INTERNAL PLAYERS 01

Ren Li, who was lying on the bed, had a splitting headache. His mind was chaotic and stagnant.

Trivial and complicated scenes flashed before his eyes, but one scene could not be seen clearly.

Suddenly a burst of pressure was applied to his chest, causing his heart to start beating madly and restlessly, pumping out a large amount of fresh blood to flow all over the body.

His body was tight and stiff in an instant. He gasped quickly after losing his breath for a short time.

【 Loading ‘Dream Control’ escape game: E04 Dungeon. 】

There was the sudden voice of a cold mechanical sound ringing in his ears.

All the suppression that was imprisoned on him dissipated, and he opened his eyes sharply.

The out-of-focus vision gathered in the shortest time, and his scattered vision recovered.

The lights in the room were out. The heavy flannel curtains were all closed, and only the slightest light entered the room.

But he can still tell that this is a completely unfamiliar environment.

However, Ren Li didn’t stand up to observe the surrounding environment, but raised his hand and placed it on his left chest.

“Bang, bang——!”

Compared to this weird environment, the strong heartbeat felt under the palm of the hand and the warmth transmitted through the clothes made Ren Li more surprised.

It’s been a long time since Ren Li felt such a feeling. In the thousand years of memories he still remembers in his mind, his chest has always been without ups and downs, and is always unwavering and cold.

He is not a human being, but a spirit, or in layman’s terms, he is a ghost.

But now he has breath, heartbeat and body temperature…　

Thinking of the mechanical sound that had pop out in his ears just now, Ren Li’s eyes suddenly sank a little.

He was so familiar with that voice and that sentence. It’s just that the “E04 Dungeon” should have been “S01 Dungeon”.
　　
Because before this moment, he was the dungeon executive in this dream control escape game.
　　
Whenever a certain time comes, whether there are players participating or not, a new round of the game will commence regularly, and the system will automatically appear this sentence as a reminder.
　　
It lasted endlessly for thousands of years.

Ren Li took a deep breath and sat up with his hands on the bed. He tied all the hair strands scattered on his forehead behind his forehead with his hands. His eyes were heavy.

What does it mean now?

His eyebrows were furrowed, his eyes full of dangerous light narrowed slightly. He has become a human being, and he has also become a player…?

After a few seconds, Ren Li suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and snorted with a smile.
　　
No need to be imprisoned in the same place day after day. Why not take such an opportunity.

At this moment, there was a sound of clothing rubbing against another thing at the door of the room, the sound was a bit too noisy in this quiet room.
　　
Ren Li instantly felt the breath of a person in the room.　

Ren Li squinted his eyes and looked vigilantly in the direction of the strange breath. A slender, short-haired man was sitting on the carpet.
　　
The man also keenly felt Ren Li’s presence, and he looked back, but didn’t immediately move.
　　
It took dozens of seconds before he got up from the ground and pressed a row of light switches in the room.

As soon as the light was turned on, the strong light rushed to illuminate the entire room. The pupils of the two people who were suddenly stabbed by the white light shrank.

Ren Li quickly adapted and then calmly looked at the person in front of him.

The person in front of him seemed like he was in his early twenties. With slender bones and a noble and elegant temperament, he was revealing a look of youthfulness.

The thick, black hair lightly touched the white ear tips. His lips were red and his teeth were white, and his peach blossom eyes1 were dazzling from the light above his head, looking clear and clean.

Wearing a clean white shirt, a few buttons on the neckline were randomly opened, and the fine silver chain on the delicate clavicle was shining.

No one has participated in the S-level dungeon so far. Speaking of which, the person in front of him is the first person Ren Li has seen in his thousand years of memory.

Ren Li was slightly stunned.

The two looked at each other for a long time.

It was the young man who spoke first. There was a slight teasing in his cold voice: “Sir, how long are you going to keep looking at me?”

Ren Li returned to his senses and looked away without emotion.

Getting off the bed, he began to observe the surrounding environment.

Pulling open the French window curtain at the side, the outside had already turned dark. The half-crescent moon in the sky exuded a soft yellowish light.

The style of this room is obviously a modern European-style building. The layout and the trend of the beams inside are obviously carefully designed, and the furniture and decorations in the room seem to be of great value.

The young man put his hands in his trouser pockets, looking bored at Ren Li who was inspecting the room carefully. He asked in a lovely tone: “Are you a new player? I can tell at a glance.”

Ren Li glanced at him silently and ignored him.

“Do you want to know how I was able to tell?”
　　
Ren Li indifferently refused: “I don’t want to.”

The young man tilted his head, his long curled eyelashes half covered his peachy eyes: “Why don’t you want to know? I have a reasonable proof.”

Ren Li frowned slightly, why is this person so noisy.

“Sir, why are you so indifferent?” The young man didn’t care about Ren Li’s indifference very much. Instead, he took a step closer and smiled at the corner of his mouth. “How about I introduce myself?”

“Hello, my name is Pei Jingling and I am currently working in finance. What’s your name and what do you do? Can we be friends?”
　　
Ren Li seemed to be irritated by Pei Jingling’s enthusiasm, and his tone sank a little: “This is an escape game.”

“I know. It’s precisely because this is an escape game that…” Pei Jingling took another step, “I want to enjoy the moment. You are such a handsome guy, haven’t you recognize that? Do you have time to hook up?”

Pei Jingling raised his hand and was about to place it on Ren Li’s shoulder when suddenly, Ren Li grasped the palm of his hand with a solemn face. The strength of the grip was not light, and Ren Li pressed a red thumb mark on Pei Jingling’s palm.

Ren Li was about to shake it off, but Pei Jingling curled up his fingers. He held his hand instead, as if he could not feel the pain at all.

However, water mist appeared in his eyes. His mouth slumped in a particularly aggrieved manner: “What are you doing…”

Pei Jingling’s fingers are slender and fair, with distinct joints, and his skin is particularly slippery. The temperature in the palm of his hand was cold that Ren Li felt like he was holding a piece of cold nephrite.

“Your appearance and temptation are too mediocre so you don’t seem to appear very smart.” Ren Li squinted his eyes slightly. With a cold tone, he continued, “How foolish.”

Pei Jingling’s peach blossom eyes were still rippling with tears. He blinked: “What… I really just want to make friends with you.”

Ren Li stayed still and looked at him coldly.

This person obviously has the smell of a waste anesthetic gas. The smell of hydrogen cyanide is produced when medical equipment such as Gamma knives are used. Whether he is actually engaged in medical work or not, at least it does not match the financial work he said.

And not to mention that the smell is lingering in the air. He must have stayed not so long ago. It seems that this was done deliberately.
　　
The temptation is too obvious.

And what he said just now that he is a new player.

He looked at himself after inspecting the environment. There was no sense of guessing it in the eyes, he was positive of it.

The reminder that appeared before was “loading game.” In other words, it is likely that the game environment has not been fully established.

Observing clues before the game has officially started is the behavior of a first-time player.

It’s something tiresome to show off.

Ren Li stared at Pei Jingling with a sullen expression.
　　
Then a few seconds later ——

Pei Jingling broke free with his unyielding strength and took a step back. He pulled a chair casually, leaned back on the chair, and gently rubbed the palm of his hand with his thumb.

Pei Jingling didn’t seem to care about being dismantled by Ren Li. His cute expression faded, and his tone became lazy and said: “Don’t be nervous, I’m just doing a simple test.”

“You are a new player, and coincidentally appeared in this room at the same time as I have. It is very likely that we will stay together during the game time, and there may even be requests for cooperation. If you are too stupid, then out of necessity I will cooperate with other players right away. I don’t want a pig teammate2 who can’t keep up with my reasons to hold me back. “

“The test is only low-level, but it is pretty useful.” Pei Jingling’s mouth raised a sly arc, “After all, it is quite silly and it is easier to use it to test people’s cleverness.”

Ren Li nodded slightly without expressing an opinion.

“Furthermore…” Pei Jingling blinked at him ambiguously with a charming tone,” Brother, you are quite handsome. I really want to hook up with you.”
　　
Ren Li：“……”

Suddenly, he felt that the person in front of him wouldn’t be so bored he would act silly and cute just now.

Why did the first person I met in thousands of years be so arduous? Ren Li tightly pursed his lips and pressed his head.

Then the familiar mechanical sound rang again.

【 The game has successfully loaded. All players, be ready. 】

【 All players are requested to arrive at the lobby within ten minutes. The game is about to officially start. I wish you all players a happy game. 】

Footnotes:

Peach blossom eyes –  a kind of eye shape, named due to the resemblance to that of a peach blossom. The upper eyelids are curved along with the tails of the eyes, shaped like peach blossom petals which result in blurry and alluring eyes. Also called “bedroom eyes.”Pig teammate – a person on the team who is unbelievably snobbish or lousy and causes more trouble than the opponents.