There are various obstacles on this arena with ladders, bars and walls, and the arena is surrounded by arm-thick safety ropes for protection. The camera looks down from the arena, but the outside and below of the arena are completely invisible. bottom of darkness.

Xia Changdian, Tu Xiao and two other strange players stood together on a circular platform on one side of the ring. Outside the platform, there was also darkness.

Xia Changdian turned on the bright flashlight, grabbed one end of the mahogany sword and handed it out of the platform. He tried his best to shine it downwards but couldn't reach the bottom. It can be seen that the possibility of surviving the fall is very small. Seeing this, Tu Xiao couldn't help feeling a little weak, and hurriedly grabbed Xia Changdian's arm.

The other two on the platform are a man and a woman. The man had a one-eyed jackal head on his head, and when he saw the mahogany sword in Xia Changdian's hand, a greedy light flashed in his cloudy yellow eyes, his mouth moved slightly, and his white fangs were faintly visible. The image of the woman is a puppet wearing a long dress in the style of European medieval court dresses. She seems not to care about the environment and what is happening around her at all, and keeps her eyes closed all the time.

The music paused for a while, and a beam of light hit the air, and the host with the eagle head and wings appeared in the white light. He waved his hand towards the camera, and said with great emotion: "Good evening, audience friends at the scene and in the live broadcast room, welcome to the scene of the Ghost Circus' annual obstacle course chasing competition! Let's compete with the applause below! Competitors from both sides!"

After saying that, two lights shone on both ends of the arena, and nine players were divided into two groups, appearing in the light and shadow at the same time, four on the left, with red armbands on their right arms, representing the red team ; Five on the right, blue armbands, tied on the left arm, for the blue team.

The four people on the left are Xia Changdian, Tu Xiao, Jackal Tou Nan, and the puppet girl, and the five people on the right are Zhuang Hai, Xiao Mei, and three fresh faces—a slime with a transparent color and no gender. , a pig-headed man with a curly long wig and two pig's feet, and a man with a big blood-red mouth that was completely hidden in a dark cloak on the only half of his face that was exposed. male.

This is the first time that nine players have gathered together since the beginning of the game. Although they are all comrades in arms who share weal and woe, there is really no camaraderie between them. Hearing the host's introduction, the nine of them glanced at each other with indifference on their faces, and no one was in the mood to initiate a conversation.

Tu Xiao quietly tugged at the corner of Xia Changdian's clothes, and said in a low voice: "Master Fox, you must cover me for a while!

" If you don't, you have to be careful when you say "Master" to him.

The host introduced the rules and said: "The chase competition is divided into two parts. The first part is the team competition. Each participant has ten chances to chase, and the time limit for each round of chase is 20 seconds. Each team sends one player to the stage, one chaser, One dodger, if the chaser touches the other player within 20 seconds, he wins, and the player's team gets one point. Otherwise, the player is eliminated, and the opponent wins, and the score is increased by one. The winner stays on the stage as a dodger, The opposing team sends other players to chase, and so alternately, until all ten opportunities are used up, the game is over, the team with the highest score wins and collectively receives rich rewards. During the chasing process, no player is allowed to leave the range of the ring, otherwise it will be regarded as a waiver. If you are automatically eliminated, you will not be eligible to participate in the next individual competition and the final."

"The individual competition is a two-two confrontation, and the players are randomly combined. Each group includes two rounds of 20-second pursuits. Swap, the player who chases successfully in each round will get one point, and the player who takes the shortest time in the two rounds will get an extra point. In the end, the scores of all players will be summed up, and the player who gets 10 points first and leads the opponent by at least two points will win. Individual competition First, second and third prizes are set up, each with generous rewards."

"Comprehensive team and individual results in the two competitions, the top four can participate in the final final. The rules of the final will be announced separately at that time. I hope that all contestants will take it seriously and go all out. Win the crown!"

"Now, I announce that the Ghost Circus, the first obstacle course chasing competition, starts now!" The host's voice echoed in the empty hall, accompanied by passionate music, colorful ribbons And the golden pieces are falling down, like a lively rain.

"Please guess the coin from the red and blue teams to choose the character who will appear in the first round." A huge coin floated above the ring, and with the finger of the host, it began to spin rapidly. At the same time, the light in front of each anchor Two options appeared on the screen: "word" and "flower".

The rules for starting the game are not well understood, and the venue is not familiar, neither chasing nor hiding has an advantage, so it doesn't matter which side you choose, it doesn't matter which side you choose, so he clicked "word", Tu Xiao saw that he chose the word Then he chose the word, then raised his head and said "hehe" to Xia Changdian, looking like a little follower.

The jackal-headed man glanced at the two of them, dismissively, insisted on choosing the flower in a nasty way, and then glanced at the puppet girl next to him. The other party had finished the selection in one step earlier, and at this time he was still closing his eyes and resting his mind. What a lack of sleep.

After all the personnel from both sides had been selected, the coin finally stopped spinning, and it was face up. Xia Changdian's red team had three people selected correctly, and the blue team had only two people. The red team had the right to choose first.

Before Tu Xiao's smile of guessing the coin had time to spread, he saw the jackal standing up.

He cleared his throat and said: "Since we have obtained the right to choose, let me, the only adult male, make a decision on behalf of our red team. We choose to chase. The first player will send the fox Ladies, ladies first."

"Oh." Xia Changdian snorted coldly, and the jackal-headed man squinted at Xia Changdian, as if he had just seen it clearly, and exaggeratedly exclaimed, "Oh, so you are a man, I'm so sorry , the light was too dark for me to see clearly, I thought it was a woman, she looks too feminine."

"You!" Tu Xiao heard his eccentricity, couldn't help but want to go forward to argue with him, but was caught Xia Changdian held back, although the cohesion of this temporarily formed team was almost non-existent, but the format of the competition was a team competition, and before the competition started, he would start fighting among himself first, so he always fell behind. As for this kind of trash who can only talk quickly It's not worth paying attention to at all, just ignore it.

The host didn't care who was in charge of the team, and directly opened the channel between the platform and the ring, and when the players on both sides walked into the ring, he closed the channel again, knocked on the gong in his hand, and said loudly: "The game is about to start, please both sides Get ready, 3, 2, 1, start!" The

blue team sent a man with a face, he didn't seem to understand the rules, when the host announced the start, he actually rushed towards Xia Changdian, with his blood red mouth opened wide, Two rows of sharp, serrated teeth were exposed.

Xia Changdian didn't know what would happen to the eliminated side, so he didn't reach out to pat him hastily, but turned around to avoid the snare of the face-faced man.

Seeing that the blow was missed, the mouth-faced man attacked again, with saliva sticking between his teeth, and his mouth had a foul breath. Xia Changdian faced the biochemical weapon directly, held his breath subconsciously, raised his arm vertically and hit the man with an elbow on the chin of the mouth and face, only heard a "click", as crisp as cress snapped, the man with the mouth and face flew upside down two meters, He hit the outer protective rope, was bounced back to the center of the ring, and fell to the ground in a few steps. At the same time, the whistle sounded, and the host announced: "In the first round, the red team wins."

Xia Changdian stood where he was, watching the passage open, and a group of bats flew in, grabbed the masked man on the ground, and flew out again. Xia Changdian breathed a sigh of relief seeing that the failure to be eliminated would not be life-threatening for the time being. He took the opportunity to observe the arrangement of the track, and it was his turn to avoid the chase in the next round.

There was a one-minute break between each round of competition. Xia Changdian walked out of the ring and returned to the platform. The jackal-headed man looked at Xia Changdian with a distorted expression, the emotion in his eyes seemed to be disdainful, unwilling, and a little bit of remorse.

He sat on the chair and congratulated Xia Changdian on his return from victory with a half-smile.

These chairs didn't exist before, but they suddenly appeared on the platform because Xia Changdian won the first game. The chairs are red, and each chair has a "1" written on the back, representing a point for the team.

Tu Xiaobai gave the jackal-headed man a look, then smiled and took Xia Changdian to sit on the chair, held his shoulder muscles for him, and said, "Master Fox, you are really good, you can win the first one so easily!" The

jackal-headed man muttered: "Isn't it just that he took advantage of the first one? That idiot didn't even understand the rules. I can win if I go up, and I can win faster."

Xia Changdian ignored him, a villain who hates everyone and laughs at others. Forget it, he can't see others being good, no amount of cheapness is enough, let him go crazy, reality will teach him how to behave.

The second round will start soon. Xia Changdian and the second player of the blue team—their one-sided old acquaintance—Zhuang Hai—stand on the diagonal line of the ring. The steel wire between the horizontal bars climbed over a pile of wooden box-shaped obstacles, and went straight to Xia Changdian at the opposite corner.

Xia Changdian took off with a run-up when Zhuang Hai ran halfway, jumped onto a three-meter-high square plane, and circled with Zhuang Hai above the platform, while looking for the most efficient transfer route, ready to change positions at any time .

Zhuang Hai ran around the high platform for a while, and finally decided to climb up too, but at this time half the time had passed, and after he finally climbed up, Xia Changdian jumped directly onto the lower trapezoidal platform next to it, making Zhuang Hai's chase Always within a fingertip's distance of winning, but still unable to win. The whistle sounded and the game was over. Although Zhuang Hai was awake, he was lifted out by the bats. During the struggle, his armband was tilted backwards. Xia Changdian saw that there were only two white bars on Zhuang Hai's armband.

Next, Xia Changdian will face the blue team again, this time the opponent is a pig-headed man.

Xia Changdian concocted the evasion tactics of the previous level in accordance with the law, standing first and then walking, first diagonally and then climbing the wall, using the height difference to delay time, as long as he lasts for 20 seconds, he can win again.

Originally, the feasibility of this plan was extremely high, but the pig is a guy who does not play cards according to common sense-one of his two pig's hooves can only be removed to use as a long-distance hidden weapon, and the other is connected with an iron rod in the middle. The chain, which can be used as a medium and long-range weapon, greatly extended his attack range. Xia Changdian was caught off guard and was almost smashed.

The pig-headed man chased him very closely, and Xia Changdian's position was blocked by the pig's trotters that flew out from time to time. He could only use the corner of the wall as a cover, or hide from a lower space by sticking to the ground. Let go of the opponent's siege, the most recent time, the opponent was only a few millimeters away from his nose. Finally, the time was up, and Xia Changdian survived another 20 seconds and won the victory. The red team had won three cities in a row, and the situation was very good.

Xia Changdian saw that there were only two white bars left on the pig-headed man's left arm. He intuited that the white bars on the armbands have special and important meanings to the players, and bad things might happen when the white bars go to zero.

Standing on the platform, Tu Xiao watched the fierce chase in the arena from afar, and shouted excitedly, "Come on, Master Fox". In addition to the background music used to mobilize the atmosphere during the competition in such a large venue, he was just like a little fan girl over there. The voice of support attracted all kinds of ghosts to look sideways, and the audience in the live broadcast room left messages "I didn't see it", but in fact, the excitement in their hearts was similar to that of Tu Xiao.

In fact, the chasing contest is similar to the "ghost catcher" game that people played when they were young, except that the venue is more complicated and the scope is limited. One-on-one chasing is more exciting than one-on-many.

Some people recalled in the barrage that they were good at playing games when they were children, and commented that the anchor was indiscriminate, and his four bodies were not diligent. Compared with him, he played very poorly.

Some people also saw that Xia Changdian was in great shape all the way through the battle, and wondered whether he would win all the way and overthrow the entire blue team by himself.

Most people analyze rationally and think that this possibility is very small. After all, manpower is sometimes exhausted. Such a fast-paced game has extremely high requirements on the player's energy and reaction ability. Winning three games in a row is already very impressive. Possibly all aspects of the level will drop.

There are also some people who are optimistic and naive, hoping that the story will have a miraculous development and a happy ending like a legend of heroes.

Xia Changdian was indeed tired. Sitting on the chair, he was short of breath and his heart was beating fast. He couldn't calm down for a long time. His head was hot and hot, and he could hear the rumbling heartbeat in his chest and the surging blood infusion in his head.

Tu Xiao's eyes were shining, filled with worship and admiration. He recited to Xia Changdian the audience's praise and confession to him as "Master Fox" in his live broadcast room, looking very proud.

The jackal-headed man smiled, and came over to pat Xia Changdian on the shoulder, but was blocked by Tu Xiao intentionally or unintentionally, and had nowhere to start, so he had to withdraw in embarrassment. He admired half of the truth and half of the lie: "Little fox, sir, you really don't show your face, is this the so-called pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"

Xia Changdian gave him a strange look, didn't say anything, really stood up, Walking out, a new game is about to start again, and it's time for him to get ready to play.

Tu Xiao snorted coldly with disdain, and said: "What a showman, I am so stupid that I treat people as pigs and even accuse them of being a deep city. I don't know where I got the confidence to think that I am a tiger. I think I am just a donkey."

Jackal head The man's eyes stared fiercely, he was not the kind of character that can tolerate people, and he directly retorted: "I don't want to get along with a waste who knows nothing except hugging thighs and flattering."

Tu Xiao curled his lips, No more stubble. Hugging the thigh is also a technical job, you haven't had a chance yet if you want to hug it!

The author has something to say: The rules of the chasing contest in this article are borrowed from wct (world chase tag World Chase Tag Competition), a very thrilling and exciting world-class parkour competition. Interested friends can find it. Among them, there are many amazing extreme operations and fairy strains.