Pain, dizziness, and a trance that seemed to be covered by something entangled, and the two gradually merged into one.

It was like reaching into a pile of already cooled ashes, stirring the broken, soft and greasy death.

Opening his eyes, Fang Liang found himself sitting on an old wooden chair, his hands and feet tied and unable to move.

Lu Ming, Li Xiaoyu, and Cao Zhengfei also suffered the same thing, and all four were trapped in an abandoned storage room.

The room was cramped and windowless, except for a door directly behind Li Xiaoyu, and there were only pinched cans and empty medicine bottles in the corners, as well as white traces after the candles were removed.

In front of him, a stubby candle was burning on a lead-gray square wooden table. Through this light source, the four were able to identify each other, identify themselves and the state of their environment, but they had no way of knowing the day/night changes outside the door.

[The guide is complete, please choose whether to give up within 300 seconds, and the end of the countdown will default to accepting the challenge.] 】

[Quest Goal: Survive and investigate the mutations caused by the curse and their origins.] 】

The 300 seconds of preparation time is more sufficient, and it allows enough time for the team members to guide the prologue discussion after waking up one after another, which is also a small humanized progress compared to the forced entry after 60 seconds in the Dead Line Building.

Fang Liang took the lead in throwing out the question: "I'll go first, what happened to you this time to guide the prologue?" ”

Li Xiaoyu had already thought about it, and he roughly explained his own experience and experience, which was almost the same as the "mind-reading experience" experienced by Fang Liang. However, Li Xiaoyu was not as suspicious as Fang Liang, and when he mastered the active trigger, the man in the white coat had already begun to act, causing him to have slightly fewer clues than Fang Liang.

Fang Liang blinked: "Then the second topic, to be honest, I don't have a clue about this copy for the time being, the curse power is well disguised, and I haven't even discovered the curse law that is contrary to my usual thinking." ”

"In terms of the difficulty of the dungeon, Forest doesn't seem to have the unavoidable curse killing law of Deadline, and even ordinary people like the man in the white coat who don't have superpowers don't die immediately when they are affected by the curse."

"On this basic information, I think we should have a certain amount of time for dungeon exploration and investigation, and as the stay time increases, the difficulty of surviving here will also increase, after all, the forest does not spring up instantly. However, if you feel clueless and have little hope of beating the level, we can also vote to give up. ”

Cao Zhengfei still has the attitude of following the public, although Lu Ming did not find out too much information through the guide prologue, but he felt that this copy had its own use, but he did not immediately vote to give up.

Li Xiaoyu's eyes flickered: "I agree to continue, but in our state, isn't it a mermaid?" ”

"The system didn't say that no action is allowed in the countdown, there is still a little preparation time left, don't move, I'll try."

Fang Liang began to exert his strength, and he kept shaking the chair and leaning forward, so that his chin and shoulders were smacked on the table at the same time.

Wheezing for 3 seconds, Fang Liang endured the slight pain, rolled to the side with the table top as a fulcrum, and tried his best to move the bound hands on the back of the chair to the others.

"Can you help me untie it?"

"Wait until I see how the knots work." Lu Ming observed for a moment, stretched his neck and bit the rope on Fang Liang's wrist.

Biting the key rope end, Fang Liang gradually exerted his strength, and the rope could be quickly untied as soon as it was loosened.

Li Xiaoyu's eyes lit up: "Leave me alone, I can't show it." ”

There were about 2 minutes left in the preparation time, and after Fang Liang untied his legs, he quickly went to untie Lu Ming's hands and feet.

Fang Liang: "If that guy will definitely come in later, do you have any plan to deal with it?" ”

Lu Ming: "I'll go up and blow him up, and I'll be done?" ”

Fang Liang closed his eyes and refused: "Why don't you think about it, in many subconscious and dream-themed works, the professional symbol of the doctor often represents rationality, as well as a guide, or the object of redemption that exists in the protagonist's subconscious, it may be easy to kill him directly, but if you want to find information related to him, isn't it troublesome to die violently?" ”

Li Xiaoyu: "Then what are your plans?" ”

Fang Liang looked at the three of them: "I'll deliberately sell a flaw for a while, test him, in short, don't rush to kill him, the living are usually more useful than the dead, not to mention that his mental condition is very bad, we need to find a way to grasp the copy information." ”

It may be that the man in the white coat was worried that Lu Ming had great strength and that he was not Lu Ming's opponent, so he tied Lu Ming's rope a few extra times, causing Fang Liang to only untie the rope for about 30 seconds.

Fang Liang picked up the rope and wrapped it around his wrist and pretended to be bound, but in fact he was holding the rope in the palm of his hand, as long as the man in the white coat showed a little flaw, he could suddenly get up and strangle the other party's neck.

In the last 6 seconds of the countdown, there was a stumble directly behind Li Xiaoyu, the four of them held their breath, and footsteps came from outside the door.

"He's coming in!" Li Xiaoyu's voice did not fall.

Suddenly, Cao Zhengfei took a deep breath and directly blew out the candle, and the room suddenly fell into darkness.

With a creak, the door opened.

The dim light filtered in, and Li Xiaoyu and Cao Zhengfei shrugged their heads and pretended to be asleep.

Fang Liang raised his head and saw that the man was still wearing a white coat covered with mud, he was wearing a pair of glasses full of water marks, and his red and swollen nose looked like he had been beaten, but it could also be a bruise caused by wiping his nose and wiping his nosebleeds too hard.

The man in the white coat put a candle on the table, his fingers touched the wax tears that had not yet cooled, he suddenly stopped his movements, raised a pair of anxious and slightly crazy eyes, and looked at Fang Liang quietly.

"Tell me how to leave, and I'll let you go, little mouse."

Fang Liang's brows furrowed slightly, sensing a hint of strangeness in his accent tone, but before he could figure out this subtle surprise, the man in the white coat suddenly grabbed his shoulders and turned Fang Liang and the chair towards him.

"Tell me! I'm getting out of here! Tell me how to leave! ”

The man in the white coat breathed heavily, spoke rapidly, and he raised his fist sharply, and suddenly restrained his anger.

Lighting a crumpled homemade cigarette, the man in the white coat slowly walked behind Fang Liang, looking at the old-fashioned chandelier on the ceiling with some distraction: "Is there any point in having a hard mouth?" It's ridiculous, everyone is crazy to get out of here, and there are still people who dare to set foot in this cursed land, what the hell are you looking for? ”

"Before the curse awakened and the forest invaded the town, you sneaky people were poking your heads out of the forest. As the curse and plague continue to spread, people like you will not be spared, and it must have been your fear that blocked our last escape route, right? ”

The man in the white coat walked up to Fang Liang and spit out an extremely rich puff of white smoke, he clasped his hand between Fang Liang's knees, and said with a somewhat wandering gaze: "Sometimes, I can hear them calling me, have you ever heard that sound from the depths of the forest?" They're everywhere, why don't you always understand. ”

Fang Liang prepared to breathe and was ready to be beaten: "I don't know how to leave, I'm also a victim." ”

"Victims?"

The white coat man's eyes were slightly red, his face quickly became hideous, Fang Liang clearly saw that there were some strange and deformed blood vessels in his neck beating like a heart, but before he could see it clearly, the white coat man's fist beckoned to Fang Liang's temple.

With a left punch and a right punch, Fang Liang's eyes suddenly burst into Venus, his physical fitness was still just an ordinary person.

Pain, dizziness, and a trance-like apparent detachment from something, and a gap between the two.

However, just as the man in the white coat was about to throw a third punch, Lu Ming suddenly attacked.

The muscles of the whole arm burst out, and a sharp and skillful uppercut burst out, causing the man in the white coat to faint and collapse to the ground in an instant.

"I'm fine, it's not a big problem, tie him up."

Fang Liang rubbed his temples and gradually recovered. He felt that the man in the white coat was just venting his anger, and he didn't know how to protrude his index knuckle forward when he clenched his fist, so that it would be easier to knock people out or kill them with a punch.

The fist swing of the man in the white coat was not as painful as he imagined.

Lu Ming rode on the body of the man in the white coat and pinched the man's neck.

Cao Zhengfei tied the man's hands and feet, and Lu Ming picked him up casually, throwing the man into the corner of the room like a cement sack.

The man in the white coat was bleeding from his mouth and nose, but he woke up quickly, looking at Fang Liang and the others with a weird smile.

"Huh...... Oh, come on, kill me...... Immediately...... Kill me. ”

"Ridiculous rat, do you really think you'll be able to escape, huh...... Scold. ”

"Listen, it's dark, they're coming, they'll be coming to you soon......"

"Whether it's food or medicine, it's not enough, and soon you'll start killing each other."

"Anyone runs away...... No...... Fall. The man in the white coat smiled distortedly, and suddenly all the lights went out.

Fang Liang rubbed his neck, confirmed that his chin was not dislocated, stared at the man and said, "This guy hid a sedative for himself, find it out, and give him some in front of his medical notes to calm him down." ”

The eyes of the man in the white coat suddenly fell into confusion: "Why, why didn't you kill me?" ”

"With each more person, the supplies will run out faster, and the fewer people you have, the longer you live, don't you even know this?"

Fang Liang said in a low voice: "You want to escape from the forest, we also want to escape from here, we have the same desire......"

“…… We can be partners and get out of here together. ”