Chapter 182
Slowly Closed
Slowly Closed
The level that James had chosen for them was called World of Ice.
As the name suggested, they needed to face challenges in a frozen wasteland.
James smiled and looked forward to how they would suffer.
The moment he pressed the button, the door of the holographic experience door slowly closed.
The students pursed their lips. One of them said, "Hmph. This is a pretty convincing scam."
However, immediately after that.....
Everything went dark in front of them. When they opened their eyes again, they were surrounded by a vast expanse of white.
There were glaciers and mountains of snow everywhere. The cold wind blew past, whistling and ear- piercing. At that moment, the cold air almost penetrated their bones! The five students were all stunned.
They had never seen anything like it before. At that moment, all of them were shivering from the cold. When they spoke and breathed, their breath came out in the form of thick white fog. "Damn! Is this the South Pole?"
"It's so cold. Am I dreaming? I clearly recall that we were just at Tech Connex Pavilion, though. How did
get to this sh*tty place in the blink of an eye?"
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The students looked at each other in dismay.
It was only at this moment that they finally realized...
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t was not a dream.
They were still lying in the holographic experience pods in Tech Connex Pavilion, but the experience was so real that it felt as if they were actually at the South Pole.
Nobody would believe it if they hadn't experienced it themselves.
Among the five of them, a girl had already been scared to tears. She trembled and murmured, "I'm so cold. I'm freezing. I can't even speak probably now. I want to quit... Sob, sob. I don't want to be here."
"Don't be afraid. It's all fake. Maybe it's some kind of advanced hypnosis!" one of the boys said with confidence, "There's no way technology like this actually exists. I've never heard of it, so it must be fake. It's just an illusion!"
The others looked at each other and retorted, "What's up with us feeling like we're freezing to death, then? Is that hypnosis, too?"
"Of course!" The boy's face was serious. "Since it's hypnosis, the person behind all of this will try their best to convince us that we're in this environment to make us feel all these things. As long as we remind ourselves that it's not real, nothing will happen!" They didn't know what he was talking about, but it sounded very grand.
It seemed totally reasonable.
At this time, a game prompt showed up in the sky. It read: "The game is about to begin. I wish you good luck. A kind reminder that if you feel uncomfortable or afraid and want to quit, you can shout that you want to give up." Slowly Closed
Give up?
That was absolutely impossible!
Just as everyone was psychoanalyzing the situation, the glacier beneath them suddenly shook, and a huge creature swam over from the bottom of the water.
The next second, the glacier under their feet cracked.
"Ah!"
The students were so scared that their faces turned pale, and they immediately moved to the side, trying to dodge.
Even so, one of the boys didn't react quickly enough and fell into the hole in the ice. At that moment, his body felt so cold that he lost all rationality. Pillars of ice hit him, which made him scream in pain... "Give up! I give up!"
The next second, the boy's figure disappeared. The number of people on the screen showed that one person had quit.
The remaining four students were lucky. They fled from the glacier to solid ground, but the earth and mountains kept shaking. Then, the mountain of snow above their heads collapsed, and an avalanche came crashing down, burying them in an instant. All five of them quit the virtual world in less than five minutes.