The next day, when I woke up and looked out the window at the gray sky, I breathed a sigh of relief.

The world is destroyed, and everything is business as before.

Looking at the sky without a trace of impurities, my mood suddenly cleared up, and the pain on my body seemed to be much better.

The sky began to rain lightly again, and early in the morning, I took Xueqi to the car rental company to rent a multi-person van, and a few of us packed our bags and started traveling along the route planned by Yuezi and James.

Our westward destination was Xinjiang, the place where Xueqi and I traveled with me when I was a child. Of course, on the way, we will pass through Anhui, Jiangsu, Tianjin, Beijing, Harbin, Shaanxi, Gansu, several provinces and cities, and finally to Xinjiang, we will turn back, and then consider going to Yunnan, and then maybe to Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan. Because it was a road trip, we didn't plan a very precise time for our trip, we could stop when we wanted, and come back when we wanted, which can be said to be very, very loose.

This trip was a long and relaxing trip.

In the past month, each of us has experienced too much, and each of us should give ourselves a chance to prevent loosening. It's a big expense, but it's a chance to restart my life, and I don't care about spending a little more. After the villa burned down, I understood one thing, and that is money, in fact, for a person, it is really not that important.

The most important thing is to be able to get through each day safely.

With the people who matter most to you.

On the first day, we arrived in Anhui, first we went to see my hometown in Hefei, Anhui Province, which was one of the legacies left to me by my father, we stayed in Anhui for a few days, and during these days, we visited Huangzangyu, Tianmen Temple, and Huangshan Mountain. Because my body did not recover, when I climbed Huangshan, I had a fever and stayed in a hotel on the mountain for the night, and after returning to Hefei, I went directly to the hospital for an intravenous drip. It wasn't until three days later, when I was gradually recovering, that we went to the next stop, which was Nanjing.

It's a pity that the weather in Nanjing is not very good, we visited the Confucius Temple, considering my body, we didn't go to more landscapes and scenic spots that need to consume physical strength.

After visiting Nanjing, it was already ten days, and after that, after a day of rest, we went all the way north to Beijing, we had been to Beijing before, but this time, we went to the Great Wall, which was kind of taking James and Frexiu to see China's landmarks. During the journey, I feel that time flies very long, every day is very fulfilling and exciting, every day is different, every day is special, unlike when I was in my hometown, you feel that every day is repeating, circulating, and reincarnating. In the days outside, you will feel that every day will be imprinted in your mind, so vivid, maybe decades later, you will not forget.

During the five days I spent in Beijing, I wanted to meet Xu Feng and others who I had met before, but what made me feel strange was that Xu Feng and the others were gone, as if suddenly the world had evaporated, I searched the entire academy, and I didn't see any trace of Xu Feng, Zhu Qingyun, Chang Sheng, Fei Tiantian and others I had met before, and even the girl named Xu Huijun I couldn't get through on the phone. I asked my classmates who knew Xu Feng and them, and the answer they gave me was that Xu Feng and the others had been missing for several days, and it seemed that since I last contacted them, they had all disappeared en masse, and even the police had not been able to find them.

At that time, I felt an inexplicable sense of unease, as if something was going to happen.

After failing to find Xu Feng and the others at university, I had no choice but to leave and rush to Tianjin and Harbin, where we admired the ice sculptures and then turned all the way back to Xinjiang.

In Xi'an, we visited Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Spring and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Mogao Grottoes did not take pictures, we had to ask for a few tourist brochures, one of Xueqi's cameras was stolen there, and many of the photos we took along the way became forever memories.

When I arrived in Xinjiang, it was close to the end of the month, and it was almost December, many scenic spots in Xinjiang were covered by heavy snow, such as Kanas, Hemu, Sailimu Lake and other scenic spots, we couldn't go, the only thing we could do was to eat mutton skewers, beef skewers, oily meat noodles, drink mare's milk, and go to the Grand Bazaar and Erdaoqiao to buy souvenirs. But Xue Qi is still very happy, Xue Qi has been very fond of Xinjiang since she was a child, she has a very special affection for here, when I was a child, I often told her fairy tales, I often told her, there is a place called Xinjiang, there is a beautiful prairie, beautiful snowy mountains and vast blue sky, herds of cattle and sheep, people there are riding horses, white skin, blue eyes, there buildings glue mosques, just like a castle as gorgeous. Xue Qi has always longed for it, although she was brought here when she was a child, but after all, it was a few years ago, and now that she is revisiting the old place, it must feel very different. In addition to Xueqi, Frexiu also liked this place, but along the way, Frexiu was relatively silent and didn't say much, as if he seemed nervous, just like when he first came to China, probably because he was not familiar with the relationship.

I have a distant relative in Xinjiang, he is a cadre at the Xinjiang power station, and there are a few vacant houses, so we stayed for a lot of time, until the third day of December, we began to plan to go home, to our next stop, that is, Yunnan and Hainan, after all, the climate there is relatively warm and comfortable, choose to visit the north in winter, we are also a strange group.

However, in the evening of that day, something unexpected happened to me.

That evening, when we came back from buying souvenirs from the crowded Grand Bazaar, I suddenly felt that my pockets were bulging, as if there was something more, I took it out to look at it, but found that it was a disposable mobile phone, and the phone was actually open.

I held my phone and heard a deep and unfamiliar young man's voice:

"Mr. Yang, in the past few days, I have had more than 10,000 chances to kill you, but I didn't kill you, and I can put a communicator on you while you are not paying attention, which is enough to show my sincerity. I'm the captain of a team in God's game, and we all want to work with you to form an alliance. I would appreciate my understanding if there is any offense to you. ”

Listening to the sound of the disposable phone, my heart felt like a huge wave.

God Game......

In the past month, I've almost forgotten the word.

But I didn't expect that now I was haunted again.

I gritted my teeth, and the other man continued:

"Mr. Yang, you have already transferred the authority of the Book of the World to someone else, right? You've been traveling for the past month, and you haven't hidden your identity, which means you've given up your original team privileges and handed over the team leader and team privileges to someone else, right? ”

I fixed my mind and asked:

"You ...... How do you know? I'm sorry, I've quit the God game a long time ago. If you want to look for me, don't come to me or anyone around me again, okay? ”

"If I don't look for you, do you think the rest of the team will give up? Have you forgotten that you know about the novels and endings that we write about those who live as mortals in the ordinary world? "The other party's voice has no emotion, and the spacing between the words is very precise, as if it is a machine-made falsetto." Can you tell me who you're transferring permission to? I guess it was to help you out of a few crises when you and your adopted daughter were in crisis before, someone you admire so much, right? ”

I was shocked again, I didn't expect that the other party had understood me to such an extent.

"What the hell are you ...... How do you know? Which team are you? ”

"I'm sorry, but we have to be in a state of information asymmetry until there is a formal alliance." The other party said lightly, "From your tone and answer, it can basically be judged that you have not yet contacted the rest of the team, then, I give three locations, you also give three locations, we keep wandering between the locations given by each other, please check Brouwer's fixed point theorem, we will use this way to keep switching locations until we meet, this is to prevent people from other teams from listening and tracking." ”

I racked all my brains, desperately trying to memorize every word and word that the other person said.

"How can I believe every word you say?" I tried to keep my tone as calm as I could, and now that I had fallen behind, it was very bad for us, and I had to keep my mouth shut as much as possible and get to the bottom of each other.

"If you don't believe what I say, then it doesn't make sense to say anything now, and any proposition that is not fundamentally proven must lead to two diametrically opposed results, right?" The other party asked rhetorically, and then said, "Is the Book of the World in your hands, Mr. Yang?" ”

I took a deep breath and said calmly:

"I've completely quit the God game, I have even given up the authority of my own captain, how can the book still be in my hands?"

"If what you're saying is true, it's supposed to be the permission to transfer the book after your villa burned down, right?" The other party asked.

I was shocked again, I didn't expect the other party to know all the deeds of my life, and be able to guess so many details in an instant.

"But in fact, you don't have any record of going abroad, so there are only three possibilities left, first, you contacted or contacted someone one day after the villa burned down and handed over the book. Second, you have hidden your books in a city on your itinerary during your trip in the past month, or have handed over your books in a city using a local courier or transportation system. Third, even you don't know the whereabouts of the Book of Worlds, it's missing, are you? ”

The other party's analysis was very detailed, and every word made my heart skip a beat.

"......" I know the best way to deal with this situation is to remain silent for a while, "You don't have to guess, you can't guess." ”

"You originally planned to send your daughter abroad, but then you gave up again, and in order to please Tang Mengyan, you risked your life to go to the boxing ring, and then suddenly went on a trip and didn't even have much time to spend with her, which is very abnormal, Mr. Yang. Unusual behavior often has its own justification. The other party said slowly, "Can this be understood that your team's strategy requires that there is some kind of relationship with your daughter?" ”

Hearing this, I finally couldn't hold back anymore and said directly:

"What do you want to do?"

"I just want to cooperate. Your tone is so intense, if you are just acting, it can only mean that you have good acting skills. But based on what I know about you, I think it's your instinctive emotional reaction, and the more emotional you are, the more accurate my reasoning is, which is enough to prove that the intelligence level on our side is not low. The other party said, "Mr. Yang, if you don't believe me, we can naturally have a way to trust each other, and when we meet, we can exchange the Book of the World with each other, and exchange some team members and team information with each other." Are you satisfied with such conditions? ”

I sneered and said, "Even if you are not satisfied, what can you do...... Kidnapping my daughter? Kill our family? It's a life-and-death struggle, and you and I both know that only seven people will survive. ”

"But you didn't say that only one world could survive, did you?" The other party asked rhetorically.

This time, I was really shaking all over.

I clenched my fists and said:

"I'll have to talk to the others."

"This is a big piece of information, Mr. Yang, you are too rash." The other party suddenly said, "Your words expose at least three points." First, you know very well that your team is not completely disconnected from the God Game. Second, you do have enough information in your hands, including information from the Book of the World. Third, you're not the think-tank in your team who makes decisions. In this way, the remaining few should be military advisors, right? ”

My heart fluttered again, and although the other person's tone was very calm and steady, every word was like a hammer hitting my heart.

"It's up to you to decide, give three locations and we'll meet soon. After hanging up this time, you will not be able to reach me unless I take the initiative to find you. We have that confidence. The other person's tone was still very calm, and he couldn't hear any mood swings. According to our information, in addition to us, there are already teams that are hostile to you and are planning to attack you, and it is not just one, we are united, and it is beneficial for you and me. Give you the last twenty seconds. Nineteen ......"

As he spoke, he began to count down, and I felt the back of my neck covered with sweat, and fine beads of sweat covered my entire neck.

"Eighteen." The other continued.

When the numbers counted down to ten, I spoke.

"I say one, you say one." I said.

"Yes." The other party replied immediately, as if expecting such a response from me.

"The Grand Bazaar." I say.

"Two bridges." The other party said.

"Wangfujing." I said.

"People's Square." The other party said.

"The apartment I'm in right now." I said.

"Cinema." The other continued.

The other party was very cautious and chose places with particularly dense crowds, which made me suddenly regret a little, I felt that the location I casually reported was too hasty, but before I could breathe a sigh, the other party had already hung up the phone.

I tried to dial the phone again, and sure enough, the phone didn't work anymore.

After I hung up, the first thing I did was immediately run out of my apartment, look around, look around, and see if anyone was watching and watching me. The guy who called me had apparently been following me for a long time and knew everything about me. There's a good chance he's lurking around me. I'll have to confirm that. But when I ran out into the street and looked around, I couldn't find any familiar faces that I had seen in Miyoko's space before.

And the disadvantage is that most of the ethnic minority women in Xinjiang wear veils and do not recognize their faces at all, which really caused a great obstacle to my search, and finally I had to return empty-handed after asking around in the nearby streets, lanes, and small shops to no avail. James is a police detective and must have good anti-reconnaissance skills, but even his quality has not noticed that we have been followed for so long, and it is definitely not easy to imagine that the other party is not simple.

The search was fruitless, so I had to go back to the apartment, called everyone except Frexiu in the name of asking them to go shopping in the neighborhood together, and then went to a sparsely populated place nearby that seemed unlikely to be followed, and told them the original contents of my mobile phone and the mobile phone I had just received.

Hearing my words, James and Yuezi were very worried, and Yuezi called Ma Bailong and Xu Bin as soon as possible, and also asked me to call Tang Mengyan, because if someone really wants to attack me as other teams say, it is most likely to start with someone I am familiar with. Sure enough, after Yuezi called Xu Bin and Ma Bailong, they couldn't get through, and my phone call to Tang Mengyan also prompted that they could not be contacted, and at that moment, I suddenly felt that a terrifying huge claw had covered the top of each of our heads.

"Sure enough, I still can't escape...... Yuezi said with a heavy heart, and then suddenly her eyes lit up, and she said to me, "Brother, Qiqi is in danger at home alone, we can't stay too far away from her!" I was shocked by her mention of this, and hurriedly pulled everyone back to the apartment, but after returning to the apartment, I breathed a sigh of relief, the apartment was still the same, nothing had changed, there was no trace of invasion, and Xueqi was still at home. So we simply didn't mention it for the time being, and only after dinner and Xue Qi fell asleep did we find an opportunity to discuss countermeasures in private.

James said:

"Since the other party already knows us so well and has so much time, then they must have already calculated the various possible escape routes for us, and there are only a few possible means of transportation, and now it will be useless for us to leave the apartment. It's better to think about the countermeasures first. ”

I thought James had a point, and I nodded my head again and again, but my heart was depressed.

James Analyst says:

"Mr. Yang, we must first stay calm, your previous call with the other party was indeed full of loopholes, exposing a lot of our information. But we're not completely without gains. At least we can guess something. ”

"Well, tell me about it, James." That's where James' analytical skills come in.

James says:

"First of all, it was the other party who specifically emphasized the message of 'all' asking to meet with us at the beginning of the conversation. Why do you want to emphasize 'all hands'? If it's normal, just say they want to meet with us, and emphasize all the staff. In fact, it is to prove two points. The first point is that they didn't lose any players when they attacked their own world, and it was very smooth, which shows that they are very strong. The second point shows that they are very united and impregnable internally. Of course, this does not rule out that it may be false information given by the other party. ”

I nodded, thinking that what Jame said was very reasonable, and to be able to deduce so much from just two words, James deserved to be a good police detective.

"Should we engage with them?" I continued: "I think the other side still has some sincerity, at least they can put the phone on me, which means that they can stab me or put a bomb on me, but they didn't do it, which means that they don't want to hurt us." ”

But this time, it was the turn of the confinement to slowly shake her head, she looked at me seriously, and said with a pale face:

"Brother, you couldn't be more wrong. The other party doesn't use the knife against you, just wants to put a long line to catch a big fish. The other party said that they know that you are no longer the captain, and they obviously don't know where the real captain and the Book of the World are now, if they kill you, it is equivalent to losing this clue, before that, of course, they should not attack you, because even if they kill you, they will not get any actual benefits. What's more, the other side gave three locations, obviously wanting us to move around and become fireflies in the night, luring out other teams that might also be following us. Think about it, they know what you look like, but what do you know about them? Sound? It's obviously falsetto. Looks? Age? You don't even know their gender. Even if they pass by on the road, you won't recognize them. And what about them? It's so dangerous to be able to keep an eye on us, get in touch with us, and even use us as bait, and it's scary to think about. ”

We shuddered at the words of the confinement child, and I felt that I had made one big mistake after another, pushing myself into the fire pit. I was a little discouraged and said:

"Yuezi, you're still smart, I really haven't thought about it that much. So what do we do now? ”

"Wait." James said lightly, "Although it seems that we have lost the initiative now, the enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light." But since it was the other party who took the initiative to find us and made demands on us, it shows that we still have things and chips on us that they don't have. This is also where we have an advantage, and if we take advantage of this, we can make a layout and fight against the army. In particular, judging from the other party's words, I am basically certain that the other party will not be able to find the whereabouts of the Blue Moon Master at all. They can only use us as a breakthrough to find clues from us. ”

After being analyzed by James in such a reverse way, I gradually came back to my senses, recalled the words of the previous communicator, and carefully analyzed, and it was indeed the case.

"Should we engage with them, then?" I asked.

"It shouldn't. God knows what kind of traps they have in those locations, and if we go there, we will only fall into a trap and increase the risk. "We should continue to travel on our route, like no one else, after all, we are now disconnected from the game of God, and they should come to us if they want to make an alliance with us." The less anxious we are, the more anxious they will be, and eventually they will have to come out of the darkness. ”

I frowned, and said in a panic:

"Continuing to travel? But Xu Bin, Ma Bailong, and Tang Mengyan are all missing now, what should they do? What if the other side threatens us with them? ”

"Even if you compromise now, Mr. Yang, can you be sure that Tang Mengyan and them are safe?" James asked rhetorically, "Even if you tell them all the information, and even hand over the Book of the World, will Miss Tang Mengyan be safe and sound?" Apparently not. ”

James does have a certain amount of truth in what he said, according to the rules of the game, if the other party tries to deal with us after getting the Book of Worlds, there is nothing we can do, and I have no reason to believe that they can release them after getting the book. On the contrary, before they got the book, they had a certain possibility to ensure the safety of Tang Mengyan's life and would not do it at will.

"But there's one thing you can think about, right? They mentioned that although the team that handed over the Book of the World would die, if there was only one captain left the team before handing over the book, then if each of the seven teams had only one captain left, kicked out the remaining six team members, and then those seven captains formed a team and added each other to the team, then the world of the remaining seven teams would not perish, would it? "I thought." That doesn't seem to be a violation of the rules of the game, right? As long as some people really want to get out of this game and don't want to do anything God, I don't think there's a problem. ”

Confinement sneered:

"Brother, you're still thinking too naïve, you're really trying to think about it, but it's still too simple. Your idea was put forward by the other party, and since it was put forward by the other party, first of all, they will definitely not put forward conditions that are unfavorable to them. The simplest point is that people who can have such a terrible ability as attacking the world will definitely not be simple characters, can such people have no ambitions? Human ability is directly proportional to ambition. Since they will kidnap Tang Mengyan and them, then it means that they don't have much sincerity, if they really want to cooperate with us sincerely, will they do such a thing as kidnapping people? Then, if we unite, we have to hand over the World Book to each other, which is the most dangerous thing, and what if the other party does something with us when we exchange books, or exchange fake ones? What should we do and how can we verify it? I think that in fact, their so-called exchange of books is fake, if they are really watching us, we don't need to change books, we just need to go to the place where the books are, and they will appear and snatch them from us. If you really want to unite with us, just go directly to the door, and why do you agree on the place? "Yuezi said all kinds of possibilities, in short, I feel that the other party can't be trusted, although she has some truth, but I think Yuezi is still more suspicious, and there is a sense of precaution, what she hopes most is to maintain the status quo, not to reveal the location of the Book of the World, after all, we are now out of the game, and they don't want to get involved anymore.

In fact, personally, I'm more inclined to cooperate, and I prefer to believe that everyone has the idea of living out of this ridiculous game and living an ordinary life instead of being suspicious of others, but according to the voting principle, Yuhui is neutral, James and Yuezi choose to continue traveling, and I have to obey them.

After that, Yu Hui also specially investigated my disposable mobile phone, she wanted to hope to lock the location by searching for the signal source of the mobile phone, Yu Hui did lock the mobile phone signal source very quickly, after all, she had done it before to find the source of the Miyozi text message, this time it was not difficult for her, but after searching the signal source, Yu Hui did not let me search for the signal source, she said to me, if it was her, only need to find two mobile phones, put them in different places, and turn on the loudspeaker at the same time, you can create a false signal sourceIf the other party has more disposable mobile phones, it can even create more false signal sources, since the other party chooses to use disposable mobile phones, which is easy to lock the signal source, then the other party must be confident that even if the signal source is exposed, it will not be found. After Yu Hui said this, I also deliberately drove past the signal source when I left to go to the next tourist location, which was a construction site less than three blocks away from our apartment, where I saw two disposable mobile phones that were blown to pieces by some kind of timing device, obviously, Yu Hui was right, the other party had already used the method Yu Hui said to create a fake signal source, and had already left.

So the next day, we left Xinjiang early in the morning, ready to go to our next tourist destination, which was Qinghai, and then to Sichuan, to Yunnan. Except for Yuezi, James and Yuhui, even Xueqi didn't know our travel route in advance, and I wasn't worried that our route might be exposed.

In order to make sure that there were no bugs and explosives on our car, James carefully checked the tires and fuel tank before getting into the car, and after making sure that the car was in perfect condition, we set off for Qinghai Province.

Because my physical condition is not very good, most of the driving routes on the road are Yuhui and James, two people I absolutely trust.

However, just as we were on the highway, at a toll booth, we were stopped by the road fence, and the booth at the toll booth showed not the face of a young toll lady, but the face of a young man, who looked at me, smiled, pointed a gun at me, and said:

"Sure enough, as I expected, Mr. Yang, you will take this road. It's just a psychological gambling propensity test. I already know your choices and your character. ”

At that moment, looking at the black muzzle of the gun in the young man's hand, I was shaken violently, like a lightning strike.

In an instant, it dawned on me that it was all a huge trap and that we had fallen into a trap bigger than we thought!

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