Zhou Yang watched the two bicker as he walked to the table, picked up the note on it, and after a moment of silence, looked at the door lock: "The password is 1027."
Jiang Suonan raised an eyebrow. He was closest to the door and tapped the keypad a few times. With a ding, the door opened.
“Sure.” Jiang Sunan glanced at Zhou Yang, then his gaze fell on Pan Yang. “Let’s go, let’s continue.”
The three entered the room, which was now pitch black, so dark that one could not see their own hand in front of their face. Suddenly, a screen lit up in the center of the room, and the light from the screen allowed Fan Yang to see his surroundings. He was the only person in the room, and the walls were bright red with various scratch marks, which looked quite terrifying.
Soon, words appeared on the screen.
Please answer the following three questions carefully. You have one hour to think about them. If you fail to answer them within one hour, you will be considered dead.
1. Introduce yourself and what you were doing before you came here.
2. Please confess your sins and repent.
3. What would you do if you could change the thing you regret most?
Looking at the words on the screen, Pan Yang said calmly, "Pan Yang, a 21-year-old college student, was writing a thesis before coming here."
[Incorrect answer, please answer again.]
Pan Yang frowned. This was indeed the original owner's information. Wait a minute, this was the original owner's information...
"Pan Yang, 20 years old, is a wanted criminal by the Time and Space Administration and the current head of the Shi family. Before coming here, he was sitting in his room looking at information on his computer."
Please continue answering.
001: "Host, I feel like something's not right here." This thing actually wants the host to answer, but these small worlds also have their own programming, so this situation shouldn't happen unless it's the host.
"You actually noticed something was wrong; you're smarter than before," Pan Yang said expressionlessly.
"That's outrageous!" 001 was speechless. He was clearly concerned about his host!
On the other side, Zhou Yang frowned as he looked at the questions on the screen. He didn't remember any of them at all. Ever since he came to this place, his memory had been very vague, and he could only barely remember his own name.
Unable to answer any of these questions, Zhou Yang took a deep breath and simply sat down in front of the screen to think quietly.
“I can tell you.”
"Who?" Zhou Yang looked around sharply, but saw no one. Just as he thought he had misheard, the voice rang out again.
“I can tell you everything, but you must guarantee that you can get 99 coins to leave, even if it means doing anything.”
"Why should I believe you?" Zhou Yang frowned. This was really strange.
"No, no, no, right now you can only trust me, or do you trust Pan Yang right now?"
Zhou Yang fell silent. He looked at the screen in the darkness. This voice had no reason to lie to him for the time being, and he had always wanted to get out anyway. As for using any means necessary, he wasn't a good person either.
“Okay.” A dark glint flashed in Zhou Yang’s eyes.
001: "Host, there's only one last question." Seriously, does his host really have anything to regret? Just as he was about to confess his sins, his host pulled out a cheat device, startling the screen so much that it immediately approved the request.
“That’s easy.” Pan Yang stood up from the ground. There were only ten minutes left. He dusted himself off. “The thing I regret most is…”
"I got to know Zhou Yang."
001: "What?!"
Despite 001's shock, Pan Yang remained calm and continued, "If I hadn't known him, he wouldn't have been involved. Perhaps I would have killed Jiang Qingyan by now. In a sense, if it weren't for Zhou Yang, I could have survived."
In this struggle, there were many innocent people, and Zhou Yang was one of them. Without Zhou Yang, he would only have a harder time and be all alone. But then Zhou Yang appeared, walking towards him step by step in the rain with an umbrella.
In a sense, what he regrets is not falling in love with Zhou Yang, nor the little things from the past; what he regrets is dragging Zhou Yang into it, things that he should have faced alone.
"But if I could do it all over again, I would still do it exactly the same way I did back then." Living is never the same as living, and now that he has already experienced all of this, if he could really go back to the past, he might not hesitate to pull that person back into the darkness, a darkness that only exists between them.
The electronic screen seemed to be stuck, and it took a full minute for the message to pop up.
[Congratulations on passing. Please proceed to the next door.]
Then the electronic screen disappeared, and a door appeared in its place. Without hesitation, Pan Yang pushed the door open and went in.
The light was a bit too bright. It took Pan Yang a while to realize that he had returned to the place where he had just entered the door, and he had two coins in his hand. This was too easy, even unbelievably easy.
Soon Jiang Suonan appeared beside Pan Yang, tossing two coins to him: "It makes me feel like a tool. Here, give them to your Zhou Yang. Anyway, you might not even make it out in the end." He shrugged as he spoke.
Zhou Yang appeared before the two. As soon as he steadied himself, four coins were shoved into his hand. He looked at Pan Yang with a flash of confusion in his eyes: "Give them to me, why? Don't you want to go out and yell at me?"
“I’ll leave if you leave. Do I need a reason to give something to my loved one?” Pan Yang said matter-of-factly.
Jiang Sunan clicked his tongue and silently turned away. He shouldn't have shown up so early; wasn't he just asking for trouble?
“My love,” Zhou Yang repeated softly, then looked into Pan Yang’s eyes: “You don’t like me.”
Upon hearing this, 001, who had initially intended to say something more, immediately fell silent.
Pan Yang looked at Zhou Yang quietly, a hint of emotion flashing in his eyes. The corners of his mouth turned up as if he were smiling, but there was no real smile in his eyes: "Tell me, I didn't know I didn't like you."
“We’ve only known each other for a few days.” Zhou Yang opened his mouth, and the voice’s words echoed in his mind: “And I want to kill you. No one will believe that I like someone who wants to kill me.”
"Do you believe it?" Pan Yang asked Jiang Sunan, who was standing not far away with his back to them, after hearing this.
Jiang Sunan was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that he was being spoken to. He turned around somewhat awkwardly and said, "I believe you, I believe you." He was willing to bet that if he said he didn't believe him, Huan Yang would have taken action immediately.
Pan Yang nodded in satisfaction, then turned his gaze back to Zhou Yang, his face serious: "He believes."
Zhou Yang fell silent. You two are in cahoots, how could he possibly not believe it?
However, the topic was quickly changed, and as darkness fell, the monsters hidden in the shadows began to stir.
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