In each previous round of selection, the screening criteria given by the train conductor were all very clear, and they were nothing more than appearance characteristics.
This time, the direction is particularly unclear.
"Being imprisoned" can be understood superficially as being tied up with ropes, handcuffed, held down by someone, etc.
Of the remaining seven people, clearly no one fits this description.
But if it is said to be spiritual imprisonment, this is too mysterious. Anyone can think that he is, and anyone can think that he is not.
So when Sha Yu heard Xia Jing's words, he hesitated and said, "Xiaodong, are you sure this is talking about you?"
Xia Jingyun said calmly, "Just try and see if you can open the door."
As he was speaking, he stretched out his hand towards the cab. His movement was so fast that everyone was startled. Fortunately, Song Yang grabbed his wrist in the first time. They quickly patted their chests.
Song Yang frowned and looked at Xia Jing, having many questions to ask.
But he knew that this must be related to the secret hidden by the young man in front of him, and this young man would never tell him the answer easily.
Song Yang was silent for a moment, then asked, "Do you know what to do after you get in?"
Xia Jing raised his eyebrows and asked, "Doctor Song, do you have anything to say?"
They both knew that in this final round, if either of them could get in, the probability of successfully completing the mission would increase to ninety-nine percent.
They knew clearly what to do after entering, so Song Yang's words were nonsense, he wanted to say something else.
Song Yang took a deep breath and stopped hiding anything from Xia Jing. He said seriously, "What Fei Shengxiao just said is indeed a problem we hadn't considered before. You have to survive and click the exit button before you can leave here with us."
"Yes, I heard it, and I will try my best." Xia Jing answered gently.
Song Yang's brows furrowed again: "Can you do it?"
"So what if I can't do it? Does that mean I don't have to go in?" Xia Jing glanced at the anxious people behind him, chuckled and said slowly, "If I don't go in, three people will definitely die in this round, right?"
Song Yang fell silent again.
That's right.
They had no choice.
He finally let go of Xia Jing's hand.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the train continued to speed forward.
Xia Jing asked good-temperedly, "Anything else you want to say?"
Song Yang paused and said, "You must leave with us alive."
It is true that this young man is full of mysteries and dangers, and he often provokes him with a smile. Song Yang sometimes gets so angry at this guy that his teeth itch, but he does not want this young man to die easily.
Xia Jing stared at him for a moment, raised his lips and said, "I will do my best."
"By the way, there's no need to split the pipe this time. Just let me stay inside."
"...good."
"Then I'll go in."
"...good."
Xia Jing turned around and pressed her long, beautiful hands against the door.
The other five people behind him all had their hearts in their throats, with anticipation, nervousness, fear, and worry intertwined on their faces.
One thing is that Xia Jing played a trick on Song Yang.
He didn't care whether entering the driver's seat would affect the life and death of others.
Xia Jing never does anything for others, let alone sacrifices for others.
The purpose of everything he does is simply to get what he wants.
Just now, he just tried to use the common words used by humans to test Song Yang's reaction, and the result was very interesting.
He thought that Song Yang was a good man after all, but this good man was a little different from others.
He is smart, kind, brave and bold. He will not hide behind others and let others face danger for him, but he will not stand in front of others and stop them from doing the right thing just because of danger.
Clear mind and decisive thinking.
It feels so comfortable to be with such a person.
Xia Jing felt that if possible, he hoped to play a few more dungeon games with this guy in the future, so that his days would not be too boring.
——He pushed open the door of the cab.
A suction force pulled him in!
*
Before Xia Jing entered the door, the conductor, contrary to his usual behavior, lay by the door and stared at him with a ready and malicious look, obviously wanting to take revenge for Xia Jing cutting off his hand in the last round.
If the person chosen was Song Yang or Sha Yu, the train conductor would probably be excited to the point of madness by now.
Everyone was worried about Xia Jing, afraid that he wouldn't be able to do well this time. They never expected that—
When Xia Jing disappeared behind the door, the familiar conductor's tongue pressed against the small glass window. The next second, a wailing sound suddenly came from inside the door. The monster's tongue left the window, and a stream of blood sprayed up instead, scaring everyone!
Several people stepped forward quickly, and Sha Yu asked nervously: "What's going on? What happened?"
Fei Shengxiao's face was pale: "Is Dong Jing okay?"
Song Yang's heart skipped a beat, but when he looked inside the door, he breathed a sigh of relief: "...No."
The person who was wailing turned out to be the train conductor.
At this moment, his body had been split into two halves, and his upper body, along with his tongue, had been severed and disappeared completely.
Xia Jing's head was almost swallowed by the train conductor's "throat". The last thing everyone saw was him stretching out his hand, holding a bloody machete.
The machete disappeared out of thin air, and Xia Jing and his arm completely disappeared into the train conductor's fleshy tube.
Several people were dumbfounded. Li Mian was also shocked: "He chopped off the entire upper body of the conductor?!"
Several people have entered this cab before, but Xia Jing is the only one who was able to enter the cab head-on and kill the monster!
Fei Shengxiao was confused and said, "No, where is the conductor's upper body?!"
Song Yang: "..."
Song Yang: "...He should have put it into his space bag."
Others: "???"
No way, what kind of god is this? He almost got swallowed whole and he still remembered to collect heads?!
Everyone was in a mess in the wind.
Song Yang's mood was a little hard to describe, but at the same time he felt a sense of expectation.
Soon, he composed himself and turned to stare at the square pipe above the carriage.
The others also came to their senses.
Li Mian subconsciously wanted to walk towards the junction of the carriage and the driver's cab.
But she soon thought that even if the young man named Dong Jing failed this time, she could not chop the locomotive again, because if she did it again, the copy would probably be closed directly, and all of them would be trapped in this copy forever.
If that young man fails...
They could only allow him to be corroded and completely transformed into nutrition for the train so that they could get through this.
After that, they could only send their companions in one by one according to the instructions of the train monster.
There is no chance to force a reload. If you fail, you will die.
In any case, this game will soon be over.
Li Mian clenched the sword in his hand and walked back to Fei Shengxiao.
Sha Yu hugged Yang Leliu tightly.
Song Yang stared at the square pipe in silence, waiting and waiting, until the sound of "dong" rang out again -
The exit of the square pipe bulged.
Everyone suddenly tensed up and their heartbeats began to quicken.
…
In the two hundred days since Xia Jing and Smiley City were born, he has attempted self-destruction several times.
This is not because he has no desire to live.
Just as he once said to the old lady in the "Don't Think About It!" copy, he likes to play games, likes to live and play games, and he has never been curious about death.
He was just curious about what kind of existence he was.
After those several attempts, Xia Jing finally got only one answer, which was - he would never die.
He died several times and was resurrected several times.
This result is very boring.
Xia Jing stopped exploring death.
Therefore, Xia Jing did not intend to let himself die in the square pipe, just because it was boring, and he also wanted to reach the real world where the monster was, kill it, and swallow it into his bag.
Xia Jing's consciousness entered into chaos, and in this chaos, he quickly found himself.
He consciously let his consciousness slowly rise, like a person diving into the seabed and swimming silently towards the sea surface above his head where light and shadows were swaying.
As consciousness rose faster and faster, more and more distinct pain began to attack every part of his body.
His flesh was being eaten away by the corrosive fluid.
The transparent, seemingly harmless liquid in the pitch-black metal tubes quickly eroded his skin and muscle tissue, melted his blood vessels, and destroyed his bones.
At the same time, his body was repairing itself.
The two were constantly pulling and fighting against each other, and the pain was transmitted to Xia Jing's brain almost non-stop, stimulating his nerves.
He just kept swimming upwards calmly.
After breaking out of the water of consciousness, he will quickly call up the control panel of this holographic game and click the exit button. This does not take too much time.
This time he will get the train monster before Song Yang, which makes Xia Jing's nerves excited and his consciousness highly concentrated.
But at this moment, a small accident occurred.
Xia Jing suddenly caught a glimpse of two vague human figures in the distance in the gray chaotic ocean.
He stopped abruptly and narrowed his eyes.
This situation was never mentioned by Fei Shengxiao and Yang Leliu.
...This should be his only exception in this round.
The two figures were swaying in the chaos, their faces blurred, like two ghosts.
One is high, the other is low.
The tall one was very thin, and seemed to have a slightly hunched back. He must be a man.
The shorter one has long hair that goes past her shoulders, so she must be a woman.
The woman was waving at him mechanically, while the man stood there motionless, as if just staring at him silently, like a falcon.
This scene is somewhat strange.
Xia Jing knew that this was a trick the monster used to delay him.
But he admitted that the little trick piqued his interest.
He didn't swim over, thinking that if he swam over, the two figures would retreat.
He just floated in place, staring intently at the two figures, trying to discern "their" appearance.
Xia Jing didn't think of anyone with the same appearance in his memory, but at this moment he did feel a sense of familiarity.
Just like he had never been to the real world, yet sometimes felt strangely familiar with some elements that only existed in the human world. Just like he had never been exposed to human online literature, movies, and TV shows, yet could blurt out the name "holographic game" -
At this moment, Xia Jing was almost certain that he had come into contact with the real bodies of these two figures outside of Smiley City.
Where is that place?
Why doesn't he remember anything?
Where did he come from?
Who imprisoned him in such a small safe house?
Xia Jing pondered and dug into his memories.
He could feel that there was an invisible wall blocking him, preventing him from gazing at the truth.
Xia Jing tried to push the wall but failed. However, he could feel a crack on the wall with his fingertips.
...What should we do to completely destroy this wall?
What force is standing on the other side of the wall, shaking the wall and creating cracks?
Xia Jing fell into deep thought.
...While he was lost in thought, he paused.
He could feel that in this moment, the large amount of corrosive liquid gushing out of the narrow pipe had completely suppressed the resurrection instinct in his body. His heart completely stopped beating and his mind began to blur.
The monster in this copy succeeded.
Xia Jing thought very calmly.
However, although he lost the opportunity to seize the monster's body, he still felt that the clue that the monster handed to him personally was not bad.
——Xia Jing took one last look at the two figures, no longer reluctant to linger, and jumped out of the water.
The gray chaos was torn apart, and the night broke into his vision!
The strong wind was beating on his face, and he was running forward continuously with a "click" and "click" sound, along the endless track, rushing towards the distant ocean!
He and the train's consciousness completely merged into one.
Xia Jing's mind turned, and a huge, translucent holographic screen suddenly appeared in front of him!
There are all kinds of fancy functional blocks on the holographic screen, and each block is labeled with unfamiliar text.
Xia Jing quickly scanned the entire holographic screen and stopped at a red function key in the upper right corner with only two words "train" written on it.
He extended the tentacles of his consciousness and tapped the function key.
*
Everyone in the carriage watched as the bulging square tube slowly deflated without the train even stopping.
In this moment, the flame of hope gradually went out, leaving only cold ashes.
Fei Shengxiao and Li Mian closed their eyes.
Sha Yu and Yang Leliu lowered their heads, and Yang Leliu let out a whimper.
Wang Zhi, who was hiding in a far corner, was completely desperate and murmured, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."
But Song Yang did not give up.
Even though the square pipe had begun to deflate, he still stared at it.
Li Mian cheered up and said, "The disaster in this level is a tsunami. Let's see if we have any props first—"
Wang Zhi collapsed and cried, "Three people will die! No matter how much we prepare, three people will die!"
Li Mian was interrupted. Fei Shengxiao sniffed and finally exploded: "So if I just lie down like you, I can survive?!"
Wang Zhi kept crying, and Sha Yu turned around and kicked the chair hard, and the car suddenly fell into chaos.
At this moment, the train suddenly braked and stopped!
Everyone was caught off guard and fell forward heavily due to inertia. After they quickly steadied themselves, they raised their heads in shock.
——They stopped at the shore of the vast ocean!
At this moment, Song Yang suddenly shouted: "Hold your weapons in your hands and be ready at any time!"
Several people were stunned and hurriedly took out their weapons from the space bag. In the next second, their eyes went dark!
When their vision became bright again, they were shocked to find that they were in a huge...super huge pink room!
This is a place completely different from the world just now!
Fei Shengxiao opened his eyes wide and said excitedly: "I, we are leaving the game!"
Sha Yu also stood up: "Xiaodong succeeded?!"
When they arrived at this place, each of them was like Alice who had turned into a tiny person, and everything in the room seemed huge to them.
The pink sofa was huge, the pink bed was huge, the chandelier on the ceiling was as far away from them as the sky, and they were sitting in a row in a... red plastic toy card slot.
There is a hole under each person's seat, and these holes seem to connect the front and back tubes.
The pipe at the front is connected to a square machine.
The words on the machine were crooked and they couldn't understand them, but they could understand the game packaging paper on the machine.
There was a picture of a small train on it, facing the night sky, with eleven big cartoon stars in the night sky ahead.
Inside the train carriage were eleven little heads with Van Gogh's screaming faces. The little heads were screaming in fear, while the train had a smug smile on its face, as if it was determined to pass the next level.
——This really is a game console!
A few people turned around and took a look at the tube extending from the back of the card slot.
Behind them, a train monster, completely different from the cold, inorganic train in the game, angrily threw off the helmet on its head like a worm and spit out the pipe in its mouth.
——I guess all the players who died in the game were sucked into the pipe by the hole under their feet outside the game, and finally into the mouth of the train monster.
At this moment, the train monster rushed towards them, roaring and talking nonsense!
They are about to face the monster head-on!
Fei Shengxiao screamed, and Li Mian drew his sword and shouted, "Everyone be careful!"
She and Song Yang rushed towards the train monster together!
Sha Yu protected Yang Leliu and quickly jumped out of the red plastic card slot.
Wang Zhi also wanted to climb out of the slot, but was swept by the tail of the train. He screamed and crashed into the wall on the side!
The scene fell into chaos for a moment, and the next second, the door of this huge room was slammed open.
A train monster that was even bigger than the small train behind them straightened up, stared at them with its two copper bell-like eyes, and started to curse and babble like a mother who thought her child was making trouble in the room.
After cursing for a few words, it paused when it saw the scene in the room clearly, and finally realized that something was wrong. Its face showed a fierce look, and it opened its mouth, revealing its fangs, and leaned over to pounce on Sha Yu and Yang Leliu!
——This is a train monster's home, divided into two floors, with a total of four train monsters living in the house.
Humans are their food and also their toys. When faced with disobedient humans, they will naturally kill them.
In order to leave the copy, everyone swung their swords desperately!
Song Yang successfully killed the little train monster and his body was covered in blood.
He turned his body and looked around.
Wang Zhi lay motionless against the wall in a twisted posture, with a large pool of blood flowing from the bottom of his face. It was unknown when he died.
Song Yang's gaze paused slightly, then looked in other directions.
Li Mian and Fei Shengxiao were struggling with the third train monster that broke in.
After killing the second train monster, Sha Yu and Yang Leliu rushed out to fight the fourth train monster.
Song Yang panted slightly and scanned the entire room three times.
There is no summer scenery.
From the beginning to the end, Xia Jing had never appeared here.
Song Yang's hands clenched slightly.
In front, Li Mian killed the third train monster, and the last train monster outside the room saw that the situation was not right and began to flee!
The four of them immediately chased after him.
Song Yang took a deep breath and took a last look at the empty red plastic card slot behind him.
He closed his eyes, turned around, and left the room.
…
The pink room was a mess.
There were many body parts lying on the ground, and blood was all over the walls.
The huge plastic toy was smashed in the battle, splattering everywhere, and the holographic game helmet rolled into the corner.
This is a tragic scene, but it has been frozen in time.
Everything was quiet, with only the muffled sounds coming from downstairs, someone screaming, someone roaring, tables and chairs colliding, and utensils falling over.
After a while, even the noise downstairs completely disappeared.
There was silence for several minutes.
Sporadic noises began to creep up the stairs again.
The group of people stood at the door of the room, panting, staring blankly at the scene inside, with mixed feelings and talking in low voices.
They seemed to be sad that their last partner did not end up staying with them this far.
Some cried, some remained silent.
At the end of this copy, no one was even in the mood to recycle the monster parts.
After accepting the fact, they were exhausted and exchanged contact information with each other and exited the copy one after another.
The figures disappeared one by one.
Finally, there was only one person left, standing at the door.
He stared for a long time, as if waiting for a miracle to happen, but time passed minute by minute, and everything in the room remained the same as before.
Finally, he whispered, "...Goodbye, Xia Jing."
…
In the silent monster house, there is no longer any sign of any living creature.
The copy has not been closed yet.
The whole house was silent. The wind blew in from every window, making a whistling sound, and gradually blew away the thick smell of blood.
The sunlight shines on everything inside, as if it is just a beautiful afternoon.
In this dreamlike silence—
Suddenly, there was a gasp.
A slender figure suddenly appeared on the ground, above the pile of red plastic toy fragments.
He lay on his back, his eyes slightly open, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and a mechanical system voice rang out in his mind: "Dungeon bug 00079 has been discovered. Player Xia Jing has died. Execute the bug crush immediately."
Xia Jing's body was instantly crushed into a pool of human-shaped flesh.
System: "The bug has been eliminated and the instance has returned to normal."
And the next second, the meat paste condensed into a perfect human form again.
The young man has long arms and legs, a slender figure and fair skin.
Xia Jing opened his eyes, and the system sounded again: "Dungeon bug 00080 has been discovered. Player Xia Jing has died. Execute the bug crush immediately."
Crush into meat paste and then restore.
"Bug 00081 has been discovered in the dungeon. Player Xia Jing has died. Execute the bug crush immediately."
"Bug 00082 has been discovered in the dungeon. Player Xia Jing has died. Execute the bug crush immediately."
…
After being crushed and reborn again and again, Xia Jing finally managed to adjust his posture and lay on the ground.
With his vision pieced together second by second, he took in the entire situation in the room.
Xia Jing raised his eyebrows in surprise.
It seemed that all the monster's body parts were lying neatly in the room, but Song Yang didn't take any of them away?
Just as the thought came to his mind, he was eliminated by the system again, and the pile of flesh kept him lying on the ground.
A second later, the human form was reshaped, and Xia Jing quickly stretched out his hand and reached out to the monster's body that was close at hand.
——Then it all belongs to him.