“Sizzle…Sizzle…”
The car was speeding on the road and the wind was blowing past the window.
The radio crackled.
At first, there was only FM noise inside, and then some fragmented music began to appear, and Tang Xinjue just let it play there.
Countless fragments of information were spinning rapidly in her mind, colliding and connecting with each other.
The faceless child's statement, the restaurant owner's strange behavior, the tingling in the brain and the ominous premonition...all these clues dispelled the fog and revealed a vague outline.
Tang Xin Jue finally found the source of all the anomalies—
From the very beginning, everything she saw, knew, and felt was wrong.
Looking back, when she opened her eyes in the convertible, the preconceived environment made her think that this was the beginning of the exam: her roommates were scattered somewhere and she was the only one in the car alone.
But what if... this isn't the real beginning at all?
Through the rearview mirror, Tang Xinjue looked at the interior of the convertible from a completely new perspective. The driver, co-driver and back seats could just fit four people.
Perhaps, the truth was clear from the beginning: this test was not to be started by a single person, but by four people sitting in a convertible!
This is the normal configuration for ordinary college students to go on a "road trip" together.
And why did she know nothing about this, and why couldn't she find the other three people... Tang Xinjue tapped the steering wheel, and a word came to his mind.
Cycle of the week.
After stepping on the brakes and pulling over to the side of the road, Tang Xinjue closed his eyes and let his perception overflow.
She has no relevant memories, but once the framework is determined, she can still gradually infer what happened through her understanding of herself and her roommates.
In the blank sea of consciousness, pictures gradually emerged.
At the beginning, which is also the first week, all the people on the bus should be complete.
After seeing Grandma Mayas's mission, the four of them kept the gift box safely, and Tang Xinjue took the driver's seat and drove off.
A few steps away from the starting point was a small coffee shop. The NPC gave them coffee that could be reimbursed, and then roughly marked four lines on the menu.
Continuing their drive, they came upon a roadside fast food restaurant. Inside, the owner, with a strange smile and a faceless little boy, offered them a reimbursable meal. The owner didn't seem to be aggressive, but his cold, sticky gaze lingered on them... Unwilling to linger, they hurried on, soon arriving at a gas station.
Did the accident happen at a gas station?
Tang Xinjue opened his eyes, looked at the foggy road ahead, and crossed out this branch.
No, they probably managed to leave the gas station and even drove all the way to the end of the road, trying to find Grandma Mayas's house.
Then something unexpected happened.
The mission failed, and the instance was restarted—or rather, they returned to the starting point of the road. However, this time, there were only three people instead of four.
I woke up in the same daze, thinking that the exam had just begun, and hurried on the road, passing by coffee shops, fast food restaurants, gas stations... No one knew where the missing roommate had gone.
Tang Xinjue felt that she must have realized something by the second round, so they gave Guo Guo's watch to the harmless faceless kid in the restaurant. Of course, the marks they left behind should be far more than that.
But when the third round came, the mark disappeared along with Guo Guo.
The fewer people there are, the more dangerous the road becomes for them: the restaurant owner who attacks them in the second or third round, the unknown gas station, and the inevitable failure in the end.
Just as the kid had demonstrated, the four people in the dormitory were wiped out silently one after another... until the fourth round, which is now.
Tang Xinjue was the only one left on this road trip.
The only traces of his roommate's existence were ten messy pencil scratches on the coffee shop menu, the watch in the little ghost's pocket, and the stinging pain in Tang Xinjue's mind.
She finally realized where the pain came from.
Danger summoner.
Before the exam, she and Zhang You bought a danger summoner. If Zhang You is in danger, the summoner will automatically send a signal to her. The greater the danger, the stronger the signal.
There was no chance to test before entering the examination room, and there was no need to test what the signal would look like when the danger level reached a certain level.
Tang Xin Jue used one hand to press the solar plexus.
The signal would become a stabbing pain in her mind, constantly warning her of danger.
But at the same time, this signal also conveys a message...
Zhang You is still alive!
“Zizizi…”
As the time approached five o'clock, the sky was gradually covered with a subtle layer of darkness, indicating that dusk was approaching.
After a long and hoarse music, the radio finally turned into a chaotic signal stream again, as if trying to condense into something again.
Tang Xinjue now felt that the contract was indeed effective. Perhaps he had already determined that the "friendship" she gave to Wu Shi was worthless, so he repaired the radio into this half-dead state.
By far the greatest benefit was the destruction of her ears.
[Identification: This is a not very good car radio, but it occasionally provides some useful information, depending on your luck]
Listening to the intermittent noise from the radio, Tang Xinjue keenly discovered that the fog at the end of his sight seemed to be less than at the beginning.
The road seemed to have finally changed a little during its long, unchanging stretch.
The mental power was beating violently in the sea of consciousness, which was not a good premonition.
Slowing down the car, Tang Xinjue held his breath and concentrated. All the information in his mind was turning all the time, breaking it down and looking for a way to break the deadlock.
The worst possible scenario is that she fails again this time, becomes the last person to disappear, and the game will never restart.
They will forever lose the opportunity to pass the level directly from the highway, and may even be trapped in this copy forever.
...But there is too little information.
Even if you know the rules of the cycle, you still lack an important piece of information to break the deadlock: the reason for triggering the failure mechanism.
In the game, there are two possibilities to reach the Be ending: one is not following the established path, and the other is to follow the established path completely.
The former means being eliminated by making mistakes, but you can pass the level safely by just following the steps and not triggering the error points.
The latter is much more difficult.
Tang Xinjue gazed at the road ahead. In the golden glow of dusk, the road became increasingly narrow. The convertible could no longer change lanes and could only continue forward along the center of the road.
Even before she reached the end, she already had a premonition in her heart.
The danger of this copy should be the latter.
Following the established path, even if they walked on thin ice and did nothing, they would still die. Because its very existence was executing the failure program, causing them to slide unconsciously into an irreversible abyss.
Only by finding a unique exit can you break the shackles of reincarnation and find the mission target named "Grandma Mayas's House".
But this was a straight road with no turning back. There were no forks or forks, and she wasn't even given the chance to choose.
etc.
Tang Xinjue suddenly clenched his hands, and a logical line in his mind that he thought was a dead end suddenly opened up, revealing an answer he had never thought of.
No, she had a choice.
That choice had even appeared before her with incredible clarity. If it was really related to this, if there was only one possibility left...
If this speculation is correct, then she still has a chance!
The road became narrower and narrower, and the convertible suddenly shook, as if it had turned from a straight road into a rugged gravel road. The trees on both sides were getting closer and closer, and finally it was almost struggling to move forward.
At this point, the radio finally buzzed, and the electric current gathered into understandable broadcast sound.
"To promote the development of out-of-town road tourism... to increase students' interest in out-of-town travel and improve safety... we have compiled the following advice into 'Road Trip Tips,' which will be made a compulsory course at all universities, with the difficulty level set accordingly..."
"Next are the specific details of the road trip"
The radio's sound continued to flicker, with only some of the words making it through.
"Please make sure you bring enough food to ensure your physical strength during the journey..."
"Please prepare sufficient university coins to download the map and confirm the location of the highway buildings... To protect students' eyesight, the buildings have been uniformly painted green. Please do not litter..."
This time the radio played turbulently for a long time, and finally the last sentence popped out:
"...Please find the correct entrance and exit for the highway in advance to ensure smooth access. If you start at the wrong point, you may end up in a loop. The Education Center has recently discovered several cases of students going missing on the highway and is investigating."
The turbulence disappeared, the radio made a soft sound, and then silence returned.
At the same time, the car finally drove out of the rugged and narrow road. As the road became flat, the scene ahead came into view.
At the end of the sight, a narrow green coffee shop stands there quietly.
The familiar man in the chef's hat seemed to be pressed against the window, giving an unclear smile.
This road is a closed loop with no exit!
Tang Xinjue stepped on the brakes, but the car didn't stop, continuing forward at a steady pace. At this point, everything seemed beyond her control, mechanically following a long-planned path to death.
Tang Xin Jue took his hands off the steering wheel; controlling the convertible was now pointless. Glass windows rose from all sides, closing the convertible's roof and blocking any possibility of the student's escape.
This is why the show fails every week. When the people on the bus finally realize the problem, it is too late.
Is it too late...?
In the last few seconds, Tang Xinjue did not close his eyes, but pulled out a small white bottle from his pocket with a speed so fast that it was impossible to see clearly, and poured the pills inside into his mouth in one breath.
For her, there is no possibility of being "too late" 100% because there are still three probability variables.
Regret medicine!
[A Bottle of Regret Pills (Low Level): Life is often disappointing. After taking this bottle of regret pills, you have a 10% chance of changing a decision made at a certain point in the past.]
[Of course, it can only find nodes that match your memory]
There are three red pills in the regret bottle.
They enter the esophagus one after another, the first one, the second one, the third one...
The moment he swallowed the third pill, the convertible rushed onto the familiar road, and the surrounding scene suddenly changed -
A convertible was parked quietly under a sign that read "Highway Out of City."
Not far ahead was a green coffee shop that displayed an open sign. Through the narrow window, the man in the chef's hat saw the girl in the car wake up, subconsciously looking around, and then getting out to check the broken cliff behind her.
He gave a strange smile, lowered the barrier, prepared a cup of steaming hot coffee, and stretched out his hand to shake it up and down.
However, the next second, the girl returned to the car, but the convertible did not move forward.
Tang Xinjue quietly looked at everything in front of him: the foggy road, the exaggerated smile on the face of the man in the chef's hat, and the journey that was already destined.
She drove up to the front, took the cup of coffee and drank it all in one gulp.
The man in the kitchen hat smiled and said, "Have a pleasant journey."
Tang Xinjue also nodded, then shifted into reverse gear and the convertible began to slowly back up.
Man in kitchen hat:? ? ?
In my sight, the chef's hat man's face went from stiff to astonished, and finally his entire face was pressed against the window, his eyes gleaming and his expression extremely ferocious—
A cold mist surged in from behind, and the words on the coffee cup also changed in the mist:
[It all ends here]
From beginning to end, this is both the starting point and the end point.
The exit they are looking for is right here.
Tang Xinjue stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the whole car jumped into the cliff!
The author has something to say: Exam: You regret it, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in the world~
Tang Xin Jue: Thank you, I have it.
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