Chapter 20: Nameless Copy (2)

“Click, click.”

The sound of the shrinking chain kept ringing.

This heavy chain, which was originally long enough for people to move freely in the room, now only has one-third of it. As the chain shortened, the ceiling above was also constantly falling, within the danger line.

The densely distributed black arms on it also became excited, stretched out with all their strength, and grabbed the girl imprisoned by the chain.

Blood drops mixed with dirt kept falling, and the scene in front of them was disgusting and terrifying.

Strangely, facing such a terrifying scene, Bai You stood there straight, as if he was scared silly, with his head raised, staring at the ceiling without blinking.

That thick arm was much longer than the other one, and the palm was also huge. It grabbed Bai You’s head without hesitation, and the movement was extremely fast and with infinite strength.

There is no doubt that it wants to grab the girl’s head and crush it.

The light of the penguin night light came from in front of Bai You, reflecting her eyes surprisingly bright. Looking at the movement of the black giant hand, the emotion in her eyes was unexpectedly calm.

A second before Li Feng arrived in front of her, she calmly turned her head to the side and easily avoided the disaster.

The black giant hand missed the attack and paused for a moment.

Then, I don’t know whether it was angered by Bai You’s calm expression or because of something else, the muscles in his arm burst, and he grabbed Bai You frantically, but the girl dodged several times in a row.

This lasted for a minute.

Bai You seemed to be tired of dodging, panting slightly, and her movements became slower. The dodging movement began to slow down, and several times she was barely touched by the hair.

Just then.

The chain on the ankle suddenly tightened a few centimeters.

Bai You was tripped and her body tilted unexpectedly.

The black arm seized the opportunity and quickly grabbed the girl’s head before she could react.

A sharp wind blew –

Bai You did not dodge or evade this time, but stared straight at her, her face calm, and the corners of her lips curled up.

“Bang!”

The sound of a heavy object falling on the floor suddenly sounded.

“Tick, tick…”

The blood kept flowing, dripping rapidly on the floor, and soon dyed it red.

Bai You squatted down and shook off the blood on the knife. With the tip of the knife facing down, he stabbed the ground with force, fixing the moving thing on the floor.

The sharp blade went straight through the black palm, piercing through it. The black palm under the blade kept struggling, but it was useless. The futile resistance only accelerated the speed of blood flowing along the blade.

Bai You looked up at the ceiling. The black arm had lost its palm, leaving only one arm. The cross section was smooth and blood was dripping down.

She curved her eyebrows and uttered two words in a tone that was neither light nor heavy.

“Idiot.”

It couldn’t even see this trap. It was indeed a creature that only used one arm to think about problems, with only brute strength, but no brain to think.

Look at this beautiful cross section. If it hadn’t been so strong, it would not have been able to cut it out with her strength.

The black palm pierced by the blade struggled more violently after hearing this. This reaction further confirmed Bai You’s thoughts.

-It really can understand what people say.

Bai You took out a piece of paper and put it in front of the fingers of the palm, with a cold voice.

“What is the password? Write it down.”

The black palm seemed not to hear it and continued to struggle violently. The wound was getting bigger and bigger, almost splitting the palm.

Bai You suddenly laughed, but the laughter was cold.

“You don’t want to write it, right?”

She clearly saw that after she said that, the black hand’s struggling movement was slightly stagnant for a moment, very short, but Bai You, who had been staring at it, noticed it.

“Okay.”

Bai You raised the knife, took the black hand, dragged the heavy chain into the kitchen.

The charcoal in the brazier was still burning, and the dark red flames attached to the burnt charcoal. Just a little closer, you can feel the scorching temperature.

In the quiet air, Bai You’s voice was cool, and the cold voice was as cold as the whisper of a devil, ruthlessly telling its fate.

“Since you won’t write, there’s no need to keep you. Anyway, there are so many left here, there will always be one who can write.”

She squatted down slowly, used a clamp to poke the charcoal fire to make it burn more vigorously, and then sent the black palm into the brazier.

The black palm, which was still struggling even after being pierced by the knife, seemed to have encountered something extremely scary at this moment, tightly grasping the blade.

Bai You shook the knife, which was pulled very tightly and could not be shaken off at all. It seemed that he had a strong desire to survive.

She smiled.

“Now you remember what the password is?”

The black palm paused for a moment, and then tapped the blade with his fingers frantically, completely ignoring the blood flowing out, indicating that she was right.

Bai You looked at it calmly, without any hesitation, and threw the knife and palm into the brazier in the next second.

“Sizzle!”

The charcoal seemed to have been added with an accelerant, and the flames suddenly jumped up. In the blazing flames, the black palm struggled hard as if it had experienced great pain, trying to climb out of the brazier.

But because of the restraint of the knife, it was forced to burn.

After about half a minute, when the black palm stopped moving, Bai You took out the clip and put it on the paper.

A voice without any temperature sounded.

“Write.”

The black palm paused for a moment, then trembled and slowly raised its index finger. The blood smeared across the white paper, leaving four numbers.

[1616]

Bai You entered the password into the password lock on his ankle, and heard a light “click” sound, and the chain opened.

Well, I didn’t dare to lie to her again.

When Bai You entered the kitchen, he found a special point. There were black arms on the ceiling of the whole house, but not in the kitchen.

The only most conspicuous abnormality in the room is the burning brazier in the kitchen that appeared from nowhere.

As expected.

Although these things can’t feel pain and are fine even if cut by a knife, they are not without weaknesses.

They are afraid of fire, so they don’t grow in the kitchen where the brazier is.

Hmm.

The person who designed the game is really considerate and kind. He placed the brazier in such a conspicuous position for fear that she would not think of this.

As the foot ring opened, there was a noise outside. Bai You ignored the black palm on the ground and got up and left the kitchen.

The original door was covered with one-meter-long steel spikes, but now they have all shrunk back. The chain connected to the door has broken, and there is a hole there, with a delicate little box inside.

Bai You picked it up and opened it. It was a white chess piece.

She didn’t know much about chess, but she had a rough understanding of the appearance of each chess piece. She rubbed it and found a small ball on the smooth and delicate chess bottom.

This chess piece is obviously a [Soldier].

The ceiling above her head was still falling. Bai You bent down to find the lock to open the door, but she saw that there was no keyhole or door handle at the door lock, only a black square area.

So… is there a special way to open the door?

Bai You lowered her eyes and looked at the chess pieces in the box. She was silent for a while, as if the answer was self-evident.

She picked up the chess piece and placed it in the black area. It continued to light up for three seconds, and then with a “click”, the door opened.

“…”

She took back what she had just said about the kindness of the game designer.

This chess piece obviously needs to be opened to get it. If she really made a choice with a knife, the door would not open even if she did it herself and suffered the pain of bleeding and serious injuries.

If she was just trapped in the room, it would be fine, but the ceiling above her head was still falling, and countless black arms were waving their fangs and claws.

So, there is no other choice at all.

Some are just fooling around.

The game designer just wanted to see people struggling to survive, making people think that they can see hope if they make up their minds to give up, but in the end they find that it is all in vain and fall into endless despair again.

Tsk, what a pervert.

Bai You licked the corner of her lips, and a hint of interest flashed in her eyes.

But she likes it.

This kind of game is more interesting, isn’t it?

The slender hand pushed open the door.

With a “creak”, a dazzling light came from outside.

What came into view was a black and white mixed space, like an interlaced chessboard.

The six walls were all black and white grids, clearly organized, with a total of fourteen doors distributed on the six sides, and even the ceiling and the ground had closed doors, which looked cold and orderly.

Bai You stepped on the black and white floor, and the door behind her closed automatically after she entered the space.

She looked back and saw that the door was green.

Does this mean…she passed the level, so the door changed color?

Bai You looked at the other thirteen doors in her sight.

Four green doors, nine red doors.

She didn’t know if there were other people in these rooms, but she felt that the situation in these thirteen doors should be the same as hers, and they all needed to be cleared before they could get out.

In addition, the color scheme of this chessboard-like room, plus the chess pieces she just got, made it hard for her not to associate them with each other.

Chess, right?

Then the rule of this game should be to gather all the pieces, right?

“Click.”

There was a light sound above her head.

Then a figure suddenly fell from the sky, and with a screaming male voice, it fell heavily and hit the floor with a dull sound.

“Bang!”

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts–! Damn!”

Bai You looked at the back of the man lying on the floor, only 10 centimeters away from her toes, and silently looked up at the open door on the ceiling.

“…”

Should she be glad that her position was still reliable?

A little further forward, it was not just the hair being blown up by the wind.

“What the hell is this? No one should prepare for it. My waist, ah ah ah——”

“Fortunately it’s not real, if it were real, it would be useless.”

The man cursed, rubbed his buttocks and waist and stood up from the ground, looking around and observing the environment.

Turning around, he saw the girl very close to him. The man jumped up in fright, howled, and took a step back instantly.

He fixed his sight, and after seeing Bai You’s appearance clearly, his eyes lit up instantly.

“It’s you, Bai You?!”

Bai You blinked twice, and was a little surprised to see the man’s sight.

This person was none other than Qi Ming, the player who played Luo Feipeng in the previous dungeon who I had just met not long ago.

Qi Ming realized that his actions just now were indeed a bit cheap, so he stood up straight and coughed twice.

“What a coincidence, we can meet here.”

Bai laughed and nodded.

“Yeah. It’s quite a coincidence.”

“I didn’t expect you to be a night owl, staying up late at night to play games, and we were matched together.” Qi Ming scratched his head and said with a smile, “So, this is fate.”

“…”

God knows, she was really sleeping.

She was sleeping like this, and I don’t know how she came in.

But after hearing what Qi Ming said, it was confirmed that they were indeed in the game copy.

But why did she not only have no tasks, but also couldn’t contact the system at all?

It’s very strange.

“Qi Ming, what is the name of this copy?”

“Hmm… To be honest, I don’t know. I don’t know anything about this copy.” Qi Ming said frankly.

“Because I was knocked unconscious when I just entered the copy, and I woke up in my room. I thought it was really my home. It wasn’t until I found that something was wrong at home that I realized that this was still a game.”

Even Qi Ming didn’t know?

It seems that this copy is very mysterious.

Qi Ming sighed.

“But this game is really amazing. It can even reproduce the environment of your home one-to-one. If I hadn’t thought that it might be a scene restored from memory, I would have thought that it was peeped by big data. Can people still have a little privacy now?”

Qi Ming seemed to have opened a chatterbox. He talked about the process of clearing the copy, how he cleverly solved the puzzle, etc.

Finally, he opened his palm to show Bai You, and there was a [Soldier] chess piece lying in it.

“I was given this when I cleared the copy, and I fell because of this thing. I just used it to open the door, and I was completely unprepared. It fell down in an instant. It hurt me so much. It must be three meters high.”

Bai You glanced at Qi Ming up and down.

Qi Ming and Lin Sheng were different in the copy of the Seventh Middle School. Lin Sheng did not finish the test questions, so he did not transform into a monster.

But Qi Ming was alienated. Although he finally changed back, he still couldn’t escape the fate of being killed by Si Yu.

From the cells all over his body bursting, shattered cleanly, this way of death is not just ordinary pain, it can even be said to be the ultimate torture.

In the case of 100% experience of [feeling], Qi Ming had no psychological trauma after being eliminated from the dungeon, and he played other dungeons carefreely.

Hmm…

Seeing him so calm, should he be said to be careless or masochistic?

Bai You retracted his gaze and told Qi Ming the rules of the game he thought of.

Qi Ming hummed, “I think it’s probably what you said, but there are 16 chess pieces on one side, and there are only 14 doors here, which is not enough.”

“Maybe we have to wait until the other pieces are collected before we can open it.” Bai You looked indifferent, “It’s normal for big chess pieces like the king and the queen to have their own separate rooms.”

As she said this, she walked to a green door and raised her hand to hold the door handle.

“Hey hey hey!”

Qi Ming quickly stopped her, “You just go in like this, don’t you make any other preparations?”

“You’re not sure if there are other people in there, can you go in, what if something else happens?”

Bai You pointed his finger at the ceiling and motioned him to look up.

“Hmm…? What’s wrong?”

Bai You was helpless and prepared to explain.

“Don’t you think this door is a different color from the other doors?”

Qi Ming looked at it carefully.

“It is indeed different. The color of this door is the same as the one I just came out of.”

“So…”

“It’s green, and it looks healthy.”

Bai You: “?”