Infinite spooky game

In the Colosseum where Chang Xu was, the time came to the third day.

The players all got up early, pushed open the stone door of the room, and gathered on the platform of the Colosseum.

Except for Chu Xun, Green, Dong Xiwen and Lenaan, who looked radiant because they had plenty of food, the rest of the players were in a very miserable state.

The bodies of Chang Xu, Liu Yuhan, Qin Mu and Nian Fu were covered with large areas of lime. Their necks, arms and ankles were covered with petrified marks, and their skin was as hard and cold as marble.

The lack of food will stimulate appetite, causing players to move closer to the statue. The curse affects all living things in the Colosseum equally.

He knew his own physical condition clearly. Only two episodes of hunger were enough to turn a person completely into stone under the effect of the curse.

They have experienced it once, and if it happens again, it will be a dead end.

"Two people are missing." Liu Yuhan raised her eyelids and looked at the crowd for a while, and said, "Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye are not here."

Dong Xiwen scratched his head: "Something must have happened. There were no ratmen showing up last night. How could they be in such danger?"

"Let's go and take a look." Nian Fu shrugged nonchalantly, saying in a sarcastic tone, "Those two guys are in poor physical condition. They might have starved to death."

The beast fighting game had not yet begun and the animals had not all arrived. The players walked towards Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye's rooms in small groups.

The stone door was tightly closed. Green held the door leaves with both hands and pulled them to both sides, creating a gap. He then squeezed half of his shoulder in and used his elbow to exert force to the side, opening the gap to a width wide enough for one person to pass through.

The players filed in, and the first thing they saw was Lin Ye's body lying beside the straw bed.

Half of his body had turned into stone. A bloody hole ran through his temple, with a raised brown blood clot on the edge and yellow-white brain matter overflowing.

He opened his eyes wide in disbelief, obviously not having anticipated his own death, and the remaining resentment in his eyes showed his unwillingness.

Chu Xun squatted down, stretched out his index finger and touched the wound on his forehead, and made a judgment: "It was a gunshot wound. The player killed him."

Before the players entered the room, the stone door was tightly closed from the outside. If other uninvited guests broke into the room before the players, it would be impossible for them to leave no traces.

The person who could kill Lin Ye could only be his teammate who shared the same room with him, Fan Zhanwei.

Lennar looked around and didn't find the target at the first time, so he couldn't help asking: "Where is Fan Zhanwei? Did he flee after killing his teammates?"

"He didn't run away." Chu Xun adjusted his glasses and said, "After Fan Zhanwei killed Lin Ye, he obtained all the points of his entire team and went to find the Sphinx to fulfill his wish."

As he spoke, he walked towards the wall where the lion mask was hung.

The players then noticed that in front of the gray and mottled wall stood an equally old and decayed stone statue, with a dull color that almost blended in with the surrounding environment.

The surface of the statue is covered with strange rocks, and the uneven stones are piled up to the height of an adult. The outline is so rough and towering that it is impossible to make out a human shape.

But considering the cause and effect, the identity of the stone statue is obvious.

"Fan Zhanwei is dead." Chu Xun said with a sigh in his voice, "It seems that in this copy, the price of finding the Sphinx to fulfill your wish is complete petrification.

"He paid the price and got his wish."

But...is there any wish that you would rather turn into a stone statue in order to fulfill it?
The players had no way of getting an answer.

The only person who knew the answer has been sealed in stone forever, silently.

It is undeniable that things are becoming troublesome. Originally, all we needed to do was let Chang Xu accumulate enough points and realize his wish to kill Qi Si, and everyone would be able to pass the level.

But now they are told that fulfilling their wish means sacrificing their own lives.

Why would anyone allow himself to die in order to kill another person?
Chang Xu looked at the stone statue of Fan Zhanwei, and was also thinking and weighing the options.

He wanted to kill Qis because Qis had killed him before and he felt dangerous.

The survival instinct in his biological genes and past experiences have made him accustomed to eliminating dangerous factors, and Qis is undoubtedly the biggest and most difficult to eliminate dangerous factor he has encountered since he can remember.

——It will not only pose a threat to him, but also cause damage to the people and environment around him, causing him to lose everything he hopes to maintain.

But what if the situation came to the point where he had to trade his life for Zeus's death?

Is it worth dying with Qis to prevent him from coming back to life and killing more people?
"Let's just complete the original main mission honestly." Chu Xun said with a wry smile, "The Sphinx's wish is like a temptation to quench thirst with poison, which will only bring bad consequences. It is still unknown whether it can be realized.

"We don't have to think about it anymore. We can just follow the original process of the beast fighting game to accumulate points. The winner will meet the evil god, make a wish to become a god, and then come back to meet the others. In this way, everyone will be able to pass the game."

The players responded one after another and returned to the beast fighting game venue.

I don’t know if it’s because the rat people were freed from the curse by Zis and became an unstable factor, making the players who were hostile to Zis have value in uniting, and the goat’s attitude towards everyone has become much better.

He first announced with a smile that because of the deaths of Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye, every player would receive two portions of food today.

Afterwards, he distributed six game coins to each team and told the players that today's game rules had not changed from yesterday.

Players entered the Glazed Tower to exchange points just like yesterday.

Although many players had their bodies partially petrified and their movements were slow, they still managed to complete the levels in the tower and received rewards.

By the end of the day's game, almost everyone had accumulated 3,000 points, meeting the requirement to realize their wishes.

But most players have made it clear that they are not willing to risk being petrified and go to the Sphinx to fulfill their wishes.

At the end of the day, no one chose food as a reward, so there was naturally no food distribution process.

Although Chu Xun and Green were still leading in points, thanks to the deaths of Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye, everyone had enough food to get through the day.

The third day passed smoothly, the points ranking did not change much, and nothing special happened at night.

On the fourth day, Chu Xun disappeared beyond everyone's expectation.

Green held a notebook full of plans and pointed to the extra stone statues in the room.

No one expected that Chu Xun, like Fan Zhanwei, also had a wish that he would rather turn into a stone statue to fulfill.

"He succeeded," Green said. "He and I stayed in touch for a while through the props, and his wish really came true."

Chu Xun's wish is to save someone. That person is very important to him, and he entered the weird game just for that person.

He had made up his mind from the beginning to realize this wish. After making sure that the situation would not change much and his analysis was no longer needed, he died with peace of mind.

Because of Chu Xun's death, every player received a piece of food, but there was still one piece missing, which needed to be obtained by completing the tower level.

Everyone knows that the food obtained through the tower should be distributed to those with the highest points. Anyone else who gives up the point reward and chooses food will suffer a pure loss.

But the points rankings of the remaining teams are very close. Even the team with the highest points will drop to second place if it chooses food instead of points as a reward in one link.

Based on this, if all players want to avoid harming their own interests, they can only accumulate points frantically.

If no one provides food, it will inevitably lead to a lose-lose situation. After all, people can really die if their appetite is aroused.

Unless... one person is killed in advance so that everyone can get another portion of food.

Green, who ranked first in total points, and Qin Mu, who ranked second, formed an alliance and called on players to put aside their grudges, each setting aside one game coin to exchange for food, and the rest of the game coins could be distributed freely.

They repeatedly assured that no matter who was responsible for the final distribution, it would be fair and just. The players looked at Green's muscular body and finally decided not to act on their own. Instead, they each chose a food reward.

As agreed, Green distributed the food equally to everyone.

The fourth day passed uneventfully, and the mood of the audience turned unhappy.

They want to see bloody, violent fighting and killing, not lifeless negotiations and peace.

The goat had to make a promise, saying that the format of the game would be modified to some extent the next day.

On the fifth day, the goat tells the players that someone must die before others can get food.

As compensation, if one person died, the others would receive two portions of food instead of just one.

The food reward in the Glazed Tower was cancelled, and Green chose action points as rewards, wanting to eat Nian Fu on the chessboard.

Fortunately, Nian Fu also got a lot of action points and barely avoided Green's pursuit.

The distance between the two on the chessboard was already very close. Green pulled out a big knife from the prop bar and chopped towards Nian Fu's neck.

Nian Fu reacted very quickly, leaning back to avoid the attack, and a long whip appeared in his hand, which he swung towards Green, entangling his blade.

During the stalemate, Lenarian quietly approached Green, preparing to launch a sneak attack.

A black light flashed, and Chang Xu held the broken blade in front of him, knocking his dagger away.

The melee was about to break out, but it was fleeting. The players were unsure of each other's cards, and after the sneak attack failed, they all returned to their positions.

When the beast fighting game ended that day, no one died and naturally no one got food.

Liu Yuhan used [Ghost Story Notes] to deduce the ending of this copy, and the result that emerged made her face pale.

The notes said that if this continued, only two people would survive.

These two people naturally would not be one of her and Chang Xu.

After all, Green, Dong Xiwen and Ryan have never experienced food shortages, so they still have a chance.

She, Chang Xu, Qin Mu, and Nian Fu were all in a semi-petrified state, waiting for the second half of the night, or their appetite caused by hunger would be completely petrified.

The players returned to their respective rooms in a gloomy atmosphere.

In the room with the fox mask, Nian Fu held the pendant on her chest and said silently: "Sister, I will commit suicide later, so that there will be enough food."

She had been prepared to sacrifice herself ever since she joined Tianping, knowing that no matter how many lives were sacrificed, they were not as important as the safety of "that person".

She is a chess piece in the hands of "that person". At the critical moment, she is willing to die for "that person"...

Nian Fu once again recalled her encounter with “that person”. “That person” was not looking for her. She just appeared by chance as an accident and was taken back by that person.

Just like feeding a kitten or puppy, a random act of kindness may not leave a mark in the heart of the benefactor, but in the eyes of the recipient it means the whole world.

Nian Fu wondered for no reason: "If I really died for her, would the weight I held in her heart be a little different? Would she remember me?"

Maybe not, because too many people sacrificed; maybe yes, because death is too heavy - who knows?
Time passed minute by minute, Nian Fu looked up at the mural on the ceiling, feeling the light dimming inch by inch until the specific strokes were blurred, making her unable to see the details of the mural.

She dilated her pupils and whispered softly, "I'm suddenly so scared. What does death feel like? Sister, do you think it will be painful..."

"Nian Fu, don't die." The voice in the pendant was as gentle as when they first met, "Stay alive, and both you and I will be fine."

……

Under the black wolf mask, Chang Xu opened his eyes in the darkness, having long forgotten what he had dreamed about.

The feeling of hunger overwhelmed him like a tide, and his stomach twitched and tightened, causing severe pain.

Chang Xu could feel his body becoming stiffer and stiffer, and the lime was spreading all over his body, ready to devour him completely at any time.

There was a rustling sound beside her. Liu Yuhan sat up from the bed and turned on a lamp. Her face was paler than white paper.

The trace of petrification crawled to her jaw. She put the [Ghost Story Notes] on the floor with her stiff hands and said very quickly: "I have written down all the possible situations and plans that may happen in the future. You must survive. As long as you are alive, [Dark Judge] will continue to take effect. Even if Qi Si survives this copy, it will be of no use..."

This was the tone of a last will. Chang Xu frowned slightly: "What do you want to do?"

What do you want to do? What should you do?
Countless voices asked questions in Liu Yuhan's mind, coming from the companions she had met and followed in the past.

As a prestigious theorist and intellectual player in the forum, she often publishes dungeon strategies and puts forward certain theories, which are pursued and believed by other players as a life-saving straw.

In reality, in the dungeon, those who follow her are willing to trust her decisions and execute them with hope.

But she is not a god after all. She is just an ordinary person who works hard. She will make mistakes and oversights. Every wrong decision means a price in blood, which weighs heavily on her.

The familiar faces gradually faded away, and she was left alone in the end.

This time, she didn't want to see her companions die in front of her again.

"Only one person needs to die, and everyone will have food." Liu Yuhan grinned.

She formed a dagger in her hand and thrust it fiercely into her heart, just like using wooden wedges to nail limbs to the cross-shaped execution platform during the trial of heretics.

In an instant, blood splattered on the chest, and the most gorgeous blood flowers quietly bloomed, the petals fluttered and scattered, slowly flowing down like red tears.

The words that Qis asked about her desires were still ringing in her ears. It was not until this moment that she finally realized that she was not living to kill people.

She wants to save people, to let those who deserve to live live better...

Liu Yuhan smiled brightly, as if relieved from a great burden: "I should have died a long time ago. Even if I don't die now, he will kill me when we leave the dungeon."

No one knows what Qis's plan is, so they can only prepare for the worst-case scenario that he will eventually be resurrected.

Once he is resurrected, all previous efforts will be in vain, and the fate waiting for the rebels will be either death or deeper control.

"I died in the Hopeless Sea dungeon a long time ago. I should not be like this, a walking corpse whose soul is controlled, going along with the crowd and struggling to survive..."

Liu Yuhan thought back to her childhood when her father put a pen in her hand and said to her clumsily, "Yuhan, you need to study, understand reason, and be an honest and kind person."

She thought about how she had also had thoughts of depravity in the face of hardship, but she had always been able to restrain herself with morality and keep her original heart in the face of repeated temptations.

At that time she thought that she was to stand in the sun and be as brilliant as a flower, how could she be as humble as a mosquito?
She really didn't want to die easily, but it wasn't because she was afraid of death. Instead, she was unwilling to be annihilated silently.

What does it matter if she lives? All those she loves and those who love her have left her, and she has no attachment to this world anymore.

It's just that after finally crawling into the light, even if I die, I have to light a bonfire of life...

At least at this moment, she still has the freedom to choose who she will die for.

The blood was slowly draining away, but it was still too early for death. Liu Yuhan saw Chang Xu's pupils dilate and then shrink, as if he had made some decision or had some enlightenment.

Then, she saw Chang Xu squatting in front of her and said word by word: "Liu Yuhan, don't die, live on, I know how to pass the level." (End of this chapter)