Jiang Min positioned himself halfway in front of the monitoring room door, preventing other team members from getting close.

He watched the moth in the monitoring room warily, unsure of the monster's true purpose.

Moth kept watching the monitor, and finally he saw a ball that had been accidentally stepped on and popped, then thrown under a movie theater seat.

He immediately turned around, pushed Jiang Min aside, and walked towards the screening room.

Jiang Min was confused, and the team members also sensed that something was wrong. They looked at each other in bewilderment, but in the end, they followed behind Ezi and headed towards the screening room.

Screening Room 7 is a very small screening room, which can only accommodate 50 or 60 people at most.

The moth finally found the broken pieces of the ball under a seat, and held the pieces in its hand without saying a word.

Cen Yu stood at the other end of the row of seats. The perceptive team members may have already noticed something was wrong, but they hadn't exposed it. So when they saw the moth's unusual behavior, no one asked him why.

The screening room wasn't very large.

Perhaps sensing that the audience had arrived, the cinema, which had been shut down for many years, turned on its projector after the entire team had gathered.

A line of small characters appeared on the tattered curtain—

[The performance is about to begin, please refrain from making noise.]

Even though everyone guessed that the Oasis Cinema had probably changed after being incorporated into the mutant zone when they saw the still-functioning monitoring room, no one expected that the projector would be useful again.

“It’s a ghost,” said the monkey, who was standing next to Cen Yu. “I’ve been to this movie theater before.”

He determined that all the projection equipment and electrical systems were already damaged.

However, he arrived half a year ago... He glanced at the captain and noticed that Jiang Min's face didn't show much expression. He then sat down in a movie theater seat.

Cen Yu simply sat down as well. He Yuxing's wings were causing some trouble, so he could only stand in the corridor next to him.

Moth glanced at the information on the screen, then, clutching the broken pieces of the ball in his hand, sat down in the chair where he had found them.

Soon the projector started playing content.

Cen Yu never expected it to be a puppet show.

A young man named Joe appeared in the shopping street of the wilderness. His clothes were tattered and he had a scar on his neck—a mark of someone who had escaped from the Digital District.

He had nowhere to go for the time being, so the people in the wilderness took in this kind man named Joe.

Because they were puppets, everyone had a happy expression on their faces, including the puppet named Joe.

Although life in the wilderness was tough, the people in the shopping street all had some special abilities, and they were able to support themselves, so they managed to get by.

But one day, news of an impending total solar eclipse appeared on the radio.

The broadcast repeatedly emphasized that the post-apocalyptic mutated total solar eclipse was too dangerous, and that you must stay at home and remain absolutely quiet when darkness falls.

Otherwise, "He" will notice and punish them.

This was too bizarre, yet the young man who wasn't at home on the night of the total solar eclipse suddenly died.

Fortunately, as long as you stay at home and remain absolutely quiet during the total eclipse, you will be safe.

But when the world was plunged into darkness, the people in the shopping street all heard similar murmurs, and everyone experienced more or less hallucinations.

Six months later, a truck appeared on the shopping street. The driver came from the edge of the digital district and could get some cured meat, which was something the nobles didn't want and was cheap—this was normal, people living on the edge of the digital district often did this kind of business.

He was a young man with brown hair.

He sells cured meat at fair prices.

During the past six months, total solar eclipses have still occurred occasionally. Some people felt that the frequency was abnormal, but the broadcasts from the digital zone always told them to wait patiently, that the darkness would eventually pass.

Finally, someone left the shopping street as the total solar eclipse began... In the scene, the little wooden figure had just left the shopping street when he discovered that the outside world was perfectly normal, and the total solar eclipse had not yet occurred.

He turned around and found the shopping street shrouded in darkness.

He wanted to go back and share with the people in the shopping street, urging them to leave quickly, as they had all been tricked by Joe, but he was instead smashed to pieces by a brown-haired young man driving a truck.

Perhaps finding the scene quite comical, canned laughter was added to the background.

Soon, the total solar eclipse ended, and more and more people in the shopping street began to experience strange symptoms. The woman in the barbershop heard from passing hunters that she had heard about the Oasis Cinema. She handed her props to her daughter, who was playing with a ball in the barbershop, and told her to leave the shopping street first, saying that she would go there in a while.

Children who grow up in the wilderness are not afraid to go out alone. She treats it as a small task. She quietly left the shopping street with the tools her mother gave her.

The next day, when the woman from the hair salon tried to leave, she found herself unable to leave the edge of the shopping street.

She turned around and saw Qiao smiling.

In the scene, a sad expression appears on the puppet's face. "Where do you want to go?"

...

The story of the shopping street was over very quickly.

Cen Yu's gaze fell on the moth in the corner.

Perhaps the detached observers found this uninteresting, because soon new information appeared on the projection—

Let's play hide-and-seek!

Then the words projected on the screen were erased one by one, as if to tell everyone that the game of hide-and-seek had officially begun.

[Countdown begins—]

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