A familiar mechanical voice sounded in front of Zhou Bai.
Yes, this time the voice did not come from Zhou Bai's mind.
It sounded from the place in front of Zhou Bai, inside the room, that was emitting white light.
[Next, please turn off the switch in the monitoring room before midnight. 】
Zhou Bai stepped into the white light, squinted his eyes, and saw an illusory figure floating in the air with scars on his body inside the room.
"You finally came."
Seeing that figure up close, Zhou Bai felt his whole body shudder.
It feels like you are seeing someone on a level far above yours.
The gap between you and him makes it a transgression for you to even look at him.
With a "bang", the door behind him was closed.
Then, Zhou Bai noticed that the space he was in was actually composed of countless screens.
Is this the control room?
Zhou Bai saw Teacher Wang singing to the students in the auditorium on a screen.
On another screen, I saw a red moon hanging in the sky. Under the moonlight, there were mutants with red eyes biting passers-by.
He also saw on the screen, there were people whose arms were about to be chopped off, and people holding guns who were fighting against monsters.
Some of these screens are in different places, and some are in the same place.
Some even the same person appears on different screens.
"These are all things that are happening now." The illusory figure floating in the air said to Zhou Bai.
While talking, Zhou Bai noticed that there was smoke coming out from the middle of the screens, and the screens flashed a few times from time to time. The faces sitting in front of the screens watching the live broadcast also appeared in front of Zhou Bai's eyes.
"Ah, I accidentally switched the wrong lens."
The illusory figure floating in the air covered his mouth in surprise with his hand that was split into several bloody stains.
After a chuckle, the densely packed screens around him returned to the previous screen.
On the screen, Teacher Wang, who had finished singing a song, stared anxiously at the auditorium door, then bravely played another song.
Zhou Bai saw smoke still rising on the surrounding screens.
This monitoring room, like the illusory figure floating in the air, feels like it will fall apart at any time.
"What should I do to turn off the switch in this monitoring room?"
Zhou Bai looked around, but didn't see anything similar to a switch. In the end, he could only focus on the figure in the sky that made him tremble.
"You heartless thing."
The illusory figure floats sadly in the air.
"If it weren't for me, do you know how many times you would have died?"
His tone changed when he spoke, so Zhou Bai quickly recognized that every time the system spoke to him, it had this kind of voice.
"It's you?"
"It's me. Look at this crack on my face. It's the injury you left on me when you broke the red thread. You really went too far."
After he finished speaking, he pointed at his face, a long scar from his forehead to his chin.
It was at that time that Zhou Bai lost the system's help?
"why me?"
Zhou Bai wanted to know why this being who controlled the strange game chose him among so many chosen ones.
"You can think of this as a desperate person grabbing a passerby on the street and asking for help."
Zhou Bai didn't expect that a person who could make him tremble would actually say such humble words.
"I'm so tired. Do you know how tired I am of guarding the boundaries between these spaces?
Let me ask you, when will you be able to save my worries?"
While he was talking, on a certain screen, a missile landed in the middle of a city.
As the missile fell, another scar immediately appeared on the illusory figure floating in the air.
"Look, look, how tired I am." He raised his hand and showed Zhou Bai the scars on his hand.
Then, Zhou Bai saw that as red figures appeared on the screen, red liquid was also flowing out of his arms.
"Is there anything I can do?"
The moment Zhou Bai asked this question, he suddenly felt that he might have fallen into a dead situation that was difficult to get out of.
Perhaps he was doomed to this dead end from the very beginning when he was selected into the Kaidan Game.
"You have been getting along with these children for a while. I believe you should also know what happened to them."
Zhou Bai turned around and looked around the screen, where black smoke was rising.
"Actually, this problem already occurred when you were in City A."
"Those chosen ones?"
"Yes, with so many chosen ones participating, of course it takes so much time and space. Do you know how tired I am?"
After saying "tired" for three words, Zhou Bai could tell that he was really tired.
"So now there are problems in these time and space?" Zhou Bai poked at his pain point.
Blood stains continued to appear on the other party's body, but he completely ignored these scars and coughed slightly in embarrassment.
"The gap is not big, the problems are small, they are all small problems."
After he finished speaking, he began to look at Zhou Bai up and down, with a smile on his face, as if he was very satisfied with him.
"Tie the red rope back on.
If we return to our previous relationship, you can still get help from the system, and I can use your help to repair this space."
After he finished speaking, he pointed to a red rope lying on the ground.
The red rope looked very bright, just like the red bloodstains on his body.
Zhou Bai raised his hands and felt that the pain he felt when he broke the red rope was still engraved in his body.
So, he stood there hesitantly and did not go over to pick up the red rope.
He described himself as a desperate man who grabbed a passerby on the street and asked for help.
Considering the scars all over his body, Zhou Bai believed that what he said about being desperate was probably true.
However, Zhou Bai felt that he might not have told the whole truth about what it meant to tie the red rope again.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have torn it off without hesitation when he was in Xingfu Building.
There must be some other details that Zhou Bai hasn't noticed yet.
"Don't you want to pass the level?
Tie the red rope on the ground and I will help you pass the level."
Zhou Bai was seduced by his voice and slowly walked towards the red rope on the ground.
However, when he reached the front of the red rope, he still stopped.
"Pick it up and tie it to your hand." A mechanical voice sounded in Zhou Bai's ears.