Day of Imprisonment

In the vast wilderness, a unique building stood, brilliantly lit. A huge billboard hung on the building, reading 'Eternal Dove Supermarket'.

A person stood at the entrance.

Lin Qiqi boredly kicked a stone at her feet.

Feeling somewhat irritated.

But the next moment, she looked up, initially with some delight, but her face fell as she clearly saw who was approaching.

"Why is it you?"

An Zhiyan knew Lin Qiqi was not to be trifled with, so she didn't respond in kind, and she was also very surprised by something.

"Where's Luo Xi? Hasn't he arrived yet?"

There was no hint of teasing in these words, just genuine surprise. Although she had only encountered Luo Xi in two checkpoint scenarios, she knew how formidable he was, capable of crushing most Memory Retrievers. Even so-called experts were insignificant in front of Luo Xi, like elementary school students.

The 'trials' encountered after sitting down at the internet cafe and starting the computer were indeed terrifying and troublesome, requiring knowledge of the riddles about Eternal Dove Supermarket to pass.

But she could pass them, let alone Luo Xi?

Logically, Luo Xi should have been the first to arrive.

Lin Qiqi didn't respond, just continued waiting. An Zhiyan could only wait as well. Next to them was the brightly lit 'Eternal Dove Supermarket', the legendary Earth Yuan Fourth checkpoint scenario.

However, neither of them had any intention of entering before Luo Xi arrived.

Time passed, second by second.

"Could there be a possibility that Luo Xi can't tell jokes?" Suddenly, An Zhiyan looked up and said. Lin Qiqi was stunned and looked at An Zhiyan. The two women exchanged glances.

"There really is that possibility."

Because after finding the Dragon King, you need to tell him a joke, and it has to be a joke that the Dragon King approves of in order to be allowed to pass.

Based on what An Zhiyan knew of Luo Xi, he didn't seem like someone who was good at telling jokes.

A cool, silent, even somewhat frightening man; a lack of humor might be Luo Xi's only shortcoming.

That's why she thought so.

Lin Yixuan could pass, so Luo Xi shouldn't be blocked at that stage.

"Then could it be that some other situation has occurred?" An Zhiyan could only expand her thinking.

"For example..." Lin Qiqi looked at her.

"Like he didn't click the icon on the desktop, or he didn't choose the northeast direction in that darkness." Now An Zhiyan could only guess.

She certainly didn't know the specific situation.

For example, she didn't know that Luo Xi had encountered a 'problem' when he held that strange mouse.

Inside the Sunshine Internet Cafe.

Luo Xi was speechless looking at the 'playing dead' mouse hand.

When he first held the mouse, it did indeed instantly turn into a terrifying ghost hand and interlocked fingers with Luo Xi.

But he didn't know what happened, the ghost hand suddenly let go as if electrocuted the moment it held Luo Xi, and then... it never held it again.

It even actively avoided Luo Xi's 'hand-holding'.

Luo Xi naturally could see that hand-holding was a special 'spiritual link'.

Similar to Lin Qiqi's 'soul link'.

So it would definitely not work if the ghost hand did not cooperate.

"What are you hiding for?" Luo Xi asked the ghost hand that stretched out from the hole in the table.

The ghost hand didn't answer, just hid, even when Luo Xi forcibly grabbed it, it actually retracted into the hole on the table.

Like a rat burrowing into a hole, gone.

Luo Xi frowned.

This was a bit troublesome.

If he couldn't hold the ghost hand (mouse), how could he control the computer? If he couldn't control the computer, how could he proceed to the next step?

He immediately stood up.

The surrounding black curtain was also torn apart. Looking again, on the left and right sides, Lin Qiqi and An Zhiyan were already 'in the zone', like everyone else around them, with blank expressions, staring unblinkingly at the pixelated screens.

Like they had lost their souls.

"Manager!" Luo Xi shouted at this time.

"What's up?" The manager's voice came from far away in front.

"It doesn't work, I can't get into the game, can you take a look?" Luo Xi's voice was even louder.

"Wait a moment!" The manager's voice was impatient.

Then the young man wearing glasses walked over, first glanced at Luo Xi, and then looked at machine 47.

"Why can't you get in?"

"The mouse ran away."

"..." The manager was stunned, then looked at Luo Xi again, and said, "I'll change the mouse for you."

After saying that, he ran away, but quickly came back, holding a mouse in his hand, then pulled open the sofa seat and crawled under the table.

After tinkering for a while, he climbed out and clapped his hands.

"Okay, there's definitely no problem this time. I've changed you to a high-end one." After saying that, he ran away again.

This guy seemed very anxious, distracted from his job, and perfunctory.

Luo Xi felt that if he were the internet cafe owner, he would definitely let this guy pack his bags and get lost.

He sat down again and looked again.

The mouse had turned into another ghost hand.

How should I put it, it did look 'more high-end' than the previous one. They were both hands, and some had good bone structure and good skin. The previous one was indeed very ordinary, but this one was more than enough to be a hand model.

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This handshake was smooth. The exquisite ghost hand, comparable to a hand model, didn't 'reject' Luo Xi like the previous one. Instead, it 'enthusiastically' intertwined fingers. Luo Xi was finally able to see the 'Yonghui Supermarket' icon on the computer screen.

Click, enter!

After a dizzying sense of weightlessness, he arrived in a dark and terrifying wilderness.

Immediately following was the attack of Yin winds. Sharp ghost claws hidden in the wind began to attack indiscriminately.

But after Luo Xi discovered that as long as he protected some vital parts, it would only scratch some skin, he became too lazy to pay attention.

These were all distractions.

It was to delay time. He heard the bell and found the direction sign, quickly walking towards the northeast.

The whole process went smoothly. Immediately after, Luo Xi saw the simple and unadorned clock tower and the 'Dragon King' standing under it.

This Dragon King looked drowsy, and guessing that someone was coming, he began to mutter again: "Chen Dragon wears starlight armor, dancing through the traces of time and space, the Dragon Ball reflects the universe, its majesty shakes..."

He hadn't finished speaking when he froze.

Because he saw Luo Xi. The next moment, the Dragon King's drooping eyelids immediately widened. Instantly, his aura was completely different from before.

Luo Xi walked closer at this time, glanced at the Dragon King, and then looked at the big clock.

"Let me tell you a joke. It's about a mental hospital where the director held a meeting for the patients, saying that the leaders are coming to inspect today. When I raise my hand, you clap, and when I lower my hand, you stop. If you do well, you'll get meat buns for lunch. As a result, the leader came, and the director raised his hand..."

"I want to play a game with you!" The Dragon King interrupted Luo Xi's story at this time.

Luo Xi was stunned.

This was different from what he expected.

There was no mention of playing a game with the Dragon King in the riddle about 'Yongge Supermarket'.

"What game?" Luo Xi asked.

The Dragon King didn't waste any words. He seemed to have completely lost the decadence and drowsy relaxation he had before. At this moment, he seemed to be fully alert.

He saw the Dragon King take out a stack of cards from his arms.

Spread them out.

There were five in total.

The backs were completely the same, and the fronts only had Chinese characters, namely 'Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth', these five characters.

"After shuffling, you and I will each draw a card, and we will duel according to the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint of the five elements of Yin and Yang. Best two out of three. If you win, you get a reward; if you lose, I'll eat you. But I need to remind you that this game can only be triggered once. Even if you come again on the next cycle day, it won't be triggered again."

The Dragon King's voice was deep, and he spoke very seriously.

"Draw cards, is it a test of luck?" Luo Xi asked.

"No, I haven't finished explaining the rules yet." The Dragon King shook his head: "We each randomly draw a five elements Yin Yang card, without showing it to the other party. Make sure the card is face down, and only you can see it. Then, according to the rules of mutual generation and mutual restraint of the five elements of Yin and Yang, that is, gold overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes gold, judge in your heart whether your card can overcome the other party's card."

"Next, is the most important point, which is to 'announce'. That is, based on your own card, make your own judgment and say 'I guess I can overcome you' or 'I guess I am overcome by you' two results."

"Understood. If I draw 'Fire' and announce 'I guess I can overcome you', and you draw 'Gold' and announce 'I guess I can overcome you', then the actual result is that I win; if under the same premise, you announce 'I guess I am overcome by you', then it also matches the result. You and I both guessed correctly, which is considered a draw; there is also a situation, if I announce 'I guess I am overcome by you', and you announce 'I guess I am overcome by you', then you win. So the winning judgment condition is, does the individual's judgment match the duel result of the drawn card? But this game has another possibility, that is, I draw 'Water', and you draw 'Wood'. These two have no relationship of mutual generation and mutual restraint. Is it considered a draw? But in this case, whether you announce 'I guess I can overcome you' or 'I guess I am overcome by you', it is not correct. Is this also considered a draw?"

"That's right, it's a draw. That's how the rules are." The Dragon King nodded: "The results are only win, lose, and draw. The game ends after either side wins twice."

"Can I not play?" Luo Xi asked: "I feel that this has nothing to do with whether I go to Yongge Supermarket or not. Logically speaking, the degree of freedom here should be relatively high, and I can refuse."

"No, you must play." The Dragon King immediately shook his head.

"Then let's start." Luo Xi looked at the five cards in the other's hand.

"Don't worry, all the games during the Day of Confinement are restricted by the 'rules' and cheating is not allowed. Therefore, the cards are just pure cards, and there will be no marks on them." The Dragon King seemed to see through Luo Xi's thoughts.

He shuffled the cards and then let Luo Xi shuffle the cards as well.

"What's there to shuffle with five cards." Luo Xi smiled, he just cut the cards casually: "Who goes first?"

"There are no restrictions, anyone can go first."

"Then, I'll draw first." Luo Xi said, reaching out and picking up a card.

Immediately after, the Dragon King shuffled the order of the cards again, and then also randomly drew one from the remaining four cards.

Each checked the five elements attribute of the card.

"Actually, you are Jia Chen, right?" Luo Xi looked at the card, but asked a question.