Chapter Twenty-Five: Endless Roulette
The Endless Roulette is a containment object, just as strange as the flipping gear, with a peculiar function that defies science and logic.
It appeared when it was close to 5,900 years after the perpetual calendar, when a self-inspection system discovered a foreign object in the space ring, and then it was discovered when the maintenance personnel went to inspect it.
It was a room, a utility room used to store repair tools and nanobots, but as soon as the Endless Roulette wheel was activated, the room would turn into a hall that looked similar to a stage hall like some kind of variety show in the Earth Age.
As soon as people walk into it, they will immediately automatically sit on the guest chair on this stage, and when the first guest sits down, a voice will automatically sound ten minutes later, first introducing this is the first lucky wheel event, and then saying some strange jokes or embarrassing words, and then the first guest position will start the wheel lottery.
ββ¦β¦ I was a participant in the last round of endless roulette, and everyone saw different numbers on the wheel, I saw ninety-nine numbers, and other participants saw twelve numbers, eighteen numbers, twenty-seven numbers, sixty-six numbers, and even hundreds of numbers, each of which had different patterns and symbols, and according to the level of education of the participants and the original civilization, these patterns and symbols were different, and the meanings they represented were also different. β
"But beware of some of these symbols, such as skeletons, radiation warnings, red zones, or similar dangerous symbols, once these symbols are selected, there is a seventy or eighty percent chance that the person sitting in the guest seat will disappear, that is, in the literal sense of the word, and there will be no body to be found, nor any traces or clues they have left behind, so we can only assume that they are dead."
"In addition to the danger symbols, there are also some bonus things, for example, I got a pack of cigarettes, which was the brand that I saved money to buy secretly when I was a child, and the production of the first pack of cigarettes was stopped a long time ago, but it was rewarded to me, and I heard that there were other rewards, such as a person who rewarded him with thirty years of life, which made him work for another thirty years, and he did not die until he was more than 110 years old."
"About one-fifth of the areas on the roulette wheel are white areas, and once these areas are drawn, the Endless Roulette will disappear this time and won't reappear until ten years later, so the odds of solving this containment are pretty good."
Zhang Hanqi came to the gathering point, this group of more than 6,000 people was already here, and there were more than 30 old people in the field, all of whom looked to be seventy or eighty years old, and they were all maintenance workers of the previous generation.
After seeing everyone coming, an older generation of maintainers began to introduce the containment.
At this point, someone raised their hand and asked, "I've heard about containment objects, and I've mentioned them in previous trainings, but didn't the experts say don't go near any containment objects unless necessary?" So why are we approaching this endless roulette? β
The old man nodded and said, "That's what the maintenance staff of the first generation who first encountered this containment thought, so they sealed this room and stayed away from this area, and then they found that as long as they didn't enter the Endless Roulette, every year or so, the number of rooms occupied by this Endless Roulette would multiply, two in the second year, four in the third year, eight in the fourth year, and sixteen in the fifth year...... They found that if they didn't enter it, they wouldn't even be able to go home and rest for a long time...... Because when their home is opened, it reveals the hall of the Endless Roulette Wheel. β
More than 6,000 people were in an uproar, and they were all in an uproar, and the old man continued: "And every time you enter the endless roulette hall, it is best to gather twenty people to enter again, because the rule of this roulette wheel is that if no one hits the white area in the round, then the endless roulette wheel will reset, the white area will become smaller, and at the same time, the danger area will increase, and the probability of the white area drawn in the next round will decrease, so the fewer people you can, the less you can enter the endless roulette wheel, because the mortality rate, that is, the disappearance rate, will increase significantly." β
When these old people saw the panic on the young man's face, they showed a smile, and the smile was both nostalgic and a kind of relief, and the old man said: "This round of endless roulette is carried out by us old people, you can watch it outside the door, or you can wait for us to sit in the guest seat and walk in and find a place to look, there is no danger, that's almost it,
Then the more than 30 old people discussed a few words, and the old man who spoke took the lead, a total of 20 people opened the room and walked in, and looked into the room from the outside, and sure enough, what they saw was a hall similar to a variety show, and the 20 old people who walked into it sat directly on the guest chair, and the rest of the old people also walked in, and randomly found a chair in the stands and sat down.
More than 6,000 people outside the door looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
However, they were not all waste, and after a few seconds, someone was the first to enter the room, and they also found a random stand chair to sit down, and then more and more people followed, and Zhang Hanqi was also a member of the public.
Ten minutes later, the stand where the guest chairs were located suddenly lit up, and then the twenty guest chairs slowly rose into the air, forming a circle, and a large disc appeared in the middle of them, and the disc rotated so fast that others could not see what was on the disc.
Zhang Hanqi was also watching intently, because even if only twenty people were needed to enter the endless roulette wheel each time, but this was the collective responsibility of all the maintenance personnel, and it was likely to be decided by lottery, so it was also possible for him to be selected, so he naturally didn't dare to take it lightly at this time, but after watching it for a long time, he found that he didn't hear any sound.
The people around him obviously had such doubts, and among the more than a dozen elderly people in the stands, someone explained: "Only the participating guests can hear the voice, and everyone hears a different voice, it may be a male voice, it may be a female voice, it may be Chinese, it may also be English, in short, it is a familiar voice that you can understand." β
Just when the old man explained, the first guest chair in the stands flew to the roulette wheel and stopped above the roulette wheel, and the roulette wheel slowly stopped, but others still couldn't see what this roulette wheel was, just when everyone was stunned, the old man on the No. 1 guest chair suddenly scolded a few words, and the No. 1 guest chair flew back to its original place, and then the No. 2 guest chair flew forward.
From the perspective of others, this endless roulette wheel looks very boring, neither can you see any lottery results, nor can you hear any sound introduction, the whole scene seems to be playing a pantomime, and when the fourth guest rotates, everyone suddenly appears in the open space outside the room in the next second, along with those old people also appear at the same time, one is not more, one is not less.
"Solved? It's that simple? Immediately, someone asked the old men.
The old man smiled, and the old man who spoke before said, "How hard can it be?" There is a 1 in 5 chance of clearing the level directly, and those dangerous areas do not even have a 1 in 10 or 20 probability, as long as there are twenty people involved, it is difficult to die. β
Another old man also said: "This shelter is very safe, the key point is not to delay time, and there must be twenty people involved, the smaller the number of participants, the more dangerous it is, so you have to work together in the future, you know?" β
Many of the new generation of maintainers are relieved.
The maintainers who can be ranked in this middle section, even if they are not literal wastes like Zhang Hanqi, are mostly unsuccessful, so if the mortality rate is really too high, maybe they will really have some chaos.
But at this moment, an old man said solemnly: "But you have to be careful of the endless roulette carnival, there will be a carnival every hundred years, we have not experienced the carnival, we have all seen it from the old man's diary before, every carnival will have great danger, because the law is the opposite, when the first round of roulette turns, the danger area occupies the majority, and the white area is almost invisible, until everyone on the stage turns a round, the danger area will begin to shrink, and the white area will begin to get bigger......"
"The carnival is also an event named after the older generation of maintainers, once every 100 years, and it takes 200 to sit at a time before it can start ......"
The old man was silent, and after a long time, he said: "You can go and find the diary of the maintenance staff in front of you, all of which are stored in the electromagnetic static field, don't damage it, and return it after reading it, in addition, you had better start learning how to write a diary, write down your daily life, feelings, difficulties at work, and changes in mood, and when you die of old age, you can also put the diary into the electromagnetic static field." β
"I know that some of you may be very resistant to being seen in your private affairs, but how to say it, this is actually a part of science and civilization, social science, I think you also hope that human civilization will become stronger after it returns, so that the decider can fish us out and resurrect us in the future, right?"
There was nothing else to do that day, Zhang Hanqi returned home with a full stomach, and he was greeted by two beautiful smiles from Leah and Ju.
Naturally, there is nothing to say about the following days, it is nothing more than that Zhang Hanqi finally broke up with his right hand and fell into the gentle countryside and was addicted to it, and such days lasted for several years, until one day, Zhang Hanqi suddenly found that he was old......
Well, the aging of the body is also old, even if his mentality is still in his early twenties, but if he can't do it, he can't do it.
And Zhang Hanqi in the sage mode, in addition to patrolling for one or two hours a day, that is, some dinners at various festivals, or attending parties for the death of the elderly, in addition, he is either addicted to the second dimension, or indulged in gentleness when he recuperates, and as the first and only woman he has come into contact with, he actually has some romantic emotions in addition to desire.
Unconsciously, he has treated Leah and Ju as real people, telling them about his thoughts, recounting his childhood and past, taking them to play games, watching animations, explaining to them the stalks and plots in those animations, and occasionally he will take Leah and Ju to space to see the stars, and also tell them the whereabouts of human civilization, and the agreement between them and the decider to meet again in the future.
ββ¦β¦ If I am resurrected, and my father and mother are resurrected, I will take you to my parents. Zhang Hanqi said to the second daughter with a smile on his face.
It may be that for others, this loneliness from civilization goes deep into the bone marrow and soul, but Zhang Hanqi really has a feeling of not being happy.
Compared with the loneliness of being alone in human society, he now feels that he has two families.
Time passed slowly like this, until the tenth year of his awakening, someone in the crowd @ him, @δΊζζδΊΊ.
"Attention, everyone, I checked the diaries of my predecessors before, and this time the endless roulette wheel is likely to be a carnival-type roulette!!"
Zhang Hanqi's eyes widened as he looked at this passage, and he had even forgotten about the Endless Roulette Wheel a little.
And before the words in the big group were over, the man released many screenshots, and continued to type: "The first time the endless roulette appeared, they took six years to solve it, and then there were several incidents that did not solve the endless roulette in time, so the carnival of the endless roulette is actually not calculated according to a hundred years, it should be calculated according to ten rounds, and I calculated that from the first round to the previous round, it was exactly ninety-nine endless roulette!! β
"And, guys! If you think about it, Endless Roulette happens every 10 years, and every 10 times it's a carnival, and then this time it's exactly 100 times, which is 10 carnivals, so you guys say...... Could it be that this time the endless roulette wheel is even more terrifying, evolving from a carnival to a super carnival kind!? After all, this is our hundredth time!! β
"Calculate the time, there are still twelve days before the Endless Roulette appears, everyone should also go through the diary to confirm the clues we haven't found before!"
"By the way, there are also participants, if it is really a carnival, it is two hundred people participating, who is involved, it is impossible to specify, right? That is, the lottery is required, when will the lottery be drawn, and who is the notary? Or you can leave it to an intelligent program to be a notary, haven't you thought about these questions? β
Zhang Hanqi felt that the whole person was confused, he didn't understand the situation at all, what endless roulette, what carnival, what super carnival, these things that would kill people should be far, far away from him......
From that day on, Zhang Hanqi refused to turn on the computer, even refused to go out on patrol, played in the room every day, buried his head in playing, and even ignored Leah and Ju.
Then twelve days later......
Zhang Hanqi was already sitting on the guest chair when he came back to his senses, and his guest chair number was No. 1!?
And in the last second, he was still playing the stand-alone version of the interstellar online game called eve in front of the computer at home, why did he suddenly appear here?
When he raised his eyes, he saw more than 6,000 guest chairs appearing in the vicinity, all of which were floating in the air.
"Welcome to the Carnival of Death, hahaha, that's the name you guys guys came up with, isn't it? Listen to me, buddy......"
A lot of trash talk sounded, and Zhang Hanqi began to struggle frantically from the guest chair, but he couldn't break free at all, he could only watch the guest chair fly towards the roulette, and nine-tenths of the area on the roulette wheel was all black, and most of the remaining tenths of the area was red, blood red, only a very small trace was another color, and there was hardly any white area visible.
Then, under Zhang Hanqi's desperate gaze, the roulette wheel spun around, and finally, the roulette pointer luckily dodged the black area and landed on a red grid, which was an image of a blood-red skull with an hourglass on the skull.
In the next moment, Zhang Hanqi appeared on a battlefield full of flesh and blood, he looked at the group of humans in front of him in a daze, raising their guns to shoot at him, at this time, two figures pounced on him, Leah and Ju pressed him under him, and Zhang Hanqi looked back through the corner of his eye, and saw several huge humans more than two meters tall behind him, holding weapons like chain saws and fighting with hundreds of hideous and terrifying monsters.
Scarlet Skull, Hourglass......