34. Chapter 34
The autumn wind is chilly and the dead leaves are sad.
This autumn is particularly cold, so cold that the wind is like a thin knife cutting into the bloody wounds of the chapped skin, making people shiver violently.
The village is called Tongbai Village, which is very desolate, with mountains on both sides. One side is close to the rolling river, and the other side is connected to the wilderness. On weekdays, you can only walk in from the small path between the mountains. Low houses are lined up, sparsely populated, and the vast green mountains behind are endless.
Today the weather is dark and gloomy, as if it is about to rain.
The traffickers dragging the broken wooden carts walked towards the mountain road, and every household gathered in the open space at the entrance of the village, watching from afar.
The silent women were tied to the carts, staring with a pair of black eyes, and the torn sweaters could not cover the invasion of the severe cold, not to mention the dirt that could almost be rubbed out on the corners.
The trafficker counted the dirty banknotes in his hand with stiff fingers, spitting everywhere.
"It's hard to sell teenage girls now. You can buy one for five yuan in the village next door, Jiangkou. The men are tired of playing with this kind of thing, and they can't sell it at the same price as before."
The village next door Jiangkou he mentioned is only a few miles away from here, but it is located outside the mountain. Except for that steep and difficult mountain road, the geographical location is much better than Tongbai Village.
Wang Shou spat viciously, "Five yuan is still profitable, and the woman at home is also a good-for-nothing who can only eat but not cook. I will also tie her up and sell her in a few days."
People have not had enough food every year in recent years. It happened that there was a severe drought this year. The grain died in the fields, and there was no harvest, so there was a riot. The situation outside was already extremely serious, and the deeper you went into the mountains, the more terrible it was. In the worst places, it was said that most of the people in a village had starved to death. The bones were spread on the ground and no one collected them. The stench was overwhelming, which was a good thing for the vultures whose eyes were red with hunger.
Fathers sold their daughters, husbands sold their wives, and sold them to brothels in other cities. Some people were so hungry that they voluntarily followed the traffickers. There were only a few women left in such a large village.
Everyone was pale and thin along the way, skinny, and naked. Even the bark of the trees on the roadside was peeled off.
Although the traffickers went back and forth between villages, using the excuse of famine to sell women, they sometimes felt some nameless fear of Tongbai Village hidden in the valley and mountains.
This feeling is not easy to describe. If I have to blame it, it is the scene he saw at the market behind the village when he came here a few days ago.
He had traveled far and wide, and had seen many people die, but this was the first time he had seen such a scene.
After returning, he tossed and turned for a long time, and walked around outside for a few more times, and finally decided to come in to do the last business.
——The business of girls in other places was not easy to do, either because the disaster was not so serious, and they were unwilling to sell their flesh and blood to such a place to suffer, or because they had not yet lost their humanity under the torture of hunger.
Only in Tongbai Village, where the disaster was serious, did the whole village come out in one breath, and the men were responsible for tying and selling them, and they could get five or six good goods every time they came back.
Originally, this should have been the last business of the human traffickers in this village, but the villagers' words made him think again.
Not a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, but an adult in his twenties could get a higher price. The big guys in the city like the latter type, and sometimes they can get a net profit of twenty or thirty yuan. Who wouldn't be tempted?
The trafficker paused while counting the money, "Okay, you do it carefully, I'll come again the day after tomorrow at night."
Wang Shou smiled, "Are you still not confident in my work? That woman's belly was not good to begin with, and she ran away to her parents' home a few days ago."
He squatted down with a sunken cheek and kicked the wooden wheel viciously.
The girl in the car showed a look of fear in her eyes and couldn't help shrinking back.
He thought for a while and said to himself, "It's okay, this money-losing thing is still there, and she will definitely come back to see it."
The trafficker didn't say anything, drove the equally thin mule to the road, and slowly drove away from the deserted village in the deep mountains.
The dead leaves were wrapped in the wind and swirled from a distance.
After finishing this job, he would not come to this evil village again.
The sound of the mule's hooves gradually faded away along the wheels of the wooden wheel, sinking into the farther forest and could no longer be heard.
......
Everything fell into a state of stillness and solidification.
[Beep beep beep... Main system is connecting]
After this prelude, the trainees in the square also found that they could finally move their feet and move in a narrow area.
They were all changed into coarse cloth clothes that matched the era of this copy, and the level badges hanging on their chests indicated their identities.
Although the surrounding scenery was frozen, the trainees could walk freely in this empty square. Many people were secretly looking at the other trainees in this copy.
After seeing the two S-levels present, and two high-level S-levels, everyone gasped.
Not only S-levels, there were also many A-level, B-level, and C-level top three ranks. After seeing this scene, the faces of many D-level and E-level trainees turned pale.
Many trainees have analyzed that the difficulty of the horror dungeon will be adjusted according to the strength of the participants.
This is only the second game, and two high-level S-level players have been added to one dungeon. It is conceivable how difficult this dungeon will be.
They are newcomers. They finally survived the first game, and they exchanged their lives for the opportunity to survive in Las Vegas. They are lingering on and know the preciousness of life.
It is not sensational. Just the scene of this special event in Las Vegas has caused countless trainees to die.
At the beginning, the main system proposed a method of exchanging organs for chips.
The newcomers without initial gambling funds were desperate and entered the casino with chips and lost their money at the gambling table.
The winners took more chips to the higher-level gambling table and the unknown fate in front of them. The losers could only return to the front desk in disgrace and mortgage more organs.
Infinite loop has never opened a channel for exchanging special props before. The horror of the first dungeon also made them fully realize that one more prop means one more hope of survival.
The main system does not want all trainees to die, it opens channels. As long as they do not want to die, the newcomers with brains will desperately seize this opportunity.
But all this is built on corpses and blood.
The trainees who got rich chips were too proud of themselves, and their greed grew bigger and bigger. In the end, they returned to the pre-liberation era at the high-level gambling table, lost everything, and could not even take out the chips to redeem their lives.
The trainees at the low-level gambling table had ups and downs, winning and losing, and were forced to pay the price of some organs in their bodies in exchange for some F-level and E-level props. There were many cases of missing an eye and a few fingers.
There were many gamblers who squandered all their chips and dared not walk out of the door of the Las Vegas Hall. There were bankrupts who simply broke the jar and immersed themselves in the Golden Hall Lounge to get drunk and wait for the moment of judgment. There were also people who knelt on the crimson carpet and begged high-level trainees for money, and even resorted to all kinds of dirty deals, working like slaves, just to get chips to maintain their lives.
In the face of the cruel problem of survival, everything became cold and realistic.
Human nature was exposed nakedly.
Three days later, the cold mechanical sound of the main system resounded throughout the trainee dormitory.
[The special scene "Las Vegas" will be permanently closed in ten minutes, and the chips of each trainee will be cleared immediately. Trainees whose chips are not enough for the initial gambling will have their organs removed or forcibly erased immediately]
This event is enough to leave a memory for everyone.
The number of horror trainees, which originally had more than 10,000 people, has dropped sharply to only 7,000 now.
Naturally, there were also people who made a big splash during the period.
The most eye-catching one was the C-level trainee with conspicuous hair and eye color.
Coincidentally, he also appeared in this venue.
Magician Zong Jiu.
This name became popular overnight.
Many trainees present were looking at the white-haired young man vaguely.
The magician in the casino was very successful. Not only did he win all the way, he also won a huge amount of chips of one million at the central gambling table.
The most important thing was that he won the favor of that adult.
The newcomers looked at him with admiration and fear; except for a few old people, the rest were almost all indifferent, with a strong smell of □.
[The all-round 360-degree panoramic camera has been turned on. This round of competition will not be open to personal live broadcast rooms throughout the whole process, only the public live broadcast of the dungeon will be open]
[The trainee has entered the live broadcast state]
Although the main system is still loading, the camera was opened at the same time.
Those survivors who did not enter the horror dungeon opened the viewing channel and rushed into the live broadcast room.
[I'm here! ! ! Let me see what the scene of this dungeon is! ]
[It seems to be a deserted village? It looks a bit like Asia, I don't know the age, it looks like it's quite old]
[I'm not saying, this building model looks weird... Never mind, how can a horror dungeon not be weird.jpg]
[Ahhhhhh, I can see it, I can see it, damn, the configuration of this dungeon is so luxurious, I'm stunned]
[Indeed, No.3, No.4, two high-level S-level! My God, according to the appearance of two S-level in the last round of competition, the difficulty of the dungeon was directly raised to the level of S-level. I suddenly think that this dungeon is also, um...]
[It doesn't matter whether it can be solved or not, the most important thing is that I can lick the magician brother's face again. In this cold infinite cycle, only beauty can keep me going]
[The above seconded the proposal +1]
The barrage was noisy.
Zong Jiu stood quietly in the same place, with an indifferent look on his body.
He first pondered the previous scene, and then looked around, and then turned his eyes and met the eyes of the black-haired man standing not far from him.
It was him again.
Zong Jiu felt that he and this man were too predestined.
But the other party is a charlatan who is both civil and martial, and is very smart. He knows more than him and is a variable that is difficult to control.
Zhuge An nodded coldly to him as a greeting.
Wearing a simple raincoat, he really looks like a hermit.
In addition, No. 4, Azan in black, was not far away, frowning and thinking, wondering what he was thinking.
Anthony, a level A vampire, put his hands in his pockets, and his face became obviously gloomy after seeing the white-haired young man. Yi Ruisi, who had played Landlord with Zong Jiu before, was also among them.
Zong Jiu looked around carefully and found that there were no familiar faces except these few people.
There was no figure of No. 1 either.
Thinking of No. 1's ability and the cold murderous intent at that time, Zong Jiu was almost certain that the other party would come to this copy to cause trouble for him.
Let's deal with it.
He thought carelessly.
The devil only knew that Zong Jiu had uncovered his mentor's vest, but he didn't know that Zong Jiu had also uncovered his ability to play the role of NPC and control trainees, and he didn't know that Zong Jiu also had an S-level prop specifically used to uncover vests.
If this point is used well, Zong Jiu can completely win by surprise, without any fear.
It was at this time that the system was finally loaded.
[The main system has been successfully linked]
[The second round of the horror trainee has been opened, and it is currently located in the third venue: Famine Village]
[The clearance mode of this field is the identity card task mode. The trainees are divided into two camps, and the main tasks and additional tasks are different for different camps]
[Complete the main task to pass the level, complete the additional task to get additional rewards, and fail the main task to be eliminated directly. The additional task is a non-mandatory task. Success doubles the level evaluation coefficient, and failure has no effect]
[The identity card has been distributed to the trainees' backpacks, please check it]
Two camps?
The trainees looked stern, and they all checked their identity cards in their minds.
Zong Jiu opened his ID card.
Today's surprise.
He got the insider card.
The main task of the insider card is to find out the truth and let the culprit get the punishment he deserves.
As for the extra tasks... the insider card has no extra tasks. The main system shows that since the insider card has certain special features, the default insider only needs to complete the main task to automatically get the additional reward of the special task.
Oh, the main system will be so easy to talk? Zong Jiu would not believe it even if he was beaten to death.
Sure enough, when he saw the next line, he knew what the specialness of the insider card meant.
The main system kept saying that this game was divided into two camps, but in fact-
There was only one insider who got the insider card in this game, and that was Zong Jiu.
Lucky goose Zong Jiu: "..."
Playing the only insider among more than 30 people, danger!