On a certain night after starting university, Mu Yu was dragged into a bizarre rule-based game. From then on, new rules would be born every night, and new monsters would descend every night.
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Chapter 98 Night Market Street (Twenty)
Yu Ning hurriedly pulled him out of the room.
The moment he stepped out of the door, Yan Shaowen looked back.
This empty room, which had trapped him like a cage a second ago, just stared back at him quietly. There was no change, and no obstruction. The door just stood there open in front of them.
The wrist was yanked violently.
He turned around and Yu Ning stared at him, as if asking: What are you still looking at? It's almost too late!
Yan Shaowen raised the corners of his lips.
He waved away the inexplicable emotions that enveloped his heart and said lazily, "I understand."
*
Time, 7:21.
After Yu Ning left the room, he immediately climbed onto the bed and carved a few words on his arm.
[I've cleared the level, I'll get out right away. 】
Then he pulled Yan Shaowen and rushed to the first floor. They handed the room cards to the front desk, and a picture appeared in their minds.
What Yu Ning recalled was that they were in that white space, and in the last round, the players from the night market group stepped forward to carve words and carved a variety of arrows on the table.
In Yan Shaowen's mind, petals fluttered in an instant -
…
The train roared across the plain, and Zhang Huawei leaned against the glass window with his eyes wide open.
“F---ah--”
In the distance, there is a golden ocean.
A huge sea of sunflowers.
The night sky is dark, but the colors of the sea of flowers are clearly visible, so bright and dazzling that they seem to be able to illuminate the purest black.
The flower disk swayed, rising and falling like waves, and the petals flew from afar and hit the train window glass like golden rain.
There is such a huge sea of flowers in this place!
This is so...
Zhang Huawei was at a loss for words. He could only stare blankly, unable to make any other reaction.
The sea of flowers was very large. The train drove for a while and was about to pass it when it suddenly made a sharp turn and drove forward along the sea of flowers.
Boom, boom, boom, Zhang Huawei never took his eyes off...
Soon, there was a muffled "click" sound.
He suddenly fell forward and quickly held onto the wall to steady himself. When everything was quiet, he realized -
We have arrived.
Arrived “home”.
Zhang Huawei instantly hugged the stick tightly and swallowed his saliva.
At this moment, the sunflower field is still outside the window, so close at hand.
It’s beautiful, but also a little weird in this context…
In front of the locomotive... it seemed to be a flat land, but it was very dark outside and he couldn't see clearly.
“Bang!”
The train car door opened behind him.
Zhang Huawei jumped nervously, turned around nervously and looked towards the window opposite... This time he was stunned.
Right next to his train was another train.
A boy was on the train and had seen him. He was banging on the window and shouting something at him.
Zhang Huawei reacted and ran out quickly, coming to the middle of the two trains - they were too close, and Zhang Huawei was too fat, so he was almost stuck in the middle.
After running out, he was shocked again.
There is actually a boy!
Damn, I almost forgot, in addition to "Hong Yang", a player from the hotel group also got on the train, so there must be two people here!
The other person was trembling on the roof of the train next door. When he saw him, he forced a smile: "Hello, my name is Wang Hao, the classmate in the carriage is Hong Yang, we, we are trapped here..."
"...Fuck!" Zhang Huawei was stunned. "No, why are you doing this? Where are the doors of your train?"
"The door is over there," Wang Hao pointed timidly in the direction behind him, "but over there... you can't walk out normally, because that's..."
Zhang Huawei was stunned again.
Fortunately, he had a baseball bat.
Hong Yang and Wang Hao's original plan was that Hong Yang would push Wang Hao onto the train first, and then Wang Hao would pull Hong Yang up, and the two would use this method to climb to the other side of the train and then jump off.
But this operation was much more difficult than they had imagined, and they were stuck at the step where Wang Hao pulled Hong Yang up.
Fortunately, Zhang Huawei "descended from the sky"!
He first picked up Wang Hao, and then smashed the window glass with a baseball bat.
After hitting it several times, he successfully broke the window glass and Hong Yang climbed out.
The three men struggled to squeeze out from the gap between the two train cars. Zhang Huawei ran to the edge of the cliff, looked out, and was so scared that he almost peed his pants.
It’s so dark down there, how deep is the abyss?
"Is this home?" He couldn't understand. "Home is the abyss? Isn't this copy too harsh?"
"Why don't you turn around and take a look," Hong Yang said, "Isn't there the most beautiful view behind you?"
Zhang Huawei turned around, looked at the golden sea of flowers, and couldn't help swallowing again.
…
He learned from Hong Yang and Wang Hao that Shen Leng and Xu Jin fell from here.
Zhang Huawei felt a little depressed.
But there is also a not-so-good sign - Hong Yang is still alive.
Xu Jin and Shen Leng fell down, but Hong Yang was still alive!
This may mean that Xu Jin and Shen Leng are not dead at all!
Shen Leng didn't eat any food when he left Garbage Street. At this point, he should have been killed by the feeling of near death.
But since he is still alive, it is very likely that the hotbed saved his life.
[The hotbed provides most of the basic supplies you need for life, provides purchasing and selling functions, provides disease and injury monitoring and nursing functions, provides the most suitable life guidance for you, and loyally protects your physical and mental health. 】
This machine literally protects the player's "physical and mental health", and can be regarded as a perfect yet evil machine.
And Xu Jin is still alive, which points to two possibilities.
Either the abyss is infinitely deep and the two of them have not fallen to the bottom yet; or the hotbed is strong enough that it will not break even if it is dropped from such a high place.
Regardless, they still have a chance.
It was because of this that Wang Hao perked up again.
He asked: "So should we try to find a way to join other players now?"
"Hiss, I feel like," Zhang Huawei looked around, "I always feel like the monster generator is right here. This place is so weird!"
"I think so too. There is one more thing I just discovered, but I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you, Wang Hao, wouldn't dare to crawl out." Hong Yang said.
Wang Hao was confused: "What's the matter?"
Hong Yang pointed in the direction of the abyss - strictly speaking, he was pointing at the dark night sky above the abyss.
"Don't you think there's something in the night sky?"
Zhang Huawei and Wang Hao looked up.
When they took a closer look, they were terrified.
In the dark night...it seems like there is something!
The thing was hidden in the darkness, so shadowy that I couldn't see its exact appearance. I could only tell it was huge, occupying most of the night sky. Upon closer inspection, it looked a bit like a strange human face...
This indescribable thing was suspended in the air, quietly looking down at them. No one knew how long it had been looking down at them...
“What…what is that?!” Wang Hao was about to suffer from gigantic monster phobia.
"I don't know. I don't know whether it's alive or dead. I've been observing it for a long time. It's motionless and doesn't look like it will come to mess with us," Hong Yang thought. "Why don't we go to the sunflower field first to look for clues?"
Zhang Huawei and Wang Hao: “…………”
They are under a lot of pressure to find clues under the gaze of such an unknown monster! !
*
Mu Yu, Miao Xiang and Gao Zhanyuan found that their speed was increased.
——It was mysteriously accelerated.
They were indeed running at the fastest speed, but the human body has its limits, and it is difficult to run as fast as the wind.
The map of this copy is very large. At first they were worried that they would not be able to reach the monster generator before the time limit, let alone find the generator and destroy it.
However, the copy may also know that under this setting, it is impossible for players to complete the task, and it will become a dead end, so he increased their speed.
After they ran for a while, they realized that the scenery around them was receding faster and faster.
They ran five or six kilometers, but it only took them a few minutes in total.
...But this also made Mu Yu fall into deep thought.
Why would you rather speed them up than put the monster generator so far away?
When he turned the corner according to the last arrow, Miao Xiang suddenly stopped, covered his chest and gasped: "I, I can't do it anymore..."
Mu Yu also stopped.
His physical strength was actually reaching its limit, and his words were intermittent: "What's wrong with you?"
Miao Xiang wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I, I felt very anxious just now. It was better for a while, but now, it's back again, and it seems to be even more anxious than before, beating non-stop!"
Gao Zhanyuan: "Ah? Huh, you don't feel anything, huh, what do you want?"
Miao Xiang: "I don't feel like dying, I just have palpitations!"
Mu Yu thought calmly and said, "Zhuzhu is here now, healthy and without any problems. There is another possibility, that is, the player corresponding to you in the hotel group has had a heart attack."
Gao Zhanyuan and Miao Xiang: "…………"
What happened to that friend that made him so ill? !
Miao Xiang closed his eyes. Life was so hopeless. Victory was right in front of him, but the player still had a seizure.
She trembled and said, "Forget it, let's hurry up and keep moving forward...!"
The three were about to leave when Gao Zhanyuan saw Mu Yu's pale face and asked worriedly, "Brother Yu, can you still run? How about I carry you?"
Mu Yu raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face. Just as he shook his head, he was suddenly picked up by a pair of arms extending from behind, and a familiar breath came with the wind.
He was startled, and turned his head suddenly——
The night is as dark as ink.
Most of the handsome boy's hair has turned silver, swaying in the wind like thin rays of light flickering in the dark night.
Fine lines were drawn on his face by ruthless hands, outlining the ends of his eyes, falling between his brows, and dotted at the corners of his lips.
Mu Yu opened his eyes wide.
He is old.
His face showed obvious signs of aging, but he was still handsome and energetic, and his dark eyes were still gentle and calm.
He no longer looked like himself, but he was still himself. Faintly, there seemed to be a charm fermented by time emanating from him.
Lu Chongnian lowered his head and looked at Mu Yu in wonder.
He looked at her and chuckled, "It wasn't easy, we finally meet."
Mu Yu stared at him blankly, her heart pounding.
Lu Chongnian just took his small schoolbag and held him in his arms with one hand. He subconsciously hooked his arms around Lu Chongnian's neck, stretched out his hand stupidly, and touched Lu Chongnian's face.
Lu Chongnian lowered his eyelashes, then raised them again.
"...It doesn't look good anymore?" His voice was very soft, and he was whispering.
Mu Yu shook his head blankly.
"Lu Chongnian," he murmured, "even when you are old, you will still be the most handsome old man in the world..."
Lu Zhongnian paused and raised the corners of his lips slightly.
…
"... Damn, I remember now, fox--" Gao Zhanyuan pointed at Lu Chongnian with trembling hands... and then was glanced at by Mu Yu, and he swallowed the last word back.
This vixen, ah!
When he was in high school, he felt that this vixen was always flirting with his older brother. Every time he saw Lu Chongnian, the alarm bells in his head would start to go off.
In the end! His elder brother was still seduced by this vixen! Ah! His elder brother!
Gao Zhanyuan collapsed instantly and wanted to hold his head.
Jiang Shuyue, who followed later, was no longer surprised by similar scenes, and advised: "It's not too late to collapse after you get out, so let's go first!"
Yan Shaowen looked at Mu Yu and Lu Zhongnian with interest and a new look. Seeing Yu Ning also looking at them curiously, he said, "Gay men, you've never seen one before, right?"
Yu Ning: “…”
"Let's go, let's go out and look again."
The large army set off again.
The last part of the journey seems a little long, but it’s not really.
The first moment he saw the sunflower field, Mu Yu noticed a baseball bat standing upright at the end of the field.
"It's the stick that Zhang Huawei took away!" His eyes lit up, "The train's final destination is there!"
Although they didn't take the same route, their destinations overlapped!
Yu Ning suddenly pointed to the night sky ahead.
Everyone looked in that direction, and were startled when they saw the huge monster silently in the night.
Jiang Shuyue was surprised and asked, "What is that in the air?"
Yan Shaowen narrowed his eyes: "It looks like a face."
"Such a big face?" Miao Xiang was shocked. "It must be a giant, right? But it doesn't move. Is it alive or dead?"
This huge thing hanging in the air makes people a little afraid to approach...
But their friends are right in front of them, and so is their hope of leaving the dungeon...
They have to move on.
They ran into the flower field.
The sunflowers grew very tall, and the tallest of them, Lu Zhongnian and Yan Shaowen, could only show the tops of their heads in the sea of flowers.
They parted the sunflowers one by one, and the petals fell down, searching for the figures of Zhang Huawei and the other two among the shadows of the flowers.
Soon, they found it.
The three men also saw them.
Zhang Huawei waved his hands excitedly: "Here, here, there is something here!"
When Hong Yang saw Mu Yu in Lu Zhongnian's arms, even though she had been mentally prepared when she saw Zhang Huawei, she still blurted out, "...So small!"
Mu Yu raised the corner of his lips and complained back: "——So old!"
The time has come to 7:25, and Jiang Shuyue has two minutes left before the deadline.
The time limits for Miao Xiang and Lu Chongnian are currently unknown, but Hong Yang is the only one among the four of them who has no time limit.
Mu Yu signaled Lu Chongnian to put him down. After his feet touched the ground, he ran towards Zhang Huawei and the other three.
The three men turned on the flashlights on their cell phones and shone them on the ground beneath their feet.
What they found was a huge sunflower pattern on the ground.
The entire pattern seemed to be drawn with something like a branch. It was about four meters wide and four meters long. The soil (or clay) was drawn with lines that combined to form a sunflower.
"The monster generator must be nearby... but we couldn't find it after searching for a long time!" Zhang Huawei wondered, "I think we need to figure out what the monster in the sky is and what the abyss means before we can figure out where the generator is."
"Abyss? What is that?" Jiang Shuyue was anxious and confused.
"It's behind this sunflower field, about six or seven meters away is the cliff. Our two trains just stopped there. I don't know how thrilling it was..."
Hong Yang said to them: "There is another problem. I am still alive and well. If Xu Jin and Shen Leng have fallen to the bottom of the abyss, and the hotbed is still functioning and can move forward, then this map is really huge."
And there must be some clue hidden in all this, the most crucial clue.
Mu Yu ran forward another two or three meters, pushed aside the sunflowers, and saw nothingness in front of him.
Everyone followed him out.
Some people were still cautiously observing the human face in the night sky, while others were carefully moving to the edge of the cliff and looking out.
suddenly.
A sound similar to muffled thunder came from the air.
They all tensed their bodies and looked up at the night sky vigilantly.
However, there was no lightning or thunder, the night sky was very calm, and the huge shadowy human face remained motionless.
They slowly relaxed their bodies.
…The muffled thunder sounded again.
Miao Xiang and Zhang Huawei were frightened again, and could not help but stay close to their friends, trembling.
Hong Yang asked suspiciously: "What on earth is it..."
"Snoring," Mu Yu suddenly said, "It's the sound of snoring."
Everyone was stunned.
The muffled thunder sounded for the third time... This time they pricked up their ears, and soon, they were surprised.
Mu Yu was right, this was the sound of snoring, it was just amplified, so it sounded like thunder!
Zhang Huawei asked in shock: "Is that the monster in the sky snoring? Is it asleep?"
Isn’t this development too strange?
What the hell is this?
Yan Shaowen then looked at Yu Ning beside him.
At the same time, Lu Zhongnian asked Miao Xiang and Hong Yang: "Don't you recognize this face?"
Miao Xiang: "Ah? What? You mean the monster?"
"What the hell... What the hell!" Gao Zhanyuan recognized it and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
Yu Ning also recognized him at this time and excitedly pulled Yan Shaowen's sleeve.
Yan Shaowen opened his mouth and said, "Is it Lao Yang?"
Yu Ning saw his lip shape and nodded quickly.
"Old Yang?!" Zhang Huawei was shocked.
Everyone else was stunned.
The face in the sky wasn’t actually a monster—
——Is it Lao Yang? ? !
The wind is blowing hard.
Old Yang disappeared into the darkness; his shadowy face had closed eyes and a head of silver hair was faintly visible.
The sound of slow snoring could be heard from afar. This old man, who had passed away and existed only in the memories of many people, was sleeping peacefully in front of them, above the abyss.
Everyone looked at this scene in shock and confusion. The scene before them was unbelievable to the extreme.
Where are they? Why does Lao Yang appear in the air and is so huge?
Mu Yu turned around.
He looked into the distance.
Flower fields, plains, and the shadows of the towering cities all form an extremely square vision.
And it was all very quiet.
The garbage street disappeared, the night market street disappeared, and the Xinlian Hotel disappeared. There were no lights or light in the entire city.
Because this is a city of clay.
"I think..." he said, "We might be standing on a huge table right now."
"Old Yang's desk."