Chapter 53 Yinghu Park (VI)
The girl covered her chest, her lips turning pale: "My heartbeat suddenly became so fast!"
The boy's breathing became heavier: "Me too, I feel like breathing... is a little difficult!"
Li Mingke stood up, even more shocked.
...A feeling of near death? These two people also had a feeling of near death? ?
He swallowed and looked inside the park.
...The copy wants them to come in?
If that's the case, then wouldn't the situation be back to the beginning of the dungeon? They have three people now, can he go in instead...?
Li Mingke's heart moved, and he walked over and said, "Well, listen to me..."
He briefly explained the details of this dungeon game and showed the two men the A4 paper with the rules printed on it. They were shocked and their faces turned pale.
The girl resisted: "No, I don't want to go in!"
"But if we don't go in, we'll die. At least one group of us three has to go in, and the remaining one has to travel between the two timelines!" Li Mingke said to the boy, "Or, or the two of us go in?"
"...I don't want to go in either!" The boy began to breathe heavily, sweating profusely, "I can't do it anymore, I feel dizzy."
The two men were dying too quickly! Li Mingke had a bad feeling.
He grabbed the boy's arm and said, "Let's go in and try it, quick!"
The boys had no choice but to get up and follow him towards the park gate. However, the moment they raised their feet to step over, their feet hit the invisible barrier!
"Isn't it impossible to get in?" The boy could no longer stand.
Li Mingke's heart sank suddenly.
He looked at the void in front of him, as if he could see the towering solid wall. After a moment of silence, he pursed his lips and said, "...I may not be able to go in. Only the two of you can go in. The dungeon has selected you two."
The girl started crying and the boy closed his eyes.
Li Mingke said anxiously: "Hurry, I'm not kidding you, if you don't go in, you will really die!"
The boy and the girl looked at each other.
The two of them didn't know each other at all. They were inexplicably selected on the way back to the school dormitory. Now they had to form a team to play a copy game that was life-threatening.
They wanted to cry but had no tears, but in order to survive, they could only walk towards the park with pale faces.
They successfully passed the invisible wall and walked into the park.
But once they entered, they could no longer hear Li Mingke's voice.
They turned around and saw Li Mingke desperately gesturing at them from a foot away, telling them with his lips: "Go to the game base station and pay attention to the rules!"
The newlyweds left trembling with fear.
Seeing them leave, Li Mingke was so overwhelmed by the feeling of impending death that he supported his knees with his hands and gasped for breath.
…It seems that in this dungeon game, once he chooses to be an “outsider”, he can only continue to play as an “outsider”.
Is this a punishment for his cowardice...?
He cannot regret the choice he made, so before this copy ends, he can only stand on the boundary of the two timelines and become a person without a timeline of his own.
Li Mingke kept encouraging himself.
It doesn't matter, as long as he can hold on until the end of the copy. As long as the copy is over, tomorrow will be another normal day. Now that he can't change his identity in the game, he should stop thinking about other things. Instead, he should think about the copy and crack the copy!
He stared at the ground and wondered why the copy would attract new players?
...Could it be because someone is already dead inside, and two of them, or maybe even the same group of people? !
But I haven't heard Ye Sui mention such a situation in the first two copies before. Is it because the mechanism of this copy is more special?
But which group will die? ... Could it be Lu Bin and Qin Jiang?
Li Mingke glanced at the rule paper in his hand.
Article 3 of the Park Entry Rules: If a partner is lost, the North Gate Park Broadcasting Station will provide corresponding broadcast assistance.
... "Partner is missing" should refer to the situation where only one player in a group of players dies. If two people die together, will there be no broadcast?
If this is true, then it is no wonder that in the original timeline, Jiang He after midnight was completely unaware that there was something wrong with "Lu Bin" beside him.
At that time, Jiang He might not even have met the male player in the rookie group, and had no idea that Lu Bin and Qin Jiang were already dead.
But now, everything has changed.
What will the copy look like?
*
Lu Chongnian was looking for Mu Yu in the woods.
The night sky grew darker, the clouds thicker, and the wind grew stronger, making the trees rustle constantly and the red candle flames sway wildly.
He stopped and carefully sniffed the sweet-scented osmanthus scent in the air.
——Not long after the game started, he locked on "Osmanthus" as his target.
He didn't know how the bridal group chose the waiting location specifically, but as long as he had the freedom to choose, Mu Yu would never choose a location randomly.
The sweet scent of osmanthus wafting through the woods was clearly a signal that belonged to them alone.
Lu Chongnian's eyes turned and he ran in the direction where the rich sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance came from.
The slender shadows of the trees kept swaying in front of his eyes with the candlelight. Staring at them for too long would make him feel dizzy. Lu Chongnian calmly blocked out the influence of these light and shadows and ran along the path.
Suddenly, a red vending machine appeared in front.
He stopped in front of the machine and scanned the fifteen shelves of merchandise.
The variety of goods had changed slightly compared to the previous copy, but they were basically the same. Lu Zhongnian's eyes fell on a pair of handcuffs.
After thinking for a moment, he exchanged the only remaining demon coin for the handcuffs.
The handcuffs were made of silver and were icy cold. He hooked the handcuffs with his index finger and took them out from the access port. As soon as he stood up, he saw a figure passing by in front of him - it was the boss NPC of the game base station.
Lu Zhongnian narrowed his eyes and asked, "Boss, what are you doing here?"
The figure stopped and said with a smile: "Oh, I'm checking if there are any unlit candles. Don't worry about me, you guys continue playing."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left.
Lu Chongnian looked at his back, glanced at the red candles burning dimly around him, withdrew his gaze thoughtfully, turned around, and continued walking in the direction he had just gone.
This time, after walking a few steps, he saw a road sign.
"Osmanthus Path" was pointed forward.
*
Mu Yu sat where he was.
He felt that he had made a mistake this time.
If he had known that the bride couldn't move at all while waiting, he would have let Lu Chongnian be the bride...
He waited and waited. At first, he adhered to the principle of not wasting time and tried hard to think about the game settings of this copy, but after waiting for a long time, he began to be distracted.
The wind was getting stronger around them. If a timid person had covered his head with a cloth and sat here alone, he would probably be trembling with fear by now.
Mu Yu's back and waist ached from sitting so much that he could no longer estimate the time. At this moment... he suddenly heard footsteps!
The footsteps came from the front, slow at first and then fast, as if a person was aimlessly looking for a target, suddenly noticed him, and ran over quickly.
Mu Yu cheered up.
Who is it?
Could it be Lu Chongnian?
The next second, his body froze.
In the narrow field of vision beneath the red veil, a pair of feet of the person coming appeared.
But those feet...are not normal size at all.
Each foot was at least half a meter wide, and was mostly hidden by the hanging red silk. The red waves rolled and squirmed in the wind, and the huge feet under the robe were faintly visible.
A huge stream of air sprayed down from above, just like the other person's breath, blowing his red veil...
Mu Yu suddenly tensed his body silently.
…Standing before him was a very large creature.
And the other person was bending over and looking down at him.
A strong sense of oppression came down from the sky, Mu Yu's muscles were instantly stretched to the extreme, and his heartbeat was rapidly accelerating.
The huge creature stood in front of him, silent and motionless, as if it was quietly looking down at him.
Then, above his head, Lu Zhongnian's voice fell faintly: "Can I reveal it?"
There was a calmness and rationality in his voice that was unique to Lu Zhongnian, as if it came from him personally.
Of course Mu Yu didn't answer.
He was thinking rapidly.
Aren’t the monster’s features too obvious?
If players can recognize the identity of the monster at a glance, wouldn’t the game become very simple?
The silence lasted for more than three seconds, and the airflow spraying from above suddenly disappeared.
Mu Yu felt the other party stand up, and was waiting vigilantly for the other party's next move, but the footsteps sounded again, and they went to his right side.
The other party actually gave up asking him again and just left?
Mu Yu was stunned.
And after walking a few steps, the footsteps suddenly disappeared, as if the entire monster suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Mu Yu was a little confused about what was going on.
Just then, he heard footsteps again!
This time the footsteps still came from the front, and they were still slow at first and then fast, which was exactly the same scene as before.
The only difference was that this time the other party stopped close to him, and through the field of vision left under the red veil, he saw a pair of normal-sized feet!
A panting sound came from in front of him.
Mu Yu's heart skipped a beat.
This was Lu Zhongnian's panting sound, he would not make a mistake.
...The two in front and behind are both "Lu Chongnian", and the body sizes of the two "Lu Chongnian" are so different that it seems obvious who is real and who is fake. But at this moment, Mu Yu's doubts deepened.
He was well aware of the cunningness of the copy and didn't believe that this game would be so easy.
Think about it carefully, if the "Lu Chongnian" mentioned earlier was really a monster, then why did the copy deliberately set the monster to that size?
But if the "Lu Chongnian" mentioned earlier was not a monster at all... then what kind of situation would cause such a huge size difference?
Mu Yu suddenly realized a problem and lowered his eyes to look at the ground.
The place where he was sitting was obviously surrounded by osmanthus trees, and the fragrance of flowers was strong all around. But at this moment, there were no leaves or osmanthus petals under his feet, not even a stone or an ant. There was only a stone under his buttocks, a very large stone.
...There were no extra reference objects around him.
Did the copy deliberately choose such a position for him?
That's the question.
Is he still in normal shape now?
Mu Yu pursed her lips.
——Also, he couldn’t see the “Lu Chongnian” standing in front of him, but for some reason, he felt that the other party seemed to be looking at his left side.
Is there...something to his left?
…
Lu Zhongnian stopped and calmed his breathing.
The quiet path is lined with osmanthus trees on both sides.
The wind blew and the petals fell like rain. If this was an ordinary night, it would have been an intoxicating, beautiful and romantic picture.
But at this moment, he was faced with an extremely strange situation.
In front of him, on two stones one meter apart, two brides, one big and one small, were sitting quietly and in proper postures.
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