Time, December 8th at 23:55.

The moat that had been silent for a long time began to remain restless, and the strong winds that hit at night made it rush into tides.

The two golden doors were like a person's hands, welcoming the stern wind of the river.

Ji Li's long hair flew in the wind. He stared at the bright moon on the river and took out two cigarettes.

One for yourself, one for the people around you.

A crisp sound of the metal lighter turning on, and a faint flame lit the cigarette.

After taking a deep breath, Ji Li vomited out a round smoke ring, which was quickly blown away.

“Are you ready?”

Fang Shenyan held the cigarette to his mouth, but did not ignite it, and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"Always wait."

At the connection between the river surface and the horizon in the distance, extremely faint "snowflakes" slowly fell.

The world, from it, becomes illusory, as if it was pulled into a mysterious dream.

The golden door of the Seventh Branch gradually began to no longer be solid, including two people inside the door.

Ji Li slowly closed his eyes, and when the wind blew the snowflakes hit his face, it felt a chill.

Two figures disappeared from the Seventh Branch.

At the same time, a beautiful woman with a beautiful face came to the door with an oil-paper umbrella.

She couldn't get out, but she closed her eyes, and the wind blew up her skirt, as if she was also in the snow in her dream.

"Waiting for you to come back."

...

The world is from cold and false, and from cold and true.

The howling wind and the sharp snowflakes will never return.

A drop of water fell on Ji Li's face, and the bone-bone coldness was exactly the same as the snowflakes just now.

He subconsciously raised his head and another drop of water fell into his eyes.

On the dark green ceiling, there was a shadow over the top of the head, and the water droplets kept falling from there.

His vision gradually began to change, and Ji Li moved his stiff neck and scanned everything around him.

In just two seconds, I had a thorough look at it.

This is just a secret room space of less than ten square meters, with no doors and windows.

Dark green roof, hard floor tiles decorated with florals, and pure white walls.

In this simple and chaotic tone, there is only one old game console, and a chair.

Apart from that, Ji Li is the only one left.

After walking around the room for two times, Ji Li finally stood in front of this refrigerator-sized game console.

The center of this machine is a thick and rustic black screen, which is not much larger than an ordinary-sized monitor.

Strangely, below the side of the screen, there are a row of buttons and a rocker.

Ji Li gently touched it with her hand. The sensitivity of the rocker was pretty good, so there should be no problem when touching.

He naturally didn't know what it was.

This type of game console should be more accurately "arcade game consoles" and has been eliminated in recent years.

But in the past few years, it was still a popular nationwide existence, and most of the teenagers of that generation had played with it.

"The game console in front of you is the only prop you rely on.

Your life and death, decisions, and actions must be accomplished in it."

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang in my ears.

Ji Li suddenly turned his head and looked at the place where he came from, and found that the female voice was standing next to the game console, looking at him dignifiedly.

"Aren't you not allowed to follow?"

He asked this subconsciously, but the female voice ignored it and didn't even look at him.

"The left-hand rocker is the only way you can control the actions of characters in the game.

There are four buttons on the right.

It is divided into 'yellow', 'blue', 'black', 'white'

Yellow key: pick; blue key: view; black key: warehouse; white key; use.

Examples of use:

If you are wandering in the scene and find suspected clues, you can pick them up with the yellow button and view them with the blue button.

All the items obtained are entered into the personal warehouse. You can press the black key to open the warehouse and use it with the white key.

When a major decision occurs, all the characters, ghosts, and everything that is happening in the scene is paused.

There are four keys, corresponding to four options, from left to right, you can press them yourself.

Note: There is only one chance to determine when selecting, and it cannot be changed if there is a false touch."

The female voice looked at her with no spirit, as if she was just a robot.

When Ji Li started her introduction, she didn't pay attention to it, but followed her story and checked the game console.

Obviously this female voice is just a machine responsible for the rules of the game.

But the more he listened, the more he frowned, and everything was not the same as he imagined.

From the perspective of dreams, the game world should be extremely real.

According to his expectations, when actually executing the game, it should be his place in the scene.

But according to the female voice just said, it was more like he was really a manipulator.

"The two game coins placed on the game console, one is for the first time, and the other is for the resurrection.

The first investment is equivalent to starting the game.

Unless you die or pass the level, you cannot exit.

The game will start in five minutes.

If you have any questions, please hurry up and ask questions.”

The female voice held her hands and turned her lower body stiffly like a statue, facing Ji Li for the first time.

Ji Li frowned and slowly sat on the hard plastic stool, rubbing the dust on the game console with a handkerchief.

After pondering for a while, he asked the first question:

"Where am I now?"

"Ignore the rules and will not answer."

"Is the story in the game independent?"

"Ignore the rules and will not answer."

"How to make sure you have passed the exam?"

"Ignore the rules and will not answer."

After asking three questions in a row, the first two were Ji Li's tests, but the third question was that he asked sincerely.

Ji Li has lost too much memory, and she has no normal life at all, and it is even more impossible for her to play games.

He thought this problem was not too much, but he did not expect that the female voice still determined to be in violation of the rules.

Of course, this also indirectly confirms an intelligence:

Passing the level, this matter does not seem to be as simple as it seems.

After thinking about it for a while, Ji Li asked a reasonable and compliant question:

"What should I do if my character's injuries affect the actual operation of the game when attacked by ghosts?"

This time, I finally stopped violating the rules, but the female voice gave a reply that was unexpected.

“Nothing like this will happen.”

Ji Li frowned again, and he found that he had thought of the game simply.

He once thought that the game mode was just a packaging, and the core still performed tasks.

But it seems that "game mode" itself is a major intelligence.

"So, what happens if my gaming console is damaged?"

Ji Li narrowed his eyes and asked a question that was extremely critical to him, and he knew that this question would never violate the rules.

The female voice suddenly shook her arms, and her expression became extremely strange. She stared at Ji Li in a straight line and said word by word:

"If the game console is destroyed, you will be sentenced..."

However, when this sentence was most critical, the female voice was like a malfunctioning machine, and her whole body began to twitch.

Not only that, she began to speak without choosing, and the words were stacked together, and she spoke at the same time, unable to hear what she was saying.

Ji Li looked at her in shock. It was obvious that he had asked an extremely critical question, which led to a disorder in the system.

"The opening time is in advance, please start your game immediately."

The female voice spoke very quickly, and so many words were said in one second.

"Five! Four! Three! Two! One!"

She turned on the five-second countdown, but it took less than half a second to integrate it together.

The sudden change made Ji Li unprepared. He realized something was wrong when the female voice was "disorganized".

He immediately grabbed the game coins on the table and threw them into the machine. A snowflake flashed across the screen.

Meanwhile, the countdown for the female voice was exactly the last second.
Chapter completed!