Chapter 7(1/2)
The collapsed bridge broke the road surface made of steel and cement. Fortunately, there were no cars passing by under the bridge at that moment.
Zhou Ran suddenly realized that if she lost the game, her car would not turn around, but would drive straight forward and be hit by a broken bridge. Next, the section of the steel bar full of rust residue would reveal a hard and sharp thorn, poking into the spine, pounding the beating heart...
"Get out of here quickly, it's a mess."
Zhou Zesheng looked at the rising dust and urged Uncle Qi to leave this ghost place as soon as possible.
The car stopped outside the courtyard, Zhou Ran got out and entered the house first.
As soon as she came in, a nanny helped her take out her slippers and take off her schoolbag. Zhou Ran said thank you, went to the bathroom to wash, changed into neat clothes before going to my grandfather's room.
The old man had a severe cold a while ago and his spirit was slightly worse than before, but his waist was still straight. Zhou Ran pushed open the door and saw his grandfather's back unconsciously followed him.
"Grandpa, I'm back."
Zhou Dae-jo nodded, "How is the exam?"
Zhou Ran said calmly: "Very good."
"Well, this is how the children of the Zhou family should be." Although Zhou Dae-jo had no expression, he could hear that he was very satisfied with Zhou Ran. He silently, and then asked tentatively: "Where is Xiaosheng, how is he doing in the exam?"
In fact, Zhou Dae-jo is concerned about the children's studies, but he does not know the weight of these exams. The Huashu Cup competition is a national competition, but there are less than 30 people in the finals. Only two people in the entire North China have entered the finals. Results like Zhou Zesheng are basically the denominator for people during the preliminary round.
Some schools try to save trouble and use the first test papers of this competition as monthly test papers. Zhou Zesheng may not know that he has taken this test.
"He will arrive soon, grandpa will ask him."
Zhou Dae-jo: "Xiao Ran, grandpa knows that you have always been the child who is least troubled by adults. But what are you wronged..."
Zhou Ran interrupted Zhou Dae-jo: "Grandpa, I'm fine."
After Zhou Ran said that, she sat on the alone sofa beside her grandfather. After a while, Zhou Zesheng knocked in and shouted in a pleasing voice from afar: "Grandpa."
The voice was long and the shouting was sweet and greasy. Zhou Ran looked at Zhou Zesheng like the little brothers in the cartoon.
Zhou Zesheng, regardless of whether Zhou Ran is present or not, came to sit next to his grandfather with shamelessness and tried to hold his arm with his hands. Zhou Dae-jo frowned, picked up the crutch and knocked Zhou Zesheng: "What do you think? Stand up your waist!"
"grandfather."
"Standing at attention, don't imitate your mother!"
Zhou Zesheng's face froze for a moment, as if he wanted to get angry, but his father was not in front of him now and no one supported him, so he had to stand up with his head down.
"Junior promotion, how did you do the exam?"
"What?"
"HuaSouth Cup."
"Oh, that's right, it's pretty good, you can do the questions."
Zhou Zesheng opened his eyes and said lies. After saying that, he felt guilty and turned to look at Zhou Ran, but Zhou Ran was sitting there, not exposing him or paying attention to him.
"That's good. Tomorrow, Monday, you will have a break early after you finish your homework."
"yes."
"yes."
Zhou Zesheng pushed open the door and went out first, and Zhou Ran followed her out. She closed the door and turned around, and suddenly realized that something was wrong with Zhou Zesheng.
Something black was entangled with his back. A round black mist like eyes lay on his left shoulder. The thing seemed to have a substance, causing his left shoulder to sink a little. If it weren't for a subtle observation, there would be no way to tell what was wrong.
Zhou Ran was alert to the fact that the black thing was not good, so she looked closer and saw that it was a black fog that was ecstatic. However, at this time, the number of black fog was very small and the area was small, which was not enough to control Zhou Zesheng's body.
"Zhou Zesheng."
Zhou Zesheng frowned and hissed: "I rude, why not call me brother?"
"Do you feel something is wrong these days?"
"What do you mean?"
Zhou Zesheng's eyes rolled, not knowing what the little head on the neck thought of, frowned and said righteously to Zhou Ran: "You want to threaten me? Zhou Ran, although I haven't lived with you for many years, I know you very well. Don't think that you are the boss in this family!"
Zhou Ran said lightly: "Isn't it?"
"you--"
"I'll ask you if you think something is wrong recently, such as some abnormal phenomena."
Zhou Zesheng is likely to be selected by the game as well.
But looking at his appearance, it seems that he has not experienced anything, so she thought, maybe there will be some omen before the game is triggered. But what omen is it, and why is he selected?
"What's wrong? I think you're wrong. Why didn't you expose me just now? Is it okay to embarrass me when we grew up?"
"Grandpa is old, don't cause trouble for him."
"Why did I make trouble!"
Zhou Ran felt that she couldn't ask anything useful from this person, so she simply went back to her room.
It was already past lunch time, and Zhou Ran asked the nanny to make some food to deliver. The nanny asked her what to eat, but Zhou Ran said it was casual, but as long as it was not a chicken wing... Because when she saw the chicken wing, she would think of the broken face, with flesh and blood, and the flesh and blood were drawn and white bones, which would still cause a strong feeling of discomfort when she recalled.
After dinner, she took out the weekend homework and quickly completed it.
After Zhou Ran finished writing, she lay on the bed to rest. Two small paper men jumped around on the pillow. Her phone was full of charge. She unplugged the charger and flipped around casually. She found that there was a dark black app on the last page of the screen.
The software has no name, but the icon is a half-cry and half-smiling face, which looks very scary. She clicked on the app and the platform popped up with a "Are you ready to start taking risks?" Then, without waiting for the player's reply, she immediately automatically confirmed her identity.
Zhou Ran lay on her side, holding her phone in one hand, staring at the strange black picture and refreshing it. A red circle popped up in the ‘Message’ column - it was a stranger’s friend request.
The stranger's name is 'Xiao Ming', and the verification message reads: "Hello, my mother."
The man's avatar used a black eye. Zhou Ran's cell phone slid and encountered rejection.
The wrong point is.
This phone is being updated too quickly, and the screen is getting bigger and bigger, making it really inconvenient to use with one hand.
That person is called "Xiao Ming" and can still call him the name "Xiao Ming" and her mother. It should be Xiang Jiangming, but he has refused. Why do you take the initiative to add him?
Zhou Ran doesn't use electronic devices often, especially the strange software that suddenly pops up. She studied it for a while, and finally gave up. She clicked on the "Pond" section and looked at people's posts.
She took a rough look at it and found out the mechanism of this game. The game is divided into two modes, one is passive triggering and the other is active challenge.
Passive triggering is a random copy. If you have high completion, you can get some rewards in the prize pool. You can only apply for a contract with the platform after triggering a certain random copy. Active challenge must be a platform contract player to challenge. These challenges are arranged into a vine-shaped line according to the difficulty, and there is a lock in each stage.
Zhou Ran stretched out her hand and gently touched the lock in the first stage. The lock vibrated twice and opened. She tried the lock in the second stage again, and when she touched it, she opened it again.
Zhou Ran slid to the third lock in confusion, but could still be opened. He didn't feel the resistance until the fourth one was clicked.
At the same time, a winged elf flew out from the screen.
“I’m glad to serve you, Master.”
A crisp childish voice suddenly sounded, and the three-dimensional surround sound did not seem to be coming from the phone speaker. It felt really numb, but Zhou Ran was used to it and said, "What do you call it."
"Every player who signs a contract with the platform will have a Q&A assistant, my name is Dicabrad Simia."
Oh, westerner, but the name is a bit long.
"I'll call you siri."
"...Okay, good master, you can call me to answer any questions you have in the future."
"Well. Why do I show that I have passed the first three stages here?"
"The difficulty coefficient of your first random copy is too high, corresponding to the third stage, so you can automatically pass the first three stages, and you can challenge the fourth stage now."
“How many sections are there in total?”
"So far, the twelve stages have been unlocked, and the thirteenth stages have been opened. No player survives. Master, you are in the fourth stage, but if the master and others form a team, you can also challenge the challenge more than the stage. After all the stages are opened, you will pass the level game and you can leave here."
"So, no one has successfully passed the level yet."
"Yes."
Zhou Ran nodded softly and slid the screen. Sure enough, the big tree had a total of twelve branches, and the other branches were hidden in the clouds, and it was not even clear how many stages there were.
However, Zhou Ran looked at the cloud and suddenly felt that the interface seemed to be a game.
"Is this happy to disappear..."
"Master." Dicabrad Simia hurriedly interrupted Zhou Ran and explained: "You need to understand our programmers. They die early and have limited ability to accept new things. It is inevitable that there will be a small reference in some places. I hope the master can understand the spirit."
"……good."
"The master can go to the prize pool to receive the rewards from the last game."
Zhou Ran nodded and opened the prize pool. Two rewards popped up on the interface for Zhou Ran to choose from.
Reward 1: Little Red Riding Hood’s Red Riding Hood’s Red Riding Hood’s wine (Ah, my grandmother gradually became stronger after drinking it. So can our players become stronger even if they drink it?)
Effect: Save the dead and help the wounded
Level: Beginner
Reward 2: Night Owl's glass eyeballs (Night Owl can emit two beams of light in the dark, just like a laser sword. What will happen if it is dug out and melted on our players?)
Effect: Night vision
Level: Beginner
To be continued...