Chapter 62: Hide and Seek

On the bustling commercial pedestrian street, there are many pedestrians. Li Ang and Wang Congshan, who went shopping on weekends to relax, are sitting in a roadside beverage shop, sipping cold and refreshing milk tea.

"As long as everyone contributes a little love, the world will become a better world."

Li Ang looked at those long snow-white legs that were swaying beautifully under the short skirt against the cold autumn wind, and said with emotion from the bottom of his heart.

Wang Congshan didn't listen to what Li Ang was saying, she swiped and dragged on the screen with her fingers, maybe she tapped the keyboard a few times to enter some text, her face was a little irritable.

Li Ang sucked a milk tea pearl into his mouth and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"The family's WeChat group." Wang Congshan said with a curled lip, "my uncle wants to have a second child, and my parents advised him to wait a few years. In theory, this kind of thing should not be advised, but you also know that there have been many Strange things..."

Information control and information segmentation for abnormal events are not as strong as imagined. No matter how much some things are covered up, the impact cannot be completely eliminated.

A village in a certain place was suddenly shrouded in thick fog and there has been no news since then. All the animals in a zoo in a certain city grew redundant limbs overnight. All the passengers of a small foreign cruise ship jumped into the sea with smiles in the webcast. The clown in the playground suddenly snapped his eyeballs and put them in his mouth to chew...

As for bizarre murders, frequent underground pipeline explosions, and inexplicable building collapses, people who eat melons have expressed that they are commonplace.

On the surface, modern society is still singing and dancing, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, watching movies and TV, and playing vibrato and pesticides, but anxiety and tension are still spreading slowly like infectious diseases.

The better the information is blocked, the less able it is to prevent the spread of gossip. Of course, there may also be secret guidance from the Secret Affairs Bureau behind it-the public must gradually adapt to all these changes.

Wang Congshan, who had been in direct contact with the murder incident, put down her cell phone with a gloomy expression. Presumably her father's dissuasion of her brother-in-law not to rush to have a second child was also due to current situation considerations.

Ordinary people's resistance to abnormal events is almost zero, and they have no choice but to escape and self-deception. No matter how afraid of the unknown future, they will eventually return to daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

Wang Congshan sighed: "Oh... I hope the world won't become so strange."

"Look at it," Li Ang said with a smile, "Maybe the vast majority of human beings, including you and me, have already died from nuclear explosions all over the world before being killed by all kinds of weird things. ? But I personally hope that my death will be more heroic and beautiful."

Wang Congshan's eyes slanted, "For example, if the eyes are filled with two kicks and the fuse is lit? That is not only very heroic and beautiful, but also very auspicious."

"So good at talking? Is your little mouth wiped with honey?"

Li Ang curled his lips and sipped the last bit of milk tea: "Let's go, don't you still want to go shopping?"

"Well." Wang Congshan was shocked, "My mother's birthday is coming soon, first choose two clothes for her, and then buy a new watch for my father, then we will go to the jewelry store, and finally go to dinner."

Li Ang went shopping, one to relax, and the other to see if any system tasks could be triggered—according to the forum, except for the central node of abnormal events like Qianhua Road, other urban legends are not distributed. There are no rules at all, but wandering around is the best way to trigger tasks,

Of course, there are also some timid and cowardly forum netizens who have been staying behind closed doors after becoming players, and do not take the initiative to trigger tasks.

Such a netizen often sees no news after the first post, either because he has cut off all contact with the outside world, or... because he has not triggered regular tasks, failed to upgrade his level, and died of a mandatory script with gradually increasing difficulty During the task.

Running away won't solve anything.

Whether it is ordinary people or players, in this increasingly crazy and sick world, they are always in danger.

Li Ang accompanied Wang Congshan back and forth on the commercial street, bought some clothes, chose a cheap watch, and finally went to the fifth floor of Longheng Shopping Center to have a meal of grilled fish - this meal was invited by Wang Congshan, in order to return Li Ang helped her repair the computer that day.

Just as the two, who were full of wine and food, walked out of the gate of the mall, Li Ang suddenly heard a system notification sound.

[Task trigger conditions have been met]

[Task type: Script task (teamwork)]

[Task Name: Hide and Seek]

[Task goal: Go to the main entrance hall of Longheng Shopping Center at 12:00 am tonight, and wait for the next task reminder]

[Mission Rewards: Announced when prompted for the next mission]

[Failure Punishment: Obliteration]

Li Ang's gait did not change when he walked out of the gate, but his eyes turned cold instantly.

This is the first time he has encountered a teamwork script task in the real world.

The name of the task is easy to understand, and most people have played hide and seek in their childhood.

One person plays the role of "ghost". After counting down for 100 seconds blindfolded, he goes to find a group of people hiding in different positions in a certain area. ghost".

Hide-and-seek, an ancient game that can be traced back at least to the Tang Dynasty, has endured for a long time due to its unique fun and competitiveness. However, in the unique context of the killing game, ghosts and people are likely to be ghosts in the literal sense. people....

As for the objective of the mission... Killing the game this time gave about four hours of preparation time, and the closing time of Longheng Shopping Center is 10:30 in the evening. There is no one outside the security guards, which is very suitable for players to play freely.

Although the mission rewards were not clearly stated, since it was a mission that required a whole team of players to complete, the rewards naturally couldn't be so low.

As for the failure penalty for obliteration... it can only be said that as the player's level gradually increases, the difficulty of the tasks faced will also increase.

Li Ang's thoughts changed rapidly, but he didn't show it. He turned his head and said calmly to Wang Congshan, "Are your parents at home?"

"Here, what's the matter?" Wang Congshan said with squinted eyes: "Don't tell me you still want to go to my house for dinner."

"What are you thinking? I just ate." Li Ang said, "I'll take you back by taxi."

"Eh?" Wang Congshan's eyes widened, and she looked at Li Ang in disbelief.

Normally, he would pick as much as he could, and he always had a tendency to emulate Grandet, the iron cock. He relied on buses, subways, bicycles, and the 11th Road to get around, but today he changed his temper and needed to take a taxi.

Could it be that your kid finally got the hang of it?

The two took an online car-hailing car, and after taking Wang Congshan home, Li Ang asked the driver to go to Wanhe Community.