Nine people from a mental asylum made a pact with someone: to exchange their lives for the asylum's disappearance.
A month after escaping the asylum, they were pulled into a world created...
Good things are deceptive.
There are abandoned mental hospitals in every world. Do you know where the people who used to live there went?
"According to the latest forecast from the Central Weather Bureau, the country is about to experience its strongest storm ever, estimated to reach level 13. Residents are advised to stay safe, strengthen protective measures over the next few days, and prepare food and water."
The radio was playing news from the previous two days. Shu Yan was sitting in the car smoking a cigarette, his fingers tapping the door intermittently. The car broke down on the road and he was a little anxious, afraid that he would not be able to make it to the agreed place tonight.
Through the rearview mirror, I could see that he brought a lot of things, and the back seat was filled with large and small bags.
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and using the wipers seemed unnecessary. He scratched his hair in annoyance, and the sound of rain in his ears seemed to be getting faster and faster.
Gradually, he seemed to be getting more and more sleepy. Besides the sound of rain, he could also hear the car parked next to him that had stalled. He thought that the car might have broken down like him.
The cigarette that was originally between his fingers went out. His consciousness became increasingly blurred, as if he was being pulled into the darkness by an invisible hand, and he felt powerless all over.
He heard someone calling him, but in the rainy night, the voice was getting farther and farther away.
"Where is this?"
"All personnel have been loaded. There are 71 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds left before the game starts." A heavy mechanical voice repeated this sentence.
In this noisy environment, this unique mechanical sound trapped and confused everyone.
Without giving them a chance to ask questions, the place became noisy again after the broadcast.
"What the hell is this place? I'm in the finals."
"You beast, I just fell asleep."
A group of people were inexplicably dragged into this strange place. They didn't know each other but were united in cursing together.
A young man in his mid-twenties was cracking melon seeds as he looked at Qi Jing's chest. He spoke faster than he could think, "Qi? Your last name is quite unique."
Qi Jing looked at his name and said without any embarrassment: "Your name is also quite strong."
Wang Shitou: "How presumptuous of you."
Qi Jing ignored him. He didn't want to argue with anyone in this unfamiliar place. After carefully examining the place, just as he was about to move forward, Wang Shitou stopped him.
"Where are you going?"
"Front."
"I'll go with you."
He didn't refuse. Qi Jing looked at the person in front of him and felt that he was very familiar, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he was overthinking.
As they walked forward along the flow of people, the mechanical sound rang out again.
"Players, please go to the service area as soon as possible to find your teammates and open the boxes together to receive your rest area keys and some medicine." After the announcement was repeated three times in a row, some of the players who were still walking slowly at the back quickened their pace.
In a short while, Qi Jing and the other two were at the back. Wang Shitou saw that he was not in a hurry at all and asked him, "Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to grab anything if you walk so slowly?"
Qi Jing lowered his head and fiddled with the watch on his wrist, not in a hurry at all. He didn't answer, but just asked him: "Aren't you the same?"
Everyone who comes here wears a watch on their wrist, which looks no different from an ordinary watch.
Gradually, the sky darkened and there were no more people on the road. At first glance, the city looked like it was asleep, very quiet and gentle.
The setting sun shines on the ground, sparsely and warmly like late autumn.
Wang Shitou took Yuan Jing into a convenience store, grabbed some food, and then turned left and right before entering a private villa. Judging from the style, the designer must have liked this kind of fresh and clean style.
Wang Shitou snorted twice, touched the sofa and said, "This designer has quite good taste.
Qi Jing was quiet: "Yeah."
Wang Shitou rested his hands behind his head, lying leisurely on the sofa, and said contentedly, "You have the same taste as me."
Qi Jing slowly turned around to look at Wang Shitou and asked, "Hmm?"
He smiled sheepishly, but was very happy: "I like the fresh and clean style the most. The decoration looks so beautiful and bright."
Qi Jing lowered his head, touched the floral fabric on the coffee table, and did not refute.
The light-colored tablecloth is decorated with light yellow flowers and a circle of small tassels, which is really beautiful.
After lying down for a while, Wang Shitou looked around and decided to sleep on the terrace tonight to prevent any accidents. After asking Qi Jing, he went to look for the mat he needed.
Wang Shitou worked quickly and had laid the mat in less than ten minutes.
At this time, Qi Jing also brought a blanket to cover himself, and the two of them lay on the terrace on the top floor and started chatting about this and that, almost asking each other's ancestors' names.
The night here is different from the real world. It is more beautiful and peaceful than the real world. Listening to the chirping of cicadas and counting the stars, every breath is relaxing.
Qi Jing counted the stars in the sky and fell asleep unknowingly.
No one knew how they got here, but no one seemed to care.
In the first half of the night, the surroundings were very quiet. The only sound that could be heard was Wang Shitou's breathing and the chirping of unknown insects.
But this kind of silence only lasted until the first half of the night. When the time turned to three in the morning,
Boom, boom, boom, gurgle, gurgle.
Wang Shitou turned over as if he had not slept yet. His eyes were bright as he and Qi Jing looked at the head not far away.
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To be precise, it is a head, a glowing head!
It was the first time for both of them to see such a thing, it was both disgusting and funny.
Looking at the head bouncing and knocking its way here and there, Wang Shitou realized that this head could not see.
Then, he gestured to Qi Jing, quietly picked up the drink bottle next to him and threw it in the opposite direction. There was a bang, and the head chased after it with a thud.
"This thing can't be seen, so we can only rely on sound?" Qi Jing asked him in a low voice.
"He's almost certainly blind."
While the head was being hit, Wang Shitou quickly pulled Qi Jing up and ran to the second floor.
As soon as he went downstairs, he saw a group of rabbits and a wolf with a human body.
The rabbit's eyes glowed red and its fur was a little purple.
The wolf was sleeping, and several rabbits were biting its tail, but the wolf didn't react as if it didn't feel any pain.
Wang Shitou gestured to Qi Jing, meaning, "Be quiet, be careful."
Yuan Jing followed him step by step and slowly came to the master bedroom.
When closing the store, Qi Jing discovered that the decoration, which was fresh during the day, turned into a retro style at night.
Arriving at the master bedroom, Wang Shitou looked at the room's changed style and began to touch around impatiently, while Qi Jing had been sitting on the bed since he came in.
He was a little sleepy, but the things outside the door kept him awake, so he could only sit on the bed and watch Wang Shitou rummaging.
After a long time, just when Qi Jing was about to fall asleep, Wang Shitou, who had been rummaging for a long time, finally found something that looked useful to him. It was not his fault that he had been rummaging for a long time, because the room was dark and he could not see clearly.
He found a box at the back of the cupboard.
"?Box?"
Qi Jing looked at the blind box-like packaging and asked him, "You've been searching for so long and this is the only box you found?"
Hearing the silence in his words, Wang Shitou began to doubt himself, but he really found such a thing. Who would have thought that after leaving this room, there would be no more extra things in this box?
Wang Shitou took the box and sat down next to her. He said sincerely, "This is the only extra thing in the whole room. It must be a good thing."
"Good stuff? Are you sure?"
Qi Jing now wondered if he had gone crazy from counting stars on the rooftop just now.
"Isn't that how novels are written?" After saying that, Wang Shitou couldn't wait to open the box.
Immediately afterwards, with a "bang", the crystal chandelier on the ceiling shattered, and Wang Shitou disappeared from Qi Jing's sight.
"Congratulations to the player for triggering the hidden conditions. The game is officially open!"
"Congratulations to the player for triggering the hidden conditions. The game is officially open!"
"Congratulations to the player for triggering the hidden conditions. The game is officially open~"
For some reason, Qi Jing always felt that this mechanical sound was strange and a bit teasing.
Qi Jing felt a strange feeling that made him uncomfortable. He couldn't stay in the glass-filled room any longer. Fortunately, the master bedroom had a separate bathroom. After hiding inside and locking the door, he sat on the toilet and began to think about what had just happened.
The good stuff that was promised to be gone with a bang, right? If that was the case, it would be really amazing. Qi Jing really wanted Wang Shitou to enjoy this good stuff all by himself.
Fortunately, his brother was not sitting under the crystal chandelier. If it had all fallen on him, he would have been seriously injured.
The room was pitch black and extremely quiet. Just as he was thinking about what had just happened, he suddenly felt something staring at him, and a chill slowly came over him.
The bathroom door was a frosted glass door. Through the light from the living room, he saw the wolf who had just been sleeping in the living room appear in the master bedroom.
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"How did it appear? The door was clearly locked." Qi Jing lay in the bathtub and prayed not to be discovered, but suddenly the mechanical sound came to his mind.
What does the game start? Isn't today just the first day? Why did Wang Shitou suddenly disappear?
Time passed by minute by minute, and the pain in his arm brought his thoughts back.
Two scarlet words suddenly appeared on the originally white arm - "Prey".
Seeing the words, Qi Jing's heart sank. He was the prey, so who was the hunter? Was it the red-eyed werewolf outside the door?
This is really a stroke of luck, there is no way to escape it.
Meanwhile, on the other side,
When Wang Shitou was brought here, several wolves were tearing apart a deer. The deer had beautiful roses growing on its horns.
He looked at the skinny rose deer on the ground, feeling uneasy. Four wolves eating one deer? He looked at the deer and then at himself, and his uneasiness grew even stronger!
Seeing the rose deer almost being eaten, his brain worked frantically and he decided to run away. However, the noise he made was too loud and startled the werewolf who was eating.
They looked at Wang Shitou, their eyes revealing a desire for delicious food.
“Ah~”
Listening to the werewolf's excited roar, Wang Shitou was frightened. What was even worse was that there were no weapons around him. Taking advantage of the gap in running, he looked up at the sign on the building in front of him, and saw four big words written on it - Paradise Sports.
When he saw the werewolf chasing him relentlessly from the corner of his eye through the reflection of the iron sheet, he felt so sad that he cursed.
"My God, this is heaven."
“Oh my God—”
Seeing the wolves approaching, he had nowhere to hide. His only recourse was to fight with his bare hands! However, facing four hungry wolves alone, there was no chance of victory. He would be torn to pieces by the wolves, just like the deer.
Wang Shitou, who was running and feeling sad, felt the pain in his wrist pulling at his brain nerves.
"Prey?" Wang Shitou stared at the source of the pain and then looked at his own situation. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with saying that he was a prey!
But, can we please not do this? I’m scared!
“Ding Dong——”
A sudden voice rang out in my head, "Congratulations to the player for triggering the hidden condition. The game officially begins!"
Wang Toushi's forehead throbbed when he heard the game start. "Fuck you! Congratulations! I've reserved this blessing for you, and you're even hiding some conditions! Fuck you!"
"We are currently making changes to the player's suggestions. Please be patient."
"Mother!"
Wang Shitou looked at the four wolves behind Ironhide and wanted to kill himself before he even touched the box. How could such a good thing have turned into a shock? Seeing the progress bar slowing down like a turtle, he decided it was better to run.
Thus, a beautiful scene appeared in the Paradise Stadium - an abnormal version of "He Runs, They Chase, He Can't Fly Away Even with Wings" starring four wolves and a man.
In comparison, Qi Jing's situation is much better than Wang Shitou's.
In the bathroom, Qi Jing moved everything he could move behind the door. After blocking the door tightly, he sat leisurely in the bathtub, looking at the suggested modification progress bar, and began to think about the reasons and consequences of coming here.
Less than a day after entering this world, Qi Jing had come to realize the depths of its despicable behavior. Touching the long-vanished writing on his arm, he guessed he wasn't the only prey, perhaps Wang Toushi was one too.
But he still didn't know how Wang Shitou disappeared so suddenly. He was clearly telling him what a good thing the box was when he suddenly disappeared.
Could it be that box?
But the box looked like an ordinary box. Before he could see what was inside, the light went off.
There was no other way, and Qi Jing didn't want to think about it anymore. He just watched the wolves outside turning around here and there, while watching the progress bar crawling slowly.
When the progress bar reached 100%, the things in front of Qi Jing began to change. To be more precise, he changed. His body began to fade, and the scenery in front of him was also constantly changing.
Until a bed, a cabinet, a bathroom, and so on appeared...? ? Wang Jing looked at the things that became clearer and clearer, and found himself on a bed. Yes, a bed that looked very much like his university dormitory.
Qi Jing picked up his actor-like acting skills, quietly got out of bed, and carefully wanted to open the door to check the situation outside. However, when he was about to open the door, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.
“Fuck!!!”
Wang Shitou touched his own buttocks with a guilty conscience, and sighed inwardly: "Phew, it's a good thing I was in time, otherwise I would have almost bitten him."
When he finally spotted Qi Jing with a surprised look on his face, a scene of brothers meeting and crying together unfolded.
The two complained to each other but tacitly did not mention the word that suddenly appeared and disappeared.
Wang Shitou: "Woo woo woo, there are wolves! There are four wolves chasing me and want to eat me. Woo woo woo, luckily I run fast."
Qi Jing: "Woo woo woo, I have wolves there too, woo woo woo."