The one who was dragged into the "instrument room" by Hongyu closed his eyes and seemed to lose consciousness.

"Brother Yao..." Ke Chun's brain stopped thinking for a moment, too many shocks made him lose his ability to judge.

Xi Wenyao was fixed on the operating table, the robotic arm lowered, and the scalpel cut a hole in his belly.

At that moment, there was a fierce howl.

His eyes widened suddenly, and he wanted to get up to check his body in horror.

But he couldn't do it, he couldn't move his limbs, so he could only hammer the back of his head on the operating table again and again.

The thrilling "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom" accompanied by Xi Wenyao's pained roar constantly tormented Ke Chun's ears.

That cry came from the most helpless heart, and it was the last struggle that I knew was hopeless but had to do.

Ke Chun covered his ears tightly, not daring to look at the screen again.

His tears couldn't stop flowing out, his throat was so choked that he couldn't even say a decent word, even though his heart was screaming over and over again——

stop!

Stop torturing him!

Leave him alone!

Stop it!

Don't let it go!

At this time, someone took Ke Chun's place and rushed forward, raising his fist to smash the screen.

It was Fei Zhengqi who blushed with anger.

The muscles on his raised arm were strong and the veins were bulging. Just as his fist was about to fall, he was caught by the other hand.

"What?!" Fei Zhengqi glared at Kuai Anhe who stopped him.

Kuai Anhe just shook his head and said, "It won't help if you smash it."

Unwillingly, Fei Zhengqi smashed all the strength he had accumulated on the wall next to the big screen, leaving a clear fist mark.

After the clip of Xi Wenyao ended, the brothers who chatted and played with them last night appeared on the screen.

There was no laughter anymore, it was all panic, anger, and begging for mercy.

As soon as the picture came out, someone shouted their names excitedly.

Ke Chun saw that Brother Tu and Mingming were close together, their legs were shaking violently, but they still held their heads bravely.

He was the first to stand up and resist, but his resistance had no effect.

Knowing that he could not escape this catastrophe, he yelled at the camera: "I'm sorry brothers, curiosity killed the cat! Chun, it's all true! You must win and win all the way!"

Ke Chun threw himself in front of the screen, calling out Brother Tu's name one after another, but only Brother Tu's howling in pain responded to him.

Kuai Anhe gently supported Ke Chun.

Leaning on Kuai Anhe's shoulder, Ke Chun's eyes were blurred, and mixed emotions kept churning in his heart.

If he could have paid attention to this matter earlier, if he could persuade Xi Wenyao not to act rashly, if he hadn't been stunned last night, if...if...there is no if in the world, only the cruel established reality.

After the three shocking videos ended, in the last video, Hongyu stood alone in the "dark kitchen", stirring the soup in the cauldron with a big spoon.

The soup was dazzlingly red, bubbling and bubbling.

On the surface of the water, chunks of meat could be seen bouncing up and down as the soup boiled.

Then, the screen gradually darkened.

"Ouch..." Several people vomited one after another.

What are they eating these days, is it pork?Or human flesh?

For a while, there was no sound.

Everyone is digesting this huge amount of information.

Everyone struggles between belief and unbelief.

Ke Chun squatted on the ground, hugged his knees, and complex emotions such as grief, anger, and remorse hit his heart wave after wave.

unforgivable!

Those who play with life like this cannot be forgiven!

All these emotions finally turned into raging fire, he stood up abruptly, glared at the big screen, and roared vigorously: "What do you want?!"

The black stick director appeared on the screen again, and said with a three-point sneer: "As a starter for the third round, isn't it not bad?"

Ke Chun became furious, knocked on the TV screen heavily, and gritted his teeth: "What exactly do you want?"

Director Hei Bang raised the corners of his lips and said, "Play a game, cat and mouse, and use your lives as chips."

"What do you mean?" Ke Chun suppressed his anger and asked.

"In the third round, you two will compete between groups. One of the two groups is a 'cat', and the other is a 'mouse'. The entire castle is the arena. The competition lasts 24 hours a day. When the time comes We will hide questions in every corner of the castle, the mouse team needs to answer six questions correctly to be considered a success, and the cat team needs to use various methods to prevent the mouse team from answering six questions correctly. Do you understand this explanation?"

It feels like it has nothing to do with the music show anymore.

Ke Chunzheng was thinking, and Jian Hong asked this question for him.

Director Hei Bang laughed and said, "Don't worry, all the questions are music questions."

"What if we don't play?" Ke Chun asked.

"Then I don't mind bringing all of you to that room right now." Director Hei Bang joked, but it made Ke Chun feel chilly.

"Oh, don't think about a win-win approach, it doesn't exist. As long as you obediently abide by the rules of the game and win the game with all your strength, you will be able to live safely. I guarantee it with my personality." Director Hei Bang added.

Killing everyone's opportunistic ideas, director Hei Bang proudly proceeded to announce the next rule: "After grouping, each group goes to the computer next to the screen to choose a random number. The red number is a cat, and the white number is a mouse. The two groups with the same number are automatically matched as opponents. I would like to remind you that it is best not to let people in other groups see your numbers during the lottery."

"That means we don't know our opponent?" Kuai Anhe asked immediately, thinking quickly.

"Yes, this is the fun. Should we test each other first? Or should we focus on the task? Oh yes, you can use all the props in the castle as you like. There is also a rule that the cat group can only destroy the questions corresponding to their numbers. If you destroy other groups' questions, it will be considered a foul and you will be eliminated immediately. Are there any questions?"

"How to group?" Jian Hong took a step forward, he had already stepped out of the shadow of the previous video, very calm.

"Except for the first No.2 of the last round who must be bound with the person you choose, the others are free to form a team. I will give you one hour to form a team. After one hour, we will gather in the lobby and we will start drawing Pick a number."

After Director Hei Bang finished speaking, the screen went dark.

Not everyone accepted the current situation, and two brothers pinched each other to make sure it was a dream.

Unsurprisingly, there were two howls.

Ke Chun was so angry that he was trembling all over, wishing he could go through the screen and beat up that self-righteous guy.

He understands the rules. This rule is not only playing with their lives, but also instigating them to trample on the lives of others!

Unforgivable!

We must find a way to stop all this, and we must not kill each other!

His brain was running fast, trying to get rid of his anger and restore his rationality, thinking of a surefire solution, when he heard two coughs from behind him.

Looking back, the tightly packed Lang Qiu stood behind him and gave him a look.

Ke Chun understood, and followed Lang Qiu to the west corridor—only there was no camera there.

Fortunately, the two of them formed a group automatically, so there was no need to get involved in the grouping.

Lang Qiu's body was so weak that he wobbled after taking a few steps, and immediately leaned against the wall after entering the corridor.

Ke Chun finally couldn't hold back, and said angrily: "We must not let them succeed! Is there anything you can do?"

He himself thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with a good idea.

Lang Qiu coughed twice, his voice hoarse: "Win. They are provoking us."

"Don't you just ignore them?"

"Ahem, I went to the basement yesterday, the room inside." Lang Qiu spit out this sentence lightly, but Ke Chun was shocked.

His voice was an octave higher: "How did you go there? Wait...last night...you! Did you see that?!"

"Yes. I followed Mingming all the way yesterday, ahem, and then saw him being taken away by Hongyu at two o'clock in the middle of the night. Ahem..."

Ke Chun hurried forward to pat him on the back.

Lang Qiu waved his hands, and continued: "I followed them all the way here. After Hongyu sent Mingming down, she went up to you by herself. I hurried down to take Mingming away, but I found that he had been arrested. It’s fixed on the operating table, and I haven’t found a way to untie that mechanism for a long time. Cough cough, cough cough…”

"Speak slowly, there's no rush." ​​Ke Chun stroked his back and said softly.

"Then Hongyu came back. In desperation, I had no choice but to hide in the inner room. I didn't expect Hongyu to lock the door! I tried my best to pick the lock and smash the door, but it was useless. I couldn't get out. I can just watch them in front of my eyes...cough cough, cough cough..."

The severe cough made Lang Qiu unable to stand up straight. He clutched his chest, bent over and coughed for a long time before he finally eased up.

Ke Chun asked with special distress: "Then what happened afterwards? Did Hongyu find you? How did you escape?"

"She saw me, but I was wearing a mask and a hat, so I don't know if she recognized me. When she came towards me, I opened a freezer and went in. You know I'm in What did you see inside?" Lang Qiu looked straight ahead, with rare anger showing on his face.

Ke Chun's heart was beating wildly, and an answer was ready to come out of his mouth.

Then Lang Qiu said it for him: "A corpse, the internal organs have been hollowed out, only the flesh and bones."

Ke Chun took a deep breath, and heard Lang Qiu continue: "Hongyu looked for me in the room like crazy. She opened the refrigerator doors one by one. Fortunately, I used the corpse as a cover to escape her sight safely. Finally, I found She gave up going out if she couldn't reach me. I stayed in the freezer and didn't dare to come out. I counted every second in my heart. When I counted to 8000, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I had to open the door and go out. Go upstairs, go back to the house and lie down on the bed, unconscious."

Looking at Lang Qiu, who was sweating profusely and pale, Ke Chun's heart clenched together.

Although the two eyelids were almost closed, Lang Qiu still insisted and said: "The camera should have captured me, although I was wearing a hat and mask, and I kept my head down. Cough cough, but from everyone's movements yesterday It should be easy to lock on to me."

"Then why didn't they do it directly?" Ke Chun was puzzled. If he knew it was Lang Qiu, wouldn't it be better to get rid of him directly?

Lang Qiu shook his head: "I don't know, maybe they think I'm just an ant, who can be crushed to death casually."

"What should we do now?" Ke Chun helped Lang Qiu sit down slowly, looking sideways at him and asked.

Only Lang Qiu's silence and increasingly blue face responded to Ke Chun.

At this moment, Ke Chun naively thought that there was always a solution to everything, but he didn't know that some things were born with no solution, especially human instinct.

Easter egg 1

7:00am.

The alarm was deafening.

Xu Wanru poked her head out of the kitchen and shouted upstairs, "Get up and have breakfast!"

Then she put three bowls of porridge that she had just made on the dining table, and took some dried mustard greens and radishes from the refrigerator, and three salted duck eggs, and arranged them neatly on the dining table.

Drop drop, drop drop.

The timer started to make noise, Xu Wanru went to the oil pot, pressed the timer, fished three thick and long fried dough sticks from the pot, put them on the cutting board, cut them into small pieces, put them in a large bowl, Put them on the table together.

After finishing all this, Xu Wanru lay down on the sofa and continued to watch her TV.

Half a month ago, there was a real-time live reality show - "The Road to the God of Songs".

The so-called real-time live broadcast is a 24-hour non-stop broadcast. This is a very novel form and has caused a lot of enthusiasm.

Xu Wanru and her little sisters love to watch it, because all the little boys in it are good-looking and very "lifelike".

From the day the show started, the TV in their home has never been turned off.

Her son, who was in the third grade of junior high school, went downstairs to glance at the TV and asked lazily, "Did they escape?"

Xu Wanru watched with relish, and while knocking the peanuts on the coffee table, she replied: "It's amazing, I just saw the two of them coming out of the west corridor, I don't know how to fix it."

"Super power?" The son sat down at the dining table, took a piece of fried dough sticks and chewed them in his mouth.

"No way, they are all ordinary people. The previous time was also very strange... Hey, why is there no camera in the corridor! It's so uncomfortable!" Xu Wanru complained slightly.

Last night's live broadcast had Ke Chun and Lang Qiu go into the west corridor, and then that Ke Chun went around the torture room and uttered nonsense to the camera, but Xu Wanru fell in love with it.

"Fortunately, the little fresh meat you like is still there." The son said, poured mustard into the hot porridge and drank it.

The little fresh meat in his mouth is that Ke Chun, this young man is fair and clean, his eyes and nose are very correct, the key is that he has a super good personality, what can I say, Xu Wanru likes this type of man the most.

This time, the TV will show that Ke Chun and Lang Qiu go to the cafeteria to have breakfast respectively.

Xu Wanru's husband walked downstairs slowly, and also glanced at her, with a slight displeasure on his face.

"This month's electricity bill is beyond the limit, can you stop looking at it?" He complained with a tigerish face.

Xu Wanru rolled her eyes at him, and said sarcastically, "That's better than going to the casino every night, knowing that those machines are deliberately defrauding people, but you still go."

"What do you know?! That's where you can play now." My husband crossed his legs and looked at the dining table with disgust. "Can you stop porridge and pickled vegetables every day? You don't even need the breakfast machine from the second family's house."

Xu Wanru countered: "What do you know? This is life."

Complaints are complaints, but my husband obediently picked up the bowl and drank it.

Before going to school, the son suddenly said to Xu Wanru: "Today is the second round, right? We're going to be eliminated again hehe, will that mysterious X show his feet?"

They called the man who came and went between the basements mysterious X.The most amazing thing about this mysterious X is that it "disappears out of thin air". It was still at point A a second ago, and suddenly appeared at point B a few minutes later. Like magic, it also caused heated discussions on the Internet.

Xu Wanru also saw a poll on the Internet, guessing who the mysterious X was, she also went to join in the fun, voted for the person in her heart, and wholeheartedly supported him to win the first place.

When asked by her son, Xu Wanru raised the corner of her mouth, and said confidently, "Definitely not."

After seeing off her husband and son, she opened a bag of melon seeds by herself, watching and knocking.

There is a group of their little sisters, and they are all talking about this show recently, and today they also made an appointment to watch the game online together.

At ten o'clock on time, the three groups started a video chat.

In the first sentence, Sister A greeted Xu Wanru: "I'm afraid your Chun is going to leave today."

Xu Wanru pouted unhappily: "Just wait and see, Lang Qiu won't let him go."

Immediately, Sister B raised her voice and said: "Yes, yes, I forgot you hit them. These two stayed together last night, right?"

Xu Wanru immediately nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, it's a pity, why is there no camera! Maybe they already..."

"Hey, stop dreaming."

"Tell me, what does it feel like?" Xu Wanru asked.

Sister A: "Which one?"

Xu Wanru said: "That, slap, slap."

Sister B: "I don't know, it's said that it hurts."

Sister A: "Why do I hear it's cool?"

Xu Wanru sighed: "I really want to try it once."

Sister A said disdainfully: "So outdated, what's there to try? Isn't it looking for abuse?"

The three of them chatted one after another, listening to the music and looking at the beautiful man. After hearing Ke Chun's messy singing almost venting, the three of them were laughing like crazy. Xu Wanru threw away the melon seed shell and bent over. His waist was laid on the sofa, his stomach ached from laughing.

Sister A teased her and said, "You've really taken a fancy to a weirdo."

Xu Wanru couldn't straighten up from laughing, let alone talk back.

Sister B immediately hissed: "I don't care! I don't want to sing!"

Sister B's pick - Kuai Anhe.

Listening to Kuai Anhe's emotional singing, sister A, who has always been strict, also nodded in praise.

Xu Wanru curled her lips disapprovingly: "Mediocre is boring."

The following performance was lackluster, except that Jian Hong's performance touched them a little, the rest of the time they chatted happily.

Sister A asked for no reason: "So what is this show?"

Xu Wanru thought about the competition system so far, and replied: "Choose the person who pleases the audience the most."

Sister B asked seriously: "Isn't it the God of Songs?"

"Do you still see few singing machines? The one in my house has been in the warehouse for hundreds of years." Xu Wanru retorted.

Sister A summed up her statement calmly: "Maybe it was fun for us to watch, but I really enjoyed watching the part in the basement."

Xu Wanru and sister B nodded in agreement.

"It's the first time I've seen a human body like this!"

"There is still a person's blood volume. How long does a vampire have to suck to drain a person?"

"But are they too good at acting? Does it hurt that much to be scratched?"

"Didn't you take anesthesia?"

……

The three women opened their mouths three times, chattering for a while.

It happened to be in the place where Ke Chun was looking for someone to order food, and it was time for the housewife to prepare dinner.

Xu Wanru pays more attention to the "sense of life" than the average housewife. Even though there are many convenient machines that can quickly meet various human needs, she still prefers to spend time and meticulously do it herself, including cooking.

She will buy ingredients for a week and store them in the large refrigerator at home, draw up a different menu every day, and download various recipes from the Internet to study for herself.

To eat is to live.

This is Xu Wanru's catchphrase.

So she turned up the volume of the TV, and Xu Wanru hummed a little tune and walked to her "battlefield" - the kitchen.

The menu for tonight is stewed radish short ribs, stir-fried kale, steamed eggs with clams, and some pumpkin pies—this is the menu that was ordered a week ago.

When she heard that Ke Chun and the others wanted to eat pizza, Xu Wanru muttered regretfully, "Let's make a pizza next week too."

After three hours in the happy kitchen, my husband and son came back one after another.

Xu Wanru had already prepared a table of good dishes, waiting for them.

The first thing the son said when he entered the door was, "Can I see you pure tonight?"

Xu Wanru knew that her son was making fun of her, so instead of being angry, she was overjoyed and shouted happily: "Chun has advanced! He was rescued by Lang Qiu. I'll say they are real."

The son showed a disgusted expression, and his attention was immediately attracted by a table of delicious food.

At this time, the TV was also showing the contestants gathered in the cafeteria for a farewell party.

The son chewed the small ribs in his mouth and sighed enviously: "I want to eat pizza too."

Xu Wanru said happily, "I'll make it for you next week."

Xu Wanru and her son were the only ones who enjoyed the meal. Her husband took a quick bite and spat dissatisfiedly, "It's a waste of time." Then he wiped his mouth, went upstairs to get a coat, and was about to go out.

Xu Wanru knew where he was going without asking. He would go to the casino two streets away every night. According to his husband, only in the casino could he feel "life".

After eating, his son walked up to Xu Wanru and said coquettishly, "Mom, can I watch it with you at night?"

Xu Wanru frowned: "You still have class tomorrow."

"It's okay, I don't need to go to sleep." The son smiled and begged, holding Xu Wanru's arm, "Is that tonight? Exciting."

Xu Wanru kept a straight face: "It's not suitable for children."

"Mom~"

After being tortured by her son, she lost her persistence and nodded casually, which was regarded as acquiescing.

The mother and son sat on the sofa for hours, and the farewell party on TV continued.

The son sank lazily on the sofa, a little impatient: "Why haven't they finished talking? It's too boring, who wants to watch them chatting."

I can't cheer up here, Xu Wanru sees tears welling up in her eyes.

She has always been a person who likes to listen to stories, especially those stories from a long, long time ago. People at that time would always do some unbelievable actions. Xu Wanru didn't understand, and because she didn't understand, she would be attracted.

After reading too many stories, she gradually felt that "life" should be like that.

There is love, hatred, dreams, and loss, all of which are entangled together to be called a perfect life.

Every story of every boy on TV touched her especially, and made her sigh "this is life".

Until this moment, Xu Wanru suddenly understood why she liked this show so much.

It turned out that this was the "life" she wanted.

And the boy Ke Chun is simply the embodiment of "ideal life".

He is frank, he is sincere, he can cry, he can laugh, he can be nervous, and he can also be afraid. He always has many vivid expressions, and Xu Wanru's eyes cannot be separated from him.

How can there be such a real person in this world?

The son yawned, leaned on Xu Wanru's shoulder, and murmured, "I'll charge the battery, call me when the execution begins."

Looking at her son who fell asleep in a second beside her, Xu Wanru shook her head.

The execution was originally just a gimmick of the show, but now it seems to have become the expectation of the whole people.

Obviously this show has better things to promote, why is there only this kind of pursuit of sensory stimulation left?

Compared with those negative emotions, Xu Wanru still prefers a positive attitude.

She has always been a loner.

The only gregarious thing I have done so far is to get married and have children, and the reason for this is very simple, because "life" needs company.

Tonight's execution was the same as usual, Xu Wanru was very tired to watch, even though her son's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands.

Especially when he saw the man named Brother Tu standing up to be tortured without hesitation, his son slapped the coffee table and yelled, "Man!"

And Xu Wanru only silently shed two tears when Brother Tu talked to Ke Chun.

My son still couldn't get enough of it after watching it, but Xu Wanru turned off the TV.

TV, which has not had a break for half a month, finally ushered in its first rest day.

The son looked at Xu Wanru in surprise, and asked, "You didn't watch it?"

Xu Wanru smiled slightly and said, "I'm tired, take a rest tonight."

So, she urged her son to go upstairs to sleep, washed herself, and got into bed - I am afraid that her husband will not come back tonight.

The alarm clock rang at seven o'clock the next morning.

The first thing Xu Wan did when she got out of bed was to turn on the TV. To her surprise, the normal program did not pop up. There was a big yellow rectangle in the center of the screen, which read:

"Scan code to pay, the program is more exciting."

Actually... asking for money!

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The author has something to say:

Easter eggs can be a bit boring, but they are hugely informative in my opinion.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, it doesn't affect the understanding of the text.

Volume Two: Cat and Mouse

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