After the words fell, there was silence in the tool room. Everyone seemed to be worried about the other two, and no one was willing to speak first. It was not until Lin Sanjiu became impatient that the red-faced man coughed and finally spoke: "Then I'll do it first. It doesn't matter who says it first. What's important is that it can't be true if it's false, and it can't be false if it's true."
He thought for a few seconds, then touched his face, and the dry and cracked red fragments touched his hand carefully.
"You see, this is just ordinary red paint, not a special item. Painting my face red has no actual effect, nor is it a requirement of my ability... You may have guessed that I painted my face red just because of the club. That’s all. This red face is my player name.”
"Player name?"
"In our club, when we mention someone, we usually don't call them by name. Everyone has a unique and distinctive sign. I am the red face... 'Player Red Face', or 'Player Blue Hummingbird', is our code name. Yes, I know who it is as soon as I mention it.”
Bohemia huddled in the corner and asked: "What does the blue hummingbird mean?"
"That guy wears a blue hummingbird hood, just like a real bird. He doesn't take it off wherever he goes. If you call him wrong, he will correct you and say it's a hummingbird." The red-faced man gestured with his hands. "...That bird's beak is so long!"
He paused and then said: "The club is relatively loose, and there are no strict rules. Someone will often send out a notice, for example, when is expected to go to the copy of 'Wear the Crown!', how many people are needed, and what is the deadline for registration? Whether it includes a visa or not...if you are interested, just join. If you are not interested, just wait for the next one. No one cares about you."
"What is the replica of the crown?" Bohemia seems to be very interested in this club, and even the red-faced person may have made it up on the spot. It just so happens that the more details, the easier it is to verify the authenticity of the story - Lin San Jiu nodded to her in encouragement, but received a glare.
"A copy of chess," the red-faced man recalled with a frown, "it seems to have borrowed the form and some rules of chess, with evolvers making the pieces and fighting in teams. I have never played it because I have no interest in playing chess. , and this kind of game must gather sixteen players, otherwise the whole game will be easily ruined by one or two ignorant laymen. When there are more people, it will not be easy to gather, and it is generally not possible. Give Bao a visa.”
"Wait a minute," Lin Sanjiu raised her hand to stop him, and quickly said to Wei Xing, "Give me a detailed example of the game. Don't think about it now."
"Whack-a-mole," Wei Xing said without hesitation, "the battle between the Gophers and the Hammers is also a group game. Both sides play four against four on a square array with four rows horizontally and four rows vertically. When the signal sounds, the mole must emerge from the round hole. If there is a hammer standing outside the round hole, it is counted as a hit, and the hammer team gets one point; if it misses, the mole team gets one point. Each player's Movement speed is limited to one square at a time."
Lin Sanjiu had a hard time imagining that this game was written by Wei Xingxian. Maybe she happened to have experienced a copy of the game and took it out to play... She glanced at the other person with resistance and said to the red-faced man: " continue."
There was no need to ask the former guard - given the time the guard had to speak, he could have already figured out what to say.
"Whack-a-mole?" The red-faced man snorted, "I've never heard of it. There is a 'Top 100 Game Ranking' in the club, and this Lava seems to be in the 80s. But there is no team in the club.
I only came here on a whim, since this game can be played by a single player."
When he said this, he spread his hands and said, "If you have anything else to ask, just ask. I can't think of anything else to introduce at the moment."
"Too many loopholes." Wei Xing shook his head.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't bear to answer her words - to be honest, she didn't hear any flaws. The red-faced man didn't say much, but every word he said seemed reasonable and reasonable.
"Why are you squirming around like there's a bug under your butt?" Just as she was thinking about what to ask, Bohemia glanced at the former guard, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu signaled him to speak that the soft and hesitant former guard murmured: "He, he is telling the truth, but I have never heard about that player name. Did I just join?"
How long...maybe I don't know..."
"Are you still giving him a guarantee?" Lin Sanjiu was a little surprised.
"Our club is quite famous..." the former guard whispered, "it's not surprising that they are right."
"Why haven't I heard of it?" Bohemia asked unhappily.
"Well, then you may not be a person before the apocalypse..." He was a little embarrassed, "Our club has also discovered within ourselves that people born after the apocalypse almost don't like such copies of the game. As long as they have a little autonomy,
They all prefer to live in peace and quiet doing nothing. We are different... I have loved playing games since before the end of the world... This club is also famous among gamers."
The red-faced man and Wei Xing both nodded, indicating that they were also people before the doomsday.
"Don't you think it's dangerous?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but ask.
"It's dangerous," the former guard replied naturally. "In the past games, you didn't have to risk your life. Some of these games were really deadly... But how can I put it, as far as I'm concerned, I think... every time I participate in a copy of the game
, all gave me a feeling of...well, I can't tell, it seems that because I decided to play it myself, it is no different from the game before the end. It seems, as if...it's back to the past.
.”
"How can we tell whether what you are thinking in your mind is true or false?" Bohemia waved her hand, "Tell me why you came here?"
"You may not believe it," he said, quickly looking around at everyone in the tool room, "I came here because it is relatively safe."
Safety?
A game that uses lava to devour players' limbs so that players have to hunt each other's organs shouldn't have anything to do with safety, right?
"There is... there is a senior who has written a guide." He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "If you follow his method, it will be easier to get points... I don't know if it is a 'hidden way', because it seems
It's an idea for clearing the level, not a hidden way to earn points... Well, if you have enough people and find the right organs, you will have an advantage. By the way, it's different from what this big brother said. I saw a notice in the club.
, I wanted to form a team of four to five people to pass the level, so I tried to sign up."
The word "breaking through" somehow vaguely touched Lin Sanjiu - she seemed to understand why there was such a players' club. Compared with a life that is turned upside down and precarious, "games" are easier to accept. .
"Why are you the only one left? Where are the other players?"
"It's a long story..." He hesitated for a while, but didn't understand what "it's a long story" meant. Bohemia pressed her several times, and then he slowly said while thinking about it: "Everyone. We made an appointment to meet here, but when I arrived, I realized that only three people came. Plus, if there are too many breaches of contract, they will be recorded, but as this red-faced brother said, even if the other party doesn't come, you There is nothing we can do.”
"But you came in anyway?"
"No, I saw that there were not enough people, and the other two were also novices, so I thought there was no way I could get it... I just wanted to walk. But when we were leaving, we happened to meet another player from another club, he said When he saw the notice, he had already obtained a visa for this world, so he stopped by to take a look. Unexpectedly, we were short of someone. So we followed him down."
"Come down...?"
The former guard pointed to the ground: "We've arrived at the bottom floor of this hospital."
"how come?"
"I, I only remember a little bit." He glanced at the half-remaining fat man and immediately turned his eyes away: "That senior has an item that allows us to pass through the wall. He will distract us by talking to the NPC. Go in quietly...I can't remember what happened next. When I remember it again, I found that I was killed by you."
"This is really convenient." The red-faced man snorted.
"You said you are a gamer and you know the hidden ways to earn points, so how many points do you have now?" Lin Sanjiu asked him.
The red-faced man raised his chin slightly: "23 points. And my body, organs and combat power are all complete. If you don't believe me, you can ask the NPC to tell you how many points I have."
This number was already a lot, especially since he couldn't use the 23 points at all - and Lin Sanjiu didn't even have enough points to redeem the mortgaged items. She frowned and asked: "In that case, why don't you leave the hospital?"
"I'm different from her," the red-faced man pointed at Wei Xing, "She has already drawn a prize, but I haven't. You should also know about that carousel, right?"
Lottery...?Roulette wheel?
Lin Sanjiu was about to ask, but she felt that the word "turntable" sounded familiar somehow. She seemed to have read it on the documents she took out - but the newly printed pages were not complete, and many of the information mentioned Halfway through, the next page is gone.
"A prize will be drawn at 25 o'clock," Wei Xing seemed to notice her ignorance and explained: "That is a big turntable... When the turntable stops, what the pointer points to is that you must be in the lava world. After the goal is achieved, you can leave this world freely. Some people's goals are to be completed outside, such as how many people are sent to the hospital; and my goal is a similar version in the hospital. I want to get it together. Enough for thirteen people, send them all into the laboratory. In order to achieve this goal, I have been here for a long, long time... I thought I could finally go out..."
The red-faced man suddenly turned his head and looked at her up and down, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't.
Lin Sanjiu somewhat understood why Bonnie Rabbit kept catching people in the lava. She folded her arms and was silent for a few seconds, and finally said to Wei Xing: "What about you? What are you going to say?"
"There are problems with their statements, and I, I can provide evidence that I am a gamer. You think, since the NPC knows who the gamer is, it means that they must have met each other, right?" Wei Xing said here and turned.
He turned to the NPC who had remained silent and said, "We met a week ago, around six o'clock in the afternoon, right? You can answer this question, right?"
Lin Sanjiu held her breath - after waiting for two seconds, the npc finally spoke.