Chapter 9: Friends
"I don't know how much you know, so let's start from the beginning," Zhou Xue looked past Zhuo Xuan and looked at the desolate scenery of the suburbs outside the window, as if to confirm whether anyone would come, "Where the black watch came from, no one knows." However, it will actively entangle the chosen one, in a variety of ways. ”
"Sometimes it's a pencil, and when you hold it, it wraps around you; Sometimes it's a tissue that bites you when you're ready to throw it away. In short, when you wear a watch, you can't take it off. Because there is a spike on the watch, the moment you put it on, it connects to your nerve center, and once you take off the watch for more than thirty seconds, then the virus injected into your body will break out - don't doubt it, you will die a terrible death. ”
"The black watch will post a variety of tasks from time to time. These tasks may be the immediate drawing of the Chosen One, or the range of the Chosen One, in short, the Chosen One who is drawn must participate in the mission, otherwise, they will also die. ”
"Use the black watch to find a way out of the mission and contain these 'beasts'. The person who successfully contains the beast will receive the 'Trick'...... I'm sure the moment you teleported behind me, you already got the 'trick', right? ”
"Yes."
Zhuo Xuan did not hide. Although he knew from Zhou Xue's words that the number and types of tricks possessed by a Chosen One were secrets, there was no need for him to hide it from Zhou Xue, who had super perceptiveness, and the other party's scheming was far beyond that of his rookie.
If it weren't for luck, Zhuo Xuan thought that he would not have survived this dangerous mission alive.
Although, he was even more curious, how many "tricks" did Zhou Xue have?
"Of course, newcomers without tricks also have a chance to survive, and this is the first benefit they get after wearing a black watch," Zhou Xue tapped the black watch on his wrist, "'Trick'." It is equivalent to a trick solidified in you, a skill that can be triggered at any time. Everyone's tricks are different, just like the kaleidoscope of tricks. Devouring the opponent's watch, even if the opponent doesn't have a single artifact, at least one thing will be dropped. ”
"A trick that owns the other party's tricks?" Zhuo Xuan figured out a little bit the truth about why the Chosen ones were fighting each other.
The greater the number of treacherous objects, of course, the increase in the survivability of the Chosen One. However, only containment beasts will drop treacherous objects.
For the Chosen One, the beast can be contained, and it can be contained by finding a way out, but it cannot kill it one-on-one. As a result, some have turned their minds to their fellow Chosen One. Devour the opponent's Black Watch and they will also drop the Trick - a Trick with the same abilities as the Devoured Trick Skill.
Such a rule is as if to encourage the Chosen to kill each other.
Zhuo Xuan couldn't help but have a sense of absurdity, and suddenly felt that he never seemed to correctly recognize the so-called human nature.
Assuming that Zhou Xueqiu did not deceive himself about the black watch, then Zhuo Xuan had already discovered several differences between himself and other Chosen Ones.
First, Zhuo Xuan was not entangled by a black watch and passively became the Chosen One. He obtained his father's backpack from Zhang Lian, a police officer of the Tinglin City Metropolitan Police Department, and found the storage slip of the supermarket locker in the backpack, put on the watch, and became the Chosen One by mistake.
Second, I don't have any "tricks" at all!
Zhuo Xuan's expression was a little complicated, his heart was pounding, but he didn't intend to tell Zhou Xue about this.
In short, being forced to join this game, no matter what the reason - to survive, to find your parents, but after all, you can't escape this cage.
Zhuo Xuan's face was a little gloomy, but Zhou Xue's next words made him a little excited: "Although I don't know if anyone has done it, there is such a legend in the mouth of every veteran: when you contain fifty 'beasts', you can get rid of the curse. ”
"Out of the curse?"
"That's right," Zhou Xue replied in the affirmative, but he thought about it and added: "Of course, this is a legend, and no one knows if anyone has done it." ”
"Contain fifty monsters." Zhuo Xuan silently recited a sentence.
"Can I go?" Zhou Xue saw Zhuo Xuan silent, and couldn't help but ask.
Zhuo Xuan pretended not to hear, and then asked, "I heard you say before that this is a difficult task. How is the difficulty of the task differentiated? ”
Zhou Xue glanced at Zhuo Xuan deeply, and slowly explained: "The difficulty division of the task is related to the number and number of participants in the task. This is my fifth mission, and the number of participants has reached twenty...... Obviously, this is not an easy task. ”
Zhuo Xuan fell into deep thought.
If it is really according to Zhou Xue's statement, then his father Zhuo Zhengxiang is obviously a senior god choice, otherwise he would not have been assigned such a task.
Fortunately, there is a sentence at the end of the prompt "progress cleared", is this to prove that you can avoid participating in difficult tasks from now on?
Zhou Xue saw that Zhuo Xuan was silent, and said lightly: "No matter what, my favor is over." Whether you live or die will have nothing to do with me. ”
"You ......"
Hearing Zhou Xue's answer, Zhuo Xuan looked up.
His angular and resolute face had not yet dried up, mixed with mud, making Zhou Xue look rather embarrassed.
It was unimaginable that this man of his age could have such a ruthless method.
Zhuo Xuan heard the intention to leave from Zhou Xue's words, perhaps, he really made a mistake by not killing the other party today.
"Let's go, don't let me meet you next time," Zhuo Xuan sighed, his mood was a little complicated, "I won't leave my hand next time." ”
"Do you think I will?" Zhou Xue grinned, he seemed to be laughing, but he didn't realize that he brought the other party a ruthless and cold threat.
They looked at each other for a moment, then fell silent, read something in each other's gaze, and smiled at each other.
"I'll remember you." Asking this sentence, Zhou Xuecai suddenly felt that something was wrong, "What's your name?" ”
Sure enough, I'm a rookie who doesn't deserve to be remembered!
Zhuo Xuan scolded in his heart, but replied: "My name is Zhuo Xuan, what about you?" ”
No matter who it is, when they pronounce their names, there is a faint sense of strangeness.
Such a strange thought flashed through the young man's mind, and he pulled out an ugly smile: "Zhou Xueqiu." ”
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One o'clock in the morning, Tinglin City, University City.
Coming back from the bus with Zhou Xueqiu as the driver, the streets are becoming more and more crowded. The moment he pushed open the door of the dormitory, Zhuo Xuan had the illusion of being in a different world.
In just two days, he felt like he had experienced something that he had not dared to fantasize about in the previous twenty years, which made him even feel a little unreal.
I wanted to go back to the rental house and get a good night's sleep, but Zhuo Xuan returned to the university dormitory by mistake. Perhaps it was because of this that he could feel the fireworks of people he hadn't seen for a long time.
The fireworks in the world are the most soothing to the hearts of mortals.
"What kind of dress is this?"
Typing the keyboard frantically, roommate Wang Wankang glanced at Zhuo Xuan who was standing at the door, but with "Position Shifting" in his mouth, it seemed that he was still being taken by . Kill it, and can't help but throw the headphones on the table.
"Alas, uncomfortable!"
He took his eyes off the computer screen, looked at Zhuo Xuan again, and couldn't help but smile: "You are mining, how do you feel that you are ten years old?" ”
"Don't mention it!" Zhuo Xuan almost burst into tears, but his face pretended to be calm, "What about the others?" ”
"Lao Wang and his girlfriend went to open a room, Master Song is not in the dormitory all the year round, you know."
A familiar nickname, a familiar tone.
Zhuo Xuan silently reminisced and climbed back into bed.
"By the way, Zhuo Xuan," Wang Wankang seemed to remember something, "Your girlfriend's phone has called me!" Hurry up and send her a message tomorrow! ”
Girlfriend?
A delicate face appeared in Zhuo Xuan's mind, she was sometimes gentle, sometimes angry, and changed countless times, making him slightly distracted.
Zhong Yingru.
This is the girlfriend he has been talking about for three years.
Her shadow ran through Zhuo Xuan's entire high school years.
At the end of high school, they were still planning for the future that summer, but because of Zhuo Xuan's home. Something happened and I had to be separated temporarily. They agreed that they would meet again one day in the future. But after putting on the black watch, Zhuo Xuan already knew that the two were destined to go in different directions, so he decisively proposed to break up.
He thought that according to Zhong Yingru's temper, he would definitely get angry and completely cut off with him, but he didn't expect that she never gave up.
"Anyway, if I don't reply to the message, she'll give up."
Thinking of this, Zhuo Xuan opened the WeChat of his mobile phone, and Zhou Xueqiu's avatar came into view.
"I've passed your friend verification, come and chat!"