The setting sun is like blood, and the ruined city has become a territory where monsters are raging, and everything is shrouded in darkness.
In the dilapidated streets, six or seven people were running wildly. Behind them, closely followed by a hydra that was more than ten meters high.
The bronze snake body is covered with fist-sized scales, and the snake eyes on the nine snake heads are like bloody flames.
Everything is ominous.
Suddenly, Hydra made a swing, knocking the building in front of it to the ground, lying in front of these people, blocking their escape route.
"Captain, it's coming!"
"Oops, I've used up all my props!"
"I can't run anymore, you go first, I'll fight it!"
A strong man with well-developed muscles rushed out from the group of people. He was actually wearing a silver armor that looked very much like the ancient cold weapon era. At this moment, he strode towards Hydra.
There was nothing in his hand, but as he rushed towards Hydra, a spear suddenly appeared in his hand.
The strong man jumped up on the spot and jumped a full height of six to seven meters, which was completely beyond the scope of normal people!
The silver armor was all bright, the spear was on fire, and there was even a vague shadow of a gun.
The flame spear hit the "seven inches" of Hydra, where the heart is.
Seeing this scene, the strong man's teammates all showed expressions of surprise.
The snake's seven-inch attack is still effective against these creatures from another world, as long as its defense is broken!
"Roar--!"
However, all nine heads of the Hydra roared angrily, and then all nine heads advanced together, rolling up the strong man who had lost his support.
Eaten raw.
"Zhang Pin!!!"
"Go quickly!!!"
That's too late.
The Hydra was completely enraged, and its strength increased greatly. It rolled up the other three people in an instant and also swallowed them alive.
The other two people, the only two people left.
"Captain...it's over..."
A woman sat down on the ground, muttering, completely broken.
There is no doubt that she will be the first to die.
The only remaining person was the captain of the team. He looked at the behemoth in front of him with a bitter look on his face. Suddenly, he showed an extremely ferocious expression.
"If you don't give us a way to survive, I will fight with you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the captain was covered in purple light and rushed towards Hydra.
Immediately afterwards, a huge explosion echoed through the ruins of this city.
When the explosion ended, the Hydra roared in pain, and only four of the nine snake heads were left. However, suddenly the ruins of the entire city slowly dimmed, and everything slowed down until it turned into a still black and white picture.
A voice suddenly came from the void, a superhuman voice without any emotion:
"It was detected that the team exploring the world of ***832*** was completely destroyed. The mission failed!"
"Turn on the team replenishment function, reset the trial, and are looking for adapters to form a temporary team..."
"Member locked, importing..."
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"When...when...when...when"
In a villa on the outskirts of Linjiang City, the clock rang at midnight on time.
In a dark room, a man lit the candles on the birthday cake on the coffee table and leaned on the sofa in the living room to think about life.
Name? Tang Jiumin...
Profession? When collecting the body, he should be defined as a lawyer, and it is only through this identity that he can be shown to people.
However, even in this profession, after the news of his death spread, he usually set off fireworks to celebrate.
After all, he is a beast in a sense.
He threw his ID card aside, picked up the coffee and took a sip.
Tsk...it's not bitter enough. There's really nothing I can do about it. This hiding spot was set up three years ago, and the taste at that time wasn't as weird as it is now.
Looking up at the clock hanging on the wall of the living room, Tang Jiumin slowly let out a big breath.
It's almost time.
Tang Jiumin's living profession is very special and complicated.
He is a lawyer and a private detective who specializes in handling bullshit for "bosses" in gray areas.
Some bullshit is to stand in court and help them confuse the cases they have committed.
And the more bullshit thing is to help them investigate some cases that they don't dare to go to the police.
As long as the price is right, Tang Jiumin can do any of these things.
Kill and silence? Burning bridges? Hostile attack?
In the past ten years, there have been many people who want to threaten to retaliate against themselves.
But he hid well enough, disguised himself, put on makeup, changed his face, and used a fake identity. Tang Jiumin could always escape.
However, since last year, after my 25th birthday, two different killers appeared.
During this year, they never stopped chasing him for a moment, and Tang Jiumin was forced to constantly change hiding spots, hiding like this for a whole year.
It was like they were equipped with radar. No matter how they changed their identities or hid, they could always find exactly where they lived.
But today, Tang Jiumin didn't want to hide anymore.
The old man passed away last night, in this city, and passed away.
Ever since I entered the society alone, I have been living in those gray areas, with no friends, no family ties, and no one I can trust.
When walking on the street, my body becomes tense, as if everyone might take out a knife and stab me.
The old guy is the only one who can make him let down his guard.
There were slight footsteps behind him, and the unlocked door was being opened. Tang Jiumin laughed at himself in his heart and looked at the calendar.
August 17th is another birthday. Normal people must be very happy on such a day. There will be many people coming to celebrate their birthdays, right?
I'm so lucky today, I actually have someone celebrating my birthday.
After all, these two guys have been chasing me for so long, so they are considered acquaintances. It is good to let acquaintances give me a ride.
He looked up at the mirror on the opposite wall.
Two figures appeared in the mirror, one black and one white, both with the same popular faces as before. They raised their pistols and pointed them at the back of their heads.
Tang Jiumin put down his coffee, leaned on the sofa in the most comfortable position, and said the last sentence with a natural expression.
"Happy birthday, Tangji."
"boom--"
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Linjiang City Morning News: ...At 12:02 last night, an explosion occurred in a villa on the outskirts of the city. A body was found at the scene. After DNA confirmation, the deceased's name was Tang Jiumin. The cause of the explosion is still unclear... ...
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"Are we being kidnapped?"
"It's a lie. It doesn't look like this. What on earth is this place?"
"Who is playing a prank?!"
Unexamined.
Who is speaking? Sounds like more than one person is talking in your ears?
"Look at that, it looks like the police!"
"Someone wake me up and ask. He must know where this place is."
Liu Ziyun is particularly sensitive to the word police.
Hearing these two words, he woke up from his hazy state and opened his eyes suddenly.
Standing in front of him was a middle-aged man, somewhat bald, wearing a coat and glasses, who was staring at him nervously.
Liu Ziyun realized his state. He was sitting with his back against the wall, so he stood up from the ground and asked the other person while looking around.
"Hello, may I ask where this is?"
This place is very much like a tavern, and it is an old-fashioned tavern. The decoration and lighting are very retro.
There is no lamp, the lighting tools are candlesticks on the wall, and an iron-like wheel hanging from the ceiling, with white candles standing regularly on it.
In the entire tavern, some people stood around him, either with blank faces or uneasiness.
There are also people who have just sobered up and those who are not yet sober, scattered in various places in the tavern.
Liu Ziyun didn't see the stairs going upstairs. There was only one floor here, surrounded by dark red wooden walls. He glanced around but didn't see any exits.
"Tavern? No, what on earth is this place?" Liu Ziyun couldn't help but murmured in confusion.
While Liu Ziyun was observing his surroundings, the middle-aged man in front of him suddenly became emotional: "Hey! He's awake, he's awake!"
The middle-aged man's loud words immediately attracted people in the tavern.
They quickly approached Liu Ziyun.
In their eyes, this is a policeman in uniform, with a dark complexion, a tall man, like an iron tower. At first glance, he looks like a very reliable policeman.
A middle-aged woman was particularly excited. She rushed to Liu Ziyun first and almost shouted.
"Comrade police, my child is waiting for me to pick him up from school! Where is this place, police? What is going on?"
"Yes, comrade police, it's impossible that you don't know this place, right? Are you trying to crack down on crime or something like that, but we are good citizens who abide by the law, and we haven't done anything bad!"
"Comrade police, please let us go, please!"
A group of people surrounded Liu Ziyun. They talked to each other and refused to listen to Liu Ziyun's explanation. They believed that Liu Ziyun knew where this was and asked him to let them leave.
At the bar of the pub, a man was slowly picking up a kettle from the bar and pouring himself a glass.
Warm white steam slowly floated out from the glass, and the fragrant smell penetrated the man's nose. He took a slight sniff and tasted it leisurely.
Compared with the group of people who were agitated and out of control, the man sitting at the bar had a really different style.
If the people surrounding the police saw this man now, they might not pester the police but come to pester this man, because he is more mature than the burly policeman who looked confused and couldn't even speak. Like a regular customer here.
"Everyone! Listen to me, I don't know where this is. I just woke up and found myself here..."
When Liu Ziyun raised his voice and finally let everyone hear what he wanted to say, the people around him became even more excited.
The middle-aged woman slapped her thigh and suddenly sat down on the ground and started crying.
"Comrade police, how could you not know?"
"You don't know, so who knows! I still have to go back and cook for my son. He has just finished school and is in his third year of high school. He is about to take the college entrance examination. How easy is it for me to pull him off by myself!"
As she spoke, the middle-aged woman looked like she had angina pectoris, clutching her chest and crying louder.
"Hello, comrade police, I am Chen Min, from Bangcheng Group." The speaker this time was a bald man in a suit and leather shoes, about forty years old. He grabbed Liu Ziyun's wrist and pulled hard.
"Are we kidnapped? I remember I was resting in the hotel before coming here. Comrade police, I came to Chenghua City to invest and build a factory. Please ensure my personal safety."
"Bangcheng Group? Chenghua City?" Liu Ziyun was a little confused when he heard what the other party said: "No, wait, what..."
Before Liu Ziyun could say anything, he was interrupted.
"I, I'm still a college student, police officer, we haven't committed anything..."
"police officer......"
...
The people around them started talking one after another, talking about their own situations and asking the police to clarify the situation and let them leave.
"I...you..." Liu Ziyun's dark face turned red and he was completely speechless.
This was the most difficult time in Liu Ziyun's history, because he really didn't know how he appeared in the tavern, let alone what kind of place it was.
Chenghua City? I am not in Chenghua City at all!
"Tsk."
The man sitting at the bar was sipping coffee. He shook his cup slightly and stared at the farce not far away. The corner of his mouth curled up into a smile that was not a smile.
He spoke calmly, successfully interrupting this rather retarded farce.
"There's no point in begging him anymore. Just look at the sweat on his face, you know he doesn't even know what's going on?"
Hearing someone coming to the rescue, Liu Ziyun looked at him with a grateful expression.
At this moment, it was really difficult for him to do it. Facing the people who were questioning him and asking for him, he couldn't be violent and had to answer patiently, but he didn't know anything.
If his boss asked him again at this time whether it was more difficult to face criminals or people, he would definitely choose the second one without hesitation.
But when he saw the man drinking coffee leisurely, he couldn't help but be startled, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.
"Thank you. Who are you? Do you know this place clearly?"
The people around Liu Ziyun include a female white-collar worker, a middle-aged bald man, the group boss Chen Min, two students, a boy and a girl, a middle-aged woman, and a young man wearing a jacket.
As Liu Ziyun spoke to the man, the eyes of many people around him shifted to the latter.
The man at the bar was shaking his cup and sipping coffee, which was in sharp contrast to the anxious people in the pub.
Slowly, people who looked at the man couldn't help but feel a strange feeling.
Before they could think about it carefully, they heard the man speak again.
"Me? I don't know for sure, but this place is not normal. Officer, do you remember what happened before you came here?" The man stared at Liu Ziyun.
Facing the man's gaze, Liu Ziyun instantly felt a sense of danger. He had not experienced this feeling for more than a year.
He lightly clenched his fists. The man in front of him didn't match any criminal in his memory. Thinking of this, Liu Ziyun couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed and relaxed a little.
Liu Ziyun's thoughts returned to what the other party mentioned.
"Before I woke up..." Liu Ziyun carefully recalled what happened before he woke up in the tavern, frowning:
"...I remembered that my colleagues and I were on a pursuit mission. Unexpectedly, those people had guns in their hands. I was accidentally shot. My colleagues carried me to the foot of a big tree and waited. Medical assistance.”
Sure enough, he was also dead. After hearing this, the man's eyes flashed and he knocked on the bar table in front of him.
"It seems that everyone may have died before. Because this policeman also came here after his death."
The man's words caused confusion in the surrounding crowd, and the bald man suddenly turned pale.
But there were exceptions. Among the crowd, the pretty female white-collar worker was obviously used to going with the flow and could not accept everything the man said, so she was the first to speak out to refute.
"Are we dead? Sir, have you read too many novels? Are you suffering from delusions?"
After she finished speaking, the middle-aged woman beside her nodded repeatedly: "Yes! This person probably ran out of a mental hospital and is talking nonsense!"
"Comrade police, you have to make the decision. Hurry up and figure out what's going on with us!"
Liu Ziyun frowned and replied: "It's too arbitrary for you to say that. I wasn't dead at that time, and rescue should be coming soon. More importantly, I have no wounds on my body now..."
Speaking of this, Liu Ziyun suddenly paused.
He was stunned for a while and fell silent. Only the people next to him gradually yelled and cursed to refute the man's words. Even the bald man with an ashen face before joined in. .
The man didn't care at all about the scoldings of the group of people. He looked at the policeman with interest, watching the other person's expression change from shock to disbelief, and then horror.
Feel good.
"Mr. Police, based on your reaction, you should know something is wrong, right?"
The man put down his glass, spread his hands, and leaned against the bar, looking face to face at a group of people.
Then he pointed to a person in the corner next to him. The person was squatting on the ground, muttering something to himself.
"You don't remember what happened when you came? But some people still remember."
"This guy kept saying that he had committed suicide. He obviously jumped to his death and could not survive, but he showed up here alive."
Next to Liu Ziyun, Chen Min followed the direction of the man's finger and looked at the person squatting in the corner.
The squatting man was wearing a yellow vest and a safety helmet from the construction site. He was leaning against the wooden fence with dull eyes.
For a moment, the noisy crowd gradually became quiet. Slowly, they heard the man in the corner talking to himself.
"... I'm obviously dead. It's impossible. Why am I alive again? Is this a dream? No, how is it possible... I'm dead..."
Everyone listened to the whisper of the man in the corner, and everyone opened their mouths, unable to say a word.
Chen Min suddenly remembered something, felt a chill on his back, and a terrifying feeling spread from his spine throughout his body!
At this moment, the man spoke again, but his next words made people even more horrified.
"me too."
"I remember very clearly what happened before I died."
They saw the man raise his hand, his right index finger pointing at his own temple.
"Here, bang——. He was shot in the head. There shouldn't be any medical treatment, right?"
As the man vividly described how he died, everyone around him involuntarily took a step back.
But the man picked up the kettle with coffee, poured it on the ground in front of him, and spoke.
"It seems you still don't believe it? Officer, weren't you shot and almost unconscious?"
"Why don't you give them a closer look? No matter how good the medical assistance is, it shouldn't be able to erase the traces left by such a gunshot, but there shouldn't be any on you. Am I right?"
……What? Is it true?
Everyone looked at the police with a hint of panic in their eyes.
Liu Ziyun took a deep breath and took off his uniform, revealing his upper body full of strong muscles.
The dark skin was covered with at least four stab wounds and one gunshot wound. The gunshot wound was on the side of his waist, but not on his left chest.
As expected.
There weren't any gunshot marks.
"Indeed not." Liu Ziyun replied in a deep voice, and he added: "The bullet I was hit was a little below the chest, just shy of reaching the heart."
The crowd fell silent.
The curse just now seemed to be cast by magic, and it was suddenly stuck in the throats of the group of people present, making it impossible to speak.
The female white-collar worker who had remained calm before was now choked the most, her face turned red, and she did not dare to look at the man at the bar.
For a moment, there was only the sound of water near the bar.
The sound of a man pouring out coffee and it falling on the floor.
"So, this is a mysterious place, just like this small kettle, which can continuously pour out so much coffee, and it is still flowing out."
"Also, I wanted to drink water, and what came out was water. I thought it was a pity it wasn't coffee, and it turned into coffee."
After being reminded by the other party, everyone was horrified to find that since the man had just picked up the kettle to pour coffee, there was now a large puddle of coffee liquid dripping on the ground in front of him, which was far more than the small kettle in his hand could hold. !
but……
The coffee was still flowing out of the kettle, as if it would never be poured out, which was really nerve-wracking.
Unbelievable!
"drop……"
"Number of players, 12."
"Detection of successful import of all adapters, starting the system..."
"Temporary team formation is starting..."
At this moment, a voice without any emotion sounded throughout the tavern, waking up the silent group of people.
In the entire tavern, everyone came back to their senses because of this strange voice and looked around cautiously.
"Then, there!"
Next to the police, a female college student suddenly screamed and pointed at the bar.
In the center of the bar, a suspended shadow suddenly appeared out of thin air. It looked like a square piece of paper spread out in mid-air. Then the shadow lit up and a huge 16×16 Rubik's Cube appeared on it, just like a 3D printed Rubik's Cube. The blocks of different colors glow and rotate rapidly to change different patterns.
The emotionless voice sounded again.
"The temporary team system has been successfully opened and the team's strength is being tested..."
It turns out that the sound came from inside this Rubik's Cube!
The unknown fear impacted the psychology of most people present, and they all chose to retreat away from the strange Rubik's Cube.
When everyone was retreating, the man sitting on the bar stood out.
He was still drinking coffee slowly, turned his back to everyone, and approached the Rubik's Cube. It seemed that he was observing the Rubik's Cube carefully.
"Fuck, this guy is too brave!"
In the crowd, a young man wearing a jacket and hiking boots couldn't help but complain. He thought he was brave enough to go to the wilds of Evergreen Mountain to survive alone, but he didn't expect this guy to be even more powerful than him.
Near the bar, Liu Ziyun looked at the man steadily, and a strong sense of vigilance rose in his heart again.
Yes, why is this man not afraid of pubs at all from the beginning to now?
If someone dies by gunfire, would a normal person be shot?
And he didn’t seem to care when he mentioned that he was head-shot?
Who is the other party?
[Logical explanation: When people suddenly come to a strange environment after losing consciousness, there will be a period of thinking disorder. Combined with the many international kidnapping cases in the past two decades, you will understand. In that case, unless you have a super big heart, you will be panicking for at least 30 minutes. I don’t want my supporting characters to be supermen who are persuaded by the system with a few words. 】
