Chapter 2. Doomsday Supermarket (1)

     When did she download it?

     Ye Mo returned to the office, stretched, made a simple cup of instant coffee, sat down and waited for the hot coffee to cool down, then picked up her phone and placed his finger on the survivor app on the homepage.

     On the single machine, she was about to click the cross to delete.

     When she thought that she might have to work overtime for another half an hour today, she gave up deleting it and clicked on the app instead.

     The two projects that Ye Mo was working on recently entered the final testing stage.

     From materials to products, the most work was to wait for the test results. Due to some confidentiality regulations and subsequent product adjustments, many results could only be received and adjusted on the company’s intranet.

     If you encounter overtime work that is purely waiting, especially working the night shift, the boring time will be stretched to a considerable length.

     At this time, compared to watching videos, studying, and reading, playing various games is the best way to pass the time.

     Ye Mo is a frequent gamer. From PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Tetris, Don’t Step on the White Blocks, Bingo Crush, to Find the Differences, Dream Detective, Island of the Dead, State of Decay, etc., she accept all.

     There are many boring honor records, such as Bingo Crush, which has been capped at more than 2,000 levels.

     Compared with the R&D department, the otakus and housegirls in the product testing department are more likely to “work overtime” like this.

     Therefore, Ye Mo has downloaded a lot of messy mobile games,

     That’s why she treated the Survivor app as a new game that she accidentally downloaded, but she didn’t know whether it was fun or not.

     As soon as the app was opened, a black box with a red background popped up:

 

   【Earth’s first round of internal testing: Login (83811/100000)】

 

     ? ? ?

     This game login does not show that a mobile phone number or WeChat account is required to register, as if there is only a pure visitor login mode.

     The number in the brackets behind the black internal test login button is increasing crazily, and soon the number of game internal test logins has exceeded 90,000.

     This number makes people feel quite urgent, Ye Mo clicks ‘Login’.

     The number jumps to (98936/100000) in the blink of an eye, and then 10 seconds later, the game beta tester (100000/100000) is full.

 

   【Detecting…】

   【The reserve rookie Ye Mo is detected to be in China on Earth, and the reserve copy is being selected…】

   【The East Asia copy is selected successfully, and is being deployed…】

 

     A series of mechanical voices popped up in her mind. Before she could think about the content of the mechanical voices, Ye Mo’s eyes went dark and she lost consciousness in an instant.

 

……

 

     “Where is this! Why am I here?”

     “Who are you?”

     “私はどこにいますか? (Where am I?)”

     ” Did you click on the survivor app to come in?”

     “Holographic online game?”

     “Хулгайлах! (Kidnapping!)”

     “Fuck, why would I wear such a skirt?”

     ” гэж! гэж! (Oh my God!)”

     Ye Mo regained consciousness in the noise, and there were already many strangers talking around her. Some were questioning and afraid, some were screaming and excited, and they spoke in dialects from various places.

     Most people spoke Mandarin or plastic Mandarin. There were very few Japanese and Korean? Or other minority languages?

     Anyway, I couldn’t understand what they were saying.

     At this moment, Ye Mo could feel that she was lying on the ground with her face up, and her left hand seemed to be holding a mobile phone.

     What’s going on?

     With a head full of questions, Ye Mo moved her hands and feet slightly, lying in the ground, she remembered , that she was in the office before she fainted.

     The feeling of uneasiness suddenly increased.

     After listening to the conversations of the people around her for a minute and calming down her chaotic thoughts, Ye Mo opened her eyes.

     A pure white.

     The ceiling is white, the floor is white, and the walls around are also white. According to preliminary estimates, there may be 300 people in this white space.

     Nearly one-third of them woke up.

     Most of those who woke up were young and middle-aged men, and there were nearly 20 girls, all of whom looked in good health.

     Some gathered in groups to find a sense of security, some collapsed on the ground in confusion and fear, and some looked for an exit near the white walls around them, but they couldn’t even find a crack in the ground.

     Ye Mo reached out and touched the ground.

     The white ground is very smooth, not a common wall material, with a certain metallic luster, but not dazzling. The most peculiar thing is that it has a certain natural temperature, neither cold nor hot, and good dirt resistance.

      She have never seen a material like this before.

　　Looking at herself again, her clothes and shoes are all unfamiliar. There is also an unfamiliar red handbag at her feet, which contains some napkins, umbrellas, membership cards, transportation cards and other items.

     The mobile phone in her hand is not hers either. The content is in traditional Chinese, and the address book is full of unfamiliar names and phone numbers.

     She wears a pair of unfamiliar glasses on her face. The frame is purple-red, the lenses are very thick, and the degree is also very high.

     Ye Mo looks at her left hand again. Let’s not talk about the size and skin color. The small black hemorrhoid on the palm is too obvious. This body does not seem to be her own.

     This is very scary.

 

…

 

     *Miss, where are you from?*

     A man next door who looks about 30 years old, with regular features and a black suit, raised his hand to greet.

     Ye Mo: “Chinese.”

     “My name is Wang Yang, also Chinese. What’s your name, beautiful lady?”

     “Li Jing.” Ye Mo answered one of the most repeated names in Baidu data rankings.

     There was a strong middle-aged man next to Wang Yang, with a simple and honest face, named Zhao Rong. He asked immediately: “Jing sister, you also logged into the survivor app and came here in a flash!”

     Ye Mo nodded.

     “Me too, me too!” Two young men stood up not far away and raised their hands.

     “You read the ‘copy mission’ silently or aloud, and the survivor system will tell you what’s going on.”

     Zhao Rong was the one who woke up. When he woke up, there was a mechanical voice in his mind reminding him to accept the mission, and he also got a little benefit. Of course, this benefit does not need to be told to others.

     It’s just that he doesn’t know foreign languages, and there are obviously more than Chinese people in the space. So he chose to cooperate with Wang Yang, who woke up second. Wang Yang is a sales manager of an insurance company, and his plastic English is okay.

     It’s just that not everyone can speak English.

     East Asia often refers to five countries, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia.

     The survivors in the space are these five countries, and the people of the last four countries combined are less than one-third of the Chinese.

     Among them, there is only one middle-aged man in Mongolia. He was able to exchange a few words with a buddy from Inner Mongolia, China, but nothing extra. For the first time, many people learned that Mongolian had many varieties, such as Khalkha Mongolian, Chahar Mongolian, and Balin Mongolian.

     When they met people who didn’t understand English and couldn’t communicate, Zhao Rong and Wang Yang just looked at them and gestured so that they could understand.

     Soon after, a red-haired woman named Linda who knew four languages joined them. She knew Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese.

     Except Mongolian, she spoke everything fluently. It was said that she was a mixed-race of many countries, and also had European and American ancestry.

     Ye Mo silently recited the “copy mission”, and the mechanical voice appeared in her mind again——

 

   【Reserve promotion copy “Doomsday Supermarket”

     Main mission: Survive for ten days (0/10)

     Side mission 1: Kill zombies (0/2)

     Note: Death in the copy, failure to pass the level, obliterate; failure in the main mission, failure to pass the level, obliterate. 】

 

     “Eliminate? Doomsday? Zombies?”

     Ye Mo could hear the sound of her heart beating wildly. Her legs were weak when she stood up from the ground. She pinched herself to make sure that this was definitely not a dream.

     Even the body can be changed, so it is hard to tell whether something like annihilation is true or false.

     Ye Mo began to try to recall the contents of some doomsday movies, doomsday novels, and doomsday games. The most impressive ones were doomsday games, such as Dead Island, The Walking Dead, and Doomsday Survival.

 

…

 

     More and more survivors are awake in the space.

     With the help of Zhao Rong, Wang Yang, and Linda, most people have heard the mission information of the doomsday copy. They are either suspicious, or afraid, or even excited… The situation varies.

     “What are zombies?”

     “Have you seen the Resident Evil movie?”

     “What is Resident Evil?”

     “Yes, yes, a kind of zombie.”

     “Really?”

     “What game?”

     “あなた達は誰ですか? (Who are you?)”

     “Wow…”

     “What do you mean by annihilation?”

     “私達は死ぬのでしょうか? (Will we die?)”

     Although everyone seemed polite, they still divided into large and small groups according to language and country, nervously waiting for the unknown copy.

     Until an old lady with gray hair woke up at last, and ten minutes later, the mechanical voice in everyone’s mind sounded again:

    【The Doomsday Supermarket copy was successfully launched】.