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So far, if you've taken my word for it, congratulations, we're about to enter a sea of ​​nothingness.

You lie in bed, preferably in the dead of night, and you imagine your breathing fading and you slowly close your eyelids.The facial features lose sensation, and the body gradually cools down.It feels like the bed beneath you is gone, you're sinking into darkness, you're completely disconnected from the world, you're dead.

When you try to understand this feeling and experience this pain, you should be able to understand that the more difficult thing to face than death is the fear of death.

What is so terrible about death?Like the sunrise and sunset, the flowers bloom and wither, the banquet is over, and the drama is over, everything should have a beginning and an end.Death is the greatest fairness that fate can give us.

(There is not enough time, I will post it first, I am going to write this paragraph carefully)

Back to the story...

Speaking of which, last time when Chen Xiao played the "Elite Game" in the d-level area, after choosing the game type, the number of people and the waiting time for this game should have appeared, but this time it was different. After he just clicked on the phone screen, Immediately, an electronic map that usually guides the mission location appeared, and what this map pointed to was undoubtedly the location of this competition.

"Hehe~" Chen Xiao sighed slightly, but he was not too surprised, because this is a "branch" of the foundation after all, and its number must be much larger than the research institute he stayed in before. The number of people in this kind of competition will certainly not be small.

So he just had a good time, and walked along the map pointing.

After going through several corridors and turning a few crooked corners, Chen Xiao came to an elevator door, and on the wall next to the elevator, there was a small sign... which read "Elite Game" Special elevator for competitions".

Chen Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly. It seems that this competition is still very important here.So, he stepped into the elevator directly.

However, as soon as his feet stepped into the elevator, the elevator door closed immediately. The next second, with a "click", on the roof of the elevator, a beam of fan-shaped red light shone in from top to bottom. What followed was an electronically synthesized voice speaking very fast.

"Confirm the identity of the contestant as a member of the C-level field service team, Chen Xiao."

It took only one second for this passage to finish playing, followed by a slight pause, and the electronic voice continued: "The timer starts!"

At the same time, the elevator shook slightly and then began to move.

Chen Xiao was taken aback by this series of quick operations.

"What's the matter?" He muttered softly.

Immediately afterwards, the phone in his pocket began to vibrate.

Chen Xiao was also moved by the flustered atmosphere, and immediately took out his mobile phone.

I saw a string of numbers appearing on the top of the screen of the phone.

4: 59: 03

Moreover, the final number is changing rapidly, and it becomes

4: 58: 77

It's all like this, even a fool can see that it is heralding some kind of countdown.Its time setting is 5 minutes!

And during this dwindling time

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Chapter 161 Elevator Puzzle

On the phone screen, in addition to the ever-decreasing time, there was another row of three-digit numbers.

From 298 at this moment to 297, it is decreasing at a constant speed at a rate of one per second.

It is easy to see that the three digits below are the seconds of the remaining 5 minutes above... But why it is converted into seconds and displayed again is not known.

And apart from these two lines of numbers, the entire screen of the mobile phone is blank, with no words left.

Chen Xiao frowned. This inexplicable message didn't give him any hints, nor did he say what he was asked to do, and he didn't ask any questions or even say a single word. Just giving a "countdown" dryly like this is really annoying. People are confused.

"Yo Hou~~" Chen Xiao greeted the phone, but there was no response...

Immediately afterwards, he poked the screen of the phone again, and threw it directly to the ground with a "slap", but then he found that he couldn't even cancel the interface.

This countdown has been telling people what to do.

Chen Xiao licked his lips... It seems that the event that affects this time should not be the phone itself, so he gave up studying it and put it in his pocket.

As for checking how much time is left in the countdown, he has never needed any tools.

Then, Chen Xiao turned his attention to his surroundings again. Although Chen Xiao had habitually looked at the environment in the elevator when he first entered the elevator...but he felt that it was very It is necessary to observe carefully again,

One is that the scan was not performed when I first entered the elevator, and the other is that the countdown that had no prompts did not appear at that time.So maybe just now, something changed in this elevator.

So without further ado, let's take a look at this elevator.

Uh... But to be honest, there is really nothing to see in such a small place.

The whole elevator has an area of ​​only 3 or 4 square meters, and it is all white. It is a very long space with a narrow space between left and right, only enough for two people to stand side by side. The wall next to the door is a mirror, only one-fifth of the size of the wall it hangs on, and it is placed at a height just above Chen Xiao's waist.On the two walls except for the "door" and "mirror", there are two "long stick"-shaped handrails inlaid on them, and the rest are bare and nothing is left. On the ceiling, the one that just emitted red light After the machine finished scanning, it retracted into the ceiling, and the window he emerged from was so seamlessly fitted with the surrounding ceiling that even a knife couldn't get in.Moreover, the source of light in the elevator basically comes from the special metal material of the roof itself, so there is no such thing as a "light".At the same time, the floor of the elevator is also made of the same material, which leads to the fact that in the entire elevator, except for the elevator door that can be opened and closed left and right, what is left is a closed space with almost no gaps. .

The door of the elevator is not decorated at all, and there are only two buttons beside the door, one with two arrows facing away from each other, which means "open", and the other with opposite arrows, which means "close".There isn't even a floor button.

Because Chen Xiao took 1 second to observe the structure of the elevator again.Then he came to the conclusion that...nothing has changed...

However, he didn't express any regrets, because it meant that the things that the countdown had made him do had always existed, rather than just appearing temporarily after the countdown started.

Immediately afterwards, he did something that was definitely useless. He pressed the two switches next to the elevator door.

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"Well... nothing happened as expected!" Chen Xiao said to himself.Although he had expected this result a long time ago, he always felt uncomfortable if he didn't try it.

Of course, even if he tried, he didn't waste even a second, because when he pressed the elevator switch with one hand, the other hand had already reached into his crotch... and took out That silver revolver. (You dirty bastards... what are you thinking?)

Immediately afterwards, he held the barrel of the pistol, and without hesitation, in a posture of swinging a hammer, he smashed the butt of the gun on the elevator door.

There was a loud "kuang", in this almost enclosed small space, it was like ringing a bronze bell, shaking Chen Xiao almost to the ground.

After he shook his head to get his eyes back, he found that the door of the elevator was indeed dented by a large piece, but there was no major damage on the whole. It is feasible to smash the door open, but when it is successful, it is estimated that dinner will be finished.

Seeing that the plan of "smashing the elevator door" was useless, Chen Xiao reached into his crotch again and took out a switchblade.

With a sound of "crack", the switchblade came out of its sheath. Taking advantage of the vibration for a few seconds, Chen Xiao took a step and directly inserted the knife towards the elevator door...

Then there was a "dang"...uh...it didn't go in.

"Fuck?" Chen Xiao was a little shocked: "Is this door so tight?"

Immediately afterwards, he unbelievingly slashed the door with his knife a few times with all his might, and then inserted the knife into the gap between the doors that had just been smashed into the recess, back and forth lamely.

But in the end, he gave up the idea of ​​opening the elevator.