Chapter 7: The Prisoner's Dilemma 2
After Lin An heard the prompt tone, his first reaction was to get up immediately and go to get the food on the platform.
It was only when Lin An got up that he saw Herman, who was already standing in front of the pit waiting for the platform to descend.
Only then did Lin An remember the person opposite him who made him unable to trust.
After Herman saw Lin An, he nodded expressionlessly, and Lin An also nodded back.
Then the two of them were in front of the platform and feasted, and a few minutes later the platform went down.
The two of them gasped and knelt in front of the pit.
Herman drank the last bit of wine in his bottle and threw it down.
"What did you do before?" Herman asked Lin An.
"I'm a waitress at the hotel, what about you?" Lin An said.
"I'm an auto mechanic working over the barn street, you know?"
"I'm not very familiar with the road here." Lin An replied.
"As a hotel waiter, how can you think of so much?" Herman asked.
"You mean the idea of going down to the bottom?"
Herman nodded.
"Maybe it's because I've seen a lot of movies."
"I really don't watch movies very much, and since we have a lot of time,
There's nothing to do, can you tell me about the movie? Herman asked.
Lin An sighed.
First of all, he didn't know that there were no movies from his own world, but none of that mattered.
Because being trapped in such a place, if you haven't communicated, people are really prone to mental problems.
In the movie "Hunger Platform", a large part of it also happens in the mind of the protagonist.
Lin An sat back on the bed and began to tell the plot of "The Wandering Earth".
Because even if this movie doesn't exist in this world.
Lin An can also use this as a Chinese movie to prevaricate the past.
In exchange, Herman began teaching Lin some simple fitness techniques.
The two talk to each other every day in addition to some previous things.
Lin An would tell Herman some movies, and then the two would work out together.
Soon, the mark on Lin An's wall came to the thirtieth vertical line.
If nothing else, the two of them will be anesthetized with anesthetic gas tonight and then assigned to a new layer.
Lin An, who has been here for nearly a month, has slowly learned to calculate the time of the day through the platform.
On the night of the last day, the cell suddenly lit up red.
The two of them were lying on the bed, both trying to say something.
"We have a pact not to kill each other." Herman spoke first.
"If you believe me...", before Lin An could finish speaking.
He felt a feeling of grogginess, and then fainted.
There was another ringing in his ears, and Lin An struggled to open his eyes, he wished he could wake up before Herman.
It was only before he could fully open his eyes that his arms were grabbed.
"What are you going to do!" Lin An subconsciously wanted to break free.
But Herman had a lot of strength, and he was still shouting something.
Lin An couldn't hear or see clearly because of the anesthetic.
Lin An struggled to his feet, and finally he staggered out of Herman, but before he could take two steps, he fell to the ground.
At this time, he felt that he was being caught by Herman, and he could only curl up.
He vaguely saw Herman crouching in front of him, talking loudly.
Eventually, his eyesight and physical functions gradually recovered.
"Look at the numbers on the wall!" This was the first thing Lin An could hear Herman say.
Lin An moved his gaze to the wall, he looked at it for a while, and the blurred picture finally became clear.
I saw a big number written on the wall - 1.
"We're fucking on the 1st floor! We don't have to eat people! ”
Herman said excitedly and walked around the room.
After seeing this number clearly, Lin An breathed a sigh of relief, his body softened on the ground, and he closed his eyes.
The red indicator light on the wall, accompanied by a cacophony of mechanical sounds, turned green.
The platform slowly descended, and Lin An saw the ceiling at the top of the pit for the first time.
Then a platform full of complete food appeared in front of the two of them.
Herman had been smiling ever since he came to the first floor.
At this time, he knelt in front of the platform, looking at the food on the table with an almost intoxicated expression.
Although he has worked in the hotel for many years, Lin An has never seen such a sumptuous feast of Western food.
That's when he noticed the countless portions of steaks, foie gras, and oysters on the table.
And a little bit of fine French cuisine on each plate, food he had never seen before.
Lin An picked up the steak and ate it as if he were biting a baked cake.
Herman drank red wine as violently as if he were drinking mineral water.
Lin An didn't fall behind, dozens of plates of foie gras, he only dug one piece of each plate and stuffed it into his mouth frantically.
For those exquisite French dishes, the two of them are like eating snacks, one bite at a time.
They don't even know what they're eating.
With a mechanical sound, the green light turns red again.
Lin An hurriedly picked up a bowl of soup and inserted a large piece of cake on a plate.
Herman grabbed a tomahawk steak and held a bottle of red wine in his other hand.
The two stood in front of the pit and continued to eat until the temperature of the whole house began to drop.
But the two did not panic, they ate what they were doing unhurriedly.
Herman's hand as he lifted the red wine bottle began to tremble.
The two threw the little food they had left into the pit.
The two looked down at the original table of exquisite and complete Western-style feast.
After only two layers of baptism, it already showed an embarrassed appearance.
The two people on the second floor stood directly on the platform, like animals, eating food on all fours.
When the red light on the second floor is on.
One of the middle-aged men, pushing a pile of food to the ground, jumped off the platform, and continued to eat.
The other, relatively young, was still standing on the platform and clutching food frantically.
It wasn't until the platform began to decline that the young people ran to the edge of the platform.
But he was a little late, and the platform had already descended to the bottom of the pit on the second level.
The young man could only leap to his feet, but did not grasp the edge of the pit.
The young man fell straight to the third floor.
The two people on the third floor didn't pay attention to him at all, and they also jumped on the platform and ate wildly.
Because of the pile of food that the middle-aged man pushed off the platform, the temperature on the second floor began to rise sharply.
Even the two people who stayed on the first floor clearly felt the heat wave rolling up from the pit.
That's when the middle-aged man pushed the food down the pit.
On the third floor, the young man who fell down simply continued to eat.
It was only when the red light on the third floor came on that the young man jumped off the platform.
However, the two on the third floor didn't seem to welcome the young man.
They pushed the young man into the pit, and he fell to the fourth floor.
Seeing this, Lin An sighed.
He didn't want to look at the chaos at the lower levels anymore, and he didn't care how many floors the young man would fall to.
Lin An also thought about whether each layer was eating on demand.
Then the food is passed down layer by layer, and maybe no one will die.
But when Lin An saw the temptation of those foods, it was difficult for him to control himself.
Even, when he was confronted with these foods, a deep desire for destruction arose in his heart.
As if he was at the top, he should have left a table of wreckage for the people below.
Thinking of this, Lin An raised his head again and looked at the ceiling above.
"Now that you're here, do you want to go up and see it again?" Lin An suddenly asked Herman.