"I originally thought I would never eat this kind of thing again in my life..." Nian Fu quickly smiled bitterly, and the color of memories gradually appeared in his eyes.
The human brain has an emotional protection mechanism. Painful things can easily be diluted into a vague blank. Only when the pain becomes normal will it appear like a big ball of gray paint in the white space. Make a mark on the paper that cannot be ignored.
Most of Nian Fu’s memories of the past took place in an orphanage.
Everything is in short supply there, including food, clothing and beds.
The dean used the relief money allocated by the federal government to grow himself into a fat pig, and fed the children in the orphanage with a pitiful amount of swill leaked from his teeth.
As long as people don't starve to death, no matter how difficult the conditions are, nothing will happen. Even if a few starve to death, cutting them up and feeding them to pigs or selling them to the black industrial chain is a good way to deal with them.
The only role of those children seems to be to serve as a publicity facade for the Love Foundation, to steal donations one after another from people from all walks of life.
The rest of the time, they were thrown into various corners of the orphanage like unsupervised animals. Under hunger and pain, they prematurely understood the law of the jungle of the weak and the strong, and fought for scarce resources like wild beasts. Fight.
Nian Fu, as a child who was sent to an orphanage midway, was the pampered apple of a family before losing his parents. He is not as adaptable to the rules of competition as those children who have grown up in such an environment. .
In the first month, her food was often taken away by the older children, and even her bed was occupied by them.
She could only sleep on the wet ground, and like other children who were driven into corners, she picked up straw and spread it on the ground, scrawled on it, to use as a bed.
The building is in disrepair, covered with cobwebs and all kinds of filth. At night, the squeaking sound of rodents crawling on the beams can be heard.
One night, Nianfu heard the squeaking sound coming to his feet, and the straw underneath him seemed to be pulled by something.
She opened her eyes and saw a big rat with messy hair standing at her heels, upright like a human, with mung bean-like eyes shining in the dark, staring at her.
After staring at her for a while, the mouse bent down again, stretched out its mouth with a white beard to grab the straw on the ground...
"I was very angry at the time. I thought I had nothing left, but that nasty rat was trying to grab my last remaining straw. I wanted it to die."
Nian Fu smiled, but his voice was Very calm: "So I grabbed it. I wanted to strangle it directly, but I thought it was too easy.
"I hadn't eaten for two days at that time, and I was very hungry, so I put it to my mouth and bit off a piece of meat with my front teeth.
“I suddenly realized that humans are also animals, and they can hunt like animals and use their claws and teeth to obtain food. In order to survive, humans can do anything.
"It's unfortunate that I didn't have to go to that orphanage. After all, the process was quite troublesome. But there happened to be a family that went through the process and regretted it, so they replaced my information. ”
Zeiss took out a handkerchief from his backpack and carefully wiped the blood stains left by the rat flesh between his fingers.
The sour taste of rat meat and blood lingered in his mouth, and he regretted losing the [Evil God Finger Bone] in the copy of "Double Happiness Town" that could transform the taste of meat into vegetarian food.
He listened quietly to Nian Fu's narration. The three words "orphanage" seemed far away from him, but they were like sticky threads that tugged at some of the information in his memory. It lingers like gauze soaked in water.
He remembered that after his parents died when he was sixteen, his uncle and aunt had planned to throw him, a burden, into an orphanage on the outskirts of Jiangcheng.
At that time, his uncle took him to an old building covered with moss and bacteria, and discussed with the pot-bellied dean the process of donating funds and various documents.
He walked alone among the decaying corridors, and countless ghostly faces belonging to children loomed between the window panes, like evil spirits in the abyss, staring straight at him.
He seemed to see a few special faces, maybe there was indeed a girl eating mice, but all he thought at the time was: he hated this place and he wanted to leave.
Later, his uncle did not throw him into the orphanage after all, but took him back to his hometown in the countryside.
One night, he heard his uncle and aunt discussing through the wall.
“That little brat is really evil. I’m afraid he was possessed by something unclean.”
"Don't you insist on taking him over? He is a monster. You also lured him to your home and caused a lot of trouble all day long."
"It's not that you don't know, you didn't know that that night Did you have that dream too? The evil god said that if we throw him away, our whole family will die!"
"An evil god again, I think he looks like an evil god!"
Many memory fragments are buried deep in the bottom of the mind, and they fly up once touched.
Chisi suddenly remembered the foundation that his father donated during his lifetime, which seemed to be mainly engaged in orphanage-related business.
His fate should be inextricably linked to that orphanage. If nothing else happens, he will be thrown into another fate line closely entangled with the orphanage. The details of his character will be different because of his different experiences. difference.
But there was a being outside the chessboard who stretched out his fingers and gently moved the chess pieces. The amplitude was as small as the fluttering of butterfly wings, but it allowed him to slip through the net of his original fate.
The experience that should have belonged to him was given to another person, and he was able to sit here and listen to other people's stories.
Nian Fu sighed, still smiling: "I'm not telling you this to win your sympathy, just because this copy gives me a very familiar feeling, even though I can't find any appearance. It’s similar, but I still think of that orphanage.
“Resources are so scarce, and everyone is involved in a competition for survival with no winner, fighting to the death, but completely indifferent. Not to the future. To use an analogy, it is like a group of maggots fighting each other, and in the end all they get is carrion.
"At that time, I thought, it was simply a Colosseum."
Ziss did not have the leisure to heal the childhood shadows of his teammates. In his opinion, the stories that others voluntarily confided were no more true than novels, even if they were Really, it's just a handle that can be used.
It’s just that everything is too coincidental.
The food given to players in the dungeon happens to be rat meat, which can be recognized by Nian Fu.
Nian Fu happened to have an experience of living in an orphanage, which seemed to be inextricably related to him.
They happen to form a team in this instance and can share this information.
Since entering the game, Qisi has had a feeling of being manipulated by a high-ranking being, and Qi also truthfully informed him of the existence of the Gods Gamble.
But the manipulation does not seem to end there. The whole world seems to be programmed step by step.
And this feeling of being manipulated reached its peak in this dungeon. From the moment Chang Xu activated the effect of [Dark Judge], the situation was actually out of control, and all the subsequent choices were Made passively. He no longer even occupies the center of the stage, but has become an NPC-like existence, being watched eagerly by players, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any time.
- Very bad, very uncomfortable.
"Do you have any contact information with your teammate?" Qisi looked at Nian Fu, "Is the food over there also rat meat?"
Nian Fu close He stared for two seconds and nodded when he opened his eyes again: "Yes, I suspect that all the food here is rat meat."
"Is that so?" Qisi lowered his eyes and looked at his fingers. Picture after picture flashed before my eyes.
“I thought of a game called ‘Beast Fighting Chess’.” He said, “There are eight kinds of chess pieces in total, namely elephant, lion, tiger, leopard, wolf, dog, cat, and rat. Among them. , lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, dogs, and cats can all eat rats, and rats can eat the largest elephants
"According to the gameplay of Beast Fighting Chess, the food chain relationship between rats and elephants will be the key to breaking the game."
"Why do you think this is Beast Fighting Chess?" Nian Fu frowned, "There are eight types in total. There are only six teams of chess pieces, and we are 'foxes' and do not belong to any kind of chess."
"Foxes are canines, corresponding to the 'dogs' in beast fighting chess. Not necessarily in the audience." Chisi paused and asked, "Do you remember what kind of animal is sitting at the top of the auditorium?"
Nian Fu followed Chisi's words and recalled carefully. .
All kinds of animals are crowded together in the auditorium. The closer you get to the bottom, the more crowded it becomes, and the further up you go, the more spacious it becomes.
Most of the seats below are occupied by cows, sheep, cats and dogs, and above are carnivores such as tigers, leopards and lions, but there is one animal that lives above these predators...
"Elephant." Nian Fu blurted out.
Qisi nodded and stated calmly: "Among various animal-themed games, including the worldviews of various animations and novels, only Beast Fighting Chess sets the elephant as the strongest beast. ."
"Is it only Beast Chess?"
"As far as I know, that's the case, and I believe that the copy will not set puzzles beyond the limits of players' knowledge." In his hand, a light golden prop flashed past, but Nian Fu could not see what it was. "The key to winning in Beast Fighting Chess is to avoid being in danger and to seize the opponent's weaknesses as much as possible.
"Considering that in this game, the players have unequal amounts of information, that is, they know their own animals but not other people's animals, I thought of an interesting way to play..."
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"The current situation is actually very interesting. It's still early, so I can analyze it for you in detail."
On the other side, Chu Xun was sitting on the straw bed, talking leisurely. Dao Lai: "First of all, it can be made clear that Chang Xu's targeting of Qisi was not the intention of the Kyushu Guild. On the contrary, it was probably an illegal act that violated the orders of the guild.
"Recently, the forum has been in an uproar because of the identity card issue. Yingtian and Jiuzhou are in the important stage of internal purges and are deeply involved in the whirlpool of public opinion. They will never take the initiative to expose their non-compliant behavior to the public to add fuel to the fire.
"Chang Xu, as the number one newcomer on the list, is a target of key training and momentum building, and there is no room for any stain. Using the extreme mechanism of the identity card to attack new guild members, even if there is a reason, can easily cause negative effects.
" Therefore, no matter whether Qisi is dead or alive, as long as Chang Xu leaves this dungeon, he will be sanctioned by the Jiuzhou Guild. It is very likely that it will not be as simple as expelling him from the guild. Chang Xu himself could not have known this, but he still did it. It can be said that dealing with Qisi was a desperate and crazy move on his part, and he would want to win more than any of us.
"A desperate gambler will definitely be willing to give up the interests in the process in order to obtain the final victory. This will be a point we can take advantage of."
Green listened without realizing it. , asked: "So, we are going to find Chang Xu to cooperate and negotiate the conditions for helping them?"
"No." Chu Xun shook his head, "We will not cooperate with anyone.
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"Qisi has gone through the trial of the identity card and has become the target of the entire dungeon. Any inclination of any team is a help in time for him. In order to win our support, he may also bring us considerable benefits.
“Only when the chess pieces have not fallen can the chess players think and be afraid. We have a huge advantage and can completely sit back and watch. "
Green scratched his head: "Brother, what you said makes sense, but it doesn't seem right. Didn't that guy named Fan Zhanwei make it clear that he would side with Qisi? "
"He just thinks he is smart and wants to be a speculator who can make both ends meet. It's a pity that they don't have the capital to raise the price from the ground up. "Chu Xun looked at the tiger mask hanging on the wall, with a faint smile on his lips, "Unless they are lions. ”
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"We are 'Lions'."
Fan Zhanwei suddenly put down the bowl of rat meat in his hand, stood up and walked to the wall, took off the lion mask hanging on it and groped gently.
"I thought about it. Only the beast chess will put the bishop at the top. I see, I should have thought of it a long time ago." He seemed excited and spoke very fast, "We are Lions can eat tigers, leopards, wolves, dogs, cats, and rats, second only to elephants, and the elephants are in the audience..."
Lin Ye was holding a bowl and sitting next to him with a confused look on his face. He looked at his teammates walking around.
The latter’s originally dull fish eyes were now so bright that they reminded people of the legendary neurotic Frankenstein.
He swallowed: "What do you mean by all that mess?"
"I'm guessing at the rules and mechanisms of this beast-fighting game." Fan Zhanwei held the lion mask and talked. "If this game is really based on the real-life Battle of Beasts, then I think we are not at a disadvantage as I guessed. On the contrary, we have the greatest advantage within the scope of the mechanism.
"We We will win, we will be hated and ostracized, and it doesn’t matter no matter how many teams we offend. Because we are the 'lion', the biggest chess piece after the 'elephant'. ”
Lin Ye was confused when he heard this.
He had played Beast Fighting Chess before. When he was not a street gangster, but a young son with high hopes in his family, his parents often accompanied him. Play various puzzle games
Although he always makes a mess after playing, and loses his temper under the helpless eyes of his parents, smashing the chess pieces and the board into a mess...
Lin Ye opened his mouth and asked: "What if there is What if the team is an elephant? "
"No." Fan Zhanwei put down his lion mask and pointed at the top of his head. "The elephant is there."
Under the wall with a tiger mask, Chu Xun lowered his index finger and pointed at the bowl filled with flesh and blood: "The rat is here."
(End of this chapter)