As a free man, he would go to the library's computer room at a fixed time every day to make good use of resources and browse the website on the public computer.

He failed in the public examination three years ago, and since then he has not enrolled in any courses, living an idle life. He is not willing to do a lowly job, convinced that he is definitely worth more than a few dozen dollars an hour, he feels that he is burdened with more important tasks, but at this moment, he is just a young man who has lost his studies, and he has lost his job.

This double-lost young man is named Li Huai, he is just 170 tall, he looks ordinary, not ugly or handsome, it is the popular appearance of the saying "a signboard will crush a few to death" as the saying goes. His clothes suit him very well, not because he looks good, but because he is as ordinary as him, and he can never match his clothes without blue jeans and white T-Shi

t。

He was born in a well-off family without any financial pressure, so he was not in a hurry to find a job, coupled with his "procrastination" and fearful personality, which created his life of double loss for several years.

In the occasional class reunion, whenever it was time to talk about the current situation with each other, he would only hide from the sidelines, like an ostrich with his head buried in the dirt, not wanting to contact other people, not wanting to tell the truth that he had lost both.

After the baptism of time, he began to slowly realize that he was nothing more than a worthless person, a waste who didn't even have a job.

"Goodbye." He said to the staff in the library's computer room.

"Goodbye." The other person smiled in return.

Every day after leaving the library, he dragged a heavy shell, like a walking corpse.

For him, going to the library every day to use the computer is just a "job" to add a little meaning to his life, so that he will not become a hidden youth who does not leave home.

"The end of the world will come soon...", he prayed every day, hoping that this gloomy life would end soon.

He hated all the rich people, why their children and grandchildren can own their own properties, famous cars, women without having to work... And yet he had nothing.

He curses the rich, he curses the heavens, he curses himself.

On the bustling street, a car drove from behind, and several black-clothed men ran out of the car, covered Li Huai's head with a burlap bag, and then carried him to the car. The whole thing happened in the space of a dozen seconds, and strangely enough, in this densely populated city, no passerby knew that it had happened.

"What is this place?" Li Huai fainted after inhaling the anesthetic in the cloth bag, and by the time he woke up, he was already in this room.

He shook his head to sober himself up, "This is..."

Constructed of stone bricks and with a wet and wet walls, this room is an old cell with a stone bed on one side. Everything in the cell, from the ceiling to the walls and floor, was covered with thick moss, and the slippery feeling of stepping on the floor was a little disgusting.

"Why am I here? That's right! I was put in a burlap bag just now, was I kidnapped? No, I'm not the son or daughter of a rich man, or am I actually the illegitimate son of a rich man? ”

At this moment, Li Huai was still delusional that he was a different person.

"Be quiet!" A voice came from the wall next door.

"Who are you? Get me out of here! Li Huai shouted.

"Okay, don't make any more noise, it's not just you who have been caught, there are a lot of people here who have been caught by them."

"So you were caught by them, too?"

The voice next door paused for a moment, then slowly said, "Yes..."

"You just said there were a lot of people being caught?"

"That's right, but they've already..." The owner of the voice didn't continue, but Li Huai had already guessed that the others should have been killed.

Knowing that the other people who were captured had been killed, Li Huai's heart suddenly cooled.

"By the way, my name is Zhang Luo." The person next door reported his name.

"My name is Li Huai..."

Li Huai had always wanted something to happen, preferably something that would cost him his life, because he was tired of this dull and decadent life, but when it came to the moment he had been waiting for for a long time, he only felt fear and more fear.

Death has always been a very distant thing for Li Huai, sometimes he will pray for death to come soon, but when death is really close, he wants to survive, he doesn't want to die like this.

Not only Li Huai, human beings are originally a contradictory creature.

"Zhang Luo, how many days have you been here?" Li Huai sat on the bed and asked.

"It should be almost three weeks, right? There's no sunlight in here, and I don't know the time, so there's a good chance we'll be trapped in an abandoned basement in the suburbs. ”

While the two were talking, there was a sudden sound of brass bells ringing around the cell.

"Knock Knock"

Li Huai looked around nervously, like a panicked puppy, and shrunk his body into a ball, "What's going on?" ”

Zhang Luo said unhurriedly: "Don't be nervous, this kind of bell will be heard every day." ”

Although this strange bell does not shake the heavens and the earth, it has a feeling of penetrating the heart and lungs, making people feel as if their internal organs have been directly struck.

"Ahh It hurts! Li Huai was made to the ground and convulsed by the sound of the bell.

Every time the bell rang, Li Huai was in pain, and he pressed his ears to huddle in the corner, but even covering his ears could not relieve the pain caused by the bells.

The bell kept ringing, and the pain lingered.

After tens of seconds of torment, the bell finally ended.

"It's finally over... Is it over.... Whew..."Li Huaiba went to the bed and gasped vigorously.

"Are you okay?" Zhang Luo asked.

Li Huai sat up in pain and pressed his chest, "Whew. It's not a big deal, it's just that I felt like I was being hit directly on the heart just now, and I almost thought I was going to die, what are these bells all about? ”

"It's the 'Death Bell', that's what I call it, and everyone else but me who was caught couldn't stand the Death Bell, and I thought you would--"

"Don't worry, I'm not dead yet."

Li Huai recovered slightly, and thought to himself: "These bells can actually kill people?" Why do they want to catch people back, is it random or is there a specific condition? Why did you choose me? ”

At this moment, Li Huai's thirst for knowledge temporarily overcame the fear in his heart.

Zhang Luo and Li Huai started talking, for Li Huai it was to get more information, and for Zhang Luo it was a kind of liberation, and he hadn't talked to anyone else for more than a week, this feeling was definitely uncomfortable.

Humans are creatures in great need of socialization, and no one is an exception.

Through the conversation, Li Huai learned that the death bell would ring at different times every day in this cell, and that people would be brought here every once in a while, but Zhang Luo did not know the identities of the victims. The people who were arrested were men, women, young people, and old people, and anyone you could think of could be found here, and I didn't know what criteria the perpetrators used to arrest people, and I didn't know what the meaning of this action was.

Suddenly, a shrill sound rang out, followed by a mechanical voice, "The first game will be held tomorrow, please get ready." ”

The sound of the mechanical announcement came from the passage outside the cell.

"Competitions? What competition? Li Huai asked.

"I don't know, I haven't heard of any competitions before, it seems that I won't know until tomorrow," Zhang Luo replied. At this moment, they did not expect that there were more unexplainable things waiting for them.