The elevator doors opened.

Step out of the elevator and look back.

Rey found Ziqi still standing in the corner of the elevator, his body trembling slightly.

Alas, no matter how determined you are, fear is inevitable in the face of death.

Ziqi stood in the corner of the elevator, his eyes slightly closed, his body slightly undulating. The bright starlight sprinkled on the body, and it was indescribably desolate.

8:09 a.m.

Rey was restless, wanting to go to the top of the building immediately, and on the other hand, he wanted to be by Ziqi's side and accompany him on his last journey.

Is it conscience or compassion? Rey can't say, he can't just walk away anyway.

Whoever messes up with life will be punished with the cruelest punishment of life!

That's it.

Ziqi opened his slightly closed eyes and walked out of the elevator step by step.

There are no lights on the top floor, no clear glass. Let the starry sky shine, and it is pitch black here.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Footsteps echoed through the vast, deserted room.

There was a wooden floor on the floor, nothing seemed to be there, and his eyes hadn't adjusted to the darkness, and everything seemed to Rey to be a blur.

"This way." Ziqi rushed up and grabbed Rey's arm.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

It was quiet, there was no breath except footsteps. Where's that legendary powerful explosion-proof robot?

As a tower-shaped building, the top floor is not as big as the first floor, but there is an invisible oppressive force in the empty house.

"Knock, knock, knock."

In my ears, there was only the sound of footsteps.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

It seems to have come full circle.

Rey walked silently with Ziqi, and he didn't know how long he had been walking. Suddenly, Ziqi stopped.

Yes...... There is light!

In front of Rey, two wooden doors appeared that did not match the splendid building.

It should be a wooden door.

The door was hidden, and golden light leaked out from between the two doors, stretching the figures of the two men very long, like two giant beasts.

It's windy!

A cool breeze blew in through the gaps between the two doors, stirring the murky air in the hall.

The door swayed slightly.

The figure, the door, the breeze, everything is like the flame of a candle, beating strangely.

Ziqi leaned out and leaned against the crack in the door, the door was empty, and the narrow staircase at the end was clearly visible.

"No, no one......" Ziqi said back to Rey.

Rey stepped forward, his waist looking through the crack in the door.

Inside the door is a square hut. You can't see the roof, but there seems to be a small lamp that emits a warm light to illuminate the cottage.

At the end of the hut, there is a spiral staircase on the right-hand side, which is unusually narrow.

There really seemed to be no one in the hut.

"Squeak ......"

The old wooden door was slowly pushed open.

The two cautiously stepped into the hut.

Rey felt like he was in a dangerous jungle with no light on him, and that beasts could pounce on him at any time from all directions.

The floor was covered with a bright red carpet, and the light from the roof created a dazzling patch of light in the middle of the stall.

Ziqi quickly looked around, and the house was in full view.

The very narrow spiral staircase is just around the corner, just ahead!

"Hey......" Ziqi whispered to Rey.

"Huh?"

"Like...... No one. Ziqi put his mouth close to Rey's ear, "But you still have to be careful, you can see the spiral ladder in front of you, it's very narrow, you can only pass one by one." In this way, I shout one, two, three...... You run, and I'll follow you. ”

"Okay." Rey felt like a thief who had just finished stealing something and was about to run away.

"One ......"

Rey leaned forward slightly.

The cool night breeze blew down the spiral staircase, and Rey realized that his forehead was soaked.

"Two."

Ziqi's voice suddenly became louder, and he let go of the hand that was holding Rey's shoulder.

It's going to run.

Target, right front!

The eyes of the two were burning on the spiral staircase, and the focus of their entire gaze was on the narrow first step of the spiral staircase.

"Three!"

Ziqi's voice exploded in the hut.

Rey slammed his right foot on the carpet and rushed out like an arrow from a string!

If you want to say that Rey has no money, no technology, and no education, Rey admits it. But he is not without his strengths, when it comes to sprint speed, Rey thinks he is second, and no one dares to admit first. It was because of this specialty that Rey was hired by the security team as a non-supernumerary security officer.

In the blink of an eye, Rey rushed to the middle of the hut, and the huge spots of light on the carpet were obscured by himself, and all of them were swayed on him.

Rey only felt a white expanse in front of him, and the spiral ladder was fading, but he still instinctively rushed to the right front.

The footsteps of Ziqi behind him were equally fierce and abnormal.

Soon, soon!

They were about to run out of the carpet, they were about to touch the spiral staircase, and the world couldn't stop the two of them.

Harsh, really dazzling.

Why is it still so glaring?

The carpet has come to an end, and the spots of light above his head are still shining on him, white and bright......

No......

Wrong?

That's not right!

The overhead spot has moved!

It moved!!

Rey suddenly stopped, looking overhead......

On the roof......

Someone!!!

There's a giant robot wrapped in steel!

There are no lights on the roof. The warm light that illuminates the room comes from one eye of the robot.

The robot only has one eye in the middle of its forehead.

The huge spot of light in the center of the carpet is the light emitted by this eye, which has been staring at himself in motion, so he can't run out of the spot?

"Boom!"

Ziqi slammed into Rey, who came to a sudden stop, and the two quickly became entangled and rolled towards the corner of the room.

"Crackling ......"

Finally, stopped.

Rey only felt that the heavens and the earth were gone. I'm in a giant merry-go-round, spinning around the clock.

"Am I dead?"

Ziqi felt that he was about to see God.

"Die so easily? How did I die? Fell to your death? Did I jump? Didn't jump? Who am I? Where am I? What am I going to do? ”

Just when both of them were silently doubting their lives, the light spots moved again.

The spot that was in the corner of the carpet unconsciously moved back to the center of the carpet, no, a little to the right in the center.

Heaven and earth are still spinning.

As the heavens and the earth rotated, the spots of light silently wandered back and forth in the center of the carpet and in the corners of the carpet.

Circle after circle, the heavens and the earth turned slower and slower.

Rey felt a splitting headache, a dull chest, and a burning throat. Nausea is like turning over a river and a sea, and you may vomit at any time.

Ziqi fell not far from Rey, wailing and rubbing. Rubbing his swollen head.

The robot on the roof did not make any sound.

The light spots are still silently wandering back and forth.

Heaven and earth finally stopped turning.

It's half past eight.

It was 20 minutes late.

Rey struggled to his feet.

The robot was still motionless, its huge body clinging to the roof, almost covering the entire roof, but the huge head drooped down and swayed, and the single eye on its forehead swayed back and forth with the skull.

Spots of light on the carpet follow the eyes back and forth on the carpet.

Could it be ......

Could it be that this robot is sleeping?

"What's the matter with you?" Ziqi also struggled to straighten up.

"Shh Rey motioned for Ziqi to be quiet.

"Don't make a sound, just look at the rooftop."

Ziqi slowly raised his head.

"It's him, it's him! That riot robot. ”

"Shhhh He seems to be sleeping, and we go slower, slower, and lightly. ”

After saying that, Rey tiptoed towards the spiral staircase.

The spiral staircase is narrow, but unusually high.

Everything was going well, the robot was still asleep, its head swinging.

After walking for an unknown number of laps, Rey looked back, and the spots of light on the carpet were getting smaller and smaller, still swinging.

It went well.

It went very well.

A large vermilion iron door finally appeared in front of Rey's eyes.

"Is this it?"

"Right...... Here it is. ”

Ziqi's expression was very strange, a little excited, a little afraid, a little sad, and a little helpless.

It was a very complicated expression.

Rey didn't know what to say.

The two men stood silently at the end of the spiral staircase.

Although the two had only known each other for more than an hour, Rey felt that they had known each other for too long. The road has come to an end, and then one will go to hell and one to heaven?

Is Time Games really a train to heaven?

If so, then I was already more than 20 minutes late, and the train was still there waiting for me?

"Can I ask you for something?"

After a while, Ziqi said silently.

"Of course, anything."

"Thank you, thank you......" Ziqi sobbed silently.

The vermilion gate is right in front of you, and behind that door is the end of your life.

To live, or not to live, that's the question.

Ziqi suddenly hated himself.

It's all come to this, why hesitate? If you survive, the last bet will fail. The future of his wife and children is gone.

I have made such a big mistake, it has long been incorrigible, only the last gamble, only the last bet can make my life have some meaning.

I thought I came here with the most resolute heart and smashed the crystal, but in the end, why would I be shaken? Are you so afraid of death?

Bet! Bet! Bet!

Win! Win! Win!

Only the last gamble can save the family, and only the family can be regarded as saving themselves.

Only by winning the last bet can you pay for the mistakes you made in every previous bet!

Hehe, I'm a gambler, and I'll die until I die.

"The iron dragon car downstairs, please hand it over to my wife Lili, my family lives in Room 1984, Aizhichao Community, Dongfeng Street, Dongcheng District. Sorry for the trouble at the end. ”

"It doesn't matter. It's just that I want to ask you, today is the day of your bet? ”

"The ninth day."

"Or ...... Why don't you go back, and then stay with your family at the end, and come back tomorrow. ”

“…… No. I can't go back. I don't want to die that way. That would hurt them. Ziqi quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and continued, "I've been here since the fourth day of the bet, but it hasn't been as smooth as today, and now I finally muster up the courage." I'm going to win the last bet, and only guts can help me win the game! ”

Ziqi suddenly squeezed past Rey, and pressed his hands on the vermilion iron door.

"What's your name? I will always remember you. ”

“…… I, my name is Rey. ”

Ziqi pushed the big iron door hard.

The gate didn't move.

"Ah...... Yes...... Yes! Ziqi did his best.

The gate still didn't respond.

Rey quickly ran to Ziqi's side, and the two of them even used their strength to feed, but the gate was as impregnable as a wall of sighs that blocked the two from going to the Pure Land of Bliss.

The two of them stopped, checking the gate up and down. There were no handles, no keyholes, no fingerprint identification areas, no identification crystal entry points, nothing but a large, bare, rusty iron door.

"Isn't that confusing?"

Just when the two were at a loss, a voice came from behind.

"Ding 〰️ Dong!"

The huge robot, clinging to the end of the small roof, leaped down, its thick thighs slamming into the ground, and the floor of the hut and the narrow spiral staircase shook violently.

……

Rey and Ziqi clung to the handrail of the spiral ladder.

Suddenly, a white spot of light shot towards Ziqi at the end of the spiral staircase.

"Oh. It's you again. "The one-eyed robot like an iron giant actually made a very gentle voice that was extremely inappropriate for its stature.

"It's like we're meeting for the first time." The one-eyed robot's huge eyes looked at Rey again.

"Yes...... Be. "A powerful oppressive force came at Rey like a tidal wave.

"Oh, don't be afraid. My name is Strong Bear. It is a guardian robot that is responsible for screening people who want to climb to the top of the building. The strong bear's exaggerated metal mouth grinned to both sides, as if he wanted to smile?

"Okay. Strong bear, it's me again. I'm going up anyway this time. Ziqi took out the amethyst shard from his pocket.

"Look, strong bear. Am I the most resolute in my heart? The light from the strong bear's one-eyed eye was shining on the fragment in Ziqi's hand.

The fragments are like the stars of the nine heavens, dazzling.

"Wow! Amethyst shards! The strong bear excitedly raised a thick arm, and there seemed to be a sucker hidden in the huge palm.

In an instant, all the amethysts in Ziqi's hands flew to the palm of the strong bear.

"Is this for me? Hahahaha. The loud laughter of the strong bear shook the dust from the roof.

"Dedication...... To? ”

"Oh! Thank you! ”

When the strong bear heard the two words, he didn't care what it meant, and shoved the crystal fragment into the black mouth.

"Goo."

The strong bear swallowed it without even chewing it.

"Wowhaha! It's so delicious. It's delicious! The strong bear's huge body lay straight on the ground and rolled.

The penthouse is trembling, the spiral staircase is trembling, and even the entire Spring Cake building may be trembling.

Ziqi and Rey grabbed the handrails of the spiral ladder tightly with both hands, and their bodies almost took off, it was really hard.

"Thank you so much. I've only eaten amethyst once. It's just too sturdy. My stainless steel teeth can't bite at all. If swallowed directly, it will appear too large and easily get stuck in the throat. Stuck in the throat, wow! It's horrible. The bear waved his arms and stood up again, his huge head almost pressed against the roof of the hut.

"Your name is Ziqi, isn't it? You're so good! That's great! I actually smashed the crystals for my sake. How do you do that? The crystal I had eaten before was also broken, but it was a piece that the strong bear had picked up on his own. ”

"Alright, Strong Bear. You took the crystal, too. Can you tell me how to open this door? Ziqi shouted to the strong bear.

"Hahaha! Strong bears are not people who rely on violence to defend and want to force their way upstairs. Strong bears are just sifting who can go upstairs. How many people wish that the strong bear was not here, and then they could sneak up on it. This is simply a big mistake. That door can only be opened by a powerful robot like Strong Bear. So on the contrary, if the strong bear is not here, those people will not be able to go to the roof. ”

"Can I go up this time?"

"No, you can't!" The strong bear smacked his lips, as if trying to remember the taste of the amethyst shard he had just swallowed.

"What !!"

Ziqi's face was flushed, and he was so excited that he couldn't speak.

"Mr. Ziqi, you came here from the first time to commit suicide. As a guardian robot, I would never allow this to happen. ”

"You lied to me? The first two times you said I hadn't made up my mind yet. I even smashed the crystal this time, did I still not make up my mind? ”

"You misunderstood. Strong bears are guardian robots, how can people jump off buildings? Mr. Ziqi, death sometimes doesn't require much determination. But it takes a lot of determination to stay alive when all is lost. ”

Ziqi was dumbfounded.

This strong bear can actually say such a thing, he used to be a robotics engineer and was responsible for robot personalization, but the strong bear's personality is too strong? Which genius made the strong bear?

"What should I do? Strong bear, I beg you, let me go up. "Ziqi's mind is very messy.

"Mr. Ziqi, I've heard your story. Today you go home first, and then think about it, rack your brains to think about it. If you have to jump off the building, you can come back tomorrow at 9 o'clock. I'll let you go. ”

"But ......"

Ziqi sat down on the spiral ladder.

"Mr. Ziqi. I ate your amethyst, and I'll give you something to compensate for it later. ”

"One thing ......" Ziqi's eyes were glazed.

Money, a lot of money, a lot of money.

Desperate on their own, there is nothing to save themselves except money, except for a lot of money.

Hehe, money can't be ......

Because of the final gamble, there is a secret in the final gamble that has not been told to Rey.

"Why are you going to the top of the building, sir?" Strong Bear's huge eyes stared at Rey, "Are you going to jump off the building too?" ”

"No...... No. I'm going to play games. Rey said hurriedly.

"Oh? Time Game Workshop? Strong Bear's voice was unusually gentle.

"Yes, yes."

"Please show me the invitation."

"Here." Rey pulled the invitation out of his pocket.

Rey was nervous because the invitation was missing two corners.

"Okay, I'll open the door right away." Strong Bear only gave a cursory glance.

"But, Mr. Ziqi, you can't go anywhere." Qiang Xiong's strong palm grabbed Ziqi in an instant, and put Ziqi in his palm.

A blue energy field suddenly flashed in his palm, and Ziqi felt extremely comfortable, but he could no longer leave the palm of the strong bear.

The strong bear's other thick palm effortlessly pushed open a door that Wray thought was impossible to open.

The wind howled through the big iron gate.

"Please stay safe." After Qiang Xiong finished speaking, he retracted his gaze and stared at Ziqi in his palm.

Outside the gate, the stars shimmered, and Rey's hair flew up and down in the wind.

Rey looked back at Ziqi in the strong bear's hand.

Ziqi sat down in the palm of the strong bear without saying a word.

8:48 a.m.

Rey, who had been worried about Ziqi, suddenly put his mind at ease. If there was no strong bear, Rey really didn't know how to stop Ziqi, and he didn't know whether to stop Ziqi.

Although deep down, Rey still doesn't want Ziqi to commit suicide.

In any case, Ziqi can be reunited with his family for at least one day. And even tomorrow, Ziqi still has to complete his bet, and the strong bear will not stop him anymore.

This should be the best ending?

Rey let out a long breath, turned around, and walked towards Starlight!