The Trial Game of Life

When Tang Cuo regained his sight again, he was standing in a strange room.

The room is not big, about ten square meters equipped with a wooden bed, a simple bathroom separated by a fan-shaped glass door, and a small round table with two chairs.Looking at the decoration style, the bathroom is very modern, still separated from wet and dry, but the round table and wooden bed have a taste of the Republic of China period, and the floor of the room is as old as an abandoned attic in a small bungalow.

Weird style.

Tang Cuo only thought for a while, then walked quickly to the desk, because there was a stained glass window here.Opening the window and looking out, a strange city suddenly appeared in front of me.

No matter how much you think about it, it is better to see it with your own eyes, and it was only at this time that Tang Cuo really had the real feeling of stepping into another world.

A huge black city stands majestically under the night.

It is said to be black, because all the houses and roads in this city are black, and the atmosphere of the whole city is solemn and solemn.But this is not accurate enough, because the roofs of some houses are covered with colorful glazed tiles, scattered like gems in the huge city.

And here, the lights are bright.Faint cheers came from every corner of the city.It seems that wherever the lights are lit, there are figures shaking.

This is a living city.

There are western spiers and towers, as well as Chinese-style multi-storey pavilions.

There are ancient carriages passing through the black stone road in front, and there are also floating tracks full of futuristic technology lying in the sky. Amidst the clanging sound, a steam train with a very heavy industrial style goes straight into the sky along the rails. The car lights lit up in the carriages are like ribbons of stars, and like a soaring black dragon.

It's night now, there are no stars or moon in the sky, but Tang Cuo's vision is still very clear.Because there are not only street lights on the street, but also a huge luminous sphere on the top of the tower in the distance.

It's like a night pearl, and there are more than one. According to the results of Tang Cuo's visual inspection, they are evenly and regularly distributed in the city.

Tang Cuo's room was on the third floor. The area he was in was like a residential area, a Western-style building, and it was only two or three stories high.The Heishi Street downstairs is very long. Pedestrians pass by from time to time. There are men, women and children. They are all dressed in modern fashion, but the style is a bit too much.

Tattered cloth strips, crumpled capes, camouflage jackets, and more.Tang Cuo had only seen this colorful fashion show in the novice area of ​​large online games.

Is this Eternal Night City?

Where are Chi Yan and the others?

After a while, Tang Cuo turned his attention to the house again, and quickly locked on the coat rack at the door.There was a small golden bell hanging there, except for the size, it was exactly the same as the one Tang Cuo saw in the white mist space.

But Tang Cuo didn't intend to ignore it, but directly grabbed the doorknob.Push it down, but it won't open.

"Ding—" the bell rang by itself.

"The following is the survival guide for Eternal Night City: Please open the system panel and complete the basic settings according to the current character points. The time limit is 10 minutes. If you have any questions, please press 1; if the system fails, please press 4. Survival is not easy, Please cherish life."

WTF?

Tang Cuo narrowed his eyes, but he didn't see any system panel from the beginning to the end.Why is this broken game so annoying? I can't even die well, it's more troublesome than living.

Thinking of this, Tang Cuo even wanted to go to bed and take a nap first.

He looked around the room impatiently, and even rolled up his sleeves to find any button on his arm, but found nothing.

Maybe this broken system is voice.

"open."

no response.

"Open."

It doesn't seem to be in English either.

"go to hell."

"Please use words in a civilized manner, and work together to create a beautiful Eternal Night City."

Tang Cuo didn't even bother to vomit. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, he found that there was an extra holographic display in front of him.And no matter where Tang Cuo looks, the panel is displayed directly opposite him, and it seems to follow his line of sight.

As for the opening and closing buttons?Maybe it was the time he closed his eyes, more than three seconds.

The system panel is similar to what Tang Cuo has seen when playing online games. It is divided into three parts, [Character] [Skill] [Task], which can be switched between each other.At the bottom is an independent equipment column with ten grids, but all of them are empty.Tang Cuo originally wanted to reach out to click, but he found that the moment he had this idea, the [Character] interface was called out by himself.

【character】

No. K27216: Tang Cuo

Initial character points: -8

Force: 0

Intelligence: 0

Charisma: 0

Rating: A

life value:--

*Add points as appropriate, and repentance is invalid.Survival is not easy, cherish life.

Tang Cuo: "..."

What do you add?Are negative points reduced?

Tang Cuo opened the skill and task panels again, but found that they were all blank.Well, he switched back to the character interface, and fell into a rare deep thought about the three easy-to-understand additions.

Intelligence -8 may make you mentally retarded, Charisma -8 may make you ugly, so Tang Cuo thought for three seconds and chose force -8.As for the equal distribution is impossible, Tang Cuo refused to be moderate.

"Ding--"

"It is detected that the player has completed the basic settings, and the character image will be generated immediately!"

So the lock opened with a "click", and Tang Cuo fell down with a "dong".The pain of death returned to him in an instant, gripping his internal organs and depriving him of his strength and energy.Fatigue like a tide came one after another.

Sweat quickly wetted the broken hair on Tang Cuo's temples. He took a breath and sat up in no hurry. He summoned the panel again and glanced at it.

【character】

No. K27216: Tang Cuo

Current character points: 0

Force: -8

Intelligence: 0

Charisma: 0

Rating: A-

Health: 15%

*Stunning beauty and many disasters, death is not advisable.

【Task】

Alive.

The missions have been updated, but they're outrageously simple.The only good thing is that although the pain came back, the wound did not follow, it was just weak.

But there was no food in the room, no change of clothes, and if he wanted to survive, it meant that Tang Cuo had to get out of the room.

Oh no, Tang Cuo didn't bring nothing, he brought a survival assessment report.

After a while, the pain eased and my strength recovered.Tang Cuo got up from the ground and picked up the "Brick" again.As the only property at present, Tang Cuo decided to take it with him, and he could use it as a weapon when necessary, and he had seen that there was not even a piece of toilet paper in the toilet.

Wait, can this thing fit in the equipment slot?

With a thought in Tang Cuo's mind, the assessment report disappeared from his hand.Open the equipment bar again, and there is a picture of a book in the first space.

He tried to take it out of the equipment rack again, and in the blink of an eye, it came back again.so--

Is it really a piece of equipment?

Tang Cuo was in a daze, when suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Who is it?

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.But soon, this cold light was overwhelmed by laziness, and he stepped forward to open the door as if nothing had happened.

"Hello." The visitor had a chubby face, was in his forties, had thinning hair, but smiled kindly.Wearing a blue overalls that was washed a little whitish, with a vegetable basket in his arms, every callus on his rough palm revealed ordinaryness.

"What's the matter?" Tang Cuo said indifferently.

"Are you new here? Let me introduce myself. My name is Lu Wenming and I live on this street. I came here to ask if you need any help?" The middle-aged man smiled and took out a card from the basket The leaflet was handed to Tang Cuo, and said: "Look, points can be exchanged for currency, and one point can be exchanged for 1 RMB. survived."

Tang Cuo held the thin piece of paper, showing no emotion.

Lu Wenming was very patient, and continued: "I won't hide it from you. There is nothing here to help people without trying to repay them, but I will also collect some handling fees from it. I am not good at fighting, and it is difficult to do other things. You are young. People are different, and points can be earned again quickly. And there is a protection mechanism for newcomers, and only five points will be deducted in the first month. If you exchange money with me now, it is nothing more than paying a little extra handling fee, but I can give you Provide some guidance for newcomers."

"Guide?"

"You just came here and don't know, right? What is Eternal Night City, how to use points, how to do tasks, where to buy things, you will know these things yourself after a while, but if you know it earlier, you will be more prepared, right? You Look, I didn't hide anything, let's get straight to the point and do business with integrity."

"On credit?"

"what?"

Lu Wenming was stunned. He had been in this business for so long, and it was the first time he heard a newcomer ask for credit.When he regained his senses, he blinked his eyes, looked at Tang Cuo dumbfounded, and said, "How can I get credit, there has never been such a thing as credit in Evernight City. After all, no one knows whether the person in front of me will disappear tomorrow. How do I get back the money that went out? No credit, only usury, five times up."

Tang Cuo: "Oh."

Perhaps Tang Cuo's reaction was really different from other newcomers. Lu Wenming looked at his expression carefully, and the smile on his face restrained a little.He thought about it and asked, "Why don't you think about it again?"

Tang Cuo: "I've thought about it."

"Are you going to buy it?"

"No, I'm going to borrow it."

The next second, before Lu Wenming could react, Tang Cuo grabbed his hand and dragged him into the house, closed the door, pressed against the door panel, and cut his hands behind his back.The sound of closing the door was very soft, and Tang Cuo deliberately withdrew his strength the moment the door closed.

The vegetable basket fell to the ground, and the paper was scattered all over the place.Lu Wenming opened his mouth to exclaim, but his mouth was covered.

"If you cooperate obediently, you can live. If my guess is correct, everyone has died once, and if you die again, the end should be worse than death."

"Hmm! Mmm!" Lu Wenming nodded frantically.

Only then did Tang Cuo let go of his hand covering him, but it only moved down a little.The icy fingertips rested on Lu Wenming's neck, as if it could be broken with just enough force.

Lu Wenming broke out in a cold sweat.Which rookie didn't have a lot of problems when he first came here?Either he is completely clueless as if he is mentally retarded, or he is frightened by the shadow of death. No matter how determined a person is, he needs time to adapt, and he can be hooked with a little coaxing, but what about the one behind him?

Looking back at the situation just now, Lu Wenming was so angry that he beat his chest in his heart.He should have left as soon as he noticed that Tang Cuo was different. What made him take chances?

"I, I really didn't lie to you. The current exchange ratio of Eternal Night City is [-]:[-]. I collected a handling fee and have to pay part of it. In the end, I may not even have a point! I will change them, although [-] per point is not much, but it will be enough to get through the first few days. I am also a earner, so please do me a favor and don’t bother with me..."

"RMB is useless, points are the hard currency."

Lu Wenming was stunned when he heard the words, because Tang Cuo used an affirmative sentence. At this moment, he almost doubted whether Tang Cuo was a newcomer, with old skills, and could detect the problem so quickly.He pursed his lips tightly and froze for a few seconds, and finally replied tremblingly: "It's not really useless...Really! Most of the daily necessities and food are still bought with money. Points are very precious, so money is still useful, but ,only……"

"Just not as useful." Less purchasing power, but better than toilet paper.

"That's right, that's right." Lu Wenming responded repeatedly and actively cooperated: "You still need money anyway, how about I sell you [-] yuan per point at the market price? If you don't earn a cent, just pay it My friend, no, no, thirty thousand! How about thirty thousand?"

Tang Cuo finally let him go and said, "Twenty thousand, three days."

Lu Wenming regained his freedom and exaggeratedly wiped off his sweat.He stopped haggling with Tang Cuo now, picked up the vegetable basket with a smile, and took money from it.While digging out, he looked at Tang Cuo with small eyes, and when he handed the two stacks of money to Tang Cuo, the flattery on his face quickly piled up.

"You count?" he said.

Tang Cuo didn't answer, and seeing Lu Wenming's heart tremble, his hand holding the money couldn't help shrinking back.But at this moment, Tang Cuo reached out to pick it up again.

Lu Wenming's retracted hand was firmly grasped, his heart skipped a beat, and his face, which was full of flattery and fear, immediately showed a fierce light.The transformation was instantaneous. Lu Wenming let go of the RMB, drew a card from it with lightning speed, and threw it at Tang Cuo with a roar.

"go with!"

The card was spinning in mid-air, but when it landed in his eyes, it played in slow motion, allowing Tang Cuo to see the content of the card clearly.

Tarot, magician.

Unknown battle mode means endless danger.

Tang Cuo backed away quickly, and at the same time, with a flick of his wrist, he threw two stacks of RMB towards the Tarot cards.The banknotes were scattered, but when they passed by the Tarot cards, they burst into flames.

If one banknote is a ball of fire, two hundred bills are countless balls of fire.All the banknotes ignited spontaneously without wind, and in the next second, they suddenly grew stronger. The strong heat wave almost roasted Tang Cuo, who had retreated early, on the spot, and he could even smell a trace of burnt hair.

"Stupid!" Lu Wenming raised his middle finger at Tang Cuo with a gloomy face.He has never seen such a stupid way to die when he uses the Heavenly Girl Scattering Flower against the fireball technique.

This rookie is nothing more than that, he accidentally caught him just now, it must be because of that little white face being too deceptive.Obviously a villain who set fire and robbed, he looked like he was speaking under the national flag when he was a child, what a fucking Zhou Zheng.

But thinking about it, Lu Wenming was much more cautious at the moment, raised his hand to recall the tarot cards, turned around and left, not wanting to know the whole process of Tang Cuo being burned.However, the moment he held the doorknob, a heavy object flew into the air and hit the back of his head.

"Boom!" Lu Wenming slammed his head on the door panel again, his head almost split open, causing him to roll all over the floor in pain.

The fireball dissipated as the user fell to the ground, as if everything just now was an illusion.Tang Cuo walked over as if nothing had happened, picked up the "brick" on the ground, and smiled for the first time.

He looked at Lu Wenming: "Stupid."

Lu Wenming was extremely angry when he was in pain. He never expected that Tang Cuo could survive the fireball attack unscathed. Is he still a rookie? !

He looked up in horror, but behind Tang Cuo, the glass door of the bathroom was open.There is only one truth - when Tang Cuo was burned by the fire, he hid in the bathroom dangerously and dangerously.And Lu Wenming was in a hurry to leave, before the fire spread in, so he was KO'd on the spot.

After figuring this out, Lu Wenming's face was immediately ashamed, and he knew that he had no chance of turning the tables.In terms of intelligence and even luck, he is inferior to the young man in front of him.

Tang Cuo is not a good stubble, and Lu Wenming is not sure about his next fate.

"I just want to know, how did you doubt me?"

"Occupational disease."

It is impossible for Lu Wenming to know that Tang Cuo is a detective. He observes everything and suspects everything.

In such a city full of unusualness, ordinary people are extraordinary.Lu Wenming seemed to be honest about taking kickbacks, and tried to win Tang Cuo's trust step by step, but he didn't know that Tang Cuo was always stingy about it.

Lu Wenming also didn't know that before Tang Cuo's newcomers entered Eternal Night City, they had triggered the lucky wheel because of their poor grades. After experiencing a game, they were no longer pure newcomers strictly speaking.

It is even more impossible for him to know that Tang Cuo's points are negative, and this business cannot be done from the beginning.

Tang Cuo was not interested in explaining so much, so he called up the system panel to have a look.

Health: 3%

*You are one step away from death.

The author has something to say:

The basic settings of Eternal Night City will be expanded one by one in the future, because this is a brand new world, and there are many aspects involved, so if you see where you haven’t mentioned it, it will probably be in the back, and it will be boring if you pile it up .

In a nutshell, this is probably a "dark utopia".