Qiu Yu woke up from the cold in his dream. He pulled the quilt in confusion. After a few minutes, he still didn't feel warm at all, so he opened his eyes and looked around.
This is a bedroom with an east-facing window, and the morning light has shined into the room through the curtains. But the cold breath still made Qiu Yu, wrapped in a quilt, shiver.
The southern cities in May and June would never be this cold anyway, not to mention that Qiu Yu still felt uncomfortably hot for a while last night.
Qiu Yu opened the quilt and quickly put on the clothes on the bedside. Then he ran to the closet faster and took out the winter clothes and put them on. Only then did he feel that he could relax his tight body a little.
Only then did Qiu Yu have time to pay attention to other abnormal conditions besides the cold - it was quiet outside the room, and even if he pricked his ears, he couldn't hear a sound. This was a student dormitory near the sports ground. Under normal circumstances, before the sun comes out, you will be woken up by those athletic young people swaying with great energy and sweat.
Qiu Yu frowned and slowly came to the window. As if he was worried about something, his hand reaching for the curtain stopped in mid-air and made no move. Taking a deep breath, suppressing the strange feeling of worry that even he didn't understand, he suddenly opened the curtains.
Outside the window is a silver-white world. About half a meter of snow has accumulated on the ground, and the seats on the edge of the sports field are almost buried in it.
On the two rows of trees that separate the sports field from the dormitory, the green leaves and the white leaves are fighting desperately, as if even they don't believe that such an incredible thing will happen in this location and season that belongs to them.
Qiu Yu immediately pinched himself to make sure it was not a dream, and then his face became ugly. What worried him more than the sudden white world was that no one could be seen in the entire range of his eyes, as if he was the only one left in the world.
Just thinking of this, even though he kept telling himself that it was impossible, Qiu Yu still panicked. After adding another piece of clothing, he hurriedly ran out of the single dormitory. The only thing I thought about was that maybe because of the sudden heavy snow, everyone was so cold that they stayed in the room and refused to go out. What they had to do now was to find other people first and calm down the sudden feeling of terror in their hearts.
The corridor of the dormitory was quiet, even the water in the corner was frozen, and the row of closed doors gave Qiu Yu a feeling that they were all frozen and could never be opened again. This sudden strange thought made Qiu Yu even more panicked.
"Hey, open the door..."
"There's a fire, open the door quickly..."
"Open the door, open the door quickly, bastard..."
Qiu Yu knocked desperately on every dormitory door, but the only response he got was a hollow echo that was usually hard to hear.
When the door on the entire floor was knocked once, Qiu Yu's heart sank to the bottom. Even though the temperature was frighteningly low, drops of sweat still emerged from Qiu Yu's head. A feeling of powerlessness made Qiu Yu sit down against the last door that was still unresponsive. He had lost the courage to go downstairs and knock on the door again. A feeling kept telling Qiu Yu that even if he went downstairs, the result would be the same.
"Why are you howling so early in the morning?"
The door behind him was suddenly opened, and Qiu Yu rolled into the room along the opened door. At first, he stared blankly up at the fat face. Even though he couldn't remember the name of the fat face for a long time, it didn't stop Qiu Yu from getting up quickly and giving him a warm hug.
"Wait, wait, I don't want to say this." The other party struggled in panic. Seeing Qiu Yu stunned, he took the opportunity to break away and hid by the closet and said carefully, "Otherwise, you didn't wake up. Am I a woman? Even though I look a little bit pretty..."
Qiu Yu's various strange thoughts just now were disturbed by this, and he finally calmed down. Then he remembered the fat man's name under his dumbfounding joke.
"Qianxiao?"
Qiu Yu called uncertainly.
The other party is not from the same department as him, and the rooms are relatively far apart, so there is no overlap. It's just that this fat and lively treasure has such a great reputation that after meeting him a few times, he can be more or less familiar with him.
"Oh, it turns out to be Master Qiu Yu. I'm sorry. I've admired your name for a long time. I didn't expect you to know me. It really surprised me. What happened just now..."
"Okay, if you go down again, go under the floor." Qiu Yu hurriedly stopped Qian Xiao's words, "You actually know me too?"
The flesh on Qian Xiao's face trembled, "How come it's impossible to know you? You are a famous person with super-sensory abilities. No subtle supernatural phenomena can escape your perception. Although the official has never admitted it, among those who like it, they all know you." I regard you as the master, no, the combat master among masters..."
Qiu Yu really couldn't listen anymore and quickly interrupted him again, "I just feel more sensitive. I'm not a superpower, nor a master."
Maybe it was because of the fat, or maybe it was due to slow senses. After talking to Qiu Yu for a long time in his pajamas, the fat man who was talking nonsense suddenly realized that it was a little cold. He jumped back to the bed and said, "It's so cold, um, Master Qiuyu, you are so excited today, did you sense some supernatural phenomenon?"
Hearing Qian Xiao's question, the feeling of fear hit Qiu Yu's body again. He walked stiffly to the window, slowly opened the curtains, and with the white world as the background, turned around and smiled at Qian, "I feel the cold." …Also…many people seem to have suddenly disappeared in this world.”
Qian Xiao stared out the window blankly, and after a long while he suddenly shouted, "Really! Is it true?"
"What's true?" Qiu Yu was stunned, "Do you know what's going on now?"
Qian Xiao jumped out of bed in his pajamas again, grabbed the laptop in standby mode, then dove back into bed, and quickly found a website from his favorites.
"It's all here."
Qian Xiao's voice was trembling, and one couldn't tell whether it was because of the cold or excitement, but the more violent trembling behind it was obviously due to anger, "Damn, how is that possible? This post does not exist! What idiot deleted it?"
Qiu Yu leaned over and saw the page jump back to the homepage of a certain forum, "Is that post related to the current situation?"
"It's a big deal." Qian Xiao threw the computer aside and sat on the bed wrapped in a quilt. He seemed to be sorting out his thoughts. After a long time, he said, "Fortunately, I thought this post was a bit awkward at first, so I read it a few times. I remember everything.”
Qiu Yu felt helpless in her heart. This fat man really... actually read the post that he said twice.
"Have you ever heard of War Games?"
"I know, it's a very old movie."
Qian Xiao was suffocated by Qiu Yu's answer and waved his hands quickly, "There is such a thing. The war game I'm talking about is a concept mentioned in that post."
Seeing Qiu Yu's blank expression this time, Qian Xiao continued proudly, "The post mentioned that if other civilizations in our universe develop to an extreme, they can probably change the laws of the universe at will. To what extent, what will happen to this civilization?”
"What's going on?" Qiu Yu frowned and looked at Qian Xiao.
"Of course it means losing the goal of survival. Let alone a civilization, even if a person loses the goal of survival, that is a very bad situation."
"That's too general. What does this have to do with war games and the current situation?"
Qian Xiao stared out the window and made a strange trembling sound, "You said there is something in the world that has the most uncontrollable factors, unlimited possibilities, and contains any emotion that can be experienced?"
"War?" Qiu Yu blurted out these two words completely following Qian Xiao's guidance.
"Yes, although there are few formal historical records, there have indeed been many people in history who launched wars not for land or wealth, but simply to experience the ultimate pleasure brought by war, like us People who play games all day can easily understand this feeling, right?" Without giving Qiu Yu a chance to speak, Qian Xiao had already entered the state and continued talking, "Human beings have not gone far enough in exploring the universe, but Even so, we should be able to find something, but the result so far is that nothing has been found. This seemingly ordinary result is the most difficult to understand. So what is happening in the universe? What is the most logical answer to why the universe has become so silent? The most likely answer is war, an endless war that is controlled by something but will not destroy the entire universe. And we are forced by those things Entering a war that makes them a game.”
"Wait?" Qiu Yu forcibly interrupted Qian Xiao, "This is unreasonable..."
"So what do you think is reasonable?" Qian Xiao pointed out the window, "Is this reasonable now?"
"Maybe it's just a once-in-a-hundred-year cold air." Saying this, even Qiu Yu himself felt unconfident.
"Where are the others?"
"Maybe there was some activity at school today, but we just missed it." Qiu Yu felt increasingly lacking in confidence.
Qian Xiao did not retort, but smiled enigmatically, and the flesh on his face wrinkled strangely because of this smile.
Qiu Yu sighed painfully, "Well, even if the current situation is very abnormal, there are many explanations. Why are you sure it is what you said?"
"It's a feeling, that strong feeling that surrounds us all the time, making me tremble with excitement." Qian Xiao's smile became more and more weird, "We are all the same kind of people, and we all have the same sensitivity to this situation. Feeling. After I combine the current situation with the content of that post; after you have listened to the narration about part of the content of that post, we have begun to believe that this is an alien war game for reasons that cannot be described. . Maybe our feelings are sent to our heads by aliens through some kind of signal." At this point, Qian Xiao's body was shaking like chaff, and his tone suddenly increased, "Of course, it is more likely. , in the vast universe, these aliens brought us into the war game in order to fulfill our wishes after detecting the idea of the world we want."
"madman."
Hearing Qiu Yu's comment, Qian Xiao jumped out of bed and began to put on his clothes quickly with agility that was incompatible with his bloated body. "Let's go, let's go out and confirm all this with our own eyes."
