In the brightly lit hall, a row of empty seats were illuminated by overhead spotlights. The black leather glowed with a cold light. With a snap, a beam of light shone at the front of the hall. A man wearing purple tights.
A figure in a green vest appeared in the light.
He picked up the microphone, cleared his throat, and shouted to the seats full of shadows: "Hello everyone, welcome to Doujie - New Earth! I am Owen, the host in spectator mode, you can also call me Molecule Man,
And some of you are old friends with me."
"But that's not the focus of today. The focus is that we will welcome another team of fearless duelists to challenge our first game!!!"
Along with his shout, a huge light curtain popped up right in front of the seat. The moment the picture on the light screen appeared, a golden light flashed in Owen's eyes, and then he showed a disappointed expression.
He lowered his arm and put down the microphone and said: "The heavyweight players are on the stage. Unfortunately, the game starts too short and there are no spectators at all."
After saying that, he snapped his fingers excitedly, and all the lights went out, leaving only the huge light curtain. Owen threw away the microphone, sat down cross-legged, and watched with interest the scene that appeared in the light curtain.
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As Owen watched, the scene on the screen gradually emerged. It was a very ordinary wooden house. At this time, the door of the wooden house was pushed open, and a female figure walked in. She saw three people already in the room, like
He let out an exclamation as if he was startled.
The girl who just opened the door and walked in silently looked at the three people in the room. It seemed that they were the teammates she had matched with this time.
The man on the far left is wearing a suit that doesn't fit well, but his shirt is rumpled, he has messy green hair that looks like it has not been carefully taken care of, and he wears a dirty clown mask on his face.
The eyes projected from the dark holes are very dark and cannot be seen clearly.
He leaned against the wall with his arms folded, one leg bent at the knee, and the sole of his foot stepped on the wall behind him. He folded his arms with both hands. He looked a little reserved. The uneven suit had several wrinkles caught in the gaps between his arms.
The man in the middle was wearing a white coat and glasses. He looked very elegant, like the kind of doctor with superb medical skills you would see in a good hospital's clinic. He tilted his head and kept looking at the man in the suit next to him.
The weirdo in a suit had some strange fanaticism in his eyes.
When the girl saw the last woman, it was as if she saw a life-saving straw. She shouted: "Captain Marvel! Oh my god, luckily you are here!"
The blond woman named Captain Marvel looked at the girl in front of her with some confusion. She said, "Who are you? Do you know me?"
"I'm Katie. We've met before, don't you remember? Oh, wait, you're not Captain Marvel from our universe!"
The girl seemed to have just reacted and covered her mouth. Captain Marvel was a little dissatisfied that she revealed his identity as soon as he came. After all, no matter how stupid a person is, he would have thought that in the presence of peers and bystanders,
It is definitely better to reveal your identity as late as possible.
So when Captain Marvel came here, she deliberately didn't wear a uniform, tied her blond hair back, and used an eyebrow pencil to change the shape of her eyebrows.
Carol's appearance is not very distinctive. She is a relatively popular beauty. After a slight change of makeup, even her teammates said she looked strange. Although the disguise can only last for a while, it can deceive someone.
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Unexpectedly, the little girl in front of her had interacted with her in another universe and recognized her from the first time. She could only sigh, smooth her hair on her forehead and said: "Come in, Yugi
It’s about to begin.”
Katie stuck out her tongue and didn't turn around. She just put her hand behind her and closed the door. The green-haired weirdo and the doctor looked up at her at the same time. She suddenly felt that the hair on her hair stood on end, as if her soul had been penetrated.
"We should have a few minutes left. In order to avoid not knowing what to call me during the game later, let me introduce myself first. My name is Carol. You can also call me Captain Marvel."
Carol was cautious. Since her identity has been exposed now, it would be better to directly bind Carol to the name Captain Marvel. But she knew that Captain Marvel was not necessarily Carol. This was considered a small trick.
Word games.
"Schiller, I don't have any title, you can also call me doctor." Schiller said with a smile.
"Are you a doctor?" Carol frowned and asked.
"Yes, surgeon." Schiller nodded.
"Why do you always stare at him? Do you know him?" Carol's eyes kept looking between Schiller and the other man.
"No, it's the first time we've met. I just think he's a bit familiar." Schiller looked back at the man leaning against the wall.
Can Schiller still recognize it? This is the clown of a certain universe, but the clown alone is not enough for him to pay such attention. The main reason is that the clown's appearance is too familiar to him.
If he remembered correctly, in his original universe, the clown actor's name in this movie was Heath Ledger.
"That I am Kitty the phantom cat, um... I'm nothing special, I'm still in school." The girl showed an embarrassed smile.
The eyes of the remaining three people fell on the silent green-haired man.
The other person seemed a little uncomfortable with so many people looking at him. You could clearly hear the sound of his nose breathing in. He staggered when he took his feet back from the wall.
One foot was supported, but the other foot seemed like it didn't know where to put it. Fortunately, he waved his arms in time to stabilize his center of gravity. After standing up straight, he shook stiffly on the spot, and there was another obvious inhalation sound.
"Joker, call me clown."
Katie showed a bright smile and said: "Mr. Clown, are you okay? Do you want me to help you?"
The clown didn't say anything, and walked to the table with a somewhat hunched back. His hands finally dropped down, but it always seemed as if something was hanging on his shoulders, with an extremely mediocre gloominess.
"What about your profession?" Carol asked: "Well, I don't want to boast so much, but you can understand my profession as the cosmic vigilante, even though I am always busy with trivial things."
"I am a……"
When the clown made a sound, both women felt strange. He seemed to be either inhaling or exhaling, and the sound seemed to be squeezed out of the throat.
"I am a weirdo." The clown suddenly laughed twice and said in a low voice: "I am a weirdo by profession, but the weirdest thing I just did was robbing a bank."
Carol immediately opened her eyes, with a hint of disgust in her eyes, and she said: "You are not a super criminal, are you? No, no, you don't look like a person with super powers. Which prison did you escape from?
from?"
Katie seemed to be very anxious about some tense atmosphere that was about to happen. She rubbed her hands and stamped her feet and said, "Let's talk about games first. We are all players now, aren't we? Maybe we need to cooperate.
, the previous occupation is not that important, my teacher said, don’t characterize a person based on normality.”
"Your teacher is right, Miss." Schiller smiled and nodded and said: "Human beings are constantly changing creatures. At a critical moment of life and death, even criminals will do their part. We still have to do our part."
You should focus on the present.”
"All...all..." the clown shook his head and said. Suddenly, he suddenly turned his head and stared at Schiller, twisted his lower jaw outward, almost at a perpendicular angle to his neck, looked at Schiller sideways and said: "
Let's make a deal, I'll take off the mask and you'll take off the skin."
"Mr. Clown, now is not the time for joking."
"I'm afraid I'm more serious than you think." The clown suddenly took a step forward, and suddenly grabbed Schiller's neck with a pair of rough hands. His thumb pressed on the center of the connection between the jaw and the neck, leaving a bloody trace almost instantly.
"Either I cut it open myself, all...all..."
Schiller stared at him with cold eyes and grabbed the other person's wrist with one hand, but the clown suddenly said: "No, doctor, you can't use force, let alone grab me and throw me out. You know why you
cannot."
"God, what are you doing?! You..."
Carol suddenly felt like a chicken with its neck strangled. The last syllable almost turned into a scream, because she saw the man who claimed to be the clown slowly took off his mask, and behind him was a picture corroded by chemicals.
pale face and bright red smile.
Katie was also startled and instinctively took two steps back. She wanted to step forward to stop him, but she didn't dare to move.
When the stalemate continued, the prompt sounded: "The rules of the game will be announced below. Please listen carefully to all duelists."
The clown let go of Schiller, but suddenly lowered his head and began to rummage desperately in his pockets. He pinched the corners of his suit with both hands, and then slapped the front and back pockets of his suit pants with his open hands. Suddenly, he became angry.
Yelling: "Where's my pistol?! Where did you take my pistol?! Where's my gun and my money?!"
Schiller covered his neck with one hand and watched all this indifferently. As expected, Carol stepped forward and shouted: "Quiet! Otherwise we will not be able to hear the rules!"
"Give me my weapon back! Damn it!" The clown was still shouting. He opened his arms like a maniac and raised his head at an almost broken angle: "I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
"The use of any offensive props or abilities is not allowed in this game. All props and abilities related to this have been removed and will be automatically restored at the end of the game."
When the first syllable of the prompt sounded, the clown became extremely quiet. When the prompt finished, the clown lowered his arms, walked to the table unsteadily, lifted the hem of his suit back with one hand, and pressed it on the other hand.
On the table, he made a noise and said:
"Look, these people are bullies and bullies. If you don't be more aggressive, they will dare to steal anything from you. That's the money I worked so hard to steal."
Carol was even more disgusted. She took a step to the side and wanted to stand in the same direction as Katie. But after Katie hesitated, she leaned to her right, raised her face to look at Schiller, and pointed.
The clown said: "Doctor, is he a little crazy?"
"Don't speak ill of me behind my back." The clown bent one knee, put the toe of his shoe on the outside of the other foot, put his elbow on the table, put all his body weight on this side, and pointed straight with one finger.
Pointing at Katie, he said: "Little girl, if you dare to say nonsense again, I will tear your mouth to pieces."
Katie immediately showed an expression of disbelief. Just as Carol was about to roar, the clown suddenly put the hand on the table behind his ear, shook his head flexibly and said, "What are the rules of the game? Well
?”
"Okay, everyone, now is not the time to quarrel." Schiller said gently: "Let's listen to the rules first."
With a "click", a hole opened in the ceiling, and a brazier filled with charcoal slowly lowered and landed in front of several people in the center of the round table.
The chain was not removed, but fell loosely above the brazier. There was no open flame in the brazier, only charcoal that glowed slightly red with the flow of air.
"The 'Game - Traveler's Fire' is about to begin."
"All duelists, please hold the matches in your hands. After the game starts, face the door at 12 o'clock and start throwing the matches into the brazier clockwise."
"Every player can choose to throw in one to three matches per round, or choose to skip and not throw in but make the brazier rise thirty centimeters. The last duelist who throws the matches will be eliminated. The charcoal in the brazier cannot leave the brazier, and the matches cannot be removed.
Anything other than this is thrown into the brazier, and offenders will be punished and eliminated."
"The scope of this game is within one meter with the round table as the center. If the game is not completed, those who leave the game venue without authorization will be eliminated."
"Friendly reminder, the buildings and furniture in this game venue are all made of wood, use fire with caution and pay attention to safety."
There was another "click", and the hole through which the brazier fell was closed, and the secret door was also made of flammable wood.
In an instant, the four people in the audience had different expressions. Schiller's smile remained unchanged, the clown pulled his lips inward and pursed his lips slightly, Carol looked confused, and Katie was slightly frightened.