The exit was an ordinary, ordinary iron door. One only needed to press down on the handle, and the door would open gently.
Lin Sanjiu stood behind the door and took a deep breath.
Even if she didn't look up, she knew that there was a line of cold words written on the wall above the door. "Game Over." Everyone threw away their backpacks, tools, and leftover food balls. These things were as precious as their lives just a few days ago, but now, no one even wanted to look at them.
She turned her head and looked past the crowd. Her gaze swept past the unconscious elephant and landed on the three bodies covered in blankets in the corner. She didn't have the ability to take them away. Let them disappear along with this game.
`Come on, 'she said hoarsely, holding on to the doorframe.
Instead of saying that they walked behind the door, it would be more accurate to say that they fell behind the door one after another. As soon as they stepped through the "elephant in the room" door, they felt as if a mountain had been lifted off their shoulders. Their bodies suddenly felt light and limp. They could no longer support themselves and fell to the ground.
Lin Sanjiu's stamina, which had been suppressed by the game, flowed through her dried up body like a thawing stream in spring. However, she still felt weak and hungry. Lin Sanjiu did not even have the time to look up to see what kind of place she had entered. She quickly took out a box of food.
"Help yourself." She grabbed a handful without hesitation, then turned her head to look around.
The walls and ceiling of this underground room were coated with a simple layer of cement. Except for a few other doors, it looked similar to the previous two rooms. The biggest difference was its size. It was not the size of the sports field, nor was it the size of the auditorium. This room should be able to accommodate a small residential area.
This was the first time Lin Sanjiu was in such a large and empty room. Looking at the wall that was as small as a fingernail, she felt a little disoriented. She tore open a pack of "lunch boxes" roughly and asked doubtfully, "Are we the only ones here?"
Even the volunteers from before were gone.
"Sister," Ji Shanqing couldn't bear to watch any longer, "You can't eat like this. It's not nice … Let me help you."
"Looks like it." Silvan rummaged through the food in the box and said, "Since there are no volunteers, and there is no news of a new game conference, maybe this is for us to rest."
Those who could leave the elephant game alive must be in urgent need of rest and supplies.
"That's great." Lin Sanjiu looked up and said to Haust and Hester, "You guys get something to eat too."
They were all a little embarrassed, and silently gathered together, each taking some beer and bread and the like. When Lin Sanjiu was in the elephant game, she had thought about it many times. Once she left the game, she would have to part ways with the newbies. Now that it was time for them to part ways, she couldn't help feeling sorry for them when she saw their awkward and dejected expressions.
Forget it, I'll leave it at that for now. Who knew what the next game would be like?
"Come on." Ji Shanqing was very patient. He had already prepared a piece of salted biscuit on top, two pieces of cheese and two slices of ham in the middle, and another piece of salted biscuit on the bottom. "You have to stack them one layer at a time for them to taste better."
It did taste good, but Lin Sanjiu felt that she could eat ten of such small sandwiches in one bite.
The body that the grand prize was programmed with had the lowest requirement for food. The weakness and hunger he felt were mainly due to the game. Therefore, he was the only one among them who ate slowly. He was not in a hurry to eat and still had the leisure to stack the sandwiches for Lin Sanjiu.
Silvan tore off a piece of beef and sighed, "The last time I was this hungry was when I was eight or nine years old."
"Have you ever been hungry when you were a kid?" Lin Sanjiu's mouth was full of food. As she spoke, she spat biscuit sparks out of her mouth. "Why?"
"I don't know," Silvan tilted his head and thought for a while before he answered, "That is something that hasn't happened yet."
"Huh?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She looked at his face for a while, but she couldn't tell whether he was joking or not. He did not intend to explain himself. He picked up a can of beer and drank half of it. Then, he sighed and said, "Someone is coming in."
Everyone sat up straight and looked around the room. They could almost hear the faint sound of footsteps. A few seconds later, a door beside them was pushed open, and a few men and women walked in. Lin Sanjiu wasn't surprised by Silvan's extraordinary hearing. What really surprised her was that the group of posthumans came through the same door that they had just passed through.
'Did they come in through the elephant game from another room? '
"Ah, you guys have food," a girl with a pale face suddenly shouted. Her voice was so hoarse and cracked that it was almost unbearable. "Please … Can you give me some? I can exchange something with you …"
"You don't have to exchange."
Lin Sanjiu threw a pack of compressed bread to the girl. When the girl reached out to catch it, she lost her balance and fell to the ground due to her excessive weakness. However, she did not seem to realize that she had fallen. She hugged the bread tightly and tore open the packaging with her teeth and nails. Then, she shoved the bread into her mouth desperately.
There were a total of six of her companions. Almost all of them looked as if they were starving. Only one of them had a smooth complexion and was full of energy. After Lin Sanjiu nodded, the other five people rushed forward like a swarm of locusts. In just a few minutes, they had emptied the box. Only the most energetic man stood at the side. His expression was unreadable, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Which game did you guys come from?" Lin Sanjiu asked.
"It's a farming game." The first girl who got the food had already wolfed down half a loaf of bread. At this time, she said with some gratitude, "It's too tiring. I don't have enough to eat every day. It's so boring … I went in late. Some of them have been playing for seven or eight months."
Lin Sanjiu and her grand prize looked at each other.
"What farming game?"
"There is a division of labor. I'm a farmer, and there are leaders, workers, tax collectors, and so on …" She buried her face into the bread halfway through her sentence. Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but suspect that she was eating the same way as the girl just now. "We have to pay a lot of taxes every day. I don't know how to end the game."
If Lin Sanjiu guessed correctly, this should be a variant of "The Elephant in the Room". It seemed that the girl didn't even remember that there was an elephant in the room until the game ended.
"How did you guys get out?" Lu Hua, who had been quiet all this while, asked abruptly. She looked at the girl and her companions intently, as if she was waiting for an answer.
"Actually … I'm not too sure. I just heard someone say that there was a door on the other side … I threw the hoe and ran. Soon, everyone came out in a hurry, and I saw you the moment I came out. "The girl ate an entire loaf of bread and turned her head to glance at them. "Can you be so kind as to tell us again?" she asked softly, addressing the most spirited of them all.
"It's too complicated," the man waved his hand. "Let's talk about it later. In short, we have to look forward and prepare for the coming days of survival. "
"Yes, yes," the other man, who was so skinny that he was almost out of shape, nodded quickly. "It's actually very simple. It's all thanks to you that we found that door that we were able to get out."
Apparently, the leader had mastered the art of not showing his emotions on his face. He didn't look very happy when he heard that. While everyone sat down to rest and talk, he was the only one who stood a few steps away from them. From time to time, he would turn his head to look at the door that led to the elephant game.
"What happened?" Lin Sanjiu whispered to Ji Shanqing, "What do you think happened to them?"
"The workers and farmers didn't know that they had to leave," the grand prize replied in a low voice, "I think the leader didn't want to leave either … Perhaps, there was an accident that caused the elephant to close its eyes and an exit appeared. Even if he had already forgotten about the existence of the elephant, he would automatically leave the game when he came out to take a look. "
Lin Sanjiu was speechless. She didn't know whether these people were lucky or unlucky.
The room was very spacious. After the two groups of people chatted for a while, the leader called his group over and moved to a place about ten meters away to rest. Half a day had passed, but there was still no news from the room. Even Lin Sanjiu gradually let her guard down. She took out some mattresses and blankets and distributed them to everyone. Then, she buried the grand prize, who had cleaned himself up, into the pillow. If she could let him rest a little longer, he might be able to spend more time with her.
After Silvan, Haust, Lu Hua, and the others fell into a deep sleep, Lin Sanjiu lay down beside the grand prize. She heard him moan as he stretched his body. He might not look big, but he was quite long when he stretched his body.
Both of them would always whisper to each other before they slept, and nothing could stop them.
"Sister," he whispered, "I always feel that this world is very familiar to me …"
"What do you mean?" Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment and asked, "Have you seen the data of this world before?"
"No." Ji Shanqing turned over, revealing half of his face that was as bright as the moon. "This world is too far away from the Data Stream Library. Even the Veda didn't realize that they were only in a certain layer of the onion universe, so they don't have any information about this world. However, the way this world is organized feels very familiar to me. "
Before Lin Sanjiu could ask, he sighed and continued, "Say an elephant, and an elephant appeared. Say a blue wall man, and there are blue wall men. From a dimension that we have occupied, there is another group of people … Sis, have you figured it out? "
Lin Sanjiu had already raised her head.
"Isn't this too similar to the Veda?"
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