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

1540: What Lin Sanjiu Takes Away and What Lin Sanjiu Gives

During the time she was waiting to be sent to the underground gaming space, Lily felt nervous enough to vomit on several occasions. However, she bent over and tried to dry heave a few times, but nothing came out, and she didn't know whether it was because she had turned into text or because she felt like she hadn't eaten in a long time.

Lin Sanjiu had been absent from the intercom for a while, but the last few words she said were still crashing around in Lily's mind.

"I just discussed with my friend, and if we bypass some settings, I should be able to get you into the underground gaming space," she had said at the time, "so you can understand the situation and make a decision. But... there's no way to call out human text in the underground space, and I can only make you part of the underground facility. That means, once you go down, you can never come out again. So, think carefully—"

"Send me down," Lily said. Although she didn't understand some parts, she understood the most crucial part. What difference did it make if she could never come up again? What was the essential difference between being deleted on the surface and being deleted underground?

If she went down, she could at least see a familiar face.

She and Lin Sanjiu were not even close friends, and the changes in Lin Sanjiu even made her feel a bit frightened. However, if today was her last day to live, she would prefer to have someone she knew to send her off. It was much more comforting than being deleted in a place full of unfamiliar surroundings and corpses.

Lily tried to brace herself, but her palms were still sweaty. Lin Sanjiu's voice startled her when it rang out, "Are you ready?"

Lily exhaled and murmured, "Yes."

The process of being reconverted to text and then re-materialized wasn't as terrifying as she thought. It felt as if she had blinked, and she was already in a different place.

Lily turned around and examined the massive circular hall she found herself in, her eyes lingering on the gray concrete ceiling above. It would be the last thing she saw in her life, she realized. If she were still on the surface, she could be controlled by others below to go where she wanted... No, never mind whether it was practical or not, it would not be as pleasant as being deleted.

"Are you ready?" Lin Sanjiu's voice brought her back to reality.

The slight comfort of seeing a familiar face was quickly overshadowed by a strange fear. As Lin Sanjiu and another young girl Lily didn't recognize walked into the hall and approached her, Lily even felt the urge to jump up and run. She wasn't afraid of Lin Sanjiu, but she seemed instinctively to feel that Lin Sanjiu must have experienced some significant shock; now, the aftershock was about to hit her, and she subconsciously wanted to flee.

However, Lily eventually managed to stand still. She glanced at Lin Sanjiu and asked, "What do you want to tell me?"

"Sit down," Lin Sanjiu said, gesturing towards the lounge area in the hall. "They used to discuss game content here in the hall, and I can project the past games for you to see."

"Really... Were those games really designed by posthumans themselves?" Lily asked as she slowly sat down on the sofa. Now that she had sat down, the corpses piled under the dining table nearby became more apparent in her peripheral vision. She resisted the urge to look back. "Those people?"

"And who knows how many before them," Lin Sanjiu said with a slight bitter smile, sitting down beside her. The long-haired girl sat quietly on the armrest next to Lin Sanjiu.

"Let's start with this one," Lin Sanjiu said after thinking for a moment. Without making any noticeable movements, a white cloth suddenly fell in front of them. Acting as what Lin Sanjiu referred to as a "document," when the game content appeared on it, Lily couldn't help but gasp— she hadn't expected that she could see the game as if she were immersed in it.