September is the season when autumn begins.

Although the sun is just right outside the window and the sky is clear, the wind blowing through the city has brought a little coolness.

When Mo Yun got up and had breakfast, he suddenly found a line of strange words appeared in front of him:

"It's about to join the survival game, and the countdown is three minutes."

The color of this line of text is black, just in the center of his vision. At first, he thought he had not woken up and had hallucinations. He went to the bathroom to wash his face, and the cold water slammed on his face, and he suddenly woke up.

Only then did he notice that this line of text was still at the center of his vision, and the countdown had become two minutes.

"What is this?"

He rubbed his eyes with his hands and found that the line of text was still in sight. It was like black relief words that appeared out of thin air, in regular script, like artistic characters typed in computer documents, and it was also the kind with shadow effects.

“Survival Game? Join?”

Although he didn't know what this meant, his intuition told him that when the countdown ended, something would definitely happen. Things that he could not predict and could not control.

He walked into the living room and sat down, closing his eyes.

The line of text still did not disappear, but turned white, still staying in front of him, and became clearer.

If it is a normal person, he must have been panicked at this time, screaming in fear, and at a loss, feeling that the whole world is deceiving himself.

But Mo Yun was not at all panicked, but instead showed some excitement. He unbuttoned the shirt with his hands and counted the countdown silently in his heart.

“60.”

“59”

“57”

...

What will happen after the countdown is over? Will it be an extremely real hallucination? Or is it someone joking with me? Is it a means of aliens playing with it, with the purpose of scaring high-IQ talents like me? Or is it a game of "gods"?

He sat calmly on the sofa, waiting for the countdown to end.

“6”

“5”

“4”

“3”

"2"

“1”

When the number returned to zero, the eye-catching "art word" in his vision suddenly disappeared. Then he felt his mind sinking, as if he had fallen into the water, and as if he felt a sense of weightlessness when the elevator started, and then darkness suddenly came.

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When the darkness slowly disappeared, Mo Yun opened his eyes.

The familiar ceiling disappeared, and the sofa disappeared. He was originally wearing slippers and half lying on the sofa. Now the slippers have disappeared, and even the living room has disappeared.

This is not his home.

He was leaning against a hard wooden stake, and in front of him was a dense forest. The trees were very tall, with their barks grayish white, at least as high as six or seven floors, and the entire woodland could not see at all. The dim light shone on him through the narrow leaves. At first glance, this place looked like the original woods in the wilderness documentary he had seen, and it was definitely not in China, because he had never seen such a type of tree in China.

It was very cold on the ground, and he couldn't help but tremble. Then he noticed that he was wearing a thick camouflage uniform, thick sweater and sweater inside, a pair of hiking boots on his feet, and a thick wool hat on his head.

The temperature was very low, and he just took a breath and felt his throat was about to be frozen.

"It's interesting."

Mo Yun was not panicked, but his eyes lit up. He held the wooden stake next to him and slowly stood up, circulating the stiff blood on his body again, and looking at the surroundings.

"It's so cold that it's like the temperature in winter, similar to the tall trees in Europe, the clothes that have been changed suddenly, and the cool and refreshing smell of the leaves and shrubs around it, all of which are so real that they can't be real."

A sudden excitement suddenly emerged in his heart, "Is there really a god in this world?"

It seems that only gods can do such a great miracle.

Immediately afterwards, he found a line of small words appeared in the lower left of his vision:

Mission: Find companions.

This line of small characters stays quietly at the lower left of the field of view, which will not block the view, but is also eye-catching enough. Because this line of small characters is fluorescent green, although the font size is not large, as long as you are careful enough, you can see it at a glance.

"Have you found a companion?"

Mo Yun nodded slightly and looked around. He seemed to be a small open space in the woods. The fallen leaves around were swept out into a semicircle, and there was no one around, and no sound could be heard in the distance. The surroundings were very quiet, with only the rustling sound of the leaves being blown by the wind.

Survival game...

"That is, I was brought to a very real survival game. Here I need to complete the tasks given by the 'god' and survive, maybe I can go back. Now, I need to find my companion and meet with the other party."

Mo Yun calmly analyzed the current situation. He touched his thick camouflage uniform and took out a black phone the size of a palm. The phone was still very battery-intensive, which surprised him a little.

When I turned on my phone, the text on the phone was a strange word I had never seen before. It looked like Russian, but it was not sure it was not Russian. In short, it was a strange language. But surprisingly, he could understand it.

"Is this the power of that 'god'?"

He opened the address book and found that there was only one name in it. A very Chinese name, Chi Muyun. It looked like it was a girl's name, with a bracket next to the name, marked with the word (companion).

He made a call without hesitation.

"drop--"

"drop--"

The phone rang for more than ten seconds and the other party answered.

"Hey?" He spoke first.

"Hey?" A somewhat weak female voice came from the opposite side.

"Are you Chi Muyun?"

"How do you know my name? Did you bring me to this place?" the girl opposite asked tremblingly, as if she was a little excited.

"Your name is in the address book. It's not me." He said calmly.

"Oh, then why do I appear in such a place..." Chi Muyun's voice was a little scared, and she then asked, "Are you Mo Yun? Your name is on the caller ID."

"Yes, like you, I came here for no reason." Mo Yun said.

"Why, why is this happening..." The girl's voice was a little crying, "I obviously did nothing."

"Calm down first." Mo Yun whispered, "Can you describe the environment around you first?"

"Yeah." After a few seconds, the girl Chi Muyun whispered, "I was in a very cold forest, surrounded by trees, and there was no one... But I found an arrow-shaped mark made of stones on the ground. I was not wearing my own clothes... and I had never been here..."

"Okay, can you see the text in the lower left corner of your vision?"

"The lower left corner?" the girl asked in confusion, then said in surprise: "Hey, it actually..."

"What is that line of text?"

"Task: Meet up with your companions and find the camp of the expedition team." The girl whispered.

"So that's it. It's half a sentence than me." He couldn't help but nod.

"This...what is going on? Why does this line of words appear here..." Her voice was a little terrified, obviously because she had just discovered the text on the lower left. Mo Yun could imagine a girl trembling with her phone.

"Don't panic first, my situation is the same as you." Mo Yun said in a quiet voice, "In this way, you can see if there are any items or maps around you that can indicate the direction. I will meet you first."

"Okay, OK." The girl said repeatedly, and then the sound of her gentle breathing came from the microphone.

After a few seconds, her voice appeared again:

"I, I found a wallet beside me, with pictures of me and you. And then there is a map with a forest above, with some places marked."

"It's true." Mo Yun nodded, "Don't panic, I already have some ideas."

"What, what?"

"Since we all appeared in this place for no reason and didn't know how to go back for a short period of time. Therefore, we should do it first according to the mission instructions, first gather together, find the camp of the so-called expedition team, and then discuss what to do later. What do you think?"

"Well, okay, okay." Hearing Mo Yun's words, the girl's mood seemed to have stabilized a lot, "Then, what should I do now?"

"Don't hang up the phone first. Can you describe the photo and map?"

"The photo shows the two of us, holding our shoulders, looking quite intimate... The background is a maple forest, and it looks like we have a good relationship with you..."

"Wait, how do you know that the person in the photo is me?"

"Because the words 'My Yun and I' are written on this photo." The girl whispered, "One of them is me, and then I think the other one should be you..."

"So that's it." He nodded, "You keep talking."

"Then the photo is like this, nothing is left. The map is hand-painted and it is hard to see clearly. There is one red circle and two blue circles, and the distance is not far. Then it also marks the directions of southeast, west and north."

At this moment, Mo Yun took out a compass in his pants pocket.

"What direction is the shadow of the trees around you now facing?"

"It seems to be east..." the girl hesitated.

Mo Yun pinched the compass and looked around, finding that the shadows of the trees around him were also facing the east.
To be continued...