Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Camp of the Escapees
When everyone woke up again, they found that they were still on the bus, but there was no more Professor Mu Xueqi and others around them, and the illusion of luck was completely shattered, this was not a nightmare that could be forgotten after waking up.
The TV on the bus was shining with snowflakes, and Xiao Mo and the three of them looked away, and soon saw a marionette appear on the TV.
Its limbs were still being held by white threads, and it slowly turned its back to them, and then said with its mouth open and closed:
"Congratulations on unlocking the reward and making it to the Escapees' Camp. Here you can buy things that will help you according to your needs and at what you can afford.
There are supermarkets, entertainment malls, trading companies, and all kinds of facilities, you can enter and buy according to your preferences. No fights are allowed here, and the killer will be considered to have ignored the rules, so please keep in mind.
In the future, you will be granted access to this place for every three tests you complete for a period of seven days, after which you will have to leave here and proceed to the next test site.
As for your rewards, I hope you will check carefully. ”
The marionette on the TV was gone, but the words it had just said remained in the minds of each of them. Xiao Mo and Wang Zi subconsciously touched the pockets of their clothes, and in addition to finding their wallets and other items, they also found a metallic card.
"This can't be a bank card, right?"
Wang Zi looked at the metal card in his hand blankly, there was no logo on the card, and he didn't know what it was used for. The metal card on Xiao Mo's body was the same as Wang Zi's, and he motioned for Li Shuai to look for it too, but Li Shuai also turned out an identical card.
Looking at these three metal cards, Xiao Mo thought for a while and said suspiciously:
"Maybe it's a bank card, it's like a virtual currency in a game."
"Makes sense."
Wang Zi also thinks so:
"The puppet didn't say what kind of escapee camp this is, and what kind of mess there is in the supermarket."
"Maybe it's the outside."
Li Shuai looked out the car window. It was found that they seemed to be in a parking lot, because there were many buses parked here, if not a hundred, but also eighty.
"I think we should go down for a walk." Li Shuai pointed to the buses outside and said.
Xiao Mo and Wang Zi had no opinion, and the three of them closed the car door and walked out.
When he came outside, Xiao Mo suddenly had the feeling that this was a parking lot, and there were indeed quite a few buses parked here. But when they looked around, they didn't see even half of a ghost.
Xiao Mo secretly said strangely, and at this time, Li Shuai found a road that seemed to lead to the exit, he and Wang Zi followed, and sure enough, they saw the steps from the side.
The three of them were so confused. Walking up the stairs and stopping all the way, I finally left this haunted place that looked like a parking lot after two turns.
Stepping out of the parking lot-like basement, they are greeted by a street full of circular buildings. They can only think of it as a street now, because they don't know anything about it.
But no matter what, they finally saw people on this street, living people.
There weren't many people on the streets, there were groups of four or five, and there were one or two, and it was estimated that they were almost all escapees from here. Otherwise, the puppet wouldn't have called this an escapee camp.
The faces of the people walking on the streets were more or less numb, like walking corpses, and they didn't even bother to look at them.
Xiao Mo was about to find someone to ask about the situation here, when he saw a middle-aged man in a suit. swaggered over, looking like he was coming for them:
"Brothers, you seem to be new to the city?"
"Well, it's the first time I've been here, and I don't really understand what's going on here." Xiao Mo didn't hide anything.
Li Shuai glanced at the middle-aged man. Maybe he didn't think he was a good person, so he said coldly:
"Who are you?"
Seeing Li Shuai's vigilance against himself, the middle-aged man shook his head with a smile. Frankly:
"Like you, I'm an escaped from the curse, and to be honest, it's the first time I've been here."
When Li Shuai heard this, he immediately laughed:
"It's the first time for us, and it's the first time for you, so you're the first to come up."
"I'm a talker, I just love to talk, not like those people are lifeless, like I owe them money." The middle-aged man pointed to a few pedestrians not far away and scolded, judging by the situation, he should have run to talk and was ignored.
Xiao Mo saw that this middle-aged man was also quite honest, so he also chatted with him for a few words. The middle-aged man's name is Cheng Tianze, and he has only experienced two incidents in total, but he came here a few days earlier than them, so he knows a little about some of the things in the camp.
He told everyone that the currency used to buy and sell payment here is the metal card in their hand, and they can just swipe the card to buy anything, and there are many things available for consumption here, such as food and clothing, medical care, various entertainment services, and even women.
According to Cheng Tianze's guess, it seems that the value of the metal card has risen to a certain amount, and he can choose to stay here without having to perform supernatural events, but he can only stay here and cannot return to reality.
But this is not bad for them, at least there is food and shelter here, and there is no need to be afraid, at most, they can't see their relatives and lack some freedom.
After that, Xiao Mo asked him about the incident, but because he knew limited, he didn't gain much. It is only known that events are not fixed and that what each escapee experiences is very different.
Because Cheng Tianze has talked to a lot of people in the past few days, he has also learned some information from it, such as the people who are drawn in by the curse are roughly divided into two types, one is people who have encountered supernatural events in reality, and the other is people who have played the survival game called "extremely terrifying".
The former account for a smaller share of the population, while the latter accounts for the vast majority.
After chatting with Cheng Tianze for a while, Xiao Mo felt that this guy was really worthy of talking, and as soon as he spoke, he would be endless. He felt that there was only so much he could learn from Cheng Tianze's mouth, and all he could get from chatting about it was some stinky saliva, which was of little significance.
So he did something to unload the mill and kill the donkey:
"Well, thank you so much for suing us so much today, that ...... We still have some things to do here, so we'll go first, and we'll come out together when we have time. ”
"Don't be a few, I'll get together next time, it's not certain if I can survive until next time. Feed...... I said, what are you running......! ”
Seeing Xiao Mo and them running faster and faster, Cheng Tianze stomped his feet angrily and cursed:
"I've run into a couple of bastards who unload the mill and kill the donkey!"
It wasn't until Cheng Tianze was thrown out of sight that Xiao Mo and the others stopped to catch their breath, thinking that they would be talked about running away by one person, Xiao Mo couldn't help but think of Tang Seng in the Journey to the West, who can really talk about people to death.
However, they also dragged Cheng Tianze's blessing and had a preliminary understanding of this camp of escapees. The place they came out of earlier was actually a parking lot, and they didn't have to go out of it, because the bus would come out of it on its own after seven days.
Xiao Mo and Wang Zi both have a feeling of coming to an alien planet, after all, this place is too unbelievable compared to reality.
However, if you look at it from a different angle, it is not difficult to explain the qiē here. Because the curse has been completely combined with the game, to put it bluntly, it is the supernatural power that makes the online game realistic, so the appearance of a camp, exchange for huàn props or something, is actually within the normal scope.
Besides, they really need this kind of place to replenish and rest, otherwise they will have to face a life-or-death event every three days, and even if they can survive in the end, the people who have been tortured will be no one or a ghost.
After the three of them walked aimlessly for a while, Xiao Mo planned to find a place to go in and have a look, and it was not a way to hang around outside. He paused, glanced around, and then pointed to one of the circular buildings:
"That's it, let's go in and have a look." (To be continued......)