Chapter 1937 U Transcendence Event (Twenty-Eight)
The bus swayed towards the third mission location.
Batman, Natasha, and Batman sat in the first row of the bus, while Schiller sat in the third row from the bottom. The three people in the front looked straight ahead. Natasha spoke first, "Do you think he is becoming more and more abnormal?"
Natasha, who was sitting between the two, tilted her head slightly, turned her eyes to the extreme angle, glanced at Schiller behind her and said, "If he keeps holding it in, he will definitely go crazy, and we will be the ones who will be in trouble."
The two Batmen also turned their heads slightly to one side in unison and glanced at Schiller with their peripheral vision.
Schiller's expression was very calm, and he even had the mood to turn his head and look out the window to see the scenery, but the sense of calm before the storm became stronger and stronger. Schiller seemed to be a dark cloud compressed to the extreme, and it was unknown when lightning, thunder, wind and rain would hit.
"You have all seen him go crazy?" Batman turned to look at the two people beside him, then looked back at Schiller and said, "His mental state may indeed have some problems, but after all, our physical strength has been weakened, and he also..." Then he saw Natasha looking at him as if he were mentally retarded. "You haven't seen such a madman before." Batman said another affirmative sentence. He finally turned his head and looked directly at Batman for the first time and said, "Soon after you return to the real world, you will see that neither your own physical strength nor the external environment can stop these madmen. Their madness is the best weapon." Batman's Adam's apple moved slightly, and he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he said nothing. He took a deep breath and said, "I am also a little confused. The game we have experienced in the past two days is not difficult, and it can even be said to be a little too simple." "Compared to the real cruel force or intelligence competition, this looks more like a real game. Both killers are liars, one uses the ability to transform, and the other hides in the crowd. They are not really a threat. "
"I have a hunch, you can take it as my intuition." Natasha frowned slowly, put away her playful expression, and said in a serious manner: "Do you remember the name of this game? The Decameron, Boccaccio used several stories in ten days to satirize the various dark deeds of the church, and the number '3' is very important in Christian culture. "
"Are you saying that the third game will have a qualitative change?" Bei Bat thought for a while and said: "But I really can't guess the method they use to increase the difficulty. Is it the continuation of the Continue to weaken our physical strength? Or make the killer stronger? "
Batman shook his head and said: "I don't know what happened in the first few games you participated in, but at least the two games I participated in have a common attribute, that is, they more or less test people's hearts."
Batman relaxed his body slightly, leaned back in his chair and recalled: "It seems that the organizer or the game planners he invited are all game theory enthusiasts. They like to create some dilemmas or multiple choices, like to make the game a zero-sum game, and like to make people suspicious of each other. "
"But the two games we have experienced did not reflect similar "The nature of the games is similar. They are more like brain teasers or riddles. As long as you grasp a key point, you can solve the mystery of the whole game. "
"But obviously the organizer knows all the contestants. He can't be unaware that such puzzles are completely child's play for us."
"The doctor's current state is not so much depressed as bored. He thinks these games are not exciting enough. From the perspective of a lunatic, this is indeed the case, and there are at least two lunatics in our team."
Natasha and Bei Bat looked at each other, and then turned their heads away. Obviously, they each had different candidates in mind for the two lunatics.
"We all know that the game can't go on so smoothly." Natasha said, "I don't know if you have played video games. I often saw others playing them in Dr. Schiller's clinic. The more difficult the game is, the longer the novice tutorial will be. Some even have a separate level to teach novice players how to play the game."
"You mean, the two days we have experienced now are actually just novice tutorials?" Bei Bat asked with some confusion.
"It's not impossible." Schiller suddenly said, and his tone clearly meant that it would be better.
The atmosphere in the car became quiet, and everyone was speculating, if the difficulty of the game really would increase suddenly at a certain point in time, then what would the increase be like, and if the game really became difficult, how would they deal with it.
More importantly, if the game continued to proceed smoothly, when would Schiller explode.
The bus drove along the road, and after passing through a thick fog, a tall black building appeared in front of everyone.
It was a huge arena.
It looked like the Roman arena in its heyday, made of materials such as obsidian, but without the elaborate and complicated decorative style, the overall opening and closing, some corners supported by metal, and Batman instinctively saw from the details of the mechanical structure that this was not just a building.
The four stood in front of the bus stop and looked at the entire building, but the owner of the arena obviously didn't want them to wait any longer.
With a heavy friction sound, the black door that almost towered into the sky slowly opened, and a small black shadow stood in the middle of the open door and saluted everyone.
Looking closely, it turned out to be an obsidian robot. Its body was made of the same black stone as the building, but its joints were made of precision mechanical parts, and its horizontal eyes flashed with golden light.
"Everyone, please follow me, the game is about to begin."
Several people followed the obsidian robot and walked into the arena from the door. Just after passing through the long porch, they found that the center of the arena was an extremely open circular space, and they couldn't even see the end at a glance.
Suddenly, a projection appeared above the arena. It was a huge figure emitting colorful light, and his voice was almost deafening when it sounded.
"Welcome everyone to the Gem Arena!"
As soon as the voice fell, colorful lights shot out from all around the center of the circle, and rows of seats rose from the center of the circle to the outside, spreading to the edge of the building like surging waves, and they were filled with robots made of various gems.
They cheered violently, with different colors of light flashing in their eyes, making the entire arena shrouded in a gorgeous and dreamy atmosphere.
"People often say that human virtues are like gems of various colors, which can emit dazzling light at all times, but the beautiful crystal structure of the gems also makes them fragile and vulnerable. Is it eternal or fleeting? Duelists, give your answer!"
"Bang! Bang!"
Two huge conical gems, one red and one blue, fell from mid-air and smashed into the ground, raising thick smoke.
Above the two gems, a huge word appeared - "Humanity".
The blue gem had the word "brilliant" written on it, and the red gem had the word "fragile".
The huge figure stared at the four people present with golden eyes and said, "This is how the arena is played. Please make your choice with your steps!"
The four people paused for a moment at the same time, and then walked towards the red gem with "fragile" written on it in unison without looking back.
The gem man was stunned.
He clapped his hands on the edge of the arena, leaned forward, and his huge head fell above the four people, saying, "Aren't you human? Are you so pessimistic about your own race?"
Then he stretched out his two huge palms, grabbed two gems and crushed them, and inserted two new gems farther away. The blue one said "Although fragile, it can still be maintained", and the red one said "fragile to the point of being vulnerable".
The few people walked towards the red one without looking back.
"Aren't you superheroes?!" the giant gem roared, "Can't you have some confidence in your compatriots?!"
The two Batmen squinted their eyes in unison, looked at the gem man and asked, "Have you seen other superheroes?"
"Uh, no, no, don't look at me like that, I never lie... Well, there were other contestants before, and they were not as pessimistic as you."
"Then I can only say that they are really naive." Natasha rolled her eyes and said, "In the absence of any external threats, humans will find all kinds of reasons to hurt and oppress their compatriots. In this case, some people actually expect the light of humanity to save the world. Don't be funny."
"But aren't superheroes using the light of humanity to save the world?"
Batman, Natasha and Batman looked at each other and took two steps back together, so that Schiller stood in the front, and the giant gem man also focused his eyes on Schiller.
"First of all, I'm not a superhero, secondly, you're not a superhero either, and finally, you're not a human being at all, so there's no need to debate this topic." Schiller replied, his voice trembling slightly, but he didn't know where it came from.
"I'm just curious about this. If you don't want to answer my question with words, then explain it to me with your actions."
The colorful light that shone across the entire venue went out in an instant, and the arena was always covered with thick dark clouds. When the light became weak, it was so dark that it was almost impossible to see anyone.
With a bang, a huge iron cage fell from the sky, and smoke and dust rose again around it.
When the dust and fog slowly dissipated, a group of panicked humans were locked in the cage, including men, women, young and old, some wearing sportswear, some wearing suits, and even some holding a dog.
It was as if all of them were doing what they should do in their lives normally, and then suddenly they were caught here, with expressions of confusion and fear on their faces.
"These are randomly selected experimental subjects from your planet. There is no doubt that they are your kind, and you should know how high a fall from a human body can withstand."
"If you refuse to answer my questions, I will raise the cage by one meter, and the question-and-answer session will end, and the cage will fall to the ground."
The other three people didn't listen carefully to what the gem man was saying. They only saw the excitement gradually rising in Schiller's eyes, just like a hunter who had been hunting in the jungle for a long time and finally saw a moose.