Screaming Cycle

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon on February 17, Ji Shun, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen arrived in front of the hourglass cube gate on the west side of the "Peach Blossom Garden".

At this time, the peak of the lottery has not yet arrived, but Hourglass Cube already has many participants in and out. They are either alone or in teams, and the purpose is naturally the same as that of Ji Shu and others. They are here to draw lots.

Ji Xiaoniao did not meet any acquaintances among these people.

In front of the registration desk, it was still the beautiful artificial intelligence sister, but she changed into a new outfit this month, from the airport ground handling suit to a pure white knee-length nurse uniform.

The three of them registered as a team and walked through the hall to the glass hourglass filled with "world".

Just like what they saw half a month ago, countless transparent cubes of "sand" suspended on the top of the hourglass leading to the endless dark night, drifting and moving slowly and irregularly, occasionally colliding with each other, and being changed by each other's original trajectory. , And separated quietly.

Ji Yu looked up at the huge hourglass in front of him and swallowed nervously.

He sincerely hopes that his luck will be better than last time, at least draw a copy of F grade that is not that difficult.

"Okay, then I'll smoke!"

Ji Yu stretched out his hand and touched the huge hourglass with the top invisible.

Just like the previous time, he touched an air wall at a distance of ten centimeters from the hourglass.

[Please select the difficulty of [World] you want to challenge. 】

A male voice rang out in the void, which still resembled the standard broadcast tone of CCTV News Network.

Only this time, what appeared in front of Ji Shu, but there was only one option, [B].

Ji Lu: "???"

He withdrew his hand cautiously and blinked his eyes vigorously, trying to determine if he was dizzy.

However, no matter how he stared at the options in front of him, he could only see a huge "B".

——Is this a bug in the system?

Ji Xiaoniao can only think of the only explanation.

So he raised his head and shouted at the artificial intelligence of the male anchor who was floating in the void:

"System, what's going on? Why is there only one B-level ‘world’ option?"

Ji Lu protested rightly and confidently:

"Doesn't every participant who has just entered the "Peach Blossom Spring" have three chances to enter the F-class "World"?"

[I have learned the question of participant number C0919, the system is confirming, please wait a moment. 】

An answer came from the void.

Ji Lu turned his head and smiled at Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen behind him, "It must be a mistake..."

The artificial intelligence did not keep them waiting. Before Ji Xiaoniao finished a sentence, they heard the answer.

[It has been confirmed that there is no error in the difficulty selection. 】

The voice of the male anchor in the night sky replied:

[Because the three participants of your team have already stimulated their abilities, and their strength has fully met the B-level difficulty ‘world’ requirements, the difficulty of the next month’s ‘world’ lottery is limited to B level. 】

"and many more!"

Ji Lu was stunned, how could it be like this!

In the dark night of the invisible dome, the voice of artificial intelligence continued:

[For this difficulty adjustment, Peach Blossom Spring reserves the right of final interpretation. 】

——This is too rascal! !

Ji Lu was stunned at the shamelessness of "Peach Blossom Spring".

Of course, Mo Tiangen was also surprised and angry. He immediately rolled up his sleeves and joined the ranks of arguing, using his Mandarin mixed with Shancheng dialect and the invisible artificial intelligence voice theory. But the other party only used his voice full of texture like a news anchor to explain in an orderly manner that because you have reached your abilities, you must upgrade the difficulty of the "world".

When the two of them were almost jumping angrily, Ren Jianmo's expression was always very cold, and when he heard the phrase "Peach Blossom Spring reserves the right to finalize interpretation", the corners of his mouth also evoked a sneer.

Although he really can't remember his previous experiences in "Peach Blossom Spring" and various "worlds", the tune of playing the actors in the palm of his hand, of course, is inexplicably familiar to Ren Damei.

Presumably, I was not less scammed by this so-called "final right of interpretation" back then!

Although it shows that they are deliberately made things difficult by the system, the "world" of next month will still be drawn.

Tossing for more than ten minutes to no avail, Ji Xiaoniao and Teacher Dagen could only accept their fate.

Ji Yu stretched out his hand again and touched the air wall in front of the hourglass. The artificial intelligence also said as if nothing happened, and said softly and magnetically [Please choose the difficulty of [World] you want to challenge]. 】, while re-playing a box for him.

Little Bird reluctantly knocked on the choice [B].

The countless transparent cubes floating in the glass hourglass irregularly began to rotate slowly clockwise, as if being stirred by an invisible hand in the middle, speeding up gradually, and finally converging into a huge vortex of light flow.

Then a cube broke away from the vortex and fell below the hourglass.

This shows that the draw of the non-Chief captain Ji Xiaoniao has been completed.

"Gudong."

Both Ji Xuan and Mo Tiangen swallowed nervously.

Because the most important trailer is about to begin.

Sure enough, the air wall standing in front of the hourglass immediately lit up, as if a huge holographic projection screen appeared out of thin air.

Unlike the eerie and horror of blood in the darkness that I saw last time in "Separation of Flesh", the opening scene of this trailer is surprisingly lively and clear, and the color saturation at first glance seems to be comparable to the festive season of the Lunar New Year. Great production.

And more importantly, this is an ancient world!

In the picture is a large house with carved beams and painted buildings. A group of charming maidservants wearing embroidered skirts, hair combs and green cloud buns, holding in their hands various melons and fruits, snacks, wine and delicacies, a line of fish runs through the promenade and walks in. In a banquet hall.

The hall was brightly lit, with twenty or thirty seats laid out, and it seemed that a banquet was being held.

At this time, the picture suddenly became hazy, as if covered with a layer of semi-transparent gauze, and then four cursive and ink characters of dragons and phoenixes appeared.

"Fuck!"

Teacher Dagen almost didn't directly burst out a national curse: "This word is too **** scribble! The ghost knows what it is written!"

Ji Lu is completely ignorant of calligraphy, so he is not sure if he has admitted his mistakes, so he can only guess at the same time, thinking that it is about the four words "Painting Wall for Soul".

While he was still trying to distinguish the title of the next "world", the screen of the trailer had already switched again.

The writing quickly faded and dissipated like ink marks entering the water, and the tulle covering the front of the painting was also peeled off. The scene of the banquet that was originally criss-crossed and full of seats was long gone, replaced by a large house that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

At this moment, the camera was slowly passing by from the top of the house from a bird's-eye view.

The season thrush can see the weeds growing in the garden, the withered flowers and trees, the collapsed courtyard walls, the broken tiles that have not been repaired for a long time...

In the end, the picture stayed in front of a huge wall in the ruined house for two seconds, and then suddenly went black.

Immediately afterwards, Ji Yu heard a young man's gasp and panic sobbing.

The trailer switched to the first point of view that belonged to someone at the moment the screen was re-lit, and the owner of the sound was running - to be more precise, it should be running for his life.

He cried and stumbled as he ran, and the camera shook, jittered and changed its angle rapidly with his staggering pace.

"Rile!"

Teacher Dagen really wanted to curse people this time.

The trailer for God, shaking like this, replaced with a dizzy 3D one. At this moment, I'm afraid I can't help feeling that my throat is suffocated, and I can see exactly what is happening in the screen.

However, Ji Tuan still opened his eyes firmly, trying to identify the messy and broken elements in his vision.

Ji Xiaoniao saw with the eyes of a running person that he seemed to have returned to the big house where the banquet was being held. There were busy beautiful maidservants and handsome servants, as well as enchanting dancers and musicians holding silk and bamboo. From time to time, there are still a few chitterling children holding snacks in their hands, playing around and running past him...

In the process of escaping, people often laughed and tried to pull the young man’s hand, as if they wanted to invite him to go with him. Others simply brought up a glass full of fine wine to persuade the wine, or stuffed delicate and beautiful food into it. In his hand, all these were blocked by the youth in panic and fear.

Immediately afterwards, the owner of the perspective seemed to ran into the banquet hall that had appeared at the beginning of the trailer, and Ji Tuan saw that the water table was already full of guests and female accomplices.

Although the screen was shaking badly, it was close enough to allow Ji Lu and the others who watched the trailer to see the guests clearly with the eyes of the youth.

The guests surrounded by a group of beautiful maidservants wore a coarse linen shirt with a gray-headed face and a little color on their bodies. Some people even wore a sharp weapon such as a **** and a sickle on their waist. Like a group of fallen mountain bandits, they described their behavior as totally different from this extravagant banquet!

And in this short three or four seconds of first-person view, Ji Tuan quickly saw the anomaly.

The more the youth ran forward, the stranger the appearance of both the guest and the maidservant.

The ragged guests began to grab the food on the table with their hands, and shove it into the entrance rudely, while the hands of the girls who accompany the wine were jagged or wrinkled with black hair...

I ran two more tables, and when I looked again, the one on the left was as fat as a beach ball full of air, and the one on the right simply lay down on the table, arching the plate with his head. , The towering spine is like a Roshan made of rubber, almost invisible...

At this time, a woman in a yellow dress wearing a ponytail stood up holding a wine cup and tried to pull the sleeves of the running youth. The youth cried and tried to throw her away. The girl in the yellow dress smiled and turned her slender. Yu Neck, at a very close distance from the angle of view, suddenly revealed a face of a fox covered with long hair!

"Me, my sun!!"

Mo Tiangen was taken aback, and he uttered an exclamation that was stuck in two, and Ji Xuan couldn't help taking a breath.

——Emotion This turned out to be a monster party!

While the young people who were escaping for their lives and everyone on the screen were frightened by the suddenly enlarged fox’s face, a hand suddenly appeared on the screen—to be more precise, it should be a hand, suddenly nothing. Without warning, he stretched out from behind the young man, and then he was about to cover his eyes.

Ji Lu and others all heard the man's almost broken sound, full of panic and desperate sobbing.

"I caught you."

A hoarse and dry voice sounded, but there was a clear smile in the words:

"Next, it's your turn to be a ghost."

The young man’s eyes were tightly covered, and the picture was plunged into complete darkness. The trailer came to an abrupt end. Only the last two lines of messages were left for Ji Shu and the others:

[Don’t be caught, don’t be caught. 】

[Be careful, the ghost hidden by your side. 】

The author has something to say:

Peach Blossom Spring (Lai Pi face): If you want to increase the difficulty, you must increase the difficulty, and commit suicide if you refuse to accept it!