"We are going to meet the janitor now." Gao Mi said, "You will see him soon."

"Then tell me the rules here first."

Lu Mingfei took out the silver revolver hidden in his back, took out the bullet from his pocket, and started loading as if nothing had happened. He didn't know why the senior brother had such a thing. It was not convenient to get the bullet too slowly.

“…”

The people present were ashamed to see Lu Mingfei's actions, especially Zhao Menghua was a little trembling. He wanted to break his head and didn't understand where Lu Mingfei's gun came from! Is the United States so dangerous that even students have to use guns at any time to ensure their own safety?

"Brother, this machine must be fired, right?" Gao Mi asked carefully. He could see that the bullets on Lu Mingfei were alchemy bullets from the academy. Can this thing deal with the gatekeeper? By the way, how did this guy bring the gun back to China? The domestic gun control is very strict. Unexpectedly, there was a fish that slipped through the net here!

"Ah no," Lu Mingfei shook his head, "I just wanted to prevent it. Let's see if I fight or not. If the other party is so strong that I will not rush forward to find abuse."

"This... is this?" Gao Mi half-believed and half-doubted. He sighed and began to explain the rules here to Lu Mingfei.

"The characteristic of this type of alchemy maze is that there must be a rule that can escape here. If there is an entrance, there must be an outlet. This is the iron rule for creating an alchemy maze. Even the gatekeeper cannot violate it. Just like the riddle given by Sphinx to Oedipus, it is also a maze constructed by alchemy, but it is made of 'language' as the material. If Oedipus answers the riddle, Sphinx will inevitably fall off a cliff and die. Even if it is stronger than Oedipus, it cannot violate the rules."

"This sounds quite interesting." Lu Mingfei pondered. He thought that the person who can customize such rules is either a fool or a rule is not a "gatekeeper" at all. Rules that he can't even violate, so what is not a stumbling block for himself?

He felt that the rules here were probably not set by the "gatekeeper", but the real master here.

"So what should I win?"

"Texas Hold'em." Gao Mi said, "If you win all the chips of the gatekeeper, you can leave or kill it. Those who lose the bet will return to this train and will be trapped here forever."

"Have you tried to kill him?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Of course I tried it, I tried it from the beginning." Wan Boqian said.

"I think you don't seem to be injured?"

"I was not injured because it would not fight back at all." Gao Mi shook her head, "No matter how you attack it, it would not fight back, but that thing cannot be killed, otherwise we would not have been trapped here for so long."

"Can't kill it?" Lu Mingfei was puzzled, "You just said that there is the method of leaving "kill it"..."

"You will understand when you see it." Gao Mi sighed helplessly, "Now the train is heading towards it, and there is still some time. Will you play Texas Hold'em?"

"Yes." Lu Mingfei nodded, "But what is the bet? I don't have money on it. Can I swipe my card here?"

"Not money."

The three of them suddenly felt despair in their eyes, as if they had remembered something bad.

"Your bet is your loneliness." Wan Boqian whispered, "As the train continues to move forward, your bet will increase. Here, you will never die, you will remain lonely forever, and your loneliness and despair are the bets."

"This bet is really bad." Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a little funny. Immortality should be something that many people dream of, but it is like a joke here.

The subway continued to move forward, and after a long time, the speed gradually dropped. The train stopped and then on the platform. This was a station that should not exist. The extremely ancient platform floor was covered with uneven concrete floors, with moss-covered ceramic tiles on the corners. The ash on the walls almost fell off, and it was obvious that it was a place that had been in disrepair.

The train door is open.

The four people in the car walked towards the door, but the other three seemed to be reluctant to face the so-called "gatekeeper". They even took a much slower step and seemed to be tortured very hard.

Lu Mingfei walked in the front and just walked to the door. He seemed to remember something. He suddenly turned his head and said to Zhao Menghua, "Chen Wenwen is very worried about you. I came here just to save you."

After saying that, Lu Mingfei stepped out of the carriage and saw a few big words printed on the platform, "Fu Shouling Station". The red paint on the font looked a bit mottled, but the bright red color was still shocking. There was also the date "1977" next to it, which made Lu Mingfei quickly seem to have traveled through time and space to come here.

He finally understood why Gao Mi said that they could not kill the "gatekeeper".

It's really difficult.

Looking at the monster in front of him, Lu Mingfei felt a little numb.

Countless sickle weasels entrenched on the ceiling of the platform, and a dark shadow fell. It rolled in the air, making a harsh scream. Countless sickle weasels surrounded it and flew under it to hold it up, just like carrying the king's coffin.

The shadow spread its wings and slowly landed. Lu Mingfei finally saw clearly. This was a guy who was slightly bigger than an adult, but the key was that it had nine heads!

It was a monster with nine heads, a sickle-weed queen. Its nine heads were bent left and right, and its spine was twisted, like nine snakes coiled together.

"This... Is it necessary to chop off 9 heads at the same time to kill it?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

None of the other people spoke, so Gao Mi nodded helplessly.

Well, this is indeed not something they can do. Even if the "gatekeeper" doesn't fight back, they will not be able to chop off 9 at the same time, not to mention that they don't even have a decent knife in their hands.

"Oh... let's start."

The four people sat down around the "gatekeeper" as if they accepted their fate. They might be called "dealer" in the gambling game. Although they are only mothers, they are not beautiful women.

The dealer had a pair of terrifying golden pupils on his head, scanning every guest present, and then threw the chips they had accumulated now in front of them.

In front of Lu Mingfei was an iron bottle cap with the words "Arctic Ocean" printed on it, which was the bottle cap of an ancient orange soda.

There were a bunch of dark gold coins thrown in front of others. In addition to the coins, Zhao Menghua even had an extra watch. It seemed that his loneliness was really enough for him to buy m g tables.

"That's it?" Lu Mingfei looked at the lonely bottle cap in front of him. He really looked lonely enough. Did he not even match a chip in pairs?

"A bottle cap of the 'Arctic Ocean' can cost about 1,000 coins, your loneliness..." Gao Mi couldn't continue, and the three of them looked at Lu Mingfei with some pity. Is this child not an orphan?

"It's really 'Arctic Ocean'?" Lu Mingfei threw away the bottle cap in his hand and smiled bitterly. His loneliness was like the water in the Arctic Ocean. But according to the rules here, he had to win more 'lonely' from the dealer to leave here. What's this?

'You win, but you have to leave with loneliness.' He clearly wanted to be a winner, but in the end he was as miserable as a loser.

"Sir, can I ask questions?" Lu Mingfei looked at the monster in front of him. He could not think of an adjective except for being ugly, because the monster in front of him was not terrible, and he might scare ordinary people. Oh no, even Zhao Menghua is quite calm now.

"Yes." The dealer's nine heads spoke in unison, their voices hoarse and overlapping, and they sounded a little scary, like an echo from the abyss.

"How can I get out?"

"Win me."

"Can you let me go?"

"no."

"Why don't that be like this? Let's discuss it. Look at how valuable the chips here are, is it enough to buy my life?" Lu Mingfei asked jokingly.

“Fearless words will only waste your life.”

"But I won't die here." Lu Mingfei shrugged indifferently.

"People will die if they are killed. Even the rules here cannot be changed. The rules here are just to prevent you from starving to death and thirst, but there are also people who can't stand loneliness and choose to commit suicide. You can also try it." The dealer answered the question conscientiously.

"Oh~ So that's it." Lu Mingfei stood up, "If a person is killed, he will die. In other words, you will be killed here, right?"

"…Yes.” The dealer hesitated.

"I asked before about the way to go out, why did you specifically rule it out and kill you?"

"No one wants to die." The dealer said in a plain tone, stating this simple truth.

"You are just a chess piece placed here, and you will be afraid of death?" Lu Mingfei came to the dealer and looked at it in surprise.

"Start the bet." The dealer no longer answered his questions.

"Don't worry," Lu Mingfei closed one eye, raised the bottle cap in his hand, looked at the dealer in front of him, as if he would shout "Super electromagnetic gun" next sentence, which was a pity that he didn't know how to hit the second-hand trick. Otherwise, there were a bunch of coins here, so why worry about not being able to beat 9 heads.

"The last question," Lu Mingfei abandoned the bottle cap, "You can't violate the rules here, right?"

"right."

"Then, I won."

With a clang, the bottle cap fell on the gambling table, and the revolver in Lu Mingfei's hand pressed against him.

“???”

Everyone looked at him in a daze, including the dealer, although there was no shock on his face.

"Lu...Lu Mingfei, don't be too impressed..." Zhao Menghua said.

"Yes, junior brother, you don't have to prove that you are not inferior to the rules in this way..."

"Shut up."

Lu Mingfei's cold voice interrupted their words, and the nonsense of these people would affect his operations.

"Dare you dare to play? Dealer." Lu Mingfei pointed to the 'Arctic Ocean' bottle cap that fell on the gambling table, "Go for a gamble, I show hand!"

"I don't understand why you beat me." The dealer put a chip on the gambling table. "I don't need to fight with you. This chip is enough to win all your bets."

"Don't worry, am I going to prove it to you?"

Lu Mingfei grinned.

He sorted out his wrinkled round-neck T-shirt, but the tidy posture seemed to be wearing his expensive evening dress, and with his chest with a muzzle in his arms, it seemed like he was going to organize his own face.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by a gunshot, Lu Mingfei fell to the ground, and deep red blood flowed out of him.

"Silly." The dealer's voice was filled with a hint of mockery. He thought that this human was going to do something, but he was just unwilling to surrender to the boring struggle of fate. Death might be a relief for such a person.

"Ah!" Wan Boqian covered her mouth in screaming.

"He he... he is dead?" Zhao Menghua covered his eyes and was afraid to look directly. He was a person who could faint from bleeding when he could get injections. When did he see this bloody scene?

"Why is this a problem..." Gao Mi felt a little reluctant and prepared to go over and collect Lu Mingfei's body.

"Ahem...ahhhh..."

A cough came from the ground, and Gao Mi's hand stretched out was grabbed by Lu Mingfei.

"A corpse-scam!" Zhao Menghua screamed at Lu Mingfei who suddenly opened his eyes.
To be continued...