monster doctors gave up restraint on the man because they wanted to catch Zheng Yingying.He sat up in a little astonishment, although he still couldn't help laughing, but after such a long time, the effect of the medicine has weakened.

He gritted his teeth, finally unleashed his weapon, and rushed up from behind the monster.

"Ha!" He yelled and slashed at the monster's back. Although he hit the monster, he was slapped hard by the opponent.It hit the hospital bed in the middle with a bang, knocking all the women who were lying on the bed down.

The woman was in a coma, that's why she didn't move.At this moment, she regained consciousness clutching her stomach, her lower body had already begun to bleed profusely, and the severe pain nearly made her faint again.

Turning around, the monster with a fishy wind was clawing at her.

"I'm fighting with you!" She was about to go crazy, no matter how she threw her hand, a flame attack hit the monster's face at such a short distance.

This also caused Zheng Yingying, who was hiding behind her and just crawled out from under the hospital bed, to almost burn her eyebrows.

Fortunately, she is bald, otherwise she would definitely lose her hair.

In fact, the monster wanted to catch Zheng Yingying. Who would have thought that the woman would suddenly roll off the bed and get in the way.Seeing this, Zheng Yingying took advantage of the moment when the woman was hysterical, grabbed the dagger and stabbed it from above her shoulder, regardless of the aim, and stabbed the monster again.

Combined with the flame attack and the curse power of the Nameless Blade, the monster was momentarily confused, and retreated screaming.

Just at this moment, the boy on the last hospital bed jumped up, and a fierce tiger came down the mountain and pounced on it, with an electric shock device in each hand, and pressed hard on the other person's forehead——

"Let you shock me, make you look down on game nerds, I will shock you to death!"

If Tang Cuo or Jin Cheng were here, they would definitely recognize him. This person was Qian Wei who had been encountered in the dungeons of "Returning on a Snowy Night" and "Decisively Defeating the Devil Returning to the City".