Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 995 Long Night (4000 words)

   "What are we going to do now?" Li Muyuan looked at the two and asked.

   "We seem to have only two choices," Xia Hua said, "Leave here, or stay here and wait for reinforcements from the General Assembly."

  Li Muyuan turned to the Taoist priest, "What does the Taoist priest think?"

   "I'm thinking..." The Taoist chief frowned in thought, his tone hesitant, "Can we really leave?"

  Xia Hua and Li Muyuan were startled.

"Although Jiutian and I have not yet explored the edge of the bridge," the Taoist priest continued, "but I think that since the enemy has figured out a way to turn the world around us into this, they should also have a way to trap us here. "

   "Then are we still waiting for reinforcements?" Luo Jiutian asked worriedly.

   "Just wait and see," Xia Hua sighed, "Maybe...after dawn, there will be new changes."

   "The premise is that the sky will be bright." The Taoist priest suddenly said.

  Everyone looked at him.

   Dao Chang pointed to his watch, then pointed to the night outside the window, and said, "It's already 4:30 in the morning. At this time yesterday, the sky started to turn white, but look at the sky now."

   The sky cut out by the square and square window is like a pure black curtain dropped at the curtain call of the stage, isolating the colors, stories and everything related to life to the place where the audience can't see it.

   The night outside the window has not changed from a few hours ago.

   "I'm afraid it will be like this in a few hours," the Taoist priest put down his watch and said calmly, "We have to face not only the empty city, but also the long night."

  In the darkness, there always seems to be something lurking.

   It brings unease.

   "What are we going to do?" Luo Jiutian asked with a pale face.

   Before the Taoist priest could say the negative answer, a faint moan sounded in the corner behind everyone.

   "Um... uh..."

   is that man.

  The man covered his forehead, his eyes blurred and confused, he slowly propped himself up, sat up from the ground, and Luo Jiutian's clothes slid to the ground.

   Several people exchanged glances in unison.

  Wake up just in time.

  Xia Hua immediately stepped forward and squatted in front of him on one knee.

"you're awake."

  The man's blank eyes focused on Xia Hua. After a long while, his pupils suddenly dilated. The man let out a loud cry, picked up his jacket on the ground, and curled up towards the corner of the wall tremblingly.

   It seems he still remembers who knocked him out.

   "Don't be afraid," Xia Hua smiled softly and tucked the man's clothes, "We just want to ask you a few questions."

  The man was even more frightened, so frightened that he even turned his eyes for help to the other men present.

  The men shrugged and thought to themselves, fortunately this woman is their teammate, if it is an enemy, then this man is them now.

   "Look at what they're doing, it's useless to watch them," Xia Hua stroked the man's hair, her tone soft, "What's your name?"

   "I..." The man wanted to say, but didn't dare to say, "I..."

"Don't worry, Tian Pei is far away, he can't hear it anymore," the Taoist priest also narrowed his eyes with a kind face, "This is just an irrelevant question, you should answer it, if you don't have a question. Answer, Xia Hua Patriarch may lose his temper, in this case..."

"My name is Zhou Ye," the man said without hesitation, he swallowed, looked at Xia Hua timidly, and shrank his neck, "They usually call me Xiao Zhou, or Xiao Ye, what do you guys do? It's okay to call..."

   The priest nodded with satisfaction.

   It seems that this kid is still very good.

   "Zhou Ye," Xia Hua smiled, "your name... it fits the scene quite a bit."

   Zhou Ye squinted his eyes and glanced out the window secretly, "It's still...it's not dawn yet..."

"That is to say, we also find it strange," Xia Hua pretended to be ignorant, stretched out her wrist, and showed the dial of her watch to Zhou Ye, "Look, it's almost five o'clock, it's still the day It's so dark, it's really a headache."

   Zhou Ye gave a trembling glance, and then finally something other than fear appeared in his eyes.

  He straightened his body slowly, stared at Xia Hua's watch for a while, then raised his eyes and looked out the window, his eyes going back and forth between the watch and the window several times.

   "What did you see?" Xia Hua asked quietly, holding back her smile.

   Zhou Ye struggled to get up, but the crowd did not stop him. He leaned against the wall and moved to the window. The night outside the window was reflected in his pitch-black pupils, trembling with his pupils.

   "Impossible..." Zhou Ye stepped back a few inches in disbelief, his legs were weak, and he almost fell to the ground, "How is it possible..."

   Luo Jiutian picked up a stool in time and put it behind him, Zhou Ye slumped on it.

   "Tell me, what's the situation?" Xia Hua tapped her fingernails on the back of the chair, "You look surprised too."

   "Isn't there... nobody outside?..." Zhou Ye came back to his senses and asked dryly.

   "Yes," said the Taoist priest, "it's empty."

   "There are no animals anymore." Luo Jiutian added.

   Zhou Ye was stunned, his body softened again.

   "It looks very serious," Luo Jiutian said as he supported his body, "Looking at him, he looks so frightened."

   "As long as we weren't assassinated unknowingly, it wouldn't be serious," Xia Hua said casually, "Why, boy, aren't we dead?"

   "No...it's not..." Zhou Ye's eyes were red, "To be exact, it hasn't..."

   is quite a bluffing statement.

   "Don't despair too early," Li Muyuan, who lived to be 100 years old, patted Zhou Ye's shoulder and said, "You may not be able to solve it yourself, but it's not because of us."

   Zhou Ye raised his head and looked at Luo Jiutian.

   "You played the Ten Days Banquet, right?"

   "Huh?" Luo Jiutian didn't expect that he would suddenly ask this, "Yes... Yes, otherwise how would I have seen you?"

   "What level did you reach?"

"I probably..." Under the gazes of everyone, Luo Jiutian's face turned red all of a sudden, he pretended he couldn't remember his pitiful record, and said hesitantly, "Probably...four or five levels?...five Six levels?... Four, five, six, seven levels..."

   Zhou Ye sighed and said unceremoniously, "No, you are too weak."

   "You..." Luo Jiutian wanted to refute, but after thinking about it, they were right, "Can you be a little polite..."

   "Now we have entered a world similar to the ten-day banquet," Zhou Ye said. "If we can't find a way out, we will die here."

   "The world in the game?" Xia Hua said contemptuously, "What's so difficult about this?"

   Li Muyuan also nodded and said, "Although I haven't played it before, there are many guides on the Internet, and I've seen them."

   "It's not the same," Zhou Ye said, "I mean, it's similar."

   "Isn't it the same thing?" the Taoist priest asked patiently.

"You don't know," Zhou Ye said weakly, "the ten levels in the Ten Days Banquet seem to be virtual, but in fact they can be found in reality. If you have played the Ten Days Banquet, you will know that, As the difficulty of the level increases, the player's degree of freedom in the game will become higher and higher. At the last level, the player even has the opportunity... to connect the game with reality, although I don't know the rationale behind this. , but the possibility exists... and our current situation is the result of the infinite expansion of the game world."

   "Infinite expansion?"

"Yes," Zhou Ye said, "that is to say, games become reality, reality becomes games, our degree of freedom is maximized, and there is no difference from reality, but in the same way, our death... also becomes very easy. ."

  Xiahua gave up understanding and simply asked, "What's the way to get out of here?"

"As I said, the freedom of players is unlimited," Zhou Ye said, "The method of cracking is naturally unlimited, and players need to explore on their own... I didn't expect that he actually sent me here... …”

   "Then let's go explore," Xia Hua said, "what are you waiting for?"

   "But you can't leave this room at all?" Zhou Ye looked at the two people on the bed, "There is a lot of danger here, if you leave them here, they won't live long."

   "This is not a problem, we can take them to the car," Li Muyuan said, "Zhou Ye, according to what you said, we are now in a virtual world, right?"

   "It's not virtual..." Zhou Ye said, "But... I don't know how to explain it. Forget it, you can understand it like this."

   "Those who disappeared didn't really disappear, did they?" Luo Jiutian asked.

   "Of course," Zhou Ye said, "but we can't see them anymore."

   "Then can they see us?" Luo Jiutian asked.

   "Of course not, we are already in a completely different space," Zhou Ye said, "Don't expect others to save us, no one can save us, only ourselves can save us."

   "You just need to understand this," Xia Hua said with her arms crossed. "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and get to work."

   "Wait a second," Zhou Ye murmured, looking straight at the dark night outside the window, "Wait for this wave of danger to pass."

   "Dangerous?" Luo Jiutian looked around, "Where is the danger?"

   Zhou Ye was still staring at the small curtain.

"coming."

  ***

   Filter.

Change.

   This is the purpose of the ten-day feast.

   "Insidious," Xiaolan said viciously after listening to the reasoning of his friends, "I still think that game is very fun."

   "Screening out potential players..." Qin Yin muttered, "I didn't get selected, I have no vision."

   "Are you doing anything other than space ability?" said the fool.

   "Then what else do you have besides strength?"

   "But I won that game," the fool cocked his neck triumphantly, looking annoyed, "How about you? How many levels did you reach?"

   "It's none of your business!" Qin Yin was stabbed in the sore spot and muttered to himself, "There must be a shady scene, I don't believe there is no shady scene in this broken game..."

   "Then can we understand it this way," Baomu said, "Uncle Luo and the others are now locked in another dimension, doesn't that mean that they have entered the game?"

   "It makes sense," Xiaolan said. "In this case, the situation will be much better, and the game shouldn't be a problem for them."

   "Yes," cried the fool, "it's very simple."

   Qin Yin turned his back in anger and ignored him.

   "...Really?..." Asking Ling said with a blushing face.

   "Wen Ling, don't listen to his bragging," Qin Yin hugged Wen Ling's shoulder and said, "He can win because he didn't touch me."

"But I'm worried that the world they entered... Maybe it's an enhanced version of the Tenth Day Banquet," Baomu said, "Besides, no matter how difficult the Tenth Day Banquet is, there is a fixed way to crack it. The world, maybe... there is no way to escape at all."

   After all, the purpose of the enemy is to trap them, and it is impossible to set a switch separately, and they will slip away with a poke.

   "Then we have to hurry back and help them." Qin Yin said seriously.

   Everyone reached a consensus, and then they looked at the baby who had been listening for a long time.

   "Wu Ren and Lao Mu haven't finished talking yet?" the fool asked.

   "No hurry," the baby smiled and nodded, "It's almost over."

   "Sister Baby," Xiaolan leaned over and grabbed one of the baby's sleeves, "What do you know, tell us, okay?"

  Baby looked down at Xiaolan and suddenly laughed.

   "What are you laughing at?" Xiaolan asked stupidly.

   "It's nothing," Bao Bao waved his hand, "I just think...you call me sister, it's funny."

   "What's so interesting about this?" Xiaolan retracted her hand angrily, "Don't you look like your sister."

   "It doesn't matter, you can call it whatever you want," said the baby, "I really have something to tell you."

"real?"

   "What is it?" Everyone stared at it.

   "Only one point," the baby gently stretched out his right index finger, "you can't save them."

   The whole crowd was just dumbfounded.

   "Save... can't save..."

   "How is that possible?!" Qin Yin's face turned green, "You mean...they have already..."

"Ah? No, don't you understand that?" Bao Bao was laughed at by their appearance, "I mean, the world they live in requires them to work hard to escape, even if you reach the bridge, It can't help them, they have to rely on themselves."

   "Then if we also entered that world, we wouldn't be able to help them," Qin Yin said. "There are more people, more power."

   "Since you understand this, then your enemy also understands," Bao Bao said, "he won't let you in."

   "Then are we just waiting?" Xiaolan asked anxiously.

   "No," the baby's tone was still so calm and gentle, "You have your battlefield."

   "Our battlefield?"

"Yes."

"Where?"

   "Their battlefield is in that world," said the baby, "then yours is naturally in this world."

  Two worlds, fighting together?

   "Little God, they're almost over," the baby turned his head, and the door on the wall slowly emerged, "It's dawn."

   (end of this chapter)