【00:00:35】
The shoal of piranhas completely revived, their grey fish eyes bulged into incredible shapes, their mouths opening and closing with sharp teeth.
They noticed Jane's sleepless presence.
However, Jian Bumian did not move at all, and they could not tell whether he was dead or alive, so they did not show much interest in him. Instead, they moved their tails around in search of fresh prey.
[Actually, there is still a glimmer of hope. Piranhas won't attack people without reason. As long as you don't provoke them...]
[Wait, what's that red color? ]
[??? Isn’t that blood?!]
[When did Mian Mian get hurt? It's over!]
The audience in the live broadcast room saw a hint of bright red in the water at this moment.
It is very eye-catching in the dim light!
The bright red liquid followed the blood flow and gradually floated towards the water surface.
Like a piece of red silk falling into the water, gorgeous and dazzling.
Experienced audiences reacted immediately -
This is blood!
Blood splattered from where Jian Bumian was! !
When blood meets piranhas, it is certain death.
According to the habits of piranhas, most of them have poor eyesight and cannot tell whether a still object is alive or dead, and they will not attack a motionless object for no reason.
but.
If they smell a hint of blood, they will rush towards the source of the smell like mad dogs, desperately tearing apart anything that smells bloody.
In an instant, a large group of dark piranhas swarmed towards the corner of the water tank where Jian Bumian was!
The boy's figure was covered in thick black shadows, and he looked very insignificant, as if he would turn into foam in The Little Mermaid if he was gently pinched.
The audience didn’t know why blood was gushing out of Jane Bumian’s body!
At this moment, they all thought the same thing - another player who died in a very ugly way.
It's so pitiful.
The audience held their breath, and some timid viewers even closed their eyes, daring not to watch the bloody and brutal scenes that followed.
【00:00：30】
Just when the piranha in front was only a few centimeters away from Jane Bumian's nose.
…That piranha seemed not to see Jian Busian.
He brushed past Jian Bumian and ran towards a deeper corner behind Jian Bumian!
Along with a large and dense school of fish behind it.
The entire school of fish didn't even touch Jian Busian, and they all rushed to another place.
The fish suddenly gathered in one spot at the bottom of the tank.
That was clearly the connection between the iron chain and the glass surface of the water tank!
This is also one of the difficulties in setting up the training content.
The acrobat's handcuffs were connected to an iron chain, which was nailed to the glass surface of the water tank, so that the acrobat could only be fixed in one place.
The blood did not come from Jian Bumian's body, but from the connection!
The piranhas in the horror copy have obviously been mutated, and their powerful bite force can cut the iron chain wrapped in a strong smell of flesh and blood in a matter of seconds!
The chain was bitten off!!
After biting it off, the handcuffs on Jane Bumian's wrists lost connection with the glass water tank, which was equivalent to breaking free from the restraints!
【Countdown: 00:00:05】
The time is now!
Jane's sleepless hands were still bound by handcuffs.
But his body was like a nimble fish, swimming towards the water surface at an extremely fast speed.
The half of the iron chain he was dragging behind him shone with silver light, like a slender mermaid's gauze, swaying with the boy's body.
This is obviously a very dangerous and thrilling scene, but it exudes an indescribable sense of dream.
【Countdown: 00:00:01】
Last second!
Crash!
The snow-white water splashed up again, and Jian Busian appeared on the shore unharmed.
The only thing that was damaged was probably the chain that was bitten off by the piranha, and was brought up pitifully in Jane Bumian's handcuffs.
The audience opened their eyes wide, what was going on?
Why can Jian Bumian suddenly reverse the situation? !
Where is the blood coming from?
Some viewers who had special props immediately replayed and enlarged the live broadcast scene until they could clearly see the thing emitting blood.
………That’s a steak.
This morning, one of the foods distributed by the circus to the acrobats.
The steak was only medium-rare, the meat and tendons were all red, and the juices that overflowed were completely bloody, making it look completely unappetizing.
The audience only saw that Jian Bumian did not eat the steak, but did not see how he dealt with the steak.
It turned out that Jian Bumian rewrapped the steak in the accompanying plastic bag and newspaper, hid it on his body, and brought it into the training ground.
Then, at the critical moment, he threw it towards the connection between the handcuffs chain and the glass surface of the water tank.
The bloody steak was tightly wrapped around the joint due to the impact of the water flow.
Piranhas are most sensitive and crazy about the smell of blood.
If there is a moving but uninjured creature and a piece of fresh meat emitting blood, the piranha will bite the latter without hesitation, and at the same time bite the chain that binds Jane Bumian!
So much so that Jane Bumian was able to successfully escape when the piranhas were distracted.
Punishment mechanism, accelerated countdown, piranhas with enhanced bite force, chains, blood...
These are clearly obstacles that the Infinite World wants to create to kill players, but in Jian Bumian's hands, they become weapons to escape the level!
*****
Jian Busian stood on the shore, looking at the piranha puppet that was madly eating the steak, and chuckled coldly.
He was soaked all over, and his clothes stuck tightly to his skin, outlining his thin figure.
The skin was soaked in cold water and turned extremely white, with only pure white and black all over the body.
The water droplets gathered on Jian Busian's eyelashes. His eyelashes trembled slightly, and the water droplets slid down the contour of his face, leaving small round water marks on the ground.
Jian Bushian paid attention to the dense barrage of comments in the live broadcast room.
Some viewers asked him
[Why do you suddenly try to break the glass to speed up time? ]
Jian Busian didn't bother to pay attention to these comments, but he raised his eyebrows and answered the other party nonchalantly:
"The piranhas' resurrection rate accelerates as time goes by. If we want to wait for them to fully revive, we'll probably have to wait until the last minute.
But I had not received any special training, so it was difficult for me to hold my breath until the last moment of the ten minutes.
The only way is to deliberately let the punishment mechanism take over, let it help me speed up the countdown and speed up the piranhas' resurrection, so that they can help me bite off the chain."
The boy's voice was very pleasant, soft and gentle, and his words were also light and airy.
Like talking about something very trivial.
The penalty mechanism that speeds up the countdown, the alienated piranhas with enhanced bite force...
These malicious settings are clearly intended to push players step by step towards desperate death.
But in Jian Bumian's mouth, it turned into a weapon to help him escape!
The barrage once again set off a wave.
What does "Let it help me" mean? ? 】
【? It turns out she’s not a stupid beauty! I’m following her!!】
[It’s a magical operation I couldn’t imagine…]
[Turning the tables, killing two birds with one stone! ! Mianmian is indeed the player I've chosen! ]
[Infinite World: The clown is actually me! ]
The live broadcast room was filled with the sound of increasing attention.
Jian Bumian’s live broadcast popularity topped the newcomer list for a while!
[Ding! Congratulations on your live broadcast room being ranked first on the 24-hour real-time newcomer list! Please keep up the good work! Create more exciting and wonderful death experiences! (When the popularity reaches a certain number, the live broadcast room can be upgraded, and after the upgrade, it will provide you with the "audience reward props function"]
The audience in the live broadcast room are also old players in the Infinite World, and they all have props in their hands to a greater or lesser extent.
If a big shot could reward you with an S-level item, it would be like cheating directly.
The survival difficulty for system players is higher than that for ordinary players.
But the benefits are also much more than those of ordinary players.
Jian Busian didn't care about these. He found it too noisy and turned off the sound and comments without hesitation.
It was easy for him to solve the little death tricks set by the copy.
He had seen this countless times before when he was an NPC in the Infinite World.
Jian Bumian touched his stomach and felt a little hungry.
The Skeleton Doctor NPC that he ate last time couldn't fill his soul at all.
Now he didn't want to eat the piranha puppet in the pool. The unpleasant fishy smell would make him vomit after taking the first bite.
He must eat the target evil spirit as soon as possible.
He didn't want to continue to be hungry. Hunger was the worst thing.
Thinking of this, Jian Busian frowned, pursed his lips, and revealed a pitiful and aggrieved look.
Jian Bumian found a new set of clothes at the door. He changed his clothes and left the training ground.
******
At this time, only one-third of the original people were left in the circus hall.
Some people even came out with serious injuries.
One person had his leg amputated alive, and he was lying on the ground, wailing and screaming, dragging half of his bloody leg. Another person's lower body was bloody and he fell in a corner, dying and spitting blood.
No one cared about them, and no one thought about what kind of training they had gone through.
The hall was filled with cries and screams.
The clear voice of a child, with a light nursery rhyme tune, sounded again, covering up the players' despair.
"Congratulations to all the players here! You have passed today's training! In the following time, you can choose to rest and eat!"
The table in front of the hall was filled with a variety of lunch boxes, emitting a strong aroma of food.
Someone smelled the aroma of roasted meat and suddenly fell to the ground, vomiting wildly, almost vomiting out his own internal organs.
The person next to him asked him what kind of training he had gone through.
He answered while vomiting and trembling.
I and several other people were drawn to participate in the acrobatic event of "walking through fire rings".
The fire ring is real fire, and the fire is very strong.
They were forced to cover their bodies with gasoline and pass through fifty fire rings in a confined space within five minutes.
In the end, several people who participated with him were burned to death while passing through the fire ring, and were burned into thin pieces of black flesh.
"Then how did you pass it?" someone asked curiously.
The man wiped his vomited mouth, letting his tears fall, and said in a trembling voice: "I wrapped their charred bodies around my body and head like a quilt, so that I could pass through the fire circle..."
The smell was that of cooked meat, very strong.
There was also the smell of his girlfriend's flesh.
After listening to the player's story, the others looked pale and immediately turned their heads to the hot braised pork on the table. They couldn't help but feel sympathy for the poor player.
Jian Busian picked up a few lunch boxes without changing his expression, returned to the dormitory, sat on his bed, and started to eat with his legs crossed.
There was no fish or starch in his lunch box.
There are only high-protein foods that can quickly restore people's physical strength and some vegetarian dishes that can relieve greasiness.
The food he ate could not satisfy the evil ghost part of his soul at all. It could not fill him up, nor make him stronger.
It was simply to keep his living body alive.
Jian Busian was chewing a bunch of sweet corn with great concentration, his wet eyebrows drooping, his snow-white teeth grinding on the corn kernels. His appearance reminded people of baby animals being fed, so well-behaved.
Suddenly.
Someone patted Jane Bumian's shoulder.
Jian Bumian looked up and saw a handsome young man with brown hair.
The young man looked very young, reminiscent of some large golden retriever.
The young man smiled at Jian Busian and said, "Hello, I'm in the bed next to you. My name is Qin Yihan, and I'm a college student."
Qin Yihan?
A very special name.
Jian Busian raised his head and looked at him.
Jane Bumian hadn't had time to swallow the corn kernels in her mouth, so her cheeks were puffed up, like a milky white hamster that was suddenly frightened.
He hadn't had a serious conversation with anyone in a long time, and for a moment he didn't know whether to swallow the food or spit it out first.
Jian Busian looks very obedient and can be RUAed by anyone.
The young man named Qin Yihan suddenly gained courage and continued to ask: "Excuse me...are you bound to the 001 strategy system?"
Jian Bumian slowly ate the food in his mouth. He put down the lunch box and tilted his head to ask, "Who are you? What do you want from me?"
Qin Yihan said: "I am a player who has experienced two dungeons. I have a prop that can detect what kind of system has entered a dungeon.
Then I detected that the 001 strategy system existed in this copy, but my props could not detect who the host was, so I could only ask people one by one. "
Jian Bumian: "It sounds like your prop is not very useful."
Qin Yihan smiled awkwardly: "It is still useful, um... it will help me find system players to cling to?"
It is very difficult for system players to survive.
But it also means that the system players who can survive will be very powerful bosses.
He noticed Jian Bumian's awkward look and quickly interrupted him: "Actually, I don't have any other intentions. I just want to see what kind of player the 001 strategy system has chosen."
"?"
Qin Yihan scratched his head and explained to Jian Busian.
"In the last instance, I heard about the existence of the 001 Strategy System, and I also heard that the tasks it arranges are extremely difficult.
It requires dealing with the most brutal evil ghost NPC. Currently, no player who is bound to it can survive the first mission in its hands.
Also, the host player it chooses must not only have a good-looking face, but also look... easy to deceive, easy to bully, and not very smart, the kind of 'stupid beauty', you know?
So I want to see what kind of person its host is this time... I'm really curious."
Jian Bumian: "..."
The atmosphere fell into awkward silence for a moment.
After a long time, Jian Busian said calmly: "I'm sorry, I'm just an ordinary player, I'm not bound to the 001 strategy system."
In a copy where you can die at any time, it is best not to reveal your bottom line to unfamiliar strangers.
Especially the bound systems and owned props.
After hearing this, Qin Yihan showed a look of regret.
"Is that so... But it's okay, we can still get to know each other.
My name is Qin Yihan, the one of one, two, three, four, Han meaning cold, Qin Yihan.
Qin Yihan was afraid that Jian Bumian would forget his name, so he repeated it again.
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Jian Bumian, the "Mian" in "sleep" means "sleep"."
Jian Busian picked up the lunch box, put it on his knees, and continued eating without saying anything else.
Qin Yihan saw that Jian Busian ignored him.
So I thought Jane couldn't sleep because she was in a bad mood.
That’s right, an ordinary person living in the real world is suddenly thrown into the infinite world and experiences life and death in one day.
No matter who it is, they will feel bad.
It took Qin Yihan a long time to realize that he had arrived in the infinite world.
Qin Yihan patted Jian Busian's shoulder and sighed, "Don't be too scared, take your time, you can get out alive... When you are scared, think about the wishes you have not fulfilled. Hmm... What is your wish?"
After finishing his meal, Jian Bumian obediently placed the lunch box under the bed and said nonchalantly, "My wish? I just want to have a good meal that will fill me up. This is also my wish in the dungeon."
His tone was very light, but to people's ears, it contained an inexplicable tenacity.
——After all, this is really his wish.
Want to eat stronger and more delicious evil ghost NPC.
The barrage was stunned for a moment.
[This player is really getting more and more interesting. ]
[It turns out that Mianmian is a foodie beauty! ! I like to eat too! ]
[What a strange wish...]
[I feel like what Mianmian said sounds really sad. ]
Qin Yihan looked at Jian Busian who was lowering his head to place lunch boxes. The boy was thin and could be easily picked up.
He thought that Jane couldn't sleep in the real world and must be hungry often.
No wonder Jian Bumian even ate the food of unknown origin in the acrobatic troupe with such relish.
Poor little thing.
well.
He lowered his voice and agreed, "Well, you will definitely be able to eat something delicious."
Some of the audience's thoughts also coincided with Qin Yihan's train of thought.
[I feel sorry for Mianmian. Mianmian will definitely get to eat delicious food!!]
[Come on, Mianmian. When the reward function is enabled, I will give you my B-level item! That is the only item that my mother saved from the dungeon! ]
[Wow, no wonder Mianmian's waist is so thin, it turns out she's hungry. ]
Jian Busian had never expected the train of thought of Qin Yihan and the audience.
But he was indeed hungry and wanted to eat something delicious.
It's just that his hunger and the food he dreams of are a little different from others.
For example, he wanted to eat the strongest NPC that everyone feared...
Jian Bumian stood up, got out of bed and went to wash up.
"It's time to go to bed."
Qin Yihan didn't say anything else and lay down on the bed.
The players returned to the dormitory one after another at 11:30 pm and took the time to go back to bed to rest.
Some beds are always empty. Everyone knows that the person on the bed will never come back and will be in deep sleep forever.
But no one can be sure whether they will be the next one?
If nothing unexpected happens, the players, as acrobats, will have to draw lots tomorrow to determine the new training content.
No one spoke, and the dormitory was shrouded in the aura of death.
They have to survive here for four more days to pass the level...
Before Jane went to bed, she took a look at the countdown for the completion of the system task.
[System task countdown: 100 hours]
[Your system task has not progressed for 25 hours! Finding the target evil ghost, making a two-way confession with the evil ghost, and getting the evil ghost's "I love you" are all tasks that require time and effort!
If you don’t work harder, time will definitely not be enough——】
The comments in the live broadcast room also echoed.
[Yes, the last host bound to the 001 strategy system was doing the task when the countdown started, but he still died because of lack of time. As soon as the countdown reached zero, he exploded into a bloody mess.]
[Why is this player not panicking at all? ? He didn't even ask about the identity of the target NPC? ]
[Tomorrow we have to draw lots and do another training session. How can Mianmian have time to deal with the strategy mission? It’s definitely over! ]
[Alas, I hope Mianmian can die in a more beautiful way. ]
Jian Busian turned off the system sound and ignored the comments.
He opened his eyes in the dark and took a look at the paintings on the dormitory wall.
The little girl riding the unicycle in the painting has undergone a different transformation.
The head, which had turned 360 degrees, now turned back.
The front of her head, like the back, was covered with golden hair, tied into two curly braids.
Jane Busian could tell from the direction of her ears that her head had turned.
Jian Bumian: "..."
What a naughty little girl.
The moment Jane Busian closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
He had a feeling that something was going to happen tonight.
****
Jane slept soundly without sleep.
Suddenly.
His shoulder was pushed again.
Jane Busian frowned and mumbled a few words incoherently. She wanted to turn over and continue sleeping, but her fair face was rubbed with red marks by the coarse pillow, as if someone had bitten her.
"Well, stop arguing."
As a result, the person who pushed him did not give up, but pushed even harder.
Jian Bumian didn't open his eyes and asked confusedly, "What's the matter?"
The voice came from Qin Yihan who was sleeping next to him.
Qin Yihan's voice was a little trembling.
"Do you feel that the more we sleep, the closer we get to each other, but I don't move at all..."
Jian Bumian: "..."
Jian Bumian buried his head in the pillow, half asleep and half awake: "It's not a big deal, there must be a ghost pushing our bed, it's time to sleep..."
Qin Yihan: “???”
Seeing that Jane Bumian didn't respond, he had to shut his mouth.
But after a while, Jian Busian noticed that Qin Yihan was pushing him again, and his voice became even more panicked: "Hey, we are not the only ones approaching, the beds in the entire dormitory are slowly being squeezed together, and the entire space seems to be compressing..."
Jian Busian wanted to continue sleeping, but when he raised his arm, it touched Qin Yihan's chest, and he couldn't stretch his limbs, so he slept very uncomfortably.
He could only open his eyes and sit up.
Everyone in the dormitory noticed this strange phenomenon and no one could sleep.
Visible to the naked eye.
The dark walls of the dormitory seemed to be slowly compressing and gathering towards the center.
It was as if an invisible hand was squeezing the room, trying to squeeze the people in the room to death without them knowing it, and turn them into canned human meat.
Someone exclaimed: "Look at the wall! The people on the wall are getting closer and closer!"
Jian Busian followed the line of sight.
They were talking about the little girl on a unicycle painted on the wall.
Jane Busian blinked and closed her eyes inadvertently. The little girl with no face but only hair seemed to grow a little bigger when Jane Busian closed her eyes, as if she was secretly approaching from a distance.
So Jane blinked frantically without sleeping.
Until the little girl's figure became bigger and bigger, and finally the whole person seemed like she was about to break through the wall and come out.
Jane didn't blink again.
He thought that when he opened his eyes this time, he would see the little girl riding a unicycle coming to him.
But he saw nothing, and the little girl on the wall disappeared.
Jane Bumian: “?”
Maybe he's hiding...?
Everyone in the dormitory noticed this strange imagination.
The ghost in the wall slowly approached and suddenly disappeared, which was probably not a good thing.
Maybe he is hiding and planning to launch a surprise attack.
The walls are still compressing.
The bed against the wall was compressed into a twisted shape.
Someone wanted to pick up the clothes hanging on the wall, but as soon as his hand touched the wall, he suddenly burst into a scream.
Everyone saw that person, as if he was being tightly grasped by a pair of invisible hands, and his whole body was twisted.
His legs were folded at an incredible angle, level with his head, and blood spurted out from the joints instantly.
The arms broke through the limitations of the joints and twisted into twisted shapes like soft noodles.
No one spoke in the dormitory, only the crackling sound of breaking bones and tendons and hoarse screams.
“Ah!! Kill me!!”
In the end, the man was completely broken into a cube the size of a suitcase, covered in blood, with flesh squeezed out of his joints and bones piercing his skin, exposed.
But he did not die, and he let out a faint gasp.
This is an old player who has experienced three copies.
"It's a bit like the 'contortion box' in acrobatics..."
Someone said calmly: "In any case, don't hit the wall."
However, the wall was still compressing at an increasingly faster rate, the space available for standing was getting smaller and smaller, and everyone was huddled together tightly.
If you continue like this, it's only a matter of time before you hit the wall.
The only way is to leave this dormitory as soon as possible!!
but……
Everyone thought of the first day they arrived here.
The circus clearly outlines the rules for survival.
Survival Rule 3:
[After 11:36 p.m., it is the maintenance time for the Acrobatic Troupe's training equipment. At that time, "staff" will perform equipment maintenance. Please return to the dormitory and never leave the dormitory! No matter how dangerous it is in the dormitory! ]
It's four o'clock in the morning.
After 11:30 p.m., no matter how dangerous the situation is in the dormitory.
Don't leave the dormitory at all.
This shows that no matter what danger occurs inside the dormitory, it is safer than outside the dormitory at 11:30.
So, should I continue to stay here and wait to die, or take a gamble and leave the dormitory?
"We must get out of here quickly!!"
Someone scratched his hair and shouted.
"But what if you encounter a so-called 'staff'?"
"Let's talk about it when we meet!"
Jian Busian watched quietly from the side without saying anything.
Qin Yihan tugged at his shirt hem and said, "What do you think?"
"I will choose to go out." Jian Busian said without any hesitation.
"Why?"
Jian Busian glanced at the posture of him and Qin Yihan together, and frowned: "I don't like being stepped on by others. It hurts."
Qin Yihan realized at this moment that because the space for his feet was getting smaller and smaller, he unknowingly moved closer to Jian Bumian, and his feet stepped on Jian Bumian's shoes.
Because he had his back to Jane Bumian, he didn't know it was Jane Bumian behind him and thought it was just the floor.
Qin Yihan wanted to move his feet, but there was no place to stand, so he could only apologize.
"Yes, I'm sorry...but there's really no place to stay. How about I pick you up?"
[I feel like this Qin Yihan won't live long. The target evil spirit will be jealous.]
[If you dare to step on Mianmian's feet, you will die! ]
[Don’t take my Mian Mian, only I can hold Mian Mian!!]
Jian Bumian: "..."
This living player is so bold.
Jane Busian's fair ears turned red.
He coughed a few times and changed the subject: "Later, I'll open the dormitory door and go out with you. But I'll give you a reminder--"
Qin Yihan's heart tightened.
"What reminder?"
The boy's voice was gentle, without any trace of panic, and it gave people an inexplicable sense of security that made them blush.
"After you get out, don't stop, run as fast as you can in your life, and never look back or fall.
I found a little girl with a unicycle on the wall of the dormitory. It should be a ghost, but she hasn't appeared yet. She will probably show up later.
She has a unicycle, which is a means of transportation. She might start a chase with us outside the dormitory."
Qin Yihan nodded, and suddenly felt that Jian Busian was not simple.
Obviously Jian Bushian is a new player, but he seems to have a lot of experience, just like an old native in the infinite world.
Qin Yihan was unwilling to lose: "Before I came to the Infinite World, I was a senior student at the Sports University. I don't have any special skills, but I run very fast. I can pull you along so that you can run faster."
The walls are gradually compressing.
Jian Busian and Qin Yihan were only a finger's length away from the wall.
Someone finally couldn't stand it anymore and screamed, opening the dilapidated dormitory door.
"Now!"
Qin Yihan tightly grasped Jian Bumian's hand and ran out of the dormitory like an arrow, so fast that he almost left an afterimage.
The cold wind in the middle of the night blew across his cheeks and blew up his hair.
He noticed that there were no other players following him.
It must be because he ran too fast and the other players couldn't catch up.
This was truly the fastest he had ever run since he was born.
He ran for a while and asked the people behind him: "When can we stop? Is this speed good enough?"
No one responded to him.
The hand he held should have been warm, but now it suddenly became as cold as a corpse.
"Jane, Jane can't sleep?! Jane can't sleep? Say something... Say something..."
Still no one responded to him.
Qin Yihan realized something was wrong and slowly stopped running.
He realized that there was something wrong with his escape route.
...He seemed to be pulling Jian Bumian in the wrong direction, getting closer and closer to the ghost.
He suddenly didn't dare to look back.
The author has something to say:
Qin Yihan is not a top, but just Mianmian’s new friend!
Please give me some long, thick and big comments, so that I can be motivated to update~OvO
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