Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 12: New Game Launch [Complete]

1383: Entering the Game World

Despite not wasting even half a second, the hour seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. When the last second on the television screen finally reached zero, a line of white letters leaped before everyone's eyes.

"Time is up, obstruction failed. The 129th new game launch conference is about to begin."

Everyone's foreheads glistened with a thin layer of sweat in the living room. The heavy panting of someone who hadn't yet adjusted was audible in the room. Everyone had been busy turning the entire town upside down in the past hour. However, aside from themselves, they didn't find a single living person, let alone anything about a new game launch conference. If they were supposed to search outside the town, the map was almost infinite, and one hour was not enough.

Staring at the white letters, Lin Sanjiu asked softly, "Han Suiping, do you sense any signals?"

One of Han Suiping's arms had long turned into a blackish-green claw. Upon hearing the question, he closed his eyes briefly before shaking his head. "No... The text seems directly called out by some kind of force field through color. It doesn't involve signal transmission."

Lin Sanjiu nodded; she hadn't held much hope in the first place.

The words on the screen changed to, "The 129th game will start in ten minutes. Players within the message radiation range, please proceed immediately to the elevator at the town's billboard at the town entrance to attend the next game at the venue located on the first underground floor."

Elevator?

She looked around to find everyone frowning. They had all seen the billboard with the town's name on it, situated at the highway entrance, which they had seen several times during their search but never noticed an elevator.

Even after the announcement appeared, the ground under the highway billboard was still empty, not looking like there was an elevator at all. Just as everyone looked at each other in confusion, a low friction sound of metal and stone came from the road ahead. After the road surface slowly split apart, another layer of metal plate was revealed underneath, gradually opening up to reveal a square hole. As everyone gathered around and peered in, they discovered a huge elevator cabin with number buttons and a display screen.

Ji Shanqing was the first to jump in; he looked around and then turned to Lin Sanjiu. "This doesn't look like something that appeared after doomsday. Look, there are manufacturer names and quality inspection dates in the corner. It should have been built by the human society here, but I don't know what it's used for."

"The space is indeed large," Lin Sanjiu said, looking around. All eight of them were standing in the elevator, and there was still plenty of space left in the cabin.

"The notice told us to go to the first underground floor, right?" Louisa asked.

The elevator panel had 9 floor numbers and a brightly lit "G" button. Unlike the usual Ground floor, the G floor they were currently on was the highest surface level. Lin Sanjiu pressed the button several times and found that only the next level down could be highlighted. Shortly after the overhead door panel closed, the elevator began to descend gradually.

Although it was only one level deep, they unexpectedly stayed in the elevator for four to five minutes, not knowing whether it was because the elevator was too slow or because the depth of descent was astounding. When it finally stabilized, the elevator doors opened.

A man wearing a black top hat and a white mask stood motionless outside the elevator door, his arms crossed in front of his chest as if he had been waiting for a long time. He was completely covered from head to toe, with no piece of skin or hair visible.