Chapter 1197 Living People
"What's going on? Where is this?"
"Who are you?! Why are you leaning on me!"
"Shut up and stop making noise, we are all store employees."
"..."
Dark, noisy, chaotic...
When Ji Li woke up from a coma, his cane was thrown aside and pressed on the body of a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was still asleep, his furrowed face twitching slightly, and there was a sense of grief between his brows, as if he was experiencing a nightmare.
Ji Li heard some conversations when he woke up faintly. He half-propped himself up and turned his head towards the source of the conversation.
There were several figures who were mostly strangers but rarely familiar, some were men and women, some were old and some were young, but they could be recognized at a glance as the Tianhai clerk in this state.
There are no famous people, they are all ordinary store clerks.
Ji Li grabbed the bottom of the cane and pulled it out from under the middle-aged man with a groan. Only then did he have time to examine the world in front of him.
The first impression upon waking up is that this is a very dark space.
There was no sound of wind, it seemed like a sealed place.
It is a fan-shaped area of about fifty square meters. There is a black land in front of you, and nothing exists.
The seven clerks were at the edge of the fan, but nothing could be seen in the corner, which seemed to be the source of darkness.
"Ji Li? Manager Ji? Is that you?"
The middle-aged man was also awakened by the withdrawal of his cane. His weathered face showed a trance at first, and then he was delighted to see Ji Li.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he immediately attracted the noisy people on the other side, and the five people on the other side came to Ji Li one after another.
People with various faces and moods all looked at Ji Li dryly, as if they were meeting a savior. They wanted to speak but didn't dare, and just wasted time there.
On the other hand, a short-haired woman who had a rather bad attitude before did not lose her composure when she saw Ji Li and said calmly:
"If store manager Ji comes too, we will have a better chance of winning. I am Tian Tian from the sixth branch."
Tian Tian has a completely different personality from her name, which can make people feel separated.
After Ji Li glanced around at a few people, he didn't put much thought into getting to know them. His eyes were firmly fixed on the pure darkness in the corner of the area, where there was an aura that made him faintly afraid.
It seems that somewhere beyond the reach of human eyes, there is something extremely terrifying that is waiting for an opportunity to move.
He slowly got up from the ground. The cold environment made his right leg hurt. He leaned on the crutches with most of his body and asked without squinting:
"Sixth Branch Tian Tian, why are you here?"
The special project of seven people, except for this Tian Tian, is probably a bunch of waste.
The seventh branch went straight to the indoor game area farther away, separated from the large team of store employees, and knew too little about the situation in other branches.
But through the clown doll he saw before he fell into coma, Ji Li roughly guessed some of the inside story.
Before, he had paid attention to the three types of puppets. The most mysterious clown puppet was responsible for marking and selecting people.
The Joker selects suitable participants for a special project and pulls them into execution in an irresistible manner.
No wonder Ji Li had a feeling before that he was constantly being followed and monitored by clowns. It was not suspicious, but keen.
Because clowns are monitoring, scrutinizing, and thereby judging and pulling people.
But Ji Li needs to know why it hired these seven people to carry out the so-called "special project."
Tian Tian didn't even think about it, and relayed the situation concisely and concisely:
"Our store and the fifth branch jointly participated in the Ferris wheel project. I was the one staying below, but suddenly I saw a clown doll and fell into a coma."
The middle-aged man next to Ji Li was about to speak, but Tian Tian didn't give him a chance to express himself and said first:
"The situation of all of them is similar. They are all store employees who are not currently participating in the project."
There is also such an unspoken rule for clowns to pull people.
Ji Li turned his head and glanced at Tian Tian, who looked calm next to him, but a sneer appeared in his heart because he clearly remembered the last rule of the game before he fell into coma:
"Game goal: Try to become the only survivor among seven players"
Of the seven of them, only one can survive.
But judging from the performance of others, it seems that they did not get the news.
Of course, everyone’s physique is different, so there may be a possibility that you didn’t hear it clearly.
After all, at that time, the clown's method of pulling people was an unsolvable method, forcing him to fall into a coma, and the rules of the game and the coma were at the same time.
It is easy for a top store manager like Ji Li, whose mind has been trained to the extreme, to hear and remember clearly, but ordinary newcomers may not be able to do it.
For example, the two people who had the previous conversation obviously didn't really hear or remember it.
But this Tian Tian must have heard clearly.
But Ji Li didn't care about this. He pointed at the fan-shaped corner in front of him and said to everyone:
"Confined space, wide angle to blind corner, the escape route is right there, I'm going to give it a try." After saying that, Ji Li raised his legs and was about to walk towards the corner, but just as he was about to walk out of the wide angle, several people behind him dance to tune.
Only Tian Tian didn't move. Just when she was about to speak, she heard an unnatural movement in the entire space, as if something collapsed.
The sound of dripping water sounded, and the pure black in the corner instantly turned into a fluorescent waterfall, and at the same time, an indifferent mechanical countdown sounded:
"5, 4, 3..."
Five seconds passed before a sudden change occurred. This time, even Ji Li did not dare to move.
Despite what they see in front of them, everyone can understand what it means - "In this fan-shaped space, there will be an escape door every 5 seconds, that is, at the angle."
Ji Li nodded his cane, his eyes flickered, and he was the first to take a step.
At this step, nothing happens.
At the same time, when others saw this, they also started running at full speed and ran forward, passing the lame Ji Li in just an instant.
There were only two people who didn't run away like crazy: one was Tian Tian, and the other was a middle-aged man.
Tian Tian sneered in her heart, her eyes remained on Ji Li, as if with a scrutinizing attitude.
The middle-aged man looked panicked, even with an inexplicable sadness. He simply imitated Ji Li, always keeping a distance behind him, and at the same time chanting:
"Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu, wait for dad, I will definitely be able to go back alive, wait for dad, wait for dad..."
Among the four people in front, the first one to touch the waterfall was a strong young man.
He stretched his hand long into the waterfall, half of his arm had disappeared into the fan-shaped space, and at the same time shouted with joy:
"It's a portal! I must have touched a portal, so I ran away first!"
After that, he rushed into the waterfall and disappeared from everyone's eyes.
Five seconds have passed, and the waterfall disappears and turns into a pure black death land again.
The second person rushed forward and beat the rocks heartily, but in vain.
Ji Li slowly frowned. He did not move forward but slowly retreated back. He returned to the awakening point and examined the entire space.
In addition to the young man who had just been "teleported", the other three store clerks were already waiting at the corner, waiting for the next waterfall to open at any time.
Tian Tian stayed on Ji Li's left side, and the middle-aged man stayed on his right side. Neither of them spoke, the former was wary and the latter was afraid.
"You can't be anxious, you can't be anxious. I have to follow him. He is a master of tasks. I can just imitate him, but can he really do it..."
Time, one second, two seconds, half a minute, one minute... until the fifth minute.
The three people waiting at the corner were already very anxious. Unwilling to be trapped in place, they began to search along the fan-shaped area.
But Ji Li's brows slowly relaxed at this moment, and he finally understood how to play this special project.
My eyes were deceived again.
This time, seeing is believing and hearing is believing.
The winning method of this game was actually revealed in advance before the game even started - "seven people survive and only one survives".
Especially after the previous waiting, he was even more certain of this.
What game only has rewards and no punishment? This is impossible.
The young man "teleported" away from the waterfall. If this was a reward, then the few of them who did not leave should be punished, but they were not.
This shows that the punishment is over.
How to end? There is only one answer - the young man was not transported, he was already dead.
Ji Li nodded slowly. After confirming this, he took out the pistol from his sleeve and shot Tian Tian on the left, then the middle-aged man on the right.
Kill them one by one, shoot them one by one, until only Ji Li is left alive in this area.
In just ten seconds, he achieved the goal of the game - "becoming the only survivor among seven players."
The clown pulls people, fan space, special projects, the place of death.
A cruel and unconventional game, the quick wit of the puzzles has contributed to a special project that does not seem to be exciting, rushed and short-lived.
Ji Li ended the project in the shortest time and achieved final victory.
Tian Tian died with eyes closed, because she was still young and did not dare to risk the consequences of failure after killing everyone, so she died.
The middle-aged man died with his eyes open, because he didn't have much ability, but he got into a cruel horror game, so he died.
Ji Li fell into coma again. He saw a red-nosed clown again, but he was pulled back from darkness to light.
This time, before leaving, he heard a different sound. It was no longer a ghost, but a human voice.
"Xiao Chu...Dad doesn't have the courage to be the only one who survives...
Dad is useless, I can’t watch you grow up..."