Gui Gu still remembers the previous notice about the Hanging City event.
[Special event ‘The Hanging City’ is coming to Earth]
[Preview: This is a harbor without storms and the last refuge of mankind. After December 1st, the first batch of 'upside-down cities' will come to the earth. The 'upside-down cities' will exist forever, and everyone is welcome to move in]
When this announcement was made, Gui Gu had just escaped from death in a copy. At that time, he was leaning against the peeling wall outside the ticket booth and lighting a cigarette.
Cigarettes are considered luxury items nowadays. If everyone’s game currency is not enough to exchange for food, how can they have extra money to exchange for such a thing.
This cigarette was found when we were moving the scaffolding in the base. There were half a pack in total, and they were pressed under stacks of steel shelves. They looked old.
He remembered that as soon as he lit the cigarette, the announcement about the Upside Down City popped up. At that time, Gui Gu was stunned and looked at the announcement for a long time, until the cigarette in his hand burned out in his daze.
"A harbor without storms, the last refuge of mankind...does such a thing really exist?" he asked himself.
If the Upside Down City is really that good, then their entire base can be moved in. Gui Gu forced himself to ignore the suspicious nature of this activity, thinking that if the entire base was really allowed to enter the Upside Down City, then he could take off his body. 's burden.
At that time, their base organized several discussions on this Upside Down City activity.
At this time, Hao Laoshi, who was still in shock, stretched out his hand to hold on to the wall beside him, and stared at the land in the distance that was completely hanging upside down in the sky: "The hanging city? It's what everyone said. The introduction looks good, but there is a high probability of a trap inside. Activities?”
Hao Laoshi also participated in the discussion about the hanging city.
The activity introduction was so nice that most people in the base thought it was a scam, and these people were more willing to maintain the status quo. They said that even if the Hanging City appeared near the base, they would not go there, and said that they would always follow Gui Gu.
Hao Laoshi actually had hope for this event. At that time, he thought that if the Upside Down City really appeared near the base, he would be willing to take the lead and help everyone try out what it was like inside.
But he didn't expect that he and Gui Gu would be teleported here before the Upside Down City appeared. What was dramatic was that the Upside Down City appeared nearby at the same time. However, he thought that the people here most likely didn't want to enter an upside-down city, and there was no need for him to lead the charge.
"It's not far from here." Gui Gu looked at the sky outside through the window.
At this time, the ascending land mass had completely flipped over and stabilized in the sky, and the ground beneath their feet also stopped shaking.
The movement just now certainly attracted the attention of others. Gui Gu heard several door openings coming from the corridor outside, and then a young woman's voice sounded outside.
"Did you see it? The ground outside rose into the sky." Coco noticed the abnormality outside the window at the first moment. Then she quickly reacted and wanted to tell others about it. As soon as she opened the door, she saw the same thing. Liu Ruyan just opened the door.
"It's an upside-down city." Liu Ruyan looked back out the window and saw that the piece of land that had become the "Sky Island" was still falling, "Didn't Gu Mian and the others say that after they came back from the paradise world? Have you ever thought about it? This is how the hanging city in Paradise World was formed, flipping over from the ground and flying into the sky.”
Coco nodded slightly. Gu Mian had witnessed the creation of the Upside Down City in the paradise world, and told them about it when he came back.
But listening to other people's words is different from seeing it with your own eyes. When Gu Mian said it, Keke imagined in her mind that a small piece of ground rose up into the sky without any resistance, leaving only a bottomless hole on the original ground. of potholes.
But the scene in reality is much more shocking than imagined. At a glance, the rising ground is almost as big as half a city. It blocks the sunlight slanting down from the sky above and shrouds the surrounding ground in darkness.
While the two were talking, they heard a "squeak" coming from the side, and another door was opened.
Coco looked towards the newly opened door and saw the faces of Gui Gu and Hao Laoshi. When Fatty and Liu Ruyan brought the two of them down to choose a room just now, Coco opened the door and asked about the situation, and found out that the two of them had followed Gu Mian out of the previous instance.
Gui Gu greeted the two of them in a somewhat reserved manner. After saying hello, he stopped talking, not knowing what to say next. When he was in the base before, he was always the one giving orders. When faced with difficulties, everyone was waiting for him to make a decision. Now here he can finally be silent and wait for others to make choices.
Liu Ruyan had no interest in the Upside Down City, but she saw that Guigu seemed to want to see it: "Looking at that place not far from here, Gu Mian and the others should go there. If you want to see it too, go up and see Gu Mian asked him to take you with him when he went.”
After saying that, she closed the door and went back to the room, leaving only Coco and Guigu in the corridor. We were all unfamiliar with each other and had nothing to say. In the awkward silence, Keke nodded to Gui Gu and closed the door.
Hao Laoshi opened his mouth slightly and looked at the closed door of the two people: "Their reaction to the Upside Down City was very weak. If such a thing appeared near our base, the people in the base would definitely get excited and hold several discussion meetings. Discuss whether it will have any impact on us, whether we should go nearby to have a look, etc..."
Gui Gu closed the door and spoke to Hao Laoshi: "Our base is too fragile, so fragile that even a small change may bring a devastating blow, so people react greatly to changes in things around them."
Hao Laoshi thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case. People who were in unrest would be more cautious about their surroundings.
"But Mr. Gu, how did you recognize that it was the Upside Down City just now?" Hao Laoshi asked curiously, "We have never seen what the Upside Down City looks like before, right? The Upside Down City was not mentioned in the event. The specific appearance comes. ”
When he saw a large piece of ground rising into the sky just now, Hao Laoshi thought it was some kind of newly developed wonder on earth, but Gui Gu recognized it at a glance as an upside-down city.
"I was told by a gaming friend who is not in the base. That friend told me that there was a piece of land flying into the sky near their base. After going to investigate, I found that there was an upside-down city." That friend was a former colleague of Gui Gu and also organized People built a large base, but it was far away from Hulu Gorge.
That friend had described the characteristics of the Upside Down City to Gui Gu in detail, so he could recognize the Upside Down City at a glance today. However, his friend lost contact with Guigu not long after the appearance of the Upside Down City, and even his name in the friend list was erased, which was a symbol of death.
After hearing Liu Ruyan say that Gu Mian would probably go to the Hanging City to have a look, Gui Gu thought about it and decided to go up there.
Of course, Gu Mian and the others upstairs also saw the upside-down city floating in the distance. From their height, they could see the situation over there more clearly.
The fat man clung to the window and looked nervously at the floating objects in the sky: "It's the hanging city! The doctor's hanging city has appeared near us!"
Gu Mian's ears hurt from his noise: "I'm not blind, I've seen it a long time ago."
Gu Mian has seen the upside-down city twice in the paradise world, and has nothing new about this kind of thing. However, when you see the Upside Down City in the real world for the first time, you still need to take a look, not because of curiosity, but because you want to confirm what the Upside Down City is like in the real world.
Fatty recalled the description in the announcement: "A harbor without storms, the last refuge of mankind..."
While reciting the announcement, he looked at the upside-down city in the distance. Unfortunately, it was too far away to see the situation above. He could only see the shadows of tall buildings above, which seemed to be the original buildings on the ground.
"That's the south, right? Judging from the size, it seems that the entire land south of Lianhua has gone up to the sky. But how should the players get in and participate in the event when the ground is already up? Do they have to fly up by themselves?" The fat man asked a question.
Just when the fat man asked the question, the door was knocked, and Gui Gu's voice came from outside: "I am Gui Gu, are you there?"
Gu Mian was a little confused. Not long after the fat man sent Gui Gu downstairs, he didn't even sit down on his buttocks, so why could he come up so eagerly again?
Chu Changge conveniently opened the door for Guigu near the door.
After Gui Gu entered the door, he thanked Chu Changge first, then rubbed his hands and looked at the people in the room.
Seeing Gu Mian and Fatty looking at him, he opened his mouth but said nothing. Although he came with a clear purpose, Gui Gu hadn't communicated normally with anyone for too long, so he didn't know how to speak for a while. After about half a minute, he said: "You also saw the hanging city. Come on, I heard Liu Ruyan said you might go there to have a look. "It's so close to us, the doctor must have a look." The fat man scratched his head and understood the purpose of Gui Gu's trip. "Do you want to see it too?"
Gui Gu nodded: "Actually, in addition to learning about the hanging city from the announcement, I also heard the description of the hanging city from others."
He was silent for a moment before continuing: "It was a colleague of mine before the global game started. They also organized a base there but it was quite far away from Huluxia. Not long after the game started, we added friends... ”
The fat man was a little curious: "After the global game started, communication was cut off. How did you know each other's nickname and friends when you were not together?"
"After the game started, many of our colleagues actually had rather formulaic names, which are place names plus their own positions and their own names," Gui Gu explained, "I entered similar names in the column where I wanted to find friends. I tried to see if I could add colleagues from other places, but I didn’t expect to be asked to add a few;
"One of my colleagues told me that they also organized a base there, with nearly 200 more people than Huluxia. Not long ago, news came from him that an upside-down city had appeared near the base, and a group of people went I explored the area near the Hanging City a few times and got a bit of understanding of the situation there. He told me that there is a round-trip train between the Hanging City and the ground. It comes from the Hanging City at midnight every Sunday and then comes here. Go back.”
Is there a train?
The fat man was stunned for a while after hearing this, and turned to look at the city hanging in the sky outside the window. He didn't see any railroad tracks.
Gui Gu continued: "The train can carry people from the ground to the hanging city, and it can also carry people on the hanging city back to the ground. The description on the train is like this, but no one has gone up to that city at that time. So I don’t know if the description on the train of being able to return to the ground is true.”
"Were there no people in the Upside Down City when it was formed?" Gu Mian remembered that there were many low-class people in the Upside Down City that she saw in the paradise world. It should be that when the Upside Down City was formed, the low class people in the area were all gathered together. Up to heaven.
Gui Gu nodded: "Yes. Although the population density there is already very small, the Hanging City should have brought a group of people up when it went up. But when the people below looked up, they could only see that the scene above was a mass. The hazy shadow, like a mosaic, can only be seen as a blur, but blurred figures can be seen moving on it. ”
This is different from the upside-down city that Gu Mian saw in the paradise world. In the paradise world, Gu Mian could clearly see the people and objects above. Is this a different treatment by the earth?
The fat man turned his head and looked out the window at the city in the sky in the distance. He couldn't tell whether it looked like a mosaic from the distance.
"My friends observed the people on the ground for a few days, but because the figures were too blurry, they couldn't be sure what the conditions of the people on the top were. In the early morning of the first Sunday, they stayed at the station on the ground to see if there was any danger. People from above would come down - from the ground, they could see the vague station on the Hanging City. They noticed that when Sunday morning approached, there were a few figures standing guard next to the station on the Hanging City. It looked like they were about to Come down;
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"But in the end, none of those people got on the train, and only an empty train got off."
"The people above may know some rules that the people below don't know," Gu Mian said, "If that car can carry people repeatedly between the ground and the hanging city without restrictions, the people above will not do this I hesitated to get on the bus. I thought there was a rule similar to 'As long as you leave the Hanging City by bus, you can't go back.'"
Gui Gu also agreed with Gu Mian's words: "My friends at the time also analyzed it in the same way. Because it was the first week when the Hanging City appeared, they had too little information, so no one at the base got on the bus on the first Sunday. They planned to After observing for another week, a few people who were not in the base got on the bus. They were players living nearby and they didn’t seem to be doing well;
"Actually, their base is also in a state of lack of resources, and because of the nearby Hanging City, the people in the base have become a little slack. Just like the drowning man holding the driftwood, he has been supporting himself in the water for a long time and suddenly saw someone coming to save him. Like themselves, they no longer struggled and drifted as hard as before, and they felt that their hope had come.”
Although the Hanging City seems a bit suspicious if you look closely, it still gives people some room for imagination. People in high-pressure environments will subconsciously relax once they have hope.
"Does that car only make one round trip a week? It first goes from the Upside Down City to the ground and then returns to the Upside Down City from the ground?" the fat man asked.
Gui Gu nodded: "Yes, first come to the ground from the Upside Down City, stay here for ten minutes and then return to the Upside Down City."
The fat man sorted out the order: "If we go back and forth in this order, if people on the ground want to come back after taking the train to the Hanging City, they have to wait for the train to start next Sunday."
"Yes, so my friends decided to observe on the ground for another week to see if those people who went up from the ground will come back when the train starts next week."
The fat man's curiosity was aroused: "Are those people back?"
Gui Gu shook his head: "No, no one came down from above in the second week. To be cautious, I think they should observe more, but the people in the base can't hold themselves back;
"The base still maintained normal processes in the two weeks after the appearance of the Upside Down City. People entered the dungeons according to the allocation to earn game currency. Of course, some people died during this period. Some people think that the deaths during this period are meaningless. They feel that the beautiful oasis has already Appearing in a nearby base but not allowing people to enter is all because the base leaders have not made a decision to go to the Upside Down City, which has led to unnecessary casualties these days. Some people even speculated that the base's top brass wanted to monopolize the Upside Down City;
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"In a densely populated and high-pressure environment, this kind of conspiracy theory is very easy to spread. Soon most people in the base had opinions and began to complain about my friends and their hesitation."
History is always surprisingly similar. Gu Mian knew that if things continued like this, rebellion would break out in this base.
"At this time, someone in the base came forward and said that he was willing to go up and lead the way for everyone. My friend knew that if it continued, the base would definitely change. Now they have to send someone up to take a look. But let an unprofessional and irrational person go first It is absolutely not allowed to stand in a hanging city. He may be deceived into making wrong judgments and passing on wrong information to mislead other people in the base.”
The fat man understood this truth: "Just like one day I cooked a dish that was unpalatable and poisonous. The first doctor who ate the dish was deceived by me. After eating it, he exclaimed that it was delicious. Others heard the first When the doctors said this, they all rushed to eat my dish with their chopsticks. In the end, everyone got food poisoning. ”
Gui Gu felt the corner of his eye twitch, but he immediately digested Fatty's abstract description: "That's almost the meaning. The experience gained by the first person to practice is often more convincing. If there is danger in the hanging city But the first person to go up was blinded and sent back the message that it was safe, and the entire base would be in danger."
The fat man thought thoughtfully: "Yeah, it's like seeing a contract that can save your life in this world where you can die at any time, and someone has already proven its authenticity. If you ask me, I will definitely sign it at my own risk." If I accept this contract, whoever stops me has bad intentions.”
"Yes, once the first person to go up is deceived and sends back wrong information, the people in the base will swarm to board the upside down city, and there is no way to stop them. So the first person to go up is particularly important, and there must be someone He has a clear head and sufficient sense of judgment, so my friend decided to be the first person to go to the city. He is very thoughtful and very smart.”
The fat man was fascinated by what he heard: "What happened next? Can he still contact you after he gets to the Upside Down City?"
At this time, Gui Gu showed an incomprehensible expression on his face, as if he had recalled something puzzling.
The fat man thought he was going to say a bizarre and terrifying twist next, but unexpectedly, things didn't go in the direction he imagined: "Okay, in fact, we were all prepared that he would be unable to contact the ground after he went up to the Upside Down City. I didn’t expect that he could still contact people through the friend list.”
"I asked him what was going on up there, and he said it was very strange up there, just like before the global game started. It was like going back to the past, and the dungeons I experienced in the global game seemed like just a nightmare."< br>
In fact, when I recall the life before the start of the Global Game, I wasn't very happy, but tall people were all compared to each other. Compared with now, life before the start of the Global Game was like heaven.
The fat man was curious: "Has he told you the specific situation of the Hanging City? For example, who is on it, and how are the buildings above different from those on the ground?"
Gui Gu frowned and recalled: "There were a lot of people. He also felt strange after going up. Although the area of the ground rising into the sky was large, according to the population density at that time, the number of players who were brought up was only twenty or thirty at most. Plus the later The few people who went up were able to hold on to forty people, but there were many people up there, not to mention forty, there were four hundred.”
Gu Mian reasonably suspected that the group of people above were not players, but maybe NPCs placed on top by Earth to create an active atmosphere.
"He was unable to determine the identities of the people above at first, but after careful contact, he discovered that the people above were not fabricated fabrications but real players. They knew about the global game and knew that they were in an upside-down city. They Having fun in the Upside Down City feels very strange, just like when you go to a restaurant to eat and eat, other tables around you are getting into fights, but your table should be eating, drinking and enjoying yourself;
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"The buildings above are still the same as when they were on the ground, but they were all repaired after going up. At the beginning of the game, both the canteen and the shopping mall were smashed, smashed, and looted, but all the damaged buildings were repaired when we got up there, and they were restored to the way they were before. It looks like everything inside is back;
"There is indeed a rule from above that you cannot return to the Hanging City after you leave by train, so no one from above can go down;
"My friend stayed there for several days and told me that there was nothing unusual in the Hanging City. The people inside were happy and content. Even he felt happy up there..."
Guigu fell silent after saying this, and seemed to feel that his friend's reaction was inappropriate.
"Are you sure your friend will still be your friend after he goes up there?" A voice suddenly came from the side.
Gui Gu was startled by the sudden sound from behind him, turned around and saw Chu Changge. He didn't know when he was sitting next to him, but he was reading the book in his hand without looking up at himself.
Gui Gu calmed down: "To be honest, I had doubts in my heart. Sometimes I doubted whether the person I was talking to was still him. I even asked him some questions that could prove his identity, secretly and openly, to try to see if he had any Not dropped;
"I also said just now that he is very smart. When I asked him those questions openly and secretly, he understood that I doubted him, so he told several things that only we knew. The things he said were very interesting. Accurately, I basically confirmed that he is still the same person I know and has not been swapped;
"I asked him if he wanted to let people from their base go to the Upside Down City immediately since it was so good up there. But he told me that he was not yet at ease and planned to observe it for one more week before making a decision."
Speaking of this, Guigu stopped.
"Then what?" Fatty was a little anxious and wanted to continue listening to the next story.
Gui Gu showed an ugly smile: "No more, that was the last conversation between me and him. He disappeared not long after this conversation and disappeared from my friends list." (End of this chapter. )