In Whale City, the 23rd to 25th floors of the Security Bureau Building are the working areas of the "Death Game" working group.

This group is very special.

It is not under the leadership of the local security bureau, but is directly funded by the General Administration and is directly supervised by Lin Mo.

Currently the fourth special expert of the General Administration.

In the organizational structure of the Security Bureau, the status of special experts is very transcendent, especially as the only one "alive" among the four special experts, that kind of specialness is even more special.

When Lin Mo arrived, the Tunjing City Security Bureau was alarmed, from top to bottom.

Fortunately, Lin Mo didn’t like this kind of pomp and circumstance. He just chatted with the leaders here for a few words and then went to the office of the game power group.

There were indeed a lot more people than when Lin Mo left. Most of them were young people, both men and women, all full of energy. One could feel a sense of power just by looking at them.

Lin Mo suddenly discovered something.

Interesting things.

When the nightmare was in full swing, most of the people he met were lifeless or terrified, living with fear of the unknown.

Even if no one says it, that emotion will still infect the people around.

This kind of thing cannot be avoided, we can only adapt to it slowly, but no one knows whether we can adapt to it or not.

Looking back now, many people at that time seemed too pessimistic.

In fact, humans have a very strong ability to adapt.

Even more powerful than they think.

Most of them have adapted to the current lifestyle. They are strictly prohibited from sleeping casually. They wear equipment to monitor their body conditions and fall asleep at designated safe areas at regular times and locations.

After entering the nightmare world, you can also work and study.

From a certain perspective, the nightmare actually brought some benefits.

This has greatly increased human activity time, especially for some researchers, who can conduct research while awake and continue after falling asleep.

The same goes for work and study.

However, once they have gotten used to this kind of life, if people are asked to go back to that way, they may not be able to adapt.

Young people are significantly more adaptable.

Lin Mo is the true 'boss' of the Death Game Exploration Strategy Group, so this time he comes, he must hold a meeting and give a speech to everyone.

But these things are kept as simple as possible.

Bingyangzi called all the team members who had come into contact with that special scene level to the small conference room, and then began to report to Lin Mo.

"The first person to discover this game level was a new member of our team, her name is Duoduo."

The sickly boy pointed at a short-haired girl sitting over there.

The girl was in her early twenties at most, with a bit of baby fat on her face. She wore black-framed glasses and it was obvious that she was a little nervous at the moment.

"Duoduo, please report the details to the boss carefully."

"OK."

Duoduo hurriedly turned on the projector, projected the PPT she had prepared in a hurry, and began her introduction.

"I accidentally got this scene two days ago. It's called 'Prison Break of Death'."

When Lin Mo heard the name, his first reaction was to think of some prison break movies.

Indeed, a place like a prison fits the characteristics of the game "Death Chamber", a closed, oppressive area. Prisons are obviously inherently dangerous, and this kind of scene can easily appear in various scenes of Death Chamber.

You can't take screenshots in the game, but you can draw them.

Duoduo obviously has a strong foundation in painting.

She showed one of her own hand-drawn drawings.

The picture shows a dim cell. There seem to be many figures in the cell, as if wailing and screaming. There is an iron bed outside the cell, and several people in strange clothes are skinning and pulling out the tendons of a person on the bed.

“The painting is quite bloody.”

Lin Mo said something.

Duoduo smiled shyly and said thank you for the compliment.

And Duoduo obviously painted more than one picture.

She showed several other pictures, which should still be taken inside this strange cell, but from different angles.

In one painting, a strange device can be vaguely seen in the distance, which looks like a millstone. Several evil spirits wearing animal skins like aprons are grabbing a person and stuffing him into a small hole.

I see, this is oil extraction.

It’s just that what is being squeezed is human oil.

Lin Mo gave Duoduo a thumbs up and said, "Little girl, you draw really well. Where did you learn that?"

Duoduo said that she has been learning painting since she was young, and most of it was self-taught.

"When there's a chance, I'll introduce you to a painting teacher."

"Really? That's great. Where is it?" Duoduo asked.

"He lives in my neighborhood. His last name is Zhang. He's a nice guy. I'll introduce you to him when we have the chance."

After Lin Mo finished speaking, he asked Duoduo to show if there were any other paintings.

Duoduo said there is more.

So the third one was projected as well.

This photo is even darker, and you can see prisoners struggling around, each one like a walking corpse. There are cages outside as well, and arms are sticking out from the cracks in the cages, as if grasping at the non-existent freedom.

Further away, a group of people passed by.

Every person in this group of people drawn by Duoduo looks lifelike.

There were evil spirits with hideous faces, wide mouths and fangs, there were also strange people with horse faces, and there was another one who looked like a human, but looked very strange.

Of course, this weirdness is not because the other person looks weird or scary.

Instead of being scary, the other person was a little handsome.

The key point is the other person's appearance.

It's exactly the same as Lin Mo.

Lin Mo understood why Bingyangzi wanted to call him.

In a horror scene in the game Death Chamber, they actually saw an NPC who looked exactly like themselves. This was definitely a huge shock to them, and it was followed by strong confusion and bewilderment.

"Anything else?"

Lin Mo asked.

Duoduo shook his head and said no more.

"At that time, I couldn't even get out of the cage, and then I was killed for no apparent reason. I even forgot how I died."

Duoduo looked embarrassed.

But she obviously has a very strong memory for pictures, so she was able to draw this picture.

Lin Mo asked her if she had played this level scene again later.

Duoduo shook his head.

Said she was too scared to go again.

"It's normal for girls to be timid." Lin Mo said.

As a result, Duoduo was unhappy, and the sickly boy next to him also said that Duoduo was one of the bravest among them, and it was common for him to play games with Nightmare.

Lin Mo was puzzled. If he was so brave, why didn't he dare to play the same level again?

Duoduo said that the place was horrible.

"I tried to draw the horror of that place, but I found that no matter how many times I drew it, no matter how hard I tried, the horror shown in the picture was not even one ten-thousandth of the actual situation."

Lin Mo felt that this was a bit exaggerated.

As a result, the sickly man and the black man also joined in, saying that what Duoduo said was absolutely right.

"We have both been to this scene before, Brother Lin. To be honest, it is really scary. You know how timid we are. We have seen all kinds of scenes. But we went to that place once and never dared to go there again. It was too scary."

It's no wonder that after hearing what they said, Lin Mo actually became very curious.

He said he had to go and see.

Bingyangzi and Heiren also noticed this. They said that the NPC who looked like Lin Mo only appeared briefly, and perhaps the completion of the scene level had nothing to do with that NPC.

In addition, they also tried their best to tell Lin Mo about their previous experiences after entering, hoping to help Lin Mo.

This took about an hour.

Lin Mo was also ready.

He found Xiao 6 and asked Xiao 6 to stay here for a while, where he could eat, watch TV, play games and relax.

Xiao 6 asked what he was doing, and Lin Mo replied that he was also playing games.

"Can we play together?" Xiao 6 asked.

Lin Mo shook his head.

Said this game is 18+.

Xiao 6 was speechless at this point. She was only two years old, and it was indeed not allowed for her to play with items that were 18+.

Lin Mo went to the special game room.

There are complete body monitoring equipment here. Lin Mo plays the game alone. Before this, Bingyangzi and the others had shared the corresponding game levels with Lin Mo.

Lin Mo hasn't played games for a while, especially the game Death Chamber.

After putting on the device, Lin Mo saw the specific screen and started to choose to enter the game. Then he went to his own small dark room, where he found the game levels shared by Bingyangzi and the others.

It says Death Break.

Judging from the name, the requirement to pass the level should be to escape from that horrible prison.

Select the level, activate, and enter.

This is a process before entering the game level.

The next moment, a picture appeared before my eyes.

Before this, Lin Mo reviewed over and over what Duoduo and Bingyangzi had said. They had all been in this game scene before and had experience.

According to them, you cannot choose your own character in this game scene.

This means that all the character skins you have accumulated before cannot be used.

Here, you will randomly become a prisoner in this horrible cage.

Then play the game from the prisoner's perspective.

There are almost no game prompts in this process, and you need to improvise. In other words, the degree of freedom is extremely high.

You can do whatever you want.

But no matter what you do, there will inevitably be consequences, which may be good or may bring immediate death.

It's a test of technique.

There are challenges.

Lin Mo just likes this kind of challenging game scene. Besides, he has already figured out in his mind what to do first and what to do second.

He actually wanted to figure out why there was someone who looked exactly like him in this game scene.

Perhaps, this scene has something to do with myself, or perhaps it has something to do with my brother.

If it is the latter, then this time we have caught a big fish.

He could see the things around him clearly, but what surprised Lin Mo was that he seemed to be moving.

He was not walking by himself, but was being dragged out by someone.

What does it mean? It seems that neither Duoduo nor Bingyangzi mentioned this before.

Lin Mo was in a daze when he was grabbed by a pair of powerful hands and lifted onto an iron bed.

The iron bed was stained with blood and looked sticky, just like the chopping board used for slaughtering fish and chickens in the market.

There was still a lot of minced meat left.

You see, the same scene you see in the market is definitely different from the feeling of actually lying on the chopping board. The latter is too stimulating, because the brain will force you to analyze what terrible things will happen to you next.

That's not right.

This is different from the start that Duoduo and Bingyangzi mentioned.

Lin Mo turned his head and saw several terrifying evil spirits, but these evil spirits seemed to be wearing some kind of uniforms. Although simple, the style was relatively uniform.

It's a bit like what you see in some paintings, the jailer in hell who is responsible for torturing evil ghosts.

It’s true.

Lin Mo saw a burly man with a horse face coming over, taking out a piece of paper and reading out the charges.

Let’s say so-and-so has committed such-and-such crime, and the judge has sentenced him to be skinned and his tendons removed, and the execution will take place immediately.

Lin Mo understood now.

Duoduo and Bingyangzi told each other that after entering the game, one would randomly become a prisoner in a cell. This time, Lin Mo won the jackpot and became a prisoner who was about to be executed.

This is too bad.

Lin Mo cried out that it was unfair and said, "I didn't do anything and you can't do this."

As a result, just when he was halfway through shouting, he heard an even more miserable cry of injustice coming from the side. A mortal who was also trapped on the iron bed was shouting at the top of his lungs.

It was a set of things, and what he said was so unfair, as if there was really an injustice.

Anyway, after hearing this, Lin Mo felt ashamed of himself.

But in the end, an evil ghost used a torture instrument like a potato grater to make many holes in his body, and then pressed it against his body to scrape him with a small blade protruding from each hole.

Not an exaggeration at all.

This is like treating people as potatoes and starting to shred them.

Even Lin Mo felt his scalp tingling when watching that scene, and he exclaimed “Oh my god!”

The screams made my eardrums hurt, and blood, mixed with blood and fat, fell into the wooden barrel below. It felt like this was enough to make several tables of Beijing-style shredded pork with sauce.

It hurts just looking at it.

From this position, you can see a lot of iron beds, and on each bed lies a bloody prisoner.

Some were having their flesh shaved off with a knife; some were having their arms and legs sawed off with a saw; and others had their flesh pierced with iron hooks and were hung up.

It's simply a Shura field.

No.

It is much more terrifying than the so-called Shura field in the traditional sense. The punishments on each iron bed are different. Anyway, they are all very unique.

At this time, Lin Mo was still thinking about what kind of punishment would be for this iron bed of his? Would it be skinning, slicing, or wire drawing? He was actually looking forward to it.

No, if he was killed right after coming in, he would definitely be laughed at by the sick guy and the others after he gets out. It also doesn't fit in with his own gaming concept.

The most important thing is, I haven’t seen that person who looks so much like me.

Seeing an evil ghost coming over with a strange serrated knife, Lin Mo immediately shouted: "I confess, I have other crimes, I want to see the judge, the current punishment is unreasonable for me, I have committed heinous crimes, I should not be sentenced to such a light punishment."

The evil ghost was stunned.

The jailers around were also stunned.

Lin Moxin said, "You little brats, you didn't even know where you were when I was playing games."

This is called reverse operation.

Others cry out for injustice, but I confess.

As long as the other party is doing their job conscientiously, it should be reported.

No matter what the outcome is, at least it can delay it for a while.

What Lin Mo wants is this period of delay.

Sure enough, the evil ghost didn't dare to attack, but looked at Lin Mo with a strange look, perhaps thinking that this guy was scared crazy.

The evil ghost in charge of the execution left. Lin Mo guessed that he had most likely gone to report.

This is a good thing.

Lin Mo was now curled up on the iron bed, and he could look carefully at the surrounding environment.

He needed to observe the surrounding situation as much as possible, because according to the description of Bingyangzi and the others, in this scene level, it was absolutely impossible to pass it with one life.

First, the prison.

Those prisons were solid, like cages made of black cast iron, rough but very strong. It was obvious that once you were locked up in there, it would be impossible to escape by destroying the cages.

There were many prisoners imprisoned inside, densely packed, and each of them was extremely dishevelled, with unkempt hair and dirty faces. There was a clear difference between the prisoners and the jailers.

The jailers here are just like the evil spirits in the eighteen levels of hell described in ancient novels. Some have green faces and fangs, while others have red skin and red eyes, and their heads are also deformed.

Wearing a jailer's cloth coat.

In addition, there are also Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons.

Obviously more powerful.

And no matter how you look at it, this place is very similar to the legendary Eighteen Levels of Hell.

But according to mythology, this place is filled with extremely sinful people who suffer endless pain and torture here according to the crimes they have committed.

In other words, people will not die in this place. On the contrary, death is a kind of relief.

This is a bit scary.

If people cannot die here and can only repeat this painful punishment over and over again, how desperate and tormented would that be?

Does such a place really exist?

Fortunately for Lin Mo, this is just a game.

However, based on Lin Mo's understanding of the game Death Chamber, the scene here is actually not fictional.

But it is something that really existed or happened.

In other words, this place that is like the eighteen levels of hell really exists.

While pondering, continue to observe.

Lin Mo wanted to see as many details as possible.

The next moment, Lin Mo's eyelids twitched.

There was an expression of disbelief on his face.

He saw a person.

A prisoner in a cage.

The other person was squatting in a cage with lifeless eyes, as if he had endured a lot of unimaginable pain. He was wearing a tattered piece of clothing that had been stained black with blood.

The whole person is skinny, just skin and bones.

But even so, Lin Mo still recognized this person after seeing him.

"Zhou Li, how could it be him?"

Lin Mo muttered to himself.

Zhou Li, the murderer of a series of serial murders in Houniao City, is a perverted murderer.

This was the first challenging enemy that Lin Mo encountered when he first encountered the nightmare event. The opponent was extremely cunning. He learned about the nightmare event through the Evolution Forum, and then borrowed the birth principle of nightmares to deliberately kill people, but left some survivors. Through the fear of these people, he turned himself into a nightmare.

But later he destroyed it himself.

It should be completely dead.

Then why is he here? (End of this chapter)