The Trial Game of Life

A K26404 triggered a wave of speculation among players, but in the absence of more information, everyone quickly shifted their focus to the possible utility of this new list.

As we all know, there are three lists in Eternal Night City, the black list, the red list, and the white list.The black list is the list that Mr. Crow focuses on. Jin Cheng, who used to be the top of the list, was sent back to F area more than once.

What now?

What will be the treatment for being on the good friend list?

There is no solution to this question for the time being, because most of the people on this list are still trapped in the copy of "Human Ghosts", and they don't even know about the list changes in the game lobby, and they haven't Discover what has changed in yourself.

Tang Cuo held the document in his hand with a serious expression.He wanted to speak several times, but remained silent for a full three minutes. Then he put down the document and stood up, saying: "If you want to do it, you must hurry up. The sooner the better."

Jin Cheng smiled and said, "I thought you would persuade me."

Tang Cuo: "I just ask you, are you sure?"

Jin Cheng: "You can give it a try."

The document was not a serious work content, but something about the belief system that Jin Cheng wrote down while taking advantage of the meeting.As he said, for most players, the survival value is more difficult than the plot line.

With more than two hours left, it will be even more difficult to complete the plot line while ensuring the survival value.

What Jin Cheng wrote down is all about how to use the power of faith.The belief system is unsurprisingly powerful, but how to use the collected power of belief is a subject worth studying.

"In fact, I have been trying to use it as a pure energy attack. It is the simplest and most direct way. Giving feedback in the spiritual sea is also a way, but this feedback is limited to those players who have established a faith connection with me. But The survival value this time depends on their teammates."

So Jin Cheng thought about it, and kept searching in his mind for other similar battles he had seen before, and studied the rules of Eternal Night City. There is no way to understand the conversion formula, and finally a new usage is developed.

"Red blood buff." Tang Cuo said the name in a deep voice.

The red blood buff is the name given by Jin Cheng. The so-called buff is nothing more than some kind of boosting effect, and Jin Cheng's buff is used to increase the player's survival value.

In the final analysis, the various values ​​of Eternal Night City are nothing more than two words - energy.The abilities and magic used by players in battle are a kind of energy, and the survival value is also a kind of energy, which is always the same.

To put it simply, although all these energies have different shells, their origin is actually the same, and they all come from the gods who built Eternal Night City.

Therefore, Eternal Night City can have all kinds of fighting methods, no matter who it is, they can develop a method that suits them, relying on the ever-changing energy itself.

Since energy is interoperable, theoretically speaking, Jin Cheng's power of faith can also become the player's survival value.As long as he finds a suitable method to transform it, the red blood buff is his achievement.

Compress the power of faith into a buff and spread it all over the city. Even if the players who get the buff cannot reach 100 points immediately because their survival value is too low, they can still use the buff to catch their teammates and rush to complete the plot line.

Sending everyone away in the last two hours or so, Tang Cuo knew that Jin Cheng was not joking.Now that the whole city is in motion, it is possible to do it with another push.

Even if this possibility is not great.

"The last question, how to deal with ghost players whose teammates died?" Tang Cuo asked.

Teammates die, ghost players can't earn survival points, even if they get all the plot lines, they still can't pass the level. "Human and Ghost Love" has been a team task from the beginning, and the death of teammates should not be uncommon.

"We can only fight together." Jin Cheng had thought about it for a long time, and said, "It's like Lin Yandong."

Tang Cuo understood.If Lin Yandong can forcibly open the passage from Eternal Night City to the human world with the Resentment System, then Jin Cheng can also forcibly break through the barrier between Eternal Night City and the dungeon with the belief system, and take away those ghost players who cannot leave.It's just that at that time, whether Jin Cheng's state can be sustained, how many ghost players have died teammates, and whether it will exceed his tolerance are all unknowns.

As Jin Cheng said, we can only fight.

"Let's go." Tang Cuo didn't talk nonsense.Since the red blood buff is going to radiate players in the whole city, they must stand on a high place, and the financial building they are in now is high enough.

The wind at high places is cold and blowing, and from a distance, those tall buildings seem to be swaying in the wind.

Tonight in Hangzhou, there are still no stars in the sky.

Tang Cuo looked at Jin Cheng who was standing on the edge of the rooftop. He was wearing a sharp suit that was least like a player in Eternal Night City, but the collar and cuff buttons were all unbuttoned, showing a bit of casualness.

Starlight is in his eyes.

"Are you ready?" He turned around, with the usual sloppy smile on his lips.

"You can start at any time." Tang Cuo answered him in this way, his eyes were as cold and firm as ever, but the starlight in Jin Cheng's eyes was reflected in them, and it looked extraordinarily radiant.He said: "Don't worry that the power of faith will be exhausted, there is me."

"Ok?"

"I am also one in ten thousand."

Tang Cuo was also one of the players wearing the evil ghost badge, and he was already a part of the power of faith collected by Jin Cheng.If energy can be marked with numerical values, no one knows how much power of faith he can provide Jin Cheng when he gives everything he has.

K also doesn't know that things like belief system and resentment system are not common at all, and there are even fewer cases where they appear at the same time.In Eternal Night City, the more advanced something is, the less instructions it has, the fewer restrictions it has, and the higher the degree of freedom.The same belief system falls into the hands of different players, and may eventually lead to two completely different development paths.

He still remembered that when the belief system appeared last time, it was developed by players into a star-absorbing method, which was a hundred times more evil than the resentment system.

One thought becomes a Buddha, one thought becomes a demon, this is Eternal Night City.

K began to look forward to this battle to turn the tide, put down the teacup in his hand, and looked up at the Leifeng Pagoda across the lake.He could clearly see the expressions on everyone's faces, Chi Yan's innocence and persistence, the tension, expectation, worry, and indifference on the faces of the players who came to deliver the materials.

Even Zheng Yingying's refusal to admit defeat and resignation to fate is vivid and vivid.

"Look there!" someone exclaimed, pointing to the sky.

Chi Yan and others looked over together, only to see an arrow piercing the sky and straight into the clouds.Jin Cheng's metal arrows can only be Jin Cheng's arrows with such great power.

Sure enough, in the next second, the arrow exploded in the sky, conveying Jin Cheng's words to everyone's ears.It's a sonic arrow.

"Everyone, there are more than two hours left, and it's time to race against time. Players who have already left alone with the evil spirit badge, please don't give up hope. Whether you believe in me or miracles, I only have one sentence —If you want to live, please hurry up and save yourself."

After the words fell, before everyone had time to express their opinions on the words that seemed to be mobilized before the war, a crisp ding dong suddenly fell from the high roof of the building like the wind.

It was a sound similar to a harp, a tune from a foreign land.

It comes from the continent of Sicily.

Ding Dong's zither sounds converged into a beautiful melody, which gradually floated in Eternal Night City, and everyone soon discovered that there were countless scattered light spots along with the notes.

Some people subconsciously raised their hands to use it, and the moment their fingertips touched, the system prompt sounded in their ears.

"Ding!"

"Congratulations on triggering the red blood buff!"

He immediately opened the system panel to check, and just glanced at it, and the surprise was infinitely magnified in his eyes.He then turned his head to look in the direction of the music, he knew that Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo were there.

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

More and more red blood buffs were triggered, and where countless surprise eyes gathered, Jin Cheng sat on the ground with a small harp in his arms, and Tang Cuo stood beside him holding a sword.This scene seems to have returned to the time in Sicily, Jin Cheng was the wanton bard, and he was the silent and brave knight beside the poet.

His sword was glowing, it was the Holy Light of Judgment.It is said that when the Holy Light of Judgment shines on the earth, all darkness will have nowhere to hide.

Almost everyone saw that light.

That's called hope.

From the East Cross Street safe zone to the lifting of the suicide ban, to the second movement, to the current red blood buff, hope has always been there.

As long as you look up.

Someone looked up and watched the light suddenly collapse.The hand that was raised high and was grabbing something on the table and wanted to drop it also stopped there, and all the resentment, grievance, and unwillingness burst out at this moment.

He wept bitterly, but the people around him seemed to have never heard of it.Because he is a ghost player, he lost his qualifications to be a human being, and was naturally excluded from the human world.

In this bar on the street, the house full of laughter had nothing to do with him, and his teammates died, leaving him alone.But what could he do?Jin Cheng said "Please don't give up hope", does he really have hope?

With tears in his eyes, he finally suppressed the resentment in his heart, put down the things in his hand, and stumbled out of the bar.

The bartender happened to turn here, saw the lighter on the table, picked it up suspiciously, and muttered: "Shouldn't this thing be put in the lost and found box? Someone took it out again, but then A guest has been here for so long, why hasn't he come to pick it up..."

In the hospital, people woke up one after another.When the survival value is full, no matter where the ghost player is, he will automatically wake up from the hospital bed. Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and look at each other.

In the next second, they seemed to have been pressed some kind of switch. They yelled and cursed in surprise, pulled out the needle, got out of bed and rushed out of the ward.

"Damn it, it's like a corpse in the middle of the night, a row of people woke up!"

"get it."

"Come on everyone, Brother Jin is starting to solo again, don't be compared to him."

"Wait, I'll go get a buff first too."

In the taxi channel of the Red List Team, the voices of joking and joking never stopped.Su Miaomiao put down the intercom, rolled down the window and looked in the direction of the tall building, then said to the passengers in the back seat:

"Friend, it seems that you don't need to rush to earn any survival points. Let your boss who told you to work overtime at night die. Where is your plot point? I will send you there."

5 minute later.

"You, you, drive slowly, points will be deducted for speeding!"

"Haha, it's okay, I have a buff, sit still!"

The car drove away on the empty street in the middle of the night. Su Miaomiao even forgot to press the green light plate of "empty car" on the taxi, and drove the passengers all the way faster than she could run with her supernatural power.

"Huh—" The wind swept the fallen leaves, blurring the faces of pedestrians at the intersection.

He jumped and cursed at the back, but he also knew that the person who just drove past was definitely a player. Looking at the license plate number, it was Su Miaomiao, damn it.

"Crack." He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

At the corner of the street, two traffic police officers who were in charge of stopping cars to check for drunk driving had just stepped into the car to chase the daring madman Su Miaomiao, when they snapped their fingers, they looked at each other blankly, and suddenly forgot what they were going to do just now.

[Amnesia Elimination] From Red List No.40 Nine, Pei Shang, Department of Mind Control, known as "Master of Memory".The non-staff members of the Red List team refused to officially join because they didn't get along well with Su Miaomiao, a crazy woman.

After finishing here, he quickly rushed elsewhere. "Pa, pa, pa", cleaning up the mess everywhere, snapping his fingers until his fingers got a headache, and then began to doubt life-why did he equip this skill with such a sand sculpture gesture in the first place?

He is not Thanos.

At the Leifeng Pagoda, Chi Yan shouted excitedly, "Aooooooooooooooooow", shook Qian Wei's arm, and pointed in the direction of the tall building, unable to utter a single word.

"You're going to shake my brain out!" Qian Wei shouted.

Peng Mingfan also raised his head and said, "It's all water in the first place, if you shake it again, it will disappear."

Qian Wei: "Yes, you - wait, why does this sound so wrong?"

Chi Yan: "I'm just excited!"

Peng Mingfan & Qian Wei: I can see it.

You look like a Christmas tree when you get excited, your whole body is blingbling.

"I think I'm overwhelmed with European spirit now, you wait, Grandpa, I'll pick the unicorn blood for you right now!" Chi Yan rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the bamboo pole handed over by the player, and patted him on the shoulder pretendingly, old-fashioned Compliments to him.

The bamboo pole dangled close to Gao Tian's apple, and everyone nearby was attracted by it, staring closely at the small net bag—covering the apple in one fell swoop!

Chi Yan pulled hard, and the apple fell.

The melon-eating crowd, the clown, applauded him and found the corresponding gift box for him without urging him.When the box was opened, several people came together to look at it, and it turned out to be Qilin blood.

"Hey." Chi Yan raised his eyebrows on both sides, "Is one drop okay?"

Qian Wei: "I don't think so."

Peng Mingfan: "Pick it again."

Chi Yan: "Oh."

Time keeps moving forward, and in a blink of an eye it comes to day and then to night.

Driven by all parties, more and more people woke up from the hospital, and naturally more and more people cleared the instance.After clearing the level, these passers are still in the same place, but their status has changed from participating players to spectators.

"There's one last hour left."

"No, there are 59 minutes left."

"The number of people who have not cleared the customs is 10732."

The task wall in the game hall updated the dungeon data in real time, and anxiety and worry climbed up everyone's minds again.Fortunately, the music on the high-rise has been on, and the last half hour left, the melody changed from a soothing wilderness wind to a war epic.

The sound of ding dong was like drumbeats beating people's hearts. Everyone was urged to keep moving forward and speeding up. Even the players who stayed in the game lobby couldn't help but raise their hearts. Even their breathing seemed to be caught by the constantly beating numbers. manipulation.

"6534."

"6023."

"5786."

"5234."

"God..."

"There is still half an hour left, why are there so many people who have not cleared the level?!"

Some players are concerned, especially those who know friends who are trapped in the game, anxious like ants on a hot pot.But some people quickly thought of those ghost players who had no teammates, and their hearts sank.

These people may not come back.

"Pfft." Someone laughed in the corner. Although the sound was very soft, it was still caught by the people around.He didn't take it seriously at first, but soon he found that the atmosphere had changed.

This is Eternal Night City, a place that has always been indifferent to human beings. He only smiled a little today, but the people around him all cast unkind glances at him.

Something has changed.

At least today, the former minority has turned into a majority, and the situation has been reversed.He shut his mouth sensibly, and waved his hand to show that he just didn't mean to.

At this time, a cry of surprise broke out from the crowd: "The number has dropped to more than 4000!"

The timely number on the quest wall changed to 4917, and so many players were left trapped in the game, but from here on, the number began to decline extremely slowly.It used to be hundreds or dozens of drops, but now it has become single digits.

At this time, the gate of reincarnation is completely closed, and there are still 8 minutes left.

Tang Cuo has rushed to the last plot point to ensure that he and Jin Cheng can successfully pass the level.

Jin Cheng can research the red blood buff, so it is not a problem to fully store his survival value.Tang Cuo woke up directly from the hospital without stopping, and went straight to the venue where Tong Mo performed for the first time.

But just when he was about to arrive at his destination, he suddenly sensed something and turned his head to look in Jin Cheng's direction.He wasn't sure if it was sensed through the connection between teammates or the belief system, but one thing is certain, Jin Cheng's current condition is not good.

"Pa——" That was the sound of the strings breaking, and the music was interrupted.

All the players in Eternal Night City raised their heads together.

Tang Cuo's expression changed suddenly, and without any hesitation, he immediately distributed his life points to Jin Cheng.This is the rule given at the beginning of the dungeon, and teammates share life points.

At the same time, he pulled out the Judgment Sword, and quickly slashed across the blade with his palm. Blood soaked the blade, and the Judgment Holy Radiance skyrocketed.

Faith, how to deliver it?

Tang Cuo thought about this question carefully.

Jin Cheng said that the belief system came from the Sicilian continent, which means it has the same origin as his Judgment Sword.Then maybe he can sacrifice faith with knightly etiquette like the oldest knight in Sicily.

"Kuang." With the long sword stuck on the ground, he leaned on the sword and knelt down on one knee, his blood-stained palm pressed against the ground, closed his eyes, and called out in his heart: "Jin Cheng."

"Did you hear that?"

"it's me."

A red line connected Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng, spanning half of the urban area, fluttering in the wind.This red line between teammates, which only the audience can see, began to glimmer when Tang Cuo allocated the life value to Jin Cheng.

Many people noticed it and started paying attention to it.

Jin Cheng on the tall building couldn't see him. He was holding the broken strings of the piano. He still kept his appearance when he was playing the piano, but his face was pale, his eyes were closed, and his fingers rested on the strings, but they seemed to be too stiff to move. The tips are bloodstained.

Tang Cuo in the distance knows that the belief system, the resentment system, and the ghost player are three-party wrestling, and if you are not careful, you will be injured.It is already a miracle that he used the power of faith on such a large scale to support it until now showing signs of collapse.

"Jin Cheng."

Tang Cuo did not give up calling.

"Did you hear that?"

Even if there is no answer.

"From now on, I will give you everything I have."

Tang Cuo lowered his head slowly, and the blood in his palm continued to flow down the blade, like some kind of ancient sacrificial ceremony, and what flowed together with the blood was his hot soul.

The radiance of the Judgment Sword became more and more intense, and finally a tinge of gold was revealed from the dense white light, and then along the fluttering red thread, it reached Jin Cheng's wrist.

It was like a meteor, a meteor that flew from the ground to the sky in the opposite direction.

"Brother!!!" Chi Yan climbed to the highest point of Leifeng Pagoda, hugged the spire, and shouted loudly, his heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out of his throat.

"The last eleven minutes are left." Peng Mingfan glanced at the time, his tone slightly lowered.

Something must have happened to Jin Cheng, and everyone knew what the line represented, and Tang Cuo was at the other end of the line.

Is he saving him?

Can it work?

Can the few thousand people left be saved?

"It's too late!" The players in the game lobby watched as the number stopped beating, and it was frozen at the final 4321.

4321, more like a countdown.

"Ten minutes left."

"9 minutes."

"Eight and a half."

"Boom—" Stiff fingers plucked the strings of the piano, and Jin Cheng opened his eyes again. Although his face was still pale, there was still a hint of a smile in his eyes when he glanced at his wrist.

Playing the piano should be a pleasant thing.

He closed his eyes again, although his whole body was tense, and the veins in his neck were even bulging, but his posture of plucking the strings was still relaxed and freehand.Those hands are naturally suitable for playing the piano, with slender finger bones, even if they hold guns and bows all year round, they don't have many calluses.

The moment the sound of the piano reappeared, Tang Cuo also stood up from the ground and rushed to the final plot point without stopping.The accident just now made him lose his accurate judgment of time. He didn't know how many minutes were left, but it didn't matter, he just rushed forward.

Don't ask where you came from, don't ask the way back, just go forward.

"Bang!" Upon arriving at the destination, Tang Cuo pushed the door open in a big stride, and the heavy slap of the door bounced back against the wall, startling the guests in the room.They looked at Tang Cuo in unison, opened their mouths in astonishment, and panicked even more when they saw the bloody handprints left on the door.

Tang Cuo didn't care, rushed to the bar, grabbed the bartender by the collar, aimed the photo on his phone at his eyes, and asked, "Look carefully, on May 5 a year ago, this guest named Cheng Shen Have you ever been here?"

"This, this, this..." The bartender was frightened, but he was afraid that his life would be lost, so he stared at the photo on his phone, "Oh, by the way, this is the customer who lost something but never came to pick it up." ! He came, came!"

Tang Cuo: "I lost something? Where is it? Bring it here, right away!"

The bartender hurriedly took out a lighter from the lost and found box and handed it to Tang Cuo. He was secretly glad that someone had dug it out just now, otherwise he wouldn't have remembered it for a while.

Tang Cuo took the things, confirmed that the progress bar had moved forward by 5%, and immediately went downstairs.This bar is located in a well-known art district. The first floor is the bar, and the basement floor is the performance venue. It can be used for some underground bands to perform, and it can accommodate about three or four hundred spectators.

When he walked down the stairs to the real performance venue, Jin Cheng on the tall building also stood up with his piano in his arms.

"The last two minutes are left." Peng Mingfan's voice became tense.

Jin Cheng put away the small harp and took out his own mechanical bow.Taking a deep breath, he drew the bowstring, but there was no arrow on the bowstring, and the arrow was condensed between his fingers.

The golden long arrow, condensed by the power of faith, is the arrow of determination.

Point the arrow at the sky.

But the bow has not been fully drawn.

The tough bowstring was about to cut into the flesh of Jin Cheng's fingers. He closed his lips tightly and said nothing. He just stared at the tip of the arrow, and pulled the bow away bit by bit, unquestionably.

Tang Cuoyi hasn't finished the last 5%. In this performance venue, what is the evidence that can prove that Cheng Shen has been there?He stood in the center of the stage, his eyes quickly glanced around, but he had no clue.

Perhaps, the last clue is not in Cheng Shen, but in Tong Mo?

"No, it's too late..." Peng Mingfan also had a look of anxiety on his usually calm face, he lifted it up in one breath, and didn't go down for a long time, "The last ten seconds."

"ten."

"Nine."

"Eight."

"Tick." A sudden voice interrupted his countdown.

Many people heard this sound that should have been extremely small. Some people frowned, thinking it sounded familiar, and soon they knew the answer.

"Time control!"

"Rong Yi!"

Lingyin District, flying to the top of the peak, Rong Yi stretched out his right hand, the pocket watch dropped from between his fingers, the golden chain shook, and with a ticking sound, the second, minute, and hour hands all stopped moving.

"Freeze frame." The voice fell, and invisible ripples spread throughout the city.

The time freezes at the last three seconds.

Everyone in the dungeon of "Human Ghosts Are Unbroken", including players and NPCs, are all fixed in place and unable to move, but the audience outside the dungeon is not affected.

The spectators near Feilai Peak saw Leng Miao appear beside Rong Yi, leading him to tear open the crack and transfer.

Tang Cuo suddenly felt someone push him from behind, and his sluggish body resumed its movements.But when he turned around, there was no one behind him, and Leng Miao had brought Rong Yi to Jin Cheng's back.

Rong Yi's complexion was not much better than Jin Cheng's. It could be seen that such a big action of suspending the entire dungeon time was extremely exhausting.He breathed a sigh of relief, and then put his hand on Jin Cheng's shoulder.

"Okay." He pushed lightly, and Jin Cheng also regained his freedom.But he didn't look back, and his hands were still unswervingly maintaining the motion of drawing the bow.

The mechanical bow was finally drawn to its full string, and the arrow of determination was already shining golden.

"Hoo--" the arrow left the string.

When the golden light was shining in the sky, Tang Cuo finally found the record from a year ago in his mobile phone.Tong Mo recorded it on the electronic calendar and added a note on May 5th.

Such hidden clues are really hard to find.

[I sent out my first signed album in my life. Although it was handed over by someone else and I didn’t meet the fan himself, I will always remember this day.He said his surname was Cheng, but he didn't know which city it was, so he wished this Mr. Cheng happiness and happiness. 】

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the player for successfully completing the third act of the plot. The large-scale reality show "Human and Ghost Love" has now been cleared!"