Pang Shi will never forget his first experience of entering the Land of Apocalypse.

That time, he made an appointment with a few of his best friends to try out the new game, and she happened to be there, and she had never liked to play games, so she was rarely enthusiastic and insisted on joining. So one of the friends gave up the game pod to give the young couple a taste of what it was like to play a neural simulation game for the first time.

But I didn't expect this first and last time.

The absurdity of the game is far beyond their imagination. Although they also met veteran players who explained the rules, they didn't believe what that person told at all. A game is a game, how can it affect people in the real world, not to mention that the most advanced neural simulation game cabin has a complete life monitoring system, as long as the player's physiological indicators are slightly abnormal, it will be safely disconnected, and there is no possibility of accidents at all, not to mention the neurotic setting that will die if the information is leaked.

At that time, Pang Shi and the others laughed, and they didn't take things to heart at all. This momentary negligence was exchanged for tragic consequences, and in that game, Pang Shi's friends died tragically in front of him one by one. Although they had heightened their vigilance after the first accident, it did not help in the slightest. There are no enemies to defeat in the game, only one probability event after another manipulated by the system to drive them to their death. In the end, only he and her remained, and faced with the last chance to survive, she resolutely pushed him out of the passageway, leaving the collapsed building herself.

Ponsch will always remember her last smile, just as he will always remember the name of the game.

The Grim Reaper is coming, and the rank is 8 of hearts. This is the culprit who took everything from Pang Shi's side.

After surviving the game, Pang Shi went crazy and ran through every room of the small hotel, and then saw his loved ones and best friends turn into corpses one after another. He wanted to call the police, but in the end he didn't have the courage to risk his death to tell the truth.

With the 8 points won in the first game, Pang Shi lived like a walking dead for two more weeks before having to join the game again. This time, he once again witnessed the death of someone else, and this scene finally touched the desire to win in his heart. The long-term training of his physique allowed him to show his skills in this game. Finally, thanks to his efforts, he survived again.

And he Pomstone – aka the "Explosive Pistol" – has been fighting in the game to this day.

"Brother Bang? Is it okay to bother? ”

A voice next to him interrupted Pang Shi's thoughts. He turned his head and saw the newcomer glasses girl running next to him. Pang Shi did not run with all his strength at this time, but deliberately fell back in the middle and rear of the team to facilitate the care of those who might leave the team.

Brother Bang looked at the glasses girl and thought to himself: "Although this newcomer called 'Light Dance Ripples' is only level 1, his breathing is quite stable so far, which shows that his physical fitness is quite good." He nodded, signaling for the other to have something to say.

"Brother Bang, you haven't completed your first task yet, have you?" "In that case, it's better for me to ask the third question, it just so happens that I have something I want to know." ”

"Don't you say I forgot about it." Pang Shi hurriedly called up the task column, and sure enough, the special task still showed an unfinished state, and his attention had been on the game just now, but he forgot that there were still important things to be completed here.

"Okay, you ask." Pang Shi replied very cheerfully.

"The description says that the game level is 'Club 3', and I already know that this 3 is a bonus point, but what does Club mean? If there are plum blossoms, is there something else? ”

"To put it simply, there are four types of games that are currently known." Pang Shi replied, "They correspond to the four suits of the playing cards, so some people also estimate that the suffix number should be from 1 to 13, but this is not confirmed." There are some players who have tried to summarize the meaning of suits, and after many exchanges and inheritances, they have come up with a general pattern. ”

Pang Shi raised his fingers and counted them one by one.

"First of all, spades, this type of game generally tests people's physical fitness, like fighting competitions and so on, these belong to this category. You can see that the type of specialty in my message is 'spades', this is because I am in good health, and all the points given by the upgrade are added to the body, so the clearance rate of spades will be relatively high. ”

"Then there are the blocks, this type is generally based on puzzle-solving, which requires more brains. I'm not very good at it, so I have a lot of headaches with this type, but fortunately, I don't have it very often. ”

"The third is the club, which is the one we are playing now, it has no clear characteristics, or it needs both physical fitness and a certain amount of puzzle-solving ability, but the requirements for each aspect at the same level may not be as high as spades and diamonds."

"The last is the ...... of hearts" Speaking of this, Pang Shi couldn't help but pause, and that scene came to mind again. Taking a deep breath, he continued: "Hearts have not yet summed up any characteristics, because there are very few players who survive from hearts, and they often don't know why they survived, it seems that it has nothing to do with physical fitness, nothing to do with intelligence, only to know that every time you go through the game of hearts will be an extremely painful experience. ”

He sighed deeply: "However, fortunately, the probability of hearts appearing seems to be very low. ”

At this point, the item in the Pangshi taskbar finally becomes "Completed". Although the rewards will not be available until the settlement stage after the level, the total income will now be changed from 3 to 4.

Pang Shi can live one more day.

"Hey, do you guys feel something is wrong?" An old player next to him suddenly spoke. As soon as he spoke, several people showed expressions of "sure enough".

When Pang Shi came back to his senses, his heart also trembled suddenly. The clock ability in his body is not outstanding, and he has been wandering just now, but if he fuzzily calculates, he has been running for twenty minutes since starting again, and it stands to reason that the second "trial" should have come out five minutes ago.

"Has it already appeared?" Pang Shi thought with some anxiety. But now I can't see the end in sight, so it stands to reason that the five-kilometer journey should be there by now. Could it be that the nameplate is just a lie, a deception by the system to interfere with their mentality?

As soon as he thought of this, Pang Shi's body seemed to be passed through by a cold current. This time, he finally realized that this was real, not an illusion caused by his inner emotional fluctuations.

The temperature around me is really getting low fast!

"I see, this is the second 'trial'." An old player said that when he opened his mouth, he could already see a thin layer of white mist.

"Cold temperatures are not only fatal, but they can greatly affect our ability to move before then." Another veteran player said anxiously, "We don't know at what temperature it will stop, and although most of us have strengthened our physical fitness, it will still be very dangerous if it stays below zero for a long time." ”

Several veteran players exchanged glances, then rushed forward at full speed. They all understand that the only way to survive is to get past the finish line before the temperature drops too much. And at this time, it is no longer time to talk about team spirit, say some dream words such as "everyone has to live together".

Only living on your own is the most important thing.

"Hey! Don't go! Help me! ”

The physical fitness of Light Dancing Ripples is quite good for a first-level newcomer, but that's about it. In this wave of cold waves, she and the bald man are the two newcomers who are the most affected. At this time, she had used all her strength, but she was getting farther and farther away from the troops in front. On the other hand, the man with the head, although he looks tall and big on the outside, his physical fitness is not very good, and he is already in a state of difficult movement at this time.

And Pang Shi is engaged in a fierce inner struggle.

When she died, she once said that Pang Shi looked fierce and did not speak softly, but he was actually a very kind person in his heart. Although he knew that if he threw down the two newcomers, they would definitely die, and it would be equivalent to killing their chance of survival with his own hands, but Pang Shi also knew very well in his heart that if he brought these two oil bottles, he would almost definitely die.

"Help me......" Ripple shouted in despair.

The temperature is falling faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, it is freezing. At this time, her beautiful cheeks were already covered with a thin layer of white mist, and the tears were frozen as soon as they came out, like two thin lines hanging down her eyes. She stretched out her hand to Pang Shi, her eyes seemed to be dead, but there was still a faint glimmer of hope.

At that moment, the image of the light dancing ripples and the memory of her overlapped wonderfully.

I couldn't save her then, and now?

"Nope! I want to live! ”

Pang Shi roared, turned around and sped out.

Behind him, Light Dance Ripple maintained the posture of reaching out for help, and slowly fell forward.

Live, live, live!

Pang Shi shouted silently, exerting every ounce of his strength. He couldn't sense how much the temperature had dropped, and he didn't even feel his bare ears falling out. One by one, he overtook all the players in front of him - not because of how fast he trekked through the snow, but because they were all dead.

Time has long passed, the five-kilometer journey has long passed, and these Pang Shi can no longer think about it. At the moment, he only has one thought, that is, to climb to the end and live.

As if complimenting him, what he was looking forward to finally appeared in the distance. In the distance, a bright light can be seen coming in from the corner at the end of the tunnel. Pang Shi was motivated, and even dug out all the strength in his bone marrow, dragging his already frozen feet step by step with difficulty.

He abandoned everyone and finally came to the end of the road.

But there was no expected exit, only another nameplate.

[15KM from the finish line]

He looked back in despair. In the distance, a rumbling roar was being heard.