The Endless Roulette is a contained object, just like the flipping gear, it is a strange object with some strange functions that defy science and logic.
The time of its appearance was close to the 5900th year of the perpetual calendar, when the self-inspection system discovered foreign objects in the space ring, and then the maintenance personnel discovered it when they inspected it.
It was a room that was originally used to store repair tools and a utility room where nanorobot materials were stored. However, as long as the Endless Roulette is activated, this room will turn into a hall, which looks similar to some kind of earth era. Stage hall for variety shows and the like.
As long as people walk in, they will automatically sit on the guest chairs on the stage. When the first guest sits down, a voice will automatically sound ten minutes later, first introducing which Lucky Wheel event this is. , and then they will say some strange cold jokes or embarrassing words, and then start the carousel lottery from the first guest position.
"...I was a participant in the last round of endless roulette. Everyone saw different numbers on the roulette wheel. I saw ninety-nine numbers, and other participants saw twelve numbers, eighteen. Numbers, twenty-seven numbers, sixty-six numbers, or even hundreds of numbers. These numbers have different symbols. Depending on the cultural level of the participants and the original civilization, these symbols are different. , and the meanings they represent are also different.”
"But be careful about some of the symbols, such as skulls, radiation warnings, red zones, or similar dangerous symbols. Once these symbols are selected, there is a 70% to 80% chance that the person sitting in the guest seat will disappear. That's the literal meaning. They disappeared, and neither their bodies nor any traces or clues left by them could be found, so we can only assume that they are dead."
"In addition to dangerous symbols, there are also some rewards. For example, I got a pack of cigarettes. It was the brand of the first pack of cigarettes that I secretly bought when I was a child. It has stopped producing it long ago, but it was rewarded to me. After a pack, I heard that there were other rewards, for example, one person was rewarded with thirty years of life, which allowed him to work for another thirty years until he died at the age of more than one hundred and ten years old."
"About one-fifth of the areas on the roulette wheel are white areas. Once these areas are drawn, the endless roulette wheel will disappear this time and will not appear again until ten years later, so the probability of this containment must be solved It’s still pretty big.”
Zhang Hanqi arrived at the gathering point. All the more than 6,000 people in this group were already here, and there were more than 30 old people in the field, all of whom looked to be in their 70s or 80s. They were all protectors of the previous generation. member.
After seeing everyone arrive, an older generation of maintenance staff began to introduce the containment object.
At this time, someone raised his hand and asked: "I have heard about containment objects, and mentioned them in previous trainings, but didn't the experts say that you should not approach any containment objects unless necessary? Then why should we approach this endless roulette wheel? ?”
The old man nodded and said: "The maintenance staff of the first generation who encountered this containment also thought so, so they sealed the room and stayed away from this area. Then they discovered that as long as they did not enter the Endless Roulette, every other In about a year, the number of rooms occupied by this endless roulette wheel will double. In the second year, there will be two rooms, in the third year, there will be four rooms, in the fourth year, there will be eight rooms, and in the fifth year, there will be sixteen rooms... They found that if If they don’t enter it, it won’t be long before they can even go home to rest… because as long as their home is opened, the hall of the endless roulette will be revealed.”
More than 6,000 people were in an uproar. They were making noises, and the old man continued: "And every time you enter the endless roulette hall, it is best to gather 20 people before entering, because the rules of this roulette are that if If no one draws the white area, then the endless roulette will be reset, the white area will become smaller, and the dangerous area will increase. The possibility of drawing the white area in the next round will decrease, so the smaller the number of people, the less likely it is. Enter Endless Roulette, because the mortality rate, the disappearance rate, increases dramatically.”
Seeing the fear and uneasiness on the young people's faces, these old people smiled. The smile seemed to be both nostalgia and relief. The old man said: "This round of endless roulette is controlled by us old people." Come on, you can watch from outside the door, or you can go in and find a place to watch after we sit in the guest seats. There's no danger, that's pretty much it.
Then the more than 30 old people discussed for a while, and the old man who spoke took the lead. A total of 20 people opened the room and walked in. When they looked into the room from the outside, they saw a hall similar to a variety show. The twenty old people who entered sat directly on the guest chairs, and the remaining old people also walked in and found a chair in the stands to sit down.
The more than 6,000 people outside the door looked at each other. They didn't know what to do for a while.
But not all of them were trash. A few seconds later, someone walked into the room first and found a chair in the stands to sit down. Then more and more people followed, and Zhang Hanqi also followed the crowd. member.
Ten minutes later, the stand where the guest chairs were located suddenly lit up, and then the twenty guest chairs slowly rose into the air and formed a circle. A large disk appeared in the middle of them. The disk rotated very fast. Others can't see what's on the disk at all.
Zhang Hanqi was also watching with concentration, because even if only twenty people are required to enter the endless roulette at a time, this is the collective responsibility of all maintenance personnel. It is most likely determined by drawing lots, so he may also be selected. , naturally he did not dare to take it lightly at this time, but after watching for a long time, he realized that he did not hear any sound.
People around him obviously also had such questions, and among the more than ten old people in the stands, someone explained: "Only the participating guests can hear the voice, and the voice heard by everyone is different. It may be a male voice." , it may be a female voice, it may be Chinese, it may be English, in short it will appear with a familiar voice that you can understand.”
Just when the old man was explaining, the guest chair with the first number in the stands flew towards the roulette wheel and stopped at the top of the roulette wheel. The roulette wheel stopped slowly, but others still couldn't see the roulette wheel. What was going on? When everyone was stunned, the old man in the guest chair No. 1 suddenly cursed a few words, and the guest chair No. 1 flew back to its original place, and then the guest chair No. 2 flew forward.
From the perspective of others, this endless roulette wheel looks very boring. You can neither see any lottery results nor hear any audio introduction. The whole scene seems to be performing a pantomime. When the fourth guest takes the turn, Everyone suddenly appeared in the open space outside the room in the next second, and the old people also appeared at the same time, no more, no less.
"Solved? Is it that simple?" Someone immediately asked the old people.
The old man smiled. The old man who spoke before said: "How difficult can it be? There is a one-fifth chance of clearing the level directly, and those dangerous areas have a one-tenth or one-twentieth chance." No, as long as there are twenty people involved, it will be difficult to die."
Another old man also said: "This containment is considered very safe. The key point is not to delay the time, and twenty people must participate. The fewer participants, the more dangerous it is, so you must work together in the future, you know?" "
Many new generation maintainers breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if the maintainers who can be ranked in the middle are not trash in the literal sense like Zhang Hanqi, they are mostly incompetent ones. Therefore, if the mortality rate is really too high, maybe they will actually cause some chaos.
But at this moment, an old man said seriously: "But you have to be careful about the Endless Roulette Carnival. There will be a carnival every one hundred years. We have never experienced a carnival. We all read about it from the old man's diary." However, there will be huge dangers in every carnival, because the rules are reversed. When the roulette wheel is rotated in the first round, the dangerous areas occupy the majority, and the white areas are almost invisible until everyone on the stage has turned one round. The danger zone will start to shrink and the white zone will start to get bigger..."
"The carnival is also an event named by the older generation of maintenance workers who have experienced it. It happens once every hundred years, and only two hundred people must be seated before it can start..."
The old man was silent. After a long time, he said: "You can go and look for the diaries of the maintenance staff in front of you. They are all stored in the electromagnetic static field. Don't damage them. Return them after reading them. In addition, you It is best to start learning how to keep a diary, and write down your daily life, thoughts, difficulties at work, and changes in mood. After you die of old age, you can also put the diary into an electromagnetic static field."
"I know that some of you may resist having your private affairs seen by others, but how should I put it? This is actually part of science and civilization, social science, I think you also hope that human civilization will become stronger after its return, so that The Determinator can fish us out and resurrect us in the future, right?"
There was nothing else going on that day. Zhang Hanqi returned home with his heart full of thoughts. What greeted him were the beautiful smiles of Liya and Ju.
Naturally, there was nothing to talk about in the following days. It was just that Zhang Hanqi finally broke up with his right hand and fell into a gentle land. Such days lasted for several years, until one day, Zhang Hanqi suddenly found that he was old...
Well, physical aging is also aging. Even if his mentality is still in his early twenties, he just can't do it.
As for Zhang Hanqi in sage mode, apart from patrolling for an hour or two every day, attending some dinner parties on various festivals, or attending parties for the death of an old man, other than that, he either indulges in the second dimension or nourishes his essence. While accumulating energy, he was addicted to the land of gentleness, and as the first and only woman he came into contact with, in addition to desire, he actually also had some romantic emotions.
Unknowingly, he had treated Liya and Jue as real people, talking about his thoughts, his childhood and past, taking them to play games, taking them to watch animations, and explaining to them the plots and plots of those animations. Occasionally, he would take Leah and Jue to space to see the stars, and also tell them the whereabouts of human civilization, as well as their agreement with the Determinator to meet again in the future.
"...If I am resurrected and my parents are resurrected by then, I will take you to meet my parents!" Zhang Hanqi said to the two girls with a smile on his face.
Maybe for others, this kind of loneliness away from civilization goes deep into the bone marrow and soul, but Zhang Hanqi really has a feeling of being happy to be away from home.
Compared to the loneliness he felt alone in human society, now he felt like he had two families.
Time passed slowly like this, until the tenth year after he woke up, someone in the crowd @ him and @ everyone.
"Attention everyone, I checked the diaries of my predecessors, and this time the endless roulette is likely to be a carnival type roulette!!"
Zhang Hanqi stared at these words with wide eyes. He had even forgotten about the endless roulette.
But before the words in the group were finished, the person posted many screenshots and continued typing: "When the Endless Roulette appeared for the first time, it took them six years to solve it. Then there were several times when the Endless Roulette was not solved in time. The event of the wheel, so the Endless Roulette Carnival is actually not calculated according to hundreds of years, but should be calculated according to ten rounds. And I calculated that from the first round to the previous round, it happened to be ninety-nine times of Endless Roulette! !”
"Also, everyone! If you think about it carefully, Endless Roulette happens once every ten years, and every ten times is a carnival, and then our time is exactly one hundred times, which is ten carnivals. The guys said... Will the endless roulette this time be even more terrifying, evolving from a carnival to a super carnival!? After all, this is our hundredth time!!"
"Calculate the time, there are still twelve days before the Endless Roulette will appear. Everyone should go read the diary and confirm the clues that we have not discovered before!"
"By the way, there are also participants. If it is really a carnival, then there will be two hundred people participating. It is impossible to specify who will participate, right? Then we need to draw lots. When will the lot be drawn, who will be the notary? Or leave it to Intelligent programs can also be used as notaries, haven’t we all thought about these issues?”
Zhang Hanqi felt that he was completely confused. He couldn't understand the situation at all. What kind of endless roulette, what kind of carnival, what kind of super carnival. These deadly things should be very, very far away from him...
From that day on, Zhang Hanqi refused to turn on the computer or even go out on patrol. He played in his room every day, immersed in playing, and even ignored Leah and Ju.
Then twelve days later...
When Zhang Hanqi came to his senses, he was already sitting on the guest chair, and his guest chair number was exactly number 1! ?
A second ago, he was playing the stand-alone version of the interstellar online game Eve in front of his computer at home. Why did he suddenly appear here?
He looked up and saw more than 6,000 guest chairs appearing around, all floating in the air.
"Welcome to the Carnival of Death, hahaha, this is the name you chose, isn't it great? Listen to me, buddy..."
A lot of trash talk sounded, and Zhang Hanqi began to struggle frantically from the guest chair, but he couldn't break free at all. He could only watch the guest chair fly towards the roulette wheel, and nine-tenths of the area on the roulette wheel was filled with Black, and most of the remaining one-tenth of the area is red, blood red, with only a very small trace of other colors, and almost no white area can be seen.
Then under Zhang Hanqi's desperate eyes, the roulette wheel started spinning. Finally, the roulette pointer luckily avoided the black area and landed on a red grid. The image of this red grid was a blood-red skull. On the skull There is an hourglass on top.
The next moment, Zhang Hanqi appeared on a bloody battlefield. He stared blankly at a group of humans in front of him raising their guns to shoot at him. At this time, two figures pounced on him, and Lia and Ju pressed him down. Beneath him, Zhang Hanqi looked back out of the corner of his eye and saw several huge humans more than two meters tall behind him, holding weapons like chain saws and fighting hundreds of hideous and terrifying monsters.
Bloody skull, hourglass...
