Chapter 35: The Game
Quality square, clear sky.
Duan Mo secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the bright sun in the sky, he hadn't seen normal weather for a long time.
The surrounding players were gradually teleported, Duan Mo looked left and right, trying to find Doudou's logo, and only remembered after looking around - this game was a single-player mode, and he just happened to enter a game with Doudou.
The airstrip is still dilapidated, potholes, the weeds on both sides of the road have not grown tall for a long time, and the crooked and slanted control tower next to it always gives people a feeling of "about to fall", but every time it enters the quality square, it is still standing tenaciously.
Fortunately, Doudou's petite body shape is extremely recognizable - Duan Mo only needs to bend down and find the one with the shortest legs in the crowd.
"Beanie! This way! β
With just a slight sweep of his eyes, Duan Mo saw Doudou - she was also tiptoeing, eagerly looking for Duan Mo.
Doudou heard Duan Mo's shout, and immediately turned his head and ran over, "Brother Duan Mo, there doesn't seem to be anything abnormal in this game!" β
"yes...... I don't see a problem yet...... But the zombie mode, the focus must be on the zombies, and the zombies will never appear in the quality square......" Duan Mo pulled Doudou and muttered quietly in a place where there were few people.
Before Duan Mo's voice fell, the system's prompt had already sounded.
"Zombie Mode: In this mode, the Poison Ring will no longer be refreshed. At the start of the game, zombies will appear at the edge of the map and continue to advance towards the center of the map. Players can choose to kill zombies, or kill other players. The game ends when there is only one player left in the map, or when all zombies are killed. When killing zombies, the player will appear with the 'Rebel' logo, and the zombie will prioritize attacking players with the 'Rebel' logo. β
This time, the mode introduction was much more complicated than usual, and the game broadcast was also intimately repeated three times before falling silent.
When the sound of the radio stopped, the entire crowd in the square fell silent.
After a long time, as if he had a heart, a noisy discussion broke out.
"What do you mean? You don't have to kill each other this time? β
"As long as we kill all the zombies, we can all survive?"
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"Is it so merciful...... It's not like the style of this game......" Duan Mo shook his head and hid at the end of the runway with Doudou.
Doudou's eyes lit up, clenched his fists and said excitedly: "Since the game doesn't say that there is a limit to survival, it means that as long as we work together, everyone doesn't have to die!" β
"But if we can't kill all the zombies, that means ...... Only one of us will survive. Duan Mo looked at Doudou's eyes.
With a little brainstorming, you can understand that of the two ways to survive, it must be much more difficult to win by destroying all the zombies than by winning first place.
Duan Mo also had a general understanding of why the game was played in single-player mode at this timeβjust to prevent players from uniting to destroy zombies because of the emotional ties between the team members after entering the game in a team.
But...... The current situation is very unfavorable for Duan Mo - if he enters the game alone, he will definitely choose the method of "becoming the last survivor" without hesitation, but at this time, due to the existence of Doudou, Duan Mo has to choose the method of "destroying all zombies", because only in this way can he and Doudou survive at the same time.
But......
Duan Mo glanced at the other players in the distance, who were already secretly planning their plans after a brief moment of excitement.
I'm afraid that 90% of these people will choose to survive on their own - this account is too easy to calculate, if you choose to fight zombies, then you will become the so-called "rebel", that is, the main target of zombies, when you are concentrating on dealing with zombies, others sneak over and kill you, it is as easy as a finger.
And the original 1.5 million players have been in this ghost game for a long time, and after many rounds of elimination, they have been able to survive until now, and those who remain are some human spirits, how can they not see such a simple situation?
Therefore, it is the best choice to play the game the way it used to be, and ignore the zombies completely.
But Duan Mo couldn't act according to the best result at the moment...... What he can be sure of is that if only he and Doudou rely on the two of them, it will be impossible to get rid of all the zombies even if they fight hard.
Then there will only be two results - he and Doudou can only survive alone, or he and Doudou will die together.
"This situation...... It's really ......" Duan Mo felt extremely tricky, this game was the biggest crisis he had encountered so far.
Doudou didn't think about it so much, and still happily thought that everyone would fight the zombies with her and survive together in the end.
Duan Mo let out a cloudy breath, determined to make a final struggle - he was going to try to convince the other players before the game began, hoping that they would choose to fight the zombies together - although the possibility was simply remote.
However, before Duan Mo acted, it seemed that someone was already one step faster than him.
In the distance, where the crowd was most dense, suddenly a man with square-framed eyes, he was about twenty-three or fourteen years old, wearing a red short-sleeved shirt, pushed through the crowd and climbed onto the containers stacked in front of the square.
"Everyone be quiet and listen to me!" Fang Rim waved his hands vigorously and shouted hoarsely, "I guess everyone hasn't experienced this pattern, but this is a great opportunity, we can all survive!" β
This boring opening statement and old-fashioned posture reminded Duan Mo of the scene when the principal gave them a pledge meeting during the college entrance examination, and the others obviously thought the same way - most of the players in the square glanced at the square frame helplessly or disdainfully, and then turned their heads to think about their own affairs.
Undeterred, he raised his right hand, revealing a tattoo on the back of his hand, and continued to shout: "I am a member of the QUN organization, everyone should have heard of our organization!" Are there any other members here? β
The word "QUN organization" has attracted the attention of many people, and many players have set their eyes on him, and Duan Mo can also see clearly at this time, the three letters "QUN" are written squarely on the back of the man's hand.
"Is that the logo of that organization?" Duan Mo squinted and muttered.
Sure enough, three or two people in the crowd immediately raised their right hands, revealing the same symbol.
"Very well," the eyed man nodded in satisfaction, "You guys must be willing to fight the zombies with me, right?" β
After being silent for a long time, the few talents replied, "Yes." β
"So, other friends, will you join our team? Unity is strength! Each of us can survive! β
However, players don't care if anyone else survives, the only thing they care about is their own lives.
Duan Mo sighed, silently thinking in his heart, should he join them himself?
At this moment, he didn't know how many zombies there were, nor did he know how difficult it would be to get rid of all the zombies, but looking at the two or three people beside the man with glasses, Duan Mo didn't believe that their strength was enough to complete such a task.
But what if they stab themselves in the back after joining them? You know, in the last game, I killed several members of the QUN organization in one go...... If the QUN organization really issued a bounty on themselves as Drunken Dream and Genji said, wouldn't it be self-defeating to join them at this time?
Just as Duan Mo hesitated, a few more people came out of the crowd and stood beside the man with glasses - looking like that, it seemed that he felt that his strength was completely insufficient to snatch the only place to survive, so he had to choose the path of destroying the zombies.
"There's still a minute left until the game starts."
The eye-catching countdown has appeared in the player's status bar, and another commotion has erupted in the crowd, and the players' hearts are struggling, which path to choose?
There are more than a dozen people around the glasses man, and these dozen or so people standing together seem to bring a great sense of security to other players, and in a few seconds, many players have chosen to join them.
"This is a good phenomenon...... Duan Mo nodded secretly, after all, the players here are not full confidence in their skills, and they don't think that they can be sure to snatch the one percent chance of survival, when the players feel that the road of destroying zombies is feasible, there are still some weaker people who choose to unite as one.
"In that case," Duan Mo looked at the group of more and more people, and in the last ten seconds of the game, they had even broken through twenty people, and he was a little relieved, so he didn't plan to join in the fun, after all, if the members of the QUN organization recognized him, then he would not be able to escape.
"More than twenty people...... It should be enough to destroy zombies, right? Come on, big brothers! It's up to you to play this game! β
Duan Mo muttered like this, his eyes darkened.
"Game on."