Chapter 5: The Wheel of Death

"Kid, do you know about the Freak Club?"

In the ruins of a sheltered city, Yu Zhao and another elderly investigator searched for supplies.

"Old thing, tell me about it."

Yu Zhao had never heard of this organization, not even the old books that had been found in the ruins.

"Hehe, I also heard my father tell me about the secrets of the Joint Investigation Bureau." The old man stopped searching and removed the kettle from his waist, which contained his private wine.

Smelling the smell, Yu Zhao frowned slightly.

"Brewing the food distributed by the organization may violate the waste law."

"Tsk, a little ghost is a little ghost." The old thing glanced at Yu Zhao disdainfully, "How can you tell a story without wine?" You still don't listen! Shut up if you want to listen! ”

The curious Yu Zhao pinched two fingers, swiped them over his mouth, and pretended to zip it to sew it up.

"Hey, a little ghost is a little ghost!" The old thing laughed happily.

"Do you know about the catastrophe that nearly wiped out humanity?"

Yu Zhao frowned and nodded, "Mother Erun escaped." It has been included in the textbooks of primary schools, but I have never heard anyone tell about the incident, and the only information recorded in the book is the description of the aftermath of the disaster, and the inferences of some scholars. ”

"That's enough." The old thing took a sip of wine and said slowly: "I remember that the textbook said that because of the large-scale invasion of the virtual monsters, the resistance forces related to human beings were almost completely wiped out, and at this time, the Investigation Bureau united all the remaining forces that could be united, and barely stabilized the current human shelter city. However...... Almost everyone did not know what kind of forces the Bureau of Investigation had united at that time. The Freak Club, the Giarso Heroes' Club, the Dragon Court, and the Academy of Perul have all been submerged in history. ”

Indeed, none of these names Yu Zhao had ever heard of. Not only him, but people who know the history of the great tribulation are very rare in the sheltered city.

Yu Zhao wondered, "In other words, the current Investigation Bureau was jointly established by these organizations, but why are they forgotten?" They are the heroes who save humanity. Could it be the Bureau of Investigation......"

"No, it's not what you think." The old thing's expression was very solemn, "The reason why these organizations are not made public is very simple, they have done a lot of shady things, and they don't want those things to be made public." ”

Next, the old thing uses the example of the Freak Club.

"The Freak Club, whose members were all top scientists of the time, was just a little crazy. Most of the subjects and experiments they studied were against human ethics, and although they were very forward-looking from the perspective of the present, as one of the few people who studied the Void and Shadow Realms, they achieved a lot of results. But at that time, their research was found to be imprisoned in the Black Tower of the Abyss, where they died of old age. ”

The old thing paused, took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "Let me tell you one more thing, the founder of its organization, Dr. Gu Yong, he even stitched the virtual monster on his body!" ”

"What!"

Yu Zhao couldn't believe his ears.

"Stitching the Void Monster to his body, how can he resist the influence of the Void Monster, those crazy whispers will drive him crazy!"

"No one knows how he did it, in fact no one has been able to replicate it until now, that guy is a genius of geniuses." The old thing took a sip of wine and continued: "But it is precisely because of this Dr. Gu Yong that he fought for his life to delay the mother Iren after the incident and saved most of the members of the Deformed Club. If it weren't for these scientists who have studied the Void Monster deeply, humanity would have been extinct long ago. ”

A madman who ended up crazy enough to fight against the Genesis-level Void Monster alone.

And in those days, such madmen were innumerable.

Yu Zhao was silent for two seconds, "We can't evaluate these people. They are undoubtedly heroes who saved humanity, but they have done many unforgivable things. ”

The old thing drank up the rest of the wine, "Why label people?" They are madmen and heroes. We are heroes, but we are also extremely pathetic maggots. ”

Before the Genesis-level Void Monster, any living creature was a maggot.

And who am I? This is the ultimate question to which humanity has no answer.

The room was silent for a few seconds.

"It suddenly occurred to me that there is something more interesting in the Freak Club, would you like to hear about it?"

"What is it?"

"Death Wheel Game."

"Doesn't sound like a good game." Yu Zhao said.

"Yes, most of the people who play this game are poor creatures who are forced to despair by life and want to fight. Life back then wasn't just about survival, players could get any bets, money, power, and even lives they wanted from the club. ”

The old thing obviously knew the world before the disaster better than Yu Zhao.

"The purpose of the Deformity Club's research on this game is to test their newly developed various potions, which are the prototype of the current awakening potions, and are an improvement on the original awakening methods of the Investigation Bureau. But it's still a prototype, it's a failure, and there is only one end to taking those potions, and after falling into madness, ......"

The old thing didn't finish speaking, and he raised the corners of his mouth with a frightening smile.

Yu Zhao ignored it.

Is the awakening pill what these people are studying?

He pondered, since the investigators of that era were not awakened by taking potions, what would their method of awakening be?

The method of awakening without taking awakening pills, Yu Zhao knows one.

But the conditions were too harsh to meet the needs of the Bureau of Investigation at that time.

"Speaking of the game itself, the so-called Wheel of Death is a roulette wheel marked with different numbers, and the reason why it is called the word death is because the size of the number determines the number of potions in front of you in the official game, such as rolling to three ......"

The old thing stretched out three fingers and continued:

"You'll choose the harmless one out of three glasses of liquid that are exactly the same color, smell, and turbidity. Of course, no matter what the number is, there is only one cup that can keep people alive. ”

"Touching the same liquid, it's all a matter of luck." Yu Zhao felt that he was not suitable for this game, and his luck was very poor.

"That's right, very fair game. There are always very few people who can make good fortune, don't they? The old thing said this, with a fox-like cunning expression.

……

I didn't know the snap of Gu Yong's fingers from there, and the layout of the room began to change.

The chandelier on the ceiling flickered rapidly as if it had been miscontacted, alternating between dark and light unsettlingly.

Eventually, after two or three seconds of complete darkness in the room.

Click.

The sound of the switch shutting sounded.

The lights reappeared.

At a height of four or five meters above the ground, an observation room appeared like a movie in the sky, with transparent glass on the ground and extremely white light flowing from that observation room.

The people inside were uniformly dressed in white coats and held notebooks in their hands to record data.

These researchers are the members of the True Deformity Club.

In the future, Dr. Tani Yong saved the hope of mankind with his life.

Next, there is the second observation room.

The third room.

The fourth room.

Illuminated like a spotlight, the bodies of Yu Zhao and Gu Yong were lit up, separated by a table that did not exist before.

Yu Zhao looked around, the corpses on the ground disappeared, and the layout of the room did not change in any way, except for the tables and chairs that appeared beside him.

Looking up, darkness took the place of the roof, as if in the vastness of the universe, making it impossible to determine whether the original roof still existed. Even though the observation chambers emitted a dazzling white light, the light seemed to be subjected to a huge gravitational pull, and could not escape and be swallowed up by the darkness.

Obviously, the whole room has been distorted, and its layout is completely unsightly to be viewed by common sense.

Then, there was another snap of the fingers.

Yu Zhao looked to the left side of his body.

The fixed floor began to flow, pulling the hidden Death Wheel out of the ground like a conveyor belt.

It was a red carousel, divided evenly into eight areas, marked with the numbers 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, and 24.

Move his gaze back to Taninaga's body.

[Serial No. 30: Ouroboros], which can manipulate the space with a radius of five meters around the body, and performs operations such as cutting, transferring, and stacking the space within the range.

But Gu Yong's range of ability is by no means five meters.

Is it because he sewed the Void Monster into his body?

Yu Zhao guessed.

No wonder this guy was able to resist in the hands of his mother Iren for a period of time, and his ability and mental power were far from human.

"Ready, Mr. Yu Zhao."

Gu Yong sunk into the sofa, his posture was extremely relaxed, and his greedy expression was unabashedly revealed.

Looking at Yu Zhao, it was like a hungry wolf staring at the best prey.

"I don't know what you want from this club? Money, power, or ......"

He never worries about what anyone will get after the game, because no one has been able to finish the game alive since it was invented!