The information center is a two-story circular building that looks like a stadium. After entering from the main entrance, there is a vast hall with a row of twenty information desks on the front and high-tech self-service inquiries on both sides. machine. Yan Danqing led three people through a side door and entered a room divided into small spaces by metal partitions. He randomly selected a room and entered, and within a short while he took out three "contracts." .
There are very detailed terms written on it. The general idea is that within three hours, Yan Danqing is responsible for answering all questions based on what he knows within the scope of his knowledge. There must be no falsehoods. He must also lead a few people to understand the main facilities and functions of life in the distribution center. The reward It's five hundred points.
"As long as you trade with other humans here, you must get an official contract or voucher. Otherwise, don't blame others if you suffer a loss." Yan Danqing signed his name and handed it to the three people separately.
"With humans?"
"Most service facilities are automated, and this part of the consumption will flow back to the official hands, so there is no need to worry about deceiving people."
Seeing that all three people had signed, Yan Danqing was also very satisfied. He put the contract back in the room and explained: "After signing, you can see the specific contents of these contracts in your personal history."
"Then let's take a look at the most important things first." Lu Ning said, "About the testing ground and the test..."
"just in front."
The help desk and self-service inquiry in the information center are the places to apply.
Behind the information desk are slender people similar to those on the screen, wearing the same style of black dresses. The only difference is that their heads are all display screens, which looks a bit funny.
"Both sides can apply from anywhere. The test site can be applied for at any time. It is free and highly random. For the first level, the maximum score that can be obtained in the test site is 5,000. The usage mechanism of the machine and the terminal on the mobile phone It’s the same, it’s all individually bound, so you don’t have to worry about being manipulated by others.”
Yan Danqing led them to a machine. This machine looked like a self-service ticket collection machine at the airport, but it had a few more buttons.
She reached out and pressed on the screen. The screen suddenly lit up and many items appeared on it. Yan Danqing chose a few explanations: "The first information interaction is similar to a forum. It is an open communication place where people from all distribution centers of the same class can speak. But it is also filled with a lot of false information. Don’t believe anything like this. The second information house is to spend money to buy official information that has nothing to do with other people’s private information, such as the estimated information of a test field you have experienced, the overall results, the highest score, the highest survival... But there’s no way to predict it, how you use it depends on your own ideas.”
Then, Yan Danqing skipped the middle ones and went directly to the last one.
"Apply. There are only two contents in it, the test field and the upgrade test. Once you click on it, your phone will receive relevant information. Just follow the information. The point is, you have to pay for the upgrade test. Once in five thousand.”
"Once?" Mo Xiren grasped this word keenly.
"Yes, it is possible to survive if you fail to upgrade. This does not prevent you from continuing to work hard... although it is not a good thing. In addition, five thousand is the first-level fee, and it is already ten thousand when you get to me."
Yan Danqing left the machine and the screen immediately dimmed. She led the three people out of the information center and pointed to a rectangular building opposite with cyan lights flashing on the edge.
"Opposite is the hospital... Apart from the physical training you get injured here, the most important function there is soul monitoring."
Yan Danqing puts the word soul monitoring very seriously.
"As the name suggests, it is to monitor whether there is any abnormality in your soul. This information can only be obtained in the hospital. Abnormalities are divided into five categories: erosion, madness, decay, infection and lysis. Your current status will be given in percentage."
"What...what impact do these things have?" the man with glasses asked quickly.
"I don't know. It seems that people above the fourth level care about these very much, so I tell you that this is very important. The hospital will provide treatment, but the cost is extremely expensive, and it is accompanied by many side effects. The only thing I can tell you is that these It's a symptom that can be brought out of the testing site without being cured normally, so don't get it." Yan Danqing warned the three of them seriously.
After going out and walking to the right, they passed an area with a very compact architectural pattern.
"Residential areas are probably another thing you need to consider. Different accommodations have different prices. But sleeping on the street is definitely not a good idea, remember we enter the test site in the same physical condition as we do here, So if you get sick here, you increase your chances of death."
However, Yan Danqing did not take the three people in, but turned a corner and walked towards another brightly lit place.
There was a park, with a huge black stone monument standing in the center, with countless names engraved on it, glowing faintly under the night sky.
"this is……"
"This is the person who has successfully risen to the fifth level from here and entered the final exam so far."
Lu Ning raised her head. The height of the stone tablet was nearly ten meters. There were names flashing on the front and back, including both sides, but some were still shining slightly, while others were dim.
"The dim names will gradually fade away, while the bright names will slowly become more and more impressive. As you can see, there are about two hundred names here that are still flashing. You can guess the meaning."
Survive, or die?
But it's just a name. How many people know who it is?
Lu Ning was silent.
"You don't need to worry about this now. The focus is on the buildings on both sides of the park, the library and the martial arts hall." Yan Danqing promptly pulled everyone's attention away from the stone tablet, "Knowledge and force, these are probably the biggest things we need to survive in the test site. rely."
The library is a very classical Chinese-style building, and correspondingly, the martial arts hall is a castle full of Western style.
"For different requirements, these two places have different charging standards. In the final analysis, they are places where rich people spend money, but no matter how poor they are, some of the most basic things are indispensable. They can be said to be the most critical here. It’s a functional building.”
Yan Danqing took the three of them into two buildings to check the charging standards, and then left quickly. This kind of place is not an area where new people can stay. Unless their income is more than 3,000 each time, they can really learn something valuable.
…
"Okay, there's only one hour left... You guys have a general understanding. Do you have any questions?"
After going around a few more places, they finally returned to the information center. Yan Danqing clapped his hands and asked the three people with a smile.
Mo Xiren immediately asked: "What are the testing sites like? Are there any differences?"
"Of course it's different, and the old test field will definitely not be used. The first-level test field includes four types: survival, confrontation, secret and hunting. A test field may contain multiple categories. For example, you want to conduct survival and confrontation at the same time... secret It will provide you with some personal secrets, which is more troublesome, and the final hunt requires you to kill or seal certain monsters in the scene."
"Why can you still survive after failure?" Lu Ning asked.
"Category - Except for the survival category, which will directly give a person how many days to survive, the others are not survival tasks, such as hunting. If you fail to hunt but the scene time is up, you will not die, but the score you get will be very low. , so low that you can’t even afford to eat.”
"The elimination scene... is the scene where the score returns to zero. What is it?" The man with glasses asked next.
Yan Danqing shuddered; "I don't know. No one has come out alive, so no one can say what happened there. I don't want to go in there... Let's change the question."
"Is there any difference in the test?" Mo Xiren said.
"The first-level test must be a single type of survival. This has been confirmed by many people. But it is difficult to pass the test because it requires not only survival, but also score requirements. If it does not reach three thousand, it will be considered unqualified... Since the test doesn’t have a score limit, it’s not too difficult.”
"Can you tell me about your test? I'd like to know what it's like."
Yan Danqing couldn't help but sigh when he heard this question.
"There's no great use in knowing... What I passed was a nightmare, coming from a little boy."
Lu Ning had also read some horror stories with similar themes, and immediately made up a lot of the content in her head.
"We were in a nightmare from the beginning. Unfortunately, no one noticed this fact at first. Later, as the nightmare gradually deepened and the world became more bizarre, we realized it. But at that time, waking up was already a luxury. But the little boy couldn't find his true identity, and many people died miserably, so... three thousand points is actually not difficult."
Yan Danqing suddenly gave a sneer.
"As long as you come out alive, you can get three thousand points."
That being said, Yan Danqing still explained his mission process to several people in detail. To be honest, she was quite confused, and even passed the bottom line in the end. If it hadn't been for two people with good intelligence and force who led the team to make a desperate comeback in the end, I'm afraid everyone would have died inside.
Then, Lu Ning and others raised some questions about the details, and gradually gained a vague understanding of the future tasks. In this question and answer, time passed quickly.
When the time came, Yan Danqing stopped staying. After saying goodbye, he walked into the information center and disappeared quickly. According to her, only people of one level higher can return to the distribution center of the previous level, and they are probably going back now.
Mo Xiren followed and said goodbye to the two of them and left. The man with the eyes paused for a moment and said:
"Thank you for what happened before. My name is Pang Shaotong. I will repay you if I have the chance."
Lu Ning knew that he was talking about the incident in the car, but she was just borrowing his strength, so she didn't take any credit: "It was just a casual thing, and I happened to want to know too."
Pang Shaotong didn't argue, just smiled at Lu Ning and walked into the information center.
His burden is much heavier than Lu Ning's, not only for himself, but also for those who came out together.
