Chapter VI The Road
24 hours is a long time, but for the four people in the glass hall, this long time seems to lose its meaning.
The people watching the excitement at the aisle changed batch after batch, and in the glass hall, except for the occasional soft sound of Qiu Yu turning over the book, and the gradual zeroing of the timing change on everyone's head, there was no other movement.
"Smack"
Qiu Yu closed the book, Qian Xiao and the strange man who wrapped himself were awakened from their strange state because of this voice, and the eyes of the two instinctively looked at the head of the person who had been standing.
00.00.29
Qian Xiao turned his head to look at the empty aisle again, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, "Why don't we go and hide in first and wait for the results to come out?" ”
Composure isn't all that easy to pretend, especially with the passing of time.
Qiu Yu's hand shaking with the book, he agreed with Qian Xiao's point of view, but time did not allow him to agree, with his lower-than-normal level of athleticism, he couldn't run away for the rest of the time. The only thing that can be done is to watch the final countdown.
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"Stopped?" Looking at the timer that stopped at the last second, Qian Xiao's tone didn't know whether he was happy or disappointed. But when his gaze swept over the heads of the stranger and Qiu Yu, the corners of his mouth twitched twice, "Our timer is still moving, shouldn't you want to kill us at the same time?" ”
"It seems that the regulators don't want us to see the end of the plan first, and now we have more than two minutes of time on our heads, which is the last time for us to think about whether to continue to wait here, or to retract the gambler's mentality and reason." Akiwa Road.
The weirdo got up from his chair, but didn't leave, apparently leaving the decision to the other two.
In the countdown to zero a little bit, Qiu Yu closed his eyes.
Qian Xiao stomped his feet in place in a hurry, but he didn't affect Qiu Yu, seeing Qian Xiao's actions, the weirdo who originally wanted to say something more just stood quietly.
Just when the two of them thought that Qiu Yu would just wait for the timer to end, Qiu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, "I feel...... We should wait. ”
"Master......" Qian Xiao gritted his teeth, "Okay, I continue to believe in the master's feelings." ”
When he heard the word "feeling" in Akiha, the strange man walked quickly towards the aisle, but stopped when he was about to enter the aisle.
The time on Qiu Yu's head stopped at the last second, followed by Qian Xiao, and then, both of their eyes stopped at the only time that was still beating, and even the person who had been standing and had not moved since arriving in this glass hall recovered from the petrified state and looked at the top of the strange man's head.
In the suffocating tension, time slowly changes to 1, which is like a signal. Qiu Yu felt that something seemed to change in his body, but a second was not enough time for people to appreciate it. The time on the heads of the four people changed to 0 at the same time.
A black-and-white television appeared in a corner of the hall when time was reset to zero. In Qiu Yu's feeling, it doesn't appear out of thin air, but it should be where it has always been, but every time someone's eyes want to touch it, it will automatically slide away, making the TV a natural blind spot in the line of sight. It wasn't until it suddenly played that people noticed its presence.
The screen of the TV is very small, and the picture is very dark, and it takes several people to see it clearly when they get very close. The TV is showing a group of ordinary human life scenes, at first there is nothing special, but as the time goes on the screen, the quality of life of these people has decreased, and the speed of broadcasting has begun to increase in stages, and after dozens of seconds, the people on the screen have begun to fight for a little food.
Looking at the content of the TV, Qian Xiao, whose brows were furrowing more and more, suddenly pointed to the screen, a close-up of the face of a person who starved to death because he couldn't grab food, and exclaimed, "Master, that's you, you were starved to death, this ...... It's us. ”
The on-screen play continued, and after a few dozen seconds, when all the material was exhausted, there was a scene of cannibalism.
In the crowd of people who were drawn to the glass hall by the television, a young girl suddenly cried and vomited after seeing the scene. The boy beside her stood pale and stared in horror at the scene on the screen.
Qiu Yu glanced at them out of the corner of her eye, the girl who was eaten on TV looked exactly like her, and the person who ate her was the boy standing next to her now.
After a while, the boy finally reacted, picked up the chair that Qiu Yu had just sat on and rushed to the TV, but just took a few steps before he was pressed to the ground by the people around him. The boy didn't struggle or resist anymore, just curled up on the ground and let out a suppressed cry.
At this point, all that was left on the TV was broken bones.
"There are countless branches of the path that follows the line of time, but they are always contained in two, the path of survival and the path of destruction." The TV repeated the image just played, but this time the voice of the regulator appeared, "You took steps towards the path of survival before the supplies were exhausted, so now you are seeing the picture of the road that has no choice." If you choose the path of destruction, before you destroy you will see the present path of survival. In particular, this is a parallel space calculus, and the result is accurate to the action per nanosecond, so there will be no errors. So, now give an explanation of the beginner's teaching. ”
"Give it to me?" Qian Xiao's face trembled, and he muttered in a low voice, "The instructions for the novice teaching should be made before the start, at least halfway......"
"The novice teaching in the first scenario is the screening of civilization by simulating the environment, and the survivors each get 1 survival point. The second scenario simulates the reaction of a civilization to an unknown environment, and the survivors each gain 1 survival point. The first stage of the third scenario is the civilization attribute determination, and each survivor gets 1 survival point. Active Explorers are rewarded with 16 survival points each. ”
"Now let's move on to the second phase of the third scenario. The goal of the stage is to survive in the Initial Hall for 30 days, or find another Initial Hall, so keep up the good work. ”
Without giving anyone a chance to react, the TV disappeared from everyone's eyes in an instant, just as it appeared when it appeared.
Once again, the countdown began at 24 hours.
Qiu Yu quickly sorted out the current information.
First, the reward of 16 points should be given on an index of four people.
Second, now there is a tiny 20 next to the time on the heads of Qian Xiao and the other two, and the others are 3, which means that in addition to the 19 points of rewards directly received by these 4 people, they also received 1 point of survival rewards after the countdown ended. At the same time, this restarted timing means that 1 more point will be given after the timer is over. If this timer continues, you will be rewarded with 1 survival point after every 24 hours.
Thirdly, the two different halls correspond to the closed and open development mode of civilization, the first hall has a lot of materials, but if a civilization does not go to a wider environment, it can only destroy after those limited materials are exhausted. The glass hall looks like there is nothing, but in the open world, there is no lack of hope, and after a little risk, in exchange for an incomparably broad path to survival and development.
And why the regulator explains before the next stage of onboarding begins, it is probably because the next stage has reached a level of difficulty that cannot be completed without clear instructions.
But there are a few points that Qiu Yu can't understand.
Why did the Overseer give a reward for survival points at this time, but did not give a way or opportunity to redeem it?
If the Initial Hall of Regulation is the two halls in which it is now, what is the other one? Where is another civilization now?
The two paths pointed out by the regulators are two extremes, but whichever one should be correct in one's own understanding, is there one of them that includes destruction?