When everything around me became clear and bright again, I found myself in a familiar hall, with a 55-inch wall-mounted LCD TV, Skyworth brand, and warm white fabric sofas in the three corners of the hall, surrounded by a black carved silver square coffee table, and two plastic plantains on either side of the central couch. Isn't this my home?

I shifted my gaze slightly, and in the center of the hall I saw six faces covered in large letters.

Two of them I recognized at first sight, one of them was the young man who wore a blue trench coat and used to ask questions to Miyoko, and the other was a guy I knew very well, he was my classmate roommate and my junior high school classmate, Gao Hai. Just now in the unrestricted free space, because there were so many people, I didn't even notice him. Among the others, there was a man with a mask and sloppy and unkempt hair, and the left half of his face was covered by untrimmed oblique bangs, but from the silver-gray eyes he exposed, he did not look like a Chinese. In addition, there was also a tall and strong man with a hedgehog head, wearing a white undershirt and two women, one girl had a double ponytail, looked weak, and her eyes were still with undried tears, like a high school student or college student, and the other was a young woman with dry and neat short hair, slender eyes, thick eyebrows, red lips, wearing a printed dress and silver stilettos.

"Where is this?"

"Ah Zhen?" Recognizing me, Gao Hai, who stood in the crowd with a blank face, was surprised. "Damn, you ...... too"

"Haizi, are you there too? I didn't see you just now......" Gao Hai and I looked at each other, wanting to say a few words, but the woman with a bewitching face in stiletto heels stepped in rudely, and said in her tall and thin voice:

"You two stop first, can anyone tell me what the fuck this place is? What the hell is going on, huh? Who can tell!? ”

The woman's temper was obviously not very good, I swallowed, looked her squarely and said:

"This is my home."

"Your home?" My words drew the attention of the other four to me, and soon their eyes fell on my right hand, probably looking at the black hardcover book in my hand. I felt my tongue dry for a while, and the adrenal hormones in my body were rising dramatically.

"Right...... This is my home. I nodded, clenched my fists and looked at the crowd in front of me.

As soon as my words fell, the woman in high heels stepped forward and grabbed my shoulder, and said angrily:

"So, eighty percent of this matter is inseparable from you, isn't it? Did you do all that just now? You brought me to this place of the hell, didn't you? The woman just now...... What's Miyoko's name, and what does it have to do with you? The woman asked me like a cannonball, and she was very emotional.

Hey, big sister, please, please look at my expression, do I look like someone who knows the answer?

"Wait a minute! You seem to be mistaken, this matter really has nothing to do with me at all...... I don't know what the situation is now, and I'm confused right now, can you let me figure out the situation first! "I frankly admit my ignorance.

But it was clear that my answer would not satisfy the woman in front of her, and in the face of my answer, the woman responded with a more serious warning with her more gloomy and questioning eyes. At that moment, I suddenly had the illusion of standing in the crater of Sakurajima.

"Calm down." A hand grabbed the woman's hand right on my shoulder, and gently pulled it away. I looked gratefully at the owner of the hand that helped me out of the siege, it was the young man in a blue trench coat named Xu Feng.

"Everybody stay calm." Xu Feng's face was calm and solemn. "Although I think people like me don't quite understand the current situation, what I can tell you is that if we don't stay calm and united now, we will all die."

Sure enough, it was the warning words that were the most effective, and as soon as Xu Feng came up, everyone would die, and the audience was immediately calmed.

"Your name is Ah Zhen, isn't it? Then I'll call you that. I heard you two call each other just now. Xu Feng glanced at me and Gao Hai beside me and said, "Can you open the book in your hand and let all of us take a look?" I want to make sure that what we just experienced is real, not some kind of collective hypnosis or something like that. ”

Without saying a word, I opened the hard-shell book I had in my hand and let everyone have enough of it.

The contents of the book are not the slightest different from my memories from a few minutes ago, accurately recording the memories of the man named Gao Tianfeng.

"Alright, it's time to close. We're done. Xu Feng gave me a firm look and motioned for me to close the book. Now we can confirm that what we just experienced in the so-called unlimited free space should not be fake, and if what the woman named Miyoko said is true, then this book is probably really related to the lives of all of us, Ah Zhen, please take care of this book. ”

I nodded cautiously and looked at Xu Feng gratefully. Sure enough, there were one or two sensible people in the group who spoke effortlessly.

Xu Feng walked to the center of the crowd and said:

"I can understand how excited you are right now, but please try to stay calm. I'm sure you haven't forgotten what the woman named Miyoko said in the Unrestricted Free Space was that she wanted us and the other six squads to fight each other to determine the winner. That is to say, in addition to us, the remaining six teams must have encountered a similar situation to us, I observed the rest of the forty-two people before, they are basically young men and women, about the same age as us, so the social experience and psychological maturity should not be as good as the middle-aged and middle-aged, so I can speculate that the emotions of the members of the remaining six teams are estimated to be similar to ours, belonging to a state of loss of control, anger and excitement, and even some teams may be suspicious of each other. In the case of fighting and division, if we want to survive against other teams, we must first maintain internal unity and calm. As long as we are more rational, calmer and more united than other teams, then we have a higher survival advantage than other teams. ”

"So, calm down." Xu Feng finally raised his hand and made a gesture to keep calm.

I have to say that some people are naturally suitable to be leaders and speakers, Xu Feng belongs to such people, and a simple analysis stabilized the situation.

Seeing that we were quiet, Xu Feng said in a deep voice:

"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Xu Feng. As for my identity, I'm sorry, but I'll tell you bluntly, I don't know either. I turned out to be an injured person in a car accident, and the brain doctor's diagnosis was that my hippocampus was damaged so my memory was damaged, and even my name was just told to me by Yumi Yoko in the unrestricted free space, and I was a pure amnesiac before and didn't know anything. I can understand that people don't believe me, but for now, let's take it seriously and listen to what I'm saying before you express your opinion. It was only on the day I was discharged from the hospital that I received a text message on my phone to get to that unrestricted free space. It can be said that all my memories are the memories of being treated in the hospital and the memories of being in the unrestricted free space just now, and the rest of the memories are only fragments and fragments, and I can't tell you clearly. Next, I think we can introduce ourselves to each other and get to know each other better. ”

This guy is an amnesiac? I looked Xu Feng up and down, but I really didn't see that this guy who spoke fluently looked like an amnesiac.

Probably under the scrutiny of Xu Feng's gaze, the woman in high heels also casually introduced herself:

"What are you looking at me for? Ask me my name, right? Hu Zixin. Job, broker. There's nothing else to say, what's the problem? ”

Although the woman had a reluctant face, it was obvious that Xu Feng's words still moved her somewhat, and her words were not as impulsive as they were at the beginning.

Next, Gao Hai and I also introduced ourselves, and the introduction of the two of us was very simple, we are ordinary college students, and we have not experienced any winds and waves. After that, there was the guy with the mask, but this guy didn't know what was going on, he wouldn't say a word, and he didn't know if it was because he was a foreigner who couldn't understand or was dumb, and when he asked him a question, he would just shake his head. After that, there was the tall and strong man, he said that his name was Qiu Chaoyue, and he was a national second-level athlete in the men's discus throw event, and the remaining delicate little girl was named Zhou Mengdan, an ordinary female student in the third year of high school, and her parents were from Anhui. Although their origins, identities and occupations are different, the reason why everyone was involved in this game is surprisingly the same, that is, they received that inexplicable text message.

After getting to know each other, Xu Feng first proposed to go outside the house to have a look.

At this time, the sky outside was close to dusk, and when I walked outside to breathe in the fresh air outside and look at the world outside that was exactly the same as I remembered, the crazy scene in the unrestricted free world before gradually faded away.

Now in front of me is the scene near my apartment, with artificial flower beds, small pools, a few aging street lamps, and a few red-painted apartments nearby...... Everything was as far as I remembered.

Isn't it really a delusion? Could it be that everything we used to have in the unrestricted free space was an illusion?

If it weren't for the book in hand and the thick smell of blood still wafting through my nostrils when Gao Tianfeng exploded, I really suspected that everything before was fake.

At the next moment, the girl who taught Zhou Mengdan suddenly screamed.

"Look...... Heavenly! ”

I tilted my head in response, and then my body froze instantly, as if a high-voltage electric current had been connected to my body.

What is that?

In the center of the sky, there is a huge black hole about three times the size of the sun, and in the center of the black hole, there is a butted bitetrahedron, all white, like an hourglass, but there are no grains of sand in it, just pure white, like a flawless piece of jade.

Just from what you see from the ground, you can tell that this huge bitetrahedron has reached a rather staggering point in size. How many kilometers are there, or are there tens of kilometers?

"It's true...... It's true...... It's all true! ”

As if stimulated by the unknown behemoth in the sky, Hu Zixin, who was wearing high heels, suddenly knelt on the ground with weak legs, staring at the sky blankly, muttering to himself as if he had lost his soul, and his voice was already crying with despair.

The shocking scene made me stunned, until Xu Feng's voice came from my ears:

"Ah Zhen, what time is it?"

I was stunned for a moment, and after turning my head to meet Xu Feng's calm gaze, I looked down at the electronic watch on my wrist and said:

"Seven-sixteen."

Xu Feng narrowed his eyes and said, "It's been almost fifteen minutes since we arrived at your house, which means that it should be seven o'clock when we return to your house from the unrestricted free space." Ah Zhen, go back to your house, I want to confirm one thing. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Just watch the TV news. At this point in time, the news just began. Xu Feng nodded solemnly, and then turned around without saying a word and ran back in the direction of my door.

I looked up at the huge black void in the sky and the double tetrahedron in the hollow, and finally settled down and followed Xu Feng's footsteps back home.

When I got home, Xu Feng had already turned on my wall-mounted TV and started watching the news.

"What are you doing? Why watch TV all of a sudden? I looked at Xu Feng with some confusion.

Xu Feng raised a hand to signal me to be quiet, while his gaze remained unblinking, and I glanced at the TV news, which was reporting the news that the construction of the Euro-100TeV superparticle collider had been halted due to lack of funding.

Xu Feng glanced at me and said:

"Ah Zhen, don't you think it's strange? There is a terrifying vision in the sky like a hole in another world, and it stands to reason that the whole city will see it at the same time, but there is no mention of such a vision in the news, does this mean that the vision in the sky can only be seen by us? ”

That's right...... Hearing Xu Feng's reminder, I came back to my senses. This guy's brain is really fast enough, I haven't even thought of this level.

"Ah Zhen, lend me your mobile phone, I'll browse other news on the Internet, you go and gather the people outside, now that the matter of God Game has been completely confirmed, the five of them should have suffered a lot of mental blows, under the six gods without a master, one person is most needed to easily obey your command, you, as the owner of the book, are also our captain, you must stay calm." Xu Feng took my phone and reminded.

"Captain...... I think you're better suited to be the captain. I handed the phone to Xu Fengdao. I'm really just an ordinary student, the kind that is all over the street, I really don't understand anything, your eloquence is so good, your mind is also very good, just now you made everyone quiet at once, I think you are more suitable to be the captain. ”

"No, I can't be the captain." Xu Feng shook his head, he looked at me calmly, "There are three reasons, first, your captain's identity was given by Miyoko, I don't think there is no reason why she asked you to be the captain, no matter how you think you are ordinary, you are very likely to have something special, and before I find out this reason, I am definitely not suitable to be the captain." Second, I'm still an amnesiac now, I don't even know who I am, and other people probably don't believe that I have amnesia at all, thinking that I'm lying to them, so when they have a grudge and suspicion of me in their hearts, I am not suitable to be a captain at all. Third, this is your home, and you are most familiar with the environment. Miyoko sending us to your house must also mean that she acknowledges your identity as the captain, not to mention, in addition to me, there is also a Takami in our team who knows you, and from the perspective of supporters, you also have an advantage at the moment. ”

Please, don't use the tone of a leader to say that you're not fit to be a leader, okay? I looked at Xu Feng a little speechlessly.

"Listen to you...... It seems to be the same thing. Anyway, I can't afford to be the captain at that time, and you don't blame me. ”

"No one will blame you, we are all helpless...... By the way, Ah Zhen, since this is your home, shouldn't your parents come back? Xu Feng asked suddenly.

"That's not going to happen, my parents travel a lot, and I just went to the Guangdong exchange meeting a few days ago, and it will probably take a week." I said.

"That's right, my suggestion is that all of us stay at your house tonight, on the one hand, to discuss countermeasures, and on the other hand, to avoid accidents, it is safer to gather together than to be separated."

"Staying at my house?"

"Well, you don't mind, do you? I see that your house has three bedrooms, and there is a sofa in the hall, and seven people can barely live in it. Xu Feng said calmly.

Although it is said that it is possible to live...... But why is there an illusion that you are the head of the family?

"Then I'll call people first, it doesn't matter if they don't mind." After a short discussion, I went out to call Gao Hai and the others back, and the five people who were stunned by the vision in the sky were all ugly and sick.

Of course, when it comes to the level of depression, I am not lower than them, but probably because I am at home, my mood is relatively more stable. In addition, the reason is estimated to be the existence of Xu Feng, an amnesiac man, which also gave me some confidence. I don't want to admit it, but every time I see this guy's calm face and calm eyes, my heart is somewhat calm.

"Sit down, everybody, the vision is clearly visible to everyone. Now we can all be sure of one thing, and that is that the game of God has begun, and all seven of us have been caught up in a game beyond imagination, whether we want it or not, believe it or not. After everyone had finished their seats, Xu Feng began to talk again while I was busy pouring tea for everyone, for which I exhausted the last packet of Biluochun at home.

"Thanks, Ah Zhen." Xu Feng took my tea, gave me a grateful smile, and then his face became solemn again.

At this moment, Xu Feng was sitting in the center of the sofa, and everyone else was surrounding him, and he looked like a real captain.

"Hey, what the hell do you want to say, surnamed Xu? I see that your guy has a very good brain.,What do you say we have now?,The old lady doesn't want to participate in this bullshit game at all.,If you have any way to get the old lady out of the game, just say it.,Otherwise, the old lady won't be accompanied! Hu Zixin, who had lost her temper before, seemed to be a little more stable, she held Erlang's legs and asked Xu Feng a little impatiently, but it was obvious that her heart was not very peaceful.

"Calm down, calm down." Xu Feng smiled bitterly and made a gesture, now I can see that calmness is obviously his mantra.

"If you want to say a way, to be honest, I haven't figured it out yet. But from participating in the God Game to now, I have seen a lot of flaws in this game. Even, this game can be said to be full of loopholes. Xu Feng took a sip of my tea, and then made a splash.

"Loopholes, what loopholes?" Gao Hai asked, rubbing his head.

Xu Feng glanced at everyone and asked:

"Before I talk about the loopholes, I would like to ask you if you have noticed one thing when you have unlimited free space, that is, almost all of the people participating in this competition are young people, and there are almost no middle-aged people over the age of 40."

That's exactly what you say...... I think the oldest man in it was probably a man in a black suit, but even he was probably in his early thirties.

"I don't think I really saw it, but what does that mean?" The girl named Zhou Mengdan asked.

"This shows a very important point," Xu Feng said, "You might as well assume that the game we participate in is a program arranged by a certain crew, and Miyoko is the person in charge of this program, then in order to take into account factors such as box office, ratings and attracting the audience's attention, will the crew choose young people to participate in the competition, or are they middle-aged and elderly people who are relatively slow to respond and are not easy to attract the attention of young people?" ”

Xu Feng's words quickly sparked everyone's thoughts, including me.

"Generally speaking, young people must be chosen, just like "Battle Royale", "The Hunger Games" and the like, it must be young people who are more passionate and more watchable as the protagonists." I replied truthfully, "Otherwise, it's all a group of middle-aged uncles and aunts, and I don't think the audience will buy it." But...... You mean, what we're experiencing now is actually a show arranged by a crew? ”

"That's pretty much what it means, you might as well imagine it from this perspective." Xu Feng said, "Ah Zhen, have you noticed a detail, Mei Yezi used the title Mr. Gao when she called Gao Tianfeng, who had died. And when I and others are called, they are directly called by names such as Xu Feng or Zhu Qingyun or Xiao Chen. This simple detail actually exposes Miyoko's psychological age. This shows that from a human perspective, Miyoko is about the same age as me, but younger than Takatenho. And Gao Tianfeng's age is about twenty-eight or nineteen years old, that is, if Miyoko is a human being, then her actual mental age is probably between twenty and twenty-nine years old, and it will definitely not exceed twenty-nine years old. ”

"Crazy cool and handsome, it makes sense! You're not a bad boy! Such a detail gives you so much reasoning! Gao Hai clapped his hands heavily and said ecstatically.

"But...... What's the use of knowing the woman's age? Qiu Chaoyue asked with his hands in motion.

"That's important." Xu Feng said, "Let's take the current news broadcast as an example, the host is a middle-aged woman. Only some young people can be young women like Miyoko, and if Miyoko is really a woman in her twenties, then we can use the mentality of young people in their twenties to measure the motivation for holding this game. Think about it, what is the purpose of young people in general, holding or watching this kind of survival game where a group of people are locked up in one place and let them kill each other? ”

Xu Feng's straightforward question made everyone cold. Especially when it comes to cannibalism and survival games, no one dares to speak out.

In the end, I opened my mouth:

"Probably...... For fun, or excitement, right? ”

"Yes, just for the thrill." Xu Feng took a sip of tea, "At least it's more common sense to think like this." Miyoko claims to be the organizer of this game, and if what she says is true, then there are only two possible starting points for her to hold this game, one is that she took the initiative to hold the game for her own wishes, and the other is that she was forced to passively hold the game for some reason. But regardless of whether she is actively or passively hosting the game, from the fact that she chooses young people to participate, her purpose is basically to play a 'wonderful' survival game. So, how can a survival game be exciting? ”

Speaking of which, Xu Feng looked at me:

"Ah Zhen, do you think a survival game where the strong and the weak are polarized, and the outcome is unsuspenseful, or is it more exciting to have an evenly matched contest?"

Being stared at by Xu Feng's gaze, I suddenly felt a sense of empowerment.

"It's not that I like blood...... But under normal circumstances, it must be that the evenly matched game is more suspenseful and more exciting, just like horse racing or the Olympics, the competition between players of equal strength has more ratings. ”

"That's right." Xu Feng nodded solemnly, "For the sake of the excitement of the game, I reasoned a little. That is, except for our team, the other six teams are probably quite equal in terms of overall strength, and it is almost impossible for a certain team to be particularly strong, all of them are masters, or a certain team is particularly weak. The so-called equal strength, that is, in a one-on-one situation, any two squads fighting between each other will be the end of the fish and the net will be broken. ”

"I'm ...... Fuck your uncle, hey, the kid surnamed Xu, you're very awesome, the woman who said 'Mr. Gao' can make you reason so far. How big is your brain? You said you had amnesia in a car accident, I think you had a car accident and your IQ was raised, right? Gao Hai sighed.

"Hehe, that's hard to say." Xu Feng spread his hands and said with a wry smile, and then, he dipped his fingers in the tea, nodded seven points on the coffee table, and said, "Everyone should listen to me first." What I'm going to say next is about whether or not we can win this game, and it's about the lives of each of you, so please be serious. ”

I immediately stood up straight, ready to listen carefully to every word Xu Feng said.

"As I said earlier, the strength of the seven teams we are competing in is almost the same, and it can even be regarded as completely equal, so what can the team do to ensure that it can provide a chance of victory when each team is equal in strength?"

"Forge an alliance." I almost blurted it out. "An alliance between the squads, I think Miyoko seems to have mentioned that as well."

"That's right, Ah Zhen, you're right." Xu Feng nodded, "Assuming that my previous reasoning is correct, and the strength of the team is about the same, then the alliance is inevitable." Moreover, it is obvious that due to the proximity of strength, the more squads that are allied with, the higher the chance of winning that side. Since there are seven squads to compete, it can be said that which four squads can form an alliance first, then the probability of the remaining three squads winning will be extremely low, and it can even be said that they will die. ”

I felt a large vat of cold air pour into my lungs.

"In other words, what we're going to do is form an alliance with the other three squads, right?"

"Well, so to speak, but actually, as long as we find two squads as fast as possible, we can basically guarantee that we are undefeated." Xu Feng said, "We only need to form a three-team alliance with the two squads when the other teams have not yet started to form an alliance or the teams are scattered, and then eliminate a lone squad as quickly as possible, then the strength ratio between the remaining squads is basically three against three, in a relatively balanced and indistinguishable state, that is, as long as we win over the two teams, we already have a chance of winning close to 50%." The odds are definitely tempting. ”

"And you just need to tell the other squads what I'm saying now, and the chances of the other squads forming an alliance with us are definitely not low. After all, in the unpredictable survival game, anyone will fight to the end for even the slightest hope of survival, let alone have a 50% chance of winning. ”

At this point, Xu Feng's strategic thinking is already very clear, that is, first pull two squads, and then three to one, quickly eliminate a lone squad, and then at least ensure a 50% survival rate. If you are lucky enough to be able to pull three squads, then it may become a four-on-three, four-on-two, four-on-one situation, and the winning rate will be higher.