...Lin Sanjiu's hands were trembling uncontrollably.
Maybe she was too tired, maybe she was too afraid to worry, or maybe it was because every face around her at this moment made her feel vaguely familiar.
Although she knew very well that she had never seen this group of people before.
No, it wasn't the "face" that made her feel familiar. The turmoil in her heart was stirred up at the moment, this kind of discomfort and discomfort that she couldn't explain the cause... Lin Sanjiu was sure that she had experienced it once before, but she just forgot where it was.
When is it.
"listen,"
To her surprise, when Lin Sanjiu opened the door and got out of the car, the group of people still ignored her. The crowd formed a circle, and a middle-aged man consciously claimed the role of leader and was giving orders to the crowd loudly: "
Whether we are good or bad, dead or alive in the future, this is the only chance we have now, please listen to the rules carefully!"
Lin Sanjiu looked around.
Although the faces are obviously different in appearance and age, they are all distorted and carved out by the same emotion, creating a sense of similarity: the nostrils are flaring, the eyes are rolling, the corners of the mouth are drooping... On their red and white faces, there are ups and downs.
It seemed like fear, excitement, and a faint aura of longing.
It's strange, why does she feel like she has seen it once?
What she saw now was a preview of the contents of the copy. How could it have anything to do with Lin Sanjiu's own past?
The avatars formed by the copies she has experienced make her feel familiar; from another perspective, the copies formed by her friends feel familiar to her, which seems reasonable.
However, the puppet master has never made Lin Sanjiu produce this kind of——this——
Before she could think of a suitable description, the man's next words stirred her up, and her whole mind was captured by his voice.
"...The harm that everyone fears most will appear on the forehead, body, and skin with detailed descriptions that cannot be changed or covered up." The man held a familiar black tablet in his hand and glanced at it.
Looking around at everyone, he said, "The rules of the game are very simple. If you can catch two people in a row and successfully inflict the damage they fear most on them, you will win."
"This is easy to understand, right? Some people are not afraid of being beaten, but they are afraid of losing money." The man laughed, patted his forehead, and then a line of words appeared. "Some people are afraid of torture, but torture is also
There are many types of torture, and the specific location of the torture and the torture tools used are what he is most afraid of... The words on your body will be written clearly. The standard for successful harm is to make the other party suffer mental breakdown. In other words,
Even if you make them go crazy after being tortured, you will succeed. Don’t worry, don’t worry about someone who is particularly strong-willed. As long as the damage reaches a certain level, all participants in this game will definitely go crazy.”
Lin Sanjiu stared at the characters that appeared on his forehead one after another, and his mind went blank for a moment.
Even with Lin Sanjiu's experience and will, she didn't dare to look at it for too long - she especially didn't dare to look at the words on the woman's head - she resisted a sudden nausea and quickly lowered her gaze.
The man was right. He did write it in such detail that just reading the words could put people into a state of stress. What made her breathe a deep sigh of relief was that, as an intruder,
For outsiders, she is not part of the preview content, so there are no words on her body.
"There is one more thing that needs attention." The middle-aged man smiled and seemed not to care about the words on his forehead. "There are a lot of dummies among you. No matter how cruel you are to the dummies, it will be useless."
Not only will it not count, but it will be deducted by one... In other words, if you don't discover that the opponent is a dummy in time and spend a long time to deal with it, your 'conquered number' will become minus one.
.”
"Then how should I tell the difference?" someone in the crowd finally responded.
"After the dummy is treated, it won't go crazy. It will just change its appearance and continue to blend in with the crowd. Of course, it will be too late to find out by then... As for how to tell it in advance, it depends on your ability." Middle-aged
The man said, "But the good news is that this game has no time limit. As long as there are still real living people in the ten blocks around here, you can keep playing... until you win, or you are caught and start killing, or
Until there are no real living people left.
"Are there any questions? No more?"
After all, they were all "rehearsal actors" and no one asked any questions. The man nodded, glanced around the crowd, and suddenly stopped at Lin Sanjiu and smiled.
"Then, please try your best to find the real person among us."
As if they had heard some hint, every face slowly turned towards Lin Sanjiu, and the profiles gradually widened and grew larger, turning into full moons.
She involuntarily took a step back and hit the front hood of the car.
The great miko said that the content preview should not pose a threat to her. There are no words on her body, and there is not even an evolver here besides her - not to mention, if the puppet master is still conscious -
"Wait a minute, you haven't said what's the benefit of winning?" Lin Sanjiu blurted out a sentence in a hurry. The corner of his eyes still didn't dare to relax at all, and was tightly wrapped around the people around him.
The middle-aged man said "Oh".
"The winner can enjoy a safe, comfortable, resource-rich, and everything-you-can life in this city, but this is not the most important thing."
These words were obviously prepared for future evolvers. The middle-aged man continued: "The most important thing is that as long as you can catch two people to complete the task, then you will get rid of the pain of teleportation.
Choose to live peacefully in this city forever... Look at the size of this city, and then think about the resources in this city, what do you want for the rest of your life that you can't satisfy?"
Impossible... Even a copy, even a copy transformed by the puppet master, cannot have the power to free the evolver from teleportation and not be affected by the flood.
What's more, this preview only occupies a corner of the city; if she guessed correctly, there must be more places where content previews are being staged - that is to say, when the copy actually starts running, if the evolver enters the city
Different regions have different inspired content. What will happen if the winner in the west chooses to stay and live in other parts of the city? Will he be involved in the new content, or will he be immune to it?
In fact, Lin Sanjiu could only think of one way for the Puppet Master copy to ask the evolver to "get rid of the pain of teleportation".
Almost at the same time as this thought surfaced, a shadow in the corner of her eye suddenly jumped forward - even though Lin Sanjiu was extremely tired, she still reacted in an instant. Without looking back, she raised her head
She struck hard at the fleshy shadow with her elbow, and the elbow immediately knocked the opponent's nose bone out of place; the man's hot breath and a sharp scream of pain both rushed to her arm, and the voice was actually a
woman.
When Lin Sanjiu looked back, she happened to see the woman's long hair being grabbed by another person behind her. He pulled her back hard, and her entire upper body was pressed backwards like a bent bamboo.
When it went down, the clearly raised throat bone was exposed on the neck.
Was she trying to escape just now? Instead, she was elbowed into the hands of her pursuers?
The woman was quickly dragged a few steps away. Lin Sanjiu was about to catch up and save her, but he forced himself to stop.
...The other party is not a real living person.
It was definitely not easy to turn a blind eye to what happened next. After Lin Sanjiu quickly glanced at the rain curtain in the sky, his urge to save people suddenly cooled down - the rain curtain had already dropped to the sky.
The top floor was halfway down, and she only had a few minutes left.
The woman's distant screams and struggles seemed to have stimulated everyone's nerves, and everyone who had been standing in a daze just now moved.
Almost in the blink of an eye, there was heavy iron swinging into the bones and flesh, sounds of tearing, crying and begging for mercy, running footsteps, gasping and hitting... Together with the crowd, they were rampaging on the road, chasing and running for their lives, in the distance.
When I looked at it, the group of people even seemed vaguely humanoid, like a group of twisted shadows cast by the firelight.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether this group of pre-show actors would cause substantial harm to her - but if forces interacted here, then if she could hurt the "actors", the "actors" could also hurt her.
.
Seeing the opportunity, she turned around and rushed to the driver's seat. As soon as she opened the car door, a man suddenly jumped out from behind the car and grabbed her. Although she was physically exhausted, her eyesight and reaction were still first-rate -
—It looked as if the man took the initiative to move his knees to meet her heels, and then bent his knees backwards.
Amidst his inhuman screams, Lin Sanjiu sat in the driver's seat and immediately locked the door, feeling a little out of breath.
How could it be like this? No, there is no point in thinking about it now. The point is that the great miko told herself this news specifically. Could it be that it has nothing to do with saving the puppet master?
This group of people spawned from the dungeon were running around her car and crashing into each other. From time to time, someone would hit her with a "boom", causing the whole car to shake slightly. Someone swung an iron rod at the rear seat window, and a spider web was shot out of it.
Pattern.
Sitting in a chaotic, fiery, rolling and howling hell on earth, Lin Sanjiu clutched the steering wheel tightly and stared at the blood splattered on the street in front of her, stunned for a moment.
Yes... Although they were not similar on the surface, she finally remembered where she had experienced similar feelings.
If her guess is right, the evolvers who enter this game may not understand what "winning" means at all. After brutally torturing two people and "winning" the game, what they welcome with joy is the next person as a doll.
Half a lifetime...
The last time she had the same feeling was on the balcony of the Governor's Mansion at night.
At the end of the "way of survival" given by the young man, there was a white light that destroyed and ruined the entire Yunshou Nine Cities.
Friends, I have entered a stage where I outlive the puppet master.