Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

a moment ago.

Zhou Qian and his party left the plant that made a strange "help" sound, and continued heading south.

As they walked, Ke Yuxiao was the first to see the situation.

He stopped, and he felt a huge pain in the back of his hand.

Immediately when he raised his hand, he saw a black hole appeared on the back of his hand. Like a moving blood vessel, a piece of grass first moved suspiciously under the skin of the back of his hand, then it found the black hole, and suddenly Drilled out from inside.

In the end, it actually shook a bit, as if satisfied with the status quo—it finally crawled out.

At this moment, Zhou Qian and Qi Liuxing also stopped, and both frowned and looked at this rather curious scene.

Judging from the ranking of life points, Ke Yuxiao was the third from the bottom, and also the third to experience strange changes after Wu Ren and Situ Qing.

After staring at the weird grass for a while, Qi Liuxing stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch it, but he was afraid of hurting Ke Yuxiao, so he finally withdrew his hand.

This grass is now probably part of Ke Yuxiao's flesh and blood, so it must not be pulled out or cut off easily.

In addition, unlike the green color of ordinary grass, this grass is dark green, and the texture on it is more complicated, like the strange patterns on marble or batik, and even has some artistic beauty.

"Wait—" After a while, it was Zhou Qian who spoke, "Do you think... this grass looks familiar?"

"Familiarity means..." Qi Liuxing couldn't understand what he meant for a moment.

Zhou Qian met Qi Liuxing's gaze sideways, "Just now we passed a grass field. There are a lot of this kind of grass growing there."

Qi Liuxing: "Eh?"

"I think you two were busy chatting and didn't notice."

Zhou Qian shook his head, turned around and walked back the way he came and went, because he wanted to go back and have a look for further confirmation.

After walking briskly back for about half a minute, Zhou Qian stopped and raised his hand.

Looking in the direction of his finger, this time Qi Liuxing really saw a part of grass hidden in the strange forest.

There are too many strange and weird plants here. A piece of dark green grass with complicated textures is not unusual among a bunch of rare plants, so it's hard for Zhou Qian to notice it.

"Go. Take a closer look." Zhou Qian took the lead to take a few steps inside after saying this.

But as soon as he stepped into the dark green lawn, Zhou Qian felt something was wrong - the air here was very smelly, almost to the point of pungent.

Raising his hand to pick up the card with life points on it, Zhou Qian found that the countdown was indeed accelerating rapidly.

Turning his head, he found Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao walking towards them. Zhou Qian shook his head seriously at them, and immediately led them back to the main road, and then quickly opened the system map to take a look.

On the map, all explored areas are clearly visible and available for players to mark.

Places that have not been explored are still hidden.

Zhou Qian reviewed the route he took just now combined with the map, and then marked the area where the dark green grass is located with a red mark, and wrote in the remarks "the accelerated reduction area of ​​life points".

"For now, I don't know why the grass growing on the back of Ke Yuxiao's hand is the same as here. Xiao Qi, you can pay attention to his situation at will. To avoid any accidents."

After reminding the two of them, Zhou Qian took out the God's Rib and held it in his hand, turned around, and walked south again.

Now their primary goal is to find clearing stations that can increase life points.

As for the exploration of clues, they can be put aside temporarily.

This time, after walking for about a minute and a half, Zhou Qian finally entered a relatively wide field of vision.

——In front of him was a large swamp-like existence.

The three of them had been walking in the dense jungle before, and the already tall trees became thicker and bigger after the mutation. They blocked the sky and the sun, resulting in extremely insufficient light in that area, and the field of vision was naturally very narrow.

It is different now, the wetland is vast, there are no tall trees in the middle, and the view is excellent. When you look up, you can see patches of grassland, lakes, low shrubs, and some exposed mires.

At this time, it was not until evening, and the weather could be called bright.

There is no cloud in the sky, and it is an endless blue. It meets the blue wetland in the distance, and finally forms a light gray.

In this way, such a scenery that should have been ordinary in normal times, surrounded by a bunch of strange plants, turned out to be an unusual one.

"Going forward, we have to be careful. There may be swamps hidden in this wetland."

After Zhou Qian said this, he didn't hear any response.

He frowned and looked back, there was nothing behind him, Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao were gone.

what happened?

How could they disappear when they obviously didn't hear any sound?

Zhou Qian raised his wrist, and was about to try to contact Qi Liuxing through the system, but found that the system was blank.

He blinked again, and even the watch on his wrist disappeared.

Zhou Qian realized almost immediately that he should have entered a certain illusion inadvertently.

Whether this is a trap that comes with the dungeon itself, Zhou Qian still doesn't know.

But fortunately, his consciousness is still clear now.

Soon he heard a voice that should never appear here——

"Raise!"

"I'm allin!!"

"Hahahaha, Old Zhang, I'm afraid you're going to bleed a lot today!"

Such a voice, Zhou Qian is too familiar with it - the casino.

Gambling this kind of thing, he followed his father Zhou Chongshan when he was a child.

He has been to the casino too many times.

Now Zhou Qian only heard the noise of the casino, he was still in front of the wetland.

But the situation changed very quickly. The picture around him was like a scroll with heavy ink and colors being splashed with water. The colors blended and rotated, becoming distorted, viscous, and mixed, and finally the whole painting turned black and gray. But in an instant, a completely different scene was drawn with a new brush——

Zhou Qian came to the casino.

He saw himself who was only less than 10 years old.

Looking down from the void, Zhou Qian watched his young self being hugged by his father and walking into the casino step by step.

At some point afterwards, as if possessed by a soul, Zhou Qian fell from the void and into his own body when he was a child, and then looked at this strange, lively and faintly dangerous world from the perspective of his young self.

Zhou Qian was beautiful since he was a child, his eyes were very well-shaped, and his eyes were especially clear. When he looked at people without blinking, he looked innocent and pure.

This kind of him, no matter in terms of temperament or age, seemed too out of place with the casino, but Zhou Chongshan didn't care, so he just brought him in.

Dice, poker, colorful cocktails, shouts of ecstasy, roars of sadness and anger... the casino full of all kinds of novelties was an extremely novel world for the young Zhou Qian.

This grotesque world made him both curious and afraid.

But probably he was born to like playing this kind of game. When Zhou Chongshan held him in his arms, Zhou Qian watched them play cards and began to make calculations in his mind.Gradually, he felt so much fun that he forgot his fear.

The game that is unfolding at the moment is stud.

Zhou Chongshan was fighting a middle-aged man with a pot belly to a critical stage.

"Upsize?" the man asked.

A drop of sweat dripped from Zhou Chongsheng's head, but he said decisively, "Allin."

"Old Zhou, let's go back to the big one. I'll add another 1000 million. You also re-bet, dare you?"

"Ha... Lao Zhang, you are in a very high spirits today. What do you want?"

"Your son!"

The man named "Old Zhang" stared at Zhou Qian, who was only less than 10 years old, with a sticky and evil look, and then he said in a hoarse voice, "If you lose, you will lose!" Your son gave it to me, dare you?"

Zhou Chongshan was stunned for a moment, but quickly said decisively: "Why am I not afraid? Hahaha——"

Inside the casino, the hustle and bustle is still there.

Zhou Chongshan didn't notice that the back and palm of Zhou Qian, who was holding him with one hand, broke out in a lot of cold sweat in an instant.

Zhou Qian's eyes didn't seem to have changed much, as if showing some kind of empty state, still looking innocent.It's just that this time there is a little more confusion in the innocence.

None of the so-called grown-ups present who saw his eyes knew—in fact, he understood everything.