"Are you willing to live in good health?" Thorne, who was about to step out of the rooftop, was jolted by this voice echoing in his head.
It was early in the morning, the surrounding area was empty, and looking back inside the house, the door to his parents' bedroom was also closed.
"Who's talking?" Thorne could not help but shiver, a feeling of hitting a ghost.
"Would you like to live in good health?" The voice sounded again, yes, in his own head.
The voice was eerie, yet it seemed to carry a magical power that gave a sense of calm, no longer afraid, no longer even trying to guess where the voice came from.
Who wouldn't want to live in good health? But at what cost? Thorne smiled bitterly, if not for the advanced liver cancer, the huge cost of treatment has made the family nearly collapse, he would not have taken the road to suicide.
He had just graduated and joined the workforce, and thought he could make money to support his family and do his filial duty for his parents, but he suddenly collapsed in the company and was taken to the hospital to find out that he had advanced liver cancer.
This was definitely a bolt from the blue and a heavy blow to this ordinary family.
He was voluntarily discharged from the hospital a week ago and went home to recuperate, not because his condition had improved, but because he didn't want to drag the family down any more and the medicine was too expensive.
If the price of regaining health was to drain everything from his parents, he would rather end it sooner.
"What if the price for gaining health is just you volunteering to play a game?" The voice seemed to sense what he was thinking.
"If that happens, I will!" Thorne replied, the man tormented by illness, longing for health as anxiously as the suffocated man longed for air.
The moment he answered, Thorne's whole body was pulled as violently as if by something, and his whole body flew off the balcony and fell quickly! Thorne out of a cold sweat, but the ground in front of the fast approaching but instantly darkened into a deep, bottomless black hole! In a flash, Thorne had a strong feeling - I don't want to die! A dizzy spell, he did not know whether he was awake or unconscious, or ... already dead.
Until a flash of white light in front of his eyes, the buzzing in his ears disappeared, Thorne's consciousness awakened, only to find in a dimly lit cluttered hut.
The white light was of a flashlight, and a dark figure approached towards himself.
"Hey, are you still alive?" It was a man's voice.
"Alive ... I think so.
"Thorne hissed in response, who is this man? Did he just tell me to come play some game? But it didn't sound like it.
"Newcomer?" The middle-aged man asked while moving his flashlight, Thorne then saw that the gun in his hand was pointing at himself.
Thorne looked at him in amazement, with a puzzled face.
"Perhaps I should ask this - you were also led in by a mysterious voice, right?" Thorne nodded breathlessly, while sizing up the other man.
It was a middle-aged man in a shirt and pants on, with a rigid line of face, smeared with some blood, holding up a pistol.
"Here it is, found!" The middle-aged man sighed with relief, put down the gun, and lowered his voice toward the door to greet.
Then came in a man and a woman, both sizing him up with strange looks.
The woman, who was around twenty-five years old and mature, frowned and said, "Why is this man so weak, what can he do like this?" The man was a foreigner, dark-skinned, flat-headed, about thirty years old, with a gloomy face, similar to the impression of a Mexican, the most frightening thing was that he had a tattoo of a demon knight on his right arm.
He looked at Thorne's miserable white face and directly cursed: "Shit, what does it mean that the system deliberately found a weak chicken over? Still think we are not bad enough?" He said he would carry the bloody bat on his shoulder, a gangster's tug look.
Thorne's heart was furious, but there was nothing he could do about it, now that he looked like this, he was indeed a disgusting loser.
But also strange, he can hear the tattooed man speaks a foreign language somewhere, but can understand, there is no obstacle.
After a few breaths, he sat on the ground in a disheveled manner, too lazy to speak.
"That's enough, you two!" The middle-aged man reprimanded, and the two immediately shut up, seemingly in great awe of him.
"My name is Delman, retired from the Marines, now a personal bodyguard.
" The middle-aged man squatted down and patted Thorne's shoulder in a friendly manner.
"My name is Thorne.
"After spitting out the words breathlessly, he forced a smile, "I'm an architect, but now I have terminal liver cancer.
""Shit, I fucking knew this kid was sick!" The tattooed man cursed.
Thorne glanced at him, but didn't even have enough breath to talk back.
"With this punk for a companion, all wait to die!" "Black, I suggest you go outside the door to calm down.
"Delman added after a pause," by the way, alert.
"The tattooed man named Old Black cursed and turned to go out, not forgetting to drop a sentence on the way out: "Well, anyway, I'm angry at this sick boy!" The woman looked at him, did not follow him out, just leaned back against the wall, did not say a word.
Delman did not talk nonsense, said bluntly: "You must have a lot of questions, right? But now we have limited time, what I say, what you listen, after I finish all, you have a minute to ask questions, understood?" "Understood.
" Thorne nodded his head.
"Listen carefully, this is where that voice wants you to come, we all heard that voice and came in for our own hearts' desire - this is Infinite AmongUs, this is no longer on the Earth we are familiar with, as to where this world really is, who created it, why did they make Such a world, why we want to come in, are currently unknown.
All we know is that this world is driven by missions, and we're two hours ahead of you, have only completed three missions, and have already lost two of our teammates.
""All we have to do is follow the missions issued by the system, step by step, until we complete the final mission, then escape and end the game, and we will have fulfilled our hearts' desire! Our current mission, is to come here to find a newcomer - that is, you, now we are all teammates, I say so do you understand?" Thorne listened very fascinated, curiously asked: "You are saying that this infinite world relies on the mission to drive the plot? What kind of plot? The movie?" "Not a movie, it's a game.
"The woman suddenly spoke, "This is actually a game world, but we all play fewer games, not sure what game this is.
""The equivalent of we are all players caught by that so-called system to the game world?" Thorne pondered.
"Not stupid.
"The woman praised, "My name is Yang Shan, you can call me Shanny.
""Time is short, back to the topic.
"Delman continued, "Although it is a game world, but everything that happens here is real, being cut will hurt, headshot will die! So you better not think this is a dream or some kind of prank, or you'll die fast! It took a lot for us as a team to understand this.
""The world we live in now is full of zombies!" Yang Shan added: "In addition, complete the mission can get points, points can be exchanged with the system at the designated location for weapons and ammunition or medicine props, of course, if you are lucky, you can also pick up some weapons.
"Speaking of which, she flaunted like raising the field knife in her hand, which was stained with blood, Thorne felt that this woman was not like a good fighter, and her identity must not be pure before she entered the infinite space.
"Infinite impostors swim to kill, then is there also the so-called impostors exist?" Thorne subconsciously asked.
"Smart," Yang Shan raised her eyebrows, "your brain is really fast, you guessed right, although this world is loaded with the plot of a certain game, but inside our team, but there is a mole, is the so-called impostor!" Thorne got goosebumps, remembering the excitement of playing AmongUs with his friends in the past.
"The impostor is actually also a player, but he has a special system task, secretly against us, so we want to complete the main task and escape from this world, we have to find and take out the impostor first - the impostor and the team, only one side can leave alive! " Yang Shan said as she viciously plunged a knife into the table.
"So who's the impostor on our team?" "That's where the difficulty shrinks in," Delman shrugged helplessly, "we know nothing about it, and hurting teammates rashly will be severely punished by the system, so it's very difficult to find this impostor.
"[System alert: Please note that the newcomer invincibility room will be lifted in five minutes, now open for point exchange, please exchange supplies as soon as possible! [Newcomer Thorne, has now joined Delman Squad! Everyone's mind received such a prompt, and Thorne didn't feel strange anymore.
Delman introduced: "left hand palm up, five fingers quickly together twice, you can open the exchange panel, right hand operation, just like using a cell phone, very simple, you try.
"Thorne tried, and indeed the translucent three-dimensional image of the exchange panel appeared, like the special effects of a science fiction film, which neatly listed all the supplies currently available for exchange, there are three types of pistols, a variety of bullets, grenades, flashbangs, as well as cardiac stimulants and some food.
The most expensive inside the pistol is the sand eagle, which requires 3500 points, grenades 500, flash 400, and strong heart 1000.
"Sunny, call old black in, grab the time to exchange supplies now!" "Old Black!" "Here it comes, what are you screaming for, not afraid to draw the monsters in ah!" Old Black pushed the door and said to Delman: "I just 400 points.
""So little?"" "Before John did not borrow 300 points from me, to his death did not return me ah!" Delman could not help but frown: "Where is Sunny?" "600.
""I have 800, three people add up to 1800 points, still can not afford to buy the sand eagle ah.
"Thorne suddenly pointed to his panel and spoke: "Are the points the number that shines golden?" "Yes, what, you just came in and you have points?" "I don't know why, but I have 3000 points showing here.
"All three of them were stunned.