Chapter 188 How can Lanqi win?
When the surroundings gradually light up, the light fills Lanqi's vision.
He found himself in a cold iron prison and could feel the cold wind coming in through countless unknown gaps, bringing with it a bone-chilling chill.
Every breath felt like swallowing hailstones, and my lungs felt frozen.
"This is too cold..."
Lanqi's voice was filled with mist.
In fact, he had never challenged this artificial shadow world because he had very little experience in the shadow world.
Including two entrance exams and the real movie world, there are only four times in total.
He looked around and saw a thick layer of frost on the rough walls. In the corner, an iron chain connected the heavy shackles on his wrists.
The ground had been etched unevenly by time, and some low-lying areas were filled with dark ice. Whenever the wind blew in through the gaps in the iron bars, the ice and chains would make a clanging sound.
From the low ceiling hung long icicles formed by the condensation of moisture in the cell, ready to fall and pierce the prisoners' heads at any time.
Thick iron bars formed the entire door fence. In the corridor outside, there was incessant wind and endless darkness. The whistling sound seemed to be mixed with the wails of souls that had been imprisoned here for thousands of years.
At the same time, information about the shadow world also appeared in front of Lanqi——
[Shadow World: The Cage of Despair]
[Level: Level 2]
【The number of challengers is 2】
【Welcome to the artificially created and simulated shadow world supported by the technology of Magic Engineering Institute. 】
[Note: This assessment is a simulation of the film world. Generally speaking, there is no danger to life in the simulated film world.]
[Note: This movie world is not suitable for challengers with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. ]
[After the candidate dies, he will be automatically ejected from the shadow world. The candidate can also choose to exit the shadow world on his own initiative, but you may experience death and pain, not limited to hunger, extreme cold and other unbearable situations...]
[Even if you are in a prison with no hope of escape and there is no hope for the time being, only those who survive can win in the end. ]
[You were captured and taken to the seventh floor of an absolute prison that has never had a prison break since its establishment. The warden is constantly changing his methods to shake the prisoners' will every day. Today, you were thrown into the extremely cold punishment room.]
[In this shadow world, all magic cards will be sealed, and their rank will be sealed to the second rank. ]
[In addition to the initial supplies, you will receive a random supply every half hour. ]
[Mission Objective (Endless Mode): Survive as long as possible and obtain more information about the prison from other prisoners.]
Lanqi read the information about the Shadow World calmly.
It was pretty much the same as what he had learned at the last minute before the competition.
In the registered challenger exam question bank of the Southern Continent Shadow World Management Association, there are many classic replicas of low-level shadow worlds.
Among them, [The Cage of Despair] is a well-known second-level shadow world, often used for practice. The content is to survive for two hours in this extremely cold prison cell with extremely harsh environment and continuously decreasing temperature.
Later, its magical modification space was gradually discovered by various colleges and the South Continent Film World Management Association.
Because it can be changed into an "endless mode" full of randomness, in which challengers can use various methods to survive as long as possible.
It once became a well-known artificial film world that set a record.
…
A drop of rain fell on the stone steps, followed by increasingly dense raindrops, and the area around the square soon became white.
There was a commotion at the edge of the Jera Memorial Plaza just now, and someone fainted again.
However, students from the nearby Ikerit Academy quickly contacted the hospital at the Alchemy Institute and rushed over to carry the girl away.
Looking at the unconscious girl being sent away.
"Thank you for your help."
The students of Alolan Royal Academy expressed their gratitude to Ikerit-san who had helped them.
They didn't expect that the students of Ikerita College would respond to this emergency situation so decisively and quickly, and the medical staff who came from the Alchemy College were also orderly. The whole process went smoothly without wasting a second.
It was just like a drill just two days ago.
The students of the Kingdom of Alolan could not help but marvel at the strong execution and unity capabilities of the students of Ikerita in dealing with emergencies.
"Don't worry, she may have fainted due to anemia, and her life is not in danger."
The students around him said modestly.
After all the problems were solved, the attention of the students on the stone steps of the square, from near to far, gradually returned to the screen.
From the audience's perspective, the camera is facing two adjacent cells. Adams is on the left and Lanci is on the right. They are both behind iron bars, and the cells are separated by walls. There are also prisoners in the cells next to them.
In addition to the initial supplies, if you survive every half hour, you can get a supply delivery. It could be food and water, or it could be medicine, textiles, or even things like fire-attribute crystals.
If there is a supply shortage, such as an urgent shortage of food, but there are extra fire crystals, you can find a way to exchange them with the prisoners in the next cell at the edge of the wall and iron bars.
But at this time, you need to infer the other party's needs and level of availability in order to reach the best transaction conditions.
Veterans who have played in this artificial shadow world know that when exchanging supplies, one must not let the other party see what one is lacking. Sometimes one must even pretend to have sufficient supplies when one is not, or make predictions when one is already full and improve the structure of one's own supplies. At the same time, one must also judge the risk of the transaction being defaulted, because if the prisoner next door is about to die, he may conduct a one-time scam transaction.
In addition, if you have extra supplies, you can exchange information with other prisoners, and collecting intelligence will also earn you extra points in this shadow world.
"In this endless mode, the temperature will gradually drop. Even if you have plenty of supplies, you can't sustain it indefinitely because it's only level 2. The current record holder for the single-player mode has lasted for a full 20 hours and 5 minutes."
Among the colorful umbrellas in the square, senior students were explaining the mechanisms of this shadow world to the confused junior students around them.
"Adams' advantage is that as a warrior, his physical fitness is better than Ranch's, and he has a lot of experience. Most of Ranch's advantages are difficult to play out in this shadow world."
"The main reason is that I am very sure that Ranch has never challenged this artificial shadow world. Some of the problems in multiple rounds of experience are difficult to make up for with wisdom."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
For squishy characters, it takes more wisdom to last for two hours, but combat characters like Ranch and Adams, who are born with high physical strength, can hold out in the early stages.
The real competition lies in who can stockpile as many supplies as possible in the early stages, and who can put on an ultimate show of willpower in the final stages as the temperature gets lower and lower.
…
In the area belonging to the Sage Academy, there is a small library attic. Although it is not large in size, its interior design is full of ancient and noble magical academic atmosphere.
The bookshelves in the attic are carefully arranged into a gorgeous pattern, starting from the floor and extending along the walls to the ceiling, like the barriers in an ancient castle.
Going up to the second floor of the attic, an independent magic screen hangs high on the wall, with light and shadow flickering on its surface from time to time, playing the same picture as the open-air giant screen at the Jera Memorial Square.
And in the most conspicuous position of this attic.
"Hahaha, Lanqi is playing such a big game."
A woman in a black dress sat in the main seat, commenting on the scenes on the screen and laughing so hard that her body shook.
This place belongs to a strong team of Sage Academy, and the school also allows them to have a unique venue for activities.
The current leader of the team is the gold-level challenger, the Marquis Modan Gasigs, but it is very obvious that the woman in the black gauze dress, who is a fourth-year student at the Sage Academy and a platinum-level challenger, is the real speaker.
Modan, who was standing downstairs watching the screen, still looked uneasy.
He had a feud with Lanqi and always believed that if Asna, the vice-president of the Student Union, did not accept the challenge among the third-year students of the Sage Academy, he would be the strongest.
In the end, everyone unanimously nominated Ranchi.
However, after seeing the content of this shadow world, Modan did not think that Lanqi could win easily.
"Lanqi is playing such a big game this time, do you think he dares to lose?"
As if she had noticed Modan's condition downstairs, the woman in black veil stood up, leaned on the railing and asked with a smile.
“…”
Modan was speechless.
He couldn't figure out the mood and stance of the person on the second floor at the moment. She was more or less related to the bet.
Because she was one of Dean Loren's fiancées.
"Senior, do you still think Lanqi can win?"
After a moment's silence, Modan looked up uncertainly and asked.
“I think he will lose.”
The woman in black veil covered her cheeks, as if praying, "Lose, lose, Lanqi, play Dean Loren even harder!"
Although she liked her teacher, Dean Loren, she felt very happy every time she saw Dean Loren suffer, and she really hoped that one day she would be able to play with Loren herself.
Just thinking about it, her face gradually turned red with joy.
At this moment, the shadow world is displayed on the screen on the wall.
As expected, Lanci and Adams both chose to rely on their physical strength to hold out, stockpiling supplies and waiting for the prisoners in the surrounding cells to initiate a trade with them.
It looked like they were really going to engage in an ultimate contest of wills.
(End of this chapter)