What does it feel like to be dead?

Probably goosebumps will pop all over the body, and all the thoughts, thoughts—everything, will flash in front of you, and some people call this a marquee.

I felt like I was some way from death because I could still breathe and my mind was blank.

I couldn't understand how this happened for a few seconds.

Is anyone playing a prank on this house? He changed the vellum paper, or quietly wrote down an extra line just to make us panic? If so, then the lobster's explanation to me is that he is playing with me, and we have complicated the poem, which is not a puzzle at all, just a prop that someone else uses to play with us.

Lee asked depressedly, "What's going on?" ”

"Shut up." The lobster said, "Let me think about ......"

The lobster seemed urgent. His fists clenched and unfurled, his whole body on intense alert.

"Thou have three......" Lee read softly from the beginning, his voice was low and gave me a strong sense of horror. His voice slowly faded away, and then it rang out again: "Xpνo (Chronos), the god of time. ”

"You know?" I paused for a moment, looked at Li, and felt a little light-hearted.

Li shrugged his shoulders: "I only know that he is the primordial god of ancient Greece, and he is also the supreme god." ”

"He is an Esoteric* deity, does not belong to the original Homeric and Hesiod sect system, the Lord of Chaos, controls time and everything." The sound of a lobster is more like the hoarse, low-pitched sound of a bow hair pressing hard against the strings of a cello.

I had to focus more on that poem, because there was simply no time for me to wonder if it was real or a hoax.

"'catch-1 is for xpνo'...... Whatever it means is forbidden time, chaos or control, 'he hom lake enclose ith her mercy is offended in this dungeon', and if this is the same thing, it should be put under the lake......"

"Lake? There's no lake around here," Lee said, "what are you playing?" Is this some kind of wild escape game show? ”

The lobster looked up suddenly, he looked at Lee, narrowed his eyes, and hissed in a voice like staring at his prey, "Yes - the game, the death game." ”

"All the spectators are the people you can see and all the rocks here, and if you haven't figured out the situation, I suggest you try to kill yourself, and you won't die even if you poke yourself in the intestines until you don't go crazy or get killed by something. You can give it a try. ”

The lobster's words creep me out. I feel like my paranoia of victimization has worsened. I didn't think there would be a third person here, but then a third person came, and when I thought it was just the three of us, the lobster told me we might be killed by "something".

I shuddered.

"Angry...... Lake...... Chronos ...... "The lobster repeats these words over and over again. Then he jumped to his feet.

What did he think? He thought—"

The lobster rushed out like a bolt of lightning, the light of the flashlight in my hand left the dark room, and I rushed out of the darkness that made my heart beat wildly during Lee's questioning, and ran out with the lobster.

"Chronos! Buried Chronos! The lobster said, standing on the second floor, looking down like an eagle.

"Time, Mingming, a timer - underwater." The lobster said to me, her eyes searching around.

There is no water in the vicinity. This is the depths of the island, and I've been through all the surrounding areas for the past few days, until I don't want to try it anymore—I don't want to see the dilapidated villa I left appear again and again, it's horrible.

- Underwater.

Suddenly, I jumped up, lunged down, tripped on the penultimate step, and rolled in a circle before I got to my feet. I rushed to the flower bed where I used to sleep against it.

The flower bed is made of stone pillars, and the base of the column is carved in the shape of a rose, and the bottom is shrunk up with a shallow groove. I pulled my fingers in and touched it - it was wet.

Standing on the second floor, Lee said, "Do you mean that fountain?" It must mean the fountain—"

The fountain is in the center of the hall on the first floor, and it has dried up, so whenever it rains, I store a little of it in my bottle. I try to avoid drinking the rain, but I can starve, but I can't be thirsty for a long time.

Rain doesn't taste good, and I can always think of all kinds of parasites in it that will enter my esophagus, eat away at my stomach, find a warm place, and lay their eggs......

Trying not to think about the bad impression that the water had on me, I pressed my ear to the stone pillar.

There was the sound of water flowing in the stone pillars. There is also mud at the top of the flower bed, and the soil is damp.

"Lobsters, lobsters," I cried, "not fountains." The fountain has been blocked...... Here, here! ”

The lobster said, "Get out of the way." "I immediately left the stone pillar flower bed. The lobster began to move the heavy flower bed, and the muscles of his arms bulged little by little, and the green tendons burst out, full of strength. Lee was still babbling that the fountain was the answer, and he seemed to be enjoying it, but when the lobster began to lift the flower beds, he rushed up to help carry them.

It took a lot of effort to lift the flower bed a little bit, and there was a pump underneath.

"Why is there a pump down here?" Lee asked, "I thought—I thought it was a building from a long time ago—"

"Yes, but it may offer us anything." The lobster put the flower bed down and said with a blank face. He started to clean the soil around the pump, and I asked with some sensitivity, "What does this mean?" ”

"How long did we wait for him?" The lobster asked me without raising his head. He meant Lee.

"Ten days—" I said, "thirteen days." ”

"Yes, that's right," said the lobster, "I've been waiting for you for thirteen days." ”

My body stiffened and I looked at the lobster incredulously.

"From the beginning of the game, every thirteen days, it will 'devour' a person," said the lobster, "and all the things that die and fail in the game will become its 'nourishment'." I mean – everything. ”

I didn't see a hint of modernity in this villa. I haven't seen anything like an electronic watch, a computer, a cell phone. If what the lobsters say is true, then they have all been "devoured" and buried somewhere, like this pump-

It may provide us with anything.

Lee looked at the two of us blankly. I dare say he still thinks it's just a recording of a wilderness escape show.

The lobster quickly dug up the pump, the pump didn't work, there was no electricity, I didn't know how that worked, but I didn't want to find the answer at all.

Together, Lobster and Lee lifted the pump, which was covered with mud, damp mud and stones, and a tiny layer of moss on top of it.

"You're not going to dig in, are you?" "It's not like someone buried something beforehand." ”

Yes, it's not like that at all. I froze in place, watching Lee and the lobster dig hard. I would love to go back and look at the piece of paper again, to make sure that there was indeed an extra line on it and not my hallucination, and I would like to lie down and sleep now, and when I open my eyes, I find myself still lying in my room.

"Obviously!" The lobster shouted.

"Oh my God! There really is something! Lee exclaimed in astonishment. I immediately stepped forward and crouched down to look down. The lobster shone down with a flashlight, and I saw an iron box submerged in the water below.

I rolled up my sleeves, stretched out my arms, and lifted the water-soaked iron box with the disgust of the mud on my body. As I lifted it up, I could vaguely feel something vibrating inside. It's like a clock, ticking, ticking.

Li Yi sat on the ground, wiped a handful of sweat with the back of his hand, and said happily: "Hey, you're right...... It seems that this game is not that difficult, huh? The lobster didn't immediately open the tin box, he put it to his ear and listened for a moment, then took a step back: "Stay away." ”

I immediately jumped two steps back, and Lee was a little dazed, and he wanted to ask why, but he was glared at by the lobster's eyes, so he had to raise his hands and take two steps back. The lobster touched his belt and pulled out a bronzing key from his waist.

"What's that?" Lee's eyes widened in surprise.

I don't understand where the lobster got it from.

"Keys." The lobster said succinctly. He inserted the key into the only hole in the iron box. With a "click", the iron box opened.

The lobster opened the box very carefully. And then I almost couldn't help but keep back.

There was a timer in the iron box, and a black, messily wrapped thing - a timed bomb.

"It's not funny at all." Lee repeatedly assures the lobster that what is in front of us is the real thing.

"'Cruel chewing gum'* - the rotten ** used in the movie." The lobster crouched there, examining the dangerous fellow as if he were just watching it.

"Devon." Li swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said.

Lee finally felt the panic this time, and he took a step back: "No—it can't be. ”

"It looks like we've had soldiers here before...... This is a military bomb, but there is no distinction between the line of fire and the zero line. This means that if we remove any of the wires, it can cause an immediate explosion. The lobster said, pointing to the dense lines on it. Even if the lines were all different colors, I would never have been able to tell which one was the most correct.

"We have two paths now," said Lobster, "and the C4* and TNT* are very similar in nature, neither of them can easily explode and must be detonated with a detonator." We have two options, one is to remove the detonator, and the other is to solve this password. "That black guy has a little input keyboard on him, it's very old.

I closed my eyes forcefully, trying to calm myself.

"No, it's not just the C4," I said, "the C4 was invented after the fifties of the twentieth century, and the bomb was made by a German fanatic—an irregular military bomb maker. I pointed to the oddly shaped counter and the keypad.

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